One of my favourites and one that I actually bought twice in my life and of course I have mentioned before. Originally I bought it back in 1982 and more recently in 2015 along with the sister “More Computer Games” book. The reason  I mention it because there’s an ongoing project to do the games in it in languages other than BASIC.

The languages they’ve chosen are:

• Java
• Python
• C#
• VB.NET
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Delphi / Object Pascal
• Perl

I no, it’s sad. No C… But given that it includes C#, I’ll let them off.

Yes it’s that book again, one I have mentioned a few times.  Now there’s a project to convert all of the games from the book into C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby and VB.NET. As with all Git sites, you can download all code from the site in a zip file or individual files. So far though its very early in the project and there’s only a .BAS file in each of the subfolders for each of the games in the book. If you fancy getting involved, pick a game, a language and start coding. Sadly there’s no desire for C or C++ but that still leaves C# .

I still have this book and its sequel (More BASIC Computer games!) but to be honest I wouldn’t have bothered with most of the games in either book. They are all very much of the era (1978) which was just on the cusp of the home computer revolution and so were mostly obsolete within seven or eight years, due mainly to the terminal I/O. They’re ok for learning programming and of course you could run them in a Linux terminal.