Gambit
A BBC Micro board game in which players guide their pieces home while placing walls to obstruct their opponents. Originally called Strategy.
Image credits and source
Original cover / promotional artwork
Credit: Acornsoft — artwork belongs to its respective rights holders
Source: The Oliver Twins archive
Game at a glance
- Status
- Classic
- Released
- 1984
- Platforms
- BBC Micro
- Genres
- Strategy
- Developer
- The Oliver Twins (original development)
- Publisher
- Acornsoft
Development and publication
Development: The Oliver Twins (original development). Publication: Acornsoft.
The named development credit refers to the original or specifically identified version. Other ports and later re-releases may have different development teams.
Making the game
This was the winning entry of The Saturday Show 'Design a Game' competition. For the last 20+ years we thought this was in October ’83, but actually the letter from Commodore is dated '21 April 1983', which means it must have been around March '83. We were thinking this might be a mistake, however, we also found a letter from Acornsoft confirming we'd sent them a new version (this version will have been renamed to Gambit as they requested) and this is dated 30 September '83.
This was written entirely in BASIC and relying heavily on the very slow built-in line draw function.