Eagles and Gators

A tug of war between eight eagles in the sky and eight gators in the swamp, one of each in each of eight columns, split by a moving border. Free creatures fly or swim up and down, turning at the border and the far edge. Each player picks one creature at a time and has one button. Press it as a free creature touches the border and it clamps on, knocking loose the other side's clamped creature in that column. Press it for a free creature away from the border and it turns back; press it for a clamped one and it lets go. The border creeps toward the side with fewer clamped creatures, and a side pushed to its edge loses. Clamped creatures tire after 15 seconds. Play a friend or the computer.

Controls: Push the stick left or right to pick a creature and press either button to act. With one player, either controller plays the eagles; with two, controller 1 is the eagles.

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 1986: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.