Round the Horn (video game)

Round the Horn
Publisher(s)The Software Exchange
Designer(s)George Blank[1][2]
Platform(s)TRS-80
Release1979

Round the Horn (stylized with a leading apostrophe as 'Round the Horn)[3] is a 1979 video game written by Reverend George Blank and published by The Software Exchange for the TRS-80. Written in BASIC, it was originally a type-in program—and the cover feature—in the January 1979 issue of SoftSide.[3]

Contents

Round the Horn is a game in which each player pilots a clipper ship from New York City, around South America, to San Francisco in the shortest time.[4]

Reception

Joseph Suchar reviewed Round the Horn in The Space Gamer No. 37.[4] Suchar commented that "Round the Horn is a challenging game which is in between all of those economic games and the simplistic arcade games. I highly recommend it."[4]

References

  1. ^ "SoftSide Magazine Issue 05 (The 1040 Tamed)". February 1979.
  2. ^ "The Judges Guild Journal August-September 1979 #16". August 1979.
  3. ^ a b Blank, George (January 1979). "Around the Horn". SoftSide (4): 8.
  4. ^ a b c Suchar, Joseph (March 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (37). Steve Jackson Games: 27–28.
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