Isolation

A board game for one to four players on seven by six stone plates. Each player starts on a home plate in a corner: red top left, green bottom right, blue top right and magenta bottom left. On a turn you step to one of the eight plates around your token, if it is still there and nobody is on it, and then knock out any empty plate on the board that is not a home plate; it cracks and falls away. After each turn, a player with no free plate around the token is isolated and leaves the game. The last player left wins and is named. With one player, green is the computer, which pauses to show the plate it will knock out.

Controls: Use either controller and pass it on in turn. Push the stick towards a plate and press a button to step there, then move the cross-hair to a plate and press a button to knock it out. On the title, push up and down to choose and press a button to start.

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, May 1990: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.