Checkers

Checkers is a 1980 video game adaptation of the board game checkers. It was designed by Alan Miller and was one of the first video games released by Activision, a company Miller and David Crane made after leaving Atari in August 1979. The game simulates the board game, keeping its general rules. Players move their game pieces diagonally across a checkerboard one square at a time. If the player is diagonally next to an opposing player's checker, they must jump it, which removes the opponent's checker from the board. Once one player has successfully removed all other players checkers or the opponent can make no legal moves, the player wins.