Tim Hartnell's Second Giant Book of Computer Games (Tim Hartnell, 1985) is the second and last book in this series. Like the first one, it is a large book of code listings for several types of text games.
Back Cover
GET READY! GET SET! PLAY!!!
A BLOCKBUSTER COLLECTION
50 HOT new games from the fascinating world of computer fun —
sure to thrill beginners and advanced players alike!
ADVENTURE GAMES
Take on the forces of dread or escape from a dungeon labyrinth in
GHOSTHUNTER and OFF THE WALL ADVENTURE
Avoid a rabid pack of mutant dogs pursuing you through a post-
holocaust world in GOTHAM RUNNER
SIMULATION GAMES
Find out if you would make a good president in THE OVAL OFFICE
Test your intergalactic trucking abilities with BIG JOE'S SPACE RIG
ACTION GAMES
Speed down a twisting track in HUTT RACER
or make the universe safe for mankind in ENGULF
Compete with a friend in the fast-moving reaction game for two,
RETRO-ACTION
JUST FOR FUN GAMES
Encode your secret thoughts or cook up some verse with
POLYBIUS CIPHER and THE PATENTED LIMERICK MACHINE.
PSYCHIC GAMES
Gaze into the future with CELTIC TAROT and
THE BOOK OF CHANGES or chart your biorhythms in GOLDEN DAYS.
PLUS
A SPECIAL CHAPTER ON
CREATING YOUR OWN DAZZLING GAMES!
All programs are compatible with
Microsoft BASIC and will run on most microcomputers.
WARNING :
This book is DEFINITELY habit-forming fun!
"Quite Wonderful…the variety is fantastic!"
PC Magazine, reviewing
Tim Hartnell's Giant Book of Computer Games
Code Listings
Also like the first one, the code listings are divided into sections devoted to a particular kind of text game.
Action and Excitement
- The Big Maze
- Cavalier 'Chute
- Jumping Fallout
- Retro-Action
- Hutt Racer
- Engulf
- Mine-Sweeper
- Car Thirteen
- Bulls-Eye
- Daniel Morgan's Militia
- Taxi!!
Through Dungeons Deep
- Ghosthunter
- Gotham Runner
- Orbital Pilot
- It's A Mad, Mad World
- Off The Wall Adventure
Discovering the Real You
- The Celtic Tarot
- The Book of Changes
- Golden Days—-Biorhythms
- Year of the Monkey
The Sporting Challenge
- The Kentucky Derby
- Home Run!
- Judo
- Boxing
- Australian Rules Football
- Golf
- Cricket
A Touch of Magic
- Ortman the Mind-Reader
- Carte De Guet
- Rhabdomancy
Just for Fun
- The Creative Process
- Citigrams
- Recedivi
- The Polybius Cipher
- The Patented Limerick Machine
- Rominoes
- Headaches
- Story Board
Intellectual Twisters
- Betty Big-Brain
- The Word-Square Engine
- Oliver Rand
- Frostviken
Scintillating Simulations
- The Mayor of Minneapolis
- Big Joe's Space Rig
- The Crusades
- Sheep Station
- The Oval Office
- Grand Prix
- Asteroid Mine
- Cochabamba
- Roman Empire