Someday we’ll find it, the Starwars Connection, the Wookiees, the Jedi and me . . .
Yep, on DOS and Linux. 
I wish there were more screenshots of some of these ancient games. The names ring a bell, but the image is worth more to me than a generic description.
Avalon Hill earliest games were written in BASIC for the various computers of the time - TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore (PET & 64), Atari and I think even the TI-99/4a, as well as the IBM PC when it came along. Most of those games were new creations with at most a tenuous connection to any of AH’s board games - probably the closest was their Midway game, which benefited from easier fog of war available to a computer adaptation.
Later on, they adapted a few of their boardgames, including Advanced Civilization, Advanced Third Reich, and Diplomacy, once computing power had reached a level sufficient to implement a 64-page rulebook along with graphics, sound and passable AI.
When SimCity became all the rage in the late 80s I remember telling my friend “It’s like Utopia we used to play to death on Intellivision back in 1982”.
We don’t remember anyone having ever played that game or even heard of it but it was one we had many late night gaming sessions with.
I think Atari 800 had two simpler, early versions of “Heroes of Might and Magic”.
Some of the best games were very simple. There was one with two players. Each player used a joystick that controlled a lengthening line, which we thought of as snakes. The goal was to cut-off your opponent so the head of their snake hit the body of yours. Much harder and more fun than it sounds.
Heheh, I think most thing Intellivision are poorly remembered, at best.
I had a friend who had an Intellivsion and a copy of B-17 bomber with the voice synthesis module. It was actually a pretty complex game for a couple of tweens to manage. I’m pretty sure we never actually finished a mission.
I had a friend who owned dozens of Intellivision games. They varied a lot, but the baseball one was very good for its time.
“Mattel Electronics Presents…. Bay-Sevuntain Bawwmer!”
I had however many hours into Fortune Builder, but apparently they were late to the party…
I liked “Sail” by Dave Riggle, but I think that one was not in BASIC?
ETA anyone remember Qix? Fun Taito game. I do not remember if it was possible to split a single Qix
Hehehe, “That wuz awn target!”
Summoner and its sequel Summoner II. Summoner is available on GOG at least but not the sequel.
Sentient; a game that I always died at without getting too far but found wandering around interesting. The characters were hideous, though.
Utopia was awesome. Played it on an Intellivision clone and found the cartridge along with the backgammon game at a garage sale back in the 80s. One of the proto-Civilization-type games.
I played Qix on my C 64 all the time. I’ll never forget the time I covered 99% of the screen. IIRC Qix also had an edition for the Genesis.
That sounds like a homemade text star wars game that made the rounds edit: lol ninjaed …bleh that teaches me to read the thread before answering lol
might have been kings field which was the proto homm
oh, the Atari 2600 game StarMaster by Activision was 1 an attempt to outdo Ataris Star Raiders and 2 an unsuccessful attempt to get the Star Trek license since Sega already had it. Still, Gary and co simply "improved ( ripped off) the grid-based star trek games and made one of the most technical 2600 games that was a “total bitch to program” and took 2 years longer to make than anticipated because they had to figure out the color/bw switch map toggle …
meant to say kings bounty
And Atari 5200.
I also managed to get 99% of the screen covered in that one. (Had a friend growing up whose family had a 5200.)
Hehhehe, I remember that I played Qix somewhere, sometime, but I’ll be damned if I remember the platform.