{{Short description|1981 video game}} {{Infobox video game | collapsible = | state = | italic title = | title = Computer Quarterback | image = Computer Quarterback.jpg | alt = | caption = | developer = LDW Software (ports) | publisher = Strategic Simulations | designer = Danielle Bunten Berry | series = | platforms = Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 | released = '''1981:''' Apple<br />'''1984:''' Atari, C64 | genre = Sports | modes = }}
'''''Computer Quarterback''''' is an American football simulation video game written for the Apple II by Danielle Bunten Berry (credited as Dan Bunten) and published in 1981 by Strategic Simulations. Ports to the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 were released in 1984. Add-on disks for new football seasons were also sold by SSI.
==Gameplay== ''Computer Quarterback'' is a game in which a statistics-based football game features both playbooks for both semi-pro and professional American football.<ref name="CGW42"/>
==Development== Danielle Berry developed ''Computer Quarterback'' originally to play with friends on the computer at their workplace. She later used a minicomputer to convert the game's code from FORTRAN to BASIC for the Apple II.<ref name="halcyon">{{cite book |editor-last=Hague |editor-first=James |title=Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers |title-link=Halcyon Days (book) |date=March 1997 |chapter=Danielle Berry |access-date=15 September 2025 |publisher=Dadgum Games |chapter-url=https://dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/BERRY.HTM| quote = "Computer Quarterback" was written only for myself and friends to play on the computer at work. I later converted it from FORTRAN to BASIC on an Apple II and sent it to Strategic Simulations.}}</ref> Afterward, Berry sent the game to Strategic Simulations requesting that the company publish it.<ref name="halcyon"/><ref name="retro-gamer-140">{{cite magazine| title = From the Archives: Strategic Simulations Inc| magazine = Retro Gamer| publisher = Imagine Publishing| location = Bournemouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom| issue = 140| date = 2015| page = 52| first = Adam| last = Barnes| issn = 1742-3155}}</ref> Berry selected the corporation based on the presentation of its first game, the 1980 ''Computer Bismarck''. The wargame's professional packaging, which differed from the zipper storage bags commonly used at the time, convinced her of the producers' competency.<ref name="retro-gamer-140"/>
==Reception== Wyatt Lee reviewed the game for ''Computer Gaming World'', and stated that "Team Data Disks for individual seasons have been marketed through the company catalog and this is a very playable game."<ref name="CGW42">{{cite magazine |last=Lee |first=Wyatt |title=The Electronic Gridiron |magazine=Computer Gaming World |date=December 1987 |volume=1 |issue=42 |pages=52–53}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{moby game|id=/50900}}
{{Dani Bunten}}
Category:1981 video games Category:American football video games Category:Apple II games Category:Atari 8-bit computer games Category:Commodore 64 games Category:Real-time strategy video games Category:Strategic Simulations games Category:Video games designed by Danielle Bunten Berry Category:Video games developed in the United States Category:Video games set in the United States