Space Dodger

Your ship sits on the left of a starfield with a line of alien ships flying at it at different speeds. You can only move up and down, and zipping cuboids guard the top and bottom. The score grows the longer you live, and you climb from Space Cadet to Master, with a pause and faster aliens at each rank. Three ships, then your score and rank.

Controls: Up and down move the ship; the button starts.

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, May 1985, pages 40: original program by Matthew Marulio; Commodore 64, VIC-20 and Atari by Kevin Mykytyn, Apple by Rob Terrell and Tim Victor. Published for TI-99/4A, Commodore 64, VIC-20, Apple, Atari. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.