Tommy's Backgammon

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Tommy's Toys

Tommy's Toys was a company that produced over 200 shareware games between 1985 and 1998. All of the games were written in QuickBasic and were designed to run in DOS. It was a one man operation where all the games were developed by T. L. Winslow who stopped making games in 1998 to start a new career as a novelist. The company was known for its tag line "Tommy's Toys - Programmed by Aliens from Outer Space".

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Backgammon is one of those ancient games that are based on both luck and skill, but the more skillful you are the luckier you get. Having been brought to earth by ancient astronauts (a board dated at 3000 b.c. was dug up by earthling anthropologists in ur of the chaldees in modern Iraq, and is now on display in the british museum), it then ran the gamut of ancient civilizations, Greek, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and so on. (the doubling cube was introduced by aliens from outer space in 1920s America to help them win enough dough to pay for bus fare home, and is still mainly used by americans.)
Outside America this game goes by other names than backgammon (fr. For back game), for example: tablas reales (sp. For royal tables), tric-trac (France), ticktack (Irish), tables (English from the latin tabula).
Now you don't even need a live partner to play this king of games; your PC is waiting to play against you. So have fun and don't leave your planet without it.
Black's goal is to move its pieces counterclockwise around the board to squares 1-6; then move them all off the board. White moves its pieces clockwise around the board to squares 19-24, then off the board.