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| 11th Hour, The | Trilobyte / Virgin Interactive Entertainment | [top] | |
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The 11th Hour is a puzzle computer game with a horror setting that took 4
years to produce. It is the sequel to the 1992 game The 7th Guest. It used a new
graphic engine to render the game images, named the "Groovie" engine. The game takes
place 70 years after the events of the first game. Robin Morales, a big time TV
reporter, comes to the village of Harley to investigate the early happenings at the
Stauf mansion. Upon entering the house, however, she becomes trapped in yet another
of Stauf's games. Her boyfriend, Carl Dennings, will strive to rescue Robin and will
be controlled by the player. Disc 1 came with wad file levels for Doom and Heretic
modeled after the Stauf Mansion.
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| 3 Skulls of the Toltecs | Revistronic / Life Line Ent. / Midway Games West / Warner Interactive | [top] | |
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3 Skulls is a very funny spoof of the old Clint Eastwood spaghetti western 'The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly'. They have included so many take-offs on classic westerns (including recognizable voice impersonations) that you'll never be able to think about those movies in quite the same way again. Our hero is Fenimore Fillmore, a young "honest and well-intentioned" (well, sort of) cowpoke in 1866 Arizona. En route to stake a claim and make his fortune, he is about to stop at Big Town to get a drink for his horse and maybe himself, when he accidentally stumbles onto an ambush in progress. And there he learns of a vast undiscovered Toltec treasure that awaits whoever finds the 3 Golden Skulls. But to find that treasure, he must first deal with a corrupt priest and a larcenous soldier, not to mention Harvard educated Apaches, lustful parrots, grossly incompetent bankers, Anti-Alcoholic League women, amnesiac Mexican revolutionary generals, and many, many other hilarious characters. Sidesplitting humor and happy music, with clever puzzles that are appropriate for the storyline and an easy to use point & click interface. The game was very rare in retail, especially in North America where only a few hundred copies exist, but it was later included with the developer's next game involving Fenimore Fillmore called Wanted: A Wild Western Adventure (in Europe it's Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner). In March/2019, a Remastered version was released with enlarged graphics up to 4k. | ||
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| 9: The Last Resort | Tribeca Interactive / GT Interactive Software Corp. | [top] | |
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This is a surreal point and click adventure game in which you have just inherited a large mansion and have to get rid of the 9 evil muses that have taken it over. The gameplay is first person view and similar to Myst. It is most notable for involving some of the most famous people ever in a computer game including Robert De Niro, Cher, James Belushi, Christopher Reeve and a couple of guys out of Aerosmith. 9 features a large cast of characters, and is rich in character interaction. The game world is populated by bizarre environments, objects and creatures. The game world is designed to represent the limits of man's imagination. There is a strong musical theme running through the entire game, as evidenced by a majority of the puzzles, including the main recurring puzzle. There is also a strong element of humour in the game. The gameplay, coupled with the extremely high hardware requirements and the high cost of the game led to very few sales, and the game was remaindered. 9 features a large number of puzzles, of varying difficulty. It is considered to be a very difficult game overall. Most of the puzzles relate to the musical theme, provided mainly by Aerosmith. Many of the puzzles are based in a specific musical instrument, such as the drums, guitar, and organ; however, no musical knowledge of these instruments is required to enjoy this game. The gameplay centers on an organ upon which the player can play musical codes. On each "floor" of the resort, the player finds a code sheet containing instructions for playing a short musical piece on the organ. However, each sheet extends the code making it more difficult to interpret. This culminates in the final puzzle in which the player must be thoroughly familiar with the code. This concept has been regarded by players as either a blessing or a curse. | ||
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| Ace Ventura | 7th Level / Bomico Entertainment Software | [top] | |
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Borrowing from the Ace Ventura cartoon series, the game features all the same gags, mannerisms, and obnoxiousness from the world's famous pet detective - the kind of stuff that's so stupid, you have no choice but to laugh. And it's the humor that keeps the game afloat. Once again, Ace is on the case, this time traveling the earth looking for a lost creature. A lot of it is so simple, you'll figure out that the game is partly designed for young children. The objects and scenes have that bright, bulky Fisher Price quality. And if you ever actually get stuck, a special button on Ace's watch delivers audio clues that take out most of the guesswork. The various puzzle-filled scenes are sporadically broken up by arcade-lite action. Slightly challenging tasks like swimming through the murky waters of the deep, avoiding trash and oil slicks, and getting in a basic laser fight are a nice way to mix things up. This is a fun but short game. | ||
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| Adventures of Busy Billy, The | Microforum, Inc. / Guildsoft Ltd. | [top] | |
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Join Busy Billy as he gets up to all sorts of adventures - because in his World, anything can happen. You child will become the all-powerful director, creating their own fun-filled animated stories. Children will be responding to icons which represent familiar objects, so as to fulfil various tasks and overcome certain obstacles and puzzles. There are two exciting stories contained as starting points on the CD-ROM for double pleasure and playing time. Inanimate objects come alive and frolic. Funny animations will make you giggle and search for more. It's suitable for ages 5-10 years. | ||
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| Adventures of Pinocchio, The | Powerhouse Entertainment, Kushner-Locke Interactive / IBM | [top] | |
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This is an interactive movie game based on the live action movie featuring Martin Landau as Geppetto, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and the puppet effects of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. After Pinocchio realizes his dream of becoming a real boy, the evil Lorenzini kidnaps him and turns him back into a puppet. You must help Pinocchio's creator, Geppetto, find and rescue him. You'll go through Pinocchio's home town, row a boat through monster-infested waters and visit Terra Magica, the fair where Lorenzini turns boys into donkeys. To succeed, you'll have to dodge deadly traps, solve puzzles and outwit Lorenzini's conniving henchmen. Sometimes, you'll have to turn yourself into a puppet, a fish, a bird or even a donkey to rescue Pinocchio. Along the way you must collect six passwords, each reflecting a lesson in morality that Pinocchio learns. You are aided by live-action guides Lumina and Candlewick who will offer different suggestions as to what to do but you must decide. There are plenty of wide-screen scenes from the movie and a ton of original footage. The game comes on 4 CDs ("The Village", "The Forest", "The Sea", and "Terra Magica") because of the FMV (though the video takes up only half the screen), each disk representing another world to explore. You must make plot choices and solve puzzles through clicking on the interface around the FMV or on the FMV itself. It allows for microphone input also through voice recognition technology that allows the user to control the events on the screen through voice alone. | ||
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| Adventures of Professor Solvadore, The: Light and Sound | Pizza Computer / Interact Multimedia | [top] | |
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A scientific educational adventure game which combines experiments, logic puzzles and historical information. | ||
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| Agent XXL: das Geheimnis der Quadrate [G] | Westka Kommunikation | [top] | |
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This is a game that was an advertisement game for Ritter Sport Chocolate Your name is Bunt, Gunter Bunt. And you are searching the squares of "Ritter Sport". The cartoon-like story with SVGA graphics starts in Gunter's chaotic bachelor's hangout. This cool guy in the leather jacket takes part in in a price writing for his favourite magazine - and wins! But beside the prize, also another written work with a secret mission is included in the package. This is the moment Gunter has waited for a lifetime. Finally he can imitate his idol, Agent 001. travel and romance the most beautiful women, and experience the dangerous adventures that are waiting for him in Turkey, Ivory Coast, Jamaica and all the other beautiful locations. Though the graphics of the game are not always first choice, WESTKA proves great skills in handling humor. You will laugh at the cool sayings of Bunt and his co-actors which come in digitized forms. Aside from this, the player is not bothered by advertising pop-ups - just the other way round: There is no chocolate advertising in the whole game. Just the screensaver is composed of haselnut, nougat, yoghurt and milk, which is quite bearable. | ||
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| Alfred Pelrock: En Busca de un Sueño [Sp] | Digital Dreams Multimedia | [top] | |
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Alfred Pelrock is a guy with no seeming objective in his life until one night he awakens by a mysterious dream. An Egyptian princess has been held in a pyramid for eternity by his father, the pharaoh. So Alfred decides to travel to ancient Egypt to search for his 'beloved'. Another good classic spanish game from the makers of Dráscula with tons of adolescent humour in the style of a teenager's 80s film. Gameplay is simple, you have icons for walking, picking up objects, talking to people and interact. | ||
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| Alice In Cyberland Yamiyo No Madoushi [J] | Glams | [top] | |
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Tokyo, the 21st century. The internet has grown to be an enormously important part of life, and a digital world called "Cyberland" has come into existence. This digital world is divided into eight levels, with more important and confidential information being granted higher levels of priority, with the highest levels being inaccessible to anyone other than those with the highest government security clearance. A young junior-high student named Alice Minazuki is the daughter of one of the developers of this system. He left her with a very special "dive system," which allows the user to enter the deepest parts of Cyberland. Together with her friends Rena Ohtori and Juri Yagami, they are ALICE-3, a team tasked with maintaining peace and order in Cyberland. This is a traditional Japanese-style adventure game divided into chapters. Each chapter begins with Alice and her friends in Tokyo, and you can move about the city talking to people to find out more about what's happening. Eventually, she'll need to "dive" into Cyberland, which is also represented by a city. Your team will be able to move around, investigating different systems and looking for information, and eventually running into enemy "guard programs" which must be fought. The battle system is simple, allowing for either attack, defense, and character change. Defeating a guard system will continue the story. While exploring Tokyo, you can also visit an arcade and play a game, or go to a Karaoke club and watch the girls sing. The game's scenario was written by Chiaki Konaka, better known for his work on serial experiments lain, The Big O, and Ultraman. | ||
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| Alice in Music Land | DS Multimedia Productions, Rongo-Rongo / So \ USE Interactive Entertainment | [top] | |
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From the Russian makers of Diamond Bird. The girl Alice (the same one from the works of Lewis Carroll), bored, listened to her sister playing the piano - and either fell asleep, or something else, but was suddenly transported to a strange surreal mansion directly associated with a variety of musical works. Which are messed up in the same way as all the local rooms and stairs - wandering through this labyrinth, we have to find and recognize the "encrypted" fragments of melodies, identifying their names and authors by ear. From an external point of view, the game is a first-person adventure game with completely "mouse" controls, panoramic views and discrete movements - almost a real "mystoid"; the mentioned panoramas are implemented on the QuickTime engine, and therefore, alas, they differ more in grain and blur, rather than clarity and colorfulness. Moreover, the actual location image occupies a window of only 400x300 pixels on the screen out of a total of 640x480 pixels - the rest of the space is for some reason reserved for a decorative, but completely useless (except for the interface panel below) frame. To look around, you should move the cursor to any side holding the left mouse button; the Ctrl and Shift keys allow respectively to decrease or increase the field of view. When brought to one of the active points, the pointer changes its appearance. Artistically, the visual part makes a slightly better impression than the technical one. For the professional painter Alexander Schwartz, it was a debut in the field of electronic creativity, however, it brought him first prize at one of the festivals in the "Graphics in computer games" nomination. The world in which we find ourselves resembles such a three-dimensional embodiment of Maurits Escher's fantasies with intertwining planes and stairs; In this atmosphere of insane surrealism, we first of all have to find nine rooms, inhabited by those very confused musical works - and at the same time with various figurines of characters, also very unusual and picturesque. Knights in armor coexist here with dinosaurs, and ladies and gentlemen in Renaissance costumes - with steam locomotives and gramophones. Alexander Rosenblatt later designed the local images into a "musical journey for a symphony orchestra and a reader" and even a whole ballet. The highlight of the sound design lies in the fact that all the melodies are well-known works of the classics changed to some degree of unrecognizability, moreover, they are also combined in a medley with a peculiar arrangement. The result was such a collage quite in the spirit of postmodernism: the composer recalled that, just as Lewis Carroll juggled words and created puns, he himself “turned upside down” several dozen themes of world classics. The encyclopedia built into the game is called upon by clicking on the book icon in the left corner of the lower interface panel. We offer about fifty articles about the personalities of various composers and even musicians, from Scarlatti, Gluck and Bach to Richard Strauss, Duke Ellington and Glen Miller. The texts - unfortunately, written by completely different people on the part of the customer, and not at all by the main developers - are not particularly attractive, often acting as a brief retelling of biographies and various everyday anecdotes. Much more useful is a fragment of one or more works presented on the page of each celebrity - you can listen to it, but it will not last more than a minute, or even a few seconds. However, these are the things you should pay close attention to. We have an extremely original and curious quiz, but intended rather for professors of the conservatory - and they will probably have to scratch their heads more than once, solving local cunning puzzles. | ||
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| Alien Incident | Housemarque Ltd. / Gametek | [top] | |
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This is a very traditional 2D point'n'click adventure game. It includes lots of funny Star Wars references. You play the role of a teenager called Benjamin who's visiting his uncle's house at Halloween. His uncle, a home-grown scientist, attempts to activate his latest invention, the wormhole spawner. Amazingly enough, it works and rips open a wormhole to another galaxy, transporting an alien spacecraft to Earth. The aliens kidnap your uncle and, surprisingly, your mission is to rescue him (and the world, but you knew that already). It's a fun, unassuming science fiction adventure that is great for young adventurers due to its family-oriented plot and easy puzzles. It must have been developed with the fledgling gamer in mind, and in that sense seems to be going in the right direction. Along with its clever animation and interesting storyline, it reinforces to the new or younger gamer the idea that fun, challenging gameplay doesn't have to include violence. The tone of the game is well established very early and nicely maintained throughout. There are the usual gathering and intelligent deployment of assorted objects for puzzles. | ||
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| Alius, The [J] | Collabo Software, NOVUM / Xing Interactive | [top] | |
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The game starts with a rather banal plot: five scientists explore space and find a planet that, at first glance, looks very similar to Earth. Having landed, they go to take water samples for analysis, but together with them in a test tube, an alien something penetrates the ship, capturing one of the crew members. In addition, a meteorite hits the ship's hull, leaving a gaping hole. The movement speed is extremely reduced, and there is little food on board, so part of the team decides to plunge into suspended animation. But will researchers be able to get home? The five heroes of the game are Karl, a young and fearless guy, Mark, an experienced and cold-blooded team leader, Clancy, the youngest scientist on the team, Daryl, an engineer and pilot, and Melissa, a biologist who volunteered to participate in the expedition. Controls are standard for the genre: you need to move around the screens using the arrows, interact with objects - the cursor. Under certain conditions, for example, after entering the desired location, videos are launched that move the plot forward. There are not very many of them and they are set rather clumsy, so it remained a mystery to me what makes the word "Movie" in the title. Using the button in the upper right corner of the screen, you can open a map showing where our character is, his direction, as well as the elevators that allow you to move around the floors of the spaceship. In the lower left corner, a portrait of the person we are currently controlling is shown (you can play as different team members, they change according to the plot). During cinematic scenes, a talking character is displayed there. Sometimes there are choices of several answer options, and one of them may end in death, and then you have to load from the last save. The game is entirely in Japanese, but at least it has subtitles. Most of the game takes place on a ship whose design is gray and dull. Those who are determined to complete the game to the end will be able to get to the Red Planet, which also does not represent anything outstanding. | ||
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| Alive: Behind the Moon [G] | CPIO Multimédia / Nova Media Verlag | [top] | |
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On the moon's side which is turned away from earth a unknown cosmic element causes atmospheric changes. So James Butterfield, a dishonorable dismissed astronaut, flies with his friend Sven to the moon to check the situation and get a reward of one million dollars. Of course the space ship crashes. So the first task is to find medicine for the injured Sven. When that is taken care of James explores the moon and meets many foreign peoples like the Gouaks, Wounks or Amazons.
The user interface consists of many windows. The main window is in the upper right were a picture of the current view or conversational partner is shown. There the player can click on items to collect them or use items from the inventory to solve puzzles. Some items are showed in a close up view in a windows left to the main window when clicked on. There it can be manipulated further. Above this window is a mini map. Under the main window is a panel were the main actions can be chosen, e.g. looking, speaking or fighting. Left and right of this panel are the inventory screens were objects can be used and combined with each other. Finally on the far left are bars were the current stats of health, fatigue, durst and hunger are shown. These have to be hold on a reasonable height by eating, sleeping and so on
When speaking with someone the interfaces changes to another screen where left of the main windows the possible answers can be chosen. Under the main window the statements of the other person are displayed. Death waits behind every corner, a step in the wrong direction, a false answer or a lost fight lead to a individual game over screen. Behind the Moon is a 2CD Windows remake of the Amstrad CPC game "Alive" released by Lankhor back in 1991. |
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| Amber: Journeys Beyond | Hue Forest Entertainment / Graphic Simulations | [top] | |
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This tight and self-contained ghost story begins when you visit a fellow scientist named Roxy. An avid paranormal researcher, Roxy has chosen her new home because she believes it is haunted. Using a host of unreliable detection devices, she plans to use this house as a laboratory. Her goal: proving the existence of psychic phenomena. Driving out to the house in a thunderstorm, you are run off the road by a shimmering apparition and are sent crashing into a lake. In short order, you discover other things have gone wrong - Roxy is in the garage, apparently dead. It's up to you to save yourself and the overzealous scientist from the forces lurking in the house. Patience and close attention to detail are musts for playing. Critical items are sometimes hard to spot, and one or two of the scenes take place in very dark locales. When you can see, the graphics are crisp and drawn with a faint gothic sensibility, surrounding the player in a milieu of creepy sounds and ghost-catching gadgets. Each story is told through a different graphic style that instantly conveys the mood related to its particular ghost, from the faded photographs that make up the memory of a woman who died during World War II to the strangely distorted perceptions of a gardener obsessed by UFOs, or the watery images that form a child's sad reminiscences of a distant, snowy winter. The game is especially suited to beginning or younger gamers, as the problem-solving challenges are on the simple side. Even so, it's spooky and engaging, a worthy electronic heir to campfire stories everywhere. Although it was the only game the developer made, it set the early standard for the many indie horror developers today. | ||
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| Angel Devoid: Face of the Enemy | Electric Dreams Inc. / Mindscape, Inc. | [top] | |
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You wake up from reconstructive surgery and see your arch enemy's face... staring at you from the mirror. As you stalked the dangerous master criminal Angel Devoid, you found yourself ensnared in a bizarre accident that left you with the face of the very man you pursued. No longer the hunter, you are now the hunted. And you have but one choice: infiltrate Neo-City, a dark, Cybergothic world where death strikes from every shadow. A myriad of lethal, unpredictable characters awaits you... and only the real Angel Devoid would know if they're friends or foes. Survival hinges upon your insights, intuition, and reflexes. Will you be able to stay alive long enough to unravel the mystery of your new identity? Angel Devoid is a futuristic first person adventure coming on 4 cd's, featuring more cinematics than gameplay. You walk around like in the 7th Guest, with little walking animations between two places. The game plays in 3032 in a futuristic city named NeoCity. The storyline is very complicated and is all about the evil person Angel Devoid. The game also contains some very bloody action scenes in it. | ||
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| Animals Of Farthing Wood, The | BBC Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is based on the highly successful and beautifully crafted animated television series, and the best selling books by Colin Dann. The cd-rom provides a wonderful vehicle to further Natural History understanding and supports National Curriculum Key Stage 2 in both Science and Geography. Help the animals find their way out of Farthing Wood and to their new home. It includes Natural History film footage and 4 games to complete: The Hedgerow Game, The River Game, The Road Game, Food Hunt Game. There's 130 individual screens and is suitable for ages 7-11 yrs. | ||
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| Ankh 2: Tutankhamen no Nazo [J] | Ibis Inc. / Ray Corporation | [top] | |
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This is a first person adventure game in which the player is called by professor Yoshimura Sakuzi to come to Egypt, after his father died and when he arrives there a fortune teller tells him that Egypt had been waiting for him 300 years. He decided to find the legendary valley with the help of the professor to discover the mystery of Tutankhamen. The Ankh, also known as key of life, the key of the Nile or crux ansata, was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read "eternal life", a triliteral sign for the consonants ?-n-?. Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or bearing one in each hand, arms crossed over their chest. Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c.1333 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. His original name, Tutankhaten, means "Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun". In hieroglyphs the name Tutankhamun was typically written Amen-tut-ankh, because of a scribal custom that placed a divine name at the beginning of a phrase to show appropriate reverence. He is possibly also the Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters. He was likely the 18th dynasty king 'Rathotis' who, according to Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years a figure which conforms with Flavius Josephus's version of Manetho's Epitome. The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter of Tutankhamun's intact tomb received worldwide press coverage. It sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egypt, for which Tutankhamun's burial mask remains the popular symbol. Exhibits of artifacts from his tomb have toured the world. In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that Tutankhamun was the son of Akhenaten (mummy KV55) and his sister/wife (mummy KV35YL), whose name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as "The Younger Lady" mummy found in KV35. The gameplay is a classic first person perspective adventure game with lots of full motion video sequences all in Japanese language. Features: First person perspective; 2D graphics; Prerendered graphics; Ancient Egypt & Mystery themes. | ||
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| Aquaman: War of the Water Worlds | Inverse Ink | [top] | |
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Experience under-the-sea adventure in Aquaman: War of the Water Worlds. Click from panel to panel in this interactive comic book as Aquaman - along with Aqualad, Mera and Tusky the walrus - attempts to thwart the maniacal plans of Shag and Black Manta. As you progress through the story's twenty-two pages, you'll hear the characters' voices, read plot clues found in folders and activate more than eighty animated "hotspots," including twenty QuickTime clips lifted straight from the classic 1960s cartoon on which the story is based. Can Shag and Black Manta defeat Aquaman and take over the ocean? Shag and his alien allies are fighting for control of the world's oceans with such weapons as an alien sea serpent that grows to monstrous size and strength when unleashed in Earth's oceans. Later, an electronic brain scrambler is used upon the good earth sea creatures, and Aquaman must again save the day. | ||
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| Ash. [K] | Himeya Soft / Game Box | [top] | |
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Originally on PC-98 in 1994, the entire game is graphical text adventure similar to a magazine oriented kind of psychological test questions (that is to select a branch, then will go to a, b, then will choose to branch from b). Finally, according to your choice you will achieve a different outcome. The whole game has 22 outcomes, although there is a difference in nature, but it does not matter if it's good or bad. Even to reach the relatively poor outcome, it's very intriguing. To reach a good outcome does not necessarily make people happy. Moreover, each triggered outcome seems to be able to think deeply. In fact, not only the outcome, but the game itself has some philosophical options. Even a simple yes or no, can to some extent reflects the thinking player tendencies. Similarly, the game will result in game over in many, many places, and some even choose an option to only walk into a dead end. | ||
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| Auf der Suche nach dem Ultimate Mix [G] | Games 4 Europe / Funsoft | [top] | |
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The player takes control of Moses Vider who lives in a world were the evil Graf von Voiddospunk forbid all funk music and caused a paralyzing rain. Moses wants to end the power of Voiddospunk by defeating his protégé Sir Noise at a DJ championship. But to do this he has to steal the "Ultimate Mix" from Voiddospunk's secret record store. The game is a adventure based on a French comic. The player searches the places and solves riddles. When using an item he has to drag & drop it from the inventory. During the conversions the player chooses a fist, a heart or a brain which represent the pitch and message of Moses' answers. Here and there are special puzzle sequences, e.g. the remixing of a song or the reenactment of a saxophone. On the map the player chooses his next destination. The soundtrack was written and performed by genre pioneers like Mele Mel, Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Flash. | ||
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| Avarice: The Final Saga [OS/2] | Continuous Software Systems / Stardock Corporation | [top] | |
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Avarice was the first 32-bits game released for OS/2, the operating system developed by Microsoft and IBM (later, by IBM exclusively). Billed as "the Myst killer", Avarice is a sort of high-res Zork, with digitized characters and pre-rendered graphics made with POV-Ray. You weren't even aware that the mysterious and famous billionaire Mr. O'Hara was your uncle until you received a surprise letter from him inviting you to his island retreat. When you arrive, you are not alone, you and a number of other guests who are referred to as "contestants" soon discover that your uncle is missing. Rumors abound that your uncle has hidden millions of dollars in rare jewels somewhere in his vast mansion. But a deeper mystery surrounds his disappearance and his house seems to be hiding a much more sinister secret. Now you must discover what happened to your uncle and what his plans were. The fate of the entire world may hang in the balance. Avarice is arguably the most advanced adventure game ever developed for the PC on any platform. While similar to Myst and Riven in basic user interface, Avarice uses the built in power of OS/2 to create a truly dynamic world. Everything in the Avarice world can be touched and manipulated. More than just an adventure/mystery game, Avarice's goal is to make the player feel immersed in its game world. The library is a real library with real books that can be read from cover to cover. Food can be picked up, broken apart, burned, cooked, eaten, etc. The only limit in Avarice is your imagination! | ||
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| Azrael's Tear | Intelligent Games / Mindscape | [top] | |
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In Azrael's Tear you play a "raptor", a futuristic thief that raids ancient archeological sites that have as yet been untouched by man for hundreds of years and are full of treasures. Recently, due to geological disturbances, the supposed home of the Holy Grail is partially unearthed in northern Scotland. You go in to raid it of it's treasures and if it does exist the Holy Grail. When you enter, the entrance caves in behind you and you are stuck inside. Ah well, nothing to do but continue on to find what you came for. The game utilizes a true 3d engine to display your surroundings, as in Quake. It's heavy on puzzles and light on combat. As you move further on into the ruins you'll encounter ghosts of the inhabitants and hints as to what happened to cause the ruins that surround you now. | ||
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| Bad Day On The Midway, The Residents' | Inscape | [top] | |
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This is the second CD-ROM based on the works of The Residents, one of the world's most eccentric bands. Designed by inSCAPE, the same company that brought us unique titles like The Dark Eye, this is a compelling and unique adventure game that is unlike any game before, or since. In this multimedia extravaganza, you take on the role of a little boy named Timmy who visits a run-down amusement park. Quickly you learn that all is not well on the midway - intrigue, blackmail and murder are everywhere. To survive, you have to leave Timmy at one point and "soul-jump" to other persons by clicking on them. Each of the characters on the midway has their own story, each illustrated by a different comic artist. Some of the stories can be learned only while playing Timmy; others, by visiting different attractions. Soon it becomes clear that every character is following a separate agenda - part of it revolves around the comatose fascist owner of the midway and his hidden treasure. Later, people get killed and the "IRS Man" shows up to investigate tax fraud. inSCAPE, the company that produced the games, have made sure no two games can be the same, and you won't be able to see the entire story in one play - or even in ten. It's best not to approach it as a game, but as a multimedia experience - try to see as much as you can in one go. If you do, the story will slowly start to emerge. If you don't get anywhere at all, you can watch many of the movies from the Credits screen. While the graphics are blocky and only 256-color, the talent of the various artists like Dave McKean make up for it. The only downside is that there are no subtitles for the sometimes very hard to understand voice narrations. Instead, the lower quarter of the screen displays a stream of consciousness that reminds of Leisure Town (warning - explicit content). If you enjoyed Freak Show or The Dark Eye, you will likely also enjoy this surrealistic and strangely compelling journey into the macabre world. In 2021, the game was made freeware. | ||
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No doubt one of the most unique and disturbing adventures ever, Bad Mojo's premise is refreshingly original: you are a misanthropic, selfish young man who's turned into a cockroach by the powers that be, to put yourself "in others' shoes," euphemistically speaking. Gameplay is restricted to the moving cursors (but hey, you *are* a roach), but there are many ingenious puzzles that require thought, intuition, and astute observation. The acting is over-the-top, but tolerable. Movie snippets appear throughout the game to provide clues and move the plot along. Overall, Bad Mojo offers a unique premise, great graphics, and inventive gameplay that provides plenty of thought-provoking puzzles without an inventory (hey, you are a roach) - making it a must-play for all adventure gamers. It is probably NOT for everyone due to a disturbing focus and some downright disgusting graphics. If you are not easily disgusted, though, you will likely find Bad Mojo one of the most original adventure games you'll have ever played. And best of all, Got Game Entertainment re-released the game in 2004 as Bad Mojo Redux, all updated for latest Windows version. Nothing about the game was changed, but players will be treated to "never before seen" footage on the making of the game, interviews with the designers, movie commentaries and more. | ||
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| Barbie Magic Fairy Tales: Barbie As Rapunzel | Media Station, Inc. / Mattel Interactive | [top] | |
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This game retells the fairytale of Rapunzel, a beautiful baby locked in a high tower by a jealous witch. Barbie plays Rapunzel and the story is told by Celinda, the fairy godmother. The story is in the form of an animated book with short written passages that are read by the narrator, as the words are spoken the words are highlighted. This is then followed by a short animated sequence which carries the action on to the next chapter. The game can be played in two ways, one as a read-along book in which the puzzles can be skipped, the other as a storybook game. Typically Rapunzel must collect things to allow her to progress on her travels, these usually come in the form of rewards for either helping a character or for completing a puzzle. It contains six mini-games, four of which must be played to complete the story. The other two, Dress-Up and a memory game, are available in Rapunzel's tower. Though you don't have to complete these to win the game, you can play them over and over again. Guide Rapunzel to a happy ending with her prince, Galen, by defeating the witch and breaking her broom. | ||
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View a living comic book on your computer screen with Batman: Partners in Peril. As the story progresses frame-by-frame (either at the hands of the computer or under your manual command) you'll see over 80 animations ranging from the simplicity of a shot from one of the Penguin's umbrellas to the fluency of QuickTime animation segments taken directly from an early Batman cartoon series. Certain frames will contain file folders that help provide further clues to the plot. The story involves the "perilous partnership" of the Riddler, the Joker and the Penguin as they do what they do best--terrorize Gotham City. If that isn't enough, Catwoman has decided that she wants to play, too. Batman and Robin certainly have their work cut out for them on all 23 animated pages. Luckily, Batgirl decides to help out as well. And where would the Dynamic Duo be without a few tips from Alfred? | ||
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| Big Bug Bang: Le Retour de Commander Blood [Fr] | Cryo Interactive Entertainment / Microfolie's | [top] | |
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The third part of the Commander Blood trilogy, this game is set at the very dawn of time: Mere nanoseconds after the Big Bang. This is where the time-travelling shenanigans of the second game ended up. Now you, Commander Blood are the only evolved lifeform in the entire universe, and it's up to you to correct the problems you've caused and guide the development of all other life. You start the game with a few amoeba-esque creatures at your disposal. Find a planet to put them on, then take care of them, help them migrate to other worlds, evolve and mutate. Big Bug Bang uses the exact same interface and many of the same graphical sequences as its predecessor, Commander Blood. It is a surreal, galaxy-spanning, humourous sci-fi adventure. This was a very low-profile game, released with minimal advertising in France and Canada only. | ||
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| Bill Nye the Science Guy: Stop the Rock | Pacific Interactive | [top] | |
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A giant meteoroid is hurtling through space toward Earth. Unfortunately, the computer controlling the newly installed meteoroid and asteroid exploder or MAAX, defense system has developed a HAL-like personality, and refuses to stop the approaching rock unless someone answers seven science riddles. [Emmy Award winning] Bill Nye and his team of scientists (including the rock expert "Sam Andreas", and the marine biologist "Sue Nami" ) have been called on to answer Mad Maax' riddles. The program begins as the user enters Bill's offices at Nye Labs. The building is packed with interesting machines and devices that, through virtual exploration and manipulation, will help the user learn about science. The task at hand is not a simple one, however. The riddles are obscure, and the user is not permitted to solve them until certain science facts have been uncovered. Information must be obtained through experimentation. Exploration and observation are key at Nye Labs. Clues are meant to make the user think. Some guidance is provided to the user via the Nyecom 3000, a sort of pocket communicator that retains the riddles, delivers messages (in the form of mini lectures) from Bill and his team, alerts the player when he or she is on the right (or wrong) track, and (thankfully for the spatially challenged) includes a map to help the user find things within Nye Labs. | ||
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| Blindness [It] | DedaloMedia Edizioni / Mondadori New Media | [top] | |
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Simon (your alter ego) is a blind man who takes a journey through memories and emotions in search of truth: someone is killing your best friends, and you are one of the suspects. Blindness is an adventure game which can, thanks to its "interactive 3D audio system", be played also by blind people. Scenes were filmed with professional actors in Rome and in Cinecittà studios. The game has multiple endings, which vary depending on the items found during the adventure. | ||
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| Bobby's World: One Clump Or Two? | Inverse Ink | [top] | |
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Fox Kids Network teamed up with the kids at Inverse Ink to produce comic books on CD-ROM based on four different cartoons. This one features Howie Mandel but it doesn't give his name on the box! What is this, comedians get no respect at Fox? Anyhow, when Bobby's harried Mom (does anybody really talk like her? She's very annoying - always sounds like she has popcorn in her mouth!) gets hit with a mudpie, she thinks Bobby's friend Ozzie threw it and orders him to go home...not realizing that his parents thought he was invited there for a sleep-over and as such, eagerly left town. There's lots of sibling interaction that is so realistic SOMEBODY lived it, but Bobby knows how to fend for himself quite well. | ||
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| Braindead 13 | ReadySoft | [top] | |
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In Braindead 13 you play a young computer expert who one day is called to fix a computer at some scary castle, and in no time flat, finds himself in trouble, therefore it's up to you to use the complex moves of an interactive movie to escape from the castle. He's chased around the castle by Fritz, a psychotic servant of Dr. Nero Neurosis, the main villain of the story, with hooks for hands. This animated adventure is basically based on your judgment on which direction you think the character might go, and if you guess wrong, you die. During gameplay exploration of the castle is freer than in most previous interactive games by showing crossroads. This leaves the route for finding the Brain Chamber up to the player. | ||
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| Broken Sword: The Shadow Of The Templars / Circle Of Blood | Revolution Software / Avalon Interactive | [top] | |
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This game is a real winner! It combines the very best aspects of traditional
adventure games and mystery thrillers, with even a little romance thrown in for good
measure, and a suspenseful and slowly evolving story that will keep you glued to
your seat. You are young George Stobbart, just a regular guy from California on
vacation in Paris, the city of love. You are sitting outside a French cafe one day,
watching the world go by and trying unsuccessfully to pick up the waitress, when out
of the corner of your eye you notice a well-dressed gentleman carrying a briefcase
enter the restaurant. He is followed by a garish-looking clown, in full makeup and
costume, playing an accordion. Moments later the clown reappears on a dead run, but
now he's the one carrying the briefcase! But before you even have time to question
what's going on, a massive explosion rips out the entire front wall of the cafe,
sending you flying, luckily, into one of the restaurant's table umbrellas. When you
finally come to, at first dazed and confused, you are naturally anxious to know what
happened, and why. What was in that briefcase that was worth killing for? Little do
you know that your questions, and your efforts to find the clown who almost killed
you, will change your life. You will follow a path of deception and murder that leads
you into the very heart of an evil plan, a plan that revolves around the legendary
mystical powers and treasure of the Knights Templar! And so begins the long,
engrossing and often humorous, professionally written script. You will meet and talk
to many people, and you should exhaust all topics of conversation in order to obtain
vital clues. The topics available are determined by what you have learned to date,
so make sure that you return to talk to them again after new developments. One of
the people that you meet early in the game is a beautiful photographer named Nicole
Collard, or Nico. She not only becomes your romantic interest, she will also give
you suggestions about what to do next if you telephone her. This is a 2D, 3rd person,
point & click game, with an easy-to-use interface. The music is good and the
graphics were rendered by professional movie animators, with an attention to detail
that makes you feel as if you really are visiting the various worldwide locations in
the story. There is a map for easy travel and new locations are added to it as the
story unfolds. Note that each location that you visit may be larger than the area
that you see on the first screen, so make sure that you check all of the edges of
the scene, as well as other places within the picture, for any exits that may be
hidden. The puzzles are excellent and integrated into the story. Many of them
require creative and sometimes daring thinking. Don't forget to click your right
mouse button on objects for descriptions and clues: it is essential to solving one
or two of the puzzles. And yes, you can die, so make sure that you remember to save
before facing something dangerous. On Sep 19/2024, a Reforged edition added 4K Remastered Visuals - Experience the magic of the original game with enhanced high-definition graphics, bringing the picturesque landscapes, detailed characters, and intricate environments to life in beautiful 4K for the first time ever; Enhanced Audio - Immerse your ears in the enhanced audio as Revolution delivers the finest, most stunning version of George and Nico's original adventure to date, including the incredible soundtrack from world-acclaimed composer Barrington Pheloung.
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| Caribbean Treasure | Ambrosine | [top] | |
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In this third person point and click adventure game, you play as a nameless tourist who has come for a vacation on a Caribbean island in search for treasure. When you arrive, you discover the island is completely deserted. Unfazed by this, you begin an exploration of the island in the hopes your trip will be a worthwhile one. | ||
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| Chaos: A Fantasy Adventure Game | Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts / Harper Collins Interactive | [top] | |
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A graphical adventure game that is inspired by the world of chaos theory and fractal mathematics. You awake from a dream to find yourself in a strange world pursued by a goonish bill collector. Your only hope is to follow the clues left by your eccentric uncle through a series of quests and puzzles in an attempt to solve the ultimate riddle "What the heck is going on?" | ||
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| Chronicles of the Sword | Synthetic Dimensions / Psygnosis Limited | [top] | |
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This point and click adventure game is set in King Arthur's mythical court of Camelot, located in Albion (Britain) circa 420 AD. The player takes on the role of Gawaine, an aspiring knight in Arthur's Order of the Round Table whose quest is to end the life of Morgana, the wicked sorceress, before she can wreak destruction on Camelot. Lady Morgana, Arthur's evil sister, plots to reveal Lancelot and Guinevere's affair to the world, thus overthrowing Arthur. Gawaine discovers her plan and warns the King, and Morgana is banished. Not pleased, she attempts to kill Arthur, prompting the king sends Gawaine off to take care of Morgana once and for all. The knight then ventures into the forest to ferret out various objects to give himself magical protection before he can finally confront the witch in her castle in Lyonesse. There, he must also find a way to destroy the vampire Ragnar, Morgana's lover and personal guardian. The game also features some fighting scenes, which you can do yourself or let the computer do for you. The graphics are pre-rendered, as well your character. | ||
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| City Hunter: Secret Service [K] | KCT / Digitainment | [top] | |
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This is an adventure game, based on the anime TV special "City Hunter: The Secret Service". The series follows the exploits of Ryo Saeba, a "sweeper" who is always found to be chasing beautiful girls but despite his behavior of a "pervert". At the same time he is a private detective who works to rid Tokyo of crime, along with his associate or partner, Hideyuki Makimura. Their "City Hunter" business is an underground jack-of-all-trades operation, contacted by writing the letters "XYZ" on a blackboard at Shinjuku Station. One day, Hideyuki is murdered, and Ryô must take care of Hideyuki's sister, Kaori, a tomboy who becomes his new partner in the process. However, Kaori is very susceptible and jealous, often hitting Ryô with a giant hammer when he does something perverted. The story also follows the romance between Ryo and Kaori in the behind scenes and their teamwork in every mission. | ||
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| Clandestiny | Trilobyte, Inc. / Electronic Arts, Inc. | [top] | |
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Andrew MacPhiles is the last of the MacPhiles clan. He has been summoned to
Scotland to answer the call of destiny. As the game unfolds, you will learn what
happens to Andrew and his fiance Paula. You will also learn the truth about the clan
MacPhiles. The first fact and most obvious is that the clan is full of cowards. But
there is a deeper story. The game is another puzzle solving ghost game from Trilobyte.
Unlike 7th Guest or 11th Hour, this game uses normal computer animation and not
embedded real videos. The puzzles are of two types in this game. The first are the
house puzzles. These are the brain teasers that you find scattered throughout games
of this type. Like 7th Guest, solving these puzzles opens more parts of the house to
explore. The other type of puzzle is the door puzzle. Each door that is locked must
have a riddle or word puzzle solved to open the door. The words that you find will go
toward making up the slogon on the clan MacPhiles coat of arms. After a bit, you may
even notice a good place to look for the words. This game uses pretty much the same
navigation system as 7th Guest. The worst part of the game is finding the house
puzzles so you can solve them. Usually the door you need will be close to the puzzle,
but some of those puzzles seemed hard to find. Usually there is only one house puzzle
available to solve at a time, so you have to follow the path set by the game developers.
The game has three levels of difficulty: brave, nervous and cowardly. If you loved 7th
Guest, or 11th Hour, you should have this game. It uses many of the same interface,
many similar puzzles, and it does have an interesting story.
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| Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces | Infocom, Inc. / Activision, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a compilation of 33 Infocom games: Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Zork Zero, Beyond Zork, Enchanter, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, Deadline, The Witness, Suspect, Ballyhoo, Planetfall, Stationfall, Moonmist, Infidel, the Lurking Horror, Starcross, Suspended, Border Zone, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Plundered Hearts, Bureaucracy, Cutthroats, Hollywood Hijinx, Seastalker, Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, Wishbringer, Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, Trinity, Journey, Arthur, Leather Goddesses of Phobos. The only 2 Infocom text-adventure games that do not appear on this CD are Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun. The six "bonus" games included weren't by Infocom but rather were the top three games in the Inform and TADS divisions of the 1995 rec.arts.interactive-fiction IF competition: A Change in the Weather, The Mind Electric, The Magic Toyshop, Uncle Zebulon's Will, Toonesia, The One That Got Away. | ||
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| Clone Ranger [J] | CyberArts Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a sci-fi adventure game where the player assumes the role of a secret agent in a dystopian future where a "virus bomb" has deprived all human bodies of organic matter, except for the brain. A chip containing a program to rebuild human bodies has been stolen by terrorists. The player must recover the chip, navigating 300 QuickTime VR nodes and solving mysteries which lead to 6 different endings. | ||
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| Clue / Cluedo | 3T Productions Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Clue is a full-motion video adaptation of the popular board game of the same name. It is an amalgamation of two earlier CD-i titles where (up to six) players take turns investigating a mansion where a murder happened, uncovering clues and evidence to reveal the assassin. There are three storylines with four difficulty levels, each with a unique solution making it altogether twelve different mysteries. Deadly Patent - Mr.Boddy steals a formula to produce artificial rubies from Professor Plumm. The Road to Damascus - Mr.Boddy almost dies in a car accident. He is rescued by the monks of the Order of Silence. Upon his return, he decides to join the order and give his fortune to it. Blackmail - Mr.Boddy convinces all his acquaintances to invest on Bolders Brewery. The movement system, where the player moves the cursor to a portion of the screen and clicks on it to move or turn to that direction is similar to the one found in the The 7th Guest. Inside the rooms the screen switches to a 360º panorama that can be scrolled by moving the cursor to its edges. Clicking on clocks starts a flashback video of what happened on the room before the crime was committed. Clicking on suspects brings up the interrogation screen, where they can be inquired about weapons, their alibis, etc. Clicking on secret passages transports the player to another room. Clicking on the bell calls the butler and the accusation menu, where the player chooses the weapon and the murderer. Afterwards, the butler informs if the player made the right choice. A notebook keeps track of all the information collected, and can be accessed at any time. Each of the four difficulty levels have a different number of accusations available (3 on the easiest level, 1 on the hardest one). In the easier levels the room positions are fixed, while in the tougher levels they are random. In each player's turn they can perform two moves, two actions or a action and a move. A move is defined by entering and leaving a room. A action is defined by examining items, interrogating suspects or watching a flashback. |
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| Congo: Descent into Zinj | Illumina Productions / Viacom New Media | [top] | |
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"Cosmo's Rocket" is the adventure of a boy named Cosmo, who loves to build really cool things from junk. He lives with his parents and his dog, Apples, in a neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks. All summer long, he dreams of building a rocket. On the bus heading for his first day of school, Cosmo is made fun of by the other kids, after they get a glimpse of his weird looking lunchbox. When his schoolmates realize that Cosmo invented and built his mechanically interactive lunchbox, the kids befriend him (all but the local bully, Eugene). Cosmo and his friends decide to build a rocket as their project for the school's science fair, while the evil Eugene vows to "stop them." Cosmo's Rocket is the second interactive CD-ROM title from Class6 Interactive, featuring Susan Sarandon as voice actress for the narration of the story. It was from the makers of "Creature Crunch" but the development company folded just before the release of Cosmo's Rocket, leaving five other titles in various states of development. | ||
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Creature Crunch is an animated point-and-click comedy adventure. The plot is about a boy named Wesley turned into a monster by evil Dr.Drod. Wesley must escape the mansion of Dr.Drod by eating the right items to defeat monsters. The game features the voices of SCTV veterans Martin Short and Eugene Levy. | ||
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| Crime Scouts | Aid Association for Lutherans | [top] | |
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| Crystal Skull, The | Some Interactive / Maxis Software Inc. | [top] | |
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A mythic aztec adventure. A mysterious relic. A perilous quest. An unlikely hero. Back in the glory days of the Aztecs, the emperor has a bad dream. He learns that white men are coming to destroy him, and the only way to stop them is to have a man named Quetzal find a crystal skull. In this adventure game, you bring Quetzal through the Aztec empire in his quest to find the crystal skull and save his empire. But beware - the journey is long and treacherous and unknown dangers lie in wait. Survive the threat of mythic monsters, evil spirits and deadly traps and you may live to discover the secret of the crystal skull. There's three CD's filled with hundreds of live action scenens, dozens of interactive puzzles, and 50 unique characters based on Aztec and Mayan mythology. Edward James Olmos, star of Miami Vice, Blade Runner, and Stand and Deliver, is your Shaman, a spirit guide who offers you help throughout your quest. It has extensive information about Aztec and Mayan culture available at the touch of a button. Your quest takes you through a rich and colorful environment of jungles, deserts and islands. | ||
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| Da Tang Shi Lu / Poetry of Tang Dynasty [Tw] | Inventec, Okano / OKNet | [top] | |
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This is divided into two parts: poetry appreciation and Dragon in the field (game name). Part of which poetry appreciation can be retrieved by the author, poetry name, creation time, quotes, metrics and other keywords. When you find concrete poetry and get poetry appreciation from them then you can see details of vernacular notes, chanting, assessment, and the author. Game buttons and icons are made of very rich ethnic characteristics, the interface is very friendly, and alone with a mouse you can complete the entire operation process. In the game's point of view you look at a whole scene landscape painting which is a breakthrough in US-Japanese art style. You play the hero, the name of the iron jade statue, 17 years old, who has heard someone chanting of heaven. The mystery of life is your own, and thus begins the process of "reading rolls of poetry, which line thousands of miles ofdangerous road". The most interesting point is that all the live dubbing, and his tone poem recitation is in place, the pictures are relatively unique, and easy to operate, and entertaining, and it's very suitable for players of all ages! | ||
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| Dame Was Loaded, The | Beam Software Pty., Ltd. / Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | [top] | |
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Featuring Australian actors, some who went on to become better known (at least down under); The Dame Was Loaded is a full motion video detective game set in the USA in the 1940s. The main protagonist is Scott Anger. Like all noir-ish detectives he carries a wound from which he cannot escape. Surfacing recently from the bottom of a bottle, a mundane missing brother case seems like a good way to get things going again. You have to go around interviewing people and looking for clues. Some of the joints you need to visit are pretty sleazy. Some of the things you'll find may be helpful in making people friendly towards you and others will be clues. The game features full screen real-life graphics. Sometimes it is just a picture, but other times it is full screen video. The interface is the cursor which changes over significant spots. | ||
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| Das Düsseldorf-Spiel [G] | VISTA Neue Medien / Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf | [top] | |
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In this short advergame adventure, you take on the role of Didi, who must bring a clock again. During the mystery you will find out things about the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. It's donw with Macromedia and requires 256 colors compatibility. | ||
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| Das Haus der Rätsel / The House of Puzzles | Ad Games / LBS | [top] | |
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In the "House of Mystery" you play the role of Jonas. His uncle, the renowned scientist Dr. Dallinek has disappeared mysteriously. Jonas soon finds out that his uncle has managed alone to travel with power of thought through time. There is only one problem that is probably a mess in any time travel story: how to get back to their own time? Jonas finds an old letter that his uncle has written to him in 1880. It states that Jonas has to find out the time travel option from diverse puzzles in the house. Long before the "Professor Layton" series, this advertising game that can be solved in the primary puzzle: picture puzzles, word puzzles, logic puzzles. From time to time there are also classical object puzzles, but these are quite rare. In this regard it should be mentioned that there is no dialogue in the game, apart from the comments to the player. The graphics are pleasing and the tasks in the game are very diverse. An English fan translation came out in 2024. | ||
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| Deicide 3: Distorted Existence [K] | Studio Jacobin / BISCO | [top] | |
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As its only game, Studio Jacobin set out to serve a genre not seen very often in Korean games; a typical Japanese-style adventure game. The cyberpunk setting and crosshair shooting intermissions make it seem inspired by Snatcher, although the tone is much darker and more serious. It has full voice acting. Don't be fooled by the title, there were no parts 1 or 2 released. Apparently Deicide 3 was popular enough to warrant a port to GP Holdings' GP2X Wiz, as one of only three retail releases for the ill-fated handheld. | ||
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| Derrat Sorcerum [MAC] | Mixed Metaphor Software / Hopkins Technology, LLC | [top] | |
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You are Corin, a young apprentice recruited to the Tower three years ago. After much tedious menial labor (and in your off time, magical instruction) you have reached the level at which you have the opportunity to become a Journeyman mage. You easily complete the routine magic tests, and now the final obstacle is before you. You are bound and locked in a prison cell and must escape to prove your skill. But upon successfully completing the test, you walk out of the cell and realize something has gone wrong! There is no smiling Master Wizard waiting to congratulate you outside the door. As you explore the silent Tower you discover piles of bodies. Bodies of your friends and teachers. The floor resonates with the clink of faraway metal boots. The Tower has been taken over while you were in the cell. But why? And why is there no conquering army? This game is about as complex as its name. This action-adventure puzzle title has you view an array of items and you have to figure out what to do with each and every one of them before time is up. In order for this to happen, you have to simultaneously use your wit to figure out what goes first and so on afterwards. It features: very complex and detailed gameplay, several different and unique levels, and it's only for the Mac. | ||
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| Detective Storm / Dedektif Firtina [Tu] | Cartoon Animation Studios | [top] | |
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This is the first Turkish cartoon-animated adventure game. It's a comedy adventure with static backgrounds and cartoon animations. As a detective you are trying to solve a mysterious murder case. During your search you visit many places around the world of Detective Storm, find and collect items and solve puzzles. | ||
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| Detritus: The Daemon's Quest | Myndgaemz / Manyk | [top] | |
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After a nuclear holocaust in 2005 the last survivors of the civilized world formed a sanctuary on a small island in Europe, called Quarea. The island is ruled by demons that are good and bad, but the leader, Arrut Loopaz, is pure evil. He lives in the ruins of an ancient city on the island, the forbidden zone known as "Detritus". You play the part of Nikki, whose boyfriend Toni has been kidnapped by Arrut Loopaz. Your task is to find clues and solve puzzles in order to rescue Toni in this point-and-click game. | ||
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| Devils Canyon | TeraMedia | [top] | |
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Attention Time Blazers. A Personal message from Dinamation's renowned Utahraptor expert, Dr. James Kirkland: We invite you to blaze through time into the prehistoric world of DINOSAURS! Dinamation Robotics Training Center project leader, Dr. Marshall Cope, is stranded in a prehistoric world. Your mission: secure his rescue. You find your way to the Robotics Training Center (RTC) and must restore the damaged memory bank of a high-tech Cyberaptor designed to interface with a time machine. Aboard this exciting contraption, you'll find yourself unearthing clues to a dinosaur mystery 65 million years in the making. This Dinamation Adventure provides time blazers of all ages to an exciting, entertaining opportunity to travel back in time unlocking mysteries of the past ... and the present. | ||
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| Devo Presents: Adventures Of The Smart Patrol | Inscape | [top] | |
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Here's the scoop. The future is getting thrashed. And it's up to you and the Devo-lutionary rebel forces of the Smart Patrol to, uh ..."Whip it" into shape. Explore a far-flung netherworld seething with mega-corporate villainy, rabid techno-science, come-hither erotic naughtiness, and dangerously mutated humor. Plunge into surrealistic, "Blade-Runner-on-steroids" urban wasteland where disease means profits. Lock 'n' load your trusty Spudgun and do your darndest to net the heinous recombo-DNA nightmare known as the Turkey Monkey. Or, fail miserably and watch as the dreaded Osso Bucco Myelitis disease reduces all of humanity to moaning skin-bags of pulsating ooze. Duty now! This is a game basically inspired by the late seventies/early eighties alternative band Devo, and which takes us to a world based on every little thing that is Devo. You control a Monkees-style group of musicians called the Smart Patrol who take it upon themselves to stop the mad schemes of the evil mutant "Turkey Monkey" who wants to unleash a virus all over Spudland. Gameplay consists of a myst-like game of "slideshows" but without puzzles to solve, most of the game progresses through dialogue and interaction, so your mission really consists of talking to the right person at the right times. The game features digitized actors as well as multiple endings plus, of course, millions of Devo-related jokes, characters etc. | ||
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| Diamond Bird [Ru] | Union Interactive / Sevur-Arts | [top] | |
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We play on a quest and solve puzzles where logic dictates life itself. But not just that, a child will learn the use of magic, use home technology, movement in space, and simple logical thinking. Mysterious Russian soul disturbs and frightens humanity over the past few centuries. Our hero (and it can be anyone) will meet with a lot of characters, each of which lifts the curtain of secrecy. It's based on Russian folk tales. You are the King's son, and it just so happens that your mother is seriously ill. To save her, you must find a lot of variety of things and in the end must kill the grass snake Lyuty. With each level, the game becomes more complicated, so we'll have to think more and more . However, the main thing is to carefully read all the cues and take a closer look at the screen. The game contains on disk a solution. To pass each level, you need to solve the kind of puzzle: poke around, and combined the two things to the next level. By the way, here you can die by accident. In the corner of the screen you have is a dagger, which is gradually covered with rust at the point which is like the vital energy bar in shooters. | ||
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| Die Enviro-Kids greifen ein [G] | Art Department Werbeagentur / Ministerium für Umwelt NRW | [top] | |
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In a small town by a forest stream, garbage disposal service has gone on strike. It's clear that the "Enviro-Kids" must intervene because shortly is pending an anniversary and everything must be put in order. Eva, Maik, Sarah and Sasha consider how waste can be avoided. They publish a "garbage Gazette" in which they talk about scandals, but also make proposals for waste prevention. Not all inhabitants of forest stream are impressed by their activities. Packaging waste producer has a lot to hide. At the end, the Enviro-Kids succeed to convince all opponents of the need to avoid waste. This game has very nice graphics in a colorful comic style! | ||
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| Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! / Discworld II: Missing Presumed ...!? | Perfect Entertainment / Psygnosis | [top] | |
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In this wonderfully funny sequel to the original, we are treated to another one of the great stories to be found on Terry Pratchett's Discworld. And to our delight, this one is about our favorite character from the original: 'Death'. You see Death is missing. He's decided to "go on holiday" and is sitting on a beach somewhere, sipping those drinks with the cute little umbrellas, because he "likes to travel and meet people"! Unfortunately this has caused all manner of problems in Ankh-Morpork which, of course, had more than its share of problems to begin with, given the melting pot of species who live there and the general low moral tone of the place. But now 'undead' people are piling up in the streets faster than the dead collectors can stack them on the wagons, and they've run out of places to store them. Rincewind (The Wizard) and LuggageSomeone must bring Death back, and fast! Otherwise the people will be faced with "the horrible prospect of immortality", and God knows, "no one wants that, now do they?" Of course, the one they choose for this unpleasant task must be someone easily expendable, just in case Death isn't too happy about being disturbed. And who better than Rincewind, our favorite little sarcastic and cowardly Wizard. Rincewind, however, isn't too keen for the job, since Death has often offered to go ahead and "reap his soul in passing, just to save time"! And so begins again another delightful tale where opportunities abound for the tongue-in-cheek humor and social commentary of the Pratchett novels, along with all the sight gags and atrocious puns. The game would be well worth its price for the introductory song alone: an inspired and hysterical parody of Frank Sinatra's song 'That's Life', called 'That's Death'! This 2D, 3rd person, point and click adventure also features again the many-legged 'Luggage' as your inventory, challenging puzzles (but not as crazy, this time), lots of new locations and characters, and the wonderful return of Monty Python's Eric Idle as the voice of Rincewind. All sequels should be this good! | ||
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| Dive: The Conquest of Silver Eye | Diamond Software / WizardWorks | [top] | |
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In this adventure, you play the part of a famous archeologist, Professor Frank Foster. After spending years on what appears to others as nothing more than treasure hunting, you've finally located the hideout of the legendary pirate Silver Eye. Through a chance discovery of an underwater entrance to a deep-sea cavern just as your oxygen supply is running out, your good fortune turns deadly as you embark on a test of survival. Your adventure will take you deep underground where you'll encounter and fight a legion of creatures in your search for pirate bounty and The Conquest of Silver Eye. Movement is done Myst-style via an on-screen directional arrow that takes you from screen to screen. Interaction with objects is accomplished through a series of command options such as take, put, open, eat, look, use, etc. One of the most obscure adventure games ever made, it's a pretty decent first-person Myst-lookalike adventure game with some interesting puzzles. Although the game offers the same dead silent, unpopulated-but-pretty-to-look-at gameworld as Myst, the puzzles in Dive are integrated better into the storyline and you actually have an inventory, so that the game feels much less like a big logic puzzle-solving contest than an actual treasure-hunting quest. There's a good mix of tradition puzzles (that require you to use items from your inventory), and board/logic puzzles similar to 7th Guest or Myst. There are even some combat sequences thrown in (where you will need to kill some robots), but they are there mostly just to break the leisurely pace of your exploration. | ||
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| Don't Quit Your Day Job, The Improv Presents | Improvisation ManyMedia / Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | [top] | |
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Adventure game authored in Macromedia Director puts you in the role of an agent trying to scout and book one of 2 comics. Fail and you're booted to mini-games which you can beat to return to the main game. Gameplay consists mostly of exploring and clicking on people and items in the correct order. Hey babe, you've landed a gig as talent scout for late night hit "The Johnny K. Show". You can make your career by making a star. Hop in the limo and head for the Improv to find the hottest new comic in "The Biz". Go behind the scenes. Schmooze a little, booze a little, even cruise a little. Try to talk to the right people at the right time: not-so-humble owner Budd Friedman, designated drunk Angela the Agent, Trudy (hat check girl and aspiring hand model) and other assorted eccentrics. They're all ready to kiss your butt or stab you in the back. It's Hollywood, what did you expect? Be careful! Poor comic timing gets you flushed to Hell's Basement. You'll need all your smarts to conquer the Curse of the CD-ROM Hallways and get back up to the club. Can you keep your hands to yourself in the Gratuitous Sex Room, avoid a wrong turn on the Super Information Highway or beat Shoot The Heckler and make a comic's dream come true? With a lot of strategy and a little luck, a star will be born. No strategy and even less luck? We warned you. | ||
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| Dr. Šílenec [Cz] / Świrus [PL] | Crazy Computer Confederation, Mirage Interactive / Vochozka Trading | [top] | |
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Dr. Šílenec (Dr. Madman) is an adventure for Windows 3.1 completely translated from Polish into Czech which uses the model of science-fiction movie Twelve Monkeys. The player takes the role of Philip who is one day awakened by his own double. He has used time travel in order to save the world from a disaster. A mad scientist seeks ransom under threat of release of a lethal virus. Politicians do not meet his demands and the professor executes his plan. Many years later, the remnants of humanity invent time travel technology. The protagonist of the game goes back in time to a period of a few days before the attack in order to save the world. During the adventure the player will move to the Middle Ages to finally get the antidote. The game utilizes the command verb-based SCUMM interface. The player constructs commands by selecting an appropriate verb and then combining it with an object or an inventory item. Objects that can be interacted with are highlighted when the player places a cursor over them. By pressing the right mouse button directional arrows appear. They allow the player to move between sites. The right mouse button can also be used for studying objects. The disc version was extended with a stage played in the future in a totalitarian police state (between Middle Ages and game's finale). | ||
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| Dracula's Secret | Future Endeavors / Corel | [top] | |
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Dracula's Secret is targeted towards kids and young gamers. In the beginning of the game Dracula invites you to explore his castle and its surroundings in order to discover the hidden secret. As you start, you explore the environment around the castle and try to make your way inside. There are many hurdles on the way, but the main objective is to gain access and find what the secret hidden by Dracula is. The castle is surrounded by many different monsters, a cemetery, a broken bridge. Once inside, you will meet different creatures and will have to solve puzzles. The objective is to find the items that comprise Dracula's Coat of Arms. The puzzles and obstacles include a range of logic-type problems and a few small games. There are fourteen or fifteen of these, including a couple of mazes, a picture puzzle, a sliding tile puzzle. The game uses a 1st-person perspective and Dracula appears at regular intervals to taunt your progress. | ||
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| Dragon Lore II: The Heart of the Dragon Man | Cryo Interactive / Interplay Entertainment Corp. | [top] | |
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The Hordes from the Land of Nightmares stand ready to attack. The Dragon Prince has dubbed you, Werner von Wallenrod, a Dragon Knight. But a power hungry lord challenges your status: every Dragon Knight must have his protecting dragon, and yours, Maraach, has disappeared. In your quest to bring back Maraach and to fight for your honour in the sacred joust of the Valley of Dreams, you will venture far and wide through distant lands, encountering the strangest of creatures and facing the most desperate of challenges. The Valley is in danger. The Dragon Knights need a strong leader to defend them in a world under siege - are you that person? It has over 80 hours of gameplay, from the makers of Dune, Lost Eden and the first Dragon Lore. A dramatic first person view immerses the player in a vivid, surreal realm. There's 20 combat and 10 jousting sequences in real time animation, and over 60 characters and 50 game sets modelled in 3-D: some mysterious, some strange, many dangerous. Dialogue options with 36 characters, with full voice support by professional actors are also featured. | ||
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| Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back | Alcachofa Soft S.L. / Midas Interactive Entertainment Ltd | [top] | |
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You are John Hacker, a common guy sent by a British property company to speak with 'Count Dráscula' about some lands. By chance you meet a gorgeous blond girl who is kidnapped by the Count himself, and you, John Hacker, set on a fun yet dangerous quest to rescue her. It's a nice old Spanish 2D classic point & click style adventure with tons of humor and an easy interface. | ||
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| Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages | Inscape / EMG Publishing | [top] | |
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The story behind Drowned God takes place under the notion that the human race was genetically engineered by god-like aliens that even guided us through history by nudging civilization forward with certain artifacts of power. Four of those artifacts (The Ark of the Covenant, The Philosopher's Stone, The Rod of Osiris and the Holy Grail) are now lost and they are the key to unlocking a series of mysteries that somehow tie up practically every conspiracy theory from the Knights Templar to the Illuminati. It is up to you now to gather this artifacts and solve the mysteries as you are sent through time and space from an alternate dimension reminescent of earth. Needless to say the gameplay tends to set the pace for the developing of the super-surreal storyline. Within every new location you'll confront logic puzzles a la 7th Guest which will give you access to new locations, secrets, etc. The interface itself is more reminiscent of the Myst games, where you move through "slideshows" and click on objects to interact with them. | ||
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| Dunkle Schatten 2: Im Netzwerk gefangen [G] | DigiTales GmbH / Art Department Werbeagentur GmbH | [top] | |
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This German adventure (which means Dark Shadows 2: Trapped in the network) is the sequel to the adventure Dunkle Schatten, also published by the German Federal Ministry of Interior as part of the FAIRSTÄNDNIS campaign against racism and violence. The game's a point-and-click adventure with an interface reminding of the later Sierra adventures. It is greatly improved over the first part as it now uses SVGA screen resolution. The story is set two years after the first. You again play as Karsten who this time has to deal with Neonazis defacing the memorial stone for a long dead, Jewish town mayor. And some classmate of his seem to be involved as he distributes Nazi computer games... | ||
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| Eberouge [J] | Japan Media Programming Inc. / Fujitsu Limited | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese dating sim which is similar to Konami's Tokimeki Memorial. In a world called Worland where magic exists, players will spend a total of 5 years (2 years of primary school and 3 years at high school) as students who entered a magical school. The core gameplay involves planning a weekly schedule, which includes school-related and free-time activities. Players have to arrange their daily classes and have a variety of things to study or practice including martial arts, science, literature, art, different kinds of magic, as well as go for extracurricular activities. All these classes influence the protagonist's statistics, making him attractive or vice versa to the various girls that he meets during his studies. The protagonist can also rest and travel to different places in the city. In addition to the daily courses that can be arranged, the players must also go on dates with the girls, solve daily problems and compete with their classmates while having to cope with their exams. After clearing primary school, the story branches out by letting players choose their future career. This choice will impact the amount of girls the protagonist meets and can go for in the next 3 years. The game ends with a graduation ceremony. A week before the graduation ceremony, a group of girls who have an affection for the player will want him to make up his mind about them. Once the player chooses his girl, the graduation ceremony will officially begin, and the ending and the protagonist's future will be determined by his chosen lover. The game has a lot of unexpected events, the story will change with the player's actions, resulting in a variety of different results. | ||
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| Ecstatica II | Andrew Spencer Studios / Psygnosis | [top] | |
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In the original Ecstatica, the hero managed to defeat the recently unleashed Devil and his creatures in the small village of Tirich and rescue Ecstatica, the witch-in-training responsible for the whole mess. The two of them journey back to the hero's land only to find that the forces of darkness have brought the fight home. In his mad quest for power, the evil Archmage has shattered the Elder Sign which governs reality. This has allowed the demons to pass through into this world, slaughtering the people of the surrounding lands or transforming them into brutal killing machines. Upon discovering this news the hero and Ecstatica promptly find themselves kidnapped by the demons. A mysterious high priestess helps the hero escape and compells him to journey through the demon-infested land to find and re-unite the scattered pieces of the Elder Sign to drive the demons back to their world. However the Elder Sign pieces are guarded by the Archmage's dark sorcerors and their followers, and the Archmage himself holds the last piece as well as Ecstatica captive. | ||
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| Eek!Stravaganza: The EeX Files | Inverse Ink | [top] | |
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Fox Kids Network teamed up with the kids at Inverse Ink to produce comic books on CD-ROM based on four different cartoons. This one is a wonderfully wild tale of Eek! the cat, who is mistaken for an alien when he falls out of a plane and lands in Area 51. You won't believe who's really running things out there in Secretland! You'll laugh out loud at the outrageous take-offs on Star Trek, Star Trek DSN, the X Files and lots more. By clicking from panel to panel you'll view more than 60 animated "hotspots," including simple animations and QuickTime movies taken straight from the two episodes of the television show on which the game is based. By clicking on folders, you'll unlock secrets and other original touches to the story such as a sing-a-long. | ||
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| Eksperyment Delfin [PL] | ART4 Comp Group | [top] | |
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In the year 2068, humanity managed to conquer the fourth dimension: time. Time travel becomes so widespread that a danger arises - someone may try not only to learn about the past, but also to alter history. Now it is the year 2098. The player takes on the role of special agent Dino Szmit and his job is to pursue such time-villains. The adventure begins as the player wakes up after a time travel accident.. Experiment Dolphin is a point and click adventure that allows the player to travel in time to counter a Nazi conspiracy plot. The game takes the player back to the year 1942 and beyond. It's based on traditional inventory puzzles, enhanced by the ability to jump not only to another location to find a needed item, but also to a different time. The few conversations the player will have feature dialog options. Originally an Amiga game in 1995, a playable version for DOS was made with minor changes to the game's scenario. | ||
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| Fable | Simbiosis Interactive / Telstar Electronic Studios Ltd. | [top] | |
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Fable is a decent point-and-click adventure from Telstar that unfortunately got very little notice due to lack of fanfare, limited distribution, and the general slump in adventure game genre. The plot is typical fantasy mumbo-jumbo: you control Quickthorpe, who is tasked with finding the four fabled jewels to restore his land to former peace. Overall, Fable had a lot of potential that was not quite fulfilled. The dialogue and the ending were disappointing, as was the lack of any real depth to the story. On the other hand, the adventuring components are enjoyable if you like this style of graphic adventure. Experienced players may find it to be a bit too easy, but it's certainly entertaining enough to provide light relief between tougher games and offers a reasonable challenge to players new to the genre. | ||
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| Fort Boyard: The Legend / The Legend Of Fort Boyard | Microids | [top] | |
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After competing in the TV-show Fort Boyard, you're destined to find Napoleon's treasure, said to be hidden inside the fortress in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of France. With the money earned in the show and a healthy portion of adventurous instinct, you set course to find the treasure! You go to La Rochelle - Hotel Du Commerce, then on a tour of La Lanterne, before visiting the antique shop, the aquarium, the library and the Isle of Aix. Then you take a dinghy to the fort where there are various rooms to explore like the library, the generator room, the video room, the hospital, the room of the lion's head, and the crypt. There will be a final riddle of the candles to solve. The English version of this game is very rare. | ||
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| Fox Hunt | 3Vision Games, Evolutionary Publishing, Inc. / Capcom Entertainment, Inc. Corporation | [top] | |
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Can a television trivia slacker dude prevent a crazed Soviet agent from blowing up Los Angeles with a nuclear bomb? This question might not exactly beg for an answer, but in Fox Hunt, you'll have a pretty good time trying to figure it out. In this comedy spy thriller, you can teach a guy how to be a spy, but you can't make him cover his mouth when he burps or teach him to speak to women without making sexist or insulting remarks. Luckily, the hero, Jack Fremont, doesn't need to be suave or debonair to make this interactive movie entertaining. With 10 different solutions to the mission and a cast of wacky characters that even includes Elvis, Fox Hunt has enough entertainment value. Like a serious spy movie, Fox Hunt has beautiful women, double agents, and exotic locations (Las Vegas and Colorado to name two...) but outdoes even Sean Connery in some of its action scenes. When was the last time you saw 007 take a jet-propelled wheelchair ride through a hospital, escape from crossdressing Soviets, or shoot down anvil-wielding Rob Lowe clones while freefalling from 20,000 feet? Now, that's action. Although it's not particularly violent, when Fremont meets with a fatal accident, you are treated to the sound of his crushing bones or the graceful arc of his body as it flies out of a multi-story building. The spectacular clarity of the digitized video, due in part to the fact that the original piece was shot in 16mm, and the rocking soundtrack give it the look and feel of an actual movie. It's an interactive movie that merits more than a showing or two. It's silly and amusing but surprisingly well developed and fun to play. | ||
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| Free Spirit [G] | Rauser Advertainment / Volks-and Raiffeisen Bank | [top] | |
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This was amazingly detailed for a German advertising game. This is one that embodies quite good 3D graphics and the characters in the game are real actors. The game is one of the few advertising adventures which are played from the first-person perspective. Brief history: The uncle of Philip Marlau, who you will slip into the role of, is missing after a mysterious car accident. Since this was a very reclusive scientist, there is a lack of starting points for the investigators. Phillip then decides to get to the bottom of it. | ||
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Probably the only Pie-in-the-Sky game really suitable for children. You're running through the wood collecting 10 pieces of trash and on the way you free 10 tree-spirits. You will find yourself walking in random directions hoping to step on a goal item. | ||
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| Galata [Tu] | Infinity Experiments | [top] | |
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The Galata Tower is one of the not so many attractions of modern Istanbul, inherited from the Ottoman capital from medieval Constantinople. And in the history of science and technology, she is captured with almost less expressiveness than her famous colleague from Pisa: shortly after Galileo successfully conducted his experiments in Italy, someone Khezarfen Ahmed Celebi, according to legend, flew on makeshift wings through The Bosphorus, jumping in 1632 from the top of the Galata tower and successfully landing in the Asian part of the city. It was this story that formed the basis of a small adventure, or rather, as the cover says, this "adventure cartoon". The action takes place these days; we play for a guy named Iko, who enters the Galata Tower (now a museum) in order to find the secret knowledge of the first Turkish balloonist stored there. Drawn graphics - bright and "cartoony"; the picture is displayed in perspective from a third party, as befits an actually interactive cartoon. What is especially noteworthy is the complete absence of voice acting and almost no text messages whatsoever, with the exception of a couple of books and notes: in other words, knowledge of the Turkish language is not required at all to get to know Galata . The music is quite pleasant, and in the original edition it was also duplicated as CD Audio tracks (currently unavailable). The main menu interface is intuitive: “Yeni Oyun”, that is, “New Game”, means creating a profile for saving; Başlar loads the previous game, and Sil deletes the contents of such a cell. The return arrow in the lower left corner allows you to log in; on the right is the volume control, and the developer’s logo in the center when you click on it shows a list of authors. Management in the game itself is built on the familiar point-and-click system: the “smart” cursor takes the form of “tracks” for moving and a “magnifying glass” for interacting with objects and characters. In other cases, he shows a transparent hand, - perhaps this moment should be considered one of the main disadvantages of the game: Iko can only move to certain places, and for operations with active points you need to come closer to them, so an impressive fraction of the time will have to be spent in search of suitable places for the character's location. The inventory in the form of a small panel with icons opens when you right-click and allows you to only select any of the collected items for use on the main screen. There are not many locations here: during our investigation of the Galata tower, we will visit ten of its floors, including the basement, each such room occupies a separate screen, in the lower part of which there is an elevator, and is accessible almost immediately after the start, that is, there is no element of non-linearity it is present in the game (although it is often required to have useful items from others to go through some floors). The rooms are very diverse and populated by the most unexpected inhabitants: pirates, cyclops, giant spiders, an angry dog, hungry lions, etc. (yes, these are the secrets that a simple Turkish museum hides). As you might guess, one wrong step in such conditions is fraught with instant death - fortunately, in this case we always return to the starting position before committing an erroneous action. A large-scale adventure from Galata is hardly worth the wait: with some skill, you can complete the whole game to the end in less than a quarter of an hour. However, nice pictures, pleasant music, funny puzzles, and most importantly, rarity and little-known people deserve to fight with not the most obvious controls and spend some time exploring the Galata tower. | ||
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| Gate, The I-III [J] | Everyday Communications, Information Technology Promotion Agency / Force Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This looks to be an interactive exploration in 3D of the historical kingdom of Mu. There are three separate releases of hybrid PC/MAC disks. | ||
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| Gene Machine, The | Divide By Zero / Vic Tokai, Inc. | [top] | |
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Divide by Zero more than redeem themselves after the horrendous Orion Conspiracy with this outstanding cartoon adventure that unfortunately got very limited worldwide distribution (probably due to the fact that the game was published by little-known Vic Tokai). Set in Victorian Times, it casts the player as good-natured adventurer Piers Featherstonehaugh, who, along with his manservant Mossop, bid to save the world from the evil Dr Dinsey, who is planning to create an army of mutated soldiers using the Gene Machine and take over the world. The game is a traditional point-and-click adventure with an intuitive user interface. Click on an item on screen, for example, and you'll be presented with a set of icons, containing appropriate actions for you to take. This may include 'look', 'taste', or 'take' depending upon what the object is. Should you choose 'take', the object will be stuffed into the traditional bottomless pockets that all adventure game characters have. Other features that will make fans of old Sierra games of yore very happy are the score system, which will let you know what percentage of the game you have completed, and conversational topics that allow you to actually ask what you want to know, as opposed to repeatedly clicking on them. The best part of the game is the wonderful plot that will be familiar to fans of H.G. Wells' Victorian sci-fi novels, which means it combines scientific innovations and historical anecdotes into a fascinating experience. The game is also huge - it features dozens of characters and locations, as well as Divide by Zero's hallmark of challenging, ingenious puzzles that will stump even the most experienced players. But it's a joy to play, and it never becomes frustrating or boring. There are a few puzzles that are irritating in a sense that there are insufficients clues about the solutions, but for the most part they are fair. If you're looking for a fun cartoon adventure that is funny, atmospheric, and challenging, you can't go wrong with this. | ||
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| Golden Train [Ch] | FullSoft / T-time Technology Co., Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is an excellent information-rich adventure game in Chinese. This "comedy"-type game uses a scoring pattern, each operation has a certain amount of points. It's the protagonist of the story's goal to find foster parents, the gold Cross and experience an adventure. The most important tool is a knife and a magnifying glass. The knife can help a lot, and with the magnifying glass you can see the small print of the painting on the wall (with most of the comedy content). So regardless of where you start, these two things are the first you need to find. Funny things come out of his mouth, although not normal and it does not make sense, it can also be quite crazy. The game style is much like the Legend of Kyrandia series, you can use the mouse to control the leading actor in the scene with "pseudo 3D" way of acting, often with some strange things to get to be used by players which have a rich imagination. This continues the story of where "Eclipse" ends: the brave hero Alex gets rid of the evil magic, the world does not return to calm. Descendants of Rolls-Royce and Sha Shi continue the battle which has lasted for generations of ancestors. Due to the progress of time, Ehrlich family's rivalry with Sha's family developed from the classic battle of good and evil into clan blood feuds. Two families whose forces are shrinking caused by long years of confrontation. It was release in Chinese, Korean and English versions, however due to insufficient funds, they were unable to penetrate global markets and failed to address regional difference. Despite the failure in market strategy, ‘Golden Train’ was considered a classic game by many players. It won the title of ‘Best Indigenous Game in Adventure Category’ by Style Game Magazine in 1996 as well as ‘Best Game Star in Adventure Category’ by Taipei Computer Association in 1998. The developer later became Gamania which made the popular MMO Maple Story. | ||
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| Gulliver in the Land of Giants [Ru] | Amber Company | [top] | |
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This contains an interesting and very high quality cartoon about the adventures of Gulliver in the land of giants, two training programs through which children can playfully take the first steps in the development of the English language, nice coloring musical performance that you can play on a regular CD-player, book with wonderful pictures and two exciting games. The first - a quest where you have to pass all the tests that Gulliver experiences in the country of giants, to solve a lot of mysteries and puzzles. In the second, the player will have to fight with four kinds of different monsters - huge grasshoppers, and gigantic dangerous wasps. A training program helps children learn the English names of different colors. Displayed on the screen of a painted picture appear the names of colors in English, and the problem for the child is to find them in the picture. | ||
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| Gundam 0079: The War For Earth | Presto Studios, Inc. / Bandai Co., Ltd. | [top] | |
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Gundam was one of the most successful early instances in Japanese animation - typically referred to as "anime" - to popularize the concept of humans piloting giant man-shaped "mecha," or "mobile suits" into battle. This is an interactive FMV on rails with 4 command options - "attack," "defend," "interact," and "change weapon." Movement - Used Gundam move in one of four directions (used to avoid attacks); Change Weapon - Use a weapon to attack (unarmed attack, the vulcans, beam saber, beam rifle or hyper bazooka); Defend - Use the Gundam Shield to defend; Interact - Applies to the above three actions (mainly used when interacting with characters, rather than in the Gundam). A correct option must be chosen at the correct point in the story to advance. It has some good computer animation and well-crafted mecha fight sequences but gameplay is not that strong. Despite being filmed in live action with western actors, the games voiceovers are a recorded Japanese dub featuring the original cast reprising the voices of their characters. | ||
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| Gustavinho em o Enigma da Esfinge [Pt] | 44 Bico Largo Multimídia | [top] | |
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Gustavinho in ... The Enigma of the Sphinx is a Brazilian adventure conceived by Ale McHaddo, with the participation of Marisa Orth as Cleopatra. The game tells the story of a boy who ended up calling a mummy lord and was sent to Ancient Egypt. To return home, Gustavinho faces various challenges and travels in Europe of Julius Caesar and Africa of the pharaohs. The game begins with a football game in which Gustavinho ends up kicking a ball at an old man sitting on a bench in the square. However, by demanding the ball back, he ends up being rude to the old man, who ends up sending him to Ancient Egypt. On the "trip", Gustavinho goes into the Pyramid of Giza. After finding the exit, he is tested by a typical merchant on the banks of the River Nile, who helps him, after much grumbling, to enter clandestinely in a boat, which takes him to the Sphinx of Giza. In the sphinx, he goes through more challenges. First, decipher an enigma and get into the heart of the monument. There is a statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of death. When he leaves the sphinx, he meets the old prophet Nasrudin, essential in the unfolding of the story, for it gives him hints of what he must do to return to his time. It is then he travels to Cleopatra, who gives him one of Anubis's eyes and helps him to go to the emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar. In Rome, he discovers that Julius Caesar is trying to find his eyes to use it in a time machine that would give him total power over the world, conquering Egypt and other kingdoms vital to his plan. Gustavinho manages to steal the other eye and return to Egypt in time to warn Cleopatra of the plans of her beloved, who, after wrecking the ships from Rome, gives him his staff to make the time machine work and promises to seal the Sphinx, so that no one can ever get inside. After that, Gustavinho can return to the present times. In commemoration of the 20 years of the launch, the game was relaunched for mobile devices as Gus in the Esphynx Enigma with English translation and voicovers, HD graphics and new dubbing. The remake lost many of the minigames and cutscenes and had reduced difficulty in some of them. In addition, it gained a help button that indicates the next step to the player. The basis of the story was kept with adaptations and updated jokes. | ||
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| Hariboy's Quest | Condor Software | [top] | |
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Hariboy's Quest is a decent point-and-click cartoon adventure game created by Condor Software to promote Haribo candies. The plot is cliché, but passable: similar to Simon in Simon the Sorcerer, you play Hariboy, a young boy who got sucked into a fantasy world through a painting in his room. Of course, all is not well in the lands of Bonbonia: an evil dragon has destroyed a chest that contains the candy formula. This chest is part of the magic tree, which controls access to other worlds. Luckily, there is a copy of the formula spread across three books, which are in turn scattered throughout the three worlds of Bonbonia: the medieval, wild west, and Roman areas. Naturally, your goal is to find these books, put them in the chest, and put the chest back into the magic tree. Along the way, you have to deal with pirates who are also after the same formula. Designed primarily for kids, Hariboy's Quest boasts attractive cartoon-style SVGA graphics and a fun cast of characters comprising all of Haribo's advertising mascots. The interface is very simple: left-click to look at or activate/interact with highlighted items, right-click to bring up the inventory (or interact with items in some cases), and click both mouse buttons at once to bring up the save/load/options menu. Unfortunately, many puzzles are not easy enough for kids at all - primarily because the game suffers from a bad case of pixel-hunting. You will often have to move your mouse carefully around the screen to find a tiny item (say, 3x3 pixel big) that is crucial to your quest. Using items on people is even more exasperating, especially when they are talking. I was stuck several times simply because nothing happened when I used the right item on the NPC - I had to go back and do it several times before something finally happened. If not for the annoying pixel-hunting and clicks-not-registered problems, Hariboy's Quest would have been quite an enjoyable game. There are over 250 (!) locations and dozens of puzzles, so it will take you more than a sitting to finish. Puzzles by and large are logical, and the marketing messages are surprisingly unobtrusive for a promotional title. Overall, Hariboy's Quest is a fun game that is worth a play-through, but you will need a lot of patience and time to deal with its niggling interface problems. | ||
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| Harvester | DigiFX Interactive / Merit Studios / Virgin Interactive | [top] | |
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During your exploration of Harvest you control Steve, your character, across over 150 locations set in the town and lodge. The different places feature 3D computer rendered graphics in which digitized characters have been integrated through the blue screen technique. Quite similar to what was done for Phantasmagoria in fact, except that Harvester features full screen SVGA graphics. This controversially violent game has many video sequences, a lot of them gruesome. Many special effects were used to provide the viewer with realistic scenes such as when you die electrocuted or shot with a bullet that literally explodes your head and therefore is for mature audiences only. There are many ways to die in Harvester, but unlike most adventure games, you too can kill other people. There are 21 weapons available in the game ranging from a wrench to a shotgun that you can collect throughout the town and lodge. While it isn't wise to use them during the exploration of the town, they are vital for survival in the lodge. Players have the choice to use violence or instead find another solution to the problem. Like other adventure games, you can pick up objects and make them interact with people, other objects or mechanisms, which will eventually provide you with new items or accesses to additional locations. The dialogues are controlled by keywords that are selected in a list, where new keywords will be added depending on your previous choices, hence the importance of exploring all the possibilities of the dialogue tree. During the dialogues, you will have a picture of the character you are talking to, as well as yours, displayed in the upper corners of the screen. You will find a few healing objects in the game to restore your health. For lovers of horror films this is recommended. | ||
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In this traditional third person adventure game made using Klik & Play, your beloved princess has been kidnapped by an evil wizard. As a nameless hero, you must scour six different lands in order to find and rescue her. | ||
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| ID4: Independence Day Mission Disks | Trendmasters | [top] | |
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Trendmasters made a line of toys for the blockbuster summer movie hit ID-4 Independence Day. The Twentieth Century Fox film stars Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Randy Quaid and Judd Hirsh. Included in the ID-4 Independence Day toy line are giant alien figures that activate by sound and motion; alien action figures; movie action hero figures accessorized with battle gear, back packs, spring loaded weapons and armor. Also included are the F-18 fighter jet and an alien attacker ship with four firing missles, two dropping bombs, action sound, lights and a removable pilot. Every action figure and playset comes with a thematically-linked, interactive, IBM compatible "Mission Disk." There were 11 different missions in all. Mission Disk 2: Alien Science Officer - you look out of the eyes of an alien science officer preparing the exoskeletal suits of his brethren for the invasion of earth. By analyzing the genes of native animals you'll figure out what will be needed for your soldiers on Earth. The information you'll receive will be recorded in colored crystals. To build the device you have to move these crystals into a device that will check them for cross-compatibility. When you find two crystals that are compatible they will become the same color and be send to build a powersuit. Mission Disk 6: Technical Expert David Levinson - you pilot a alien space fighter craft as it softens up earth defenses for its mother ship. Using the mouse to move your craft left and right you will fire upon incoming jet fighters by clicking to shoot your deadly ray beam. The goal is to destroy parts of the city beneath you, which can be accomplished by charging your beam, by holding your click, until it is powerful enough to take down bits of cityscape. However the incoming pilots, while easy to destroy, are numerous, high on ammo, and perfectly willing to use their own fuselages as a weapon against you. | ||
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| Imperium Romanum [G] | Ego Software / Funsoft, Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | [top] | |
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In this traditional graphic adventure Caesar has conquered the whole world and so you’re living in the Roman Empire in the 20th century. You’re Gaius Ludus. You’re working in a museum as a cleaning man. But – something is wrong. In a Caesar statue you find a mysterious message from the future. So you know what to do – save the world. First you joined the liberty party – then you have to find the time portal. With it you travel in the past (to Caesar) and in the future. Thus changes the present...but be careful. | ||
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| In Search of the Lost Words | FlagTower / Compedia Software & Hardware Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is an educational adventure game for ages 7-12. A magic egg fell from the sky. The evil King Pondos took that egg, and used it to cause destruction. Now, it is many years later. King Pondos is dead, and the egg has just hatched. Inside lay a small blue creature that could bring peace to the world. All is not well, however. There are rumors of King Pondos' return; could he have planned this from the start? Each area consists of a group of rooms. The exit in each area is blocked with a story, which has several words missing. Items within these rooms are clickable, which will say and show the name of the item, display a short animation, and, if the name is used in the story, will give the player the word. Some items will display a puzzle instead. These puzzles may be word searches, tile matching, or other puzzles, and will reward the player with a word. These words can be used to fill out the story, which, once complete, will allow access to the next area. | ||
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| Indian In The Cupboard, The | Viacom New Media | [top] | |
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This is based on a live action movie which was in turn based on a popular children's book. Inside of a young boy's cupboard, the tiny toy figuring native american named Little Bear has come to life. Letting the tiny man guide you through several activities will allow you to bring more toys to life and show your accomplishments on your wampum belt. Some of the available activities include the bead pictures game, where you practice your artistry with carved Iroquois templates and colored beads. There's also the Music Mimicry game and the Symbols game and several more. Completing all the activities sucessfully opens up a new area, the Bedroom 3-D environment and makes available six different quests. | ||
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| Izzy's Adventure | U.S. Gold | [top] | |
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This adventure game features Izzy, the official mascot of the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. It teaches about the history of the Olympics by casting kids as Izzy, a creature of unidentifiable species who must explore the five rings of his world and find as many hidden medals as he can. With each medal comes a bit of information about Olympics past, so by the end (in theory), kids have learned a lot. In practice, they probably won’t play the game long enough to accumulate much knowledge. Besides the obvious turn-offs – like the fact that Izzy and every other creature in sight looks like an amoeba – there are more basic problems. The “game” device of the program, for example, goes as follows: as you search rooms you find bronze, silver, and gold medals. You may choose to not pick up lesser-valued medals so that you’ll be able to get the better ones later. The risk you run is that you’ll bump into the bad guy, at which point the game abruptly ends. It is a less-than-captivating contest, like any game that can be lost through sheer bad luck. The information about the Olympics is presented, on the whole, as brief blurbs of text, neither very educational nor very entertaining. The high point of the program is a virtual gallery of Olympic posters from the past century. | ||
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| J.B. Harold: Kiss of Murder - Satsui no Kuchizuke [J] | Riverhill Soft inc. | [top] | |
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This is an adventure game set in a parallel world to Manhattan Requiem. While it features the same graphics and set of characters as that title, it has a completely different story. In Manhattan a large blue sapphire has been stolen and a young woman named Sarah Shields who worked at a jewelry store has been murdered. Insurance investigator Judd Gregory has contacted the private detective J.B. Harold and asked him for help with the case. Gameplay involves going to various locations in New York, talking to people, interrogating suspects, finding clues and gathering evidence. | ||
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| Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei [J] | System Sacom / ASCII Corporation | [top] | |
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This is a detective noir adventure game with a futuristic setting. The game is one big cinematic drama which plays as an interactive movie (think Cyberia). The story takes place aboard a zeppelin ship Lorelei. In 2238 human race got the freedom to use the ability to travel back in time, which eventually led to the emergence of crime. You are a Raizou Narukami, a detective who runs an agency that specializes in space-time crimes. Womanizer at first glance, you are very skilled at what you do, namely in power of observation, reasoning and deduction. You are known as DD (short for Dracula Detective) because your are a direct descendant of legendary Dracula. Due to your genes, you also exert some superhuman powers and abilities. | ||
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| Jungle Book, The | Powerhouse Entertainment, Kushner-Locke Interactive / IBM | [top] | |
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The groundbreaking part of the program is the speech recognition technology - "learn the language of the jungle" and you can navigate parts of the game using only your voice and a microphone, which comes packaged with the disc. At key junctures your monkey guide will chatter nonsense like "Ka-Kee," "Aw-Ow-Ow," and "Ja-Kee-Ta," and then challenge you to repeat his syllables (if you prefer, the sticky points can be passed using more conventional logic games like Concentration and Simon). Except for this gimmicky little trick, which does, admittedly, have exciting implications for the future, Jungle Book is just another example of a CD-ROM that has not figured out how to use multimedia. The entire adventure is live-action video, where you make occasional choices and spend a lot of time clicking on "instinct" - little flashes of light that test hand-eye coordination and play excerpts from the Jungle Book movie. The audience for Jungle Book is very young kids, fans of Jason Scott Lee's pectorals, and die-hard gamers who can't wait to see the latest voice-recognition technology. | ||
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| Kampf um Trubelland [G] | TriNet Computer / Informationskreis Kernenergie | [top] | |
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This advergame is to promote expansion of using nuclear power. In the year 2055, Karl has bought up all energy sources (except the old nuclear power plant) and captured all the technicians. Now it's the old ailing nuclear reactor's last hope. Of course, the dangers of that industry aren't touched on. Unfortunately, with dumb politicians having outlawed nuclear power a long time ago, nobody knows how to get the plant running anymore. Using a time communicator, teenager Lena sends a plea for help to her past (i.e. the present of the game, 1996) where it is received by some young boy by the name of Philipp Fünfholz. Like every male teenager, Philipp can't say no to a girl and so he sets out to find technical documentation about nuclear power. | ||
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| Karma: Curse Of The 12 Caves / Quest For Karma | InterServ International Inc. / Discis Entertainment / DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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Discis, publisher of Jewels of the Oracle, offered Karma as a follow-up. Unlike Jewels, which was developed by Eloi, Karma was a production of Chinese multimedia company Interserv. People expecting more of the polish of Jewels were disappointed. Karma, crippled by playback problems in its video and transition segments and consisting of only 15 puzzles, seemed like a classic joke: not very good and such small portions. That said, what puzzles it offered provided some diverting challenges. Unlike the contemplative (and more numerous) puzzles in Jewels of the Oracle or Gems of Darkness, half of Karma's puzzles test reflexes as well as wits. And in some of its puzzles, one false move instantaneously resets the puzzle to the beginning. That would no doubt be the "Instant Karma" feature. A patched version of Karma which cured most of the video and playback problems was published three years later by DreamCatcher Interactive under the title Quest for Karma. | ||
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| Kingdom O' Magic | SCi Games Ltd. / GT Interactive Software Corp. | [top] | |
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A fantasy adventure game spoof - along the lines of Zork but with British Humour. Play as either an unintelligible Green Lizard Guy (use subtitles) or the token female - who was intended to be humourously overproportioned although now Tomb Raider has raised the standard. The designers intended for the game to be non-linear, and many NPCs wander around the entire map getting into fights with each other. Entirely comedic - the troubleshooting guide in the manual discusses sexual malfunction. The dialogue trees encourage the player to be abrasive and confrontational - not doing so will cause you to miss out on much of the enjoyment, and many of the puzzles. The game is a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as seen in the names of some of the places in the game Rivendull, Minar Tragedy etc. It was designed by Fergus McNeill who became famous during the eighties for games such as Bored of the Rings (influenced by, but not adapted from, the Harvard Lampoon book) and The Boggit. | ||
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| Kingdom: The Far Reaches | Virtual Image Productions / Interplay Productions | [top] | |
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Rick Dyer, the creator of 'Dragon's Lair' (now housed in the Smithsonian Museum) designed this beautiful award winning game. It is a grand and glorious fairytale: an epic quest reminiscent of Tolkien that can be enjoyed by both adults and children. It's a revised version of the arcade game Thayer's Quest. In this adventure game, step into the shoes of Lathan Kandor, a young boy, to defeat the evil Black Wizard. Lathan will find help from his mentor, the mighty magician Daelon. Explore the fantasy lands of the Far Reaches and retrieve three of the five pieces of the ancient relic called The Hand of Mobus. Talk to a variety of characters, collect objects and solve adventure type problems and puzzles. It features mouse control, video animations, cartoon-like graphics, an in-game travel map and original music which can be turned off if desired. This is a 3rd person, point and click game with inventory (your pouch). It is set in a wonderful Medieval- looking world of enchanted castles and forests, wizards and magic. The story is engrossing, the voices are great, and the music is stirring. And the graphics are absolutely astounding: Disney-quality flawless animation with over 57,000 hand-painted animation cells! The feeling is one of being in the middle of an interactive movie in the theater. The story was continued in another game called Kingdom Book 2: Shadoan. The 1997 Windows/MAC re-release had better resolution of 424 × 320 pixels in size, which is much larger than 224 × 144 for DOS. | ||
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| Kohaku-iro no Yuigon [J] | Riverhill Soft inc. / CyberFront | [top] | |
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"Amber Testament" is the first in the row of detective games starring the fictional Japanese private investigator Ryūnosuke Tōdō. The events of the game take places in Japan in the year 1921, and Tōdō must investigate a mysterious murder of a rich man in his own mansion. The deceased had many relatives, and its the detective's job to find out which one of them (if any) has committed the murder. The game plays mostly like an adventure with light simulation elements. The interaction is done with menu commands, focusing on conversation topics. The protagonist has to talk to the mansion's inhabitants about other people and hear their opinion concerning the crime, unlocking new topics as he gathers information. Rooms can and should be searched for clues as well. In his own room the detective can view dossiers and evidence. | ||
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| Kurayamizaka no Ie [Ch] | h.m.p. / Happy Box | [top] | |
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This is in the style of realistic detective puzzle game. Time is Japan's Showa thirty-three years in Tokyo Suginami where there is known a secret slope of trails, a street where is located an old mansion. It was once dazzling, but now it's desolate and dilapidated. It bears a strange chilling mystery, because this building is said to house Chinese male homeowners who eight years ago mysteriously disappeared. | ||
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| La Mascara: El Castigo del Dios Loco [Sp] | OLR Soft | [top] | |
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A known gangster in the city of Chicago has managed to seize a mask of mythological origin. With it, he intends to use it to control the city and after that, the whole world. You are a regenerated gangster band member and you must find and destroy the mask before them. This was one of a series of titles in the Game Movies Collection by the developer. It consisted of four titles, each dedicated to a different genre (fantasy, action-adventure, horror and comedy), and composed of two CD-ROM, an adventure game, and an interactive reference work which included a history of 100 years of cinema for each genre. | ||
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| Labyrinth of Crete | Funhouse / Philips Media | [top] | |
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The second game Cliff Johnson (Fool's Errand) designed for Phillips Interactive is virtually identical to Merlin's Apprentice, with ancient Greek myths as the backdrop this time instead of Arthurian legends. The game's premise is that you have been sentenced to death for stealing from Hera, Queen of the Gods. The only way to freedom lies in the twisted path of the Labyrinth of Crete. Each turn presents new puzzles, angry gods and goddesses, and deadly monsters to thwart your attempt at escape. Puzzles here will be familiar to anyone who has played Merlin's Apprentice. There are some action puzzles that require you to click on objects that float by, several logic puzzles that involve moving objects into a certain configuration using only a few types of movements, and word puzzles requiring deciphering some encrypted sentences. The game has three difficulty levels which can be set on a puzzle-by-puzzle basis and changed during the game. And, like Merlin's Apprentice, the state of partly finished puzzles is not saved when you close your game. The logic puzzles, naturally, present the most challenge, although some of them can be quite hair-pulling at hardest difficulty level. The bottom line is that anyone who likes Merlin's Apprentice will love this because they are virtually the same game, although Labyrinth has a more interesting plot, cutscenes, and arguably higher educational values since there is a lot of information about Greek mythology. Not Cliff's best work by far, but is still very, very good. | ||
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| Last Game 2on2: The Legend of Street Basketball [K] | Samsung | [top] | |
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Allegedly Korea's first interactive animated movie, this tells a story of basketball, courtyard rivalries and kidnappings. Aside from the occasional multiple choice decisions, there are "playable" basketball sequences in the game, but they're completely menu based. Most of the time, it's just a matter of watching the movie play out, though. It runs in Windows 3.1 and uses ancient Quick Time technology. This results in an image that's much more crisp than contemporary FMV games, but the animation is really choppy. | ||
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| Legend Lives!, The | David Baggett | [top] | |
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This is an epic sci-fi masterpiece by the author of the popular Unnkulian Unventure shareware series. Legend takes the Unnkulian Universe far into the future, where, despite mankind's technological advances, the threat of the evil Unnkulians still lurks. This time, their sinister plan is subtle: a deadly computer virus that threatens the whole galaxy. You are Gavin Kelly, a grad student in computer science at Akmi Yooniversity who discovered this new threat and, naturally, must find help to defeat it. Despite this cliche-sounding beginning, the plot Legend soon evolves into a wonderful tale of nature-versus-technology conflict that is by turn thought-provoking and funny. David Baggett's games are known for elaborate room descriptions, and Legend takes this strength to a new level. Game locations are not only well-written, but are so detailed that you can almost visualize the frenzied crowds at the Barfee outlet, or be disturbed by the descriptions of New Hell and the Watchmen. As you meet new characters, long multiple-screens of text appear to not only introduce them but move the story forward. Lengthy cutscenes (i.e. long blocks of text that interrupt gameplay) are abundant, and all very well-written. Anyone who likes to examine every object in the game can spend literally dozens of hours with Legend, marvelling at the plethora and depth of writing, including many extensive footnotes on the stranger objects in the Unnkulian universe. The puzzles in Legend range from the average, to the almost impossible. Thankfully, the game offers a progressive hint system to help break those mental blocks. There are still some puzzles you must solve on your own, but those are quite easy to figure out. All puzzles require manipulating technology one way or the other, and most of your time will be spent in figuring out the uses for the many strange gadgets you can pick up. Although some objects are red herring, you'll enjoy playing with them on the way to hitting on the solution. This is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. The game broke new ground in adding many "cinematic" scenes to the usually dry world of IF, and imbuing its characters with lifelike agenda and personality (although unfortunately many characters are left unexplained or not fleshed out-- perhaps intentionally to leave room for sequels). With a great story, a coherent, detailed gameworld, and many wry humor and abundance of sci-fi trinkets, The Legend Lives! is a must-have. | ||
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| Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! | Simbiosis Interactive / Telstar Electronic Studios Ltd. | [top] | |
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This game in the popular comic adult adventure series featured more fleshed-out, cartoon style graphics and full voice acting. It was the sixth installment (due to the fourth game never being completed. It was the last Larry game created by Al Lowe. After many of the Larry games had gained a reputation for not actually featuring all that much raunchy content when analysed, this installment included some much more risque elements. It was the first game since the third to pick up immediately where its predecessor left off; typically, it features Larry getting dumped by the woman who represented the ultimate goal of Larry 6, Shamara. The formula was much the same as the previous games: the "twist" was that Larry was a passenger on a cruise ship populated by parodies of famous people. Various other pop icons were parodied in the background, such as the Archie Comics gang playing nude volleyball, various incarnations of James Bond in the ship's casino, a Sierra staffer dressed as Sailor Moon, and porn icon Ron Jeremy walking around naked. The plot revolves around Larry's attempt at winning a weekly contest held on the ship by Captain Thygh, a gorgeous blonde. The player must come up with a variety of ways to cheat in each of Larry's assigned competitions so that he can get the highest score and win the contest. Among Larry's chosen competitions are a cooking contest, a "best dressed" contest, a game of horseshoes, bowling, the sexual prowess contest and others. It was also the first Larry game to include a full-fledged minigame: by collecting hidden red-and-white-striped dildos, the player could unlock high quality pin-up desktop wallpapers of the ladies in the game. Players could also "appear" in the game by placing voice samples of selected dialogue and a digitized photo in a particular directory (the default was Al Lowe). | ||
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| Leonard Nimoy's Primortals | BIG Entertainment, Inc. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an interactive graphic novel and reference guide to the Primortals comic book series. It includes background notes on the series, interviews with Leonard Nimoy, conceptual art showing the evolution and backgrounds of the major characters and information on the SETI Project (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Players can experience the graphic novel as one of four characters in this tale of first contact with alien life, co-presented by renowned scientist and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Characters include Primaster, the Majae leader whose people removed the dinosaurs from Earth long ago and helped them evolve into the Primortals and Zeerus, a Primortal rebel who believes the Majae imprisoned his people and now wants to conquer Earth. The other two are Stewart Davies, a graduate student working for SETI who finds and translates the mysterious signal from Zeerus and Jess Rossini, his girlfriend and a psychology student, who later becomes a friend to many of the Primortals. The graphic novel tells the story of how Zeerus escaped imprisonment by the Majae, why he headed for Earth and how Primaster and the other Primortals came in search of him. It also deals with why and how Davies and Rossini got involved in the action. The comic includes animation, sound and music to complement the interactive experience of reading about humanity's "first contact" with aliens who descended from dinosaurs. Primortals cranks up gorgeous 2-D artwork with cushy multimedia embellishments: Graphic frames cohere in a fluid, and an animated slide show is accompanied by a groovy techno-pop soundtrack. | ||
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| Life With Louie: Lake Winnibigoshish | Inverse Ink | [top] | |
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Fox Kids Network teamed up with the kids at Inverse Ink to produce comic books on CD-ROM based on four different cartoons. This one is based on the popular Fox Saturday-morning cartoon from the mid-1990s, Life with Louie: Lake Winnibigoshish lets you relive an episode of the series by means of an interactive comic book. Witness the humorous antics of Louie and the Anderson family as you click from frame to frame through over 60 animated "hotspots." In addition to simple animations activated by a mouse click, you'll also watch QuickTime sequences straight from the episode on which the story is based and open up folders with "plot clues" adding depth to the tale. The story centers on the Andersons' trip to Lake Winnibigoshish for a vacation. Will Louie be able to fit in with the cool kids and avoid the annoying girl that likes him? Will his father be able to catch the lake's legendary Huskie Muskie? | ||
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| Lighthouse: The Dark Being | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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Lighthouse is in many ways the most straight-forward Myst clone of them all. Released only shortly after Myst's success became apparent, Sierra gave us one of the more dedicated games in this genre. The quality of the graphics and the technology used, is on par with Myst mostly, but seems slightly outdated today. Basically, the player is a writer who has retreated to small seaside town to get some peace and quiet in preparation for a new story. In his stay in the town, he has befriended the keeper of a nearby lighthouse, which becomes apparent to the player by perusing the various correspondences lying around the starting location (the player's house). On a dark and stormy night (what a terrible cliche) he gets a distressed phone call from the lighthouse keeper, saying that his baby daughter is somehow in peril, and that the player's assistance is urgently needed. From here the player embarks on a journey that will take him/her well beyond our world to a mystical land, whose lost civilization seems threatened by an unspeakably evil being . | ||
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| Lost Adventures Of Legend | Legend Entertainment Company / Mindscape Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a collection of the first eight games Legend Entertainment ever released: Companions Of Xanth, Eric The Unready, Spellcasting 101, Spellcasting 201, Spellcasting 301, Frederik Pohl's Gateway, Gateway II: Homeworld, and Timequest. | ||
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| Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Rose Tattoo | Mythos / Electronic Arts | [top] | |
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In October of 1889, the formula for a new and extraordinarily powerful explosive disappeared from the Ministry of Defense. Sherlock's brother Mycroft, an eccentric but influential government servant, launched an official though secret inquiry into the theft, but his effort was thwarted. Just before asking Sherlock to undertake an independent investigation of the theft, Mycroft was seriously injured in an explosion that leveled the Diogenes Club. Sherlock, believing his brother had been victimized by a random gas leak, retired disconsolate to 221B Baker St. Dr. Watson, with a little luck and much effort, managed to reanimate his friend by posing one critical question: "What if the explosion that injured Mycroft had not been an accident?" The answer to this query sent Holmes down a long and twisted road of discovery. Sherlock, for the first time in his career, acknowledged that his motivation was something other than a desire for justice. With single-minded ferocity he pursued, cajoled, questioned, and confronted suspects from smug Mayfair to the pitiful and dangerous East End. Gradually, through observation and deduction, he developed a picture of a huge criminal enterprise initiated by a masterful adversary. To penetrate this perilous conspiracy and frustrate its intent he solved several capital crimes. Holmes applied his customary courage, acumen, and intelligence to these daunting tasks. In so doing he quashed a potentially volatile international incident, defended the national security, protected the honor of the royal family, exonerated the innocent and delivered rough and swift punishment to the guilty. The shocking and surprising resolution of the case made it necessary to seal Watson's precious account for 100 years. That is how The Case of the Rose Tattoo became one of the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes kept by Dr. John H. Watson and the sequel to The Case of the Serrated Scalpel. Accompany Holmes as he sets foot in 50 locations and interacts with 90 characters. All the characters are costume and speech specific to Victorian London. | ||
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| MA-RI-A: The Curse of the Puppet Museum [J] | Nikkei Visual Images / Pony Canyon | [top] | |
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One night, Emily dreamt a horrible nightmare. In the dream, her classmate Maria is abducted by dreadful evil spirits and asking her to help. Maria has disappeared since then. Emily goes to Kuronuma Mansion, which she saw in the dream. | ||
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| Mars Attacks! Mission Disks 1-3 | Trendmasters | [top] | |
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Trendmasters made a line of toys for the Tim Burton movie Mars Attacks! The 4 inch figures only come in a blue box (comic book) variety. There's a Doom Spider (Martian inside a robot spider), a Doom Robot (Martian atop a giant robot) and a Martian Trooper (Martian with four robot/octopus arms). None of these talk but all three come with a Mars Attacks Mission Disk. Each disk has one of three IBM computer games on it; Mission of Doom, Martian Emergency, or Attack of the Killer Bugs. The blue box (comic book) Doom Saucer and the orange box (movie) Martian Flying Saucer also contained one of the three mission disks. | ||
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| Martian Chronicles Adventure Game, Ray Bradbury's The | Byron Preiss Multimedia / Simon and Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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Based upon Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" series of stories, this game puts you on the red planet as a nuclear war is brewing on earth. You are instructed to find an ancient relic hidden in the ancient martian city of Xi, which could mean earth's salvation. Also you must find out what happened to the other five persons that went looking for it before you, and keep yourself alive by collecting a series of crystals that power your suit. You proceed through the game via Myst-like slideshows, and you have to solve a series of logic puzzles to advance through the game. Included as an extra are a series of video interviews of Bradbury plus readings of some of the first "Martian" stories. | ||
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| Master Of Dimensions | Makh-Shevet / Eidos, Inc. | [top] | |
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The sorcerer Merlin is not only involved in mystical but also in physical things and journeys to other dimensions. One bad day he met the wizard of the fairyland. Since the two didn't particularly like each other, it finally came to a conflict ending with the fragmentation of Merlin's magic wand. The single parts were hidden in different dimensions - and Merlin's power was lost. A millennium later a boy coincidentally finds a dimension machine on the attic of his Grandpa: The hunt for the parts of the magic wand can begin. This is an adventure, using different elements of the genre: beside the classic point'n'click, movie passages (in the private eye dimension) à la Snatcher are offered, while switching to big screens is a style borrowed from French or Japanese productions. The latter takes place when important conversations are lead or viewing special items. Gamers realize in a "dramatic" way that this is the point players have to turn your attention to. | ||
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| McKenzie & Co. More Friends | Her Interactive, Inc. / American Laser Games, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an expansion for McKenzie & Co., the game about the trials and tribulations of a teenage girl in high school. It adds 2 additional boyfriends: James, the bad boy biker (complete with motorcycle and leather jacket) and Aaron, the vegetarian and animal rights activist (protest signs are his accessory). | ||
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| Meteor, The Stone, And The Long Glass Of Sherbet, The | Graham Nelson | [top] | |
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A well-deserved first-place winner in the 4th annual Interactive Fiction Competition, this once again proves Graham Nelson's prowess as modern-day IF master in the true spirit of Infocom. After taking the player another imaginative spin on the Zork mythos. The game's prose is at a very high level of quality, its world is very well-designed, and several aspects of the documentation (the context-sensitive hints and the diplomatic "briefing") were very well done indeed. I didn't get through the entire game in the two hours [required to play each game in the competition], and I found myself resorting to the hints quite a lot. Often, this was because a logical puzzle had me stumped, but the first two times were due to puzzles which didn't offer enough alternative syntax. Unfortunately, these two situations inured me to looking at the hints, thinking perhaps that my other obstacles were due to syntax problems as well. Apart from this one flaw, Sherbet was a truly excellent piece of work - well-plotted with clever puzzles, a strong sense of unfolding narrative, and rife with the pleasures of revisiting an old friend in a new context. | ||
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| Milo: Find the Key to the Universe | Sibling Interactive / Crystalvision Software | [top] | |
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Long ago, these worlds were inhabited by an Alien race, a race so advanced that it discovered the key to the universe: a secret that is beyond human comprehension. Now all that is left are a few incredible ruins and Milo, the android caretaker. So far, he's kept them in pristine condition but now, due to lack of intellectual challenge, he is failing. You have been brought here to do just that, and gain the treasured keys to the universe. You have to solve all 14 of their puzzles to obtain the Great Key from Milo. You are free to travel on every part of the planet and all you need is to solve the puzzles, which are very similar to the ones from the 7th Guest. | ||
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| Miss Interactive Hard Boiled [J] | Teichiku Records Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a SF adventure with a hard boiled detective as the hero. A horrible plan to go behind the scenes. A wife who disappeared ... It is a feeling full of a promise such as the appearance and voice of a character. It has a feeling of things like Snatcher or Police Notes and so on. It is difficult for a gaming battle or demon which is sure to be in this game of games, but it was also good that anyone could clear it thanks to the system that the enemies are getting weaker each time they fail. | ||
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| Mode | Anamatics Multimedia / Corel | [top] | |
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Mode is designed almost like an interactive art installation. And the number of paths the story can take, the method of communicating to characters within the game, and the style of the game itself really bear this out. The story is a really well-defined yet simple mystery tale. You have arrived at a fashion and art party hosted by Vito Brevis, a mad genius artist-type. You have crashed the party and must find a way of securing a Dome, a silver lapel pin signifying you are "in," one of the invited, beautiful people. Part of the fun of this game is experimenting with the various story paths and character interactions to acquire the Dome, or in trying to play the game through as far as you can without getting bounced from the party for not having a Dome. These story branches actually cause the game to become more elaborate and defined, and I found myself becoming more intrigued by the characters and the story as I tried different things and sent myself down the different directions the game can take. But the acquisition (or not) of the Dome is just one small part of the overall story. There is a deeper mystery that begins to unfold as the story progresses regarding who Vito Brevis really is and what his real intentions are. The thing that makes Mode an exceptional lost jewel of an FMV adventure title is that the developers used a method of communicating with characters called a "Mood Bar." It's a colored strip that runs along the bottom of the screen. The colors in the bar start at a deep fuchsia and move through reds and blues and greens. When a character communicates to you, the player, you do not respond using prewritten choices from a standard conversation tree; instead you pick the "mood" of your response. These choices totally change the outcome of the game. Entirely different things happen with same characters based on the mood used to speak to them. | ||
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| Monja [J] | Co-Deuz | [top] | |
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| Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail | 7th Level Inc. | [top] | |
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Burn the Witch! Battle the Black Knight! Then outwit the bridgekeeper at the perilous Bridge of Death in this enchanting interactive medieval experience - the first to earn an enthusiastic thumbscrews up from Vladimere the Impaled! And, as an extra, top-secret bonus, this game includes an exciting never-before-produced scene from the script of the original Monty Python film (an animated version of a scene involving Arthur and the knights' encounter with the "Wild" King Brian). Collect clues and solve puzzles as you join King Arthur and his band of knights on their quest for the Holy Grail. Declared "best cd-rom game of 932 A.D." Each of the game's nine main screens are based on important locations from the film, such as Plague Village, Camelot, and the naughty Castle Anthrax. Most of the scenes and characters are depicted using actual footage from the film, and the animation is reminiscent of the paper-cutout style used in all Python shows. | ||
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| Mosè: Il Profeta della Libertà [It] | Simulmodo / EDB | [top] | |
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This is a Biblical adventure where you are Moses and you must be able to lead people to the promised land through a thousand dangers and facing incredible hardships, from escaping Egypt to the crossing of the Red Sea, to the fall of the walls of Jericho. It includes an encyclopedia of Biblical information as well. | ||
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| Mummy: Tomb Of The Pharaoh | Amazing Media / Interplay Productions | [top] | |
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One of the myriad of indirect Myst descendents and sequel of sorts to Frankenstein:Through the Eyes of the Monster, Mummy is your standard first person adventure game. You play the role of Michael Cameron, an investigator for the National Mining Company. One of your company's sites in Egypt has reached a bit of an impasse. It appears the workers there fear that they have come across sacred burial grounds and believe they have awakened a mummy. Your job is to investigate these claims (with the hope of proving them unsubstantiated so work can continue), all the while dealing with the Machiavellian-like site manager (played by Michael McDowell of A Clockwork Orange fame) and the resident Egyptologist, who happens to be an old flame. Game play involves navigating static, rendered scenes, picking up and manipulating items and occassionally coming across someone, which leads to a short video conversation with them. You never get a choice in such conversations outside of potentially offering the other person an item to have or examine. | ||
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| Muppet CD-ROM, The: Muppets Inside | Starwave | [top] | |
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One of the best games of any kind, Muppets Inside is, similar to Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, part adventure, arcade, trivia... overall, it's a thoroughly entertaining product that perfectly captures the spirit of Jim Henson's beloved Muppet Show. With the help of Kermit the Frog and friends, you must find all pieces of a broken Muppets Inside CD-ROM by visiting various components inside your computer and playing mini-games. The 7 mini-games (including a hilarious DOOM spoof) are brilliant, and many nice touches (such as Fozzie the Bear's endless lame jokes) will put a smile on your face for days. In short, this is one great game for the whole family. | ||
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| Muppet Treasure Island | Activision, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a children's point-and-click adventure game that is fun for all ages. The game is based on the Muppet Treasure Island movie. Search for buried treasure in the Muppets' version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic epic. Visit new lands, meet swashbuckling pirates, and discover a treasure-trove of puzzles, activities and learning gems in this rollicking interactive treasure hunt. The game is divided into 4 parts. The Benbow Inn - Your adventure begins in this pirates' retreat - with help from Gonzo and Rizzo, you might find the hidden Treasure Map. Bristol - Boarding a treasure-bound ship from Bristol's docks is no easy task - you'll have to earn your passage first. The Hispaniola - Learn the tools of the trade from Captain Smollett and earn the honor of navigating this mighty ship to Treasure Island. Treasure Island - Your final destination! Use everything you've learned along the way to find the fabled buried treasure. In each part there are a number of tasks to complete which are fairly simple. In the game, the player is "Hawkins," who leaves the Admiral Benbow Inn to sail to Treasure Island. Gonzo and Rizzo accompany the player - and so does Stevenson the Parrot, a new Muppet character who provides hints throughout the game. The Muppet characters are seen as video clips overlaid on an animated background. There are 2 hours of full-screen video featuring live-action characters - Tim Curry and Billy Conolly from the movie. | ||
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| Murder, She Wrote: Mystery Jigsaw Puzzles | Centron Software Technologies, Inc. | [top] | |
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Solve exciting multimedia mysteries. Match wits with Jessica Fletcher, of the popular tv show, to solve the murders. Watch the suspects proclaim their innocence. Play the stories, then piece together the jigsaw puzzle to find vital clues. Use the "magnifying glass" to examine the scene of the crime. Choose the difficulty level. Fun for all ages. | ||
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| Mutation Of J.B. [G] | Invention / Riki Computer Games | [top] | |
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You control a young boy called Johnny Burger who plans to visit his cousin Emanuel for two weeks. As he arrives he finds him gone. A scientist, who's also looking for Johnny's cousin, comes by and offers Johnny 500DM (Deutsche Mark) for an experiment. Of course, the experiment goes awry. During the procedure a mysterious guy flashes the scientist's memory. The emerging irritation causes the professor to start pushing random buttons, which results in Johnny's transformation as a human pig. After Johnny wakes up the professor is gone, too, as he was kidnapped to the Planet Ladea. So, Johnny's quest comprises of finding the professor to be transformed back into a normal state and finding out what happened to Emanuel. Mutation of J.B plays like an usual Point 'n Click comic adventure. On the bottom of the screen you find a selection of commands ("Go to", "Talk to", "Look at", "Use", "Take") and your inventory which stores all collected items. | ||
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| My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville's | 7th Level / Byron Preiss Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is a point and click adventure game based on the book series of the same name. You can take the perspective of the three main children in the series, Peter Thompson, Duncan Dougal or Susan Simmons. Does your teacher wear weird clothes? You've always suspected that one of your teachers came from another planet-- but you just found out that it's true! You and your friends need to think fast and act even faster to survive. Fight your way through a series of arcade games and collect clues to figure out which teacher is the alien. Then convince your parents, the principal, the police-- anyone who will listen-- that you're right! You have just one week to stop the alien spaceship before it returns to its home planet with six of your classmates-- and maybe you, too. Throughout the game, you'll take on the roles of class brain Peter Thomson, the clever and resourceful Susan Simmons, and Duncan Dougal, the class bully. You can replay the game by making different choices and choosing different characters. Before every school period, you'll decide which character to play. You'll need each of their special skills to get through the challenging puzzles, exciting combat sequences, and bizarre situations in this action-packed, brain-teasing adventure game. Sneak around school as Duncan, searching for clues-- just don't get caught! Or play as Susan and try to get information from your teacher. If you play as Peter, you might discover some help on the Internet. Replay the game with different choices. Every move counts! Can you foil the alien's sinister plot before time runs out? | ||
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| Mysterious Island: A Race Against Time And Hot Lava | Virgin Sound and Vision | [top] | |
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Embark on an incredible journey at the amusement park where they decide to take a hot air balloon ride even though there is a storm and the ride is "officially" closed. Take the ride of a lifetime to an uncharted island filled with hungry creatures, mind-bending puzzles, and hidden dangers. On Mysterious Island, lead Will, Lily, and Tomas in search for awesome treasure and then help them escape before the volcano erupts. | ||
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| Necrobius (cancelled) | Daniel Auld | [top] | |
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This should have been released by MicroProse Software in the mid 90's but apparently it got "bogged down in legal wrangling". The game was 95% complete and uses Macromedia Director engine. It's a click-and-point adventure/mystery game, featuring psychedelic visuals and cryptic puzzles. The game is played from the perspective of an unnamed character journeying through the mind of one Professor Necrobius, on a quest to uncover the secret to preventing the death of their planet. A demo was released alongside the July 1995 issue of PC Gamer magazine. The creator released it as freeware in 2014. | ||
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| Neon Genesis Evangelion: 1st Impression | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. / Gainax | [top] | |
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A Japan-only release of a Neon Genesis Evangelion episode in the form of an interactive DVD video game. Following the story of the popular animé series, the game presents an episode of its own. The player controls Shinji Ikari, the main character of the series. A new Angel appears and attacks Unit-01. As a result, Shinji loses his memory. His friends decide he should fight Asuka in Unit-02, hoping his memory will be restored as a result of the battles. The game contains many cut-scenes made by Gainax, the creators of the TV series. Many scenes are taken directly from original Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes. The player gains control when they have to make decisions for Shinji (choose correct answers, etc.), and when fighting Angels. The player should figure out which attack the Angel is using, and press corresponding buttons to defend and to counterattack it. The first Evangelion video game, released shortly after the TV series's run. The story is set after the episode ASUKA STRIKES!, with Shinji badly injured and suffering amnesia as the result of an Angel battle and needing to retrain (by sparring with Asuka in Unit-02) and having to defeat the Angel to regain his memories. The game features RPG elements and FMV clips for combat; most of the animation is original to 1st Impression (with the voices of the original Evangelion voice actors and some other content recycled from the TV series). | ||
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| Neverhood, The | The Neverhood Inc. / Dreamworks Interactive / Microsoft Game Studios | [top] | |
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This is a unique clay-animated adventure. Born into a Neverhood that may never exist, Klaymen explores a land of Terrifying Creatures, Extraordinary Machines, and Mysterious Artifacts. Long ago the king of this world was betrayed by his trusted assistant. You must save the Neverhood by navigating Klaymen through a twisted plot of ancient secrets, witty inventions and monstrous puzzles to outwit your nasty foe. To unearth the truth, you must find and view 20 short videodiscs that have been scattered throughout this world, while solving a variety of puzzles as you go. The puzzles are not all that difficult if you are really observant about what you see and hear on your trek, and besides, there's a built-in hint system within the game that you discover right away. It's located where we all do our best thinking, in the 'John', and there you can always find inspiration about what to do next, written on sheets of toilet paper. The brilliant and bizarre full screen graphics are, quite simply, amazing, and both the movements and the facial expressions of the endearing characters seem absolutely real. The music in the game is rhythmic, funky and warped, with totally indecipherable vocals, and yet it's the kind of music that you find that you're tapping your feet to. Apparently over 3 tons of clay and frame-by-frame hand positioning of the characters was required to create the world depicted in the artwork. | ||
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| Nick Carter: Il mistero del tesoro degli Incaz! [It] | G&T Multimedia | [top] | |
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An Italian adventure game, based on the famous cartoon and comic Nick Carter by Bonvi (dead from an accident one year before) and Guido De Maria. You must help Nick Carter, and his loyal helpers Patsy and Ten, to find the thief of a valuable "Incaz" vase and other precious objects... Classic point & click adventure, with a simple interface. It has few puzzles and a low interaction level. Made with Quicktime technology. | ||
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| Nirvana X-Rom, Gabriele Salvatores' [It] | Bruno Tognolini, CD-ITALY | [top] | |
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This game is based off an Italian movie of the same name. It's a sci-fi adventure mixture between Tron (sort of..) and Johnny Mnemonic. The film tells the story of a virtual-reality game designer, Jimi (Christopher Lambert), who finds out that the main character of his game, Solo (Diego Abatantuono), has achieved sentience due to an attack by a computer virus. Asked by his creation (who feels everything the character in the game feels, including multiple deaths) to eliminate its existence, Jimi sets out to erase the game from his employer's server before it's commercially released, and thus spare Solo further suffering. Jimi feels desperate because his wife Lisa (Emmanuelle Seigner) left him. He starts to search for her as he tries to delete Solo from the game. These two paths of his life complement in the story throughout the whole film. By the end, Jimi hacks into one of the company's servers. This hack is in the world of virtual reality interpreted as encounters with persons from Jimi's life. That is the way the network defends itself. It tries to keep the hacker's mind in the loop of his own memories as it burns the hacker's brain. The only way to pass through the network defence mechanism is to free one's mind. To forget about life before or after; to forget about bodily feelings; to enter a state of pure concentration, where one focuses only on the target (in this case the server with the company's money account). It is similar to meditation where one tries to concentrate on breathing. People who are able to do this are called angels (they are invisible to the system, they can go anywhere they want and their possibilities are limitless). In the end Jimi feels enlightened. He is in inner peace with himself. He saved the character, understood why Lisa left and understands why the things happened in the way they happened. He is in the state of Nirvana. The game has 50 FMV movies with some footage taken from the film (with many unpublished) and other originals, shot ad hoc. There's also 40 scenes in QuickTime VR, taken from photographs on the film set, or modeled in 3D. It has 400 images from the shoot of the film, from the set, from backstage and from other sources, plus 50 animations created in 3D/2D graphics. Texts include the script integral of the film, and music songs from the soundtrack of the film and original music for the CD. | ||
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| Noc [PL] | R&M Soft / L.K. Avalon | [top] | |
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Noc (Polish for "Night") is an adventure game. The player takes on the role of a hero whose mission is to find lost friends in another reality. To complete the task the player has to travel through the dreams of the friends. At the start a hero can be selected who sets off on a rescue mission. The player can choose between a hacker and a butcher, with a focus on intelligence or strength respectively. Except for the process of opening the doors, the character choice does not further influence the gameplay. The control mechanism is similar to the LucasArts SCUMM interface. Actions are performed by selecting the appropriate commands at the bottom of the screen and then pointing the cursor on an object located in the environment. The game contains some violent scenes. The CD-ROM version is enhanced with animated cut-scenes. | ||
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| Noir: A Shadowy Thriller | TSi, Inc. / Cyberdreams, Inc. | [top] | |
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Set in the 1940's L.A., you are a classic P.I. and your detective buddy Jack Slayton has gone missing. You take it upon yourself to find him and to do so you'll have to look on the 6 cases Jack was working before he disappeared. The interface consists of a myst-like environment where you click on pictures to use items, talk, move, etc. only this time (and to keep with the mood of the game) the images are high-quality black and white actual pictures (not rendered). Gameplay consists mainly of interacting with people and gathering clues. | ||
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| Normality | Gremlin Interactive Ltd. / Interplay Entertainment | [top] | |
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No doubt one of the most original adventure games ever, Normality is like a tongue-in-cheek version of George Orwell's classic 1984: You are Kent, a very -erm- independent lad who's being persued by the cops (the "Norms") for deviating from the strict norms imposed by the new leader Paul. Puzzles are obscure at times, but their wacky logic is self-consistent and becomes evident when solved. Great 3D engine, plot, and characters make it one of the best adventures ever, and it will also take you a long while to finish. It is perhaps most interesting as it was one of the first games to put what is essentially a traditional "point and click" adventure game into real-time 3D, being, as it is, largely devoid of action sequences traditionally associated with the 3D format. It is played in the first-person perspective, and the game's engine is actually the same used in the game Realms of the Haunting. The graphics are very similar to that of Duke Nukem 3D or other so-called "2.5D" games of its time. The story revolves around Kent Knutson, a rebellious teenager in the city of Neutropolis, from which various places take up the setting of the game. While in prison, he receives a note from an anonymous inmate telling him about the underground insurrection group that he might want to join. From here on, the player starts the game in Kent's apartment, having to go find and join this resistance group. | ||
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| Obelisk: Project Oscar [J] | Oscar Promotion / NEC Interchannel | [top] | |
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This full-motion video adventure game, features several actresses/models from the Oscar Promotion agency in a Myst style historical environment. The game features several actresses from the agency, so it caught the attention of fans when released. The game begins in the near future, and from there you're transported to Egypt, Atlantis, Tibet, Maya, etc. The game is similar to Time Gate, in that Obelisk tackles the weak spot of many adventure games during this era: wafer thin plots. However, in the end it all comes down to personal preference. Though they've put effort in the story department, it's not a guaranteed success, and other segments can outshine it. For instance, Time Gate's puzzle segments are excellent, and ANKH had edutainment value. This game however lacks both of those qualities, but instead looks great. The actresses are beautiful, and that on its own makes it fun to play. This game definitely has the most beautiful actresses in a game. Fans will love it, and those who aren't won't mind. If visuals are important to you when choosing what to play, this is not a bad pick. A port to Saturn console was planned but was cancelled. In 1997, DreamCatcher financed a re-shooting of those FMV scenes with American Actors and released the game in English as Beyond Time. | ||
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| Obsidian | Rocket Science / SegaSoft | [top] | |
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This first-person, point-and-click adventure begins in a beautiful northwestern forest in the near future. After a few steps forward you find a tent, in which is a small personal computer. This device handily delivers the exposition of the story: You play Lilah, a scientist who, along with your boyfriend Max, has just launched a huge artificial intelligence orbital factory to clean up the atmosphere and repair the ozone layer. The computer includes data on the project - called Ceres - as well as personal information and even details on dreams you and Max have been having. Now on vacation after Ceres' launch, you and Max have noticed a bizarre phenomenon in the forest: a huge black object that grows steadily hour by hour. Just as you are finishing up absorbing this information, you hear a scream - Max must be in trouble. You run to the huge black object - which you've named Obsidian - and you get sucked into it. After a dazzling cutscene, the game truly begins. Obsidian takes you through a series of beautiful and bizarre worlds that have been created by a rogue offshoot of your Ceres AI program and based on your own dreams. The games has a smart cursor, minimal inventory and 2 different endings. The 4 completely different and almost unrelated dream worlds are all dark and mechanistic and devoid of human life, but strangely beautiful and richly detailed. The surreal graphics are stunning, and the animated cut scenes are really spectacular, with atmospheric music and sound effects, and fluid movement. However both the engrossing story and the unusual environments serve merely to showcase the many bizarre puzzles that are the main focus of this game. Most of your time is spent solving them and they are both innovative and difficult. They are an integral part of each unique dream world, impact that world, and often require orientation to and use of that world's logic to solve. None of them are really easy, and be forewarned that there is one at the end of the game which is almost statistically impossible. The high quality animations, the disorientation puzzles, and the writers' ability to see the humor in the darkly prophetic scenario of the first section all contribute to the fun. For those who love puzzle games, this is one of the best... the classic that set the standard for all such subsequent games. It is a unique and memorable game. | ||
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| Oil Empire [Cz] | 88th Panzer Division / ABA Denver Company | [top] | |
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Oil Empire (with an unofficial subtitle "The world disasters, dead birds, love and hatred") is one of the most original Czech video games. Although the authors made no secret of the inspiration with older title Oil Imperium, this project adds a few other layers in the form of completely different genres. At first sight, it seems point-and-click adventure game from their perspective, with searching and using objects and interacting with the characters. Then comes the strategic elements - management of oil fields and drilling black gold itself, which already turns game in the genre of simulators. It takes place in the period between the two world wars, you have a protagonist - a poor young man who loves to drink. Suddenly, he learns that his rich uncle Ezra Gurban, an oil tycoon, has died, having bequeathed his entire empire to his nephew. Having reached the office of the company (the game begins with this), the hero learns that only one well remains from the "empire" as a result of the Great Depression, and the new fields are actively developing three cruel competitors at once. Moreover, he couldn’t even get to the above-mentioned office, since the key has to be found somewhere. The first thing that comes to your eyes after launching the game is, at first glance, a traditional point-and-click-adventure: without inventory, true, but with pixel-hunting, which brings to mind the best quests of the 1980s. Even in order to simply understand what and in what sequence can and should be done here, one will have to seriously stress the brain. In general, the gameplay looks like this: you need on your truck - your only property to start the game - go in search first of that key, and then - of new oil fields. You have to buy potentially oil-rich land plots, carry out exploration work, which is more difficult in each particular place than the firmer the soil, choose the method of drilling and ... hope. Yes, hopefully, because all your efforts can be wasted. And yes - there will be, of course, tables and “windows”, but not at all immediately and in sufficient numbers - for the strategy. Just because Oil Empire is not a strategy. Much more here will be all sorts of quest things - from the opportunity to get drunk and sleep (!) To the very personal sabotaging of the mentioned competitors, the fight against which promises to be hard and uncompromising. Before you is a construction simulator for the construction of an oil tycoon’s career with all possible aspects of his life, including those that have never been addressed in other games. It uses a pleasant hand-drawn style, although the style is sometimes deliberately sloppy. Most screens are static images, which, however, have some animation, including interactive. There is black humor here (pay attention to the unfortunate bird on the very first screen), and even quite a bit of eroticism. | ||
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| Opera Fatal | Ruske & Pühretmaier Multimedia GmbH / index+, HEUREKA-Klett Softwareverlag GmbH | [top] | |
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Opera Fatal is a musical and educational adventure game. You must help an opera director to find his score, stolen by a thief - a chase through the theatre, solving musical puzzles and learning more about instruments. The graphics were made with Quicktime VR and Macromedia technologies. In 1999, a revised version was released in France that featured a complete redrawing of all graphics, including animation, and even the modification of several puzzles with some slight simplification. | ||
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| Operacja Glemp [PL] | Jake Soft | [top] | |
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This is an adventure game set in a modified Polish political reality of 1996. The place of action is Kuria, a secret headquarters of mafia called the Episcopate. Poland is ruled by bishops black mafia, under the leadership of godfather operating under the pseudonym Glemp. All state institutions are under the control of the Christian National Union (Union Sick of Hate). Special militias prey on infidels who run partisan activities against the current government. The main character is the agent of the guerrillas. His task in the game is getting out of prison in the basement of grim Curia, murder of several significant for clergy persons, theft of stolen money and shares and blowing Curia in the air, finally safely escape Primate's Mercedes. The game takes place on the premises, among which the player moves by clicking on the direction arrows. The control mechanism is similar to the classic point & click system. The left mouse button shows the information about the items and sub-options to choose from, right-approve the action. The player must be very careful in making decisions. Every mistake ends up instant death. For example, drinking water from a bucket standing in the cell ends in death caused by typhoid. Only at the end of August 1999, there aroused much controversy and protests in the national media, so that the game suddenly gained immense popularity. The controversy arose from the fact that the game presented strongly anticlerical humor and the Polish Catholic Church was presented in a decidedly negative light. Some resented the fact that the game put the target bomber or ridiculed real figures of Polish public life ( Henryk Jankowski , Joseph Glemp , Lech Walesa , Ryszard Czarnecki ). The author was sued, there was a scandal which also hindered the distribution of the game. | ||
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| Operation Odin | Media Connect / Koch Media | [top] | |
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This is a a multi-media interactive comic strip thriller. It's set in Berlin 1989 and involves a race for the hidden gold of the Nazis. Characters are usually animal actors. | ||
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| Opération Teddy Bear [Fr] | index+ / Flammarion | [top] | |
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This is presented as an animated comic book where the scenes appear one by one. As you read along, new pictures appear and you can move the mouse over the objects to find out more about them. Using a technology called Quickmove, you can define the way new pictures appear: chronological, unseen only, everything at once or your own rule sets... With more than 3000 historical texts, photos and illustrated maps, this game is a pretext to teach children about the background events in Europe from the moment when Hitler came to power to the fall of the Third Reich. The story takes place during the allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. Twelve-year-old Paul travels through the regions at war to visit his mother in Paris, but he does not know that his uncle, a member of the resistance, has concealed secret documents in his plush teddy bear. Hunted by the German Secret Service, he will need all the help he can get. | ||
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| Orion Burger | Sanctuary Woods, Inc. / Eidos, Inc. | [top] | |
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Sanctuary Wood's last game before disbanding is a fun cartoon adventure with a zany plot: Orion Burger, a galactic fast food joint, has selected Earth as its next target for "protein procurement" that will wipe all sentient life. As hapless hero, you must take tests to prove that intelligent life exists on earth to avert certain destruction. If you fail, you will be mercifully sent back in time before you were abducted. Being caught in a time-loop adds a neat dimension to the game, since you can solve puzzles by trial-and-error without the penalty of death. Time limit spoils the fun, however, and puzzle solutions are too obscure. | ||
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Welcome to San Francisco of the future - a strange megapolis with a post-apocalyptic feel, where ordinary humans co-exist with mutants - the result of radioactivity. In this city is also the office of Tex Murphy, a lonely private investigator, kind-hearted, yet bitterly ironic. He is hired to investigate the disappearance of a scientist named Thomas Malloy. A series of murders occur at that time, and before long Tex finds himself involved in a complex conspiracy of political intrigues and shocking scientific discoveries. "The Pandora Directive" is a sequel to Under A Killing Moon, utilizing the same 3D engine, real actors, and gameplay system. You can physically explore the locations you visit, looking at objects from different angles, zooming in, etc. You'll have to talk to many people about various topics, and also to solve some complex puzzles. The game provides a built-in solution for the puzzles, but you don't get any points for solving them if you use it. The game introduces a new gameplay element: Tex has three kinds of answers at his disposal during some important dialogues. Depending on what kind of approach you choose for Tex (especially in conversations with his sweetheart Chelsee), you'll come to one of the 6 different endings. | ||
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This one of those point and click exploration style games like The Saboten Man or Pothead. It has no story or end, and includes separate art on the game CD. There's just a small interactive hub with various animations and such. It was published by a company that primarily published eroge visual novels. | ||
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| Pettson o Findus i snickarbon [Sw] | GraphiCompDesign, Bajoum Interactive AB / Alfabeta Gammafon Multimedia, Bokförlaget Opal | [top] | |
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In this second game in the series of games based on the popular Swedish kids books (known in English as "Festus and Mercury"), you find yourself as the carpenter Pettson with his cat Findus. In the carpenter's shop, there are games to play, and treasures to find. When you win a game, you get a gold feather placed in a treasure chest. When you have 10 gold feathers so you can switch them to gold. Before starting to play, choose one who will guard the treasure chest. Each guardian has a different profile. There are eight guards to choose from. There is plenty to do: find five brethren, pluck sausage, trap the mice inside, play noughts, play with a music station, your own treasure trove and share your inventory. | ||
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| Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle Of Flesh | Sierra On-Line Inc. | [top] | |
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In Phantasmagoria II you play the role of Curtis Craig, a 30 year-old man whose distorted childhood is filled with horrors - his dad was involved in an illegal, top-secret experiment for Wyntech, an experiment whose true nature is revealed only as the game progresses, and whose evil nature left Curtis' mother out of her wits and eventually drove her to suicide. Curtis' father was later shot, leaving the poor little boy with serious behavioural disturbances, and eventually in therapy. Now, a year after having been released from the mental institution, Curtis is employed at Wyntech (whose manager, Paul Warner, has taken it upon himself to take care of Curtis) and tries to find out the cause of his psychotic episodes and the mysterious murders that break out all around him, all the while finding out more and more about his past life and his father's fate. Though still an enormous game in size — coming on five separate CDs — it was in no way as large as its predecessor. Dropping the unique adventure game style interaction in favor of an interactive movie format, A Puzzle of Flesh was more expensive to produce and less popular with audiences tiring of video clip-driven games. Though some concluded that it was a substantial improvement over the original in several areas, others dismissed the game, criticizing it for its completely different atmosphere, lack of creativity, interactivity and excessive violence. It has a fairly standard interface, with the cursor shaped into the distinctive logo of WynTech— the company employing Craig. The inventory is accessible practically at any time, while events of some importance can be recalled using a handy option that plays the clip the player selects from any single chapter. The game was a financial failure — probably the result of a rapidly falling interest in interactive movies, especially ones packed onto several CDs — and no further titles in the series were produced. | ||
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As Pink Panther, you travel all around the world in order to look after the sons and daughters of top international politicians so that world peace remains. Things are getting even more complicated as an evil plot has been set and Pink Panther must beat some spies. You solve puzzles along the way and try to avoid traps while you find out many cultural aspects of life in the countries you travel. The game is a point and click adventure and it's mainly for kids : it's purpose is to bring them close to people,countries,religions and customs from all around the world : Pink Panther travels from Bombay to Cairo, Himalayas to London and beyond. Therefore the riddles are quite simple: Just collect an item and give it away,although there are some parts of the game that are very enjoyable and will attract kids even more : like the hide and seek game!. | ||
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| Pirates: Captain's Quest | ImageBuilder / Discovery Channel Multimedia | [top] | |
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So, yez wanna be a pirrrrrate, does yez? Harrr! Then step past the fo'csle up to the mains'le and takes yez a closer look, lads and lassies. I is one, but I wuz not alwez. Onc't I wuz jist like yez swabs. Ig'nerant. In Pirates: Captain's Quest the player takes on the role of a pirate captain of a Spanish brig in the early 1700s and gets to do all sorts of piratey stuff, such as sword fighting, sailing the sees, conquer islands and dig for treasures. The game is an educational game targeted towards children age 9 and up. The player gets to learn how to read a map, use a compass, and how wind sailing, trading supplies and repairs work. There are 47 adventures to embark on which success all depend on their skills in trading supplies, accurate navigation and their ability in battle. The player gets to fight both on the sea with ships and their cannons and on land with sword play. | ||
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Step inside the mazes of the human mind to battle a killer, in this deadly race to save mankind. The game has you entering people's minds as a virtual surgeon and fixing them up by catching "ideas" that are running around a city landscape (that's supposed to symbolize their brain I guess) as a lightbulb no less. Then, when you catch the idea, you have to tune a picture that represents the idea until it's not blurry anymore and then find the right place to hang the picture up within the virtual city. | ||
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| Plot of the Cyberhead / Plot of the Cyberheads | Andre Bullitt / Chestnut New Media | [top] | |
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It is an interactive comic book, whose complete storyline comes to life with over 50 graphics, over 50 3D animation and live active video clips, and over 50 audio narration and sound effects. How well you play the game determines the ending to the story. Your job is to defeat the Cyberhead, an evil alien that's attempting to take over the earth. You play as the commander of a series of El Paso police officers who man robots travelling trying to defeat the Cyberhead and his cohorts, giant robots with lasers, known as 'Killerbots'. You see, a scientist fed up with society went to a mountain retreat and discovered a way to fuse virtual reality and the 'net. Here he found paradise, and peace. But one day entered the wrong site. He ran into some sort of online alien entity that gained control of him, wouldn't allow him to log off or shut off his VR suit. It began to fill his mind with information, and make him insane. Glitz learned of an alien plot to take over the world using hyper-dimensional tunnels to plot chips and then leave without a trace. You control a team of women specially trained to use robotic suits to defend against aliens and criminals who use similar suits. You travel through hyper-dimensional tunnels until you come to a tower. Then you choose left or right. Guess the correct way to go and you continue. If you don't then it's game over, just like that. And when you do make it to a tower you have to place in a code to shut off the enemy blocking your way. The dates are based on important times in history, such as when a comet hit Jupiter, or the fall of the Berlin Wall. If you read the journal all those important dates are listed. | ||
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| Policenauts {PSX} | Konami Co., Ltd. | [top] | |
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In the year 2010 mankind has built its first space colony, Beyond Coast. Three years later the founders of the colony felt it needed to be protected, and chose five best policemen from Earth to do that: Gates Becker from Scotland Yard, the Japanese Sadaoki Tokugawa, Salvatore Toscanini from New York, and two policemen from Los Angeles: Jonathan Ingram and his best friend Ed Brown. During a routine patrol on Beyond Coast, something happened to Jonathan's space suit. He was sucked into space and presumed dead. Twenty-five years later, he is miraculously discovered in his life pod, alive. He still looks like a young man, but in reality he is fifty-five years old. Trying to forget his past, Jonathan opens an investigation agency on Earth. One day, his ex-wife unexpectedly pays him a visit. She has re-married during Jonathan's prolonged absence, and asks him to find her missing husband. When she leaves the office, her car explodes, and she dies. Determined to fulfill her final request, Jonathan prepares to re-visit Beyond Coast. It's a Japanese-style adventure with action elements, similar in many ways to Snatcher. The player interacts with the environment in a point-and-click fashion: positioning a cursor over an object allows the player character to examine it or perform other context-dependent actions. There are a few puzzles in the game, but most of the time the story is advanced by visiting various locations, examining objects, and talking to characters. Conversations usually include a selection of topics. Action sequences are similar to those of Snatcher, but are more numerous and varied. The player must rapidly shoot enemies moving within a one-screen area viewed from a first-person perspective, reloading the gun manually and trying to eliminate the enemy before Jonathan's health bar is depleted. | ||
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| Pompei A.D. 79 / Pompei A.D. LXXIX [It] | Finson srl / Antinomia | [top] | |
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This is an adventure game based on a thrilling plot set in ancient Pompeii on the eve of the catastrophic eruption, where friendship, love, betrayal and death are intertwined devilishly in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. The ancient theme of manly friendship, sacred to all nations faces the reason of the State. Revenge is the last landfall for the wrath of the righteous, but often the truth has many faces and eventually can be difficult to recognize friends from enemies. | ||
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| Pothead | Happy Capitalist Productions | [top] | |
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Take Myst, remove the puzzles and plot, then twist the scenes around and coat it with Cannibus Culture. Now your starting to get an idea of Pothead. It's more of an animation-packed experience than a game, a grass-roots effort created in an eleven-foot-wide Hudson St. railroad flat. The disk produces the burbling sound of smoke sucked through a bong, and suddenly, you're in a virtual hash bar...offered a thick Hershey-bar-size slab of elite Parvatti hash. It has a message too, man. Clicking on a pulsating brain offering random sound bytes such as cultivation secrets, or a man recalling maternal chastisement for smoking pot. There are hundreds of photos of the kindest Hashes and Buds in the world (we went there to photograph them!) You'll find some in the Hash Bar and The Pot Farmer's Den. Or, Grandma Brownie's Photo Album. There's hours and hours of music and audio, thousands of clips. The soundtrack is an unstoppable morphing of all kinds of musical styles, noises, words, laughter, and general mayhem. Hidden icons reveal hundreds of conversational clips, characters and various pieces of machinery can be engaged. Several full-length songs are also located somewhere deep in The Valley. There's no way to reference anything on the disk. You've got to wander and learn for yourself. That's the best way to learn about pot, or anything, really. If you're not a relaxed and explorative person, the CD-ROM will annoy you. | ||
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| Private Eye: Philip Marlowe | Brooklyn Multimedia / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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Private eye is based on the works of the writer "Raymond Chandler". It is actually more of an interactive movie than a game, which uses cel animation techniques recently seen in the game "Oni". The player gets to control the famous private eye, "Phillip Marlowe" who is trying to do what he does best i.e., solve a murder mystery. The game features alternate endings, impressive voice acting, lots of cut-scenes and nice music faithful to the 1940's era, which the game is trying to represent. | ||
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| Promised Land, Queensrÿche's | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. / EMI Records | [top] | |
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Promised Land is a multimedia adventure game based around the members of the progressive-rock band Queensrÿche. The premise of the game is all about the symbol or totem of the band (called the "Tri-rÿche"), which is composed of five parts, and at the beginning of the game it scatters every piece in a different "world", and each of these worlds happen to be created by each of the band member's dreams and worries. So your job is to find each of the pieces and rebuild the totem, and to accomplish this you'll have to solve puzzles and minigames. As you find each piece, the band member who "owns" that world lets you have a glimpse of his work in the band in the form of musical videos. The game is a 2-CD set, the game fills up the first one, and in the second you'll find mini-documentaries and music videos. | ||
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| Putlestory [J] | Studio Mangosteen | [top] | |
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Vita Lakamaya. It is a city that does not exist in the maps drawn by humans, and the city where mysterious creatures live.I wandered into Vita Lakamaya like that, called "Putle" from the people I met there, they were treated as despised and treated as an outsider. What kind of existence is "putle" for them? This is an interactive picture book that develops from the viewpoint of the player. It's sequel is Pantos Story. In 2005, a free Flash version was made available as an alternate retelling. In seven chapters, players are transported to the mysterious country of Vita Lakamaya, a land far past the edge of any human map. There the young creature Topy guides players around the countryside where they encounter a wide variety of creatures. Unlike the original, which featured fully-animated colour artwork, this game features static hand-drawn pencil artwork. | ||
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| Pyramid: Challenge Of The Pharaoh's Dream | Knowledge Adventure Inc. / McGraw Hill Home Interactive | [top] | |
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This is an educational adventure for kids 10 and up. Explore an ancient Egyptian pyramid, go back in time to see how it was built, and even lend a hand. Learn about Egyptian culture, religion, and daily life by interacting with a cast of cartoon characters including merchants, workers, and citizens. Whenever the program is teaching ancient construction methods, it is fascinating: kids have to find true north, make papyrus, paint hieroglyphics, use physics to manipulate huge stones, embalm the pharaoh's body, and more. When it is teaching about culture, however, the disc is less involving. Read text and interact with characters whose over-simplified appearance clashes miserably with some of the fancier 3D fly-bys in the program (created by Academy Award-winner Dream Quest Images). Throughout the title, kids are guided by a helpful Scarab that supplies kids with context clues about the different puzzles and adventure. | ||
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| Pyst | Parroty Interactive / Palladium Interactive | [top] | |
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Pyst is a computer game published as a parody of the highly successful Myst. It features full motion video of John Goodman portraying "King Mattruss". Like Myst, Pyst behaves like an interactive slideshow. The game features both three-dimensional graphics and animated drawings. It was written by Peter Bergman, a co-founder of the Firesign Theatre. The original release included an original song, "I'm Pyst", performed by Goodman. "Pyst" shows us what the island of Myst would look like after 4 million people (players) walked over it. The island is full of litter, most buildings are ruined, and graffiti reveals secret doors and solutions that players have to find themselves in Myst. A demo of a sequel titled "Driven" (a reference to the Myst sequel Riven) appeared on CD-ROMs of later Parroty Interactive games. Though graphically more advanced than "Pyst" (and allowing some movement), the game was apparently never completed. | ||
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| Qi Bao Qi Mou [Tw] | Oktek | [top] | |
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This is an extremely rare Chinese adventure game made by Oktek (a Taiwan company). Its title is the same as the chinese title for the movie The Goonies but there is absolutely no relation between them. You can simply understand it as Quest for Seven Treasures. You play as pirate Captain Macmillan, who must find the most important seven gems after the Solomon king buried the treasure. | ||
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| Rave Shuttle: The Cosmic Challenge | NAVIGO Multimedia GmbH & Co. Produktions KG | [top] | |
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In this game the player controls a DJ who flies with his "Rave Shuttle" on several planets so search after the ultimate melody. In comparison with Auf der Suche nach dem Ultimate Mix with a similar premise this game is played in a 1st person perspective. The puzzles are mostly logic based brain-teasers, e.g. in one the player has to reload the battery of the Rave Shuttle. In other sequences he stands behind a mixer and plays appropriate music respectively mixes his own. During the game there are several other raving persons who are invited to join the Rave Shuttle. Conversations are held in multiple choice style. The soundtrack consists as expected of techno and house music. | ||
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| Rema The Truth [J] | Studio Alex, Ehrgeiz / KSS | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese sci-fi anime adventure from the makers of the Lunar series of games. It has a visual novel style and a fantastic soundtrack which reminds a lot of the work of Keishi Yonao on Yu-No and Asuka 120%. In the year 2052, in the midst of a world in political crisis, a young man known only as T.C. stumbles into an encounter with a mysterious android named Rema. Built to resemble a young woman, Rema has the capacity to learn and experience human emotions but appears to be a blank slate. T.C. impulsively decides to help her escape from the people who are pursuing her, and they set out on a journey that will shape the person she grows into becoming. Rema plays like other visual novels; the story is largely linear, and the player is able to choose actions from a mouse-driven menu. The story is presented via detailed traditionally-painted artwork using the character designs of Toyō Ashida and Isamu Imakake, with music by reknowned composers Masahiro Kajihara, Keishi Yonao, Ryū Takami, and the late Ryū Umemoto. | ||
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| Ripper | Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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This interactive FMV adventure has an all-star cast including Scott Cohen, Christopher Walken, Ossie Davis, Karen Allen, Burgess Meredith, John Rhys-Davies, Paul Giamatti, and Jimmie JJ Walker. It includes music from the Blue Oyster Cult. It is Manhattan in the year 2040. You are Jake Quinlan, the handsome ace reporter for the Virtual Herald; a daily cyberspace-distributed newspaper. In this time of mind-blowing technologies, no one would have expected anything like this to happen. They would have never anticipated that the Ripper would return over 150 years later, but he did, better than ever, eviscerating his victims and leaving no trace of his presence or method. You get to explore 3D environments, talk to various characters, hang out in virtual reality, solve puzzles, and try to save your hide as people drop like flies around you. There are three levels of difficulty for puzzles, three for combat (yes, there's combat) and four different possibilities as to who the Ripper is that change with every new game you start. The game contains 3 hours of video footage. | ||
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| Sacred Mirror Of Kofun, The | Future Concept / Enteractive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Chris Young, a top racecar driver and marine technology specialist, is summoned by the Worldwide Heritage Foundation to retrieve the sacred mirror of Kofun, a mysterious Japanese artifact that offers magical protection against enemies. This is a first-person adventure game, another of the many attempts in the nineties to copy Myst and its financial success. It features a blend of Quicktime VR 360º panoramic views with the more traditional slide-show style associated with this type of game. A computer called E.D.W.A.R.D provides a database and a map. Both items are automatically filled as the plot progresses. Most of the gameplay consists of scuba diving and taking photos under the sea (the game was co-produced by the famous marine biologist Jean-Michel Cousteau) and talking to the crew of the ship Antares for clues. The underwater sections use real documentary footage instead of pre-rendered environments. | ||
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| Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder | Activision, Inc. | [top] | |
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The Elk Moon Murder is a full motion video adventure game. You take on the part of rookie detective with the Santa Fe police. Anna Elk Moon, a famous native American artist, has been murdered and you have five days to solve the mystery, before "the big boys muscle in", as your chief inspector tells you. The game features a point & click interface. You have eight hours a day, while almost every action you take decreases 15 minutes of your time. Puzzle solving is not part of the game really. Instead you have to listen to the usual suspects, order forensics and shoot photos. Your goal is to come up with an arrest warrant at the end of the game. | ||
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| Schoolhouse Rock: Exploration Station | Creative Wonders / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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Schoolhouse Rock used to be a series of cartoon shorts on ABC that introduced kids to Science, Math, English, and how America worked. Now, Creative Wonders, a division of ABC, has released four CD-ROM games based on the old cartoons. Each of the games features characters and art from that long-ago series. Exploration Station features Interplanet Janet, a half human-half robot girl with wings. Her spaceship has crash landed on earth and she needs the player's help to get her ship running again. By playing the six activities, the player helps Janet get the energy crystals to power her ship, as well as acquire the parts to help the ship run. It features over 20 Science topics, including: Sound, Light, Electricity, Solar System, Human Body, Earth Science, Simple Machines, Weather, Plants And Animals. There's innovative edutainment games, and hands on science projects. | ||
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| Secret Mission | Microids / Philips Media | [top] | |
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An inconsistent adventure that features an interesting plot hampered by poor user interface, Secret Mission is a relatively unknown adventure game from French developer Microid, who would go on to produce a much more solid and better-known Amerzone CD adventure. Secret Mission opens with the tried-and-true adventure gaming premise: you wake up in a nondescript hotel room with an amnesia, with no recollection of who or where you are. After meeting a certain attractive young lady, you learn that you are Jeff, a double agent who pretends to work for the Americans, but actually works for the Russians. You are now in Opalia, an exotic Middle East country that is about to be embroiled in a coup d'etat: Vishaka, the prime minister, is planning to assassinate the King to usurp his power. Naturally, your mission is to find the evidence of this scheme, so that Russia can use it to gain influence over the country. The Americans are after the same goal, so you must not arouse their suspicion of your traitorous acts while you carry out the secret mission. Similar to Alone in The Dark, objects you can interact with are shown in a small window when you are close to them, and pressing ESC brings up an action menu you can toggle to get, open, move, give, etc. The number of verbs in the menu makes this interface very unwieldy, and using items in your inventory is a cumbersome process. Interface weakness aside, though, Secret Mission serves up an interesting espionage thriller, with many plot twists and turns, shady characters, and several ulterior motives. The puzzles are, for the most part, logical, although some (such as decrypting the hierogryphics) are quite interesting. Overall, an above-average adventure that fans of the genre should take a look, although don't expect another Last Express. | ||
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| Secret of Easter Island, The | Ambrosine | [top] | |
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This is a third person point and click adventure game made with Klik & Play. In it you an anthropologist studying at Easter Island. While studying, the threat of a nearby volcano emerges which, according to local legend, can only be stopped when an ancient statue is rightfully returned to it. You accept the challenge and must explore the island, find the artifact, and take it to the volcano where it belongs. | ||
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| Secrets Of The Luxor | Mojave | [top] | |
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In this first-person perspective Myst-style game you are an Archaeologist working in Egypt who has made an exciting discovery concerning the location of a mysterious and powerful obelisk left behind by an incredibly advanced civilisation. If the obelisk does exist and if it falls into the wrong hands it could be used to bring about destruction and chaos on a massive scale. As it turns out the obelisk is also being sought by two powerful opposing forces - an American scientific/military expedition and a fanatical cult leader. Resolutely, you set out to beat them to it though what you will do with such a dangerous object, if and when you find it, isn't explained. To learn the background to the story it is essential that you read your rather lengthy journal that you find in your hotel room. It also contains a couple of clues to help you with some puzzles you will encounter in the game. The puzzles are fairly well integrated into the game world and are mainly of the mechanical variety, most of which involve finding and interpreting clues in the game environment, and there are also one or two items to find and use in the appropriate locations. Among the items you may pick up and use are a camera and a VR headset though they don't really add much to the gameplay. It's divided into three sections, and the three parts are profoundly different in tone, ambience, and player enjoyment. The first part has the experience of creeping around a dangerous, unpredictable, and mysterious old Egyptian tomb. The second part has you wandering around rooms that look like space ship command bridges. The third part has you catapulted 300 years into the future, and you find yourself in the middle of a huge round fortress that consist of several concentric rings that can be rotated independently from one another. Most of this level consists of solving the devilishly difficult problem of spinning the rings in the right manner so that you can get to the center of the fortress. | ||
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| Shadoan: Kingdom Book 2 | Virtual Image Productions / Interplay Productions | [top] | |
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This is the sequel to Kingdom: The Far Reaches. Many years ago, the wise Mobus broke a powerful amulet called "The Hand" in 5 pieces in order to protect it from getting into the hands of his evil brother Torlock. These pieces were sent to the far corners of the land. As the young Prince Lathan Kandor you have already retrieved the Black Mace, the Hunting Horn and the Orb of Mobus (in the previous game). Now you must retrieve the final 2 pieces (the Dagger of Arne and the Crown of Malric), defeat evil and be reunited with Princess Grace Delight. This is an adventure from the makers of Dragon's Lair. The plot isn't exactly original or complex, but the animation is fluid and well-drawn. Gameplay is about using the right item or making the correct choice between the animated sequences; some of these choices are timed, meaning that you can lose health or even die, but there are plenty of opportunities to replenish your health. Of special note is the ever-present Disney-like music. | ||
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| Shine: Die Angst hat einen Namen [G] | Chilli / BMG Interactive Entertainment Developed | [top] | |
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German-produced game Shine is a typical Myst-like 1st-person perspective adventure game with pre-rendered backdrops. In this game you will become Shine. But who is Shine? You don't know when you start the game. You don't know anything but that you are in Twilight City, a once huge and crowded metropolis. But all life and population seems to have vanished, everything is past and only remains as a distant memory. Strange artificial creatures, lost musicians, no day and no night - what dark secret does the city hold? Become Shine and find out by exploring murky and frightening places, meeting bizarre creatures and people and solving a few puzzles. Behind the numerous doors of the institute insanity and nerve decay are lurking. An old man's eyeball, through the peephole of his door, asks curious questions. The story takes place in Twilight City. In this former center of esprit and fine arts a general decay began. Eternal dawn prevails and an oppressing atmosphere is extending. The gamer controls the character of Shine. But who is Shine? The gamer must find out that by the painstaking collecting of small pieces of information. Other characters give hints about your origin or lead the player into a dead end. Those who try to approach the solution of this adventure with logic and systematic way, are finally really ready for the lunatic asylum. Numerous considerable artists like the photographer Florian Seidl (Amica, Marie Claire), the German Heavy-Metal-Formation Schweisser and Ludwig Hungs, well-known grimace-artist from the McDonalds advertisement nevertheless care that the player will be confused on an artistical very high level. Those who don't understand the game can simply get high on the graphics and sound. | ||
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| Silent Mobius Alice Ridell [J] | Emotion Digital Software / Bandai Visual | [top] | |
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In 2027 AD finds Roy, a member of the Tokyo Police Corporation's Armored Police section, making a fateful decision as his squad breaches a secret laboratory. Two years later, with Roy attached to another section [AMP], this old case reactivates when a young girl with amnesia awakens, her name is Alice Ridell. Ylper Saiko Yuki and Katsumi Lqueur of the AMP get drawn into the mystery as they try to help Alice solve the enigma of her past. In some aspects, this digital motion picture will remind fans of the Domul case that Aida and his squad had to resolve. But there are many differences also.This is a game based on a sci-fi manga where you guide Yuki and Alice through the story to find Alice's hidden past. | ||
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| Silver Surfer: Interactive CD-ROM Comic Book! | Pixel Technologies, Inc. / Toy Biz, Inc. | [top] | |
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This has over 80 pages of authentic comic book action. Silver Surfer guides you through the story that uses real Marvel video animation. It also has a back issue reference guide. There's marvelous games of trivia and it came with a specially decorated Silver Surfer figure. | ||
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| Silverload: A Town With A Hell Of A Nightlife | Nova Spring (Vic Tokai) / Millenium Interactive Limited | [top] | |
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When a game starts showing up on lists of "worst games of all time", it's not a good sign. This is a game about vampires in the old west. The game begins promisingly enough as you stumble across a wagon train that has been savaged by vampires. As you are a dedicated lone gunslinger fighting for truth, justice and the American way, you promise to rescue the kidnaped son of one of the wagon train's occupants. The nearest civilized area is a mining town named Silverload. The town's citizens are a strange lot, though. They deny all knowledge of a kidnaped child and make you feel as welcome as an American in Iran. Though the town is small, there are numerous locations to search and search and search for many areas and inventory items are impossible to spot. The voice acting is terrible. The inventory system from hell, so unpopular in The Scroll, has returned with a vengeance. Hot spots are often near-impossible to find, and attempting to combine two inventory items into one is an exercise in frustration. | ||
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| Sinbad in the Lost Land | ApexSoft Technology / Service & Quality Technology | [top] | |
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Enter an adventure and fantasy world where a wicked wizard has been sealed by Sinbad and three wise men on a flying island in the Lost Land. After 50 years of peace, the evil wizard's cat begins his revenge. It breaks the spell and releases the sealed Wizard. Confidently overcoming obstacles and difficulties, helping those in need and doing other good deeds is the object of the game. Game features: a mix of modern and classic, with 10 songs and over 100 pieces of beautiful music, colorful 3D backgrounds and epic stories, a beautiful and romantic plot, humour and wit in amusing dialogue, voiced by famous actors, and 640 x 480 resolution beautiful graphics. | ||
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| Smarty | Nicholson Associates | [top] | |
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In the 1990s, Theresa Duncan defied industry norms by creating lyrical CD-ROM adventures based on young girls' everyday experiences. All three of Duncan's works were markedly different from most of the "games for girls" of the time. Instead of dating or dress-up, they encouraged players to freely explore fantastical, richly textured worlds. After the acclaimed Chop Suey, this second game has Smarty off to visit her Aunt Olive for the summer, where she'll host a spelling radio show, eat at the Pancake Hut, and visit a mysterious dime store. The game can be switched between daytime and nighttime as users play; each scene is rendered differently in the light and the dark. It's for slightly more sophisticated pre-high school girls. The charmingly naive drawings and overripe prose are laden with a hip adult's nostalgia and a sassy love of eccentricity. She can buy ice cream from the ''flaky Sno Kone man'' who drives by the house, stow her books inside a garden shed and explore the house of Percy and Polly who keep Christmas decorations up all year long. The youngest child is likely to be amused by dogs and cats behaving like humans, sitting at tables and booths at a ''Smarty'' eatery called the Pancake Hut. And parents will get a kick out of what can be played on the jukebox - three bizarre little ditties (''Pancake Mountain,'' ''Pancake Boy'' and ''Runaway Pancakes'') composed and performed by Brendan Canty, drummer for punk band Fugazi. Mimi's random adventures take her from Aunt Rose's house to the Pix theater (showing snippets of ancient cartoons), to Our Lady of Impossible Sorrows parochial school (where she acts in a play), to the Dollar Dream discount emporium and a hardware store. A narrator reads aloud for beginning readers the text that appears on screen when the user moves from place to place on the map. Learning games are apt to pop up anywhere. In all, there are a couple dozen activities. Some are hidden so cleverly it'll take days of play to find them. In 2015, a Kickstarter was successfully supported to preserve "The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs" and marks the first time server-side emulation has been used on a large scale to provide access to digital artwork. | ||
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| Soul Hunt | Interactive Consultancy, Compro Games / Gametek, GT Interactive Value | [top] | |
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Before the discovery of the Jornal and the reintroduction of the ritual, there were 1000 years of order and peace that passed. What the explorers "seeking knowledge" were held to a morbid obsession for power, greed and control. All involved in participating in the investigation were swallowed up into the dark underworld of the occult evil. Supernatural magic and bizarre pagan rituals were performed. While you're with your friends travelling to a Village Festival, you will be lured to the ruins of an ancient castle. Here you will encounter the brutal pagan activities recounted that took place many centuries ago in the castle. But this year's festival will not be what everyone expects. This year it could be that you go all the way and open the gate to hell. This year could be the last one for everyone... This is a mysterious action-adventure with an unique fusion of video and photo-realistic 3D graphics, about 50 km on dirt roads of captured video, 8 old ruins with panoramic images and charts to explore, fully articulated views including step-by-step scrolling panning and 360 degrees, various display modes including high-resolution graphics (32,000 colors) and various sound effects. | ||
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| Space Bermuda, Vobis Virtual Space Volume 1 [G] | Westka / Vobis | [top] | |
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This was one of the few first-person advertising adventures that were popular in Germany in the mid-90s. This is about a commander of a space agency in 2197, who is sent to check the automated and unmanned space station Capella. Because for some time, transport spaceships mysteriously disappear after leaving Capella. From the first person perspective you roam this station, collect items and solve puzzles. The rooms can be examined in a 360° angle. The graphics itself are in fact downright fantastic. This is not surprising when you consider it was made by a graphic artist who worked previously for LucasArts. The music is very futuristic, the noise level also ensures a great atmosphere. There are also interactive soundtracks and digital voice output. The game has everything a good adventure needs: challenging puzzles, a good atmosphere and great graphics. | ||
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In this sci-fi third person adventure, you play as George, a scientist onboard a spaceship. Although often preoccupied with work, he awakes hoping his shipmates have remembered his birthday. Instead he discovers his crew mates are nowhere to be found. George must find out where they are while trying to avoid the hazards the ship throws at him. | ||
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| Spider-Man: The Sinister Six | Brooklyn Multimedia / Byron Preiss Multimedia | [top] | |
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The Sinister Six is an adventure game adaptation of the hit Spider-Man franchise. Following the plot of the comic book of the same name, the gameplay is straightforward: choose what you want to do next from a menu of multiple choices, and follow to the next screen where you will play one of the extremely simple mouse-driven mini arcade games. Some are so simple, in fact, that you can complete them without really knowing what you are doing. Despite decent cartoony graphics and an okay plot, the gameplay is so laughably simple and easy that the 'game' portion is almost nonexistent. If you can treat it as a shoddy interactive comic book with some banal action sequences, perhaps you will be compelled to finish The Sinister Six. | ||
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| Spud! | Charybdis Limited / GameTek, Inc. | [top] | |
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Spud is a point-and-click 3D interactive cartoon adventure. Using "Super-Lookaround-O-Vision" the pre-rendered graphics, animations and speech take place in all directions around you. This is an adventure game about Santa Claus. Spud is the name of Santa Claus's grandson, and it seems Grandpa and his magical toy machine have been kidnaped by the evil Doctor Chilblain (this name must be said with a tremble in your voice!). During the course of your search to save Santa, you will visit such traditional Christmas sites as a tropical island populated by Jamaican speaking animals, a submarine, pixie mines, a penguin village replete with gun-toting penguins and that personal Christmas favorite of mine, Hell. It features over 200 locations to explore inhabited by wacky characters. | ||
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| Spycraft: The Great Game | Activision, Inc. | [top] | |
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As a new CIA operative, you've been called to Washington. Apparently a Russian candidate for president was assassinated (read: shot) while giving a public speech. Can you uncover a conspiracy that reaches the highest level of government (both US and Russia)? Spycraft is a video-adventure that involves quite a bit of puzzle-solving. With input from ex-head of KGB and ex-head of CIA, the scenario is frighteningly authentic. You choose your actions from what is available on screen. You will need to collate large amount of information, and pick out certain patterns that will lead you to what you need. You are helped along by your trusty PDA which highlights the areas to be investigated (i.e. puzzles to be solved) and keeps track of relevant facts. It details the attempted assassination of the President of the United States and the CIA and SVR attempts to save him. Although the game was not approved by either organization, it tends to favour realism due to its coordination with former CIA director William Colby and former KGB Major-General Oleg Kalugin. You won't go unprepared, though: to prepare for the assignment, you get the espionage boot camp at the CIA training facility, The Farm in Langley, Virginia. Lead a team of special forces, carefully study satellite photos, intercept radio communications, conduct ballistics analysis and operate a computer-based suspect identification tool - all exercises are based on actual CIA covert ops training procedures. Master the tools of a CIA operative, surveil double agents and intercept radio transmissions to infiltrate a web of rogue spies. It has unrivaled production values: stunning computer-generated graphics, 35mm film, actual CIA footage and dozens of Hollywood actors portray the danger and intrigue. | ||
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| Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Harbinger | Stormfront Studios / CIC Interactive | [top] | |
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A powerful plasma storm has rocked Deep Space Nine and a Federation diplomat has been murdered. An omen of the chaos to unfold in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger. You are a Tirrion envoy of the elite Federation Diplomatic Corps. Joining forces with the crew of Deep Space Nine, you battle deadly unmanned drones. Track down a murderer on the space station and match strategies with mysterious aliens. All in a struggle to save a Gamma Quadrant race from annihilation and prevent the Deep Space Nine Space Station from suffering the same fate. May the prophets walk with you. You're going to need all the help you can get. It looks and sounds good — the detailed graphics are sharply rendered, and the actual cast of DS9 recorded the animated characters' voices. | ||
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| Star Trek: Borg | Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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Star Trek: Borg is an interactive movie/computer game set in the Star Trek universe with approximately 120 minutes of full screen video. This game was filmed on the Star Trek sets using actual props, scenery and costumes from the big-screen versions. In the midst of a new Borg incursion ten years after the Battle of Wolf 359, Starfleet Cadet Qaylan Furlong is given an opportunity by Q (John de Lancie) to go back in time and prevent his father's death in the historic battle. Q sends Qaylan to the USS Righteous, his father's Excelsior class starship, just before the Battle of Wolf 359. Originally, the ship's security officer Coris Sprint was killed by a Borg intruder over four hours before the battle. Q gives Qaylan control of Sprint's body at this point, allowing him to change history. Since Sprint is Bijani he has the ability to go into a "Bijani Pain Trance" which allows him to complete jobs even when feeling immense pain, and this becomes an important plot point in allowing the character to complete the game. Meanwhile, Q takes over the role of Dr. Thaddeus Quint, whose personality suits him. At several points throughout the game, the player (Qaylan) is given multiple choices about what actions should be taken in various situations. The results vary based on whatever actions are chosen. If the player chooses poorly, Q will reset time and allow him to try again. If the player makes too many mistakes, however, Q becomes bored and the game ends. Game play is a unique combination of a Myst-style point-and-click adventure and a real-time free-flowing game. The game progresses like a movie, but at certain junctures, the player must make choices (done by clicking on objects or people) which affect the storyline. Additionally, failure to "make a choice" is interpreted as a choice of inaction, which affects the story accordingly. At any time (when the player is not at a choice-making juncture), the game may be paused, allowing the player to examine his surroundings with a tricorder. Certain tasks require information that can only be gathered in this manner. This 3 CD-ROM set also includes The Picard Dossier, a comprehensive guide to the Borg. | ||
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| Star Trek: Klingon | Strategic Simulations, Inc., Pearson Software / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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Welcome to the Klingon Language Immersion holodeck program. You will be guided by Gowron (his hologram, actually) in this true immersive experience in the Klingon culture. You will participate as Pok, a young Klingon about to take his Rite of Ascension. You start at home getting ready to entertain guests of your father. Be ready to participate in this interactive adventure, so you can truly experience what it feels to be a Klingon. Klingon is basically a full-motion video click-your-own-adventure. At certain points in the game, you will be given a few seconds to make a decision on what to do. You perform action by clicking on the object onscreen, or do nothing (which is sometimes appropriate). Make the right choice, and the game continues. Make the wrong choice, and Gowron scolds you for not learning, and gives you another chance as the program was "rewound" back to that decision point. The game also comes packaged with a Klingon Language Lab, which helps to teach you about the Klingon language, complete with speech recognition to correct your Klingon pronunciation. Shortly after the game was released, a novel written by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch was made. This 195 page story was based off the original script used in the game. | ||
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| Stay Tooned! | Funnybone Interactive / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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On this cartoon adventure, Saturday morning is totally out of control. Trouble-making toons have escaped their TV world and taken over yours. And unless you round them up and zap them back, your world will never be the same again. But be warned: these video varmints won't give up without a hilarious fight. So prepare yourself for endless pranks, goofy gags and hard-hitting games in a cartoon caper that's non-stop mass hysteria. Over 30 mind-blowing games and puzzles. Over 50 different worlds within one five story apartment-from prehistoric to futuristic. Dozens of crazy characters with a single ambition: to get you before you get them. This is one wild cartoon adventure with all the elements of those colorful Saturday morning surrealistic satires of life and the world we live in. You'll find great graphics, memorable musical tunes and sounds that make you part of the action. Your immediate goal is to find the remote control, a very realistic challenge for television watchers. The adventure starts with you in your fourth floor apartment, your first challenge: to find the password so you can exit and wander the halls of this five story building filled with unusual people and happenings, games and puzzles, including some impressive 3D arcade-style games requiring 3D glasses (a pair of polarized 3D glasses are included with the CD). The 3D games include Make Way for the Highway (you help wreck a city), D-Ding Dong (an unusual paddle ball game) and Bubble Trouble (a deep sea adventure). Make Way for the Highway is a variation on electronic pong. Here, you try for the highest score while demolishing a 3D cityscape. Hitting a pedestrian with a rolling wrecking ball gets you bonus points. | ||
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| Sting: All This Time | Starwave | [top] | |
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This is an amazing and almost frighteningly in-depth "story so far" encapsulation of Sting's life and work that includes rare and specially recorded performance and interview footage, all embedded within a clever Myst-like interface that involves a quest for tarot cards. This game touches upon *everything* - influences (musical, literary, spiritual), lyrical themes, social activism, acting, education, even yoga. Several songs are explored in detail - showing that "Bring On The Night" is linked in musical structure to "Fragile", or that "Englishman In New York" started as a corruption of the "Set Them Free" riff. You get to virtually hang out at Lake House (a beautiful trio version of "Message In A Bottle" is featured) and even sift through song demos on Sting's computer. The prize for solving the game is a "customized" tarot reading from Sting himself and a live solo performance of the first section of the at-the-time unreleased "I Was Brought To My Senses" (credited as "In Search Of The Human Heart"). The replay value is decent, as your "fortune" will change every time you complete the game. By using a mouse to click into various medieval structures, you can access videos of songs from the artist's four solo albums. There's also a theater (excuse me, a theatre) displaying clips and commentary relating to his movie career, a library with passages from his favorite authors (Joyce, Jung, and...Anne Rice), sections devoted to Amnesty International and the Amazon rain forest, and many more goodies. | ||
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| Superboy: Spies from Outer Space | Inverse Ink | [top] | |
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Earth is under attack from a hostile alien force. Thank goodness for Superboy and his superdog Krypto! As the mild-mannered foster son of Jonathan and Martha Kent, Superboy, the 1960s version of the young Clark Kent, had many adventures fighting for the preservation of peace and the pursuit of truth. In "Spies from Outer Space," the people of Smallville are browbeaten when two strange visitors from another world use lightening bolts and other interesting weapons during their spree of extraterrestrial terror. Superboy comes to the rescue along with his trusty sidekick, Krypto the Superdog, to fight against the oncoming invasion of Earth. The dangerous aliens mount even more weapons, such as antigravity devices and giant magnifiers. A mysterious loss of Superboy's super powers adds to the danger. Can Superboy overcome all these challenges and save the planet? In this interactive comic book, click panel by panel to watch the story unfold in the form of simple animations and QuickTime clips taken straight from the 1960s cartoon episode upon which the story is based, totaling over 80 animated "hotspots." Occasional panels reveal a folder providing more depth to the story, often describing the aliens' technology. | ||
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| Superman: The Mysterious Mr. Mist | Inverse Ink | [top] | |
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Watch the panels of a Superman comic book come to life in Superman: The Mysterious Mr. Mist. Adapting to comic panels a two-part episode from the late 1960s' The New Adventures of Superman cartoon series, you can either control the action panel-by-panel or let the computer take you through automatically. Each panel contains one of over 80 animations, be it a simple movement such as Clark Kent revealing his Superman costume as he shouts, "This looks like a job for Superman!" or a more complex, brief QuickTime movie. Along the way, you can click on small folders that may show up in certain panels to reveal further clues to the plot. The story revolves around the appearance of the villainous Mr. Mist, first surfacing at a Daily Planet company picnic and softball game. Arriving from the depths of Earth, he has the ability to assume any form he desires. His goal is to capture a new queen for his people and what better person for the job than Lois Lane? Needless to say, Lois isn't too happy about this and you can rest assured that a certain man with a big "S" on his chest is going to have something to say about it. | ||
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| Swigridova Kletba [Cz] | Agawa s.r.o. / JRC Interactive | [top] | |
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The Manahon county has suffered for hundreds of years from a strange curse. Every year, on the day of winter solstice, the most important citizen of the county must blow the horn of Kerke to make spring come. But the evil wizard Swigrid hates the sound of the horn and spring as well, so he steals the horn. The player controls the simple shepherd Robin who is the only one who can defeat the evil Swigrid and return the magic horn. Swigridova kletba (Swigrid's Curse) is a fairy-tale adventure in the vein of The Legend of Kyrandia It is one of the first Czech games that features voice acting, provided by the developer team members themselves. The game is entirely controlled with the mouse through a single action. The gameplay is based around exploring the environment, talking to characters and solving puzzles. Items can be collected and they are stored in an inventory near the bottom of the screen. | ||
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| Synnergist | Vicarious Visions, Inc. / 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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In Synnergist you take on the role of Tim Machin, an ambitious young journalist forced by cruel circumstances to work for a trashy tabloid newspaper. Set in the year 2010, the game puts you on the street of New Arthus - a city of extremes, crammed with both cutting edge technology and the decaying remnants of a once proud past. The City is tormented by every crime imaginable: murders, muggings, drug dealing and prostitution. Very soon you find yourself on the trail of a sinister force that appears to be connected to the crime and killing. It's a classic point and click 3rd person adventure which features over 70 digitized actors, over 2 hours of full motion video, 60 hand-painted backgrounds, more than 5 hours of digital sound and speech and an original atmospheric musical score. The complex storyline with multiple endings generates over 50 hours of gameplay. Five years went into the making of Synnergist which is a DOS only game and has VGA graphics. | ||
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| Takeru: Letter Of The Law | Eagle Peak Interactive Corporation / Network Entertainment | [top] | |
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Created by artist Buichi Terasawa, Takeru is a full-color computerized interactive manga. Follow the hero Takeru Ichimonji in his battle against an evil sorceress in the land of Yamato, sort of an amalgam of feudal and futuristic Japan. Interaction consists of scrolling the mouse to uncover voice-over and action events, making choices that affect the direction of the story arc, and a few object-based puzzle games. Three chapters of the comic span 2 CD-ROMs, with over 50,000 frames of digital animation. Features a fair amount of violence and, of course, scantily clad female characters. | ||
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| Tales From Lantropolis | Dimensional Studios / Intel | [top] | |
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This is a promotional CD-ROM distributed by Intel in 1996. It's an 18 minute advertisement for Intel's networking components told through an animated detective story, The Case of The Ham in The Bandwidth. The story stars Gig Hardrive, the top detective in the LAN. Gig is hired to stop Vic Virus from crashing the ribbon cutting ceremony of the Intel Etherexpress Pro 100 LAN adapter. | ||
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| Terratopia | Virgin Sound + Vision | [top] | |
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You are summoned by the elders to become a terratrooper, and learn about nature and help and protect all that is wild and free. But once you have arrived on the island, something is not right. Your 5 companions are disappearing one by one. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find out what is happening on Terratopia. Finding out what is happening is the object of the game. You have 13 ecosystems to explore, each one representing one that is found on Earth. Along the way there are a variety of puzzles and activities that help you on your way by providing clues to what you should be doing, and where you should be going. The puzzles are found in very unlikely places, such as on stone cliffs, behind waterfalls, and in deserted buildings. As you explore the island, you will be impressed by the beauty of the hand-drawn scenery that is very reminiscent of a Don Bluth or Disney cartoon. The game has a look and feel of Myst. The player is placed on an island and given very little information on what they are to do. All the game play is in the first person, that is, through the eyes of the player. There the similarities end, however. This is a kids game, and Myst is for adults. There are also ecological overtones to the game, ala Captain Planet and the Planeteers. During the exploration of the island, there are literally hundreds of natural and ecological facts that are presented to the player. These are used in the solving of the puzzles, and also for general education. | ||
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| They Call Me The Skul | Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc., Saffire Corporation / SoftKey Multimedia Inc., The Learning Company, Inc. | [top] | |
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In the North Putnam Maximum Security Correction Facility, strange things have been going on. Rumors of secret experiments taking place with some of the inmates, a strange Power Elite gang, and other criminals walking around with super powers. It it to this strange location that Steve Kane was taken when he was wrongly convicted of highway homicide. His life was saved on day by a man named Big John, which unleashed strange powers within him and turned him into the Skul. They Call me the Skul is one among a series of Virtual Comics. The main purpose of these products is to create an interactive comic book reader that can be sold on cd-roms and viewed on a computer screen. The product also features a shooter game. Inside the game, the player controls Skul as he flies across the city, shooting members of the Power Elite game on top of roofs. Skul can pick up different power-ups. These powerups will shield him from enemy fire, allow him to shoot rapid fire or fire in three directions. These power-ups can be combined. The game continues indefinitely allowing players to rank up a large score. The comic book reader runs in Windows 3.x and Windows 95, the game portion has executables for both MS-DOS and Windows 95. | ||
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| Thousand & One Nights, The | Nanosoft | [top] | |
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The Arabian Nights are tales that will make you travel almost by magic to the most mysterious places in the East. As you listen to a story, you transform into Master and Lord, where you can bring to life what you want, from making a stone laugh to making a carpet fly. The magic of the Arabian Nights allows you to choose the language in which you want to listen to the narration, English, Portuguese or Spanish. Furthermore, since you are in charge, you can choose the page you want to go to directly. There are a hundred hidden surprises, so have fun and remember that your wishes are orders here. | ||
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| Tick, The: The Tick Vs. The Uncommon Cold | Inverse Ink | [top] | |
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Fox Kids Network teamed up with the kids at Inverse Ink to produce comic books on CD-ROM based on four different cartoons. The Tick dispenses some big blue justice on your computer, adapting an episode from the mid-90s satiric superhero television series that aired Saturday mornings on the Fox Network. Through 20 pages of comic book action, you'll click frame by frame as you guide The Tick through his adventure. Each panel is interactive via QuickTime clips lifted straight from the show, simple animations and "plot clues," which add to the content taken from the episode with original content exclusive to the game. The story involves the invasion of a disgusting alien from Dimension 14B called the Thrakkorzog who plans to take over Earth once he has created an army of mucus-based Tick clones. But first he needs a sample of the eight-foot superhero's DNA -- which isn't so easy to obtain from a nigh invulnerable one! It's up to The Tick (with a little help from his trusty sidekick Arthur) to save The City from one of its greatest (and definitely most grotesque) threats. SPOON! | ||
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| Time Gate: Knight's Chase | Infogrames / Interplay Entertainment Corp. | [top] | |
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One of Infograme's most underrated games, this is a fun time-travel game based on the acclaimed Alone in The Dark engine, but with more emphasis on puzzle-solving than fighting. You are William Tibbs, a young American law student in Paris who is unwittingly summoned by the last of the Knights Templar to aid them in their fight against Wolfram, an evil dark lord. Wolfram's power enables him to kidnap Juliette, your girlfriend, thus giving you an added incentive to join the cause. From the present day, you must travel back to 1329 to rescue Juliette and, naturally, destroy the villain. Gameplay in Timegate is all too familiar to fans of AITD games. Everything, from the keyboard interface to save game thumbnails, are lifted intact from that popular series. Although the default action mode is fighting, you don't really have to fight all that often in this game, and you can switch between 3 levels of combat difficulty at any time during the game. Although the automatically changing camera perspectives pose the same problems as in AITD, namely, that you sometimes can't see the action clearly, Infogrames apparently tried to master the technique so your character isn't normally obstructed from view. Puzzles, in general, are fairly easy and straightforward. The most challenging puzzles are the physical kind, e.g. dodging the laser beams, or following in someone's footsteps for several rooms. In the toughest of those, it's "one wrong move and you're dead," so you would do well to save early and often. On the whole, Timegate is a solid adventure that should appeal to anyone who enjoys Alone in the Dark or Ecstatica but wish they were more action-oriented. Overall, an entertaining romp that is unfortunately the only game made in Infogrames' planned Timegate trilogy. | ||
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| Time Girl [K] | Taito Corporation / Samsung | [top] | |
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The year is 4001. The evil Luna has stolen a time machine and plans to use it to take over the world. You are the Time Gal, a skillful and pretty scientist, and your mission is to chase Luna through different time periods, to get the time machine back, and to save the world. Created during the first age of "full motion" style, this is a conversion of an early arcade title Time Gal. You watch animations of your heroine while she travels through levels, and overcome obstacles by pushing the correct button at the right moment. You can change directions, jump, shoot, etc., but everything is controlled during the never-ending fluent motion of the Time Gal. At certain points the heroine stops the time, and you have three choices to choose from. | ||
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Time Paradox is an average adventure game from Flair, released only in Europe. When the FMV (full motion video) fad is in full swing with dozens of horrendous FMV-based adventure titles released (with a few exceptions including Gabriel Knight 2 and Pandora Directive), Flair bucked the trend by releasing this "old school" adventure with hand-drawn backgrounds, inventory-based puzzles, and the familiar LucasArts-style action menu (look, take, etc.). Unfortunately, being old-school doesn't necessary mean "good" - Time Paradox's plot is too mundane (another time travel story with no frills), the puzzles too standard and easy, and the writing too banal to hold any adventurer's interest for long. If you enjoy adventure games in general, Time Paradox may provide a few hours of mild entertainment (less than 5-6 hours to solve). If you don't want to waste time with a below-average game, on the other hand, give this one a miss. | ||
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| Time Passenger 1-6 [Sp] | Paradise Interactive Software / Iberian American Editorial | [top] | |
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These games were given away with six issues of the magazine Computer Gaming World and was part of a contest that stretched over completing all of them to win a computer and other prizes. At the end of each game, you get a key phrase that had to be sent in. It has lovely colorful cartoon graphics similar to the classic LucasArts adventures. The plot has Professor Van Hursen travelling back in time to get the keys that will unlock a mysterious chest. The games were as follows: Prehistoric Adventure, Egyptian Quest, Medieval Knight, French Revolution, Far West, and Final Duel. | ||
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| Time Warp Of Dr. Brain, The | Bright Star Technology Inc / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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The fourth installment in the Dr. Brain series. This game, like the others in series, is meant to challenge your intellect through a series of puzzles. In this particular game, Dr. Brain is trapped in the "space time discontinuum" and you have to save him. The only way to save him is by completing a series of puzzles, which can be done at novice, expert or genius difficulty levels. The puzzles in this game can be done in any order, much like The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain. Most of the puzzles require logical thinking and planning; a few, however, require dexterity. The puzzles include the following: Logical Puzzles: Primordial Soup, Caveman Rock, Monkey-See-Monkey-Do, Alchemy, Gridlock, Spaceshop, Brainwaves; Dexterity Puzzles: Spelunking, Lizards and Eggs, Beaver Dam. | ||
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| Timelapse: Ancient Civilizations ... The Link To Atlantis | GTE Entertainment / Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | [top] | |
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Timelapse is a gorgeous Myst-clone. It starts with you receiving an urgent message from an archeologist friend working in the Easter Islands on a ancient link to lost civilizations. You arrive at his dig site to find him missing. You are the only person who can find him and your search will eventually lead you to the ancient Egyptian, Mayan, Anasazi, and the lost city of Atlantis. Timelapse's backstory is a subtle blend of well-researched fact and fictional storytelling designed to create an intriguing, thought-provoking tale that introduces and ultimately explains an alien link between ancient civilizations. By combining elements of archaeology, ancient/lost civilizations, ancient history, science fiction and adventure, the creators of Timelapse wanted to challenge the player to ask himself/herself, "What if this could be real? Could it have actually happened?" By locating and reading the missing professor's journal, the story slowly unfolds before the player as he/she travels from world to world and progresses further and further into the game. Each subsequent world visited by the player provides another important piece of the professor’s journal. | ||
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| Tip Top: Il Mistero Dei Libri Scomparsi [It] | MediAround RCS / Rizzoli New Media | [top] | |
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In the role of a writer, Tip Top seeks inspiration for his new novel. Wanting to consult several books from his library he discovers that they have been stolen from him and therefore it will be necessary to solve different puzzles and help different characters in his city to find these 4 novels (which by the way are also interactive books within the game itself) and write your novel, choosing different elements from the 4 books. It is thanks to the meeting with some informants (a policeman, the old teacher of Tip Top) that you can accumulate clues and find, one after the other, the stolen books. These are four classic books of children's literature: The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island, Robin Hood and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Whenever we find one, the urban environment, populated by numerous gags, gives way to the reading environment and a remote control that allows us to scroll through the multimedia pages faster, looking for items to steal in our turn to compose a personalized story. Each passage is explained by the voice of the leading character, who guides us in his city and teaches us the techniques to compose the new narrative mix. In the end, all the choices are still editable by Tip Top and the story of which we are authors can be printed, cropped and bound in paper form. The good thing about the structure of this program is that the prize is, at the end of the hard work, reading a novel. In fact, when a book is recovered, it is possible to browse the fifteen paintings that, through the images and written parts (recited by a reader) develop the narrative. | ||
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| Tommy: The Interactive Adventure Then & Now, Pete Townshend Presents | Kardana Productions / Interplay | [top] | |
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This takes the user on a musical journey and is a must have for any of the rock group The Who. It combines aspects of the album, movie, and Broadway play. The musical adventure is divided into three main areas. The Experiential Tommy is the area in which the CD-ROM always begins. Here the user can interact with the music from Tommy; listen to the songs, see the lyrics, view clips from the movie or play. The second area is the Documentary. This timeline allows the user to see how The Who and Tommy have evolved through the years. The third area, Pete's Archive, is a collection of notes, profiles, and trivia which have been part of the Tommy legend. If you are familiar with Tommy it will make the program more interesting. There are many things waiting to be discovered in this program so it is best to click on every picture to make sure that you find it all. "Tommy Mart" provides samples of Tommy products available f or purchase from different vendors (addresses and telephone numbers are given). A 70 page full-color booklet is included. The booklet contains pictures and trivia, most of which are on the CD-ROM, and a list of further publications about The Who and/or Tommy. | ||
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| Toonstruck | Burst / Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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Toonstruck is a point-and-click adventure in the style of Monkey Island. It uses a one-icon system, and the protagonist is a motion-captured actor against an animated environment. Drew Blanc, the main character, is played by Christopher Lloyd, whom you may know as the professor in Back to the Future and Fester in The Addams Family movies. He ventures through the animated world consisting of very weird cartoon characters. The land is being overrun by an evil doctor, and you, as Drew, must stop him. It's a great but overlooked cartoon adventure, a modern-day Who Framed Roger Rabbit? story where a likable cartoonist (played convincingly by Christopher Lloyd) gets trapped into a cartoon world of his creation and must restore (relative) order before he can get home. Great voice acting, fun puzzles that do make (zany cartoon) sense once solved, and charming antics round off this excellent underdog. Too bad the slated sequel never came out. | ||
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| Tower Of Knowledge [Ru] | New Media Generation | [top] | |
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This game is created especially to teachkids of young ages. Because in order to defeat the insidious evil and look for a magic book, you need knowledge. You will need to perform a huge number of jobs and guess a lot of puzzles to help in the liberation of the country of Almaden's inhabitants. If something causes you trouble, run to the Tower of Knowledge. The keepers are always ready and, of course, will share with you their knowledge. It has 16 missions and tasks in them - 13 exciting lessons in physics, arithmetic, grammar, music, rules of the road. Bright entertaining characters will help you beat the game. | ||
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| Treasure Quest | Soggy In Seattle Productions, Inc. / Sirius Publishing, Inc. | [top] | |
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Professor Jonathon Faulkner has died, leaving an inheritance of $1,000,000 to the first of his students who can solve the mystery he created in his 10-room mansion. In fact, the first player of this game who submits the correct solution to the game's publisher will receive one million real dollars. As you explore each room of the mansion, Terry Farrell ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine") appears in a video clip to give you some clues and insight to the room's mystery. Words and phrases are hidden in each room in the form of word search puzzles, cryptograms, fill-in-the-blank puzzles, or even more subtle forms involving musical and audio clues, and pictures. These words and phrases fit together to form a quote. After finding the quote from each of the ten rooms, an ultimate solution must be deciphered and submitted, along with the ten quotes, to win the prize. According to the publisher, the $1,000,000 prize was won by P. Dreizen of San Francisco, California, in May of 1998. | ||
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| Uncle Henry's Playhouse / Uncle Henry's MindBlower | Trilobyte, Inc. | [top] | |
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They've bent minds, quickened pulses, threatened logic and paralyzed the reflexes of even the heartiest gamers. And now, from The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, and Clandestiny come 12 puzzles that led these ingenious games to infamy. Yet here, with enhanced sound and graphics, they're ready to wreak havoc on the wits of new gamers and veterans alike. Your puzzling adventure begins in the dollhouse of mad toy maker, Henry Stauf, built in homage to his horrifying mansion. There, you travel room-by-room, puzzle-by-puzzle through its dark, mysterious walls, encountering the enhancements that Uncle Henry has ingeniously added - the quickened pace and animation in the Amazing Labyrinth, the powerful new sound effects in High Lights, and so many other maniacal additions. Your ultimate goal is to conquer the 12 puzzles, unlocking the door to the mysterious attic. For within, you will find the biggest challenge of all - a brand new, never-before-seen puzzle more masterful and menacing than its predecessors. With three artificial intelligence games, powerfully enhanced sound, extensive replay opportunities, and puzzles that both novices and experts will embrace, this amazing playhouse guarantees hours of challenging play. It was one of the final games produced by Trilobyte. According to statistics released by PC Data, the game had sold a mere 27 units in the U.S. during the 1996 holiday season. It would eventually sell a total of 176 units worldwide. Shortly after the release of Uncle Henry's Playhouse, Trilobyte decided not to self-publish future titles. Although all puzzles are accessible from the outset, the new 13th puzzle is only accessible after all 12 of the other puzzles have been overcome. It's a logic maze where the player must travel from the attic to the front door of a dollhouse. The game has been re-released once as part of Encore's puzzle collection, Puzzle Madness. | ||
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| Urânio 235 [Pt] | Byte & Brothers | [top] | |
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This is a first person 3D adventure game, with a gameplay similar to Myst. It was designed to teach basic chemistry for high school students. The player is abducted by an UFO and is sent to an abandoned village on another planet. He/she is told that the alien people who lived there used uranium as a power source, but one day a miscalculated neutron beam has hit an uranium atom, causing a huge explosion, destroying most of the alien population. Now the player's mission is to deactivate the beam. An alien abducts you to take you to their homeworld, which is essentially a post apocalyptic one due to a neutron rays experiment gone wrong (remember those theories that said a neutron bomb would annihilate the planet? basically that). Apparently since humans are more resistant to the radiation than the aliens, they recruit you to deactivate a facility that's emitting more radiation on a important installation site critical to the remaining alien survivors on this new planet. The game presents many chemistry subjects, such as matter, atomic models, physical states of the matter, mixtures and separations, periodic table, chemical bond, chemical functions, chemical reactions and radioactivity. | ||
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| Urban Runner | Coktel Vision / Sierra | [top] | |
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The game is an interactive movie adventure spanning four CD-ROMs, divided into Clue and Actions turns. The player character is Max (played by Brandon Massey), an American journalist in Paris, covering a story about a drug dealer shielded by an influential politician. To get the druglord talking, the player offers him photographs, but when the player arrives he is dead, and the player is framed for the murder. Urban Runner was not too popular at the time due to high graphics and monitor resolution requirements; there are very few reviews that have been released about the game. | ||
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| Útěk (Escape) [Cz] | No Name Software | [top] | |
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A classic adventure game which was originally a Slovak commercial game, but the authors decided to revamp it in 2002 for newer operating systems, and you can now download absolutely free. It's the end of the school year and you play as a schoolgirl named Margarita, who probably should have listened to her parents before school because there appeara a gentleman who claims to be a friend of her father and has to take her home. Margarita believes him and jumps into his car and after a few moments hears that everything is a trick question and that it is invented. As she starts fretting, she is put to sleep for a few hours, and wakes up in a strange house. She finds that she got carried away by a professor and has been two days being transported. It's therefore a struggle to find her way home. There are three actions that you can perform - to view, use a pouch, switch between them as both buttons on the bottom bar or by pressing the right mouse button. Escape is an adventure of the old school, so all the problems are solved strictly logically. Sometimes you need to use search "pixel by pixel" because some items are hard to find. | ||
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| Vampire Diaries, The | Her Interactive / American Laser Games, Inc. | [top] | |
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Based on several L. J. Smith books of the 1990s, The Vampire Diaries is a suspenseful mystery adventure about a town infested with vampires and one teen's efforts to find them. Featuring real actors and actresses in full motion video and a point and click interface. You play Elena Gilbert, a popular Robert E. Lee High School teen, who lives with her Aunt Judith and younger sister, Margaret, in Fells Church, Virginia. After the introduction, the game begins during a party at the Romanoff Gallery, which they are attending. Suddenly someone screams, and Margaret is found lying on the floor ... a wispy figure floating away from her comatose body. Determined to find who (or what) attacked her sister, Elena investigates on her own. She soon discovers that the entire town of Fells Church is in fear for their lives! There are Vampires here .. and everyone is suspect. Players of Her Interactive's Nancy Drew games will recognize the screen layout and menu system, which includes the familiar "Second Chance" feature. Puzzles range in difficulty and many are dependent on inventory objects found, conversation topics chosen and/or the time of day. Travel to different locations via the in-game map and change from day to night by adjusting a clock or going to bed. | ||
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| Victorian Park | Bandai Digital Entertainment / F2 Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a graphic adventure made for Bandai's Pippin platform but also on MAC and Windows. It's a title similar to Myst that uses pre-rendered graphics. | ||
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| Virtual Corporation | Microforum International / TopWare Interactive | [top] | |
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Make your way up to the top in a future company. But that's not the only goal of Virtual Corporation; additionally, you have to find a murderer. The game takes place in the future where the vast majority of society works on and in an offshoot of the Internet. The difference is that this net is totally VR based, where users plug themselves in via a headjack to literally appear on the net. Virtual Corporation attempts to simulate this environment by creating virtual police, a virtual government, companies, arcades, vacations, discos, etc. In order to exist on the net, users must purchase a VR persona from the government and power from the local power plant to exist there. Should you run out of power, the game is over and a movie shows you plummeting to your death from an office window. The game itself starts you as a new hire of Pogodyne Systems with the ultimate goal being to work your way up to being company President. Gameplay consists of answering your phone and having simple interactions with your managers and coworkers; and an occasional virus attack. During this time, you slowly gain stress points, which are fatal to you when you reach the maximum level. The ways to get rid of stress are to go on vacation or playing games in the arcade. The game is mainly based on a multiple choice question/answer system and has some short sub-games included. All graphics are a mixture of rendered backgrounds and more or less static videos. This was the first speech-controlled "multimedia adventure" (with a microphone included). | ||
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| Voyeur II | InterWeave Entertainment / Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | [top] | |
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With the sudden death of Dr. Everett Cussler, Dr. Elizabeth Duran has become the director of her research institute... and some of her colleagues aren't happy about that. Everyone has gathered in Duran's isolated mountain cabin for the reading of the will, within eye- and earshot of your video camera and microphone. But tonight, simply watching will not be enough, because someone is going to make an attempt on Elizabeth's life. And unless you take action, they will succeed. Voyeur II is an interactive movie with a few adventure-style puzzles. You must record concrete evidence of the killer's intentions on videotape, then find a way to stop the murder before it's too late. Clearly, the production quality of Voyeur II has risen significantly compared to its predecessor. All the Full Motion Video clips are now in SVGA. Several Hollywood celebrities have joined the cast for this game sequel. They include Jennifer O'Neill, David Groh, and Dennis Weaver. O'Neill is a veteran television soap opera star. Both Groh and Weaver are members of the cast of Rhoda. The game contains over 80 minutes of video. Due to the mature contents in this game including several love scenes and scenes of violence, a password feature is available for paternal lockout. | ||
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| Who is Oscar Lake? | Jersey COW Software, Emblem / Language Publications Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a unique adventure game that was designed to help learn another language. There are versions in English, French, Italian, Spanish, or German. With the language challenge removed, we have a fairly simple adventure game wherein a diamond has gone missing from a New York museum, believed stolen by Oscar Lake, the international jewel thief. Unfortunately, you are framed with a mock passport in Oscar's name. You must prove your innocence. The game engine is the QuickTime projector engine 2.12, so it brings along the artifacts and idiosyncrasies those familiar with it have experienced. As with other QuickTime titles, there is variability in events occurring. The QuickTime videos are very unusual, with a strobe like effect making the characters seem like they are in slow motion. The acting is uniformly average and there is very little excitement, even when the oh-so-obvious plot is revealed. Strangely for a game designed for adults, there are no believable adult characters, and the villain is more a caricature than a real character, happily revealing how they committed the crime, believing they are too smart to get caught. The graphics are average even for 1996 and average compared with other games using QuickTime. There are no puzzles, only some inventory driven puzzles which are very easy. However, it is possible to do the wrong thing and get caught in a dead end. Be sure to save regularly. Your progress is scored as a percentage and can be accessed from the user-friendly menu at the top of the screen. The game can be finished in less than 5 hours. | ||
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| Who's Fat Lou ? | Mediola / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a very rare rap point 'n click adventure where you needed to complete tasks to get all the way to the end to fight the evil "El Guapo" using the "Guapotron". The game features voice acting and some rather edgy humor. Nominally targeted at kids 14 to 18, it is so aggressively hip that playing it can be an honestly frightening experience. Even MTV fails to overload the senses as much as this bizarre but colorful game. Created by Italian designers for an American audience, but the hyper-disgusting humor and jagged rendering seem closer to Japanese styles of animation. In a dank, gray future (where kids, at the dinner table, cry out “Oh no, Mom, gray crap again!”), a band of graffiti artists gets hassled by the cops. The game immediately veers into surrealism, throwing conceits like “narrative” out the window. Move around a park (a top view of a map leads to single-frame environments), confronting creatures like a bird whose acidic feces will burn you to death, a crazed ax murderer who screams “Mommy made me wear her panties on my head!”, and a seductive woman who happens to be graffiti on a wall. Try to solve tricky puzzles under tight time constraints (a major understatement). Too many animation sequences relegate the player to passive watching for long minutes, and the game's macabre design and disconcerting sense of humor are more disturbing than funny, but there's no denying that this CD-ROM is unique. | ||
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| Wishbone & The Amazing Odyssey | Human Code, Inc. / Palladium Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a lesson about Homer's Odyssey in which Wishbone (a Jack Russell terrier from a PBS educational television show) plays the role of Odysseus. Wishbone must re-enact Homer's Odyssey in order to return to his own time. To achieve this goal, Wishbone must interact with characters and surroundings, taking command of his crew, and sailing around the ancient Greece while making all the classic stops outlined in Homer's tale. Additionally, the game features the Knowledge Vault, an online reference about Homer's Odyssey that includes a glossary, time line, and a list of characters and locations. | ||
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| Woodcutter Story, The / Namukkun Iyagi [K] | Mirinae Software Inc. / Pantech Corporation | [top] | |
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Namukkun Iyagi is a Korean-made adventure game based on the tale of the woodcutter and the fairy. A poor young woodcutter has to work for a greedy merchant, cutting trees all day. But when he helps a little deer, things begin to change. He meets a miraculous woman - but will he be able to do what is right to call her his wife? The gameplay follows the Western point-and-click template. The four command icons, corresponding to the actions of walking, examining, touching, and talking, can be cycled through and used on any object in the scenery; however, only a few can be interacted with. Objects are not highlighted. Most of the puzzles involve collecting inventory items and then using them on the right object. Dialogue is non-branching. | ||
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| Woodspell | Mediola | [top] | |
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A sort of adventure game for children, from an italian company. It's a mix of game and activity center. You get to solve some puzzles, like matching the sound of a song or the classic "fit the right objects in the correct location" sort. You can also hear stories set in the woodland, filled with elves and fairies, or even print and color the locations you see. The game features hand-drawn scenarios and characters and original music by italian band Tazenda. | ||
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| Yellow Brick Road II [J] | Synergy Interactive Corp. | [top] | |
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Glinda is being held captive in a magical crystal ball and must be saved! This sequel adventure is a two cd-rom set and was only released in Japan. A new great adventure in addition to the emergence of a new character creature who is half-man and half-fish, pottery people, and the turnip King. Again, the kingdom is in a big crisis. Glinda has been deprived of her liberty by the Witch of the West, who conspires to rule Emerald City. A combination of interactive mode while moving smoothly in a 3D space to solve events produces a new sense of entertainment! In addition to familiar members such as lion, scarecrow, and tin man, there is a stretching of the nihilistic tone. There is a musical, and there is spectacle, and you engage in a powerful story. Hiroyuki Miura directs the work. | ||
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| Zeddas: Horror Tour 2 [J] | Caravan Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a little known sequel to Zeddas that was only released in Japan. The first game was known as Horror Tour there. The game begins with an FMV of three sinister wizards reviving Zeddas, the Demon King you slew in the last game, as well as his legions of goblins and skeletons to reconquer Rodvydel, and you are beseeched to stop him again. You are awakened in the middle of a forest by the garden gnome who used to run the bar in Rodvydel castle. After a lengthy conversation he hands your a pouch of ten gold coins and runs off down the path. The first part of the game comprises of two villages, a cave tunnel that can be passed through to either village (though for some illogical reason you can reach the opposite village by simply circumventing the cave altogether) and a forest that, like the Lost Woods in the Legend of Zelda, must be traversed in a specific order to progress to the next part of the game or you simply return to the entrance. The first village you arrive at, Tolepolo, seems completely deserted at first until you realise that the hub of all activity here and in the next village is concentrated in the taverns, where most of the NPCs tend to hang out in. Upon meeting most of these characters you may recall seeing them from the previous game, just like our friend the Gnome; the explanation for them being here is that after you defeated Zeddas all the people who were trapped in the castle by his spell were freed. Caravan seemed to have attempted to bring combat to the fore on par with adventuring. Random encounters with enemies happen far too frequently, even in places where you have been before. Atypical of an Adventure/RPG money cannot be gained from battles but from betting on games in the inns, such as arm wrestling, insect races, and a game reminiscent of the window puzzle in the 7th Guest. | ||
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| Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands | Zombie Inc. / Activision Publishing, Inc. | [top] | |
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In the last days of the Great Underground Empire, four of the Empire's greatest Alchemists disappeared into the Forbidden Lands on the day of the Solar Eclipse, supposedly searching for the secret of the Quintessena, the Eternal Life. An imperial spy, Bivotar, was dispatched to locate them. He never returned. Now, the task has fallen onto you. You soon discover that the Alchemists are dead, slain by a horrible demon known only as the Nemesis. You manage to get on the Nemesis' nerves, and soon find yourself allied with the spirits of the dead Alchemists, attempting to finish their work before the Nemesis can finish you. But all is not as it seems, and as you unravel the secrets of the past through old letters and ghostly flashbacks, you begin to realize the full horror of the events which transpired under the Eclipse all those years ago. Zork Nemesis is a graphical first person adventure game in the style of Myst or Shivers, mixing logic puzzles with live-action FMV sequences which advance the story. You view each location from a first person perspective, and can rotate 360 degrees to get a full view of your surroundings. It does contain some of the classic humor of the Zork universe, but unlike the other games in the series it has a very dark story and atmosphere with everything ranging from decapitated heads to human sacrifice. If you like horror stories, this one is extremely well done and is disturbingly realistic. The graphics are detailed and realistic, the atmosphere is foreboding and oppressive, and the mood is deadly serious, with eerie sound effects and music. The story is morbid and engrossing, with numerous subplots, and it will keep you guessing until the very end. There is a full hour of dramatic live-action video included, with 14 Hollywood actors, all directed by Joe Napolitano ('The X-Files' and 'Murder One'). It is an unusually long game, with 5 different 'worlds' to visit (Temple, Conservatory, Monastery, Asylum and Castle), any one of which is as long as some other entire games. The complex and absorbing puzzles are logic or mechanical, and are either part of the setting or serve to develop the plot. | ||
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| A5: A Ressha De Ikou [J] | Artdink Corporation | [top] | |
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A-Train is a series of train simulation video games. The first game in the series was published in 1985.[1] The first release in the United States was Take the A-Train II, published in 1988 by the Seika Corporation under the title Railroad Empire. However, the most well known U.S. release is Take the A-Train III, published in 1992 by Maxis as simply A-Train. A5 - A Ressha de Ikou 5 (aka A-Train 5) is the first A-Train game to use 3D graphics based on the PowerVR game engine, and also the first to be numbered under the Arabic numeral system instead of the Roman numeral system as were the previous 4 games. It was re-released in December 1997 under the DirectX and Direct3D APIs for the Windows release, and at the same time saw its debut on the PS1. "Take The A Train 5 A5 A" is a train simulation game-urban development and management of the railway company was a player, making full use of the five transportation, make up your own city in the map. The "optional tours" that evolved from mode the window of "4 Evolution Global Take The A Train A", will be able to cruise the city riding on all vehicles that are located on the map, run through by train the valley of the building , and view the skyline from the air by helicopter at night, look forward has been increasingly enhanced. Please reproduce the most of "mental landscape" you envision. Features: First person perspective; 2D & 3D graphics; Cartoon graphics; City Simulation & Trains themes. | ||
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| ABC NewsLinks | Creative Wonders | [top] | |
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Trying to better understand today's world? This not only gives you today's headlines, it also puts them into historical and geographic context. How did the Middle East become such a hot spot? What caused the rise and fall of Communism? How has technology affected today's world? Combining daily online news updates with relevant social, political and historical information, it helps you understand the background leading up to today's current events. Video documentaries specially produced by ABC News highlight global issues, such as education, health & medicine, and military affairs. Explore biographies of influential news-making personalities. Discover thousands of statistics and in-depth information about every country in the world. It keeps you better informed by providing context to today's news. Interactive Timelines: Scroll through history using dynamic timelines that highlight past and current events. Select key dates or images on the timeline to learn about important events and their relevance to today's global issues. Changing Borders Over Time: Explore changing borders to understand disputed territories in such regions as the Balkans and Middle East. 3D Political Globe: Explore every country in the world - their people, economies, political systems, and issues. Thousands of photographs highlight important events and the people behind them. Full-Screen Video Documentaries: Investigate global issues and trends, such as technology, human rights, economics and more. Time-Lapse Simulations: Watch the rise and fall of Communism, or the spread of AIDS over time. Get the Day's Top News Stories from ABC News Using WonderLink: WonderLink lets you down-load each day's top stories from America Online in seconds, exclusively for ABC NewsLinks users. Each story instantly links to relevant information on the CD-ROM, providing valuable context. | ||
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| Afterlife | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | [top] | |
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Afterlife is is a humorous strategy game similar to SimCity where the afterlife is subject to market-based economy. The player has to make it work by managing heaven and hell simultaneously. In both hell and heaven the player constructs zones which deal with one of the seven capital sins respectively the corresponding virtues. Through the gates new souls arrive regularly which were sinful or virtues in one specific aspect. These go to the appropriate zones to receive their gifts or punishment - but only if the player constructed a street system. If there is no place left they wander through hell/heaven which is of course bad for business. After some time they get sent back to the home planet. These souls are the source of the player's income. Of course these facilities also need personnel. These can be either hired or trained by building special training facilities. There are also additional things the player has to keep in mind, e.g. the satisfaction of each soul and the energy supply. Every buildings has to be micro-managed by adjusting their settings but there is also the possibility to use a tool which does it automatically - for a price. Random disasters like "Birds of Paradise" (excrement rain down on the facilities) break the economic circle and challenge the player to repair the damage. Besides the free playing mode there are also five scenarios where the player has to solve certain tasks. | ||
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| Animal Planet Ultimate Wildlife Adventure | Discovery Multimedia | [top] | |
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You're about to enter the Animal Planet, a rich, lush, immersive world, full of breathtaking "live" panoramas. You'll venture into eight of our Earth's major ecosystems and discover the animals that are indigenous to them, as if you're really there. In unparalleled detail, you'll explore the animal kingdom, from the easily recognizable to the impossibly exotic. It's a report helper and multimedia encyclopedia. It has live 3d vistas, 8 ecosystems: rainforest, deserts, wetlands, oceans, polar regions, temperate forests and mountain regions. There's more than 1100 animals, and you can keep track of your adventures with field notes. | ||
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| Attenborough's Antarctic | BBC Multimedia | [top] | |
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David Attenborough presents the exploration of the South Pole. Richly illustrated CD-ROM you can investigate the Antarctic Terrain. 6 guided tours introducing the key natural history themes within the programme. Build your own slide show from the programmes, pictures, and music. Finally you can build your own electronic project. | ||
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| Batman Forever | Probe Entertainment Ltd. / Acclaim Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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Batman Forever is the officially licensed game based on the 1995 movie. The bad guys this time around are The Riddler and Two-Face. This game is an usual hybrid of side-scrolling platformer and one-on-one fighter. You make your way through levels that include some platform jumping elements, but you typically take on opponents one at a time like in a fighting game. You arsenal includes a lot of nifty bat-gadgets, and a collection of fighting moves that are unleashed with special button combinations. The graphics were rendered completely with digitized actors and objects, but none of the actors from the movie make an appearance in the game. | ||
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| Batman Forever: The Arcade Game | Iguana Entertainment, Inc. / Acclaim Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a Final-Fight/Double-Dragon type game featuring the Caped Crusader and his sidekick Robin. Based on the Batman Forever movie, this sidescrolling beat-em-up features the plot, several memorable characters and quotes from its movie counterpart. Use batarangs, a bat grapple and tons of other Batman-specific goodies. Create your own combos and collect powerups to help you in your quest to rid the streets of Gotham from an everlasting flow of bad guys. | ||
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| Battleship: The Classic Naval Warfare Game | NMS Software Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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This official version of Battleship dresses up the children's game originally made by Milton Bradley. It features hotseat and LAN play, as well as providing cinema scenes to dress up the action. Players can choose from several modes of play, including Classic rules and new variants, such as a Salvo Mode with different types of missiles. | ||
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| Beat Experience, The | Voyager Company, The | [top] | |
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Presented in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition "Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-65," this disc includes original master recordings by Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane; images by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and over thirty other artists; excerpts from over twenty underground films by Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and others; as well as texts, photos, spoken word, and films by and about William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other key figures of the Beat generation. More than just an anthology, the CD-ROM brings the roots of contemporary art and culture to life through specially designed graphics by Sue Coe, Kevin Kerslake, Stephen Kroninger, Gary Panter, and Suzan Pitt, as well as provocative explorations into sexuality and intoxication integral to the Beat experience. Features include an original film which synthesizes the various components of the CD-ROM into a visceral, mind-bending experience. Selections from over thirty books including Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, and On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Over twenty films by filmmakers including Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Robert Breer, and Kenneth Anger. Over twenty minutes of music by artists including Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. Over fifty images from the Whitney's exhibition and the Museum's permanent collection. Contemporary artists Sue Coe, Gary Panter, and Stephen Kroninger have created the Beat Pad, a beautiful and resonant introductory space. | ||
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| Beavis and Butt-Head in Calling All Dorks | Viacom New Media | [top] | |
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Mainly a desktop theme pack for Windows 95, this stars the mischievous and weird cartoon characters from MTV's show Beavis and Butt-Head. Eight themes in total are offered, including School Sucks, Burger World, Chicks 'N Stuff, The Great Cornholio, Beavis and Butt-Head at Home, Gangs Rule, That Old Hippie, and Let's Rock. Each humorous theme includes a background picture, sounds to use with Windows cursors, animated cursors, new icons and so forth. Other elements of this package include Concentration (a game of hidden pairs) and the Decision Maker (a desktop toy, a block puzzle and a speaking clock). Movie style clips are included which should increase the appeal of the game to fans of the show. | ||
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| Beavis and Butt-Head in Wiener Takes All | Viacom New Media | [top] | |
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A quiz party game, this is designed to test people's knowledge of the two cartoon characters and their cartoon show. Play takes place from a pulled-back perspective allowing you to see Beavis and Butt-Head sitting on their couch watching television as the questions pop up on the television screen. Along with each question, four answers are displayed in multiple-choice format. Each player must buzz in, then answer the question by pressing the number corresponding to the answer they'd like to select. Each correct answer results in the gain of a certain dollar amount while an incorrect answer results in the loss of the same value. The player with the most money at the end wins the game and the one who'll do so is most likely to be a diehard fan of the show or just someone who knows a lot of music trivia. Most questions just refer to the television escapades of Beavis and Butt-Head so an in-depth knowledge of the boys' exploits is a prerequisite to being successful with this title. | ||
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| Between Earth And The End Of Time | Paper Tiger | [top] | |
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The Worlds of Rodney Matthews Traveler, are you ready for a fantastic voyage? Are you ready to journey with me to Worlds that defy explanation? For many years, Rodney Matthews has taken travelers, just like you, on an incredible voyage of imagination. To Worlds filled with aliens, creatures and moons that never set. Across skies lit with the red of blazing suns. Over vast frozen wastelands. Through dense forests peopled with legends. Let Rodney and me, your Navigator, take you there and bring you safely back to the confines of Earth, where ideas are first born. Where there is beauty in nature and in life. This CD-ROM will take you Between Earth and the End of Time, visiting worlds created in the imagination of one of the greatest fantasy artists of our, or any other time. Meet Rodney Matthews himself. Discover hidden Worlds on your own. Create your own works of fantasy art. Solve the mystery of the ethereal castle and receive your just rewards. Explore over two decades of fantasy illustration by Rodney Matthews. All accompanied by a custom soundtrack by rock legend Rick Wakeman. Come traveler, and journey with me to the End of Time. | ||
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| Beyond the Limit: Ultimate Climb | Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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Take to the cliffs in this mountain climbing game for kids. Choose your equipment wisely before you climb each mountain. You can decide to take various climbing equipment, first aid stuff, and plenty to munch on. Choose your anchor points and where you climb up the face. Be sure to avoid falling rocks, snakes, and other hazards as you make your way up. Careful that you don't fall. There's also plenty of abandoned mines to speed through to hasten your journey to the top. You'll travel around the southwest to many different famous rock faces with progressing difficulty. | ||
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| Billboard Music Guide | Creative Multimedia | [top] | |
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Packed with more than 4,000 entries on artists and bands that have cracked its charts over four decades, the Billboard Music Guide CD-ROM is as comprehensive as any compendium covering pop culture is going to get. With a wealth of search tools to track the annual Top 200 albums and full weekly charts from recent years (the lists run through early 1995), as well as listings by artist, song, category and record label, the guide is as smartly designed as it is attractive. Terrific links add to the pleasure; it's little surprise, for example, that you can zip to the Village People from the Pet Shop Boys (who covered the former's "Go West"). The downside is Billboard's generally glowing reviews. As the bible of the music business, there's little of the qualitative reviewing found in Rolling Stone magazine or Spin. But with 38,000 album reviews, 8,000 album covers, 900 photos and - best of all - 985 audio clips lasting 15 seconds each, the disc is a blast. There's something criminal, though, about not counting the Beatles, Rolling Stones or Elvis among the 56 video clips running 20 seconds each. (Alice in Chains over the King? For shame.) For its generous audio samples and nod to many genres, this disc works quite nicely. | ||
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| Blade Warrior / Zyclunt | Phantagram Ltd. / Miwon Information Technology | [top] | |
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Based on BLUE, Phantagram's own fast and effective game engine platform, Blade Warrior displays parallax, huge bosses, multiple PCM and spectacular visual effects at 30fps even on lower 486 PC's. Gloomy and stylish graphics, intense battles, and attractive characters complete this high quality Action title. The world has been enslaved by Murk, and players are challenged to free it by collecting the seven fragments of a tablet which are in the possession of seven wizards who inhabit seven towers. The game is a mix of adventuring and battling, in which players are tasked with collecting magical items and exploring the landscape of the game via the in-game map, all the while being assaulted by 'baddies'. Various facilities in the game are accessible only when a certain number of artifacts have been collected. It's a fun anime side-scrolling platformer that not many people have heard about, mostly due to it being distributed only in shareware channels. The game is set in a dystopian future: in the year 2002 AD, planet earth was on the edge of social and economic breakdown due to incurable diseases, drugs, crimes, etc. Cyborgs and Bioroids were being exploited by the crime lords in their fight against the Establishment. You are Sou, member of Zyclunt - a band of retired and discredited soldiers paid by the Establishment to undertake covert missions. The various kinds of robots and Cyborgs you encounter look like they are ripped straight out from popular Japanese comics (manga) - it's a lot of fun just watching their cool designs and attacks. There are several cutscenes between missions that advance the story, and those are also very well done. The international Windows versions apparently alters a few things (new cinematics, a new stage). | ||
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| Blast Chamber | Attention to Detail Limited / Activision, Inc. | [top] | |
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A quite weird puzzle/action game in 3d, where you are a little guy in a chamber which is rotatable by pushing around the corners. Objects will fall down then and some other parts of the level get accesible. The game also supports a 2 player competitive mode, where you have to pick up objects and put them in another one's crystal. Try to avoid the other to get to his crystal by moving around the chamber. | ||
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| Blood & Magic | Tachyon Studios Inc. / Interplay Productions Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a real-time strategy game focused on unit management rather than base construction. It uses the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons license (and thus has AD&D type units) and takes place in the Forgotten Realms AD&D setting. There are five separate storyline scenarios of increasing difficulty with three missions per scenario, playable from the side of both factions each, for a total of 30 missions in the game. The game is tile-based with a 2D top-down perspective. The player starts out with the ability to create Basal Golems, around which the game revolves since they generate your sole source of power: mana. By spending mana they can be transformed into stronger fighter units or, less frequently, into buildings. The various types of terrain affect combat & movement; magical items may be found on the battlefield (and the enemy does use them, too!). | ||
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| Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain | Silicon Knights / Crystal Dynamics / Activision | [top] | |
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The nobleman Kain has been slain by a group of bandits and in his death, he is revived by the necromancer, Nupraptor for his own ends. Kain is returned in the form of a vampire and burns to exact revenge on those who had killed him. Stronger and faster than a human being, coupled with a thirst for blood that must be satisfied regularly, he is able to dispatch his killers quickly. However Nupraptor and other forces seek to use him a tool in a greater plot. Nupraptor is of the circle of nine, the guardians of the Pillars of Nosgoth. These pillars, the center of the world and balancing the forces, have become corrupted and the Circle members been driven mad (including Nupraptor). The only way to restore the balance is for Kain to seek out each guardian and kill them. The fate of Nosgoth may hang on Kain decisions. Blood Omen is a top-down game where the player controls the vampiric Kain. As a vampire, Kain is vulnerable to direct sunlight as well as water. He is however able to obtain several cursed abilities and spells such as being able to transform into a bat, transform into a werewolf, transform into a mist cloud and sometimes disguise himself from creatures of weaker mind. But Kain is also fixated on murder and is a master of several ways to kill and destroy his opponents. As the enemies are slain in front of him, Kain may drink their blood to restore his health, which is always trickling away, representative of his insatiable craving. To aid in the slaughter of his enemies, Kain may equip different weapons and armor, each with its own unique properties. It plays like your typical Legend of Zelda-style action RPG, light on character interaction and heavy on exploration, dungeon crawling, and combat. You witness the action from a bird's-eye view, highlighted by dozens of smoothly animated, 3D-rendered characters and gorgeous colored lighting. | ||
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| Bodyworks 4.0: Human Anatomy Leaps To Life | Mythos Software / Softkey | [top] | |
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An interactive information system designed to let the user explore the system, structures and functions of the human body, with state-of-the-art virtual reality. Includes magnified 3D views, cutaways, 3D rotating views, detailed videos and animation. "Speech back" sound gives correct pronunciation of anatomy terminology. Focuses on skeletal, muscular, nervous, cardiovascular, resporatory, digestive and other systems. Health Section provides information on first aid, fitness, sports injuries, common illnesses, diet and nutrition. It contains: 25 fully rendered virtual reality 3-d models; 165 full color illustrations; 300,000 words of expert text; 1,900 highlighted words of technical terms; 4 original musical scores. | ||
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| Bug Explorers | Roaring Mouse Entertainment / Memorex-Telex N.V. | [top] | |
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Countless hours of educational learning activities. Join Buzz the super-spelling bumblebee, Daddio the artistic spider and all of their friends as you explore an interactive world filled with educational games, puzzles, videos and more. Bug Explorers will captivate kids for countless hours as they come back to play and learn again and again. No parents or manuals are necessary to explore this amusement park crawling with fun. Buzz the Bumblebee takes you on a journey filled with alphabet games and educational bug videos. Paint by numbers as you choose from many colors and insect pictures. Dot-to-dot, a coloring book and other fun activities empower children to create their own works of art. Be a contestant on fun gameshows with Scout the Ant to learn insect facts and develop identification skills. Create your own music, play simple simon, or listen and learn to musical favorites. Radar the Dragonfly hosts matching games that help build reasoning, identification, and memory skills. Travel to the city, the farm, and the park to discover hidden objects while learning letters. Collect keys for a chance to play the Bug Bash arcade game. Three types of puzzles teach kids all about bugs with bug trivia, spelling and pronunciation. Fascinating videos give children the opportunity to learn incredible facts about the world of insects and the art of bug collecting. Educational Benefits for Ages 4-6: Matching/Identification, Alphabet, Spatial perception, Memory, Creativity, and Music skills. Increase knowledge of insects and bug life. For Ages 6-12: Deductive reasoning, Vocabulary word/object identification, Memory and Music skills, Increase knowledge of insects and bug life. | ||
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| Casseta e Planeta: Noite Animal [Pt] | ATR Multimídia | [top] | |
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The purpose of the game Animal Night is to go to the party at Mother Joana's house try to eat someone. Controlling the protagonist Zé Mané, a middle-class teenager with the a thousand hormones, you follow the narrative in an adventure game and go after your dream, seemingly impossible, to have sex with a real woman. In the course of your journey you are challenged with various mini-games of different genres that try to copy very badly the main successes of the electronic games of the time: Tetris, Doom, PacMan, Space Invaders, etc. Whenever possible, inserting not-so-hidden references to sexual organs and humor with gays, minorities, police, women, the pope, more gay men and more sex organs. In the mid-1990s, it seemed that nothing could stop the humorous monopoly established by the group Casseta & Planeta. Originally two humor groups responsible for different publications, the Casseta Popular and the Daily Planet, the group, still in the 1980s, began to make a success with humor and music shows, culminating in their first album, Preto com um Hole na Meio, title that shows well what the boys came. At the same time, they began working for television, first as writers for the Pirata TV program and then in 1992, with the debut of their Cassette and Urgent Planet program on Globo network, which aired until 2010, four years later the passing of good old Bussunda. | ||
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| Collier's Encyclopedia | Sierra | [top] | |
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Collier's makes a late entry into an already crowded CD-ROM encyclopedia market (Britannica, Compton's, Grolier's, IBM World Book, Microsoft Encarta). Sierra developed and markets this 3 CD-ROM multimedia encyclopedia which includes an atlas, dictionary, and several interactive simulations. The encyclopedia includes about 21,000 articles, 18,000 photographs and other images, 150 videos and animations and 6 hours of sound and music clips. Multimedia items, when selected, open in a new screen. A nice feature of the photographs is that they use fractal technology. This allows you to do several levels of zoom in any area of the image without the severe pixelation of a typical bitmap image. The Atlas opens on a world map: You can search for a site by name, or you can click on a spot on the map to go to a more detailed map, if one exists. Also included is a bare bones 100,000 word dictionary. | ||
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| Colony 28 [Cz] | 5th Dimension / Napoleon Games, JRC Interactive | [top] | |
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Supporters of the Flashback games will surely be pleased because C28 is a game exactly of this type. The story starts somewhere in the year 2018, when our planet was attacked by a really nasty extraterrestrial civilization, which, after exterminatimg most people, changes the rest of the prisoners to cyborg workers. One such robot was redesigned. But what has happened? Something in your electronic circuits is broken and there is a short flashback in which you're aware of what's actually going on. After this brain shock, you try a dramatic escape and journey, whose objective is the destruction of the orbital base. The path to the base, however, is not so simple. Before you get there, you have to go through eight zones full of heavily armed soldiers, sophisticated traps and logical problems. Running in multiple 2D planes stacked over each other, shoot everything that moves. You collect the keys, access cards, special weapons, ammunition and other items that are needed to bridge some of the problem areas. Joining action and adventure tends to have the most success, and it is no different here. | ||
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| Comic-On: Volumes 1-5 [J] | Genesis Digital Publishing Company / Toshiba EMI | [top] | |
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The goal of these was to make the first digital mangas, halfway between the paper manga and the anime. The software used is Photoshop and Macromedia Director. Volume 1 (Feb 7) Kimagure Orange Road: "Panic in Sentou" ("Panic in public baths" also known as episode 157 ) with music, sound effects, subtitles and animated bubbles but without words. The song "Tsubomi no mama no sakura no shita" ("Under the cherry remains the bud") is in midi format. Black Moon, original screenplay by Raita Okura, illustrated by Izumi Matsumoto, works after prepublication in Comic Gamma (Takeshobo), steampunk story. Kappa to the Teacher, screenplay by Megumi Nishino (Genesis DPC Editor), drawing by Yumi Touma, supervised by Izumi Matsumoto, prepublished in Burger Comic (Scola). Apples, Izumi Matsumoto's one-shot already published in Super Jump, embellished here with some digital effects. Transcendence, digital manga with special effects by Jan Scott-Frazier. Monster Friday, one-shot, original screenplay by Lea Hernandez ("Lea Helnandez" appearing in the credits because the Japanese confuse "l" and "r"). Fiana Sword, tale that was to be used as a basis for a RPG on PC98 "Toki no densetsu" ("The Legend of the Times"), original scenario of Raita Okura, photos of Kato and Shintaro. Kazumasa Hirai's special interview by Izumi Matsumoto on "Bohemian Glass Street" and electronic publishing (ie digital). If you read his postface in volume 1 of the Tonkam edition of the KOR manga, he explains that he wrote this novel as a tribute to KOR. Volume 2 (Nov 27), Volume 3 (Feb 26/97), Volume 4 (May 28), Volume 5 (Oct 29). | ||
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| Command & Conquer: Red Alert | Westwood Studios, Inc. / Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a prequel to the real-time strategy war game Command & Conquer. In the "what if" alternate-history universe, World War II was not initiated by Germany under the leadership of Adolph Hitler but was a blight on mankind authored by the rise of Russia's Joseph Stalin instead. The war itself happens but the driving factor is the invasion of Europe by Soviet forces, thus the significance of the title "Red Alert". As in the original game, this supports multi-player action but doubles the number of possible players (from four to eight) via a LAN or the Internet. The game features many new enhancements including a much more detailed level of unit command on land, in the air or at sea, a practice option (Skirmish Mode) and a choice of playing as either Soviet or Allied forces, each with 13 specific missions. Additionally, the game introduces a large number of new units and structures ranging from attack dogs to Chronosphere Generators. The game's real-time aspect is preserved and gameplay includes appearances of both famous and infamous historical figures. It has a dedicated web site containing such extras as a "War Factory" for learning about the various vehicles (helicopters, mine layers, tanks, submarines, missile launchers and more) available during gameplay and a "Research Archive" that offers information on weaponry. Special software designed for chatting with other fans of the game can also be found at the site. It has thirty new units include destroyers, MIGs, spies, and submarines, over 40 missions and dozens of multiplayer maps, and up to eight players can battle it out via IPX. To celebrate 13 years of Command & Conquer, the game was made available for free on 31st August 2008.
See also: #Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Counterstrike, #Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Aftermath, Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, #Ace's Revenge, #Are You Ready & Alert, #C&C 2: Level Alert, #Defcon 3 for Command & Conquer and Red Alert Add-on Levels, #Total Destruction: The Madness Of War, #Tactical Operations Volume II: Beyond Destruction, Red Dawn, Toolkit For Red Alert |
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| Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations | Westwood Studios, Inc. / Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an add-on to Command & Conquer. It adds 15 new single-player missions to the game: 7 for GDI and 8 for Nod. The missions can be played in any order and are noticeably more difficult than any in the original game. Several units that had only been available in multiplayer mode in the original game now regularly appear in the new single-player missions as well, including Nod's chem troopers and SSM launchers. In addition to the single-player missions, there are also 10 new multiplayer maps. The add-on disc can be used with both the original release of Command & Conquer as well as the Special Gold Edition re-release for Windows. | ||
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| Command Companion | Actura Software | [top] | |
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This unofficial add-on disc contains levels, cheats and editors for Command & Conquer. | ||
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| Conveni EX, The [J] | Masterpiece / PCHome | [top] | |
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This is a management simulation game based on a convenience store. The EX version is an alternative and exclusive iteration (with some upgrades) of the 1st "The Conveni" game series made for "PC Home" budget series. As the owner of a convenience chain, we will open stores in the city of the stage. Clear the conditions given for each scenario while formulating various strategies based on factors such as interior decoration, selling price, and personnel affairs. The conditions for clearing the scenario are typical. Attract the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building ( achieve a certain number of town populations ); Monopolize the city (complete withdrawal of rival stores); Raise the owner's evaluation; Make a profit; And so on. Convenience stores in the city are not limited to your own store, but there is another convenience store chain (multiple convenience stores depending on the series). This is the "rival store" seen by the player, and a battle for customers is fought between these two stores. This rival store is an enemy to compete with, but it also needs to be used to improve profits. Sometimes it even needs to coexist in some scenarios. The development of the town is indispensable to increase the sales of convenience stores. If you aggressively open stores, the population will increase, but at the same time, land prices will also rise. It will become more difficult to open stores, but if you are reluctant to expand, the population will gradually decrease. We will consult with your money and develop stores carefully and boldly. It is also possible to intentionally manipulate the town population by "attracting" the facilities. | ||
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| Conveni, The: Ano Machi wo Dokusen [J] | Masterpiece | [top] | |
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This is a business simulation game and the first in the Conveni series. It is a top-down simulator similar in nature to SimCity, however has the player manage a chain of convenience stores. See also: #Conveni, The: Power-up Kit Vol.1 |
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| Conveni, The: Power-up Kit Vol.1 [J] | Masterpiece / PCHome | [top] | |
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This is an addition to the original game The Conveni: Ano Machi Wo Dokusen Sey. Maps with terrain such as mountains, seas, and rivers have appeared, and there are various additional elements in more detailed aspects. | ||
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| Corel All Movie Guide 2 | Michael Erlewine / Corel | [top] | |
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All Movie Guide was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. This CD-ROM takes you to the heart of moviemaking with updated listings for more than 100,000 feature films, documentaries, videos and made-for-tv movies. Learn about the players involced in eaach production, from actors and directors to producers and cinematographers - more than 174,000 listings in all. Then link to movie-related World Wide Web pages. The 3D video store interface and comprehensive Search Wizard help you quickly locate specific films or generate a list of recommended films based on your own search criteria. With thousands of movie stills, celebrity photos and movie posters, it's a must for any film buff. Updated and additional movie data: 10,000 new movie/video entries; 18,000 new industry professional entries; 100,000 new credit entries; 8,000 new award winners; 5,000 new full biographies; hot links to Web pages of stars, movies and studios; 2,620 movie stills; 65 movie posters; over 800 movie star photos; automatic updates over the internet - download updates to the movie database quarterly. In 1998, it was made into a free browsable website. The database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites and kiosks. The AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. | ||
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| Crazy Drake | Neurotech Software / One Reality, eGames | [top] | |
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Crazy Drake is a side-scrolling action game similar to Earthworm Jim, in which the player controls a duck, Crazy Drake, through various levels set in six different episodes. One night in LoonVille, Prince Drake was playing his favourite video game. Unbeknownst to him, the Evil Dr. FoulBrain broke into the palace and stole the Sacred GoldenEgg, which was the source of power in the kingdom. Since Prince was to blame for not guarding the egg, he knew what had to be done and became Crazy Drake. The game controls like a standard side-scrolling platformer. The player's main attack is a gun with unlimited ammo and they can find special items that can give them Silver Bullets for the gun and a special secondary weapon called SmartBomb. The levels are ridden with hidden items like extra lives, first aid items, and even items that will teleport the player to hidden and secret levels. The eGames version is different to the original DOS version. For example, Drake wears a red mask and lives in Ducktroplis in the eGames version; while in the original 1996 version he is bare-faced, making a silly face, and lives in Loonsville. | ||
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| Creatures | Cyberlife Technology Ltd. / Warner Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a biological simulation. You start with six eggs of Norns, cute little creatures who live in an imaginary world. Your task is to give them knowledge about the world they live in, learn them how to speak, how to use toys, an elevator, how to eat etc. They will eventually grow older, reproduce themselves and die. The game uses its own genetics system, as well as biochemical and neurological calculations to determine the evolution of Norns and the way their DNA would develop in their descendants.
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| Crow, The: The Complete Interactive Collection | Content Inc. / Graphix Zone | [top] | |
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This CD-ROM collection is about the original movie and sequel and contains an enhanced CD single based on the comic book series by James O'Barr and the films The Crow and The Crow: City of Angels. The disc features behind-the-scenes footage and clips from both Crow films, interviews with cast and crew members, previously unreleased film footage including the unreleased "Skull Cowboy" from the first Crow film, and both film trailers. It also features 120 film clips, interviews and biographies of the two casts, excerpts from O'Barr's famous graphic novel, as well as many unpublished O'Barr drawings which are also featured in an exclusive sketch book that is bundled with the CD-ROM. The main screen interface shows a panoramic QuickTime VR walk-through (created with Apple Computer's QuickTime VR technology) of an abandoned gothic cathedral with navigation areas that lead to stained glass windows which explore the Crow themes of Pain, Atmosphere, Lament, Madness, Attrition, Crescendo and Forever, plus areas focused on Crow Film Casts, Graphic Novel, Skull Cowboy and Film Production. | ||
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| Das Museum [G] | Dieter Schumacher / Escal Software | [top] | |
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The player moves virtually by mouse click through the museum of The Third Reich. This multimedia cd-rom uses 3D prerendered graphics and has 5 hours of voice narration, 15 minutes of documentary videos, 150 authentic photos, and 50 historic maps. | ||
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| Deathtrap Dungeon, Ian Livingstone's | Asylum Studios / Eidos Inc | [top] | |
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Eidos is responsible for the popular Tomb Raider series, and they have turned that game engine into an entertaining swords-and-sorcery adventure that few competitors can match. As with all Eidos games, the intro is fantastic. It gets you right into the story with great sound and graphics, much as if you're watching a movie. Based on the Fighting Fantasy books by Ian Livingstone, Deathtrap Dungeon sends players into battle against more than 50 different monsters in this 3D action/combat title. Make your way through 10 dangerous 3D levels filled with mazes, corridors, dungeons, and traps while battling dragons, mummies, rats, and zombies. A variety of weapons are at the player’s disposal including a choice of swords, hammers, flame-throwers, muskets, and magical spells. In the city Fang, there is a terrible labyrinth created by the evil ruler Baron Sukomvit. Each year, he invites the greatest adventurers in the world to try his labyrinth. If one of them succeeds, they will be granted riches beyond their wildest imagination. However, since no one has ever managed it, the task has fallen to you. You can choose one of two characters to guide through the underworld. The male character is somewhat stronger, but the female is faster. The game will change the view at certain points, giving it a cinematic feel. | ||
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| Dennis Miller: That's Geek to Me | Sanctuary Woods Multimedia | [top] | |
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Before the kids and the mortgage and a job that requires a tie, there was Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update with Dennis Miller, the coolest newscaster to hit the airwaves in the 90s. In this title, Miller makes fun of technology in an interactive glossary. Miller, still fresh from his Saturday Night Live days, has his own sarcastic explanation of high-tech jargon from the mid 1990s. The jokes are vintage Miller. | ||
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| Dinosaur Hunter | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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Pit your wits against the past and search for buried bones to bring dinosaurs back to life. Educational benefits: learn about dinosaur species; study behavior patterns; find out about classification; discover how dinosaurs evolved; look at the work of paleontologists; investigate extinction theories. It has 30 interactive 3D consoles, 50,000 words of text, 15 video segments, 340 fully rendered views, 650 screens and pop-ups, and it includes dinosaur book and press-out Stegosaurus model. This is an interactive learning adventure that lets you bring long-extinct creatures back to life. Get up close and personal with 50 different species of dinosaurs, follow in the footsteps of famous paleontologists, travel the world in search of fossils, and even dig up and assemble your own animated dinosaurs! It's all there beneath Eyewitness Museum, plus plenty of 3D models, interactive exhibits, animations and video, even simulated dinosaur sounds. The Dino Online console is your doorway to DK's live dinosaur magazine on the Internet. Exciting features, competitions, and the latest dinosaur news and updates are yours to browse. Enter if you dare. Scrolling X-ray panels reveal every detail of interior and exterior dinosaur anatomy. Enter the subterranean world beneath Eyewitness Museum and travel a quarter of a billion years into the past, when dinosaurs like the terrifying Tyrannosaurus and the vicious Velociraptor stalked the prehistoric earth. In this spectacular 3D environment, you'll learn about dinosaurs by searching for fossils to assemble and bring to life as fully animated dinosaurs. On your way to the Dinosaur Excavation Site, travel through time tunnels, visit the Arena, watch videos and animations, take interactive quizzes, and even listen to specially simulated dinosaur sounds. More than just a guide to these fascinating creatures, Eyewitness Virtual Reality Dinosaur Hunter lets you become an intrepid dinosaur hunter as you explore the prehistoric past. Zoom in on brilliantly rendered, fully animated 3-D dinosaurs in the Arena, and learn all about dinosaur behavior, anatomy, and movement through interactive exhibits. Time Tunnels take you from the Triassic through the Cretaceous periods. Along the way, watch videos and animations and manipulate 3D objects to learn more about each dinosaur. Take the elevator down to the Excavation Site, dig for fossilized bones to piece together- and when your dinosaur is complete, watch it come to life and roam around the museum. Six partially completed skeletons are included. Packed with facts, each dino profile includes information on size, habitat, range, feeding habits, major finds, and much more, accessible through a clear, intuitive interface. 3D models let you manipulate dino-related artifacts and amazing dinosaur parts, like an Iguanodon hand with its hoofed fingers and vicious thumb-spike. | ||
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| Dracula: Truth and Terror | Voyager Company, The | [top] | |
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Horror invades your hard drive with best-selling author and vampire expert Dr. Raymond McNally's exploration of the most notorious member of the vampire race: Dracula! Never before has such a complete collection of the undeniable facts and bone-chilling fiction of Dracula been available in one place. See the earliest surviving vampire film, test your knowledge of vampire trivia, and learn all sorts of vampire lore. Dracula: Truth and Terror reveals how scientists and historians explain this mythical creature - and how writers and filmmakers have turned "it" into a celebrity! The game features the complete text of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, with hundreds of pop-up annotations by Dr. McNally. There is also the classic film, Nosferatu, with an optional commentary track by Dr. McNally. There's also information on the life history of the "real" Dracula, known as Vlad the Impaler, with photographs, drawings, and re-enactments. There's also film clips from some laughably bad vampire movies with commentary by Dr. McNally and a Dracula/Vampire Filmography listing over 1,300 vampire film titles from around the world, including mini-reviews. Finally there's a comprehensive library of vampire legends from around the world. | ||
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| DragonHeart: Fire & Steel | Funcom Oslo A/S / Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This game is a tie-in for the movie directed by Rob Cohen starring Dennis Quaid and Sean Connery as the voice of Draco. DragonHeart puts you in the sweaty medieval shoes of dragon hunter Bowen, as he faces the last dragons still surviving, and then ends up befriending one, Draco. With his help, he goes after King Einon, a former pupil of the dragon hunter, who has turned to evil. Dragonheart's gameplay is quite similar to the Golden Axe series. Hack'n'slash your way through the nine levels of the game, killing dragons, befriending Draco and then going after Einon with Draco's help (who will toast everything in the way with his flame breath). | ||
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| Elroy's Costume Closet | Headbone Interactive / Broderbund | [top] | |
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A now rare children's game featuring Elroy from "Elroy Goes Bugzerk" and "Elroy Hits the Pavement." Not directly adventure based, but moving between dressing rooms and the stage take on a first person point and click perspective. Join Elroy and Syd in a majestic theater full of costumes, magic and fun. It's up to you to dress them and reveal over 75 hilarious, animated skits - each determined by the costumes you mix and match. Dress up Elroy from head toe in more than 50 sets of costumes. See your outfits onstage in outrageous settings. Laugh with Elroy and Syd as they perform skits with every change of clothes. Print and color or cut out your creations to make magnets, puppets or even your own coloring book. You could download from Headbone's website new sets of costumes for the game. | ||
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| Eraser: Turnabout | Imagination Pilots / Warner Bros. | [top] | |
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In this game followup to the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Eraser, you're John Krueger, The Eraser, and you've got a few hours to shut down a conspiracy that threatens the free world and to stop the latest terrorist strike. Along the way, you'll shoot it out with well-armed teams of professional assassins, explore dangerous environments, piece together bizarre clues, and defeat deadly electronic counter measures. You'll have a little help from your friends, but mostly you'll be on your own - get used to it. It's a two disk interactive adventure featuring arcade-style, high-speed shooting environments, variable outcomes and character interactions, compelling and challenging puzzles, plus full screen, full motion video navigation sequences designed specifically for Intel's MMX technology. | ||
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| Escher Interactive: Exploring the Art of the Infinite | Byron Preiss Multimedia | [top] | |
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This includes a history of famous Dutch artist Escher's work, interactive puzzles, tesselation generator, and print gallery. It's a comprehensive look at the life and works of this extraordinary personage. It contains biographical information, games and puzzles, but most of its scope is dedicated to visual exploration of Escher's exceptional contribution to the art world. The whole of Escher's graphic work and many of his drawings may be viewed in the game's Gallery section. You may scan the images chronologically, or use a search term to find particular subjects. Since many works have a tremendous amount of fine detail, you may enlarge the images to explore any portion therein. While not himself a scientist, Escher astounded the scientific community with the mathematical preciseness of his creations. His protestations that he knew nothing of mathematics usually evoked the response that of course he had to know more than even he imagined. Much of his work consists of pictures or carvings which divide a plane into interlocking figures. This product contains a Tessellation Workshop allowing the user to take a single piece of one of Escher's symmetry drawings and, through distortion, pattern addition and coloration, create a masterpiece of his or her own. Remember those Magic Pictures sometimes called "stareograms" which consist of an encrypted 3-D image lurking amidst what looks like multi-colored static? Some can see them, some can't and some just think they can't. Escher Interactive offers several of these for the staring, and the hidden images here are, of course, Escher figures. Escher was interested in the distortion produced when a spherical lens was placed over a two-dimensional picture space. There is a Spheres module here which allows you to experiment with this effect on ten Escher images. There are two game/puzzle activities to challenge one's own spatial concepts. Convex/Concave (named after a print by the same name) tests your ability to judge a space that can be either convex or concave depending upon the perspective of the objects placed within it. The second is Impossible Puzzles and believe me, some of them are ? although the designers insist that all are solvable. Each consists of a 3-D model alongside various disconnected shapes which, when properly assembled, will duplicate the model. | ||
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| Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Science | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Science is an incredible multimedia experience in science that was published in three editions starting in 1996. Conceptual information is given within the four categories of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Life Sciences. Click on a subdivision of any of these categories and listen to an explanation. Other aspects of the subdivision can be accessed by a click of the mouse. Check out "Who's Who" to learn about the lives and works of famous scientists. In "Quiz Master", check your scientific knowledge quotient by taking a fun multiple choice test. View various videos in "Video Start", use the "Matter Explorer" to simulate viewing different kinds of matter under very powerful microscopes, view 3D versions of common molecules in "Virtual Molecule", or learn about our universe through "Earth and Universe". | ||
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| Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe is a comprehensive source of fascinating information on topics related to astronomy and space exploration. Most of the program consists of the multimedia encyclopedia with topics ranging from astronomy, to the space race , and the history of the study of space from ancient times to the present. Special features include a "Who's Who" of famous people, a technical manual with information about the technology of space exploration, 3D models of space vehicles, and a quiz which may be played by one or two people. | ||
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| Eyewitness Virtual Reality: Cats | Dorling Kindersley Software | [top] | |
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From the moment you enter this spectacular virtual museum, you¿ll be awe-struck by the vast amount of fascinating information and creative exhibits dedicated exclusively to the world of cats! This program is a fun interactive journey, meticulously researched and compiled by experts and animal lovers to explain the mysterious ways of felines around the globe and throughout time. Features: 3-D Exhibits - Rotate objects to examine them from any angle; Click to zoom in for amazing close-up views; Interactive Consoles Stretch your imagination with built-in activities and challenges; Pick you favorite image or sound from the many displayed and download them for desktop use or personalized stationery; Guided Tours - Choose an expert to show you around the museum, or create your own tour to play back for friends, classmates, or family. | ||
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| Fugitive, The / La Fuga | Exelweiss Entertainment S.L., Crystal Interactive / Midas Interactive | [top] | |
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In this obscure strategic adventure in isometric view, your goal is to escape from prison. Your days run fast and you have to reach your goal. Ask, interrogate, search, change, or steal. Use all your cleverness to find all the elements you need to escape. Only 7 days and there is a lot of work. Don't miss daily tasks and they won't suspect. Be careful with night cameras. Any favor you do will give you benefit. Have all prepared, because you are now... THE FUGITIVE. | ||
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| Games Factory, The | Clickteam / Xplosiv | [top] | |
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This is a piece of game creation software. It is the successor to Klik & Play. The package contains three playable games that showcase the potential of the software and which can be used as examples by aspiring developers. These games are: Zeb - a side scrolling platform shoot'em up game; Lobotomy - a Donkey Kong style game in which the player ascends a series of platforms while avoiding barrels which are rolling down them; Magician's Lair - a top down isometric game in which the player protects sheep from imps, all the imps have to be killed to complete a level. Games created with this package can be given away but cannot be sold commercially. It was later made freeware. | ||
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| Gender Wars | The 8th Day / GT Interactive Software Corp. | [top] | |
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After eons of fighting between the genders, men and women have broken into separate factions, each using genetic engineering to create new followers, and waging terrible war upon each other. Upon selecting the side you wish to play (depicted as either clueless blondes who can't drive, or beer-swigging lazy oafs), you select a team of 4 for your missions, arm them up with guns and other assorted weaponry, and wreak havoc on the 'enemy' in this isometric Syndicate-like game. Progress through the levels to the final conflict, collecting tanks and other assorted 'powerups' along the way, and watching the humourous cutscenes as you go. | ||
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| Geosafari Animals | Educational Insights, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an educational game about animals for ages 8 and up. There are sixteen games available: Animal Hall of Fame, Shark!, Animals Sound Off!, Geosafari Dog Show, Skulls, Name that Bird Call, Reptiles, Micro Mysteries, Horse Round-Up, Endangered Animals, Animal Art Gallery, Whale Watch, Animal Eye-D, Weird World of Animals and GeoChallenge. There are pictures, illustrations and even videos. One to four people can play the game simultaneously. Typing in your name is not necessary because their is a list of names by alphabet. If your name is not there, you can select a nickname. In each game you get three tries to answer a question and the reponse time is taken into account. You can also adjust the game time to make sessions longer or shorter. Aside from the standard mode, you can also play takeover (correct other players' wrong answers) or free for all where players buzz in to answer the question. The game features a glossary with all the featured animals. If you get every question right, you win a medal, and if you win medals in every game you receive a trophy. | ||
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| Great Myths and Legends II, The: Lost Cities and Mythical Lands | Nexus Interactions / EMME Interactive | [top] | |
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Volume 2 covers the lands and lost cities of Atlantis, Tower of Babel, Easter Island, Eldorado, Bermuda Triangle, Labryinth of Daedalus, Stonehenge, Herod’s Temple, Garden of Eden and the Fountain of Youth. The list contains both real places and those whose existence is at least controversial. After watching the introductory video, we find ourselves in a small, richly decorated hall, where we can click on several objects to summon a monk, listen to his lengthy ranting about what awaits the player here, and also evaluate the local special effects. Moving all the way to the right will lead to the exit. In the middle of the hall there is a chest with a world map. There are knitting needles stuck into it, and a sextant lies next to it. When you click on it, seven stone numbered buttons appear. With their help, we enter the three-digit code of the place of interest to us. How can you recognize him? From the manual or ReadMe on disk. There is no other option. Similar to the first part, there are ten destinations: Eden, Atlantis, the Knossos Labyrinth, the Tower of Babel, Easter Island, Eldorado, Stonehenge, the Fountain of Eternal Youth, the Western Wall and the Bermuda Triangle. The degree of interactivity this time requires a little more player intervention due to the introduction of pixel hunting. By entering the code for the desired location, we watch a short three-dimensional video, after which we find ourselves in a small location of several screens (from which Myst'om). Despite the apparent interactivity, we have few options for action. Everywhere, one way or another, there is a cross staff or a golden female bust on a pin. When you click on them, a guardian angel appears in the person of the aforementioned monk or a woman in a toga, who will briefly tell you about the place being observed. There is definitely a book lying somewhere nearby. Clicking on it will lead to the corresponding encyclopedic reading, where you can learn about the origin of the name, the first mentioned source, the alleged location (where applicable), and so on. Those who are especially inquisitive are not forgotten - they have the opportunity to look at the list of references used by the authors. The information here is presented in text form (we scroll through the pages using arrows in circles, and also open them by clicking on the stones), graphic (click on the magnifying glass next to the image and look at the picture closer) and sound (the icon of a twisted sea shell is responsible for this). And just like that, clicking here and there, we learn more and more about the current place. When you get tired of studying, for example, Atlantis, you can go to the sextant and click on it to find yourself in the central area, supposedly connecting everything. It plays exactly the same role as a chest with a map (you can get to it at any time by pressing the Esc key), except that it looks a little different graphically. And yes, you will have to enter a code here too. And no, the game doesn’t allow you to remember them, so if you want to visit a place you’ve already visited, then please enter it again. A somewhat strange decision, which was probably made to reduce the cost of production (after all, fewer intermediate screens need to be drawn). | ||
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| Grid Runner | Radical Entertainment / Virgin Interactive Entertainment | [top] | |
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Grid Runner combines elements of Capture the Flag and Tag to create a fast-paced and exciting game. The goal of each level is capture the most flags, but there's a catch: only one player can collect flags. So every other player will be trying to steal the ability to capture the flags and win. Complicating matters even more, all of the characters are equipped with weapons that can be used for offensive or defensive purposes. Play Grid Runner and find out if you can handle the pressure. There's 57 challenging levels of various difficulty levels, 28 rounds of two player simultaneous gameplay, and 15 opponents. | ||
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| Gubble | Actual Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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Made by the creator of the classic arcade game Crystal Castles, this is a similar upbeat, arcade action game rendered in a colorful 3-D world. So appealing is the simple, but challenging, gameplay and the variety of characters. The main goal is to accumulate points by completing the levels, called zymbots. With each zymbot worth ten points, and over 150 zymbots in the game, reaching the seemingly low score of 200 is quite a time consuming accomplishment. Playing from a third-person perspective, you guide the game's protagonist, Gubble D. Gleep, a perky, big-eared purple alien, around the zymbots in his little green spaceship picking up power-ups and removing all the fasteners such as nails, hex nuts, and screws from each zymbot. Embracing a -like motto of "the right tool for the right job," Gubble has a variety of brand tools at his disposal to undo the fasteners - hammer removes nail, screwdriver removes screws, and so on. While keeping Gubble on track requires little skill (in some respects it's a lot like Pac-Man), the true challenge comes in skillfully avoiding health-threatening collisions with a myriad of nasties like Wangry Wobot Wannabees and Boiler Bots. In 2007, a Gubble HD remake was released with higher resolution graphics, all 150 levels, three difficulty settings, and 12 minigames. | ||
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| Gundam Tactics: Mobility Fleet 0079 [J] | Bandai | [top] | |
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This is a real-time strategy video game based on the Gundam anime series originally on Pippin and MAC in 1996. The setting takes place during the One Year War where the player leads either an Earth Federation or Principality of Zeon space fleet. The story is divided into two campaigns, each with three routes. | ||
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| Hollywood High | Theatrix Interactive | [top] | |
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Write, direct, and produce the stories of your life. Your generation has its own scene. So write about it! Create animated multimedia productions about. Cast over ten really cool characters who act just like you and your friends. Pick their roles and hobbies- like mountain biker, rock star, prom queen, and more. Pick your scenes from over 30 different locations and events- like the school dance, the look-out-point, the mall, even the bathroom- and write multiple scenes into the same script. Script in your latest expressions, and your characters will say it- in full lip synch. Tough talk. Sweet talk. Whatever… And assign customized pronunciations to any word you write. Even choose your stage directions- like chews gum, plays air guitar, or talks on the phone. Writer's block? No problem! Just brainstorm with the Idea Machine, an endless storehouse of the hippest, coolest scene starters, plot twists, and dialogue you can click right into your script. It's showtime! Now that you've put your life into your next big production, play it back for friends and family- they'll love seeing themselves! You can even send your production over the Internet for the world to watch. Works with characters & scenes from Hollywood- the award-winning original. Essential learning for ages 9 to adult. This builds writing and language skills, inspires creativity in a rich multimedia environment, and develops understanding of story line, plot, dialogue, and character development. It's a perfect springboard for careers in journalism, theater, broadcast, and film. | ||
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| How to Draw the Marvel Way | Marvel Studios, Cloud 9 Entertainment | [top] | |
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An educational creativity center game/application featuring the voice and likeness of the late Stan Lee. This CD-ROM brings the secrets of draw- ing Marvel's famous (and infamous) characters to you in an enjoyable compelling manner. Guided by Stan Lee, you learn form, shading, perspective, and artists' tips and tricks to help improve your drawings. You can also create posters, comic book covers, and trading cards with the Marvel heroes and villains. | ||
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| Huygen's Disclosure | Microforum | [top] | |
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This action/adventure game is set in 2020 when the ozone layer is almost completely destroyed. A member of the Galactic Reconaissance Unit is sent to the moon Titan to examine if the recently found gas Rachellium could be the solution to earth's environmental problems. But of course he gets immediately involved in the resident's own problems. The player character is controlled with the mouse. When pressing a key on the keyboard the game opens a menu were the four main options can be chosen. The adventure part consists of logic puzzles like the assembling of a broken solar cell, finding and using inventory items and multiple-choice conversations. The second part of the game is the combat with the various life forms of Titan. Instead of a point & click interface the player has to use a aiming panel on the upper right corner. By moving a crosshair inside this box the player aims his weapons in the actual game world. The weapons are fired with the already mentioned menu. During the game the player meets companions which help him during combat. They also receive their orders over the keyboard menu. | ||
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| I love cars Tomica World [J] | Tomy Multi Media | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese Win3.1 CD-Rom with minigames based on Tomi toy car sets. | ||
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| Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | [top] | |
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Desktop adventures is made to run in a windowed form on the desktop to use the least amount of memory possible and still allows the player to perform other on screen tasks. This game is set in 1930s Mexico with motley characters, challenging puzzles, and a huge variety of outcomes. Each game averages 30 minutes. The plot, size, and direction of each game are randomly generated at the start, with locations and items being different every time. This style of play is very similar to that in many adventure games on the consoles of yesteryears, such as Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series. Alas, it may be more appropriate to compare this desktop adventure to other desktop games in Windows (for example, Mines and Solitaire), notwithstanding its Indiana Jones license. Each game is designed to play for only about half an hour to an hour. To start each game, the player chooses to randomly create a small, medium or large world in which randomly generated quests have to be solved. The beginning of every game is always the same—you start off at the village and inside a building where, for most of the time, Marcus Brody tells you about a quest and asks you to acquire an artifact to be returned to him. Most of these puzzles or quests consist merely of collecting objects, giving them to some characters so to acquire other objects, which are then given yet to other characters, and so on. Much of the time is lost searching for the right characters for the right objects, both of which are randomly scattered over the map. | ||
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| Inner Worlds | Sleepless Software Inc. | [top] | |
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Inner Worlds is a fun, very atmospheric shareware game that rivals Konami's classic Castlevania and features a few nice twists to the tried-and-true concept. You play a scantily-clad Nikita, who has the astonishing ability to turn into a ferocious she-wolf. Her quest is to track down Gralob, the evil monster creation of a misguided genius which has plagued the world for generations. Gameplay will be familiar to anyone who's played side-scrolling platform games. Basically, Nikita runs, jumps and climbs in order to find health gems, spells and amulets and to fight off spiders and bats and all the usual plethora of monsters. The ability to change into a she-wolf adds a lot to the standard formula, though, since there are places where you must change into a she-wolf in order to pass, and you can't shapeshift at will since you need enough mana to do so (or enough shapeshifting potions). Puzzle elements are also sprinkled throughout the game - for example, sometimes you need to use "levitate" potion to get to a high ledge. The graphics are excellent, and in contrast to the "flat" 2D background of most games, Inner Worlds boasts outstanding illusion of depth, with many doorways you can enter. With 3 very different worlds, a lot of secrets to discover, and solid gameplay, this is one platform game that will keep you up nights, and will especially please Castlevania fans. It was subsequently made available for FREE as the game was really written for DOS, and very few machines still run DOS. The game does run under Windows (usually) in DOS mode on most computers. | ||
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| Inwestor [PL] | Seven Stars Multimedia | [top] | |
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Inwestor is a simulation of the Polish stock exchange and it deals with the ins and outs of investing in the stock market. The game was developed in cooperation with several economic universities and is based on information from several books on investing. The goal is the privatization of a state-owned enterprise, transforming it into a public company and putting it on the stock exchange. The game has an extensive supply-and-demand algorithm, takes into account the impact of the trend and the psychology of investors in the development of the market, the ability to interpret professional stock market valuation ratios, built-in software for stock market analysis and drawing the graphs. The visual presentation is done through images, text and graphs. | ||
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| Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal | Realtime Associates, Inc. / Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a one or two-player side-scrolling arcade game in which the player battles various villains from the Iron Man and X-O Manowar comic book series. The storyline is revealed through onscreen text, instead of animated sequences. Iron Man and X-O Manowar must team up in order to stop a team of supervillains from grabbing the lost fragments of the Cosmic Cube. During the game it is also revealed that the space aliens that Aric stole his X-O Manowar armor from, want it back. The two super heroes battle through several levels, familiar to comic book fans, to stop the terrorists and their supervillain leaders from trying to rule the universe. Both Iron Man and X-O Manowar can jump, punch, shoot an unlimited supply of laser beams (that can be upgraded through icons) and use a limited supply of fuel to fly. At the start of each mission, a computer screen informs you of your objectives. During the game the player can collect medical icons to restore their health, and other icons to give more fuel, stronger laser blasts and a special icon that allows one mega blast from a character's armor chestplate. The game also allows one to destroy various gas canisters, metal wiring and control panels to locate more icons, deactivate certain weapons, or advance in the game. The video game was also adapted into a 2-issue comic book crossover featuring the two heroes teaming up to save the world. | ||
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| Jisaeneun Dal [K] | Pantech | [top] | |
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This is an interesting action platform game by Pantech, who usually published games by Mirinae Software. While the setting in medieval Korea is quite uncommon, the plot is just the typical damsel in distress fare: The hero Dusu's village is attacked, and his girlfriend is kidnapped by some rich snob who wants to marry her. Dusu has to fight through six stages to get to the villain's residence. Dusu fights with a wooden stick, which unfortunately doesn't have a very wide range, but at least it can be used to block attacks by pressing the down arrow. There is also a limited supply of hatchets that are used as throwing weapons. At some points in the levels, it's also possible to collect magic spells that are very destructive, but also take some charging time, which might put the hero in danger. Unfortunately the game's mechanics are not that polished. The controls are responsive enough, but the hit detection is merciless, making it often next to impossible to avoid getting hit by enemies. Dusu also easily falls off the borders of platforms, rendering many jumps more annoying than they should be. The game also has some bugs, most importantly that only the fastest speed setting really works without problems (at least in DOSBox), but the fast speed also makes the game really hard. The graphics and music are quite nice and really drive home the Eastern atmosphere. Technologically, the graphics are about the level you'd expect from a SNES game. Since Jisaeneun Dal is so much inspired by console games, it also only offers passwords to resume the game at a previously reached stage. There is an ingame option for speed, but when it is not set to the "correct" value (which is not the default) a glitch makes the hero effectively invulnerable for the rest of the stage after he is hit by an enemy. There is also a cutscene at one point that might or might not get triggered, and thus makes progress a question of good luck. | ||
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Determined to test his theories of migration among early civilizations, anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl built exact reproductions of vessels once manned by ancient Peruvians, Egyptians, and Sumerians and set sail, risking his reputation and his life in four epic voyages. With his first voyage, Heyerdahl sought to prove that pre-Inca inhabitants of South America could have populated the South Pacific. He sailed the balsa raft Kon-Tiki from Peru in 1947, arriving in Polynesia after 101 days at sea on the perilously waterlogged raft. The Ra expeditions from Africa to the West Indies in 1969 and 1970 showed that it would have been possible for ancient Mediterranean peoples to sail to the Americas in papyrus reed boats long before Columbus. Heyerdahl also organized the first archeological dig at the pyramids of Tucume, Peru, and his work on Easter Island helped explain how the enormous statues were carved from volcanic rock and moved across the island. Kon-Tiki Interactive explores the mysterious origins of the world's civilizations and captures the life and adventurous spirit of one of the century's most original explorers. | ||
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| L'Aquanatra [It] | 5G Multimedia / CD-EUROM | [top] | |
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L'Aquanatra is an educational cd-rom featuring an original story and various games and educational activities. It was developed following the indications of the ministerial programs for children aged between 4 and 12 years. The story is illustrated with color plates accompanied by animations, sound effects, texts and audio in five languages. A series of games and educational activities allow you to increase knowledge of the mother tongue, perform logical operations, stimulate creativity and curiosity, familiarize yourself with important foreign languages: English, French, German and Spanish. | ||
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| Les Guignols de l'Info: Le Cauchemar de PPD [Fr] | In Visio, SARL / Canal+Multimédia, Philips Média France | [top] | |
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This is the second game based on the French satiric puppet TV show Les Guignols de l'Info. In the previous game you had to become the more popular TV newscaster. In this one, you are named as the head of a new Channel of the World Company Inc TV group. You have to find the best TV Show concepts, animators and invite the most attractive guests to increase your audience. You are in competition with 3 others channels, don't let them find the best programs. | ||
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| Let's Talk About Me | GirlGames Inc., team smartyPants!, Inc. / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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The Girl's Interactive Handbook for the 21st Century. As the first interactive guide to female adolescence, this provides you with the opportunity to explore your body, your relationships, your personality and your potential, all within the privacy of your own interactive experience It can best be described as an activity center for 10-14 year old girls. The game combines quizzes and mini-games with more exploratory activities like horoscopes, and fashion designers. The game was designed to specifically appeal to girls, there is no combat, and the most of the games have no right or wrong answers. | ||
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| Lingua Land | Young Digital Planet | [top] | |
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This is an interactive multilingual dictionary for children is a program for learning foreign languages for children aged from 6 to 12 years. Lingua Land acquaints children with the most necessary words in English, German, French and Spanish. Color plate, options, dialogues in five languages, funny animations and language games, make Lingua Land - apart from learning - great fun for children. The program includes more than 1,000 words and nearly 100 dialogues in 4 languages - English, German, French and Spanish. The program includes up to nine games, allowing to test knowledge of your vocabulary. | ||
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| Little Step [J] | Lay-Up / Imagineer Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a talent cultivation simulator with the aim to become industry leader. The main character, who was the managing director at his father's entertainment agency, decided to become independent and jumped out of the company. Her father's money was taken out by himself, but the father who knew it wouldn't care if he could get results in three years. The new office created in this way. There is only one employee who came from the original company. First of all, I had to go out to the city and start with a talent scout ... Entertainment agency management simulation game. SIM part is affected by luck more than on strategy. And only save/load helps from bankruptcy. Ending is shown after three years without bankruptcy for all the girls that have high enough affection level. | ||
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| Logic Quest 3D Adventure | The Learning Company, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is one of the first 3D critical thinking games by The Learning Company. Players are greeted by a Raven, who guides the player with some help along the way. Players sign in and choose either the courtyard (easier challenges) or the castle (harder challenges). Builds logical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Navigate 12 levels of challenge games, planning sequenced strategies for solving door-puzzle mazes. Strengthens patterning and classification skills. Decipher secret-panel rules by comparing and contrasting traits in trios of medieval objects. Develops analytical and ordering skills. Program medieval characters to retrieve keys and transport them to the next level. Improves mapping and spatial awareness skills. Use aerial maps, build navigational skills while maneuvering through complex 3-D environments in first-person perspective. Encourages experimentation and creative thinking. Design your own medieval environments or challenge games with 3-D construction skills. They can also create their own levels using the built-in level editor. The recommended age group is ages 8-14. Players use their critical thinking and problem solving skills to complete the quest. | ||
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| Los Justicieros [Sp] | Picmatic, S.A. / Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | [top] | |
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West life is nothing easy. Especially if we consider that in most of the towns exists a series of people who suffer from two defects: avarice and presumption. This is the case of the Zorton Brothers, two gunmen and real bad guys who think that they are the center of the world, and that all the other mortals must obey them. In addition, they enjoy killing the weakest and making them suffer, something that we are sure you, intrepid "justiciero", can't allow anymore. The Zorton Brothers have arrived at a calm, Pacific town whose sheriff acts as more decorative than practical. He is small, weak, without aim and too talkative. Before this panorama, the Zorton have decided to seize the town with the inestimable aid of their band. It is up to you to save the town from their clutches. "Los Justicieros" is a conversion that comes from the "Zorton Brothers" Laser Disc arcade game made by Picmatic on 1993. Also, "Los Justicieros" was the first Spanish FMV game ported to PC. | ||
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| Major League Math | Theatrix / Sanctuary Woods | [top] | |
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Real teams, real stats, real fun. How to get ahead of the curve in math. It starts when kids pick what kind of pitch to throw, what kind of hit to make. Than it's up to how well they answer math questions. Packed with realistic animations, real teams, real stars, and really helpful math workshops, this makes hitting a homer a lot more fun than hitting the books. But just as effective. Play Against the Computer or a Friend. With the program's multi-level and multi-player capabilities, two kids can challenge each other on a level playing field and have an equal chance of winning. No other program starts with 2,000 meticulously designed math questions, then lets you add ProPacks - 1,000 more questions, all about your favorite pro team. It lets kids customize the game to focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. Kids can improve their team's pitching, fielding, base running and batting skills by playing arcade style games-within-the-game. Learning Skills include: Averages, Charts and Tables, Decimals, Word Problems, Fractions, Measurements, Odd and Even Numbers, Percentages, Place Values, Order of Operations, Ratios, Round Numbers, Time and Money. | ||
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| Mamonas Assassinas CD-Rom [Pt] | EMI Music | [top] | |
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Mamonas Assassinas (English translated as Killer Big Breasts) was a satirical Brazilian rock band. Their lyrics, music and live performances were as famous as their tragic end: on March 2, 1996, the plane in which they were flying crashed into the Cantareira mountain range, near São Paulo, causing the death of all the band members. The short lived band enjoyed a "meteoric" success selling a million records. The musical style employed a humorous mixture between rock and a wide range of styles. They often borrowed elements from other music, among which were the main riff of the Portuguese Vira ("Vira-Vira"), Northeastern Brazilian rhythms like forró ("Jumento Celestino"), Mexican music ("Pelados em Santos"), heavy metal ("Débil Metal"), sertanejo ("Bois Don't Cry"), and even pagode ("Lá Vem o Alemão"). This CD-Rom was released posthumously in July 1996 and contains images, videos, speeches, and photos of the members of the band Mamonas Assassinas , as well as comics, uncensored electronic games and a lot of humor. In addition, it also contains excerpts from the songs released on the 1995 Mamonas Assassinas album. By October 1996, 25,000 units of the product had been sold. | ||
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| Math Heads | Theatrix Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Math heads are exponentially cool. And you're about to become one as you tune into the Math Head TV interactive network. Learn to think on your feet. Make accurate estimates. Perform amazing mental calculations. All while surfing game shows, music videos, dance shows, shopping, and more. So come on. Get Ahead! Stick Your Face In It - Pick out heads, wigs, outfits, and hobbies for your TV personality. You can even import a picture of your own face - and suddenly - you're on Math Head TV. Compete against a friend or play on your own. How many ways can you show 50%? 33.3%? 75%? You'll see fractions in a new light as you pump up your understanding of equivalencies, proportions, and geometry in the real world while collecting cool graphics to make your own music video. Do celebrity answers to hundreds of wacky word problems make sense or not? You decide as you practice strategies for doing multiplication, fractions, and percentages in your head. Think fast as you build estimation skills in this hilarious TV dance show. Dance to the music while you solve hundreds of arithmetic problems - but don't stop - or you'll drop through the stage. Surf the infomercials to learn easy tricks for doing mental calculations. You'll amaze your friends by quickly finding 25% of anything, multiplying by 9, and more - all in your head. Then, use these hot techniques on other Math Head TV channels. Essential Learning for Kids Ages 10-14: Develop pre-algebra skills, Solve word problems, Make mental calculations, Compute fractions, decimals, percentages, and equivalencies, Build estimation skills, Use logical thinking skills. | ||
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| Max & Sparky | Mayhem Software / Invisible Cities Interactive Entertainment | [top] | |
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This is an advergame for the Omo brand, where a boy (Max) and his dog (Sparky) must survive in another dimension without getting too dirty. This isometric arcade game is clearly made primarily for children, which is seen as the graphics and the simplicity of the gameplay. The game world is declared as a hostile and "dirty", but in reality it is relatively clean. There are some creatures that should be shot with a water pistol or avoided. There are bonuses in the form of first aid kits and other things. Getting into the water is deadly (the action takes place on islands). Graphics are very nice looking. | ||
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| Meet MediaBand | Canter Technology / Philips Interactive Media | [top] | |
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This engaging interactive music video experience was conceived by Marc Canter (creator of MacroMind Director, later Macromedia Director and later still Adobe Director, and a premier innovator of computer multimedia). The first two interactive "songs", UnDo Me and House Jam will give you a taste of what's possible today when you combine music, video and interactivity. Meet MediaBand's aetherRAVE is a combination cyberspace and party "shell" around those two "songs". The aetherRAVE has six unique environments created for you to explore: The Stage, Smart Bar, Archives, Tekno Room, Kid's Room and Swag Shop. MediaBand is the multimedia performance ensemble begun in 1992 to create original interactive music videos that are scalable to any distribution "platform", i.e. CD-ROM, Cyber Clubs or Interactive TV. All of the "songs" are created with "live" performance in mind, as well as Interactive TV. Meet MediaBand is the CD-ROM version of MediaBand's ever growing "database" of material, designed to eventually be a server of interactive media, available to any traveler of the info highway. The MediaBand database will evolve by adding more rooms to the aetherRAVE and of course by adding lots of new interactive pieces. In other words, it's really an Interactive TV show. We feel that Interactive Music Videos are the proper way to introduce people to interactivity, rather than shooting or killing or roaming through scrolling hallways. We've tried to capture the interactivity of a Nintendo game with the broadcast values of MTV. | ||
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| Mega Man X3 / Rockman X3 | Capcom Co., Ltd. / Capcom Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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A Reploid scientist named Dr. Doppler begins creation of a new city for Reploids, which will bring a new era of peace to the Reploids and humans. But something goes terribly wrong, and now Mavericks have begun to appear everywhere. It's up to X and Zero to find out who is behind this Maverick revolt and bring them down for good. Use the unique talents of each character to destroy enemies and assimilate new weapons and powers. Along the way, they will have to find a variety of secret items including a helmet and some robot armor. Located throughout many of the side-scrolling stages are heart tanks, health sub-tanks, and four types of part upgrades: helmet, leg, armor, and weapon. Also available to discover are four types of specialization chips and four suits of temporary, powered-up armor. The action otherwise follows the familiar blueprint of the sci-fi series, with eight themed stages filled with robotic minions to shoot down. Acquire each Maverick's signature weapon in preparation for the final encounter with evil Sigma. It was the first in the series to allow players the ability to play as X's friend, Zero. However, use of Zero was pretty much restricted to only about one third of each level, and only one life. So in short, once you used Zero in a level, you couldn't use him again for the rest of the level, and if he lost all his energy, he'd be put out of the fight for the rest of the game. The PC version was an enhanced version of the original SNES game and included remixed music and anime-style cutscenes. | ||
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| Mercurius Pretty [J] | Headroom / NEC Interchannel | [top] | |
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This is a "raising simulation" game, similar in concept to Princess Maker games, but without their RPG elements (exploration, combat, etc.). The player is entrusted with the task of raising a "homunculus", a female fairy-like creature who has to grow up as a human in a medieval fantasy world. The player selects a schedule for the homunculus every day. Each activities raises a certain attribute by a number of points. For example, praying increases spirituality, reading books increases knowledge, etc. The goal is to raise attributes selectively and pass exams, putting the homunculus on one of the various paths (spiritual, combat- or magic-related, and so on). The homunculus' mood decreases when studying; it can be normally increased by talking to her. Different approaches (praising, scolding, etc.) may result in a positive or negative effect, depending on the himunculus' initial state (normal, sad, angry, and so on). The homunculus will also get sick from time to time and require rest. It is possible to buy books and crystals, which may greatly increase the homunculus' corresponding attributes. After a number of days, the homunculus will change her shape, turning into a more human, grown-up person. | ||
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| Mickey & Friends Print Studio | Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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Print clean, crisp graphics in color or black and white. Create exciting print projects with over 200 images of your favorite Disney characters. It includes Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofey, and Pluto. Select from a variety of page layouts. Make Banners, Calendars, Letterheads, Envelopes, Note Paper, Name Tags, Greeting Cards & more. Originally on floppy disks, a re-release titled Mickey and Crew Print Studio had slight changes and was also released on CD-Rom in 1999. | ||
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| Mutant Penguins | Sunrise Games Ltd. / GameTek UK Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a fun, cute little action game that plays a bit like Lemmings crossed with real-time strategy games like Command & Conquer. The largely irrelevant plot begins with radio and television transmissions from Earth bouncing around the universe for decades before finally arriving in the galaxy of "Bleurgggh" (no, I'm not making this up). This dingy part of the cosmos is home to an evil race of aliens who become inspired to conquer the Earth after being convinced by the transmissions that the planet is ripe for conquest. Unfortunately for the slimy green aliens, their plan gets off to a rocky start after the last transmission they receive, a wildlife show, convinces them that penguins are the dominant species here. So, the outer-space nimrods take the form of the kings of the frozen tundra and launch their attack. As the attack begins, the player's job is to guide his or her character, either Rodney or Bernard, through increasingly more difficult levels in an effort to thwart the mutants' attack. The focus of each level is the Doomscale -- a basic weight-scale that determines whether the planet lives or dies. The mutant penguins win the level if they are able to get more soldiers to the scale and tip it in their favor. The player wins if his or her character is able to lead the good penguins to the scale and tip it in the Earth's favor. To help in the fight, players can find various weapons on each level including bats, frying pans, and the super club. Whack a mutant with a weapon such as the frying pan, and the evil penguin will release several power-ups that can be collected and used to improve your character's weapons. The improvement of the weapons is critical as an endless stream of marching mutants on most levels offers little hope for the player to be successful unless he or she is armed to the teeth. Knowing how to use the weapons though is not enough. You must develop a strategy for each level or even the strongest attacks will fall under the marching webbed feet of the aliens. With graphics that are adorable and gameplay that is surprisingly engaging, Mutant Penguins is a nice diversion that isn't nearly as inventive or original as Lemmings, but does evoke a fond memory or two about that classic puzzler. If you are looking for a similar game with more focus on action, Mutant Penguins more than fits the bill. | ||
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| My First Amazing World Explorer 2.0 / World Explorer | Dorling Kindersley Software / Global Software Publishing | [top] | |
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Pack your bags and grab your passport - you're in for the adventure of your life! Play exciting games as you visit ten different countries and learn about other cultures. Journey to famous cities and uncover the stories behind all the historic landmarks. Visit mountains, jungles, and forests and track down unusual plants and animals. You can even hop on a plane or take a boat across the ocean. Learning about geography and the world in which we live has never been so much fun! Activities: Exciting Games - The Great Globetrotter Game takes you to over 50 destinations; Fun Activities - Explore the world looking for colorful stickers; Become a World Explorer - 44 animated maps and over 600 pop-ups bring the world to your computer; 16 Fascinating Videos - Explore the mysterious world of wildlife and learn about other cultures. Educational Benefits: Knowledge of world geography (name and locations of continents), Knowledge of world cultures and customs, Compass and mapreading skills, Natural science (plants, animals, and topography), Language arts skills, Critical thinking and deductive reasoning. | ||
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| NeoHunter | Ronin Entertainment / Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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After a meteor crash causes the separation of California from the rest of the continent, major corporations of the future decide to invest in the decadent state. It's not long before the newly restored California calls for independence. And so is Calia created. You play as Rick Cage, a good-guy hunter trying to continue the investigation your father left after being murdered. Conspiracies are all around in the rich but decadent state of Calia. The game begins after Senator McAllister, a close friend of your fathers, is murdered in public. You seek the truth, and revenge, and must work your way up the conspiracies ladder by arresting hackers and drug suppliers in order to get to the major drug lords that corrupt Calia. The game features some interesting storyline background, and good artistic backgrounds, flirting with Japanese anime. It plays as cinematic-backdrop shooter, much like Virtua Squad series, for example, but a little more complex. It mixes some puzzle solving, and light elements of resource managing (like gathering credits to get new weapons and equipment), and also allows you to choose the next steps to take, making for a quasi-linear experience. | ||
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| Nine Worlds: Hosted by Patrick Stewart | Digital Ranch / Palladium Interactive | [top] | |
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This is an interactive tour of the planets of our galaxy, narrated by Patrick Stewart. Each of the planets, save Earth, has a QuickTime overview and guided tour given by Patrick Stewart. Players are also able to view pictures of a planet's moons, if it has any, view the planet's physical characteristics and look at a vacation planner for the planet. The vacation planner shows the more famous sites and conditions of the planets, and gives players facts about the planet's temperature, how long it would take to reach the planet by jet plane if you left earth today, how old you would be if you were born on that planet (based on how long it takes the planet to orbit around the sun), how much you would weigh on the planet and an interesting fact about the planet. In addition, the program allows you to tie into the Nine Worlds website on the Internet, where you can converse with other people interested in astronomy, experts and ask questions of the experts. | ||
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| Ocean Life Volume 5: The Carribean | Sumeria Inc. | [top] | |
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This is the most thorough exploration of the Caribbean Sea available on CD-ROM. With state-of-the-art digital video and sound, this multimedia reference work includes over an hour or narrated underwater video, original music, and extensive underwater photography. Observe more than 45 families and over 200 species of fish, complemented with comprehensive text and videos. Features detailed sections on marine life taxonomy (including invertebrates) and fish anatomy, and a section on the formation of coral reef habitats. Maps of Belize, Bonaire, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Key West, New Providence, and St. Lucia detail scuba diving areas within the region. See never-before filmed behaviors, and copy any of the royalty-free video, photography, text, and maps to your own computer. Explore more than forty-five families of fish from exotic angelfishes to wrasses. Detailed information about scuba diving in this region tells readers about the areas visited by the producers for this edition. Sections on marine biology explain taxonomy, anatomy, reef habitats, providing an introduction to the oceans of the world. Follow up on Sumeria's Web site for current information on Caribbean diving, books, and travel in the region. | ||
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| Ocean Planet | Discovery Channel | [top] | |
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Enter the Oceanarium and investigate the last unexplored frontier on Earth - the ocean. Experimental exhibits show you how the sun, Earth, moon and oceans connect to form a complex system of atmosphere and weather. Explore the breadth of undersea activity and the issues that challenge aquatic life's delicate balance. Learn why the oceans are in danger and what you can do to help preserve them in this amazing underwater adventure. Learn about ocean life with over 30 minutes of video, and hundreds of compelling photographs. | ||
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| Our Times: Multimedia Encyclopedia of The 20th Century | Walter Bernard, Milton Glaser, Daniel Okrent / Vicarious Inc | [top] | |
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This is much more than a compilation of facts and figures. It provides a context which enhances understanding. Based on the best-selling book, Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century, the CD-ROM brings the 20th century to life through fascinating articles, essays, images, and video documentaries, narrated by James Earl Jones. It's a powerful, comprehensive, flexible, easy-to-use reference tool, ideal for students and history buffs. Using an intuitive, interactive timeline, users can choose a decade or year to explore. Each screen displays dramatic images representing each year of the decade. Users can peruse an essay discussing the ideas and events which had the greatest impact on the world and society, or view a graphical portrayal of the state of the world at that time. They may choose to listen to one of three narrative tours, on culture, world affairs, and politics, or watch the decade video documentary. From the year screens, users can select from numerous cross-referenced entries detailing the year's most important events, as well as "A Moment From ..." article that provides a cultural excerpt about that year. For example, the year 1961 includes an excerpt from a Life magazine article on family bomb shelters. Entries cover a wide range of categories: international events, business, religion and philosophy, arts and literature, popular culture, politics, science and technology, space and aviation, and sports. Nobel prizes and notable births and deaths are listed for each year. For added breadth, and for information on topics within and beyond the 20th century, it also includes the complete Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition. | ||
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| Panorama Tantei Geemu Kaitou Q [J] | Flip Flop Productions / ASCII Corp. | [top] | |
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This is a long-awaited real-time detective game and its first appearance on Windows. A thief appeared in the city of Panorama. Arrest him immediately. An era when people were vibrant ahead of Tokyo Olympics a few years later. Become a boss of the Metropolitan Police Special Investigation Group and follow the thief of the devilish "Q". Set in a real-time moving city, it's a new sensation detective game combining puzzle-like elements and simple "chasing". | ||
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| Power Dolls Mania Kit [J] | Kogado Studio Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a desktop accessory product for the POWER DoLLS video game. It does not require the original game to run. | ||
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| Power Rangers Zeo Versus The Machine Empire | Cyberflix Incorporated / Bandai America, Inc. | [top] | |
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Take control of the Power Rangers in a rather dubious platform game to save the world from the Machine Empire. It's a side-scrolling beat-em up featuring the characters from the tv series. The Machine Empire was a massive alien race and galactic empire of mechanical beings, led by the Royal House of Gadgetry. They first appeared in the television show Power Rangers: Zeo. Possessing countless Cogs, Quadra Fighters, and monsters, the Machine Empire had already conquered an entire chain of galaxies before reaching Earth. It was when the Empire arrived on Earth that they finally encountered a foe capable of repelling their forces, the Zeo Rangers. This game received a rating of 1% from PC gamer magazine. You can finish it in under an hour. | ||
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| Red Dawn | Sorry Software | [top] | |
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This is an unofficial compilation of extra levels for Command & Conquer and Red Alert. | ||
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| Sacred and Secular: The Aerial Photography of Marilyn Bridges | The Voyager Company | [top] | |
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One of the few women aerial photographers in the world, Marilyn Bridges flies at altitudes as low as three hundred feet to maintain her "intimacy with the landscape." She reveals the power and beauty of ceremonial spaces created by ancient peoples as well as the imprints of modernity: tank tracks cross Peru's Nazca Plain and putting greens overlay Native American eartworks. Sacred and Secular is infused with the artist's belief that the earth is alive and that the way we treat it is the way we treat ourselves. Zoom into and pan around the richly textured surfaces of one hundred spectacular black-and-white images. They can also be accessed via an interactive timeline or map, with text about the culture and landscapes of each of the six geographical areas covered - Egypt, Mexico, Peru, the United States, Greece, and the United Kingdom. Five guided tours link the photographs thematically, with audio commentary from Bridges, and a Meet the Artist section explains her vision and methodology, in flight and in the darkroom. An invaluable archaeological record, Sacred and Secular also documents an extraordinary talent. | ||
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| Savage: The Ultimate Quest for Survival | Viridis Corporation / Discovery Channel Multimedia | [top] | |
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This has you play as a lion on the Serengeti. In each level you must catch and kill prey such as gazelles and wildebeests, but avoid deadly hippos and leopards. There are over 20 species in the game which behave realistically and can be killed (including human tourists!). The game uses a Doom-like 3D engine, and allows you to play ten levels with different objectives through a first or third person perspective. The game also contains various educational video clips about lions and the Serengeti. | ||
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| Simpsons Cartoon Studio | Big Top Productions / Fox Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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The Simpsons Cartoon Studio allows you to use a large library of premade clips, sounds, backgrounds, and effects to make your own Simpson's cartoon shorts. Also includes a program that allows you to swap cartoons with your friends. The cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for the program. To create a cartoon, one first selects a background, then inserts characters, props, and special effects, and after that adds dialog, sound effects, and music. There are seventeen characters, fifty special effects, two-hundred-and-seventy props, and thirty-five backgrounds in The Simpsons Cartoon Studio, with thousands of individual cels hand-drawn by actual The Simpsons cartoonists. Every character has a set of actions; for example, Homer can crawl, ride on a tube, and run away screaming, while Bart can run, trip over, cycle, ride his skateboard, and paint graffiti with spray-paint. Backgrounds featured range from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to Bart's room, and props include tables, blenders, and the three-eyed fish Blinky. | ||
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| Skullcracker | Cyberflix Incorporated / GTE Entertainment | [top] | |
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This was originally made for MAC computers and ported to PC a couple of years later. The premise is mildly amusing - in an alternate universe a gruesome assortment of monsters, zombies, and freaks are a common sight on the streets. These critters are kept down by a corporation called MEI (for Mortality Enforcement, Inc.), the people who “help the dead stay dead.” But business is getting tough for MEI, since monsters are starting to organize and demand civil rights. People are so used to zombies in the streets that they're no longer worried about them. At the same time, the critters are getting restless because of a mysterious substance known as goop, which makes them mean. Average Joes and Janes are also being converted to monsterhood because of this goop. You enter the picture as one of two freelance toughs: either Mortis "Skullcracker" Rigor, or Penelope "Bonebreaker" Jones. A loose narrative with several cartoon characters sets up the missions to follow and offers tips in between. Most of the game takes the form of a side-scrolling fighting game. Your character can walk either left or right, jump, climb, and crouch. She can also kick and punch. As she strolls through a series of bland levels, she comes across different monsters who need to be dispatched. Power-ups for health, extra lives, extra points, and so on are scattered throughout the levels. Several special weapons - such as a flame thrower, flare gun, and supersoaker filled with holy water - are also available, though regrettably scarce. There are four main missions, each taking place in a given location, each lasting about four levels. These include the woods and playground, shopping mall and arcade, graveyard and cathedral, and MEI lab and headquarters. Each of these features boring, poorly rendered backgrounds that roll by with astonishing monotony. There are two attack moves: a punch and a kick. If you have a weapon, you can use that instead of punching. The monsters are equally lame, with a big boss at the end of each mission that's supposed to give it a big finish. | ||
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| Space Jam | Sculptured Software Inc. / Acclaim Entertainment Inc. | [top] | |
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Release Date: TBA Based on the movie of the same name, Space Jam centers around an invasion of Looney Tunes land by tiny aliens. The fate of the Tunes is to be decided by a basketball game, and for this the aliens turn into the huge, evil Monstars. The game is about two-thirds basketball sim and then minigames are stuck in to fill all the gaps. You can play as the Monstars or the Looney Tunes who have the help of Michael Jordan. The basketball games themselves come in two flavours, two-on-two and three-on-three. Successful completion of the minigames upgrades your character's abilities on the court. There are several - one involves finding MJ's basketball togs, one is a space race in the style of the retro Micro Machines games. There are about five minigames in all, and a player from both teams participates. The multiplayer is a big aspect of the game. There is the traditional two-player versus, one team Tunes, one team Monstars, and there is also co-operative mode. In this two or even three players can play on the same team. Using multitaps, you can actually have a three-on-three game. The Tunes roster is made up of Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Lola Bunny, Taz, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam. The Monstars have access to Pound, Bupkus, Bang, Blanko and Nawt. There are three statistics in the game, namely Speed, Shooting and Rebounds. These are pretty self-explanatory, but there is another more subtle one that's similar to stamina. Throughout the course of play your characters will get tired and lose their focus. A successful slam dunk usually tops this up. The closest thing the game has to a single player mode is the Intergalactic Tournament (though it can be played multiplayer). This is a series of five matches in a row. One captain is picked and plays every game, while the rest of the team is substituted in and out. There is no real way to progress in the game as it does not support memory cards. Space Jam has more of an arcade, lighthearted feel to it. | ||
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| Space Station Alpha: The Encounter | Time Blazers / TeraMedia Inc. | [top] | |
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Time Blazers was a series of CDs for children. Students enter an abandoned alien spacecraft. By gathering clues and interacting with strange devices, students learn about science, mathematics and technology as they try to unlock the aliens' secrets. This gives an opportunity to inspire tomorrow's generation of astronauts. Mission Control to all Time Blazers. A personal message from retired US AstronUT Eugene Cernan - last man on the moon. Apollo 17. "What lies beyond our solar system... past our galaxy? As we blaze through space, will we find new civilizations that possess answers to the questions we face here on Earth?" With adventures in orbit as the backdrop, children will learn about science, mathematics and technology. As a creative tool in discovering and exploration, nothing else in the universe compares to it. | ||
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| Squeezils | Protozoa / Inscape | [top] | |
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This is a fun and innovative 3D action game from a small and now-defunct developer better known for making short eye-catching 3D animated clips in mid-1990s. The wacky plot: you control a Squeezil, a fantasy creature who looks like cross between a squirrel and a beaver. Like real squirrels, Squeezils do anything to get their grubby hands on walnuts. But since the Great Shuddering Nut, every Squeezil has been crazy collecting gold nuggets to bring to it in return for strange treasures from faraway lands. Your objective is to make your way to it by traveling through the seven regions of Nutsville, collecting nuts, gold nuggets, keys, and ancient relics along the way. Each region has 5 to 8 different levels (38 total) that present its own dangers. The game is played from the first-person perspective, with attractive 3D graphics. You can freely explore each environment, climbing up trees and even flying from branch to branch. You find nuts on the ground and in the trees. You can also mug other Squeezils for nuts by either knocking them out of their grasp by sliding into him, or hitting him with a splitting nut. You also have to avoid other Squeezils who will try to steal your nuts, and other predators. The best way to avoid predators is to wait inside the protective cover of trees until they go away. You begin your journey in the River Valley which contains 8 levels for you to explore, and 4 portals that take you to other regions: the Pine Canyon, the Desert, the Jungle, and the Coast. Use your compass to navigate your way to portals that take you to each of these four regions. In each of the four middle regions, you must find the 3 keys which will grant you the ancient Squeezil relic for that region, and open the portal door providing you safe passage back to River Valley. Acquiring all four region relics opens the portal entrance to the Ancient Tomb of Jeff where things begin to get strange. Survive the perils of The Tomb, and you will make it to the utterly bizarre world of Nutsville, where The Great Shuddering Nut has landed, ready to receive your gifts of homage, and endow upon you the rewards of your victorious efforts. | ||
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| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Limited Edition Entertainment Utility | Sound Source Interactive / Simon and Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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It's an unforgettable journey full of intergalactic sights and sounds, where alien life forms search for...fun! With this installed, you computer will become the most popular high-tech handout in the office or home. This limited edition CD-ROM contains screen savers, audio clips, video clips, jigsaw puzzles and wallpaper, all captured from the popular Star Trek: Deep Space Nine television series. All guaranteed to make your computer a blast. Use Image Carousel to create a customized screen saver with spectacular full-motion video clips and still images with audio. Options include privacy protections, audio on/off, random or reset videos and images, and much more. Customize your desktop with one of 30 full-screen wallpaper images. When you're ready for a little spatial recreation, open Jixxa and piece together stunning jigsaw puzzles from small, medium or large pieces. There's even an auto-solve feature. Add some sonic flavor with Personal Desktop and over 75 audio clips. Attach sound effects and music to Windows functions, such as start-up, shutdown, and various keystrokes. Reduce stress & boredom while you work. Image Carousel screen saver displays over 12 full-motion video clips and 100 still images with sound. Personal Desktop attaches over 75 audio clips to Windows system functions. Jixxa creates easy, medium or hard jigsaw puzzles from 15 different images. 30 full-screen wallpaper images. Limited edition of 250,000 units only. | ||
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| Star Trek: Voyager Limited Edition Entertainment Utility | Sound Source Interactive / Simon and Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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Reduce stress & boredom while you work. Image Carousel Screen Saver displays over 40 full motion video clips and 80 still images with sound. Personal Desktop attaches over 80 audio clips to Windows functions. Jixxa Creates easy, medium or hard puzzles from 20 different images. 25 Full screen wallpaper images. Serial Numbered limited edition of only 250,000 units. It contains a collection of screen savers, audio clips, images and animations to personalize your Windows (3.1 or 95), all taken from episodes of Star Trek Voyager. You can combine with each event to a Windows audio clips containing a sound effect or a phrase by Captain Janeway, Tom Paris or the holographic doctor ("I'm a doctor, not a performer!"), automatically have a different background every time you start Windows or have fun doing one of 20 puzzles that will be installed on your hard drive. Varied and interesting as screen savers, including cards of the episodes, archive staff and some interesting animation, is obviously the telefilms. Note that the sound effects are stereo for sound cards that support the Q sound. The package is distributed limited edition and contains even the certificate of authenticity. Very nice the packaging that has a picture on the front (which can be removed) containing the holographic image of the USS Voyager that moves according to the orientation that you give to the box. | ||
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| Star Wars: Making Magic | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | [top] | |
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This interactive CD-ROM was designed as a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition release. It includes interviews with George Lucas revealing why he chose to re-touch and add to the original trilogy. It also includes documentaries on the process behind enhancing existing scenes and adding new computer generated imagery into the original films. While not containing as extensive a collection of previously deleted scenes or cut-content as Behind the Magic, it does include some of the original scene of Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt meeting in Docking Bay 94. The scene (as originally filmed in 1976 with Harrison Ford and Irish actor Declan Mulholland, prior to a CGI Jabba being added) was briefly seen in the television specials The Making of Star Wars in 1977 and From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga in 1983. Making Magic was also included on the CD for Star Wars: Yoda Stories released in 1997. | ||
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| Starry Night | The Voyager Company | [top] | |
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Van Gogh's dramatic picture of the swirling night sky over Saint-Remy is familiar to lovers of postimpressionism everywhere. But when art history professor Albert Boime determined that the painting almost exactly represented the predawn sky of June 19, 1889, he realized there was much more to Starry Night than meets the eye. What he discovered was a fascinating convergence of historical forces. From the observatory atop the newly built Eiffel Tower, visitors could look down on the 1889 World's Fair, where the Third Republic was showcasing its far-flung colonies as well as the latest technological wonders. Jules Verne was taking readers to the moon, the ocean floor, and around the world in eighty days. Astronomy and astrolgy had seized the imagination of the public. Boime theorizes that Van Gogh, far from being an isolated lunatic (his brother and his friend Gauguin kept him posted), was in fact responding to these tumultuous times with Starry Night. The CD-ROM features almost two hours of audio and over 250 images link the central lecture to supplementary material as well as Van Gogh's correspondence, close-ups of Starry Night, entertaining contemporary illustrations and photographs, a delightful, illustrated essay on stellar phenomena in the work of painters from Giotto to Munch, and more. Immensely learned and completely engaging, this CD-ROM is art history at its most inspired. | ||
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| Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | [top] | |
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With a guide like Steven Spielberg we have got a chance to direct our own movie in this interactive movie-making game. Some of the most talented people in cinema industry are also helping us to choose and do the right things during our project. In addition Jennifer Aniston and Quentin Tarantino are our stars, OUR STARS of OUR OWN MOVIE! However, like most of the interactive games, this game is lacking its game side: Mostly all you've to do is to click the places you've told and wait to see what happens next. | ||
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| Super Fun Levels | Microboss Inc. | [top] | |
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This unofficial add-on disc contains more than 500 levels, cheats, editors and Patches for: Command & Conquer, WarCraft: Orcs & Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, SimCity, SimCity 2000, Mechwarrior 2, NBA Live 95, US Navy Fighter, Microsoft Flight Simulator. Also included are 5 Extra Tracks for The Need for Speed. | ||
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| Supreme Warrior | Digital Pictures, Inc. | [top] | |
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Supreme Warrior is a full-motion video fighting game. The game, or interactive movie, is set in China hundreds of years ago. You are tasked with protecting half of a magical mask. The wearer of the mask will be granted untold power. Unfortunately, the villanous Wang Tu has the other half of the mask, and wants your half badly. So, you must fight off Wang Tu's minions, and eventually Fang Tu himself. The gameplay in Supreme Warrior consists of digitized video with interactive elements. At many points during the video, you can unleash a punch, kick, or block. If your timing is correct, you inflict damage on your opponent. If your timing is off, your opponent hurts you. | ||
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| Syndicate Wars | Bullfrog Productions, Ltd. / Electronic Arts, Inc. | [top] | |
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In the sequel to the dark isometric action / strategy game Syndicate, you control either Eurocorp Syndicate or Church of the New Epoch. These two sinister forces are battling for world domination. You must help them dominate the world across 60 violent missions spread through 30 cities - you receive e-mails containing the mission plans. After selecting a squad of four men from your roster, you direct them through the rotatable 3D city views, shooting foes as the situation dictates. Nuclear grenades and psycho gas are among the new weapons. Tubes, a monorail system and unimpeded Antigrav vehicles give a futuristic feel to travel. In the PC version, 8-player battles over modem and network are available. | ||
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| Tactical Operations | Next Generation Publishing | [top] | |
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This is an unofficial level pack for Warcraft 2 and Command & Conquer. For Warcraft 2, there are 309 new levels with an installation interface, plus editors, cheat codes, strategy handbook, etc. For Command & Conquer, there's 115 new singleplayer levels and 90 multiplayer levels with an installation interface, plus editors, cheat codes, strategy handbook, etc. | ||
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| Tactical Operations Volume II: Beyond Destruction | Kattmann Publishing, MIND MultiMedia | [top] | |
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This is an unofficial add-on for three strategy games: WarCraft II: 700 new maps, Command & Conquer: Red Alert: 250 singleplayer levels and 200 multiplayer levels, Command & Conquer: 120 new singleplayer levels, 100 new multiplayer levels, strategy guides and walkthroughs. The levels were not designed specifically for this add-on, but merely collected from the internet, a common practice in the early modem days. | ||
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| Tetsuman Gaiden [J] | Teichiku Records Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a game made with Macromedia Director. It has various mini games. The floor of water - When power goes down, you can take 1000 gold how it is taken to the power recovery station. If there is no money, forced labor of goldfish scooping with pasted paper. You can convert the gold collectively as a prize. When you gather 3000 gold, it's a showdown with the floor boss at the sightseeing hut. If you have underwater eyeglasses or semi-fish persons you hit at the lottery, the attack will be loose when you confront with the floor boss. Ten animals are clear. Next is the flame floor, a shooting game. If you earn money, ring-throwing (standard) recommends tips if you hurry to get 100 out of 100. Efforts with shields and sailboat figurines to get Gappori. Shoot (fast western style) would be good for practicing quick operation of the trackball. If it is perfect, you can GET the digestive tract. Confrontation with the floor boss will hit the polka dots. Next is the ground floor, it is a golf game. Reading wind direction and verying your shot strength while repeating it several times. Which green do you drop in if you drop it? The confrontation with the floor boss is a golf game. Well it will be an easy victory. And last it is a General Shikiya confrontation with behind view. A goldfish scoop shop management confrontation. "Reconnaissance" and quick setting point. Even if you lose the showdown you can confront again with the "up" key on the floor. Transform it into a game of boomerang attack. And at the end there is a choice of "Puzzle" or "comic". "Puzzle" is a long way past the old figures. There is a save button at the end of ending. | ||
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| Third Dimension, The | Davidson & Associates, Inc. (Knowledge Adventure, Inc.) | [top] | |
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Players begin their The Third Dimension experience with a fast-action, powerful movie introduction that highlights the program's special effects. A palette of easy-to-use options to create a variety of cool, futuristic 3-D environments are now at their fingertips: wild backgrounds, over 70 3-D objects, animations, lots of spectacular lighting effects, New Age sounds, unique manipulation tools and much more. To further their creative options, players can also import 3-D objects from other programs or export their creations as bit-mapped files. Extensive on-line help, quick tips and audio help make these and other functions simple to execute. All of these creativity options make playing The Third Dimension an exciting, unique experience every time it's on the screen. "Create an underwater scene where sharks fly through lazily, with dramatic lighting and sound effects to match. With a simple click of the mouse, change the sharks to pulsating, vividly colored triangles. Another click can make those triangles bounce of comers, only now it's in outer space, with new sound effects and lighting. This is just a glimpse of what the experience is like with The Third Dimension," said Davidson. | ||
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| Three Dirty Dwarves | Appaloosa Interactive Corp. / SegaSoft, Inc. | [top] | |
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Three Dirty Dwarves is a side-scrolling action game with an interesting plot: genetically altered "super kids" playing Dungeons & Dragons open a portal that allows their "alter-egos" (the three dirty dwarves) to enter our world and try to rescue them from their evil Army Base captivity. Once the dwarves arrive, they ransack the local "armory" (a sporting goods store) for weapons and set off to rescue the kids. The portal also lets in a number of fantasy bad guys too and they must be squashed on the way. The main game mechanics allows the player to switch between each dwarf and uses its special attack (e. g. baseball bat and baseballs, bowling pins and bowling balls, and a shotgun). Additionally, there is the "DwarfMorph" attack where the dwarves act as one. | ||
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| Tiririca Interativo [Pt] | Fam Communicacoes Ltda / Zero.0 Multimidia | [top] | |
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This interactive cd-rom is from Brazilian comedian Tiririca. It has little games, music, clips of his comedy act, and a coloring program. | ||
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| Toolkit For Command & Conquer And Warcraft II | Walnut Creek | [top] | |
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This is a compilation of third-party add-ons, info and utilities for the real-time strategy games Command & Conquer and Warcraft II. File browsing utilities for both DOS and Windows are included on the disc. Features: 289 new Command & Conquer levels; 413 new Warcraft II maps; Utilities; Strategy guide; Patches and Upgrades. | ||
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| Total Mayhem / Total Mania | Cinematix Studios, Inc. / Domark Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an ambitious isometric shooter that tries to improve the formulae of Origin's Crusader: No Remorse with new gameplay elements that don't quite gel together. It was the year 2140, and the human race had become enslaved by its own mechanical creations. The "Mechs" that were developed to be sent off to fight distant wars and provide local security became too advanced, too intelligent; so much so, that they enslaved their creators. Sixteen years later, the humans have begun to fight back, using cyborgs created out of the same technology that cost mankind its freedom years before. You are the leader of a small band of human cyborgs, ready to do whatever it takes to recapture your home world. You explore the world from an isometric perspective, shooting anything that moves and a few stationary objects to boot. Along the way, you also have to solve the occasional puzzles using keys, trap doors and hidden entrances to complete the objectives for each mission. As the game progresses, both the bad guys and the arsenal at your disposal grow in power. It allows you to control up to six soldiers (cyborgs, to be precise); Crusader has only one. It also lacks the gratuitous graphic gore found in Crusader. | ||
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| Toy Story | HammerHead Ltd. / Buena Vista Games, Inc. | [top] | |
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A wonderful magical film was released by Disney Studios, Toy Story. The film was done totally on computer with a revolutionary three dimensional animation graphics. The game has the same remarkable Disney Characterizations, wit and personality of the previous great Disney animated films. The game is a straight port from the Sega Genesis 16-bit platform to the PC, and like most of these ports no new items, animation, graphics, or gameplay was added. Even Disney recommends using the gamepad to simulate the console game experience. This is another marketing attempt to leverage properties instead of a true game conversion by programmers and game designers. You play Woody. You jump up, run, and climb on blocks, collect stars, and use the stars to help the other toys. Inspite of the three dimensional graphics, the game has two dimensional gameplay. You move from side to side avoiding bad guys and collecting powerups. You'll go one-on-one with the evil Claw, Scud, and the workbench of horrors. But hang in there, because you and Woody need to rescue Buzz from the toy-torturing boy next door. It's forty hours of gaming in 17 levels of wired-for-action play. Ward off mutant toys with karate-chop Buzz. See a new scene not in the movie - Nightmare Buzz! | ||
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| Tracer | Future Endeavors / 7th Level Inc. | [top] | |
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Tracer is the captivating cyberspace strategy game of hacking distributed computer systems for cash using a virtual avatar in the design of Neuromancer, Shadowrun, or Snowcrash styled virtual worlds. This real-time 3D game features more than 50 levels of intensifying gameplay. Launch into cyberspace with a deadly virus snapping at your heels. Don't look back: it's gaining ground. You must plunge closer to the data core to avoid certain death. Hacking was never more difficult or more fun; this strategy game takes you to the edge, to the technothreshold, and back. Although the objective of Tracer is fairly simple—place like colors of code pads down on the grid and use them to move around on each level—the addition of a data-gobbling virus that is simultaneously hunting you down really delivers an adrenaline rush. The overall effect is one of challenging, but nerve-wracking, entertainment. | ||
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| Understanding McLuhan | The Voyager Company | [top] | |
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The medium is the message and Marshall McLuhan was the messenger. In the 1960s McLuhan virtually invented media analysis- questioning how technology changes out world. Now, people are returning to McLuhan for his brilliant insights into how the tools we shape shape us. This CD-ROM features one of the most extensive compilations of the observations and works of McLuhan. For instance: it includes the complete texts of McLuhan's groundbreaking texts "Understanding Media" and "The Gutenberg Galaxy." It also features exploration of eight of major McLuhan perceptions all illustrated with text, animation, video clips and audio. There's also a two hour audio lecture and full transcipt on the subject communication McLuhan gave at Colombia University in 1978. There's also interviews, a biography and an extensive bibliography of McLuhan. For those wanting to know more about McLuhan, his works and influence, needless to say, this CD-ROM is the best place to start. | ||
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| Universe Beyond, The | Mindscape | [top] | |
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Chart a fascinating course through the cosmos. Explore your understanding of the universe by creating an amazing, personalized voyage through it. The Universe beyond is a riveting, immersive journey through not only astronomy and cosmology, but also the myths, legends, mystery, and folklore that surrounds them. | ||
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| Vampire | Ambrosine | [top] | |
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Rise from your grave at midnight and prowl the streets in search of blood. Just be sure to be back in your coffin before sunrise! This free horizontal scrolling game is a remake of an old Intellivision game called Dracula by Imagic. Feed on people walking the streets, or by luring them out of their homes. As you bite your victims, your actions will call the attention of the local constable who will try to slow you down by driving a stake into you. You can respond by either turning one of your victims into zombies to attack the police, or by transforming into a bat to escape capture. Even the forces of nature are against the vampire, as wolves will attack you on foot, and hawks will drag away your bat form. You must feed on a certain number of victims and return to your tomb before sunrise, or you will not survive to feed another night. | ||
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| Victory Hoking [K] | HIC Infocomm | [top] | |
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The live TV programme Victory Hoking on SBS Korean channel was one of many call-in shows, following Coba on the Run on the same channel. The show first aired on April 1st, 1996. Just like Coba, the games were also released for retail. There are five mini games: One has Hoking ride on a rocket to take out enemies in a tunnel-shooter, in another he rides on a flying carpet and has to catch baloons before his old ones run out of air. The remaining three games can all support two players, where one takes control of Hoking's ogre friend. The sidescrolling shoot 'em up and pseudo-3D hack & slash games are both cooperative, while players combat each other in the last, a simplistic fighting game. | ||
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| Virtual Graceland | Elvis Presley Enterprises / Highway One Media Entertainment | [top] | |
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Nearly an hour of home movies, hundreds of photos, live concert performances, reminiscences with over 40 friends and business associates of Elvis Presley. Shoot pool, tour 18 areas of Graceland. Take a guided tour or navigate on your own to explore more than 500 hotspots that reveal intimate details about the man, the artist and his home life. Wander around each room in a way not possible on the public tours. See something interesting? Click on it and explore. It offers classic Elvis material, plus previously unreleased items made available by the Elvis Presley estate. Take a guided tour or navigate on your own to explore more than 500 hotspots that reveal intimate details about the man, the artist and his home life. Tour eighteen areas of the house and the grounds including the TV room, car museum, the Lisa Marie airplane, pool, stable and gardens. Discover a detailed timeline of Elvis's life and achievements, a complete discography, song list and filmography. Shoot pool, examine the famous "Black Leather Suit", even play the piano! More than 350 stories about fellow celebrities. Discover nearly an hour of home movies and hundreds of photographs, relive memorable live concert performances and enjoy some of the world's best loved music! | ||
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| W!Zone for WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness | Sunstorm Interactive, Inc. / WizardWorks Group, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a CD add-on for any version of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. It offers 66 "completely new, custom-designed battlegrounds," which contain ten single-player maps, 33 2-player maps, one 3-player map, eight 4-player maps, one 5-player map, one 7-player map, and six 8-player maps. | ||
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| W!Zone II: Retribution | WizardWorks Software | [top] | |
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WizardWorks continues two traditions with this disc, shoveling together user made levels for commercial distribution and naming their compilations "Retribution" (as with their Starcraft add-on). W!Zone II: Retribution contains over sixty levels for use with Warcraft II along with a copy of the Warcraft II strategy guide found on the first W!Zone disc. | ||
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| Walt Disney World Explorer, The | MindSai Productions / Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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This lets the user explore the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. The program consists of virtual tours through all of the Disney parks, and trivia about the parks, attractions and hotels. Various games are also built-in to the application, such as a quiz, allowing the user to test their knowledge of the resort, and a game which involves finding Hidden Mickeys. About two years after it was released, a second edition was made with new and updated information, such as Disney's Animal Kingdom and Disney's Coronado Springs Resort. Now every ride, attraction, show, hotel, recreational activity and nightspot is yours to discover throughout the Magic Kingdom, Epcot and the Disney Studios Florida. You can begin your exploration at the Main Map that covers the entire resort and comes to life with animation and your favorite Disney music. Then there's fun at every turn with narrated articles, video and music. From Cinderella Castle to The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, you and your family are about to enjoy the fun and excitement of the most magical place on earth. Learn all about the exciting sights and activities in the new Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park (only in Version 2.0). Try your hand a movie sound effects with the Monster Sound Show at Disney Studios. In the Backstage Area you can see original models, rare drawings and blueprints for some of the most celebrated shows and rides. Narrated articles with videos, photos, and music show you the history and secrets behind Walt Disney's dream. Exploring the resorts, hotels and attractions helps make planning your next trip a breeze. Play the Quiz Challenge and learn fun details about the Resort. Choose from one of these guided tours: Most Romantic Attractions, Most Popular Attractions, Scariest Attractions, Best Attractions for Kids Under 44 Inches, Recreation and Sports, Behind the Scenes, Best Kept Secrets. | ||
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| War Command Explosion | US Dreams Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a collection of shareware levels for Warcraft, Warcraft II, and Command & Conquer. The contents of the CD include for Command & Conquer: Map, mission and savegame editors together with the tools needed to integrate new missions into the game; Save games including saves of the last GDI & NOD missions and dinosaur missions; Sixty-five fan based multiplayer missions, twenty-nine GDI single player missions and twenty single player NOD missions; A patch to take Command & Conquer from V1.07 to V.19p; The demo version of Command & Conquer v1.0. For Warcraft: A demo version of the game; Thirty-one fan made missions and several save games. For Warcraft II: A demo version of the game; Forty or so fan made missions and list of cheat codes; Demo versions of fifty shareware 'war' games including some like Raptor, Battleground: Ardennes , and Cannon Fodder which became big sellers in their day as well as many other games which didn't. Though there is some user documentation on the disc there's no overall menu system or user interface and the player must explore the files and folders to find the files and how to install them. | ||
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| WarCraft II - The 70 Next Levels | Maverick Software | [top] | |
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This is an authorized companion set for Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. It has 70 new, custom-designed battlegrounds to play with tactical combat over land, air and sea. Two to eight players can play via network, and also there's a two-player mode supported via modem or direct link. It allows up to three player head-to-head by installing multiple copies from a registered version of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness. | ||
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| Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal | Blizzard Entertainment | [top] | |
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Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal is an expansion pack for Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. After defeating the Orcish Horde and capturing the survivors, the Human Alliance attempts to destroy the Dark Portal. However, whilst they destroy the portal, the rift that joins the Orcs' world of Draenor to Azeroth remains. The Alliance forces decide to enter the rift to the Orcs' home world to attempt to seal it from the other side. At the same time, Ner'zhul - Warchief of the Shadow Moon clan, who has seized control of the Orcish hordes of Draenor following Orgrim Doomhammer's departure (and eventual defeat) to Azeroth, plans to send his forces to Azeroth to gather magical artefacts in an attempt to open rifts to other worlds. Beyond the Dark Portal contains two 12 map campaigns; one for each side, 50 new pud's (maps) and a new tile set for the Orc home world. It also contains 5 new hero characters for each side that actively participate in several of the new single player missions. In function, they are simply super powered versions of standard units that have different sounds. There are no new standard units however, which many saw as a disappointment. The map editor also isn't updated to include any of this expansion's new features, though third party programs exist that can add these features to the editor. | ||
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| Warcraft II: More War - the Return of the Horde | X:treme Entertainment International | [top] | |
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This unofficial expansion pack contains 100 new scenarios for Warcraft II. Incredible new challenging levels for one of the best selling strategy games. The humans and orcs return once again to battle each other in all new scenarios designed by one of the leading level editors - Cobra. Be prepared of the ultimate battle as you match your skills with other players or alone in fierce sea battles, icy tundras, desolate deserts and challenging dragon slaying conquests. Gamers of all ages will be captivated with over 400 hours of gameplay. Includes modem and network multi-player levels, official cheats, and helpful hints. More war will satisfy the appetite of even the most die hard Warcraft II fans. | ||
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| Warcraft II: Morecraft | Microforum International | [top] | |
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An unofficial add-on to Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Morecraft contains over 200 fan-made levels, both single-player and multi-player, with a level browser to make installation easy. | ||
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| William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet : An Interactive Trip to Verona Beach | Fox Interactive / Circumstance Interactive Enterainment | [top] | |
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Based on the famous play by William Shakespeare and the 1996 adaptation set in modern times, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet : An Interactive Trip to Verona Beach explores Shakespeare's timeless classic in-depth. It features the complete text of Romeo and Juliet, which can be compared the script of the 1996 movie adaptation. Outside of the play, the CD-ROM features a look at the characters and world of the movie and features the film's music score. | ||
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| Windows 95 Game Sampler | Monolith / Microsoft | [top] | |
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In 1996, Microsoft had already shown great accomplishment with the 1995 release of its Windows 95 operating system. In the span of just one year, game developers had begun to jump on board on the Microsoft bandwagon and had developed, or were developing, a number of games for the system. Seeing an opportunity to showcase its system, Microsoft included a CD-ROM featuring demos numerous games such as Arcade America, Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity, and The Hive plus Activision's Atari 2600 Action Packs 1, 2, Activision's Commodore 64 15 Pack (Hacker), Dogz, Doom 95, Endorfun, Full Tilt Pinball v0.006, Fury 3, Ice & Fire, Locus, MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, Pressure Drop, Return Fire, Shanghai: Great Moments, Su-27 Flanker, TriTryst, Under Pressure. It also had Non-Playable Demos - Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing, Battle Beast, Double Switch, Earthworm Jim, Havoc, HyperBlade, Muppet Treasure Island, Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire, Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder, Spycraft: The Great Game, The Dig. And also, there are Video Demos - Command Aces of the Deep, The Daedalus Encounter, Magic The Gathering, Virtual Karts, Sid Meier's CivNet. There's also Internet Explorer 3 & bonus Easter eggs. What made the sampler very unique was how you could play demos. That was accomplished in the form of a 3D space station that was navigated from a real time first person perspective. Not only that, but there were a number of easter eggs and secrets to be found on the station to liven up exploration and make it less of a bland experience. It's worth noting that game developer Monolith Productions (yes, the same developer which made some of the best first person shooters ever made) was responsible for developing this part of the game. This is a very unique game sampler if only because of how unique the concept of using exploration in a game sampler is. It's a testament to how Microsoft was willing to go all out to show off the power Windows 95 was capable of. | ||
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| Windows 95 Game Sampler 2 | Monolith / Microsoft | [top] | |
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Following the release of the previous sampler of the same year, Microsoft again enlisted the development skills of Monolith Productions in making a CD-ROM which would be used to showcase various games on the Windows 95 operating system. Like the first sampler, it was included along with the CD-ROM for the Windows 95 operating system. The games featured this time are different. Games such as Diablo, Captain Quasar, The Neverhood, Ravage D.C.X. and Drowned God feature demos which can be accessed via a fully explorable 3D environment seen from a first person perspective. Also included are: Close Combat, Decathlon, DeathDrome, Fire Fight, Flight Unlimited, Free Enterprise, Hellbender, (Hold Onto Your) Nuts!, Killing Time, Monster Truck Madness, Necrodome, Road Rash, Time Commando, War Wind, You Don't Know Jack! The environment, like in the first sampler, is set on a space station, this time called "Station X." Again, the station is filled with a number of secrets to find which makes navigating the station a game in itself. Though, beyond that, you don't solve any puzzles or fight any enemies, just explore and access demos. But that in itself makes for quite an entertaining concept rather than just a bland series of menus from which you can access games. | ||
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| X-Men Cartoon Maker | Instinct Corporation / Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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This is a recreational software package that allows the user to create animations with a minimal level of sophistication by utilising a library of backdrops, animations and sound effects from the 1992 Marvel Comics X-Men animated series. The game features narration by Cathal J. Dodd as Wolverine and Iona Morris as Storm in the animated series. The game includes all the major characters from the animated series, and for each cast member, typically includes three animations. The software also includes three animated projects created by X-Men co-creator, Stan Lee and voiced by Cathal J. Dodd and Iona Morris. It's a sequel to the original Spider-Man Cartoon Maker and can be installed over the top to incorporate the library of Spider-Man animation and stills. | ||
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| X-Men: The Phoenix Saga Interactive CD-ROM Comic Book! | Pixel Technologies, Inc. / Toy Biz, Inc. | [top] | |
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From 1995 to 1996, Toy Biz launched several Marvel Comics character action figures that came with accompanying interactive CD-ROMs. Working on both Windows and Mac computers, they took classic stories and shoehorned in narration and footage from then-current Marvel animated series. This CD-ROM specifically focused on the Phoenix Saga: a prominent X-Men storyline that saw Jean Grey become a host for a galaxy threatening entity known as The Phoenix. | ||
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| Adiboo: Magical Playland | Coktel Vision / Knowledge Adventure Inc. | [top] | |
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This game helps children growing up as the main character, Adiboo, interacts with us in various mini-games, sometimes fighting the mean monster-blob, and most times teaching children reading, singing, and many life values. This is the toy box of the series, featuring activities like planting crops, cooking food and other puzzles and games. | ||
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| Adibou 2 | Coktel Vision | [top] | |
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This edutainment game has a new look for Adibou, improved graphics, and new activities. During the game, Adibou interacts continuously with the player. At first, the player must create a new profile that can be customized (head, hair, birthday). Once the profile is created, the young person arrives in the environment of Adibou. He can then do several activities in the garden, such as growing vegetables and fruits in the garden by Robitok, growing flowers, changing the niche or the bird shelter, and playing with the red balloon. Once inside the house of Adibou, the player also has several activities. He can make cakes with Kicook, watch TV containing two songs and other short clips, play the construction game, listen to Radio Adibou, play the game of masks, and play Bricks. If the player is celebrating his birthday or it is Christmas, 2 CDs to listen to appear at the foot of the television. It can also play additional discs, and can also check its progress (menu discs, and progress tree). | ||
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| Adventures of Batman and Robin Activity Center, The | Knowledge Adventure / Gryphon Software | [top] | |
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Based on the hit animated television show, The Adventures of Batman and Robin puts kids in Gotham City and takes them deep inside Arkham Asylum, the place where all of Batman's foes find themselves, once their fiendish plans have been foiled. Kids can unlock all sorts of fun activities and storybooks inside Arkham Gallery. Stories based on villains such as The Joker and Mr. Freeze are only a click away. Reinforce reading skills as a narrator reads the text aloud and activates multimedia events. Interactive animations and movie clips are also available inside each storybook, as are activities based on the villains. For example, Harley Quinn's activity has kids guiding the character through a maze, while the Riddler's activity is based on that old game Memory where kids must match pairs of stolen items in order to recover them. | ||
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| Adventures of King Dengotti, The | PMD / Microforum, Inc. | [top] | |
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Come along with King Dengotti and his wise advisor Picotti, as they take your child on an adventure to find a lost treasure. Creativity reigns in the Kingdom of PomPom, as your children set off on an animated adventure designed to help them discover the wonderful world of reading. Along the way they'll meet dozens of interesting animal characters and find clues to help them solve the King's riddles and uncover a secret treasure. | ||
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| Adventures of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny, The | Europress / Mindscape | [top] | |
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This is an educational title targeted for children from three to seven. The two stories faithfully reproduce the original texts with an exact reproduction of the illustrations that were used in the printed editions of the Beatrix Potter classic books. It explains how Peter Rabbit ventured into Mr. McGregor's garden and lost his clothes while escaping it. The second tale included on the CD-ROM retraces the perilous episode when Peter and his cousin Benjamin Bunny, decided to go back to the garden and get back Peter's clothes. Both stories are presented in the same manner as the traditional books with the text accompanied by dozens of ravishing illustrations. Yet, the CD-ROM has the tremendous advantage over the book in that it may feature animations and sounds that irresistibly appeal for children's attention. Not only can children listen to the story teller's voice, but they can also watch animations and discover plenty of others by clicking on the screen with the mouse. Each screen or "page" is composed of an illustration placed in the upper part of the screen with a portion of text below it. While listening to the story, the text being read is highlighted in red. Some of the words used might not be understandable by all, and that's why they will remain highlighted. If the child clicks on the word, a new screen will appear with the definition in the center. Other definitions are available by clicking on one of the 26 letters of the alphabet placed around or on the two arrows near the word's explanation to either go to the previous or next word contained in the glossary. Additionally, each definition can be printed by clicking on the printer icon at the right bottom of the screen. On some screens, you will discover short nursery rhymes based on characters from the world of Peter Rabbit, and a few hot spots that provide for certain words a visual description and the correct spelling. There are eleven skill-building activities accessible like the hot spots with the difference that they are indicated with sparkling stars. The activities are divided in several categories such as a jigsaw puzzle, arcade-style and memory games. | ||
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| Adventures of Pinocchio Activity Center, The | IBM Multimedia Studio | [top] | |
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Pinocchio's world is filled with magic, adventure and intrigue, which is why kids are so fascinated. It's loaded with live-action footage from the hit movie that enables kids to explore the most exciting parts of Pinocchio's world. Entertaining games are blended into the journey so the whole experience is as educational as it is fun. Players begin their amazing journey by choosing between three exciting destinations, the Village, the Ocean or to Terra Magica. Regardless of which destination children choose, they are sure to find fun, adventure and hours of engaging activities including jigsaw puzzles, painting, hidden object searches, mazes and spelling and matching games. This activity center is so easy and fun to use. | ||
| Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp | Jones & Jones Multimedia, LLC / N-TK Entertainment Technology, Inc. | [top] | |
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Based upon the famous story of Aladdin which was featured prominently in the book 1001 Arabian Nights, Aladdin and his wonderful lamp is an interactive storybook which retells the story with a younger audience in mind. Unlike most interactive storybooks, the story uses video technology and not still, interactive images to tell its story. What's more, the game also features a number of moments where you have an opportunity to make decisions which all result in the story being told a little differently. Sadly, this does little to impact the story which always returns to a set path and ending. Still, this is a very unique feature which gives this game some extra replayability. | ||
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| Amazing Learning Games with Rayman / Rayman Learning Center / Maths and English with Rayman | Ubi Soft Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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Join Rayman in his quest to recover the Book of Knowledge which has been stolen by the evil Mr. Dark. The gameplay of the original Rayman game is still present but kids from ages 6-10 must also read, count and spell as Rayman battles his way through the landscapes. As you guide Rayman around the platforms, you jump to different platform levels and can grab ledges or spin his ears to fly if you miss a landing. He must throw his fists at enemies and grab rings for bonus. The Magician will guide you as to what you must do in each level such as follow a path that has a correctly spelled word and go left or right depending if it's spelled right or wrong. In other cases you may choose a word that rhymes, calculate a mathematical sum or step on a number. Math activities include counting, adding, subtracting, comparisons, and place values; while Reading Exercises cover spelling, phonics, word recognition, and word classification. The three knowledge adventures consists of: 12 activities, 180 game-play levels, 6 unique worlds, and 50 different characters. It was rereleased in 1999 as three volumes of the Rayman Learning Center. In the 1996 version players could choose from three difficulty settings. In the 1999 release the difficulty setting was already chosen, hence the "ages 6-7, 7-8 or 8-9". | ||
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| Arthur's Reading Race | Living Books / Brøderbund Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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The main character Arthur challenges his younger sister D.W. to read 10 words. If she can read that many words he will buy her ice cream. They travel through the town along with Arthur's dog Pal, finding all kinds of words while having fun along the way. As with other Living Books series, the title presents pages that are drawn in a brightly colored cartoon style with animations. It has several other mini games inside the pages for children to explore. You can match words with pictures, and, in a board game race, move your pawn ahead by the amount of letters in a word. There is an I-Spy game, where objects are described and the player must find them in the picture. Many hidden objects within the pages are waiting to be found by clicking on them. You can also click on any of the words of the story and hear them repeated to promote reading skills. | ||
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| Baby-Sitters Club, The: Friendship Kit | Sidewalk Studios | [top] | |
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You've read the books, joined the club, played with the dolls, watched the videos and the movie. Now you can play the computer game. The Baby-Sitters Club is everywhere. With this program, you can talk to the members, write in your journal, keep track of homework, make a birthday card, receive mail from the other members, and play a couple of games. What more could a girl ask for? Children receive personalized virtual mail from club members, and play a Jigsaw Puzzle and Stoneybrook Map game. | ||
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| Barbie Fashion Designer | Digital Domain Inc. / Mattel Media | [top] | |
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With this game you can actually create totally new outfits for your Barbie doll using a software to edit the clothes and then printing them to actual fabric, supplied along with the game. Edit clothes for different occasions (wedding, casual, party, date, work and beach), and then choose accessories, patterns, colors, and much more. Once you're done you can watch your clothes being shown at the catwalk by Barbie models, or print photos of your creations. A Refill Kit addon was sold seperately which included more special fabric that goes through the printer to print out your designs. Just peel the paper backing away from the fabric. Makes up to 8 real Barbie outfits with additional adhesive stickers, hook and loop tape. | ||
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| Barbie Print 'n Play | Mattel Media | [top] | |
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Have lots of fun on your computer making stationery, greeting cards, stickers and more! Include beautiful Barbie images and your own personal messages. Choose from hundreds of cool designs and layouts. | ||
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| Beauty and the Beast: Memorex Children's Series | Memorex | [top] | |
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Improve your child's reading and vocabulary skills with Memorex Classic Tales, designed by child development experts. Journey back to a story retold in the classic tradition of Charles Perrault and the Brother's Grimm. Carry on the tradition of the highly valued, original tales passed from generation to generation. The story is told in considerably greater depth than the Disney version of a few years back, primarily because there's so much text and (therefore) so many more details. It is this preponderance of text – whether you're reading while listening to narration in "storybook mode", or just listening to narration in "movie" mode – that is the disc's greatest strength and fatal weakness. The simple, mostly black-and-white drawings and the pathetic excuses for animation (a flag that moves back and forth between two positions, to simulate waving in a breeze, is by no means a "movie") are disposable fluff. This storybook is really about using the computer, very straightforwardly, to read the story aloud while letting kids follow along. There's also some hypertext, offering words that will be briefly defined when clicked on. | ||
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| Being a Scientist: The Case of the Vanishing Trees | Anglia Multimedia | [top] | |
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National Curriculum Science sets a number of specific requirements at Key Stage 2. This CD-ROM has these clearly in mind as it helps develop pupils' powers of investigation, observation and deduction. It also makes a particular point of targeting some of the Attainment Targets which are difficult to achieve in the classroom. The pupil becomes a scientist to help solve the mystery of the vanishing trees. He or she joins our three investigators, their journalist friend and the animated owl as they find clues and test scientific ideas. They navigate their way around the richly detailed environment from the forest through the village to the town, being sure to collect the clues needed to solve intriguing puzzles. Interviews with the cabinet maker, the saw mill owner, the forester and others, the carrying out of tests in their workshops and factories, the identification of trends and making of comparisons, are all part of the process which they will undertake. After collecting the clues, solving puzzles and meeting the people involved, the pupil will be able to conduct experiments on screen and make the final deductions that will lead them to a conclusion. | ||
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| Berenstain Bears in the Dark, The | Living Books / Brøderbund Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is based on the book of the same name, written by Jan and Stan Berenstain and published in 1982. Sister Bear enjoys nature books, while Brother Bear enjoys mysteries. But when Brother borrows a scary book from the library and reads part of it to Sister, she gets nightmares. This keeps the whole family up - and miserable - all night. It's up to Papa Bear to help Sister through her fears of the night and explain how everyone feels afraid of the sounds in the dark at some point, even adults. Also included in the game are two smaller games. In one, players must match animals by memory. In the other, players must reconstruct scenes by using the pieces of the puzzle. In addition, several music tracks are included on the CD-ROM that players can listen to on a CD player. The songs have titles such as "Sister Bear's Dance," "Yee Who!" and "Teddy Bear Boogie." | ||
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| Betsy Goes To Preschool | Merlin Interactive Systems | [top] | |
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She is Betsy, a very applied and responsible cow that is going to start preschool or kindergarten, situation that finds her anxious and excited in equal parts. In addition to love for knowledge, Betsy has a best friend and pet, the dog Euclides, which, of course, is her antithesis: reckless and reckless. However, it is the puppy that drives our talented cow to exercise her brain. Examples: Euclid comes running and messes up the number cubes (then you have to place them correctly); Euclid barks at the trunk of the figures and is kidnapped by the monsters of the mysterious tree (obviously, we have to rescue him). This is a training and skill program aimed at the youngest: from 3 to 5 years. To meet these objectives, it presents two cute 3D characters and different games with four levels of difficulty. Through the magic telescope, the children practice the location of the letters on the keyboard, explore the alphabet, complete, copy or write names of objects and animals. The rescue of Euclides from the mysterious tree, meanwhile, offers an arcade style journey where they will have to recognize and discriminate figures until they reach the goal. But there are also cubes with numbers and the Games Center, which offers a puzzle, a movie machine and a memory board, in which pairs of cards must be formed. Benefits: It works in the identification of numbers, letters and figures; develops reading and writing through the formation of words, enriching the child's vocabulary; Wwrks sequences, associations, series and geometric shapes; It presents different levels of difficulty; multilingual program (Portuguese, English, Spanish and German), also allowing its use in learning foreign languages; Graphics and sounds in 3D; Activities and scenarios presented in a random way: new accesses present different navigation sequences; Performance monitored by the program. Activities: Memory game, Puzzle, Film machine. | ||
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Build'em! Drive'em! The biggest, coolest trucks around. You're in charge as you enjoy a world of action-packed construction, farming and fire rescue adventures. Get behind the wheel of a Big Rig that you drive. Lots of fun to build on. Construct your own city, build your own vehicle. Come on aboard, just make sure you have plenty of fuel. Design and build your very own vehicle. Thousands and thousands of combinations are possible. The 3D Driving Sim puts you behind the wheel to drive your own truck. Explore fun filled activities and Movies along the way. The clubhouse is where Big Job club members hang out, play and pick their next Big Job adventure. The Water Blaster Game lets you blast the water to put out the fire and save the day. Challenge your Big Job skills on 2 levels. You can earn, print and trade Big Job trading cards. Collect all 36. | ||
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| Big Science Comics | Theatrix Interactive / Microleague Media | [top] | |
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This scientific game takes students into an electronic comic book where they will expand their observation and critical thinking skills, as well as learn key concepts in the physical sciences. | ||
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| Buster and The Beanstalk: Tiny Toon Adventures | Terraglyph Interactive Studios | [top] | |
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The normal screwy type of Tiny Toon plot with seven, count 'em, other fairy tales mixed into the plot pot. Of course each fairy tale requires the individual style of Warner Brothers Tiny Toon Stars Buster Bunny, seeking the ultimate extreme, Plucky Duck, enormous ego and greed, Babs Bunny, the mall-hopping, cell-phone princess, and Elmyra, the monster, errr.. girl, who will love you to death. The fairy tales include Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and the Beanstalk, Mary Had a Little Lamb. Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island, Freddi Fish, and Maniac Mansion) animations abound on the screen. Click on any object and an animation will start and many of them can be going on simultaneously. The point-and-click adventure is a treasure hunt type where you go from screen to screen to find eggs, keys, and other items. The traditional hand drawn, cell-by-cell animation, scanned into the computer, digitized, and colored on the computer is gorgeous and made even more beautiful by a new 32-bit animation engine optimized for Windows 95. | ||
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| Busy World of Richard Scarry: Best Reading Program Ever | Morgan Interactive, Pearson Software / Simon & Schuster | [top] | |
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Come to Busytown for hours and hours of reading fun. Join Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm as they ask their Busytown friends to write stories for the brand new Storymobile. You'll fill the Storymobile in no time by playing fun phonics activities. Best Reading Ever includes word play, the Find &Click game, three phonics activities, 15 animated onscreen stories, a story writer, and a parent online progress report. While at play, children master fundamental reading skills such as phonics, sight-work development, letters,and sounds. This is great educational software for young children. | ||
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| Castle Explorer | Dorling Kindersley | [top] | |
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Kids, ages 8-11, experience the drama and danger of life in a 14th century castle with this intriguing CD. Young historians are free to explore the castle or choose to complete the king's mission. The castle is a detailed cross-section of a 14th century European castle illustrated by Stephen Biesty. Just like the beautiful DK cross-section books this castle is packed with rich detail, 3D rooms, fascinating medieval occupant and tons of captivating information. Kids will meet an alchemist who mixes strange potions, soldiers, troubadours, the jailer, the Baron and many more. Explorers will find the dungeon, courts, chapel, solar, gates, watchtower and so much more. Players can choose to wander and explore the castle as a young page or accept the king's mission. To complete the mission students must choose a disguise and search the castle for pieces of the secret map. In addition players will hunt for the answer to questions about medieval life and customs. But beware! As you spy on the baron someone might be spying on you. It is very easy to navigate the castle and the subject matter is fascinating. Students learn about crime and warfare, society and customs, health, trades and food of medieval Europe. There is a glossary to help with unknown words. Passages are not read aloud encouraging kids to read, read, read. | ||
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| Castle Infinity | Starwave | [top] | |
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Castle Infinity is the home of the last remaining dinosaurs. But there is a problem. Evil monsters are invading the castle, and the good dinosaurs' lives are in jeopardy! There is something you can do to help save the dinosaurs and the castle. Team up with players from around the world and together you can rid the castle of those pesky monsters. Castle Infinity is an MMOG (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) designed for children as young as age 8. It emphasizes cooperative problem solving using non-violent methods in a colorful, imaginative atmosphere. Essentially it is a side-scrolling platformer with adventure puzzles. The main objective of this arcade-style game is to amass enough power points and earned objects to battle and remove the monsters that have penetrated the dinosaurs' sanctuary. Each player has a unique on-screen name and password, and then chooses how their character will look. The parts of the avatar's body are like pieces of machines, plants and animals. For instance, it could be a snail's body with a gum-ball machine head and the roots of a tree for legs. As players explore the Castle and rise through the ranks, more pieces (like hats with special powers) and body parts can be found. These can be used or traded between players. There are many obstacles and hazards that must be navigated over, under, around or through including pits, fire, electrical wires, water, gears, moving elevators and ledges. Dinosaurs as well as monsters can appear at random or at pre-destined times. Failed attempts during a battle or pathway can cause injury which, if bad enough, will send the player back to his room for healing (repair). Collecting "lucky statues" and "monkey paws" will increase "repair points" for more powerful healing. (No player can actually die, but instead is restored in their room.) Live chats appear as above-the-head cartoon "bubbles" so they can be read by the group. This teaches communication and keyboarding skills. Puzzles encourage creative thinking and imagination. Some monsters can be defeated by uttering a word or phrase, and many puzzles require more than one person to solve. For instance, 4 players are needed to operate a hydrostatic mini-sub to safely explore a flooded basement. Initially the game was released on CD-Rom for $39.95. The game became free to download and play during the "resurrection" period approximately 8 years later with no disc needed. | ||
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| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Adventure In Tinker Town | Moving Pixels / MGM/UA Family Entertainment | [top] | |
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The title is inspired by the popular 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang based on a book by James Bond's Ian Fleming and starring Dick Van Dyke; it's recommended for children aged 4-8. Andrew Taylor, a science director for the Northern California elementary school system served as consultant to ensure the educational value and age appropriateness of the title. Chitty crashes through a fence into a junkyard where players use tools and mechanical skills to re-assemble her. Then, Chitty takes the player on a journey to the Island of Tinker Town where huge animated appliances are in need of repair. Missing parts and tools are hidden throughout the island and players solve puzzles to find them. Then, players use talking tools like Rita the wrench and Screwy Louie the screwdriver to fix the appliances. Along the way, kids learn aural comprehension, science, safety and memory skills. The dashboard of Chitty is the interface. The steering wheel, horn, glove box inventory storage, and three tools, including Screwy Louie, Rita the wrench, and Slammer the hammer. There's six science-based lock and key puzzles include sound, temperature, water, light, electricity, and magnetism. Nine lock and key problem solving puzzles include find lost valve, retrieve missing mouthpiece for grandma phone, and get inside Hot-Z and Tot-Z club. You must help repair broken Chitty and inhabitants of Tinker Town and locate and rescue the missing tools. There are hundreds of film quality clikable 3D animations and an entire adventure in a totally 3D world. There are twelve tinkerable objects, including Chitty, shower, sink, fan, toilet, stove, pump, generator, grandpa, fridge, heater, and phones. All these objects can be taken apart and put back together teaching the children how to use tools and how these basic objects function. Chitty has six original songs to sing along with including an opening theme song and an entire musical score. | ||
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| City Mouse, Country Mouse | Softkey Multimedia | [top] | |
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A delightfully interactive storybook for children (ages 4-7) that develops reading, vocabulary and thinking skills. Children select from three characters they want to tell the story enhancing their thinking and listening skills. This superb educational tool will excite children with animated illustrations, life-like speech and clickable surprises. As characters share their perspectives, children develop important life skills while building their self-confidence and a love for reading. Children choose any of three characters they want to tell the story. Children may read independently or follow along with highlighted text. Delightful characters and interactive animations enhance the learning and fun. | ||
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This brings Crayola creativity to your computer. Now kids of all ages can use Crayola crayons, markers and watercolors to create original colorful works of art, or spend hours playing with more than 25 activities, coloring books, crafts and games designed by the Crayola child development experts. Art Adventure offers games and activities designed for children aged 3-6, while older children will find more challenging activities in Art Studio. Features: Authentic Crayola Colors, Shapes (2D and 3D), Talking Keyboard, Stickers, Undo Animation, Picture Show Maker, Monster Maze Craze, Monster Mix-ups, Games and Activities and much much more. | ||
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| Curious George Early Learning Adventure | Houghton Mifflin Interactive | [top] | |
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This is the first volume of the Curious George Young Readers’ Series. This educational title features games that focus on colours, shapes, sizes, listening skills, pattern recognition and matching, same and different recognition, rhyming, and mouse skills designed for the targeted preschool ages 2 to 5. Activities feature the Jingles Jukebox, Pie Fight, Star Patrol, Super Fruit Catch, The Puzzler, and also features a bonus activity for printing out a storybook featuring Curious George. | ||
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| Darby The Dragon | Capitol Multimedia Kidventures / Broderbund | [top] | |
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Darby the Dragon is a beautifully animated variation on the classic 'Dungeons and Dragons' critical thinking program. Here, the lead character finds a magic wand, and accidentally wishes his sister was smaller while they were struggling over the wand. The next thing you know, "poof!" she's been shrunk to quarter-size. Unfortunately, this magic wand needs to be re-charged by the wizard before it can return her to normal. And that requires three magic ingredients which Darby and sister Sparkle must hunt for. It's not as easy as it sounds. For example, one of the requisite objects is a special piece of fruit. To get the fruit, Darby and Sparkle must get past a swarm of bees. To get past the bees, they must have a special jar of preserves. To get the preserves, they must ask the Giant. The Giant, however is asleep, and can only be awakened by a special horn. To get the horn, Darby and Sparkle must befriend a beggar. Befriending the beggar requires a gold coin. Gold coins can be found in several non-obvious places, sometimes in response to problem solving by the user. One is in a trunk at the base of the tower where the Giant sleeps. Unlocking the trunk requires a key. The key is back in the castle, in the Queen's room. | ||
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| Destination Pyramids | Edmark / Riverdeep | [top] | |
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This is a reading tutorial, story writing, and language tutorial program designed for use by children with physical, cognitive, or visual disabilities. Using the theme of the life along the ancient Nile, users can create print and interactive electronic books, poetry, and essays as well as movies. Complete with music, sound effects, and historically accurate indoor and outdoor Pyramid Temple and Valley Temple backgrounds, the Sphinx, Pharaoh's garden and palace, the flooded Nile, village scenes, farms along the Nile, and the dock and quarry, students create interactive adventures by choosing scenes, and animating characters to plan plots, write stories and narrate pages. The finished story can then be played back on the screen or printed out. Also available are border backgrounds and a blank background. Unique features include a fact book and tools which enable students to interact with each scene in their story, including autosizing which allows students move stickers around each background scene and have the stickers change size to retain proper perspective to the scene; and smart stickers which go where students drag them and and can be moved inside buildings, and behind or in front of other objects in a scene. The sticker tools include the sticker picker containing hundreds of stickers arranged by categories like people, props, and symbols. Students can drag and drop stickers from the sticker picker into each scene. The sticker editor allows students to change each sticker's size, rotate stickers, turn animations on or off and attach sounds to each sticker. The program can be configured to meet specific ability levels and needs and a special "configure to the young child" feature transforms the stories into a talking puppet theater. Students with low vision or other visual disabilities can select colors and sizes and types of print to meet their needs. | ||
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| Disney's 101 Dalmatians Animated StoryBook | Media Station Inc. / Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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This is an interactive reading adventure with fun new ways to improve your child's reading, vocabulary, and problem solving skills. As they ( and their teacher or parent) read along with the dalmatian dogs Pongo, Perdy, and their adorable puppies, you get to move the story along by taking part in four interactive learning activities, six sing-alongs, and hundreds of surprise animations. There's even a fun thesaurus and a dictionary that defines words with poetry. With so many innovative new features, learning has never been so dog-gone fun! The Disney animated dog story and characters from the movie 101 Dalmations are the same, and wicked Cruella DeVille is still conniving to get the puppies to make herself a one-of-a-kind designer fashion fur coat from dalmatian's hides. The player can choose to have the story read to the end or pick Read and Play. In this choice, the player hears the story and may play games plus enjoy interactive elements on each page. An interesting twist on interactivity is a technique of highlighting a word (chosen by the player) in the text. When the player clicks on the word, a synonym or similar phrase replaces it. | ||
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| Disney's Toy Story Activity Center | Disney Interactive / Pixar Animation Studios | [top] | |
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From Disney to be based on the hit movie, Disney's Toy Story Activity Center has an entirely different focus than its Animated StoryBook cousin. Where that program targeted early readers, the Activity Center provides exercises in critical thinking, problem solving, and visualization type skills. The movie's characters and setting provide the hook to capture the child's interest and attention. The program consists of eight activities, three involving artistic efforts, one with simple addition problems, and the remainder with various pattern recognition, spatial visualization, and replication exercises. | ||
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| Dorling Kindersley Children's Dictionary, The | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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Also released as American Heritage: Children's Dictionary. Electronically enhanced with color, sound, and animation for students. This brings words to life with pictures, sounds, and animations. It has over 37,000 definitions for 13,000 different words. These entries are filled with information. There is the standard written and spoken pronunciation, syllable breakdown, example of usage, and the definition itself. The entries also include various forms of the word-like plural, past, and present forms-to show how words change when used in different ways. Some of the entries have a list of additional information about the word, such as alternative words, synonyms, idioms, or the word's history, as well as related words. Children can locate definitions by browsing through an index of words or by searching for a specific word. If they see a word in a definition they do not recognize, a simple click on the word will switch to its definition. Children can also check out the Word of the Day or let the title choose a random word. The title keeps a list of the six most recently visited words, making it easy to return to a previous entry. Children can also place bookmarks at entries where they want to return later. | ||
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| Dr. Dudius on the Earth [Ru] | New Media Generation | [top] | |
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This program in a fun way you can meet more than 80 countries. During the trip, you can get a lot of diverse and relevant information about the different countries and states. For example, find the number of inhabitants, the area, the name of the monetary unit, see the animated images of indigenous people, national flags, pictures of landscapes, hear carols. In addition, the card is placed on the disk for each country and appearing on the cities. The program includes exercises of various kinds. They not only enrich the knowledge, but also develop smart, logical thinking and visual memory. It requires the ability to respond quickly to questions (in which case it becomes a kind of party quiz), the mosaics, indicate the right geographical location of the city on the map, etc. As a result, the points received gives coins with which you can choose to buy a gift in the children's store. | ||
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| Dr. Seuss Living Books: Green Eggs And Ham | Living Books / Broderbund Software, The Learning Company | [top] | |
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"Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse?" Sam-I-Am leads children through this beloved story. Little ones can choose Read-to Me mode and watch the story progress. Text is highlighted as the story is read increasing reading confidence and comprehension. Hidden surprises and tons of clickables on every page make for lots of interactive fun. Animated pictograms help children with word recognition. Three games add to the fun. Sam-I-Am needs help in his rhyming game. Fox in a Box helps kids make words and create three word rhymes. Mouse in a House needs help matching colors. All activities have 3 levels. | ||
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| Dragons | John Foster & Korky Paul / Oxford University Press, Europress Software Ltd. | [top] | |
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This interactive storybook CD-ROM is narrated by Harry Enfield and Sandi Toksvig. It's an engaging mixture of poetry, music, and fun encouraging young children to develop their reading and listening skills and helping them to learn while they play. It takes children into a labyrinth of tunnels where many adventures await them. It transports youngsters to the dragon's lair where they can find every kind of dragon they can think of - and some they'd sooner not think of. There are pet dragons, purple dragons and fiery dragons. They chase teachers, visit the vet and even play the banjo and when children reach the lair, they can hear songs about their favourite dragon and sing along to the words on the screen. Clicking on the library door will give them a feast of fun poems which are read aloud and there are click-and-play musical numbers to enjoy. | ||
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| Fest i Mumindalen [Sw] | IQ Media | [top] | |
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Based on the work from Finnish author Tove Jansson, this interactive tale takes place in the Moomin Valley, at the beginning of Spring. The Spring Festival is approaching and the Moomins promised to organize it, but the whole family is still immersed in deep Winter sleep... Play with the Moomin family across ten detailed 3D environments, four activities and four arcade games, in an adventure with many random events that ensure the experience will never be the same. | ||
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| Fin Fin on Teo, the Magic Planet | Fujitsu Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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This game is about a creature that is a hybrid of a bird and a dolphin which the user could communicate with via a Webcam which came with the game, the SmartSensor. Fin Fin responds to the player's tone of voice and volume of the voice - one reviewer describing Fin Fin as a 'virtual mood ring'. 30,000 copies were sold in the first year in Japan. Fin Fin was much like the popular Tamagotchi for your PC. If he was not fed or paid enough attention he would sing a sad whistling song or sometimes fly away. | ||
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| Fisher-Price 123's | Davidson & Associates | [top] | |
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This is a merry, musical journey that will teach your child all he or she needs to know about numbers - what they look like, how they relate to each other and to everyday life, even an introduction to the basic concepts of addition and subtraction. Laughter and learning abound as the Counting Critters invite kids to click and explore through the local snack shop, concert hall, and post office. And each surprise-filled location features a whimsical 1-2-3 sing-along song your child will love to hear again and again. It's all designed to captivate your child and build a love for learning. An enchanting mix of music, animation and fun, Fisher-Price 1-2-3's is an early learning tool you can count on. Kids will learn: How to count from 1 to 10; Number sequencing; Relationship of numbers to everyday life; Shapes and colors; Number recognition in written and verbal form; Math readiness. | ||
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| Fisher-Price Great Adventures: Castle | Funnybone Interactive / Davidson & Associates, Inc. | [top] | |
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Woe to the Fisher-Price kingdom! The good King McBeard's castle was taken over by his brother, the evil King Smudge and his Naughty Knights. It is up to you to help McDuff find where the Good Knights have been hiding and convince them to help take back the castle from King Smudge. Players can choose to play a game where they will only have to rescue two of the knights to win or a full game where they must find all six knights to storm the castle. Players must solve a variety of puzzles and challenges before they can save King McBeard. And if you win, the good McDuff will be knighted and join the other Good Knights in the castle. It contains elements of early learning for children including art, creativity, critical thinking, reading comprehension, imagination and role-playing. | ||
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| Fisher-Price Learning in Toyland | Funnybone Interactive / Davidson & Associates, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a set of educational games and activities based loosely around the Fisher-Price style of toys. The host for the activities is Gotcha Gopher and his pal, Bippity Bug. The 6 games/activities are: Big Action Garage - The object of this activity is to build vehicles that match a given picture of a vehicle. To achieve this, the player selects from different body types, wheels, and ornaments. The game also has a mode where the player can create any vehicle from the available pieces and print the result. All-in-1 Workshop - The object of this activity is to build woodworking creations given a set of wood pieces, a drill, screwdriver, hammer, and some screws and nails. Spots are marked on the wood where the player must drill and then plant screws, or where the player must hammer nails. After the project is compete, the player must also remember to clean up the workbench with the vacuum cleaner. This activity also includes a free-form mode where the player has more flexibility to build anything and print the result. Fliptrack Mountain - This game deals with transport logistics at a young child's level. Various objects must be transported around a map and the player must decide which vehicle (car, boat, train or helicopter) is best suited for the task. Talking Smart Street - This activity presents the player with many buttons on a street that represent letters, numbers, and animals. Pressing on a letter or number will cause a voice to vocalize the letter or number, while clicking on an animal will play the sound the animal makes. All-in-1 Kitchen - In this activity, the player must follow the cookie recipe laid out by the game and mix together ingredients in the right order. Then the player must cut out certain shapes from the rolled dough, bake them, and decorate the cookies in a particular manner. As with other activities, this one also has a free-form mode. 3-in-1 Creativity Table - This activity includes coloring, crafts, and building blocks. In the coloring mode, the player must color certain objects in a picture according to the game's instructions. Also, the player can choose to do free crayon drawing on a canvas. In crafts, the player chooses from a variety of basic shapes and can decorate them with glitter and various other items. In the building block game, the player must match a series of colored blocks onto a picture to create the final picture. | ||
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| Fisher-Price Little People: Christmas Activity Center | Funnybone Interactive / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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Fisher-Price brings you a sleigh full of wonderful surprises with this Little People Christmas Activity Center. This fun-filled package of Yuletide cheer is packed full of holiday crafts and activities to get you and your little ones into the spirit of Christmas. Here's What You Get: Ten great holiday crafts and activities for the entire family; Special templates to create holiday cards, gift tags and wrapping paper; Fun printable decorating activities to showcase your creative talents (works with Avery Kids printable stickers); Five sing-along Christmas carols. Plus: Free limited editions Little People Christmas collectible playset inside every box; Make the holidays more memorable with personalized greeting cards, gift tags, wrapping paper and stickers; Trim your tree with beautiful decorations to print out and share with friends and family; Sing along to your favorite Christmas songs with the Little People carolers; Build your own snowman and dress him up with all kinds of decorations. | ||
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| Fisher-Price Ready for School: Kindergarten | Davidson & Associates | [top] | |
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Grab your lunch box and pack up your pencils, it's time to get ready for school! Fisher-Price's Ready for School Kindergarten will help your child gain the self-confidence and skills necessary to thrive in kindergarten, and will make your child's first year at school a great one. | ||
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| Fisher-Price Ready For School: Preschool | Funnybone Interactive / Davidson & Associates, Inc. | [top] | |
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Give your child a head start on preschool with this big-top adventure packed with learning activities and lovable circus animals. Rumba the Ringmaster will introduce your child to nine friendly characters who encourage learning through interactive games and positive rewards. Through role-playing, creativity and music, your child will develop skills such as letter and number recognition, sequencing, sorting and more! With the easy-to-use Ready for Preschool Skills Matrix, parents can track their children’s progress, guide them to specific activities, or just join in on the learning fun. It's a charming story told from a child’s point of view about what it’s like to go to preschool. “All About Me” builds confidence through activities that focus on a child’s world. “You and Your Child” helps you get to know your child better and helps you increase your child’s self-esteem. The Print Kit includes over 50 pages of stories, activities and information. Includes 3 activity books and a print kit for fun and learning away from the computer. This exciting 2-disc set includes: Disc #1 will help your child develop a strong, foundation of early learning skills. Disc #1 helps kids learn: Letters, Numbers, Shapes and colors, Size comparison, Memory skills, Listening skills, Sorting, Sequencing, Nursery rhymes, Responsibility, Daily routines, Early mouse control skills. Disc #2 contains a special Parent’s Video Guide, featuring education and child development expert Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. This disc provides tips on how you can prepare your child for preschool, and make the most of your child’s education. Disc #2 features: Answers to parents’ questions about why preschool is important, how to choose a good preschool, and how to help children build healthy self-esteem; A print kit with 50 activity pages to continue your preschoolder’s positive learning experience away from the computer. | ||
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| Fisher-Price: Time to Play - Pet Shop | Davidson & Associates / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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This is an educationally based role-playing game for children ages four to seven. Players can purchase, feed, groom, and doctor animals for a simulated pet shop, as well as sing songs along with game characters Ben and Emily. After purchasing animals for their shop, players can see pictures and read descriptions of several types of dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other critters. Each description can be played aloud, or read by the player, and the pictures can be printed as coloring pages. One animal can be selected from each category for their shop. Options are plentiful once animals are selected. Select pet food and feed the animals accordingly. Click on the sink and go to the grooming center, where animals can be shampooed, styled, and dressed in crazy costumes. There is also an aquarium that can be stocked with a dozen different types of fish, as well as props such as mermaids and castles. As in other areas, the aquarium can be printed out as a coloring page. Another option allows children to play as a veterinarian and doctor their pets. After selecting the doctor's bag on the main screen using the point-and-click interface, players are presented with a book where all the patients and their ailments are listed. After choosing a patient, various instruments can be used from the doctor's bag to treat the animal. Ailments range from sprains to itchy skin. A sing-along section offers five songs, including "It's Feeding Time" and "At the Pet Shop." | ||
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| Fractured Fairy Tales: The Frog Prince | Trampoline / SegaSoft | [top] | |
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Now all the hilariously twisted high-jinks of the classic animated series Fractured Fairy Tales come to life in a fast-paced CD-ROM story and activity book. Follow the misadventures of one hapless frog as his life is turned upside down when a witch turns him into a handsome young prince. His search to reverse the spell leads you through eight colorful, unique games and activities for hours of creative multimedia fun. It's based on the classic animated series featuring characters from Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends. Fully customizable and adjustable levels let your child grow with the storybook. It has eight engaging games, movie-like animations and hundreds of clickables that keep interest levels high. It builds reading, listening, matching, and counting skills while stimulating creative thinking. Audio assist makes the story accessible to even the earliest readers. | ||
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| Franklin's Activity Center | Sanctuary Woods Multimedia | [top] | |
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"Want to come over and play?" Franklin's room is packed with 11 fun things to do. There are jigsaws to unpuzzle, matches to make, pictures to color and cards to create using thousands of pieces of art. You won't find games like these anywhere else but in Franklin's room. Navigate a river to track down the frog. Search for dinosaur bones. Dress Franklin as a pirate, an astronaut or in hundreds of other outfits, then print it all out. You can change the difficulty of most activities from easy to hard with a simple click of the mouse. What's more, you can invite a friend to play along because most of these activities aren't just for one, they're for two. | ||
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| Freddi Fish & Luther's Maze Madness | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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Freddi's friend Luther has managed to accidentally scatter Grandma Grouper's kelp seeds throughout a gigantic set of underwater mazes. You control Freddi Fish, who sets out to find and recover all of the missing kelp seeds. As she advances through 50 levels (plus bonus rounds), you'll need to solve simple puzzles, avoid pesky critters, and pick up special items which will help her on her way. After all of the kelp seeds have been picked up in a maze, Freddi will automatically advance to the next round. The player controls Freddi by using the mouse or keyboard. The cursor keys move Freddi, while the Enter and Ctrl keys allow Freddi to fire when she has the Bubble-Shooter power-up. If you choose to use the mouse, simply move the cursor arrow to a target location for Freddi, click the left mouse button, and she'll attempt to swim toward the target - Freddi will be able to navigate corners, but only one at a time, so if she's unable to swim to the target, try breaking the trip up into shorter pieces. If Freddi has the Bubble-Shooter powerup, she'll fire bubbles if she is directly facing the target, and if the mouse button is held down briefly. The game allows multiple people to play the game with their progress recorded under their own name. The game allows you to save or exit the game after each level is finished, and previously finished levels can be re-played. The game also comes with a level editor, that is icon-based rather than text-based so non-readers can use it. | ||
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| Freddi Fish & Luther's Water Worries | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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You play Luther, a young green fish who gets sucked into a whirlpool and must find his way out. Luther's search will eventually take him through 100 underwater levels jam-packed full of action and adventure. On the way home, Luther will need to be aware of the hazards around him, while picking up worm doodles which will allow him to advance further. Bubbles, which are constantly rising from deep within the whirlpool, will force the water level down if they are allowed to reach the water's surface. If the water level becomes too low, Luther will have to retry the level, minus one energy level. To prevent this from happening, Luther must use his trusty slingshot and unlimited supply of ammo to pop the bubbles before they reach the surface. Luther also needs to be careful when navigating the whirlpool, since running into a bubble may render him momentarily trapped and unable to fire his slingshot. | ||
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| Freddi Fish 2: The Case of The Haunted Schoolhouse | Humongous Entertainment / Atari | [top] | |
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This is the second great adventure with Freddi Fish and Luther for kids 3-8. Someone is haunting the school house, taking the toys and practically scaring the scales off the guppies. Kids direct Freddi as she explores amazing underwater worlds and plays games, all in the quest to find clues. Freddi meets new friends that need help and in turn help her on her way to solving the mystery. Freddi and Luther need lots of parts to build a trap to catch the so-called ghosts. If you are familiar with Humongous Entertainment you know these graphics are spectacular and the game is outstanding. Kids are inspired to think in creative and flexible ways. You can play again and again because new puzzles and new locations await each time you play. Even adults will find it entertaining. In addition to the main game there are special activities. Kids can play arcade games like Crab Invader, solve puzzles, draw pictures and sing songs. Humongous games are compatible with ScummVM for running on modern systems. | ||
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| Fun School 5 in Space | Europress Software Ltd. | [top] | |
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Learning is an exciting adventure - and that's what Fun School educational Programs are all about. With Fun School in Space - for 6-9 year olds - Suki, Rik and their pet dinosaur Gloopy are accidentally cast adrift while visiting an orbiting space station on a school trip. The ship they're on has a mission - to regenerate the Grey Planet, a world from which all life disappeared many ages ago. but they need your help to collect the major elements that are essential to make the planet habitable again. Features: Mega Maths - A carefully structured maths program teaches children basic number bonds and tables. The better they do the more animals they can send back to re-populate the planet; Space Speak - While sharpening their English skills in a fantasy maze, this program lets children gather much needed seeds for the Grey Planet; Eco-Logic - By sorting out waste substances into the correct categories, children learn the importance of Ecology; Mission Earth - Above all, the Grey Planet desperately needs water. This the children can gain bu using their geography skills to take grateful aliens on a mystery tour of many wonders of Planet Earth; Alien Art - A unique art package that encourages children to make detailed records of their adventures among the stars. | ||
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| Fun School 6: Fairyland | Europress Software | [top] | |
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The Fun School range of programs are renowned worldwide for combining solid educational content with arcade action so learning becomes an exciting adventure for your child. Fun School in Fairyland continues this tradition: Gloopy is visiting his friend Marjory the Fairy and she's showing him the sights of the enchanted world she lives in. Gloopy loves to learn, so soon he's playing counting games with the elves, finding out more about English in a jousting tournament and discovering basic biological terms as he plays magical mix 'n' match with Fairy Folk's bodies. When he's not busy with all this he's amusing himself - and exercising his creativity - with a fairy painting package and an elven music maker. Of course all this learning is set firmly within the context of the National Curricular of the United Kingdom, with each activity carefully structured to attain specific educational targets. | ||
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| Gage Taylor's Bears at Work | Palladium Interactive | [top] | |
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Children can explore what they might like to do when they grow up, as animated bears guide them through an alphabet of careers from Adventurer to Zookeeper. Includes Bears Online through an online link with America Online. It's based on the colorful and informative book of witty verse which helps children explore the world of work, as twenty-six industrious bears introduce children to a variety of jobs, from fortune teller to umpire, juggler to lifeguard, adventurer to zookeeper. | ||
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| Geometry Blaster / Math Blaster: Geometry | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | [top] | |
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Evil Geometrons are downsizing the planet Dimensia from 3-D to 2-D. Andi, an earth girl and Zoid, a native of Dimensia, need your help to return Dimensia to its normal 3-D state. Answer questions about Geometry in five areas: The Building of Truth, The Pit of Despair, Proof Palace, N-Gon Mountains, and the Capitol Building to collect the 5 missing pieces of the Dimension Machine, then head to the Sphinx to repair the Dimension Machine and return Dimensia to its 3-D State. Also included in the game are 52 lessons in Geometry, explaining concepts and calculations with copious examples. Problems are included to see if the student has learned the lesson. | ||
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| Gigglebone Gang, The: Infinity City | Headbone Interactive | [top] | |
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This third GiggleBone Gang cd takes kids, ages four to eight, to a city where players experience math in an everyday context by causing hundreds of math related interactions. Photographs, stories, songs and games all set the stage for a real life learning adventure. There are 10 different locations in Infinity City, and within each location are five different activities - each hosted by a GiggleBone Gang character made famous in the earlier titles, AlphaBonk Farm, and Pantsylvania. Returning a third time to host the kids-favorite 'Poke 'n Prod' activities is Bunji the frog. She gives kids 10 play areas full of photographic objects that children can move and control. For instance, at "the Hospital", you can weigh and measure patients, or go shopping in "the Market" and learn all about money and counting. Svelte Velma the Swine, also a favorite from GiggleBone Gang titles past, has pulled out her camera and snapped a collection of photos at 10 well-chosen locations around the city. More than 50 interactive photos and games illustrate hidden math concepts and develop counting skills. Monkie-Sue, seen earlier in Pantsylvania, demystifies story problems for the young by taking kids on 10 interactive adventures around Infinity City, where they'll be tasked with figuring out things like which tire is the right size for their car, or which parts they'll need from the junkyard to build a boat. Two new characters introduced in Infinity City are Zack the taxi driver, and Chester the Raccoon. Zack belts out 10 original songs, each on a critical math topic, and Chester involves kids in 10 mix and match sorting games. | ||
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| Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland | DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | [top] | |
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Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland is the interactive sequel to R.L. Stine's kids' horror novel, One Day at Horrorland. You and Lizzy, her brother Luke, and his friend Clay are once again trapped in Horrorland, a sinister, scary "theme park." When Luke and Clay are captured, you and Lizzy must find them and escape from the park with your lives. However, you must go up against a mummy, a werewold, Dracula, and many more monsters in order to escape. Horrorland features cameo appearances by the unlikely duo of Jeff Goldblum and Isabella Rossellini. Horrorland is an excellent adventure game for that 8- to 13-year-old crowd that thrives on the likes of the R.L. Stine tomes and Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark (which was also made into an excellent adventure game). It is an unpretentious romp through a fictional amusement park that contains some genuinely spooky, but not scary, scenes. You play as Lucy, and your siblings, Luke and Clay, have been clutched by the evil tentacles of the Horrorland Theme Park. It now falls upon your shoulders to save your family from their unknown, but sure to be terrible, fate. The theme park is comprised of seven different locations such as Werewolf Village, Valley of Lost Kings, Vampire Village, and Dracula's Castle. Most of these areas and the characters who occupy them are brought to life via a combination of 3D miniature sets, live action video, and animated puppets. This eclectic mix of components provides a nice spooky fairy tale look to the game. Maps are provided to expedite your search, and as in any point-and-click adventure game worth its fangs, you must utilize your inventory as a means to solve problems and further the game. These are not your usual inventory items, either, but objects that an adult would find yucky--like a cockroach or a mummy's decayed hand--and a kid would relish. Flashing pumpkins, alligator heads, guillotines--all add an appropriate touch of eeriness. | ||
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| Grammar for the Real World | Davidson Associates, Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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In a Hollywood setting, this program teaches the elements of effective writing - grammar, punctuation, spelling, and well-structured sentences - as students work their way up the career ladder of a movie studio. “Real-world” activities, adjustable difficulty levels, an online grammar guide, and text-to-speech technology support the editing process. Find out why Grammar for the Real World matters as you enter the exciting world of a Hollywood studio. With one foot in the door, your dream is to create your own hit TV show. As you work your way up the ladder in a variety of studio jobs, you'll proofread fan mail, edit late-breaking news copy and more. It's the perfect way to sharpen your grammar, punctuation and overall writing skills. Grammar for the Real World covers essential skills you'll need to communicate with clarity and confidence. Curriculum: Grammar Skills, Subject-verb agreements, Punctuation and capitalization, Sentence fragments and structures, Plurals and possessives, Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and more, Writing Skills, Creative writing, Proofreading and editing, Sequencing, Writing for an audience, Spelling and more. | ||
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| Great Green Mouse Disaster, The | Pixel Magic, Inc. / Systhema Verlag GmbH, Ahead Multimedia AB, MacMillan Interactive Publishing | [top] | |
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Based on the book "The Great Green Mouse Disaster" by Martin Waddell and Philippe Dupasquier. A troupe of performing mice escape into a hotel lobby and proceed to wreak havoc all over the hotel. You need to catch them and organize to play in a band for the hotel guests. A delightful musical game for kids with a rhythm that will appeal to children, and a sly wit that will go over their heads. | ||
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| Great Math Adventure, The | 7th Level, Inc. | [top] | |
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Designed for children ages 6 to 9, kids learn valuable math skills ranging from counting, sequencing and patterns to problem-solving, fractions and reading the time and calendar. It contains six original games based on national curriculum standards that feature randomly generated problems for hours of play time. Kids whip up animated ice cream in the Ice Cream Machine game to practice counting. They blast asteroids out of the sky to learn about money. Animated surprises hide undercover to test kids' memory skills in Catch-A- Match. In Fractionizer, children build a steam room onto Lil' Howie's house to understand fractions. Kids douse Lil' Howie's skunk friend, Stinky, with a water cannon in the Soaker game while learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. And, children hit the Big Time while traveling in Lil' Howie's time machine to understand time and the calendar. It's packed with five years' worth of curriculum to provide room for the child to grow and learn. Parents can target specific skills to build a solid math foundation. Smart software also adjusts its skill level as the child learns. What's the reward for all this learning? Kids receive award certificates that can be printed or used on-screen as wallpaper. Parents enjoy the peace of mind created by the free skill-based activity book, which accompanies the title and reinforces skills taught. | ||
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| Gulliver's Voyage To Lilliput: Memorex Children's Series | NTK Entertainment Technology / Memorex | [top] | |
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Improve your child's reading and vocabulary skills with Memorex Classic Tales, designed by child development experts. Journey back to a story that is an edited version of the great English writer Jonanthan Swift's novel. Carry on the tradition of the highly valued original tales passed from generation to generation. It features illustrations reminiscent of the beautifully illustrated children's books of the late 19th century. Highlighted text defines difficult words. It has animation and sound effects and a musical score derived from compostions contemporary with Jonathan Swift's lifetime. | ||
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| Gus and The Cyberbuds: Stellar Game Cellar! | Modern Media Ventures | [top] | |
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This contains four different educational mini-games: Claw-o-Rama, Melody Madness, Create A Creature, and The Write Stuff. | ||
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| Gus and The Cyberbuds: Write On! | Modern Media Ventures | [top] | |
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Another in the series of Gus and The Cyberbuds educational cd-rom's for kids. This concentrates on writing and reading. | ||
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| Gus Goes to Cyberstone Park | Modern Media Ventures | [top] | |
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Eye-catching graphics, hilarious animation and original songs by David Maloney attracts kids of all ages to Gus Goes to CyberStone Park. After all, Gus is very hip! In this "Find the CyberBuds" game, a fun-filled adventure is in store for kids as they explore 13 different colorful areas. By clicking on the different trail markers in the Main Campgrounds scene, kids discover the Trees, Mountains, Tents, Lake, and River environments. There are many fun activities and creative hidden clickables in each environment, so don't be surprised if your kids play this software for hours and hours. Come along with Gus as your guide as you and the kids take a break by the Lake, flow down the River, branch out in the Trees or have a rollicking time in the Mountains. Although entertaining, Gus Goes to CyberStone Park is an educational delight especially for kids who love to go camping or hiking through the forests. | ||
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| Head Coach: NFL Math | Santuary Woods | [top] | |
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This allows kids ages eight to 12 to guide their favorite NFL team down the field by answering math questions that cover 24 different math skills including basic computation, fractions and decimals, charts and word problems. It features 3D photo-realistic animation, real teams, real players, statistics and workshops. More Than 3,000 Different Math Questions. The most exciting way to score better grades in math. Football is a game of numbers. And when kids guide their favorite NFL team down the field by answering math questions, it all adds up to better learning skills. Featuring 3D photo-realistic animations, it has real teams, real players, stats, workshops - in short, the whole nine yards. Charts, Graphs & Averages. Math takes on a whole new meaning when kids look up - even print out - stats of their favorite players. Real World Applications - To move the ball, kids pick a play, then answer one of the hundreds of football-related math questions. Arcade-Style Fun - By combining video game play with curriculum-based questions, kids are encouraged to improve math skills. 17 Essential Concepts - If they need help with a math problem, kids can call a timeout and head to the Coach's Corner. Learning Skills: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Decimals, Averages, Charts/Graphs, Word Problems, Measurements, Equalities/Inequalities, Odd/Even Numbers, Positive/Negative Numbers, Money, Percentages, Time, Place Value. | ||
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| Head Coach: NFL Reading | Santuary Woods | [top] | |
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The program that rewrites the book on reading. Most reading programs make a classic mistake. They use traditional works of literature. Now think about it for a minute. If the reading material isn't interesting, if it isn't relevant... to kids... how will they learn the difference between knowing what a sentence says and what it means? That's the problem NFL Reading tackles. Packed with passages featuring real pro football facts and stats, this game lets kids- playing against each other or the computer- pick their favorite NFL teams. They call a play, then read a passage. How well they answer determines how well their team does in a 3D photo-realistic football game that gives reading skills a real workout. To practice reading comprehension, kids team up with the pros, reading more than 1,800 passages packed with interesting information about real NFL teams and players. Spelling and reading go hand in hand. That's why the program not only includes hundreds of spelling words, it lets kids enter their own and have them actually appear in the game. Multiple levels of difficulty allow kids of different ages or skills to compete against each other on a level playing field, answering more than 3,200 reading, spelling and vocabulary questions. All work and no play is no fun. That's why there are four arcade-style games that kids can play to improve their team's running, passing, blocking and tackling skills. | ||
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| Hobie in de dierentuin [Du] | Bannink Media Productions | [top] | |
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Hobie At The Zoo is a journey of discovery for children through the zoo, with information, games, puzzles and a quiz. For children from 4 to 10 years old. | ||
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| Hunchback of Notre Dame Animated Storybook, The | Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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Released as part of the product line for the Disney movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame Animated Storybook features the traditional characters of Quasimodo, Esmerelda, Frollo, and Phoebus, as well as the Disney-introduced characters of the Gargoyles Hugo, Victor and Laverne. The story follows that of the movie, and includes six games that can either be played during the course of the story, or separately. Players can choose to compose a tune on the bells with the gargoyles to cheer Quasimodo up, balance the number of chickens on the tightrope walker's bar, listen and sing along with a number of French tunes, help Quasimodo carry Esmerelda down the side of Notre Dame cathedral, help Quasimodo and Phoebus find the gypsies secret hideout by unlocking the key of Esmerelda's necklace, or help the gargoyles defend the cathedral by dropping crates on the soldier's heads. This game contains the voices and songs from the movie, and is emceed by the hand puppet, Clopin. | ||
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| I Love Spelling! | DK Interactive Learning / Global Software Publishing | [top] | |
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Turn those words, "I Hate Spelling" into "I Love Spelling!" with this unique learning adventure. This is a spectacular animated adventure that teaches and tests spelling for children aged 7-11. Players take part in an intergalactic game show adventure, playing challenging spelling games on weird and wonderful planets, and meeting their funny inhabitants. Children can customize the games by choosing special word groups to play with - names of their favorite animals, parts of the body, country names and many more. Teachers and parents have access to more than 50 spelling-pattern word groups that target key spelling problem areas. Packed with hundreds of hilarious animations and jokes, it makes learning to spell more fun than it's ever been! It features: Planet Aquatica - Burst bubbles to spell the words you hear on Aquatica; Planet Amphibia - Ready for a spelling spree? It's guess-the-mystery-word time; Planet Anagrama - Can you sort out the jumbled-up letters to make a word on Anagrama; Shooting Stars - Burst a star and test your spelling to win extra points; Planet Arachna - Spell the words you hear on batty, buzzing Arachna. But watch out for the spiders. It has 5,000 essential spelling words graded into three difficulty levels, 50 spelling-pattern word groups that target key spelling problem areas, more than 100 fun themed work groups that children love, misspelled words automatically recycled and practiced, and intelligent tracking software allows you to target words you have problems with. | ||
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| In Grandma's Attic | Interlynx Multimedia, Inc. / SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an educational title for children aged three to six. Children love to explore the world around them. This rewards their curiosity with charming animations, photo-realistic images, wacky ATTIC' sounds and dozens of fun-filled learning activities. Children solve exciting math teasers or learn to tell time by setting the grandfather clock that announces every hour. Or join the animal gang in a rollicking game of concentration and "get puzzled" with the colorful on-screen games and puzzles. It has dozens of early learning games and activities. There are interactive surprises hidden in every screen. Click on any object to reveal an animated surprise, an exciting game or colorful, skill-building activity. This is the magic place where children love to learn. Build around different activities, it aims to develop nine skills: decision making, creativity, music, language, classification, seriation, numbers, temporal and spatial relations. To practice and improve these skills, kids have to play six activities, such as the creative drawing easel (for creativity, classification and decision making skills) many different puzzles (for the spatial relations and decision making skills), drive big machines (decision making, temporal and spatial relations skills), play memory games with animals (for classification, numbers and spatial relations skills), and so on. While exploring the attic and when needed, kids can ask for the help of Buckley the Clown, as a guide. The game is designed by Dr. Gary Woodill, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Ryerson Polytechnic University, in Toronto, Canada, following the works of the famous french psychologist Jean Piaget. | ||
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| Inget Knussel Sa Emil I Lönneberga [Sw] | Fire Interactive production / Norstedts Rabén Multimedia | [top] | |
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The game is based on the book No Crush, Emil said, when he kissed Prostinnan by Astrid Lindgren and Björn Berg and divided into two parts. In the first part, you help with the preparations for the festival and in the second part Astrid Lindgren reads the story from the book before an interactive slide show. The player can choose to only listen to the story or play small games where they help the family in front of the calf. If the player chooses to help with the calf, make sure that Emil and Ida bathe and for that the player must help Emil to pick up wood that Alfred splits into parts and collect with Anton water from the well. Ida must also help Lina to milk the corn. When the information is completed, the opportunity was offered to help Emil with his snowball war with the teacher. The Kalaset consists of an interactive slide show where Astrid Lindgren reads the story of the feast. During the slideshow, the player clicks on the objects and figures that appear on each frame to make them do something. | ||
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| Interactive Math Journey | The Learning Company, Inc. | [top] | |
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The Learning Company's Interactive Math Journey follows a design patterned after their highly regarded Interactive Reading Journey title. In IMJ, users set off on a journey to meet the "mathmagician" by completing 25 learning activities. These activities encompass five math concepts: patterns and shapes, addition and subtraction, measurement, fractions, and multiplication, Each concept is covered in two levels of difficulty. In the first level, IMJ presents a read-along story that explains the concepts and offers opportunities for trying them out. This is followed by a more rigorous exploration activity, and then a short rhyming song to reinforce the concepts. For example, in Patterns and Shapes, the first activity is a rhyming tale about symmetry. On every page of the tale, the user is asked to draw a line through a diagram that symmetrically bisects its contents. Incorrect answers result in funny noises; the right answer takes the user to the next page. The exploration activity which follows the read-along tale builds on the learning experience by having the user manipulate geometric shapes to create mirror images of drawings. These drawings are then assembled into a quilt, further emphasizing pattern replication and symmetry. | ||
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| Invention Studio | Music Pen / Discovery Communications, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an educational game made for kids nine and up. In the game you can brainstorm then build gadgets, electronics, air and land vehicles then test them out to see how they fair. Once your creation is working and tested you can patent your invention and even print the patent. Invention Studio also includes an in-game Notebook/Sketchbook, some other mini-games as well as short videos about brilliant inventions and inventors. | ||
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| Josefine [Nor] | Pinjata / Minimedia | [top] | |
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This is the first CD-ROM game of the series with the cute bunny Josefine. The game is filled with exciting activities perfect for younger children. In Josefine's room you can play with Josefine and all her things. For example, you can dress Josefine in her cool and funny clothes or play jigsaw puzzles in different grades of difficulty. You can take care of the fine horse of Josefine and be with her singing cozy songs when she is out of riding. | ||
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| JumpStart 2nd Grade / Jump Ahead Year 2 | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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This is an educational game for ages 6-8 that helps kids with Science, Spelling, Vocabulary, Art, Geography, Math and much more. You join C.J the Frog and his angry Fire Fly friend Edison and go into an elevator to secret rooms and caverns including the Clubhouse, the Classroom, The Boiler Room, The Football Field, The Bone Vault, The Cave Writings, The Cricket Band, The Log Ride and The Ice Cave. The games have three difficulty levels. If you do well in the games you win points to earn stamps for a collection. You also receive letters from certain pen-pals all over the United States, asking you to do stuff for them and you try to solve their questions and light up a map you own for the states they live in. An updated version was released in 2000. | ||
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| JumpStart 3rd Grade Adventures: Mystery Mountain | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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When a little brat girl named Polly Spark sends 25 of her fathers robots in time to change history, it's up to you and a robot boy named Botley to capture the Robots and bring history back to normal. In Polly's mystery Mountain Mansion you must go around the Mansion playing games and Logic puzzles that teach 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade subjects for ages 7-9, to save the world from crazy history. In 2000, the cover was changed and a second disc called Adventure World was added. Adventure World is your ticket to extreme fun in five exciting adventure games. Put yourself to the ultimate test with the JumpStart team as you snowboard, inline skate, mountain bike and rock-climb your way through extreme action. In 2003, it was renamed JumpStart Advanced 3rd Grade and a box with 2 extra discs was added. In 2007, an extra disc was added making the current edition featuring 4 discs. | ||
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| JumpStart 4th Grade Adventures: Haunted Island | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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You play a student who is not in class one day. Meanwhile at School the evil substitute Mrs Grunkel turns all your classmates into monsters. A purple bat named Flap tells you about what happens and takes you to Haunted Island to help free your classmates from Mrs Grunkels spells. A magician named Madam Pom Reda guides you with your missions and tells you where to go to collect clues to help free the students. Along the way collect keys to get into Mrs Grunkels house, and solve some Language art questions from Mrs Grunkels Ghost keeper. | ||
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| JumpStart Kindergarten Reading | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Hopsalot wants to find the lost Carrot Patch treasure. Visit Hopsalot's family and friends and play games. Learn to read with phonics, word building and writing. Learn to build a reading foundation. This teaches 10 fundamental concepts that lead to reading success. Each skill area builds on the concepts that precede it. Activities include: play in Hopsalot's burrow; help Einstein deliver mail to Grandpa; play a game of hockey with a team of penguins; break pinatas with Sister Gracie; make words on Romulus' farm; help Flash win the surf race; help Bebop finish the lyrics to his songs; In 1999, JumpStart Reading for Kindergartners and its first grade and second grade counterparts were packaged and sold together as the JumpStart Learn to Read bundle. | ||
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| JumpStart Pre-K | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Jump Start Pre-K follows (in age-range) and builds on the skills learned in Jump Start Preschool in Knowledge Adventure's lineup of learning games created for each grade and age-group. In this game for the 3 - 5 year old, the player is taken to the colorful main page: a town map full of clickable icons leading to activities and song. Each activity begins at the easiest level, and can be adjusted manually, or the game will automatically adjust as the player responds with correct answers. All actions are point and click and there are many clickable places on the map and in each area that produce animations. As the player progresses through an area, correct answers will earn him stars, and four stars give him a chance to pick an object (trees, playground equipment, characters) to place in the town park named for him. | ||
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This introduces your toddler to the computer and their ABCs or 123s, as well as many other activities. They start out in the playroom, which looks like a kid's bedroom full of toys. By moving the mouse over the toys, some of them begin to move. Clicking the mouse button on the moving toys takes you to a related activity. The entire program, hosted by a gopher named Giggles, is filled with songs for toddlers. The games are: Learn your Numbers, Sing with the Animals, Bounce Colorful Shapes, Listen to Music, Play Peekaboo, Feed the Doggie, and Practice your Letters. Clicking on the light switch quits the game. The 2000 edition includes a 2-CD set composed of JumpStart Toddlers Deluxe and JumpStart My Learning Scrapbook Deluxe. The latter features two bonus applications: My Learning Scrapbook, which allows parents or caregivers to import photos and create a personalized learning book with personal text, and J*Mail, an easy-to-use program that allows children to exchange online messages with friends. As a bonus, it includes a 30-minute video of JumpStart Preschool for kids in the two-to-five age range, which explains how the JumpStart preschool gang teaches letters and numbers, shapes, counting, pre-reading, music, listening, coordination, and social skills. | ||
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| Just Me And My Dad | Big Tuna New Media, LLC / GT Interactive Software | [top] | |
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Mercer Mayer, the acclaimed author of Just Grandma and Me, has produced another charming Little Critter adventure: Just Me and My Dad. This CD-ROM adaptation of the best-selling children's book, sets a new standard of excellence in children's software. Twelve interactive story-telling screens let your join Little Critter and his dad on a camping trip filled with wonderful sights, exciting sounds and amusing mishaps. Each "page" is a multimedia masterpiece: the best art combined with more animated hot-spots than ever before. Click on them and watch Critterville come alive in the most creative and eye-catching ways imaginable! The 13th page takes you to Little Critter's living room where you can turn on the TV to watch a 22-minute "video" made by Little Critter of his eventful, fun-filled day camping with his dad. | ||
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| Just Me And My Mom | Big Tuna New Media, LLC / GT Interactive Software | [top] | |
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Hop on the train and head to the city with Little Critter, his mom and Frog. Get ready for the time of your life. Visit the museum and watch the dinosaurs rap. Join Little Critter as he tours the aquarium, art museum, fancy restaurant and department store - and makes all these places his personal playground. Filled with so much fun and pleasant surprises, Just Me and My Mom is one exciting adventure in which all kids will love to share. It features twelve beautifully rendered story-telling screens, each loaded with twenty to thirty hot spots. Seven "secret" screens hidden within the 12 story-telling screens that kids will love to find. These secret screens are rendered in 3-D and have either hot spots to click on or run as little movies. Page thirteen is a music page, in which kids can sing along with Little Critter and his band, learn the words and music, or lay the piano to their hearts' content. | ||
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The computer equivalent of an artist's valise, this program includes all the tools needed to activate and encourage a child's creativity. It speaks to the imagination just as an empty canvas and colorful palette beckon the master. It is at once challenging but never intimidating. Best of all, it not only promises to capture and hold a child's interest, but it has proven, through years of play, that it will deliver. It features six delightful projects, all of which invite the user to break the boundaries of the staid, 'color in the lines' art mentality. Each creation can be adapted and manipulated endlessly, with zany results. Kid Pix is the basic drawing screen in which the user creates an original drawing and then, by manipulating the numerous drawing tools at hand, makes it metamorphose. There is nothing tedious here. Not pleased with the result? With Kid Pix even eradicating a masterpiece is a creative process. It can be zapped, erased or blown to smithereens (with or without a countdown). When, and if, the user tires of the basic Kid Pix drawing board, it's time to move on. Alternative activities include Moopies, where the child's drawings wiggle and wobble, acquiring a life of their own; Stampinator, which uses animated stamps to create original moving adventures; Digital Puppets, on-screen marionettes that can be manipulated with the use of the keyboard keys in lieu of strings; Slide Show, where the user creates presentations featuring his or her Kid Pix originals; and Wacky TV, which includes video clips that can be adapted using the Kid Pix tool options with kid-pleasing results. | ||
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| Kidsongs: Musical Mystery | TerraGlyph Interactive Studios L.P. | [top] | |
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This is a game for children aged three to seven based on the US PBS TV show where youngsters produce their own music based, kid's television show. This game stars the fantasy characters Billy and Ruby Biggle in a simple adventure game. Professor Majorchord wants to give a concert with his orchestra, but the musicians cannot find their instruments. There are eight musicians that need an instrument and once it has been found it needs to be returned to its owner. From a central location it is possible to track what has been solved and what is left to do. The game can be played with either Billy or Ruby and there are two difficulty levels. There are a few educational elements through mini-games that involve matching sound with pictures or finding out which pictures do not match the others. It introduces basic musical genres and recognizing instruments. The game consists of a number of fixed-screen locations such as a mall, a street, a fair, a park, a castle, the ocean floor or a habor where different parts of the environment can be clicked for a short animation or interactive sequence. There are small puzzles to be solved. That is the main way to locate the missing instruments as there is always a character around that explains what instrument is missing. There are also a large number of songs to listen to. | ||
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| Kinderventures: Pocket & Tails Go To Town | Optical Data Corporation / SoftKey International Inc. | [top] | |
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This cute little educational title will keep younger kids amused as they follow Pocket and Tails around town, solving puzzles and trying to catch the mischievous Wonderoos while they explore. Features: Letter, number, shape color recognition; listening, speaking, reading skills; Computer navigation; Sound & picture matching; The worlds of work, school, & leisure; Health, safety & nutrition. | ||
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| King's Secret, The | Tyrex Multimedia Ltd. / Optimus Nexus, Young Genius Software AB | [top] | |
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This is an educational adventure game for kids. The player directs the king seeking the meaning of life. By choosing one of two options the player builds a story. As a king, the player must make appropriate decisions. Depending on the choices, the player will receive additional tasks - mini quests learning social attitudes or general knowledge. The game contains a total of five different stories with fantasy elements that can be alternatively developed. The goal is always same - lead the king to the happiness. | ||
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This is an educational Swedish game for kids. The country of knowledge is full of fun and clever things to do for curious children. Choose between coloring letters and numbers, practicing simple mathematics, preparing clocks together with watchmaker Anton, practicing forms and colors, puzzle, playing memory, crossword puzzles and much, much more. Also with high-quality graphics and nice animations. And of course, completely without violence. Paint the alphabet and numbers - in four languages. The child acquainted with letters and numbers by coloring images according to their own head. For example, if the letter "m" is selected, an image of something starting with "m" (eg "mouse") is displayed. When the picture is finished, the child may hear the word pronounced and see how it is written. With words and numbers in one of four languages - Swedish, English, German and Russian. Learn the clock with watchmaker Anton. Anton needs help in his watchmaking. Here it is a matter of sorting clocks, adding different times, finding clocks that Anton lost and much more. In different levels of difficulty from beginner to expert level. By moving a pointer, the child can also see what Anton does at different times from the time he wakes up in the morning and settles down in the evening. Simple bill. In simple and fun counting exercises, the child gets to practice the basics of mathematics on its own. The computer asks, and the child answers. Fun with pictures. The imagery is trained in several developing exercises. For example, it is necessary to pair images with each other and make clear half-finished pictures. In one exercise, four pictures are shown - and one is to be deleted. The child can also puzzle together funny faces of loose noses, mouths, eyes, ears etc. Form and color exercises. The special drawing and painting program provides opportunities to create your own images. Here the child can also test their ability to recognize and use different shapes, shapes and colors. Developing and fun especially for smaller children. Make crosswords. Vocabulary and logical thinking are trained in fun crosswords. An image is displayed and the child writes the word in the crossword. Here it is important to be quick to get high scores. Four languages to choose from - Swedish, English, German and Russian. Train the memory. In Kunskapslandet there are several tricky memory games. Among other things, a memory where the child competes with the computer. And in the "animal house" it is important to remember which animals are behind the curtains. The child can also be a part of Kunskapslandets Stora Minnestävling - a challenge in four classes, from simple to super difficult. Logical thinking. The child can really train his logical mind in the country of knowledge. In the "Monkey Game", the acrobatic monkeys should be moved so that the smallest monkey Chicki can get his long-awaited path. There are also logical puzzles where you have to put the right piece in the right place. Fun and challenging. Program Facts: The country of knowledge consists partly of the Young Genius programs Paint Alphabet, What is the clock? and New Lekis. Suitable for children between 3 and 8 years. Contains exercises in mathematics, the clock, words, forms, colors, logical thinking and much more. | ||
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| La Machine à Remonter le Temps [Fr] | Dupon Multimédia / Bayard Presse | [top] | |
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A rather strange educational project, published exclusively in France and apparently intended to arouse interest in children in preschool (or at the very least primary school) age. There are two “global” modes - “quick” and “interactive” time travel, accompanied by a certain set of cognitive information in the form of pictures, tables and even small FMV clips (without subtitles) with the participation of famous Jerome Bonaldi actor in his homeland as a storyteller. However, this thing has been posted on our website for the reason that it also has three small mini-games: Costumes, Errors, and Detective. The first requires some, so to speak, “historical logic”: the image of a man or woman in a suit corresponding to a particular era (from prehistoric times to modern times) appears on the screen, and next to it is the figure of a man of the opposite sex, almost certainly dressed in a completely different style outfit. Our task is to “change clothes” (by scrolling through the options by pressing the “+” and “-” buttons at the bottom of the screen) the companion or companion into the “correct” clothes, confirming the correct (in our opinion) choice by clicking on the icon with a hand in the lower left . Each of the two remaining mini-games has a time limit (sixty seconds) and two difficulty levels (with which the previous named parameter is not associated). In "Errors" you need to find an object in the displayed image, not appropriate in the "temporary" plan for its surroundings (for example, a radio in a hut of primitive people or a wheeled steamer on a river near a medieval castle), clicking on it; at the second level of difficulty, the solution may be a little less obvious (say, in the case of the last picture described, the steamer is replaced by a water wheel, which, according to the authors of the game, seems to be somewhat later than the times to which the image refers). "Detective" involves searching for a demonstrated fragment of a picture among a set of complete images: the latter need to be scrolled with the help of "+" and "-" at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on the eye in the lower left allows you at any time (within the allotted for the "party" limit) to look again at the element you are looking for, and accessing the nearby magnifier to return to sorting the canvases. The level of complexity here is most likely expressed in the area of the particle we are searching for; on the other hand, it can easily happen that she gets caught in the very first picture - and often even by the small visible details it is clear what era it refers to, so finding a potentially necessary picture is not difficult. It should be noted that all three entertainments formally do not imply "rounds". Unfortunately, in fact that's all; One can only note a very nice visual style of all the above images, which are executed in the best traditions of the old European book illustration, as well as an unusual cursor in the form of a "robotic" hand. We strongly recommend to study history at least from school textbooks. | ||
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| La Reine Des Neiges [Fr] | Hyptique / Flammarion Organa | [top] | |
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At first glance, it might seem that we are just seeing the text of the “Snow Queen” by H. K. Andersen with illustrations. However, on the cover of the game there is the phrase “les contes vivants” (translated from French as “living fairy tales”), which very accurately describes what this is. Do not rush to scroll through the entire book with your cursor, just glancing briefly at colorful illustrations. Almost every page with a picture is interactive and can turn into either a full page spread or an FMV insert. Often in such games, people and backgrounds are combined very clumsily, but here everything looks very natural. After installation, you can even watch a movie from the developers about the creation of La Reine des neiges. There are no riddles in the game, although fragments of a broken mirror created by an evil troll are scattered throughout the book. One is even in a secret location, a U-turn. If you collect all of them, the mirror will be repaired and you can read several final pages, the text on which was blurred before. Although there is hardly a person who has not been familiar with this story since childhood. If you like multimedia picture books, popular in the 1990s, then you should like the game. She does not try to somehow rethink the tale, but sometimes this is not required by the classics. | ||
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| Land Before Time, The: Animated Movie Book | Sound Source Interactive / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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Long ago, on an Earth still young, an unlikely herd of young dinosaurs set out on a long journey in search of a magical place they had heard about all their lives. Now children can join the fun as Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike wander throughout the enchanting world of "The Land Before Time Animated MovieBook." The tale of the tiny dinos' search for the Great Valley is told in ten animated landscapes (31 pages). Narrated text, character animations and full-motion video clips add even more excitement of the absorbing story. Puzzles, games and other activities delight (and educate) young children, aged Preschool to First Grade. Designed to entertain and challenge young minds with creative fun for hours on end. | ||
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| Louvre: Museums of the World for Kids, The | Learn Technologies Interactive / The Voyager Company | [top] | |
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"The Louvre Museum" introduces children of all ages to the thrill of looking at wonderful works of art and is an exciting introduction to the history of Western art, from its roots in the classical world through the 19th Century. Modeled on Voyager's popular With Open Eyes disc, the series presents approximately 150 treasures from each of the world's great museums. Highlights from the Louvre include the Mona Lisa (zoom in on her smile!) and the Venus de Milo (you can see her from different angles). | ||
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| Madeline European Adventures | Creative Wonders / Smart Saver | [top] | |
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On her way to the Paris train station, Madeline spots a thief making off with a magic lamp. Instead of going to summer camp, Madeline and her trusty dog, Genevieve, go in search of the lamp. Your adventure with Madeline and Genevieve will take you through four exotic countries, where you'll meet interesting people, solve puzzles, play games and have lots of fun! Skills learned include: Phonics, Spelling, Vocabulary, Parts of Speech, Sentences, and Logic. In the Countries game you need to place the name of each country where it belongs on the map. You can paint lovely scenes from across Europe. Mix paint from your palette to create new colors. Picture Sequencing - the photographer in the Paris Train Station needs you to help him put his photographs in the correct order. Herr Strudel wants you to bring his music box to him. Can you find the right one? In Venice, the drawbridge must be lowered before the train can move on. Can you find a way to do it? Before you can leave Paris, you must get a passport and money to buy a train ticket. | ||
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| Madeline Thinking Games | Creative Wonders | [top] | |
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Madeline Thinking Games takes players into the world of Madeline, or more precisely into the house and gardens where Madeline lives. Each room of the house contains two games that players may try. These range from Math and Matching in the schoolroom to sorting and following a list in the kitchen. The outside garden has one game-lead Madeline's dog out of the maze to the exit. Each game has Madeline cheering on the player in her own inimitable voice. Each of the games comes with three difficulty levels, with the exception of the music room downstairs and the decorate-it-yourself room upstairs. The music room also contains movies taken from the Madeline television series. | ||
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| Madeline: Rainy Day Activities | Creative Wonders LLC, ImageBuilder / Encore Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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It's raining mightily outside. No bother, because Madeline has a number of activities and games for you two to participate in. Her room is packed with things to do. Just click around the room to start playing. The activities include: 1. Brainteaser: Given a picture comprised of shapes, recreate the same picture by manipulating a set of shapes. 2. Connect The Dots: This is a series of connect the dot puzzles. The player can choose different colors with which to draw the lines that connect the lines. 3. Matching Game: This is a variation of the common card matching memory game. However, in this game, one card has an animal and its match elsewhere on the table is an audio clue that plays the sound that the animal makes. The game is configurable with 3 skill levels which puts either 8, 12, or 16 cards into play. 4. Dress-up: This activity allows you to accessorize Madeline's friends and even her dog with jewelry, glasses, etc. You can also print the final product. 5. Madeline's Trivia: In this game, Madeline asks you a question and shows you 4 pictures. Select the correct answer from among the pictures presented. 6. Coloring Book, Masks, Door Signs, Finish The Picture: All of these activities put the player into a drawing program that allows the for selecting among a variety of pictures (the theme of the picture set is different for each activity). The drawing program allows the player to paint thin or broad lines, fill areas with solid colors or patterns, erase, reset, undo the last action, and print the picture. 7. A Day In The Park, A Change Of Heart, A Candy Shop Story, The Arts Class Story, Library Story: All of these activities allow the user to fill in blanks in several short stories by selecting various nouns and adjectives from a given list. The player can print the story. 8. Print Activity: The game also has a wide variety of activities for the player to enjoy offline. Categories of activities include: games & puzzles, paper dolls, cards & stickers, science, word games, and arts & crafts. | ||
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| Magic School Bus Explores In The Age Of Dinosaurs | Music Pen / Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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Climb on board the Magic School Bus and join the enthusiastic and indefatigable Mrs. Frizzle and her class on a trip back to the age of the dinosaurs! The game features three prehistoric time periods the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous and seven areas Argentina, Arizona, Colorado, Tanzania, the Tethys Sea, Alberta, and Mongolia--to explore. Throughout the background, each time zone has various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures to learn about. Meanwhile back on the bus, there is so much to see and try. A map of the world shows you many sites where several fossils have been found. A nest with two joking dinosaurs which provides educational content as well as jokes, and a report zone, which has illustrations, pictures, and even clips from the PBS television series "The Dinosaurs". The reports tell about dinosaur behavior, myths, body parts, and how fossils are found. An X-ray lets you look at the skulls of different dinosaurs, and, best of all, there are lots of games and puzzles to solve. When you solve something in the game, you might get awarded "paleo" cards. These "paleo" cards are placed in a gallery, and they provide facts about what time period these dinosaurs lived in, their size and weight. The game also has a plot that involves helping the Friz get some photos she lost after her last trip of time traveling. The space in the photo album will give you hints about where to find the creature and what it looks like. After you find all the missing photos, the Friz will give you a mask of a Tyrannosaurus, an Apatosaurs, or a Pterodactylus. | ||
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| Magic School Bus Explores Inside The Earth | Music Pen / Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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This is the fourth game in the educational science series based on books by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. This product is based on the book The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth and the television episode "The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top." When Arnold discovers he is missing some of the rocks and minerals from his collection, Mrs. Frizzle decides to take the class on a field trip to replace them. The group will board the bus and travel to various places around the Earth, including the Grand Canyon, inside a geode, at volcanoes on the earth and undersea, in a cavern, and at a fault to look for the replacement rocks. The interface is point and click; travel is accomplished by clicking the gear shift in the front of the bus, selecting a location and pressing the GO! button. From outside the bus, the cursor will change to a drilling bus or an airplane bus in some locations, and can be clicked to travel to another area. Areas can be visited in any order at all and returned to at any time. The bus is divided between front and back - in the back the player will find experiments to perform on rock samples, as well as a dress-up activity and a kitchen where he can investigate the effects of heat, gas, and pressure on the samples. At each of the sites, clicking on features, signs, and characters may open site-specific minigames, information and further activities as the player gathers information to track down the missing minerals. This game focuses on geology concepts with an emphasis on experiment, investigation and the scientific process. | ||
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| Magic Tales: Liam Finds a Story | Capital Multimedia / Davidson & Associates, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is volume 5 of the Magic Tales series. Travel to Ireland with...Liam Finds a Story. An Irish folk tale about a young lad named Liam who must search far and wide for an original story that will save his family from the gluttonous Fair Witch. During his search, Liam befriends a magical leprechaun who helps him learn kindness and perseverance. Build your child's reading confidence and comprehension. Entertain your child with classical cultural folk tales that teach important life lessons. Contains dozens of delightful click-and-explore animations on every page. | ||
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| Magic Tales: Sleeping Cub's Test of Courage | Capital Multimedia / Davidson & Associates, Inc. | [top] | |
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Grandpa Mouse presents another Magic Tale, this one from Native Americans. Children follow the journey of Sleeping Cub as he tries to help his people. The Buffalo have disappeared and the first people of the great plains are trying to find them. The chief tells a story about the spirit people and their magical elk dogs. Sleeping Cub sets off to find the elk dogs for his people. This is a truly magical story with astounding graphics and animation. The vibrant colors and detail make the pictures jump off the page. Lots of fun hotspots with crazy animations and songs add to the fun. Children learn about the traditions and customs of the Native Americans as they play and learn. Interactive storybooks can build your child's reading confidence and comprehension skills through narrated highlighted text and click-on words. This is a story you and your children will come back to again and again. This is a magical tale of American heritage. | ||
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| Magic Tales: The Princess and the Crab | Capital Multimedia / Davidson & Associates, Inc. | [top] | |
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Based on a classic Italian folk tale, The Princess and the Crab is the enchanting story of a beautiful princess who rescues a handsome prince cast under the spell of an evil fairy. To save him, the princess must undergo a series of difficult challenges, and in so doing, learns to overcome her personal fears. | ||
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| Marty and the Trouble with Cheese | Maxis | [top] | |
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Marty and the Trouble With Cheese is the first piece of software really designed for preschoolers - even as young as two years old. Children communicate with the computer and interact with the story the way they communicate with people - by talking! What's Marty getting into now? In The Trouble With Cheese, Marty sets out on a mission to recover his lost cheese. Like most young mice (and young humans), Marty is curious and high-spirited, and has a tendency to get in trouble. He sure is lucky to have a friend like your child to help him find his way home in time for his birthday party! Can we talk? Once you start A Talk To Me Adventure [with a simple mouse-click], you can put your mouse and keyboard safely away. Your child talks and the characters in the story respond. A microphone is required for interactivity, but even without one, your child can listen, watch and enjoy the story. Maxis' voice-activated games are designed so even pre-schoolers can use and enjoy today's technology. Like all Software Toys for Kids, they are designed to be FUN! These entertaining products encourage kids to create their own worlds and explore new ideas - and keep them coming back for more! | ||
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| Matmania [PL] | UHO Software / TimSoft | [top] | |
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Matmania is a compilation of three educational games teaching mathematical operations: Mattris is a Tetris variant. The gameplay is similar except that the player does not stack bricks but mathematical operations. The player's task is to choose the correct missing part of mathematical operation, like a digit, 'less than' sign and others. The correct answer choice is made by selecting one of the four options at the bottom of the screen. The game highlights a part of the mathematical operation the player needs to decide on. If correct, the selection is deleted, if not, it remains. On the right side of the screen the percentage of correctness of the answers is displayed. Astro teaches mathematical operations in space. In the middle of the screen is a mathematical operation that should be completed. The choice should be made by selecting from among the 10 digits or characters that are around. To do so player need to track down the right target. The wrong answer is the loss of energy, a few correct way round. Klocki relies on finding all pairs of matching cards. One card shows the equation, the other missing element. | ||
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| Mega Math Blaster / Math Blaster: Ages 6-9 | Davidson & Associates | [top] | |
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Mega Math Blaster asks children to help Max win prizes in the Caves of Moldar by practicing math skills. Players will learn division, addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, decimals, percents, and problem solving. The fast-paced, arcade-style of the activities help keep children interested. The Blaster Pals are back! The powerful curriculum based maths content has been written especially for children aged 6-9 years to assist them in learning the criteria for Key Stage 1 and 2 Maths skills. The friendly, fun and exciting maths games encourage children to play for longer and learn more! The new updated graphics and activities can temp even the most reluctant maths student to have a go. There are eight engaging activities with over 350 lessons and a progress tracker that makes it easy to track your child's progress. This world of learning experience will spark your child's imagination and boost problem solving skills. Disc2 includes: 1. MEGAzine - Simulated Internet experience without internet (Basically, set of hyperlinked pages); 2. Mega Movie aka Math Blaster Success Story - 4 minutes of video telling about Math Blaster series with Math Blaster heroes as hosts of video show; 3. Math tools - The Number Line, the Number Grid and the Number Scale. Each lets you play with numbers and equations in different ways. | ||
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| Mighty Math Carnival Countdown | Edmark Corporation | [top] | |
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This is a math carnival like no other. At this carnival kids in Kindergarten through 2nd grade learn problem solving, addition and subtraction, early logic, sorting and classifying, pattern recognition, equivalencies, multiplication and division and early 2D geometry. Five exciting and innovative activities use whimsical graphics to make math sense. Students can play at the snap clown circus and sort carnival cards into sets with Allison Elephant. At the Bubble Band's Show crazy band members teach kids about place value, addition and subtraction using bubbles. Large bubbles represent 100s, medium bubbles 10s and small bubbles 1s. Bubbles form together and burst redistributing numbers. Equations are shown as math bubbles up. Equalities and inequalities have never been so fun. Two crazy otters guide children with a number line and scale. This scale has crazy weights on one side and numbers on the other. In our opinion the Mighty Math series is among the best math programs for this age group. They not only let kids practice math skills, they really teach concepts. | ||
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| Mighty Math Number Heroes | Edmark Corporation | [top] | |
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This is an educational title for 3rd to 6th graders to teach them mathematics. There is a section on fractions with Fraction Man, a section on geometry with Geobot, a section on probability with Handsome Chance and a game show to test your knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, analogy, shape identification, sorting and sequencing problems with Quizzo. The game uses games and amusing voices to try to teach children the fundamentals of math. | ||
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| Mighty Math Zoo Zillions | Edmark Corporation | [top] | |
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Mighty Math: Zoo Zillions features a few friendly animals who are designed to teach pint-sized players basic math skills such as counting coins and dividing digits. With over 100 math topics and thousands of problems, children can engage in activities including "Otter Twins 3-D Geometry," "Gnu Ewe Boutique," and "Fish Story Problems." Characters will evaluate a child's progress as they advance through problems. The "grow slide" is intended to track progress and adjust the activities to the child's current skill level, or parents can set the difficulty manually and choose a specific topic to mimic a homework assignment. The school edition of Mighty Math: Zoo Zillions includes two program CDs and one teacher resource CD, while the lab pack comes with six program CDs and one teacher resource CD. Features: Learn basic math skills from Ryan the Lion and the Otter Twins; Travel the zoo using the "Number Line Express"; Encourage independent and structured learning with the "question and answer," and "explore and discover" modes. | ||
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| Mighty Math: Astro Algebra | Edmark | [top] | |
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Provides a strong foundation for algebra success. This teaches the concepts and problem-solving skills necessary to learn basic algebra. Students learn how to graph functions, translate word problems into solvable equations and represent algebraic expressions using the program's Virtual Manipulatives. Hundreds of problems in over 90 space missions provide students with a solid foundation for success in algebra and beyond. Special features include two learning modes which allow for directed and independent learning and strong support of NCTM standards. Skills Learned: Solving for Variables Expressions; Equations & Inequalities Functions; Graphing on Number Line & Coordinate Grid Ratios and Proportions Slope & Intercept; Fractions Decimals and Percents; Exponents; Problem Solving and Reasoning; Algebra Terminology and Notation. Features: Play with the Basic Building Blocks of Algebra; You understand equations better when you can build them with VariaBlox; Manipulate the Blox to bine like terms substitute or solve for a variable and multiply and factor simple algebraic expressions. An alert warns you when your equation is out of balance; Capture Satellites Meteoroids and Unusual Outer-Space Treasures; Drag objects into the Cargo Bay to sort them and solve a mathematical problem; Use the special sorting bins for translating between fractions decimals and percents and identifying equivalent rational numbers or exponential expressions; The Proportion Tool can help you solve scale factor equivalent ratio proportion and percent problems; Represent Multiple Points and Graphs of Linear Equations and Inequalities; Use the Grapher Station to solve problems and complete missions by identifying slopes and intercepts and solving systems of equations and inequalities; In some missions a Number Line replaces the coordinate grid and you can graph fractions decimals expressions and inequalities. | ||
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| Mighty Math: Cosmic Geometry | Edmark Corporation | [top] | |
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This teaches you the concepts and problem-solving skills you need to master geometry and build math confidence. Polyhedral (many-sided) characters such as Dodeca, Hexa and Icosa are your guides on this fun-filled exploration of Planet Geometry. You'll learn about attributes of shapes and solids, constructions and transformations, 2D and 3D coordinates, the relationships between length, perimeter, area and volume and much more. Hundreds of problems encourage you to learn and use concepts that provide a solid foundation for success in geometry, and for lasting learning. | ||
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| Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Houghton Mifflin Interactive | [top] | |
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It was Mike Mulligan as his steam shovel, Mary Anne, who dug the great canals, made the long highways and flattened the first landing fields. Until one day, when Mike discovers that his friend has been replaced by newer shovels. When Mike refuses to abandon his steam-powered pal, the two set off for the tiny town of Popperville, where they rise to a final, triumphant challenge. Treat your child to a warm-hearted children's classic enriched with skill-building games and exciting learning activities. Follow the enchanting narration of actress Madeline Kahn in an uplifting tale of friendship, loyalty and perseverance | ||
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| Mitt Första Kunskapsäventyr [Sw] | Levande böcker, Norden AB / PANVision | [top] | |
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Get to know different countries, test cars, create fantasy animals and much much more. My first knowledge adventure contains ten different human spheres to explore for all knowledgeable children: space, human body, geography, food, animals, buildings and places, transport, art, work and leisure, the earth and nature. More than 50 activities. The drawing and speech activities is only included in the PC version. | ||
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| Money Town | Van Duyne Engineering / Davidson & Associates, Inc., Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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This is an educational game that aims to teach children the value of money. Mr. Possibility has closed down Money Town's park due to pollution and safety issues. The player must help the residents of Money Town clean up the park by raising money through various activities. These include helping Ona Budget recycle cans in a memory matching game, participating in a money trivia game show with Penny Bright, and vacuuming up change with Small Change. The money can then be used to purchase improvements for the park such as a clean water, a fountain, grass and flowers. Based on The Common Sense/Cents Series by The Children's Financial Network. Inspired by the popular children's book "The Kid's Money Book" written by Neale Godfrey, it features five engaging activities that will help your child learn: Basic money math; Coin recognition; How to make change; How to save and spend wisely; Simple money management; Fun money facts and history. Highlights: Funny, friendly characters take kids on a learn-and-earn adventure; Five engaging, interactive games combine learning and laughter; Loaded with dazzling animations, digitized speech and sound effects; Five original sing-along songs by acclaimed children's performer Dave Kinnoin; CD includes Neale Godfrey's "Video Tips for Parents," with advice from the best-selling author of Money Doesn't Grow On Trees; Learn coin recognition and making change at the Opportunity Knocking Emporium; Learn money facts and history at Penny's Quiz Show; Earn money as you help Ona Budget recycle; Learn coin identification and addition in Buck's field goal game. | ||
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| Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion | Funsoft / LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | [top] | |
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Mortimer is an action/puzzle game for children by Lucasarts. The player can play as Sid or Sally, and rides Mortimer the giant snail to thwart the evil Lodius. Lodius stole the medallion and turned all the animals into statues. The player must revitalise the animals in each of the five action levels, and then, using hints from the freed animals, answer a riddle to pass to the next level. You zip along just above ground level aboard an over-sized gastropod equipped with a computer, the "Revitascope," and the "Slimetron Muckchucker 2000," in addition to wings and propellers. Through crosshairs on his windshield(!), the player takes aim at animals and birds and blasts them - with bursts of life-restoring energy. Occasionally, the player takes aim and shoots a variety of evil flying creatures sent by Lodius. The game uses the same flight engine as Rebel Assault so the flights are "on rails" and you cannot control where to go, you are on predetermined path and shoot what comes at you. | ||
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| Mr. Wonder's Greatest Toyshop on Earth | Omni Media | [top] | |
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Welcome to the greatest toyshop on Earth. This science edition has 97 amazing toys. This is no ordinary toyshop but a magical one, where everything comes to life and children learn something new and fascinating every time they choose a toy from the shelf. Playful illustrations and animation helps kids to learn about the weather, sound, the environment, energy and animals. From stories to activities, Mr. Wonder makes learning feel like play. Mr. Wonder has made sure that the greatest toyshop on Earth is so much fun kids will spend hours playing without even realizing they're learning. Follow your child's educational progress. Get detailed reports with the click of a button. Learn how to build your very own rocketship. It's simple. All you need are some common household items. Discover how oil is turned into fuel that is used to power cars, boats and airplanes. Experience life on a farm. Learn how to feed the farm animals and harvest the fruits of your labor. | ||
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| Multiplication Tour with Mike & Spike | Panasonic Interactive Media | [top] | |
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On This Musical World Tour, Young Learners "Multiply" Their Math Skills. It's the coolest way ever to learn multiplication - go on tour with Mike & Spike, those cool and colorful masters of math and music. This takes young learners around the world on a concert tour that challenges, entertains, and rewards all at once. 12 lessons take learners to 12 cities in 11 countries. Original songs and games reward success at every step -- and encourage kids to practice and perfect newly acquired skills. With colorful scenery and concert songs that reflect the various places on the tour, Multiplication Tour combines adventures in geography and culture with the mastery of important basic math skills in multiplication. Features: Young math learners travel through 11 countries while solving 12 progressively challenging lessons. Fun and entertaining concert tour songs capture the colorful culture of each country while reinforcing each lesson. Delightful musical entertainment away from the computer. Children can listen to the concert tour songs on a stereo or car CD player -- these charming and fun songs can be played on any audio CD player. An informative Parent / Teacher's guide contains tips and suggestions for additional learning activities that reinforce the math concepts taught in Multiplication Tour. For children 7 to 9 years old. Develops These Skills and Aptitudes: Multiplication facts and skills; Mental computation; World geography and culture; Problem solving; Self-confidence. | ||
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| Muumit Meren Aalloilla [Fi] | Norsk Strek AS / WSOY Multimedia, Nordic Softsales | [top] | |
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Moomins in the Waves of the Sea is the second Moomin -themed computer game. Indeed, it is very similar in graphics and sound to its predecessor. A new version of the game (version 1.2) was released in 1997. The new version at the beginning of the game tells us that the Moomins and their friends have decided to go on a hot summer day on Moominpa's Merenhuiske ship towards the outpost. The task in the game is to collect three medals in the medal cabinet in the cockpit, after which the player can guide Merenhuisk back to the Moomin Valley in the navigation task (three times). The navigation task can be completed when all three medals have been earned. There are ten different tasks in the game: Retrieving Product seabed with Moomintroll; Catching flying fish with wounds with Hemul; Choosing the right combination of animal sounds with Snorkmaiden; Arrangement of different clothes for Papa Moomin; Snuff memory game (can also be played in singles); Coloring pictures with Sniff; Horn task where the playing order of the horns must be repeated correctly; Little My jakkaraleikki Hattifatteners with (background music in the mountain cave of the King ); A hidden game of sticky feet; The navigation task already mentioned. Medals are awarded for all tasks except navigation, Nipsu and horn tasks. The 1996 and 1997 versions differ in part in the different graphics and sounds. In the original version, the game does not contain spoken replicas or a story to be told at the beginning at all. However, the actual games are the same in both versions. A third version of the game was also released in 2001 under the name "Muumipappa ja meri" (Moomin and the Sea). The third version has been implemented in collaboration with Muumimaailman (Moomin World) and includes the 1997 version of the game, as well as information and pictures of Moomin World. In the 1997 version, the narrator tells about the Moomin Valley at the beginning of the game and its map is displayed on the screen. Some sort of map of the Moomin Valley appears in all the Moomin games that appeared after this game. The number of characters in Moomins on the Waves of the Sea is not nearly as large as in its predecessor. There was only one "actual mission" in Moomins Hidden , which in turn has a lot of different missions. You can't click anywhere in the game, except in the cockpit and in the Moomin Troll task. The only characters who speak in the game in addition to the narrator are Pikku Myy (voiced by Elina Salo from the Moomin Valley Stories series) and Moominmamma (for one reply, also voiced by the narrator of the game, Erja Manto). | ||
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| Naughty Stories: Doris the Dotty Dog & Clarence the Clumsy Cat | Sherston Software | [top] | |
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Naughty but nice - talking stories that are full of fun. These fun-packed stories are perfect to use as extension readers to your school's existing reading scheme and are ideal to use at home too. The CD version has additional functions, including the logging of problem words, the ability to listen to individual words and an auto-play function for younger children. It's an easy to use software package designed to assist children aged 5 to 8 in developing skills in reading and listening. Short and entertaining stories are presented, featuring colourful, lively animated images. Each story features large print, and the user has the option of selecting an accompanying voice that reads along with the text, highlighting each word in turn. The user is presented with a contents page which displays a picture representing each story. The user then clicks on a picture and the title of the story will appear on the bottom of the screen. Interactive individual words can be clicked on to check pronunciation, and a log of these words may be kept, for the teacher's, parent's or child's future reference. On each page there are three main icons in the form of directional arrows, an ear that produces the voice and an eye that animates the image on screen. These interactive buttons allow the user to read at his/her own pace, explore and discover words and study the animated pictures in detail. You can easily adjust the program's volume and turn audio and sound effects on or off as required. The program's engaging stories, along with the colourful interactive illustrations, would appeal to both the most fluent reader and those who have difficulties with reading. | ||
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| Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker | Microsoft Kids | [top] | |
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The last release of Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker was Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker, a spin-off using actors and scenes from Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy and AAAHH!!! Real Monsters. The program features two helper characters to guide users through the various features of the program. The user is guided by Stick Stickly. It's built on the BRender, a 3D graphics engine created by Argonaut Software. Using this program, directors are able to place 3D characters into pre-made environments, add actions, sound effects, music, text, speech, and special effects then show these movies off to friends, family, and the world. These are saved in the 3D Movie formats: ".3mm" and ".vmm". Select your cast from a variety of Nickelodeon characters, and add hilarious facial expressions and actions. Choose from a selection of original and new Nickelodeon sets, each with 5 to 20 camera angles so you can film your movie close-up or use the birds-eye-view. Choose awesome Nickelodeon sound effects (like gulp, zap, and burp), music clips, dialogue selections, and special effects. | ||
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| Nikolai In Time: Time of the Knights | I. Hoffmann + Associates Inc. | [top] | |
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Enhance your child's learning ability with the Nikolai's Adventures series. Read, compose, explore, discover and learn. Learn about heraldry and create your own coat of arms. Discover medieval armor as you dress up Nikolai. Explore a medieval castle and witness a battle. Compose your own music on medieval instruments. In this adventure, Nikolai and Neow-Neow are kings in the Middle Ages. Neow-Neow decides to make Mary the Queen of the Neow-Neows and challenges Nikolai to a Battle, a Joust and a Quest. The Middle Ages were never this crazy. It's a mixed-mode CD with 12 music tracks playable on your stereo and on your home computer. Educative topics include: Reading, History, Music, Art, Geography, Problem Solving. Free 50 Hour trial membership to America Online... Join Nikolai at AOL: Exclusive membership to Club Neow-Neow. Free access to ABCD's of Learning. Over 500 learning activities. A direct link to the award winning Nikolai's Web Site. | ||
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| Nikolai's Mysteries: The Mystery of the Black Windows | Hoffmann and Associates | [top] | |
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Nikolai and his friend, Neow-Neow the cat, go into the window-making business. Learn at your own pace about art, Canada's Group of Seven, and their own masterpieces. The user can draw, paint by numbers, assemble a jigsaw puzzle painting, and design landscapes with cutouts. Discover the secret of the Black Windows. Paint pictures from the Nikolai's Adventures series. Design your own landscapes. Exclusive membership to Club Neow-Neow. Free access to ABCD's of Learning. Over 500 learning activities! | ||
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| Nikolai's Pharaohs | Hoffmann and Associates | [top] | |
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Nikolai and Neow-Neow become mighty Pharaohs in ancient Egypt. Kids will learn about the pyramids, the ancient Egyptians and their beliefs. They learn how to build their own pyramids. Neow-Neow is much too clever to do any of the hard work, so he decides to copy Nikolai's pyramid design. When he gets lost inside Nikolai's pyramid, the fun really begins... Read, play, explore, discover and learn. Discover how the great pyramids were built. Explore the inside of a pyramid. Play against the snake! Will you lose your marbles? Learn about ancient Egyptian beliefs. It's an educational, highly interactive storybook with many activities and fun things to do, part of the legendary, yet forgotten Nikolai's Adventures series of games. | ||
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| Nina Hzhlolit: Journey to the Land of the Butterflies [He] | Makh-shevet | [top] | |
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A collection of logical mini-games with an interface in the style of "point and click". Strange as it may seem, the plot can be explained with just one single phrase, which, however, makes you think very much and makes a lot of notable psychedelic patterns: we find ourselves in the dream world of the growing caterpillar Nina, preparing for pupation and loving to help people, animals and other creatures. Once again: the dreams of a growing caterpillar. Each level, limited to a single screen, is a kind of "riddle"; the perspective of the review is identical to that in the usual old quest games (third-person view, when the protagonist looks us in the eye). It is worth emphasizing that it is still possible to play without knowing the language. Due to the uniqueness of the situation, we briefly describe the beginning of the heroine's journey through the world of her dreams. The first of them is a cave in which lies a baby monster sucking an empty bottle (as already noted, it is at the beginning that the most curious from the point of view of atmospheric conditions awaits you); the anthropomorphic droplet that appears explains that this creature needs to be helped to grow, and for this it needs to be drunk with liquids of several colors, obtained from similar droplets hiding in holes (this text is also recommended to be re-read - and to realize its depth). We click on the eyes peering out of the hole, see what color the droplet is hidden there, and remember this; our task is to mark the calculated identical objects in pairs, as a result, they will combine and be poured into a bottle of a small monster; when such an operation is done with all of them, he suddenly becomes very large and breaks the ceiling of the cave, but then disappears, and before leaving we must not forget to take the candy from the cache that opened at his lair. Note that a kind of "inventory panel" is located at the bottom of the screen and represents the body of a sleeping protagonist, whose segments act as "cells" for objects. In the second dream, we meet a hamburger that asks to fill it with filling (to start the process, left-click on it after the conversation), - six ingredients are spread around the table: cheese, onion, broken egg, salad, tomato and cucumber ( pepper is in this case not food, but a "lively" colorful character "for entourage"). The goal of this task, apparently, is to introduce very young children to food; the meaning is to take and stack on top of each other the types of food that a hamburger currently calls. To pass this episode, however, it is quite realistic with the so-called “brute force”: first, we alternately click on the products on the table - and, as soon as some has taken, put it in a hamburger; if suddenly this does not happen with any of the remaining ones, then we try to sequentially take those that are already inside, and as a result we find the right one. The third "riddle" has Nina finding herself in an apartment where a boy is sitting crying bitterly, sitting on the floor near the door. First of all, he needs to give the candy taken on the first level (first click on it, then on it) - then he will calm down a bit and tell about his misfortune: this bully made mess in the house, throwing things away, and now he is afraid of parental punishment, and he asks us to put everything in its place (why he can’t get up and do it himself is a rhetorical question). Since the “message” of this task was probably the desire to introduce young players to furniture and household items, the process has become more complicated compared to the previous stage: we are now required not only to find and take the item the boy is talking about, but also to put it in the place of the room indicated by it, - in this case, as in the case of products, only the thing that it just named is allowed to be taken at a particular moment (and their order is different for each level load), and the installation as such is the notorious "pixel hunting", that is, guessing its location - often also surprisingly unintuitive - is necessary with a very high degree of accuracy. Once the room has taken an acceptable look, it becomes possible to move on - in this case, up the stairs. There we meet an aggressive cat, which - and here comes the return to the "previous dream" - must be released to the first floor, after which she herself will run away from the house through the front door; we follow her - and find ourselves in a grocery store where you have to make purchases. But from this moment on, those who wish are invited to complete the game on their own. It’s worth highlighting the wonderful hand-drawn graphics - bright, truly cartoonish, spiced up with a lot of funny animation effects (like fixing the heroine’s hairstyle), as well as videos preceding some levels. It’s impossible, no matter how it sounds, to note the dubbing: if you believe the messages on the Israeli Internet, then Makh-Shevet has always been famous for inviting the country's leading theater actors to work on their children's projects - and the selection of votes, as well as the level of artistry really on top. | ||
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| Noddy: The Magic of Toytown | Grolier Interactive Inc. / BBC Multimedia, Hachette Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is an educational game divided into five parts. The Interactive Storybook: while discovering an interactive story filled with surprises, the child will develop its reading skills; Tour Toytown in Noddy's car to collect lost items - It's all about recognition and counting skills. The movie theater - just watch two Noddy films. The games: with the first one, listen carefully to sounds then find out "Who Said That; Second game - with Bert Monkey, just match two cards; Last game in this section is a maze game - first choose a maze then, look for letters and items. In Tessie Bear's studio, children will develop their creative skills with 3 activities. With "Cartoon Collage", they will create their own cartoon story. With "Invisible Paint", a picture appears twice, but with some differences. Spot them. Last activity is the "Artbox", which is a painting activity. | ||
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| Olipa kerran katti [Fi] | Makh-Shevet and Steimaksy Ltd. / Edutainment Software Systems AS | [top] | |
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This is one of a series of interactive stories that blasts previous limits on data entertainment. Besides regular features of living books, where you click to see animations and scroll through the story, the series also has hidden a lot of fun games around the adventure. It's geared towards kids of age from 5-10 years old. | ||
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| Orly's Draw-A-Story | ToeJam & Earl Productions / Brøderbund Software | [top] | |
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It focuses around the two main characters, Orly and her anthropomorphic talking frog friend Lancelot who lives in Jamaica. The game features four unique stories narrated by Orly. The player is able to illustrate each of the stories with their own paintings, either original drawings or using ready-prepared objects. As Orly tells the story the user is asked to create an item such as a friend for a flying monster or a birthday present to give to Orly. The objects become animated and are then used as part of the story. Clicking on the shutter opens up a series of template drawings that can be coloured by the player. At the end of the story, the user can choose to save or discard the picture and then view it back in full. Additional features within the game include "Make A Storybook" where the player can create their own series of scenes and type text to make up their own story, while there is also a "Doodle Pad" for practicing drawing skills. Each story has a unique storyline and the player is asked to design different objects and scenes for each one: "The Ugly Troll People", "The Strange Princess", "Lancelot, Bug Eater", "One Big Wish". | ||
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| Over in the Meadow | Fisher-Price / Compaq Computer Corp | [top] | |
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Over the Meadow is an animated musical story that presents a new twist on the traditional children's poem. Your child will be thrilled by the variety of musical styles - jazz, classical, folk, contemporary, opera, country, and more - and enchanted by the cast of animated characters that live in the meadow. Finding the hidden animations, learning the meaning of new words, and learning new facts about the meadow animals are all part of exploring the interactive world of Over in the Meadow! | ||
| Paint, Write & Play! | The Learning Company | [top] | |
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This is an easy-to-use painting, drawing and writing program designed especially for children ages four to seven. With a focus on developing creativity and building vocabulary, reading and writing skills, it's ideal as a child's first creativity and writing program. As the entry point to The Learning Company's Interactive Writing Tools System of products, it includes essential creativity tools and many specially designed features so that even the youngest users can create pictures, illustrated stories, letters and more. Children will quickly bring their ideas to life by exploring three main activity areas: the Art Studio, the Travel Center and the Writing House. Users can craft their own stories using the painting and writing tools, or they can "build" stories by choosing words and clip art pictures from the hundreds included in the program. A child-friendly user interface invites children into the three areas where they express their creativity, gather ideas and put them into words. The Art Studio is an easy-to-use paint program featuring all the essential creativity tools: freehand painting and drawing tools with sound effects, hundreds of clip art images, 48 colors and fill patterns, pre-colored backgrounds and simple editing tools. The Travel Center is a gateway to adventures where children can find story ideas in ten fun worlds ranging from the Arctic to the beach to Africa. As children explore, the program pronounces and names hundreds of animals, actions and everyday objects that children can use to build word lists for use in their stories. The Writing House helps children write and create their own storybooks, letters and more. Fun, age-appropriate features include a child-friendly word processor, a dictionary of picture words, a list of frequently used words, three font sizes and tools to make covers and title pages. Once they have created their storybooks, children can use the text-to-speech feature to have it read their stories aloud. | ||
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| Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside | Humongous Entertainment | [top] | |
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Sam, a big fan of Pajama Man is to afraid to sleep, with Darkness in his closet. So he turns himself into Pajama Sam! With his Flashlight, his mask and Signature edition Pajama Man Lunchbox. Going into his closet, to The Land of Darkness, His things are stolen by trees, and are hidden throughout The Land of Darkness. Its up to you to help Sam get around The Land of Darkness to find his stolen stuff. Along the way help Sam collect his missing socks, and solve challenging puzzles to help Sam find his stuff. When you play different times getting Sam's stuff will seem easy, but as you play the game different times finding Sam's stuff gets harder. The game features collecting a lot of useful items such as an oil can, a pick axe and a magnet, and running into new friends such as Otto the boat and King the mine car. | ||
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| Payuta and the Ice God | Ubi Soft | [top] | |
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Payuta and the Ice God is the interactive story of a young boy’s journey across the ocean, the land and the air to rescue his sister from the evil clutches of the Ice God - Kiagnyk. The story is set in the Arctic region and taken from an Inuit legend. The Ice God keeps the Inuit in unrelenting winter. He kidnaps Payuta's sister, Opiak, and takes her away to cook for him. Opiak makes brave attempts to resist the Ice God, while Payuta fights against all odds to search for her. In a true legendary style, he is all set for an impossible task by the Ice God. With the help from arctic animal life, Payuta retrieves an ice star from the top of a mountain and spring returns to the land. He then releases his sister and good triumphs over evil. The story features a wonderful cast of characters, a professional voiceover and beautiful environments in addition to mini games. Payuta and the Ice God will keep the kids entertained for a long time to come. | ||
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| Pelle Pirat [Sw] | Bonnier Multimedia / Erlandsen Media Publishing | [top] | |
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This interactive CD-Rom includes several hours of gameplay intended for kids over 4 years of age. The game gets the children's imagination going and develops their logical thinking. Would you like to sail on a pirate ship, search for lost treasure on a deserted island or ride with the Prairie Indians and among the cowboys? Or rummage in the attic and take a look at real ghosts? | ||
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| Pete Pilotti & Pontiac: Vaaleanpunaiset tiikerit [Fi] | To The Point Oy / WSOY | [top] | |
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One day Pete and Pontiac were at their beach cottage and a letter in a bottle washed up on shore. The message is stark: Black Beaver has been chopping down so many of the island fruit trees at such a rate that the forest is in danger. They go through an exciting underwater tunnel which leads to the hero duo to a cave where they can survive the huge scale of the disaster. The duo must take action soon before all the island's rare pink fruit trees are soon toothpicks for Big City. | ||
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| Peter Pan | Europress Software Limited | [top] | |
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An animated interactive story and exciting games to rediscover the famous story of Peter Pan. Read J M Barrie's enchanting word as you turn the pages, bringing the story to life on your PC. See how many thousands of drawings from top animators have recreated the wonders of the Neverland. Listen to the perfect diction as Shakespearean actors play the roles of the story's many characters. Explore each scene with your mouse, looking for the hundreds of surprises that are hidden throughout the story. Plus many exciting games to play! Join in a race against time to build a house for Wendy. Foil the pirates' dastardly plans to give Michael a watery end. Help Tinkerbell guide the Lost Boys through the terrors of the jungle. And play through a compendium of six other challenging games. | ||
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| Pickle's Book | Scope Co. Ltd. / Magnet, Media Advancement Group, A.I. Soft Inc. | [top] | |
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Pickle lives in a "picture book" world. Pickle’s book has a lot of rooms. Something enjoyable will happen when you click Pickle or items and drag. Pickle’s small rooms lead to the music world, the dinosaur world, and surprisingly, the sea and the universe. With mischievous Pickle, explore the amazing world or play in an amusement park. If you find a cookie, a cushion or a camera, give them to Pickle. You can play with him by using them afterward. Also, you must pick up keys when you see them. You will find mysterious locked door. Something marvelous may happen when you have collected all crystal. There are four crystal, which has different colors. This game is very easy to play intuitively. You will be fascinated by Pickle's world before you realize it. You must come to see Pickle. You do not have to read sentences in this game, so little children can play it alone. Also, parent and child can find something new or have an adventure together. Pickle's book has 18 rooms that lead to over 30 outside world. Moreover, there are three small picture books and there is an aquarium for a jellyfish. There are countless events in the rooms or the outside world, where you can enjoy humorous animations or music. You will never lose interest in Pickle's Book: you can play the piano, explore caves, go to see friends or play with pickle by using items you have found. You must find keys that unlock doors in order to travel all world. However, you do not have to worry. Just enjoy exploring with Pickle, and you will discover them. If you have nothing to do, you can draw everything with ink pens or stamp a lot of Pickle's characters on your screen. Target age is for children from two years up and all people who have childlike curiosity. Pickle's Book was first published in 1994 on MAC by Thoru Yamamoto, a digital picture book writer. Thoru Yamamoto's view of the world is unique and enjoyed by many people. Pickle has been dearly loved by those who have interacted with Pickle's book. First in Japanese, an English version was released in 1996. | ||
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| Piper | Splash Studios | [top] | |
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This is an interactive film made for children that is based upon the story "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." The action is relocated to western times in a mining town called Midas Valley where there is an overabundance of rats. Desperate to end the problem, the town enlists the help of a stranger who comes to town and calling himself Piper (played by Jason David Frank of Power Rangers fame). However, there is a much more devious scenario taking place in which Piper is heavily involved in and which the future of Midas Valley is threatened by. Like most CD-ROM games during this period, the story makes great use of full motion video and live action sequences which encompasses a majority of the game. However, on a few occasions, there are momentary breaks in the action where you have the ability to take part in a number of different action and puzzle sequences. There is even a few "Find the object" sequences that involve you trying to find rats which are hidden within scenes. The success or failure of these sequences can trigger different video sequences which have no effect on the story which is told in a largely linear style. Even so, how well you do in each episode of the game is kept in the form of a high score which can be improved with subsequent replays. While the game is neatly packed onto one CD-ROM, the game actually came packed with a bonus CD featuring songs from the game's many musical sequences and a 6 minute behind the scenes video about the creation of the game. | ||
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| Pixeline 2: Hulen i træet [Da] | Studio 1-2 / Krea Medie | [top] | |
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Pixeline and The Cave in the Tree is another mini-games adventure for kids. Hello to you, you beautiful owl, will you play with me in my cave? We can play with all my fun toys. Click once with the mouse on what you want to play with, and we're up and running. We can take a trip to the wild west and catch ponies and bandits, or how about playing with the octopus Olsen down on the ocean floor? We can also awaken Olsen here by shooting with the big cannon, or finding Mrs Olsen's bicycle in the bicycle maze. Out in the country we can gather the farmer's farm in a little puzzle, or we can visit my friend Wadema and shop in her shop. There are lots of fun games to get started with, and when you do not want to play anymore, just click on the hatch in the floor of the cave. Shouldn't we just start playing right away? | ||
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| Play-Doh Creations | Infogrames | [top] | |
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It's creativity and show-and tell at its best. Hop aboard the Play-Doh Island express and travel to four different creation locations. Invite all kinds of creatures at the Laboratory. Design their costumes and hair styles at the mini Mall. Craft crazy vehicles at the factory. Mix up some delicious Play-Doh treats at the Bakery. Then...it's showtime at the theater. Play-Doh Pete hosts "The great Doh Show" musical review starring YOUR animated creations. Helps develop: imagination, creative design, construction skills. Four open-ended Play Doh creation locations. Squish, stretch, mix and stamp your unique creations. All your creations perform at the theater. Save and re-shape your creations again and again. Make and print poster for the show in color, or outlines for coloring fun. | ||
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| Playtoons 4: The Mandarine Prince | Sierra Studios | [top] | |
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Playtoons is a series of four linked games that allow kids to make their own cartoons using a variety of characters, backgrounds, scenery and props from either a single one of the games or mix and match more than one or all of them. Included with each game is a cartoon introducing the characters and situations. It contains a cartoon (in English and Spanish) involving the French cartoon characters Spirou and Fantasio and their nemesis, the villainous Don Vito Cortizone. Don Vito has just been made head of security for the country of Mandarine and he starts by arresting his old cronies. Clementine, the Princess of Mandarine, doesn't trust Don Vito but she convinces the King to let her be engaged. When Spirou and Fantasio come to Mandarine to cover her engagement party, they are arrested on trumped up charges and Don Vito convinces them to act as Clementine's bodyguards by passing off Fantasio as a Prince and Spirou as his servant. This title includes four new characters, over 60 stationary and animated objects plus 18 scenery options. Approximately 100 animations can be triggered off during the story's animated sequences | ||
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| Playtoons 5: The Stone of Wakan | Coktel Vision / Sierra | [top] | |
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In this last in the educational adventure game series for ages 4-10, you follow the young Native American named Blue Bear to become a brave. He has to go talk to Silver Bison on the smoking mountain. This story is built like a cartoon with animated transition screens, and still images with text and animations that appear by clicking on the images. Each volume is divided into two parts. Some history: a story is told in the form of animated comics, you can display text or not, and click on each word to be read by the narrator. By clicking on the flag, text and voice you can change the language. On each page the child can click on various details of the set to trigger small funny animations. With a "creative tool", you can create an animation by choosing a setting, characters and objects from history, to move, interact and save the animation to create its own history. You can create as many pages as you want. You can also add text, and even record a voice to tell the story. If you have other games in the series also installed you can use additional characters from them. | ||
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| Playtoons Cartoon Creation Kit 1: The Monsters | Coktel Vision / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is one of a series of educational games which allow players to interact with a story, or create a story with the construction kit and the characters, backgrounds, and scenery from this game or from the other games in the series. | ||
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| Playtoons Cartoon Creation Kit 2: The Knights | Coktel Vision / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is one of a series of educational games which allow players to interact with a story, or create a story with the construction kit and the characters, backgrounds, and scenery from this game or from the other games in the series. | ||
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| Playtoons Cartoon Creation Kit 3: The Wild West | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a cartoon creation kit brings out the best in children's imagination. Children can watch and listen to the animated story included on the disk. They can also make their own stories by selecting scenery, characters and props and animating them to produce amusing results. An entire cartoon with multiple scenes can be created, and you can add theme music or even record your own voice. A variety of text and banners are also on hand so children can tell their stories in words as well as pictures. | ||
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| Professor Finkle's Times Table Factory | Sing 'n' Learn Software | [top] | |
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Memorizing the multiplication tables is a real chore for some children. Here, lighthearted games and videos take the drudgery out of drill and practice. Kids can play Beat the Computer and print out worksheets to complete away from the computer. | ||
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| Puddle Books: Baxter's Birthday | Funnybone Interactive / Davidson & Associates | [top] | |
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It was re-released as the 5th volume of the Fisher Price Read and Play Library collection. Today is Baxter's Birthday and the whole town is turning out to celebrate. Join Baxter and his friends as they explore the universe in search of the perfect birthday gift. Get ready for a huge birthday adventure with a parade, a western ice cream saloon, clowns, undersea music, a pig magician and a Pinata in outer space. Highlights: 7 fun activities; Hundreds of vivid animations; Highlighted words to help kids read along; 3 unique storytellers; 5 original sing-along songs; Lovable and entertaining characters. Skills Developed: Builds reading comprehension; Expands vocabulary; Improves communication skills; Develops problem-solving abilities; Stimulates creativity and expression; Develops a lifelong love of reading. | ||
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| Puddle Books: Yolanda Yellsalot | Funnybone Interactive / Davidson & Associates | [top] | |
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This second in the series, also part of the Fisher Price Read and Play Library collection, is a point-and-click adventure for kids. The game's story is set in a town experienced by the player, presumably a child. He or she gets to know a 12-year old girl named Yolanda Yellsalot, whose theme song describes her as a chronically shouting girl who shouts privately and publicly. | ||
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| Puss in Boots | KidSoft | [top] | |
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Puss in Boots is the first product of "Live Classics" series of games. This is Charles Perrault's old and well-known fairy tale. Artwork and animation design have been done by leading domestic young artists and the Sami Toivonen Aino Havukainen. It features 17 stunning, animated pages. In each page is hidden about 15 funny animated episodes and has professional music and sound effects. All texts and speeches are available in Finnish, Swedish, English and German. It has an easy to use interface. It's suitable for 2 to 12 years of age. | ||
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| Putt-Putt And Pep's Balloon-o-rama | Humongous Entertainment | [top] | |
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Call it silly, Call it cruel, but there is something satisfying about bouncing a dog through the air with a purple car. The game starts with Putt-Putt (the purple car) and Pep (his brown puppy) driving on to the screen with a bunch of balloons in peps mouth. Putt-putt tells his companion to hold on to the balloons tightly, which Pep immediately lets go of by barking. In the rest of the game, you progress through different levels popping the balloons which seem to have multiplied hundreds of times. Using the mouse, you move Putt-putt across the screen, bouncing Pep on the seats or dashboard. Different balloons are introduced during the game including candy balloons which give you 50 points for each piece of candy you catch, paint-bucket balloons which change your color depending on the balloon, and question mark balloons which give you a power-up such as Fireman Pep. It also has a level builder for hours of balloon popping fun. | ||
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| Putt-Putt And Pep's Dog On A Stick | Humongous Entertainment | [top] | |
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This is a challenging arcade-style game that kids of all ages love. Pep is bouncing high on a pogo stick gathering bones and special surprises. Sounds easy, just guide Pep up and down a 3D course to collect bones, candy, ice cream and more. But wait, as the levels increase so does the challenge. Kids must steer Pep around oil slicks, sticky goo and other obstacles. Pep will also encounter trampolines, teleporters and other crazy contraptions that change his bounce. Find out what happens when Pep drinks hot chocolate. There are also pigs with jet packs, silly skunks, dancing penguins and bears that hug Pep. With 100 levels of pure hound hopping fun, kids will play for hours, racking up points and increasing hand-eye coordination, logical thinking and spatial skills. The fun doesn't stop when the levels are conquered. Players can make their own levels for even more bouncing fun. | ||
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| Reader Rabbit Interactive Reading Journey / Reader Rabbit Learn to Read with Phonics: Preschool & Kindergarten | The Learning Company, Inc. | [top] | |
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Sam Lion is upset because he doesn't have a kingdom of his own, but Reader Rabbit is determined to help Sam discover his own kingdom: the Reading Kingdom. With Max the Mouse and a cast of assorted characters who help out along the way, Reader Rabbit takes Sam on a reading journey through five levels of books and activities which end at Treasure Mountain. This features 40 online books, two in each of 20 letter lands. Four letter lands make up each unit, and they all have alliterative names such as Topsey-Turvey Turtles and Mushroom Meadow. Each book can be read aloud to the student, or the this option can be turned off for children who are able to sound out words. Users can also make recordings as they read and play them back. Each letter land has a lot of hot spots to click and activities to play such as the snail race or the word-eating ants building their nest. Once a letter land is complete, it's on to the next one, and once all four are done, the unit gate opens and the student progresses to the next level. A Program Options Pad (POP), which is kept by Max Mouse, keeps track of each student's progress. Only one can play at a time, but the POP is capable of storing multiple sets of data. It was later available as Road to Reading, which is the featured CD-ROM in Reader Rabbit Complete Learn to Read System, and part of Reader Rabbit Learn to Read with Phonics Preschool & Kindergarten. | ||
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| Reading Blaster 2000 / Reading Blaster: Ages 6–9 / Reading Blaster for 3rd Grade | Davidson & Associates / Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Reading Blaster 2000 is a remake of Reading Blaster: Invasion of the Word Snatchers created by Davidson & Associates in 1996. The game was later resold as Reading Blaster: Ages 6–9 in 1998 and, under Knowledge Adventure, as Reading Blaster for 3rd Grade in 2000. It is part of the Blaster Learning System series. The game features a premise involving the characters depicted in previous Blaster products (Blasternaut, Galactic Commander and Spot) competing in a game show set in outer space. The user chooses which Blaster character to play and may either compete against a friend, playing another Blaster character, or the computer, in which case the player's opponent is Illitera, who was previously the main villain of the original Reading Blaster. This is one of the few multiplayer games in the Blaster series. It is also one of the few entries in the series to not have a plot involving foiling a villainous character's evil plan. Also in this game, Illitera becomes the only recurring villain in the Blaster games, although here she does nothing worse than bad-mouthing the show's hosts and eliciting boos from the unseen audience. | ||
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| Sailor Dog, The | Powerhouse Entertainment | [top] | |
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Scuppers the Dog wants to be a sailor. He was born at sea and all he wants to do is go to sea. When Scuppers finally gets a chance to go to sea he is shipwrecked. But he doesn't let that bother him. He fixes his boat and goes back out to sea, this time ending up at a foreign seaport. Scuppers is now truly a Sailor Dog. There are plenty of interactive storybooks on the market, many of which are very similar. “The Sailor Dog” stands out for the variety in the activities. Of course, this CD has all the standard options. You can have the story read to you or you can play in the story. You can go through the pages sequentially or jump to any page you wish. It comes with two languages, English and Spanish. Each page has plenty of “clickables,” those animations that occur when you click on an object. Moving beyond the standard features, this interactive storybook startswith a title page. You can type in your child’s name (or better yet, teach him or her to type!), thereby personalizing the book. Another feature that adds to the uniqueness of this product is the sound box, represented by a speaker on the main menu. Here, you can watch two music videos, featuring songs called “The Sailor Dog” and “Shipshape!” You can also choose to sing along. If you select this option, you will see the words on your screen instead of the “music video,” and the appropriate words will be highlighted when it is time to sing them. The Sounds option lets you listen to any of 24 sound effects from the story. For example, there are several animals, thunder, musical instruments, and a drill. | ||
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This Danish (but multilingual - 10 languages!) CD is an advent calendar that is date-sensitive on the computer. The content of the game opens gradually, day by day, starting on December 1, and becomes fully available on the eve of the holiday. However, for example, in the summer everything is open initially, but due to a plot failure, it will not be possible to see all the videos and complete the game as the authors intended. So when meeting SantaZia, we recommend either waiting for the beginning of winter, or changing the date in the system. The disc itself came out in a large box complete with a paper advent calendar, where there were clippings, stickers, a set of felt-tip pens and other gifts. On the eve of winter, the player will receive a virtual letter from Santa Claus with an offer to come to his castle Santazia and become his assistant. So far (until November 30 inclusive) it is empty here, and Santa sleeps in his bedroom. This part of the game is implemented as a three-dimensional quest from the first person (!) - the player is free to wander through the beautiful halls and rooms of the castle, go up and down the spiral staircase, go into the kitchen and into a special room where there is a huge file cabinet with letters from children. True, you can't take anything with you into your inventory, as well as perform typical point'n'click tasks that simply don't exist. The movement is discrete with the possibility of a panoramic view on most screens. Starting from the first day of winter, one object appears in the castle every day, and Santa gives the task to find it. The player goes in search of these things, including a toy snowman, cubes with letters, a clockwork mouse, a drum, jars of salt and sugar, an alarm clock, a music box and others - all these are gifts for children. When you find each item, you can watch a funny animated scene in which they all come to life and perform various actions. But the most important thing is that a mini-game or, rather, a puzzle becomes available. There are seven types of such problems, 3-4 for each. All, except for paired cards, use magnificent and very rich in small details Christmas illustrations: winter, children, snow, sledges, an ice rink, gifts ... All of them are made in the traditional "postcard" style, and what is happening on them dates back to the 19th century ( judging by the clothes of the characters). What should be done with these pictures? For example, collect in puzzle mode. The fragments are square and initially already arranged, but scattered. Due to the peculiarities of drawing and the fact that everything is mixed up, it is difficult to assemble, but the program tells you when the puzzle is put in the right place with a special bell. There will be a search for differences, and a search for extra items in the pictures (all sorts of things from the present), and tasks for returning cut fragments to illustrations. An extremely interesting mnemonic task: the player carefully looks at the drawing for one minute, carefully memorizing every small detail (of which there are a lot), after which the drawing disappears and five of its fragments appear, each in five different versions, and only one was in the original picture. The goal is to find all five correct fragments. Finally, a sound game! It is necessary to correlate the sounds with the elements of the illustration. For example, the voices of animals. Since the game was released in 1996, it's not surprising that the 3D quest is enclosed in a wide frame that takes up most of the screen. Moreover, this frame is not only beautiful, but also functional - there is located (and for those who have just started playing - will be located in the future) a collection of found items. By clicking on any of them, you can move to the location where it is located, and immediately see the animation and play the game. Attentive explorers of the castle will surely pay attention to the book lying on the table in the kitchen. This is a cookbook that contains twelve recipes for Christmas dishes from different European countries. An amazing combination of a quest and a collection of colorful mini-games is permeated with festive magic and the expectation of a Christmas miracle, and impeccable technical implementation does not allow the impression of the game to be spoiled. There is even an option to create multiple profiles so that each child (or adult - why not?) goes through SantaZia on their own. Well, there is nothing to say about the support of ten (!) Languages with voice acting: English, Danish, Italian, Finnish. | ||
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| Schoolhouse Rock: America Rock | Creative Wonders | [top] | |
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Schoolhouse Rock: America Rock lets players experience American history and geography while trying to get their bill passed through both houses of Congress and on to The White House. To get on the road to Capitol Hill, players must gain one acceptance stamp from each of the games contained in the program. Beating the game gives the players the stamp they need but each game has a different requirement for winning. Players have their choice of five different bills or they can write their own. There are three levels of difficulty that cannot be switched while in the game. In addition to gaining acceptance stamps, winning the five games gives players tools they can use to get out of the various pitfalls on their way to getting their bill voted into law. To get help on the games, players can also view the videos that were originally shot for the Schoolhouse Rock program. | ||
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| Schoolhouse Rock: Math Rock | Creative Wonders / Human Code | [top] | |
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This game is based on a series of Early Morning Cartoons from the late 70's called "Schoolhouse Rock". Lucky Seven Sampson has a problem. He needs a band. The inhabitants of Funky Numberland might be able to help, but they all have their own problems to solve if they are going to join Lucky Seven's band. So, he needs your help. If you can help his friends, they can join his band. You must go to the seven different areas and help the people with their problems. As you do, you not only gain band members, but coins as well. When Lucky Seven has assembled his entire band, the game shifts to a board game entitled "The Road to Fame". You must make your way along the board to the big concert, answering questions and using coins. You must have at least 30 coins at the big concert to pay for it, or it is cancelled and you go back to Funky Numberland to earn more coins. | ||
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| Science Blaster Jr. | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | [top] | |
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Science Blaster Jr. is a science exploration game for kids 4 to 7. The game teaches the basic essentials of science: Classifying, sequencing, and deduction, as well as identifying attributes, and a bit about weather, sounds and inventions. There are eight activities included in the program, as well as a ship tour that can only be accessed the first time a new user signs in. Also included is a printable activity book that expands upon the activities in the program and tips for parents. Parents can view their child's progress by clicking on the medals case in the program window, then clicking on the red report button. | ||
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| Sea School | Pod Bay Enterprises / MVP Software | [top] | |
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This is a shareware educational title aimed at three to seven year olds. It covers maths, the alphabet and reading in a series of simple mini-games all with a sea theme. The game is a trilogy consisting of three 'volumes', each of which focuses on a specific topic and contains a series of five mini games. Volume 1 is the Maths Wave, this was released as shareware, it had the following mini games: Waves - A counting game where items such as fish and shells are washed ashore. The pupil counts them and then selects the correct number from those offered. Sea Horses - A number sequencing game where the pupil selects the number one from a group of sea horses. That is then placed on the sea floor and they must select number two from the next group and so-on up to ten. Penguins - The player is presented with a simple addition sum, the answer will not exceed ten, and they must select the correct answer from among the numbers held by a group of penguins. Ice Fishing - Here player is presented with a simple subtraction sum and they must select the correct answer from a series of fishing holes. Sand Brushing - In the sand are is a set of five numbered outlines. The player selects the correct number from a line at the bottom of the screen and then brushes the outline to reveal the hidden object. Each correct answer wins a coin. At the end of each set of questions the coins tumble into a treasure chest and the player's rank is revealed. All games are played with the mouse, and are animated with both music and sound effects. Volumes Two: Alphabet Treasures and Volume Three: Reader's Island were only available in the full version. | ||
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| Secret of the Hunchback, The | UAV Entertainment | [top] | |
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The bell tower of Notre Dame Cathedral is one of the most famous sights in all of Paris and home to the most magical and heartwarming stories ever told... Journey back to medieval Paris and relive the amazing adventure of kind hearted Quasimodo, whom the frightened people call the Hunchback of Notre Dame. This CD-ROM includes full-length video, an animated storybook and games for the computer! | ||
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| Senninha: Rali dos Números [Pt] | NOAV Midianova / IDT COC Multimedia | [top] | |
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The legendary Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, nicknamed The Wizard, was the favorite of many children of the 80s and early 90s of the 20th century. In early 1994, a few months before his tragic death while participating in the San Marino Grand Prix, he gave permission to use his image as a prototype to create a cartoon boy named Senninha. With this character in the "leading role" it was planned to produce a variety of educational and entertainment products - and the Senna Fund would spend the proceeds from sales on children's charity. As a result, it happened, and the activity under the Senninha brand acquired huge proportions in the mid-1990s: short cartoons saw the light of day, comics and several computer games for a very young audience, one of which is presented on this page. If you believe the sources, then the creators in this way tried to somehow alleviate the "pain of the generation", who lost their idol (although nothing prevents us from assuming that they just made money ...). In spite of the presence of the corresponding word in the title, there will not be any rally. The protagonist is really a “racer boy” who, after starting the game, while in the garage, gets into his makeshift car, after which a display with several world landmarks appears on the “first-person view” screen. In the center of it is a kind of Taj Mahal - and we, wherever we click, first go to conditional India. Upon arrival, it is necessary, formally "controlling" the Sennini figure, presented in perspective "from the side", to pass literally several screens; To do this, just move the cursor to the right side of the space and left-click. In each of the locations there is a certain "inhabitant", by clicking on it performs any ". In the left - larger - part of the screen, there is a “grid”: above its top row are values from 1 to 10 (in a row), and along the left column, from 1 to 91 with an interval of 10 units (that is, 11, 21 and etc). The rest of the “content” is represented by dots and is calculated independently by logic: if, for example, the corresponding character is at the intersection of a column that goes below the number 8 and a line that goes from the number 21, then it is obvious that its value is 28. Under this “table” there is a slate board on which the simplest arithmetic example is written - by default, addition; it is necessary to calculate the amount, find the corresponding value on the “grid” above and left-click on it. After that, a new (similar in type) task will appear on the board. Then everything will be the same - and in a similar way the outline of a certain image will gradually emerge on the "field". As soon as we finish the work, it will turn into some kind of colored object (inanimate object, animal, person, and so on) and fit into one of eight cells on the right side of the screen. Below them are four icons - with the image of the Taj Mahal, cobra, yoga and genie - clicking on each of them changes the type of arithmetic tasks given to us; They are responsible respectively for addition (as already mentioned, it is proposed to us by default), subtraction, multiplication and division. Moreover, in the process of "solving the puzzle" you can switch between these "modes" as many times as you like, and if you can’t solve a specific example, you can request another one by clicking on the " Reinicira ". Clicking on the icon in the form of a racing helmet (available while traveling around the conditional city, which was mentioned earlier) displays some information both about arithmetic and about India (naturally, in Portuguese). If you" solve "all eight figures, a genie will appear and say something, after which we will return to the garage - while trying to go on a trip again will again lead to the appearance in the same India: apparently, in order to be in other lands (judging by the attractions shown, it is Egypt, Greece and Rome), it is necessary t to somehow achieve the appearance of the finished image with the help of the four arithmetic operations. The graphics are cartoony and pretty nice; another thing is that it is very small, since the basis of the game process is mathematical calculations. In principle, "connecting the dots", of course, is a very interesting occupation, but the pictures here are usually large in size, and the tasks for the same division can (of course, if there is no calculator at hand) cause some hitch even in adults; in other words, it has to be assumed that for most children tackling such monotonous and lengthy tasks will be somewhat bored and tired. | ||
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| Sesame Street: Elmo's Preschool | Children's Television Workshop / Creative Wonders LLC | [top] | |
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Together with the lovable Muppet, Elmo, of the long-running children's television program Sesame Street, preschoolers can navigate through educational and entertaining activities. Elmo plays the role of both playmate and tutor as children practice number, letter, sound, shape, and color recognition, as well as spelling and critical thinking. The activities all take place within five unique playrooms, each emphasizing a specific preschool concept. Activities included are The Music Room (Find a Sound, Finish a Sound Pattern), Letters Room (Find a Letter, Make an Animal Name), Face Treehouse (Make a Face, How Would You Feel?), Shapes and Colors Tent (Find A Shape), and the Numbers Clubhouse (Find A Number, The Counting Game). All can be visited in any order and revisited at any time. Each room has two different structured games and non-structured "freeplay" activities that teach specific skills. When entering a room, the child can immediately begin "freeplay" actions or click on the star or moon symbol located in each room for the games (the game accessed by clicking on the star symbol is easier than the moon game). The program includes several features to help children learn at their own pace without giving them the answers. Features include "Automatic Leveling" (the difficulty level of the game will adjust up or down to keep the game challenging for the child using it), "Smart Help" (Sesame Street characters will guide children through activities step-by-step), "Smart Host" (Elmo is always on the screen to give help when needed; simply click on Elmo or wait a few seconds and he will offer assistance), and "Object Identification" (if the cursor is left over a given object on the screen for a few seconds, Elmo will identify it). The game also attempts to teach important social skills such as emotions and empathy, taking turns, sharing, cooperation, making friends, and manners. | ||
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| Sesame Street: Get Set To Learn | Creative Wonders LLC / Electronic Arts, Inc. | [top] | |
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This features five fun and challenging educational activities for children aged 3 to 6. Each activity is presented by a different muppet from the T.V. show. It was re-released subsequently as part of the 2-disc Kindergarten Deluxe CD-ROM set in 1997, and also included in the Get Set for Kindergarten CD-ROM set with Elmo's Preschool and Elmo's Reading Basics. This game promotes the thinking and problem solving skills necessary for learning. "What Size is Your Prize?": Choose the right size object to win Zoe's game. "Count it Up! Up! Up!": Count to the right number and watch as the wheel spins. "Match the Moons": Match The Count's moons, spiders, lightning bolts, gold coins, and numbers. "Kooky Cookie Game": Complete Cookie Monster's frosted cookie pattern. "Dunk or Dare": Fill the barrel with trash and dunk Telly. "Fabulous Prizes": All the prizes won in the games are collected in the chest. | ||
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| Sesame Street: Search & Learn Adventures | Creative Wonders / Children's Television Workshop | [top] | |
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Sherlock Hemlock guides users as they find the clues to solve puzzles and mysteries. Concepts emphasized are safety, healthy eating and recycling; skills developed include critical thinking and problem solving. There are more than 20 activity combinations and multiple skill levels. The game's story features the whole Sesame Street gang planning a trip, but The Amazing Mumford's trick to get them there makes all the items they plan to bring scatter all over the street. It's up to Sherlock and Watson to retrieve the items. This game was included in the 2-disc Sesame Street Learning Series: Elmo's Preschool Deluxe CD-ROM set along with Elmo's Preschool. | ||
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| Sheila Rae the Brave | Living Books / Broderbund | [top] | |
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Shelia Rae the Brave is an Interactive storybook based on the book by Kevin Henkes. Venture with Shelia Rae in her town and she'll show you how brave she is and how she loves her family. Sheila Rae is Louise's older sister and she's not afraid of anything - not strange stray dogs or icky spiders or monsters in the closet or anything! Louise is afraid of the risks Sheila Rae takes and wishes she'd be more careful. No more tricks on the bike or stepping on every crack or comparing the cherries in fruit salad to dead bear eyes. How can Louise ever measure up to Sheila Rae? One day, Sheila Rae decides to take a new way home but gets a little lost on the way. Will she ever be able to find her way home? And will Louise ever find her way out of Sheila Rae's shadow? After the first part of the story is read, players can click all over the screen to find lots of hidden surprises. The game also includes a special Treasure Hunt game and a Sing Along section where players can listen to the characters songs that they sing in the story. There is even a demo section to take a short look at some other games by Living Books. | ||
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| Sierra School House Science | Coktel Vision / Sierra On-Line | [top] | |
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Created, evaluated and reviewed by educators, and spanning four entire years of curriculum, there is no other software program available that covers 2nd through 5th Grade Science so completely. Sierra's School House fosters a healthy balance between education, exploration and entertainment. The Most Fun! Adi, an interactive tutor, makes study sessions more interesting and amusing. As lesson work is completed, your child is rewarded with exciting, interactive games. It provides an intensive and interactive and memorable learning experience. Check the progress and the areas of excellence of each child individually. At any time in the lesson, Students can turn to the Holp Screen for assistance. Features: Over 4000 Questions and Exercises; 8 Interactive Games; Draw, Paint & Print; Over 100 videos, edumations and photographs; Create Cartoons. Lessons are organized by easy-to-use chapters and subchapters. Good study habits are rewarded with access to games collection. | ||
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| Sierra's School House Math | Coktel Vision / Sierra On-Line | [top] | |
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One of the best educational programs for children that I have seen. Excellent graphics, sound, creative characters, games for entertainment, and stimulating learning activities that make advancing in math really fun. Meet Adi, a friendly alien that helps 2nd – 5th grade children move through different types of math concepts and calculations. You begin by creating your own character and typing in your name so you can keep score from session to session. You move into Adi’s Place which is filled with lots of fun things to click on to see animation, music and sounds. Kristina’s favorite is a rock-n-roll guitar and when it plays, she has to get up and dance along. You can also get to a Music Screen and a Background Sounds Screen to explore other sounds and music. Adi gives lots of clear instructions and then turns kids lose to explore on their own. The Learning Lab challenges students and progressively gets harder. With Adi’s help, children can select from Numbers, Calcuation, Measurement, Patterns, and Geometry. Each topic has 5 sections within that vary in activity and progress in difficulty. Children can start at the beginning or start anywhere they please. Whole apples indicate they haven’t tried that section yet, and an apple core indicates they’ve successfully completed it. Anyone who has school age children in the house, needs to have this well-done educational program on their computer shelf. It will be asked for over and over. | ||
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| Skipper and Skeeto: Tales from Paradise Park | Ivanoff Interactive / GSP | [top] | |
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Under cover of a crackling storm the wicked witch swoops in through the window and snatches the good fairy's magic wand. The good fairy groans in despair because without her wand she is grounded. She rushes to her wishing well and immediately asks Skipper and Skeeto to get it back. She tells them that the wicked witch has hidden it somewhere in Paradise Park and that if Skipper and Skeeto seek out all the animals that live in the park and help them to find their lost items, then they in turn will help to prise the wand from the clutches of the wicked witch. So begins this sweet little play and learn adventure with Skipper the Mole and Skeeto the mosquitoJ . Essentially the game play involves one big treasure hunt. Hunt down the park residents, find out what they have lost, and then hunt down the relevant items to keep them happy. And it's a hunt that's all good fun in this brightly coloured land consisting of 48 locations and a host of creatures to interact with. Rubin the Rabbit has lost his trousers, Bessie Bee needs a pail for her honey, Murray the Monkey wants some music, and there's sure to be something useful in the tree house if the five missing rungs of the ladder can be found. In order to earn more magic points and get some handy help, the player can take a book from the shelf and play a game. There are around 10 different games, not all of the same merit, but mostly very good. As well as a memory game there are games that teach telling the time on an old fashioned analogue clock, number and letter recognition, spelling and arithmetic. The English release was in 2000. | ||
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| Snoopy's Campfire Stories | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a game for young children and fans of Charlie Brown & the Snoopy gang. In this game the whole gang sits around a Campfire and shares their story with each other. Afterwards they write a letter about the whole day at the camp. You will play 5 different characters from Peanuts gang with their own storyline and activities like cooking, fishing, photography etc. The game is more targeted for kids and young gamers and emphasizing more towards "letter writing" and "communication skills". | ||
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| Someone's in the Kitchen! | DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. / Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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Someone's in the Kitchen! is a point-and-click interactive kitchen for the whole family. In this kitchen, you'll find a lot of characters-- from a mothering fridge to a finicky trash can to a plucky little toaster. Everyone is there to help and everyone loves to sing. You can explore the kitchen and get to know everyone, or you can head to the recipe book and pick out your favorite recipe. The characters will guide you through each step, until your final taste test with an always-hungry dog. If you're feeling creative, you can collect your own set of ingredients (including frogs and other wacky gross stuff) and make your own unique concoctions. But don't be surprised if your taste tester says, "Yuck!" | ||
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| Sonic's Schoolhouse | Sega Entertainment / Bap Interactive / Orion Interactive | [top] | |
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Sonic's Schoolhouse is an educational computer game that teaches young learners mathematics, reading, and spelling. In addition, players can earn access to two mini-games (a collect-the-rings game and a match-the-statues game) and a "field trip" section which gives them numerous facts on the various animals in the game (through video clips). The name selection and tutorial screen. The entire game plays in a similar fashion to id Software's Wolfenstein 3D, in that you play in a world that has no variation in height and is largely composed of right angles. You pick up nearby answers (ranging from bouncing letters and numbers to balloons with various pictures on them) and shoot them back at a blackboard to answer questions (usually filling in the blanks; in the reading section you match up pictures with their words instead), or otherwise recycle (much to Sonic's pleasure, as recycling is good for the environment). If you get all ten answers correct, Sonic holds up two sticks with fireworks on them, saying "You got all ten right! Great job!" Sonic the Hedgehog himself is not playable, but acts as the guide; instead, you choose from numerous animals to play as. Doctor Robotnik and his robots also show up to steal your answer, or in the ring mini-game, to steal all your rings | ||
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| Spell It Deluxe | Davidson & Associates | [top] | |
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You'll have fun while you learn the basic rules of spelling, master commonly misspelled words, and practice proofreading sentences. Bayou Billy, the best-spelling frog in the swamp, will lead you through five exciting activities where you will: review word lists, identify correct spellings, work crossword puzzles, edit misspellings, fill in missing letters, test your skill with a virtual spelling bee. Highlights: over 4,000 words divided into six levels of difficulty; built-in speech reads each word aloud; easy-to-use editor allows you to create customized lists; dictated spelling test works like a live spelling bee; dazzling graphics and exciting sound effects; foreign language characters for Spanish, French, German, and Italian; printable word lists, word search puzzles, crossword puzzles and certificates; record keeping to track progress; new word lists available via the Internet. | ||
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| Spelling Blizzard | Bright Star Technology / Sierra On-Line, Inc | [top] | |
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This sequel to Spelling Jungle again is an edutainment game released in 1996. The game focuses on improving an individual's skills in spelling. The player is guided by an eskimo named Yobi and his bird crackersyou again are guided by Yobi as you construct words. The player plays as an Eskimo who arrives on a raft on each level. The player must collect letters of a particular word in order on each level to past. There are objects such as snowballs and ice cubes which the player can use to travel and avoid enemies. Mackerels can be and used to stun certain animals and you can then push them. | ||
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| Stanley's Sticker Stories | Edmark Corporation | [top] | |
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This is the fifth game in Edmark's Early Learning Family of educational games designed for young children. The interface is point-and-click and click-and-drag, and instructions are given verbally when the mouse is rested over an icon. On the main page, Stanley the sea otter introduces the player to the game, which allows a child to create his own animated story using stickers, music and special sound effects on a chosen background. The player can view a sample story to get an idea of how his finished story might look; when he selects See How to Make a Story, Stanley will take him through all the steps. Once the player chooses Make a New Story, he is taken to the neighborhood map, where he can select from fifteen different backgrounds to use in his story, including a plain white background for those who want to include a lot of text. From the story page the player can choose from a large number of stickers featuring characters familiar from other Edmark games such as Bailey's Book House and Millie's Math House, and more, as well as other character and object stickers which can be resized and animated. Here, the player can also add music and sound effects or record his own sounds to attach to the stickers on his page. Text is added from here as well; the player can select from four fonts, choose a text color and decide how it should line up. If the player needs help thinking of a story idea he can click on Stanley, who will show an idea for a story that uses numbers, or one that uses letters and words. As in all the Edmark Early Learning games, adult options are accessed by pressing Ctrl/Alt + A in Windows, Option/Command + A on a Macintosh. When the story is finished it can be saved and played back in See-A-Story mode and printed from the main story page. | ||
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| Stellaluna | Living Books / Broderbund Software | [top] | |
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This popular story by Janell Cannon is beautifully adapted to the computer by Living Books and The Learning Company. Join Stellaluna in a journey where she learns that being different doesn't mean you can't be friends. Stellaluna is separated from her loving mother and lands in a birds nest. The birds take her in, but she must learn to adapt to their ways. It isn't easy for Stellaluna to eat bugs, stay up all day and always stand upright. Find out what happens when Stellaluna finds her mother and learns about being a bat. This CD also includes a special bat quiz with real pictures and questions about bats. Bat quiz has three levels of difficulty. Kids love the Living Books with great stories, beautiful graphics and tons of clickable hotspots. Text is highlighted as the story is read increasing reading comprehension and confidence. Kids can also click on individual words to hear them read. Choose to have the story read to you, play in the story, or go to a specific page. These graphics are unbelievable. Africa and many animals come alive in these magical illustrations. Kids will fall in love with Stellaluna and this is a story they will never forget. | ||
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| Timmy The Dream Hunter / Dream Hunter Adventure | FlagTower / Compedia | [top] | |
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Turn childhood fears into learning and laughter. In this award winning game, children are encouraged to overcome childhood fears throughout this interactive adventure with fun games and an exiting story line. It offers 15 challenging games and activities at multiple levels of play that are smoothly integrated into the story line to enhance imagination and creativity making it a spectacular reading celebration. Match the shadow to the figure. Create amusing images. Your child can also read the story with the narrator- each word is illuminated as it is pronounced. And you can print the colorful animated pictures directly from the program. It helps develop: creative thinking and imagination, pre-reading and reading skills, self-confidence, and auditory comprehension. Timmy was developed by award-winning author David Grossman, writer for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. | ||
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| Tom Sawyer | Europress Software Limited | [top] | |
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This is an animated, interactive talking storybook, plus great multi-level game. Read Mark Twain's own words recapturing the joys and dramas of childhood in the mid-1800s. See Tom and Huck's hilarious adventures as they create their own wild world of make-believe. Discover how top artists and actors have brought an impressive new dimension to animated storytelling. Explore each scene with your mouse, looking for hundreds of surprises that are hidden throughout the story. Plus a great, multi-level game to play. Join Tom and Becky, lost in the labyrinth of caves that lie deep below the cliffs bordering the Mississippi. They face many exciting challenges and stranger terrors before they are able to find their way back to the outside world. | ||
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| Tommy & Oscar: The Phantom of the Theatre | Rainbow S.p.A. | [top] | |
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"The first truly interactive cartoon" for children. Welcome to Tommy and Oscar's world, where there is child's play to learn about the music! Play and Learn, 9 music video games, more than 60 minutes of cartoons, karaoke ready to record! The main character, Oscar, is an extraterrestrial who feeds upon music notes and the whole CD-ROM is designed as a fun way to teach the basics of music theory to children. In 1998, a TV series of 26 episodes with the same characters was made, as well as another tv series and movie later on. | ||
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| Tonka Construction | Vortex Media Arts / Hasbro Interactive, Inc., Playskool | [top] | |
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Tonka Joe and his animated pals guide children through a variety of construction projects using "real" Tonka brand trucks in this game from Hasbro Interactive. There are rocks to crush, skyscrapers to build, and roads to pave spread throughout the five environments of Tonka Land. Fourteen different virtual Tonka vehicles are available to accomplish these tasks and as projects are completed, the player earns printable certificates to show off their construction skills. Ultimately, a child who completes all seven projects earns the title of "Master Builder" and the respect of the Tonka team. Although not overtly billed as educational software, this does emphasize learning how to follow a design plan and how to select the right tool (truck) to resolve a problem. As a bonus, virtual 3D Tonka trucks are much safer than the sharp cornered metal Tonka toys responsible for so many childhood injuries in the 70s (although they aren't as much fun to use in the sandbox). | ||
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| Toy Story Animated Storybook | Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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Designed as an educational learning tool for three to eight-year-olds, this features a rendered 3D world of the Toy Story universe, including all characters from the movie and many related sources. There are 15 screens of interactive story segments that include text, speech and exploration elements. Scenes are interactive in that you're given the option to select various items to check out in each location. In addition to the storybook element, there are five activities including the Put-Away Game, Woody's Scheme, The Crane Game, The Escape Plan and a Maze Game. In the Put-Away Game, you must place Andy's toys in the correct locations before his birthday guests arrive. Featuring Woody, there are three distinct games including Shadow Shape Matching, Warmer/Colder and Following Directions - these involve matching shapes to corresponding shadows, receiving clues based on warmer and colder responses and following verbal directions as to where the toys go respectively. Woody's Scheme is a devious plan to knock Buzz Lightyear behind a desk using a domino effect. There's only one problem - the toys are out of whack and it's up to you to place them in correct alignment. In The Crane Game, you match up Martians of different sizes and shapes and shove them into backpacks. Spanning three levels, the number of aliens required changes in each. In an attempt to save Buzz Lightyear from the vile clutches of Sid, the Escape Plan is broken into three activities: the Doorbell, the Toy Stack and the Stairs. After commanding Ducky and Legs to ring a doorbell, you erect a large pillar to reach the door handle. Finally, in the Stairs, you help Woody and Babyface maneuver past the obstacles on each step. The Maze Game features a bird's eye view of a city with traffic lights and obstacles. Try not to get hung up -- you're being chased by the evil Scud. It also has troubleshooting activities and recommendations on expanding the skills learned with the program. | ||
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| Treasures of the American Museum of Natural History | Learn Technologies Interactive / The Voyager Company | [top] | |
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Treasures of the American Museum of Natural History features In the spirit of exploration, eight guided tours link the treasures thematically and introduce a wide range of behind-the-scenes material: rare photographs, unusual film footage, and lots of surprises. Move around the Visible Woman, the world's first computer-simulated hologram; scroll across the hundred-foot-long Evolutionary Tree of Fishes, from sharks to sunfish; watch a morph of human evolution, from Australopithecus to spear-toting Cro-Magnon man; and navigate around the Akeley Hall of African Mammals using QuickTime VR. The CD includes a map showing the origin of each treasure, a notebook for taking notes and composing a travelogue. You can play the terrific Dinosaur Dig game - uncover the bones and assemble Tyrannosaurus rex. There's also a floor plan that shows the exact location of each treasure within the Museum, an easy-to-use glossary, hyperlinked to text throughout the CD-ROM and a supplementary Guide for teachers and parents | ||
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Earth constantly spins, so why shouldn't your head? Join Professor Virgil Reality on a fantastic voyage from the age of dinosaurs to the heart of an atom. Laugh at man's most ridiculous inventions. Discover the wonders of science. From the far reaches of outer space to the tiny interior of a virus, Virgil puts the "YOU" in universe, and teaches you that everything is connected. Your exploration includes hundreds of activities such as home experiments, making paper airplanes, games, printing greeting cards and building dioramas. Enter the world of microorganisms through Virgil's compound and electron microscopes. View earthworm intestines, brain tissue, protozoa and some cool disgusting stuff, too. Learn about the coolest scientists the world has ever known--from Albert Einstein to Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Edison. Want to know more about any topic Virgil is discussing? Just access The Columbia Encyclopedia where you'll learn more facts than even your parents and teachers know. Have you ever seen a horse roller skate? Or slept in an Alarm-O-Bed? Learn about some of the wackiest inventions ever built. Check out dozens of exciting films and hundreds of pictures from NASA, the Centers for Disease Control, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Thomas Edison Museum and the National Archives. Don't forget your popcorn. | ||
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| Where in the U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego? CD-Rom | Broderbund | [top] | |
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This game was remastered and re-released in the Windows and Macintosh formats, and featured Lynne Thigpen as "The Chief". The opening credits shows Carmen arriving in her underground V.I.L.E. outpost in Washington, D.C., as she and RoboCrook plots to steal America's greatest treasure. Carmen then contacts each of her V.I.L.E. operatives telling them to begin their missions. Unlike in the previous games, the image of the locations took up most the screen, with the game options only taking up the bottom third of the screen. Each location had an elaborately painted backdrop that could be scrolled around a full three hundred and sixty degrees. Each location provided clues in the form of several bystanders and scraps of paper lying on the ground. The scraps of paper exclusively provided clues about the suspect's appearance. Another change is that the user is not given dossiers describing the members of V.I.L.E. and that all the clues given about the suspect are physical traits, enabling the user to identify the crook on sight. This means that the user will have to compile a full warrant rather than one of just enough traits to distinguish which crook is responsible. Another added feature were the ACME Good Guides, a group of colorful characters who, if called upon, provide information about the United States. If the user calls an ACME Good Guide during a case, that guide will call back later to inform the user whether or not their warrant has any errors. If the user wishes to take tours with the Good Guides and travel to states without the inconvenience of having to track a crook, "explorer mode" is available. The animation in the game closely imitated the look of traditional animated cartoons. The animations that alert the user that the correct destination has been reached featured either Carmine from Junior Detective Edition or a pair of bumbling janitors named Rick and Nick ICK, or RoboCrook. | ||
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| Witches Academy | Pixelmagic Ltd., Capture Productions Ltd. / Ravensburger Interactive Media | [top] | |
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The Witches Academy is a progressive school for young witches and wizards. Here the pupils learn flying, potion making, casting spells and all the other important skills needed by the modern witch and wizard. One day, the overlords of the region, The Grand High Wizard and The Imperial Witch, descend on the academy. They are determined to shut it down because they don't approve of it's modern methods. They choose one pupil to carry out a series of tests which they hope will prove that teaching in the academy is sub-standard. The player must pass all the tests in order to save the academy. Their skills of potion making, spell casting, frog catching, alchemy and many other tasks will be tested. Then comes the final test, the tower game, where they must collect all the elements needed to make a dragon, thus foiling the overlords. It uses hand-drawn animation, magnificent background graphics, innovative games, mixed in with funny rhymes and the crazy antics of pupils, tutors and the little creatures that inhabit the academy. | ||
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| With Open Eyes | Voyager Company, The | [top] | |
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Whose eyes are open wider than a child's? Who says adults have to lose that sense of discovery? And what's more fun to look at than a great work of art? That's just what this beautiful and imaginative CD-ROM explores. Now children--and anyone else who's ever felt as though most museums weren't designed for them--can get close to wonderful objects and paintings, spend as much time with them as they feel like, and find out all sorts of interesting things in the process. Spectacular full-screen pictures of over 200 works of art from The Art Institute of Chicago's enormous collection are accompanied by audio clips that make viewers look closer, or laugh, or think twice about what they're looking at. Half the fun is wondering what picture's going to pop up next; it could be a Japanese kimono, an impressionist landscape, an Egyptian mummy case, or a Picasso portrait. Access the collection by geography or time period, or opt for an automated slide show. Any object can be seen in a virtual gallery for an instant sense of scale, and multiple close-ups zoom in on details from Seurat's brushwork to the tiny bugs hidden in a Dutch still-life. Hundreds of games--one for each image--use these great works of art in literally hundreds of fun and ingenious ways. | ||
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| Word Blaster | Davidson | [top] | |
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Building a larger vocabulary is the first step in devolping essential communication skills - reading, writing and speaking. Word Blaster makes building a superior vocabulary fun and easy. Your child will join Cosmic MC in the futuristic city of Word Metropolis, where five exciting activities teach the meanings and spellings of thousands of words. Adjustable difficulty levels and customizable word lists let you tailor the program to your child's specific needs. With Word Blast your child will: Learn thousands of new vocabulary words; Improve reading comprehension; Master correct pronunciation; Increase confidence in writing and speaking; Become a more effective communicator. Highlights: Five different multimedia games with 3D graphics, animation, music and speech capabilities; Built-in word lists contain over 2,500 words; Three difficulty levels with preset categories: nouns, verbs, and adjectives; Words used in context enhance understanding; Special editor feature allows you to enter your own word lists; Reads words aloud so your child can hear and learn correct pronunciation; Record-keeping feature keeps track of your child's progress. | ||
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| Word Munchers Deluxe | MECC / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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This is a remake of Word Munchers. The entertaining and educational way to build confidence in reading. You play as a green creature and avoided enemies known as "troggles" while eating (munching) words that fit an established grammatical criteria. The fast-paced game is the perfect self-directed activity for the language arts curriculum. Picking up where its much-loved predecessor leaves off, this Muncher program utilizes an even more engaging 3D animated game board. As students practice word identification, sentence completion, rhymes, etc. Use the Mailing Design Wizard to select the right mailing layout to fit your needs. | ||
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| Write, Camera, Action! | Broderbund | [top] | |
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This can be said to be part storybook and part writing tool. The storybook part is highly interactive and involves a mystery involving a lost cat (remember, this is a kid friendly game) and can been played around with to influence things like character reactions, events, and how the characters say their lines. What is important about the story is that you can choose the important clues that the detective discovers which will decide the final scene of the game. Sadly, as promising as that sounds, there is really only one ending you can get and the clues the detective finds all have to unanimously be for that single ending. Other than that, it's a wonderfully addicting game/writing tool. It includes: reading comprehension - Expand your vocab as you write, direct and shoot films in the back lot; oral expression - Practice listening and creative thinking skills as you evaluate and re-record dialogue (requires microphone not included); expressive writing - Write press releases, news stories, and movie posters; film premiere - The more scripts, press releases, and news stories you have written, the more enthusiastic your fans will be. | ||
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| Yukadoos, The | Brilliant Interactive Ideas / Active Imagination | [top] | |
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This was one of the Kidstory Series, six interactive storybooks for children that were intended to be affordable for customers, while retaining good quality. The publisher was a Packard Bell company and sold its computer products such as personal computers with a CD pack that contained several of these titles. This one is a story by Joy Cowley. Reading and Spelling and Phonetics taught in a fun way. Friendly, engaging characters and storylines captivate the imagination. Hours of fun learning through exploring the animated surprises on every page. Built in Spelling Bee promotes learning while playing. | ||
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| Zoombinis Logical Journey / Zoombinis Maths Journey | Learning Company, The / Broderbund | [top] | |
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In this kids adventure, the Zoombinis are successful and live on an island called Zoombini Isle. One day their lives are interrupted by a somewhat evil race known as the Bloats, who offer to expand their businesses and improve their quality of life. "Being trusting sorts, the Zoombinis agreed." However the Bloats simply wanted to dominate the land, and punished all the Zoombinis. To restore their lives the Zoombinis decide to run away and set sail on a boat to find a new homeland (which is later called "Zoombiniville"). To complete the game you must transport 625 zoombinis to Zoombiniville but they can only go 16 at a time, and they must cross many obstacles that require logic to get past. It's designed to promote logical thinking in children of all ages. The Broderbund game is built with QuickTime and was designed to run on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. A Deluxe Version was released in 2001 and was built with DirectX to run on Windows XP. It includes an additional disc of Printable Activities. In 2015, a remake titled simply Zoombinis was released with updated graphics for all the backgrounds and characters, while retaining the voices and music from the original game. The Steam version also includes: Digital poster and wallpapers, Mobile ringtones for Android and iOS devices, Original soundtrack. | ||
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This is a story about a high-school girl named Emi, who fell in love with her younger step-brother. Finally, on her eighteenth birthday, she decides to tell him about her feelings. But suddenly, debt collectors arrive and confiscate everything your father possessed. Tomomi, Emi's step-brother, disappears. Now Emi must find him, her only true love, and to confess to him her feelings. But on her journey, Emi discovers a different personality inside herself. This other person is called Amy. While the true Emi is a shy, modest girl, her Amy part cares mostly about one thing: to make real her wildest sexual fantasies. The game is a comedy hentai adventure using simple interface and a light gameplay with no puzzles, with a good portion of humor, but also with a very heavy sexual content, so beware - you have nothing to look for here if you are under eighteen :) | ||
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| Anne Hooper's Ultimate Sex Guide | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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This interactive sex guide, based on Anne Hooper's best-selling book, will help you enjoy a more exciting and fulfilling sex life. From those in the early stages of sexual experimentation to mature couples who want to rekindle passion - everyone can benefit from Anne's years of experience as a sex therapist and marriage counselor. This guide is for anyone who wants to improve their sexual knowledge to get the most from a loving partnership. The Best of Multimedia - Specially-filmed video, photography, text and animation present an informative exploration of sexual practices and techniques. Anne's Programs for Better Sex include information on exercises designed to enhance your sexual experience. Sexopedia - This in-depth reference section offers clearly understood, detailed explanations of sexual terms and concepts. Each user will receive a tailor-made course of articles and personalized advice to improve their sex lives, based on their responses to six confidential questionnaires. This disc by British sex therapist Hooper includes tastefully shot nudity and video instruction; explicit acts are depicted in realistically rendered animated sequences. It also offers programs for better sex (they may not be the Kama sutra, but they do provide the basics), case files (of new and established couples, as well as of single folks), and a ''sexopedia'' (with an emphasis on anatomy and technique). The personal questionnaires, which take advantage of CD-ROM interactivity by assessing your answers and then suggesting specific courses of action, can be a tad intimidating, though. It has over 90 video clips, more than 300 photographs, 30 animations and artworks, 70,000 words, and over an hour of music and narration. | ||
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This is an adult point and click adventure inside one room together with a girl. The pictures and sound are quite notable. It features Yuna Kagezaki's graphics and a voice that seems to be brainwashed. At the time when most Japanese hentai games were made for PC-98 in only 16 colours, this had 256 colours for Windows. | ||
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| Ayumi-chan Monogatari [J] | Alice Soft | [top] | |
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The premise is rather simple: the protagonist, a young boy named Kouichi, is in love with the most beautiful girl in his school, Ayumi Kawai. One day she admits that she also loves him, and they begin a relationship. The game starts when the two are already together, and is dedicated entirely to their dates - which consist mostly of sex. The game can be therefore considered a basic dating/sex simulation. Kouichi and Ayumi meet everyday, and the player, controlling Kouichi, can sometimes decide where they go - though the interaction is quite limited. The player can also choose sex-related commands during the intimate part of their date, raising Ayumi's pleasure meter and unlocking new pictures. In 2008, the game was made freeware. | ||
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| Blood Seed 2 [J] | Image Club / Arkham Products | [top] | |
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A 3D RPG where players become monsters with tentacles. The sequel's contents of the game almost follows the previous work. In many of the 3D RPG with H game, although enemy character takes off with knocking down with a girl, in this game it becomes a mere mechanical that there is no sex appeal. 3D dungeons, enemy characters, spaceships coming out with demos etc are drawn with 3D CG, but I think that both girls' CG and 3D CG are not bad. By the way, the stage of the previous work was inside the space ship, but this time it is a space colony of "Lady's boarding school". Primary contact with the living organism suddenly occurred on the virtual cruiser Triant 2 belonging to the free planetary association under duty which was on a separate task with the main for the secret mission. Living organisms that were attacked inside certain asteroids entered into the ship and grew while pretending and absorbing crew members. The crew attempted to deal with the weapons in transit but failed. Also failed to abandonment of life due to disconnection of the hull, which was carried out as a last resort, the ship crew was wiped out. Then, the ship is in contact with the army of a rescue ship in drifting also wiped out. When the military reported the existence of a monster lurking inside the ship, the capture operation by the military was planned and implemented to use it for the development of biological weapons. Capture operations were conducted from the first to the third First and second strategy units are annihilated. The third survivor was only 4 people indeed a miserable failure, and the ship was forced to be destroyed by military missile attack. | ||
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| Casual Romance Club | Libido / QT-Software | [top] | |
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As it often happens, you play a handsome and popular Japanese high-school student in this dating sim from Libido. The Casual Romance Club is being formed in the high school to give students the opportunity to enjoy casual romance relationships in a relaxed way. This is the first hentai game released with a full English translation included in the original Japanese version. Game text and voices is included in both English and Japanese. During one month you meet with girls from Casual Romance Club in Starry Sky family restaurant, where you can chat with them and try to date them. You also keep a notebook with detailed profiles of all twelve girls and can read their daily notes from a shared dairy. A two-part hentai OAV was also produced by Pink Pineapple, featuring the same characters, in Japanese only. In 1997, Libido released the game Hokago Mania Club with the same cast of characters but a much darker story. In 2003, an English version was released. | ||
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| Crystal Rinal: Ouma No Meikyuu [J] | D.O. | [top] | |
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Youhei is a Japanese teenager who is bored with his life, unable to find excitement anywhere. Even sexual escapades with various women don't satisfy him: he craves for real adventures. But on that particular day, his wishes were fulfilled in a very unexpected way. He was talking to a schoolmate named Mahiro, a girl he didn't even like particularly, when something like an earthquake shattered the school. Youhei and Mahiro hurried to the nearby classroom, only to find a strange mirror-like object - which in fact was a portal to a dungeon in another world. Now the two teenagers have to find a way to escape from the dungeon - and eventually to return home. Crystal Rinal is an adult dungeon crawler along the lines of Words Worth or Raidy games; but instead of a lonely hero/heroine, the player controls a party of two, Youhei and Mahiro, who fight randomly appearing monsters in turn-based combat. There is also a "talk" command that lets the two heroes chat with each other and comment on the situation. Some gameplay segments follow the template of a Japanese adventure, with menu-based commands and multiple choices during dialogues. | ||
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| CyberXperience | AZ Multimedia / Erotic Entertainment | [top] | |
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This is an adult first-person action title in which you take part as the personal cyborg of Nikie in order to help her recover her sexuality. Nikie is trapped on a secret base located on "one of Jupiter's planets". She is the result of generic experimentation and has been stripped away of any sexual desire. Make her a sexually active woman again. But this can only be done with erotic aids, which you have to chase away the Cybernet guards with their devilish war machines. Get into the fight - Nickie will reward you, her hero and teacher, excitably. Features: 7 Levels; Grand Finale in Interactive Mode; Over 30 Sexy Video Clips; 3D Render Locations; Real-Time Navigation in 3D Space; Soundtrack. | ||
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| Daraku no Kuni no Angie: Kyoukai no Mesu Dorei-tach [J] | PIL | [top] | |
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Angie and Ruby are two ordinary young girls: they like spending time together, talking about fashion, men, and all the usual stuff. But one day, they see a very strange man - dressed in a rabbit costume, with a gigantic erected penis... The two girls try to flee, but instead end up in an alternate dimension - a bizarre world called Decadence Land. This world is populated by grotesque characters with only sex in mind. Now Angie and Ruby have to figure out a way to escape from this dangerous world and to return home. This is an adventure/RPG hybrid. Movement on the top-down map of Decadence Land is done by clicking on a location icon. The plot is advanced when the player chooses a correct action, unlocking new locations. However, some actions can only be performed when certain items are acquired. Both girls have RPG-like statistics, including a health bar and a "perversity level", which corresponds to normal levels in traditional RPGs. There are also more precise statistics which refer to particular sexual parameters and activities (such as "anal level", "vagina stamina", etc.). When the girls are moving on the world map, random encounters with the weird inhabitants of Decadence Land can occur. Agreeing to participate in sexual activities with these inhabitants decreases the girls' HP, but grants them experience points that raises their "perversity level", and with it increases other parameters, that will allow the girls to participate in more dangerous sexual exercises without dying. | ||
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| Days Of Oblivion | Toygardens Media / CDV Software Entertainment AG | [top] | |
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Days of Oblivion is an erotic adventure game for adult players. In the year 2144, both north and south pole are melted and mankind lives in huge swimming cities. One of these cities is called Twin Town. You awaken resurrected with a new body and cannot remember your former life. It´s your task to find out who you´ve been and why you died. During your investigations, you can use a so called body-constuctioc-kit which allows you to "enhance" yourself (e.g. face, belly, legs, arms, other parts...). You´ll encounter many strange charakters (many girls by the way). The game is presented in rendered screens and plays short videos when something special happens (just as the well known Sierra adventures Phantasmagoria or The Beast within). Warning: The game is for adult players only: it displays a lot of nudity. | ||
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| Diva X: Ariana | Very Interactive | [top] | |
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This is an FMV (Full-Motion Video) interactive sex game with a beautiful model. In this installment of Diva X series, interactive cybersex simulators, you meet Ariana, a lonesome brunette in the hotel's lobby. She was reading a book, until you came to her and began the conversation. The next events move you both to her apartment for certain reasons. The first intimate encounter with her will give you some pleasure, but more experience will be gained by your next interactive actions. With TFUI(tm) 2.0 Technology (Touch Feel User Interface), an intuitive icon-based 3-D interface that mimics human spoken language, you are allowed to touch and sexually interact with Ariana, in real-time, from the first-person view. So, in the game you should stimulate the woman with advanced sexual functions: tongue, self-stimulation, special toys as well as your own hands and body. It also includes X-Director(tm). Literally sitting in the director's seat, you take full control of the sex scenes in FMV and direct Ariana to do as you command. Advanced editing functions include record, play, save and edit XXX interactive sequences and create your own full length movies for future playback. Edit lists can be transferred via media or internet for later viewing and are compatible with subsequent instances of Diva X series. Zoom and multiple camera angles may be varied also. The gallery of Ariana's static pictures in compromising situations and video-shoot outtakes are also present. | ||
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In this installment of Diva X series of interactive virtual sex simulators, you meet Rebecca, a French brunette in distress, waiting to be rescued. After dropping off your friend at the airport, you chance upon a lost beauty who queries for your assistance, expressing the desire to go to the Avalon Agency. Being the gentleman you are, you kindly offer her a ride to her destination. In brief hesitation, her eyes engage in silent conversation with yours. She enters the car as you start your engine. From there, the adventure begins. First intimate encounter with her will give you some pleasure, but more experience you will get by next interactive actions. With TFUI 2.0 Technology (Touch Feel User Interface), an icon-based 3-D interface that mimics human spoken language, you are allowed to touch and sexually interact with Rebecca, in real-time, from the first-person view. So, in the game you should stimulate the woman with advanced sexual functions: tongue, self-stimulation, special toys as well as your own hands and body. The game also includes X-Director. Literally sitting in the director's seat, you take full control of the sex scenes in FMV and direct Rebecca to do as you command. Advanced editing functions include record, play, save and edit XXX interactive sequences and create your own full length movies for future playback. Edit lists can be transferred via media or internet for later viewing and are compatible with subsequent instances of the series. Zoom and multiple camera angles may be varied also. The gallery of Rebecca's static pictures in compromising situations and video-shoot outtakes are also present. | ||
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DOR is a collection of three short stories: 1) Kanako's Depression: You are visited by a beautiful vampire who wants only one thing: To suck your blood. In return, she will be your servant for one day. 2) The Telephone Scandal: You call into a telephone dating service. You can choose to talk to a young schoolgirl or an older working woman. 3) Armored Fighter Gyleban: Parody of good-versus-evil anime, such as Macross. Each story can be finished in approximately ten minutes. DOR features depictions of sex, and is for adults only. An English release came out in 2002. | ||
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| DOR Special Edition [J] | D.O. | [top] | |
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This Win3.1/95 release includes DOR Special Edition '93 & DOR Special Edition Sakigake previously released on Japanese computers PC-98 & Sharp X68000 & FM-Towns in 1993. DOR Special Edition '93 is neither a compilation, re-release, nor a remake; it is an independent entry in the DOR series. Typically for the series, the game consists of three completely unrelated scenarios. They can be accessed from the initial game "hub", which is viewed from a top-down perspective and allows the player to control the sexy demon Akuma, the series' mascot, as she runs around a small town, visiting houses that lead to the game's features: playing the scenarios, viewing the pictures, getting acquainted with the developers, etc. The first scenario tells the story of a Japanese businessman and treasure hunter named Hiroshi, who has organized a perilous expedition into South American jungle, hoping to find the legendary spring of eternal youth. However, on the way to their discovery, the group has to confront monsters and other dangerous specimens of the jungle... The second scenario is set in a pseudo Middle-Eastern environment, and focuses on a man named Farouk, who was cursed by an evil magician. In order to remove the curse, Farouk travels through a vast desert to a nearby town, hoping to find people who would help him in his predicament. The third scenario directly continues one of the scenarios of DOR 2. It is sub-titled Armored Fighter Gyleban, and is the second part of the story. The protagonist is the leader of a squad of female fighters, who confront an organization under the leadership of the evil Grauber. Grauber's warrior, a young girl named Meiya, switches sides and decides to help the heroes in their battle. DOR Special Edition: Sakigake is the fourth entry in the DOR series. Unlike all the previous games, it contains only one scenario instead of the usual three. The scenario follows the story of Kensuke Funaki, a young boy who attends a prestigious private high school, where the students specialize in sports as well as various theatrical activities. The biggest event of the school is an all-female wrestling competition. Kensuke finds himself in a promising situation: in order to secure his support, the young and pretty competitors are willing to go far - very, very far. | ||
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Free the women by hunting down roaming evil viruses, and you'll get some top-notch interactive cybersex with Nici Sterling, Felicia, and many others. It's a huge world to explore with amazing surreal graphics in a pseudo-Riven/Myst environment. This is probably New Machine's best interactive to date. | ||
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| Gakuen Bakuretsu Tenkousei! [J] | ZyX | [top] | |
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A strong girl transferred to a new girls' school and moved in with a room-mate. That day, she got the school regulation girl upset at her. Next day, her room-mate is missing and she went searching the school for her room-mate. What she finds are a bunch of nasty stuff. If you can get her pass the four bad endings, she can rescue her room-mate, even if a bit late. | ||
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| Girl 2 [J] | Juice | [top] | |
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Reiko is a female tutor of three young girls. Here are three stories of what happened at the lessons. | ||
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| Gloria | C's Ware / Himeya Soft | [top] | |
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From the creators of "Divi Dead" and "Adam: The Double Factor", this is another manga/hentai adventure/interactive novel. It also has multiple endings. You are a British exchange student in an American university. You have a good reputation, and you are soon employed by a famous millionaire, who wants you to be a tutor for his daughters. He has five of them, all living in a beautiful mansion. Now it's up to you to "educate" them... ;D The game is excellent. The engrossing gameplay, a very deep and intricate story, and very detailed characters quickly draw you into the game. Initially in Japanese, an English version was later released in 1997. | ||
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| Gulliveriana [It] | Montadori New Media / Index+ | [top] | |
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Made by famous Italian comic artist Milo Manara, this is an excellent adventure transposed from the comic of the same name. You find yourself as Gulliveriana, a female(and scantily clad...) version of Gulliver from Gulliver's Travels who travels to strange lands such as one where he is a giant compared to the tiny Lilliputian people. The story reprises almost all of the famous novel by Jonathan Swift, only in a very funny and sensual way. The game is full of excellent animations and drawings, and you play both as Gulliveriana and the narrator (when the story has to go on,but Gulliveriana can't move for a reason or another). | ||
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| Hyouryuu [J] | Illusion | [top] | |
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It's the end of 21st century. Five high-school youngsters are out camping near Tokyo. Suddenly, they are transported into a different place. It looks like a jungle. It's very hot. And it's certainly not Japan. As the heroes investigate the surroundings, they realize that they were taken to Lagoon Republic, a mysterious independent country on a tropical island that has been the home of a bizarre incident over seventy years ago. Now the young people have to find the truth behind their presence in Lagoon, and to solve the mystery of the island, while avoiding the dangers that await them. It's a Japanese-style adventure game. Like most games of this genre, it is composed of still screens with super-imposed text boxes. There is no physical movement in the game. The interaction is minimal and mostly involves making decisions through command menu (such as "go forward" or "go left"). Depending on the player's decisions, he can reach the true ending or one of the numerous "dead ends". The game contains nudity and sexual situations, although they are not as numerous as one would normally expect from an Illusion game. There is also no sexual interactivity in the game. | ||
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| Idol Janshi Suchi-Pai Special [J] | Jaleco Ltd. / Ving Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This was originally a 1993 arcade follow-up to the Super Famicom game Bishōjo Janshi Suchie-Pai that was later ported to several home systems. Like the original, it features Misaki Kyoko's alter ego, the super heroine Suchie-Pai, as she plays mahjong against various young, attractive female opponents. However, this game contains stripping. | ||
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| Ikumoto [J] | Illusion | [top] | |
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This one plays like a television watching experience simulation, flicking channels trying to encounter programmes worth the "viewing pleasure" (sections of shows all skippable with rapid RMB clicking), ranging from randomness such as shoddy DOS-era 3D title renderings and amateur spoofs of variety shows, to craploads of references to ILLUSION itself of the time ("The Bonerman Show", teaser "adverts" to their prior and upcoming titles, and digitized pics of developers goofing off for the lulz). | ||
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| Immoral Study Scenario 1: Reiko Shirakawa | Scoop Software Productions / Himeya Soft, Inc. | [top] | |
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You are professor Hitosuji, a well-known teacher who possesses the remarkable gift of turning weak students into straight A ones. What's the secret of professor's method? As you might have suspected, the talented professor uses somewhat... ahem... unconventional means to attain this noble educational goal. This time, the "victim" is a young innocent girl named Reiko Shirakawa. She attends an all-girl and has never had any real contact with men. Controlling the cunning professor, you must seduce Reiko by selecting correct choices that are presented to you at almost any given point, avoiding disturbances such as the ugly housekeeper in Reiko's house. In 2001, an English version was released. | ||
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| Immoral Study Scenario 2: Yuka Ijima | Scoop Software Productions / Himeya Soft, Inc. | [top] | |
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You play "Professor" Hitosuji, well-known reputed tutor and teacher for his abilities in turning even the worst students into straight A stars...although it might be just a coincidence that all those girls happen to be very young and beautiful students. His "private tutoring skills" might be somewhat questionable, but it works. In Immoral Study 2, the task at hand is to tutor one Yuko Ijima, the only daughter of a big time factory CEO. She's been slipping in her grades lately and her father called you to put her back on the right track again. Oh, she has a major attitude problem. Nothing you can't handle though. Another linear hentai game where all you have to do is click on the mouse from beginning to end, which surprisingly is a very short game by the way (less than an hour). It does come with voice support and pretty nice animated graphics, although it is partially censored. In 2001, an English version was released. | ||
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| Immoral Study Scenario 3: Asakura Manami [J] | Scoop | [top] | |
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The third scenario of Immoral Study describes yet another somewhat unusual teaching experience in the life of Mr. Hitosuji, a young and handsome private tutor. This time, the victim... err... pupil is Asakura Manami, a shy, quiet girl who lives together with her mother. Hitosuji is supposed to make Manami a better student - but instead he chooses to participate in S&M relationship between mother and daughter. This third and final part of the Immoral Study series was never officially released outside Japan. In 2013, The Asenheim Project, a group of amateur visual novel translators, finally released an English version of the game that is playable online. | ||
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| Injuu Gakuen EX: La☆Blue Girl [J] | Dez Climax | [top] | |
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Miko was just an ordinary Japanese teenager attending the prestigious private Himenogi Girls High School. Everything began to change when she witnessed two of her classmates making love to each other. While taking part in various sexual activities, Miko gradually realizes that supernatural demonic forces have taken control of the school. This is a Japanese-style adventure game. The player is presented with a command menu on every screen, consisting mainly of "Look", "Talk", "Think", and "Move" commands, which usually lead to object sub-menus. Typically, the player has to cycle through all the commands repeatedly until the text changes and the story advances. Based on manga by Toshio Maeda. | ||
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| Janki: Ladies Mahjong League | Succubus / Apple Pie | [top] | |
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This is an adult Mahjong game with hentai images. The heroine was a well renown singer who's part of a performing troupe. She'd grown up with the troupe, and to her the troupe was her family. One day a royal summon arrived, requesting for her to be the kingdom's royal singer... and with the troupe's encouragement, she accepted the summon and was taken away to the castle. She was told that she was summoned because the King had once heard her voice and wanted her to be his royal singer, that it couldn’t be anyone but her, but when she arrived the King didn't show any sign of this. In fact, he barely acknowledged her arrival, and no one else in the castle seemed to have the need for a royal singer. So why, exactly, was she invited to stay in the castle...? | ||
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| Jun'ai Monogatari: Shuugaku Ryokou no Yoru [J] | Art Soft / Artex Corporation | [top] | |
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Main character becomes is a normal student. During this school trip he definitely wants to lose virginity. He can try to spark the waning relations with his former girlfriend who never let him close or seek an adult woman company. | ||
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| Kizuato [J] | Leaf | [top] | |
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The protagonist, Kashiwagi Kouichi, and his father had lived apart. One month has already passed since his father's sudden death in an accident. Kouichi cancelled a long-awaited trip with his friends and decided to visit his old house in the countryside to revere father's memory - at least during a long summer break at university and until the forty-ninth day after his father's death. His cousins, having lost their parents at a very young age and having been raised by his father, stopped passing their days in sorrow and began to slowly return their smiles. The girls joyfully welcomed the protagonist but still had deep scars in their hearts. Yet one case mercilessly ripped the hearts of the girls... | ||
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| Kousoku Choujin [J] | Foster | [top] | |
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Haruki is a student at the prestigious private Morino High School, which he attends together with his beautiful sister, and where he leads the drama class. One day, Haruki discovers a strange toupee that transforms his body. Unbeknownst to him, he has gained special powers and comes into contact with a strange violent world that is hidden inside the school. Now he must understand what's truly going on there, at the same time trying to "score" with every girl he meets - be it student or teacher... | ||
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| Kurayami [J] | Melody | [top] | |
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On a lonely Christmas Eve, a man and a woman are trapped in an elevator. As the darkness threatens to engulf them, how will their relationship develop? It's a Romance/Horror Thriller PC-98 Visual Novel made by the now defunct and obscure “Melody”, slightly more known for creating the Assault Suits Valken clone Night Slave. The premise of the game is pretty simple: two people are trapped in an elevator. They proceed to learn about each other in the course of awaiting rescue, but with hopes of survival slim, will the revelations of their lives and past lead them to anguish, despair and destruction, or will they choose to strength their bonds of friendship and love instead? | ||
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| Love Potion / Etsuraku no Gakuen | C's Ware / Himeya Soft Inc. | [top] | |
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In yet another adult hentai sexual adventure game, an investigator has been sent to Amemiya Gakuen, a secret pleasure garden, which only women are allowed to visit. This investigator disappeared. Her friend Yumi must now send someone else to find her and to unfold the mystery which lies behind Amemiya Gakuen. This games befores quite a few "scenes" strictly between women and kinky stuff. Also, unlike many other hentai games, this one has only one ending. An English version came out in 1999. | ||
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| Mahjong Fantasia [J] | Active Software | [top] | |
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This is, as the name implies, a mahjong game set in a medieval fantasy world. The story mode is divided between cut-scenes that advance the plot of the game, and the actual mahjong "battles". The story centers around an evil witch called Belladonna, who can only be defeated with the sacred power of the 136 mahjong stones. The protagonist is a young "mahjong warrior" Ring, who must win a mahjong tournament in order to seal Belladonna once and for all. In addition to the story mode, there are versus mode, which allows the player to choose any character to fight against in four rounds of mahjong, as well as "vs. computer" mode, which allows playing mahjong against computer AI. Both story mode and versus mode deal exclusively with mahjong parties played against young, pretty, female opponents. In both modes, they undress when defeated. The story mode features many other story-related scenes with nudity. | ||
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| Mahjong Fantasia III [J] | Active Software | [top] | |
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The third installment of the Mahjong Fantasia series is not directly related story-wise to its predecessors. In the story mode, the player assumes the role of Chris, a guard in the city of Burgund. His mission is to protect the princess at all costs, but once the city is destroyed by members of a cult known as Valms, the two of them have to flee. Chris finds out that the only way to restore his homeland is by finding a sacred ring that had been kept in secret for many generations. The gameplay of the story mode retains the formula of the previous entries, essentially being a collection of mahjong games with long cut-scenes between them. The other game modes from the previous games are present here as well: versus mode, which allows the player to play against mahjong opponents of his choice, "vs. computer" mode, and training mode. | ||
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| Mahjong Kyou Jidai: Cogal Houkago Hen [J] | Micronet | [top] | |
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This is a mahjong game that features live-action footage of women dressed as schoolgirls. This time, there will be four girls who have appeared in gravure magazines, dressed as young gals, and the strength of the opponents will change depending on the player. The second installment of the live-action mahjong game series "Mahjong Kyo Jidai''. Sexy actresses such as Junko Asamiya, who appeared on the popular late-night program "Gilgamesh Night,'' will appear. A serious mahjong type who plays mahjong with 4 players and never cheats. | ||
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| Manguri [J] | Illusion | [top] | |
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This is another of Illusion's hentai visual novels which means Piledriver. It contains many adult sexual scenes and bondage, and this time along with some FMV (Full-Motion Video). | ||
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| Merry Go Round [J] | Mischief | [top] | |
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This visual novel is set in Yokohama, in year 2197. The city has turned into an international megalopolis, where crime prospers, and where justice is pursued by lone vigilante fighters. The hero of the story is a private detective named Brian. The first case is about an assault on a prostitute in the brothel "John Wayne". Further investigation reveals that the assault is connected to other cases, some of which involve dangerous biological experiments. With the help of the policewoman Akane, the bounty hunter Ridley, and others, Brian begins to gradually see the whole picture. It consists mostly of still graphical images and plenty of text. The interaction is reduced to occasional choice-making. However, most of the choices don't influence the story, but simply lead to additional text description or picture. The game contains nudity and explicit sex scenes. | ||
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| Metamor Panic Doki Doki Youma Busters!! [J] | Family Soft / Fill in Cafe | [top] | |
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Suddenly, the main character of a high school student and two girls encounter a legendary demon. The girls cursed by the demons are transformed into animals. Can the curse of transformation be lifted? Fighting monsters, growing characters and the fun of Yu RPGs have joined his adventure game. His beautiful visual scene studded with the whole story and the real performance by the first-class voice actors shine. How do you survive this makeover panic? This was first on Playstation in 1995. | ||
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| Mirage 2: Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken [J] | Discovery | [top] | |
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The sequel to Mirage is set in the same world and features some recurrent characters, although the protagonist and the story are different. The main character is a young monster hunter named Etranze. He needs to slay a certain amount of monsters to reach a higher level, but meanwhile is struggling to be accepted among other heroes. This changes when he befriends Torry, Neat, and Roan, the three lovely ladies who work (of all places) in the local church. Soon Etranze is summoned by queen Irene, who sends him on a quest to find a magical artifact that will save her kingdom from great peril. | ||
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| Never Land [J] | Tips | [top] | |
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You are Jimmy, a child of Never Land which is an island of magic and fantasy. You are always accompanied by May, a small nymph, and you can fly in the air. Never Land is a world of children who can dream. One day a boss of pirates gets a magic wand that has power to transform anything. You set out to restore status quo. | ||
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| Nichibutsu Mahjong Collection: Mahjong First Experience + Hanafuda Gion Flower | Nichibutsu | [top] | |
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This includes two games with live-action AV actresses playing Mahjong and cards. Gion Hana ("Gion Flower", named for the Gion region of Kyoto known for its artists and geisha. The game's also known as Gionbana elsewhere) is a hanafuda game. The single-player uses a board game motif to connect its games. The player moves around the board earning or losing cash as they play single hands against the CPU. | ||
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You keep Tiffany, Minx, Alex Dane, Anna Maile, Steve Drake, Felicia, and a bevy of the hottest cybersex-pots under surveillance while they do the nasty in the sexiest nightclub in cyberspace. NIghtwatch 3 puts you deep in action like never before. | ||
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| Nocturnal Illusion / Mugen Yasoukyoku | Apricot / Excellents Japan, Jast | [top] | |
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You are a college student named Shinichi Kashiwagi. One day, camping in a forest, you are caught in a terrible storm, become lost, and finally fall down unconscious. When you wake up, you find yourself in bed with an unknown woman. You realize that you are trapped in some sort of a strange mansion, which you cannot leave. Together with you there are several women. Your goal is now to find out more about those women, to capture the heart of one of them, and to find a way out of the mysterious mansion. This is a Japanese adventure - an "interactive novel" without puzzles. You can move around the mansion by using a mini-map. By doing so, you'll encounter various characters and trigger events. You'll be able to make decision that will determine your relationships with the women. The game contains explicit sex scenes. An English version was released in 1997. In 1998, a 2-CD revised version of the game titled Nocturnal Illusion Renewal with better graphics, sounds and this time with characters voices was released in Japan, by Apricot. It was never translated. | ||
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| Orgaslave [J] | Piston Entertainment / Kuki | [top] | |
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Starring Yukari Kosaka, this is an unprecedented adult adventure story with live-action + CG scenes. Complete pictures of advanced CG make full use of silicon graphics on Power Mac, and live action of taking and taking off. A planet of a remote border devastated by the desert, a tremendous number of creatures living in the slum, a powerful battle scene that bursts with excitement. CG creatures' fantastic tentacles commit acts on living females, for unprecedented startling sex scenes. | ||
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| Outpost 69 / Lust In Space | VCA Interactive | [top] | |
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Take an intergalactic adventure to Outpost 69, where the galaxy's hottest babes satisfy your every desire! This cosmic resort will challenge your intellect, your sexual desires and every erotic fantasy. The babes on this planet are hotter and sluttier than anything you've seen on earth. So come and enjoy the ride, but be careful ... the landing can be tricky! Some slick CGI opens the game, with several starfighters battling to the death in a stunning 3D sequence. The survivor lands at the supposedly deserted Outpost 69, where, it's rumored, a few lonely (and horny) female inhabitants may remain. Eager to see what further intrigue awaits us, we exit the cool cockpit of our fighter, hop into the photo-realistic landing bay, and walk straight into... yet another take on the "find-the-key/click-on-the-hot-button-for-sex" scenarios that we've seen so many times before in adult video-gaming. | ||
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| Paradise Heights | Foster, Otaku Publishing Ltd. | [top] | |
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In this adult hentai sexual adventure game, you are Keigo Nakadai, a 25 year old average guy who makes his living doing odd jobs. Now you've got a job as a caretaker of a top class apartment block (thanks to your uncle who owns the place) where all the residents are women. So, while your uncle is off to Hawaii, you are in charge of taking care of the place in his absence. As you get 'acquainted' with the local residents, certain suspicious events that disturb the local residents come to your attention, ultimately leading to the mystery behind Paradise Heights. An English version was released in 1998. | ||
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| Peeping Pete: The Search for Smokin' Sue | InterTech Entertainment, Inc. / Council Productions | [top] | |
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The Search for Smokin' Sue - Meet Peeping Pete. He's twenty-something, a social misfit, and the horniest window washer in Los Angeles. Pete crosses paths with the outrageously sexy "Smokin' Sue", she makes him a proposition that his hormones can't refuse. Pete must scour L.A.'s most glamorous condo and find the items Sue requires for their penthouse rendezvous. On the way he is tempted by a host of women including Celeste, Ashlyn Gere and P.J. Sparxx. Pete needs your help. Also starring Christina Angel, Debi Diamond, Rebecca Bardoux and Tabitha Stevens as the SEXY "Smokin' Sue"! | ||
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| Peropero Candy: You no Shou [J] | Mink | [top] | |
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The protagonist is an average guy. One day in the street I meet up a agent who introduces me into a H shop (Image Club). I'm unwilling because it may be coarse, but he confidently says to me that there's a pretty girl in the shop, so I change my mind and get in. Yes! A beautiful and nice girl named Candy welcomes me. From now on the story's simple. We talk familiarly for a while and take a H situation-play. From time to time I meet up a girl in the street who resembles Candy in appearance but she says she doesn't know me. Who is she? | ||
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| Pia Carrot e Youkoso!! [J] | Cocktail Soft / F&C / NEC Home Electronics / KID | [top] | |
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In Pia Carrot, you play as Yusuke, a young 18-year-old just finished with High School. You plan on spending your last summer with your best friend Daisuke. However, previously you made a bet with your father, concerning your grades. Your test marks are not desirable, and you lose the bet, therefore you must live up to your promise and work at daddy's restaurant, the Pia Carrot. What seems like what's going to be a lame summer of slave labor, becomes the greatest and most memorable summer of your life. What makes things interesting are all the cute girls who work at the Pia Carrot, and those who dine there. You already know Shouko, a childhood friend of yours and Satomi, a classmate and the girl you have a crush on already, will be working with you. Yet, as the summer goes by the interaction with other girls is intense and you must choose who you want. There are a total of nine girls Satomi, Shouko, Reika, Yukiko, Saori, Airi, Shiho, Kiyomi, and Yukari, to court after. Some will be easy to win over, others will require much sacrifices, patience, gentleness, perseverance, and chivalry. Your goal is to have one of the ladies "fall head over heels" for you and have her meet you in the park August 28th after you call her. | ||
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| Private Investigator | Image Line / Private Media | [top] | |
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Private Investigator is a game with a split personality; it opens like a movie, begins play like The Seventh Guest (wandering around a raytraced animated world via a full-screen display with various iconically represented options), and finishes up like Duke Nukem (before they went 3D) with an arcade-like shoot-em-up that isn't half bad for killing a half-hour or so. Most of the gameplay actually ends up here, where you dodge tall basketball players, avoid killing old ladies in wheelchairs, score points for spending quality time with any women you can find, and kill the Jackie Chan-esque bad guys in black pants. Simple, linear, and easy to rack up the points. Thank goodness it's easy to rack up the points, because your reward at the end of each successful level is a little of that quality time with your buxom employer. The game even included a password protect and additional levels on the internet for download. | ||
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| Pro Lesring: Ring Out!! | ZyX / Otaku Publishing, Ltd. | [top] | |
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Somewhere in Tokyo is an underground club where important political and social figures gather to watch an unusual sport. Two women are put in a caged ring, in revealing clothes, and grope each other while wrestling. Whoever comes first, loses. No holds barred, and the loser has to endure any humiliation the winner asks. Into this ring comes a young girl named Aya, forced into slavery by people to whom she is nothing. This is an interactive visual novel specifically for adults and contains explicit sexual content. An English release came out in 1997. | ||
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| Rinkan Gakkou [J] | Foster | [top] | |
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Tomoki Tsugawa is a somewhat effeminate-looking male college student aspiring to become a teacher. One day he meets a former schoolmate who is working as a teacher in a girls high school. He agrees to let Tomoki participate in the school's summer camp, under the condition that he wears woman's clothes and passes as a girl. | ||
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| Rose Blood: Chi no Kawaki [J] | Aaru | [top] | |
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This is a fairly standard adult visual novel with a bit of a detective story thrown in. In it your protagonist, Kei Nakabaru, is tasked with helping Reiko Matsui, his classmate, seek out and find a man who sexually assaulted her. Needless to say, that turns into quite the task that soon spirals into Kei coming face-to-face with madness and depravity. | ||
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| Rouge no Densetsu [J] | D.O. | [top] | |
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Long time ago, a legendary hero defeated an evil dragon. He wore a magical bracelet that protected him during the battle. years passed, and the memories of his heroic deeds, even his name, have faded away from people's minds. But a young girl named Rouge, who trains regularly in the art of sword-fighting, still dreams about a real hero - more precisely, imagines that she will marry one. | ||
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| Sailor Wars [J] | Nihon Bussan | [top] | |
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This is a Mahjong game (with adult themes), and it's a parody of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. It's one of those rare pc ports made by Nihon Bussan (Nichibutsu) in the nineties. This mahjong series originally appeared in the arcades in 1993. The various episodes can be easily found and played on MAME. | ||
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| Seasons Of Sakura / Season Of The Sakura / Sakura no Kisetsu | Otaku Publishing / JAST USA | [top] | |
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You are Shuji Yamagami, a sixteen-year-old Japanese boy, and this is your first day at the Kotobuki Preparatory School, where most of the student are already eighteen or older. It's not easy to be a new student, and it is also not easy to make a closer acquaintance with one of the many attractive girls who study together with you. Seasons of Sakura is a manga/hentai interactive story, which can hardly be called "adventure" due to a complete lack of puzzles or other challenges. The story proceeds as you go to different places, meet different characters and talk to them. The gameplay and the interface are quite similar to those of Three Sister's Story, developed by the same company. There are several options at each screen, including "think" option. The view is 1st person perspective, with still pictures of locations and characters (mostly girls ;)) It is not just another adult-pictures-collection-wraped-in-a-paper-thin-plot that most Hentai titles are. The fact that Hentai scenes appear only in the game's ending attests to its emphasis on plot and gameplay over gratuitous sex scenes. Although the downplay of Hentai elements alone would have made Season of Sakura worth a look, the designers went one step further by actually populating the game with believable characters and interesting real-life situations. Add to that excellent translation from Japanese by JAST, and we have an excellent game (i.e. not adult pictures collection) that is fun, interesting, and replayable. One of the game's highlights is the fact that the female characters are very well thought out. Each girl has her own dreams, interests, and secrets. They are not licentious, stereotypical girls common in most other Hentai games, and each girl has her own way of rebuffing your approach if you are too rude. The game keeps track of your relationship with each girl throughout the game, and determines near the end which girl is most likely to respond to your passion. | ||
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| Shiken ni Deru!? Haruno-cha [J] | Mayfar Soft | [top] | |
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This is an adult hentai visual novel with a setting of taking exams in school. | ||
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| Shizuku [J] | Leaf | [top] | |
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Shizuku was the first game to be marketed as a visual novel. Yusuke Nagase is an ordinary Japanese teenager who goes to high school. Lately, however, he has been experiencing something quite out of ordinary: he would see dreams and visions full of violence and rape scenes. Yusuke doesn't understand what is happening to him. The only grown-up he trusts is his uncle, who works as a teacher in the same school. Every step he makes leads to potential danger, and Yusuke must be very careful as he attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery and separate dr freamom reality. The game consists of still images (usually with photorealistic backgrounds and anime-style character graphics) with text superimposed on them. The player's interaction is confined to scrolling through the text and occasionally helping Yusuke to make a choice. Depending on these choices, the game's story might go in a different direction, or end prematurely. | ||
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| Sirens of the Pleasure Dome | Cyberboy Studios | [top] | |
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Control Victor's movement, speech and positions... full interactivity. You are in full control of Victor. But remember... there's no time for foreplay or flowers. Starring Virtual Victor, The New Master of Cyberotica. Navigate through a 3D Virtual World filled with deadly and erotic beauties. Switchable camera angles.... when Victor's in action. Victor rackets to his erotic encounters in THE PLEASURE DOME. Use Victor's power to seduce and dominate beautiful women in your search for clues and codes. Features: A Stunning navigable user friendly 3D World; User controllable "Vocal Simulator" Fast, erotic arcade-style action with multiple positions that change on command; Musical Soundtrack by FEARLESS MUTANT Entertainment. | ||
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| Uchuu Kaitou Funny Bee [J] | Alice Soft | [top] | |
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In the future, space travel has become an inseparable part of human civilization. Humanity spread all over the Milky Way. Most of the problems concerning war, ecological disasters, and others were successfully solved. Human beings have entered an era of peace. But human nature never changes, and most other aspects of human culture haven't either. Since the galaxy became a huge urban playground, a new type of criminals have emerged - interstellar thieves. Piloting their own space ship, they terrorize the galaxy with their cleverly planned tricks. Particularly notorious is a duo of two young and pretty girls, Sati and Shiori... which are the two protagonists of the game. Funny Bee has a few turn-based battle at pre-set points, during which the playable character executes various attack techniques; however, the system is too rudimentary to be considered a major part of gameplay. The rest of the game plays rather like an adventure in Japanese style. The player chooses menu commands, triggering events and advancing the story. There are also locations with an auto-map, for more convenient navigation (also menu-based). The game contains scenes with nudity. In 2008, the game was made freeware. | ||
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| Ura Mansion Hakkin [J] | Illusion | [top] | |
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The protagonist of the game is an ordinary Japanese man who lives together with his pretty wife Harunako. Two years after their marriage, they decided to move into a mansion in the suburbs. Everything seems normal when the couple arrives. But very quickly they both become involved in sexual intrigues, and witness strange events - mostly of sexual nature - that occur in the presence of their neighbors. Looks like the quiet family life they were hoping for will never become reality. This is an adventure game with very limited interaction, which mostly plays like "choose-your-adventure" book. The protagonist is automatically taken to different locations and through the story; however, many scenes offer the possibility to make a choice, selecting a corresponding command from the menu. Some of these choices just involve choosing different ways of sexual intercourse, while others propel the story into a different direction. The game is very heavy on explicit sexual content, the majority of its scenes being depictions of sexual encounters the hero witnesses or participates in. | ||
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Carrera is a female demon whose job is to create a wish granting contract with a human being in exchange for their soul. Along with her partners/rivals Mercedes and Rati, they carry out this job for the benefit of the demon world. When Carrera is summoned by the nerdy Ogawa, she finds him to be more interesting than her previous cilents and develops a crush. Mercedes tries to get involved with Ogawa also to compete with Carrera. However, the female angels are upset by this disturbance and are willing to purify the demons with their precious "holy water" to save Ogawa's soul. | ||
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| Visitte [J] | Mischief | [top] | |
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The whole prefecture is turned into school facility. Main character heads a club that fulfills various requests and provides consultation. There are six episodes with first one giving introduction, and next four being dedicated to each of the four main heroines. The last episode and the ending depend on the order of four heroines capture. Only kanji are found upon hooking. There are four girls to seek attention. Heroines other than main don't even have their final CG which is replaced by line "to be continued". Ending depends on the order of episodes clearing, so getting all the endings is really tiresome. | ||
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| Youki Toubatsu Ninpou Chou [J] | ZyX | [top] | |
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It is about a ninja girl sent out to find out why her sister ninja didn't come back from a mission. She found out why very soon, and if she can't win the fights, she will find out even more. If she succeeds in the 5 fights, including the beginning test fight, she can rescue her sister ninja. Failure means joining her as a slave. | ||
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| Zatsuon Ryouiki [J] | D.O. | [top] | |
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Naoto Matsumoto is a young man who suffers from a peculiar memory loss: he does not remember his life before he was fourteen. Apparently both his parents died, and he was taken in by another family. On one rainy day, during a trip through the countryside, Naoto's car reaches a dead end on the road, and he and his stepsister are invited by a maid to spend the night in a large secluded mansion. Naoto witnesses increasingly strange and violent events and begins to recollect his lost memories. | ||
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| Advanced Dungeons & Dragons CD-ROM Core Rules | Evermore Entertainment / TSR | [top] | |
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This amazing achievement is easy to use, thorough, complete and incredibly useful. Since AD&D players (and roleplayers in general) and computer geeks tend to run in the same circles, people have been looking for ways to computerize their RPGs from nearly the very beginning. This combines the text of the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monstrous Manual, Arms & Equipment Guide, and Tome of Magic in RTF and hypertext format with a character generator, die roller, and a suite of DM aids like handout, monster, NPC, and treasure generators, and a map maker. | ||
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| Albion | Blue Byte Studio | [top] | |
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In Albion it is the year 2227, and you take the role of Tom Driscoll, space pilot for the powerful DDT Corporation. DDT has sent a factory ship called the Toronto to harvest minerals and resources from Albion, a newly discovered desert world barren of life but rich in resources. Tom is sent to take some atmospheric readings on the planet, but crash lands after an apparently accidental systems failure of his shuttle. Upon reviving from the accident he is shocked to discover Albion is in fact a rich, life-filled world inhabited by many alien life-forms. It then becomes his task to explore the strange new world and locate the Toronto. His quest becomes even more urgent when it becomes apparent that the AI guiding Toronto is determined to destroy this life-filled world in the name of big business. There are actually two modes in the RPG, 2D and 3D. The 2D mode takes place in the overworld and inside buildings, and is a top-down perspective similar to Ultima 7. Navigation is through the mouse which you can use to move around, and click on things to interact with them. There's also a 3D mode for the villages and dungeons. Combat is turned-based and planned on a 2D 6x6 square grid, and the actual animation occurs in 3D. Albion is a severely underrated RPG from the makers of two Thalion hits Amberstar and Ambermoon, which became instant hits on the Amiga but unknown on the PC. The game shines with a richly detailed story, a huge and well-realized gameworld, a novel use of both 2D and 3D views, and some unique puzzles that are a far cry from the normal find-a-button-to-open-door puzzles found in most RPGs. It is truly an epic adventure that spans vast areas and cities, all of which are teeming with colorful characters who always seem to have something to say. | ||
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| Amaranth KH Remix [J] | Fuga | [top] | |
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This is a side-story in the Amaranth series, originally on PC-98 in 1995 and now remade for PC, and can be considered a prequel to all the previous games; it doesn't feature the same heroes, but is set in the same universe, at a much earlier time, when the kingdom of Stellar was not yet built and when Posse was a flourishing city. The game tells the story of Landschaft, a young warrior in the army or Rauschritt. He trains in the Posse camp with his best friend Dienstag and the lovely Jungfer. He is well-known for his courage, but he first needs to prove himself worthy of being a true night. It began as an educational battle for the young hero, but soon a chain of events forced him to fight for his life and for his country. Amaranth KH is the radical conclusion to the series' tendency to strategy elements; it discards the RPG elements (movement outside of a battle screen, exploration, etc.) in favor of a traditional Japanese-style turn-based strategy game with a RPG angle (leveling up). The player commands Landschaft, his friends, and their units, moving them on the battle screen and attacking enemies when they are in their weapons' range. There are different types of units: infantry, cavalry, archers, magicians, etc. Some battle elements were taken from the previous game (such as archers attacking diagonally). Strong, story-related characters (generals) can fight alone against an entire unit of "nameless" characters. Every attack is displayed as a separate picture, graphically depicting ts results. If the attack is initiated by the enemy, the player can choose to counter-attack. | ||
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| Ancient Domains of Mystery | Thomas Biskup | [top] | |
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Ancient Domains of Mystery, or ADOM, is a roguelike video game by Thomas Biskup. ADOM takes place in the fictional world of Ancardia, in the mountainous Drakalor Chain. For 6,000 years, it has known relative peace, but recently reports have spread of the appearance of dangerous dungeons and frightening monsters. Khelavaster, a wise sage, discovers an ancient prophecy regarding the Coming of Chaos and propagates it to the peoples of the world. It speaks of a champion who will defend the world from the forces of Chaos in the Drakalor Chain. Hearing of this prophecy, many would-be heroes set out. The player assumes control of one such adventurer. Like most roguelikes, ADOM uses ASCII graphics to represent the game world. Recent versions optionally can be played using tile based graphics, soundtracks and sound effects.It features a wilderness map that connects different types of dungeons. Most dungeons are randomly generated on first entering. Once visited, they — with the exception of the Infinite Dungeon — do not change when re-entered during play. | ||
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| Azalta: The Cult of the Raven | PsychoSoft Entertainment | [top] | |
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Azalta is an adventure/role-playing game. But unlike most other games of this type, Azalta is much more than a simple single adventure; it is an entire game system with endless adventures, an infinite number of large worlds to explore, hundreds of puzzles to solve, creatures to meet, and items to find -- you can even create your own worlds/creatures/items! If you have played other adventure/role-playing computer games before, you won't find this one difficult to learn (in fact, you could probably play it without reading any of this guide). Even if you haven't, you shouldn't have any problem with Azalta -- it's quite simple and straightforward. | ||
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| Baram-ui Jeonseol Xanadu / The Legend of Xanadu [K] | Nihon Falcom Corp. / Digitower | [top] | |
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The player controls a young adventurer named Areios. Monsters attack his homeland, and he is forced to flee. After traveling by ship and arriving at the town Bolda, Areios finds out that strange things have been happening in the North Cave near the town. His first mission will be to venture to the North Cave and investigate the matter. Of course, soon Areios finds himself involved in a battle against sinister forces, and commences the longest and most dangerous adventure of his life. The game is an action RPG set in the Dragon Slayer universe, with a gameplay style similar to Falcom's other popular series, Ys. Controlling Areios, the player explores the top-down world, visiting towns and fighting monsters in vast outdoor areas and dungeons. Like in Ys series, it is sufficient to "bump" into a monster in order to inflict damage. Areios gains hit points and becomes stronger by sustaining damage from enemies and resting. His weapons and armor can gain experience and level up. In many areas, companions will join Areios and help him in combat, controlled by the computer AI. The game is divided into chapters; the final stage of each chapter is a side-scrolling/platform level, which Areios has to navigate in order to reach the boss enemy, defeat him, and end the chapter. In such stages, the combat turns into a more familiar action-oriented style, with the player being required to press buttons in time in order to execute attacks and jump. There is a day/night cycle in the game, manifested not only in graphical changes, but also in the schedules of townspeople: when it's dark, people will return to their homes and go to sleep, etc. Originally on PC Engine, this DOS version came out in Korea a slightly higher resolution, and the HUD is displayed as an opaque window to the right but otherwise identical to the PC Engine version. It also found its way back on computers in 2003 as part of the Falcom Special Box 2004. In addition to the game (which is merely an emulated version of the PC Engine version, so it’s exactly the same), it included the entire soundtrack, as well as the Ys VI OST. | ||
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| Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance | Synergistic Software, Inc. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a strategic role-playing game based on TSR's Birthright world of Anuire. It combines first person dungeon and castle quests, tactical real-time graphical battles, and complex economic and diplomatic strategy. Play against challenging computer opponents or other cunning human players. Players take on the role of ruler, regent of a nation in the Land of Anuire on the continent of Cerilia. The objective of the game is to gather power and influence while the other regents try the same. You can use options such as warfare, diplomacy, magic, manipulation of holdings such as guilds and temples, the establishment of trade routes, etc. Actions are in a turn based fashion on the world map, with the exception of adventuring, which is done in real time 3D. The adventure game engine was a Doom II engine clone: a 2D/3D engine which has essentially a flat layout map. The innovations at the time were the use of three resolutions of avatars which were hot swapped in depending on the distance from the viewer and the amount of memory on the hardware. Also there were flying wyverns and spiders which crawled on the ceilings as well as the floors. | ||
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| Brandish [K] | Nihon Falcom Corp. / Mantra | [top] | |
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Originally a Japanese RPG in 1991, it was ported to SNES in English in 1995. It was ported to PC exclusively in Korea. Once there was a prosperous kingdom, which was protected by a tower, where a mighty dragon was living. The people of the kingdom were secure with such a guardian. But one man wanted the dragon's power for something else, and this man was the king. He went to the tower and tried to kill the dragon, in order to rob his power. But the dragon's fury turned the king into a horrible creature, a demon, and his evil essence made his entire kingdom sink deep under the earth. Many years have passed, and now you take control of a traveler named Varik (Ares in the Japanese version). A young woman accuses him of killing her teacher, and in a desperate fight they both fall underground, to where the lost kingdom was buried. You must guide Varik through underground mazes and help him to escape the wrath of his adversary and the demonic inhabitants of the lost kingdom. The game is an action RPG, a dungeon crawler with plenty of creatures to defeat and many weapons, armor, and other treasure to collect. You can also use magic spells. The camera rotates automatically according to your movements. You also have the ability to jump forwards. | ||
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| Brandish 2: The Planet Buster [K] | Nihon Falcom Corp. | [top] | |
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Originally released on PC-98 Japanese computer in 1993, it was later ported to PC. The Planet Buster continues the story that was told in the first Brandish, depicting the events that happened three years after the evil demonic king was defeated in his lost kingdom, sunken deep underground. The player takes control of a young warrior named Ares, who wields a magical weapon - a powerful sword called the Planet Buster. One day, while traveling through a desert, Ares is captured by a warlock named Karl, who is after the powers hidden within the magical sword. Suspecting Ares might have some valuable information, Karl doesn't execute him, but takes away the Planet Buster and throws Ares into his underground prison. Now the primary goal is to guide Ares out of the huge prison full of various dangers, and get the mighty weapon back. The game is an action RPG with a heavy emphasis on dungeon crawling. The player guides Ares through rotating dungeons, fighting enemies in real-time combat, casting spells, and solving an occasional puzzle. The protagonist has the ability to jump forwards and attack inanimate objects (such as doors) to cause damage and eventually break them. | ||
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| Brandish 3: Spirit of Balcan [K] | Nihon Falcom Corp. | [top] | |
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The country of Fiberia has enjoyed the blessing of the Goddess. But as their king discovered an old manuscript, an ancient evil was called into the world. Was Balcan, the sorcerer killed by the great warrior Ares, the only one who knew how to stop evil? It's time for Ares to understand the meaning of Balcan's final words. Maybe the young sorceress Dela, still on a quest to avenge her teacher's death, can forgive Ares and join forces with him. Meanwhile, a new player appears - Unber, the female champion of Castle Town. Spirit of Balcan has the same gameplay system as the previous entries in the series: the player navigates the character through the top-down world (the camera rotates with each turn of the player character), fighting enemies in real-time combat and gaining experience points. Characters can also visit "friendly" areas, where they can buy and equip weapons and armor. The interface is point-and-click, with selectable icons for looking, searching, and attacking. It is also possible (and sometimes necessary) to jump up and backwards. Unlike the previous Brandish games, Spirit of Balcan allows the player to control different characters, starting with Unber and later switching to Ares and Dela. | ||
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| Daikoukai Jidai III: Costa Del Sol [J] | Koei Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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The starting year of this game in the Uncharted Waters series is set at 1480. Players can create their own protagonist or choose two virtual protagonists (a Portuguese and a Spanish). The main focus of 3rd game is very different from that of the 2nd. It emphasized on exploration and discovery rather than trade. The most effective way for players to obtain funds is to report the discovery to their clients. There are many different kinds of discoveries are to be discovered, such as geographical, biological, historical, religious findings, and also numerous treasures and different categories of disciplines. Players will discover geographical routes with the famous navigators in history, such as discovering the new continent before Columbus and discovering the route to India before Vasco da Gama, so that players can not only acquire the naming rights of geographical routes, but also have the ability to acquire unimaginable wealth and fame. Players can even obtain abilities to pursue different styles of women around the world to get married and have offspring, building an family empire, making the game even more interesting. It is the most realistic title among the whole series, unfortunately, accordingly the most difficult and frustrating one, making it the least popular in both Japanese and global market. At its initial release, this title caused some controversy for allowing slave trade in the game. The feature is disabled in later updates. | ||
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| Dark Revenger: The Cageling [J] | Studio-Van | [top] | |
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This game is an action RPG. All operations are performed with the mouse. The map is created every time you play. A man is trying to pass through the door to the labyrinth. The man's name is Allen Lancaster. He is a man known to neighboring countries as "Assassin Allen". He did a lot of work, but was caught by his client's betrayal. At the end of the trial, the punishment announced was "trial punishment". If you survive the labyrinth where demons roam, you will be free from sin. However, in order to return alive, you must obtain the "key" at the bottom. It is said that no one survived the labyrinth... | ||
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| Deathkeep | Lion Entertainment Inc. / Strategic Simulations, Inc. | [top] | |
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Deathkeep is a 1st person perspective single-player "shooter" game with a touch of medieval AD&D gameplay in a full 3D environment. Apparently you are another hero stuck in a underground cavern crawling with monsters (what else is new). This time you have to defeat an evil Necromancer located somewhere in the lower levels and to get to him you have to fight your way through 25 dungeons (each 8 floors, ouch!) filled with horrific monsters who never heard of dental care. You can choose 3 different characters as your main hero: Dwarven male Fighter, Half-Elven male Fighter, or Elven female Mage. These difference classes offer you different combat capabilities. The Dwarven Fighter focuses more on melee close combat with minimal (axe-throwing) ranged and almost no magical capabilities. The Half-elven Fighter or more precise: Ranger, focuses on non-magical ranged combat with his favorite bow. Possesses medium melee combat capabilities and some magical capabilities. The Elven Mage focuses all her might in magical offense and defense. Spells may be found or learned as experience grows. Don't get too close to the enemy since a walking stick doesn't do much damage to bloodthirsty monsters! Gameplay consists mostly of adventuring and flattening every living and non-living creature in your way. Destroying monsters allow your character to level-up and becoming more powerful as well as gaining new spells. The dungeons are filled with traps, streams, caverns, ledges and every possible obstacle to lose your way in this maze of mazes. | ||
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| Devil Force 3: Sword & Bouquet [J] | Compile | [top] | |
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Compile's Disc station SRPG third work of the Devil Force Series. With its small capacity and clean design, it has been loved by many people along with the Hwanse Hwajeon . As a sequel, we make After Devil Force ~ Heir to the Mad King ~ . Being aware of the easy difficulty of Devil Force 3, the difficulty of the sequel is famous for its atrocities. It was so difficult that it did not become very popular. However, there are also enthusiasts due to its difficulty and the high levels of medieval times. The story is typical of low-volume, and it is a story in which rural warriors who rise up against the invasion of neighboring tyrants grow up, lead the resistance to victory, and beat the devil who was hiding behind it. It seems to be short with a total of 20 stages, but the play time is not short due to the game system. Adventurers Gelda and El Anel , attacked while reading the ruins in the opening, appear as prisoners on the stage just before the ending . These are the leading characters as colleagues of Rudy, the protagonist of Devil Forces 1 and 2 . The overall balance of the game is bad. In addition, the disadvantage is that the status system is too simple and the difficulty is too easy. It is easy enough to clear even if the main character sorties alone. Moreover, it is a problem that warriors are the best unconditionally because they are'warrior first.' In the third part, a magician becomes a thug, but the warrior appears as a super thug after obtaining the goddess' sword and Verna Blade from the middle. However, considering the first and second episodes, it is a very advanced work. The first and second episodes become weaker as the magician levels up, and there are only two magics. The therapist has no means to level up because there is no means to attack. Also, the 1st article-2nd heavy warriors have been garbage from the past, and even in Devil Force 3, they are garbage. Even though it is an SRPG, the lack of implementation of the ZOC is a major factor causing the difficulty to decline. | ||
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| Die Gekirin [J] | CyberFront Corporation / Nihon Application | [top] | |
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Years have passed since the brave young hero vanquished hordes of monsters and obtained the legendary sword. The hero used its power to build the country of everyone's dreams, where peace and prosperity reigned supreme. However, an evil magician has usurped the power of the sword and used it to unleash monster minions on the kingdom. A new hero has risen, determined to enter the depths of the dungeon and rid the land of evil. The sequel to Gekirin is nearly identical to its predecessor gameplay-wise. Like the previous game, it is an action-oriented dungeon crawler that predominantly takes place in randomized mazes full of respawning enemies. All the features of the original game - breakable weapons, magic, destructible walls, etc. - return in the sequel. New weapons, armor, and item types have been added. | ||
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| Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall | Bethesda Softworks | [top] | |
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The recipient of every major "Best RPG of the Year" award, The Elder
Scrolls: Daggerfall revolutionizes the world of role-playing games, creating a new
standard in 3D graphics and role-playing expansiveness. The second chapter in The
Elder Scrolls, Daggerfall contains, literally, hundreds of hours of gameplay. Prepare
to experience your new obsession. Starting off in Daggerfall can overwhelm the senses.
No other game has such a huge world to explore. Travel around a land mass twice the
size of Great Britain, exploring dungeons, castles, tombs, and even alternative
dimensions. Just to walk from one end of the world to the other will take over 2 full
weeks in real-time (we actually tested this!) Converse with over 750,000 characters
that inhabit this world. Daggerfall is a game that sets new boundaries with over
200 hours of gameplay. It's no wonder that it took almost 3 years to develop this
epic game. You can literally do anything you want and go anywhere you want. Join
a guild and climb in rank to become a respected member of a Knightly Order. Become a
spy and infiltrate the royal ranks, and even rebel against your own king. Become a
thief who slips in and out of the shadows and steals the rare treasures of the world.
There are six different endings, if you choose to play out the main story quest, but
ultimately the life you choose to live will be a unique experience that no other
gamer will encounter. On July 11, 2009 Bethesda released this game as freeware.
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| Exile II: Crystal Souls | Spiderweb Software | [top] | |
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Exile 2 plays very similar to the first Exile, featuring skill-based characters and level advancement in a 'classic' RPG system. The view is top-down, with turn-based combat and lots of items to hoard and use, along with a bunch of mage and cleric spells. Besides human party members, the player can chose to have one of the 'tamed' races join you, including the rodent-like Nephil and reptilian Slith. The land of Exile, an underground system of caverns used by the overland empire for dumping undesirables, is facing several problems - after the actions of the party in Exile 1, the empire has decided the nation of Exile is too dangerous to leave alone, and begin sending raiding parties and troops of their best soldiers into the caverns. Besides this threat, strange impenetrable barriers have begun popping up over the land, restricting vital areas of the land. Your party sets out to stop the threat of the Empire and find the source of the barriers. In 2013, the game was made freeware. | ||
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| Farland Story 8: City of the Mad God [J] | TGL | [top] | |
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| Furcadia | Dragon's Eye Productions, Inc. / Catnip Studios | [top] | |
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Furcadia is a free to play MMOSG/MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Social Game/ Roleplaying Game) or graphical MUD, set in a fantasy world inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures. The game is based on user-created content, socializing and free-form roleplaying, and has a large volunteer program called the Beekin Helpers which allows players to help with community moderation, welcoming new players, in-game technical support, running in game events, creating art for the game itself, accessing and updating the game's website, and bug hunting.Furcadia holds the Guinness World Records title for the longest continuously running social MMORPG. | ||
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Imperial Skills of the Empire began to develop slowly in the 99th year of the Principality of the Principality, from 358 to the 20th year of the Principality and 437 of the Empire of the Principality. * Later, in the 30th year of the Principality and in the Imperial Year 437, the navigator Ashcastrov discovered a new continent and named it the "Castrov Continent" after him. | ||
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| Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games | Sirtech Canada Ltd. / Sir-tech Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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You take a group of mercenaries (mercs) through a series of missions. Gameplay is almost identical to the original Jagged Alliance, featuring overhead-view turn based combat taking place over an area map. The main difference between the two products is the addition of new mission types, new weapons, multiplayer (over an IPX network), as well as scenario and campaign editors. Players begin by hiring up to six mercenaries from a roster of many and equip them with necessary weapons and items. They are then assigned to a mission with particular and unique objectives. The missions are ordered but they are not geographically linked as in the original Jagged Alliance or it's sequel, Jagged Alliance 2. | ||
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| Karma: Immortal Wrath | Gensoft / Dragonfly | [top] | |
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Karma signifies ties and destiny. The basic background of this Korean-made roleplaying game is like a confrontation of good and evil but ultimately, it is not. Zid Hartman was born with a complex fate and the secret of his birth. How it was hidden and who has raised him cannot be known but Zid is a mercenary soldier in the Azores and as such feels alive only when brandishing his sword. To him, the Egoilde continent is neither beautiful nor dreamy. He is a character that receives work and has to see blood and death before peacefully falling asleep. The story begins when he discovers the secret of his birth by killing his father who had been chased after within a conspiracy of dishonest gods without his understanding. This does not mean that Zid fights for righteousness or vengeance. Zid, who is filled with retribution for the deeds of a former life, overcomes his deeds through his two colleagues and opposes against the dishonest gods of the world and meets his destiny till he feels his limitations. The outlook of the world of Karma can be considered as being a bit cynical. There exists no awareness of good or evil amongst the characters. There only exists the road chosen for them. | ||
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| Kichikuou Rance | Alice Soft | [top] | |
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The wandering sexually obsessed knight Rance is leading a group of bandits in the rural nation of Helman, raiding cities and amassing wealth. However, his band is crushed by the imperial army, and he is forced to flee to the neighboring country Leazas. There, he marries the local princess, becomes the King of Leazas, and leads an army against Helman in an attempt to avenge his humiliation and rescue his long-time companion and slave Sill. This is a side-story in the Rance series, its events taking place after those described in Rance 4.2: Angel-gumi. Departing from the RPG template of the series, it is primarily a turn-based strategy game with role-playing elements such as leveling up of characters. The gameplay mostly takes place on the main map, where the player selects towns and other locations to advance the army to. The player selects generals and sends them to conquer towns, advancing the plot and strengthening the army. The battles are semi-automatic; there is no tactical positioning or player-controlled movement. Battle against the defending town must be resolved in five turns, otherwise the defender will be declared victor. The player must assign combinations of melee, ranged, and magic attacks to the troops, as well as use the generals' special moves to emerge victorious. It is also possible to romance the female generals via a special "Harem" menu. In 2008, the game was made freeware. In 2014, an English translation was released. | ||
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| Kuro no Ken: Blade of the Darkness [J] | Forest / Bell's Bell | [top] | |
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Long time ago, the Black Dragon was destroying human cities and devouring human beings. A sword imbued with magical powers was made in order to destroy the dragon. It was known as the Blade of Darkness. The dragon was defeated, and the sword disappeared after the battle. Now, unholy people attempt the resurrection of the Black Dragon. Shinobu Ryudo, a young girl from the Dark-Haired tribe, begins a long and perilous journey across the main continent to find the sword and prevent the dragon's resurrection. Meanwhile, the warrior Kayes is instructed by the oracle to look for the sword as well. Will the heroes join forces to defeat the evil? Kuro no Ken is a rather standard Japanese-style RPG with all the familiar ingredients: top-down locations, navigation on the world map, random enemies, turn-based combat, automatic leveling up, etc. The battles are viewed from a third-person perspective, using much larger character sprites than during exploration. Shinobu and Kayes can use physical attacks or magic spells (learned automatically when leveling up), which deplete MP. | ||
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| Legends of Istanbul: Tulip Warriors / Istanbul Efsaneleri: Lale Savascilari [Tu] | SiliconWorx, Compuphiliacs / Raks New Media | [top] | |
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This is one of the first Turkish games (first CRPG) ever developed for PCs. The game consists of a lot of different different spells (actually swear words from turkish) and a very different character system. The story takes place in an alternative Istanbul. You start with a group of four Turkish youngsters who were playing football near an abandoned auto-park. When the ball accidentally went inside the building and of course the youngsters after the ball, they all find themselves in a medieval looking Istanbul. They use all of their training (swearing as spells, waste baskets as shields, and turnips as weapons) to overcome the dangers of this mysterious and evil-infested medieval looking Istanbul, and return to their homes. The gameplay is from the first-person perspective. You control your party with the keyboard and find your way in the 2d environment. The combats are from an isometric point of view and turn-based. In 2005, the game was made freeware. | ||
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| Magical Squadron [K] | Kogado Studio / Game Box | [top] | |
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This is an turn-based rpg game. You can set a level of difficulty. However, there is a probability of failure when doing behavior beyond the limit. The basic tactics are not as difficult as they should be. Scenario Simulation games are also divided into story chunks, so that they are displayed on the main screen. If you do not enter the command for a certain period of time on the main screen, please refer to the opening about the motive of travel. It's mostly comedy directing and light games. | ||
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| Meridian 59 | Archetype Interactive Corp. / 3DO Company, The | [top] | |
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Meridian 59 was the first 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Players create characters, and then advance in power by defeating monsters, completing quests, and collecting treasure. The alpha test of Meridian went online on December 15, 1995. It was commercially released on September 27, 1996. Several free, downloadable updates were released during the next 18 months: Vale of Sorrow, Revelation, Renaissance, Dark Auspices. The original servers were shut down in late 2000, however the game continues to run (as of May 2001) in Germany and Russia. Many later games such as Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, and especially Everquest borrow heavily from Meridian 59. Meridian has a Doom-style first-person graphics engine, with a software rasterizer. The servers run on Windows NT but are not publicly available. | ||
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| Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure | Sir-tech Software, Inc. / Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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The game is a spin-off of Sir-Tech's famous Wizardry Universe. Includes many characteristics of an RPG, which is, due to its famous ancestors, not very surprising. The game´s goal is to find the player's true heritage and save the world from unspeakable evil. You'll explore the huge, fully rendered world (in SVGA-graphics) with point-and-click interface, most of the time solving puzzles and somtimes fight a monster in RPG style. | ||
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| Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva | Attic Entertainment Software GmbH / TopWare Interactive, Sir-Tech, U.S. Gold | [top] | |
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Orcs have overrun the countryside of the small coast town of Riva. A dwarven mine in the countryside has been occupied by a mysterious orc chieftain who seems to be of an unusually high intelligence. For an inexplicable reason, the city authorities refuse to acknowledge the danger. And rumors of a group of traitors in the city's slum districts surface. A party of adventures arrives in the town and tries to investigate these troublesome occurrences. Shadows over Riva is the third and final part in the Realms of Arkania trilogy, and the only one shipped exclusively on CD-ROM and featuring SVGA graphics as well as a smooth-scrolling 3D world. All other aspects of the game are very similar to its predecessors: the player generates a party of characters of various classes, roams the game world from a first-person view, and engages in turn-based combat displayed on separate isometric screens. Changes mostly include fine-tuning such a more streamlined inventory management and integration of area graphics into battle screens. | ||
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| Ring Cycle | Maelstrom Games Ltd / Psygnosis Limited | [top] | |
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This is a sequel to Lords of Midnight III by Mike Singleton, using a modified engine from the previous game. The story and game world are based on Wagner's opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen". The player plays the role of Siegmund, the son of Volsung on a quest to find nine magical objects and slay a dragon. Much like the other Lords of Midnight games, it's a hybrid game with elements of strategy and role-playing. It features a large world to explore, RPG elements, and open-ended gameplay. Multiple paths leading to the end game exist in addition to the possibility to enter buildings, explore dungeons, engage on multiple missions simultaneously and interact with characters and give orders to NPC followers. | ||
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| Rytíři Grálu [Cz] | Centauri Production / Vochozka Trading | [top] | |
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The translated title being Knights of the Grail, this is the original Czech dungeon rpg, based on the old legend of King Arthur. Features: 384,000 squares of play area; 9 graphical scenarios (city, forest, cellar...); Emo-tuning music from professional composers; Automaping with the ability to write notes; 75 NPC (non player characters) characters; Mixing potions from the herbaceous herbs; A complex system of skills and features; Smooth scrolling on squares; In addition, the CD version includes AUDIO tracks with music and is fully accented. | ||
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| Sakin II [J] | Emotion Digital Software / Amuse Inc. | [top] | |
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In 1986, was made a solo album called "gold". Yet the era of vinyl records in the BOX with a 72-page booklet and paper crafts with the "extra" album was unusual things at that time. Want to enjoy diversified and multi objective records and it is easy to make an attempt. Since then alternative CD record, ten years have passed. This time, attempt new media CD-ROM in the breath blowing when to return. Images and story in new homes is now found on discs. Also enjoyed many Visual Media is concerned, they will attempt to create a world not changed, so the title was Placer mine. Something new this piece suggests that whether or not it is easy enjoys in only commend to you you do not. No answer after 10 years, five years later looking for pieces with the basics of the game, items on the screen, the cursor changes, click. And clicking the arrow cursor to move location. You can click the lips part and listening to the conversation. The story progresses and conversations with the characters, finding items, solve puzzles and mini-games. Design becomes the standard of the progress of the story to the top of the screen is displayed. As the story unfolds, changes color to gray. In the bottom of the screen the item visible. Displays the total number of items currently have. Placer mine, some items appeared. Items can be put in hand by clicking and then will be used automatically when necessary. If you put something in a variety of locations we converse with people and let. Obtained item is displayed at the bottom of the screen. And not what can be lost again with. That story does not advance with the wrong choices. | ||
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| Scent of War I., The: Damn Those Demons | Completely Insane Software | [top] | |
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This is a role playing game set in a traditional fantasy world where you try to save the world from a civil war fueled by racial hatred, mistrust, and a secretive evil force steering the whole situation. You can create your party of up to five characters by choosing from 10 races and 10 classes, including some non-standard fare such as the Undead, Minotaurs, Sprites, Assassins, Merchants, and Gladiators. Several classes and races have special powers that can be used in battle. The game was made for Windows 95 and uses the mouse for almost all input. | ||
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| Silent Nova [J] | Fuga Systems | [top] | |
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The developer's first sci-fi CRPG, apparently based off the combat system from Amaranth KH. A story of adventure in the fantasy world created in the future world. It is characterized by operating with a mouse when mastering magic. You can have support robots up to three adventurers, and participate in simulation style together during battle. There are several scenarios that can not be played depending on conditions. It might be fun to find out. However, since there are considerable numbers of scenarios, perseverance is necessary. It takes a lot of time if you play all the scenarios. | ||
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| Tartarus [K] | Deka Team Softry / Seemac | [top] | |
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At first the SRPG makes a rather good impression; it has an interesting story about a dark future war on a newly discovered continent that is totally not America, the pixel art is beautiful, and after some wandering around in the starting area to trigger the right events, the first battle if fun and promising for the things to come. Then, however, the story pulls a stupid plot twist that gets the entire squad save for the leader killed, which leaves the hero wandering into the world on his own. The field map is full of respawning enemies that might as well have been random encounters, as they hunt you down relentlessly, forcing players to engage in combat all to frequently. What was fun with a complete party of six, now becomes a dull exercise with hundreds of drawn-out encounters that always play out the same. Enemies level up with the character so they always remain capable of killing him in 2-3 shots thanks to a much too high random factor in damage calculation. It all wouldn't have been too bad if one could make fast progress through this unpleasant phase, however the short-term goals are cryptic as hell and their triggers glitchy, so the next dozen-or-so hours are spent wandering around aimlessly in search for them. All the while enemies constantly keep on attacking for more boring confrontations, of course. | ||
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| War of Genesis II, The [K] | Softmax | [top] | |
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The first The War of Genesis sequel finally cemented Softmax' position as the most successful PC game developer in Korea, with 75,000 copies sold it manages to exceed the expectations set up by its predecessor. It also makes it mostly obsolete, as the vastly extended plot contains most of the first game's story, polishing the mechanics' rough edges in the process, making this a sequel and a remake at the same time. The game is also much more varied, now with two starting scenarios to chose from (which eventually merge into the same story, though) and battles at sea and in the air. Being the single most revered Korean game of the DOS era, it's surprising that it's the only part of the series that never made it out of Korea. | ||
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| Yendorian Tales Book I: Chapter 2 | SW Games / Spectrum Pacific Publishing | [top] | |
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Following the events from the first Yendorian Tales game, the Orb of Zamora has been returned but almost instantly a new threat rises up. The mist surrounding the lost islands of Yendor has vanished and a group of powerful wizards have invaded a mine in mountains rumored to have magical properties. Some new scheme is afoot! And it's up to your brave band of adventurers to defeat monsters and villains before things get out of hand. Yendorian Tales Book I: Chapter 2 is a fantasy role-playing game in which the player either controls a party of four pre-made characters, or creates his/her own adventurers. There are nine character classes, sub-divided into three categories: non-magic, cleric, and wizard. Characters also have individual skills, ranging from combat abilities (such as slashing, bashing, etc.) to talents that can be employed during interaction with NPCs (such as bartering, linguistics, etc.). Unlike its predecessor, the game features a pseudo-3D world viewed from first-person perspective. Combat system has also been re-vamped, the battles now proceeding in real time, taking place on the exploration screen, similarly to Eye of the Beholder games. | ||
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Abmis the Lion, King of the Beasts, has a problem: all of his kingdom's potatoes have been stolen, without which his citizens may starve! You control his navigation through a side-view platform maze avoiding animal hazards and collecting dropped potatoes, using objects you find along the way, all in pursuit of the foxy thief. Once all a level's potatoes have been collected, a magical door will open permitting access to the next level. | ||
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| Abuse | Crack dot Com / Electronic Arts | [top] | |
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The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been falsely incarcerated in a prison where illegal experiments are taking place. A prison riot occurs and the experiment goes horribly wrong. The people inside the prison - excluding Nick, who seems to be immune - get infected with substance that transforms them into monsters. Nick then finds it prudent to stop the further spreading of this substance. The basic premise of the game, as well as the general look of the character, enemies, locations and some weapons, is a rather thinly-veiled homage to Predator and Alien series of movies. Abuse resembles a side-scrolling platform game. The game is marked with its unusual control scheme: The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the weapons. The basic gameplay consists of fighting various enemies (mostly the various forms of mutants, who prefer to attack in huge swarms) and solving some simple puzzles, most involving switches. Networked play, through IPX/SPX, is also supported. Abuse was quite well received by the game press, who hailed the game as "the Doom of platform games". The game includes a rather polished level editor, which is fully usable from the game itself. The editor, once enabled with command-line parameter, can be toggled with Tab key, and the game can be fully edited while testing the level - for example, the states of various triggers can be surveyed in real-time. The game was originally released as "shareware", though in modern terms, a "beta-version demo" would be a more appropriate description. Abuse's source code was given over to the public domain when Crack Dot Com closed its doors in 1998. The full retail DOS version was recompiled as Win32 executable by Jeremy Scott as "Abuse for Windows". | ||
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| Alien Rampage | Inner Circle Creations / Softdisk Publishing | [top] | |
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This is an advanced 2D side-scroller with large animated sprites and multiple layers of parallaxing backgrounds. You are a lone angry alien dude with a bad attitude. You crash landed on an inhospitable planet, and thus you set out to get back to a ship so you can leave this horrible place. To make it, you'll blast hundreds upon hundreds of nasty creatures, enemy bounty hunters, and you'll use some pretty impressive weaponry to do it. You'll also get to buy power ups and get help from the goofy local troll-like natives, to solve puzzles. The gameplay is side-scroller, run, jump and shoot, with a big emphasis on shooting. The action is very gory, and is akin to "Doom" in 2D. | ||
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| Ar'Kritz The Intruder | Virtual Studio / Microfolie's | [top] | |
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While Jack was drinking a simple beer, he wasn't thinking that he was absorbing Ar'Kritz a microscopic extra-terrestrial police officer. Now the countdown started, Ar'Kritz causes mutations to Jack's body by creating a toxic substance. Jack is about to transform himself into a powerful monster... but the death will be the final step of this mutation. Help him. Your mission is tricky, enigmas, weapons, bonus... and enemies to fight. Your objective: Reach the spacial enemy base and destroy it. But before, find a way to separate Jack from his small parasite. Ar'Kritz is a platform/action game with an horizontal view and 10 levels of gameplay through 230 different screens. You control a unique character displayed on screen fighting against dozens of enemies. You will have to run, jump holes, climb ladders, kill enemies with your hands or with the weapons you will be able to collect on your way. Be careful to collect the necessary items to solve the puzzles placed all along the game. | ||
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| Arabian Kid | Yellow Horn Co / ASCII Entertainment | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese 2D platformer with cartoonish graphics. An Arab guy needs to rescue the princess from the clutches of the robbers who abducted her. The task at each level represented by a single screen is to get to the "Goal" mark (one of the few words in English here), for which you will need to jump on platforms (including moving ones in the form of strange looking heads), through fire, sharp spikes and enemies (previously calculating the intervals of their movement along strictly defined trajectories - and on the basis of sad experience, at what point they can "swing", and in which it is impossible), climb the vines (sometimes also moving) and demonstrate other miracles of dexterity. Sometimes there are bonus stars that you can collect. Note that the behavior of the enemies is somewhat different: nukers with sabers are not inclined to pursue the hero, even if they are behind him and follow in the same direction, but, for example, the snakes do. | ||
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| Arcade America | 7th Level, Inc. / BMG Interactive Entertainment | [top] | |
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This wacky platform game has unique cartoon graphics. Can you help Andy get to Woodstock in time? There's a big concert that's about to happen, and there isn't much time to make it all the way across the country. You'll try to conquer each of the 60 levels in this epic journey by solving puzzles, finding items, and discovering hidden secrets throughout each city. Step aside hedgehogs, earth worms and donkeys to make room for Joey and the Monsters. Grunt, jump and belly bump your way across the country stopping at ten challenging game locations to retrieve Joey's mishcievous pet monsters before they destroy America. Help Joey capture Bobby Broadway while dodging hurling puke and fighting tough bouncer dudes in Las Vegas. Track the Roadkill through waterfalls and caves while being attacked by donkeys at the Grand Canyon. Crawl through mud fields chased by monster trucks to capture Plant and the elusive Alfalfa Laxative. Stop the power hungry Rotunda Splat in Washington D.C. by jumping on bouncing checks and riding rockets through the Pentagon. There's more than 10,000 frames of movie-quality animation. | ||
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| Aro und Elmi [G] | Related Designs / Wybert | [top] | |
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Well, today your teeth will be cleaned. If you can not get enough of it, you can virtually go on a hunt for bacteria. This is exactly your job in the German advertising game. You must destroy nasty dirt and on top of that also pick up the leftovers. Actually, the game is quite well done. The controls are very good and it has well-balanced gameplay. But the levels are just always the same structure and this "pseudo-hip" electronic music can get on your nerves. It's by the same developer company that's behind the "Anno" series. | ||
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| Asterix & Obelix | Infogrames | [top] | |
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A platform game featuring Asterix and Obelix for Windows. You can choose between Asterix or Obelix or in single player mode or do two players simultaneously. Your mission is to aquire artifacts from European countries. The game, like the comics takes place in the age of Rome. It includes some interesting bonus levels like a Rugby match and Olympic game events in Greece. Uses codes to save where you left off. This outstanding platform game from premiere French developer Infogrames features, appropriately enough, France's best-known cartoon character Asterix the Gaulish soldier. The usual platform obstacles abound, but they are modified to fit the games' context (e.g. fight the Romans in different parts of the country). The excellent graphics and smooth animation round off this excellent underdogs that's virtually unknown outside Europe. | ||
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| Astrocounter of Crescents [K] | Object Square Team S&T Online / Samsung | [top] | |
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Similar to the developer's Protocoss, this is also one of the odd gems among Korean games, coming by unknown developers that didn't have much of a portfolio yet. It consisted of only two people (although the music was outsourced to TeMP). The extensive particle effects are a bit taxing on system speed, which can still be an issue when running it through a virtual machine nowadays. The level design is not too elaborate, but mean enemy placement and in result the required tactical approach prevent the game from ever getting boring. Crescents is very hard, but after the Game Over, one can always start on the same stage, so frustration is kept to a minimum. There is no saving function, however, so the nine stages have to be played in one sitting to see the ending. The mecha the player is in control of is mostly built for melee fighting, and there are various different attacks. Controls for those are easy to pull off, only the stab is a bit too easy, as it just requires pressing the attack button while walking in any direction. This results in many accidental stab attacks, and the animation keeps the mecha vulnerable for quite a long time when used in the wrong situation. For a sidescrolling action game, it's quite heavy on the story, but of course all the dialogue, which is represented next to hi-res character portraits, is in Korean, so for most non-Korean players this would mean just a lot of text boxes to click through. That isn't too much a problem, though, as it gives opportunity to listen to the awesome soundtrack by the famous team TeMP (nowadays called SoundTeMP). Samsung reported that the game was quite successful, and the initial print run of 5,000 copies sold out in less than a month. It is not known whether a second print followed, but it appears there was a recall for the discs because of a jokingly insulting message Kim Donggun left in for his partner to stumble upon during testing, but forgot to remove it in the final version3. In 2002, Mobile Nature ported the game to cellphones. | ||
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| Atomic Chill | MicroMedia Publishers, Inc. / Europress Software Ltd. | [top] | |
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After the great war, in lieu of global thermonuclear warfare, you stand alone to fight the last invaders: the aliens. You must defend your space recycling facility from the alien mobsters who want it from you, and don't plan to purchase it. | ||
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| Bug Too! | Realtime Associates, Inc. / SegaSoft | [top] | |
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Bug Too! is the sequel to Bug, a Sega Saturn game that was ported to the PC. It's a 3rd person action/adventure platformer, and has lots of console-style play mechanics. You play as Bug and his two sidekicks, SuperFly (an insect that thinks the '70s never ended and still wears hip-huggers and platform shoes) and Maggot Dog (a strange half-breed with ears that propel him like a helicopter in addition to having a super sticky tongue). Bug and his new friends will have to use their talents to defeat Sandanistan Worms, Amazon Ant Women, and Space Vampires as they explore a variety of 3D environments, all of which are parodies of movies. If you have a friend who wants to join the action, they can with the Two-Player mode. You must defeat the themed villans through all of the environments to make your homeland safe again. | ||
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| Bug! | Realtime Associates, Inc. / Sega Corporation | [top] | |
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Bug's creepy-crawly insect friends need rescuing from the evil widow Queen Cadavra's clutches. The actual background plot revolves around the title character, Bug, an actor in Hollywood hoping to make his "big break". Players take control shortly after Bug has signed a deal for the lead role in an action film in which his girlfriend is kidnapped by a black widow and must rescue her. The actual gameplay takes place "on the set" of each scene and cutscenes between levels show Bug moving from one set to the next. It is used to determine the future job of the players. Bug! is played like a traditional side-scrolling adventure title. In the same fashion as Sonic, Bug jumped on the heads of his enemies to defeat them while making his way through large levels and collecting power-ups. What sets Bug! apart is the game's 3D levels, which take the side-view and tweak it. Bug can walk sidewise up vertical surfaces and even upside down. Each set of levels (ranging from a bright, green grassy area to a deep red, desert level) have a deeply individual look and feel. Fight your way through six worlds to rescue them and find and defeat the spider queen. There are three levels to get through in each world of 3D platform action. The game also includes some simple puzzle elements. To change the pace of the gameplay every once in a while (in case gamers got tired of the constant jumping strategy), players could pick up two powerups to give Bug new forms of attack. One gave him an electric attack which was best used in close-quarters while another gave him a poisonous spitting attack for ranged combat. | ||
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| CHAMP Kong | ChamProgramming Corporation | [top] | |
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This is a DOS shareware remake of the classic Donkey Kong arcade machine. Like the other games in CHAMProgramming's series of arcade remakes, it closely emulates the original with two different game modes, the original "Classic" mode and an enhanced "Champ" mode. The "Classic" mode plays and feels much like the arcade machine, with very similar graphics, sound and gameplay. Gameplay is well-known: You play Jumpman, having to rescue your girlfriend from the clutches of love-sick giant ape Kong, by running, jumping an climbing to get to the top of the skyscraper. You can pick up your girlfriend's lost items for bonus points and grab a hammer to smash barrels and fireballs thrown at you by Kong. The "Champ" mode is an upgraded version of the classic game, featuring different levels and more bonuses. Finally, the game features a variety of options - one or two player modes, three difficulty settings, adjustable game speed, input by keyboard, mouse or joystick (Champ even released a "Champ cable" that allowed you to play the game with digital joysticks), and a high score table to round it all off. | ||
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| Charlie the Duck | Mike Wiering | [top] | |
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This is a free scrolling platform action game in Mario style, starring a cute little duck named Charlie. The player must help Charlie find his way through several levels, collecting coins, diamonds and other items, and watching out for dangerous creatures. Charlie can also dive into the water and discover secret areas. In Sep/2017, a complete remake was released that's nearly identical, but some small changes have been made. This version does not use separate buttons to walk slower or faster, some levels were modified a bit to make everything work well with the constant walking speed. Also, there have been some small changes to make the game a little easier and less frustrating. And now there is also background music. | ||
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| Clif Danger | New Generation Software / CDV Software GmbH | [top] | |
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This was actually an Apogee/3D Realms cancelled project called Crazy Baby that went to New Generation. You control Clif Danger who flies through the galaxy with his spaceship at the beginning of the game when he receives a call for help by the amazon queen Swihip. Her planet Pleasure 6 got invaded from the rather hostile Glox so it's up to you to save her population. As is to be expected from such a Jump&Shoot&Run game the plot isn't all too important, the action matters. So, you fight your way through 20 stages with multiple weapons, encountering a dozen different enemies, and free the amazons from a rather inconvenient position they're in being bound on plugs. | ||
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| Cold Shadow, Maui Mallard In | Disney Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Disney's Donald Duck takes the starring role in this sidescrolling platform game. As the detective Maui Mallard, he's on the trail of a long lost Idol, which has recently vanished. Early on, Maui can also switch between his normal self and Ninja Maui, and with all the creepy voodoo enemies he'll encounter throughout his adventure, he's going to need all the help he can get. As previously mentioned, there are two personalities to Maui, and as a result, two different sets of controls. Normal Maui carries a bug gun, which can fire a variety of different insect ammo, from basic bugs, to the more powerful lightning and fire bugs. It's also possible for Maui to combine bugs to pack a more powerful blast at his enemies. Once Maui starts to find Yin-Yang coins, he'll be able to transform into Ninja Maui. Ninja Maui has lightning-quick reflexes, and wields a bo staff. In addition to being handy for whacking enemies, Ninja Maui can also climb between walls by jumping and propping the staff between the walls at the height of his jump. He can also hook onto duck heads and swing from them to reach areas he normally couldn't. You'll need to constantly find Yin-Yang coins to fuel your Ninja persona, otherwise you'll run out and transform back to Maui Mallard. | ||
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| Cyril Cyberpunk / Cyberboard Kid | Reality Studios | [top] | |
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Originally developed by Apogee Software as Cyberboard Kid, the game was sold to Reality Studios. In a futuristic Manhattan, a normal kid called Cyril is scanning the airwaves and receives some information about an alien invasion planned to take place in planet earth shortly. So he decides to take his flying skateboard and his pellet gun and go hunt those aliens. This is a platform game where you shot your enemies and find keycards to open your way through 32 different levels (including 3 secret ones). It's a great platformer similar to the ever-popular Commander Keen series. Mutant killer teddy bears from space threaten the earth. In addition to attractive cartoony graphics and many levels, it has three difficulty levels, therefore making it fun for the whole family. With many wacky levels and enemies, this is one non-violent platform game that is very well executed. The game also includes a level editor. | ||
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| Dig It! | Pixel Painters Corporation | [top] | |
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Dig It! is a platform game. In it, you take the role of Dug Kewl, who returns home one day to find that his wife has been taken by the Supreme Spurkasaur. Using his trusty drill and gun, Dug must travel through four worlds rescue his beloved Dugette before it is too late. Each world in Dig It! is made up of levels. In each level, Dug must find the place marked with an X and dig down to reach the next level. On the way he will encounter dragons, giant snails, armoured hedgehogs and all kinds of monsters to kill as well as plenty of treasure to collect. Dug can also dig in certain unmarked places, which will transport him to secret areas with plenty of treasure. Only when he has travelled through all four worlds will he be reunited with Dugette. It's an ingenious platform game that sports many creative features that always set Pixel Painters' games apart from other shareware developers. In this case, the familiar trappings of a platform game (i.e. neat weapons, lots of enemies) are present, but instead of a typical end-level boss as in other games, here you must find an "X" mark to dig to the next level. Smooth animations and cool power-ups (e.g. jetpacks that allow you to fly) wrap up this forgotten underdog and a fitting masterpiece to Pixel's short career. | ||
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| Eddy's Adventure | Euro Power Pack | [top] | |
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This is an obscure platformer where you play as a bear (wearing a shirt) who has to acquire several items such as honey and fish. There's some enemies such as bees. | ||
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| Eracha / Mario Maniaq | Mirinae Software Inc. / Pantech Corporation | [top] | |
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This is a platform game in which you play as a caveman. You go around killing ghosts and other creatures to get to the end of each level. You have a club to kill the monsters and you can also pick up different weapons you can throw. The controls are very easy. You use the cursor keys to move, up to jump, control to use your club, alt to throw an item and space to switch through your throwing items. There are eight levels to play in total. | ||
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| Fantasy Forest [G] | Related Designs / Toffifee | [top] | |
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This is a very nice and cute Jump & Run game which was as given by the candy Toffifee for order. The player is in search of his friends, who suddenly disappeared. His path leads through typical levels of various themes: jungle, caves and ice worlds. He defeats his opponents with missiles and the difficulty level is quite moderate. The level design is still great and especially the great graphics and beautiful music round off the overall positive picture. | ||
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| Garfield: Caught In The Act | Point Of View Inc. / SEGA | [top] | |
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Odie scares Garfield while he's watching television, and the cat ends up falling on the TV set. In a rushed effort to repair the television, Garfield throws away the "spare pieces", and the tv becomes an electronic monster, that transports Garfield inside. The game is a typical platformer, with Garfield being able to attack enemies up close or throw objects at them (the close-range weapons and objects thrown change between each level. There are also 2 special stages: one that resembles a Whack-A-Mole! game, and one in which Garfield flies through a tunnel, trying to grab Pookies for an extra life or continue. Go and find all remote-control pieces to get out of the tv. The player advances through levels and bonus rounds in his attempt to escape while picking up hamburgers and pizza for health, and coffee for invincibility. Pooky, Garfield's teddy bear, acts like a checkpoint to which Garfield will return if he loses a life. Unlike most other platform games of its time, Garfield boasted completely unique art on each of its six levels, both for tile art and character costumes. The levels are inspired by classic movies, but given a Garfield twist, like: Cave Cat 3,000,000 BC, Catsablanca, The Curse of Cleofatra, Count Slobula's Castle, Revenge of Orangebeard, Alien Landscape, and Season Finale. | ||
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| Gex | Kinesoft Software / Crystal Dynamics / Microsoft Game Studios | [top] | |
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Enter your television in this side-scrolling platform adventure to defeat the evil Rez by collecting remotes to open worlds inside your tv. You are a gecko with all the usual platform hero skills such as jump, fire and close range attack, but also suction cups to help you scale walls, a tongue to pick up those tricky to get power-ups and plenty of wise-cracks to keep you amused. Use them all to make your way through TV land searching for the remotes, collecting pickups, power-ups and killing TVs. Travel through 24 television-themed and perform over 125 moves and actions. You play across five different worlds which include Graveyard World, Kung Fu World, Cartoon World, Jungle World, and Rez's Nerve Center. The graveyard world is a hokey horror movie background with a dark and foreboding flavor of textured tombstones and gargoyles. You fight franken geckos, mad slashers, and central casting rejects as you fight over a simulated world of bad television and movies. Thanks to voice work from comedian Dana Gould, Gex has plenty to say throughout the entire adventure. | ||
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| Grog's Quest [G] | Waldraff Interactive / Isis Verlag | [top] | |
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10,000 years ago, Stone Age... Jah, the great medicine man, was kidnapped. Kidnappers are the Lowbrows, an evil Stone Age tribe. They want to use Jah's knowledge to conquer the world (at least the already known part). The game's hero, Grog, has vowed to save Jah and the world while finally putting the rogue Lowbrows in their place. Armed with stones, his club and a good portion of courage, Grog sets off on his greatest adventure. "Grog's Quest" is a jump and run game. The goal of the game is to steer Grog through the individual levels and to advance to the last level. Of course, various enemies (lowbrows, dinosaurs, etc.) are waiting for you little hero to stop him on his mission, but with a little skill it should be possible to guide Grog down the rocky path to the goal. At the end of each level there is a password as a reward, with which you can start the next game in the following level, so that you don't have to start from the beginning every time. | ||
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Hunter Hunted is a one or two-player side-scrolling action game which pits Jake, a muscle-shirt-and-blue-jeans human street fighter, against a large and unpleasant creature similar to a minotaur. Aliens have captured these two combatants and put them into a dark set of industrial tunnels and platforms for the purposes of entertainment. The two SGI-rendered, motion-capture combatants pursue each other around and through crumbling halls, pits, traps, and automated defenses, starting the game unarmed and eventually locating whips, guns, rocket launchers, ammo, and other resources in their search-and-destroy competition. The action goes into the screen as well. When Jake or the Hunter reaches a 2-D door set into one of the many side-plan levels of the game, a stroke of the up arrow sends the character running into the screen, "away" from the player, into the next lateral level of arena, allowing players to sneak up on their opponents from slightly unexpected directions (including from above or below). Certain other special doors which require keys or other objects/actions to open them are presented edge-on to the viewer in a kind of cutaway view. The game has nice music and its deathmatch play in a platform game was revolutionary. A few months after releasing the game, Sierra released a Mission Pack in 1997, which was available on their official website and distributed on CD of some magazines. It adds 20 missions: 2 Missions in challenge mode, 3 Mode missions team, and 15 missions in single player. | ||
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This has similar gameplay to that of Crazy Climber, but it has a few differences. Besides updated graphics, you choose between three characters, each with their own strength/speed differences. You then select several buildings from a Bomberman-style map screen, and these spires include an underwater building, a medieval clock tower in which its hands are a hazard, a haunted skyscraper, and a beanstalk. The object of the game is, as always, to reach the top of the building using the blueprints as a guide. While working your way to the top, you must dodge various obstacles that get in your way. More often than not, you do not fall off the building if one of the objects hits you, unless you try to dodge when you come in contact with them. Falling off a building will result in a loss of life. When you reach the top of a building, you have to hop onto some sort of vehicle that will take you to the next building. Coins are awarded at the completion of each standard level. To increase your chances of reaching the top, power-ups can be obtained, and include a time-stopping clock and window-shattering sticks of dynamite. When you complete the second stage, the game unlocks the building at the center of the map. This building lets you gamble for extra lives and other items that lead you to a fast-paced bonus level. | ||
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Collect the fruit, avoid the snakes and creatures and try not to fall in any pitfalls in Kid. Stephan Vogler's straightforward platform game let's you play as the titular "Kid" and advance through a handful of levels while trying to survive the usual foes. Plan your path well because those blocks you keep busting with your head could lead to a safer path and an exit worth more points. You have three lives and no continues after a game over scenario but you will pick up exactly where you left off after each lost life. Getting hit once by enemies will do you in. A high score table is displayed at the end but you must score higher than 1000 points to end up on it. | ||
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| King Kong 10 / Dunk Kong [Ch] | Acer TWP | [top] | |
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"Slam Dunk King Kong" is a basketball-themed platform adventure game with 3D characters which is a knock-off of Donkey Kong Country. A helicopter comes and destroys his home and imprisons Kong in a cage. However, lightning knocks the helicopter down in the city and Kong escapes. The gorilla dribbles a basketball through the levels and uses it to smash open baskets above his head while battling enemies and collecting items. There is hardly any text in the game so it's playable by everyone. | ||
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This is a platform game with cartoonish characters. In this game the player takes the role of a little hairy creature, with a great jumping skill, that has one mission: eat all the bombs in each level before the time limit reaches zero (there is a limited time to eat each bomb). The creature must avoid a lot of traps and enemies in all the levels. To kill the enemies the starring must jump on their heads. To increase the amount of points the player can kill enemies or collect coins in each level. | ||
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| Larax & Zaco / Lezac | Zanobi Software | [top] | |
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In this DOS platformer, you collect treasure, use bombs to blow up chunks of the level, and avoid being buried in the rubble. The bombs range from tiny firecrackers that can boost your jump height to giant explosives that vaporize entire levels. Each level takes place in and around a building with bonus items scattered around. To complete a level, the player must collect a certain number of specific items, as well as demolish a certain percentage of the building. For purposes of demolition the player is equipped with several types of bombs. The protagonist can deploy a bomb next to himself, and it will explode after a time, destroying or moving nearby architectonic structures. Destroyed structures turn into rubble which may block one's way, but can be removed completely with bombs. The various parts of the buildings follow the laws of physics; for instance, a bomb detonated next to a column can push this column to the side, causing the floor above it to lose support and come crashing down, thus bringing down also the walls above this floor. The protagonist has a limited amount of health, and loses it when he finds himself underneath falling rubble or comes in contact with roaming monsters (which can be defeated with bombs and leave behind items to collect.) Losing all health makes the protagonist die, and he may respawn when the player wills it. It's possible to destroy the required bonus items with bombs, thus requiring the player to restart the level. It also has bosses. Two-player split-screen co-op gameplay is available. The game is now freeware. | ||
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| Last Knight, The | Island Dream Games & Soft / Bmm Ges. für moderne Medien mbH | [top] | |
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This is a Spanish-made platformer similar to Ghosts 'N Goblins. You play a young lad battling through a countryside swarming with zombies, skeletons, bats & crows who will pursue you, and Indians and Vikings who battle with swords or some enemies will also toss weapons. That bats and ravens will pursue you for a very long time. The hero has a few lives and "strip" of health which reduces as you are injured but falling into water or thorns will make you lose a whole life. You must collect keys along the way and find various bonuses such as armor and temporary powers. | ||
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| Lazarus | Infinite Dreams Inc. / TimSoft | [top] | |
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This is a platform game with some adventure elements. The action takes place in a not specified future. The story starts when the player buys a new game called Lazarus. The game loading process transfer the player to the virtual world. The aim of the game is to find the exit, traversing through several worlds inhabited by hostile creatures and full of deadly traps. Getting access to the next realms requires execution of various tasks, finding appropriate items and reaching the teleport. The player may use five types of weapons (shotgun, rocket launcher, UZI, basalt launcher, plasma launcher) and a jet pack. Ammo and fuel may be found in different places of the realms or purchased from the merchant and in the supply coin-op machine for gained coins. | ||
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| Little Dinosaur Dooly, The [K] | LG Media | [top] | |
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A Korean platformer based on the Korean animated series the first half of 1980s for primary school age having a genuine cult status in South Korea, but not too well-known outside it. Besides Dooly himself, one gets to chose between him and three more protagonists from the series, all with attack animations befitting of their characters. The differences are limited to the graphics and hit frames, each has basically a standard, dash and (limited) ranged attack. Stage design feels a bit loose at times, but never uninspired, and there are some genuinely challenging platforming sequences. The enemies are a threat mostly because the hit detection still isn't quite transparent, and one gets hit faster than one would think. A rocket riding pseudo 3D sequence and snippets from the animated series in between stages help to mix up things. | ||
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| Necromantics | Effigy Software | [top] | |
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When magicians fight... all hell breaks loose. You're a Rayman-like character in a run and jump style game but slightly more than a 2D platform who has no body, just hands, feet and a hat and wand. Necromantics takes place in a mysterious castle. The main character, controlled by the player, is an invisible magician wearing a high hat, white gloves and shoes. The magician can only walk and jump; he has no means to attack. Yet, he must escape from many rooms full of spiders, swords, etc. The intention of the game is avoiding all these obstacles, and making it to the next room. It's possible to pick up diamonds and bottles with magic juice along the way. These items can make changes to the surroundings, for example, some new platforms might appear. Sometimes the magician has to pull some levers which are hard to reach. | ||
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| Pandemonium! | Crystal Dynamics, Inc. / BMG Interactive Entertainment | [top] | |
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This excellent platformer features Fargus, a joker, and Nikki, who unwittingly casts a spell that destroys the town. The goal of the game is to reach the Wishing Engine, where they can wish the town back to normal. For each level, the player can choose which character to be. Each has a special move - Fargus can deliver a special spinning attack, and Nikki can double jump. The game consists of a great variety of unique gameplay objects, such as watermelons, clouds, spider webs and logs. There are 18 levels of wackiness. Pandemonium employs a so-called "2.5D gameplay". While the game renders polygons in a typical 3-D fashion, gameplay is 2-D. The area of gameplay can be described as a two-dimensional surface twisting and bending in a three-dimensional world. Occasionally, this surface will overlap itself. For example, the main tower of the second level is a cylinder with a spiral-shaped floor. Along the way, the player can gather treasure. Collecting 300 treasure grants the player an extra life. If the player gathers 80% to 94% of the treasure on a level, he activates "Speed Greed", a bonus level in which one must collect treasure while simultaneously keeping ahead of a pursuing vortex. If the player gathers at least 95% of the treasure on a level, he activates "Full Tilt", a pinball-based bonus level. In this, the player directs the character around a giant pinball machine in order to gather treasure and activate special areas of the board. Upon reaching the end of this bonus stage, the player can achieve as many as three extra lives as well. In each bonus level, one automatically has three "tries", which are separate from lives. There are three unique powers (other than metal, which provides limited invincibility) that the player can collect. Each shoots a beam of limited range in the forward direction, somehow affecting the first enemy it hits by hitting, freezing or shrinking them. A player loses all powers when hit though. At several points in the game, after passing a certain area the player will turn into a unique animal; passing another area will revert the player back to a normal character. The player will become a frog, a rhinoceros, a turtle, and a dragon throughout the course of the game. The frog can jump extremely high, the rhinoceros can kill any enemy by charging at them, the turtle can become invulnerable by hiding in its shell, and the dragon can breathe fire and fly. The challenges of the level then reflect the abilities of each animal until the character reverts to normal later in the level. Like in Zelda games, the player has a limited number of hearts, representing health. Rare bonuses allow the player to add to the initial two heart containers, so that the player can store more than two hearts at once. Loss of all hearts results in the loss of a life and the return to the latest checkpoint. Loss of all lives ends the game. | ||
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| Punky Duck | Condor Software | [top] | |
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Deliver your friends and rid your country of all the horrible monsters who have invaded it...this is your present mission, young Punky Duck!!! Find yourself alone upon your own island, while all your friends are being held prisoners. Travelling throughout the five islands of Duckland, you will have to summon up every last ounce of courage to annihilate the invaders who persist in standing in your way. And don't forget the "Big Boss" at the end of each level of play, who will try to prevent you from getting to the next island. Don't count on your muscles and might alone, you will need to be clever to find all the necessary items for the building of the vehicle that will drive you to your next destination. | ||
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| Quadrax | Sintech, Cauldron / JRC Interactive | [top] | |
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Quadrax is a puzzle game where two characters have to be moved to a predefined place in logical levels. As the entire screen is filled with obstacles, the characters need to help each other get around by flipping switching, moving stone blocks, opening doors, and using lifts. It was originally designed by David Durcak and released for the ZX Spectrum in 1994 with 50 levels. The PC version conversion contains 100 levels, with variations on the same themes. The PC game was popular in Czech Republic & Slovakia, where the developer was from. A fan-made freeware remake titled Quadrax III came out in 2000 by Jozef Kreutzer (Alfaline) with with new graphics and animations with 45 levels, which are much harder than in the original game. A "2005 Revision" version includes a slightly modified engine (new animations, some new music, sound effects) and 15 new levels (total 60). There have also been more levels done by Alfaline for sequels IV through VIII. Although IX was cancelled, X was released in 2015 with new engine (higher resolution, smoother animation) and 90 levels. Quadrax Neverending runs on the modified engine of Quadrax X which was arranged in such a way that it could manage dynamic loading of the levels and all its elements. It goes without saying that it keeps all the difficulty and benefits of QX, such as Full HD with 60 FPS etc., while adding innovations like continuous transit of music pieces on basic screens of the game, improved sync of the monitor refresh, or more accurate displaying of the elapsed time. | ||
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| Runen | H. J. Baer | [top] | |
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Obscure German 'cinematic' platformer for DOS that is strongly inspired by Prince of Persia, Flashback and Another World. The Shareware is actually the full game without the ability to save your progress. This software is in German only, but contains very little text and is probably playable without understanding the language at all. | ||
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| Secret Armed Force [K] | Family Production | [top] | |
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The developer's last sidescroller was released in the final days of DOS gaming. It gets rid of all the technical issues former Family Production games suffered from. Even the scrolling runs perfectly smooth, and there are real transparency effects, which are not too common with DOS games overall. Although not a sequel per se, the game soon evokes memories of Interrupt, not only because the player once again takes place in a mecha. Instead of having to chose between two models, though, the machine in SAF unites the agility of the Ripple with the weapons and jetpacks of the Cyber-Troll and for good measure throws in the left & right fire buttons of the shmup sequences in Interrupt. Weapons can be upgraded in two levels, and filling the upgrade meter above that unleashes a devastating special attack particular to that weapon. During the first four stages weapons get gradually unlocked. After the initial machine gun follow a frame thrower, a grenade launcher and a laser cannon. Unfortunately SAF is one of those games spoiled by a completely impossible difficulty level. The mecha is so big that it gets hit all the time, but astonishingly fragile for such a huge hunk of metal. Some of the standard enemies even take more hits. There are no checkpoints at all, either, no matter if a stage is fifteen minutes long. Worst of all, though, all one has to work with are two pathetic credits to continue, there's no saving, no password system, just starting over from the first stage again and again. | ||
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| Sint Nicolaas | Wiering Software | [top] | |
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This game is about a Dutch tradition, Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas). Every year Sint Nicolaas comes all the way from Spain to Holland to gives presents and gingerbread cookies to the children. On December 5th, at night, Sint travels over the roofs and drops the presents and cookies through the chimneys. Sint Nicolaas has been robbed! The thieves have taken his big sack full of presents and gingerbread cookies. In their run, however, the they aren't careful and presents start dropping out of the sack. Now Sint only has to collect the fallen gingerbread and presents and bring them to the right chimney. Presents are in four colors: red, blue, green and purple. All chimneys have a mark indicating the correct color. There is also a number written on every chimney, that is the number of gingerbread cookies that still have to be dropped. Sint can carry as many presents behind him as he can find. However, he can only drop the first one into the chimney. So he must visit the chimneys in the same order as the colors of the presents he gathers. Keep an eye on his health meter. Avoid hazards such as birds which steal gifts, sharp tv antennas, and falling off slippery roofs. He can earn extra lives by eating four chocolate letters S, I, N and T or by collecting 100 gingerbread cookies in a bonus level. Initially shareware, the game is now free. In the game Zwarte Piet, you play with Zwarte Piet instead of with Sinterklaas. Time is unlimited in this version and you stay on top of the roofs (instead of climbing up from the ground). The graphics are also very different, these were rendered in POV-Ray. Finally, this version also uses a higher screen resolution and will require a faster PC in order to run smoothly. | ||
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| Smurfs, The | Infogrames Europe SA | [top] | |
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Free the Smurfs before Gargamel smurfs then all! Platform game where you will be able to play with the jockey smurf, the brainy smurf, the greedy smurf and the hefty smurf to resolve the adventure. All of the classic SMURF characters are along for the adventure, guaranteeing you a Smurf-tastic time. Throughout the exploration, you will maintain your life and energy with the useful bonus items you will collect. Beside collecting various objects, you have to avoid the obstacles and dangers that you will encounter in your way through the Smurf Village. Some of the animals like birds, bunnies, and other "cute" enemies will try to stop your progress and that is why you have to take them down. The characters look exactly like the ones in the animated program, and the graphics are cartoonish, enjoyable to watch, very detailed and realistic. The music fits perfectly with the game's general ambiance and it will make the time spent even more delightful. The controls are a bit slow, (you will likely press a button twice to activate a move), but the gameplay is solid, and that is why you should try its splendor. This attractive game is for all children that are fans of this animated television program, and not only for them, because even the adults will be pleased to take out their inner kid spirit to play it! | ||
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| Sonic CD | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a standard Sonic the Hedgehog side-scrolling action game. Dr. Robotnik has taken over the Little Planet, captured Amy, and created Metal Sonic with the goal of collecting all the Time Stones to be able to manipulate time and conquer the world. It is up to Sonic to stop him, by rushing through levels set in different time periods, collecting Time Stones. Sonic CD has features that take advantage of the CD format such as CD audio, video clips, and more levels (over 50 in total). This version contains the complete FMV animated intro and ending sequence. All versions of the game, including the Japanese version, use the North American soundtrack. In Jan/2012, a fan-made port developed from scratch using the "Retro Engine" created by independent developer Christian "Taxman" Whitehead, was released by Sega as a digital download that works on modern Windows o/s. This engine allows improvements to be made to the game, including widescreen graphics and the option to utilise spin-dash physics from Sonic 2. Players are also be able to unlock Tails as a playable character. The port also features both the original Japanese/European soundtrack and the American soundtrack, as well as achievement and trophy support and iOS features. | ||
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| Spirou | Infogrames Europe SA / Infogrames, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a relatively obscure 2D side-scrolling platformer designed by Infogrames based on a popular Belgian comic. Spirou is a bumbling bellboy who looks like he could be Tintin's younger brother. In Spirou, you task is to rescue the world-famous scientist Count Champaignac from the clutches of an evil organization intent on using his latest invention to take over the world. The game sports colorful cartoony graphics, fluid animations, and funny antics that fans of the comic will recognize. If you enjoy the likes of Pitfall, Jungle Book, or Infogrames' other licensed cartoon platformers (most notably the Tintin series), you will probably also like this less known game. It offers a solid plot, crisp graphics and sound effects, as well as a challenging but fun gameplay. It has "interactive" backgrounds, interesting levels, and more surprises than Lucky Luke. Too bad the variety of gameplay is not as good as Tintin games. | ||
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| Tintin In Tibet | Infogrames | [top] | |
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A platform game starring Tin Tin. Tintin in Tibet follows on the heel of Infograme's Asterix & Obelix, with the same gameplay. Although the game will prove easy for the expert gamer, there are many levels to pass, each of which features new locations, enemies, and obstacles that serve to advance the storyline (e.g. avoid the falling crates from moving train in the beginning level). The game is based on a Tintin comic with the same name, the creator Herge's twentieth story in the series, which first appeared in 1958. It was chosen for a game because it stands out from the others. At the time of writing/drawing, Herge was having psychological treatment because of a depression. The comic is more complex than the others and Tintin is almost on his own (with a few companions) for the whole story. A fun platform game starring France's answer to Indiana Jones, especially for US gamers who are fond of Disney's Aladdin and Lion King but never had a chance to play this European only release. | ||
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| Tonko 2 [K] | TWIM | [top] | |
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On to his second adventure, it appears that Tonko has lost his maul, thus he has to make his way through the sequel avoiding his enemies, Tonko 2 is a pure blood puzzle platformer. The poor goblin isn't even able to jump anymore, leaving climbing ladders, hiding in garbage bins and flushing himself down the toilets as the only means to defend himself. That's one filthy little goblin. The resolution has been raised to 640x480 for TWIM's first Windows game, and each stage now fits on a single screen, with the goal always being to reach the exit, sometimes after unlocking several doors with colored keys to get there. Almost all the challenges are based on timing, and especially the first ten or so stages require patience more than anything else. Fortunately, the game can be saved at any stage, so there's no need to ever replay that boring beginning. Afterwards, the game becomes fairly challenging, but never unfair. Tonko 2 doesn't look nearly as hideous as some stages in the first game, but it is still a mixed bag, visually. The sprites and objects all look adorable, but some of the backgrounds show all to much that they've been downsampled from a higher color depth. The soundtrack is midi-based, but it sports colorful enough tunes to overcome the trashy Windows 95 flair. | ||
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| Toxic Bunny | Celestial Games / Vision Software | [top] | |
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This is a violent side-scrolling action platform game. The player plays a bunny named Toxic. Toxic becomes super aggressive when his coffee break has been interrupted due to the earth being covered in decaffeinated goo and his friends getting brainwashed. It is up to you to find the one responsible for this. The game features 4 large levels to play through. Toxic can walk, jump and shoot at various different enemies. In the levels Toxic can collect different coloured elixirs, which can be mixed together to form various different power-ups such as health potions or an explosive. Within the game you can use any number of incredibly large weapons including a Nitric Hamster Launcher, while squashing aliens with rusty nautical equipment. In 2012, Toxic Bunny HD was released with reanimating sprites and redrawing of all the levels. With v1.3 it was further ported to Unity engine. | ||
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| Vigilance on Talos V | PolyEx Software | [top] | |
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This side-scrolling platformer is about Killian Jared, a man who became a mercenary to save his daughter Celeste from an evil race of aliens known as the Xenos. Having learned the location of their main base from an informant, he begins one-man assault to rescue his daughter. The gameplay is a lot like Nintendo's Metroid series. The main goal of the game is to explore the base, blasting enemies with a variety of weapons, and finding special upgrades, such as energy tanks to increase your maximum health and the Saturn Ball, whereby Killian rolls into a ball to squeeze through tight spaces. You will be able to pick up new weapons and ammo along the way, and a nice touch is that you can talk to friendly aliens who offer advice on where to go and what to do. On the plus side, the aliens in this game are quite tough, the graphics are nicely drawn and full of background details, and the game features a full suite of music, sound effects, and voice acting. It's one of the rarest shareware games ever made. | ||
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| Wissoll Circus Trophy [G] | Art Department / Wissoll | [top] | |
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Wissoll was formerly a well-known manufacturer of chocolate and other confectionery products. This is a sweet jump and run game, one of the lesser known advergames of the Art Department, already described as historic. Interesting is the gameplay of the game. Your task is not just stubbornness to run from A to B, but also to maneuver your car through the whole course. This gives the game a lot of puzzle elements and sets it apart from other platforming games. The graphics are quite good, but the music is annoying after a short time. | ||
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| Zombie Wars | Gee Whiz! Entertainment / Microforum | [top] | |
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Zombie Wars is the superior and little-known sequel to classic shareware platformer Halloween Harry (a.k.a. Alien Carnage) published by Apogee. The plot picks up where the first game left off: the gang of aliens who call themselves the Non Human Alliance (NHA) has kidnapped one of Earth's greatest scientific minds and forced him to create a more powerful Zombie transformation machine. It's up to you, the Duke Nukem-lookalike Halloween Harry, to save the world again. This time, you can choose to play as Diane, Harry's pretty (and no Lara lookalike) sidekick in this 2D side-scrolling romp. Every good shooter needs plenty of action, tons of gunfire and a good helping of blood-thirsty zombies just waiting to be torn apart by your blaster, and this is exactly what Zombie Wars delivers - in colorful, cartoon style similar to Japanese anime. You are armed with an impressive array of weapons, including Alien Seeking Missiles, Micro-Nukes, Thermal Grenades and the ever trusty Photon Cannon. The levels are well-designed and diverse: you will race through zombie infested parks, slime soaked sewers, booby trapped beaches, monster ridden office blocks, robot controlled factories, and eventually alien plagued ships. Each level has its own theme and plenty of animated background graphics (planes that fly off behind you, for example) to make them feel truly alive - a far cry from static background of most platformers. The visuals are striking, with a bold and colorful anime feel to everything. Cool looking zombies of all shapes and sizes can be found everywhere across the huge levels (which are, of course, complete with the requisite number of secret areas and hidden bonuses). One very cool touch is the fact that after you destroy a zombie, their flaming skulls continue to bounce around while you shoot at them. Fast, furious and a hell of a lot of fun - this is what great "brain off, autofire on" gameplay is all about. | ||
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This is a collection of three classic table games adaptations. Foosball (Table Soccer) - You spin, pass, block and score with keyboard and mouse controls. The pole you control will be highlighted in red or gold, and in beginner mode pole switching is automatic to the pole that is nearest to the ball. First player to score 10 points wins. Slamhockey (Air Hockey) - You control the paddle with your mouse, and the first player to score 10 points wins. In battle mode you can cross the halfway line into the adversary side of the table. Power Hoops - A basketball-inspired table with 35 holes and up to 8 balls. Using the keyboard cursors or your mouse, you select a hole with a ball. You fill a power gauge (displayed under the court) by holding down the space bar or the left mouse button. Releasing them flings the ball towards the hoops. You can play a game of 20, 40, 60 or 80 points. | ||
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| 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night | Dynamix, Inc. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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Pinball with a strong horror motif. In the 3-D Ultra Pinball tradition, many of the effects achieved on these tables could not be reproduced on traditional machines. There are even cutaways to mini-video games where you can rack up bonus points. Tables can be played individually, or all at once in a campaign to beat them. | ||
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| 3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride | Dynamix, Inc. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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Imagine a pinball machine emulating a full amusement park, and not just any park, but Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, "The sweetest place on Earth!"(tm)! Over 15 action-packed "rides", plenty of special events include "lights out" fireworks show, double multi-ball event, side tables, multiple flipper sets, and more! | ||
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| Absolute Pinball | Unique Development Studios AB / 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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Absolute Pinball is a pinball game which features four tables with different themes: Desert Run (car tour from Paris to Dakar), Aquatic Adventure (treasure hunt at a beach), The Dream Factory (Hollywood) and Balls 'n Bats (Baseball). All tables feature three flippers and several mini games on the scoreboard, e.g. swimming away from sharks. Also worth mentioning are the five graphics mode which range from a classic scrolling table to a transverse view which shows the whole table at one. The controls follow the genre standard. | ||
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Angel Egg is a pinball simulator with biblical themes. It has the standard features of the genre: multi-ball, multipliers and a classic cabinet look. The screen is split between the table and the score display. The table objective is to start the Genesis by summoning archangels. The player must collect the angels' eggs to invoke the elemental spirits of fire, water, earth and wind. The gameplay is centered on multi-ball, the points scored are multiplied by the number of balls in play. One egg is awarded each time the player hits a egg bumper, the eject hole or the return lane when the light is on. Shooting the ball up a ramp gives two eggs. Combos give three eggs. The player gets five eggs by completing return lane, and ten by completing the top lane. After collecting them, they can be hatched in jackpot holes. Multi-ball starts with a summoning. While in this mode, successive summoning adds balls to the table. Genesis mode starts when all the other modes are complete. | ||
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This is a variant of the word guessing pen and paper game where short video clips of 3D animations act as clues. Other than that it works like any other Hangman game with the player being presented with a hidden word that have to be guessed by entering letters one at a time. Correct guesses lead to the letters being filled in while incorrect guesses lead to a stick figure being drawn. After six wrong guesses the man is hanged. In addition to the standard Hangman game, there is an additional game mode called Multiple Puzzle Hangman. It works the same but the player automatically moves on to a new puzzle when one is completed. The hangman is not erased between puzzles so all the wrong guesses gets carried over. The aim is to get a high score by completing as many puzzles as possible. | ||
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| Arcadia | Alston Software Labs | [top] | |
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This programme is designed to teach spelling, logic, memory skills and general knowledge to children aged 8 to 11. The bright, colourful opening screen offers a choice of three games, hangman - with a walk the plank theme complete with shark - matching the hidden pairs, and wordsearch. Every time you succeed in one of these puzzles, you earn coins in the bank, which can be used to play one of three games, a Tetris variant, an infuriating little rocket landing sim, and a space blaster. (The rocket landing is only infuriating because mine kept crashing, my 8 year old tester had no problem with it.) The whole concept is very simple and very effective, both the puzzles and the games are absorbing and fun to play, and teach something useful as an added bonus. | ||
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| Baku Baku Animal | Sega AM3 R&D Division / SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | [top] | |
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The Minister approaches the King to tell him that his only daughter, the Princess, wants a new pet. But the King says she already has too many, and she can't take care of so many animals. Thus the Minister purposes a contest of skill and daring to select the Royal Zookeeper. Master Piggy then sends his pupil, Polly, to participate in the contest. This is a variation on the very often copied Tetris type of game. The game has three different play modes: practice, normal and hard. It also can be played by two players against each other. The objective is to pair animal heads with their respective food. If a rabbit head comes falling, you must make it fall on a pile of carrot tiles, dog heads with bones, panda heads with bamboos and monkey heads with bananas. There is a bonus item, the "BB coin", which will appear from times to times, and remove piled tiles from the playfield. Removed tiles will be sent to the opponent's playfield all at once, increasing the difficulty of the task. Polly will face several contestants, and she'll win when her opponents get their playfield piled to the top. | ||
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| Battle Bowls (cancelled) | Frontier Software | [top] | |
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This is a puzzler that was due for release on Commodore Amiga and Atari ST platforms, then later Atari Falcon and PC. The game was a clone of the classic Puzzle Bobble with 100 levels, and featuring a similar graphic style to Gem-X that was released by Demonware some years before. It looked pretty decent and was said to be not that far away from completion. Though never completed for release, a prototype of PC version is available. | ||
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| Beavis and Butt-Head in Little Thingies | Viacom New Media | [top] | |
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A collection of mini-games to run under Windows, including four - "Court Chaos", "Bug Justice", "Hock-A-Loogie", and "Air Guitar" - taken from the adventure game 'Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity', and three new games - "Thank You Drive Through", "Wrecked 'Em Ball", and "Change It". "Thank You Drive Through" sees the mischievous morons at work at Burger World, having to feed all the customers as quickly as possible, before the queue gets too long. "Wrecked 'Em Ball" has Beavis catching various snacks from an old ware-house while avoiding falling debris and the occasionally swinging bulldozer ball. "Change It" sees the pair in front of 9 TV sets, and having to change all of the channels to "something cool" within the time limit. "Court Chaos" is set on a tennis court, firing tennis to shoot down opponents who will do the same to you if you don't hit them in time. "Bug Justice" has the twisted twosome using a magnifying glass to try and burn ants before they take off with their stash of candy on the floor. In "Hock-A-Loogie", you play as either Beavis or Butt-head, standing on top of the high-school roof, "hocking loogies" (spitting) at the Principal and various other passing targets. And in "Air Guitar", you can select one of several sound styles and play songs in the gruesome twosome's own unique, tuneless tones. The games are accompanied by various quips and comments from the dim-witted duo, as recorded by creator Mike Judge. | ||
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| Bicycle Poker | SWFTE International Ltd. | [top] | |
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This has everything you need to polish your skills in this legendary American game. Your PC deals the cards and arranges the game, making complex variations or draw and stud poker easy to learn and play. While anyone can learn to play poker, to play well requires a balance of wits and guts. That's why eight different characters are included with Bicycle Poker, all dying to separate you from your chips. Draw Poker: This familiar form of poker offers beginners and experts alike a chance to hone their skills in the basics. On line rules list the priority of hands and a handy table displays the play for each player in each hand of the game. Once you have mastered the five-card draw, add some wild cards and see how they affect the odds, or try your hand at Stud Poker. Stud Poker: In contrast to Draw Poker, Stud Poker is the game that truly tests the mettle of players. Available in five, six, and seven-card variations, Stud Poker allows you to gauge the strength of your opponents' hands, but also leaves the game open to bluffing. With only one "Hole-Card," five-card stud involves more skill, bluffing and guile than five-card draw. This is a Windows version of an earlier 1992 DOS release. | ||
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| Bicycle Solitaire | Expert Software Inc. | [top] | |
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Bicycle Solitaire, the classic American card game, has over 50 different versions of Solitaire, including favorites like Klondike, with varying skill levels: Hard, Medium, Easy, Favorites and Kids. No need for a scratch pad to keep your score, Bicycle Solitaire tracks all scores with a click of a mouse. It allows you to Undo a mistake. It also includes an Hint option to coach you on the best move to make. Different patterned table tops and card backs are available to keep you interested. | ||
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| Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands | Probe Entertainment Ltd. / Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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Bubble Bobble: One or two players attempt to save their friends in this re-release of the 1987 classic puzzle/action game. Players blow bubbles to trap enemies. When they pop the bubbles, fruit comes out and the players compete for the points. If they don't pop the bubbles in time, the enemies escape and become faster. Rainbow Islands: One or two players. This is the sequel to Bubble Bobble which first appeared in arcades in 1987 but despite being ported to different home systems, never came to PC until now. Instead of bubbles, you create rainbows. The highly versatile rainbow can be used as bridges, as platforms, or as a weapon. You can shoot a rainbow at an enemy, you can trap it inside, or you can drop a rainbow on an enemy from above. | ||
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| Bust A Move 2: Arcade Edition / Bust-A-Move Again / Puzzle Bobble 2 | Taito Corporation / Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a puzzle game that involves clearing or "popping" groups of bubbles by creating matches of three or more. A pointing device at the bottom of the screen is used to aim and launch a randomly generated bubble toward others of the same color. Since launched bubbles can ricochet off walls, the challenge comes from estimating the angle you'll need to create potential matches. Clear each stage before the ceiling reaches the screen's bottom and you'll safely advance. Challenge the computer or a friend to a split-screen, simultaneous match; test your aiming skills in a series of 130 puzzle levels; or race to clear screens as quickly as possible with the time attack option. It was later repacked as Puzzle Bobble 2X with an optional alternative set of levels and some new attract mode animations (including holiday-themed ones) plus a level editor/designer. | ||
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| Casino Deluxe 2 | Impressions Games / Sierra Entertainment | [top] | |
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Beat the Odds ... to a Pulp! The Dealer is waiting.. Hit or hold? Split or quit? Then a little voice tells you .. 'double down'. You flip your cards and double your bet as a smile slowing creeps across your face. Welcome to Casino Deluxe 2. Where you face the intensity, allure and passion of authentic casino gambling - with a secret weapon - on-screen professional advice. Whether you're a beginner or just need advice now and then, the game's winning strategies give you the help you need - when you need it. Who knows? You may even beat Lady Luck at her own game. Features: On-screen Professional Advice is like having a casino expert right by your side; 3D SVGA graphics, movie quality music, and dealer voices add to the realism; Player friendly interface, so even beginners can start winning right away; 18 Great Games including Pai Gow and Red Dog Poker; Includes FREE laptop version on CD. | ||
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| Champ Ms. Pac-em | ChamProgramming Corporation | [top] | |
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This is a DOS shareware remake of the classic Ms. Pac Man arcade machine. Like the other games in CHAMProgramming's series of arcade remakes, it emulates the original with two different game modes, the original "Classic" mode and an enhanced "Champ" mode, and even a maze editor for making your own levels. The "Classic" mode plays and feels much like the arcade machine, with very similar graphics, sound and gameplay. You know what to do: Run through the labyrinth, munch dots and avoid those naughty ghosts. Some fruit hops around now and then, get it for bonus points! Ms. Pac-em even has the "cut-scenes" between some levels of the original arcade. The "Champ" mode has the same game play, but features more and different bonuses and levels. The maze editor provided is entirely mouse controlled, but somewhat difficult to handle. Finally, the game features a variety of options -- one or two player modes, three difficulty levels, adjustable game speed, input by keyboard, mouse or joystick (Champ even released a "Champ cable" that allowed you to play the game with digital joysticks), and a high score table to round it all off. It was later made freeware. | ||
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| Champ Pac-em | ChamProgramming Corporation | [top] | |
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This is a DOS shareware remake of the classic Pac Man arcade machine. Like the other games in CHAMProgramming's series of arcade remakes, it closely emulates the original with two different game modes, the original "Classic" mode and an enhanced "Champ" mode. The "Classic" mode plays and feels much like the arcade machine, with very similar graphics, sound and gameplay. You know what to do: Run through the labyrinth, munch dots and avoid those naughty ghosts -- or eat the power pill to chase them for a change. You can also eat some cherries for bonus points. Pac-em even has the original's intermissions between some levels. The "Champ" mode has the same game play, but features some special enhancements like speed ramps, which speed you up for a certain time, or random teleports. Finally, the game features a variety of options -- one or two player modes, three difficulty levels, adjustable game speed, input by keyboard, mouse or joystick (Champ even released a "Champ cable" that allowed you to play the game with digital joysticks), and a high score table to round it all off. It was later made freeware. | ||
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| Chess Mates | Presage Software, Inc. / Brainstorm | [top] | |
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Learn all the moves and strategies of chess while developing logic and problem solving skills. Exclusively endorsed by the U.S. Chess Federation. Animated pieces that come to life, multiple difficulty levels and a host of features makes this the most fun and innovative way to learn the complex strategies of chess. Game features: Wigby the Wizard guides and teaches young minds to play chess step by step; Point and click interface makes learning to play chess fun and easy; Over 60 fun and entertaining puzzles and tutorials; Learn chess tactics such as the Fork, Skewer and the Pin; Choose from multiple background settings; Chess works wonders with your child - learning aptitude, critical thinking, logical strength, self-confidence, self-esteem. Official American Scholastic Chess Study proved that playing chess can give children the winning edge in school. Kids playing chess in the study showed: Reading scores improved, Math scores improved, self esteem improved, learning chess has statistically improved grades by 70%. Using an animated scenario, one of the many chess strategies is introduced. Animated chess pieces magically appear to illustrate the strategy. Wigby then guides the student through one of the many puzzles highlighting the strategy. The student is rewarded with a printable certificate and can then choose to learn more, or apply their knowledge to a real game of chess. | ||
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| Chessmaster 5000 | Mindscape, Inc. | [top] | |
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Chessmaster 5000 is the perfect program for beginners to advanced chess players! This CD-ROM features a powerful chess playing engine, dazzling graphics, a 27,000 game database that features advanced database query functions, a library of 2,000 named opening variations and a chess tutor that guides players of all skill levels through 20 interactive lesson plans. Those eager to learn will experience the essence of a human expert, captured by technology, to become their personal chess mentor. | ||
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| Crosswords & More | Expert Software Inc. | [top] | |
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A collection of crossword and word seek puzzles that you can solve on your PC. It comes with a crossword editor and import tools for for creating your own crosswords. You can save and load a puzzle while solving it. There's a timer and hint mode to enhance game play as well. | ||
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| CrossWorld 95 | CrossWorld Software, Inc. / GameTek (FL), Inc. | [top] | |
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This CD-ROM title includes three Windows 95 versions of word games. CrossWorld: L.A. Times Syndicate Edition is a Windows 95 version of CrossWorld: The LA Times Edition. The gameplay remains the same. It has 365 crossword puzzles from the L.A. Times Syndicate as well as a feature to create own puzzles. CrossWorld's WordSearcher allows player to create own puzzles where there is a list of phrases to look for and the player circles each phrase as he finds it hidden in the puzzle. It is possible to use one of the 300 word lists to create a puzzle, or type in own words. English, French, Spanish and German dictionaries are available. GameTek's Decoder allows player to unscramble word lists and famous quotations. | ||
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| Cyber Pest | Pesky | [top] | |
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Cyber Pest (a.k.a. Virtual Pest) was a sort of parody of virtual pets for Windows that involves interacting with a strange yellow creature in a virtual living room, often in ways that involve cartoon violence. | ||
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| Cybersphere | Psycon Software | [top] | |
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This is an arcade game that is fundamentally similar to Breakout and Arkanoid. The player controls a "paddle" that can move horizontally which is used to direct a bouncing ball to destroy "bricks" arranged in different patterns. Some bricks may take several hits to destroy, and often drop gems that add to the player's score if collected, or various power-ups, including a temporary floor that will prevent the ball from falling outside the playing field, an extra ball, a wider paddle or cannons that the player may use to destroy more bricks. The game does not feature any kind of plot. The levels are broken down into several "sectors", with only the first one available in the demo version. In addition to regular levels, there are bonus stages that may be accessed by picking a certain bonus item during play. It was later made freeware in 2006. | ||
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| Doka Pinball / Ghostball | Doka Media | [top] | |
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This has three photo-realistic pinball tables. An updated version had five challenging pinball games that you can use in your cd-rom. These tables require your best skills: Ghostball, Phaeton, Crystal, Travel and Black Ritual. The action in this game is viewed in 17 different camera angles and extremely realistic game physics abound. With a lot of skill and reflexes, you will be fascinated by 3D graphics and new bonus points, extra and multiball. | ||
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| Duck City | Domestic Funk Productions / BMG Entertainment Int. | [top] | |
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Duck City is a wacky and fun collection of 6 action and puzzle games designed for kids of all ages. Designed by Alan Snow, creator of P.A.W.S, Duck City stars a talking cartoon duck who wanders around in his cartoon world, getting into one trouble after another. In one mini-game that is similar to basketball, you will see how a duck can pull off spectacular slam dunks. In the farm, you must fatten slugs by feeding them cabbages. The barber shop is the site of one of the game's most unique games: here, you cut and dry customers' hair to make cool haircuts. In the garage, you can participate in a fun cross-country racing. And finally in a lab, you can tinker with various gadgets and interact with RoboDuck, a cross between RoboCop and a duck. All the games are simple to learn and easy to use - you need to memorize only a few keys and mouse clicks. With attractive and creative cartoon graphics, fun mini-games, and a transparent and intuitive interface, Duck City is a fun "interactive environment" for everyone in the family. None of the game has lasting play value, but they are ideal for a 5-10 minute coffee break at the office... or a fun evening for the kids in your house. | ||
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| DX-Ball | Michael P. Welch | [top] | |
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This is essentially an improvement over the classic Amiga game Megaball by Ed and Al Mackey. It is a fairly straightforward Breakout/Arkanoid clone with many levels - manipulate the ball in order to take out the cubes at the top, while collecting bonuses (extra shots, extra balls, extra life, etc.). A level editor was also made available as well. The player controls a paddle at the bottom and deflects a single ball, hitting different colored blocks on the top of the screen without having the ball fall below the screen. Clearing all the blocks results in completing the level and going to the next. There are 50 levels to complete. Similarly as Arkanoid and MegaBall, there is an inclusion of power-ups other than extra balls. Various power-ups appear when hitting random blocks, floating downwards towards the bottom and can be picked up by touching it with the paddle. If only a single block remains on a level and it continues to be untouched by the bouncing ball for a minute or so, an electricity sound begins to build and eventually the block is blasted away by a lightning. In certain levels, the layout of unbreakable blocks may allow the ball to become stuck in an infinite loop without touching the paddle. If this occurs, all unbreakable blocks will eventually replaced with the breakable ones after a minute or so of the ball being stuck in a bouncing pattern. There are three neutral, ten positive and five negative powerups in the game. Neutral powerups can affect the gameplay in both positive and negative ways, depends on the situation, positive ones help in passing the level, while negative ones make the level more difficult. To alert the player, a loud warning sound will be heard if the player picks up a negative power-up. Most of the power-ups are directly taken from MegaBall with different names. New additions include FireBall, Set-Off Exploding, Shrink Ball, Split Ball, Super Shrink, and Fast Ball. | ||
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| Egger Land [J] | Avit / HAL Laboratory | [top] | |
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This is a puzzle game based on the Japanese Eggerland video game series. Episode 0: Quest of Lala was a 30-level demo before Eggerland for Windows 95 came out with 194 stages. A Windows 98 compatible version was released in 2000 under the name Revival! Eggerland. It was later re-released again for Windows ME on November 2001. You play as Lolo, a blue ball-like character with eyes, arms, and legs. The story mainly deals with King Egger, the villain, who has captured princess Lala, who is similar to Lolo, only she is red. Again it's up to Lolo to rescue Lala by travelling through Egger's domain and solving the puzzle rooms laid out before him. You must guide Lolo through a room of tiles and collect all of the Heart Framers in the room. Doing this opens up a Jewel Box, which contains an item. Successfully acquiring the contents of the Jewel Box will clear the room of all monsters and open the way to the next room(s). All the rooms are connected but not all the room entrances or exits are closed. To fight the monsters Lolo has a weapon: the Magic Shot. Two shots can be obtained by collecting certain Heart Framers. There are numerous types of obstacles in the rooms. Emerald Framers are green blocks that Lolo may push around freely. To make it all more challenging there are also numerous terrain obstacles, like water, sand and grass which have all different drawbacks for Lolo. The game allows players to create their own "Eggerland" maps with a level creation program known as "Construct Mode." All of the enemies and options that are available in the main game appear in Construction as well as the terrains (and accompanying music). | ||
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| Eisei Meijin for Windows 95 [J] | Konami | [top] | |
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Windows version of the inaugural entry in Konami's shogi simulation series, first released on Sega Saturn and PlayStation on September 1995 in Japan. It's a type of board game played by two people. Like chess, it is believed to have originated in Chaturanga, ancient India. | ||
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| Expert Crosswords & More | Expert Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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A collection of crossword and word seek puzzles that you can solve on your PC. It comes with a crossword editor and import tools for for creating your own crosswords. You can save and load a puzzle while solving it. Hear play-enhanced sound effects. Use the "Boss Button" to turn a puzzle into an icon. Print your puzzles and take them with you! There's a timer and hint mode to enhance game play as well. It has 150 daily and themed Crossword puzzles. Themes include: Transportation, Music, Cars, Leisure, Activities, Communitios, Parables, Chemistry, Detectives, and many more. 400 Categorized WordSearch puzzles. Categories include: Animals, Presidents, Geography, History, Religion, Television, and many more. | ||
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| Extreme Chess | ChessBase GmbH, Davidson & Associates Inc. / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a chess game based on the famous Fritz chess engine. The main drew is the ability to compete against the engine in game, but a detailed analysis is also provided for every move. Tournament conditions are simulated through a clock. The game contains a database of 50,000 games annotated by chess grandmasters. There are search options and filters for the games, to look up games based on the player, tournament year, annotator, ranking and more. There is an option to expand the database further through an internet connection. | ||
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| Farland Legend [J] | Technical Group Laboratory Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese card game based on the Farland series of strategic RPGs. | ||
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| Flappy 95 [J] | Davy Software / db-soft | [top] | |
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This is an early Japanese game for Windows, part of the "Flappy" series of puzzle games. The beautiful planet Blue Star, the hometown of the boy Flappy, was invaded by the dark emperor Ngaro Ngororo. The prideful Blue Star people take a path to self-assert themselves by self-bombing without desiring battle or invasion. However, Flappy survived by his father on an escape capsule to the next star Zebiras just before suicide bombardment. In the capsule Flappy will see the explosive Blue Star debris rain on the Zebiras star. Flappy, who was wandering around without crying a star, suddenly gathers from the sky "from the heavens", collect the blue stone in the blue area here, when he gathers all, hear the voice saying "All collected ...". Flappy believed that a miracle would happen and began a journey to collect blue stones. It is a stage clear type action puzzle, sometimes referred to as "gravity warehouse number". Operate the main character Flappy and push the blue stone to a predetermined position called Blue Area and carry the stage clear. Blue stone is usually one in the stage, but in FLAPPY 95 and later there are red stones and yellow stones of different colors, and if there is, there is a need to carry it to the red area, the yellow area and so on as well. Besides Blue Stone there is a block named Brownstone which can be pushed and carried like a Blue Stone, but this does not have to be carried somewhere. As a tool for carrying the blue stone, it fills the hole of the stage, uses a bridge, and defeats the enemy. Also you can break it by pressing it against a wall etc. The stage has gravity, and the block falls when there is no wall below. Flappy and enemies are not affected by gravity, but when a block falls from above it will be crushed and die. Flappy can push blocks and throw mushrooms. He cannot touch enemies. It is the purpose of the game to bring the blue stone to the blue area. Because it is heavy, metal enemies can also be crushed. Brown stone can be crushed by pressing it against a wall. Because it is light, enemies of metal type can not be crushed. Evila - an enemy like a red crab. It comes after Flappy with random movements. Unicorns - enemies with green corners. Move right and left randomly. Unicorns of blue (moving randomly up and down), yellow (moving randomly up and down, left and right), red (chasing Flappy persistently) also appear. Hypnotic mushroom - Flappy can pick up and throw. The enemy that's hit sleeps for a certain period of time. | ||
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| FreeCell Plus | Goodsol Development Inc. | [top] | |
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FreeCell Plus 1.x contains the following solitaire games: FreeCell, Sea Towers, Stalactites. FreeCell Plus 2.x contains those previous games and adds Eight Off, Penguin. FreeCell Plus 3.x contains those previous games and adds: Baker's Game, Two Cells, SpiderCells. FreeCell Plus 4.x contains those previous games and adds: FreeCell [hard], Baker's Game [hard], Sea Towers [hard], Three Cells. | ||
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| Full Tilt! Pinball | Cinematronics, LLC / Maxis Software Inc. | [top] | |
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Full Tilt! Pinball is the first pinball simulation game developed by Cinematronics, LLC. The game includes three boards: Dragon’s Keep - Medieval Fantasy theme; Skulduggery - Pirate theme; Space Cadet (which was originally on Microsoft Plus! for Win95) - Space ship commander theme. Each board features the usual amount of bumpers, targets, ramps, etc. as well as a big payoff for the successful completion of each table, such as slaying a dragon in Dragon's Keep, or creating a black hole in Space Cadet. Different sounds and music are incorporated for the individual tables. The games are played using keyboard keys and include being able to nudge the tables. Being too forceful with a nudge will result in a tilt and end that turn. | ||
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| Full Tilt! Pinball 2 | Maxis Software Inc. | [top] | |
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Full Tilt! Pinball 2 is a pre-rendered 3D pinball game developed and published by Maxis. It was released in 1996 and is, not surprisingly enough, a Windows game. Upon release it was advertised as having "...precisely modeled ball movement, three-way table nudging, realistic sound effects, and fast multi-ball action." and was at the time a solid competitor in the pinball simulator market. It is a direct sequel/successor to Full Tilt! Pinball and shares many similarities with it's predecessor. The game has three tables; Mad Scientist, Alien Daze and Captain Hero. The different tables provided different themes, but all have a common thread in the direction of comic books and sci-fi. | ||
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| Golly! Ghosts! Goal! | Namco | [top] | |
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This time it's a puzzle game! Cheap! Simple! Be super satisfied! Align 5 or more balls of the same color vertically, horizontally or diagonal and they'll just disappear! Colorful balls appear one after another out of the way. Game over when you can not move the ball. Utilizing ultra super techniques, aim for 1000 points! It is a spinoff of the light-gun arcade game Golly! Ghosts! and is essentially a clone of Color Lines with very few non-aesthetic differences. | ||
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| Hoyle Blackjack | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This offers players the experience of playing the popular and easy to learn card game at a casino table against the dealer, other talking players in a single-player game as well as multiplayer games through the internet with other real-life opponents. You start with $5,000 in chips and $5,000 in the bank from which you can withdraw funds through an in-game ATM. The game offers a tutorial and hints and the player can customize may options such as number of decks, bet limits, double-down options, and number of splits allowed. You can adjust the talkativeness of the computer opponents and dealer and choose a male or female dealer and from amongst colorful opponents each with their own personality. There's the sultry Kathryn, the suave James Bond wannabe Sterling, the beer-drinking worker Jack, and the purse-clutching Mrs. O’Shea among others. | ||
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| Hoyle Bridge | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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The game of contract bridge in the style of Sierra's popular Hoyle series. It lets you play with your choice of eleven comical animated characters (or eleven stiff "business world" characters if you prefer) in a friendly rubber of the popular card game. In addition to standard bidding conventions and save/load/replay hand features, there are a variety of backgrounds, card backs, and sound sets to make the experience more colorful. Also, the animated players are fully voiced and speak in character (although why a pirate and a puppy enjoy playing bridge is left up to your imagination). | ||
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| Hoyle Casino | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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In this first iteration of Hoyle's Casino, you enter a Vegas casino where you can play: Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Slot Machines, and different varieties of Poker. You start with $5,000 and try to build up winnings, or if you lose all your money you can try asking loan sharks for more. The game offers computer opponents and croupiers who comment wittily on your performance and each has their own personality. You can alter the settings as to how talkative they are. Plus, you can change various options of the games depending on your preferences. | ||
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A Hoyle collection of classic card and board games designed for children. Includes checkers, crazy eights and old maid. The game allows players to choose various computer opponents, each with its own animated icon, personality, and distinct playing style. | ||
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This is the Windows version of the MS-DOS Hoyle Official Book of Games: Volume 2 with the 28 solitaire games found in that old release, upgraded with new looks, sounds and mouse control. A Card Flick game has been added, the object of which is to accurately toss as many cards into a hat as possible in the time allowed. Two versions can be installed on your computer at the same time. The Hoyle Solitaire HD (hard drive) game can be played without the CD in the drive, sacrificing only the music. Sound effects (shuffling and dealing cards) can be heard in either the Hard Drive or CD version. It plays in all versions of Windows released thus far, from Windows 3.x through Windows XP. Most of the gameplay is "drag and drop" but playing a card in some of the games simply requires a right click to send it to the correct spot. Easy and Difficult settings can be chosen per game and you can undo moves as often and as far back as you desire. Options allow you to replay the current game from the beginning, choose backgrounds, music and card decks. Up to 4 players can save their statistics separately. | ||
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| Hugo 4: Hugo ist nicht zu bremsen! / Hugo Classic 2 [G] | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | [top] | |
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Hugo, the little troll, known from the television series has once again gone on an adventure to rescue his wife Hugoline and the three children from the clutches of the evil witch Scylla. Of course Scylla will try all sorts of schemes, just to prevent this. This pack contains the following mini-games: Hugo on a snowboard, on a bike, in a mine, and on a balloon. If he passes the obstacles in the game, Scylla will already be waiting for him in her dark cave. It was later re-released for modern o/s in 2000 as Hugo Classic 2. | ||
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| Hunchback of Notre Dame: Topsy Turvy Games | 7th Level, Inc. / Disney Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Second in the GameBreak! series after Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games, this brings back to life the original characters of Hunchback of Notre Dame, the 34th animated feature film from Disney Studios. It starts with a colourful, really animated, and festive introduction. The environment is the Notre Dame Cathedral front yard, where the festival and games take place. Sounds and music from the movie are always there. The games are presented by those three funny Disney’s gargoyles, which may also give some support. Games can be played by one or two players bringing more fun when with family and friends. Escalating levels challenge players of all ages! But there is also an option for difficulty. There's the "FunFair" and you try your luck at the wheel of fortune. In Chiseler you're breaking blocks to get to the next level. In Djali Bowling, you bowl ten frames in a game. In Catch a Fool, you're one of the townspeople and your job is to catch the fool falling out of one of the three windows with a trampoline. In Upsy Daisy it's you versus either the Joker, Wolf, Lobster, or Clopper in mid-air. The idea is you each have 5 balloons and you have to pop your opponent's balloons before they pop yours. In Picture Puzzle put pictures puzzles back together for 8 different characters. All games allow one or two players to play, with three of them featuring head-to-head game play for even more of a challenge. The two levels of difficulty will satisfy everyone, with an easy level for younger kids and beginners, and a difficult level for hard-core gamers. | ||
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| Icebreaker | Magnet Interactive Studios, Inc. / Fox Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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It's a puzzle/shooter that has the player take control of a flying pyramid who has to navigate through 150 levels blasting other stationary pyramids. The stationary pyramids are either green, blue or red and can turn into each others colors throughout a level. The red pyramids can be destroyed by being shot, the blue pyramids are destroyed by being touched, and the green pyramids are destroyed by luring enemy pyramids into them. Speaking of enemy pyramids, each enemy pyramid has their own abilities: Orange pyramids have the ability to morph; Purple pyramids can dig pits that can trap the player; Green pyramids are very smart and can outwit the player; Yellow pyramids are very fast and maneuverable. There are also many different environments to play in such as ice fields, swamps, lava pits and bottomless pits, four different difficulty settings to choose from that range from easy to insane and eighteen different music tracks that can be changed during the game. | ||
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| Jeopardy: TV & Movie Pack | Graphix Zone | [top] | |
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New Jeopardy Categories! You know you could make it to the Jeopardy! Hall of Fame...if only the categories were about a subject that you know and love? Well, couch potatoes, here's your chance to prove it. This includes 120 new categories and over 1220 new answers - all about television, movies and much more. Jeopardy gives you the answers; you provide the questions. Sound easy? You now can choose from a variety of themed Jeopardy games to play. Some TV & Movie Pack categories include: Westerns, Looney Tunes, Broadway, Science Fiction, Horror Actors, Movie Darlings, Action Heroes, Heartthrobs, Comedy Teams, The Oscars, Movie Monsters, and many more. | ||
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| Lights Out 3D | Click! Multimedia Ltd. / Tiger Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a computer adaptation of Tiger Electronics' electronic game. The game is played on a grid full of pieces (here called buttons) that can be either lit or unlit. The objective of the game is to turn off all the lit buttons in as few moves as possible. Buttons are changed by clicking on them but all adjacent buttons are then also changed. Making a change creates an effect pattern and the game can be played with two different patterns: cross or diagonal. According to the box cover the game consists of over 24 billion puzzles and these are divided into nine different puzzle types. There are four different grid sizes: 5x5, 6x6, 7x7 and 8x8. It's possible to play with pre-programmed puzzles or randomized ones. The nine puzzle types are: Classic which is described above; Lit Only where the player is only allowed to click on lit buttons; Toggle where the player has to click on lit and unlit buttons in turn; Looping where the effect pattern can wrap around to the opposite side of the grid; Lights In where the player has to recreate a certain displayed puzzle; 3 Color which has three different buttons (green, purple, red) that have to be turned to red; Insert Puzzle where the player can create his own puzzles; 2 Players which is a multiplayer mode where the players take turns swapping the buttons; Fliput which is a one or two player mode where the objective is to have as many buttons of the player's color as possible. | ||
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| Mastermind | 3T Productions Ltd. / BBC Multimedia | [top] | |
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Adapted from the venerable British quiz show, Mastermind allows you to become a contestant on that program, competing against up to three others. You face two rounds of questions; the first round will see you answering a set of questions based on specialized field of your choice, while in the second round you must answer a set of general knowledge questions. Both rounds have a time limit of 2 minutes. Any question may be passed (skipped), so that you may answer more questions in the allotted time. The person who gets the most questions right wins the contest. If a tie occurs, the person with the most passes is the loser in the contest. If a tie occurs between two players with an equal number of passes, the contestants must answer a set of five questions - all five questions being the same between contestants - as a tie breaker. The host of the Mastermind game is (the now-late) Magnus Magnusson, who also hosted the real life Mastermind program for its entire first run from 1972 to 1997. If you run out of time in a round while he is posing a question to you, he'll state Masterminds' "I've started so I'll finish," catchphrase that he coined during the course of the program, finishing up the question and allowing you to answer it. It sports over 5,000 questions to answer, and has 50 groups of specialized questions. | ||
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| Mezzogiorno di Cuoco [It] | Medialab | [top] | |
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Hundreds of mysterious phrases to measure your intelligence and reflexes in this trivia game. Challenge after challenge, who will be the winner? In the Indiana City saloon while the bartender pours liters of beer and the pianist pounds on the keys of his piano, Lucky the skinny, Joe the cowboy, Pedro the Mexican and Haug the Indian challenge each other without excluding letters for the love of sweet Mary. In search of the lost phrase, the contestants fight in a merciless duel. | ||
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| Microsoft Return Of Arcade | Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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This is a collection of four classic arcade games, ported from their arcade code to run on Windows 95/98: Dig Dug, Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position. Game options such as number of players, controls, lives, speed and difficulty are fully customizable, and high scores are automatically saved. A feature called "quick help" provides brief operating instructions for new players at the beginning of a game, and as an added bonus, a brief history of each game is available in the help menu. There is Multiplayer mode but it's turn based. In 2000, an Anniversary Edition was released with Ms. Pac-Man added to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Pac-Man. | ||
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| Mind Grind / Quiz Quest | Microforum International | [top] | |
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This is a one or two player quiz game designed to be played in 256 colours under Windows 95. The player selects a character from one of several that are supplied, most are aliens, and competes over five rounds: The Matrix of Knowledge - This takes place on an 8x8 grid and to advance to the next level the player must connecting four cells in any direction: horizontally, vertically or diagonally by correctly answering the question that they contain; The Pillars of Wisdom - Here the player must advance to the topmost level of pillars and they may jump one or two ranks at a time. The difficulty of the question is determined by the level of the jump attempted; The Maze of the Mind - Is a randomly generated labyrinth containing forty-five 45 locked doors. The player must navigate their way out of the maze by answering questions to open these doors. Question difficulty will increase as competitors progress further into the maze; Platforms of Insight - The player(s) stand in a tube. Beneath them are stacked platforms containing question topics. Answering a question correctly removes a platform while answering one incorrectly adds a platform. Too many wrong answers will see the player crushed against the top of the tube; Looking For Signs Of intelligent Life - This is the final level and it sees the player piloting a space ship towards earth. To reach their destination the player must dock with ten space stations and answer the questions they ask correctly. Getting a question wrong means being flung into hyperspace; In both one and two player games there are bonus points for being the first to complete a stage and options to spend some points/dollars, for example in the final level there are meteors and such to be avoided along the way so spending points to buy a deflector shield may be a worthwhile investment. | ||
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| Minigolf am PC | Software Brokers | [top] | |
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| More Vegas Games Entertainment Pack for Windows | New World Computing | [top] | |
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Great casino fun is only a click away. Whether you are a first time player, or just wanting to hone your betting strategies, this is perfect for you. Experience your all-time casino favorites without the expense of a weekend trip. Enhanced graphics, realistic sound effects, and Windows 95 ease of use recreates the magic of Vegas like never before. Laptop compatibility makes this game perfect for those long hours on the road. Multi-player action lets you practice your skills against up to four human opponents. A perfect gift for all occasions. So ante up and get in the game. Gambling has never been this easy and this fun. It includes: Blackjack, Roulette, Video Keno, Craps, Video Poker, Slots. | ||
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| Othello | Hasbro Interactive | [top] | |
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A minute to learn... A lifetime to master. Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci challenge you to the ultimate mind game- Othello CD-ROM. Go head-to-head with these famous masterminds in this classic game of skill and strategy. Othello brings these two celebrated geniuses to life as your toughest- and most entertaining opponents ever. Othello... only the playing pieces are black and white. Everything else is strictly gray matter. Features: Challenge the brilliant artificial intelligence or another player; Captivating 3-D graphics, animation and sound effects; 7 skill levels - Beginner to Master; Plays in under 15 minutes; English, German, French and Dutch- on one CD-ROM; Match wits with Einstein... or Leonardo da Vinci. | ||
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| Pastel Pop [J] | Fuga Systems | [top] | |
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Rare Japanese Sokoban clone with such an abundance of text that you can be tired reading it, if you know how. There is a girl who has two terrible problems: first, she is anime, and secondly, there is a stone in her forehead. Apparently, the terrible ugliness very much interferes with her life, and now, asleep at night after her birthday, she sees in the dream another girl, with whom everything is much worse: she already has three stones. Somehow she takes the heroine to a magical world, where we take her under control. The gameplay is pretty hardcore Sokoban with a hard limit of moves, within which we must collect all the crystals scattered in level (and not just like that - some objects can be moved only by taking the appropriate color stone) and get to the exit, while skillfully pushing the obstacles scattered around. Visually, the game resembles some jRPG with its top view and the sprites used. It has serious puzzle difficulty, recommended to all fans of the genre who are not confused by the abundance of text in an incomprehensible language. | ||
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| Pinball Builder: A Construction Kit | Spidersoft Limited / 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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From the creators of the Pinball Dreams/Fantasies series comes a pinball construction kit for Windows. Choose from 8 table layouts, each with 4 different flipper/outlane configurations. Choose the base for your table, add all the bumpers/lights you want, and play the table. You can change all the scores and the letter combinations as you please. You can also play one of the eight tables that are ready to play without editing.The tables are also playable in DOS, featuring the traditional scrolling mode. Included are eight sample tables which the layouts are based on. This package was included in Encore's "Pinball Madness 2" collection in 1999. | ||
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| Pinball Prelude | Effigy Software | [top] | |
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The central theme of the pinball game Pinball Prelude is time. The first table is set in the past and features a dinosaur setting, with table elements being not easily recognizable as such since they blend into the environment. The second table is set in the present and at the same time the most conventional of the three design-wise. The third table plays in the future and contains five flippers in total. Some of the features include a hi-res mode for multi-ball, vertical and horizontal scrolling of the playfield and a rubber ball, which behaves much differently than the standard steel sphere. | ||
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| Playskool Puzzles | ImageBuilder Software Inc., Playskool / Hasbro Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a set of five educational puzzles intended for kids aged 3 to 6: Explore It! - The player chooses between four pictures (Park, House, Beach and Farm). Each location will have different elements and objects removed and placed randomly at the bottom of the screen. The main objective is to reassemble the picture by sticking the objects in their corresponding areas. Once the image is back to its original form, the player can click on some of its elements to explore them. For example, after completing the park, clicking on the circus within it will trigger a new such puzzle. Clicking on a particular object in the final exploration puzzle will reveal a separate animation featuring it and its name. This way, the kids can learn new words and associate them. Puzzle Maker - A puzzle editor. Using the toolbox and a selection of premade objects, the user can create new puzzles or modify existing ones. Puzzle Maker will automatically import the last picture seen while playing any of the other puzzles. The picture can be cut in three different ways and after that you need to reassemble it as it's normally done in Jigsaw. Connect the Dots - Clicking the numbers or letters in their correct numerical or alphabetical order will trace the margin of an object. After connecting all the dots correctly, the game will show the full object, its name and an animation for it. Mix and Match - It involves combining different body parts to obtain a funny-looking character. Jigsaw - An ordinary jigsaw puzzle. In every puzzle it's possible to modify the original image's colors and draw other stuff on it using the toolbox. The result can usually be saved or printed. There are three difficulty settings: Easy, Medium and Hard. | ||
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| Pocoman! | Sleepless Software Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a Sokoban clone with a very colorful and cute character, PocoMan, the 21st century super-hero of microscopic proportions. It's imprisoned in a trap made of fifty mazes which must all be solved to escape. On each level, the player must push all the objects onto the target spots (marked with X's). As usual for Sokoban games, only one crate can be pushed at a time and they cannot be pulled, so the player must be careful not to get stuck. Completing each level unlocks the next one. The protagonist can be moved with the keyboard, or by clicking and holding the mouse on the target square. Additionally, by Shift-clicking, the player can enable the "Super-Poco-Mode" where PocoMan constantly follows the cursor movements. A single crate push can be undone at any time. This game is easily found on the internet, but it's 2 level packs, however are not. There are 2 level packs: Daisy Pack levels were available for free if you told the developers a joke (10 levels) and the other, Green Machine, was available for sale (30 levels). | ||
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| Power Chess | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This basic chess game includes internet play and a large array of boards and options. It also has a lot of history and lets you watch over 150 famous chess matches like Deep Blue vs. Gary Kasparov. The AI is very good and has many opponents, a Power Chess Queen that gives you advice given orally, in natural language, making it easier for beginners to follow the games analysis. A king learns your strategy. Its chess engine is "Wchess" by David Kittinger, which played against Deep Blue in the 1995 World Computer Championship in Hong Kong. The game is included as a watchable "Great Game". A collection of famous games is included for review and study, each one narrated turn-by-turn by the Queen. Other Great Games included: The Evergreen Game, Adolf Anderssen vs. Jean Dufresne (1852); The Opera Game, Paul Morphy vs. Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard (1858); Wilhelm Steinitz vs. Curt von Bardeleben (1895); Ruger vs. Gebhard (1915); Vasily Smyslov vs. Bobby Fischer (1970); Wchess vs. Deep Blue (1995); Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov, Game 1 (1996). | ||
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| RISK: The Game of Global Domination | BlueSky Software, Inc., NMS Software Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Considered by many as one of the most popular battle strategy board games ever devised, the ageless game of global domination is now available on CD-ROM in Hasbro's line of traditional board game conversions that include Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit among others. Aspects of the classic game, like building armies and seizing territories, are brought to life through animation and graphics. The version also offers a variation on the classic game, titled Ultimate Risk, which further enhances gameplay by including weather, terrain, POWs, and more, features not possible with the limitations of the board version. These features add a new dynamic to the already challenging game by forcing users to consider alternate strategies from the original board game version. Five maps are available for strategizing, including the classic world map with six continents and the American map, with 14 additional countries and 153 territories. If playing the classic version, players choose from three varying game objectives. In World Domination, the last player standing wins the game, while the Capital Risk module establishes a goal of conquering the opposing player's secretly designated capital. The last objective, Mission Risk, involves completing a mission designated by drawing a random card. In addition to the three objectives, the territorial option is available in Ultimate Risk. The object here is to attain an empire of a predetermined size quicker than your opponents, who can be either computer-controlled or up to six humans via a modem or LAN. When you're fighting computer opponents, the game utilizes AI to learn from gameplay, making it more challenging to attain the illusion of world domination. | ||
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| Sci-Fi Channel Trivia Game, The | Bryon Press Media | [top] | |
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The ultimate science fiction, fantasy and horror trivia game. With nearly 5,000 questions, The Sci-Fi Channel Trivia Game provides hours of brain-bending trivia in a lively game show format with three rounds of non-stop play. You can go head to head with the computer or play against friends with a wealth of questions from Star Wars to The Outer Limits. A 3D animated host, Morphix, moderates the game as he morphs into an alien, a robot, a dragon, and a skeleton. Questions are drawn from five categories movies, television, comics, books, and a special "worm hole" section of miscellaneous trivia and become increasingly difficult to challenge even the most hardcore trivia fans. | ||
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| Scrabble | Random Games, Inc. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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The world's famous word game receives a multimedia facelift in this adaptation from Hasbro Interactive. The game can be played over a LAN or the Internet with up to four players. Don't have anyone to play against? No problem. This features five different skill levels so you can find a computer opponent who plays close to your ability. The Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (3rd Edition) has been brought online so you can check on the appropriateness or definition of a particular word. Multimedia touches include tiles crumbling to dust or instantly turning to gold, twenty different musical scores, and adjustable speed. | ||
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| Skill Traps | N-TK Inc. / Memorex Entertainment | [top] | |
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Beetles, beetles everywhere. This entertaining collection delivers fun, entertainment and learning on a sugar cube. Once you start, you won't be able to stop playing this contagious collection of crazy games. You'll enjoy Beetle Run, Quarry, Ronnie's Resort and Word Mix so much that you won't even notice increasing your use of logic, creative thinking, vocabulary, problem solving, consequential planning and entomology (insect education). | ||
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| Slam Tilt Pinball | Liquid Dezign HB / 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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This game features four different tables, each with different layouts and features. A large number of sub-games are included, as well as a variety of animations on the LCD panel at the top. Each table has multi-ball features, with the view automatically switching to full-screen when this is activated. in total there are six different viewpoints, and no less than 47 different game modes are promised. | ||
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| Smart Games Challenge #1 | KnowWare, Smart Games, Inc. | [top] | |
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First full game in the Smart Games series. More than 300 puzzles of 20 different kinds. Anagrams: Unscramble the words, then unscramble a final word made up of selected letters from the previous words; essentially Jumble, but without the cute pictures (20 puzzles). Car Jam: Move the cars and other vehicles in the parking lot in order to get the red car to the exit (14 puzzles). Cash Crop: Harvest the crops as efficiently as possible to maximize your revenue (8 puzzles). Crosswords: Blacken squares in the grid to leave behind only valid words (13 puzzles). Cryptograms: Find the hidden phrase hidden in the jumble of letters (20 puzzles). Entropy: Turn all the squares black or gray; clicking on a square changes the color of all adjacent squares, though, so it's not as easy as it sounds (20 puzzles). Generations: A puzzle based on the classic Life program; set up an initial state and let it progress through several generations to arrive at the given end configuration (20 puzzles). Marble Jump: Essentially the classic peg-jumping game, but with marbles and different starting configurations (20 puzzles). Matchplay: Move as few matches as possible to form squares (15 puzzles). Native Tongue: Decipher a primitive language from glyphs and a few phrases, then translate English phrases into the primitive language (8 puzzles). Series: Identify the pattern in a series of numbers, letters, or words, and figure out the next few elements (20 puzzles). World Series: Harder Series puzzles (20 puzzles). Sliding Tiles: Sliding tiles puzzles (15 puzzles). Take A Number: Rearrange the given numbers and symbols to create a formula that gives the specified total (20 puzzles). Traffic: Adjust the timing of stoplights to get traffic through the intersections as quickly as possible (10 puzzles). Viewing Cubes: Given a flattened cube, determine whether various 3D cubes could possibly be created from the flatted version (10 puzzles). Warehouse: Soko-Ban puzzles; push crates onto target squares in as few moves as possible (18 puzzles). Word Builder: Build as many words as possible using each letter of the alphabet exactly once (6 puzzles). Word Melt: Change one letter at a time to get from one word to another (20 puzzles). Word Search: Word searches; early puzzles have predefined lists, but in later puzzles, you just find as many words as you can (15 puzzles). Presumably because this game was designed with a contest in mind, it lacks some of the features of later games in the series such as automatic saving of progress (most puzzle types do support manual saves; however, if you leave a particular puzzle without saving, it will reset). Puzzles also reset to an unsolved state after you've solved them so you can't go back and appreciate your past brilliance except by looking at the progress bars for each puzzle type. | ||
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| Smart Games Word Puzzles #1 | Smart Games, Inc. | [top] | |
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For those who loved Smart Games Challenge #1's word puzzles, this is a stand-alone package with lots more of four kinds of word puzzles from that game. Unlike SGC1, this one will automatically save your progress whenever you change puzzles. The included puzzle types are: Crossed Words - Blacken squares in the grid to leave only valid words (75 puzzles); Scanagrams - Unscramble the words, then unscramble a final word made up of selected letters from the previous words (99 puzzles); Word Hunter - Word searches; early puzzles have predefined lists, but in later puzzles, you just find as many words as you can (60 puzzles); Word Melt - Change one letter at a time to get from one word to another; later puzzles require different numbers of letters to change each step (76 puzzles). | ||
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| Solitaire Deluxe | Publishing International / Interplay Entertainment Corp. | [top] | |
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This version of Computer Card Solitaire contains 24 different games, including: Calculation, Forty Thieves, Four Corners, Golf, Klondike, La Nivernaise, Pyramid, Scorpion, Spider, Three Shuffles and a Draw, and Upside-Down Pyramid, plus others. In addition, it has 24 different decks and 24 different backgrounds. Rules can be changed so the games will play like the player is used to playing them. You can also create your own "tours" where you are able to play a series of selected games ending up with a total score for the series. Finally, there is are numerous options: Drag Options:Card Drag, Outline Drag, and no Drag Scoring Options: Traditional and Challenge Playing Options: Timed and Duplicate. Solitaire Deluxe for Windows was a re-released version compatible with Windows 95. | ||
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| Starball | Volume 11 Software / GameTek, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an odd pinball game based largely on the game also called Starball, but for the Atari ST. While this game is a typical pinball, it also present many bizarre, innovative concepts. It consists of one huge table, which in turn consists of 3 main parts, each with its own set of flippers. Should your ball fall between the flippers it will drop to a lower level until finally you're at the bottom, and then you lose a life. Each part of the table has its own quirks, secrets and purpose (for example, in the middle section you build a spaceship and have to protect it from two missile-firing guns on the right. There are also hidden, or secret, stages in the game: one is an "egg" with four parts you have to crack, another is a breakout clone only with pinball mechanics and another is a bizarre "Doom pinball". There's also the ultra-secret (and very hard to get to) Llama pinball game. | ||
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| Strategy Challenges Collection 1 | Edmark Corporation | [top] | |
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In three classic games from around the world, students will build strategic-thinking and problem-solving skills. Students may play against each other or on-screen opponents who challenge them with different games, playing styles, and strategies - just like real life. Games: Mancala - in this ancient game from Africa, you'll use a variety of strategies to move stones around the board and try to collect more than your opponent will; Go-Moku - quick-scan the board and find ways to put five pieces in a row before your opponent can in this classic Japanese game; Nine Men's Morris - this Scandinavian game dates back to the time of the Vikings - and requires multiple strategies to win. Special features include strategy videos with clips of people using strategic thinking in real-life situations and game guides that give students a look at the rich, cultural history of the featured game. Features: Nine game masters challenge you with different styles and strategies; Game-play demos make it quick and easy to learn each game and strategy coaches provide insightful tips; Challenge levels advance and game-board scenes change as you master skills; Game guides highlight the culture and history of each game; Real-world videos feature problem-solving strategies people use in their jobs; "Dear parents" videos give parents insights into the educational value of the program. Learning opportunities: Plan ahead; Break problems into smaller parts; Learn problem-solving strategies to use every day; Synthesize information; Test hypotheses; Predict outcomes. | ||
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| Strategy Challenges Collection 2 | Edmark Corporation | [top] | |
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This consists of three strategy games: Jungle Chess (from China); Tablut (from Lapland, northern Scandinavia and Russia); Surakarta (from Java, Indonesia). All three are based on traditional board games, although they may be unfamiliar to many. In Jungle Chess, you maneuver past wild animal playing pieces and avoid traps to get to your opponent’s den. In Surakarta, you travel along loops to capture opponents. In Tablut, you surround and capture the Swedish king, or try and escape to safety if you play the defensive position. Jungle Chess and Tablut are played a little like chess and checkers, while Surakarta is a little like a race. The games have six animated computer opponents of varying skill levels and styles of play. Or you can take turns at the keyboard to play against another person. The game includes some videos on how animals use strategies to survive. | ||
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| T2: Judgment Day Limited Edition Entertainment Utility | Sound Source Interactive | [top] | |
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This specially-numbered CD-ROM, based on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, features screen savers, jigsaw puzzles, movie clips, audio clips, and best of all, the T-100 (Arnold!). Morphing, Machinery, Mayhem... The T2 Limited Edition Entertainment Utility is here, and it's built to blow away boredom. Start with a screen saver. Choose either an animated module or a set of striking still images and riveting video clips. Animated modules include desktop-destroying terminators, 3D endoskeleton data, morphing icons, wasteland wars, a terminator factory and many others. Set sound, password privacy, sleep time and other options. | ||
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| Time Hunters Pinball | WSP-Software | [top] | |
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| Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Puzzle Dama [J] | Konami Co., Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a is a Puyo Puyo style puzzle game based on the dating game Tokimeki Memorial. The player chooses between the different girls from Tokimeki Memorial to compete in falling block battles. Colored blocks fall in pairs that the player rotates and places in the game matrix as they fall. There are two different types of blocks. When three or more regular blocks of the same color touch, they get cleared. Smaller blocks don't disappear like the regular blocks do when they are aligned, but grow into regular blocks when adjacent ones get cleared. This can be used to perform combos. The goal of the game is to defeat another player or COM opponent by clearing series of blocks and making combos, which makes batches of small blocks fall into the opponent's matrix, until the opponent fails at clearing enough blocks and his matrix is full. | ||
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| Total Pinball 3D / Pinball 3D-VCR | Spidersoft Ltd. / 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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Total Pinball 3D is a DOS game released in 1996 by 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. It was developed by Spidersoft Limited. Total Pinball features the same slightly changed four tables as its predecessor Pinball Mania allowing for a full 3D view as opposed to a static 2D one. Kick Off centres around soccer/football, Jail Break is set in a prison, Tarantula reflects Spidersoft's name and logo as it features a rampant spider, and Jackpot is based around gambling. The main difference is the optional presentation of the tables in an isometric 3D view. The second main feature is a recording function to save a played game on the hard drive. During the replay it is possible to watch the game in 3D even when it was played on the 2D tables. The movies can't be watched separately from the game. The handling is the genre standard: Space for tilting, shift to use the paddles. The player can set the inclination of the tables, the amount of balls per game (3 to 5) and during multiball (up to 10). It is possible to play the game monochromatic. | ||
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| Trivia Munchers Deluxe / Knowledge Muchers Deluxe | ImageBuilder Software, Inc., MECC / SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | [top] | |
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With 3,200 questions, 74 categories, and five levels of difficulty, this is not only the most complete trivia game out there, it's also the most fun. We've divided the questions into categories like Music, Animals, Famous People, Geography, and Health & Diet. Pick the topic you want and get ready for brain-storming fun. Quick video-game action, quirky animation, eye-popping 3D graphics, and wild sound effects make it one game that is fresh and action-packed! Count on Doggle, the Crumbley Sisters, Zubb the Grub, and the rest of the Troggle crew to keep your trivia-munching mission constantly challenging. The rules are so simple. You'll be having a blast within seconds of your first Muncher adventure. Try it by yourself, or, for even more fun, play with others. Your options for having a great time are endless. Guaranteed to build knowledge in: Animal Kingdom, Geography, Famous People, History, Sports, Popular Culture, Vocabulary, Math, Astronomy, Health and Diet, Science, Music. | ||
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| Tronic | TLK Games S.A.R.L. / Webfoot Technologies Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a little Breakout-clone with additional bells and whistles. Goal of the game is to use a racket, controlled by arrow keys or mouse, to hit balls that destroy bricks. When all the bricks for a level have been cleared, the player will advance to a next level. The racket can fire rockets at any time by using a 'Gigablitz' weapon. To activate it, hold down the 'Alt'-key and wait for an indicator to reach the top. The trick is, in order to use Gigablitz, no balls must hit the racket, or the Gigablitz sequence will be aborted. When some bricks are hit, they release gadgets that can be collected. Many of them enable more balls on screen, enlarge balls or let you advance to the next level. Beware though, do not collect red-coloured gadgets as they can shrink your racket, invert racket movement or substract points. Finally it also has a built-in level editor that lets you create, play and save your own Tronic levels. | ||
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| Ultimate Pinball / Screamball | Teeny Weeny Games, Ltd. / GT Interactive Software Corp. | [top] | |
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Ultimate Pinball is an arcade-style pinball game. The game is almost identical in style to the pinball games by 21st Century Entertainment, such as Pinball Dreams. It includes six different pinball tables to play, all based on generic ideas such as sports, horror, Egypt, space, pirates, and the American west. The game features smooth scrolling, digitized sound, and local multiplayer capabilities. | ||
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| Ultimate Yahtzee | PCA Inc. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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A computer adaptation of the classic dice game Yahtzee. Players take turns throwing five dice and attempting to make scoring combinations (full house, straight). The elusive five of a kind is referred to as a Yahtzee (hence the game's name). In addition to the standard game (solo, against the computer, and against other human players), Ultimate Yahtzee has four other variations including Battle Yahtzee (your roll can hurt the other player's roll) and Pyramid Yahtzee (uses four sided dice). Ultimate Yahtzee was bundled with AOL trial software and re-released in 2001 as a promotional give-away with boxes of General Mills cereals. | ||
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| Virtual Snooker | Celeris Inc. / Interplay Productions Inc., Softkey | [top] | |
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This was released the year after the original Virtual Pool, and uses the same game engine many of the same digital assets as the previous installment. However, whilst Virtual Pool featured four different types of pool to play, Virtual Snooker only presents the ability to play traditional snooker, as the name suggests. Originally released only for DOS, it was later ported to Windows 95 and Windows 98 (in a single three-platform release), distributed by SoftKey. Similar to other releases in the Virtual Pool series, the game is controlled by keyboard and mouse, with shots being made by mouse movement. The game features first-person 3D graphics and allows the player to stand up away from the line of the shot, and move around the table to see different angles. The game boasts a higher frame rate than that of the original Virtual Pool. In each release of the game, there is the ability to play locally networked multiplayer games on a Ethernet LAN, and to do basic online multiplayer between two remote computers via analog modems. The game features LAN capabilities, and the ability to connect two computers via modem for basic online multiplayer. As with other games in the series, this was marketed with a guarantee that the simulator would improve the player's non-simulated game at a real table. The game's box indicates six-time World Snooker Champion Steve Davis in a starring role. The game offers 52 minutes of instructional videos with Davis, and the option to pause the video and attempt the shot being demonstrated by the game. This live-action material also includes the world's first televised maximum break in history, completed by Davis. Ronnie O'Sullivan, another top-level professional player, acts as presenter in the game (both he and Davis feature in the cover art, superimposed on snooker balls). | ||
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| Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack | Inner Workings / BBC Multimedia | [top] | |
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The is a collection of fun items for your PC inspired by Nick Park’s first three Academy Award winning clay animated Wallace & Gromit short films. The package includes the Customise-o-matic which adds screen-savers, wallpapers, icons, and sound-bites to your desktop. You can also use a video browser interface, the Crackin' Compendium, to view some of their best film clips. There are also several games: a multiple-choice trivia quiz for one or more players, and two singleplayer games. The Bungee Game is based on Gromit's high jinks in "A Close Shave". He must jump to clean windows which are being dirtied by a jam catapult machine and avoid being grabbed if someone opens a window. The Train Game echoes the chase in "The Wrong Trousers" and you have to lay tracks across the kitchen so that Gromit can ride the toy train all the way to the sink. | ||
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| Where Is The Difference Deluxe [J] | Overrise | [top] | |
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Find the difference game for parents and children. With the countdown to the start, the shutter is lifted, and when I compare the pictures on the left and right, I think, "Oh!?" The two pictures are constantly animated, so finding them all can be tricky! Ah, the time limit is approaching, and I have to find 10...!? The mistake you find will be the correct picture. Click the wrong place with this finger. There is a time limit, but if you find a mistake, your score and remaining time will increase. Full of convenient functions that make the game even more fun. You can start from the middle function is included. Difficulty can be set, so even small children can enjoy it. Once you clear the stage, it will be added to the album if you can't find any mistakes, and you can play at any time. can display the answer. Features: 10 mistakes are hidden in one stage; There are 60 types of pictures for finding differences. You can enjoy looking for 600 differences; Fun music flows in the background, making the game even more exciting; Mark the wrong part in the picture. | ||
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| WinPolis Deluxe | Christian Jung | [top] | |
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WinPolis is a shareware, mouse controlled, game for up to four players at least one of which must be human. As the name suggests it is based on, but is not a copy of, Monopoly. As it’s based on Monopoly it’s no surprise that the game takes the form of a traditional board game with players rolling dice and moving round the board buying and selling property and trying to ruin their opponents. When a player owns a full set of properties they can enhance them, thus costing other player(s) more when they land on them. There’s also a casino square when the player lands here they can play blackjack and try to win some extra cash, the 'Free Parking' square now triggers a shareware reminder and the 'Jail' square is now a Vacation square, there are humorous versions of the 'Chance' squares too. The game has sound, three settings for the AI player’s style of play, and can be played in English or German. | ||
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| World Series Of Poker Adventure | Masque Publishing | [top] | |
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"Simply the finest casino poker simulation ever. An ideal way to sharpen your skills." Jim Albrecht, World Series of Poker Director. The Ultimate Casino Pack includes: Blackjack; Slots; Video Poker; Seven Card Stud; Texas Hold'em; Omaha Hold'em; Satellite Tournaments. | ||
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| You Don't Know Jack Sports | Jellyvision Games, Inc. / Berkeley Systems | [top] | |
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The You Don't Know Jack series of party games is known for its oddball humor, sarcastic wit and roundabout way of asking trivia questions. This time Jack is aimed squarely at sports-related topics. Hosted by Guy Towers, this game includes the normal trivia as well as special questions in the form of Gibberish Questions, Multiple-Choice and Fiber Optic Field Trips. As with all Jack games, you can always try to screw another contestant (with actual screws!) or Don't Be a Wimp and be forced to answer the question if that player is in the lead. Compete against up to two friends in a round of seven or 21 questions. Includes 800 sports-themed questions in humorous categories like "Gym Class Heroes". Earn bonus cash by being the first to correctly answer the "Gibberish Question". | ||
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| You Don't Know Jack: Movies | Berkeley Systems, Jellyvision Games, Inc. | [top] | |
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"The Jack" is back with 800 questions to test your knowledge of the silver screen. New movie-themed graphics and audio are featured along with six different question categories to keep movie buffs reaching for the popcorn. For those who have never experienced the You Don't Know Jack series, it is an irreverent quiz show game that draws upon your knowledge of pop culture and trivia. All questions are announced, so speech is an integral part of the game. Your smarmy host will ridicule wrong answers and keep things lively by adding jokes and innuendo while reading the questions. You can play either a seven-question game or regular 21-question game with up to three players competing on one keyboard. Six game variations include multiple choice, fill in the blank, "whatshisname," Gibberish, DisOrDat and The Jack Attack. The first two are fairly self-explanatory while the next three, respectively, involve questions regarding guessing the name of a famous person based on clues from the movies, identifying real phrases and quotes that rhyme with gibberish sound-alikes and bonus clue trivia questions. The final type, The Jack Attack, consists of association questions where you find the common ground between two phrases or words. | ||
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| You Don't Know Jack: Question Pack | Berkeley Systems, Jellyvision Games, Inc. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This expansion pack for the original game includes 400 all new questions. There's more GIBBERISH to decipher, more Jack Attacks to match, more heart-pounding music and sound effects, and more chances to Screw Your Neighbour. It was also released combined with the original game as You Don't Know Jack XL (X-Tra Large). | ||
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| You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2 / You Don't Know Jack UK | Jellyvision Games, Inc. / Berkeley Systems | [top] | |
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"Thanks for coming, now SHUT UP and PLAY". And that's exactly what this offers - more of the irreverent, slick, frenetically paced manic game playing that its predecessor so successfully launched. Once again you are a contestant (with the option of playing against one or two more opponents) on a game show that tests your trivia knowledge to the limits. There are seven kinds of questions to deal with this time around: Muliple-Choice, Fill in the Blank, Whatshisname, Gibberish, DisOrDat in which players have to quickly classify words into two or more categories, Celebrity Collect Calls which features real-life characters asking bizarre questions, Picture Questions which adds pictures to the predominantly sound-oriented game, and the ever popular Jack Attack. You decide on whether to play a regular 21-question game or a 7-question tournament-length game. Questions are timed and whether ahead or behind in the game, expect some razzing from both the host and the audience. A new feature introduced in YDKJ2 is the capability to take your trivia knowledge to the internet and compete online. To be successful in YDKJ2, you've got to be quick and smart. It has 800 all-new irreverent questions, and celebrity cameos by Erik Estrada, Phyllis Diller, Dana Carvey, and more. You Don't Know Jack UK released in 1997 was mostly based on the U.S. Volume 2, and used UK quizmaster (hosted by Paul Kaye, who played the comedic character Dennis Pennis). Pub Quiz: This replaces the Fiber Optic Field Trips and Celebrity Collect Calls in the British edition of the game. Instead of calling a random person in a city, the host calls a bartender in a random pub within the UK to host the question. | ||
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| Zong | Zensoft | [top] | |
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ZONG is the best hit-the-bricks game on all sides of the Andromeda cluster. Features include: over 140 levels in five difficulty categories; 100 brilliant backgrounds in over 10,000 total colors, true shadows, animation and morph sequences, impenetrable bricks, realistic multiple ball angles, and easy-to-use level editor, level passwords, a high score list, five paddle types, secret cheat codes, fully digital sound effects and music, a beautifully rendered interface, and much, much more. | ||
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