QBasic Games

Often scorned, QBasic is quite a capable programming language when it comes to games, and it is easily accessable. QBasic was introduced with MS-DOS 5.0 in 1991, and it came with three sample games, among them QBlocks, a Tetris clone. QBasic was part of all Microsoft operating systems at least up to Windows 98, where you will find it on the CD in a folder labeled OLDMSDOS.

But the capabilities of QBasic are in no way limited to small arcade games. It is rather popular for console-style RPGs (O.H.R.RPG.C.E. was written in QBasic, too) and people have even created DOOM clones with it.

Games

While some of these games come as a compiled executable, they all have the source code included.

• QBlocks
• Othullo
• VGA Sokoban
• Confaive

Links

• VPlanet is the first 100% QuickBasic Game Review Magazine. With the 2004-07-30 update they had 159 game reviews. It's a bit confusing that adventure games are considered puzzles here, but otherwise this site is highly recommendable.
• QBasic Games Directory
• Pete's QBasic / QuickBasic Site is all about games.
• Kaswoj Software has a couple of QBasic games.
• Mark Donovan's Qbasic Homepage
• Beginner's Programming Tutorial in QBasic
• BASIC
• Toshi's Project Page
• QBASIC ASM LIBRARIE