BASIC 10-liners

What are "10-liners"?

Tenliners are small programs written in just 10 lines of BASIC programming language. This concept appeared in 2011 during the NOMAM convention in Lübeck, Germany, where a contest for small Atari games was conceived. Since then, every year more 8-bit systems have been included, and over 900 programs have been received from all the world, in different categories.

The rules are simple:

The categories are:

Official web pages for BASIC Tenliner Contest per year are: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

Local ATR with Atari XL/XE compilations are: 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.


My personal collection

These are my own productions. I used either Atari BASIC, TurboBasic XL or FastBasic in my games. Have fun with them!

Fleas!

Keep Doggy without fleas. Each round has more fleas. There are only three rounds.

1 joystick required

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Invaders

Kill all the invaders before they reach the earth. Just one chance... win or die!

1 joystick required

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Where's my cheese?

You are a hungry lab mouse. Run through the maze to find and enjoy a slice of cheese.

1 joystick required

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Alpha vs Numeric: The Front Line

Alphabetics are in war against numerics. Try to keep the peace in this keyboard challenge!

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M*N Puzzle

The classic sliding puzzle. Select a size from 2x2 up to 6x6 and try to solve it with the minimum amount of moves.

1 joystick required

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Surround

Try to surround your oponent with your trail. The first one that wins 9 rounds, wins the match.

0,1 or 2 joysticks required

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Don't go!

With a paddle controller, try to keep the ball within the screen as much as you can.

1 paddle1 required

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Space Ranger

Chase the enemies and shoot them with your short-range weapon before you run out of power.

1 joystick required

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Minipede

Kill the caterpillars before they reach the bottom of the garden. Be carefull! They can eat you.

1 joystick required

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Decipede

Kill the caterpillars before they reach the bottom of the garden. Be carefull! They can eat you.

1 joystick required

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Sketch-PadDles

Use your paddles to draw in this Etch-a-Sketch simulator. Save your art and restore it later.

2 paddles required

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Oruga

You are a starveling caterpillar. Eat the clovers and avoid the flowers on different gardens.

1 joystick required

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Alby, the albino bat

Do your sonar trick and fly through the cave avoiding to hit the stalactites and stalagmites.

1 joystick required

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Uncle Simon

Just repeat what Uncle Simon says and beat him in his 9 rounds, each harder than the previous one.

1 joystick required

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Magic Cups

Do not stop looking at where the little ball is. Whoops! Can you find out where it is now?

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Deep Canyon

Drive your parachute and land on the bottom of the canyon before you get too many lethal shots.

1 joystick required

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La Peste

Save as many items as you can in your bunker before they become infected with the purple plague.

1 joystick required

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Defensor

Protect the humanoids from the evil aliens and rescue those who have been abducted.

1 joystick required

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Mini Bros

Flip the tortoises by hitting them from the bottom and kick them before they bite you.

2 joysticks required

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Pixelated Puzzle

Identify the missing piece and solve the classic sliding puzzle in the minimum amount of moves.

1 joystick required

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License Plates

Memorize the licence plates of the bank robbers and give them to the police. How many can you catch?

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UFO Attack!

Use the shields to protect the earth from the attack of an aggressive flying saucer.

1 paddle1 required

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Bounce & Catch

Bounce the ball and catch all the numbers you can to score in 4 minutes. Triple points when hit from top.

1 paddle1 required

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Journey to the Golden Mothership

Guide your ship safely to visit all your squad's motherships, and reach the golden one before running out of energy.

1 joystick required

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Wazers

You are a monster wazer and you have to go to the destination pin, avoiding all those wazers on the way.

1 joystick required

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Coronavirus

Coronavirus is spreading widely and too fast. Lead your population to a safe area within the time.

1 joystick required

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Follow Simona

Your personal trainer Simona does some exercises with you, and you must follow her as fast as you can.

1 joystick required

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Repeat after Simona

Your personal trainer Simona teachs you a series of exercises, and you must memorize and repeat them.

1 joystick required

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Tunnel Hunt

Chase and shoot the enemy ships through the tunnel without hitting the walls.

1 joystick required

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Patrol

Drive to POINT Z, jumping over craters and other obstacles, shooting to destroy the big ones and UFOs.

1 joystick required

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Hubert

Hubert has to change the color of the 5 pyramids to green, but Bally tries to make him fail the mission.

1 joystick required

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The Children

Pedro has been commanded to rescue the child, but he realized that there are many of them!!!

1 joystick required

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Noxious

Many colorful, swaying and noxious creatures attack you on your interstellar journey. Be faster!

1 paddle1 required

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The Matrix: Red Pill

You have chosen the red pill... Now you need to find the path to enter The Matrix.

1 joystick required

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The Matrix: Red or Blue?

Two people opted for different pills... which one will be able to enter The Matrix?

2 joysticks required

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1nvas0r

One invader, one button, one shoot, one life. Keep the Earth safe from a lot of single invaders.

1 or 2 joysticks required

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Chickens on the Freeway

Chickens must go to the other side of the freeway. Who will help more of them?

1 or 2 joysticks required

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Bert

Bert has to change the color of the 5 pyramids to green, but Bally tries to make him fail the mission.

1 joystick required

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Spiky World

You are a bubble in a spiky world, but other bubbles want to chase you. Guide them to the green spikes.

1 joystick required

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Beetles

Proud of your white Beetle, participate in the Beetles Great Parade. How far can you go?

1 joystick required

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Coordinator

Help the little elf to find the eleven potions needed to freeze the lava and escape alive.

2 paddles required

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Sweeper

Clean the floor with your broom. Use the hints of surrounding tiles to avoid mines.

1 joystick required

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Chase Me!

Collect as many coins as you can while being chased by some evil guardians.

1 joystick required

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Endless Road Runner

Jump over the cacti during your run avoiding Coyote's ACME rockets that follow you.

1 joystick required

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Fly Hunter 10L

Catch as many flies in a row hanging with your web. Beware, the frog is lurking from the puddle.

1 joystick required

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Pac-10Liner

Avoid Blinky while clearing the row of dots, but you can catch him after eating the power pill.

1 joystick required

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Guess the Number

Provide an upper limit and then guess the number the computer selected in that range.

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Download

You can download each of my games from their respective description page, with their details and bonus, but you can also download all my official entries up to 2019 together within this ATR: Vitoco-10liners-2019.atr.


The Wall

I was curious and wanted to know how it would look like if I put all entries together. Here are the resulting listings for each category, only Atari XL/XE entries:

My own entries only for all the years were grouped by category:


© 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024 by Víctor Parada - 2016-03-04 (updated: 2024-04-19)