The Bilestoad

The Bilestoad is a fighting video game by Marc Goodman (credited as "Mangrove Earthshoe") for the Apple II and published in 1982 by Datamost.

The odd spelling reflects Goodman's idea of a future language similar to A Clockwork Orange's Nadsat in which English has been modified by the borrowing of foreign words.

According to the author, influences for The Bilestoad include the movie Excalibur and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The combat arena is a small island, maps of which (at short, medium, and long range) are shown at the right side of the screen.

[3] The assembly language source code for The Bilestoad was found on two 5.25 diskettes retrieved from a dumpster in Berkeley, California and purchased on eBay by the maintainer of apple2games.com in 2018.