Block Battle!

A strategy board game of blocks crossing a pit. Green's home is the left column and yellow's the right, and each side starts with six blocks. The six middle columns are pits crossed by red column strips and blue row strips, and a block in the middle must stand on a strip. Each turn has two parts. First, push one of your blocks one cell onto an empty cell with a strip, or into the enemy's home, where landing on an enemy block captures it. Then slide one row's blue strips or one column's red strips a cell round; any block left with nothing under it falls into the pit. The game ends when one side fills the enemy's home, loses all its blocks, or is outnumbered there. Play the computer or a friend.

Controls: Move the cursor with the stick. Press a button to pick a block or a strip's cell, then push the stick for the direction; press a button again to cancel. On the title, up and down and a button choose.

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, September 1989: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.