APBA Backgammon
Platform: Intellivision
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: INTV
Genre: Board Game > Strategy 
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1979
Developer: APh Technological Consulting
Publisher: Mattel Electronics
Players: 1 or 2 VS
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Intellivision Backgammon is identical with the board game. Backgammon is a game played by two players (the computer can be one of the players). Each player has 15 pieces. The object of the game is to be the first to move all your pieces completely around and finally off the board. Moving your pieces off the board is called "bearing off". The first player to bear off all his pieces is the winner. Each player moves in a direction beginning from his opponent's Home Table and coming around to his own Home Table. Thus one player always moves clockwise and the other always 
counterclockwise.
You can play against the computer at two skill levels - one for beginners or intermediate, another for experts - or two players can compete against each other. It displays the American Backgammon Players Association (ABPA) logo.


CATALOG DESCRIPTION:

Beating Intellivision at backgammon is a lot of fun. But it's definitely not child's play.

The computer knows all the tricks -- and it calculates all the odds before it moves.

Can you find a flaw in its strategy? Can you give it pieces to gobble up freely, then trap it in the back game? Or will you just cross your fingers, press the button and roll the dice?

Perfect your own backgammon skills with this modem version of one of the world's oldest games.


PRODUCTION NOTES:

ABPA Backgammon was one of the original four games introduced with Intellivision when it was test marketed in 1979.

The program code was recycled in the Triple Challenge cartridge released by INTV Corporation.


http://www.mobygames.com/game/intellivision/abpa-backgammon
http://www.intellivisiongames.com/bluesky/games/credits/strategy.html#backgammon