Name That Star

A TV game-show quiz about famous entertainers. Spell your first name on the contestant's application and the host welcomes you to the show, offering to explain the rules. Forty mystery names of famous stars follow, in a new order each game. Each name is shown jumbled on the light-bulb marquee while the host gives a clue in his speech balloon, and you pick the answer from six names listed below. You have three guesses at each name: the first scores 3 points, the second 2 and the third 1, and each wrong pick is crossed out. After a third miss the host tells you who it was. At the end he says goodbye and tells you how many stars you named and your score; the best score is kept on the title.

Controls: Push the stick up or down to choose and press a button to pick. On the letter board for your name the stick moves in four directions; DEL rubs out a letter and END finishes. On the title, up and down choose and a button starts. Either controller works.

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. 4, April 1984, page 45: original Commodore 64 program by Bob Lloret. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.