Round the Horn
Round the Horn (stylized with a leading apostrophe as 'Round the Horn) 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.
Round the Horn
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- 1979
- Genre
- simulation video game
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• Title — Round the Horn • Publisher — The Software Exchange • Designer — George Blank • Platforms — TRS-80 • Released — 1979
Contents
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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.
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1979
Round the Horn published.
1979
Round the Horn is recorded as published in 1979.
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Reception
Joseph Suchar reviewed Round the Horn in The Space Gamer No. 37. 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."
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The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Round the Horn (video game), revision 1329568818 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
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- 1.SoftSide Magazine Issue 05 (The 1040 Tamed). February 1979.
- 2.The Judges Guild Journal August-September 1979 #16. August 1979.
- 3.Suchar, Joseph. Capsule Reviews. The Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games. 37. 27–28. March 1981.
- 4.Blank, George. Around the Horn. SoftSide. 4. 8. January 1979.
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