Alpha-Shoot

An alphabet shooting game. A letter appears somewhere in the night sky; slide your cannon along the ridge and shoot it, and the letter lights up in the alphabet below the ground. Shoot all 26 to finish. There are four games. RANDOM LETTERS brings the 26 in a random order, each once; A TO Z brings them in alphabetical order; YOUR CHOICE lets you choose each letter before it appears; and CRAWLING LETTERS sends random letters crawling to the right, row after row, starting again at the top. Only one shot flies at a time. Your time and your number of shots are counted, and the best time for each game is kept.

Controls: Use either controller. Push left and right to move the cannon and press either button to fire. In YOUR CHOICE, up and down pick a letter and a button places it. On the title, up and down choose a game 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, January 1984: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.