Buzzard Bait (Color Computer)

Despite nearly matching the longevity of the Commodore 64, Tandy's Color Computer line never really had the third party software support that the Commodore 64 and other 8-bit computers of the time had. The fact that Radio Shack did not really court third party development combined with the fact that the hardware was only sold at Radio Shack probably had something to do with that.

Buzzard Bait is one example of the games you would typically find for this system. As you can see, it is a blatant rip-off of the arcade game Joust. It actually isn't terrible. There were lots of clones of more popular arcade games on the Coco but the quality varied wildly.

Buzzard Bait was released by a company called Tom Mix Software in 1983. Like much of the software for the CoCo, you could only find it easily via mail order. It was available on both disk and cassette and given the fact that it wasn't marketed through major retail establishments, original copies are probably pretty rare. This is one you will probably need emulation to try.

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