From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
Developer(s) Atari, Inc
Publisher(s) Atari Inc.
Designer(s) Carol Shaw
Platform(s) Atari 2600 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe for the Atari 2600
Atari 8-bit family
Release date(s) 1980 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe was written by Carol Shaw, who went
Media distribution
Media/distribution Cartridge on to greater fame as the creator of Activision’s River
Raid.[1]
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe is a video game released by Atari, Inc The game was remade for the Microsoft Entertain-
for the Atari 2600 console and Atari 8-bit computers in ment Pack as TicTactics; this version also allowed the
1980.[citation needed] game to be played inside a 3 × 3 × 3 grid.[citation needed]
Description Ports
The game is similar to the traditional game of tic-tac-toe, 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe was made available on Microsoft’s Game
but is played on four 4 × 4 grids stacked vertically on top Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-
of each other; it is basically a computerized version of the based PCs in August 2010.
board game Qubic using traditional tic-tac-toe notation
and layout. To win, a player must place four of their sym- See also
bols on four squares that line up vertically, horizontally,
• Qubic
or diagonally, on a single grid, or spaced evenly over all
four grids. This creates a total of 76 possible ways to win,
in comparison to eight possible ways to win on a stan- References
dard 3 × 3 board. The game has nine variations, it can be
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played by two players against each other, or one player
programmer_page.html?ProgrammerID=80
can play against a built-in AI on one of eight different dif-
ficulty settings. The game uses the standard joystick con-
troller.[citation needed] External links
• 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe at MobyGames
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