Yahtzee (Logicom)

History

Another of the earlier single-player Logicom titles, Yahtzee was one of two Yahtzee games for The Major BBS (the other was from Tessier Technologies). Yahtzee eventually featured nice ANSI dice, and was sold for a reasonable price.

Yahtzee was sold to Soft Arts in 1997.

Game Information

Our electronic version of the popular dice game! Players roll simulated dice to form combinations of numbers to score points. Uses ANSI graphics to display the dice if the users configuration is set up for an IBM or compatible machine, otherwise, ASCII text graphics are used. A top 10 list lets players compete for high scores.

Gameplay

Like most games from the 1987-1990 time frame, Yahtzee was a text-based game which used a command line and game prompts to effect gameplay.

UNIX Version

Yahtzee, like Guess What, was one of two modules included with The Major BBS 6.25 for UNIX. 

Original Developer

Logicom

Original Programmer(s)

Don Arnel

Current Developer

Soft Arts

Based Upon

The board/dice game Yahtzee

Initial Release Date

June 1988

Original Price

$59.90

Mode(s) Supported

ANSI/ASCII, Client/Server

MBBS/WG Platform(s)

Major BBS 5.x/6.x, Worldgroup 1.x/2.x/3.x

Major BBS 6.25 UNIX, Worldgroup 1 UNIX

Current Version

1.02 (Soft Arts)

Availability

Available

License Type

Commercial

Source Available?

No

Plug-Ins Supported?

No

Current Price

$169.00

URL

Unknown

Demo BBS

Unknown

Downloads

TBA