BASIC

As we learn in the Preface of the first printing (Jan 1978) of the book by the Creative Computing Press, David H. Ahl left DEC in 1974, but DEC continued to publish this version, but without his name on it. The first printing of ''Basic Computer Games, Microcomputer Edition'' in January 1978 reflects the fact that, at the time of the DEC publication of ''101 Computer Games'', microcomputers hadn't been manufactured yet and, programmers using the BASIC language were still running code on time-sharing machines or on minicomputers.

This first printing by a books publisher drops the game's nametag and uses the game's name in the table of contents, which is no longer organized alphabettically, but by game category (e.g. Introductory Fun; Educational; Plotting and Pictures; Number and Letter Guessing; Remove an Object; Matrix Manipulation; Logic; Space; Sports Simulation; Gambling Casino; Card and Board; Combat; )