Jericho

A ball bounces inside a ring that runs around the edge of the screen. Two pieces of the ring, on opposite sides, are solid ramparts and the rest is open. Turn the whole ring so that a rampart is always where the ball arrives; if the ball slips out through an opening it is lost. In the middle stands the wall of Jericho, and every brick the ball touches falls and turns the ball back. Several times a second each fallen brick scores a point, so the wider the breach, the faster the score climbs. Each new ball starts from the middle of the wall, and fallen bricks stay down. There are nine balls, and the game goes on until the last one is lost. The best score is kept.

Controls: Use controller 1 or 2. Push the stick up or right to turn the ring clockwise, down or left to turn it anticlockwise, and press a button to serve the next ball. On the title, push up and down to choose and press a button to select.

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, June 1988: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). Machine-language program from the issue's disk. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.