Campaign Manager

A strategy game of a presidential election. Two campaign managers, CYAN and RED, each pick a candidate from five, rated for charisma, stamina, intelligence, experience and appeal, with positions on economy, social issues, farms, schools and defense. The race runs nine weeks. Each week you plan seven days: campaign in a state of your region, run TV ads across the region, fundraise, rest, poll the region, or travel to another region. Then the week plays out day by day. Every state has undecided voters, and stops and ads win them over, but too many days in one state backfires and tired candidates lose effect. A map shows who leads where. After week nine the last undecided voters split, each state's electoral votes go to the leader there, and 270 of 538 wins. Play a friend or the computer.

Controls: Use either controller. Push the stick left or right to choose a command, state, region or candidate; press the left button for OK and the right button to go back. On the title, up and down choose a line and left and right change it.

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, August 1984: original Commodore 64 program by Todd Heimarck. A machine-language program typed in with MLX. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.