PC Arcade

PC Arcade is a collection of ten text-mode action games for the IBM PC published by the Arlington, Texas-based Friendlysoft in 1983. The games are ASCII Man, Eagle Lander, Star Fighter TX-16, Shooter, Brick Breaker, Gorilla Gorilla, Robot War, Bug Blaster, Hopper, and PC Derby.[1] Most of the games are clones of arcade games (e.g., ASCII Man is Pac-Man).

PC Arcade
Developer(s)Friendlysoft
Publisher(s)Friendlysoft
Platform(s)DOS
Release
  • WW: 1983
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Reception

Stefan Jones reviewed PC Arcade in Space Gamer No. 66.[2] Jones commented that "I highly recommend PC Arcade to PC users who want to try arcade games but don't care about superb graphics or absolute fidelity to the classics these games emulate. Hard-core arcadists (arcadites? Arcaders?) may be disappointed, though."[2]

FriendlySoft claimed, in a 1983 PC Magazine ad, that "the first two PC ARCADE production runs sold out before they shipped."[1]

gollark: But what will the spæ¢e thing actually do?
gollark: ... sure?
gollark: I have an even BETTERER idea: hyperbolic geometry, like my profile picture.
gollark: Square coordinates are boring and uncool.
gollark: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

References
  1. "FriendlyWare magazine ad". PC Magazine: 409. August 1983.
  2. Jones, Stefan (Nov–Dec 1983). "Capsule Reviews". Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games (66): 38.
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