Laser Beam

Two quite different printed versions become two modes. In Classic, from the Atari, you score by moving, more with each ball added to the arena, while lasers rove the sides and turn red to warn where, but not when, they will fire. In Basket, from the Commodore 64, seven balls bounce around while you steer a laser gun round the edge from a safe zone.

Controls: The stick moves; the left button fires or drops and the right pauses.

ColecoVision version credited in the ROM to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagining built on the article, not a line-by-line port. From COMPUTE! magazine, October 1985, pages 59: original program by Mike Greenfield; Commodore 64 version by Kevin Mykytyn. Published for Atari, Commodore 64. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.