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| 3 Investigators, The: Bombs in Rocky Beach / Die drei ??? 2: Bomben in Rocky Beach [G] | USM Junior Verlag / Kosmos | [top] | |
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The Three Investigators was an American juvenile detective book series started by Robert Arthur, Jr. first published as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators." The three young teenage boys are Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews. Most of the mysteries involved investigation of baffling phenomena. It has a huge following in Germany where many other books were published and where radio plays of the stories were even more popular. In this second game, Rocky Beach is suddenly shaken by an explosion. The engine of a car flies through the air. The three investigators find out that this is not the first mysterious auto explosion. The police arrest a service-station attendant, with whom all vehicles were shortly before the misfortune in repair. But the service-station attendant protests his innocence and turns with an assistance call to the three investigators. In the process of the game you collect clues, identify fingerprints in the laboratory, crack locks, air out secrets and learn to go around many dangers. Because only cleverness and a good amount of criminal investigation will lead the exciting process to a happy ending. | ||
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| 3 Investigators, The: Mystery of the Magician / Die drei ??? 1: Das Geheimnis des Magiers [G] | USM Junior Verlag / Kosmos | [top] | |
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The Three Investigators was an American juvenile detective book series started by Robert Arthur, Jr. first published as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators." The three young teenage boys are Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews. Most of the mysteries involved investigation of baffling phenomena. It has a huge following in Germany where many other books were published and where radio plays of the stories were even more popular. Over Rocky Beach comes a propeller-driven aircraft to land. A few suitcases fall from the loading dock and the airplane must make an emergency landing. On the next day, the three investigators receive an anonymous call. A famous magician states the suitcases belong to him and ask them to find it. In this adventure game, you slip into the role of the three famous detectives and solve in the middle of Rocky Beach a puzzling criminal act. In the process of the game you collect clues, identify fingerprints in the laboratory, crack locks, air out secrets and learn to go around many dangers. Because only cleverness and a good amount of criminal investigation will lead the exciting process to a happy ending. | ||
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| 9:05 | Adam Cadre | [top] | |
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This is a snack-sized text adventure that is just right for a casual audience. Even if you're new to the genre and are looking for something short and simple as a primer, do give this one a try. The game is so short, however, that any description of what happens during the game could be considered a spoiler, and so we'll let you find out about it yourself. Instead, here's a short introduction written by the game's author: "You've screwed up on the job before, but never like this. You've overslept in a major way, and you're in for a world of trouble if you don't act fast." Besides being very short, one of the especially notable qualities of this game is that it encourages replay. After you've played through the game at least once, you'll understand. An enjoyable and surprising game and just right for a casual game audience. | ||
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| Ad Verbum | Nick Montfort | [top] | |
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With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items within had been removed. As an adventurer hired by the demolitions contractor to kleptomaniacially clear out this mansion, you must engage in wordplay in order to gather all the items inside. It is not necessary to think of puns, cliches, or homonyms, however, as has been the case with previous logological interactive fiction. The puzzles in Ad Verbum are of a different -- and perhaps even unique -- nature. A wordplay game reminiscent in some respects of Infocom's Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It. Some of the puzzles work better than others--a few are just obscure--but there's one section of the game that's simply astounding. Specifically, there are alliterative rooms where the parser has been rewritten to allow only commands in which every word begins with a certain letter--and all the responses are likewise rewritten. For example, >EXAMINE EFFIGY elicits "Enemy effigy. Extreme enormity evident. Execrable evildoer!" The puzzles in this section involve figuring out the appropriate commands to take certain objects and get out of the rooms, but it's more rewarding simply to try to push the limits of the game's literacy (and it takes a lot of pushing). The rest of Ad Verbum doesn't quite live up to that portion of the game, but the alliterative section alone makes it worth trying. | ||
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| Adeptus | Harald Schmidt | [top] | |
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This is a classic adventure created by Harald Schmidt as a demo for the first 3D GameStudio / A4 and A5 versions. It shows you how the 3DGS can be used to make Morrowind-like 3D RPGs. It contains a final build, so don't try to build the level yourself - it will need 2 days without preview mode! All textures are 8 bit / 256 colours, but can easily be converted to 16 bit / true colour in WED's texture manager. Open ADEPT2.WMP, and start with RUN. | ||
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| Adventures of Harry, The: Clues Under Underwear [Ru] | ExE-Soft / Discus | [top] | |
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This interactive animated quest with elements of drawing and video erotica is a Russian spoof of Leisure Suit Larry. The location of the game is a mysterious hotel with a mysterious name "Maghreb". There is something supernatural. Unhappy guests are periodically found in the surrounding woods, very frightened and close to insanity! All they can say is - "Itch Itch Maghreb ...! .." Profound darkness shrouded in mysteryrelates to this case. A private detective specialist in particularly important cases requiring wit and a ladies' pet, named Harry, undertakes investigation. One stormy night he arrives on a possible crime, where he unexpectedly meets ... three beautiful bored women. | ||
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| Adventures of Lieutenant Rzhevsky, The [Ru] | Saturn+ / Buka | [top] | |
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Look forward to a fun and addictive puzzle game. It was created for those who wish to develop their memory, dexterity, attention and thinking, regardless of age and occupation. Thanks to the intuitive interface and sophisticated graphics, the game will be for you a pleasant and comfortable play. Of brainteasers and puzzles you just can not tear yourself away. Waking up as - in the morning to have the usual headache "after yesterday," the lieutenant suddenly received news of the death of his father. It so happened that a lieutenant with the pope and not very good terms, so that, in the end it is not to be angry, but rather, even a happy turn of events. The thing is that the bequest was made of the family farm, the cost of which would not only have covered all existing debts of the lieutenant, but also to provide him secure existence for several years ahead. Rzhevskij wanted to quickly drink in this wonderful house with all attached to it. Imagine his surprise when he arrived on the scene and found only a huge pit, which remained in place of the posh mansion. | ||
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| Agharta: The Hollow Earth | Aniware / Egmont Interactive | [top] | |
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Agharta is a good example of a game that is long on form, but short on substance. It's an action/adventure like Ecstatica. The plot and style of the game are reminiscent of Heart of China with a dash of speculative science thrown in: you are a daring WWII-era pilot hired by a beautiful blonde to find her father, a famous scientist who mysteriously disappeared during an expedition to the north pole a few years ago. En route to the explorer's last known location, your plane's equipment starts going crazy, forcing you to crash-land into the freezing cold. With only your loyal dog Murphy by your side, you must now continue the search on foot, unaware of the spectacular dangers and beauty that await. The best aspect of Agharta is the well-crafted gameworld that boasts many detailed backdrops. The graphics are texture-mapped 3D. Fog effects are especially good, truly evoking the feel of mysterious lands and the sub-zero climate of the arctic. Although the characters (most of whom are hostile animals) are not full 3D, they don't look out of place against 3D backdrops. Unfortunately, the intriguing premise and great graphics cannot save the game from its banal and repetitive gameplay. You will spend most of your time trying to defend yourself against hostile animals that range from penguins, mysterious arctic apes, to more exotic opponents. You do this mostly by throwing rocks (yes, rocks) at them, and while you can collect better weapons later on in the game, they are few and far between. The "adventure game" element is a mix between extreme pixel-hunting and Myst-style figure-out-this-weird-machine puzzles. | ||
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| Alice in Wonderland | EMME Interactive / I.C.E. Multimedia Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a sweet little gem that sticks to the roots of Lewis Carroll's classic story of a girl that falls down the rabbit hole and into an entirely new land. The game is an edutainment title designed for kids 8 and older. This Alice plays in a episodic manner similar to the novel. Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and finds herself in the Hall of Doors, which becomes a focal point of the game from which the player can leap to explore different areas. Throughout the game, Alice encounters the Eat Me, Drink Me items that allow her to change size, which opens up more to do in the game. The graphics are interesting. They are a mix of 3D modeling, some line-drawn cartoons, and, believe it or not, an FMV Alice. These have varying degrees of success, but all together, they actually form a really nice mix that evokes the spirit of Carroll's Alice. The FMV Alice is acceptable, but in a strange attempt to modernize her, she's wearing brown leather shoes and an orange jumpsuit. The game is played in flat screens that each have some areas of interaction and characters to interact with. Each play area has one or more puzzles and other screens to explore to accomplish the overall goal for that area. The puzzles themselves are surprisingly fun. Each puzzle is unique, and all are cleverly designed to fit in well with the theme of the game. In one, the player must reorganize eggs in some bird nests. In another, Alice characters and inventory must be ferried from one side of a river to another—with a few tricks involved in doing so, of course. Characters give clues to puzzles in their speech, and there are a couple of in-game methods for getting help—clicking on Alice herself and clicking on the Cheshire Cat at the top of the screen, which gives the player info about objects on the screen. The game docs themselves also give some helpful hints to solving the puzzles. | ||
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| Alice's Adventures In Wonderland | Joriko Interactive Limited | [top] | |
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Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and into an interactive re-telling of the classic book by Lewis Carroll. This is a multimedia adaptation of the book that has been captivating children and their parents since it was first published in 1865. The software developers have assembled an offering of music and animation overlaid with narration and sprinkled with interactive puzzles. The player follows Alice and assists her on her adventures through Wonderland using a point and click interface. The puzzles are varied in their complexity, ranging from simply helping Alice open doors by pointing to them with the mouse, to putting together a jigsaw puzzle by dragging the pieces around or aiding the Dodo in setting up a caucus race. Between puzzles, the player is treated to an actors narration and some animation that is minimal, but enchanting, through twelve chapters and the entire classic story. It's narrated by Simon Callow. | ||
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| All Aboard For Santa | AHA! Software Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an imaginative graphical adventure for the whole family and a sequel to Santa's Secret Valley. Santa is away at his summer retreat on an island in the Secret Valley, designing new toys for the coming Christmas. Back at the North Pole, you — Fizbin the elf, that is — have been enjoying a restful break. But then comes an urgent phone call. Santa’s boat has washed up on shore, empty except for his pet monkey. Someone will have to rescue him, and you’re the only one with experience. The small and peaceful village of Crabwise Cove is at the south end of a large lake. This is where Santa was last seen. The friendly villagers are often to be found at a local restaurant and entertainment spot called The Canteana, where the good conversation helps make up for a somewhat limited menu. It’s the place to go when you want to pick up gossip and rumors that may be helpful in your quest. Santa’s own boat, the Rednose, is waiting at the dock. Such a fast, reliable, and above all durable boat is just what you need for exploring the lake and its mysterious islands. Now you can search for clues! Santa is surely somewhere nearby, but where? It's a graphical adventure game whose theme is exploration. Each puzzle you solve takes you further into the unfolding story, and one step closer to winning. If you get stuck, the built-in hint feature supplies just the right amount of help. | ||
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| Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood | Westka Interactive GmbH / Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | [top] | |
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Something is rotten in the quiet medieval town of Senora... A mysterious Dark Brotherhood seems to take control of the town, and it's your quest to discover the identity of the villains and to liberate the inhabitants. "Arcatera" is a mixture of adventure and a real-time RPG. While its design and interface remind more of a classical point-&-click adventure, it has also many typical RPG features: usage of different weapons, spells, combat system etc. You can play 4 different characters. The gameplay is non-linear and the development of the story depends mostly at the character you choose. You have almost unlimited freedom and can speak to, or attack NPCs at your wish, bearing the consequences. Even if you do nothing, the in-game life continues on its own. | ||
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| Archie Burrell: Case Hotel Imperial [Ru] | Russobit-M | [top] | |
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Richly animated by hand comic book characters, iconic music in the style of classic swing creates a lyrical atmosphere of the "good old days". Chaplin on the screens, gangsters with wide-brimmed hats, brown shoes with white capes, tango, stylish cars and looks from under half-closed eyes. Action of game occurs in America, in legendary times of butlers and gangsters, in the very time when the Italian word "mafia" was a synonym for the word "family". You, as a private detective, are supposed to carry out surveillance of an unfaithful wife of a "tough guy." Together with our brave detective (a very funny guy), a demonic group starts pestering you, you will entice a rich girl (which, of course, we should not resist), underfoot is a forever frightened purple guy with his marijuana, and in addition to the local prostitute who wants to poison you. The game is full of humor and erotic scenes: You have a good laugh, enjoy beautiful interiors, attractive girls, cheerful company, a bit of mystique and demonic events - what more do you need for a good time? | ||
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| Bad Milk | Dreaming Media | [top] | |
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The date is February 3rd. The coffee you just drank had milk in it. That milk expired on October 25th. Oops. Now you're dead, and if you want to be reincarnated, you need to find your way through a strange, dark maze of bizarre puzzles contained in large panels floating in the nothingness that surrounds you. Each puzzle uses full motion video, and the goal is somewhat abstract and not quite apparent in the beginning. It loosely falls into the "wander and wonder" genre popularized by Myst. It's also an exhibit of interactive, avante guarde video art. The game involves solving a series of interactive video puzzles, sometimes in complete darkness with only hearing and virtual touch as guides, and at other times by pushing, pulling and exploring pieces of the video art until another part of the puzzle is solved. The game player controls the revolutions of the bald head, as well as its facial hair growth; and uses innovative technology to manipulate the video and, for example, move a live person as if that person were a puppet. It's a difficult passage, but the prize makes it all worthwhile: virtual rebirth, peering into to the eyes of two obstetricians that welcome the newborn player back into the world. The game won the 2002 grand prize at the Independent Games Festival. | ||
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| Benjamin Blumchen: Das Gespensterspiel [G] | BVM Produktion GmbH / KIDDINX Entertainment GmbH | [top] | |
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This is based on the long-running German children's audio play series starring talking elephant Benjamin Blümchen and his friends. In the game, Benjamin and his friend Otto are visiting their friend Kasimir. Kasimir is a ghost on castle Eintracht and is hunted by an other ghost. He asks them to help him to deal with the ghost. This title is a simple adventure game. The puzzles are specially designed for children about the age of seven and include puzzles like spotting mistakes on images. | ||
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| Benjamin Blumchen: Das Reporterspiel [G] | BVM Produktion GmbH / KIDDINX Entertainment GmbH | [top] | |
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This is an adventure game for children. Benjamin Blümchen and Otto want to help Karla Kolumna with her newspaper work and have to take photos for that. To find the right motives, different tasks at different locations have to be solved. A creativity-enhancing game for children from 4 years, based on motives of the popular series about the elephant Benjamin Blümchen. Just today she lost by a stupid coincidence the special supplement for the newspaper of tomorrow. A disaster, but Karla has a sensational idea. Of course, Benjamin and Otto are happy to help Karla and get down to work. But they cannot do it alone. The weather machine of Professor Hagelkorn is broken and the complaints about the bad weather are piling up. The poorest person is really not in the mood for a photo. The new dinosaur skeleton in the museum has collapsed and has to be rebuilt. The firefighter is stuck in a tree because the ladder of his fire engine is no longer retractable. How do you get him down from there again? And as soon as Otto is on the Duck Island, hiding the duck family and youngsters. Do you want to support Benjamin and Otto in their tasks? The few photos to make for the newspaper can not really be that hard, right? And with Benjamin and Otto's help, that certainly works. | ||
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| Benjamin Blumchen: Das Zoospiel [G] | BVM Produktion / Kiddinx | [top] | |
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A creativity-enhancing game for children from 4 years, based on motifs from the popular series about the elephant Benjamin Blümchen. Have you ever been to the zoo ?! But probably never in the Neustadt Zoo with Benjamin Blümchen. There lives a lot of different animals: Kanga, the kangaroo child, Leo Leo, Robby Robbe and many others. They all need to be taken care of. That's what warden Karl usually does, but he had to go to an important zookeeper congress. It is a matter of honor for Benjamin and Otto to support him. Solve the various tasks that await them in five animal enclosures. In the process, the children playfully and incidentally learn how to develop creative solutions for different tasks. That makes for a lot of fun. A high replay value is also guaranteed, because there are always several ways to get to the destination. | ||
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| Best Man, The | Rob Menke | [top] | |
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You're on your way to a friend's wedding when terrorists strike. Not all of the puzzles make a lot of sense, due to technical and game design problems, and the adaptiveness of the hint menu doesn't work very well--it's impossible to read some of the hints until you've already failed to solve the problem (and, often, died as a result) in a given game. Some clever multiple-solution puzzles, though, and generally reasonably solid in an action-movie sort of way (i.e., action-movie suspensions of disbelief are often necessary). The PDF documentation is quite professional-looking. | ||
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| Bibi Blocksberg 1: Auf der Suche nach dem Superhexspruch [G] | BVM Produktion / KIDDINX | [top] | |
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A creativity-enhancing game for children from 4 years, based on motives of the popular series around the little witch Bibi Blocksberg. Every 777 years, three witches together must put a spell on all the witches words that have ever been pronounced but have remained ineffective. Unfortunately, something goes wrong this time, and all three witches paralyzed to stone. Now, only Bibi can help. In order to reverse the petrification, she needs the "Superhexspruch" ("Super Witches Spell") and the help of two green witches. Schubia can only help if your broom kawakasi works again. But where is the only spare part? Flauipaui's help brings Bibi to a bewitched tree. Can you find something here to break the spell? All evidence leads to Mania's house, but that's overgrown with plants. How does Bibi get in there? And what is to be done in Mania's Hexlabor and her broom museum? To make matters worse, the released hexes also cause all sorts of chaos. Will Bibi be able to break the spell and free her mother, Amanda and Mania from petrifaction? Help Bibi with her adventure and seek with her the super hex spell that can break the spell. Includes a Screensaver (navigate to the folder "Bildschirmschoner", drag the file "BB_Saver" found in the folder "Inhalt auf Systemordner ziehen!" onto the system folder. | ||
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| Bibi Blocksberg 2: Ein verhexter Schultag [G] | Kiddinx Entertainment GmbH | [top] | |
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Find the teachers and save the school. As soon as the school has started again, even the mayor comes into the classroom and gives a rather boring speech to the students, the director and some teachers. Clear that Bibi would rather show her friends Marita and Florian a new hex. But just when the mayor announces that the school gets only half as much money and Bibi says her hex, it is distracted. The hex word goes wrong and the mayor, the director and the teachers become chickens who flee. They can only be retweeted together and simultaneously. So Bibi tries to catch the chickens again with Florian and Marita. Help Bibi find the teacher and save the school with her! Throughout the schoolhouse are hidden hints and tools that would like to be found and above all used correctly. The blackboard in the classroom has to be cleaned first, as the math chicken plays a tricky game. But where is the chalk? Why are there no notes in the music room, and what secrets does the loft contain? | ||
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| Blue Beard 2 / Barmaley Returns [Ru] | Nikita Ltd. | [top] | |
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A map falls into Victor's hands. Victor is a brave boy and the main character of this story. A place where a treasure is buried is drawn on this map. Victor goes to Africa on a steamship and gets off on an unfamiliar coast. He sets out on his hazardous journey consulting his map. Victor walks a narrow path in the jungle making his way through lianas. Growling of wild animals is heard from all sides. Suddenly someone comes down onto the path. Why, it is Victor's old friend - the Parrot! They are very glad to see each other. Victor finds out that he is again in the same place where he has fought against the wicked thug Blue Beard not long ago. The Parrot tells Victor that Blue Beard has repaired his ship and he is going to become a pirate again. Victor tells the Parrot that he hopes to find the buried treasure with the help of the animals, of course. The friends start walking forward. Blue Beard jumps out of the bushes. He wants to know why Victor is in Africa again. A classic animation film, handmade in the best traditions of the classic cartoons. A variety of the game world - the game takes place in the jungle and in the savannah, on the rocks and underwater, in the clouds and on the pirate's ship. Even the youngest of the players understands the game errands. If one still have questions he just have to push F1 for help. Quest and arcades are combined in this family game. You can choose one of three difficulty levels of the game. And it is more fun to solve the riddles together. Unlike any full-length animation film, the game will give even the experienced players hours of pleasure and with their direct participation in the game. | ||
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| Book of Spells, The | Spyros / Attic Window Games | [top] | |
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It is 1384 A.D. in a small village on small island lived Aarh, the mighty warrior, with his people. One day the truth that was hidden from him had to be unveiled. He was the last one chosen to complete a mission, a mission for which thousands tried and died before him. He had to find the last 10 pages of the Book Of Spells. The Prophecy was clear: "Ten thousands years ago the Evil Warriors came to claim our lands. Our Wizard managed to defeat them using his invincible Book Of Spells. But, alas, the last Evil Warrior stole the Book and as he was flying away tore the pages shouting: "Be happy now, but we will return after ten thousands years and no books will save you then". The pages spread all around and for all these years the warriors were sent to find them. Time is running shorter and there are still ten pages missing. Aarh was their last hope for finding these pages , the Evil Warriors are on the way. The game was made with AGS and was released in four parts. | ||
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| Central High | Compu-Teach / Destiny Interactive | [top] | |
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For grades 7-12, "Central High" is a software program that combines video and audio to form an interactive multimedia tool designed to teach students alternative ways to handle real-life scenarios. The multimedia format meets goals in the areas of violence prevention, ethics, and morality by providing an effective means to reach today's students. It's a positive influence on behavioral development, communication, and personal life management skills. The player helps Kevin, the main character, make constructive choices through a series of scenarios involving daily life choices including bullying, cheating, drugs, drinking, driving while intoxicated, as well as personal and peer conflicts. It teaches violence prevention and personal life skills. The player takes on the role of Kevin, a teenager living in a bucolic suburban town. Kevin has, for some unknown reason, been selected to save the world from an equally vague fate at the hands of some angry but unseen aliens. Each decision he makes in the course of six days will help decide the future of his fellow Earthlings. As Kevin, you face hundreds of questions throughout the week, ranging from whether to eat a salad for dinner to whether to talk back to your teacher and whether to steal Dad's car. It's a kind of choose-your-own-adventure for moralists: make the wrong decision and a little yellow light on the bottom of your screen comes on. Once six lights go on, you lose; you have to start over again if you want to save the human race. Whether the lights go on depends on a complicated point system in which the worst decisions cost you 16 points and the best cost nothing. Despite Kevin's apparently idyllic life - a nuclear family, including a sister nicknamed Squirt and a dog called Max - the teenagers around him are a messed-up group. There are bulimic girls, insecure bullies, suicidal adolescents and (this being a post-Columbine game) a few trod-upon Goth kids for good measure. For additional points, Kevin has to steer them all toward the righteous path, demonstrating what the instructions describe as the "11 strengths": integrity, honesty, responsibility, respect, self-discipline, compassion, tolerance, kindness, caring, courage and commitment. | ||
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| Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion | EAI Interactive / Atari Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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You find yourself, along with the upper echelon of society, on a river boat owned by an eccentric host. When the host is killed in plain view of the guests, it is up to you to solve the classic conundrum, "Whodunnit?" In this cinematic adventure, you must interview the notorious, colorful characters of the Clue storyline including Professor Plus, Miss Scarlett, and Colonel Mustard, not to mention new faces such as a struggling amateur magician, an irritable artist, and a beautiful psychic & hypnotist. Solve a variety of puzzles, often with the help and advice of the other guests and their special skills. And hurry, because one of these people is a murderer. | ||
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| ClueFinders: Real World Adventure Kit | The Learning Company | [top] | |
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In much the manner of The ClueFinders: Mystery Mansion Arcade, this was also included as a bonus discs at various points in time with other ClueFinders releases such as 6th Grade Adventures, Math Adventures and re-releases of earlier titles. It offers a mapmaker, adventure logbook, encoder/decoder, money tracker, club kit for setting up personal clubs, and a sound transformer that allows players to use their own voice (microphone required). | ||
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| Cross Town II: Angeln [Da] | Deadline Games / Vision Park | [top] | |
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Englen (which was originally planned to be the third game in the franchise, but the middle one, Manipulatoren, was never finished). This Danish adventure, Angel, has the action take place among the inhabitants of the strange little town cross town, but the angel is not a mystery you must solve. This time it's your job to help two people in distress. The first time you meet Fred and Norman, is in a hospital. Fred, who is an ordinary nurse must obtain a patient who has suffered a fire accident and transport him to a specialist clinic. But what appears to be a trivial patient transport evolves into a complicated affair. Patient Norman turns out to be insane and the specialty clinic know absolutely nothing to the point, Fred is now hanging onto a patient who he has no idea what to do with. Fred has plenty of problems in his own life. Life has not gone as he had hoped. Fred's ex-wife committed suicide and his son Tanino is entangled in some problems with the drug environment. It is no wonder that Fred has lost faith in the future. Norman is a patient also with problems. He lives in his own world, which is covered with ocean and filled with strange mythological creatures. In Norman's water world is he not an insane patient, but a person aboard a raft on the way to God. Peace is not usual, but he has a companion of a small furry creature - a Derf. In The Angel, two suffering souls are brought together by a whim of fate. They can not communicate with each other and they understand nothing of each other's worlds. But somewhere in the meeting between the two is that which can open up and change their plight. It's up to you to find and therefore you are an angel in this interactive road movie. | ||
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| Crystal Key, The | Earthlight Productions Inc. / DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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The gameplay is very similar to other games in the genre, such as Myst or Zork in that you click around your environment to walk, pick up items, and manipulate tools. The storyline is set in the future, where the protagonist is sent to another planet to investigate the source of a cryptic message from an evil alien race. The player begins the game having crash landed on the planet and must explore the world, find a crystal key and portal which would help the player defeat the race and bring peace to the galaxy. Armed with only your wits, your journey will take you through fascinating lands of desert, jungle and water as you explore breathtaking worlds; each more beautiful and magical than the last. Rise to the challenge and let your wisdom, instinct and ingenuity lead the way. Carefully examine and solve each puzzle along your path. Secrets lie waiting to be unlocked and discovered by those who possess the Crystal Key. Immerse yourself in extraordinary worlds with stunning 3D graphics and animation, and engaging and challenging puzzles. You alone have escaped a merciless enemy assault and the resulting tyranny which now grips humanity. Behind you, your home and the fate of your people anxiously await the outcome of your mission. Now you must journey to the uncharted lands of Arkonia, where legends suggest the existence of a magical Key. Retrieve the Crystal Key and unlock the secrets for preserving the future. Along the way discover and investigate fascinating worlds filled with extraordinary mysteries, hidden secrets and technological marvels. | ||
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| Daria's Inferno | Hypnotix / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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"Daria" was at first an MTV animated series, like Beavis and Butt-head, which told of the life of a student high school : Daria Morgendorffer. Daria's Inferno takes the same elements of the animated series in an isometric click & point adventure game, where we take control of Daria. The game begins in an English class of Mr. O'Neill, about the lecture of Dante's "Inferno", and Daria (and all the others students too) falls asleep. At that moment, the nightmare begins and Daria will find herself in Hell. The only way to wake up is find the Five Crucial Instruments of Institutional Education, that have been stolen from Principal Li, and return them to her. In the game we can explore five major locations of the town of Lawndale, and the voices (and the humour) from the animated series are present. | ||
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| De Dwaze Tovenaar en de Magische Formule [Du] | Savannah Entertainment / Bruna Multimedia | [top] | |
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Welcome to the fantastic adventure with Mister Mouse, Harold the Dog, Flora the Fly, Dennis and his sinister Uncle Bellini, the foolish wizard. In The Foolish Wizard and the Magic Formula you follow Dennis and his friends on a holiday trip to the exotic island of Holidonia. You have to help Dennis stop his uncle Bellini, who is looking for a secret magic formula. | ||
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| Die Blaue Kanone [MAC][G] | Stephan Koske / Stoske & Bertling, Velbert | [top] | |
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| Disney's 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue | Crystal Dynamics Inc / Silent Software / Buena Vista Games | [top] | |
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This is a 3-D adventure based on the live-action movie in which you play as either Oddball or Domino and rescue puppies from Cruella De Vil who now owns a toy factory and has reprogrammed her toys to transforms them into robotic petnappers. Other characters from Disney's 102 Dalmatians movie include Dipstick, Dottie, LePelt, Waddlesworth, and Fluffy. There are 20 levels and six minigames that are set in environments like Big Ben, Regent's Park, Piccadilly Circus, the Ice Festival, and De Vil Manor. Players will solve puzzles, perform tricks, and lure Cruella's henchmen - Horace and Jasper - into secret traps. The game stars Frankie Muniz as the voice of Domino. It's quite a fun family game for various ages. | ||
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| Dracula Resurrection | Canal+Multimedia, France Telecom Multimedia, index+ / DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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The latest and probably the best in a long line of adventure/horror games featuring vampires. Dracula Resurrection is actually presented as a sequel to Bram Stoker's novel. The opening movie reenacts the climatic events of the 1897 novel as we watch Jonathan Harker attempt to destroy his arch-nemesis. His weapons prove futile, though, and only the rising sun saves Jonathan and Mina, his fiancee, from a life of eternal darkness. Seven years pass, and we watch as Jonathan reads an unbelievable letter from Mina, now his wife. She has been overcome by an irresistible urge, a yearning for the sexual bloodlust of the vampire, and has returned to Transylvania. Jonathan, as we learn through a letter he composes to his friend Seward, journeys to save his beloved, and thus our game begins. This is a very linear, 1st person, point and click, 3D game, with 360-degree panning, an easy to use interface and a small inventory. This game is not focused on the puzzles, but instead the puzzles are treated as only part of and secondary to the story. First and foremost the game is a gothic work of art, true to the spirit of the novel in both the scenery and the characters, and it should not be missed for that reason alone. | ||
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| Dune: Keep The Secret | Exozet Berlin / Orbit Records | [top] | |
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Dune's "History" music album mainly featured 14 audio tracks, composed and produced by Dune, a techno German band. As an additional bonus however, an exclusive Dune Game was created using Macromedia Director & QuickTime VR. This game was included on a special track, making the 'History' album a CD EXTRA release, made playable on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. It's a point&click adventure game, set in an Egyptian pyramid. You are a pilot, flying over the desert when a thunderstorm surprises you and lightning strikes your plane. The plane crashes, but you manage to survive, only to be confronted with a pyramidic tomb rising up from under the sand. Curious as you are, you decide to enter the tomb, but the entry slams shut upon entrance: you're on your own from here. Your main objective is to free a Pharaoh Princess from her grave and in order to do so, you need to acquire 4 Holy Scarabs which are hidden in the pyramid's labyrinth, protected by various deadly traps (which will make you restart the game) and intruiging puzzles (offering a scarab on completion). Can you make it out? | ||
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| Dunkle Schatten 3: Tod in der Sudkurve [G] | Phenomedia AG / Bundesministerium des Innern | [top] | |
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This is the third entry in the Dunkle Schatten series. Unlike the two predecessors, this game uses a first-person perspective with a 360° view. The player is either a German or a Turkish reporter, who works at a Berlin newspaper and is researching the death of a rock musician during a soccer game. In the process, he reveals a Nazi conspiracy. The majority of the game consists of conversations with various people, played by actors. These are inserted in real Berlin backgrounds, like in other FMV adventure games as Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria. | ||
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| Egypt II: The Heliopolis Prophecy | Cryo Interactive Entertainment / DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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Although named Egypt 2 there are only a few similarities between the first game, Egypt 1156 B.C. and this point and click adventure. This game actually takes place earlier in time than its predecessor. Offering historical background and facts about Ancient Egypt, it has been categorized as edutainment as well as an adventure game. The game takes place in the city of Heliopolis, the City of the Sun, which was the center of learning and one of the most important capitals of Egypt in 1350 B.C. Your character is Tifet, a young priestess and a student of medicine, who sets out to find the cure for the horrific epidemic which is spreading rapidly throughout the city population. It becomes very personal when her adoptive father contracts the disease. As the story unfolds, Tifet uncovers a diabolical plot of deception and treachery. | ||
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| Ein Fall für Dich und das Tiger-Team: Das Geheimnis der Goldenen Mumie [G] | Retina GbR / Terzio Verlag | [top] | |
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This first game in a German series of adventures is roughly titled "A Case For You And The Tiger Team - The Secret of the Golden Mummy". Patrick, Luke and Biggi are looking for a detective like you. You can choose your own detective name and address in the game. The case: In Kingfisher museum a golden mummy has emerged that haunts the halls. Is a real mummy come to life, and they are guarding an ancient secret? You can: question lots of suspects, use computers and scanners in the Tiger Team hideout, and solve tricky puzzles. Moreover, there are a lot of action-tasks: Follow the mummy through the dark corridors of the basement, use the spin-channel direction finding, program a remote control car, etc. | ||
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| El Capitán Trueno en la Montaña de los Suspiros [Sp] | Argos Labs / Zeta Multimedia S.A. | [top] | |
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The hero par excellence of the Spanish classic comics, Capitán Trueno (Captain Thunder), lives his first graphic adventure in the Mountain on the Sighs. This adventure recreates perfectly and with a great fidelity all the original scenes and personages: Crispín, Goliath and the very same Capitán Trueno. In this occasion, our hero must help his friend, the Caliph of Granada, Bel-Jazid, who while Capitán and his friends were starting the search for the sword of the toledano, sent a message to our protagonist. In that message he requested desperately a rescue for his first-born Bil-Bil who had been kidnapped by his worst enemy, the frightful Albud-Malig. Throughout all the adventure, we will visit four places, some of them really exotic, like the palace of the Caliph, the desert, the oasis and the caves of the Mountain of the Sighs. | ||
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This compilation contains three games previously on Japanese computer PC-98 from the developer most famous for Dragon Knight. Shangrlia (1991) is a turn-based tactical game. The ten female commanders reside in the castle and can be approached in any order. Each of them transfers the player to a different location (alternating between urban, dungeon-like, and rural areas) where a tactical battle takes place. Every commander is responsible for a unit type in the army. These types include Lancers, Fighters, Swordsmen, Cannoneers, Horsemen, Archers, Mages, Ninjas, Dragon Riders, and Birds. Enemy forces possess the same unit types. Each type has advantages and disadvantages in terms of power, mobility, range, etc. The goal is to select and position units on the battle field, taking the conditions of the terrain, number of enemies, distance, etc. into consideration. Defending own castle and capturing that of the enemy is the top priority. The battles then proceed in a turn-based fashion. Some unit types can attack from a distance, while others are restricted to fighting on adjacent squares. Battles are displayed as animated sequences on a separate screen, their outcome calculated according to the unit's properties and parameters. After each round of victory, the female general removes an item of her clothing. The final result for each general is an erotic picture with partial nudity and implicit sexual scene, but no explicit images. Shangrlia 2 (1993) is a turn-based tactical game and a sequel to Shangrlia. The goal of the game is to capture castles occupied by the enemy, freeing commanders on the way. Unlike in the first game, the player is no longer allowed to choose any battle right from the beginning and is at first restricted to only three battles. Same applies to characters and unit types: in the beginning the player can only control three types of fighters, and other characters are unlocked gradually. There are fifteen unit types altogether (as opposed to ten in the previous game). New units include different types of horsemen, chariots, winged horses, golem commanders, etc. In addition, each unit comes in three variations, e.g. catapults and cannons are considered the same type, variants of which can be unlocked by completing battles and freeing them. Each unit gradually advances in strength, and must reach a "master" level to be actively selected by the player and positioned on the battle. This time, enemy units are mostly completely different and mainly consist of various monster types such as skeletons, minotaurs, dragons, undead mages, assorted hell creatures etc. Winning battles gradually unlocks erotic pictures of the female generals. The sexual content is noticeably heavier than in the first game and includes non-traditional types of sex as well. Yu-No: Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo (2006) is a Japanese-style adventure (still screens viewed from first-person perspective, a lot of dialogue) with a unique feature: multiple story paths are shown on a special map and can be accessed within the same playing session, by using orbs like the one Takuya finds in his home at the beginning of the game. If a path leads to a dead end, the player can opt to use a stone, go back, and investigate another place to lead the story into a different direction. The interaction with the game world does not involve menu commands, as in most Japanese adventures (except in the prologue); instead, a point-and-click interface is used. It feature explicit sex scenes. An English fan translation was released in 2011 that also allowed playing the game with full voice-overs from the Saturn version, removed some censorship in the erotic scenes, and imported higher-quality music from the PC-98 CD release. An official English translation was released in 2019 as YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world, based on the 2017 PS4/Vita release. | ||
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In this classic fourth and (so far) last game in the classic comic adventure series involving pirates, the gameplay has changed to a full 3D environment and characters. Guybrush Threepwood thought all his troubles were over when he buried the evil Demon Zombie Ghost Pirate LeChuck under a mountain of ice and married his sweetheart, Elaine Marley, the governor of MeLee Island. But villains (especially villains in comic books and computer adventure games) rarely stay dead, and even the most amazing pirate honeymoon has to end some time (actually, it wasn't that amazing, but Guybrush is a little..uh..naive), and now theres trouble afoot on MeLee Island. The Governor's mansion is scheduled for demolition, Elaine has been declared dead, and Australian land developer is buying up all the property from the local pirates, and the SCUMM bar has run out of kudu jerky-flavored pretzels. Looks like a job for Guybrush Threepwood! | ||
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| Eve Zero: Ark Of The Matter | C's Ware / Himeya Soft | [top] | |
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"Eve Zero" is a prequel to the famous detective/mystery adventure Eve Burst Error. You control once again the two main heroes of the series: the witty and womanizing private investigator Kojirou Amagi, and the beautiful red-haired secret agent Marina Houjou. The events of the game take place shortly before those of "Eve Burst Error". Kojirou is working at Katsuragi Detective Office together with his girlfriend Yayoi. Dr. Nishina, the head of a genetic research facility, hires Kojirou to investigate the disappearance of his son Shin. At the same time, Marina receives an assignment from her boss Kouno, which involves watching over a representative of an American company. As in all EVE games, the two stories appear unrelated in the beginning and are gradually linked together later in the game. You need to switch between the two protagonists in order to advance in the game. The interface consists of a menu that makes it possible to interact with the game world. Beside the traditional "Look", "Talk", and "Go" commands, there are many others, specific to the situation. This is a Japanese-style adventure game - an interactive story without puzzles. | ||
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| Famous Five 2: The Silver Tower | Novatrix / Ravensburger Interactive / WESTKA | [top] | |
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This is another interactive adventure inspired by the classic Enid Blyton books. Here is a second opportunity to join the Famous Five, namely Julian, Dick, Ann, George (really Georgina) and Timmy the dog, in an exciting mystery adventure. Julian, Dick and Anne are holidaying once again with their Uncle and Aunt and cousin George at Kirrin Cottage, and following their previous adventures on Treasure Island, are eager to visit Kirrin Island once again. However, Uncle Quentin has put a stop to their plans because he is conducting scientific experiments on the island and he has built a mysterious Silver Tower. The children are not allowed to visit the island, much to George's disgust. Strange happenings occur, and Uncle Quentin goes missing. Is there an intruder? Now it's your task to help the children to get to Kirrin Island and assist the Famous Five in unravelling the mystery. Look for clues, then solve them, search the Fisherman's cottage, negotiate treacherous rocks, and take part in all the various adventures the game has to offer. | ||
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| Famous Five 3: Kidnapped! | Novatrix / Ravensburger Interactive / WESTKA | [top] | |
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Kidnapped! is an interactive CD-ROM adventure inspired by the ever-popular Famous Five Books, and brings the classic tales to a whole new generation. Designed for 8 to 12 year olds, it follows two previous Famous Five stories (Treasure Island and Silver Tower) in being converted into a multimedia mystery adventure. The Famous Five, namely Julian, Dick, Ann, George and Timmy the dog, are among perennial children's top-sellers with their tales of adventure, escapades and clever children outwitting evil baddies to win the day--it is almost inevitable, then, that they should make it to CD-ROM. The basic plot behind the story is that the Five go for a camping holiday on Kirrin Island where new friend Eddy manages to get himself kidnapped. The obvious thing to do is to rescue him, and that is what you have to make happen. The CD-ROM is very nicely constructed with neat graphics and well presented characters. The point and click style interface is, importantly, easy to get to grips with. You get some practice in gathering materials for the trip, so that by the time Eddy goes missing you should have mastered the way everything works. One of the engaging things about Kidnapped! is the way the story skips between animated sequences and situations in which you have to solve problems. This keeps everything running along at a fair pace, and really draws you into the story - you might find it difficult to break off for a rest. | ||
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| Fate Of Monkey Island | Scurvyliver Entertainment | [top] | |
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Fate of Monkey Island was the first fan made sequel which was completed. In this game you are in control of a monkey on Monkey Island, and it is your job to make sure that the pirate LeChuck does not turn all the monkeys into slaves. The game takes a lot from The Curse of Monkey Island and parodies from other adventure games. It features a number of characters from the Monkey Island series, including cameos from Guybrush, LeChimp, Mr Fossey, and others. The game is set in high resolution graphics and includes many of the favorite tunes from the Monkey Island series. Do not expect a great work of art. It is all programmed and designed by a single person who goes by the alias Scurvyliver. Still, this does not mean the game is not fun. It is one of the few games which combines the action and adventure genres well. | ||
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Fate of Monkey Island 2 is the sequel to Fate of Monkey Island. It was written in parts. The story carries on where the previous game has left off and is set after The Curse of Monkey Island. The game begins on Kaos Island. Again, you play a monkey. This time around, the nemesis is another monkey (or is it?) with an insidious agenda. The game is played over 3 different islands. The game uses a new SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) engine that features full screen, high color, and improved graphics. It plays in a point and click style with a mouse. Part 1 of this sequel alone is bigger then the entire original! Unfortunately LucasArts found this game threatening and ordered the makers to cease and desist. | ||
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| Floyd SB: The Company Man | Lithium Slug Entertainment | [top] | |
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The Company is an extremely powerful organization, which is under the impression that they are the supreme force in the Galaxy. Anything that is unfortunate enough to draw their attention becomes a new toy for them to control. All great power causes fear, fear causes actions, actions cause counter actions, and counter actions cause measures to be taken. The Company, once it has had enough of these petty games, unleashes their final measure in all Company affairs, The Company Man. Floyd SB is the one and original Company Man. The Company provides him with everything he desires. All he has to do in return is complete every damn fool mission assigned to him. It is up to him to take out the trash, and it has never occurred to him to ask what is inside the garbage bag. In this mission you play Floyd as he is ordered sneak onboard the Starship Longshot and erase the Prime Minister of Bubba Star Six from the picture. Sounds simple enough. | ||
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| Forbidden Forest / Forbidden Forest III : The Adventure Continues | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. / Cosmi Corporation | [top] | |
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Return to the Forbidden Forest in this update of the classic Commodore 64 game. Experience the terrors and thrills of the Forest in 3D action. Divided into 100 levels, your job is to explore the forest, collect coins and power-ups, and destroy killer bees, giant snakes, zombies and more. You can choose to explore the forest in the Summer or Winter and both seasons feature realistic weather and night and day effects. You're all alone. It's a cold winter's night. Suddenly, out of a cloak of darkness springs a ghastly pair of ghouls - looking to make you one of them. Your heart races as you draw back an arrow. Keep your wits about you... steady, aim and fire. Remember, accuracy counts. Be on the alert for giant amphibians, fire-breathing dragons, gigantic killer bees, enormous snakes, insidious spiders, and monstrous owls, all looking for their next meal. It is a place of unrelenting terror and trial. It is ruled by the dreaded Demogorgon - demonic king of the monsters. He will send his horde of grisly creatures against anyone who dares enter his realm. | ||
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There is a series of Fort Boyard games which combine adventure gaming with the French reality TV program Fort Boyard. This one has an original scenario: it places the Fortress in a completely new context, fraught with mystery and magic. The Fort has fallen into the clutches of malevolent creatures, half-human and half-animal, controlled by Arok. The quest which will take the player into the bowels of the stone vessel, will also lead him/her into a maze of cells in the Fortress, teeming with traps. The player will also discover the terrible powers of a lost talisman and will have to fight Arok's hordes right up to the final confrontation. | ||
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Retells the myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor whose statue came to life; here, you're interacting with the statue herself (she's on a pedestal in a museum as an "animate"), and getting her perspectives on a wide variety of things. As such, this is a one-room game that consists entirely of interactions with one NPC--but what an NPC it is. This is the only IF I've ever seen that tried to give an NPC a thoroughly complex psychology--the same question can elicit a wide variety of responses depending on the character's mood, which in turn depends on a variety of things, including the progress of the conversation up to that point. Nor is this simply a portrait of a complex character--your developing relationship with her affects both how you see her and how she reacts. There are no puzzles as such, but the game offers numerous endings that resolve the conversation one way or another, and some of the endings are more satisfying than others. A hint at what NPCs can be with enough attention; considering that the Z-machine code runs to nearly 260K, bigger than many good-sized games, Galatea also suggests that the amount of programming needed to achieve this degree of complexity is not small. Intriguing and rewarding. | ||
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| Galilei 2: The Adventure Island / Galilei 2: Seikkailujen saari [Fi] | Mediayhtio Sansibar Oy | [top] | |
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In this adventure game, you play as Galilei- the yellow toy dog, Dharam- the toy elephant and Safka- the food jar. The adventure begins with a toy on the island where Galilei and his friends note that Eku-Teddy is suspected to be in the throes of some kind of spell. They leave to meet with Elders living at the foot of the Mountain. Soon it turns out that the evil wizard has a finger in this game. The game's story is partly based on the characters created by Mikko Kunnaksen. | ||
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An earthquake in Mexico reveals an odd artifact. Now the player takes the role of archaeologist Curtis Mulligan who investigates it and reveals the traces of a long forgotten culture. Soon you’ll get the clue to get in contact with Prof. Itzhak Stern, who first seems to be untraceable but he’ll be found later in the game but even then you’ll just get in contact with him per chatroom. With his help you’ll discover more gates and you’ll even be able to open them. From this point of the story’ll start to be more science-fiction like. You’ll be confronted with alien-technology and the aliens themselves and finally you’ll be forced to face a long time ago predicted test. Genesis is an adventure game where the player clicks through prerendered stills, collects objects without the help of hotspots and solves puzzles. Most of these puzzles are mathematical riddles but some are of the classic object-based kind. The game features about three dozen puzzles and leads the player to many places all over the world. | ||
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This 3d platform action-adventure based on the live action Jim Carrey movie How The Grinch Stole Christmas has you play as the Grinch. It's your lifelong goal to steal Christmas. You must sneak through Whoville in 29 missions, destroying presents and collecting blueprints for an invention. Once you've found all the blueprints, you can build your invention and use it in later missions. When there are areas that you just can't seem to reach, you can send your dog Max to check things out. The Grinch can shake off his "assailants" by wiggling violently, spewing bad breath, or using one of his gadgets on them, such as his rotten egg shooter. The areas also include the Who Forest and Who Dump but are sparsely filled. | ||
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One of the best IF games ever, this is a wonderful puzzle-intensive IF that proves how it is possible to design solid puzzles without sacrificing the plot. It is also one of the most challenging games you'll ever play. You are saved from drowning by a superheroine, you grow up, you sneak into an office building, you attend a party, you find out the world is threatened by a master criminal, you have an encounter with a female assassin, you force your way to the penthouse, you re-encounter the assassin in the middle of one of her nefarious schemes, you battle some elite bodyguards, you hack a computer, you ransack an office. Point-wise, this has all happened in just the first five percent of the game. Later in the game, you battle various super-villains (including a space-pirate), fight untold number of robots and secret cultists, save the city from being poisoned, save the mayor from being assassinated, and this is all in the same game. Nobody else has done this or, really, anything close. To make this massive storyline go requires the player to make mental leap after mental leap, often blindly, hoping the game will be there when you land. There are machines that have to be fiddled with for no other reason than that they're there, capabilities of your ship that have to be guessed at because they're not fully explained anywhere, even actions that have to be taken for no apparent reason other than that, in retrospect, they look good. Heroine's Mantle is doing so many new and crazy things in so many areas that there are dozens of possibilities that fly out in all directions. | ||
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| Het Spelletjeshuis van de Dwaze Tovenaar [Du] | Bruna MultiMedia | [top] | |
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This translates from Dutch into The Foolish Wizard's House of Games. There are many Episodes of De Dwaze Tovenaar, including De Magische Formule (Magic Formula) and Het geheim van het vermiste jongetje (The Secret of The Missing Boy). | ||
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This is a 3D platform adventure in the popular European series with the troll Hugo. Deep in the jungle, the happy Kikurians and their village are in terrible danger. The volcano nearby the village is on the verge of erupting, because Scylla has got Don Croco to block the top of the volcano with a giant rock. The Kikurians need to find a solution fast, otherwise the village will be buried by lava and the Kikurians will become extinct. The village elders pore over ancient tomes looking for good advice. The answer is three magic Sunstones. Placed in the right way and with the sun shining on them, the Sunstones together create a powerful ray which can destroy the giant rock at the top of the volcano. But the Kikurians need ahero to help them out - Hugo is the chosen one. | ||
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This is a multimedia game of the 1996 detective novel featuring the character Inspector Montalbano that made the Italian author, Andrea Camilleri, famous. It's an interactive cartoon, an illustrated story for computers. But above all, it's an exciting adventure in a famous novel. Reliving its intriguing atmospheres, with original dialogues by Andrea Camilleri, the reader-spectator-player can lead the Inspector Montalbano, step by step, towards the solution of a double enigma buried in the mysteries of a cave. It contains an Italian dictionary with more than 750 entries that was edited by Camilleri fan club. There's over 150 minutes of animation, 40 characters voiced by actors in Sicily, over 40 minutes of original music, 15 interactive games, 21 fact sheets, and 12 recipes. | ||
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| Jönssonligan: Går på Djupet [Sw] | Korkeken Interactive Studio / IQ Media Nordic | [top] | |
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This is a puzzle-solving point-and-click adventure game based on the Swedish comedic films which uses the same characters but a new plot. The player directly controls the three characters, Charles-Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson, Ragnar Vanheden and Harry "Dynamit-Harry" Kruth. They all share the same inventory, the characters move altogether when walking onto a new area. You interact with your surroundings picking up and interacting with items that the player need to figure out the use of by interacting with the world. Game plot: Somewhere in Stockholm's archipelago on the bottom of the sea rests the 17th century man-of-war named Spire and on that ship lies a treasure which Jönssonligan can't refuse. | ||
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| Journalist [Sw] | Aniware / IQ Media | [top] | |
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You are in the role of a journalist writing articles for the newspaper Midköpingskuriren. You dig in the archives and records to obtain documentation for your articles. The game is developed for young people in the lower teens. As the newspaper competitor to publish the same type of article, you must fight against the clock and its time. When you write an article one must delve into all public registers, such as the Enforcement Authority, Tax Authority, the County Administrative Board, municipality, district court, etc. The editor gives you a mission, you must complete. It can be about anything that has happened or something that is happening. At the higher levels, you must on the next day make an equivalent sequel. There are different stages: Trainee, Contributor, Journalist, Murvel 1st stage, Murvel 2nd stage. One begins at intern and then advances. After Murvel 2nd stage, you get a Great Journalist Award. The assignments vary; they get harder and harder. Assignments include a saffron theft, a discriminated teachers, an assault, a secret sect and selling black spirits. You get a map of Midköping (the fictional city that the game takes place in), and then may be looking for information. In the workroom there is a phone where other sites and individuals stand. When you want to ask someone something, you go up to the person and make a question. The person will, in return, ask you a question, to test how much you know. The questions are of the type: entertainment, society, culture, nature, sports and technology. The people talk in a made-up language, so all is subtitled in Swedish. When you have gathered the facts, go to the boss. The boss asks you some questions about what you are doing. If you answer correctly, proceed to the next and so on. If not, the boss will be furious and you have to wait five hours. The game's script was written by game journalist Thomas Arnroth. Graphics are like that of a comic book. | ||
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| Kaged | Ian Finley | [top] | |
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Kaged is a stylish, superbly written game of alternate history that is a worthy winner of the 2000 Interactive Fiction Competition.After impressing the judges with science fiction thriller Babel, Ian Finley returns with an excellent futuristic vignette that is strongly reminiscent of George Orwell's classic "big brother" novel 1984, both in plot and style. You play Commissar Aackman, a diligent civil servant who has just been appointed to replaced your boss who mysteriously jumped off the building. Slowly but surely, you will begin to question the authorities that control every aspect of your life, and begin to see the world in ways you never thought you would. Kaged is a very polished game. There isn't a typo in sight, and puzzles are logical and fair, although some of them seem dull in comparison with the clever puzzles of Babel. Many puzzles have alternate solutions, and the few non-player characters you can interact with are all interesting individuals with their own agenda. Although the plot is quite predictable, excellent writing and attention to detail will keep you playing, just to see if the ending is what you'd expect (hint: it is). In addition to spotless writing and good puzzles, Kaged utilizes multimedia capabilities of HTML TADS to great effect. The pictures and music are nicely done, and fit the game's grey, dystopian mood perfectly. In short, this is a definite must-have, although anyone who dislikes Kafka-esque, existentialist games that will make you feel depressed for days should stay well clear of this one. The post-competition registered version includes a high-quality soundtrack. | ||
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| Kanoso 64: Uguu Raihousha [J] | As Usual / Itsumo no Tokoro | [top] | |
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Slaptstick Parody Adventure of Kanon of the " story breaking the Kanoso ~ memories ~ " is, faithful while also tracing the original, " Fist of the North Star ", " Baki boy such as" cartoon from the " Spelunker Gag covering up to the game, etc., characters slightly different from the original character settings and characters drawn by Takashiro's "poisoned eyes" characters, and " multi-bad end ", they jumped out into popular circles. You play as 17-year-old Yuuichi Aizawa (木目沢ネ右一). Having trained in this madder-red city and left on a ascetic travel, you return to your hometown to determine who is the strongest. The influence that "Kanoso" gave to the second creation of "Kanon" is great, especially the title "The Strongest Creatures on the Ground " or " Missé Arc Demon ", which is swung by Akiko Mizuse, which has many mystery even in the original setting (In this work and “Kanoso 64”, the characters other than the main character are slightly different from the original, but the readings are slightly changed as well as the original.) In this work, they are used as laughter voices by Saori Kurata (Clark Sayulin) There are " Nyaso ", " Kimmezawa Neeichi " (Aizawa, Yuichi), etc., who created the default name of the original hero. In addition, the mystery of Makai plant growing in my head of Makoto Sawatari (Sawatashi, Makoto) " Johnny " (the full name with the advent works are all different. This is a 2-disc set with music DISC. | ||
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| Kiss Immortals | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. / SlingShot Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This was the first-ever, made-for-the-Web 3-D animated series that featured the actual voices, music, and likenesses of music legends KISS. KISS Immortals is a rock-and-roll adventure series, initially airing in 27 weekly Webisode installments, on a number of partner Web sites. Further webisodes beyond the first 9 did not have the voices of KISS members. The series finds KISS, in the midst of a concert tour, mysteriously abducted into the alien world of Umbra. Umbra is an oppressive world without music or heroes, but KISS is determined to save this universe - and ours - armed with their music, a rebellious attitude and the viewers' help. This combines music, 3-D animation, and interactivity. This interactive movie features computer-generated versions of rock & roll legends Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss in a strange sci-fi adventure. Set on the evening of the group's final concert appearance, the bandmembers find themselves mysteriously transported from the Pittsburgh arena to a surreal alternate world where music has been outlawed. Players influence the outcome of the story by choosing different plot paths at key points in the film. Help the members of Kiss to bring the power of rock to this bizarre land and win their way back home. In 2001, a DVD release contained only the first 9 episodes. In 2008, a PAL DVD contained all 27 episodes. | ||
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| La Cité des échos [Fr] | Orphée Multimédia | [top] | |
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This is an exclusive French adventure game, formally representing a modernized and altered (in terms of "changing roles") interpretation of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, but in fact it is an educational program designed to improve the knowledge of the national language, disguised as a quest. It's a classic adventure: collect clues, solve puzzles while answering French exercises. You are in the shoes of a journalist investigating the disappearance of his bride. Beyond this intrigue, oh how hackneyed, you will have to do with a very well put together educational game. Under the guise of an investigation, you will have to complete homework that could have taken place in a classroom of an ordinary school. The virtue of this title is to offer them in a fun setting. For example, our heroine sees access to the outside world closed as long as she has not informed her employer of her departure. For that, it will be necessary to write a letter in due form. The graphics are of good quality and give the software a fairly immersive atmosphere. The whole is therefore pleasing although sometimes too academic in nature. The main character is a young girl Demo, a reporter for the newspaper "Les Echos du Monde". Her beloved, the saxophonist Theodore, suddenly mysteriously disappeared, and she, naturally, is determined to do everything to find him - but for this she will have to not only perform more or less traditional actions for the genre (having visited, among other things, the Opera, where he gave his last concert, and in Venice), but also to compose - and impeccably - rather long texts in total seven pieces. Actually, before the start, you are allowed to choose one of two modes: "Aventure", which is precisely a quest with an educational component formally integrated into its plot, and "Atelier", which is only a list of exercises. The action in the first of them is divided into several chapters. The game itself is basically a collection of drawn screens; moving around the locations occurs either by clicking on the edge of the space, or by clicking on the active points (as a result of which the heroine, for example, will enter a building). A significant part of the process is devoted to conversations with oncoming characters and solving various puzzles based on the information received from them (although the need to look for and use objects also takes place), however, as already mentioned above, after studying this or that material, you will have to write on your own seven times texts. The first such task will be drawing up a demo letter to the employer (followed by faxing) with a request to allow her to leave her house (apparently, the ban is associated with possible fear for her life - until this is done, it is impossible to leave the place of residence); then she will need to write a note about Theodore's last concert; etc. | ||
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| Larry Vales 1-2 | Philip J. Reed | [top] | |
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Larry Vales Traffic Division Larry Vales is an officer in the traffic patrol in a little town in Tennessee. Recently a local insane scientist Professor Semprini invented a machine called "Lovely Rita 4200 Parking Enforcement Cyborg". It was supposed to make people obey the traffic rules, but seemed to have exaggerated quite a bit: every traffic violation, even the smallest one, lead to the death of the poor citizen. You and your partner Charlie have to destroy this horrible invention! But how? The game is a traditional point-and-click adventure with an interface very similar to Sierra's VGA games and the game itself reminds of the Police Quest series. There is an inventory and actions to walk, examine, pick up items, and talk. These can be selected from the top of the screen, or switched with the right mouse button. The game is split up in three acts and you can measure your progress by a score system. There are a few sound effects and the background music contains midi files of famous songs by Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, and others. Larry Vales II: Dead Girls are Easy (2001) In this sequel, Larry is still a measly traffic officer while his partner got all the credit for his heroic acts. Larry soon gets fired as well as finds out that his girlfriend killed herself...or not. Larry must investigate his girlfriend's death as a vigilante, and encounters a sinister conspiracy. Like its predecessor, Larry Vales II is a point and click adventure game made with the AGS engine. | ||
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| LASH: Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup | Paul O'Brian | [top] | |
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The Second American Civil War has passed, and you're picking through the rubble for loot, via satellite link to your trusty robot. An interesting spin on the division between PC and protagonist, since the game actually involves a character manipulating a machine (and certain key points indicate that the analogy is no accident). The second half or so of the game takes a sharp turn, one that some have called heavy-handed; whether or not you find it that was, it's the sort of story that needs emotional impact to make it work, and the impact wasn't really there for me. Your mileage may vary, of course, and it's certainly a well-crafted work: the writing is impeccable, the setting thoroughly described, and generally there's plenty of attention to detail. Alternate endings abound, and it's impossible to see even most of the text on a given play through, so there's lots of replayability. In short, it's well put together, even if the message doesn't resonate in quite the way the author intended. | ||
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| Legend Of The Prophet And The Assassin | Arxel Tribe / The Adventure Company | [top] | |
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This is the second game in the Lgend adventure series begun with Pilgrim. You play through the eyes of Ay-Sayf, a former Knight Templar and warrior during the Crusades, as he seeks Simon, the false prophet. The game takes place in the 13th Century in the Eastern Hemisphere. Explore Jebus, a city of peace and harmony, bargain with the sellers in the marketplace of Jerusalem, and visit the Palace of Uvak Khan, an imperial ruler. Fight with demons and spiritual warriors during Ay-Sayf's quest in this point-and-click adventure. The original release contained what Dreamcatcher later called "Part 1 - The Prophet's Trail" with its 2 CDs. Their second release was named the same but included 4 CDs - the original Arxel Tribe game plus "Part 2" - Secrets of the Alamut. Each game has to be installed separately. | ||
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| Leif And The American Viking | Sveriges Multimedia of Sweden / SVT Sveriges Television | [top] | |
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This educational adventure is recommended for children ages 8-14 and simulates the travels of the Vikings to North America and the colonies in which they lived at Ainse aux Meadows. Interactive game, maps and simulations provide a stimulating and educational overview of North America's first colonists one thousand years ago. Around the year 1000 AD, Leif Eiriksson sailed westward from Greenland and reached an unknown land. There the Norse explorers found abundant natural resources, including wild grapes; hence the name Vinland ('Wineland'). A decade later, Viking efforts to settle in North America had been thwarted by Native American hunters. Two medieval Icelandic texts describe the Viking discovery of Vinland. Based on oral tradition, the Greenlanders' Saga and Eirik the Red's Saga largely agree on the main events but differ in details. According to Eirik the Red's Saga, two Native American boys were seized by Thorfinn Karlsefni and raised by the Norse in Greenland. The CD-ROM story assumes that one of these boys, called Ravenhead, has reached mature age to become a successful tradesman. He now sets out on a dangerous voyage to Vinland and you, the player, are invited to go with him. | ||
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| Longest Journey, The | Funcom / Empire Interactive Entertainment | [top] | |
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In this classic third-person graphic adventure you play the role of April Ryan, a struggling student artist in the year 2209, recently arrived in the big city of Newport. April is afflicted with strange nightmares, but her nightmares are starting to affect her waking world as well. Only the strange old man Cortez seems to know what's happening. He sends April to another world where magic is real. There, April learns that what she thought were nightmares are real, and that she must save not just one, but two worlds. It's a huge game, spanning 13 chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue, spread out over 4 CDs. All the usual graphic adventure elements are present, including lots of fairly challenging inventory-based puzzles, pages of dialogue, and bunches of places to explore. To help keep track of things, the game includes a diary, where April records her thoughts about important events, and a conversation log that records the text of every conversation. | ||
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| Lozenge and Hampshire | James Evans | [top] | |
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Lozenge and Hampshire is a browser-based adventure game series for all ages. Randolph Lozenge and Archibald Hampshire, the RGDs (Really Good Detectives) solve mysteries from their flat in Baker Street, owned by Mrs. Bunson. Accompanied by PC Fudge and assigned their missions by Inspector Bungham, they've encountered everything from a foreign chef to a murderous Santa! However, they always keep their cool, and, despite the eccentricity of their universe, they continue to solve any case that crosses their path. The characters and setting are inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Three cases are available: The Case of the Dead Person, The Case of the Curious Odor, and The Case of the Baronial Stiff. | ||
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| Magic Turn [Ru] | Nikita Ltd. / 1C | [top] | |
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John, a friend of Daria-Médard, perhaps familiar to you from the first part of this adventure of flying ( The Sixth Dimension ), broke a window in the house of a local sorcerer. That, of course, led to problems and ... turned the poor guy into an ant. Which he is immediately taken prisoner by the Society for the Humanization of insects, whose leader is going to become a man. In general, to get out of scrapes you have to go on to a flying beast. It's a funny story for children. | ||
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| Memories Off [J] | KID | [top] | |
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It's a surprisingly bittersweet tale about a guy named Tomoya Mikami who actually was dating the girl of his dreams, Ayaka Hizuki, for a long time... only to have her die tragically a good while before the game starts. The game even begins with Tomoya having a flashback about Ayaka whilst walking to the train station to get to school. On the train, as usual, is Yue Imasaka - a close friend of Tomoya and Ayaka who pretty much grew up with them. The gist of the story is that Tomoya feels that he's spent enough time grieving over the loss of Ayaka and is ready to try his hand at love again and hopefully find another wonderful girl to make beautiful memories with. | ||
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| Messenger, The / Louvre: The Final Curse | Arxel Tribe, index+, Réunion des Musées Nationaux / DreamCatcher Interactive | [top] | |
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It's only the most famous museum in the world you have to break into, the monumental Louvre in Paris. The setup is yet another round of Knights Templar hooey about four evil objects of power known as The Devil's Keys. You play a buff young woman named Morgane, of which absolutely nothing is ever learned during the course of the game, except that she's darned agile and ghost and time travel seem to have no effect on her at all. Her father's dying wish is that she break into the Louvre and steal these dangerous four objects. ...Morgane meets a mysterious ghost who sends her back in time. It turns out that in LTFC you get to skulk around places you're not supposed to be in the Louvre in five different time periods. As the building complex has undergone radical evolution during its eight-hundred-year history, this is quite an appealing prospect for a history buff indeed. To help get you up to speed on the Louvre's various incarnations, there's a handy in-game tutorial that gives you information on the Louvre of each period you visit. | ||
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| Metamorphoses | Emily Short | [top] | |
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You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what result? You're a slave girl on a mission of sorts for your master, though it's difficult to say what the mission is. The game's world is split between the literal and the figurative, and most of what you accomplish is significant more on the symbolic than on the concrete level. Idealized forms are a key thematic element, and most of the puzzles revolve around the transformation of those forms. The game provides two devices that can transform various objects, and the range and complexity of the transformations handled is impressive--the objects, by and large, behave sensibly in all their various forms. There are lots of puzzle solutions and a wide variety of endings, and the game manages to both tell a story and allow ample freedom in exploration. Beautifully described and impressively thoughtful. It won second place in the 6th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. | ||
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| Mickey Saves The Day | Human Code / Disney | [top] | |
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It's Mickey to the rescue in Disney's Mickey Saves the Day 3D Adventure. Control 3D characters and play as Mickey or Minnie. Explore over 25 fun-packed locations in Mickey's hometown. Learn about cooperation, teamwork and the environment. Search for clues in hundreds of clickable animations. Adjust skill level to challenge all players. There's four adventures to entertain. Traffic Jam: Retrieve Donald's possessions by crossing a gridlocked freeway running through the center of his house. Sandwich Hero: Hungry? Help Mickey or Minnie prepare a sandwich. But be prepared - ingredients are hurled by the automatic sandwich making machine and various angles. Von Drake's Lab: Collect the parts Von Drake needs to complete his flying machine, then complete your mission to rescue Minnie (or Mickey). Minnie's House: Keep Mickey and Minnie's hometown clean while searching for clues in over 25 fun-packed locations. | ||
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| Mistænkt / Polis 2: Någon ljuger [Sw] | Vision Park / Deadline Games | [top] | |
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With the same realistic feel of the previous game, again you find yourself as the leader of a new murder case to solve. In most murder cases, the cause of death of the victims are from family members or from a close circle of friends. In pain and anger unexpected events happen and suspicions are raised. But that's not enough, there are also things that should be tested. Moreover, in a hurry, time is frighteningly fast and tracks soon cooled. "Polis 2" is a game for those who appreciate the Nordic black genre in books, film and television. But here, you must catch the culprit. Along with the police, you are there to identify the circle of friends of the victim, interrogate suspects, alibis and establish reliable evidence. You can also use the help of media in your work for recognition. With the publication of appropriate information, you can bring new councils and public testimony. Remember that a case is not resolved in a few days and rarely resolves. These realistic cases are based on authentic materials. | ||
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| Monet and the Mystery of the Orangerie Museum / Monet: The Mystery Of The Orangery | Wanadoo Edition / Media Factory | [top] | |
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This ia an adventure with unique looking graphics taken from Monet style of paintings. There is a conflict revolving around the use of the Orangerie building in Paris. One faction wants to use it as a museum to house the works of Monet, and the bad guy, Derrick, wants to extract oil from the site. Get it? Oil? Derrick? The museum option is chosen, and you play as a young architect who has been hired to do the renovation work on the building. But Derrick hasn't given up, and he and his two henchmen hatch a plot to blow up the Orangerie building so that they may take the oil after all. It is up to you to foil their nefarious plans. The game is linear, but within each segment, you have total freedom of movement (it's a realtime 3D game) and can complete many of the tasks out of order. The gameplay incorporates two elements: inventory puzzles and timed sequences, and sometimes a combination of both. In one of the segments, you meet Monet himself and get a chance to look around his studio. Here you can click on several of the works to hear the Monet character talk about them, but that is the extent of the educational value of the game. Though the game is quite short, you really feel as if you were playing inside the paintings themselves and is a unique and beautifully done experience. | ||
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This is a Brazilian game that is basically a huge tribute to classic horror movies in point & click form, it features Jose Mojica Marins who had international fame for his "Coffin Joe" horror movies (he passed away on the 19th of February/2020). Despite the childish cartoony look, the game is way more adult than one would suspect, since it deals with serious horror movies. The plot of the game is that you play as Caxy Gambá, a skunk that stumbles upon a classic old haunted house. After some shenanigans happen, he will need to find and capture an entourage of classical monsters that are running loose (Wolfman, Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, Nosferatu, etc.) The game features trivia and direct scenes from the aforementioned classic monsters (specially the stuff that's on public domain nowadays). Caxi Gambá, the protagonist of this surreal story, tries to take refuge from the rain in an abandoned house. Moving where it shouldn't, the skunk ends up releasing the scariest creatures, among them, Dracula, Frankenstein, Coffin Joe and many others. Now the only way to get out of this haunted mansion is to get rid of all monsters and go through many challenges. If you are used to other adventures, where the protagonist never dies ... forget it ... death awaits you with every click. You can still read all about the monsters, in a true horror encyclopedia, in addition to watching scenes from the most classic horror films. A frighteningly funny game, with the supernatural participation of Coffin Joe. | ||
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| Mortadelo y Filemon: Aventura en las Aulas [Sp] | Javier Hernández / Lafayette Home Entertainment | [top] | |
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This indie Java adventure was made in just two weeks by a single person, Javier Hernandez, better known in the forums by Javi-Wan Kenobi. Apart from this game, Lafayette Home Entertainment is responsible for the translation into Castilian of LucasFilm Games' Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. Javi-Wan is also responsible for the El Camino de Santiago adventure. | ||
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| Mortadelo y Filemón: Dos Vaqueros Chapuceros [Sp] | Alcachofa Soft / Zeta Multimedia S.A. | [top] | |
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This is another entry in the series of adventures based on the Spanish comic-book characters Mortadelo & Filemón. The two guys are lost in the world of cinema because of the Professor Bacterio's invention. Now immersed in the genre of "western", they must deal with the band of Billy the Kid to get back home. Challenge your imagination and help them to get out! This is a standalone game, but can be combined with its sequel Terror, Espanto y Pavor, to form a longer game named Una Aventura de Cine and a third module generates further inspired by the movie Jurassic Park. If another friend of yours has also the two adventures installed on their computer, you both can play on the Internet or a local network, one controlling Mortadelo and the other Philemon. With the "shoe phone" you will begin to contact the other to communicate and help each other. | ||
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| Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor [Sp] | Alcachofa Soft / Zeta Multimedia S.A. | [top] | |
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Professor Bacterio has invented a machine that allows to travel to the world of cinema. This new adventure moves Mortadelo and Filemón to the world of horror movies and, once there, the machine breaks again and threatens to leave them there forever if not repaired. The only person who can help them is Prof. Ibáñezstein, an enigmatic and crazy doctor who makes a deal with them in exchange for all the necessary things to create a unique creature. This is a standalone game, but can be combined with Dos Vaqueros Chapuceros as a sequel, to form a longer game named Una Aventura de Cine and a third module generates further inspired by the movie Jurassic Park. If another friend of yours has also the two adventures installed on their computer, you both can play on the Internet or a local network, one controlling Mortadelo and the other Philemon. With the "shoe phone" you will begin to contact the other to communicate and help each other. | ||
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| Multipath Adventures of Superman: Menace of Metallo | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. / Warner Bros. Online | [top] | |
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Warner Bros. Online and Brilliant Digital Entertainment released the Multipath Movie Channel in 1999. It was reportedly the internet's very first set of 3-D animation channels. The Multipath Adventures of Superman, was one of their headlining feature webseries and had a new "webisode" every Thursday (moved from Fridays). The channel was part of WB's Entertaindom website. The story in this adventure begins with a plot by a mysterious enemy from the future known as Dyschord who aims to attain the Warp Ray, a powerful new weapon developed by S.T.A.R. Labs that can send a person back in time five minutes. He ultimately hopes to reshape time to his liking and has hired Metallo to steal the crucial device for him. It's up to Lois and Superman (with a little help from Jimmy Olsen) to stop this rust-prone enemy and find out exactly what is going on, unaware of Dyschord's plan. Visually and gameplay wise, the game is very similar to Brilliant Digital's other games, such as Cyberswine: an "interactive" movie rendered realtime with a 3d engine, where player has occasionally a chance to decide how the story continues. The DVD contains only the first Menace of Metallo webisode Chapter but there were 6 different ones available online. | ||
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| Mystery At Greveholm 3: The Old Legend | Vioma Digital Media / Young Genius Software | [top] | |
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This is the third and last game in the "Mystery at Greveholm" series based on a Swedish tv series. In the first game you enter the haunted castle of Greveholm in order to free the Princess of the planet Planutus from the imprisonment of the evil skeleton of the dead Greveholm count and then help send her back to her planet after finding and fixing the missing parts of her spaceship. In the second game you travel to planet Planutus to save the princess once again from the captivity of evil Jellyfish King. Now, in this third episode the story is completely different and you play as the princess herself and once again you are in the Greveholm castle. Your task is to help find all the missing portraits of the duke of Greveholm and place them back on the wall in the Piano room. The portraits are painted on the back of the duke's musical scores. The main objective of finding these portraits is that the duke wants to get marry and to find him a suitable wife these portraits must be sent all over Sweden to show how handsome the duke is. Puzzles are mostly finding different inventory items and placing them in their right place. Many pots and gold parchments scattered in the game provide clues and hints for different puzzles. Visually, the game is a fine example of nice graphics. Control interface is smooth and mouse controlled. The inventory is easily accessible by clicking the briefcase icon in the lower interface area. The music and sound effects are marvelous and quite enjoyable throughout the game. | ||
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| Nancy Drew 3: Message in a Haunted Mansion | Her Interactive / DreamCatcher | [top] | |
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Step into the stylish shoes of teen supersleuth Nancy Drew to crack the case of the haunted mansion. As Nancy, you'll hang your hat in San Francisco, where you've been invited to help a family friend renovate a historic Victorian home. Some strange things have been happening in the old house - could it be spirits from the past, or just shifty characters on the make? Use your magnifying glass to search the place from top to bottom for clues. You'll find trap doors, personal papers, keys, tools--all sorts of spots and items to explore or hang onto for later use. You never know when you might need a paint scraper or crowbar to help you out of a bind. To fill in some of the gaps, talk to characters in the game, and choose your responses to their questions based on what you want to know. Play in one of two modes: new or younger players can sign in as junior detectives for more simplified play, while old pros can log in as senior detectives for serious sleuthing. Once you're in, you may never want to leave - the graphic detail of the Victorian-mansion setting is stellar. The Chinese-influenced décor is authentically and exquisitely reproduced, and many elements can be highlighted to better focus on the level of detail. (Those interested in Victorian interiors will be especially pleased.) Also realistic are often-overlooked touches that add a true-to-life ring, such as photos of family and friends on the wall, and sunglasses kept in the kitchen drawer. The sound effects further add to the sense of realism and heighten the air of suspense. You'll hear doors and cabinets creak open and shut, haunting cries, and loose chandeliers swaying overhead. This third installment is successful not just for its design and production, but for its thoughtful features that keep players hooked, even as things start to feel hopeless. When you're in a bind, you can call home or old friends Bess and George for help. And if you make a game-ending decision, simply pick up right where you left off before the terminal mistake by utilizing the Second Chance feature. There's even a self-updating journal in Nancy's suitcase that records clues as you find them, to help you keep track of all the facts you unearth. And, of course, you can save your game after each session - no backtracking through clues you've already found, or conversations you've already had. | ||
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| New Adventures of the Time Machine | Cryo Interactive Entertainment / DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a loose adaptation of one of the most well-read adventures in literature. Enter the adventure inspired by the work of H.G. Wells, and explore time travel as you face perilous situations and interesting characters. Your challenge is to survive against the forces of time. There is only one being capable of restoring the balance of time, only one being who can help you find your own era again - a mythical being, a Demi-god, The Master of the Hourglass: Khronos. The Time Machine disappears in an explosion of light. You are unharmed, but realize the dreadful consequence of the accident: your ability to go back to where you came from is made impossible without your Machine. You have paid the ultimate price for your curiosity. Now you are a prisoner of time: your past possibly lost forever in an uncertain future where your fate is unknown. | ||
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| New Bremen [Ru] | Saturn+ / Buka | [top] | |
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The heroes of a Russian animated movie from 1969 "Bremen Town Musicians" have grown considerably older and entered a new age of endless entertainment right in a 2000 cartoon, and in this computer game that's based on the movie. What is more important: they have adapted to the new times. The main bandit became a banker, the detective went to her service, and the "melodious guys" in the entourage of this new reality nevertheless remained good heroes. The music is taken from the movie. In this game, you must first play for the villains, and then the heroes. The action contains only the key moments of the story. In particular, in the second half of the game, the detective goes to the side of the Bremen Town Musicians, and almost all the subsequent plot is original. | ||
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| Nikki: The First Adventure | VQ International & Involve Learning | [top] | |
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You'll meet a smart, independent young woman who rides... and who has a flair for solving mysteries. Nikki will take you to Shady Pines in Sweden, where you'll meet her friends and Brownie, her favorite horse. There are some pretty shady characters at Shady Pines, and a lot of things that happen there are out of the ordinary. Nikki is an educational and entertaining game that covers horse facts and know-how, riding, competition, food, and health... and much more. Why does Nikki keep having the same nightmare? Who's trying to stop Carl and Anna from rebuilding Shady Pines’ first class reputation? Will Nikki be able to stop the sabotage in time to help Olympic rider Lisen Bratt at the Stockholm International Horse Show? What really happened that dark night on the bridge twenty years ago? These are just some of the questions to be solved. | ||
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| O Misterio das 7 Pezas [Sp] | Imaxin Software | [top] | |
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Seven pieces have disappeared mysteriously in Santiago de Compostela. You play as Ana Branco who has to investigate what happened and restore order. This is a free educative game made by the Consello da Cultura Galega to promote the culture and language of Galega. | ||
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| Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses | In Utero / Dreamcatcher Interactive | [top] | |
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Ten years have passed since the Trojan War and still Queen Penelope waits for the return of Ulysses. Finally, with the kingdom in unrest, and surrounding lords plotting for control of her kingdom, she sends for you. Banished as a murderer a decade ago, you embark on a quest to search the seven seas for Ulysses and bring him home or return with proof of his death. Inspired by one of the most widely renowned adventures of all time, the entertaining and engaging storyline, intriguing gameplay, and easy to use interface are destined to capture your adventurers’ soul. Outwit a Gorgon, confront a Cyclops, and rub elbows with a universe of mythological characters. This is essentially a computer sequel to Homer's work of Greek mythology. You as Heritias, Ulysses' childhood friend, first visit Troy and, as as you gather clues and leads as to your friend's whereabouts, Heritias will experience his own odyssey as he journeys to the islands of the Aegean Sea while fighting devious creatures and attempting to resist the manipulations of the gods. | ||
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| On Assignment | TCB Entertainment | [top] | |
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As a magazine photographer you have completed some of the industry's most desired assignments, but now you are faced with a new challenge; photograph the unimaginable. Someone wants the truth about your subject to be exposed, but there are others who will do anything to stop you from completing your assignment. GO AHEAD... GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT! On Assignment is a graphical fantasy/adventure game made with Adventure Maker that features thought provoking situations and puzzles enhanced by hundreds of high quality 24 bit raytraced 3D graphics, CD quality sound effects. A screensaver, the game's full soundtrack and image editing and animation software are also included with the full version on the CD. | ||
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| OpSys | [hyper]media limited | [top] | |
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Someone has broken into the Museum of the History of Cypriot Coinage and all the rare coins have mysteriously vanished. Your mission is to travel back in time with your time machine to recover all 100 missing coins. In your quest you will have the opportunity to visit ten distinct historical periods in Cypriot history, ranging from 500 BC to 1960. Along the way you will visit a variety of places such as a tomb, a temple and a church, an amphitheater and a fortified town. The player can visit the time periods in any order and pan around and zoom in at the locations. The game offers a map of the Museum that serves as a sort of encyclopedia of Cypriot history, as well as a clue book for the extensive puzzles. There was a $10,000 prize to whoever solved the game first but this led to instead of focusing on creating interesting and challenging puzzles that were informative and entertaining, the game designers had to focus on designing puzzles that were so obtuse that no one could easily claim the prize. | ||
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| Panatubo: The Search for the Lost Shrine | Tom DeCillis | [top] | |
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A text adventure without a text parser -- all input is done using buttons and icons. Windows 3.1 executable. We are for the second time on the beautiful island of Panatubo to look for the lost casket. Unfortunately we could not enjoy our first stay because of the little courteous inhabitants of the little coastal village of Vaidya and especially because of a disease that had forced us to go home. But now we find that the village has in the meantime been abandoned and gives the impression of being very poorly reduced. Even the indigenous people living in the forests, the people of Shistra, do not contribute to make us feel comfortable. That is, they have never seen any person who has put foot in the woods. With a feeling a little strange in the stomach we are going to explore the place and the surrounding territories, but first we have to take everything with us which has not been firmly fixed and stable. The adventure with the text is commanded completely with the mouse, whereby through the icons are managed in the direction imprinted to the movement and actions like: see, attack, take and memorize. Each time the description of the space is displayed in a separate window with text. | ||
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| Pantos Story [J] | Mangosteen / Kodansha | [top] | |
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This is a CD-Rom of interactive picture books depicting the frog's "Pantos" traveling on a balloon and it's the sequel to Putlestory (ピュートルストーリー). Pantos is a small frog living in a small pond. One day, it receives a parcel of fate from a musician named "Rashiel" who lives in the body of Garcia to study the ecology of the giant fish "Garcia" flying over the "ocean of forget" that should not exist in this world. In order to meet Rashiel, Pantos travels on a balloon to the "ocean of forget". The end of the daydreaming world that evokes fear and longing is a different space where silence and heterogeneity interweave. Residents of Wonderland show you the way you are going. | ||
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| Panty Raider: From Here to Immaturity | Hypnotix, Inc. / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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This is from the makers of Deer Avenger and offers the same low-brow humor. It also was protested as sexist and degrading to girls by a parents group. A catalog of frilly underthings worn by babe-a-licious models has been delivered to the wrong address in the wrong galaxy. Discovered by three excitable aliens of the male persuasion (sorta), the catalog has only whetted their appetite for more. Now these aliens have traveled the galaxy in search of more models to photograph - and they'll destroy the earth if you (in the role of mild-mannered Nelson) don't help them to get what they want! Use all sorts of Gadgets such as X-Ray specs, shoot underwear-removing goop and a camera. You can lure supermodels with Tic Tacs ("the model's meal of choice," says the announcer) and toilets ("the model's steering wheel to fame"). For the record, the characters are animated, there is no nudity and the language is suggestive but not vulgar. You need to use your charm and your credit card to get as much underwear as you can to save the planet. | ||
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| Papyrus: Le Secret de la Cité Perdue [Fr] | Ubi Soft Montpellier SAS / Mindscape | [top] | |
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Help Papyrus discover The Secret of the Lost City and enter the heart of ancient Egypt. In this PC adventure game, you will solve puzzles, discover amulets and various objects, in order to lift the mystery surrounding this mysterious city. | ||
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| Paris 1313: The Mystery of Notre Dame | Canal+Multimédia, index+, Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Wanadoo | [top] | |
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Paris 1313 is an adventure game, involving the mystery surrounding a death at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. As you progress through the game, you play as three different characters, each involved in the mystery in different ways. There's Jacques, a young goldsmith, Pierre, a young horseman who want to join the King's Army, and Rosemonde, a dancer. Most of the game is a straightforward point-and-click adventure game, where you talk to people for information and clues, and find items that you use to solve puzzles. There are also a few arcade-like elements, such as climbing up a chimney and target practice with a bow and arrow. The game progresses in a series of chapters. In each chapter, you must perform a certain task with each of the three characters in order to proceed. This game contains animated cutscenes and voice over work. | ||
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| Peter-No-Tail and the Great Treasure Hunt / Pelle Svanslös på Skattjakt [Sw] | Vioma | [top] | |
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This is an adventure game with Pelle Svanslös (English: Peter-No-Tail), a fictional anthropomorphic cat created by the Swedish author Gösta Knutsson and a children's book series about him. The series of twelve children's books based on the character was published between 1939 and 1972. The first eleven books were illustrated by Lucie Lundberg. The books about Pelle are seen as a protest against the ever more overt support seen for national socialism in Sweden during the 1930s, and as such constitute a satire on contemporaneous society. The stories take place in Uppsala, Sweden. The characters of the books are cats, however, they are often based on real people. Pelle is a kindhearted and gullible cat who is constantly being tricked and bullied by Elaka Måns ("Nasty Måns") and his helpers Bill and Bull. However, good always prevails over evil, and Pelle even gets to experience true love together with Maja Gräddnos ("Maya Cream-nose"). A movie by the same title also came out the same year as the game. | ||
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| Phantom of Inferno | Nitroplus | [top] | |
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Phantom of Inferno (known in Japan as Phantom -PHANTOM OF INFERNO-) is a visual novel game created by Nitroplus, and distributed by Hirameki International (a subsidiary of the Japanese visual novel publisher Hirameki). It came out in for PC in Japan in 2000 and was ported for DVD in 2001 and for PS2 in 2003. It was distributed in America as an AnimePlay DVD title in 2005. The story can take either a dark action/drama path or can turn into a romantic drama depending on the choice of the player. An updated port for the Xbox 360 console was released in 2012. Phantom of Inferno details the life of a 15-year-old Japanese boy who is kidnapped after witnessing the killing of a reporter. The memories of his past life are erased, and he is given the choice to join 'Inferno' or die. After joining the organization he is given the name 'Zwei' (German for number 'two') and will study under 'Ein' (From the German word "Eins" for 'one'). Ein is also known as 'Phantom', the title given to the organization's top assassin. Inferno is said to be the 'United Nations of crime syndicates'. As Zwei makes his way through training and various missions, deceit and betrayal occur even within Inferno and slowly put Zwei in increasing danger. Along the way, Zwei meets a girl by the name of Cal Devens and, though he tries to protect her, she too is drawn into Inferno to become the assassin, Drei (German for 'three'). | ||
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| Piposh 2 [He] | Guillotine / Hed Arzi Multimedia | [top] | |
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Piposh 2 is the second game in the Piposh series. Like its predecessor, Piposh 2 is a humorous point and click adventure game. In this game, following the first game's ending, you find yourself on an isolated island with an all new set of strange people, such as an old rich man who wants to build train rails all over the island, an inspector who worked as a tester for sucking candies and even a nerd who programs in Pascal (no kidding). Your mission is to build a flying machine using the different items you can find in order to leave the island. | ||
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| Polda 3 [Cz] | ZIMA Software | [top] | |
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Pankrác, the cop from Polda and Polda 2 isn't the policeman any longer - he was fired and now works as a private detective. One lazy afternoon Pankrác is approached by a woman looking for her lost ex-husband. Pankrác isn't happy to search for some greasy cook, but this feeling is quickly dismissed when he discovers that the cook worked for the famous ice hockey star, Jegger. This time he won't stay in single village or town, instead he'll travel to places including South America and Siberia. Polda 3 is, like its predecessors, a point and click adventure controlled by the mouse. Inventory is hidden in the upper part of the screen. There are also mini-games which the player must beat in order to continue game. | ||
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| Puzz3D: The Orient Express | Dyad Digital Studios Inc. / Wrebbit Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a virtual interpretation of Wrebbit's successful line of challenging, three-dimensional puzzles based on historically important buildings and places. There are two main modes of gameplay. First, players must put together a 3D model of the orient express from scores of little two-dimensional, virtual puzzle pieces, scattered across a virtual tabletop. Players first piece together the flat sides and tops of the engine and cars, then join these together to complete the 3D model. Once the whole train is assembled, players climb aboard for the role-playing mode of the game. Exploring the train's interior and observing multimedia presentations about the history of the original Orient Express will give players clues that may help them solve the point-and-click mystery and finish the story. | ||
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| Real Myst | Cyan Worlds / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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The original Myst was one of the most successful games ever and brought the popularity of 3D environments to games. However, the technology of the early 90s simply wasn't up to what the creators wanted to do. So when computers had developed to the point where they might come closer to doing so, and a real-time 3D engine was available, the Miller brothers jumped at the chance to create the worlds of Myst as they had originally envisioned them. There's dynamic, real-time and fully interactive with Day and night condition cycles, changing weather, and real-time lighting effects. Plus an all-new 5th age, called the Rime Age was added. All that and a new ending, and you have yourself the official "Directors Cut" of a classic. In 2014, a Masterpiece Edition updated version was released celebrating the 20th anniversary of Myst. The models and textures have been reconstructed to provide an amazing graphical experience. The environments have been enhanced to provide dynamic water, weather, lighting, foliage, focus, and more. The interface has been redesigned. | ||
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| Return To Pirate's Island II | Scott Adams | [top] | |
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After a 15-year wait, the anticipation is finally over with Scott Adams latest installment. Yes, the master of adventure games, The Chief Adventurer himself is back. Imagine a world where your imagination replaces your senses. A world full of sea, sand, pirates and treasure ! You wake up in a boat, not knowing your purpose, but as you find your sea legs and begin to explore, many tasks are unraveled. Solve the various puzzles and use your wits to conquer the mysteries of the island. The original adventure master is back with his best creation yet, "Return to Pirates Island 2". A fun game that will appeal to the whole family. Say "YOHO” turn around - and suddenly you are there! Explore a pirate's world through your mind's eye... After 3+ years of development, interactive fiction's finest is ready to send you on an adventure of the high seas utilizing the latest in text-based gaming. It features an extensive help system, multi-windowed interface, and custom engineered sound effects. Your goal is to collect a set of *treasures*, some hidden well and some hidden, well ... right in front of your nose! Visit exotic locales, find sunken treasure, work with the crusty old pirate, put up with obstinate sea creatures and even learn to really hate alarm clocks! Yes, that Scott Adams sense of humor is back too! | ||
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| Riding Champion: Legacy of Rosemond Hill | Digital Illusions CE AB / PAN Interactive Publishing | [top] | |
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This is part of the Swedish Rosemond series of games. It tells the story of Annie, a teenage girl, who receives a horse as an unexpected inheritance from her grandfather. It is kept in the stables of Rosemond Hills, the estate that once belonged to her grandparents. The game is shaped as an adventure title with a storyline (finding out why her family lost the estate), different locations, conversations with other characters and puzzle elements. The main focus is however on the horse racing/caring element. With the help of John the stable keeper Annie has to learn how to train her horse and perform various activities to keep it in shape. After practicing, completing various chores and progressing though the game, Annie receives invitations to compete at various trials and championships, with the main goal of beating her rival Melissa. The riding consists of three disciplines: jumping, steeple chase and cross country. Dressage from the previous titles has been removed, as well as the option to play with four players in alternating sessions. The racing elements are presented in 3D with full control over the direction, speed and jumping abilities. | ||
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| Rob Blanc 1-3 | Ben Croshaw / Fully Ramblomatic | [top] | |
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An amateur adventure game series made witg AGS (Adventure Game Studio). I: Better Days of a Defender of the Universe In order to bring balance in the universe and preventing Evil from changing it in a chaotic world, the High Ones decide to choose a living being as their hero. The only neutral planet which can provides him is Earth. So, that's how the High Ones choose Robert Blanc, a chip shop worker from England, as their new hope. His first mission is to find out what happens to a Remman ship and its crew. II - Planet of the Pasteurised Pestilence Rob is ready to take his new ship and begin his crusade. However, the High Ones insist he take a short holiday on Earth for a month, just to say goodbye. Not because they care for his feelings, but because they haven't actually built the ship yet. As usual, when a hero is relaxing, he's always ending up to save the world. Well, Rob, after being stuck in a lift with a young man named Paul, whom he suspects to be from another planet, lands on Remus XIII (according to Rob). A plague is affecting the people living there and it's up to Rob (and unfortunately for him, to Paul) to solve this mystery. III - The Temporal Terrorists Something sinister is going on in the universe. Strange sightings have been reported; it seems that clones of ships, people and even planets have been appearing; clones that apparently echo both the future and the past. The governments of the universe have all drawn a blank - so they pass the buck onto Rob Blanc. Control both him and his sidekick Paul as you get to the bottom of the problem, visit four different interstellar locations and travel to a parallel universe. | ||
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This 3D adventure game is not so much about the Will of Caesar but actually about the aftermath of Caesar's death, the search for Caesar's Will, a vital document and testament to the true desires for succession in ruling Rome, which Will has been lost, leading to a struggle for power that has plunged Rome into turmoil. As the player, Hercules, you will come in contact with many of the real historical characters of the period, such as Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Cicero, Octavius, and Brutus, as well as many other imaginary characters who add spice and mystery to the unfolding of the story. Also, you will have the opportunity to visit 16 historical locations and buildings in Rome, including Caesar's Gardens, the Temple of Vesta, Cicero's House, the Regia, the Port of Ostia, and the Rostra. | ||
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| Ronia: Robber's Daughter / Ronja Raubertochter [Nor] | Liquid Media/ Oetinger /Norstedts Raben Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is an adventure game aimed at children based on Astrid Lindgren's novel Ronia the Robber's Daughter. The story of the game follows the book and the player takes the roles of the friends Ronia and Birk which are the kids of the heads of two warring brigand bands. The gameplay is similar to other adventure games: The player searches the surroundings, picks objects up and uses them to solve puzzles, e.g. finding a key to a chest or distract people in their way. There is also a lot conversation in multiple choice. The game is completely played with the mouse and is divided into several chapters where the controlled protagonist changes. | ||
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| Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | KnowWonder Digital Mediaworks / Mattel Electronics / THQ | [top] | |
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Relive the second Rugrats animated movie where you travel to Reptarland in Paris with Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, Lil, Phil, and Baby Dil to help rescue Chuckie Wawa from the clutches of the conniving CoCo LaBouche. Play five fast and fun arcade-style games, with each game mirroring a scene from the movie. Earn bonus points as you advance through the levels in the games, with a special-reward animation after completing the 10th level of a game. After completing four previous games, play the special Reptar versus Robosnail final showdown game. Help Chuckie find his new mommy. Search EuroReptar Land as any of your favorite Rugrats, or go head-to-head with up to four players in the game’s Multiplayer mode. An action-filled laugh riot, this one isn’t just for the little gamers. You can explore 16 fun-filled Parisian levels. There are also plenty of bonus levels and side games to keep everyone amused for hours as they play mini-golf, ride the bumper cars, or avoid obstacles and bad guys. | ||
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| Sabrina The Animated Series: Magical Adventure | Funnybone Interactive / Knowledge Adventure, Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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Madness and mayhem just struck the Greendale Matt, and it's up to you and Sabrina to set things straight. When the devious Gem Stone gets her sneaky hands on a magical amulet, she goes on a spell-jamming retail rampage turning models into mice, shoppers into sheep, pet groomers into poodles and more. So get ready to play five fruit-flinging, hair-hopping, pyramid-popping games - and help Sabrina collect the magic she needs to save the day. | ||
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| Scooby-Doo! Phantom Of The Knight | Terraglyph Interactive Studios / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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Scooby, Shaggy, and the rest of the gang have an encounter with a fireball while driving near an old castle. They decide to investigate the old castle which turns out to be a tourist attraction named Joust For Fun. Once there, they meet Jane McHaggis, the proprietor of the establishment, who explains that the castle is being haunted by the Black Knight. The Black Knight is believed to be the spirit of the original owner of the castle and has kidnapped the actress playing the castle's princess. The gang takes up the cause of solving this groovy mystery on a pro bono basis, as is their wont. The player guides the gang through the castle grounds while interacting with random objects, solving puzzles, and hunting for clues. Along the way, the gang meets more characters who offer their own clues but also become suspects in the mystery. By the end of the game, the player must make a determination of who is behind the Black Knight. There's 25 fully interactive areas to explore and the mystery changes each time you play: new clues, plus a different villain. There's also up to 35 various clues including 7 clues per suspect and red herrings, and 11 mini activities with puzzles and an arcade type activity. | ||
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| Scooby-Doo! Showdown In Ghost Town | Terraglyph Interactive Studios, Mattel Interactive / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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Los Burritos may sound like a groovy place to stop for a snack but it is really a haunted ghost town with a faceless rider. Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and the whole gang need help to solve this latest mystery of the Faceless Rider, a mysterious spirit (or is it?) haunting the town. Thankfully, they're all back with the same groovy clothes, lingo, and music--plus the goofy humor - that made their '70s TV show so much fun to watch. To get to the bottom of what's spooking Los Burritos, the group must explore the town and talk to everyone who crosses their path, all the while looking out for clues to help them solve the mystery at hand. To uncover the right information, players must perform semi-educational activities like setting a clock to the proper time, putting a puzzle together, and recalling details from the game itself. There are also fun challenges throughout (Scooby takes on the Faceless Rider in a pie fight to the finish, and later plays a mean game of horseshoes) to earn Scooby Snacks. These prove important when you want Shaggy and Scooby to enter an especially scary area - you'll have to bribe them with Scooby Snacks to get them to cooperate. These graphics are amazing and the voices accurate. Kids will think they are watching the cartoon on TV, except they are part of the adventure. While kids play they are sharpening critical thinking, problem solving, deductive reasoning and logic skills. This mystery changes each time kids play with new clues, a different villain and outcome. Three levels of difficulty ensure kids are challenged as they progress. | ||
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| Shade | Andrew Plotkin | [top] | |
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The author's tag-line for this game is "A one-room game set in your apartment," and it's difficult to say much more about it without spoilers. Suffice it to say that it's extremely well crafted and very, very creepy--this is "mess with your head" IF par excellence. Precisely what happens, particularly at the end, is open to multiple interpretations. There's also a lot going on, in a sense, so you may want to replay it a few times once you're done. Not to everyone's taste--it's not an upbeat game by any means--but masterfully done. | ||
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| Sherlock Holmes: The Return of Moriarty [Ru] | Buka Entertainment | [top] | |
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This game takes place in the unique atmosphere of Victorian England. You have to go through incredible adventures with the favorite characters, Sherlock Holmes who is voiced by Vasily Livanov and Dr. Watson who is voiced by Vitaly Solomin. Together with the great detective Holmes and his loyal friend Watson, you can take part in the investigation of many cases of mysterious happenings... you will meet up with Jack the Ripper, the hounds of Baskerville, explore the mysterious network of tunnels under the Thames, and will be able to reveal the terrible secrets of the ancient civilizations of South America where poor people are turning into zombies. But after all the threads come together, the detectives will battle with Professor Moriarty. It's a fascinating, dynamic detective quest with many interesting problems of various levels of difficulty. You will be pleased with not only the story, but also a lively, vibrant, professional animation. There's more than 80 animated locations and over 50 fully interactive characters. | ||
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| Shtyrlits 2: Tango in the Pampas [Ru] | Studio "Roof" / MagnaMedia | [top] | |
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It was a mistake to think the Nazis were fully defeated after World War II. Some of them escaped the justice and fled to Argentina. Now they raise their ugly heads again in the depths of the Andes. Who can stop them but the brave Russian spy Styrlitz, who has already successfully confronted Hitler in the first game? This game is a parody on the famous Soviet movie "Seventeen Moments of the Spring", that tells the story of Major Isaev, a.k.a. Stirlitz, a Soviet spy in Nazi Germany. The character from the movie has long become object of countless jokes. The Styrlitz of the game is an idiot with a twisted sense of logic, which is all he needs to solve the tricky puzzles and to defeat the Nazis in this cartoon-style adventure. | ||
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| Skippy: The Curse Of The Temple Of Ock | Transposia | [top] | |
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Join Skippy - the worlds most famous kangaroo in a mysterious adventure to save the sacred scroll of Ock. Journey into the unknown and unravel the mysteries and intrigue of Ancient Egypt. Hours of fun await as you make your way through a series of fun challenges and games in a bid to stop the curse of the pharaoh! | ||
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| Small House [J] | Zou Studio / Victor Entertainment | [top] | |
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A 3D animated adventure released in Japan which was originally serialized in the magazine "Mac User" from 1995 to 1996. A small mouse moves into a big human house and immediately sets out exploring. The player gets to follow along, wandering from room to room and clicking on everything to make fun things happen. The mouse and the player travel together, and the player gets to see what the mouse is up to in their new digs. While the goal is to find pieces of a picture so it can be put back together, this isn't a real challenge; the player is free to play with whatever they find interesting without any pressures. Small House also includes two other small games that were previously released as demos: Christmastime at Small House, an animated Christmas card released in 1998, and Secret Safari, an animal-themed game released in 1999. There are 12 rooms in the house. The goal is to find all the puzzle pieces so you can meet a fairy. Features over 500 clickable items. To open the inventory or quit, click the cursor towards the bottom left of the screen. | ||
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| Stig of the Dump | Topologika Software Ltd. | [top] | |
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Clive King wrote Stig of the Dump way back, but it is still a popular novel in schools. This pack brings the story to life. Learners take the part of Barney in a "virtual environment" that contains people, objects and locations from his house and the dump. Using their knowledge of the first three chapters of the book, pupils must enter instructions such as GO NORTH, IN and LIGHT FIRE. While exploring the dump, various objects must be located and problems solved, but the Handbook, complete with solution, will keep you one step ahead. The pack comes complete with a topic web for planning, ideas for linked work in Creative Writing, Science and Environmentalism and a map for pupils who find making their own tough. Stig works best when tackled collaboratively (e.g by pupils sharing a computer or by a whole class enjoying this book-based experience across a network), so the VLE/SCORM versios now included in our Site Licence packs see below) encourage this. Pupils could, for example, be challenged to explore Stig at home. They can save positions to continue back at school and discuss/write about where they found the first treasure (flint) and where they hid it from Grandma - every good problem often has a number of equally great solutions. | ||
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| Tigger's Honey Hunt | Doki Denko Studio / Buena Vista Games | [top] | |
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Winnie the Pooh is planning a party, but there aren't enough pots of honey. In steps Tigger, who promises to search high and low for as much honey as possible. It's up to you to help guide Tigger through 9 levels collecting items and hunting down the pots of honey hidden around the worlds. Challenges include dodging bees, finding your way through caves and much more. All of the characters from the Winnie the Pooh series make appearances, while mini-games keep you busy long after the main adventure is complete. | ||
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| Timeline | Timeline Computer Entertainment / Eidos Interactive | [top] | |
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Based on Michael Crichton's latest best-selling novel (before it was adapted into a movie), Timeline opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France. Combining a science of the future with the complex realities of the medieval past, Timeline carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible. You are part of a team of archaeologists excavating an historic region of modern day France. Your team leader, Professor Johnston, has mysteriously disappeared leaving behind an unexpected videotape addressed to you with an imperative request. Now you must travel back to fourteenth century France to rescue him. Even with Crichton as lead designer of the game, it received generally bad reviews. | ||
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| TimeScape: Journey to Pompeii / Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius | Arxel Tribe / DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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Adrian Blake, trapped in a mountain cave, surrounded by a raging war, fears his exciting and adventurous life is almost at an end. The goddess Ishtar appears before him and offers to save him in exchange for his love. Rejecting her advances and safely returning home, Adrian discovers that his fiancée is missing. Realizing that Ishtar has cursed him, Adrian searches ancient scrolls to invoke the goddess to help him find Sophia. Instead, Ishtar challenges him to go back in history to Pompeii in the year 79 A.D. and win the love and trust of Sophia, as a complete stranger. Adrian must race against time - he is aware that Mount Vesuvius is destined to erupt in just 4 days. Overcoming numerous obstacles, Adrian must act quickly to save Sophia and himself before all is lost. | ||
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| Timmy's Science Adventure | Compedia | [top] | |
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Join Timmy in an exciting adventure in a virtual science museum in which the child will understand scientific phenomenon, will acquire valuable thinking skills and tools to better understand our world. Learn about Science and Nature. Build problem solving skills. Scientific knowledge and curiosity. The child will be able to operate a microscope simulator, will see demonstrations and explanations about various physical phenomenons, will learn about scientific facts by participating in television quiz show and even travel into space! Each stage of the adventure is an educational fun game which makes learning science exciting and fun! The activities are full of examples, photos and video clips to simulate reallife situations. There is also the possibility of practicing the experiments at home, with the participation of the parents. The games and activities are in various levels of difficulty to enable the child to play and learn at his own pace. The associate Internet site includes additional and updated material and references which will provide hours of learning and excitement. The schools version includes an in-depth teacher's guide, with additional tasks and activities. | ||
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| Tito en la Mina [Sp] | Micronet | [top] | |
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In a rich and prosperous mining town at the foot of the mountain, our friend Tito lives with his father, the chief engineer of the mine. Today, sadness and misery have come to town, the evil Mr. Bocanegra wants to build a nuclear graveyard. The mine has been closed, and its residents are leaving the city in search of work. Tito asks his father why stay there. It is then, when it reveals a great secret: somewhere in the mine there is a vein of hidden gold whose finding would mean the revival of the village. Tito helps you find the gold mine. The journey is long and many surprises await you. You know the history of the people and make a lot of new friends, but you have to be careful with the minions of the evil lord Bocanegra, who will try to prevent you to reach your goal. | ||
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| TKKG 6:The Forged Fifties | Tivola / Viva Media | [top] | |
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"I'm sorry, Karl. But the cash notes are unfortunately falsified." How do you ask? Mrs. Bellheim, the shop assistant in the optics business, has probably a break in the optics. Karl four-stone, which could smart type be turned of TKKG, in the bank counterfeit money? Straight one wanted to pay with Mrs. Bellheim the telescope, for which he geschuftet the whole summer to Karl, there zerplatzt the dream like a Seifenblase. The profit of one summer in falsified notes disbursed! A scandal! And completely clearly a case for TKKG! Which bank employee distributed putrid cash notes. Or were the notes copied simply in the Copyshop? In the TKKG play everything turns around money counterfeiters, banks, blooms and - clearly - the new euros! | ||
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| TKKG 7:Fire! | Tivola / Viva Media | [top] | |
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Nostalgia purely! Who doesn't know it, the series with exciting stories over the TKKG gang? Many will have already read the books as young people, others become acquainted with the new generation detectives only now with their children together. Either way, success over the decades speaks for itself. " Tarzan" - Tim, Klößchen, Karl and Gaby educate, according to their initial letters, the TKKG team, which you accompany on this CD-ROM with the clearing-up of a crime and support by your serendipity. Several fires worry the city. Does it concern arson? Does a series author put behind? Who is the mysterious foreigner, who again and again surprisingly at the scenes emerges? Times case for Tim, Karl, Klößchen and Gaby. On the hunt for the arsonist you can use even a phantom view program! Together with TKKG you look for traces, indications and suspects. Only if you slip again and again into the different roles of the detectives and combine smartly, you can solve the crime in an exciting final. | ||
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| Tlon: A Misty Story | Midas Interactive / Emerald Software | [top] | |
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In the era when the Earth was ruled by dark and magic forces, when mythical beasts still roamed and when human beings as we know them today had yet to emerge from the womb of time, there existed a small group of Initiates who strove to uncover the magic Symbol through which the Earth was originally created. Now, you are the brave knight named Biatec and your task is to find out more about the mysterious Symbol of creation which is somehow tied up with the destruction of the whole ancient realm of Tlon. Your journey began a long time ago. During a miserable way you had lost a path and entered into a stinking swamp. Your horse was drowned in the mud and you fell, cracking your head on a large rock. When you woke up, you were in the same village, which is now behind you and you forgot all previous. Now your memory is at last back and you must complete your important mission. The game has extremely realistic and breathtaking graphics and animations but quite a frustrating storyline. The gameplay is annoyingly linear but there are almost a hundred beautifully drawn locations to explore, tons of characters to meet and interact and over thirty monsters and beasts to fight. You have a reasonable selection of weapons and armours to choose in an action sequence. In addition to superb background graphics, the game also displays stunning real-time atmospheric effects like smoke, fog, rain, and lightening. Digital music and sound effects are equally great and very atmospheric. | ||
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| Treasure Of Alcachofa Island [Sp] / Alcachofa Island Treasure | Alcachofa Soft S.L. | [top] | |
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From the makers of Drascula, comes this popular Spanish game which reminds of the Monkey Island series. Jim, the main character of this adventure, is a young thief who discovers that a captain is preparing a secret expedition to find pirate Frink's treasure. He will manage to enlist in the crew of the ship that will leave from Bristol to an unknown destination. This is a game full of humor and excitement, with very charismatic characters. From Dick the pirate, whose pet is a stuffed parrot, to a shipwrecked called Justino who went mad a lot of years ago. An incredible adventure where not everything is what it seems. A parody to Robert Stevenson's Treasure Island, El Tesoro de Isla Alcachofa is a typical 3rd Person Adventure game, with a good dose of dialogue, puzzles, humor and artichokes. | ||
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| Treasure of Drunk Island | MonkeyGames Entertainment / Cellosoft | [top] | |
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An amateur adventure game inspired by LucasArts' classic Secret of Monkey Island, Treasure of Drunk Island is a noble effort that unfortunatelly falls short due to poor interface.You are Willy, a hapless bloke who's just been fired. Luckily, you found a bill in your office that shows where to find a map that is hidden somewhere in the company. Once you find the map, it will guide you to Drunk Island, a small island somewhere in the Caribbean where a treasure is supposedly hidden. The game sports decent graphics that are a cut above most other amateur adventure games, and some interesting puzzles. What seriously impairs the game, though, is the lack of description of any kind on both inventory items and on-screen objects. There are only two commands: USE and TALK, and no EXAMINE command. This makes the game quite frustrating, especially since the graphics are not good enough for you to be able to tell what the object is, or which object can be taken into inventory. The only way to know what you are carrying is by clicking the USE command on an object to get its name-- hardly an intuitive concept. You'll have to resort to furious clicking on every screen to make sure you're not missing any collectible object. Fortunately, most puzzles in the game are not very difficult, and the plot is interesting enough to move things along. It was coded one half with Klik and Play, the other half with The Games Factory, and finished and saved stand-alone on Multimedia Fusion. It uses MiDi (Main Interface of Drunk Island) Engine which is an improvement from all the original K&P adventure engines (from back when it was created.) | ||
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| Tsukihime [J] | Type-Moon | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese eroge dojin visual novel game. Its fame and renown is often attributed to its comprehensive and expansive storyline and its writer Kinoko Nasu's unique style of storytelling. It follows the perspective of Shiki Tohno who suffered a life-threatening injury when he was young. When he regained consciousness, Shiki was able to see "death lines" though his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception which causes him immense headaches as his mind cannot cope with the sight of death. Soon after he is given a pair of glasses that blocks the sight of these lines. The game then advances to Shiki's second year of high school. After his injury, he was banished to a branch family of the Tohno household. After eight years he is called back home by his younger sister, Akiha Tohno, when she assumed the responsibility as the family's head. After moving back Shiki has trouble adjusting to the old-fashion lifestyle his sister lives by. As the story progresses the plot diverges depending upon the choices the character makes. Shiki must use his powers to confront supernatural beings such as vampires (known as True Ancestors and Dead Apostles). The player is presented with choices, some affect the story in large ways, others do not affect the story at all or affect it in small ways. Changes that affect Shiki's opinion on the characters and heroines usually change the direction of the story drastically. There are two scenarios: the Near-Side Route (as in "near-moon") which includes Arcueid and Ciel as selectable heroines, and the Far Side Route (as in far-moon) which includes Akiha, Hisui, and Kohaku as selectable heroines. Every heroine except Kohaku has two possible endings. When the player has achieved all possible endings, a new section is unlocked, entitled Eclipse. Eclipse is an ending to all routes, and an epilogue of sorts. It was adapted in 2003 into an anime series, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, produced by J.C. Staff and Geneon, and a manga series. | ||
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| Uncle Albert's Mysterious Island | EMME Interactive / Ice Multimedia | [top] | |
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During his fabulous trip around the world, Uncle Albert has discovered a mysterious island lost in the middle of the ocean. Will you be able to discover Uncle Albert's great secret? In this adventure, kids go on a search for the secret of the mysterious island and use their sense of observation and intelligence to coax Ernesto, the island's keeper, and Gustave, the little monkey, to reveal the keys to the secret. Kids use what they've learned to translate a distant legend and find a fabulous animal. | ||
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| Ward, The | Fragile Bits / On Deck Interactive / Take Two Interactive | [top] | |
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The introduction to this sci-fi adventure sets the scene for the story where your character, David Walker, is an astronaut on the Moon with the Apollo XIX mission. An alien spacecraft appears, your comrades are killed and you wake up on said moon base with some sort of war going on around you and a necklace that prevents you from straying too far. Once you overcome this restriction you are able to explore your surroundings more fully, but you know you are not going to escape until you can understand and use the alien technology and avoid being killed in the process. The Ward is a third person perspective adventure game. It is definitely of the "old school" 2D, point and click variety. Most cut sequences have voice-overs as well as text, but there are no voices during gameplay because The Ward was developed by a small team rather than by a huge commercial company. | ||
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| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition | Hothouse Creations Ltd. / Buena Vista Interactive | [top] | |
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The second edition contains 600 new multiple-choice questions and more wisecracking comments and video clips of host Regis Philbin. Questions range from common knowledge to challenging tidbits of trivia including geographic locations, movies, famous events, and religion. You'll have to overcome 15 hard-hitting questions to achieve the million dollars with the only safe havens being the 1,000 and 32,000 dollar marks; upon reaching these levels, you are guaranteed to win those amounts. If you don't know a question, you can use one of the following all-new second edition lifelines: Ask the Audience, Phone a Friend, and the 50/50. Asking the audience for help reveals a chart based on what they think. They're not always right, so be cautious! The Phone a Friend lifeline calls upon a virtual companion for assistance. Your friend will talk out the question and give you an answer based on what he or she thinks -- again, they're not always right. Finally, the 50/50 takes away two wrong answers leaving only one wrong answer and the correct one. Go with your gut instinct or walk away with whatever amount you've one thus far! When multiple players are involved, the Fastest Finger round becomes available. Winning this round involves coming up with the correct answers in the shortest amount of time. Questions typically deal with putting an event or timeline together in the correct order. Whoever wins moves on to the hot seat and earns a chance to win virtual bucks. | ||
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| Xiama | Mulawa Dreaming | [top] | |
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Xiama is an interactive puzzle game for the PC. The backdrop behind the puzzles is a beautiful Australian rainforest known as Alligator Creek Falls. Approximately 100 creative, mind-bending puzzles are hidden in the graphics, varying in difficulty from easy to very hard. As one puzzle is solved, other scenes become available containing more puzzles. Each solved puzzle increases your score. An improved version called Xiama revisited was later released with interface and puzzle fixes and changes. On Jan/2017, the developers games were made freeware. | ||
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| Yoco: Le Mystère des fruits disparus [Fr] | Mandarine Interactive | [top] | |
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The second of two conventionally adventure games (in fact, they are hybrids of a simplified quest and an arcade interspersed with puzzles) for a children's audience, developed and published by order of Yoco, a subsidiary of Nestle Corporation, which produced yoghurts and various other dairy products in France. The plot, alas, is at the same time strange (but quite in the traditions of "French fiction") and primitive: fruits disappear en masse on plantations all over the world, which is sometimes even accompanied by the appearance of some monsters - and Yoko (a boy with bright red hair sticking up , which is the symbol of the above trademark), together with two of his friends (a boy with glasses and a very young girl) decides to sort out the situation. It should be noted right away before starting, you need to click on all the spreadsheets of the newspaper with the news that the children are reading - this will lead to the appearance of a world map with four destinations: in Scotland, North Africa, South America and the Pacific Islands (where the entourage will be Australian, although highlighted like like Sumatra). Each of them represents a separate "chapter" of the story (and with its own peculiarities of the gameplay), and these "chapters" can be played in any order. Yoko's portrait is always displayed at the bottom of the screen; when you move the mouse cursor to it to the right, a menu bar is displayed, in which, using the appropriate options, you can save the game and exit it, as well as at any time switch to any other of the above "adventures" (yes, even that is allowed here) or go to a separate screen with five mini-games (all of them - along with some others - will also be encountered in the "main" mode). In the first two of the regions indicated above, Yoko goes (always on a huge paper airplane ...) with a boy, in the third and fourth - with a girl. | ||
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| Zaphie [K] | Miraspace | [top] | |
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Zaphie (Evil spirits) is a horror adventure game, similar to Myst with puzzle elements. The background of the story of the evil spirits is in the United Kingdom. Players play the game as the protagonist named "Shi Binsen" whose career is an obstetrician. Eight years ago, his friend Roger and Anne his wife were pregnant with twins, which he found that the baby girl was suffering chronic malnutrition. The result was the birth of a healthy baby boy, Jason, and the baby girl was sickly. Although he felt considerable remorse, over time, he gradually forgot it all. Until one day after eight years, Shibin Sen received a phone call from Roger to come to his house to examine the deteriorating health of Anne and that Jason began to have autism. Four days later, Shi Binsen drove to Roger's home, but he would never have thought that this turned out to be the beginning of a nightmare. In addition to the whole background of the dark mansion outside, bloody and disgusting pictures, evil spirits who give a completely bloody show in front of the player. Avoid dangers such as axes and flying fireballs to escape the house and find out its secrets. | ||
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| Zero: Heureum-ui Won [K] | Artlim Media / eSofnet | [top] | |
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The second game Artlim Media, from which it tried to create a media work: simultaneously with the game, a manhwa and various merchandise were released in the form of soundtracks, artbooks and the like. The game itself is a visual novel with role-playing elements. The plot tells the story of an ordinary, at first glance, Korean schoolboy Ryuki, who begins to see a strange dream with a dying girl, very similar to one of his acquaintances, and subsequently falls into a whirlpool of events full of adventure, fights and love. From the very beginning, a significant number of locations are available to us to visit, as a result of which trigger hunting will need to be done to advance the story. At the same time, for each day you can visit a limited number of places due to the element of time - in total, all twenty-four hours are available, of which thirty minutes are spent on visiting the zone, and five - when choosing a specific location in it. There are at least three types of activity when clicking on a location - inaction, a plot event or a scene, a battle. In the latter case, you will have to fight, as a rule, with two opponents, while on our side there can be up to three characters. Orders are divided into four types - attack, magic, special moves, and options. The sequence of moves is step-by-step, and we usually go first. The role-playing system is formal - after gaining a new level, life and mana indicators grow. Despite the art with an abundance of cruelty, outright tin, and typical for most Japanese visual novels, hentai is not here. The graphics are done well for their time, but in many ways they give off budget, with rare exceptions. Art, as a rule, is drawn in a very high quality. Music also lacks stars from the sky, sounding in the background in many ways, but at the same time complements the mood in the scene scenes. Bottom line: a decent visual novel with a potentially interesting storyline. | ||
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| ZigZag [Ru] | YAV Ltd. | [top] | |
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All events in the game revolves around the protagonist Vovochka Sidorov and his friends - high school students at the usual end of the twentieth century. It all started one morning when Little Johnny and his friends went to school. The boys saw the artist's inspired work on a painting, and, instead, to continue the usual way, took up the matter. At that time no one could have imagined that this meeting will change all of their continued existence. The artist, who appeared at first glance a simple uncle with a beard, could not resist critical attacks on the young people, waved his brush, and ... many argue that miracles do not happen, miracles still happen. The easel drops from the picture leaving only the pieces, and they get caught up in a magical vortex, carried away in that same school, where our hero learns, and scattered in all school premises and school leaders pocket groupings. And Little Johnny himself, his friends and other school people become strange objects. The artist slyly smiles and disappears. Do nothing, our hero puts in a briefcase at his feet remaining fragments of paintings, and from that moment, in fact, the game begins. | ||
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| Zipi y Zape 2: La Vuelta Al Mundo [Sp] | Kinor / Zeta Multimedia | [top] | |
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This adventure is complemented by El Tonel del Tiempo, if you install both updates, it generates a third chapter called "The Future of Zipi and Zape". It works by clicking on the Start menu icon "Actualizar futuro". The whole Zapatilla family are quietly watching television when they see a notice that the detergent Pam Pam is organizing a competition for twins, called Everything Goes & Goes Everything, with a first prize that is a trip around the world. Zipi, the blond, and Zape, the brunette, want to join straight away but their father, is reluctant to leave but his mother gives permission. | ||
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| Zipi y Zape: El Tonel del Tiempo [Sp] | Kinor / Zeta Multimedia | [top] | |
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Zipi y Zape are the names of two iconic Spanish comic book characters created by José Escobar Saliente in 1947, and of their eponymous strip. With Mortadelo y Filemón (makers of the that and this game are the same), they are the most popular and most translated Spanish comic books. Their name is derived from the Spanish word zipizape, meaning "turmoil" or "chaos." They are distinguished solely by their hair color: Zipi is blond, Zape black-haired. They have built a time machine for fun, but the brothers and an oversight Handyman and Apples have been introduced into the machine and changed the course of history. Zape & Zipi have to try to fix this big mess. To do this, they decide to travel through time and, although the intention is to fix the damage, they also cause some during your trip. | ||
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| 21 Playcard Games | RH-Plastcenter Oy | [top] | |
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These were small credit card size CD games. No installation was required, just insert them in a Cd/DVD drive and reboot computer. The different titles are: Agent7, Antarctica, Chaos, Circus, Cosmic, Dragon, Fenix, Footbag, Ghosts, Horror, Jungle, Kheops, Kheops II - Kukulkan, Madlab, Rattack, Scuba, Skate, Splat, Spooky!, Trally, Waterski. Different types of gameplay include level jumping, rescue, ping-pong, labyrinth and aiming. | ||
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| 25 Ans! Le CD-ROM de Fluide Glacial [Fr] | Fluide Glacial | [top] | |
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This was sold with the special issue 6, "Fluide glacial Le Magazine Informatique". This software summarizes 25 years of Fluide Glacial, the magazine of "humour and banned drawings". Founded in 1975 by Alexis Gotlib and Jacques Diament, the quarterly which quickly became monthly publishes a large number of French-speaking comedians (Binet, Tronchet, Franquin, Alexis, etc.), we owe him, among others, "Les Bidochon", "Carmen Cru" , "Super Dupont", "Sister Marie-Thérèse Des Batignolles". Very influenced by Monthy Python and Tex Avery, among others, the humor of the magazine is based on absurdity and derision, it is clearly less provocative and scatological than that of Charlie Hebdo, for example. After an animated intro showing the appearance of a huge luxurious tower at the top of which throne gloriously in neon letters: "The 25 years of Glacial Fluid", we enter the reception hall of the building where we are greeted by a charming hostess as well as by a security guard, former legionary, who is much less (charming, of course). From there, the elevator will take you to the floors of the building where you will visit the different parts of the Writing of Fluid. The visit will have its share of wacky surprises, but beware, it is potentially dangerous and the hidden corners of the gigantic building contain monstrosities that the most vigilant visitor will find it difficult to avoid. We start with the basement which contains the editorial archives. All the first and last covers of magazines published since 1975 are listed with the names of the comedians who participated in each issue. A database which, by itself, justifies the possession of the CD. Then comes the store where, for a fee, you can get goodies, old issues or albums. Unfortunately, due to the age of the CD, these features are no longer active except for the database which lists all the titles published between 1975 and 2000, another very interesting point for collectors! We then move on to the offices of Cogebom, a sprawling multinational that oversees the magazine's destiny. You will meet the leaders of the company and you will see with what abnegation he watches over its destinies and the well-being of the employees grouped together in the "union of united and moderately interventionist workers". I'm not going to give you the full tour, there are still a few floors that I leave you the pleasure of discovering! Be aware, however, that the whole is strewn with gags and contains several videos featuring the designers of Fluide which allows to put a face on these comedians of which we often only know the drawing. The CD was made with Macromedia Director, the essential tool of the time. The native resolution is 800 * 600 in millions of colors, which ensures a very fine rendering. The videos are correct, although sometimes very pixelated. The voices of the speakers are very clear and the whole is bathed in elevator music for the best effect. The program is not free of bugs, but, as you can easily go back to Windows with the "escape" key, you just have to restart it to get everything back to normal. It should also be noted that the software does not install anything on the hard drive, and therefore does not keep any trace of your visit. | ||
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| Action Man: Jungle Storm | Intelligent Games, Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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In this kids game based on the 3D animated television series, you play as the heroic Action Man out to find out why a secret agent mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island. The villainous Dr. X and his partner in crime Professor Gangrene are joined by new characters Kraken and Imperial Dragon. You explore the island bases with mouse base movement or optional keyboard use, following the agent's trail through jungles, and underwater and volcanic locations. Using your extreme skills and more than 10 equipment items from the actual toy range such as Scuba Extreme, Skateboard Extreme, Stealth Jet, Polar Bike, Falcon Master, and Jungle Explorer, you must find out Dr. X's evil plans and stop them in order to save the world. | ||
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| Akimbo: Kung Fu Hero | Chaos Works, Iridon Interactive AB / Global Star Software Inc. | [top] | |
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An homage to a bygone era of computer gaming, Akimbo: Kung Fu Hero is a 2D side-scrolling platform game. Akimbo takes on enemies such as skeletal warriors, rabid rhinos, giant clams, goggle-eyed spiders, and man-eating mosquitoes as he explores a brightly colored, hand-painted 2D world. Your ultimate goal is to free the residents of Turtle Island from Fang, a fire-breathing dragon who has placed the tropical paradise under an evil spell. Akimbo: Kung-Fu Hero is a true throwback to the PC and console games of the eighties. The gameplay is exactly what one would expect of a kung fu platform game: running, jumping, kicking and punching. The music is upbeat and simplistic; the sound effects are exaggerated. True to the platform genre, there are a great many levels to play through on your quest to defeat Fang. | ||
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| Aladdin: Nasira's Revenge | Argonaut Games PLC / Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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Aladdin: Nasira's Revenge is a 3D action adventure game with the characters from the Disney animated movie and features nine 3D worlds. Aladdin may finally be rid of his evil nemesis Jafar, but he still has a horrible enemy in the sorcerer's sister, Nasira. Determined to avenge her brother's defeat, Nasira has banished the sultan from his own palace and now controls the city of Agrabah. Aladdin, the young street rat with the cocky smile, is back in his element - fighting cunning enemies, using the Magic Carpet to out-maneuver his pursuers in intense mid-air chases, and solving challenging puzzles. It's classic arcade game, you can run, jump, swing on ropes, fight with your sword and dash through the skies on the magic carpet. | ||
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| Animorphs: Know the Secret | Gigawatt Studios / Atari Europe S.A.S.U. | [top] | |
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Based on the best-selling series of kids' books from Scholastic, The Animorphs are Jake, Rachel, Marco and Cassie, a group of children with the power to morph into animals as they battle the evil Yeerks and keep the world safe, while also dealing with the trials and tribulations involved with school, friends and parents. The book series by author K.A. Applegate has more than 32 million copies in print and there is a popular TV show airing on Nickelodeon. The Yeerks' activities have slowed down and you must help the Animorphs discover why. You can switch among the four characters any time you want, using their distinctive abilities as the situation warrants. Their friend Tobias, who is stuck in hawk form, gives you clues as you explore nine 3D environments in search of an answer to the mystery. Each character has a variety of animals available to morph into: Jake can become a tiger, rhino or Gorgonopsid; Rachel may choose between a gorilla, grizzly or Hork-Bajir; Cassie can turn into a wolf or an owl; and Marco has the choice of a polar bear or a bat. Each morph can help you in different ways as you wander through forests, caverns, buildings and mineshafts. Flying, swimming, running and jumping skills are all necessary to successfully complete the overall mission. You can hear the characters speak with each other while you use the game journal to keep track of your adventure and take notes. Morph into 16 different animals including gorillas, tigers, cockroaches, and owls. Solve puzzles and locate clues as you explore nine arctic, jungle, underwater, and underground environments. | ||
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| Arabian Nights | Silmarils / Visiware / DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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Arabian Nights is similar to Prince of Persia, combining action with adventure elements in 3D. Originally it was released in 7 episodes in "serial" format with a distinct beginning and conclusion. You play Ali who must find and rescue the Sultan's five beautiful daughters (quintuplets), who have disappeared on the eve of their 21st birthday. As Ali, you'll meet a variety of foes and can choose how to fight them - either by casting one of 4 magic spells, using over 30 hand-to-hand maneuvers with your feet and hands, slashing them with your scimitar, or throwing knives and other weapons. In addition, you can walk, run, sprint, jump, climb ladders and ropes, walk a tightrope, read parchments and inscriptions, fly on a magic carpet, push and pull objects, play the flute, as well as pick up and use inventory objects. Interact with over 60 non-player characters in various locations including towns and neighborhoods, the Palace, a burial ground, crypts, and gardens. With its scenario worthy of the tales of the thousand and one nights and its excellent gameplay, it will immerse the player into the magical world of the Middle East. | ||
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| Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar | Pathe Interactive & Tek 5 / Cryo Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a game based on the live-action film by Claude Zidi and starring Gerard Depardieu. Julius Caesar's dream is just a sword's reach away, but he needs more sesterces to pay the legions. As a result, all of Gaul is charged a tax... All? Well, not quite! A small village of invincible Gauls is still holding out against the invaders. Meet all your favorite heroes and characters from the film. Relive the best moments from France's most successful movie of the year by playing the role of Asterix or Obelix. Run, jump and clout the Romans in the same magnificent scenes as the film... Take on the ranks of legionnaires, the formidable Roman catapults and the unforgettable fish fights in levels of ever increasing difficulty and don't forget... a good dose of magic potion will make you fly. Fight trap-door spiders in the circus arena, chase Roman soldiers under the orders of Caius Bonus and set free the druid Getafix who has fallen into the hands of the terrible Detritus. | ||
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| Barbie: Pet Rescue / Barbie: Pet Patrol | Mattel Interactive | [top] | |
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Barbie Pet Rescue lets kids play with and care for a variety of domesticated animals. Visit Barbie and her kid sister Stacey at the Pet Rescue Center, where you'll wait for rescue missions, explore in the playrooms, or tend to pets in the Care Center. Rescue missions come in over the phone or via e-mail; after learning which pet is missing where, travel with Barbie on her scooter to one of three different environments in which to search for one of eight lost pets. In many missions, you'll have to figure out how to entice scared animals to come to you, or how to retrieve pets trapped in trees or other sticky situations. If you get stuck yourself, Barbie will give you hints. With each successful mission, you'll receive a printable Paw & Purr Award that hangs on the Pet Rescue Center wall. Rescued pets come back to the Pet Rescue Center with you and Barbie to wait for their owners and receive a little TLC. Nurse them back to health in the Care Center, where you'll give recovered pets water, treats, vitamins and grooming. You may also need to bandage a hurt leg or pick burrs from ruffled fur. After creating a file for them in the computer and giving them a name you select from a list of suggestions, the animals go to one of two playrooms to wait for their owners. In the meantime, you can play with them, plus all the other pets already in the playroom--a kitten, bunny, hamster, puppy, and a turtle. Select which animal you'd like to pet, then use the cursor to stroke an animal's head or back or scratch it under the chin. The animals respond to your attention by licking, rolling over, purring, or barking. There is a related mini-game for each kind of animal--Kitten Keepaway, Puppy Treat Toss, Hamster Trail, etc.--and if you do well enough, you'll see the animal perform a special trick. A few of the games require the use of logic and spatial aptitude, but for the most part they challenge the players' mouse mastery and hand-eye coordination. | ||
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| Become a World Explorer | Dorling Kindersley | [top] | |
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This fantastic globetrotter's guide will take you on an interactive learning journey full of games, animated maps, brilliant graphics and fun facts. You can collect virtual stickers, send postcards or take the ultimate test in the Great Globetrotter Game. Dazzling animations and 3D effects make learning fun. Interactive games help to develop geographical skills. Easy-to-use search engines and over 600 pop-up fact boxes. 44 scrolling maps contain sound, animation and information. Supports Key Stages 1-2 of the National Curriculum in England, Wales and Ireland and the Scottish 5-14 Curriculum. Encourages children to explore and investigate the world. Develops fact-finding and map reading skills. Educational quiz tests children and reinforces knowledge. Developed and tested by educational experts. | ||
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| Black Adders, The | BBC Multimedia | [top] | |
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Blackadder’s life and antics, immortalised in the BBC television series, are laid open for all to explore in this CD-ROM. It starred Rowan Atkinson before he created another famous character, Mr. Bean. The World of Blackadder is split into the four main eras of the great Blackadder dynasty reflecting the four different television series: the Middle Ages, the Elizabethan years, Georgian Times and World War One. You can check out all the important people from Blackadder’s many lives throughout the dynasty in the Portrait Gallery. Baldrick, Lord Melchett, Dr Samuel Johnson and Captain Darling all offer pearls of wisdom from each of the four eras on the whos, hows, whys and wherefores affecting Blackadder in the educational and entertaining History section. Each era also offers a selection of classic video clips from the television series as well as a collection of whimsical games designed to test your nerve and skill. Other features include Lord Percy’s Desktop Customiser which lets you personalise your PC with a selection of screensavers, wallpaper, cursors, icons and sounds and Dr Johnson’s Dictionary which can be linked to the internet allowing a shared collection of wild and wacky words and definitions! Along the way you’ll be entertained with numerous anecdotal tidbits to tickle your fancy. | ||
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| Buzz Lightyear of Star Command | Traveller's Tales Ltd. / Disney Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Buzz Lightyear is based on an animated movie and television series of the same name. Buzz Lightyear is an elite space ranger, who travels from planet to planet hunting down supervillians. In this game, you control Buzz through 14 missions on eight different planets. In each mission, your goal is to race to the end of the level before the bad guy does. If you do so successfully, you face off against the villian, and hopefully capture them. In addition to capturing the villain, there are secondary objectives like collecting robot parts and getting the fastest time through the level. A wide assortment of space ranger weapons are available - the basic laser, the plasma gun, rockets, icegun, proximity grenades, power shields, etc. Our space hero has the ability to run, jump, turn sideways, travel on a hoverboard, jet bike, and jet pack to name only a few of his impressive space ranger capabilities. Easy and hard difficulty modes can be selected. | ||
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| Bygg flygplan med Mulle Meck [Sw] | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB / Levande Böcker i Norden AB | [top] | |
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In the third episode of the Swedish game series based on a kids book character, the player gets to know that Gary has found the abandoned hangar of two airplanes constructors and wants to try that trade. Again he receives his parts from Doris Digital. Gary flies to visit his friends and like in the previous episodes he gets orders which the player must complete. | ||
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| Casper's Haunted Christmas | Sarbakan / The Harvey Entertainment Company | [top] | |
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In this flash game you play as Casper the friendly ghost and you must save your friend Holly from your 3 Uncles (Fatso, Stretch and Stinky) from scaring her. To stop you Uncles from doing this you must move objects around in each level and place them in the correct position to prevent them from scaring Holly. Your Uncles hide in the scenery and could pop out anytime. You can also plug, unplug, stuff, pore, switch on certain objects to stop them. This flash game is fun and enjoyable with colourful graphics and great sound and music, perfect game for the holiday season. | ||
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| Châlucet: Mystery of Medieval Fortress | Ultime | [top] | |
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That CD-ROM is dedicated to medieval fortress Châlucet (France). On CD you will find a very good encyclopedia, many very good illustrated videos with info on history of Châlucet, of the region where it is situated (Limoges in France) and you can also find Châlucet as a virtual 3D-Reconstruction. You can move yourself freely (Point&Click, Quicktime) and explore the fortress. Châlucet is also a computer game. It consits of 11 chapters and every chapter is a small separate game. The chapters are ordered chronologically, but you can play it in the order you would like to. Every such chapter is small (you need 10-20 minutes to complete it) and every chapter is about certain topic: there is a chapter where you have to conquer a fortress, or another one where you have to assign princes to their principalities, or there are also some chapters where you have to look through the castle to find some hidden things or futures (as in adventure-game). The encyclopedia has a very good search function, you can get the whole encyclopedia ordered alphabetically, by topics or chronologically. There are also many photos of ruins of the castle (unfortunately there are only ruins remaining of the castle nowadays), many medieval pictures and paintings, some written documents, some medieval plans of the castle. | ||
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| Chicken Run | Blitz Games / Eidos Interactive | [top] | |
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In this 3D action-adventure based on the hit clay animated movie, Tweedy's Farm is home to a bunch of chickens who are falling behind on their work load (laying eggs). So Mrs Tweedy decides to go into a new business, Chicken Pie making. The chickens leader, Ginger, is in desperate need of a good escape plan, and when Rocky flys in from the US to lend them a hand, the gang decide that the only way out of the farm is to fly out. But of course, chickens can't fly. So it is up to you to collect the pieces for the flying machine so you and your fellow chickens can escape. | ||
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| Chicken Run Fun Pack | Absolute Studios / Activision, Inc. | [top] | |
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It's back to Tweedy's farm for some more high jinks with a goofy band of chickens. You'll relive and create some of the most daring escapes ever seen on the farm and also be able to enjoy a plethora of goodies Ginger and Rocky bring right to your fingertips. Based on actual sets and scenes from the animated movie Chicken Run, you help the chickens escape and "fly" to freedom. The mini-game Run Chicken Run takes a conventional approach of escaping from the farm as you try to out-smart Tweedy and run to safety. In a more daring action game, Spring Chicken requires you to "launch" your chickens to safety over a fence without being detected by the farmer or his dog. You can customize your desktop and computer to reflect the movie in many ways. For example, set up your clock to feature the "clock-a-doodle-doo" option with its animations and themes. Also, your desktop background, mouse cursor and icons can be altered to reflect characters and scenes from the movie as well. You can even use animating screen-savers to preserve your monitor while you're away. Another feature offered in the fun pack is the movie clip viewer. With it, you can relive your very favorite moments from the movie and laugh to your heart's content. Watch the chickens succeed for real, right on your computer's screen. Now you can enjoy this animated-hit movie and a barrel full of application goodies with a few "clucks" of your mouse. | ||
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| Christina Aguilera: Follow Your Dreams | Simon & Schuster Interactive, Knowledge Adventure and Christina Aguilera | [top] | |
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Join Grammy winner Christina Aguilera as she shares her personal journey to the top in this new CD-ROM. Through a variety of activities and her own narration, Christina encourages and inspires players to dream and make their dreams a reality. Solve personality tests and pick dream cards in this activity center game to help the host narrator, teen idol and pop star Christina Aguilera, motivate you and predict your love life, check out gallery of her photos or make collages. | ||
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| ClueFinders: Mystery Mansion Arcade | Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited / Mattel Interactive | [top] | |
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The members of the Clue Finders team - including Owen, Leslie, Santiago, and Joni, along with their timid yet trusty talking laptop computer, LapTrap - receive a distress signal from a remote mansion that was apparently sent by Joni's uncle. The gang cautiously investigates the signal only to learn that the mansion is an elaborate sequence of traps devised by a collaboration of their nemeses from previous games in the Clue Finders franchise. There are four unique traps, each designed by one of the four villains, one designed for each of the four children. The traps/games are: Owen's Radical Pizza Race - the villain Fletcher Limburger designed a skateboard course to challenge Owen. The course consists of giant pizzas and the skateboard is a giant sub sandwich with wheels. Dodge or jump the pizza ingredients in your path, except for the anchovies, which can be picked up and used offensively in a later level. Leslie's Bookerang Library - Alistair Loveless concocted a special library for Leslie. Little demons drop large books into the room. In the back of the library is a theme, such as 'geometry', 'geography', or 'capital cities'. The dropped books each have a title and Leslie must jump on the books that have titles pertaining to the specified topic. Doing so results in that dropped book becoming permanent. Jumping on another book will crush the book. The goal is to stack enough books to escape. There are also special books that Leslie can pick up and store as weapons in a later stage. Santiago's Pinball Predicament - Pericles Lear, who is big on toys, creates several life size pinball tables in which Santiago is the pinball. The pinball is actually a small rocketship that Santiago can rotate and thrust. This is still tricky because of all the other things on a pinball table that can bump the ball. The goal is to light up all of the letters on the board (doing so entails solving some mini-puzzles) and then entering the hole that is Lear's mouth. There are also batteries that Santiago can collect to be used as weapons in a later stage. Joni's Last-Chance Labyrinth - Ms. Rose creates this deadly plant-filled cavern to doom Joni. However, when each of her friends escape their traps, they join Joni on her quest. Up to four of them journey through this side-scrolling platform adventure. Any of the characters that have joined Joni can take the lead. Whichever character takes the lead can use whichever weapon that have acquired: anchovies, books, batteries, or oranges (which are what Joni accumulates in this trap). Each weapon has unique advantages. | ||
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| Code Head: Calculated Risk | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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If your children like playing game-shows, here is a way to parlay that interest into some substantial learning. Children can play against the computer, a friend, or over the Internet in this fast-paced question-and-answer game. The nine different types of questions cover math as well as science and computer technology. Get into the game playing Scramble-de-Bob, 1-2 Punch, Cha-Ching and more. Strategize and Win - Bet against your opponents and snag their points. The presentation is edgy and downright weird, and children eat it up. This is "in your face" math and preteens love it. | ||
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| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | Westwood Studios, Inc. / Electronic Arts, Inc. | [top] | |
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Like the original Red Alert, this pits the Russians against the Allies, but this time it's on American soil. A post-World War II invasion by Romanov and Yuri, aided by a Psychic Beam for brainwashing US citizens, must be repelled. Lead 9 different nations in this all-out war for survival. Each side has ground troops, tanks, aeroplanes and sea units, although there are differences between the sides in which units can attack which others, largely based on real life equipment (for example, the US' AEGIS cruisers can only attack air units, but can beat almost any). Lots of fictitious technology is also featured, including new weather control devices and deadly animals. Gameplay is fundamentally the same as other Real-Time strategy games - harvest resources to fund an army, then move the units around to win battles against your foes. Each side has 13 missions, some with specific objectives or unit limitations.
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| Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun - Firestorm | Westwood Studios, Inc. / Electronic Arts, Inc. | [top] | |
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Nod leader Kane is apparently dead. However, a new menace emerges that will require the might of both the Global Defense Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod factions. Play either side in this fight for global supremacy as you face even greater threats. Both single- and multi-player action is supported with the expansion which includes 30 minutes of live-action filmed sequences. There are 18 new single-player missions and 15 new multi-player maps. Both sides are rejuvenated with new units: the GDI receives the Mobile War Factory, Mobile EMP and new class of Titan walker, the Juggernaut. For Nod fans you'll find the Mobile Stealth Generator, the Reaper, a heavy cyborg walker, and the Fist of Nod, a terror-inducing weapons factory. Both sides employ the Limpet Drone, an observational tool. World Domination tournaments is the online worldwide Internet gaming system used by Westwood Studios to allow fans from all over the planet to compete against or with others. Fight against thousands of opponents for control of more than 30 territories, choosing either the Nod or GDI faction to champion. The original real-time strategy game on which the Firestorm expansion is based, Command and Conquer, has sold more than two million copies (c.1999). In Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun, one of several expansions, the story revolved around Kane, the leader of Nod, and his desire to change the entire world in his own image. To accomplish this feat, he used technology from a downed alien spacecraft that gave him the capability of reshaping the planet itself. Only GDI had the manpower and the technology to stop him. In 2010, Tiberian Sun + Firestorm Expansion were made freeware. | ||
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| Competitions at Rosemond Hill | Digital Illusions CE AB / PAN Interactive Publishing | [top] | |
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In this follow-up to Riding Champion: Legacy of Rosemond Hill, you're now an expert rider and it's time for tougher riding competitions. Test your skills on new riding tracks, mount new horses and challenge yourself with new styles of competition. Challenge yourself and your horse in all new riding competitions. Select from new horses. Create your own character and riding tracks and share them with others. Get out with Amadeus, a Swedish thoroughbred with a stubborn temperament and tremendous strength, or why not Molly a playful Angeloarab. Choose from these and many more of Rosemond Hills wonderful horses, all with their own special personalities. Create your own favorite tracks and compete with yourself or your friends. Multiplayer via Internet / LAN, compete up to 8 players simultaneously. Create your own characters. Choose from different courses or create your own courses. Compete against your friends. Choose from 25 horses with different characteristics. Ride your own path in sunset or sunshine. Rosemond Hill's races is a standalone game in the same environment as the Rosemond Hill Heritage. Features: Pick your own horses, care for them and practice for competition riding; Prepare for show jumping, steeplechase and the ultimate test of endurance, the cross-country course; Show off your best riding skills; Compete new riding competitions and take your pick of more horses; You can even create your own character and riding tracks and much more. | ||
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| Crazy House | SPC Group B.V. / Skil Europe B.V. | [top] | |
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This is an original SKIL Tools promotional CD. It has a funny Do-It-Yourself game + 25 DIY handy tips. You could find an unique code at the end of the game, surf to http://www.skileurope.com and win one of the three tools shown in the game. | ||
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| Croc 2: Kingdom Of The Gobbos | Argonaut Software / Fox Interactive | [top] | |
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Croc discovers a message in a bottle from a couple looking for their long-lost crocodile son. After taking the message to King Rufus, Croc decides that the people who sent the message might be his real parents and that he should go look for them. Take control of Croc as he explores multiple levels in four different villages in an effort to find his parents. Luckily, go-karts, hang gliders, hot air balloons, and other vehicles help to speed the adventure along. Besides the obligatory gem collecting, there are also four jigsaw puzzles pieces that open up secret levels, and a merchant known as "Swap Meet Pete" will sell players powerups including "Gummi Savers Jumps" which allow Croc to jump to higher places. The one novel introduction to Croc 2 is the addition of something called "Omniplay" which allows two players to control a single character. | ||
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| Crosscountry Canada Platinum | Ingenuity Works Inc. | [top] | |
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Players drive an 18-wheel big rig, picking up commodities from a dispatch and delivering them to their destination. It is an enhanced version of the original Crosscountry Canada. Clicking on the laptop provides information about each commodity, a map of Canada and an expense log. Along their route, the player has to watch out for any surprises (such as commodities being stolen, accidents, or running out of gas), and the player clicks on the phone to call up a tow truck or the police for assistance. The player also has to watch out for the health, in which the game tells him/her to find a restaurant or hotel to decrease the risks of having an accident. The game’s educational topics feature Canadian geography and social studies. New in this version is ordering commodities from Iqualuit (which can be accessed from the phone to order Diamonds or Inuit Art), and updates the geographical information to include the Nunavut and the Confederation Bridge. | ||
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| Cultures | Funatics Development GmbH / THQ Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a real-time strategy game with a slight difference: the player does not have to bash all his opponents into submission. The story is told from the perspective of a young Viking boy, Bjarni, now in adulthood. He and his family form part of a village community on the coast of Greenland whom have come upon hard times with harsh weather conditions ruining their harvest. One day, a comet comes crashing to Earth, splitting into six pieces as it enters the atmosphere. Convinced that this is a sign from their Gods, the villagers make the necessary preparations to embark on a mission to recover the six pieces in the hope that this will bring them prosperity. The story unfolds across thirteen scenarios, and during the adventure, they come into contact with several other cultures such as Eskimos, Indians, and Mayans. Besides the campaign, there are four tutorials, a number of standalone single player scenarios (including some designed for beginners). Multiplayer is supported for up to six players across the Internet or a local area network. All players assume the role of the Vikings. | ||
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| Demon Hunter Mai [J] | Watanabe Manufacturing Corp. / French Bread | [top] | |
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This is a doujin game that is probably a little dated at this point but offers some quite interesting straightforward gameplay. You play as Mai as she travels through a number of 2D side scrolling stages against a stream of enemies to rescue Sayuri, who appears to have been kidnapped for some reason. Mai has her sword as her primary weapon, that she can slash with rapidly and will be the focus of the assault. She can also pick up subweapons, like throwing knives and fire extinguishers, and use them by pressing up and attack. Mai can only hold one subweapon at a time and thus drops the previous one when she collects a new one and each subweapon use consumes part of her blue gauge (refilled by collecting food items along the way). In terms of movements, Mai can double jump, which is mainly used to dodge around enemies than actual platforming (though the latter does happen). She can dive down with a kick (down + jump in the air) which quickens her descent and the kick will hurt an enemy and bounce Mai off them. On the ground, down + jump does a slide. Mai is invincible during the slide and is pretty much a requirement to clearing some of the bosses. It's a hard slash em up. You'll learn to hate the bomb throwing keropi's and the cupid's firing arrows. They are not bad on their own but they are typically either with other enemies or right near pits. Just imagine trying to dodge a barrage of bombs being hurled at you while you have bunnies trying to slash you, aliens zapping you and/or pits trying to kill you. Most sub bosses are pushovers once you figure out their patterns. Main bosses seem to go up and down in difficulty. Stage 3 has 2 bosses, but the 2nd is easier to beat than all the ones before. Likewise, stage 4 boss is difficult enough to make stage 5 and 6 bosses look like pushovers. However, this does rely on knowing the trick to each one, because otherwise you just get your ass handed to you (stage 5 boss especially, who will knock off a large chunk of health if she catches you with her main attack). | ||
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| Disney Magic Artist 3D | Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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This is an entertaining, fun, and easy 3-D art tool for the kid in everyone. Create your own 3-D characters, scenery, or objects and morph them any way you like. Choose the color, the texture, the camera angle, and set your creation in motion. You can save your masterpiece as a movie, greeting card, or postcard--or even export them to your home page. Just pick a shape or draw your own freehand in real 3-D. Twist, squash, splash, spatter, and smooth your shapes into amazing 3-D objects. Resize, spin, pull, and push, like using your fingers to shape putty. Scan in photographs and mold them onto objects. Change their textures into wood, clay, and metal. Pick patterns such as translucent stars or huge polka dots. Animate your creation simply by dragging the mouse across your 3-D objects. You can save it as a movie, a greeting card, or a postcard--or post your creations on your Web page. | ||
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| Disney's Dinosaur: Action Game | Ubi Soft / Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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Based on the 3D Disney movie Dinosaur, you can play as Aladar the Iguandon, Zini the Lemur and Flia the Pteranodon. You fight Velociraptors, Albertosaurs, Oviraptors and Carnotaurs in 14 monster missions and try to save the herd from extinction. Thrill to the chills of lava flows, toxic smoke, and scalding geysers. It features scenes and voice talent taken directly from Disney's Dinosaur movie. There's an interactive Dinosaur encyclopedia included. | ||
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| Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers / Quack Attack | Buena Vista Games / Ubi Soft Entertainment | [top] | |
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You play as Donald in this 3d platform action game. Donald's girlfriend, Daisy is a reporter for a television station in Duckberg. While doing a story on the secret temple of Merlock, a terrible magician, Daisy is kidnapped. Now, it is up to Donald to get her back. Along the way he will have help from his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and the inventor Gyro Gearloose. He will also have competition from Gladstone Gander, who is also trying to save Daisy. Game play alternates between side-scrolling running and jumping and 3d running and jumping. In all, there are 22 levels, spread out through different areas. | ||
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| Dr. Lunatic | Hamumu Software | [top] | |
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The evil Dr. Lunatic is taking the brains out of zombies and putting them into the heads of other zombies to create a race of super zombies. Only Bouapha possesses the cunning and resolve to put him on ice. Unfortunately, the vile doctor has quadruple padlocked his front door, so Bouapha is going to need to get the four Keys of Lunacy to open it, and Dr. Lunatic has entrusted those to his poker buddies, who happen to live in widely disparate regions of the world. is an isometric, 2.5-dimensional action game, released in May 2000. Using the keyboard, the player controls Bouapha and collects Hammers, which can be thrown at enemies. The more hammers picked up, the more hammers can be thrown at once. Pants of Power can be picked up, these let the player throw hammers faster. There are also Special Weapons, which have a variety of effects, but limited ammo. At the outset, the player is allowed to enter five worlds: Spooky Forest!, Dusty Desert, Icy Mountain, Cavernous Caves, and the Crazy Asylum of Madness. The primary objective in the first four worlds is to collect a Key of Lunacy from one of Dr. Lunatic's poker buddies who resides in that part of the world. These four Keys of Lunacy are then used to give the player access to levels in the Crazy Asylum of Madness. Each world features a set of levels that can be accessed by the player by walking through the opening of that level, usually represented as either an alcove, hole in the wall, or an object with a hole in it, and the main objective of most of these levels is to collect all the brains scattered throughout the level. While the levels in a world can be completed in any order, most, if not all, of them must be finished in order to unlock levels that are closed to the player. The levels that are closed to the player at the start of a level also include the level in which the Key of Lunacy is located. In 2003, Dr. Lunatic With Cheese, an expanded version was released. It offers over 1000 levels to play in over 80 different unlockable worlds. And if 1000 levels aren't enough, use the built-in editor to create your own. There are over 200 different enemies you will face along the way. Whether you defeat them all, or simply bypass them, is up to you. Each level has a specific goal that you will want to complete. Other than that, you can try to collect all the items in the level and defeat all the enemies in order to get bonus coins. These coins are used in the SpisMall to unlock other worlds and get various items. Levels include underwater levels, levels with lava, stealth levels, and levels with disappearing bridges, just to name a few things you will encounter. Each level will require some strategy to get through in as quick a time as possible, while getting all the items. Speed gives you even more coins to spend. When you complete a level, you can choose to upload your score to the Internet to compare with others. Or, if your score isn't very good, just go back and try again. In 2017, it was made freeware. | ||
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| Emergency Room: Code Blue CD | Legacy Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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This puts you in the role of a med student interning at Legacy Memorial in Los Angeles. The lives of 35 patients are your responsibility. Make diagnoses and use medical tools such as the defibrillator, rib spreader, sutures, splints, sponges, forceps, and IV. Patient triage will have you helping multiple patients at the same time, and time triggers will increase the pressure to perform fast. Full motion video will test your medical knowledge as you make your diagnosis, begin treatment, and hopefully discharge the patient. Treat everything from dog bites to gunshot and knife wounds. There are three modes of play--expert, normal, and novice–-to best fit your medical expertise. Experience 60 minutes of dramatic video and more than 1,000 voice-overs from a cast of 45 actors. When the shift is over, the administrator will rate you on your performance. New cases and playability over the Web are available via the online version. | ||
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| Emperor's New Groove Action Game, The | Argonaut Software / Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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This is based on the Disney animated film. Jaguars, crocodiles, treacherous rivers, Yzma's crack troops - can you handle them all? The Emperor has been turned into a llama and his enemies want him dead. Izma and her sidekick Kronk have sent the Emperor packing for the hills, stranding him in a tiny village, far, far away from his beautiful palace. Now, the emperor must find his way back to the palace, find a way to get turned back into a human, and reclaim his throne. There's 8 amazing 3D worlds fit for an Emperor with puzzles to solve, secrets to unlock and mini games to master. All the hijinx, laughs and attitude of the film are here. | ||
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| Europa Universalis: Crown of the North / Svea Rike III | Paradox Entertainment AB / Levande Böcker i Norden AB | [top] | |
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This is the third game in Svea Rike series. The year is 1275, and the Nordic countries are the battlefields for the fight for the throne. Your goal is to take one of the three playable nations (in six fractions), Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and by the end of the game put the crown on your head. The basic game play revolves around upgrading the infrastructure of your cities, keeping your population happy, and obviously waging war with your neighbours and expanding your territory. Translated to English in 2003, a bit of patches applied, cleaned up, it was sold as Crown of the North. Note the American edition exists only as a ‘pack’. Wrapped with Europa Universalis II and sold as Europa Universalis: Crown of the North. | ||
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| Everest | AKA Studios / GT Interactive Software Corp. | [top] | |
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EVEREST. Dangerous, ominous, and totally unpredictable. Ascend the greatest, most dangerous mountain on earth with Ed Viesturs as your virtual guide. You'll navigate through massive crevasses; climb slick ice walls and evade avalanches and hostile weather conditions on your way to the summit, all in totally authentic 3D environments. This is a game that will appeal not only to the climbing enthusiast, but to anyone who has ever dreamed of facing nature's greatest challenge and triumphing. If you can't come to the mountain, now the mountain can come to you. Manage every aspect of a real Everest expedition from base camp to summit. Survive topographically-true terrain. Ice beds. Avalanches. Ice falls. And more! Plus all the real-life treacherous weather conditions Everest is known for. Fully customize your climber from a wide selection of state-of-the-art mountaineering equipment and outfits. Carefully monitor the health and progress of each climber to prevent fatigue and even death. Experience easy-to-learn but hard to master gameplay in a totally authentic 3D environment. Receive expert climbing tips and advice from world famous master-climber, Ed Viesturs. | ||
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| Fawlty Towers | BBC Worldwide Ltd. | [top] | |
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Got a room, Mate? Find rooms for new guests on Basil's request. As always, no un-married couples in double rooms and make sure you look after Basil's favourites. Be prepared for unexpected changes, as you may have to move your guests from one room to another. Come on, pack your bags and get out! Drive round Torquay to round up all the guests who've left Fawlty Towers in disgust. Be quick though - Sybil will be home soon! The Manager's Fawlty? Throw the die and try to get to that elusive toast in the office before any other player beats you to it. As you move round the board you'll need to complete extra tasks - lose and go back, win and get a step closer to the prized trophy! Fawlty's Guide to Hotel Management. A selection of video clips featuring Basil giving his greatest tips on hotel management taken from the unforgettable BBC series. Fawlty's Desk Top Customiser. "Good show Fawlty!" Give your PC a makeover in true Fawlty Towers style with cursors, icons, wallpaper, screen savers and sounds based on the classic TV series. | ||
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| Flåklypa Grand Prix / Pinchcliffe Grand Prix [Nor] | Caprino | [top] | |
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This PC Game is the biggest game success in Norway of all time, and is also available in Danish language version. It was based on a Norwegian stop motion-animated feature film directed by Ivo Caprino in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust. It consists of two CD-ROMs packed with games, activities and animations for hours and hours of entertainment for all the family. Gamers get to repair bicycles, do jigsaws, feed birds, ride Sonny's trike, paint, catch butterflies and sort socks! Along the way, they find or win car parts enabling them to build Il Tempo Gigante, no less - and take part in the car race itself. The game has won the 2001 EMMA Award in the Entertainment Category. The quality of the Pinchcliffe game's graphics and the overall design are far and away superior to all the other games they tested. At the same time, the overall experience offered to the target group is long-lasting entertainment which in terms of quality surpasses all the other products that were rated. The Gold Edition also contains new games and comes with 3D glasses and many 3-dimensional activities. This time, Theodore has built two new, fantastic gaming machines: a word manipulation machine and a number manipulation machine. These are brilliant examples of how "edutainment" can be made both fun and interesting. You can also test yourself with the MasterMind Test. This exciting challenge lets you see how well you know Pinchcliffe. | ||
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| Garfield's Mad About Cats / Garfield Mad About Cats Vol. 1-3 | Horizons Interactive / Brighter Minds Media Inc., ATS Dist Ltd. | [top] | |
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Jon expresses displeasure with Garfield's lack of motivation towards performing traditional rodent control duties. Still, Garfield is sympathetic to the mouse problem and assumes his alter-ego of Dr. Frankencat and, along with his assistant Eager (Odie), descends into the mad scientist lab in house dungeon. The mission: create the perfect cat. To that end, Dr. Frankencat uses his computer to identify the most perfect traits of various cats from around the planet and assemble the features into a perfect cat. The game allows the player to select different feline attributes such as size, roar, tail, and eyes, and then choose a cat from a global map that best showcases the feature. The game plays a brief educational video with a factoid about that cat. These lessons are then interspersed with one of 12 minigames that the player can elect to play before proceeding to the next lesson. The games include the following. Disco Jon: memorize and replay the flashing button sequence to make Jon boogie to the beat. Dress-A-Nerd: dress Jon using a variety of zany clothes from his own closet. Dunk Tank: launch baseballs at moving targets in order to dunk Binky the Clown in the drink. Soda Shaker: Garfield wants a soda but the soda machine places 4 cans on the table, shakes 3 of them, and swaps several pairs of cans. Pick the unshaken can. Odie Maze: a sliding tile puzzle where the player has to unscramble the scene so that Odie can make it to the fire hydrant. Hack Attack: Space Invaders clone - Garfield is being descended upon by a flock of Nermals that shoot cute hearts. Garfield must take out the invaders by hacking up hairballs. Fowl Shot: stick a chicken in a recliner and launch it at a moving target. Squash-A-Spider: dozens of spiders are descending on your pizza and coffee; squish them with a rolled-up newspaper. Burp Game: Breakout clone - Garfield needs to use his belches to bounce a mouse around to get all the cheese bricks. Matching Madness: a card matching game. Create-A-Character: an activity where the player can change the upper, middle, and lower sections of a character to create new, mismatched characters. Whack-A-Rat: clone of the venerable Whack-A-Mole game, with rats. It seems it was later split released in Volumes 1-3 with infos on 10 cats and 4 mini-games each. | ||
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| Globetrotter / Traveller | Deadline Games A/S / Vision Park AB | [top] | |
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Globetrotter plays similar to the Backpacker series. You start the game as a new member in the Globetrotter Club. Your objective is now to become the president. To do so you will have to complete various tasks that you are assigned by the club. Your job is to take pictures of famous sights all over the world. For these you will get money and experience which is used to reach more far away locations. There's three levels to complete before you can become the president. Starting out as a novice you will only be able to travel within the Nordic countries. Once enough assignments has been completed more European cities will be unlocked. As you travel around the world, you will need a place to sleep. Each place you visit has both expensive hotels and cheaper budget hotels that might take time to find if you haven't visited the location before. However if you wander around at night time, there is a risk of being assaulted by thieves and thus losing your money. To earn money you will need to take jobs. This is done by answering questions about the profession. In total the game contains more than 4000 questions, 4000 photographs from all over the world, cities on six continents, more than 40 different jobs in 5 categories, and 100 different photographic missions. | ||
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| Grouch / Rocko's Quest | Revistronic / Dinamic Multimedia | [top] | |
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Grouch is a fun-filled 3D action adventure game where you are Rocko, a big man of few words and even fewer thoughts, with a heart of gold. Rocko's girlfriend has been kidnapped from right under his nose and he is on a mission to get her back safely and rid the world of all the ugly creatures. But even though Rocko may have a big heart, his brain is the size of a pea so you'll have to do all the thinking for him. Walk, run, tiptoe, or roll your way through swamps, mountains, cemeteries, castles, and caves. There's 8 huge levels to explore, each with numerous sub-levels. Jump onto moving platforms, grab onto ledges, operate levers, shimmy up and down ropes, and bowl over obstacles to help Rocko in his quest. Bows and arrows, swords, spiked maces, and enemy weapons can be used to defeat all who stand in your way. Torches can be used to light your path, they can also be thrown ahead of you to illuminate the way. It's very bloody but with some sense of black humour. The game was re-released in 2003 as Rocko's Quest. | ||
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| Handkerchief | Opus Corp/ASK / XSIV Games | [top] | |
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You are Jacob Streiker, and you're getting mighty fed up with things. A vicious cartel of mutant mechanistic animals controls your country. Your neighbors seem to be like lemmings, scrambling over each other to kill themselves. Armed rebellion is your only chance. In Handkerchief, find out what happens when lemmings fight with weapons! Enter the world of Handkerchief, an action-platformer, where you must kill or be killed. In 5 worlds, race all over 25 visually stunning levels of mountains, underground lakes, secret caves and gritty apocalypse. Use turncoat bombs to bring enemies to your side, including soldiers, robots, tanks, ships and UFO's. Capture enough territory, and at each level you must face the horrifying animal bosses. Find out how many you must kill before they wave the white handkerchief of surrender. Take on up to four of your friends in Network mode. It has over a half dozen hidden features, kick-butt Weapons, and over a half dozen vehicles. | ||
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| Happyland Adventures | Free Lunch Design AB | [top] | |
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This is a classic jump'n'run combined with original puzzle elements, a game full of surprises. Explore the big levels and collect various fruits for bonus. Save the Happylanders in order to rid the world of evilness. It requires you to gather and lead happyland animals to the happyzones. You play a dog that receives instructions from various old men throughout the game. Once you've lead enough animals to the happyzone, the level door opens and you can proceed to the next level. Of course, you can also stay and find all the goodies hidden in each level. This game was originally written for an amateur game programming contest at www.gamedev.net. Happyland Adventures won the contest, it also got an award for 'best use of SpriteLib'. This game has got fun written all over it. From the cartoony sprites to the amusing way all the saved creatures follow you, to the energetic jumping of the main character. If you are in need for a classic yet original platform game then this is definitely what you are looking for. You can also make your own levels. | ||
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| Hologram Time Traveler | GTE Interactive Media / Virtual Image Productions / Digital Leisure Inc. | [top] | |
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Time Traveler or Hologram Time Traveler is a stereographic laserdisc FMV arcade game released in 1991 by Sega and designed by Dragon's Lair creator Rick Dyer. It is called the "World's First Holographic Video Game" because it uses a special arcade cabinet that projects the game's characters. The "holographic" effect is an optical illusion using a large curved mirror and a CRT television set. The game's premise is that American old west cowboy Marshal Gram (played by Stephen Wilber, also hired to coordinate the game's stunts) is required to save the universe from scientist turned evil time lord Vulcor, who's found a way to manipulate and distort time itself; and to also rescue Princess Kyi-La of the Galactic Federation, whom Vulcor is holding prisoner in his quest to disrupt the flow of time. The player must pursue the villain across time through the ages overcoming various obstacles along the way while undoing all the damage done by Vulcor. | ||
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| Hugo 8: Jungle Island 2 / Hugo Classic 6 [G] | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | [top] | |
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Hugo is back in the jungle! With his two friends, Jean-Paul, the monkey and Fernando, the toucan, he fights against the evil witch Scylla and her ally the feared Don crocodile. Even the bloody monkey wants to prevent Hugo to liberate his beloved Hugoline and the three children Rit, Rut and Rat. This CD-ROM contains six brand new mini-games for Hugo. | ||
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| Hugo im Baumhaus [G] | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | [top] | |
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Everything is peaceful and quiet in the jungle - yes, it is so peaceful and quiet, the animals decide to organize a proper jungle party. However, the day before the party, everything seems to go wrong. The sloths that should collect the fruit for the salad and the fish for the big breakfast, could not bring themselves to do it, and also the conductor of the party band is sick. Now it's up to you to help Hugo and his friends, so that the party can still go off. This CD-ROM contains three brand new games with Hugo and his friends from the jungle island. | ||
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| Hugo Safari | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | [top] | |
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Hugo goes to a great safari tour. This game brings you Hugo and his friends closer on a safari . Join the little troll on his interesting safari tour in four different games and additional movies! It includes a compilation of these mini games: mountaineer from Hugo - På Nye Eventyr (1991) ( Amiga ), aviator from Hugo - På Nye Eventyr Del 2 (1992) ( Amiga ), music cafè, tomato battle / cable both from Hugo: Fantastische Welt (1998) ( PC WIN ) , Key & Flash endgame wildlife safari which is an original game where you distribute stickers of animals in a savanna environment, and a trailer for "Hugo Safari VHS / DVD". | ||
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| Hugo: Der magische Zaubertrank / Hugo Gold II [G] | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | [top] | |
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This fourth "Play and Learn" adventure The Magic Potion is all about biology. There are eight different games that are all dedicated to this topic. Three adjustable difficulty levels make the learning in each age group not be boring. Can you help Ruth to save the school class? A class makes an excursion through the woods and accidentally penetrates into the ground of the evil Scylla in a troll forest. She is very upset. Out of anger she turns the whole class, together with the teachers, to stone. Ruth, the daughter of Hugo, has seen everything. She wants the spell of Scylla reversed and now gathers the ingredients for a recipe that can accomplish this. | ||
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| Hugo: Die verhexte Achterbahn [G] | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | [top] | |
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The third game, The Bewitched Rollercoaster, from the Hugo-learning software series brings subjects taught to history in a fun way. Three difficulty levels offer up many challenges for age groups from 6 years. The three children of Hugo, Rit, Rat and Rut discover on a walk a fair which it is strangely silent. They go exploring and suddenly hear a noise. As they search those sounds, they find a historical roller coaster and sitting in its cars are wooden figures representing various historical persons. Buzzy, the leader of the roller coaster, says to the Hugo children that Scylla has killed the electrical supply of the fair out of service with a lightning bolt and therefore nothing works. Scylla hates when people laugh and are merry. Rit, Rat and Ruth can not be asked twice and naturally offer their help immediately. Council and Buzzy have to find different things to bring the roller coaster to life again. A total of eight puzzles are to be solved and only with the help of the player it is possible to fill the fair again with happy people. | ||
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You control a squid in an underwater cave system. This game uses what is assumed to be an early version of the Cave Story engine. The controls are built around the use of momentum. The caverns are cut off from the sea, there are food shortages, and a fish named ironhead rules the tunnels with an iron, uhh.. head. You must set things right. | ||
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Take a tour of the world around us with this new Interactive Atlas as your guide. Follow detailed maps to faraway places of mystery and see amazing views of the Titanic shipwreck site or prehistoric Stonehenge. Navigate the globe and learn about elevation, temperatures, vegetation and more. | ||
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| Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business | Sirtech Canada Ltd. / Interplay Entertainment Corp. | [top] | |
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Just when you thought it was all over, Arulco calls again upon your help to rid of a new threat. This time the threat comes from Arulco's former mining corporation: Ricci Mining and Exploration. After losing control over the mines during the civil war (Jagged Alliance 2), they now want those mines back. Ricci Mining and Exploration have established a missile base in the neighboring country of Tracona and threaten to attack Arulco with missiles unless their demands are met (they already blew up the Tixa prison as a warning). At Enrico's request you are to travel to the area suspected to contain the missile base, this time near the border of Tracona. Your mission: Locate the missile base and destroy it. It's a stand alone game that can be played without Jagged Alliance 2. You can import your character from Jagged Alliance 2. Not much has changed, though there are some notable updates such as different AI, new character development options, new characters, new weapons and new tactical features like display of sight range and cover opportunities. The game also comes with a campaign editor. The map is much smaller, containing about 20 accessible sectors, considerable part of which are underground. Appropriate to the mission, the militia training feature does not exist in this game. It's more similar to the first version of Jagged Alliance than to its sequel. | ||
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| Kao the Kangaroo | X-Ray Interactive / Titus Interactive | [top] | |
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In this 3D platformer, you help Kao around a 3D world full of deadly (and not so deadly) characters. Kao the Kangaroo has been stolen from his home, and you must help him get back to the great land down under. To aid his quest, Kao wears boxing gloves, which he can use to bump the bad guys clear out of the way. The game conquered the Polish market (where it was developed) and remained for a considerable time at the Top 10 ranking list. It scored a major success, as it sold in record numbers, exceeding 45 000 copies in Poland only. It owes its success both to attractive main character and to perfect graphic design. More than 30 levels, numerous funny characters, three levels of difficulty and interesting, sometimes demanding game attracted not only young users for whom it was designed, but also offered pleasant entertainment for more advanced players. | ||
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| Kingdom of Dreams [Ru] | Doka Media | [top] | |
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Once upon a time there was light in the Kingdom of Dreams with forests, rivers, mountains, and magic castles. In the kingdom lived the good little goblins ruled by a wise old king, but in the country there were evil wizards. They overthrew the king, who was too old and weak to resist their magical power. There was only one way to save the Kingdom of Dreams from future disasters - as soon as possible to appoint a new king. Four Prince goblins are ready to hit the road for the crown. Under the rules of the Ancients, they should compete with each other. And the one who first comes to the Royal Palace, will be appointed as the new king. This is a family board game in which, besides the actual dice rolls and movement on the map, is full of surprises and a few puzzles and mini-games. Includes two game modes and three episodes of "Lost Gold", "Steppe and gnomes" and "Hundred Acre Wood." | ||
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| Koseisen Ga Tonda Hi: The Project Mars 3 [J] | Kogado Studio Inc. | [top] | |
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On Mars in the near future, we will make full use of the architecture of the dome city, resource development, and terraforming to develop Mars into a planet where humans can live. Let's develop science and technology with the development of Mars and complete the interstellar jump ship. Also, if you select the construction mode that allows you to freely set the allocation of resources and materials at the start of the game, you can enjoy your own Mars plan. A slapstick comedy from a small detective agency who has been involved in an extremist terrorist attack aimed at controlling the gravity of Mars. This time it's an action item. | ||
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| Kurogane no Houkou / Warship Commander [J] | Microcabin, Daewoo Information | [top] | |
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In this maritime tactical action game, players can design their own ships against enemy units on the battle map, enjoy the fun of the sea battle with all kinds of super weapons. A Chinese version was later released in 2001. Microcabin was bought out by Koei and continued the game series for them to brisk sales. The game is set in 1938, countries are rushing to the arms race, and begin to develop all kinds of super weapons. In order to prevent the destruction of the world's super-weapons, people in various countries have organized a contingent of Zero guerrilla forces to curb Japan, the United States, Britain, Germany and China super weapons troops plan to maintain the balance of military power in the world. | ||
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| Lego Alpha Team | Digital Domain / Lego Media | [top] | |
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Using your puzzle solving skills, you must lead the Alpha Team and stop Mr. Ogel from turning the world into zombies. Instead of controlling the characters on screen, you must place lego blocks, ramps, stairs, pogo-pads and many other items to help the character dodge enemies and traps. But be careful, he/she is always on the move so you have to be quick to place the items in the right place. One wrong move, and you have to start all over again. Squelch the evil plans of Ogel as you redirect your team by placing stairs, trampolines, chutes, Changer Tiles, and other pieces on the board. The game is full of great devices and items: two team members can seesaw or use anti-gravity generators, and there are explosive dynamite detonators, cutting lasers, and other items as well. | ||
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| Lego Creator: Knights' Kingdom | Superscape Ltd. / LEGO Media International, Inc. | [top] | |
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In this second game in the LEGO Creator series, you can build castles, siege engines and other medieval things. It comes with prefab buildings and siege engines. Special destructa-bricks are also present. Once more you can make your mini-figs move, drive catapults and fly on the dragon. The graphical engine is improved, and there's some music added. You can change the weather in the game at any time, and take screenshots with an easy to use utility. | ||
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| Legoland | Krisalis Software Ltd. / LEGO Media International Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an educational game that shows how to build a good park. You get the job as a park manager at a LEGOLAND Park. Professor Voltage creates a time machine, and when showing it to all the other park employees, the time machine breaks and the park blows up. As park manager you, the loudspeaker man Johnathon Ablebody, and Professor Voltage have to rebuild the park and make it better than before. Johnathon will give you five tutorial levels to show you the main aspects for a good park, after you've finished all of them you will have to pass twelve levels. In these levels you will have four themes LEGOLAND, Wild West, Castle and Adventure to pick for attractions and scenery you will have to build around your park. The park will need to have enough of everything: shops, scenery, rides, food stores and, most importantly, a power station to give everything power. In the beginning you have ten chances to pass an appraisal by the main park inspector and ten minutes in between each appraisal, though you get fewer appraisals in later levels. The park also has gardeners and mechanics to water plants and fix rides needed for repairing. The game also features a free play game, where their are no appraisals to pass, infinite money and you can design the park anyway you want. There are also clips showing what the LEGOLAND amusement parks in California, Windsor and Billund are like. | ||
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| Lucky Luke On The Dalton's Trail | Ocean Software Ltd. / Infogrames, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is the game is based on the well known comics series about a good cowboy named Lucky Luke. You, as Lucky Luke, have to stop the Dalton gang from making another crime. Walking around town you have to solve puzzles, shoot criminals and collect money. After finishing the level you have a chance to buy an extra life with the money collected. Shooting isn't ordinary, often Lucky needs to ricochet shots to hit his target. The game view sometimes changes from 2D style to behind the shoulders. The levels differ from town exploring, to bottle-shooting in a bar, to freeing hostages on the roof of train, to Indian sneaking. But, all of them lead Lucky to $1,000,000 for the capture of the Daltons. | ||
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| M&M's: The Lost Formulas | Boston Animation, Inc. / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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The 2 lead candies from the tv commercials are about to set off on a vacation until the red candy realizes that the yellow candy left the M&Ms Minis in charge of the candy factory. The Minis promptly steal the secret M&Ms formulas and cause havoc at the factory. It is up to the yellow candy to set the situation right. The gameplay has been described as being similar to the Crash Bandicoot series. The action in the game takes place over 8 levels. The first 7 levels involve some kind of math skill (configurable at various skill levels to cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). The first level depicts the yellow candy frantically driving back to the candy factory. Along the way are math formulas on the side of the road, followed closely by 3 crates on the road, each with a number. Striking the crate with the correct answer for the previous formula will allow passage, while the 2 wrong answers are steel crates that will end your vehicle. The same action is repeated in a later level involving a forklift. Another type of level has the yellow candy jumping from number platform to number platform according to the math formulas that a disembodied female voice calls out. Another type of level is a 3D running/jumping action level in which the yellow candy will run down a hallway while observing clues about math formulas along the way. At the end of the hallway will be 3 doors, each with a possible answer. Choose wisely. All along the way are M&Ms candies to be collected in large quantities. Every 100 M&Ms candies earns the player an extra life. | ||
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| Magic Lessons / Alice in Wonderland after Lewis Carroll [Ru] | New Media Generation | [top] | |
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This is an interactive tutorial on the English language (intermediate / advanced level). Recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation for wide application in the field of education (advanced stages of language learning). Learn English with the characters of Lewis Carroll classic. Introduction to English literature in the original language - one of the most important stages of learning. Excellent animated graphics to create an atmosphere of easy communication with the heroes of fairy tales. We invite you to join a kind of theatrical performance. You can play the role of any of the characters and in the process of the game to improve your language skills, learn how to correctly pronounce and write the English words correctly form sentences, understand the meaning of the text at the hearing, to develop spoken language and navigate the complexities of English grammar. | ||
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| MTV: Music Generator / Music 2000 | Jester Interactive Publishing / The Codemasters Software Company Limited | [top] | |
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Ultimate music creation made easy. Whether you're beginner or beatmaster, this puts you in control. The bestselling title has been massively upgraded for the PC - no other music maker can match it for the scale and depth of its easy to use musical and video features. And with creative tools like the unique Music Jam mode, it's quite simply a cut above. | ||
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| Nicktoons Racing | Software Creations Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is another Mario Kart clone using cartoon characters from Nickelodeon. The gameplay follows the standards closely: the player controls one of the characters to win races on tracks filled with scattered power-ups and ramps. A meter at the top of the screen shows the current position and the amount of nitro fuel available. Extra fuel can be collected as shiny orbs on the road. The gift boxes contain random power-ups, like coconuts to throw at the other racers, flash lights to temporally blind them, and traps like baby powder, trash cans and green goo to slow down the competition. The game has four modes for single player. The main cups mode is the championship, where the objective is to arrive at least in third place to qualify for the next race. In time trial mode, the goal is to complete laps as fast as possible, with a ghost car showing the fastest performance to be surpassed. Race for fun is a practice mode, where any of the tracks can be explored without the pressure to win. In relay mode, the player switches characters after each lap. There are three modes for multiplayer. The cups and relay modes are similar to their solo counterparts, but splitting the screen horizontally in the middle to show the two players. The versus mode is the "one on one" mode, where two players compete directly against each other without any other racers. | ||
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| Parallel World: The Story of Belial [K] | Seed 9, Core Technology / Kama Entertainment | [top] | |
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Relatively famous and extremely rare adventure action. The action takes place in a surreal world that has experienced a catastrophe in the past. The main character Ruine (Ruine) after a showdown with local school hooligans through a friend of Cyllin receives an audience with the local cult head Ramun, who, in turn, gives him an assignment - and Ruin agrees to fulfill it. The gameplay for the most part consists of communicating with the NPC and searching for plot triggers to move on. In some dialogs, it is possible to select an answer option, but, alas, they have no influence other than trigger. There is an inventory where all the items found are stacked, which allow you to replenish the supply of mana or health or may be required in order to get to places not previously accessible. Locations themselves, as a rule, are small, but the features of moving and scrolling the screen introduce artificial difficulties in this matter, and skipping a passage to another location is simple. The battles take place in real time, and up to four people in the party can participate in them, but the implementation is not the best - in fact, it all comes down to a mouse on the enemies, attacks are carried out almost instantly, and extremely meager animation leaves a bad impression on itself. Enemies, however, respond in the same way, so it’s better to be careful nevertheless. Magic becomes available later - with the addition of a character to the squad who can conjure not only attacking, but also protective spells. Monsters to be surrounded and are all kinds of evil like either goblins or zombies. In addition to a potentially interesting story, however, it is the surroundings and the general atmosphere with an artistic style: bizarre design and background design, stylish portraits of characters, music with alternating gloomy and symphonic compositions evoke curiosity and are remembered. Already at least for the sake of it is worth at least look at the game with at least one eye. As a result, we have before us one of the most interesting South Korean games, which, perhaps, as a matter of fact the game itself is not so good. At least it’s worth getting acquainted with this creation. | ||
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| Pink Rabbit de Tsukuru Kawaii Mail [J] | Colabo Inc. | [top] | |
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This CD-ROM contains the Japanese multimedia email tools Pink Rabbit Cutie and Pink Rabbit Classic. They allow users to send fancy email postcards with cute graphics, stickers, and more. This disc was bundled with the "CompuBooks" book Pink Rabbit de Tsukuru Kawaii Mail, published by Subarusya, and contains time-limited trial versions of the two programs. | ||
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| Power Dolls 4 [J] | Kogado Studio Inc. | [top] | |
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A tactical simulation game where you organize your troops and execute battle plans. The player decides the strategy plan, organizes platoons and strategy units from 27 female members according to the strategy plan, selects weapons, and fights on the tactical map. Introduced real-time system and platoon system. It is also possible to promote members. | ||
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| Prodigy Racing | YO1 Komori / Supersweep | [top] | |
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This is a racing game with anti-gravity machines, traveling through to the end of the course in the near future. In addition to the real operational feeling, it has beautiful courses rich in variety. Choose practice and time attack in "FREERUN" mode, or compete with other machines in two modes of "GRANDPRIX". One of the major features is a beautiful course that features urban images and nature ones. A total of five types of courses are available, between skyscrapers, or in grassland where floats a spectacular giant balloon and a windmill is heartwarming. There are four types of viewpoint positions. In addition to the usual viewpoint, on-board viewed from a camera mounted on the machine body front, overhead perspective from above, and it's possible to switch the rear perspective for confirming the rear is clear. For this reason, it is not only easy to grasp the positional relationship between the shape of the course and the enemy machines while driving. In "FREERUN" mode, the fastest lap is displayed by a translucent machine. "GRANDPRIX" race mode has a total of 16 units. To win, you must travel the shortest distance and have smooth handling in curves, techniques such as slip stream is required of the player. | ||
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| Purina Incredible Dog Challenge | Purina | [top] | |
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This contains 4 events of Incredible Dog games, as well as a section of Incredible Dog Team Training Videos. Software for dogs, and it's incredible and the best part is that it's for humans too. There are two parts to it. The first part is a live training video with sessions on how to warm up your dog, train your dog to play Frisbee, walk between your legs, jump through your arms, and do a backflip. There's lots of dogs barking and jumping chasing frisbees on the video, and my dogs actually sit and watch that part - they love it. This will actually allow you to train your dog to chase frisbees and do tricks; you can bring a frisbee right to your computer with your dog and train him. Just move the office furniture back. The 2nd part is really for humans - Play the Incredible Dog Challenge Game - which consists of 4 parts. You get to pick a dog for this game, out of small - medium - and large. But wait - there's more. The game is internet interactive, and you can download a special new hotrod dog - a superdog - complete with a mask and a cape - that performs better than your stock dogs. The first game is a jumping off a pier contest - see how far you go before the dog hits the water, and you get 3 tries. My best is 28 feet 7 inches so far. The 2nd game is catching frisbees. You control the dogs running and jumping, and the frisbee throwing. The strategy is to run out to a place in the field where the frisbees are aimed at, and then jump and try to catch them as they come down. The 3rd game is a dog obstacle agility course, with barriers to run through and jump over, inner tubes to jump through, and rivers to jump over. This game goes fast and takes a lot of practice. The last game is the 4 dog flyball competition, where you run 4 dogs though an obstacle jumping course and back - and they have to jump and catch a flyball during the run. Then when you're finished, there's an award ceremony, and your dog gets a medal and looks very proud. So if you hear a lot of barking and jumping in my office, and see and occaisional Frisbee come flying out the door - it's just us playing the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge. This really is a great game and the training video is excellent. I'd recommend it both to pet and game lovers. | ||
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| Resurrection: Return Of The Black Dragon | Nebula Entertainment / Dinamic Multimedia | [top] | |
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In this Spanish developed sword-fighting rpg, 3 warriors land in an epic fantasy and will have to join their forces in a quest to defeat a demonic god who hopes to resurrect the dreaded "black dragon" who will devour millions of souls and grant him infinite power. You can chose between Daiko, a sorcerer/paladin, Gau, an all-out warrior and Domenico, a half demon assasin. Gameplay consists of 3d action similar in nature to Rune, with lots of combo moves and spells and different weapons and abilities for each character (like climbing walls, etc.) The game also includes a one-on-one 3d fighting mode. | ||
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| Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions | Dynamix, Inc. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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Yet another installment in Sierra's Incredible Machine series. The gameplay is virtually identical to the previous games in the series. Players must use a variety of mechanical components (almost exactly the set from TIM3) to create a Rube Goldberg like device that accomplishes a specific goal (such as popping a balloon). There are about 250 puzzles to solve along with a free form invention construction mode and a two player head to head mode with 50 puzzles. There's over 100 different parts to mix and match. Certain Programmable Parts allow for truly custom puzzles. Create and save your own puzzles to share with friends. Change the gravity and air pressure for each "Contraption" to simulate different worlds, or outer space. Accurate physics models create realistic interactions between parts. Change the gravity and air pressure for each "Contraption" to simulate different worlds, or outer space. | ||
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| Risk II | Deep Red Games Ltd. / MicroProse Ltd., Atari Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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The traditional board game of Risk is here redeveloped from scratch with improved graphics, improved AI, optional Same-Time mode, all the different options and variations, new territories (original map still available), and the new tournament mode, as you play the different games against various AI personalities. Multiplayer support - LAN or MSN Zone (stopped in 2006). Up to eight players can play, in any combination of human and computer opponents (as long as at least one player is human). Available computer opponents are an assortment of mostly 18th and 19th century generals: Campbell, MacKenzie, Marmont, Barbacena, D'Erlon, Maransin, Solignac, Sherbrooke, Aubert, Spencer, Taupin, Freire, Vauban, Baird, Bonaparte and Wellington. Each computer opponent has a different style of attack and a different reliability in honoring alliances. | ||
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| Rune | Human Head Studios / Gathering | [top] | |
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In Rune, players assume the role of Ragnar the Viking, mightiest warrior
of a bygone age. In an age when might makes right, it is Ragnar who doles out
justice on the blade of his massive battle-axe. Players will explore beautiful
settings both above and below the mountains of the far north as Ragnar fights his
way through several stunning and unique kingdoms to an ultimate confrontation with
the Sark Amen, the shadowy warrior-masters of the netherworld. Rune is a
third-person perspective game of intense action and adventure steeped in a blend
of Norse mythology and high fantasy. Players will have to use their brains as well
as their massive brawn to survive as they explore the fully 3D game world fighting
off fantastic creatures from both Norse legend and the fertile minds of the Human
Head staff with their array of swords, axes and magical devices. The graphics
which use the Unreal engine look very nice. Rune Classic was a Steam release in 2011 that contained the original Rune content and the multiplayer expansion pack Halls of Valhalla, plus new enemies were added (skeletons from the PS2 version) and some levels were redesigned for more enjoyable play. Also see: #Rune Halls Of Valhalla |
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| Safari Kongo | Duckfoot Technologies, Inc. / eGames, Inc. | [top] | |
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In Safari Kongo, you only meant to go on a peaceful 50th anniversary with your spouse. However, an insane gorilla has abducted your significant other and fully intends to eat him or her as the evening meal. You play the game as either Safari Sue or Safari John; whichever character was not selected as the player is the one who was abducted. You must venture through 21 levels of 3D action which include all kinds of terrain, not necessarily restricted to jungle-type: deserts and lava fields or also included. Fight all kinds of ruthless enemies that are, again, not restricted to typical jungle-dwellers: watch out for dinosaurs. | ||
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| Schwarzschild Z: Last Heritage [J] | Kogado Studio | [top] | |
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The stage is the Septenes star system on the edge of the galaxy, and the player country is Menburg, the smallest country. The game system is similar to that of X, adding diplomatic elements and reviving subspace movement, albeit to a limited extent. The latest installment of the popular science fiction "Schwarzschild" series, which has a long history, is finally here to mark the end of the 20th century. The player takes on the role of Graftsler, the most popular character in the series, and engages in diplomacy with other countries, internal affairs of his own planet, and even battles in space. We continue to use the interplanetary chart map system that was popular in the previous work "Schwarzschild X". You can enjoy the sci-fi romance with even more advanced systems, such as the ability to jump between important bases, while still maintaining the high level of tension and strategy that requires careful attention when moving your fleet. The diplomatic system was also significantly strengthened. Control interstellar politics by increasing or decreasing your “diplomacy impression value” by performing “diplomacy items” for each country that appears in the game. You can enjoy diplomatic tactics that you can't experience in a simple combat SLG. Of course, the battle system has also evolved. Battleships have parameters such as firing range, firing angle, and even ship speed depending on their weapons, and it is necessary to take command by carefully observing the battle situation. | ||
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| Sega Smash Pack 2 | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. / Activision Value Publishing, Inc. | [top] | |
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Sega's second Smash Pack includes seven more classic Genesis games, plus the puzzle game Sega Swirl. The Genesis games included are: • Comix Zone - a fighter where you are stuck in a comic book. • Flicky - an old arcade game where you are a bird and your goal is to save the chicks from the cats. • Kid Chameleon - a side scroller where you are a kid stuck in a video game. • Shining Force - a classic strategy RPG. • Sonic 2 - the sequel to the famous side scroller. • Super Hang-On - a simple motorcycle racing game. • Vectorman 2 - the sequel to the side scroller where you are a robot-type man, and you shoot your enemies. | ||
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| Shockman Show, The | Computerhouse AB / Basic-Group Enterntainment | [top] | |
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This an action-adventure game, based on the outer space alien characters Shockman and Tuth-a-Ball and their great adventures. They are from an animated tv cartoon in Norway. Their arch nemesis is the villain Shadow, a master criminal planning to take over the world. Shockman and Tuth-a-Ball don't know about about villain's existence, but unknowingly twarth his evil plans. All this is about to change. They have recently recorded their first TV-show and are now taking a vacation in the Caribbean. In the meantime, evil Shadow steals the tapes to their show. So now they must cut their vacation short, come home and retrieve their tapes before Shadow puts his evil plan in motion. Of course evil villain Shadow will not let that happen. Our 2 heroes are stranded on a tropical island filled with hostile natives, pirates, and psycho monkeys. Mysteries, puzzles and action are what stand in between their completing the mission. | ||
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| SimCity 3000 Unlimited | Maxis Software Inc. / Electronic Arts Inc. | [top] | |
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Create and control your urban empire with more power than ever before. With SimCity 3000 Unlimited, you get all the great features of the original SimCity 3000 plus much more. Expand your SimCities with two new building sets from Asia and Europe. Take on 13 challenging scenarios or create your own. Unleash four new disasters including an unforgiving whirlpool and plummeting space junk. This is truly SimCity without limits. Re-create cities from around the globe with hundreds of new buildings. Reunify East and West Berlin in one of 13 scenarios. Spruce up your city with over 95 world landmarks. Protect your citizens from four new disasters. Select hundreds of buildings from SimCity 3000 and all-new Asian and European buildings. Create unique masterpieces for your metropolis with the Building Architect Plus tool. Inflict 9 disasters-including toxic clouds, plague of locusts, space junk, and a whirlpool. Play 13 challenging scenarios or make your own with the SimCity Scenario Creator. SimCity 3000: Deutschland and SimCity 3000: UK Edition change the European set to have a more national look. | ||
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| Sims, The | Maxis Software Inc. / Electronic Arts Inc. | [top] | |
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The Sims is a real-time simulation game where you simulate the lives of one or more people in a family and their social activities in their immediate neighborhood. Characters of the family may be custom created (including physical features) or simply chosen from pre-generated families. All the characters also have two age groups, children and adults. Each age group has different lifestyles, priorities and interests. Game play in the Sims may be classified as the following: [1] Life Simulation - This revolves around simulating their day-to-day lives. From eating, sleeping, entertainment, socializing and romance, you are in complete control of their actions if you choose to. Each Sim has a statistics that may be developed. Some of which identify certain desires the Sim in mention may require. Your role in simulating their lives is primarily to keep them happy by fulfilling their desires. Controlling the Sims people is optional, as they follow their own Artificial Intelligence unless commanded otherwise by the player. [2] The Architect - Designing and furnishing your home is an integral part of the game play. Pre-generated houses may be purchased at the beginning of the game, or you can design and build your future home from scratch. Furnishing consists of acquiring various items that may be manipulated by your Sims to fulfill their needs. Designing houses and furnishing costs money, which may be obtained through jobs. [3] Character Development and Careers - Adult Sims may acquire jobs to pay for the many necessities of living a simulated life. There are several different job track available, from Entertainment, Law Enforcement, Politics and even a life of crime! Promotion in a job requires the Sim to advance in certain statistics (e.g. Charisma, Strength) which may be done so by manipulating the various items available for purchase. By 2002, it had become the bestselling PC game at the time surpassing Cyan's Myst. It has sold 16 million copies all time.
See also: #Sims, The: Livin' Large, #Sims, The: House Party, #Sims, The: Hot Date, #Sims, The: Vacation, #Sims, The: Unleashed, #Sims, The: Superstar, #Sims, The: Makin' Magic |
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| Sims, The: Livin' Large | Electronic Arts Inc. | [top] | |
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The first official expansion for the The Sims and it adds plenty more to your Sims game, including new interactive objects (the crystal ball, vibrating heart bed, a telescope, genie lamp and a chemistry set), furniture (with the themes of Sci-Fi, Medieval, Retro, Rustic and Vegas), new skins, NPCs (Grim Reaper, Tragic Clown, Santa Claus, Servo and the Genie), the ability for your Sims to become a Zombie, new neighborhoods to play in and more. It adds new career paths and skills for your Sims to learn, and more. Included are all the downloads that you may or may not have missed from the Maxis site, as well as a selection of skins and furniture created by the fans of The Sims. | ||
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| Space Haste | Church of Electronic Entertainment / Real.com Games, Midas Interactive Entetainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is an arcade racing game which takes place in the 23rd century where hovercrafts have replaced cars. Races start out as an average race, but every few laps your car gets a speed upgrade. If you win the race, you keep getting upgrades and get bonus laps, and must try to beat your last lap time over and over again until you finally slip. | ||
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| Star Trek Starship Creator: Warp II | Imergy / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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In this combination starship and mission builder, you, as an admiral in the Federation, can choose from seven different classes of starships: Sovereign, Defiant, Constitution, Galaxy, Intrepid, Akira, and the Klingon B'rel Bird of Prey. The game includes all of the features found in the original Star Trek: Starship Creator and the Star Trek: Starship Creator Deluxe titles and features enhancements and backwards compatibility. New features include a mission creator with drop-and-drag flowcharting, the ability to send out two ships instead of one on cooperative missions and ten new scripted missions, three of which were written by author Peter David with Kathleen O'Shea, bringing the total mission count to 34. Import your own photo into the game and become a member of the starship crew. It also offers the ability to export your ships and crew into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- Dominion Wars, scheduled for release for the PC in the fall of 2000. In the area of battles, enhancements include conflict resolution based on shield and weapon strengths of the combatant ships -- destroy your enemy's shields first and win. All ships, including enemy, have unique properties and strengths that can be defined during the scripting of missions you design. Automatic selection of the best weapons available now occurs during conflicts, and fire animation between battling ships is automatically displayed. In design mode, there are a dozen new star field backgrounds, 15 new enemy ship icons, 12 new planets, and over 30 QuickTime action video inserts straight from the television series. An option is provided to direct the game to recognize (update) and import other starship classes not included in the game from other Star Trek CD-ROM products. | ||
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| Star Trek: Armada | Activision Inc. | [top] | |
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Set shorty after the last season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Armada is an RTS set in space. You can command one of 4 races to vie for control of the galaxy. How the story unfolds depends on which of the four factions you choose. Shortly after the Dominion War, the Enterprise-E is on patrol when they encounter a time anomaly, out of which emerges the federation USS Premonition, under attack from the Borg. After the Borg are beat back, the captain of the Premonition explains that he has come back to warn the federation of an impending Borg invasion that has taken place in the future, and it is up to the player to stop this from happening. As this is an RTS, gameplay is based on space combat, and all vessels featured are all authentic Star Trek vessels. Like with all RTS games, you have to collect resources to build your armada. In keeping with trek lore, this is in the form of dilithium, which is harvested from nearby asteroids. You can then build vessels and other structures, assuming you have the right tech level, resources, as well as crew members, who you can recruit at you starbase. Multiplayer is also like many other strategy games, allowing you to take on human or A.I opponents over the internet or locally. | ||
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| Star Trek: New Worlds | 14° East, Binary Asylum / Interplay Entertainment Corp. | [top] | |
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This is a strategy game where a Romulan experiment gone wrong has suddenly made multiple planet systems appear out of nowhere in this formerly barren sector. The area is named Tabula Rasa, and the three neighboring races... Federation, Klingon, and Romulan, are ready to exploit the newly found riches... But first they must deal with the natives, who may be friend of foe... You are in control of a colony for your "empire". You must grow your colony and build defense and offense to secure your goals while mining the resources you came for. Build from the heart of your colony... the colony hub. Build mines to extract minerals from the ground (but they can run out). Build resource processors to get higher efficiency. Build vehicle yards to build better vehicles. Build research facility to get improved technology and better units, and so on and so forth. You must balance energy, growth, exploration, defense, crew, and when you get to it, offense. It is also possible to capture enemy structures. Each side has a special unit with unique capabilities to make the battle more interesting. Multiplayer is supported over Gamespy. Several tutorial missions are also created. | ||
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| Star Trek: Starfleet Command Volume II - Empires at War | Taldren, Inc. / Interplay Entertainment Corp. | [top] | |
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This is inspired by the board game from Amarillo Design Bureau, Star Fleet Battles, which was developed prior to the Star Trek movies. The Organians have hired the Interstellar Concordium (ISC) to help restore peace and order to the Alpha Quandrant by forcing eight races into submission. You pilot your own ship in one of the eight galactic governments (Gorn Confederation, Hydran Kingdoms, Interstellar Concordium, Klingon Empire, Lyran Star Empire, Mirak Star League, Romulans or the United Federation of Planets) forced to thwart this action. This space combat simulation, features both single and multiplayer missions, with the latter played over the Internet in the online Dynaverse 2. Single player action offers tutorial, skirmish or campaign modes. The tutorial covers all aspects of ship control (weapons, defense, movement, science and command), skirmish mode puts you instantly in battle utilizing a ship of any of the eight races and the campaign provides a choice of race and missions. The Alpha Quadrant contains not only enemy races but monsters of unknown origin. You can sabotage the enemy by beaming aboard their ships and taking out specified systems. Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) are used to destroy incoming missiles. Mission success earns prestige points that are used to buy new ships or repair and restock existing craft. Although you control only one ship in battle (the computer handles the rest), you can relinquish control to a secondary officer at any time and move to another ship. Photon and plasma torpedoes, standard missiles, phasers and mines are some of the weapons available in your arsenal. Tractor beams hold missiles at bay while your defensive systems destroy them. Ships have limited energy and nearly all actions, including speed, ECM level, shield strength and weapons, drain power that must be restored. Some races, (e.g., Klingon and Romulan) use cloaking technology which also drains power. The interface is mouse and keyboard controlled with various hot keys available for weapon selection, camera angles, jumping from ship to ship and bomb placements. Other keys allow grouping of weapons, cycling through targets, launch of shuttles and probes, switching displays, toggling cloaking devices, activating tractor beams and shields and adjusting the game's slider speed. In 2013, a revised Community Edition was released by Dynaverse with updated game code, using newer DirectX 7 and runs on modern o/s. | ||
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| Star Wars: Force Commander | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | [top] | |
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A real-time strategy (RTS) set in the STAR WARS universe, Force Commander is fully 3D, both the environment and the units. This allows for full camera control which let's you see the action from any point. The innovative command system replaces 'harvesting' resources the norm in most RTS's rewarding you with points toward purchasing units as you accomplish mission goals. The game follows the life of Lt. Brenn Tantor a young officer in the Imperial Army, who after just graduating is assigned the task of finding 2 droids on Tatooine. Brenn after becoming dissatisfied with the Empire joins the Rebellion. Battles take place on 9 planets each with it's own unique environments. | ||
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| Stardom: Your Quest For Fame / TV Star | Vision Park AB / Monte Cristo | [top] | |
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This casts you as a nobody, a janitor for a news station. Take articles, edit them for content, and submit them to the editor. Earn points by performing various tasks, such as challenging co-workers to a quiz. Once you've earned enough points, you work your way up to better positions, and once you become the editor, you can move on to bigger studios. | ||
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| Starfight VI: Gatekeepers | JP Production | [top] | |
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Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone is capable of making those that start wars. StarFight VI: Gatekeepers introduces you Simon Miller, a man who has this extrodinary capability. This superb free game tells a story of a man named Simon Miller, a man whose once bright future as a starship captain was wrongfully taken away in order to cover for the incompetence of his superiors. Now as a working captain of a cargo vessel, deeply in debt and in love with alcohol, he's about to embark to an adventure of lifetime. Gameplay of StarFight VI consists of three integral parts: problem solving, combat and space exploration. In order to beat the game, you'll need sharp wits as well as an itchy trigger finger. There is a complete freedom of movement in SF6, no missions are restricted to a small, confined region of space. This freedom often gives several different tactical options of approach to hazardous situation, but it also forces player to consider his actions much more carefully and relate them to available resources. Separate adventure sections are also something unique to StarFight VI. They help to advance the story from more personal perspective, and also to highlight what actually goes on inside the craft and spacestations you encounter. On the surface, the adventure sections are very much like the legendary text-based Gateway adventure games. However, the gameplay is much more streamlined and simple, everything works by an easy-to-use point-and-click interface. | ||
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| Stephen King's F13 | Presto Studios, Inc. / Blue Byte Studio GmbH | [top] | |
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Stephen King's F13 decks out your computer with a horror aesthetic. The capper is a beautifully presented novella, Everything's Eventual, a story that brings King's usual themes into a high-tech context. The minigames include No Swimming, Bug Splat, and Whack-A-Zombie. The "Frightware" bundle also includes a set of "Screamsavers", "Bump and Thump" sound effects, and "Deathtop" backgrounds. | ||
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| Taxi 2 [Fr] | Blue Sphere (France) / Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | [top] | |
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This is a driving game, based on Luc Besson's movie. Both movie and video game share the same title. It features two game modes. The "story mode" follows the scenes from the movie and allows you to select from five missions. When a mission is completed, you can save your progress, but also play it in the "arcade mode". In this mode, you will face the same competitor, Jean-Louis Schlesser ! The objective is no longer specific to each mission, but is to win the race, after several laps. In this mode, you will not have to care about the temperature gauge, since it is removed from arcade mode. | ||
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| TKKG Identikit | Tivola / Viva Media | [top] | |
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If you're a budding Sherlock Holmes or fancy yourself as a top police inspector, here's your chance to start practising your crime-busting skills. Identikit tests your ability to remember faces and lets you create your own police sketches. Using the computer-based assembly kit, you can quickly click on key features like ears, noses and beards and put together your own images of people--just as if you were working on a major case at Scotland Yard. What does the suspect's hair look like? What kind of eyes did the woman have? What was the shape of the person's lips? By simply clicking and dragging with your mouse button you can complete identikits of all kinds of people. You can also create sketches of animals. So if your pet dog or cat goes missing, you could easily put together a wanted poster and add in your telephone details. You can also create fun identikit images and e-mail them on to your friends. Aimed at anyone from eight years up, this is a clearly laid out and attractively designed CD-ROM. Installation is practically effortless and it is easy-to-use. There are also links to Web sites where you can find lots of other eyebrows and noses to work with. | ||
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| Toy Story 2 Action Game (Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!) | Traveller's Tales Ltd. / Disney Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Woody has been stolen from the bedroom, ready to be sold to the highest bidder by an evil toy collector. It's up to good friend Buzz Lightyear to fight his way through from the bedroom to the outside world in order to save Woody from the toy market and bring him home. All of the character from the 3D animated movie appear through-out the side scroller to help Buzz get to where he is needed. Along with the use of his cannon, Buzz can jump to hard to reach places, also useful in collecting the hidden coins that open bonus levels. | ||
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| Turbo Lode | Momor Productions | [top] | |
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This is a freeware derivation of the old classic game Lode Runner from Broderbrund. It is 3D enhanced, so the rules of the game were modified to keep it playable and fun. The game is divided in several levels. In each level, you must pick-up several ingots in order to open the door and exit to the next level. Since objects can be hidden in closed areas, you can dig in order to reach these areas. Some walls and ground have the ability to auto-repair, so you'll have to avoid being jammed. Moreover, flying sentries are protecting the level. If a sentry sees you, it will try to catch you, so you'll have to find a secure hiding place. It includes an OpenGL version of the game dedicated to 3D accelerated hardware. It also has realtime Stereoscopic Mode using Red/Green or Reg/Blue 3D glasses. The network mode uses DirectPlay, and for this reason supports the following network devices: LAN, Internet, Parallel cable/Serial cable. It's limited to 4 players per game. It basically plays all the levels of the game in a multiplayer manner. It's up to you to decide if you want to play the levels in a cooperative manner (and to finish all the levels together), or if you want to play a "Kill-Them-All" game (by digging under your opponents for example). To complete a level, all the ALIVE players must stand on the exit point of the level (marked by a yellow rotating EXIT symbol). It includes 34 maps and a level editor is included so you can share your creations with every other Turbo Lode user! | ||
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| Two Tail | Astral Entertainment | [top] | |
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This is a cartoon adventure with jump & run elements. It's a 3rd person point & click with inventory, dialogues, and joystick or keyboard control for jump elements. On the distant planet Spegroon, the TV signal is inexplicably bothered. In the form of a lizard, you try to help. Two Tail, a lizardperson who has two tails plus an unexplainably powerful jumping talent. Be sure to read the help file (press F1) to find out how to play. The update combines parts 1 and 2, plus has easier to read text and improved graphics. | ||
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| Typing Haou: Hokuto no Ken Gekiuchi 2 [J] | SSI Tristar | [top] | |
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This is the second in a series of typing software where the objective throughout is to defeat hordes of adversaries by typing words correctly. During boss battles, the player must fill out a special move gauge in order to accumulate enough strength to perform a finishing move with the space key. This time, the difficulty is considerably harder than that of the first game and players can now choose between Kenshiro and Raoh. Akira Kamiya returns, along with Kenji Utsumi and Shigeru Chiba. In this second chapter the player can choose to impersonate both Kenshiro and Raoh, following different narrative lines and clashes. If the first title ended after the first battle between Kenshiro and Raoh, the fights that are examined in this second game start right from that point up to the final clash between the two warriors. Kenshiro must in fact face Garf, Shu and Souther, while Raoh must complete his journey towards conquest by fighting against Koryu, Toki and the Nanto Goshasei. | ||
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| Valkyrie: The Magical Odyssey | ChiliConValley | [top] | |
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A magical spell is destroying Nanteket, ... Only a magical spell can now save Nanteket. Valkyrie, travels beyond the limits of the known world in search of the only potion that can save her homeland. She'll cross oceans, travel across thick forests, collect a multitude of strange creatures, fight against lots of monsters, and ultimately confront "Loki". It has over a hundred characters, remarkable scenery and settings, fabulous monsters and entities, and multi-directional multi-plane scrolling. The last game by independent French developer Chili Con Valley (C2V for short) before going out of business, Valkyrie - The Magical Odyssey is an excellent shareware platformer that boasts huge and varied levels, attractive anime graphics, smooth gameplay, and even an interesting plot. You control a Norse heroine called Valkyrie as she travels beyond the limits of the known world in search of the only potion that can save her homeland, Nanteket. Along the way, you will encounter over 100 characters, collect dozens of powerful weapons and even strange creatures, and ultimately confront the Norse god Loki. The first thing you will notice is that Valkyrie is a very good looking game. The graphics, all done in Japanese anime (cartoon) style, is crisp and smoothly animated. The game boasts huge levels that scroll in multiple directions - upward and downward as well as the usual left and right. The levels are very well designed, full of background details and excellent illusion of depth. The registered version contains over 10 varied levels, each with its own theme, monsters, weapons, and graphics. The gameplay on some levels is also different: in the underwater level, for example, you will swim from scene to scene instead of running on the ground. | ||
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| Vampire Cows: Die Attacke Der Kackenden Kühe [G] | Activision Blizzard Deutschland | [top] | |
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This is a budget flash game (basically a 2D action game played from 3D perspective) based on The Little Vampire. It's a shooting gallery similar to Moorhuhn except you shoot vampire cows as you're riding in a car. If you miss them, they will splat on your windshield. The splats can be cleaned by wiper blades if you you shoot enough cows to fill the wiper meter. If you miss too many, you will not be able to see through the windshield with all the splats and your game will end. The CD is an entertainment pack, contains the flash game, a desktop pack and a making of video. | ||
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| Walking With Dinosaurs | BBC | [top] | |
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Explore interactive landscapes and see dinosaurs hunting, grazing and running in their natural habitats. Use your magnifying glass to discover details of dinosaur life. Collect plants, dinosaurs and animals from different landscapes and build a food chain. Search for missing bones and re-build dinosaur skeletons. Trace the evolution of dinosaurs. Get pre-historic on your PC with dinosaur sounds, wallpapers and screensavers. And re-visit your favourite clips from the television series in the Walking with Dinosaurs video browser. A ‘must have’ for anyone who loved the television series. Features: Dinosaur Panoramas; Food web; Fossil hunt; Family tree; Fact file; Desktop customizer and video browser. | ||
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| Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack 2 | BBC Multimedia | [top] | |
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It's back! Bigger and better than ever before with enhanced graphics, bigger video clips and an all-new desktop customiser. Plus new games, new screensavers and a special set of Wallace & Gromit desktop tools. Customise-o-matic: Give your desktop a unique Wallace & Gromit look and feel by selecting from a host of wallpapers, sounds, icons and animated cursors. New Screensavers: Video Clips - select your favourite Wallace & Gromit clips to play as screensavers; Message Maker - leave messages on your PC in a range of Wallace & Gromit themes; Slide Show - make your own custom slide show from a wealth of imagery from the films. Browse through your favourite clips using a unique Wallace & Gromit video browser Gadget-o-matic. This combined clock, calendar, CD player and calculator is an indispensable addition to your desktop. Three Fantastic Games: Wallace's Cheeseboard Game - based on the three Wallace & Gromit films, this 1-4 player game involves you in a range of hilarious interactive tasks; The Great Train Game - based on The Wrong Trousers, this game challenges you to take the train all the way to the kitchen cupboard; Feathers and the Diamond - use the remote control from The Wrong Trousers to help Feathers steal the diamond. | ||
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| Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour | Crystal Dynamics Inc. / Disney Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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A cart racing game featuring Disney Characters Starring Jiminy Cricket, Chip, and Dale, and a few characters created specifically for the game. The catch is that all of the tracks are actually based on rides at all of the four Walt Disney World Parks (Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Rock'n'Rollercoaster, Typhoon Lagoon, etc.). | ||
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| Walt Disney's The Jungle Book: Rhythm n' Groove / The Jungle Book: Groove Party | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software / Buena Vista Games, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a dancing game very much modeled after Dance Dance Revolution. Arrows travel across the screen, and when they reach the right spot, you hit the necessary button on either your controller or dance pad. The game follows the story of Disney's The Jungle Book cartoon. Some songs are remixes of the cartoon's music, while others are original. It can be played with either a standard controller or a dance pad. Arrows come down the top of the screen and the player must step on the corresponding arrow in time to the music. Missing arrows cause the fruit at the top of the screen to turn yellow and disappear, with the game ending if all pieces of fruit are lost. Power-ups can be activated by entering input commands in between arrows. These range from beneficial bonuses, such as point multipliers or automatically clearing arrows, to offensive items that hinder your opponent, such as blocking their view. The story mode takes Mowgli through nine levels, including two boss levels. The game also features a two-player mode allowing two players to battle against each other. | ||
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| Watman | Ocean, Kakarot, The GGG | [top] | |
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This remake of Ocean's 1986 game Batman (not released on PC), this enhanced fan remake adds new color graphics and sounds to the isometric action-adventure. As in the original, the player controls Batman (renamed to "Watman" to avoid litigation) in his quest to assemble the hovercraft and rescue Robin. The batcave is filled with bizarre creatures and surreal rooms, where dangerous roaming enemies have to be avoided and hazardous environments must be navigated to collect all the vehicle pieces and finish the main goal. Watman can only use his special abilities after finding and equipping one of his famous gadgets. The boots allow him to jump, the bag lets him carry objects, the thruster gives horizontal control when falling and the belt slows the speed of descent. Other items give temporary powers, like energy pellets that increase Watman's speed, shields that make the hero invulnerable for a short time, spring boots for higher jumps, a Batman doll that gives an extra life and a neutralizer that removes all powers. Some rooms have batsignals that provide a rudimentary way of saving progress, allowing the player to resume from that point after losing all lives. The PC remake has the ability to save the game at any place with the F2 key, and load it later from the main menu. Batman loses one life with each save, and the player can't use this function when the number of remaining lives is zero. | ||
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| Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Sports Edition | Jellyvision Games, Inc. / Buena Vista Interactive | [top] | |
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Regis Philbin and his crew are offering up a new batch of cash-laden trivia questions, this time with the sports fan in mind. It follows the format made familiar on the television game show (and in the previous two game releases - original and 2nd Edition). Unlike the television show and previous releases, all of the questions in this version of the game are sports-related, concerning game rules, history, and celebrity athletes. As the game session progresses, questions become more difficult and more valuable. Players risk all of their current winnings to try to correctly answer the next question. Of course, as in any decent interpretation of the hugely popular game show, there are three lifelines available when players can't quite come up with the right answer on their own. Topics include football, hockey, golf, and baseball. Get help with Lifelines, Ask the Audience, 50/50, and Phone-a-Friend. | ||
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| Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire? | Hypnotix / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire? is a video game parody of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The objective of the game is to answer multiple-choice questions correctly, by using a buzzer to answer. Following this, the player assaults another player's character. The objective of the game is to assault another player sufficiently so that they drop off the game's ladder, a parody of the real show's question ladder. The last player is the winner. Like its more serious (and non-violent) real-life counterpart, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? gives the contestants three "lifelines" to help them out if they get stumped. | ||
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| Wild Thornberrys Rambler | THQ | [top] | |
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Take on the world with the Thornberry characters in this CD-ROM adventure. Based on the popular kids' TV show, this game will have children joining forces with the Thornberry family to solve problems, battle villains, and save animals in five exotic locations around the world. Swing with Darwin through the trees of the South American rain forest to recapture his cupcake from a band of mischievous marmosets. Rescue animals from the poachers by using Nigel's boomerang. Click on any one of the six continents to get the action started, then launch into the game. Earn points for solving problems, and even get a timer bonus for completing levels quickly. Collect various items to earn extra turns. Kids will love this innovative action game. | ||
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| Woodii: The Secret of the Rainforest [Fi] | Ulricehamn / Active Media Group | [top] | |
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The game has 16 different platform level courses. On the map you can see which levels you have completed. Exciting to see how you can handle the swamp, rainforest, and the ruined city. | ||
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| Wrath of the Sea King | Bloodlust Software | [top] | |
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The player takes the role of Dust, a peerless burglar plagued with continual headaches and cursed with eternal life courtesy of a mystical Egyptian amulet. Following more than a century of migraine torment, Dust learns of another powerful talisman in the ruins of Atlantis, rumoured to destroy all life - including his own. Keen for a blessed escape from the daily torment of perpetual agony, the hero engages the services of a submarine and enters the perilous realm of the Sea King. Direction keys and a fire button here run the player through a relentless gauntlet of over fifty varied grim environments filled with traps and ambushes, demanding diverse tactics from brutal trigger-finger massacres to fine-reflex timing workouts to systematic strategizing and maze-mapping. Selectable paths and boss battles are present as well. For a game made with Game Factory, this is surely a beauty. Dust is only a small bunch of pixels, but he moves on wonderful backgrounds, and he often makes Duke Nukem-esque comments. Cutscenes are great too. And, of course, there's the usual gory humor, a Bloodlust trademark. Having unlimited lives (he's an immortal, after all), reaching the final confrontation with the Sea King doesn't take too much time. But, the less times you die, the more you will be rewarded, being able to see the entire ending - and, believe me, it's worth the effort. The real challenge is finding the way of dying the less possible times. So, very good replay value. | ||
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| Xmas Ducks 2000 | Hungry Software | [top] | |
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It's Chriiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaas. Ah, the season of goodwill to all men. Nice. But what about goodwill to ducks? Normally, we're all too busy with our turkey and our wrapping paper and our terrestrial premieres of films from 12 years ago to give them any consideration at all. So be good to yourself, and to them. Make this year different. Xmas Ducks 2000 takes the original Ducks concept and sticks a carrot and two lumps of coal into its face. The ducks themselves now wear Santa hats, of course... as do the electric duck zappers, for some reason. Even the invading green aliens seem to be in party mood, wearing their new paper hats with pride (or as close to pride as you can get when you insist on swallowing an entire family one by one and then burping). Sadly, this time, the ducks have been sent no rockets in which to escape. Their only option is to stow away in Christmas presents and wait until they're opened on the 25th. And keep their feathers crossed that they'll be safer there than where they are at the moment. If you want to point and laugh at their plight, it's a good job there are a selection of screenshots on show. The 8 levels use new backgrounds (including some rather funky snow) and sounds, and reuse the original tiles from the main 80 level Ducks game. The original levels can be played using the new animations and object types - the Xmas Ducks 2000 levels feature in two new episodes, called MULLED WINE (playable by everyone) and FIGGY PUDDING (only accessible to registered users). And it costs nothing to download, so give it a go... I'm sure the ducks will appreciate it. It was later made freeware. | ||
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| You Don't Know Jack Louder! Faster! Funnier! | Berkeley Systems, Jellyvision Games, Inc. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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Get ready for the CD-ROM game show where high culture and pop culture collide. This edition combines many "shows" from the Net Show internet version of the game as well as all new episodes and some new question types. This wacky, off-the-wall game of skill and timing requires you to answer questions of varying difficulty and types in order to become the number one player. You begin by entering your name and choosing an episode with a specific theme. Themes range from "all-nude" to "toys" to "marriage." Once in the game, you answer questions ranging from bizarre to lewd and they always link, in some way, to the theme you chose at the start. Each of the questions is worth an amount of money, usually ranging from $1000 to $10,000 (points). Some questions require you to buzz-in with one of four possible answers; the object when playing with friends or opponents, of course, is to beat them to the buzz-in. Some questions require a different task other than just picking a correct answer. The "Wendithap'n" category requires you to decide whether an event happened after, before or never, in relation to another event. An example: "Man lands on the moon" -- "Basketball is invented." You must determine whether basketball was invented before or after man landed on the moon. Other types of questions require you to put lists in order and fill in the blanks. It involves plenty of humor supplemented by sounds and goofy images, a crazy game show host and some wacky commercials. The irreverent fun extends to gameplay as you have the ability to "screw" your opponent during a question by forcing them to answer. The game contains more than 1,000 questions in total. | ||
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| You Don't Know Jack: 5th Dementia | Jellyvision Games, Inc. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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Once again it seems that computer gamers still "don't know jack." This contains more than 600 new questions, presented in a similar style to previous games in the series with the same quick and caustic wit. In addition to the new questions and a new association-based type of question known as Bug Out, the most significant advance in this edition is the game's multiplayer options. It's rigged for online play allowing gamers to challenge trivia buffs via the Internet around the country and across the globe. Private games with online friends can be set up or you can challenge strangers by entering a "green room" to wait for available public contests. Although the multiplayer feature opens up a whole new arena of gameplay possibilities, three friends or competitors can still gather around one computer, making it a suitable addition to one of the PC's most enduring franchises. Six modes of questioning are carried forward from earlier iterations of the series including multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, anagrams, Gibberish, DisOrDat and the all-encompassing Jack Attack. The new Bug Out questions require you to identify items that don't belong to a specific group. For example, the topic might be the Seven Deadly Sins and whoever buzzes in first after a crawling bug shouts out the name of a lesser sin (tardiness) wins. Each question has seven levels worth varying amounts of cash with winnings coming from the other player's earnings. | ||
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| 3 Little Pigs, The | Dorling Kindersley | [top] | |
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Based upon the classic fairytale, The Three Little Pigs is for children of ages four and up. It can also be viewed either from the Pigs' perspective or the Wolf's, and while each version follows the fairytale, the story has been developed to give it a more modern feel. Throughout the story there are stimulating activities which the children are encouraged to complete, such as building a house out of bricks, or helping the Pigs cross the river. These activities help children develop basic skills such as reading, simple logic and observation. Four different storytelling modes within the disc allow for choice in how the story is told. It can be fully narrated so that children can watch it alone, or text appears under the screen to allow parents to narrate the story themselves. Alternatively, in "karaoke" mode, lyrics to the songs are brought up on screen to enable children to sing along, or you can choose to see the pictures only and make up your own story. With captivating songs, beautiful graphics and charming illustrations, this interactive retelling of The Three Little Pigs is set to become a children's favourite. Features: An enchanting tale which will educate and entertain; Build early learning skills, think logically, problem solve; Recognize shapes, develop observational skills; 4 Different play & learn options; play along, read along, sing along, make believe. | ||
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| Abracadabra [Du] | Malmberg / Keec | [top] | |
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A fantastic play adventure, based on a book by Ingrid and Dieter Schubert. This CD-ROM tells the story of Macrobius and the animals from the Dark Forest. In Macrobius' room you can listen to the story, find songs and play and puzzle. The games on this CD-ROM are not always easy, but they are certainly challenging. THIS GAME TEACHES YOU: expanding vocabulary, new concepts, increasing mouse skills, training listening skills. | ||
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| Addy Junior: Spiel + Wissen [G] | Coktel Vision / Vivendi | [top] | |
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This is a pre-school learning and play program for 4- to 7-year-old children. It consists of 2 CDs. A CD Basic Program - ADDY Juniors Magic Garden, and a CD Tutorial - The Land of Knowledge. From the CD base program, you access ADDY Juniors Magic Garden, a land of fantasy with animated graphics and game activities. The CD learning program opens the door to the land of knowledge, which is constantly expanding within the ADDY Junior series. It's a bright, humorous alien who accompanies your child through the land of fantasy and various activities. | ||
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| Adiboo: Discover Music, Melody & Rhyme | Knowledge Adventure / Havas Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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The first of two CDs is devoted to a wide array of activities including puzzles, drawing, character creation and story building while the other contains four areas that focus on different aspects of music (beats, symbols, scale, instruments, styles and notes). Adiboo's Magical Playland features the host Adiboo, his dog, a robot and other minor characters interacting with one another even without player participation. You create a character from an assortment of hairpieces and facial parts and can redo or make a new character at any time. The environment contains a river, a tree with a swing, a yard with a ball and a place to plant a flower and vegetable garden as well as an apple tree. In the playhouse, a radio gives updates about characters in Playland and tells jokes while a TV plays cartoons that offer hints about activities and introduces characters. Activities include slide puzzles, wall breakers, an art easel for drawing, coloring and painting and create-a-character, each with three difficulty levels. A six-page story building activity is also available. In the kitchen, players select recipes and match the appropriate number of ingredients (apples, chunks of cheese and so forth) to the recipe. The second CD takes place in the land of Melodica where Maestro Gnome, the mayor, explains that the monster Buzzeegalump accidentally broke the Singamajig Melody Maker. You must successfully play through several games to gather parts that are scattered throughout Melodica and fix the machine. Four areas, each with varying activities, include Rhythm Lake (beats and symbols), Frosty Sound Cavern (scale and matching sounds), Note Factory (match sounds with pictures and words) and Musical Bandstand (instruments, styles and note recognition). In addition to the virtual games, each area has an accompanying activity sheet with three suggestions for real-world activities. Look and Learn heightens awareness of music in the world, Game allows you to play with friends and learn about music and Craft is an art project relevant to the area of music. After restoring the Singamajig to working order, you can listen to songs, record your voice and other sounds, create and work with music and sound, work on separate tracks and save or delete musical compositions. | ||
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| Adventskalender: 24 Spiele und Geschichten [G] | Outline Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is an advent calendar CD-ROM with 24 games & stories. For Windows 95/98/ME, and it includes 12 Christmas melodies to listen to. The game is sensitive to the date set in the operating system - by logging into it on any day, be it January, May or October, you can create a player profile, but then you will see a message that there are so many days left until the first of December. On the first day of winter, the first mini-game will become available, on the second of December - another one (while access to the previous ones remains), on the third - the third, and so on, until Christmas itself. | ||
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| Adventures on the Planet of Numbers [Ru] | DataSun Software / Buka | [top] | |
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This combines two very positive properties: firstly, it is a well-designed children's game with an interesting plot, nice graphics and positive design. Secondly, it is a good simulator for developing the skills of verbal counting and logical thinking. Achieving victories will require the ability to quickly evaluate the data displayed on the screen and calculate the correct answer just as quickly. There are only three guys. The eldest of them does not have a definite name, and we will not be able to play for him: as is customary among children, the eldest must command and monitor the rest. He is also the most important because he is the smartest - at least nominally, because he wears a scientist's diamond-shaped hat, and in speech he always uses an instructive and abstruse tone. The other two, boy Ryan and girl Betty, are a little younger than him and do not have any special features, but any of them can be chosen as our companion, so neither boys nor girls who sit down to play will be offended. It also has a score and three difficulty modes corresponding to the education of certain classes of secondary school: the first of them is recommended for children aged 5-7 years, the second - for those who are already 8 to 10 years old, and the highest difficulty is for those who are who are 11-12 years old. There are eight trials in the game, each of which will restore one piece of a pretty town of numbers with ancient architecture, a garden labyrinth and a forest park. The card itself is a bit like that in the Dungeon Keeper strategy , but if the evil underground king sowed chaos in the fairyland, then here we, on the contrary, will put everything in order. And in order to restore something, you need to achieve a certain score in a mini-game in a limited time, which can be found in the "Help" tab in each of them. Passage is possible in any order. They hired a professional team of voice actors from NTV for dubbing, and it should be noted that they have successfully coped with their responsibilities: all the characters are professionally and intelligently dubbed. | ||
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| Arthur's 2nd Grade | The Learning Company, Inc. / Human Code | [top] | |
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Based on characters from the animated television series and books, Arthur's 2nd Grade features twelve skill building activities for six to eight year olds; spanning two CD-ROMs, with additional home-based assignments. Included activities build fundamental skills while helping various characters. When learning about the United States and other geographical activites, you must help Muffy setup an itinerary for her father. In Measurement class, you'll be helping Brain measure various screws, pipes, and automobile parts. During mathematical activities, you can help D.W. add and subtract beans from a jar. There are also reading comprehension, spelling, time, and grammatical activities included. In addition to the learning activities, there are printable activities for creating various projects and solving word puzzles. With the Card Creator, you can decorate a greeting card with different images, icons, and text. Would-be writers can fulfill their dreams with the Storyboard Maker and select various images to design their cover art! There's also a wide variety of crossword puzzles and objective-based mazes to print and complete at any time. Arthur's 2nd Grade also features various difficulty settings, progress reports and automatic leveling. You can even call upon Arthur for assistance and guidance. In addition to the printable and in-game activities, additional assignments are located on the Internet! | ||
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| Arthur's Camping Adventure / Arthur's Wilderness Rescue | The Learning Company, Inc. | [top] | |
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This gives children a chance to join Arthur and the rest of Mr. Ratburn's class on a camping trip. Unfortunately, Mr. Ratburn sprains his ankle - badly - and it's up to Arthur to save the day. Players will climb mountains, travel through forests, find hidden surprises, and lead the class to safety. Activities include pitching a tent, navigating rockslides, river crossings, exploring a spooky cabin, mazes, and building rescue devices. Children can interact with characters, develop critical thinking skills, and enjoy the introduction to wildlife science. The 21 environments include 30 printable scenes and 40 hidden surprises. The game was re-released in 2002 as Arthur's Wilderness Rescue. | ||
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| Arthur's Kindergarten | Human Code / The Learning Company, Inc. | [top] | |
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Based on characters from the animated television series and books, Arthur's Kindergarten features a collection of twelve educational activities (many printable) for children, ages four to six, spanning two CD-ROMs. Children will build fundamental skills in letter recognition, matching various sizes, shapes, and colors, choosing from factual and make-believe items in science, and calculating small amounts of change with Arthur's friend Buster. While using logical and spatial skills in finding the anteater's friends, children will build vocabulary skills through rhyme, as they learn sequences and patterns. Bonus goodies including composing and matching sounds, coloring and creating greeting cards with printable word puzzles, as well as other craft-making projects that offer directions and recommend the proper materials. Under adult supervision, children can create whirly birdies, origami, and more! It's part of an educational series with editions for preschool, first, and second grade. Similar in structure to the other grade levels, this program offers automatic help messages, multiple skill levels for younger and older children, and progress reports for parents. So, what are you waiting for? Join Arthur, Francine, Binky, Muffy and the rest of the gang for a creative educational adventure! A 2002 Edition included a bonus audio CD featuring two of Marc Brown's Arthur books: Arthur Accused! and Arthur and the Lost Diary. | ||
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| Arthur's Preschool | Riverdeep / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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Packed with learning and fun for preschoolers. Preschool is a big step for little learners but it doesn't have to be a difficult one. Trust Arthur to lead your child through a delightful learning world where building important skills is as easy and as much fun as playing a game. From the puppet show to the sandbox and beyond. It's the perfect combination of learning fun and helpful features. This two disc set is packed with nine exciting learning activities and over 20 creativity activities. It teaches a full year's worth of Preschool skills and entertains your child with limitless fun and learning. PALS technology specially designed to create a warm individualized learning environment. Personalize the learning experience. Assess abilities. Laugh while learning. Smart Helpers are always on hand to keep you right on track. There's no limit to what kids ages 3 to 5 can learn. It has what it takes to keep hungry young minds active stimulated and eager for fresh ideas. Just look at the topics your child will explore: Letter names and sounds; Vocabulary Numbers and counting ;Matching and sorting; Simple arithmetic; Spatial relationships; Music position; Instruments, Crafts, Coloring, Shapes and Colors; Noticing differences; Recognizing emotions; Following directions. Features: Discover 2 CD-ROMs packed with 9 learning exercises; Over 20 creativity activities; Teaches a full year's worth of preschool skills; Entertains your child with limitless fun and learning; Developed for early learners; Auto-leveling Progress reports; Automatic help messages; Printable activities; Multiple skill levels; Fun Activities Included; Letter Names & Sounds; Help Baby Kate dig out the right letters; Numbers & Counting; Count how many balls Francine hits and identify the correct number; Match the puppet parts to put on a puppet show; Shapes & Colors - Select the right color and size to put shadow. | ||
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| Artus contre le Démon du Musée [Fr] | Gyoza Media / Hachette Multimedia | [top] | |
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Artus, an infant mouse, lives with his parents in the den of a museum. For decades, his family has inherited a heavy task: they are the guardians of the museum and watch over the paintings on display. One stormy night while the parents are absent, Artus sees strange phenomena which are brought to life from the terrible curse of the Museum. The terrible demon of the Museum takes all the paintings. With his magical powers, Artus plunges and moves in the parallel universe of the double canvas, a veritable stage set where the characters come to life. Will they be friends or enemies? Your mission, should you accept it, is to accompany Artus, a hero despite himself, in adventures that will restore the 25 masterpieces of the greatest painters of the world. The plot brings kids to play with the array elements, and makes them aware of the artistic universe. Thanks to the different areas of the CD-ROM, kids will be immersed in a world which is stimulating to the imagination. There's six great adventures, each which tell a story. Face challenges and action, conduct investigations, and find clues and items you need to win. | ||
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| Backyard Soccer MLS Edition | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. / Infogrames, Inc. | [top] | |
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This gives you the chance to kick the ball around with America's professional soccer stars from the MLS and star women players from the US Olympic team. Player's create a junior avatar of themselves and draft a team from other backyard kids and kid versions of 15 famous American soccer players then deck themselves out in their favorite uniforms and hit the field. Standard sports simulation game types are available including exhibition games and season play but the emphasis is on fun and accessibility for all ages. | ||
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| Bananas in Pyjamas: It's Party Time | Dorling Kindersley | [top] | |
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Bananas in Pyjamas, a Worldwide phenomenon, and favourite for millions of children over the globe, has now come to the PC with this excellent new CD-ROM for young children. Join B1 and B2 on a wonderful adventure through the wacky world of Cuddles Avenue for hours of interactive fun and games. It helps children develop a variety of skills, such as memory building, sequencing and problem solving. The program also enhances social skills such as sharing and co-operation, as well as encouraging children to join in with musical activities by playing instruments, singing and dancing. | ||
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| Barbie as Princess Bride | Random Games Inc. / Mattel Interactive | [top] | |
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This introduces the player to a young Princess Barbie and her childhood friend, Prince Ken. The 2 grow up close together, fully intending to wed the day they come of age. One day, Prince Ken is called out to sea on a long journey but promises the princess that he will return to marry her one day. Years pass and Princess Barbie receives word from a Butterfly Fairy that Ken is finally on his way back home. Ecstatic, Princess Barbie hurries to make wedding preparations. The Butterfly Fairy gives Barbie a magic mirror with 12 jewels around it. The 12 jewels correspond to 12 parts of the game. As Barbie completes more of the activities, the image of her Prince in the mirror becomes more clear. The 12 parts to the game are as follows: 1 A matching game where invitations must be matched to envelopes based on the pictures of the woodland animals to whom the invitations will be delivered; 2 Search for woodland creatures in the forest so that they can be recruited to deliver invitations to their species; 3 Bake a wedding cake by following the recipe and adding the ingredients in the right order, ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, butter, harmony, and the gift of giving; 4 Pick decorations for the cake from the Butterfly Fairy's magical garden; 5 Decorate the cake with the chosen decorations; 6 Not really an activity, but a musical interlude where Princess Barbie sings of how excited she is about her upcoming nuptials; 7 Princess Barbie sees that the ring bearer has inadvertently dropped a bunch of important wedding items (like the ring) into the well. Use the bucket to fish out each item; 8 Princess Barbie must meet with the musicians and straighten out their sound by matching sheet music to appropriate instruments and organizing the music pages in the correct order; 9 Ken's ship has met with some rough seas and Princess Barbie must help navigate the ship home safely; 10 Toss coins into various levels of a wishing fountain in order to make Princess Barbie's wish come true; 11 Customize the wedding dress and bouquet for both Barbie and her flower girl; 12 The wedding has transpired; the only thing left to do is customize the wedding photo. | ||
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| Barbie Magic Genie Bottle | Gorilla Systems Corporation / Mattel Interactive | [top] | |
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This unique game, supporting connecting a "genie bottle" to a game port on the PC computer, is an adventure with elements similar to previously released Barbie adventures. Experience 3-D adventure with Barbie, and help save the kingdom and restore Barbie Genie's powers. Use the Magic Genie Bottle to uncover clues and solve puzzles on your quest to find the missing power gems, and ride a magic carpet through exotic lands. You can even get helpful hints and tips from Barbie Genie: just release her from the bottle, and she'll magically appear onscreen. | ||
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| Barney Magical Music CD-ROM Playset | ImaginEngine / Hasbro Interactive | [top] | |
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This game came packaged with a playset, which is attached to the keyboard. The game can also be played with only a keyboard, if the player knows what buttons to press (as the playset presses certain buttons on the keyboard). The playset features five different instruments used to play the game. The instruments are a trumpet, a violin, a three-key piano, a bongo, and a foot drum. Barney's One-Man Band - The player selects one of three types of music: Country, Rock N' Roll, or Latin, and selects the speed of the music: fast, medium, or slow. Then, use the instruments on the playset to play along to the song. Farmyard Festival: A. Farmyard Sing-Along - Use the playset instruments to make the animals sing along with Baby Bop to Old MacDonald. B. Farmyard Musical Mix-Up - Select a shape by pressing one of the piano keys to create a silly version of The Itsy Bitsy Spider. (example: the squirrelley turtley spider climbed up the waterspout.) C. Country Dance - Use the playset instruments to make BJ dance to Turkey in the Straw. Jungle Jamfest: A. Jungle Sing-Along - Use the playset instruments to make the jungle animals sing in Boom Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy. B. Boppity Bop - Use the playset instruments to help the animals play the instruments to Mr. Knickerbocker. C. Jungle Musical Mix-Up - Select a shape by pressing one of the piano keys to create a silly version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. A very Mad-Libs like game, you pick different words to replace the real lyrics. An example would be "Like a lizard in the sky." Fairytale Fantasy: A. Fairytale Sing-Along - Use the playset instruments to make the fairytale animals sing to The Land of Make-Believe. B. The Fairytale Magic Word Game - Use the playset instruments to make all the fairytale characters sing 'n' play along to London Bridge. However, you may only play when Barney says "Please." C . PIcture Your Own Kingdom - Use the playset instruments to create a picture of a magical kingdom while listening to Silly Sounds. Pressing different buttons. D. Surprise the Mice - When the mice peak their heads out from behind an instrument, use the playset instruments to surprise them while listening to BINGO. Backstage: A. The Print Activity - Print out all sorts of fun coloring pages. B. The Jukebox - A collection of all the silly songs created throughout the game. | ||
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| Barney: On Location All Around Town | ImaginEngine Corp., Magellan Interactive Inc. / Hasbro Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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This game is based on the North American television show Barney & Friends, starring the titular anthropomorphic purple dinosaur. The players can explore the world with not only Barney, but with BJ and Baby Bop, accessing locales from the show such as the bakery. It is also possible to play twelve different mini-games and activities witch are complete with lots of magical surprises in store for the player. | ||
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| Batta Batta: Kampen Mod Ultra [Da] | Studio 1-2 / Krea Medie | [top] | |
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Batta Batta fight against Ultra is a fantastically funny mixture of action and adventure. Batta Batta and his friend Tonnes have a messy time of it in an exciting detective story, where the whole city of Caramell's future is at stake. Someone has in fact taken over the old candy factory, and Candycorp is now run by robots. | ||
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| Bear in the Big Blue House: Bear's Imagine That! | Jim Henson Interactive / Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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This color-rich, tune-happy creativity-inducing visit to the Big Blue House of the popular children's TV show is a big bear hug of fun and make-believe. Great quality 3-D graphics and live-action video animations straight from the TV screen let youngsters interact with their favorite characters—including Ojo the bear cub, Pip and Pop and Tutter - while playing in five imagination-inspiring activities. There’s mounds of fun making sundaes in the kitchen using Tutter's "Laboratory of Creation" to launch flying scoops of ice cream into dishes and then get silly with toppings. In the attic, Bear and Ojo help kids get crafty using simple blueprints or letting them just build things themselves. Choose words to finish rhyming songs that Pip and Pop then sing, or help Ojo and Tutter put on a puppet show that rewrites traditional fairy tales to star Big Blue House characters. Outside, Ojo’s storybook gives kids the tools, backdrop scenes and props to create their own five-page story books and even voice-record their own story. Along the way are plenty of playful clickables, from the costume dressing magnets on the refrigerator to Bear's commentary on various stuff inside the house to Ojo's sketchbook. The navigation tools include the paw cursor indicating the clickables, the arrow cursor changing the rooms and the magnifying glass cursor locating the main activities. | ||
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| Benjamin Blumchen: Weihnachtszeit [G] | KIDDINX Entertainment GmbH | [top] | |
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A play and craft CD-ROM that turns pre-Christmas into a very special experience. Christmas is coming soon and Benjamin Blümchen and his friend Otto can hardly wait. So that the time is not too long, the popular pachyderm has come up with some ideas. Together with the little users, Benjamin writes a wish list, makes Christmas cards, Christmas tree and gift tags - of course to print. The master baker reveals great recipes for Christmas cookies, and every day a new surprise awaits in the interactive advent calendar. Then fast down with Benjamin down the mountain and it's already a treat. The play and craft CD-ROM "Christmas time with Benjamin Blümchen" makes the pre-Christmas time for children (recommended age: 5 - 9 years) to a creative experience. The fun is not too short. Of course, there are several difficulty levels that guarantee a high replay value of the CD-ROM. | ||
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| Blue's Clues: Blue's Art Time Activities | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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Based on the children's television series Blue's Clues - Blue and her human friend Steve invite the player to join them as they prepare for the Really Big Art Show at Blue's school. With the help of some other characters from the series, the player will assemble and embellish many pieces to be displayed in the art show while learning some art basics such as color-mixing, shapes, textures, and primary colors. Each activity allows the player to create and save several pieces in Blue's portfolio. The player is provided with a checklist inside the portfolio, showing the characters to assist and activities to be finished before the Art Show may commence: Help Periwinkle illustrate her storybook using crayons and stickers; Create an invitation to the Really Big Art Show with Marky Marker; Find some recyclable pieces for Al Luminum and assemble a diorama using a blueprint; Mix colors to advance through a hopscotch board game; Put together shapes to create a mural and story with Chalk Girl - watch it animate; Once all the activities have been finished, the player is ready to participate in the Art Show and select his favorite art piece to award a ribbon to. It uses a point-and-click and click-and-drag method as in other Blue's Clues games and allows the player to print his completed pieces; an option that can be turned off by a parent. The game is intended for the 3 - 6 year-old, complementing a preschool artistic curriculum as well as providing creative free play. | ||
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| Blue's Clues: Blues' Reading Time Activities | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This title is based on the USA TV show version of Blue's Clues. The in-game images are taken from the show, or in the same form of real, clay and paper items. The same style of early-education interaction and feedback is used in the game as the TV show has. This collection of activities focuses on reading skills, under the guise of creating newspapers for the Blue's Clues folks. In-game activities include: - Dictionary (screens of thematic items that have mixed up labels or labels that need to be attached). - Neighborhood News (Collect all the powerful words i.e. verbs to move Blue along the path) - Word Match (match all the corresponding pictures and word cards until you have none left - a card game) - Sticker Story Maker (a madlib system that uses stickers with words/images on them to build the story). When you get enough newspapers made, you'll get puzzle pieces. When all 45 newspapers are made, you get the entire puzzle and a payoff. | ||
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| Buddy Brush and the Painted Circus | ITP Entertainment Inc. / Young Genius Software AB | [top] | |
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Join Buddy at the Circus! Buddy introduces children to the colorful circus life: paint, print and play with circus props; uggle objects to generate comical sound effects; and drag and drop Buddy onto circus platforms to watch him perform. In this title, each color is linked to a musical instrument, so your child builds a musical composition as each color is added to the painting scenes. Over 60 activities. Game Features: 10 different colouring scenes; Intuitive navigation system; Teaches creativity, music and art appreciation, color identification, and logical thinking; Virtual canvas, creating a blend between art and music. | ||
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| Buzz Lightyear: 2nd Grade | Disney Interactive Studios | [top] | |
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There are many places to play in Andy's room, and with Buzz as host, your second grader can create, interact, and solve problems in more than 40 essential learning skills. The developers of this software worked with renowned educators to create a nurturing and entertaining learning environment in which your child can learn language arts, multiplication, reading, music and geography, to name only a few. Developed using the Active Learning method,it encourages kids to Explore, Discover and Create while they learn. Children craft their own learning experience while developing essential reasoning and problem solving skills. A life-long love of learning is reinforced through stimulating activities and environments that inspire your child's creative thinking process. As second graders explore Andy's room, they can benefit from the following Active Learning enrichments: Learn through fun, imaginative, creative activities; Enhance listening, perception and observation skills; Appreciate music and the arts; Develop abstract and critical thinking skills; Explore and experiment with a variety of positive choices; Realize enhanced confidence and self-esteem through successful problem solving. | ||
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| Casper: The Enchanted Forest | Focus Multimedia Ltd / Fun Club | [top] | |
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This has: an engaging story line, multiple difficulty levels, fun and educational games, packed with fun characters, promotes independent play, colourful animations and sound effects, rewards to help motivate children, complete tasks to unlock special bonus cartoons. | ||
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| Clifford the Big Red Dog: Reading | Learning Technologies Interactive, Inc. / Scholastic, Inc. | [top] | |
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Clifford the Big Red Dog: Reading is a point-and-click educational game based on the main character from the children's book series written by Norman Bridwell. Clifford really is big, having grown from a tiny puppy to over 25 feet tall because of the love of his owner, Emily Elizabeth. Clifford and his family live on Birdwell Island, and in this game you, Emily Elizabeth, and Clifford will travel all around the island, helping the people who live and work there, and practicing reading skills in the process. Once you sign in and choose a level - there are 3 difficulty choices - you'll go to Emily's bedroom, where you have access to the map that takes you around the island. Here is also where you learn about letters and the sounds they make, and where the books and prizes you win are kept. From the map page, clicking on one of the eight areas will take you there. Each location comes with it's own activity, which vary in complexity according to the difficulty level you choose. When you have completed a certain number of activities, Emily Elizabeth rewards you with a book, which comes with its own set of options: if you have a microphone you can record yourself reading aloud; you can listen while Emily reads it to you; you can color in the pictures, and you can print it out for later reading/coloring. There are many reading/pre-reading skills covered in this game - among them: phonics, upper/lower case letter recognition, word-building, listening/following directions, letter sound recognition, spelling and vocabulary. | ||
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| Clifford the Big Red Dog: Thinking Adventures | Learning Technologies Interactive, Inc. / Scholastic Interactive | [top] | |
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This is centered around a character created by author Norman Bridwell and featured in his series of children's books about the Big Red Dog and his owner, Emily Elizabeth. After you sign in, pick a level, and choose four jewels for Clifford's collar, this point-and-click adventure takes you to Emily Elizabeth's room. Here you learn that it's about to be Clifford's birthday, and there are tasks to be completed before it's time for his party: taking Clifford to the groomer for bathing, cleaning up the yard, getting his birthday cake, and picking up a package from the Post Office. Outside, a bird lands on Clifford's nose, triggering a giant sneeze that scatters the four jewels all over the town - retrieving them is another task in the game. At the bottom right of the screen is a rolled-up map you can use to get around town, or you can travel by clicking on paths on the main screen with your yellow arrow cursor. Next to the map is Emily's backpack, which serves as your inventory. To the left of that you'll see place-holders for the four jewels you picked at the beginning of the game - as you collect them they will appear here. The largest spot on the bottom of the screen shows the tasks you need to complete, and in the left corner is a stop-sign icon used to quit the game. On the activity screens, you'll have two icons at the bottom - a button on the left to return to your game, and a question mark on the right if you need help. Additional help can be found in the game manual under Hints for Parents - basically a cheat-sheet listing the location of items needed to finish the game. Visually, this game is much like Clifford the Big Red Dog: Reading since the art in both games is patterned after the cartoon-style art of author Norman Bridwell, but the gameplay is more that of an adventure game sprinkled with mini-games, as you have to collect items and use them to advance through the story. Clifford's Back Yard - Use the shovel to dig up objects Clifford has buried and match the things that belong together (this cleans up the yard for the party). Grooming - Bribe the Bleakman's with a popsicle and they'll let you bathe Clifford in their swimming pool; you can suds him up and brush him, give him a new hairstyle, color his fur, and take a picture. The Market - Clifford's size causes trouble yet again as he knocks over a grocery display; put the produce back into place and fix a jigsaw puzzle in this ordering skills activity. Cake Decorating - A printable painting and stickers activity. Traffic Jam - Clifford's chivalrous scarf-retrieval causes a traffic snarl in town; click on a car and follow directions to deliver it to its destination. Swimming - Rescue a stranded dog in this mini-arcade game by moving Clifford through the ocean with the mouse. Avoid waves and seaweed, and keep up Clifford's energy by munching fish sticks. Soccer - Clifford gets a soccer ball for his birthday; pick your opponents and move Clifford back and forth with the mouse to block the ball, click to kick it into the goal or hold the button down and release to lob it over the other team's heads. | ||
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| ClueFinders 6th Grade Adventures: The Empire of the Plant People | The Learning Company | [top] | |
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In this educational adventure from The Learning Company takes kids to the underground kingdom of the Plant People to solve the mystery of two missing ClueFinders detectives. Young gamers will have to use their heads to conquer challenges in math, language, science, and social studies. The game offers 15 different activities that help kids develop skills as they make their way through the story. | ||
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| ClueFinders Search & Solve Adventures | The Learning Company / Mattel Interactive | [top] | |
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In this Cluefinders title, you are being challenged to exercise your critical thinking skills in the context of solving a mystery that takes place in a deserted theme park ( "late at night where peculiar things are going on" ). The learning value of this program is focused on developing the types of thinking skills that underlie much of the problem solving required in school related work, especially in the math areas. As with the other Cluefinders programs, you are presented with a story, in this case starting with a mysterious flashing light in the deserted theme park , and you have to assist the Cluefinder team by directing their activities in order to solve the mystery. You enter the theme park, where two of the Cluefinder team are suddenly kidnapped and you have to get the electrical power generator to the park back up and running in order to be able to find them. And the story takes many twists and turns thereafter. This is where the challenge begins. To start the power generator you have to gather four "keys". You earn the keys by playing arcade games that will challenge your thinking skills. In the cargo area, you have to construct sequences of words that overlap in their spelling sequence (or at a more advanced level, are similar in meaning) in order to win a key. In the bumper car area, you are placing cars on the storage shelves in specific sequences that will fulfill the specific instructions you are given - a real exercise in logical thinking and at the robot arcade, you are matching colours and shapes to follow specific patterns. The program has a total of 9 different activities that are encountered through the three stages of the mystery and each activity has four levels of difficulty. Lots to work with and a good range of challenge levels in each activity. | ||
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| Code Head: X-Treme Culture | Havas Interactive, Inc / Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Code Head X-Treme Culture is a wacky version of a 'test your knowledge' style quiz show which can be played by one or two people. A multiplayer/Internet function is also available. Topics cover history, geography, language arts and more. Code Head X-Treme Culture has an imaginative, offbeat flavor. The voice commentary has a fresh wild and crazy flavor to it (nothing offensive). Players sign on for a game which consists of three rounds of 5 questions per round. Users start by 'making' their player representative. Odd hair, eyes, mouth, and body choices abound, but no one gets to choose their own nose! Questions vary from unscramble, spelling challenges, vocabulary, jumbles, sequence, match-no match, multiple guess, all with weird names like 'buzzwords', 'cha-ching', etc. Contestants select three topics in each round. Answering a question correctly is good but answering it fast is better! Timeliness, as evidenced by the disappearing alarm clock at the bottom of the screen, counts. Players can lose points by answering questions incorrectly. The Hex, a thunderbolt, is a quirky option available during two player play. It allows a player to bet that their opponent doesn't know the answer. Points are awarded if the hexed opponent gives an incorrect response. A hex can only be applied once per round. | ||
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| Dé Kerst CD-Rom [Du] | TheHouseOfBooks / Canvas Multi-media | [top] | |
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The Christmas CD-Rom is a Dutch kids activity game. Santa Claus is a slob. It's the day before Christmas and Santa doesn't have his affairs in order. Help him clean up the mess and find his clothes. You can play a number of games in and around Santa's home. If you don't feel like playing, but you still want to be creative, you can get started with the Christmas card printing company. Hundreds of images are at your disposal, with which you can, for example, create Christmas and menu cards. Works directly from the CD-ROM, so no installation required. | ||
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| Disney Princess: Fashion Boutique | Disney Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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This welcomes girls to the magical world of Disney Princesses. You'll create your own personal 3-D model and dress-up in millions of classic Princess gowns. Create a magical collage in "Star of the Story" that you can e-mail to all your friends. Visit "Enchanted Worlds" filled with special places Princesses can explore for hours. With this game, anyone can be a Princess. Select Sleeping Beauty, Snow White or Cinderella as your personal Princess guide. Create a 3-D mode of yourself with My Virtual Model technology - even add your own photo for complete personalization. Dress up and design over 3,000,000 classic Princess gowns. Create a magical Princess collage with animation, characters, sound effects, music and text. E-mail creations to friends and family everywhere. Explore your Princess' "Enchanted World" for hours of magical fun. "Imagine Me" Mirror - Choose a classic Disney Princess to be your guide, and create your own, personal 3-D model of yourself. Every Disney Princess has a special place with Disney's Princess Fashion Boutique. You can spend hours exploring Snow White's Forest, Sleeping Beauty's Lake and Cinderella's Gardens. Star of the Story - Create a magical Princess collage with animation, characters, sound effects, music and text. Then e-mail it to family and friends. | ||
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| Disney-Pixar Learning 1st Grade: Buzz Lightyear | Disney Interactive Studios | [top] | |
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Build Math & Logic Skills with Buzz Lightyear. Explore fun activities in math, geography and more with Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang. Buzz Lightyear and friends turn Andy's bedroom into an interactive classroom for 1st Graders. Your child will soar as they explore this entertaining learning environment filled with curriculum-based activities like math, reading, language arts and problem-solving skills. Activities Include: Number Patterns; Strategic Thinking; Geography Fractions & Multiplication; Addition & Subtraction; Spelling, Grammar & Reading; Listening Skills And More. | ||
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| Disney's 102 Dalmatians Activity Center | Disney Interactive / Terraglyph Interactive Studios | [top] | |
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Disney's 102 Dalmatians Activity Center features a variety of activities overseen by 102 rambunctious puppies. Players will select from six characters and then follow their chosen canine through a journey that takes them from London to Tokyo. Gamers will encounter such games as Chow Time, Operation Dalmatian, and Verdogo. | ||
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| Disney's Beauty and the Beast: Magical Ballroom | Creative Capers Entertainment Inc. / Disney Interactive Studios Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a collection of mini-games for children based around the characters of the Disney animated movie of the same name. After signing in the player starts the game in the great hallway of the Beasts' home. Bell is trying to arrange a surprise party for the Beast and this sets the background for the mini-games. Mrs Potts' Teatime Table: This is a three level timed game. The idea is to prepare table for a meal, tea, dinner and dessert. All the plates, cups etc are stacked on the cupboard and the player must click on them so that the item falls onto the rotating table below building up the place setting in the right order. Cogsworth's Library Mystery: is a three level game based on the principles of the board game 'Guess Who?'. Cogsworth has hidden parts of the key to the West Wing inside the books and gives the player clues which they use to eliminate books until one remains. Belle's Writing Desk: is the creativity section where players can load party invitations, stained glass windows, backgrounds and stickers. The windows and the pictures can be re-coloured, the invitations can have names typed onto them, and all of them can be printed. Belle of the Ball: contains three mini activities. It is here where the player selects the dress Belle will wear in the ball. The other activities are: Create Music - There are three musicians each of which can play three instruments. The player selects a combination that they like to play in the ball. Choreograph the Dance - The dance floor is a divided into a grid and the player places symbols onto the grid to make up a dance. The final mini activity is Decorating the Ballroom. The ballroom is decorated but by clicking on various elements of decor the player can change the look to suit themselves. Finally the player can start the dance where the Beast and Belle, wearing the dress selected earlier, dance the dance that the player designed. | ||
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| Disney's Digital Coloring Book - The Little Mermaid | Buena Vista Games | [top] | |
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Have fun with us and learn how to color Disney Little Mermaid's Princess Ariel with this digital coloring book. Watch and color along as we color her. Let's use each color together. Little ones will enjoy watching us color and will learn how to color as well. Creative coloring is fun. This digital coloring book makes learning how to color easy and fun. | ||
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| Disney's Dinosaur Activity Center | Disney Interactive / Human Code | [top] | |
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Based on Disney's animated film, Disney's Activity Center: Dinosaur brings the mammoth prehistoric creatures to the PC screen. Aimed at children five-years and older, this activity package features characters from the movie, informational factoids, dinosaur puzzles with e-mail capabilities and 200 levels of fast-paced action. There are several types of activities, including the Lemur Love Match in which you match exotic flowers hanging from a tree. Next, help the dinosaurs find something to drink in Iquanodon Pond-a-Thon. Playing against a computer-controlled or human opponent, your objective is to amass more water holes than your rival. Once you've quenched the dinosaurs' thirst, explore a cave in Styracosaurus Spelunker. An evil carnotaur has trapped Aladar and his friends within the dimly lit cave -- you must match different types of rocks and breakthrough as many rows as possible to win. After dusting the rock debris off your shirt, it's time for a Colossal Fossil Face Off. You must, with the aid of shields and destructive comets, recover the egg those pesky carnivores took from the herbivores. Here, the bigger dinosaurs obliterate the smaller ones while those with shields and comets prevail over those less equipped. After recovering the egg, try your hand at Line O' Dino's Puzzle Maker. Not only can you create your very own puzzle and e-mail it to your friends but you can also record your own voice, listen to various roar sounds and create a dinosaur of your choosing. Once you've pieced your puzzle together, print it out and hang your very own creation on the wall! Disney's Activity Center: Dinosaur also features fact cards that offer information about the Mesozoic Era, various dinosaurs and their eating patterns and other creatures that lived in the prehistoric ages. Like the puzzle maker, you can print these cards for further use. | ||
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| Disney's Winnie the Pooh & Tigger Too Animated StoryBook | Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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This Disney's Winnie the Pooh adventure is presented in the form of a colorful storybook. Each page in the story is presented on screen with text and a full-color interactive picture. Clicking on different characters and objects in the picture allows players to take part in the story. Some storybook pages also offer links to separate mini-games, many of which encourage good memory and pattern recognition. A number of popular Winnie the Pooh characters are featured. | ||
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| Disney's Winnie the Pooh Activity Center | Creative Capers Entertainment / Disney Interactive Studios | [top] | |
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This is a wonderful way to entertain your child on a rainy day; with six different activities at three different difficulty levels, kids of all ages can enjoy time spent inside. A friendly narrator greets you on "a blustery day." He presents activities such as Eeyore's house hunt - help Owl to find a new home; Heffalumps and Woozles - match the characters in Pooh's dreams; and Fly a Piglet - prevent Pooh and Piglet from running into trees and stumps. Follow the story and play with Roo, Tigger, and other favorite characters. With each story, the highlighted words (reminiscent of follow the bouncing ball) encourages your child to read aloud and recognize words as they do. The activities are amusing and, with the different levels of difficulty, mean the software's appeal will last longer than just one rainy day. Your child will enjoy the friendly characters, and you'll find that the activities serve not only to entertain but also encourage reading, matching, hand-eye coordination, and imagination. | ||
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| Disney's Winnie the Pooh: Kindergarten / Winnie The Pooh: Infants | Creative Capers Entertainment / Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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Designed for kids between 3 and 6, Disney's Winnie the Pooh: Kindergarten is obviously an educational game. With Winnie the Pooh in the Forest of Blue Dreams, kids will discover nature and the four seasons, listen to musical instruments and even have the opportunity to become treasure seekers. They will also play with letters, numbers, shapes and colors. | ||
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| Diva Starz | Blue Arrow Inc., team smartyPants! Inc. / Mattel Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a game that mixes social interaction with creative activities, based on Mattel's toy/doll line by the same name. The game lets players get to know each of the four Divas as they design outfits and hairstyles, play music, and play arcade-style mini-games with them. The game also interacts with the Diva Starz website for community features. After logging in and selecting the Diva Star they wish to play as the player is taken to main menu which represents a table at 'The Coffee Spot', a coffee shop where the Diva Starz love to hang out. There there are three are three games available and each game has two modes Challenge and Freestyle in both modes play the same but in Challenge mode the player wins tokens for the Arcade. Once the player has won tokens by completing a challenge they can play games in the arcade, here they win Diva Starz credits which can be exchanged for gifts for their chosen star, each Diva Star has their own preferences so choosing the right gift for the right star is very important. Buy a Super Secret Gift for the Diva Star and she will reveal a 'Super Secret' about herself. The challenges are: The Fashion Spot - Here the player sees their Diva Star alongside various items of clothing and has to select the right piece to suit their mood. In Challenge mode the player dresses their star and uses the Star Communicator to ask the other Diva Starz for their opinion using their advice to refine the outfit as necessary; The Style Spot - In this game the player changes the hair style of their Diva Star. As before the player consults the other Starz for advice; The Music Spot - The player helps their Diva Star make music by selecting style, sound effects, beat, lead instrument, and melody each of which is represented by a flower petal. They can then adjust the volume of each part of the mix independently. Tokens earned from the challenges are spent in The Arcade, the games here are; Diva Starz Rollerz - A keyboard controlled game where the player navigates a roller skating Diva Star through an obstacle course; Power Purse - At the mall lots of good stuff is raining from above and the task is to collect as much as possible by moving the Star's shopping bag left/right. However not all the objects are good ones, avoid the water bombs as they will destroy everything caught so far; Diva Starz Mark - A Tic-Tac-Toe game. The CD also has audio tracks that can be played in a normal CD player. | ||
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| Dockskåpet [Sw] | Gammafon Multimedia / Toptronics, Xtreme Hits | [top] | |
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In the Dollhouse you can create your own families and decide how they will live before it's time to play.You can record movies with story lines, sound effects and music. There are lots of clothes, furniture and effects to choose from and you can color at your own taste. You can also change the movies with friends over the Internet at the Dollhouse website. | ||
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| Franklin The Turtle: Clubhouse Adventures | Nelvana / Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | [top] | |
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This immerses children into the wonderful world of the animated TV series Franklin the Turtle. Kids earn badges for each activity they complete. In true clubhouse fashion kids practice skills like observation, logic, imagination, creativity, and memory and discover themes of friendship and courage. These engaging activities encourage children to observe, question, analyze, and reflect on the world around them. Parents will appreciate that they can review their child's progress through the game with the built-in progress tracker and printable activities keeping kids learning away from the computer too. | ||
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| Franklin the Turtle: Goes to School | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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This features Franklin, his friends Beaver, Bear, Snail, Goose, Fox and Badger and teacher Mr. Owl. The school has three areas to explore with three games in each area and three levels in most (not all) of the games. Finishing ten games earns the player a sticker in his or her school bag. The Schoolhouse offers Franklin's Stick Puppets (measuring size and matching numbers), Snail's Neighborhood Designer (making posters with stickers) and Mr. Owl's Story Nook (stories written by the characters). In the Playground, the three games are Franklin's Bug Hunt (sorting by characteristics), Bear's Lunchbox Mix-Up (recognition, alphabet and memory) and Beaver's I Spot in Mousetown (phonics). The final area, the Theatre Tent includes School Band (listening and sing-along tunes), Badger's Play Writer (creativity) and Franklin's Flying Flags (counting, numbers, addition and subtraction). Activities and games focus on props and subjects including stick puppets, costumes, a variety of stickers (e.g., building, people, plant, tree, vehicles), nature, storytelling, sounds (rhyming, singing, phonics), beginning math and rewards for completing the tasks correctly. Players earn an invitation to the class graduation ceremony by earning all three stickers from each activity and receive a printable diploma of achievement; progress reports, as well as stickers acquired, can also be printed. A second CD contains printable activity pages, suggestions for parents to augment activities, a content guide and movies showing the creators of Franklin and previews of the television show and movies. | ||
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| Freddi Fish's One-Stop Fun Shop | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This activity pack for kids 3-8 features Freddi Fish, Luther and their friends. It's basically a printing package (with the ability for parents to password-protect and/or limit printouts, or print only outlines), that allow you to create stationery stuff like calendars, certificates letterhead, postcards; party stuff like birthday cards, banners, invitations, place mats, party hats; paper toys like puppets, trading cards, masks, mobiles, pinwheels or airplanes; "useful" stuff like bookmarks, doorknob hangers, pennants, signs, lists, name tags or picture holders; and print out custom-made coloring pages. | ||
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| Full Marks Key Stage 2: English Skills | Idigicon | [top] | |
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This tests and teaches 12 English topics in a number of fun environments. You can print off graded certificates of achievement as well as itemized reports which shows if your child is attaining required targets for their age. For ages 7-11.Topics: Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverts, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Full Stops, Question Marks, Commas & Speech Marks, Colons & Semi - Colons. | ||
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| Fun With Blupi | Epsitec SA | [top] | |
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This is an educational game with more than 60 varied activities. During a thrilling rally, your child progresses by solving problems of French, mathematics and observation. Activities based on observation: Labyrinths, Puzzles, Memory, Differences, Families. Activities based on letters: Vocabulary, Spelling, Conjugation, Synonyms, Speed Reading, Mixed words, Hangman. Calculation activities: Additions, Subtractions, Divisions, Multiplications, Fractions, Tris, Number series. General knowledge: Geography, History, Sciences, Literature, Cinema. The educational content changes completely according to the chosen age category: 7-8 year olds, 9-10 year olds, 11-12 year olds. The game was made freeware in 2017. | ||
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| Furby Babies Nursery School | Europress | [top] | |
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With a wiggle of their ears, a blink of their eyes and their own furbish language, Furby Babies are popular playmates for younger children. Now two to five year olds can learn important pre-school skills as they play with the Furby Babies on this CD-ROM. Featuring photo-realistic Furbys, it includes four games with graduated levels of difficulty that have been carefully structures by educationalists. Features: Play catch the Balloons; Play the Furby board game; Dress the Babies; Play the Furby Rainbow Game; Listen to popular nursery rhymes and sing along with the furby babies; Now 2 to 5 year olds can learn important pre-school skills as they play with the furby babies. It's designed to stimulate young children to learn about colours, numbers, letters and shapes, using the ever-popular Furby characters as encouragement. All these activities will develop hand-to-eye coordination and support simple IT skills in various ways. Colour, shape and number recognition, counting, basic addition, patterns, letters and sequencing skills can also be developed by playing the simple games in a fun way. Particularly useful is the "Parents" page, which has been devised to enable parents to monitor progress and change the level of play appropriately in the activities. | ||
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| Happy Birthday, Maisy! | Sound Source Interactive Inc. / Simon & Schuster Interactive | [top] | |
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This is based on characters created by the British author Lucy Cousins for her picture books series, characterized by bright solid colors and boldly outlined 2D figures and objects. Maisy, a mouse, is celebrating her birthday with four animal friends; the player is invited to join in by using the mouse to play three classic games and participate in three party activities: Treasure Hunt - the player helps each character find a special object; Follow the Leader - as each featured character does a dance move, the player chooses who is doing the same thing; Pin the Tail on the Donkey - the player moves blindfolded characters to the donkey game by following audio directions, then drags the tail into place; Make a Birthday Card - Cyril has forgotten to bring a card for Maisy and must make one; the player helps by assembling and decorating it; Prepare Food - Charlie follows his nose to help Maisy in the kitchen; the player assists by dragging various food to it's matching shape on a party platter; Guess the Presents - as Maisy holds up a wrapped present, the player chooses the best match from a set. At the main screen, the player is able to choose to play the story or select from the games at two levels of difficulty; activities can be skipped and the level changed during the game as well. The focus is on shape recognition, comparing, matching, and creative play. | ||
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| Hessu Kissan Aakkostarinat, Richard Scarry's [Fi] | WSOY Uudet Mediat | [top] | |
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Goofy Cat aakkostarinoissa's task is to collect stories from a brand-new story. The task is to carry out Goofy Cat's direction. It's intended for educational multimedia, which aims to awaken interest in the words and their meanings from 4 to -7 years of age. The story is sympathetic and instructive, as the stories before refueling the bowels of the main characters are forced to help other animals. Somebody must pick up after themselves, so that the farmer Goat story is apt to strike. Busy busy busy also constable growl is with beach cleaning. CD is based on an illustration by Richard Scarry. Acclaimed children's writer's works have sold about 100 million copies around the world. The character animation is primitive, and you click around and you can find everything exciting. Also, the tasks are commendably wide range of teaching, among other things rhyming, chronology, uppercase and lowercase letters, grading, listening comprehension.The degree of difficulty of the tasks is quite appropriate: a four year old can deal with them with the assistance of an adult and seven years alone. Child supplement as it progresses own name equipped with a certificate, which can also be printed. Small game of patience may test the fact that all of the tasks in each section need to get carried out before the animals box is opened. A great idea is to give the child to write their own "funny stories". In these manufacturing the story frame complemented by self-chosen words. Playing with words stimulates and awakens also to reflect on the relationship of words to each other. There will be a guaranteed beloved children's absurd humor. Finished stories can also print use. In some sections of the user interface would be a little retouch. So young and adult users either did not immediately discern that the more words will have access to climbing, for example, by pulling the mouse's tail down. Sometimes too small arrow keys must look for, especially if the use of the mouse is still looking. | ||
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| Hoyle Kids Games | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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In this compilation of kids classic games, Hoyle brings their familiar format of internet play and colorful graphics. It features 12 fun titles: Battling Ships, Checkers, Chinese Checkers, Snakes & Ladders, Crazy Eights, Go Fish, Memory Match, Old Maid, War, Hangman, Placer Racer and Speedy Racer. There's also 2 bonus games to be found - The Music Game (similar to Simon), and Tic Tac Toe. By using the Facemaker utility, players can customize their own character avatar and play against built-in animated computer characters, and up to 3 other human players on the same computer or on the internet. You can alter screen background environments where the games are played to your liking, as well as adjust difficulty level. An animated talking Genie also explains the rules and provides any help required. | ||
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| Huggly Saves The Turtles: Thinking Adventures | Mindsai Productions / Scholastic Inc. | [top] | |
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Huggly is a friendly green cartoon monster who lives under the bed. He and his friends are at Monster Adventure Camp looking forward to its Grand Opening, when a huge windstorm races through, taking Huggly's turtle friends and making a mess of the camp. The player's task is to assist Huggly as he tries to set things to rights before opening day. A tray at the bottom of the screen holds a map, a backpack for inventory, a stop icon to exit the game, and shows the activities that have yet to be completed. Gameplay uses the mouse - the cursor sparkles when it is over an object that will animate or can be used; in some games objects will stick to the cursor until clicked on again. The player can travel through Adventure Camp by using the map or by following the paths. There are 11 mini-games that exercise many of the skills in a kindergarten curriculum: thinking and problem solving, language, early math, reading, and creative expression. Turtleworks theme song - replace numbered notes in numerical order. Oysters and Pearls - match up numbered pearls with their written-numbered oysters. Canoe River - Use the mouse to maneuver the canoe close to litter in the river, avoiding rocks and logs. The Bridge - sort pairs of rhyming toys for Zibble & Quibble, the Rhyming Twins. Irma's Train Stop - sort scattered cargo into the freight car that matches it's first letter. Cave - stack rocks to create a stairway so Uncle Chomper can climb down safely. Al Lee Gator's Stream - replace the missing letters in Hotfoot's storybook. The Wild Woods - Tillie is pretending to be Mrs. Bird's egg - find the real one and replace the ladder rungs to reach the nest. Plant Patterns - drag the uprooted flowers back into place to complete patterns. The Flexi-Slide - assemble the slide by matching upper and lower case letters. After all the activities have been completed the last game becomes available: The Turtleworks - a pinball game utilizing the characters on the playing field. Two turtles wield baseball bats as flippers, and others assist by launching the ball, returning it, adding extra balls, etc. The Z key and the ? key move the flippers separately; the spacebar or a mouse click moves them both simultaneously. All the games can be returned to at any time. It's written for children aged 5 - 7. | ||
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| I Love Maths! | DK Interactive Learning / Global Software Publishing | [top] | |
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Explore the ancient civilisations of Greece, Atlantis, Egypt and the Aztecs, all while building and reinforcing essential maths skills through fun and challenging games. A couple of kids named Gretchen and Wilbur have travelled back in time and are causing trouble. By using their knowledge of maths, kids can reinforce what they've learned in school and foil the dastardly duo's plot to terrorise the ancient world. Players can choose from three games: "Save the World", "Free Travel" and "Challenge". In "Save the World", kids visit each civilisation while bending their brains with multilevel, mind-boggling maths games. In Greece, they can free the country's greatest athletes by playing the Measurement Olympics; although tricky at first, this activity is a great way to learn to recognise types of measurements. Players take the Time Machine to Atlantis to help Ratty the plumber fix broken water pipes (and restore the city) by practising fractions. There is even trouble with paradise--birds of paradise, that is. The Aztecs need kids' geometry skills to free their beautiful birds of paradise that are locked inside the temple. The "Free Travel" mode allows players to explore the civilisation of their choice for unstructured play, and the Challenge area includes a multitude of multilevel maths practice questions that test a child's understanding of angles, area, length, money, perimeter, quadrilaterals, symmetry and more. It covers more than 250 maths topics and contains 3,000 maths problems and 2 million arithmetic questions. Do the maths and you will discover that this software is a great value. It also scores high on the replay factor, so you are sure to get your money's worth. And the more than 6,000 helpful pop-ups make this program excellent for independent play. Parents and teachers can easily track a child's progress (Ages 7 to 11), making this software ideal for use at home, in-home schooling or in schools. An "intelligent tracking system" self-adjusts to individual maths abilities by topic, although the levels on any of the games can be changed manually. | ||
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| I Spy Junior: Puppet Playhouse | Black Hammer Productions, Inc. / Scholastic, Inc. | [top] | |
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I Spy Junior: Puppet Playhouse is an educational game for ages 3-5. Three main games are included. In Puppet Show Riddles, read and listen to the items that need to be found in each scene, and click on them. The scenes are in puppet show form; four puppet shows are included, each one including several scenes. The second game is the Prop Box. Move items from the bottom of the screen into one of several boxes, so that each box contains related items. Three levels are included. The third game is the Puppet Maker. Listen to the puppet, and place the items where requested to build the puppet. Six puppets are included. Finally, Make Your Own I Spy lets you drag and drop items to form an I Spy picture. Save/load and printing are both supported. | ||
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| Imagynasium | SouthPeak Interactive | [top] | |
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Welcome to Imagynasium - where art, music, and storytelling are combined to give your childs brain a workout. Developed in conjunction with Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, Imagynasium features a friendly interface lets kids interact with zany characters. Many unique games help to test out the creativity of players and the results of their creativity can be printed out to share with family and friends. Jonathan Winters and Glenn Close provide voices to just a few of the many characters that will help you develop your mind. | ||
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| JumpStart 4th Grade Adventures: Sapphire Falls | Humancode / Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Double the learning power and fun with new Deluxe 2-CD software sets from JumpStart. Kids learn essential 4th grade skills. Help Sally, TJ and Gizmo track down stolen maps, unearth lost gems and save Sapphire Falls! Super skill-building games lead you to a different ending every time, so power up and head down to the mines! Disc 1: Rescue a stolen map, catch a villain and discover lost treasure while learning essential 4th grade skills! Never before has math, geography, history, science, reading and music been so exciting! With a different ending every time you play, it's fun to play it again and again. Disc 2: Come explore Adventure World. It's 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. As you master each game, you can create and print your own Adventure Challenge magazine. And don't forget to go online and check out your scores against the rest of the planet! | ||
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| JumpStart Adventure Challenge | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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This is a game that was included as a bonus disc in the Deluxe 2-CD set releases of JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain, JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Sapphire Falls (instead of Haunted Island), JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective, and JumpStart Adventures 6th Grade: Mission Earthquest. It focuses on sports, and unusually for a JumpStart game, most of the activities have no educational value. In 2003, it was re-released with the JumpStart Advanced series. The third grade version was re-released with JumpStart Advanced 3rd Grade as Far Out Field Trips, the fourth grade version was re-released with JumpStart Advanced 4th Grade as Ultimate Field Trips, and the fifth grade version was re-released with JumpStart Advanced 5th & 6th Grade as Extreme Field Trips. Originally, the game only had four activities. Four more could be downloaded from the Internet during the game's initial release period. In the Advanced series releases, all eight activities are included. JumpStart Around the World is essentially the preschool-2nd grade equivalent of Jumpstart Adventure Challenge. In the game, the player engages in various sports events in Adventure World. Each sports event has its own activity. There are three skill levels for each activity: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert. The player must choose their skill level at the beginning of each activity. The skill level will determine the number of obstacles, bonus objects, and power-ups available, as well as the playing speed. Each activity has a timer and a score feature, and the goal is to complete the event and obtain as many points as possible before the timer runs out. The player must spend tickets each time they engage in an event. If the player runs out of tickets, they must go to the arcade to retrieve more. As the player wins events, they collect design elements for their magazine. The magazine has two pages for each event, and there are four design elements for each page. The design elements are: Dynamic Headlines; Fun Facts, Articles and Advertisements; Action Packed Photos; Rockin' Song and Sound Files. After the player has collected all four design elements for a page, they earn a set of stickers for that page. | ||
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| JumpStart Artist | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Bring out the artist in your students. Introduce students to art fundamentals with 40 printable activities and 60 project starters. Students meet famous artists, explore artistic style, and discover different genres while learning art basics including line, shape, color, texture, and pattern. A full-featured art kit, with an animation feature, lets students paint, draw, and design their own work. Encourage budding artists while helping them meet the National Standards for the Arts. | ||
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| Kid's Calendar Maker | Eureka Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is an interactive CD ROM package that allows children to have fun creating bright and colourful calendars for themselves, family and friends. It is ideal for use as a weekly diary, for special events such as birthdays and other reminders, or simply as a reference guide. The program enhances creativity, thinking skills, computer literacy skills and is easy to use. Children will be guided by interactive help and voice prompts throughout the program, demonstrating each step of making their very own personalized calendars. Select from the many different layouts and styles such as weekly, monthly and yearly. Hundreds of images such as clip art, photos and scenes can be chosen, imported or created in the Picture Creator. Children can even use outline pictures and scenes, print out their calendar in black and white, and then have fun colouring it in. | ||
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| Kid's Create-A-Card | Eureka Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is an interactive CD package that provides hours of entertainment in making your very own cards for all occasions. Wizards shows you step by step how to create. The interactive help and voice prompt will guide you throughout the program. The program enhances creativity, thinking skills, computer literacy skills and is fun and easy to use. | ||
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| Kraina gnoma Belfegora [PL] | Techland | [top] | |
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This is a Polish educational project with some adventure element, the purpose of which is to help young children to consolidate their knowledge of the basics of arithmetic. The plot is as follows: in the country of Lichiland (fortunately, there are no liches there), inhabited by gnomes and various animals, everything was fine, but once the dwarf Belphegor, in a fit of greed, robbed his fellow countrymen and hid all their valuables in a chest on the top of the mountain, and on the victims, in addition, also cast a spell, as a result of which they forgot how to count. For example, at the first stage, you need to find a fly for the frog (so that the amphibian eats it); this can be done only in a store where the seller will not let you in without money; and the latter can only be earned in one way - by helping the watchmaker adjust the time on the watch (this is the first task: the dial indicates its specific value, and we need to increase or decrease the number or figure at the bottom of the screen in order to bring the indicator there in line with first mentioned); on the second, you will have to help the miller adjust the scales with weights so that he can weigh the bags of flour - for the first five correctly solved problems of this type, this character will give us the same number of clothing items that will later need to be handed over to the naked robber who has lost his suit hiding in the bushes, - and for the rest (if we want to solve them) he will pay with hard cash. Next, there are meetings with other characters (including a sad witch, gardener, fisherman, hotel owner, owl, bear and others), each of whom will give some tasks, one way or another related to arithmetic calculations; the player will, among other things, count the number of objects and even play not the most simple (in terms of control) dominoes. In the course of the game, especially at the beginning, the mermaid Julia often appears (more precisely, she seems to be so - but she does not look very much like the creature mentioned), giving tips on how to solve problems; all characters are dubbed, and their speech is dubbed with subtitles. Displayed in the lower left corner of the screen) you need the same left mouse button; after performing any actions, you need to press the button labeled "już" in order to tell us if everything was done correctly or not. The "boss" of each "level", having received the desired items (a frog - a fly, a robber - clothes, and so on), will skip the protagonist further only if we also perform some of his "personal" arithmetic tasks (this maybe the simplest example of addition, putting down a missing digit in a sequence, and so on). Just in case, we will warn you that in order to achieve a positive ending, you will have to go through this thing at least twice, and the second time the tasks will be the same in essence as the first time, but with complicated conditions. | ||
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| Land Before Time 3D Dinosaur Arcade, The | Lucky Chicken Games / Sound Source Interactive | [top] | |
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It's time for dino-mite 3D action with Littlefoot and the gang. Slide down magical rainbows, race on a river of red hot lava, jump over fast flowing water, and sled down an ice-covered mountain. These adventures are all part of the excitement when you join your favorite dino-friends. It's a great valley of fun in six different classic arcade style games. Features: 3D feel for depth and perspective; Three levels of play; printable pictures; game certificates; full motion video clips; enchanting music and sound. | ||
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| Leaps and Bounds 2 | SEMERC, Granada Learning, Q&D Multimedia Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is the second title in the Leaps and Bounds series, providing a rich and stimulating experience for early learners. Six attractive, highly motivating activities engage young users and the developmentally young in an imaginative and educational experience. No text or speech in the title means it is suitable for early learners in all countries. Activities include mouse skills, decision making skills, visual and auditory stimulation, left/right orientation and tracking. With engaging graphics, catchy music and plenty of surprises, the child's attention will be held, either using a mouse, switch or touchscreen to interact with the application. Key features: Develops mouse skills and hand-eye coordination; Encourages visual and auditory discrimination; Reinforces targeting and communication skills; Provides opportunities for pupils to communicate and extend their vocabulary range. | ||
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| Learning Ladder: Year 5 | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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Devised to develop children's skills in literacy and numeracy, learning ladder forms a complete learning system for your child. This disk covers the vital school subjects of English, Maths and introduces basic scientific concepts in a fun 3D environment. Woody the pencil encourages and motivates children through the interactive lessons and tests. Features: Supports Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum; The Maths section looks at properties of shapes, co-ordinates, multiplication and division; English section focuses on sentence construction, improving writing and understanding grammar; The interactive science world covers curriculum topics of forces, materials, light and sound; The progress chart monitors each of the activities and allows you to assess your child's strengths and weaknesses; For ages 9-10. | ||
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| Learning Ladder: Year 6 | Dorling Kindersley | [top] | |
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This CD-ROM aims to develop children's skill in literacy and numeracy. It also introduces basic scientific concepts with 3D environments to explore. Developed by teachers, it features interactive lessons, followed up by practice sessions and activities. It intends to develop grammar and punctuation skills, improve spelling and vocabulary, build mathematical problem-solving skills, introduce shape and space and extend a knowledge of core science subjects. | ||
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| Lego My Style: Kindergarten | Stormfront Studios, Inc. / LEGO Software | [top] | |
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Follow your imagination into a new world - welcome to a magical 3D world that children can explore at their own pace. It is the ideal setting for your child to be introduced to math words music and art. It builds the foundations for creative learning and complements the skills children are learning in school. Discover a new way of learning tailored to your child's individual needs. Choose from four different learning environments: Math, Art, Music, or Language. Pick a learning buddy to explore any of the four environments. Each LEGO friend represents a style of learning: visual musical tactile linguistic or analytical. Play a game once or over and over the learning buddies never lose patience. Learn school readiness skills from your LEGO friend. Practice what you've learned by teaching it to Clicky and Bricky. Covers words, numbers, sums, counting, listening, memorization, letter, shapes, sequencing, rhythm, pitch, volume, instruments, and more! Teach music to Clicky and Bricky. Go into the toyshop to learn about numbers. Explore the world of art in a secret cave. Michelle Angelo is always playing with shapes and colors. | ||
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| Lego My Style: Preschool | Stormfront Studios, Inc. / LEGO Software | [top] | |
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This interactive LEGO Education CD-ROM is perfect for an emergent computer user or any preschooler. Jam-packed with fun activities, the CD features five animated characters that lead children through interactive learning games. Kids will study number and letter recognition, counting, matching, colors, shapes, sounds, rhythm, and more. | ||
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| Les Saisons de Petit Ours Brun [Fr] | Public Technologies Multimedia / Ubi Soft | [top] | |
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Little Brown Bear invites you to discover the rhythm of the seasons in his garden. The sprite is there to explain to you what to do: you click on him and go ahead! You are the hero of the game. In spring you can help Papa Bear grow radishes and lettuce, or sing and dance in the garden with Little Red Bear. Summer is the time to play in the pool with Little Gray Bear and other outdoor games. In the fall you can cycle through the countryside and play the guessing game with Papa Bear. In winter you can make a snowman and when your feet are cold, you can settle down near the Christmas tree to play the guessing game again with Papa Bear, or listen to a story with Mama Bear. And I didn't tell you everything. For children from 4 to 7 years old. | ||
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| Little Bear Kindergarten Thinking Adventures | Basis Applied Technology, Inc. / The Learning Company, Inc. | [top] | |
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It features many different types of rudimentary activities designed to broaden the horizons of children ages four to six. In addition to eight learning games, there are 25 family oriented activities as well. Among the learning activities are sorting with Little Bear, finding camping equipment in the kitchen, making wind chimes for Owl, repairing a dam using problem solving and comparing and contrasting flowers in a garden. Represented in animated hand-drawn scenes, these activities build important thinking skills, reasoning, visual discrimination, sequencing, ordering and math skills. After the child has participated in the aforementioned activities, printable activities await. While the actual learning games are played on the computer, the family oriented games and activities can be completed in the comfort of your own home away from the machine! Activities include crafting Origami flowers, designing a sailboat, creating a board game using family portraits and planning a party. This is one of three learning games in the Little Bear series - for younger children, try the Toddler or Preschool releases. This educational tool also features a parent's guide, difficulty settings to accommodate both younger and older children, a progress tracker, a printable award certificate and a skills summary that outlines each activity and what's being taught. | ||
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| Little Bear Toddler Discovery Adventures | Creative Wonders / The Learning Company | [top] | |
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For children aged 18 months to 3 years, this is a fun-filled forest adventure awaits in the warm, imaginative world of Little Bear! Based on the beloved children books and popular TV series, Little Bear Toddler welcomes young learners to a nurturing environment full of laughter and learning. Every activity is especially geared toward a toddler's unique developmental needs, ensuring a stimulating and rewarding play experience. From counting to colors to cooperation and beyond a world of thrilling toddler skills. Features: Abundant positive feedback builds confidence; Adjustable learning levels provide an ongoing challenge; A personalized learning experience keeps your child entertained; Supportive guidance from Little Bear and friends help to limit frustration. | ||
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| Looney Tunes Photo Fun | MGI Software Corp. | [top] | |
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This program takes kids into Bugs Bunny's Rabbit Hole, where they discover oodles of ready-made photo templates featuring Warner Brother's "Looney Tunes" characters. Users choose a project, import a photo from their computer, scanner, digital camera or the Internet, and then let their creativity flow. Among the project options are: party supplies (including party invitations, crowns, gift bags and placemats), stickers, magnets, stationery, envelopes, labels, postcards, flyers, and more. The set also contains 12 sheets of ready-to-use project papers consisting of small and large round stickers, square stickers, and postcards, and a reorder form for additional paper supplies. | ||
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| Löwenzahn 4 [G] | Terzio | [top] | |
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Dandelion 4 is built like its predecessors. With the help of videos, stories and a series of games you can learn a lot about the topics of evolution, stone age, skeleton, space, digestion, sewage and bridges. The icing on the birthday cake this time is a competition and a leisure card many excursion tips around the topics worked. There is also an adventure and craft book about the Stone Age. | ||
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| Magic Pudding Adventure, The | Dataworks | [top] | |
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A rare Australian collection of children's mini-games, timed to coincide with the release of the local cartoon of the same name, in turn based on the fairy tale story by Norman Lindsey "Magic Pudding", which was released back in 1918 and told about the koala Bunyip, who left home and met a couple of owners of a reasonable a pudding called Albert that never runs out no matter how much you eat it. The plot of the cartoon compared to the original was significantly changed, and the collection is almost not connected with it, much less with the "original source". There are five entertainments in total, all of them are available by clicking on the corresponding items of the main menu. There is not much to say about "jigsaw puzzles" and coloring: both games have a number of thematic images, switching between them is carried out by pressing the knife and fork located on the sides of the pudding at the bottom of the screen. The coloring, of course, provides standard options for erasing and printing (if you have a printer) the results of your "creativity", and the pictures are divided into segments that are proposed to be painted over with colors (the number of the latter, I must say, is relatively large). Local "puzzles", which pleases, are relatively complex - primarily due to the fact that they lack a "grid"; at the same time, there are not very many fragments, and their forms are not particularly complex. During the assembly process, you can see the whole image at any time. The three remaining mini-games are far less trivial. "Sink or Swim" is similar to Frogger: you need to successively transfer four cartoon characters across the river, giving them commands to jump on various objects floating in abundance on it in several rows, moving from left to right and right to left. There is only one "dangerous" type - killer whales; everything else, be it snags, life buoys, paper hats, pudding bowls, friendly pinnipeds, and so on, apparently, you can get up without fear. However, it’s still impossible to call this game quite simple, because if the character, who is on any moving object, leaves the screen with him, he will die in the same way as if he stood on a killer whale or fell into the water. "Puddin' Thieves About" - similar to Pac-Man: in the role of koala Bunyip, we walk through the labyrinths and collect puddings (there are much fewer of them than the dots in the "original" - just a few pieces), trying not to collide with opponents. The latter differ depending on the level, of which there are several in this entertainment; to go to the next one, you need to take all the above-mentioned edible bonuses. At each stage there is one pudding that emits radio waves - after picking it up, we can eat enemies for some (but, unfortunately, nowhere displayed) time, while in the "normal" state, contact with them ends in defeat ("life" missing, so the number of attempts is infinite). "Escape from Buncles Lair" is again a set of labyrinth levels, but much simpler: here we act as Albert's pudding and have to get out of the lair of the main villain, Buncle's wombat. All you need to do at each stage is just get to the marked exit; the only "danger" is a cluster of yellow squares, periodically appearing in different corridors of the level, contact with which leads to teleportation to a random area of the labyrinth. The architecture of the latter is not entirely simple, but due to the lack of enemies, real traps and time limits, even a small child can cope with this game without any problems. In addition to all of the above, there is a "Video Highlights" mode, in which you can watch fragments of the original cartoon; to move from one to another, again, the knife and fork located at the bottom of the screen are used. | ||
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| Magic School Bus Explores Bugs | KnowWonder, Inc. / Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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Get ready for a insect filled adventure. Ms. Frizzle along with her science-curious class are at it again, but this time to help find their long lost bugs. A terrible mishap occured with the kids' terrariums - each is missing one of its bugs. Climb aboard the Magic School Bus to help Ms. Frizzle and has class find them. Then, get ready to shrink down to wee bug size and explore the wild world of bugs. Familiarize yourself with the characters' bug projects (and learning the difference between insects, arachnids, and other bug relatives). Visit the four different habitats of the missing bugs (pond, jungle, forest, and meadow). In each habitat, numerous bugs can be found, and by clicking on one, the player can receive an informative description of that bug from one of the characters. Each habitat is home to one of the missing bugs, and the teacher provides the player with clues as to that bugs identity. Once the player has identified the bug, he or she can use the net to catch it and return it to its home in the classroom. Upon completion of the mission, the player can opt to continue exploring or to start the adventure over with new bugs to find. In this way, the game can be played many times. Aside from the multitude of interesting bugs that can be examined, this game is interactive and entertaining on many fronts. The classroom is full of objects that can be clicked on to produce fun results, and the Magic School Bus contains many entertaining gadgets and gizmos. One of these is the game machine, which collects games encountered along the adventure. In each habitat the player can find a video game with a bug theme, and these can be collected on the Bus' game machine. The Bus also has a jukebox with familiar bug songs on it. | ||
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| Magic School Bus In Concert | KnowWonder, Inc. / Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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Scholastic's The Magic School Bus In Concert Activity Center combines educational value and entertainment appeal, making science concepts fun and accessible with activities that help kids want to keep playing and learning. Jam with Ms. Frizzle, Liz, and other loved characters from the best-selling books and hit TV show. Create your own sound mix. See what's "inside" Liz with ultrasound. Sort out mixed-up sound in Scramble Sounds. Join Phoebe, Carlos, Liz, Ralphie, and Keesha for fun games, zany experiments and cool art activities. Learn new facts abouts sounds and build critical thinking skills. 3 levels of fun and learning in every game. | ||
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| Magic School Bus Lands on Mars | KnowWonder, Inc. / Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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In a departure from the tried and true format of all the previous Magic School Bus programs, this one has no overall goal or mission. Children are simply supposed to hop on the bus with Ms. Frizzle and the gang to explore the infamous Red Planet. Once there, kids find several experiments to conduct, a couple of Mars-themed arcade games and puzzles plus a host of Mars facts, photos and animations. These information tidbits are served up by Arnold, Dorothy Ann and the rest of the characters. On one hand, the experiments are interesting. For instance, children find out about the effects of air pressure as they see what happens to different foods in Mars' atmosphere. They also build rovers with varying power sources (battery vs. solar) to learn the benefits of each. There is plenty of information delivered, but in a shotgun approach- facts are just thrown out for kids to absorb as they will. | ||
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| Math Blaster: Ages 6-7 / Math Blaster Mission 1: Cosmic Critter Challenge | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Become the galaxy's greatest animal trainer. Take charge of this intergalactic zoo caper. The animals have grown lazy, and you've got to think fast to get them back on their feet. Zap the gnats, feed the Woozerps, and earn enough points for a bonus round of fast-action Tickle Tag. It's beastly fun every time you play. Get ready, get set, and start clicking. Math Blaster is part of the Blaster Learning System, an integrated line of game-based learning software. Blaster Learning System missions use gameplay to teach fundamental math and reading skills to kids ages 5 to 9. After mastering the essentials, kids move on to Cross Terrain Challenge, created to sharpen critical-thinking skills through extreme game adventures. Math Blaster's unique motivational learning system recognizes each child's achievement with points that can be redeemed for rewards. The Blaster Learning System goes the extra step with SmartPoints to provide an incentive to play, practice, and learn. | ||
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| Math Blaster: Ages 7-8 / Math Blaster Mission 2: Race for the Omega Trophy | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Like other titles in Knowledge Adventure's "Blaster" series, this software strives to educate younger gamers through action-oriented, "game style" learning activities. This game was originally released as Math Blaster Ages 7-8. | ||
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| Math Blaster: Ages 8-9 / Math Blaster Mission 3: Space Defenders! | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Help Blaster, G.C., and the robotic rodent, Mel, defeat evil Dr. Zero in Math Blaster Mission 3: Space Defenders!. Dr. Zero is threatening to destroy the planet Omega unless he receives three million kwontos. Previously released as Math Blaster Ages 8-9, this single-player educational adventure features a mix of 2D and 3D animation. The task is to capture Zero's computer bugs, while playing a variety of math games during the quest. Defeated bugs are reprogrammed to build a Rube Goldberg-style trap to catch the evil protagonist. Math skills include multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages, estimation and rounding numbers, identifying equivalents, measurement, reading graphs and tables, geometric figures, congruency, symmetry, problem solving and logic. Games have five skill levels each, either automatically attained or manually selected. Domino Bridge requires matching equivalent numbers on dominoes to build a bridge before the bugs do. Bug Hunt requires you to maneuver G.C. through a maze, protecting her from bugs by correctly identifying those carrying equations within a specific range. Pulleys and switches are the focus in Circuit Quest, which open doors and toggle electrical fields off to collect computer chips, and Musical Math centers on properly matching shapes and geometric measurements to create a melody. After successful completion of the games, players go to an area where all the bugs have been stored. Solving a 3-part word problem reprograms the bugs, each with a specific function, so they can be used in traps. An additional feature, familiar to fans of the Blaster series, is the awarding of Smartpoints, which can be redeemed online for prizes. Bonus activities include tangram puzzles, a free-form math board with numbers, letters, and geometric shapes, printable math puzzles, and a demo of Jurassic Park III: Digital Dinosaur Action Pack. | ||
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| Max and the Pirates | Tivola Publishing, Inc. / BVM Produktion GmbH | [top] | |
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Max and the Pirates finds Max visiting his Uncle Pong on the Jivory Coast during the summer when Captain Spinnakerears shows up asking for help. A mysterious pirate machine is missing critical parts, and Max must board the Santa Loosetooth and find the missing parts. Along the way he will learn about wooden legs, sailor's yarn, and the Jolly Rodger. | ||
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| Max and The Secret Formula | Tivola Publishing, Inc. / BVM Produktion GmbH | [top] | |
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In Max and the Secret Formula, young players will help Max find his Uncle Pong's secret formula -- the only thing that can save his Aunt's leaning tower of Lisa. After players find the missing numbers, they can enjoy the Inventor's Room, build a rocket, and explore all the rooms. Max and the Secret Formula is designed to improve orientation skills, numerical accuracy, logical reasoning, and computer literacy. | ||
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| Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat | Kutoka Interactive | [top] | |
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This second title of Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series teaches sciences to children between 6 and 10 years old. The game's 12 educational activities teach about plants and their parts; animals, their habitats, eating habits and classification; weather, clouds; the solar system; earth science; the human body and its systems; heat energy; properties of matter fossils; electricity and magnetism. This adventure begins with Mia wearing her mother's gorgeous new hat, without permission, while playing on the roof of her house. Without warning, a torrential downpour washes Mia down the drainpipe. She barely manages to avoid being swept into the sewer, but her mother's hat slips away. Down the sewer it goes, where a rat named Romaine and his wretched cousins find it. Mia must get the hat back from Romaine or she'll be in some kind of trouble. With help, Mia must find enough sparklies to trade for her mother's hat. But hurry--mother will be calling her home soon. The Mia adventure series integrates fun learning activities into a story-game of exploration. In each adventure, kids lead Mia throughout her house and garden to find articles needed to complete a mission. Along the way, they encounter challenging activities to test their abilities. Successful completion of each task results in a reward, bringing the companions one step closer to their goal. Kids learn about plants and animals, and the solar system. | ||
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| Mickey Mouse Kindergarten | Disney Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a Disney educational computer game featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends. With Mickey Mouse, ace detective, kindergartners will investigate Main Street for newspaper cover stories. Teaching over 40 developmental skills, the software is based on the Active Learning Method, which encourages kids to explore, discover, and create while they learn. The product enhances memory, listening, and observation skills as well as inspires creativity and imagination. Children find seven excellent logic, early math and creativity activities by clicking on objects in downtown Disney. The idea is to help Mickey Mouse, ace reporter, find something to write about for the town newspaper. Mickey finds his material as the kids play the games. In one clever game, children help fill orders for Bell Hops, according to the attributes of their clothing. In another, they use blueprints to create neon signs. At the video arcade, kids play a challenging numbers game where they match numerals to the number of objects on robots. On the downside, the activities seem a bit thrown together without a strong sense of purpose. The individual games don't seem to end, and their tie-in with Mickey's newspaper is missing. Weaknesses aside, each activity offers a great combination of entertainment and education. For instance, to get kids to practice their numbers, Mickey does some pretty fancy dance steps. The program's difficulty levels, which can get tough, automatically adjust to children's correct or incorrect answers. Also a plus are the printable pages that correspond with each activity. For the reasonable price, you can't go wrong with this CD. Kindergartners investigate Mickey's hometown Main Street while they help Mickey cover stories for his newspaper. Kids can learn about Language Arts, Math, Following Directions and other age appropriate skills. It's filled with activities that build self-confidence by means of continuous positive reinforcement from Mickey and his friends. | ||
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| Mickey Mouse Preschool | Disney Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Preschoolers will explore a supportive learning environment in a roadside pit stop off the highway near Mickey's home. While interacting with Mickey and his friends, kids discover over 20 learning skills. The software is based on the Active Learning Method, which encourages kids to explore, discover, and create while they learn. The product enhances memory, listening, and observation skills as well as inspires creativity and imagination. While interacting with Mickey and his friends, kids are learning about 123's, ABC's, colors and shapes and other age appropriate skills. It's filled with activities that build self-confidence by means of continuous positive reinforcement from Mickey and his friends. | ||
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| Mickey Mouse Toddler | Disney Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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In this collection of preschool activities, the player joins some well-known Disney cartoon characters to explore numbers, letters, and creativity. A different character introduces each activity (except for Pluto, who doesn't speak) and briefly hints at what to do - the player interacts with most activities simply by moving the mouse over the screen to uncover hidden items, listen to sounds, explore color, etc. The graphics are pure Disney cartoon and quiet music plays in the background throughout the game. Mickey Mouse - Letters of the alphabet are hiding in Mickey's front yard; as the player moves his mouse over them, Mickey uses a word that begins with that letter. Minnie Mouse - Minnie is playing with shapes and invites the player to find specific ones in her yard. Goofy - the player can use various hues and patterns of paint on Goofy's house while Goofy takes a nap. Pluto - as Gopher pops up out of his burrows holding a number, the player mouses over it to make Pluto chase it. Donald Duck - while Donald snoozes instead of houseboat-cleaning the player can play with sound-producing hot spots to try to wake him up. The preschool player will encounter letter and number recognition, shape and color recognition, mousing skills and listening skills. As an extension to the educational content there are printable coloring pages available through the Print and Parent's Information area, accessed by pressing Ctrl+P. | ||
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| Milo and the Magical Stones | Ice Multimedia / DK Interactive | [top] | |
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Based on the children's book character created by Marcus Pfister, this program introduces Milo, a mischievous little mouse who lives peacefully on an island with other little mice. One day, he discovers a glowing stone in a cave and decides to take it back to the village. The stone has magical warming powers, and Milo and his friends set out to find more stones to keep the mice warm all winter. Children help out by guiding the mice around the island, meeting characters, making friends, and solving logic puzzles. Activities are innovative and enjoyable. Kids help a mole dig a maze-like tunnel, for instance, as well as repair a crocodile's broken teeth and catch flies for a hungry toad. The compelling adventure can be played at two difficulty levels. During the game, kids will make choices between good and bad. The storyline then changes according to the decisions players make. Kids will experience 20 different worlds inhabited by engaging, 3-D characters. Eight individual action games are well integrated into the adventure. Players work through six puzzles within a story that has six possible endings with one final end. Two levels of difficulty add to the value and fun. | ||
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| Moja Pierwsza Encyklopedia [PL] | Albion Sp. z.o.o. | [top] | |
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My First Encyclopedia is an original educational program for children aged 3 - 7 years, also for those who can not yet read. It has a lot of accessibly provided definitions and interesting exercises that will give toddlers knowledge about the world around them, that excite the imagination and perceptiveness, and develop logical thinking. Children will have the opportunity to learn colors and shapes, discover the world of plants and animals and the world of music, as well as learn about the customs of different cultures. Lots of colorful illustrations, humorous texts, funny animations and sounds, with which children can play for hours. The encyclopedia is an excellent way to gain knowledge and learn about the world "for fun". New concepts: general development tasks; the world of plants and animals; shapes, colors, musical instruments; clarification of atmospheric phenomena; drawing; logical puzzles and coloring; update via the Internet; menu system; music and sound effects; graphics and animations. | ||
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| Mr. Desmond's Monster Hunt | Cheeky Monkey, KLA Visual Productions, Future Endeavors / Hoffmann + associates | [top] | |
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Desmond is happy to welcome you to his humble abode. Come shiver by creating thousands of monsters. Thanks to Mr. Desmond's strange machine, you can even give them life. But beware. Once alive, a monster is fast as lightning and can escape into the city. And it's panic at the manor. Go chase the monster before it terrorizes the inhabitants. To catch it, enter all the houses where 7 fun activities are waiting for you. The monster can hide everywhere. Thousands of monsters to create. Choose their appearance from dozens of misshapen heads, hooked noses, globular eyes and toothless mouths. 7 activities to capture the monster and 10 levels of game. Come quickly - have fun with shooting games, logic and speed. | ||
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| Muppet Babies: Toyland Train | Jim Henson Interactive, Brighter Child & Compedia | [top] | |
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This is a computer game designed for children toddler age to late preschoolers. It is a learning game composed of various levels of learning, starting from listening and learning to using the keyboard and mouse, utilizing the Muppet Babies characters. Kermit and the other Muppet Babies play in the nursery riding a toy train. Each train stop, introduces the player to an activity. Among the activity locations are Body Depot, the Music Stop, the Make-It-Go Station, the Toyland Zoo, Shapely Corners, Color Junction, Paint-It Station and Dress-Up Point. The only muppet babies that can be interacted with are Scooter and Skeeter. The activities teach about colors, shapes, body parts, music, clothes and animals. | ||
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| Muumit ja Taikatalvi [Fi] | eWSOY, Nordic Softsales | [top] | |
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Moomins and Magic Winter is the Fifth Moomin computer game. The plot of the game is similar to that in Magic Winter, but there are some differences. Little Myy , Moomin Troll and Moomin Papa are the only characters who speak in the game, but only Moomin Troll has a voice familiar from the stories of Moomin Valley. The task in the game is to wake up the hibernating sleeping residents of Moomin House by spending time in various tasks with Pikku Myy and later Moomin Troll. There are seven different tasks in the game: Board game (pictures from previous games); Ice fishing (the game can also be played by two players when the Moomin is awake); Downhill (easy or difficult); Memory game in the snow; Construction of a snow castle; Finding goods before another; "Do not touch the floor" play. In addition, you can also play with icicles in the cave, which is not an actual "task". All tasks can be accessed from the Moomin Valley overview, and the alarm clock rings whenever it’s time to wake up one of the sleepers. The order of the awakeners varies, except for the Moomin Troll, which always wakes up first. | ||
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| Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet! | Humongous Entertainment | [top] | |
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This is the third game in the Pajama Sam Series, part of the Humongous' popular "Junior Adventure" titles designed for children ages three to eight. You're playing Sam who once again assumes the role of Pajama Sam at times when he needs facing his fears. This time you suddenly find yourself in the midst of a food squabble when you try to chase down some snickering cookies! And you are called to find the 4 missing delegates of MopTop Island's emergency peace conference that has to be made to calm the island population after the incident of the fats and the sweets. They are both forcing the healthy foods off of the island. It takes place in front of beautifully hand-drawn interactive backgrounds where each screen has a multitude of fun things to click on like Humongous' other adventures. There are also some mini-games within the main game to catch more of the player's attention. The main mini-game is to collect 20 tops from Sam's favorite Chocamok cookie boxes so that he could get a "Pajama Man Action Figure with Titanic Elbow Thrust"! You usually come across these boxes since they could be hidden anywhere around the island. Children are invited to learn healthful food awareness, listening and decision-making skills and other educational concepts and lessons in the game. Along their journey, they can interact more than 20 different comic-style characters, like a gentle doughnut who can help Sam find the way on the water or a professional entertainer called Mickey Hollandaise who can get the audience into hysterics with his big shoes. | ||
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| Pajama Sam's One-Stop Fun Shop | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. / Infogrames Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is an activity center based on the Pajama Sam game series. It consists of printable crafts, painting tools, the Sam-O-Matic, and an interactive storybook creator. Using a library of clipart, children can create their own arts and crafts and print them out on their computers. | ||
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| PC Play & Learn: Learning Fun with Dan and Whizzo | Macromedia | [top] | |
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This was a British subscription-based series of educational children's games published in the early 2000s. It featured several colourful dinosaurs living in a soft play centre known as the 'Play Zone', and clicking on magical doors throughout the Play Zone would lead to minigames teaching children letters, numbers, standard preschool educational things etc. There were about 60 games in total, each having a different theme (e.g. "Perfect Pets", "Under the Sea" to name a couple). Apparently they were also translated into French (PC Joue et Apprends), Dutch (met de PC Spelen en Leren) and German (mit dem PC Spielen und Lernen). You would play with 3 dinosaurs named Dan, his older sister Pink, and Dan and Pink's friend Delilah. You learn about music, letters, etc. This series would come in separate CD-ROM discs with books in the subscription. | ||
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| Phonics Alive! 6: Typing | Advanced Software | [top] | |
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An excellent software program teaching Touch Typing. Computers play an ever increasing role in today’s technological world. To prepare our students for this new world they are being introduced to computers at an ever decreasing age. It teaches Primary age students to use a keyboard correctly. It does so by blending tried and tested traditional teaching methods with the entertaining and interactive capabilities of a modern computer program. Keyboarding is a perceptual motor skill. It involves perceiving and then doing, and once learnt it is relatively easy to retain. The student is taken on an underwater journey with the assistance of Qwerty, the submarine’s resident penguin. They learn to touch type in short, simple stages. Practice activities such as conducting the Marine Orchestra and defending the submarine from the Crab Invaders, increase keyboarding skills in a fun and absorbing way. Once the basic lessons are mastered, the program offers a speed and accuracy test to give students/teachers a traditional benchmark on which to judge their progress. | ||
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| Pixeline 6: For fulde sejl [Da] | Studio 1-2 / Krea Medie | [top] | |
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Piceline for full sails - Oh no on the shot - do you have junk in your snout? Pixeline and her naughty little brother are this time taken on a cruise in an adventurous archipelago. It's you who's helmsman when we board the adventure ship. It's subtle entertainment, gas and laughter - and not least many hours of educational play. | ||
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| Play & Learn: Science Experiments | Dorling Kindersley | [top] | |
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One in a series, this CD-ROM for children aged 7 to 11 is designed to entertain them and reinforce education concepts at the same time. This title has a virtual lab for children to discover key scientific principles. Topics covered include gravity, electricity, lights and magnets. Set in a virtual lab of the future, it's packed full of fun activities and tests covering everything from gravity and liquids to air and motion. The program's special child friendly interface enables children to use it without adult supervision. It features: Child friendly and attractive interface; Covers key science curriculum topics; Full illustration and minimal text; Loads of games to keep children entertained; Packed with on-screen experiments to try in total safety; Shows that science can be fun. | ||
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| Play & Learn: Writing and Calculating | Dorling Kindersley | [top] | |
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Part of the Play & Learn mini-series, this disk is designed to encourage and entertain children aged 3 to 5. Packed with fun activities, animated games, colours, shapes and sounds that help develop key literacy and numeracy skills. The program's special child friendly interface enables children to use it without adult supervision. | ||
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| Playskool Store CD-ROM Playset | KnowWonder Inc. / Hasbro Interactive Inc. | [top] | |
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In this Math Game, Kids run the store with the Playskool Store CD-ROM Playset. Designed for ages three and up, this game has a toy cash register that fits over standard PC keyboards and lets kids scan products, swipe credit cards, and ring up a sale. The games, which include greeting customers, completing sales, puzzle solving, and matching outfits in the Clothing Department, helps kids to learn while still entertaining them. | ||
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| Poky Little Puppy Interactive Storybook, The | Encore Software | [top] | |
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This is a complete, interactive adaptation of the famous 1942 Little Golden Book story "The Poky Little Puppy." The story allows for reader interaction and is narrated. Besides the story, players can take part in activities to help develop their cognitive skills. | ||
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| Pong Pong's Learning Adventure: Animals [Ru] | DataSun Software Corporation / Buka Entertainment | [top] | |
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Piglet is in search of a magical pearl acquainted with the inhabitants of the land, sea and air. He will have to answer a lot of tricky questions. Why are rabbit's eyes red? Is what he eats red carrots?! Do dogs sweat if they are hot? Yes? And why would a dog stick out his tongue? While you are unlikely to be able to understand how it is related to the drought that hit the Magic team, but I assure you that if our brave Piglet will not be able to answer these and many other issues, the village will be in bad shape. | ||
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| Pong Pong's Learning Adventure: Insects and Plants [Ru] | DataSun Software Corporation / Global Star Software | [top] | |
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This is the first of a series of educational games about the adventures of a little pig named Piglet. How fun and serene days pass in the village of magical glade, where they live, Piglet and his friends. But to the village comes trouble: begins a drought, crops are dying , and all the inhabitants of the magic glades are facing imminent starvation, and possibly death! Who will save the baby animals that inhabit the village? Who will go to the south, across the Enchanted Forest full of wonders and dangers, to the famous Veg farmand get some food? Help the brave Piglet make this incredible journey! | ||
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| Pong Pong's Learning Adventure: Mysteries of Human Body [Ru] | DataSun Software Corporation / Buka Entertainment | [top] | |
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Poor piggy failed the exam on anatomy, and he's in big trouble. Who will help Piglet master this complex science and pass the exam with an "excellent" grade? Of course, Kirill - little wizard who takes the children on an amazing journey to the land of knowledge. At this time, we will explore the mysteries of the human body, and to help us there are dozens of the most unexpected and funny characters - from the teeth and the heart to the Monkey and the Apothecary. Each is ready to help Piglet - of course, if they're able to answer all your questions. Why do we blink? Why is there a fever? What is the muscle in the human body that's the strongest? How does the human ear work? Looking for answers to these and dozens of similar issues? Then let's go! | ||
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| Post für Ritter Rost [G] | Gigaperls Franz & Streidl GbR / Terzio Verlag GmbH | [top] | |
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After the well-known children's book musicals by Jörg Hilbert and Felix Janosa, this second CD-ROM for the series was also created. While the famous knight is actually just a hollow tin figure, there is much more to the idea, namely fantasy, humor, musical catchy tunes and cheeky wit. The music is award-winning and the Ritter Rost musicals are among the most performed in German-speaking countries, with more than 400 annual performances. Mail for Ritter Rost: Oh shock, the postman has been bitten in the leg by the dog and can no longer deliver his mail himself. You can now complete this task together with Knight Rost, the damsel Bö and Koks, the dragon. The journey takes you through the adventurous forest of mythical creatures, which is full of obstacles and strange characters. Great knight rust music, fun games, tricky puzzles and much, much more await you. Younger players aged six and over should now complete this task together with Knight Rost, the damsel Bö and Koks, the dragon. The journey takes them through the adventurous forest of mythical creatures, which is full of obstacles and strange characters. Equipped with the lovingly drawn characters of the “Ritter Rust” musical, the player can expect lots of music, fun games and puzzle tasks. | ||
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| Puddle Books: After The Beanstalk | Funnybone Interactive / Davidson & Associates | [top] | |
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This is the 6th and final volume in the whole collection of Puddle Books titles, also later released as Fisher Price Read & Play series. The game's story is set after the events of Jack and the Beanstalk. In the town of Beanville, Mayor Jack and his cow, Bonnie are making preparations for the Fe Fi Fo Fum Festival. Everyone is invited except for Bixby the Bean Seller. Jealous of Jack being the mayor, Bixby plans to ruin it so he can rule the town. | ||
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| Putt-Putt Joins The Circus | Humongous Entertainment | [top] | |
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In this Junior Adventure for kids 3-8, the circus has arrived in Apple Valley and owner Mr. Sweeney has asked Putt-Putt to get his 5 circus acts ready. There's Ivan the Semi-Strong Van, who needs his special energy drink mixed up; there's the leaky pool that Francine the high diver needs fixed; there's Eunice the Unicycle who needs her umbrella for the high wire act. There's also other folks around, such as Phillipe the Flea, Bette Bandwagon, Katie Cannonball and the Flying Porkowskis to name a few. All can use some help. And there's plenty of locations to explore and things to click on. There's also 5 mini-games - Clown Table (the "Mr Potatohead" game), Magic Cards (concentration), the arcade game Peanut Gallery (tossing peanuts to cars moving across the screen), Pie Toss Arena (360 degrees of target practice tossing) and the arcady Titanic Trampoline, which is kind of a vertical (bouncing) scroller where Putt bounces up multiple screen levels, popping balloons for points. Some of the in-game puzzles vary each time you start a new game. The Help file includes info on getting past the puzzles, too. The game allows multiple saves, using pictures as well as text for preschoolers. | ||
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| Putt-Putt's One-Stop Fun Shop | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | [top] | |
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This activity pack for kids 3-8 features Putt-Putt the purple car and his friends from Cartown. It's basically a printing package (with the ability for parents to password-protect and/or limit printouts, or print only outlines), that allow you to create stationery stuff like calendars, certificates letterhead, postcards; party stuff like birthday cards, banners, invitations, place mats, party hats; paper toys like puppets, trading cards, masks, mobiles, pinwheels or airplanes; "useful" stuff like bookmarks, doorknob hangers, lists, name tags or picture holders; and print out custom-made coloring pages. There's also the ability to create mad-lib type stories that can be read to the child on-computer and that they can color. There's a free-form in-game coloring area and a Putt-o-Matic where you can alter Putt's appearance too. | ||
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| Reading & Spelling Adventure | Eureka Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is an all Australian, highly interactive 3D adventure for ages 5 - 8+. Venture deep into space with intergalactic superhero Mick Millennium, in the highly acclaimed Reading & Spelling Adventure. Essential literacy skills treated: Spelling, Comprehension, Synonyms, Antonyms, Listening, Typing, Memory recall, Word recognition, Reading in context, Sentence construction, Vocabulary building, Logic development, Self-learning and concentration, Navigating in a 3D environment. | ||
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| Reading Blaster: Ages 4-6 / Reading Blaster: Mission 1 - Secret of the Sunken Treasure | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Bring the virtual classroom to your computer with Reading Blaster: Ages 7-8. Featuring a secure online environment just for kids, Reading Blaster: Ages 7-8 includes regularly updated math and reading lessons for kindergarten through third grade, 25 read-along storybooks, over 200 lessons, extended learning for specific topics, and printable crossword and word search puzzles. Children earn "Smart Points" for rewards such as game time at the "Smart Points" Alley website. Parents can supervise a child's progress with the "Smart Chart," and the initial release of the game comes with a four-month free subscription. | ||
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| Reading Blaster: Ages 6-7 / Reading Blaster: Mission 2 - Planet of the Lost Things | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Lost your marbles? You're not alone. The intergalactic lost and found is full of missing things that need to be returned to their rightful owners. Jump into action and help chase down lost socks, go after flyaway balloons, and corral the caboose that got loose. There are lots of lost toys, and so little time. Get ready, get set, and start clicking. Reading Blaster is part of the Blaster Learning System, an integrated line of game-based learning software. Blaster Learning System missions use gameplay to teach fundamental math and reading skills to kids ages 5 to 9. After mastering the essentials, kids move on to Cross Terrain Challenge, created to sharpen critical-thinking skills through extreme game adventures. Reading Blaster's unique motivational learning system recognizes each child's achievement with points that can be redeemed for rewards. The Blaster Learning System goes the extra step with SmartPoints to provide an incentive to play, practice and learn. | ||
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| Reading Blaster: Ages 7-8 / Reading Blaster: Mission 3 - The Secret Of Islandia | Knowledge Adventure | [top] | |
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Bring the virtual classroom to your computer with Reading Blaster: Ages 7-8. Featuring a secure online environment just for kids, Reading Blaster: Ages 7-8 includes regularly updated math and reading lessons for kindergarten through third grade, 25 read-along storybooks, over 200 lessons, extended learning for specific topics, and printable crossword and word search puzzles. Children earn "Smart Points" for rewards such as game time at the "Smart Points" Alley website. Parents can supervise a child's progress with the "Smart Chart," and the initial release of the game comes with a four-month free subscription. | ||
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| Ritter Rost: Die eiserne Burg [G] | Terzio | [top] | |
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The titles of the Ritter Rost series by Jörg Hilbert and Felix Janosa are not popular for nothing. The mix of fun, music (which is not embarrassing) and education finds an ever-growing band of followers. Populated by a bevy of scurrilous figures, the titles of the series are iconic and witty. Of course, this also applies to the CD-ROM Ritter Rost and the Iron Castle. There are always new surprises in the hidden corners of the Iron Castle. And of course there are also old acquaintances like the fiery dragon Kok and the inconspicuous dame Miss Bö, who is always tired of housekeeping. A nice court succession for our knight. And of course, as always, there is a lot of music. | ||
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| Rotten Ralph: Big Night In | BBC Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is based on the CBBC television show Rotten Ralph. Catch up on your favourite Rotten Ralph moments with Ralph 's very own video browser. Ralph, Mum and Dad, Sarah, Percy, the Alley Cats and Bongo Bob feature in over 30 fantastic clips. Ralph races his bike against an assortment of characters. Guess who the winner will be - but watch out - Rotten Ralph is likely to cheat. There 's nothing Ralph likes more than being messy and creative with his art tools. You can join him with on-screen pens and brushes, fonts (including Ralph's own font!), shapes, a colour palette, patterns, Ralph themed stamps, templates to colour in and more. Join Ralph and his hero for a special "Game Show" edition of Bongo Bob. Take part in four challenging games and try to make it to the Golden Banana. Content: Great Rotten Ralph Moments - a video browser with 30 clips; Three Rotten Screen Savers; Rotten Snaps - 50 moments from TV; "Racing with Ralph" Game - guess who the winner is...; "Ralph's Rotten Mess" - Ralph makes a mess of the screen; Salvador Ralphi - interactive art feature; Bongo Bob's Slime Game - Slime Ralph before he slimes you; The Sink or Swim Challenge - Lower an object into a tank of slim. If it swims - make a move, If it sinks - you lose; Ralph's Racing Game - Pedal like crazy to beat Ralph in this mad race; Rotten Ralph's Quiz - Answer Ralph's tricky questions to move yourself closer to the Golden Banana. | ||
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| Rugrats: Totally Angelica - Boredom Buster | KnowWonder, Inc. / Mattel Interactive, Nickelodeon | [top] | |
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Rugrats Totally Angelica Boredom Buster is aimed at girls, ages 2-11. As the title suggests, this CD-ROM is all about Angelica, one of the characters on the TV show, Rugrats. Angelica needs help, and you are just the one to help her. It is another boring night with the babysitter, but Angelica still indulges in her every fantasy. You can go along for the ride as Angelica dreams of becoming a movie star, super model, hip hop dancer, and professional ice-skater. The player can choose their own journey in a variety of different games and activities: Fit for a Princess: Complete Angelica's `Fantasy Face' by matching the look in the mirror. Angelica TV: Lights, Camera, Angelica! Create your own music video starring you-know-who using hip-hop, ballet, pop or disco music. Ice Queen: Help Angelica beat the clock with a full-on ice folly. But beware of those pesky barrels and banana peels. Makeover Time: Create a high-fashion photo shoot for Angelica! Choose from her closet and add then to her photo album. | ||
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| School Zone Transition Math K-1 | School Zone Publishing Company | [top] | |
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In this software, you're a shoo-in for math success when you follow the right steps. This software guides children through beginning math skills with easy audio instructions and positive encouragement. Children can work at their own pace, check their work and try problems again to reinforce learning. Counting, identifying patterns, telling time and sequencing are included in the proven curriculum. Children take a break between work with games like Froggy Food. Delightful animations and personalized printouts reward your child's work. | ||
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| School Zone: Reading Readiness K-1 | School Zone Publishing Company | [top] | |
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This features two interactive storybooks that will help your kids learn to read while entertaining them. Based on the School Zone workbook series, this program incorporates critical math skills with interactive exercises and fun games. A solid curriculum, audio guidance, and clear examples help your child master classifying skills, the alphabet, rhyming words, opposites, and more. The program randomizes problems with each use, providing a different experience each session. Engaging games provide an important break. These two animated stories have cute cartoony characters that guide your child through educational chapters. In the first story, Jog Frog Jog, kids will help a frog escape from a large dog. Nine Men Chase A Hen is a humorous story that teaches about cooperation. Kids will use rhyming words and picture clues to advance the story. Kids can even add their own pictures and art with the Create-A-Story feature. | ||
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| Sesame Street Toddler Cookie Monster | Encore Software | [top] | |
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Children can learn, grow, and play with their best friends from Sesame Street. This helps kids with fundamental skills critical for every toddler's development. Your child can play with Big Bird, Elmo, and Cookie Monster, and enjoy 25 activities created by child-education experts. Kids can sing along to nine different songs and develop 11 skills. The software can even be personalized so Big Bird says your child's name. Sister program to Sesame Street Preschool Learning Basics, this CD is similarly designed. The Sesame Street gang hosts five activity areas, and within each area are several activities that generally become more difficult as the child plays. There are letter and number activities, shape games, a limited art area and a "People in Your Neighborhood" area where kids can watch full screen videos of a doctor, a farmer, a barber and so on. In general, this is a likable program, especially with its fantastic license and its terrific graphics and animation. The depth of content is a strength (several of the activities branch on and on), but the characters talk too much and overuse praise, and there's no way to click through all this unnecessary commentary. We also want to caution that this is a program that requires some basic mouse skills. Children need to be able to point and click, a challenge for many toddlers. One very nice feature is the program's ability to say your child's name-- Big Bird will greet and congratulate the child by name. | ||
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| Sesame Street: Baby & Me | Children's Television Workshop / The Learning Company, Inc. | [top] | |
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Created for children ages one to three, this teaches fundamental skills useful in childhood education through twelve activities. It features a number of characters from the educational show and music to fit each activity. The developmental activities reinforce skills such as color recognition, letters, numbers, animal identification, and cause and effect. In the numbers portion, Big Bird commandeers a train containing a range of numbers; as the train rolls down the track, children are introduced to ascending and descending numbers. Animated video sequences are used in the musical activities and feature songs such as "Wheels on the Bus." Activities are hosted by a cast of characters including Ernie, Elmo, and assorted live actors from the TV show. For example, Elmo is hiding in a group of animated scenes. To succeed, players will have to find him in each one. Children will also assume the role of Baby Natasha while imitating Ernie and his various moves. Other activities include animal recognition, through sound effects, and associating letters with various shapes. The software also features activities involving seasons. In these sessions, players must rake leaves in autumn and shovel snow in the winter (Zoe offers information pertaining to each season). Along with Elmo's slide show of weird and wacky pictures, there are various black-and-white scenes that can be colored using the mouse. As the first educational title in the series, it also contains a parental guide that outlines the activities and material covered. As an added bonus to Windows users, the PhotoCreator can be used to create fun-filled scenes and pictures; actual scanned pictures can be used with characters found within the program. | ||
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| Sesame Street: Ernie's Adventures in Space | The Learning Company | [top] | |
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Ernie is the user's guide on an exploration of space and the stars. Bert, Cookie Monster, Zoe, "Astro" Grover, Count von Count, and Oscar the Grouch also appear. The game teaches skills such as critical thinking and problem solving using 5 activities and 2 skill levels. Investigate UFO's with Ernie. Find Bert's lost bottle caps. Help Zoe find the original amongst clones made by Zo-bot. Place pictures in the right order to make constellations. Figure out the special of the day with Grover. Help The Count launch his rocket. | ||
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| Simsala Grimm: Rumpelstiltskin | BVM Produktion GmbH / Tivola Verlag GmbH | [top] | |
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Grimm days in Simsala: thanks to her father's brainless boasting, Sissi has to spin whole warehouses full of straw into gold. An impossible task? Well, not when an ugly little gnome appears and offers his help--but at a very high price indeed. Can you save Sissi from a gruesome fate? In this version of the Brothers Grimm's famous fairytale, the progress and plot of the tale depend on your abilities and quickness in the many, many games and tasks you have to master. Can you make a golden spindle? Can you remember the troll's magic tune? And most of all, will you be able to discover his secret? But don't worry: Yoyo and Doc Croc are here to help and spur you on. Rumpelstiltskin is a fun and entertaining adventure story for children aged between three and seven years. The cartoon-like quality of the graphics is impressive and the CD-ROM manages to successfully strike the right balance between telling the story in an entertaining way and introducing interactive games to keep youngsters hooked. A poor struggling miller has had a terrible harvest and he cannot afford to pay his taxes to the king. But the cruel Sir Randolph has no time for his excuses and decides to take the miller's beloved daughter in exchange. To add insult to injury, as Sir Randolph is leaving, he turns around and snatches the poor miller's last sack of grain. However you are given a chance to intervene and save the miller's daughter, Sissi. Using the arrows on your keyboard you are invited to play a game to try to hide the two brave fun-loving characters, Yoyo and Doc Croc, in the sack so that they may attempt to rescue the poor miller's beautiful daughter. You have to guide them across moving bales of hay and safely into the sack. | ||
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| Skipper & Skeeto: The Shadow of Mr. Shade | Ivanoff interactive | [top] | |
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The fourth in a series of adventure games with some learning material for children. The characters are harder to move than in previous games from this series, because the cursor keys are necessary as well as the mouse, so you have to figure out when to use which input device. The stampede from the evil Mr Shade leads Magnus the mosquito and Mia accidentally to the middle of Shade's factory. You now need to help them through the factory before Mr Shade comes. But beware! For everywhere are lurking devious traps, hot-tempered robots and mechanical guard spiders. Fortunately they meet a cute robot Alpha, who becomes their friend in need! Magnus and Mia can walk, climb, jump, push and pull. You play alternately Mia and Magnus through 4 chapters. Click on mosquito or Alpha for help. Many new exciting characters. More than 200 tasks and puzzles. Learn as you play - facts about plastic, oil, glass and many everyday objects. | ||
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| Smart Steps 3rd Grade | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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The Most Complete Learning System. Super-Fun Activities: Over 380 in All. Core Subjects: English, Math and Science. Motivating Rewards Ensure Learning. Put Your Child a Step Ahead. Watch your child's grades take off with this comprehensive, curriculum-based program. Just one of hundreds of activities that put your child a step ahead. 385 learning activities; Over 130 tutorials; 145 math problems; 140 language arts exercises; 65 science lessons; Self-motivating reward system; In-depth progress tracking. Covers these (and more) 3rd Grade Essentials: MATH - place value to 100,000; 3-digit addition & subtraction; multiplication tables; problem solving. ENGLISH - punctuation; parts of speech; verbs and their tenses; synonyms and homophones. SCIENCE - electricity & magnetism; solids, liquids & gases; the planets; animals and their habitats. | ||
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| Smart Steps 4th Grade | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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The Most Complete Learning System. Super-Fun Activities: Over 430 in All. Core Subjects: English, Math and Science. Motivating Rewards Ensure Learning. Put Your Child a Step Ahead. Watch your child’s grades take off with this comprehensive, curriculum-based program. Just one of hundreds of activities that put your child a step ahead: 435 learning activities; Over 150 tutorials; 180 math problems; 155 language arts exercises; 85 science lessons; Self-motivating reward system; In-depth progress tracking. Covers these (and more) 4th Grade Essentials: MATH - decimal and fraction comparisons; percents & estimating; multiplying by 2 digit numbers; polygons & quadrilaterals. ENGLISH - imperatives & connectives; pronouns & prepositions; idioms & onomatopoeia; roots, prefixes and suffixes. SCIENCE - circuits & conductors; gravity; simple machines; food chains & food webs. | ||
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| Smart Steps 5th Grade | DK Multimedia | [top] | |
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A complete learning system for your fifth grade child. Give your child the competitive edge they deserve. Developed by dedicated educators, it targets the math, reading and science skills that children need to succeed. With over 190 tutorials and over 400 activities, this is the most complete learning system for your fifth grader. A unique sticker reward system provides continual encouragement and will inspire children to complete each activity - and continue on to new ones. No other kids' learning system gives parents such a straightforward way to track your child's progress. Easily see your child's strengths, challenges and where they're spending the most time. Keep your child a step ahead with Smart Steps. Skills Learned: Math - Negative numbers and percents; 3-digit addition and subtraction; Dividing by 2-digit numbers; Powers of 10 - exponents. English: Sentence structure; Active and passive verbs; Persuasion and argument; Word origins and new words. Science: Magnetism and circuits; Properties of matter; Conduction, convection and radiation; Pollination and flowering. Features: 400 learning activities; Over 190 tutorials; 180 math problems; 120 language arts exercises; More than 120 science lessons; Self-motivating reward system; In-depth progress tracking. | ||
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| Snowman, The: A Magical Adventure, Raymond Briggs' | Creature Labs Ltd. / Emme Interactive, Encore Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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Activities in this cd-rom focus on matching, sorting, classifying, memorization, sequencing, and problem solving. Children ages three to seven join James and his Snowman, as they fly through the air, dance with other snowmen, and meet Santa Claus. Features include a story to read, a 26 minute animated video, and games. Activities involve dressing James, connecting a dot-to-dot puzzle by following a mole through the snow, building a snowman, and sorting objects found in James's home. Helping the Snowman through a maze, color matching, and performing a dance routine complete the seven activities. No distinct skill levels are offered, but some activities increase in difficulty as play progresses. Graphics are hand-drawn, and are true to the illustrations of the book on which the game is based. | ||
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| Space Academy GX-1 | Edmark | [top] | |
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Explore the solar system with Space Academy GX-1. As crew members of Space Academy GX-1, students investigate the astronomical basis for seasons, phases of the moon, gravity, orbits, and more. As students succeed, Grow Slides adjust to offer more advanced topics and problems. Just print the record keeping screen to track student progress and make record-keeping easy. Special features include strong support of the National Science Education Standards and a multimedia Reference Guide for more in-depth learning. | ||
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| Spot and his Friends | Hasbro Interactive | [top] | |
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Suitable for children from two to six, Spot and His Friends includes four simple storylines - Spot visits his farmyard friends, Spot goes on holiday, Spot goes to the carnival and Spot goes to a party. With bold, bright colours and reassuring simplicity, each story faithfully recreates the unique style that has made Spot books such a success. In addition, there are 12 activities to enjoy filled with surprises and delightful animations. | ||
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| Star Wars Math: Jabba's Game Galaxy | Lucas Learning Ltd. | [top] | |
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Your ship has crash-landed on the planet Tatooine near Jabba the Hutt's famous game plaza. Earn credits to buy new ship parts by outsmarting your opponents in games of skill and logic. Rebuild your ship and return home. Develop your knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, equivalancies, and geometric relationships. Star Wars Math excites kids about math through the incentive of competition and the challenge of strategy. An overarching goal within a nonlinear game encourages replay, while multiple difficulty levels allow players to learn at their own pace. Lonely? Try choosing the two-player option to challenge friends. Play challenging math games against Jabba the Hutt, Sebulba, Teemto and Ratts Tyerell. Use strategy, computation, skill and logic to outsmart your opponents. Practice and strengthen math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and equivalency. Experience these games in two-player mode. Explore 4 game arenas and 3 activity areas. Ability to save games/credits for future playtime. Tutorials available for each game. | ||
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| Star Wars: Early Learning Activity Center | Lucas Learning Ltd. | [top] | |
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The people of Naboo are having a grand celebration, and they want you to join them; follow favorite Star Wars characters Anakin Skywalker, Queen Amidala, and Jar-Jar Binks through a host of educational activities in the city of Theed and the underwater kingdom of Otoh Gunga. On land, players may choose between three activities: in Naboo Puppet Theatre, kids select a character to star in a puppet drama and then define a story for the puppet to act out; Gungan Sling Painting challenges players to hurl paint at druids, matching the color of the paint to the surrounding druids; and in Music Droids, participants improvise tunes using a number of different instruments and maps. The undersea component of the game is also divided into three parts: in Otoh Gunga, players can dunk Boss Nass by sorting creatures into color groups, find hidden seashells with Obi-Wan Kenobi, and design a Gungan Deesco Dance for Jar-Jar Binks. While all six activities seem to effortlessly combine educational content and pure fun, Music Droids is especially outstanding. The music maps are designed so carefully that players can skate a mouse over the map surface and come up with a credible-sounding tune; anyone who has tried to create truly musical combinations with an unfamiliar instrument will know that this is no easy task. Kids will delight at the creativity incorporated into this game and the ease of playing it. In spite of a few slow and repetitive sequences, it offers a high replay factor. It builds vocabulary and the understanding of music concepts, logic, and a host of other useful skills without making it seem like a chore. Game instructions are delivered slowly and clearly, with plenty of visual aids; character voices, sound, and graphics are vivid and often amusing. Young fans of the Star Wars films are sure to enjoy and learn from this well-crafted program. | ||
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| Tabaluga: Die Rettung aus dem Eispalast [G] | Forest Interactive / Europa Multimedia | [top] | |
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This is an adventure game for children, based on the TV show of the same name. Arktos, the king of ice has frozen Tabaluga's friends. So the little dragon Tabaluga has to travel to Arktos' realm and free his friends by solving riddles and quests. Solve a secret code, defeat Arktos in a snow ball fight or sled riding. | ||
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| Tabaluga's Print & Play | Yoram Gross-Em.TV Pty Ltd. / Forest Interactive Pty Ltd. | [top] | |
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An Australian educational adventure game based on a tv cartoon. It featured almost all the gang from Greenland and Iceworld and you could create birthday cards, banners, book marks and calendars along the way. | ||
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| Take a Break with Skipper & Skeeto | Ivanoff Interactive A/S | [top] | |
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This is a collection of games aimed at children ages five to twelve. It's the 7th game in the edutainment franchise about the two characters, a mole and a mosquito, who in English are called Skipper & Skeeto. This game is purely play based and doesn't feature many educational elements. It consists of three programs, with the first one containing five mini games, making the total amount of games seven. They are as follows: Fis & Ballade (Bara på skoj) consists of: a memory game; a sliding puzzle game; a game where the player has to move a bucket left and right to catch apples falling from a tree; a Frogger variant where the the player has to cross a river, while picking up items from the logs that float by; a Tower of Hanoi variant where characters has to be restacked so that they reach apples in a high tree. Myrekryb (Myrkryp): A top-down action game where the player for each level has to collect nine ladybugs. The ladybugs have numbers on them and the player has to collect specific numbers that are listed on the screen. At the same time the player has to avoid various kinds of ants and spiders that are dangerous for the player. Making contact with them leads to a loss of energy. There are also various power-ups to collect: cakes that can be thrown at the baddies, rain drops that give extra energy and sugar cubes that increases the player's speed. Superbat (Superracket): A Breakout variant for two players. One player controls a bat on the right side of the screen and the other one the left side and both have to hit the bricks that lie between them. Next to the bats there are vertical race tracks and by hitting bricks with dots on the characters move closer to the finishing line, which the goal of each round. Getting there fast leads to bonus points. Various power ups exist such as higher and lower speed as well as change of bat size. A quick game consists of four ordinary levels plus a bonus level while the tournament mode consists of seven worlds with 35 levels in total. In the bonus level the player which hits a special bricks wins the game. | ||
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| Thomas & Friends: Trouble on the Tracks | Mind's Eye Productions / Hasbro Interactive | [top] | |
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In Thomas & Friends: Trouble on the Tracks, children ages three and up hone listening skills, follow directions, use spatial relationships, and practice mouse skills while rescuing and repairing the derailed passenger train James. Joining characters from the Thomas the Tank Engine books and television series, kids play eight games set on the Island of Sodor. Games can be played individually from the island screen or in story mode, with the option to switch modes at any time during gameplay. In story mode, players follow Thomas as he and the other trains find and rescue James, deliver coal from a mine, replace train parts, and load cargo. Most activities feature three difficulty levels. For example, the "Locate James's Lamp" activity requires matching different lamps on a shelf with their shadows: level one shadows match exactly, but levels two and three include more lamps, many of which are rotated, making the task more difficult. In addition to reward certificates for each completed activity, color or outlined pictures and jigsaw puzzles featuring scenes from the game can be printed from Sir Topham Hatt's office. After all chores are done, the player prepares James for his run by filling his tender with water and coal. Games are saved automatically under the user's name upon exit from the game. Michael Angelis narrates and voices the characters in this game in the UK and Robin Smith does so in the US version. | ||
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| Thomas and the Magic Railroad Print Studio | Hasbro Interactive, Europress | [top] | |
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This is based on the movie Thomas and the Magic Railroad and features narration by Michael Angelis. This is where imaginative and creative kids can try out many practical but fun projects. They'll find it's very easy to design and colour in their own creations, especially with help from Michael Angelis as Sir Topham Hatt. | ||
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| Three Worlds of Flipper & Lopaka, The | Forest Interactive Pty Ltd. / Yoram Gross-EM.TV Pty Ltd | [top] | |
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The game is dedicated to the children of 6 to 10 years and is based on the Australian animated series about the adventures of 11-year-old Polynesian boy Lopaka and his best friend, a dolphin named Flipper. We also meet other characters from the series, like girl Nola, the evil giant purple octopus Dexter etc. It's composed mostly of 12 mini-games set in the three worlds (those of Lopaka, Nola and Flipper - respectively, 'The Mountains', 'The Shoreline' and 'The Sea'). The challenges present some simple arcade adventures or educational puzzles. The first three games in each world could be completed in any order, then the fourth mini-game becomes available, and after that we can proceed to the next world. After all the three worlds are done, we can play the 'ultimate challenge' of searching for objects and then making out a jigsaw-puzzle. | ||
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| Timothy | Rebelmind / Akaei | [top] | |
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Timothy used to live a happy and peaceful life with his friends on their quiet, beautiful island. Everything was perfect until an evil Prince showed up and captured Basil, the butterfly. Now Timothy has to find his Kingdom of Darkness and rescue the friend. It won't be easy, because in order to reach his destination, our hero needs to complete scattered pieces of the Magic Portal first. The quest begins now... Timothy is a game targeted at a young audience. It's a blend of storytelling and many diversified mini-games (action, logic, education, puzzle, etc.) which easily bring fun to kids as well as their parents. It has exceptionally beautiful 3D rendered graphics, the same as in "Shrek" or "Toy Story". | ||
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| Tonka Power Tools | Hasbro Interactive | [top] | |
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This lets kids build virtual robots, assemble rockets, customize cars, build forts, or create something of their very own in three cool workshops. Onscreen action is controlled by a bright yellow, handheld Tonka power tool that uses touchpoint technology. Kids can cut out shapes, tighten bolts, weld, sand, glue, and paint right onscreen--you just point and squeeze the tool's handle. Choose from three fast-paced games: Tonka Pitstop Game, The Safe Game, and Tonka Towers Game. Kids get to print their cool creations as well as Tonka certificates. And, should help be needed, Tonka Joe's ready to lend a hand. With this playset for ages 5 and older, kids get to design advanced machines and inventions in the Tonka Tech Lab, or build a variety of wood structures in Tonka's Wood Shop. Then, there's the thrill of bringing visionary vehicles to life in the Tonka Vehicle Engineering Center. Tonka's fun handheld power tool operates up to 3 inches from your PC, and its Teflon tip is safe for both children and the screen. Up to 24 different virtual tools are available with a twist of the tool tip chuck, including a wrench, a screwdriver, paint brushes, a blowtorch, and more. | ||
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| Tonka: Dig 'n Rigs CD-Rom Playset | ImaginEngine / Hasbro Interactive | [top] | |
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This PC-compatible CD-ROM playset fits on top of your keyboard and features a driving wheel, a key, a gearshift, and lift controls, so budding young construction workers can get creative. Join Tonka Joe at one of four work sites, pick your rig, and complete a variety of construction jobs. Bulldoze, excavate, swing the wrecking ball, power the forklift, and more. Also included are four skill-building games, which promote color matching, hand-eye coordination, following directions, and problem solving. You can also print decals, vehicle information, coloring pages, and certificates for a job well done. The playset fits most standard Windows keyboards; it is not intended for use on laptops or ergonomic keyboards. | ||
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| Velveteen Rabbit Interactive Storybook, The | Encore Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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A classic story, The Velveteen Rabbit, comes to animated life in this interactive storybook from Encore Software. The program is aimed at younger audiences and features scenes designed for printing and coloring. Features: Learn while reading the Little Golden Book classic. Counting Challenge teaches children basic math skills through a variety of counting scenarios. Follow Along features pattern and color identification activities. | ||
| Wild West Math | Micrograms Publishing | [top] | |
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Wild West Math helps students in grades 2 - 6 develop and refine fundamental math skills. From memorization of basic math facts to the process of long division, important math skills are exercised and strengthened by an amusing assortment of colorful characters from the American Wild West. Program activities can be adjusted to accommodate a wide range of learning needs. Tutorial help screens provide carefully structured assistance. Informative records on both current and cumulative student work can be developed. It's just what calculatin' cowpokes need to round up first class math skills at their computer desktops. | ||
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| Yoho Ahoy: All Aboard | BBC Multimedia | [top] | |
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This kids game is based on the British animated children's television series about a group of distinct pirates, known as Yohos, who take residence on board their pirate ship, The Rubber Duck. The title of the show derives from the fact that the only words that the main characters say, depending on their feelings are "Yoho" and "Ahoy". The characters themselves are animated puppets. Aboard the pirate ship Rubber Duck, the seven seafaring friends have seven games to play and young fans won't be disappointed as the activities are stimulating and the characters are all adorable. Choose from the seven different games on offer, each takes only a couple of seconds to load and are more about enjoyment than competitive scoring. Help screens are very useful and include the option to make each of the games hard or easy so that the challenge can be kept fresh as children get better at the game. The simple games and puzzles include "Toot with Swab" where players can make harmonious noises and direct the characters to blow over the top of bottles to play scales or form a tune. Another favourite is "Mop with Poop" where the player can direct Poop to clean up the dirty water Cat has spilled before Bilge makes his deck inspection. "Chairs with Grog" is a virtual game of musical chairs and is great fun. | ||
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| Zoboomafoo: Animal Kids | Horizons / Brighter Child Interactive, LLC | [top] | |
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Zoboomafoo, featuring the Kratt Brothers (Martin and Chris), is an educational children's television show that airs on PBS in the United States. Like other games in the series, Zoboomafoo: Animal Kids focuses on a particular episode and presents the material as if the player were watching the program on television. The premise of this episode, as the title suggests, is to teach children about animals, by having them help the brothers care for the critters in Animal Junction. Combining full-motion video sequences starring the brothers Kratt, a lemur named Zoboomafoo, and live animals with animated games and features, the program deals with educational skill-building activities in the areas of picture recognition, eye-hand coordination, matching, and coloring. Intended for audiences in the three-to-eight-year-old age group, the game offers six "Print and Do Creature Craft" project suggestions, such as making a windsock, bird's nest, or pinecone bird feeder, and includes a print function for saving many of the activities. The game features three difficulty levels and nine breaks in the show, during which Zoboo introduces a different game to play, songs, and clips from the television show, and a complete Zoboomafoo adventure. As a reward for winning games, the player receives "googleberries," which are used for gaining additional goodies. The interface is mainly point-and-click with some keyboard input required. | ||
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| Air [J] | Key / Visual Art's | [top] | |
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Air is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Key released on September 8, 2000 for Windows PCs. Key later released versions of Air without the erotic content, and the game was ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. The story follows the life of Yukito Kunisaki, a traveling showman searching for the "girl in the sky". He arrives in a quiet, seaside town where he meets three girls, one of whom is the key to the end of his journey. The gameplay in Air follows a branching plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the three female main characters by the player character. The game is divided into three segments—Dream, Summer, and Air—which serve as different phases in the overall story. The title of the game reflects the prominent themes of the air, skies, and use of wings throughout gameplay. The game ranked as the best-selling PC game sold in Japan for the time of its release, and charted in the national top 50 several more times afterwards. Air has sold over 300,000 units across several platforms. | ||
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| Animal Magnetism: Pochi no Daisuki [J] | Gainax | [top] | |
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Pochi is left alone by her owner. How will she cope with her newfound desperation? | ||
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| Ao no Ballade: Ballade de Azure [J] | GAIA, Rachel | [top] | |
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Akira is an amateur musician aiming to become a professional. On a rainy day he meets a girl while working a part-time job. She turns out out to be a daughter of a famous musical producer. Her father becomes the biggest barrier on the way to love as he promises Akira to disqualify him from a musical contest if he continues to pursue producer's daughter. | ||
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| Ayatsuri no Kyoushitsu [J] | FlyingShine, rúf | [top] | |
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Main character sneaks into his Alma mater school as a half joke with friends, but he can't get out. If he escapes somehow, he gets killed. Eventually memories of old cases of hypnotism at their school revive in everyone's heads. | ||
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| B.B. Oh,yes! Jonny! [J] | Fairytale, F&C Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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American rockabilly "Johnny" is a self-proclaimed remodeled person from the evil society. He comes to show his Japanese friend the "brilliant nature world" of girls. But in fact he just uses "small Johnny" devices to peep and eavesdrop on girls. What kind of world does he have to offer? | ||
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| Bible Black -La noche de walpurgis- : The Game | ActiveSoft / Kitty Media | [top] | |
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This is an adult hentai game that Milky Studio has since been adapted into several hentai original video animations. The first adaption, simply titled Bible Black, consisted of six episodes animating numerous scenes from the video game. The Bible Black series features frequent sex and horror scenes, and revolves around a high school rumored to have been the base of operations for a coven twelve years prior to the premier installment. Comprised of this school's students, the self-dubbed "Witchcraft Club" practiced black magic in a storage room deep within the basement of the institute. Both teachers and students practicing the dark occult religion involving incantation sex and human sacrifice is a common occurrence in Bible Black and its many adaptions. Taki Minase, a high school student, finds a book of black magic in the isolated storage room of his school. He begins practicing black magic, which has extreme sexual effects that benefit him and his friends, until evil comes forth from the dark craft. Eventually, the origins of the book are revealed, as is the incident on Walpurgis Night twelve years prior, when the evil force was at its strongest. After coming to his senses, Minase struggles to get himself out of the darkness into which he has put himself and his best friend and secret love, Kurumi Imari. The game has twelve different endings and the storyline often diverges based on choices made by the player, which influence "neutral" endings, "chaos" endings and "low" endings. However, there is only one outcome regarded by its developers as the "true" ending. Bible Black was officially published in English in 2006, under the name Bible Black: The Game. The US version of game package was changed to cover nipples. A DVD version later released has enhanced features including animated sequences (from first 2 chapters of OVA). | ||
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| Bibou Vintage 2000 [J] | Hyperspace | [top] | |
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Mysterious woman invites main character to an old mansion. There are four girls awaiting there. Bring them pain and turn it into pleasure. | ||
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| Biko 2: Reversible Face [J] | Illusion Software | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese 3D stalking simulation. You play as Inagaki Tetsuya, a guy who stalks pretty girls. The game starts in "adventure mode" where you are looking for objects that you will need later. When you see a girl that you like, you attempt to follow her through the city, trying not to alert her about your presence and not to lose her at the same time. After you successfully pursue the girl through several areas you finally run her down and... are presented with a number of pretty CG images, animation and may be even an interactive 3D rape scene. But the ending depends on the choices that you made in the beginning - you may get a romatic ending, sadistic ending, or the girl might just run away. There are 5 girls, each with unique images, city stalking levels and final scenes. | ||
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| Days Of Oblivion II: The Frozen Eternity | CDV Software Entertainment AG / Toygardens Media | [top] | |
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This is the sequel to Days of Oblivion. It is a dark, erotic, futuristic adventure. Both north and south poles melted, a huge amount of water made turned earth into a giant ocean with 20 million people living in cities-islands. One of such cities is called Twin Town - and there you have to complete your quest. The year is 2145, one year after the events of the previous game. Wong, the bad guy from the first part, won't let it go until his desire for revenge is satisfied. You can (actually, must) play three different characters in order to solve the game. This game, although very popular in Germany, is actually pretty much unknown outside of this country. | ||
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| Deep/Zero [J] | Selen | [top] | |
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A novice nurse comes to the hospital. Doctor smiles at the appearance of a new prey as he established slave-master relations with all other women in this institution already. | ||
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| Dennou Gekidan Muu Ichiza Dai 2 Kai Kouen Rika Junbishitsu de Tsukamaete [J] | Artifact | [top] | |
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Ultra Mysterious Study Group has a clash among its members. The opposing faction decides to assault girl scientist in the science preparation room at night. Protagonist assists the girl at this time - will he be able to help her? | ||
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| Dennou Gekidan Muu Ichiza Dai 3 Kai Kouen Matsuri no Yoru no Yume [J] | Artifact | [top] | |
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Main heroine lost her parents early and was brought up in a neighbor family that had a boy in it. The fresh siblings grow up and one day go to a festival there. There is a bad premonition about the kappa monster on the pond lurking here, but heroes still make their way there... | ||
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| Dennou Gekidan Muu Ichiza Shokai Kouen Itsuka Mita Mermaid [j] | Artifact | [top] | |
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Main character is a millionaire son who is sure he was saved by a mermaid in his childhood. He escapes from his control-freak wife to the island of his memories where he encountered the mermaid. | ||
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| Doushin: Same Heart | Crowd / Peach Princess | [top] | |
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This dating sim/eroge game has a multiple-choice, "zapping" interface with a lot of CG. You take the role of one of the three Suruga sisters: Ryoko, Maki and Miho. Each one has their own storyline, however their storyline are intertwined as the sisters have a secret they can't tell anyone: due to an unexplained physical phenomenon, a sensation shared by one Suruga sister will be felt by her two sisters, no matter where they are. The areas of exploration vary depending upon who one plays, though certain areas, such as the house and main commercial street are the same for all three. Depending upon the character one is playing, one's role varies. To get a good ending one must pay attention to all the clues and at time one must use the zapping mechanism of the game. One can turn on a reference that gives one a letter grade as to how close one is to a good ending as well. Zapping allows you to move from one girl to another. Sometimes you can switch between any of them and sometimes you are limited for various reasons. Switching is supposed to be conversations started during that timeslot, though sometimes you can switch 5 minutes to the past/future. Zapping is not only useful to get all the scenes, but changes the storyline and is necessary to get all the endings. However, using this may block other encounters later on so you have to be careful how you use this. An English version was released in 2006. | ||
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| Elle / él [J] | Elf Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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In 2030, nuclear war broke out over the environmental pollution issue. Many people lost their lives due to radioactivity. The people, who survived the barren Earth, started the "Megaro Earth Project" to save human existence. In a last hope for survival against nuclear war, a city was built in a dome in order to save civilization. Gimmick, a mysterious man who leads a secret organization called "Black Widow", is planning to obstruct the implementation of the "Megaro Earth Project". In order to oppose Gimmick's organization, members of the counter terrorism group, along with lady sniper "EL", were formed. Unfortunately the group has not been making much progress with their tasks. As a Sniper with the highest rank of SS you have been recently transferred to the group to assist with their task of opposing Gimmick while also doing your best to keep your skill and overall rank a secret from your peers. Expect the worse and unexpected. | ||
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| Enamel Panic [J] | F&C | [top] | |
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Main character is a reincarnation of a legendary hero. He has no choice but to save a different world by collecting crystals, rescuing damsels in distress and defeating the demon king. | ||
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| Fairy Nights | Milky House | [top] | |
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This is a sequel to Legend of Fairies. The Shikigami sisters, Kumi and Koukaku, have to return to the Fairy Village. Jango, the hero of the series, a P.I. living in modern-day Tokyo, have to accompany them to their mysterious land, or lose them forever. But the evil Organization is not yet defeated. In this ultimate battle, the destiny of Shikigami lies in Jango's hands... A hentai/animé "digital novel", "Fairy Nights" is influenced by Japanese folk mythology. The gameplay consists of progressing the story by scrolling text and animé-style pictures that reflect the events of the game. It's actually the third in a series called Waku Waku Mahjongg Panic! and when translated to English, they removed the whole mahjongg game in it. | ||
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| Gainax Renzoku Satsujin Jiken Ero [J] | Gainax | [top] | |
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Main character is a new editor who participates in Gainax new game planning meeting in the mountains. However, as soon as team gathers, storm breaks out cutting way back. Meanwhile, Gainax staff members start to get killed one after another. Can protagonist find a criminal and develop special relations with staff girls under these circumstances? | ||
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| Gin'iro [J] | NekoNeko Soft | [top] | |
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Giniro is a beautifully crafted fantasy tale comprised of four chapters. It is a bittersweet story of the legendary Silver Thread which is fabled to grant any wish to its holder. | ||
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| Hakoten Jan [J] | ZyX | [top] | |
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Main character works in sales department of Mahjong organization. He needs to bright the light of mahjong to families, institutions and even wastelands. Who will he choose as opponents? Of course, only beautiful girls. | ||
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| Harlem Blade II: Dark Angel | Giga | [top] | |
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Our guy left his childhood girl and went to war against a monster after his father got killed in it. When he came back a year later, he was just in time to see his childhood girl taken away by the monster’s army. He joined the resistance and started to find her. Within 30 days, he can help girls who will join him in the fight. | ||
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| Inside Chessie | RedFire Software / CDV Software Entertainment | [top] | |
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Chessie Moon, known from phone sex advertising, is the little sister of the well-known Lula. She will frolic and loll around on your PC in the future. This hot chick is actually spreading over your desktop and really heating you up. It's an erotic arcade game where the player is required to use various techniques in order to get what he wants from the beautiful Chessie. | ||
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| Interact Play [J] | Dreams Co., Ltd. / Illusion | [top] | |
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In this adult game, the player controls a young man who likes stalking young women on train stations, following them, molesting them on the train, and then bringing them to the point where they can't resist any more, and raping them. The gameplay is divided into several stages for each girl. First the "hero" must approach them unnoticed on the train. Then he begins molesting her (touching her breast, lifting up her skirt, etc.). Each action is physically performed by pointing the mouse at the appropriate body part, clicking and dragging it, controlling the direction and the intensity of the movement. There are Ecstasy and Time bars to pay attention to. The goal is to fill up the Ecstasy bar before the Time bar becomes depleted (which leads to Game Over), alternating between different actions. Once the girl's Ecstasy bar is full, it becomes possible to take off the next part of her clothes. The player must make the girl submit to the protagonist completely before she gets off the train. Going through several such stages, the protagonist finally manages to lead the girl to a secluded place, where an interactive scene takes place. Those scenes play similarly to the molestation attempts before, but without the time meter. | ||
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| Lovely Angels Peropero Candy 2 [J] | Mink | [top] | |
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The stage is an Image club where one can order various situations for sex. Main character walks inside by mistake but is unable to forget about this place afterwards. Shunpei, who was worried about his sister Moeka, who lives alone in Tokyo, asked him to take a look at the situation. Shunpei met near her workplace because she was busy with her studies and work, but the promised place was in front of the luxury image club "Minkest", which was decorated with flashy neon lights. Shunpei was waiting for Moeka to come, feeling uncomfortable with her, but she didn't show up after waiting for 30 minutes. Then, a man who seems to be calling "Minkest" forcibly brought him into the store and received the service of his No. 1 daughter. And when I was waiting in a private room with excitement, what appeared there ...! ?? The third multi-situation / secret / simulator is back. This time as well, the player is a male customer who goes to a sex shop, a luxury image club "Minkest", and has a sex history of 5 with the setting of Candy, a sex girl who enjoyed a lot of affectionate sex even in the previous work, and a player's sister. Let's enjoy a moment of pleasure and excitement with various items in various costumes in various places, and Candy-chan, a newcomer of the month. | ||
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| Luna Season: 150 Bun no 1 no Koibito [J] | Emu | [top] | |
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Main character is a high school student who has bad luck with women, being turned down by 149 girls in three years. The relationship with the 150th girl finally lasts a whole month. On a helpless impulse he rapes her, and relations are on their way to disconnection. Is protagonist doomed? | ||
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| MaeStro [J] | Sorciere / Soleil | [top] | |
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Protagonist comes to a usual piano lesson where he is suddenly sexually assaulted by his female teacher. A whole new world of experiments and pleasure opens up before him since then. | ||
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| Maid in Bunny [J] | Eushully | [top] | |
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The game is pretty much like a fairy tale, and takes place in a peaceful kingdom. The heroine (yes no hero this time) of the game is called Elena, one of the many maids in the castle serving the royalty. What makes Elena special besides her clumsiness and pure (yet cute) innocence is that she is the exclusive maid who takes care of Prince Galu. The 2 of them have a close relationship which makes other maids quite jealous. Anyways, Elena and Galu was chatting in the garden one day. In the meantime, a mysterious lady came to the throne claiming that she is the dark race and wants to take over the castle (yes it's kinda pathetic but remember, it's a FAIRY TALE). She turns the King into stone. When the Maid Head realizes the problem, she starts to attack the lady. However, the Maid Head's thunderbolts renders useless because the lady had the ancient relic to protect her against magic attacks. Realizing the trouble, the Maid Head decides to ring the alarm to summon all the maids in the castle to hit the lady with brooms etc since that's physical attacks rather than magical attacks. Just when Elena and Galu heard the alarm, a Succubus as well as the mysterious lady popped out of nowhere wanting to hold Prince Galu captive. Elena tries to defend the prince but fails. Galu decides to give in since he doesn't want to see Elena get hurt. The succubus then carries Elena in the air and flew out of the castle to get rid of the maid. A slip in the hand made Elena free fall into the ground from the air. In the meantime, Revea, a royal magician who lives outside the castle sees the invasion of the Dark race. She tells her student Yuri the white mage, to go and find the legendary hero and save the kingdom. Yuri leaves and finds Elena climbing up from the ground where she fell from the sky. At the same time a bunch of monsters popped out of nowhere. When asked by Yuri if she has any weapon, the only thing Elena has is a feather duster. Yuri then uses his magic to enlarge Elena's duster, making her be able to slap the monsters and destroy them. With this enlarged duster as her weapon, Elena along with Yuri have to find a way to get back into the castle (which is now protected by a force field) and save Prince Galu. | ||
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| Me-ga-mi: Megami-chan Get Daisenryaku!? [J] | Choco | [top] | |
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Long ago there was a battle between two races. One was a force centered on Orion, whose appearance resembled humanity today. The difference was two white feathers growing from the back, they wanted peace and love... The other was a force centered on the sonorot. These were also very similar to human beings. What was different was the sharp horn that grew from the head with two black feathers growing from his back. They wanted fighting, power and desire... The fight was extremely fierce, and the two forces decided to see the end by destroying the opponent's mother star. Each tribe who lost their homeland to return home to the earth I got past. Orion's tribe set up a base on the back side of the moon. People started to call them angels. The tribe of Kotoda set up a base on Mars. People have come to call them a demon. And of course there was a conflict between the two forces .. the times of thousands of years have flowed, some accident happened. A woman was not born in an angel. The way left to them was to choose a goddess among the women of the earth, except to keep the tribe. Of course the devils can not be in the way. Thus the goddess battle between heaven and hell started on the earth. The protagonist is doing Putaro who does not increase Udatsu, but in reality it is an angel who flew to the earth to find a marriage partner. In order to maintain an angelic tribe whose women are no longer born, the hero must find a bride on Earth at all. Find the girl who becomes the "goddess" of the angelic tribe among the earthling. The hero's bride searching begins... | ||
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| Men at Work! 2 ~Hunter Academy e Youkoso~ / Men at Work! 2 [J] | Studio e.go! | [top] | |
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A Hunter Academy was established to teach Monster Hunters. Cliff came to the academy to become a Hunter, but the place turns out to be an old building unlike its name suggests, and the great Hunter couple who was supposed to teach him leaves the Academy to go solve an incident in another town. The Hunter candidates are all girls except for Cliff. And after many turns of events, Cliff is placed in charge of the Academy and gets to stay with all the girls. | ||
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| Miboujin: Niku Dorei [J] | Guilty | [top] | |
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Six years ago, Yuki Takazawa moved to Moriwaki, home of the textile industry. Through an introduction from her relative, Yuki began working at a pub in front of the station. With her physical beauty and attractiveness, she quickly becomes popular and later marries Koichi Takazawa, an honest textile technician. They begin a happy life together, but Koichi dies of cancer four years later. A week after Koichi's funeral, Yuki entertains her late husband's bosses, Saiga, Tsurushima, and Komaki. The three men suddenly pull out knives and threaten her. They tell her that Koichi embezzled the company's money and passed it to his mistress, Naomi Machida. The three beasts rape Yuki all night and force her to become Saiga's sex slave. Saiga continues to sexually train Yuki. One day, Saiga calls Yuki to a club called Papillon, and he has her meet a dirty broker, Banji Sakamura, and the hostess of Papillon. The excitement continues to escalate... What will become of Yuki? What does Saiga really want from Yuki? | ||
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| Nise Scout: Guuzou Muhiden [J] | Vision | [top] | |
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This is an adult hentai visual novel. Somewhere in the streets is much like a different world. One man has lost the dream. He goes out to scout girls to find them in the city and skillfully deceive and imprison them. He's going to try one woman after another to try and regain the same dream he had cherished. It uses 3D polygons for a real-time tracking system, to collect information about targets on the map, and you can lock-on and zoom. Once you have discovered a girl, you can follow them by camera so as not to be noticed. | ||
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| Nozoku [J] | Hyperspace | [top] | |
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Main character gets acquainted with a cute girl. He asks around about her living place and sees a horny scene upon arrival. He decides to stuff the house with peeping equipment. | ||
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| Officer Krupt | TheRomp.com | [top] | |
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Officer Krupt was a short-lived interactive flash animated series that was made exclusively for TheRomp.com. The series lasted for only three segments (a preview prologue and two full episodes) before it abruptly ended due to ongoing financial difficulties with TheRomp.com. The game tells the story of Officer Krupt: a police officer working for the New Angeles police department. Tasked with appeasing a mafia lord he's known since childhood and whom he now secretly collaborates with, players must help Krupt both deal with his hetic police routine and simultaneously help complete missions given to him by the mafia. The game uses choose your own adventure formula in which you are presented multiple choices. Picking the right ones is key to winning the game. On occasion though, the game does shift into a arcade mode in which you must win minigames to progress. The first episode for example involves you shooting a robbery who is holding up a local store while the second episode requires you to engage in fisticuffs with a security guard. The series is aimed solely at adults due to its high degree of adult material. | ||
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| Patti Pain Bondage Poker | Redfire Games / CDV Software Entertainment | [top] | |
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In an old warehouse, deep down in the basement, there is the dungeon of Mistress Patti Stoker, also known as Patti Pain. She owns three slaves against whom you must prove your skill in poker. If you lose, you, like her butler, will become her slave. Forever... This is the short story behind the game, developed by the company known for its erotic comic games, such as Inside Lula. Also you only get to see erotic drawings or short animations, which makes the game get away with a USK16. The game itself is a typical strip poker variation and actually addresses only men as a target group. There are three difficulty levels and three opponents. If the selected opponent, who is captivated on the screen during the entire game, loses 100 monetary units, a short video sequence is shown, where certain parts are zoomed in closer. The game remains decent and leaves the slaves at least their panties (in reality, that would certainly be different). After this sequence, one then sees the slave tied up in another, usually more erotic, position. It remains to be hoped that one preserves the nerves at this sight and continues to play calmly. While considering which tactic to use next, one hears lashes followed by groaning noises as underpinning. Especially the lashes are really successful and contribute to a "good" atmosphere. As an additional feature, the graphics can also be set to black and white, which some people find even more aesthetic. | ||
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| Persiom: Yakusoku no Tsudou Basho [J] | Alice Soft | [top] | |
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PERSIOM takes place in a dungeon that leads to Hades and hell. Even though it is extremely dangerous, heroes enter to find treasure and make lots of money. Oh, and you can also capture female monsters. | ||
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| Pure Mail [J] | 0verflow | [top] | |
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Kei has a difficult past with an abusive father and has problems socializing with people directly, so he chooses chatroom acquaintances over real people. But one day he discovers that his chat partner EVE is his classmate Midori, who has a crush on A,W - his internet alias. He falls in love with Midori but hides his idealized A,W identity from her so she would not be deterred by his real self, tainted by past and present events, and blackmailed into a slave-like relationship with the school's web mistress. | ||
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| Rendezvous with a Stranger Girl | Experience Entertainment Software / Russobit-M | [top] | |
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This is an interactive date simulation where you are a man who meets three young girls (Anna, Natalya, and Oxana) in a night club. Talking about different themes, flirting and teasing, you choose one of them and the goal is to make her do a striptease. You can also choose two of them (Anna and Natalya) and lead them to flirt with each other. Apart from the intro the entire game consists of full-motion video, with the conversation options as an overlay on top of it. The three girls speak Russian, but there are both Russian and English subtitles. | ||
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| Ryoujokuki [J] | Guilty, GuiltyN | [top] | |
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A serious change occurred to a pharmacy worker after taking part in test of a new medical drug. It turned out to have an effect of superb narcotics and aphrodisiacs making a big fuss within the staff... | ||
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| See in Ao [J] | Alice Soft | [top] | |
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Kyoya goes to Andrude Ocean School, which is also a large ocean city. Kyoha saved Kisaragi Miyu who lost conscience her memory three years ago. Since then, she has had a secret yearning to him. Her twin sister, Yumi, is helping Miyu fulfill her love, but her thought is wavering between Kyoya and her sister. They lost their parents and they've lived helping each other. However, one day, Yumi turns out to be a biological android that the parents made. | ||
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| Sense Off: A Sacred Story in the Wind [J] | Otherwise | [top] | |
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The protagonist of the story, Naoya, was hospitalised after getting in a bicycle accident. During his treatment, it is found that he exhibits a number of unusual brain wave patterns, and he is asked to move into a particular Cognition Dynamics Research Laboratory to undergo further testing, along with a handful of other young people who exhibit similar characteristics. With his newfound friends, Naoya takes classes, has fun and lives peacefully in blissful ignorance of the truth behind their gathering together. While it is difficult to say much about the story without spoiling a good deal of the enjoyment, this is not a title to underestimate, and in whichever route you end up going down, the story will quickly spiral into something far more intricate and detailed than you likely thought possible. | ||
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| Sensei 2 | D.O. Corp. / G-Collections & JAST USA | [top] | |
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Shuichi Nakata is at his father's deathbed when he is visited by his childhood friend and sister figure, Kumiko. Out of contact for several years, Kumiko convinces Shuichi to move to her town and study at the school where she is now a teacher. The Nakata family is one of the most powerful in Japan, but Shuichi learns that all may not be as it seems. Evil blood flows through his veins. Sensei 2 is an interactive novel. It plays through at its own pace, pausing on occasion to allow the user to intervene by making a decision, thus resulting in a plot branch. The game features several different endings. The game features graphic images of non-consensual sex, and is not for play by minors. The english release came out in 2003. | ||
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| Tokumei Kachou Ijuuin Ginzaburou [J] | Digi Anime, Cain | [top] | |
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Japan is devastated by the eruption of Mt. Fuji in 2010. A huge casino is built on the ruins of the city under JCP company. Main character is JCP intelligence agent tasked to prevent hostile companies plotting against JCP. Hero knows special technique from ancient India to make girls fall for him in an instant, and he utilizes it against females of the rival corporations to learn their scheming and secrets. | ||
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| Tsukushite Agechau [J] | Trabulance & Contents Traffic Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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Main character is hooligan who spends school days fighting and now is hospitalized due to a minor incident. A cute girl visits him there. Other girls get jealous and a fierce girl battle for the hero begins. It's an easygoing and short love comedy. There are 5+1 heroines and playtime is around 3 hours. Game series involves somewhat aggressive girls behavior. | ||
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| TZ-Strip Poker II | TZ-Ware | [top] | |
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A spicy card game where you can play poker with a pretty lady. The program is colored by digitized sound and image. The rules of the game are traditional. The playing area is divided into two areas: On the left is one of five "beauties" - there is only one opponent in the test version. The card game itself takes place in a small area on the right. Bidding, increasing contributions, skillful bluffs and poker face lead to success and take off your opponent's clothes. | ||
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| Yu-No: The Girl that Chants Love at the Edge of the World | Elf, MAGES. Inc. / TLWiki, Spike Chunsoft Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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Takuya Arima is a young student whose father, a historian who has conducted various researches, disappeared recently. During a summer vacation Takuya receives a peculiar package from his missing father, along with a letter containing information about the existence of various parallel worlds. At first Takuya doesn’t take it seriously, but soon he realizes that he possesses a device that allows him to travel to alternate dimensions. Is his father alive, after all? If so, where is he? This is a Japanese-style adventure (still screens viewed from first-person perspective, a lot of dialogue) with a unique feature: multiple story paths are shown on a special map and can be accessed within the same playing session, by using orbs like the one Takuya finds in his home at the beginning of the game. If a path leads to a dead end, the player can opt to use a stone, go back, and investigate another place to lead the story into a different direction. The interaction with the game world does not involve menu commands, as in most Japanese adventures (except in the prologue); instead, a point-and-click interface is used. The game's original PC-98 and Windows releases feature explicit sex scenes. In 2011, the Windows version of Yu-No was fan-translated into English by a group gathered on TLWiki (chief translator Phar). Besides translating all the text, the patch released by them also allowed playing the game with full voice-overs from the Saturn version, removed some censorship in the erotic scenes, and imported higher-quality music from the PC-98 CD release. A hentai anime OVA as well as a manga and several novels were later released. In 2019, an official English version was released. | ||
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| Yume Tenshi R [J] | Triangle & Tristar | [top] | |
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This is a virtual simulation entertainment salon. The number of available characters is less than in prequel, but the variety of situations is greatly improved. | ||
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| Apsaras / アプサラス [J] | Koei / コーエー | [top] | |
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The chaotic red moon rises in the sky - Swords, magic, and adventure. The essence of a medieval fantasy RPG is finally here. Because we share our destiny, we are thrilled and friendship grows. Equipped with many original systems that bring the best sense of accomplishment as the players unite. Mr. Jun Suemi For the character illustration of the soul, Mr. Jun Suemi, a leading figure in fantasy illustration, is appointed. It depicts a unique world view with an oriental mood. Create the strongest item by synthesizing items. You can enjoy the fun of evolving into a stronger product by multiplying the items you have obtained. The contents of the replay level are perfect, such as a chat system with studded network play, an automatically generated dungeon that you can play many times , and a team battle mode. Network role-playing game and also a single play mode that you can enjoy without connecting to the network. | ||
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| Arcturus: Curse & Loss Of Divinity [K] | Sonnori Co., Ltd., Gravity Corporation / WizardSoft, Falcom | [top] | |
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Arcturus is a traditional RPG featuring what has been slowly fading into obscurity since the advent of the "next generation" consoles, and was nearly non-existent on the PC: 2D sprites. Arcturus uses these vividly colored anime-inspired sprites on crisp and well-detailed 3d backgrounds. An evil is growing in the world, and two adventurers leave home in search of a better life. It has splendid 3D special effects of Alpha-Blending, Camera Walk, Bump-Mapping and Particle. Gorgeous graphics with or without 3D accelerator cards. Diary mode in which you can find your own information at any time. More than 70 background music titles from classical to heavy metal. Two different story modes of political and religious. In the beginning one gets to chose between two runaway kids who end up as a magician's apprentices, and an aristocrat pretty boy who's sent out to search for powerful magical artifacts by his uncle, the nominal governor of a republic actually ruled by a council of cloaked old men, who hopes to use them to change the political situation in his favor. Eventually both stories are connected to finish the game with one single party. Not only the graphics engine resembles Grandia with its 2D sprite characters in a polygonal world, the action time bar in combat works similarly too, although the whole system is more akin to the more dynamic variant in Grandia II (which was released only a couple of months before Arcturus. Untypical for the genre, however, combat plays a minor role overall. The focus rather lies on the dialogues and story, and Arcturus contains lots and lots of text. In Korea, Arcturus was originally published in a luxurious limited edition package, including a scarf, six CDs (with soundtrack), an art book with concept sketches, a huge colored manual, a poster and cardboard flaps with papercraft buildings from the game. The art book soon became subject of a plagiarism scandal, as 17 monster designs contributed by an external illustrator were stolen from Yasushi Nirasawa's works. A team called Mirror Moon had been working on an English translation for Arcturus, based on the Japanese script of the Falcom version, but eventually it was put on indefinite hiatus. | ||
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| Atelier Elie: Salburg no Renkinjutsushi 2 [J] | Gust Co. Ltd. / Imagineer Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is essentially a PC port of the 1998 Playstation game with minor differences such as: The game running in a higher resolution; New events exclusive to this edition; A communication mode, which allows players to accept customer requests from the internet. By clearing these requests, players could be awarded with screensavers and exclusive items. It's a turn-based RPG with isometric graphics, and the second entry to the Atelier series by Gust. The player assumes the role of a new alchemist protagonist named Elfir Traum (nicknamed "Elie"), working on the same Salburg Academy of the first game. The main gameplay mechanic remains the same: the player has to research and synthesize items on the academy's facilities, while going on exploratory trips to gather more ingredients and materials. The academy has the traditional RPG shops for armor, weapons and items. Other characters can be found milling around the scenery, and some of them can be invited to join the party. The combat interface shows a small portion of the terrain with an overlaid grid, where the combatants take turns attacking and defending each other. Helpful items that act as health and attack spells can be created in the academy and added to the available arsenal. The characters level up automatically after each successful battle. When all the party members are defeated the game returns to Elie's laboratory at the academy. | ||
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| Atelier Marie: Salburg no Renkinjutsushi [J] | Gust Co. Ltd. / Imagineer Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is essentially a PC port of the 1997 Playstation game with minor differences such as: The game running in a higher resolution; New events exclusive to this edition; A communication mode, which allows players to accept customer requests from the internet. By clearing these requests, players could be awarded with screensavers and exclusive items. Marlone is a student at the Royal School of Sorcery (known simply as "The Academy") in the city of Salberg. She's studying to become an alchemist, but her grades are, to put it lightly, not good. Unable to graduate, she is given a special exam: continue her studies while running a shop, and learn to create a high-level item within five years. And so, Marlone is now running the shop, attempting to pass her exam in order to graduate. Atelier Marie is the first title in the long-running alchemy RPG series from Gust, and establishes many of the features common to the series. Central to the game is researching different items, locating them, and fusing them to create (hopefully) more powerful ones. You can also explore the city and outside, looking for items and training your characters' fighting abilities in battle. All the while, those five years are slowly ticking away, so you'd better make the most of them. | ||
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| Avernum | Spiderweb Software | [top] | |
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Avernum is a remake of Exile, Spiderweb Software's first game. It uses the Nethergate game engine and plays in much the same way. A few things have been improved, however. Instead of just clicking on subjects players want to know more about in conversations, and getting static data as feedback, they can now select from several choices of what to say. It is a more natural system, like in Ultima Underworld. The combat has not changed significantly, except that there are new weapons, and many more spells, than in previous games, and these have altered graphics. The sprite animation has been expanded on, and additional frames added to the character animations. The isometric tile-by-tile scrolling view has not changed, but the many frames added on will help improve combat.
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| Avernum 2 | Spiderweb Software | [top] | |
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Avernum 2 is an overhaul of Exile 2: Crystal Souls. This version uses an improved Nethergate engine and adds new spells, quests, characters, classes, and other things. The conversations have changed from asking about one work to get a response to asking preset questions. The effect is a more natural conversation such as in a game like Baldur's Gate or other similar RPGs. If you are not familiar with Exile 2: The Crystal Souls, you play as a party of adventurers. Your duty is to make sure that you help the ancient Vahnatai and secure a peace between your two peoples. Your people, the Exiles, need their help to defeat the invading Empire forces.
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| Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn | BioWare Corporation / Interplay Productions, Inc. | [top] | |
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Baldur's Gate 2 is a party-based roleplaying game using the AD&D rules. Welcome to the beautiful land of Amn, where the sun always shines and evil mages grow and prosper. One of these is the powerful sorcerer Irenicus, who takes delight in studying mortal offspring of the gods -- such as you. Remember Baldur's Gate 1? You've been revealed to be a child of Bhaal (aka Lord of Terror, Bringer of Destruction, and so on), and your battle against the evil side of your soul is the main theme in Baldur's Gate 2. At your side: The well-known companions Imoen, Jaheira and Minsc (and his hamster Boo, of course) as well as a score of new potential party members. All in all, there are 16 NPCs to join you on your journey; however, your party consists of a maximum of 6 characters. As in Baldur's Gate, the frequent battles are real-time, but can be paused at any time with the space key. You may then think over tactical decisions, issue new orders or chose a spell. There's plenty of those: With over 300 magical formulae, the repertoire has almost tripled since Badur's Gate. Upon character creation, you can chose three new classes (sorcerer, monk, barbarian) and a lot of new specializations for the already existing classes; a paladin can become a dragon slayer or an inquisitor, for example. The weapon categories have been split up; instead of specializing in blades, you now have to chose between long swords, two-handed swords, bastard swords, katanas and scimitars. All in all, there are 20 weapon categories and 4 fighting skills like "two weapons". The backgrounds may now be viewed in the resolution of 800x600 pixels, as well as the old 640x480. The game also supports 3D accelerators for improved lighting effects.
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| Battle of the Youstrass | Team DarkLand, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a shareware Japanese-style tactical role-playing game. The game takes place on the world of Youstrass where two countries share a single continent and where technology and magic co-exist. One of the countries, Kradion, is largely frozen. Its people are famous for their mercenary soldiers and mechanical fighters. The other country, Welfrad, is prosperous and fertile. Kradion depends on imported food. When the great famine struck there was no food available and times were hard, so Kradion attacked Welfrad, all but destroying Welfrad's royal knight units. Just a few ace units survived because they were not in the capital when the attack came. Among these is Ryuke, aka Blue Wing, chief knight of the royal army, who pilots the elemental fighter Huben Drake. The game starts with Ryuke separated from surviving units. He must survive and join his comrades to wage guerrilla war on the enemy. The game consists of large-scale tactical battles, which are played on an isometrically viewed map, only part of which can be seen at once. There is a mini map in the lower left of the screen which shows the whole game area and the location of any other units, both friends and foe. During actual battles between units the game switches to a different view which displays the combat. As combat progresses the character collects experience points, special items, and additional special abilities. | ||
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| Boomerang Fighter [K] | KidnKid / WizardSoft | [top] | |
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This game is based on the Bikkuriman 2000 anime which was licensed from a set of popular trading cards/stickers. It's a collection of mini games. There are almost no story elements. In addition, there are no AIs in this period, but if the player just does A, then the computer behaves just as it is supposed to do B. So there is no randomness. Just play it over and over again and you will be able to create a complete action plan automatically. However, if you look at the screenshots on the back of the CD case , you can see the story or game scenes that you can not see in the game. | ||
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| Broken Land, The | AcePlatinous Family / ArcMedia.com Inc. | [top] | |
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The Broken Land is a Diablo style action role-playing game with a real-time combat environment. The game goal is to find five relics: the Flaming Axe, the Bow of Snow, the Gauntlet of Life, the Holy Staff and the Dark Sword that are scattered over the four parts of the Broken Land. Your objective is to put them back in the Frozen Shrine at the end of the journey. In comparison with Diablo II, The Broken Land is pretty basic, no multi-player, much worse done combats (though they're almost the same like in Diablo - click over enemy to fight), no movies etc. | ||
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| Chinese Heroes [Ch] | Hong Kong Yabok Zhiguan | [top] | |
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This is a role-playing game based on the manga of the same name. In this game, players will play as Hua Hero and experience many of the thrilling stories in the original comic book. The immortal myth of Hong Kong martial arts comics. A classic game that must be watched and played! Painting wizard Ma Rongcheng is the originator of the Series of Mann Paintings! I was destined to commit a lonely star, to grow old without a companion, and to be lonely all my life. My sword will kill all the unrighteous people of the world!" In the name of a hero! Stage: From Middle-earth to Chinatown Turtle Island, Dongyuetan, statue of Liberty, the famous wonders in front of you, breaking through the traditional scene. Masters: Shadowless Gate, Black Dragon Society, Luo Xiu let the masters do their best, step by step; Drunkenness, Sword Saint, Sun Moon Gate God and other hermit masters appeared one by one! Martial Arts: Five Pole Divine Skills, Four Seasons Sword Technique, Immeasurable Divine Palm, Four Elephant Evil Skills, all kinds of absolute and explosive attacks, about to attack the exotic land. Sound: Specially hired professional voice actors record voice to make the game full of life! The theme song tailored for the game, the voice sings the hero's pride and courage! There are also a variety of insects and birds, battle music and sound effects, making the game full of excitement! Looks: As many as 200 comic book characters appear, whether the protagonist or the three, all the characters' joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness are exquisite, fully grasping the plot twist and letting you fall deeply into the game. | ||
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| Datang Sanzang [Ch] | Xiamen Sanchi Studio | [top] | |
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This is an RPG game with "Journey to the West" as the story background, and it is also the first game developed by joining Jinzhita Extension Studio. The content of the game is witty and interesting, faithful to the original, but not too rigid. The game tells the story of the Golden Cicada, the son of the Demon Sect Leader and a disciple of the Buddha, who was thrown into the human world by the Buddha due to the recurrence of demonic nature in his body, so that he could regain his effect. In the human world, the golden cicada was reincarnated as Tang Sanzang. The game also officially began with the birth of Tang Sanzang, and the main line was closely centered on Tang Sanzang in order to make his mother's ghost get transcendent, and went west to the Buddhist holy land tianzhu Daleiyin Temple to seek the "Dharma", "Treatise", and "Sutra" in Mahayana Buddhism. | ||
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| Demise: Rise Of The Ku'Tan | Artifact Entertainment / IPC Software | [top] | |
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Originally billed as Mordor II: Darkness Awakening, Demise is a worthy successor to highly underrated Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol, and sports improvements over its predecessor in every respect. Simply put, the game is a huge non-linear dungeon hack RPG that features 3D graphics, great sound, and fantastic play in single and/or multiplayer modes. As with its predecessor and other good Roguelike games, Demise contains enough races, guilds, items, monsters, magic, spells, traps, environments, dungeon levels (and even a storyline this time around) to keep avid RPGers enthralled for hundreds of hours. Many players reportedly have spent over 400 (!) hours with the game, and still have yet to find all its subtleties. The game takes place in Dejenol the same gameworld as its predecessor, where the city has just been attacked and nearly destroyed by creatures. Your goal, naturally, is to explore the dungeons below and find and destroy the marauders of the city and the source of their power. As with all Roguelike games, though, the real premise is to venture forth into the dungeon, kill monsters, find items and money, and advance each character's level. One of the most significant improvements over the original Mordor is the inclusion of a free game server which lets you host your own multiplayer game via LAN or over the Internet. Graphics are not only improved, but are used to represent different perspectives depending on each character's race and height. A tall character will see the dungeon differently than a short one, and each race's eyesight differs from that of the others. In combat, it is literally hands off - you set a default option for each character's actions in encountering enemies - they either do nothing, fight, or defend as ordered. You can pause the action to assign a spell to each character for the next round and then return giving yourself an advantage. Quests range from finding a lost item, to capturing or killing a specific enemy. Note that this is an extremely difficult game and you'll likely die a lot before you get the hang of the game's interface and how to maximize each party member's capabilities. | ||
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| Diablo II | Blizzard North / Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | [top] | |
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Diablo II is an extremely popular sequel to the game Diablo, a dark fantasy-themed action role-playing game in a hack and slash and "dungeon roaming" style. The player assumes the role of a hero, fighting monsters while traversing over land and through dungeons. The storyline is played through four acts. Each act follows a predetermined path with preselected quests, although some quests are optional. Players fight monsters to level their character up and gain better items. Battle is conducted in real-time from an isometric viewpoint. Each act culminates with the destruction of a boss monster, upon which the player proceeds to the next act. It randomly generates many monster properties, level lay-outs and item drops. Most of the maps themselves are randomly generated. In single player mode, the map is randomly generated but locks the setting until changing difficulty level; in multiplayer mode, it resets every time the game is restarted. There are three difficulty levels: Normal, Nightmare, and Hell. A character must complete these difficulty levels in order and it will increase creature strength, experience penalties upon death, automatically lowered resistances, and other challenges. A character retains all abilities, equipment, etc, between difficulties and may return to earlier difficulties at any time. Upon completion of the game in Normal difficulty, a player may create a hardcore character. While with normal softcore characters the player can resurrect their character if killed and resume playing, a hardcore character only has one life and if killed, will be permanently dead and unplayable, losing everything. The player has the option of hiring one of several computer-controlled mercenaries, or hirelings, that follow the player and attack nearby enemies. On occasion, the player might find a rare, valuable item, or one that is part of a set that becomes more powerful when the entire set is collected. Items can be customized using sockets and gems, or transmuted into different items using the Horadric Cube. The player can choose between five different character classes: Amazon, Necromancer, Barbarian, Sorceress, and Paladin. Each character has different strengths and weaknesses and sets of skills to choose from, as well as varying beginning attributes. It was made specifically with online gaming in mind. Several spells (such as auras or war cries) multiply their effectiveness if they are cast within a party, and dungeons, although they still exist, were largely replaced by open spaces. Multiplayer is achieved through Blizzard's Battle.net free online service, or via a LAN. On Sep 23/2021, Diablo II: Resurrected was released featuring visual and system changes and gameplay improvements to both the base version of the classic and the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. See also: Diablo II: Lord Of Destruction |
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| Dispel [K] | Abalon Studio / E2 Soft | [top] | |
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This is an old school cRPG game with action shown from an isometric perspective. We play the role of one of the four characters: Knight, Warrior, Archer or Mage and we try to save the world from the imminent destruction. The action takes place on the continent of Dman, divided into three lands: Aesh, Shereg and Yam. A terrifying prophecy makes the people of Dman sleep uneasily. It tells of Harass’ return, a cruel god of destruction, and the number of bloody wars that will start once he is back. As it usually is, the player is the only person able to stop the approaching doom. Features: Three lands, 15 cities and hundreds of characters to meet; 25 extensive dungeons and catacombs; Four character classes: knight, warrior, archer and mage; Character development system; Non-linear story; 30 sorts of monsters; 41 magic spells, 80 kinds of weapons and armor (with an enhancement system); Trading and bargaining; Nice graphics with isometric camera. | ||
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| Droiyan II: Absolute Monarch [K] | KRGsoft | [top] | |
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This is a sequel to Icarus: Sanctuary Of The Gods that never came out in English. A retired member of the military becomes the protagonist of the game. In search of adventure, he travels around the globe and cities where the dungeons and towers teem with all sorts of monsters. Heroic adventures await at every turn. You must develop your skills. Some major events will occur only when players reach the desired level. Insurgent forces GOD troops captured Princess Lend (Lendia). The main mission - is to infiltrate the GOD rebels, release the Lendu and destroy all the GOD troops. It has more than 15 mins of 3D video, 2000 sound effects of cinematic quality (600Mb), 29 kinds of futuristic weapons, Psion futuristic magic system based on GURPS, and real weather effects. | ||
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| Egria: Guardian Sword II [Tw] | Winking windthunder / TGL | [top] | |
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The young warrior Shot finds himself high in the mountains. Apparently he has been asleep for several days. He meets a young woman who explains to him that his sword has led him to their land. Shot was always determined to avenge his country, which was devastated by insect-like monsters. However, he realizes that his destiny calls him for even greater deeds. He must explore the mysterious realm and find a way to restore peace once and for all. Egria is a Taiwanese-made role-playing game and a direct sequel to Guardian's Sword, continuing the story of Shot after the events described in its ending. Visually, the game resembles its predecessor, utilizing 2D hand-painted and pre-rendered graphics for characters and locations. The game's world consists of interconnected screens with fixed camera angles, without an overworld. Battles are triggered randomly and are turn-based at core. The real-time element is different from the one featured in the two previous installments of the series: the game pauses when the player accesses the menu, but the actual attack has to be executed in real-time by clicking a mouse button at the right moment. Game structure, character growth system and abilities follow a traditional Japanese-style template. | ||
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| Excelsior Phase Two: Errondor | 11th Dimension Entertainment | [top] | |
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Excelsior Phase Two is a tile-based RPG (in the vein of Ultima 4-7). Sent as a "fixer" to the world of Errondor, you are given the task of resolving a problem that the fixer before you failed to do, and then locating the other fixer. The game follows traditional RPG concepts, including character creation, a variety of weapons and magic spells, skill sets (such as swimming, music, and bandaging). The game provides a number of quests and side-quests designed to bring your character closer to completing your goal. | ||
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| Fancy Century [Tw] | Aoting / CyberJoy | [top] | |
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The developer's first game made in real-time 3D, not only with superb gorgeous backgrounds made in 3D, the battles are full of instant 3D performance. When fighting, players can change their perspective. It is rumored that the great God in the ancient "Age of the Era" created by his might the only piece of Pure Land of life and the world, and gave life to the task of multiplying and surviving on this earth. In addition, God created four huge stone walls at the same time. The reason for this is that the land should not be invaded by the outside world and the life should be protected. God has left infinite respect for the ban on all sides, Human beings do not know at all what is banned outside? Therefore, from the time when humankind has the knowledge and wisdom, various legends about the wall of prohibition have been circulated. There have also been human challenges to climb the wall of prohibition, hoping to climb out of the wall of prohibition and see what kind of world it is outside, Are there any survivors? As for the world outside the Forbidden Wall? Or a dark chaos? This is probably only something God will know. Fighting system - in the battle part is completely in real-time 3D way to show, fighting, players can arbitrarily change their perspective. The battle system is different from the RPG in the past. The protagonist and the enemy can move on the battlefield year. In battle, they must add strategic considerations and how to move our characters to the most advantageous positions. In the system part, after careful planning, rather than your knife I am a knife, players in the fight, you must be more strategic to think about each action. In an era of magic, can use a variety of different attributes of the magic of each other cases, so that players get more powerful new maneuver. In battle, you can call out a powerful magic, the appropriate use of the magic can reverse the urgent battle. | ||
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| Farland Odyssey II [J] / Farland Tactics IV [K] | System Supply N-Tech / TGL | [top] | |
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The generation of the firsty odyssey was a depiction of the Del Ventria continent which led to a series of domestic battles to compete for the Book of Forbidden. The second generation is 8 years later. The enemy Heyinjialu come from another continent to hit Del Ventria. The story revolves around a heroine on a journey, describing a grand epic story. On the road, from time to time, figures from the generation will come. The legendary Japanese game artwork is excellent. The game's original paintings come from Sasaki Ikuko. Entering the game, you will find all around are 3D environments. The 2D role players manipulate the majority of 3D scene activities with what can be described as a unique style. The game's music, sound effects are all good. The main character has exclusive dubbing voice will appear each time the action takes place. Listening to the voice, you can more easily let the player into the game to experience the emotions of the game characters. The game's combat system is the main event. It has 45 degree angle screen traditional turn-based combat. The combat system in addition to emphasizing the human movement is also committed to the pursuit of gorgeous spell special effects. The spells and stunts are presented in 16bit high color. Whether summoning attacks or powerful special attacks, they are very gorgeous; game characters will shout their corresponding names in the process of casting spells. But these are not important, the game really flaunts team real-time attacks. The properties of attacks are divided into inflammation, ice, wind, thunder, holy, and darkness. And with the team personnel and fighting, you can freely change the distribution of elements. Props including a "white map" for example, can be purchased in the item shop. Watermark will automatically depict the route traveled and the percentage of completion of each maze. With hundred percent completion rate, you can get to the hidden shops to go and sell items. The game's save system is a bit of a pain - you need to go to a hotel or a designated location to save. | ||
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| Favorite Dear [J] | NEC Interchannel | [top] | |
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This is an SRPG with dating sim elements and lots of cut scenes. This is the followup to Enkan no Monogatari but contains a completely new story. It still maintains the hybrid Dating Sim/RPG elements while giving players a whole new cast of characters to enjoy. You are an angel tasked with bringing peace to the realm. The twist is, you can't interact directly with humanity; instead, you influence the realm by utilizing the faeries and 7 Braves. The searching for heroes to save the world mechanic kind of reminds of Valkyrie Profile, but Favorite Dear doesn’t look as morose and the game uses a standard RPG combat system. The dating sim part comes from talking with Braves to build trust. | ||
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| Fighting Blast, The [Ch] | Han Tong International | [top] | |
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Blast youth team is a stand-alone domestic campus roleplaying game with hilarious campus life as the background story of the game. The plot is funny and exaggerated, highly playable, but difficult. It is a new form of role-playing game, without the traditional background of the ancient Chinese Hero, but instead uses an ancient devil of European background in a modern society. The protagonist has frequent problems of a juvenile transfer student in school, and there's a large group in a school with colorful characters. Experience a singular adventure in the game's story. It's suitable for young gamers. It has a special battle mode in a fighting game screen. | ||
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| Final Fantasy VIII | Square Co., Ltd. / Eidos Interactive Ltd. | [top] | |
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Squall Leonhart is a young man, who is in training to become of member of SeeD - a mercenary organization, the dream of all the young students in Balamb Garden. Squall is not a particularly friendly guy and has troubles with his fellow students and teachers. Currently, two countries are at war with each other; to complete his training as a mercenary, Squall and three other students are sent on a mission to aid one of those countries against the other. In the process they discover that there are some other characters pulling the strings from behind the scene, and get involved in a mystery that sheds a whole new light on their lives and ideals. "Final Fantasy VIII" is set in a "retro" environment reminiscent of the 1960-ies, with supernatural elements mixed in. It introduces many gameplay changes compared to the previous installments of the series. You don't get money from random enemies, but instead have to earn it during your missions as a SeeD. You can customize your characters by equipping them with magic spells, which you can draw from enemies in battles. You can also cast those spells the same way you would use an item, since you don't have MP in the game. The trademark summoned monsters (called Guardian Forces in this game) play a very important role in the customization process. You can "junction" them to your characters and learn various abilities from them. They can also be summoned in battles. It removed magic point-based spell-casting and was the first series title to consistently use realistically proportioned characters. It includes a mini-game called Chocobo World. In 2019, a Remastered version was released featuring multiple enhancements including additional options to customize your gameplay experience and difficulty, such as: Battle assist options (HP, ATB gauge, and Limit Break boosts); Game speed boost (x3); No random encounters; Obtain all items and abilities; Max G.F. levels, currency (gil), and spells; Obtain all Limit Breaks and cards. | ||
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| Heroes Of The Land [Ch] | Xiamen Fire Phoenix Crystal Sky Interactive | [top] | |
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This is a role-playing game that tells the European and American mythological stories of the human race and the demon war, the game is about the human-demon war, since there is a demon, there must be a god, the god learned that the human and the demon are fighting, and the demon has begun to deceive people's hearts, so he decided to rescue each other, well the story is really nothing to see, but the game is not bad to play. On the continent of Starr, the battle between humans and demons has been going on for a long, long time, and the demons have used human greed, power, and endlessly inflated desires to challenge human civilization again and again. But the people, by the power of fraternity and magic, finally triumphed, ushered in peace, and maintained peace for nearly a thousand years. During this time, the comfortable life made people gradually forget the bloody rain and wind of a thousand years ago, and forgot that the demons that had brought countless disasters to mankind still existed. In fact, demons have been quietly accumulating strength in the darkness, in a vain attempt to one day conquer this world under the sun. They are waiting for an opportunity... | ||
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| Hot Blood Sword 2: Hei Ying Chuan Qi [K] | DeepSea, Ing Soft / | [top] | |
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This is a masterpiece Korean RPG. Features: Massive scenarios that are more than double the number of prequels; A secret bizarre biography of Heuk-eung, a boy in black clothes; true terrain of martial arts games such as small towns, imperial palaces, temples, etc.; Hidden treasures of ancient graves, late-night attractions, and love with cold beauty; Gorgeous graphics and beautiful sound; Are you now the absolute stronger of the strong... Only in your hands. | ||
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| Icewind Dale | Black Isle Studios / Interplay Entertainment Corp. | [top] | |
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This rpg takes place in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms campaign setting, and is based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition ruleset. The player begins the game by creating an adventuring party, which becomes enlisted as a caravan guard in the wake of strange events. As the story progresses, the player learns of a demonic feud that threatens the Ten Towns of Icewind Dale. The adventuring party has up to six characters. During character creation, statistics including name, gender, race, class, ability scores and weapon proficiencies may be altered. Magic users and thieves have more statistics, in the form of spells and thief abilities, respectively. After a character has earned enough experience points through completing quests and defeating enemies, the player is given the option of leveling up that character. The player may alter several statistics when leveling up a character, while others are automatically upgraded. Certain character classes require less experience than others to achieve a new level. An experience point limit of 1,801,000 is in place for all characters, meaning that certain classes are able to reach higher levels than others. The player may order characters to engage in movement, dialogue and combat. Combat occurs in real-time, replacing the originally turn-based system. The player may pause the game at any time, during which orders may be given to characters, who will carry them out when the game is resumed. Gameplay is focused mainly on combat, often against large groups of enemies.
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| Invictus: In the Shadow of Olympus | Quicksilver Software, Inc. / Interplay Entertainment Corp. | [top] | |
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Real time 3d strategy/rpg game based on Greek mythology. Long time enemy of Athena, Poseidon, has gone rampant and wants to destroy the world yet again. To detain him Athena calls in all human heroes from the Greek mythologies (such as Hercules, Achilles, Icarus, Hippolyta, etc. each with individual skills) and sends them on missions around different islands of the world to stop Poseidon. You start out controlling two heroes who progress through the game by earning experience and money that can be used to buy units (such as spearmen, gorgons, etc.). Each hero has an inventory and you can often search dead enemies for items such as health apples, etc. and an adjustable agression level to adjust your interaction to npcs. The game uses a 3d rotating engine similar to Myth's but on a fixed over-head perspective. There's multiplayer support for up to 4 players simultaneous gameplay. | ||
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| Kakkong: Land of Chaos [K] | KidnKid.com / Samsung | [top] | |
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A tactical RPG based on popular comics in Korea. The plot is simple and follows the adventures of the protagonist Kgakkun on his way to the demon king Daimai to defeat him. The gameplay is a journey across the global map to various locations, during the study of which different creatures come across. They are visible in advance - and can be bypassed, while not all are set up aggressively. The appearance of the adversaries is made with a great deal of humor - suffice it to say that the first enemies will be rabbits, and a little later there will be an anthropomorphic hermit crab (the shell is available). Battles take place in a step-by-step mode in a cell-by-cell format; you can perform one or two actions (for example, change position and hit the enemy). The role-playing system consists of standard characteristics (strength, dexterity, protection, and so on), and a party can have up to five people. The plot is presented in a linear fashion, and ordinary dialogues with NPCs do not carry useful information, therefore, advancement in the plot without understanding the language is possible using the trigger hunting method. The graphics are made in a combination of pre-rendered environment and character sprites, drawn in a sloppy style according to the original. The music is unremarkable, but not annoying either. Bottom line: a solid middling, which might be of interest to fans of the genre. | ||
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| Legend of Heroes IV: A Tear of Vermillion (Eiyu Densetsu IV: Akai Shizuku) [J] | Nihon Falcom Corp. | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese role-playing game, the fourth game in the The Legend of Heroes series, and the second in the "Gagharv Trilogy". This game is a remake of the original game released for the NEC PC-9801 in 1996. It was also released in 1998 for the PlayStation and a 1999 release for Microsoft Windows PCs. This game was the first US-released Legend of Heroes game since Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes for the TurboGrafx-16. The US release dropped the number from the title, and was known as simply "The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion". Some confusion was caused by the US release of this game. While the remake of The Legend of Heroes IV was the first to be released in the US, the PSP remake of its predecessor, The Legend of Heroes III, had been released several months before it in Japan. The Legend of Heroes III was eventually released in the US in 2006, with its title changed to The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch. The setting for the fourth of the Legend of Heroes and the first in the Gagharv Trilogy takes place in the fictional land El Phildin, fifty-six years before "Moonlight Witch". The story begins with an insight to the past. Avin and Eimelle are orphaned children living in Cathedral. Avin was 8 while Eimelle was 7. Avin retrieves milk for the cat Eimelle brought into the chapel. They both watch the kitten drink to its content. Before long, Oracle Ollesia yells at them to take cover. Cathedral is under attack. Lord Bellias and his minions attack the chapel. He is after Eimelle who he calls "Durga's Daughter." He is stopped by Supreme Priest Esperius. Both have a conversation of how Bellias used to be destined to lead the Bardus Church someday and how Bellias became traitorous. The two wizards fight each other. Esperius dies after being attacked with a rising spell. The two kids and their oracle attempt an escape before being captured by Bellias. Gawaine, the "Sage of power," fights to fend off the attack. The rest make an exit to the monster cart. The cat screeches after hearing the spell cast. Avin tried to rescue the cat, but is left in Gawaine's care. Ollesia and Eimelle escape to another place. | ||
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| Legend of the Sacred Stone, The [Ch] | ECByte Inc., Odin Technology / Odin Soft | [top] | |
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Videogame version of the spin-off film (of the same name) by Chris Huang of the Taiwanese (creepy looking) glove puppet TV show "Pili", which made it to the west in an edited form as "Wulin Warriors" on Cartoon Network, but was cancelled after only two of its thirteen episodes. It's an action role-playing game action where you search for items and talk to different people, so that players know more about the ins and outs of the story, regardless of the battle scenes and general attack. It's fully voiced,and you fight by slashing a number of enemies, upgrade experience, picked up money, and sell weapons. In such a war process, enhance the level of martial arts through comrades that follow you, such as super-partner Qingyang son, Ye Chai, Blade, sword-jun and so on that will help you out. | ||
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| Lost Memory of Angel Frane [J] | Exe Create / Kemco | [top] | |
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This is the first in the popular Ys-inspired action-RPG series. Angel breeding and action role-playing elements of the game, can both be experienced at the same time. A confusing storyline, beautiful graphics and easy to learn operation is all there. Collecting feathers of a fallen angel will allow you to take her to heaven. Everything is in your hands. Letting humanity become powerful angels and demons are common tasks. | ||
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| Lunatic Dawn IV [J] | Artdink | [top] | |
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This is a Diablo style point-and-click action RPG, complete with multiplayer mode. Personal pages automatically generated system can be said to be a proprietary system, its role is to be able to easily organize the world's information into a HTML form that allows players to set up a personal web page of the world. Players just press a few keys, the program will automatically create a complete web page for the players, which includes players from the creation of the world's information, the role of which shows maps, visitor information, and adventure logs. All of them make for a more fun adventure. Significantly strengthened the game content, PK legalization, doubling the number of weapons, 16 people online at the same time, the magic is also added to the line 16 from line 32, and the mandate of the NPC also significantly strengthened. | ||
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| Lunatic Dawn: The Third Book [J] | Artdink Corporation | [top] | |
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Lunatic Dawn is an RPG series created by Artdink, whom we all know and love(?) for absurd experiments like Tail of the Sun, Battle Construction Vehicles and No One Can Stop Mr. Domino. But their main thing have always been serious simulations, most of all the A-Train series, which still goes on and the latest two iterations can actually be bought on Steam. Accordingly, Lunatic Dawn is the simulation gamer's RPG. Nothing at all like Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy or similar games like you'd expect out of Japan, they're more like open-ended fantasy quest simulators with little storyline (especially the early games) and randomly generated worlds. The first few are almost completely free-form and feature a semi-tactical real-time battle system. They are followed by the "Book" spin-off series, which streamlines the world map by making travel waypoint-based and uses a more JRPG-typical turn-based combat system, although in structure the games still work similar to the early ones. | ||
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| Man Called Hero, A [J] | Acebrock | [top] | |
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This game is based on the comic book of the same name. You play as Chinese hero, experience the original comic book story in many thrilling events. In this martial arts-based game, players will be able to see a variety of gorgeous martial arts moves. The game is quite original, but compared to the original comic, the game has more interactive sessions, more substitution. The game screen graphics may not seem very good, but the role of martial arts moves is still very beautiful. Gameplay is relatively simple, as in a traditional RPG mode, simple to use, it is not difficult to play. | ||
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| Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer | New World Computing, Inc. / The 3DO Company, Ubi Soft Entertainment Ltd. | [top] | |
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The Destroyer is again walking on the Land. The legendary Planeswalker Escaton has been seen in Jadame, and the very elements themselves have felt his presence. Lead a band of rugged adventurers on a most perilous mission. You must save the kingdoms from ruins or watch the lands destroyed forever. It features all new skills, spells, story and dozen of quests and subquests, which make this game completely different from previous Might and Magic games like Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor. Create custom characters from a variety of races and classes and combat dozens of formidable creatures as you strive to complete your quest. | ||
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| Nox | Westwood Studios, Inc. / Electronic Arts, Inc. | [top] | |
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Once again, Westwood has brought a near-perfect dungeon hack to the table with Nox. A necromancer who was orphaned at birth is out to take over Nox. The powers-that-be decide to get someone from our universe to help defeat this nuisance. They choose Jack. One day Jack is casually sitting in his living room waiting for his favorite wrestling show to come on. The antenna and TV are not working and Jack begins beating on the set. Seemingly out of nowhere, a white light envelops Jack and propels him into a land of wonderment and adventure called Nox. As the story opens, Jack has landed on an airship. The captain will only let him go if he hands over that "strange box." Jack agrees to hand the TV over and the adventure of his life begins. Well-acted NPC's and a slew of sidequests make Nox almost infinitely replayable. Three character types are available to the player; the fighter, the conjurer, and the wizard. The stories of each different class begin in a different part of the Land of Nox. The branching plotline is well thought out and level design is quite good. Weapons and inventory systems are easy to navigate and even easier to manipulate. A patch from the game's official site allows the player to add more quests into the game. An excellent multiplayer mode allows you to challenge another player or conquer the Nox universe with a friend. The game is more akin to Diablo than Baldur's Gate, but Nox provides hours of entertainment. | ||
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| Perfect Life [J] | Imagica Corp. | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese life simulator with RPG and puzzle elements. In order to save the world of the upcoming destruction, the player can battle monsters of the caves and/or solve puzzles that may prevent a curse from developing in the world. The fights or RPG elements are not required to progress in the game. It is also possible to advance without leveling up, just by solving puzzles instead. It is also possible to ignore the quest to save the world and just live as an ordinary citizen instead. The player's character can work, exchange emails, find love, marry and even divorce. | ||
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| Pili Qixia Zhuan [Tw] | Softstar Entertainment | [top] | |
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A humorous RPG based on the mega-popular Taiwan TV puppet show called Pili (霹靂). There are at least about five Chinese-language games dedicated to this series. The peculiarity of Pili's puppet shows is a huge number of characters (there is information that they are constantly replenished in the series!) And the most detailed study of each character: appearance, character, habits, manner of fighting, etc. for game creators, this is truly a Klondike. And what, in fact, this time: what adventures have the developers prepared for us in the bottomless world of Pili? You will play as an ugly, curious, cowardly and therefore a very funny old man named Qin Jiaxian (秦假仙). He has thick black hair, bulging eyes, antennae, and a large red nose. This was done on purpose, so to speak - with a mockery, since many gamers have already begun to get used to the role of beautiful and "correct" blonde warriors, such as Luanshi Kuandao (亂世 狂刀) or Ye Xiaochai (葉小 釵) in previous games. By the way, you will also meet them in this RPG. In addition to them, there will also be beautiful Mo Zhaonu (莫召奴), smug Aosyao Hongchen (傲 笑 紅塵) and a number of other characters. Role-playing system - well, just good-looking. The main parameters are physical strength, inner strength and experience. There are only nine secondary parameters: defense, ingenuity, grace, etc. As you know, Pili has ingredients for magic. These are five elements: wind, thunder, ice, fire and earth. In addition to them, there are five entities: light, darkness, strength, poison and chaos. Here's an interesting role model. Of course, in the beginning, your "handsome" will have the minimum values of these qualities. In addition to role-playing parameters, there are weapons: in the minimum "configuration" it is an ordinary dao sword, and it is also possible to use various items. They are divided into food, drugs, poisons, etc. Weapons are clearly subdivided into the following types in groups: dao (swords sharpened on one side), swords and double-edged swords. Control - only with the mouse, which will be pleasant to any gamer. In general, the game mechanics leaves the most blissful impression. It feels like they took a classic RPG from the early 1990s and wrapped it in vibrant modern graphics. You can walk on the large outer map and visit various places. These places will open to you only in a certain sequence, which you must gradually find yourself. There inside (caves, buildings, forest, ruins, etc.) you have to interact through dialogues with characters and perform some actions. Unlike the old classic RPGs, no one attacks you on the big map. Battles take place inside locations. The battle was implemented with a step-by-step exchange of blows - and this is in 2000! You can apply blow or magic to the enemy. And for oneself, a loved one has the opportunity to heal, apply an object, to defend and, of course, sometimes it is corny to escape. Unlike early RPGs, fights are not particularly fatal here: lost and lost - just nobody kills our hero because of his pathetic worthlessness, quote: "... you are absolutely useless person, so I will not kill you!" Since our old man is a very quarrelsome person, in any dialogue there is quickly a transition "to personalities" with the use of "three-story" mutual insults. This humor is felt even with minimal knowledge of the Chinese language. All events on the first map (on the first level) revolve around the death of one of the respected people, for whose body they have already "arrived". Arrived - that's how it is said! A whole delegation of dolls from the underworld with greenish and purple "muzzles". And with them is also a skeleton harnessed to a hearse (!). | ||
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| Rush, The: The Veronica Story [K] | Inix Soft / Daejun Media | [top] | |
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This is an RPG game in the traditional Christian rationality and oriental themes of the Taoist rituals and stories that reflect the reality based on the ideas of the West. Gorgeous and massive map (Map), and various kinds of magic with magnificent 3D characters totalling 100. The game supports resolution (640X480, 800X600) switching mode. The story is interwoven in a thorough conspiracy to keep the excitement and tension, and can be seen as a story of love, fun and flavorful characters that mature their inner character in a touching and tragic manner at the same time. Real-time battle system, and you can configure the five character party, and can see and taste the interesting tactical strategy. | ||
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| Sea Dogs | Bethesda Softworks / Akella | [top] | |
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This is a combination role-playing/action/strategy/simulator game reminiscent of the eternal classic Pirates! Sea Dogs puts you on the bridge of a score of 17th century naval vessels in dangerous waters. You play as Nicholas Sharp, a young English sailor who found himself enslaved by the Spanish when his ship was attacked. Recently free from his captivity, he has stolen a ship, has a token crew, and is out to earn his fortune, whether it be the route of pure revenge, honest trading, piracy, or a combination of all three. Walk through towns developing contacts and making business transactions, sail both calm and stormy waters, and exchange broadsides from everything from small fishing vessels to ships of the line. While there is a story line throughout the game, and multiple ways of ending it, you can merely just trade and fight to your hearts content if you wish. A 3-D engine that features various wind, wave, and weather conditions is the primary interface, as you navigate into harbors and engage enemies. Little nuances include patrolling sharks and circling seagulls, as well as visual damage to both hull and sails of each vessel. Walking about town is also done in 3D and you'll have to remember what streets hold what stores if you wish to just make a quick stop. There's a very strong role-playing element involved and you'll find yourself having to build up your character's abilities before you can tackle the larger targets. You can board ships with a heads-on 3D view, attacks forts, plunders towns, and ransack money from merchants. There's also the opportunity of making alliances with other captains in order for them to do your dirty business. Becoming involved in political intrigues, rescuing girls and many more romantic and interesting elements also exist in the game. A player will have to manage his crew and officers, his cannons (3 types), his cannonballs (4 types, with different damage for certain targets), will have lots of goods to trade, and over 100 non-player-characters (NPCs) to deal with. | ||
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| Seal: Travelers of Destiny [K] | Garam & Baram Corp. / Kama Digital Entertainment | [top] | |
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The world of Shiltz is home to many political factions and two major religions: Church of Elios, apparently a benevolent organization with many followers, and Church of Balie, which worships dark gods. Somehow the adherents of Balie managed to resurrect one of these gods, Galadriel of Chaos, who was sealed away three hundred years ago by the legendary hero Erasnets. Members of the cult are being vigorously pursued by the militia, but the whereabouts of Galadriel are unknown. A knight named Duran is involved in the search for the Balie, driven by personal revenge. After meeting a cheerful young thief named Baldea, he becomes involved in the struggle between different organizations, and must find a way to interpret an ancient prophecy that alone can save Shiltz. It's a Korean-made role-playing game in Japanese style from the makers of the Zaphie horror adventures. The player navigates a party of characters through interconnected locations, including vast wilderness areas, towns, and dungeons. Though the structure of the game's story is linear, many of these areas can be accessed freely at any point. Enemies are visible on the screen, and a contact with any of them initiates a battle. The battles are turn-based, and the participants' turns are determined by their speed. The system is somewhat similar to that of Grandia. A special bar shows the time remaining before a character can act. Timing attacks is required to perform combos using more than one character. Characters can attack physically, cast magic, or use various abilities. | ||
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| Soulbringer | Infogrames Studios Ltd. / Infogrames | [top] | |
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Thousand of years ago six demon kings, known as the Revenants, ruled the world with an iron fist and bloody swords. Their powers to claim the bodies of mortal vassals, and live in the realms of man forever. The great hero and warlock Harbinger was the only one who could stand up to their power. One by one he hunted the Revenants, taking their souls and casting them into the Well of Souls But, the Revenants survived... As a young man you will travel to meet your uncle in the town of Madrigal. Here, your destiny draws you into the path that Harbinger trod - to confront the Revenants and banish their souls back to the Well forever. Your travel will take you far from Madrigal - to the ruined kingdoms of Horath and the ancient empire of Thardolin and through the lost city of Talendrah. You will brave searing desert and icy plains. You will have to seek answers among the living and the dead. You must confront the mightiest of the Revenants - the demonic Skorn - in his citadel of Galdon Thor and there drag him and his kin from the world of man. You must succeed where Harbinger did not. You must become the SOULBRINGER. | ||
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| Summoner | Volition, Inc. / THQ Inc. | [top] | |
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Summoner ia a third-person role-playing video game. It was released on October 25, 2000 as a launch title for the PlayStation 2 and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Joseph is a simple farmer from the village of Ciran, who is also adept at the art of summoning. It is revealed in flashback that as a boy a man named Yago gave Joseph a magical ring. When a band of raiders attack Ciran, Joseph uses the ring to summon a Demon of Darkness to save the village. Although the demon defeats the raiders, it also kills all villagers and totally destroys Ciran. Torn between grief and hatred of his new power, Joseph discarded the ring and swore to never to invoke his powers again... In addition to the main storyline, there are over twenty side quests that may be completed. The game also includes an abundance of spells that are cast in real time. | ||
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| Sword of Moonlight | FromSoftware, Inc. | [top] | |
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This rpg is named after the recurrent most powerful weapon in the King's Field Playstation series and is primarily an editing tool that allows players to create and customize 3D first-person dungeon-crawling role-playing games in the vein of King's Field games. Players can create their own maps by selecting any of the 1024 available prefabricated tiles, rotating them, and placing them in various combinations. It is also possible to place objects and enemies in the ensuing dungeon map, as well as customize any parameters such as the player character's and enemies' attributes, efficiency of weapons and healing potions, music tracks playing at particular locations, etc. As a pre-made scenario, the game includes a remake of the first King's Field (on Playstation in 1994) done with the editor. The remake features higher-resolution graphics and several changes, such as much less menacing default enemies and a few different object or enemy placements. Otherwise, it stays faithful to the original version, up to the point of having deliberately slow movement of the main character without an option to run. Influenced by Ultima Underworld rather than by Japanese RPGs, King's Field games are notable for their exploration-based gameplay and a considerable degree of difficulty. The player character traverses predominantly hostile areas, with only a few places populated by friendly NPCs. Areas in the games are interconnected, and in later installments resemble an open world setting. The player character can attack with various weapons and cast magic spells. Weapons and magic proficiency increase when used repeatedly. Other recurrent features include weapon and armor degradation and the option to kill any NPC in the game. Some of the series' characteristics have been carried over to other RPGs by FromSoftware, such as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls series. Later, John Osborne created an English translation and where necessary, voice overs have been added to the videos within the game to provide translation there as well. The game covers 5 levels of the Royal Graveyard, offering up classic King's Field interaction with a variety of enemies and NPCs, and a good amount of items to collect and magic to master. | ||
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| Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng [Ch] | Xiamen Fire Phoenix Computer Design Co. | [top] | |
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Taiji Zhang Sanfeng The game contains countless important locations in China, including Shaolin Temple, Luoyang City, Wudang Mountain, Miaojiang Tribe, Hangzhou and other locations, each location will have a special station, Players are free to choose anywhere, of course, in different places, there will be different things happening. Multi-line story system, even 1/4 of the game story can be carried out in dreams. Zhang Junbao is a hot-blooded young man in real life, but in the dream (to rest at the inn), he will meet with the highest respected gods in Taoism, "Sanqing", Yuan Shi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun and Daode Tianzun, and learn "Taijiquan" from them. In addition, there are multiple side plots interspersed in the middle of the game that will affect the game process. In addition to the role of the side plot in the game is to change the parameters of the protagonist, or get hidden equipment and props, the way the main line passes will also change. | ||
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| Tainted, The | Twilyt / Celestial Software | [top] | |
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The Tainted is effectively a RPG (role-playing game), but with the slight difference that there is more action and fighting than usual. There is no linear progression to the game, and you can, in essence, run to the end of the game without having to gather keys or helping NPC's in completing sub-quests. | ||
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| TanYu: The Lost Prophecy [Ch] | Dreamforce Studios / Summit Computer Technology CO LTD | [top] | |
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This is a heroic adventure game constructed with reference to the ancient Chinese ancient Shu "Qixingdui" antiquities materials. The work creates a fictional era of the "Heavenly Mandate Period", describing the story of a dragon knight who was reincarnated as a young hero, "Dragon", and defeated the demon king who wanted to rule the world. The most interesting part is the game's background setting and camera movement features. Because the game development team uses the newly developed real-time 3D imaging engine to produce very beautiful game pictures, except for the generally common third-person automatic viewpoint. The movie-style special mirror movement method will allow the exquisite mirror movement method pre-arranged by the artist to fully reveal the cause of the story in front of all players. The attack on the power center of the Dragon Clan - "Sunshine Temple" begins. Before his reincarnation, the Templar "Dragon" and other samurai died in battle in the shrine. There is a saint in the temple, "Xiang". In order to prevent the "Black Jade Necklace", the artifact that created the world, from falling into the hands of the devil, and to lock the power of the artifact into a seal, she exhausted her soul and mana to the god of hell. The rebirth of the exchange knight, "Dragon", is expected to be entrusted with the ability to lift the seal, and let him take on the responsibility of the ZTE tribe. This work is also unfolded against such a vast story background. Similarly, the architectural structure and atmosphere of the game scene are not inferior to the sophisticated game settings. The 3D engine of "Heavenly Mandate" uses the latest space segmentation technology to support full-color light sources and texture maps, whether it is to create a dark underground city. , or a fiery copper smelting field, can create a cold or hot feeling through the treatment of colored light. Although this game is an action-adventure game, in order to increase the fun of the game, this game adds elements of role-playing games. The R&D team added four attributes to "Dragon", namely "level", "force value" and "mana value". ","life value". Fighting and killing more and earning special treasures will be the best way to increase the level. This work also adds the principle of "five elements to produce gram", and the way of birth of gods or demons is born because of this. For example, the demon arms are divided into five types of "gold copper, green forest, water spirit, flame, earthwork". As long as the protagonist masters it well: "Green forest generates flame, flame generates earthwork, earthwork generates gold and copper, gold copper generates water spirit, and water spirit generates green forest"; The principle, and then cooperate with the acquired artifact to defeat the demon, you can easily pass the level and defeat the demon. If the player thinks that reading the introduction is not enough, it is recommended to actually enter this growing era, incarnate as a dragon knight, and slash and slash the attacking group of demons heroically. | ||
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| TechnoMage: Return of Eternity | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH / Infogrames | [top] | |
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The fantasy world of Gothos is populated by two kinds of people: the Dreamers, who are capable of using magic, and the Steamers, whose civilization relies on technology. The two peoples live in separate areas, mistrust each other, and usually avoid contact. But more often than not, natural human feelings are stronger than anything else. A Steamer man and a Dreamer woman fell in love with each other, and the fruit of their passion was a boy whom they named Melvin. The latter grew up in Dreamertown, disliked and suspected by its inhabitants because of his mixed blood. As monsters suddenly attacked the town, Melvin was blamed for it, and expelled from his homeland. He decides to venture into the land of the Steamers and find his missing father. Naturally, this is just the beginning of a long and perilous journey, during which Melvin will become a true hero. This is a hybrid game that incorporates elements of adventure, role-playing, and action-based combat. Many of the game's missions involve peaceful wandering through the environments, talking to characters, and performing tasks that often involve solving puzzles of various kinds, in an adventure-like fashion. RPG elements are present in experience points which the hero receives form eliminating enemies and completing quests. | ||
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| Wander Wonder [J] | Compile | [top] | |
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It's a virtually unknown Japanese action/RPG. Gameplay-wise it's an enjoyable mix of hack 'n' slash action and puzzle solving wrapped in decent 2D graphics: think Alundra or Ys. The main personage, GINO BRODIA, possesses many abilities and the help of several objects in his quest (magic, race, bombs, shield, sword, gloves force, crossbow and so on, the trappings of the perfect adventurer). The other main character is TIA SHYANTI, because every good adventure needs generally a woman. | ||
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| Wizards & Warriors | Heuristic Park, Inc. / Activision Publishing, Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a traditional role-playing game similar in many ways to Wizardry games. The player builds a team of up to six members from ten available races to fulfill the legend of the Mavin Blade. It is possible to choose between four professions to start with, and convert to eleven others during the game, as the player learns the destiny of the heroes and prepares to confront the evil Cet. The first-person perspective game uses mouse and keyboard commands to interact with the world. Combat is phased during melee, but real time at range. Magic uses a school/skill/mana approach: a character can only cast spells within his own school(s), with intensity of magic depending on his skill level, and limited by the amount of spell points in the school. | ||
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| Xenoage: Knight of the Rihas [K] | Gama soft / Digital age | [top] | |
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The second famous game by Gama Soft, which was also localized in Japan. The beginning of the plot repeats Messiah: The Road of Conviction - some mercenaries attack the residence of the protagonist, and he, having fought off them, decides to find out who sent them. The mechanics and gameplay remained unchanged: we go through a sequence of missions, not all of which involve the destruction of all opponents, and we perform standard tactical-step-by-step maneuvers. The graphics have improved somewhat, but the quality of the elaboration is still inferior to some South Korean games of that time. The portraits of the characters, however, are made not in South Korean, but in Japanese anime style, and in the Japanese localization there are some kind of humorous art (whether vulgar is another question). The music is partly new and partly taken from Messiah: The Road of Conviction. Bottom line: a budget-conscious representative that might interest fans of the genre. Civil wars continue throughout Fantasido continent. The United Kingdom of Refando is the only country where peace is said to exist. Lemuel Dettervolf is the son of the feudal lord reigning over the entire district of Shulenburg, within this kingdom. There remains a horrible secret from the past that only a few people in the entire country are aware of. Without ever divulging this secret, Lemuel has grown to become the foremost swordsman within and without his country. His goal is to restore peace to the continent. Never again will the tragedy that he experienced as a child occur ever again. However, full-scale war breaks out. Lemuel takes up his sword to defend the country he loves. The battle develops with turn-style tactics. You order your party (up to 5 characters) to advance into war. There are over 60 different types of magic and assault tactics to use in this animated game. The battle rages on. | ||
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| Yeolhyeol Singeom 2: Heugeung Jeongi [K] | DeepSea / Ing Soft | [top] | |
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A Martial Arts RPG masterpiece is back. It has more than twice the number of large full-length scenarios. It follows the story of a boy from a small town that ends up in the Imperial Palace. There's thousands of togography projected landscapes. It has beautiful colorful graphics and sounds. | ||
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| Ys II Eternal | Nihom Falcom | [top] | |
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This is a remake of the second game in the long-running Ys action RPG series. It is visually similar to Ys Eternal, with slightly more advanced and detailed graphics. The changes, however, are less noticeable than in the previous remake and mostly include slight variations in locations and dungeon design, as well as various tweaks to items, magic system, and interaction with NPCs. There are three difficulty modes (Easy, Normal, and Hard) to choose from in this version. A bright light shot up from Dahm Tower in the end of the first game, and our hero Adol Christian is awakened by a young girl who finds him lying on the ground. She introduces herself as Lilia and tells Adol he is in the land of Ys. Finally he was able to establish a connection between his world and this mysterious land. But finding the gateway to Ys is not enough: Adol must stop the evil entity that his archenemy Dark Fact served. And his foes already know where he is. This game is a direct sequel to what PC players know as Ancient Land of Ys. The gameplay utilizes an unusual action RPG combat style, where you don't press any attack button, but run into your enemies in order to cause damage. You should choose the angles and the measure of contact with the enemy carefully, otherwise you'll be dead. You can (and should) level up, perform quests for village people, gather money, and upgrade your weapons and inventory, like in any other RPG. Ys I & II Complete was released in 2001. They were both fully fan translated from Japanese to English. Later, once this was out of print, Falcom began selling the two separately again, as "Ys I Complete" and "Ys II Complete". Falcom complicated the issue by changing the "Eternal" to "Complete" on all external packaging and advertisements, but not in the actual games themselves. In one of the English patches, the internal bitmaps are edited to reflect the external change for the packages. In 2009, Ys I & II Chronicles was a Japanese PC port of a PSP version based on Ys I & II Complete. When starting a new game, the player can choose between two different game modes, which will display character portraits from the 2001 Windows release, or entirely new portraits created for this release. The soundtrack can be changed at any time during the game, between that of the PC88 release, the 2001 Windows release, or an entirely re-orchestrated soundtrack. In 2013, an English Steam release called Ys I & II Chronicles+ with adjustable high-resolution PC graphics with a smooth, consistent framerate, a greater viewing area, Steam achievements, and combat receives a full analog-enabled upgrade for gamepad users among other improvements. | ||
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| Bear Hero [Tw] | Zhiguan / Soft-World | [top] | |
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Fairy tale style platform game, with characters in full 3D with a cute British bear as the hero. The game uses 3D stereoscopic technology and has maze scenes, monsters in a foggy gardenin a children's style and parks, a haunted house are beautiful and gives a gorgeous stunning feeling. The story is of the devil who asks a Prince in a ceremony to find the legendary stone "stone of life" before he becomes a full adult. In order to pass the test of the devil, he must search every corner of the world, hoping to find gems, but looking for a long time still no gains. When he was about to give up, the beauty and vitality of the castle made him suspicious, and intuition that the castle must have his goal but nothing is found. There is a beautiful princess in the castle, the princess and the protagonist "Willy Bear" fell in love, unfortunately Willie bear out to practice, when it returned to the castle ... castle was gone? After understanding the whole story, Willie bear brave to the Devil to save the beloved princess and all the residents of the castle. The player controls the Willie bear in the action or attack which are quite flexible. In addition to the simple swing action, the Willie bear can do sprint, running, poly gas and other attacks. In addition, players must also use a variety of offensive props clever use of trap switches, weapons and equipment, to help players pass by. For example, it can be in the narrow channel, a thunder and lightning emitter, and then inducethe monster to come into an urn to catch a turtle; or the nasty monster lured to the trap area. The monsters are changed into a string of hot dancers There's all kinds of novelty and interesting weapons and strange trap mechanism, so you can decide in the battle of the way to change. The game sets up a variety of clearance conditions, and sometimes you may need to rack their brains to find a way to solve the riddle. The enemies have a lovely design, all kinds of monsters have different characters and attack abilities. Like a lovely monster Slime, who will always hide in the dark, and then secretly release the shock to attack you. Also, for the addition of "water, fire, mine," the three attributes of the points, each attribute of the monster, have their corresponding action patterns and attack methods. Before the fight against the monster, please go to the store to prepare weapons, with different monsters deal with, to use different methods to fight back. | ||
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| Crayon Shin-chan 3 [K] | Samsung | [top] | |
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Like Bandai Games, the cartoon Crayon Shin-Chan has taken the 'Dungeons & Dragons' approach in this game. You can use weapons you've taken on enemies that appear in a pretty shocking manner amidst surrounding people and friends. Go through 11 stages to rescue a brother who was kidnapped by gunmen. They want a crystal which he found in the park whose possessor can rule the world. | ||
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| Crayon Shin-chan 4 [K] | HQ Team / Samsung | [top] | |
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Returning to side-scrolling 2D action, this game in the series is based on the movie version and boasts better quality and has a major advantage of the interface. The naughtiest but not-so-bright 5-year-old lives with a flirtatious, often-drunk father, a parsimonious but forgiving mother, and a baby girl who gets much more attention from everyone. The game starts out as a standard 2D side-scrolling platformer, starring you as Shin-Chan taking a walk in his neighborhood. You will need to avoid and attack crazy upper classmen (most of whom are women, to Shin-Chan's delight) and other assorted hazards including unfriendly animals. The game gets more and more wacky the more you play, and before long you will find Shin-Chan riding a spacecraft fighting colorful enemies, and having fun in various mini-games. The mini-games are all excellent, and once you find them in the game you can play them separately from the main menu screen. The first mini-game is a fun clone of Dance Dance Revolution arcade game, which is available from the "mini games" menu from the beginning. It's a thoroughly entertaining and polished game - with cartoony graphics that look like they have been ripped directly from the Shin-Chan anime, the game could pass for a commercial title. Shin-Chan himself is very well animated - down to the naughty little actions (stripping down his shorts to "moon" you, for example) he does when he's not moving. The only downside from the perspective of us non-Koreans is that the game is in Korean, so if you don't know the language, you won't be able to understand the exchanges Shin-Chan has with various people in the game. This is an action game, though, and it takes only a few minutes to learn the controls and what each menu option means. | ||
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| Elevator Action | Taito Corporation / Mediakite | [top] | |
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PC version of the famous game, which is available for many platforms: Atari 2600, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Game Boy, MSX, NES, SG-1000, Wii, ZX Spectrum. You are Agent 17 (codename: "Otto"). Your mission is to secure all top secret documents from a security building and escape in the getaway car, located in the basement of the building. Enemies spies are scattered throughout the 30-floor building and they have only one mission: execute Agent 17 at all costs. Whenever a light has been dropped, the hallways will be dark for a short period of time, making the enemy spies harder to see. The same holds true for hallways that are already dark. While Otto is in an elevator, he will have complete control of it by moving up or down. Agent 17 can still get killed if he's already in an elevator if a bullet's trajectory is aimed at it.. When Otto is not in an elevator, it will move from floor to floor automatically, even when enemy spies are in it. Otto is able to leap over the elevator gaps, but he must be as close to the edge as possible without falling off in order to make the jump safely. If there is an elevator cable in the way, however, it will block him, causing him to fall. Just because the game is called Elevator Action doesn't mean that elevators are the only means of travel. There are also escalators which you can ride up or down, useful if you want to avoid gunfire and don't have time to jump. Otto must go into the rooms with red doors to collect the top secret documents. If he tries to get to his car without getting all the documents, he cannot escape and must go back and collect the remaining documents. Once he has all the documents and drives away, he then proceeds to the next building. If Otto takes too much time to collect the documents, the alarm will go off, and he will have trouble controlling the elevators, which will take time to react. Bad guys will be especially aggressive. The alarm doesn't go off when Otto loses a life, it only resets after finishing a building. Besides ducking, bad guys may also drop themselves and lay flat on the floor. It's virtually impossible for Otto to shoot bad guys when they do this. Also, Otto cannot duck when in an elevator. | ||
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| Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge | Blitz Games / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Swampy the Crocodile and Frogger have never gotten along. Frogger always got the glory and Swampy got the gloom. Now Swampy has run off with the poor lost Frog Babies and it's up to Frogger to get them back. Jump into it. It's fast and furious action from start to finish for Frogger and his new friend, Lillie Frog. Help them save all the Frog Babies as you journey through incredible new 3-D worlds filled with new obstacles, fun power-ups and menacing enemies. The stage is set for a totally new adventure where Frogger and his female friend Lillie Frog will need to leap over, dive under, hop through and climb above endless new obstacles and challenges to save the Frog Babies. It's all new addictive fun. Play in competitive new multiplayer modes, unearth hidden secrets and compete for best time. | ||
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| HappyLand Adventures: Xmas Edition | Free Lunch Design AB | [top] | |
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This is a Christmas-themed follow-up to the original Happyland Adventures with a special set of levels with season-specific items and snow. Just like the original game it is a 2D side-scrolling platform jumping game where the player controls a dog who needs to find Santa's helpers and guide them to safety. The original levels are included as well. | ||
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| Hugo Classic #1 | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | [top] | |
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The original versions of this game collection was published for the Amiga in two parts Hugo På Nye Eventyr Del 1 and Hugo På Nye Eventyr Del 2 in 1992. It was re-released as a single player game for the first time in 1994 and in 1996 they also released for the PC. Numerous requests from passionate Hugo players have led ITE to revamp the coveted first Hugo titles and prepare them for Windows. The result is a classic collection, which makes the hearts of the Hugo fans beat faster. Hugo, the little goblin, has to free his wife Hugoline and his three children from the clutches of the evil witch Hexana, who keeps his family in a cave. This is not so easy, because on his way through the forest, on the Draisine, on the mountain or on the plane, Hexana always puts new obstacles in his way with a lot of cunning, trickery and magic. Even in the cave, Hexana is waiting for him! The computer game can be played in two versions. Once in the already known TV version, but also in the more difficult arcade version. Train - Hugo has found an old railway line, which leads to Scylla's cave. Hugo is trying to get into the cave to the resin, but as soon as the Scylla gets wind of this company, he wants to make sure that the troll reach your destination. Forest - Hugo's adventures in the woods purpose of finding Scylla's cave. On the way Hugo's need to watch out swinging branches, traps in the country and towards the future stones. Mountain - Hugo climbing up a steep slope of a mountain to reach Scylla cave. Along the way, he encounters the rolling stones and drops into the ravine. Airplane - Hugo has found an old airplane, by means of which he tries to approach the Scylla cave from the air. However, Hugo comes to dodge the storm clouds, and red hot air balloons that explode. | ||
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| Ikachan | Daisuke Amaya (Pixel) | [top] | |
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In this game from the creator of Cave Story, the player plays a squid named Ikachan, who swims through an underground cave, meeting and helping other creatures. It takes place in Ironhead's realm, an underwater cave system. A series of earthquakes had recently caused cave-ins that cut off Ironhead's realm from the open sea. As such, the inhabitants of the cave ran out of food and were required to carry pearls marking their allegiance to Ironhead. Ironhead himself remains stuck in a private cave, spreading paranoia and encouraging violence against non-citizens to keep the population of the cave from overthrowing him as their leader. Ikachan wakes up inside the cave and swims around, searching for a way to escape. It features unique gameplay; as opposed to using the arrow keys to move, the player uses the left and right arrow keys to tilt Ikachan in the respective direction. The player must then use the 'z' key to swim in the direction Ikachan is pointing. Thus, Ikachan cannot swim directly to the left or right at first, but he later acquires an item that allows him to charge horizontally. Also, while being unable to hurt enemies from the start, once Ikachan receives an item called the Dunce Cap, he can attack enemies by ramming them with the point of the hat. The game contains many role-playing game-aspects, as Ikachan can level up after attacking enough enemies or eating fish. | ||
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| Ka'Roo | Fakt GbR / Swing! Entertainment Media AG | [top] | |
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A little kangaroo wearing boxing gloves needs to be maneuvered through 80 levels. The levels consist of 3D platforms with varying styles (e.g. Egypt, Jungle etc.). Gameplay tasks the player with reaching the exit of a level within a certain timeframe, collecting 'energy crystals'. The level exit does not open before a threshold number of crystals has been collected. Difficulty increases gradually, with enemies added in higher levels. Enemies can be defeated with boxing gloves or collectible extras. Enemy detection is supported by a game radar. While involving a lot of action, the game focuses on puzzle solving. Leave reality behind and get immersed into the fantastic world of Ka'Roo. Joey the kangaroo will win you over more than any other superhero you've ever known. Deftly and swiftly he takes on every challenge he faces. Our hero is a master when it comes to dropping bombs and a dab hand at parachuting. Whenever the going gets tough, he just escapes danger by jumping away. Show your skills in 80 wonderfully drawn Levels in six completely different scenarios. Collect fascinating items, power-ups and extras to get through all levels with their tricky puzzles and clever opponents. Ka'Roo features incredibly realistic landscapes and vertigo-inducing abysses, beautiful ani mations and a gripping soundtrack. | ||
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| Kiki Kaikai [J] | Taito Corporation | [top] | |
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The youngest child of a mysteriously disappeared family didn't join the family on a journey to a far and unknown place to board an odd ark because she had to keep on cultivating their land. An humble peasant spread the word: a creature coming from the underworld took away the ark. The girl must have been touched by the hand of luck... and she alone is the only one who can save and take them safely back home. You can move around in eight directions, trying to defend yourself against the attacks of creatures coming from the underworld. You can defend yourself by means of scrolls with obscure magician runes, throwing cards and other weapons to be picked up en route. The magic cards and magic spells have a limited range or last only for a short period of time but can be powered up by collecting the runes found after destroying a formation of red flames-shaped enemies or waving an black and white flag. Several items (mostly pearls) will be found along the way and can be picked up and used to defeat the enemy creatures. A round consist of multiple scenes (areas) and each scene is completed when the Scene Guard has been defeated and when a round is completed one family member will be free and return safely home. | ||
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| Nyan Nyan Parasol [J] | Shisui House | [top] | |
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Despite the fact that nowadays nekomimi (Japanese for “cat ears”) is one of the symbols and even in some ways a stereotype of anime, this was not always the case. In anime of the 1980s and 1990s, characters of this type were very rare. For example, a rather rare example from the 1980s: Wata no Kuni Hoshi - possibly the first anime with a cat girl. This game was released just in the era of rapid popularization of nekomimi (the main popularizer, most likely, was the anime Di Gi Charat) and other kemonomi (Japanese “animal ears”). The plot of the game is as follows: a cat girl named Mei-Nyan went on a picnic in the forest and met a fairy along the way, who asked her to find five magic talismans. Nyan Nyan Parasolis a similarity to games such as Fairyland Story and Don Doko Don, and belongs to the genre of "Comical action game" also known as "Elimination Platformer" (unfortunately, this genre does not have any established name in Russian). The point is to “get rid” of enemies from the level. Mei-Nian can attack the latter with his umbrella; When hit by it, an enemy turns into a yellow jelly ball that can be thrown at other enemies. Destroyed opponents drop various types of food that give extra points. The umbrella can also be used as a parachute. The game has five stages divided into ten levels. Four out of five are made in the style of a specific season: spring, summer, autumn and winter. For completing each stage, Mei-Nyan receives a magical talisman, and after this, all sorts of “kawaii” decorations for the system, such as screensaver programs or wallpapers, are unlocked. | ||
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| Troll | Troll Software | [top] | |
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Troll is a simple platform arcade game where you recover magical stones. An evil wizard has stolen the three magical stones from the Troll Village. Now Troll must take back the three magical stones before the evil wizard takes over the world. The first stone is hidden in the woods. The second stone is in the high mountains. The third stone is in the evil wizard's castle. Guide Troll through each land in order to defeat the evil wizard in this fun jump-and-run platform game. | ||
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| Ultra 2000: Dig Dug [J] | Bandai Namco | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese PC version of Dig Dug with arcade-like graphics. It's a 1-2 player arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth. Stopping you from doing this are two monsters, called Pooka and Fygar, who will continually chase you around. The only weapon that you carry is an air pump, which you can use to inflate the monsters to the point where they explode. (if you start to inflate them but stop doing so, the monsters will get turned back to their normal selves). Furthermore, rocks are scattered throughout the earth, and you can use these rocks to squash them. If the monsters do not find you for several seconds, they will eventually get turned into ghosts, which are able to walk through the earth. They are invincible and cannot be killed. From time to time, vegetables will appear in the center, and you can get these for points. | ||
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| White Heart Baekgu [K] | KidnKid.com / Hanbit Soft | [top] | |
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The "kiddie platformer" boom in the early 2000s was generally attributed to Kidnkid.com, after their adaption of the animated film Hayan Maeum Baekgu ("White Heart Baekgu") sold more than 120,000 copies, figures only the most popular big budget titles in Korea could dream of (later the company claimed it even 500,000 sold copies). The success of Baekgu caused dozens of imitators, both in the general "kiddie platformer" genre, as well as at least half a dozen direct plagiarizers. The story is based loosely on the true story of a Korean Jindo Island dog named Baekgu who, in 1995, traveled 260 km and 6 months to return to its original owners after being sold to an owner on the mainland. In general, it represents the tradition of the dogs of Jindo Island, who are legendary in their region for being an extraordinarily loyal and intelligent breed. Notable gameplay mechanics: Jumping, smooth animations, ability to cough apples/other fruit as a projectile. Similar to The Lion King (SNES) but with much better visuals and bigger game world. Has level design similar to Donkey Kong. Levels follow a certain theme and background until a boss level then transition to a new background. Game world is packed into one static map. | ||
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| 1250 Games | Focus Multimedia Ltd. | [top] | |
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This compilation of shareware games comes on two CDs. Each CD has a separate menu structure that groups the games by category. Selecting a game brings up a brief description which the player can read prior to installing it. Not all the programs on the CD's have an install procedure, these are installed by copying files from the CD directly onto the computer. Games are held in 'banks', each bank holding a maximum of forty games but not all are completely full. The first CD contains the following game banks: Adventure and War games, two banks of Arcade games, two banks of Board games, Card and Dice games, two banks of Casino games, Educational games, two banks of Solitaire games, Sports simulations, two banks of Strategy games, and Word games. The second CD has a further six banks of arcade games, Cards & Dice, Cards, Board games, educational games, Misc. games, Maths games, Solitaire games, Sport & Board games, Sport, three banks of Strategy games and two of Word games. | ||
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| Amiga ClassiX 2 | Epic Marketing / Darkage Software | [top] | |
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This CD-ROM contains more than 270 of the best commercial, shareware and freeware games. The compilation is suitable for both Amiga and PC, all games can be run directly from CD-ROM. Some of the titles are e.g.: Ports of Call, Beneath a steel sky, Island of Lost Hope, Bandit Mania, Lord of Alcandria, Aunt Artic Adventure, Tiebreak, Matrix, Monster Business, Hannibal, and many more. The CD was produced so as to be able to launch any game in one fell swoop, and in any configuration. All games are pre-installed and the boot of most of them has been revised. | ||
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| Angel's Kiss [J] | Splush Wave | [top] | |
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This is a battle-type undressing mahjong game featuring the female cast of Love Hina. You just play against the girls and they strip if you win. There are some power-ups you can purchase, but the game really isn’t that challenging even without them. | ||
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| Arkanoid 3D | Alawar Entertainment | [top] | |
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This is an essentially new remake of the popular Arkanoid game. By giving the classical Arkanoid a new dimension, we have given it a new life. Now you can play Arkanoid using a perfect 3D engine. The Game is the incarnation of the authors’ most audacious ideas. Realistic 3D effects that are specifically designed for ultramodern video accelerators, an abundance of extraordinary bonuses in addition to really moving music makes this game a long-lasting, unforgettable entertainment. | ||
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| Bejeweled Deluxe | PopCap Games, Inc. | [top] | |
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This popularized the Match-3 style of casual games leading to countless clones. More than 75 million copies of Bejeweled have been sold, and the game has been downloaded more than 150 million times. It was inspired by the gameplay of Columns and Shariki. PopCap created partnerships with established Internet gaming sites such as Microsoft Zone to host Bejeweled as well. The objective of this game is to swap one gem with an adjacent gem to form a horizontal or vertical chain of three or more gems of the same color. Bonus points are given when chains of more than three identical gems are formed and when two chains are formed in one swap. Gems disappear when chains are formed and gems fall from the top to fill in gaps. Sometimes chain reactions, called cascades, are triggered, where chains are formed by the falling gems. Cascades are awarded with bonus points. There are two variations of the game to choose from. Although normally the player gets only three in a row for gems, sometimes they can get four or five in a row. And in rare conditions, they can get six, seven, and even eight in a row. But some versions of the engine do not register it. The player gets more points and sometimes special powerups from more than three gems in a row. You can get a Hint at any time by clicking the purple Hint button on the left-hand control bar. This will cause a gem onscreen to flash briefly, indicating that it can be used to create a set. However, every time you use the Hint button, you will lose points. In Normal mode, there is no timer and you can take as long as you like to make each move. The game will end when there are no more available moves. Every set or cascade you create will cause the Bonus Bar at the bottom of the screen to increment upwards. When the Bonus Bar is full, you will proceed to the next level. Each successive level increases the value of all sets and combos. Timetrial mode is for experienced Bejeweled players who want a fast-paced challenge. In Timetrial, the Bonus Bar at the bottom of the screen continually counts down towards zero. When it hits the bottom, your game is over. You can replenish the Bonus Bar by creating sets and combos. The bigger the combo or cascade, the more the Bonus Bar will be regenerated. Filling the Bonus Bar will take you to the next level. Sets and combos are worth more on each successive level, but the timer will also count down much faster. | ||
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| BoBo Dragon 3 | Lonaisoft | [top] | |
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The bobbles lived by the power of the flying stone floating in the sky of bubble island, rich in natural resources, living aloof from life. In sunny weather in the morning, Bobble were riding a spacecraft to engage in their self-help travel. As they sat in the spacecraft, happy to enjoy the scenery outside the window, when suddenly subjected to missile attack and damage, are lost on a deserted island. The original Dr. strange in order to grab the spacecraft fly empty stone to attack the Bobble. After Dr. Strange grabbed the flying empty stone to his eight men, he intends to use the ability to fly empty stone with magical powers and use the power to conquer the world. Bobbles are to fly back with the empty stone, and in order to guard the peace of the world, they then embark on a journey of adventure. Map production uses full 3D design, and screen transitions are very nice and touching. | ||
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| Breakout | Supersonic Software Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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The seminal 1970s ball-and-paddle game gets a next-millennium update in Breakout CD-ROM. As in Hasbro's updated versions of other Atari arcade classics, such as Centipede and Q*Bert, and especially their Pong: The Next Level, classic Golden Age arcade-style gaming is bolstered with 3D graphics and state-of-the-art sound. Much of the game follows the original formula, as players move a paddle back and forth to bounce a ball against a multi-layered brick wall, smashing out individual bricks with each hit. This basic 2D play is represented with 3D elements here, though, and different levels are viewed from different angles. It also includes a number of arcade-style mini-games, which are interspersed with the brick-busting levels. Players take the role of "Bouncer", whose main objective is to rescue both his friends and Daisy and defeat the evil Batnix. Play through exotic locations like a dark prison cell, a menacing dragon-owned castle, an animal infested farm, and outer space. The game also contains numerous challenging modes, secrets and bonuses. | ||
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| Bubble Bobble Nostalgie: Christmas Edition | GameOverGames / Alawar Entertainment | [top] | |
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Remember adventures of Bub and Bob, the two merry dragons? On this Christmas Eve a new trial is awaiting them. Santa asked the heroes to help him with delivering presents. There are two problems though. The first is that every year there are more and more families to visit, and Santa does not have enough helpers to carry the presents. The second is a detective story. Piles of presents in Lapland were packed already, waiting for delivery. But a gang of villains (seems that we have already met them before) attacked the elves and captured the presents. Santa believes we'll cope this, but we must hurry. The task is not an easy one - we need to search the land where the elves were robbed and get back everything stolen and dropped by the villains - candies, fruit and other nice things. The more presents you retrieve, the more points you will get and the happier the kids will be. | ||
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| Chessmaster 8000 | Mindscape, Inc. | [top] | |
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The grandmaster of PC chess is back and better than ever. The revamped chess AI plays at grandmaster level, even stronger than before. New chess sets with 16-bit art looks better than ever. Improved "Natural Language Advice" help you get into the game and gets kids interested in chess. Special chess lessons by Josh Waitzkin (chess grandmaster) and Bruce Pandolfini (chess author and teacher) are also included. | ||
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| Chomper 3D | Midas Interactive | [top] | |
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A fast-paced addictive arcade favourite, with a great twist. Not only are the graphics in 3-D but also all objects are three-dimensional. Ten levels, containing over 40 mazes. Bigger mazes on higher levels, with smart ghosts that hunt you. | ||
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| CR Sea Hyakkei [J] | Nishijin | [top] | |
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| Cubbies | ZOI Communication / TDK Mediactive | [top] | |
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A 3D puzzle game bursting with fun. There are 4 different ingenious puzzles to play: Create your own 3D shapes that you can add colour and texture to; visualize and make a 3D mirror image of a given shape against the clock; practice and develop your math skills; learn to manipulate shapes in 3D by blowing up blocks. | ||
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| Doka-Chan no Block Kuzushi 2 | Yamada No Ana Project | [top] | |
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Sequel to the original Doka-Chan no Block Kuzushi, this is a nice-looking Breakout clone that doesn't offer much innovation, but is a competent one anyway. The goal should be familiar to everyone by now: make all the blocks (in this case steel beams) in the level disappear by bouncing a ball on them from your paddle (in this case Yamada, a construction worker carrying a steel beam on his shoulders). You can play as one of three builders. In the metal rectangles are hidden fruits that act as powerups. They increase the number of balls, make the characters move faster, etc. When the ball hits the ground, creating an additional lane to be removed. A big advantage is the ability to play games with two players on a single computer at the same time. Control is via the keyboard, which is rare in Arkanoid games. The ball is very small compared to the size of each beam you have to knock, and surprises (extra balls, power-ups, etc.) are few and far between. Most of the beams also take two or more hits (they change color each time) to disappear, making the gameplay a relatively tedious, drawn-out process as it can take a long time before you clear the screen. If you enjoy Breakout games with good graphics, it may be worth a try. It's fun for a few minutes at a time. | ||
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| Domino / My Domino Castle | ZOIment / TDK Mediactive | [top] | |
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A children's game in 3D where you need to put multi-colored dominoes in a row in order to enchantingly destroy the entire structure. | ||
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| Domino Day | Ubisoft | [top] | |
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Domino Day is the big day when millions of viewers hold their breath and look forward to a new world record. Experience your private Domino Day now on your PC. Set up individual stones in different colors according to templates or completely freely, choosing the distances and angles of the stones to one another. Unleash the chain reaction now. Don't stay a viewer but become an actor in your Domino Day. Features: Experience the entire domino world in 3D; Choose between 3 different game modes and 3 levels of difficulty; FREESTYLE Place - any motif on a given area; CHALLENGE - Set up different motifs in a race against time; DOMINO-EXTREME Place - the stones exactly according to a motif - in the fight against time and mice running around; WITH NICE EXTRAS - Domino Day themed screensavers and wallpapers. | ||
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| Elves in Paradise: Elf Bowling 2 | NStorm Inc. | [top] | |
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The Great Elf Strike of 1999 brought the North Pole to it's knees. Several demands had to be met like higher wags, lower urinals and vacations. Kris Kringle decides to go on a cruise and take some elves and his unemployed brother, Dingle Kringle. Dingle makes a bet with Kris and to settle it, they'll play a winner-take-all game of shuffleboard. If you are playing a one player game, you play as Kris Kringle in red and the computer is Dingle in blue. You begin by deciding who plays first. As you brought no change and Dingle is broke, you flip an elf. The loser must play first. You play by pressing space or clicking the mouse. You can use the arrow keys or move the mouse to aim left or right. You will see an indicator of the ship's level as well as a grid with lit boxes moving from bottom to top. The farther away the lights, the more power you will have. If you go too far left or right, you will fall off the side. If you go too far forward, you will go off the edge and your elf will get eaten by a shark. You are attempting to stop the elves in the one hundred, two hundred, three hundred or four hundred areas. The four hundred area is the farthest edge without going to the sharks. There are three rounds of four tries apiece with the seas getting rougher each round. If an elf appears with a yellow flashing bathing suit, it will hold up a sign indicating that it is double or triple points. After each round, the points are totaled and after the game is over, the winner is shown with a Christmas wreath with Christmas lights around their portrait. As this is an Elf Bowling, there are wisecracks and sight gags aplenty. | ||
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| Family Feud | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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A game based on the television game show, Family Feud. This version is hosted by the comedian Louie Anderson, who appears in the game courtesy of full motion video clips. The player chooses a family of five to play against another family. Players can create and customize their family and their opponent's family. During the game, players are asked to find the most common answers to various questions asked by the host, so the family can earn points. The family with the most points at the end of the game wins the prize money. The game contains over 1,500 surveys and also features options that effect things such as spelling accuracy, the fast money time limit, the amount of time allowed to type in survey answers, and the difficulty of the computer opponents. | ||
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| Fishing Frenzy / Fishing | Selectsoft, eGames Inc. | [top] | |
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Explore and fish 30 one-of-a-kind lakes with Fishing Frenzy. Pilot your boat around incredibly rendered landscapes, from lakes and swamps to rivers and oceans. Compete in tournaments and timed races, find hidden treasures and more in your quest to land "the big one". Win prize money to upgrade your boat and gear, so you can catch even larger fishes and compete in bigger tournaments. But watch out. There are predators lurking in these waters. You never know when alligators, sharks or sea monsters might be waiting to steal your hard-earned catch. | ||
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| Flintstones, The: Bedrock Bowling | Adrenalin Interactive, Inc. / SouthPeak Interactive, LLC | [top] | |
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Fred Flintstone is toiling away as usual at his thankless construction job. When it's quitting time, his boss threatens him with summary termination if he does not finish his trench-digging assignment by the next morning. The biggest dilemma for Fred is that he needs to practice for an upcoming bowling tournament. The benevolent alien named The Great Gazoo materializes and solves the problem by digging a trench and lining it with giant bowling pins. He then gives Fred a large bowling ball half shell in which to play live action bowling. The action takes the form of steering the bowling shell down 8 different lanes. Each lane has 10 pins that the player must try to hit. Additionally, there are many diamonds, birds, and other powerups along the way to be collected for points. The 8 lanes are Gravel Factory, Quarry, Flooded, Tar, Freeway, Crystal Mine, Lava, and Rockzilla. | ||
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| Flux | MasterWorks Software | [top] | |
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This is a Direct X puzzle game that features ray-traced graphics with many options to customize the game and has a worldwide high score competition. The play field is covered with colored tiles. When tiles of the same colour are touching, they are grouped and can be eliminated from the field by clicking them. The other pieces on the screen fall into the holes left by the removed pieces which changes the layout of the play field. That is where the strategy comes in. The player has to consider the current move and it's ramification. You can even achieve an "ultra-high scoring combo" if you move the pieces in a clever way. | ||
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| Fritz 6 | ChessBase GmbH / Eidos Interactive Ltd. | [top] | |
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This is a chess simulation which can be adjusted for beginners, advanced players and professionals. In comparison to Fritz 5 its graphics were revised and the menu got improved. For beginners the game features several help functions, e.g. it explains all possible moves. When making a mistake the virtual coach comes up and helps. For advanced players there are many settings for the AI opponent to get the ideal training partner. The key parts of the program are the extensive analysis functions. The database consists of 320.000 professional games and has an ELO rating of 2825. | ||
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| GreenFace | Amisoft / Softini | [top] | |
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Have you ever played old Supaplex game for DOS? Well, this game is on the same idea, but much more complex. Through 96 levels split in four episodes with different graphics, you must explore around inside a Virtual Reality machine, collecting pieces of information, placing bombs for destroying walls and enemies. The game is a scrolling game, using 640x480 screen resolution, 16 bit color depth and rendered graphics. | ||
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| Hoyle Board Games 2001 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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The 2001 iteration of the Hoyle Board Games comes with the following games: Backgammon, Battling Ships, Checkers, Chess, Chinese Checkers, Dominoes, Line 'Em Up (similar to Connect Four), Mahjong and two sub-games using the same tileset - Concentration and Gravity Tiles (a tile matching game), Mancala, Master Match (Mastermind), Parchisi (Parcheesi), Placer Racer (similar to Puzzle Bobble), Reversi (like Othello), Rummy Squares (Rummikub), Snakes & Ladders (their version of Chutes & Ladders), Yacht (Yahtzee). The players' avatars can be customized, speak and are fully animated. Some of the games allow the player to choose between solo play and multiplayer with other people online or computer controlled characters. | ||
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| Hoyle Card Games 2001 | Sierra Entertainment | [top] | |
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This CD-ROM offers you 16 favorite classic card games including poker, bridge, hearts, euchre, canasta, crazy eights, cribbage, gin rummy, memory match, war, spades, go fish, pinochle pitch, old maid, and 50 solitaire games. Play with customizable game variations, card sizes, backgrounds, and music. Enjoy hours of lively interactive action as you play against the Hoyle animated characters, or against friends either in person or over the Internet. Use Facemaker to customize your character's look. Choose different hair, eyes, and noses for thousands of combinations. Rules, hints and tips are just a mouse click away. Free Internet Play and Rulebook & Strategy Guide. | ||
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| Hoyle Mahjong Tiles | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This Hoyle take on the classic game of Mahjong includes the traditional rules plus also Memory Tiles and Gravity Tiles. Two tile styles are available with 60 different board configurations in the classic rules version of turning over two tiles at a time to remove a matching pair until the board is empty or no further matches can be made. The Memory Tiles game has similar gameplay with tiles covering the whole board and only side by side, not on top of one another. If you want to create different layouts, you can with the included Layout Maker feature. Gravity Tiles has you removing tiles of matching colors that touch at least on one side. Those that are removed will cause any on top to fall onto the vacated space. From three to five different colors of tiles can be. You can change various options also such as background scenery, your character avatar's appearance, or make your own mahjong boards. Two-player and on-line options are available, plus different unique methods of scoring to make solo play more varied. | ||
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| Hoyle Solitaire & Mahjong Tiles | Sierra Entertainment | [top] | |
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Solitaire and mahjong tiles have always represented an entertaining way to pass the time. Now both classic games are even better with spectacular graphics, fun animation, and great sound effects. You can even play with a friend or family member on the same PC, which is great for head-to-head mahjong tiles. Discover for yourself why Hoyle is the greatest name in family entertainment. | ||
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| Hoyle Word Games 2001 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | [top] | |
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This 2001 edition of Sierra's Hoyle Word Games features nine different traditional games for the literarily inclined. They include: Anagrams - Race against the clock to create words out of the six scrambled letters; Crosswords - Enjoy hundreds of game variations including 500 crossword puzzles from Dell Magazine. Get hints when you need them, and print puzzles to solve whilst away from your computer; Doublecross - An exciting and strategic word building game. Capture or blow up other players' words if you can; Enigma: Decode over 1,300 famous proverbs and quotes. Swap letters until you solve the puzzle; Hangman - This traditional word game takes on a new twist with four playful variations; Speedy Racer: Save yourself from the Big Bad Wolf by typing letters and words before they hot the ground; Word Searches - It's easy to find FUN with more than 450 word searches. You can even create your own puzzles; Word Yacht - Roll 10 dice to create words in one if eight categories before time is up. Find 3, 4 or 5 letter words, maybe even a Straight or Yacht if you're lucky; Wordox; Plus 3 Bonus Hoyle Board Games, Plus 3 Bonus Hoyle Card Games. Players can design their own representative in-game characters, then challenge their friends or a variety of computer opponents. Up to four gamers can compete on the same computer and online multiplayer options are also supported. Webster's New World College Dictionary is used as the reference and, of course, the authoritative Hoyle rules are incorporated into each game. Features: Difficulty levels from easy to advanced; Challenging AI keep players on their toes; Custom design your own characters using the included "Facemaker" program. | ||
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| Hugo: Die Geburtstagsparty [G] | ITE Media | [top] | |
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Hugo celebrates his 10th birthday! Well, not directly, actually, Hugo is already 400 years old (just in the best age for a troll), but it is now 10 years since his creator ITE invented him. And because you have to celebrate such a round number simply, there is this special Hugo birthday double CD-ROM. Hugo - The birthday party offers a selection of the hottest Hugo games of the last 10 years and a few great surprises. In addition, the package contains a real Hugo photo camera so you can participate in the Hugo Photo contest. CD1 Content: Mine, Dolmenhöhle, Draisine, Ice Cave, Hugocoptor, Climbing Wall, Labyrinth, Motorcycle, Skateboard, Wild River / Rope, Key & Blitzend; Difficulty: TV Version / Arcade Version; Players: 1 to 2. CD2 Content: Archery, Fish Rescue, Insect Memory, Head Calculator, Rescue the Hare, Time, Bird Feeding, Wolf; Fight Difficulty: Easy / Normal / Heavy; Player: 1. | ||
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| Il Gladiatore: The Game [It] | Imagetools | [top] | |
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An early example of Italian "Advergaming", this is a Macromedia+QuickTime game built around movie clips from The Gladiator movie. In a whopping *over500megs* Win/Mac hybrid disc (a lot of fmvs, apparently). You needed a secret code in order to start a new game. Back in the day, you had to register to Jumpy (a now defunct italian free internet service) in order to receive that code. More than that, after losing 5 lives, to continue, you needed a password from the (guess what? DEAD) internet page of Max, the Italian magazine that published this cd-rom. If you want infinite lives, you need another password from Jumpy. | ||
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| Initial D: Ryosuke Takahashi's Fastest Typing-theory [J] | E Frontier, Sunsoft | [top] | |
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PC version of the Japanese typing tutor game based on the Initial D series. An amazing typing specialist has appeared at Akina Pass. Takumi Fujiwara, a young genius who rides the AE86 of his car and fascinates him with super drift. Takumi has been hitting his keyboard every early morning, delivering tofu to help his family tofu shop. It was a gifted education secretly planned by his father, Bunta. Takumi, who continued typing on both rainy and snowy days, naturally learned brilliant techniques and raised his skills. In front of such Takumi, powerful rivals in the Gunma area have made a name for themselves one after another. Takumi evolves with each typing battle. The technique surprised and impressed what he saw. And finally, the confrontation with "Gunma's charisma Ryosuke Takahashi" ... Can Takumi build an undefeated typing myth against Ryosuke Takahashi, who is armed with the perfect "fastest typing theory" with the best technique? The blockbuster anime "Initial D" is now available as typing battle software. Reproduce the radical battle with rivals coolly with a powerful 3D movie! BGM is a dance euro beat! The dialogue of rivals and galleries is also re-recorded, and the limit battle heats up more and more. Does your driving tech work for typing? Who is the fastest runner to win the battle? | ||
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| Jeopardy! 2nd Edition | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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Based on the television game show, this challenges you to compose over four thousand new answers in the form of questions. The game's three modes include the Normal Game, Solo Game and Tournament of Champions with a "Behind the Scenes" feature thrown in for extra measure. As in the actual game show, the Normal Game involves three human or computer-controlled contestants and two trivia-based rounds plus a Final Jeopardy question. Spanning six distinctive categories, there are 30 clues of varying cash amounts per round. In the Jeopardy! Round, answers range from one to five hundred dollars with harder questions worth the most money; the monetary values are then doubled in the Double Jeopardy! Round. Hidden "Daily Doubles" that allow you to wager as much of your cash winnings as you desire on the current clue are located on the "video wall," a grid of six categories with five questions under each. In order to answer the clues, you must buzz in and type in the correct response within a specified time limit. Answer correctly and you earn that clue's dollar amount - incorrect answers will reduce your accumulated total. Unlike the actual game, you do not have to type the response in the form of a question as the program automatically puts in the appropriate phrasing such as "Who is...?" or "What is...?" After the two initial rounds, the Final Jeopardy! round awaits. Final Jeopardy! features a single answer on which all contestants wager. You cannot wager more money than you have amassed throughout the game. Whoever has the highest cash total at the end of the game wins. The Solo Game is similar to the aforementioned Normal Game with one exception: there are no opponents. Your objective is to earn the highest cash amount possible. Finally, the Tournament of Champions is for those who've won five games or accumulated more than $75,000 and, because these players are among the elite, answers and questions are harder. The "Behind the Scenes" feature offers sample contestant exams, backstage video footage and hidden interviews with host Alex Trebek and the producers of Jeopardy!. This also features adjustable options including buzz-in times, response times, computer AI settings and a toggle between loose or strict spelling accuracy. Career statistics are tracked through the number of games won and lost, total winnings, best/worst category and score, round scores, tournament games won, correct and incorrect answers and the computer player IQ. | ||
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| Keep The Balance! | Item Multimedia / JoWood Productions | [top] | |
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This is a fast-paced puzzle game requiring basic math skills. An evil joker has invaded our world and tries to disturb The Magic Scales that balance our world, in order to unleash the forces of Chaos. Each level has a monkey standing on top of the scales. You have to keep the equilibrium by launching objects, passing below on a conveyor, onto the scales. All locations have unique sets of objects to which weight, shown as a number, has been assigned. As the objects appear from both sides of the screen at the same time, you move the cursor below an object and press a key to launch it. At the top of each scale, the current weight is shown. If there is a big gap in weight, the monkey will slowly slide to the heaviest side. When it falls down, the game is over. Each level has been divided into 10 consecutive skill levels. By finding the correct balance, you improve your score, raise the skill level, and open up new locations. Higher levels introduce a faster conveyor belt, new objects and intrusions by the joker. He can suddenly appear and jump on the scales to unbalance them, or unexpectedly throw or remove objects. Each scale has six sections to contain items. Once launched however, they can be replaced by new ones. For advanced strategies, you can combine or manipulate certain items. Guillotines can cut objects and trampolines bounce them back. Extra bonus points can be acquired by throwing food towards animals, or by making animals do tricks (e.g. throwing a squirrel through a hoop of fire, or caging it). Almost all objects are animated and you have to take into account that certain animals do not get along when positioned next to each other. The game's options allow you to disable the weight preview for extra difficulty or to play a run at a fixed skill level. Multiplayer games are available for two players simultaneously on a single PC. In this mode, you have to make the monkey fall off on your side by throwing heavy items on your scale and removing them on your opponent's. | ||
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| Klix! | magnussoft Deutschland GmbH | [top] | |
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This is a puzzle game with blocks very similar to Klax. Blocks emerge on conveyor belts with an irregular distance and they come slowly forward until they threaten to fall from the play table. The player moves around a box at the edge, left and right, to catch the blocks. A maximum of five blocks can be stacked in a single go. With the space button these blocks are stored on five fields at the ground. The blocks do not have unlimited space on the ground, they need to disappear. This done by stacking similar blocks together, in horizontal, vertical or diagonal blocks of at least three in succession, based on the same colour. Blocks come in seven different colours. For combinations of more than three blocks bonus points are provided. Each level has a specific goal that needs to be reached in order to progress. These include forming ten combinations, or ten diagonal ones in later levels. The game gradually gets harder and the blocks start moving at a faster speed on the conveyor belt. | ||
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| Lemmings Revolution | Psygnosis Limited / Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | [top] | |
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Those Lemmings are getting into trouble again. They've spent they're whole lives going through the brutal, sicking mazes and puzzles that the Weasels constructed... Why? To entertain them; they think its a joke! But the Lemmings don't think it's very funny... Now the Lemmings have finally escaped to their promised land, living lives of happiness and content. But the Weasles grow tired of the Lemming's old adventures. They crave new pain, new carnage. SO the Weasels set out and capture the once happy Lemmings. They pack them up in boxes and construct a new puzzle, the ultimate maze. Only you can save these brainless characters. Help them survive 100 levels full of all new hazards and beautiful scenery. New Lemmings that walk on water, can survive in acid, and the blue clad regulars. | ||
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| Magic Bubble [Tw] | Funyours / Hong Yu technology | [top] | |
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In this Tetris variant when three magic bubbles of the same color are linked, bubbles can be eliminated. The eliminated bubbles will attack opponents in a frozen form. If you want to eliminate the frozen bubbles, bubbles must be eliminated in the surrounding when they will be unfrozen as a general bubble. The timely use of props or magic in the game, and observing the weakness of the opponent's attack mode are also important factors in winning victory. You can play the plot mode alone, you can play games with family members. It adds RPG elements like the plot mode has a large map, towns, shops and casinos where you can buy in the store items so that you can defeat the props. If you don't have enough money, you can go to the casino to try your luck. In the battle chest are a wide range of props with magic badges. If the luck is good enough, you can get the dream of prophecy in it. There's not only cute strange gelatin, but also in the "wind and color fantasy" popular character will also debut like warrior rodi, sorcerer fina, witch isabe, hunter Paz, etc. In addition to the above characters, the development team also prepared a few surprisingly hidden characters to wait for you to discover. | ||
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| Microsoft Casino | Glass Eye Entertainment, LLC / Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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This features replications of three authentic Las Vegas casinos: the Bellagio, Treasure Island, and the Mirage. The game features ten gambling games including Baccarat, video poker, blackjack, Caribbean Stud Poker, craps, video Keno, Pai Gow Poker, roulette, slots, and the Big 6 Wheel. The individual hotels feature their own in-house betting levels. For instance, the one-armed bandits at Treasure Island are nickel slots, while the Bellagio caters to five-dollar bets. A Vegas-style lounge soundtrack adds to the ambience as you play against animated opponents for table game's stakes or in tournament play. Each computer-controlled player comes with unique dialogue, complete with accents and individual exclamations. Additional gameplay is offered through the Casino Challenge, hosted by Danny Gans, with stakes getting higher and competition tougher as you work your way through the casinos. Free play, in-game presentations of famous shows and landmarks, and complimentary free drinks, hotel suites and meals add to the "feel" of this Las Vegas simulation. Play alongside 25 unique characters. | ||
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| Microsoft Classic Board Games | Oxford Softworks / Microsoft Corporation | [top] | |
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This features 12 traditional favorites including Chinese Checkers, Chinese Chess, traditional Chess, Reversi, Checkers, Dominoes, Go, Backgammon, 4-in-a-Line, Taipei, Gomoku and Shogi. Combining rendered visuals and menu-driven navigation, each board game comes with a rule listing and multiple difficulty settings. Players can challenge computer-controlled opponents or battle a friend for board game supremacy. If you aren't familiar with a game or don't understand the rules, you can have two computer opponents play each other in real time. All of these settings can be toggled on a menu screen that precedes each game. Some board games feature additional options, such as altering the board's size in Go. In Taipei, you can choose from various tile layouts such as traditional, towers, or pyramids. You'll also have the option of turning the menu off so it isn't shown when a game is started, although you can still alter game settings at any time. Using menu options located at the top of the screen, you can choose to receive hints on the next move and rewind or fast forward past moves. The latter option is designed to help you develop tactics to use against your friends or computer opponents. Additionally, you can toggle the "Legal Move Indicator," which shows all the currently available moves and teaches novice gamers certain rules. Those with an Internet connection can take it online. Online gaming is free at Microsoft's www.zone.com. Whether hopping over various pieces in Chinese Checkers or eliminating all the tiles in Taipei, this board game collection will have you reliving all the classics in a whole new format. | ||
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| Microsoft Plus! Game Pack: Cards & Puzzles | Microsoft | [top] | |
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Microsoft Plus! Game Pack: Cards & Puzzles was released in 2000 and is the only version of Plus! to be fully centered around games. It is a bundle of card and puzzle games previously released separately and includes a trial version of Pandora's Box. The games are available in two collections - Bicycle Card Collection (originally from Microsoft Bicycle Card Games) and The Puzzle Collection (originally from the Microsoft Entertainment Pack of the same name). Bicycle Card Collection includes 12 games, while The Puzzle Collection includes 10. | ||
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| Mobile Suit Gundam: Zaku Strike Typing One Year War [J] | Sunrise / eFrontier | [top] | |
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Typing software that uses the character of "Mobile Suit Gundam" and develops another Gundam Story that depicts one young man awakening to a new type through the one-year war. The newly created 200+ 3DCG mobile suit images were recorded together with the nostalgic theater release video, and that name line was also newly recorded by the original voice actor at that time including Mr. Toru Furuya who played Amuro. We have prepared a practice stage where you can practice the basics of typing according to Seira's instructions, and all eight battle stages from Zaku to the confrontation with the strongest mobile suit. You can adjust the game's difficulty level to 3 levels according to your level. | ||
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| Moraff's Maximum Mahjongg | Moraff Games / Global Star Software | [top] | |
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A collection of the Moraff's Mahjongg shareware versions of the classic Asian tile game. It includes four different styles of Mahjong, including the special Ringjongg and Spherejongg variants. This first release of the series features over 200 tile sets, 100 music selections, 50 layouts, and the ability to customize your own own backgrounds. | ||
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| Mr. Driller | Namco Limited / Namco Hometek Inc. | [top] | |
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Mr. Driller's world has been covered with mysterious blocks. Armed with only a mighty drill, you'll have to dig your way down to safety before his air supply runs out. Mr. Driller is a real-time puzzle game originally in arcades in 1999 that relies solely on quick-thinking and a bit of planning. The gameplay is a combination of Tetris and Boulder Dash: You have to drill down through multi-colored blocks to reach the bottom while avoiding the consequences of reckless drilling; blocks left without a foundation will drop down after a while, potentially crushing Mr. Driller. As the hero's air supply is depleted with time, the player must regularly grab oxygen pick-ups. Some of the blocks are "X-Blocks", which take a few tries to drill through and take away a large chunk of the player's air if destroyed. If four or more X-Blocks come in contact with each other, they vanish and leave behind a small blue creature "Chisokojin", which grants 765 points when picked up. There are two scenarios in the game, the "2500ft" and "5000ft challenge" (called "500m" and "1000m" in the Japanese version), which are five and ten levels long respectively. | ||
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| Pop 'n Pop | Taito, Dreams / CyberFront, Vektorlogic | [top] | |
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This is a puzzle game, first in arcades in 1998, similar to Puzzle Bobble; the player's goal is to release colored bubbles from the bottom on the screen within a limited amount of time, trying to match three or more bubbles of the same color. The difference in this version is that bubbles cannot bounce on the walls; the player can only release them vertically. The game features characters from various Taito games, such as Bub and Bob from the Bubble Bobble series, Tiki from The New Zealand Story, the dwarves from Doko Doko Don, and others. This PC version is a slightly stripped down version of the PS1 version, with two game modes missing, and the three unlockable characters missing. Available options include: Story Mode (1 Player with advancing difficulty); 1 Player vs Computer; Player vs Player; Challenge Mode (Test yourself on your skill). | ||
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| Pop'n Music Da!! [J] | iNiS corporation / Hands On Entertainment Inc. | [top] | |
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This is a spinoff of Konami's popular pop'n music arcade rhythm game adapted to the typing-tutor gameplay of beatmania Da!!. It's the first game in the franchise to be on computers. The graphic design and music selection has been updated to fit the pop'n music franchise, but the game otherwise plays the same as before: notes with letters on them descend towards a bar in time with the music, and must be typed when they touch the bar to play along with the song. There are 3 levels of difficulty, and a total of 10 songs with two versions of each. | ||
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| Spider-Man Print Kit | Activision | [top] | |
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Announce your next birthday party with Spidey invitations. Watch him fall to pieces in a jigsaw puzzle you create. See how off the wall he is in awesome posters you design for your room. Make stickers, bookmarks, and more. Besides Spider-Man himself, all your favorite Spider-Man universe characters are included, such as Doc Ock, Venom, Hobgoblin, Kraven the Hunter, and many more. It's super easy and super fun. Create stickers, posters, bookmarks, invitations, and much more. Easy-to-use interface in the style of a comic book makes creating fun. Features all the favorite characters and backgrounds from the Spider-Man universe. Add your own photos to stickers, invitations, and other designs. | ||
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| Typing Fighter II Plus [J] | Apcom | [top] | |
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A typing tutor game based on the Street Fighter II arcade game series. Type romanized Japanese words and phrases to execute attacks on your opponents, including the words for characters' actual special moves. It consists of three modes: basic, practice, and application, so even beginners can improve their touch typing. You can choose your favorite fighter from a total of 8 fighters such as familiar Ryu and Ken. Seven 3-round stages are prepared, and if you clear them, the strongest typing fighter "Shitenno" will appear, and if you defeat the "Shitenno", you can challenge the Internet battle. | ||
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| Ultimate Solitaire | ValuSoft | [top] | |
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Ultimate Solitaire is the largest collection of Solitaire available today with over 250 different games. Test your skills with Klondike (traditional solitaire), Pyramid, Free Cell, Spider and tons of other variations. Forget playing alone - match up against other players, or play against the clock. Choose your own cards, backgrounds, and sound effects. Ultimate Solitaire guarantees you hours of fun and challenge the whole family can enjoy. | ||
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| Ultra 2000: Pac-Man [J] | Ultra2000, MediaKite / Namco | [top] | |
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This is a Japanese PC release of a faithful conversion of the hit arcade game graphics and gameplay. | ||
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| Ultra 2000: Raku Jongg [J] | Enterbrain | [top] | |
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Raku Jongg is a combination of Mahjong tiles falling from the top of the screen, to make a mahjong falling block puzzle game, there are six modes in total. Raku Jongg is personal award and special jury prize winner at ASCII entertainment software contest. Winners themselves are responsible for game design, program and all elements, such as graphics, music and gameplay of super power-ups! And in this version 1.2, adding two new modes. | ||
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| Visual Pinball | Steve Ellenoff, Tom Haukap, Martin Adrian, and Gerrit Volkenborn | [top] | |
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This is a pinball table editor where the player can design pinball tables. Choose from many different items like plungers, flippers, kickers, bumpers, ramps, lights, text displays, gates, spinners, timers, triggers, decals, and drop targets to place on the pinball table. The player can also change the table and item's size shape, the displayed graphics, and then program the logic of the table with VBScript. Once created the table can be played in true 3D from a fixed view (view angle can be set in the editor). With all this realistic recreations of existing tables or completely original designs can be created. There are thousands of tables both recreated and original are available for download across the web. Also with the extra VPinMame download, the created table can be attached to a real pinball ROM to create a realistic simulation of a modem table. | ||
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| Wheel of Fortune: 2nd Edition | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. / Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | [top] | |
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This features 2,500 puzzles to solve including those with standard phrases, clues (with bonus answers weighing in at $3000) and themes (for example, topics revolving around certain decades). Before winning fantasy goodies, you choose from various options including Normal, Solo Game and Tournament modes. Played with three human or computer opponents, Normal mode incorporates timed gameplay and a series of rounds. While games are generally 20 minutes long, you have the option of selecting time limits and winners are determined based on money earned. The player with the most money at the end of the final round moves on to the bonus round which features a final puzzle and the chance of winning one of five fabulous prizes. Aside from the bonus round, there are Jackpot and Speed-Up rounds as well. Having the wheel stop on the Jackpot wedge during this round significantly increases total earnings if the puzzle is solved at that point. During the round, the jackpot amount increases each time the wheel stops on a dollar amount. Because time is running out, the Speed-Up round features a final spin from Vanna White. Whatever dollar amount landed on is what contestants earn per correct letter. When a player guesses a correct letter, he or she will have the option of solving the puzzle. If they can't, the next contestant is given a chance to guess a letter. While the Solo Game is reminiscent of the Normal mode, you'll compete against one thing - your highest score. There are no human or computer-controlled opponents in this mode. Instead, you receive 11 free spins and after choosing an incorrect letter or landing on a wheel hazard (bankrupt and lose a turn), a free spin is used. After the free spins have been depleted, the game ceases. Finally, the Tournament mode consists of three human opponents with rules pertaining to Normal mode. In order to compete in the prestigious tournament, you must either win five games or earn $50,000. It features bonus goodies including a Behind the Scenes mode, career statistics and hidden interviews with co-host Vanna White; the interviews are unlocked by doing well in actual games. With sample contestant exams, backstage video sequences and various rooms, Behind the Scenes is for the Wheel of Fortune enthusiast. Career statistics include number of games won and lost, total earnings, best and worst categories and the number of tournament games won. | ||
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| Witch Frog | Nerlaska / Xing International, Crystal Interactive Software | [top] | |
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In the land of Warlock Witches and Wizards do battle to obtain the magical broom of Warlock. Defeat your opponents in a magical puzzle game involving matching colored frogs. Can you stay on a winning streak? Features: Many Witches and Wizards to choose from; Magical Puzzle game involving Frogs; 100% Family Friendly Fun; Colorful cartoon graphics; Win the magic broom of Warlock. | ||
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| You Don't Know Jack [J] | Jellyvision, Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. Ltd. | [top] | |
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This Japanese localization of You Don't Know Jack Volume 2 is presented by Masatoshi Hamada, a popular comedian known for his performances as the comedy duo Downtown, co-hosts of the variety TV show Gaki no Tsukai, as well as being the Japanese voice of Shrek. There are 250 different questions. The engine is modified so that katakana characters can be entered via romaji input. (i.e. phonetically via the Latin alphabet). However, most animations and menus are kept in American English. | ||
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