Time Subway

An educational action game about history. A crazed doctor is hiding somewhere in time, at one of 44 great events between 0 and 1984 A.D. You start on the 1988 platform of the Space-Time Continuum Subway. The INFO terminal names this station's event, tells you the era where the doctor's presence is registered, and lets you set the train's direction: past or future. Board the train and the years roll by; press the button to stop at a station, then walk into the doctor on his platform to stop him. Other platforms are roamed by alien nasties, and a touch throws you to a random year. Every moment on a platform and every year travelled adds to the time distortion: at 100% you are lost in time.

Controls: Either controller. The stick walks; a button at the train door boards the train, and a button at the INFO terminal reads it. On the INFO screen, left and right choose past or future and a button returns. On the journey, a button stops the train; holding the stick the train's way rolls the years faster, against it slower. On the title, up and down choose 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. 52, April 1988, page 47: original Commodore 64 program by Cleveland M. Blakemore. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.