Platform: Acorn Atom
Region: PAL
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ReleaseDate: 1981-07-09
Players: 1
Co-op: No
Life
Life is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life. The player draws patterns by moving a cursor over the screen and upon pressing the return key the patterns will start to evolve based on three rules: - If an empty square is surrounded by exactly three organisms a new one is born. - If an organism is surrounded by four or more organisms it dies of overcrowding. - If an organism has less that one neighbour it dies of loneliness. There are seven predefined pattern that the player can add in any orientation to any position of the screen: - Glider which moves diagonally - Small spaceship which moves horizontally or vertically - Flying machine which moves horizontally or vertically - Glider gun which fire out gliders - Queen bee which is an oscillating shape - 15 cycle which is an oscillator with a period of 15 - Eater which eats various small blocks of life
ESRB Rating: Not Rated
Genre(s): Education