Best beginner game

[spenoza]

Oh, I intend to take the crash course, certainly  : )

[Arkhan]

Its in C, not C++

[ParanoiaDragon]

Combat, seems like it'd be relatively easy.  Another one I'd love to see is Air Sea Battle, I always had a special love for that one.

[Mishran]

I think you have already decided, but I always thought that Atlantis would make a great candidate for a beginner game.

Perhaps I'm alone in this, but I think it would be cool to have a Cosmic Ark port on the PCE. I busted many Atari joysticks while playing that game as a kid. Wouldn't be a good programming beginner game though.

[incrediblehark]

ET for PCE

[Arkhan]

Actually, Cosmic Ark wouldn't be that bad as a beginner game.  The surface-portions aren't that complicated really.

It'd be harder than Breakout, sure.

but, still pretty simple.  Getting the slippery acceleration is the hard part.

[touko]

Good advice, take care to initialise all your variables before using them .