Matchblocks

A memory game for one to ten players. A framed board holds 54 covered blocks, 9 across and 6 down, each hiding a coloured picture. Before the game, choose whether a match is two identical blocks or, in the harder version, three. On your turn, uncover two blocks (or three) one after the other. If they all match, you score a point, the blocks leave the board and you go again; if not, NO MATCH, they are covered again and play passes to the next player. Players are lettered A to J, each with a cursor of their own colour. The round count rises each time play returns to the first player. The game ends when every block is matched: with several players the most matches wins, and playing alone you can try to finish in fewer rounds.

Controls: Use either joystick and pass it round. The stick moves the cursor and a button uncovers a block. On the title, up and down choose a line, left and right change it, and a button starts.

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 Ahoy! No. 33, September 1986, page 41: original Commodore 64 program by James A. Shephard. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.