Difference between revisions of "Convoy"

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| ''[[Air Trax]]'' || A text-based air traffic control simulator from 1983.
 
| ''[[Air Trax]]'' || A text-based air traffic control simulator from 1983.
 
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| ''[[Big Rig]]'' || A text-based truck driver simulator written in BASIC with the authors named removed.
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| ''[[Trucker|Big Rig]]'' || A remake of ''Trucker'', a text-based truck driver simulator written in BASIC in 1982.
 
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| ''[[International Bridge Contractors|Bridge Contractors]]'' || A DOS port of the 1981 BASIC game ''International Bridge Contractors'' with the authors names removed.
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| ''[[International Bridge Contractors|Bridge Contractors]]'' || A DOS port of the 1981 BASIC game ''International Bridge Contractors''. A text-based company simulator.
 
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| ''[[Fire Fighter (1985 video game)|Fire Out]] || The 1985 game ''Fire Fighter'', a text-based fire-fighter simulator.
 
| ''[[Fire Fighter (1985 video game)|Fire Out]] || The 1985 game ''Fire Fighter'', a text-based fire-fighter simulator.

Revision as of 12:50, 1 July 2020

Box cover.

Convoy is a compilation of four industry-themed video games published by Keypunch Software for MS-DOS on 1987-07-15. The games included in the package were sourced from much earlier games, so they're very dated.

Games

This compilation contains four games. Because Keypunch was essentially a pirate organization, they sourced the games from free sources like magazines and BBSes and stripped the names of the developers. Any unnecessary documentation or credits were removed. Prior to shipping, the games were re-titled, both to prevent the developers from finding out their programs were stolen, and also to make the buyers think they were buying something more impressive than what the box contained.

Title Notes
Air Trax A text-based air traffic control simulator from 1983.
Big Rig A remake of Trucker, a text-based truck driver simulator written in BASIC in 1982.
Bridge Contractors A DOS port of the 1981 BASIC game International Bridge Contractors. A text-based company simulator.
Fire Out The 1985 game Fire Fighter, a text-based fire-fighter simulator.

Personal

My cousin had this game around 1989. Our favorite game was International Bridge Contractors because it was multiplayer and had a lot of humor. Big Rig was our second favorite, and we never really figured out how to play Fire Out or Air Trax. Later in life, after I learned how Keypunch essentially stole existing games and repackaged them, I tried to research the origins of the games and discovered they were mostly written in BASIC and

Status

I do not own this game, but I have beaten Big Rig, Fire Out, and International Bridge Contractors.

Media

Box Art

Download

Since Keypunch probably never secured the rights to these game in the first place, and has long since gone out of business, I'm making the software available here.

Links