Alpha Anxiety

The letters A to Y hide under the 25 panels of a five by five board, and the cursor shows the letter beneath whichever panel it is on. Press the button on the letters in order, A, B, C and on to Y, before the clock runs out. A letter you find stays uncovered; a wrong one costs ten seconds. Clear the board and a new shuffled one appears, with a time limit worked out from how fast you were. Each letter is worth 10 points. After six boards the order turns round, Y back to A, and from the eleventh board the NEXT LETTER box disappears, so you must remember the order yourself. The game ends when the time runs out.

Controls: Use either controller. The stick moves the cursor and either button picks the letter under it. On the title, up and down choose 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, March 1985: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.