Computag

A game of tag on a board of 13 by 10 squares, each with an arrow. Every few moments all the arrows turn a quarter turn counter-clockwise together. Each player has just one button: press it and your marker steps one square the way the arrow under it points, unless that would leave the board. One player is IT and chases; the other runs and scores a point for every step. When the two markers meet on one square the runner is tagged, the roles swap and both markers jump to new squares. A timer bar fills slowly, and faster with every press; when it is full the round is over. Round 2 starts from the corners on the same board, and then the higher score wins. Play a friend or the computer.

Controls: Player 1 presses controller 1's button and player 2 controller 2's button to step. On the title, the stick chooses (up and down an item, left and right a value) and a button starts.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE!'s Gazette, October 1988: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.