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Life

Moby ID: 179005
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Released
October 1979 on COSMAC
Credits
2 people
Publishers
Moby Score
n/a
Collected By
1 players
Genre
Simulation
Perspective
Top-down
Visual
Fixed / flip-screen
Business Model
Commercial
Media Type
Type-in
Number of Players Supported
1 Player
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See Also
  • Life (1970 on Mainframe)
  • Life (1972 on Mainframe, 1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
  • Life (1974 on Terminal)
  • Life (1975 on Altair 8800, 1976 on Intel 8080, Zilog Z80...)
  • box cover Life (1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
  • Life (1978 on TRS-80)
  • Life (1979 on TI Programmable Calculator)
  • Life (1979 on TRS-80)
  • Life (1979 on TRS-80)
  • box cover Life (1980 on Commodore PET/CBM)
  • Life (1982 on Philips P2000)
  • box cover Life (1987 on TRS-80 CoCo)
  • box cover Life (1988 on Atari 8-bit)
  • box cover Life (2009 on Xbox 360)
  • box cover Life (2019 on Windows)

Description

Life is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life for the COSMAC ELF using a 30x48 grid. The player can draw patterns and watch how they evolve based on the simple rules of Conway's Game of Life:

  • Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
  • Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
  • Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
  • Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

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Game added by vedder.

Game added January 30, 2022. Last modified March 9, 2023.