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Video game · 1973

Mugwump

Released April 1973 on BASIC, Legacy Computer, Commodore PET and Commodore 64

Made in
United States
Genre
Puzzle

About Mugwump

Mugwump is an early video game where the user is tasked with finding four "Mugwumps" that are randomly hidden on a 10x10 grid. It is a text-based game written in BASIC. The user enters a pair of single-digit co-ordinates in the range from 0 to 9 which are the x,y coordinates to scan. If a mugwump is at that location then the user is alerted. Otherwise the user is told the distance from the scanned coordinates to each of the mugwumps that are yet to be found. The game ends after ten turns or when all of the mugwumps have been found.

Summary: IGDB.

Release dates

BASICApril 1973
Legacy ComputerApril 1973
Commodore PET1978
Commodore 64later, date unknown

Screenshots

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Videos

Mugwump: Gameplay Video

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Sources: Wikidata, IGDB, Wikipedia's release lists.