"Snails' Trails" by Peter Lear (1984)

This is a game modified to work on the TRS-80 Micro Color Computer ("MC-10") using Micro Color BASIC based on source code by Peter Lear published in the book Fantastic Games (Hayes Publishing Ltd. Burlington, Ontario, 1984).

[@IsaacKuo]

I remember my first school computer lab had TRS-80 Model III computers with no floppy drives (nor any tape drives). Just BASIC, so we had to type in commands and programs.
With little more than SET, RESET, and POINT, the only popular video game that was easy to program like that was Tron light cycles, with just you and a computer opponent. I didn't really understand how to program the computer opponent, though.

[@BenevolentChum]

Here is a Tron game with an AI opponent: th-cam.com/video/tvFKBXAypWA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rCefzUP3m0xgK6Uk

[@BenevolentChum]

Source can be found here if you want to take a look: github.com/jggames/trs80mc10/tree/master/quicktype/Arcade

[@BenevolentChum]

My mom was a teacher, and brought home a Model III on the weekends. But with a cassette recorder:)

[@IsaacKuo]

@@BenevolentChum If I recall, the TRS-80 Tron algorithm I remember tried to simply mirror the player input ... like a left-right mirroring, but mimicking up-down. It worked, but it was really challenging to defeat. Knowing what I know now, I can modify the algorithm to make it easier, but back then ... it was just beyond my ability to figure out what to try.