"How about a nice game of chess?"
Is that a reference to one of the early microcomputer based chess games? I don't recognize it.
I remember having a 5Kbyte BASIC interpreter on paper tape. With that I was able to key in BASIC programs from a book of computer games.
The book is "101 BASIC Computer Games". It has a version of the early "SPACEWAR" game based on Star Trek. Expectations for computer games were a tad lower back then.