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Playbox
Playbox is a collection of card and board games for the Amstrad CPC released by Norsoft in 1985. A selection of seven games is offered here – morpion (try to place five counters in a row on a grid before the computer does), Hold-Up (find eight gold bars hidden in a grid in as few moves as possible), poker, poker patience (place playing cards on a 5×5 grid and try to obtain as many winning combinations of cards as possible), Awari (a board game played against the computer in which you try to collect as many counters as possible), Jackpot (a fruit machine), and Master Mind (the classic code-breaking game). All of them are written in BASIC.
- Release date
- December 31, 1984
- Developer
- Thierry Durand
- Publisher
- Norsoft
- Players
- 1
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Playbox
Playbox is a collection of card and board games for the Amstrad CPC released by Norsoft in 1985. A selection of seven games is offered here – morpion (try to place five counters in a row on a grid before the computer does), Hold-Up (find eight gold bars hidden in a grid in as few moves as possible), poker, poker patience (place playing cards on a 5×5 grid and try to obtain as many winning combinations of cards as possible), Awari (a board game played against the computer in which you try to collect as many counters as possible), Jackpot (a fruit machine), and Master Mind (the classic code-breaking game). All of them are written in BASIC.
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- Thierry Durand
- Publisher
- Norsoft
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