Title | Released | Publisher | Developer | Genres | Perspective | Misc | Narrative | Gameplay | Setting | Vehicular | Interface | Pacing | ESRB | Visual | Platform Main | Description |
| Klotz | 1993-10-30 | | | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Klotz is a single player, freeware, Tetris clone.As Tetris clones go this game is pretty standard, what makes it a bit different is that instead of running in a single game window, by default this game opens six separate windows which the player can minimise or close as they wish.
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| AL: Artificial Life (Insects) | 1993-12-01 | Pioneer LDC, Inc. | Digital Effects Laboratory | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | AL: Artificial Life is a three-part art project directed by Japanese CG artist Daizaburo Harada. All three portions of the project come bundled together in a single package, each portion in a different medium.Part one, AL: Artificial Life (Insects), is a full colour art book containing Harada's surreal CG artwork. The imagery depicts his "insects", a kind of strange otherworldly creature that's unrecognizable as any form of real life from our world. They were created using a novel procedural generation technique using audio waveforms as a seed. The second part, Judgment Engine, is a sci-fi novel by American author Greg Bear. Set at the end of the universe, it focuses on a debate between far-future scientists over what kind of message to send to the as-yet-unborn future universe, and imagines Harada's insects as artificial lifeforms being created to prove a hypothesis about the nature of life.The third part, School World, is a CD-ROM game. While it doesn't explicitly state who players control or what their goal is, it sets players in the role of a scientist or observer examining Harada's insects. The first section of the game, Capture, lets players traverse the School World planet via satellite imagery and select an insect to examine. The second section, Breed, takes place inside the UI of a scientific examination station, and allows players to examine and manipulate their captured insect. The specimen can be exported to an external file to share with other players. |
| A Day At The Races | 1994 | | Latticework Software | Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A Day At The Races is a shareware, horse racing game for up to four players.Each player starts with $100 and places bets in fixed amounts on any of the eight houses. Once the player(s) have selected their horse, chosen the amount to bet and decided whether the bet is win, place or show the race can commence. The horses race across the screen and the winnings, if they are any, are paid.
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| Counting On Frank: Magic Numbers Game | 1994 | Learning Company, Inc., The | | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Counting On Frank: Magic Numbers Game is a single player math/strategy game based on the traditional Tic-Tac-Toe format.The player and the game take turns to roll a dice, the number they score must be placed in the 3x3 grid. The object of the game is to create a line of three numbers that meet specific criteria;
Level 1: This level is played on a 3x3 grid, all other levels are played on a 4x4 grid. The object is to complete a line of numbers that add up to nine, the first to do so wins. The strategy element comes from the art of the placing of high numbers because the first to make a row of three numbers add up to more than nine loses.
Level 2: Here the game is played on a 4x4 grid and players are working with fractions such as 4/6 and .25 rather than the whole numbers in Level 1. The object is to
complete a row of four that adds up to two
Level 3: This is also played on a 4x4 grid, it uses whole numbers and the objective is to place them such that when multiplied together they total twelve.
Level 4: This is also played the same grid as level 3 and has the same objective, the difference being that the player is working with a combination of whole numbers, negative numbers, fractions and zeroes.
Counting On Frank: Magic Numbers Game is a mini-game taken from Counting On Frank, and can sometimes be found shareware/freeware compilation CDs.. It was made with Macromedia and plays in a small window but the background blocks out the whole screen.
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| Hangman 2 | 1994 | | Pocket-Sized Software | Puzzle | Side view | | | Word construction | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Hangman 2 is a single player, shareware, mouse controlled, Hangman game. The player attempts to guess a mystery word by selecting letters from the alphabet. They are allowed ten incorrect guesses per puzzle. For each session the game records how many games have been played and how many have been won, this is not recorded - there is no high score table
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| Hyperoid | 1994 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Hyperoid is a freeware port of the original Windows 3.1 Hyperoid game by Edward Hutchins.This is still a single player Asteroids clone but while this is a port of an earlier game the gameplay has been modified, an extra ship is awarded when the player scores 33,333 points or a multiple thereof, and the baddies' bullets do more damage.The game plays in a resizeable window and, allegedly, it can even be played in the game's icon. It is entirely keyboard controlled and has a 'Boss key'.
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| Telephone Puzzle 2 | 1994 | | Pocket-Sized Software | Strategy | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Telephone Puzzle 2 is a single player, shareware, mouse controlled puzzler.This is a straightforward game in which words are represented as numbers, the words being based on the way letters are shown on the telephone, e.g. 2 could be A,B, or C; 3 could be D, E, or F and so on. The player has to determine what word each number represents, 2662586466 for example represents "CONCLUSION".The games are all timed and statistics on how many puzzles the player solves are maintained. There is no save game function and no high score table. |
| Wallobee Jack: Secret of the Sphinx | 1994 | WordPerfect Main Street | Megatoon Entertainment Group, Inc. | Adventure | | | | Graphic adventure | | | Point and select | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Wallobee Jack's adventures continue with a trip to Egypt. After a newly-uncovered artifact from a secret chamber in the Sphinx is stolen, museum curators ask Wallobee and Francesca for their help recovering it. Like other games in the series, this graphic adventure game features exploration and some simple puzzles players are required to complete within a certain time liimt. |
| 3-D Body Adventure | 1995 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | This game is an interactive adventure through the human body. You can zoom down the spinal column, watch blood cells flow through veins, and climb down the brain all in the same day. An interactive encyclopedia helps you understand different things relating to the human body that you might not know. If that doesn't satisfy you, perhaps some of the games will. Answer questions about the human body, germs, and health. If you want a little action, try to save a ER patient by zooming through their body and fighting germs.The whole thing comes wrapped up on a CD-ROM, or three floppy disks. |
| 3-D Ultra Pinball | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action | | | | Arcade, Pinball | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Some would call it Impossible Pinball. Not that it is difficult to play, rather that you could never build a pinball machine that could do the type of things that this game does. But it seems as though that's the point. As like any pinball game, there is an underlying plot in which you must achieve certain goals on each of the three pinball tables (you can warp between them).This takes you off into the fantasy pinball world, where anything can happen. Tanks can attack your ball, comets can fly in and create a crater in the middle of the board. Who knows what will happen next. |
| 3DMaze | 1995 | | | Puzzle | | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 3DMaze is a game that will test the mind and eyes. The objective of the game is to navigate a line through a small or large maze, using the arrow keys and page up and down buttons to move. The maze can either be made up of square mazes, or hexagonal spaces. And the length of the maze depends on if you re-size the window. Small window, small maze. Big window, big maze. |
| Acme | 1995 | | | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Acme is a single player, freeware, card game from Australia.The game is intended for five players, in this computerised version the player takes one role and the game plays the remainder. It is player with a standard fifty two deck of cards plus one joker.
The game is based on the ACME company where there are five employees President, Vice President,
White Collar Worker, Blue Collar Worker, and Apprentice. The object of the game is to become the company president, this is achieved by playing all cards held in the hand before other players, in so doing the player can advance in rank and ascend the company hierarchy.
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| Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack | 1995 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | It's time to set the Way-Back Clock to the early 80s (that's 1980s), when little plastic boxes with fake wood trim ruled the video gaming landscape. In Atari 2600 Action Pack, Activision relives its early glory with 15 of its most popular game cartridges. These aren't PC ports--this package includes a 2600 emulator and the actual cartridge ROMs.The following games are included:
Boxing
Chopper Command
Cosmic Commuter
Crackpots
Fishing Derby
Freeway
Frostbite
Grand Prix
H.E.R.O.
Kaboom!
Pitfall!
River Raid
Seaquest
Sky Jinks
Spider Fighter
Each game includes on-line help that also provides a short history of the game and its designer. |
| Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack 2 | 1995 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | As if the original Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack wasn't enough for old-school console gaming junkies, Activision follows up with a second set of 15 cartridges from their archives. These are not PC ports; the package includes a 2600 emulator and the original cartridge ROMs.The games featured in Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack 2 are:
Atlantis
Barnstorming
Dolphin
Dragster
Enduro
Ice Hockey
Keystone Kapers
Laser Blast
Megamania
Oink!
Plaque Attack
River Raid II
Skiing
Stampede
Tennis
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| Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack 3 | 1995 | Activision, Inc. | Absolute Entertainment, Inc., Activision, Inc., Atari, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the third in the Atari 2600 Action Pack series - this time with Atari games as well as Activision's:
Breakout
Canyon Bomber
Checkers
Combat
Night Driver
Private Eye
Space War
Starmaster
Pressure Cooker
Title Match Pro Wrestling
Yars' Revenge |
| Activision's Commodore 64 15 Pack | 1995 | Activision, Inc. | Digital Eclipse Software, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | After the three Atari 2600 Action Packs Activision took the next step and brought out an emulation package featuring the Commodore 64 with 15 games:
Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress
Beamrider
Eliminator
Hacker
Little Computer People
Portal
Toy Bizarre
Rock n' Bolt
Park Patrol
Master of the Lamps
The Activision Decathlon
The Great American Cross-Country Road Race
Web Dimension
Zenji
Zone Ranger
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| Adroid | 1995 | | | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Adroid is a singleplayer shareware shooter.The backstory describes a future world controlled by five corporations. The player's company is the only one not to have developed and as a result the other four have been using their muscle to make unfair demands and claims. As a result of this the player has been tasked with creating a new ship, Adroid. Word of the player's craft has been leaked to the 'Big Four' and they've sent their ships to destroy the Adroid and the player. The battle begins and the player is on their own...The ship is controlled by moving the mouse left/right/forwards and backwards; the laser is fired by clicking the left mouse button and the player can strafe by moving the mouse while holding the mouse button down.The objective is to kill enemy ships and collect flags to score points, unusually a point is lost every time the laser is fired. |
| Allied General | 1995 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Halestorm, Inc., Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | | | War | Turn-based strategy, Wargame | Africa, Europe, Historical events, Middle East, World War II | | Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Allied General is the sequel to Panzer General and uses the same turn-based gameplay mechanics. This time the player experiences World War II from the Allied point of view during two British, one U.S. and one Russian campaign. The settings are Europe, Russia and Northern Africa.The most important thing to have are prestige points. These are earned by solving scenarios (more for less amount of turns used) and used to buy replacement units. But this is not the only reason to be concerned about the detailed mission results: surviving units are transferred to the next mission and receive experience points. The campaign is also not completely linear, and the next mission depends on the result of the last - this means a lost scenario does not necessarily result in a game over, and a scarce victory can have devastating results. Of course a great victory has positive effects on the next missions.Every turn the player plans the actions of his units and tries to defeat his enemy. The complexity of the game mostly comes from the many different units and weapons - everything has their use and weaknesses. It is vital to use the resources in the correct order and combination. There are also other factors to think about, e.g. fuel. Allied General tries to be player friendly by giving feedback during turns, e.g. by showing the probable combat result before the player issues the attack. He can also undo a turn as long as no new enemy units are scouted. Other extras are historical film material and optional combat animations. |
| Ancient Yacht | 1995 | Latticework Software | | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Ancient Yacht is a Yahtzee clone that can be played in four ways:
Played with five dice and a single scoring column
Played with five dice and a two scoring columns
Played with ten dice and a single scoring column
Played with ten dice and a two scoring columnsIt can be played as a single player game, as a single player vs the computer game, or by two, three or four players. It is completely controlled by the mouse.
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| ArtRageous! | 1995 | Future Vision Multimedia, Inc. | SuperStudio Ltd. | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | ArtRageous! is a series of games and other interactive learning activities centered around art history. The learning adventure begins in a virtual plaza where the player/student can choose from a number of destinations to visit. Among the destinations are sizable, cross-referenced databases of both paintings and painter biographies.The main attraction of Artrageous! is the rich variety of activities present. The activities cover 5 categories of understanding and appreciating art: Color, light, perspective, composition, and the life of art. The color category includes a color mixing game in which you must use varying amounts of red, blue, and yellow components to build a hue/saturation color wheel. Another activity demonstrates the effect of adjusting the brightness or contrast of a picture. These and other activities are supplemented with narrated explanations of color concepts.The activities covering light include a sphere with lights placed around it -- click on one of the lights to understand the visual effects of different light sources. Also, a game that explains light demonstrates how outlines create shape. The player's goal is to match a number of outlines to their respective images within a mish-mash painting.One of the perspective category games is to arrange a roomful of floating objects where they would fit more appropriately on the painting backdrop. Both the painting and the objects are drawn with a 3D perspective which gives the player clues about placement. Further, the player can elect to bring up a vanishing point line grid for help.The composition section demonstrates how elements of paintings convey meaning. One game that illustrates this concept asks the player to match which shape or concept (circle, triangle, balanced scale, or unbalanced scale) best represents each of a selection of paintings.The life of art category features a jigsaw puzzle game using square pieces. The player must re-assemble the puzzle in a given period of time.
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| Backpacker | 1995 | BMG Interactive Entertainment | TATI Mixedia | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Board game, Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Backpacker is a game about travelling around the world. The objective is to travel around the world as fast as possible, to visit as many cities as possible or to get a certification for as many jobs as possible. For every city you come to, you will need more money for the next flight ticket. There are two ways to get money. One is to call home and ask for help from your family, but the usual way is to get a job. Before you can start searching for a job you must find a hotel to live in. When checking in at the hotel you will get questions about the city that you are in. The result of these will be used when searching for work. Answers for these questions can be found by visiting sights. When you have got a job you will get questions about that job. You will get more money if you answer the questions right. |
| Bailey's Book House | 1995 | Edmark Corporation | Theatrix Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | As in the first game in Edmark's Early Learning series, Millie's Math House, Bailey's Book House is an educational game designed for younger children to use. The interface is completely point-and-click, and instructions are given verbally, repeatable as needed.The player is taken to the main screen where Bailey sits reading in a chair; around the room are various objects and furniture that lead the player to the activities.Each activity has two modes; Explore and Discover and Question and Answer. The first mode encourages the player to click around and experiment, emphasizing that he is in charge. In Question and Answer mode, which is entered by clicking the animal inside the picture frame, a character will ask the player to perform tasks related to the current area. The descriptions below apply to the Question and Answer mode:
Edmo & Houdini - Edmo the Clown will direct the player to make Houdini act out a preposition (go over the doghouse, for example); the player selects the correct word from an on-screen list. Edmo and Houdini's roles can be switched.
Letter Machine - the giraffe asks the player to find a specific letter, after which the letter is read aloud and a brief animation plays, using words beginning with that letter in a sentence.
Read-A-Rhyme - The player is asked to complete a traditional rhyme with a rhyming word.
Make-A-Story - The player selects from a number of options to create a printable story, that Bailey will also read aloud. There is no Question and Answer mode for this activity.
Kid Cards - creative play, where the player can create a printable card using ready-made greetings and picture stamps; parents can set up printing options for this activity.
Three-Letter Carnival - Millie the Cow asks the player to choose a rhyming word from a group of pictured items until they fill a carnival car.
My Friend - Jenny the Inchworm reads aloud a description of a friend and asks the player to supply a missing word.The Windows edition was updated in 1995 with the addition of the last two activities.There are several Adult options available by pressing Ctrl/Alt + A (Option/Command + A on a Mac) from the main screen; the parent can disable printing, adjust volume, hide the exit button, turn off music, and set up single-switch input for a special needs child. Additionally, there are printing options that apply only to the storybook activity, the letter machine, and Kid Cards.The educational focus of this game is on pre-reading and reading skills, developing the child's understanding of letters and the sounds they make, how words relate to pictures and affect meaning. Exploration and creativity are encouraged; there are no penalties for wrong answers in this game. |
| Battle Beast | 1995 | 7th Level, Inc., BMG Interactive Entertainment | 7th Level, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Battle Beast is a fighting game in the style of Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter. The only difference is that you use small animals to battle one another. But beware because these cute, little animals become deadly when they transform into pumped up robots. Battle Beast features cartoon-like graphics and several mini-games mixed in between the fights such as races through mazes and secret bonus rooms to collect goodies. |
| Battleground 2: Gettysburg (Collector's Edition) | 1995 | Empire Interactive Entertainment, TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | The first game in Civil American War series of Battleground series presents realistic interpretation of the well-known historical battle. Collector's Edition adds to original contents of package also Time Life’s hardback edition of “Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide”, Bobby Horton’s CD sampler of “Authentic music of the Civil War” and a 50 minute video Cassette of Gettysburg: “The Turning of the Tide!” |
| Battleground: Ardennes | 1995 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | First in the long-running Battleground wargame series. The game offers turn-based wargaming using the first incarnation of the Battleview engine and featuring 23 battles between Dec. 1944 and Jan. 1945 on the Ardennes Forest and its surroundings. Plus you get 3 hypothetical scenarios, 1 tutorial scenario and a scenario editor to fiddle with the premade missions. Uses svga graphics in an isometric or top-down tactical map.
Plus the game also includes small fmv sequences that play whenever a certain action is carried out and offers modem support for two-player gameplay. |
| Bog 2 | 1995 | | Pocket-Sized Software | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Bog 2 is a single player, shareware, mouse controlled, word game based on the concept of Boggle.The player is presented with sixteen letters in a 4x4 grid. From this they must construct words of three or more letters the only rule being that each letter selected must be adjacent to the last letter selected. At the start of each game the program searches its dictionary and tells the player how many words it found and the player's progress is shown as a percentage of that number. The game queries words it does not have in its word list and allows the player to enter use words if they wish, at the end of the game the player is asked if they wish to update the dictionary with the new words
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| Bust-A-Move | 1995 | GameBank Corp. | Taito Corporation | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Arcade, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The home version of Bust-A-Move is not a straight adaptation of the arcade game. It greatly increases the number of levels, has new gameplay features, and introduces new modes.The general concept remains the same: the player controls a catapult at the bottom of the screen that shoots bubbles of random colors. When three or more bubbles of the same color touch on the playfield, they are removed, with any bubbles falling away that are not attached to the ceiling, sidewall, or another bubble. The ceiling periodically descends, pushing the bubbles downward. The game is lost if any bubbles touch the bottom.In single-player mode, the goal is to clear pre-set bubble patterns. The game consists of 100 levels, more than tripling the number from the arcade game. Some arcade levels are reused, but most are entirely new. Also new are gameplay elements in the form of special bubbles: explosive bubbles destroy bubbles in a small radius around them if hit. Lightning bubbles move sideways if hit, clearing a horizontal line. Water bubbles burst, with the downward stream recoloring all bubbles it touches. Another new element is a boss fight in the final level.The two-player mode from the arcade version also reappears, but optionally adds a series of ten computer opponents with different playing strategies. In two-player mode, the goal is to make the other player fail. Instead of the ceiling descending, new bubbles are added from the top. Removing more than the required three bubbles at a time sends bubbles to the opponent's field.The final mode is Challenge mode: it is an endless unwinnable mode where new bubbles are continuously added from the top. It is played for the high score: both the score and the number of bubbles popped are counted. |
| Chess Kids | 1995 | Powerhouse Entertainment | Infinite Vision Technologies | Educational, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Typical Chess game with 3D view, 4 types of piece set, 3 difficulty levels. Pieces represent children, player's pieces are boy scouts, opponent pieces are hooligans. The chief of boy scouts is advisor giving tips and arbiter for children fight when pieces must kill each other. Background art of battlefield becomes active by mouse clicking. For 1-2 players. |
| Chinese Checkers | 1995 | | | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Chinese Checkers is a multiplayer version of the traditional peg and board game.
It was designed to be played over the internet or LAN against other players, there is no player vs computer option.The game is entirely controlled by the mouse but a keyboard is necessary to set up the initial connections to other players.
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| Chop Suey | 1995 | Magnet Interactive Studios, Inc. | Magnet Interactive Studios, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This colorful interactive storybook was designed for girls aged 7-12 but can be enjoyed by almost anyone. Two little girls, Lily and June Bugg, explore the small town of Cortland, Ohio with narration by National Public Radio's David Sedaris. You can click anywhere on the map of the town to explore buildings, houses and roads. The girls eat too much chop suey at the Ping Ping Palace then daydream while staring at the clouds which turn into different shapes. You use the mouse to explore all areas of the screen. When everything has been looked at, the cursor will turn into a moon shape. Follow the pointing finger to yet another activity. You can also visit your favorite aunt's bedroom with the black dog Mud Pup and try on her clothes and makeup where items tell of her past life as a Rockette on Broadway. The girls pretend they are angels and fly to New York. You can also visit the room of Aunt Vera's son Dooner who has grafitti on the walls, a diary you can read, and magazines and records spread throughout. You can also go on a picnic with Aunt Vera and her boyfriend Ned. They also visit a Bingo Hall where the game can be played. They visit Madame Mystery, a fortune teller, who can answer yes-or-no questions. Visiting a carnival will allow you to play various games like Dunk The Clown, and Games Of Luck while at the Big Top you can see Queen Kong and the Mutant Creatures Side Show. |
| Claim to Power | 1995 | Softgold Computerspiele GmbH | Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Claim to Power is a strategy game similar to Risk. The player controls one province in a medieval world and has to conquer the whole continent. There are five resources, which define the value of weapons, fortresses and moral. These values are assigned to the provinces, this means if the player has 100 soldiers in a good valued province they fight well - if he moves them to a province with bad values they suddenly become inept.Per turn the player can undertake up to six actions, e.g. for trading, moving troops and attacking. The combat results are calculated by the computer. There are live action videos to illustrate the happenings. |
| ClockWerx | 1995 | Spectrum Holobyte, Inc. | Callisto Corporation | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | ClockWerx is a mind game that incorporates puzzle elements. You control a hands alike spinner and move from point to point across a field filled with obstacles. The main goal is to try to find the only one way out of the grid without hitting any obstacles, enemy spinners or other hazards on the field of play. There are four difficulty levels and about 100 different stages with increasing number of obstacles. Obstacles consist of a wide variety of deadly items and will hinder player in any attempt to finish the game. There are also many extras such as timer points or bonus points to facilitate the completion of the level. |
| Comix Zone | 1995 | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Sega Technical Institute | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Beat 'em up / brawler | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Sketch Turner was a starving comic book artist, living with his pet rat Roadkill... that is until a lightning storm mysteriously brought his cartoon villain, Mortus, to life and imprisoned Sketch within the pages of his own comic book. Now trapped in the world that he himself created, but someone else is now drawing, Sketch must battle through the pages of his own comic book, and past his own creations, to a final battle with Mortus. Perhaps one of his own creations, General Alissa Cyan might be able to help...Comix Zone is a side-scrolling fighting game with a difference, you're inside of a comic book and you yourself know it. Smash enemies into the sides of frames, rip through the paper to unleash a super move and otherwise wreck havoc throughout the limitations of the graphic novel. Sketch himself can jump, attack and use various items that he finds along the comic book, including his rat friend, Roadkill. Button combinations can be used to unleash powerful techniques.The game progresses linearly through each page of the comic book, however secret paths and alternate routes through the story can be discovered. At the end of each level, Sketch receives a super hero rating for how well he's progressing. |
| Command: Aces of the Deep | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The Windows version of Aces of the Deep adds new textures as well as the Expansion Disk. |
| Congo: The Movie - Descent into Zinj | 1995 | Viacom New Media | Illumina Productions | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery, Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Congo is an adventure game adapted from the 1995 movie of the same name. The plot revolves around a search for a diamond that presumably have power enough to change the world of telecommunications as we know it. On a mission issued by Travis, the head of TraviCom, you are sent in contemporary Congo in order to recover the diamond and find out what has happened to another expedition led by Dr. Karen Ross. As you arrive at the place of you destination more and more pieces of the puzzle begin to fit together in a wholesome picture as even more questions arise. Who are the monster gorillas populating the area? What is the meaning of all the Egyptian writings found throughout the place? What drives Amy -- a sentient gorilla capable of speech, to help you? And most importantly -- how to survive and get hold of the precious diamond and, perhaps, save the unfortunate souls of the first expedition in the process.The gameplay is that of a classical inventory-based adventure. Although occasionally the game does depart from the formula. It mostly concerns the sequences where player should operate a multi-functional device resembling a laptop. With it's use player is able to analyze visual images to gain clues, record audio, track homing signals on the map and examine additional info from the files downloaded from the TraviCom network. Other notable gameplay features include navigating a river by boat and a maze-like sequence in the middle of the game.Visually the game is similar to the first-person adventure games of it's era tracing its roots to Myst. It contains the same pre-rendered 3D backgrounds with the smoothly animated transition sequences and the characters done in live-action, except for Amy who is also executed in pre-rendered 3D. The game is supplied with the trailer of the afore-mentioned 1995 movie. |
| Connect4 | 1995 | | | Strategy | Side view | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Connect4 is a single player, freeware game that is played entirely with the mouse.Connect4 is a conversion of the classic board game and it is played on a vertical board of seven columns and six rows. The player and their AI opponent take turns dropping coloured stones in the board to form four in a line horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The first to score a line, wins the game.The AI opponent's skill level can be adjusted, a game can be saved and loaded, and individual moves can be undone, there are also optional sound effects - a clunk as a piece is played and applause at the end of a game.
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| Connections | 1995 | Discovery Channel Multimedia, Learning Channel, The, Some Interactive | Discovery Channel Multimedia | Adventure, Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Connections is based on the TV show on The Learning Channel, which traces human political, cultural, religious and social history as a chain, linked by technological discoveries or inventions. In the game, there is a computer program you must fix, by finding connections that bind its world together. |
| Cosmology of Kyoto | 1995 | Yano Electric Co., Ltd. | SOFTEDGE Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | SHINNOSKE INC., Shinnoske Sugisaki, Kimura Sansei | | | | Windows | Cosmology of Kyoto takes place in Heiankyo (today's Kyoto), the capital of Japan in the 10th and 11th centuries, the Golden Age of Japanese culture known as the Heian period. During this adventure, the player will encounter some typical characters of the time and will even die and be reincarnated over the course of the game. Emphasis is more on exploration than on puzzle-solving. It is also possible to view concrete historical and cultural information about the time period. |
| Crazy Crack | 1995 | CreaTeam-Software | CreaTeam-Software | Action | | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Crazy Crack is a Breakout variant. You have a paddle which bounces a ball up and down to break blocks on the game field.There are several blocks which give the ball special attributes - either useful or deadly. Additional there is a panic button to hide the windows and an editor to create your own levels. The game features 100 levels and in the shareware edition you can play 10 out of them. The editor is only included in the full version. |
| Cubix | 1995 | Scandere Software | Scandere Software | Puzzle | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Many years ago I used to play a pencil and paper game at school. The game started with a number of points being marked out to form a grid, players then took turns drawing lines to join two dots and whoever completed a square won that square and got another turn. Cubix takes that old game and makes it a 3-D game. There were various iterations of the game, Cubix: The Wall, Cubix: Squared, Cubix: Cubed and Cubix: Tetrix which were eventually combined into a single game:
Cubix: Squared. This is the original game, it's played using a 2x2x2 cube which gives 54 lines per game, 36 squares in Nubix and Twobix modes and 8 cubes in Cubix mode.
Cubix: Cubed. As above but the cube is 3x3x3
Cubix: The Wall. There are six levels/shapes in this game which uses a 3x3x1 format giving 64 lines per game, 42 squares in Nubix and Twobix modes and 9 cubes in Cubix mode.
Cubix: Tertix. This is a special version of Cubix that uses triangles inside a tetrahedron rather than squares in a 3D-gridThere are three game modes; Nubix, Twobix and Cubix:
Nubix Mode: Here players take turns connecting two points, if the player completes a square - one face of a cube - they get another turn. Completing squares scores points, the player with the most points wins.
Twobix Mode: As with Nubix the players take turns completing aquares but the player only scores points for squares where all sides are their colour
Cubix Mode: There are two modes of play, Lines Where players compete to make cubes one line at a time, and Sides where a player completes an entire cube face in their turn.The game was released via BBSs and quickly became popular as an internet game on AOL partly because it is possible to run several games concurrently while chatting via IRC etc. |
| CyberSpeed | 1995 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape International Ltd. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Race around a futuristic race track tied to a cable, bumping and shooting your opponents. Think "Wipeout" meets cable cars. |
| Cyberia 2: Resurrection | 1995 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Xatrix Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Rail shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | Teen | | Windows | The original Cyberia was a rail shooter that combined puzzle-solving with Star Wars: Rebel Assault-style action sequences. The sequel is essentially the same, except the 3D rendered graphics have been improved, and the quantity of in-game movies has been increased. Cyberia 2 takes off where the original ends. After destroying FWA leader Devlin and his orbital headquarters, Zak and the Cyberia weapon crash land back to Earth, where they are picked up by an FWA team led by the maniacal Dr. Corbin. Corbin sticks Zak in cryo-storage and uses the remains of the Cyberia weapon to create a doomsday virus known as nano-toxin. His FWA employers want the nano-toxin to put down a growing rebel movement, but Corbin (who's got something of a messiah-complex) intends to use it to kill millions and "reshape the world as we know it". Three years later Zak is thawed out by a renegade FWA Major, and together the two of them have to find Corbin and stop his sinister plan. |
| D | 1995 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Rozner Labs Software Group, Warp Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Puzzle elements, Quick Time Events (QTEs) | | | | | | | Windows | The story begins in 1997. It's the dead of night in the city of Los Angeles, and there has been a mass murder at a general hospital on the outskirts of downtown. The perpetrator is the director of the hospital, Richter Harris. He has shut himself up in the hospital and taken a number of patients as hostages, leaving the police helpless and unable to move in. After hearing the situation, Richter's only daughter, Laura Harris, rushes to Los Angeles from San Francisco to the tragic scene at the hospital. Upon entering, Laura finds herself transported to an old mansion, while the disembodied voice of her father pleads with her to leave. Nevertheless, she must press forward to save her father and herself.D is a puzzle game requiring Laura to solve esoteric inventory puzzles on a very strict time limit. Each of the game's four discs must be completed in about thirty minutes each, and saving is not an option. The time is kept track of using Laura's pocket watch. The pocket watch can also be used to supply hints for puzzles, but after three uses the glass will shatter and it will stop working. The game also has multiple endings. |
| DOOM | 1995 | id Software, Inc. | id Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | Horror | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | The Union Aerospace Corporation has been experimenting with teleportation technology on Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos. After early successes, something goes wrong. It seems the scientists have opened a gateway straight to Hell. Phobos base is overrun with demonic creatures, and the whole of Deimos simply vanishes. A squad of marines is sent to Phobos, but all except one are quickly slaughtered. It falls to the surviving marine to grab some guns and strike back at the demons.id Software's follow-up to their genre-defining Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM is another first-person 3D shooter: full-on action as seen from the space marine's perspective. Like Wolfenstein, the game consists of distinct episodes, playable in any order. The first episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead, takes place in the Phobos base and is freely available as shareware. The full game continues on Deimos in The Shores of Hell and culminates in Inferno, the final episode which takes place in Hell itself (the Sega 32x version lacks this episode).The basic objective in each level is simply to reach the exit. Since dozens of enemies stand in the way, the only way to get there is by killing them. Switches and buttons must be pressed to advance at certain points and often color-coded locked doors will block the way - matching keycards or skull keys must be found to pass.The game's engine technology is more advanced than Wolfenstein's, and thus the levels are more varied and complex. The engine simulates different heights (stairs and lifts appear frequently) and different lighting conditions (some rooms are pitch black, others only barely illuminated). There are outdoor areas, pools of radioactive waste that hurt the player, ceilings that come down and crush him, and unlike Wolfenstein's orthogonally aligned corridors, the walls in DOOM can be in any angle to each other. An automap helps in navigating the levels.Stylistically, the levels begin with a futuristic theme in the military base on Phobos and gradually change to a hellish environment, complete with satanic symbols (pentagrams, upside-down-crosses, and portraits of horned demons), hung-up mutilated corpses, and the distorted faces of the damned.DOOM features a large weapon arsenal, with most weapons having both advantages and drawbacks. The starting weapons are the fists and a simple pistol. Also available are a shotgun (high damage, slow reload, not good at distances), a chaingun (high firing rate, but slightly inaccurate in longer bursts), and a plasma rifle (combining a high firing rate and large damage). The rocket launcher also deals out lots of damage, but the explosion causes blast damage and must be used with care in confined areas or it might prove deadly to the player as well as the enemies. Two further weapons in the game are the chainsaw for close-quarter carnage, and the BFG9000 energy gun, which while taking some practice to fire correctly, can destroy most enemies in a single burst. The different weapons use four different ammunition types (bullets, shells, rockets, and energy cells), so collecting the right type for a certain gun is important.The game drops some of Wolfenstein's arcade-inspired aspects, so there are no extra lives or treasures to be collected for points, but many other power-ups are still available. Medpacks heal damage while armor protects from receiving it in the first place. Backpacks allow more ammunition to be carried, a computer map reveals the whole layout of the level on the automap (including any secret areas), light amplification visors illuminate dark areas and radiation suits allow travel over waste without taking damage. Also available are berserk packs (which radically increase the damage inflicted by the fists) as well as short-time invisibility and invulnerability power-ups.The enemies to be destroyed include former humans corrupted during the invasion, plus demons in all shapes and sizes: fireball-throwing imps, floating skulls, pink-skinned demons with powerful bite attacks, and large one-eyed flying monstrosities called Cacodemons. Each episode ends with a boss battle against one or two, particularly powerful creatures.DOOM popularized multiplayer in the genre with two different modes: Cooperative allows players to move through the single-player game together, while Deathmatch is a competitive game type where players blast at each other to collect 'frag' points for a kill and re-spawn in a random location after being killed.The 3DO and Sega32x ports lack any multiplayer modes, though the other ports retain the DOS versions multiplayer to varying degrees. The various console ports all feature simplified levels and omit some levels, enemies, and features from the original DOS release. The SNES and Gameboy Advance versions of the game actually use different engines and hence feature numerous small gameplay differences. |
| DOOM II | 1995 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | id Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Regional differences | Horror | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | In this sequel to the original DOOM, the protagonist is still the same hero - the last remaining space marine. After having single-handedly saved Mars from demonic threat, he returns to Earth, only to find out that the demons have already invaded it, killed most of its inhabitants or possessed them. It's his task to bring down the force field around the last operational star port to allow the remnants of mankind to escape to the stars.DOOM II looks and plays very similarly to its predecessor, utilizing the same 3D graphical engine with 2D sprites for enemies. The gameplay once again consists entirely of navigating the hero from first-person view through 3D environments and shooting at the demons while attempting to find the way out by flipping switches and looking for keys. Unlike in DOOM, which is divided into three episodes, the 30 levels of this game (plus the 2 secret levels) form one long episode. The game adds one new weapon to the player's arsenal; the super shotgun, several new demon types with more advanced attacks than those of the predecessor, such as the chaingun-toting Heavy Weapon Dudes, the skeletal Revenants who launch homing missiles and the sinister Arch-Viles who have a highly damaging fire attack. |
| Dagger's Rage | 1995 | Microforum International | Microforum International | Action | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Dagger's Rage is a sci-fi action adventure that tries to capitalize on the market made popular by games like Elite and Privateer. You are a mercenary with your own starfighter, and it's up to you to stop a new pirate menace that has been ravaging the shipping lanes and innocent people of the United Planets.You choose your own missions and contracts, and uncover the plot as you progress. As you win more contracts, you gain more funds to purchase new ships and weapons.The main difference between Dagger's Rage and another game that might be compared to it -- i.e. Privateer -- is that this is less a space sim and actually is quite arcade-ish. You control your ship through a top-down view, and combat plays like a toned-down shooter such as Tyrian. Battles take place on various planets and in space. The terrain, however, is 3D. |
| Dark Chaser | 1995 | Idea Factory Co., Ltd. | Idea Factory Co., Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Visual novel | Fantasy | | Menu structures | | | Interface | Windows | Dark Chaser is a simple visual novel following the adventures of a knight as he descends into a fantasy dungeon in search of treasure. It's presented as a series of still images with very basic choose-your-own-adventure style input prompts.This game is notable for being coded not as a native Mac/Windows game but as an interactive Photo CD. While the disc included Mac and Windows players, it was playable on any device that supported Video CD and Photo CD discs; this includes the CD-i (with Digital Video Card), Sega Saturn (with VCD card), 3DO (with MPEG module) and PC-FX. |
| Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: SWAT | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | Crime | | Contemporary | | | | Teen | | Windows | Shifting from an adventure series to a tactical simulator, SWAT puts you in command of a member on a swat team. Centered around training and then several missions, your adherence to procedure and team work will determine the outcome. |
| Dino Match | 1995 | DynoTech Software | DynoTech Software | Educational | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Dino Match is a shareware educational title featuring the characters Derik the Dinosaur and Rex the Tyrannosaurus. It is a single player a memory game for age group 5-9.The story behind the game is that Rex the Tyrannosaurus cannot read and he is jealous of Derik the Dinosaur who can. So Rex has stolen all the books and has hidden them in a maze. To make them even harder to find he has put some in fake and buildings and has given others to book worms. The challenge is to recover all the books and record a high score.The game consists of a maze. The player must guide Derik around the maze until a building or a bookwork is encountered, at this point a memory puzzle is presented. Rex appears when a building is located and entered. He shows Derik, the player, to a set of cards face up, these are then turned face down and Derik is asked to match two of them. If this is done correctly points are scored, the book is retrieved and the player progresses, otherwise the book is lost. The matching process becomes harder as the game progresses. Early on in the game the player gets to see the cards face up at the start of each challenge but in later rounds they only see the cards face-up in the first building they enter. All buildings must be entered to clear a level.The player faces a different kind of challenge when a bookworm is encountered. The player is presented with four cards face-down. One of these is turned over to reveal Rex's face and are then turned face down again. The process is repeated a number of times and the player is invited to replicate the sequence. The bookworm challenges are bonus points. When the level is completed, i.e. All the buildings have been entered, a harder level with more challenges is presented.The game uses the keyboard to move Derik and the mouse to both select matching cards and follow the bookworm sequence. The shareware game has only two levels in it and the full retail version has thirty. |
| Discover the World II | 1995 | Entrex Software Inc. | Entrex Software Inc. | Educational | Top-down | | | | | Naval / watercraft | | | | | Windows | Discover the World II is an edutainment title which allows you to take on the role of an sailor in the Age of Exploration, including such famous names as Sir Francis Drake. You start in Lisbon, Portugal and sail from there, on a mission to cross the globe, trade with foreigners, hunt for food, and defend yourself against marauding pirates. The game gives you a variety of missions, often instructing you to obtain some exotic trade goods or to sink the ship of an evil pirate.The main interface is a world map, which allows you to direct your ship to anywhere in the globe. However, as you sail your sailors consume food and will get scurvy if you don't stock sufficient fruit and vegetables. As you go around the world, you can hunt for food or trade with people and obtain native crafts that will sell well back in Lisbon. Also, if your ship is overburdened you can bury treasure and other things at any place on the globe for future retrieval. |
| Disney's Animated Storybook: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree | 1995 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Media Station, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Interactive book, Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is the second title in the Disney's Animated Storybook series, based on the classic story from A. A. Milne. The story follows Pooh, who is out of honey and out looking for more, who eventually ends up stuck inside of Rabbit's door. His friends must pull as hard as they can to try and get Pooh out. Each page has interactive things to click on, and others have mini-games or an interactive song to go along with it. There are four mini-games in total, all of which are very simple for the age market. In the first mini-game, you must listen to Piglet and find the right toy according to his description. The next mini-game is a puzzle where you must find honey on Rabbit's shelves in order to satisfy Pooh. In the third mini-game, you must clean up Rabbit's shelves after Pooh got himself stuck and wrecked all the objects in his house. The final mini-game stars Roo, where you must catch butterflies. Each mini-game is very easy and has no difficulty level to change, which is understandable considering the age demographic is 3-6. There is no end goal to the game, it is just a simple storybook with a few minigames placed here and there to keep young children interested. |
| Disney's Hot Shots: Timon and Pumbaa's Jungle Pinball | 1995 | Disney Interactive | 7th Level, Inc. | Action | | Licensed | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Timon and Pumbaa's Jungle Pinball brings the popular Lion King characters Timon and Pumbaa into a pinball game. Those two, and many other jungle animals, take an active part in the action as you play. Hear the voices of Timon and Pumbaa plus cheery music and zany sound effects.The game features simple keyboard controls and thousands of original cartoon animations. With each new game, the table is refreshed with a random configuration that has different animations, sound effects and voiced content.A later re-release includes Timon & Pumbaa's Slingshooter as a bonus game. |
| Disney's The Jungle Book | 1995 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | Eurocom Developments Ltd, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | Asia, Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Based on the famous animated movie, Walt Disney's The Jungle Book is a platform game where you control Mowgli, the boy who was raised by wild animals deep in the jungles. Your goal is to find the human village so you may you join your kin once again. Mowgli is an athletic individual, and can jump, run, swing on vines or climb them without any problems. Most of the animals he comes upon, however, are inexplicably hostile, so he must defend himself with a variety of thrown weapons, such as bananas and boomerangs. To complete each level, Mowgli must collect a number of crystals (how many - it depends on the difficulty levels) within a time limit. A compass in the corner of the screen helps him by showing the direction where the nearest crystal is. |
| Disney's Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games | 1995 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | 7th Level, Inc., Disney Interactive, Inc. | Action | Behind view, Side view | Licensed | | Arcade, Pinball, Shooter | | | | | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Play different arcade games with The Lion King characters Timon and Pumbaa:
Hippo Hop - Help Timon travel across the river while collecting the grubs for Pumbaa's grill. Be sure to avoid the hyenas!
Jungle Pinball - A zany pinball games with hyenas, elephants, gophers and more! (similar version released later as Disney's Hot Shots: Timon and Pumbaa's Jungle Pinball)
Sling Shooter - Shoot berries at various targets popping up. (similar version released later as Disney's Hot Shots: Swampberry Sling)
Bug Drop - A Tetris-like game. Play against the computer or a friend. (not in the SNES version)
Burper - Collect grubs while avoiding/destroying unwanted ones with Pumbaa's powerful burps.
The main menu has many hidden animations that can be found when you click on various objects. |
| Doraon Yeongung Hong Gildong | 1995 | LG Electronics Inc. | Dolkkot Studio | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Doraon Yeongung Hong Gildong is a platform game based on a Korean animated movie of the same name released shortly beforehand in the same year. The movie is in turn based on a classic novel from the Joseon dynasty era. The protagonist is a young man who has suffered much injustice and decides to become a noble robber, protector of the poor and wrath of the powerful. The player navigates Hong Gildong through side-scrolling platforming stages, some of which offer shortcuts and secret areas with power-ups. The hero fights regular enemies and bosses with his sword, and also has access to a limited supply of projectile attacks. Hong Gildong has a health bar and a number of "lives" which is reduced by one every time his health bar is depleted. Animated scenes from the movie (albeit in a lower resolution) advance the story. |
| Double Switch | 1995 | Digital Pictures, Inc. | Digital Pictures, Inc. | Puzzle | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | A young man named Eddie has been apparently trapped in the basement of the old apartment complex Edward Arms. The player character must venture into the complex and find out what is really happening there, at first avoiding various traps and hazards, and later learning to set them against those who harbor evil plans. Double Switch is a "trap-'em-up" game very similar to Night Trap in gameplay and visual presentation. The player has to manipulate cameras to avoid or set traps, affecting the course of the storyline which is represented by live action movie sequences. |
| Dr. Seuss's ABC | 1995 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Dr. Seuss’s ABC is a Living Book adaptation based on Dr. Seuss’s original picture book. In this book, children learn all about the alphabet while uncovering a few surprises along the way. Every word can be clicked to hear the pronunciation. This gives them a head start into learning new words. The recommended age group is 3 to 7. There is also an alphabet song included in the game. |
| Drag-n-Drop Solitaire 95 | 1995 | | Intuitive Software Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Drag-n-Drop Solitaire 95 is a single player, shareware implementation of the traditional peg and board game. In this version the pegs are arranged in coloured concentric bands and a point value is assigned to each colour so that the game can be scored. There is a high score table, an undo feature and three game modes:Regular: no timing and no scoringTimed: a timed game but no scoringScored: both times and scores are recorded |
| Duck Shot | 1995 | | | Action | | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Duck Shot is a single player 'Whac-a-Mole' variant in which the player 'shoots' ducks as they appear randomly on the screen. The developer based the game on Duck Hunt.There are six ducks to the game, when all ducks have been shot the player is congratulated and can repeat the process. There is no timer and the game has no scoring system. The game has four difficulty settings which control how fast the ducks move around, and a custom setting. |
| Dust: A Tale of the Wired West | 1995 | BMG Interactive Entertainment | Cyberflix Incorporated | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Dust is set in a New Mexico town in the 1880s. You play a mysterious (unnamed) stranger. After crossing a dangerous outlaw called The Kid you explore the desert town of Diamondback. You must deal with a displaced Indian tribe, bounty hunters, lost treasure, murder, and a confidence scheme. And that's just the beginning. |
| Eco East Africa | 1995 | IVI Publishing, Inc. | Viridis Corporation | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Eco East Africa is a managerial simulation with educational elements, in which the player takes the role of a warden of Ethemba, a fictional Kenyan wildlife park. The player has to raise funds for managing the park, hire staff, build tourist stations, face various ecological problems, etc. The player must learn and understand environmental habits of the animals, and pay attention to their particularities when dealing with them. Poachers will often enter the park, and it is the player's job to keep them away. In addition, a "tourist" mode allows the player to walk in the park and observe the behavior of the animals. |
| Emit: Value Pack | 1995 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Adventure, Compilation, Educational | | | | Visual novel | | | Menu structures | Meditative / Zen | | Cinematic camera, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Emit is a visual novel divided into 3 parts which was made to help Japanese people study English. The game can be played both in English or Japanese with the ability to listen to the audio and/or read the transcript in both languages. There are 2 modes to play the game: Story mode and English Game mode. The story mode is the main game divided into chapters where players get to watch the story unfold and can do a number of exercises after each chapter. During the story mode, players can pause the game at any time in order to look up a term they didn't understand or to change the language.The exercises are:
Listening comprehension activities where players pick the right options to check their understanding of the story.
Guessing what's going to happen where players choose the question that's closest to their opinion and listen to the characters in the story commenting about the player's opinion.
Conversation practice where students can listen to the characters speech and act out the dialogues.
The Value pack is a compilation of all 3 volumes of the game bundled together. This compilation marks the first time the game was released on the PlayStation. |
| Emit: Vol. 1 - Toki no Maigo | 1995 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Adventure, Educational | | | | Visual novel | | | Menu structures | Meditative / Zen | | Cinematic camera, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Emit is a visual novel, divided into 3 parts, which was made to help Japanese people study English. The game can be played both in English or Japanese with the ability to listen to the audio and/or read the transcript in both languages. There are 2 modes to play the game: Story mode and English Game mode. The story mode is the main game divided into chapters where players get to watch the story unfold and can do a number of exercises after each chapter. During the story mode, players can pause the game at any time in order to look up a term they didn't understand or to change the language.The exercises are:
Listening comprehension activities where players pick the right options to check their understanding of the story.
Guessing what's going to happen where players choose the question that's closest to their opinion and listen to the characters in the story commenting about the player's opinion.
Conversation practice where students can listen to the character's speech and act out the dialogues.
The English game mode is a mini-game that involves 2 police officers in the game's world looking for a criminal. Players must tell the officers where they should go, write down which buildings are nearby, and take note of the phone calls from the local citizens informing them where the criminal was last seen.The first volume of the game deals with Yuri's chance encounter with an old man and the events that unfold after that meeting. |
| Emit: Vol. 2 - Inochigake no Tabi | 1995 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Adventure, Educational | | | | Visual novel | | | Menu structures | Meditative / Zen | | Cinematic camera, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Emit is a visual novel, divided into 3 parts, which was made to help Japanese people study English. The game can be played both in English or Japanese with the ability to listen to the audio and/or read the transcript in both languages. There are 2 modes to play the game: Story mode and English Game mode. The story mode is the main game divided into chapters where players get to watch the story unfold and can do a number of exercises after each chapter. During the story mode, players can pause the game at any time in order to look up a term they didn't understand or to change the language.The exercises are:
Listening comprehension activities where players pick the right options to check their understanding of the story.
Guessing what's going to happen where players choose the question that's closest to their opinion and listen to the characters in the story commenting about the player's opinion.
Conversation practice where students can listen to the character's speech and act out the dialogues.
The English game mode is a mini-game that involves 2 police officers in the game's world looking for a criminal. Players must tell the officers where they should go, write down which buildings are nearby, and take note of the phone calls from the local citizens informing them where the criminal was last seen.The second game deals with Yuri's trip to another world where she becomes one year older every day and must find a way back to her own world. |
| Emit: Vol. 3 - Watashi ni Sayonara o | 1995 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Adventure, Educational | | | | Visual novel | | | Menu structures | Meditative / Zen | | Cinematic camera, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Emit is a visual novel, divided into 3 parts, which was made to help Japanese people study English. The game can be played both in English or Japanese with the ability to listen to the audio and/or read the transcript in both languages. There are 2 modes to play the game: Story mode and English Game mode. The story mode is the main game divided into chapters where players get to watch the story unfold and can do a number of exercises after each chapter. During the story mode, players can pause the game at any time in order to look up a term they didn't understand or to change the language.The exercises are:
Listening comprehension activities where players pick the right options to check their understanding of the story.
Guessing what's going to happen where players choose the question that's closest to their opinion and listen to the characters in the story commenting about the player's opinion.
Conversation practice where students can listen to the character's speech and act out the dialogues.
Exclusive to the third volume is a new English Game called Ghost Sweeper. This game is modeled after traditional turn-based RPGs and in this game, players must defeat ghosts and search for objects in haunted houses that they can sell. Players can encounter enemies in set places on a map as well as when searching for objects in rooms and furniture. Some ghosts that are trapped can tell the player where to find things if the player guarantees their freedom.The last volume concludes the story with Yuri barely surviving her trip back to her world. In this game, Yuri searches for her doppelgänger to get her back to her world and to her son. |
| Endorfun | 1995 | Time Warner Interactive Inc. | onesong partners, Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In this puzzle game players must move what is known as the light-bodied cube to pick life forces and progress to the next level. However it is not as easy as it sounds, as other squares on the board can light up, making it harder to move the cube around. On certain levels there also is a time limit and if the required number of life forces are not collected, it's game over. |
| Evocation Oltre il Sogno | 1995 | Mondadori New Media | DedaloMedia Edizioni | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | In this adventure game the player controls the magician trainee Eto who is sick of the training methods of his master Pan. So he secretly studies in his master's library and challenges Pan to a duel which Eto surprisingly wins. But his victory doesn't last long. After waking up one morning Eto finds himself on a small island which only contains two doors and a small marble ball. Behind the doors are the scenarios of the game, the first leads into the house of an astronomer interested in Far Eastern mysticism. The controls are simple: With the mouse the player moves through the rendered backgrounds. When taking a object he drag & drops the item into his inventory, visa versa for using a item in the game world. The puzzles are logic based riddles similar to Myst.The game automatically saves when exiting the programme and loads the last save when starting it up. Additionally the player has six save slots at his disposal. There is no way to lose the game. |
| Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise | 1995 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Fatty Bear must help the other toys prepare a surprise party for Kayla. He must find the ingredients for a cake and then make it, find the missing letters for the happy birthday sign and blow up some balloons among other things. The game also includes bowling and piano minigames. This is an adventure game designed for children aged 3-8 that uses an enhanced version of the SCUMM engine originally developed for Maniac Mansion by Ron Gilbert who is Project Leader, Producer, Co-Designer and one of the interpreter programmers for this title. |
| Fighter | 1995 | | | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fighter is a freeware 'taster' game released as a demonstration version of a later game. It is a shoot 'em up game for two people or for one person playing against the computer.It is a simple game in which starts with each player selecting a space ship, different ships have different weapons and shields. These ships are then placed opposite each other one at the top of the screen and one at the bottom. The player(s) can only move their ship left and right and the object of the game is to destroy the opponent's ship before their own ship is destroyed. This process is repeated until all the ships belonging to one player have been destroyed. The game is entirely keyboard controlled. |
| Flip-Flop | 1995 | Gamos Ltd. | Gamos Ltd. | Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Flip-Flop is a strategical puzzle game with the aim to open all windows on the building's wall at each of three stages. The wall contains 4x4 windows, and by turns the player clicks on one window to toggle its state. But the other windows in the same row and in the same column will be toggled, too. After passing the first stage, the player is lifted up to the second stage, where one of the windows toggles its state randomly. Third stage is almost like the second, but more difficult to pass. The player has 99 turns on each stage before the game's session is over. More points are given to the player with a lesser quantity of turns made to open all windows on the stage. Although this puzzle has an analytical solution, the trick of the game is introduced on its 2nd and 3rd stages, and player should be quick to provide this solution taking into account a slightly dynamical influence on the given puzzle. The global goal is to beat the highest score. |
| Foul Play: Mystery at Awkward Manor | 1995 | The Armchair Travel Company Ltd. | The Armchair Travel Company Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Themed similarly to Clue, Foul Play: Mystery at Awkward Manor is a murder mystery. Sir John Stiffning invites 6 friends to his 14-room British mansion for dinner and one of them murders him before the meal can be served. It is up to you to find out who killed him, when and with what weapon.Up to 6 players can attempt to solve the mystery, each taking on the role of a different guest and take turns exploring the mansion. Turns last only a few minutes in which time each player searches for clues and interactive objects. The first person to solve it wins the game.There are 10 levels of play that can be chosen. Levels 1 through 3 contain built-in tutorials and take about 20 minutes to complete. Level 10 games take an hour or more to solve.The developers advertise that there are 4,700 possible solutions. Designed for ages 7 and up, the game is non-violent and concentrates on promoting imaginative thinking and deductive reasoning. Foul Play is completely mouse controlled. |
| Frederik Pohl's Gateway | 1995 | Legend Entertainment Company | Legend Entertainment Company | Adventure | | Licensed | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | When humans finally managed to colonize the planet Venus, they discovered a gigantic system of artificial underground tunnels there. It is assumed that a highly advanced alien race known as Heechee has constructed those tunnels thousands of years ago. Eventually, an abandoned, yet fully functional Heechee spaceship is discovered. One of the explorers boards it, which leads humanity towards the discovery of a space station with many similar ships - all with coordinates of unknown planets already punched in. This station becomes known as the Gateway, being humanity's only connecting point to the rest of the universe.Since traveling to the potentially dangerous destinations involves a great deal of risk, only some particularly courageous (or perhaps reckless) adventurers, called "prospectors", volunteered to go on these journeys. The protagonist of the game is one of those prospectors, having won the membership alongside a small sum of money and a one-way ticket to the Gateway. Eventually, he discovers an ancient device that contain a warning against a mysterious alien species known as Assassins - and the prospector is entrusted with the task of protecting the humans from that threat.Gateway is a text adventure with graphics, based on the Heechee universe books by Frederik Pohl. It is identical in interface and general concept to Legend's other text-driven adventures (such as the Spellcasting series): the player may opt for text-only input as well as selecting verbs from a list. Clicking on objects or characters within the graphical representation of the location provides a text description. Puzzles are mostly inventory-based, though there are logic-related tasks as well. The player character explores various planets during the course of the journey. In a few cases, it is possible to die in the game. |
| Full Secret | 1995 | OverRise, Inc. | OverRise, Inc. | Adventure | Top-down | | | Graphic adventure | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | This freeware companion game to Moon uses its same style of map scrolling adventure gameplay. Players step into the role of an adventurer seeking a mysterious island known only to them and their father; after the father's disappearance, they make their way on a journey to the island in the hopes of finding him and discovering its secret. Like Moon, Full Secret is played using an overhead-view map with presentation very similar to a Japanese-style RPG, paired with gameplay much more like a western graphic adventure. Players can interact with nearby items by clicking on them, and some puzzles are solved by collecting and using items. |
| Fun with Electronics | 1995 | Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | Studio Interactive | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fun with Electronics is an educational game for children aged eight to twelve where players build and play with a radio, siren, burglar alarm, metal detector, intercom and 20 more projects as a digital companion to a physical box in the package with many different electronic components. The concept is based on the 1994 book by Conn McQuinn. |
| Fury³ | 1995 | Microsoft Corporation | Terminal Reality, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | Mark Humphrey | Windows | Terrans have won the war for the Coalition, but at a terrible price. It has unleashed the powers of the Bions, warriors bred for battle and victory. After the war ended, Bions started their own war against Humanity... And humanity managed to win again, but Earth was decimated in the process. We thought we had destroyed all the Bions, but apparently we are wrong. A few Bions have survived... and they are rebuilding on the planet named Fury... As a councillor in Council of Peace, the premier peacekeeping force, you will take the advanced fighter and repel the Bion invasion, and eventually destroy the Bion threat once and for all. Fury³ is basically a Windows adaptation of Terminal Velocity where you pilot a super fighter and kill bazillion targets from first person (default) or third-person viewpoints. The action is fast and furious, with plenty of air and ground threats plus structures to shoot. However, the player has to regulate where to shoot because a certain number of points are deducted for each shot greenery. shrub or tree.The fighter sequences are interspersed with a bit of tunnel running (inspired by Descent, no doubt) and a lot of shooting. Shoot the weapon pods to release missiles and other goodies which you can use to supplement your own ship. The game is in full 3D without the need for a 3D video accelerator, though it only supports 320x200 resolution and preferably 256 color only. |
| Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure | 1995 | Synergy Interactive Corp. | Synergy Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | | | Windows | Gadget puts you in a strange surreal world were a comet appears to be heading for the earth. Most people dismiss this situation since apparently it won't collide with us, however a group of scientists scramble to develop a way to stop this comet. Whether they want to destroy it, divert it, or whatever is unknown however, and you are charged with the task to find out what really is going on. The game is viewed from a first person perspective and progresses as an adventure game, where the emphasis is to explore and discover rather than solve puzzles (this seems to be the Japanese concept of an adventure game) so ultimately it is not so much of a game as it is more an interactive "tour de force". |
| Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown! | 1995 | Virgin Sound and Vision | Morgan Interactive Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown! is an interactive educational game for kids. By spending a day with Charlie Brown, divided into seven chapters, the player will learn new words, read comics, and built in visual dictionary, create sentences and stories, practice spelling, or play educational games. Each dictionary word consists of a description and picture. The games are played with Snoopy, Woodstock, and the Rest of the Gang. A dressing game requires finding the proper clothes for Charlie Brown, a story game involves filling the novel with a missing word, sentence scramble has the player putting the words in a correct order, rhyme time involves selecting a correct missing letter, spelling bee involves writing a rehearsed word, hangman is all about guessing a word by using the tips and the final concentration game is based on matching all pairs of covered puzzles. |
| Ghostly Desires | 1995 | Spice Interactive | CPV Productions Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | Ghostly Desires is an erotic, adult game with a lot of strong sexual scenes. The story begins in an old mansion which is spooked by seven beautiful women. This mansion was previously burned with the owner and her six maids inside. Each one died with her one uncompleted desire.The main theme of the game is to explore the mansion and satisfy each of the women. If you are successful, each one will show off their entire body in a full motion video sequence. |
| Gravity | 1995 | | Imperial Games | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Spy / espionage | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Gravity is a shareware, single-player, space shooter that is keyboard or joystick controlled.The game starts with the player piloting a space ship through a maze inside an asteroid within which are aliens. The aliens are not friendly and not only do they have canon in the maze they also have attack ships.
The asteroid has a gentle gravity which means the ship will always fall down the screen unless thrust is applied counter it. However this is space and once the craft is in motion it will continue to move and its path will not change unless it is rotated and a counter thrust is applied.
Later levels take place inside the infested planetoids, space ships, and even Earth. Once a level is completed the payer is given a password which enables them to restart at that level when they resume the game.The object of the game is to negotiate the maze, kill the aliens and collect the power ups before the timer runs out. |
| Great Adventures by Fisher-Price: Castle | 1995 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy, Medieval | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Great Adventures by Fisher-Price: Castle is a game for children aged three to five based on the Fisher-Price line of toys. It takes place in a medieval kingdom that is under attack by King Smudge and his Naughty Knights. They steal King McBeard's crown and throw him into a dungeon. The story is narrated by Jester, the king's helper, but the player controls the character McDuff who needs to free the king and take back the kingdom. He can do this by recruiting the king's Good Knights. There are eight knights and each one is tired to a specific area. At the start of the game the player can choose to find all knights or just two to complete the story. The game uses a medieval setting, but with some fantasy elements (McDuff rides a skateboarding on loading screens) and with some comedy, for instance through accents or referencing movie lines.From the main square the different areas can be accessed. The game is mostly played as a simple point-and-click adventure game with some minor puzzles. Most of these can be solved in the same screen by using the interactive elements in the scenery. For instance when three missing stones need to be found the player clicks items in the environment until they are uncovered. One of the knights is recruited by making trades at the marketplace to increase value, another by winning a cannon-firing contest in a tournament, another by matching shapes in stones, and patterns in iridescent magic crystals and so on. The knights then gather at the blacksmith, but McDuff also needs to restore their shields by finding the matching pieces. Once the required number of knights have been recruited the castle can be stormed headed by McDuff. Each knight has a different skills that is used to take over the castle.Next to the activities mentioned before other educational skills that are developed are creative exploration, role-playing and storytelling, strengthening memory skills and building early computer skills. |
| Hansel & Gretel and the Enchanted Castle | 1995 | TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, L.P. | TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, L.P. | Adventure, Educational | | | | Puzzle elements | Europe, Medieval | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Hansel & Gretel: And the Enchanted Castle is an adventure game retelling the German fairy tale. In this game, players control Hansel who needs to save Gretel and get out of the candy cottage. One of the objectives of the game is to find Prin, a forest imp who enjoys playing hide & seek and gives players clues where to find him. Finding him a certain number of times will have Prin give Hansel a key to the kitchen, which is necessary to find Gretel. The game can be played in 5 different languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese and players can opt for a bilingual mode to learn new words in each of those languages. There are many hidden entrances and trap doors and clicking on some objects can attract the attention of the witch who will imprison Hansel again once she captures him. The game offers two difficulty levels: easy and hard and changes the locations of objects with each playthrough. |
| HoverRace | 1995 | Grokksoft | Grokksoft | Action | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | A Fast-paced 3D online racing game. Compete against upto 7 players at a time, from just standard racing, to warring for supremacy. Upto 100 players are online at a time |
| Hoyle Classic Games | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Hoyle Classic Games is a collection of card games (Bridge, Crazy Eights, Cribbage, Gin, Hearts, Old Maid, Poker, and Solitaire) and board games (Backgammon, and Checkers). There are different opponents to compete against and they can be selected from a list of business or icons pictures. Each opponent has a bio and a different skill level (beginner, average, or expert). Some games are single-player, while others are played by two or four players.The pace and response time can be adjusted with a slider, games can be replayed, and there is a help button that explains the interface. The game keeps tracks of your score through an 'average' rating, based on the points. There is a button to explain each of the game's rules and and arrow shows who's turn it is. |
| Ice & Fire | 1995 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | AnimaTek International, Inc., Zombie LLC | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Fly a spaceship around pre-arranged paths to enter areas where you dismount and take on aliens in a first person shooter using weapons based on ice and fire. |
| International Test Cricket | 1995 | Tortyfoo Software Limited | Tortyfoo Software Limited | Sports | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | International Test Cricket (ITC) is a statistical based Cricket Test Match simulator for Windows v3.x/95/98/NT. It attempts to create a simulation that gives accurate results.(description by Daniel Thomas). |
| J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues | 1995 | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Following Murder Club, this is another detective story about the fearless private investigator J.B. Harold. This time, an unknown woman in a red dress was murdered in Chicago. A female detective who began investigating the murder was killed as well, and this time the killer made it look like a suicide. J.B. Harold arrives in Chicago and now has to work together with the local police to solve the mystery.J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues is an interactive movie. Most of the player's time is spent watching movie footage (with real actors and scenery). At certain points, the movie freezes, and the player is presented with a screen with two or more choices. Each choice advances the clock, so it is necessary to plan well in order not to run out of time and to successfully solve the case. |
| Johnny Mnemonic | 1995 | Sony Imagesoft | Propaganda Code | Action, Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | Teen | | Windows | Johnny Mnemonic is based on William Gibson's short story and a subsequent movie of the same name. The game's plot bears more similarities to the movie than to the original story. Johnny is a courier in a futuristic society, delivering data implanted in his brain. However, the latest delivery is so big that it can kill him if he doesn't download the data. Unfortunately, the only person who knew the password is dead, and members of the Yakuza are hunting for the data and for its living container.The game consists of live-action video footage and interactive sequences, some of which play like adventure game segments and may contain simple puzzles, while others are more action-oriented. Johnny's bodyguard Jane often handles the fighting episodes; the player can assign buttons to punches and kicks. The adventure parts contain limited exploration and interaction with the environment, and mostly serve to advance the plot. |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | 1995 | Front Street Publishing | Europress Software Ltd. | Adventure | Top-down | Licensed | | Interactive book, Mini-games | Steampunk | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This adaptation of Jules Verne's book includes the book itself (fully illustrated and including animations, music and sound), as well as four games (arcade and puzzle type) that you may find along the route in the main menu. One of those, the Library Labyrinth, gives access to a "games room", where you are challenged with five more games (cards / puzzle / observation / memory). The main screen gives at anytime all options for consulting or continuing to read/hear the book - which has a useful bookmark - or, going directly to any of the four main games.
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| JumpStart Kindergarten | 1995 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Fanfare Software | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In JumpStart Kindergarten the player guided by the teacher Mr. Hopsalot (as well as the class hamster Bebop and mouse Roquefort) in the schoolhouse to play a number of educational activities inside an interactive classroom. The activities include reading, word recognition, seasons and events, sorting, patterns, art, time and day and counting. There are also some songs included. |
| Knight Moves | 1995 | Spectrum Holobyte, Inc. | Kinesoft Development Corp. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Chess, Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Knight Moves puts a twist on the old chess game and puts you in charge of a knight that has to leap his way trough increasingly complicated chessboards filled with enemies, hazards, power-ups and treasures. Your knight moves in the traditional L-shaped patterns, which means you'll have to constantly be planning ahead, and quickly too, because the knight is in constant motion, and you only have a few seconds to decide its next move.The game is played in a 3-D board, but the graphics consist mostly of 2-D scaled sprites and the chessboards themselves are irregular affairs with walls, pits, etc. |
| Krypton Egg | 1995 | Computers Communications & Visions | | Action | Side view | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Krypton Egg is a Breakout clone. Like in all such games, your goal on each level is to break all the bricks with a ball, which you bounce with a paddle, and try to save it from falling out of the level. Some bricks have a random power-up within them. There are many various power-ups (most beneficial, some of them harmful), such as: lengthening/shortening our paddle, enlarging or duplicating our ball, adding thrusters to the paddle so that it can fly, adding various weapons so that the paddle can shoot and destroy bricks, and many more. Occasionally, various monsters will appear on the playfield and begin flying around. Most of those are harmless and do nothing except interfering with the ball (if it hits them, it bounces off). However, some monsters will destroy your paddle if they touch it. Each few levels, there comes a special action sequence where you try to defend yourself from a horde of incoming monsters, or defeat a boss by shooting it and avoiding its missiles. |
| Kulki | 1995 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Board game, Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Kulki (Marbles) is a board game, taking place on a 9x9 board. At the beginning of the game, five marbles of random colors appear in random squares. The player then has to move a marble by clicking it and then clicking on where he wants to move it (the marble must have an unobstructed route to its target). Once he moves a marble, three more appear in random spots, and he has to make a move again.The objective is to arrange marbles in horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines that consist of at least 5 marbles of the same color. Once this happens, those marbles disappear and the player gets some points and a free move (without new marbles appearing). The game ends when the whole board is filled with marbles.In the options menu, it is possible to change the number of various colors that the marbles can assume (5, 7, or 9; the more colors there are, the more points the player gets for making lines). Turning on the mono monitor mode will make it easier to play on a black-and-white monitor and turning on next colors (a hint displaying in the bottom left of the screen), will show the colors of the marbles that are going to appear next. Turning on this hint option lessens the number of points that the player gets for making lines. |
| Landmine | 1995 | | Barking Dog | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Landmine is a single player, mouse controlled Minesweeper gameGameplay is standard for games in this genre. The player selects cells on a grid with most boxes revealing a number. Each number reveals how many mines are located in the adjoining boxes. The goal is to identify all the mine locations before setting one off accidentally.
The game is played on a 12x15 grid and has three skill levels each with progressively more hidden mines. It is a timed game and as the player successfully identifies mines they are rewarded with points and five additional seconds of game time, however should they detonate a mine they lose points and game time.The shareware version is fully playable, the registered version has additional features including sound control and a high score table.
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| LaserTank | 1995 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Puzzle elements | | Tank | | | | | Windows | LaserTank or Laser Tank is a 2D puzzle-solving game, similar to Lasermania or Laser Kombat. The player controls a tank, he must destroy enemy turrets and get the flag. It's a task for the mind - enemies don't move, but can kill the player instantly - he must find a way to shoot, for example - diagonal mirror reflects the laser, many objects can move etc. Game has 2030 levels. |
| Lemmings & Oh No! More Lemmings | 1995 | Psygnosis Limited | | Compilation, Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | This port contains two complete games from the classic puzzle series. There are 209 levels to work through, all featuring the classic Lemmings formula: the player must assign roles (digger, climber, etc.) to marching Lemmings in order to prevent them from meeting terrible fates. |
| Let's Explore The Airport | 1995 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc., Random House, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | Bret Barrett | | | | Windows | The Airport allows kids 3-8 (or any age) to explore a modern airport, with their guide Buzzy The Knowledge Bug. Kids can visit over 40 location, from hangers, to control towers, to cockpits. Items in each location can be clicked on for either amusing animations, or to ask "What is This?" which will take them directly to the encyclopedia page describing that item. The encyclopedia has more than 200 descriptions in it. It also has an index, to jump directly back to interesting items. The encyclopedia is text, but Buzzy can also read the text for young players.In addition, the game has 5 Time To Play mini-games. The Coloring Book has 15 different pictures to color and print out. Trivia contains 100 airport-related questions with answers within the game - for pre-readers, Buzzy will read the question out loud and also provide hints. There are 3 difficulty levels for this game. In Lost Luggage, you work your way through 99 levels of conveyor belt puzzle madness, trying to get all the moving luggage to their proper destination. True detectives will like the Find It game, where the game picks 10 items within the game and you go find them. This game has 3 difficulty levels. Finally, there's What Is It? This is a picture/word matching game, with three difficulty levels and 33 pictures per level - all from the airport environment. |
| Let's Explore the Jungle | 1995 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc., Random House, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | Bret Barrett | | | | Windows | This game allows children to explore Humongous versions of the South American, African and Southeast Asian jungles, and learn about some of the animal and plant life there. Like "The Airport" and "The Farm" titles, this game features Buzzy the Knowledge Bug as a guide. He reads aloud questions, answers, and the names of objects. In addition, he provides tips and suggestions and points out interesting facts. Kids can explore the three environments, each of which has quite a few locations, where they can click on things for fun animations or instead ask "What Is This?" and go to a micro-encyclopedia for each item which describes the item and shows where they are from. The 210-item encyclopedia also has an index, so kids can jump right to items - clicking on the picture on the page will take you a place where that bug, bird, plant, or animal can be found. The encyclopedia has text, but will also read to the child if they wish - you can have it read each word by just holding the cursor over the word too. The pages also have colored hyper-linked words that are topics of other pages in the encyclopedia.The game also has 5 mini-games, such as Trivia or Find It (shown game-related images and then have to go find them), or a 15-page coloring book (which can be printed out and has mixable colors) and Jungle Jumble (spelling/unscramble game). The Anteater Feeder mini-game is just for fun, an 100-level arcade version of the old carnival shooting game except the weapon is an anteater's tongue and you eat bugs. These games have difficulty settings, to make things harder or easier. |
| Let's Explore: The Farm - With Buzzy | 1995 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc., Random House, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | Bret Barrett, Matthew Mahon | | | | Windows | The Farm allows kids 3-8 (or any age) to explore the idyllic farm, as depicted in movies - orchards, horses, gardens, cows, chickens, waterwheel, fields, a pond - it's all here.Kids learn about the operation of a farm in over 40 different locations around the farm, with their guide Buzzy The Knowledge Bug. Go inside the red barn & milk a cow, or check out the growing vegetables in the garden, watch the waterwheel grind away, or peek inside the chicken coop. Items in each location can be clicked on for either amusing animations, or to ask "What is This?" which will take them directly to the encyclopedia page describing that item. The encyclopedia has more than 200 descriptions in it. It also has an index, to jump directly back to interesting items, and the pictures in the index take you to a spot in the farm that the item can be found. The encyclopedia is text, but Buzzy can also read the text for young players.In addition, the game has 5 Time To Play mini-games. The Coloring Book has 15 different pictures to color and print out. Trivia contains 100 farm-related questions with answers within the game - for pre-readers, Buzzy will read the question out loud and also provide hints. There are 3 difficulty levels for this game. In Eggs Away, you have to catch the eggs that the chickens lay before they hit the ground - catch enough and you move onto the next level, but you have to watch out for the rats. There's also the Find It game, where the game randomly picks 10 items (out of 110 possible) within the game and you go find them around the farm. This game has 3 difficulty levels. Finally, there's Spell It. This spelling game has three difficulty levels - at the easiest level you just add a single missing letter to a word (there's a picture of the farm-related item); at the medium level you have to figure out the word based on a picture; at the hardest level there's no picture. The on-screen cows indicate your progress in the harder levels.
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| Let's Talk About Me | 1995 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | GirlGames Inc., team smartyPants!, Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Let’s Talk About Me can best be described as an activity center for 10-14 year old girls. The game combines quizzes and mini-games with more exploratory activities like horoscopes, and fashion designers. The game was designed to specifically appeal to girls – there is no combat, and the most of the games have no right or wrong answers. |
| Lights! | 1995 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Lights! is a shareware, single player, mouse controlled logic game similar to Lights OutThe player is presented with a 4x4 grid with most cells coloured green and a few coloured red. There is a hidden, randomly generated, relationship between the cells such that clicking on any cell will change the state of one or more other cells.The game has three difficulty levels. The registered game has the following additional features; Buttons can have three states not just two; a customisable difficulty setting; a customisable grid size; and a high score table.
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| Locus | 1995 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Zombie LLC | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Mark Kreitler | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Locus is a virtual reality sports game where you race at break-neck speed through the unimaginable geometries that compose the Locus arenas. With next gen 32-bit game engine and first-person fast game action you make your way though 12 challenging levels, using laser weapons and gadgets. Surrounded by Gouraudshaded graphics, digital and MIDI music and specialized sound effects, you must score against two opposing teams in a game of cut-throat elimination. |
| Lode Runner On-Line: The Mad Monks' Revenge | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Presage Software, Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Platform | | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Assume the role again as Jake Peril as you journey in the Evil Empire taking treasure away from the evil Mad Monks. As with the original Lode Runner, gameplay involves moving around screens full of platforms and ladders collecting treasure.This new version adds multiplayer play, with 150 levels to play on. The single-player game has the original levels plus 30 new ones. Many hazards not found in the original are added. The ability to create your own levels is also included. |
| Loony Labyrinth | 1995 | Starplay Productions, Inc. | LittleWing Co. Ltd. | Action, Simulation | Top-down | | | Arcade, Pinball | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Reiko F. Nojima (LittleWing Co. LTD.) | Windows | In 1893, an English archaeologist called Sir Evangel finds a strange stone in a London antiquary. The galopetra ("milk stone") has a hieroglyphic and a maze carved on one side, and a Minotaur on the reverse. Intrigued, he travels to Crete and starts to explore the newly discovered Knossos ruins. Searching the labyrinth, he stumbles upon a time machine, dubbing it the "Loony Machine". He leaves instructions at the site on how the device works, for future explorers willing to travel to 2000 years in the past and assume the role of Theseus, the slayer of the Minotaur.Loony Labyrinth is the 4th pinball simulator created by LittleWing. It has one table with classic proto-Greek mythological themes. As an explorer and later as the legendary hero Theseus, the objective is to first find and activate the time machine, and then go back to ancient times and defeat the Minotaur.In the first part, the goal is to collect all the five galopetra stones and install them to activate the machine. The ball has to hit drop targets near the stone ramp to make one of the STONE light letters start flashing. One stone is collected by sending the ball up the ramp while the light is blinking. Getting all the stones awards five million points. To install them, the ball has to hit several times the energy charger bumper, raising the energy level to 100% and turning on the install hole.After traveling to 2000 B.C., the music changes and a multiball starts to indicate the switch. The goal is to rescue nine human sacrifices and kill the Minotaur. The LOONY LABYRINTH lights at the center of the table turn on to show the number of hostages, turning off with every saved victim. Shooting the labyrinth ramp rescues them one at time. After everyone is safe, a multiball starts where the player must sink three balls in the Minotaur chamber before the moon phase indicators near the flippers turn off, to defeat the creature and win the game. |
| MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity | 1995 | Viacom New Media | Viacom New Media | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity is a point-and-click adventure based on MTV's Beavis & Butt-head series. The player can control both characters as they attempt to join Todd's gang. Much of the gameplay consists of inventory-based puzzles. There are also a few mini-games and hidden music videos. |
| Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show | 1995 | Creative Wonders LLC | Vortex Media Arts | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Europe | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show is an educational game for children aged five and up. It is based on the 1999 Madeline book by Ludwig Bemelmans, which also spawned a media franchise and a US TV series. The game was released to coincide with the premiere of the animated TV series The New Adventures of Madeline. Madeline's neighbor, who takes care of animals, is about to lose her home, but staging a puppet show could bring in the money needed so he can pay the rent to keep living there with his animals. Madeline and various kids journey through Paris in the neighborhood of her boarding school with different learning activities presented as mini-games and collecting items such as curtains, a cape, a chain, bread, gumballs, a balloon and puppets for the show along the way.After entering a name the player chooses to play the game with French or Spanish words. Madeline can freely explore the different environments and clicking hotspots triggers short animations in the background. She meets various characters she can talk to. Madeline learns new words in French or Spanish by spelling them and then plays a matching game in the classroom to practice them. With an artist in the street she can freely paint backdrops for the show. At the print shop Madeline creates invitations for the show and decorates them. A large part of the game plays out as a simple adventure game with minor puzzles too. It ends with the show being performed.Skills that are developed are creativity (painting, design and sticker activities), problem solving (critical thinking, logic and memory), spelling, typing, and vocabulary (300 new words in French, English and Spanish). The game also lists cooperation, kindness & compassion as skills that are built. |
| Manhattan Requiem | 1995 | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | A 24-year-old woman was found dead in her flat in Manhattan, New York. Her skull was crushed - it was clear that she was murdered. Further investigation showed that she was working as a pianist. The police can find no clues, so it's time for the private detective J.B. Harold to investigate the murder and to bring the killer to justice.Despite its Japanese origins, Manhattan Requiem has realistic graphic design without any manga/anime influences. As an adventure game, it has Japanese influences (no inventory, no puzzles), as well as Western ones (relative freedom in navigation, detailed dialogue system, no "trigger commands" to advance the plot). The game plays similarly to a real investigation: the player has to question suspects, collect evidence, find new leads, after which new locations become accessible. It is also possible to review all the data collected during the investigation in-game, by going to a bar at any time. |
| Match32 | 1995 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Mental training | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Match32 is a shareware, single player, mouse controlled Concentration gameThis game starts off with a small 4x4 grid, eight pairs, but as the player completes each of the timed levels the grid size increases and the game becomes harder. There are three difficulty levels, at it's most difficult there are thirty pairs on the grid.
In addition to being timed the game is also scored with points awarded for each match found, bonus points are being awarded at the end of a level with the value of the bonus being dependant on the difficulty level and the time remaining
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| Math Blaster: Episode 2 - Secret of the Lost City | 1995 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Educational | | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Blasternaut, Galactic Commander, and Spot, are out searching space for The Lost City in their violet magenta cruiser. Galactic Commander feels this mission so important that she has left her normal duties at the base and joined the crew. Blasternaut and spot, however, are less than thrilled with the seemingly fruitless search.Suddenly, Doctor Minus, a deep voiced robot with an obsession for subtraction, is behind them and shoots their ship down onto a barren planet where to their, if not the player's, surprise they find The Lost City. Despite this happy coincidence Doctor Minus is preparing an bombardment force and sending his "negatron" minions to the planet to make sure the Blaster crew doesn't get away. Galactic Commander knows more than she is letting on and is convinced that if they can restore power to buildings of the city they'll have an edge...The game includes 4 levels, all involving math or logic problems to solve. Which you have to complete to restore the power within each building (level). These levels include:
Maze Craze: Here the player will control the Math Blaster crew to collect all the numbers and operations to make a complete equation and clear the area. The player has to switch between the characters to open certain doors, or perform certain actions; for example, only Galactic Commander is tall and strong enough to pull ceiling chains.
Creature Creator: The player will start with one creature composed of a number of interchangeable parts in a bow arrows will then lead to a contiguous box the number of arrows indicates how many parts need to change. The player will then need to make more changes for the next box until there are no more, this will be the final mutation.
Position Splash: Negatrons, formless yellow critters, carrying numbers will enter from the top of the screen an equation with a missing number will be at the bottom. However not all the negatrons are carrying the right number. So those without the correct number must be eliminated. The player controls one of the three crew members and can run left and right while throwing some sort of water grenade. Negatrons that have been hit will wander the stage and throw poisoned blobs at the active crew member, should he be hit another will take his place. This area ends when five problems have been completed, or answered incorrectly, or if all three crew members are hit.
Number Hunt: Here the player needs to find equations that equal a number between a range given at the top of the screen. Naturally these equations are on giant slabs all over the screen. A crew member will have to jump to and select the correct ones. Player beware! Many of the blocks can move back into the wall from which they jut sending the crew member out of commission. This area is over when five correct answers or five incorrect answers are selected, or all the crew members drop.
Upon completion players will be treated to a detailed view of the true powers of the city, and as with many edutainment titles, a print out certificate with the players score. |
| Math Blaster: Episode One - In Search of Spot | 1995 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person, Side view | | | Mini-games, Platform | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | A follow-up to the original Math Blaster! games, Math Blaster: In Search of Spot is an educational title with arcade elements designed to help students learn maths while having fun.The game allows students to practice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills in addition to fractions, decimals, percents, estimation, and number patterns. The subjects can be practiced separately or together in review. Six levels of difficulty are provided. Like the previous titles, the game also includes an editor to create new problem sets (present in the PC version only).Math Blaster's friend and assistant, Spot, is kidnapped by the evil Trash Alien at the beginning of the game. The Galactic Commander gives Math Blaster the mission to follow the Trash Alien to his home planet and rescue Spot.The game starts with a complete mission (story mode). The mission consists of a series of four (three in the console versions) math activities (mini-games) strung together with cut-scenes. The activities can also be played separately, for practice or for score.The activities are as follows:Trash Zapper - Solve equations to gain tractor beam power, then use the tractor beam to collect space trash.
Number Recycler (PC version only) - Create equations by pushing around columns of numbers and operators. Correct equations allow you to turn the trash you collected into fuel.
Cave Runner - Use Math Blaster's jet pack to fly through a cave. He has a number on his chest, and it must be arithmetically between the numbers on each side of an opening in order for him to pass through. Droplets of water falling from above can change this number by performing an operation on it. There are also gems which can be collected for bonus points, and in higher levels, monsters appear that can knock Math Blaster down.
Math Blaster - The Trash Alien's spaceship displays an equation, and the four portholes serve as multiple-choice answers. Use the jet pack to fly into the correct portholes while avoiding floating trash and energy blasts from the ship. Bonus gems also appear at random, and after five problems a bonus round occurs where players get a chance to collect as many gems as they can within a time limit.Upon finishing the complete mission, the player is presented with a certificate that can be printed out (PC version only). Their final score is also added to a high score board for their account. |
| Math Munchers Deluxe | 1995 | MECC | MECC | Educational | | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Math Munchers Deluxe is a virtual game show where you control the main character (A frog like creature) around a board devouring the answers to math problems. However an iron stomach and math skills aren't all there is, you will also be under attack from strange creatures know as Troggles. Questions of things you must find on the board will vary from "find the factors of 3," to "find less than half" "eat only prime numbers" etc. The player is given four munchers (lives) each time he/she eats a wrong answer a muncher is lost, the same applies to when you are touched by a Troggle. |
| Math Workshop | 1995 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Come into the math workshop, where there are loads of activities to improve your critical math skills. The areas covered are:Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Equivalencies, Estimation, Fractions, Pattern Recognition, Shape Orientation, Shape Recognition, Scale, Symmetry, Problem Solving. |
| McKenzie & Co. | 1995 | American Laser Games, Inc. | Her Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This adventure game, the first ever released by Her Interactive, lets you take on the life of a teenage co-ed in her junior year at Madison High. In this role, you'll do everything a girl of this age does in her daily life at home, school and work -- from deciding what to wear each day to going to work after school. Talk with friends in person and on the phone, attend classes, study, do homework, shop for clothes at the mall and go out on dates.You choose one of two characters to play. Besides your 6 closest friends, there are 20 other characters to meet during the course of the game - including prospective boyfriends. The scenarios are presented by way of video clips. Conversations come about by selecting one of several provided replies.There are various types of mini-games to solve within the game including variations of Concentration and Tetris as well as a shooting accuracy game and a picture puzzle.The game comes on 6 CD-Roms: 1 for the main game, 4 for the main boyfriends and a bonus music CD. A optional complete internet access package is included on the discs. The PC version box also contains some makeup and tips on how to apply it, and a pink ribbon promoting Breast Cancer Awareness. |
| Microsoft Golf 2.0 | 1995 | Microsoft Corporation | Access Software, Inc. | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Microsoft Golf 2.0 is the second and last of the Win 3.1 Microsoft Golf games. As its predecessor, it is simply Links 386 Pro, but with added graphical detail that comes much closer to its original DOS version.The main layout of the screen is changed but otherwise the game remains the same. Select Quick Start to use the default settings or settings from a previous game. There is a Practice Mode and an in-game Help System that teaches you about the game of golf in general as well as how this game is played.Microsoft Golf 2.0 comes with two courses: Torrey Pines and Firestone South. The game also offers compatibility with the Links 386 Pro courses (available separately).Microsoft's "PlayerNet" is used as the avenue for multiplayer golf. Each person must have PlayerNet and the game installed on their system to play. |
| Microsoft Plus! Companion for Windows 95 (included game) | 1995 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Action | Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Microsoft Plus! is an add-on for Microsoft Windows 95. It includes various additional desktop themes for Windows including new screen savers, sounds, backgrounds, pictograms and color settings. Also included are Internet Explorer 1.0, Disk drive management and compression utilities, System Agent (a task scheduling utility) and various improvements to the graphic interface of Windows.Also included is the game 3D Pinball: Space Cadet, this is the Space Cadet table of Full Tilt! Pinball. None of the other tables are present. 3D Pinball was included with some of the later Windows versions by default. |
| Microsoft Solitaire | 1995 | Microsoft Corporation | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Oft described as the most popular computer game ever. It was developed by an intern at Microsoft in 1988. It has 3 modes of play and a small selection of card images. It's come with every version of windows since 3.0. The goal of the game is to sort the deck in to 4 sequential stacks of suits. (clubs, diamonds, spades and hearts.) You flip 1 to 3 cards from a deck and place them in alternating color sequential order. The table has a selection of 10 stacks of cards that you can flip from as well. The 10 stacks serve as your holders for alternating color sequential rows. The 4 suits are started with an ace and are added to as the game progresses. |
| Millie's Math House | 1995 | Edmark Corporation | Theatrix Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Millie's Math House is the first game in Edmark's early line-up of educational games designed for very young children to use. The interface is completely point-and-click, with little to no text and instructions are given verbally.The player is taken directly to the main page where Millie perches on a desk in front of a row of cubicles, each of which takes the player to a math or pre-math activity.There are seven different activities in this game, and each activity has two modes; Explore and Discover and Question and Answer. The first mode encourages the player to click around and experiment, emphasizing that he is in charge. In Question and Answer mode, which is entered by clicking the animal inside the picture frame, a character will ask the player to perform tasks related to the current area. The following descriptions apply to Question and Answer Mode only:
Little, Middle, & Big - the player is presented with three characters and an array of variously-sized shoes; each character will ask him to find a pair that fits their particular size.
Mouse House - after the player selects a simple or complex blueprint for a house, Frank Lloyd Mouse will ask him to find all the shapes to build it, one by one.
What's My Number? - standing concealed behind a curtain, Dorothy Duck tells the player how many objects she has; the player must select the same number and place them on the stage.
Bing & Boing - bouncy creature Boing creates a picture pattern and repeats it with something missing; the player is asked to finish it. Each picture also has its own associated sound, and if the player has a microphone he can replace the sounds with his own.
Build-A-Bug - the rabbit shows the player a plan for the number of body parts the bug should have (3 eyes, 8 legs, for example); the player must click the correct number from the top of the screen and the body part from the left.
Number Machine - Annie the worm will ask the player to find a specific number on the cash register. Choosing the icons on the bottom right will raise the numbers on the keys up to 30.
Cookie Factory - Harley the horse wants a specific number of jellybeans on his cookie; the player must press the dispenser the correct number of timesThe game allows any number of tries in Question and Answer mode, the player is not penalized for wrong answers at any time. Parents are given several configuration options (Ctrl/Alt + A in Windows, Option/Command + A on a Mac), allowing them to disable music, printing, set the volume, allow exiting, or enable single switch input, which moves the arrow from choice to choice on screen with a click to indicate a selection.The game was originally designed for ages 2 - 5; with the inclusion of simple addition and subtraction and new levels in the updated version the age range may be extended. |
| Milo | 1995 | CrystalVision Brand Software | Sibling Interactive | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Board game, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | On a world far away, many millennia ago, a race of advanced beings discovered the 'keys to the universe'. This enabled them to transcend space and time, and so they embarked on a journey to the far ends of the Cosmos. Before leaving their home world, they created the most advanced artificial intelligence ever devised to act as guardian and caretaker. This artificial intelligence was named MILO. But MILO was not a perfect creation, his systems required constant intellectual stimulation in order to maintain their incredible abilities. Without his creators nearby MILO became tired and depleted. As the millennia passed Milo's systems began to fail. Milo desperately needed stimulation in order to reverse his decline – he needs an encounter with YOU. MILO already knew about your arrival, long before you did, so he didn't waste any time and made preparations. A series of challenges and puzzles for you, which will recharge his intelligence circuits and reverse his decline. The challenges are spread around the home world of the creators and special transport has been provided. If you prove worthy of the challenge you will gain access to the library where you will come face to face with MILO, and if you finally succeed you will be presented with the treasured keys to the universe. But if you fail - you will be trapped forever.You are free to travel to every part of the planet and all you need is to do is solve the puzzles, which are very similar to the ones from The 7th Guest. |
| Mixed-Up Mother Goose Deluxe | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Early Childhood | | Windows | This is another updated version of Mixed-Up Mother Goose. This version has a new set of graphics, but more "visibly," a redone soundtrack that has all of the nursery rhymes played in different musical styles. |
| Monopoly | 1995 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | This is an adaptation of the Monopoly board game for computers, completely reproducing all aspects of gameplay. Player movements can be presented as 3D animations, but those can be optionally turned off for those who don't want to see animations. There can be up to 6 players at once, and it can be played over the Internet. Music is in MIDI format, with WAV sound effects. Roll dice, spin around the board, and don't forget to have fun as you pass GO! |
| Moraff's Morejongg | 1995 | | Moraffware | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Moraff's Morejongg is a single player, shareware, Mahjong game. This game has twenty different tile layouts, several different tile sets including traditional, monster, letters, words and colours, in addition the colours used on the tile sets can be changed to make them easier to see. The game is played entirely with the mouse and is similar to other tile matching maj jong games, pairs of identical tiles disappear and the object is to remove them all from the game area. This game does have a hint and an undo feature but there is no high score table and no reshuffle feature.
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| Moraff's Spherejongg | 1995 | | Moraffware | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Moraff's Spherejongg is a shareware, single player, Mahjongg game played with spherical 'tiles', or balls, which allegedly make it easier to play and reduce eyestrain.
The game is mouse controlled and can be played in a window or full screen. It has a high score table and statistics, a range of difficulty settings, and a choice of balls and layouts as well as both hint and an undo functions. The registered, or Extended Edition, program had additional options, such as puzzles where there is always a solution, and better graphics.
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| Moraff's Ultra Blast | 1995 | | Moraffware | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Moraff's Ultra Blast is one or two player, updated and extended version of Moraff's Blast I for Windows.As in the earlier DOS game, this is a collection of three different Breakout style games, Traditional, Falling Walls, and Special Effects. In all modes gameplay is, as you'd expect, concerned with bouncing a ball off a paddle on the bottom of the screen and into blocks or bricks suspended above, destroying them. The object of the game varies according to the type of game being played. In the Traditional game it is to wipe out all the bricks in the shortest possible time while in the Falling Walls game it is to stay alive as long as possible, and in the Special Effects game it is to clear all the blocks that can be destroyed to advance to the next level.The game design has some novel features such as bricks that allow the ball to travel through them in one direction but not in the other, bricks that spawn other bricks, bricks that move when hit and ball eating bricks.The game supports 16, 256, 65536 & 16 million colours, has sound effects and keeps the top ten scores for each game. The paddle is mouse controlled and can be moved all over the screen rather than in just the traditional left/right axes.This game has twenty five levels and is a 'taster game'. When the player registers they receive the full, extended game Moraff's Ultra Blast II has a screen creation tool, 'at least' one hundred levels and one hundred backgrounds.
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| Ms. Infinity's Math Mansion - Kindergarten | 1995 | Rainbow Educational Media | Empower | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | Gunanidhi Hedge, R. Joe Sanjay, Uma Shankar (S.G.), R. Vydianathan | Windows | This is a detailed grade-specific CD-ROM game that teaches children about mathematics. It is very multimedia, colorful with Ms. Infinity and her assistant Cal to guide you through the mansions many puzzles, humorous jokes, and developed lessons following NCTM standards. The following strands are shown: data collection, numeration, geometry, problem solving, patterns, computation, and measurement. Teachers have a separate game program to track and monitor a student's progress and give out awards.This version for Kindergarten has the simplest of puzzles and games. |
| Multimedia Players Present: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | 1995 | Davidson & Associates, Inc., Simon & Schuster Interactive | | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Menu structures, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Multimedia Players Present: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is an edutainment game based off the 1989 children's picture book by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault. It is the only known game in the Multimedia Players series created by Davidson & Associates and Simon & Schuster. It is aimed at children aged three to six.The game features an interactive version of the book, as well as several mini-games based on it meant to teach children about the alphabet. The games and menus are guided by the titular Multimedia Players, a group of children clad in distinctive teal shirts. |
| Murphy's TV CD-ROM | 1995 | Vantan International Co., Ltd. | Vantan International Co., Ltd. | Educational | Side view | Licensed | | | Japan (Modern/Futuristic) | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The player navigates the titular character Murphy around the family house, interacting with various members of the family and viewing animated cutscenes. The most iconic thing in the house is Murphy's television set. The game teaches both English and Japanese on the television programs. |
| Muumit piilosilla | 1995 | WSOY Multimedia | Bullhead AB, Norsk Strek AS | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Muumit piilosilla is the first game in the Moomin game series. In this game you need to find a character called Nibling (Klipdassen in Swedish and Tahmatassu in Finnish) from Moominhouse. |
| Myst | 1995 | Mindscape, Inc. | Cyan, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | You have just stumbled upon a most intriguing book, a book titled Myst. You have no idea where it came from, who wrote it, or how old it is. Reading through its pages provides you with only a description of an island world. But it's just a book, isn't it? As you reach the end of the book, you lay your hand on a page. Suddenly your own world dissolves into blackness, replaced with the island world the pages described. Now you're here, wherever here is, with no option but to explore.Myst is a first-person point-and-click adventure where the player controls a character known as The Stranger. Magically transported into the world described in the book, he needs to explore Myst Island and solve its mysteries. The game is presented as a series of static scenes where the player acts with the environment by clicking and manipulating objects. There are no enemies and it is not possible to die. Through Myst Island, the game is further divided into mini-worlds set in different ages accessed through different books. The game's interface is reduced to a single cursor for navigation and interaction. Rather than collecting items and using them to solve puzzles, the player must gather subtly placed clues and manipulate complex mechanical devices in order to advance in the game. The world of Myst is mostly uninhabited, and the game has very few live-action scenes with characters and dialogue. |
| Mystery Games | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains the following 2 horror-adventures:
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria |
| NanoCore | 1995 | | | Action | 1st-person | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | NanoCore is a single player, shareware, 3D, Breakout style game.The story behind the game is that the NanoCore has become infected and must be purified. To do this the player must use fire an Elementium ball at the infecting enemy constructs.What this means in terms of gameplay is that the player launches this ball and keeps it in play for as long as possible by using their paddle. The ball will damage and ultimately destroy everything that is not a permanent object.The shareware version has just eight levels but the registered version has registered version has thirty-two in total. The game is entirely mouse controlled but the keyboard changes the camera angle.
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| Neko | 1995 | | | Simulation | | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | A kind of proto-Catz, Neko places an animated cat in a window on your desktop. While this is more of a software toy than a "game" per se, certainly you play with it: Neko chases the mouse cursor, scratching at the window borders if they get in the way. Leave the mouse idle for long enough and Neko will groom and go to sleep; move it suddenly and Neko will awaken, to resume the chase! |
| Opening Night | 1995 | MECC | MECC | Educational, Simulation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Command 40 actors (Live Actors filmed/photographed and put into the game) on over 100 sets with more than 300 props to create your own scenes. Lighting can also be changed to fit a certain scene along with music and sound effects. Adapt literature or write you own material and put it in the actors mouths. Although the game leans toward a classic British mystery the many combinations can give you almost limitless themes.
This game was developed with the cooperation of the The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis who are most of the in game actors. |
| Paddock Note '95 | 1995 | Fuji Television Network, Inc. | Scitron & Art Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | | | | Japan (Modern/Futuristic) | | Menu structures | Real-time | | 2D scrolling, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The game simulates building up a career for horse racing. As the manager, the player can choose the winning horse, the rider and how many meters racetrack, which is done by navigating multiple menus. In the Strand Yard office, the player has access to plenty of information for the available horses and riders before making decisions. Further learning can be done at the Horse Museum. |
| Paparazzi!: Tales of Tinseltown | 1995 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Museworthy, Inc. | Simulation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Paparazzi! is an interactive movie that satirizes Hollywood culture while simulating the experience of being a freelance photojournalist. You're a newly-graduated photographer hoping to make it big in the land of the stars, where a picture is worth $1000, by taking the best candid celebrity photos and selling them to the right bidders. Shoot all 24 celebs in just 2 weeks, or find yourself broke and out of work. Hey, that's life in the Big Orange. |
| Paperopolis | 1995 | Virgin Sound and Vision | Virgin Sound and Vision | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In Paperopolis, the animated Ted the Toad guides the user through the world of Paperopolis, which contains a variety of origami patterns which may be printed out and folded. Some of the patterns can be customized with pictures before printing, so the folded object will have the chosen picture on it.The patterns are arranged in the world of Paperopolis with similar patterns together--for example, there's an aircraft hangar containing all the paper airplane patterns. Ted provides commentary on each pattern, along with a few words for each area. |
| Paradise Solitaire | 1995 | Digital Paradise Corp. | Digital Paradise Corp. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Paradise Solitaire is a shareware suite of thirty single player card games. The shareware game contains ten games, the remainder were available when the game was registered. The games in the shareware release were: Beleagured Castle; Canfield; Clock; Dutchess; Four Seasons; Golf; Klondike; Montana; Pyramid and Spiderette,The games that were made available on registration were: Auld Lang Syne; Bruce's Toughy; Calculation; Cruel; Elevens; Fifteens; Flower; Freecell; Grandfather's Clock; Intelligence; Klondike – Casino; Monte Carlo; Napoleon; Osmosis; Pyramid Golf; Scorpion; Seahaven; Weaver; Will o' the Wisp; YukonThe games are all played with the mouse, have individual help files for each game, oversized card sets, score table, a choice of background and card back and play either in a window or full screen. A Win 3.1 version of the game was also available. |
| Pete Pilotti & Pontiac: Seikkailu Lapponiassa | 1995 | WSOY Multimedia | Innocorp Oy | Educational | | | | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Pete Pilotti & Pontiac: Seikkailu Lapponiassa (Adventure in Lapponia) is the first game in the Pete Pilotti & Pontiac series. In this game, Pete and Pontiac travel to winter carnival in Lapponia (which apparently refers to Lapland) and they need to stop Arska the Wolverine. |
| Power: The Game | 1995 | IBM | Power Games International, Inc. | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Power: The Game is an turn-based wargame in boardgame style. The objective of the game is to defeat your opponents in by capturing their Flag with infantry. Tanks, planes and ships can be used to help cover your position and give you sufficient power.
Available are tanks, planes, ships and infantry. The game is divided into timed rounds of combat, with the entire conflict lasting two hours or less. During each round all players make their moves simultaneously. You are allowed to issue up to five commands during each round. At the end of each round all movement is seen, all conflicts are resolved and all power units when they occupy a foreign country with any piece through an entire round.
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| Pressure Drop | 1995 | Starhill Publications | Starhill Productions | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Pressure Drop is a one or two player, keyboard controlled, colour matching game.The player(s) have a Chromagun which moves left and right on a rail at the bottom of the screen. The Chromagun fires different coloured rays for reasons which will soon become apparent. From the top of the screen ranks of coloured tiles descend. The player must use their Chromagun to destroy the bricks. They achieve this by shooting selected tiles thus altering their colour and tone so that each brick in the block is identical.The tile blocks are descending and unless they are destroyed they will hit the Pressure Ray. Each block that hits the Pressure Ray causes it to move up the screen thus shortening the time the player has to shoot at it, each block destroyed lowers it. Naturally all this is too easy to achieve if that were all there were to the game so along with the descending there are also various power-ups, a variety of brick types, and baddies.The game is keyboard controlled and the action keys can be redefined
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| Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon | 1995 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | When Putt-Putt visits the fireworks factory, a slip of Pep's paw sends him rocketing to the moon. Once there, he must gather the pieces of a rocket ship to get himself and Pep back home to Earth. |
| Putt-Putt Joins the Parade | 1995 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Putt-Putt, an adorable purple car, wants to join the Cartown Parade. But, first, he must earn money for a carwash, find a balloon, and get a pet (Pep, the puppy). Children ages 3 to 8 have a great time delivering groceries and mowing lawns and learn good lessons like waiting for the green light before crossing the road. Each screen has a multitude of fun things to click on, as well. |
| Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack | 1995 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action, Educational, Puzzle, Strategy | 1st-person, Diagonal-down, Text-based / Spreadsheet, Top-down | | | Arcade, Board game, Cards / tiles, Mental training, Pinball, Tile matching puzzle, Word construction | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Putt-Putt & Fatty Bear's Activity Pack contains 15 different games and activities for kids 3-8. This is a compilation of Putt-Putt's Fun Pack and Fatty Bear's Fun Pack, along with four new games. Most of the games are played against either Putt-Putt or Fatty Bear. Some games are traditional, such as Tic-Tac-Toe, Checkers, Reversi, or the card game Go Fish.Others are renamed versions of popular games.
"Remember!" is basically Concentration, a memory game.
"The Cheese King" is Hangman, while the "On-Ramps & Off Ramps" is the board game chutes & ladders. "Word Hunt!" is the device in puzzle books where you find words in letter grids.
In "Guess It!", you use logic to figure out which fruits are used and which locations they've been placed in. "Lines & Boxes" is another logic game, making boxes by drawing lines between a grid of dots. Finally, Tangrams is a spatial recognition game, fitting pieces into different shapes. Most of these games have multiple difficulty levels. Although designed for children 3-8, many of the games should give even parents the occasional run-for-the-money at the hardest level.Finally, there are four games just for fun:
In "Circus Stormin'" - a side-scrolling arcade game - you control Putt-Putt up and down, moving him around obstacles and having him pick up balloons. There's also a sliding tiles (logic puzzle) game with slightly varying images, and a Pachinko pinball where you can create your own 'field' of 6x11 bumpers and the balls make amusing sounds when they hit. There's also a 35-page in-game coloring book with 16 mixable palette slots.
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| Queen of Tenshindo '95 | 1995 | Softpal Inc. | | Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Queen of Tenshindo 95 is a hentai (adult) card game that plays almost the same way as the one known as “Uno”. Each player is dealt seven cards, and the objective is to be the first who discards all in hand. You do so by matching cards either by colour or number with the card shown in the discard pile (and thus the card thrown is the next to be matched). There are also cards with special “powers” that skip other players, change direction or force other players to draw additional cards, adding a somewhat strategical element. In the game you play against other four players (anime girls), and when winning you are presented with an interactive hentai scene. Each game consists of three rounds, the winner being the one who has more points (as the winner gets points based in the cards that opponents have in hand).
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| Qwirks | 1995 | Spectrum Holobyte, Inc. | Big Bang Software, Inc. | Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Qwirks is a simple puzzle game in which colored blobs fall from the top of the screen, and the player has to arrange them in collections of four or more. The game is a variant of Puyo Puyo, but Spectrum HoloByte had a license from the original creators. |
| Rayman | 1995 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Paris Studios | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | When a villain known only as Mr. Dark appears, trouble brews in Rayman's world. Mr. Dark captures the Toons - source of light and Rayman's friends. With no more light, evil creatures begin to roam, making the world unsafe for everyone. It’s up to you, as Rayman, to free your friends and put an end to Mr. Dark's dastardly schemes!Rayman is a side-scrolling platformer starring the titular Rayman, a big-nosed chap with no arms or legs. Rayman can jump and use his hair to hover for a short period of time. He can also attack by throwing his fists, or winding up his fists for a more powerful punch. He can occasionally find special power ups that grant him unlimited flying power, giving him the ability to navigate through tricky mazes. |
| Roberta Williams' King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Queen Valanice of Daventry has always thought that getting married would be the best course of action for her daughter Rosella. However, the young princess seems to be more interested in adventure, recklessly following a mysterious magical creature into a whirlpool that eventually transfer herself and her mother to another world. The two end up in different parts of a land known as Eldritch, with Rosella being transformed into a troll. They must find each other and eventually defeat an evil sorceress who plots to ruin the land.Like its predecessors, King's Quest VII is an adventure game primarily based on solving inventory puzzles. It discards the icon-based interface of the two previous installments, and instead features a simplified "smart cursor" used for general interaction with highlighted objects and characters, as well as significantly fewer text descriptions. The game is divided into chapters, alternating between the queen and the princess as protagonists. As opposed to the realistic drawing style of all the preceding game, it has brightly colored visuals reminiscent of Walt Disney cartoons. |
| Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | | | | Point and select | | Mature | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A writer named Adrienne Delaney has just moved into an old mansion with her photographer husband Donald. Shortly after moving in, Adrienne begins to experience horrifying nightmares and have odd encounters inside the creepy old abode. Furthermore, the house is having a severe effect on her husband, changing him for the worse. Adrienne must discover the secret of the house before the unknown force consumes her husband, and unravel the terrible events that have happened in the past.Phantasmagoria is an adventure game that places heavy emphasis on full motion video for exposition and cutscenes at various junctures to advance the storyline. Adrienne is represented as a digitized character roaming around pre-rendered settings in the house. She inspects various rooms, finds items, adds them to her inventory, finds places to use the items, and triggers advancements in the plot. Puzzle-solving element is present, though reduced compared to most other adventure games made by Sierra. There are seven chapters in the game, as well as a status screen that tracks the player's progress within the chapter. If the player happens to get stuck in the game, a talking skull icon who identifies himself as the hintkeeper can supply the player with hints on request. It is possible to start playing the game from any chapter. |
| Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria (Deluxe Limited Edition) | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Deluxe Edition of Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria. Packaged in square box covered with black velvet and silver-colored printing. The seven CD's are separately packaged in a cardboard sleeve and bundled by an intricately folded sliding box. The manual contains full-color illustrations and a short story by Gieneke Spannenburg.This packaging was used in the Benelux only, it was designed by Rangeela BV and distributed by HomeSoft Benelux. |
| Robot City | 1995 | Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc. | Brooklyn Multimedia | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | From the manual:
Far from the 50 Spacer Worlds, your survival pod crashes on a planet where a secret experiment is taking shape. Robot City, an entire city built and ruled by robots. Without humans to command and supervise them, these robots have evolved their own ways of doing things. Their ideas of how to obey the Three Laws of Robotics might be a little different from yours. You soon learn that Robot City is out of control, that the only human who might know why has been murdered, and that you are the prime suspect.Welcome to Robot City! |
| Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge CD-ROM | 1995 | GTE Entertainment | Second Vision | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | Meditative / Zen | | | Windows | Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge CD-ROM is a music-based point-and-click adventure game. The player wanders around the Voodoo Lounge to solve mysteries and even meets the Rolling Stones in mysterious circumstances.The game contains a lot of Rolling Stones footage and several full-length songs. |
| Rumpelstiltskin's Labyrinth of the Lost | 1995 | TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, L.P. | TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, L.P. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Rumpelstiltskin's Labyrinth of the Lost follows the original fairy tale, as you begin by meeting the miller's daughter, her father, the king, and other characters. The player can click around each scene, which are filled with characters, animals, and other surprises. In this short part Labyrinth of the Lost plays as an interactive story, and here and in some cut scenes later on it features Disney-like graphics and animations.In the "Labyrinth" part, the title changes from an interactive story to an educational game. Once you (as the miller's daughter) meet Rumpelstiltskin, he will send you on a quest through the labyrinth each night. Your goal in the labyrinth is to find 3 golden orbs and bring them to the so-called "prize room." A cut-scene will follow that continues with the story. To find the orbs, you have to consult the so-called "Oracles" in the Labyrinth, and answer the questions that pop-up (about mythology, history etc.).The player can choose between easy and hard mode, and turn on or off the questions in the labyrinth. The miller's daughter will sing a few songs during the game. There are no captions, and no options to change other settings.
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| SFPD Homicide / Case File: The Body in the Bay | 1995 | Grolier Electronic Publishing Inc. | Interworks | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | SFPD Homicide / Case File: The Body in the Bay is a point-and-click adventure game based mostly on FMV and photo graphics, with the player taking up the role of a San Francisco Police Department detective tasked with clearing up a series of murders. The character is San Francisco's newest homicide detective and teams up with a real investigator who acts as a partner and a guide. The case starts with a 50-something white male found floating in the bay near Pier 91, bound and gagged. The player's tasks encompass examining crime scenes and securing evidence as well as interrogating witnesses and suspects to uncover the identity of the serial killer. Using evidence, clues and procedures from the actual case, the detective explores the victim's life, vices and secret passions. Along the way, more than 40 characters from his life are met as the case takes the detective from the city's posh nightclubs to its deserted piers. |
| SK-111 'Star Killer' | 1995 | | | Action | Side view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | SK-111 'Star Killer' is a single player, keyboard controlled, freeware, arcade style, space shooter.The player's ship sits at the bottom of the screen and faces a storm of alien ships and asteroids coming at them, the object is to destroy as many as possible and to stay alive. One unusual feature is that the ship has separate power bars for weapons and for shields and the player can transfer energy between the two. The game features ray-traced sprites, 8 track digital audio, and WinG-powered graphics and requires High or True Colour Video. It was designed to play in a 320x200 window but could be configured to play in a 640x480 window if the player had a fast machine.
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| Sammy's Science House | 1995 | Edmark Corporation | Theatrix Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The third game in Edmark's Early Learning series, Sammy's Science House is an educational game designed for younger children to use. The interface is completely point-and-click and click & drag, and instructions are given verbally, repeatable as needed.The player is taken to the main screen where Sammy Snake sits on a worktable; around the room are various objects, furnishings and a window that lead the player to the activities.As in all the House games, each activity has two modes; Explore and Discover and Question and Answer. The first mode encourages the player to click around and experiment, putting the player in control. In Question and Answer mode, which is entered by clicking the animal inside the picture frame, a character will ask the player to perform tasks related to the current area. The descriptions below generally apply to the Question and Answer mode:Acorn Pond - the player can explore the pond to see how it differs during the four seasons. Wise Owl asks the player "Who-o-o" questions about the creatures that inhabit the pond and surroundings.
The Field Notebook - less a game than a notebook filled with facts and trivia about the animals around Acorn Pond; this notebook can be printed.
The Weather Machine - the player is asked to create specific weather by selecting from several variables; temperature, precipitation, and wind, all at varying levels.
Make-A-Movie - The player orders the pictures on a filmstrip, then enters the theater to view his film, forward or backwards
The Workshop - the player builds an object (train,dinosaur) by selecting parts from a pegboard and following a blueprint - he can choose from three levels of difficulty.
The Sorting Station - in this game the player must sort pictured items into their proper cans. There are three difficulty levels to choose fromThere are several Adult options available by pressing Ctrl/Alt + A (Option/Command + A on a Mac) from the main screen; the parent can disable printing, adjust volume, hide the exit button, turn off music, and set up single-switch input for a special needs child. The educational focus of this game is on learning to follow patterns, discriminate between attributes, observation and exploration, and building logical sequences. In addition, the player will learn the names of many science oriented objects; rocks, plants, animals, fungi, and experience some simple classification. |
| Sesame Street: Let's Make a Word! | 1995 | Creative Wonders LLC, EA*Kids | Children's Television Workshop | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Early Childhood | | Windows | An educational game designed to help children recognize and name objects. The game has several famous characters from the Sesame Street show, including Big Bird, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, The two headed Monster and Guy Smiley as your host. It's formatted as a game show with mini games that encourage spelling, reading and identifying words. Several of the characters provide instructions on the mini game and provide assistance when needed. As with many educational games aimed at preschoolers, every object performs a nifty little animation when clicked on. The cast from the TV series performs most of the voices. Kermit is missing, possibly due to the unfortunate loss of Jim Henson in 1990. |
| Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye | 1995 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Dragon's Eye is an installment in the tile-matching game series initiated by Activision. Players try to remove mahjong tiles in pairs from a set pattern. Different versions of the game have up to eight different tile sets, twelve patterns based on the animals of the Chinese zodiac, and a layout editor for creating patterns.In addition to the standard mode, the game also features "Dragon's Eye", a two-player Shanghai variant. Players take turns adding and removing tiles from a small field with one player attempting to remove all the tiles and the other trying to position tiles to make this impossible. |
| Shanghai: Great Moments | 1995 | Activision, Inc. | Quicksilver Software, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Shanghai is a puzzle game using MahJongg tiles where you slide available matching tiles off the stack to reveal more tiles. Slide all 144 tiles off the board and you win the game.This game includes four versions of the classic Shanghai game: The Great Wall (Shanghai meets Tetris), Beijing (slide rows to make matches), Action Shanghai (clear tiles quickly before more appear), and Classic Shanghai (either regular or face down for an extra challenge). |
| Shivers | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Surviving a dare by your friends to spend the night in a haunted museum is how Shivers begins, but it soon turns into a challenge of capturing the evil Ixupi, ghosts of South American legend, in pots scattered throughout the museum. The game is similar to Myst in many aspects in that it's an adventure game with a 1st-person slideshow-type presentation. Though unlike Myst, you have a life meter and the Ixupi can steal life from it if you aren't careful. |
| Sim Farm | 1995 | Maxis Software Inc. | Leaping Lizard Software, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Take control and manage a virtual farm for a local town. Game-play includes planting and maintaining crops, of which there are 24 different varieties to choose from, each with their own requirements. The buying and selling of livestock, and land, whilst competing for space with the town. Additional simulation includes changing weather systems and realistic seasons, each affecting the running of your farm. |
| SimClassics: Maxis Collections 1 | 1995 | Maxis Software Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
SimCity Classic
SimLife
SimAnt |
| SimClassics: Maxis Collections 2 | 1995 | Maxis Software Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This compilation contains:
SimCity Classic
SimEarth: The Living Planet
SimFarm
The DOS release does not contain SimCity Classic as it's a Windows only game. Instead, A-Train is included. |
| SimTown | 1995 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | Contemporary | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | SimTown is one of several entries in the city-building simulation series, SimCity. As in prior installments, players are tasked as the mayor of a newly formed municipality, taking charge of it's expansion and success. Being aimed at a younger audience than that of the other games within the series a greater emphasis is placed on managing a small, socially ideal town than a sprawling metropolis. As such it features a much more stylized, cartoon representation and user interface, a number of added features allowing for greater interactivity with the populace, and a simplified system of resource management.As their first priority as mayor players will simply need to construct a town, supplying not only housing for their residents but employment, schools, and civic buildings as well; Roadways and bike paths being needed to connect them all. While each building has its own associated costs and benefits they're often marginal enough that a player's selection will often be as much an aesthetic consideration as a functional one. In order to finance all of this consideration will also have to be paid to the player's limited resources of water, wood, and crops, which rejuvenate only so quickly.Interacting with the populace will also be crucial to success. Individual citizens will often offer suggestions and make demands of the mayor and so a close eye will have to be kept on their opinions of how the city is being run. Those that favor specific types of restaurants will request them and objections will be made if the city is lacking in their preferred form of recreation. Players can also take a closer look at their residents by 'removing' the tops of buildings and peering inside, watching their life unfold on a more minute scale. Specially constructed designer characters can also be made to populate the town, built to pre-defined specifications such as their preferred clothing and personal preferences.A number of awards can be gained within the game for exemplary achievements resulting from maintaining a balanced town for some period of time. An in-game newspaper will assist in these efforts by helping to keep the player up to date on what might be wrong in their city, or how they might be succeeding. |
| Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe | 1995 | Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd. | Adventuresoft Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | A sequel to Simon the Sorcerer, this second game in the series gives us more mis-adventures from our teenaged sorcerer (of some sort). Thrown into another dimension by his own wardrobe, Simon starts the heroic mission (of some sort) to find -- another wardrobe that could get him back home. Equipped with his pointy sorcerer's hat (of some sort), he will also rescue the world (again) from the evil Sordid.A point-and-click adventure in a style similar to the first Simon game, only technologically improved. |
| Solitaire Twin Pack | 1995 | Personal Companion Software | | Compilation, Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Solitaire Twin Pack contains two card games, Pyramid Solitaire and Golf Solitaire.Pyramid Solitaire : In this game the cards are arranged in a pyramid and the object is to remove cards totalling 13 until all cards have been removed. In this game each card has a value starting with the Ace which counts as 1 through to the King which counts as 13. The object is to make 13 points i order to remove cards from play so at 13 points Kings can be removed as soon as they become available but Aces must be paired with Queens, 2's with Jacks, e.t.c. Each card removed will make available the card above it in the pyramid. When a player runs out of moves to make they may draw another card from the deck and try to use that card to form a match. The game concludes when all the cards have been removed from the pyramid or when no more moves are possible.Golf Solitaire : This may be played as a single hand or as a series of nine hands or holes in the game terminology.
The player starts each 'hole' with a score of 35 points, that's the number of cards that are on the table. One point is deducted for each card removed from the table. The object in each 'hole' is to clear all the cards from the table. The object of each game, as in a round of golf, is to finish with as low a score as possible.
Card suits are irrelevant in this game. The player removes cards from the table by putting together sequences of cards starting with the card turned over. A sequence is made by playing a card from the table that is numerically one different from the card that's in play. Thus if a 5 were turned over the player could play any available 6 or any available 4 because these numbers are next in sequence. Once the 6 or 4 is played the turn continues until there are no more cards to be added to the sequence at which point the next card is turned over.
Both games are played with the mouse and come with in-game help text, and the ability to change the pattern on the back of the cards. Only Pyramid Solitaire has an Undo function and only Golf Solitaire has a Save Game option.
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| Sonic CD | 1995 | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Sonic the Hedgehog and his self-proclaimed girlfriend Amy Rose travel to Never Lake, only to discover the legendary Little Planet there, tied in chains and covered by metal. It appears that Sonic's archenemy, Dr. Eggman, is using the powers of the planet to manipulate the fabric of time. He created Sonic's evil counterpart, Metal Sonic, who kidnaps Amy and disappears. Now the brave hedgehog must explore the Little Planet, collect seven jewels capable of altering the passage of time, free Amy, and defeat Metal Sonic along with his master. Sonic CD is a fast-paced side-scrolling platform action game, similar in gameplay to other installments of the series. Sonic uses his patented spin attacks to destroy the doctor's minions and collects various items, such as protective rings, shields, and speed shoes. His special attacks include the Spin Dash and the Super Peel Out. A stand-out gameplay feature of this installment is Sonic's ability to travel to past and future versions of the stages he traverses. Depending on the player's action in the past version of a level, the future versions (which contain obligatory boss enemies) will change from "bad" to "good", having more or fewer enemies and obstacles, respectively. Time Stones can be collected by completing special stages, in which Sonic has to shoot UFOs within an allotted time limit. The game's "good" ending can be achieved either by collecting all the seven Time Stones or by turning all future level versions into "good". The game has features that take advantage of the CD format such as CD audio, video clips, and more levels (over fifty in total). |
| Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | Side view | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Roger Wilco, the brave interstellar janitor who has already saved the universe from many great dangers, is now in a very embarrassing position. His commanders show no respect for his courageous actions in the previous game. Instead, he is being accused of all kinds of violations against the galactic law, is deprived of all the honors he got in the previous game, and as a token of mercy, is allowed to return to his old job - cleaning closets... But those unfortunate events are just the beginning of much bigger troubles Roger will get into. Once again, the future of galaxy depends on him!Space Quest 6 is the first game in the series to be released exclusively on a CD ROM. The game continues the humorous tradition of the series and is especially inclined towards parody of popular sci-fi movies. It features SVGA graphics and voice-overs for conversations and text descriptions. The interface is slightly different from icon-based system used by Sierra in many other adventure games: the player chooses verbs from a menu that appears at the bottom of the screen, similarly to earlier LucasArts titles. Unlike all previous Space Quest installments, the game allows the player to retry immediately in case Roger dies, without the need to restore a previously saved game. |
| Space Sirens 2: Megababes from Ajia | 1995 | PIXIS Interactive, Inc. | PIXIS Interactive, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | Adult | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | David Lo | Windows | Space Sirens 2: Megababes from Ajia is an interactive adult title completely told from a first-person perspective. The many adult situations in this game feature nudity and graphic sex. Set in a futuristic sci-fi world, the beginning of the game has the titular space sirens capturing the player's space craft. After an arcade segment where the player fights off a wave of aliens, the space sirens appear and incapacitate the protagonist. However, as he is a person of great respect and renowned, the space sirens are willing to spare his life if he is able to pleasure them sexually. Failure to do so means death.The game play consists of interactive movies where the player must make the correct choices in order for his particular space siren to achieve orgasm. Using what Pixis describes as a TFUI (Touch Feel User Interface) players can manipulate the NPC in various different ways. Icons can be used in two different ways: the hand can stroke and massage or be used to remove clothing; the penis can be used in a standing position or a lying position. Furthermore, the NPC can be turned around 180 degrees for complete visibility. Touching a body part with the respective icon at the right time will play a movie that will raise the siren's pleasure meter; when doing so at the wrong time the player will receive an admonition from the siren to slow down. If at any time the player reaches climax before the siren the player will lose one of his three turns. |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - "A Final Unity" (Collector's Edition) | 1995 | Spectrum Holobyte, Inc. | Spectrum Holobyte, Inc. | Special edition | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | This Collector's Edition includes:Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity
Individually-numbered Collectable Box
Limited Edition Pin
Exclusive Poster |
| Super Bubsy | 1995 | Accolade, Inc. | ATI Technologies, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | In this game based on original Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, you are Bubsy the Bobcat, who have to collect the objects and defeat all your enemies landing on them. With witty remarks Bubsy goes through sixteen levels in comical cartoon style. There is also a time limit in the stages. Single- or two-player modes are available. |
| Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue! | 1995 | Learning Co., Inc., The | Learning Co., Inc., The | Action, Educational | Side view | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The Master of Mischief is planning on making Shady Glen School disappear! He has invented disappearing paint, and turned five paint brushes into robots to paint the school at midnight. The Master of Mischief himself is disguised as a robot, and it is your job to find him. Hidden throughout the school are clues which reveal his whereabouts. Robots are placed in the school to slow your progress, some of which may even contain clues themselves. You carry a camera with you to take a picture and examine dangerous robots closer. |
| Super Solvers: OutNumbered! | 1995 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Action, Educational | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | One of the education games aimed for older elementary students, from The Learning Company's classic Super Solver's series.The Master of Mischief is up to his old tricks and now is trying to take over the Shady Glen TV Station, with the help from his robot Tele. Now the Super Solver must move around the TV Station catching Tele and avoiding the discs Tele tosses at you and hot wire, with a remote control and use your Math skills to get clues of where The Master of Mischief is hiding. |
| Swat! | 1995 | | | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Swat! is a single player, freeware, bug swatting game.The game is mouse controlled and the premise is simple. The mouse cursor turns into a hammer, flies appear on the screen and the player must use the hammer to squash them. Squashed flies give the player both points and additional game time. Points are lost for letting flies escape and for swatting and missing.There is no save game function and no high score table. The player can adjust the game speed, the rate at which flies appear, and the duration - the default duration is fifteen seconds.
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| T4 | 1995 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | T4 is a shareware logic game. It can be played by two human players, one player vs the computer, or computer vs computer. The computer opponent has three skill settings.The game is played with tiles. The tiles are squares that are divided into four triangular sections by drawing diagonal lines from corner to corner. The triangles in the squares are coloured either white or black such that all sixteen unique combinations are catered for.The game is turn based. Each player takes turns to give the other player a piece which they then place on the board. The object of the game is to be the player who completes a line of tiles where one triangle in every tile in the line has the same colour.
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| Team Xtreme: Operation Weather Disaster | 1995 | Discovery Channel Multimedia | Human Code, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | A disgruntled TV weatherman, bored with the stable weather conditions of his work place, changes the world climate in radical ways. A disaster task force called Team Xtreme is called to restore normal conditions to all places in Earth and fight the evil madman.Team Xtreme: Operation Weather Disaster is a educational point-and-click adventure similar to Myst, one of its many clones that came out at that time. A typical full-motion video game of the nineties, it features 360º horizontal panning of some locations and easy puzzles for its target audience (mostly comprised of children).Published and produced by the computer game branch of the documentary channel Discovery, the focus is obviously on didactic elements: a small scientific facts database is integrated as a button to the interface, and can be accessed at any moment in the game. It plays animations and videos of hurricanes and other weather phenomena. It also contains clues to the solution of some of the puzzles. In an effort to further dispel any attempt at any meaningful amount of challenge, a hint button is provided on the interface at the bottom, placed between the inventory and the volume control and a compass.Gameplay is the standard fare of this type of game: instead of Myst's focus on mechanical puzzles, most are inventory-based. There are some short arcade sequences that need to be completed to advance the game. |
| The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery, Horror | Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Mature | | Windows | The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery is a direct sequel to Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, the first in the supernatural mystery adventure series telling the story of a bookstore owner and writer Gabriel Knight, the last offspring of generations of Schattenjaegers (shadow hunters), whose task is to fight the evil forces that abound in the world.After leaving New Orleans, Gabriel moves to the Ritter Castle in Bavaria, Germany, his family heritage. One day, a group of peasants approach the castle, and the elder tells Gabriel about a terrible death of a little girl, who was killed by a vicious wolf. Suspecting the wolf could be a supernatural creature, the peasant asks the Schattenjaeger to purge the evil. The investigation brings Gabriel and his assistant Grace Nakimura to the mysterious Hunter Society and to Bavaria's dark past.The game utilizes a cast of live actors and full-motion video technology: the actors are filmed over photorealistic images of Munich and its surroundings, and nearly every interaction with the environment leads to a FMV sequence. Despite its visual style, The Beast Within is not an interactive movie, but a full-fledged adventure game with many dialogues, detective work to do, and puzzles to solve. Unlike the first game, it is entirely controlled through point-and-click actions - all the icons have been replaced by a single cursor. Both Gabriel and Grace are available as playable characters during different chapters of the story. |
| The Chessmaster 4000 Turbo | 1995 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | The first 32-bit title in the Chessmaster series, Chessmaster 4000 Turbo offers features designed around the processors of the time. Modem and LAN play is available for the first time. Boards are viewed in 2D or 3D, and include many custom sets, with game options selected from surrounding windows and drop-down menus. Entering moves is now easier - if you click on a square which only one of your pieces can move to, it will move there automatically. Full games (including 500 recreated real-life classics) can be analysed from an expert perspective, and a library of common opening move sequences is included. Computer players act in a variety of ability levels and play styles - some are prepared to play for a draw, others are focused on keeping the centre of the board tidy, and so on. |
| The Crayon Factory | 1995 | Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | Philips Sidewalk Studio | Educational, Puzzle | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Crayon Factory is an educational children's game for ages 3 through 7. In the game players explore the Crayon Factory and have fun and learn along the way.Players can enjoy a virtual tour of the factory narrated by Shari Lewis (Isa Hoes for the Dutch version), but this tour can also be skipped to jump right into the interactive mode. Here players can play games such as repairing pipes or gears. This game focuses on puzzle solving, pattern recognition, spatial rotation and hand-eye coordination.Another game requires the player to fill packages with one crayon of each colour. In the quality control game players have to inspect boxes with a magnifying glass to check for colour patterns.Players can also mix colours and learn how secondary colours are created.With each game the players can achieve expert status. This is usually when performing the task correctly for a large number of times. When the expert status is reached a parent can print out a certificate.In addition to the games there are 34 drawings to colour either ingame or after printing. |
| The Dark Eye | 1995 | Expert Software, Inc. | Inscape | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Horror | | | | Erik Loyer | | | | Windows | The Dark Eye is an interactive adventure through the works of Edgar Allan Poe featuring the voice of William S. Burroughs and the music of Thomas Dolby Robertson. While experiencing an original Poe-esque adventure, the player is transported into several of Poe's most famous works including The Cask of Amontillado and The Tell-Tale Heart. All of the stories are surrealistically rendered with claymation figures and haunting music. Burrough's reading of The Masque of the Red Death is not to be missed.Outside of Poe's literature, the game tells the tale of a nameless protagonist who is visiting his uncle Edwin (Played by William S. Burroughs) and his brother Henry and the young Elise. As time goes on, Henry & Elise engage in a sordid relationship that Edwin does not approve of and the story takes many dark turns that ultimately leads to the characters insanity. |
| The Doonesbury Election Game Campaign '96 | 1995 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Manage a presidential campaign in the 1996 election in "the most comprehensive and challenging election strategy game ever designed." Pair such unlikely opponents as George Wallace and Shirley Chisholm, or the actual matchup of Bob Dole, Ross Perot and Bill Clinton. Even choose candidates from the past like JFK -- 60 different candidates at your disposal. Staff your campaign with such Doonesbury characters as Zonker, Duke, Lacey or even Mike. |
| The Incredible Machine 2 | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Puzzle | Side view | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | This game involves puzzle solving, while creating wacky machines. Each level of the game contains a machine designed to do a specific task. The only problem is, there are parts missing, and it is your job to figure out where to put what in order to get the machine to work. The game features many wacky machine parts, including cats, super balls, lava lamps, flashlights, can openers, monkeys on treadmills, and many more wacky parts to get your machine working. The game also comes with an editor to let you design your own unique machines from scratch. These can either be for fun, or you can set it so that the person playing has to fill in the missing parts, just like in the campaign. |
| The Last Day | 1995 | | | Action | | | | Shooter | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | As Lieutenant 'Big L.', a player has to rescue his team of raw recruits from trouble, shooting off evil prehistoric creatures.At start of each level, Big L. arrives at a location by his spaceship and finds his men surrounded by enemies which are quickly getting closer. He has to run up to every recruit to pick the guy up and carry him back to the ship, luckily it's possible to run and shoot at the same time. When one of the men is wounded by an enemy, he must be picked up within a few seconds, otherwise he "explodes" and dies. On each level it is sufficient to rescue at least one of the men, but if they all die it's a game over. When all of the men are either rescued or dead, the ship takes off and leaves but Big L. stays to kill the rest of the enemy and complete the level. There are several power-ups. All actions are mouse controlled. |
| The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This game is the third in the Dr. Brain series. Solve logic, math, and other puzzling conundrums designed to stress your brain.The game includes new puzzles, but you can play any one at any time, unlike previous versions, where you had to beat some puzzles before you could go to the next puzzle.
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| The Many Faces of Go | 1995 | Smart Games | Smart Games | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Go was invented in China between 2,500 and 4,000 years ago.
This game lets you learn and play this ancient game, either against the computer or on the internet with other people.
Also contains a large database of problems to solve, and can be updated on the net, as well as an option to study Joseki and Fuseki.
Everything you need to get started and become stronger. |
| The Second Universe | 1995 | | Cypris Software | Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | In the story behind the game your ship, the EAGLE, was investigating a type 4 quantum singularity, however there was a fault in the ship's sensors and you crossed the event horizon. All aboard were rendered unconscious but when you awoke the ship was intact and in another universe. The Second Universe is a single player, shareware, space colony management game. The player builds factories, houses, power plants etc and establishes colonies and manages resources. The factories build shuttles which are used to explore neighbouring planets where more colonies can be established.The game is entirely mouse controlled
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| Thexder | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Synergistic Software, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform, Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Assume the role of a transforming robot in this remake of the 1987 game. You'll travel through many worlds as a robot, tank, or jet as you obliterate drones and big bosses in this platform shooter. |
| Thinkin' Things Collection 1 | 1995 | Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited | Edmark Corporation | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This CD-ROM program, designed for ages 5-10, has six activities designed to offer students experiences with a variety of thinking skills: memory, critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity. The Create mode allows students to experiment, explore, and create; and in the Question and Answer mode students answer a character's questions. In Oranga Banga students become familiar with the sounds of a variety of instruments; then Oranga Banga plays a pattern that the students try to repeat. In BLOX - Flying Shapes students develop an awareness of spatial relationships, and the differences and similarities in shapes, by using geometric shapes, motion, and sound. Feathered Friends teaches students visual discrimination; how to recognize, compare, and combine attributes; how to use parts to create a whole; how to complete patterns; how to recognize changes and attributes that create patterns; and how to hypothesize and test a rule. In Toony Loon students improvise their own musical patterns and tunes on unique xylophones. In the final activity, Fripple Shop, students are shown a variety of Fripples each with different attributes. Customers order fripples with specific attributes and the student must find them. Students may receive Fripple orders from customers by: clicking on the door (auditory and visual); clicking on a fax (visual only); or clicking the phone (auditory only). This Activity allows teachers and parents to observe how individual students learn. |
| Thinkin' Things Collection 2 | 1995 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Educational, Puzzle | | | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Mental training, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Explore and learn with this second Thinkin' Things collection.Match up the Fripples in the concentration-game Frippletration. This activity is for one to two players.Explore rhythm notation and match the band members to the lines of rhythm that they played in Oranga Banga's Band.Build up you auditory skills and play your favorite songs on one of four wacky xylophones along with Toony.Draw in two-dimensional images and watch them be mapped in three-dimensions.Separate pictures into foreground and background images then direct shapes over, under and through you creation.Frippletration and Oranga Banga's Band also include a Grow Slide to increase the difficulty as your child develops. |
| Thinkin' Things Collection 3 | 1995 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a collection of activities that require a child to use deduction, creativity, analysis and reasoning.
Stocktopus teaches the player to become a broker to trade items to get the items needed for their portfolio.Fripple Place asks the player to "solve the mystery of the empty Fripple House" by placing creatures called Fripples into the correct rooms according to their descriptions or in relation to another Fripple's location.BLOX lets the player learn about friction, motion, gravity, and inertia as they create inclines, grooves, and holes and send up to six balls through their paces.Halftime Show has the player creating a halftime show program with various characters and commands.Photo Twister has aliens that have altered a photograph and the player has to analyze the photo and line up the aliens that altered it. The player can also use the alien's tools to get creative and alter the photo.
The program also has a Grow Slide on Photo Twister, Stocktopus and Fripple Place so that the more correct answers the player gets in those activities, the harder the next one will be. |
| Timmy and the Magic Pictures | 1995 | Compedia Software & Hardware Ltd. | Compedia Software & Hardware Ltd. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Following Timmy's Sea Adventure, this is the second release in the Timmy's series of interactive stories, written by David Grossman.Timmy finds that he can make the pictures on his bedroom wall come to life. This leads to many games and activities that improve reading and thinking skills : labyrinth, matching games, jigsaw puzzles and even play music with Timmy's xylophone.In the options, you can set the levels of play (3), change the language and turn on/off the background music. |
| Torin's Passage | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Kids to Adults | Cinematic camera | Windows | Torin is a young boy who lives in a little country house on a planet called Strata with his parents and with his purple cat-like friend Boogle. One day he returns home, only to find out his parents were imprisoned in a magical spell. Apparently, the spell was cast by a sorceress named Lycentia. He must now travel to distant lands to find a way to remove the spell and confront the sorceress. What he doesn't know is that this journey will also help him to discover his true origins and his true purpose in life...Created by Al Lowe of Leisure Suit Larry fame, Torin's Passage is a fairy tale-like humorous adventure with cartoon-style graphics and animations. Torin interacts with characters and objects in a point-and-click fashion, and can also use Boogle's special shape-shifting abilities. During their journey, Boogle will learn how to turn into a variety of objects, which is essential for solving many of the game's puzzles. The game also has many traditional inventory-based tasks as well as other types of puzzles. To facilitate the puzzle-solving, the game has a built-in hint system; using the hints will deduce points from the player's score. |
| Total Recall | 1995 | | WinGames.Inc | Action, Puzzle | Top-down | | | Music / rhythm | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Total Recall is a single player, shareware, mouse controlled Simon Says style game.In this implementation the player can select from a 5x5 grid, a diamond shape, horizontal lines, horizontal and vertical lines, of a combination of all of these. Additionally the lights may be square, round or triangular.
The object, as with all games of this genre, is to reproduce a sequence of coloured lights which gets longer with each turn. The player can also adjust the speed of the game and the number of lights in the sequence, the maximum length of a sequence is sixteen lights |
| Treasure Island | 1995 | Europress Software Ltd. | Europress Software Ltd. | Action, Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book, Mini-games, Shooter | Sea pirates / Caribbean | Naval / watercraft | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's book, Treasure Island includes an interactive storybook consisting of nine chapters, animations and pictures on pages, narration and other audio and clickable objects. The storybook also includes a bookmark to return to a bookmarked page and numerous definitions for difficult words like "Pieces of eight". There are also four mini-games including "Stockade Attack" (shoot-'em-up), "Pirate Shootout" (target shooter), "Broadside" (side-view shooter) and "Mutiny" (platformer). Finally the player has the option to play the audio on a CD player. |
| Trophy Bass | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Sports | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Trophy Bass is a fishing simulation. Choose your lure, reel, location, etc. and compete in the B.A.S.S. Masters tournament, star a career or just spend an afternoon at the lake of your choice. The game is played from a top-down "omniscient fisherman" perspective from where you hit the water and do whatever it takes to reel in everything in the water such as working the lure, to reeling in and out, etc. via mouse.The game is fully sponsored by the B.A.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsman Society) and features a comprehensive how-to series of multimedia extras featuring strategies, definitions and profiles on every lure and fish included in the game, as well as advice from fishing pros. |
| Under Pressure | 1995 | Starhill Productions | Millennium Interactive Ltd., Efecto Caos S.L. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Under Pressure is a single player, block moving, puzzler.The player starts with a play area in which there is a grid containing coloured shapes. These must be moved to matching 'energy tanks' in the walls of the game area without touching the sides of the arena.
All game play is mouse controlled. The cursor is an arrow which occupies one cell in the arena and is moves by the mouse. The direction of the arrow rotates through ninety degrees with each right mouse click, all cells in the row/column selected by the arrow move one position in the direction of the arrow for every left mouse click, thus the player can select and move the shapes into the energy tanks.All levels are timed |
| Venom • Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety | 1995 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Software Creations Ltd. | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Beat 'em up / brawler | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Separation Anxiety is a 2D side-scrolling platform-action beat 'em up game featuring several prominent characters from the Marvel Universe and gripping storylines taken from the popular Spider-Man comics. The game is based loosely on a mini-series of comics about the Venom saga. In this game, 1-2 players can select and take control of Spider-Man and/or his on-and-off again arch-nemesis Venom. As Spider-Man and/or Venom, you must set off and stop the life foundation that has spawned out 5 symbiote offsprings from Venom and plans to bond them together with its soldiers in order to assemble and form a vast deadly army. As Venom recovers from his wounds, he thus realizes and decides that he must set out and fight them off either alone or with the aid of his old arch-nemesis Spider-Man.The game allows you to punch, kick and swing your way as well as execute combos throughout the streets, the woods and even through the underground complexes towards accomplishing your main goal. Along the way, the player(s) can also find and pick up some helpful superhero ally icons that allow you to summon a few of Spidey's greatest allies to your aid including Captain America, Hawk-Eye, Ghost Rider and Dare Devil. |
| Virtual Chess | 1995 | I•Motion, Inc. | Titus France SA | Strategy | Top-down | | | Chess | | | François Maingaud | | | | Windows | Virtual Chess is a feature-rich computer chess simulation that especially prides itself on a 3D, rotating chess board and pieces, complete with limited lighting techniques. By default, the game shows you a flat 2D board with a 3D game board next to it. The 3D board can be dragged and rotated to any angle you please. Virtual Chess also features some full motion video in the for of an introduction and some cut scenes. |
| Virtual Pool | 1995 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Celeris Inc. | Educational, Sports, Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Virtual Pool is the definitive pool simulation game that actually teaches novice players how to play and even promises to improve the game of the pool shark. Developed by a team of physicists and professional pool players, Virtual Pool brings the game to life with the highest degree of accuracy. Balls roll, skid, collide and move on a fully rendered 3D controlled pool table that mirrors reality. Virtual Pool has revolutionary features that allow players to actually 'walk' around the table to check out their next shot, take a closer look, back away, look left or right and then line-up the shot like they would in a real game with a real table. This title also allows players to take an overhead view from above, something unavailable in a real pool game! Taking game tips from World Champion pool player "Machine Gun" Lou Butera is guaranteed to improve the player's game. "Machine Gun" Lou will teach players over 30 famous trick shots the player can practice on their computer screen and then implement on a real table. |
| VoRTeX | 1995 | | Vel Micro Works | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | VoRTeX is a turn based strategy game for up to four players, alternatively one player can play against a computer. In terms of game play it has many similarities with Ludo or Pachisi Each player has four coloured pieces. The object of the game is to move them from the start square to the home square. The first player to get all four pieced home wins the game. The game is played on a grid, winding around the grid from a corner to the centre in concentric spirals are the lanes along which each player moves. The lanes are parallel and pass through the same number of squares on their route to the centre. The number the players roll the dice determines how many squares they travel along their lane. If a player moves to a square occupied by another player then that player's piece is removed from the game area and must start its journey all over again. To make a token safe, i.e. get it to the HOME square, the player must roll the exact number required.The computer can play the role of one, two or three opponents and with three levels of difficulty. In the default game the players each have four tokens but the game can be played with one, two three or four tokens. The default dice rolls any number between a one and a six but this too can be changed to either just two or twelve.The shareware version of the game has a square board layout. The registered version has both larger and a smaller square boards and three sizes of circular board
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| Welcome to the Future | 1995 | Blue Sky Entertainment, Inc. | Blue Sky Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | It is not easy to find this "point and click" adventure game. The whole game is a constant search for paths through the mazelike environments. During almost all the time, you will seek the signs - artifacts and keys which will open way to find more keys and artifacts, and new realms. Doing so you will be able to trace the "Ancient Travelers" who were messing around long before... Maybe you will find them... So, this is the plot... The game features 16 bit stereo, surround music and sound effects, and graphic art (full screen 3D). You can even "explore" the CD as a music CD....The game can be played in one of two modes :
"Challenging" (you have to find everything that is to be found)
"Explore" where keys are given - and you "just" have to look for the doors...ScreenshotsThere are no Windows user screenshots for this game.Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gameUser ReviewsThere are no reviews for this game.Critic Reviews
Electric Games
1996
80 out of 100
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Jul 14, 1995
B
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Feb, 1996
69 out of 100
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1995
40
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Aug, 1996
2 out of 5
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Jan, 2003
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2004
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Dec, 1995
5 out of 100
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| Who Killed Brett Penance?: The Environmental Surfer | 1995 | Creative Multimedia Corporation | Creative Multimedia Corporation | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | An activist surfer is found dead on the beach. It is up to the player to collect evidence and solve the crime.The third installment of the Virtual Murder series (now renamed Murder Mystery) follows the same overall design of the other games. The player has six hours to solve the murder, and time diminishes with each action executed (interviewing suspects, examining items on the crime scene), with the exception of a brief case summation that can be played without any time decrease.After gathering enough evidence (stored automatically in the notebook area), the player can call a press conference and answer questions about the case. If this questionnaire is filled correctly, the game moves to its second level, where the player must present the case to the judge.On the previous iterations, the murderer was selected randomly by the computer out of three possible choices. This time, the player can select directly one of the three game paths at the beginning of the game. Each has small alterations and different clues, although the setting remains the same. |
| Who Killed Taylor French?: The Case of the Undressed Reporter | 1995 | Creative Multimedia Corporation | Creative Multimedia Corporation | Adventure | 1st-person | | Crime, Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | A investigative journalist is murdered while jogging.The final installment of Creative's Murder Mystery series shares the same overall design with the previous games. The player has 6 hours to solve the murder, and time diminishes with each action executed (interviewing suspects, examining items on the crime scene), with the exception of a brief case summation that can be played without any time decrease.After gathering enough evidence (stored automatically in the notebook area), the player can call a press conference and answer questions about the case. If this questionnaire is filled correctly, the game moves to its second level, where the player must present the case to the judge.There are three possible solutions to the crime. The player can select directly one of the three game paths at the beginning of the game. Each has small alterations and different clues, although the setting remains the same. |
| Widget Workshop: The Mad Scientist's Laboratory | 1995 | Maxis Software Inc. | Elliott Portwood Productions | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Widget Workshop is a "software toy" designed for children. The game is intended to teach children the principles of science, and encourage them to apply their creativity to invent their own devices. In the game, the player selects different components that perform certain functions (such as an input device, a power switch, a randomizer, a logic operator, or an output display) and links them together to form a "widget". Widgets can be made for many purposes, such as a puzzle, a calculator, a game, a logic gate, or a Rube Goldberg contraption.
The game is open-ended, although it does come with a set of pre-made widgets and a book of challenges. |
| WinFour | 1995 | | | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | WinFour is a single player, shareware, implementation of the board game 'Connect Four'.
It has a tournament mode which plays a series of automatic games and five levels of difficulty which the author describes thus:
Random : even my dog can beat this one.
Dumb: starts filling columns from left to right.
Beginner: looks several moves ahead, but in a non-intelligent way
Smart: analyses the board carefully, but looks only 1 move ahead.
Advanced: analyses the board carefully and looks several moves ahead.The game is entirely mouse controlled and was written, again in the author's words, 'as a means to experiment with different strategies or game playing algorithms'.
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| Xianjian Qixia Zhuan | 1995 | Softstar Entertainment Inc. | Softstar Entertainment Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Li Xiaoyao is a young man who studies martial arts under the guidance of his aunt, an owner of an inn which is often visited by famous adventurers and heroes. Seeing those heroes, Li Xiaoyao dreams of becoming one himself. And of course, the mind of the young man is also occupied with pretty girls.Finally his dream of becoming an adventurer comes true, but not quite in the fashion he wanted it to be. His aunt becomes gravely sick, and the only way to save her is to find a legendary medicine. During his journey to the land where he hopes to find the medicine, Li Xiaoyao meets the beautiful Zhao Ling'er, who is persecuted by ruthless enemies. The grand adventure of Li Xiaoyao's life begins.Xianjian Qixia Zhuan is the first entry in the Chinese-made Legend of Sword and Fairy role-playing game series. The game is set in feudal China and features supernatural elements. Gameplay-wise, it is very close to Japanese RPGs. The player controls a party of heroes which he navigates through towns and maze-like dungeons, buying weapons and accessories and searching for treasure. Story progression is linear for the most part. There is no overworld in the game; however, some areas are seamlessly connected to each other and can be explored in a different order.There are no random enemy encounters in the game: all enemies are visibly walking on the field and can sometimes be avoided. The turn-based battles are viewed from an isometric perspective. During the battles, the heroes can execute physical attacks, defend, use items, or execute special martial arts or spells unique to each character. |
| You Don't Know Jack | 1995 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack is a humorous trivia game for up to three players. The players take part in a quiz game, which partly parodies television shows such as Jeopardy. The players do need to answer serious questions, and knowledge of various topics (ranging from classical literature to modern pop culture) is required; however, the show's host is distinguished by his sense of sarcasm, sometimes offering humorous wordings for questions, and sardonically addressing the participants. |
| Zaark and the Night Team: The Quest for Patterns and The Search for Symbols | 1995 | Maxis Software Inc. | EduConcept Ltd. | Compilation, Educational | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | This CD-ROM contains two previously unreleased titles: The Quest for Patterns and The Search for Symbols.In The Quest for Patterns, the player must search for various shapes (circles, triangles, cones, cubes) in a variety of locations.In The Search for Symbols, players are introduced to various symbols used in math, language and social science and must decode their meaning. There is even a sequence where the player must invent their own symbol for a king's flag.Both games are designed to teach pattern recognition. |
| Master Maths | 1995-01-25 | | | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Master Maths is a shareware Maths tutor program.The main body of this software is aimed at presenting primary school children with simple maths questions to answer. It also contains a maths game.In the game, which can be played by 1 - 4 players the top of the screen displays the numbers 1 through to 30. On the bottom of the screen the game displays three numbers in the range 1 to 9. The player must combine these numbers together to produce an answer in the range 1 to 30. So, for example, if presented with the numbers 1 1 and 3 the player completed the sum as "1 x 1 x 3" the answer would be 3. This would result in the number 3 being removed from play.One point is scored for every sum that results in a number being removed from play and the winner is the player who has the highest score when all numbers have been removed. |
| Oregon Trail II | 1995-02-13 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | MECC | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Hunting, Managerial / business simulation | Western | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Oregon Trail II is a sequel to Oregon Trail. The game follows the basic structure of the predecessor, which is a simulation of traveling through towns and wilderness in the state of Oregon, with adventure-like gameplay elements and educational material. The sequel changes, enhances, and adds many gameplay features.In the beginning of the game players choose their name, occupation, level, date of travel, starting point and destination, as well as the type of wagon. The game also allows the player to create virtual companions for the journey, designating their number, names, and ages. As opposed to one year in the first game, the sequel allows the player to choose between twenty years of travel, from 1840 to 1860.The player is able to choose an occupation for the protagonist, such as banker, doctor, gunsmith, carpenter, journalist, butcher, pastor, artist, and many others. Different occupations bestow various bonuses to the protagonist, and are equipped with passive skills, which will influence the rate of success during certain random events and activities. For example, a high medical skill will make it more likely that the protagonist recovers from a disease; sharpshooting skill contributes to the instant-kill rate when hunting animals, etc.The game retains the supply-managing, trading, sailing, and most other elements of its predecessor. There are more interactive events in the sequel, as the protagonist is able to consult other characters and react differently to some of the events that might occur during the journey. |
| WinDepth | 1995-02-20 | Bio_100% | Bio_100% | Action | Side view | Fangame | | Arcade | Contemporary | Naval / watercraft | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | WinDepth is a remake of the arcade game Depth Charge, where you attack multiple submarines from a single destroyer by dropping depth charge barrels on them from the top of the screen, while moving side-to-side to avoid the submarines attacks of torpedoes and contact mines.There are six different enemies, four sub types, a brain-like tentacle enemy, a green fish-guy and a boss in the later stages.Multiple close sub hits with chained explosions gives multiplied score points.
At times there is a power-up to collect if you hit a special green fish-target, which gives you an aerial support strike. The player has five destroyers in total, used one after the other, and there are twenty stages in the game after which the game goes back to the first stage. A high-score list tracks your progress, and this could also be uploaded to the developers website.The developer also made an earlier DOS game on the same theme, called Super Depth, and WinDepth was an early Windows 3.x adaptation of this using a WinG graphics implementation, which later was updated to DirectX for Win95. |
| GNU Chess | 1995-02-22 | | | Strategy | | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | GNU Chess is a fully functional, freeware, chess program which can play against a human player or another chess program. This program has been around for a long time:
Version 1 was written by Stuart Cracraft in 1984 for a Unix system
Versions 2, 3, and 4 used Chess by John Stanback at their core
Version 5 was written by Chua Kong-Sian
The latest version at the time of writing (2014), is version 6.1.2 and this was developed from a chess program called Fruit developed by Fabien Letouzey. This has a new chess engine but is backwards compatible with previous versions
GNU Chess version 2.31 was ported to Windows 3.x in 1991 and to WIN 95 in 1995. Versions of GNU Chess v4 series and the v5 series were also ported to Windows but version 6 series does not, in 2014, appear to have a Windows port. The version 2.31 ports have a fully featured graphical interface with the kind of options that are expected of a chess program, there's a hint feature, save/load functions, the ability to change the colours of the board, pieces and text, the board can be setup to play out a set problem etc.
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| Mario's Game Gallery | 1995-02-23 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Presage Software, Inc. | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The game is a collection of board games, in which you play with Mario. He talks to you, playing Checkers, Go Fish, Dominoes, Backgammon, Yacht. Most of games can be played for Yoshis or Koopas - tribes of animals. |
| Les Guignols de l'info...Le Jeu ! | 1995-03-01 | Canal+Multimédia, Philips Média France | In Visio, SARL | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Les Guignols De L'Info...Le Jeu ! is a Point & Click game based on a French Satiric TV Program. You are a new TV reporter freshly engage in the WCI, an information Channel, and you must provide great scoop from different famous people coming from Sports, Politics, Movies, etc...Your Aim is to make a maximum of hearing to take the place of the main presenter: PPDA. There's no inventory. You only have a Video camera and a limited battery. You have to record Pictures and/or sounds in the theme of your mission briefing but there a lot of thing to check from a lot's of character. The choice is not easy and you have a limited time to do that. There's sometimes some puzzle part like "portrait robot" to do or right dialog to choose. |
| Noisy Video Poker and Blackjack | 1995-05-01 | | Ultimate Software Inc. | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Noisy Video Poker and Blackjack for Windows is similar to the video machines found in casinos. Originally, Noisy Video Poker and Noisy Video Blackjack could be purchased separately or together. If bought together (on one disk), both games are accessible within all of the games by clicking your mouse on a bottom icon.It is called “Noisy” for a reason. If you have a sound card, you will be treated to a variety of sounds during the game which will bring a smile to your face even when you lose. When you win, you will hear coins dropping a metal coin tray. When you lose, other sounds are played randomly. There are explosion sounds, a car crash, a donkey, and other sounds, which can be turned off if you prefer.Betting is done with virtual imaginary coins, and the best pay-off (when you win, of course) can be had by betting the maximum of 5 coins. The game keeps track of your statistics and a complete manual can be accessed from the game menu.In Noisy Video Poker, choose from Jacks or Better, Joker Wild and Deuces Wild. The objective is to hold the best five card hand possible. A pair of jacks or better will return the amount of your bet. Two pair, three of a kind, a straight, a flush, a full house, four of a kind, a straight flush, and a royal flush return increasingly greater pay-offs. If you have no pairs or a pair of cards of lower value than jacks, you lose your bet.
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| Senet | 1995-05-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | This is a shareware version of Senet (also known as the Game of Thirty Squares), an ancient egyptian board game and one of the oldest known games of humanity. The exact rules by which the game was played are still somewhat disputed among historians -- no rules have survived on papyri or wall paintings. This program uses a set of rules proposed by the egyptologist John Tait.According to this rule set, the game is a race game similar to Backgammon. As with Backgammon, this game is largely based on luck, even if there are some tactical choices to be made. Each player has five tokens (cones or reels) and has to move them, using "casting sticks" (the Ancient Egyptian version of dice), from start to finish on an S-shaped path across a 30-square board. If a token lands of a square occupied by an enemy token, the enemy token must go back to the start. The first player who safely gets all his tokens to the end wins the game.There are three special squares: A token on the central "Power and Life" square cannot be thrown off the board. Landing on the "Good" square gives you an extra throw. And landing on the "Water" square just before the end of the board makes the token return to the start.During the game, you get interesting "Mummy Facts" about Ancient Egypt displayed in the lower left corner. Furthermore, the game comes with a tutorial explaining the rules and with a comprehensive help system, which also offers information about the game's history.
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| Elroy Goes Bugzerk | 1995-05-11 | Headbone Interactive | Headbone Interactive | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Elroy loves bugs and has entered the 10th Annual Insectathon. Along with his dog Blue, he wants to find the rare cyberbug Technoloptera in order to beat his arch rival, Gordon Smugs. His parents have gone on a yoga retreat and left him with a farmer. Elroy explores different areas and the player, when clicking on items found, can learn different facts about insects. Throughout the game, some quizzes will occur on information learned. So, keep your eyes and mind peeled for anything you come across. The game characters are fully animated and voiced. Elroy will climb a tree, wander through a tunnel, chase a chicken, and even explore the Insect Hall of Fame among many activities. If you make a mistake, you must go back but you can also save anywhere in the game. |
| Super Real Mahjong PV | 1995-05-31 | SETA Corporation | SETA Corporation | Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Super Real Mahjong PV is the fifth installment in the strip mahjong series. There is no background story in the game; the player is merely introduced to three high school girls - Mizuki, Aya, and Akira - who challenge him to the game of mahjong. The main mahjong mode is that of the one-on-one variety; after each completed round the girl removes a part of her clothing.The computer versions of the game contain scenes with nudity; among the console versions, the PC-FX one is the only one that similarly lacks censorship. Some of the versions have secondary gameplay modes, such as a team mode in which the player controls three girls and plays mahjong against three others. |
| Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?: Junior Detective Edition | 1995-06-01 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Carmen is up to her old tricks again but now there's some young blood at ACME.This Carmen Sandiego game, designed for children ages five to eight, builds knowledge of maps and countries, along with memory and matching skills. Clues are discovered in various areas by moving the mouse over a random hotspot and clicking to reveal a clue. Each time you successfully follow a criminal you receive part a photograph that reveals part of their features, Collect all pieces and go in and capture the villain.A helpful robot assistant is always filled with facts about the visited countries and their inhabitants. |
| Active Worlds | 1995-06-28 | ActiveWorlds, Inc. | ActiveWorlds, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Massively Multiplayer, Sandbox / open world | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Active Worlds is an online virtual world platform where users can interact and build shared environments. Players can visit a wide variety of official and user-created world servers. The primary world, Alphaworld, features an enormous sprawl of myriad towns and subcommunities that has been collaboratively constructed since the 1990s. Other worlds include the cyberpunk-themed Metatropolis and worlds themed after Mars and Yellowstone. The game is free to play and features a virtually endless amount of territory to explore. |
| JumpStart 1st Grade | 1995-07-01 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | You and your classmate Frankie, go on a treasure hunt created by your teacher, Ms. Nobel. You search for clues and assist the school staff during your hunt. The games consists of several educational mini games involving adding and subtraction math, word recognition, and reading. The player interacts with several colorful characters that provide the premise for each puzzle. Solving a puzzle helps bring the player closer to finding the 3 clues.This game is rated for ages of 5-7. |
| Operation Neptune | 1995-07-01 | Learning Co., Inc., The | Learning Co., Inc., The | Action, Educational | Side view | | | Shooter | | Naval / watercraft | | | | | Windows | Operation Neptune is a math edutainment title similar to Treasure Mountain, but aimed at older kids. As with other Super Solvers games, Operation Neptune combines platform action with educational puzzles. The game helps build a solid math and problem solving foundation with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, and percentages. Problem solving hints, calculator, and customization options are all only a keystroke away. Real-life problems such as using area, distance and volume to make measurements help kids see how math can be used in the real world. |
| 20 Squares | 1995-08-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | 20 Squares is a shareware computer conversion of an Ancient Egyptian board game, probably dating back even before the pyramids. The prosaic name of the game, stemming for its 20 square board, is due to the fact that no name has survived on papyrus. The rules can also only be guessed, but the game is probably very similar to Senet, another Egyptian board game with 30 squares instead of twenty, and it seems to have come from a Sumerian board game .The game is a simple "race and bump" game. You race down the board with your five tokens, trying to get them home before your opponent does. You can bump your opponents back to the beginning, and the board also contains some special squares which give you an extra turn.As dice were unknown back then, the Egyptians (and the game) used "casting sticks" -- the halves of a twig cut in two, with one flat and one rounded side. Throwing four of these sticks together results in up to four flat sides up, which is the number of squares you can move. Zero flat sides up count as a six, giving you another turn, as when you throw four flat sides.20 Squares game comes with a tutorial, explaining the (simple) rules in quite length, and features so-called "Mummy Facts" during the game -- interesting bits of information about Ancient Egypt.
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| Apache | 1995-08-01 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Digital Integration Ltd. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Helicopter, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Fly the most fearsome helicopter to ever grace the skies - the AH-64 Apache. The core gameplay is simulator oriented featuring missions in 4 distinct combat theatres. Enemy threats are fully featured and include a myriad of Russian tanks, anti-aircraft systems, surface to air missiles, and aircraft. For novice users there is an 'arcade' flight model with simplified controls and flight mechanics, in addition to a training mode.Apache originally came out for DOS in 1995 and was later upgraded to Windows 9x in 1996, featuring a different box and a few minor in-game changes. |
| Ganbare! Inuchan: Rock'n Roll-hen | 1995-08-01 | Amuse, Inc., Emotion Digital Software | | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Mini-games | Contemporary | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The little dog Inuchan and his friend Mesuinuchan decide to start a band after spending too much money out on karaoke one night. Band life isn't easy though, and it's even harder if you're a dog. Ganbare! Inuchan is adapted from the long-running comedy manga Inuchan by Japanese artist, musician and actor Kenso Kato, which had been running in various magazines since 1985.In this interactive CD-ROM storybook for adults, players follow along with the animals' band life dreams and help guide them to success. The game is divided into chapters; each chapter opens with a song summarizing the problem the band will soon face, then a voiced story scene, and finally one or more minigames where players help the band through whatever new problem they've run into. These start out simple, but become more complex as the game progresses. The first chapter, for instance, has players deciding how to find more band members from a multiple-choice menu, while later chapters feature more complex minigames such as putting together a gig poster, assembling songs from prerecorded parts, or navigating the band tour in the form of a sugoroku board game. |
| Hover! | 1995-08-01 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Action | 1st-person | | | | | Hovercraft | Direct control | | | | Windows | Hover! is a first-person game set in an arena with hover cars. It was originally released with Windows 95 as a demonstration of its multimedia applications.The object of the game is to navigate a hover car with the keyboard, capturing as many enemy flags as possible before the enemies capture the player's flags. Moreover, these flags are located at different height levels throughout the game. There are numerous power-ups located in the levels as well, like jump ability, or the ability to add blockades behind one's path. |
| Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure | 1995-08-01 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | Bill Dempsey, Andrew Glaister, Tin Guerrero, Scott Krager, Peter Sills | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is a side-scrolling action game in which you play adventurer Pitfall Harry Jr in search of his father Pitfall Harry. You battle your way through the Mayan jungles, waterfalls, deserted mines and can bungee jump and boomerang your way to safety. There are 13 levels and the action is fast and gripping. You will need to be attentive—and quick. Or prepare to die. |
| Square Off | 1995-08-01 | Prodigy Communications Corporation | | Educational | | | | | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | A timed math game with a massively multiplayer high score table on Prodigy, this once-daily online game invited players to string together combinations of numbers and arithmetic operations laid out for them in a grid with intent to meet as their sum a "target number" indicated on the screen. The faster the combinations (or "sequence"s) could be made (and the faster in quick succession), the higher the points value assigned and the sooner the player could transition to a new "phase" with a different and more complicated grid layout.This was all undertaken in a cyberspace-styled presentation with a back-story involving genetically engineered D.O.G. agents and SLAM5 (Synthetic Learning Acceleration Machine, version 5), an AI developed by Kerry Nelson. Their precise relationship to the game can only be gleaned tangentially, since the program became unplayable following the shutdown of Prodigy Classic on January 25th, 1999. |
| Zeek the Geek: Part One | 1995-08-15 | Sidewalk Software | Sidewalk Software | Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Zeek the Geek is a grid-based puzzle game similar to Sokoban. The goal is to guide Zeek, a geek from the far side of the galaxy (where geeks are not altogether that different from those of Earth) around a maze-like level in search of delicious mushrooms. Along the way he can pick up yellow flowers, treasure chests and magic crystals. Collecting the mushroom moves Zeek onto the next level. But beware, for there are also traps and monsters in each maze: pink flowers will gobble him up if he walks near them, deadly toadstools will fell our hero if he decides to shove one down his throat, and dynamite, while useful, can be hazardous in the wrong hands. Or feet.The first episode was released as shareware, with additional level packs available to purchase direct from the developer. |
| NetChess | 1995-08-23 | | | Strategy | | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | NetChess is a shareware chess game. It has no chess playing capability of its own, it allows the player to play an opponent on a local area network and see your game on a GUI board. Other features include:A save game function
Recalling old games for study with editing functions to add new moves to the end of an existing game or step back through an existing game and step through a new ending.
Go to a specific move number in the current game.
Print a listing of the moves to either a file or a printer.
Print a character based copy of the board to either a file or printer.
A choice of notation, Algebraic, Coordinate or Long Form Algebraic notation.
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| Microsoft Windows 95 (included games) | 1995-08-24 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Microsoft Windows 95 operating system includes several games offered as entertainment for users:
Minesweeper
Solitaire
The original full edition of Microsoft Windows 95, for customers without a previous version of Microsoft Windows, was only available on 3.5" disks and sold as a boxed, shrink-wrapped product. Later editions were provided only to computer original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for installation on new PCs. Upgrade versions were available on either 3.5" disks or on CD-ROM and had higher system requirements. |
| Minesweeper | 1995-08-24 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Minesweeper is a puzzle game in which the player is presented with a board filled with mines, without knowing what fields they occupy. When the player clicks on a field a number appears on it, indicating how many mines are located in the fields nearest to it. The player then clicks on other fields, trying to avoid mines. If the player makes a mistake, the mine will explode and the game is over. The game features three difficulty levels, distinguished by the size of the board - the bigger the board, the higher the difficulty level. |
| Ms. Metaverse | 1995-08-24 | Virtual Vegas, Inc. | Virtual Vegas, Inc. | Gambling | 1st-person | | Adult | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | On the one hand, Ms. Metaverse is an interactive, futuristic and rather tacky beauty pageant. On the other hand, it's an interesting multimedia plug for developer Virtual Vegas' casino website, VirtualVegas.com.As a judge for the future’s biggest beauty pageant, the Ms. Metaverse contest, you decide which of ten sassy ladies wins the crown. The contestants, real-life girls filmed and digitized, introduce themselves in full motion video clips; you pick five from the pool and go on judging them in the categories looks, brains and talent. While moving between the judging pavilions in colorful rendered video sequences, you earn money by shooting the contestants – “their artificial stupidity programs could do irreparable damage to Virtual Vegas if allowed to wander around unchecked”, explains the manual. Understood.While the Looks contest seems to be a sorry excuse to stare at pics of scantily clad women (there’s no nudity in Ms. Metaverse), it also serves to identify males and / or cyborgs which might have slipped into the contest. The Brains and Talent contests display coarse videos of the contestants dancing or performing awkward sketches with Ms. Metaverse host Monty Megabyte (Chris Bonno). Watching these performances costs money, which you earn by shooting girls (see above) or playing a simple slot machine. After you’ve reviewed all the ladies, you may crown one Ms. Metaverse.Ms. Metaverse offers content downloads via the included Mosaic Direct Browser – see trivia section for a detailed description. |
| Disney's Activity Center: The Lion King | 1995-09-01 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Gryphon Software Corporation | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | Africa | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Back of Box - Windows 95/3.1 (US) (from Ad Blurbs)IT'S A JUNGLE GYM FOR THE MIND!
Build memory, matching, reasoning and spelling skills as Simba and his pals guide you through exciting new learning activities. There's even an art studio to encourage creative minds. Whether you play with a favorite character or a friend, The Lion King Activity Center will provide hours of fun while you learn!FEATURES 6 CLIPS FROM THE HIT FILM!(screenshot captions)Help Timon grab his lunch by matching two bugs.
He'll thank you with a personalized certificate!Spell a word correctly and Pumbaa splashes into the mud.Pumbaa's friends are hiding. Can you find them?Try to keep up with Ed's musical beat or create your own tunes.Help Simba dodge the hyenas and make it back to his jungle home.Sharpen your memory skills with fun concentration games.Create and print your own artwork, including coloring books you can take on-the-go.Play the traditional African game of Achi with Rafiki or a friend.Put Rafiki's puzzle back together. He'll thank you personally.MULTIPLE SKILL LEVELS CHALLENGE KIDS OF ALL AGES. |
| Trudy's Time and Place House | 1995-09-01 | Edmark Corporation | Theatrix Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Trudy's Time and Place House is the fourth game in Edmark's series of early learning games designed for young children to use. The interface is completely point-and-click and drag & drop, with minimal text, and instructions are given verbally.The player is taken directly to the main page where Trudy sits in a chair surrounded by objects and open windows, each of which takes the player to an activity.There are five different activities in this game, and as in other games in the House series, each activity has two modes; Explore and Discover and Question and Answer. The first mode encourages the player to click around and experiment, putting the player in control. In Question and Answer mode, which is entered by clicking the animal inside the picture frame, a character will ask the player to perform tasks related to the current area. The following descriptions may apply to either mode;
Earth Scout - the player takes off in a rocket from Trudy's backyard to orbit the Earth, visit landmarks and take pictures to print and color. In Q & A mode, Astro-mouse asks the player to visit and photograph particular areas; there are three possible levels of difficulty
Jellybean Hunt - the player is given two views of a picnic blanket; an ant's-eye view and a grid map, and uses onscreen arrows to move the ant toward a specified jellybean The player can choose to follow directions (North, South, West, East) or find his own way
Symbol Sandbox - the player drags symbols onto a grid map to create a sandbox terrain; in Q & A mode, Billy Beaver asks the player to complete a pre-made map. There are two levels of play in this game - a 3x3 map or a 4x4 map.
Calendar Clock - this game gives a complete overview of the relationship between clock and calendar time and shows it in a "real-time" format; the player can watch an animated scene and advance it by seconds, minutes, hours, days or months or reverse time by clicking on the symbols below. In Q & A mode, the player is asked to change the scene to match a specific time period
Time Twins - Digital Dan and Analog Ann are two different kinds of clocks who will take turns asking the player to set the other clock to the same time they show. On occasion, Ann's numbers will fall off and have to be replaced. There are three levels of difficulty in this game; on the hour, half-hour increments, and quarter-hour incrementsThe game allows any number of tries in Question and Answer mode, the player is not penalized for wrong answers at any time. Parents are given several configuration options (Ctrl/Alt + A in Windows, Option/Command + A on a Mac), allowing them to disable music, printing, set the volume, allow exiting, or enable single switch input, which moves the arrow from choice to choice on screen with a click to indicate a selection. |
| Hugo's House of Horrors | 1995-09-10 | | Gray Design Associates | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Direct control, Text parser | | | | Windows | Hugo's sweetheart Penelope has vanished after visiting a haunted house on a babysitting job. In order to save her, Hugo must explore the area around, within, and beneath the house and solve its mysteries, while surviving its many perils.Hugo's House of Horrors is a graphic adventure game, controlled with a combination of the arrow keys for movement, and typed commands such as eat steak to interact with the environment. Some challenges are puzzles which must be solved by clever use of items found in the house, while others require quick and careful movement, or test the player's knowledge.This game is the first game in the Hugo's House of Horrors shareware trilogy. This full game was released as a taster for the full trilogy which includes this game plus the titles Hugo's Mystery Adventure, Hugo's Amazon Adventure, a hint book and an automatic solver which plays the game like a movie. |
| The Hugo Trilogy | 1995-09-10 | | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Hugo Trilogy is a compilation contains the three adventure games from the Hugo series:
Hugo's House of Horrors
Hugo II: Whodunit?
Hugo III: Jungle of DoomNext to the classic command line input combined with keys for movement, it has a new point-and-click mouse-based interface. |
| World of Aden: Entomorph - Plague of the Darkfall | 1995-09-10 | Mindscape, Inc. | Cyberlore Studios, Inc., Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy, Steampunk | | | | Teen | | Windows | The inhabitants of the island of Phoros used to enjoy a prosperous, happy life. Large domesticated insects known as "jagtera" were doing all the hard work for them. However, following the Darkfall, the jagtera have disappeared from the island. The quality of life on Phoros has drastically declined, and its nobles came up with a monstrous plan: spreading rumors about the return of jagtera, they poisoned the population with a nectar that turned them into vicious, uncontrollable replicas of these gentle creatures. When a wandering squire named Warrick arrives on Phoros, searching for his missing sister, he realizes that something must be done to stop the pestilence. He does not known that he may have to leave his humanity by the wayside and succumb to the plague himself...Entomorph is the second computer game set in the fictional world of Aden, the first being Thunderscape. Though the two games share the same setting, their gameplay styles are quite different. Entomorph is predominantly an action game with very light role-playing and puzzle-solving elements. The squire explores the island, talks to inhabitants, gathers clues and necessary items, and ventures into hostile areas to fight enemies. Combat is action-oriented and is done either with physical attacks or spells. There are no weapons in the game: Warrick either fights using his fists or morphs into different creatures by drinking special potions, thus acquiring new attacks. There are no character statistics or experience system of any kind.The monster-morphing comes with a prize: Warrick is slowly turning into a jagtera. The player may control his actions and decisions throughout the game, ultimately affecting the ending, which determines whether the hero has resisted a complete transformation or not. |
| Magic Tales: The Little Samurai | 1995-09-26 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | Fantasy, Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) | | Point and select | | | | Windows | "The Little Samurai" is based on the Japanese story "Issun-bōshi". It begins with a couple who wants to have a child. The magic tree gives them a large golden apple and at home the fruit cracks open to reveal a baby. The boy, Taro, grows up, but remains small like a doll. Despite this he wants to become a real samurai. He travels to the emperor's palace. The emperor tells him to guard the princess Aya, who is so shy that she never talks. When the palace is attacked by an ogre, Taro is the only one brave enough to confront him. With his diminutive size, he manages to get under the ogre's armour and defeat him by tickling him. Taro takes the ogre's magic staff and can make a wish, but instead offers it to Aya. Aya speaks for the first time and wishes for Taro "to become as big as he is brave".
The "Magic Tales" series includes six interactive storybooks, based on fairy tales from different parts of the world. They are all framed as stories read by Grandpa Mouse to his grandchildren. Each story consists of twelve pages and if "Play" mode is selected, the player can also click on different parts of the scenery to see what will happen.
The games in the series are now supported by the ScummVM emulator. |
| Schoolhouse Rock!: Grammar Rock | 1995-10-01 | Creative Wonders LLC | The Cute Company | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Schoolhouse Rock!: Grammar Rock is an educational game where the player explores the town of Conjunction Junction and plays several mini-games to learn about all the parts of speech (e.g. verbs, adjectives, nouns). The mini-games are ways that you can invite characters over for a party that Rocky is hosting. These include "The Adverb Machine", "Is the Noun Brown?", "What's in the Boxcar?", "The Action Zone", "The Busy Builders", and many more. |
| Magic Tales: Baba Yaga and the Magic Geese | 1995-10-03 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | Europe, Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | "Baba Yaga and the Magic Geese" is the second part of the "Magic Tales" series. It is based on Russian folklore and tells the story of a girl, Tasha, whose little brother Niki is kidnapped by magic geese for the evil witch Baba Yaga. When Tasha gets him out of Baba Yaga's hut, they receive magical help from a stream of milk, an apple tree and an oven, which allows them to escape and safely return home, while the evil witch lands on a lonely island.The "Magic Tales" series includes six interactive storybooks, based on fairy tales from different parts of the world. They are all framed as stories read by Grandpa Mouse to his grandchildren. Each story consists of twelve pages and if "Play" mode is selected, the player can also click on different parts of the scenery to see what will happen. |
| Disney's Toy Story | 1995-10-10 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Traveller's Tales (UK) Ltd. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view, Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | This game is based on the movie "Toy Story". It sets you as the character of Woody as you jump, swing, and drive to the end of each level. Each level contains familar scenes from the movie. The gameplay consists of the platform\sidescrolling kind. You use Woody's pullstring to defeat enemies like sharks, Mr. Potatohead, and Ham. After each level, you are treated to still images from the movie. |
| Invaders 95 | 1995-10-10 | NanZarts L.L.C. | NanZarts L.L.C. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Invaders 95 is a single player, freeware clone of Taito's Space Invaders. The objective of the game is to achieve a high score. The player has control of a canon at the bottom of the screen and must successive destroy waves of advancing alien ships. There are three lives in this game, so if a canon is destroyed there are two replacements available. The game is over when an alien ship reaches the bottom of the screen and lands or when all three canon have been destroyed.The game records the highest score only, there is no high score table, and it can be played via keyboard or joystick. Games can be paused and resumed but they cannot be saved. |
| Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean | 1995-10-24 | Microsoft Corporation | Music Pen | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean is the third game in the series based on the children's educational books by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. In this adventure, Ms. Frizzle and her class are headed to the ocean on a mission to explore zones and answer three clues that will lead to a sunken treasure. Traveling by submarine bus, the group will make stops at the Coral Reef, the Open Ocean, the Deep Ocean, the Hot Vents, the Kelp Forest, and more. At each stop the player can access activities, reports and experiments related to that zone by clicking on items nearby. There are also a number of zone-themed minigames that utilize both the mouse and the arrow keys. Among them are:
Crab Chase - the player must click to move a crab around on the beach and collect food while avoiding a predatory seagull.
Ride the Tide - the player helps a fish swim through the tidal changes by moving with the arrow keys and jumping over rocks with the space bar.
Kelp Clean-Up - collect and bag up garbage while avoiding sharks.
Food Chain Game - a jigsaw puzzle featuring colorful diatoms.
Lantern Fish Game - the player must help a lantern fish gulp down its prey while moving through the oceanThere are two ways to move around; from the inside of the bus the player can click on the steering wheel and the gearshift, and while outside the bus he is able to scroll from screen to screen by selecting the arrows or clicking the submarine cursor. Zones may be visited in any order. Once the player has collected enough clues and travels to the area where the treasure is buried, he will find a treasure scanner to uncover it, and the game is won.This game is suggested for ages 6 - 10, and the educational focus is on scientific exploration and experimentation, rather than simple fact-finding. |
| Havoc | 1995-10-30 | Reality Bytes, Inc. | Reality Bytes, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Tank | | | | | Windows | Destroy tanks, turrets, and other enemies in a future world controlled by powerful corporations. It's quite similar to Battlezone. Your play ranges through multiple worlds that feature different terrains, enemies, and powerful weaponry. The game also has network play available over modems and networks. Up to 16 gamers on both Windows and MacOS can play against each other. |
| Poker Broker | 1995-11-01 | | | Gambling, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Poker Broker is a single player, freeware, poker game.This poker game is similar to 'jacks or better' video poker. The player stars with $5000 and can bet as much as they want on a hand. They are then dealt five cards and can chose to swap any, all, or none of them. There is then a second deal and any hand with less than a pair of jacks loses, hands with a pair of honour cards get their stake back and above that they win multiples of their stake.There is no save game feature and no high score table
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| TriTryst | 1995-11-01 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Cinematronics, LLC | Puzzle | Top-down | Jeff Dee, Mark J. Ferrari, John Frantz Jr. | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | TriTryst is a game comparable to Tetris - or even more to columns. You have to put marbles of different colors on a empty field and try to get 3 or more in a row. Different to tetris or Columns TriTryst doesn't have gravity neither a time limit (in Normal mode)The game contains a normal and an arcade mode, and it contains over 20 levels - which means different shapes of boards as well different bonus tiles. Though sadly there is just one general highscore list for all types, with only 5 possible entries. |
| Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat | 1995-11-01 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape International Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat is one of the first 3D real-time strategy games. The game is based on the medieval fantasy world from Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy Battle tabletop game. The player takes on the role of mercenary commander Morgan Bernhardt, with the Skavens (humanoid, intelligent rats) as the main villains. Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat is non-linear, the player can choose alternative missions to progress. Troops are transferred from mission to mission - as is their loss. The player commands whole groups, not single units (similar to the games in the Total War series. Soldiers themselves belongs to various groups (cavalry, infantry, machinery, archers, etc.). |
| The Hive | 1995-11-06 | Trimark Interactive | Rainbow America | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Rail shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | The Hive is an on-rails shooter similar to Rebel Assault within a sci-fi setting. All levels are pre-rendered, the player controls the cross-hair to fire at enemy ships and turrets. The levels are connected with cutscenes using the same visual style of the actual levels. The shooting happens both in space, within the atmosphere of different planets, and even indoors. Control alternates between spacecraft, turrets, ground based vehicles and on foot. In some cases such as when controlling a turret the player has camera control. |
| Magic Tales: Imo & the King | 1995-11-07 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | Africa, Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | "Imo & the King" is based on African stories. It starts with the king's envoys coming to Imo's village with an official message: the king is looking for a brave and responsible person who could rule the kingdom in his absence and has set up three tests to determine the candidate's preparedness. Imo decides to go, even though the envoys and villagers laugh at him because he's still a young boy. On the way he helps a bird, ants and an elder who turns out to be a genie, by sharing his belongings with them. Each of them teach him a song that he has to sing to have his kindness returned. Imo arrives at the capital and the king lets him take the tests. Imo sings the songs to get help from the bird, the ants and the genie, passes the tests and is now made a prince.
The "Magic Tales" series includes six interactive storybooks, based on fairy tales from different parts of the world. They are all framed as stories read by Grandpa Mouse to his grandchildren. Each story consists of twelve pages and if "Play" mode is selected, the player can also click on different parts of the scenery to see what will happen.
The games in the series are now supported by the ScummVM emulator. |
| Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster | 1995-11-09 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Amazing Media, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This interactive movie puts a new twist on the Frankenstein tale: you are the monster! You have been falsely accused of murder and executed. However, the scientist Dr. Frankenstein (played by Tim Curry) has found a way to bring you back to life. You wake up in his laboratory, and your goal is to find out what exactly happened to you and what role Frankenstein played in your resurrection. Will you be able to return back to your former self?The game plays entirely from first-person perspective. You wander around the huge laboratory, looking for clues and solving puzzles. Sometimes events will happen in the game, triggered by careful research of Frankenstein's notes and other clues. The game features live actors filmed over pre-rendered backgrounds. |
| Su-27 Flanker | 1995-11-10 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Flying Legends | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | SU-27 is a deep, challenging and extremely accurate sim starring one of Russia's premiere fighters in a variety of missions set in Crimea (just below Ukraine). Disregarding graphics and presentation, the game puts the emphasis on a very solid flying model and the possibility to create your own missions or edit the existing ones using a simple yet powerful scenario creator. |
| Super Marble Solitaire | 1995-11-20 | | Wrenware | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Super Marble Solitaire is a shareware, single player, peg solitaire gameThis game is played entirely with the mouse, pegs/marbles are dragged and dropped into position. The shareware game comes with the following layouts, Classic, The Cross, Diamond, Crossbow, Man in the Middle, On the Edge, Marked on the Edge, French Classic, The Square, A Big Plus, Triangular, Hexagonal, and Stellar. It also has a game designer option which allows the player to create their own puzzles.Other options include an undo function and functions to change the colour of the marbles and the background. There is no save/load function |
| SimCity | 1995-11-21 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation | Top-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | Contemporary | | | | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera | Windows | SimCity sets you as the mayor of a new municipality, with the responsibility of building and maintaining a place where citizens can move to and work and be happy. The first task is to place essentials such as housing, transport links, schools, factories, and shops. There are 50 types of these, allowing for homes of all standards and different types of businesses. Make sure to consider which sites are effective for which tasks. Some power sources pollute, others don't but are more expensive. Taxes must be raised to ensure an income, and then portions allocated to public services such as policing and roads. Earthquakes, floods, and fires are all emergency situations that must be dealt with to contain any damage.Successful mayoring will cause the small village to grow into a town, then a city, and finally a metropolis. As the city's size grows so do its needs. Commercial buildings may suddenly find that they need an airport to expand trade, or housing may find itself changing rapidly as vast amounts of people come and leave.The game also includes 8 pre-defined time-limited scenarios, with specific challenges and targets. The environment varies in each game (especially if you have the Terrain Editor add-on), and this should affect your choices. |
| Canasta for Windows | 1995-11-29 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Canasta For Windows is a card game in which the player plays either against the computer or against other players on-line.This is a game about making melds, three or more cards of the same rank. Jokers and 2's are wild and the first player to achieve the required total wins. The game has sound, a score table, game statistics, a choice of cards and backgrounds, three levels of difficulty and is played via the mouse or keyboard.The game rules can be customised and there's a single button to configure the game to Hoyle's standard rules. |
| Earthworm Jim: Special Edition | 1995-11-30 | Activision, Inc. | Shiny Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Side view | | Comedy | Platform, Shooter | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Earthworm Jim: Special Edition is an enhanced version of the original Earthworm Jim for the SEGA CD and also ported to Windows. Many years later it was released for a number of mobile platforms.New to the SEGA CD edition is a CD audio soundtrack, bigger levels, more secrets, more weapons, reworked animations and additional enemies.The iPhone version has been made easier as the character is controlled through a virtual control pad setup, accessed through the touch screen. Jim starts with ten lives and aiming is done automatically. There are also some small changes in the levels and the main character's voice has been re-recorded.The Nintendo DSi version also features the same level changes and re-recorded voice. In addition to this, it also has bonuses based around face tracking challenges where you copy Jim's facial expressions in the DSi's camera. |
| The 11th Hour | 1995-11-30 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Trilobyte, Inc. | Puzzle | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Horror | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | The 11th Hour is the sequel to the widely successful game, The 7th Guest. It utilizes a much improved video compression engine by Graeme Devine and is also the game which brought forth Trilobyte's eventual demise.This time you play the role of Carl Denning, boyfriend to the reporter Robin Morales. Robin has mysteriously vanished while trying to delve into the secrets of the rotting mansion of the once evil mastermind, Henry Stauf.The game features new puzzles, redone graphics and indeed an improved engine - much smoother, with 16 bit graphics and an entirely new soundtrack. The basic gameplay is still similar to its predecessor: the player walks through the mansion, watches FMV sequences and solves logic riddles. The so-called GameBook, a laptop, can be consulted to receive puzzle hints. |
| MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat | 1995-12-01 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | War | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | You are the genetically engineered Clan Mechwarrior. The Clans are invading the Inner Sphere. Join either the Wolf Clan or the Jade Falcon Clan as they pursue their own agenda against the Inner Sphere and other Clans. Take your advanced Omnimechs into battle against all comers. Win high warrior ratings (by using less mechs or smaller mechs than needed, completing secondary objectives, etc.) and you'll get chance at a promotion trial where you face superior odds in an arena. If you win, you advance in rank. If you are very successful, you can make it all the way up to Khan, leader of the Clan.Mechwarrior II was developed in-house by Activision as the successor to their original Mechwarrior. While this time there are no dynamic campaign and mercenary actions, the Clan culture is integrated into the two campaigns. Different clans have different mechs and different rules, even different weapons. You can customize your mechs in order to use less than the "par" force in order to get a higher rating. The game features full 3D environments. The addition of NetMech allowed users to fight each other online. When 3D cards came along, special versions of the game were created to take advantage of 3D texturing. |
| PBA Bowling | 1995-12-01 | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is the first in a series of Bowling games for the PC sanctioned by the Professional Bowlers Association.Game selections include: individual, practice, team and league style games. Players begin by selecting their bowler from one of the fully digitized male and female characters available. Adjustments can be made to whether they are left or right handed, the colour of clothes and skill level (beginner, intermediate or pro). The main game screen shows the bowler on the approach and uses several smaller windows to give a fine tune control over aiming, power and spin control. As with many bowling games, a close-up of the ball striking the pins is shown. The game is able to be played alone or supports up to 4 players total.
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| The Indian in the Cupboard | 1995-12-01 | Viacom New Media | Viacom New Media | Educational | 1st-person, Side view | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Inside of a young boy's cupboard, the tiny toy figurine native american named Little Bear has come to life. Letting the tiny man guide you through several activities will allow you to bring more toys to life and show your accomplishments on your wampum belt. Some of the available activities include the bead pictures game, where you practice your artistry with carved Iroquois templates and colored beads. There's also the Music Mimicry game and the Symbols game and several more. Completing all the activities sucessfully opens up a new area, the Bedroom 3-D environment and makes available six different quests. |
| Tomcat Alley | 1995-12-01 | SEGA of America, Inc. | Code Monkeys Ltd., The | Action, Simulation | | | | | | Flight / aviation | | | Teen | | Windows | Tomcat Alley is one of the last of Sega's TruVideo games for the SegaCD, featuring you and your F-14 Tomcat doing what you do best - dogfighting Russian Migs!This time, a renegade Soviet commander is threatening the United States with chemical weapons from his base in the Mexican desert, and its up to you and your wingmen to fine-tune your air-to-air combat strategies to make the entire western hemisphere safe again!Tomcat Alley was one of Sega's last TruVideo games, featuring what is called "Active Matrix" software, which allows for many different outcomes to any given situation. This means only one thing - much more interaction and variation than previous FMV (Full Motion Video) games! |
| Pool Champion | 1995-12-15 | Mindscape, Inc. | Bitmasters, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person, Top-down | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | "The realism of a simulation. The intrigue of an adventure." Players play the game of pool against the computer, against another player, or practice by themselves. Players may also embark upon the "Great American Pool Adventure." In the adventure, players play against and wager with a series of increasingly difficult pool opponents with the goal of eventually earning enough money to go to Las Vegas and win the National Pool Championship. |
| Shockwave Assault | 1995-12-15 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Action, Compilation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Shockwave Assault combines Shock Wave and its expansion Operation Jumpgate and makes them available for systems other than the 3DO for the first time.In Shock Wave, the player takes the role of a rookie pilot, defending the Earth from an alien invasion. From the cockpit of the F-177 fighter, one shoots at the alien walkers and fighters with lasers and missiles, rearming and refueling at supply depots when necessary. The story is told with live-action cutscenes.Operation Jumpgate continues the story with several further missions, set around the solar system. |
| 24 Games for Windows and Mac | 1996 | Expert Software, Inc. | The Code Zone | Action, Compilation, Gambling, Strategy | | | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | | Windows | 24 Games for Windows and Mac is a collection of 24 casual titles for Macintosh and Windows.Arcade games
Bulldozer
Cheesy Pursuit
Maze Race
StackBlitz
Think TankBoard games
Black Box Chess
CardMatch
Checker Connector
Core Meltdown
Cryptograms
Engulf
Nim
Pegopolis
Push-Pull
Quinto
Reversei Plus
Sechseck
Voracity
Wari
Winding StandoffCard games
Poker Machine
Poker Patience
Siege
Vanishing Cross |
| 3 Skulls of the Toltecs | 1996 | Warner Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | Revistronic | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | North America, Western | | Point and select | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Fenimore Fillmore happens to rescue an old peddler being attacked by some rustlers, but it is also him who accidentally leads the old man to his death by passing him the hair lotion. Just a few minutes before his death, the peddler revealed that he owned one of three skulls that will unlock the treasure of the Toltecs. Fenimore takes hold of the skull, but is then shot by the rustlers and passes out, with the skull going to the hands of the rustlers. When he regains consciousness, he sets out to recover all three and unearth the treasure himself. And of course, beside Fenimore, some other people are also searching for these skulls...3 Skulls of the Toltecs is a 3rd person cartoon adventure game in the same vein as The Secret of Monkey Island. The interface is point-and-click, and the player is given a list of verbs to select from to perform actions: open, close, pick up/give, use, look, move, talk, similar to the LucasArts games it emulates. Once a certain portion of the territory has been covered a map becomes available for travel, or the player can ride the train tracks with a hand-pumped trolley or travel by donkey. Puzzles are inventory-based, and the player must talk to other characters in the game and collect items in order to solve them. In many conversations, players are given multiple choices of what Fenimore will respond. Players' choice largely affects their process in the game. |
| 4 Mega-Games für die ganze Familie | 1996 | NAVIGO Multimedia GmbH & Co. Produktions KG | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A collection of four games which were published by Navigo Multimedia:
Super Spy
Jewels of the Oracle
Rave Shuttle: The Cosmic Challenge
Total Distortion
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| 40 Best Windows 95 Games | 1996 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | Limelight Publishing, LLC | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 40 Best Windows 95 Games is a collection of games most of which are shareware but there are a few freeware games here too. The games in this compilation are :
3DMaze
A Day At The Races
Board Games For 2
Bog 2
Bustout! from Timothy G. Baldwin
Cat95! This is a shareware product that is not really a game. It is one of the early virtual pet programs and consists of a cat that follows the mouse cursor around the screen
Game Chest
GNU Chess version 3.21
Gravity Well version 3.5
Hangman 95
Hangman 2
Hardwood Solitaire, an early version with just three games Klondike, Pyramid and Golf.
Klotz version 3.05
Landmine
Lights!
MacBlaster v1.10
Match32
Moraff's Morejongg version 3.0 for Windows
NanoCore
PBA Bowling from Bethesda Softworks LLC
Peg Solitaire 95
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure a 'pre-alpha' demo version
PixM
Poker Broker
Pressure Drop
Puzzle-8 2
Solitary Confinement
Moraff's Spherejongg
Super Marble Solitaire
Swat!
T4
Telephone Puzzle 2
The Second Universe
Time Bomb
Total Recall from
WinGames.Inc
Moraff's Ultra Blast
Under Pressure
VoRTeX
WinFour from Erik Janssens
You Don't Know Jack
The compilation installs a browser which allows the user to access each game separately. In most all cases they user can view a brief description of the game, in most cases they can view the game's documentation and run the game from the disc, a few games however do require installation.
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| 9: The Last Resort | 1996 | Tribeca Interactive | Tribeca Interactive | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | 9: The Last Resort is a surreal point-and-click adventure game in which you have just inherited a large mansion and have to get rid of the 9 evil muses that have taken it over. The gameplay is first person view and similar to Myst which means you spend most of your time searching for clues and solving logic puzzles, often mechanical or musical ones. Later in the game you also have to solve a shooting gallery sequence.It is most notable for involving some of the most famous people ever in a computer game including Robert De Niro, Cher, James Belushi, Christopher Reeve and a couple of guys out of the rock band Aerosmith. |
| A Christmas Story | 1996 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | Para media GmbH | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A Christmas Story is a CD-ROM meant to help children wait for Christmas morning.It features tales in English, French and German, sing alongs, and information about how Christmas is celebrated depending on the countries. History of religions is not forgotten: Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. The games included to this title are workshops: do-it-yourself presents, Christmas cakes, and an interactive puppet theatre. With this puppets workshop, children can build puppets and direct them in stories of their own creations. |
| ABC Sports Monday Night Football | 1996 | ABC Interactive | OT Sports L.L.C. | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | ABC Sports Monday Night Football simulates live-action football in the National Football League (NFL). Using the official 1996-97 rosters, all 30 of the NFL teams and all of their stadiums are included in the game.There are two modes of play:
Action Mode - become an actual player on the football field. Playable with a 2-button joystick or gamepad only, the Action Mode allows you to control both the ball carrier on offense and any member on the defensive squad.Coach Mode - as the coach, call real-time plays as well as pick and choose the players.
The game also features a Play Editor with which you can design your own plays and then execute them.Play-by-play action is delivered by legendary sports commentators Al Michaels, Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf, acted out by the real people. Real photos of the team players are shown in all team rosters. All of the sound effects from a live football game are incorporated into the game as well as the official music.Settings for the game are selected in the Control Booth. This is where you pick the home and visiting teams, switch the camera angles, change the weather conditions, save your games, and watch replays of saved games.Two players can play simultaneously using LAN or modem-to-modem. League play, tournaments and updates to player statistics require an internet connection. Player stats are updated weekly on the developer's website. |
| AD&D Dark Sun Online: Crimson Sands | 1996 | Total Entertainment Network | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic | | | Persistent | Kids to Adults | | Windows | An early MMORPG, this romp through TSR's blasted alt-fantasy Dark Sun AD&D campaign setting of Athas was built atop the shoulders of the earlier singleplayer game Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager in terms of the engine and interface, offering a similar experience, only more so. Multiplayer parties adventured through new scorched desert areas in pursuit of new ceramic treasures, rewards for similar fetch and extermination quests as in the earlier games. The quests were automatically generated to ease the load on the support staff scriptors, who threw new scheduled role-playing events into the realm daily as #NPCs to challenge and stump players.A great deal of the interactivity rested on elaborate MUD-style conversational conventions (speaking to those within earshot, privately confiding, announcing to the whole server), attempting to limit "out of character" (OOC) chatter as deleterious to whatever suspension of disbelief was a prerequisite for group role-playing in this strange new graphical online forum. Nonetheless, many later staples of MMORPG social conventions could be found emerging here, from the formation of player guilds to forbidding "PVP" (player vs. player) combat in certain "safe" areas, among them the newbie launch pad of Caravan Way in the city-state of Tyr. |
| AMBER: Journeys Beyond | 1996 | Hue Forest Entertainment LLC | Hue Forest Entertainment LLC | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | AMBER is an adventure game presenting a horror ghost story and following the guidelines of a Myst-like first-person adventure, yet, at the same time, offering some unique features of it's own.AMBER is short for Astral Mobility by Electromagnetic Resonance device invented by a promising scientist in the field of paranormal activities, Dr. Roxanna. In order to conduct the experimental testings of the device she secludes herself into an abandoned mansion, rumored to be haunted by ghosts and spirits. In her research Roxanna confirms those rumors, however, fails to respond on numerous phone calls. Her friend, Joe, presumes that something might has happened to her and asks you, the player, to investigate.In order to help Roxy and the spirits of the house, you will have to use the AMBER device, that will provide you with the ability to experience ghost's stories in form of the lucid dreams. Each dream will be presented in the unique stylistic presentation. For example a sequence involving the death of the girl living in 1940s will be presented in black & white with lots of period music in the background. Once you've investigated the cause and the circumstances of each spirit's torments you finally will be able to help Roxy herself. Although, the game does require player to solve as inventory-based puzzles so as the Myst-like mechanical and mathematical puzzles, the emphasis is more on the exploration and presentation of the story. For instance, all "ghost" parts of the game have neither inventory nor items to collect. So the key element of the gameplay is exploring environments in order to advance the plot by revealing crucial information as to the reasons of ghost's bond to the world of the living. |
| Ace Ventura | 1996 | Bomico Entertainment Software GmbH | 7th Level, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Contemporary | | Point and select | | Teen | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Ace Ventura is an adventure game based on TV cartoon Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. You play an animal-detective, who helps animals in trouble. Travel from Alaska via the magic land Vulcania to Bavaria in this comic adventure, that also contains some action elements.The game resembles Leisure Suit Larry in the way it treats adult material: there's no explicit nudity or pornographic scenes, but the dialogues, the jokes, the actions and the thoughts of the animal-loving hero go certainly in this direction.The interface in the game is very simple. You make Ace walk around by clicking on the screen, and tell him to interact with objects by clicking on them. At any time, Ace can access his watch, where settings can be changed and the game saved. Some puzzles are classic "use item on item" adventure fare, but there are lots of action mini-games. |
| Ace of Spades | 1996 | Love Gun | Love Gun | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Ace of Spades is a casino game with a gruesome twist. The player competes against female opponents in poker or blackjack; every victory leads to an explicit scene of sexual torture. The main mode includes a series of matches and subsequent sadistic scenes against various women. It is also possible to play poker or blackjack straight from the main menu, bypassing all these scenes. Both blackjack and poker rules are simplified: there is no betting, and the player with a better hand wins automatically. |
| Admiral: Sea Battles | 1996 | Megamedia Corp. | Meridian'93 | Strategy | Top-down | | | Turn-based strategy | | Naval / watercraft | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Admiral: Sea Battles is a naval warfare turn-based strategy game but with the emphasis on action rather than accuracy. Instead of using rules to model real warfare conditions, or simulate historically accurate battles, Admiral uses a simple rule system and among the 11 types of ships you can command you can have both galleons and steam frigates at the same time for example!The game is composed of 3 campaigns with 6 battles each. Each battle has specific objectives involving naval battles, invasions, strategic placement of forts and ports, etc.You view the game from a top-down squared tactical-map perspective from where you issue orders to your fleet. Among the added features is the ability to board and capture ships, build forts and ports (to repair ships) and both single player and hot-seat multiplayer modes. |
| Afterlife | 1996 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Simulation, Strategy | | | Comedy | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Afterlife is is a humorous strategy game similar to SimCity where the afterlife is subject to market-based economy. The player has to make it work by managing heaven and hell simultaneously.In both hell and heaven the player constructs zones which deal with one of the seven capital sins respectively the corresponding virtues. Through the gates new souls arrive regularly which were sinful or virtues in one specific aspect. These go to the appropriate zones to receive their gifts or punishment - but only if the player constructed a street system. If there is no place left they wander through hell/heaven which is of course bad for business. After some time they get sent back to the home planet. These souls are the source of the player's income. Of course these facilities also need personnel. These can be either hired or trained by building special training facilities. There are also additional things the player has to keep in mind, e.g. the satisfaction of each soul and the energy supply. Every buildings has to be micro-managed by adjusting their settings but there is also the possibility to use a tool which does it automatically - for a price. Random disasters like "Birds of Paradise" (excrement rain down on the facilities) break the economic circle and challenge the player to repair the damage. Besides the free playing mode there are also five scenarios where the player has to solve certain tasks. |
| Alien Tales | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | Comedy | Game show / trivia / quiz | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Reading Galaxy is an updated version of a previous Brøderbund title, Alien Tales, with improved graphics; it was also made part of the Active Mind Series, alongside titles such as Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. The game features a game show called Alien Tales, in which the player answers questions about classic children's books to demonstrate that they were written by Earthling authors rather than the aliens laying claim to their creation.It was later included as a bonus game in the Time Pilot's Gift Set edition of Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?ScreenshotsThere are no Windows user screenshots for this game.There are 3 other screenshots from other versions of this game or official promotional screenshots.Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gameAlternate Titles "Reading Galaxy" -- Re-release title
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| Amazing Learning Games with Rayman | 1996 | Ubi Soft Entertainment, Inc. | Ubi Soft Entertainment Ltd. | Action, Educational | | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Join Rayman in his quest to recover the Book of Knowledge which has been stolen by the evil Mr. Dark. The gameplay of the original Rayman game is still present but kids from ages 6-10 must also read, count and spell as Rayman battles his way through the landscapes. As you guide Rayman around the platforms, you jump to different platform levels and can grab ledges or spin his ears to fly if you miss a landing. He must throw his fists at enemies and grab rings for bonus. The Magician will guide you as to what you must do in each level such as follow a path that has a correctly spelled word and go left or right depending if it's spelled right or wrong. In other cases you may choose a word that rhymes, calculate a mathematical sum or step on a number.
Math activities include counting, adding, subtracting, comparisons, and place values, while Reading Exercises cover spelling, phonics, word recognition, and word classification. The three knowledge adventures consists of: 12 activities, 180 game levels in 6 worlds, with 50 different characters. |
| Amazon Trail II | 1996 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | MECC | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | South America | | | | | | Windows | Amazon Trail II is an educational game and the sequel to The Amazon Trail. In this game you have to canoe up the Amazon River. Before starting, it is obligatory to choose yourself a guide - each of the four available candidates has a special skill that may help you on your journey. In the course of the game, you need to manage the supplies; meet, talk, and trade with different people presented by live actors in FMV; read maps; and decide how much to eat, when to rest, and how fast to paddle. The game also contains a huge amount of information about the science and history of the Amazon rainforest. It is possible to explore the rainforest along the route spotting one of 100 different species and taking pictures or picking up fruits for the supply. There is a fishing mini-game as well, and six more learning games where kids learn the origins of commodities like coffee, rice, and chocolate, locate the major rivers of the world etc. |
| Amy's Fantasies | 1996 | Himeya Soft, Inc, JAST USA | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | This is a story about a high-school girl named Emi, who fell in love with her younger step-brother. Finally, on her eighteenth birthday, she decides to tell him about her feelings. But suddenly, debt collectors arrive and confiscate everything your father possessed. Tomomi, Emi's step-brother, disappears. Now Emi must find him, her only true love, and to confess to him her feelings. But on her journey, Emi discovers a different personality inside herself. This other person is called Amy. While the true Emi is a shy, modest girl, her Amy part cares mostly about one thing: to make real her wildest sexual fantasies...The game is a hentai adventure using simple interface and light gameplay with no puzzles, with a good portion of humor, but also heavy and graphically explicit sexual content. |
| Angel Egg | 1996 | LittleWing Co. Ltd. | LittleWing Co. Ltd. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | Reiko F. Nojima | Windows | Angel Egg is a pinball simulator with biblical themes. It has the standard features of the genre: multi-ball, multipliers and a classic cabinet look. The screen is split between the table and the score display.The table objective is to start the Genesis by summoning archangels. The player must collect the angels' eggs to invoke the elemental spirits of fire, water, earth and wind. The gameplay is centered on multi-ball, the points scored are multiplied by the number of balls in play.One egg is awarded each time the player hits a egg bumper, the eject hole or the return lane when the light is on. Shooting the ball up a ramp gives two eggs. Combos give three eggs. The player gets five eggs by completing return lane, and ten by completing the top lane. After collecting them, they can be hatched in jackpot holes.Multi-ball starts with a summoning. While in this mode, successive summoning adds balls to the table. Genesis mode starts when all the other modes are complete. |
| Animal | 1996 | Microtime | Microtime | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Animal is a product tie-in to Unilever brand Peperami, a spicy pork salami sausage. The 'Peperami Animal' was launched in 1993 advertising with the slogan 'It's a bit of an animal'.This surreal adventure takes place in the town of Snackopolis, where tension between cookies, vegetables and other snack-creatures is on the rise. Just before the mayoral election, the current mayor and top candidate Dr. Pepereinstein is kidnapped while he is cloning Peperami. In addition, the cloning device was tampered with, with horrible results. As Peperami, a walking and talking sausage, you investigate and seek to rescue the mayor and to clean up the mess left from the cloning.You explore over 130 hand painted locations around the city, talk to other snacks to find clues, solve puzzles, and fight the bad guys. The game is a traditional point and click adventure with the exception of two DOOM-style first-person shooter sections at the end of the game. |
| Apollo: Mission to the Moon | 1996 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Apollo: Mission to the Moon is a shareware game consisting of three parts, two of which are variations on the classic Lunar Lander type of game and the other is an 'Artillery' type of game. Each part, or phase as it's referred to in the game can be played individually in practice mode but the full mission phase of the game is to play through all three phases consecutively.
There are four skill levels, the easiest of which is level four which gives the player four attempts to succeed, level three gives the player three attempts and so on. The object in each phase is to achieve the highest score possible.Phase one is called 'Lunar Landing' and requires the player to land the lunar module on target and at a safe landing velocity.
Phase two is the 'Docking Phase', it is very similar to phase one but this time the player is docking the lunar module with the orbiting capsule.
Phase three is an 'Artillery' type of game in which the player is presented with the lunar module at the point of re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere and must enter values for both re-entry thrust and angle of descent in order to land at a randomly generated target. |
| Aquaman: War of the Water Worlds | 1996 | Inverse Ink | | Adventure | | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Aquaman: War of the Water Worlds is an interactive comic based on the animated TV series Aquaman (1968). In fact, most of the content is directly taken from the episode War of the Water Worlds in which Mera, Aquaman's wife, is kidnapped by a war lord who has the power to bewitch people. This game retells the story how Aquaman rescues her.Gameplay is non-existent: the player is presented with comic panels. Depending on where the player clicks on, the dialogue is voice acted or a short video from the episode is played. There is an auto-play feature and a page selection. |
| Area 51 | 1996 | Atari, Inc. | Mesa Logic, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Rail shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Using a light gun you blast your way through the secret base, Area 51, which has been taken over by mutant aliens. As you work your way to the secrets at the heart of Area 51, you'll need to destroy an increasingly dangerous line of aliens, upgrade your firearm, and cause as much collateral damage as possible. The game rewards the player for destroying windows, light fixtures, computers, explosive barrels, and even fire extinguishers. Each consecutive hit increases your streak rating (which adds to your score) and certain combinations of these collateral hits will open up secret bonus rooms.The home version has special bonuses and additional secret levels not found in the arcade version and a mouse option is available. |
| Arthur's Reading Race | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In Arthur’s Reading Race by Living Books, the main character Arthur challenges his younger sister D.W. to read 10 words. If she can read that many words he will buy her ice cream. They travel through the town along with Arthur’s dog Pal, finding all kinds of words while having fun along the way. As with other Living Books series, the title presents pages that are drawn in a brightly colored cartoon style with animations.Arthur’s Reading Race has several other mini games inside the pages for children to explore. You can match words with pictures, and, in a board game race, move your pawn ahead by the amount of letters in a word. There is an I-Spy game, where objects are described and the player must find them in the picture. Many hidden objects within the pages are waiting to be found by clicking on them. You can also click on any of the words of the story and hear them repeated to promote reading skills. |
| Ashes to Ashes | 1996 | Corel Corporation | Deep River Publishing | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | A first person shooter that came out during the "second wave" of me-toos that struck the genre, specifically after Duke3D and Quake.In this one you fight in a futuristic environment were things have (once again) gone awfully wrong and you have to set the record straight again. Additional features include: large outdoor environments with rolling terrain and the chance to operate several types of vehicles, including turrets, tanks, etc.The graphics engine is actually 2.5D engine using animated sprites. |
| Assassin 2015 | 1996 | Inscape | BlueSky Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Jack Butcher is a former soldier, and now an assassin working for the government. His contact Sabre has a new assignment for him: take out Jacques Arnoud, head of Microkomm and an associate of the Red Storm Rebellion. They are planning to use Microkomm's new government contract to fund a rebellion, and the government wants him dead. This should have been an easy assignment - hit and run, escaping through the roof. However, seconds after Jack shoots Arnoud, a guard bursts through the door. After narrowly avoiding capture by the guard, a bomb blows the stairways to the roof. Jack is stuck in a building crawling with guards and security drones who are out to get him.Assassin 2015 is a plot-driven 3D first-person shooter focusing on combat rather than exploration. Opening the wrong door or going the wrong way will usually result in the player character's death, as he will encounter a horde of guards or drones. The player listens to the instructions of Jett Jones, the protagonist's only outside support, and follows her directives. The gameplay is mostly linear and involves traversing corridors and rooms and shooting the enemies within. However, the game features some other scenes, such as running away from a giant robot and an elevator shootout. |
| Astérix & Obélix | 1996 | Infogrames Europe SA | | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Astérix & Obélix is a platform game where one player can choose to control either Astérix or Obélix or two players can play simultaneously. The mission of the two Gauls is to acquire artifacts from all across Europe. The game, like the comics, is set around 50 BC. It includes some bonus levels like a rugby match and the Olympic Games in Greece. Codes are used to save the player's progress. |
| Atmosfear: The Third Dimension | 1996 | EMG Publishing | A Couple 'A Cowboys Pty Limited | Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | Horror | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Atmosfear: The Third Dimension is based on the Video Board Game Atmosfear. It is a race against time to escape from the undead realm of the enigmatic Gatekeeper and avoid coming face to face with your worst nightmare. The objective: each player chooses between 6 characters (Harbringers) and has to collect six different coloured Keys - one from each Province - then journey to the centre of The Other Side and open the casket to face his greatest fear - beating the clock and The Gatekeeper. |
| Auf der Suche nach dem Ultimate Mix | 1996 | Funsoft GmbH | Games 4 Europe | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | | | Windows | In Auf der Suche nach dem Ultimate Mix the player takes control of Moses Vider who lives in a world were the evil Graf von Voiddospunk forbid all funk music and caused a paralyzing rain. Moses wants to end the power of Voiddospunk by defeating his protégé Sir Noise at a DJ championship. But to do this he has to steal the "Ultimate Mix" from Voiddospunk's secret record store.The game is a adventure based on a French comic. The player searches the places and solves riddles. When using an item he has to drag & drop it from the inventory. During the conversions the player chooses a fist, a heart or a brain which represent the pitch and message of Moses' answers. Here and there are special puzzle sequences, e.g. the remixing of a song or the reenactment of a saxophone. On the map the player chooses his next destination. The soundtrack was written and performed by genre pioneers like Mele Mel, Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Flash. |
| Avoid The Roids | 1996 | | | Action, Strategy | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Avoid The Roids is a single player, freeware game that is played via the keyboard.The game is played in a small, non-resizeable window. At the bottom of the screen is the points counter and the game status indicator. At the top of the window is a menu bar with options to start a game, change game speed, turn sound on and off.The object of the game is to survive as long as possible, the longer the player survives the more points are gained.
Using the arrow keys the player manoeuvres a red space ship around the game area. As the game progresses the Roids start to appear one at a time. These are probably best described as floating mines that move faster than the player's ship and bounce off the walls. Any contact with a Roid destroys the ship. The player is shown a brief animation as the game ends. After a while Sweepers appear on the play area, these can destroy mines so the player can use them for protection.The game has music, sound, and a high score table. The player has only one life and there is no save game feature.All game information such as the help screen and the high score table are displayed in a separate window that partially overlays the game area. |
| Barbie Fashion Designer | 1996 | Mattel Media | Digital Domain Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | With this game you can actually create totally new outfits for your Barbie doll using a software to edit the clothes and then printing them to actual fabric, supplied along with the game.Edit clothes for different occasions (wedding, casual, party, date, work and beach), and then choose accessories, patterns, colors, and much more.Once you're done you can watch your clothes being shown at the catwalk by Barbie models, or print photos of your creations. |
| Bas de Beer naar Pirateneiland | 1996 | Easy Interactive B.V. | MindWarp | Adventure | Side view | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bas de Beer naar Pirateneiland is the first of the Dutch Bas de Beer games. It is meant for players between the ages of four and ten. The players follow the story of Bas de Beer (Bas the Bear) who finds an old chest called Kraak in an attic. Kraak starts telling the story of a pirate treasure buried on Pirateneiland (Pirate Island) put there by Éénoog (One Eye). Together with his uncle Bob, Bas decides to find the treasure Kraak has told about.While on the adventure, Bas is unwillingly accompanied by the evil Professor Punthoofd (Pointy Head), who hid inside the ship when it left. When they arrive on the island, they are greeted by the natives, and with their help they start their journey to find the treasure. |
| Battle Isle 2220: Shadow of the Emperor | 1996 | Blue Byte Software, Inc. | Blue Byte Software GmbH | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Battle Isle 2220: Shadow of the Emperor is a hex-based strategy game featuring live-action video sequences and real-time 3D fight animations. |
| Battleground 1: Bulge - Ardennes Deluxe | 1996 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | This game is Battleground: Ardennes patched to the latest version 1.33. It adds two new map modules, Rochefort and St. Vith, along with 14 new scenarios. It also features a revised graphically enhanced Battleview(tm) game engine with internet play support, strength-point losses, more realistic spotting rules, ability of units to dig-in, and variable AI advantage control adjusted by players. |
| Battleground 2: Gettysburg | 1996 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Turn-based strategy | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Tactical wargame focused on the North American Civil War that uses the time-honored Battleground game mechanics and a refined version of the Battleground: Ardennes engine. You have the option of viewing the game from a 2D top-down tactical map, as well as a high-res svga 3D map.
Specific actions are often acompanied by brief video cutscenes as in most Battleground games, and you get a host of complementary informative material on the period. |
| Battleground 3: Waterloo | 1996 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | The second game in Napoleonic series of Battleground. You can change the history by winning the ultimate battle by Napoleon, or choose the historical path and defeat "Grande Armee" by the Allied armies of Wellington and Blucher. |
| Battleground 4: Shiloh | 1996 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | The second game in series of American Civil War returns us to the two days of April 6th and 7th, 1862, when the Confederate Army under Albert Sidney Johnston launched a bold surprise attack on U.S. Grant's Union Army. Now you can play multiple scenarios, which include The Surprise Attack, Hornet's Nest and Pittsburg Landing. |
| Battleground 5: Antietam | 1996 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | The third game in series of American Civil War. It includes eight scenario modules totalling some 25 scenarios. In the case of Antietam this means the game focuses on individual areas of the battle, including the pre-battle South Mountain delaying action, or you can fight the whole Antietam scrap between McClellan and Lee on September 17th 1862. |
| Bedlam | 1996 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | A fast paced action game where you run around a machine-gun wielding robot destroying everything in your path. There is a multitude of enemies and you can destroy almost every single thing on the map (buildings, vehicles, etc.). The reason for all this destruction is a revolution led by the robots against their human masters. |
| BeeTris | 1996 | | | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | BeeTris is a single-player, Tetris clone in which all the blocks and shapes are composed of hexagons. The game is keyboard controlled and, apart from being that bit harder because the shapes are harder to fit together, plays just like any other Tetris-style game. |
| Bermuda Syndrome | 1996 | BMG Interactive Entertainment | Century Interactive | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Jack Thompson is a pilot of an American B-17 bomber during World War II. His plane is shot down by German fighters and is about to crash. However, a mysterious portal appears, transporting Jack into an alternate reality. Jack ends up in a jungle and promptly saves a young woman who is attacked by a gigantic dinosaur. It appears that the woman is a princess who was about to be sacrificed for her father. The two decide to travel together, trying to survive in the dangerous jungle and eventually escape.Bermuda Syndrome is a cinematic platformer similar in concept to Flashback. The emphasis of the gameplay is on solving problems and carefully proceeding through screens filled with enemies and hazards. Jumping, fighting, and occasionally using items are required to succeed. At some points it is necessary to interact with the princess in order to solve a puzzle. |
| Beyond the Limit: Ultimate Climb | 1996 | Microsoft Corporation | Magnet Interactive Studios, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view, Side view | | | | Contemporary, North America | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Take to the cliffs in this mountain climbing game for kids. Choose your equipment wisely before you climb each mountain. You can decide to take various climbing equipment, first aid stuff, and plenty to munch on. Choose your anchor points and where you climb up the face. Be sure to avoid falling rocks, snakes, and other hazards as you make your way up. Careful that you don't fall. There's also plenty of abandoned mines to speed through to hasten your journey to the top. You'll travel around the southwest to many different famous rock faces with progressing difficulty. |
| Bill Nye: The Science Guy - Stop the Rock! | 1996 | Pacific Interactive, Inc. | ImageBuilder Software, Inc., Pacific Interactive, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | A deadly meteoroid named Impending Dume is about to destroy Earth, And it is up to the player to stop it. Based on the Disney and PBS TV series, Bill Nye the Science Guy: Stop The Rock! is a video game which puts the player to being a lab researcher to solve seven difficult science riddles. The Nyecom 3000 is a useful tool to solving riddles and gathering information on every science-related topic. There are many different places in the lab to explore, such as the Micro Lab for looking at different things using a microscope, the Ocean Comm Center for searching for answers about the ocean and contacting Swell White Cap, as well as deploying the ROSE submarine, and the Sky Lab which takes an in depth look at the rockets and see them launch, plus getting access to the weather in the Control Tower. The game uses a timer to make the game look like it was in real life. After five days, the game ends. The game features exclusive in-game characters such as Sam Andreas and Sue Nami. |
| Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Synergistic Software, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance is a strategy role-playing game based on TSR's Birthright world of Anuire. It combines first person dungeon and castle quests, tactical real-time graphical battles, and complex economic and diplomatic strategy. Play against challenging computer opponents or other cunning human players. |
| Blast Doors | 1996 | Fred's Friends, Inc. | Fred's Friends, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Artillery | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Blast Doors is a 3D multi-player shareware game that was originally designed for the Total Entertainment Network.The game's back story is of a world ravaged by scare resources and of the conflicts that resulted from this. Enter a helpful arms company, Militech - Bigger Guns For A Brighter Tomorrow, produced a range of easily affordable nuclear weapons so that these conflicts could be resolved quickly and with minimum fuss.
In the game the player has a base, a canon, and an arsenal of ordinance ranging from tracer shells to tactical nuclear weapons. The object of the game is to wipe out the opponents base before they can destroy yours.Shells are aimed by setting a direction and an elevation and firing as fast and as accurately as possible. As explosions create craters players will frequently find themselves firing at opposing bases from deep within a hole.Many features of the game can be customised;
the number of opponents
preferences for music and sound effects
the amount of cash available to buy weapons
special weapons that become available as the payer progresses and accumulates prestige
the terrain
the number of rounds in a game, and
the level of AI skill
The shareware version does not have network capability, that feature is available in the registered version of the game. |
| Board Game for Windows | 1996 | | Lezlisoft Computer Graphics | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Board Game for Windows is a freeware version of the board game known as Sorry! in the US and Ludo in the UK.This is a game for between one and four players. Each player has four tokens which they must take around the board from their home base to safety. A token does not come into play until the player rolls a six on the dice and if one player's token lands on the same square of the board as an opponent then the opponent's token is returned to their home base and must begin again.The game is played entirely with the mouse and has no AI to play against, no save game feature and the only sound used is a 'bing' when a mistake is made.
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| Board Games For 2 | 1996 | | WinGames.Inc | Strategy | | | | Board game, Chess | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Board Games For 2 is a shareware collection of traditional games which can be played by two people at the same machine or over a modem or network. The games in this collection are:Chess
Checkers
Backgammon
Goban, a Connect Five or Gomoku game
Flag Ship, a chess-like game played with ship pieces
Pipes, similar to Pipe Mania, players compete to be the first to connect the two sides of the board
Race Chase, a dice game
Fox and Hounds
In the shareware version of the game the player can play Checkers for an unlimited period but the remainder of the games can only be played ten times. There is no AI opponent in these games
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| Bombman! | 1996 | | | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bombman! is a single player free ware game for Windows 95.The game consists of a green screen or wall. On top of the wall is a mad criminal who drops water bombs. The player has to catch these bombs in buckets. Each wave has progressively more and more bombs which fall faster and faster.
Every time a bomb is missed a bucket / life is lost. When all three have been lost the game is over.Points are scored for the number of bombs caught. Each is worth 1 point multiplied by the wave number. A new Bucket for every 1000 points, subject to the restriction that a player can never have more than three buckets. |
| Boso View Express | 1996 | | Mackoy | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A freeware, cab-view only train simulator originally designed in Japan and since translated into English by enthusiasts across the globe. Looking out through the viewport of a train cab, you must drive your train trough a route, making your scedule and obeying the rules of the rails. The game runs at 640x480 and can be controlled via keyboard, joystick, or a Japanese controller that resembles a train's actual controls. Initially designed only around Japanese commuter routes, others have added everything from the New York City subway to slow freight treks in places from Australia to Germany. The game is free for download from either the 'company's' site, or from an English affiliate. |
| Brain Food Games | 1996 | Encore Software, Inc. | Hasbro Interactive, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Compilation | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Brain Food Games bundles together five puzzle and game show games in one package:Jeopardy! Deluxe EditionOthelloSmart Games Word Puzzles #1Wheel Of Fortune Deluxe EditionZoopAlso included in the bundle are Lite versions of You Don't Know Jack! Volume 2, You Don't Know Jack! Sports, and You Don't Know Jack! The Netshow. |
| Buichi Terasawa's Takeru: Letter of the Law | 1996 | Network Entertainment | Eagle Peak Interactive Corporation | Adventure | | Licensed | | | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Created by artist Buichi Terasawa, Takeru is a full-color computerized interactive manga. Follow the hero Takeru Ichimonji in his battle against an evil sorceress in the land of Yamato, sort of an amalgam of feudal and futuristic Japan.Interaction consists of scrolling the mouse to uncover voice-over and action events, making choices that affect the direction of the story arc, and a few object-based puzzle games. Three chapters of the comic span 2 CD-ROMs, with over 50,000 frames of digital animation. Features a fair amount of violence and, of course, scantily clad female characters. |
| Bust-A-Move Again | 1996 | CyberFront Corporation | Taito Corporation | Puzzle | Side view | | | Arcade, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bub and Bob are back! Like in Tetris in reverse, you shoot bubbles at an array of different-colored bubbles stuck in an ever descending ceiling, attempting to match them up three by three to make them disappear.This edition contains both puzzle challenges, multiplayer and normal progressive stages. |
| Bustout! | 1996 | | | Action | | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Bustout! is a single player, shareware, mouse controlled, Breakout style game. The full game has ten levels, the shareware release consists of the full game but only four levels are playable, the player unlocks the remaining levels by paying the shareware registration fee for which they receive a password. The player has six lives with which to complete the game. |
| Caddy Hack | 1996 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | Caddy Hack is a miniature golf game with a horror theme to it. You get to play in 9 holes each with a different theme and each with multiple paths, levels, etc.Graphics consist of digitized images serving as the backgrounds, with a transparent putter which you can rotate all around the ball. |
| Carrier: Fortress at Sea | 1996 | Discovery Channel Multimedia | RMG/Dentsu USA Inc. | Educational, Simulation | Behind view | | | | | Flight / aviation, Naval / watercraft | Direct control | | | | Windows | Back of Box - 3DO (US) (from Ad Blurbs)It's Not Just a CD, It's An Adventure.
At the speed of a click you'll go from the Engineering Deck to the Main Deck to the Flight Deck. Suddenly, you're trying to bring down a screaming F-14 Tomcat on a postage stamp doin' the hula. It's hairy, but nowhere near as nerve-racking as the day Eugene Ely landed the first aircraft on the USS Pennsylvania in 1911. Relax – NO! NOT YET! – you're needed in the Pilot's Briefing Room to meet the crew and captain who'll take you on an inspection tour of the carrier and its aircraft. "Hey! What's the name and year of the first U.S. aircraft carrier? Wrong! Drop and give me 20!"For the infotaining adventure of a lifetime, transport this package to the nearest cashier. Before you know it, you'll be aboard the nuclear-powered carrier Carl Vinson. In seconds, unbelievable 3-D graphics, realistic sound effects, narration, actual film from the Discovery Channel TV documentary, historical film footage and stills combined with volumes of detailed information will be at your fingertips. And in your mind.Main Menu It's easy to get around Carrier, just select one of the four modules from the Main Menu and you are on your way. Stay as long as you like. After all, enlistment is not required.Briefings Actual footage depicting flight and ship operations, life aboard a carrier, the development of the original carriers and their aircraft and real battles involving carriers from WWII to the present.Data Bank This comprehensive data base gives you instant access to technical details regarding the ship and its aircraft, crew assignments, operations, real battle photos and 3-D maps of major carrier actions.Captain's Pass The captain's authorize you to roam freely through the inner corridors of the flight deck, bridge, hangar deck, weapons lockers, engine
room and more.Challenge Gamelet Guide an F-14 Tomcat to pinpoint, precision landings during the day, at night or in unfriendly weather conditions where one slight error can result in a very wet, potentially fatal landing.The Unexpected Your Carrier adventure would not be complete without a few spontaneous events to keep you on your toes. One word of advice, if the captain calls, you'd better hustle. |
| Casablanca ni Ai o: Satsujinsha wa Jikū o Koete | 1996 | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Thinking Rabbit | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Interactive fiction / text adventure | | | | | | | Windows | The year is 1945. Jerry Randolph, a female reporter working for the Chicago newspaper "Daily Casablanca", finds a diary belonging to her high school friend May Elgar, who has disappeared several years ago under mysterious circumstances. Jerry discovers that May's father was working on a groundbreaking scientific project. Too late to save Dr. Elgar from untimely death, Jerry uses a time machine constructed by him to travel to 1916, following the traces left by the criminals.In spite of its title, the game has little to do with the famous movie Casablanca beyond a few loose references. It is a text adventure with graphics, in which the player types text commands to interact with the environment. Several useful commands (including Look, Search, Take and Knock) can be accessed directly through function keys. Limited navigation between screens can be performed with directional arrows. English text input is supported to a certain degree, though text descriptions are in Japanese only. |
| Castle Explorer | 1996 | DK Multimedia | DK Multimedia | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Spy / espionage | | Europe, Medieval | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Castle Explorer is an educational title aimed at children aged around eight or nine and over, and shows what a functioning 14th century castle looked like.The premise of the game has a king being suspicious of baron Mortimer who owns the eponymous castle, and wants information. The player is placed in the role of a spy, who can disguise himself as a knight or a maid, and can explore the castle by observing cutaway drawings, or by entering one of four interactive rooms in the castle: the kitchen, the armoury, the alchemist's lab, and the solar. In these rooms, the player will meet the characters of the game, played by live actors: the cook, the armourer, the alchemist, and baron Mortimer himself, respectively. Each room has one piece of the map that is torn to five pieces that the player must discover, but must do so while doing simple tasks in these rooms (putting bread into an oven, cleaning armour, throwing wood in fireplaces, etc.), otherwise his cover will be blown and will be thrown to the dungeon. On some instances, the character assigned to the room may ask a question before letting the spy in, and if the answer is incorrect, guards will take the spy to the dungeon as well. But, the jailer happens to be on the spy's side, and will readily free him for a bribe of 3 coins. These coins, as well as objects that the "maid" may be called to gather, are scattered in the aforementioned cutaway drawings and can be placed in the spy chest (inventory). The way the characters treat the spy differ depending on the disguise, which can be changed at will in the spy hut just outside the castle. Initially, the player can go without a disguise, acting as a page, and can roam the castle freely but will not encounter the hidden pieces of the map nor have access to the spy chest before disguising.The fifth piece of the puzzle map is gained by answering four questions that the king is interested in and are found in the scroll in the spy chest. Answers can be found in one of three ways: by observing certain objects in a room and having a character explain them, by clicking on objects in the cutaway images for expanded descriptions, or by reading the books that elaborate aspects of medieval life like warfare, food, society, etc.If successful, the player is presented with a certificate from the king at the end of the game, which can be personalized to the player's name and printed or saved as a file.The exploration is based on Dorling Kindersley's books with detailed cutaway drawings, more specifically Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections: Castle from 1994. The game is backed up by a detailed reference section where any unfamiliar medieval word can be looked up, and also a 'Trails' button which serves as browsing history of terms.This title uses Apple's QuickTime video player version 2.1.1 (which comes included in the setup) explicitly and is entirely mouse-controlled. |
| CatFight: The Ultimate Female Fighting Game | 1996 | Atlantean Interactive Games | Phantom Card | Action | | | | Fighting | | | | | | | Windows | CatFight: The Ultimate Female Fighting Game is an all-woman fighting game, resembling the early editions of Mortal Kombat where the sprites representing the fighters were also created using digitized actors. Katalin Zamiar, an American martial artist, is featured in-game through this method as the ninja woman character Chae Lee.The short plot revolves around an evil goddess who summons some of the world's greatest fighters to a few number of arenas for a fighting challenge. The player may choose from ten different characters, who are all scantily clad women. |
| Catz: Your Computer Petz | 1996 | PF Magic | PF Magic | Educational | | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Catz are the next in linze of Computer Petz. Catz live on your desktop and they don't mind sharing it with you. Your Catz enjoy being petted. You can play with them and watch them stalk the mouse across your documents. In screen-saver mode they enjoy taking their CatNapz. |
| Caveland | 1996 | CDV Software GmbH | | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person, Side view | | | Managerial / business simulation | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Everything was fine in the fantasy country Dwarfia - until two magicians were bored and competed their magic abilities. Unfortunately they were both sore losers and so they used meaner and meaner spells until whole Dwarfia was destroyed. Now the dwarfs live underground and their only chance to colonize their world again is to find old temples and claim their contents.In the beginning the dwarfs have only one building and the goal is to search the randomly spread temples by digging in all possible directions. Of course this means there is a need for raw materials - ladders and bridges need bamboo or wood, These materials are cultivated and processed in sawmills. Iron ore is gained in mines which need wood planks... So originates the first small economic cycle which gets expanded over time. There are two sorts of dwarfs: Diggers and gardeners. Dwarfs without job can be assigned, but this choice is irreversible. A big factor is the motivation of the workers. At first the prospect of a life overground is enough but later the player has to motivate them with beer. But there is no beer without a bar and a bar needs more raw materials like mushrooms or bread. Also the dwarfs don't have the knowledge to build all buildings right away, they have to find the construction plans in the temples. When reaching a temple the game changes to a side scrolling puzzle game. There the player has to control several dwarfs directly and find a way to the temple's treasures by solving puzzles like finding switches or deactivating barriers. |
| Chaos Overlords | 1996 | New World Computing, Inc. | Stick Man Games, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Chaos Overlords is played out on an 8x8 grid, said grid representing city blocks. Each block contains three locations of varying significance (hospitals, research centres, etc) which are randomised for each new game. In fixed positions throughout the city are the headquarters of six organised crime syndicates. As the game begins, the player is in control of one of these HQ buildings, and have one gang of 'Right Hand Men' under player control. The aim of the game varies, from eliminating all rival gangs to capturing all HQ buildings, or merely competing for the highest bank balance or prestige (popularity).Gameplay is very like a board game. Each turn, a selection of three gangs is made available to the player. From this pool the player may hire or dismiss one of the gangs. An extensive range of gangs is included, from Disgruntled Postal Workers to Renegade Nuns. Once hired, gangs are dispensed throughout the city with instructions to seize control of the aforementioned locations (obtaining research bonuses from research centres, accelerated healing from hospitals, etc.), shakedown the public for cash, research new weapons and technology or attack enemy installations.Each gang may be outfitted with a weapon (ranged or melee) an item of protective gear and one miscellaneous item (performance-enhancing drugs, smoke bombs and 'cool shades' are a few examples). Getting the right gang and researching the perfect accessories for them is where much of the fun lies.Combat, when it occurs (which is often) is automated, this is a strategy game, not a tactical simulation. Action is simultaneous turn-based with an optional time-limit to keep things moving. Multiplayer is supported through hotseat, modem, LAN or internet (TCP/IP) and is more stable than some current releases (possibly due to low average system specs when it was released). |
| Cheat Mine | 1996 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Cheat Mine is a single player Minesweeper clone. It is played entirely with the mouse and has four difficulty settings, Beginner, Intermediate, Expert and Custom where each difficulty means a larger game area and more mines to find.The object of the game, as in Windows Minesweeper, is to discover the locations of all the mines. However, as the game's help file makes clear, this is a game for those who enjoy playing Minesweeper and completing the board as fast as possible. To that end this variant has a clock so the player can monitor their time and a high score table that displays the five best times.As the player exposes the game area they are shown numbers that indicate where the mines are. What gives this game its name, 'Cheat Mine', is the inclusion of settings that make the game cheat, i.e. when enabled not all the numbers displayed will be accurate making the game harder to complete.
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| Chessmaster 5000 | 1996 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Chess | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Chessmaster 5000 is the 10th Anniversary release of the game. This implementation features a revised Windows interface, new tutorials, a new chess database with over twenty seven thousand entries, new time controls, sound effects and music.The game can be played against an AI opponent, against another person or against a remote player.The game's documentation lists the following as the top fifteen new features of this game;
New engine optimised for a 32-bit Pentium
New graphics including more than ten new chess sets both 2D and 3D plus a number of new boards
A new chess database with twenty seven thousand entries. This is not installed with the game, it stays on the CD-ROM
Over 20 new tutorial courses written by Eric Schller, the Californian State Champion
A new Windows 95 interface which makes use of pop-up menus and context sensitive help. Chessmaster 5000 also supports long file names
A NEW Coach window which shows a quick summary of all possible moves.
Custom True Type chess font which lets Chessmaster 5000 support figurine notation and embedded board diagrams in annotations.
Over sixty new opening books customised to simulate the play of a famous grand master.
Over thirty new personalities of all levels
New time controls including the Fischer time control, the hourglass time control and a new LCD-style digital clock in addition to the analog clocks.
Two thousand named opening variations, a great increase on earlier versions which recognised two hundred. Among the new openings are the hippopotamus, the tumbleweed gambit, and the Latvian Defence/Corkscrew counter gambit
A glossary with over sixteen hundred entries
Enhanced annotator now generates summary statistics for the game and additional commentary on inadvisable moves.
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| Chessmaster Online | 1996 | | Mindscape, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Chessmaster Online was a free on-line game based on Chessmaster 5000 which allowed chess players to play against each other and chat over the internet via MIndscape's servers.
Alternatively the player could play themselves on their own machine.
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| Chex Quest | 1996 | Ralston-Purina | Digital Cafe | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Chex Quest is a 3D FPS running on a modified DOOM engine.The planet Bazoik has been overrun by Flemoids- mucous-like alien creatures who are consuming all of the IFC's (Intergalactic Federation of Cereals) nutritious foods. You, a large square-shaped man must go in and rid the various levels of the miscellaneous green Flemoids.Your weaponry starts out with a bootspoon (which can be upgraded to a Super Bootspork) and a small Zorcher (which uses Zorch energy). The Zorcher can, of course, be upgraded to frightening levels... Zorch is apparently an interdimensional substance, because enough of it can "send a Flemoid back to his homeworld."You can strap on armor, of course- the armor is a Chex kibble (or a Super Chex kibble). This will protect you from the mucous that the Flemoids snort at you.The opening contains a notice to concerned parents, avowing that the game is non-violent; to keep childrens' interest, the violence was replaced with (and they tried to be delicate here) gross booger sounds. Your character never "dies", but becomes immobilized by being covered from head to toe in mucous.Healthy eating habits are also supposedly reinforced- health is regained by eating a bowl of fruit (10% energy), bowl of vegetables (25%), a glass of water (5%), or... yes... "a complete breakfast", featuring a bowl of cereal (presumably Chex), toast, glass of milk, and a piece of fruit, for a complete health boost.
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| Choppy the Pork Chop | 1996 | Korobrown Software | Korobrown Software | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Choppy the Pork Chop is a simple shooter game. The player controls Choppy, the pork chop, and can move him left and right. From the top of the screen sets of teeth, hamburgers and mops descend which the player must shoot to score points. Separate key combinations are needed for each object:
SHIFT for teeth;
CTRL for mops;
SHIFT + CTRL for hamburgers. |
| Clandestiny | 1996 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Trilobyte, Inc. | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | The player assumes the role of Andrew McPhile, an American who has just inherited a Scottish castle. His girlfriend has persuaded him to go and claim his inheritance, but he discovers on arrival that the place is haunted by generations of previous MacPhiles.Clandestiny is a cartoon puzzle game in which the player wanders around a haunted house solving logic puzzles. Each solved puzzle triggers a brief cartoon to extend the story and also opens another room in the house. The gameplay is basically the same as in The 11th Hour, except that there are no transitions between locations.
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| Close Combat | 1996 | Microsoft Corporation | Atomic Games, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Wargame | Historical events, World War II | | Multiple units/characters control | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Close Combat is the first installment of Microsoft's Close Combat series that bases its power more on strategy than real-time battling. You're placed as the battlefield commander as you command your troops in Normandy. Choose to play as either Axis or Allies. |
| Clue | 1996 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | 3T Productions Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Board game | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Clue is a full-motion video adaptation of the popular board game of the same name. It is an amalgamation of two earlier CD-i titles where (up to six) players take turns investigating a mansion where a murder happened, uncovering clues and evidence to reveal the assassin. There are three storylines with four difficulty levels, each with a unique solution making it altogether twelve different mysteries: Deadly Patent (from Clue), The Road to Damascus and Blackmail (both from Clue 2: The Mysteries Continue).The gameplay remains identical to the original games and stays near the board game: During each turn, the player can do two moves: moving between rooms, interrogating a suspect, watching a flashback video right before the murder (depends on the room) or examining an item. The goal is to be able to name the murderer, the crime scene and the murder weapon.
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| Conquest of the New World: Deluxe Edition | 1996 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Quicksilver Software, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Historical events, North America, South America | | Point and select | | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Like the original Conquest of the New World, the Deluxe Edition lets you control one of 6 different nations (five European and the High Natives) in their attempt to colonize and conquer a "new" continent.The game is turn-based, and combat is a mini-game taking place on a 3x5 square battlefield where victory can be achieved by killing all enemy troops or capturing the enemy's flag. The gameworld is represented in an isometric point of view with three-dimensional terrain features.Colonies consist of a Colony Centre, exerting an area of control within which all buildings must be placed. Most buildings, including the Colony Centre, can be upgraded, adding to their production capabilities. Resources are used for building and upgrading, or can be traded with the natives, other nations, or your mother country.The Deluxe Edition adds several new features to the game. Primarily it adds the option to create and play scenarios and to customize the world. In addition, nations now have different bonuses, several special resources and discoveries have been added, and you can form trade alliances with other nations.Victory conditions are customizable, so the game can be played as a pure conquest game with the last nation standing, being the winner, or as a more peaceful race for victory points to a pre-determined score. |
| Corporate Pursuit | 1996 | MAUS | MAUS | Simulation | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Prove you are the BEST.This is a business simulation game that puts the player up against tough competition.
As Marketing Manager of this high technology company, you will be responsible for all marketing, advertising, production, and stability of your product.
Make use of reports, market information and your skills to outsmart the competition and keep them guessing as to your next move. |
| Crazy Gravity | 1996 | XLM Software | XLM Software | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | The premise of Crazy Gravity is simple: The player controls a space shuttle which has the assignment to transport containers to a certain platform. The special gimmick of the game is that the space shuttle is only controlled by accelerating. It is steered left or right by turning the engine in the right direction. The gravity constantly drags the ship downwards and has to be compensated.The game is set in an underground cave system and touching the walls means death. Several obstacles hamper the tasks: Sluices which only open in one direction, locked doors which have to be opened with the right keys, stationary weapons which shoot in a set direction and magnets which drag the ship in an unpleasant direction. The player also has to consider the fuel and the time limit. The game has 20 levels, five difficulty levels and a level editor. |
| Creature Crunch | 1996 | Class6 Interactive | TechToons Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Creature Crunch is an animated point-and-click comedy adventure. The plot is about a boy named Wesley turned into a monster by evil Dr.Drod. Wesley must escape the mansion of Dr.Drod by eating the right items to defeat monsters. The game features the voices of SCTV veterans Martin Short and Eugene Levy. |
| Crib | 1996 | | | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Crib is a single player, freeware, version of Cribbage from Australia. The game defaults to playing standard six card cribbage played with a single deck of cards where A game continues until one player has scored one hundred and twenty-one points or more, i.e. they don't have to achieve exactly that number to win. However there are options to play five card cribbage and/or play to just sixty one points together with additional options that alter the way the game is scored. The game is played entirely with the mouse. |
| CrossWorld 95 | 1996 | GameTek (FL), Inc. | CrossWorld Software, Inc., GameTek (FL), Inc. | Compilation, Puzzle | Text-based / Spreadsheet, Top-down | Licensed | | Mental training, Word construction | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This CD-ROM title includes three Windows 95 versions of word games.CrossWorld: L.A. Times Syndicate Edition is a Windows 95 version of CrossWorld: The LA Times Edition. The gameplay remains the same. It has 365 crossword puzzles from the L.A. Times Syndicate as well as a feature to create own puzzles.CrossWorld's WordSearcher allows player to create own puzzles where there is a list of phrases to look for and the player circles each phrase as he finds it hidden in the puzzle. It is possible to use one of the 300 word lists to create a puzzle, or type in own words. English, French, Spanish and German dictionaries are available.GameTek's Decoder allows player to unscramble word lists and famous quotations. |
| Curious George ABC Adventure | 1996 | Houghton Mifflin Interactive Corporation | Vipah Interactive, Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | In this second installment of the Curious George Young Readers’ Series, Curious George ABC Adventure focuses on letter names and shapes, alphabetical order, basic letter phonemes, matching and sorting first letters and first letter sounds, and basic vocabulary and listening skills. The targeted age group is 3 to 6. Activities feature the Postcard Capers, Bakers Dozen, Go Fish, I Spy A Butterfly, Sky Writer, and also features a bonus activity for printing out a storybook featuring Curious George. |
| Curious George Early Learning Adventure | 1996 | Houghton Mifflin Interactive Corporation | Vipah Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Curious George Early Learning Adventure is the first volume of the Curious George Young Readers’ Series. This educational title features games that focus on colours, shapes, sizes, listening skills, pattern recognition and matching, same and different recognition, rhyming, and mouse skills designed for the targeted preschool ages 2 to 5. Activities feature the Jingles Jukebox, Pie Fight, Star Patrol, Super Fruit Catch, The Puzzler, and also features a bonus activity for printing out a storybook featuring Curious George. |
| CyberDome! | 1996 | MicroLeague Multimedia, Inc. | Above the Garage Productions | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | CyberDome! is a single player shoot 'em up that was originally released as shareware but has since been made available as freeware.All the action in the game takes place inside a dome in cyber-space, hence the name. The player takes on the role of a trainee cyber assassin for an unnamed mega corporation. The task is to survive the eight training missions and play through the subsequent sixty-four levels. The player starts with five lives/ships and additional ones can be awarded as the score increases, power-ups left behind when enemy ships are destroyed can be collected.
Although this is primarily a a shoot 'em up game there is a strategy element as the order in which the enemy ships are destroyed can be important.The game is entirely keyboard controlled, it uses the space bar to fire and the numeric keypad to steer the ship. It has an auto-targetting feature which not only locates the nearest / next enemy but points the ship towards it. There are first, second, third and overhead points of view.The game can be played full screen or in a window, it has sound effects and a soundtrack, and a high score table.
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| CyberGladiators | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Fighting | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | In a freak accident, Alliance members of a Gy Djin terrorist attack were transformed into CyberGladiators, a powerful cyborg fighting force. Powerful Gy Djin members in prison were also transformed into CyberGladiators. When the Gy Djin CyberGladiators escaped from prison they faced a showdown with the Alliance. In this game, you can fight on the side of the Alliance or the Gy Djin in this futuristic cyborg fighting game. |
| DX-Ball | 1996 | | | Action | | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Michael P. Welch's DX-Ball is essentially an improvement over the classic Amiga game Megaball by Ed and Al Mackey. It is a fairly straightforward Breakout/Arkanoid clone with many levels - manipulate the ball in order to take out the cubes at the top, while collecting bonuses (extra shots, extra balls, extra life, etc.).
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| Darby the Dragon | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc., Capitol Multimedia, Inc. | Adventure | Side view | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Darby is the prince of Dragondale, and one day he finds a magic wand just lying around. Intrigued, he takes it and goes to show it to his big sister. They then have a fight over it and he wishes she was smaller than him. Well, it turns out to be a magic wand, because it grants his wish! Darby has to go on a quest to find the items he needs to restore his sister's size. Darby the Dragon is an adventure game for children with a single-click interface, in the style of Freddi Fish, and many other such adventure games. Darby has an inventory at the bottom of the screen and solves adventure game puzzles, which are solved through use of the inventory items and clicking on things.Players are able to create magic spells, gather clues from singing minstrels, design puppet theatre stages, create magic masks, as well as a quick action game and listen to narrated storybooks. |
| Dave Dude | 1996 | Adventure Programmer Group | Adventure Programmer Group | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Dave Dude is a single player menu driven, point and click, shareware adventure game.Dave has just spent all his money on tickets for his holiday. As the game starts Dave is out on the street, he's locked himself outside his apartment and he needs to get into his building to pack for the trip. When he's packed the action switches to the holiday island where Dave treks through a jungle, goes fishing, spends time on the beach and may end up with the girl.The game boasts 'more than fifteen screens' and is entirely mouse driven. It has three save slots.At the bottom of the screen is the command menu, the movement arrows by which the player moves Dave around, and the inventory of items he's picked up.
Commands such as 'Look At' are selected from a menu at the bottom of the screen. and are combined with objects the player clicks on, so to look at the vase the player would move Dave close to the vase, click on 'Look At' and then click on the vase.
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| Days of Oblivion | 1996 | CDV Software Entertainment AG | Toygardens Media | Adventure | | | Adult, Detective / mystery | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | In the year 2144, both north and south pole are melted and mankind lives in huge swimming cities. One of these cities is called Twin Town. You awaken resurrected with a new body and cannot remember your former life. It's your task to find out who you've been and why you died.Days of Oblivion is an erotic adventure game for adult players. During your investigations, you can use a so called body construction kit which allows you to "enhance" yourself (e.g. face, belly, legs, arms, other parts...). You'll encounter many strange characters, most of them female. The game is presented in rendered screens and plays short videos when something special happens, similarly to Phantasmagoria or The Beast Within. |
| Daytona USA | 1996 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | AM R&D Dept. #2 | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A port of the most successful arcade racer ever, the home versions of Daytona USA include the same elements that made the original version successful: three highly detailed tracks, arcade driving physics that challenge the player to find the best trajectory to make a flying lap without kissing the rails and beating the checkpoint timer. The 40 cars of the Easy race (later named 3-7 Speedway), one of the stalwarts of the original version, are also present in this version.These home versions include a new mode (Saturn or PC Mode, depending on the platform) where the three tracks are played without the timer, and optionally in mirror mode, using one of the bonus cars (with additional abilities such as driving on grass or hitting the rails without losing speed) and in one of three lengths: Normal (identical to the arcade original), Grand Prix (2.5 times longer) and Endurance (10 times longer). On the downside, detail and frame rate suffered a drop to fit the game into the limited hardware of the Saturn and Personal Computers, and lacking any kind of multiplayer, comparing to the two to eight player rumbles of the arcade version. |
| Deadly Rooms of Death | 1996 | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Deadly Rooms of Death is a puzzler. The idea is simple: you control a man with a sword that can point in 8 directions. On any turn you can either move the man or rotate the sword. You have as long as you want to plan each action, but it had better be good... your enemies move when you do! This puzzler has many kinds of enemies, and you will need to understand each one's personality intimately to even dream of making it to the final battle with the 'Neather. Deadly Rooms of Death features countless brilliantly designed, extremely challenging puzzles. As a bonus, there's the visceral pleasure of slashing through whole armies of evil creatures singlehandedly. |
| Descent II: Destination Quartzon | 1996 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Parallax Software Corp. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | This is a special version exclusively delivered as bundled software with hardware such as the Logitech WingMan Extreme products and Diamon products featuring the Voodoo Graphics Chipset. The game contains the first 8 levels plus the 2 secret levels of Descent II.This version is not compatible with the regular mission add-ons. |
| Destruction Derby 2 | 1996 | Psygnosis Limited | Reflections Interactive Limited | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This sequel to the original Destruction Derby offers more of the same no-holds-barred action and mayhem with new tracks and a lot of technical improvements and features not seen in the original, such as a pit stop feature that allows car repairs!Gameplay is identical to its predecessor -- the objective consists of gaining points by winning races or "creatively" crashing opponents and climbing to the top of the rankings.
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| Detective Storm | 1996 | Cartoon Animation Studios | Cartoon Animation Studios | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | One of the few Turkish games ever produced, Detective Storm is a comedy adventure with static backgrounds and cartoon animations.As a detective you are trying to solve a mysterious murder case. During your search you visit many places around the world of Detective Storm, find and collect items and solve puzzles.
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| Deus | 1996 | ReadySoft Incorporated | Silmarils | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | In the world of the future interplanetary terrorism is a big threat to the universe, but since the terrorists are not easy to find or target, an all out war can't be waged against it. Instead the Alien World Exploration organization (which rules the universe) sends bounty hunters across the universe to planets suspected to harbor terrorist bases. You play one of these bounty hunters who gets sent to a world where the most dangerous terrorist group, the New Crusaders, are thought to have their HQ.The game is an informal sequel to 1994's Robinson's Requiem and you proceed through the game in exactly the same manner. You must gather clues and learn of your whereabouts in a fps-like environment while managing every aspect of your body in an attempt to "survive" the hostile alien world. You can play in action mode which removes most of the micro-managing, or in the standard simulation mode which boasts 22 ways to die (including hypothermia, untreated infections, etc.). Graphics are SVGA and the game offers single player gameplay only. |
| Devo Presents: Adventures of the Smart Patrol | 1996 | Inscape | Inscape | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Adventures of the smart patrol is a game basically inspired by the late seventies/early eighties alternative band Devo, and which takes us to a world based on every little thing that is Devo. You control a Monkees-style group of musicians called the Smart Patrol who take it upon themselves to stop the mad schemes of the evil mutant "Turkey Monkey" who wants to unleash a virus all over Spudland. Gameplay consists of a myst-like game of "slideshows" but without puzzles to solve, most of the game progresses through dialogue and interaction, so you mission really consists of talking to the right person at the right times.The game features digitized actors as well as multiple endings plus, of course, millions of Devo-related jokes, characters etc. |
| Die Hard Trilogy | 1996 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Probe Entertainment Ltd. | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | Crime | Arcade, Rail shooter, Shooter | North America | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Die Hard Trilogy lets players guide New York cop John McClane through three arcade-style games based on each of the three Die Hard movies. Each movie is represented through a totally different style, making this a "3 games in 1" style package. Die Hard is a third person action/adventure through thirty floors of the Nakatomi Tower high-rise. Terrorists have interrupted the company's Christmas party and taken hostages. As McClane, the player must search for hostages through computer, construction, maintenance, and executive levels. McClane's default pistol holds infinite ammo, and the player can collect limited-ammo machine guns and grenades inside the levels. Walls turn transparent when they intersect the camera, allowing players to follow McClane through hallways and rooms with ease. After all the hostages on a level have been rescued, the player has 30 seconds to locate a bomb sent down by elevator, then use that elevator to move to the next level. Die Hard 2: Die Harder is a first-person arcade gun game, nearly identical to Virtua Cop. Terrorists have attacked Washington/Dulles Airport. The player automatically moves through the airport and surrounding areas "on rails," shooting bad guys that appear from behind the scenery. Weapon upgrade icons can be shot to be collected, and either use limited ammo, or are retained until the player is hit (identical to Lethal Enforcers). Players can also destroy parts of the environment by shooting it, which can be used to take out nearby terrorists (with explosions, or by shooting overhead items to drop on them). This game supports pad controls, or any of the PlayStation's gun controllers. Die Hard With A Vengeance has players racing through New York City streets in a variety of vehicles, trying to locate bombs before they explode. A strict timer ticks off the next explosion, and the player is guided only by a direction arrow and the vocal suggestions of their co-driver. Bombs are hidden inside everyday objects (like phone booths and benches) and are defused by ramming them, which activates the timer on the next bomb. Occasional "bomb cars" must be chased and rammed until their life bar is depleted. Powerups can be collected by running over icons in the streets, and include extra time, turbo boosts, and jumps to rocket over obstacles.All three games are exaggeratedly bloody (players can run over pedestrians in Die Hard 3 and wipe the blood away with windshield wipers). Each of the three games also uses a combination of textured polygons and sprites to generate their worlds, resulting in warping textures and some quirky "paper doll" effects. |
| Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! | 1996 | Psygnosis Limited | Perfect Entertainment, Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Mortality Bytes casts players again in the role of Rincewind, from the first game.Death, the grim reaper, who normally ushers the Discworld inhabitants into the afterlife, is on an extended vacation. This means that those whose "time is up" are faltering around in limbo. Now it's up to Rincewind to bring him back or suffer the fate of immortality.Gameplay is divided into 4 Acts. There are many locations to explore and a multitude of obstacles in Rincewind's path to overcome. Conversations with characters and interaction with inventory objects is necessary to move ahead.The game features unique humour similar to the previous game. |
| Disney's Aladdin | 1996 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | Fantasy, Middle East | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | The game from Virgin based on the 1992 animated Disney film is a side-scrolling platformer.The player controls Aladdin, who must make his way through several levels based on locations from the movie: from the streets and rooftops of Agrabah, the Cave of Wonders and the Sultan's dungeon to the final confrontation in Grand Vizier Jafar's palace. The Sultan's guards and also animals of the desert want to hinder Aladdin in his way. He can defend himself with his sword or by throwing apples. Next to apples, Aladdin can also collect gems which can be traded for lives and continues with a traveling trader. Finding Genie or Abu icons enables bonus rounds. The Genie bonus round is a game of luck played for apples, gems or extra lives. In Abu's bonus round, the player controls the little monkey who has to catch bonus items that fall from the sky, but without touching any of the unwanted objects like rocks and pots.The game's humorous animations were created by Walt Disney Feature Animation. |
| Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story | 1996 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Media Station, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story is a educational game that is based on the 1995 Pixar animated feature film. The game is a storybook that closely follows the movie, along with pictures from the movie. There are also many interactive hidden surprises that you can click on during the story with your mouse. The story is fifteen pages, and is read to you by Hamm the Piggy Bank. Certain characters also have voice acting, and you can click on them the story to hear their dialogue.Along with the storybook, there are mini-games you can play, such as the Put-Away Game, Woody's Scheme, The Crane Game, The Escape Plan and a Maze Game. In the Put-Away game, you help Andy put his toys away by putting them in their correct shadow. In Woody's Scheme, You help Woody knock down Buzz Lightyear by creating a domino effect. In The Escape Plan, you help Buzz Lightyear escape from Sid's house. The Crane Game teaches counting and sorting objects by color in an arcade. There is also a Maze Game, which has multiple levels where the toys have to catch the moving truck while avoiding obstacles. |
| Disney's Toy Story Activity Center | 1996 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Media Station, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Toy Story Activity Center is an educational and entertaining title, not to be confused with the other Toy Story title, the Animated Storybook.The hybrid CD-ROM features many classic mini-games such as Five-In-A-Row, or a memory challenging game a la Simon Says, with 4 green aliens popping up out of boxes or a math card game with an Etch-A-Sketch.Other mini-games include a Code Breaker, and, in order stimulate creativity, a music activity aka Sid's Sonic Boom Box and a build-your-own-monster activity. The icon-driven interface, at the lower-right corner of each screen is quite simple. e.g. numbers 1 to 3 let kids choose from one of the three levels of difficulty, and the printer icon is self-explanatory. Needless to say, many video clips from the film are available. |
| DogDay | 1996 | Impact Interactive Publishing Pty Ltd. | Eyst Pty Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In this 1st-person, point and click adventure game, you play a dog (in a dog's universe) living under the brutal and corrupt regime of a dictator named Chegga. Chegga has full control of the media and has placed his friends in positions of power.Players must collect evidence of Chegga's wrong doing and sell it
to a shadowy group called C.A.T.S. (Coalition Against Totalitarian Society) which will presumably use the information to wrest control from Chegga. In selling this information, the goal is also to be gaining enough money to purchase a train ticket, leave this part of the world, and try to make a better life.The way the plot is laid out, it is unclear whether the player's character is out to rid the world of a tyrant or simply in it for the money. |
| Dogs of War | 1996 | Software Engineering, Inc. | Software Engineering, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | Historical events, World War II | | | | | | Windows | Dogs of War is an unofficial electronic adaptation of the Axis & Allies tabletop game. It was initially released as shareware in 1997, but the developers were forced to abandon it after threats of legal action by Milton Bradley, the copyright holders of the original strategy board game.As in the original, the game is a World War II strategy title were players take turns moving troops over a map, managing resources and attacking each other. Five players have to be selected at the start, each controlling every major nation involved in the conflict. They can be configured as human opponents, computer-controlled players, or network competitors, and the alliances of each nation can be set to either the axis or the allies. |
| Dominoes | 1996 | | | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Dominoes is a single-player, shareware, implementation of the classic game of single spinner dominoes.In this variation of the game each player takes turn placing domino tiles end-to-end, the number on adjoining tiles must match. Doubles are played sideways and the first double played is called the "spinner", and once dominoes have been played on either side of it its ends can be played as well.The game is mouse controlled, and while a four player game can be played the game plays three of the hands. |
| Dr. Sulfur's Night Lab | 1996 | McGraw Hill Home Interactive | McGraw Hill Home Interactive | Educational | 1st-person | | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Dr. Sulfur's Night Lab is an educational title where you learn about various aspects of chemistry. You have bailed out of a plane and crashed through the window of Dr. Sulfur's lab, where some mutated creatures have put various labs and experiments into disarray. You need to use knowledge of chemistry to set things right. Your guide is a mechanical giant flying nose, which doesn't make too much sense and isn't really explained. |
| Dracula's Secret | 1996 | Future Endeavors, Inc. | Corel Corporation, KLA Visual Productions Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | Released | Windows | Dracula's Secret is targeted towards kids and young gamers. In the beginning of the game Dracula invites you to explore his castle and its surroundings in order to discover the hidden secret. As you start, you explore the environment around the castle and try to make your way inside. There are many hurdles on the way, but the main objective is to gain access and find what the secret hidden by Dracula is. The castle is surrounded by many different monsters, a cemetery, a broken bridge...Once inside, you will meet different creatures and will have to solve puzzles. The objective is to find the items that comprise Dracula's Coat of Arms. The puzzles and obstacles include a range of logic-type problems and a few small games. There are fourteen or fifteen of these, including a couple of mazes, a picture puzzle, a sliding tile puzzle. The game uses a 1st-person perspective and Dracula appears at regular intervals to taunt your progress. |
| Dragon's Gate | 1996 | | Interworld Productions | Role-playing (RPG) | | | | | Fantasy | | | Persistent | | | Windows | This long-running online fantasy role-playing game started out in 1990 on GEnie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) as a text-based MUD (Multi User Dungeon), a precursor to current MMOs and had an hourly fee. It was later brought to America Online in 1996 with a GUI base then in 2001 to Mythic Realms for anyone with an internet connection before it was finally released on its own. After creating an individualized character from one of several classes and races, you will interact with other players and NPCs (monsters, merchants, etc.) in the game world while adventuring through scenarios run by a game master (GM) or another player. You can complete quests alone or with partners, search for loot and glory, compete in gladiator games and make new friends. Statistics are not emphasized but kept to a minimum though some are shown. Life continues in the persistent world 24 hours a day with religious and political strife even without your intervention. Dragon's Gate was officially closed on February 10, 2007. |
| Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp | 1996 | ReadySoft Incorporated | Don Bluth Multimedia, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Quick Time Events (QTEs), Timed input | Fantasy | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Time Warp is the sequel to the original Dragon's Lair arcade game. Players once again play Dirk the Daring, the brave and dashing knight, who, with a little bit of skill and a lot of luck, must once again rescue his princess, Daphne. This time, Daphne has been kidnapped through a "wrinkle in time" by the evil wizard Mordroc and it's up to Dirk to rescue her before she is forced into marriage.The PlayStation 3 and the iPhone version have an original game mode as well as a Director’s Cut with a different ending that was not featured in the original arcade version. The Macintosh version also contains the Director's Cut ending. In the Watch Game mode the entire game can be viewed in full as a movie without input from the player. |
| DragonHeart: Fire & Steel | 1996 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Funcom Oslo A/S | Action | Side view | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | This game is a tie-in for the movie directed by Rob Cohen starring Dennis Quaid and Sean Connery as the voice of Draco.DragonHeart puts you in the sweaty medieval shoes of dragon hunter Bowen, as he faces the last dragons still surviving, and then ends up befriending one, Draco. With his help, he goes after King Einon, a former pupil of the dragon hunter, who has turned to evil.Dragonheart's gameplay is quite similar to the Golden Axe series. Hack'n'slash your way through the nine levels of the game, killing dragons, befriending Draco and then going after Einon with Draco's help (who will toast everything in the way with his flame breath). |
| Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages | 1996 | Inscape | Epic Multimedia Group Limited | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | Mature | | Windows | The story behind Drowned God takes place under the notion that the human race was genetically engineered by god-like aliens that guided humankind through history by nudging civilization forward with certain artifacts of power. Four of those artifacts (The Ark of the Covenant, The Philosopher's Stone, The Rod of Osiris, and the Holy Grail) are now lost and they are the key to unlocking a series of mysteries that somehow tie up practically every conspiracy theory from the Knights Templar to the Illuminati.It is up to the player to gather these artifacts and solve the mysteries as they are sent through time and space from an alternate dimension, reminiscent of earth.The gameplay tends to set the pace for the development of the surreal storyline. Within every new location players will confront logic puzzles in the vein of The 7th Guest, which will give them access to new locations, secrets, etc. The interface itself is more reminiscent of the Myst games, where players move through pre-rendered "slideshows" and click on objects to interact with them. |
| Duck City | 1996 | BMG Interactive Entertainment | Domestic Funk Products Ltd. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Board game, Mini-games, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Children's edutainment title. Travel to different parts of Duck City and play mini games that encourage logic, interactivity and IT skills development. Some of the mini games include: a basketball match, a farm game that involves feeding slugs, styling duck's haircuts at the barbers and adding gadgets to RoboDuck at the garage. |
| EF 2000: Special Edition | 1996 | Ocean Software Ltd. | Digital Image Design Ltd. | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | EF2000 (Special Edition) contains:
EF2000 (base game)
EF2000 TACTCOM (expansion pack)
EF2000 baseball cap (not included in the Windows release) |
| Egger Land | 1996 | HAL Corporation | HAL Corporation | Action, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other), Diagonal-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Eggerland series consists of several puzzle games. You play as Lolo, a blue ball-like character with eyes, arms, and legs. The story mainly deals with King Egger, the villain, who has captured princess Lala, who is similar to Lolo, only she is red.Again it's up to Lolo to rescue Lala by travelling through Egger's domain and solving the puzzle rooms laid out before him. You must guide Lolo through a room of tiles and collect all of the Heart Framers in the room. Doing this opens up a Jewel Box, which contains an item. Successfully acquiring the contents of the Jewel Box will clear the room of all monsters and open the way to the next room(s). All the rooms are connected but not all the room entrances or exits are closed.To fight the monsters Lolo has a weapon: the Magic Shot. Two shots can be obtained by collecting certain Heart Framers.There are numerous types of obstacles in the rooms. Emerald Framers are green blocks that Lolo may push around freely. To make it all more challenging there are also numerous terrain obstacles, like water, sand and grass which have all different drawbacks for Lolo. |
| Emperor of the Fading Suns | 1996 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Holistic Design, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | Teen | | Windows | Intriguing Civ style game from the EotFS paper RPG Universe.Up to 5 players take the role of Houses vying for control of the known galaxy by winning political votes and siezing power.One of many interesting game mechanics is some technolgies are "banned" by the church, and players who research it may be punished for forbidden knowledge if/when the church finds out! |
| Empire II: The Art of War | 1996 | New World Computing, Inc. | White Wolf Productions, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | | | | Windows | Empire II: The Art of War is a further update of the classic computer wargame. (See Empire Deluxe.) This version includes more terrains and more sighting and movement rules. A significant change is that land units can take damage in a skirmish instead of simply winning or losing (being destroyed). There are also added rules for unit morale. If a unit's morale gets to low, they retreat, regardless of your orders. Other additions are allowing for reinforcements to appear on certain turns and weather factors.The scenario editor has been enhanced so that players cannot only create their own maps and scenarios, but their own custom units, including statistics and the graphics. So players can fight prehistoric, historical, fantasy, science fiction, or whatever battles they like. |
| Enemy Nations | 1996 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Windward Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | In Enemy Nations you can choose a race of that you'll be the leader - there's a great amount of them, mostly of course alien, but also the earthlings can be chosen. After this you land on a randomly created terrain with your landing ship. Your task is to conquer a planet for your race. Of course you're not alone, other races try the same. The game is basically a real-time strategy game, but with an important economic aspect, resource management is very important. The game has no campaign mode, all missions are stand-alone. |
| Evidence: The Last Report | 1996 | Microïds | Microïds | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Evidence: The Last Report is a detective adventure, in which you play Daniel Singer, a reporter for Channel Z. Your former girlfriend and co-worker Sarah Hopkins has been murdered and because you recently broke up with her, you are considered to be the prime suspect. You have a few hours to discover the real killer and your job isn’t easy, as there are people in high places involved that will try to stop you.Evidence is a point-and-click adventure with some real-time 3D action scenes that can be skipped. Those include shoot-em-up and beat-em-up sequences, and boat and car races. |
| Fable | 1996 | Sir-tech Software, Inc. | Simbiosis Interactive | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Fable is a classical puzzle-solving graphic adventure with hand-drawn backgrounds. The hero Quickthorpe is a young man who must leave his home village and travel through four fantasy worlds, each dedicated to a particular element. The goal of the journey is to find four mystic gemstones in order to learn about the secrets of an extinct race known as Mecubarz, and help his people with this knowledge. Interaction with the environment is done by clicking on an object and selecting available actions. Puzzles are for the most part inventory-based. Wrong choices may lead to the hero's death and a premature end of the game. |
| Farland Saga | 1996 | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Three warriors who were heading to the palace save the princess Fam from attackers. As they venture into the palace, they find out that a great hero who was trying to bring peace to the races of humans and magical people, was killed. Princess Fam is accused of murder. The three knights help her to flee the castle, but the ruler of magical people, Kaiser, declares war on humans. The runaway princess and her loyal knights find refuge in another country, and the inevitable war begins.Farland Story is an anime-style tactical RPG. The game mainly consists of large strategic battles, during which you navigate your troops over an isometric battle fields, attack the enemies physically or cast spells. Terrain height plays a role in the battles, since some spells will only affect one level of terrain and one direction. |
| Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory | 1996 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | SNK Corporation | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | An adaptation of the Neo-Geo fighting game. 2-D scrolling one-on-one fighter with pseudo-3D aspects (that allows for players to "escape" holds, throws, and other attacks). Part of the incestuously-popular SNK fighting game pantheon... |
| Final DOOM | 1996 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | id Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Final DOOM is the last id Tech 1 DOOM game. It adds two separate 32 level episodes: TNT: Evilution and The Plutonia Experiment to DOOM II.Gameplay in both episodes is completely identical to DOOM II, right down to the level progression (i.e. 30 levels and two secret levels), although they have a new backstory (both following directly on DOOM II rather than each other. Other changes are some new textures and, in TNT's case a few new music tracks.Neither episode was made by id Software, but rather by two groups of individuals hired by them; Team TNT and the Casali brothers. |
| Fire Fight | 1996 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Chaos Works | Action | | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Isometric 8-way scrolling shoot 'em up. Taking control of a low flying space craft players must hunt out key objectives in each mission and take them out. Features multiple weapons, stages and enemies plus secret objectives and areas. |
| Firo & Klawd | 1996 | BMG Interactive Entertainment | Interactive Studios Ltd. | Action | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | Platform, Shooter | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | In the depths of New York City live two animal cop characters living out their own dreams (Firo, an orange ape and Klawd, an alley cat). But when counterfeit crimes push the city to its limits, the two must knock their differences to the side and clean up the mess that the other cops are yet to achieve. Includes a mix of Isometric platform action, and 1st person shoot 'em up stages, with plenty of laughs along the way. |
| Fisher-Price Learning in Toyland | 1996 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Fisher-Price: Learning In Toyland is a set of educational games and activities based loosely around the Fisher-Price style of toys. The host for the activities is Gotcha Gopher and his pal, Bippity Bug. The 6 games/activities are:
Big Action Garage: The object of this activity is to build vehicles that match a given picture of a vehicle. To achieve this, the player selects from different body types, wheels, and ornaments. The game also has a mode where the player can create any vehicle from the available pieces and print the result.All-in-1 Workshop:The object of this activity is to build woodworking creations given a set of wood pieces, a drill, screwdriver, hammer, and some screws and nails. Spots are marked on the wood where the player must drill and then plant screws, or where the player must hammer nails. After the project is compete, the player must also remember to clean up the workbench with the vacuum cleaner. This activity also includes a free-form mode where the player has more flexibility to build anything and print the result.Fliptrack Mountain: This game deals with transport logistics at a young child's level. Various objects must be transported around a map and the player must decide which vehicle (car, boat, train or helicopter) is best suited for the task.Talking Smart Street: This activity presents the player with many buttons on a street that represent letters, numbers, and animals. Pressing on a letter or number will cause a voice to vocalize the letter or number, while clicking on an animal will play the sound the animal makes.All-in-1 Kitchen: In this activity, the player must follow the cookie recipe laid out by the game and mix together ingredients in the right order. Then the player must cut out certain shapes from the rolled dough, bake them, and decorate the cookies in a particular manner. As with other activities, this one also has a free-form mode.3-in-1 Creativity Table: This activity includes coloring, crafts, and building blocks. In the coloring mode, the player must color certain objects in a picture according to the game's instructions. Also, the player can choose to do free crayon drawing on a canvas. In crafts, the player chooses from a variety of basic shapes and can decorate them with glitter and various other items. In the building block game, the player must match a series of colored blocks onto a picture to create the final picture.
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| Flotte Flitzer | 1996 | Rainbow Kids | | Racing / Driving | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | Track racing | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Flotte Flitzer is a racing game aimed at kids aged six and older. Choosing from characters such as Andy Mc Candy, Susy S. Jim Tonic and Curiy, races take place on tracks shown using a top-down view. The racing is arcade-like with skidding and navigating oil spills. Earnings by finish in the top three can be spent at the shop for new parts such as better tyres, stronger engine, more stable bodywork, harder shock absorbers or small devilries like mines that make life difficult for the other drivers. |
| Flying Corps | 1996 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Rowan Software Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War I | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | Fly four different campaigns of the World War I. The missions are very different and reach from patrol flights to fast attacks. You'll meet planes like Sopwith Camel, Nieuport Scout, SPAD S.XIII, Albatros D.III or Fokker Dr.I Triplane, to mention a few. The game is for both, beginners and experts as you can individually change the realism model. |
| Freddi Fish and Luther's Maze Madness | 1996 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In Maze Madness, Freddi's friend Luther has managed to accidentally scatter Grandma Grouper's kelp seeds throughout a gigantic set of underwater mazes. You control Freddi Fish, who sets out to find and recover all of the missing kelp seeds.
As she advances through 50 levels (plus bonus rounds), you'll need to solve simple puzzles, avoid pesky critters, and pick up special items which will help her on her way. After all of the kelp seeds have been picked up in a maze, Freddi will automatically advance to the next round.The player controls Freddi by using the mouse or keyboard.
The cursor keys move Freddi, while the Enter and Ctrl keys allow Freddi to fire when she has the Bubble-Shooter power-up. If you choose to use the mouse, simply move the cursor arrow to a target location for Freddi, click the left mouse button, and she'll attempt to swim toward the target - Freddi will be able to navigate corners, but only one at a time, so if she's unable to swim to the target, try breaking the trip up into shorter pieces.
If Freddi has the Bubble-Shooter powerup, she'll fire bubbles if she is directly facing the target, and if the mouse button is held down briefly.
The game allows multiple people to play the game with their progress recorded under their own name. The game allows you to save or exit the game after each level is finished, and previously finished levels can be re-played.The game also comes with a level editor, that is icon-based rather than text-based so non-readers can use it. |
| Freddi Fish and Luther's Water Worries | 1996 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | In Water Worries, you play Luther, a young green fish who gets sucked into a whirlpool and must find his way out. Luther's search will eventually take him through 100 underwater levels jam-packed full of action and adventure. On the way home, Luther will need to be aware of the hazards around him, while picking up worm doodles which will allow him to advance further. Bubbles, which are constantly rising from deep within the whirlpool, will force the water level down if they are allowed to reach the water's surface. If the water level becomes too low, Luther will have to retry the level, minus one energy level. To prevent this from happening, Luther must use his trusty slingshot and unlimited supply of ammo to pop the bubbles before they reach the surface. Luther also needs to be careful when navigating the whirlpool, since running into a bubble may render him momentarily trapped and unable to fire his slingshot. |
| Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds | 1996 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Freddi Fish and her pal Luther must find Grandma Grouper's missing kelp seeds. Without them, all the sea creatures will starve. Freddi and Luther follow clues through underwater caves and canyons and outwit two criminal sharks to recover the kelp seeds. |
| Free Enterprise | 1996 | Tsunami Media, Inc. | Tsunami Media, Inc. | Simulation | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | Donald C. Soper | Windows | Free Enterprise is a business simulator. You get to choose your factory and then hire a unique workforce to operate machinery and carry out the orders that you assign them all done by exchanging memos.
You can produce up to 100 products in your factory and your goal is to be successful.
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| Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '96 Season | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Whether you play as a manager, coach or player, Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '96 Season offers detailed gameplay for each type of player. It has every MLB player and their most up-to-date stats as of 1996. Baseball Pro '96 season provides physics-based game play for total realism in ball-spin, air friction, etc. You can play in any of the 28 3D rendered major league parks. By setting the playing modes, you can decide whether you or the computer will control the managing, pitching, fielding, batting or baserunning. Gameplay can be controlled by using the joystick or keyboard. |
| Front Page Sports: Football Pro '97 | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc., Synergistic Software, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Back of Box - Windows (US) (from Ad Blurbs)"STILL THE CHAMP OF FOOTBALL SIMS." - PC GamerThe best-selling football game on CD-ROM now sports modem and network play, allowing you to challenge friends head-to-head in a gridiron battle.Whether you're calling plays, blitzing the quarterback or throwing a long bomb, the competition will be fierce but an on-line victory is just a game away.With individual player Artificial Intelligence and motion-captured movements, no other football sim is as genuine or comprehensive.Every pass, every run, every bone-shattering tackle looks, moves and feels authentic.From the first round of the draft to the final seconds of Super Bowl™ Sunday, Football Pro puts you on the field.Stereo Sound:
The roar of the crowd, the crunch of the helmets, the grunts of the linemen are all featured in stereo Direct Sound.League Play:
Create custom leagues ranging from 8 to 30 teams.Football Goes On-Line:
New modem and network capabilities allow you to play against friends around the globe.Play Editor Easier Than Ever:
If the 10,000 plays included aren't enough for you, quickly design your own winning play with the new Play Wizard.Incredible Accuracy:
Play with all 30 NFL teams in a physics-based 3-D environment, including all current NFL rules, stats and players.Unique Career Play Option:
The only football sim to offer career play. Watch players mature, get injured, improve their skills and maybe even make it into the Hall of Fame.Choose Your Camera Angle:
The exclusive Camera Angle Management System (CAMS™) lets you watch the action from any place on or off the field, with blimp version and instant replays too! |
| Fructus | 1996 | | | Puzzle | | | | Arcade, Falling block puzzle | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | First to say, Fructus based upon Columns.Before you start the game, you can choose in the options your starting level, the higher the level, the faster the fruits will fall. Furthermore you have the option to choose the number of fruits per row.Once you have started a game, you will be presented with your current falling row, which consists of three random fruits. Now it's your job to manipulate the order of the row, how the fruits are falling. Your final goal is to form up a row of the same type of fruits on the bottom of the game field, once you done this, these fruits will disappear, and the fruits that maybe on top of these, will fall further down.How many similar fruits you need for this depends on the option you have set before you started. On default it's three fruits, maximal is eight fruits (from eight possible squares). You do not need to arrange them horizontal, you can also arrange them vertical or diagonal. Once this row vanishes, you get your points. If you reach a certain amount of points, you proceed to the next level, were this all gets faster. All in all, there are 9 levels in total.The fruits you play with are the following: Cherry, Strawberry, Watermelon, Apple, Grapefruit, and Plum. In addition, there are some kind of red "stars", these are falling only in a row without fruits, once they hit the fruits, some of them gets destroyed and you earn points.And in addition to the fruit-based-column-game, there is a plain square-based-column-game included, which can be activated (or deactivated) from the options. |
| Fugitive | 1996 | Stratos, Asociacion de Desarrolladores | Exelweiss Entertainment, S.L. | Adventure | | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Fugitive is an isometric adventure game about a prison escape. The player controls a prisoner who will be moved to a maximum security prison and he has seven days to escape before he is transferred. The game takes place over several days and there are a number of activities that are required to participate in so as not to raise suspicion. Each day is divided into morning, dinner time, evening, bedtime, night, when the prisoner must perform indicated activity, for example, he must arrive on time to the cafeteria or to bed. The candle shows you how much time is left to arrive to the next moment of the day. The selected areas of the prison are guarded by a camera, the other can be accessed only by police. Meanwhile it is possible to talk to other characters, gather stuff and use it in the environment and eventually find a way out of the prison before the sixth night is over. The game features around 40 different objects that may be used to solve the logic puzzles.The bottom horizontal third of the screen is used for the interface. It contains the icons to interact, the inventory, the time of day and a zoomed-in view of the current location. When talking to a character, the figure also appears in the interface and the conversation text is shown in a horizontal bar above. At the right the player has the sequence of the TV security cameras of the prison. He can't do anything suspicious when a camera is filming. |
| Full Tilt! 2 Pinball | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Action | | | | Pinball | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A fairly simple 3D-tilted pinball simulation featuring three tables (Mad Scientist, Alien Daze, & Captain Hero), all of which have a sci-fi/comic book theme. Can be played in a window or fullscreen. |
| Full Tilt! Pinball | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Cinematronics, LLC | Action | Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Full Tilt! Pinball is the first pinball simulation game developed by Cinematronics, LLC.The game includes three boards:
Dragon’s Keep - Medieval Fantasy theme;
Skulduggery - Pirate theme;
Space Cadet - Space ship commander theme.
Each board features the usual amount of bumpers, targets, ramps, etc. as well as a big payoff for the successful completion of each table, such as slaying a dragon in Dragon's Keep, or creating a black hole in Space Cadet. Different sounds and music are incorporated for the individual tables.The games are played using keyboard keys and include being able to nudge the tables. Being too forceful with a nudge will result in a tilt and end that turn. |
| Game Dev Story | 1996 | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd | Simulation | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Ever wondered what it would be like to own your own game company? Make your own games? Game Dev Story answers that question by putting a new up and coming game development studio in your hands. As the CEO, you choose your game style, address the market with the right kind of content on the right platform, and make your mark in the games industry.Game Dev Story is a simulation game, with the main aim being to take a small development studio and build it up to the become the largest game developer on the planet. You'll have full control over all the every day activities a studio entails, such as the hire and fire of staff, what games to develop and for which consoles, whether to attend certain media events and the occasional chance to purchase improvements to your studio (such as moving to a larger building). Finances are based on overall product sales, determined largely by the audience you're able to rake in. Get it right and you'll be able to develop sequels to your most successful games, or hire out big names to help create your next one. All the while, you will also have to balance the books, or advertise your company and your games through various ways.The titles you can create range in genre and style, and it's all up to you. The staff you hire will work for you, create graphics and sound, designing the core story or style, but you will determine the overall costs and direction along the way. Every game is rated by reviewers and sold for the console you chose, with constant in game updates on how well it's selling and your current overall income. If money is a problem or sales are down, you can also choose to develop independent projects for other companies to help pay the way to your next game, such as creating FMV's or music scores.Game Dev Story harks back to the old school 2D graphics of the SNES and PC of old with pixelated characters and midi music, combined with a modern day touch screen menu system.
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| Gamebox: 50 Spiele | 1996 | Softgold Computerspiele GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation consists of 50 games on one CD with all the manuals in PDF format on the disc and also includes an issue of the German magazine PC Action.The games are:
Abandoned Places: A Time for Heroes
At the Carnival
Crime Time
Crown
Dizzy Dice
Eco Phantoms
The Fool's Errand
Grand Monster Slam
Invest
MUDS
Berlin 1948
Black Gold
Street Cat
Blue Angel
Bozuma
Circus Attractions
Conqueror
Curse of Ra
Day of the Pharaoh
Khalaan
Lords of Doom
Oil Imperium
Logical
Logo
Lollypop
Mad TV
Masterblazer
Rings of Medusa
Rock 'n Roll
Rolling Ronny
Sarakon
Scenario
Soul Crystal
Spirit of Adventure
Spy vs. Spy III: Arctic Antics
St. Thomas
Super Soccer
Sword of Honour
The Ball Game
The Faery Tale Adventure: Book I
The Return of Medusa
Tie Break
Traders: The Intergalactic Trading Game
Transworld
Treasure Trap
Turrican II: The Final Fight
Volleyball Simulator
Winzer
Xenomorph
Xiphos |
| Gamer's Jackpot 30 PAC | 1996 | SelectWare Technologies, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Collection of 30 games of various genres, all of them occupying 14 CDs. The games included in their original form, that is a single game on a single or more CDs, are these: Absolute Zero, Dragon's Lair, Flight Unlimited, FX Fighter, Silent Steel, The Journeyman Project Turbo!, The Journeyman Project 2 : Buried in Time, The Riddle of Master Lu.On the four remaining discs are the following games: Jagged Alliance, MathAce Jr., Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant, Brain Dead 13, Wrath of the Demon, Blue Force, Jet Fighter II, Spectre VR, Freakin' Funky Fuzzballs, Super-VGA Harrier, Cyclemania, HardBall III, Jack Nicklaus Signature Edition, Trump Castle 3, Grandmaster Chess, Anyone for Cards?, 3-D Table Sports, Twisted Mini Golf, Jammit, Druid : Daemons of the Mind, Wizardry : Crusaders of the Dark Savant, The Orion Conspiracy. |
| Garfield: Caught in the Act | 1996 | SEGA Corporation | Point of View, Inc. | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | As lazy cartoon cat Garfield, you're somehow trapped in your TV, that's what happens with too much TV watching. Go and find all remote-control pieces to get out of that box, and check the fridge for a change. The player advances through levels and bonus rounds in his attempt to escape.Unlike most other platform games of its time, Garfield boasted completely unique art on each of its six levels, both for tile art and character costumes. The levels are inspired by classic movies, but given a Garfield twist, like "Catsablanca" and "The Curse of Cleofatra". |
| Gazillionaire Deluxe | 1996 | LavaMind | LavaMind | Simulation, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | An update of the previous Gazillionaire space-trading game. Gazillionaire Deluxe includes the existing gameplay of that title and offers the following changes and updates:
Abilitiy to customize the solar system from a set of pre-existing planets
There are twice as many spaceships to choose from
Double the number of "random event" travel encounters
A new Stock Markets system that lets players invest on a particular planet
Adjustable intelligence for the computer players
Play-by-email functionality for multiplayer games |
| Gearheads | 1996 | Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | R/Greenberg Associates Interactive | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Suppose you are child and want to play with your friend in 'virtual sand-box'. Cause you are not old enough to play chess or cards, you can use your beloved mechanical toys. They will help you to win a some sort of strategy game.In turn-based mode you have to activate different mechanical toys to get from one part of the sand-box to another. Your opponent do the same. If your toys pass their way twenty one times then you are winner. There are 12 types of toys. Every toy has own program of behaviour and out of control after activation. Some of toys has a program to deactivate the enemy toy.You can play against a computer and against your best friend. |
| Goosebumps Escape from Horrorland | 1996 | Microsoft Corporation, DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Horror | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland is the interactive sequel to R.L. Stine's kids' horror novel, One Day at Horrorland. You and Lizzy, her brother Luke, and his friend Clay are once again trapped in Horrorland, a sinister, scary "theme park." When Luke and Clay are captured, you and Lizzy must find them and escape from the park with your lives. However, you must go up against a mummy, a werewolf, Dracula, and many more monsters in order to escape. |
| Grand Prix Manager 2 | 1996 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Edward Grabowski Communications Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | Automobile, Track racing | | | | | Windows | Take control of one of the existing Formula 1 teams (or one of two customizable fictitious ones) and try to take them to the top of the start in this management simulation.Every major decision is under your control. You must choose which parts of the car to improve, including Driver Aids whose legality varies over the years - is the extra performance worth the risk of disqualifications? Testing will help you assess the car's performance and prepare set-ups for the next race.Staff can be hired and fired, ranging form drivers to designers and commercial staff, which often means trading off having a large team, or a small but well-drilled and capable one. Obtaining and retaining the interest of sponsors and engine manufacturers is a crucial challenge as the years go on.Once the race weekend comes around, you must make the best use of practice and qualifying sessions, as well as preparing a pit strategy and being ready to adjust it if incidents, weather or unexpected performance issues occur. The action is viewed from overhead, with full commentary.There are also 5 Challenges, which set you a specific task based on one changed variable (such as bank balance, driver skill and engine supply). |
| Great Adventures by Fisher-Price: Pirate Ship | 1996 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Adventure | | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Sea pirates / Caribbean | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fisher-Price Great Adventures: Pirate Ship is an adventure game for children over 4 years. Find the treasure map aboard the pirate ship. Collect all parts of the map and put it back together. Many items on the ship can be researched, such as a telescope or cannons. |
| Greatest Moments of Our Time | 1996 | EMME Interactive SA | Pantheon Productions Inc. | Educational | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Greatest Moments of Our Time is a reference title produced in 1996 and includes an interesting mix of subjects. The main menu has some admin icons plus eight categories, one of which is a trivia game. Each category, when opened gives the user archive footage which plays in a small window on the left, a short text article on the right, and a voice over which reads a summary of the main points in the article. The reference categories shown below with some of the articles they contain:
World Events: Yalta Conference, First American to Orbit Earth; Berlin Wall; Khrushchev in America; Israeli/PLO Peace Accord; De Gaulle Visits Germany; Kennedy In Europe; Kennedy’s Funeral
Pioneers: Charles Lindbergh; Wright Brothers; Henry Ford; Amelia Earhart; Helen Keller; Albert Einstein & Thomas Edison
Leaders: Pope Paul VI; George VI; John F. Kennedy; F. D. Roosevelt; Elizabeth & Philip; Modern U.S. Presidents; Mahatma Ghandi; Nelson Mandela
Science & Technology: Salk’s Vaccine; The Telstar; High Speed Train; Contact Lenses; Heart Transplant; Discoveries of Voyager; Hubble Telescope; Hindenburg; The Jet Age; Breaking the Sound Barrier
Culture & Lifestyle: Twiggy in New York; Hippies; Hula-Hoop; Guggenheim Museum; Fashion Show 1957; Valley of the Kings; Modern Art
Entertainment: Mary Pickford; Maryiln Monroe; The Beatles; Elvis; Charlie Chaplin; Grace Kelly; Orson Wells; Charlton Heston
Sports: Babe Ruth; Jesse Owens; Joe Louis; Paavo Nurmi; Jean-Claude Killy
Trivia Game: This is a quiz with three levels of difficulty. It lasts for three rounds and has five timed, multiple choice questions per round, all the questions are based on the articles in the reference material on the disc. If a player does not score high enough they are told 'Go back and do your homework", if they score highly then they are invited to play again but at a higher difficulty setting |
| Green Eggs and Ham | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Green Eggs and Ham is the second Dr. Seuss Living Book Adaptation from Broderbund. The story features Sam-I-Am, who repeatedly asks the questions based on an object, e.g. “Would you Could you on a boat?”. This leads to his grumpy friend saying “I do not like Green Eggs an Ham”. The story gets more dramatic as it progresses. There are some activities featuring characters from the story like the Fox in a Box, and the Mouse in the House. The game features word recognition, vocabulary, reading comprehension and computer literacy. Every page is clickable for a few surprises. In Read to Me, the program automatically turns the pages leaving out the games as the story progresses. |
| Green Thumb Cards | 1996 | Playful Minds | Playful Minds | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Green Thumb Cards is a virtual version of an actual card game. Four players (up to 3 of which can be played by the computer) take cards featuring flowers, garden pests, helpful tools and random acts of nature. Players try to obtain complete sets of flowers by taking cards from the stack, stealing cards from another player, or picking up cards out of the center walkways. For example, it takes 4 roses to complete the rose set. Once a player has successfully planted all cards of a set in their garden, they have earned the points for that set and can no longer lose those cards. Other players can steal cards by using a pest card. Pests can be defended against by using the appropriate defense card. The player who has earned the most points when all cards have been used is the winner. Game featured net play as well as offline play. |
| Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc., Capitol Multimedia, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon is a children's adventure game (aimed at ages 4-7) that tells the story of Gregory Chuckwood - a young woodchuck who lives in a quiet and cozy town of Acorn Hollow. One sunny day Gregory and his pet lizard Newt go for a ride in a hot air balloon, which gets loose and crash lands near a carnival. Now the hero has to fix the balloon and to find the way back home - as well as to engage in different fun activities at the carnival. The activities in the game include reading storybooks that describe some of Gegory's and Newt's other adventures, playing Guessing game, when you have to pick the correct object from the five pictures shown by its description, visiting the Trampoline room for jumping, or the Mirror room in the Fun House to change Gregory's reflection etc. |
| Grid Runner | 1996 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Radical Entertainment Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Aliens have captured you and you are forced to play a deadly game of what appears to be capture the flag combined with tag. Race your way around the area and capture the required number of flags before being touched by your opponent. If they do touch you, you must find and touch them before they capture the right number of flags. Who ever is "it" cannot capture flags until their opponent is tagged. There is a story and 2 player versus mode. Through the story, you face many different enemies with ranging speeds and firepower (gun fire only slows down the person shot, there is no health bar). |
| Gubble | 1996 | Actual Entertainment, Inc. | Actual Entertainment, Inc. | Action | | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | An arcade game in which you have to break apart levels in order to free your planet from an enemy race.You are Gubble D. Gleep, an alien who wakes up to find that his planet has been taken over by an enemy race, so you have to break apart areas using tools. |
| Hall of Fame Game Cube | 1996 | Aztech New Media Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Hall Of Fame Game Cube is a seven CD compilation of shareware, freeware and demo games published Aztech's. Broadly speaking, each disc contains games of a certain category though there are many anomalies, for example World Empire II is classed as a strategy game while World Empire III is among the simulation games. Disc one is a DOS only compilation and disc seven is a WIN 95 only compilation while the remaining discs mainly WIN 3.x games with some WIN 95 games and the odd DOS game. Most of the games can be run direct from the CD via the supplied browser. The discs in this set are;
Disc 1 - Dos Games: Animated Memory Game,
Battle Lemming,
Capture the Flag,
Chinese Checkers",
Cyberbox,
"Operation Vulture III: Cyber Chopper,
Descent,
Diamond,
Die Blarney,
Doom,
Dschump!,
East Front 1419,
Flying Tigers,
Heretic,
Hexen,
Hubie,
Igor: Objective Uikokahonia,
Operation: Vulture,
Orbots,
Roboto,
Sokoban,
Space Station Escape,
Speculator,
Star Hammer,
Super Speed,
The Road to Baghdad,
Tommy's Russian Bank,
Troubled Towers,
Trugg,
Ultimate Gin,
The Great Ultizurkian Underland,
War In Korea,
World Quest 8,
World War II In Europe,
Xeno Blaster,
Zoom 3DDisc 2 - Parlor Games: Dino Cards ,
Puzzle Pack,
Word Wrestle
WinAgrams aka Anagram Word Puzzle,
Ancient Yacht,
Arasan Chess,
Calculation Solitaire ,
Canfield ,
CardShark Hearts ,
Cribbage for Windows ,
Cross Words Deluxe ,
CrossWords 2.0
Double Deck Solitaire ,
Draughts a freeware game from The University of Limerick,
Draw 5: Draw Poker For Windows
4-Play,
Four Seasons Solitaire ,
Gnu Chess,
Gin Rummy from MeggieSoft ,
GNU Chess Revision: 1990-09-30 by Daryl Baker,
Hang Man ,
K-Chess for Windows ,
Master Mind,
MisterMind,
Paradise Solitaire,
PentoPuzzle aka Pentominoes,
Pirate's Gold Solitaire,
Rangoon Solitaire,
Rummy 500,
Safebuster
Shift Zone,
Sir Hangman,
Win Block and WinBridge,
Plus all these games from Solitaire King series;
Solitaire King: Aces Up,
Solitaire King: Accordian,
Solitaire King: Beleagured Castle,
Solitaire King: Busy Aces,
Solitaire King: Clock Solitaire,
Solitaire King: Golf Solitaire,
Solitaire King: Grandfather's Patience,
Solitaire King: King Albert,
Solitaire King: Klonike,
Solitaire King: St. Helena,
Solitaire King: Shamrocks,
Solitaire King: Yukon,
Disc 3 - Adventure Games: Exile: Escape from the Pit,
Exile II: Crystal Souls,
Sapiens,
The Inside World,
Adventure Gamer for Windows: This is a program that enables games to be created, the shareware release included here comes with both a training game and a 'full size' game The Gates Of Macrohard,
Castle of the Winds,
Dave Dude,
Hugo's Horrific Adventure,
Nitemare-3D,
Pelvis-n-Space,
Quenzar's Caverns,
SuperHer,
The Adventures of MicroMan,
Win Battle,
and
Win TrekDisc 4 - Action/Arcade Games:
Cell War,
Defender,
Robot Battle (V1.2),
Virus: The Game,
A Day at the Races - a WIN 95 game,
Alien Force,
Bad Toys,
Bago,
Boxes,
Boxes II,
Brickbat,
Block-Heads,
Chomp from Glen Summers,
ColorBlind,
The Egg Carton Game,
Electro-Cute,
Fire Away!,
Fruits Fields,
Gelules,
Glider 4.0,
Gold Monkey,
Gopher-It,
Jeu d'Henri,
Jpuzzle aka J-Puzzle,
MacBlaster,
Super Marble Solitaire called just Marble Solitaire in the game browser,
Missile Attack!,
Oil Cap Pro,
Penta-Blox,
Pudge,
Shuttle,
Squark,
Squirmer The Game,
Tai Chi Game,
Moraff's Tinyjongg,
Touzai-Mahjong,
Vyper,
Win Aliens, and
WOWSpill
Disc 5 - Strategy Games:
Declaration Of War,
Econ's Arena,
Orion,
WWI Air Fighters: A StrikeDeck game,
AlienTic, ]
Attaxx,
Block Breaker from Yutaka Emura,
BrainCubes,
Cubix,
Flip It ,
In The Dark,
Lines,
Maxit,
Medieval War,
Mother Of All Battles!,
Nine Men's Morris from Carl von Blixen,
Noughts And Crosses from Pentti Moilanen,
High Command aka Pendulous,
Pensate,
Rollem Game,
Search and Destroy version 2.2,
Space Empires II,
Span-It!,
Stellar Empires,
Win Block for Windows,
WinWar II, and World Empire IIDisc 6 - Simulation Games:
GoMoku Narabe,
Gravity Well,
Lost in a Labyrinth,
Magic Hexagons,
ABM Command,
Baccarat For Windows,
Backup,
Financial Freedom Electronic Darts,
Glass Bead Challenge,
Link Four,
Lucky Stars Video Slots,
Moraff's Morejongg,
Office Darts 301
Video Keno for Windows,
3D-Life,
WinPolis,
World Empire IIIDisc 7 - Hi-Octane Games: Hi-Octane' does not mean this is a collection of racing games, rather the twelve games on this CD all require, by 1996 standards, a 'Hi-Octane' pc to run them. The games are Hardwood Solitaire - an early version of Hardwood Solitaire III,
Prince Of Destruction,
Moraff's SpherejonggSpherical Mahjongg 3D in the browser menu
Terrace,
Lode Runner,
Maze O' Doom,
Metal Marines,
Peggleboz,
Senet,
Super Qube Hopper,
Moraff's Ultra Blast, and
Winroids from developer Stephen Baxter.
The technical information on the back of the Hi Octane CD states that WIN 95 is a requirement but many of the games in this collection are Windows 3.x games. |
| Hangman 95 | 1996 | | | Puzzle | Side view | | | Board game, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Hangman 95 is a single player, mouse controlled, Hangman game. The game has five categories to choose from, movies, TV shows, People, Places and Things. The player may attempt to solve puzzles from any one or any combination of these groups. The player attempts to guess what the hidden word(s) are and loses a life every time hey get one wrong.
What makes this game a little different is that the player does not start each new word with a new 'man' or set of lives, whatever's hanging there at the end of puzzle one stays there for the start of puzzle two
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| Happy and Indigo: Following the North Arrow | 1996 | | Keshet Orion | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | "Happy and Indigo" is an Israeli Educational game for kids.
You play with Effi and Indigo, Crow and Snail looking for the dreams star. They do missions and usually after every mission they get an object that will help them to go ahead in the game. The game include tunes.
There is also a little information about science and astronomy in the game.Happy and Indigo: Following the North Arrow is the second game in the series "Happy and Indigo". |
| Happy and Indigo: Green Adventure | 1996 | | Keshet Orion | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Happy and Indigo: Green Adventure is an Israeli educational game for kids and the third game in the Happy and Indigo series. You play with Effi and Indigo, Crow and Snail, that are looking for the dreams star. They do missions and usually after every mission they get an object that will help them to go ahead in the game. The game include different music tracks. There is also a little information about science and astronomy in the game. |
| Happy and Indigo: Green Land | 1996 | | Keshet Orion | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Happy and Indigo: Green Land is an Israeli educational game for kids and the sixth game in the Happy and Indigo series. You play with Effi and Indigo, Crow and Snail, that looking for the love star. They do missions and usually after every mission they get object that will help them to go ahead in the game. The game include tunes. There is also a little information about science and astronomy in the game. |
| Happy and Indigo: Love Star | 1996 | | Keshet Orion | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Happy and Indigo: Love Star is an Israeli educational game for kids and the fifth game in the Happy and Indigo series. You play with Effi and Indigo, Crow and Snail, that looking for the love star. They do missions and usually after every mission they get object that will help them to go ahead in the game. The game include tunes. There is also a little information about science and astronomy in the game. |
| Happy and Indigo: The Journey to Iris | 1996 | | Keshet Orion | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Happy and Indigo: The Journey to Iris is an Israeli educational game for kids and the first game in the Happy and Indigo series. You play with Effi and Indigo, Crow and Snail, that looking for the dreams star. They do missions and usually after every mission they get object that will help them to go ahead in the game. The game include tunes. There is also a little information about science and astronomy in the game. |
| Happy and Indigo: The Journey to Space | 1996 | | Keshet Orion | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Happy and Indigo: The Journey to Space is an Israeli educational game for kids and the fourth game in the Happy and Indigo series. You play with Effi and Indigo, Crow and Snail that are looking for the love star. They do missions and usually after every mission they get an object that will help them to go ahead in the game. The game include different music tracks. There is also a little information about science and astronomy in the game. |
| Hariboy's Quest | 1996 | | Condor Software | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Hariboy's Quest is a point-and-click adventure where you play as Hariboy who is sucked into a painting in his room into the fantasy world of Bonbonia. It is a promotional game for Haribo candy. An evil dragon has destroyed the candy formula contained in a chest, but there is a copy spread across three books in different worlds (medieval, Roman, and wild west). Hariboy must retrieve these. However, Jack, the one eyed man, and his gang of pirates are also wanting their hands on them as well. Along the way, he encounters characters which are advertising mascots for Haribo. The game has SVGA graphics and there is some pixel-hunting of items on occasion. It has 250 locations with dozens of puzzles to figure out. |
| Hind: The Russian Combat Helicopter Simulation | 1996 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Digital Integration Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Helicopter, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Hind is a simulation of the Soviet Mi-24 helicopter (codenamed "Hind" by NATO and nicknamed "Flying Tank" by Soviet troops), and the followup to Apache. It features most of the same options, including the ability to change between realistic or more arcade-ish controls by reducing roll, adding unlimited ammo or make the Hind indestructible. Gameplay was changed to fit the differences between the fast and maneuverable Apache and the slow and rock-solid Hind. Instead of relying on speed, Hind pilots must be prepared to take all openings possible to attack and focus on avoiding missile fire (as the hull can take machine gun and even cannon rounds happily). Several viewpoints are available, from pilot or gunner to several external views.There are three campaigns, Kazakhstan (where you face a similarly-equipped enemy, pro-independence rebels), Afghanistan (the Mujaheddin, mostly foot soldiers armed with machine guns, rockets and the odd AAA but in a very hilly terrain) and Korea, where you can skirmish against American equipment. Campaign missions range from fixed target destruction (such as a bunker or a fuel depot), troop deployment (or evacuation), attacks on enemy positions or even lasing a target for the MiGs. There are day, night and foggy missions, where you have to rely just on instruments for navigation, making pre-mission planning (you can edit the flight plan to include more waypoints, or move them to go round or over a mountain, for instance) more important. Each campaign includes 10 scenarios that can be played by their own, along several training missions (which are crucial to get the most of the helicopter). Netplay is included, and given the similarities between Hind and Apache, owners of each game can go head to head together. |
| Holiday Island | 1996 | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH | Simulation | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Point and select | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Holiday Island is in the style of Sim City, but instead of building a town you have to fill up some Caribbean isles to create the ideal holiday location. There are more than 60 different buildings to choose from - hotels, bars, car rentals, sport facilities, parks, discos and many more. You are facing several rivals, and can play dirty tricks on them to inhibit their progressYou can start an endless game or play one of the 6 scenarios, each with a different goal. The backing MIDI music is Caribbean -themed - Reggae and samba. |
| Home/Family Bundle | 1996 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a compilation of family-oriented software with five SoftKey titles:
Design It! 3-D
Home Gardener
Kitchen Gourmet
The Oregon Trail
Typing Teacher |
| Hoyle Blackjack | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Hoyle Blackjack offers players the experience of playing the popular and easy to learn card game at a casino table against the dealer, other talking players in a single-player game as well as multiplayer games through the internet with other real-life opponents. You start with $5,000 in chips and $5,000 in the bank from which you can withdraw funds through an in-game ATM. The game offers a tutorial and hints and the player can customize may options such as number of decks, bet limits, double-down options, and number of splits allowed. You can adjust the talkativeness of the computer opponents and dealer and choose a male or female dealer and from amongst colorful opponents each with their own personality. There's the sultry Kathryn, the suave James Bond wannabe Sterling, the beer-drinking worker Jack, and the purse-clutching Mrs. O’Shea among others. |
| Hoyle Bridge | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The game of contract bridge in the style of Sierra’s popular Hoyle series.Hoyle Bridge lets you play with your choice of eleven comical animated characters (or eleven stiff “business world” characters if you prefer) in a friendly rubber of the popular card game. In addition to standard bidding conventions and save/load/replay hand features, there are a variety of backgrounds, card backs, and sound sets to make the experience more colorful. Also, the animated players are fully voiced and speak in character (although why a pirate and a puppy enjoy playing bridge is left up to your imagination). |
| Hoyle Casino | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In this first iteration of Hoyle's Casino, you enter a Vegas casino where you can play: Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Slot Machines, and different varieties of Poker. You start with $5,000 and try to build up winnings, or if you lose all your money you can try asking loan sharks for more. The game offers computer opponents and croupiers who comment wittily on your performance and each has their own personality. You can alter the settings as to how talkative they are. Plus, you can change various options of the games depending on your preferences. |
| Hoyle Children's Collection | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A Hoyle collection of classic card and board games designed for children. Includes checkers, crazy eights and old maid. The game allows players to choose various computer opponents, each with its own animated icon, personality, and distinct playing style.
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| Huygen's Disclosure | 1996 | Microforum International | Microforum International | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Huygen's Disclosure is set in 2020 when the ozone layer is almost completely destroyed. A member of the Galactic Reconaissance Unit is sent to the moon Titan to examine if the recently found gas Rachellium could be the solution to earth's environmental problems. But of course he gets immediately involved in the resident's own problems.The player character is controlled with the mouse. When pressing a key on the keyboard the game opens a menu were the four main options can be chosen. The adventure part consists of logic puzzles like the assembling of a broken solar cell, finding and using inventory items and multiple-choice conversations. The second part of the game is the combat with the various life forms of Titan. Instead of a point & click interface the player has to use a aiming panel on the upper right corner. By moving a crosshair inside this box the player aims his weapons in the actual game world. The weapons are fired with the already mentioned menu. During the game the player meets companions which help him during combat. They also receive their orders over the keyboard menu. |
| Icebreaker | 1996 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Magnet Interactive Studios, Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Icebreaker is a puzzle/shooter that has the player take control of a flying pyramid who has to navigate through 150 levels blasting other stationary pyramids. The stationary pyramids are either green, blue, or red and can turn into each other's colors throughout a level. The red pyramids can be destroyed by being shot, the blue pyramids are destroyed by being touched, and the green pyramids are destroyed by luring enemy pyramids into them.Speaking of enemy pyramids, each enemy pyramid has its own abilities:Orange pyramids have the ability to morph
Purple pyramids can dig pits that can trap the player
Green pyramids are very smart and can outwit the player
Yellow pyramids are very fast and maneuverable
There are also many different environments to play in such as ice fields, swamps, lava pits, and bottomless pits, four different difficulty settings to choose from that range from easy to insane, and eighteen different music tracks that can be changed during the game. |
| Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai Special | 1996 | Ving Co., Ltd. | Jaleco Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | Adult | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai Special is an arcade follow-up to the Super Famicom game Bishōjo Janshi Suchie-Pai that was later ported to several home systems. Like the original, it features Misaki Kyoko's alter ego, the superheroine Suchie-Pai, as she plays mahjong against various young, attractive female opponents. However, this game contains stripping.The PlayStation version is a censored port and doesn't feature the adult content. |
| Il Tesoro dell'Isola dei Giochi | 1996 | Philips Interactive Media Italia S.r.l | Philips Interactive Media Italia S.r.l | Puzzle | | | | Word construction | | | | | | | Windows | Il Tesoro dell'Isola dei Giochi or Auf der Schatzsuche mit Sapientino in German, is a game for young children based on the Sapientino toys line by Italian toy company Clementoni.This interactive title allows children to listen to songs and play word games. |
| In Grandma's Attic | 1996 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | Interlynx Multimedia, Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In Grandma's Attic is an educational title for children aged three to six. Build around different activities, it aims to develop nine skills: decision making, creativity, music, language, classification, seriation, numbers, temporal and spatial relations. To practice and improve these skills, kids have to play six activities, such as the creative drawing easel (for creativity, classification and decision making skills) many different puzzles (for the spatial relations and decision making skills), drive big machines (decision making, temporal and spatial relations skills), play memory games with animals (for classification, numbers and spatial relations skills), and so on. While exploring the attic and when needed, kids can ask for the help of Buckley the Clown, as a guide.The game is designed by Dr. Gary Woodill, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Ryerson Polytechnic University, in Toronto, Canada, following the works of the famous french psychologist Jean Piaget. |
| IndyCar Racing II | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Papyrus Design Group, Inc. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The fourth Papyrus racing game is the sequel to the 1993 IndyCar Racing. It uses many of the improvements which were introduced in NASCAR Racing. There are fifteen tracks in total, and the major features are 640x480 SVGA graphics, multiplayer support for two players, pi telemetry data for realism, interactive driving schools, enhanced artificial intelligence, in-game communication with the pit crew supporting speech recognition technology, and digital stereo sound.You race in open-wheel cars and there are different driving views, with detailed physics and a realistic simulation of damage and controls. You can call up information about your car (fuel, tires, wings, wheel stagger) during the races at any time. Aside from the in-game paint shop, there was an active modding community at work with many custom car sets available online. |
| International Rugby League | 1996 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Creative Assembly Ltd., The | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | Isometric | Windows | A rugby league game (rugby league is a sport is a ball sport similar to rugby union, but features set tackles rather than rucks and mauls - once a player is successfully tackled he plays the ball back to a team-mate behind him, with the team losing possession if tackled 6 times). The game is viewed with an isometric perspective. Three buttons controls the ability to tackle, pass and kick the ball, sprint, breakout of a tackle and change selected player depending on the whether the team is attacking or defending. A timed gauge system is used for place kicks (restarts and conversion attempts).The game features the official ARL (Australian Rugby League) licence and so includes all official team names and badges etc. from that league. The State of Origin team competition is also included under the licence. The Super League (Europe) licence was not obtained, and hence that league appears as Europe League in the game, with team names being the town/city where they are based. Also present are a number of international teams and an EA Sports All-Star team. Friendly matches can be set up with any combination of teams.The game features a team editor, allowing custom player names to be used. |
| Invention Studio | 1996 | Discovery Channel Multimedia | Music Pen | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Invention Studio is an educational game made for kids nine and up. In the game you can brainstorm then build gadgets, electronics, air and land vehicles then test them out to see how they fair. Once your creation is working and tested you can patent your invention and even print the patent. Invention Studio also includes an in-game Notebook/Sketchbook, some other mini-games as well as short videos about brilliant inventions and inventors. |
| Inventor Labs | 1996 | Houghton Mifflin Interactive Corporation | Red Hill Studios | Educational, Simulation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Go inside the labs of Thomas Edison, Alexander Grahm Bell and James Watt. Explore their inventions and experiment on your own. The Labs are recreated in Quicktime3D. Actors play the parts of the 3 inventors and guide you through their experiments. You learn about things like the invention of the lightbulb, the steam engine and telephone. It has great 3D enviroments and neat activities for kids. |
| Isis | 1996 | Panasonic Interactive Media | Snow Lion Entertainment | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The ship Isis was on a mission to bring the peace of music to many worlds. Unfortunately, a cataclysm on one world forced the crew to enter a disembodied sleep. Only one crew member, the magician also named Isis, guarded the ship during its sleep.After a thousand years, you have arrived on this strange world and discovered the Isis, which sleeps still. It is your task to find the mystical gems which power the ship to bring it back to life and send it sailing to your own world, bringing its message of music and hope.The game was made with the help of the musical group Earth, Wind & Fire. |
| Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures - Cover-Up at Roswell | 1996 | Virgin Sound and Vision | Virgin Sound and Vision | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Cover-Up at Roswell is an adventure game based on the Jonny Quest animated television series. Over 50 minutes of footage of the show from various episodes was used to construct a new story as a game, along with a number of new sequences. The story details the Roswell incident where an alien UFO crashes into the earth. General Tyler and his Men in Black immediately salvage the wreckage, but a number of alien components has been scattered around the globe. Players guide the Quest team, consisting of Jonny, Jessie and Hadji, to keep the components out of the hands of Tyler and the genius Jeremiah Surd.The characters are guided through different scenes all around the world. They can be moved around, choose an item, grab it or hold it. The five alien objects need to be found using a tracking device that pin-points the location on a GPS. This takes the team to the Devil's Triangle, New York, Peru, Tanzania and Utah. Next to the main gameplay and cut-scenes, there is a large number of mini-games such as matching sequences, board games, rafting, shooting rats with a slingshot, jeep driving, fire extinguishing, and many more.Certain segments of the game were designed in 3D and Chromatek plastic viewing glasses were provided with the game to view these. |
| Josephine: Portrait of an Assassin | 1996 | MediaAge Software Corporation | MediaAge Software Corporation | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | You are Josephine. An assassin that has to complete missions for her agency. The game is a first person shooter set in various indoor levels. Mission objectives are given to you via a radio. You have various weapons (most of them are your standard, pistol, shotgun, machine gun type weapons). |
| JumpStart Adventure Challenge | 1996 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Action, Sports | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Mini-games | Fantasy | Bike / Bicycling, Flight / aviation, Naval / watercraft | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | JumpStart Adventure Challenge is a game that was never released as standalone, but as a bonus disc with several releases of games in the JumpStart series (1996-1998):
JumpStart Adventures: 3rd Grade - Mystery Mountain (Deluxe Edition)
JumpStart Adventures: 4th Grade - Sapphire Falls (Deluxe Edition)
JumpStart Adventures: 5th Grade - Jo Hammet, Kid Detective (Deluxe Edition)
JumpStart Adventures: 6th Grade - Mission: Earthquest (Deluxe Edition)In 2003 the game was re-released as a bonus disc for several disc sets in the JumpStart Advanced series:
As Far Out Field Trips on JumpStart Advanced: 3rd Grade
As Ultimate Field Trips on JumpStart Advanced: 4th Grade
As Extreme Field Trips on JumpStart Advanced: 5th & 6th GradeThe game is also almost completely identical to JumpStart Around the World. That version was included in four releases between 1996 and 1999 aimed at preschool children and the first two grades:
JumpStart Preschool (Deluxe Edition)
JumpStart Kindergarten (Deluxe Edition)
JumpStart 1st Grade (Deluxe Edition)
JumpStart 2nd Grade (Deluxe Edition)The only difference with JumpStart Adventure Challenge is that in that version no destination and means of transportation need to be selected, an event can be chosen right away.Unlike the other games in the JumpStart series it has no educational value and offers a variety of sports events. In the JumpStart Adventures releases only four activities were available and four more could be downloaded from the internet following the release. In the JumpStart Advanced versions all eight activities are included right away. All activities are set in a location called Adventure World with three difficulty levels. By winning events design elements can be collected to create a magazine. When the magazine has two full pages for an event, a sticker set is provided.The initial four activities are:
Bike Trails: downhill mountain biking
Boardwalk: inline skating
Rocky Cliff Rock: rock climbing
Snowy Mountain: snowboardingThe additional four activities are:
Beach: surfing
Observatory: hang-gliding
River: river rafting
Skate Park: skateboarding |
| JumpStart Kindergarten Reading | 1996 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | JumpStart Kindergarten Reading is an educational title aimed at four to seven year olds.The game features a Rabbit called Hopsalot. He's on holiday from school and wants to find the treasure buried in his carrot patch. He has six relatives each of which has a clue so, with the help of the pupil, off he goes. Each visit is in two parts, for example visiting Granny in the frozen north starts with a request to click on all the items beginning with a specific letter to defrost them. There's usually around half a dozen items on the ground of which four match the specified criteria. Once this task has been completed the pupil goes to an ice hockey practice session. Here a letter is shown on the scoreboard and hockey pucks with three and four letter words are slid over the ice. If the initial letter of the word matches the target letter the pupil clicks on the puck and, if they're right, it's fired into the net. If the initial letter does not match the target letter they click on the referee and the puck melts away. After completing the mini games the player is shown a clue to the carrot patch treasure, this specifies a letter. The player is then taken to the carrot patch where they must identify the letter from those shown, they click on it, a tunnel is dug to that spot where there will be an object and a small animation.
Different games stress different reading elements. Alfie the Jazz Hamster asks the pupil to choose words that rhyme, Grandad gets the pupil to match upper and lower case letters, Flash asks the pupil to spell/complete words that come from a volcano while Robbie at the ranch expects pupils to decide whether a word is real of not.The game makes extensive use of music and small animations as rewards and as ways to keep the pupil interested. The game supports multiple players, just one at a time though, and while each player will perform the same tasks there will probably be a difference, for example visiting Granny at the North Pole as three separate players each had to select items from the ground to defrost but they were different objects each time. As the players progress they will replay the same activities but at a harder level. |
| JumpStart Pre-K | 1996 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | KnowWare | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Jump Start Pre-K follows (in age-range) and builds on the skills learned in Jump Start Preschool in Knowledge Adventure's lineup of learning games created for each grade and age-group. In this game for the 3 - 5 year old, the player is taken to the colorful main page: a town map full of clickable icons leading to activities and song. Each activity begins at the easiest level, and can be adjusted manually, or the game will automatically adjust as the player responds with correct answers. All actions are point and click and there are many clickable places on the map and in each area that produce animations. As the player progresses through an area, correct answers will earn him stars, and four stars give him a chance to pick an object (trees, playground equipment, characters) to place in the town park named for him. The areas to explore are:
Carousel - Clicking the number on the carousel that matches the number of balloons the mouse holds lets the mouse climb aboard
Bakery - the player follows verbal and pictured instruction to connect frosting dots on a cake
Airport - using onscreen arrows or the arrow keys, the player moves a plane up and down on a scrolling screen, flying through clouds with shapes that do not match a pictured shape. In free play mode, clicking the paint bucket allows the player to decorate the skies with color or patterns
Fire Station - a memory game; the player turns over objects around the station to reveal pictures and make a match
Diner - Kisha sets out food in an ordered row (dark to light, full to empty) and then mixes it up; the player must put it back into the same order
Barbershop - a musical matching game with similarities to Simon; the player matches a sequence of shapes which in turn cause the barbershop septet to sound off a short tune
Clothing Store - the player must put together a letter jigsaw to be "ironed" onto a t-shirt; the T-shirts can then be printed as coloring pages
Toy Shop - the player builds the toy shown on the right by choosing parts from the shelves; one click attaches the part, and wrong parts must be clicked again to remove before the toy reaches the end of the conveyor belt
Construction Site - the player loads up a truck before it enters a tunnel by clicking on objects that match a given one
Park - As the player wins stars for correct answers in the activities, four stars will allow him to choose objects to arrange in the park
On the bottom left of the screen is a blue notebook icon where parents can access a progress report showing the percentages of correct and attempted answers for each skill covered. The focus of this game is on decision-making and problem-solving as well as beginning to learn letters, shapes, colors and numbers. In addition to the game content, the songs on the disc can be played in any audio CD player, beginning from track 2.
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| Jungle Book | 1996 | IBM | Powerhouse Entertainment | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Deep within India's Black Jungle, a scandalous crime has taken place. Someone has stolen the jeweled crown of King Louie, the orangutan who rules Monkey City. Now he's hoppin' mad and there will be no peace until his crown is returned. Mowgli and his friends are counting on you to help recover this sacred treasure and restore calm to the jungle world. Not to be confused with the Disney title of the same name, yet based on Disney's 1994 live-action adaptation of the acclaimed book, you must get the crown back by solving puzzles and watching FMV sequences. The game comes with a microphone that lets you interact with the game. |
| Kidsongs: Musical Mystery | 1996 | TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, L.P. | TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, L.P. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Kidsongs: Musical Mystery is a game for children aged three to seven based on the US PBS TV show where youngsters produce their own music based, kid's television show. This game stars the fantasy characters Billy and Ruby Biggle in a simple adventure game. Professor Majorchord wants to give a concert with his orchestra, but the musicians cannot find their instruments. There are eight musicians that need an instrument and once it has been found it needs to be returned to its owner. From a central location it is possible to track what has been solved and what is left to do. The game can be played with either Billy or Ruby and there are two difficulty levels.There are a few educational elements through mini-games that involve matching sound with pictures or finding out which pictures do not match the others. It introduces basic musical genres and recognizing instruments. The game consists of a number of fixed-screen locations such as a mall, a street, a fair, a park, a castle, the ocean floor or a habor where different parts of the environment can be clicked for a short animation or interactive sequence. There are small puzzles to be solved. That is the main way to locate the missing instruments as there is always a character around that explains what instrument is missing. There are also a large number of songs to listen to. |
| Killer | 1996 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | The beets are invading! The beets are invading! In Killer, it's up to you to kill all of the killer beets that pop up on screen. Be careful as they appear randomly, and leave just as quickly. Use the mouse to click away evil, and save the world. As well as get a high score. But don't be too slow in clicking them away, or it's game over. |
| Killing Time | 1996 | 3DO Company, The | Studio 3DO | Action | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Horror | Shooter | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Tess Conway was a wealthy heiress to an estate located on Matinicus Island in the state of Maine. She financed an expedition to locate the Water-Clock of Thoth, an ancient Egyptian artifact that was eventually discovered by the Egyptologist, Dr. Hargrove. However, during the night of the summer solstice in 1932, Tess attempted to use the artifact and mysteriously vanished as a result. Many years later, a former student of Dr. Hargrove arrives on the island, only to discover that it has been overrun by horrifying creatures. He must explore the estate and its surroundings, and find out what really happened on that fateful night. Killing Time is a 3D first-person shooter differing in several ways from the traditional template of Doom. Rather than being divided into successive levels, the game's world is fairly open, allowing the player to explore locations in a different order as well as backtrack to previously visited areas. The game's arsenal includes, besides various guns and Molotov cocktails, unique weapons such as an Ankh that damages multiple enemies at once. Various setpieces may involve sudden attacks by large amounts of enemies, traps, etc. The player character is able to jump, strafe, and crouch and those actions are required in certain places. The spirits of Tess and her guests appear occasionally and bring the story of that night to light, helping the player to find keys, unlock doorways, locate secret passages, and solve puzzles. |
| Krazy Ivan | 1996 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Shooter | Europe, Middle East, Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In the early 21st century, the Earth is under attack by aliens. In five areas of the planet, they have erected energy generators, creating a field that slowly encompasses the entire planet surface. They have also taken hundreds of humans prisoner. Someone has to stop them. Enter Russian Commander Ivan Popovich, nicknamed "Krazy Ivan". He is a paranoid schizophrenic, prone to burst out into violence at any time. In other words, he's perfect for the job.The player controls Ivan's "Steel Cossack" power suit on the three-dimensional battlefields. In each of the five areas in the game, two kinds of enemies can be found: Drones and Sentients. Drones are smaller air and ground vehicles that often respawn. Sentients are mechs similar in size and capability to the Steel Cossack. Each of the Sentients must be eliminated before the energy field generator can be destroyed to complete the mission.The Cossack is capable of carrying lots of weapons: projectile and energy guns, unguided and guided missiles, and other special weapons. Destroyed enemies reveal captured humans, to be rescued by Ivan, and power-ups, which recharge shields or rearm weapons.After a successful mission, Ivan can upgrade the Cossack with more powerful weapons and replace the mech's armor.Between the missions, rather humorous live-action cutscenes (starring English actors sporting thick Russian accents) continue the story. |
| Kuro no Ken | 1996 | Bell's Bell | Forest | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Long time ago, the Black Dragon was destroying human cities and devouring human beings. A sword imbued with magical powers was made in order to destroy the dragon. It was known as the Blade of Darkness. The dragon was defeated, and the sword disappeared after the battle. Now, unholy people attempt the resurrection of the Black Dragon. Shinobu Ryudo, a young girl from the Dark-Haired tribe, begins a long and perilous journey across the main continent to find the sword and prevent the dragon's resurrection. Meanwhile, the warrior Kayes is instructed by the oracle to look for the sword as well. Will the heroes join forces to defeat the evil?..Kuro no Ken is a rather standard Japanese-style RPG with all the familiar ingredients: top-down locations, navigation on the world map, random enemies, turn-based combat, automatic leveling up, etc. The battles are viewed from a third-person perspective, using much larger character sprites than during exploration. Shinobu and Kayes can use physical attacks or magic spells (learned automatically when leveling up), which deplete MP. |
| Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | Side view | | Adult, Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Mature | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Love for Sail! is the sixth game in Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry series. Larry unexpectedly receives a ticket to a cruise ship. Upon the arrival of the passengers, a mega-contest is announced. This contest includes various kinds of sports and activities, from bowling to love-making. The winner will get to "score" with the sexy Captain Thigh. Naturally, there is no way Larry can win this contest fairly, so he must use his brains to solve the tricky puzzles of the game, and cheat his way into the Captain's bed.The game's structure is similar to that of its predecessor: the entire game takes place in a large enclosed area (in this case, the cruise ship), with the gameplay focusing on inventory-based puzzles and conversations. The game features a context-sensitive interface: clicking on an object brings forth a series of verbs which the player can choose in order to interact with the given object. In addition to that, it is possible to try and type any other verb (provided the game understands it), just like in old adventure games with text interface. Sometimes it is necessary to think outside of the box and come up with unusual actions in order to solve a puzzle.Several new features have been added to the game, attempting to make players into more "active" participants of the playing process. Using a microphone, players can add their own voices, while using a scanner lets players insert their own photos into the game. Another feature that grabs attention is the automatic wallpaper. When Larry "scores" with a woman, that woman's image can be displayed as wallpaper on the Windows desktop. |
| Lemmings Paintball | 1996 | Psygnosis Limited | Visual Sciences Ltd. | Action, Sports | Top-down | | | Shooter, Tactical shooter | | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | Released | Windows | This is a Lemmings game, but one that's not in a side-scrolling perspective like the early ones. You have to splatter your enemies with paintballs from your paintgun. The number of Lemmings you control can change throughout the game, although the number is usually more than one in the higher levels. |
| Les Fous Volants | 1996 | Infogrames Multimedia SA | Infogrames Telematique S.A. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In Les Fous Volants, you control a toy aircraft that flies from left to right of the screen, then goes back.Using your mouse, you must destroy other toys of a child's bedroom and clear everything before you can land. The computer-controlled opponent does the same thing, and when one aircraft reaches the end of the screen, it reappears on the other end, but at a lower altitude since it is running out of fuel. The more toys you destroy, the more points you get. |
| Let It Ride for 95 | 1996 | | SilverDisc Software | Gambling, Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Let It Ride for 95 is a single player, shareware, card game developed for Windows 95.The game is based on poker. Five cards are dealt, three are dealt face-up to the player and two are dealt face-down to the dealer. The object of the game is to have a winning poker hand, a pair of tens or better, when all five cards are turned over. The player has three chances to bet, once when they see their three cards, once when the first of the dealers cards is turned over, and once when the second of the dealers cards is turned over. If the five cards make a winning hand then all three wagers pay out, if they do not make a winning hand then all three wagers are lost.The game is played entirely with the mouse.
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| Lighthouse: The Dark Being | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Steampunk | | | | Teen | | Windows | In this game, the player controls a writer who had just moved into a cottage located on the coastal area of the state Oregon. Near the cottage is a lighthouse, inhabited by the eccentric Dr. Jeremiah Krick and his daughter Amanda. One day, glancing out of the window, the hero(ine) notices that the lighthouse has been struck by lightning. Dr. Krick has also left an unclear message on the answering machine, imploring the protagonist to come as soon as possible. Upon arriving at the lighthouse, the protagonist finds out that its inhabitants have been kidnapped by a mysterious being, and transported into a parallel universe. A strange new world must be explored, and its mysteries solved, in order to bring back Dr. Krick and his daughter...Lighthouse: The Dark Being is a first-person adventure game conceived in the vein of Myst. Locations are represented as pre-rendered still screens. Interaction with the environment is performed with a simple single-cursor, point-and-click interface. Similarly to Myst, the puzzles are notable for their difficulty, and are logic- rather than inventory-based, consisting of careful observation, clue-gathering, and manipulation of the environments. |
| Links LS: Legends in Sports '97 (Limited Edition) | 1996 | Eidos Interactive Limited | Access Software, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Links LS 1997: Limited Edition is a release of the game Links LS 1997. Included in this release are a T-Shirt and the game Scottish Open Golf.Also included are the additional SVGA championship courses Mauna Kea, Riviera Country Club, Castle Pines and the Belfry. |
| Logical Journey of the Zoombinis | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Learning Company, Inc., The, Technical Education Research Centers, Inc. | Educational, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Logical Journey of the Zoombinis is an educational game designed to promote logical thinking in children of all ages.
When the Zoombinis home, Zoombini Isle, is taken over by creatures called Bloats, they decide to escape to a new home. But they can only 16 at a time, and they must cross many obstacles that require logic to get past. It's up to you to get past all the puzzles to get all of the Zoombinis to their new home. |
| Lords of the Realm II | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions | Strategy | Diagonal-down, Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Europe, Medieval | | | Real-time, Turn-based | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Lords of the Realm II is a mixture of turn-based county and economic management and real-time combat.As the game begins, the king has died and 5 nobles (including yourself) are vying for control of the realm, including the noble Baron, the headstrong Knight, the ice princess The Countess, and the backstabbing Bishop. You have to hold on to your counties by building larger castles and keeping the peasantry happy and well-fed.When you engage your enemy in battle is when the real fun starts. You are given a Warcraft-type view of the battlefield with the units in your army and have to either get them to retreat (a rarity) or kill every last one of the little buggers. In a siege, you can end the battle by capturing the enemy's flag or dispatching all of your opponents soldiers to the great big Realm in the sky.
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| MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head in Calling All Dorks | 1996 | Viacom New Media | Viacom New Media | Action | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Beavis and Butt-Head in Calling All Dorks is more of a Beavis and Butt-Head-themed multimedia pack than a game. The main attraction is eight full Windows themes based on the characters. Each of them comes with a different background picture, sounds and animated cursors. Also included is Concentration (a memory game based on two hidden pairs), and Decision Maker, a desktop widget with a speaking clock, a block puzzle and a desktop toy. It also includes a number of videos and animations. |
| MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head: Little Thingies | 1996 | Viacom New Media | Viacom New Media | Strategy | | Licensed | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | A collection of mini-games to run under Windows, including four - "Court Chaos", "Bug Justice", "Hock-A-Loogie", and "Air Guitar" - taken from the adventure game 'Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity', and three new games - "Thank You Drive Through", "Wrecked 'Em Ball", and "Change It"."Thank You Drive Through" sees the mischievous morons at work at Burger World, having to feed all the customers as quickly as possible, before the que gets too long."Wrecked 'Em Ball" has Beavis catching various snacks from an old ware-house while avoiding falling debris and the occasionally swinging bulldozer ball."Change It" sees the pair in front of 9 TV sets, and having to change all of the channels to "something cool" within the time limit."Court Chaos" is set on a tennis court, firing tennis to shoot down opponents who will do the same to you if you don't hit them in time."Bug Justice" has the twisted twosome using a magnifying glass to try and burn ants before they take off with their stash of candy on the floor.In "Hock-A-Loogie", you play as either Beavis or Butt-head, standing on top of the high-school roof, "hocking loogies" (spitting) at the Principal and various other passing targets.And in "Air Guitar", you can select one of several sound styles and play songs in the gruesome twosome's own unique, tuneless tones.The game’s are accompanied by various quips and comments from the dim-witted duo, as recorded by creator Mike Judge. |
| MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head: Wiener Takes All | 1996 | Viacom New Media | Viacom New Media | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Huh-huh-huh. Beavis and Butthead from the MTV animated series host this party quiz game with questions about them and the show. Both characters are on their usual couch in front of the tv where questions will be shown with four possible answers. The player that buzzes in first when they know the answer gains a dollar amount for a correct answer or loses the same amount for an incorrect one. The player with the highest score at the end wins the game. |
| MVP Spades Deluxe | 1996 | MVP Software | MVP Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | The game is classical cards game, where you can play against nine virtual opponents or challenge your friends on-line to on-line "death-match" or over network. Atmosphere is provided by wonderful graphics and music. |
| MVP Word Search for Windows | 1996 | MVP Software | MVP Software | Puzzle | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Word construction | | | | | | | Windows | Traditional pencil and paper word search puzzles have been popular for many years. This computerized word search game allows you to do much more than solve pre-made puzzles.There are five difficulty levels, Beginner to Expert, and dozens of included word lists and puzzle shapes. Listen to the different MIDI music clips as you play, or switch them completely off. Use your mouse to point, click and drag your cursor over a word to “circle” it and automatically crossed it off the word list. Get hints for finding a particular word in the puzzle or, if you’re completely baffled, auto-solve the whole thing. The word list can be scrambled and even hidden entirely. Features also include the ability to edit the included word lists and puzzle shapes. And, you can make your own custom puzzles with your words. The game even provides a dictionary and spell checker to help.
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| Madeline's Rainy Day Activities | 1996 | Creative Wonders LLC | ImageBuilder Software, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | It's raining mightily outside. No bother, because Madeline has a number of activities and games for you two to participate in. Her room is packed with things to do. Just click around the room to start playing. The activities include:
Brainteaser: Given a picture comprised of shapes, recreate the same picture by manipulating a set of shapes.
Connect The Dots: This is a series of connect the dot puzzles. The player can choose different colors with which to draw the lines that connect the lines.
Matching Game: This is a variation of the common card matching memory game. However, in this game, one card has an animal and its match elsewhere on the table is an audio clue that plays the sound that the animal makes. The game is configurable with 3 skill levels which puts either 8, 12, or 16 cards into play.
Dress-up: This activity allows you to accessorize Madeline's friends and even her dog with jewelry, glasses, etc. You can also print the final product.
Madeline's Trivia: In this game, Madeline asks you a question and shows you 4 pictures. Select the correct answer from among the pictures presented.
Coloring Book, Masks, Door Signs, Finish The Picture: All of these activities put the player into a drawing program that allows the for selecting among a variety of pictures (the theme of the picture set is different for each activity). The drawing program allows the player to paint thin or broad lines, fill areas with solid colors or patterns, erase, reset, undo the last action, and print the picture.
A Day In The Park, A Change Of Heart, A Candy Shop Story, The Arts Class Story, Library Story: All of these activities allow the user to fill in blanks in several short stories by selecting various nouns and adjectives from a given list. The player can print the story.
Print Activity: The game also has a wide variety of activities for the player to enjoy offline. Categories of activities include: games & puzzles, paper dolls, cards & stickers, science, word games, and arts & crafts.Madeline's Rainy Day Activities can be played in either English or French. |
| Madeline: European Adventures | 1996 | Creative Wonders LLC | Vortex Media Arts | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Graphic adventure | Europe | Train | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A point-and-click adventure game, in which Madeline travels across Europe, chasing after a thief who has stolen a genie's lamp. Travel with Madeline's dog, Genevieve, from France to several other countries, including Switzerland, Italy, and Turkey. Solve puzzles and fetch quests. Meet and interact with characters from different cultures. The game is advertised to help the player "learn over 100 French and Spanish words." |
| Magical Squadron | 1996 | Game Box Co., Ltd. | Kogado Studio, Inc. | Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Top-down | | Comedy | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Magical Squadron is a hybrid of adventure and stategy/RPG. In the adventure mode, the player characters travel around the world going on lighthearted adventures. The player begins with three characters, and can build their party with additional characters they meet over the game. In the strategy/RPG mode, the player engages in combat on a grid very similar to games such as Sega's Shining Force. |
| Marathon 2: Durandal | 1996 | Bungie Software Products Corporation | Bungie Software Products Corporation | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Following the events of the original game, the Pfhor aliens have been defeated and the A.I. known as Durandral has been freed from it's containment. 17 years have passed and Durandral has assembled his own army from the colonists of Tau Ceti, including the Security Officer. Traveling across the galaxy, Durandral finds the home world of the S'pht, a Pfhor slave race, who Durandal liberates and who now worship Durandral as their Messiah. Durandal is searching for the location of a legendary lost tribe of S'pht who may hold the key to his mad quest for... well, whatever he's madly questing for. Unfortunately, the Pfhor dislike Durandral's presence and begin attacking his army. Marathon 2: Durandal is the sequel to the first Marathon. Although the engine is similar to Doom in most respects (2.5D maps, bitmap sprites instead of polygons, etc.), Marathon 2 distinguishes itself with such features such as: a rudimentary inventory system, ambient sound, multiple fire modes for each weapon, allies who aid the player, enemies belonging to different factions which will attack each other, a more developed plot (gradually narrated to the player at various computer terminals scattered throughout the levels (much like System Shock's e-mail transmissions)).The game's engine has gained a number of improvements over the original Marathon. It now displays in a much larger portion of the screen, supports maps with four times the complexity and adds support for liquids and swimming. All liquids use oxygen when the player is submerged and some also do damage. Many levels have mechanisms allowing areas to be flooded or drained, changing the depth of the liquid.The other major new feature is a bunch of new multiplayer modes. The entire single-player portion can be played cooperatively with up to eight players and the game adjusts weapon and monster placement accordingly. In addition to "Every Man for Himself" mode (essentially deathmatch), it now includes "Kill of the Hill" where the object is to occupy a designated spot on the map more than anyone else, and "Kill the Guy with the Ball" where the object is to hold a skull the longest, the player holding it being unable to fire weapons. |
| Master of Dimensions | 1996 | Makh-Shevet Ltd. | Makh-Shevet Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The sorcerer Merlin is not only involved in mystical but also in physical things and journeys to other dimensions. One bad day he met the wizard of the fairyland. Since the two didn't particularly like each other, it finally came to a conflict ending with the fragmentation of Merlin's magic wand. The single parts were hidden in different dimensions - and Merlin's power was lost. A millennium later a boy coincidentally finds a dimension machine on the attic of his Grandpa: The hunt for the parts of the magic wand can begin.Master of Dimension (German title: The Fifth Dimension) is an adventure, using different elements of the genre: beside the classic point'n'click, movie passages (in the private eye dimension) à la Snatcher are offered, while switching to big screens is a style borrowed from French or Japanese productions. The latter takes place when important conversations are lead or viewing special items. Gamers realize in a "dramatic" way that this is the point players have to turn your attention to. |
| Mastermind | 1996 | BBC Multimedia | 3T Productions Ltd. | Strategy | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Adapted from the venerable British quiz show, Mastermind allows you to become a contestant on that program, competing against up to three others. You face two rounds of questions; the first round will see you answering a set of questions based on specialized field of your choice, while in the second round you must answer a set of general knowledge questions. Both rounds have a time limit of 2 minutes. Any question may be passed (skipped), so that you may answer more questions in the allotted time.The person who gets the most questions right wins the contest. If a tie occurs, the person with the most passes is the loser in the contest. If a tie occurs between two players with an equal number of passes, the contestants must answer a set of five questions - all five questions being the same between contestants - as a tie breaker.The host of the Mastermind game is (the now-late) Magnus Magnusson, who also hosted the real life Mastermind program for its entire first run from 1972 to 1997. If you run out of time in a round while he is posing a question to you, he'll state Masterminds’ "I've started so I'll finish," catchphrase that he coined during the course of the program, finishing up the question and allowing you to answer it.Mastermind sports over 5,000 questions to answer, and has 50 groups of specialized questions. |
| Maths and English with Rayman: Volume 2 | 1996 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Ltd. | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Action, Educational | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Maths and English with Rayman: Volume 2 for ages seven and up is the second in a series of educational single player games that uses the platform character Rayman to teach basic numeracy and literary skills.The games are based around a typical arcade game story. Mister Dark has stolen the contents of the 'Magic Book of Knowledge' and the wise old wizard and Betilla the fairy have called on Rayman to recover it. To do this Rayman must recover twelve golden rings, six grammar related and six maths related. To retrieve a golden ring Rayman must complete what the game calls an activity. Each activity has five stages and the game is automatically saved at the end of stages two, four and the final optional bonus stage which is timed. Progress through the game is shown on the 'Map of the Worlds'. As the player completes the fourth stage of an activity, new paths open up on this map allowing the player to tackle other activities. At the end of the game, when the player has reached Mr. Dark's hideout and retrieved the 'Magic Book of Knowledge' the game ends with a video sequence and presents the player with a diploma that can be printedThe games themselves follow the format of the platform game very closely. There are blue bubbles to collect along the way (fifty bubbles earns an extra life), super power balls that increase Rayman's health, Save points, plus speed fist and golden fist power-ups that improve Rayman's fighting ability. The games in this package are:
Art Alley: This deals with phonics or speech recognition. Rayman rides an artists palette around the course and the player must use his skills to answer questions relating to spoken words while fighting off baddies that attempt to knock him from his platform.
Pebble Peril: This game deals with numeracy. Rayman rides flat stones and must choose the numbered path based on the wizards verbal instructions.
Ring Rhapsody: Here Rayman jumps from one ring to another grabbing the ring that corresponds to, or is closest to, the word provided by the Magician.
'Copter Candy: Here Rayman flies using his 'Copter Power. When given a spoken number such as 947, he may be asked to fly to the number (4) that corresponds to the 'tens' place.
Butterweed Bog: Is a game based on mental arithmetic. The answers to sums are on purple fruits. Selecting the right fruit causes it to become a platform or boat allowing Rayman to advance.
Eraser Rebound: This is a game based on numerical patterns. Rayman is given a sequence to follow and must identify the numbers in that sequence from those presented and jump from one to another.
Rocky Road: This game is based on vocabulary. Rayman's path through the caves is blocked by boulders and on each boulder is a word. The magician gives Rayman a clue and he must use his fist to smash the correct boulder.
Slick Slopes: This is a word reconstruction game. As Rayman skates through this world, he comes across groups of three letters and must select the correct one to either help spell a word or complete an existing word with a missing letter.
Crazy Caves: This is a maths game based on multiplication and counting groups. There are two types of challenges facing Rayman. As he flies through the caves, he must leap from one flying saucer to another numbered saucer based on a multiplication sum provided by the wizard. The other challenge facing Rayman is to identify number groups and act according to the wizard's instructions, e.g. "Leap over all odd numbered rocks and smash all even numbered ones".
Rising Tides: This is a game based on putting words and/or letters in alphabetical order. Rayman chooses his answers by planting a seed in the appropriate place. If it's correct a friendly plant grows and allows Rayman to progress.
Percussion Path: This game has Rayman sliding through this world on rocket maracas. The symbols '<', '>', and '=', are answers to questions asked by the Wizard and they guide Rayman's route on his travels.
Tasty Chase: Is a spelling game in which Rayman must choose between correctly and incorrectly spelled words.In all games there are traps, hazards and enemies to be avoided or defeated. The player must not only be able to answer questions correctly, they must be able to jump from platform to platform with precise timing. |
| Maths and English with Rayman: Volume 3 | 1996 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Ltd. | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Educational | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Maths and English with Rayman: Volume 3 is an edutainment title for ages eight and up that uses the game character Rayman to teach basic numeracy and literary skills. The games in this package are the same as Maths and English with Rayman: Volume 2 but the questions are more difficult to reflect the target age group. |
| McKenzie & Co.: More Friends | 1996 | American Laser Games, Inc. | Her Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is an expansion for McKenzie & Co., the game about the trials and tribulations of a teenage girl in high school. It adds 2 additional boyfriends. |
| MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries | 1996 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | War | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The stand-alone follow-up to Mechwarrior 2, Mercenaries puts you in command of a small company of 'mechs whose only loyalty is to money. As there is a brutal war between 2 tribes underway, your goal is to cash in by doing tough jobs for both sides. Buy and equip your mechs, hire pilots, and fight in a wide array of campaigns against rebels, pirates, the Clans, and even other houses of the Inner Sphere. In the Merc mode you will have to keep an eye on stocks of salvageable material, and use this to designate which Mercs are built next, while Story Mode plays like a straight-ahead action game. Internet options include play with up to 15 others around the world. |
| Megapak 5 | 1996 | Megamedia Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Number five in the Megapak-compilation series. The collection includes ten games. As always, games from nearly all common genres are included. This compilation is a typical "cash cow" re-release of quite successful games (though, not many best-sellers are included) of a prior "gaming year".Included games are:Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall
Flight Unlimited (Special Edition)
FX Fighter
Great Naval Battles: Burning Steel 1939-1942
Jagged Alliance
Pinball Fantasies Deluxe
Pool Champion
Primal Rage
Terminal Velocity
Warlords II Deluxe |
| Megapak 6 | 1996 | Megamedia Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Sixth incarnation of the Megapak compilation. The following 10 games are included (English versions):Action Soccer
Allied General
Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing
Death Gate
Druid: Daemons of the Mind
Manic Karts
Pinball 3D-VCR
Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu
Steel Panthers
The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge |
| Menateus | 1996 | Siemens Nixdorf | Rauser Advertainment GmbH | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Menateus is the official commercial game for the Expo in Hannover, Germany. The game centers around the EXPO 2000 Exhibition, where you have to stop the fog of indifference to save the planet. In doing this, you must travel through time and space. You have to visit the Cyberdome, the palace of elements, the pyramids of mystic. Only if you find all puzzle pieces, you can finish this game. |
| Mensa Mindbenders | 1996 | Macmillan Interactive Publishing | MultiMedia Corporation plc, The | Educational, Puzzle | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz, Mental training, Word construction | | | | | | | Windows | Mensa Mindbenders is a brain training type quiz which alleges to help the player boost their problem solving skills as well as test their IQ.The game consists of three classes of test, numbers, words and mazes; each type of quiz has twelve different tests within it.
In addition the game features a fact file, a series of quick timed tests and a series of full IQ tests. |
| Mercurius Pretty | 1996 | NEC Interchannel, Ltd. | Headroom, Longshot LLC | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Mercurius Pretty is a "raising simulation" game, similar in concept to Princess Maker games, but without their RPG elements (exploration, combat, etc.). The player is entrusted with the task of raising a "homunculus", a female fairy-like creature who has to grow up as a human in a medieval fantasy world. The player selects a schedule for the homunculus every day. Each activities raises a certain attribute by a number of points. For example, praying increases spirituality, reading books increases knowledge, etc. The goal is to raise attributes selectively and pass exams, putting the homunculus on one of the various paths (spiritual, combat- or magic-related, and so on).The homunculus' mood decreases when studying; it can be normally increased by talking to her. Different approaches (praising, scolding, etc.) may result in a positive or negative effect, depending on the himunculus' initial state (normal, sad, angry, and so on). The homunculus will also get sick from time to time and require rest. It is possible to buy books and crystals, which may greatly increase the homunculus' corresponding attributes. After a number of days, the homunculus will change her shape, turning into a more human, grown-up person. |
| Microsoft Return of Arcade | 1996 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Microsoft Return of Arcade is a collection of four classic arcade games, ported from their arcade code to run on Windows 95/98:
Dig Dug
Galaxian
Pac-Man
Pole Position
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| Microsoft Scenery Pack for Flight Simulator | 1996 | Microsoft Corporation | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Microsoft Scenery Pack for Flight Simulator is a compilation of three previously released add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator v5.1. It consists of
Microsoft's Caribbean Scenery
Microsoft's Hawaii Scenery
Microsoft's Japan Scenery
The add-ons all come on the same CD but are installed by running separate DOS batch files. The product also contains details on how the player could configure Microsoft Flight Simulator, and hence these add-ons, to run under Windows 95.
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| Mighty Machines | 1996 | Malofilm Interactive | Megatoon Entertainment Group, Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Based on the Canadian children's educational TV program of the same name, Mighty Machines teaches children 3-6 about heavy machinery. It features six different skill-testing minigames, designed to teach children about six different kinds of construction machines. Proving their knowledge of a machine by mastering its game unlocks new features for the game's Mighty Town hub world. |
| Mighty Math Number Heroes | 1996 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | This is an educational title for 3rd to 6th graders to teach them mathematics. There is a section on fractions with Fraction Man, a section on geometry with Geobot, a section on probability with Handsome Chance and a game show to test your knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, analogy, shape identification, sorting and sequencing problems with Quizzo. The game uses games and amusing voices to try to teach children the fundamentals of math. |
| Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | 1996 | Houghton Mifflin Interactive Corporation | Ark Studios, Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel is a famous childrens book about a man and his out dated construction equipment. This virtual incarnation of the book features a reading by actress Madeline Kahn. All pictures from the book are included and they are slightly animated at that.In addition to the reading the disk has on it four games: A Memory/Matching game, a maze, A pattern recognition game where one builds steam shovels, and a little area devoted to how steam shovels work.Also included is an interesting mini biography of author Virginia Lee Burton. With photos, images of her other works, comparison of her sketches, and family commentary. As a final bonus both Music and Narration can be played on a standard CD. |
| Mind Grind | 1996 | | Microforum International | Puzzle | Side view, Top-down | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mind Grind is a one or two player quiz game designed to be played in 256 colours under Windows 95.The player selects a character from one of several that are supplied, most are aliens, and competes over five rounds:The Matrix of Knowledge: This takes place on an 8x8 grid and to advance to the next level the player must connecting four cells in any direction: horizontally, vertically or diagonally by correctly answering the question that they contain.
The Pillars of Wisdom: Here the player must advance to the topmost level of pillars and they may jump one or two ranks at a time. The difficulty of the question is determined by the level of the jump attempted.
The Maze of the Mind: Is a randomly generated labyrinth containing forty-five 45 locked doors. The player must navigate their way out of the maze by answering questions to open these doors. Question difficulty will increase as competitors progress further into the maze
Platforms of Insight: The player(s) stand in a tube. Beneath them are stacked platforms containing question topics. Answering a question correctly removes a platform while answering one incorrectly adds a platform. Too many wrong answers will see the player crushed against the top of the tube.
Looking For Signs Of intelligent Life: This is the final level and it sees the player piloting a space ship towards earth. To reach their destination the player must dock with ten space stations and answer the questions they ask correctly. Getting a question wrong means being flung into hyperspace.
In both one and two player games there are bonus points for being the first to complete a stage and options to spend some points/dollars, for example in the final level there are meteors and such to be avoided along the way so spending points to buy a deflector shield may be a worthwhile investment
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| Mini Golf | 1996 | Grey Olltwit Educational Software | | Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | This game is for two, three or four players and it is completely mouse controlled.Compared to many golf games this is deceptively simplistic, the course has nine holes and each is viewed in top-down mode. The ball is controlled by clicking on a compass point to set the direction and then on a power meter to set the strength of the shot, there are only eight directions to choose from so some planning is needed to get the ball into the hole. When the first player has holed the ball the next player takes their turn and so on, the winner is the player to complete the course in the fewest shots.
Naturally there are hazards, bunkers slow the ball down dramatically while trees and the edge of the game window are barriers that the ball just bounces off. |
| Mini Ice Hockey | 1996 | | Grey Olltwit Educational Software | Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Mini Ice Hockey is a keyboard controlled game for one or two players.Here the player either plays against another player or against the computer. There are just two players per team, the outfield player and a goal-minder. Four action keys control the outfield player while another two control the goalie who can only move left/right. All games are three minutes long and the winner is the side who has scored the most goals, in the event of a tie the game continues until a goal is scored. |
| Mission to Planet X | 1996 | Edge Publishing Ltd. | | Adventure, Educational | | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | | Windows | Mission to Planet X is an educational adventure game that teaches the player how to use the Internet (or at least as it was in 1996). The player is contacted by an astronaut who is stranded on Planet X. The astronaut explains that Planet X appeared in our solar system suddenly and was found to contain intelligent life. When the astronaut, as a representative of the Earth, contacted them, they pretended to be friendly but in fact planned to invade Earth. The astronaut managed to stop their plans somehow but is now stranded on Planet X. The player needs to travel to each of the other planets in the solar system and solve puzzles that require Internet proficiency in order to collect 8 objects that are required to save the stranded astronaut. |
| MissionForce: CyberStorm | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Prometheus is believed destroyed, but the Cybrid menace has not ended. As the humans expanded out into interstellar space, they encountered more Cybrids, and they will exterminate them wherever they are found...As a new commander at Unitech, the player's job is to command cloned pilots called "bioderms" and their HERCs to mine the various planets in the system, wipe out any Cybrids they see, and eventually take out the main Cybrid nexus in the system. As the player advances in rank, they will gain access to more power tech, HERCs, and more valuable bioderms. Each planet has different terrain that'll affect the battles, and the bioderms will grow in experience and even perish in combat. Money earned by mining and killing Cybrids allows to buy new weapons, HERCs, and bioderms. With hundreds of different weapons (projectile, laser, plasma, missile, indirect, ELF, special, etc.), plenty of other equipment to mount, and over a dozen different HERC models to outfit, combinations are endless. The player will be able to hone their skills in many battles across three systems. The game itself is played like Earthsiege, but with a 2D overhead-semi-isometric view and turn-based hex movement. While the action can be a bit slow, the graphics are good, commands are intuitive, and coordinating fire among all the different HERCs to maximize destruction is not a simple task. It's even possible to administer some chemicals to the bioderms to maximize their effectiveness temporarily (at a cost of some genetic instability, which could be fatal if prolonged). It was possible to go online and play against others on Sierra's WON.NET, when the service was still officially supported. Players could choose to fight other corporations (with or without Cybrid presence) or play other standard games. The HERCs have value ratings so it's easy to balance the forces.
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| Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail | 1996 | 7th Level, Inc. | 7th Level, Inc. | Adventure | | Licensed | Comedy | Puzzle elements | | | | | Mature | | Windows | A comedy-strategy adventure game based on Monty Python's movie the Quest for the Holy Grail. |
| Moraff's Escapade | 1996 | Moraffware | Moraffware | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Moraff's Escapade is a single player, shareware, arcade / puzzle game based on Lode Runner .The game consists of a series of vertical ladders and horizontal platforms. Scattered around the game area are gemstones and the object of the game is to collect all the gems on a level in order to progress to the next. However the players progress is made more complex by the presence of Flesh Eaters who track the player and attempt to eat him/her.
The horizontal platforms are made of blocks which the player can pick up and later put down. This is a very useful ability because it allows the player to set traps for the Flesh Eaters and to build bridges to reach hard to reach gems.The registered game consists of thirty levels of increasing difficulty. While a mouse is used to access the game's menu system the game itself is entirely keyboard controlled and has sound effects. The game allows the player to play their own midi music tracks and to use their own background to the game.
There is also an extended version with one hundred levels and two hundred backgrounds.
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| Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh | 1996 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Amazing Media, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | One of the myriad of indirect Myst descendants and sequel of sorts to Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster, Mummy is your standard first person adventure game from the mid-to-late nineties. You play the role of Michael Cameron, an investigator for the National Mining Company. One of your company's sites in Egypt has reached a bit of an impasse. It appears the workers there fear that they have come across sacred burial grounds and believe they have awakened a mummy. Your job is to investigate these claims (with the hope of proving them unsubstantiated so work can continue), all the while dealing with the Machiavellian-like site manager and the resident Egyptologist, who happens to be an old flame. Game play involves navigating static, rendered scenes, picking up and manipulating items and occasionally coming across someone, which leads to a short video conversation with them. You never get a choice in such conversations outside of potentially offering the other person an item to have or examine. |
| Murder Club | 1996 | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Murder Club is an adventure game with simulation elements. The player controls the private detective J.B. Harold, who must investigate the murder of a wealthy businessman named Bill Robbins and bring the murderer to court. The player has to do all the work a real detective would do: find clues, gather evidence, interrogate suspects, establish the motive for the crime — and in the end, make sure the case will stand up in the court. |
| My First Amazing World Explorer | 1996 | DK Multimedia | DK Multimedia | Educational | | | | | | | Menu structures, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | My First Amazing World Explorer is an educational game about geography for grade schoolers. Players create a passport which they use to explore lands throughout the world. Gameplay focuses on a cartoonish world map. Clues delivered through postcards lead the player from location to location, which reveal fun facts about local animals, culture, and landmarks. Collecting enough passport stamps makes the player an official world explorer. |
| NBA Hangtime | 1996 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | Midway Manufacturing Company | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | NBA Hangtime is a 2-on-2 arcade basketball action game following in the footsteps of NBA Jam. All NBA teams, each featuring 4 players to choose from, are included along with fast paced, over-the-top basketball, disregarding the normal rules of the game but including fouls and out of bounds. You can also create your own player, with a collection of body parts and clothing to choose from. |
| NBA Live 97 | 1996 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | NBA Live 97 is a basketball game with an emphasis on realism. You can choose from all of the NBA teams, create a team with players you create yourself, or choose a team formed by the All-Star players of the east or West coasts. When you create a player yourself you can customize the player to a high degree. There are over 60 offensive and 10 defensive set-ups. Match options include an exhibition match, a whole season or the playoffs. |
| NET:Zone | 1996 | GameTek UK Ltd. | Compro Games Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | NET:Zone is a science fiction adventure set in the world of virtual reality. You play Newton, son of Zel Winters, the Managing Director of the CYCORP Corporation, who went missing a year ago. The police has returned your father’s belongings and after cracking his VR Interface you find an SOS message that reveals that his former colleagues are planning to take control of the global computer network. Of course you want to know what has happened and you access the neural interface to follow in your father’s footsteps. Net:Zone is a 1st POV point and click adventure that plays in a 3-D rendered world where you are able to pan around 360 degrees. The player gets a PDA that holds the map and inventory and that can be used to receive messages, to make notes and to interact with computer terminals. The package includes as a goodie the scrap book of Newton Winters.
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| NHL Open Ice: 2 On 2 Challenge | 1996 | GT Interactive Software Europe Ltd. | Midway Manufacturing Company | Sports | Side view | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | NHL Open Ice is the NBA Jam for ice hockey, with a 2 on 2 arcade action featuring a full NHL license including actual team names and logos and 120 actual NHLPA players with reflective stats for the 1995-96 season.The game features power-ups that will aid the players along during a game including the "Hot Meter" which is filled with every score, body check and steals. Once the meter is full, the player will literally catch fire and their stats will max out for a brief period of time, allowing the player to score goals better, steal the puck more often, etc.There is five difficulty settings and adjustable options such as period time times and cheat options such as "Big Head" mode and multiplayer capabilities for either head-to-head action or co-op play. Chicago Blackhawks announcer, Pat Foley, lends his voice talents to the game for in-game commentary. |
| NOON: New Type Action Game | 1996 | Micro Cabin Corp. | Micro Cabin Corp. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | PlayStation Store Description (from Ad Blurbs)★This game is supported with the PSP® and PS Vita screenshot function★PSP®: Screenshots can be taken by using the menu after holding the PS button (HOME button) in the game. The image will be saved in the photo collection from the XMB™ (XrossMediaBar).PS Vita: Screenshots can be taken by using "Screenshot" from the "Settings" after holding the PS button in the game. The image will be saved as an application photo. This software can be played with PlayStation®3 and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable).If you are downloading with PC or via PS3™, after downloading with the device please connect to PSP® with a USB cable and copy the content by inserting a storage media like Memory Stick™.Roll the "NOON" which is a legendary jewel! Crush it! Throw it to your rival!Connect 3 NOON with the same color and call upon the disrupting NOON in your rival's territory!You will win the match if you manage to fill all territories in your rival's area!This is the fighting puzzle action game with 6 warriors!Copyright:©1996 MICROCABIN CORP./1993 KOUJI OONOPurchase or use of this item is subject to SEN Terms of Service and User Agreement. |
| Necromantics | 1996 | Effigy Software | Effigy Software | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Necromantics takes place in a mysterious castle. The main character, controlled by the player, is an invisible magician wearing a high hat, white gloves and shoes.The magician can only walk and jump; he has no means to attack. Yet, he must escape from many rooms full of spiders, swords, etc. The intention of the game is avoiding all these obstacles, and making it to the next room.It's possible to pick up diamonds and bottles with magic juice along the way. These items can make changes to the surroundings, for example, some new platforms might appear. Sometimes the magician has to pull some levers which are hard to reach. |
| NeoHunter | 1996 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Ronin Entertainment | Action | 1st-person, Side view | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | After a meteor crash causes the separation of California from the rest of the continent, major corporations of the future decide to invest in the decadent state. It's not long before the newly restored California calls for independence. And so is Calia created.The player controls Rick Cage, a good-guy hunter trying to continue the investigation his father left after being murdered. Conspiracies are all around in the rich but decadent state of Calia. The game begins after Senator McAllister, a close friend of Rick's father, is murdered in public. Rick seeks the truth and revenge, and must work his way up the conspiracies ladder by arresting hackers and drug suppliers in order to get to the major drug lords that corrupt Calia.NeoHunter plays like a cinematic-backdrop shooter similar to Virtua Squad series. It mixes some puzzle solving and light elements of resource managing (like gathering credits to get new weapons and equipment), and also allows the player to choose the next steps to take, making for a quasi-linear experience. |
| NetWalk | 1996 | Gamos Ltd. | Gamos Ltd. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | NetWalk is a variation of Vetka, but now with a different theme. The puzzle task is to connect each computer on the grid field to the central server by adjusting and turning the network pieces scattered around. There are three levels of difficulty, which differ by size of the puzzle. On the last difficulty level opposite edges of the field are stuck one with another, so the field becomes non-edged (mathematicians would say that the field is a torus).The player should click a grid's cell to rotate it in order to make a correct connection with neighbor cell. Click left mouse button to rotate cell counter-clockwise. Click right button to rotate cell clockwise. Player's skill in assembling the network is calculated during the game and saved in the score table if the player reaches the top ten result. The less is the time of player's successful actions and the less is the number of waste (not necessary) turns, the greater the score is. Top ten table is the same for all difficulty levels. |
| Netrek | 1996 | | | Action, Simulation, Sports | Top-down | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Netrek is essentially a "Star Trek" themed multiplayer "team Spacewar", where 2 teams of up to 8 players each command starships and dogfight the other team in real time (from a 2D top-down perspective), while conquering "planets" that form the effective playing field.Netrek, originally called XTrek II debuted in 1988 at the University of California Berkeley. It was the first team game on the net, and probably the first game to use both TCP and UDP. It evolved from XTrek, which was written at UCB in 1986 for use by X Windows terminals. XTrek in turn was heavily influenced by PLATO Empire. Netrek league play started in 1992. There are a number of variants, including Bronco, Netrek Hockey, Sturgeon, Chaos, and Paradise. Bronco is the dominant form. Netrek is open source and free to play. Servers usually run on Unix systems (including Macintosh), with clients available for Windows (98 thru Vista), Macintosh (OS X 10.4, PPC or Intel), and Linux (and other Unixes). |
| Nick Carter - Il mistero del tesoro degli Incaz! | 1996 | | G&T Multimedia | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | An Italian adventure game, based on the famous cartoon and comic Nick Carter by Bonvi (dead from an accident one year before) and Guido De Maria. You must help Nick Carter, and his loyal helpers Patsy and Ten, to find the thief of a valuable "Incaz" vase and other precious objects...Classic point & click adventure, with a simple interface. It has few puzzles and a low interaction level. Made with Quicktime technology. |
| Nikolai's Knights | 1996 | | Hoffmann + Associates Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | Medieval | | | | | | Windows | Nikolai’s Knights is an entry in the Nikolai series. Nikolai and Neow-Neow are the kings of the Middle Ages. Neow-Neow decided to make Mary the Queen of his Neow-Neow clones, and prepares Nikolai for a battle, joust and quest. The player can learn about heraldry and create his/her own coat of arms. The player can also discover medieval armor, and explore the castle, and can also compose music from the musical instruments of the middle ages. The game plays as an interactive book for the most part, and is targeted to children ages four and up. |
| Nikolai's Pharaohs | 1996 | | Hoffmann + Associates Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | Egypt (Ancient) | | | | | | Windows | Nikolai's Pharaohs is an entry in the Nikolai series. Nikolai and his cat Neow-Neow become mighty Pharaohs in ancient Egypt, and build their own pyramids, but Neow-Neow copies Nikolai’s design and gets lost inside his pyramid. The player can discover how the great pyramids of Egypt were built, and explore the insides of each pyramid. The player can also learn about the beliefs of ancient Egypt and can also play a game with the snake and marbles. The game plays as an interactive book for the most part, and is targeted to children ages four and up. |
| Ningyō Tsukai 2 | 1996 | Forest | Forest | Action | Side view | | Adult, Martial arts | Fighting | | Mecha / giant robot | | | | | Windows | This is the sequel to the original hentai 2D fighting game: Metal & Lace. This time around the game gets rid of its tournament and economic gameplay angles and instead delivers a fast, straight up, arcade fighter.The game sports brand new svga graphics and sounds as well as new characters, moves and features such as a charging super-bar and secret characters to bring the game up to date with the current trends in fighting games.The game is only available in Japanese and its game modes available include single, story and vs game modes. As usual, when defeating your opponent, you get to see them lose their clothes. |
| Nirvana X-ROM | 1996 | Cecchi Gori New Media | CD-Italy | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Nirvana X-ROM is the companion game to the Italian SciFi film Nirvana directed by Gabriele Salvatores. It is set after the events of the film: VR game developer Jimi Dini has wiped the source code of his latest game Nirvana, thus releasing its protagonist Solo from his virtual prison. However, portions of the game still survive in Jimi's archives, creating a potential risk of Nirvana being re-assembled. The player is called upon to investigate Jimi's house and archives in search for the lingering game code and destroy it.The gameplay is a mixture of puzzle-solving and exploration viewed from the player's perspective. The location view can be freely rotated by moving the mouse and several objects are clickable, often giving access to secret rooms. The bottom bar icons offer several actions such as using scanners, connecting to the network and communicating with the artificial intelligence that powers Jimi's house. Many solutions to the puzzles are found by sifting through Jimi's archives, which contain audio, images and clips from the film, as well as program code and other digital objects. |
| North Park vs South Park | 1996 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Fangame | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | North Park vs South Park is an unlicensed 2D platform game based on the South Park TV cartoon series. It describes how there have been battles between North Park and South Park. One night people from South Park went over to North Park and kidnapped Toby, Dan, and Adam (the kids from North Park) and leaving only Ryan. Now he has to save his friends and be careful for the South Park people, for the thorns and for falling to the abyss. Ryan will also has to fight Cartman. Ryan is moved around with the arrow keys and uses the shift key to jump. There are nine levels in total. |
| Oddballz: Your Wacky Computer Petz | 1996 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | PF Magic | Simulation | | | | | | | Peter Kemmer | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Oddballz is a spin-off from the Catz and Dogz series, from P.F. Magic.This time, as the title states, the pets are wacky creatures, more alien-like than animal. Now they can make their eyes come out of their sockets and literally scare them to pieces, while retaining a comic look and feel (something impossible while dealing with Dogz or Catz).The mechanics are pretty much the same in every game of the series, and here the player also gets to pet them, teach them tricks, punish them or just play around. The Oddballz will respond to each and every move and they can even morph into something else, depending on what the player does.The tools the player can use are also very different from the ones in Dogz and Catz, and also have a wacky feel to them. There are tools like the Robo Pogo, the Gravitron, Seismo Ball, Transformer, Atomic Ball, and the delicious Liqui-Food, for feeding the pets.The company also made additional Oddballz available for download from their site, to add to the starting lot of seven. |
| Offensiv: Der Fußballmanager | 1996 | Pagedown Software AG | Ultimasoft | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Offensiv - Der Fußballmanager is a managerial soccer simulation. It offers all typical aspects of its genre: Buying and selling of players, setting the training values, merchandise, extension or new build of the stadium, statistics and newspaper reports. The main menu is a photo of a viewer's terrace where the under menus are reached by clicking on the right spots. The matches are completely shown in an isometric view and the player can give tactical orders during them.The special gimmick of the game is that it is only possible to coach one team of the German soccer league Bundesliga. The game is sold in different versions for each club. The only difference between the games are the licensed clubs, background graphics and some digitalized photos. The available clubs are FC Bayern München, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger Sportverein, BV Borussia Dortmund, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Arminia Bielefeld, 1. SC Göttingen 05 and Borussia Mönchengladbach. |
| Opération Teddy Bear | 1996 | Flammarion | index+ | Adventure, Educational | | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | | | | Windows | Opération Teddy Bear is presented as an animated comic book where the scenes appear one by one. As you read along, new pictures appear and you can move the mouse over the objects to find out more about them. Using a technology called Quickmove, you can define the way new pictures appear: chronological, unseen only, everything at once or your own rule sets... With more than 3000 historical texts, photos and illustrated maps, this game is a pretext to teach children about the background events in Europe from the moment when Hitler came to power to the fall of the Third Reich.The story takes place during the allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. Twelve-year-old Paul travels through the regions at war to visit his mother in Paris, but he does not know that his uncle, a member of the resistance, has concealed secret documents in his plush teddy bear. Hunted by the German Secret Service, he will need all the help he can get. |
| Oregon Trail II: 25th Anniversary Limited Edition | 1996 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | MECC | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | While the number of different Oregon Trail versions challenges any collection to be comprehensive, this edition includes all the major MECC releases since the game hit personal computers.
The Oregon Trail, version 2.1 for MS-DOS, ported to Windows
The Oregon Trail for Macintosh, version 1.2
Oregon Trail Deluxe VGA, version 3.01 for MS-DOS, ported to Windows
Oregon Trail for Windows, from 1993
Oregon Trail II for both Macintosh and Windows
Additionally, a 12-minute video history covers the evolution of this seminal game back to its mainframe origins in the 1970's, including screen sequences, interviews with developers, and even a reminisce with the Minnesota teacher credited with its conception. |
| Othello | 1996 | Hasbro Interactive Ltd. | CODIM Interactive Media C.V. | Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Othello is a digital conversion of the classic board game of the same name (also known as Reversi).The game is played with two players who in their turn place a marker on the 8x8 grid. A marker must border to at least one enemy marker. When a player encloses enemy markers between two of his own the enclosed markers change colour. When there's no possible move for a player he has to skip a turn. The game ends when the entire board is full. The player with the most markers on the board wins.This version of the game allows you to play against another player, or the CD-i. Included are two AIs who represent Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci. The game is shown from a first person perspective so you can see your opponent. |
| Over the Reich | 1996 | Avalon Hill Game Company, The | Big Time Software, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Over the Reich is a turn-based strategy/flight simulator hybrid. It takes place during World War II, and you can fly for either the German Luftwaffe, the Royal Air Force, or the USA Air Force. There is a campaign mode and plenty of single missions to keep you occupied. On the harder skill levels it's just like a normal first person flight simulator, with banks, stalls, altitude, etc, except in a turn-based world. |
| P.T.O.: Pacific Theater of Operations II | 1996 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | Naval / watercraft | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | PTO II is a KOEI game that depicts the conflict between the USA and Japan during World War II. The player takes control of the Navy forces of both nation, and tries to outsmart each other. |
| PC Fútbol 5.0 | 1996 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Since we already have two entries for titles on this series (Pc Futbol 6 and Pc Futbol 7) and I have this game in my personal collection I will like to describe this series as a whole instead of describing this single version.This series were started by Dinamic Multimedia Company located in Spain.... The first game I played was Pc Futbol 2.0 based on DOS 5.0 OS. At this moment, the game only needed between 2Mb to 3Mb HDD space.The first game that reach the mass was the 3.0 version in early 90s.With the start of games using CD-ROMs as launching devices, Dinamic released the 4.0 version of the game. With an improved database and first internationals versions like leagues from Argentina.The 5.0 version, the one I am describing here is more like a transition between 4.0 and 6.0, in other words it was like a major year update... |
| PROTO for Windows 95 | 1996 | | | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | PROTO For Windows 95 is a single player, freeware, single player, keyboard controlled Tetris clone. In this implementation of the game the shapes are made from five blocks rather than the four blocks in conventional Tetris, thus giving the player a wider range of shapes to play with. The game has a high score table and sounds
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| Pac-Guy: Resurrection | 1996 | Astral Entertainment | Astral Entertainment | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Pac-Guy: Resurrection is an action game and spoof of Pac-Man. The game itself is a "resurrection" of the original Pac-Guy that include the original 12 levels with an additional new level from which you must eat all of the pellets while avoiding Kan's attacks. You navigate a maze collecting pellets while avoiding enemies. Big pellets act as ammunition that you can fire at enemies to remove them from the level permanently. Once you collect all the pellets and find the exit (sometimes automatic), you proceed to the next level. Losing all of your lives will merely send you back to the previous stage. |
| Patience - Columns | 1996 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Patience - Columns is a freeware, single player, card game from an Australian developer.The object of the game is to arrange all the cards into four suited, descending sequences from the king to the ace.
Cards are dealt in seven columns each of seven cards. Counting from the left the first four cards in columns one, two, and three are played face down, all other cards in these and all other columns are played face up. There remain three odd cards and these are placed to the right and separate from the main body of cards, face down.
Game-play is deceptively simple, a card and all cards below it can be moved onto a column where the top card of those being moved is one less and the same suit as the bottom card of the column you drop it onto. When a column is cleared completely only a king can be moved to the top of that column. The three cards placed separately to the main body can only be turned over and used when an ace appears at the bottom of a column, and the face down cards in columns one, two and three can only be accessed when the face-up cards have been moved elsewhere.The game has no save/load function and no sound but it does keep statistics on games won and lost and it allows the player to change the card backs. It is played entirely with the mouse. |
| Peg Solitaire 95 | 1996 | | TC Consulting, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Peg Solitaire 95 is a single player, shareware implementation of the classic board game. This implementation has a single and unusual triangular board and is mouse controlled. It also allows the player to position the hole anywhere on the board before starting the game.
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| Pete Pilotti & Pontiac: Vaaleanpunaiset tiikerit | 1996 | WSOY Multimedia | To the Point Oy | Educational | | | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Vaaleanpunaiset tiikerit is the second game in the Pete Pilotti & Pontiac series, where you need to stop Black Beaver and his assistants to fall fruit trees of Pink Tigers. The game is based on Olli Vainio's children's book Vaaleanpunaiset tiikerit (Pink Tigers).The game is an interactive adventure with vistas, sounds and animation sections. The game also has three mini-games: Taavi Tukaani (Taavi Toucan), Luolasto (Caving) and Pontiac Ralli (Pontiac Rally). In the Taavi Tukaani game you need to fly Taavi Toucan through the fields and eat fruits to get energy but also need to watch out for the enemies. In Caving you need to navigate Pete or Pontiac out of the cave mazes. Pete remember all places which he sees at each level but
scatterbrained Pontiac does not figure out caving so good. And in Pontiac game you need to control Pontiac through the tracks and watch out for the creeping bridges and obstacles. |
| Peter Gabriel: Eve | 1996 | Real World Multimedia Ltd | Real World Multimedia Ltd | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Music / rhythm, Puzzle elements | | | | Meditative / Zen | | | Windows | Eve is Peter Gabriel's second multimedia effort, in which the player tries to change a surreal landscape into a paradise by clicking in the correct spots. The game's story involves Adam and Eve being separated in the Garden of Eden, and Pandora's Box has scattered objects across four game worlds which must be explored and various bits of video and music located to solve the riddle of "the Relationship between man, women, and nature." The 4 worlds: Mud, the Garden, Profit, and Paradise (plus Ruin, between Profit and Paradise) are represented by scrolling 360-degree panoramic scenes. The images of the worlds are made up of 120 screens assembled from 22,000 photographs, and each world features a Gabriel song and the artwork of one of four well-known artists, Nils-Udo, Yayoi Kusama, Cathy Monchaux, and Helen Chadwick, which gives each world its own unique look.The player has to look around and click on things to see what happens. Buildings in each world, such as the Human Relations room and the art galleries, are common to each one and what the player finds will be determined by what they have interacted with in the scenes. The game has 80 minutes of video and 45 minutes of music to be discovered.Many of the interactions are keys to sound loops to collect for three separate IMX (Interactive Musical Xperiences) in Eve that strip down popular Gabriel songs such as "In Your Eyes," "Come Talk To Me," and "Shaking the Tree" to layers of tracks, riffs, and dubs and let players play with them by reassembling them, recording their own mixes, and translating them into animated videos. Background music loops act as accompanying instruments and flyins are the lead instruments or vocals. For each song there are 12 background loops and 18-21 flyins. Some are available by default but many have to be found in the worlds of Eve. |
| Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Regional differences | Horror, Romance | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | Mature | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Curtis Craig is a thirty-year-old man whose distorted childhood is filled with horrors. His father was involved in an illegal, top-secret experiment for a company called WynTech Industries. Nearly nothing is known about the true nature of this experiment; but something in it affected the sanity of Curtis' mother, eventually driving her to suicide. Curtis' father was later shot, leaving the poor little boy with serious behavioural disturbances, and eventually in therapy.Now, a year after having been released from the mental institution, Curtis is employed at WynTech Industries, whose manager, Paul Warner, has seemingly taken it upon himself to take care of Curtis. He tries to find the cause of his psychotic episodes and the mysterious murders that break out all around him, all the while discovering more and more about his past life and his father's fate.Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh is not an actual sequel to the original Phantasmagoria, but rather a follow-up that has similar themes and visual concept. The game is more heavy on puzzles and traditional adventure gameplay than its predecessor. The gameplay involves standard activities found in adventure games, including extended conversations with the characters featuring selectable dialogue topics, collecting and manipulating inventory items with the environment, etc. It is possible (and often necessary) to call characters on the phone, as well as check and answer e-mails accessed by Curtis' computer at his workplace.Like its predecessor, the game has a simple point-and-click interface and employs video sequences with live actors as cutscenes. Short movies are usually shown after each action performed by the protagonist. |
| Pinball Gold | 1996 | E.D.V. Publishing | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a shareware compilation containing pinball tables of 12 pinball games released previously. At the time, the first 10 games had been released for DOS while the last two require Windows:
Epic Pinball
Silverball
Pinball Fantasies
Pinball Dreams
Pinball Magic
Willy's Pinball
Protect 2
Diabolo Pinball
Pinball Dream 2
Extreme Pinball
Julietta
Ultra Pinball |
| PixM | 1996 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Mental training, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | PixM is a single player, shareware, tile-matching game similar to games known as Memory or Concentration.The player is presented with a play area of forty tiles whose pictures are not visible. The player can turn over only two at a time and the object is to find all the matching pairs of tiles. The game has three skill levels. In level one the player must complete the task but there is no time limit. In level two there is a three minute time limit and in level two there is a two minute time limit. |
| Play-Doh Creations | 1996 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Colossal Pictures, Media Concrete, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Back of Jewel Case (US) (from Ad Blurbs)Your creativity takes shape on Play-Doh™ Island!It's creativity and show-and-tell at its best! Hop aboard the Play-Doh Island express and travel to four different creation locations. Invent all kinds of creatures at the Laboratory. Design their costumes and hair styles at the Mini Mall. Craft crazy vehicles at the Factory. Mix up some delicious Play-Doh treats at the Bakery. Then...it's showtime at the theater! Play-Doh Pete hosts "The Great Doh Show" musical review starring YOUR animated creations!TheaterOn with "The Great Doh Show" and musical review! Select your stars and make posters to promote your show. Expect lots of applause when your creatures perform.FactoryGet the show on the road with Rachel Ratchet who'll help you construct funny vehicles on wheels.Special Features
Four open-ended Play-Dog creation locationsSquish, stretch, mix and stomp your unique creations.All your creations perform at the theater.Save and re-shape your creations again and again.Make and print posters for the show in color, or outlines for coloring fun. |
| PlayMaker Football 2.0 | 1996 | PlayMaker, Inc. | PlayMaker, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | PlayMaker Football unites three distinct modules into one game program. First, there is the Team Draft to "build" the team you need to best run your styles of offense and defense. Each player on the 30-man active roster (15 offense and 15 defense) has five ability categories: Speed, Strength, Agility, Intelligence, and Discipline. Each player can have up to 100 points assigned to each of the five categories. Next there is the Chalkboard Editor. Here you will build your playbooks, designing offensive, defensive, and special teams plays. Each playbook can have hundreds of plays, allowing you to prepare for any contingency. You can also try out each play on the Practice Field option so you can check the timing on pass plays, blocking schemes, coverage assignments, pass routes, and blitz angles.Finally, its time to play some football! You can let the computer call your game plan for you (based upon detailed Artificial Intelligence settings that you build into the playbook), or you can take charge and manually make all the calls in real time or play in an online league by uploading your playbook for use against a specific opponent.PlayMaker Football is not an arcade style game -- it is as realistic and detailed a simulation of football as you can get. |
| PoP A HooP | 1996 | | TC Consulting, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Pop A Hoop is a single player, keyboard controlled basketball game.In this game the player is presented with a picture of a player about to throw a basketball. In the top right of the window is a picture of a basketball hoop shown over a basketball which oscillates from side to side. The ball is thrown when the player presses the SPACEBAR and the objective is to press that key when the ball is immediately beneath the hoop. There are two game modes, the Points Game in which the player tries to achieve a specified total as quickly as possible, and the Timed Game in which the player tries to achieve a high score in sixty seconds.The game is keyboard controlled, has optional sound effects and music, and high score tables. |
| PocoMan! | 1996 | Sleepless Software Inc. | Sleepless Software Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | PocoMan! is a Soko-Ban clone, featuring PocoMan — the "21st century super-hero of microscopic proportions," as he is described in the Windows version's help file — imprisoned in a trap made of fifty mazes which must all be solved to escape. On each level, the player must push all the objects onto the target spots (marked with X's). As usual for Sokoban games, only one crate can be pushed at a time and they cannot be pulled, so the player must be careful not to get stuck. Completing each level unlocks the next one. The protagonist can be moved with the keyboard, or by clicking and holding the mouse on the target square. Additionally, by Shift-clicking, the player can enable the "Super-Poco-Mode" where PocoMan constantly follows the cursor movements. A single crate push can be undone at any time. |
| Power Chess | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Chess | | | John Gilmore | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Power Chess is your basic chess game. It includes internet play and a large array of boards and options. It also has a lot of history and lets you watch over 150 famous chess matches like Deep Blue vs. Gary Kasparov. The AI is very good and has many opponents, a Power Chess Queen that gives you advice as you play, and a king thats learns your strategy. |
| Prince of Destruction | 1996 | BadgerCom Software Inc. | | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control, Text parser | | | | Windows | Prince of Destruction is a shareware role playing game for either a single player on their own PC or up to four players over a local network for which the game uses M.A.R.S (the Multiplayer Animated Role-Playing System).The story behind the game begins with archmage Nestar founding a kingdom where people could live in peace. Time passes and Nestar has both a son, Grishnák, and a daughter, Imiria. The son is expected to follow his father and become ruler but he is a bad sort and Nestar decides that Imiria should rule as queen. As Nestar is putting together plans for his succession he dies in mysterious circumstances and Grishnák ascends to the throne. His father’s fears were realized, rumours Grishnák‘s involvement in dark deeds, black magic and sacrifices abound. Only one of Nestar’s followers remains in office, he is ‘The Keeper’ and he maintains the bridges between Nestaria and the rest of the world. The Keeper issues a summons to four of Nestaria’s heroes The Barbarian, The Assassin, The Elf and The Macician who are abroad in other lands to return home to save Nestaria and defeat Grishnák aka ‘The Prince Of Destruction’.The game is keyboard controlled. It starts on the top of a monolith in the mountains of northern Nesteria where the character(s) meet with The Keeper, ask questions, and set off on their quest through a game with a claimed fifteen hundred locations. The game is viewed a top down window, there is a full screen option which uses a slightly larger window and fills the remainder of the screen with a black border. The game has magic spells, combat and requires that the player look for clues and read a lot in order to progress through the levels - as the manual says Okay, so it’s not very realistic – but it’s more realistic than getting better at picking locks by killing
monsters.Talking to characters is a little different, there are no dialogue trees, no preset questions to ask, instead the player presses ‘T’ to open a talk window and types in their question. The game installs two .exe files, one is Marsmstr.exe which the player uses to play the game on their own machine, the other is Marsplyr.exe which is used to connect to a game on the local network.In the shareware game the save/load function is disabled and saving the game is essential because the player's character can die.
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| Private Eye | 1996 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Brooklyn Multimedia | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Private Eye is based on the works of the writer Raymond Chandler. It is actually more of an interactive movie than a game, which uses cel animation techniques also seen in Oni. The player gets to control the famous private eye Phillip Marlowe, who is trying to do what he does best i.e., solve a murder mystery. The game features alternate endings, voice acting, lots of cut-scenes and music faithful to the 1940's era, which the game is trying to represent. |
| Private Investigator | 1996 | Private USA | Image-Line Software | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | Adult | Arcade, Fighting, Shooter | Contemporary | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | In Private Investigator you are Dick Slammer, a famous PI specializing in Adultery cases. One day Dick is visited by Nancy who claims her husband is cheating on her and asks to investigate. Dick takes on the mission, while Nancy awaits him in his bedroom.Private Investigator is a side-scrolling arcade-style action game. You need to navigate maze-like stages, collecting keys and items, punching or shooting bad guys and avoiding hazards. In each stage there are hookers, and Dick can have sex with them, gaining weapons, ammo, health refills and other valuable items. At the end of each stage Dick finds Nancy's cheating husband and must capture him on camera to finish the stage. Completed stages unlock new adult toys for Nancy to play with in Dick's bedroom in FMV sequences.The game's main menu is Dick Slammer's office in full 3D with 360 degree rotation. Aside from doors leading to the helipad (actual game missions) and to the bedroom there are various objects that can be interacted with: moose head tells jokes, the skeleton recites quotes of famous people, the TV shows a bunch of adult video clips, the computer contains adult magazines, telephone lets you listen to some sex talk, and the CD player allows to change audio options.All adult material is licensed by adult multimedia company Private, hence the title of the game. The CD also contains a demoversion of PornMine -- an adult clone of Minesweeper and advertisements of other products by Image Line and Private.
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| Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo | 1996 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Putt-Putt and his faithful dog Pep have to help Outback Al find six missing baby animals before the new Cartown Zoo can open. Putt-Putt must search through Arctic Land, Jungle Land and Grasslands for the missing little ones. Once he finds them, he must use tools he finds along the way to help them get home to their parents. |
| Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-o-Rama | 1996 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | The game starts with Putt-Putt (the purple car) and Pep (his brown puppy) driving on to the screen with a bunch of balloons in Pep's mouth. Putt-Putt tells his companion to hold on to the balloons tightly, which Pep immediately lets go of by barking.In the rest of the game, the player progresses through different levels popping the balloons which seem to have multiplied hundreds of times. Using the mouse, move Putt-Putt across the screen, bouncing Pep on the seats or dashboard. Different balloons are introduced during the game including candy balloons which give the player 50 points for each piece of candy caught, paint-bucket balloons which change the player's color depending on the balloon, and question mark balloons which give the player a power-up such as Fireman Pep. The game also has a level builder. |
| Putt-Putt and Pep's Dog on a Stick | 1996 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | You guide Pep on a pogo stick through a 3d maze, avoiding hazards like oil spills and traps. The dog collects bones, ice cream cones and candy to gain points. As the game progresses, trampolines appear, changing the path of Pep.
The game was designed as a junior arcade for 3-8 years old. |
| Puzzle Castle | 1996 | Trampoline | Media Station, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | Side view | Licensed | | Hidden object, Puzzle elements | Medieval | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Puzzle Castle is an edutainment title based on the eponymous book from Usborne. The player takes on the role of Sophie the knight, the only person in the kingdom who is brave enough to find out what monster is lurking deep in the dungeons of Puzzle Castle. Sophie will have to solve puzzles in twelve different parts of the castle in order to save the kingdom in time for the Grand Banquet. Many of the objects on screen will react with a humorous animation when clicked on. To access the last part of the game, the player will need to have collected a set of magical objects hidden on the previous screens. In addition to the main quest, there are some additional challenges the player can take on, like finding the juggling balls that Jester Jim has misplaced, or catching Cecil the ghost on every screen. |
| Pyramid: Challenge of the Pharaoh's Dream | 1996 | McGraw Hill Home Interactive | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Pyramid: Challenge of the Pharoah's Dream is an educational game about Ancient Egypt. Your character will be guided by two of the most important gods: Anubis and Ra. The objective? Make the pharaoh's dream come true: build the pyramid for his eternal rest. In order to do this you'll have to use the tools of the time, such as plumb-bobs and squares for construction. In other situations you'll have to use other techniques such as determining the true north by following the stars or learning how to make papyrus.You will advance through the game by collecting scrolls, your recompenses for complete each test on the game. Every time you complete a test, you win a scroll. Give enough scrolls to Anubis and Ra, and they'll let you advance to another part of the game. |
| Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom | 1996 | Time Warner Electronic Publishing | Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | Meditative / Zen | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The game is set in China in 2010. You're part of an international group to excavate the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, the greatest secret of the ancient world. Somehow, you get trapped inside the tomb. |
| Quake | 1996 | id Software, Inc. | id Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | | Windows | An enemy with the codename ''Quake'', which is believed to come from another dimension, is using teleporter gates to invade Earth. The player takes the role of a nameless soldier who arrives at his base only to find out Quake has overrun it and killed everyone. Somewhere in the base, there must be a teleporter to Quake's realm. The mission is clear: take the fight to the enemy, overcome countless hordes of monsters, and exact revenge.id Software's follow-up to Doom and Doom II, Quake is a first-person shooter. Its main technological innovation is the use of a true 3D engine - the levels themselves, as well as the enemies, are polygonal. This not only allows for more natural level-designs and character animations, but also for more realistic lighting and the inclusion of simulated physics that have an effect on gameplay: grenades can bounce off walls and around corners, for example.In single-player mode, gameplay consists mainly of proceeding through the levels (spread over four distinct episodes) in search of an exit, killing everything that moves. Interaction with the game world is reduced to a minimum: since there is no use key, buttons are pressed by running into or shooting at them. As in id's earlier games, many secrets are waiting to be discovered, including a few hidden levels.Unlike Doom's rather straightforward design that couples futuristic environments with demonic imagery, the theme of Quake's levels, enemies, and weapons is not so easily pinpointed. While each episode begins in a futuristic military base (with a technological 'slipgate' as the level exit), later levels take place in environments inspired by medieval fantasy and gothic horror (castles, dungeons, and caverns) and the player passes through magical portals to advance. In a departure from Doom's colorful environments, all Quake levels are dominated by earth colors.The enemies conform to the mishmash of designs: there are human opponents armed with shotguns and energy weapons in the early levels, while the later levels include medieval knights, ghosts, zombies, ogres (armed with grenade launchers and chainsaws), and some more unearthly beasts. The player's weapons, while relatively modern, all have a low-tech feel. Besides a (bloodstained) axe, there are shotguns, nailguns, rocket and grenade launchers, and the Thunderbolt, which discharges electrical energy.Quake was one of the first games playable natively over the Internet in addition to LANs. The single-player levels can be played cooperatively, but the game is most famous for its deathmatch mode. One-on-one duels, team play, and free-for-all competition are possible. The emphasis is on fast reaction and skillful maneuvering through the levels. All of the single-player maps can be used as arenas, but the game also comes with six maps specially designed for deathmatch. |
| Queensrÿche's Promised Land | 1996 | EMI Records | MediaX, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | Meditative / Zen | Teen | | Windows | Promised Land is a multimedia adventure game based around the members of the progressive-rock band Queensrÿche. The premise of the game is all about the symbol or totem of the band (called the "Tri-rÿche"), which is composed of five parts, and at the beginning of the game it scatters every piece in a different "world", and each of these worlds happen to be created by each of the band member's dreams and worries. So your job is to find each of the pieces and rebuild the totem, and to accomplish this you'll have to solve puzzles and minigames. As you find each piece, the band member who "owns" that world lets you have a glimpse of his work in the band in the form of musical videos.The game is a 2-CD set, the game fills up the first one, and in the second you'll find mini-documentaries and music videos. |
| Quest for Glory: Anthology | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The box includes:Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a HeroQuest for Glory II: Trial by FireQuest for Glory III: Wages of WarQuest for Glory: Shadows of DarknessQuest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero (VGA remake of the first game) |
| Quiz Wiz: Cyber Trivia | 1996 | Tiger Electronics, Inc. | Tiger Electronics, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | Based on the electronic game that was made by Tiger, Quiz Wiz: Cyber Trivia challenges up to three players to answer a series of questions in five categories: Sports, Famous People, Film and TV, Potpourri, and General Knowledge. In addition to the five categories, the player can choose from five lengths of game, from five up to thirty questions, and can also choose to be timed when answering a question (from 5 up to 20 seconds). In the game, the player(s) uses the stylus to answer the questions, either by directly touching the answer or touching the letter corresponding to his/her choice. Each answer is met by a word from your Quiz Wiz host, the Wise Guy, whether correct or incorrect (which you can turn off in Options). After the chosen amount of questions have elapsed, the game is over and players' scores are displayed. |
| Rally Racers | 1996 | | TC Consulting, Inc. | Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | | Automobile | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Rally Racers is a single player game in which the player drives a car around a track collecting flags and avoiding hazards. This is, by default, a keyboard controlled game which uses just the arrow keys to steer but a joystick can optionally be used.The name doesn't describe the game accurately because this is not a racing game, nor has it anything to do with rallying. The tracks are not race tracks as such, they are mazes and within each maze there are ten yellow flags to collect. The cars are controlled much like the character in Pac-Man, i.e. once they start moving they will keep moving in that direction until they hit something or another arrow key is pressed.The player starts the game with five cars and bonus cars are awarded for every 30,000 points scored. Cars can be lost by hitting boulders and enemy cars while hazards such as oil slicks and orange pylons cause the car to lose fuel. Fuel is important because when it is used up the player's car 'coasts' and at such a slow speed avoiding enemy cars is very hard. The enemy cars come in four colours, each colour travels at a different speed.The player must complete each maze three times before they can progress to the next, and must complete twenty-five mazes to beat the game. Points are scored for every flag captured the first flag is worth 100 points the second flag is worth 200 points the third is worth 300 points e.t.c. and bonus points are scored for capturing special flags, amount of fuel remaining at the end of a stage. |
| Ranchou | 1996 | Game Box Co., Ltd. | Trush | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult | Visual novel | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Ranchou is a visual novel. The protagonist is an editor of a young female writer. As the publishing company's rights come to an end without a book, he isolates the girl in a small hotel where other girls live to provide a creative atmosphere. After some events people die and the editor uses an artifact to return to the past. |
| Ravage D.C.X | 1996 | Inscape | Rainbow Studios, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Ravage D.C.X is a futuristic camera-driver rail shooter. A top secret government research program known as Project Vortex breaks through barriers between dimensions. A race known as the Necron detects the breach and follows it straight to Earth. Before long, dimensional gates begin opening around the world and the exoskeletal Necron armies descend upon the Earth.The player's mission is to destory the Necron's vortex generators on other worlds, cutting off their reinforcements and supply lines between Earth and the Necrons home world. There are six stages, set in a desert, an ice world, or planet bases, followed by a final confrontation in Washington, D.C. The action takes place on foot, in vehicles or from the air. The story advances through cutscenes. |
| Read-A-Rama | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Selena Studios, Unicorn Multimedia Corporation | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Read-A-Rama is an edutainment title for children aged five to eight about a genie who has lost his lamp to a giant and must get it back. The genie has three wishes, but you use them all up because the genie wants to learn how to read, visit other people in the land and get his lamp.Gameplay revolves around spinning a wheel and clicking a route, if the wheel lands on a event space, the genie will choose the route that has the event. There are 3 events in the game, all with characters "Thunder Drummer" has a event where you have to match up a picture to the word, "Rainbow Girl" has making words to correspond with the picture and "Lighting Dude" has you matching words, said by a text-to-speech voice to a picture.After all the event spaces have been activated, the genie can visit the giant, which acts a "final boss". First, you have to stuff the giant with food, then go back to the wheel and route format, then find all the pieces of the lamp and put them together. After the pieces have been put together, the genie will ask you if you would like to restart the game. |
| Reader Rabbit 2: Deluxe! | 1996 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Reader Rabbit 2: Deluxe! is an updated release of Reader Rabbit 2 (1991). This release only comes on CD-ROM and supports Windows 95 natively as a new platform and no longer DOS. The game is redone entirely and while the content such as the story and the mini-games are identical, the lay-out, graphics and animation have been redone entirely. |
| RedCat: Rekenen - De Razende Rekenrace | 1996 | Davilex Games B.V. | Davilex Games B.V. | Educational, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | | | Automobile | | | | 2D scrolling, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | RedCat: Rekenen - De Razende Rekenrace is a educational racing game teaching children between the ages of 6 till 12 about math.The game has several different modes through wich players learn other sets and skills of math. The first game mode "Wat is waar" (what is true) learns children to quickly predict the outcome of a math problem. For example 5x5 = bigger than 22, true or not true? The second game mode "Memory met sommen" (memory with math problems), where players do a game of memory, but math-themed. The Third mode "Handig rekenen" (efficient calculations), is where players learn how to efficiently calculate something. For example: 3x400 can easily be calculated by doing 3x4 and then putting two zeros at the end. And last but not least is the mode "Grote getallenspel" (big calculating game), through which players learn calculating in a creative way.The race is top down and features RedCat trying to beat other NPC controlled vehicles. Solving math problems gives the player new bonusses for this race. Players can race on 6 different tracks. |
| Return Fire | 1996 | Williams Entertainment, Inc. | Silent Software Incorporated | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Shooter | | Helicopter, Tank | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Return Fire is the spiritual successor to Fire Power and it fits in both the strategy and action genres. You can take control of one of 4 vehicles, a jeep, helicopter, tank, and a missile launching vehicle (but actually called The Armoured Support Vehicle (ASV).There are two ways to win, the easier one would be to capture the enemy's flag by bringing it to your bunker with the frail Jeep. This is the main objective. The other way to win is to destroy your enemy, a secondary objective. |
| Rings of the Magi: Grand Master Edition | 1996 | MVP Software | Cytherean Adventures | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In this top-down perspective of a 'board' game, you have colored rings (blue, green, yellow, red and purple ones), and you must join them together, so they can disappear, and you get the points for their disappearance. If you have, for example, let's take it three rings, and you join two of the same color, you won't have match for the third one, so you won't be able to finish the level, unless you undo your move. Arrows on the table buttons shows in which direction(s) will rings be moved one square, and that's basically how you move the rings. Every level is accompanied by a very nice tune, and there are different settings for expert players, or for the beginners. The game also includes its easy to use editor for the levels. |
| Risk: The Game of Global Domination | 1996 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | BlueSky Software, Inc., NMS Software Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | RISK: The Game of Global Domination is a conversion of the classic board game Risk. Your aim is to wipe out your opponents and conquer the world by placing your armies and attacking neighbouring territories. The CD-ROM version of the game features an exact conversion of the Classic board game against human or AI opponents, as well as Ultimate Risk, a more complex game where a completely new strategy is needed, involving Generals, forts and different terrain types.Other features include new maps, the challenging Blind Risk, fully animated battle scenes and a second CD to allow easy network gaming. |
| Robert E. Lee: Civil War General | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Strategic turn-based wargame focussed on the North American civil war. The game is campaign-based and links eight major battles into a single campaign where you decide the fate of the confederation. Includes simulations of actual historical battles such as Antietam, Gettysburg, etc. as well as a fictional assault on Washington D.C.Uses traditional top-down 2d graphics for the tactical maps, and the game includes a series of fmv clips re-enacting battles, charges, etc. that play upon specific actions. |
| Rolemaster: Magestorm | 1996 | Engage Games Online | Interworld Productions | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Fantasy | | | Persistent | | | Windows | Rolemaster: Magestorm is an online-only 3-D arena battle game based on the Rolemaster rule system by Iron Crown Enterprises. Matches pit three opposing teams of mages (Order, Balance, and Chaos) against each other in enclosed arenas. Players pick one of four specializations (Cleric, Magician, Mentalist, or Arcanist), which defines their available offensive or defensive spells and the method used to recharge their magic power. Experience is persistently-tracked, and granted for kills and team support actions. Experience grants new levels, which unlock new spells, increased stats, and larger reserves of magic power.Each team has a shrine in a corner of their map; acting somewhat as a flag to be captured. As long as the shrine is active, members of that team may use its power to respawn. If an opposing team stands next to the shrine and drains it, all members of that team stay dead unless remaining teammates repair the shrine. A game is over when one team permanently kills all of the mages on the other two teams, or when the match timer runs out.Players chat and form new matches from the "Tavern," which acts as the game's lobby. Multiple matches from one of six levels are run concurrently, and up to 40 players may join any battle in progress. Each player may have up to three different characters on their account, and may change their allegiance (but never their specialty "class") at any time. |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms V with Power Up Kit | 1996 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Romance of the Three Kingdoms V with Power Up Kit is a compilation of Sangokushi V and Sangokushi V: Power Up Kit. |
| SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour | 1996 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | CyberSites | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | SPQR is a point-and-click Myst-style game set in Ancient Rome. Journal entries, newspaper articles, and various puzzles must be dealt with as the player unravels a conspiracy which threatens the Empire. |
| SWIV 3D | 1996 | SCi Games Ltd. | SCi Games Ltd. | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | | Flight / aviation, Helicopter, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | SWIV 3D is a 3D remake of the original SWIV. It features a voxel-based 3D engine and mission-based play, as well as a myriad of new enemies and completely new style of gameplay.It plays a lot like a typical 3D shooter: you control a helicopter which you must navigate through landscapes, all the while shooting at buildings, vehicles and other planes or helicopters and fulfilling your mission goals. |
| Saban's Power Rangers Zeo Versus The Machine Empire | 1996 | Bandai Digital Entertainment Corp. | Cyberflix Incorporated | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | The Zeo Crystal has been shattered into shards, each representing a Zeo Rangers, who must venture into dangerous labyrinths to retrieve them. However, the villainous Machine Empire will do everything in its power to stop the Rangers. Will the super-heroes be able to defeat its minions?..Power Rangers Zeo Versus The Machine Empire is an action platformer based on the Power Rangers television show. Each level is dedicated to a particular crystal. The player controls several Zeo Rangers, depending on the stage and crystal type. The main objective in every stage is to gather crystal shards of the corresponding color. Naturally, the Rangers have to deal with the machines sent by the Empire. The heroes also have to avoid hazards, jump, shimmy on poles, and perform other characteristic platformer activities. |
| Samurai Shodown II | 1996 | GameBank Corp. | SNK Corporation | Action | Side view | | Martial arts | Fighting | Fantasy, Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) | | Direct control | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | In Samurai Shodown II players take on one of the roles of fifteen warriors, fighting their way through the land to defeat Rashojin Mizuki, who was thrown into the sea when she was a little girl and since then became a servant of the dark god Ambrosia. This sequel to Samurai Shodown introduces five new playable characters: the warrior and Haohmaru's rival Genjuro Kibagami, the cat-like Cham-Cham (Tam-Tam's sister), the Prussian gun-wielding knight Neinhalt Sieger, the old monk Nicotine Caffeine, and the hidden boss and unlockable character Kuroko. The game features special moves accessible by charging up a power meter, as well as other gameplay-related additions. Characters can now roll forward and backward, perform small jumps to evade low attacks, and duck to avoid high ones. There is also a parrying move that leaves the opponent vulnerable for a moment if executed at the right time. |
| Sangokushi Koumeiden | 1996 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | China (Ancient / Imperial), Historical events | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Sangokushi Kōmeiden is the second installment in the Sangokushi Eiketsuden series.Unlike its predecessor, Sangokushi Kōmeiden relies heavily on the player's ability and success in each combat to determine how the game will conclude. The game tracks the player's overall record by monitoring the character's overall health and counting the number of times the player has resorted from battle and restarted a level, in addition to having decisions at the beginnings of most stages that affect troop placements for both sides, event triggers, and the items found in armories and granaries. Zhuge's health will be badly harmed if he takes too many rounds to reach a specific point in the tale, or if he restarts fights too many times, and if he becomes too weak, he will die before the final Battle of Wuzhang Plains takes place. If the player's skill level is high enough, Zhuge Liang will pretend to die, leading his adversary, Sima Yi, out into the open. After then, the game will go to the last chapter, which will feature a series of climactic conflicts against the kingdoms of Cao Wei and Sun Wu. |
| Santa Slayer | 1996 | Digital Dialect | Digital Dialect | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Santa Slayer is a small first-person shooter with a Christmas theme. You play as Santa Claus, flying around his workshop at the North Pole in his flying sleigh, which is piloted in a similar fashion to Descent or Digital Dialect's own Adrenix with movement in six directions. You have to kill all the other santa flying around as well as elves patrolling the ground. To your help you have two handguns as well as an unlimited supply of guided and unguided missiles. There is also a multiplayer mode where each player play as Santa and has to kill the other players. |
| Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth | 1996 | Scholastic, Inc. | Music Pen | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth is the fourth game in the educational science series based on books by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. When Arnold discovers he is missing some of the rocks and minerals from his collection, Mrs. Frizzle decides to take the class on a field trip to replace them. The group will board the bus and travel to various places around the Earth, including the Grand Canyon, inside a geode, at volcanoes on the earth and undersea, in a cavern, and at a fault to look for the replacement rocks.The interface is point and click; travel is accomplished by clicking the gear shift in the front of the bus, selecting a location and pressing the GO! button. From outside the bus, the cursor will change to a drilling bus or an airplane bus in some locations, and can be clicked to travel to another area. Areas can be visited in any order at all and returned to at any time. The bus is divided between front and back - in the back the player will find experiments to perform on rock samples, as well as a dress-up activity and a kitchen where he can investigate the effects of heat, gas, and pressure on the samples.At each of the sites, clicking on features, signs, and characters may open site-specific minigames, information and further activities as the player gathers information to track down the missing minerals.This game focuses on geology concepts with an emphasis on experiment, investigation and the scientific process.
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| SchoolHouse Rock!: Exploration Station | 1996 | Creative Wonders LLC | Human Code, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | SchoolHouse Rock!: Exploration Station is an educational game that teaches elements of science for an audience of children aged six to ten. It is based on the Schoolhouse Rock! TV series. It features the character Interplanet Janet, a half human-half robot girl with wings. She crashed her spaceship on Earth and now wants to go home again. The player needs to help her to restore her ship. This is done by playing ten activities where the player helps Janet get the energy crystals to power her ship, as well as acquire the parts to help the ship run. Along the way coins are collected and those are used for the final stage where a board game leads Janet back to her home.The game contains various videos from the TV series are shown. There are three difficulty levels. The mini-games are based around sound, light, electricity, the solar system, the human body, Earth science, simple machines, weather, and plants and animals. Children develop skills for scientific process, deductive reasoning, problem solving, logical reasoning, patterns & sequencing, memory, and critical thinking. |
| Schoolhouse Rock!: Math Rock | 1996 | Creative Wonders LLC | Human Code, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Schoolhouse Rock!: Math Rock is an educational game that teaches elements of mathematics for an audience of children aged six to ten. It is based on the Schoolhouse Rock! TV series. The game is set in Funky Numberland where the character Lucky Seven Sampson wants to form a band. He needs band members and they will only join if he can help them.For the seven band members there are seven areas to visit with various mini-games where maths are applied to guiding wild animals, skating in shapes, loading rocks on the moon with an exact weight, playing darts and pool, connecting stars in the sky and so on.Lucky Seven eventually gains the band members and also earns coins along the way. The game then changes into a board game called "The Road to Fame" where a route across the board needs to be completed to end up at a big concert. There the coins are used and various questions need to be answered. At least 30 coins need to be available to pay for the concert, otherwise Lucky Seven needs to return and earn more coins.The maths skills part of this game are Addition; Subtraction; Multiplication; Division; Fractions; Decimals
Integers; Place Value; Equations; Word Problems; Estimation; Number Patterns; Set Identification
Even/Odd; Greater/Less Than; Prime Numbers; Geometry; Logic Skills; Strategy Skills; Problem Solving. |
| Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection | 1996 | SegaSoft, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This collection from Segasoft includes six games with a science fiction theme:
Iron Helix
Star Control
Star Control II
Spaceward Ho!
Star Crusader
Millennia: Altered Destinies
Also included is a Star Trek: The Next Generation Screensaver by Berkeley Systems (famous for the "After Dark" series of screensavers). |
| Scorched Planet | 1996 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Criterion Software Group Ltd. | Action, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | In Scorched Planet the player takes the role of Commander Alex Gibson who has to defend the earth colony Dator 5 from alien invaders. He uses a combat vehicle which is a hybrid between a heavy armed aircraft and a heavy armed tank. It can always drive but needs fuel for flying.But the main aspect isn't just to kill the aliens. On every continent are settlers who have to be evacuated. The locations of these people are marked on the map, and when landing near them the player takes them in his vehicle and flies to a dimension gate to rescue them. But there is a maximum of five people per ride. The aliens aren't very happy about Gibson's efforts and so they try to kidnap the humans with their big freighters. Additionally they use giant spiders which infect the humans and transform them into willingness creatures. These zombies infect other humans by contact and explode after two minutes. But there is a antidote which the player gets by destroying a spider. It is used by throwing it into a crowd of infected people. Other aliens give other extras when destroyed, e.g. weapons, shield energy or invulnerability.A tactical component comes into place with the city emblem which is used by the humans as an orientation point. This means when it is picked up and placed in another place, all people go to this point. On the way they pick up fuel. On the planets are soldiers which fight the aliens without the player's intervention. They also have a emblem the player can use.
In the levels are additional tasks which have to be carried out to end the level, e.g. repairing chain bridges or deactivating cannons by cutting their power supply. Every three levels the player has to fight a boss. |
| Scorcher | 1996 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Scavenger, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Post-apocalyptic | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Scorcher is a futuristic racing game by Scavenger. In dark post-war-looking decors, you race against a couple of opponents driving in a spherical racer. You can pick up special triangles to gain speed powerups.The graphics support resolutions up to 640x480. |
| Screamer 2 | 1996 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Milestone s.r.l. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The follow-up to Screamer is an arcade-style racing game. Unlike its predecessor, it offers a more rally-oriented gameplay. The twelve selectable high-performance road cars of the previous game have been replaced with four rally cars. The game features an improved graphics engine (SVGA) and various tracks including England, Switzerland, Egypt, Colombia, and others. These tracks may be slippery or contain various obstacles and scenery objects such as birds, helicopters, cows, etc. Split-screen head-to-head competitive two-player mode is available. |
| Sega Family Fun Pak | 1996 | Lasersoft, Inc. | SEGA Interactive Development Division | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Sega Family Fun Pak is a collection of five PC games created by Sega. Each game is a "Limited Version" which varies for each game:- Sonic CD - includes the first world of the game - Palmtree Panic Zone. The game can be put into a CD player to listen to the soundtrack similarly to the actual PC port.- Sonic's Schoolhouse - Everything can be accessed in this game except for the field trip. All doors and mini-games can be opened. There is still two-player support, with one person using WASD and another using the arrow keys.- Bug! - Similarly to Sonic CD, only the first world of Bug is playable. The game is also stuck in Window Mode only.- Baku Baku - The full game can be played, and can be played in full screen. It seems to be a "special trial" version of the game, but no differences are in the gameplay.- Garfield: Caught in the Act - Most interestingly, a stage called Alien Landscape, which was part of the Lost Levels from Sega's online service on the Genesis called the Sega Channel, is present. Simply by removing a patch found inside of the game, the full game can be played. None of the other lost levels are in the game. |
| Sesame Street: Get Set to Learn | 1996 | Creative Wonders LLC | Children's Television Workshop | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Get Set To Learn features five fun and challenging educational activities for children 3 and 6. Each activity is presented by a different muppet from the T.V. show. |
| Shadows | 1996 | CWK Gleerups Utbildningscentrum AB | Projector New Media | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Europe | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Shadows is a language program but also a 3D adventure. The game is about Sophie who goes to London to visit her cousin Alex Taylor. But Alex turns out to be gone and his apartment has been turned upside-down. The powers of darkness threaten to erase English history and the English language. Sophie ends up in the middle of this mystery which she is forced to try to solve.Players need to help Sophie search the city of London for her friend whilst trying to solve word and language puzzles along the way. She also has to find useful items and speak to the locals to find out more information. |
| Sheila Rae, the Brave | 1996 | Living Books | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Shelia Rae, the Brave is an interactive storybook based on the book by Kevin Henkes. Venture with Shelia Rae in her town and she'll show you how brave she is and how she loves her family. After the first part of the story is read, players can click all over the screen to find lots of hidden surprises. The game also includes a special Treasure Hunt game and a Sing Along section where players can listen to the characters songs that they sing in the story. There is even a demo section to take a short look at some other games by Living Books. |
| Shine | 1996 | BMG Interactive Entertainment | Chilli | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Horror | Puzzle elements | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | | | Windows | German-produced game Shine is a typical Myst-like 1st-person perspective adventure game with pre-rendered backdrops. In this game you will become Shine. But who is Shine? You don't know when you start the game. You don't know anything but that you are in Twilight City, a once huge and crowded metropolis. But all life and population seems to have vanished, everything is past and only remains as a distant memory.Strange artificial creatures, lost musicians, no day and no night - what dark secret does the city hold? Become Shine and find out by exploring murky and frightening places, meeting bizarre creatures and people and solving a few puzzles. |
| Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II is the sequel to A-10 Tank Killer.The game simulates the Fairchild-Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II, a very powerful anti-tank aircraft developed for the US Air Force in the 1970s. There are 10 weapons, a lot of friendly and enemy aircraft, and ground vehicles available in the 24 flown missions. |
| SimCity 2000 | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | Contemporary | | Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | SimCity 2000 is the successor to the city simulation game Sim City. You are once again the mayor, but this time you can fully customize the terrain before building your city. The graphics are isometric, whereas the original had graphics displayed in a top-down fashion.This title adds numerous features over the original such as the ability of building "light" zones, subways, hospitals, colleges, zoos, and arcos which are actually cities in cities. You can now give names to places, and your city is surrounded by neighboring towns with which you can trade goods. Finally, instead of the poll in the first game, you now have the option of reading several newspapers to get an idea of your progress. |
| SimCity 2000: CD Collection | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Compilation, Special edition | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This collection includes:
SimCity 2000 (base game)
SimCity 2000 Scenarios: Volume 1 - Great Disasters (scenario pack)
SimCity 2000: Urban Renewal Kit (city & object editor)
bonus cities/scenarios |
| SimClassics: 3 in 1 Pack | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A Maxis compilation of games which features:
SimCity Classic
SimAnt
SimFarm
SimAnt and SimFarm are newly ported to Windows for this compilation. |
| SimGolf | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | SimGolf is an interpretation of computerized golf, with a few new ideas added. This follows pioneering ideas in the Sim-series such as Building a city, using a helicopter to keep them running smoothly and guiding an entire planet from birth to death.The MouseSwing control mode sees your player deliver his shot, complete with back-swing and follow-through, based on your precise mouse movements, with the aim of reflecting golf mechanics more authentically. A more conventional three-click mode is also offered.A complete course designer is included. It can generate randomized terrain layouts for you to fill in with hazards, such as water hazards, bunkers and trees, as well as lava and other unrealistic novelties.Internet and LAN options to take on up to 3 others exist. There are six different views on shot replays. |
| SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Intelligent Games Ltd | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Save or develop the rainforest in a variety of different scenarios ranging over 40 different isles with different people to hire with environmental concerns. Includes custom isles. |
| SimPark | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Educational, Simulation | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Made by Maxis, the company famous for its line of "Sim" games, SimPark deals with the simulation and management of a real wildlife park. SimPark allows you to build and manage parks from scratch, completely isolated from civilization. You have the choice of choosing from hundreds of different species of flowers, bushes, plants, mammals, birds, and reptiles to live and thrive in your park. Which plants and animals to put in is completely your choice, but you have to make sure that their biological needs are met so that they won't die. You start out with a bare patch of land, but as you add plants and animals, it will begin to grow. Depending on the climate and food available, certain animals will even begin migrating to your park. SimPark contains a massive database of plants and animals that you need to use in order for your park to flourish. Over hundreds of species are cataloged in SimPark, and each article includes a brief bio, their scientific name, their wants and needs, and even an authentic recording of what each animal sounds like. You need to utilize this information to figure out what plants and animals to put in your park, in order for the creatures to flourish. If a creature or plant does not get enough food, a plant does not like the climate, or trees do not get the amount of water they need, your park will not grow.When plants and animals are placed incorrectly, the park becomes unstable. Weeds and animals will begin to overpopulate the park. Other trees will die or get overeaten by rampaging species. Because of this, the game tries to teach the concept of a "balanced ecosystem." It is up to you to have an understanding of the animals in your park to preserve a balance. Only through a perfectly balanced biological system can all of the creatures flourish.Besides the biological aspect, there is also the managerial aspect of it. Above all, it is up to you to manage the budget for the park. Planting trees and adapting animals costs money, and if you can't manage that money, you're fired. Even though you get federal funding each year, it is also important to attract visitors to the park to make a little income. You need to make provisions for humans, like paths and bathrooms. You also have to make sure visitors behave and do not litter or ravage the park. Besides this, you also have the duty to identify species in your park, through a mini-game which has you identify them through their characteristics. As well, you may have to decide on other things like if you want to receive donations, or cater to boyscout parties (which might have negative effects on the ecosystem).Like any classic Sim game, you can ravage your own park with disasters. You can simulate a garbage dump disaster (a large pile of garbage and lots of rats), a fire, an alien invasion (pink and blue blobs that create garbage) and a kudzu infestation. |
| SimTunes | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation | Top-down | | | Music / rhythm | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | SimTunes is based on "Music Insects", an interactive audio-visual exhibit which was designed and created by Toshio Iwai in 1992. Iwai's original, Music Insects is a very popular permanent exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.SimTunes is an interactive 'painting/music/simulation' game. The user paints colored squares on a virtual grid, where each color maps to a tone in a musical scale. Then the user unleashes four little 'bugz' to roam around on the painted grid. Each bugz has an instrument or vocal style associated with it, and when it walks over one of the squares of light it 'plays' its sound at that tone. The user can control the scale, the instruments, and the speed and direction of the bugz, creating an interactive musical experience.
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| SinkSub Pro | 1996 | Wihlborg Entertainment | Wihlborg Entertainment | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | | Naval / watercraft | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | SinkSub Pro is a variant of Depthcharge and an expanded version of SinkSub. The player controls a battleship that can move left or right at the top of the screen. Beneath the waters, a number of enemies (mostly hostile submarines of various kinds) appear. The player can drop depth charges from the left or the right side of the ship, which instantly destroy an enemy if they make contact. A maximum of five depth charges can be active at a time. The enemies attack with a variety of weapons, such as floating mines or missiles, and the player loses a life if his ship gets hit. |
| Skat 2095 | 1996 | CreaTeam-Software | CreaTeam-Software | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Skat 2095 is a simulation of the card game skat and the successor of Skat 2010. There are many variants, but here is the principle: The game is usually played with three persons. Two of the players are playing against a single one but are not allowed to communicate. Each card has a value and one suit is called "Trumpf". In every round each player looses one of his card and the one which played the "Trumpf" card with the highest value gets all the played cards. If no "Trumpf" is played the highest value scores. At the end each player counts the values of his cards. The goal for the single player is to get more points than the other two combined.The main feature of Skat 2095 is the integration of many local skat variants. If your favorite rule set is not included you can create it yourself with the freely adjustable rules. In comparison to Skat 2010 there are a few new features: A tutorial, animated graphics by German artist Uli Stein and more voice acting.In the shareware version you can't change the rules, can't change the names of your opponents and can't save your game. Additional there are other smaller restrictions during the gameplay.In 2001 there was a commercial special edition distributed which features only the official rules. |
| Skat! | 1996 | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG, Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG | | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Skat! is the predecessor to Skat! 2000.
Skat! is based on the official rules of the German Skat Association and includes several popular variants.
It also features ten computer opponents with different playing skills.
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| Skipper & Skeeto: Paradise Park | 1996 | Ivanoff Interactive A/S | Ivanoff Interactive A/S | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Paradise Park is the first game in the series featuring Skipper & Skeeto, a mole and a mosquito (Magnus & Myggen in Danish). The game is aimed at children ages between four and seven.Having figured out that an evil witch plans to destroy a delightful place called Paradise Park, Skipper & Skeeto can save this place, helping the fairy to defeat Rumblebroom the witch. The game features many educational elements: alphabet learning, text reading (dialogue is always subtitled), analog clock reading, geography and musical instruments. |
| Skull Cracker | 1996 | GTE Entertainment | Cyberflix Incorporated | Action | Side view | | Horror | Arcade, Fighting, Platform | | | | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | Skull Cracker can be considered the spiritual successor to the 1991 title Creepy Castle that Bill Appleton wrote for Reactor Inc. The game is set in an alternate world where it is normal to see zombies and monsters roam the streets. They are kept under control by MEI (Mortality Enforcement, Inc.) - an organization that "helps the dead stay dead". As the monsters grow in number however, they organize themselves and demand civil rights. Since they are a common sight and fairly harmless, people do not worry about them, but a mysterious substance known as Goop changes the monsters' character drastically.MEI brings in the freelancers Mortis "The Skullcracker" Rigor and Penelope "Bonebreaker" Jones to bring back order. Players can choose between one of the two characters, each with a distinct fighting style. With side-scrolling brawling gameplay, they need to travel through four main locations of four levels each. Some of the places visited are a shopping mall, an arcade, the graveyard, a playground, the MEI headquarters, and more. Next to moving, jumping, and climbing, they can punch and kick opponents, and use power-ups such as flare guns, flame throwers or supersoakers filled with holy water to take out enemies, while replenishing health with pick-ups. |
| Slam Tilt | 1996 | 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. | Liquid Dezign HB | Simulation | Top-down | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | The game features four different tables, each with different layouts and features. A large number of sub-games are included, as well as a variety of animations on the LCD panel at the top. Each table has multi-ball features, with the view automatically switching to full-screen when this is activated. in total there are six different viewpoints, and no less than 47 different game modes are promised. |
| Slamscape | 1996 | Viacom New Media | Viacom New Media | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Cyberspace is in danger again, and you've got to save it. Gameplay is reminiscent of Spectre VR; the goal is to pilot a Slamjet (a hovercraft-like vehicle) around futuristic virtual landscapes and collect a series of glowing objects called "Orb-ids" while avoiding a series of enemies and bosses which require some puzzle-solving in order to defeat.Once you collect all the Orb-ids in a level you clean up the virtual zone, and move on to the next.Graphics are fully 3D with polygonal enemies and objects, and the game touts a dynamic soundtrack composed by alternative rock band God Lives Underwater. |
| Slots of Trivia | 1996 | Ultimate Software Inc. | Ultimate Software Inc. | Gambling, Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Slots of Trivia is a single-player, shareware, slot machine game.In this game the player bets virtual credits on a virtual slot machine. For each spin a percentage of the stake is added to a bonus pool the current value of which is shown in the upper left of the machine. Whenever the player gets a winning line they are asked a trivia question from one of six categories. Each time they answer a question correctly the category is highlighted in the Bonus Pool area in the mid right of the machine, answering incorrectly will not turn off an existing highlight. Once all six categories are lit the player wins the Bonus PoolThe gamer has many configuration options that can be accessed via the menu bar, these include an option to disable the trivia questions. |
| Smarty | 1996 | Nicholson New York | Nicholson New York | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Smarty is an interactive storybook designed for girls aged 7-12. However, like designer Theresa Duncan's earlier game, Chop Suey, it can be enjoyed by almost anyone. It follows a little girl named Mimi, who is the smartest kid on her block. There are many different activities to play. You can also interact with many of the game's background items, which provide funny animations or fantastical scenes. |
| Snoopy's Campfire Stories | 1996 | Virgin Sound and Vision | | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a game for young children and fans of Charlie Brown & the Snoopy gang. In this game, the whole gang sits around a Campfire and shares their story with each other. Afterwards, they write a letter about the whole day at the camp.You can play 5 different characters from the Peanuts gang with their own storyline and activities like cooking, fishing, photography, etc. The game is targeted towards kids and young gamers and emphasizing more towards "letter writing" and "communication skills". |
| Solar Crusade | 1996 | Infogrames Europe SA | Infogrames Europe SA | Action | 1st-person | | | Rail shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Solar Crusade, the follow-up to Chaos Control, is a cartoon-movie based science-fiction rail shooter game like Rebel Assault. The player takes on the role of a fighter for the Orbital Defense Force (ODF). At the beginning the ODF thinks that they have defeated their enemies – the Kesh-Rhan, but that was a mistake.In five chapters, the player has to shoot everything they see on the screen. Some of the enemies leave ammunition or energy-pills on the battle field. In some cases, the player can choose the direction they fly in and may even stumble upon a secret level. |
| Solitary Confinement | 1996 | | WinGames.Inc | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Solitary Confinement is a shareware collection of Solitaire games. The games in this product are Accordion, Fortunes Favor, Beleaguered Castle, Calculation, Quadrille, Chameleon, Four Seasons, and Queen's Audience.All games are played with the mouse. The game has sound, a choice of card back and background colour together with save/load function
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| Someone's in the Kitchen! | 1996 | Microsoft Corporation | DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | Educational, Simulation | | | | Music / rhythm | | | | | | | Windows | Someone's in the Kitchen! is a point-and-click interactive kitchen for the whole family. In this kitchen, you'll find a lot of characters-- from a mothering fridge to a finicky trash can to a plucky little toaster. Everyone is there to help and everyone loves to sing.You can explore the kitchen and get to know everyone, or you can head to the recipe book and pick out your favorite recipe. The characters will guide you through each step, until your final taste test with an always-hungry dog.If you're feeling creative, you can collect your own set of ingredients (including frogs and other wacky gross stuff) and make your own unique concoctions. But don't be surprised if your taste tester says, "Yuck!" |
| Sonic's Schoolhouse | 1996 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | BAP Interactive, Orion Interactive | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | | Windows | Sonic's Schoolhouse is an educational game where the Sega mascot teaches mathematics, reading, and spelling. The game is entirely played from a first person perspective which allows the player to explore the schoolhouse and enter four different classrooms. There are two rooms for math, one for reading and one for spelling and each room has a total of ten questions which are written on chalkboards.In the math rooms there are numerous numerals dancing around and the player has to pick up the right number and carry it to the chalkboard where said number is missing from the equation. The spelling room works the same but with letters that have to be matches with the unfinished words written on the chalkboards. The reading room contains balloons with pictures that has to be matched with the words written on the chalkboards. In each room the player has to avoid Dr. Robotnik who steals the answers when he gets close.In addition to the classroom lessons there are two recess mini games that can be accessed in the backyard. These are made available by collecting recess power ups in the classrooms. The first one is a 3D version of concentration where the player uncovers question marks to reveal objects and the aim is to make matches of two of the same kind. The second is called ring hunt and simply involve collecting a certain number of rings without getting caught by any of Dr. Robotnik's henchmen. It is also possible to make field trips on a school bus. Aboard the bus are a number of animals and clicking on any of them allows the player to see videos that give information about the animals. |
| Sotsugyō: Graduation Real | 1996 | NEC Interchannel, Ltd. | Headroom | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A spin-off in the Sotsugyō/Graduation series, this game is just what its title implies: graduation with real people.
Instead of anime-style portraits of school girls, there are pictures (and a few full motion videos) of real Japanese young women. Gameplay follows the same formula as the other graduation games: as a high school teacher, the player's task is to successfully lead five high school girls to their graduation. Most of the activities consist of making schedules, organizing classes, and giving assignments to the girls. It is necessary to know the strength and the weaknesses of each girl, in order to choose correct activities. The teacher supervises not only everything the girls do in the school, but also some of their activities during leisure time, including making plans for the holidays. |
| Space Dodge'm | 1996 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Space Dodge'm (sic!) is a shareware conversion of the game of Dodgem, a very simple yet complex game invented 1972 by mathematics student Colin Vout. The name originates from the fact that you'll often have to "dodge" around the pieces of your opponent to advance your own. This conversion places Vout's abstract board game in a science fiction setting with an added time limit, playing in a space station which is about make fatal contact with an asteroid. Your goal is to evacuate all your shuttles or landers in time, while preventing your opponent to do the same before you.The game is played on a simple square board, with players taking turns moving one token to a neighboring square at each turn. It is not allowed to move onto an occupied square or backwards, only in the direction of the evacuation pads (up for shuttles, right for landers) or sideways. That's it. The amazing thing is that these primitive rules produce quite a devilish game, where you have to try to block your enemy pieces, while taking care not to be blocked yourself. (Another slight modification has been taken: you are not allowed move in a way to make your opponent unable to move; in the original game, an immobile player won.)The game allows you to select the board size (from 3x3 to 8x8) and the time limit before being hit by the asteroid, which gets bigger and bigger with each second the game is played. You can also set the the AI difficulty and turn music and sound effect on or off.
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| Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels | 1996 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Key Game | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels is a mix of a First-Person-Shooter and a tactical fighting game. It is placed in the
Warhammer 40k background of the Games Workshop tabletop games.
It is the successor of the PC game Space Hulk from 1993 and it tells of the fight between the Terminators of the Blood Angels Chapter of Space Marines and the Tyranid Genestealers.You control up to ten Terminators. You give them orders in a tactical screen and/or take over one of them and then move in a 3D environment and fight the Genestealers just as in a First-Person-Shooter. So the game includes tactical planning and fighting in a good balance. |
| Space Rocks 3D | 1996 | Elpin Systems | Elpin Systems | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Space Rocks 3D is a one or two player shareware clone of Asteroids.Despite the '3D' in it's title this is a top down game just like the original but with better graphics and it is played against a realistic looking stellar background. If you haven't played the original or any of its clones then the game is about piloting a small fragile space ship on a screen that has many large rocks drifting across it in random directions and speeds. The player must destroy these rocks by shooting them. However a large rock, when shot, will break into smaller ones which in turn will also fragment. In addition to the increasing amount of space debris the player also has to contend with alien space ships.
The object of the game being to accumulate a high score.This game can be controlled via the keyboard with redefinable keys, the mouse or the joystick. |
| Spaceward Ho! IV | 1996 | New World Computing, Inc. | Delta Tao Software, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Spaceward Ho! IV is an updated version of the classic spaceploitation strategy game. A host of new features are added from previous versions, including: new galaxy types, alliances, computer AI negotiations, new radical technologies, new ship types (dreadnoughts, tankers, biologicals), tougher AI opponents, smoother network play in multiplayer mode, enhanced graphics and sounds, and a variety of tools to measure your progress throughout the game (graphs, rankings, etc.). |
| Spelen met Maan Roos Vis | 1996 | Elzenga-Uitgeverij Zwijsen Algemeen B.V. | | Educational, Puzzle | Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles, Mental training, Word construction | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Spelen met Maan Roos Vis is a Dutch edutainment title based on Zwijsen's much used reading and writing method "Veilig Leren Lezen". This title features six different activities: Memory, coloring, combining words with pictures, combining spoken words with written words, filling in missing letters and untangling letters and pictures.All the games are presented in hand drawn graphics. The games are in varying levels of difficulty making the game suitable for children of ages four through nine. |
| Spirou | 1996 | Infogrames, Inc. | Infogrames Europe SA | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Spirou is a platform side-scroller based on popular Franco-Belgian comic strip Spirou et Fantasio. The story begins in New York where famous inventor Count of Champignac is about to present his latest inventions. Journalists Spirou and Fantasio, the Count’s most faithful friends are also there. Suddenly an evil robot woman Cyanida (originally called Cyanure), known to be obsessed with plans to enslave humanity, appears and abducts the scientist! There’s no time to lose, so Spirou and his pet squirrel Spip rush to the rescue, while Fantasio stays back to dig for more information. The player controls Spirou. He is able to jump, duck, climb ladders and cliffs and run fast if the player holds down the action button. In the fourth level Spirou gets a gun to stand a chance against the increasing numbers of Cyanida’s minions. Spirou’s quest will see him travel through city streets and rooftops, a toy store, subway, Palombian swamp and jungle and other locations in over 12 levels. The player only gets 3 lives and no continues to beat the game. A single password is granted after beating the first half of the game. |
| Star Trek: Borg | 1996 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The player take the role of a Starfleet Cadet whose father died in the battle against the Borg at Wolf 359. When the Borg attack again, Starfleet won't allow you to stay and fight them. However, the mysterious entity "Q" (played by John deLancie) gives you the chance to travel back in time to Wolf 359 and try saving your father and his ship.Star Trek: Borg is an interactive movie filmed in first-person through the eyes of the cadet. Q initially takes the player onto the bridge of the cadet's father's ship as an invisible observer. Later, the cadet is transported inside the body of the ship's security officer, where he can use his knowledge of upcoming events to change the outcome.The interface is handled entirely through mouse clicks to make decisions or interact with puzzles at key points during the movie. Players can also pause the movie at any time with a single left-click, and gain access to a tricorder cursor. This cursor can then be clicked on any person or object in the frame to get a Q-narrated description of its backstory or function. |
| Star Trek: Klingon | 1996 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Welcome to the Klingon Language Immersion holodeck program. You will be guided by Gowron (his hologram, actually) in this true immersive experience in the Klingon culture. You will participate as Pok, a young Klingon about to take his Rite of Ascension. You start at home getting ready to entertain guests of your father. Be ready to participate in this interactive adventure, so you can truly experience what it feels to be a Klingon. Klingon is basically a full-motion video click-your-own-adventure. At certain points in the game, you will be given a few seconds to make a decision on what to do. You perform action by clicking on the object onscreen, or do nothing (which is sometimes appropriate). Make the right choice, and the game continues. Make the wrong choice, and Gowron scolds you for not learning, and gives you another chance as the program was "rewound" back to that decision point. The game also comes packaged with a Klingon Language Lab, which helps to teach you about the Klingon language, complete with speech recognition to correct your Klingon pronunciation.
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| Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire | 1996 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire |
| Stars! | 1996 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Star Crossed Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | 4X | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Stars! is a multiplayer, strategic romp through the universe. Your goal? To take over said universe (or any of several other victory goals. Universal domination is just the most fun.). This game has a lot of complexity, but a simple interface. It runs in a window, and everything you need to know about your budding empire (or thriving war machine!) can be accessed by menu or shortcut keys.Universes are randomly created in one of four sizes. You can add up to 15 (!) other players, both AI or human. Then you can set this up as play-by -email. |
| Stay Tooned! | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Action, Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Sierra's Stay Tooned! is a mix of Saturday morning cartoon slapstick and adventure. Gameplay is similar to Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, a blend of mini-games, QuickTime video clips, and traditional adventure gaming.Much to your dismay, your TV remote is lost somewhere in the apartment building where you live and you have to find it. In the meantime, the toons are running rampant in the building. Can you stop them? |
| Stellaluna | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Stellaluna is a Living Book adaptation based on Jannell Cannon’s original picture book. The story is about a bat named Stellaluna, who lost her mother due to an owl crashing into her. Stellaluna has to find her mother, but she meets new friends throughout the story. There is also a Bat Quiz in which children test their knowledge of Bats. In Let Me Play, every page can be clicked to uncover a surprise or two. |
| Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair | 1996 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | With a guide like Steven Spielberg we have got a chance to direct our own movie in this interactive movie-making game. Some of the most talented people in cinema industry are also helping us to choose and do the right things during our project. In addition Jennifer Aniston and Quentin Tarantino are our stars, OUR STARS of OUR OWN MOVIE!However, like most of the interactive games, this game is lacking its game side: Mostly all you've to do is to click the places you've told and wait to see what happens next. |
| Super Spy | 1996 | GAMECO, LLC, Media Safari | GEO Interactive Media Group Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | Spy / espionage | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | You play as "Superspy" Michael Andrews and your mission is to stop terrorists killing thousands of people.
They got in the possession of a secret chemical weapon, code-named Omega, which was supposed to be shot into space because of its dangerousness.
Once your partner, now your foe, Kane puts you up for a challenge. If you win it you may be able to stop this catastrophe from happening.Superspy is an adventure game with classic Point & Click interface.
Additionally it contains some simple arcade-like shooting sequences. These sequences are static screens in a 1st person view. You have to point on the enemies with the cross-hair cursor and click on them before they fall over. Sometimes reloading is necessary.
At last there are time limited challenges like the disarming of a bomb. Since you have unlimited continues they shouldn't prove to be hard to master. |
| Supreme Warrior | 1996 | Digital Pictures, Inc. | Digital Pictures, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | Martial arts | Fighting, Quick Time Events (QTEs) | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Supreme Warrior is a full-motion video fighting game. The game, or interactive movie, is set in China hundreds of years ago. You are tasked with protecting half of a magical mask. The wearer of the mask will be granted untold power. Unfortunately, the villainous Wang Tu has the other half of the mask and wants your half badly. So, you must fight off Wang Tu's minions, and eventually Fang Tu himself.The gameplay in Supreme Warrior consists of digitized video with interactive elements. At many points during the video, you can unleash a punch, kick, or block. If your timing is correct, you inflict damage on your opponent. If your timing is off, your opponent hurts you. |
| Surf 'm Up! | 1996 | Interbrew Nederland N.V. | De Ondernemers, Oberon Interactive | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Distributed freely to students, Surf 'm Up is a little Kaboom!-inspired game by Dutch beer brewer Dommelsch.The premise is simple: four cranes of a beer tender are spilling droplets and you, an empty beer glass, must collect each droplet.
Controlled by keyboard or mouse, the game is a test of reflexes.
Each collected droplet gives 5 points; 45 points will get you to the next section; after three sections you will progress to the next increasingly harder level.Missing too many droplets will cause the beer glass to slip.
Watch out for falling sugar cubes, peanuts, matchsticks and darts - you can only withstand them three times. Also beware of a little green caterpillar who tries to hinder your progress in all manners possible. Help comes in the form of a bell announcing 'happy hour'-mode - making your beer glass invulnerable for a couple of seconds. Another help is a sponge appearing from time to time. Jumping on it cleans all spilled droplets.Users were encouraged to save their highscores on a blank disk and send them, accompanied with a slogan, to Dommelsch. The ten best highscorers would receive video game prizes. |
| Surface Tension | 1996 | GameTek, Inc., Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | Compro Games Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In the far future, a seemingly incurable virus known as PMA struck humanity with devastating results. Eventually a cure is found based on an other-worldly element known as Glomavine which is mined by the Lynx corporation. As the game starts the Lynx corp. is exploiting the supply of Glomavine and tries to control a monopoly at the expense of everyone's lives. You are a fighter pilot who gets convinced by a Professor Rawlin to stand up and start a Robin Hood-like campaign against Lynx.Gameplay consists of earth-based Wing Commander-like space combat and you proceed through the game accomplishing missions made up of (usually) several objectives involving some level of strategic thinking. Available weapons include standard missiles, beam weapons and a deployable remote controlled tank-like probe that changes the pace of the game a little.The graphics engine uses voxel technology to render landscapes a la Comanche, and uses pre-rendered bitmaps to display enemies and objects. |
| Teamchef | 1996 | MicroProse Ltd. | mfn GmbH | Simulation, Sports | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Teamchef is another soccer manager from a German developer team. You have 11 seasons to make a great manager career. At the beginning you can’t go to the European Top Teams. You have to go to a little team and with success the greater teams ask you to train their teams. The game simulates the German, English, French, Italian and Spanish league.Your job is buying and selling players, getting sponsors, improving your stadium. You can also hire another manager for your support.The game is presented in a top down graphic and is realtime calculated. |
| Tempest 2000 | 1996 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Atari Corporation | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Tempest 2000 is a remake/upgrade of the popular Atari vector graphics-based shooter.Blast your way through over 100+ levels, shooting the creatures that come out from the other side of the web to drag you in. Collect power-ups (jump, AI robots and more) to trippy graphics and colorful explosions as a thumping techno-house soundtrack blasts in the background.Collect enough bonuses, and be subjected to two different types of bonus rounds as you navigate through rings, or try to ride a spiral tube.Also included in the gameplay is an intense two-player mode to team up with or go head to head against another player, or even play a version of the original arcade game. There are four modes of gameplay in all: Traditional Tempest, Tempest Duel, Tempest Plus and Tempest 2000.Face the web.... |
| Terratopia | 1996 | Virgin Sound and Vision | | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Terratopia is an educational graphic adventure game for children.For generations, apprentices have been drawn to the land of Terratopia to learn to protect all that is wild and free. By solving the mysteries of Terratopia, the apprentice may gain the skills to save the problems on Earth. Each apprentice possesses an affinity for a specific animal, their animal totem, which allows them to take on that form. The player joins the Terratroopers to solve the mysteries of Terratopia.The gameplay is mouse-driven, as the player explores a number of animated locations picking up and manipulating items to solve puzzles. The gameplay is divided into several sections with animated vignettes between them. As the story progresses, the player gains the 5 totem powers of their fellow Terratroopers, and can use these to change into different animals to solve puzzles. |
| TetriNET | 1996 | | | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | An online party variant of Tetris, TetriNET is a simple TCP/IP client/server program that allows between 2-6 players to play simultaneously. The players play competitive Tetris and be the one "left standing" who hasn't had blocks reach the top of their individual field. A successful clearing of 4 rows/lines at once ("a Tetris") translate to added rows/lines for other players, increasing their field's block height. In addition to this standard Tetris gameplay, TetriNET features special blocks which can be obtained by clearing a row containing them, and can be used by pressing the number key corresponding to the target player's number. The game can also be played without special blocks. |
| Tetris Lite for Windows 95 | 1996 | | | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Tetris Lite Is a single player, freeware, keyboard controlled gameThe game mechanics are identical to the standard Tetris game. This clone differs in that it has game statistics and five different kinds of blocks, the shapes the blocks make are the same throughout the game but the individual blocks can be flat, convex, concave etc. |
| The Adventures of Batman & Robin: Activity Center | 1996 | Gryphon Software Corporation, Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Gryphon Software Corporation | Puzzle | | Licensed | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Adventures of Batman & Robin: Activity Center is a computer game based on the later part of the television show Batman: The Animated Series. The game features Batman, Robin, Alfred, the Joker, and others from the show.The aim is to catch all 11 criminals that have escaped from Arkham Asylum. Batman's Utility Belt can be used to help find clues on the criminals' whereabouts. The Batcomputer can be used to determine the hideouts of the criminals. |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | 1996 | IBM | Powerhouse Entertainment | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is an interactive movie game based on the 1996 live action movie by the same name. After Pinocchio realizes his dream of becoming a real boy, the evil Lorenzini kidnaps him and turns him back into a puppet. You must help Pinocchio's creator, Geppetto, find and rescue him. You'll go through Pinocchio's home town, row a boat through monster-infested waters and visit Terra Magica, the fair where Lorenzini turns boys into donkeys. To succeed, you'll have to dodge deadly traps, solve puzzles and outwit Lorenzini's conniving henchmen. Sometimes, you'll have to turn yourself into a puppet, a fish, a bird or even a donkey to rescue Pinocchio. Along the way you must collect six passwords, each reflecting a lesson in morality that Pinocchio learns. You are aided by live-action guides Lumina and Candlewick who will offer different suggestions as to what to do but you must decide. There are plenty of wide-screen scenes from the movie and a ton of original footage. The game comes on 4 CDs ("The Village", "The Forest", "The Sea", and "Terra Magica") because of the FMV (though the video takes up only half the screen), each disk representing another world to explore. You must make plot choices and solve puzzles through clicking on the interface around the FMV or on the FMV itself. It allows for microphone input also through voice recognition technology that allows the user to control the events on the screen through voice alone. |
| The Alius | 1996 | Xing Entertainment | Collabo Software, NOVUM | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control, Point and select | Real-time | | Cinematic camera | Windows | This interactive adventure takes place on some Earth-like planet, where five space explorers obtain some water samples, but find themselves stranded in space on the way to Earth and are forced to go into hypersleep. The crew of the ship include the protagonist Karl, the analyst Clancy, the engineer and pilot Daryl, the biologist Melissa and the leader Mark. To play the game, the player uses the directional keys to move and the mouse to interact with any objects presence. There is map button to show the player's exact whereabouts. It is possible to face death in the game if the player makes a mistake. |
| The Amazon Trail | 1996 | MECC | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The protagonist of the game sees a strange dream: a black jaguar appears and introduces himself as a servant of the Inca king. He explains that the Inca people are dying of malaria and endangered by the European explorers. The jaguar is willing to transfer the hero to the past, where he/she will have to look for the cinchona plant and deliver it to the Inca king.Part of the Trail series of educational games, The Amazon Trail features a gameplay system similar to the other installments, with adventure and simulation elements. The player will have to choose travel guides, make travel plans, manage supplies, navigate a boat on the Amazon river, encounter many indigenous animal species, take pictures, and catch fish in order to survive the hazards of the journey. At certain points in the game, time-traveling is also available, and the player is able to meet historical characters. Upon the completion of the main quest, players are graded according to their gameplay style, taking into account personal activities, number of animals identified, additional gifts brought to the Inca king, etc. |
| The Arcade Volume 2 | 1996 | MJM Software Limited | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Arcade: Volume 2 is a compilation of games some, many or all of which may have been shareware;
Gauntlet
Gauntlet II
Marble Madness
Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Pacland
Mappy
Galagia Plus - possibly a misspelling of a Galaxian variant
Sky Kid
Dig Dug 2
Nemesis
Life Force (listed as Salamander on the back cover)
Berzerk
Commando
Pacmania
Track n Field
Hyper Sports
Skool Daze (listed as School Daze on the back cover)
Missile Command
Time Pilot
The Great Giana Sisters
The compilation was sold both on-line and at UK computer fairs. The games in the compilation were accessed via a menu system from which the user could either play the game direct from the CD or install to their hard drive depending on the game's requirements. |
| The Art of Fly Fishing: Volume One - Rivers of the British Isles | 1996 | Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | Arc Developments | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Art of Fly Fishing: Volume One - Rivers of the British Isles is a fly fishing simulation. After deciding between the three available locations (The Test, River Spey and Blackwater), the player has to choose a place to fish (an overhead map helps with the choice because it shows information of fish locations and traps). Then follows casting (clicking the mouse three times in the correct rhythm similar to the three-click system of golf simulations) and waiting for a fish to bite. As soon as this happens, the next step is to initiate a strike (by clicking with the right timing) and land the fish by applying and releasing line tension. The player has a choice between different rod, line and bait. There is also an in-game encyclopedia about fly fishing. |
| The Berenstain Bears in the Dark | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Berenstain Bears in the Dark is an educational game based on the book of the same name. The plot of the book is that Brother Bear reads Sister Bear a scary story. Then, Sister Bear is afraid of the dark all night. Later that morning, Papa Bear has to show Sister Bear that it is just her imagination. Eventually, Brother Bear is the one afraid of the dark.There are two play modes, like many Living Books titles. There is Read To Me, which reads it to you, and Let Me Play, which lets you also play around with the items in the background. There are also two bonus games, Animal Match and Picture Jumble. Animal Match is matching and Picture Jumble is a puzzle. There are demos of other Living Books titles on the disc. If you put the PC version's disc in a CD player, you can listen to music from the storybook. |
| The Busy World of Richard Scarry: Best Reading Program Ever | 1996 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Creative Media Applications, Inc., Glass Egg Digital Media Ltd., Morgan Interactive Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Busy World of Richard Scarry: Best Reading Program Ever is an educational game for children aged three to six and teaches reading, writing and phonics for the English language. Huckle the cat and Lowly the worm meet Mr. Fixit the fox at the start of the game. He has built a storymobile to hold stories about Busytown, but has forgotten the stories. The duo decides to walk around the town and talk to people to collect stories. Each location in the game has different mini-games tied to skills. After completing an activity a book appears at home. It can then be clicked to read or listen along to the story about that location.The game contains five locations (farm, campground, beach, supermarket and school) and each one has three phonics activities, word play, and a find and click game. It also contains fifteen animated stories that can be read along. There is a story writer and parents can use an online progress report, info and suggestions. Skills include matching words to pictures and matching letters to sound and vocabulary, identifying rhyming words, sequencing events, recognizing upper and lower case letters, identifying beginning sounds, finding objects in a picture, observing details, identifying end sounds, forming categories, spelling three letter words, recognizing the alphabet, listening to stories and writing stories. |
| The Crow: City of Angels | 1996 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Gray Matter Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed, Regional differences | | Arcade, Beat 'em up / brawler | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | Mature | | Windows | The Crow: City of Angels is a video game adaption of the 1996 film of the same name.Brought back from the dead by the mysterious crow, Ashe will stop at nothing to avenge his and his son's execution at the hands of the minions of Judah, the city’s crime lord. One by one they will face the crow!The Crow: COA is a 3D fighting game in which the player wanders from screen to screen, fighting everybody they come across with a wide variety of kicks and punches that vary based on your proximity to your foe. There is also a large range of weapons including pistols, shotgun's, knives, pool cues, pipes and steel drums. |
| The Crystal Skull | 1996 | Maxis Software Inc. | Some Interactive | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Pre-Columbian Americas | | | | Teen | | Windows | Back in the glory days of the Aztecs, the emperor has a bad dream. He learns that white men are coming to destroy him, and the only way to stop them is to have a man named Quetzal find a crystal skull. In this adventure game, you bring Quetzal through the Aztec empire in his quest to find the crystal skull and save his empire. |
| The Fennels Figure Math | 1996 | McGraw Hill Home Interactive | McGraw Hill Home Interactive | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The Fennels Figure Math is an educational adventure game. The strange, wacky backstory is about Great-Great-Great Grandfather Bezel Fennel, who collected large amounts of strange objects from all over the world and built a large house to store it all in. Now the house has a North Pole Room to store ice sculptures, vines growing wild in the Jungle Room, aliens inhabiting the Backyard Trailer, and a pair of ducks doing one- act plays in the Teepee Lounge.The game begins when Uncle Bobby (who thinks he was raised by apes) holds a party in the house, inviting many guests such as Albert Einstein and Atilla the Hun (don't ask). Bobby's nephew and niece, Baxter and Frizzie, arrive to discover they were supposed to bring the food. Now they must search all over the house to collect five food items, even though Baxter does most of the work and Frizzie just sits around.The game has you control Baxter, and while there are a few inventory based puzzles, most involve mathematics of some kind. |
| The Games Room | 1996 | Softforum Inc. | | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Games Room was an internet based service where gamers played against each other in traditional board games. It seems to have been around since 1992 and The Games Room (2.0) is a collection of games that were popular on this site. All the games run in a fixed size window and have sound effects, they can be installed in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and the purpose of the release is for players to install the games and then play them on-line against other players. The games are grouped into four categories;
Board Games: Chess, Checkers, Capture the Flag, Four in a Row, Destroyer - a Battleships type game, Dominate - this is based on GO, Hexagon, and Decoder - a Mastermind type game
Solitaire Games: Pyramid, Golf, Eagle Wing, Eight Off and Strategy
Card Games: Five Hundred
Also on the CD is the Microforum e-catalogue for 1996 which contains product details and demo versions of Rebel Runner - Operation: Digital Code, Expect No Mercy, Shakii, Iron Blood, and Virtual Corporation. Some of these demo games run in a DOS window.
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| The Great Green Mouse Disaster | 1996 | Ahead Multimedia AB | PixelMagic Ltd | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Europe, Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Great Green Mouse Disaster is a point-and-click game adaption of a book by Martin Waddel and Philippe Dupasquier made for Windows and Macintosh.
After the porter drops the case containing all the band members of the Green Mice orchestra which has come to the hotel to perform, it becomes the job of the player to go through the entire hotel, room by room to search and gather them up before the performance takes place tonight.
Lift objects and place traps in a bid to find them in the various guests rooms which will undoubtedly be disturbed as you go about finding them, if the tasks proves too difficult however there are several difficulty levels to choose from.Help the hotel gather all the mice, assign them their preferred instruments from the wide selection available and get them on the stage ready to perform in time for the dance.
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| The Life of Paul | 1996 | EPC Media | Educational Publishing Concepts, Inc. | Educational | | | | Interactive book, Mini-games | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Based on the story of Paul from the Christian bible, The Life of Paul is an activity center that includes an interactive picture book. The game features a collection of mini-games, which differs from the typical activity center of the mid-90s.The activities in the game are:
Bible Time Theater
Bible Hall of Fame
Bible Quiz Show
Matching Game
Bible Memory
Word Games
Dot-to-Dot
Puzzles
Maze
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| The Lion King | 1996 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | Africa, Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Young Simba just can't wait to be king. His father is the current King of the Savannah and the young prince is able to frolic the lands at will; jumping on and around other subjects of this animal kingdom. When Simba's father, King Mufasa, is killed and his evil brother Scar takes over the kingdom, Simba is banished from the lands of his birthright and has to grow up fast, honing his skills, for the day of his return.The Lion King, based on the famous Disney movie, is a platform game where you control Simba - initially as a young cub, and later as an adult lion. The plot of the game follows the plot of the movie. Each of the levels represents a part of the movie. As young Simba, you can fight various beasts, such as lizards, by jumping on them. You can also roar to scare some creatures into submission, though every time you roar, you have to wait for your "roar meter" to charge. As an adult lion, you can still roar and jump, but now you fight enemies by slashing at them with your claws (if you're skillful enough, you can also grab them and toss them off the screen). The game features no in-game save function, and it needs to be replayed from the beginning every time. |
| The Lords of Tantrazz | 1996 | Atlantean Interactive Games | | Action, Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In The Lords of Tantrazz the player controls agent Veronika Callahan who has to fight an unimaginable evil named "The Hunger". The numerous cutscenes are voiced comic strips and the game itself is played in a 1st-person 360° view. The puzzles are mostly inventory- or logic-based, (eg. "push the buttons in the right order" or "complete the circuit".) When using an inventory item it is simply clicked on in the game world.Additionally there are reaction tests and shootouts. When failing these the player can try again three times, then has to load a saved game - but it is only possible to save at the end of one of the six chapters. The player finds discs during the game which provide additional information about the mission.The Lords of Tantrazz features the voice of former Alice Cooper guitarist Kane Roberts. |
| The LucasArts Archives: Vol. II - Star Wars Collection | 1996 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Rebel Assault
Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire
TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM
A Dark Forces: Super Sampler Edition CD is also included, along with a bonus multimedia CD-ROM, Making Magic: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition. |
| The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside | 1996 | Starwave | Starwave | Action, Puzzle, Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | Comedy | Artillery, Cards / tiles, Game show / trivia / quiz, Mini-games, Music / rhythm, Shooter | Contemporary, Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside is based on the TV shows The Muppet Show and Muppets Tonight and features seven mini games and several old and new video clips. The story: In the Muppet's laboratory a technical accident happened, and now several bit packets clog the data stream. To remove one of these packets the player has to beat one of the seven mini games:Trivial but True: A parody of the game show Hollywood Squares in which are nine cubes put together and in every one sits a Muppet. The host Kermit reads a trivia question and a Muppet has to answer it. One candidate's sign is a "X" and the second one's is "O". The first who has three of his sign in a row wins. After every question one candidate has to say if the Muppet's answer is true. If he is right the cube gets his sign or the other player's sign if he is wrong.
The Swedish Chef's Kitchen of Doom: A parody of the 1st person shooter Doom. The Swedish Chef has to fight against his ingredients by using his kitchen tools.
Beaker's Brain: The player unscrambles Beaker's memory about a Muppet Labs experiment by bringing video clips into the right order.
Super Gonzo: Gonzo makes a stunt by firing himself out of a cannon to a goal. The player sets the height and the angle of the shot. There a obstacles to avoid.
Scope that Song: Miss Piggy spins on a wheel similar to the game show Wheel of Fortune. The number she spins represents the number of notes the player gets to hear. Then the has to recognize the song.
Fozzie Bear Wocka on the Wild Side: The audience is not really excited about Fozzie Bear's performance and so they throw vegetables and foul eggs after him. The player controls a cannon to shoot this missiles.
Statler and Waldorf's Two Thumbs Down. This is a jigsaw variant where the player has to unscramble a torn up picture.Additionally there are Windows utilities like background pictures and mouse cursors. The difficulty of the games can be set in three levels. |
| The Need for Speed: Special Edition | 1996 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Seattle, Pioneer Productions | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Street racing | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Need for Speed: Special Edition adds two new race tracks (Burnt Sienna and Transtropolis), changeable time of day settings, 8-player network/modem support, in-game music, and Windows 95 support to Need for Speed.The game lets you drive 8 speed devils including Lamborghini Diablo VT, Ferrari 512TR, and Porsche 911 Carrera. The race tracks are highly detailed with the help of texture mapped vector graphics The soundtrack is digitally recorded, and of professional quality.Need for Speed SE has indepth coverage of the cars and race tracks. Video clips of the cars are also included. |
| The Neverhood | 1996 | Microsoft Corporation, DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | Neverhood, Inc., The | Adventure | 1st-person, Side view | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Teen | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | You are Klaymen. Klaymen wakes up in a building in the strangely empty world of Neverhood. Initially, he does not know where he is or what he has to do, but as he explores the area, he finds mysterious disks. Each disk contains a fragment of a recording; gradually, the backstory is revealed as Klaymen finds more and more disks. It would spoil too much to reveal the exact plot, as finding it out is part of the game. The Neverhood is a point-and-click adventure game, notable for its claymation graphics. It uses a simple interface: you move and interact with the world by clicking on the screen. There is no inventory screen, though Klaymen can find a few items he can pick up. There are few inventory-based puzzles; most of the puzzles involve solving riddles and interacting with the environment. Generally, the game is seen from a 3rd person perspective, but when moving between locales, you see the world through Klaymen's eyes (but you have a limited freedom of movement). |
| The Nicktoons Memory Challenge | 1996 | Viacom International Inc. | | Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | | Windows | The Nicktoons Memory Challenge is a Simon Says type of game for up to four players in which the object is to repeat an increasingly long pattern, here shown in illuminated cartoon characters. The game starts with player one - they gey a sequence of one symbol to click on, the next player gets a sequence of two, the next a sequence of three etc. Once a player makes a mistake they are out of the game. The game continues until just one player remains and that player is announced as the winner.The game is freeware, mouse controlled and recommended for children aged 4 upwards.
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| The SSI Compilation | 1996 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following five games:
World of Aden: Thunderscape
Allied General
World of Aden: Entomorph - Plague of the Darkfall
Great Naval Battles Vol. IV: Burning Steel, 1939-1942
Steel Panthers |
| The Sacred Mirror of Kofun | 1996 | Enteractive, Inc. | Future Concept | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | Naval / watercraft | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Chris Young, a top racecar driver and marine technology specialist, is summoned by the Worldwide Heritage Foundation to retrieve the sacred mirror of Kofun, a mysterious Japanese artifact that offers magical protection against enemies.The Sacred Mirror of Kofun is a first-person adventure game, another of the many attempts in the nineties to copy Myst and its financial success. It features a blend of Quicktime VR 360º panoramic views with the more traditional slide-show style associated with this type of game. A computer called E.D.W.A.R.D provides a database and a map. Both items are automatically filled as the plot progresses.Most of the gameplay consists of scuba diving and taking photos under the sea (the game was co-produced by the famous marine biologist Jean-Michel Cousteau) and talking to the crew of the ship Antares for clues. The underwater sections use real documentary footage instead of pre-rendered environments. |
| The Suit | 1996 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc., Saffire, Inc | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Artrix Interactive Studios | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | There are five suits, each being a complete set of living armour, and they have all invaded Earth. Four Suits are set on laying the planet to waste and the fifth Suit is out to stop them but first it must bond with a host.The Suit is a Virtual Comic in the same series as They Call Me... The Skul. These are interactive CD's which both tell a story in comic-book style and contain a game featuring the main character from that story. The game in The Suit is a side scrolling shooter game in which the player, as 'The Suit', blasts enemies that appear in windows, doorways and behind dumpsters etc firing bullets, missiles and blasts of power. Power-ups in the form, of replacement weapons appear and have to be shot in order to be collected.The game is entirely mouse controlled. As with other virtual comics in this series the comic book reader runs in Windows 3.x and Windows 95 while the runs in MS-DOS and/or Windows 95. |
| The Time Warp of Dr. Brain | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The fourth installment in the Dr. Brain series. This game, like the others in series, is meant to challenge your intellect through a series of puzzles.In this particular game, Dr. Brain is trapped in the "space time discontinuum" and you have to save him. The only way to save him is by completing a series of puzzles, which can be done at novice, expert or genius difficulty levels. The puzzles in this game can be done in any order, much like The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain. |
| The Ultimate DOOM | 1996 | id Software, Inc. | id Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | Horror | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Demons from Hell have overrun the planet, and you are the brave space marine who is forced to defeat them and send them back to where they came from. Ultimate DOOM is a full copy of DOOM with an additional fourth episode, titled Thy Flesh Consumed, which offers nine levels of more demon-slaying and bigger challenges. |
| They Call Me... The Skul | 1996 | Learning Company, Inc., The, SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc., Saffire, Inc | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In the North Putnam Maximum Security Correction Facility, strange things have been going on. Rumors of secret experiments taking place with some of the inmates, a strange Power Elite gang, and other criminals walking around with super powers. It it to this strange location that Steve Kane was taken when he was wrongly convicted of highway homicide. His life was saved on day by a man named Big John, which unleashed strange powers within him and turned him into the Skul.They Call me the Skul is one among a series of Virtual Comics. The main purpose of these products is to create an interactive comic book reader that can be sold on cd-roms and viewed on a computer screen. The product also features a shooter game. Inside the game, the player controls Skul as he flies across the city, shooting members of the Power Elite game on top of roofs. Skul can pick up different power-ups. These powerups will shield him from enemy fire, allow him to shoot rapid fire or fire in three directions. These power-ups can be combined. The game continues indefinitely allowing players to rank up a large score.The comic book reader runs in Windows 3.x and Windows 95, the game portion has executables for both MS-DOS and Windows 95. |
| Three Dirty Dwarves | 1996 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Appaloosa Interactive Corporation | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Beat 'em up / brawler | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | Three Dirty Dwarves is a side-scrolling action game with an interesting plot: genetically altered "super kids" playing Dungeons & Dragons open a portal that allows their "alter-egos" (the three dirty dwarves) to enter our world and try to rescue them from their evil Army Base captivity.Once the dwarves arrive, they ransack the local "armory" (a sporting goods store) for weapons and set off to rescue the kids. The portal also lets in a number of fantasy bad guys too and they must be squashed on the way.The main game mechanics allows the player to switch between each dwarf and uses its special attack (e. g. baseball bat and baseballs, bowling pins and bowling balls, and a shotgun). Additionally, there is the DwarfMorph" attack where the dwarves act as one. |
| Time Bomb | 1996 | | | Puzzle | | | | Board game | | | | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Time Bomb is a single player, freeware, MastermindIn this implementation the player has ten guesses to identify a four digit sequence, unusually the numbers run from 1 - 10 rather than the more usual 0 - 9. The game is timed and the player can choose between three settings, one, two or five minutes. The game is entirely mouse controlled |
| Time Commando | 1996 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Adeline Software International | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | In the near future, the military has created an advance computerized combat simulation, which allowed participants to be trained in various forms of combat throughout human history. However, a programmer working for a corporation that seeks the downfall of the simulation developers infects the system with a virus. This virus creates a dimensional vortex that threatens to swallow the entire world. Stanley Opar, a member of S.A.V.E (Special Action for Virus Elimination) enters the vortex with one goal: destroy the virus before the universe ceases to exist.Time Commando is an action game with light puzzle-solving elements. The player character travels to eight different time periods: Prehistoric, Roman Empire, Feudal Japan, Medieval, Conquistador, Wild West, Modern Wars, and Future. Each era has its own characteristic enemies and sets of weapons: for example, Stanley fights with rocks and bone knives in the Prehistoric era, switching to shurikens and katanas in Japan, revolvers and shotguns in the Wild West, laser pistols in the future, etc. Most of the time in the game is spent fighting enemies. Character navigation and combat resemble those of Alone in the Dark. The navigation is character- rather than camera-based, similarly to survival horror games. During combat, Stanley has three attack moves at his disposal, as well as a blocking move. Part of the challenge relies on choosing the right weapons against particular enemies. Stanley starts with a small life bar that can be increased by picking up life power-ups, as well as multiple lives. Time limit is imposed on each level. To lower the countdown, the player has to deposit computer chips collected throughout the levels in special orb pools. The game utilizes animated pre-rendered sequences to represent locations, and polygonal models for the characters. |
| Time Gal | 1996 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Taito Corporation | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Quick Time Events (QTEs) | | | | | | | Windows | The year is 4001. The evil Luna has stolen a time machine and plans to use it to take over the world. You are the Time Gal, a skillful and pretty scientist, and your mission is to chase Luna through different time periods, to get the time machine back, and to save the world.Created during the first age of "full motion" style, Time Gal is a conversion of an early arcade title. You watch animations of your heroine while she travels through levels, and overcome obstacles by pushing the correct button at the right moment. You can change directions, jump, shoot, etc., but everything is controlled during the never-ending fluent motion of the Time Gal. At certain points the heroine stops the time, and you have three choices to choose from. |
| Tintin in Tibet | 1996 | Infogrames Europe SA | Infogrames Europe SA | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | A platform game starring Tintin. Tintin in Tibet follows on the heel of Infogrames Asterix & Obelix, with the same gameplay. Although the game will prove easy for the expert gamer, there are many levels to pass, each of which features new locations, enemies, and obstacles that serve to advance the storyline. |
| Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk | 1996 | Funsoft GmbH | TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, L.P. | Action, Adventure | Side view | Licensed | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | After failing with a monkey-making scheme, Pucky Duck and Buster Bunny only have a single pouch of magic beans left. Just like in the fairytale, a huge beanstalk emerges from the beans and open up new worlds and - supposedly - greast treasures. The player takes control over Plucky while they explore eight different areas in a scavenger hunt based on nursery rhymes. Prizes include the goose that laid the golden eggs and a fabled, priceless harp. The comical quest takes our heroes through classic nursery rhyme locations based on Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears, Old Mother Hubbard and more.The game consists of two parts: First are the sequences on the beanstalk where Plucky tries to reach the next treasure location. Those are platforming sections in which the end of the screen needs to be reached without dying to one of the many obstacles, for example by rolling to the side when a weight appears and threatens to bury Plucky. An optional hard difficulty adds additional hazards and traps.When the clue locations are reached, the game becomes a point & click adventure. Based on a clue provided by Babs Bunny, Plucky needs to find the correct item to click on. Each location consists of a single screen and has a number of optional hot-spots which launch animations.
When the the item was found, Plucky receives part of a key; three parts of a key open up the chance to steal a valuable prize from the mysterious giant. |
| Tonko 2 | 1996 | Nesco | TWIM | Action | | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The follow-up to Tonko takes a different approach to single-screen platforming. The titular little yellow goblin-like hero is now stripped of his hammer-wielding powers and hence any means of defeating the many enemies populating the stages. Instead, Tonko is required to carefully make his way through the stage towards the exit (sometimes collecting keys to unlock doors), avoiding any contact with the enemies. Patience and timing are essential for guiding the vulnerable hero safely to the destination. Tonko can climb ladders that connect the platforms, hide in garbage bins, as well as flush himself down toilets. Each stage can be restarted with unlimited continues. |
| Total Control Football | 1996 | Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | BlueSky Software, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade, Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Total Control Football offers a managerial approach to American Football simulations. You have been just named general manager of an NFL team in major problems, and its your job to take it to the top. This means both winning games and turning a profit. You'll be able to manage every aspect of your organization, you'll be in control of drafting players, set salaries, create plays, and even set the prices of hotdogs and other nuisances!The games can be auto played or you can jump in the coaches seat and call the plays. Also available is a small arcade mode in which you control the action. |
| Total Mayhem | 1996 | Domark Software, Inc. | Cinematix Studios, Inc. | Action | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Isometric action shooter. Control cyborgs in various missions to shoot and recover items. |
| Transport Tycoon Deluxe | 1996 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Chris Sawyer Productions | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | Bus, Flight / aviation, Hovercraft, Naval / watercraft, Train, Transport, Truck | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Transport Tycoon Deluxe is an enhanced re-release of Transport Tycoon which introduces single-direction signals, three new landscape environments (arctic, tropical, toy land) with unique challenges, and an in-game time span from 1950 to 2050. A scenario editor is included, but the Martian environment from the Transport Tycoon World Editor is absent. |
| Trivia Munchers Deluxe | 1996 | MECC, SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | ImageBuilder Software, Inc., MECC | Educational | | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | The protagonist of this game is the Muncher, thus named for his insatiable appetite for knowledge. Muncher is presented with a trivia category and a board with 20 possible answers. To win at the particular board, the player must steer Muncher to the correct answers and devour them. Incorrect answers are essentially poison for Muncher and cause him to lose a chance. There are other threats on the board in the form of Troggles which are any of a variety of malicious beings that seek to destroy Muncher during his quest for knowledge.The game features the following categories of trivia: Animals, geography, music, famous people, food and health, odds 'n' ends, and challenge. The player can configure 5 levels (1-4 and Ultimate). There are also various subcategories within each category that the player can disable if he does not want to be quizzed on that subcategory specifically. |
| Twigger | 1996 | Nikita Ltd. | Nikita Ltd. | Action, Strategy | Side view | | | | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | In Twigger you play a mole-like creature. You move around in a cart, with which you can lay eggs and collect carrots. Eggs eventually hatch and produce little helpers that will grow in power the longer they survive. The goal of the game is to destroy the cart of your opponent, by creating an army of helpers and defending them from opposing forces.The game is displayed in a 2D side view and borrows elements from Digger and Bomberman. |
| Twisted Metal | 1996 | Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Inc. | SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade | Contemporary, Fantasy, North America | Automobile, Vehicular combat | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Every year, a mysterious man named Calypso sends e-mails to renowned drivers, inviting them to compete in a tournament called Twisted Metal. The conditions of the tournament are anything but ordinary: opponents fight each other in armored vehicles with mounted weapons. The winner receives an audience with Calypso, and is granted a single wish - a wish without limits, be it money, power, or even our reality itself. In 2005, the annual tournament is held again in Los Angeles, and twelve drivers, each with his own agenda, have come to compete to death.Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat game. The player selects one of the twelve available drivers and takes part in the competition. In the one-player story mode, the player must progress through six combat stages; all the opponents must be destroyed in order to win the race. In the two-player co-op mode, players choose a battlefield and control two cars in an attempt to get rid of the competition.All the vehicles are equipped with two mounted machine guns; though relatively weak, they have unlimited ammunition. Other weapons can be picked up by driving over them during the races. These include fire and homing missiles, land mines, tire spikes, and others. Each participant has a life bar, which can be replenished by entering a specific area on the stage. |
| Tōdō Ryūnosuke Tantei Nikki: Kohakuiro no Yuigon | 1996 | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | Interwar | | | | | | Windows | Kohakuiro no Yuigon ("Amber Testament") is the first in the row of detective games starring the fictional Japanese private investigator Ryūnosuke Tōdō. The events of the game take places in Japan in the year 1921, and Tōdō must investigate a mysterious murder of a rich man in his own mansion. The deceased had many relatives, and its the detective's job to find out which one of them (if any) has committed the murder.The game plays mostly like an adventure with light simulation elements. The interaction is done with menu commands, focusing on conversation topics. The protagonist has to talk to the mansion's inhabitants about other people and hear their opinion concerning the crime, unlocking new topics as he gathers information. Rooms can and should be searched for clues as well. In his own room the detective can view dossiers and evidence. |
| Tōdō Ryūnosuke Tantei Nikki: Ōgon no Rashinban | 1996 | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Adventure | | | Detective / mystery | | Interwar | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Ōgon no Rashinban ("Golden Compass") is the second case starring the private detective Ryūnosuke Tōdō, following Kohakuiro no Yuigon. Like the first case, the adventure takes place in the 1920's. This time the investigator finds himself on a ship sailing from San Francisco to Yokohama. A mysterious murder occurs, and it is up to Tōdō to gather evidence and find the culprit.Like its predecessor, the game mainly follows an adventure format with some simulation elements. The game is heavy on realistic investigation routine, and mostly consists of questioning characters and finding clues that would help to solve the case. Unlike the previous entry, the game has isometric graphics with superimposed character portraits, and elements of point-and-click interface (e.g. when navigating the ship map and accessing various locations). |
| Ultimate Yahtzee | 1996 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | PCA Inc. | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A computer adaptation of the classic dice game Yahtzee. Players take turns throwing five dice and attempting to make scoring combinations (full house, straight). The elusive five of a kind is referred to as a Yahtzee (hence the game's name).In addition to the standard game (solo, against the computer, and against other human players), Ultimate Yahtzee has four other variations including Battle Yahtzee (your roll can hurt the other player's roll) and Pyramid Yahtzee (uses four sided dice). |
| Ultra Logic | 1996 | ViSoft | ViSoft | Puzzle | | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Ultra Logic is a computer version of the famous board game Mastermind. The player's goal is to guess a sequence of colored pegs that the computer has set up. The player can take a guess by providing a sequence of pegs; if the sequence contains some pegs which are of an appropriate color, but in the wrong position, a white peg appears next to the guessed sequence; if the sequence contains a peg which has the right color and is in the right place, a black peg appears. Based on this info, the player must deduce which pegs are in the sequence and how to place them. There's a limited amount of guesses - if the player fails to guess the sequence within the limit, he loses, and the computer shows him the right answer. The game contains three difficulty levels (differing in the length of the sequence and the number of available tries), and the player can set up his own difficulty level. Statistics are available which show the amount of games won, lost and unfinished. The game comes with four MIDI files which serve as background music. |
| Uncover featuring Tatjana | 1996 | SPC Vision B.V. | SPC Vision B.V. | Action, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult | Arcade | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Uncover featuring Tatjana is a strategic action game featuring Croatian-Dutch model, actor and singer Tatjana Simić. The game is similar to the arcade game Qix. Play takes place on a rectangular playing field. The player has to draw lines in order to colour in parts of the field. An erratically moving enemy moves around the playing field, but can only harm the player when he's drawing lines. When the player is not drawing lines he can only move on the outer borders of the playing field. There are also enemies on these borders moving in clockwise or counterclockwise directions. When the player touches an enemy the player loses a life. Unlike the original where the player also loses a life when the erratic enemy touches an incomplete shape, he now chases the player along the line. Coloured in parts in this version of the game are parts of pictures of Tatjana. |
| Undersea Adventure | 1996 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Adventure, Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | | Naval / watercraft | | | | | Windows | Undersea Adventure is a 2D adventure that aims to educate children on ocean life. The player explores the sea in a submarine while learning geology, marine biology, geography, oceanography, and ecology through nine mini-games and activities. The game includes hundreds of photos as well as movies of undersea life and an Undersea Reference encyclopedia which helps with report writing. |
| Urban Runner | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Coktel Vision | Adventure | | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | The player is Max, an American journalist in Paris. There seems to be a story at hand, about a big drug dealer who is covered by some influential person in politics. To get the dealer talking, the player offers him a photography in exchange for some information. But when the player gets there, the druglord is dead and everyones on their back - mistaking them for the killer.The game itself is a movie adventure on four CD-ROMs, dividing gameplay in Clue- and Action-turns. The player can control the game completely via mouse. |
| Versailles 1685 | 1996 | Canal+Multimédia, Réunion des Musées Nationaux | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Europe | | | | Teen | | Windows | In this historical game you are some sort of security guard at the court of Louis XIV. You have to prevent a destruction of such a lovely place as Versailles, where you search for bomb and the person, who want to activate it. Talking with characters, searching for clues and studying the Versailles, which is museum at present, you have to serve your King in the name of France.The game is made with Omni-3D technology, which allows you to turn yourself in 360 degrees. |
| Video Poker | 1996 | | | Gambling, Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | Menu structures | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Video Poker is a single player, freeware, game based on the poker machines found in casinos and arcades.Players start with $1000, place their bet and spin the reels. Then they decide which cards they want to hold, in this game the player must hold at least one card before making the draw, and spin the reels again. When the player runs out of money the game helpfully gives them another $1000 to play with.
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| Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest | 1996 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Random Games, Inc. | Action, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Historical events | Naval / watercraft | | | Teen | | Windows | Vikings is a strategy game with a dash of action. Deep down it feels like the classic Pirates! set a few hundred years back.You take the role of a viking ruler. Its up to you whether you decide to stay and rule over your province (good for the province) or go out and trade with/raid other areas (good for wealth, fame). Along the way you can get yourself married, go on quests, get in bar fights, and in general get into all sorts of viking fun.
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| Virtua Fighter Remix | 1996 | Expert Software, Inc. | AM R&D Dept. #2, Sega AM1 R&D Division | Action | Side view | | Martial arts | Fighting | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | Akira Yuki, the only active master of the powerful Kung Fu technique known as Hakkyoku ken (“The Eight Point Fist") travels the world in search of enlightenment and worthy opponents. He has found them in in the World Fighting Tournament, where the strongest fighters determine who the master of hand-to-hand combat is. All techniques are allowed as long as the contestants use no weapons but their own bodies.After weeks of trials, only seven other warriors remain:
Sarah Bryant and her brother Jacky, Lau Chan and his daughter Pai, Jeffry McWild, Wolf Hawkfield and the ninja Kagemaru.Virtua Fighter PC (aka - Virtua Fighter PC Remix) is an enhanced port of Sega's arcade hit Virtua Fighter. It features the original characters and stages with higher polygon counts and texture mapping (a la Virtua Fighter 2) and various minor gameplay tweaks. |
| Virtual Corporation | 1996 | TopWare Interactive | Microforum International | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Make your way up to the top in a future company. But that's not the only goal of Virtual Corporation; additionally, you have to find a murderer.The game is mainly based on a multiple choice question/answer system and has some short sub-games included. All graphics are a mixture of rendered backgrounds and more or less static videos. |
| Wages of War: The Business of Battle | 1996 | New World Computing, Inc. | Random Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | | | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Wages of War is a squad level tactical simulation set in the year 2001. The game is a solitaire simulation pitting the player as owner of a mercenary company, against computer controlled enemy forces and competing mercenary companies. The goal of Wages of War is to make the most money possible and become the world leader in mercenary activities. To do this, the player must plan missions carefully, spending enough money to acquire what is needed for each mission, while minimizing expenditures and casualties. Winning missions is not enough, the player must win each mission while making the greatest profit possible. |
| Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack | 1996 | BBC Multimedia | Inner Workings | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade, Board game | | | | | | | Windows | The is a collection of fun items for your PC inspired by Nick Park’s first three Academy Award winning clay animated Wallace & Gromit short films. The package includes the Customise-o-matic which adds screen-savers, wallpapers, icons, and sound-bites to your desktop. You can also use a video browser interface, the Crackin' Compendium, to view some of their best film clips. There are also several games: a multiple-choice trivia quiz for one or more players, and two singleplayer games. The Bungee Game is based on Gromit's high jinks in "A Close Shave". He must jump to clean windows which are being dirtied by a jam catapult machine and avoid being grabbed if someone opens a window. The Train Game echoes the chase in "The Wrong Trousers" and you have to lay tracks across the kitchen so that Gromit can ride the toy train all the way to the sink. |
| Westworld 2000 | 1996 | Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc. | Brooklyn Multimedia | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Westworld 2000, the amusement park of the future, is a 3D shooter based on the sci-fi film by Michael Crichton.The player can choose to be a samurai warrior, a gunslinger, or an intergalactic spy, depending on which world (Samuraiworld, Westworld, Orbitworld) the player is entering. The player's task is to shut down Westworld 2000, combating malfunctioning robots along the way, through 35 different levels with 11 weapons from the past, the present, and the future. |
| Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? | 1996 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy, Detective / mystery | | North America | | Menu structures, Point and select | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Players pursue Carmen Sandiego and her VILE agents from state to state, gathering clues about their destinations and appearances. Features live-action video of Lynne Thigpen as The Chief, and a cartoon version of RoboCrook, both from the PBS game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? |
| Who's Fat Lou? | 1996 | Mediola Srl | Mediola Srl | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Who's Fat Lou is a point-and-click adventure game with an usual art style. In the future, you are trying to save Zett City from the evil El Guapo. You need to collect traditional inventory items to solve traditional inventory puzzles, and also "musical inventory items" for the final musical showdown with El Guapo. |
| Win42 | 1996 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Win42 is a single player, shareware game that is based on a domino game known as just 42. 42 is a domino game played predominately in the South central United States and has been referred to as 'the national game of Texas'. Briefly this is a like a card game played with dominoes. In 42 dominoes are said to have suits just like the suits in cards, one end of the domino will determine it's suit while the other will determine it's rank so a 2-6 is the highest domino in the '2' suit while 6-2 is a low domino in the '6' suit. It is a game for four players playing in pairs, in this implementation the computer plays both partner and both opponents, that is played with a standard set of dominoes - i.e. the biggest domino is double six.Each hand starts with a bidding phase in which each player states how many points they think they and their partner can score. Whichever player makes the highest bid wins the contract and the right to nominate trumps as in a card game. The hand is then played and scoring is based on the number of tricks taken. A detailed description of the game can be found here
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| WinMind | 1996 | | | Puzzle | | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | WinMind is a single player, freeware version of the classic, code breaking game Mastermind.Game-play is virtually identical to all other Mastermind clones, the player has to deduce the correct five colour code and has twelve attempts to accomplish this. In response to each guess the player is told how many colours in the right position and how many colours in the wrong position were present in the attempt.The game has three difficulty levels and can be played by the keyboard or the mouse. |
| Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga | 1996 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Action, Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | Damon Lane Waldrip | | Mature | | Windows | The Kilrathi Saga includes Wing Commander, Wing Commander 2, and Wing Commander 3. The first 2 Wing Commanders have been completely remastered, with a high-quality soundtrack and perfect execution under Windows without speed or stability problems. |
| Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey | 1996 | Palladium Interactive, Inc. | Human Code, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Wishbone And The Amazing Odyssey is a lesson about Homer's «Odyssey» in which Wishbone (a Jack Russell terrier from a PBS educational television show) plays the role of Odysseus. Wishbone must re-enact Homer's «Odyssey» in order to return to his own time. To achieve this goal, Wishbone must interact with characters and the surroundings, taking command of his crew, and sailing around the ancient Greece while making all the classic stops outlined in Homer's poem.Additionally, the game features the Knowledge Vault, an online reference about Homer's «Odyssey» that includes a glossary, time line, and a list of characters and locations. |
| Wizardry Gold | 1996 | Sir-tech Software, Inc. | Sir-tech Software, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Wizardry Gold is an upgraded version of Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant placed on a CD. Enhancements to the base game include:
Full Windows 95 support
New graphics and animations
New sound effects and digital speech for narratives
Mouse driven interface
Automap feature
On-line manual
In-game interactive hint guide |
| Woodspell | 1996 | Mediola Srl | Mediola Srl | Adventure, Educational | | | | Music / rhythm, Platform, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Kids to Adults | Giovanni Talami | Windows | Woodspell is a mixture of an adventure-like puzzle-solving game and an activity center with educational elements. The game contains various puzzles, such as matching the sound of a song or the classic "fit the right objects in the correct location" variant. Players also hear stories set in the woodland, filled with elves and fairies, or even print and color the locations they see. The game features hand-drawn scenarios and characters, and original music by the Italian band Tazenda. |
| Wordfinder | 1996 | | Alston Software Labs | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Word construction | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Wordfinder is a single player game in which players try to find words in a grid of letters. It is entirely mouse controlled and, unusually, the search words are presented one at a time though there is an option to see the full list. Compiling puzzles with backwords words is optional, it's enabled by default, and the game has optional sound, music and in the registered version there's a function which allows the player to create their own puzzles - this is proposed as an educational/teaching aid.There are fifty puzzles in the shareware version of the game and over one hundred and fifty puzzles in the registered version, they are grouped into themed folders called Holiday & Vacations(5); Health & Food(9); Sports (9); Familiar Things(15); Arts & Music(14); Science(10); Industry(14); War & History(23); Crossword Style(3); Picture Style(1); Geography(15); Living Things(11); Language Fun(2); Modern Life(14); and Education & Misc(11). Puzzles range in topic from "Australian Expressions" to "World of Modeling", from "German Hints - English Words" to "Grounds For Divorce". In the Crossword Style group the player is given a clue to the word they must find, similarly in the Picture. All puzzles can be printed and are compiled as they are selected so the player cannot learn where certain words are hidden in order to beat a timed game. |
| You Don't Know Jack XL: X-Tra Large | 1996 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Compilation, Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack XL (X-Tra Large) is a compilation package consisting of the original You Don't Know Jack with the 400 You Don't Know Jack: Question Pack questions included, for a total of 1200 questions. |
| You Don't Know Jack: Movies | 1996 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack Movies is a part of the You Don't Know Jack series of humorously presented trivia question games. As the title implies, this edition is dedicated entirely to cinema, as players are tested in their knowledge of the film industry. The gameplay is very similar to that of the "regular" entries, in particular the second installment. The game features the traditional Flickerpiss Nosescums (gibberish questions), Multiple Choice, and Jack Attack question modes, as well as those introduced in You Don't Know Jack Volume 2 - Fill in the Blanks, Dis or Dats, Whatitsname, and Picture Questions. The Celebrity Calls mode from the second game has been replaced with Fiber Optic Trips, which involves calling strangers and having them ask the contestants questions. |
| You Don't Know Jack: Sports | 1996 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The You Don't Know Jack series of party games is known for its oddball humor, sarcastic wit and roundabout way of asking trivia questions. This time Jack is aimed squarely at sports-related topics. Hosted by Guy Towers, this game includes the normal trivia as well as special questions in the form of Gibberish Questions, Multiple-Choice and Fiber Optic Field Trips. As with all Jack games, you can always try to screw another contestant (with actual screws!) or Don't Be a Wimp and be forced to answer the question if that player is in the lead. |
| You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2 | 1996 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Mature | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2 is a sequel to You Don't Know Jack. Like its predecessor, the game imitates a television game show. Each game can consist of seven or twenty-one question rounds. Pressing a key that acts like a "buzzer," each player tries to be the first to answer a trivia question that pops on the screen. Many questions are humorously structured, drawing inspiration from pop culture references. The game's "host" provides jocular commentary during the show.The sequel adds new gameplay modes: DisOrDat, in which players have to quickly classify words into two or more categories; Celebrity Collect Calls, which features real-life characters asking bizarre questions; and Picture Questions, which adds pictures to the predominantly sound-oriented game. |
| You Don’t Know Jack XXL: X-Tra X-Tra Large | 1996 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains the following You Don’t Know Jack games with a total of 2000 questions on two CD-ROMs:- You Don’t Know Jack XL (First disc with 1200 questions)- You Don’t Know Jack Volume 2 (Second disc with an additional 800 questions) |
| ZPC | 1996 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Zombie LLC | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | You play a sort of god-king who has been roused from suspended animation to deal with an evil sect who has taken over the planet and is killing your followers. Includes music by the industrial band the Revolting Cocks, and art by underground artist Aidan (KMFDM) Hughes. |
| Zapitalism! | 1996 | ionos, Inc. | LavaMind | Simulation, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Zapitalism takes place in the Archipelago of Mermadan on the island of Zapinalia. Queen Keshi Keshi Gomu, the ruler of Zapinalia, has decided to open up the island's economy to foreign imports for the first time in a thousand years. Your job is to make zillions of zables buying and selling everything from imported lumber fish to precious mamo vapor. With the profit you earn dealing in exotic goods, you can expand your operation.Watch out - you must match wits against five other companies in a race to build a commercial empire. These competitors can either be controlled by computer players or human players. If you cannot defeat them, it's time to look for a new occupation!You will be able to make deals with the eccentric inhabitants of Zapinalia, invest in stocks and bonds, negotiate with the unions, sabotage your competitors, advertise your products, corner the market, build mega stores, and explore the islands of Mermadan in search of treasure and magic items. The first mega store to dominate the market wins the game. |
| Zeitgeist | 1996 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Taito Corporation | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Zeitgeist is a 3D shooter in which the player controls a futuristic fighter jet flying through space. The lone hero must battle multiple waves of aliens and asteroids, fly across planets and inside space stations, as well as combat large mother ships and other boss enemies. The game only allows limited movement of the jet, prompting the player to focus on targeting and destroying as much as he can on his path. The jet that has two main weapons, and a laser sub-weapon that homes into targets. Unlike most other shooters, this game does not have any power-ups. |
| Zero Divide | 1996 | Time Warner Interactive Inc. | Zoom, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Fighting | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | On one fateful day in the near future, an online database known as XTAL Tower has surfaced. The hackers who were running it claimed that the database contained the national security secrets of every country in the world. Governments have received an invitation from the mysterious XTAL: if they can create robots who are strong enough to defeat XTAL security units, the database will not be made public. The most powerful robots are dispatched on the dangerous mission: take down the units, and eventually destroy XTAL itself...Zero Divide is a 3D robot fighting game. You play one of eight robotic fighters and must battle your way through multiple levels in single player, or go head to head with an opponent in two-player mode. There is various unlockable content: mini-games, (e.g. a side-scrolling shoot 'em up), easter eggs, etc. |
| Zombie Wars | 1996 | Microforum International | Gee Whiz! Entertainment | Action | Side view | | Horror | Platform | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | The Sequel to Alien Carnage/Halloween Harry, Zombie Wars picks up the story three years later as the aliens return to enslave the Earth. Harry is joined by Agent Diane as they race through zombie infested parks, sewers, beaches, office blocks, factories and alien ships and undertake the prerequisite undead destruction with primarily ranged weaponry, in a 2D action side-scrolling style. |
| Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands | 1996 | Activision, Inc. | Zombie LLC | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | In the last days of the Great Underground Empire, four of the Empire's greatest Alchemists disappeared into the Forbidden Lands on the day of the Solar Eclipse, supposedly searching for the secret of the Quintessena, the Eternal Life. An imperial spy, Bivotar, was dispatched to locate them. He never returned. Now, the task has fallen onto you. You soon discover that the Alchemists are dead, slain by a horrible demon known only as the Nemesis. You manage to get on the Nemesis' nerves, and soon find yourself allied with the spirits of the dead Alchemists, attempting to finish their work before the Nemesis can finish you. But all is not as it seems, and as you unravel the secrets of the past through old letters and ghostly flashbacks, you begin to realize the full horror of the events which transpired under the Eclipse all those years ago.Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands is a graphical first person adventure game in the style of Myst, mixing logic puzzles with live-action FMV sequences which advance the story. The player views each location from a first-person perspective, and can rotate the camera 180 degrees to get a full view of your surroundings.Like other Zork installments, the game contains humorous elements, but in general its story and atmosphere are darker, including images and themes such as decapitated heads and human sacrifice. |
| ZuluWar! | 1996 | Incredible Simulations, Inc. | Incredible Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | ZuluWar! is a turn-based, hex-grid wargame simulating the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa. Take control of either British or Zulu forces in one of several mini-scenarios or the full campaign. Victory is achieved by meeting scenario objectives and gaining more victory points than the opposition. Supply lines must be protected in order to maintain unit condition/morale.Default settings recreate historical battles, but a number of options allow for considerable variation, including: reinforcement schedules, disease, intelligence, fog of war, weather, firepower, and AI difficulty level. The included multiplayer option is PBEM (play-by-e-mail).
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| Brain Dead 13 | 1996-01-01 | ReadySoft Incorporated | ReadySoft Incorporated | Action | | | | Quick Time Events (QTEs) | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In Brain Dead 13, the player takes on the role of a young computer expert who one day is called to fix a computer at some scary castle and in no time flat, finds himself in trouble.It is up to the player to use the complex moves of an interactive movie to escape from the castle. This animated adventure is basically based on the player's judgment on which direction you think the character might go, and if the player guesses wrong, death. |
| Hooves of Thunder! | 1996-01-01 | MicroLeague Multimedia, Inc. | Sinosoft Limited | Racing / Driving, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Hooves of Thunder! is a remake of the DOS game QuarterPole.The game has been completely reworked as a DOS-to-Windows conversion. It has all new programming, completely new graphics and artwork in SVGA with 256 colors. Otherwise, the game is not changed from its predecessor and includes all of the features and gameplay aspects of the original game. |
| Mr. Potato Head Saves Veggie Valley | 1996-01-01 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Duck Soup Productions Inc., Turning Point Software | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Mr. Potato Head Saves Veggie Valley is a short educational adventure game with point-and-click controls. Veggie Valley has been beset by a terrible drought lately. Even more bad luck arrives as ominous clouds threaten the Country Fair. Mr. Potato Head and his daughter, Sweet Potato, decide to take matters into their own hands, save the fair and bring the clouds to Veggie Valley instead. The player controls both of them as they make their way across the valley, solve puzzles and visit the fair's many attractions.The game is intended for pre-school kids (less than 7 years) and has relatively simple puzzles. They consist mostly of gathering items in the inventory and using them on other objects from the world. Disguising the two potatoes represents an important element as well. Using the in-game editor, you can replace the eyes, nose, ears, shoes, mouth, add a clown wig, and so on. There are several mini games at the local fair, three of which (called Midway Games) can be accessed directly from the main menu: Funny Photo Booth, Counting Pinball and Match & Catch Fishing. The first is another disguise editor, Counting Pinball is a pinball game that teaches the player to count, while Match & Catch Fishing's main goal is to place pairs of identical fishes in the top jars. Both the mini games and the full adventure have two levels of difficulty.Similarly to other educational games of the era, the player can interact with many things from the world, not necessarily pertaining to puzzles or story advancement. This can trigger animations or speeches, giving a better idea on what the object actually is. The protagonists' and other characters' lines are fully-voiced. |
| Playskool Puzzles | 1996-01-01 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | ImageBuilder Software, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Playskool Puzzles is a set of five educational puzzles intended for kids aged 3 to 6:Explore It! - The player chooses between four pictures (Park, House, Beach and Farm). Each location will have different elements and objects removed and placed randomly at the bottom of the screen. The main objective is to reassemble the picture by sticking the objects in their corresponding areas. Once the image is back to its original form, the player can click on some of its elements to explore them. For example, after completing the park, clicking on the circus within it will trigger a new such puzzle. Clicking on a particular object in the final exploration puzzle will reveal a separate animation featuring it and its name. This way, the kids can learn new words and associate them.Puzzle Maker - A puzzle editor. Using the toolbox and a selection of premade objects, the user can create new puzzles or modify existing ones. Puzzle Maker will automatically import the last picture seen while playing any of the other puzzles. The picture can be cut in three different ways and after that you need to reassemble it as it's normally done in Jigsaw.Connect the Dots - Clicking the numbers or letters in their correct numerical or alphabetical order will trace the margin of an object. After connecting all the dots correctly, the game will show the full object, its name and an animation for it.Mix and Match - It involves combining different body parts to obtain a funny-looking character.Jigsaw - An ordinary jigsaw puzzle.In every puzzle it's possible to modify the original image's colors and draw other stuff on it using the toolbox. The result can usually be saved or printed. There are three difficulty settings: Easy, Medium and Hard. |
| Arcade America | 1996-01-09 | 7th Level, Inc. | 7th Level, Inc. | Action | | | Comedy | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Joey and his pet monsters are going to play a concert in Woodstock. Unfortunately, Joey has overslept, and his monsters have gone a little overboard in waking him up; their plan involved colossal amounts of dynamite. As a result, all the monsters have ended up all over the USA, and now Joey has to find them all.Arcade America is a humorous platform game where you control the rather overweight Joey. Each level consists of a couple of smaller micro-levels and is set in an iconic location within the States, such as Alcatraz or Las Vegas, and has its own specific enemies. The goal on each level is to rescue one of the monsters. Joey can defeat the enemies in his way by hitting them with his prominent belly, or by shooting them with his slingshot, which has limited ammo. Getting the good ending (i.e. rescuing the band member) on each level requires finding a hidden item, usually accessible by a secret door. The game's best ending can only be seen if the player has rescued all of his band members within a four-hour time limit. While moving between levels, the player takes part in a crazy minigame where he controls Joey's car as he drives towards the next area. While driving, Joey must avoid obstacles on his way, but he can also collect ammunition for his slingshot. Driving into an obstacle decreases the time limit. |
| Pop a Penguin | 1996-01-26 | | | Action | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Pop A Penguin is a single player, mouse controlled, Whac-A-Mole game.The player starts by selecting their weapon, a mallet, a bomb, some kissy lips or a tin of purple paint - different weapons mean different sound effects. The game consists of a single screen on various creatures appear very briefly. The player's task is to click on the penguins to score points, clicking on any other creature loses points and costs a life. |
| Ancient Domains of Mystery | 1996-01-28 | | | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | Puzzle elements, Roguelike | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | In Ancient Domains of Mystery, the player character is an adventurer who has traveled to a remote mountain range to save Ancardia, the world of the game, from the forces of Chaos. The player can either continue on with this quest or join on with Chaos, depending on the choices that the player makes in the game. Becoming corrupted by the forces of chaos causes mutations which have positive or negative effects.The game features a wide range of character races and classes, a point-based skill system, many subplots, and a detailed world which allows to grow herbs and repair/upgrade weapons with smithing. |
| DragonRealms | 1996-02-01 | Simutronics Corporation | Simutronics Corporation | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | Persistent | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Set in the fantasy world of Elanthia, DragonRealms is a massively multiplayer text-based roleplaying game. Players can choose from eleven races (Human, Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Gor'Tog, Elothean, S'Kra Mur, Gnome, Kaldar, Prydaen, Rakash) and ten guilds (Barbarian, Trader, Bard, Thief, Paladin, Ranger, Cleric, Empath, Warrior Mage, Moon Mage) as well as a huge number of facial features when creating their character. Advancement is skill-based -- though combat is a large component of the gameplay, performing other tasks (skinning, climbing, alchemy, etc.) may also be required for a character to advance. Some classes (Empath and Trader, for example) feature little to no combat to advance. In addition to the primary advancement path, the game also features a multitude of puzzles, quests, and mini-games. |
| Heroes of Might and Magic | 1996-02-01 | New World Computing, Inc. | New World Computing, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | RPG elements, Turn-based strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Heroes of Might and Magic is a turn-based strategy game in which the player takes on the role of one of four different heroes: the warlock, sorceress, barbarian, or knight. As the hero the player must build up his or her castle by adding different buildings to earn different units to strengthen the hero's army with. Units include dragons, cyclopes, phoenixes, paladins, and many more fantasy creatures. Buildings and units cost money and resources. Buildings can also be upgraded to unlock new unit types.Another aspect of the game is exploring the world and discovering treasures, spells, mines to gather resources, nomad camps, magic lamps, ultimate artifacts, and more. The game uses a top down map in which the player can move his heroes a number of spaces each turn. Whenever the player encounters an enemy hero or castle a battle is shown in a close-up view.During battles all the player's units are shown as stacks. The player can move these stacks around on a hexagonal grid. Different units have different movement and attack capabilities requiring different strategies to use and overcome.The goal is to defeat all opponents by conquering their castles and defeating their heroes in battle. The player must also defend his own castles from enemy attacks. The player's heroes can collect spells to use in battle and can boost the units under their command, but they otherwise don't have a presence on the battlefields. The heroes collect experience points in typical RPG manner which boosts their stats. In addition, items can be collected for additional bonuses. |
| 3x3 Eyes: Sanjiyan Henjō | 1996-02-09 | Nihon Create | Nihon Create | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Sanjiyan Henjō is based on the manga and anime series 3x3 Eyes. Pai, a young girl from the immortal tribe of sanzhiyan, three-eyed demons of Chinese origin, wants to become a human again. She meets a Japanese teenager named Yakumo Fujii, whom she accidentally turns into a "wu", an immortal obedient servant of a three-eyed demon. Together, Pai and Yakumo try to regain their lost humanity.This game can be considered a side-story to the series. The player does not control Yakumo, but an ordinary high-school student named Kenichi Yamamoto. Accidentally, Kenichi comes into contact with the world of demons, and now he needs the help of Pai and Yakumo to be freed. The gameplay is standard Japanese-style adventure. The player interacts with the game world by selecting menu commands "Look", "Talk", and "Move". The game features animated cutscenes and (in its console incarnation) voice-overs. |
| Bad Mojo | 1996-02-29 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Pulse Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Roger was about to do something bad. Unfortunately, he can't remember what it was because he has been transformed into a cockroach. In this Kafkaesque graphic adventure game, Roger (you) must scurry through the walls of a run down San Francisco bar trying to restore his memory and his human form while avoiding spiders, a roach eating cat, and other creatures that live in the bar.
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| Spycraft: The Great Game | 1996-02-29 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Spy / espionage | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | As a new CIA operative, you've been called to Washington. Apparently a Russian candidate for president was assassinated (read: shot) while giving a public speech. Can you uncover a conspiracy that reaches the highest level of government (both US and Russia)?Spycraft is an adventure game with simulation elements that involves quite a bit of puzzle-solving. With input from ex-head of KGB and ex-head of CIA, the scenario is frighteningly authentic. You choose your actions from what is available on screen. You will need to collate large amount of information, and pick out certain patterns that will lead you to what you need. You are helped along by your trusty PDA which highlights the areas to be investigated (i.e. puzzles to be solved) and keeps track of relevant facts. |
| Patolli | 1996-03-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Patolli is a shareware conversion of an ancient board game of Meso-American origin, popular with Toltecs, Maya and Aztecs, among others, and mentioned by the Spanish conquistadores. Its name comes from the Aztec word for "bean", and the game was often associated with gambling, with the players betting vast sums on its outcome. Versions of Patolli are still played today in Meso-America.The game is a race game between two players, reminiscent of the popular Ludo board game: You, the "merchant", against "Smoking Mirror", an Aztec demon, each trying to move his six markers over a cross-shaped 68-squared board as quickly as possible. Each game starts with the players betting an amount of "assets". The player who first gets all his tokens back home gets the pot; besides, you get one asset from your opponent for each token safely brought home. The game ends when one of the players goes bankrupt.The pieces are moved by throwing beans instead of dice, each one marked with a dot on one side. Throwing five beans at once, you can get up to five dots, which represent the count of squares to travel, with five dots counting as ten squares.Several special squares make them game more interesting. Some give you an extra turn, others force you to pay 2 beans to your opponent. It is normally not allowed to land on squares already occupied by another piece, but the squares on the central crossroads squares are an exception: If you land on an opponents token here, you can bump him back to the start.A nice detail of the game are the "Aztec facts", random bits of information on Aztecs and other Meso-American people, that the game displays from time to time.
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| Secrets of the Luxor | 1996-03-01 | Mojave | Mojave | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | You're an archaeologist exploring an ancient pyramid in this Myst-like adventure. You've discovered evidence of a powerful artifact left behind by an advanced civilization, and you have to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. As you explore the pyramid and solve puzzles, you will travel across time and space to three different worlds.The game features a point-and-click interface and static 3D rendered graphics, with full-motion video interludes and a VR headset mode allowing for 360 degree panning. The game ships on 2 cds. |
| Descent II | 1996-03-13 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Parallax Software Corp. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The second Descent game features new levels,
new weapons and new robot enemies. It also comes with helpful ideas for the player like the Guide-bot, the ability to fly with afterburner or energy-to-shield converter that many times they
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| The Rise & Rule of Ancient Empires | 1996-03-18 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The Rise & Rule of Ancient Empires is based on a classic strategic game: Sid Meier's Civilization. However, in this game, the period is shorter, and only hard cavalry can be discovered. As ever, the goal is the conquest of all the known world and impose your law upon it. |
| EarthSiege 2 | 1996-03-19 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The war between the human resistance and the evil robotic Cybrids renews! Prometheus has built a base on the moon and is producing Cybrids by the thousands. As a member of the human resistance, you pilot your HERC ('Mech) against the Cybrids. You have up to 3 wingmates. This entry in the Earthsiege series features 9 HERCS and something not found in many Mech-type games: an aircraft you can fly! |
| Iron Angel of the Apocalypse: The Return | 1996-03-19 | Synergy Inc. | Synergy Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Tetsujin returns in this sequel to Iron Angel of the Apocalypse. The story picks up shortly after the events of the previous game. After his showdown with the Scientist and the Android, Tetsujin finds himself disembodied. A mysterious corporation known as SCR gives you a new body, but their plans for you are mysterious.The format of this game is mostly similar to the first. This is a first-person shooter that relies heavily on video cutscenes to tell a story. The graphics engine has been improved greatly, giving this game a much faster pace than its predecessor. Whereas the original used a combination of live actors and CG, this one uses CG to depict the humans as well. |
| Blobshop | 1996-03-20 | | ABC-WARE | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Blobshop is a shareware game based on the classic board game Connect Four. The game has a story. There is a funfair in Idletown where the main attraction is Aunt Emma's Blobshop. At this stall players throw paint balls at a wall and win a prize if they make a beautiful blob. The funfair is now over and her helpers are playing on the stall on their own. Instead of using balls they are using paint guns. The game they are playing is to see who is the first to place five blobs in a line.The play area is a grid which can vary in size from 6x6 to 15x15 cells. There are three difficulty levels to play on and random hazards such as blocked nozzles and grease spots can optionally be enabled. |
| Lemmings for Windows 95 & Lemmings Paintball | 1996-03-22 | Psygnosis Limited | Visual Sciences Ltd. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | Released | Windows | Budget compilation package consisting of:
Lemmings for Windows 95: An updated version of Lemmings for Windows, with two full games - the original "Lemmings" and its stand-alone expansion "Oh No! More Lemmings", designed to run in Windows.
Lemmings Paintball
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| JumpStart 2nd Grade | 1996-03-26 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Jump Start 2nd Grade is an educational game for ages 6-8 that helps kids with Science, Spelling, Vocabulary, Art, Geography, Math and much more. You join C.J the Frog and his angry Fire Fly friend Edison and go into an elevator to secret rooms and caverns including the Clubhouse, the Classroom, The Boiler Room, The Football Field, The Bone Vault, The Cave Writings, The Cricket Band, The Log Ride and The Ice Cave. The games have three difficulty levels. If you do well in the games you win points to earn stamps for a collection. You also receive letters from certain pen-pals all over the United States, asking you to do stuff for them and you try to solve their questions and light up a map you own for the states they live in. |
| Elroy Hits the Pavement | 1996-03-28 | Headbone Interactive | Headbone Interactive | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | Becky Sundling | | | | Windows | In the second in the "What the heck will Elroy do next" adventure series, Elroy's dog Blue has been kidnapped by a criminal gang. They've also stolen his school science project, the Canine Revitalizer. If his friend Sydney and he don't find it and hand it in, they'll get sent to Summer school. To break into the gang's hideout, you'll have to learn about lasers, batteries, secret codes and special fuels. To make your way through the building, you'll have to figure out mazes and similar doors with the aid of maps and get by surveillance cameras. If you make a wrong turn or get caught, the game will be over. Try to solve puzzles and make it through to rescuing Blue and your school project to attain the best of the multiple endings. |
| Angelique Special | 1996-03-29 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Adventure, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Angelique Special is an enhanced version of the original Angelique for Super Famicom (SNES). There are no changes gameplay-wise (a mixture of adventure, strategy, and dating sim) or story-wise (a simple girl named Angelique Limoges must befriend nine Guardians to become a queen). This version features slightly improved graphics, CD-quality music, voice acting, and anime-style cutscenes. |
| Big Red Racing | 1996-03-29 | Domark Software, Inc. | The Big Red Software Company Ltd. | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile | | | | | Windows | A diverse arcade racing game with 16 different vehicles (not just cars, but also boats, trucks, spacecraft, and helicopters) to race. There are 24 circuits across 7 distinct terrains such as dirt, inner city and a futuristic sci-fi setting. Multiplayer games can be split-screen, modem or network based. In addition to a yoof-style soundtrack, audio commentary is on offer. The appearance of your vehicle can be customised, and the action viewed from multiple camera angles. |
| CD-ROM Bishōjo Collection: Yū Disk Special | 1996-04-01 | Mediax Co., Ltd. | D.O. Corp. | Compilation | | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Crystal Rinal: Otanoshimi Disk
Cybernoid Alpha
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| Galagatron | 1996-04-01 | Future Publishing Limited | | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Galagatron is a freeware space shooter developed using Klik&Play. The developer had enjoyed playing Deluxe Galaga on his Amiga and developed this as an 'homage' to that game.
It can be played via the keyboard or joystick by one or two players.The object of the game is to 'kill everything before they kill you'. Points are scored for enemy ships destroyed, extra points are scored for destroying special bonus ships. There is also a bonus level in which the player must navigate an asteroid field. Here there are bonus bars to collect and, if the player completes the level with no collisions, bonus points and an extra life are provided. |
| Sapiens | 1996-04-01 | | Myriad | Action, Adventure | 1st-person, Side view | | | Fighting | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Sapiens is an adventure/arcade game that brings you back 100,000 years ago for discovering the everyday life of the Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis. You play as a young hunter from the Light-Foot tribe, and as such you'll have to explore your territory, keep up friendly contacts with the other tribes, trade objects, make assegai heads and fight for your life. One key to survival is to know your environment: learning the location of the springs, the hunting territories full of rabbits, the gloomy plains where wolves are on the prowl and the other tribe's camps is paramount. |
| The Scent of War I. - Damn Those Demons | 1996-04-01 | Completely Insane Software | Completely Insane Software | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | This is a role playing game set in a traditional fantasy world where you try to save the world from a civil war fueled by racial hatred, mistrust, and a secretive evil force steering the whole situation. You can create your party of up to five characters by choosing from 10 races and 10 classes, including some non-standard fare such as the Undead, Minotaurs, Sprites, Assassins, Merchants, and Gladiators. Several classes and races have special powers that can be used in battle.The game was made for Windows 95 and uses the mouse for almost all input. |
| Sangokushi V | 1996-04-05 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | China (Ancient / Imperial), Historical events | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Romance of the Three Kingdoms V is the fifth game in the popular turn-based strategy game series, based on the classic medieval Chinese novel "San Guo" ("Three Kingdoms"). The novel, written by Luo Guanzhong, is perhaps the most popular classic book in China and all countries influenced by the Chinese culture (such as Japan). Its events occur in the third century AD, during the Later Han Dynasty. Several army leaders (the most important ones being Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Jian) are trying to unite China under their rule, and each one strives to defeat his opponents.Romance of the Three Kingdoms V offers many innovations. You won't only participate at wars, but also manage your country, and learn resource management of people and goods. A new "Reputation" parameter directly affects the people's opinion of you as the leader. Multiplayer allows participation of up to eight players (playing the eight main characters).The game was never translated into English. It was released in Japan for the PC (both DOS and Windows), and for PlayStation. A Chinese translation of the game (DOS version) is available. |
| Mistake | 1996-04-08 | OverRise, Inc. | OverRise, Inc. | Puzzle | | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mistake is a freeware spot-the-differences puzzle game released as a companion to OverRise's commercial game Doko ga chigau no?. Like with the main game, players are shown a pair of pictures side by side and have to identify what spots feature differences from each other. Players get immediate feedback on whether they found a real difference or not as soon as they click - but if they click a spot with no differences, they're given a strike, and lose after taking three strikes.While Doko ga chigau no? is aimed at children, Mistake features a much more challenging set of levels aimed at adults instead. They share no levels in common but otherwise play identically, so Mistake can be seen as a sort of demo for the commercial game. |
| Treasure Quest | 1996-04-10 | Sirius Publishing, Inc. | Kopetz Bolich Design Inc, Soggy In Seattle Productions, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Professor Jonathon Faulkner has died, leaving an inheritance of $1,000,000 to the first of his students who can solve the mystery he created in his 10-room mansion. In fact, the first player of this game who submits the correct solution to the game's publisher will receive one million real dollars!As you explore each room of the mansion, Terry Farrell ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine") appears in a video clip to give you some clues and insight to the room's mystery. Words and phrases are hidden in each room in the form of word search puzzles, cryptograms, fill-in-the-blank puzzles, or even more subtle forms involving musical and audio clues, and pictures. These words and phrases fit together to form a quote. After finding the quote from each of the ten rooms, an ultimate solution must be deciphered and submitted, along with the ten quotes, to win the prize.According to the publisher, the $1,000,000 prize was won by P. Dreizen of San Francisco, California, in May of 1998. |
| if 1・2・3 CD Collection | 1996-04-19 | Active Software | | Compilation | | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
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| Destiny | 1996-05-01 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Dagger Interactive Technologies, Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The player is in charge of bringing a small group of prehistoric people through the changing world, from the first crude working with stone tools to space travel, developing them from a simple tribe into a successful modern society. Along the way the player races against up to seven other tribes, all reaching for the same goal. As the player progresses through the game, he must lead his tribe to victory using diplomacy and conquest. Options include real-time or turn-based play, traditional 2D or new 3D views, full campaigns or mini-scenarios, and military or scientific victory conditions.Unlike previous "god" games where players are only able to focus on one invention and building project at a time, Destiny allows players to divide their resources among multiple activities in a real-time environment. Each city can be constructing multiple facilities at any time, and production of new materials must be balanced with the resources available. Research can be focused on a few key areas, or the player can elect to spread efforts into several fields. Once opposing races are encountered, the player can choose how to approach them. Destiny allows the player to send emissaries to opponents proposing any type of agreement, from trade arrangements to declarations of war. The computer-controlled players respond realistically to these offers. These offers can also be made in multiplayer games. Destiny includes built-in support for up to eight players on IPX and TCP/IP networks . |
| Slay | 1996-05-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Slay is a rather simple turn-based strategy game with a medieval theme. The game takes place on an island, which is a grid of hexagon tiles divided up between the 6 players. You must try to capture your enemies' territory, and the goal of the game is to conquer land and control the largest area. There are four types of troops, each stronger then the lesser ones. The weakest are the peasants (displayed as an unarmed man), spearmen (peasants with spear and shield), knights and the strongest are the barons (knight with spear and shield). The troops are upgraded by combining lesser troops. Some tiles contain resources or assets which the players can use to their advantage, like a castle, a cottage or trees.The game covers many of the basic principles of war, such as the divide and conquer principle, the perils of multi front warfare, knowing when to attack and when to defend, finding the enemies weak spots and protect your own. It is also a game of resource management and risk assessment; for example, barons use up more resources from the territory. |
| The Royal Game of Ur | 1996-05-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | The Royal Game of Ur is a computer conversion of one of the most ancient board games known to mankind, dating back about 3500 years. It apparently was very popular among Sumerian rulers and spread from Mesopotamia all over the ancient world, from India to the Mediterranean.The game is played by two players. Each one has seven markers and three dice shaped like a tetrahedron (4-sided regular solid), each one with one marked corner.The game's rules are quite simple: The game is played turn-wise. Each player has to follow a certain path on the board by throwing his dice and advancing the appropriate number of squares. The first player who gets all his pieces to the last square and out of the game has won.At the beginning of your turn, you throw your dice. Each marked corner that faces up counts 1 point, so you can get from zero to three marked corners by throwing the three tetrahedrons. If you throw an odd number, you get another throw, while even number end your turn.To get a piece onto the board and enter the race, you first have to throw a One. Then, you can bump enemy tokens: If you land onto a square with one enemy token, you bump him out of the game -- but if you land onto a square with two enemy tokens, it's your token who goes back to start. Finally, there are five special squares on the board, marked with a rosette. If you land onto a rosette, you can advance another of your tokens by five squares. But if you pass a rosette without landing on it, it's your opponent who can advance one of his tokens, and your turn ends.This may sound confusing, but the game enforces all rules, so you cannot really do something wrong. It also comes with a tutorial explaining the rules and with a help file, which also contains some historical information about the game.Another feature of the game are the "Sumer facts", interesting tidbits of information about ancient Sumeria appearing in the lower left corner of the game.
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| Super Real Mahjong P VI | 1996-05-17 | SETA Corporation | | Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | The sixth arcade game in the Super Real Mahjong series. In a manner extremely similar to previous entries in the series, you play strip mahjong with three lovely females, this time around with Tamami Kayama, Yukari Kinomiya, and Mari Kurihara. This game, however, has a new feature: an "emotion system." Each girl has a heart meter, and if you manage to fill them all, you can play against the secret fourth opponent. |
| Jigsaws Galore | 1996-05-24 | Gray Design Associates | Gray Design Associates | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Jigsaws Galore is a jigsaw puzzle program. It comes with a number of pre-made puzzles to put together, and allows the user to import any image file to turn into a jigsaw puzzle. When starting a jigsaw puzzle, the player can choose the number and size of the pieces. It is also possible to choose out of a number of shapes for the jigsaw pieces. While solving the puzzle, the player can be helped by a preview of the completed image, a "ghost" image visible on the playfield, and a number of trays which can be used to store pieces. To make gameplay harder, the player may choose a "Rotating Pieces" mode, where pieces may be wrong way up and must be turned to the correct orientation. There are also a number of cheat features available. The program also allows creation of "gift jigsaws", standalone jigsaw puzzles packaged as a separate executable file which can be distributed among friends. |
| Viper V6 | 1996-05-24 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Viper V-6 is the first in the long-running Viper series of animated adult games. It contains three separate stories:The Devil Came tells the story of a teenager named Ogawa, who was unpopular in his class and summoned a demon to exact revenge. But the demon turned out to be female, so his wishes naturally assume a different direction...
Afternoon describes a scene during a beauty contest. The defeated participant thinks that she was unfairly judged, but her fury at the winner turns, in front of the amazed spectators, into erotic desire...
Double Impact features two young female detectives, Miho and Kumi, who pretend to search for jobs as maids in order to infiltrate a mansion in which mysterious disappearances have been taking place.All the three stories are very short and can perhaps be better described as "scenes"; the entire game can be completed within several minutes. The interaction is reduced to absolute minimum, with an occasion decision to make, and is available only in The Devil Came (in which it is also possible to die if the player makes a wrong decision); the two other stories are non-interactive, the only input being pressing the return key to advance to the next scene. What sets "Viper V-6" (and the whole series) apart from most other Japanese adult games - beside the "three stories in one" concept - is the fact that most of its sex scenes are animated. |
| DeathKeep | 1996-05-27 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Lion Entertainment Inc. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | Deathkeep is a first-person perspective single-player role-playing game with a touch of medieval AD&D gameplay in a full 3D environment.Apparently, another hero is stuck in an underground cavern crawling with monsters. This time they have to defeat an evil Necromancer located somewhere in the lower levels. To get to him they have to fight through 25 dungeons (every 8 floors) filled with horrific monsters who never heard of dental care. Three different characters can be chosen as the hero:
1. Dwarven male Fighter
2. Half-Elven male Fighter
3. Elven female MageThese classes offer different combat capabilities:
The Dwarven Fighter focuses more on melee close combat with minimal (axe-throwing) ranged and almost no magical capabilities.
The Half-elven Fighter, or more precisely Ranger, focuses on non-magical ranged combat with his favorite bow. Possesses medium melee combat capabilities and some magical capabilities.
The Elven Mage focuses all her might on magical offense and defense. Spells may be found or learned as experience grows. Don't get too close to the enemy since a walking stick doesn't do much damage to bloodthirsty monsters!
Gameplay consists mostly of adventuring and flattening every living and non-living creature in your way. Destroying monsters allows the character to level-up and become more powerful as well as gain new spells. The dungeons are filled with traps, streams, caverns, ledges, and every possible obstacle to cause the player to lose their way in this maze of mazes. |
| Panzer General | 1996-05-28 | Mindscape, Inc. | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Turn-based strategy, Wargame | Africa, Europe, Historical events, Middle East, World War II | | Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The time for resurrecting historical events has come. Panzer General was one of the first games (if not the first) that actually gave you the ability to play for the Nazis, and yet succeed where Hitler failed. Having total and complete control over land, sea, and air units, you must defeat the Allied dogs as fast as you can (to get a major victory), or slower than in history (to get a minor victory).The game's quality lies in the number of units. There are basically hundreds of Axis and Allied units from World War II, accompanied with "circled" animations and battle sounds, as well as marching or moving sounds. The Main menu is always located on the right side of the screen, with plenty of options and selections you can change to suit your preferences.A turn-based hexagon strategy game that will actually go faster if you have a faster computer, but will always be playable (speed doesn't go up to infinity). The first and original Panzer General, this installment would be followed by sequels and many other games in the series using the "General" name. |
| American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox | 1996-05-31 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Adanac Command Systems | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | | | | Windows | American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox is a historical war game centered around the Civil War. The game plays out on a strategic level with an emphasis on the logistics of troop movements, economic consequences of various actions, foreign affairs and the quality of military leadership offered by the North and South. The troops and units are represented by abstract symbols on an overhead map of the United States; most settings are changed in windows reached from pull-down menus. It also includes a variety of historical settings and victory conditions.
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| Gelules | 1996-06-01 | | | Strategy | | | | Falling block puzzle | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Gelules is a single player, keyboard controlled Tetris clone. It is based on Yet Another Tetris Clone by developer Robert Donner.In this game the objective is to destroy a virus colony using bi-coloured capsules. The capsules fall from the top of the screen into the game area which contains a number of viruses. The player has to align four or more blocks of the same colour to make them disappear and score points. The viruses are also coloured so by matching three capsules and a virus it is possible to destroy the viruses and score points too. When all viruses in the game area have been destroyed the game advances to the next level.Game options include toggling sound effects on/off, keeping the viruses static or having them move and showing or not showing the next capsule to drop. |
| Hoyle Solitaire | 1996-06-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Hoyle Solitaire is the Windows version of the MS-DOS Hoyle Official Book of Games: Volume 2 with the 28 solitaire games found in that old release, upgraded with new looks, sounds and mouse control. A Card Flick game has been added, the object of which is to accurately toss as many cards into a hat as possible in the time allowed.Two versions can be installed on your computer at the same time. The Hoyle Solitaire HD (hard drive) game can be played without the CD in the drive, sacrificing only the music. Sound effects (shuffling and dealing cards) can be heard in either the Hard Drive or CD version. It plays in all versions of Windows released thus far, from Windows 3.x through Windows XP. Most of the gameplay is "drag and drop" but playing a card in some of the games simply requires a right click to send it to the correct spot. Easy and Difficult settings can be chosen per game and you can undo moves as often and as far back as you desire.Options allow you to replay the current game from the beginning, choose backgrounds, music and card decks. Up to 4 players can save their statistics separately. |
| Kick Off 96 | 1996-06-01 | Anco Software Ltd. | Anco Software Ltd. | Sports | Diagonal-down, Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Kick Off 96 gives you the chance to take part in the European Championships in England 1996. Kick Off 96 can be played with several perspectives, including overhead and isometric, and offers the same pacey gameplay that made its predecessors famous. If Euro 96 isn't enough you could play with 49 international teams plus 750 club teams, totalling 15.000 real players with varied skill levels. If that's still not enough, you can also create your own leagues and teams. |
| Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion | 1996-06-01 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Action, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion is an action/puzzle game aimed primarily toward children and developed by Lucasarts. The player can play either as Sid or Sally, and rides Mortimer the giant snail to thwart the evil Lodius.Lodius stole the medallion and turned all the animals into statues. The player must revitalize the animals in each of the five action levels, and then, using hints from the freed animals, answer a riddle to pass to the next level. |
| Stanley's Sticker Stories | 1996-06-01 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Stanley's Sticker Stories is the fifth game in Edmark's Early Learning Family of educational games designed for young children. The interface is point-and-click and click-and-drag, and instructions are given verbally when the mouse is rested over an icon. On the main page, Stanley the sea otter introduces the player to the game, which allows a child to create his own animated story using stickers, music and special sound effects on a chosen background. The player can view a sample story to get an idea of how his finished story might look; when he selects See How to Make a Story, Stanley will take him through all the steps. Once the player chooses Make a New Story, he is taken to the neighborhood map, where he can select from fifteen different backgrounds to use in his story, including a plain white background for those who want to include a lot of text. From the story page the player can choose from a large number of stickers featuring characters familiar from other Edmark games such as Bailey's Book House and Millie's Math House, and more, as well as other character and object stickers which can be resized and animated. Here, the player can also add music and sound effects or record his own sounds to attach to the stickers on his page. Text is added from here as well; the player can select from four fonts, choose a text color and decide how it should line up. If the player needs help thinking of a story idea he can click on Stanley, who will show an idea for a story that uses numbers, or one that uses letters and words. As in all the Edmark Early Learning games, adult options are accessed by pressing Ctrl/Alt + A in Windows, Option/Command + A on a Macintosh. When the story is finished it can be saved and played back in See-A-Story mode and printed from the main story page.
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| The Simpsons Cartoon Studio | 1996-06-01 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Big Top Productions | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The Simpsons Cartoon Studio allows you to use a large library of premade clips, sounds, backgrounds, and effects to make your own Simpson's cartoon shorts. Also includes a program that allows you to swap cartoons with your friends. |
| Time Gate: Knight's Chase | 1996-06-01 | I•Motion, Inc. | Infogrames Europe SA | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | Cinematic camera | Windows | Out of the mists of time, from the depths of a secret dungeon, the last of the Knights Templar sends a final cry for help... In 1996, you are William Tibbs, a young American law student in Paris. To save Juliette, your fiancée, you have to take up the challenge from Wolfram, the fox with the red mane who is allied with the forces of darkness. They wait for you in the secret jails of the commanders of the Knights Templar in 1329.The gameplay in Time Gate is similar to that of Alone in the Dark, involving combat and puzzle-solving. The game uses a modified engine of Alone in the Dark games, with polygonal characters over pre-rendered backgrounds. |
| Williams Arcade Classics | 1996-06-01 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | Digital Eclipse Software, Inc. | Action, Compilation | Side view, Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Williams Arcade Classics is a compilation that includes the following games:
Defender
Defender II
Joust
Robotron: 2084
Sinistar
The PC, PlayStation, and Dreamcast versions also contain Bubbles. The PC and Playstation versions contain FMV supplements, including interviews with the original programmers. |
| Flight Unlimited | 1996-06-10 | Looking Glass Technologies, Inc. | Looking Glass Technologies, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Flight Unlimited is a civilian flight simulator. You can choose between an Extra 300s, a Bellanca Decathlon, a Sukhoi SU-31, a Pitts S-2B and a Grob S-103. Take part in aerobatic competitions or, if you're a beginner, learn how to fly in 34 lessons. Flight Unlimited stresses reality: All ground textures and elevations are based on real satellite photodata, and the flight model has a heavy basis in real world physics. The manual is quite detailed, and combined with the in-flight tutorials, the user is provided with a very gradual introduction to flying.A very comprehensive piece of work, and a defining title for Looking Glass, whose only competition at the time was Microsoft Flight Simulator (which look immediately dated compared side by side to Flight Unlimited). |
| Jiji and the Mysterious Forest: Chapter 3 | 1996-06-10 | Katyfraise | Katyfraise | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Jiji the Cat continues on his journey to the land of fish from where chapter 2 left off. Travelling deeper into the forest in the hopes of finding the land of fish, he finds a young witch named Katy who has lost her broom. Jiji sets out to help her so that the two of them can travel together on his journey.Jiji and the Mysterious Forest is the third of three child-friendly RPGs in the Jiji series, and the first to be released under the Katyfraise name. Compared to previous games in the series, it features higher-detail watercolour artwork and presents the game as taking place inside of a storybook. The player directs Jiji using the mouse cursor and selects options from a mouse-driven menu. |
| Jiji no Tamagoyasan | 1996-06-12 | Katyfraise | Katyfraise | Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The fifth game in the Jiji series, Jiji no Tamagoyasan is a puzzle game that finds Jiji in charge of sorting eggs at a farm. The player's goal is to ensure each egg falls in the basket of the same colour, while trying to avoid sorting eggs into baskets of the wrong colour. The gameplay is a variation on the Japanese Amidakuji lottery; the player uses the mouse to place platforms to move the eggs left and right as they fall from the top of the screen. |
| Viper V8 | 1996-06-12 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Horror | Visual novel | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Setting | Windows | The second entry in Sogna's long-running Viper franchise, Viper V-8 has the same format as its predecessor: three separate short stories with minimal interaction and animated sex scenes. The three stories are: Friday the 18th: Obviously, a parody on horror movies, telling the story of three young girls who were sexually assaulted by mysterious masked men when camping near a forest.
Demon's Night is set in medieval times and describes a battle of three young heroes against a vicious demon. One of them is killed in battle, while the other (a girl) is captured by the demon; the remaining warrior, a young man named Ryu, has to rescue his friend.
Alien Wars takes place in the future. A young space pilot named Sylvie is ambushed and captured by aliens who have nothing else in mind but to have sex with her...There is some rudimentary interaction in all the three stories: "Friday the 18th" allows the player to switch from one heroine to another (even though there is only one correct way to do that); "Demon's Night" has a scene with pseudo-RPG turn-based combat (pre-determined results); both "Demon's Night" and "Alien Wars" offer some menu-based choices to make, some of which will lead to Game Over. |
| World Empire IV | 1996-06-12 | Viable Software Alternatives | Viable Software Alternatives | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | World Empire IV is a strategy game that uses maps of real countries. Players start with either 56 or 30 armies. There are three game modes: local (includes TCP/IP Network); Cyberwar (Internet); or War on Terror. Multiple combinations of human and computer players are possible. Network game hosting requires the World Empire game server be installed on the network.All games (except the Real World Simulation) start with all countries neutral or all conquered. In all modes, players can chose which countries to start in, or be randomly assigned. Each player adopts an ideology that determines if a country to be entered is friendly or unfriendly. Individual battle and attack outcomes are computer determined, based on a combination of ideology and random factors. Conquered 'unfriendlies' require more occupation armies to prevent a revolution from taking place.War on Terror mode is only for local play. One human player opposes Osama Smith and the Axis of Evil (Saddam Jones, Kim Doe-il, and Shah Sayed) with a variety of player combinations. Computer players are illustrated with photos.In Cyberwar mode, a chat window allows players to communicate before and during games. The Game host determines the number of players, country status, and whether to allow revolutions or air/sea invasions, or surrenders. Once a game has started, exiting human players can be replaced with computer players.The object of local and Internet play to to take over all world countries by defeating opponents country by country. The object of the War of Terror mode is to root out all terrorist cells and secure the world. |
| Black Hole | 1996-06-19 | | | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Black Hole is a single player, freeware, mouse controlled puzzle game played on an 8x8 grid. Within the grid are some black holes and the player's task is to find out where they are, to do this they launch probes from either side of the grid. The probes will either pass straight though or they will pass close to a black hole in which case they will be deflected or stopped.Player's start each game with one thousand points and lose twenty five points for each probe they launch plus additional points for each black hole they fail to identify. The game has three difficulty settings which plays the game with three, four or five black holes - the more holes the harder the game is to solve. |
| Tracer | 1996-06-25 | 7th Level, Inc. | Future Endeavors, Inc. | Puzzle | Behind view | | | Tile matching puzzle | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | Direct control | | | | Windows | The year is 2023 and you play the role of a successful, mercenary hacker. Your artificial intelligence agent lands you high-paying contracts from around the world to perform acts of corporate espionage and sabotage. You accomplish this by transporting yourself into a virtual reality scene representing cyberspace. The latest contract has a twist, however: Once you hack into the computer, a deadly Tracer virus comes after you and it can literally kill you.Tracer consists of 50 levels (plus a level editor). Each level plays like a puzzle. The player begins with a set of 10 code pads. Each code pad has 4 sides, each of which can be a different color (red, green, blue, or magenta). The player can cycle through the available code pads and place one down on the next square, but only if the adjoining colors match between the current square and the next square. Laying down these code pads lays a path that the player can walk on in order to navigate the grid. However, the Tracer virus is constantly closing in from behind, chewing up the code pads that the player has already planted. The goal of each level is to reach the exit square, which takes the player closer to the ultimate goal: the data core.Along the way, the player can collect more code pads in order to keep going. There are other powerups such as magnetic pads which slow the Tracer virus' progress. |
| SimCity 2000: Network Edition | 1996-06-26 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | Contemporary | | Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | This variant of SimCity 2000: CD Collection is Windows-native and includes multiplayer support for up to 4 players via LAN and modem. Players can develop a single city together or compete by building separate cities. |
| Bruce Jenner's World Class Decathlon | 1996-06-30 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Dallas Multimedia | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Bruce Jenner's World Class Decathlon is a remake of the classic title released for 8-bit computers: Daley Thompson's Decathlon. Unlike other button mashers such as those released by Epyx, it focuses on a stats system and career development. As seasons pass by, the player grows from a rookie to, if successful, a world class competitor, by assigning skill points to key areas required to succeed in decathlon: throwing, running, jumping, etc. However, more important than anything else is stamina. As decathlon puts athletes in a strenuous 5 events per day, if the player gives everything in the early events, the legs will start failing in the 400 m (day 1) and the 1500 m (day 2) runs.All actions are mouse-controlled, and require presses and holds rather than mashing the buttons repeatedly. The game also includes FMV clips from Thompson or Jenney (depending on the version) offering advice about the events. |
| Świrus | 1996-06-30 | Mirage Media S. C. | Crazy Computer Confederation | Adventure | 1st-person | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Świrus is the first polish adventure game designed for Windows. A mad scientist seeks ransom under threat of release of a lethal virus. Politicians do not meet his demands and the professor executes his plan. Many years later, the remnants of humanity invent time travel technology. The protagonist of the game goes back in time to a period of a few days before the attack in order to save the world. During the adventure the player will move to the Middle Ages to finally get the antidote.The game utilizes the command verb-based SCUMM interface. The player constructs commands by selecting an appropriate verb and then combining it with an object or an inventory item. Objects that can be interacted with are highlighted when the player places a cursor over them. By pressing the right mouse button directional arrows appear. They allow the player to move between sites. The right mouse button can also be used for studying objects.The disc version was extended with a stage played in the future in a totalitarian police state (between Middle Ages and game's finale). |
| NHL Powerplay '96 | 1996-07-01 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Radical Entertainment Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | An early competitor to the EA Sports NHL series, NHL Powerplay '96 features motion-captured players, an NHL Player’s Association license, a variety of managerial options, and the ability to play seasons and tournaments.It is the first NHL game to include a World Tournament mode in which the NHL players can compete against each other on their respective national teams.In a time where developers tried to get the most from 32-bit consoles, leading to the "unlimited camera angles" blurb on many games, NHL Powerplay stuck with the one most people used, the overhead "behind the goal" view, popularized by EA's NHL series - and it was one of first full 3D sports games on the market. |
| Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder | 1996-07-01 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | The Elk Moon Murder is a full motion video adventure game. You take on the part of rookie detective with the Santa Fe police. Anna Elk Moon, a famous native American artist, has been murdered and you have five days to solve the mystery, before "the big boys muscle in", as your chief inspector tells you.The game features a point & click interface. You have eight hours a day, while almost every action you take decreases 15 minutes of your time. Puzzle solving is not part of the game really. Instead you have to listen to the usual suspects, order forensics and shoot photos. Your goal is to come up with an arrest warrant at the end of the game. |
| Eberouge | 1996-07-12 | Fujitsu Limited | Japan Media Programming Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | Romance | Dating simulation | Fantasy, Medieval | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | Eberouge is a Japanese dating sim which is similar to Konami's Tokimeki Memorial. In a world called Worland where magic exists, players will spend a total of 5 years (2 years of primary school and 3 years at high school) as students who entered a magical school. The core gameplay involves planning a weekly schedule, which includes school-related and free-time activities. Players have to arrange their daily classes and have a variety of things to study or practice including martial arts, science, literature, art, different kinds of magic, as well as go for extracurricular activities. All these classes influence the protagonist's statistics, making him attractive or vice versa to the various girls that he meets during his studies. The protagonist can also rest and travel to different places in the city. In addition to the daily courses that can be arranged, the players must also go on dates with the girls, solve daily problems and compete with their classmates while having to cope with their exams.After clearing primary school, the story branches out by letting players choose their future career. This choice will impact the amount of girls the protagonist meets and can go for in the next 3 years. The game ends with a graduation ceremony. A week before the graduation ceremony, a group of girls who have an affection for the player will want him to make up his mind about them. Once the player chooses his girl, the graduation ceremony will officially begin, and the ending and the protagonist's future will be determined by his chosen lover. The game has a lot of unexpected events, the story will change with the player's actions, resulting in a variety of different results. |
| Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller | 1996-07-12 | Namco Limited, GAGA Communications Inc. | Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult, Detective / mystery | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | | | Windows | In the near future, human beings have discovered that hell actually exists. The governing organization on the Earth, known as the Hand of God, controls the ways to hell. Demons can travel to our dimensions, while criminals are sent to hell instead of being locked in jails.You take the roles of Gideon Eshanti and Rachel Braque, a couple who is working for the government. One night government agents arrive at their house and try to assassinate them. After a narrow escape, the two find themselves in hell. Now they have to figure out how to return to our world, and to find out why their employers wanted to kill them...Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller is an adventure game with simple point-and-click interface. You advance in the game by talking to people and manipulating objects to solve puzzles. The game utilizes pre-rendered backgrounds and FMV sequences as cut-scenes. |
| Yōjo Ranbu: Kegasareta Seiiki | 1996-07-19 | Zone | Zone | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | In the world of Gaia, every thousand years the princesses of the five great dynasties gather together in the capital city, to conduct a ritual that is believed to bestow peace upon the land. Like all the other city youngsters, the apprentice swordsman Reseshibu and his friend, the lovely Jena, are attending the great ceremony. But as they see someone invading the castle, they rush in, and after a while discover, to their amazement, that the five princesses were abducted. he youngsters decide to rescue them and to restore the sanctity of the place, but it's a tough decision for the young hero, since the perpetrator of the crime is his own uncle...One of the first anime-style adult RPGs for Windows 95, Yōjo Ranbu: Kegasareta Seiiki (which roughly means "Wild Dance of Female Demons: The Desecrated Holy Ground") boasts full voice acting and CD-quality music. The entire game is viewed from first-person perspective, with 3D dungeons (with auto-maps) and random enemies that the heroes must defeat in turn-based combat. Beside Jena, two other girls join the party. |
| Alley 19 Bowling | 1996-07-20 | Starplay Productions, Inc. | Suzetti Software | Simulation, Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Alley 19 Bowling is a happy-go-lucky bowling simulation which features an atmosphere of 1950s America. The theme, music, sound effects and graphics take you back to the time when jukeboxes played your favorite rock and roll tunes and the jitterbug was the hottest dance craze.The game starts in the Pro Shop, where you enter the names of yourself and the 3 other bowlers playing against you. Choose whether they are human or computer players, right- or left-handed, and which ball they'll use. You set your preferences here too - the music and sound volumes, whether to turn the "ball guide" on or off, and whether to use the normal or "Rock-n-Bowl" background. When done, click "Bowl" to begin playing.Like in real bowling, the object is to knock down all 10 pins in as few turns as possible. All action is handled with your mouse and takes some practice to master.To begin, move the mouse to the right until you pick up your ball. Then move left until you are positioned in the lane. Left-click and hold the mouse button down and move left or right to position the shot. Then move it forward and let go when you want to release the ball. The faster your forward stroke, the quicker the ball will roll. (If you have the "ball guide" option "on", you'll visually see an illustration of ball's path before you throw it.) You are able to hook your shot by moving the mouse just before letting go.The game keeps track of the number of games you have bowled, your high score, average score, and highest three-game series.Although advertised, multiplayer support over a LAN or the Internet was only playable in the Macintosh version when the game first shipped. A patch must be obtained (v1.7) to enable multiplayer in Windows. |
| Kōsoku: Yorokobi no Juice | 1996-07-25 | Persian Soft | Persian Soft | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | A young man named Keisuke falls asleep on a train and sees a dream: he is having sex with a beautiful woman whom he calls Miyuki, even though he doesn't know this woman in his real life. Afterwards, Keisuke misses the last train to the city and is stranded on a rainy day on a small, uninhabited station. Suddenly, he sees the woman from his dream, and finds out her name is really Miyuki. She tells him and her rich father has built for her and her sisters a European-style mansion nearby, and invites the young man to visit. Keisuke accepts and meets her family, which leads to unexpected and dark erotic adventures...Kōsoku: Yorokobi no Juice is a typical Japanese-style adventure. It is set entirely in the mansion and has a standard command menu ("Examine", "Talk", "Move") appearing on almost every screen. It is not always necessary to deplete all the commands on screen to trigger an event; also, the player is able, for the most time, to choose which room to visit, which might lead to different events. |
| Mr. Matt | 1996-07-30 | | | Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Mr. Matt is a single player, freeware game in the style of Boulder Dash.The player takes the role of Mr. Matt and must tunnel around the screen collecting 'stuff' (carrots, hamburgers, or apples - the player can choose which). The player must plan their route carefully to avoid being crushed by falling rocks or becoming trapped.The game is keyboard or mouse controlled, has sixteen levels, sound, and a save/load function |
| Moraff's Cyber Pinball | 1996-08-01 | Moraffware | Moraffware | Action | Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Moraff's Cyber Pinball is a single player, shareware pinball game.The game consists of many different tables which are designed to be used on slow, medium and fast machines, as they would be considered in 1996.Slow machines were expected to use 640x480 resolution and had the following tables designed for them: Original (the default), Tradition, Classic, Rakclui, Coinop, Bohan's Machine, Operation, Flipper, Groucho, Walls, Sectors, and The MW.Medium machines were expected to operate in 800x600 resolution and had the following tables: Teamwork (the default), Centron, Atomizer, Juggler, Pirate, The Path, Wicker, Temptation and Scott's Machine.Fast machines were expected to mainly use 1024x768 resolution and had the following tables: Cascade, Lavaflow, Pyramid, Vortex, Megaball and The Giant. The last two had higher resolutions being 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 respectively.The player selects the table they want to play from the game's menu bar. The game prevented the player using a table that was of a higher resolution than their system was currently set to display. The game would, however, allow low resolution tables to be played on systems running with a higher setting, in such cases the game padded out the remainder of the screen with a red border.
While the downloadable shareware release is limited to just a few tables it does allow the player to preview all the above tables. Unusually the game allowed the player to change the background and permitted the use of the player's own pictures.The game has in game help files, sound and music with options to disable either or both, a high score feature for each table, and can be controlled by the keyboard alone or by a keyboard/mouse combination.
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| Puyo Puyo | 1996-08-02 | Bothtec, Inc. | Compile | Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | Fantasy | | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A year after the release of the falling block puzzle game Puyo Puyo for MSX and Famicom, an arcade version was released that took the basic concept, but transformed it from a solo into a competitive game, changing the series fundamentally: all ports and later entries in the series are based on this version.The original arcade version has two modes: a single-player story mode and a two-player competitive mode. In story mode (which is based on characters from Compile's RPG series Madō Monogatari), the player controls Arle Nadja (Silvana in the English translation of the arcade version), a young sorceress, whose goal is to defeat Satan. To do so, she has to win 12 battles against his minions until she can meet him in a final confrontation. The game offers an extra training mode against three lesser opponents, as well as the ability to start from level 4 of the main game.During a match, pairs of puyos fall down from the top of the screen into each player's field. They can be moved left or right, rotated in either direction and made to drop faster. The goal is to arrange puyos of the same color into patterns of at least four, with horizontal or vertical (but no diagonal) connections. Doing so removes them from the field (with any unconnected puyos falling down) while at the same time sending garbage blocks into the opponent's field. Creating patterns of more than four, several different patterns at the same time, or chain reactions creates more garbage blocks. The garbage blocks can only be removed by creating patterns adjacent to them. The player whose playing field reaches the top first loses. In single-player mode, the falling speed of the puyos increases level by level and each of the enemies plays in a unique style.The home ports also add an endless single-player mode, in which there is no opponent (and thus no garbage blocks) and one simply plays for a high score, similar to the MSX/Famicom version.Unique to the Game Gear version is an additional quest mode. Similar to the mission mode of the original MSX/Famicom version, it presents a series of pre-filled playing fields with a specific task, like making a minimum number of puyos disappear in one move, or removing all puyos of a certain color. Progress is saved via passwords. |
| Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 5 Topsy Turvy Games | 1996-08-13 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | 7th Level, Inc., Disney Interactive, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | It starts with a colourful, really animated, and festive introduction. The environment is the Notre Dame Cathedral front yard, where the festival and games take place. Sounds and music from the movie are always there. The games are presented by those three funny Disney’s gargoyles, which may also give some support. Games can be played by one or two players bringing more fun when with family and friends. Escalating levels challenge players of all ages! But there is also an option for difficulty. Riddles, cream battles, bowling, are some of the topics of the games included. |
| Kousoku Chojin | 1996-08-13 | Foster | Foster | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Haruki is a student at the prestigious private Morino High School, which he attends together with his beautiful sister, and where he leads the drama class. One day, Haruki discovers a strange toupee that transforms his body. Unbeknownst to him, he has gained special powers and comes into contact with a strange violent world that is hidden inside the school. Now he must understand what's truly going on there, at the same time trying to "score" with every girl he meets - be it student or teacher...Kousoku Chojin plays like a cross between a "normal" Japanese-style adventure and a visual novel. The player has some freedom in choosing the locations he wants Haruki to visit, which triggers specific conversations and scenes. However, there is no other interaction with the game world beside this menu-based navigation - no possibility to actively examine objects, talk to people, etc. |
| Deadlock: Planetary Conquest | 1996-08-14 | Accolade, Inc. | Accolade, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Deadlock: Planetary Conquest is a 2D turn-based 4X strategy. Players take the roles of aliens deadlocked on a planet surface. The game has seven different races with special abilities, for example the Maugs are great scientists, ChCh-T have the highest birth rate etc. They spend turns building, expanding, and ultimately warring. The planet's surface is divided into smaller areas. Each area is home to one of the cities that need to be constructed. To colonize a new area, the player must build a colonizer. Players can expand their cities by erecting residential buildings, farms, factories, mines and research centres. Inventions made in the latter provide new units, new materials and better buildings (for example a hydroponic farm is far better than a normal farm). The residents' satisfaction is important - dissatisfied citizens (taxes are too high) protest and don't work.The battle begins after the player places their units in a foreign land. Battles are separately animated - after being initiated players have no control over them. The game also has a spying mechanic that spies can use to steal technologies. The player wins by fulfilling one of the victory conditions, for example remaining the last living race on the planet, or reaching a set number of city centres first. |
| Warhawk | 1996-08-14 | Sony Imagesoft | SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. | Action, Simulation | Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | Warhawk is an action/simulation game built around a futuristic VTOL craft. The player maneuvers with 360 degrees of flight control through 6 unique levels.3D weapons include fire off lock-ons, rockets, multi-fire swarmers, and plasma cannons. The player will need all of these when deadly air and ground forces surround him in desert and volcanic wastelands, castle hallways and chambers, and gothic tower airships.There are no saving or loading features. Instead, a password is presented each time a level is completed. In 2007 Incognito Entertainment remade the title as a multiplayer-only PlayStation 3 game. |
| Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse | 1996-08-29 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational, Puzzle | Side view, Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | The second episode of the educational game series, this time a ghost haunts Luther's schoolhouse and steals children's toys. In addition to the usual blend of education with humor, there is a "space invaders" clone mini-game, and a movie theater where you can take a break and watch mini-movies. |
| Mortal Kombat 3 | 1996-09-01 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Midway Manufacturing Company | Action | Side view | | Martial arts | Arcade, Fighting | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Shao Kahn has won. The Earthrealm is no more. In order to revive his Queen Sindel, the emperor Shao Kahn used the Outworld Tournament from Mortal Kombat 2 as a diversion while his Shadow Priests revive his fallen Queen on Earth. Once enacted, the dimensional bridge between the two realms connects, allowing Kahn's extermination squads to invade and destroy Earth, and enslave the population's souls.A small team of Raiden's "Chosen Warriors" survives the attack: Mortal Kombat champion Liu Kang and his ally Kung Lao, Special Forces agents Sonya Blade and Jax, the shaman Nightwolf, the riot cop Stryker, the nomadic Kabal, and former Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero, who has gone rogue from his clan. Facing the warriors are the mercenary Kano, cyber-ninjas Smoke, Sektor and Cyrax, Sheeva, a female Shokan, the sorcerer Shang Tsung, and Queen Sindel herself.Mortal Kombat 3 brings new elements to the 2D fighting series: multi-level playfields, "Dial-A-Combo" attacks, a "Run" button to speed up the battles, and "Vs." codes, which unlock new powers and abilities once both players enter a code sequence in pre-match-up screens. Also included are more stage fatalities and finishing moves as each warrior attempts to go one-on-one with the Centaurian enforcer Motaro, and Shao Kahn himself.Mortal Kombat 3 is the last traditional one-on-one fighting game game in the series to feature motion-captured digitized graphics for its kombatants, and introduces online network play to the PC version. |
| Muppet Treasure Island | 1996-09-01 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A children's adventure game that is fun for all ages. The game is based on the Muppet Treasure Island movie. The game is divided into 4 parts. In each part there are a number of tasks to complete which are fairly simple. There are 2 hours of full-screen video featuring live-action characters - Tim Curry and Billy Conolly from the movie. |
| Tetris Max | 1996-09-01 | | Vanilla-Extract Software | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Tetris Max is an unlicensed shareware clone of Tetris for one or two players. As with all Tetris games, colored blocks are dropped into the game area, or pit, from the top. The player must arrange them so that a complete edge to edge row is completed. Every completed row is removed from the game area making space for more blocks to be positioned. As the player progresses through the levels the background colour changes and the rate at which the blocks fall increases. Points are scored for each brick placed, however a player's score is greatly increased by clearing rows or multiple rows of bricks by strategic placement.The game's features include:
original music;
one player, two player, one player vs the computer and computer vs computer modes of play;
regular blocks and optional heavy blocks and degradable blocks;
separate High Score tables for single and two player modes;
the size of the blocks can be changed;
keyboard or joystick controls;
the size of the game pit can be changed.After its original Macintosh release gained widespread popularity, a port to Windows 3.1 was made under the name Bricklayer, though it never achieved comparable success. |
| A.D. 2044 | 1996-09-09 | L.K. Avalon | L.K. Avalon | Adventure | 1st-person | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | | Windows | This is a point-and-click adventure set in a near future post-apocalyptic world where women now rule. After a radical women's group hijacks some nuclear missiles asking for a share of world power with men but are met with resistance, missiles are launched from both sides and a nuclear winter ensues. A thousand women at a conference survive and establish an all female society underground. Later in the year 2044, they discover a lone male preserved in a hibernation capsule during a mining operation.The player, as the male, escapes imprisonment and explores the society looking for items that will help him while avoiding female androids. Your character will talk to himself in a digitized voice and there is also another male voice that narrates the story and provides hints. Each screen must be searched for hotspots, which can also be examined and are indicated by a magnifying glass cursor. Similarly, you can pick up items if a hand cursor appears. When you examine items, they will rotate in a special full-screen viewing mode. Some items can be combined in this mode. |
| Baku Baku Animal | 1996-09-09 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | Sega AM3 R&D Division | Puzzle | | | | Falling block puzzle | | | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The Minister approaches the King to tell him that his only daughter, the Princess, wants a new pet. But the King says she already has too many, and she can't take care of so many animals. Thus the Minister purposes a contest of skill and daring to select the Royal Zookeeper. Master Piggy then sends his pupil, Polly, to participate in the contest.Baku Baku Animal is a variation on the very often copied Tetris type of game. The game has three different play modes: practice, normal and hard. It also can be played by two players against each other (except for the Master System version).The objective is to pair animal heads with their respective food. If a rabbit head comes falling, you must make it fall on a pile of carrot tiles, dog heads with bones, panda heads with bamboos and monkey heads with bananas. There is a bonus item, the "BB coin", which will appear from times to times, and remove piled tiles from the playfield. Removed tiles will be sent to the opponent's playfield all at once, increasing the difficulty of the task. Polly will face several contestants, and she'll win when her opponents get their playfield piled to the top. |
| Bug! | 1996-09-09 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | Realtime Associates, Inc. | Action | Behind view, Side view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Bug's creepy-crawly insect friends need rescuing from the evil widow Queen Cadavra's clutches. Fight your way through six worlds to rescue them and find and defeat the spider queen. There are three levels to get through in each world of 3D platform action. Bug's key attack is his bug bounce but he can also somersault, spit and zap when powered up. The game also includes some simple puzzle elements. |
| Caesar II | 1996-09-10 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | Africa, Classical antiquity, Europe, Middle East | | Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Caesar II is set in the time of ancient Rome, and lets you try to be the next Caesar. You start with one province and have to build an efficient city. To do this you'll have to manage the water supply properly, make sure the city is policed well, and provide adequate education, entertainment, baths, and temples (which also hold your money and can be robbed if you don't have enough protection).At some point, possibly more then once, you'll have to defend your province from invading tribes that don't really want you there. You also have to connect all the little villages in the province with roads and make some industry, like stone mining, grapes, etc. for which you can then create markets in your city. When you have achieved the necessary requirements, you'll be able to start all over again in a new and more challenging province. Do well enough and you can become the new Caesar. |
| Magic Tales: The Princess and the Crab | 1996-09-17 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | Europe, Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | "The Princess and the Crab" is a game based on Italian fairy tales. The protagonist is Marina, a princess who is uninterested in courtly matters and prefers to admire and care for her fish pond. One day she buys a new crab for her pond. She discovers that the crab is in fact an enchanted prince, who can return to his true form at noon every day. The prince manages to tell her how to defeat the witch who enchanted him. Marina starts learning swordfighting and music and then sets off for the Rocks of Ruin. All ends well: she manages to defeat the witch and free the prince. The princess and the prince get married and decide to go on a journey after their wedding.
The "Magic Tales" series includes six interactive storybooks, based on fairy tales from different parts of the world. They are all framed as stories read by Grandpa Mouse to his grandchildren. Each story consists of twelve pages and if "Play" mode is selected, the player can also click on different parts of the scenery to see what will happen.
The games in the series are now supported by the ScummVM emulator. |
| Dr. Mysto The Mindreader | 1996-09-19 | | | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Dr. Mysto The Mindreader is a single player, brain training, game only the 'brain' being trained is the computer's and not the player's. It is similar to Animal Vegetable Mineral game which itself is based on a "Twenty Questions" which is both a parlour game and a UK radio show of old, centred on answering Yes or No to series of questions.Dr Mysto is a program with five brains, namely databases for specific categories, each of which has a limited vocabulary. It asks the player to think of a word in that category and then it tries, by a series of Yes/No questions to guess the answer. If it gets the answer wrong it will ask 'How can I tell the difference between my answer and your word?' to which the player responds with a question the program could have asked. This is then filed and the program builds up an ever increasing library of words and questions that distinguish between them.
For example: in the countries category the player's country was Zimbabwe. Dr Mysto asked:Is it in the Western hemisphere? Answer No
Is It In The Northern Hemisphere? Answer No
Is it in Africa? Answer Yes
Is It North Of Nigeria? Answer No
I Think I know this, Is it South Africa? Am I right? Answer No
I know I am close, Please tell me your word. Answer Zimbabwe
Type a question that will help me tell ZIMBABWE from SOUTH AFRICA. Answer 'Is it landlocked?'
Does 'Is it landlocked?' describe Zimbabwe? Answer Yes
Return to the 'Think of a word' prompt.There are five categories that Dr. Mysto comes pre-programmed with, Countries, US Presidents, US States, Words, and Xtra —a blank database the player can set up for themselves. There are optional sound effects and game controls with mouse/keyboard combination. |
| Viper V10 | 1996-09-20 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | | | Adult | Visual novel | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Setting | Windows | The third Viper has the same structure as the two previous entries: three unrelated stories with little interaction, but many animated sex scenes.The stories this time are:Northern Lights describes a competition between two young apprentices of kendo. The protagonist, a young boy, is challenging the girl Asuka, who claims to be better than him. He needs to practice in order to win, especially because Asuka promised him she will do whatever he wants if he defeats her...
Children's Play tells the story of a teenage girl named Yuki, who is in love with an older school mate. One morning she goes to school, only to discover that someone has made pictures of her masturbating to the boy's photo...
Read Under follows the adventures of a team of three female soldiers who have to infiltrate the base of an evil robot simply known as "Boss". One of them is captured, and the other two have to save her at all costs.Of the three stories, only "Northern Lights" has interaction. The two others are composed of text, pictures, and animated scenes, without any input from the player but pressing the Enter button to see the next scene. "Northern Lights" has a few branching points, during which the player has to choose a course of action for the hero. Some of these choices lead to Game Over. |
| World Series Baseball '96 | 1996-09-20 | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | BlueSky Software, Inc. | Sports | Behind view, Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | World Series Baseball '96 is a follow-up to the previous two Genesis games in the series with the rosters and stats of the 1995 MLB season as well as the schedule for the 1996 season. It has all 700 players and 28 teams and stadiums. The game types include Exhibition, League, Playoffs, Batting Practice, Homerun Derby, and Classic Homerun Derby. There is also a possibility to play an All-Star game. Trading can be enabled or disabled and the season length options are 13, 26, 52, 104 and 162.Gameplay and visuals are similar to the previous game in the series. Batting is shown from a behind view with three options: contact, normal or power. The player has to time the swing to make contact. While pitching the three options are splitter, slider and fastball. In pitching mode a rectangle is shown to determine the position of the ball. It can also moved out of the rectangle to trick the batter into a wide one and the accuracy is determined through the batter's statistics. During gameplay fielding can be done manually or by the computer. Runners have the ability to go back, advance or slide. The three sliding options are hook, pop-up and head-first. Various line-up and strategy options can also be altered during gameplay. The cartridge has a battery to save and resume a league. |
| 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night | 1996-09-23 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action | | | Horror | Pinball | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Pinball with a strong horror motif. In the 3-D Ultra Pinball tradition, many of the effects achieved on these tables could not be reproduced on traditional machines. There are even cutaways to mini-video games where you can rack up bonus points. Tables can be played individually, or all at once in a campaign to beat them. |
| Triple Play 97 | 1996-09-24 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Behind view, Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Many of the features that players have come to expect in a baseball game are featured in this early edition of the Triple Play series.A manager mode that allows players to be traded just like in real baseball is included. Since the game is licensed by the MLB and players associations, it has all the teams and players of the 1997 season.Game modes include exhibition, series play, all-star playoffs, and full and partial season play - in which players also sustain injuries and go on hot and cold streaks. The Home Run Derby is an additional feature. |
| Meridian 59 | 1996-09-27 | 3DO Company, The | Archetype Interactive Corp. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy | | Direct control | Persistent | Teen | | Windows | Meridian 59 was among the first 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Players create characters, and then advance in power by defeating monsters, completing quests, and collecting treasure.The alpha test of Meridian went online on December 15, 1995. It was commercially released on September 27, 1996. Several free, downloadable updates were released during the next 18 months: Vale of Sorrow, Revelation, Renaissance, and Dark Auspices. The original servers were shut down in late 2000, however the game continues to be available at its website.It has a Doom-style first-person graphics engine, with both software and hardware renderers. |
| Road Rash | 1996-09-27 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Papyrus Design Group, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | | | Motorcycle, Street racing | | | | | Windows | Road Rash is a remake of the original from the early nineties. For those who've not played the original, you're competing against thirteen other "Road Rashers" who will stop at nothing to win. During the race, you have two options available: you can either do your best to cross the finish line or use your weapon to bring the Rashers to the ground if they give you trouble. Do the latter, and your opponents will do the same to you during the next race.There are five circuits to race: The City, The Peninsula, Pacific Highway, Sierra Nevada, and Napa Valley. Some of these circuits are dangerous. In addition to the obstacles and traffic you encounter along the way, there are also police motorcycle units that will arrest you if you happen to crash or stop near them. Get caught, and you'll have to pay a fine to get in any more races. If you crash too often, your bike will be wrecked, forcing you to pay for damages. The amount you have to pay depends on the bike you are riding. Once you have completed the first five circuits, you have to race them again another four times - but at a much higher difficulty. Manage to win all five circuits on all levels, and you win the Road Rash cup!There are about five bikes to choose from, divided into three groups; Rat, Sport, and Super. You start the first level with a Rat bike. As you progress through the levels it will become increasingly important to pick bikes from different classes.If you have no plans to win the Road Rash cup, you can choose the game's Thrash mode. The difference between this and the other mode is that there is no money involved (i.e., you are not allowed to buy bikes), and you're competing against fourteen opponents. And if you wreck your bike or get busted, you have to start all over again. Regardless of the mode you pick, you will always start in the last place.The remake also contains FMV movies that usually depict the outcome of the races, as well as limited songs performed by various recording artists, including Soundgarden, Therapy?, Monster Magnet, and Swervedriver. These songs can be changed on-the-fly via the game's options menu. |
| Russian Roulette | 1996-09-28 | Buka Entertainment | Logos | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Russian Roulette is a 3D action game, and the first game published by Buka, formerly only a distributor in Russia.A ring of planets, connected by galactic portals has become lost in space. The planets are devastated and the portals have been disassembled. It is up to you to you to find the missing parts of the portals so they can be reactivated. Mostly you will have to fight for them, or perform services to the local authorities.You can exit and enter any vehicle you encounter at will, and many have turrets that can rotate independently. In some levels you will be accompanied by an NPC who will guide you to the next portal part. |
| Front Page Sports: Trophy Bass 2 | 1996-09-30 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is the sequel to Sierra's Trophy Bass game. It features fishing from an overhead view, simulating reeling and reel dragging for different classes of fish.The game includes a tournament mode and an online multiplayer mode for internet connected computers. Numerous tutorial video clips have been included as well. You can choose your bait and location from various maps and menus. Tournament levels let you compete with other online virtual fisherman for the best catches. You can strategize by using fishing techniques, picking bait and fishing spots. There is even a fish radar to assist with finding good fishing spots. |
| Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow | 1996-09-30 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Action | Side view | Licensed | Martial arts | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Disney's Donald Duck takes the starring role in this sidescrolling platform game. As the detective Maui Mallard, he's on the trail of a long lost Idol, which has recently vanished. Early on, Maui can also switch between his normal self and Ninja Maui, and with all the creepy voodoo enemies he'll encounter throughout his adventure, he's going to need all the help he can get.As previously mentioned, there are two personalities to Maui, and as a result, two different sets of controls. Normal Maui carries a bug gun, which can fire a variety of different insect ammo, from basic bugs, to the more powerful lightning and fire bugs. It's also possible for Maui to combine bugs to pack a more powerful blast at his enemies.Once Maui starts to find Yin-Yang coins, he'll be able to transform into Ninja Maui. Ninja Maui has lightning-quick reflexes, and wields a bo staff. In addition to being handy for whacking enemies, Ninja Maui can also climb between walls by jumping and propping the staff between the walls at the height of his jump. He can also hook onto duck heads and swing from them to reach areas he normally couldn't. You'll need to constantly find Yin-Yang coins to fuel your Ninja persona, otherwise you'll run out and transform back to Maui Mallard.The level layout in the Game Boy version is slightly different with less secrets to be found. |
| PGA Tour 96 | 1996-09-30 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Hitmen Productions | Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | PGA Tour 96 was the last of the series released for Sega's 16-bit console, and technologically the most advanced one. Instead of offering several generic courses, the three available (Spyglass Hill, Sawgrass and River Highlands) are in 3D, with height differences visible (as well as the limited 3D abilities of the console allow).The player can either chose to play as one of the 10 PGA Pros (whose swings were digitized), or go Pro - the game keeps track of statistics (longest drive, driving accuracy, best round, etc), a game (Tournament, Strokeplay, Skins, Match and Shootout), as well as a replay.Gameplaywise, PGA 96 uses the tried-and-proved triple click system - one to start the swing, other to set strength and a final one for accuracy. It's possible to fade or draw the ball (to bend the trajectory), add backspin and pitch or chip the ball (for some medium range attempts at the hole or go above a bush).The difficulty level affects mostly the leniency of the triple click hit areas - while at novice it is possible to let the accuracy a bit off-center, in pro levels the ball goes where your swing took it - no excuses taken. However, only in Pro it is possible to make the longest drives, as the amateur and novice levels take a few yards from the total capacity of the club. |
| Timelapse | 1996-09-30 | GTE Entertainment | GTE Entertainment | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Timelapse is a puzzle-solving adventure game similar to Myst. It starts with you receiving an urgent message from an archaeologist friend working in the Easter Islands on a ancient link to lost civilizations. You arrive at his dig site to find him missing. You are the only person who can find him and your search will eventually lead you to the ancient Egyptian, Mayan, Anasazi, and the lost city of Atlantis. |
| Castle Infinity | 1996-10-01 | Starwave | Starwave | Action, Educational | Side view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Castle Infinity is the home of the last remaining dinosaurs. But there is a problem. Evil monsters are invading the castle, and the good dinosaurs' lives are in jeopardy! There is something you can do to help save the dinosaurs and the castle. Team up with players from around the world and together you can rid the castle of those pesky monsters.Castle Infinity is an MMOG (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) designed for children as young as age 8. It emphasizes cooperative problem solving using non-violent methods in a colorful, imaginative atmosphere. Essentially it is a side-scrolling platformer with adventure puzzles. The main objective of this arcade-style game is to amass enough power points and earned objects to battle and remove the monsters that have penetrated the dinosaurs' sanctuary.Each player has a unique on-screen name and password, and then chooses how their character will look. The parts of the avatar's body are like pieces of machines, plants and animals. For instance, it could be a snail's body with a gum-ball machine head and the roots of a tree for legs. As players explore the Castle and rise through the ranks, more pieces (like hats with special powers) and body parts can be found. These can be used or traded between players.There are many obstacles and hazards that must be navigated over, under, around or through including pits, fire, electrical wires, water, gears, moving elevators and ledges. Dinosaurs as well as monsters can appear at random or at pre-destined times. Failed attempts during a battle or pathway can cause injury which, if bad enough, will send the player back to his room for healing (repair). Collecting "lucky statues" and "monkey paws" will increase "repair points" for more powerful healing. (No player can actually die, but instead is restored in their room.)Live chats appear as above-the-head cartoon "bubbles" so they can be read by the group. This teaches communication and keyboarding skills. Puzzles encourage creative thinking and imagination. Some monsters can be defeated by uttering a word or phrase, and many puzzles require more than one person to solve. For instance, 4 players are needed to operate a hydrostatic mini-sub to safely explore a flooded basement.Initially the game was released on CD-Rom for $39.95. The game became free to download and play during the "resurrection" period approximately 8 years later with no disc needed. |
| Games Sampler 2 for Windows 95 | 1996-10-01 | Microsoft Corporation | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Games Sampler 2 for Windows 95 is a demo disc of various Windows platform games wrapped in an interactive menu. The disc starts with a video of an attack in space on an alien spacecraft.After the video the player is dropped into the spaceship which they can freely explore. The ship's two wings are filled with pedestals that launch the individual demos, while the main hall has a pedestal that launches Internet Explorer and the Microsoft homepage. Two secret areas are inside the ship, one filled with Geiger's-Alien-style eggs that don't do anything, and another filled with headshots of the developers. The player can also freely throw nuclear waste symbol coins around, but they don't do anything. The intention of the disc was to show off the features of DirectX.The disc includes demos of:
Captain Quazar
Close Combat
DreathDrome
Decathalon
Diablo
Drowned God
Fire Fight
Flight Unlimited
Free Enterprise
Hellbender
(HOLD ONTO YOUR) NUTS! (aka Squeezils)
Killing Time
Monster Truck Madness
Necrodome
Ravage D.C.X.
Road Rash
The Neverhood
Time Commando
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK!
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| GeoSafari: Animals | 1996-10-01 | Educational Insights, Inc. | Educational Insights, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | Geosafari: Animals is an educational game about animals for ages 8 and up. There are sixteen games available: Animal Hall of Fame, Shark!, Animals Sound Off!, Geosafari Dog Show, Skulls, Name that Bird Call, Reptiles, Micro Mysteries, Horse Round-Up, Endangered Animals, Animal Art Gallery, Whale Watch, Animal Eye-D, Weird World of Animals and GeoChallenge. There are pictures, illustrations and even videos.One to four people can play the game simultaneously. Typing in your name is not necessary because their is a list of names by alphabet. If your name is not there, you can select a nickname. In each game you get three tries to answer a question and the reponse time is taken into account. You can also adjust the game time to make sessions longer or shorter. Aside from the standard mode, you can also play takeover (correct other players' wrong answers) or free for all where players buzz in to answer the question.The game features a glossary with all the featured animals. If you get every question right, you win a medal, and if you win medals in every game you receive a trophy. |
| Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars | 1996-10-01 | 3DO Company, The | New World Computing, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | RPG elements, Turn-based strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Heroes of Might and Magic II is a fantasy turn-based strategy game that takes place in the land of Enroth, a place of magic. There is a multitude of creature types, from griffins to rocs, golems to pikemen, unicorns to hydras, and four different dragons. Each castle type has six different creatures, from the weak to the strong. There are six castle types, each corresponding to a hero class: Knight, Sorceress, Wizard (Good side), Barbarian, Necromancer, and Warlock (Evil side). There are also six different types of neutral creatures you can recruit in special structures scattered about the maps.Compared to the first game, this sequel has larger and more interactive combat screens. The spell system is now based on spell points instead of spell memorization.The maps themselves range from small two-player maps to huge maps that all six player types could fit in easily. There is a map maker included, and you can multiplay via hot-seat, modem, or IP. |
| Magic Tales: Liam Finds a Story | 1996-10-01 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | Europe, Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | "Liam Finds a Story" is the fifth part of the "Magic Tales" series. It is based on Irish fantasy tales. A little country boy called Liam receives an unexpected visit from a witch, who says that she will only leave if he tells her a story she has never heard before. Liam travels through the fairy land and received help from a leprechaun he had saved. This enables him to safely return home and tell a true story about his adventures, for which he is rewarded.
The "Magic Tales" series includes six interactive storybooks, based on fairy tales from different parts of the world. They are all framed as stories read by Grandpa Mouse to his grandchildren. Each story consists of twelve pages and if "Play" mode is selected, the player can also click on different parts of the scenery to see what will happen.
The games in the series are now supported by the ScummVM emulator. |
| NHL 97 | 1996-10-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down, Top-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | 1997 edition of EA's NHL sport simulation series. Improvements in this edition come mostly in the graphical arena, with a refined version of the "virtual stadium" system that adds new camera angles (including the classical top-down one strangely missing from NHL 96), and polygonal players instead of the bitmap-based ones with motion-captured animations.Other extras include multiplayer support for up to 8 players through network or Gravis's GrIP system, the option to create new players and trade them around, and the usual amount of EA sports licensed multimedia flair, including an interesting "Goalie Mask Viewer" which lets you observe the elaboratedly decorated helmets of 30 goalies. |
| Rama | 1996-10-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Nobody has expected it - but one day, something entered the solar system from outside. The mysterious object appeared to be a gigantic cylinder with unknown properties. The International Space Agency (ISA) sent the special Newton Team onto the object, which they dubbed "Rama". The scientists soon discovered that Rama was, in fact, a huge biomechanical collector of alien species and their cities. One of the explorers, Valeriy Borzov, dies under mysterious circumstances. Another astronaut is sent to replace him, investigate the circumstances that led to his death, and perhaps uncover the mystery of Rama.Rama is a puzzle-solving adventure game based on Arthur C. Clarke's series of science fiction novels. Visually and gameplay-wise, it mostly follows the template of Myst, consisting of pre-rendered backgrounds and live action scenes, and focusing almost entirely on complex logic puzzles. The player character has a special device called "wristcomp", which includes communicative, automapping, and teleporting abilities. A personal android provides descriptions of objects and comments on the events of the game. |
| SimCopter | 1996-10-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Helicopter | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | SimCopter is a light helicopter flying simulator closely related to Sim City 2000. The player is a rookie helicopter pilot that must make his living by transporting passengers and help the city authority in several tasks, including rescuing sims from fires and boat accidents, divert cars from traffic jams, aid on putting out fires and arresting criminals, controlling riots and MEDEVAC injured sims to nearby hospitals.The player starts with a basic helicopter, and by completing missions, earn money that can be used to buy larger and faster helicopters and equipment required to deal with more advanced problems (such as a water cannon to put out fires without having to fly directly over the fire and disperse a crowd, tear gas or a megaphone), as well as points to advance to the next level in career mode. The opposite also happens: if a player takes too long to solve a traffic jam, he gets penalized in points.There are two game modes: Career makes the player jump from city to city, while the Free mode allows to play on any city, as well as any city created in Sim City 2000.Included helicopters:
Sikorsky S-300
Bell 206 JetRanger
McDonnell/Douglas MD 500
McDonnell/Douglas MD 520N
Bell 212 Twin Huey
AgustaWestland AW109
Airbus Helicopters AS365 Dauphin
McDonnell/Douglas MD-900 Explorer
Boeing AH-64 Apache |
| The Animals of Farthing Wood | 1996-10-01 | BBC Multimedia | i.e. Digital Media | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Based on the animated BBC educational TV series and books by Colin Dann, The Animals of Farthing Wood aims to help children learn natural history, science, and geography. The goal of this point-and-click game is to help lead the animals out of Farthing Wood as their home is being encroached by human activity.It includes Natural History film footage and four mini-games: The Hedgerow Game, The River Game, The Road Game, and Food Hunt Game. There are 130 screens in total and the game is aimed at children seven to eleven. |
| Deadly Tide | 1996-10-03 | Microsoft Corporation | Rainbow Studios, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Rail shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Naval / watercraft | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Deadly Tide is a pre-rendered shooter in which the player gets to control a deadly new undersea vehicle. The basic plot behind the game is that the aliens have arrived on Earth, and they are not friendly. They take up residence in the oceans of Earth, and begin to launch attacks on shipping. Plus, they are also slowly raising the level of the oceans, trying to flood humans from the planet. Your mission is to stop them.The game is split up into a number of stages, taking place in various locations, the ultimate aim being to make your way through to the end of that level in once piece. There are many cutscenes that advance the story. |
| Hellbender | 1996-10-03 | Microsoft Corporation | Terminal Reality, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Councillor, we have a big problem. The Bion commandos have just destroyed our fighter pilot training school. ALL of our fighter pilots have perished, along with most of our fighters. You, as a retired pilot, are our ONLY remaining pilot. Fortunately, Hellbender, our experimental assault craft, has survived. Unfortunately, that Bion attack is likely only the first wave. You must take the craft and destroy the Bion attack. Good luck to us all. Hellbender is a 3D vehicle shooter that is a sequel to Fury³ and a descendant of Terminal Velocity. The player pilots this vehicle through a first or third-person view, going in any direction and shooting almost anything. Fly above the clouds to fight, fly near the ground to attack, and sometimes, dive into the tunnels to search and destroy. The player will be challenged by ground defenses, fighters, missile launchers, and much more -- even a few puzzles to solve, figuring out which switches open what. There are power-ups everywhere, but they have to be looked for. With ten different weapons to choose from, there are plenty of ways to deal out destruction! Even multiplayer is supported. |
| Monster Truck Madness | 1996-10-03 | Microsoft Corporation | Terminal Reality, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Off-roading | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Microsoft moved beyond Minesweeper and other windowed games after publishing Windows 95, and this was one of their first games, and one of the first to natively support Direct3D. The chaotic world of Monster Truck racing, with its huge jumps and wild slides, provides the basis. It offers straight racing with dirt track, circuit and drag modes, as well as specific challenges such as jumping over cars.The goal is pretty much the same as in any racing game, except you have the option to stray very far from the tracks and find your own shortcuts. You have a selection of eight trucks to handle, and setting them up to suit the track is vital. Also included is multiplayer support, for modem, LAN and internet. |
| NBA Full Court Press | 1996-10-03 | Microsoft Corporation | Beam Software Pty., Ltd. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Simulation-style Basketball game. Features relatively high production values, with play-by-play speech, full NBA license (players and teams) and even NBA players acting as consultants to the title.Also features complex coaching options and team and player editing. Controls are also complex, and allow for faking shots and passes and calling for balls - as you don't have to control the player that has the ball - as well as the usual actions like shooting, passing, stealing and grabbing rebounds.Play against the computer or with as many as 3 (joystick, mouse and keyboard) players on the same computer, either as teammates or as opponents.In-game engine supports many resolutions, but the graphics are 2D with pre-rendered, low detail players. |
| Pyst | 1996-10-09 | Palladium Interactive, Inc. | Bergman-Stallone, Inc., Entasis, Parroty Interactive | Adventure | 1st-person | | Comedy | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Four million people have explored the world of Myst--and they've turned it into a dump. Dead animals line the docks, windows are smashed in, graffiti is everywhere, and the dignified rocket is down being used to dry clothes. Make your way through the littered landscape of Pyst, aided by the mysterious King Mattruss, and enjoy what is clearly a *parody* of a game, rather than the real thing.
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| Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs | 1996-10-09 | Microsoft Corporation | Music Pen | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | Climb on board the Magic School Bus and join the enthusiastic and indefatigable Mrs. Frizzle and her class on a trip back to the age of the dinosaurs!The game features three prehistoric time periods the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous and seven areas Argentina, Arizona, Colorado, Tanzania, the Tethys Sea, Alberta, and Mongolia--to explore. Throughout the background, each time zone has various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures to learn about.Meanwhile back on the bus, there is so much to see and try. A map of the world shows you many sites where several fossils have been found. A nest with two joking dinosaurs which provides educational content as well as jokes, and a report zone, which has illustrations, pictures, and even clips from the PBS television series "The Dinosaurs". The reports tell about dinosaur behavior, myths, body parts, and how fossils are found. An X-ray lets you look at the skulls of different dinosaurs, and, best of all, there are lots of games and puzzles to solve. When you solve something in the game, you might get awarded "paleo" cards. These "paleo" cards are placed in a gallery, and they provide facts about what time period these dinosaurs lived in, their size and weight.The game also has a plot that involves helping the Friz get some photos she lost after her last trip of time traveling. The space in the photo album will give you hints about where to find the creature and what it looks like. After you find all the missing photos, the Friz will give you a mask of a Tyrannosaurus, an Apatosaurs, or a Pterodactylus. |
| To-Gen-Kiko | 1996-10-15 | Rodik, Inc | Rodik, Inc | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | Meditative / Zen | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | To-Gen-Kiko multimedia CD-ROM fortune telling program. At its core is a seimei handan feature, a form of Japanese fortune telling that determines a person's fortune based on the number of strokes in the characters in their name. It also features a naming tool to help choose a name on the same basis, a company and product name fortune telling tool, and romance compatibility tester. All of its features are presented as being based on the work of Shinichiro Kanetaka, a fictional name expert. While the original developers no longer exist, an online browser-based version of To-Gen-Kiko is still available. |
| Angel Halö | 1996-10-17 | Active Software | Active Software | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | The year is 1999. All over the world, excitement grows as the next millennium approaches. For the ordinary Japanese teenager Masa it doesn't mean that much. But very soon he discovers that he was wrong. At the turn of the millennium, ancient prophecies are being fulfilled. The advent of the Messiah is near, and the forces of darkness send their minions to corrupt and enslave the world. They have infiltrated Masa's high school as well. With the help of the exchange student Sophia, who is in fact an angel in human form, Masa must stop the evil...Angel Halo is a visual novel: the entire game is composed of text and still graphical images, with an occasional choice to make. The choices lead to various CG pictures, as well as different endings. The game contains explicit nudity and sexual scenes. |
| The Gowords Assistant | 1996-10-21 | | | Puzzle | Text-based / Spreadsheet, Top-down | | | Word construction | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Gowords Assistant is a single player, freeware, crossword puzzle game.The player is presented with a crossword puzzle grid into which they must insert words from the game's dictionary, all words are six letters long. Each word scores points and the object is to complete the grid and achieve the highest score. To aid the player there is a word search function, called a sieve in the game, which will help the player find words, for example all words where the third letter is an 'a' and the fourth letter is a 'z'.The game also contains a grid design function so that the player can create their own puzzles.
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| War Wind | 1996-10-23 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | DreamForge Intertainment, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Point and select | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | War Wind is a classic real time strategy game in a medieval fantasy setting. The game copies both, graphics and interface, from its successful model, Warcraft 2.The ancient alien world of Yavaun teeters on the brink of anarchy. Four diverse races, the Tha'Roon, Obblinox, Eaggra and the Shama'Li are fighting for dominance on the planet.Despite many objects taken directly from the model, War Wind also introduces many new elements to the genre like the carry-over of your units from scenario to scenario and advanced combat movements like stealth modes and bio enhancements.You can either play one of the 28 pre-designed scenarios of the game's campaign, play a multiplayer game or create new scenarios with the included level editor. |
| Pro Pinball: The Web | 1996-10-24 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Cunning Developments | Action | | | | Pinball | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In this pinball simulation, you play on a table called "The Web". With the help of three flippers, you must send the ball into the various openings, trapdoors, and ramps. You can gain various bonuses (such as several balls to knock at the same time) if you play particularly well. Some of the targets activate special missions when you hit them with a ball. Those missions vary from aiming at specific targets to playing mini-games, such as shooting asteroids. After you have completed five missions, you'll be able to face the Dark Queen, the off-screen antagonist of the game.Unlike many other pinball games, "The Web" aims for realistic simulation of pinball. The game implements real table physics, and doesn't feature any unrealistic gadgets or living enemies.
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| Viper GTS | 1996-10-25 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Viper GTS is a direct sequel to one of the stories included in Viper V-6, namely The Devil Came. In that story a frustrated man named Ogawa summoned the female demon Carrera and had to have sex with her until she was too tired to claim his soul. Now Carrera is back to hell, but the bored Ogawa summons her again. Only this time, she brings a partner: another sexy female demon named Mercedes. So now Ogawa has to satisfy their sexual needs. But the happy orgy is interrupted by the appearance of a new face - an angel from Heaven...Like other Viper games, Viper GTS is very heavy on sexual content, to the point of being entirely pornographic. The sex scenes are animated. The gameplay is, per Viper tradition, reduced to occasional choice-making. Most of the times one of the choices is correct while the other leads to Game Over; however, there are a few parts where it is possible to slightly branch the story line (which in reality means viewing a different sex scene). |
| Amok | 1996-10-31 | Scavenger, Inc. | Scavenger, Inc. | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | Teen | | Windows | Amok portrays a futuristic storyline on a planet which is identified in the manual as having the same name. There, two gigantic corporations, referred to by the acronyms NONLUN and AZTK, had previously been having an all-out war between them for forty-seven years. The war had involved all possible fronts and theaters, including operations in the air, on the surface of the land and sea, and beneath the water. Very recently, a weak peace accord had only just been reached. In the manual, the peace accord is described as being much like "a blanket covering the fire that smolders in the hearts of the people. The agreement is sufficiently unsteady that an influential mercenary company, known only as "the Bureau," has now decided to hire a capable battle walker pilot named Gert Staun to restart the war so they can continue to make large amounts of money by taking lucrative contracts from both sides. The player takes the role of Gert Staun.Naturally "the Bureau" has placed a high priority on this, and they are funding it entirely on their own. Indeed, Gert Staun's battle walker, called the "Slambird" is explicitly said to be custom-modified. In particular, the Slambird can not only survive either on land or underwater, but it can transition between the two -- it can move, fight, and safely control its vertical position in either environment. These abilities are portrayed as costly and not standard to such vehicles in the universe where Amok takes place. The transformation of the Slambird between an underwater vehicle and a land vehicle is automatically scripted, however. The player has no power to control this transformation or alter the time when it happens. Instead, the player must get to the point when Staun will automatically bring the Slambird ashore to continue his attacks.The object of this arcade-type game is to meet a series of objectives, and to do so in such a way that each side will blame the other. The game has a linear structure, based on levels that present tasks of increasing difficulty, and all sorts of hazards and targets are encountered. These include military bases, power generators, land mines, infantry, tanks, submarines -- even sharks and huge, aggressive birds. Infantry elements are poorly armored, so they can be killed by being run over. In one mission, the only way that the player will be able to get enough time to escape is to open with a surprise attack, slowing pursuit by destroying a parking facility full of unattended troop transport vehicles. Power-ups are scattered throughout the levels. The Slambird carries a variety of explosive devices and line-of-sight weapons. Some of the explosive weapons can bounce in a parabolic trajectory, and in addition there are two laser cannons that can fire rapidly an unlimited number of times. These cannons are useful in case no other weapons remain, and they can be used to create complex ripple fire, which can be used to cover an area that is surprisingly wide. When underwater, propellers are used, while torpedoes are automatically used instead of missiles. |
| Circle of Blood | 1996-11-01 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Revolution Software Ltd. | Adventure | Side view | | Detective / mystery, Romance | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | George Stobbart is an American tourist spending his autumn vacation in Paris. He barely escapes a bombing of a café and decides to investigate the clues left behind by the killer. This eventually leads him to a mystery dating back to the legend of the Knights Templar.Circle of Blood is the first part in the Broken Sword series. It is a third-person puzzle-solving point-and-click adventure game with 2D cartoon-like graphics. The player moves the character around using the mouse, examines the environment, talks to other people and collects items stored in an inventory. These items need to be used or combined with other items to solve puzzles. George gets help from Nicole Collard, a French journalist. The story is divided into eleven chapters and takes place in locations such as Paris, Ireland, Syria, and others. |
| Hunter Hunted | 1996-11-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | The year is 2015. A race of technologically superior aliens known as the Masters have invaded many planets, exterminating or enslaving their population. The Earth has become a grim place, the few surviving humans working for the aliens in labor camps. The Minotaur-like inhabitants on the planet Kulrathe are herded into concentration camps, forced to play the cruel game "Hunter Hunted" to entertain aliens. The human Jake and Garathe Den, working independently, have to salvage car parts in order to construct a working vehicle and escape from the Masters' yoke.Hunter Hunted is a side-scrolling platform action game. The player takes control of either Jake or Garathe Den. Both start unarmed, but over the course of the game they will acquire whips, guns, rocket launchers, and other weapons to protect themselves. The third dimension is integrated into the game, influencing its gameplay: the protagonists can step aside to avoid projectile attacks, as well as use doors to reach other areas. A two-player mode is included, with 20 head-to-head and 15 cooperative missions. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: USNF'97 - U.S. Navy Fighters | 1996-11-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | War | | Asia, Cold War, Contemporary, Europe | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | U.S. Navy Fighters '97 is the update to the US Navy Fighters Gold package, hence including both U.S. Navy Fighters and its Marine Fighters expansion pack. This new version is Windows-native, and adds a Vietnam Airwar campaign with the related planes such as the F-8 Crusader, F-4 Phantom II, and A-7 Corsair II, as well as improved multiplayer capabilities. |
| Necrodome | 1996-11-01 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Raven Software Corporation | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | Mature | | Windows | The game is set on a futuristic world where stadium sports are ruled by car-combat. Sort of like the Running Man on wheels if you will. You play one of the contestants and the game itself consists of 30+ matches of a weird sport in which you have to drive a heavily armored car around arenas blasting opponents, retrieving a flag from (usually) locked areas and then returning the flag to your starting position.You can control your car both in 1st person or 3rd person view, and you can also get out of your car and go on foot to access otherwise unreachable areas tough you become obviously vulnerable to other contestants, and speaking of opponents, you'll fight against foot soldiers, flying soldiers and eight different types of vehicular enemies.Multiplayer options include both competitive and cooperative gameplay, where one player drives around, and the other acts as gunman, with directplay support in addition to the standard modem/ipx support. |
| SoulTrap | 1996-11-01 | Microforum International | Microforum International | Action | Behind view | | | Platform, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | SoulTrap is a 3D platform game that takes place inside the mind of the main character of the game: Malcolm West. The fears and anxieties of Malcolm West are represented by strange often moving platform structures high in the sky. The player has to jump from platform to platform, shooting phobias taking the form of enemies and outwitting obstacles that he comes across. The game comes with 11 levels with each their own graphical theme. The player can find various weapons such as a magical axe, a .45 automatic and a grenade launcher. There are also power-ups that allow the player to replenish health and ammunition. The game allows the use of both first person and third person camera angles. |
| The Vampire Diaries | 1996-11-01 | American Laser Games, Inc. | Her Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery, Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Based on several L. J. Smith books of the 1990s, The Vampire Diaries is a suspenseful mystery adventure about a town infested with vampires and one teen's efforts to find them. Featuring real actors and actresses in full motion video and a point and click interface, the game ships on 3 CD-ROM discs.You play Elena Gilbert, a popular Robert E. Lee High School teen, who lives with her Aunt Judith and younger sister, Margaret, in Fells Church, Virginia. After the introduction, the game begins during a party at the Romanoff Gallery, which they are attending. Suddenly someone screams, and Margaret is found lying on the floor ... a wispy figure floating away from her comatose body. Determined to find who (or what) attacked her sister, Elena investigates on her own. She soon discovers that the entire town of Fells Church is in fear for their lives! There are Vampires here .. and everyone is suspect.Players of Her Interactive's Nancy Drew games will recognize the screen layout and menu system, which includes the familiar "Second Chance" feature. Puzzles range in difficulty and many are dependent on inventory objects found, conversation topics chosen and/or the time of day. Travel to different locations via the in-game map and change from day to night by adjusting a clock or going to bed. |
| FX Fighter Turbo | 1996-11-05 | GTE Entertainment | Argonaut Software Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Diagonal-down | | | Arcade, Fighting | | | | | Teen | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fight a series of adversaries in one-on-one combat to save the universe from Rigel, again. This sequel to 1995's FX Fighter adds 2 new characters, new moves, environments, costumes, special effects, windows support, and network play, to the one-on-one 3d fighting game.This PC original title supports 1 player vs AI, 2 players on the same machine, 2 players on an IPX LAN, and 2 players connected via modem. |
| Gex | 1996-11-07 | Microsoft Corporation | Crystal Dynamics, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Enter your television to defeat the evil Rez by collecting remotes to open worlds inside your tv.
You are a gecko with all the usual platform hero skills such as jump, fire, and close-range attack, but also suction cups to help you scale walls, a tongue to pick up those tricky to get power-ups
and plenty of wise-cracks to keep you amused. Use them all to make your way through TV land searching for the remotes, collecting pickups, power-ups, and killing TVs. |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 95 | 1996-11-07 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is the first Windows 9x version of the long running Microsoft Flight Simulator series. Featuring two new planes, the Boeing 737-400 and Extra 300S. Also new to this version are virtual pilot instruction, as well as a multimedia flight school, and photo-realistic satellite imaging.The full list of planes available is:
Boeing 737-400
Cessna Skylane RG R182
Extra 300S
Learjet 35A
Schweizer 2-32 Sailplane, and the
Sopwith CamelScenery packs such as the the BAO Europe 1 Add-On scenery and those produed for Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 or 5.1 can be imported into this simulator. |
| Microsoft Golf 3.0 | 1996-11-07 | Microsoft Corporation | Access Software, Inc. | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Using an engine licensed from Access, play through 18 holes or practice your swing. |
| Microsoft Soccer | 1996-11-07 | Microsoft Corporation | Lobotomy Software, Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | This soccer game is using an isometric perspective to render the game. There is in total 92 teams in the game (only internationals, no club teams) although all the players are fake. In single player the game offers a single game or a tournament (a cup with up to sixteen teams). Single games can also be played with up to four friends in multiplayer via LAN, Internet or modem. Also included is a team editor that allows the user to modify the teams or create new ones. |
| Magic Tales: Sleeping Cub's Test of Courage | 1996-11-12 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | Fantasy, North America, Pre-Columbian Americas | | Point and select | | | | Windows | "Sleeping Cub's Test of Courage" is the final story in the "Magic Tales" series. It tells the story of a Native American boy who is treated like an outsider in his tribe because he is an orphan. When the buffaloes disappear, the tribe is trying to follow them, but is unable to keep pace. The chief tells a story of the legendary spirit people who rode large animals called Elk Dogs and Sleeping Cub decides to prove his courage by finding them. He discovers that they were real, however, before they help his people, they require him to take one last test because he can't help others if he "doesn't believe in himself". Sleeping Cub returns to his tribe with the Elk Dogs and is now treated as a hero.
The "Magic Tales" series includes six interactive storybooks, based on fairy tales from different parts of the world. They are all framed as stories read by Grandpa Mouse to his grandchildren. Each story consists of twelve pages and if "Play" mode is selected, the player can also click on different parts of the scenery to see what will happen.
The games in the series are now supported by the ScummVM emulator. |
| Tom Clancy's SSN | 1996-11-12 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Clancy Interactive Entertainment, Virtus Corporation | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Naval / watercraft | | Real-time | | | Windows | Tom Clancy's SSN is a simulation of the 688i (i.e. Los Angeles-class) nuclear hunter/killer submarine. The player commands the USS Cheyenne in a limited war against China over the Spratly Islands in a 15-mission campaign where they'll perform a wide variety of missions from patrol to escort, from boomer hunt to convoy attack. The game uses a large number of video briefings and "news" reports to enhance the atmosphere both before and after the missions. During the mission, the player can see their submarine in a 3rd-person view with a rotate-able camera (only horizontally though). The player is limited to only torpedoes (no Harpoon anti-ship missiles). While VLS (vertical launch system) is included, it has no real effect in the missions. Sonar is vastly simplified, leaving the player only with command decisions such as where to turn, what depth to go to, when to shoot, when to use active sonar, when to deploy decoys, and so on. Thermal layers (large difference in water temperature, affects sonar performance) is simulated. |
| Descent II: The Infinite Abyss | 1996-11-15 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | A double-CD pack of Descent II (complete with 3dfx and Rendition graphics card patches) and its Vertigo Series expansion. |
| Puyo Puyo 2 | 1996-11-15 | Compile | Compile | Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The follow-up to Puyo Puyo is, like its predecessor, a falling block game in which the goal is to combine four or more blocks (Puyos) of the same color, which then disappear. The remaining Puyos will then fall down and can produce combos which can cause special blocks (Nuisance Puyos, that can only be destroyed by eliminating adjacent Puyos) to appear on the enemy's field.This game includes a story mode, in which Arle (the main character) fights against computer enemies, a vs player mode, a four player mode (SNES only), and an endless mode (SNES only). |
| Uncle Henry's Playhouse | 1996-11-18 | Trilobyte, Inc. | Trilobyte, Inc. | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | Mini-games | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This game bundles 12 of the existing puzzles that can be found in The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour and Clandestiny (with each game contributing 4 of them), leaving out the story elements of the original games and instead focusing on the puzzles themselves. The puzzles can be accessed directly by clicking on any of the rooms of a dollhouse. An additional new 13th puzzle is available when completing all 12 of the old puzzles.The included "Guestbook" contains short descriptions of the puzzles. |
| MultiPlayer BattleTech: Solaris | 1996-11-19 | Kesmai Corporation | | Action | 1st-person | | | Massively Multiplayer, RPG elements, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | Direct control | | | | Windows | MultiPlayer BattleTech: Solaris is an online-only game that was available in the mid 1990's, where up to eight players engage in mechanized combat.Behind the game is a complex story covering the rise and fall of space empires over several centuries. What this leads to is the establishment of a gaming industry based on Solaris VII in which players representing the main Successor Houses compete in battles using heavily armed and armoured BattleMechs. There is an in-game map which represents the areas on Solaris VII where the Successor Houses have their enclaves. The player starts the game by travelling to a district and finding an arena where they select their BattleMech. There are five arenas in each district and around eighty BattleMechs to choose from. When all players have chosen their machine and the side they are fighting for, they are dropped into the arena and the battle begins. The game area consists of a main viewing area which occupies the majority of the upper part of the screen and has a bank of controls and warning lights to both left and right. Beneath the main screen are three displays which show systems information, a radar screen, and damage indicators. The game installation process prompts for an Internet Service Provider which is essential in order to play the game. If AOL or CompuServe are installed, they are configured automatically, but the game documentation shows that Netscape and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 could be configured manually. The game also supports player to player communication.
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| Command & Conquer: Red Alert | 1996-11-22 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | War | Real-time strategy | Europe, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | What if Hitler never existed? Einstein pondered the question and created a time-machine to eliminate Hitler as a young man, thus preventing World War II as history remembers it. However, Einstein stopped one evil only to create another - because Stalin's Soviet Union is now poised to conquer Europe... and Allies must stop them!Command & Conquer: Red Alert can be considered a prequel to Command & Conquer. Like its predecessor, it is a real-time strategy with an isometric semi-top-down perspective using 2D sprite graphics engine. The player takes control of either the Allies or the Soviets, as he battles for destiny of the planet. Gameplay features are similar to those of the previous game, including building a base with some defenses, massing units, harvesting resources, etc. The game has a variety of environments in its missions, adding some indoor missions that use only infantry units. |
| Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares | 1996-11-22 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | SimTex, Inc. | Strategy | | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Legends speak somewhere in space of the mystical planet Orion. Created by the Ancients, it remains unclaimed due to a powerful Guardian that orbits the planet and keeps out intruders. These same Ancients long ago fought a war against the Antarans and banished them into another dimension. Now... long after the Ancients empire has vanished, new races take to the stars, wishing to establish their own star empires, defeat the Antarans and become... The Master of Orion.Master of Orion II: Battle At Antares is a turn-based 4x space empire game and is the sequel to Master of Orion, reinterpreting that game from scratch. Unlike the original the game can be played single player or with other human players. The player takes the role of a ruler of one of thirteen races, while also having the extra option of creating a custom one. They must manage planet resources to build ships and facilities, improving production. Exploration of the galaxy is done via scouts and colony ships, which can establish new planets as part of the empire. Research must also be done to discover and utilize new technologies. Alien civilizations which are encountered can be negotiated with, or ships can engage in combat in a turn-based grid system. As new systems are explored, random events are triggered and strange artifacts found in orbit around unexplored planets. Wormholes can also be found which allow transport across dozens of parsecs into new star systems.The game can be won in different ways: Through conquest of all other races, Being voted supreme leader of the galaxy or destruction of the Antarans race. |
| Rocket Jockey | 1996-11-22 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Rocket Science Games, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Fighting | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | SEGA stuck bits of soccer, racing, and rockets to create this game. Ride rockets and compete against other jockeys in this different events including Rocket Ball, Rocket War, and Rocket Race. |
| FIFA Soccer 97 | 1996-11-25 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | This iteration of the FIFA lineage includes commentary from John Motson with summaries from Andy Gray, with the between-match sections covered by Des Lynam. All player moves are from David Ginola using the MotionBlending technology. Full interactive replays are included.You can play a league or cup tournament, and practice your skills before playing. The game can be tailored to action or simulation style, with fouls, injuries and offsides available to toggle on or off. This version also includes a 6 vs 6 indoor play mode, and various multiplayer options |
| Daikōkai Jidai III: Costa del Sol | 1996-11-29 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down, Top-down | | Romance | | Historical events | Naval / watercraft | | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | The starting year of the game is set at 1480. Players can create their own protagonist or choose two virtual protagonists (a Portuguese and a Spanish). The main focus of 3rd game is very different from that of the 2nd. It emphasized on exploration and discovery rather than trade. The most effective way for players to obtain funds is to report the discovery to their clients. There are many different kinds of discoveries are to be discovered, such as geographical, biological, historical, religious findings, and also numerous treasures and different categories of disciplines. Players will discover geographical routes with the famous navigators in history, such as discovering the new continent before Columbus and discovering the route to India before Vasco da Gama, so that players can not only acquire the naming rights of geographical routes, but also have the ability to acquire unimaginable wealth and fame.Players can even obtain abilities to pursue different styles of women around the world to get married and have offspring, building an family empire, making the game even more interesting. It is the most realistic title among the whole series, unfortunately, accordingly the most difficult and frustrating one, making it the least popular in both Japanese and global market. |
| PC Games Trivia | 1996-11-29 | Computec Media AG | | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | PC Games Trivia uses a mix of full motion video and drawn graphics and is played on a jeopardy-style board. You can play against human opponents (via hotseat) or against AI. There are 6 different AI opponents, 5 of which are genre experts and 1 is a generalist. The game has three degrees of difficulty - easy, medium, and hard. |
| A-10 Cuba! | 1996-11-30 | Activision, Inc. | Parsoft Interactive | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | North America | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A-10 Cuba!, the sequel to A-10 Attack!, is a military air combat simulator featuring the Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft, otherwise known as the "Warthog." Like its predecessor, it is a highly realistic simulator with a 3D polygonal graphics engine. New features include more detailed graphics and 12 missions set in an expansive, intricate model of Cuba. Four additional multiplayer-only environments allow up to eight players to compete on a LAN.The game provides a detailed 2D cockpit with clickable buttons and switches. A wide variety of weapons are available for air-air and air-ground combat, including Sidewinder, Hellfire, Maverick and HARM missiles and free-fall, laser-guided, and cluster bombs. Rockets and the Warthog's famous GAU-8 Avenger gatling gun round out the arsenal.Physics, damage and avionics are simulated in great detail.The Macintosh version also includes a mission editor. |
| Age of Sail | 1996-11-30 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | | Historical events | Naval / watercraft, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | The Age of Sail that the title refers to is a period during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when tall sailing ships dominated the world's navies. Age of Sail is a real time combat game. You control a tall ship and engage in cannon battles with enemy fleets. Gameplay centers around tactical decisions like selection of ordinance for the cannons, using the wind and maneuvering into position to fire at the enemy. In the campaign mode you start as an Ensign for one of four countries - Britain, Spain, France or the United States - and work your way up through the ranks. There are also about one hundred historical scenarios you can play, most of them taking place during the Napoleonic wars and the War of 1812. Scenarios give you control of multiple ships per battle. |
| Golden Nugget | 1996-11-30 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Abalone Entertainment Software Development Inc. | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | | | | Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Immerse yourself in the Golden Nugget and you'll enjoy Las Vegas-style casino gaming in a four-star casino paradise with 16 games of chance to challenge and thrill you. This is virtual nonstop casino action with all the authenticity and splendor of the real thing. |
| id Anthology | 1996-11-30 | id Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The id Anthology is a collection of all the games id Software made up to Quake. It also contains collectables, such as a poster, comic, T-shirt, and a model cyberdemon. This compilation has 19 games on 4 CDs.The first CD has the games id Software made from 1991 to 1993: this includes all the Commander Keen games, both Wolfenstein games, and really early games such as Dangerous Dave and Slordax. Commander Keen: Aliens Ate my Babysitter is only the CGA version.The second CD titled DOOM has The Ultimate DOOM, DOOM 2, Master Levels, and Final DOOM. Master Levels does not include Maximum DOOM on the DOOM CD, however it does on the Mac CD. All the DOOM games apart from Master Levels have both the DOS and DOOM95 versions of v1.9 (the latest). Master Levels comes with a DOS launcher doomit v9.5c where the player may load the .wad files from. The DOOM CD also has a copy of DirectX 4, Dwango95, and xband.The third Quake CD has Quake on it with the audio CD music.The fourth Mac CD has Mac versions of Wolfenstein 3D, Ultimate DOOM, DOOM 2, and Final DOOM.Also included in compilation is the Book of id: a book that is a part of the 4 CD case and has a story about id Software and starts off "I've run out of ammo. Nothing much left between me and Them but this fire door..." Also included is a poster of someone screaming against a length of film, a phone card with a picture of the DOOM 2 boss on it, two dog tags with the id logo on one and the id Anthology logo on the other, a led cyberdemon miniature (unpainted, no paint included), a black t-shirt with the id Anthology logo on it, and a DOOM comic book. The game manuals are on the CDs and are viewed with omoplay.Games included
CD 1: Vintage
Catacomb 3-D
Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons
Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy
Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Babysitter!
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams
Dangerous Dave
Hover Tank 3D
Rescue Rover
Rescue Rover 2
Shadow Knights
Slordax: The Unknown Enemy
Spear of Destiny
The Catacomb
Wolfenstein 3D
CD 2: DOOM
DOOM II: Hell on Earth
Final DOOM
Master Levels for DOOM II
The Ultimate DOOM
CD 3: Quake
Quake
CD 4: Mac
DOOM II: Hell on Earth
Final DOOM
The Ultimate DOOM
Wolfenstein 3D |
| Blindness | 1996-12-01 | Mondadori New Media | DedaloMedia Edizioni | Adventure | 1st-person, Audio game | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Simon (your alter ego) is a blind man who takes a journey through memories and emotions in search of truth: someone is killing your best friends, and you are one of the suspects.Blindness is an adventure game which can, thanks to its "interactive 3D audio system", be played also by blind people. Scenes were filmed with professional actors in Rome and in Cinecittà studios. The game has multiple endings, which vary depending on the items found during the adventure. |
| Harpoon Classic '97 | 1996-12-01 | Alliance Interactive Software, Inc., Interactive Magic, Inc. | Alliance Interactive Software, Inc. | Compilation, Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | | Historical events | Naval / watercraft | | Real-time | | | Windows | Harpoon Classic '97 is a revised version of traditional Harpoon Classic which is in turn, based on Larry Bond's original and very popular Harpoon board-game from 1980. The core gameplay is top-down (map and menu based) ultra-realistic strategic naval warfare wrapping around scenarios in 4 different theatres (North Atlantic, Greenland/Iceland, Indian Ocean, and Persian Gulf/Mediterranean).New features in this release are the Windows 95 playability (cleaner interface), improved artwork and effects, along with 50 new missions. Additional updated ships and planes are also included. |
| Multi Sports | 1996-12-01 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A., Gremlin Interactive Limited, NoriaWorks Entertainment | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Multi Sports is a bundle composed of the following games:
Actua Soccer
PC Basket 4.5
Speed Haste
PC Basket 4.5 is an update to PC Basket 4.0 and exclusive to this compilation. Changes include team and player database updates matching the 96/97 league. A bio of legendary Spanish player Juan Antonio San Epifanio "Epi" was also included as an extra, and was called the "Super Epi" edition. |
| Rama (Edition Collector) | 1996-12-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Special edition | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Rama (Edition Collector) is a collector's edition of Rama exclusive to the French market. It was created through a partnership between Sierra France (Coktel Vision) and the French book publisher J'Ai Lu. It includes
Rama
All 4 Rama novels by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry LeeJ'ai Lu also re-released the novels in France in October 1996 with new covers inspired by the game's artworks. |
| Star General | 1996-12-01 | Mindscape, Inc., Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Catware, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | War | Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Take control of The Fleet (humans), the Khalians, or five other races as you battle for control of the local cluster with your fleet and conquer enemy planets with your group troops. Build research centers to obtain better ships. Use your racial special unit to gain advantage on the ground or in space. Play random map or one of the built-in scenarios that can vary from one ship vs. one ship to full galactic war (variable galaxy sizes). Are you worthy of the title Star General?Star General can be best described as "Panzer General in Space". Turn-by-turn, the ships in Star General move exactly like the ground units move in Panzer General. "Spatial features" like nebula, cosmic string, and such work exactly like "terrain" on earth. Even the combat mechanics are nearly identical, where ships are rated in missile and beam values, like the ground units are rated in hard vs. soft assault values. It has several novel features though. Inclusion of a full AI capable of playing to death instead of relying on turn-limits is a first. Having the ground units land on planets after the space war concluded and fight a separate ground battle. Research is minimal (only 4 generic levels) and ships cannot be customized. This game is Panzer General with a space theme. |
| You Don't Know Jack: The Netshow | 1996-12-01 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | This comedic pop-culture quiz show with the brash host is free for play on the gaming portal "beZerk.com". Once a game installer is downloaded and executed on your computer, you can play solo or with up to two others on the same keyboard. The game is sponsored by short television-like full-screen ads in between some rounds to obtain revenue. New episodes are created weekly and questions load in the background while you are playing. Past episodes can also be played again. There's different categories such as Gibberish Questions - rhyme nonsensical phrases with common sayings, and DisOrDats - force one player to determine which of two totally unrelated categories something belongs to. One time per round you can "screw your neighbor" by forcing an opponent to answer a question and if they answer wrong, they lose points. But if they answer correctly then you lose the points. There's three rounds of 14 questions and a Jack Attack lightning round. Whoever has the most points at the end, wins.
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| Banzai Bug | 1996-12-02 | Grolier Interactive Inc. | Gravity, Inc. | Action, Simulation | Behind view | | | | | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In Banzai Bug you play a fly who has been trapped in the house of an exterminator, now with the help of a couple of other insects you have to escape.You control your bug in a 3rd-person view as you fly around and complete different missions like stealing matches, collecting earwax or navigate the vents. |
| JumpStart Adventures: 3rd Grade - Mystery Mountain | 1996-12-02 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | Side view | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | When a little brat girl named Polly Spark sends 25 of her fathers robots in time to change history, it's up to you and a robot boy named Botley to capture the Robots and bring history back to normal.In Polly's mystery Mountain Mansion you must go around the Mansion playing games and Logic puzzles that teach 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade subjects, to save the world from crazy history. |
| JumpStart Adventures: 4th Grade - Haunted Island | 1996-12-02 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | KnowWare | Adventure, Educational | | | Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | In Jump Start Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island, you play a student who is not in class one day. Meanwhile at School the evil substitute Mrs Grunkel turns all your classmates into monsters. A purple bat named Flap tells you about what happens and takes you to Haunted Island to help free your classmates from Mrs Grunkels spells. A magician named Madam Pom Reda guides you with your missions and tells you where to go to collect clues to help free the students. Along the way collect keys to get into Mrs Grunkels house, and solve some Language art questions from Mrs Grunkels Ghost keeper. |
| Bug Too! | 1996-12-10 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Realtime Associates, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Bug Too! is the sequel to Bug!. It is a third-person action platformer with console-style play mechanics. You play as Bug and his two sidekicks, SuperFly and Maggot Dog. You go through several 3D worlds, all of which are parodies of movies. You must defeat the themed villains through all of the environments to make your homeland safe again. |
| Baldies | 1996-12-11 | Panasonic Interactive Media | Creative Edge Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera | Windows | The premise of Baldies is similar to many real-time strategy games. You start with a limited number of Baldies with which you construct buildings, increase your population, and create the necessary instruments of war. There are four classes of Baldies--builders, scientists, soldiers, and workers/breeders. Structures include small, medium, large, and huge houses as well as science labs and barracks. Each building has specific properties that assist in your destruction of the enemy. |
| Custom Mate 3 | 1996-12-12 | Cocktail Soft | Cocktail Soft | Simulation | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | It's Christmas. Hayashi Ryuusuke is walking through the crowded city, feeling sad that he is alone on such a day. Suddenly, he spots a neon sign: Custom Mate. He enters and sees a strange receptionist with elf-like ears and a magic symbol on the forehead. She creates the girl of his dreams and they get married! But this is just the beginning, and Ryuusuke realizes that marriage is not all about the honeymoon...The third Custom Mate game differs from its predecessors by offering much deeper simulation gameplay, which includes different aspects of the life of a married couple beside just sex. In the beginning, the player creates the protagonist, choosing his age, blood type, and personality. The future wife is created the same way. Unlike the previous games, it is impossible to change appearance and physical aspects of the girl; however, there are many more personality traits.After the honeymoon, the couple returns to daily routine. The player can make daily or monthly schedule. The wife's behavior is determined by character creation, but also by the choices the player makes. The wife would often ask questions, make suggestions, etc.; the player's reaction determines future interactions and the overall development of the relationship. The couple has various parameters, from love level to monetary wealth. Sex interaction plays an important role; the player should choose the right actions, depending on the wife's personality, otherwise the relationship will deteriorate. Menu-based interface is utilized for most of the game, but the actual sex interaction is done in point-and-click fashion, with action icons. |
| HyperBlade | 1996-12-12 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc., Wizbang! Software Productions | Action, Sports | 1st-person | | | Fighting | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | HyperBlade introduces the 3D battlesport of the future. Players engage in a futuristic street-hockey style game played out on the interior of an elongated ellipsoid arena. Body-checks (weapons are included) go for blood in this game as players can be gruesomely eliminated from the game, including the option to score with an opponent's dismembered head. Power-ups, speed boosts, ramps, and simple team management (for substitutions) are all part of the experience. Some strategy is required for play, but it's mostly pure action.The game also features multiple skill levels, 12 teams (from a US tournament league), and head-to-head network play (IPX and TCP LAN only).If you are looking for a 3D version of Speedball, this is as close as it gets. |
| Cry Sweeper | 1996-12-13 | D.O. Corp. | D.O. Corp. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | A series of mysterious events has occurred in a seemingly normal high school somewhere in Japan. Girls have been reported missing or assaulted under mysterious circumstances. The police is helpless. Two people are determined to solve the mystery: Kai Shura, a man who can read minds and recall events from the past, and Ami Kanko, a girl who controls the powers of telekinesis. Will they ever be able to get to the bottom of the things, or will gruesome events continue to happen amidst innocent teenagers?..Cry Sweeper plays, for the most part, like standard Japanese adventures, without puzzles or physical movement (navigation is done via menu choices and "jumping" to locations on the map). There are a few shooter sequences that occur late in the game. The interaction is done in point-and-click fashion, with context-sensitive cursor ("Look", "Talk", etc.). The game contains images of explicit sex. |
| Furcadia | 1996-12-16 | Dragon's Eye Productions | Dragon's Eye Productions | Role-playing (RPG) | | | | | Fantasy | | | Persistent | | Isometric | Windows | This fantasy MMO is set in The Dragonlands and features furry characters role-playing and socializing in an environment featuring user-created content. The players choose a species and their gender (whether it be male, female or indeterminate) and a color palette which affects the appearance of their avatar, and a short description. Players can buy graphical and functional enhancements called Digos to support development of the game with the Dragon Scales in-game currency.The download of the game comes with an art editor, map creating program and script editor so that players can make their own individualized worlds called Dreams. They can be original creations or based on fantasy, mythology, movies or television. Sound files can also be included when Dreams are uploaded to the game server. The coding language is named DragonSpeak and can add simple or complex actions within the Dream. The Dreams are rated for content so younger players can't enter adult-rated worlds but no adult content is allowed on the portable platform versions. |
| NetWits | 1996-12-17 | Microsoft Corporation | R/Greenberg Associates Interactive | Action, Puzzle, Strategy | Side view, Top-down | | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | NetWits was a multiplayer casual game distributed via the Microsoft Network in 1996. The game was designed to feel like an online version of a 1950s gameshow, with five different easy-to-learn social games in which players could chat and compete against each other for fun and prizes.The host of NetWits was Vic Marvelous, an original character designed to give the feeling of a classic game show host. Vic led players through each round of play, giving verbal feedback and and a helping hand with the interface.Each night of the week, contestants could log on to the Microsoft Network and play a different NetWits game: Crosswords was a multiplayer word jumble; Push Your Luck was a fast-paced maze game; Switcheroo was a social riddler; I Challenge That was a dueling card game; and Top of the Mark was a slippery strategy game.As one of the first web games to feature integrated in-game sponsorship, NetWits broke ground in terms of online business models. Sponsored by Expedia during its first season, nightly prizes included a round trip ticket anywhere in the U.S. from the online travel agency.NetWits shipped with MSN 2.0 in the Fall of 1996 and was met with immediate critical acclaim, including being named "Best of the Web" by Time Magazine in 1996. |
| Kichikuō Rance | 1996-12-19 | Alice Soft | Alice Soft | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Top-down | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | The wandering sexually obsessed knight Rance is leading a group of bandits in the rural nation of Helman, raiding cities and amassing wealth. However, his band is crushed by the imperial army, and he is forced to flee to the neighboring country Leazas. There, he marries the local princess, becomes the King of Leazas, and leads an army against Helman in an attempt to avenge his humiliation and rescue his long-time companion and slave Sill.Kichikuō Rance is a side-story in the Rance series, its events taking place after those described in Rance 4.2: Angel-gumi. Departing from the RPG template of the series, it is primarily a turn-based strategy game with role-playing elements such as leveling up of characters. The gameplay mostly takes place on the main map, where the player selects towns and other locations to advance the army to. The player selects generals and sends them to conquer towns, advancing the plot and strengthening the army.The battles are semi-automatic; there is no tactical positioning or player-controlled movement. Battle against the defending town must be resolved in five turns, otherwise the defender will be declared victor. The player must assign combinations of melee, ranged, and magic attacks to the troops, as well as use the generals' special moves to emerge victorious. It is also possible to romance the female generals via a special "Harem" menu. |
| Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Puzzle Dama | 1996-12-26 | Konami Co., Ltd. | Konami Co., Ltd. | Puzzle | | | | Arcade, Falling block puzzle | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama is a Puyo Puyo style puzzle game based on the dating game Tokimeki Memorial.
The player chooses between the different girls from Tokimeki Memorial to compete in falling block battles. Colored blocks fall in pairs that the player rotates and places in the game matrix as they fall. There are two different types of blocks. When three or more regular blocks of the same color touch, they get cleared. Smaller blocks don't disappear like the regular blocks do when they are aligned, but grow into regular blocks when adjacent ones get cleared. This can be used to perform combos.The goal of the game is to defeat another player or COM opponent by clearing series of blocks and making combos, which makes batches of small blocks fall into the opponent's matrix, until the opponent fails at clearing enough blocks and his matrix is full. |
| M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration | 1996-12-30 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time, Turn-based | Teen | Anthony Postma | Windows | As its name implies, M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault and Exploration is a conquer 'n' plunder-type strategy game in the same vein as the Warcraft or Command & Conquer series, albeit with a few interesting twists. The goal of M.A.X. is to colonize newly-discovered planets, controlling the resources found there, and defend your colony against other rival factions looking to literally blow you off the planet.M.A.X. is most notable for its ability to be played as a real-time or more traditional turn-based strategy game, which can significantly impact how the game is played. The length of turns is adjustable, as is game speed, so the game can be as challenging or brain-dead as the player wants. But at its core, M.A.X. is about resource-gathering, building, and tactical combat. The game offers more than 50 land, sea, and air units, most of which can be upgraded to improve their armor, speed, and range. You can play as one of eight different Factions (all of which are explained in a rather lengthy fictional introduction in the manual), either in a complete campaign or in a limitless number of custom missions. There's also a tutorial campaign to get new players up to speed on the myriad unit and building options. |
| Diablo | 1996-12-31 | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Blizzard North | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG, Hack and slash | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Mature | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | Long ago a secret war raged between Heaven and Hell, each using humanity as its pawns. While the Prime Evils of Hell were engaged in war their lesser lieutenants conspired to overthrow them. They mutinied suddenly with the combined forces of Hell, overwhelming the three Primes. Stripped of their power, they were banished to the mortal realm. Human agents of Heaven, upon discovering this, found the three Primes and sealed them within gemstone prisons, each of them sent to a different corner of the earth and kept under guard to prevent them from escaping.As years turns to centuries, however, the power of Heaven's agents waned, until eventually not even the people of the town of Tristram knew that buried deep under their chapel was the soul of the Lord of Terror, Diablo. As the strength of his prison waned Diablo reached out into the world, corrupting the dreams of the land's good king, driving him to attack his neighbors. The nation of Khanduras fought wars with no intention of winning, desiring only slaughter and suffering. Now the lands lay scorched, home only to monsters and the dead. Rumors spread of a way to stop the demons, as well as rumors of great wealth, and both draw adventurers from far to the small town of Tristram.Players start by choosing their avatar's class: either Warrior, Rogue, or Sorcerer. Warriors have the highest maximum strength and can repair weapons and armor inside the dungeon, but this will lower the item's maximum durability. The Rogue has the highest maximum dexterity and can both see and disarm traps on treasure chests. The Sorcerer has the highest maximum magic attribute and can recharge the charges on a spellcasting staff at the cost of his own mana.Characters can equip armor, weapons, and accessories found in the chapel's shifting dungeons, but strong equipment will have minimum attribute requirements to be worn. Most equipment will have randomized stats, but some strong monsters will drop Unique weapons with set stats. Magic can be learned by finding magic tomes, and leveled up by finding multiples of the same spell tome, but advanced spell levels can not be learned if the character's magic stat is too low. Upon destroying enough monsters to level up the player is rewarded with additional attribute points to distribute to whichever attributes they wish. Occasionally the few people left in town will inform the player of a job they would like done, either an exceptionally strong monster that must be slain or a unique item found deep in the dungeon, and will reward the player in kind upon completion of the quest.Diablo can be played cooperatively with 1 to 3 other players over LAN or BattleNet with the PC versions, or with 1 player locally on the PlayStation. Players can team up to survive the depths of the dungeons, or turn on each other to steal one another's items from their corpse. The quest unique zones are removed from the online version of a dungeon, and instead quest monsters will be found wandering the level that would normally lead to their unique area. |
| 10 Tons of Games: Mega Collection 1 | 1997 | International Software Values, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 10 Tons Of Games: Mega Collection 1 is a compilation of shareware games written for both DOS and Windows.Games are grouped into categories and are accessed using the RomCat navigation / menu system which also loads, installs and in some cases executes the games. The game categories on this CD are divided into two main groups which are broadly DOS games and Windows games, though there is some crossover.
Within each of these main groups the games are grouped together by type such as Adventure games, Puzzle games, and Board games. Some groupings such as Card games and Arcade games are so large that they are further sub-divided.
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| 10 Top-Hits: Super-Spiele | 1997 | W.A.S. Medien Produktions GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following ten games:
Claim to Power
Doppelpass
Earthworm Jim 2
Jewels of the Oracle
Motocross
Majestic
ProPool 3D
Super Spy
Raveshuttle
Total Distortion |
| 101 Dalmatians: Escape From DeVil Manor | 1997 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In this 3D adventure game for kids based on the Disney animated movie, you play as a new puppy character named Patches who has to save the other puppies and find a way out of Cruella De Vil's mansion. There are puzzles and games to play to accomplish this task and a companion named Wizzer who helps you out by giving you hints. The player can go through the rooms in the first-person perspective view which is called "Puppyvision". It's recommended for players six and older but the difficulty can be changed according to the child's ability. |
| 2 Good 2 Be True: Volume 1 | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a compilation of five games and one utility from Sierra.
Ultimate Soccer Manager 2
Earthsiege 2. This CD includes the following :
MissionForce: CyberStorm demo
Fast Attack: High Tech Submarine Warfare demo
Conqueror movie
Command: Aces of the Deep movie
Trophy Bass demo
3-D Ultra Pinball demo
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II demo
Caesar II. This CD includes the following :
Casino Deluxe 2 movie
Earthsiege 2 demo
Fast Attack: High Tech Submarine Warfare movie
IndyCar Racing II demo
Lords of the Realm II movie
The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain demo
MissionForce: CyberStorm demo and movie
The Rise & Rule of Ancient Empires demo
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II demo
Torin's Passage demo
Microsoft Win 32 utility including a copy of Freecell
3-D Ultra Pinball demo
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
NASCAR Racing 2
Print Artist 4
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| 20th Century Trivia Challenge | 1997 | Sir-tech Software, Inc. | Telstar Electronic Studios Ltd. | Puzzle | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | Menu structures | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 20th Century Trivia Challenge is a trivia game. It contains over 3,000 trivia questions and over 500 film clips. The game can be played by a single player or up to three teams can be formed to battle through questions topical for all periods of history. |
| 3-D Ultra Minigolf | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | | | | | | Jon Milnes, Glenn Wallace | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A 3D version of the popular summer pastime of Mini Golf. The game offers one course of 18 holes which can be played as front nine, back nine or entire course. A version of a skins game and playing against the clock are also featured. Up to four people can play and you can play over won.net (or whatever it is called now). There are also two different putting style, a traditional click and hold, and a move the mouse to swing version. |
| 3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The third installment in the 3-D Ultra Pinball series, this game has a dinosaur theme instead of the space and horror motives of the previous games.Featuring 15 tables, the game appears to be bigger than the previous games, but most of those levels are much smaller than in the previous games. The story, although very short, involves crash landing on an island taken over by a mad scientist, who is turning the inhabitants into dinosaurs. |
| 3D Pets 1 | 1997 | Sold Out Sales & Marketing Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 3D Pets 1 is a compilation of two games on a single CD:
PC Pup
Splat! The CatThe CD also contains the game manuals which are viewed via Acrobat Reader 3.0, a copy of which is also on the disc. The CD also contains DirectX 6.When loaded the disc does not autoplay and show an installation menu from which the user selects a game, instead the user has to manually run either pcpup.exe or pccat.exe. |
| 3D Pets: PC Pup | 1997 | Neechez Innovation Limited | Parys Technografx | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 3D Pets is a game where the player takes care of a variety of different creatures.Each 3D Pet begins its life upon hatching out of an egg (yes, a dog hatches out of an egg!) and must be cared for at least 10 minutes per day. If you are unable to play with your pet there is a babysitter feature that does so until you return.PC Pup is the second half of the first volume in the series, alongside Splat! The Cat.Once you name your pup, you are free to explore a handful of interactive rooms including a bedroom with a stereo, bathroom with medicine in case the pet gets sick, living room with a television, and a garden where your pet must be trained to 'do its business', as well as others. Little thought bubbles will appear over PC Pup's head indicating what he wants the player to give him, or how he is feeling.At the end of the pets lifespan, you will see him shrink slowly and then be presented with an 'Angel's Certificate' with stats about the pet's care listed. You may then hatch your next pet and let the circle of life continue. |
| 3D Pets: Splat! The Cat | 1997 | Neechez Innovation Limited | Parys Technografx | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Life / social simulation | | | | | | | Windows | 3d Pets: Splat! The Cat is one in a series of nine virtual pets released by
Neechez Innovation Limited.All the games play in a similar manner. When installed the player has two new programs in the Windows Start menu, hatch.exe and, with this game, pcpet.exe. All creatures are first hatched, there are nine cats to hatch but only one can be alive at a time and the game only allows the player to hatch egg number one when the game is first played.Each virtual pet needs at least ten minutes attention per day and if treated well it lives for sixty days at which point it becomes an egg again at which point a new egg is hatched and the process of training begins all over again.
The game screen consists of a background around which the cat moves, in the upper left is a fish skeleton which is a hotspot for the game control menu, in the upper right is a question mark which opens the in-game help. The game control menu comprises a series of numbers and icons, the numbers show the cat's current status, some of the icons move the player from one location to another while others turn the cursor into one of the cat's toys.The game is basic and quite easy to play, thought buttons appear over the cat's head showing whether it's hungry or wants to play. When in the kitchen the player can open a cupboard to get cat food, or they can open the fridge to get milk, to put into the feeding bowls. In the TV room the TV can be turned on to entertain the cat and if the fire is lit the cat will fall asleep in front of it. If the player is unable to play with their pet for a few days the game has a 'babysitter' function which automatically cares for the cat until the owner returns. The game also allows the player to play 'Connect 4' with their pet.
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| 3DO Games: Decathlon | 1997 | 3DO Company, The | 3DO Company, The | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | As you would expect, all ten events are represented in 3DO's Decathlon: 100-meter dash, 400-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1500-meter run. Each event has smooth motion-capture graphics, and most have configurable camera angles. |
| 4-4-2 Soccer | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | Arc Developments | Sports | Diagonal-down, Side view | | | | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | 4-4-2 Soccer is a football game with real teams and players. It features friendly games, a world cup, league and KO competitions. Two players are supported through regular multiplayer and up to four players simultaneously through multitap. |
| 7th Legion | 1997 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Epic MegaGames, Inc., Vision Software, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | 7th Legion is a science fiction themed real-time strategy game set on future earth. Earths ecosystem began to fail after centuries of overpopulation and carless consumption. realizing the earth could no longer sustain them the governments of earth began an interstellar evacuation program. The evacuation was however not for everyone, only the upper-class was evacuated leaving commoners behind. Now after centuries of waiting the they (the Chosen) have returned to reclaim earth. Earth however is still inhabited by those left behind (the 7th legion). The game had a few novelty features in its day like troops gaining experience and free base building. Play the commander of either the Chosen or the 7th legion fighting for control of a post-apocalyptic Earth in the distant future. |
| 1997 | Hoffman and Associates | Hoffman and Associates | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | | | Windows | A 3-D adventure game in which you are sent into cyberspace to stop , an evil sentient computer virus. Explore surreal VR landscapes, piece together clues, and find items you can use to destroy
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| A Fork in the Tale | 1997 | Any River Entertainment | Advance Reality | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | UI Wizards, Inc. | | Teen | | Windows | A Fork in the Tale is a FMV game starring Rob Schneider who voices the unseen player character. At the start of the story he saves a young woman's life and is transported to the dimension Eseveron. There he spends his time trying to figure out what is going on and then thwarting the plans of an evil villain.The game is an interactive movie in the tradition of Dragon's Lair: The player watches a movie with little possibilities for interaction. During the movie sequences buttons pop up which stand for actions he can undertake, e.g. starting a conversation or using an item. He has a limited time to click on one of these buttons - if he chooses the correct one the movie progresses, if he clicks on the wrong one or none at all he dies. Later in the game there is another form of interaction: the player has to recreate gestures with his mouse to perform magic spells.There are three difficulty levels which influence the difficulty of the choices and the tolerance for mistakes. It is marketed as a comedy adventure which means there are a lot of humorous remarks by the protagonist, especially when choosing the wrong path. |
| A Visit to Sesame Street: Letters | 1997 | Selectsoft Publishing | Capitol Disc Interactive Corporation | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | A Visit to Sesame Street: Letters is an edutainment title for young children. It tries to familiarize them with the alphabet. The game is similar to Sesame Street: Numbers except for the content.There are various (inter)activities and games to be played with well known Sesame Street characters such as Bert and Ernie. Additionally the game comes with over an hour of footage from the show, including songs about letters. Jim Henson himself voices Ernie who also gives hints throughout the entire game.The main area is Sesame street itself. Various doors lead to various locations. Oscar accompanies the player. In the Windows version of the game Oscar is replaced with the Telly Monster. Included locations are Big Bird's nest, Snuffy's cave and Bert and Ernie's apartment.In each room the player can find a radio that allows him to play various songs and video clips from the show. Radio messages are read by Jerry Nelson, Marty Robinson and Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog. |
| A.D Cop: Overseas Mission | 1997 | Japan Software Engineering Shop | Electronic Music and Animated Graphics CO., LTD., Union Systems | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Rail shooter | | | | | | | Windows | A.D Cop: Overseas Mission is a bundled releases of A.D Cop, sold with a LightGun, featuring enhanced menu graphics and a new level. |
| A2 Racer | 1997 | Davilex Games B.V. | Davilex Games B.V. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A game where you can race over the most infamous freeway in the Netherlands: the A2.
In A2 Racer, you join a band of illegal streetracers whose only goal is to get from A to B as fast as possible.
You must weave your way through the regular traffic on the A2, grabbing power-ups like fuel, money and time and making sure the police can't catch you.
Be sure to be #1 in this game, for the rest are considered losers. |
| ABC Sports College Football: Heroes of the Gridiron | 1997 | ABC Interactive | OT Sports L.L.C. | Simulation, Sports | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | ABC Sports College Football: Heroes of the Gridiron is a sports simulation of college football. It features the rosters from 32 top college football teams, their stadiums, and mascots, plus over 1,700 alumni players who went on to the NFL.You control it all - the selection of players and coaches, designing and calling plays, controlling individual players on the field, angle of view and more. Set up fantasy rosters and create your own leagues. Watch the execution of your plays commentated by Bob Griese and Keith Jackson. At Half-Time, John Saunders gives you a synopsis of the action so far. The "greatest moments" of your games are played back in video clips.There are 3 modes of play: Exhibition, Tournament and League. The game also features internet multiplayer play in Coach, Action or Spectator mode as well as match-ups for online competitions. |
| ABC Sports Indy Racing | 1997 | ABC Interactive | OT Sports L.L.C., Real Sports | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In 1996 the Indy Racing League began - an oval-only championship centered around the historic Indianapolis 500 race. This game brings it to the screen. Choose between G-Force and Dallara chassis and Nissan and Oldsmobile engines and then take to one of the 8 featured tracks. You can customise the car's handling before taking your rivals on. Paul Page, Jack Arute and Tom Sneva provide the commentary, and further sound includes coaching and Crew Chief contact. You can race online or over a network. The dirt-track racing many Indy 500 racers began their careers with is also featured. |
| ACM 1918: Aerial Combat Manoeuvres | 1997 | Project Two Interactive BV | Aqua Pacific Ltd. | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | World War I | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | ACM 1918 is an arcade shooter that plays at the end of World War I. You can choose between four cartoon-like pilot characters and fly in their biplane aircraft to complete twenty missions. You win a medal for each mission you successfully complete. Airplanes include the Fokker DR1 Triplane and Albatross D-III. You view your plane from a 3rd person perspective as you fly through a 3D world. In the compulsory training missions you learn to bomb specific targets and fly through hoops. |
| Aaron vs. Ruth: Battle of the Big Bats | 1997 | Mindscape, Inc. | NuFX, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Aaron vs. Ruth: Battle of the Big Bats brings baseball's all time greatest players to life. You can battle against the computer or head to head against a friend in Exhibition, Season and Series games in historical ballparks like Ebbets Field and the Polo grounds. This game combines old time traditions (Home Run Derby, baggy uniforms, manual scoreboards, echoing announcer), and modern day baseball (radar gun, pitch location screen, updated pitcher/batter reports). Another feature is that some of these superstars use their actual motions. See Willie Stargell's famous batting style, Juan Marichal's high leg kick delivery, and Babe Ruth's home run trot, just to name a few.The game also has internet access, so you can go to your favorite baseball web sites from within the game. |
| Aber Hallo! | 1997 | media Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains 50 games from many different genres, which are spread over 10 CD's. The individual manuals are on the CD's in Write-format, reduced to the minimal needed information. Except very few games which have PDF manuals.Games which had original an off-game copy-protection (manual, code wheel etc.) are still copy protected, and the necessary information needed are attached to the manuals on the CD's. There are no printed copy protection codes available.The following games are included:
Armaëth: The Lost Kingdom
B-17 Flying Fortress
Battle Stations
Black Gold
Bunny Bricks
Colony Wars 2492
Colossus Collection (including Chess, Backgammon, Bridge, and Draughts)
Dark Universe
Der Produzent: Die Welt des Films
Dime City
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
Eye of the Storm
Football Glory
Fußball Kaiser
Grand Ouvert
HIND: The Russian Combat Helicopter Simulation
Hollywood Pictures
International Athletics
Ishar: Legend of the Fortress
Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom
Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity
Kid
Kingdoms of Germany
Legends
Legend of Myra
Living Ball
Lords of Doom
Mad News
MilleMiglia
Prototype
Return of Medusa
R.O.M. Gold: Rings of Medusa
Shadowlands
Space Job
Space Max
Star Chess
Tailchaser
Taito's Super Space Invaders
Tendo
The Clue!
Tower of Souls
Whale's Voyage
Whale's Voyage II: Die Übermacht
Wingstar
Winzer
Wolfsbane
World Circuit |
| Aces: Collection Series | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Aces: Collection Series comes on 2 CDs with all the award-winning historical flight and naval simulators from Dynamix. A total of six games are included in this collection:
A-10 Tank Killer (v.1.5)
Command: Aces of the Deep
Aces of the Pacific and its add-on Aces of the Pacific Expansion Disk: WWII: 1946
Aces over Europe
Red Baron and Red Baron: Mission Builder
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II
It also includes additional information about the people and planes that contributed to the advance of aviation between 1903 and 1939. |
| Acey Deucy | 1997 | Lampron Software | Lampron Software | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Acey Deucy is a single player card game popular in casinos where it also goes by the name Red Dog or Between.It is a simple game, the player places a bet, two cards are dealt at which point the player may raise their bet. Finally a third card is dealt and if the third card comes between the first two cards the player wins, however what they win depends upon how far apart the first two cards are - a red dog in the game area indicates the payout odds for the current dealThe game has sound effects, a save/load feature and should the player win or run out of money they can either restart the game or go to an ATM to make a deposit or get more cash. There's a comprehensive help file which explains the rules, betting and the odds of the card game as well as explaining how this game works. |
| Achtung Spitfire | 1997 | Avalon Hill Game Company, The | Big Time Software, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Achtung Spitfire is the sequel to Over the Reich. It is a turn based Strategy/Simulation game which covers aviation history from 1939 to 1945 and includes the R.A.F., the Luftwaffe, and the French Armee de l'Air and has different campaigns for each air force.The game shares the same interface and flight engine of its predecessor, so anyone that has played Over the Reich is familiarized with this game.The game itself consists of commanding a series of pilots which you can manage to achieve the mission goal.
It also regards the technical evolutions during the war, which means you have different types of planes at your disposal as the game progresses. After you have chosen the right pilots it's time to intercept, attack enemies or defend your own allies.The game is turn based but you have limited autonomy each time you play according to your plane's speed and torque. |
| Acne Attack | 1997 | Norsk Strek AS | Norsk Strek AS | Action | | | Comedy | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Acne Attack is a very unique game where you must pop pimples on a guy's face. The levels get more difficult as you progress. Occasionally you will see a Clearasil bottle floating down the screen as shown in one of the screenshots, or he will make an unhappy expression. The graphics are cartoonish and funny. |
| Activision Game Vault: Volume 1 | 1997 | Activision, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a compilation of four full version games previously released by Activision:
Earthworm Jim
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Return to Zork
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye |
| Activision Game Vault: Volume 2 | 1997 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a compilation of 3 full version games previously released by Activision:
Spycraft: The Great Game
Time Commando
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands |
| Activision Game Vault: Volume 3 | 1997 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a a mega-compilation of 4 different compilations in one big compilation, with various Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 games.Included in this release are:Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack
Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack 2
Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack 3
Activision's Commodore 64 15 Pack |
| Actua Soccer 2 | 1997 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Following the success of the first Actua Soccer game, a sequel was likely. The game is fast-paced with more of an action than simulation feel, and an emphasis on ground play rather than heading.A young Michael Owen provides motion capture to produce realistic player motions and actions - the different builds and styles of players are taken into account. 64 top international teams are featured, as are 24 distinct stadiums, with weather conditions having both visible and noticeable playing effects.This was one of the first games to feature 2-man commentary, with former England captain Trevor Brooking joining Barry Davies in the analytical role. |
| Africa Trail | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | MECC | Adventure, Educational, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | Bike / Bicycling | | | | | Windows | You must lead a group of four bicycle riders through the heart of Africa to Agulhas. You will choose your three fellow bikers depending on your style of travel, and buy parts for your bicycle to keep it in working order! You must also make sure to manage your money wisely to buy food and other important objects, such as visas to move between the African countries.
As you travel you will learn about the geography, customs, and lifestyles in modern Africa. |
| Agent Armstrong | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | King of the Jungle Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Agent Armstrong is a 3D side-scrolling single-player-shooter released in the early days of the PSX. Set in 1930, Armstrong must battle across 4 continents and deep underwater as the Syndicate attempt to control the world. The 30 levels are mission-based with at least 2 objectives. There are boss sequences every 5 levels or so. Whilst the game is predominantly side-scrolling there are many sequences and areas (boss areas in particular) where the action is free form. |
| Ah! Megami-Sama | 1997 | Banpresto Co., Ltd. | | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Visual novel | | | | | | Misc | Windows | Based on the anime series Ah! My Goddess, the game follows the story of a Japanese high-school student named Keiichi, who has accidentally summoned the powerful, yet very lovely Norse goddess Verdandi (mercilessly misspelled Belldandy in the game) and pronounced a wish to stay with her forever. Now the gorgeous goddess has become a part of his life, and the two find themselves involved in constant misunderstandings and comical situations, yet also develop feelings for each other...The game is a typical visual novel. The only gameplay is a periodical decision-making (usually between two options), which might lead to different dialogues and/or scenes; however, most of the time the main story line remains the same. |
| Ahlgrens Bilspelet | 1997 | Leaf Sverige AB | Int:act Media & Communication | Racing / Driving | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Ahlgrens Bilspelet is a racing championship between four ahlgrens (classic Swedish sweets) cars on four tracks. Graphics have been made in a cartoonish style. On each cyclical track you have to win the race of several laps avoiding moving out the road. After each track you gain the points for the place you take.There are two ways to play the game. Either you play it single player or multiplayer. If you choose to play single player the other three cars will be controlled by the computer. If you want to play many people in the same game, you choose multiplayer. To play multiplayer you will need an IPX-compatible network. |
| Air Blocks | 1997 | Piranha Interactive Publishing, Inc. | Zoi Corporation | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Sandbox / open world | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Air Blocks is a block building simulator similar to the concept of LEGO. There are a large number of different pieces to create buildings and other types of objects. There is also another game mode where a vehicle must escape a given maze made with the game block engine. |
| Air Warrior II | 1997 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Kesmai Corporation | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Massively Multiplayer | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | Sequel to the first online multiplayer flight simulator, the legendary Air Warrior, the premise of this game is to offer an extensive collection of WW2 planes to go head to head in multiplayer dogfights with up to 100 pilots at the same time.Though its main focus is multiplayer gaming, this edition of Air Warrior also aims to be a single player success with the addition of 360 pre-made missions sprawled over branched mission tree-like campaigns. Most of the missions take place in Europe but several pacific historical engagements are included. You'll be able to defend Pearl Harbor, make a B-25 raid on Tokyo, try to destroy the Yamamoto as well as fight the battle of Britain, with every mission playable from either the Allied or Axis side.In total, the game includes 45 aircraft, each with their own flight models, cockpits and distinguishing features. The game uses flat polygon graphics with resolution support for up to 1024x768.As a bonus, the game includes a couple of short WW1 and Korean scenarios (with their own planes), four ground vehicles (for multiplayer use only) and a mission editor. |
| Akte Europa | 1997 | Eidos Interactive Limited | Virtual X-citement | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Akte Europa is set in the 23th century where two parties rival about power: Europe and the United Nations (UN). The Europeans want to stop the expensive UN space program with their new super weapon Odin. The player takes the role of a UN commander and has to prevent this plan.This game follows the usual real-time strategy formula but offers three unique features: There is no base building which means the player has to conquer the existing buildings on the map. Secondly there is only one resource (money) which gets consumed by using said buildings, e.g. reserve stations to fuel tanks or replenish ammo and factories to produce new units. The last new feature is the possibility to design new vehicles with individual weapon systems.The 3D graphics feature real line of sight which means a vehicle standing on a hill can see further than a vehicle in a valley. Akte Europa also utilizes the "Fog of War" known from Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness: after revealing a part of the map the player can only see the enemy's movements if one of his units is in visual range. |
| Al Unser, Jr. Arcade Racing | 1997 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape Bordeaux SA | Racing / Driving | 1st-person | Licensed | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | As the game title implies, Al Unser, Jr. Arcade Racing is an action oriented racing game. While the game is set in the IndyCar racing league, not all 15 courses feature the trademark oval design; some of them are with curves and chicanes.The game is designed for quick and easy experience, which means the only diversion from pushing the gas pedal is using the manual gear shifting - and this can be deactivated. There are overall three playing modes (plus multiplayer): practice, a championship with all 15 courses and a checkpoint race on any course. |
| Alien Cabal | 1997 | QASoft | QASoft | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | In Alien Cabal, aliens have invaded Earth. Now it is the player's responsibility to move through the levels and shoot everything which moves.This is a 2,5D shooter played from a first-person perspective. The basic goal of every level is to reach the exit - however, there are two main obstacles on the way: closed passages (can be opened by finding key cards or pressing switches) and enemies which have to be disposed of with weapon force (pistol, shotgun, machine gun, grenades and bazooka). When opponents manage to shoot the player, some life energy is lost and as soon as it reaches zero, the game is over. Besides key cards, there are other useful items lying around the levels which can be picked up to stock up health, armor or ammo.The player always aims directly in the middle of the screen. To shoot enemies, it is required to line up the shot not only horizontally, but also vertically when enemies are on a different plain. When finishing a level, a rating is awarded based on enemies killed, destroyed objects, found secret areas and picked up items. |
| Amazing Mazez to Amaze | 1997 | | | Action | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Amazing Mazez To Amaze is a Pac-Man variant. As in the original the player controls a spherical creature through mazes that has to eat all fruit it can find without being caught by the monsters that chase it. Special fruits give the power to kill all enemies within a short amount of time. Some differences exist from other Pac-Man variants. Each maze is larger than a single screen and slightly more complex in design. The game also offers multiple types of enemies: plasma-rookies, death-hunters, ant-lipus, and plasma-pros, each moving at a different speed. There are also stationary guns that shoot lasers the player has to watch out for. The player can shoot at the enemies on the other hand. For each ten fruits he collects he gets one shot. He has to be careful about the hunters though, since they become faster when respawning after being shot. |
| AmbivalenZ: Niritsu Haihan | 1997 | Alice Soft | Alice Soft | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | Shura was once a young knight whose duty was to protect the princess of his kingdom. But one day, the princess was kidnapped by followers of an evil cult, and sacrificed to revive the goddess Diadora. Shura arrived too late. The princess was already dead, and Diadora cursed Shura with immortality. He became obsessed with revenge, and his life turned into a never-ending nightmare. But in 20th century Japan, the immortal knight met a girl who miraculously resembled the princess he couldn't save so many years ago. His quest for revenge enters its final stage. He is determined to fight Diadora's offsprings and in the end to defeat the evil goddess herself.AmbivalenZ: Niritsu Haihan is an animé-style adventure with strong erotic elements. The player interacts with the game world and its characters by selecting commands from a menu, viewing animé-style pictures from first-person perspective. |
| An American Tail: Animated MovieBook | 1997 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | WayForward Technologies, Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | Comedy | Interactive book, Mini-games | North America | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | An American Tail: Animated MovieBook is an interactive moviebook that follows the 1986 animated film by Don Bluth with 25 pages of story and clickable objects, an automatic reading mode, mini-games with three levels of difficulty and some educational activities. |
| Anastasia: Adventures with Pooka and Bartok! | 1997 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Motion Works | Action, Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Anastasia: Adventures with Pooka and Bartok! is based on the animated movie Anastasia and designed for young players. It features five different scenes, depicting situations from the movie. Diary entries by Anya tell the happenings between those stages. The player takes the role of the puppy Pooka and needs to solve problems and puzzles to help Anya out. When searching through the screens, Pooka may meet the minions of the villain Rasputin. Then they take him to the underworld where he has to solve action or strategy mini games.The majority of the game is a traditional point & click adventure. Bartok, the bat, plays only a secondary part and provides some advice here and there. If players are stuck, they can use the in-game hint system. |
| Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection 2 | 1997 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is an emulation-based compilation of seven classic arcade games:
Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest
Blaster
Moon Patrol
Root Beer Tapper
Spy Hunter
Burger Time
Supplemented with a trivia quiz (with FMV interviews with the game designers) and a gallery of pictures when the trivia game is won. |
| Area D | 1997 | ARI Data CD GmbH | Dosch Design GmbH | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In this adventure with action elements you slip into the role of an experienced adventurer on the mission to find and rescue a team of three scientists missing on a expedition to find genetic material in the Amazon area. On your way through the environment you have to collect items, solve puzzles, fight against dinosaurs and finally find and bring back the three scientists. |
| Arthur's Birthday | 1997 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This is an updated release of the 1994 game Arthur's Birthday. For mobile devices this is the first release of the game. The game is largely identical, these are the notable differences:
A larger resolution from 512x384 to 640x480
Audio now at 22 KHz instead of 11 KHz resulting in a higher sound quality
Changes to the moments background noise is played.
The original game was localized fully in Latin American Spanish in addition to English. This version drops Latin American Spanish and instead adds French, German and Castilian Spanish. A UI redesign allows the player to switch between the four on the fly.
Two new mini-games: the Great Gift Mystery and Pin the Tail on the Donkey. The Great Gift Mystery is integrated in the story as you go through the pages and some parts were reworked to accommodate this. |
| Atlantis: Das sagenhafte Abenteuer (Deluxe-Edition) | 1997 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Deluxe-Edition of the game Atlantis: The Lost Tales gives you an additional Soundtrack CD, which includes five titles taken from the album "ATLANTIS" released by MMM. |
| Atomic Bomberman | 1997 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Atomic Bomberman pits you against 9 opponents, human or computer, in the ultimate frag-fest. For the uninitiated, you control a cute little guy who carries an endless supply of bombs. The idea is to kill your opponents with these bombs - dropping bombs near them, throwing bombs at them, kicking bombs towards them.Very intense gameplay which requires complete awareness and lightning reactions. |
| Au Pays de Vocabulon | 1997 | France Télécom Multimédia | index+ | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Spy / espionage | | | | | | | | Windows | Au Pays de Vocabulon translates as "In the country of Vocabulon" and is a French educational title designed to teach vocabulary via the medium of 'Shockwave' mini-games done in a cartoon-like style.The evil professor Charabia has built a machine which is chomping its way through letters and leaving the world devoid of words. The only way to stop him is to go to the islands of Vocabulon and place a bomb in the machine which is hidden deep inside his lair.The player explores the islands which have dozens of locations ranging from underwater to outer space, Inca temples, African villages, south sea islands, Red Indian wigwams, the Arctic/Antarctic and more. Each location has its own hot spots, the majority of these are little animations, some are small puzzles which reveal the way out of the screen or pave the way to the next location, others uncover the professors traps. When the traps are uncovered the professor appears and sets a test, If the player passes the test then they are rewarded with a letter which may, or may not, help them complete their code word. Once the code word is complete they have access to the professors lair, provided they can find it, where they play a conveyor belt game in order to plant the bomb. The game ends with a short animation sequence showing the professor escaping his base just before the explosion after which the player's score is shown and they have the option of producing a diploma.There are eighteen different tests and three difficulty settings. The tests include a jigsaw puzzle game and a concentration game but most are based on words. There's an in-game dictionary which the player can refer to answer questions such as "What is the first word in the category 'Vegetables' that comes between the word 'radiator' and reason'?" and find mystery words that match a supplied definition.
There is also a hangman style mini game, put words in alphabetic order, complete a sentence by putting words into the correct places, a codeword puzzle and more.
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| Award Winners No. 1 | 1997 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Pro Pinball: The Web
Screamer
Star Trek: The Next Generation - "A Final Unity" |
| Babes in Toyland | 1997 | MGM Interactive, United Arts Family Entertainment | Conexus, Inc. | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Early Childhood | | Windows | Babes in Toyland is based on a 1997 film of the same name. Toyland has just manufactured a huge load of toys to be picked up by Santa Claus to fulfill the jolly old elf's Christmas order. Just before Santa is scheduled for pickup, Barnaby the villain and his hench-cat swipe the toys and scatter them about Toyland. It is up to Jack and Jill to recover the toys before St. Nick arrives.Babes in Toyland is oriented towards young children. The game consists of 9 minigames. The reward for each minigame is the recovery of another toy.
Old lady in the shoe: The lady in the shoe needs help in locating her copious children. Click around various rooms in order to find where all the kids are hiding.
Balloon memory: A clown is holding a bunch of balloons. Click on 2 balloons to reveal their animated patterns and find all the matching pairs.
Train matching: You board a train and are responsible for properly pairing passengers. I.e., the gingerbread man should sit with the gingerbread woman.
Ducks in the well: Some ducks have fallen into a well and are swimming with the fish. Lower the bucket and recover the ducks, but avoid lifting the fish.
Haunted forest: Goblins are descending upon you at an alarming rate. Use your flashlight to ward them off.
Humpty Dumpty on the wall: Humpty Dumpty is sitting on his great wall when the naughty cat causes him to fall and shatter. Put Humpty back together in the allotted time.
Clock tower: March a series of toy soldiers and stack them in a proper column in order to reach a toy that is at the top of a clock tower.
Toy factory: Repeat a sequence of notes using a giant piano keyboard in order to make the toy factory whistle blow and bring down the stuck toy. As a bonus, you are granted access to the toy factory where you are allowed to change the settings on a toy-making machine for fun.
Barnaby's lair: First, scale Barnaby's house from the outside while dodging obstacles. Once inside, play a shell game with Barnaby.
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| Babylon 5: Shadow Wars | 1997 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Action | Top-down | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | | Windows | The Babylon 5 Arcade Series Entertainment Utility, "Shadow Wars", is a B5 multimedia collection packaged with a 2D arcade game using some B5 ships. In the tradition of Galaga, you control a Starfury or a Whitestar shooting all enemies in your way. The multimedia collection, from Season 3 and Season 4 of B5, includes video clips, audio clips, wallpapers, icons, and animated cursors.
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| BackPacker Junior | 1997 | IQ Media Nordic AB, Vision Park AB | TATI Mixedia | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | BackPacker Junior is a simplified version based on the concept of the original Backpacker games. It aims to teach children about the different countries in Europe. There is more than just the cultural aspect, it also deals with currencies and involves a little strategy as you have to trade, buy and sell items. When you travel to a city, you have to look for a place to stay and find a job in the newspapers to master various skills and earn pocket money.The different game modes include:
Sightseeing: visit ten European cities
Random route: let the computer design a route at random
DIY mission: play a custom-created mission
Shopping spree: travel through Europe and buy as many expensive things as you can
With the separate DIY tool, you can create your own custom routes through Europe and share them with fellow players. |
| Backpacker 2 | 1997 | BMG Interactive Entertainment | Aniware AB, TATI Mixedia | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The sequel to Backpacker. The game is still about travelling around the world, but it also offers some new features. For instance you can now travel not only by flight, but also by train or boat. There are two sorts of hotel in each city, one expensive and one cheaper. The advantage with the expensive one is that it could be easier to get a job. You can also buy souvenirs cheap in one city and sell them in a place where it is more exotic to gain more money. The game also offers play over the Internet. |
| Backyard Baseball | 1997 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Sports, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In this first installment in the Backyard Sports series, the player's goal is to assemble a team of backyard kids and take them all the way to the championship - in this instance, the Ultra Grand Championship of the Universe. While not carrying an official Major League Baseball license, the game does contain 30 kids to assemble a custom team, as well as 10 fields for them to play in. The team's name, colors, and mascot can be defined, as well as its batting order and field positions.Each kid has ratings in running, batting, fielding, and pitching, as well as personality quirks that can either be a help - or a nuisance - to the team. Good pitching and hitting can give a team the power-ups it needs to go all the way through the 14-game season and playoffs - as well as plenty of practice in exhibition games or batting practice. In addition, the stats throughout the season can be printed, as well as player baseball cards, photos, schedules, and the trophies the team earned. |
| Banger | 1997 | | Surfware | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Banger is a very simple, freeware, keyboard operated game for the very young, aged between 8 months and 2 years.The idea is simple, at this early age kids want to do what mommy and daddy do, mommy and daddy play on the computer so the kids want to do the same but they cannot operate a mouse or spell. This game lets them bash away at the keyboard, each keystroke increases a number displayed in the centre of the screen and triggers one of seven sounds.The game runs in full screen mode, pressing F4 displays the menu bar and from here it is possible to exit.
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| Barbie Cool Looks Fashion Designer | 1997 | Mattel, Inc. | Digital Domain Inc. | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Contemporary | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In Barbie Cool Looks Fashion Designer the player can select clothes for Barbie Christie, Kira or Teresa. The player selects the clothes from those on display in the girl's room which they can then customise by choosing from eighty-four fabric designs, colouring them from a thirty-five colour palette (though only four colours per design are allowed), and have the girls model the clothes at the mall, office, park, beach or in their bedroom. The player's creations are saved in a wardrobe and can be revisited at any time to be worn by any of the games characters.Clothes consist of a range of hats, dresses, shirts, skirts, pants, accessories and jackets etc. The player clicks on an item in a girl's room and then scrolls through the available options, at this stage all the clothes are white. Once something pleasing has been found the player then proceeds to the design part of the game where the clothes can be coloured in giving, for example, an all black jacket or a pattern can be selected in which case individual parts of the pattern can be coloured in. Once designed these can be exported and shared with other players who have the same game or they can be printed.The clothing options available vary depending on the location they are going to so, for example, if we're taking Christie to the beach the dress would be replaced with a swimsuit, handbags would be replaced by beach bags, shoes would be replaced by sandals etc.The print function is an important feature of this game as in-game photos of the girls modelling the new clothes can be printed in colour as gifts, in black and white to be coloured in off live. Patterns for Barbie fashion accessories, both for the player and the doll, can also be printed along with assembly instructions. The tutorial also refers to printing dress patterns on Barbie Fashion Fabric but it is not clear whether this is a print of a plain pattern or the players entire design colours and all.Within the game all instructions are spoken - there is nothing to read on screen. |
| Barbie Magic Hair Styler | 1997 | Mattel Media | Engineering Animation Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Choose either Barbie, Kira, Christie or Teresa and style her just the way you want.Customize her hair (cut, grow, curl or brush), her make-up (eyeshadow, lipstick, blush or even fun fake tatoos) and choose her clothes and accessories, all according to the party she'll be attending to tonight.Once you're done styling, watch your chosen model showing off her outfit in 3D, and you can even take pictures, frame them and print them. |
| Baseball Mogul | 1997 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Infinite Monkey Systems | Simulation, Sports | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Baseball Mogul is a managerial baseball simulation and runs on the same engine as Football Mogul. The player takes the role of a General Manager of a Major League Baseball team and is responsible for its athletic and financial success. The game has no MLB license and uses fake team names, but real athlete names. The team names can be edited.The user interface uses the typical Windows menus to reach the various screens. On the financial side, the player can manage income (ticket prices, concessions and broadcast) and expenses (dividing the available funds - after the fixed costs have been deducted - between the farm system, scouting and medical staff). Team management includes setting the rotation for defense and offense, selecting the lineup and trading athletes. There are also various statistics which can be viewed for analysis; the accuracy of athlete statistics depend on the scouting budget.The player can choose how long the game should simulate ahead (e.g. only a day, the full season or until a fixed date) and when the period is over, the player takes control again. Matches can be viewed play-by-play, but without options for intervention. |
| Battle Arena Toshinden 2 | 1997 | Microsoft Corporation | Tamsoft Corporation | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | Battle Arena Toshinden 2 is the first sequel to Battle Arena Toshinden.It adds three new starting fighters; Tracy and Chaos with the original game's final boss, Gaia returning un-armoured and with a completely new move set. There are also three new bosses and hidden characters raising the total number of fighters to 15 (up from 10).Toshinden 2, on top of additional special attacks for every character, adds several running attacks to each character: the ability to strike a grounded opponent with new ground attacks and the powerful Overdrive attacks that one must fill up a bar by using other attacks to be able to use.Toshinden 2 also does away with the free-form combo system of the original Toshinden replacing it with a simple combo system (i.e. light attack, hard attack, special or light attack, light attack, hard attack, special). The 3D movement in Toshinden 2 has also been made notably slower to prevent the heavy abuse it could be used for in the original.As a result, while the core game play is similar, this sequel is more tactical than the original game. Where as in the original Toshinden, one could throw normal attacks (i.e. light slashes) around with fairly reckless abandon and sidestep repeatedly without fear of their opponent being able to counter them easily, opponents in Toshinden 2 are able to capitalize on individual missed attacks.As a result, Toshinden 2 is more balanced than its predecessor. This balance was further tweaked with a re-release called "Toshinden 2 plus" in Japan.Unlike the Playstation release of the original Toshinden, Toshinden 2 was not re-dubbed for releases outside of Japan.Also unlike the original Toshinden, the PC release of Toshinden 2 for Windows computers, is a straight port of the Playstation version and supports Direct3D rather than specific 3D cards. |
| Battle Beast / Take Your Best Shot / Arcade America | 1997 | | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains the following games developed by 7th Level, Inc.:
Battle Beast
Take Your Best Shot
Arcade America
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| Battleground 7: Bull Run | 1997 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | The fourth game in the Battleground series based on American Civil War battles and the first game in the series to feature two major battles (First Manassas and Second Manassas) with the side battles (The battles of Blackburn's Ford, fought two days before First Manassas, and Brawner's Farm, fought on the eve of Second Manassas). |
| Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo | 1997 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Recreation of the battles of Ligny and Quatre-Bras (16 Jun 1815) using the "Battleground"-system. Includes several scenarios differing in size and difficulty. In-game map view can be toggled between 2-D and 3-D perspective. Also, small video-sniplets are included, showing battle-actions.Both, Allied or French may be played by humans. |
| Battleship: The Classic Naval Warfare Game | 1997 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | NMS Software Ltd. | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Board game | | Naval / watercraft | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | This official version of Battleship dresses up the children's game originally made by Milton Bradley. It features hotseat and LAN play, as well as providing cinema scenes to dress up the action. Players can choose from several modes of play, including Classic rules and new variants, such as a Salvo Mode with different types of missiles. |
| BeTchachey HaRating | 1997 | Hed Arzi Multimedia | Guillotine | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | The game is a point-and-click adventure, full of Israeli humour and jokes on local celebrities.The player is put in control of Elimelech Egoz, a police detective on vacation.
At the end of the first day of his stay, Gadi Sihon, a talk-show host staying at the hotel, disappears, and Elimelech Egoz is called to investigate.By the end of the third day, Elimelech has to investigate the other hotel guests and employees, break into locked places, and complete various mini-games, in order to unveil the mystery. |
| Beasts & Bumpkins | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Worldweaver Productions Ltd | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Beasts & Bumpkins is a real time strategy game, with gameplay which can be compared to Warcraft. It tells the story of Lord Mildew (your alter ego), a poor member of the royal family, who has been thrown away from his country. Your task is to complete over 30 missions in order to regain your former reputation. You'll have to set up prospering towns in order to gain wealth, which is required to supply an army. With your army, you'll have to defend your villages against beasts and other evil folks. |
| Beat the House 2 | 1997 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Gambling | 1st-person | | | | | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Sequel to Beat the House. Once again, this is a casino simulator. You can choose to play several games for virtual cash including: Black Jack, Bacará, 6 types of slots, 8 types of video poker, craps and roulette.Additional features the option to hire a coach that helps us in our betting (but takes 5% of the profits) and a comprehensive online help that explains every game, the tricks of the trade, etc. |
| Betrayal in Antara | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | Teen | | Windows | Betrayal in Antara uses an updated version of the game engine from Betrayal at Krondor. However, it does not continue Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar saga, but instead starts a new tale set in a different fantasy world, known as Ramar.The story begins with William Escobar, the son of the governor of Pianda, sailing home to meet his fiancee. The ship is attacked by pirates, and William escapes in a life boat with a mortally wounded traveler. Before he dies, the stranger gives William a medallion, warning him of a conspiracy against the Empire. William meets a young magician named Aren, who has just discovered devastating powers within himself, and the two decide to meet William's father and ask for his advice concerning the unsettling information.The game plays very similarly to Betrayal at Krondor. The player navigates a party of three characters through the 3D world - this time with an optional full screen view. Enemy encounters occur at set positions on the overworld or within the few dungeons. An encounter triggers a separate battle screen, on which player-controlled party and the enemies engage in tactical turn-based combat. It is possible to sneak on enemies for a surprise attack if the character's corresponding skill is high enough. Unlike the predecessor, most towns can be physically explored, though a few are still displayed as a map with icons representing locations. Indoor environments and characters, however, are presented as hand-drawn images.Like in Betrayal at Krondor, characters join and leave the party as dictated by the plot. Aren is the only character who can cast spells, while others act like fighters or rangers. Magic elements can be researched and mixed to create spells, and include a wide array of protective and offensive magic. The skill system is very similar to that of the previous game: skills are improved by repeatedly using them and marking them in the skill menu for faster learning. Elements like a day and night cycle, weapon and armor repairing, navigation on world map, the necessity to eat and sleep regularly, etc. are also brought over from the earlier Dynamix game. Although the game is somewhat more linear, there is still a large amount of side quests taken from NPCs populating the game's many towns. |
| Bicycle Pinochle | 1997 | Expert Software, Inc. | Infinite Vision Technologies | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Bicycle Pinochle includes over 6 different variations and multiple playing options for this classic American card game. Bicycle Pinochle keeps track of bidding and scoring, all available at a mouse click. It supports modem or network play along with 9 computer characters of varying skill levels.If you don't know how to play, Bicycle Pinochle provides a Tutorial mode and Practice mode to hone your skills. Making a mistake is never a problem. The undo button allows you to fix errors or to try other cards in situations.
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| Bicycle Solitaire | 1997 | Expert Software, Inc. | Expert Software, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bicycle Solitaire, the classic American card game, has over 50 different versions of Solitaire, including favorites like Klondike, with varying skill levels: Hard, Medium, Easy, Favorites and Kids.No need for a scratch pad to keep your score, Bicycle Solitaire tracks all scores with a click of a mouse.Bicycle Solitaire allows you to Undo a mistake. It also includes an Hint option to coach you on the best move to make. Different patterned table tops and card backs are available to keep you interested. |
| Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave | 1997 | Roadshow Interactive, Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH, Yoram Gross-EM.TV Pty Ltd | Forest Interactive Pty Ltd. | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Back of Jewel Case - Windows 31/95 (UK) (from Ad Blurbs)JOIN BLINKY BILL AND THE GANG ON AN EXCITING ADVENTURE INTO THE GHOST CAVE!Blinky Bill, Australia's favourite koala, makes learning fun with this interactive adventure like no other! Richly illustrated with cartoon quality animation, this CD ROM will entertain children for hours as they explore the pages of the story, clicking on hidden surprises to watch them come to life and playing a multitude of challenging games and activities. Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave is beautifully brought to life with magical sounds from the Australian bush and provides an unforgettable experience for the whole family.(screenshot captions)Phrases can be highlighted as the story is read. A simple click on any word will hear it pronounced. Or search and discover the many hidden surprises!Children can create their own pictures by painting a choice of characters from the story and rearranging the scenery.Children are quizzed on their memory skills and understanding of different episodes from the story with colour, shapes and sounds.Settle down with Blinky and the gang to view real-life-photos of native Australian wildlife. Children can learn about the lifestyle and habitat of each creature.Practising mouse skills and hand eye coordination, children can play a range of games and puzzles.
Develops reading skills
Improves reasoning
Tests comprehension
Fosters creativity
Introduces Australian wildlife
Entertaining, educational and fun to use
Over 150 hidden surprises |
| Blood Bath at Red Falls | 1997 | UnderWorld Software | UnderWorld Software | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | A bunch of prisoners have escaped from a prison bus and you, as the Sheriff's deputy, must take them out. Unfortunately, they have had help in escaping, and have been supplied with guns. Blood Bath at Red Falls is a shooting gallery game where the enemies are digitized actors who pop up from behind cover on the different screens. You can shoot for other items including ammo, a better gun, extra hits and lives. Be careful not to shoot innocent hostages who might get in the way. There are three difficulty levels: Easy, Bring it on, and Bad Ass. |
| Bob Squisch und der moosige Mooskönig | 1997 | Canyon Software | | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In this game the player controls the private detective Bob Squisch and his sarcastic dog Whiskey who has to rescue a lost professor from the caves of the Moss King. The game consists of 15 logic puzzles, e.g. activating switches in the correct order or pumping water out of a well. When the player is stuck he can receive hints from Whiskey. Between the puzzles Squisch has to be moved through the caves which are displayed in stills. |
| Boggle | 1997 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | PCA Inc., Third-i Productions | Puzzle, Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Board game, Word construction | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A computer version of the classic word finding game. 16 lettered dice are rolled and arranged in a square. The player then has a limited amount of time to find as many words as possible in the grid.New game variations for the computer include a 4X4X4 cube of dice for finding words, a head-to-head game where players place the dice themselves before looking for words, and two tetris-like games where players must find words among onrushing Boggle dice. |
| Bon Bon Paradise | 1997 | Japan Software Engineering Shop | Electronic Music and Animated Graphics CO., LTD. | Action, Puzzle, Strategy | Side view, Top-down | | | Arcade, Board game, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Bon Bon Paradise is a set of 20 simple games, such as cards, shooting, billiards, cups, Tetris and others. The game features four play modes: arcade, travel, versus and practice and allows to play up to two players at a time. Each game has its own scoreboard. The game supports PC Gun. |
| Bongo-Mania | 1997 | | | Puzzle | | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | BongoMania is a simple, single player, mouse controlled, Simon Says game that was released to promote the film 'George Of The Jungle'.In this game apes play an ever increasing sequence of notes on the bongos. The player's task is to repeat the ape's sequence for as long as they can, when a mistake is made the player has three chances to correct it before the game ends. The game is not never-ending, eventually the player plays the full line from the theme song and is rewarded with a 'Well Done - You've Mastered The Theme Tune' message. |
| Bradshaw Football '98 | 1997 | Hoffmann + Associates Inc. | | Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Bradshaw Football '98 is an American Football sports/simulation game featuring former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw. The game has the National Football League Players' Association license, but not the NFL license, which means that the game has real player names but not real team names or logos. The game for the most part runs in 3D from a viewpoint above and behind the offensive team. The player can either play against the computer or against a second player, and needs to strategically call the right plays and then successfully execute them using arcade-style controls. Terry Bradshaw is on hand to provide play by play comments as the game progresses. |
| British Open Championship Golf | 1997 | Looking Glass Studios, Inc. | Looking Glass Studios, Inc. | Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | British Open Championship Golf simulates the golf courses St. Andrews and Royal Troon in Scotland. As most golf games from its time it uses filmed and digitalized shots for the courses and the behaviour of a played ball. The control system uses the established 3-click-system where the player sets the destination with the first click. The other two clicks are reaction tests which set the power and height of the shot. There are five playing modes: Match, Stroke, Best-Ball, practice and a tournament.The game introduces three new features to the genre. Firstly is uses a lot of viewers and terraces to create a realistic golf atmosphere. This is supported by a commentator and multiple anytime usable camera views which are shown in extra windows on the side of the screen. With the "Shot Designer" the player can create and test shots by changing variables like the foot positions. Then he can save them for later usage. The "Caddie's Notebook" gives voiced hints and additional information about each hole. |
| Buccaneer | 1997 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Divide By Zero Software Inc. | Action, Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Sea pirates / Caribbean | Naval / watercraft | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Buccaneer is a strategy game following in the footsteps of Sid Meier's Pirates!. Set during the Age of Sail, you have a choice of six campaigns with varying goals (rescue a relative, get buried treasure, etc.), or you can just engage in standalone ship-to-ship battles.Good management skills are also required, as you must stock up on supplies and recruit men to join you on your missions. |
| Cabela's Sportman's Challenge | 1997 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Diversions Software, Inc | Sports | | Licensed | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | The most authentic skeet, trap, and sporting clay shooting simulation ever! Multiple shotguns, multiple events, male and female shooters, tournament vs. practice modes, stat tracking, and more! |
| Caesar: Die Gold-Edition | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Caesar: Die Gold-Edition contains:
Caesar
Caesar II
Sneak preview of Caesar III
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| Captain Quazar | 1997 | 3DO Company, The | Cyclone Studios | Action | | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | The idea behind Captain Quazar is simple, from a 3/4 overhead view control the Captain - kill the bad guys and save the day. Everything in this vast galaxy can be blown away, but be careful where you lay waste because you have to manage your resources to survive. |
| Carmageddon | 1997 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Stainless Software Ltd. | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Regional differences | | | | Automobile, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Carmageddon is a violent car racing game where the racing element can be equally important as wrecking opponents' cars or gathering kills by ramming into pedestrians. At the beginning the player has only one car and is ranked at #99. The overall objective is to race all the way to the top, collecting the opponents' cars on the way as trophies (and possibly replacements to one's vehicle). In the race itself the player tries to damage opponents by driving into them, and can also kill pedestrians.Damage, kills and spectacular moves earn credits for upgrades and even making repairs to the car at anytime during the race. If a specific opponent's car is wrecked multiple times in successive races, it is added to the choice of available vehicles. There are many power-ups strewn around the courses that range from useful (more speed, instant brake) to fun and downright absurd. Though the player can win a race by finishing first, wrecking everything in sight is encouraged. The game offers open environments where exploration away from the racing course is encouraged. |
| Carmen Sandiego Word Detective | 1997 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Spy / espionage | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Carmen Sandiego, international fugitive and head of V.I.L.E., has hatched a brand new scheme. Using her latest invention, the Babble-On Laser, Carmen seeks to destroy communication by rendering languages into incoherent gibberish. The ACME Detective Agency, once again attempts to stop Carmen Sandiego by finding the location of the Tower of Babbel. Already twelve Agents have been lost and only Agent 13 remains to put together clues using Acme's latest interface, the CyberCom 2000.As Agent 13, your main goal is to rescue the previous 12 agents and stop Carmen Sandiego. You do this by gathering individual keys to rescue each of the agents. These keys in turn are guarded by several passwords, all of which must be decoded. These passwords are decoded by discovering "clues" in Carmen's hideouts which then launch anyone of 5 mini-game..These mini-game sequences are the following:
Code Breaker: Using a series of letter tiles, the player must spell specific words already chosen (Searcher Mode) or create new words that are present inside Word Detective's dictionary (Builder Mode).Fusion Chamber: The player must find the meaning of a core word, the meaning of a prefix or suffix, and the meaning of the combined word.Micropix: The player is given a page of text with several nouns, verbs and adjectives missing. The most logical choices must be placed in these missing areas.Power Pack: Words must be placed in alphabetical order to form a tower on the right side of the screenSpellanyzer: The player is given an audio recording of a word, as well as it's usage in a phrase and must either unscramble or spell the indicated word.Progress for individual or total players is kept and may be printed out or compared as an aid to teachers. |
| Casino Royale | 1997 | RomTech, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | No James Bond connection here, this Casino Royale is a themed collection of over sixty shareware games. The setup process installs a game browser into a folder on the users hard drive, by default this is named c:/GalaxyAA, and the browser either runs the games from the CD in a separate window or installs them onto the hard drive (the ones that need installing are marked with a '**'). Though many of the games come from one developer, Ultisoft, they are stand-alone games which means the credits won in one game are not transferred to another.
The compilation presents differently depending on the operating system, the game browser offers all games when run in a Windows environment but under Win 3.x fewer games are offered.
The games are grouped info four sections and are listed in the order in which they appear in the game browser which means that some games will appear twice as they have separate Windows 3.1 & Windows 95 versions;
Slots Games: There are twenty-one games in this group, all games are by Ultisoft unless otherwise stated.;
Double Dynamite Video Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
Extreme Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
Jackpot Slots (v1.3) Win 3.1 & Windows
**Cherry Delight Video Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
**Double Dynamite Video Slots Windows
Extreme Slots Windows
Jackpot Slots Windows
Lucky Stars Video Slots Windows
Tropical Paradise Slots Windows
Wild 7 Slots, this game contains a more-or-less functioning Wild 7 Slots plus two other functionally restricted games Joker Slots and Casino Slots Windows
**Wild Wizard Slots Windows
**Bonus Wheel Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
Cherry Delight Video Slots Windows
**Las Vegas Slots V 1.2 from Timothy L. Hirtle Win 3.1 & Windows
**Las Vegas Slots Pro V 2.3 from Timothy L. Hirtle, graphically this is virtually identical to the previous game however in this game registered users can play up to twenty-four lines per spin. Win 3.1 & Windows
Niki'S Slots V 1.2 from Canadian Joe Salisbury Win 3.1 & Windows
Tropical Paradise Slots, yes this is another duplicate, it's listed as both Paradise Video Slots and Tropical Paradise Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
**Super Slots V 2.6 from Timothy L. Hirtle Win 3.1 & Windows
Trix Slots from TrixWare Industries Win 3.1 & Windows
Wild 7 Slots, another duplicate with the same three game option Wild Seven Slots, Joker Slots and Casino Slots, however this is the Windows 3.1 version.
Diversions Slots from Diversions Software, probably the most graphically refined of all the slots games.Win 3.1 & Windows
Table Games: Just nine games in this group. All games are available in Win 3.1 & Windows apart from Players Choice Keno which is Windows only
Deluxe Roulette V1.3, a 32-bit game from Marzio Di Biasi
Craps! from CT Software who were based in Elk Grove, Illinois.
Super Craps. by Chris Peterson of Arlington, Texas. This is offered in both Windows & Windows 3.1 environments but only installs and runs under Windows 3.1, oddly there's a zipped version of Boxcars Casino in there too
WinCraps from Cloud City Software. Another game that the browser offeres in both Windows & Windows 3.1 environments but which only installs and runs under Windows 3.1
Players Choice Keno version 1.1 from Ron Dombrowski Windows
Dice Game a version of Craps by T. J. Allen
Bingo version 1.0 by Michael A. Maners
WinGO! version 1.30 by Rob Dolan
Roulette Version 1.0aS from Pyramid Software Development
Card Games: Twenty eight games here, they are;
Noisy Video Poker And Blackjack, the Windows 95 version, from Ultimate Software
**Lucky Stars Video Slots from Ultisoft Windows
Real Video Blackjack from Ultimate Software Windows
Real Video Poker from Ultimate Software Windows
**Turbo Video Poker for Windows 95 from James Toliver Windows
Acey Deucy from Lampron Software Win 3.x & Windows
Noisy Video Poker And Blackjack, from Ultimate Software. Win 3.x & Windows
**BlackJack Professor from Hawaiian company LVC Software Win 3.x & Windows
Black Jack Tracker: The game browser offers this title in both Win 3.x & Windows environments but it will only install under Win 3.x. This is not a game it is a blackjack simulator used to evaluate different strategies over a large number of hands.
**Video Baccarat for Windows from company Bitwise Software International Win 3.x & Windows
Bounty! from Jeffrey Allen Blanchard, this contains four games; Five Card Draw, Blackjack, Keno and Acey Deucy. Win 3.x & Windows
**Solator Casino This game is offered in both Win 3.x & Windows environments but it will only install under Win 3.x. It offers Poker, Black jack, Pai Gow, Cribbage and Acey Ducey
All the following Casino Vérité games are all from QFIT
**Casino Vérité: Blackjack, winner of several awards apparently. Win 3.x & Windows
**Casino Vérité: Pai Gow Poker. Win 3.x & Windows
**Casino Vérité Strategy Selection Tool: This is not a game, it is a list of strategies for card games and a tool to help a player find those most appropriate to their skills
**Casino Vérité: Video Poker Win 3.x & Windows
Deluxe Poker from Marzio Di Biasi. Win 3.x & Windows
Funpok Video Poker Win 3.x
Funpok Video Poker, a second entry for the same game - this is the Windows 95 version
Higher-Lower from Roseling Software. Windows
Lucky Stars Video Slots from Ultisoft, another duplicate but this is the version runs from the CD. Win 3.x & Windows
Real Video Blackjack from Ultisoft. Win 3.x & Windows
Real Video Poker from Ultisoft, this game offers Jacks Or Better; Joker Wild; and Deuces Wild poker variants. Win 3.x & Windows
**Steven's Casino Royale, here you'll find Black Jack, Poker and Craps. Developed by Steven W. Lucey. Win 3.x & Windows
**Smoke 'Em Poker v1.9, the first freeware game, well technically it's 'beerware' - "If you like it, have a beer", in the compilation so far
**Turbo Video Poker from Jim Toliver. Win 3.x & Windows
**Let It Ride for 95 from Silverdisc Software. Windows
PaiGow Poker Lite from Douglas Ford Enterprises. Win 3.x & Windows
Misc Games: A catch-all group of games that don't quite fit into the other groupings, although there are some slot machine type games here;
Home Stretch from Ultimate Software. Again there are two versions of the same horse race betting game, one for Windows and one for Win 3.x
All the following Slots of Trivia games are from Ultisoft.
Slots of Trivia and Slots of Trivia: General Knowledge are identical, they've just been given different names in the browser's game list
All three Slots of Trivia games appear twice in the game browser list, once as Slots of Trivia... and again as 95 Slots of Trivia... because there are separate versions for Windows 3.x & Windows 95
**Slots of Trivia
**Slots of Trivia: General Knowledge
**Slots of Trivia: Sports
The final game is A Day At The Races from Latticework Software. Windows |
| Casino! | 1997 | Beachware, Inc. | Beachware, Inc. | Gambling, Strategy | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A budget casino game featuring virtual versions of six slot machines, two video poker machines, a video keno machine, and a video blackjack machine. All ten machines are placed in a lobby with an ATM that will let you pawn your shoes or car if you run low on cash. One (and really, the only) interesting feature is the option to print out your winnings as "Elvis Bucks" on your printer. |
| Casper's Treasure Hunt | 1997 | Trendmasters | | Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Casper's Treasure Hunt is a single player, single level, mouse controlled game that was probably one of a set of mini games used to attract kids to Trendmasters web site. It can be found on shareware/freeware compilations of games for children.The game consists of a single screen showing the dimly lit interior of Whipstaff Manor at night. There are lots of spooky shapes to be seen. However when the player clicks on the torch icon the cursor becomes a small circle of light which changes everything, the scary thing on the floor is shown as a jumper, the dead body becomes a set of golf clubs and so on.Casper is shown in the lower left of the screen and he poses a series of riddles such as "Look at the floor all covered with dust. For spring cleaning this item's a must" and the player has to use their torch/mouse cursor to locate the appropriate object.There are six riddles per round with no additional hints and penalty for an incorrect answer. When all six riddles have been answered the player is asked if they want to play again.Riddles are not repeated within a round but have been found to recur in the next game pointing to a limited question set.
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| Casper: The Interactive Adventure | 1997 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Morning Star Multimedia, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Casper: The Interactive Adventure is a point-and-click adventure game based on the MCA/Universal live action Casper film and presumably aimed at children. You play as Casper the Ghost, whose human friends have been cursed and turned into ghosts. You need to explore Whipstaff Manor to discover clues and solve puzzles in order to lift the curse. |
| CatchWord | 1997 | Discovery Channel Multimedia | Ant Software, Kesmai Corporation | Puzzle | | | | Word construction | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | CatchWord is an online word game in which letters appear on a board and players "catch" words by typing the letters to form approved words of at least four letters. Words are checked against an online dictionary in real time. Each round of eight letters come up for the players. This is all in real time with a 30-45 second time limit per batch of letters. You can use the letters to either create new words or steal them from other players. Words can be stolen from other players by using new letters and their old words. The program figures out where the letters come from when creating or stealing. Any unused letters stay up and only letters used are replaced. This gives you some time to figure out how to use one or two letters to steal a word form someone else. The letters are worth points and are based on their rarity in the dictionary with J actually being one of the rarest ones and worth the most, so this is not Scrabble. Their are two blank letters which are wild and can be used for any letter you want. Again, the program knows by what is available to use the blank as you intended.Since this is all happening in real time, the pace can be intense and you start typing in words to steal hoping that a will come up in the next batch. Players gathered from all over the US and Britain to play with smatterings from other countries. It was an English only game and available only through AOL. |
| Catz II: Your Virtual Petz | 1997 | Mindscape, Inc. | PF Magic | Educational, Simulation | | | | | | | Peter Kemmer | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Catz 2 is the second game in which you are given catz to play with on your computer. In this sequel there are many breeds to choose from including shorthairs and siamese. There are also many environments for them to play in. In the playpen where you can keep an eye on them, full screen mode where your catz can play over open applications and programs, active full screen mode where they can play behind open programs and applications. Finally there is screen saver mode where your catz can protect your computer if you set up password activation.
Along with the above there is also the petz supply shelf where you will find many toys for your catz to play with. On the shelf you will also find the paint tin which gives you the option to paint your catz any colour you wish.
If you own the first catz game it is also possible for them to play in the new environment of catz 2 so you don't have to give up caring for your catz from the first game. |
| Ceremony of Innocence | 1997 | Funware | Real World Multimedia Ltd | Adventure | | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Ceremony of Innocence is based on a popular series of books about Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock, written in the early 90s. One day, an unusual looking letter, with capacious, but not less interesting message, has come addressed to Griffin Moss. This letter issued from a pen of Sabin Strohem from Sicmons Islands, somewhere in the South Pacific. She admires design talent of a London resident (he draws postcards) and especially notes one of his latest works - one he didn't show to anyone yet. Replying only because of pure curiosity, Griffin has no idea, that these sentences will lead a correspondence, which will probably change his whole life.At the heart of the game lies correspondence between two heroes, separated by a thousand kilometers of land and water, but connected in other way. Two different worlds: archipelago, lost on the expanses of the ocean, almost untouched by a white barbarians and one of the biggest megapolis in the Europe, overpopulated with whisking people and gaseous atmosphere transport. Post will be their only way to communicate with each other. Through the letters they will experience feelings, that they maybe would never experience, if was together. To read each letter, player must open envelope or turn it over and in the order to do so he will need to "solve" puzzles, based on postcard drawings. Each letter will have different postcard, thus another puzzle. Most of them looks quite abstract, but in fact they are much easier, than in most puzzle-oriented adventures (Myst and his numerous clones). |
| Chaos Island: The Lost World - Jurassic Park | 1997 | DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | A real-time strategy games aimed at 9-12 year-olds, Chaos Island was based on the film The Lost World (the sequel to Jurassic Park). It features original voice acting by all the main actors in the feature film, including Lord Richard Attenborough and Jeff Goldblum. The game consists of a series of levels that follow a team of scientists as they contend against hunters and rogue dinosaurs. |
| Checkers for Windows 95 | 1997 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Checkers for Windows 95 is a freeware implementation of the classic board game, written by Martin Fierz, a Swiss physicist.Played with the mouse, this implementation can only be played against the computer. The program features six difficulty levels and an analysis mode. In the Setup menu, you can choose which side move first, black or white. There is no save option, Checkers for Windows 95 does not create extra files on the hard disk. |
| Chessmaster 5500 | 1997 | Mindscape, Inc. | | Strategy | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | Board game, Chess | | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Chessmaster 5500 is part of the long running Chessmaster series. As with the other games in this series, there are many features available to the player. In addition to the many different chess boards, viewpoints and chess sets, there are features that analyse the player's game, tutorials, a database of over two thousand named game openings, and an Opening Book Editor.The main new features in this release of the game is the audio feature. The game has something called Illustrated Voice Analysis which
analyses the game and provides feedback using ghosted pieces, arrows and the like. All of the game openings, the first three tutorials, and all of the in game dialogue boxes have been given the audio treatment.
John Waitzkin, then a twenty year old International Chess Master, joined the Chessmaster team for this release and the product includes five of his voice annotated games.
Finally, there are some new sets of chessmen including a Staunton Brushed Metal set and a 3D Isle of Lewis set.Installation of many of the features, e.g. the tutorials, remained optional to minimise the space used on the player's machine. These features were still available to the player but, as they remained on the CD and were not on the hard drive, there was a performance hit. The game also featured on-line play but when tested in 2013, this service was no longer functioning.
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| Clash | 1997 | OPTIMUS Pascal | Leryx-Longsoft | Strategy | Top-down | | | Turn-based strategy | Fantasy | | Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | Clash is a turn-based strategy modeled on the Heroes of Might and Magic and Warlords series. The plot is based on the legend of the ancient land of Karkhan, attacked by wild tribes. The goal is to develop and maintain their lands constantly attacked by the occupying invaders.There are 30 different types of units. They can be allocated to defend the city, set patrols and discover new areas of the map. Addition to typical military units are builders, which are used for all types of construction and mining work. An important element is the extension of the economy and castles. In castles the player can place the new building, increasing population and its manufacturing capacity. There are also elements of diplomacy. The game takes place during three seasons: summer, autumn and winter. Up to five players can participate in the missions simultaneously. Soldiers have their own tiredness levels. An exhausted soldier requires rest and, in extreme cases, may rebel. |
| Clock Tower | 1997 | Human Entertainment, Inc. | Human Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | Side view | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | | Fuminori Niwano (庭野 文則) | Windows | Jennifer and her friends are adopted by a nice lady named Mary one day. They expect to be going to a wonderful new home, at the Barrows Mansion. There they will live with Mary and Mr. Barrows. Unfortunately, something goes terribly wrong and Jennifer's friends are showing up dead one by one. While this is happening, Mary is missing and Jennifer ends up being chased by a crazed psychopath known only as...Scissorman. Now she must survive and get out of the mansion in this point-and-click horror adventure... Being a teenage girl, you have no special abilities at all, just your wits and your will to survive, there are a few enemies that can kill you instantly, but Scissorman is the true horror that will give you trouble. |
| Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far | 1997 | Microsoft Corporation | Atomic Games, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy, Wargame | Historical events, World War II | | Multiple units/characters control | Real-time | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | You're the commander of the Allied forces at Operation Market Garden.
You can play as either the Germans or the Allies.
Gameplay is done in real-time from a topdown view. The battlefield is bloody and realistic, with screams of agony as soldiers are getting their heads blown off and the real sounds of firearms being shot.The Close Combat series has always been realistic because of the AI. Your men will run away if the Germans do a rush or something like that, and they'll be unresponsive if you make them do something stupid (like rushing tanks). If they start to move into gunfire under your command, they'll go back to the start, or away from the enemy. |
| Clueless: CD-ROM | 1997 | Mattel Media | team smartyPants!, Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Clueless: The CD-Rom is based on the hit film and TV show. The game is made up of creative activity centers based on the themes of Clueless: makeovers, fashion, and hair styles. There are also a series of "win-win" activities, where the player can take quizzes and play mini-games similar to those found in women's magazines -- but all with a positive slant. |
| Collection LucasArts: Aventure - The Dig; Full Throttle; Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis | 1997 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes:
The Dig
Full Throttle
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
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| Collection LucasArts: Aventure - The Secret of Monkey Island / Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge | 1997 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes:
The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
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| Combat Chess | 1997 | Empire Interactive Europe Ltd. | Minds Eye Productions | Strategy | | | | Chess | Fantasy | | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Combat Chess is a version of the classic chess strategy but with detailed pieces, different for both the white and black sides, and with animated movements to different squares of the game board. When overtaking another piece, the game shows a brief battle sequence between the 2 pieces. There is also a configurable, beat-driven soundtrack consisting of a variety of drums, wind sounds, and other ambient noises such as screams and creaky doors to entertain you while you play. The orientation of the board is also configurable, as is the level of game information via a number of Windows dialogs (such classical chess board representation and algebraic move history). Human vs. human play is supported on the same computer or via the network. |
| Command & Conquer: Mission CD - Gegenangriff (Limited Edition) | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This limited edition contains:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Counterstrike
Mouse pad with either an Allied or a Soviet emblem |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert (The Collectors' Pack) | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a Collectors edition of the original Red Alert without any later add-ons. It comes in a bigger than usual box, and includes two game CDs, 67x44cm poster, soundtrack CD, t-shirt and a manual. |
| Conquest Earth: "First Encounter" | 1997 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Data Design Interactive Ltd | Strategy | | | | | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | This RTS (real-time strategy) game tells the story of a futuristic war between the humans and the inhabitants of Jupiter (Jovians). The player can choose to command the armies of either side. Humans and Jovians have different menu layouts and tactics which they can employ for offensive and defensive actions. Also, the Jovians must deal with the atmosphere of the Earth, which obstructs their view, by using special troops; the humans also face a problem in the sulphur shrouds of Jupiter.The game implements its own view system for battles. Some may know it from their TV's - there's a picture-in-picture option to view 3 different locations at the same time. You can choose from two modes of play, normal RTS, or a more complicated variant which is just playable if you're confident with the manual. |
| Conquest of Elysium II | 1997 | Shrapnel Games, Inc. | Illwinter Game Design | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Conquest of Elysium II is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world. You control any one of 20 possible factions, each with its own unique units, spells, abilities and even resources. Your goal is to control resource producing locations, amass an army while still protecting your citadel and your commanders, and conquer all of your opponents. The game features include equipable items, peasant happiness (which determines how likely is your resource gathering to start a peasant rebellion and mine strikes), season change (which affect your resource gathering) and many special events (from the arrival of unexpected heroes in your villages to the coming of the Apocalypse).The game can be played in hotseat multiplayer, or in single player against up to eight computer controlled opponents across randomly generated maps. The difficulty of your opponents and the type of random map (which resources are abound, how high is bandit activity) you play can all be customized. The game also includes three custom-made unique scenarios. |
| Crazy Pinball | 1997 | MIND MultiMedia | | Action, Compilation | Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | This is a collection of demo-versions and shareware versions of Pinball games. Included are:
3D Ultra Pinball
Absolute Pinball
Classy Pinball
Bubble Blob
Creep Night
Crystal Caliburn
Pro Pinball
Extreme Pinball
Full Tilt!
Hyper 3-D Pinball
Moraff's Pinball
Pinball Builder
Pinball Dreams II
Pinball Fantasies
SlamTilt
Balls Of Steel
Looney Labyrinth
Pinball Mania
Pro Pinball: TimeShock!
The Lost Continent
Psycho Pinball
Pressure Pinball
Pro Pinball: The Web
StarBall
Microleague's SilverBall
Total Pinball 3D
Willi's Pinball
Pinball Wizard
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| Crazy Tetris | 1997 | MIND MultiMedia | | Action, Compilation, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Crazy Tetris contains over a 100 Tetris games, both freeware and shareware. Each of them gives an unique twist to the classic game. Included are the original 1982 Tetris and more futuristic ones as well: SuperBlox, Boxes, BreakThru, Bricklayer, Brix... and many more. |
| Cricket 97 | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Beam Software Pty., Ltd. | Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Cricket. It's not a world wide sport and I have to say it can be pretty boring at times. However, it's one of those sports that's a bit more relaxing to watch. It's not like watching a football match (soccer American sports fans) where you're constantly in danger of a cardiac arrest because your team need one goal to stay in the Premier League. Cricket is a different kettle of fish all together. Cricket matches don't take hours, they take days. Cricket is all about sitting back and having a rest. As is the nature of cricket, you'll either be batting or bowling. Batting is handled by the use of the directional keys and two fire button. Pressing various directions performs different shots.To be honest, there seems to be a lot of luck involved. However, if you know your cricket then you'll love the attention to detail and will spend hours refining your batting skills. |
| Cricket 97: Ashes Tour Edition | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Beam Software Pty., Ltd. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Cricket 97 Ashes Tour Edition is an updated version of Cricket 97. Compared to the base game it features a number of enhancements, including: real players' names and stats, new commentary by the famous cricketer Richie Benaud, a larger stadium, an instant replay function, and some minor gameplay improvements. |
| Crusader: Adventure Out of Time | 1997 | index+ | index+ | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy, Medieval | | | | | | Windows | An historical adventure game set in the Middle Ages at the time that the Franks were beginning to be driven out of Jerusalem. The player follows the adventure of Artaud, a disgraceful French Lord, who is sent to redeem himself by traveling to the Holy Lands to escort the True Cross back to safety. This is done through a series of scenes, with narration. The player has to complete certain tasks before Artaud can progress to the next scene. These tasks are generally of an educational nature, such as learning how sieges on castles were carried out, or who the main forces in the Holy Lands were at the time. Whilst Artaud's quest is fictional (with some added supernatural events), the setting is quite real, with actual locations visited and use of historic figures.Artaud's quest will see his home in Dun-le-Roy wasted in a siege, travel across the Mediterranean to the port of Acre, and eventually to the Holy City of Jerusalem. Along the way historical information is provided on events and lifestyles of the period.The game's style has a 3rd-person perspective and uses digital footage of real actors again photo-realistic (for the time) backdrops, which are partially animated. Intertwined with the scenes is an encyclopaedia, which it is necessary to interact with in order to complete the tasks and fully understand the narrative. The structure of most of the tasks involves collecting items from the scenes and the encyclopaedia by dragging them into your inventory, and then re-arranging them on to the task screen. The game is very similar in style to 1998's Vikings. |
| Crush! Deluxe | 1997 | Megamedia Corp. | Stone Jackal Studios | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Crush! Deluxe is best described as a much-improved version of MicroLeague's earlier Blood Bowl, a futuristic rugby game.
While Blood Bowl was fantasy football, and its players were creatures from the fantasy Warhammer universe, Crush! Deluxe takes a different road and features a futuristic theme. Crush! also introduces all new (8 total) races, which you will have to become familiar with. This futuristic sports game is set far in the future where races from across many galaxies are filling the Crush! league ranks. Your goal is to lead your team, as their coach, to the playoffs and win the title of Crush! Champions. As the coach you have the ability to draft a large number of players, although only 9 of them can be fielded during a game. Each player has nine attributes, and a special ability based upon what species they are. As a player gain experience and rank (rookie through Avatar) on the playing field he will learn new skills (28 skills possible), and sometimes acquire new quirks. However as the coach you will need to adjust your budget to their new contracts, as they gain experience their salaries can get quite expensive. Players can also be incapacitated from injuries, diseases, and even die in the ever-vigilant quest for the B.A.L.L. |
| Crypt Killer | 1997 | Konami Co., Ltd. | Konami Co., Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | Horror | Arcade, Rail shooter, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Crypt Killer is a horror-themed lightgun shooter. As a tireless adventurer, you are looking for the "Eyes of Guidance", ancient crystals of mysterious power. To find them, you have to shoot your way through hordes of monsters.The game has six stages which can be taken on in any order. Each stage consists of four acts. The levels range from dark forests to deep caves, ancient crypts and underwater labyrinths. You move through the 3D levels on a predetermined path and shoot at skeletons, zombies, spiders, demons and other foul beasts. Your standard weapon is a shotgun, but you can gain additional weapons like gatling guns and grenade throwers. Some enemies throw projectiles like knives or bones at you, so be sure to aim at those as well. If the screen becomes too crowded, clear it with a smartbomb.
At the end of some acts, you can choose from one of two paths through the next act, giving you different ways of completing a stage. At the end of each stage, a boss enemy awaits. |
| Curious George Learns Phonics | 1997 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Houghton Mifflin Interactive Corporation, Vipah Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | In Curious George Learns Phonics, the title character visits the circus for fun and merriment and learns a little about reading and phonics on the side. Curious George can't seen to stay out of trouble and is immediately thrust into the middle of the learning adventures. From the main circus selection menu, there are 6 activities to choose from:
Animal Acrobats: In this activity, 3 animals trot out at a time carrying pictures. A picture is shown on a banner overhead. The player's task is to choose the animal carrying a picture that rhymes with the overhead picture, in one variation. In another variation, the player must choose the picture whose word begins with the same letter as the picture from the banner.
Fun House: A picture is shown in the middle of the house. Random people pop out of windows holding letters. When the next letter in the word comes up, the player must click it and drag it to the top of the house to assemble the word.
Comedy Clowns: A pile of clowns get mixed up and the player will have to pair them back up. One clown gets up on stage and holds a banner of an ending letter. The task is to scan through the other clowns and find the one who is holding a picture whose word ends with the same letter seen on stage. Make a match and the 2 clowns exchange a joke.
Sammy The Musical Seal: Sammy the seal plays five horns. But they don't play music until the player chooses five pictures from among eight that have a particular vowel.
Peanut Pickup: This is somewhat of a Pac-Man clone. The peanut vendors are sloppy and Curious George, riding an elephant, must clean up after them. Along the way, a peanut vendor will appear, who is carrying a picture whose first letter begins with a certain goal letter. Capture that peanut vendor for more points.
Thea's Story Theater: Choose from a variety of stories to be read, and acted out by the characters involved.
Upon exiting the game, Curious George presents the player with a printable certificate stating how you performed at the various educational tasks. |
| Cyber Troopers Virtual On | 1997 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | Sega AM3 R&D Division | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Get it on with Virtual On! The home port of Sega's arcade hit where you take control of gigantic, fully armored battle droids and duke it out against other droids in duel-like battles over a set of different arenas.The game boasts 8 fully polygonal droids, each with his own strengths and weaponry and 10 different arenas with their own layout and traps. Proceed through the entire campaign via subjecting yourself to "virtual training" and then facing off for the real thing against the other computer controlled droids, or go against a human opponent in multiplayer combat over Lan, modem, serial link or the same computer with split screen display. |
| Cyberswine | 1997 | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | | | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | The protagonist of Cyberswine is, as the title implies, a cybernetic pig on a race to save CyberCity from a deadly virus. Helping him on his perilous mission is his partner, Sara Lee. The game is essentially an interactive movie done with 3D graphics. The player may interfere and choose the course of action for the hero. There are no action-based sequences beside a time limit imposed on these decisions. Most of the choices are purely cosmetic and do not influence the course of the story.
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| Dally Doo You Can Too! Numbers | 1997 | ArcMedia.com Inc. | ArcMedia.com Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Dally Doo You Can Too! Numbers is an educational title for ages three to six that teaches children about counting skills, as well as matching, sorting, and observation skills. There are games and lessons, as well as a bonus I Spy game, for the targeted age group on the topic of pre-math skills. Dally Doo, a friendly dinosaur, will provide help to the player on any of the activities and games if needed. The game features narration to help the player for extra practice. |
| Dark Colony | 1997 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Take-Two Interactive Software Canada | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Mature | Free-roaming camera | Windows | In a gloomy not-so-distant future, mankind have finally made it to Mars. The colonization of the red planet is vital for humanity's survival, as the heavily polluted Earth's resources are nearly depleted. At the same time, the Taar, a mysterious alien race that lost their homeworld many centuries ago, has decided to take Mars as their new home.As the war between the two species erupts, the player has to choose his side and lead his people to ultimate domination over the red planet. Things become even more complicated when the ruins of an extinct ancient civilization are found on Mars, revealing immensely destructive weapons that could easily turn the tide of the war in favor of the faction that manages to gain control over them first.Dark Colony is a real-time strategy with heavy emphasis on the actual combat. Resource gathering, base construction and unit production have been made as simple and fast as possible, allowing the player to focus on decimating the enemy armies. Ancient artifacts, available in some of the missions, provide unique options for beating the odds, even when they seem to be against you (and they often will).The game plot advances through short cutscenes, briefings and debriefings which detail the development of the war. The game also offers various promotions and decorations that you can earn for your player character, who will actually be present on the battlefield, acting as a more powerful and durable trooper with some special abilities (such as calling in reinforcements and inspiring the regular troopers). |
| Dark Judgement | 1997 | Frankenstein Studio | Frankenstein Studio | Action | Side view | | Martial arts | Beat 'em up / brawler, Fighting | | | | | | | Windows | Dark Judgement is a classic side scrolling beat 'em up developed by Frankenstein Studio. In this game the player will have to go through five different stages, ranging from forests to factories, with a final boss awaiting at the end of each one. You can play the game as a total of three characters: Karl, Carol and Matthew, with the option to have a Player 2 helping you by pressing the "start" button at any moment. You can punch, kick and also do a special attack which damages all the enemies around you at the cost of a portion of your life bar. Movement wise, you can dash towards any direction and do a rolling recover when knocked to the ground. Also, as it happens with most classic beat 'em ups, there are several items scattered all around the levels, which give you either a weapon or health, which sometimes will be hidden inside barrels, boxes and other objects you will need to break. |
| Dark Rift | 1997 | Vic Tokai, Inc. | Kronos Digital Entertainment | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | | | | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | The cosmos is controlled by two Prime Elements, known as "Core" and "Dark". Each is possessed by a tyrant who is in perpetual search of the third element, the Light, which would grant its owner tremendous power. Sonork Nezom, the carrier of Core Element, has organized a fighting tournament, with Core Element itself being the prize. He hopes that the carrier of the Light Element will be among the participants. He plans then to strike and gain possession of all the elements at once. But Lord Demon Demitron, the carrier of the Dark Element, has other plans...In this one-on-one fighting game, the player can take any of the eight playable participants through the tournament mode. Once the selected hero has defeated his opponents, he will have to face battles against Sonork and Demitron. A practice mode is also available. During the fights the player can use standard attacks common for all the characters - vertical and horizontal punches, kicks, running jumps, etc. Each character also possesses an arsenal of special techniques, which can be executed by pressing different buttons in rapid succession. |
| Das Reine Gold | 1997 | Euro Power Pack A/S | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Body Slam Wrestling
100 Years of Motoring
Bud Tucker in Double Trouble
Sink or Swim
Universal Warrior
Arnie Savage: Combat Commando
Turtles Coloringbook
World Hockey 95
Fighter Wing
The Scottish Open: Virtual Golf
Split Screen Soccer Manager
Perfect Football
European Champions
Soccer Team Manager
World Cup All Time Greats
Graeme Souness Soccer Manager
Match Day Manager
International Soccer
Manchester United WM International Soccer
Ultimate Football I
Ultimate Football II |
| Dead Reckoning | 1997 | Piranha Interactive Publishing Inc. | Goldtree Enterprises | Action, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Teen | | Windows | In Dead Reckoning you are abducted by aliens known only as the "Master Race" and forced to fight for your life. Pick your ship and wingmen and get ready to do battle against alien races in cylinder shaped battlefields. Just one thing, if you lose the human race gets obliterated. |
| Death Drome | 1997 | Viacom New Media | Zipper Interactive, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Automobile, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Here's the setup: the year is 2057, and the world's prisons are teeming with vicious, condemned criminals. The Committee of Recreational Termination (CORT) has devised a lethal form of entertainment called DeathDrome, where lucky cons like you are given the chance to win freedom if you can survive three rounds of gladiatorial combat in each of the eight deadly domains. |
| Decisive Battles of WWII: Ardennes Offensive | 1997 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategic Studies Group Pty Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Wargame | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Decisive Battles of WWII: Ardennes Offensive is the first game in the Decisive Battles of WWII series. It's a turn based strategy game that takes place around the Battle of the Bulge. The hexagonal game map is displayed from above and the units are represented by icons, similar to what you would expect in a board game.The game comes with eight scenarios with a varying number of turns in which to complete them. The scenarios can be played against the computer or against friends in hot seat, LAN, online or play-by-email.The game is divided in turns, in each turn you can give orders to your units using a point and click interface. The game is very open in information. It shows exactly the strength of all forces, their modifiers and odds of winning; so nothing is left to chance and all focus goes towards a good strategy. |
| DemonStar | 1997 | ionos, Inc. | Mountain King Studios Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | DemonStar has been heralded as the successor to Raptor: Call of the Shadows. It is a smooth scrolling shooter made in the tradition of Raiden. Go around collect power-ups and shoot everything. |
| Demonworld | 1997 | Ikarion Software GmbH | Ikarion Software GmbH | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Demonworld is the first computer game based on the tabletop game by German based developer Hobby Products. In the game, the player may either play single scenarios or join a campaign either for the human or the demonic side.Each mission is played on a hex-battlefield where the player can command specific armies or individual heroes with special abilities (e.g. casting spells). The main aspect of these battles is to use the correct army against each opponent and use one of the many formations for each army in order to modify the pros and cons of each army type. Once in a while, the player will have to play special missions where they can only control individual persons and send them into small skirmishes, e.g. battles within buildings or dungeons. |
| Destruction Carnival | 1997 | | Virtually Real | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Destruction Carnival is a freeware, single-screen arena shooter, similar to Robotron and Smash TV, but without twin-stick controls. The player controls Agent Troy, who was captured by the evil alien warlord Amadeus. Now Troy fights in arenas against Amadeus minions. The game has simple gameplay: the player moves in all directions, avoids mines, collect extra weapons and shoots all enemies on the screen. When he kills enough enemies, he moves on to the next arena. The game has three arenas, each with four waves of enemies. The game uses MIDI music from several NES/SNES games. |
| Detective Bogey | 1997 | Loudness | Loudness | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | Licensed | | Platform, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Detective Bogey is a platformer based on the eponymous Spanish animated series. The player takes control over private detective Bogey who has to rescue his girlfriend Pandora from the evil Dr. Sinister. Bogey has a map which shows Sinister's hideout but it is encrypted, so he has to gather question marks in five worlds to decipher the map.The game itself offers typical platformer gameplay: The player walks and jumps through the side-scrolling levels and shoots enemies like snakes or grasshoppers with his pistol. If the enemies hit him too often he loses one of his lives. The question marks have to collected in a restricted order so there is a certain amount of backtracking. There is no time limit and defeated enemies leave symbols behind which regenerate health or give extra lives. Additionally extra lives can be gained in the bonus game, a horizontal shooter, which is played after every beaten world. |
| Dig-Dogs: Factory X | 1997 | BC GmbH Verlags- und Medien-, Forschungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft | | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The three Dig-Dogs known from Dig-Dogs: Streetbusters are heading for a techno party. At the arrival they try anything for their amusement including pills, capsules and drinks of dubious quality. Out of consciousness they get lost in the labyrinth of Factory X.It is the player task to retrieve the Dogs in the twisted world of Factory X. To achieve that goal one has to solve puzzles, follow hints and traces and to face further challenges. But when you find the Dogs you are not finished yet. Keep the drug induced maniacs from drifting further into the drug swamp by intoxicating themselves. Keep them from escaping with their motorbikes too.
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| Dilbert's Desktop Games | 1997 | Microsoft Corporation, DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | Cyclops Software | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Side view | Licensed | Comedy | Arcade, Artillery, Mini-games, Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This game, part of the Desktop Toys series, features characters from Scott Adams' popular Dilbert comic strip engaged in a variety of time wasters. In typical Dilbert style, the game features undertones of office incompetence and company ineffectiveness, including voice acting of sarcastic quips and sayings in a variety of character voices. Many of the games are played on "screenshots" of the current desktop, allowing carnage to spread from the game onto the work documents the player might have had open.The ultimate objective in Dilbert's Desktop Gamesis to play each game, uncovering a a hidden "part" to the Desktop Toys machine. Successfully obtaining all of these parts (usually by shooting it) will unlock a "secret" Dilbert video on the cd-rom. All in all, there are 6 mini-games that feature the machine parts, often clones of arcade-style action, that can be played:Techno Raiders: Dilbert must navigate the halls of his office in this platform game and avoid obstacles and traps set by "Techno Bill" who is attempting to usurp office technical superiority. As he ascends the office building, the challenges get tougher and tougher.
Enduring Fools: Suddenly a bunch of idiots start opening doors to the player's desktop and disturbing productivity! There's only one solution then... to zap them all as quickly as possible with the phaser provided. Players move the mouse around, aiming and firing at co-workers before they exit
Elbonian Airlines: The cheapest way to fly is by slingshot! Players send management on a variety of "business trips" towards various targets that appear on the screen.
Boss Evaders: In a Space Invaders clone: The bosses are firing pinkslips from the top of the screen down at Dilbert. To justify his job, he must evade the firings and fire yellow status back towards the bosses. Inboxes will act as shields and absorb pink slips but only for so long. Extra Lives can be gained if the player is able to hit the "Bungie Boss" that briefly appears on the screen.
Project Pass-off: It's meeting time and that's when the boss is handing out work. Players use the keyboard to try to knock the good assignments to their team (like donuts and cash bonuses) and send the bad assignments to the opponent's team (like actual work). This game is also 2 player.
Can-O-Matic: Deadlines are coming up and the company needs to get as many products out as possible. There's obviously only one way to get this done... by loading expendable employees into Catbert's cannon and firing them at product ideas outside the company. Players try to hit as many profitable ideas while avoiding defective ones which will electrocute the employees.In addition to these games which provide parts for the Desktop Games machine, Dilbert's Desktop Games also provides some additional games and time wasters:
CEO Simulator: For players who think they could run the company better... CEO Simulator is a simple managerial game, played over several days. As the owner of a small company, the player must keep productivity high and the employees motivated. Players can try to manage it to death, provide gifts or just leave the employees alone.
The Jargonizer: Not technically a game, players can paste or type any innocent looking text into the window and then use the Jargonizer to add corporate jargon, buzz-words and managerial nonsense to the use of the English language. If nothing else, one should be able to fancy up a mission statement!
The Final Word: Also not a game, this allows players to affix humorous "stamps" onto the screenshots, preferably of work documents. For instance players can add a "URGENT: Start ignoring this immediately" stamp to a Mobygames submission. There is no print icon for these stamped materials, but players could take screenshots (not built-in) for prosterity's sake and pass them around the office! |
| DinoMight Baseball | 1997 | Microforum Inc. | Jumpin Jack Software, Inc. | Educational, Sports | Behind view, Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | DinoMight Baseball is a simple baseball game for children featuring dinosaurs in a cartoon style. It can be played by one or two players (human or CPU).The gameplay mostly revolves around applying effects to the ball by pressing various keys when throwing it and hitting it at the right time. The game contains eighteen male and female dinosaur players, eight teams (like the Rip City Raptors or Fossil Furies) and six ballparks (like Sandalstick Park or Wiggly Field). There are fully voiced and animated explanations of 150 baseball terms and eleven dinosaur species. |
| Disccover | 1997 | Disccover | Housemarque New Media | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Disccover is both the name of this advergame and the name of a company from Finland, specialized in cases, covers, and floppy disk shells. In this simple game, you control a floppy disk shell and you have to collect falling disks. The more disks you catch, the more points you get. You only have to use two keys from your keyboard: the left and right arrows. |
| Disney's Classic Video Games | 1997 | Disney Interactive (Europe, Middle East & Africa) S.A. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Disney's Classic Video Games is a compilation including three Disney games:
Disney's Aladdin
Disney's The Lion King
Disney's The Jungle Book |
| Disney's Ready For Math With Pooh | 1997 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive Victoria | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | When Pooh floats down to land in the Hundred Acre Wood in Disney's Ready for Math With Pooh, he comes to earth in what will become a garden as the game progresses. The player signs in on a wheelbarrow and chooses a path from the three directions given - in each of these places he'll meet Pooh's friends; Piglet, Owl, Tigger, Eeyore, Roo, and Pooh himself, and play games designed to exercise his math skills at one of three levels. Gameplay is identical to that of the sister game Disney's Ready to Read with Pooh: pointing and clicking the mouse will perform actions, the cursor is a little bumblebee that flutters it's wings whenever it is over a hotspot, and when dragging an object is necessary the game utilizes click-and-stick.
Wishing Well - contrary to what you might expect, this well is wishing for something - a group of pictures that will match the number it shows
Tigger's Contraptions - this fabulous machine requires the player to feed it objects in a particular numbered order
Eeyore's Faded Calendar - follow the snail to help draw in the faded numbers
Rabbit's Rain Dance - follow a sequence of pictures to complete this rain dance
Bug Collecting - sort bugs into a tray by color and choose which row has more or less
Piglet's Cupcake Kitchen - count cupcakes by frosting them, add them up and choose the correctly numbered sprinkle shaker
Pooh's Pantry - sort Pooh's fruit and vegetables from numbered baskets into jars
A player's success is rewarded by Gopher with prizes for his garden, such as seeds that will grow when they are planted and watered and decorations that animate when clicked on. Other rewards are printable, such as a Bug Collecting Certificate and a number banner depicting the jars in Pooh's Pantry, earned by completing those activities. Upon returning to the garden the player will find notes from the characters stuck to the back fence - when a note is clicked on, the character who wrote it will read it aloud.As in Disney's Ready to Read with Pooh, the manual contains a Parent's Guide that shows which level of activity earns which prize for the garden, so parents can see what skills their child has mastered. The skills covered include ordinal numbers, number forming and recognition, patterns and sequencing, greater/less than, classifying, counting sequentially, addition and subtraction. |
| Disney's Ready to Read with Pooh | 1997 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive Victoria | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | Early Childhood | | Windows | Literary bear and animated film star Winnie the Pooh sets the stage in this educational game from Disney, as he drifts down to the ground via balloon to land outside a Treehouse which becomes the home screen. Gopher provides a mailbox with the player's name on it, and Pooh sets down a honey pot which becomes the options screen. On returning to the Treehouse from elsewhere in the Wood, the personalized mailbox may contain messages from game characters who will read the letter out loud when the mailbox is clicked on.The player begins here in the Hundred-Acre Wood, and travels along one of three paths to the North Woods, the East Woods, or the West Woods to find a number of reading activities, each one introduced by one of Pooh's friends. Actions are performed by pointing and clicking the mouse; the cursor is a bee that flutters it's wings whenever it is over a clickable spot, and carries an arrow when it's over a path to a new area.
Eeyore's Tattered Books: match the torn pictures to the words on the pages.
Let's Pretend: Roo is imagining; pick a character and object and Roo will create a sentence.
Rabbit's Signs: Rabbit's sign-making machine doesn't work quite right; connect the dots to finish making letters.
Tigger's Bouncin' Boxes: choose the letter to match the sound Tigger's jack-in-the-boxes make.
Detective Tigger: drag objects onto a felt board as Tigger describes them, then answer a question about his story.
Owl's Poetry: pick an object to complete Owl's rhyme.
Tiggers Don't Climb Trees: find the missing letters to finish the quilt so Tigger can land in it.
Piglet's Cabinets: letter-matching concentration.
Pooh's Honey Pots: Pooh's honey pots are lettered; put them in alphabetical order on a shelf.Although a printable "Detective License" certificate is issued on finishing one activity, in a departure from this common convention the game introduces a reward system in which the player is given objects for their Treehouse whenever they successfully complete an activity; items that animate when clicked, such as a xylophone that plays a little tune, a spinning pinwheel, a kite that changes it's pattern. Once the player has received prizes from all nine activities he's given a doorbell that can be programmed by pulling sound tiles into place with the mouse. The game manual contains a Parent's Guide showing which level of activity earns which reward - parents can tell what skill level their child has reached in each area by viewing the contents of their Treehouse: if the player's Treehouse contains an area rug, for instance, the guide shows he has reached level two in the Pooh's Honey Pots (Alphabet Sequencing) activity.Some of the early-reading skills covered are simple spelling, letter formation, sentence creation, rhyming, memory, alphabet order, upper and lower case letters, and listening. |
| Dogz II: Your Virtual Petz | 1997 | PF Magic | PF Magic | Educational, Simulation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | As in the original, Dogz 2 presents you with an alternative to having a real dog. You start raising your Dogz as puppies and watch them grow up into adults. You can play with them, scold them, feed and water them, and much more. If you're not a good master, your Dogz will get mad at you and run away.There are three separate areas in Dogz II and Catz II:
The Adoption Center - This is where the player selects and names their dog. There is also the option of connecting to the Online Adoption Centre to see what new breeds are available and downloading them
The Playpen - this is the main area, it's where the player plays with their dogs, feeds them etc. They can also choose to release their pet from the playpen and have them running around on the desktop area.
The Toybox - as the name implies this is where the player can exchange toys and things on the playpen shelves for new items or old favourites. They can also connect to the Online Centre and download new items
The game's documentation lists the following as being the key features of both Dogz II (and Catz II too):
Multiple Character Interaction: Two pets cats and/or dogs in any combination can be out at once and play together. The manual goes on to list a load of things they can do to/with each other, breeding is not one of them.
Adding New Content: New breeds and toys are/were made available on the game's website
Customizable Interface: This sounds more that it really is, basically they say that being able to stock the playpen shelves with different items is a feature
Improved look: The dogs and cats are, and this is a direct quote "more expressive than ever before and are true real-world breeds."
Adopt Multiple Pets: The key point about having multiple pets is that even if the player adopts, say, two great danes the dogs will be unique because no pets are exactly alike
Improved Training: the big thing here is that both positive and negative reinforcement affects the pets behaviour
A screen saver with two different modes, one which has the pet(s) romping around the screen and the other shoing the in-game pet photos as a slide show
Old Pets: A nice touch is being able to import pets from Catz 1.0 and Dogz 1.0 so that they don't have to be abandoned
Copy a Pet: This feature that allows the player to copy their pet so that they can, and here comes another direct quote, "post them on the Web for others to play with or take your Petz to a friend's computer to play."
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| Dossier Desiree | 1997 | Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure | Contemporary | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Dossier Desiree is an interactive full motion video film in Dutch. The player has limited control over the actions of Harrie Havinck, a police detective who is trying to solve the murder of a singer. There are 4 suspects, and the player can control who Havinck will visit (to interrogate) at what time. The player can also decide who to arrest and accuse of the crime. Depending on what evidence is actually discovered, there may or may not be a conviction. |
| Dragon Dice | 1997 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game | Fantasy | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Dragon Dice is a fantasy strategy game based on a dice game by TSR. Playing as either the good guys (Coral Elves, Dwarves) or the bad guys (Lava Elves, Goblins) you must battle your foes and conquer their territories. |
| Drain Storm | 1997 | | | Action, Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | All these years, you never realized that down your shower drain were a bunch of gruesome invaders preparing to take over your shower, your bathroom, even the entire galaxy!You must use your drain probe, called Effer-vessel, to destroy these invaders. Be prepared to fight sewer squid, and bulldozers, sewer demons, and more as you search for the leader of the invaders.On each level of your drain, work to stay alive as you collect treasure, weapons, and decoys to use in your quest to destroy the invaders.The game is turn based where you move around one square at a time while the invaders try to get you. Use weapons to stop the invaders as you get your treasure and proceed to the next level of your shower drain. |
| Dreams to Reality | 1997 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Action | Behind view | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | In this game you are Duncan - a man, who must save the worlds of Dream and Reality from dark force. World of dreams allows you, for example, to fly between islands in the sky or to make your clone. You will encounter some peaceful creatures, who can talk to you and help you with your quest, and evil ones, who want to take away your will and must be killed. So you jump and run your way through the ancient land in search for the well of mankind's dreams. |
| Druid: Daemons of the Mind | 1997 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Synthetic Dimensions PLC | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | The world of Navan has many islands, and four of them are reigned by the powerful Druid brothers: Lawson, Curak, Havnar, and Astor. They worship different deities and try to maintain the harmony of nature on their islands. But one day, Lawson mysteriously disappears. Unable to solve the mystery, the brothers seek out you, a grandson of a once powerful Druid, to search for Lawson in the entire world of Navan.The gameplay of Druid is somewhat similar to that of Ultima VIII: Pagan. It is an action RPG with simple point-and-click interface and action-oriented combat. You can execute two different types of physical attacks (high and low) and cast a variety of spells. You don't have a party in the game. |
| Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick | 1997 | Playmates Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Illusions Gaming Company, The | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick is based on the popular USA Network animated series Duckman.In this game, Duckman has been replaced by the new Duckman (who looks more like a super-hero than the old Duckman) and you have to take back your show. As the title might suggest, it is an adventure game, in the LucasArts-style. |
| Duke: The Apocalypse | 1997 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Contains: authorised editions of DUKE Xtreme, Duke!ZONE II and a free T-shirt. Requires full version of Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition or Kill-A-Ton Collection. |
| EF 2000: V2.0 | 1997 | Ocean of America, Inc. | Digital Image Design Ltd. | Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | EF2000 v2.0 is a US-only compilation of an updated DOS version of EF2000 and the Windows 95 version Super EF2000. There are two DOS products included:
EF2000 (basic version)
EF2000 TACTCOM (add-on)The DOS versions have optional 3D hardware accelerated support for 3Dfx Vodoo or Rendition Verite cards. The DOS versions also have a slightly different network functionality and cannot connect to the European version of EF2000/TACTCOM releases.The Windows 95 version is similar to the basic DOS EF2000 game and has DirectX support with software rendering. This US Windows 95 version is network play compatible with the European version of Super EF2000. |
| Earth 2140 | 1997 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | TopWare Programmy Sp. z o.o. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Post-apocalyptic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | It's the year 2140, earth is almost completely destroyed after numerous wars and environmental catastrophes, and the people primarily live underground. The two enemy parties are the United Civilized States and the Eurasian Dynasty. In this RTS game, both are trying to conquer as much land as possible.Earth 2140's game concepts overlap with those of the Command & Conquer lineage - mine resources, build units, and send them into battle with an enemy which must be tracked down. The two sides have different units, with the UCS advantaged by its Mercs and robotic infantry. There are cinematic cutscenes for each mission |
| Eat My Dust | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Davidson & Associates, Inc., Funnybone Interactive, Van Duyne Engineering | Racing / Driving | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | | | | Windows | Eat My Dust is a go kart racing game similar to Mario Kart. The aim of the game is to reach the checkpoints in the time allotted to you and, of course, to finish first. The challenge is avoiding the barrage of obstacles as well as computer-controlled competitors who are trying to pass you for the lead.Choose from a number of vehicle styles & sizes, all of which handle differently. Each car is equipped with unusual weapons that can be triggered to hinder your opponents - golf balls, chickens, bees nest. More ammo can be picked up as you go. There are four different race courses which have unique graphical themes.Primarily a single-player game, internet competition is also available. |
| Entombed Enhanced | 1997 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Blue Water Entertainment, Inc | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Entombed Enhanced is a completely reworked version of Entombed. It is a puzzle-solving (Myst-like) adventure game. The objective is to help a trapped archaeologist escape from a subterranean tomb by solving numerous perplexing puzzles. To aid him, he has only his wits and a diary of another explorer, who came here before and eventually never left. |
| Eraser: Turnabout | 1997 | Warner Bros. Inc. | Imagination Pilots | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Eraser Turnabout is a predominantly action game with some puzzle-solving, featuring pre-rendered action scenes and a lot of recorded full screen video. You play the role of John Krueger on a hectic mission to shut down a conspiracy in a few hours that threatens the free world and to stop a terrorist strike. Along the way you get to shoot a lot of assassins, solve puzzles and clues. There are a few additional characters that accompany you on the way, but mostly you will be on your own. |
| Ernie: Pank i Bayonne | 1997 | Norsk Strek AS | Norsk Strek AS | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Mini-games, Puzzle elements | North America | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Ernie: Pank i Bayonne (Ernie: Broke in Bayonne) is a game based on a comic strip Ernie (later renamed 'Piranha Club') written and illustrated by an American cartoonist Bud Grace. He participated in the game creation as well.You start the game with 1,000 dollars cash in our inventory and have to collect much more money in order to become a member of that very Piranha Club. The money is earned through many mini-games presented as different buildings of a small US city of Bayonne, where you have to serve drinks in a bar, bid on horse races, wash cars on street etc. However the true meaning of those humorous activities is usually to use some item in a special place in order to 'cheat' into winning. The deadly piranha is present too, as well as video-clips by Bud Grace himself who talks about different characters you meet in the city of Bayonne. |
| Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life | 1997 | Discovery Channel Multimedia, Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Crossover Technologies, Inc. | Educational, Simulation, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | A sort of combination of Civilization and SimEarth. You control one of the earliest tetrapods (land animals), and try to get it to reproduce, spread, and evolve into a later species, ultimately evolving an intellectual species (which doesn't have to be Homo sapiens). There are some 160-odd species in the game, including dinosaurs; the continents move around during play; era changes are marked by geological catastrophes, which occur on a semi-random basis. In addition to the 'full' game, there are shorter scenarios for the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. |
| Excalibur 2555 A.D. | 1997 | Sir-tech Software, Inc. | Tempest Software Ltd | Action | Behind view | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Excalibur 2555 AD is a 3D action game. The legendary sword Excalibur has been stolen by the raiders from the far future. As Merlin's apprentice, you are sent forward in time, equipped only with a broadsword and limited spellcasting ability. Your mission: recover Excalibur and prevent catastrophe. |
| Extreme Tactics | 1997 | Tiburon Interactive Publishing | Media Station, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Extreme Tactics is a real-time strategy wargame that allows you to design your own war machines and then send them into battle. |
| F-22 Raptor | 1997 | NovaLogic, Inc. | NovaLogic, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | F-22 is another sim-lite game, as it was made for non-simmers. The game lets you fly missions in various areas of war. For the most part, your missions are of you sweeping an area for unidentified fighter planes, and occasionally bombing various things. Unlike other Novalogic games of the time the terrain is not rendered with voxels and instead uses polygons. |
| F/A-18 Hornet 3.0 | 1997 | Empire Interactive Entertainment, Graphic Simulations Corporation | Graphic Simulations Corporation | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | F/A-18 Hornet 3.0 is a serious simulation of the fighter's capabilities: Air Superiority and Ground Attack from both land and sea. Learn how to fly the jet in a series of training flights. Rather than have a campaign mode, there is a carrier mode in which you can fly in one of many "hot spots" in the world. |
| F/A-18 Korea | 1997 | Empire Interactive Entertainment, Graphic Simulations Corporation | Graphic Simulations Corporation | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | F/A-18 Korea is the successor of F/A-18 Hornet 3.0 and simulates the F/A-18C/D Hornet dual-purpose fighter and strike aircraft. The new campaign with 28 missions takes place in Korea. Typical goals are the bombing of silos or atomic reactors.The game lies its focus on the realistic simulation of the aircraft and so the player has to work with a complex set of key combinations to control it. To make it easier to get used to the controls there are several training missions which discuss the functions in great detail. Besides the scenario the only real difference to F/A-18 Hornet 3.0 is the new support of 3Dfx graphic cards. A speciality in comparison to other flight simulations is that the player can't just start the airship when he receives the clearance for take off - he has to wait until it is his turn and the airstrip is free. |
| F1 Racing Simulation | 1997 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | All Teams, Drivers and Tracks of the 1996 FIA Formula 1 Championship season are included. You can modify your car and after the races you even could learn not only from the replay - there were also telemetry dates saved. The sounds of the engines were recorded from original Renaults. |
| FIFA Soccer Manager | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts UK Ltd. | Sports, Strategy | | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | FIFA Soccer Manager is EA's first venture into the market of football managers. With a line-up of twelve leagues in five different countries (England with four divisions and Germany, Italy, France and Scotland with two). The calendar follows realistically how the competitions develop, so expect a Winter break in Germany, a September league start in Italy and many weeks with double fixtures in France. The database, composed by over 7500 players, also includes some European sides, and the three European competitions are present.Managers can improve their team by training them or simply acquiring new talent to the line-up. While the game misses pre-defined tactics, each player can be assigned to a position freely. It's also possible to set team orders, style of play and change the coverage of each position.One of the key features is the stadium builder. With it, it's possible to customize the stadium block by block, instead of the usual stand by stand. Over 300 individual pieces, from stands to roofs can be used to build different stadiums. The total of seats are defined by the initial size of the club, some of them able to build stadiums with over 400'000 seats. Different kinds of stands also allow for more concessions (stores inside the stadium) to be built.Games can be instantly generated or seen with an isometric 2D engine resembling the 16-bit FIFA games. Not only players follow their orders and suit their positioning correctly, but the state of the pitch graphically displays exactly how well have you been treating it and there are empty seats showing if there isn't a full crowd. It's also possible to save a full match and review it later. |
| FairyTale: A True Story - Activity Center | 1997 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | FairyTale: A True Story - Activity Center is a game for children aged 7-11 based on the 1997 film FairyTale: A True Story. The Beck is a beautiful glen where fairies live and it contains many hidden surprises. Players can explore the house of Elsie Wright and her family. They have to collect fairy dust and take photos of fairies. It is possible to paint your own pictures and print them out. Included are fourteen different activities that build children's skills in reading, writing, creativity and exploration. |
| Fallen Haven | 1997 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Micomeq | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Turn-based strategy and tactics defines the gameplay for sci-fi game Fallen Haven. The game centers around humanity's defense of colony planet New Haven on the fringes of the galactic battleground. Taurans, the opposing alien race, arrive in force with dropships and advanced weaponry to try and unseat the well-entrenched human foe.Gameplay begins with a strategic planning phase where research and development and logistical planning takes place. The tactical gamplay phase places more emphasis on fire and movement of a wide variety of human and alien infantry, vehicles, artillery, and flyers. Players can also build defensive fortifications, roadways, and bases to bolster their chances at victory.The game features multiple difficulty levels, an expansive battle-map with 15 territories and can be played from either side (Human or Tauran). While the game is turn based its core mechanics play very similarly to a traditional real-time strategy game. Music included with Fallen Haven is CD quality techno that is well suited to the game style. |
| Farland Saga: Toki no Michishirube | 1997 | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Eight years have passed since the great war between humans and magical people. Brian, one of the war's great heroes, died peacefully, leaving behind the girl Kalin, of whom he had been taking care all the years following the war. Kalin leaves her country and goes on a ship to look for a job as a mercenary. On her way she meets Al, a boy who wanders around aimlessly, suffering from amnesia. Together, they reach a town where they receive jobs in the local guild. One of their assignments involves busting a pirate ship, and that is where their great adventure begins...Toki no Michishirube is a direct sequel to the first Farland Saga game. It is an anime-style strategy RPG which consists mainly of large strategic battles, taking place on isometric battle fields. The player moves the characters over the battle field, attacking physically or casting spells. After a battle, characters gain experience points, which the player can freely distribute among the party members. |
| Fathom: The Game of Tiles | 1997 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | After the Atlantean city has risen from the deep blue sea near Miami, all scientific groups were directed there. And they found a pool with tiles, which was a royal playfield for up to 4 players. You become the player in this game named Fathom by scientists. So you have to choose tiles of 4 colors to create frontier for offensive moves, crystallize for defensive moves and use runes for power-ups.The goal of the game - conquer more land consisted of this tiles. There are two modes in the game - single-player (solitaire) and multi-player (battle). |
| Fin Fin: On Teo, the Magic Planet | 1997 | Fujitsu Interactive, Inc. | Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Fin Fin is a virtual pet similar to Tamagotchi. The special feature of the simulation is speech recognition with a accompanying microphone. Of course it doesn't really understand what the player is saying but it reacts to the mode of speaking - a friendly tone makes it happy and loud or hectic speeches makes it sad. Sometimes it speaks back and a "conversation" occurs. Over time it learns to distinguish the player's voice from others.Like other virtual pets the Fin Fin needs to eat and sleep. The game is set in a virtual world where the Fin Fin can meet other animals (the player can't interact with those). The pet either plays with them or is scared which affects its mood. A happy Fin Fin rewards the player by singing a song or performing stunts. |
| Final Conflict | 1997 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Rhode Island Soft Systems, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Back of Box - Windows (US) (from Ad Blurbs)They've blown away entire galaxies. Now they know where you live!
You're about to engage in galactic war like there's no tomorrow. Fail and there won't be one.It's just you against the Donanji Marauders, the most lethal aliens in the universe. But if you take them on too soon, you can kiss your little Alliance good-bye.Better get your ships together. You've got planets, moons, space stations and bad manners to conquer. Crucial resources are spread over 21 uniquely designed missions. The good news is you decide your own path.You'll need to get personnel. As in space marines. Mercenaries. Laborers. Assault robots. Grunts for the dirty work. You don't have to like 'em. You just have to pay 'em. What's mined is yours. Diamonds. Metals. Whatever it takes to buy or build bigger, better firepower and new technologies. The best part is you can take it all with you from mission to mission.Trust us, you'll need it. Because when you reach the Final Conflict, there'll be room for only one reality.... yours or theirs.
21 adrenaline-pumping missions, characterized by their own distinctive terrain and objectives.
Vivid super VGA graphics paired with a sizzling soundtrack.
Dynamic game play tactics include on-the-fly barriers, cloaking, hyperlink teleports, computer viruses and evolving technological research.
A non-linear progression - select the mission sequence and accumulate resources for use in subsequent operations for a sharper strategic edge.
Create your own conquests for endless action with the mission editor (included as a bonus).
Multiplayer upgrade available soon. Check out our web site
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| Five Star Collection | 1997 | Mindscape, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Five Star Collection includes:
Allied General
Fantasy General
Panzer General
Star General
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| Flesh Feast | 1997 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Ingames Interactive AS/UK | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | As you may guess from the title, Flesh Feast involves zombies. Lots of zombies. The game takes place on an island resort owned by the food corporation NASAT Inc. After an explosion at their main factory, NASAT's "secret ingredient" is accidentally released into the water supply. Soon afterwards the island's population begins to grow sick and die, only to rise again as mindless flesh-eating zombies.
The game takes place in three different areas divided into four levels each. In each area you'll take control of a different main character and guide them through the various levels in an attempt to survive the zombie onslaught. Once you complete all three areas the main characters get together for a final showdown at the NASAT factory.Flesh Feast is a third-person action game which takes place in three-dimensional levels. In each level you will control a main character as well as up to three helpers for a total of four characters. You can control a character directly, or you can give them commands using a strategic mode. Throughout the levels are located a variety of weapons such as golf clubs, chainsaws, and sub-machine guns which you need to arm your characters with in order to fight off the endless horde of undead. Besides the unending army of zombies there are also a few human survivors struggling through each level, and if you save them they'll be able to join you team at the end of the level.Levels include a graveyard, an airport, a sports complex, a hospital (complete with morgue), and even the shopping mall from Dawn of the Living Dead. |
| Flight Unlimited II | 1997 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Looking Glass Studios, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | North America | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Flight Unlimited II took Looking Glass' flight sim series away from its aerobatic origins and into the world of the general civilian flight sim, with the Beechcraft Baron, Piper Arrow, de Havilland Beaver, P-51D Mustang, and Trainer all at your disposal.As well as presenting the most detailed terrain yet seen in a PC flight simulation (11,000 square miles of the San Francisco bay area created from satellite photography and real-world elevation data), Flight Unlimited II also introduced numerous other advanced features such as fully-integrated air traffic control (along with other air traffic), detailed weather systems, night-time flying and lighting, VFR or IFR navigation, objective-driven adventures, and online flying lessons. |
| FlipOut! | 1997 | GameTek UK Ltd. | Gorilla Systems Corporation | Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | FlipOut! is a puzzle game starring aliens from the planet Phrohmaj. Your objective in each puzzle is simple: you must place all the colored tiles into the correct spaces on the board. The tricky part is that there is always one more tile than there are spaces. That means you are always juggling at least one tile in the air. The game becomes more difficult as you have to juggle more tiles, and the Phrohmajians try to interfere.This game features nine bizarre areas, each with multiple puzzles. The graphics feature a lot of crazy animation of the Phrohmaj onlookers and lots of bright and colorful tiles. |
| Flying Corps: Gold | 1997 | Empire Interactive, Inc. | Rowan Software Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War I | Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Flying Corps Gold is a re-release of the 1996 WWI air combat simulator Flying Corps. Adding to the realism and six airplanes of the first, the roster now also includes the Fokker D-VII, as well as a new campaign, a mission editor, Direct3D and 3DFX support, a multiplayer mode and support for the CH Force FX joysticks.Owners of the original game could partially update their version via a patch. |
| Football Mogul | 1997 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Infinite Monkey Systems | Sports | | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | An American football sim that puts you in the front office, making decisions on what players to trade, draft, sign and cut. As owner and manager of your own football team (pick your own city and nickname), you make all the player decisions as well as set prices for TV contracts, concessions and tickets. The game engine simulates each game, and you can play a week, a month or a season at a time.The game doesn't have a license with the NFL or NFLPA, so with rosters based on actual NFL rosters in the mid-1990s at some point, fake names close to the actual ones are used. Stan Yu is the name used for Steve Young at quarterback for San Francisco, and so on. |
| Forbes Corporate Warrior | 1997 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Forbes Corporate Warrior uses the first person shooter genre as a metaphor for the cutthroat business world. The premise is that a brilliant scientist developed a virtual reality helmet that maps the real world, free market place into a VR arena where different types of business competitors are represented as a variety of enemies. You begin the game with a weapon called the price slicer with which to dispatch your competitors. There are various other marketplace-inspired weapons to collect in the arena. Different weapons represent different business tactics in the real world (like the Ad Blaster and the Legal Laser) and some work better against certain competitors than others. All cost money to use; in fact, it costs you money even if you stand still. Your goal is to keep your stock price and gain market share. In addition to metaphorically shooting competitors in the virtual world, you can also adjust certain factors in real time, such as increasing or decreasing your debt, selling or buying back stock, and modifying the price of your goods along a thriftiness/luxury continuum.In addition to the single-player FPS mode, the Forbes Corporate Warrior also features a networked multiplayer mode. |
| Formula 1 | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Bizarre Creations, Ltd. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | Oceania | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Formula 1 was the first of Sony's official FIA-licensed Formula 1 games. All the cars, teams and circuits of the 1995 season are recreated in millimetric detail. Variable game modes and camera angles are included. To widen the game's appeal, it includes optional helpers such as automatic braking.The game contains a rock soundtrack including tracks by Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, and commentary from UK TV legend Murray Walker. |
| Formula Karts | 1997 | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Manic Media Productions Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Formula Karts is a semi-realistic racing title that attempts to capture the spirit of kart racing with it's low slung feeling of speed, and corner after corner of impressive handling (and inevitable sliding). The title supports both simulation and arcade modes, and features some effective race AI for non-player vehicles. Two player split screen is supported albeit with some slowdown. |
| Frogger | 1997 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Millennium Interactive Ltd. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is a late-90s remake of the original arcade classic Frogger. Navigate Frogger by hopping left, right, down and up through jungles, busy streets, sewers, and even the clouds to save his five little buddies, as well as the golden frogs of myth. Dodge cars, rats, and man eating alligators to stay alive. Snag some bugs for special abilities and points. Play against a friend online. Just remember, don't hop on sinking turtles. |
| Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '98 | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Step up to the plate for a true-to-life, physics-based baseball game that uses the laws of nature, not probability. Manage your athletes from their rookie season all the way to the Hall of Fame.You can choose an arcade mode as well as a full simulation mode and pick players from the 1996 & 1997 MLBP association.The game also includes an "internet league play" feature. |
| Front Page Sports: Golf | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Headgate Studios Inc. | Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | FPS Golf allows anyone to play the game in as many ways as was possible in 1997. You could play alone on your PC, with co-workers over a LAN, or over a modem with another player or over the SIGS (Sierra Gaming Network). FPS Golf was Sierra's answer to Links. |
| Front Page Sports: Ski Racing | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | | Kevin Murray | | | | Windows | Front Page Sports: Ski Racing simulates the four World Cup skiing variants: Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super Giant Slalom and Downhill. The game focuses on a realistic gameplay, so there are more maneuvers necessary then just steering the skis in the right direction. The player also has to edge his turns and prepare for the jumps. Other tricks like back flips can be performed while jumping but there is no playing mode which utilizes them.The six courses are based on real ones: four American and two European. In the training mode the player can familiarize himself with the courses as well as setting the wind, weather and snow. The season mode offers multiple races, either in one or all skiing variants, in which points are rewarded for the most successful skier. Who has the most at the end of the season wins the Sierra-Cup. |
| Front Page Sports: Trophy Rivers | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Educational, Sports | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Another part of Front Page Sports is Fishing, which can be favourite action as for single sportsman as for group of interested people.
In single-player you are allowed for Fishing Trip, Tournament against computer and multi-tournament pro Career. You are choosing a river and species, your skill and weather conditions. Finding a fishing spot with boat or on foot, you scout surrounding water and plan a cast. When got a strike you begin to fight with a fish. You can choose your equipment from tackle box determined by tournament rules or absolutely free from limits in trip. During the fishing you can use the tips given by professional anglers.
In multi-player mode you are allowed for Cooperative or Tournament modes of fishing.
The game has a How-To feature, which represents an electronic library for fishing purposes. |
| G-Nome | 1997 | 7th Level, Inc. | 7th Level, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | Teen | | Windows | In the future, an uneasy peace exists between four races. The Humans, the Darken, the Merc and the Scorp. The Scorp are developing a highly powerful weapon, and it's your job to sneak behind enemy lines to figure out what's happening. You do this in your giant robot, called an HAWC (Heavy Assault Weapons Chassis). One big advantage your HAWC has is you can easily eject. You can fight on foot if you want, but then again, you can also steal other people's vehicles. |
| G-Police | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | After a violent interstellar resource war, mega-corporations seize power from the remnants of Earth's governments and lead humanity's way into the colonization of space. The last vestige of central authority is in the form of the G-Police (Government Police); an independent agency tasked with keeping order in the colonies. You play as rookie Jeff Slater - a former military pilot going undercover at the G-Police squadron on Callisto, in the hopes of finding the truth behind your sister's sudden death.G-Police is an arcade-style helicopter shooter set inside the colony domes on Callisto. You pilot a futuristic close-air-support gunship, and are tasked with engaging ground and air enemies as you uncover a sinister corporate plot. Your ship can hover and turn in a VTOL mode, fire weapons outfitted before each mission, and lock on to objects in the world to both track enemies and scan suspicious cargo. Missions require you to navigate through the skyscrapers and billboards of the various city districts, and complete a number of objectives updated through radio contact with headquarters. There are thirty-six missions to complete. |
| Gag: Otvjaznoe Prikluchenie | 1997 | Noviy Disk | Auric Vision Ltd., Zes't Studio | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | In Gag you play Gary Tusker, a secret service agent who is specialized in preventing sexual and religious perversions. He is very professional, though he is - according to the manual - an "impotent virgin" too. While studying at Antarctic Academy for Secret Agents, he was once bitten in his private parts by a penguin with poison teeth, which resulted in his particular condition.In the intro is shown that Marquis de la Bourbon, a retired Air Force fighter pilot & drunkard, and his wife Margo, who practices witchcraft, are involved with a group of Satan worshipers, known as the Dark Brothers. Gary is assigned by his lovely boss Lucy to investigate what is going on in Castle de la Bourbon and what the evil plans of the Dark Brothers are.Gag is a 1st POV, point-and-click and inventory-based adventure game with pre-rendered backgrounds and full motion video scenes. The game includes a few mini-games, including "Gagboy," a sexual version of Tetris (which was made available for download and can be found on the web). Gag was only published in Russia and in the Netherlands. The latter version is English spoken. A sequel was made but only published in Russia. |
| Galactic Attack | 1997 | GameBank Corp. | Taito Corporation | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Galactic Attack is a top-down shooter, there are seven levels to play, ranging from battles in the atmosphere of planets to battling over mountain ranges, each with their own standard huge bosses at the end of each of these levels. The player takes control of a starfighter called the RVA-818 X-LAY, out to destroy any opposing forces.The story has the future of Earth governments gathering together to construct a massive super computer called Con-Human to help with the planet's environment, providing nutrients to the earth and caring for the ecosystem. However, a cloned human is linked with the system and makes Con-Human a sentient being. The system eventually becomes insane and starts to create natural disasters, wiping all nearly all of mankind and destroying the ecosystem, driving the survivors into space to develop colonies on other planets. Con-Human then makes Earth into a giant fortress and is assembling a massive armada to destroy the remaining survivors, but before it can attack, the survivors amass a first strike in order to reclaim the Earth.The goal is to fly around in the level, using the primary laser weapon to destroy various enemies flying in and out of the screen. Players can upgrade this weapon by collecting "L" icons floating around when enough enemies are destroyed. There is also a secondary weapon, a lock-on missile launcher, that has the ability to fire upon eight different ground enemies at once. |
| Galapagos | 1997 | Anark | Anark | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Galapagos is a world of evil self-replicating robots. They have just created helpless Mendel, an insect-like little robot that will be the prototype of an army that will aid the Galapagos race to destroy all worlds in the universe. The player must help Mendel escape the industrial labyrinth where it was placed before it is too late...The game is really a series of dangerous environments that Mendel must go through in order to escape. What makes the game different is that Mendel has a bit of a mind of its own; in principle, its Artificial Intelligence can learn from deaths and not repeat mistakes, or become more neurotic after successive failures. The player instead controls the somewhat surreal environments Mendel is in, rather than Mendel itself, usually by clicking on switches that move platforms, disable force fields, activate jump pads, etc. |
| Game-Pack | 1997 | Via Media Medienproduktionsgesellschaft mbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Game-Pack is a compilation that includes the following ten games:
Golf Perfekt
Master-Quiz
Pool Champion
Broker
Yucatan: Das Gold der Mayas
WinPolis de Luxe
Mystic House
Crystal Caliburn
Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing
Casino de Luxe: Las Vegas |
| GamePack 2 | 1997 | Serges Medien | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The first release of GamePack 2 includes the following 10 games:
Dia Bolo
Explosiv - Blown Away
Flight Unlimited
Kniffelix
Der Planer
Loony Labyrinth
MegaRace 2
Schach-Meister
Wetten Dass..?
Super Solitaire |
| Gamers Pack | 1997 | Aztech New Media Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Gamers Pack is a collection of over two hundred games shareware, freeware and demo games grouped into nine categories and released on multiple CDs, Some games run in DOS, some in Win 3.1 while others require WIN 95.When started the game displays its main menu showing the game groups on the CD, by clicking on the game group in the menu the user opens a separate window which shows the game group in detail. The new window shows the list of games on the left, a screenshot in the middle and a brief description on the right. Some of the games can be run direct from the disc while others have to be installed. To get back to the main menu from the game group menu the user has to close the game group window.
Disc one contains the Arcade, Board and Sim game groups. The Arcade game group contains forty-seven games including;
The Super '97 Software Arcade Classics Collection: Vol 1 this consists of a Breakout clone and a Pong clone
Galga 94
Bubble Pop
TC Choplifter
Winblocker
The Board game group contains eleven games including;
Attaxx the Win 3.1 game from the Millennium Computer Corp.,
Chinese Checkers and Redhook's Revenge from ImagiSoft, Inc.,
Battleship from SimoneSystems
The Sim game group contains eighteen games including;
Apollo: Mission to the Moon
Interstate '76
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
World Empire III |
| Games Pack | 1997 | Aztech New Media Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Games Pack is a multi disc compilation of Aztech New Media 's previous compilations of freeware, shareware and game demos. Disc 1: this contains the entire contents of six of the seven CDs that form
Hall Of Fame Game Cube, the contents of the DOS disc are missing. It's contents are;
Parlor Games: Dino Cards ,
Puzzle Pack,
Word Wrestle
WinAgrams aka Anagram Word Puzzle,
Ancient Yacht,
Arasan Chess,
Calculation Solitaire ,
Canfield ,
CardShark Hearts ,
Cribbage for Windows ,
Cross Words Deluxe ,
CrossWords 2.0
Double Deck Solitaire ,
Draughts a freeware game from The University of Limerick,
Draw 5: Draw Poker For Windows
4-Play,
Four Seasons Solitaire ,
Gin Rummy from MeggieSoft ,
GNU Chess Revision: 1990-09-30 by Daryl Baker,
Hang Man ,
K-Chess for Windows ,
Master Mind,
MisterMind,
Paradise Solitaire,
PentoPuzzle aka Pentominoes,
Pirate's Gold Solitaire,
Rangoon Solitaire,
Rummy 500,
Safebuster
Shift Zone,
Sir Hangman,
Win Block and WinBridge,
Plus all these games from Solitaire King series;
Solitaire King: Aces Up,
Solitaire King: Accordian,
Solitaire King: Beleagured Castle,
Solitaire King: Busy Aces,
Solitaire King: Clock Solitaire,
Solitaire King: Golf Solitaire,
Solitaire King: Grandfather's Patience,
Solitaire King: King Albert,
Solitaire King: Klonike,
Solitaire King: St. Helena,
Solitaire King: Shamrocks,
Solitaire King: Yukon
Adventure Games: Exile: Escape from the Pit,
Exile II: Crystal Souls,
Sapiens,
The Inside World,
Adventure Gamer for Windows: This is a program that enables games to be created, the shareware release included here comes with both a training game and a 'full size' game The Gates Of Macrohard,
Castle of the Winds,
Dave Dude,
Hugo's Horrific Adventure,
Nitemare-3D,
Pelvis-n-Space,
Quenzar's Caverns,
SuperHer,
The Adventures of MicroMan,
Win Battle,
and
Win TrekAction/Arcade Games:
Cell War,
Defender,
Robot Battle (V1.2),
Virus: The Game,
A Day at the Races - a WIN 95 game,
Alien Force,
Bad Toys,
Bago,
Boxes,
Boxes II,
Brickbat,
Block-Heads,
Chomp from Glen Summers,
ColorBlind,
The Egg Carton Game,
Electro-Cute,
Fire Away!,
Fruits Fields,
Gelules,
Glider 4.0,
Gold Monkey,
Gopher-It,
Jeu d'Henri,
Jpuzzle aka J-Puzzle,
MacBlaster,
Super Marble Solitaire called just Marble Solitaire in the game browser,
Missile Attack!,
Oil Cap Pro,
Penta-Blox,
Pudge,
Shuttle,
Squark,
Squirmer The Game,
Tai Chi Game,
Moraff's Tinyjongg,
Touzai-Mahjong,
Vyper,
Win Aliens, and
WOWSpill
Strategy Games:
Declaration Of War,
Econ's Arena,
Orion,
WWI Air Fighters: A StrikeDeck game,
AlienTic,
Attaxx,
Block Breaker from Yutaka Emura,
BrainCubes,
Cubix,
Flip It ,
In The Dark,
Lines,
Maxit,
Medieval War,
Mother Of All Battles!,
Nine Men's Morris from Carl von Blixen,
Noughts And Crosses from Pentti Moilanen,
High Command aka Pendulous,
Pensate,
Rollem Game,
Search and Destroy version 2.2,
Space Empires II,
Span-It!,
Stellar Empires,
Win Block for Windows,
WinWar II, and World Empire IISimulation Games:
GoMoku Narabe,
Gravity Well,
Lost in a Labyrinth,
Magic Hexagons,
ABM Command,
Baccarat For Windows,
Backup,
Financial Freedom Electronic Darts,
Glass Bead Challenge,
Link Four,
Lucky Stars Video Slots,
Moraff's Morejongg,
Office Darts 301
Video Keno for Windows,
3D-Life,
WinPolis,
World Empire IIIHi-Octane Games: Hi-Octane' does not mean this is a collection of racing games, rather the twelve games on this CD all require, by 1996 standards, a 'Hi-Octane' pc to run them. The games are Hardwood Solitaire - an early version of Hardwood Solitaire III,
Prince Of Destruction,
Moraff's Spherejongg called Spherical Mahjongg 3D in the browser menu,
Terrace,
Lode Runner,
Maze O' Doom,
Metal Marines,
Peggleboz,
Senet,
Super Qube Hopper,
Moraff's Ultra Blast, and
Winroids from developer Stephen Baxter.
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| Games People Play: Hearts, Spades & Euchre | 1997 | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Classic card games remade by the masters of strategy, Westwood Studios. Play over the internet in tournaments, on a network with friends, or against the computer AI. Customizable rule sets, card themes, and table backgrounds. Hearts, Spades, and Euchre fun for the whole family. |
| Gloria | 1997 | Himeya Soft, Inc | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | Adults Only | Narrative | Windows | In Gloria, the player controls a British exchange student with a good reputation in an American university, soon employed by a famous millionaire who wants the player to be a tutor for his daughters. He has five of them, all living in a beautiful mansion. Now it's up to the player to educate them... The game is a standard Japanese-style adventure. The player interacts with the environments by selecting text commands from a menu. There are no puzzles, but occasional choices made by the player, which might influence subsequent events. The game has 45 possible endings. |
| Gold Games 2 | 1997 | TopWare Interactive | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The second "Gold Games" compilation has a reduced number of games, compared to its predecessor (though, the number of CD's has increased). The following games are included:Action Soccer
Air Power
Apache
Bermuda Syndrome
C.E.O.
Chaos Control
Circle of Blood
Earthsiege 2
HIND: The Russian Combat Helicopter Simulation
hyper 3-D Pinball
International Tennis Open
Orion Burger
Panzer General
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows Over Riva
Roberta Williams' King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
Screamer
Solar Crusade
Star General
Time Gate: Knight's Chase
Toonstruck
Virtua Fighter PC
Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles 1846-1905
War Wind
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| Golden Gate | 1997 | Panasonic Interactive Media | iX Entertainment | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | North America | | | | Teen | | Windows | In Golden Gate, explore modern day San Francisco to uncover an ancient treasure hidden there years ago.The game has a point-and-click interface, is explored in first person perspective, and includes a small number of adventure-type puzzles.Scenes of San Francisco are drawn in watercolors and appear in "slide-show" fashion. The gameplay is similar to a treasure hunt since scenes must be investigated thoroughly to find all of the clues and items. Full motion video cut-scenes advance the story. |
| Golf Pro 2000 Downunder | 1997 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | Roadshow Interactive | Simulation, Sports | Behind view | | | | Oceania | | | | | | Windows | Softkey's Golf Pro 2000 Downunder combines the familiar gameplay mechanics of the 3-click swing meter - similar to other golf sim titles of the era - with a powerful 3D engine that brings the uniquely Australian countryside to life. There are 5 game modes, 3 skill levels, and a unique feature that randomizes the flag placement for each round. |
| Golf: The Ultimate Collection | 1997 | SegaSoft, Inc. | | Compilation, Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | One of SegaSoft's "bundle" packs of other company's games.This one includes:
British Open Championship Golf Special Edition
Greg Norman Ultimate Challenge Golf
Picture Perfect Golf: Harbor Town Golf Links
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1997
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| Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon | 1997 | Microforum International | | Sports | 3rd-person (Other), Side view, Top-down | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Welcome to world's wackiest sports event: Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon. Up to four players, being either human, kangaroo or alien, compete in ten events. You can play all events in championship mode or play a single event.The game consists of the following events:
Computer Throw: Throw your computer farther than your opponents.
Crazy Climbing: Be the first to climb to the top of a building, but watch out for falling objects and punching opponents.
Hippo Push: Push a tonne of uncooperative hippo across the finish line before your opponents do.
Nice Doggy Jump: Leap over three pits filled with nasty creatures. The player who jumps the furthest beyond the third pit wins.
Troubled Waters: Be the first to find your way in an underwater maze. Keep an eye on your oxygen level.
Full-contact Figure Skating: Score the most points by executing figure skating moves.
3D Maze: Avoid the monsters, find the key and run to the exit.
Platform Kickboxing: Knock your opponents off a platform.
Javelin Catch: Catch as many javelins while avoiding falling bombs and other competitors.
Roller Derby: Put on your roller blades and battle your way to the finishline avoiding your competitors and landmines.
Between events in the Locker Room you can enhance your character's three attribute ratings (strength, speed and endurance) by buying Ammunition, Power-ups or Energy Juice. |
| Gooka | 1997 | JRC Interactive | JRC Interactive | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Gooka is Czech adventure game based on the novel "Gooka a Dračí lidé" (Gooka and Dragon People) penned under the name Richard D. Evans by Czechoslovak (Czech-writing Slovak-born) writer Vlado Ríša, who also worked on the game's script.You play as the titular character Gooka, who is accused from murdering his own father. Your first quest is to prove your innocence and then discover who is behind the murder. The fate of the world Janatris is in your hands.The game has a fantasy setting, but also has science fiction elements. Gooka was only sold inside the Czech Republic. |
| Goosebumps Attack of the Mutant | 1997 | Microsoft Corporation, DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | BlueSky Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | Horror | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant is a game based on the R.L. Stine kids' horror novel of the same name. The game has you playing as a comic book addicted kid who steps off a bus into the world of his favorite comic book. A large mansion is on the horizon, but the owner, the Masked Mutant, isn't friendly at all. You must team up with a variety of superheroes to kill the Mutant and escape from the comic book world. |
| Gothos | 1997 | Microforum International | Mindmeld Multimedia, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Horror | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Gothos is an interactive mystery adventure on 3 CDs. Vampire clans from around the world are gathering, and rumors are circulating that the ancient Scrolls of the First Blood have been unearthed. You play as a male or female vampire and are sent by your Coven into Gothos to investigate. Once inside Gothos you will meet the city's many inhabitants. Some will be exactly as they appear to be, but others will be involved in the web of deceit and corruption that must be unraveled to complete your mission.The game is created with Macromedia Director and uses Quicktime for the FMV sequences. Gameplay consists of point-and-click sequences, shown from a first-person perspective. The game screen is surrounded by a large border that contains a blood bar that needs to be fed, a compass, a picture of the avatar (there are four characters to choose from, which do not affect the gameplay except for some sexually explicit dialogue), a compass, and icons for the inventory. Puzzle are often based on the choices during conversations, with different attitudes towards other characters.The game has multiple ending depending on who you have allied yourself with and who you have eaten. A map can be used to travel to the different locations. There are a few dead ends and it is possible to die. Find the five Blood Scrolls but choose your friends carefully, claim victory or end up dead on the Deceiver's sacrificial alter. |
| Gradius: Deluxe Pack | 1997 | Konami Corporation | Konami Corporation | Action, Compilation | Side view | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | This pack contains both the arcade classics Gradius I and II, ported to Windows 95, Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn.Story: the Bacterians are attacking the planet Gradius, and in a state-of-the-art fighter ship you have to stop them. Both games have similar gameplay and graphics, with only different music and level layout setting them apart.Each of these side-scrolling shooters has over a dozen levels each, all of which are completely unique. There are no enemy types that are re-used from level to level (except for the boss who is the same in every level). You can collect powerups that provide things like extra speed, laser shots, target-seeking missiles, shields, etc.While there have been many small modernising touches made to the games, there is still no ability to save. Be prepared to set aside a considerable amount of time to finish in one go. |
| Graduation for Windows 95 | 1997 | Mixx Entertainment | Headroom | Simulation | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Graduation is a Japanese anime "life-sim" game. You take the role of a homeroom teacher who is given the responsibility of teaching five girls in their last year of high school. You determine their class schedules, do guidance counseling, interfere with their weekend plans, and occasionally take to the streets to make sure they're not getting into trouble. Each of the girls has their own individual personality and problems, and the choices you make will determine whether they graduate from high school, what they do with their lives afterward, and whether or not they wind up hating your guts. Get them all into top colleges and your boss will praise your genius. If they all flunk or wind up wanting to marry you, you'll obviously be fired.Despite what common sense and knowledge of the Japanese psyche might lead you to believe, this is not an adult (or hentai) game and there's no nudity and only an average amount of anime sexploitation. |
| Grand Theft Auto | 1997 | American Softworks Corporation | DMA Design Limited | Action, Racing / Driving | Top-down | Regional differences | Crime | | Contemporary, North America | Automobile | Direct control | | Mature | 2D scrolling | Windows | In Grand Theft Auto, the player takes the role of a small-time criminal trying to make it big with the mob. Stealing cars, doing jobs for the gangsters and behaving generally anti-social are the way to success.The action moves through six levels spread over three different cities, each based on a real US city: Liberty City (based on New York City), San Andreas (based on San Francisco) and Vice City (based on Miami). To finish a level, a certain score must be reached. Stealing cars and crashing into traffic, driving over pedestrians and killing cops all raise the score, but the
big points are made through jobs. Answering phones or entering special cars brings mission assignments, from simple "ditch-a-hot-car" jobs to supporting bank robberies or carrying out assassinations. Completing a mission will raise the score substantially and also increase the score multiplier, so that completing the next felony will gain even more points.Criminal behavior comes with a price of course: if policemen witness a crime, the player's wanted level rises. At the lowest level, a single police car might give chase, whereas at the highest level whole car squads hunt the player, the police set up roadblocks and shoot to kill. The only way to evade the cops is to find a respray shop and get a new paint job with new license plates. This costs money which is deducted from the score, however. But even dying or being arrested are not the end. The player has several lives, and ending up in jail simply results in being stripped of all weapons and armor and the score multiplier being lowered.The entire action is viewed from a top-down perspective, which zooms out while driving a car, for a better overview at high speeds. The cities are many screens large and can be freely explored. Crates are scattered over the cities, which might include weapons (from pistols to rocket launchers), armor or other bonus items: extra lives, police bribes (used to reduce the wanted level to zero) and get-out-of-jail-free cards (used to retain score multiplier and weapons when busted). Dozens of different vehicles are available for the taking, each with unique characteristics: a bus will handle very differently than a sports car. |
| Gravity Well | 1997 | Software Engineering, Inc. | Software Engineering, Inc. | Action, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | David Hoeft, Paul Hoza | | | | Windows | Gravity Well is a strategic war game of planetary conquest with arcade elements. It can be played in 'Solitaire' mode where the player competes against three computer opponents, or in multi-player mode against other opponents.The objective is to claim all available planets in the sector for the empire.The player takes control of one of four races and must explore the available universe for new planets. Once these have been located the player must land to claim them and then defend them so that freighters can come and build either colonies, if the planet is habitable, or outposts and tech bases if it is not.
Where a planet has been colonised the existing structures must be destroyed before another player can claim it. The single player game is customisable. The player can select their opponents from sixteen races whose characteristics range from timid to suicidal, the number of ships and types of starting weapons can be changed with more weapons and base upgrades being awarded during the game.The ships are fast and will fly in one direction until they are rotated and thrust is applied to change course. Landing on a planet or star base therefore requires the player to head directly for their target and at the right moment rotate their ship and apply thrust to reduce speed and counter gravitational attraction.
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| Great Adventures by Fisher-Price: Wild Western Town | 1997 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In Fisher-Price Great Adventures: Wild Western Town, you play a deputy law enforcement agent for an old wild west town. Your primary goal is to find a number of gold bars that the outlaw Bandit Bob has hidden around town. Wander around the colorful, Fisher-Price-themed town and look into and under every nook and cranny in order to recover the stolen bars.Additionally, there are various games and activities that the player can participate in:
Emma's Dilemma: Help the storekeep in packing orders for customers. Find the items in the store that match the requested specification.
Pepe's Piano Room: Musical sing-along activity.
Guest Guess: The player is presented with 9 items at the hotel guest counter. A random guest appears and the player must guess which item corresponds to the guest (e.g., boat anchor goes with pirate guest).
Town Cannon: Fire the town's cannon at various targets (with assorted types of ammo) with zany outcomes.
Bank Safe: Visit the bank safe to check how many gold bars have been recovered so far.
The Boot: Drop a barrel in the automated boot machine and aim it at various targets around town for wacky results.
Wacky Wanted Posters: Art activity that allows the player to create their own wanted outlaw poster.
Build A Badge: Art activity that revolves around creating your a custom deputy badge. |
| Große Schlachten der Weltgeschichte | 1997 | Empire Interactive Europe Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Battleground: Ardennes
Battleground 2: Gettysburg
Battleground 3: Waterloo
The Civil War |
| Gundam 0079: The War for Earth | 1997 | Bandai Digital Entertainment Corp. | Presto Studios, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | Mecha / giant robot | | | | | Windows | A simple puzzle oriented game based upon the popular Gundam robot warrior series. Game has several FMV shots of fighting robots and live actors superimposed over bluescreens. You have a set of choices that are presented during each scene. The choice you make decides if you progress through the game or not. |
| HEAT Game Network | 1997 | SegaSoft, Inc. | SegaSoft, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the retail version of The HEAT Network.www.HEAT.net was a player matchup service à la Kali and M-Path with support for ladders, tournaments and other community builders in the games. Any game that could be played over a LAN could be played on HEAT.A number of features made HEAT different than other online services at the time:
HEAT had games exclusively developed for it. Some of these games were offered for free (via download or on the CD), such as Net Fighter, Alien Race, DeathDrome and the demo version of Scud: Industrial Evolution.
Enhanced web features such as personal profiles, easy to use challenge forms, web-based chat and e-mail, and demographically targeted ads.
The concept of Degrees, a form of "frequent flyer mileage" for winning games, participating in HEAT events, and clicking on ads. Players would accumulate these Degrees and spend them to get discounts (in some cases, 100% discounts) on items in the HEAT store (like HEAT merchandise, games, joysticks, video cards.) Ultimately, Degrees could be wagered by players in games (Net Fighter supported this.)
A free membership tier and monthly fee tier. At the time, this was a new thing. Free members could play almost any game on the site, and had access to a sub-set of all the features. Members gained Degrees, could participate in tournaments, and had a few other perks.
HEAT had a bizarre "back story". The concept by the fictional "Reverend" stated people have innate violent tendencies, and that we should embrace them and take them out on-line. A whole "religion of Cyberdiversification" was planned, and chats with the Reverend and other Cyberdiversion propaganda appeared on the web site from time to time.Inside the HEAT Game box (which is transparent, an industry first) is the CD containing:
4 HEAT-Only games (mentioned above)
six demo versions of popular LAN games (Blood, Comanche 3, Interstate '76, Lords of the Realm II, Postal and Uprising)
an ISP promotion with MCI
Norton AntiVirus 2.0 (trialware)
a coupon for a 6 month HEAT subscription
an XL HEAT T-Shirt |
| Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II | 1997 | Encore, Inc. | Dreamers Guild, The | Role-playing (RPG) | | | | | Fantasy | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Faery Tale Adventure II is the sequel to MicroIllusions' classic RPG. The three brothers, introduced in the first game, have been teleported to a foreign country where they have to save the local people from evil powers spreading in the once peaceful lands. The graphics resemble those in Ultima VIII: Pagan and the gaming world is large. |
| Hardline | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Action | 1st-person | | | Rail shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | Direct control | | Mature | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In the near future become helicopter rescue pilot Ted Irvin, a man with mysterious budding psychic powers as he battles a strange cult called The Sect. An on-rails shooter with light adventure elements. |
| Harukaze Sentai V-Force | 1997 | Ving Co., Ltd. | Ving Co., Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Turn-based | | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | Long ago, civilization flourished on Venus. The environmental protection agency Goa Del maintained the planet. However, in the name of self-defense, Goa Del began to develop weaponry against the wishes of the house of lords, El Doral, and eventually war broke out between the two groups. The queen of El Doral sent her young daughter Rabis on a shuttle to Earth, but in an attack, the shuttle was separated from the convoy and made an emergency landing on the moon. In a last-ditch effort, El Doral brought the way to an end with the "organic weapon" HN-01, and the defeated Goa Del fled into the reaches of space.Two thousand years later, the descendants of Goa Del, now calling themselves the Baskille Empire, are rapidly expanding their power. One day, a bright light appears near Venus, and the Baskille Empire has appeared, returning to take back their planet. And now, three sisters living on Earth, distant descendants of El Doral, have gotten caught up in the fight.Harukaze Sentai V-Force is an isometric strategy RPG similar to Front Mission or Super Robot Taisen. The game follows Natsuki, Mizuki, and Kagetsu, three sisters who are pilots in the Earth Defense Force. Each mission allows you to configure your character's weaponry, and as they fight, they will gain experience and level up. Before and after each mission, fully-animated cutscenes drive the plot forward, and sometimes they will appear at crucial points during a mission as well. |
| Have a N.I.C.E. day! | 1997 | Magic Bytes | Synetic GmbH | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | A racing game with 3 different car leagues. The more races you win, the more money you earn. You can buy new weapons and extras. The graphic engine is simple; the whole terrain is "flat". |
| Hearts Deluxe | 1997 | | MVP Software | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Deluxe Hearts is a commercial release of the shareware game MVP Hearts DeluxeThe game is played either as a single player game against three computer opponents or it is played over a network with real people. It is entirely mouse controlled, has a choice on card fronts, card backs, backgrounds and a customisable rule set.The single player game allows the player to replay each trick, at the end of a round the player can view the other player's cards, review all the tricks played within the round as well as replay the entire round. |
| Heroes of Might and Magic Compendium | 1997 | 3DO Company, The | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This collection contains:
Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty
Also tucked away on the first CD of the English version is King's Bounty, the precursor to the entire series. |
| Herrscher der Meere | 1997 | attic Entertainment Software GmbH | NovaTrix GmbH | Simulation, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Herrscher der Meere ("Ruler of the Seas") is a traditional German business simulation. The player trades goods, explores ports or becomes a pirate. First the player needs to buy a ship out of five different ship types. Then some goods need to be acquired in order to become a trader. The game proceeds in real time and makes it possible to see other ships sailing on the map. In friendly ports the player can build factories to produce one of the sixteen types of goods. The battles are also in real time. Defeated enemy ships can – when not destroyed – be taken possession of. |
| Hexen: Beyond Heretic | 1997 | id Software, Inc. | Raven Software Corporation | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Hexen is the sequel to Heretic. While the Heretic was destroying D'Sparil, the other two Serpent Riders have come to your dimension and slaughtered everyone. Or so they thought. Three humans have managed to escape with their lives and now seek vengeance against the Serpent Rider Korax who remains in their world.Like Heretic, Hexen is a fantasy game based on an enhanced DOOM engine. All of Heretic's innovations like vertical looking, flying, and the inventory system have been carried over. The new major changes this time around are three characters for the player to choose from and the level hub system. The characters are the Fighter, the Cleric, and the Mage. Each one has four unique weapons and different levels of speed and armor.The hub system steps away from the traditional "single levels stringed along into episodes" system which had been carried over into the FPS genre from sidescrollers and made popular by Wolfenstein 3D. In Hexen's hub system each episode is still made up of interconnected levels, but most of the levels are connected to a single "hub" level through portals. There are also portals between some of the "spoke" levels. Many of the puzzles in Hexen require travel back and forth between different levels.Other innovations in Hexen include weather effects, jumping, earth-quakes, and destructible objects such as trees and vases. The game also includes scripted sequences created with a language called ACS, allowing for much more complex puzzles and dramatic scenes. |
| Hi-To-Mi | 1997 | Game Box Co., Ltd. | | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Romance | | Fantasy | | Menu structures | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Hi-To-Mi is a visual novel about a man who was in an accident. After recovering he discovers girls suddenly seems very attracted to him and he now has powers to influence their feelings. Can he resist this power and stay true to the girl he loves? |
| History of the World | 1997 | Avalon Hill Game Company, The | Colorado Computer Creations | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | Historical events | | | | | | Windows | Based on the board game of the same name, players play against each other or AI opponents for "world conquest."This is done by players each receiving an "empire", a major civilization during a time in history. Each player attempts to expand his civilization to gain maximum points for his turn. The next "turn" represents a new age, and the players are dealt new civilizations. The player's goal is to extend his previous total control over the board each turn, taking control from players in previous turns, but trying to protect his own progress. |
| Hockey Pong | 1997 | Pellenc Software | Pellenc Software | Sports | Top-down | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Hockey Pong is a ultra fast bat & ball game in which your goal is to score as much as possible.Two teams meet three times for 20 seconds. Each team controls two bats: a forward and a goalkeeper.Each bat you control will behave like in a breakout game, except that when the ball comes from behind, it will be redirected ahead. |
| Holiday Island: Erweiterte Version | 1997 | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH | Simulation | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Point and select | | | Isometric | Windows | Holiday Island: Erweiterte Version is a extended version of the original game. It contains:
Holiday Island
6 additional scenarios
bonus audio tracks |
| Hollywood Mogul | 1997 | Hollywood Mogul Company | Hollywood Mogul Company | Educational, Simulation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Simulation game in which the player runs a Hollywood studio. Features include the chance to produce big-budget epics or small-scale personal projects. Select a novel, play or original screenplay or even write one yourself. Finally, prepare a budget, hire the actors, director and producer, keep tabs on the production and have a say on the final cut of the movie. If you make the right decisions you could have a box-office hit - or a major flop. |
| Hollywood Monsters | 1997 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Péndulo Studios, S.L. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | This is an old school-type graphic adventure, right down to the verb-selecting SCUMM-ish interface.
Every year the "Hollywood Monsters awards ceremony" is organized to recognize the acting monsters. You play a reporter from "The Quill" who gets the assigned to cover the show (celebrated at the apropiatedly gloomy Hannover mansion, owned by the president of MKO pictures). However things go bad and both your character and Frankenstein dissapear. You'll then procede through the game alternating between Sue (the first character) and Ron, who was sent to find out what happened. All this in a world populated with wacky versions of popular horror movie monsters (the werewolf appears as a gigolo, the mummy is whipped by his wife, etc...). |
| Hong Kong Mahjong Pro | 1997 | Nine Dragons Software | Nine Dragons Software | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | This game allows the player to play the ancient game of Mahjong against three computer players. Unlike many other games with Mahjong in the title, this game does not consists of picking matching tiles off of a pile of tiles to see if you can remove them all. Instead, it plays similarly to the card game Gin where you must accumulate straights or runs to win. However, Mahjong has its own special rules involving the special tiles used to play the game.The game has a number of pre-programmed opponents, each with their own portrait, voice, and play style. |
| Hoyle Classic Board Games | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Chess, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | | Windows | Hoyle and Sierra bring the same style as in previous card game titles to familiar board games including: Backgammon, Battle Ships, Checkers, Chess, Chinese Checkers, Dominoes, Pachisi, Snakes & Ladders, Yacht, and Zen Bones. It adds an animated dancing piece to Snakes & Ladders, plus computer opponents who tease your play. Rules for each game are available in pull-down menus plus there is a rule book included which also has the history of the games. You can alter various play options, choose the background music and texture, and your icon's shadow shape. The opponents range from an annoying lawyer to an alien that morphs into Elvis and Marilyn Monroe. You can choose the A.I. level of your opponents - from beginner, to intermediate, to expert. |
| Hugo: Winter Games | 1997 | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Hugo: Winter Games is a point-and-click game aimed at a young audience. It contains various puzzles and also includes some arcade games from the TV special. After completing all task, you get to fight with Scylla in the end and save Christmas. |
| Hupchoo: The Gorps and the Sneezing Spell | 1997 | Telstar Electronic Studios Ltd. | SCOPS Software | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | Mecha / giant robot | | | | | Windows | Hup-choo is an edutainment game about gorps - small humanlike creatures. They've been infected by a sneezing spell, and you guide one of them on a quest around the world, solving puzzles to release them from the spell. You'll get aid throughout the game from the other gorps at certain points in the game.The game uses a point and click interface, and features many multimedia aspects such as digitised video. |
| I Can Be a Dinosaur Finder | 1997 | Macmillan Digital Publishing USA | Cloud Nine Entertainment | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | I can be a Dinosaur Finder is an educational game that shows children how a paleontologist works. You join Eddie the Kangaroo, Katie the Chameleon and Roofus the dog and meet a famous paleontologist named Dr. Rockhound, only to find him disappointed that he can't find his needed fossil. Who can Dr. Rockhound count on to help him find the missing fossil? You can, with the help of your animal friends. Dr. Rockhound will give you a map to travel to where in the world that creature exsisted, one of the areas may have a tent to show where you are already or a flag to show that you already looked in that area.When you try to dig the fossil up there will be three tools a jackhammer, a pickaxe and a brush, you must use each tool in an order. Sometimes after you uncover the rock you might get a little surprise that will either be a funny prehistoric short or a fact about prehistoric life. If you get to any fossils Eddie, Katie or Roofus might tell you when to use another tool. After you uncover the whole fossil you have assemble it. If you get the wrong fossil Dr. Rockhound will always give you another chance to find the needed fossil. After you find the needed fossil and finish assembling it they will have a short movie with that prehistoric animal and their will be an explanation about its life and personality. You can also look around the screen for highlighting images that may hold some Prehistoric life information.Besides looking for the missing fossil the game has nine prehistoric animal games that include Creature Maker, Hidden Picture, Dino Diner, Pangea Puzzle, Mix Match, Compass Caper, Dino Paint, Jurassic Jam and Creature Time match you can play the games at the activity center, or while you are digging up the lost fossil you can go to whatever two or one games are listed at the lower corner. It also has bios about famous Paleontologists and has a timeline that gives all time periods from the Cambrian to the Quaternary period, when you click on one their will be an illustration of the time period and an explanation about it. |
| I-0: Jailbait on Interstate Zero | 1997 | | | Adventure | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | You're Tracey Valencia, freshman at the University of Dorado. You're driving through the desert to be home for Thanksgiving, and your car breaks down. In this text adventure, you must do what you can to make it home. |
| Ignition | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Unique Development Studios AB | Racing / Driving | Diagonal-down | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Ignition is an action packed racing game viewed from above and slightly behind the player. The cars on offer range from police car and VW Beetle to school bus and truck, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses - trying to win with the bus, which involves blocking everyone behind the hideously slow vehicle for 3 laps, is perhaps the ultimate challenge.Initially there are 5 tracks available, with practice and single race modes as well as full championship at 3 levels - winning each of the first 2 levels unlocks an extra track. They all have hazards running through them, and sections where you must make a split-second choice between the safer route and the risky but potentially rewarding one. Multiplayer can be done via network or by split-screen - in a break with convention the screen is split vertically rather than horizontally. |
| Imperialism | 1997 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Frog City Software, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A turn-based strategy game about the imperialistic expansionism of the 18th and 19th century. Unlike many 'conquer the world' games, the sole emphasis isn't on military conquest. Imperialism promotes victory through a combination of methods, including the relatively unique notion of exploiting underdeveloped nations and expanding your territories through military, political, and economic means. You play a major world power. The New World beckons with promises of riches that can fund your wars against your long term rivals. Your goal is to expand your influence as far as you can in these new territories and use the resources there to become the dominant force in the world. Gameplay takes place on a world map, where you maneuver your strategic units to build, explore, or develop your empire. Combat takes place on its own turn-based battlefield. A number of other screens allow you to manage your economic and diplomatic stances and set your production and trade levels. |
| In the Hunt | 1997 | Kokopeli Digital Studios | Irem Corp. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Naval / watercraft | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | A 2D side scrolling shooter in which you take control of a small attack submarine and engage in underwater combat. The Dark Anarchy Society's forces threaten to destroy the earth's most important cities and only you can get past their defenses and destroy their secret underwater lair.In the Hunt follows the classic template for 2D shooters, with the added feature of being able to control scrolling speed. Includes seven levels of underwater action (and keep an eye out for threats from above the surface), upgradeable weapons, and two player cooperative gameplay. |
| Incubation: Battle Isle Phase Vier (Limitierte Exclusiv Edition) | 1997 | Blue Byte Software GmbH | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This exclusive, limited edition of Incubation: Time is Running Out also includes an original Incubation Soundtrack CD with bonus tracks (total playtime: 61"22). |
| Incubation: Time is Running Out | 1997 | Blue Byte Software GmbH | Blue Byte Software GmbH | Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Diagonal-down | Regional differences | | RPG elements, Tactical shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control | Turn-based | Mature | | Windows | The energy shield that separated the human colonists from the Scay'Ger, an indigenous life-form, has shut-down and a virus has now mutated the Scay'Ger into savage and blood-thirsty monsters. As the commander of an elite squad of space marines, it is your job to halt the enemy attacks and evacuate the remaining colonists.The battles are fought within the buildings of Scay Hallwa, the dark and brooding colony city, in both a turn-based tactical mode and a real-time 3D environment. |
| Ingenious! | 1997 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre, Radiant Productions Pty Ltd | Educational | | | Detective / mystery | | | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | | Windows | This edutainment game challenges 8- to 14-year-old children to become science detectives and solve science mysteries. Distributed for free to Australian schools, it was widely played by schoolchildren of the late 90s and early 2000s. Its content is divided into five parts:
Are We Alone? - learn about the search for alien intelligence
Racing on the Sun - design a solar car
Something Fishy - discover the reason behind a massive die-off of pilchards
Fire Fighter - simulates bushfire fighting
The Last Tribe - the quest to save an endangered wallaby species
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| International Rally Championship | 1997 | Interplay Entertainment Corp., THQ Inc. | Magnetic Fields (Software Design) Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | International Rally Championship is a follow up to Europess's previous rally simulation game 'Rally Championship'. International Rally Championship offers 16 new tracks set in various locations around the world from the deserts of Egypt to the rainforests of Brazil. There are various modes of play including arcade, time trial, simulation (a full rally season in which you drive on every track), championship (race on various tracks on various levels of difficulty) and custom mode in which you get to set up the race using various settings such as weather conditions and the number of cars which will actually take part in the race.
Another excellent feature of the game is a track editor in which you get to create your own tracks. You are able to customize your own tracks from being able to set how steep the hills will be to what the track's surface will be (tarmac, gravel, etc). |
| Internet Board Games | 1997 | JC Research Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Internet Board Games is a compilation of thirteen games which were sold by JC Research's. Apart from Chess and Checkers all the games were sold both separately and in mini compilations as part of their Stone Master Classic Series.
The player may play against an AI player or a person on their pc, play against a person over a network (the product came with two discs to make this easier), or either a person an AI opponent over the internet via dedicated game servers.
The compilation was originally released in 1997 with just eleven games, Chess and Checkers were added in 1998. The games in the later compilation are:
Checkers
Chess
Fox & Geese
Go
Renju/Gomoku
Hex
Nine Men's Morris (Mills)
Mancala
Dalmatian Pirates & The Volga Bulgars often called just 'Pirates' in menus
Push and Shove (Abalone)
Reversi (Othello)
Wild West
Games are played in one window while another, optional, window shows each player's score and the time remaining for them to make their move. The in-game help also opens in a separate window as do the game configuration options. There are multiple AI opponents with different personalities and customisable skill levelsThe computer game was supplied a game board and stone playing pieces |
| J.B. Harold 3: D.C. Connection | 1997 | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Riverhill Soft Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | D.C. Connection, the third entry in the J.B. Harold Series, is - perhaps not very surprisingly - set in Washington, D.C., the capital of United States of America. Walter Edwards, the chief of Liberty Town police, was found murdered near the grave of President Kennedy. His son Frederick is the prime suspect. However, when it becomes known that a very important FBI document has disappeared, the private investigator J.B. Harold decides that he must investigate the case on his own, without trusting the authorities...The game plays similarly to the previous entry: J.B. Harold visit various locations in Washington, talking to people, questioning suspects, searching apartments, and generally gathering clues. The progress of the investigation can be reviewed in the hotel where the J.B. Harold is staying. Despite its Japanese origins, the game has realistic graphics without any manga/anime influences. |
| Jan Pienkowski Haunted House | 1997 | Philips Interactive Media, Inc. | Media Station, Inc. | Adventure | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Jan Pienkowski Haunted House is an adaptation of the pop-up children's book of the same name by Jan Pienkowski. In this game for children of ages 4 to 8 they explore a haunted house that's filled with strange creatures and fun-filled games. There is no real horror to be found, but strange ghosts and monsters from both Earth and beyond do hide out in the house. Each room features original art from the pop-up book and can be explored at will. Clicking on hotspots in the room activates funny animations that will appeal to children. These are accompanied by sometimes ominous music but mostly funny sound effects. Using a map of the house the player can quickly travel to any part of the house. There's no real objectives rather than to have fun and explore. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: 688(I) Hunter/Killer | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc., Sonalysts, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | War | | | Naval / watercraft, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Command the 688(Improved)-class submarine. Operate over 12 different stations, and sail over terrain of the entire globe. Let training missions develope your skills, then take your submarine and take on single missions and a full campaign. Even go multiplayer and play over the internet, network or modem. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: ATF - Advanced Tactical Fighters - Gold | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This edition of Advanced Tactical Fighters contains the original game and the add-on NATO Fighters, ported to Windows. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: Fighters - Anthology | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Historical events | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Direct control | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A compilation that includes:Jane's Combat Simulations: U.S. Navy Fighters '97
Jane's Combat Simulations: Advanced Tactical Fighters
Jane's Combat Simulations: Advanced Tactical Fighters - Nato Fighters
Mission Designer which functions in "Quick" and "Pro" modes |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: Longbow - Gold | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Helicopter, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | A compilation that has both the original Jane's Combat Simulations: AH-64D Longbow and the expansion disk Flash Point: Korea. In addition, the executable is now Windows compatible. |
| Jezus Messias | 1997 | Zoutewelle Multimedia | | Educational, Puzzle | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Jezus Messias is a edutainment title for children of eight years and older. It's aim is to educate children about the life of Jesus Christ. The focus lies on the last years of his life, from his baptism to his death. All the Bible stories are included, supplemented with additional explanations. The stories are accompanied with cartoon drawings.It is also possible to play a game. Players are presented with passages from the Bible and have to combine passages with similar subjects. There is no penalty for making a wrong connection, the player can just try again. |
| Jimmy Houston's Bass Tournament U.S.A. 97 | 1997 | Sammy USA Corporation | Vingt-et-un Systems Corporation | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Jimmy Houston's Bass Tournament U.S.A. 97 is a bass fishing game starring professional fisherman Jimmy Houston. The player gets to fish on Lake Fork, Lake Richland Chambers, or Jimmy's own private lake. You can also watch full-motion video clips of Houston giving you tips to improve your fishing skills. |
| JumpStart 2nd Grade Math | 1997 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Human Code, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | | | | Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | In JumpStart 2nd Grade Math the player join Calaveras Jumping Frog (CJ) the Royal Fly Catcher and his pal Edison the firefly. They need to free a medieval castle which has been taken over by the evil Duke Ratso and his henchmen. Ratso has trapped the King, Queen, Cook, Jester, and Squire inside the castle's magic mirrors. To free them, they have to find all of the ingredients needed to break the spell of the magic mirrors. This educational game includes thirteen different activities, such as Catapult Addition, Subtraction Jousting, Stained Glass Geometry and more. It builds children's skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, money, geometry and telling time. The game is marketed towards children aged six to eight. |
| JumpStart Typing | 1997 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Van Duyne Engineering | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Welcome to the Sparks Sports competition. The Sparks coach Qwerty was locked up by Polly, and now it's up to you and Robot Boy Botley, to get him out. Play many games at the sports arenas to earn typing skills and medals to free the Coach. |
| Just Grandma and Me | 1997 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This is an updated release of the 1992 game Just Grandma and Me. The game is largely identical, these are the notable differences:
A larger resolution from 512x384 to 640x480
Changes to the moments background noise is played.
The original game was localized fully in Latin American Spanish in addition to English. This version drops Latin American Spanish and instead adds French, German and Castilian Spanish. A UI redesign allows the player to switch between the four on the fly.
Two new mini-games: a sticker mini-game and a sandcastle mini-game. The sticker mini-game is integrated in the story as you go through the pages and some parts were reworked to accommodate this. |
| Kajko i Kokosz: W Krainie Borostworów | 1997 | Seven Stars Multimedia | Seven Stars Multimedia | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Kajko i Kokosz: W Krainie Borostworów is a fully digitized audio fairly tale for kids based on the comic book of the same title released back in 1985. After each of the 26 chapters the player may take a rest by playing one of available simple puzzle games. Featured mini-games include: coloring 23 fairy tale locations, 3 types of puzzles, 3 types of labyrinths and 2 types of filling the missing part of the picture puzzle. All the games can be accessed from the main menu as well. The fairly tale can be read in its entirety or from the selected chapter. |
| Kanetaka Shinichiro Seimeigaku-Jiten | 1997 | Rodik, Inc | Rodik, Inc | Simulation | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | | | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Kanetaka Shinichiro Seimeigaku-Jiten is a multimedia fortunetelling program. By analyzing the number of strokes in a person's name mathematically, it claims to be able to appraise aspects of a person's life ranging from luck to interpersonal relationships and offers life advice. Like To-Gen-Kiko, it's framed as being based on the research of the fictional name researcher Shinichiro Kanetaka, and his fictional biography forms a part of its advertising. Originally released exclusively for the Mac as a primarily text-based program on floppy disks, it was later rereleased on CD-ROM. |
| Kef-Li Learns Hebrew | 1997 | SimRon Interactive Programming | H.N.C. Sofware Solutions | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Kef-Li Learns Hebrew is a game where an affable pink blob by the name of Kef-Li teaches you Hebrew, despite the fact that that conflicts with the title.... A bit of story goes like this; you are spending some time at one Ramah camp. Once at this camp Kef-Li discovers a treasure chest with, not one but, six keyholes. Oddly enough there are six areas in the camp... Kef-Li informs you that each area has a secret key hidden in it that can only be found by learning Hebrew (?) So off you go to examine the areas. In each of these areas there will be objects to click on, each of which divulges it's Hebrew name. Once you've clicked on all of them at test shows up (Often multiple choice) Succeed to get that area key.The game seems to actually be trying to improve the knowledge of individuals who already speak the language a little, as most of what you get from the game is vocabulary words. |
| Kick Off 97 | 1997 | Maxis Software Inc. | Anco Software Ltd. | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A football game that can be played in a realistic 3D environment, with motion-captured animations or in a classic 2D arcade style familiar to those who have played the previous Kick Off games like Kick Off 2. The game offers 307 teams and 5,200 players to choose from. Among the features there is the ability to create your own teams, leagues and cups, intelligent computer opposition, the option to save your replays and the motions of Patrick Vieira, David Seaman and Ian Wright. The game also has a lot of options for speed and graphics making it very adjustable. |
| Kick Off 98 | 1997 | Funsoft GmbH | Anco Software Ltd. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Kick Off 98 is an international-team based football game, released to take advantage of the forthcoming 1998 World Cup. Game modes include practice (with several situations available, such as corners, dribbling and free kicks), warm up (a mode where the level of play increases as the player learns to play more effectively), quick start, friendly, cup, world cup, ANCO Challenge (where the player chooses increasingly difficult opponents), network play and a name/appearance editor.The game was fully localized in several countries, such as Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal. |
| King's Quest: Collection Series | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | Bob Andrews, Willie Eide, Scott Murphy, Greg Tomko‑Pavia, Jerry Shaw | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This box contains the first seven installments of King's Quest adventure series and a sneak preview of King's Quest: Mask of Eternity. In addition to that, the collection features three more
games: The Colonel's Bequest, The Dagger of Amon Ra and Mixed-Up Mother Goose.
Kings Quest I
Kings Quest II
Kings Quest III
Kings Quest IV
Kings Quest V
Kings Quest VI
Kings Quest VII
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| Kingdom: The Far Reaches | 1997 | Technology Integration Group (TIG) Publishing LLC | Virtual Image Productions | Adventure | | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In this adventure game, step into the shoes of Lathan Kandor, a young boy, to defeat the evil Black Wizard. Lathan will find help from his mentor, the mighty magician Daelon. Explore the fantasy lands of the Far Reaches and retrieve three of the five pieces of the ancient relic called The Hand of Mobus. Talk to a variety of characters, collect objects and solve adventure-type problems and puzzles.Kingdom: The Far Reaches features mouse control, video animations, cartoon-like graphics, an in-game travel map, and original music which can be turned off if desired. |
| Kling! | 1997 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Kling! is a freeware, five-in-a-row, mouse controlled game from Macedonia.The game is played on a 9x9 grid. At the start of the game there are three coloured balls on the grid and three more are added every time the player makes a move that does not result on a line of five balls of the same colour, lines may be horizontal, vertical or diagonal. Initially there are only three colours to worry about but as the player's score increases they move to higher levels where more balls are added.The game has five levels, optional sound, a save game function and records the top five scores.
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| Knuddel's Quest | 1997 | Digital Nightmares | Digital Nightmares | Action, Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Knuddel's Quest is a shareware puzzle-action-adventure game.The object of the game is to get Knuddle, the hero who has been captured by aliens, out of the alien space-station. This is done by navigating a series of levels of increasing difficulty. The puzzles, tools and obstacles to be faced include monsters and their machines, mazes, tele-ports, bombs, tiles that disintegrate after use, tiles with spikes, etc.The shareware version of the game comes with a tutorial and 15 levels, while the registered version has 100 levels.
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| Kokū Hyōryō Nirgends | 1997 | NEC Home Electronics, Ltd. | Micro Cabin Corp. | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation, Mecha / giant robot | | | | | Windows | Kokū Hyōryō Nirgends tells the story of a young man named Dünn Bit, who was just recruited for a special military unit called "Windmühle". Led by the young and pretty captain Eis Schwarz, this unit specializes in unique airplanes that can transform into giant combat robots called "Divers". They have recently began operation in the country of Vidar, where enemy activity has been spotted. Dünn has to prove himself as a capable pilot and fighter, and perhaps also to make impression on the gorgeous captain or other people in his team, most of which are pretty girls...The game is a mixture of Japanese-style adventure and airplane combat simulation (with the addition of giant robot fights). The adventure parts follow a standard procedure: navigating an overview map of a location, and choosing menu commands ("Look", "Talk", "Think", etc. to interact). The combat is a simulation of a plane from the pilot's point of view, which includes managing fuel and ammunition, positioning the plane, tracking enemies on the radar, customizing plane parts, etc. Transformation into a diver can be done at any time during battles, and has its own advantages and disadvantages. |
| Konrad & Nobelmysteriet | 1997 | Rabén Multimedia AB | ICON Medialab AB | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Konrad is a private detective who travels the world looking for his parents. They are archaeologists and have been missing for many years. When this game begins Konrad and his companion Molvid are on their way to Stockholm and the Nobel Prize Ceremony where they are to meet Professor Edvin Xtra who is being awarded the prize for inventing a machine that can shrink anything. The professor is supposed to have information about Konrad's parents. However when arriving at the Stockholm City Hall both the professor and the machine have disappeared and now it's up to the player to find the professor and prevent the machine from ending up in the wrong hands.Konrad & Nobelmysteriet is a point and click adventure game. Gameplay involves interacting with the various characters that Konrad will come across and collecting items that are needed. Items can then be given to characters or combined with others to make it possible to progress through the game. For each location a certain amount of information has to be gathered and then a new location will become available. Konrad and Molvid travels between the locations in their van. In the van there are various tools that can be used. When starting out the player has to search the van for Konrad's detective tools (such as a magnifier and a invisibility pen) that are needed to find clues. The van also has a computer with scanner that can be used to analyse the various items that the player has picked up. There is also a closet in the van. To get into the city hall Konrad has to pick the right outfit to blend in. |
| Kosmopolska | 1997 | Vision Park AB | TATI Mixedia | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Kosmopolska is a point-and-click adventure where the protagonist is imprisoned for unknowns reasons. He has lost his memory, and all he can do is use his imagination in the cell. His fantasies leads him to the imaginary world of Kosmopolska where the inhabitants needs his help to win a great space-race to find a better world. |
| Last Imperial Prince | 1997 | NEC Home Electronics, Ltd. | Nihon Application Co., Ltd. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Side view | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | When an army of monsters attacked the castle Camelot and forced the Emperor to resign, the whole country fell under their rule, and the Emperor's son Radius had to flee. But in his heart, the young prince still hopes to reclaim the land that is rightfully his, and to defeat the monstrous conquerors. With the aid of his best friend, the wandering monk Nova, and a female fighter Mirion, Radius begins his quest.Last Imperial Prince is an action RPG that plays from a side view. Radius and his AI-controlled party fight enemies (who appear on set locations) in real time, using melee attacks and magic. The party members level up, learn new spells, can equip weapons and armor and buy items in stores. |
| Le Deuxième Monde | 1997 | Canal+Multimédia | Canal+Multimédia | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Massively Multiplayer, Sandbox / open world | Europe | | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Le Deuxième Monde is a massively multiplayer game where players can create their own avatar and navigate in a 3D rendition of Paris. The game allows users to interact with other players, decorate their own apartment, or take part in creative activities. At first distributed on CD-ROM, the game became free in 1998 and accessible online via the Blaxxun plug-in. The game was shut down in 2001. |
| Le Meilleur de Sierra | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes seven titles published by Sierra, alphabetically:
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
Caesar II
Roberta Williams' King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
NASCAR Racing 2
Print Artist 3
Red Baron remastered, as bonus game
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II |
| Le Petit Prince | 1997 | Editions Gallimard | Gyoza Media | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Visual novel | | | | | | Educational | Windows | This CD-ROM is an adaptation by Romain Victor-Pujebet of the famous novel "The Little Prince", written by the French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in 1943.Young readers will find here the full text, some original documents not yet published, but also interactive games: you will have the chance to spend time in the universe of this Little Prince, travel through planets and find new friends. The first two games are the fox game and the asteroid B 612 game.The asteroid B 612 game: if you do nothing, the baobab will grow quickly, destroy the asteroid and the rose. Find out by yourself what to do to avoid this disaster.The fox game : you will have to tame the fox, and for this purpose, come to visit him at his den, on a very regular basis, not too early not too late ... No more clues ...Once the fox is tamed, he will offer you a pad on which you will be able to write letters and find him again for new games. |
| Le Roi des Fjords | 1997 | Euro CD Interactive | Smart Move | Adventure, Educational | Side view, Top-down | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Le Roi des Fjords is a game in six steps: the Machine, the Spell, the Glacier, the Enigma, the Trap, the Metamorphosis.Driven by a flying Norman boat along the great glaciers in Norway, the player follows a virtual journey in quest to find Princess Olaug. The game is based on photographs & videos.The Machine (1st-Person Perspective photo game):
The player finds in the mouth of the Fjord a tiny museum on a little island. There, he must rebuild a very curious machine to open the way to the next step.The Spell (side scrolling game):
Further in the fjord, he learns that Princess Olaug have been transformed in an animal. Which one? Discovering the different species of the Fjord, the player finally finds a boat to continue the journey.The Glacier (1st-Person Perspective game):
The player takes command of the boat to cross the Jostedalsbreen, the king of Glaciers, with interactive video sequences.The Enigma (top-down game):
Someone did try to murder Princess Olaug. Who, where, with which weapon? Thanks to a lot of photographs, in a point and click game, the player finds the right clues to lead him to the next step: The Trap (1st-Person Perspective photo game).The Metamorphosis (1st-Person Perspective photo game):
In the Urnes church, the player discovers the right capitals on the top of the pillars, replacing the good bas-reliefs, sees some fantastic monsters from the nordic myths, and discovers the path to the final of the game.Moreover, a discovery part is organized in 7 chapters, 120 illustrated sheets describe the history, culture and tourism all along the Sognefjord. |
| Legend of the Ancient Dragon | 1997 | JC Research Inc. | Mirinae Software Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | The land of Lotland, inhabited by many different races, was once threatened by the giant dragon Pursival. Five heroes - Gelman, Moss, Loslorien, Lutania, and Metara - joined forces to defeat the beast in the Last Dungeon of Grun, each earning a kingdom for themselves as a reward. Many years have passed, and the king of Gelman ordered an extermination of the Dark Elves. Unbeknownst to him, two of them have survived and sworn revenge against the entire Lotland, claiming the power of the vanquished dragon. Blade, the young Knight Prince of Moss, must find companions among dwarves, elves, and humans, in order to venture into Grun once again and put an end to Pursival's might.Legend of the Ancient Dragon is a Korean-made role-playing game in predominantly Japanese style. The player navigates a party of heroes through overhead environments, encountering non-player characters in populated areas and fighting enemies in turn-based combat. Each companion belongs to a defined class and has access to different weaponry and magic spells. |
| Legends of Kesmai | 1997 | Kesmai Corporation | Kesmai Corporation | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Persistent | | | Windows | Based on an ASCII text role-playing MUD called Islands Of Kesmai started on CompuServe in 1984, this was a graphics-based version multi-player online role-playing game that was available on AOL, Compuserve and Gamestorm. It's set in a fantasy world centered around the Island of Kesmai. You can play as wizards, thaumaturges, fighters, knights, martial artists, or thieves and can join together to explore the island and areas around it. You can use magic, prowess, or pure brute strength to defeat dangers you encounter. Use different tactics as you go into combat. The open-ended gameplay will have your character improving their skill, wealth, and power as you adventure and help others along the way. Electronic Arts bought the developer Kesmai in 1999 and shut down the game on May 29, 2000. |
| Leisure Suit Larry: Collection Series | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Adventure, Compilation | | | Adult | Graphic adventure | | | Point and select | | Mature | | Windows | Leisure Suit Larry Collection Series is, as the name implies, a collection of all Leisure Suit Larry games from 1 to 6 (with the exception of Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Case of the Missing Floppies, which never came out because "Larry doesn't believe in 4-play").The collection comes on two discs, where the first contains DOS versions of the following games:
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)
Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out
The second disc contains a Windows-based version of Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out featuring a revised interface and speech.Some editions additionally include the following content:
Softporn Adventure
The Laffer Utilities - Helps handle your non-productive hours more efficiently
Larry's Big Score - A pinball game featuring Larry
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino
Video Interviews with Al Lowe
The book The Official Book of Leisure Suit Larry
A hint book
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| Les Shadoks, le jeu. La promenade | 1997 | Microfolie's Editions | aaa production, Bidulus Rex, Microfolie's Editions | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Interactive book | | Space flight | | | | | Windows | Because they're not happy on their own planets, the Shadoks and the Gibis (which are both quite dumb creatures) decide to leave and find a more attractive planet, such as the Earth. Les Shadoks, le jeu. La promenade is an interactive story/game in which you will have to help those creatures to find their new Eden : first, build a rocket, then find an appropriate propellant, called Cosmogol.The game offers a save feature and the possibility to replay already explored planets. |
| Let's Go Read: An Island Adventure | 1997 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Let’s Go Read: An Island Adventure is an educational computer game for ages 4 to 6. It features 35 games and activities that focus on reading skills for the targeted age group. Robby (a raccoon) does not know how to read after a large sign is put up outside his home. After a bit of thinking, Emily (a squirrel) helps Robby learn to read by going to Letter Island by entering the Reading Rover, an airplane powered with word fuel. The player takes part by learning the letter sounds, and then the player sounds out the letter out loud, followed by a game which the player must find the correct phonetic letter sound for example.Once the player has mastered each section, a storybook based on what they have learned can be viewed in which the player can let the computer read the story out loud or record a voice reading the story. When the Reading Rover is low on fuel, the player must build words in order to refill and continue the adventure. Also, during the adventure, the clouds with words on them must be sounded out by the player. The game optionally features speech recognition, which the player can interact with the game by voice if a microphone is plugged into the computer. |
| Let's Talk About Me Too | 1997 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | GirlGames Inc., team smartyPants!, Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Let’s Talk About Me Too is the sequel to Let's Talk About Me, a point-and-click activity center for pre-teen and early-teen girls. On top of the features from the first title, it also includes some PDA-like features: an address book, a password protected diary, and a day-planner. |
| Liga Polska Manager '97 | 1997 | MarkSoft | MGroup | Sports, Strategy | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | The second game in MarkSoft's Liga Polska Manager series of football management games, the first one dedicated for Windows platform. The player starts off managing a team in first, second or third Polish league. The game covers national backyard and European cups. The game has all the typical options for managers in the mid 90s. The features include the sale and rental of the players (local and European), setting the salary, advertising, television rights, type of transportation, accommodation, bonuses, ticket prices, a full set of statistics and graphs, training, tactics, expansion of the stadium and others. The game begins in July 1996 with the current football players of all teams.All players are described by: form, technique, speed, passing, shooting. During the match all the interesting situations are presented in text form, there are no animations included. |
| Liga Polska Manager '98 | 1997 | MarkSoft | MGroup | Sports, Strategy | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | The third installment in MarkSoft's Liga Polska Manager series of football management games. The player starts off managing a team in first, second or third Polish league. The game covers national backyard and European cups. The game has all the typical options for managers in the mid 90s. The features include the sale and rental of the players (local and European), setting the salary, advertising, television rights, type of transportation, accommodation, bonuses, ticket prices, a full set of statistics and graphs, training, tactics, expansion of the stadium and others. The player may choose one of three available seasons to start: 95/96, 96/97, 97/98.The game offers five difficulty levels.All players are described by: form, technique, speed, passing, shooting. During the match all the interesting situations are presented in text form and video movies in the form of recordings of Polish league matches. The game features as well few animation sequences in the Biuro menu.Another implemented novelty in this part of the series is teams and players editor. |
| Lingo | 1997 | Philips Interactive Media Benelux B.V. | SPC Vision B.V. | Puzzle | Side view | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz, Word construction | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Lingo is a digital version of the TV game show of the same name. Like in the game show it is the objective to guess five letter words. You are only given the first letter. You get several tries and with each try the letters are marked which are correctly placed and those who appear in the word but at a different location. Within words you get to blindly draw a ball from a pool. There are 17 numbered balls that correspond with a numbers on a bingo card. There's a ball with a question mark that let the players pick a number at will. When the players complete a row or column they receive bonus points. There's also three red balls that passes the turn to the other player and three green balls. A green ball allows you to pick another ball and also when you get three green balls before the game is over you win a jackpot. The game starts with two players, but after some rounds the player with most points goes to the finale. The game is in Dutch so only features Dutch words. It contains a library of 15,000 words. There's also options for six and seven letter games. It is officially licensed by the Dutch iteration of the game show and thus includes the Dutch TV presenter François Boulangé. |
| Linley Henzell's Dungeon Crawl | 1997 | | | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | Roguelike | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Dungeon Crawl is an open source roguelike game originally developed by Linley Henzell. In March of 1999, Linley entered law school and gave over the maintanence duty to a group who call themselves the Crawl DevTeam. Dungeon Crawl allows the player to choose a race and class for his character, then the character is set loose in a dungeon. The eventual goal of the game is to retrieve the Orb of Zot from the depths of the dungeon and escape with it for fame and the people's ovation forever.Some of Crawl's interesting features include: complex skill system, religion with many gods, unique magic spells, and many optional, themed side dungeons. |
| Lord Monarch Online | 1997 | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Lord Monarch Online is 2D real-time strategy, freeware equivalent of Lord Monarch from consoles. The player is ruler of medieval kingdom (but game has other fantasy and S-F maps - for example, futuristic robots, samurai or witches). He must expand own territory, destroy all enemy camps, peasants and defeat the leaders of the other countries. Subordinates operate on a simple command - build a building, wait, or destroy something, and can operate in auto mode. Game has time limit to defeat the enemy. |
| Lords of the Realm | 1997 | Crucial Entertainment | Impressions Games | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Europe, Medieval | | | | | | Windows | The English throne lies empty in 1268 A.D. You and 5 lords are locked in a struggle for the crown. Reap the benefits of successful feudal governing, castle-building, castle-sieging, and land battle to conquer your rivals and claim the kingdom.You must keep your serfs fed and happy. Then assign them to farming, herding, building, military and other tasks. Design your own castles or build them using actual historical blueprints. Then lay siege to your neighbors' castles and fight out land battles in tactical detail. |
| Lords of the Realm II: Royal Edition | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The box includes:
Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm II
Lords of the Realm II Siege Pack |
| Lose Your Marbles | 1997 | SEGA Corporation | SegaSoft, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Arcade, Falling block puzzle, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | "Better than Tetris or your money back!"You line up three marbles of the same colour inside the black square and one marble drops into the opponents column. Whoever's column fills up first loses the game!
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| Lucky Luke | 1997 | Infogrames Multimedia SA | Infogrames Multimedia SA | Action | 1st-person, Side view | Licensed | | Arcade, Puzzle elements, Shooter | Western | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Based on the famous comics series about good cowboy Lucky Luke.In this game, Lucky Luke has to arrest the four Dalton brothers – Averell, William, Jack, and Joe. Gameplay involves progressing from level to level, shooting enemies (bad cowboys, jailbreakers, and hostile Indians) with Luke's revolver, collecting various items like bullets, dynamites or sheriff stars, running, jumping, ducking, and climbing. Locations vary from forts, towns and jails, to mines, a train, and a haunted saloon. On every level, Luke will have to complete different side objectives to progress, like freeing a bank director, collecting gold nuggets for a miner in exchange of some nitroglycerine, or building a totem for the Apache. Some levels end with a boss battle, usually against one of the Dalton brothers.Different arcade sequences between levels involve chasing the Dalton brothers, riding Luke's faithful horse Jolly Jumper, running away from a tornado, or navigating a raft, among other things.
Bonus level arcade sequences include a wrestling challenge with Jolly, bottle shooting, or a revolver barrel roulette.The game uses a password system to start directly from certain points in the game.
It was made in French, English, German and Spanish. |
| MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head: Screen Wreckers | 1997 | Viacom New Media | Cyclops Software | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Beavis and Butt-Head star in this interactive screen-saver that includes nine small games. You can play as either character in plays on gags from the cartoon series as they make their usual snarky comments on the action. The games include Chuckfest (where they throw garbage at the desktop screen), Cornholio (where enough candy must be eaten to change Beavis into Cornholio), Digger (use a riding mower to tear up screen), Karate Beavis (aim a well-placed chop or high or low kick to smash items that fly by), Kick the Can (kick garbage out of a can and try to keep it in the air with successive kicks), Painting Dudes (spray paint the screen), Shoot 'Em (shoot at tossed items such as televisions and mailboxes), Soda Jerks (shake a soda bottle and spray it on the screen), and Tire Trouble (Beavis & Butt-head ride a tire bouncing and skidding around the screen). |
| MVP Cribbage Deluxe | 1997 | MVP Software | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | MVP Cribbage Deluxe is a single player shareware version of the classic card game. It can be played on-line.
The game of Cribbage is an excellent two player card game that can also be played by two teams of two people. It is not a trick taking game, points are scored for holding or playing three or more cards in a sequence, pairs, cards that total fifteen, and in game-play cads that total or come closest to thirty one.This game offers nine computer opponents with differing levels of expertise, and the option to play against real players via Kali, ICQ and the internet. It can be customised, music can be turned on/off, game speed can be changed and unusually the rules can be changed so that the game is won by the first player to score sixty-one or one hundred and twenty-one. Scoring can be automatic or manual, if the latter option is selected the player then has the additional option of playing the Muggins rule - scoring points the opponent misses.The game is played using the mouse but a keyboard is needed to enter. the player's name
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| Madeline: Classroom Companion - Preschool & Kindergarten | 1997 | Creative Wonders LLC | ImageBuilder Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Madeline: Classroom Companion - Preschool & Kindergarten is an educational game for children aged four to six. It is based on the 1939 Madeline book by Ludwig Bemelmans, which also spawned a media franchise and a US TV series. The game comes on two discs with separate games. The first one is for preschool children with skills such as counting, letters, shapes & sizes, colors, sorting and sequencing, and creativity. The second is for children in kindergarten with skills such as early reading, nature & science, addition, subtraction, French and Spanish vocabulary, and world geography. Activities have three skill levels and there are more than 50 activities in total. There are printable activity sheets, printable stickers, awards and postcards, a progress checker, and videos from the animated TV series.On the preschool disc Madeline explores her neighborhood meeting characters and visiting different locations. At the zoo she learns about letters. At the bakery she has to count the goods. In the stationary store Madeline learns about nature. At the art gallery Madeline has to identify simple shapes and finish painting. In her playroom thinking skills need to be applied to sort the toysOn the kindergarten disc Madeline explores her neighborhood, meets the characters and participates in activities. At the general store she has to use her spelling skills to complete tags. In the playroom she has to match labels for English, French and Spanish words to toys. In the magic theatre children can sing along with Madeline songs and videos. In the jewelry store pattern recognition skills are developed by putting beads of different colours and sizes in the correct order to create a necklace, and so on. |
| Magic Fairy Tales: Barbie as Rapunzel | 1997 | Mattel, Inc. | Media Station, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Magic Fairy Tales - Barbie As Rapunzel is an interactive storybook adventure in which the player helps Princess Barbie rescue Prince Galen.
Imprisoned in her tower by an evil witch, Princess Rapunzel grows up with only some birds and a magic mirror for company. One day Prince Galen rides by and asks for a drink of water. Rapunzel lets down her hair so that he can climb into her tower and the two become friends. The prince visits often and tells Rapunzel stories of his travels. However the witch finds out and puts a spell on the prince saying that he must wander for the rest of his days never being able to find his way back to any place he has visited before. Only a kiss from Rapunzel can break the spell but, because he's already been to the tower he can never return there. There's only one solution, Rapunzel cuts off her hair to make a rope, climbs down from her tower, and goes in search of the prince.The story is told by the players fairy godmother Celinda's. Her garden forms the game's menu with hot-spots to start the game in play or story mode, another triggers the picture section where scenes from the story can be printed to be coloured in later and another allows the player to enter the story at any point.The story is in the form of an animated book with short written passages that are read by the narrator, as the words are spoken the words are highlighted. This is then followed by a short animated sequence which carries the action on to the next chapter.
The game can be played in two ways, one as a read-along book in which the puzzles can be skipped, the other as a storybook game. Typically Rapunzel must collect things to allow her to progress on her travels, these usually come in the form of rewards for either helping a character or for completing a puzzle.
Apart from entering the players name at the beginning the game, in either mode of play, is entirely mouse controlled via big colourful icons on the left of the screen. |
| Magiczne Puzzle | 1997 | Albion Sp. z o.o. | | Puzzle | Side view, Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Falling block puzzle, Tile matching puzzle | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Magiczne Puzzle involves laying puzzles mixed in one of seven following different ways:
Classic puzzles: arranging mixed puzzles.
Convertible puzzles: replacing positions of two puzzles.
Falling puzzles: selecting puzzle position on the board before it reaches the bottom strip.
Hidden puzzles: selecting hidden puzzle position on the board. Choosing a good location discover puzzle.
Picked puzzles: selecting a single puzzle from the list and placing it on the board.
Rectangular puzzles: shifting puzzles on single empty field on board.
Timed puzzles: selecting puzzle position on the board in designated time.The program includes two versions: puzzles for adults and puzzles for children. The difference lies in the type of available images and the desktop workstation. |
| Man of War | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Strategy First, Inc. | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | War | | Historical events | Naval / watercraft | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Man Of War is comprised of two distinct sections, the turn based setup and plotting stage and the real-time action phase. In the setup and plotting stage, players can choose to play either a historical scenario or a customized scenario. From a map of the chosen battle, players survey the strength of their fleet, analyze the weakness of the enemy and contemplate strategy. During setup the appropriate pre-battle doctrine is set and first orders are issued through a flag system of command. When the planning is complete, Man Of War's real-time action phase puts the player on the deck of the flagship in a first-person perspective. Players can move about freely to watch the outcome of their orders from any vantage point on the ship's deck. In a phase that lasts up to four minutes, players will experience the roar of the cannons, the impact of a broadside and a changing environment of 16 different weather conditions. When the four minute turn is compete, play will return to the plotting stage where damage and fleet movement is assessed and new orders are issued. When the final orders are given and the last cannon has fired, the Victory Summary will display the results of the battle and proclaim the victor. |
| Manic Karts / Screamer 2 | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation belongs to the "2 Games" series from Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe). This one includes:
Manic Karts
Screamer 2
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| Marble Drop | 1997 | Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis South | | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Marble Drop is an object based puzzle game similar to a cross between The Incredible Machine and Pachinko. Gameplay involves depositing marbles of different colors into tiny funnels which will race down tracks, trigger events and, hopefully, wind up in the corresponding color bin. The contraptions can include many types of gizmos including springs, cannons and curly ques which change the paths dramatically with each marble drop. |
| Marble Master | 1997 | Software 2000 | Software 2000 | Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Swing is a Tetris inspired puzzle game:
At the top of the screen you see two lines of eight balls ("spheres") in different colors and weights (shown as numbers). At the bottom are four scales.
You can transport and put down one sphere at the same time through a grey device between the two parts described above. Three spheres of the same color side by side will disappear and give you points; all other same spheres in vertical or horizontal neighborhood to this three will also vanish (combos)!
The clue are the scales because of imbalance they go up or down and can catapult the spheres over the whole area! And there can be highest only eight spheres on one scale pan - otherwise game over. Later in a game there will be more and more colors and special items.
The multiplayer mode is even more funny because there you have to make big combos for better items which you can catapult into your opponents area! |
| Mars Taxi | 1997 | hemming GmbH | NEON Software GmbH | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A clone of the classic Space Taxi game: As an operator of a taxi on Mars, your job is to carry passengers from one platform to another as quickly as possible. You'll have to avoid obstacles on the way and land smoothly in order to not annoy your passengers - which can be quite tricky, since gravity is not exactly helping here.In each of the ten levels, there's a lot of money to be made by skillfully flying your taxi. And you need that money, since flying to the gas station on a regular basis is a necessity if you don't want to crash.Allows multi-player sessions with up to four people in seven extra multi-player levels.
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| Math Blaster: Ages 9-12 | 1997 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Math Blaster Ages 9-12 features the math team of GC Max and Spot, who have recently crash landed on a mysterious planet, and are perched at the rim of a forbidding crater. Your journey into the crater begins your quest. You will need to find pieces of the shattered Medallion of Prosperity. Once you recover and reassemble the medallion you will then need to hand it to the Terrible Monkey King for a reward. To achieve this task and claim the prize, the players will have to think their way around many tricks and traps.Also includes Math Blaster: Episode 2 for Windows 3.1.
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| Math Grade 3: The Mission Masters - Defeat Dirty D! | 1997 | McGraw Hill Home Interactive | Glass Egg Digital Media Ltd., Morgan Interactive Inc. | Educational | | | Spy / espionage | | | | | | | | Windows | Mission Masters Math Grade 3: Defeat Dirty D! is an educational title focusing on math skills for ages seven to nine. Educational topics involve Problem Solving, Communication, Reasoning, Connections, Estimation, Number Sense and Numeration, Number Operations and Computation, Geometry, Spatial Sense, Measurement, Probability, Statistics, Fractions, Decimals, Patterns, and Relationships, targeted according to the NCTM standards.The story follows Dirty D, a school bully who causes havoc of the amusement parks. With the player’s help, he/she becomes a secret agent and is assigned on a mission by playing five math games, and once the mission is completed, the park will be liberated and Dirty D will prevent the havoc from happening again. |
| Math Invaders | 1997 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Capitol Multimedia, Inc. | Action, Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | Isometric | Windows | Earth ship S.S. Pythagoras has, in the course of space exploration, been attacked, damaged, and captured by the evil Geometroids. You, the Security Chief aboard the Pythagoras, have successfully stowed away, and now your mission is to collaborate with the ship's computer (Calculus) to repair the Pythagoras, rescue the crew, and return to Earth. Math Invaders offers 27 levels of exploration and creature combat, and requires solving a number of mathematical word problems involving addition, subtraction, fractions, decimals, multiplication, division, and a variety of algebra and geometry functions. |
| Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: Version 8 | 1997 | Mindscape (UK) Limited | | Educational | 1st-person | | | Mini-games | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Version 8 is another entry in the long running series of typing tutors. One of the features of these titles is that they use games as an aid to teaching.Apart from RagTime all of the games here are present on Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: New UK Version 11, with slight differences. The games are:
Rag Time: Here the player is presented with a series of random words which they must type in, as they type an old mechanical piano plays a tune. The object here is to develop a fluidity and rhythm to the typing so that the music plays at the correct pace.
Space Junk: This game has the pupil using a space ship to destroy some very odd pieces of junk. The object is to get the pupil to recognise and type common suffixes and prefixes accurately and quickly. The letter groups come in twos and threes, when the last of a group has been typed the space ship gun is charged and fires destroying the incoming object. If the player makes a mistake they can correct it, hopefully before their ship takes damage. The game ends when the station is destroyed or when the game runs out of words.
Road Race: This game is, naturally, about speed. The player is in a car and words appear on a screen in the centre of the dashboard which the player must type in. Every mistake results in a bug splat on the windscreen , too many splats and the player will not be able to see the road and the game ends,.
Check-out Time: This game uses only the numeric part of the keyboard and is based on a supermarket check-out. Grocery items travel down the conveyor belt and the player must enter the correct price followed by the ENTER key. Mistakes are allowed but with each error an item drops to the floor.
Chameleon Picnic: In this game ants march across the bottom of the screen from right to left. Each ant carries the letter of a word which the player must enter correctly. Each correct letter means the ant gets eaten by the chameleon while an incorrect letter means the ant escapes. The game ends when all the ants are eaten or when too many escape, however should the player complete all the words in the list the flowers the chameleon has been protecting from the ants will bloom.
Shark Attack: Here the player is being chased by a shark and must correctly type in random words to star ahead of it. Each error means a bug splat on the player's goggles, going to slowly means the shark gets nearer. If the player is quick and accurate they reach the treasure at the bottom of the ocean.
Penguin Crossing: A penguin tries to cross a fast flowing stream by jumping from one ice floe to another. Each floe has a word written on it, by typing the word the player enables the penguin to jump from floe to floe and eventually reach safety. When the player makes a mistake the penguin squawks so they know there's something to correct.
After each game the player's efforts are scored in terms of their accuracy and words per minute.The title has music, sound effects and sections have audio guidance |
| Maximum Force | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Mesa Logic, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Rail shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Maximum Force is the follow up to Area 51, however, this time around instead of shooting up aliens, the player goes up against a terrorist organization.The gameplay is similar to other first-person shooter gun games where the player can use a light gun or a controller to shoot at bad guys popping up from behind objects or coming off from the side of the screen. If a player gets shot by a bad guy, they will loose a bar of health or can also loose health by accidentally shooting innocent bystanders.There are also power-ups scattered throughout the stage that can restore health, upgrade their weapons power among many others. There are three levels in all and 35 secret rooms scattered throughout the stages. It also supports a second player simultaneously. |
| Mean City: Learn English or Die! | 1997 | Sanoma Magazines Finland | LanguageArts | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Mean City is an interactive adventure game in which the player has 10 hours to save Harry, a television reporter you meet in the beginning of the game. Mean City is being terrorized by an evildoer, the Jinx, and you have to find out why and stop him by interacting with various characters - in english of course.The game consists of various grammar and vocabulary related puzzles which are accompanied by real actors and video sequences which advance the story. In addition, there is an excercise book bundled with the game. |
| Meat Puppet | 1997 | Playmates Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Kronos Digital Entertainment | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Post-apocalyptic | | | | Mature | Isometric | Windows | In Meat Puppet, you play the role of Lotus Abstraction in a darkly futuristic post-apocalyptic world. Lotus responded to a personal add claiming "help wanted for nocturnal missions". These "missions" turn out to be a far cry from what Lotus expected!
As Lotus, your main quest besides performing the occasional kill is to discover the identity of your employer, who has deigned not to reveal himself, and free yourself from his mafia-style employment agreement.
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| MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries (Titanium Edition) | 1997 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries just got accelerated. This edition includes the software version along with a new 3D accelerated version. Unlike the MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries (3Dfx Interactive Edition), this will work with most Direct 3D supported video cards. |
| Megapak 7 | 1997 | Megamedia Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Seventh incarnation of the Megapak compilation. The following 10 games are included:3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
A-10 Cuba!
Caesar II
Creature Shock
Earthworm Jim
Genewars
Heroes of Might and Magic
Missionforce: Cyberstorm
Road Rash
U.S. Navy Fighters |
| Megapak 8 | 1997 | Megamedia Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Megapak 8 is the eighth installment in Megamedia's Megapak-Compilation series. This compilation includes 9 games and 1 other compilation (with 15 games) from many different genres.These 9 games are included:
Circle of Blood
iM1A2 Abrams
Jack Nicklaus 4
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
Return to Zork
Screamer 2
SimCity 2000 Network EditionGerman versions of this compilation replaced Screamer 2 with Rallye Racing 97.The included compilation is Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack, which contains an Atari 2600 emulator and Atari 2600 ROMs of the following 15 games:
Boxing
Chopper Command
Cosmic Commuter
Crackpots
Fishing Derby
Freeway
Frostbite
Grand Prix
H.E.R.O.
Kaboom!
Pitfall!
River Raid
Seaquest
Sky Jinks
Spider Fighter |
| Megasixpak | 1997 | Megamedia Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Off-spin of the Megapak compilation series. This collection includes the following six games (hence the name):Actua Soccer
Chaos Overlords
Comanche CD
Fantasy General
Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri |
| Mensa Ultimate Challenge | 1997 | Macmillan Interactive Publishing, Marshall Media Ltd. | MultiMedia Corporation plc, The | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | Mental training | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Mensa Ultimate Challenge is a collection of puzzles, riddles, tests and advice intended to boost 'brainpower'. It is one of a series of similar titles which includes Mensa Mindbenders and Kids Mensa.From the main menu there are five main options;
Riddles: A selection of forty conundrums to puzzle the player. The riddle is posed and when the player has considered it they click on an on-screen key icon to reveal the answer.
Puzzle Practice: When selected this reveals a menu showing twenty-five icons each of which represents a puzzle type. The puzzles are variations on sequences using letters numbers and symbols together with variations on 'magic square' puzzles that require basic maths. In some questions the player types in an answer while in others the click on an option or drag and drop tiles into position. There is also a key icon on screen which will give the correct answer and an explanation.
Lucky Dip: This is a variation on Puzzle Practice but the questions are random.
Fact File: Described as "The authentic MENSA guide to unleashing your unique potential" this option contains;
The MENSA guide to Improving Your Mindpower. The six sections in this guide are Developing Learning Skills; The Art of Communication; Maximize Your Memory; Increase Your Creativity; Making Better Decisions; and Improve Your Reading Skills. Some sections consist entirely of reading matter while others contain reading matter and self assessment tests.
Also present in this section are the credits for the game and details on joining MENSA
Ultimate Challenge: The previous four options are arranged around the Ultimate Challenge which is the main option of this title. There are six challenges to play each of increasing difficulty. In level one the player has forty minutes to answer twenty questions, in level four they have fifty minutes for twenty-five questions and in level six they have an hour to answer thirty questions.
Within the time limit questions may be skipped and answered later and the tests can be aborted at any time with the player receiving a partial score. When reviewing their results the player has the option to revisit the questions they answered incorrectly and try again.
Some questions ask the player to type in their answer while others ask the player to either drag and drop tiles or click to select an answer from a range of options so both mouse and keyboard are needed to play this title. The game has optional music and plays in full screen mode only.
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| MicroBalls | 1997 | | | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | MicroBalls is a freeware, single player, game of territory capture. Play takes place on an 8x8 grid. The player, who always plays as red, has two tokens in diagonally opposite corners, the game who always plays as blue has two tokens in the other corners. Each player moves one token in their turn, if they move it to an adjacent cell then the result is two tokens one in the old cell and one in the new. However the player can also jump their token to a cell further away, in this case the token is moved and the original cell is left vacant. When a token of one colour is moved next to tokens of another, all tokens that are next to it, horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, are changed to it's colour. The game ends when one player can no longer move, the player with the most tokens in play wins.The game is played entirely with the mouse and there are two skill levels, very easy and easy.
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| MicroLeague Baseball 6.0 | 1997 | MicroLeague Multimedia, Inc. | MicroLeague Sports Association | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | MicroLeague Baseball 6.0 is the fifth and final edition in the MicroLeague Baseball series. You can manage your favorite Major League team, playing exhibition games or League Play to manage or simulate scheduled contests. Phillies' broadcaster Harry Kalas provides the play-by-play commentary. It includes Team Manager, Game Manager, Stat Manager and Network Play options. Players create their own leagues and teams, customize rosters, line-ups and pitching rotations. It is possible to conduct drafts and edit schedules. |
| Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection | 1997 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection features ten new puzzle games, designed by Alexei Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris. The puzzle games are:
Fringer
Finty Flush
Mixed Genetics
Rat Poker
Lineup
Jewel Chase
Color Collision
Charmer
Spring Weekend
Muddled Casino
Each of the games have a number of levels of increasing difficulty and some music to go with them.A scoped-down version with only six games was released for Nintendo Game Boy Color in 2000, under the similar name Microsoft Puzzle Collection Entertainment Pack. |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 | 1997 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The "1998" version of the popular Microsoft series. Flight Simulator is aimed at enthusiasts that features 3000 airports and precise recreations of 45 cityscapes. Flight modeling is provided by experts in both military and aerobatic fields. Helicopters and pre-launch planes are among those included. Many scenarios with full dialogue with the control tower adds a lot of realism to the game. Internet play enhances your flight experience with other human-controlled airplanes. 3D acceleration and MMX technology are supported. |
| Mission Chameleon | 1997 | JC Research Inc. | JC Research Inc. | Action, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation, Mecha / giant robot, Tank, Vehicular combat | Direct control | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Mission Chameleon is a real-time action-strategy game where the player can hop in to control a selection of large insect-like robots.An artificial-life project to send autonomous robots to colonize planets has gone awry; these "bugs" started developing weapons to eliminate humans. You're part of a task force armed with state of the art weaponry and camouflage technology, tasked to destroy any unmanageable bug colonies.The game procedurally generates a mission based on missions taking place on five different planets. Each mission has a set number of enemy bugs to terminate. Players are given a choice from a number of robots, or bugs, to deploy during each mission. Upon the destruction of a bug, the player can deploy another one to enter it. The bugs each have their own methods of transport, such as frog robots can jump over hills whereas robots moving on treads can not. Each bug can also transform to a selection of other bugs on the fly. Players are given a variety of controls over each bug, such as separate control over the bugs' different armaments, deployable bombs as well as stealth modes. |
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1997 | Panasonic Interactive Media | 7th Level, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Comedy | Puzzle elements | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is loosely based on the Monty Python movie of the same name. The player must go through the seven stages of life (The Miracle of Birth, Growth and Learning, Fighting Each Other, Middle Age, Live Organ Transplants, The Autumn Years and Death), looking for hints and clues based on each particular phase of life in an attempt to understand life in general. Once they reach the grand finale, they will be able to live out their life in a cottage, and prove that they can take on the obstacles of life. Having completed these tasks, the player will be given the answer to the ultimate question: the question of life!There are several scenes from the movie shown in-game as well as several sketches from the Monty Python’s Flying Circus television series, like The Spanish Inquisition. |
| Moon | 1997 | Xing Entertainment | OverRise, Inc. | Adventure | Top-down | | | Graphic adventure | | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | 2D scrolling | Windows | "For us that will soon disappear..." The player steps up to a computer terminal where they're welcomed to the "Moon Project". They're immediately transported to a remote island, completely alone. This graphic adventure game is played from an RPG-style top down perspective. Players are free to explore the land as they wish; the island is devoid of people, but filled with the evidence they were once there, ready for the player to pursue as they wish. Hidden throughout the land are clues and items which allow players to solve puzzles. As they solve mysteries, players can travel to fresh lands, with a total of five different maps to explore. |
| Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico | 1997 | Zeta Multimedia S.A. | Alcachofa Soft S.L. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | A humorous videogame starring “Mortadelo y Filemón”, two characters extracted from a comic book very known in Spain.In this game we must rescue the atomic sulphate created by professor Bacterio of the claws of Bruteztrausen, general of a enemy state. This sulphate is a spray that increases the size of the insects, making them reach measures of meters!. They will have to enter the State slyly to arrive at the governmental palace and take the sulphate. |
| Mortal Kombat Trilogy | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Midway Games, Inc. | Action | Side view | | Martial arts | Fighting | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Mature | 2D scrolling | Windows | All the characters from the first three Mortal Kombat games return for the ultimate battle. You can play as Kano, Reptile, Mileena, Kung Lao, Shang Tsung, Sindel, Sketor, Stryker, Nightwolf, Sheeva, Kitana, Scorpion, Sonya, Smoke (Cyber Ninja), Rain, Jade, Baraka, Johnny Cage, Ermac, Noob Saibot, Sub-Zero (Unmasked), Sub-Zero (Classic), Jax, Rayden, Cyrax, Liu Kang, Smoke (Human), Kabal, Goro, Kintaro, Motaro, or Shao Kahn.This game is one-on-one martial arts fighting. The player can choose from over thirty different characters, all with their own fighting style and their own special moves. Trilogy differs from the other games in that you can play combinations of people that otherwise isn't possible, such as old Liu Kang vs. new Liu Kang, etc.Mortal Kombat Trilogy also allows you to challenge a friend to a fight through a Windows IPX network connection. |
| Moto Extreme | 1997 | Hoffmann + Associates Inc. | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. | Racing / Driving | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Moto Extreme is a motorcycle action game inspired by Road Rash. As such, beating your opponents into submission is of more use than out-revving them. There are 8 different off-road tracks, including United States, Canada, Japan, France and on a special bonus course once you complete all the others. You will have to cope with ice, sand dunes, oil and water, and snow, leaning the bike accurately to balance your way across these. There are 3 difficulty levels (amateur, expert and pro) and a choice of 125cc, 250cc and Superbike machinery. |
| Moto Racer | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Delphine Software International | Racing / Driving, Sports | Behind view | | | | | Motorcycle, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | An arcade motorcycle racer in which both superbike and motocross events are available. Game modes include Practice, Time Attack, in which players race against their own replays, Single Races against computer-controlled opponents, and a Championship Circuit. Network or Internet play for up to 8 players is available as well.Winning the championship unlocks additional courses out of the 4 road and 4 dirt tracks available, as well as the new game options Reverse and Pocket Bike. In Reverse mode the tracks are raced in the opposite direction, while in Pocket Bike mode every racer is given a miniature version of his motorcycle.A free track add-on extends the game with one additional course for sportbikes and dirtbikes each. |
| Multi Action | 1997 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Multi Action is a bundle composed of the following games:
Cyber Police
King's Quest VII
Los Justicieros |
| Multi Sports 98 | 1997 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Multi Sports 98 is a bundle composed of the following games:
Kick Off 97
Nascar Racing 2
Tennis Elbow |
| Multimedialny Świat Jana Brzechwy | 1997 | Young Digital Poland | Young Digital Poland | Educational, Puzzle | Top-down | | Comedy | Cards / tiles, Hidden object, Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Multimedialny Świat Jana Brzechwy (The Multimedia World of Jan Brzechwa) is an educational program dedicated to the famous poems for children by the Polish poet Jan Brzechwa. It contains 25 poems, each of them illustrated by a full-screen scene which contains several humorous animations available by clicking on various parts of the screen. The player can listen to a recitation of each poem. There are several mini-games available for each poem, including jigsaw-puzzle, coloring, and spot-the-difference activities. There's also an audio recorder where the user can try and record his own recitation of the poem stanza by stanza, then play it all back. Additionally, some of the poems have songs associated with them. Apart from listening to the song or watching a video of a dance, the player can use an on-screen instrument to make their own music. |
| Multimedialny Świat Juliana Tuwima | 1997 | Young Digital Poland | Young Digital Poland | Educational, Puzzle | Top-down | | Comedy | Cards / tiles, Hidden object, Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Multimedialny Świat Juliana Tuwima (The Multimedia World of Julian Tuwim) is an educational program dedicated to the famous poems for children by the Polish poet Julian Tuwim. It contains 25 poems, each of them illustrated by a full-screen picture, many of which are interactive and contain humorous animations or mini-games. There are jigsaw-puzzle and spot-the-differences minigames available for each poem. The player can listen to a recitation of each poem. Additionally, some of the poems have songs associated with them. Apart from listening to the song or watching a video of a dance, the player can use an on-screen instrument to make their own music. |
| My 3 Sims! | 1997 | Maxis Software Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The following games are included:
SimTunes
SimTown
SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony
This compilation is directed more towards kids than adults.
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| My Amazing Human Body | 1997 | Dorling Kindersley | Dorling Kindersley | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Healthcare | Game show / trivia / quiz, Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | My Amazing Human Body is an educational encyclopedia for children, showing how the human body is constructed and works.The gameplay is centered around an animated human called Benjamin, who can be put together from bones and organs; he wakes up to be nurtured and fed like a living doll. After he comes alive you must care for him during a day, he can do some activities like playing with a basketball, and there are alarms that goes off if he needs drink, food, or sleep, which requires player interaction. If successful, the player gets a diploma.The player can peek & poke among the organs to get information about them, and also take x-ray images.
There is lastly a game to build a buddy for Benjamin, where you collect body parts based on what Benjamin asks for by giving quizzes.There was also online information resources available for the game, requiring internet access, but these may not be available anymore. |
| My Friend Koo | 1997 | KCD Interactive | Softry | Action | Side view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | A little boy named Suk receives an unexpected visit from a fairy tale superhero named Koo. Koo explains that the fairy tale worlds are in grave danger: the heroes were corrupted and turned into villains. The only way Suk and Koo can stop them is by merging with each other and becoming an even more powerful fighter who can put an end to the trouble in fairy land.My Friend Koo is a colorful action platformer. The protagonist travels to various worlds loosely based on popular stories for children such as Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, and others. Sometimes it is necessary to talk to friendly characters and acquire items. Most of the game, however, is dedicated to traditional platform jumping and fighting using punches and kicks. The hero also learns several magic spells during the course of the game, and gains access to special attacks such as summoning a unicorn that flies around and kills enemies. |
| Mystic House | 1997 | Via Media Medienproduktionsgesellschaft mbH | Dosch Design Kommunikationsagentur GmbH, Sono Press | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mystic House is a first-person horror adventure game with Myst-like gameplay and live action FMV sequences. The goal is to find the exit of an old creepy manor. It is not entirely clear if the game was ever released standalone or only as part of the compilation Game-Pack. |
| Mécanoïd | 1997 | Sybex France | | Action | Side view | | | Paddle / Pong | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mécanoïd is a Breakout-style game set in space featuring 48 levels, a level editor, bosses and some shoot'em up elements. |
| NCAA Basketball Final Four '97 | 1997 | Mindscape, Inc. | High Voltage Software, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Shoot and block your way through a full college season working your way up to the final four. Comes with replicas (the NCAA didn't allow real players to be used in this game) of 64 major college basketball teams. There are basic coaching options that can be used, a few plays to cover the basics but nothing too detailed. |
| NFL Legends Football '98 | 1997 | Accolade, Inc. | Saffire, Inc | Sports | | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Back of Box - Windows (US) (from Ad Blurbs)A NEW ERA IN FOOTBALL GAMES
"...the freshest premise of any football game in years...impressive strategic richness...beautiful graphics and solid gameplay" - Computer Gaming World
Over 80 teams and players from four legendary eras of football!
Play a Full Season in any era or "Time Travel" with teams to create fantasy football matchups!
Play by the unique rules and regulations of each era.
Incredible 3D graphics featuring dynamic camera angles that immerse you in the action!
Accurate, comprehensive team and individual stat tracking for single games or full-season play.
Play construction, team and playbook editors.
Powerful Team Management functions give you the ability to draft, trade and manage players throughout entire careers.
Spin, hurdle or dive to avoid defenders.
Bob Fitzgerald calls the play-by-play.
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| Need for Speed II | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Seattle, Electronic Arts Canada | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Oceania | Automobile, Street racing | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | In Need For Speed II the player takes control of eight Super Cars and races his or her way through six different tracks from Australia to Nepal. Much like the first in the series, the sequel has plenty of high performance cars to choose from, including the McLaren F1, Ferrari F50, Lotus GT1, Jaguar XJ220, Ford GT90, Isdera Commendatore 112i, Italdesign Cala and Lotus Esprit V8, each handling differently.Once the player has beaten the six tracks, a new track is made available. It's a fast paced racing game which is intended to play more like an arcade racer than a true simulation, though the player can select which driving style suits him or her best: arcade or simulation. There are three game modes: single race, tournament (in which the player must get the highest score in order to win) and knock out (in which the player has to outrun at least one car at the end of each track to avoid elimination). Car settings such as gear ratio, downforce, break bias and color can be customized. The opponents' skill can also be chosen, as well as the presence of civilian traffic in the tracks. The game offers four options of camera views: heli-cam, tail-cam, in-car and road cam. A replay mode with eight cinematic cameras is also available.The main difference between this and the previous Need for Speed game is in the tracks, with less open road tracks in this sequel. Also, there are no cops to chase the player. However, the tracks available are have a range of detail, and some have changing weather conditions while the player races. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: Kōtetsu no Girlfriend | 1997 | Bandai Co., Ltd. | Gainax Co., Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This is a Japanese-style adventure game based on the popular TV anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. A girl named Mana Kirishima arrives at Tokyo-3 and studies in the same class with Shinji Ikari, the series' main hero. About the same time, a giant robot attacks the city. Is there a connection between the new student and the sudden assault?Unlike the two previous Neon Genesis Evangelion games, Kōtetsu no Girlfriend is not an interactive movie. The player controls Shinji by selecting locations to travel to, looking at people, and talking to them. The locations are graphically represented as anime-style still screens. |
| Neophyte: The Journey Begins | 1997 | Alien Software | Alien Software | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Neophyte is a top-down action role-playing game similar to the Zelda games. The player can make the protagonist swing his daggers or swords at enemies, as well as pick up and use tools that will attack enemies at a long range.Players take the role of Thael, an orphan who has just reached the Age of Ascension and whose mother was killed by the horde, led by the villain, the Grand Malefactor called Vacmatio. Thael has been training under his uncle Aliqus for years. One day, Thael's uncle sends him to the ruins to retrieve a special sword and save a young princess whom Vacmatio wants to sacrifice.Being a shareware title, the game only features one boss fight with Vacmatio and then players are free to explore all the available areas. The game ends as soon as players move through the western bridge which was broken prior to the boss battle and shows a few cutscenes, as well as offering players to print the registration form to order the full game. Unfortunately, no full version of the game was ever released. |
| Newly weds | 1997 | Ecstasy Entertainment | Ecstasy Entertainment | Simulation | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Newly weds is a Korean-made life simulation game similar to Princess Maker series, but focusing exclusively on the life of a married couple. The game begins with a TV show where the protagonist chooses one of the five possible spouses, answering questions to determine their attributes, likes and dislikes, etc. Afterwards the husband selects an apartment to live in, and the couple moves in.From that point on the player manages a variety of activities in the couple's life, mostly focusing on the wife's career. The wife has attributes such as strength, knowledge, beauty, etc., which must be raised in order to successfully apply for certain jobs. She can also attend evening school and go on a vacation. The husband can buy presents for the wife to raise her spirit as well.The game offers a top-down city exploration mode, where the couple can access various locations such as shops, restaurants, fortune teller, horse races, casino, etc. The husband can opt to venture outside alone in the night and visit bars and other establishments of questionable reputation. He can also stay at home and have conversation with the wife, as well as engage in more intimate activities. These are sometimes displayed as seductive images, though without any explicit nudity. Like in real life, conjugal activities may lead to childbirth. |
| Night Café | 1997 | EMME Interactive SA | Pantheon Productions Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Night Café is an edutainment game "set in the sensuous world of 19th century Paris". The player will visit well-known places (e.g. Moulin Rouge) and visit the studios of impressionist painters such as Van Gogh, Monet and Toulouse-Lautrec. In each location puzzles have to be solved to gain access to an artist's gallery (eight in total), which shows about eight to ten works and information about the work and artist. The locations are photo-realistically recreated based on paintings or photos. |
| Nightmare Creatures | 1997 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Kalisto Entertainment SA | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Regional differences | Horror | Arcade, Fighting | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Adam Crowley, a once-respected scientist, now turned to black magic, has released a demonic contagion onto the streets of 1834 London. Based on the long-lost work of the Brotherhood of Hecate, it mutates its victim's bodies into grotesque nightmare creatures, and changes their minds into those of murderous brutes. When Dr. Jean F. began investigating, he was murdered. Now, as either his friend Ignatius Blackward, a priest and expert on the occult, or his daughter Nadia, a biologist and gymnast, fight against the creatures that roam the streets of London, the revived Brotherhood of Hectate, and the man behind it all, Adam Crowley.Gameplay is 3rd-person action, with an emphasis on melee combat. Ignatius and Nadia have different fighting styles and special moves. To keep things moving, an adrenaline meter depletes, killing the hero if it ever runs out. Kill monsters to top it up again. Gather special items to use on enemies, or just kill them using basic weapons. |
| Nightmare Ned | 1997 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Creative Capers Entertainment, Inc., Window Painters Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Nightmare Ned is a puzzle-solving game presented as a platformer. Players control Ned who comes home from school and finds out through a note that his parents will be late. He uses the freedom to play games, but a thunderstorm frightens him and he goes to sleep. Strange things happen as a mysterious force drags Ned into a nightmare world. There, he can access five portals that lead to different worlds: The Graveyard, The Alcatraz Elementary School, The Medical Nightmare, The Attic, Basement and Beyond, and The Bathroom. These are all based on locations Ned knows in real life and they are connected to his fears. He meets regular characters but also different kinds of monsters. In the Elementary School level for instance Ned interacts with chalk drawings on a blackboard as they come to life. There are also often animated sequences.To complete a portal Ned has to perform various tasks. His progress is shown through the shadow creatures as there is one in each world. Whenever Ned completes a part, the creature changes and eventually it becomes someone Ned knows from the real world and is connected to his fears. Not all puzzles need to be solved right away, but when a portal is left eight times without using a secret passage directly to another world, the game has a different ending. For a good ending Ned has to face all his fears and wake up unafraid.The tasks, quests and puzzles can be completed through his platforming skills, including running, jumping and hanging from ledges, and interacting with the environment. Ned can use a yo-yo to attack, or use it to push buttons or interact with creatures and objects. |
| Nightmare in the Toyfactory | 1997 | Anglia Multimedia Ltd. | Black Sheep Design | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Platform | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Nightmare in the Toyfactory is a 3D virtual reality modelling platform game for kids. The night before Christmas Professor Wizz-Bang disappears and without him there will be no presents this Christmas. Before the rescue mission is started a toy hero needs to be built. The toy has to traverse the many levels of a maze to reach the evil Crawling King Snake. The game offers six different areas, divided into the story chapters with numerous traps and platforms jumping. Besides the typical platform levels the game includes 25 mini-games, such as Arkanoid, Tetris or three cards. The game features 3D graphics with a camera that allows rotation in all directions. |
| Nikolai's Pirates | 1997 | | Hoffmann + Associates Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements | Sea pirates / Caribbean | | | | | | Windows | In this entry to the Nikolai series, Nikolai and his cat Neow-Neow set sail to search for the missing pieces of Captain Blood’s treasure map. The player can view information about the infamous pirates, as well as a timeline which dates back to hundreds of years ago. The game features mini-games and puzzles designed for children ages 4 and up. |
| Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest | 1997 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Stone House Productions, Zap Media LLC. | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | “Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest” is a historical edutainment adventure. On your journey in Egypt you will explore the pyramids of Giza and Saqqara and the temples of Deir el-Bahri in Western Thebes as they looked thousands of years ago.Your mission is to restore the "ka" or life force of three Pharaohs, one from the Old Kingdom, one from the Middle Kingdom and one from the New Kingdom. In each period you will explore the sites, discover objects, find stories and accomplish related tasks, such as building a pyramid. Four of the elements that are collected serve as offerings to restore the ka of the Pharaoh. When you succeed, you will enter the Sun God’s celestial boat and ride with him forever to eternity.The game features a 360-degree view of the surroundings. The works of art in the Metropolitan Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection may be seen in a special museum program on the second CD-ROM of the game.
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| No Respect | 1997 | Ocean Software Ltd. | Appeal S.A. | Action, Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Hovercraft, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | | | Windows | You are in control of a hovering gun-ship of your choice, your mission is to battle out other ships in deathmatch-based single play game. Or you can choose to challenge up to 8 of your friends in a local area network battle.Each of the gunships have individual attributes and pilots. You can upgrade your ship and weapons to fit the epic environments that the voxel engine makes possible. |
| Nocturnal Illusion | 1997 | RCY | Excellents Japan | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | You are a college student named Shinichi Kashiwagi. One day, camping in a forest, you are caught in a terrible storm, become lost, and finally fall down unconscious. When you wake up, you find yourself in bed with an unknown woman. You realize that you are trapped in some sort of a strange mansion, which you cannot leave. Together with you there are several women. Your goal is now to find out more about those women, capture the heart of one of them, and find a way out of the mysterious mansion.Nocturnal Illusion is a Japanese-style adventure. Interaction is performed by selecting verb commands (Look, Talk, etc.) and occasionally objects from a menu. You can move around the mansion by using a mini-map. By doing so, you'll encounter various characters and trigger events. You'll be able to make decisions that will determine your relationships with the women. The game contains explicit sex scenes. |
| Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings | 1997 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | Comedy | Platform | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Get ready for more nights of masochistic puzzle goodness, because the Lost Vikings need your help once again! The brothers (Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout) are trying to get back home and you need to guide them through. Two brand new characters (Fang the Werewolf and Scorch the Dragon) also join the fray. Each character has their own special talents and they must be used in concert if you are to win. |
| Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Platform | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Teen | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Abe is a Mudokon, a member of a once prosperous race which has now been enslaved by the Glukkons, forced to work in their huge corporations. The food factories have found a new type of meat, delicious to all the inhabitants, though no one knows the recipe. Following his stomach, Abe eavesdrops on the corporate leaders' conversation and makes the most frightening and disgusting discovery: his own race is that secret delicious food. Alas, Abe has been spotted, and the guards are marching towards him. He must escape, but he can't leave his friends to the mercy of the Glukkons and their henchmen. He must rescue as many as he can, and tell the world the truth about what he has found out.Abe's Oddysee is the first game set in the fictional Oddworld universe. It is a platformer with puzzle-solving elements, focusing on the portrayal of a weak, underpowered character in a grim and hostile world, who has to rely on his cunning to outwit enemies and overcome hazards. Abe is almost completely helpless: he cannot use weapons and is usually instantly killed by his brutal enemies if he confronts them directly. For this reason, most of the game involves careful exploration, timed movement, sneaking, and outsmarting the foes through various means: throwing stones to confuse them, luring them into traps, etc. Abe can run, jump, climb, tiptoe, crouch, and roll; in most areas, these actions are essential to his survival. A few stages involve Abe riding a large animal known as Elum.Abe's only special power is chanting, which he can use to stun certain enemies for a while or possess them. When Abe possesses an enemy he gains his abilities: for example, possessing the body or a ferocious Slig allows the player to shoot from his machine gun, communicate with other creatures of his kind, and even commit suicide, clearing the way for Abe. Chanting is also used to open "bird portals", which is the final action needed to bring a fellow Mudokon to safety. Before that, Abe needs to locate his enslaved friends and lead them out of the hostile environment by using a communication method called "Gamespeak". Gamespeak is a way of verbal communication through simple commands, which are assigned to various expressions, such as "Hello", "Follow me", "Wait here", etc. It can also be used to memorize passwords given to Abe by other Mudokons in a few areas. Many areas in which Abe can save Mudokons are hidden and not required to complete the game. However, the ending of the game differs depending on the number of Mudokons saved by the player. The game has pre-rendered background graphics and uses CG movies of similar style to advance the story between the levels. |
| Odentodo | 1997 | Outback Pty. Ltd. | ITOCHU Corporation | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Odentodo is an arcade game with 2D graphics.The story is simple: you are a caring husband, and you've got a starving family to feed. All you have to do is go to the sea with your family and your friend the fish, catch edible sea creatures and hand it to your family - those are the only things your family can eat! Players use the left and right arrow keys to move the character left or right, up and down arrow key to move the fishing line and space bar to pull the fishing line when it touch a fish. Beside edible sea creatures, poisonous fish and rubbish are also present; you must avoid them as much as possible. There is a health bar which decreases time by time; catching edible sea creatures will make it increase a little depending on the kinds of things you catch, and inedible things will make it decrease faster. The game is over when the health bar runs out.
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| Operation: Eco-Nightmare | 1997 | Discovery Channel Multimedia | Discovery Channel Multimedia | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | Kyle Anderson | | | | Windows | After the happenings in Team Xtreme: Operation Weather Disaster the evil Jonah Rainwater changed himself and became the head of a environment protection group. But something seems to be fishy about their research labs and so the player starts an investigation as a new member of Team Xtreme.In a 360° view the player searches his surroundings, collects items and solves inventory based puzzles, e.g. repairing a hydroelectric facility. In FMV sequences the player gets briefed before each assignment. In the course of the game the player gets access to a robot which offers extensive information about the environment which are needed to solve more complicated problems like a spreading oil layer. In comparison to its predecessor there is a online tip system and it is possible to save everywhere. |
| Orly's Draw-A-Story | 1997 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | ToeJam & Earl Productions, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Orly's Draw-A-Story is an educational game that teaches children to draw. The game consists of four animated stories that are narrated by a young Jamaican girl called Orly and her talking frog sidekick Lancelot. As the story is told by Orly, at times the narrative stops and the player is asked to draw a character or a prop. On the drawing pad, some elements of the picture appear (such as the eyes of a monster) that the player has to draw around with the use of basic drawing tools such as pencils and paints. A few pre-made drawings exist and can be used as they are or be modified. Once the drawing is complete, it becomes incorporated into the story as it continues.In addition to the four stories, there is also a storybook maker for creating new stories and a doodle pad where the player can draw freely. |
| Outdoor Trivia Challenge | 1997 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | | Educational | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | How much do you know about the outdoors? Here are 1500 questions in 5 categories to test your knowledge. Three different difficulty levels, 1-3 players. Audio, graphic, and even video clues will keep you challenged! |
| Outlaws (Edicion Limitada) | 1997 | Erbe Software, S.A. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This release is limited to Spain and contains:
Outlaws
Sheriff badge |
| Outpost 2: Divided Destiny | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Outpost 2 features colony-building strategy and a mission-based, real-time, active environment that allows players to find many paths to one common goal. That goal is to build a spaceship and escape from New Terra, a planet that is ravaged by a terraforming microbe gone bad. Outpost 2 includes real-time multiplayer combat with over 2,000 types of terrain and 16-bit color including the ability to choose open-ended play or defined missions. |
| PCTris 3D | 1997 | Digital Nightmares | Digital Nightmares | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Falling block puzzle | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | PCTris 3D is a 3D version of the game Tetris.The playing screen shows the 3D well into which blocks are being dropped. To the right is a pane that shows the current point score, the number of planes that have been completed, the current level and a picture of the current block as viewed from the top.The block can be rotated about any of its three axes using the arrow keys in conjunction with the shift or control key.
The object is to complete a level by occupying all the squares on that level. If this is achieved that level disappears allowing the blocks above it to drop down.Blocks on different levels have different colours to make positioning easier.
The current block is shown in outline only until it is positioned in the well.The game also has a network option. |
| PGA Tour: Laptop | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | North America | | | | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | PGA Tour: Laptop is a version of PGA Tour Pro designed for the reduced resources of a laptop computer. It can be played by keyboard or by the mouse. This game has five courses; Avenel, Pebble Beach, Sawgrass, Spanish Bay and Spyglass Hill, it comes with three installation options;
Typical: This installs the Pebble Beach course, a single pro golfer and all the necessary program files. This option uses approximately 70 to 78 Mb. If this option is used then none of the other pro golfers can be used when creating a custom golfer so they will all look the same.
Compact: This option installs just the programs needed to run the game and uses approximately 18 to 25 Mb of disc space. If this install option is used the game the game disc must be present when the game is played.
Custom: Here the player can install any/all of the pro golfers, all the golf courses, the pebble Beach course movie and hole overviews, installing everything will use approximately 355 Mb of disc space
There are five games that can be played, Practice, Stroke Play, Tournament, Skins game and Shoot-out. The Practice game allows the player to select the holes on the course they wish to play while the other games can be played on the front nine holes, the back nine holes or the full course.
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| POD Gold | 1997 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | POD Gold combines POD: Planet of Death with its add-on POD: Back to Hell. |
| POD: Planet of Death (Limitierte Edition) | 1997 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This Limited Edition contains:
POD: Planet of Death
One additional track
One additional car |
| Pac-Guy: Christmas Edition | 1997 | Astral Entertainment | Astral Entertainment | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Pac-Guy: Christmas Edition is a Christmas themed parody of Pac-Man. You navigate a maze collecting pellets while avoiding enemies. Big pellets serve as ammunition that you can fire at the enemies, but beware of the fake pellets that can barely be differentiated from actual pellets. This game has 3 levels and the 1st and 2nd levels must be completed before you can go to the 3rd and last level, from which you must eat all pellets and destroy a robot. |
| Pacman & Co | 1997 | Maxirom | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Pacman & Co is a compilation of shareware games from German publisher Maxirom.
This compilation contains:
Asteroid (v3.5)
AstroFire (v1.1s)
Blocker (v1.0)
Bustout (v2.0)
CD-Man (v1.0)
Chewy2 (v1.0)
Chomper (v1.0)
Champ Kong (v1.1)
Clone Invader (v4.8)
Comet Busters (v1.31)
Cruncher (v1.0)
Casino Vérité Pai Gow Poker (v1.0a)
Defend (v1.0)
Eat-Man 1996 (v1.0)
Eatit (v2.0)
Gotcha (v1.0)
Hurdles (v1.0)
Invaders 95 (v1.0)
Krypton Egg (v1.0)
Last of the free (v1.0)
Lucifer's Legion (v1.0)
Meteor (v1.0)
Micropede (v1.4)
Champ Ms. Pac-Em (v1.1)
MS PacPC (v1.0)
Nova (v1.0)
Nukem (v1.12)
Champ Pac-Em (v1.1)
Pako (v1.0)
Super Pong 95
RetroVaders (v1.0)
Revenge of Frogger (v1.0)
Rocket Scrambler (v1.0)
Sonne Kulti (v1.0)
SnackMan (v1.00ß)
Tee Chart Pac-Man (v1.03)
Dot Trouble (v1.0)
Breakit (v1.1)
Asteroids 3D (v1.0)
Stone Park (v1.0)
BreakFree 3D (v1.2)
Winblocker (v2.0)
Capc's Two Casino's (v2.1)
Beer Bounce (v3.0)
Moraff's UltraBlast/32 (v4.4)
Missile Attack (v1.1)
Yaac (v1.1)
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| Pajama Sam's SockWorks | 1997 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | SockWorks is Sam’s answer to the arduous task of sorting socks. In this Junior Arcade game for kids 3-8 (or any age, really!) his mother has told him he needs to sort a whole basket of his socks before school tomorrow! Sam decides to leave them until morning but he falls asleep with them on his mind. What does Sam dream about? Building the ultimate, automatic sock sorting machine: the Sock-o-Matic Mark III. All kinds of conveyor belts, chutes, obstacles, distractions and lots and lots of socks. Sam controls it all with the levers he holds, but YOU tell Sam what to do. Concentration and puzzle-solving is the key here. In each level, you'll have to alter the machines to make them put the colored socks in the right basket. Chutes, pushers, sliders, conveyor belts, and swing arms are all changeable. You can also slow down or speed up the Sock-O-matic, to fit your play style. Or reverse belts, to try and keep things from going too far.The game allows up to 75 players, and you can save your game after each level. There’s also a built-in Level Editor too so you can make your own wacky sorting machine. |
| Pandemonium 2 | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Crystal Dynamics, Inc., Toys for Bob Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | In this sequel to Pandemonium, the player once again controls the young aspiring sorceress Nikki and the court jester Fargus with his puppet buddy Sid. It is the year of Cheese, and the advent of the Comet of Infinite Possibilities is foretold by the great prophet Nosewasinit. Naturally, Nikki and Fargus are interested in this comet; but they are not the only ones. The evil Goon Queen Zorrscha wants to use the comet for her own plans, so our heroes have to reach it first...The gameplay is similar to that of the first game; despite the 3D graphics, the gameplay mechanics are those of 2D platformers. The player can select Nikki or Fargus for each level. Each of the two has different abilities. For example, Nikki can jump higher, while Fargus can use his puppet Sid for a variety of attacks. The characters can also acquire power-ups, such as fire and lightning ranged attacks for Nikki or various Sid enhancements for Fargus. There are also level-specific items and vehicles the heroes will encounter on their way. |
| Pandemonium! | 1997 | Crystal Dynamics, Inc. | Toys for Bob Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | The young sorceress Nikki, the court jester Fargus, and his side-kick Sid the puppet are the three main protagonists of this 3D platform game. While attending a "Wizards in Training" seminar, Nikki accidentally casts a powerful magic spell, which results in a giant monster swallowing the whole village. The three friends must now travel to a place called "Wishing Engine", and be granted a wish to revert the world back to normal.The characters each have a special movement to kill enemies with. The game uses floating camera angles through a vast Prince of Persia-style world. The goal of the game is to clear the various levels, avoiding spikes and enemies and collecting coins for extra lives.Unlike most 3D platformers, Pandemonium offers only two-dimensional movement, rather than complete freedom of movement. The characters move along a curving 2D course within a 3D environment. |
| Panzer Dragoon | 1997 | Expert Software, Inc. | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade, Rail shooter | Post-apocalyptic | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Panzer Dragoon is set in a distant oppressive future. The Dark Dragon needs to be destroyed, and you, Keil Fluge, are aboard a dragon and armed with a powerful weapon to do so. In this shooter, you ride an armored dragon on a predefined path with 360º of freedom (you can rotate and zoom in and out). This path takes you through an aquatic setting, through a tunnel and over a forest, and into combat with giant worms, wasps and flies. Each level ends with a boss. In a idea influenced by the film Blade Runner, cutscenes use a fusion language combining elements of German, Latin and Japanese. |
| Parkan: The Imperial Chronicles | 1997 | 1C Company | Nikita Ltd. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | | Windows | In this first Russian-made space sim, you control the spaceship Parkan, which means boomerang, that has been sent on a rescue mission to find a lost research vessel when due to an accident it becomes stranded in a remote corner of the universe. It locates some war-ravaged planets where robot clans still mine fuel, produce weapons, and make factories to repair starships. In order to survive, you must trade with them, colonize planets or even pirate shipments. You can enter some of the 3D locations such as different planets and starships and shoot out in combat from first-person view. The stellar map and bases on planets are generated randomly except for a few planets with pre-designed bases.. There are seven races: Hammer, Oberon, Xenon, Dagger, Matubo, the player's Parkan droids and the Astron pirates. Each race has its own constellation, named by color, different fighting capabilities and their own ships, shaped as first letter of their race name (i.e. H-cruisers for Hammers, looks like letter H letter). Planets have four parameters - temperature, atmosphere, organic and resources. Factories when built can repair robot-pieces, make two types of rockets, four types of drones and even ships. You can convert free planets by placing robots from planet menu console or take over an occupied planet by destroying its orbital defence fleet and all robots on the planet. If you dock with other ships, you can extract info from their computers or find items within their hull. |
| Pax Corpus | 1997 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | Géraldine Frainais | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In the game you play an attractive female mercenary who knows little about her own past. You've been hired to discover the secrets surrounding Corporation Alcyon's Pax Corpus Project, and eliminate any threat it poses to the free world.The gameplay of Pax Corpus revolves around shooting, weapon upgrades, and level progression through the acquisition of keycards. Rave-style music accompanies the player throughout the futuristic world of violence. |
| Perfect Weapon | 1997 | American Softworks Corporation | Gray Matter Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Martial arts | Beat 'em up / brawler | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | You find yourself on a alien planet and must kick ass and take names using guns and kung fu. You move your 3d character around static 2d screens (a sort of Alone in the Dark-esque game). |
| Personal Arcade Volume One | 1997 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Telegames, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This commercial emulation package contains ten Colecovision games:
Beamrider
Mountain King
Nova Blast
Pitfall!
Quest For Quintana Roo
River Raid
Sir Lancelot
Strike It
Tank Wars
Tournament Tennis |
| Pete Sampras Tennis 97 | 1997 | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Codemasters used their Pete Sampras license for a second time on this tennis game. Playing as either a male or female in singles or doubles matches, your ultimate aim is to win each of the 8 matches, which represent the finals of 8 tournaments The four Grand Slam tournament venues are unlocked when you win tournaments on the other four (in Barcelona, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Moscow). Single matches or quick multiplayer knockout tournaments can also be played, the latter with up to 8 human players.Lob, slice and drop shots each have their own control buttons, and spin can be comfortably applied. Serving involves stopping a curving arc at the right moment - there are three serve speeds and the arc's motion reflects this, so it is harder to get the faster serves accurate. Ten camera styles are available, encompassing both fixed and moving camera work. |
| Pharaoh's Ascent | 1997 | Ambertec, Inc. | Ambertec, Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Top-down | | | Arcade, Platform | Egypt (Ancient) | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | Pharaoh's Ascent is an action / puzzle game in an Egyptian tomb setting. It is a platform game where you must shoot, climb, and push blocks and keys while avoiding mummies and other monsters to get to the escape door of each room. There are 96 rooms to go through in order to escape the pyramid.Each room is set with traps such as falling blocks, fire bombs and flying arrows that must be dodged or blocked to stay alive.Pharaoh's Ascent is mostly a puzzle game where you have to think of methods to move a large, rolling key to the exit door in order to open it. This is accomplished by creating bridges and pathways out of blocks and other movable objects.The player character can push blocks or shoot balls of blue fire at objects to move them, dig through sand and jump or climb to get around the room. |
| Pilot Brothers: On the Track of Striped Elephant | 1997 | 1C Company | Gamos Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | A rare striped elephant named Baldakhin has disappeared from a zoo in a provincial Russian town. The main suspect is a notorious animal trainer Karbofoss. Controlling two Pilots brothers - Brother Chief and Brother Colleague - you must find the missing animal, and perhaps also to save the world.The game can be best compared to Gobliiins, being a puzzle game with a plot. There are 15 levels in total. You must solve all the puzzles on a given level, manipulating objects and using the special abilities of the two brothers, in order to proceed to the next level. There are also some semi-arcade parts where precise timing is necessary. The 256 color graphics resemble classic cartoon-style adventures. |
| Pinball Madness | 1997 | Encore Software, Inc. | LittleWing Co. Ltd., Cinematronics, LLC | Action, Compilation | Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Pinball Madness bundles together four Pinball classics in one package:Full Tilt! Pinball (For Windows 3.1 & 95) Hyper 3-D Pinball (DOS version)Loony Labyrinth (for Windows 95)Crystal Caliburn (for Windows 95)
Both Loony Labyrinth and Crystal Caliburn can also be installed and played on Windows 3.1 systems by using the included Win32s compatibility files. |
| Pingu: A Barrel of Fun! | 1997 | BBC Worldwide Ltd. | Media Projects International Ltd | Action, Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | Pingu: A Barrel of Fun! is a compilation of educational games for younger children based on the clay-animated children's TV series Pingu. The game includes five puzzles involving letters, numbers, colours, sounds and shapes and five games for players to test their skills.The games include Music Time (record your own tunes and sing along to a select few), Ice Flow (where you need to help Pingu cross ice flows to deliver Robbie the seal's birthday presents), Snow Maze (help Pingu find his way around a maze, collecting items in the process), Fish Tennis (play against the computer or with a friend) and Building Blocks (a jigsaw puzzle-type game where you need to move the shapes to their correct places). It also includes five PC screensavers. |
| Pippi | 1997 | TDK Recording Media Europe S.A. | Ahead Multimedia AB | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Pippi Longstocking is a well-known fictional character in northern Europa. She is a little girl that never grows up and lives with no adults in Villa Villekulla, an abandoned house, with a horse (with no name) and a monkey, Mr. Nilsson. She says her mother is in heaven and her father is king of a pacific island. But who really knows ? The original stories, written by Astrid Lindgren since 1945, were adapted into films and television series. Here, is a computerized version where children will discover her little world. First, they'll have to enter Villa Villekulla, by the door, of course.Players will explore the rooms in the Villa (hall, kitchen, bureau, bedroom, and attic) and solve different types of puzzles (i.e. jigsaw, memory). There's also a book activity where children can choose among three books and start these stories with screen texts that can be turned on or off. Texts are available in twelve (say, eleven because of British/American english) different languages. |
| Pirates: Captain's Quest | 1997 | Discovery Channel Multimedia | ImageBuilder Software, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In Pirates: Captain's Quest, the player takes on the role of a pirate captain of a Spanish brig in the early 1700s and gets to do all sorts of piratey stuff, such as sword fighting, sailing the seas, conquer islands and dig for treasures.The game is an educational game targeted towards children age 9 and up. The player gets to learn how to read a map, use a compass, and how wind sailing, trading supplies and repairs work. There are 47 adventures to embark on which success all depends on their skills in trading supplies, accurate navigation and their ability in battle.The player gets to fight both on the sea with ships and their cannons and on land with sword play. |
| Plane Crazy | 1997 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Inner Workings | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | If cars can be used for racing, why not airplanes? Plane Crazy puts this theory to the test, as eight brave pilots (Nemesis, Big Red, Tsunami, Bustin' Bear, Slippy, Swifty, Duke, and Chub) take to the skies. Choose one of three planes (with different handling characteristics), which can be upgraded (and downgraded) during the race by collecting tokens.There are 9 distinct courses:5 point-to-point tracks (Boulder Dash, Dockland Dive, Monument Rush, Volcano Rapids, and Sin City Run)
A bonus multi-lap course
3 practice coursesEach course has its own hazards such as skyscrapers, waterfalls and trees. There are also short cuts to be found.You can choose three types of races:Quick Race: against the other 8 pilots in a track of your choice
Ghost Race: where you race against a "ghost" plane, trying to beat your own time
Championship: where you race the 5 main circuits in order, earning prizes that allow you to buy upgrades to your plane.You can also play against other players via LAN or over HEAT.NET. |
| Planet Blupi | 1997 | Epsitec SA | Epsitec SA | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | The Blupis, which look like yellow rubber balls, are living peacefully on their resource-rich planet. But then a evil robot lands on the planet and wants to kill every living creature by releasing a deadly virus. The game is played like most real-time strategy games of its time: The first business of the mission is the harvesting of resources, in this case wood, ore and stones. These resources are used to build buildings like work stations, laboratories or breeding sites. In turn these buildings are used for the production of food, brood, vehicles and chemicals. Instead of the usual "build a base and rush the enemy"-missions this game gives varied goals in its 30 levels, e.g. building a wall to defend the village from a forest fire or finding and escorting lost people.The game uses a mostly mouse controlled interface. The player selects Blupis and gives him orders by selecting an action from a pup-up menu. The right mouse button gives automatically the most appropriate order. The keyboard is used for several comfort functions like selecting multiple Blupis, changing the game speed or scrolling the visible part of the map. The player can "bookmark" spots on the map and return to this spot with a key combination. |
| Play the Games Vol. 1: Der 10 Spiele Super-Pack | 1997 | GEMAB Handels GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation features the following 11 games (not only 10 as listed on the box) - including Meridian 59 which isn't mentioned on the box::
Battle Arena Toshinden
Claim to Power
Earthworm Jim 2
Eishockey Manager
Exploration
Flamingo Tours
Imperium Romanum
Ocean Trader
Space Marines
Turrican II: The Final Fight
Meridian 59
Note: this compilation is completely unrelated to the Play the Games compilation series. |
| Police Quest: Collection Series | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation contains the following games:
Police Quest (1987)
Police Quest 2 (1988)
Police Quest 3 (1990)
Police Quest 4 (1993)
Police Quest: SWAT (1995)
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| Popeye and the Quest for the Woolly Mammoth | 1997 | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | There's a million-dollar prize for catching the prehistoric woolly mammoth, and the spinach-scarfing sailor and his crew are setting sail to find it. At different points throughout the movie you get to choose the actions of Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee' Pea to determine the outcome of the story. Will they find the elusive creature, or will Brutus or the Sea Hag get there first? |
| Popper | 1997 | | Housemarque Ltd. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Popper is a single player freeware game developed by Housemarque's New Media division. It was one of a series of 'advertainment' games they developed - games designed to advertise a company or one of its products. In this case the company was a Finnish drinks company which is why the game sees the player effectively piloting a bottle down a race track. The objective of the game is achieve a high score by capturing stars that represent the drink's flavours while avoiding bubbles, which slow the bottle down, and black stars, which break the bottle.The player has three lives and must capture a fixed percentage of each flavour in order to complete the level and progress to the next. For level one that means capturing 50% of each of the margerita, cupuacu and orange mango flavours as they whizz past. Each level is timed and has a countdown clock in the top right of the screen.The game has a soundtrack, sound effects, and a high score table but no save game function. It is entirely keyboard controlled.
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| Power Dolls | 1997 | Kogado Software Products | Kogado Software Products | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | Turn-based | | | Windows | In the year 2535 the planet Omni declared independence from Earth. This decision was met by harsh repressions carried out by the Terran government. In response, Omni scientists managed to convert a device known as Power Loader (PLD) into combat mechas. Five years later, the 177th squadron was formed, consisting of an all-female team named DoLLS (Detachment of Limited Line Service).Power Dolls is a turn-based strategy game in which the player takes role of a commander of an all-female military group manning giant mechanized battlesuits in a series of nine missions, with objectives ranging from destroying convoys to stalling enemy advance to rescuing captured military personnel. Squads for each mission can be assembled from a total of twenty-one pilots, seven variants of mechanized battle armor (which can be armed with sixteen types of weaponry), four types of aircraft ranging from transport carriers to fighter-bombers and artillery units.Several different battle plans can be chosen for most of the missions. The differences between these may range anywhere from a slight change of the deployment time up to and including a complete change of mission strategy.Successfully completing a mission unlocks bonus piece of artwork depicting one of the women piloting the mechs ingame. There are nine of these graphics in total, one for each mission. |
| Pre-Algebra World: Number Sense | 1997 | Cognitive Technologies Corporation | Cognitive Technologies Corporation | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Pre-Algebra World: Number Sense is an edutainment title intended to teach pre-algebra mathematics - a broad set of of mathematical techniques beyond basic arithmetic that are intended to prepare a student to learn elementary algebra. This program takes the form of several multimedia activities unified by the loose premise of exploring a planet. Each section of the game offers its user a chance to not only learn the theory behind a mathematical concept, but several chances to practice and drill on them in order to further increase their understanding. Throughout this process, they are guided by an abstract creature named Google, who can be called on to give hints and advice throughout the activities.There are five major sections in Pre-Algebra World. The first teaches students how to deal with very large and small numbers through the use of place values, as well as showcasing various historic numeral systems. The second teaches them how to round numbers and estimate the results of an arithmetic calculation. A third part focuses on integer factorization and demonstrates various techniques for doing so. The fourth section introduces the concept of fractions, and it relies heavily on the concepts taught in the previous section. Finally, an "arcade" is included which contains various small activities that build off the knowledge students have learned in previous sections, with a focus on visual representations of these concepts. |
| Premier Manager 97 | 1997 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Premier Manager 97 is the return of one of the most popular managing games of the 16-bit computer era. While in name it belongs to the Gremlin-owned franchise, the game itself is a direct translation of PC Fútbol 5, part of Dinamic's longest running series, with little differences between. It includes all nationwide leagues with 92 teams, updated teams for the 96-97 season (included an online database with player and manager information, career and trivia), a 3D match engine with comments from Barry Davies (but it isn't possible to play the game as in the original game).While only the English league is available, it is possible to play in pre-season friendlies or international competitions against most first division teams in Europe and South America, as well as sign their own stars.There are two game modes: Manager and Pro-Manager. Manager allows the player to start in any team. Pro-Manager on the other hand, requires the player to build his career from the Conference, promoting the club from the lower divisions or getting promoted himself to better ranked teams. It's possible to tweak options such as the level of control ("trainer" leaves the player only in control of player tactics and squad selection, "accountant" is the exact opposite, giving the player control over transfers, contracts, staff, finance, board room options and ground expansions but no limited control over the squad, "Manager" gives control in all but contract deals and "total" gives full executive control) or if players age and eventually retire or play forever.Up to 20 (!) players can play in Manager mode, 8 in Pro-Manager. |
| Pro Pinball: Timeshock! | 1997 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Cunning Developments | Action | | | | Pinball | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The follow-up to The Web features a single but a very complex table. You have a 3D view of the table, with 4 different viewpoints. Your ultimate point-scoring goal is to travel through time by collecting crystals. The game takes in Roman, Prehistoric and Futuristic settings, as well as the present-day world.There is a lot of secret stuff to discover. Many videos are shown in the dot matrix display above the table. The developers also included a preview mode, that lets you zoom into special areas of the table. |
| ProPool 3D | 1997 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Pro Pool 3D is a pool simulation which features the game variants eight-ball, nine-ball, straight pool and snooker. An important part of such games are how the adjustment of the cue is handled. In this game the whole process is handled with the mouse or partially with keyboard hot keys. The rough adjustment is made in a wide camera angle where the cue position is placed with the keyboard or the mouse. For the fine adjustment there are several zoom function available. When holding the left mouse button the cue is adjusted and while holding the right mouse button the player performs the stroke by pulling away and pushing the mouse. The force and angle depends on the mouse movement. Other special features are six usable cues and 15 tables from Brunswick which cloth colors and leg shape are modifiable. When the player really likes a table he created he can order it directly through the game. It is possible to deactivate the displaying of the surroundings, the table or the cue. |
| Professional Underground League of Pain | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Beyond Reality | Action, Sports | Diagonal-down, Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Cinematic camera | Windows | Riot is a futuristic sports game. The court is a hall similar to a basketball field but the basket is in the middle. The goal is to throw a charged energy ball into the basket. It is charged in energy fields that are placed in the opponent's half. There are three areas which give a different amount of points. The team which has the most points when the game is over wins. Every team consists of six players which have different scores in condition, speed, power and accuracy. Occasionally appearing power ups give a boost to one ability. There are no rules against attacking the opponent's players. 23 camera angles, including top down and directly behind the used player, can be used during the game.There are three playing modes: Exhibition matches are a single game between two of the 16 teams. In the second mode, there is a playoff tournament where several player-controlled teams can participate. Only one team can be controlled in the league mode. |
| Putt-Putt Travels Through Time | 1997 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Putt-Putt goes to visit his friend Mr. Firebird and show him his new school supplies before Putt-Putt goes to school. Putting a nickel into Mr. Firebird's time machine turns the machine on, sucking Pep and Putt-Putt's school supplies into four eras of the past and the future.You and Putt-Putt have to travel into the Time of Dinosaurs, the Medieval Times, the Wild West and the Future, so Putt-Putt can be reunited with his things. Along the way you must collect items that you will need to get your things back, meet some new friends and solve difficult puzzles. Some friends you will meet are Mr. Brachiosaurus, Silverado Sam, King Chariot and Darien the librarian and some needed items are a stone bowl, fire wood, a rope and some custom made pet food. |
| Puzz 3D: Notre Dame Cathedral | 1997 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc., Wrebbit Inc. | Dyad Digital Studios Inc. | Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Puzz-3D: Notre Dame Cathedral is virtual 3D jigsaw puzzle. The player can build and then take a virtual tour of this famous French church.The game has several levels of difficulty (from 138 to 919 pieces). When some of the parts are assembled, the player is rewarded by audio or video historical comments about the cathedral.Depending on the difficulty setting, the player can visit different parts of Notre Dame Cathedral - only the highest Platinum level allows you to explore the whole building. |
| Raiden II | 1997 | GameBank Corp. | Seibu Kaihatsu Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Three years ago the alien invasion was crushed and the few survivors fled back to space where they came from. Now they have returned with bigger numbers and weapons. In this top-down shoot-em-up you must fight hundreds of enemy crafts and this time destroy them for good. |
| Rally Challenge | 1997 | SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | Silver Lightning Software | Racing / Driving, Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Rally Challenge is a rally game featuring three vehicles: the Proton Wira, the Toyota Celica GT4 and the Subaru Impreza WRX. Gameplay is based on running a rally stage - a twisty section of road with snow, mud, asphalt or dirt. The player can choose to run a single stage, a "ghost race" against a previous run, or a championship season.For the championship, you race all of the stages available against up to 9 other players - either human competitors or computer AI. As the races are done without any other cars on track, it is done by turn-by-turn. The game also offers a replay mode with the ability to save. Through a serial link or over a network, you can race against another human player. |
| Rampage World Tour | 1997 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | Game Refuge Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | | | | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | Rampage World Tour is an updated version of the classic Rampage. Rampage World Tour starts off at Scumlabs International where three lab technicians, George, Lizzy, and Ralph have mutated in an accident involving toxic waste. George has turned into a gigantic ape, Lizzy a gigantic lizard or dinosaur, and Ralph some sort of gigantic wolf. The three destroy the lab they previously worked at and then embark on a path of destruction encompassing the entire globe.The player chooses one of these three characters and begins destroying buildings, eating civilians, knocking planes out of the sky, and stepping on tanks. The ultimate goal of the game is to rid the world of Scumlabs by traveling to the cities where they are located. Being creatures of such massive size, there are many cities that must be destroyed along the way. Scumlabs and the various militaries make it a priority to destroy you and optionally another player that can play simultaneously.The graphics are worth noting as they are of a unique, colorful "cartoon" flavor. Gameplay includes players climbing buildings while punching, kicking, and eating their inhabitants to destroy them. Once all the buildings for a particular stage have been destroyed, the stage is clear and players proceed to the next stage. Players can get many different kinds of power-ups that make them more powerful or restore health. |
| Rave Shuttle: The Cosmic Challenge | 1997 | NAVIGO Multimedia GmbH & Co. Produktions KG | | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | In this game the player controls a DJ who flies with his "Rave Shuttle" on several planets so search after the ultimate melody. In comparison with Auf der Suche nach dem Ultimate Mix with a similar premise this game is played in a 1st person perspective. The puzzles are mostly logic based brain-teasers, e.g. in one the player has to reload the battery of the Rave Shuttle. In other sequences he stands behind a mixer and plays appropriate music respectively mixes his own.During the game there are several other raving persons who are invited to join the Rave Shuttle. Conversations are held in multiple choice style. The soundtrack consists as expected of techno and house music. |
| Rayman Designer | 1997 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Paris Studios | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Rayman Designer is a standalone expansion to the original Rayman. It contains a level editor (The Rayman Designer) and 24 new levels not present in the original game. The designer itself is a Windows application, while the game is a DOS game (launched through a Windows shortcut). |
| Rayman Gold | 1997 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Action, Compilation | Side view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Rayman: Gold is a collection of the original Rayman (1995), plus Rayman Designer (1997) (a level editor with 24 new levels). |
| Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational, Puzzle | Side view | | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Mental training, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | | Windows | Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten is part of the Learning Company's multi-subject educational game series for children, aimed at the 4 - 6 year old. The educational focus of this animated game is on pre-reading and social skills, developing the ability to predict outcomes, order items and understand consequences, as well as practicing letters, sounds, and numbers.Reader Rabbit and Mat the Mouse are called to Camp Happy Tails to recover party items hidden by a renegade porcupine, Spike. From the main page, the player can set off down one of four trails: Canoe Match, Diner Lineup, Number Lumber or Get Your Bearings; each one leads to a short logical puzzle and a camp-themed activity before entering the main game.
Camp Clock - Lenny the Loudspeaker shows a group of three activities, the player chooses the one that is appropriate for the time of day shown.
Canoe Match - a Concentration game, outdoor and camp-themed
Action/Reaction - Reader Rabbit explains a scenario from last year's camping and asks the player to select from three options "what happens next".
Diner Lineup - the player must order kitchen items by size comparison; biggest/smallest, tallest/shortest, for example
Seasons Scrapbook - the player can choose a seasonal scene and add to it from a selection of pictures.
Number Lumber - Babs the Beaver needs to cross the river to plant trees; the player selects the optimal number of stones for her to hop to find the shortest route.
Playful Painting - a creative play painting page
Get Your Bearings - Little Bear needs to find his alarm clock to wake Papa Bear; the player follows the directional clues he gives to find it.The interface is point-and-click, and click-and-stick; travel is accomplished by clicking on arrows on screen. As the player successfully completes a round of games he is rewarded with an item missing from his inventory map; there are 13 items to be collected from each game group. Levels are automatically increased as the game progresses; the player cannot skip. As in other Reader Rabbit games, parents can access special pages showing the skills covered, an overview of Reader Rabbit games and educational approach, and sound controls, by pressing CTRL + P from the main page. |
| Reader Rabbit's Preschool | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational | | | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Reader Rabbit’s Preschool is an updated version of Let’s Start Learning which is targeted to preschool children ages 3 to 5. This educational game’s content features number recognition, counting skills, shapes, sorting, letter sounds, letter recognition, and patterns. Games include the Counting Club, the Shape Shack, the ABC Diner, and the Pattern Parade. There are also some mini-activities included in some of the game sections, such as the Hide and Seek Gallery. The Story follows Reader Rabbit, Sam the Lion, and Matilda the Mouse at an old abandoned carnival. By finding the four keys hidden throughout the game, the carousel will return to normal. |
| Reader Rabbit's Reading 1 | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Reader Rabbit's Reading 1 is an updated version of the original Reader Rabbit educational game for DOS. In this edition, The Learning Company's trademark Rabbit is dismayed to learn that all the words in Wordville have been lost from the books, newspapers and letters; the player's goal is to load new words from the Word Factory onto Ernest the word train and deliver them to Wordville as replacements. Inside the Word Factory, the player is given a choice of four reading-themed activities:
Matchup - a Concentration game; at level one, Reader Rabbit will say the names of the pictures aloud for the player. At the highest level the player matches a picture to a word showing only one letter
Sorter - a word sorter; at level one, the player must sort out the words that have the same beginning sound as a given one and discard those that don't. At the highest level the player finds the complete matching word
Labeler - a missing letter game; at level one, the player must select from a row of letters to supply the one missing from a picture caption. At the highest level the player must find the entire word
Word Train - the player must find the words that are in the same family as a given one. At higher levels the player chooses words that may have the same beginning, ending, or middle lettersAll interaction is performed with the mouse by pointing and clicking, and the activities can be played in any order. Clicking on Reader Rabbit's mouse companion will access a page that allows the setting of separate levels for each activity, an overview of the reading concepts behind the game, sound options, and theme selections. The game is suggested for ages 4 - 7, targeting pre-readers through emerging readers. |
| Reader Rabbit's Reading 2 | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Reader Rabbit's Reading 2 is a third, reworked release of the original Reader Rabbit 2 (1991) and Reader Rabbit 2: Deluxe! (1996). It is an educational game, for children aged five to eight or in the first or second grade of the US school system, that teaches reading skills. The basic concept and content is identical to the original 1991 game, with most of the improvements in the graphic department which are entirely redone. Wordville where the game is set is running out of words. Reader Rabbit, Ernest the Train and Mat the Mouse collect words to fill up Wordville by doing four different activities: Alphabet Dance, Match Patch, Vowel Pond, and Word Mine.
Alphabet Dance is set in a barn. There are four dancers and children need to look at the first letter of their names and put the dancers in the correct order following the alphabet.
Match Patch takes place on a field where matches need to be created based on opposites, homonyms or two levels of rhymes.
In Vowel Pond Reader Rabbit floats in a boat on a pond and watches fishes pass by below. He needs to catch the ones that have a word that matches the sound of the one shown near the top of the screen.
In Word Mine compound words need to be formed by choosing the right one from a selection an adding it to the one on a mine cart. |
| Rebel Moon Rising | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Fenris Wolf Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Rebel Moon Rising is a sequel to Rebel Moon. It is a first person shooter where the player takes on the role of a rebel colonist on the moon fighting against the oppressive UN forces from Earth.In Rebel Moon, the player is thrown into a conflict between the self-proclaimed Lunar Free State (also known as Free State Selena) and the United Nations of Earth who seek to quell the rebellion and bring back the colonies on the Moon under control. Declaring the colonists "terrorists", the UN deploy their ATFOR (Anti-Terrorism Force) units which comprise the main enemies of the game. As the war for independence unfolds, the player takes active participation in the role of a Lunar Defence Forces (LDF) operative who is tasked with various missions to thwart the UN invasion. Despite the rebels' tactical successes, ATFOR troops manage to win a major victory, and the leader of the Lunar Free State disappears in the aftermath.The story is continued in Rebel Moon Rising. The revolution is far from over, as LDF and the Free State still control several domes on the Moon's surface. The UN forces on the other hand face their own problems. ATFOR's victory over the colonists would not be possible without the aid of the Neue Deutsche Einheit (NDE) - Germany's successor state - and the superior training and firepower of NDE Blacksuits. However NDE is not part of the UN and has its own agenda concerning the lunar colonies. The arising tensions between the two factions present an opportunity for the LDF to gain advantage and tip the scales in their favour. Further complicating the situation are rumours of alien sightings on the Moon's surface.While the gameplay of Rebel Moon Rising is in many aspects similar to that of Doom and other contemporary first-person shooters, it is much more mission-oriented, making it comparable to Star Wars: Dark Forces. There are four mission types: Commando missions, which involve infiltrating enemy installations, acquiring a device or destroying a target; Search & Destroy missions where the player needs to locate and eliminate a number of targets; Defence missions which require to protect a critical item, location or piece of equipment; and Rescue missions where it is needed to free LDF prisoners and escort them to safety. Sometimes, the player is accompanied by AI-controlled allies during the missions.In addition to an arsenal of weapons of varying firepower, the player can find and make use of items such as a jetpack and temporary invisibility or invulnerability "powercels". However the most important item is the oxygen recycler. The player starts each mission with a supply of oxygen which slowly gets used up as the level progresses. This essentially limits the time to complete a mission, and the oxygen supply duration is indicated in the briefing. This time limit is cancelled if the player finds an oxygen recycler in the level, usually hidden in one of the secret areas.The level design often emphasises stealth over direct, frontal assault approach. The player is encouraged to search for secrets and backdoors to get past enemy forces. It is possible to sneak up on unsuspecting enemies; conversely, setting off an alarm might end up the player facing an overwhelming number of enemy troops. |
| Red Baron II | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Jennifer Hawthorne, Scott Rudi | Historical events, World War I | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The much anticipated sequel to the first Red Baron, this game allows you to take to the skies once again in actual World War I aircraft. You are allowed to fly a wide variety of fighter craft (scouts, as they were called) from both sides in "instant action," single mission, and campaign modes. The campaign mode features a dynamic war front that is always changing based on the actions of you, your squadron, and all the other squadrons positioned along the Front. The basic idea stays true to the original Red Baron, but with improved graphics, more realistic flight models, smarter AI, and a much larger, vibrant game world. |
| Red Baron with Mission Builder | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | World War I | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | This pack includes the World War 1 flight simulation Red Baron and its mission builder. The CD also features an AVI video of the then-forthcoming sequel.While this is a DOS game, the CD has been set up to install the game under Windows with the advice to run under DOS if there are any problems. The mission builder is not integrated into the menu of the main game, it is installed as a separate .exe file. |
| RedCat Spookkasteel | 1997 | Davilex Games B.V. | Davilex Games B.V. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | RedCat Spookkasteel is a Dutch game in which RedCat (famous from educational games for primary school students) has to go on an adventure to a scary castle to save his girl friend Kitty. She has been abducted by an evil witch who plans to steal her beauty. He is aided in his journey by a small fairy creature that claims to be a princess who was also affected by the witch's magic. In order to reach his goal RedCat has to fight off enemies like spiders, skeletons and walking harnesses as well as the franchise's two main villains: Brutus and Max. The player must journey through scary forest and explore the castle in order to find hearths that replenish his or her health and potions which can upgrade RedCat's powers. Besides enemies there are also hazards like water and pits that get into the way, getting past these obstacles requires the player to platform his way across. The enemies meanwhile can be taken care of with the endless amount of magic balls RedCat can fire from his paws. |
| Resident Evil | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Capcom Co., Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Regional differences | Horror | Puzzle elements, Shooter, Survival horror | Contemporary, North America | | Direct control | | Mature | Cinematic camera | Windows | A team of S.T.A.R.S (Special Tactics And Rescue Squad) members are called to investigate a series of murders near Raccoon City.
While searching the woods near the city, the team is attacked by bloodthirsty dogs and they have to retreat to a nearby mansion. The player chooses between Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield and starts to explore the mansion. It soon becomes very clear that it isn't just any mansion, but a hellish place where the undead walk the corridors, and other horrors are lurking in the darkness, waiting to eat some heads. While solving puzzles, collecting keys, and shooting monsters, the player has to unravel the mystery behind this mansion and, if possible, get out alive.Exclusive to the SEGA Saturn version is a Battle Mode bonus mode, where, with limited ammo and under the threat of limited time, the player must survive a series of rooms filled with monsters. |
| Result: The BBC Sports Quiz Presented By Desmond Lynam | 1997 | BBC Worldwide Ltd. | Antirom Software | Sports, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Game show / trivia / quiz, Puzzle elements, Timed input | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Result is a one or two player, keyboard controlled quiz game where all the questions are sorts related. It is hosted by Des Lynam, an iconic sports and game show presenter on UK television, who introduces the game and makes comments such as "Oh come on! That was easy!" but does not read the questions. The game claims over three thousand questions covering a wide range of sports from 1960 to 1997. Among the sports featured most are boxing, cricket, football, golf, horse racing, motor racing, rugby (league & union), snooker and tennis but 'minor' sports such as American football, baseball, basketball, chess, cycling, squash, sumo wrestling and yachting and more are also featured. All questions are timed and players must press a key before they answer, Q for player one and P for player two. If the answering player is correct they score points but if they are incorrect they lose points and the question is passed to their opponent who will also lose points if they answer incorrectly. If neither player answers they both lose points.The questions are quite varied and range from 'What year was this?", to solving anagrams and identifying an object from a close-up partial photograph. Some answers are multiple choice, others require a year or a name to be entered and the spelling of names has to be exact.There are two game modes, a short game with thirty-two questions or a long game with sixty-four, played over three rounds with the questions increasing in points value in each round. In round one the players are asked questions in turn, in rounds two and three players 'buzz in' with the 'Q' and 'P' keys as soon as they think they know the answer. The game is quite fussy over its display requirements. Quicktime must be installed, version 2.1.2 is supplied, and the screen must be 640 x 480 with 16 bit colour depth for the game to play. |
| Riana Rouge | 1997 | Black Dragon Publishing, Inc. | Black Dragon Publishing, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Adult | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Adults Only | | Windows | Riana Rouge was a timid secretary who was fired by her boss, the sinister-looking Frank Virago, president of Virago Inc. On her way to say the last good-bye, Riana witnesses her boss sexually molesting a co-worker. She tries to interfere, but as a result is transported into a magical dimension. There, she has to travel to three different worlds and find three jewels needed to defeat a mysterious dictator, and also discover her own sexuality in the process.Riana Rouge is an adult-themed adventure game utilizing live actors and pre-rendered backgrounds. Besides puzzle-solving, the gameplay mechanics are largely based on conversation. The player is prompted to select between emotionally charged responses during dialogues, utilizing a device called "Emotivator". The emotions are represented by colors and include fear (yellow), deception (green), surrender (blue), attack (purple), seduction (red) and inquiry (orange). Selecting a wrong emotion may lead to Riana's death and the game's premature end. |
| Richard Scarry's Busytown: Best Math Program Ever | 1997 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Creative Media Applications, Inc., Glass Egg Digital Media Ltd., Morgan Interactive Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Richard Scarry's Best Math Program Ever is an educational game that teaches math based on the book series and the television series Richard Scarry's Busytown. The plot of the game is that Mr. Fixit needs parts that are scattered around five different areas. These areas are the Building Site, the Observatory, Ski Mt. Busy, the Train Station, and the Hardware Store. You play as Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm to find all the machine parts.The game also has a progress report to see what pieces you need and what games you have done, which is useful for parents.Within each world, there are three mini-games. All of the mini-games involve numbers and math for children ages 4 to 7. The activities include measuring, graphs, time, addition, fractions, etc. Every single game has a difficulty setting and a recommended age in the user guide. In the math mobile, the hub world, there is also a tangram- like game where you can make things out of shapes and write a story about them. |
| Richard Scarry's How Things Work in Busytown | 1997 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Novotrade International, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Richard Scarry's How Things Work in Busytown is based on Richard Scarry's Busytown book and animated cartoon series and it is the sequel to the DOS and Sega Genesis game Richard Scarry's Busytown. Similar to the original game, you begin in a hub world where all the places in Busytown can be found. There is the Studio, where are songs played throughout the came can be listened to. The CD version of the game doubles as a CD with the same music.In the bakery, you play as a chef pig in which you bake breads by using the correct ingredients and putting it in the oven. In the assembly line, you can build many vehicles by learning about the parts and then placing them in the correct spots. In the Garbage Truck, you control a garbage truck and you must pick up trash littered on the ground while dumping garbage cans into the truck. On the Farm, you can tend the fields using the tractor while learning about the farm. There are many different options and different outcomes throughout the many places. Some of the things that this game helps kids learn are vocabulary, word definitions, and sequencing objects and numbers. |
| Ring Out!: Pro-Lesring | 1997 | Otaku Publishing, Ltd. | ZyX Inc. | Adventure | | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | When an old man couldn't pay his debts to a sinister criminal organization, his eighteen-year-old daughter Aya was taken away by them and forced to participate in wrestling performances where young women must assault each other sexually in order to win.The gameplay of Ring Out!! is similar to that of a visual novel, without verb-object interaction or any kind of movement. There are usually multiple choices per scene, but most of the times the player simply needs to go through them repeatedly to trigger the next event. The game consists almost entirely of explicit sex scenes. |
| Rising Lands | 1997 | R&P Electronic Media | Microïds | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Rising Lands takes place in a not too distant future, where earth has been devastated by a comet. The survivors have formed small tribes, and as the leader of one of these tribes your mission is to guide your people to become rulers of the post-apocalyptic earth.Gameplay is similar to most real-time strategy games. You collect three different resources (food, stones and metal) and must utilize these to build new buildings, create armies, increase population and research new technologies.One interesting twist is that in the single-player campaign, your actions in one mission are reflected in the next mission, so if you've made peace with another tribe, you will still be at peace in the next mission. All your research is also carried over between missions. |
| Riven: The Sequel to Myst | 1997 | Red Orb Entertainment | Cyan Productions | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy, Steampunk | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | After the Stranger has rescued Atrus, the master of "linking books", from the imprisonment caused by his sons, a new task awaits the hero. Atrus's wife, Catherine, has been taken by Gehn, his own father. Gehn has appointed himself as the one to rule the Age of Riven, and has driven his world to collapse. Now he holds Catherine hostage on Riven, hoping that his son will restore the book link to the Age and free him from there. The Stranger is requested by Atrus to travel to Riven and find a way to rescue Catherine.Riven is a sequel to Myst, and is very similar to its predecessor in gameplay style, controls, and visual presentation. The game world is presented as a series of computer-generated still screens; the player explores it in a point-and-click fashion. Interaction with the environment is possible only when said environment is highlighted as a "hot spot", and is also performed by simple clicking. Like its predecessor, Riven is heavy on puzzles, which rarely include using inventory items, but usually involve understanding and manipulating the complex environments and machinery of the game world. |
| Roar | 1997 | 5212 Entertainment | 5212 Entertainment | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Roar is a one or two player, top down, shooter.The game is set in the far future and as a captain in the empire's starfleet the player has been selected to clear out the resistance on an isolated planet. In this game the objective is simply to destroy all enemy ships and nominated ground installations, such as radar sites, and survive. The game has twenty two levels and is keyboard or joystick controlled. It has sound effects, music, and a high score table or as the game calls it the 'Hall Of Dead Heroes'.
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| Robotron X | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Player 1 | Action | | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | The arcade classic is taken to the next level, this time in 3D. The super-enhanced hero Ugene is once again called into action to save the last human family against the hordes of relentless Robotrons. Battle through 100 different levels, gaining new power-ups and abilities as Ugene survives wave after wave of the unrelenting hordes. While Ugene may face the familiar Robotrons, there will be new additions and tricks that the killer robots will use against the last surviving human family. Ugene must protect them at all cost while racking up the highest possible score! |
| Rockett's New School | 1997 | Purple Moon Media | Convivial Design Inc., Presage Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Rockett’s New School is the first entry in a series of games featuring Rockett Movado, who enters Whistling Pines Junior High for her first year in eighth grade. There are over 20 characters and 45 plot twists in the game. During the story, the player can choose from a selection of events based on their preferences. It is also possible to freely go through the scenes at any time, and access Rockett’s backpack to view messages as well as reading and reviewing diary entries and notes. |
| Roland Garros 97 | 1997 | VR Sports | Runn Software | Sports | Behind view, Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | RG97 is a tennis game with 3D characters. The game takes its name from a real famous French tennis tournament, but the characters in the game are made up. You can choose from between 10 different males, 7 females, or 3 futuristic players.You can play on 5 grounds (two are hidden and need to be unlocked) which are Roland Garros (France), England, USA, Australia, and Power Dome (a futuristic one).You can play single or double matches, and you have the choice between 3 difficulty levels. The four different game modes include Single match, Network, Friendly match, and Tournament.
You can also choose the camera angle to play with (look at the screenshots). |
| Roly Polys no Sekai Ryokō | 1997 | Shinko Music | OutSide Directors Company Co., Ltd. | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Roly Polys no Sekai Ryokō is a children's edutainment game by musician and multimedia artist Osamu Sato's studio OutSide Directors Company. Its cast of eight characters, the Roly-Polys, teach children about topics like history and the alphabet through music and 3D animation. |
| Ronnie's Resort | 1997 | Soleau Software, Inc. | Soleau Software, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Ronnie's Resort is a single player, shareware, keyboard controlled logic puzzle game from Soleau Software. The shareware game has just ten puzzles while the full game has thirty, both games have a step-through tutorial.The object in each puzzle is to help Ronnie get from the beach from his hotel, along the way he must collect an inflated inner tube because he cannot swim. However the path to the beach is littered with objects, some of which are objects that can help him and others which are obstacles. Getting to the beach involves using and moving trampolines, beach balls, avoiding water hazards, sliding on shuffleboards etc. All puzzles come with an animated solution. |
| Runes | 1997 | Soleau Software, Inc. | Soleau Software, Inc. | Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Runes is a single player, shareware, keyboard controlled platform puzzle game from Soleau Software, it is similar to other puzzle games from them such as Duffer Dave and Jungle Jean.The story behind the game is that the Roman Senate has sent a scholar to discover the secret of 'The Oracle Of The Runes' ant in order to achieve this he must solve the of how to escape from a series of rooms. To escape each room Marcus must pick up and move marble blocks to create steps so he can get to the exit, some puzzles also require that he get to a lever that removes some floor panels There are twenty-six puzzles in this game, one for each letter of the alphabet A-Z, only the letters A-J are available in the shareware version. The puzzles are not timed and can be played in any order
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| Rush Hour | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Clockwork Games Limited | Racing / Driving | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Rush Hour is a racing game in the style of Ignition. The landscape as well the cars are in 3D, but the perspective is top down. There are no weapons in this game, just racing. You can drive 16 different sport cars and choose from 8 different tracks. |
| SCARAB | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Scarab is an action strategy game, with the major emphasis being on strategy elements. Scarab was designed to be played primarily with a joystick, and it is strongly recommended. The Scarab combat environment revolves around the dual struggle for territorial control or death to your opponents. You represent the Gods of the Underworld, disembodied spirits which bring to life the different combat robots. While your spirit has vast powers the mechanical bodies you inhabit are designed solely for raw combat. When you play the game you get 3 incarnations. At each incarnation you have your choice of which robot you wish to control, Anubis, Horus, or Sekhmet. After your third life is lost your spirit is released to haunt the world that you can only vaguely perceive. There are 2 ways to win the game; control the battlefield through power producing towers, or to kill all of the opposing robots 3 times each. For the v1.1 patch (Mplayer release) a new game option is now available called "deathmatch." In deathmatch mode you cannot win the game by power - instead the winner is determined by the last robot left alive. |
| SEGA Rally Championship | 1997 | SEGA Corporation | Sega AM3 R&D Division | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | Sega Rally was a major success in the arcades, bringing rally-style racing to the masses before the Colin McRae games. Four detailed tracks have been created, with a succession of stomach-churning bends and jumps, and you can choose from 3 different cars. As well as the main championship, there is a time-trial mode featuring a ghost car to beat, so you always know how your run compares with your best-ever. Two machines can be linked for multi-player action. The handling of the cars is unrealistic, to put the focus on action and instant playability. |
| Saban's Iznogoud | 1997 | MC2-Microïds | MC2-Microïds | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | You are the Grand Vizier Iznogoud, whose one and only aim is to depose the Caliph of Baghdad and become Caliph in his place. To do this, you must face many challenges and enemies in your path.You control Iznogoud in a very colorful platform environment, moving, jumping, dodging and ducking obstacles all around you. You can pick up objects that increase your life points as well as weapons which you can throw at your many opponents. Each level has a level boss that you must defeat to move on to the next level. There are also passwords given at the end of each level. You are on a timer; so move quickly, collecting the coins and objects along the way. |
| Safecracker | 1997 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc., Octagon Entertainment, Inc. | Daydream Software AB | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | Contemporary | | | | Everyone | | Windows | As the name implies, this game is all about cracking safes. Within an eccentric millionaire's luxurious mansion, thirty-five safes in all sizes, shapes and colors are hidden. As an applicant for the position of Security Development Chief, you must prove your worthiness by locating and opening every one of the mansion's safes without getting caught by security.Safecracker is a puzzle game within a graphical setting. Exercise your brain cells and challenge your powers of logic and deduction while solving its mind-bending puzzles. Are you good enough to crack the Granddaddy of all safes? |
| Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground | 1997 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Sacred Ground is the sequel to the adventure game Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder and quite similar in gameplay. The player has five days (eight hours each) to solve a case. Randa Tasker, the wife of a local business man, has been kidnapped. With the help of a PDA and your assistant detective John Night Sky, you have to find clues and interview suspects and witnesses. Since there is not enough time to interrogate them all, choices must be made.The game's interface is point-and-click. The locations you visit are photograph stills and the game is interspersed with Full Motion Video (FMV) movies. The main screen shows a calendar which shows the number of days you have left, a sun dial showing the number of hours left today and an icon for your PDA. Within the PDA there are icons for e-mail, suspects and evidence. |
| Schoolhouse Rock!: 1st & 2nd Grade | 1997 | Creative Wonders LLC | The Cute Company, Human Code, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Schoolhouse Rock!: 1st & 2nd Grade is an educational game that teaches elements of the US curriculum for 1st and 2nd graders aged six to eight. It is based on the Schoolhouse Rock! TV series. It comes on two discs. The first disc focuses on math and science, the second one on language arts and social studies. It features the character Interplanet Janet and the story from Schoolhouse Rock!: Exploration Station. It has a mix of new activities (an animal race with language questions, reconstructing objects, a language quiz presented as a football game, a picnic based around language) and some used previously in Schoolhouse Rock!: America Rock (railroad building, the turn-based strategy game at Bunker Hill) and Schoolhouse Rock!: Grammar Rock. Along the way coins are collected and those are used for the final stage where a board game leads Janet back to her home.Along the way various videos from the TV series are shown. There are three difficulty levels. The skills addressed include addition and subtraction, simple multiplication, sentence structure, reading comprehension, science exploration, geography, social studies, and more. |
| Schoolhouse Rock!: 3rd & 4th Grade | 1997 | Creative Wonders LLC | The Cute Company, Human Code, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Schoolhouse Rock!: 3rd & 4th Grade is an educational game that teaches elements of the US curriculum for 3rd and 4th graders aged eight to ten. It is based on the Schoolhouse Rock! TV series. It comes on two discs and contains over 70 activities for the areas math, grammar, language arts, geography, science, and history. The game re-uses the plot of earlier games. The first disc features Interplanet Janet and the story from Schoolhouse Rock!: Exploration Station with eight areas based around math and science. Concepts include patterns and sequencing, equations, the human body, electricity, and more. The second disk is based around Lucky Seven Sampson with the plot from Schoolhouse Rock!: Math Rock. There the activities focus on language arts, geography and American history. Almost all of those were previously used in Schoolhouse Rock!: America Rock. The second disc then ends with the board game traditional for the series leading to rock star fame for Lucky.Extra elements include report cards, printable activities for off-computer time, and real-life learning that includes critical thinking, creativity, vocabulary, and logic. There are three difficulty levels and 13 videos from the TV series. The game also comes with a parent's and a teacher's guide. The skills addressed include computation, multiplication, division, fractions and equations, negative numbers, logic and strategy, addition and subtraction, grammar, spelling and vocabulary, parts of speech, conjunctions and interjections, earth and natural science, physics, anatomy, electricity, technology and inventions, solar system, weight and measurement, US and world geography, and history. |
| Science Blaster Jr. | 1997 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Educational | Diagonal-down, Side view | | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In Science Blaster Jr. the Blaster pals consisting of Blasternaut, Spot and GC travel to Earth's orbit to learn and collect data about the planet's science. There are seven activities for children aged four to seven including a weather simulator, a size comparison machine, scientific stories, sound waves, timelines, a processing lab and an exploration safari. Completing the activities earns the player a certification and an award for a higher rank. |
| Scud: Industrial Evolution | 1997 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Syrox Developments, Ltd. | Action | Top-down | Licensed | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | You play as Scud, the disposable assassin. Based on the underground comic book, you take the reins as Scud the robot who needs to kill for money so that Jeff (who is on life support) won't die. You see, he was commissioned to kill Jeff but as he found out by looking at a warning on his arm in the mirror, Scuds self-destruct when their target it terminated. So he put Jeff on life support and now needs to kill for money to pay the life support bills. |
| Search and Rescue | 1997 | Intense Entertainment Interactive, LLC | Interactivision A/S | Simulation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A realistic Search and Rescue simulator in which you can choose from twelve different helicopters to perform 45 missions, like rescuing hostages or dealing with crash accidents. |
| Select Games Special 13 | 1997 | Select CD-Rom | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Select Games Special 13 is a compilation of one hundred and sixty-four DOS and Windows games, one hundred and forty-nine of which will run directly from the CD. All the games on this disc are either freeware, shareware or demo versions of commercial games. It has two separate menu programs, one which is accessed via DOS and which gives access to just the DOS games, the other which is accessed via Windows - this menu allows access CDs entire contents.Both menus start with a language selection screen, Dutch, German, French and English are available, then they display the games as a long list. Games are grouped by the folder on the CD that contains them, these are;
DOSGAMES: There are seventy-seven of these games among which are games like
3-Demon, Acid Tetris, The Child Murderer, and The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian
IDEE Software: demo versions of their games including B-7, Chaos, Info Harry, and Aktie - Bal
KIDS: Sixteen titles including 'Living Numbers' - a pre school math program, Abmis the Lion, a program that teaches Kanji and a demo of
Putt Putt Goes To The Moon
LBA2: A demo version of Twinsen's Odyssey
VIRUSKILL: Antivurus programs from EliaShim, McAfee, F-PROT and Thunderbyte
WIN95GAM: Thirty games including demo versions of commercial titles such as Dagger's Rage, Betrayal in Antara, Esoteria,
Dungeon Keeper together with shareware Tetris and Word Search programs
WINGAMES: Forty titles including Debris from
MVP Software, Why Did The Chicken Cross the Road from StupidSoft and OOG: The Object Orientation GameThe CD also contains software to unpack .arj, .rar and .zip files, copies of VBRUN.DLL and software to slow down 8mhz 8086 processors. The CD's directory structure is printed on the reverse of the DC inlay and a full program list is shown on the back panel. |
| Sensible Soccer '98 | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Europe Ltd. | Sensible Software | Sports | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Sensible Soccer '98 was made for the World Cup 1998 and can be played as both player and coach.The gameplay is supposed to be mostly the same as for the old games but the graphics has been updated with a 3D engine.The games features three arcade options, plus a preset World Championship and the option to create your own competitions. You are also able to create your own custom teams. |
| Sensible Soccer '98: European Club Edition | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Europe Ltd. | Sensible Software | Action, Sports | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Sensible Soccer European Club Edition is the followup sequel to Sensible Soccer '98. The game now has all the club teams of Europe included, with many new features that have never been seen before.Over 90% of all in-game graphics have been massively enhanced including all player models and textures and improved crowds and stadiums. The in-game animation system has been thoroughly tweaked for a much smoother overall look to the game. There's also a brilliant, new, stylish look to the even bigger and more comprehensive menu system. New close-up penalty shootouts in full 3D gameplay is more silky smooth than ever with improved aftertouch, much improved tackling, a burst of speed for defenders and the ability to wash whites at a much lower temperature. An improved in-game sound system lets you hear the sounds of the game more clearly. Over 200 European Club Teams are included, all with accurate player skills, etc., from the English, Scottish, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Dutch and Belgian leagues. Plus the clubs can play in all European Club Tournaments and European Tournament Qualifiers that are for all international European sides. |
| Sentinels of Ceth | 1997 | Stick Man Games, Inc. | Stick Man Games, Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Sentinels of Ceth is a top-down arcade shooter where the player controls the Sentinel. The goal is to protect 12 valuable gems of the goddess Ceth on a temple floor in a circle in the middle of the screen against the attacking Doltres forces with eight types of ships. Enemies will attack in waves trying to steal the gems and destroy the player's ship. When the ship is destroyed it will respawn after a little while, but if all the gems are stolen, the game is over. Ships that steal gems can still be shot down and at the start of the next wave all gems still on the screen are returned to the circle.Gems that are carried away entirely can no longer be recovered and are not replaced at the start of the next wave. Between levels Blessings (points) can be spent on upgrades and weapons to gain an edge as future waves contain more and deadlier enemies. The goddess also rewards the ship's performance by dropping boons that can be picked up to gain a shield, provide invisibility or a helper orb. |
| Sesame Street: Elmo's Preschool | 1997 | Creative Wonders LLC | Children's Television Workshop | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Together with the lovable Muppet Elmo, of the long-running children's television program Sesame Street, preschoolers can navigate through educational and entertaining activities. Elmo plays the role of both playmate and tutor as children practice number, letter, sound, shape, and color recognition, as well as spelling and critical thinking.The activities all take place within five unique playrooms, each emphasizing a specific preschool concept. Activities included are The Music Room (Find a Sound, Finish a Sound Pattern), Letters Room (Find a Letter, Make an Animal Name), Face Treehouse (Make a Face, How Would You Feel?), Shapes and Colors Tent (Find A Shape), and the Numbers Clubhouse (Find A Number, The Counting Game). All can be visited in any order and revisited at any time.Each room has two different structured games and non-structured "freeplay" activities that teach specific skills. When entering a room, the child can immediately begin "freeplay" actions or click on the star or moon symbol located in each room for the games (the game accessed by clicking on the star symbol is easier than the moon game).The program includes several features to help children learn at their own pace without giving them the answers. Features include "Automatic Leveling" (the difficulty level of the game will adjust up or down to keep the game challenging for the child using it), "Smart Help" (Sesame Street characters will guide children through activities step-by-step), "Smart Host" (Elmo is always on the screen to give help when needed; simply click on Elmo or wait a few seconds and he will offer assistance), and "Object Identification" (if the cursor is left over a given object on the screen for a few seconds, Elmo will identify it).The game also attempts to teach important social skills such as emotions and empathy, taking turns, sharing, cooperation, making friends, and manners. |
| Seven Kingdoms | 1997 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Enlight Software Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Seven Kingdoms is a 2D strategy game designed by Trevor Chan, the author of Capitalism. Players choose to play as one of seven human civilizations, each with different stats. They command ordinary people from villages, soldiers recruited in forts, as well as ships and war machines that must be researched first. Military might is not enough to win the game. Players must plan actions a few steps ahead, trade with other races, build up industry and new villages, and establish diplomatic contacts (spies are included). Cities can be taken over peacefully, for example by making donations to residents. There are two main resources - food and gold. The player has a rate of popularity among his subjects. The game has some unplayable, non-human races - Frythans. They are stronger than men, but have fewer types of units. The lairs in which they reside can be destroyed.
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| Shanghai Double Pack | 1997 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A value re-release featuring two Shanghai titles:
Shanghai: Great Moments
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye |
| Shanghai: Dynasty | 1997 | Activision, Inc. | Quicksilver Software, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Shanghai: Dynasty includes nine themed tilesets, new puzzle modes including "Pandamonium" and "Dynasty", simplified Shanghai for kids, and true Chinese mahjong (not the Western tile-matching variety) with any mix of AI or real players via LAN or modem. |
| Shin Onryō Senki | 1997 | Fujicom Co. Ltd | Fujicom Co. Ltd | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | Shin Onryō Senki is a remake of Onryō Senki. The story and most of the dialogues remain the same as in the original release; gameplay-wise, the versions are also nearly identical, utilizing the same menu-based verb-object commands. The differences lie mostly in visual presentation and technical quality of the music. The graphics are by far more technically advanced; most locations have been re-drawn from scratch. Digitized photos are used to represent some of the characters, and anime-like style is less pronounced. Many locations and scenes have been expanded, with additional close-ups, different angles, etc. A few locations have been added or made accessible at different moments during the course of the game. |
| Shipwreckers! | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action, Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | | | Naval / watercraft | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Action and puzzles on the high-seas! In Shipwreckers you captain a small galleon style playing ship through all kinds of dangerous environments. Levels consist of interconnected puzzles and combat engagements (against pirate vessels). Reward treasures and increasingly more potent weapons keep the pacing alive in this near top-down 3D action game.Shipwreckers supports solo play, head to head, and multi-person battles. |
| Shivers Two: Harvest of Souls | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Shivers Two: Harvest of Souls takes place in a deserted town named Cyclone in the southwest. You arrive to discover that your friends, the band Trip Cyclone, have mysteriously disappeared. Although, they left clues imbedded in their music videos for you decipher so that you may discover what happened to them, as well as the rest of the town.The game is similar to the first Shivers in that it has the same first-person slideshow interface, but much has improved from the first. Now, you can rotate 360 degrees in your current position as well as have a full inventory instead only being able to hold one item like in the first game. The game also includes a puzzle editor and a feature in which you can chat with others while you play the game. |
| Sierra Pro Pilot 98: The Complete Flight Simulator | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc., subLOGIC | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is the first edition in the Pro Pilot civilian flight simulation series. The scenery is North America and Europe, and both VFR/IFR can be used with AI air traffic controllers. The included aircraft are: Cessna Skyhawk 172P, 172R, CitationJet 525, Beechcraft Bonanza V35, Baron B58, and Super King Air B200.There are two separate map installation CDs included, one for the US map only and another with the European map only.Each installation uses the same registry keys, which means they cannot be installed together at the same time. |
| Skaphander: Der Auftrag | 1997 | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG | oP Group (Oehler & Partner Computer Creations & Virtuality) | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | | Windows | The year 2010: computer-viruses have penetrated the network of the world's most important mega-computer. Everything, from food and energy supply over climate and traffic is depending on this machine. The only chance for humanity to survive is you, a Cyberpilot. You are controlling a virtual virus killer, the Skaphander, flying through 15 different Descent-like levels, hunting down the viruses. The graphics are similar to those in Doom, only more futuristic as a result of the fact you're flying through a computer network.
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| Slam Dunk Typing | 1997 | Creative Wonders LLC | Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc., Mary Boies Software | Educational, Sports | | | | | | | Brett Yancy Collins | | | | Windows | Slam Dunk Typing is an educational computer game that features typing skills and uses a basketball sport theme targeted for ages 10 and up. There are six drills included in the game, Passing, Heads Up, Slam Dunk, Horse, Game Time, and Sports Reporter.In Passing, the player must type in the letters on the keyboard in order to pass the basketball to another player. Free throws can be made as well. Heads Up requires the player to type in the letters that appear on the basketballs. In Slam Dunk, the player needs to be quick at typing in order to score a hoop. In Horse, the player needs to type correctly to get the ball to bounce off various obstacles, and going into the hoop. Game Time simulates a real basketball game with the player typing in the word that appears above the hoop in order to score or block the shot.The last drill is the Sports Reporter, which is a speed test featuring articles of many popular basketball players. |
| Smart Games Puzzle Challenge 2 | 1997 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | KnowWare, Smart Games, Inc. | Puzzle, Sports | Text-based / Spreadsheet, Top-down | | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz, Music / rhythm, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Second full game in the Smart Games series. Includes over 1400 puzzles of 20 different types:Borderlines: Move and rotate pieces until all the borders match up (35 puzzles)Brain Candy: Rearrange the pieces (which have different candies, colors, and quantities) in order to meet the level's requirements (50 puzzles)Down & Across: Place the given words in a crossword-style grid so they take as little space as possible (30 puzzles)Fool's Jewels: Place the covers over the grid to cover all the coal and reveal all the gems (30 puzzles)Gates of Trivia: Answer the trivia in 8 categories to close the gates (5 puzzles, with several stages each)Ice House: Soko-Ban variant in which you push blocks of ice instead of crates to get the jewels over their targets (40 puzzles)It's A Wrap: Guess the words from clues (30 puzzles)Leap Frog: Leap across the lily pads, jumping over other frogs to remove them from the board (35 puzzles)Mass Transit: Find the quickest route between the specified cities given the quirky scheduling of mass transit (30 puzzles)Math Path: Find a route through the nodes of the maze that adds up to the total at the final square (55 puzzles)Mirror, Mirror: Set up lenses and mirrors to reflect the laser onto the targets (40 puzzles)Odyssey: Variation on mazes where each square specified a valid directions and number of squares you can move in that direction (30 puzzles)PicPax: Variation on tangram puzzles where you must place the given pieces to create the pictured shape (30 puzzles)Pipeline: Lay the pipes to connect the valve and the gauges, connecting all appliances along the way and using as few pieces of pipe as possible (40 puzzles)Polf: A fusion of pool and golf in which you select the cue size and shot direction in an effort to sink the ball within par (36 puzzles)Say What?: Rearrange the sound fragments into a familiar snippet of music or speech (35 puzzles)Slide Show: Adjust vertical and horizontal bands of focus to bring an image into focus (30 puzzles)Sticks & Stones: Place sticks and stones in a hexagonal grid so that each column and row contain the specified number of each (35 puzzles)Word Pyramid: Place letters in a pyramid to form words across and down (35 puzzles)Writer's Block: Rearrange blocks of letters to form complete words (35 puzzles)
Score is tracked for every puzzle (partial credit is possible on many of them, and sometimes you can get higher scores than the developers' "Best"), and unlike Smart Games Challenge 1, your progress is automatically saved for every puzzle. |
| Smithsonian Institution: Dinosaur Museum | 1997 | Perspective Visuals | Perspective Visuals | Educational | Developed by | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | Developed by | Windows | Dinosaur Museum is an educational game that shows you the elements of a real museum and even has pictures of exhibits in The Smithsonian Institution Museum of Washington D.C.
The Menu has three areas to go to Library, Conservatory and Game Room, it also includes stuff like the top 300 Dinosaur names, History of Dinosaur Paleontology from 1546-1993, Dictionary, Classification and Geologic time scale.The Library lets you look at a dinosaur from any three time periods and lets you see them in them in Dioramas, as Skeletons, their skull appearances, a museum area that has all sorts of facts and a quiz question for every dinosaur, 3-D pictures and their life and style. Conservatory lets you look at nine different dinosaur fact sections Cretaceous Physiography, Jurassic Physiography, Triassic Physiography, Potpourri, Myths, Extinction Theories, Contributors, Who's Who, and Dinosaurs in the movies which features movie scenes from "One Million Years B.C." (1967), "The Valley of Gwangi" (1969), "Gertie the Dinosaur" (1912), "Planet of the Dinosaurs" (1977), "The Lost World" (1925) and all that remains of "Creation" (1931).Finally the Game Room features a Dinosaur true and false game, with 3 game levels Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced, and you have to answer a certain amount of questions jugging by how long you choose the quiz to be, when you finish the quiz you have a chance to explore in a Dinosaur Hall of Fame with limited time. |
| Snug | 1997 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Snug is a freeware puzzle game. In Snug, the player must fit randomly-shaped blocks into a grey square.The game features two levels of difficulty: in Dodecomino mode, you must fit 5 blocks into the square. The Hexadecomino mode displays 9 blocks instead. The mouse is used to move the blocks. Right or left click to flip or rotate them, but these actions can also be performed from the drop-down menu.
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| Solitaire XXL | 1997 | CreaTeam-Software | CreaTeam-Software | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Solitaire XXL features several solitaire rule sets of the popular card game. It also contains a unique card set drawn by German artist Uli Stein. The shareware version has several restrictions: it can only be played ten times, there is just one rule set and the special card set is not available. |
| Sonic 3D Blast | 1997 | SEGA of America, Inc. | Traveller's Tales (UK) Ltd. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | While visiting Flicky Island, Sonic notices that the Flickies, his small, feathered friends that can travel between parallel worlds, were captured and turned into badniks (the robot enemies of Sonic) by Dr. Robotnik in his never-ending quest for the Chaos Emeralds. Seven levels separate Sonic from the final showdown with Robotnik.Sonic 3D was the last Sonic title released for the Mega Drive, the only platforming presence of the blue blur in the Sega Saturn, and one of his rare appearances in Personal Computers. The title, considering the era it was released, is somewhat misleading, as instead of full blown 3D graphics it uses an isometric view where Sonic can move not only forwards and backwards, but also left and right. Gameplay is much slower when compared to other games in the series, and the number of badniks is reduced to five in each section. As usual, when Sonic destroys one badnik, an animal leaps free from its insides, but this time Sonic has to pick him up and lead them to an interdimensional ring. While they can be taken one by one, exploring the level with all five allow the player to reach for otherwise inaccessible continue tokens.
Unlike all other previous games, time isn't a requirement: if the player completes a level in more than 10 minutes, it would only mean there would be no time bonus at the end. Finally, to collect all seven Chaos Emeralds, Sonic first must find Tails or Knuckles and offer them at least 50 rings. |
| Sophie's World | 1997 | Voyager Company, The | MultiMedia Corporation plc, The | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Sophie's World is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Jostein Gaarder. As in the book, you explore philosophy through the ages from the point of view of 14 year old Sophie. Rather like the book, it's half a game, and half an educational title. |
| Sorcerian Forever | 1997 | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Side view | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Ten years after the release of the original, a next-generation sequel to the classic RPG Sorcerian is released. As in the original you control a party of 4 player-generated characters through side-scrolling dungeons hoping to solve a series of quests divided across standalone scenarios.The game features 5 brand-new scenarios and an updated graphics engine which nonetheless uses the same side-scrolling control scheme as in the original game with some additional controls for direct magic use and a new HUD interface. As you travel back and forth between the dungeons and the town in which you used to buy weapons and equipment, you can now also access the new magic academy where you can create spells and enchant items to use in the main game. |
| Space Junkie | 1997 | | | Action | | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Space Junkie is a single player space shooter.The player controls a space ship that moves left / right across the bottom of the screen. Enemy ships rain down from the top of the screen shooting at the player as they come. The aim of the game is to destroy them to achieve a high score.
Each enemy wave behaves differently and, to make the game more challenging, the player's gun will overheat and temporarily stop working if used too much.The game can be controlled via the keyboard with redefinable action keys, the mouse or via a joystick. It has sound effects, music, and a high score table. |
| Space Quest: Collection Series | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Adventure, Compilation | | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | All the Space Quest games in a single box. Here we can see (and play) the entire life of Roger Wilco, the world (and not only) famous intergalactic janitor.As a bonus, besides the six Space Quest games, there’s a preview of Space Quest VII: Return to Roman Numerals, but this game was never completed.
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| Speed Demons | 1997 | Eidos Interactive Limited | Efecto Caos S.L., East Point Software Ltd. | Action, Racing / Driving | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing | | | | | Windows | This game is arcade of "evil" vehicles, in the style of Death Rally that throughout 8 circuits we will have to demonstrate that we are the fastest.Up to 6 vehicles can participate simultaneously controlled by human players (network IPX) or by the computer. The competitions are totally customizeable: you can choose the weather, the circuit direction, etc... In each competition we can choose between 3 vehicles with characteristics very differentiated. As you gain points throughout the championship, you can upgrade your car.Are you ready to face the challenge? Tons of adrenalin are awaiting you. |
| Speedboat Attack | 1997 | Telstar Electronic Studios Ltd. | Criterion Software Group Ltd., Driver-Inter, Ltd. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Speedboat Attack is a game of race speedboats and shot over the water, which the boats are equipped weapons to destroy the components.
Exciting game for those who like to run over the waters, with great speed and shots for all of the sides. There are several elements of a typical racing game, such as speed and overtaking, sinuous curves and a competition for positions at any cost.There are five choices of boats to choose from, each with distinct characteristics of maneuvers, from ten different tracks with varying weather conditions, and the night, morning or in dense fog.
Water courses come with the look and the very slippery surface.
On some routes include small icebergs and landmines. |
| Spirit Warrior | 1997 | | CGCG Inc | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | | | | | | | Windows | Spirit Warrior is a one-on-one fighting game with three-dimensional character models and wide arenas. All fighters have the same style of basic punching and kicking attacks, and also share the same button inputs for supplementary attacks and counterattacks. When the magic power counter reaches a high enough level, the player is able to cast magic spells at the opponent which can be dodged by stepping to a side. This game was a free gift to customers who have bought computer hardware products from DataExpert. |
| Sportsman's Paradise | 1997 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains six games:
Duck Hunt II
Pigeon Hunt
Fly Fishing"
Prairie Dog Hunt Pro
Pheasant Hunt
Trap Shooting Pro |
| Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" | 1997 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Spy / espionage | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The evil Goat William the Kid is trying to get rid of all milk by flooding the capitol of Washington D.C by pouring a whole lot of milk on it. Who can stop this ghastly goat? Fox, SPY Fox sent by SPY CORPS.You travel to one of the Greek Islands to solve puzzles and find a way to stop William the Kid with the help of Monkey Penney, Quack and Mr. Uterley the owner of A Malgomated MOO Juice company. With the help of Spy Gadgets given to you by Quack such as the Laser Toothbrush, Spy Nickel and Suction cuff links, you will discover secrets and find a good way to stop William the kids plans for flooding the capitol.Each game has a different type of gameplay with different gadgets to use. There is a save and load system, and entertainment options from Spy Fox's Spy Watch. |
| Star Warped | 1997 | Parroty Interactive | Luminare Multimedia, WayForward Technologies, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Comedy | Arcade, Fighting, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Star Warped is an interactive point-and-click game, which is set in the house of two Star Wars fans from Modesto. The game contains a series of mini-games, and is intended to be a parody of Star Wars and the associated paraphernalia. Some of the mini-games themselves parody other Star Wars games: "Dork Forces" is a spoof of Dark Forces, "X-Schwing" is, of course, the counterpart of X-Wing, and "Wrecked All Assault" is a purported 'secret area' of Rebel Assault in which you fly through the intestines of Jabba the Hut. The game also includes references to popular culture, such as the selection of "Scrapped Scripts" which show what Star Wars would have been like if it had been written by Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Jonze, or Quentin Tarantino. |
| Star Wars: Monopoly | 1997 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | It's the greatest family favourite property trading game combined with the greatest Sci-fi adventure classic. Trade starships and planets as you fight to own the Star Wars galaxy in this Monopoly title, while playing with up to six of your mates. With full motion 3D characters, heaps of your favourite Star Wars movie scenes, and even C-3PO himself, Anthony Daniels. |
| Star Wars: Monopoly (Special Collector's Edition) | 1997 | Hasbro Interactive Ltd. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In addition to the original game, this Special Collector's Edition contains the following:
Pewter figure "Anakin Skywalker"
Three Collectors' coins
The game comes in a square big box with a sticker commemorating 20 Years of Star Wars (1977-1997). |
| Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire | 1997 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Behind view | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire tells the story of Prince Xizor's quest to replace Darth Vader as the leader of the Sith, and wipe out the Rebels' chances of victory. The only man that can stop him is the interstellar bounty hunter Dash Rendar. The game is based on the novel of the same name, with locations including ice planet Hoth, Mos Eisley and the sewers of Imperial City, all in full 3D.Levels each have very different objectives, ranging from piloting snowspeeders on Hoth and racing speeder bikes on Tatooine to shooting stormtroopers and droids on foot throughout the galaxy. Dash primarily uses a blaster with unlimited ammo, but can also find more powerful weapons with limited ammunition. Each level has optional "challenge points" that are hidden throughout the level, and finding all of them will unlock a cheat dependent on which difficulty setting the save file is on. |
| Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter - Flight School | 1997 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Totally Games, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter - Flight School is a limited demonstration version of Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter. It features 14 missions from the game, 7 of which may be played in multi-player mode. It was part of the X-Wing Collector Series compilation and was also released bundled with Logitech hardware and as a free giveaway upon buying certain other Star Wars games at Best Buy stores. |
| Star Wars: Yoda Stories | 1997 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Action | Top-down | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Star Wars: Yoda Stories is the second game in Lucas Arts' Desktop Adventures series, which were designed as infinitely re-playable action/puzzle games to be played in short bursts. Set loosely during the events of the first three Star Wars movies (Episodes IV, V and VI), the player takes control of Luke Skywalker who is given pocedurally generated short adventures on every new playthrough.The game starts on Dagobah, where the player must find Yoda to be given a randomly generated mission on either a desert planet, a snow planet or a forest planet (or moon for that matter). Missions vary from rescuing kidnapped allies to destroying Imperial bases to finding lost artifacts. As the game's storyline and puzzle design is based around trading or using multiple chains of items, Yoda always gives the player a single item to begin with. R2-D2 can also be picked up on Dagobah and can be used as a tooltip hint activator by dragging him onto any on-screen item or tile. After receiving the mission, the player is free to fly between Dagobah and the target planet with Luke's X-Wing.When exploring the world, the player will come across friendly NPCs who can give hints or trade for items, houses which can be entered, and items scattered around the world. The world is also full of danger. The player starts with the lightsaber, which, when equipped, can be used to defeat Imperial troops, Tuskens or deadly creatures. Enemies can drop blasters, stormtrooper rifles or thermal detonators that the player can use for ranged combat, or rations and medical kits that the player can use to heal themselves.The worlds generated can be rather large and filled with secrets and are divided into several key areas such as spaceports where the player can get healed by medical droids, puzzle areas where new items can be found, blockades which require items or puzzles to be solved, as well as teleporters, which the player can use to quickly traverse the world map if they have found the valuable locator item, which displays the world map. The locator also marks areas either solved or unsolved, so it becomes a valuable item to have. The player is allowed some limited manipulation of the game world in the form of pulling or pushing certain blocks, blowing up blockades, using the Force to move items around or even minor button combination puzzles.The game is played with mouse controls: moving the mouse cursor holding down the left mouse button makes Luke move, while items and weapons are used by having the desired item in the active item slot and pressing the right mouse button. Alternatively, the player can use the arrow keys to move and the spacebar to use the item. Shift can be used to drag movable items around. The player can create unlimited save files at any time, restart the currently generated world any time when it's still loaded (such as during the game over screen) and generate a new world at any given time and even change the world generator to generate either small, medium or large worlds. The player can also change the combat difficulty and game speed from the options.In the original Windows release, the game CD also includes Star Wars: Making Magic, an interactive behind-the-scenes look at the production of the Star Wars Special Edition release. |
| Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command - 1939-1999 | 1997 | Mindscape, Inc., Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Wargame | Historical events, World War II | Tank | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Steel Panthers III is the third in the Steel Panthers series, which chronicles the exploits of tanks from a top-down hex-based setting. As the full title suggests, the time frame of Steel Panthers III covers World War II, the post-war era as well as hypothetical conflicts set in (then) near future.This time, SSI changed the scale slightly to allow larger battlefields and unit command structures, with improved leaders and command interface. Otherwise, this game isn't much changed from Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles. |
| Stellar Combat: Mission Pack | 1997 | Perfect Publishing | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Stellar Combat: Mission Pack is an unofficial collection of 125 fan-made missions for the games Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter and Descent II. In addition there are 70 bonus missions for Star Wars: X-Wing, Star Wars: TIE Fighter and Descent. |
| Strategy Challenges Collection 2 | 1997 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Strategy Challenges Collection 2 consists of three strategy games:
Jungle Chess (from China).
Tablut (from Lapland, northern Scandinavia and Russia).
Surakarta (from Java, Indonesia).
All three are based on traditional board games, although they may be unfamiliar to many.In Jungle Chess, you maneuver past wild animal playing pieces and avoid traps to get to your opponent’s den. In Surakarta, you travel along loops to capture opponents. In Tablut, you surround and capture the Swedish king, or try and escape to safety if you play the defensive position.Jungle Chess and Tablut are played a little like chess and checkers, while Surakarta is a little like a race.The games have six animated computer opponents of varying skill levels and styles of play. Or you can take turns at the keyboard to play against another person. The game includes some videos on how animals use strategies to survive. |
| Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams | 1997 | Capcom Entertainment, Inc. | Capcom Co., Ltd. | Action | Side view | | Martial arts | Fighting | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | It's Street Fighter as you always remember it, with some new moves, characters and combo systems, as well as a more polished look and feel.The new moves available for each fighter, called Super moves, allow them to fire off very powerful moves. A bar at the bottom of the screen represents the power that you have to use for the moves. You start the first round on 0, and each attack that you make adds power to the bar. Once you reach level 3, you can unleash the special attacks, that can sometimes KO the opponant.The other major change over the Street Fighter 2 series are the Alpha counters. These can be used to counter an on-coming attack after blocking. |
| Su-27 Flanker: Squadron Commander's Edition | 1997 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Flying Legends | Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A special edition/compilation of the groundbreaking air combat simulator and its add-on mission pack. The Commander's Edition includes version 1.5 of Su-27 Flanker, the 150+ additional missions from the aptly named "mission disk", an improved mission editor, enhanced AI, a new strategic AWACS view function, and a freeware random mission generator. |
| SubSpace | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Burst | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Choose from 8 ships, each with different handling and weaponry characteristics. Fly with up to 250 other players simultaneously, fighting for points, a good win/loss ratio, and the respect of your peers. Subspace is divided into "Zones" which provide different game types. You can join in on these games at any time. Some zones run "Capture the Flag" style games, others "Soccer" style, where players must compete over a ball, with their object to reach 10 goals for their team first. The most popular variant, however, is "Chaos", where literally anything goes. Kill or be killed.Offering unique multiplayer gaming based on a beautifully simple game concept, Subspace incorporates the best elements of online gaming into one package. A variety of different game styles, team or solo play, IRC-style chat, and infinite re-playability are only some of its many
virtues.
What started as a project to test the viability of a massive multiplayer environment with commercial backing quickly became one of the most entertaining and popular multiplayer games available. |
| Sunes Sportlov | 1997 | Norstedts Rabén Multimedia | | Adventure | Side view, Top-down | | Romance | Graphic adventure, Mini-games, Platform, Puzzle elements | Contemporary, Europe | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Sunes Sportlov is an adventure centered around a week of winter sports-vacation at the resort town 'Gruvdalen' with the school boy Sune, the main character of a Swedish childrens book series by Anders Jacobsson och Sören Olsson. Sune is love-stricken by his neighbours daughter Sophie, who is also vacationing at the same resort, but manages to antagonize her at the start of the story, so she makes up some difficult tasks for him to fulfill before accepting his invitations.The main objective in the game is to convince Sune's love interest, Sophie, to go to the resort disco with him on the Friday, and this is done by performing various task to impress her, during the week before the disco. The tasks are approached as adventure game puzzles, collect items to solve problems to achieve the goal set by Sophie; e.g. on Monday, Sune is required to write her name in the snow on top of the high slalom hill, which require some prerequisites gathered from other parts of the town.Apart from the main disco dancing goal, Sune can also play nine minigames in the winter resort, like play ice hockey, do some snowboard downhill slalom, pelt people with snowballs and also try a hand at helicopter landing, these are more like arcade games. |
| Super Duelling Minivans | 1997 | Human Head Studios, Inc. | Lead Dog Software | Action, Racing / Driving | | | | Fighting, Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Super Duelling Minivans is the enhanced version of Duelling Minivans which was originally created in only 33 hours by Rowan Atalla & Jason Blochowiak (from Argo Games)
and Chris Rhinehart (from Raven Software). "It was born out of an idea to entirely create a new game in 24hours..." Your mission is simple: Before getting blown up by your opponent you try to blow up its minivan first with your available weapons (you always have the choice
to crash into it!). You have four different types of weapon which you get them as power-ups in the arena (when you get one another one appears immediately): Machine gun, rocket launcher, guided missile and mines. You can also get the first aid kit power-up among them. |
| Super Putt | 1997 | ARI Data CD GmbH | Artech Digital Entertainments, Inc. | Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Super Putt is a miniature golf game which features three courses with 18 holes each. The themes of the courses are "water park"," traditional" and "classic". The game uses the standard miniature golf rules and is played in top down perspective. The player has to set the direction and the power of his shot; this process is completely mouse controlled. Additionally to the top down view there are several 3D shots of each hole which can be viewed before playing it. The player can change the ball color and the amount of shots after which the hole is automatically abandoned. |
| Super Solitaire | 1997 | Serges Medien GmbH | Bitstream | Compilation, Puzzle | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Super Solitaire is a collection of 20 patience card games variations.The game was released part of GamePack 2: 10 Super CD-ROM-Spiele auf 11 CD-ROMs and a standalone release is unclear. |
| Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets! | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Action, Educational, Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Morty Maxwell, the Master of Mischief, has moved into the Shady Glen Technology Center and taken over as the head scientist! Your job is to accept Morty's challenge and prove that you are a better scientist than he is. Morty has locked the doors in the warehouse with science puzzles. Show him how much you know about science by solving the puzzles. Then go through the doors, find the best vehicle parts, and build faster vehicles than Morty builds. To make your job more difficult, Morty's sneaky Cyber Chimps are collecting vehicle parts, too. Outsmart the Chimps by throwing bananas to them and making them take a nap. Race against Morty and win all 15 of the challenge races. You will reclaim the Technology Center and be the head scientist! |
| TNN Motor Sports Hardcore 4x4 | 1997 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Racing / Driving, Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | Off-roading | Direct control | | | | Windows | TNN Motorsports Hardcore 4x4 is an off road racing game. You drive a 4x4 like a Jeep or pickup truck around cross-country loops and attempt to get to the finish line first. There are three race types. In single race mode you participate in only one race on a track of your choice against 5 other competitors. Championship allows you to race through all 6 courses in a row in an attempt to win a hidden truck. Time trial lets up to 8 players compete round-robin style for the fast lap time around a track.This game utilizes 3D environments and truck models. The sound track features hard rock music. |
| TOCA Championship Racing | 1997 | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The British Touring Car Championship represented the worldwide peak of saloon car racing in the mid 1990s, attracting factory support from Audi, Renault, Ford, Volvo and several other constructors. In this game you can choose from all official teams and drivers of the 1997 season, won by Renault's Alain Menu. All the circuits are also included. The cars have a realistic damage model, so they can loose specific parts like bumpers or mirrors. The weather effects are also very realistic. Car handling is designed to be tough but realistic. |
| Taaltris | 1997 | A.W. Bruna Uitgevers B.V. | Stichting Cognitech, Visual Reality | Educational, Puzzle | | | | Falling block puzzle | | | | Real-time | | Released | Windows | Taaltris is an educational language game for children aged eight or older. It practises the parsing of sentences, linguistic word categories and recognizing the grammatical function of constituents in the Dutch language, with gameplay similar to Tetris.At the beginning of a game, the function of a constituent or linguistic category is shown at the top of the screen. At the bottom, there is a sentence, divided into words or constituents. A single square moves down at a constant speed and needs to be matched with the corresponding word or constituent to score points. If you fail, a bar at the bottom lifts the sentence and there is less time to think about the correct answer. When you make the same mistake over and over again, a help screen pops up with hints. After each game, a report with the score and the mistakes is shown.A few hundred sentences are available at the start, divided over 4 difficulty levels, but you can also add your own. |
| Take No Prisoners | 1997 | Red Orb Entertainment | Raven Software Corporation | Action | Top-down | | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Take No Prisoners is a top-down 3D shooter that takes place in a post-apocalyptic environment. The player controls Slade, a mercenary recruited by The Man to retrieve a special crystal from a mysterious dome, deep in the irradiated hell-hole of San Antonio, Texas. As the story progresses, the player collects data files from computers and dead enemies, System Shock-style, and places them in a Personal Data Device.There are over twenty areas in the game, which can be explored on foot or using ATVs, hovercrafts, or sewer boats, in a largely non-linear fashion. The enemies vary from obsessed cultists wielding laser swords to mechanical warriors who use shoulder-mounted lasers. |
| Tamagotchi CD-ROM | 1997 | Bandai Digital Entertainment Corp. | 7th Level, Inc. | Simulation | | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Manage your very own virtual pet based upon the popular electronic toy. Raise your very own Tamagotchi from egg form to adulthood if you can. The CD-ROM version adds a scrapbook, screensaver, more mini-games, and a day care center for when you're away from the PC. This game costs the same as purchasing a physical Tamagotchi. |
| Ten Pin Alley | 1997 | American Softworks Corporation | Adrenalin Entertainment | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In this bowling game, you must choose from one of eight very different characters. Choose power and accuracy from a meter that is very similar to the Links golf games - let go and watch the action.The game consists of single game, league and tournament (amateur and pro) modes. Selected player may be edited by changing shirt, hair, pants and skin color and is described by four factors: power, release, spin and hand usage. Each strike consists of choosing lane arrow , setting bowler position and operating on bowling meter. Operating on bowling meter includes specifying spin velocity, power of the strike and release point. The game shows the release animation, ball track and the moment of impact in bowling. After two strikes next player takes his position. The results are presented in the table after every completed round. Windows version of the game allows to play up to ten human or CPU players on a single computer (hot seat mode) or via internet connection. |
| Test Drive 4 | 1997 | Accolade, Inc. | Pitbull Syndicate Limited, The | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Test Drive 4 is a racing game featuring ten different cars - five modern supercars such as the Jaguar XJ220 and TVR Cerbera, and five vintage muscle cars including three Chevrolet models. Each car has its own realistic physics, with challenging handling.There are five full circuits, plus a drag strip. You can contest a full world championship, plus single races and ghost-car time trials. The ability to find shortcuts which is featured in the third game in the series is not included here; you must stick to the pre-defined track layout. |
| Tetriszen | 1997 | | | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Tetriszen is a single player, freeware, Tetris clone. It is entirely keyboard controlled and plays just like every other game of this type in that blocks of varying shape fall from the top of the screen and the player must use them to construct a solid line of blocks horizontally. Horizontal rows score points then disappear allowing other blocks to fall down.
The object is to achieve a high score and the game continues until the game screen fills up with the blocks falling faster and faster the longer the game continues.
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| The 'Jongg CD! | 1997 | Moraffware | Moraffware | Action, Compilation, Puzzle, Strategy | Side view, Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Falling block puzzle, Pinball, Tile matching puzzle, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | A collection of 20 board and puzzle games, including 5 versions of MahJongg (a traditional Chinese board game), 4 jigsaw games, and a host of other little games including word games and even a pinball game. |
| The 3D Adventures of Sailor Moon | 1997 | 3VR, Inc. | 3VR, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | The 3D Adventures of Sailor Moon is based on the TV anime series Sailor Moon. It is basically an interactive 3D virtual city with various mini-tasks. Explore the magical and mystical world of the Sailor Scouts, ordinary high school girls who can transform into powerful super heroes. Stand for justice and fight against the evil forces of the Negaverse.There are five different play areas to explore:The Magical Puzzle Room has 3 levels of play ranging from basic 9-sided cube mysteries to difficult 25-sided challenges, and over 50 different 3D puzzles. Solving a puzzle will allow you to see a Sailor Scout image and listen to an important message.The
Galactic Moon Library enables you to view secret files on each Sailor Scout such as their strengths and aptitudes plus watch them in a slide show.The Crystal Fighting Arena is an action game where you must shoot flying crystals and moving targets. Try to get as many targets in the least time possible.The 3D Fashion Salon & Fitting Room allows you to view different costumes and pick and choose what each Sailor Scout will wear. There's beach wear, fighting gear, formal dresses and lots of fashion accessories.The Moon Castle TV Show is where you can view over 10 different videos created from the best-loved episodes accompanied by music. |
| The 7th Guest / The 11th Hour | 1997 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a value priced bundle for Windows, Macintosh and Linux (The 7th Guest only) containing these games:
The 7th Guest
The 11th Hour |
| The Adventures of Lomax | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Cute, green-haired yet halfwitted creatures Lemmings this time appear in a platform
game. As the only survivor Lemming that managed to rescue himself from the evil spell
of Evil Ed, you (Lomax) must stop Evil Ed's distracting effect over the LemmingLand.In your quest most of your enemies will be Hench Lemmings which've been possessed
by Evil Ed's evil spell. You will be mainly using your spin attack or -when grabbed-
your magic helmet to free these imprisoned Lemmings from the spell.You have also some special abilities like building a bridge, digging horizontally
through certain obstacles (just like the other Lemmings games) or throwing a flaming
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| The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun | 1997 | Infogrames Europe SA | Infogrames Europe SA | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun is based on the Belgian comic book of the same name. The basic plotline is the same: Professor Cuthbert Calculus gets kidnapped and the player, in the role of Tintin, needs to rescue him. The rest is more loosely adapted: in contrast to the comic, which is mostly based in Peru, this game offers many different locations all over the world.The gameplay itself is a typical platforming action: Tintin walks through the levels while avoiding the enemies. Pretty much everyone, e.g. little girls and security guards, is out to hurt Tintin who has no means of defending himself. This means the most important aspect is learning enemy placements, their patterns and how to avoid them. But he has to hurry because of the time limit. Required for success is the usage of the two playing plains: from the player's perspective in the foreground and further towards the background. Tintin can switch between the two at any time. |
| The Adventures of Valdo & Marie | 1997 | Ubi Soft Entertainment, Inc. | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The Adventures of Valdo & Marie is an educational game for kids. The player takes the role of Valdo who is aboard a 16th century Portuguese ship heading for Japan. On the journey, they will explore exotic lands and deal with pirates, sharks, and storms. The main objective of the game is to gather the scattered pieces of a treasure map and reveal a mysterious adventure. Most of the gameplay consists of the usual adventure activities: searching the environment, collecting items and solving puzzles. Most of them are of the classic item based kind but there are also a few dialogue and logic puzzles. Additionally the player has to solve a few action based mini games, e.g. a Soko-Ban or a Lemmings variant. It is possible to bypass some puzzles entirely which has a impact later in the game: either getting stuck without the possibility of going back or receiving another of the nine endings.The educational part of the game consists mostly of the historically accurate foundation of the story and the environment. There are also many additional information in text form to read. Some puzzles require this knowledge to be solved, e.g. about ship speed. |
| The American Girls Premiere | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The American Girls Premiere puts players in the role of a stage director, allowing them to author, edit and play back unique stage plays starring characters from American Girl's Historical roster, from colonial-era girl Felicity Merriman to Molly McIntire, daughter of a World War II army doctor.The game makes use of digitised sprites from live theatre actors and actual accessories from the Collection. It also comes with a Director's Guide with behind-the-scenes videos on the game's development, tips and tricks on theatre production, and historical facts about the characters' respective eras, such as the clothes children wore and the pastimes during a particular time in American history. |
| The Arrival | 1997 | Live Interactive | Enteraktion, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | Randy Chua | Windows | In the film The Arrival, an alien race discovered earth, and attempted to modify its atmosphere to suit them, at humanity's expense. They failed - thanks to the work of Charlie Sheen's character Zane Ziminski.Ten years later, the aliens are back, and have kidnapped you. You must escape without them knowing. Thus begins this adventure game, a non-canonical sequel to the original film. It takes in over 400 environments across the planet and its surrounding moons.You have a first person view with complete freedom of movement. The puzzles have a science fiction theme, involving either object usage or looking for details. A hint system helps adventure game rookies to get used to the process of puzzle-solving. The game is non-linear and can come to several different endings. |
| The BEER War! | 1997 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | In this shareware release, you manage a beer company against nine other companies. There are ten towns to sell beer in. Build factories, build depots, launch new brands and dominate the cutthroat competition. Each company starts with one brand, a 2% marketshare and much of the playing field open. Companies that run out of money go out of business. The game goes on until one of the companies has 60% of the marketshare. Usually there are two or three companies left, and town markets saturated with brands, when this is a viable possibility.The gameplay is a top-down strategy game that works in a turn-based manner. Up to two human players can play in the full registered version.You can not sabotage or affect the other companies directly, but you can affect the marketplace by how much beer -- and what kind of beer -- you sell in a town and what prices you sell them at. Towns with higher wages are more apt to accept a higher-quality, more expensive beer than towns that are more working-class.
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| The Best Pop Pub Quiz Ever! | 1997 | Q | | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Best Pop Pub Quiz Ever! is a game for one to four players based on pop music up to the late 1990's. It is based on Carlton Books of the same name and boasts six thousand questions in fifty categories, three difficulty levels and options to print quizzes and answer sheets for pub quiz organisers.All quizzes are twenty questions long. The questions are text based, there are no sound clips, and all answers must be correctly spelled when they are typed in. Questions are asked of the participating players in turn as their avatars sit at a bar drinking and performing various antics. As the quiz progresses a status bar shows how many questions each has got right. The game does not show the correct answers by default, if the players opt to see the correct answer it pops up, very briefly, in it's own window
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| The Cassandra Galleries | 1997 | Corel Corporation | Kutoka Interactive Inc | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The Cassandra Galleries is a puzzle-based adventure game, rather like the 7th Guest. You’ve been invited to explore a mysterious museum. Cassandra, the owner of the museum, has disappeared with his daughter. You must find out what's happened to them. |
| The Cat in the Hat | 1997 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Cat in the Hat is an educational game based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. It has the same plot of the original book. The Cat sees that Sally and her brother are bored on a rainy day. Eventually, they start having fun, but The Cat realizes he has made a big mess. The Cat uses a big vacuum to clean the whole mess up, and it ends happily ever after. The game lets you click on many things in the background, and has small mini-games during the story. The game also lets you go back to any page you want again. |
| The ClueFinders: 4th Grade Adventures | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | The ClueFinders, Laptrap and their talking dog Socrates have found an ancient Egyptian tomb in Egypt with there professor. With the ClueFinders out of sight for the night, a member of the trip named Sir Alistair Loveless steals all the treasures in the tomb and kidnaps the professor with his goons. He now has a plan to cause eternal chaos to the world. The only ones who can save the professor now are the ClueFinders.The ClueFinders now must travel around the lands of Egypt, including the city of Cairo, the Nile Kingdom and the great pyramid. This game for ages 8-10, helps teach math, geography, science and much more educational concepts while you help save the world from eternal chaos. The game involves collecting important stuff and running into activities in order to collect them. Laptrap the Turbo Turtle can be used for things like maps, music on/off options, ClueFinders club and Progress Reports. Socrates can be used for tips on how to do an activity in case you have trouble on it. |
| The Curse of Monkey Island | 1997 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Sea pirates / Caribbean | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Having barely escaped LeChuck's dreadful amusement park, Guybrush Threepwood finds himself stuck in the middle of the sea, with nothing in his boat but a sausage and a diary. Musing over the events that have led him into this predicament, Guybrush suddenly discovers a ship navigated by none other than his archenemy. Once again, Guybrush saves his beloved Elaine from the claws of his undead rival. In the midst of the treasure that belonged to the defeated foe Guybrush finds a ring. Overwhelmed by his love to Elaine, he proposes marriage to her and gives her the ring. What he doesn't know is that the ring is cursed; before he is able to realize what is happening, Elaine is turned into a gold statue. Will Guybrush be able to lift the curse and to save his one and only love?This third installment of the Monkey Island is, like its predecessors, a humorous puzzle-solving adventure game. The game features cartoon-style SVGA graphics and (for the first time in the series) voice-overs for all the conversations. The interface no longer involves a list of verbs that occupies a part of the screen; instead, it follows the same principle as in Full Throttle: the player chooses first the object to interact with, then the action from a menu that appears. Like the second game, The Curse of Monkey Island has two difficulty levels. |
| The Day the World Broke | 1997 | Houghton Mifflin Interactive Corporation | Houghton Mifflin Interactive Corporation | Adventure | 1st-person | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | David Wiesner | Windows | The natural balance of the Earth is in disarray, as the world's deserts have flooded, rivers have dried up, and cows are flying. As the player discovers, it turns out the planet is managed by one giant machine, run by a few World Works engineers deep inside the planet. In their attempt to give the world a "tune-up," something has gone wrong, and it's up to the player to travel to the Earth's core to figure out why. It's at the center of the world that the player discovers a strange hybrid species of Mechanimals -- part animal, part machine. Encountering many colorful and memorable characters, you must assist four Mechanimals with their problems to restore the planet to its normal, functioning state.The Day the World Broke is an adventure game geared toward children. It is played from a first-person perspective, with a simple inventory system. Most gameplay involves conversations with fully rendered 3D characters, with dialogue choices available to the player. There are also a few puzzles to solve, and one notably long fetch quest to perform. The game features detailed, hand-painted art, and there are a few scenes featuring full-motion video of the human engineer characters. |
| The Depths of DOOM Trilogy | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | The Depths of DOOM Trilogy is an official compilation containing The Ultimate DOOM (including the episode "Thy Flesh Consumed"), DOOM II, as well as the official map CD Master Levels for DOOM II. |
| The Feeble Files | 1997 | Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd. | Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | This is a humorous point and click adventure game from the creator of the Simon the Sorcerer series of games. You play an alien called Feeble (who is voiced by Robert Llewyllyn, best known for his role in the science-fiction sitcom, Red Dwarf). He lives in a world controlled by the Omni-Brain, which aims to keep everybody happy and successful. As such, unhappy people are killed, and over a million laws exist.Feeble works for the Ministry of Galactic Uncertainty's crop-circle division, which involves creating crop circles on less advanced planets than his own, as a way to cause panic on those planets and stifle their intellectual development.As Feeble, your goal is to overthrow this system. Devious behaviour is required to achieve this. Over 5000 lines of spoken dialogue are included, as well as 80 locations. |
| The French Open 1998 | 1997 | Microfolie's Editions | Runn Software | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | In the official game of the Roland Garros tennis tournament, the player has the option either to make simple matches (with the option to choose between male or female players, single or doubles and number of sets) in four court types (Hard, Cement, Grass and Synthetic) in a number of different venues all around the world, from the Grand Slam courts in Paris, London and NY to a paradisiac beach. There is also a full season mode where players chose 10 of the included tournaments and play for both money and points, hoping to reach the top spot.Gameplay is what one could expect from a tennis game - two buttons, one to perform a slice shot and other a top spin. The direction of the ball is controlled by the time between the player pressing the button and hitting the ball. Each court type affects the ball differently, so mastering both the baseline and the net is important in tournament play. |
| The Great Battles of Alexander | 1997 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Erudite Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Classical antiquity, Historical events | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | This is a wargame which is part of the Great battles series series and deals with the exploits of some of the greatest ancient military generals.
Here the game focuses on Alexander the Great, the great Macedonian leader. This strategy game is inspired by the award winning board game made by GMT Games and recreates ten great battles fought by Alexander and its armies with high detailed graphics, extreme attention to classic wargame rules (weapons, tactics, military units, morale, initiative, momentum, etc etc), realistic AI behaviour and so on. It supports single player game (single battles or campaign mode) as well as multiplayer option.
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| The Great Treasure Hunt | 1997 | Ivanoff Interactive A/S | Ivanoff Interactive A/S | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Great Treasure Hunt is an edutainment game involving the anthropomorphic duo Skipper and Skeeto, a mole and a mosquito respectively. The game begins with a cutscene in which the duo, whilst sneaking around an old castle, happen to come across a shady man, aptly named Mr. Shade, giving Count Noblecastle until the end of the day to pay him the money that he is due, otherwise he will take over Paradise Park. Once Mr. Shade leaves, Skipper & Skeeto overhear the count woefully remembering a story about an old treasure rumoured to be lying somewhere in his castle. Having heard this and wanting to save Paradise Park (the previous game featuring Skipper and Skeeto, Tales from Paradise Park, was set there), the duo decide to sneak through the castle's entrance and search for the treasure themselves.The game plays out very similar to a point-and-click adventure, with the duo having to explore the castle and find items throughout which can either be used directly or combined with other items to form new useful items. Certain parts of the castle are blocked off by ghosts at first, and the duo must lay them to rest by providing them with an item which they hold dear before they can access these areas. Other areas require the players to solve certain problems given to them, problems including mapping out the solar system or problems which require the player to make use of a periodic table. It is imperative that the player doesn't randomly move about the castle; every move must be calculated and one must make sure that they have extracted all that they can from the room that they are currently exploring. This is because the game has a time limit and each time Skipper and Skeeto move into a new room, time expires. Not all hope is lost though, as in certain rooms, by use of a magnifying glass, the duo can find artifacts which provide them with extra time.The game encourages the player to properly plan out the way the castle is explored so as to waste as little time as possible doing so. The game also challenges players to think critically and to remember, as certain information presented throughout the game will be required later on to solve riddles or to lay the ghosts to rest. Thus, the game encourages children to foster their creative thinking in order to be able to find the treasure, save Paradise Park, and complete the game. |
| The Interactive Adventures of Blake and Mortimer: The Time Trap | 1997 | index+ | France Télécom Multimédia, index+ | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This is an interactive comic book based on the comic with the same name by famed Belgian comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs.Dr. Mortimer discovers a Chronoscaph, a machine for travelling through time, in the labs of his old nemesis, Professor Miloch. Mortimer's curiosity gets the better of him and he steps right into the trap. It will propel him into the Jurassic period, the Middle Ages and the 51st century. You will have to foil the traps laid during each voyage.
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| The L.E.D. Wars | 1997 | ionos, Inc. | Larian Studios NV | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The L.E.D. Wars is a futuristic real-time strategy game which is played from a top-down perspective with rather colorful graphics. The game takes place in the 21st century, when different armies are fighting with each other to get hold of a Life Evolution Drug, shortly called L.E.D. The game's main selling point is the advanced artificial intelligence, which is said to be one of the hardest to beat in any RTS game to date. This is a pretty big accomplishment, as the game had a development time of only six months. |
| The Land Before Time: Activity Center | 1997 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Digital Media International | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Land Before Time: Activity Center is the first educational title based on the The Land Before Time movie series. This game features a selection activities featuring trivia quizzes about dinosaurs, mazes, memory games, and building their own dinosaurs and printing them out to share with friends and family. Tree stars can be earned to unlock movies to be played in the Movie Theater. |
| The LucasArts Archives: Vol. III | 1997 | LucasArts | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This archive includes full versions of:
Dark Forces
The Dig
Monkey Island Madness
Afterlife
Full Throttle
It also includes an extra CD-ROM with demos for X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, Outlaws, Yoda Stories and Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures. |
| The Maid's Story | 1997 | C's Ware | C's Ware | Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Adults Only | | Windows | In this hentai game you have to manage the house of pleasure. You have three girls, but they need to be trained in cooking, washing, shopping etc. Also they know nothing in night jobs, so you must teach them. Choosing what they do each day raises their level. At night you may help them understand what they can propose to their clients. Forth girl is an assistant manager, so during the job you'll know more about her. In period of several days you have to grow your business and to find your true love. |
| The Mystery at Greveholm | 1997 | Young Genius Software AB | Vioma Digital Media AB | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The Mystery at Greveholm is a simple adventure game for kids, based on a popular Swedish kids' Christmas television show made in 1996. The game is the first in a series of games for kids based on the show.You are in castle Greveholm, where the legend says that a spaceship landed in the late 19th century. Aboard the ship was an alien princess, who was captured by the count of the castle and imprisoned in the dungeons.
The count is dead now, but his ghostly skeleton still haunts the castle. You have to find the princess's robot, Sprak, who can help you in your quest to free the princess, and make sure that she returns safely to her own world. The game is a simple point-and-click adventure game, where you move between rooms by the arrow keys, while each room is a static image. You'll have to solve puzzles and play mini-games to advance the story. |
| The Oregon Trail | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | MECC | Educational, Simulation | Diagonal-down, Side view, Text-based / Spreadsheet, Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Western | | Text parser | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | As a covered wagon party of pioneers, you head out west from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette River and valley in Oregon. You first must stock up on provisions, and then, while traveling, make decisions such as when to rest, how much food to eat, etc. The Oregon Trail incorporates simulation elements and planning ahead, along with discovery and adventure, as well as mini-game-like activities (hunting and floating down the Dalles River). |
| The Oregon Trail: 3rd Edition | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Hunting | Western | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This game hearkens back to the days of the first Oregon Trail, meaning that instead of tons of options that made up Oregon Trail 2, there are significantly less in this installment. There is only one place you can go to (besides the fact you can stop anywhere), which is Oregon City. You can also only have five or so people in your group. You can hunt, and you can fish, which is a new gameplay element. You can also go down the Dalles River in a first-person view (along with floating across rivers.) |
| The Reap | 1997 | Take-Two Interactive Software Europe Ltd. | Housemarque Ltd. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | The Reap is a classic arcade shooter in Zaxxon style and very similar to Viewpoint. The game has 4 stages. First you shoot enemies in a arctic oriented scenery. Next you fly through the deep oceans, wherein between shipwrecks and fish bones are sharks and submarines waiting for you. After this there comes a canyon-desert stage. Last but not least you fight your enemies in a skyscraper city. Every stage has two or three levels. Altogether there are 10 levels.Your ship can get 5 weapon systems and all of them can be upgraded three times. The biggest weapon is a rocket blaster. You can also find bombs or invulnerability shields. |
| The Roberta Williams Anthology | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Roberta Williams Anthology is a compilation of games created by Sierra game designer and co-founder Roberta Williams. It contains:
the first seven King's Quest games
Hi-Res Adventure #0: Mission Asteroid
Hi-Res Adventure #1: Mystery House
Hi-Res Adventure #2: The Wizard and the Princess
Hi-Res Adventure #6: The Dark Crystal
Time Zone
The Colonel's Bequest
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose
the first chapter of Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria
video interviews with Ken and Roberta Williams, and some behind-the-scenes footage of the making of King's Quest: Mask of Eternity
The Apple II titles contain an Apple II emulator for Windows that can run them. |
| The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield | 1997 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Digital Evolution | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | An Interactive Springfield from the TV show The Simpsons. You can walk around and visit various locations from the show. You can collect things from these places in order to access other previously inaccessable ones.Some simple mini-games also exist in the arcade. |
| The Skin Game at Bighorn | 1997 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Simulation, Sports | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A golf game captured accurately on camera. Puts you on the green of one of the most challenging courses in the U.S. Features an actual filmed reproduction of the course. Uses a 'user friendly' golf control with live golfers with dynamic motion. Also includes interaction through audio with your caddie. Modes include Skins or Regulation Play from 1 to 4 Players.
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| The Smelly Mystery | 1997 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Big Tuna New Media, LLC | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | The Smelly Mystery is a game using Mercer Mayer's "Little Monster Private Eye" license. One night during a sleepover at Yally Yallapaphous's house, the usual gang of Little Laff, Ickky, Jerry Bombanat, Errg, Yally and Little Monster are having fun. However at night the smells of the food in Yally's refrigerator are switched around with each other. Shortly afterwards, the smells of all of Monsterville have been switched. Clearly there is something strange afoot. Little Monster and his assistant, Detective Kerploppus will need to discover the true identity of the evil smell switcher, and stop the smell switching once and for all.The Smelly Mystery is an interactive children's storybook as well interactive mystery solving game. Players must help Little Monster, looking for clues on each page of reading interactive storybook. When clues are found, they are stored in a log and can be matched to the six suspects, identified by what their favorite things are, and by footprints and handprints.The game features five options at the menu. The "Play" option is the main option, allowing players to read the story and play the mystery game. The "Read" option, only reads the story with no interactive playing, The "Page" option lets the player jump to any page of the book, view credits play demos of other games. The "Mugs" option is a face-building that can be played with a difficulty of easy, medium, and hard, and can be timed. And finally the "New" option resets the game, restarting the mystery with new clues to implicate a new suspect. |
| The Space Bar | 1997 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Boffo Games, Inc. | Adventure | | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | Ron Cobb | Windows | Armpit VI is a mining planet rich in ore known as Uptite, which can be refined into the very valuable Upshot. The planet is owned by a corporation named Amalgamated Vacuum, which runs its own Security Force. Alias Node is a member of AVSF, and also the only human on the planet. One night, he and his partner Maksh nearly witness the assassination of a fellow officer during an investigation of a break-in. The trace leads to the local bar, The Thirsty Tentacle. Unfortunately, the killer appears to be a shape-shifter capable of assuming the likeness of any of the multiple aliens in the bar. To make matters even worse, Maksh has been abducted. Alias Node has only a few hours to find the criminal before he escapes on a space shuttle.The Space Bar is a humorous puzzle-solving adventure game. Navigation is done by moving between pre-rendered backgrounds, which can be viewed from different angles using full camera rotation. Many areas and objects can be zoomed on and interacted with in a fairly detailed fashion via context-sensitive menus. Conversations with the characters contain recurrent commands allowing the player to order them to perform actions, ask about various topics, as well as assume different attitudes. Following the tradition of older text-based adventures, each action advances the game's clock by an equivalent of a minute. Certain events will occur and characters would appear depending on the game's internal time. There is an overall time limit of several in-game hours.Alias Node possesses a unique ability known as Empathy-Telepathy ("emp-tel"), which allows him to enter the worlds of several alien bar patrons and control them there. Each such segment plays as a self-sufficient adventure game on a smaller scale, with inventory-based, logic, and time-based puzzles. Controllable aliens include a shady character in conflict with the authorities, a teenage tree-like creature "rooted" by her mother, a robot specializing in alien sports, and others. Their gameplay may differ as well - for example, one of the aliens can use his tail for interaction; the insect-like bartender sees the world through his many eyes, etc. Most of the segments also involve unique application of local lore and rules, reading various documents for clues, and so on.Once an emp-tel segment has been solved, crucial information is obtained, bringing the protagonist closer to the goal of his investigation. It is possible to tackle those sections in any order, but all of them must be eventually completed. In the bar itself, as well as in the alien worlds, the player has access to a map at all times. Alias Node's log contains general information about the aliens and the ongoing investigation and lists collected clues. |
| The Ultimate Family Collection | 1997 | Maxis UK Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation of Maxis games contains the following four titles:
SimCity 2000
Marty and the Trouble with Cheese
SimTown
Pinball 95
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| The Ultimate War Pack | 1997 | Mindscape, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command - 1939-1999
Counter Action
Pacific General |
| The Zork Legacy Collection | 1997 | Activision, Inc. | | Adventure, Compilation | 1st-person | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Zork Legacy Collection includes all seven DOS/Windows Zork games made up to that point and one bonus game in one package. The games ranging from classic Interactive Fiction to modern graphical Zork adventures.Each game has their individual printed manual, and in addition, all five Zork Interactive Fiction games have a detailed printed map.The Zork Special Edition contains these three game items:
Return to Zork
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
The Zork Anthology
The Zork Anthology is a compilation of its own, which includes the following five games:
Zork: The Great Underground Empire
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
...and the following non-Zork bonus game (which is also part of The Zork Anthology):
Planetfall |
| Theme Hospital | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Bullfrog Productions, Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | Comedy, Healthcare | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | | | Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Theme Hospital is a level-based hospital management simulation where players have to start on an empty building, and then assemble rooms with all kinds of material, from desks and file cabinets for the general diagnosis to the expensive ultra-scanners and X-rays to diagnose such bizarre diseases as Bloaty Head, Slack Songue or Alien DNA, and treat them with even more bizarre machines like an Head Inflator or a DNA fixer. There are several additional rooms, such as a staff room for your employees to rest, a toilet so that patients don't have to relieve themselves in the corridors, a research department to get the most advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies and a training room where consultants can teach a thing or two to rookies, making them capable doctors. The size and layout of each room can be set by the player, according to the available space. In addition to rooms, the player must provide radiators, seating for patients and drink machines.However, rooms don't run by themselves. Most diagnostic and clinics can work with regular doctors, but others like the operating theater and the research room require specialized staff while the ward, pharmacy and the fracture clinic require an attending nurse. At the same time, the hospital can't run without handymen cruising around the hospital to water up dry plants, clean up litter and vomit (after all, people go there because they are sick) and fix machines, while receptionists direct patients to the proper rooms.As levels advance, the player faces increasingly harder situations: VIP visits, emergencies, epidemics and earthquakes, which can either take a toll on reputation or on the bank account. On the other hand, as more and more equipment is required, additional plots of land are available for purchase in later maps. |
| Theme Hospital (Limited Special Edition) | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This special edition contains:
Theme Hospital
a soundtrack CD
a T-shirt |
| Thunder Truck Rally | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Reflections Interactive Limited | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Off-roading | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Thunder Truck Rally is a an arcade-style 3d monster truck racing game. Here you will find all the normal racing game modes: championship, time trial, practice, and multi-player. In addition to the standard modes, there is a car-crushing competition that serves as both a separate game mode and a bonus round in the championship.There are 9 different trucks to chose from. Each has their own set of strengths and weaknesses. Some are faster than others, but break more easily. Some turn corners more quickly, and some accelerate more quickly. The designs of the trucks vary greatly. Beyond the standard pickup and jeep type vehicles, you will find a VW bus and a sedan.There two main types of races in Thunder Truck Rally. The first takes place in an open, free-roam area. Here, your objective is to race from point to point in the fastest time possible. The second type of race takes place in closed circuits with a fixed track that cannot be escaped. Here, you simply complete the circuit as fast as possible. |
| Time Stripper | 1997 | Otaku Publishing, Ltd. | Foster | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | Adults Only | Narrative | Windows | In Time Stripper, the player controls Shinji Nakayama, a high school student who has a bad reputation of cheating on his girlfriend, Michiyo Sakagami.The story starts when his habit is eventually found out (again) by his girlfriend, after which they start to fight and end up breaking up. In the middle of the hero's sobbing, a girl pops up out of nowhere in the room. It appears she's from the future, with personal reasons that have something to do with Shinji's present love-life situation. After that, the story is in his hands...Like in most visual novels, the gameplay is automatic for the most part; at certain points, the player gets to choose the process on how the story goes. Although most of the time, either choice really makes no difference in the end. The only difference in this game is that if the player makes the wrong choice, some of the more 'interesting' graphical scenes will not be triggered. |
| Time Warriors | 1997 | Vertigo Technologies | Silmarils | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view, Top-down | | | Fighting | | | | | | | Windows | A polygonal 3D fighter, Time Warriors puts eight fighters from eight different times and places against each other: Yrwen the Celt, armed with a long sword, Hysis the Egyptian, wielding two sabers, Molloch the Barbarian with his battle axe, the scimitar-wielding Sultan Iz-Baal, Shodan the Samurai and his katana, from a Chinese monastery Dong brings just a staff, Olof the Viking plans flattening his opponents with a war hammer and Apokles the Spartan brings a double-edged sword.Gameplay is similar to other games in the same genre - two buttons control the weapon and two other ones kicking, because both come with a "fast" and a "strong" variant. Combos are done with fast key presses or sequential moves, and by taking damage, the fighter gathers magic points that can be used to perform a destructive special attack. Like Virtua Fighter, if a fighter falls from the battle arena, he or she loses from ring out. The usual options such as combat length, number of bouts, difficulty level and auto-block are included.Graphically, the game can be tweaked to run on several configurations, by disabling more advanced graphic options such as scenario objects, light and real-time shadow calculation and textures. |
| Tomb Raider II | 1997 | Eidos, Inc. | Core Design Ltd. | Action | Behind view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The Dagger of Xian is a legendary weapon that was used by Chinese emperors to command their armies. It is said that a person can turn into a dragon by piercing his own heart with this dagger. When one of the emperors used it for that purpose, Tibetan monks manage to withdraw the dagger from his heart and return it to its resting place on the Great Wall. While investigating the legend, the archaeologist Lara Croft finds out that a powerful Venetian crime lord is hunting for the dagger, and must do everything in her power to prevent him from obtaining it.Tomb Raider II is an action game with platforming and puzzle-solving elements, similar in concept and gameplay to its predecessor. Most of the gameplay consists of traversing hazardous 3D levels utilizing Lara's athletic skills and solving environmental puzzles. The sequel puts more emphasis on fighting enemies, adding many human foes to the mix. Additional weapons include a harpoon gun, a grenade launcher, and an M16 rifle. Automatic pistols replace the magnums from the first game.There are two vehicles the player can drive in the game: a motorboat in Venice and a snow scooter in Tibet. Lara can now climb ladders and perform a roll in the air, landing in an opposite direction. The sequel also allows the player to save the game anywhere. |
| Tomb Raider II (Edition Limitée) | 1997 | Eidos Interactive Limited | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This special edition is limited to 10,000 copies. It contains:
Tomb Raider II
Lara Croft-branded watch |
| Tonko 3 | 1997 | Spin | TWIM | Action | | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Tonko 3 attempts to walk the middle ground between the first and the second game in the series. This platformer is composed of one-screen stages, which the yellow goblin Tonko must clear out of enemies. As opposed to the second installment, Tonko can defend himself by hitting enemies with the hammer he wielded in the first game. The hammer can also be upgraded and replaced by more powerful weapons found in the stages. A contact with an enemy takes away one life and any non-default weapon Tonko may have been equipped with at the time.The emphasis on combat makes the game feel less than the puzzle-oriented second entry. However, Tonko is still fairly vulnerable and retains the abilities to hide in trash cans and flush himself down toilets, which have been introduced in the previous game. New features include coin-collecting and moving platforms. |
| Tony La Russa Baseball 4 | 1997 | Maxis Software Inc. | Stormfront Studios | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Gregory Atwood | | | Isometric | Windows | Tony La Russa Baseball 4 was the last installment in the famous Tony La Russa Baseball series, featuring the same engine from the previous titles.The extensive work on statics continues, translating itself into the opportunity to the player to choose between managing, playing or even watching a match opposing teams from different times, as the rankings include more than two thousand players analyzed in more than a hundred ranking categories. |
| Total Sports | 1997 | Europress Software Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Inside a double-sized box, this compilation contains 3 sports games, each in their own jewel case:FIFA 97Links LSPete Sampras Tennis 97 |
| Treasure Cove! | 1997 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Adventure, Educational | Side view | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The Master of Mischief destroys the Rainbow Bridge, dropping its shining jewels to the bottom of the sea, and evil Goobies are seeping out of the sea floor! Without this bridge The Master of Mischief, and his lab on Invention Isle, cannot be reached from Treasure Mountain! This means he can continue to release Goobies without interference from those troublesome elves. As the Super Seeker you must rebuild the bridge with the gems you find on the seafloor and use your bubble pump to capture Goobies, and playful Sea Stars that will help you, by giving you clues on to where you can find the gems, and will help you restore your light. Along the way you will see many fascinating sea creatures, and many surprises. Science is the main teaching in the game along with letter and word recognition is seen here along with phonetics and vocabulary building/use. Math is also represented by addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and reasoning.
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| Treasure Hunter | 1997 | Philips Média France | Cryo Interactive Entertainment, Microfolie's Editions | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | Naval / watercraft | | | | | Windows | In Treasure Hunter you play the nephew of Tuck Pinkleton, an old sailor and explorer who lives in the North American seaside village of Golden Greek. Your uncle has built a maritime museum with 5000 square meters of exhibit floor space, but there is no money left to fund the exhibits. He knows a solution though, as there are thousands of shipwrecks around the world filled with dazzling treasures. As he is too old, he asks you to search for these treasures, and he supplies you with his yacht, a computer with vidphone, and $30,000 to start. You first task is to find a crew and the necessary info for your first mission.To complete the game, you have to go on five missions. For each mission you have to research the history of the wreck, acquire funding, and hire a crew. The actual search is shown through a series of slide show presentations that can be viewed in your computer. In two cases it is sufficient to explore the village and to contact experts using your vidphone. For the other missions you have to fly to Seville to explore a museum, to Malta to explore an abbey, and to Emerald Island near Madagascar where you have to find your way in a maze-like cave.As an edutainment game, Treasure Hunter includes many "cut-scenes" (slide shows) with historical information. Exploring the locations from a first-person perspective, you move around using a directional cursor that allows you to turn around at certain stopping points, with transitional movies between these points. At the top of the action window the number of days and total of your funds are shown. When the cursor is moved to the bottom of the screen action icons are shown (e.g. to move or take things), a travel bag for inventory items, a plane to travel, and your computer. The game has only six saving slots (all the saves start at the first location of a mission). The game has a hint system that is activated when you are stuck for some time (your computer icon will flash). The main menu includes a bonus option (to view historical sequences, books, museum, and reconstitutions of wrecks & treasures). |
| Trodde du ja! | 1997 | Ahead Multimedia AB | Ahead Multimedia AB | Puzzle | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | Menu structures | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Trodde du ja! is a Swedish trivia quiz game for people aged seven and up. It contains over 1,000 questions and it can be played by three players sharing a single PC. It is based on the Swedish TV game show of the same name that ran between 1995 and 1996 on the TV station SVT. The game features TV personality Jonas Gustaf Emil Wahlström from the TV children's programme about the animal park Skansen-Akvariet. |
| Tunnel B1 | 1997 | Ocean Software Ltd. | NEON Software GmbH | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | You are on a mission to destroy the ultimate weapon of your enemy. This involves travelling through a set of precarious tunnels in your high-tech hover-craft. The tunnels are filled with enemy vehicles, choppers and sentry guns which you have to take out or avoid. To make life even worse, a lot of sections require you to clear them in a given time limit. The only good thing is that you'll be able to upgrade your weaponry often. |
| Tush-Tush 2 | 1997 | Makh-Shevet Ltd. | Makh-Shevet Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Tush-Tush 2 puts the player once again in the hands of the mysterious hero Tush-Tush, who has been sent by the king to three new adventures. Unlike the original adventures, these adventures were not featured on Tush-Tush's TV show.This time, Tush-Tush has ride an elephant to recover a lost treasure from a jungle, fly the skies on an aeroplane and make it rain, and compete and win a scooter race.
In each adventure Tush-Tush must collect the scattered treasure and reach his goal while avoiding the various obstacles.The gameplay is similar to that of original game. The player must use the number pad (or arrow keys) in order to direct the constantly moving Tush-Tush. |
| Twin Pack: Hind / Apache Longbow | 1997 | Digital Integration Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes two of Digital Integration's helicopter-simulators:
Apache Longbow
HIND: The Russian Combat Helicopter SimulationThere is a certain amount of cross-game features available through the two titles. Players can fly with/against each other using either helicopter in the Virtual Battlefield, in two-player head-to-head, leader/wingman, or pilot/gunner configurations,
or with up to 16 players in Apache vs Hind deathmatch battles.The package also includes the multimedia disc MIG Russian Aircraft. |
| U.F.O.s | 1997 | Corel Corporation, Hoffmann + Associates Inc. | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | The developers describe it as a "Wacky Hillbilly Space Adventure Game". You'll play the part of the alien "Gnap", who gets stranded on earth, his spaceship wrecked. There must be a way out of even that situation, no doubt. Your job is to find all necessary parts to repair the ship and bring the strange little guy back in the air.The game itself is a comic adventure for a mature audience. Puzzle solving often means to hit someone else over the head. Literally. Gnap's roadmates are forced into his will by some sort of remote control. Thus puzzle solving is not limited to his abilities, instead you can tell some NPCs how to help. There are some built in arcade games as well. |
| Ultima Online (Charter Edition) | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Original "collector's edition" of Ultima Online, packaged in a very large box (18" x 11-1/2").In addition to the game itself, the 'Charter Edition' came with an -unfolded- 17" x11" poster (the reason for the large box), a proclamation-of-welcome certificate signed by Lord British, and a pewter lapel pin of the "UO" logo for the game.It also included three months of play rather than the standard single month. |
| Universe of Levels: Das Ultimative Add-On Ereignis! | 1997 | Media Disk Software | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains 11 unofficial add-ons:
Civilize II: Additional
Commander's Collection II
Conquer & Fight
Mega Cities
Mega Blood
Mega Duke
More Duke"
More Speed
Qu.......ke
Sehen Siedeln Siegen II
War Time 2 für Warcraft 2 |
| Vermeer: Die Kunst zu erben | 1997 | ASCARON Entertainment GmbH | ASCARON Entertainment GmbH | Strategy | 1st-person | | | | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Vermeer: Die Kunst zu erben is a Windows 95 remake of the 1987 game Vermeer. All centers around Walther von Grünschild, a rich merchant and patron of the arts from Berlin, whose art collection was stolen. Now he sends his four nephews into the world to regain his paintings. The most successful of them becomes his heir. The game starts in 1918 and ends when von Grünschild dies. One round equals one day. The length of a round can be chosen between five seconds and infinite. In auctions the missing pictures are sold from time to time. But to buy them the player obviously needs money. This is gained by opening up to 24 plantations in the Third World. There the player either grows coffee, cacao, tea or tobacco. After the harvesting the goods get shipped to warehouses in New York or London where the player sells it to interested companies. The player has to be on-site for every action which means an important part of the game is to plan ahead where he has to go during the next days. Another way to win money is gambling at horse races.Besides his business the player can visit art schools to gain the ability to distinguish real paintings from fake ones. This is useful during the auctions because it is annoying to buy a forgery. Another way is to hire a middleman to attend anonymous to the auctions. This way the other players don't know he tries to buy a certain painting and it gets cheaper. Of course the middleman can't profit from the player's expertise and is more likely to buy a forgery. In Chicago the player can hire robbers to steal paintings from his competitors. |
| Vies en Danger | 1997 | EMME Interactive SA | Anten | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Endorsed by UNESCO, the main purpose of this hybrid release is to list extinct and on the brink of extinction species (Reference CD).The second Vies en Danger disc (Junior CD) is kids oriented. It is filled with animated stories, an interactive comic book, still images, videos and two games: a kind of investigating game "inside your house" and a quiz game. |
| Vinnie's Tomb: Chapter One - The Road to Vinnie's Tomb | 1997 | Global Star Software Ltd. | Reldni Productions | Adventure | Side view | | Comedy | Graphic adventure | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The player takes Vinnie on a ridiculous journey to find his great ancenstor's Tomb through seventeen scenes in search of the treasure of Ernie York. Each scene contains some sort of puzzle which must be solved correctly or risk Vinnie's life. Sometimes the player will pick up an item for later use. There also characters the player can interact with to progress through a scene. After passing a certain number of rooms, the player gets a passcode for continuing after death. |
| Vinnie's Tomb: Chapter Two - Shine and Glow Vinnie | 1997 | Global Star Software Ltd. | Reldni Productions | Adventure | Top-down | | | Graphic adventure | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Vinnie's adventure continues in a labyrinth in an attempt to enter the heart of his ancestor's tomb. Each level requires the player to navigate a maze, using explosives to blow gateways, keys to unlock doors and solve puzzles to progress through certain obstacles. There are some encounters that will kill Vinnie (mostly by trial and error). Each level completed gives the player a passcode to bypass it for next time. By the third level, the player will need to acquire energy balls to keep Vinnie alive. |
| Virtua Cop 2 | 1997 | SEGA Corporation | AM R&D Dept. #2 | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Rail shooter | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Virtua Cop 2 is a light gun rail shooter like its predecessor Virtua Cop. The player assumes the role of a police officer and is sent after criminals, from subways and a bank to aboard helicopters.It follows the same gameplay pattern of its predecessor and is played from a first person perspective. The game moves the player automatically, although the player can find hiding places to shoot from a safe angle. The main task is to aim and fire the cop’s weapon so as to take out the bad guys for points. Avoid the innocents, as shooting them costs the player points. The enemies have tougher firepower than in the original and the game can be played solo or with a friend. |
| Virtua Fighter 2 | 1997 | SEGA of America, Inc. | SEGA-AM2 Co., LTD. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Martial arts | Fighting | | | | | Teen | | Windows | One year after after the first tournament Akira, Wolf, Pai, Jeffry, Kage, Jacky, Sarah and defending champion Lau are invited to the World Fighting Tournament, and are joined by the master of drunken Kung-Fu Shun-di, who wants to prove he's more than an old geezer and Lion Rafale, who's fighting for his freedom. Each fighter has his own style, from the lightning fast attacks of Pai to the powerful slams of Jeffry.Home port of Sega's popular Model 2A arcade vs. fighter released in 1995. Game modes include classic arcade mode, 2P vs mode, Expert mode (where the computer character progressively learns and counters players' technique), Ranking Mode (similar to Arcade, but at the end, a fighting style analysis is shown based on number of specials and time to knock down an opponent), Team Battle Mode (two teams composed of five fighters go against each other, the first to beat five characters being the winner) and Watch mode (allows choosing two fighters and then see them fighting). Both VF2 and VF2.1 (a tweaked version available only in Japan) modes are included. Gameplay keeps the same style from the first game, adding more moves to each fighters' roll. Using a three-key layout (block, kick and punch, being possible to assign button combinations to the extra keys) the player is able to control their fighter, aiming to knock or push the opponent outside the rink inside the time limit. Combo moves range from the quickest, which require the player to push up to five buttons quickly, to strong moves that require more button presses along d-pad nudges to be successful. As with the previous game, fighting is realistic (except the physics-defying leaps), and each fighter has nothing but their body to harm the opponent.While in comparison with the arcade version some parts took a hit on graphical quality (such as the texture details and backgrounds), the game uses the Saturn High-Resolution mode and flowing 60-fps to bring the arcade experience home. |
| Virus: The Game | 1997 | Sir-tech Software, Inc. | Kidum Multimedia | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | Flight / aviation | Direct control | | | | Windows | Virus: The Game is a game in which the player battles within the computer's directory structure and files. Traverse the directory tree in a 3D environment hunting down 'viruses', with the computer's own sound files being played in the background, while graphic files found on the hard drive are used to texture the walls. |
| VooDoo Kid | 1997 | Infogrames Europe SA | Infogrames Europe SA | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | This is a horror adventure game for young gamers (ages 8-15 or so) in which players can choose to play as either a boy or girl, though the game is still the same either way. When the game starts, the protagonist is reading a boring story about Baron Saturday, an evil voodoo spirit captain that's turned his entire crew into mindless zombies and is taking them to the Island of Lost Souls.The protagonist falls asleep and is transported onto Saturday's ship, where (s)he meets the Captain's butler who needs their help. He asks the protagonist to save all the other lost souls, spirits, and zombies who are trapped on the ship. Throughout the game, the butler will provide the player with clues as he keeps getting trapped. |
| WK '98 Voetbal Avontuur | 1997 | Davilex Games B.V. | Davilex Games B.V. | Simulation, Sports | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Become the coach of the National Dutch soccer team and embark on an adventure at the World Cup in France 1998. Keep your staff in check and prevent fights amongst the selection. In this game you have to keep the both the press and the players happy so that when you get to play the matches your team is in good shape.You can opt to play with or without the behind the scenes conflicts between staff and players.The actual matches are played in 3D perspective. The scenes in between are displayed with 2D animations.The game is aimed towards a casual audience. |
| Wall-Up | 1997 | | Soleau Software, Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This is a strategy game in which the player directs balls around a maze into slots at the side of the screen.When the game starts there are a number of balls in the centre of the screen and around them is a maze-like structure of walls. For each level the player is given a target, 'You need x slots filled to continue'. The balls naturally roll along the corridors of the maze but the player can alter the maze by clicking on wall panels which causes them to rotate through ninety degrees. Additional points can be earned by directing balls towards points targets which appear at random within the maze however the longer the player takes to complete their task the harder it becomes as sections of wall disappear thus reducing their level of control.The shareware version has three playable levels and could be downloaded from BBSs while the full game has ten and was shipped on floppy discs.
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| War Planets: Age of Chaos | 1997 | Trendmasters | Trendmasters | Strategy | | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | War Planets: Age of Chaos is a real-time strategy game directly based on the Trendmaster's War Planets toy line. It offers four armies each with their own planet, fighting each other. Krag are based on Rock, Biowolf on Bone, Kryos on Ice, and Darkones on the planet Beast. For each race scenario there are three practice levels followed by a normal level, and then a new one is opened up after each win. Each planet consists of three defense levels and then six ones were the other planets need to be weakened and defeated.At the start of the game units are requisitioned ahead of time and are called in via a teleporter pad. Moving is done with a right click, shooting with the left mouse button. The troops need to be positioned carefully as they hurt each other when they are in a line of friendly fire. Only one unit can be moved at a time. Six types of units are offered per planet, and the amount that can be brought in depends on the energy available for teleportation. Missions generally revolve around defending or conquering a facility.Rock has access to a mine tower, hovercraft, stealth tank, dozer, hero, and drone. Bone deploys a missile launcher, disk thrower, war dog, sawblade tank, hero, and drone. Ice enters battles with a jump jet launcher, death spinner, tank, grappletank, hero, and drone. Finally, Beast uses a darkjet launcher, darkwhaler, darktank, darklord, darkhero, and a drone. |
| WarHeads | 1997 | ionos, Inc. | totalPlay Software | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Artillery | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | WarHeads is a game set in an unexplored quadrant of space, in which competing players take turns to annihilate opposing players positioned near randomly placed planets. Every level takes place in a new solar system. The gameplay is largely similar to Scorched Earth and Worms with destructible environments, but with different mass and gravity for each planet that affects every missile. By surviving as long as possible the player earns points and money. There are about 50 different weapons for the space ship and there is an editor to customize all weapons as well. Afterwards these weapons can be shared through e-mail. The game can be played in single-player, head-to-head, over a local network or over the internet. Up to ten players simultaneously are supported. |
| Warsport | 1997 | MPath Interactive | TimeSink | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Up to eight teams fight for domination of a battlefield that's 36 football fields wide. At your disposal is a squad of fifty high-tech warriors. Choose from Boomers, Grunts, Riders, Spies, and the most important unit of all, the ComCen. In WarSport, you either think fast or die fast. |
| Watchy | 1997 | Coconuts Japan Entertainment Co., Ltd. | 47-TEK, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | | Windows | In Team 47 GoMan aliens try to destroy the world. Now the player controls one of five combat robots to kill them. There are six regions to protect, e.g. New York or Tokyo, which are shown in a 3D perspective. The player has two energy bars: a life bar which decreases when hit, and another bar which decreases by using a weapon. Depending on its power a weapon may need more energy than others.. However, the goal is to destroy all aliens in an area. They regain health by destroying buildings, if they have too much success with it the player loses. To help him there is a mini map where all enemies are shown. |
| We Are Angels | 1997 | ARI Data CD GmbH | Simulmondo s.r.l. | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | We are Angels is a licensed game about the eponymous TV series. The player controls Padre Orso, played by Bud Spencer, to defeat the evil Santillana who terrorizes the village San Rolando. This is a typical platformer. The player walks and jumps through the six levels and punches his enemies to defeat them. To avoid certain enemies or bullets he can dodge by ducking. The energy bar on the bottom of the screen decreases when hit by an enemy and when reaching zero the player loses one of his three lives. Before every level an animated Padre Orso and extracts from the series explain the purpose of the level. The platforming part of the game is entirely in comic graphics. The game CD includes a video interview with Bud Spencer. |
| Weird: Truth is Stranger than Fiction | 1997 | Global Star Software Ltd. | TwoPointZero | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | Weird: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction is officially marketed as an adventure game, and contains a few puzzles, but in reality is more of a multimedia encyclopedia of strange phenomena and legends with a Myst-like slide-show presentation.The player starts in a room full of doors, each leading to different places. These places are filled with objects that, when clicked, display texts, video and audio about weird and unexplained events, mythical creatures and folklore. Some doors are locked, and can only be opened by solving one of the puzzles. |
| Who Stole Hanukkah!? | 1997 | Jemm Productions | Jemm Productions | Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Professor Croaks (Surprise he's a frog!) prize possession has been stolen, the Miraculous oil jar found by Judah Maccabee! It's up to you and one detective Nerli to solve the mystery.
Each time you play the a different one of the eight suspects will be guilty changing the clues etc. As you explore the areas you will get lessons in the history of Hanukkah etc.
All characters and a lot of background objects have been done in Claymation. |
| Wild Ride: Surf Shack | 1997 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Run and Gun! | Racing / Driving, Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Wild Ride: Surf Shack is a surfing simulation with 3D wave effects, six characters, five special competitors, selectable views, and a variety of tricks. The player competes in heats and races to earn money that can be used to buy newer and better equipment. |
| William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Murder Mystery | 1997 | EMME Interactive SA | Pantheon Productions Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | As young Hamlet, you must avenge the death of your father and become the new King of Denmark. You enter the court of Elsinore Palace to find clues about the mastermind that is behind the corruption in Denmark. Your task is to kill the murderer but to prevent the deaths of innocents. That provides an interesting take on original play giving the ability to change the course of events and save some important characters. That includes actually killing rats instead of Polonius and saving Ophelia from madness and ultimate death.The game is narrated by Renaissance Man who serves also as a guide to the game outlining your objectives. In order to revenge your father's death you should gain ten wits. Wits are certain aspects of man's nature, as believed by people of Renaissance era. They include five inner and five outer wits. Inner wits deal with man's senses: Hearing, Sight, Taste, Touch and Smell. Outer wits comprises the man's psyche: Judgment, Invention, Memory, Instinct and Imagination. Each wit has a specific puzzle connected to it. In order to attain a certain wit, a corresponding puzzle must be completed. The order in which wits are gained and puzzle solved is set. More so, player cannot move freely around the castle or the forest. One can only take a predetermined route that will lead him either to the next puzzle or to the video clip.Most of the puzzles are closely connected as to the play so as to the wit that puzzle is responsible for. For example, in order to acquire a Wit of Imagination player must correctly reconstruct the course of events based on a poem versed in Middle English, or seeing a man behind the curtain in Gertrude's bedroom will award player a Wit of Sight and helping Ophelia choose flowers (that also play a prominent role in the play) brings player a Wit Of Smell. Once every wit is acquired the player will be ready to face Cladius and in role of Hamlet serve the justice.The game includes 40 minutes of full-screen film clips from the Kenneth Branagh film version of Hamlet. The game has a few mild arcade scenes, such as the duel scene at the end. You can play the game "to be" or "not to be". If you choose "not to be", you access the complete and unabridged text of the original Hamlet play including the commentary showed next to the play itself, linked to fifteen Books of Lore that give insights into the Renaissance world and clues to some of the puzzles of the game. You can switch between the two options at any time you like.
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| WinPac 2 | 1997 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | WinPac 2 is a one or two player, shareware, Pac-Man variant for Windows.The basic game play is the same as the original, move the character around a screen eating pills and avoiding ghosts unless a 'power pill' has been eaten in which case the ghosts are vulnerable. In an addition to the original game, as well as the fruit bonuses and standard power pills there is an invisibility power up and a teleport pad.This version also has a number of additional features all of which are accessed via the menu bar. The player can choose between eight different colours of Pac Man, three levels of difficulty, move the score around the screen, customise the controls and more.
The game can be played as either single player, two player (hot seat), or two players on the same screen playing either competitively or cooperatively.The game runs in a window, has sound effects, a level editor, a save game feature and fifty levels, of which only five are available in the shareware version. |
| Wing Commander: Prophecy (Deluxe) | 1997 | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Wing Commander Prophecy: Deluxe is a compilation which contains
Wing Commander: Prophecy
and a CD of the game's music
Also included in the box are a reference card showing the key commands, a flight manual, a hint book, a foldout detailing the latest game updates, and a star chart/poster |
| Wing Commander: Prophecy (Special Edition) | 1997 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This special edition package comes in an enlarged box which includes a copy of Wing Commander: Prophecy along with a 3-D mouse pad and the original soundtrack CD. |
| Winzer Deluxe | 1997 | Starbyte Software | Starbyte Software | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Winzer Deluxe is a remake of the 1991 game Winzer and an economic simulation about the cultivation of wine. Between one and four players inherit a vineyard with an associated farm and equipment. Then the goal is of course to start a prosperous business and to make a lot of money.Like most games of its kind it is completely round-based, this means the player can take his time and a round ends only if the player says so. The main menu is a picture of the manor were the under menus are chosen by clicking on the corresponding part of the picture, e.g. by clicking on the vineyard all options and statistics show up which are related to the growing and cropping of the wine. Other actions are the processing, selling and distribution. Later in the game the player can use unethical tactics like adulterating the wine or sabotaging the competition.All menus are static screens without any animation. Variety comes into play with random events which happen between round and mostly cost or bring money. About every three years a wine inspector visits the mansion to control the legality of the business. |
| WipEout XL | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | Hovercraft, Track racing | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | WipEout XL is set in the year 2097, around four decades after its predecessor. Instead of the F3600 anti-gravity racing competition, the game features an even faster and more dangerous tournament: the F5000 AG league. The gameplay system is similar to that of the previous game: players race against each other or computer in high-speed futuristic environments, liberally picking up weapons scattered around the stages and using them against the opponents to finish the race in the highest position.Each vehicle is provided with a shield; once this shield is breached (by weapons or other kinds of damage), the craft explodes. As in the first game, the vehicles move at very high speeds. The game's four difficulty levels are used to crank the speed up and down, with the highest setting corresponding to the highest speed. In addition to the main championship mode, there are also challenge modes, winning in which rewards the player with faster game settings, new tracks, and new vehicles. |
| Wishbone: Activity Zone | 1997 | Palladium Interactive, Inc. | RSP, Inc. | Action, Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Wishbone: Activity Zone is a game with some educational elements for children aged seven and up starring the dog Wishbone from the TV series. It contains ten activities and they are all started from central library that acts as a hub. The game contains for instance summaries for a number of classic novels and these are narrated by Wishbone. Similarly there is an activity where only the introduction of a famous story is provided and the player has to choose between different paragraphs to reconstruct the story in a logical way. The scrap book holds a collection of Wishbone photos for the player to browse.Clicking the boat leads to a mini-game with Tom Sawyer. Wishbone needs to stay on a raft as long as possible and the arrow keys are used to dodge debris. Points are scored for every item dodged and there are three tries in total. The portrait with the monster of Dr. Frankenstein leads to a Hangman type of game where the names of famous monsters or phrases need to be guessed. After a number of successful guesses all monsters are put in the maze, a gate fully opens and a new mini-game can be started. Shown from a top-down view a maze needs to be navigated with only a small part lit up. Wishbone needs to collect an object and find the exit. Walking over grates opens them and this can be used to make the monsters fall down and they can be closed again. Pizza and snacks make the dog invincible.The Robin Hood mini-game is a board game for up to two players and with three difficulty levels. The goal of the game called Spar is to create a solid line of coins from one side of the board to the other. Players take turns placing coins and there are strategic elements to block progress. Another activity leads to different sets with props. These can be gathered and need to be put at the correct set. |
| World League Basketball | 1997 | Mindscape International Ltd. | High Voltage Software, Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | World League Basketball, part of the Mindscape Sports Advantage series, is a realistic basketball game developed using motion capture and physics of real players.Change the rules of play for arcade, custom or simulation game with control over the difficulty level to time length of actual play from 5 minutes (10-minute default) to a maximum 25 minutes.Players can choose "exhibition play" for practice matches between teams, before committing to one team for a 30-game "season play" or six-round "tournament play" in prearranged series of scheduled games against 36 different countries of various abilities. The latter two allows for simulated games to skip matches - if desired with results automatically calculated by the computer.View statistics of your team before embarking in a match to determine the best on-court positions from point guard to centre of talented team members according to their performance and capabilities. Freely adjust player attributes from height, weight, strength, endurance to ball handling skills.On-court play includes live commentary by Chris Smith. |
| Wrigglers | 1997 | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | TLK Games S.A.R.L. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Wrigglers is a Worm/Nibbles/Snake game where the player controls a snake in an enclosed, tile-based maze. Scattered across the level are dots that will cause the worm to grow when eaten. The progress onto the next level, the player must manoeuvre the snake and eat all the dots without being blocked by its own body. The game contains 41 levels, with only the first 6 of them available in the demonstration version. A 4-digit level code is provided after beating a level and enables the player to start a new game from any previously-beaten level. |
| Ya Dunno Dick! | 1997 | VCA Interactive | VCA Interactive | Puzzle | | | Adult | Party game | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Ya Dunno Dick is an adult parody of the You Don't Know Jack series of irreverent trivia games. The questions are on adult themes and the more questions you answer correctly, the higher your score and also the more you get to see of the scantily clad women. |
| Yellow Brick Road: Harapeko Tsuki To Hoshi Atsume | 1997 | Synergy Inc. | Synergy Inc. | Adventure | | | | Graphic adventure, Mini-games | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | On his way to a star-collecting contest, the Scarecrow ends up encountering a star that's eaten both the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. He sets out to track them down while also trying to still make the contest. Unlike the last two Yellow Brick Road games, which were adventure/strategy hybrids, this game features heavy use of minigames instead. |
| You Don't Know Jack HUGE XXXL | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack HUGE XXXL is a compilation of three previously released You Don't Know Jack games:
You Don't Know Jack (without the additional "XL" questions pack)
You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2
You Don't Know Jack: Volume 3For a total of 2400 questions. The package contains the 3 CDs for the 3 games - they are not integrated together into a single game like the original You Don't Know Jack XL: X-Tra Large was. |
| You Don't Know Jack Pack | 1997 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The You Don't Know Jack Pack is a compilation that includes:
You Don't Know Jack Movies
You Don't Know Jack Sports
You Don't Know Jack Television |
| You Don't Know Jack: Television | 1997 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack: Television follows the same formula that was introduced in You Don't Know Jack: the players compete with each other in a quiz show that features humorous questions rooted in popular culture. As the title implies, this installment focuses exclusively on television-related trivia questions. The hosts Raul and Cookie are trying to challenge players with 800+ questions in that particular field. |
| You Don't Know Jack: Volume 3 | 1997 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack: Volume 3 is a humorous, sarcasm-laced trivia game for up to three players that plays like a parody of the Jeopardy television game show.The players compete in either 9 or 21 question games and the person with the most money at the end wins. Questions are arranged in categories and all have a time limit. The player will find multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and other special situation questions such as rhyming, jumbled words, as well as sound and picture questions. The final question is always the Jack Attack which is matching up words that fit the clue.This third installment of the series adds new categories, questions, and features. |
| Your Turn Role-Playing Collection | 1997 | Softforum Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Your Turn Role-Playing Collection is a compilation of role-playing, adventure and action games. Included are:
Bandor
Denarius Avaricius Sextus
Entombed
Hugo III: Jungle of Doom
Humbug
Hurry Hurry Hurry
Iron Blood
The Palace of Deceit: the Dragons Plight
Rebel Runner - Operation: Digital Code
Silmar
Soultrap
The Endless Night
Walls of Bratock
Wizard 3
Yendorian Tales
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| Zero Zero | 1997 | Nicholson New York | Nicholson New York | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Zero Zero is an interactive storybook designed for girls aged 7-12. However, like designer Theresa Duncan's earlier games, Chop Suey and Smarty, it can be enjoyed by almost anyone. It is an adventure set in Paris at the turn of 1900. There are many different activities to play. You can also interact with many of the game's background items, which provide funny animations or fantastical scenes. |
| Zombieville | 1997 | Dice Multi Media Europe B.V. | Psygnosis Limited | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | Mature | | Windows | A town with a terrible past, a military base used for developing experimental weapons, and zombies!..Zombieville is a graphic action-adventure telling the story of a journalist getting into trouble, when he travels to the town of Downforth to find an interesting story to write about. His car is taken under fire coming from a military base called Bedlam, so he travels on foot to see whats going on. After a few steps the earth shifts and several zombies are revealed. The game starts.This game asks for reflexes as well as patience and a bit of logic. You will converse with characters and solve puzzles in order to find out what is happening. |
| adidas Power Soccer | 1997 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | adidas Power Soccer is a sports game which simulates soccer. While it has the option to play in simulation mode, it is best remembered for the Arcade mode and the trademark move of the game - the Predator Shot (named after the most popular brand of boots manufactured by the German company). In this mode, all special moves are unlocked, and some of them allow to go way beyond what rules allow.4 cameras allow to follow the motion-captured action in the best way possible. Commentary is available in English, German and French. |
| iF-16 | 1997 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Digital Integration Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Another F-16 simulator. It has all the standard features for a flight simulation, including single mission flight, quickstart and campaign mode (different terrains over Corea, Cyprus and Israel). The graphic engine is a bit slow, but displays the F-16 in a very accurate way. |
| iF-22 | 1997 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | iF-22 is a jet fighter simulation with two available campaigns, set in Bosnia and Ukraine, respectively (the add-on provides a third campaign in the Persian Gulf). The game uses satellite imagery to recreate each area realistically and supports Direct3D for enhanced graphics. A dynamic mission system brings variations to each mission, improving replayability. Multiplayer is also available in a variety of modes and settings. |
| iM1A2 Abrams | 1997 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Charybdis Enterprises, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Contemporary, Europe, Middle East | Tank, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Similar to the M1 Tank Platoon games, iM1A2 Abrams is a tank simulation game focusing on battlefield management and commanding an entire company through three individual campaigns (Ukraine, Iraq and Bosnia). |
| Escape 2 | 1997-01-01 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | There has been a radiation leak at a top secret research facility and people are being transformed into monsters. As a radiation specialist for the Royal Marines the player and 8 SAS men are to be dropped off at a safe distance from the facility to neutralize the threat. However all of the choppers that where to take you there crashes and the player is on his/hers own. The player drives around in a LAV (Light Armored Vehicle) and has to fight enemies such as blobs, worms and pillboxes. There are five different weapons in the game: Silenced Pistol, Assault Rifle, Laser Cannon, Rocket Launcher and Distant Splat Effect ION Cannon. This game was created using Allegro. |
| Ryōki no Ori | 1997-01-01 | Nihon Plantech | Studio Polaris | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Detective / mystery | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | A series of strange disappearances occurs in Zeroshiki Department Store, one of the largest shopping malls in Japan. The management is concerned and unwilling to involve the authorities. For an unknown reason they turn to one of their salesmen, a young man named Kuniharu Shitaku, requesting him to investigate the case and find out who or what is behind these disappearances. Kuniharu must explore the mall and gather information by talking to shop managers and staff, most of which are attractive young women who may not be what they seem at first glance.Ryōki no Ori is a detective mystery adventure with visual novel elements. Much of the gameplay consists of visiting different locations in the shopping mall, which contains six floors with various establishments (shops, offices, etc.) each. Navigation is done by selecting a location from a map, and individual areas are represented by still anime-style first-person screens. There is no interaction with the game world besides choosing locations and occasionally making choices. The latter influence the course of the investigation and the protagonist's relationships with the various female characters he encounters, leading the game's plot to different endings. |
| Virtua Cop | 1997-01-01 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | AM R&D Dept. #2 | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Rail shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Virtua Cop is a light gun rail shooter and first game in the series. Cast as one of two brave cops, players are charged with bringing down an evil crime syndicate that is running riot in some unspecified town. Dropped into a series of locations, one or two players must arm up and shoot their way through three death filled levels, in an attempt to restore peace and order. Played from a first person perspective view, players can use keys or joypad, to aim and fire at the multitude of sharp shooters who come gunning for them.
Starting the game armed with just a trusty old six-shooter, players can pick up more powerful, state-of-the-art weapons -- such as machine guns and shotguns -- as they progress. As these are hidden away in crates and the like, finding these weapons is an important part of the game and they can give players extra firepower when they most need it. In particular, such weapons can be extremely useful when trying to take on the customary end-of-level bosses. Made of stern stuff, you'll need all the help you can get in dispatching them off to hell. |
| Tibia | 1997-01-07 | | CIP Productions | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy | | | Persistent | | | Windows | Tibia is the name of a world created by ancient gods, Fardos and Uman Zathroth. Zathroth, the evil half of the god Uman Zathroth, tries to destroy the work done by the creator Fardos and his other half, the wise Uman. He unleashed large hordes of demons and other evil creatures onto the humans living on Tibia. Luckily, Uman discovered dimensions beyond even the gods' reaches, and managed to conjure up gates that manifest souls from these dimensions. The heroes coming from these dimensions now help the humans fighting the evil hordes.Tibia is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). Players can choose between four different character classes to start from: knights, paladins, sorcerers and druids. Characters can be controlled by keyboard or mouse. Killing monsters will gain experience for the character, and reaching a new level means increasing the character's properties. The player can also improve certain skills of the character simply by using them.There is no pre-defined aim of the game, since as an MMORPG, it is open-ended. Players can choose to form alliances with other players or go on quests alone. It is also possible to use the in-game economy to become rich, and buy your own virtual houses for example. |
| Magic: The Gathering - Battlemage | 1997-01-10 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Realtime Associates Seattle Division | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | Fantasy | | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | Another of the Magic: The Gathering series, where you are a battle mage trying to challenge the authority of the new ultimate planeswalker of the lands.This game combined a strategy-based interface with a real-time action battle simulation, in an attempt to "put to life" the creatures of the cards in real-time battle.The storyline has different possibilities for the hero to take, so the course of the game differs for every new game. |
| Obsidian | 1997-01-10 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Rocket Science Games, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The plot of this Myst-influenced 5 CD adventure game involves issues such as nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. Fortunately, the bundled strategy guide explains the basics of these subjects. Gameplay is linear and largely based around puzzles. |
| Ryōki no Ori Dai-2 Shō | 1997-01-17 | Nihon Plantech | Studio Polaris | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Detective / mystery | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Takeshi Saitō is a 24-year-old security guard working for the Teikoku Sōsei conglomerate. One day he is transferred to a large theme park called "Fantasian" and owned by the company. There he becomes one of the guards donning a medieval knight's costume. At first he is excited to meet his co-workers, most of which are young attractive women. However, after a few days one of the employees dies in an accident seemingly caused by a system malfunction in one of the amusement devices. As more people begin to die under mysterious circumstances, Takeshi realizes these deaths may not be accidental, and tries to find a connection between them and the disappearance of the park's main architect.The sequel to Ryōki no Ori features a different protagonist and character cast, and is not directly connected to its predecessor story-wise. Gameplay similarities are manifested in the visual novel-like structure of both games. The game's plot advances and branches into different directions depending on the locations the player chooses to visit and the choices made by him when prompted. Unlike the previous game, this installment allows top-down navigation between first-person-view locations. Each visit advances the game's internal clock, and it is often crucial to the plot to be in a certain place at a certain time. These choices also have an impact on Takeshi's relationships with female characters (which can be evaluated by a fortune teller), adding a more pronounced dating element to the gameplay. |
| X-Girl | 1997-01-24 | FairyTale | Red-Zone | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | | | Windows | In the near future, Japan became involved in a war against the most powerful states of the world. As a result, it was nearly devastated. 30% of its population became immigrants. Tokyo became center of military organizations at war with each other. In such a world lives a highly trained Japanese female soldier named Kiyomi. But everything changes when the military brings Kiyomi to a mysterious woman, who requires a trained agent like her to capture four female prisoners who had just escaped...X-Girl is a point-and-click adventure game. The interaction is performed by clicking on objects or people with the left mouse button; the cursor remains the same for all the actions, and the player is unable to choose a specific one. There are also a few timed battle sequences in the game, during which the player has to guess the enemy's weak points and to quickly click on them with the mouse before the time runs out. When Kiyomi captures the prisoners, she interrogates and tortures them. The interaction switches to icon-based one, with various torture instruments (whip, etc.) displayed as selectable icons. The player should then use these instruments on the captured girl in various ways, until the interrogation is complete.The game contains explicit scenes with sadism and sexual torture, which are performed by the playable character and controlled by the player. |
| Can Can Bunny 5 1/2 Limited | 1997-01-30 | Cocktail Soft | Cocktail Soft | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | The sixth (or fifth and a half, as the title suggests) installment of the long-running Can Can Bunny series belongs to the same story arc that started in the fourth game and was continued in the fifth. The player character is the same nameless hero that starred in the two predecessors. But in this game, the lovely goddess Swatty is not here to help the hero to find girls. Instead, all the hero gets is an apprentice goddess named Sawady, who is just a brat and who bothers the hero all the time. Looks like this is going to be the toughest quest yet, with Sawady around and with pretty, but tough-to-seduce girls!Gameplay-wise, Can Can Bunny 5 1/2 Limited is more simplified than the previous game. The standard menu commands ("Look", "Talk", etc.) are gone. The only possible interaction consists of moving to various locations (menu choice), and selecting a dialogue choice during conversations. There are also less girls than in the previous game, and no extras (such as the album with the pictures of the girls, etc.). |
| Fushigi no Kuni no Angelique | 1997-01-31 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | This game is a variation on the Angelique story: an ordinary school girl named Angelique becomes involved in a struggle to become the Queen of Cosmos, for which it is necessary to befriend the handsome and powerful Guardians of the Elements. The game features the same world and graphics as Angelique Special, with a slightly different story: Angelique falls asleep outside near a tree, and dreams that she fell through a rabbit hole (in an Alice in Wonderland fashion) into the magical land where she encounters her eternal rival Rosalia.Unlike other Angelique games, Fushigi no Kuni no Angelique plays like a board game, with the kingdom divided into fields on which Angelique moves. There are no visible dice, but the amount of fields Angelique can walk on is determined randomly by clicking on the "move" button. Fields can either be empty, placed inside a location (like Angelique's own room), trigger events, conversations, etc. In some places it is possible to find items, which can then be used on another field to help Angelique advance more quickly, increasing her chances to become the queen. |
| 3-D Dinosaur Adventure: Anniversary Edition | 1997-02-01 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | The Anniversary Edition is a re-release of the original game 3-D Dinosaur Adventure. New to this version is a separate disc with a small program called "Art-a-Saurus" which lets the player make pictures using paint, moving dinosaurs or non moving ones, music and lots of backgrounds to choose from. Also included with the package is an authentic fossil.3D Dinosaur Adventure is an educational game that gives info about Dinosaurs and early life on earth. Their are nine activities featured in the game including: "Save the Dinosaur", "Dinosaur movies" and "3D Dinosaur Museum", "Create a Saurus", "Photo Safari", "Dinosaur Encyclopedia", "Name a Saurus", "Make a Match" and "Dinosaur Storybook". When you pick the game you want to play you will have a ride through one of three timezones Triassic Tour, Jurassic Jungle and Cretaceous Corner. Each of them have 3D Dinosaurs in the background and give detail of what it was like during the time period. Their is also a help section that shows a whole map of the time area and tells you what prehistoric animals appear in that area. |
| Command & Conquer + The Covert Operations | 1997-02-01 | Westwood Studios, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Command & Conquer
Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations |
| Kakoong | 1997-02-01 | SKC Soft Land | Danbi System | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Arcade, Fighting | | | | | | | Windows | Kakoong is based on the Korean cartoon series of the same name (also known as Kung Fu Jungle Boy). The story takes place on the Cloud Island, a magical realm populated by monsters well-versed in martial arts. The protagonist is a wild boy who protects the island from the schemes of Lord Kojak, who uses his evil super-power of noxious flatulence to subdue the population.The game is a versus fighter that retains the wacky visuals, environments, and juvenile humor of the original. The versus mode allows the player to select a protagonist from a dozen of characters from the cartoon. Characters mostly fight using traditional punch-and-kick combos; repeatedly using the same move increases the character's proficiency level in it. |
| NBA Jam Extreme | 1997-02-01 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Sculptured Software, Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade | | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | "Takes the NBA Jam game and puts into an all new 3d engine with lifelike player movement. All the real basketball action is bundled with extreme moves. Zany sound fx, commentary and victory dances by the players."Basketball with altered gameplay. Features two players on each team with a huge number of special dunks and moves. There is an inclusion of a new extreme button for added excitement. Commentary by Marv Albert. |
| You Don't Know Jack Sports: The Netshow | 1997-02-01 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | This is a sports version of the comedic pop-culture quiz show with the brash host and is free for play on the gaming portal "beZerk.com". Once a game installer is downloaded and executed on your computer, you can play solo or with up to two others on the same keyboard. The game is sponsored by short television-like full-screen ads in between some rounds to obtain revenue. New episodes are created weekly and questions load in the background while you are playing. Past episodes can also be played again. There's different categories such as Pro Athletes & Other Large Corporations and Gibberish Questions where you must decipher a common sports cliché, term, etc. from a sentence that makes no sense. One time per round you can "screw your neighbor" by forcing an opponent to answer a question and if they answer wrong, they lose points. But if they answer correctly then you lose the points. There's three rounds of 14 questions and a Jack Attack lightning round. Whoever has the most points at the end, wins.
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| Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge | 1997-02-03 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Colossal Pictures, Media Concrete, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Koala Lumpur is a mystical, Zen-master wanna-be, spouting mystical and karmic nonsense in a wacky cartoon world. After accidentally setting of an incantation that could trigger a "Comedic Apocalypse" in the entire cartoon universe, the universe's supreme being, Ella Mental, charges Koala with finding the Lost Scroll of Cartoon Prophecies and saving the universe. For that he summons help from his friend the dog Dr. Dingo Tu-Far, a gun-toting, fast-talking scientist, and his spirit guide: Fly.You play the game as "Fly" (which also becomes your mouse pointer) and direct the actions of Koala and Dingo on their quest in classical adventure game play. There are some mazes and reflex-challenging puzzles, but the game consists of solving puzzles, word association puzzles, etc. in an offbeat, unusual cartoon world filled with weird locations and persons as well as the occasional scatological humor. |
| Shooting Game (Kari) | 1997-02-11 | SAEKI Soft | SAEKI Soft | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Shooting Game (Kari) is a traditional vertical scrolling shooter. Players fly through six stages using two types of shots while taking out enemies and bosses. |
| SeaLance: The Bermuda Triangle | 1997-02-25 | Astron Publishing, Inc. | | Simulation | | | War | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Naval / watercraft, Vehicular combat | Menu structures | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Germany and Japan have developed time travel technology, and they are planning to send military units back in time to change the outcome of World War II. As Captain of the SSN-479 "SeaLance", an advanced prototype submarine of the U.S. Navy, you need to stop this diabolical project at all cost. SeaLance: The Bermuda Triangle is a submarine simulation game, and a successor to the Amiga game SeaLance. It features both a campaign mode, and the option to play single missions. Controlling the submarine involves switching between five screens, "Sensors", "Weapons", "Control", "Status" and "Damage". The Sensors screen includes the controls for towed sensor arrays and active sonar, as well as electronic counter-measures to confuse or destroy incoming torpedoes. The Weapons screen allows to target enemy ships and launch torpedoes (one of six different types). The Control screen allows to dive or surface, turn the SeaLance and change its speed, as well as to monitor its endurance. The Status screen allows to activate or deactivate miscellaneous systems, such as the hydroplanes, fathometer, or nuclear/diesel power. Finally, the Damage screen allows to survey which of the systems have been damaged by enemy attacks, and send crewmen to repair them. The first three screens also feature a display window and radar screen, both of which show nearby objects (such as enemy ships and torpedoes). |
| Viper V16 | 1997-02-27 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Unlike the previous Viper V games, Viper V-16 includes only two stories instead of the usual three. The stories are called Rise and Imagine.Rise tells the story of Akira, a young girl who works in the Anna Miller restaurant chain in Japan. Beside being a waitress, she is also a skillful martial artist. One day she and two other girls are kidnapped by mysterious creatures, who turn out to be a subterranean race that needs human females for reproduction. Will Akira manage to escape and rescue her friends, or will the three girls remain forever in the hands of the cruel captors and their horrifying leader Seed?Imagine tells a quieter story without any supernatural elements. The protagonist is a male high school student who is looking for a girlfriend (aren't they all?..). He meets three interesting girls, one of which dreams to be a voice actress, the other is an aspiring musician, while the third is unsure about her future. Who will be the lucky one to end up with our hero?The two stories are more developed compared to the previous Viper-V short stories. As always, there are animated scenes with sexual content in the game; the interaction is once again confined to occasional choices. In Rise, wrong choices usually lead to bad endings; in Imagine, the hero ends up with different girls depending on the player's decisions. |
| POD | 1997-02-28 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Your planet is doomed, and there is only one remaining seat on the spaceship leading citizens to safety. This will go to the winner of a sequences of races held within this futuristic world.Viewed from above and behind the car, the game boasted a lot of technologically advanced features. Computer AI adjusted to your style of driving whilst in progress. It was the first game to use MMX technology, and the first to support 3D acceleration straight from the box. It also had a range of multiplayer options including networks and split-screen, and an online internet server to automatically match player. |
| Viper V12 | 1997-02-28 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Setting | Windows | Yet another entry in the Viper series, Viper V-12 exploits the same format all the previous entries followed: there are three unrelated short stories which mostly consist of animated sex scenes, with some interaction here and there.Here are the stories:Future Investigator Bravan: Bravan is a powerful warrior clad in power armor, who fights for human beings in and has only one weakness: his pretty female comrades. A group of demons called "Donar", led by the mischievous female doppelganger Colonel Gel, decide to use the shape-shifting powers of the commander to lure Bravan to their lair.
Angel Dust: Kate and Julia, two cosmic rangers, attack a space pirate ship and board it, hoping to steal treasures and to become rich. But they were not careful enough when they entered the ship without any precautions: the space pirates had other plans for the young girls...
Magical Gambler: A young child has a dream which becomes reality: two cute flying creatures appear in front of her and give her a magic rod. However, when the girl uses the rod, she miraculously turns into a young and sexy woman. She decides to use the powers of the rod for her own greed, and becomes Chiyomi - the Queen of Gambling...This time, all three stories have some interactive parts, although they are more developed in "Bravan" than in the others, which are very straight-forward. "Bravan" offers a short sequence which requires the player to move the mouse or arrow keys to spot a target on a picture; there are also several wrong choices that lead to Game Over in this story. |
| Backpacker: The Lost Florence Gold Mine | 1997-03-01 | Animagination | Animagination | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | You play detective McBlade, who one day receives a mysterious letter and decides to find the sender. He is requested to solve a murder case of 60 years ago. The identity of the murderer was never determined. You have your reasons to assume that this murder is somehow connected to the ancient Indian myth of the Death Cave. In spite of the great danger, you start your investigation.This is a traditional third-person point & click adventure with an emphasis on dialogue. |
| Helicops | 1997-03-01 | 7th Level, Inc. | Paragon Visual Systems, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation, Helicopter | | | Kids to Adults | Released | Windows | The City of NeoTokyo has been infested by the criminal activities of the Nemesys syndicate. Out of control and with traditional policing methods inadequate to handle the military might that the Syndicate seems to have access to, NeoTokyo's police force has put together a special task force: The Helicops. Stealthy and Secretive, they're mission is to surprise the Syndicate's forces at every turn and use their available weaponry to destroy their forces utterly.The game is a 3D Helicopter game with a view in the cockpit and externally. You choose one of 5 pilots, each with different stats, followed by choosing one of 5 different helicopters, each specially equipped. Once in the cockpit, you have controls of moving left, right, forward and back and have targeting information to help you aim your weapons. Objectives between missions are unique and varied, missions themselves being selectable and able to be played in any order. |
| Jack Nicklaus 4 | 1997-03-01 | Accolade, Inc. | Cinematronics, LLC | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This update to the Jack Nicklaus golf games was long awaited. The game allows to play 4 of Jack Nicklaus' designed courses (Muirfield Village Golf Club, Colleton River Plantation, Country Club of the South, and Cabo del Sol) and one course created especially for the game. Green elevation must be judged precisely, and weather effects must be factored in, based on the visual evidence in front of the player. Two levels of swing power can be applied. It has a complete course designer (in fact, the same one that the game developers used) that gives the user the capability to create any number of courses on their own. Courses from Jack Nicklaus Signature Edition, including user-designed ones, can be loaded into the game. User created courses are available on the Internet. |
| Lunatic Dawn: Passage of the Book | 1997-03-01 | Artdink Corporation | Artdink Corporation | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Sandbox / open world | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Steam Store Description (from Ad Blurbs)Nonlinear RPGYour adventure takes place on a vast continent inspired by medieval Europe, Japan, and China. This world is governed by the four forces of Order, Chaos, Good, and Evil. Your actions will affect the balance of these forces and the future of this world.Choose your own adventureYou are a free adventurer. Go to an inn and select your quest. From simple tasks like shopping and delivery to extermination and escort, and even smuggling. Depending on how you choose to live, you could become a great hero or a great villain, saving the world from darkness or helping to destroy it.This game is only available in Japanese. |
| MechWarrior 2: BattlePack | 1997-03-01 | Activision, Inc. | | Action, Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | | Real-time | | | Windows | The compilation includes the following:
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (base game)
MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy (expansion pack)
NetMech (free multiplayer extension)
The included titles have been ported to an updated iteration of the game engine used in MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries (which is not part of the compilation). It also comes with the official MechWarrior 2 Battle Guide from Brady Books. |
| Nelda Nockbladder's Anatomy Lesson | 1997-03-01 | | | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements, Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Nelda Nockbladder's is a shareware platform puzzler, created with the Click & Create multimedia authoring system. It combines varied "find out what to do" levels requiring timing and deduction from the player with some massive exuberant nonsensical humour extruding from each and every pore of the game -- beginning with the game's title, but certainly not ending there.The unlikely heroine and protagonist of this game is middle-aged, good-natured Nelda Nockbladder -- part housewife, part sheep, part mad scientist -- who, while teleporting to the snack bar after her daily workout, finds herself trapped in anatomy lessons "due to a wrinkle in Neldaspace". The player's mission is to safely bring Nelda to the snack bar.The game consists of eleven colourful levels -- the different lessons --, where Nelda will have to find out about what's going on and how to solve it. She has several means to achieve this: She can walk and jump, spit "flaming custard", climb things, hunker down and "ponder a greezbock" (which does absolutely nothing). The lessons contain various nondescript fast flying or gently bobbing objects (like the much-feared Elasticow or the Blue Plate Geelynob), switches and buttons to be pressed, everything often mutating or exploding when touching the floor, spat custard at, kicked or banged with the head.The gameplay of the "lessons" varies from all-out shooting orgies to careful observation and deduction of the object's behaviour and well-timed jumping. It is often necessary to understand what each object does to complete a stage, as the objects' behaviour often changes with every new lesson.After completing each level, Nelda has the choice to get some bonus points by hitting the right objects (she may also lose some by hitting the wrong ones) before being presented some completely senseless trivia question à la "What have we learned in this lesson?" and moving on to the next lesson.
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| Oh! Hajiki | 1997-03-01 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Oh! Hajiki is a simple action game where the player controls a marble on a square platform, and attempts to push a number of other computer-controlled marbles off the edge without falling themselves. The player has a limited-use brake to help keep from falling. If multiple enemy marbles are knocked off in rapid succession, a multiplier bonus is earned. After a short time, the edges of the platform will begin to crumble, reducing the size of the playfield. There are a total of 16 stages, and high scores are recorded. |
| Magic: The Gathering | 1997-03-06 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles, Trading / collectible card | Fantasy | | | Real-time, Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The popular card game comes to the computer.In single player mode, you start with a small deck of cards/spells, wander the land exploring dungeons and battling monsters (and their specific spell decks). Along the way, you win/lose spell cards, go to markets to trade or buy new ones, and pick up world magics and more life. The game ends when you defeat the 5 powerful elemental wizards.Multi-player mode supports deck creation with any of the cards, as well as random "sealed deck" games.This game supported cards from Alpha, Beta, Unlimited and Revised and 4th edition. It also had 12 new cards from the "Astral Set" made specifically for the game. |
| Independence Day | 1997-03-11 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Radical Entertainment Inc. | Action, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This arcade game is based loosely on the 1996 blockbuster movie "Independence Day." Interspersed with cutscenes lifted from the film, the game consists of flying a jet through various missions in order to take down the gargantuan, city-destroying spaceships. This entails flying around the 3D level and taking out targets such as: communication uplinks, shield generators, the occasional alien fighter craft, and ultimately bringing down the major alien ship via a strike on its main cannon. Powerups are plentiful, such as medical packs that heal your jetcraft, bonus weapons, bonus planes, and an item that freezes enemy planes for a brief time.Mission settings include the Grand Canyon, Washington D.C., and New York City. There are other missions that are provided on a need-to-know basis (as stated in the manual). The game also features 2-player head-to-head action via a network or null modem link. |
| Ayakashi Ninden Kunoichiban | 1997-03-14 | Shoeisha Co., Ltd. | Zero System | Adventure | 1st-person | | Comedy, Romance | Dating simulation, Japanese-style adventure, Life / social simulation, Visual novel | Asia, Contemporary | | Menu structures | | | Interface | Windows | In an alternate modern-day world where being a ninja is recognized as a legitimate profession, our heroine and main protagonist, Kaede Hagakure, transfers into Himeyuri Gakuen, a girls' training school for kunoichi (female ninjas). During her time at the school, she is bound to encounter numerous friends, comrades and potential rivals, as well as a few very grave situations here and there...Ayakashi Ninden Kunoichiban is a yuri-themed visual novel and dating sim revolving around female ninjas. The bulk of the gameplay involves around stat-raising in a school environment, as well as choosing which of the main heroines the protagonist will spend their time with, potentially leading in the direction of a romantic ending with any of them. Players will also occasionally be thrown into battle sequences, and their time spent raising stats will greatly affect how these battles can progress. |
| Mahou Tsukai ni Naru Houhou | 1997-03-14 | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Action, Role-playing (RPG), Simulation | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy, Medieval | | Direct control, Point and select | Meditative / Zen, Real-time | | | Windows | Mahoutsukai ni Naru Houhou is a Simulation/Action Role-playing game taking place on an island. Players take the role of a wizard's apprentice who's aspiring to become a mage and players are given 3 girls to choose from (Lime, Berry or Nut). To become a mage, players must study how they can make scrolls and collect the ingredients necessary to make them. The game features a first person perspective while players are at home and switches to a top-down 2D view when they go outside (The Saturn and Playstation releases render areas in 3D). There are 102 days in a year in this game and 5 seasons during which different materials can be found on the island. The game has 70 kinds of scrolls and around 150 kinds of materials to collect. |
| Taisen Mahjong Final Romance R | 1997-03-16 | Video System Co., Ltd. | Video System Co., Ltd. | Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | The third Final Romance game. Challenge several girls to strip mahjong. If you win, you get to watch animated strip sequences. Points earned may be spent on cheating devices. |
| Sonic & Knuckles Collection | 1997-03-20 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | Sonic Team | Action | Behind view, Side view | | | Platform | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The Sonic & Knuckles Collection contains three games ported from the Sega Genesis:
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic & Knuckles
Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Sonic the Hedgehog 3 running with the Sonic & Knuckles modification enhancement) |
| Nobunaga no Yabou: Shouseiroku | 1997-03-21 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | | Historical events, Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Nobunaga no Yabō: Shōseiroku is a turn-based tactical strategy game set in 16th century feudal Japan. It is the seventh title in the Nobunaga's Ambition series. |
| Ryuki Densyo: Dragoon | 1997-03-21 | KSS | KSS | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | PlayStation Store Description (from Ad Blurbs)★This game is supported with the PSP® and PS Vita screenshot function★PSP®: Screenshots can be taken by using the menu after holding the PS button (HOME button) in the game. The image will be saved in the photo collection from the XMB™ (XrossMediaBar).PS Vita: Screenshots can be taken by using "Screenshot" from the "Settings" after holding the PS button in the game. The image will be saved as an application photo. This software can be played with PlayStation®3 and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable).If you are downloading with PC or via PS3™, after downloading with the device please connect to PSP® with a USB cable and copy the content by inserting a storage media like Memory Stick™.After meeting the mysterious girl named Miu what is the fate for Sedon, a young man who sets out on a journey around the world to search for her hometown...This is a dramatic simulation RPG consisted of unique characters!The battle scenes place importance on smoothness by having a tactics sharing system that emphasizes on the effects!There are many beautiful visual scenes that color the story, so you can fully enjoy the world of Ryuuki Densyou.Copyright:©SoftgaragePurchase or use of this item is subject to SEN Terms of Service and User Agreement. |
| The Tone Rebellion | 1997-03-27 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Logic Factory, Inc., The | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Puzzle elements, RPG elements | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The Floaters are a peaceful race of creatures who exist in their own world, drawing energy and magical power from a mysterious liquid known as the Tone. One day, an evil being called the Leviathan appeared in their world. His minions began draining the Tone pools. The Leviathan destroyed the civilization of the Floaters and split their world into several smaller ones. The surviving Floaters continued to exist, separated from each other, in these new worlds, eventually evolving into four different races. Now, the time for rebellion has come. The Floaters must join forces and destroy Leviathan and his servants.The Tone Rebellion is a real-time strategy game (RTS) with light RPG and puzzle-solving elements. The player must first choose the Floater tribe he/she desires to control - Tarks, Zygons, Cepheans, or Dyla. Each tribe starts on a different island, and has different affinities to the realm types encountered in the game: Physical, Supernatural, Ethereal, and Natural. The player begins with a very small unit of Floaters around a tribal center. By harvesting Tone, the player can build new structures, unique to each race, increasing the number of units. The goal is to build a bridge to another island, eventually uniting all of them in the struggle against the Leviathan.The Leviathan at first ignores the player's attempts to strengthen the Floaters, but after a while begins building his own structures, sending stronger units to oppress the rebellion. The RPG element is present in learning and developing magic spells. Units gather experience following successful combat, reaching higher skill levels and learning new spells.Each island harbors mysterious artifacts, which must be collected and deciphered in order to understand how this particular island came into existence. These artifacts are put together much like puzzle pieces; completing a set of artifacts will enable the Floaters to successfully construct a bridge to the next island. |
| Interstate '76 | 1997-03-28 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | North America, Post-apocalyptic | Automobile, Off-roading, Street racing, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | In a dark alternate vision of 1976, the Federal U.S. Government has faltered and the world suffers from the effects of an oil crisis. Armed gangs terrorize the roads of the American South West. You are Groove Champion - when your sister Jade is killed you inherit her custom-built Picard Piranha and become a vigilante, with only revenge on your mind.Interstate '76 is a vehicular combat game with a 1970s theme which means muscle cars & funky disco music. Hit the road and seek the killer of Groove's sister in 17 scripted missions across open-ended trackless areas, or battle creepers in the instant melee mode, against up to 7 other human players. The player can equip their car with different weapons, like machine guns, turrets, grenade launchers and mines. Although the game world is not intended to be realistic, the car handling and collision physics are. |
| Mahjong Taikai II Special | 1997-03-28 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Mahjong Taikai II Special is an enhanced remake of Mahjong Taikai II. The game plays much the same as the original version, allowing you to play mahjong against 23 famous historical and fictional figures, including Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, and Sherlock Holmes. This remake includes full 3D graphics and voice clips for each character. |
| Mario Teaches Typing 2 | 1997-03-31 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Brainstorm | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | A new and updated version of the education hit Mario Teaches Typing. Just like before, Mario is your guide and will help and teach you to become an expert typer. New features are an on-screen keyboard with color codes, customizable lesson plans for teachers / parents, and tools to help print those customizable certificates of achievement for those who do well. There are also four levels of difficulty with new animations and sounds.
The first level is Mario's Smash and Dash, which teaches beginners to type one letter at a time, Mario's Wet World Challenge teaches complete words, Mario's Tunnel of Doom teaches complete sentences and the last level, Mario's Expert Express, challenges students to be the best typists they can in order to save Mario and win. |
| Outlaws | 1997-03-31 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Western | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Marshall James Anderson had been a great gunfighter. He had worn the badge of the law and put men to death or to jail. But a Marshall can only travel alone so long. And so James Anderson retired; he got himself a wife, got himself some land, got himself a daughter and dedicated himself to the peaceful life of a home on the range.The Gentleman, Bob Graham, has other plans for James Anderson's plot of land however. It sits right along some prime real estate for where the railroad is going to go, and whoever could own that land might be able to get rich setting up a town. So Bob hires himself up some of the roughest and toughest ruffians west of the Mississippi to try and "persuade" Anderson and the other land-owners to sell or abandon their lands.James Anderson returns home from town one day to find his homestead aflame, his wife killed and his daughter abducted by Bob's henchmen. Not willing to trust in the fates, Anderson dusts off his six-shooter, digs up his buried shotgun and dons his old tin star. He's about to follow the trail of these men across deserts and valleys, until he finds his daughter.Outlaws is a first-person shooter set in the American Old West, featuring hand-drawn graphics and a stylized soundtrack. Locations include outdoor as well as indoor areas, most with a characteristic Western flavor: a small town with one main street and a saloon, a canyon, a speeding train, and others. The Marshall uses firearms such as a revolver, single- and double-barrel shotgun, a rifle (with or without a sniper scope), and others. In dark areas James can light a lamp, for which he will have to find canisters of oil.The game contains no supernatural elements: enemies encountered in it are exclusively human. The gameplay focuses on combat, though exploring the levels is necessary in order to locate various keys needed to unlock the next part, or discover secret areas. Manual reloading of the guns is required during combat.A secondary game mode, called "Historical Missions", allows the player to relive Anderson's rise to the rank of U.S. Marshal. Each of the missions involves the protagonist capturing a killing a criminal, preferably recovering gold stolen by them. Ranks (Deputy, Sheriff, and Marshal) are awarded to the player upon a mission's completion. |
| CRASH | 1997-04-01 | Digital Nightmares | Digital Nightmares | Action, Racing / Driving | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Crash is a Tron-like game distributed according to the freeware (for the DOS version) and shareware concepts (for the Windows version).Depending on these versions, human players can be up to two (DOS) or four (Windows), against up to ten (DOS & Windows) computer-controlled players.The year is 2234 and the government invented crash races to control the people, according to the story of this game. Futuristic cars are equipped with rockets and turbos and all you have to do is to stay alive until the end of the race, since there will be only one winner, that will take all the money offered by the United Planet Federation (UPF). |
| Command & Conquer | 1997-04-01 | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | War | Real-time strategy | Africa, Europe, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Command & Conquer develops ideas from Westwood's previous game Dune 2, forming a real-time strategy (RTS) game. The control system involves selecting units with the mouse and then directing them, while the opponents make their moves without waiting for a "turn" to end.The game focuses on a war between two organizations, The Brotherhood of Nod and the Global Defense Initiative. The player can take control of either side for more than 15 missions. Both have different units and structures, including artillery, tanks and light infantry.In most missions, a base needs to be built first in order to build new units and structures. Most important are the harvesters, which collect Tiberium and deliver it to a refinery, where it's converted into money, thus funding the construction of a base and an army.The game also features FMV mission briefings and victory cutscenes. |
| Corum: Jeoju Badeun Ttang | 1997-04-01 | Hicom Entertainment | Hicom Entertainment | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Corum is a Korean-made action role-playing game set in a medieval fantasy world. A demonic warlord is sending his minions to ravage towns and kill everyone standing in their way. A warrior named Beat, whose home village was destroyed and its inhabitants massacred, swears revenge and embarks on a dangerous journey.The game world consists of interconnected screens, including vast wilderness areas populated by enemies. The protagonist engages foes in action-based combat; his moves include a regular attack, active blocking, and a dashing attack. Experience points and gold are awarded for defeating enemies. The hero can use three types of weapons: swords, halberds, and bows. Each weapon has its own fighting style and increases in proficiency level when used repeatedly. |
| D.A.: Pursuit of Justice - The Gatsby Diamond Jewelry Theft | 1997-04-01 | Legacy Software | Legacy Software | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Legacy Software offered this law simulation game for online ordering only and shipped it on 3 CD-rom discs. It was not available on the retail level except as part of a bundled compilation, released later.You play the new Assistant District Attorney who has been given a brand new case. The police have finished their investigations and nabbed who they believe committed the crime. It's up to you to get the case ready to take to the courtroom and then go before the judge.As the title suggests, the gist of this case is about the theft of a diamond necklace and camera. The stolen items were found in the car of a young co-ed, whom the cops arrested. Much of their evidence is circumstantial, however, so you have more work ahead of you to find more proof. Talk to fashion photographers, models and family members. Gather evidence by using your digital camera. In your computer notebook, order tests and study similar case histories in the law library. Compile all of your case notes, witness statements and test results in the "Case Constructor" which will form the basis for the trial. Then head to the courtroom to present the case. If all goes well, there will be a conviction. Real actors and actresses play the parts in this game, which is very much like an interactive movie. It features a point and click interface, FMV graphics, music and sound effects. |
| D.A.: Pursuit of Justice - The Rat Tattoo Murder | 1997-04-01 | Legacy Software | Legacy Software | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | This is a law simulation game in which you take on the role of an Assistant District Attorney for the State of California.The story: Tommy Wu has been murdered after a blow-up at a pool hall between two rival gangs. Was his death an accident .. or was it pre-meditated murder?Police investigators have gathered enough evidence to make an arrest. Now it's time for you to do your job. Your goals: To prove that a crime has been committed and that the defendant being tried did commit the crime.Your on-screen notebook computer provides everything you need. In the information-gathering portion, the maps allow you to travel to the police station to view witness statements and examine evidence, and then go to the crime lab where lab results you have ordered can be picked up. You can read similar legal case studies and study current legislation for help. The "Case Constructor" is a briefcase, of sorts, in which you will organize all pieces of the crime puzzle together to get ready for your day in court. Put all the components in the proper places and you'll win. Do it wrong and not only will a criminal go free, but you'll be taunted by the opposing council.Features include real actors and actresses in movie quality video, point and click interface, and an original musical sound track.This segment was released separately by Legacy Software and sold via their web site on 3 cd-rom discs. Later, it was combined with the other 2 cases and distributed to retail outlets as a bundle. Then in 2001, this case was re-released as a stand-alone product and renamed Pursuit of Justice. |
| D.A.: Pursuit of Justice - The Sunset Boulevard Deuce | 1997-04-01 | Legacy Software | Legacy Software | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Months before the compilation of D.A. Pursuit of Justice was available on retail shelves, Legacy Software sold its 3 cases separately for on-line ordering only. This is one of those cases and shipped on 2 CD-ROM discs.You play a California Assistant District Attorney. The police have gathered enough evidence to make an arrest .. but you must be able to prove, in court, that a crime has indeed been committed and that the person on trial committed that crime. In interactive movie fashion, you'll control your character's actions by mouse in first person. The game features still shots in combination with FMV scenes, a full musical score and real actors and actresses.The Sunset Boulevard Deuce case sounds like a simple DUI (Driving Under the Influence) based upon what the police came up with so far - an open wine bottle, high Blood Alcohol content and several eyewitnesses. You only have 4 days to get your act together. Of course, as your investigation continues, you find it's not as cut and dry as it seemed at first glance.During the course of the game, you are able to travel to various locations (i.e. the police station, law library, locations of witnesses) and work in your own office. Everything you need to build your case is on hand. Use your trusty digital camera and legal notebook (computer) to research law, get advice, send evidence to the lab, and analyze test results. Put all the pieces together in the "Case Constructor" which is arranged by departments. When you're ready, go to court where you will present your case, interrogate witnesses on the stand, make objections and closing arguments. If you've done your job, there'll be a new inmate in the State Pen. Make a mistake and they'll go free. |
| Grand Slam | 1997-04-01 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Burst | Sports | | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Grand Slam Baseball was an innovative, albeit relatively low-key release from Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1997.Not known for sports games, VIE released Grand Slam for Windows, Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn as the second title in its attempt to establish a mainstream sports line. The first title in the short-lived line was Power Play Hockey in 1996. The sports line would last only one more title after Grand Slam's release, that being the sequel to the hockey game, also released in 1997.Grand Slam was one of the early adopters of 3D accelerator card technology and also offered full 3D play in software alone. The Playstation and Saturn versions were 3D by default.Grand Slam introduced a few play mechanics to video game baseball that would later prove to be fixtures in the genre. The most notable in this area was the introduction of a meter for pitching, used to control the velocity and accuracy of pitches, similar to the familiar swing meter in popular golf games. This meter was later borrowed and made popular by titles such as EA's MVP Baseball. On the batting side of things, a similar metered approach was used. This was inspired by older arcade baseball games that allowed the player to load up a swing's power with a control stick before releasing it as the pitch came in.Other highlights amongst Grand Slam's feature set included:- A trade AI engine that would examine the needs of a team and decide if a proposed trade was in its best interest.- Catcher AI and pitch signals, helping a player learn how to pitch to each batter's strengths and weaknesses.- Attention to details and baseball flavor, such as players that would blow bubble gum bubbles during an at bat, light- hearted commentary, an All Star Break during season play (complete with a working voting ballot), and an in-game JumboTron scoreboard that would show animations after home runs. |
| Sentient | 1997-04-01 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Adventure, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | Russell Kay, Richard Swinfen, David Cowan, Stuart Capewell, Mark Green, Paul Hodge, Mathew Hendry, Christopher Harrison, Scott Neill | Windows | You are sent to investigate an outbreak of radiation sickness aboard the space station Icarus, but once aboard, you realize your primary objective is the least of your worries. The captain has been murdered, an assassin threatens a visiting senior Senator, and a power struggle arises as the station careens toward the sun. Save yourself, or save the ship?Sentient's main feature is the artificial intelligence controlling multiple individual crew members aboard the station, each with their own assignments and behaviors. You interact with the AI characters through an elaborate parser interface, which allows you to ask them everything from the location of a vital piece of equipment, to their opinion of another member of the crew. To succeed, you must take advantage of the crew's help through this social system. |
| The Last Express | 1997-04-01 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Smoking Car Productions, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Europe, Industrial Age, World War I | Train | Point and select | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | The Orient Express is about to depart from Paris to Constantinople. As the train slowly begins to move away from the station, a young, courageously looking man jumps on it from his motorcycle and makes his way inside. This man is an American doctor named Robert Cath, escaping from authorities as a suspect in the murder of a policeman. In the train, he finds the dead body of the person he was supposed to meet. Now he has to act quickly. The only way not to arise the suspicions of the police is to disguise himself as the murdered man. A very dangerous investigation begins, and the hero soon finds himself involved in a deep net of personal intrigues and political conspiracies.The Last Express is a real-time adventure game set in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the World War, in a concrete historical and geographical environment. The game uses a simple point-and-click interface for interacting with people and objects, and navigating the character from a first-person perspective through pre-rendered backgrounds. From the moment the player gains control of Robert Cath, time begins to flow. If the player fails to solve a part of the mystery until the train arrives at the next station, certain events the player was supposed to prevent will occur, ending the game prematurely. It is impossible to permanently die in the game, as the player has the ability to rewind the clock in order to replay a specific period of time.The player is for the most part free to explore the train, and the story progression has a certain degree of non-linearity. Characters follow their own schedules, frequently moving between locations, talking to each other, and generally acting independently of the player's input. The player can decide to interrupt conversations, remain unnoticed, or openly follow characters and witness their activities. For example, at a certain moment in the game's timeline two characters will perform a classical sonata for violin and piano; the player can opt for staying and listening to the performance, or use the time to explore other locations. Along with detective work and a few inventory-based and logical puzzles, the player's main task in the game is to eavesdrop on people's conversations, talk to characters, and solve the mystery by finding out more information about the bizarre case. There are also several timing-oriented fighting sequences in the game.The game's visuals resemble "art nouveau" style that was prominent in the historical time period described in it. The similarity to the style is achieved by using rotoscoping technique. Actors wearing distinctive make-up and costumes were filmed against a bluescreen, digitized, turned into black-and-white frames and colored by hand. The game is also notable for including authentic dialogue recorded by native speakers of several languages (French, German, Russian and others), with English subtitles displayed. |
| The Smurfs | 1997-04-01 | Infogrames Multimedia SA | Infogrames Europe SA | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Free the Smurfs before Gargamel smurfs then all!
Platform game where you will be able to play with the jockey smurf, the brainy smurf, the greedy smurf and the hefty smurf to resolve the adventure.
All of the classic SMURF characters are along for the adventure, guaranteeing you a Smurf-tastic time.
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| UltraVixen | 1997-04-01 | PIXIS Interactive, Inc. | Akuma Studios | Simulation | | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | One day Ariel, an ordinary schoolgirl, is left after the classes by her biology teacher. The teacher, a pervert, as every girl in the school seems to know, seduces Ariel. While he does it, he is transformed into the Overlord, a creature who seduces and tortures girls and young women. As Ariel reaches her climax a portal opens dragging her 900 years into the future. There she learns of Overlord's time portals, through which he has set up a series of erotic torture dens for young girls across time and space. Ariel now becomes an Ultra Vixen and she decides to use her Superclimax power to disrupt the continuum and seal Overlord's temporal access. To do so Ariel will have to channel herself into the minds of sexually tortured victims and reach the climax. The game is divided into 3 levels: WWII Germany, present time Tokyo subway train and distant future. Each level is divided into several stages; the goal of each stage is to get Ariel's sexual excitement to the maximum using various tools at hand. Using right tools will add some points to the score and move the story forward, while using tools that Ariel currently dislikes may deduct the points from the score and ultimately bring the game to Game Over. Most actions are done by selecting a tool and rapidly moving it back and forth for some time. The heroine and the tools are in 3D. |
| Angelique Special 2 | 1997-04-04 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Adventure, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Following the events of the first Angelique game, Angelique Limoges has become the queen of Cosmos, and her former rival Rosalie - her aid. Now a whole new Cosmos has appeared, and it's time to choose a new queen for it. The candidates this time are Angelique Collet (the protagonist of the game) and Rachel Hart.The gameplay system remains largely unchanged in this sequel. Once again, Angelique has to use diplomacy to make the Nine Guardians lend her their powers (making the inhabitants of her land happy), or develop stronger feelings for her. New in this sequel is the ability to work with three different instructors, developing mind, sense, or dignity of the heroine, which will influence the way she interacts with other characters and also affect the behavior of the Guardians. |
| TurboGo | 1997-04-04 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | TurboGo is a computer version of the two-player Chinese board game weiqi ("Go") using the Chinese scoring rules.In this version of the game, either player can be a computer or human. The available board sizes here are 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19, the latter being a common tournament size grid. The Go game is simple, but hard to master, and this version has an extensive manual built into it to help.The two players have either black or white stones, and place them in turn on the cross-points of a square line grid. The object is to encircle/border off territory and capture the opponents stones as prisoners. The game can be saved to disk, and be continued later, as the larger boards can take some time to finish. |
| Winning Post 3 | 1997-04-04 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Simulation, Sports | | | | Managerial / business simulation | Japan (Modern/Futuristic) | | Menu structures | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Winning Post 3 is the third entry in the Winning Post series. The objective of the game is breeding horses with good bloodlines. Compared to its direct predecessor Winning Post 2, the 30-year time limitation is removed, making players able to breed horses at their pleasure. |
| ETowers | 1997-04-13 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | ETowers is a single player, freeware card game, it is a computer version of the solitaire game more commonly known as "Sea Towers".The object of the game is to arrange all the cards into four suited, ascending sequences from the ace to the king - these sequences are the 'towers' referred to in the game's name.
The game is played with a standard deck of fifty-two cards which are dealt in ten columns of five cards, all placed face up, the remaining two cards are placed in the swap area. The player can move one card at a time, either to/from the holding area, to one of the four towers, or from the bottom of one column to another provided the card it is played on is of the same suit and one higher in rankThe game is played entirely with the mouse. It collects in-game statistics but has no save/load function, no sound and no undo function.
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| Fallout (Demo Version) | 1997-04-22 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Post-apocalyptic | | Point and select | Real-time, Turn-based | Mature | Isometric | Windows | The demo version of Fallout consist of only one location called Scrapheap, some of the items show different descriptions and the only playable character is Max Stone. While it is the same location as Junktown in the final game, the story and characters differ. The story is about two rival gangs fighting for hegemony in the city. The player can choose which gang to side with. |
| Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter | 1997-04-29 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Totally Games, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight, Vehicular combat | Albert Mack | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter is the third game in the X-Wing series of Star Wars space combat simulators from. The game contains a suite of multiplayer modes supporting up to 4 players over the Internet and up to 8 players on a LAN. The game also features a completely re-written game engine and introduces stronger AI, more sophisticated scripting, enhanced graphics, and a CD audio soundtrack. The multiplayer component requires an in-depth scoring method to balance player skill and craft configuration/armament.The plot is deliberately vague as the focus of the game is on multiplayer (both free-for-all and team-oriented, including co-op vs. NPCs). Rather, the missions are somewhat generic and reflect typical combat scenarios such as attacks, raids, escorts, base defense, meeting engagements, etc.Gameplay remains true to the series signature style of dogfighting in space. The Star Wars universe portrays such combat in a way that is obviously inspired by World War II air and naval combat, and as with all games in the series, the simulator places a premium on situational awareness and demanding flight controls. |
| Action Pack: Earthsiege 2 + Silent Thunder | 1997-04-30 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | As the title already indicates this compilation includes the following two Sierra games:
Earthsiege 2
Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II |
| Battleground 6: Napoleon in Russia | 1997-04-30 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Turn-based strategy | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Napoleon in Russia simulates the historical battle in 1812 near the town of Borodino, Russia. You, as the player, control battalion-sized units and individual leaders on the side of your choice. The map scale is approximately 100m per hex. |
| Hoyle Poker | 1997-04-30 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Gambling, Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Although Sierra tried its hand (no pun intended) at other card games, this is their first foray into the world of poker. The game offers all the excitement of a real poker game mixed with Sierra's unique brand of humour.The game offers a total of 20 variations on popular poker games including: Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, High Chicago, Cincinnati, Baseball, 5 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, Jacks or Better, Criss Cross, Dealers Choice, 5 Card Draw and 5 Card Draw Lo-ball.In single-player offline mode, you can select up to 7 opponents to play against, each with their own personality, playing style and skill level. The animated AI characters are well done and if you study them carefully, you can figure out each player's tell, which gives away the fact that they have a good hand. The Attitude Meter adjusts the speed of the game; setting it higher results in more animation and comments from the AI players, whereas setting it lower, keeps them quiet and offers a faster pace game. You start with a bankroll of $1,000 in case with another $9,000 in your bank account which you can access via an ATM (it also has a personality of it's own).Once you've mastered the game (or become tired of the AI players), check out the on-line play mode and see how your skills match up with real players from around the world.
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| Attax95 | 1997-05-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Attax95 is a freeware, variant of the Attax game for Windows.Always starting with a 7x7 board, the rules of the game are always the same. By default, blue color starts. Each turn, a player can either move one of his pieces two spaces away, or clone one of his pieces onto a neighboring cell. If the newly moved or cloned piece ends up adjacent to some enemy pieces, it converts them into its color so that they go under the player's control. You win if, in the end, you have more balls than your opponent.Attax95 also features a Block Editor Button to design your own block sets.
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| Chron X | 1997-05-01 | Genetic Anomalies | Genetic Anomalies | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles, Trading / collectible card | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Chron X is a trading card game. While it is possible to play matches against the AI, the game is meant to played online against another player. The setting is a dark future (2097) in which the world is ruled by corporations. The player works for The Body, a mysterious organization, and tries to get an upper hand in the endless quest for survival against the opposition.The matches have both an operational and a tactical aspect to it. The overall goal is to find the location of the opponent's headquarters and destroy it. The operational part of the game takes place on a world map (or, when playing a shorter match, a continent map) with a number of cities. In each turn, the player can found a base in one city which produces resources required for all actions like moving cards. When the players get in each others way, tactical combat starts. This means that when the match progresses, players have to manage the operational view as well as multiple battles during each turn. Of course the tactics depend on the available cards: the basic combat cards are assets which have ratings in different abilities like firepower or armor. Other card types are enhancements (improve the statistics of an asset), program cards (operational effects like preventing the movement of assets in and out of a city) and intervention cards (similar to programs, but more powerful)As for the business model, Chron X is free-to-play and the player starts with a deck of 60 random cards. However, in order to get access to advanced game features like trading and tournaments, a registration fee is required. Also available for purchase are booster packs for additional cards as micro-transactions. |
| Orbsters | 1997-05-01 | NanZarts L.L.C. | NanZarts L.L.C. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Orbsters is a singleplayer shareware arcade style game which is similar to the classic game Galaxian. Gameplay is very much in the style of the old arcade games and the objective is simply to achieve a high score. The enemy ships flock on screen making pretty patterns before diving on the player's ship, it's the players job to survive the attack while destroying all the enemy ships. Some of the enemy ships drop power up capsules which the player must fly over to collect. The full retail version has over thirty levels and allows the player to take screen shots, in .bmp format, via the F9 key.The game maintains a high score table. The game documentation recommends that the game is played using a gamepad but joystick and keyboard can also be used. |
| Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Rainforest | 1997-05-01 | Microsoft Corporation | Music Pen | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | In this sixth Magic School Bus title based on the book series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, the class mission is to travel to the Costa Rican rainforest and clone missing parts of the ecosystem so they can turn their classroom into a virtual rainforest.In the classroom there are reports to view and and projects to hear about by clicking on items and characters in each of the two rooms. Clicking the lockers brings up a board of 14 rainforest/ecosystem themed games, ranging from jigsaw puzzles to dodging falling raindrops to mini-platformers. Most actions throughout the game are performed with the mouse; some games use the keyboard arrow keys, and there are printer options available in some sections. Once on the bus, the player has a number of options - pressing the steering wheel begins the trip to one of three parts of the forest: the Understory, The Canopy, or the Treefall Gap. There are more reports to view and a travel log that records the places the player visits.Off the bus, the player can use tools from the toolbox to hear animal sounds, inspect creatures through a magnifying glass, watch videos, capture wildlife and clone it for their virtual rainforest. When the right samples have been found from the clues given, clicking the inside of the toolbox will show how the selected sample has changed the classroom.This educational game is suggested for children aged 6 - 10, and focuses primarily on science skills, observation, experiment, and listening.
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| The Realm | 1997-05-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Side view | | | Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy | | | Persistent, Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | The Realm is one of the first first Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. Log in and create a characters' skill and attributes, choosing a class from thief, adventurer, wizard, and warrior. They paste together a look using add-to-pics. Players can confront each other, and their skirmishes are seen as cartoonish fights with limbs sticking out of a cloud of dust, whereas the combatants are transferred to a tactical fighting screen. The winner takes the loser's possessions. |
| To Heart | 1997-05-02 | Aquaplus | Leaf | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Romance | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | In this game, the player controls Fujita Hiroyuki, a high-school student who seems to have more interest in romance than in his studies. In his school there are several pretty girls, and his goal is to be nice to one of them, make the right decisions when talking to her, and ultimately win her heart. To Heart is a visual novel: the player reads text and looks at CG images, occasionally prompted to choose a response or an action out of several available ones. These decisions determine the outcome of the story. Each girl has her own "path" and ending, with various degrees of difficulty to attain. The PC version of the game has explicit adult content. Subsequent console and handheld releases remove adult scenes and add voice acting to the game. |
| MDK | 1997-05-06 | Playmates Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Shiny Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | Regional differences | Comedy | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | In this 3D shoot 'em up, you play Kurt, and your job is to save the world. Aliens have sent 8 giant fortresses to destroy earth. You run and jump through 6 missions of strange 3D worlds and kill the "Stream Riders" with your machine gun arm. Precise platform jumps are part of the challenge.Kurt is equipped with a special battle suit with an included parachute and a sniper interface (allowing you to aim precise shooting while standing still) embedded in your helmet. Further weaponry enhancements are available as you progress through the game. |
| Ark of Time | 1997-05-16 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Trecision S.p.A. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | In this third-person point-and-click adventure game you play the sports journalist Richard Kendall. In the summer of 1997, an expedition of four explorers have set out into the abysses of the Atlantic Ocean to find any traces of the mythical sunken city of Atlantis. They are the archeologist Professor Caldwell, the scientist Helen, the sponsor of the journey Mr. Blower and his nephew Simon.When they suddenly stop communicating Richard is the one whose task it is to find them. He would much rather stay in London and cover football matches but his editor insists and he complies. His search takes him to several locations around the world including the Caribbean, Stonehenge, Easter Island and Atlantis itself. The puzzles are mostly inventory based. |
| Capitalism Plus | 1997-05-20 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Enlight Software Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Enhanced version of "Capitalism". Build your personal business empire. In order to do so you can control the whole production chain of your goods (raw materials, semi-products, retail), or you can choose to concentrate on special sectors (e.g. only mining ores or only selling hi-tech products, etc).New features in this game are:
Slightly enhanced graphics
Increased number of products (over 80 now) most from the hi-tech sector
New random events like revolutions, earthquakes, etc.
Real world maps of different business regions of Europe, USA and Asia
Map- and scenario editor
Pre-made historical and futuristic scenarios
Multi-Player option (PBEM)
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| Bomb Jack | 1997-05-21 | Mindware Corp. | Tecmo, Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In Bomb Jack, the player controls Jack, who must collect all the bombs in order to complete the current round and go onto the next one. This sounds easy, right? Wrong! Making Jack's task difficult are numerous enemies such as birds, mummies, turtles, and orbs.In each round, collecting a number of bombs results in a bonus coin appearing, and collecting this coin will make the player's score increase 2 to 4 times. More often than not, the "power ball" appears, and when you collect this, you can defeat enemies and have more time to collect all the bombs. There is also the "E" coin, which gives Jack one additional life, but rarely does this coin appear.The more you progress through the game, the more difficult it becomes, as enemies travel more quickly to get you. |
| Escape from the Haunted House | 1997-05-21 | New Media Generation | New Media Generation | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Horror | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Escape from the Haunted House is a puzzle adventure game which takes place inside an abandoned mansion. At the beginning of game you only know that the owner of the mansion was Edward Blackwood and you need to escape from this place quickly.The game is played in first person perspective with a point-and-click interface. There is no inventory in this game, all objects you find are applied automatically when needed.To finish the game, you must solve the puzzles in Edward's manor; each solved puzzle will unlock new rooms. The game is relatively short. If you are stuck you can find clues reading letters all over the house. |
| Star Trek: Generations | 1997-05-21 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Action, Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | Generations was the 7th Star Trek film, and saw Captain Kirk rescued from the spacial nexus he was trapped in and joining the Next Generation crew. Their mission was to stop Dr. Tolian Soran from destroying a succession of planets, so as to return him to a paradise-like dimension called the Nexus.All of this is brought to life in this game, with a succession of 12 away missions on various planets linked by strategic space combat, and Stellar Cartography planning to track Soran's next move. Away missions are in first-person 3D and feature action and puzzle solving. Each is played out by a different member of the crew, all of whom have their voices digitised. Some sub-plot elements and related video sequences from the stars (Patrick Stewart, William Shatner and Malcolm McDowell) are not in the film and have been added to the game. |
| Kyodai Mahjongg | 1997-05-22 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Falling block puzzle, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Meditative / Zen | | | Windows | A shareware Shanghai-like solitaire game system that uses Mah-Jongg tiles. Contains a number of unique or non-standard games. Created and programmed by a fan of Mah-Jongg solitaire.The games are presided over by manga-style girls, who react to the gameplay, let you know you're in the high score board, etc. High score lists are maintained for all games, all skill levels. The game is fully customizable- backgrounds, tilesets, and music can be changed (and new selections are available for download through the official site.) Dragon layout can also be changed, for variety greater than the traditional game provides.Game variations:
Solitaire: the standard, famous game, with the standard, famous "dragon" (layout). Click tile pairs to remove them, if the tiles are free to move to the side.Rivers: same tiles, square layout, new rules; tile pairs must be free to move from side or top, and there can be no more than two 90 degree "turns" to bring the two tiles together. Players of the old/rare arcade game "Sports Match" will understand the mechanics.Memory: same tiles, square layout; tiles need not be "free", but since they're all turned over, you must remember where partner tiles are located.Clicks: new tiles (color-based rather than MahJongg based). Based on a freeware game, "Clickomania" (and Sega Swirl is suspiciously similar to it, too.) Tiles of different colors can be removed if there are more than one of the same color connected. Gravity affects remaining tiles, which create a dynamic, moving playfield. Remove as many as possible, and leave as few tiles remaining as possible.Slider: same tiles as Clicks. Slide tiles around to form 5-tile lines (and remove them). Each move adds 3 new tiles to the board.Hashira: same tiles as Clicks. Falling 3-tile sets must be combined to remove combinations of same-colored tiles. Incredibly similar to Columns.The early versions of Kyodai are suitable for Windows 3.1+. Middle versions are suitable for Windows 95+, and are in 2D. The latest versions are in 3D, and use DirectX technology. (OpenGL versions are also available.) |
| Dōsei | 1997-05-23 | Nexton | Tactics | Simulation | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | Dōsei is a social and sexual simulation game that focuses on the life of a young Japanese couple. Masaki Yamada and Manami Minase start living together shortly after having graduated from high school. Most of the game is dedicated to the depiction of their everyday life at home, of which the majority explicitly describes their sexual relationship. Both characters have two statistics, stamina and spirit, which will be raised or lowered depending on the player's choices and schedules for the day. During the sexual intercourse, the player also has options to influence it in certain ways, which may affect further relationship of the two main characters. |
| Yōjo Ranbu 2 | 1997-05-29 | Zone | Zone | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | The sequel to Yōjo Ranbu is not connected to its predecessor story-wise. It tells the story of Adalk, a young man who discovers that he was adopted by the woman who thought was his mother. He is determined to find out who his real parents were. Meanwhile, he is out on the streets of a big city and has no job, so his first goal is to find people who will help him to undertake dangerous missions as mercenaries. Naturally, those people are all pretty young women, which complicates the life of the young hero even more.Yōjo Ranbu 2 plays similarly to its predecessor, with 3D locations and random turn-based battles, all viewed from first-person perspective. Friendly characters appear as 2D sprites. The playing area is larger than in the first game, with smoother animation. Characters in player's party can purchase magic spells, and also execute unique special attacks. The hero can also talk to them at night, and the player is able to make decisions and to influence his relationship with the girls.As opposed to most other Japanese-style RPGs, the game advances as the player chooses missions available in the town. These missions gradually open up new locations within the town or on the world map. Completing low-ranked missions unlocks higher-ranked ones, which, in their turn, can be chosen by the player in any order. |
| Deicide 3: Distorted Existence | 1997-05-31 | Bisco Co., Ltd. | Studio Jacobin | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Japanese-style adventure, Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | Mecha / giant robot | Point and select | | | | Windows | Deicide 3: Distorted Existence is a cinematic adventure game set in a cyberpunk world. Players take control of Kim Chang-Ki, a 34 year old ex-SWAT captain transferred to the public security department directly under the presidential security office, basically a special anti-terrorism unit.The game takes place across 7 days in late October, 2024, five years after a protest had been violently suppressed by the police and the army which brutally massacred many of the rioters.Starting work at the division that was responsible for this massacre, Kim Chang-Ki is led to investigate the terrorist attacks that occur which could ultimately lead to a coup d'etat.The gameplay consists of going to areas available on a map, talking to various characters, picking up and using items, as well as shooting sequences where players must shoot the robots that chase and attack them around the area they're in. |
| Anasazi Tasholiiwe | 1997-06-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Tasholiiwe is a shareware computer conversion of a board game played by many tribes of Native Americans. The name is Zuni, Indian for "wooden dice" and is also their name for their version of the game, but it was also played -- with small differences -- by Zuni, Hopi, Navajo, Apache and others, probably dating back to the Anasazi.The game is a simple "race and bump" game for four players (controlled by human players or the computer), where you have to complete a circuit on the board, a circle made of 40 stones (the "squares"), before the other players. The board is divided into four sets of 10 stones by four "gates" or "rivers". Each player has a counter (a stick, or "horse"), which is moved by throwing three casting sticks, each with a red and a black side, and the number of black or red sides determines the count. The first player to complete the circuits wins. When you move your horse onto an opponent, he will be bumped back to the beginning, while when you land on a river, it's you who has to start all over.Peculiar to the game is the fact that the moving direction is not predetermined; instead, you can choose your direction at the beginning, clockwise or counterclockwise. Another interesting detail are the "Anasazi Facts" displayed from time to time, giving bits of information about Native Americans.Tasholiiwe offers a variety of options, allowing you to play some of the variations used by specific tribes. The registered version enables betting on the outcome as well as a "Contest" mode for multiple games.
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| Bubble Puzzle 97 | 1997-06-01 | | Conmeg Spielart | Puzzle | Side view | | | Arcade, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bubble Puzzle 97 is a simple puzzle game. You control a cannon which you can rotate and use to shoot coloured balls into the playing area. If three or more bubbles of the same colour connect together then they will disappear. Each level begins with a pattern of bubbles on the field and you must clear them all without filling the playing field. The game comprises 50 levels - once these are completed then random levels will be given. It is also very easy to create your own levels - all you need is a text editor. |
| Terroid | 1997-06-01 | Schenk & Horn | Digital Nightmares | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Terroid is a single person, top down, sideways scrolling, shareware, space shooter. The game plays much like R-Type and S.W.I.V. which is as the makers intended, with the player facing wave after wave of alien craft while flying over missile firing ground installations and collecting power-ups. It can be played via a joystick or the keyboard and has sound effects and music.The story behind the game is the generic tale of a lone starfighter returning from patrol to find their home planet destroyed and that the population have been teleported to the alien homeworld as slaves. Only you, that lone pilot, can free them. The full game has nine levels plus two 3D bonus levels, one comes after level three and the other after level six, in which the player has to fly their ship through a series of silver rings while avoiding space mines. The objective is simply to achieve a high score, there are three levels of difficulty Beginner, Easy and Normal with the player scoring more points on the harder settings. These games have fixed levels which contain minefields, barriers and traps. There is also a Training game mode which plays an endless game with "an intelligent level generator' which creates attack waves to fight against, these levels do not have the traps and challenges of the standard gamesTerroid has no save game option but, unusually, if the player has lost their three lives and has a score in excess of 50,000 they are offered the option of buying three extra lives in exchange for points.
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| Twinsen's Odyssey | 1997-06-01 | Activision, Inc. | Adeline Software International | Action, Adventure | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | After freeing the world of Twinsun from its evil dictator in the previous game, the hero Twinsen has since gotten married, is planning to have a child and has settled down at home. One day, Twinsen finds out that his friend, a creature known as the Dino-Fly, is struck by lightning and hurt. Further investigation reveals that there is something strange going on in the skies on Twinsun; and indeed, visitors from outer space have arrived. Do they come in peace, or is there a sinister goal behind their appearance? Twinsen once again embarks out on a quest for the good of his world...Like its predecessor, Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey in the US) is an adventure game with action elements. The game's interface and controls are similar to those of the first game. The focus is still on exploring the game's world, interacting with its characters and objects. The four stances - Normal, Aggressive, Sneaky, and Athletic - have also returned, and must be used in the right situations to advance the plot. The game's world is quite large, containing some optional objectives and quests, which makes it similar to sandbox games. It retains the isometric perspective from its predecessor for indoor locations; outdoor navigation now features rotatable camera, and the world is rendered in real 3D. |
| Egyptia | 1997-06-02 | Astron Publishing, Inc. | DOE Entertainment | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | Egypt (Ancient) | | Direct control | | | Isometric | Windows | In Egyptia the player controls an archaeologist named Dr. Sands who searches a Egyptian pyramid after a room with a lot of gold. To open this room he has to collect 60 floor tiles. Of course these are not just lying around but hidden in 60 rooms were the player has to solve puzzles in the style of Sokoban. The goal is to push columns on special fields but the way is blocked with other blocks. It is not possible to pull something so the player has to restart the level if he pushes a block or column is into a corner. Some mistakes can be corrected with the undo function were a false move is taken back. Also Dr. Sand can't walk backwards.This task is additionally aggravated by a time limit which is explained by the lack of air in the pyramid. Enemies want to kill Dr. Sands and reduce his life bar when touching him. On the floor of the puzzle chambers the player can find three symbols: Sand clocks give him more time, hearts refill the life bar and magic potions make him invulnerable. Every level can be chosen freely but to win the game all of them have to be solved. Two camera modes can be selected, the first is an isometric view were Dr. Sands can't be seen when standing behind a column or a top down view. |
| Carax '95 | 1997-06-04 | Bio_100% | Bio_100% | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | In Carax '95 the player takes control over a space ship and shoots at aliens. The goal of every level is to kill every alien on screen - but there is a catch: there is a time limit of three minutes. If the player gets hit by an alien projectile he doesn't die but the time limit takes a 10 seconds hit. After every level the game also calculates the hit ratio: if it is over 70% the player receives additional time. The ship can be moved freely within the one-screen levels. |
| PGA Tour Pro | 1997-06-04 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Play golf on the PGA Tour versus the computer or a friend via LAN or modem at two famous courses: "The TPC Scottsdale" and "The Bay Hill Club". You can also play with up to 80 other players on the Internet. Among the features there is Flash Draw (no waiting between shots), TV-style presentation, a 3D hole overview, a Risk meter to assess the potential risk of your next shot, the ability to walk the course in real time to read the green and view fly-bys and hear strategic commentary. There is also a Extra Disc that allows you to play Pebble Beach. |
| Machine Hunter | 1997-06-06 | MGM Interactive | Eurocom Developments Ltd | Action, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | A classic shooter with a twist. Aliens have invaded the Martian Colonies and reprogrammed the mining robots into killers. Earth, fearing an invasion, creates the Machine Hunters. They wear special suits that allow them to reprogram and take over the robots on contact. The trick is learning to control 9 different types of robots to fight the other robots. There are many different worlds to explore as you locate and battle the robots. All of the worlds let you teleport to different locations on the planets. |
| Ecstatica II | 1997-06-13 | Psygnosis Limited | Andrew Spencer Studios | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Mature | | Windows | In the original Ecstatica, the hero managed to defeat the recently unleashed Devil and his creatures in the small village of Tirich and rescue Ecstatica, the witch-in-training responsible for the whole mess. The two of them journey back to the hero's land only to find that the forces of darkness have brought the fight home. In his mad quest for power, the evil Archmage has shattered the Elder Sign which governs reality. This has allowed the demons to pass through into this world, slaughtering the people of the surrounding lands or transforming them into brutal killing machines.Upon discovering this news the hero and Ecstatica promptly find themselves kidnapped by the demons. A mysterious high priestess helps the hero escape and compels him to journey through the demon-infested land to find and re-unite the scattered pieces of the Elder Sign to drive the demons back to their world. However the Elder Sign pieces are guarded by the Archmage's dark sorcerers and their followers, and the Archmage himself holds the last piece as well as Ecstatica captive.The gameplay is similar to that of the previous game, focusing on action combat with light adventure and survival horror touches. The game's world is larger than that of the predecessor and includes free-roaming elements. The protagonist can equip and use various swords in combat. Spells are learned when equipping a magic staff or from magic scrolls found in the game world. |
| Stone Axe: Search for Elysium | 1997-06-14 | LG Software | LG Software | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy, Prehistoric | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Stone Axe: Search for Elysium is the first real-time fantasy strategy game, similar to WarCraft. The action takes place in prehistoric times, 35000 B.C. Climate change forced cavemen to leave their home in search of food. The aim of the game is to lead your tribe successfully into the Promised Land Elysium., by surviving 16 levels. You will receive a specific task at each level that must resolve in order to reach the next level. If all of your tribesmen will die, the game ends. You need food to be held different events to retain power and to be able to execute certain commands. The members of your tribe consume a food ration per day to keep your strength up. If there is no food, your strength will diminish.The control is performed via point & select system, combined with the menu system on the left panel (card, status, equipment, leader, system). The card menu shows the Information on the currently displayed area. Status menu shows the ratio between men and women, provides information on the growth rate of the population and how many tribesmen perform a particular job. Equipment menu is represented by small images, all items the player can get during the game. All of 21 items have a special effect, for example crystal necklace increases ambition, magic flute reduces the attacks by animals, magic lance increases the productivity of collectors, wing shoe increases movement speed, sapphire ring fill the power back on. Leader menu allows to control the speed ratio between men and women, determine the mood of the strain, set certain events in your family for the next 12 months. Status menu shows the size of the food supply, the number of tribesmen who take the time in the mission, tells what mood currently prevailing in the trunk and displays the current month and day.The characters that appear in the game, have five different tasks: leader, Patriarch Shaman / medicine man, warrior / explorer, hunter / shepherd and craftsmen / collector. All characters may be promoted to second class. Leader runs on the trunk. If the leader dies, the game ends. Each character dies when he became 50 years old. Shaman has a magical skill and looks for the traps. Warrior is a classic military unit with high attack and defence skills. Hunter is a distance fighter and may destroy a bridge or dig a pitfall. Craftsmen collect food. Magic commands "tidal wave" and "trap dig" cost 16 food units. |
| FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 | 1997-06-17 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | The late-1997 edition of FIFA was heavily tied in with the qualifying procedure for the 1998 World Cup. In the Road to the World Cup mode, you take a team from first qualification through to the main tournament, using the varying systems in different parts of the world. The game features 16 distinct outdoor stadia. The League play features 189 clubs and 11 leagues. Each team has specific crowd chants incorporated into the ambient sound.The action is faster than in previous versions, and AI has been expanded. Players have distinct facial feature and hair styles. Each match is introduced by Des Lynam and commentated on by John Motson and former Scotland international Andy Gray. |
| Triple Play 98 | 1997-06-19 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This baseball simulation features official MLB 1997 statistics and names for all teams and players - these can be traded, or new fictitious players can be created. Players have distinct batting and bowling styles. Over 50 distinct statistics are stored for each of these, with full analysis on offer. You can play in simulation or action modes. Player and team Artificial Intelligence has more complexities than in the previous Triple Play game. Two-man commentary is provided, for a play-by-play summary as well as 'Color Commentary' to add detail and depth to the analysis. |
| Tōshin Toshi II | 1997-06-20 | Alice Soft | Alice Soft | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person, Top-down | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | A young boy named Seed Kasim was dreaming of a peaceful life in his home village with the girl of his dreams. However, the girl's father made it clear that he'll only accept a strong warrior as his son-in-law. Accompanied by his childhood friend, the gorgeous Selena, Seed heads to the city, where the Battle God Tournament takes place. The young man must venture to the nearby dungeon, defeating the monsters lurking there, while being careful of other tournament participants...Tōshin Toshi 2 plays similarly to its predecessor and to most other Alice Soft RPGs: most of the game is dedicated to exploring maze-like top-down dungeons (with auto-map feature), fighting random and event-related enemies in turn-based combat. Battles and town locations are viewed from first person perspective. Spirit Points (SP) are required to execute any attack; they can be replenished by "resting" (during battle), using special items, or walking (outside of battle).The game features explicit sex scenes.ScreenshotsThere are no Windows user screenshots for this game.There are 50 other screenshots from other versions of this game or official promotional screenshots.Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gameAlternate Titles "闘神都市2" -- Japanese spelling
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| Wet: The Sexy Empire (Limited Edition) | 1997-06-26 | CDV Software GmbH | | Special edition | | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a special edition of Lula: The Sexy Empire which includes the game itself, as well as a mousepad and a pin. |
| Dungeon Keeper | 1997-06-27 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Bullfrog Productions, Ltd. | Strategy | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | Regional differences | Comedy | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation, Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Mature | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Dungeon Keeper takes real-time strategy into a fantasy setting. You command a dungeon and its hellish minions, and must take them to glory against the hated good guys. You must use your gold to build a fortress and weapons to attack. As well as being able to rotate the 3D view, and control the light source, you can enter the direct viewpoints of your men, to see life through their eyes (one character's mode goes into black and white for this). |
| Links LS: 1998 Edition | 1997-06-30 | Access Software, Inc. | Access Software, Inc. | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Links LS 1998 Edition is the first game in the Links series to run in native Windows 95 mode. "Look ahead" rendering sees the game predict where your next shot will be from, reducing redraw times. There are two new offline tournaments for a total of six, and an internet play mode. Perhaps in response to Tiger Woods' success at the time, a black-skinned golfer is added to this version. You now view other golfers on the main play screen, and the action is tracked by 8 smart cameras. New visual enhancements include water reflections, waving flags, blimps, balloons, airplanes and environmental haze and fog.
The standard 3-click swing is still used in this version, as well as the fine-tune adjustments for swing style, draw/fade, chip, lob, bump & run and of course, load up that driver and let 'er rip. There are now 6 modes of play including Scramble, Alternate Shot, Match Play, Best Ball, Skins and Stroke. In addition to the Kapalua Village, Plantation and Bay courses in previous versions, the 1998 Edition also adds Arnold Palmer's favourite course, Latrobe Country Club (and can run courses from previous versions). Palmer also provides multimedia features. |
| War Gods | 1997-06-30 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Midway Manufacturing Company | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Fighting | | | | | Mature | | Windows | War Gods is a one-on-one fighting game that takes place in 3D environments. The fighter under your control can perform many different moves, and string those moves together to perform "combos." Furthermore, the fighters all have special "finishing moves" that eliminate your opponent in some gruesome manner at the end of a match. There are 10 different fighters to choose from, all based on different ancient civilizations.The graphics in War Gods are fairly unique. They were created by texture-mapping 3D character models with digitized photos of people. This gives them a reasonably lifelike look. |
| Dragon Lore II: The Heart of the Dragon Man | 1997-07-01 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Action, Adventure | 1st-person | | | Fighting | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | This is the sequel to Dragon Lore: The Legend Begins.Once again you are playing Werner von Wallenrod who has been named Knight of the Dragon by the Dragon Prince at the end of part one of the series. Unfortunately a mysterious Lord from the Dragon Prince's company at table wants to prevent you from being named Knight of the Dragon. He claims that only Knights who own a personal guarding dragon can be chosen to wear the title of a Knight of the Dragon. As your dragon, the ancient Maracch vanished a long time ago, you now have to travel the land in order to uncover its disappearance and return with him to claim your rightful title.The game features a completely rendered 3D landscape, more than 60 different NPCs, 10 tournament fighting sequences and more than 20 different types of battles during your journey around the kingdom. |
| Humongous Classics Collection | 1997-07-01 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A compilation of the three classic kids games created by Humongous Entertainment.Putt-Putt Goes to the MoonPutt-Putt Joins the ParadeFatty Bear's Birthday SurpriseThe three games are in their original looks, and includes demos of other Humongous Entertainment games. |
| Pacific General | 1997-07-01 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | Asia, Historical events, North America, Oceania, World War II | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Part of the wildly popular Panzer General line of games. Pacific gives you command of either allied or axis forces in the pacific theater of operations. Just like Panzer General you will build a force together and try to carry it through the war, and just like Panzer you will need the benefit of the experienced units if you are going to be victorious. |
| Poolster | 1997-07-01 | JHC SoftWare | JHC SoftWare | Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Poolster is a single player shareware snooker simulation. It was sold commercially but it, and it's companion game Snooker 147 have now been posted as freeware on it's developer's web site. Both games use the same engine and therefore game-play is virtually identical.The game is played with just three controls which are entirely mouse operated. The strength of the shot is controlled by dragging the cue left to right along the bottom of the screen. The further to the right the cue tip is the softer the shot.
In the lower right of the screen is a representation of the cue ball with a cross-hair mark on it. This is used to control the position in which the cue strikes the cue ball and thus controls 'side' and 'backspin'.
The ball is aimed by positioning a cross-hair cursor in the desired direction and clicking the mouse button.The shareware game has in-game help text that opens in a new window, sound effects, an undo function and a 'boss' key. The registered version allows the player to save/load games and has a "ball-positoner" feature whereby the player can position the balls to practice trick shots.
There is no high score feature, no end of game statistics, and no player aids such as sighting lines.
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| Agile Warrior: F-111X | 1997-07-05 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Black Ops Entertainment, LLC | Action | Behind view | | | Arcade | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | | | Teen | | Windows | Because of international conflicts and new dangers due to terrorist attacks the Air Force needed to construct a new warplane which can be uses for multiple roles like frontal attacks or stealth operations. The result: a mixture between the YF-23's (high performance airframe), the X- 31's (thrust-vectoring maneuverability), and the F-111's (superior terrain and weapon-guidance systems).In Agile Warrior: F-111X the player pilots one of these aircraft to solve the mentioned issues in about six missions. To be successful he needs to utilize all of the aircraft's features, e.g. rockets, a radar which uncovers nearby enemies or the ability to cloak. The latter is important during the stealth missions in which the player needs to avoid hostile radars. |
| Xonix32 | 1997-07-05 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Xonix32 is a remake of the DOS game Xonix for the Windows platform. The gameplay is the same: the player controls a marker and has to cut off pieces of the playfield, creating a big safe area, while avoiding to be hit by the enemies. |
| SideLine | 1997-07-08 | Astron Publishing, Inc. | Electronic Music and Animated Graphics CO., LTD. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | SideLine is a 2D side-scrolling shooter, will all the features typical to mid 90's classics, such as power-up items, various types of weapons, shield that absorbs damage from enemy projectiles, accompanying drones or level bosses at the end of every stage. The action of this game takes place in the future on a hostile planet, where two small ships are sent to destroy enemy creatures. The screen is moving constantly to the right, although the duel with the level boss takes place on a single screen. The basic weapon has infinite ammunition, more advanced weaponry requires collecting missiles. Enemies are divided into mobile and stationary, supplemented by traps and walls. |
| Four Winds Mah Jong | 1997-07-13 | Lagarto | Lagarto | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Traditional Chinese game for four players (human and three computer adversaries) with a wide variety of rule options. Four Winds Mah Jong comes with several customizable rule presets, including Chinese Classical and Modern (Hong Kong), Japanese Classical, and Western versions. The game includes a comprehensive help file and a tutorial explaining in detail all the rules and options. |
| X-COM: Apocalypse | 1997-07-15 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Mythos Games Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time, Turn-based | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Things have not gone well since the last Alien War. The world resources have been exhausted, and most of the population have been concentrated into the last hope: Mega-Primus, a self-sufficient city. Things are starting look good until a strange portal opened in the sky, and UFOs emerged from it. It seems that the X-COM is needed again.X-COM: Apocalypse is a sequel to X-COM: Terror from the Deep, and is the third entry in the X-COM series. It is a real-time / turn-based strategy game that features a mix of research, resource management, macro tactical combat, and micro tactical combat. At the city screen, the player controls vehicles to engage the threats (everything from rival factions to alien UFOs). If a UFO has landed or infiltration has been reported, the vehicles will land/dock at the infestation site and engage in tactical combat with the equipment at hand. Once the player managed to capture aliens and alien equipment, the scientists can research and perhaps even copy them for the player's use. The player will also need to balance the budget as everything costs money, from agents to equipment. The various human factions must be kept happy, otherwise they might turn against the X-COM. The player must hire recruits, buy weapons, ammo, and equipment to outfit his squads in the vehicles (including weapons on the vehicles and their ammo). The management mode for tracking down UFOs is called the Cityscape; combat takes place in a separate environment, the Battlescape, where the player engages the individual aliens that managed to escape. Differences from the previous games in the series include reworked graphics, larger maps, a more complex world, and the possibility of choosing between real-time or turn-based tactical combat. Also, instead of just engaging aliens, the player will also have to deal with multiple human factions, from a cult that worships alien invaders to gangs, from industrial giants to security forces.
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| FlightGear | 1997-07-17 | FlightGear Project | FlightGear Project | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Helicopter | | | | | Windows | FlightGear is a realistic flight simulator, originally started 1996 as an indie project by a single person, but currently is progressing as an open-source project with many volunteers working on it. The simulation caters mostly to civilian flight, but later an add on supporting dogfights was released, and some bomb dropping scenarios are available with certain aircraft.The downloads are split into several parts that are matched for each release: a base package, containing the game and a minimal area (San Francisco bay area) and few (15) aircraft; a large aircraft package for all the compatible aircraft (currently 400+); a large (~12GB) scenery package for flying outside the starting area, and the source code package for those who need to compile their own version. If you don't have the full scenery package locally, additional areas can be automatically downloaded as you fly over them.There are server packages for setting up your own multiplayer server, if you don't want to fly on those already setup by others. The number of players depends mainly on available bandwidth, and it can be configured as an open or closed LAN server. In multiplayer is also possible to share a cockpit in a single plane between two pilots. |
| Quink (Quick Think) | 1997-07-17 | TC Consulting, Inc. | TC Consulting, Inc. | Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | Timed input | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Quink (Quick Think) is a single player, shareware, mouse controlled Simon Says clone.The player is presented with a 3x3 game board. The centre cell is occupied by a '?' and is used by the player to request that a pattern is repeated, all the surrounding cells are occupied by exotic looking balls. When a pattern is repeated correctly the player scores points. The player has three attempts to get it right, if they are correct at the first attempt they score 300 points, at the second they score 200 points and at the third they either score 100 points for getting the sequence correct or they end the game.The short patterns give the player five seconds to complete the sequence, as the length of the sequence increases so does the available time.The game has a high score table and sound effects |
| Creatures | 1997-07-24 | Mindscape, Inc. | Cyberlife Technology, Ltd. | Simulation | Side view | | | Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Creatures is a biological simulation. You start with six eggs of Norns, cute little creatures who live in an imaginary world. Your task is to give them knowledge about the world they live in, teach them how to speak, how to use toys or an elevator, how to eat, and so on. They will eventually grow older, reproduce and die. The game uses its own genetics system, as well as biochemical and neurological calculations to determine the evolution of Norns and the way their DNA would develop in their descendants. |
| D.O.G: Fight For Your Life | 1997-07-24 | THQ Inc. | Greenwood Entertainment Software GmbH, Digital Dimensions BV | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | D.O.G. is a third-person shooter with vehicles and turrets to use. The game doesn't have a story, you just select a mission that you can afford (you get money from completing missions), kill everyone/everything in it and continue to the next mission.The engine uses voxels, so you can blast the ground with few different weapons, like flamethrower, chaingun, grenade launcher and rocker launcher. Picking up powerups for yourself and your vehicle ease your way on the devastation. |
| Tetris Pack | 1997-07-25 | | | Compilation | | | | Falling block puzzle | | | | | | | Windows | Tetris Pack is a compilation of five games from developer Philippe Basciano. All these games have been reworked for Windows 95. Tetris Pack is a zipped file which extracts the games into a folder of the user's choice. The later compilation Mind Madness is a single install process which installs the games into a separate folders within an overall folder called Mind Madness and creates separate entries in the Windows Start menu for each game. Whereas the Tetris Pack games are removed by deleting them, Mind Madness has a single uninstall process to remove them all. Both compilations contain the same games with the same version numbersThe games included in this compilation are all Tetris clones, they are;
Beetris for Windows 95 played using shapes formed from hexagonal blocks.
Fructus for Windows 95 (v1.95), here the shapes are all three blocks long, each block is a fruit
Gelules for Windows 95 (v1.95) The shapes are all two blocks long and resemble medicinal capsules, the aim is to destroy viruses
PROTO for Windows 95 here the shapes are made of five blocks rather than the standard four blocks used in the original Tetris
Tetris Lite for Windows 95 this is close to the original Tetris
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| Anstoss 2: Der Fußballmanager | 1997-08-01 | ASCARON Entertainment GmbH | ASCARON Entertainment GmbH | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | Everyone | | Windows | Anstoss 2: Der Fußballmanager is a soccer management simulation for 1-4 players. You are in charge of a club, participating in one of the 13 featured leagues. Start to design a training concept, implement a revolutionary tactical system and you might be on the right way. The goal is simple: reach for gold, participate in national and international competitions and win 'em all. Additionally you are responsible for the financial aspects, e.g. by building a better stadium, hiring employees, betting on other games, etc.The matches are presented in 3D cutscenes. You can exchange players, adapt tactics to new situations or weather conditions, but don't participate directly. |
| Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain | 1997-08-01 | Activision Publishing, Inc., Crystal Dynamics, Inc. | Silicon Knights, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | Horror | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Mature | | Windows | The nobleman Kain has been slain by a group of bandits and in his death, he is revived by the necromancer Mortanius for his own ends. Kain is returned in the form of a vampire and yearns to exact vengeance on those who killed him. Stronger and faster than a human being, coupled with a thirst for blood that must be satisfied regularly, he is able to dispatch his killers quickly. However, Mortanius and other forces seek to use him as a tool in a greater plot. Mortanius is of the Circle of Nine, the guardians of the Pillars of Nosgoth. These pillars, connected to the world and balancing the forces, have become corrupted and the Circle members been driven mad. At the Pillars, Kain meets Ariel - a former guardian of the Pillar of Balance, now a spirit after being murdered by an unseen assailant. She informs Kain of his relation to the Pillars and that the only way for him to restore the balance is to seek out each guardian and kill them. The fate of Nosgoth may hang on Kain decisions.Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is an action game where the player controls the vampiric Kain. As a vampire, Kain is able to withstand sunlight, but is harmed by water. However, he is able to obtain several cursed abilities and spells such as being able to transform into a bat, wolf, and even a cloud mist respectively, as well as learning the ability to disguise himself from creatures of weaker mind. Kain is also fixated on murder and is a master of several ways to kill and destroy his opponents. As the enemies are slain in front of him, Kain may drink their blood to restore his health, which is always trickling away, representative of his insatiable craving. To aid in the slaughter of his enemies, Kain may equip different weapons and armor, each with its own unique properties. |
| Nobunaga's Ambition: Shouseiroku with Power Up Kit | 1997-08-01 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Wargame | Historical events, Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) | | Multiple units/characters control | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | The compilation of Nobunaga no Yabou: Shouseiroku and Nobunaga no Yabou: Shouseiroku - Power Up Kit. |
| Seven Years War | 1997-08-01 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | hq team | Strategy | Top-down | | War | | Steampunk | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Seven Years War is based on the historical conflict between Korea and Japan in the late 16th century. There are 20 missions which are divided in a Korean and a Japanese campaign. Similar to other real-time strategy games the workers harvest vegetables which are used to construct buildings. In turn these are used to build combat walking, swimming or flying combat units which are used to defeat the enemy.The game has its fair share of micromanagement because the player can only assign one construction order to each factory - he has to wait until the current order is complete before he can assign another one. The enemy gets reinforcements in regular time intervals in the form of airborne troops which are thrown into the player's base. |
| Hugo 5 | 1997-08-06 | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The evil witch Hexana kidnapped Hugo's family and he has to rescue them in simple jump´n Run similar games. This game contains four ported levels from the popular TV show:Level 1: Skydiving
Level 2: Sledding
Level 3: Climbing
Level 4: Pole runEndgame: Bounce chessboardIn every playthrough you have to beat (three levels which you choose before) and the endgame. Because the levels were created for a TV show were you had to control Hugo with your phone buttons, the controls are simple: Depending on the level there are just two or three buttons to press at the right time. |
| Tigershark | 1997-08-08 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | n-Space, Inc. | Action | Behind view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Tigershark is set in 2060, where a Russian commander is seeking to sink the entire Pacific tectonic plate by constructing geothermal taps in the ocean. Only the Tigershark, a powerful prototype attack subfoil (submarine-hydrofoil) can stop it. The Tigershark will encounter enemy submarines, hostile aircraft, and powerful battle cruisers in battles in both sea and air. Some missions require escorting ally submarines to safety. |
| Sky Target | 1997-08-14 | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Sega AM1 R&D Division | Action | Behind view | | | Arcade, Shooter | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Another 3rd person perspective arcade flight sim by Sega, similar to their classic After Burner in gameplay but featuring new gameplay mechanics and an entirely polygonal engine.As in most games of it's type your objective is to clear a number of stages by shooting anything that moves, but at the end of each stage you can select where to go next thanks to branching paths a-la Darius, which coupled with 4 different planes to select give the game an increased gameplay value. No multiple lives are given, but you get a life bar (which can be replenished in-flight) to help you outlast your enemies. |
| Dino Numbers | 1997-08-15 | DynoTech Software | DynoTech Software | Educational | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Dino Numbers is a shareware educational title featuring the characters Derik the Dinosaur and Rex the Tyrannosaurus. It is a single player game that teaches basic arithmetic for the age group 7-12.The story behind this game is that Rex the Tyrannosaurus is not good at maths because he plays around a lot. Rex is jealous of Derik the Dinosaur who, because he pays attention in class, is good at doing sums. Rex has followed Derik to his favourite farm and is trying to spoil his holiday by hiding all the milk and all the cows. The challenge is to recover all Derik's cow friends and record a high score.The game consists of a maze. The player must guide Derik around the maze until a cow or an obstacle like a haystack or a milk carton is encountered, at this point a maths puzzle is triggered. When a cow is located Rex appears and shows Derik, the player, a notepad with a maths problem on it, something like "12 x 11". Next to the notebook is a representation of a calculator and the player must enter answer to the maths problem by clicking on its keys. All cows must be freed to clear a level.The player faces a different kind of challenge when other obstacles are encountered. In the "Pick the correct equation" puzzle the player is presented with a picture of a barn which has six windows. Above each window is an equation of the kind '24 + 19 = 42' and the player must choose the window beneath the only correct equation. There is also a 'Solve The Word' puzzle where the problem is stated in text rather than numbers. This is only encountered on the hardest difficulty setting. The challenges score bonus points and are not necessary to complete the level. When the level is completed, i.e. all the cows have been freed, a harder level with more challenges is presented.The game uses the keyboard to move Derik and the mouse to solve the problems.
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| Dino Spell | 1997-08-15 | DynoTech Software | DynoTech Software | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Dino Spell is a shareware educational title featuring the characters Derik the Dinosaur and Rex the Tyrannosaurus. It is a single player game that teaches basic spelling for the age group 7-12.The story behind this game is similar to others in the Dino Trilogy. Rex the Tyrannosaurus is not good at spelling and is jealous of Derik the Dinosaur who, because he pays attention in class, can spell well. Rex and Derik both like apples and strawberries and Rex skipped school to hide them all. Derik can find them but he must answer a spelling question before he can eat what he's found. The challenge is to recover all the fruit and record a high score.The game consists of a maze. The player must guide Derik around the maze until some fruit or an obstacle like one of Rex' fake trees is encountered, at this point a spelling question is triggered. Rex appears when some fruit is found and shows Derik, the player, a 'Spell the Word' question. In this question the player is shown a list of words and a part completed word which is one of the words on the list. Their task is to type in the full word using the mouse and the on screen keyboard.The player faces a different kind of challenge when other obstacles are encountered. In the "Pick the Correct spelling" puzzle the player is presented with a collections of letters only one of which forms a correct word. These challenges score bonus points and are not necessary to complete the level. When the level is completed, i.e. all the fruit has been found, a harder level with more challenges is presented.The game uses the keyboard to move Derik and the mouse to solve the problems. |
| Dino Trilogy | 1997-08-15 | DynoTech Software | DynoTech Software | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Dino Trilogy is a collection of three shareware educational titles featuring the characters Derik the Dinosaur and Rex the Tyranosaurus. They areDino Match (a memory game for age group 5-9)
Dino Numbers (basic arithmetic for the age group 7-12)
Dino Spell (spelling game for for the age group 7-12) |
| Chenard | 1997-08-18 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Chess | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Chenard is a freeware, open source chess program. It can be played against the computer of varying difficulty, between two human players at the same computer, or watched as two computer opponents play against each other. The computer's playing strength can be specified before a match by either setting a time limit for making a decision for the next turn, or by specifying the strength level in plies.The program has several advanced, quality-of-life features, including the option to save and load the current in-game position by pressing F2 and F3, respectively, and the possibility to undo the current move by pressing Backspace.Chenard was released as freeware by its author along with the complete source code of the game. |
| Live or Die | 1997-08-18 | Fong Yuan Electronic & Audiovisual Press Co., Ltd | CR-Eagle | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Live or Die is a real-time strategy game about a war battle between good and evil that takes place in the future. Mankind frantically expands into outer space and fights for the scarce energy source (uranium) on which they depend for survival. You, Dr. Whiet, leads a team of miners to land on the desolate planet of Mimas, ready to carry out a mining plan, but they are surprised to find human footprints in a valley. You are not alone. The story begins here.You construct 3D pre-rendered buildings, mine resources and build army and air forces which are animated with 2D sprites to fight for what is yours on the alien planet. You need to wisely use what is at hand and carefully plan for your next move, searching for the answers to the mystery and conspiracy behind all this slaughters. |
| Barkanoid | 1997-08-20 | magnussoft Deutschland GmbH | Maiklsoft | Action | | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Barkanoid is a clone of the game Arkanoid. Although basic gameplay is the same, Barkanoid has 100 levels, 35 collectibles and more monsters.The Windows 3.x version is played in a window without a DirectX full-screen mode. |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 2 | 1997-08-22 | Sierra Coktel Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the September/October 1997 issue (Volume 2), and actually not till this issue the "available every second month" from the Volume 1 (June/July 1997) comes true. From now it's really every 2 months.The following two full version games are the title games:
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
The Even More! Incredible Machine
And as a bonus, the following additional full version game is included:
King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (the remake)
In addition, there are the following demos on the CD too: 3-D Ultra Minigolf, Lords of the Realm II, and Print Artist 3.On top of this, the Sierra Diving Adventure screensaver is also included on the CD.The special features in the magazine, which comes with the CD, are: a 6 pages long comic, which tells the background story of what happened from King's Quest 1 to King's Quest 6; two detailed Walkthroughs for both King's Quest games and 2 help pages for solving complex puzzles in The Even More! Incredible Machine; and an article about the upcoming King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, including an interview with Roberta Williams. |
| Es no Hōteishiki | 1997-08-22 | Abogado Powers | Abogado Powers | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Detective / mystery, Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | Es no Hōteishiki is the second game in the Detective Suzusaki series. The events described in the previous game, The Literary Fragment, led to a series of suicides, but the case was believed to be closed. But Kusanagi, the young brilliant psychologist and assistant of the famous detective Suzusaki, has now to face his own past. The traces lead to a remote village, which has seen nine mysterious, unsolved murders in eleven years. Soon, Kusanagi discovers a strange religious cult, that might shed some light on his past...Though the game focuses more on Kusanagi, it also features Suzusaki as the playable character during some scenes. The gameplay is similar to that of its predecessor, with point-and-click interface. The player clicks on various objects on the screen to read descriptions, conduct conversations, and advance the story. There are no puzzles in the game. The interaction is more reduced as opposes to the previous game, though there are still some moments when the player is able to make a decision that will have an effect on the next scenes. |
| Terracide | 1997-08-27 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Simis Limited | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | | Windows | A colony of ex-humans, having left Earth generations ago, are returning in gigantic dropships to destroy their former home world. Mutated by the harsh climates of their adopted planets, they have little in common with their human ancestors - and no problem blowing them away.Terracide was one of the first PC titles to support the advanced features of 3D graphics cards. The gameplay is very similar to the Descent series. |
| Zork: The Undiscovered Underground | 1997-08-28 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Adventure | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | This was a free game released by Activision to celebrate and promote their newest game, at the time, Zork: Grand Inquisitor. It is a text only adventure done in the style on the original Zork games.The year in 1066. You're a private, 7th class, in the Inquisition Guard. After getting relieved of your post at the Port Foozle Inquisition Gift Kiosk, you see the Pastor of Disaster, the Minister of Sinister, the Grand Inquisitor. It looks like he has a job for you. Yes, you. After asking about other, ANY other, guards to go instead, you have your orders. Sigh. Very well. Archaeologists have unearthed a tunnel that seems to lead to a new section of the Great Underground Empire or GUE. You are to enter this tunnel and explore the Great Underground Empire. You'll be back in no time. You hope. |
| Dōkyūsei 2 | 1997-08-29 | Game Box Co., Ltd. | Elf Co., Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | Dōkyūsei 2 is a classic "love adventure", a genre that is also referred to (quite erroneously) as "dating simulations". You are a high-school student, whose father is a famous archaeologist traveling around the world, and whose mother died when he was a child. It is now your third year at the 88 High School, and naturally, your primary concern is your love life. Will you be able to date successfully and to come to a happy ending with one of the fifteen lovely female classmates?The game mechanics are a lot like in a "standard" adventure game (examine objects, visit various locations, talk to people, make decisions), but the plot centers exclusively around your relationship with the girls. The game has its own internal clock. You can move around your character on a "city map", visiting different locations. Every visit takes 20-30 minutes of game time. You can make appointments and visit various places at a specific time. The decisions you make influence the story. |
| Moon Dragon | 1997-08-30 | Gaea Entertainment | Gaea Entertainment | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) | Fantasy | | Direct control, Menu structures | Turn-based | | Cinematic camera | Windows | Moon Dragon is an RPG in Japanese. The main characters Rune (ルーン) and Blair (ブレア) are searching for their missing father. Arriving in Kukuru village, the locals tell them about a terrible monster called the Dragoyle, which was magically sealed away for a long time, but managed to break free.The game features first person dungeon crawling, which proceeds mostly on rails with pre-rendered CGI videos, only taking decisions from the player when the path is branching. Battles follow the Active Time Battle system. Other than the dungeon crawling, the game does not feature many animations; enemies and NPCs are still images, sometimes with effects applied to them. Dialogues feature full voice acting, but no subtitles. |
| ABC Sports Monday Night Football '98 | 1997-09-01 | ABC Interactive | OT Sports L.L.C. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | ABC Sports Monday Night Football '98 improves the NFL live-action football of its predecessor with some new features.New is the Exhibition Mode which, like it sounds, lets you watch two teams of your choice play a full game. Returning are the Action Mode (now called League/Season Mode) and the Coach Mode. Creating and editing plays, and importing them for implementation, is still possible with an external program included with the game.You can also create completely new leagues and your own coach profiles, and choose randomly selected schedules or the default 1996-97 NFL schedule.Multiplayer and internet play have been updated. Play internet games through MPlayer or by setting up your system as a host. Co-op play is still available through modem or LAN. The manual contains over 100 pages. |
| Dark Reign: The Future of War | 1997-09-01 | Activision, Inc. | Auran Games Pty Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Dark Reign narrowly beat Total Annihilation as the first RTS to incorporate 3D movement and positioning. This increases the strategic advantage of hills and mountains.Each mission puts you in the role of the commander of either the Imperial army or the Freedom fighters in a campaign to undermine and eventually destroy the opposing force. This game has many unusual features for the RTS genre. AI patterns allow you to simply give a unit the order "Search and Destroy" and it will drive off towards the enemy's last known location, in search for something to kill. There is also an "explore" mode which lets your units do all the map exploration for you. A mission/campaign editor is also provided. |
| Deer Hunter | 1997-09-01 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sunstorm Interactive, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The first in a long-lasting series of hunting simulators, Deer Hunter puts the player in the role of a man (or woman) hunting the forest for deer. Players can choose between 3 different areas in the US: Arkansas, Colorado, and Indiana. Once arrived at the location, the game is a static first-person shooter experience. Players can turn left and right, but have no other choice of movement.In order to find and attract deer, the player can use one of several items; including the Deer Call, Antlers and Binoculars. Once a deer is spotted, it is up to the player to shoot it and take it down. Three different weapons are available which are: the Rifle with scope (easiest difficulty), the Shotgun (medium difficulty), and the Bow (hardest difficulty).After successfully killing a deer, its head will be transferred to the game's Trophy Room with statistics for size, area found, weapon used, etc. |
| Forced Alliance: The Glarious Mandate | 1997-09-01 | Ripcord Games | Orbital Studios | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | | Windows | Forced Alliance is a space combat simulation. In the game, you play a pilot who is a member of a unit founded to defend earth's population following a devastating alien attack. Other than space combat, the game features a system in which the consequences of your actions and promotion through the ranks change the outcome of the game. In addition, different combat strategies reward the player differently. |
| Kaitohranma | 1997-09-01 | Imagineer Co., Ltd. | ALLPOWERFUL CO., LTD. | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person, Side view | | | RPG elements, Visual novel | Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) | | | Meditative / Zen | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Kaitohranma is a warrior simulation game taking place in Japan during the Kyōhō era. The shogunate was going through a restructuring so all warriors had to earn income on their own. Players take the role of the son of a dojo owner who is meant to inherit it but lacks the necessary traits and skills. The dojo has lost most of its students so, apart from training, players will need to persuade the 3 remaining students to stay. Players must make money in order to pay for the training as the dojo's trainer has retired. Each trainer offers various special skills that the player can master.The game mixes the visual novel style gameplay during dialogues and a side-view perspective during training and fighting. The protagonist has no voice-acting, other characters feature voice-acting during dialogues. Training and fighting are done from a side view and can increase or decrease the player's stats. The player's skills and training are taken into consideration when they perform various moves in combat and a lack of training can cause players to miss their attacks. The aim of the game is to win tournaments and ultimately succeed as the owner of the dojo, as well as persuade the warriors that have left to return to the dojo. |
| Karma: Immortal Wrath | 1997-09-01 | SKC Soft Land | Dragonfly Co. Ltd. | Action, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | Karma: Immortal Wrath is an action game. Fight through the world of Eternal Karma with your party. Defeat zombies and monsters and solve riddles to save Bline, the kingdom of gods from destruction. |
| Privateer 2: The Darkening (Deluxe Edition) | 1997-09-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This special edition release of the game includes:
Privateer 2: The Darkening game
Limited edition poster
Embroidered squadron patch
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| Seafight | 1997-09-01 | Prism Leisure GmbH | TriNodE Entertainment Systems | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | In Seafight the player controls ships in action oriented sea fights. He has a choice between England, France, Spain or pirates and can play 15 missions on every side. There are four possible goals: sinking ships, neutralizing fortresses, conquering ports or defending ships. In principle these tasks are easy to accomplish - turning and firing aimed broadsides is that is needed. But in later levels the player has to control multiple ships and has to play attention to their course. There are also several obstacles on the map like rocks or maelstroms which can wreck a ship. The game is played with a combined mouse-keyboard control system. There is no installation on hard disc needed. |
| Hexen II | 1997-09-11 | Activision, Inc. | Raven Software Corporation | Action | 1st-person | | | RPG elements, Shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The world of Thyrion was continuously conquered by the demon brothers known as the Serpent Riders. After two of them were defeated, the oldest and most powerful of the three, Eidolon, is the only one that stands between slavery and liberation. A lone hero must first defeat his generals, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and finally bring the fight to Eidolon himself.Hexen II is the third game in the Heretic and Hexen series. Like its predecessors, it is a medieval fantasy-themed first-person shooter. Similarly to Hexen, the player can choose between different character classes - Paladin, Crusader, Assassin, and Necromancer (four as opposed to three in Hexen). These characters have different parameters and abilities, compelling the player to use different fighting styles when controlling them. The Paladin has high vitality and focuses on melee weapons; the Crusader is a defensive character who eventually acquires healing abilities; the Assassin gains access to a critical strike skill when sneaking on enemies; and the Necromancer is physically vulnerable but is eventually able to restore his powers from fallen enemies. Each character has access to four unique weapons during the course of the game. The player character travels to four stylistically distinct areas (medieval European, Mesoamerican, ancient Egyptian, and Greco-Roman). Each area is composed out of interconnected stages. Switch-manipulating and item-procuring puzzles must be usually solved in order to advance. It is often required to travel between stages several times in order to complete these tasks. Enemies do not respawn when the player re-enters an area. A new feature in the game compared to its predecessors are its role-playing elements. Each character has attributes which increase when the character gains experience by defeating monsters. Characters' hit points and mana are extended gradually and permanently when leveling up. They also gain new abilities at specific levels. Weapons can be powered up by acquiring Tomes of Power, unlocking alternate (usually more damaging) firing patterns for them. Since the ranged weapons in the game are magical, they deplete the player character's blue or green mana bars when used. Like health, these can be restored by finding appropriate recovery items. |
| Blue Heat | 1997-09-12 | Orion Interactive | Quarium Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Adult, Detective / mystery | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Based on the 1995 movie Cover Me, Blue Heat is a mature-themed, photo-realistic adventure game. The player assumes the role of Holly Jacobson, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who goes under cover to catch a serial killer preying on the sexy cover girls of LA Erotica Magazine. Several have already been murdered and many others are in danger.The game takes players in the steamy world of erotic dancers, Mafia thugs, fashion photographers, drug dealers, religious zealots and seductive models. As Holly, players will talk with other characters, determine who has an alibi for the previous murders, gather evidence to send to the lab and read information inside her PDA. Eventually enough information will be discovered to pin-point the identity of the killer. Ultimately the player will participate in a "sting" to expose and catch the murderer.Gameplay is point-and-click in first person, with movie-like quality video cutscenes and orchestrated music. Navigation to different locations is handled with an area map. Within the gameplay screen, move around using an arrow cursor which changes shape on interactive spots.Blue Heat has several different endings depending upon which conversation paths have been chosen as well as the evidence submitted for lab analysis. |
| Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1997-09-12 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Getting into Starfleet involves passing a knowledge exam, and also demonstrating your space combat and command skills. It is this side of the Academy which features in this game. You play aspiring captain David Forester, backed by a wealthy and friendly crew: Sturek, M'Giia, Robin Brady and Corin. The action is similar in style to TIE Fighter, with the action viewed form your cockpit and full flight dynamics in action. Missions include taking on Klingons and Romulans, and dealing with a Vanguard rebellion from within. Before every mission, the briefing is given to you in a lecture style where you can find out what to expect, and reduce the number or surprises. William Shatner and Walter Koenig reprise their Star Trek characters for these. |
| Cherry Slots Fever | 1997-09-14 | Lampron Software | Lampron Software | Gambling | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Cherry Slots Fever is a single player, mouse controlled slot machine game.This game models an old fashioned three reel one-armed bandit with a single win line. It is played with the mouse and the player may either use the mouse to put coins in the slot and pull the handle or they can click on buttons to place their bet and spin the reels.If the player wins a lot of cash, or loses everything they can use Lampron's ATM, a common feature in Lampron Software's games, to deposit cash or take out a loan, alternatively they can start a new game.The game has save/load feature and the music & sounds can be disabled. The in-game help feature opens in a new window. |
| Joker's Wild Poker | 1997-09-14 | Lampron Software | Lampron Software | Gambling | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Joker's Wild Poker is a single player, mouse controlled video poker gameThe basic game here is five card draw poker with wild jokers in the pack. Players use the mouse to manually put coins in the slot, or alternatively they can click on buttons to place their bet. As is common to many of Lampron Software's games there's always a handy ATM machine option so if the player wins a lot of cash they can make a deposit, or if they lose everything they can take out a loan which is an alternative to starting a new game.The game has save/load feature, in-game statistics, and sounds which can be disabled. The in-game help feature opens in a new window. |
| Patriot Slots | 1997-09-14 | Lampron Software | Lampron Software | Gambling | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Patriot Slots is a single player, mouse controlled, slot machine game.This game models an old, three reel, one-armed bandit with a single payout line. Players can either use the mouse to pull the handle and put coins into the machine or they can use the buttons below the reels to achieve the same effect. This machine has a novel twist not often found in slot machine games. Some symbols have rockets on them which either point up or down. These come into effect if the reels have stopped and the player has not won, if there are any symbols with a downward pointing rocket just above the payline then those symbol will move down onto the payline, the same happens to any symbols below the payline with an upward pointing rocket. The game also pays out should there be no symbols on the payline.The game has sound, a save/load feature, in-game statistics and variable stakes. Like many of Lampron Software's casino games Patriot Slots has a handy ATM machine option so if the player loses everything they can take out a loan or, should they win some cash wins they can make a deposit or pay off their loan.
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| D.A.: Pursuit of Justice | 1997-09-15 | Legacy Software | Legacy Software | Adventure, Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This is the retail bundle of all three D.A.: Pursuit of Justice cases previously only available from the Legacy Software website separately. The package contains a total of 8 CD-ROMs.The Cases are:
The Sunset of the Boulevard Deuce (2 CDs)
The Gatsby Diamond Jewelry Theft (3 CDs)
The Rat Tattoo Murder (3 CDs)You play a California Assistant District Attorney whose ultimate goal is to gather the appropriate evidence and then win the cases in court. |
| Legal Crime | 1997-09-15 | Byte Enchanters Inc. | Byte Enchanters Inc. | Strategy | | | | | Interwar | | Marko Haaja | | | Isometric | Windows | Legal Crime is a real-time strategy game that casts you as the Godfather of a crime empire in the prohibition era. You start by extorting money from businesses, while bribing the police will later allow you to upgrade them to more lucrative illegal enterprises: alcohol, gambling, prostitution. Bribing the army allows you to recruit better gangsters, including snipers, Tommy-gun men and Cadillacs. If you put some Tommy-gun men into a Cadillac, you can even have drive-by shootings. With the right bribes, you can gather information about your enemy or enemies (i.e. the rival gangs), have their gangsters arrested or recruited as snitches or turncoats, their businesses raided or even demolished, or rumors about their death spread. Winner, of course, is the last one who remains in business. |
| MDK: Mission Laguna Beach | 1997-09-15 | Playmates Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Shiny Entertainment, Inc. | Action, Special edition | 1st-person, Behind view | | Comedy | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | Real-time | | Cinematic camera | Windows | MDK: Mission Laguna Beach is a shorter version (has only one level, called 'Laguna Beach') of the original MDK game, bundled with the (European version of the) Matrox m3D 3D accelerator card based on the VideoLogic PowerVR PCX2 3D chip.MDK: Mission Laguna Beach uses the PowerSGL API and works only on PowerVR PCX2 based cards (Matrox m3D, Videologic Apocalypse 3Dx, Videologic Apocalypse 5D, Videologic Apocalypse 5D Sonic, NEC PC 3DEngine2, Aristo Power VR1). The original/full MDK game also received a PowerSGL patch for PowerVR PCX2 cards. |
| New Horizons | 1997-09-19 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | | Naval / watercraft | | | | | Windows | In the first Uncharted Waters game, it was the 15th century and the New World was discovered. Now in New Horizons, it is the early 16th century and the age of exploration and sea trade is underway. Players choose from any one of six adventurers (scenarios), each with their own distinctive but intertwining plot, to embark on a quest of sailing, seamanship and exploration. The six characters are:João Franco is the son of Duke Leon Franco, the hero of the first Uncharted Waters game and an influential man in Portugal. His father wants to make him into a strong man and so decides to send him out to sea. Young Joao is tasked with learning the skills of the sailor (he is the only character who starts at level one) and embarking on a quest of discovery; reaching the far east and eventually looking for the secret of Atlantis.
Catalina Erantzo is a Spanish naval officer who believes her beloved and her brother were both murdered by the Portuguese armada. Vowing revenge she turns to a life of piracy and soon becomes a red haired scourge of the seas.
Pietro Conti is a indebted man, having inherited the financial woes of the Conti family. When the Duchess Franco hires him to spy on her son, he accepts the job and obtains a ship. Pietro hopes to use these resources to seek out valuable treasure and clear up his family's debt.
Ernst Von Bohr is a geographer who is teaching classes in Holland. He yearns to leave the classroom and sail the high seas, living a life of adventure that he has only read about in books. When his friend, Mercator offers to finance his initial voyage in exchange for cartography information about the world, Ernst is given the opportunity to live out his dream.
Ali Vezas is a poor orphaned child living in Istanbul and serving others. He dreams of becoming his own master and making his own fortune across foreign lands. A twist of fate aides in providing him with small loans, with which he is able to afford his first ship and sail out with a cargo hold full of goods...
Otto Baynes styles himself a Royal Knight of the British Empire, in the service of his majesty the king. Promoted to Admiral of the British fleet, the kingdom is worried about the increased naval power of Spanish fleets. Otto is given a letter of marque by the king and ordered to terrorize the Spanish Fleet. Equipping himself simply at first, Otto strives to become a great privateer in the name of king and country.Regardless of the character chosen, Uncharted Waters: New Horizons is a top-down sailing simulation. At sea, players control the direction of their ship, where speed is affected by the number/health of the crew, the wind and the currents. Players can navigate anywhere there is water (though some ships are not ocean worthy) and discover interesting landmarks and new ports. Upon landing at a port, the view is also top-down and the player can enter different buildings, each with unique services and goods. These include: the Inn, the Item Shop, the Shipyard, the Tavern, the Castle, the Guild Hall, the Church, the Merchant and the Harbor. It's up to the player to earn enough gold to keep the crew fed and financed and keep the fleet repaired. Primary methods of earning money are through sea trade, accepting jobs from the guild, gambling and battle with other ships.During naval combat, the game becomes a turn-based top-down strategy game, with the player moving ships in order to obtain trajectories needed to fire cannons at enemy ships, or run alongside enemy vessels in order to board them. If the player's flagship attacks the flagship of the enemy fleet, they can challenge the opponent to a duel. If accepted, the game changes to a side-view of the two captains engaged in a fight. During this sequence, the player can only choose which fighting maneuver (strike, thrust, parry, lash) they wish to engage in. |
| Borodino: The Science of Winning | 1997-09-22 | 1C Company | 1C Company | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Wargame | Europe, Historical events | | Direct control | Real-time, Turn-based | | | Windows | Historical wargame based on military operations that took place during the invasion of the Great Army of Napoleon in Russia in 1812. It includes 21 missions in different locations; each mission can be payed as French or Russian army. Based game mode is turn based, but there is also ability to play game in real-time mode. Game is also features in-game encyclopedia with is based on set of postcards dedicated to the uniform and armament of the war of 1812. |
| Mageslayer | 1997-09-24 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Raven Software Corporation | Action | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | Mature | | Windows | A millennium has passed since the stronger Mageslayer clans betrayed Lord Thane and the Clan of Knowledge. Now Lord Thane is ready to take revenge on the clans that refused to help him against the mages. He's gathered the relics of the StarStone and placed them under the protection of his minions. But his enemies have joined forces and sent the best warrior of each of the four remaining clans to fight back.In this top-down 3D action game you play the role of any of the warriors chosen among the remaining clans. |
| NHL 98 | 1997-09-24 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down, Top-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | NHL 98 features much faster and refined gameplay (now using four action keys instead of two, removing the need to double-tap to perform some actions), along other new features such as "in-the-fly" tactics developed by Marc Crawford, then manager of the Colorado Avalanche and new commentary lines from Jim Hughson and Darryl Reaugh and a re-worked interface.
Graphics are improved from the previous version with the players being less angular, and thanks to 3Dfx support, with less pixels showing in the textures. The in-game presentation follows a TV-style script, zooming in players while displaying stats during clock stoppages.As far as game modes go, in the year of the first Olympic Tournament with professional players, NHL 98 introduced the first real international competition, with 18 International teams to choose from. Other game modes include Season (option to pick between 25 or 82 games) and Playoff (best of 1, 3, 5 or 7 matches) and a Penalty Shootout mode. |
| New Beetle Tracks and Gaps | 1997-09-24 | Volkswagen | BBDO Interactive GmbH | Puzzle | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | New Beetle Tracks and Gaps is a German-only promotional game for the New Beetle.It is a modified remake of Stone Age, in which you must get your new yellow Beetle from one end of the map to the other using movable platforms and setting them up in advance to make the journey possible. The movable platforms will move only to the direction pointed by arrows marked on them (up, down, left, right, up and down, left and right and all four directions). Some levels will also display keys (sometimes cards or tools) required to unlock some passages. Some blocks will crumble after the player passes over them and some other will work as teleporters.Each level has a time limit to be completed, and the lesser time the player takes, the more points he earns. The player has 5 lives and each level has a password. |
| Ultima Online | 1997-09-24 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy | | | Persistent | Mature | | Windows | The first game to popularize the Persistent Online World, Ultima Online is a online RPG world that borrows its story from the Ultima series of games. Gamers create their virtual citizens of Britannia to follow a multitude of paths. The game is open-ended to provide all flavors of an RPG, whether it be a warrior, mage, or merchant. The game is presented top-down, and the game world is broken up of a huge mainland, and a number of islands. Just like in most RPGs, characters are advanced through skill, gained by fighting monsters in dungeons, or practicing a craft (or both).Magic is done by collecting "reagents". The mage's skill determines what level of spell he/she can cast. A huge variety of spells and potions are available.Items and weapons of almost every kind populate the land. The game uses gold currency to carry out transactions. Trades can also be conducted between players. The game cost $10 a month to play. There are a variety of servers to play on, each allowing you to have 5 characters. Constant updates are made available to further enhance the product. |
| LEGO Island | 1997-09-26 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person | Licensed | | Sandbox / open world | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Lego Island is an action adventure game designed for younger players. The game is played from a first-person perspective as one of several characters on the island. The island is a three-dimensional world with a lot of Lego inhabitants for you to interact with.As you travel from place to place, you will find numerous points where you can assemble small vehicles from Lego pieces. Once the car, ambulance, jet ski, or whatever is assembled, you can use it to travel around the island. Some vehicles are used in races on the Island's race tracks as well.In addition to exploring the Island, there is a storyline involving the Brickster, a mean guy who likes to disassemble lego buildings. By interacting with other characters and performing tasks around the Island, the player eventually puts the Brickster in jail. |
| Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny | 1997-09-27 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Action RPG, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | In her quest for power and revenge, the witch Scotia accidentally set into motion the revival of Belial, God of Evil. With her dying breath, Scotia gave her son Luther her mighty powers of shapeshifting, but through an error Luther received the powers in a damaged form: he cannot control when he changes or what he changes into. Things aren't easy for Luther: not only is he cursed with his mother's power, but the people of the Lands are understandably upset with Scotia and will attempt to take their frustration out on her son. With his mother's magic and a little help from the Draracle, an ancient being watching for signs of Belial's resurrection, Luther must find a cure for his curse and eventually stop Belial.Guardians of Destiny is the sequel to Throne of Chaos and the second installment in the Lands of Lore series. Unlike its predecessor, it is an action RPG which occurs in real-time 3D (much like Daggerfall) rather than in grid-based environments. Luther is the only player-controlled character in the game and can freely move around, attack in all directions, jump, and crouch. The game features numerous video sequences featuring computer graphics and live action.Luther's unique ability are his transformation powers, allowing him to morph into a powerful humanoid beast or a lizard. Though eventually the player gains control over them, initially these transformations occur at random. The beast form is stronger and able to smash obstacles on his way, but the lizard is more agile, can cast magic and access areas restricted to other shapes. Only Luther's native shape, however, is able to use weapons, both melee and range ones.Unlike most role-playing games, experience points are not awarded directly for vanquishing enemies. Rather, Luther's weapon and magic proficiencies increase and reach higher levels the more the player uses correspondent combat styles. Typically, only defeating more powerful foes contributes to this growth. The player can also combine items to create new ones, and enhance Luther's weapons with them (e.g. making a poison sword). There are elements of puzzle-solving, optional areas, as well as moral decisions that influence the game's ending. |
| Total Annihilation | 1997-09-27 | Cavedog Entertainment | Cavedog Entertainment | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | It is 4000 years in the future, and the epic battle between the Arm and the Core has devastated the galaxy. Both sides fight on with super-advanced technology, from plasma guns to giant robots to sonar jammers. The only acceptable outcome is total victory.You, as the Commander of either Arm or Core, must build up your base to destroy the other side, in a game developing the ideas of Command & Conquer. Unlike earlier titles in the genre, it uses a 3D world in which elevation changes have an effect.Mission objectives range from taking out specific targets to rescuing hostages to capturing the enemy base and using it in the next mission. Usually you must construct a base, although in some missions you lead an attacking force.Unlike other strategy games, however, you start out with the Commander, the game's most powerful unit, and must defend him at all costs. Resource collection is very quick and easy, since a single unit can extract metal indefinitely from a mine without ever having to return to your base, while options for producing energy include solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power, geothermal power, and fusion power. |
| Atlantis: The Lost Tales | 1997-09-30 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The advanced city design of Atlantis shows that a fully-fledged society must've functioned there, and this adventure game brings it to life. Queen Rhea is the leader who is under threat, and young Seth is the character you control as he aims to save the day. How can he know who to trust, and who has their own agenda in this complex world?The world of Atlantis is displayed in fully-rotational full-screen 3D comprising of millions of polygons and full lip-synching using a proprietary system. Listen out for sounds of danger - sometimes they are the first warning you get.There are 5 different continents to explore, and each has its own cultures. In total there are 50 characters you will interact with, and puzzles using an inventory system. Save points are limited by the game. |
| Claw | 1997-09-30 | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Captain Claw, also called "The Surveyor of the Seven Seas", is an infamous and successful pirate. The feats of Nathaniel Joseph Claw are legendary as is his ability to slip out of situations and find treasure. Frustrated, the Cocker-Spaniard Kingdom issues a gigantic reward of one million gold pieces for the Captain's capture. This attracts legions of bounty hunters to Claw's tail, and eventually he is captured by Captain Le Reux and imprisoned at La Roca. However, even in prison, Claw's luck continues to work, as he stumbles across an old letter from Edward Tobin containing the location of the "Amulet of Nine Lives", a mystical item said to grant near-immortality. Inspired by this new challenge, Captain Claw manages to break out of his prison cell and embarks on a perilous journey.Claw is a side-scrolling platform game in which the player must complete a linear set of stages, some of which culminate with boss battles. Environments include indoor and outdoor areas - city streets, forest, a large ship, underwater, and others. Each stage has two save points. Claw can move left and right, jump and stab his sword directly in front of him. His offensive arsenal includes, beside the sword, a pistol with expendable ammunition, dynamite bombs, and a special ability called "Magic Claw", which allows the feline hero to hurl projectiles at the enemies. Many hazards await the Captain on his journey, including traps, spikes sticking out from the floor, bottomless pits, and others. Overcoming these hazards often requires the player to time the protagonist's jumps, hop on moving or disappearing platforms, swing on vines and ropes, etc.Additional power-ups may be found, such as invincibility, the ability to fire projectiles from the sword, and others. Along with power-ups, various treasures are scattered around the levels and can be collected for points, which eventually increase the amount of the player character's lives. The most valuable treasure and power-ups are usually located in places that are hard to access, requiring the player to overcome particularly challenging hazards. A variety of enemies will seek to defeat Claw and end his quest. Many of them serve the Cocker-Spaniard crown and are, as such, canine warriors of different types. Others inhabit the areas Claw traverses and will usually attack him on sight. Certain enemies, such as most of the dogs, use weapons similar to those wielded by Claw, and will duel him. Boss battles often require figuring out a specific way to defeat the foe and may include puzzle-solving elements.Animated cartoon-style cutscenes tell the story between levels, setting the stage for Captain Claw's adventure. A level editor is also included, which allows players to create their own levels and import new ones that others have made. |
| Dark Angael | 1997-09-30 | Vicarious Visions, Inc. | Vicarious Visions, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic | | | | | | Windows | Dark Angael is a 2D run-and-gun platform game with a mystical fantasy theme. In this game you play as Carina, the Dark Angael. Thanks to Azrael the world has been plunged in total chaos and the end is near. It is up to you to defeat Azrael and his army of demons. Carina has to fend off the demon's with the various weapons she finds or she can rely on her superpowers. Carina can come into the possession of five super powers that increase her combat abilities. These super powers are the Mutator which allows you to transform medkits into ammo and vice versa, Psychic Attack for maximum damage, Reflection to reflect enemy lasers, Teleport Coin to teleport directly to where you throw it, and Energy Wave that damages all enemies near you.Along the way the player will meet various NPCs with whom he can talk lengthy dialogues. This is necessary to find passages in the levels that lead to hidden worlds.Carina can move and jump using the keyboard and you aim her weapons with the mouse.Multi-player modes include Death Match. |
| Postal | 1997-09-30 | Ripcord Games | RWS, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | Horror | Shooter | | | | | Mature | Isometric | Windows | You've just gone off the deep end, and in your deeply demented mind, you've decided that this little peaceful town no longer needs peace and quiet. You gather your arsenal as you plan your next move...Postal is best described as a three-quarter view isometric shooter with a disturbing theme. Instead of shooting at demons, monsters, bad guys and terrorists, your targets are typical citizens like a high school marching band, ordinary pedestrians, and even Santa Claus! You are provided with an arsenal of diverse weapons to choose from, ranging from good old fashioned guns to flame throwers. |
| Sega Worldwide Soccer '97 | 1997-09-30 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | Team Aquila | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Well, it's a soccer game made by Sega but with an arcade-like style of gameplay. So the handling is kept pretty straight-forward: one button for a shot towards the enemy goal (from any position on the field), one for passing to teammates and one for lobbing. But simple doesn't mean limited since a couple of things are not explained in the manual and you'll have to figure them out yourself, which can take some time.
You can choose between dozens of national teams from all over the world. Player names are made up since there's no Fifa license or anything but they're editable if you feel like correcting that. Game modes include Exhibition, Tournament, League or World Cup. You can play either versus the CPU, vs. up to 2 human players or even coop (2 humans vs. the CPU or other 2 humans). |
| Aquazone | 1997-10-01 | Umbrella Software | 9003inc. | Simulation | Side view | | | Life / social simulation, Sandbox / open world | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Aquazone is a simulation of an aquarium. The player can customize the aquarium with different backdrops, accessories and sorts of gravel and then add fishes and plants to create a living ecosystem. The fish will swim around the screen, eat and grow and ultimately die. To ensure the wellbeing of the tank's inhabitants the player has to feed and medicate the fishes, change the water, clean the filter and maintain an appropriate temperature. If taken care of the fish will breed, lay eggs and give birth to new life. There are four different fish species in the US version with a total of fifty individual fishes each with its own characteristics. At the time of release more species could be acquired through an online store. |
| Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror | 1997-10-01 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Revolution Software Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Contemporary, Europe, South America | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror is the sequel to Circle of Blood and the second game in the Broken Sword series. The player alternately controls George Stobbart, the protagonist of the first game, and Nicole Collard, the French journalist he met in the first game and who has since become his girlfriend. The game starts with George witnessing the kidnapping of Nicole. This event eventually leads to an investigation into a conspiracy revolving around a forthcoming solar eclipse and the evil Aztec god Tezcatlipoca. The locations visited throughout the game include Paris, Marseilles, London, Quaramonte, the jungle, a Caribbean environment, and a zombie island. Certain locations from the previous game make a return.The game is entirely in 2D and gameplay is in typical point-and-click fashion. The player moves the character around using the mouse, examines the environment, talks to other people, and collect items stored in an inventory. These items need to be used or combined with other items to solve puzzles. |
| Byzantine: The Betrayal | 1997-10-01 | Discovery Channel Multimedia | Stormfront Studios | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Byzantine: The Betrayal is a first-person adventure game in which the player takes the role of an American journalist, summoned to the city of Istanbul by an old college friend with the promise of a once in a lifetime story. By the time the player arrives police are already on the scene, his old friend, Emre, has run away. Players must use their investigative skills in order to uncover the secret he struggled, but failed, to reveal. Failure could mean death.The game plays in a typical first-person adventure fashion, providing 360º of freedom of movement around the player, as well as the ability to look up and down. Locations are presented as static images and talking is handled similar to that in the Tex Murphy series, with live cast and photo realistic surroundings. The game incorporates details of Turkey's history, as well as that of Southeastern Europe and so the player will have to make use of an abnormal piece of technology to investigate through the past and save yourself in the present, uncovering the secrets that lie behind Emre's disappearance. |
| Grand Theft Auto (Limited Edition) | 1997-10-01 | BMG Interactive Entertainment | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This limited edition includes:
Grand Theft Auto
Soundtrack disc |
| Grant - Lee - Sherman: Civil War 2: Generals | 1997-10-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Grant - Lee - Sherman: Civil War 2: Generals expanded its earlier title, Robert E. Lee: Civil War General. Battle as the boys in blue or gray in the Mississippi Valley or on the Atlantic Coast. Play an individual battle, a mini-campaign or the entire war. Create your own customized battlefields with the new terrain editor, and challenge foes around the world to Internet, modem, or network war. The game features turn-based play on a hex map and artwork by Mort Künstler. |
| Grossology | 1997-10-01 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Appaloosa Interactive Corporation | Action, Educational, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz, Pinball | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | After signing a document held by a man who is mostly nose you will meet your guide Ginger Vitis. Soon appear the nine teachers of Grossology all with blunt paranomasic names. These tutors are masters of the art of “Stealth Learning,” In other words they mask biology in children’s love of the gross.
There are nine different “lesson” areas each with it’s own fitting teacher and game as seen below:
Zit Attack Game: A Tetris clone with... zits.
Booger Block Game: Shirly Snotgrass has snot dripping from her humungous nose, stop them before they reach her mouth.
The Drool Show Game: Find out which food will make the teachers mouth water.
Burp-O-Rama Game: Listen to the burp pattern and the repeat it.
Dr. Sleuth Game: Diagnose patients from what they say, how they look and whats on your handy medical chart.
Poo-Poo Pinball: Explanation required? You play a pinball machine/large intestine.
Don't Pee Your Pants: Build a tube for Tommys urine before its to late!
What A Wound Game: Heal you instructors wound by playing a game of Othello in a open gash in his arm. Instead of Black vs White, its White Blood cells vs Germs.
Something Special In The Air: A game of concentration involving the appropriate (inappropriate?) subject matter.
You can also create and play music using human organs as instruments, print out crossword puzzles, listen to bizarre sing-alongs (Hydrogen Peroxide! It makes my wounds burn!), Encyclopedia of Gross Terms, browse a gallery of clip art, Recipes (i.e. Make you own snot!) and even get your diploma as a Grossologist. |
| Juxto | 1997-10-01 | Soleau Software, Inc. | Soleau Software, Inc. | Puzzle | | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Juxto is a single player, logic puzzle from Soleau Software. The puzzles are set on an 8x8 grid onto which have been placed crates and coloured shapes, also in the grid is a blue square and it is this which the player controls via the arrow keys on the numeric keypad. Using the blue square the player pushes the shapes around the grid, positioning them so that they can be dropped into the correct place below the grid. The shapes, once pushed in one direction, will continue to move in that direction until they either hit another object, hit the side of the game area, or drop off the bottom of the grid.The shareware game has fifteen puzzles while the full game has one hundred and one., the levels are not timed and can be played in any order |
| NBA Action 98 | 1997-10-01 | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Visual Concepts Entertainment, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | Released | Windows | Sega's first attempt at Basketball on the PC includes plenty of neat visuals; realistic AI and motion capture work; official licenses of the NBA including players, teams and courts; practice mode to help you get used to your team; and a multiplayer mode (for up to 5 players on one computer). You can also create your own team and players in the edit mode, in case you don't like what the NBA offers. |
| NHL Powerplay 98 | 1997-10-01 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Radical Entertainment Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | NHL Powerplay 98 is a hockey game where the player can control a team of his choice to bring it to victory and glory. The game modes are the typical genre choices: Either a whole NHL season, the NHL playoffs or a league with 15 national teams. The team logos and player names are official licensed but in contrast to NHL 98 it uses the data from 1996/1997.The gameplay itself is more action oriented than a simulation and uses several shooting and pass variations which are activated with more or less complicated key combinations. Six camera angles and a instant replay feature complement the TV atmosphere. The game also features several tactical possibilities. For eight game situations the player can choose between three behaviours, e.g. how the players set up shots in the offensive zone. During the season there is a option to trade players with other teams. Extensive mid-season statistics, which can be shown for every team in the league, help planning transfers and tactics. |
| Panzer General II | 1997-10-01 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Turn-based strategy | Africa, Europe, Historical events, North America, World War II | Tank | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Panzer General II is a turn-based strategy game set in World War II, with scenarios set in Eastern and Western Europe, North Africa and even an alternate 'what-if' scenario set in the USA. |
| Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain | 1997-10-01 | THQ Inc. | Heliotrope Studios | Strategy | Top-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Tony Ceddia | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This game is mix between Master of Orion and Imperium Galactica II. You can be one of many races, each with advantages and disadvantages. The whole game is very customizable, from allowing you to customize galaxy size to designing your own ships. |
| Psychic Detective Series Vol.4: Orgel | 1997-10-01 | Data West | Data West | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | One day a mysterious woman clad in mourning dress appears in the office of Katsuya Furuyagi, a private investigator who possesses a unique ability to journey into the minds of people. The woman has a strange request that makes Furuyagi doubt her sanity. For generations, a beautiful doll has been in the possession of her family; however, recently it has disappeared, and the woman is convinced the culprit is the devil himself. Furuyagi travels to the countryside where he begins to investigate this unusual mystery, determined to find out the truth.Orgel plays similarly to previous installment in the Psychic Detective series. The bulk of the game is occupied by conversations with characters, which often involve talking about various topics, gathering information. There are no puzzles, but pieces of evidence can be collected, stored, and viewed as inventory items. The interaction with the game world is menu-based. |
| S40 Racing | 1997-10-01 | Digital Illusions CE AB | Digital Illusions CE AB | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | S40 Racing is a promotional game for the Volvo S40. It lets you drive the S40 over two courses against either the AI opposition or friends over a LAN. Two game modes are available a standard race where you race against seven opponents, and time attack where you have the race course for yourself. For each race you can set up whether you want manual transmission or not, and who many laps the race should be, from one to twenty. Gameplay is similar to the Toca series, although it doesn't focus as much on realism as those games |
| Temüjin | 1997-10-01 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | At the beginning of the 13th century, the Mongolian Empire was united by Genghis Khan, whose real name was Temüjin. At his death, he was buried with some mystical artifacts, one of which supposedly contained a dark and evil power. Time has passed and the tomb has remained undisturbed, until archaeologists recover the artifacts and put them on display at the Stevenson Museum. Slowly the powers of the artifacts begin to reawaken...Temüjin is a first-person adventure game, notable for its use of live-action full motion video and 360-degrees movement. The player begins in the lobby of the Stevenson Museum without any clue as to how they got there or their identity. Worse, the player is unable to speak, even though different people wander through the exhibit halls. The player travel through the halls, controlled in 360-degrees movement. The player will encounter items, which can be picked up and manipulated as well as different people who can be interacted with in various fashions. Various puzzles relating to the Mongols and the exhibits must be solved, over seven episodes, in order to complete the game. |
| The X-Fools: The Spoof is out There | 1997-10-01 | Palladium Interactive, Inc. | Parroty Interactive | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | Comedy, Detective / mystery | Arcade | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The X-Fools: The Spoof is out There is a parody on the popular 1990s TV series "The X-Files". The X-Fools presents itself as a series of mini games and gimmicks with catchy names such as "Abduct This!" where the player controls a UFO that has to abduct things with its tractor beam and the trivia game "Trust No One". "Run Agent Run!" is a Pac-Man clone in which the ghosts are replaced with the villains and aliens from the show and the Power Pills have become ammunition for your weapon.Aside from the mini games there are historical photos you can zoom in on to uncover conspiracy theories, an evidence locker with items from the TV show, video footage from paranormal occurrences, spoofed documents about important X-Files characters and other familiar TV shows secretly featuring aliens. |
| Young Dilbert Hi-Tech Hijinks | 1997-10-01 | KnowWonder, Inc. | KnowWonder, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | | Licensed | Comedy | | | | | | | | Windows | Young Dilbert Hi-Tech Hijinks takes kids inside the guts of the computer and helps them develop critical thinking skills by solving technology-oriented puzzles and challenges. This software integrates hilarious situations (which kids can understand) with technology. By playing the multi-level activities, kids can learn more about computer viruses, help files, hard drives, surfing the Net, and computer components. Although he doesn't live in a cubicle like the real Dilbert, kids get to explore Young Dilbert's bedroom - a virtual animated playground of computers, software and other techie stuff. Don't step on that pocket protector, and watch out for the CD-ROM by the foot of the bed!.. |
| Age of Empires (Demo Version) | 1997-10-03 | Microsoft Corporation | Ensemble Studios Corporation | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Classical antiquity, Historical events | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | The public trial version of Ensemble Studios' Age of Empires features an exclusive campaign, Reign of the Hittites. A branch of the Indo-European migration into Asia Minor, the historical Hittites eventually rose above the bloody power struggle within the ranks of their own royalty to build a superpower of the ancient world that would rival the mighty Egyptian Empire. Over the course of five scenarios, the campaign roughly follows the history of the Hittite kingdom from its humble beginnings, culminating with the Battle of Kadesh, which is is possibly the earliest well-documented large-scale battle of antiquity. The technology tree is limited to the Bronze Age in the trial version.In addition, the trial version contains another campaign called Armies at War, A Combat Showcase, the purpose of which is to demonstrate large, spectacular battles that are possible within the game. This campaign consists of a single Egyptian scenario called The Bronze Age Art of War, which does not follow any particular real historical event. Instead, the player's objective is to overpower enemy Greek forces with the army that is given at the beginning of the scenario, and then destroy the Greek Government Centre. Settlement construction and reinforcements are not available.The trial version of Age of Empires supports multiplayer games and includes one 8-player scenario, Multiplayer Rumble. Also supplied are the full electronic manual for the game, as well as printable technology tree tables for all twelve civilizations that are playable in the retail version. |
| Warlords III: Reign of Heroes | 1997-10-08 | Red Orb Entertainment | Strategic Studies Group Pty Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | RPG elements, Wargame | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Hordes of undead have overrun the Selentine Empire, leaving utter devastation and chaos in their wake. Now, powerful Warlords arise to contend for power and build a new empire. Zombies, skeletons, and other unspeakable beings battle against heroes, warriors, and mercenaries representing humankind’s last hope. In Warlords III: Reign of Heroes, the player is in command of mighty armies, led by Heroes who have been endowed with unique military qualities. Through a use of superior military force, and the discovery of abilities that will enhance the attack and defense values of Heroes and those armies traveling with them, the player must crush all opponents on the map until none but his own are left standing.This game is the forerunner to Warlords III: Darklords Rising, which offers all the same gameplay as Reign of Heroes, but adds much more, including new features and functionality. Warlords III: Reign of Heroes lacks the five new hero classes, new spells, new armies, new abilities for those armies, four new campaigns, and the game editors found in Warlords III: Darklords Rising. |
| Fallout | 1997-10-09 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | | | Post-apocalyptic | | Point and select | Real-time, Turn-based | Mature | | Windows | A devastating nuclear war had wiped out almost the entire population of the Earth. The civilization, as we know it, has been destroyed. The Earth has become a huge wasteland populated by mutated creatures. Only small number of humans survived and they formed communities living on the surface, where they mostly scavenge what remains from the pre-war civilization. Some lucky people managed to reach safety of the Vaults, huge underground dwellings, during the war. Recently, the water purification controller chip in Vault 13 broke. Without clean water, the people of the Vault cannot survive. One person is sent to find a replacement chip and ventures outside to face a dangerous world, hoping to return within a hundred and fifty days.Fallout is a role-playing game that utilizes a character development system called S.P.E.C.I.A.L., an acronym formed from the first letters of the game's basic character attributes: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. In addition to having these attributes, the protagonist can also learn and improve skills, as well as acquire traits and perks. Skill points are awarded when the player character levels up; traits are assigned during character creation, while perks are obtained every three character levels. There are eighteen different skills in the game, divided into combat, active, and passive categories. Combat skills include weapon proficiencies (e.g. small and big guns, melee, etc.); active skills are used for support or interacting with the environment (doctor, lockpick, science, steal, and others); passive skills are mainly dedicated to social interaction (barter, speech, gambling, and so on). Traits bestow various benefits upon the character while also imposing penalties; in contrast, perks are purely beneficial. By developing and customizing attributes, skills, traits and perks, the player is granted a considerable freedom in shaping the protagonist in his combat-related and social behavior. The game has an open world which can be freely explored from the onset. Only a few quests are required to complete in order to advance the main plot; a vast amount of side quests is available. Thanks to the game's emphasis on social interaction, many problems can be solved in a non-violent way; in fact, it is possible to complete the game without engaging in battles at all, running away from enemy encounters and concluding the final confrontation in a relatively peaceful fashion. Conversely, the player can opt for a destructive path, killing everyone in sight. A Karma system is used to track the player's moral decisions during the game.Combat in Fallout is turn-based. Participants have a limited amount of action points (AP) per turn; each action (including movement) depletes a certain number of AP, eventually ending a character's turn. The player can target specific body parts of enemies during battles. Characters may join the protagonist, traveling together and participating in combat as a party. Though the player may assign general commands to the companions, their actions are controlled by the AI, and they cannot be customized. |
| Pyst (Special Edition) | 1997-10-09 | Palladium Interactive, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Special Edition of Pyst supports Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Macintosh platforms on one disc. Next to the original game it contains sneak peek samplers of three Parroty titles then in development:
Driven: The Sequel to Pyst
Star Warped
The X-Fools |
| Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II | 1997-10-09 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | RPG elements, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Kyle Katarn, a former mercenary and now an ally of the rebels, discovers that he is in fact a Jedi, and is on a quest to find his lightsaber and learn the techniques of the Force. The evil Sith lord Jerec, who was responsible for the death of Kyle's father, is on a quest of his own, searching a mythical place called Valley of the Jedi, where his dark powers could be unleashed. Will Kyle be able to stop Jerec and become a true Jedi without falling to the dark side?Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II is a sequel to Dark Forces. The game is set in the Star Wars universe and its events occur after those depicted in the movie Return of the Jedi (Episode VI). Primarily a first-person 3D shooter, the game also allows the player to switch to third-person perspective. Kyle can use blasters and rifles to take care of his enemies, and later in the game he will also be able to fight enemies with a lightsaber. There are three kinds of Force powers Kyle may use in the game: light, dark and neutral. Light powers are mostly used for healing purposes; dark powers involve violent actions such as choking enemies or hurling objects at them; neutral powers enhance Kyle's speed and jumping ability. There are fourteen Force powers altogether; if the player chooses to develop only one type of powers throughout the game, a bonus power can be gained. Completing levels rewards the player with stars, which can be allocated to enhance the powers.The game has a branching storyline with different endings, and the player's decisions can lead Kyle to the light as well as the dark side (for example, killing innocents will add "dark points" to Kyle's score). The game features video sequences with live actors as cutscenes. |
| Entrepreneur | 1997-10-10 | Stardock Systems, Inc. | Stardock Systems, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Entrepreneur is a business simulation game. In the game you can start your own computer company and try to conquer the world through corporate warfare in either multi- or single-player modes.You have to research, manufacture, market and sell your products and do it better than your opponents. In times of trouble it is even possible to call in favours from underworld figures. All in the goal of acquiring a monopoly position.The playing field is a world map which is divided into regions. You start in one but can expand to any region you wish. In said regions you can build headquarters, offices and factories. You can also determine the amount of staff that should work there. You can also build recreational buildings to ease tension within your corporation.Performing research allows you to know what people would like to see in their products, reliability, aesthetics, ease of use, performance or prestige. Marketing allows you to place advertisements in various media, both for promoting your products, or spreading rumors about the opponents' products.To change the odds once in a while you receive action cards, they can be played and give you a bonus or other people a disadvantage. |
| NBA Live 98 | 1997-10-10 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | NBA Live 98 offers the player all teams, players and stadiums of the 1998 NBA season. More than 350 faces got scanned to improve realism. Also some new moves like crossover or fade-aways are implemented. You can play single games, whole seasons, the playoffs or new things like manager career or 3-point-shootout in the style of an all-star-game. |
| Psychic Detective Series Vol.2: Memories | 1997-10-11 | Data West | Data West | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | The psychic detective Katsuya Furuyagi cannot forget his past. Looking at the photo in his office, he recalls Rieka, the woman who won't leave him in his dreams. At that moment, a young girl enters the office; seemingly distressed, she utters a strange request: "erase the memory of my father". Intrigued, Furuyagi uses his psychic abilities to travel to the past and relive memories and people's fates once again.Memories is the second installment in the Psychic Detective series. The gameplay is largely identical to that of the previous entry. Locations are viewed from first-person perspective, and interaction with the environment (including movement to another location) is performed through a command menu. Conversations with characters serve as the primary tool to advance the game's plot. |
| Space Empires III | 1997-10-13 | Malfador Machinations | Malfador Machinations | Strategy | Top-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | A 4X strategy that will remind you of Civilization, Master of Orion, and other strategy games. The game was produced as low budget shareware, but has developed a cult following. You control a planet in the solar system, make decisions about research, design your ships how you want, and make diplomatic choices. It offers PBEM capability, but is rather time consuming. Other than that, there is hotseat multiplayer. |
| Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer | 1997-10-13 | Intermark Corporation, Telegames, Inc. | JV Enterprises | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer, a single-player, single-character, first-person RPG, is the sequel to Towers which was released for the Falcon system.This game begins where the first one left off - you and your party are shipwrecked on the island of Lamini. The crew has spent several months making repairs to their ship, but before they are able to leave the Sheriff of Lamini pleads for help. It seems that one of the island's highest ranking council members, the wizard Lord Daggan, has completely lost his senses. All sorts of strange and unusual things have been happening. He has been ranting and raving, blowing things up, and digging up the corpses of dead mystics. Daggan has remained locked up inside his castle and no one sent to confront him has been heard from since. So naturally you accept the quest.Begin by selecting a character from the four available: Merton, the wizard; Tasler, the boy; Andros, the circus performer; or Gerand, the fighter. Then roll until you get the statistics you like for Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Dexterity and Constitution. Each of the characters has his own specialty.The entire game takes place within Daggan's tower. There are 11 floors, which you can move between freely via stairs, teleporters, and the occasional levitation through a hole in the floor. There are no shops for buying and selling, so you must use what you find in the castle. As you progress through the levels, various mini-quests present themselves (charging an artifact, forging a sword, for instance). Most puzzles have been designed so they can be solved two different ways. Music plays throughout the game and the sounds of doors opening and closing, your footsteps, monster footsteps, etc. can be heard. |
| KKND: Krush Kill 'N Destroy Xtreme | 1997-10-14 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Beam Software Pty., Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Oceania, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | KKND: Krush Kill 'n Destroy Xtreme is a Windows-native re-release of the original KKND game with 20 new missions, 15 new skirmish/multiplayer maps, the Kaos mode, stereo sound, and general code improvements. |
| Age of Empires | 1997-10-15 | Microsoft Corporation | Ensemble Studios Corporation | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Africa, Classical antiquity, Egypt (Ancient), Europe, Historical events, Middle East | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | In Age of Empires, players are able to manage a tribe with their mouse. Command them to build houses, docks, farms, and temples. The player advances their civilization through time by learning new skills. The game allows the player to advance through the Ages: The Paleolithic (old Stone Age), the Neolithic (new Stone Age, or the Tool Age), the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. If the player would rather get away from the historical aspect, the game offers a random terrain generator and a custom scenario builder. The game has four resources: food, obtained by either hunting, foraging, fishing, or farming; wood, which must be logged by hand; stone, which must be mined; and gold, which can either be mined or obtained through trade with other players.As a real-time war game, Age of Empires naturally revolves around gathering resources and producing units. |
| JumpStart Adventures: 5th Grade - Jo Hammet, Kid Detective | 1997-10-15 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Jump Start Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective tells about a kid named Jo Hannet, Kid Detective. When the city of Hoverville has electric problems from the evil Dr. X, Jo goes out to stop him. Go to several stores and places in Hoverville asking the owners for help. If you help them with puzzles, they'll give you something you may need to stop Dr. X. In the meantime try spying on three octopus-haired men! |
| Sid Meier's Gettysburg! | 1997-10-15 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Firaxis Games East, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | | Historical events, North America | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Sid Meier's Gettysburg recreates the key battle of the American Civil War in real-time, over the exact terrain the soldiers faced. You can take control of the forces of either side, in either real or simulated situations.You must direct them into strategically advantageous positions, bearing line-of-sight and fog-of-war considerations in mind. Select the right formation for the situation from a large number of plans. The speed of the game can be altered depending on how busy things are. |
| Bruce Coville's My Teacher Is an Alien | 1997-10-16 | Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc. | Hypnotix, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Graphic adventure, Mini-games, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | My Teacher Is an Alien is an adventure game that takes the perspective of three of the main characters from the book series (Peter Thompson, Duncan Dougal or Susan Simmons). You collect clues and play through arcade mini-games attempting to figure out which of your teachers is an alien so that you can stop the alien spaceship from returning to its home planet with some of your fellow students. |
| Sabre Ace: Conflict Over Korea | 1997-10-17 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Eagle Interactive | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Sabre Ace: Conflict Over Korea is an air and ground-attack combat flight simulation game which takes place in the skies above Korea. The Korean War was fought between the Soviet Union and the United States using North & South Koreans and free world troops, using the country of Korea as a battleground. Choose to be a pilot for the USA in American aircraft, or on the side of the Koreans in Russian planes. There are four modes of play:
Go Fly Mode - instant action mode
Training Mode - 8 missions using a special group of planes available only for training:
T-33 Shooting Star trainer
T-6 Texan advanced trainer
Mig-15
Yak-9
Mig-15 trainer
Yak-18 advanced trainer
Campaign Mode - 45 actual aerial battles that let you graduate to higher powered aircraft as you complete each. The missions include air-superiority, bomber-escort, airfield attacks and bombing military targets plus other scenarios.
American - 8 F-51 Mustang Missions followed by a set of F-80 and then F-86 missions.
Russian - the Yak-9 propeller fighter and then the Mig-15 jet
Custom Flight Mode - choose from 4 aircraft for yourself and your enemy. You select other customizations such as altitude, time of day, weather conditions, and level of enemy competence. Fight against the AD Skyraider, F4U Corsair, F9F Panther, F-82 Twin Mustang, B-29 Superfortress, B-26 Invader, T-6 Texan, F-84 Thunderjet, F2H-2P Banshee, LA-7 Lavochkin and PO-2 biplane among others.
The planes and the scenarios were designed to be as realistic and historically accurate as possible. Multiplayer over LAN, serial, modem, and TCP/IP networked play is included for up to 8 players. |
| Uprising: Join or Die | 1997-10-17 | 3DO Company, The | Cyclone Studios | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Tank | | | Teen | | Windows | You control the most advanced combat vehicle in the galaxy, which is able to teleport units directly onto the battlefield. You fight on the side of a rebellion against an evil military empire.
You fight yourself, but you also have to manage your base and allied units. |
| Dark Earth | 1997-10-21 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Kalisto Entertainment SA | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Survival horror | Post-apocalyptic | | | | Teen | Cinematic camera | Windows | Arkhan was born in a post-apocalyptic world and raised in a Stallite (Citadel of Light), one of the few places in the world with natural sunlight. Outside of this sanctuary, the world is not a safe place. The darkness creates a sickness that ravages the land. Given such an environment, the sun is worshipped as a god. A sun priestess Arkhan is defending, is attacked by an assassin. In defending her, he gets a vial of darkness thrown at him. Affected with the disease, Arkhan begins to wander the land in an effort to cure his illness and bring order back to the world.Dark Earth is a third-person action game with light puzzle-solving elements. It has pre-rendered backgrounds with fixed camera angles, similarly to Resident Evil games. There are few firearms in the game, and ammunition for them is limited. Weapons break down after a while and must be repaired. Arkhan can grab and use improvised weapons such as kitchen utensils. He must also search for food to replenish his health when wounded. During the course of the game, Arkhan gradually succumbs to the dark side in him. On several occasions the player is able to make dialogue choices that will influence this transformation. |
| NCAA Football 98 | 1997-10-21 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | FarSight Technologies Inc., MBL Research, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Ncaa 98 is College football simulation based on all Division 1A teams in existance as of 1997. You start off by choosing a game based on a exhibition, Great Game, or season game. Then you can choose from any of the Division 1A teams to start our game. NCAA 98 also includes school fight songs for 25 of the biggest teams. |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 3 | 1997-10-22 | Sierra Coktel Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the November/December 1997 issue (Volume 3) of the Best of Sierra series.This issue's title games are:
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier PharmacistIn addition to these two full version games, the CD also contains these Demos:
DSF Golf and Print Artist 3. Furthermore, there is a Trailer for 3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent and a Screensaver for Red Baron II included.The magazine's special features are this time:
A 10 pages long detailed table description for 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night, a 9 pages long detailed walkthrough for Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist, and a 12 pages long ECTS 97 article with the following games: Red Baron II, Pro Pilot '99, 3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent, Half-Life, Outpost 2: Divided Destiny, Police Quest: SWAT 2, Lords of Magic, Diablo: Hellfire, DSF Golf, DSF Off-Road, DSF Ski, DSF Baseball Pro '98, and DSF Football Pro '98.Screenshots Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gamePart of the Following Group Best of Sierra compilations
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| Disney's Hercules | 1997-10-24 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Eurocom Developments Ltd | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Arcade, Platform | Fantasy | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | The game is based on Disney's animated cartoon movie. You take control of Hercules, son of the god Zeus and a mortal woman, the strongest man in the world and the legendary hero in the Greek mythology. Your goal is to prove yourself worthy of being admitted to Mount Olympus, the residence of gods, and to become a god yourself. You must commit heroic deeds and overcome various obstacles to show your strength and courage. Hades, the overlord of the dead, is making it even more difficult for you by sending fearsome Titans to stop you.This is a 2D platform action game. Hercules can jump, grab ledges, swing on poles, and jump while running. He has a variety of attack moves at his disposal. He can execute a basic attack with his sword, or pull out different combo attacks. He can also Power Punch enemies, but he needs time to charge for this powerful attack. He can even slam the ground to reveal secret areas by performing a certain move while jumping. There are also different power-ups to collect, such as coins to grant bonus points at the end of the level, Hercules Action Figures to increase your hero rating, and upgrades to your sword - Sonic, Lightning, and Fireball swords. |
| Zork: Grand Inquisitor | 1997-10-25 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Magic is banned in the Great Underground Empire, and the Grand Inquisitor Yannick (with the kind help of Frobozz Electric) has a stranglehold on the world of Zork, establishing a totalitarian regime. According to his own words, the goal of the new state is to "shun magic, shun the appearance of magic, shun everything, and then shun shunning." Any opposing forces will be "totemized", which is apparently a rather unpleasant procedure. The player character in the game is just that - the player character: Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person (abbreviated AFGNCAAP), as the politically correct designation by the Dungeon Master Dalboz defines him/her (it?). Naturally, it is the hero's duty to save the world by collecting a Cube of Foundation, the Skull of Yoruk, and the Coconut of Quendor, so that magic can return to the land and the Grand Inquisitor falls victim to his own shunning policies.Zork: Grand Inquisitor is the third in the row of graphical Zork games. It utilizes the same engine as its predecessor, with first-person perspective, 180 degree camera rotation, pre-rendered backgrounds, and live actors. Compared to the previous game, it is more similar in tone to the early, predominantly humorous Zork adventures, containing plenty of references to them.The gameplay is puzzle-oriented; most of the puzzles are inventory-based, though there are also a few that require manipulating the game's environment. Casting magical spells is an important element of the gameplay. The protagonist discovers spell scrolls and learns spells from them, which must be frequently used on objects and items to solve puzzles. The spells range from simple magic that can open locked doors to exotic variations such as "making all purple things invisible". The player can also cast spells backwards, in which case they will have an opposite effect; in the aforementioned examples, casting the reversed spells will lock a door or magically make an object visible, provided it was purple before that condition was inflicted upon it. |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Domination Pack | 1997-10-28 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Domination Pack contains:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Counterstrike
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Aftermath
Command & Conquer: Red Alert soundtrack disc
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| Need for Speed II: SE | 1997-10-28 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Seattle, Electronic Arts Canada | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Oceania | Automobile, Street racing | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is a special edition release of Need for Speed II which provides improved visuals in comparison to the original release. The graphical improvements within this version of the game are only officially supported on 3Dfx Voodoo graphics cards, however, and thus the game is effectively graphically indistinguishable from the original version when played using different hardware.Besides the graphical improvements, the new additions to this version are:
4 new cars: Ferrari F355F1, Ford Mustang Mach III, Italdesign Nazca C2 and Ford Indigo (this last one was only unlockable in the original Need For Speed II);
3 new bonus cars to unlock in Tournament mode;
1 new track: Last Resort;
1 new racing style: Wild;
Reverse and mirrored tracks.
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| Nuclear Strike | 1997-10-29 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Tiburon Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Shooter | | Helicopter | | | Teen | | Windows | After the Middle East, South America, the United States, and the former U.S.S.R, this fifth installment of the Strike takes the action to the heart of Asia, following the trail of Colonel LeMonde, who has terrorized South East Asia. LeMonde is armed with one prototype nuclear missile warhead, modified to catalyze a chain reaction that can completely destroy the ozone layer and thus irradiate the Earth. The hunt for LeMonde will take the player from Indocine (intended to suggest Indochina, the mainland of South East Asia), to the South China Sea to combat Napoleon Hwong, then to the heart of North Korea to uncover the nuclear schemes of Kym Zung-Lee (intended to suggest Kim Jong Il), and finally to Siberia for a final battle. With the aid of fellow operatives, the player pilots the Super Apache, a fictional helicopter variant that is armed with Hellfire and Sidewinder missiles as well as Hydra cannons. Various other vehicles are also available during the course of the game, including tanks and jet fighters. |
| Armed & Delirious | 1997-10-31 | Sir-tech Software, Inc. | Makh-Shevet Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Teen | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Never be cruel to the animals. The Crotony family ignored this rule - and disappeared in one of the worlds built by Great Rabbit, a mighty defender of animals all over the universe. The Old Granny comes downstairs, only to find the whole family disappeared. That could have been half a trouble, she thinks, but... "WHERE IS MY COOKBOOK!!?"Now, as Granny, you have to get to this strange world created by the Rabbit. You'll need your flying Washing Machine and it won't be so easy to repair it.One of the few known games made by Israeli developers, Armed & Delirious is a comic point & click adventure, featuring Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle style, cartoony graphics. The gameplay is puzzle-solving (with emphasis on the wackiest puzzles possibly) where you must collect many items and put them into your bra... yes, you don't have an inventory, but a "braventory", as the game calls it. The humor is mostly of a Monty Python style. |
| Defiance | 1997-10-31 | Visceral Productions | Logicware, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Hovercraft | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Defiance puts you in the pilot seat of an experimental LAV-6 SABER, a one-man hovercraft armed with a variety of energy weapons, rockets, and smart-bombs. When a series of tests at a military manufacturing plant on the planet Calchon go horribly wrong, you find yourself under attack by hundreds of malformed, biomechanical monsters. You'll have to fight your way to freedom as you discover what exactly happened to bring these creatures to Calchon's doorstep.The actual gameplay of Defiance is a hybrid between a first-person shooter and a vehicle simulator. Unique to the game at the time was the ability to "hop" around levels with limited thruster power. You'll have to use your thrusters to solve level puzzles (finding ledges and hopping chasms) and outmaneuver enemies, many of which are armed with their own ballistic and energy weapons.Defiance presents its story almost entirely in-game, through the use of audio logs, voice overs, and commands from your superior officers. While the story serves mostly as a backdrop for the action, it does so in a way that is not intrusive or overbearing. |
| The Great Battles of Hannibal | 1997-10-31 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Erudite Software | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | Classical antiquity, Historical events | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | In the second title of The Great Battles Series, the player is in charge of the Carthaginian army, led by the great general Hannibal, against the Roman army during the Second Punic Wars, featured as the Campaign mode. 11 Battles are included - Bagradas, Trebbia, Lake Trasimene, Cannae (one of the biggest battles in ancient history), Baecula, Metaurus, Ilipa, Great Plains, Zama, Cynoscephalae and Magnesia.The game is based on a board wargame, and so, plays as such. Each turn alternates between a number of generals, which can give a variable number of orders depending on his level. The battlefield is composed by several hexagons which can be occupied by a military unit composed by several soldiers. The winner is the first to reduce the rout points to 0 by forcing units to flee after taking heavy casualties or obliterating them completely. |
| Acrophobia | 1997-11-01 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz, Mental training | | | | | | | Windows | This comedic multiplayer word game was originally a game on IRC chat channels starting in 1994. Berkeley Systems created a colorful graphics version for its site "beZerk.com". Once a game installer is downloaded and executed on your computer, you can join a game room with as little as 3 and up to 14 people in total. There are some rooms that allow adult language and others that do not.A category is first presented from hundreds of possible ones, ranging from sports to poetry and food to current events. A 3-7 letter acronym (a short series of letters which represent a short-form representation of a long phrase but with only the first letters of each word) is shown and before time expires, each person must come up with a suitable phrase that uses all the letters and also in a quick time. All answers are anonymously listed and gamers then vote on which phrase is their favorite - whether its relevant to the category, grammatically correct and funny. Then when the voting round is over each player's name is shown beside their phrase and how many votes they got. 2 points are also given to the fastest entry. After several rounds, the object is to reach 30 points and be either first or second when it comes to points. Those two will advance to the Face Off rounds (3) and all others will vote on their phrases to determine the ultimate champion.Players can also chat with others in the room. beZerk is a free gaming service but does use short television-like full-screen ads in between some rounds to obtain revenue. |
| Beyond Time | 1997-11-01 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | Jones and Jones Multimedia | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | Jose E. Melendez | | Everyone | | Windows | Beyond Time is an inventory-based, mouse-driven adventure game based on the novel Obelisk by Dr. Judith Kaye Jones. "Obelisk" was the name given to it by the original designers when it was completed in 1995, but it was never published under that name. DreamCatcher picked it up for publishing 2 years later under the name Beyond Time, appropriate because the story does involve time travelling.Rifts in time have occurred causing people and precious artifacts and treasures to disappear mysteriously all over the world. Travel to ancient Egypt, Tibet, the Yucatan peninsula and Atlantis to find the missing masterpieces of the world and repair time itself. Only your puzzle-solving skills can save humanity from impending doom. |
| Bridge Deluxe 2 with Omar Sharif | 1997-11-01 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | CP Software | Strategy | | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Another game about the card game of Bridge. You can play against the computer (the A.I. has some 20 options for bidding conventions and just card play) or against human opponents (there is even a LAN option). Included are some tutorials for beginner and intermediate players; the tutorials are presented by Omar Sharif himself. |
| Bungmyeong | 1997-11-01 | Woongjin Media | FEW | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Bungmyeong is an RPG set in a fantasy version of Ancient China. The adopted son of two legendary swords fighters leaves their secluded home in the mountains to discover his true origins. Battles are fought in an active time battle system with various formation settings. The game features a complex healing system based on oriental medicine. |
| Dark Colony (Covermount Demo Version) | 1997-11-01 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | GameTek Canada | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | This is a special demo version of Dark Colony which was published on a number of gaming magazine cover CDs. It features one Human mission called the Secret of Terra Tyrren which is not included with the full game.In the demo mission, the player is tasked with locating a source of alien radiation and subsequently protecting the site and a surveillance station established there from attacking Grays. Unlike the downloadable demo version, the player is given control of the Commander character, and the available technology is limited to Troopers, Reapers and Sentinels.The demo includes the full intro cinematic, as well as several short end-game cinematic sequences displayed upon either victory or defeat. |
| Daytona USA Deluxe | 1997-11-01 | Expert Software, Inc. | Sega AM3 R&D Division, SEGA-AM2 Co., LTD. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This is the sequel to the classic stock car racing game. This version features a new track, a CD soundtrack, and 8 player network play. You also have the choice between 8 different cars, each with its unique handling. |
| Forgotten Saga | 1997-11-01 | Phantagram Co., Ltd. | Sonnori Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Latein is a powerful kingdom that dominates the Asirian continent. One day, a party of adventurers enters the quiet town Gorax in Nubroier province. The four young people are ready to face any danger as long as the pay is right. They help a local millionaire to get his treasure back and hope to continue with similar missions. However, a simple request to deliver a letter changes their fate drastically. The adventurers are imprisoned by the authorities and need the help of a mysterious young woman they have met earlier to foil the evil plans of the Governor of Nubroier.Forgotten Saga is a Korean-made role-playing game, and a side story to Astonishia Story. Like in the earlier game, combat is turn-based and contains tactical elements, as the player is required to navigate characters over the battle screen and attack enemies when they are in range of the characters' weapons, magic spells, and abilities. Unlike Astonishia Story, there is no overworld in the game, and it consists out of interconnected areas. In the beginning of the game the player answers a series of questions that will determine the attributes of the four core party members, in Ultima style.
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| Gamebox 2: 50 Spiele | 1997-11-01 | Funsoft GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Gamebox 2 is the successor to Funsoft's Gamebox compilation. It contains 50 games, which are spread over 7 CD's. Manuals are on CD in PDF format.The following games are included:3D World Tennis
Anstoß
Anstoß World Cup Edition
Barbarian
Battle Arena Toshinden
Big Sea: The Better One Will Win
Blade Warrior
Boong?!: Die ultimatiefe Fußballsimulation
Colony Wars 2492
Crusade
Das Amt
Der Planer
Desert Strike
Dynatech
Earthworm Jim 2
Eye of the Storm
Hannibal
Hanse: Die Expedition
Hustler
Imperium Romanum
International Athletics
Into the Sun
Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity
Jungle Strike: The Sequel to Desert Strike
Kaiser
Litil Divil
MAG
Millemiglia
Minigolf Deluxe
Nick Faldo's Championship Golf
Overlord
Premier Manager 2
Premier Manager 3
Retribution
Shadowlands
Slipstream 5000
Space Crusade
Super Trio
Team Suzuki
Tendo
The Adventure of Tipi
The Machines
The Patrician
Toyota Celica GT Rally
Tracer
Trial by Magic
Utopia
Zool 2 |
| Infinite Patience | 1997-11-01 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Infinite Patience is a single player shareware collection of solitaire card games.This game is played with the mouse and has many of the standard features now expected in a card game of this type. There is an undo feature, statistics are kept for each named player and each game, the rules of each game are available in a help file, there is a range of card backs to choose from, and the cards are dealt randomly.
There are no in-game music or sound effects and there is no hint or auto-complete feature.
At the time of writing, 2013, two versions of the game are available.
Version 1.3 is a thirty game collection designed for WIN 3.1.
Baker's Dozen, Beleaguered Castle, Calculation, Cat's Cradle, Club,
Corners, Demon, Forty Thieves, Gaps, Golf,
Heads and Tails, Idiot, Indian Patience, Interregnum, Klondike (aka Triangle),
Polyandry, Pyramid, Reno, Scorpion, Scrooge,
Seahaven Towers (narrow and wide versions), Seven Devils, Shamrocks, Sir Tommy,
Spider, Strategy, Sultan, Terrace, Will-o-Wisp.
Version 2.3 is a forty-five game designed for Windows 95 onwards.
Accordion, Agnes I, Agnes II, Auld Lang Syne, Baker's Dozen,
Beleaguered Castle, Bouquet, Calculation, Club,
Corners, Curds and Whey, Demon, Flip-Flop, Forty Thieves (with & without grace),
FreeCell, Gaps, Golf, Heads and Tails, Idiot,
Indian Patience, Interregnum, Klondike (aka Triangle), Microbe, Miss Milligan, Mrs Mop
Polyandry, Pyramid, Red and Black, Reno, Scorpion, Scrooge, Seahaven Towers (narrow and wide versions),
Seven Devils(with & without grace), Shamrocks,
Sir Tommy, Spider, Sultan, Tam O'Shanter, Terrace, Will-o-Wisp, Yukon.
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| Manx TT SuperBike | 1997-11-01 | SEGA of America, Inc. | Sega AM3 R&D Division | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Motorcycle | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Race motorcycles in this arcade port based on the real-life Isle of Man Trophy Race. There are two courses to race with the usual reversed and mirrored variations on the tracks. Also provided is a short and long version of the main course. Play modes include arcade (standard tracks), PC mode (added variations), time trial, and network games with up to eight people. |
| Men in Black: The Game | 1997-11-01 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Gigawatt Studios | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | Cinematic camera | Windows | Men in Black: The Game loosely adapts the successful 1997 film into an action/adventure game akin to Resident Evil, with 3D characters moving through pre-rendered backgrounds with fixed camera perspectives.In an introductory level, players control NYPD cop James Edwards (as played by Will Smith in the film) who investigates a possible robbery in a New York apartment building. After finding out an alien creature is behind it, he is recruited into the Men in Black, a secret organization that supervises alien life on Earth. Now known as Agent J, he, along with his colleagues K and L (Tommy Lee Jones' and Linda Fiorentino's film character, respectively), protect the Earth from malevolent aliens and prevent the public from learning about the existence of extraterrestrial life.The main part of the game begins at MIB headquarters. Here, players are briefed on the next mission in the briefing room and can change their weapon and do target practice at the shooting gallery. Several different weapons are available, from realistic firearms to the futuristic guns seen in the film, including the small but powerful Noisy Cricket. Before a mission, players can choose to play as J, K or L. The three have different fighting styles and their dialogue also differs. The game includes three main missions, which send the agents to the Arctic, the Amazon and a remote island. Stylized comic-style cutscenes advance the story between levels.Missions involve exploring the surroundings, combat with aliens (either hand-to-hand or with guns) and puzzle-solving: finding keycards to open doors, restarting the computer system, or distracting a dog for a way to pass. Ammunition is limited and thus should be conserved, but can be refilled from the supplies of fallen enemies or occasional caches found in the levels.
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| Moje Pierwsze Zabawy Matematyczne 1-2-3 | 1997-11-01 | Optimus Nexus | | Educational | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is an educational program for kids, including basic mathematical operations, such as adding and deducting. The player's task is to count objects on the screen. If the task is too difficult, you can ask for help. The computer arranges objects or animals in a different way. The game includes digitized speech and many different locations and songs. |
| NetStorm: Islands at War | 1997-11-01 | Activision, Inc. | Titanic Entertainment | Strategy | | | | Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | Know that in a time before memory the floating Islands of Nimbus were one: one sphere of land, one tribe of people, and that our hearts were free of hatred, as they can never be again. The Furies whose brotherhood was balanced and strong collapsed into ferocious jealousies and rage. Thunder who is powerful and proud craved the agility and speed of his brother Wind who longed in turn for the rejuvenating powers of Rain. And the envy spiralled. And the Storm under the land rumbled and grew. It was this battle, which rages still, that tattered our land, tore it into bits, and hurled the pieces into the sky: Nimbus as we know it now.Netstorm: Islands at War is situated in the world of Nimbus, the sky world with floating islands, always at war. In Pyrosphere, the central sphere of Nimbus, you'll square off against your opponents. Your goal is to capture High Priests from your opponent and sacrifice them to the furies. Your own priest is the most valuable unit in the battlefield, it is your ultimate vessel of Knowledge and power from the Furies. You will begin with the priest and your home island, in front of you, a whole map of floating islands awaits for you to conquer. In order to reach them, you will need to build a Temple assigned to one of the Fury, so you can start producing the energy, collect storm power from nearby geysers, build bridges to connect to the other islands, and finally, to produce your war machine in your workshops. There are many different units you can use during the battle, each comes with different attacking range, hp and abilities. They have only one thing the same: they cannot be controlled once they are built, they can be only salvaged. They will attack automatically, so it's up to the player to build them and use the strategy of placement, which is the most important aspect of the game.You can choose to play the campaigns, where you can start learning how to play in very detailed tutorials, or you can skip and practise in priest training missions or play the main campaign. If you think that you are now skilled enough to take challenge from other players, you can move to the multiplayer, the most played part of the game.In multiplayer, you will start in the sphere of Sereni, a peaceful sphere where you can chat with other players, set battles in rings or just fly your island across the sphere zones. When you're ready, join a battle ring and start playing other players. Each multiplayer map is generated randomly, so you will never play the same map again. In each battle, there can be up to 8 players fighting at once. The goal in multiplayer is to secure the map with outposts which can capture the islands to you, attack your enemies and finally find and sacrifice their priests for more powerful units. |
| Super Memory | 1997-11-01 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Mental training, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Your mission is to reveal all 25 pairs of icons in this game. But since you can only reveal 2 cards at any time, you must use your brain and remember, where those cards with the same icons are.Once you have found a pair, they will disappear, and you will receive points. But from now, all the time you need to find more pairs will reduce your score.The game can be played alone, or with up to 4 players.Once you have completed the game, you may get into the highscore, there not only your score will be added, but also the time you needed, and the amount of shots you needed to find all pairs. Furthermore, the game has a statistic, which will protocol all scores/time/shots from all games and make an average from them. |
| Svea Rike | 1997-11-01 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | Korkeken Interactive Studio AB, Target Games Interactive AB | Strategy | | | | | Europe, Historical events | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Svea Rike is a real-time strategy game based on the history of Sweden. The game take place between year 1523 until 1818, and the goal is to end up as king over Sweden. The player has to carefully manage his resource and invest wisely in trade, improvements and politics. |
| The 7th Guest | 1997-11-01 | Virgin Games, Inc. | Trilobyte, Inc. | Puzzle | 1st-person | | Horror | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The 7th Guest is a puzzle-adventure game which takes place inside an abandoned mansion. Venture into the 22 rooms of the spooky mansion, solve over 20 mind-bending puzzles to unravel a tale of revenge and horror that took place in the 1930s.The owner of the mansion was Henry Stauf, a famous maker of children's toys. Once a homeless drifter and thief, influenced by a vision in a dream, Henry invented a wondrous doll, so incredibly life-like that it sold like wildfire. Stauf's toys became popular overnight bringing fame and fortune and changing his rags to riches. But things took a tragic turn when owners of the doll became infected with a fierce and deadly virus. None of those children recovered.After this turn of events Stauf secluded himself inside his estate, stopped making his toys and never came into contact with the outside world for a long time. Something very strange happened when six people receive an invitation to a party at the mansion. By solving the riddles inside Stauf's "fun house", you'll delve into the past to learn what happened to them, and the mysterious 7th guest, on that fateful night.The game is played in first person perspective with a point-and-click interface featuring horror-themed animated cursors (skeletons, bulging-eye skulls etc.). It is one of the first games to be released on the then-new CD-Rom media. The graphics are fully rendered in SVGA, and real actors and actresses bring the story to life during numerous full-motion video cut scenes. The visuals are accompanied by an original, orchestrated musical score.To finish the game, you must solve the puzzles in Stauf's manor; each solved puzzle will unlock new rooms or new movie sequences to watch. The puzzles are quite varied; there's the classic "eight queens puzzle", another puzzle where you need to compose a sentence by rearranging letters, and others. If you get stuck, you can visit the library; a book within will give you hints on the puzzle. If the hints aren't enough, the puzzle will solve itself automatically once you consult the book enough times. Some later, limited releases of the game came with a separate video that included a "behind the scenes" look at the making of the game and interviews with the developers. |
| Tom Clancy's Politika | 1997-11-01 | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | Spy / espionage | Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | Contemporary | | Point and select | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | When President Yeltsin suddenly died without naming an heir, the political vacuum means one of the eight factions has the chance to take over. Choose one of the eight factions (KGB, Church, Reformer, Mafia, Communist, Military, Nationalists, and Separatists) and try to accumulate influence... |
| Virtual Chess 2 | 1997-11-01 | Titus France SA | Titus France SA | Educational, Puzzle, Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Board game, Chess | Historical events | | Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | Virtual Chess 2 uses an improved version of the artificial intelligence system used in the first Virtual Chess title, making it a highly challenging chess partner.Several difficulty levels are available, as well as a tutorial mode to teach you the basics, techniques and subtleties of this mind game. Recordings of games played by the most famous chess masters worldwide can be played back, so that you can learn by watching their moves or just enjoy the match.Chessboards in Virtual Chess 2 come in a variety of themes, allowing the player to use classic, cartoon or fantasy boards and pieces. You can also play in 3D mode, where you can rotate, zoom and view the game from any angle in real-time. |
| Virtual Pool 2 | 1997-11-01 | VR Sports | Celeris Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The successor to Virtual Pool, Virtual Pool 2 has better graphics, an enhanced physics engine, and more game options than its predecessor. The game also features photo realistic tables, balls, and environments.The following types of pool games are available for play:- Nine Ball
- Straight Pool
- Eight Ball (APA rules, English Pub or American Bar variations)
- 3 Ball
- 6 Ball
- 10 Ball
- One Pocket
- Bank PoolPlayers can also setup tournaments against human or over 120 computer players.Players can also watch the numerous technique videos with Mike Sigil, or learn how to pull off trick shots with Lou "Machine Gun" Butera.Multiple players statistics are also tracked by the game. Individual stats are kept for each separate game type. |
| Madden NFL 98 | 1997-11-02 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Stormfront Studios | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Playcalling expert John Madden again licenses Electronic Arts' flagship football simulation. New features for 1998 include more advanced Quarterback functions such as the ability to play lob passes and adjust timing patterns, and more instinctive AI features to adjust as the match goes on. Squad features have also been advanced, with the opportunity to create plays and trade them.Gameplay is much the same as the other editions, with the full season on offer as well as playoffs and the Superbowl. Everything is presented TV-style, with play-by-play analysis and reports. The contemporary NFL teams are joined by great squads of the past. |
| Blade Runner | 1997-11-03 | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | The game is based on the movie bearing the same title (which, in turn, is based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?). In the grim world of the future, cities lie in darkness, and nature gave its way to artificial, bio-mechanical production of all creatures - including human beings. Those artificial humans are called replicants, and are treated as servants unworthy of being "true" humans. The police officer Ray McCoy is a "Blade Runner", whose special job is hunt down replicant rebels. During his investigations, McCoy also gets to see their side, and his vision of the world and society begins to change.Blade Runner is an adventure game with an emphasis on detective work rather than on puzzles. There are very few "real" puzzles in the game, and the gameplay mainly consists of questioning suspects, gathering evidence, etc. There are also some action sequences, and throughout the game the protagonist has the ability to use his gun. The player's decisions can (and will) influence the outcome of the story, bringing the game to one of the six possible endings. |
| Front Page Sports: Football Pro '98 | 1997-11-03 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Synergistic Software, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Front Page Sports: Football Pro '98 is, as the name suggests, a simulation of the popular American sport football. It features two main playing modes: In the simulation mode the player takes the seat of the team manager and deals with drafting, match lineups and tactics. During the carrier he can play several seasons and his players improve their abilities when they get more experienced or slow down when they grow older. Although the player still controls the football players on the field this mode is more reminiscent of a managerial simulation. In the action mode this managerial duties aren't important and the player can concentrate on the matches.In comparison to its predecessor it features a new menu structure, player photos, match commentary by Howard Davis, more stadiums and new multiplayer functions over the internet. |
| Power Chess 98 | 1997-11-03 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Power Chess 98 is an updated version of Power Chess. It uses the WChess engine to allow you to play chess against your computer. The AI is highly customizable to offer a challenge for all players no matter which skill they posses. You can also play against human opponents over the internet.The game is played fully with the mouse in a typical Windows environment. New features in this version of the game are the ability to print out the current game state, square highlighting for possible moves, game analysis, tips of the day and new options for resignation and draw situations.You can create your own customized opponents to play against with different personality traits such as opening repertoires and endgame preferences. Twenty three pre-made personalities are already included with the game. Also included are a large selection of classic games from pros.You can view the game both in 2D top down with iconic display of the pieces and in 3D from the player's perspective. |
| CART Racing | 1997-11-04 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Papyrus Design Group, Inc. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | CART Racing (short for Championship Auto Racing Teams) is a re-release of IndyCar Racing II, with Windows 95 Rendition 3D acceleration support, and slipstreamed with some patches. The game simulates open-wheel races with realistic physics, an official license, and extensive garage and setup options. There is multiplayer support for two players in total. |
| Streets of SimCity | 1997-11-04 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Race through or create havoc in one of 50+ cities, or import your own SimCity 2000 cities for battle-on-wheels! Play pre-built missions or take on up to seven opponents via LAN or Internet play. |
| Viper F40 | 1997-11-07 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult, Detective / mystery | Visual novel | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Menu structures | | | Interface | Windows | Viper F40 is an instalment in the Viper series of interactive adult visual novels. Unlike the main Viper V series, Viper F40 contains only one story to play through. The game is fully-animated and has full Japanese voice acting. At certain points throughout the game, the player is prompted to choose a location where the current protagonist will visit.The story follows two alternating protagonists, a police detective named Lilia and a private detective named Raika, as they work together to investigate the disappearances of three missing persons. The perpetrators respond to the investigation by kidnapping Seela, one of Lilia's colleagues, and sending Lilia a recording of her as a warning. Rather than back away, Lilia and Raika double down on their investigation, risking everything to solve the case. |
| Premier Manager 98 | 1997-11-08 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Premier Manager 98 is a team data update of Premier Manager 97. All 92 teams from the nationwide leagues and international teams were updated for the 1997-98 season, keeping all the features from the previous title (online English league database, 3D match engine) untouched.Although only the English league is available, it is still possible to play in pre-season friendlies or international competitions against most first division teams in Europe and South America or scout and sign their players.There are two game modes: Manager and Pro-Manager. Manager allows the player to start in any team. Pro-Manager, on the other hand, requires the player to build his career from the Conference, promoting the club from the lower divisions or getting promoted himself to better ranked teams. It's possible to tweak options such as the level of control ("trainer" leaves the player only in control of player tactics and squad selection, "accountant" is the exact opposite, giving the player control over transfers, contracts, staff, finance, board room options and ground expansions, but no limited control over the squad, "Manager" gives control in all but contract deals and "total" gives full executive control) or if players age and eventually retire, or play forever.Up to 20 players can play in Manager mode, 8 in Pro-Manager. |
| Pro Mahjong Kiwame | 1997-11-10 | Athena Co., Ltd. | Athena Co., Ltd. | Strategy | | | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | | Windows | Pro Mahjong Kiwame is a four player Riichi mahjong game, unlike most one-on-one Mahjong games released at the time and the modern casual games. Players take and discard tiles until they've completed hands by forming groups and pairs. The game features up to 16 professional mahjong players and 3 game modes to play: Professional section, Gamble section and Training section. There is no story mode and the difficulty of the game is very high. Pro Mahjong Kiwame's modelling of a serious mahjong game and lack of erotic elements has been acknowledged by Japan's Mahjong Federation, which recommends playing these games. |
| Sub Culture | 1997-11-11 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Criterion Software Group Ltd. | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | Sub Culture is a distant relative of Elite. The player takes the role of a member of the ultra-tiny race that lives on the ocean floor. Navigate a sub, trade among the different enclaves, do a little combat, and encounter the different missions and special plots. |
| Tenpai-ō | 1997-11-11 | SAEKI Soft | SAEKI Soft | Educational, Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | Tenpai-ō tests the player's knowledge of the rules of riichi (Japanese rules) mahjong. Quizzes present the player with a predefined hand; players must pick the tiles that would make it a winning hand. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: Longbow 2 | 1997-11-13 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | War | | Asia, Contemporary, North America | Helicopter, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Sequel to the bestselling AH-64D Longbow, Longbow 2 is new and improved in every way! Now you can also pilot the Kiowa Warrior and the Blackhawk. Graphics engine is now 3D accelerated for further visual quality, and a new true dynamic campaign engine has been added for infinite variety of missions! Things actually happen around you in the battlefield! Watch your forces attack and enemy counterattacks while you interdict supply convoys and engage enemy forces... ! |
| Malice: 23rd Century Ultraconversion for Quake | 1997-11-14 | Quantum Axcess | Ratloop, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Malice: 23rd Century Ultraconversion for Quake is a commercial mod of Quake. While requiring a full, registered version of Quake, it acts like a stand-alone game, employing its own characters, weapons, environments, rules, etc. The player assumes the role of a mercenary named Damage, who works for the boss of an underground crime syndicate, Colonel Bossman. Damage's main mission is to assassinate the head of Takahiro Industries, Bossman's main rival. To do that, he has to venture into his heavily protected headquarters, dealing with security guards and robots on his way. |
| Myth: The Fallen Lords | 1997-11-14 | Bungie Studios | Bungie Studios | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Mature | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Myth: The Fallen Lords is a Real Time Strategy game which pits the evil Fallen Lords vs humanity.You must take control of archers, explosive-throwing dwarves, dependable infantry, and others to stop the horde of undead and evil from overrunning the last vestiges of good in the world. Battle plague-ridden corpses who detonate themselves in ground-shaking explosions, throngs of axe-wielding zombies, floating spectors who hurl poisoned spears at you, and quick-moving magical creatures armed with sharp blades. Live long enough and you will face the most powerful of the Fallen Lords.Take control of the high ground and your ranged attackers will be able to shoot farther distances, but the enemy can take advantage of the same situation. Sometimes it may be to your advantage to let the forces of evil thin their ranks for you...Go online and play vs other humans, using either side you wish, in many modes of play, including a game of capture the flag, but with a ball instead. |
| Xenon: Mugen no Shitai | 1997-11-14 | C's Ware | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Setting | Windows | Kōji, a Japanese high school student, experiences strange, recurrent life-like dreams. He finds himself in a space station inhabited by beautiful young women. As he tries to explore the dream realm he wakes up. His teacher, intrigued by his account of the bizarre adventure, urges him to travel back to the space station in his dream and report his discoveries to her. Eventually Kōji realizes that his dream and reality are tightly connected, and finds himself compelled to avert a grave danger.Xenon is an erotic sci-fi visual novel. The player takes control of Kōji by occasionally making decisions, most involving choosing a location to travel to. The entire game is confined to the space station of Kōji's dream and the high school building of reality. Depending on the player's decisions the story may branch into different directions, creating alternate versions of Kōji's dream. |
| Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 | 1997-11-19 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Holistic Design, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | War | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | This game pits you in a brutal war between the Orcs and the Human Space Marines from the classic Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game. Using a variety of troops, vehicles and giant robots you must conquer your foes in battle. Battles take place in turns: Each turn you get a chance to move and shoot at your enemies. Each side gets a variety of units: some are just foot soldiers, there are also tanks, hover-bikes and even giant robots. Weapons range from Bolters (big sub machine guns) to laser cannons and vortex bombs. The plot is simply to destroy your enemy -- each mission usually works this way too. Simply get your guys together and fight. |
| Jet Moto | 1997-11-19 | Sony Interactive Studios America | SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. | Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In this arcadelike, futuristic racer, you pilot your moto/hoverbike against 19 other racers in a free-flying, chaotic race across diverse tracks to the finish line. Developed by SingleTrac and published by SCEA. |
| Lords of Magic | 1997-11-19 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | 4X, Turn-based strategy | Fantasy | | | Real-time, Turn-based | Teen | Isometric | Windows | In the fantasy world known as Urak, supporters of eight different religions constantly fight each other. One of them is Balkoth, known as the Lord of Death, who worships the dark deity Golgoth. Balkoth has sworn to destroy all other faiths in the name of his own god. The other lords have to expand their ranks and defend themselves against the mad zealot.Lords of Magic is a strategy game that combines turn-based exploration and resource management with real-time combat. The player can choose to control any of the lords who oppose Balkoth. Each nation (faith) commanded by a lord has its own specific units. Before engaging in an offensive, the player must liberate a Great Temple for the faith of his/her choice. It is also necessary to build a stronghold, develop the nation's capital city, and recruit troops.The troops are led by a champion, representing the "hero" of the game. This hero can be either a warrior, a thief, or a mage, possessing the classical advantages and disadvantages of these classes: the warrior is good in close combat, the thief can sabotage enemy armies, and the physically weak mage can cast devastating spells. The isometric combat proceeds in real-time, with an option to simply calculate the result of a battle immediately, depending on the participants' statistics. |
| Twisted Metal 2 | 1997-11-19 | Sony Interactive Studios America | Sony Interactive Studios America, SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. | Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | Arcade | Post-apocalyptic | Automobile, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | Twisted Metal 2 features destructive car combat, playable either as a complete tournament or a single match The action takes place in eight different locations around the world, on differing surfaces, many featuring destructible buildings and landmarks.Combat takes place between a wide array of vehicles ranging from a man strapped between two wheels to an ice cream truck. They have their own strengths and weaknesses, using an eclectic arrangement of weaponry include bombs and missiles, and resulting in its own end sequence, complete with an ironic line in humour.
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| War Wind II: Human Onslaught | 1997-11-19 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | DreamForge Intertainment, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | This is the sequel to SSI's 1996 real-time-strategy game War Wind. It continues the story of the four races of Yavaun now facing a new threat through the invasion of humans who shipwrecked on the planet.Gameplay is very similar to the first part of the series but features some small modifications and additions as well as improved visuals and sounds. |
| Andretti Racing | 1997-11-20 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | High Score Entertainment, Stormfront Studios | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | For the first time ever in an arcade racer, take control of either NASCAR or Indy cars and cruise around 16 detailed tracks. There are 3 views available to drive from. As well as individual races, you can play a full career. Derek Daly and Bob Jenkins provide a running commentary. Outside factors such as pit-crew mistakes and mechanical failures can affect your races. |
| Jack Nicklaus 5 | 1997-11-21 | Accolade, Inc. | Eclipse Entertainment | Sports | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Jack Nicklaus series of golf games adds several new features and updates. A new MouseMeter control system is designed to feel more like real golf than the more traditional 2-click and 3-click systems which are also provided. The action can be viewed from anywhere on the course, although some views are more suited to action replays than actually taking aim or playing a shot. Ball lies are not always flat in this edition.This one offers nine Jack Nicklaus courses and a specially created course for the game that is similar to Pebble Beach, as well as an online facility to download over 100 more. CBS' Gary McCord provides a running commentary. The course includes a number of 3D golfers that the player controls. The course designer, a mainstay of the series, has been enhanced for this version. |
| Moon. | 1997-11-21 | Nexton | Tactics | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Detective / mystery | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Ikumi Amasawa's mother, who worked for a large company called FARGO, died six years ago. Ikumi discovers the shocking truth: FARGO was responsible for her mother's death. In order to avenge this crime and find out more about the company's true identity and motives, Ikumi decides to become its employee. On the way there she encounters two other young women who, similarly to her, had their lives ruined by FARGO. Once Ikumi arrives in the company building, she will have to be careful to conduct her investigation discreetly and achieve her goal.Moon. is an adult mystery-themed visual novel. The interaction is somewhat more frequent than in most games of its type, since the player will often have to actively choose locations to navigate the heroine to. These and other choices made by the player will influence the course of the storyline, unlock plot information, and lead the game onto different paths culminating in different endings. |
| Dark Corona Pegasus | 1997-11-23 | Algomedia Software | Algomedia Software | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Dark Corona Pegasus is a 2D vertical scrolling shoot 'em up. The player controls a space ship and shoots enemy ships. At the end of each level a powerful boss awaits. The game has a space shop, where weapons such as rockets, lasers, etc. can be bought with gold earned during missions. The game has two modes: arcade, with typical shooting, and space flight, where the player flies between planets. In the latter the game uses Asteroids-style controls. |
| The Scott Adams Collection | 1997-11-24 | | | Adventure, Compilation | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The Scott Adams Collection contains many of Scott Adams Interactive Fiction games. But only true Interactive Fiction games are included in this collection, not the Interactive Fiction with Graphics remakes nor Scott's "newer" games.While the games from this compilation were originally developed for the Apple II, TI-99/4A and TRS-80, they got ported to run with the ScottFree interpreter on many modern Operating Systems. Though the ScottFree Windows interpreter is the only one bundled with this collection.The following 13 games are included:Adventureland (Adventure #1)
Pirate Adventure (Adventure #2)
Mission Impossible (Adventure #3)
Voodoo Castle (Adventure #4)
The Count (Adventure #5)
Strange Odyssey (Adventure #6)
Mystery Fun House (Adventure #7)
Ghost Town (Adventure #9)
Savage Island Part One (Adventure #10)
Savage Island Part Two (Adventure #11)
Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle (Adventure #13)
Return to Pirate's Island (Adventure #14A)
The HulkAdventure #1 to #12 are part of Scott Adams Classic Adventures and The Hulk is part of Scott Adams Questprobe Series. |
| Heavy Gear | 1997-11-25 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | In a distant future on a planet called Terra Nova, an epic war is waged between the AST and the ECEF. You are a "Gear" pilot for one of these sides as you join the battle for supremacy. You pilot the various Heavy Gears (large biped fighting robots) in a variety of missions, either playing through the storyline for both factions or participating in the endless dynamic war going on between the two. As you get promoted, you gain access to better Gears and more destructive weaponry to acomplish your goals. |
| Farocar | 1997-11-26 | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | TLK Games S.A.R.L. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Another Sokoban clone. You must solve each of the 200 puzzles by pushing the objects into their home positions. You also can grab bombs to blast through walls and clear a path. The theme of playing field differs from level to level. The game includes three different difficulties per level. You can create your own games with the level-editor. |
| Turok: Dinosaur Hunter | 1997-11-26 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Iguana Entertainment Incorporated | Action | 1st-person | Regional differences | | Shooter | | | | | Mature | | Windows | The Earth is separated by an invisible barrier from the Lost Land, a realm in which time has no meaning, and which is inhabited by ferocious dinosaurs and aliens. For many generations, the mantle of Turok has been bestowed upon those who saw the protection of the barrier as their sacred duty. But an evil lord named Campaigner is seeking for an artifact that is capable of destroying the barrier, striving to dominate the entire universe. This artifact, known as the Chronoscepter, was broken into pieces which were then hidden away. Tal'Set, a Native American and the last Turok, must find the scattered pieces of the Chronoscepter, and stop the Campaigner from obtaining them.Turok: Dinosaur Hunter is a first-person shooter with platforming and light puzzle-solving elements. Much of the game is set in outdoor environments, and requires the player to explore them by finding various paths, jumping, swimming, and climbing. The game's most notable enemies are dinosaurs of various sizes, though the levels also include human and demonic enemies, as well as wildlife. The player gradually gains access to thirteen weapons (plus the Chronoscepter, assembling which is the game's main objective); these include a knife, a bow, as well as high-tech firearms such as a rocket launcher and an atomic fusion cannon. |
| Toki no Kuni no Elfenlied | 1997-11-29 | Bandai Co., Ltd. | | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Toki no Kuni no Elfenlied is a raising simulation in which players need to raise a fairy in order for her to become a goddess.In total, there are 6 fairies in the game. Once the game begins, players are given a choice of 3 fairies: Piany, Apricot and Licorice. Depending on how well the fairy is raised, it will later be reincarnated as either Aster or Nasis. The final reincarnation is the fairy Iris which will transform into a goddess if she is properly raised.The game takes place in a house and players can go to different rooms and use the objects in these rooms. There's also a shop where players can buy the items they need. |
| Air Warrior III | 1997-11-30 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Kesmai Corporation | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Air Warrior III starts by giving you more of what the series has already. For starters, it includes all of the Air Warrior II missions, planes and features. There's also four new Pacific planes (the Zeke, the Kate, the Val, the Oscar) and 6 new campaigns. Air Warrior III is also the first in the series to support 3D acceleration, providing a lot faster 3D action and effects.A major selling point of the series has been its online play, and multiplayer play has been completely redesigned. Now it features up to 250 in the same mission. |
| TalonSoft's East Front | 1997-11-30 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | A turn-based, tactical war game published by Talonsoft that depicts some of the most important battles of WWII. You can choose between Hitler's Wehrmacht and Stalin's Red Army. The game enables you to play single battles or all out campaigns. It also allows for internet play via e-mail. |
| netWAR | 1997-11-30 | Headland Digital Media | Semi Logic Entertainments, Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | | | | Persistent | | | Windows | netWAR was an online-only multiplayer shooter allowing up to 16 players to battle in arena combat. Players could select from one of four characters featuring different weapon loadouts; such a machine gunner with a fast firing rate but low damage per shot, or a bomber with a large blast radius but very slow rate of fire. Supply drops occurred at random, delivering health packs and powerups. Vehicles, including tanks and gunboats, could also be commandeered and used against your opponents.netWAR featured four game types:
Mayhem was a free-for-all game where up to 16 players accumulated kills for their accounts' permanently-tracked stats. Players could retreat to a "home tent" where they could spend money to restore health and/or cower behind its defenses.Basic Training was identical to Mayhem, but kills and deaths were not recorded to stats.Deathmatch placed 16 players in a tournament. Kills counted for 2 points, deaths subtracted 1. The top half of players progress to the next round, diminishing until two players face each other in the final round - the first with three kills wins.Teamplay pitted four teams of 4-6 players (minimum of 16 total) against each other. For the first ten minutes, players could gather powerups and fortify territory. After ten minutes, no players respawn. The team left standing wins. Players could "sign up" for Deathmatch or Teamplay and play a different match while they waited for the minimum number of players to be gathered.netWAR required a subscription fee to play. The retail box and download both included the first year of play in the purchase price. netWAR was finally shut down on July 21, 1999. |
| 3x3 Eyes: Tenrin Ō Genmu | 1997-12-01 | Nihon Create | Nihon Create | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Tenrin Ō Genmu is one of the games based on the manga and anime series 3x3 Eyes. It tells the story of Yakumo, a normal Japanese teenager who studies and works as a waiter, and Pai, a girl who belongs to the race of sanzhiyan, the immortal three-eyed people. After having discovered the secret of eternal youth and immortality many hundred years ago, the sanzhiyan could not remain human, and became cruel demons capable of possessing people and turning them into "wu" (Chinese for "nothing") - immortal, powerful, and obedient servants. Pai, who looks like a young girl, but is nevertheless three hundred years old, was terrified by what the sanzhiyan have become, and swore she will find a way to become human again. She meets Yakumo, whose late father was a scientist who helped Pai on her quest. Accidentally, Pai uses the powers of her third eye on Yakumo, and he becomes her Wu! Trying to regain their lost humanity, Yakumo and Pai are confronted by the evil Benares, the Wu of the sanzhiyan ruler Kaiyanwang. In pursuit of Benares and his henchmen, Yakumo and Pai travel to India, the Easter Island, and many other countries. Will they be able to stop Benares and become human again?The game is a puzzle-less adventure in Japanese fashion, which plays like an interactive anime. The game contains many animated cutscenes, and the locations of the game are still shots in anime style. Unlike most Japanese adventures, the player interacts with the game world not by choosing commands from a menu, but by moving a cursor on the screen. Once the cursor is placed on an object possible to interact with, it is highlighted with an additional command, such as "look", "talk", etc. |
| A.D Cop | 1997-12-01 | Astron Publishing, Inc. | Electronic Music and Animated Graphics CO., LTD. | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Rail shooter | | | | | | | Windows | A.D Cop is a rail-shooter game, a clone of Virtua Cop. The game is all about fast aiming and features six missions, although only three are available at the beginning. Each mission is divided into three stages with a level boss at the end. The player (policeman) uses a special helmet equipped with a viewfinder computer. The computer marks the opponent in a frame defining the threat level and time remaining to attack. The player is equipped with a gun and bazooka. During the mission he can raise the weapon of the killed opponent, f.e. shotgun, grenade, M-16, automated pistol. Killing a hostage takes one life. Life can be supplemented by finding a heart symbol.
v2.10 contains improved menu graphics and features full LightGun support. |
| AHx-1 | 1997-12-01 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Pixel Multimedia | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Africa, Contemporary, Europe, South America | Helicopter, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | AHx-1 is a simulation of the fictional helicopter AHx-1 Viper. The player controls a member of an elite unit who uses this helicopter to beat three campaigns. Each campaign features eleven missions and are set in Colombia where drug lords swamp the world with heroin, Russia where evil General Nemarov wants to renew the Cold war and Libya where Colonel Ghaddafi has to be beaten.Every mission begins with a thorough briefing that includes primary and secondary objectives and a lot of not necessarily needed background information. After the briefing the player stocks up his weapons for the mission which include typical gear like a 30mm gun, "Hellfire" rockets which can kill everything in one shot and "TV Missiles" which flight path is controlled by the player. Similar to the Comanche series the gameplay is action-oriented.The missions have varied goals, e.g. the destroying of units from the own side as a cover-up or the annihilation of certain targets in contaminated areas. Besides the typical cockpit view there is a special aiming mode. While using this mode the player gives the flight control to the co-pilot who holds the height and speed but doesn't react to obstacles in the way. |
| Bomb Golf | 1997-12-01 | | Pellenc | Sports | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Bomb Golf is a shareware golf game which is played with a bomb instead of a ball.There are four different modes of play.
Bomb Golf: This is for one to four players. In this game each player has six strokes to complete each hole. If the player fails to do this then the bomb explodes and a one stroke penalty is added to their score.
Each player must complete the hole before the next player can begin
Par or Die: This is a single player game in which the player must sink the ball/bomb in a specified number of strokes, i.e. par or less. Failure results in the end of the game and the player must restart from the first hole. A save feature is available in this game mode.
Time Bomb: Is also a single player game and is similar to 'Par Or Die'. The difference being that the hole must be completed within a fixed time limit rather than a fixed number of strokes. This game mode also has a save feature.
Strategy: This is a game for two to four players. In this mode players take turns and each bomb can affect the others.
The game has music and a high score feature. It is keyboard controlled, the arrow keys cause the character to rotate around the ball allowing the player to aim their shot while the space bar is used to determine the strength of the shot.The original release of the game had ten tunes and four different courses each of nine holes making thirty six in total, however just six holes and three tunes were included in the shareware release. In 2013 the game is still available from Pellenc Software and the current version has forty five holes. |
| CART Precision Racing | 1997-12-01 | Microsoft Corporation | Terminal Reality, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | CART Precision Racing is american racing league game.CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc.) features different kinds of tracks (road, street, oval).Each car features a photo-realistic cockpit that includes an accurately modeled LCD instrument display. Cockpit view is also panning, that way you can see next curve better.You will have access to your own 'virtual mechanic' who will give feedback to help determine the best setup for their cars. |
| Descent to Undermountain | 1997-12-01 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | Mature | | Windows | In the city of Waterdeep, people are inexplicably disappearing. In this game, you are asked to descend into Undermountain to determine where they went. You'll explore an underground labyrinth in this Forgotten Realms (AD&D) game built with the Descent engine. Your goal is to find the eight pieces of an amulet used to control the legendary Flame Sword of Lolth. With the power of this sword, an infinite army will be at your command, and Waterdeep will be saved. |
| F22 Air Dominance Fighter | 1997-12-01 | Ocean Software Ltd. | Digital Image Design Ltd. | Action, Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Stephen White | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | In F-22 Air Dominance Fighter, the successor to DID's EF2000, players get the chance to fly the advanced fighter from the US Air Force in a war.You have control over up to 4 F-22 ADFs. or an AWACS. With the F-22 you fly miscellaneous missions such as air-to-ground or air-to-air or protect the AWACS around the war zone. If the AWACS are down you are sightless, making the mission harder to complete. From the AWACS you have control over all aircraft and you can send out commands to protect an aircraft or attack the enemy.Unlike the later Total Air War, there is no dynamic campaign. All missions in the game are defined - start from point A, fly over B, Attack by C, going home over D and land by A, for example.Before you go to the warzone you have a chance to learn to fly the F-22. Over 30 instruction missions involve taking off, landing, miscellaneous weapons trainings, AWACS training, dealing with miscellaneous hydraulic and electrical failure, and many more. |
| PC Fútbol 5.0: Apertura '97 | 1997-12-01 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | PC Fútbol 5.0: Apertura '97 is a modified version of the football game PC Fútbol 5.0 with Argentinean teams instead of Spanish ones as in the original version. You can play friendly matches or the whole "Apertura 97" season (Argentinean First Division at that time). Also you can take part of the management of a soccer team by purchasing or selling players, or making improvements in the stadium. |
| SODA Off-Road Racing | 1997-12-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Software Allies | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | Choose from buggy, 2WD truck, or 4WD truck, and participate in authentic Short-Course Off-Road Drivers Association (SODA) circuit races! Adjust your gears, suspension, and more. Do short races or a full career mode. Includes track designer and Force Feedback support, and Rendition 3D acceleration support! |
| Tanarus | 1997-12-01 | Sony Interactive Studios America | Verant Interactive | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Tank | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Tanarus is an online exclusive action game with tanks. Before the game starts the player has to choose a difficulty setting which affects the available arenas and his human opponents. Then there is the selection of the tank; there are five tanks to choose which differ in speed, armory and weaponry. The last decision to be made is the equipment like canons, rocket launchers or energy guns. The most important choice is the battery because every laser shot and every movement lowers its charge. When the charge is consumed the tank moves with 30% of its normal speed. At the own base serves as a maintenance area, which means the tank can be repaired or completely replaced and the battery can be replenished.Then the game itself begins. The goal is simple: Blast the enemy into little pieces, either in deathmatch, a team battle or a duel. There are up to four factions in one area which all have a flag in their base. When catching one of them and bringing it to the own base the player gets points which result in a better rank. The arenas are cities with buildings, ramps and streets. The mouse is not supported, the game is either played with the keyboard or a joystick. The editor allows to build own areas which can be played with other paying customers when the developer approves them. Yes, to play the game there is a monthly fee which has to payed. However there is also a free version which offers two arenas and one tank. |
| Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You | 1997-12-04 | Konami Co., Ltd. | Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo Co., Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person | | Romance | Dating simulation | | | | | | | Windows | This is an updated version of the first Tokimeki Memorial. This version has improved graphics and sound, new cut-scenes, and new mini-games.You are a young boy who is going to study three years at the Kirameki High School in Japan. Your goal is to win the affection of one (and possibly more) of the twelve beautiful girls who also study with you, especially of Shiori, with whom you were in love some years ago. This is a simulation game with a high-developed statistics system. You have to increase your statistics in different disciplines, depending on the girl you are interested in. You communicate with people via your telephone, and date girls by going with them to various places. You have to keep your promises, otherwise a girl will become angry and even tell bad things about you to other girls, which will spoil your reputation. |
| Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors | 1997-12-05 | BBC Multimedia | Studio Fish | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Destiny of the Doctors is an science fiction action game based on the cult sci-fi series. The story spans over all the incarnations of the Doctor Who series. The Master has taken control of the planet Siralos, a planet made of pure energy, and has captured all seven Doctors, his greatest adversary from the past and the future, and plans to eradicate them from time and space in an attempt to conquer the Universe.You play as Graak, an psychic energy entity that was created by the Doctor, who has to use the TARDIS to travel through time, solve puzzles and battle several of the classic Doctor Who enemies, among them the Daleks, the Cybermen and many others, to free the captured Doctors - but as if that wasn't enough - you have a limited life time which can only be extended by finding energy crystals. The game takes place in an 3D environment, which you float around in with Graak in first person. The game features the voices of all the Doctor Who actors (at that point, this game was made before the most recent series), and a lot of trivia. |
| Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor | 1997-12-08 | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | RPG elements | | | Point and select | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | Sole Survivor is a multiplayer-centric game derived from Command & Conquer where each player assumes control of a single unit from the original game or the Covert Operations expansion, in a fashion that can be described as an early MOBA game. While online modes vary, offline matches against the AI are strictly randomized deathmatches with a 15-minute timer. The player units can collect random crates scattered around the map which contain upgrades (weapons, range, armor, speed), cloaking devices, cloak-negating devices, shroud covering and revealing devices, and radar uplinks. When killed, the player units are respawned, but the unit type can only be chosen at the start of the match. |
| Quake II | 1997-12-09 | Activision, Inc. | id Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | A sequel in name only, this follow up to id’s 1996 Quake, is a first-person shooter revolving around the Earth-Strogg war. The Strogg alien race threatens the Earth, but Earth has launched a counter-offensive, Operation Alien Overlord. Overlord takes the battle to the Strogg homeworld with the ultimate objective of securing their capital city and killing their ruler.As a FPS, Quake II contains a variety of weapons including the fall back Blaster, the Railgun, and the secret BFG10K. Health, armor, and ammunition pick-ups can be found during levels, as can the classic Quake’s Quad Damage power-up. Game play involves mowing down alien opponents as the player progresses through levels, completing in-game objectives. Quake II also comes with multiplayer support for Deathmatches.
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| Panthalassa: The Alternative NOAH | 1997-12-10 | Softmax Co., Ltd. | Softmax Co., Ltd. | Strategy | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Panthalassa: The Alternative NOAH is a real-time strategy game set in an underwater world that became the site of the conflicts between the local Atlantean race and the rest of the humans (Earthians). The Atlanteans rely on organic warfare, while the Earthians have superior technology. The player can choose to control either of the races in two separate campaigns.Rather than building bases and mining for resources the player always has access to the Mobile City, which serves as a permanent transportable base with all the equipment necessary to produce units, which are assembled out of torsos, weapons, and other parts. The game also contains adventure-like elements where talking to certain characters is necessary to advance the story. |
| Ultra Resort Keroncuel | 1997-12-10 | Toshiba-EMI Ltd. | MediaCraft co.,ltd | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Meditative / Zen | | | Windows | Ultra Resort Keroncuel is an exploration-oriented FMV adventure game. The player is transported to a fantastic space resort and given free reign to explore and enjoy the beautiful surroundings. There is only a light story and some gentle puzzles; the focus is on exploration and relaxation instead of problem-solving. In this way it's similar to contemporaries like Saru Brunei's Jungle Park or more modern walking simulators such as Proteus. It's played from a first-person perspective and presented as a series of still images and FMVs; it plays similarly to other Myst-style adventure games.Its fantastical architecture and CG artwork draw from contemporary postmodern arts movements including neo-futurism, superflat, and other Y2K-era art. The art direction, by artist Katsuki Tanaka and multimedia production company Media Craft, can be compared to contemporary work by multimedia artist Osamu Sato. The music, by house producer Soichi Terada, comes a few years before he would become better known in games for his work on Sony's Ape Escape series. |
| Great Nations | 1997-12-11 | | | Strategy | Top-down | Mikko Nieminen | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Great Nations is a shareware clone of Civilization that was designed with multiplayer in mind. Up to eight players can compete against each other in hot seat mode as well as in network games. The game comes with a built-in chat client, several maps and a random map generator. In addition, players can create custom maps as BMP images and convert them into the game's map format, without the need for a special map editing program.Because Great Nations was developed as a multiplayer game, there is no single-player mode in which the player can compete against AI opponents. |
| Solitaire City | 1997-12-11 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Solitaire City is a collection of solitaire games played against the clock for points. The faster you complete a game, the higher your score. It has been a shareware venture for Peter Wiseman since it was first released in 1997.Solitaire City is different to other solitaire collections due to its timed scoring system. Replayability is added for players by trying to shave a few seconds off the best times to see their name in lights on top of one of the many high score tables. In addition to personal high score tables for each solitaire game, the Windows and Pocket PC versions also automatically download Weekly and All Time Great tables from the internet allowing players to compete against the best solitaire players from around the world. If you end up on one of the worldwide high score tables then you get to see your country's flag waving next to your name and score.Solitaire City is fully customizable from the sound effects and music to the background and card graphics. You can even download a free cardset design tool called Solitaire Setty and turn your jpeg collection into a Solitaire City cardset. |
| Wing Commander: Prophecy | 1997-12-11 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Teen | | Windows | Following the Border Worlds conflict of Wing Commander IV, the galaxy is once more at peace. Colonel Christopher Blair, hero of the Confederation has transferred into the Naval Forces. Blair helps design the TCS Midway, a state-of-the-art multi-role carrier that will help keep order during the Confederation's new peacetime. The luxury of peace allows Confed to retire many older pilots and assign younger pilots to piloting roles. Lance Casey and his friend Max "Maestro" Garrett are two such pilots, fresh from the academy, transferred aboard the TCS Midway along with several others for its maiden voyage along the borders of Confed Space. But soon into the mission, the Midway intercepts a distress call from the Kilrathi, the remains of a race of cat-like warriors who lost the war with the Confederation...Wing Commander: Prophecy is a space combat simulator. Players take the role of Lance Casey on his new assignment aboard the ship. The player can click various hotspots aboard the ship to engage in non-interactive FMV conversations with shipboard personnel. By entering the briefing room, players can receive full instructions on their next mission.Space Combat begins by launching from the TCS Midway carrier, and are displayed as first-person perspective inside the cockpit, similar to the rest of the Wing Commander series. Mission objectives vary between escort duties, patrol missions, search and destroy or defense of the TCS Midway herself. Depending on the ship being flown for the particular mission, the player will be able to switch between guns, missiles, torpedoes and mines with which to combat the enemy. The player, as wing commander, can give orders to nearby wingmen and communicate with any other ship. After each mission, the player must return to dock with the TCS Midway and will receive a mission performance rating. |
| Balls of Steel | 1997-12-12 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Wildfire Studios Pty. Ltd. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | Teen | | Windows | After Epic Megagames' two releases Epic Pinball and Extreme Pinball, Apogee finally got their own pinball game in late 1997, Balls of Steel. It features five testosterone-packed tables, each with its own theme, missions, and special bonuses. Like the Epic games and the classic "21st Century" pinball games on Amiga, BoS has a top-down scrolling screen, with an animated dot matrix display at the bottom. It also features a full-table view. Very high scores are awarded with a "powerball" end bonus mode, and could be posted on the "WorldScores" net site (no longer available). Being a Windows game, all tables boast high-resolution graphics.This game was included in Encore's "Pinball Madness 2" collection in 1999. |
| Can Can Bunny Primo | 1997-12-12 | Cocktail Soft | Cocktail Soft | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a remake of the very first Can Can Bunny game. The story remains the same: a lonely (and horny) boy is desperately looking for a girlfriend, so the fairy Ariko from the Magic Land gives him a Magic Book that will teach him how to seduce girls effectively. As in the original, there are five girls to choose from.Changes include better graphics (256 colors) and voice acting. The gameplay system is the same as in the original, but some mechanics from the second game were added, such as the ability to modify the stats of the hero before the actual beginning. |
| Master of Magic | 1997-12-12 | Locus Company Ltd. | SimTex, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, RPG elements, Turn-based strategy | Fantasy | | Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | The plot of Master of Magic is to become the dominant wizard on two 'planes' of existence, the normal Earth-like one and the fantasy based plane "Myrror". You can do this by destroying your competing wizards (up to 4 computer players) or by casting the Spell of Mastery.Game play is carried out in a 2D top down perspective. You move your armies around the board, fighting monsters to get treasure, and more importantly 'nodes'. Once you control a node you can summon a spirit to meld with the node and gain mana from it. You also must build up your cities so you can support and train your army. City management is very much like Civilization. You also must allocate your mana for use, or research. You must research to learn new spells. You can do battle with the enemy in a quasi-isometric perspective or you can have the game simulate the battles. The game ends when your home tower is destroyed; you banish all the other wizards (by destroying their home tower) or someone casts the Spell of Mastery. |
| Dam | 1997-12-14 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Dam is a computer version of checkers. The available modes include: human vs. human, human vs. computer, or computer vs. computer. The features include: online play, different difficulty levels (corresponding to giving the computer different time limits to think), setting up the board layout, support of files in the PDN (Portable Draughts Notation) format. |
| Eric's Ultimate Solitaire CD | 1997-12-16 | Delta Tao Software, Inc. | Delta Tao Software, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | A collection of many popular and not-so-popular solo card games. This is more than just a solitaire game, with detailed images, and event-based sounds. The player can choose from 23 different games, and keep information on game play (success, failure, speed).
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| JSF | 1997-12-16 | Eidos, Inc. | Innerloop Studios | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Anders Dybdahl | | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | In the game, you are the pilot of one of the two playable multi-role stealth aircraft, the Lockheed X-35 or the Boeing X-32. The game features four non-linear campaigns, never-seen-before weapons, up to 8 players, weather effects and more. |
| Bratya Piloty. Po sledam polosatogo slona (Podarochnoe izdanie) | 1997-12-23 | 1C Company | Gamos Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | This is gift edition of Pilots Brothers: On the Track of Striped Elephant, which includes:
Pilots Brothers: On the Track of Striped Elephant
T-Shirt.
Badge.
Calendar.
Video CD with Investigation held by Kolobki cartoon.
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| Des Blood | 1997-12-26 | Illusion | Illusion | Action, Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The year is 2156. Tokyo has turned into a crime capital, where violence flourishes. Gang wars, murders, rape, and rampaging human clones, the replicants - this is how future looks like. But things get even worse. A meteorite-like object from space crashes into the ocean. The scientists find a woman inside the object - a beautiful, seductive alien woman who calls herself Hotaru. Before long all hell breaks loose, since Hotaru possesses extraordinary powers, and uses them to damage the inhabitants of the Earth. You take the role of a police officer in Tokyo Police Department, and you are the one who must solve the mystery and save your home.Des Blood opens the line of sex games by Illusion. It is a first-person "full motion video" adventure, similar in interface and navigation to graphical Zork games, but without puzzles and with pre-rendered 3D characters instead of real actors. In hostile areas, the game transforms into a shooter. You don't have freedom of movement; you have to target enemies who appear on the screen and kill them from where you stand. The sex scenes are shown as pre-rendered animated movies. In some of them you'll be able to make choices, such as different positions during sex. |
| Warpath 97 | 1997-12-31 | Synthetic Reality | Synthetic Reality | Action, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Real-time multi-player game set in space. The aim is to explore, mine and colonize planets and defeat enemies (sometimes referred to as a 4X game). It contains some real-time strategy/action elements. Released as shareware, and as a sequel to the 1994 game Warpath.Designed primarily as a multi-player game, but can be played against AI opposition. Multiplayer can be achieved through a modem, IPX Local Area NETWORK (LAN) or on the internet through the Mplayer service. |
| 100 Smash Win95 Games | 1998 | Learning Company, Inc., The | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 100 Smash WIN95 Games is a compilation of freeware and shareware games for Windows 95.The compilations menu lists the games in alphabetical order by category: Arcade, Board, Cards, Casino, Children, Logic, Puzzle, Registered, Strategy and Windows 95. The Registered games are not shareware games, they are 'Special Editions' of games which carry the Quantum Axcess name and/or logo.The menu system allows the user to review the game and it's system requirements via a brief description of each. Some games can be previewed by running them from the CD while others must be installed first. |
| 101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy | 1998 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Interactive Simulations Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | Teen | | Windows | 101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy is a turn-based strategy game set during World War II were the player takes command over a troop of 18 units.
Every mission starts with a detailed planning
phase. There the player chooses his men and equips them. Because this can be a time-consuming
task the game offers the option to make these decisions automatically. The last step before
starting the mission is to set where the units sit in the plane. This is important because of one
unique feature of this game: during the jumps there are randomly generated happenings which are
applied to the units, e.g. they get separated, killed or the whole plane gets shot down.After all surviving units reach the ground the player respectively the AI moves one unit at a time. Every one has a certain amount of action points which decrease with every action, e.g. moving, resting, trading equipment or firing. The goal is always to liberate a certain area accompanied by a few optional tasks which have to be found during the mission. It is also important to note that the game uses fog of war and doesn't tell the player where his other units are. This means he has to orientate himself with a map - if one of the nearby soldiers has one in his equipment. After three days at most the mission ends and the player gets rated. |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Air Warrior III / Carrier Strike Fighter iF/A-18E | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following two games on CD-ROM:
Air Warrior III
Carrier Strike Fighter iF/A-18E |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Apache / iF-16 | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH, UCON Interactive GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Apache
iF-16 |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Davis Cup Complete Tennis / Tie Break | 1998 | UCON Interactive GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Davis Cup Complete Tennis
Tie Break |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Der Planer 2 / Mad TV 2 | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH, UCON Interactive GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Der Planer 2
Mad TV 2 |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Dragon's Lair / Space Ace | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following 2 games on CD-ROM:
Dragon's Lair
Space Ace |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Dream Team 98 / ranSoccer | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following 2 games on CD-ROM:
Dream Team 98
ranSoccer |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Enemy Nations / Claim to Power | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH, UCON Interactive GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Claim to Power
Enemy Nations |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Hanse: Die Expedition / Der Patrizier | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following 2 games on CD-ROM:
Hanse: Die Expedition
The Patrician |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Hind / Flight Unlimited | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH, UCON Interactive GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
HIND: The Russian Combat Helicopter Simulation
Flight Unlimited |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Lamborghini: American Challenge / Have a N.I.C.E. day! | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH, UCON Interactive GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Lamborghini: American Challenge
Have a N.I.C.E. day! |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Pinball Mania / Pinball Construction Kit | 1998 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH, UCON Interactive GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Pinball Builder: A Construction Kit for Windows
Pinball Mania |
| 3 Mega Games: Simulations | 1998 | Media Publishing | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This collection contains the three following simulation games:
Grand Prix 2
Jane's Combat Simulations: Advanced Tactical Fighters (Gold Edition) (includes the main game Advanced Tactical Fighters and the Add-On NATO Fighters)
EF 2000
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| 3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Pinball | | Automobile, Track racing | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | 3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball is, as the name suggests, a pinball game with a racing theme. Unique is that the theme is not only present on the table's background images but that the player actually takes the role of one of four real-life NASCAR drivers. Every race consists of three parts, each represented by one table: preparing, racing and pit stops.The player prepares his car by playing at the garage table. Similar to regular pinball games the goal is to score as most points as possible. The player visits the speedway table two times per race: at first there is a qualifying round which, together with the garage score, sets the starting position for the race. During the race the player constantly competes against the other drivers; to be successful he needs to score points by hitting certain parts of the table as fast as possible. Lastly the pit stop table is entered by hitting a certain point on the speedway table. This is required if the player hits the "accident" spot or at certain times during the race. Again the goal is to hit certain points on the table as fast as possible.The game also includes an informational part on the CD-ROM where the player can read texts or watch videos about NASCAR racing. |
| 3-D Ultra Pinball (Collector's Edition) | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A compilation package which includes:
3-D Ultra Pinball
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
It also features a VHS copy of The History of Pinball, a 60 minute documentary about pinball. |
| 300 Favourite Games | 1998 | Expert Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 300 Favourite Games is a compilation of allegedly 'hand picked' shareware and demonstration games. Though the CD inlay says that these games run in either/both WIN 3.1 and WIN 95 many in fact are DOS games.The observant will note that the total of the games in all categories comes to three hundred and thirty seven which is more than advertised. Some of these games date back as far as 1983 while the majority date to the early 1990's. The game browser can run some programs direct from the CD, it can copy DOS games to the player's machine while for Windows games it will run an installation program, where there is a manual it will attempt to open it with either MS Word or Notepad.A few of the games tested would only run in a WIN 3.1 environment while others would not run at all because the reckoned that the thirty day trial period had expired.The install process puts two shortcuts onto the users machine, one links to a product catalogue while the other links to the game browser/installer both of which are on the CD. The games are grouped into the following categories where the numbers in brackets;
Adventure Games (27)
These are nearly all DOS games, they start with a DOS versions of 3D Tunnel, Adventure a Colossal Caves clone and Abmis the Lion, the first three games in the Hugo's House of Horrors series are present and the group ends with Walls of Bralock, Wa-tor for Windows and Weird Island.
Arcade Games (116)
A mixture of games in the biggest game group of this compilation. It starts with 3D Demon, Advanced T-Robots, Aldo's Assault and the platform game Aldo's Adventure. There are pinball games, space shooters, Missile Attack clones, Shooters such as Earth Invasion and Alien Worlds, Puzzlers like Jetpack, Action games such as FBI Fred, and oddly The Oakflat Nuclear Power Plant Simulator is also in this group.
Board Games (21)Often in such compilations there are multiple versions of chess and mahjongg in board game groups but here there is hardly any duplication. All the old favourites Go, Yahtzee, Mahjongg, Battleships, Backgammon etc are here together with a few oddities such as Bingo, Crosswords, a jigsaw game, and Ungaria which is a grid based puzzler
Card Games (40)
A decent collection of card games with just the odd duplicate, for example there are two versions of cribbage, pinochle and euchre.
Casino Games (1)
Given there are so many casino games around it's odd that Poker and Blackjack games were included as Card Game group leaving Baccarat by Raymond Buti as the only casino game on offer.
Kids Games (25)
This is a selection of educational titles ranging from Animated Multiplication and Division to Zurk's Learning Safari, other titles in both series' are also available.
Mind Games (67)
What exactly is a 'Mind Game'? Well here it includes board games such as Cutlass Software's Aggravation, hangman games, another cribbage game, Moraff's Spherejongg and Moraff's Ringjongg, Taking Care of Business and of course there's a Tetris clone, crossword puzzler and Wordsearch game in here too
Simulation Games (1) - Just the one game here, Strategic Bomber from Paul Van Zyl, and it's a strategy game and not a simulation
Sports Games(9)
Three golf games including AM's Mini Golf 3D, two fishing games Bass Tour v4.3 and Fisherman's Delight, 1994Pool, Darts by Scott Semon, Digital Downs a horse racing game and Matchup Basketball
Strategy Games (29)
Apples & Oranges heads this group, other games include The Jelly Bean Factory, Ports of Call, and Mice Men. Also present are version of WinRisk, WinTrek, a Pipe Mania variant together with CBT - a trio of games Color Cross / Battle Charge / Tunnel War, the oddly named Grot 31 and others. |
| 31 for Windows | 1998 | Ultisoft, Inc. | Meusesoft | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | 31 For Windows is a card game for four players. It can be played by one player against the computer or against real players via the internet. The objective is to score as many points as possible by collecting cards of the same suit. The ace counts eleven, the ten, jack, queen and king all count ten points and other cards count as their face value. The highest possible score is therefore thirty-one hence the name.The game is played with a regular deck of fifty-two cards. Three cards are dealt to each player and three cards, called the pot, are placed in the middle of the play area face down. The dealer evaluates their hand and either keeps it or exchanges it for the as yet unseen pot. Once this choice has been made the pot is revealed to all players.
Each player then takes turns in exchanging one card from their hand for a card from the pot. If the pot When a player is happy that their hand cannot be improved any more they pass and can make no more exchanges. The round ends when all players have passed and the player(s) with the lowest scores lose a life.
There are two special rules.
- A player may chose to exchange all of their cards for the contents of the pot.
- If a player's hand scores thirty-one then the round ends immediately with no further card exchanging being allowed.
The installed game also features a harder variant called the 'van Eer-Maas' variation in which no player is allowed to take all of the pot.
In both games the players lose a life if they have the lowest score in a round and the game continues until only one player remains.The game has sound effects, three levels of difficulty, and a choice of languages English or Dutch. It is played entirely via the mouse. |
| 3D Alien Invasion | 1998 | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | You're tasked with defending your space station from wave after wave of incoming alien invaders in this more modern take on the classic Space Invaders.Unlike the original game, you can earn weapon power ups (up to three shots at the same time), and there's two special weapons: The Boomerang (which flies back and may destroy your ship) and the Missile (which can only be fired once, but destroys everything in its path!). Another gameplay feature is the ability to jump and evade incoming enemy fire. |
| 3D Atlas | 1998 | TLC Properties, Inc. | MultiMedia Corporation plc, The | Educational | 1st-person | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | Flight / aviation, Naval / watercraft | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 3D Atlas is an educational title which boasts 3D graphics on twelve different types of spinning globes, time lapse video sequences animations showing changes to the planer such as the destruction of the ozone layer and more. The title has been in production for some time, the credits show this release was also called 3D Atlas 98 and that before that there was a 3D Atlas 97, 3D Atlas (v1.1) and 3D Atlas(v1.0). The atlas has built in links to America On Line which held downloadable content.This version, and probably the earlier versions too, includes what is described as 'a challenging quiz' called 'Around The World' which can be played by one to three players. In their turn each player faces a round of five questions. Each question is timed and is worth a certain amount of points or air-miles, but that value decreases over time. When a round has been completed the game shows a humorous video of some form of transport, usually early aircraft. When all players have completed their round the game shoes a representation of the earth and how far the players have travelled with their accumulated air miles.Questions are obviously based on geography and countries of the world. Identifying a natoins flag is a common kind of question as is recognising a country from a picture of its scenery or a local market, knowledge of capital cities and major exports helps too. The quiz ends when a player has made a complete circuit of the earth. The scoreboard does not show high scores because a trip around the earth is always the same distance, instead it shows the percentage of questions answered correctly.
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| 3D Hunting: Trophy Whitetail | 1998 | Macmillan Digital Publishing USA | MachineWorks Northwest LLC | Action, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The first of the first-generation deer hunting games to offer complete freedom of movement, Trophy Whitetail uses a build-like engine to create fully explorable 3D (well, 2.5D) environments.Choose your weapon from an arsenal that includes a .357 magnum, a bow, a 7mm bolt-action rifle and a 30-30 lever-action rifle, and then choose your hunting location from either Oregon, New York, Arkansas or Kentucky and you are all set.You have in-game options to camouflage yourself, attract scent, etc. as well as a gps to show your position in the gameworld. |
| 3D Maze Man: Amazing Adventures | 1998 | RomTech, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | | Windows | In this 3D take on the classic Pac-Man game you guide Maze Man through 9 different worlds, gobbling up objects to clear the board in each level. Worlds include Under The Sea, Wild West, Tropical Island, Toyland, Medieval Castle, Hyper Space, Haunted House, Flower Garden and Egyptian Pyramids. The game features colourful graphics and fun music. |
| 3D Ms. Maze: Tropical Adventures | 1998 | RomTech, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | 3D Ms. Maze: Tropical Adventures is a single-player 3D Pac-Man variant that is very similar in style to 3D Maze Man: Amazing Adventures and Lady Cruncher which are from the same developer.In this game the player takes Ms. Maze through twenty tropical themed levels gobbling up many varieties of fruit, avoiding obstacles, using secret passages and conveyor belts while avoiding ghosts unless a power up has been eaten.
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| 3D Railroad Master | 1998 | Abracadata Ltd. | Computer Systems Odessa Corp. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | Train | | | | | Windows | 3D Railroad Simulator is a game which focuses on the accurate simulation of diesel locomotive. The player is on the control stand and operates the engine in a 1st person perspective. There are 20 scenarios with a complex routing but the presentation is more based on model railways.The goal of the scenarios is to take freight and bring it under a time limit to another location. To achieve this goal it is needed to shunt and connect respectively disconnect rail cars. Other things to pay attention to are rail switches and the appropriate signals when passing a railroad crossing. |
| 3D Schach! | 1998 | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG | | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Board game, Chess | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Schach! is a chess program from the famous German chess writer and programmer Karl-Heinz Milaster, designed for Microsoft Windows 9x and/or NT 4. It is a standard chess program providing usual play modes (such as Blitz, Tournament etc.), the choice between a 2D or a 3D view, a save option and an HTML export feature to share your best moves on the web. Another feature is aimed at testing and learning. I.e. the board can be set up freely and you can learn from a library of 300,000 chess matches. |
| 3D Schiffe versenken | 1998 | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG | Action, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Board game, Platform | | Naval / watercraft | | | | | Windows | The return of the classic board game "Battleship" in 3D. You can play against the computer AI (3 skill levels from Novice to Experienced strategist) or via LAN with a friend.Play the classic version on a 10x10, 12x12 or 15x15 squares field or play the extended version on 3 levels (submarines, boats and planes). For the extended version you can choose some additional options: Place mines and/or choose different ammunition (for example: small submarines torpedoes can attack only other submarines or ships, nuclear submarines can attack planes with their torpedoes), units can move 1 square each round, allow diagonal placement, fresh attack after strike.In the classic version you can choose 3 fleet sizes (small fleet includes 2 frigates, 2 cruiser and 1 destroyer. Medium fleet includes 2 frigates, 2 cruiser, 2 battleships and 1 destroyer. Large fleet includes 1 frigate, 2 cruiser, 1 battleship, 1 destroyer and 1 aircraft carrier.)In the advanced version you can choose from light-helis, war helicopters, fighter bombers, fighter interceptors, frigates, cruisers, battleships, destroyers, aircraft carriers, logistic submarines, reconnaissance aircrafts, mine layers and nuclear submarines. |
| 4 in a Row | 1998 | MG Software | MG Software | Puzzle, Strategy | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 4 In A Row is a windows, single player, shareware, mouse controlled turn-based colour matching game. Each turn the player may move one object and this causes more randomly coloured object to appear on the board. The object of the game is to arrange the objects to form lines of four or more of the same colour. The lines can be arranged vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Each line completed immediately disappears and scores points. If a player clears seven tiles/blocks in a move they earn a 'bomb' which can be used to clear space in the game area. The game continues until all cells are occupied and there are no more moves left. There are four game variants:
Easy: Seven colours, two blocks added per turn
Medium: Six colours, three blocks added per turn. This is the only mode available in the shareware version.
Hard: Seven colours, three blocks added per turn
Easy: Five colours, four blocks added per turn
The game has a choice of tile sets, music, sound and voice effects, and a high score table. |
| 486 Game Pack | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This collection includes four Sierra games:3-D Ultra Pinball
Hoyle Classic Games
Trophy Bass
You Don't Know Jack |
| A Vous Les Studios! | 1998 | RD Studio Productions | | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Powered by QuickTime VR, A Vous Les Studios! is a fun way to discover the history of french radio and television.Year 2022 : destroyed in a cataclysm, the Eiffel Tower has to be rebuild. You can do this by exploring TV and radio studios, learning their history and milestones, but mainly by answering questions. Floor by floor, you will be able to rebuild it. Too many wrong answers and kaboom ! The two CDs are filled with historical photos and videos. One CD is dedicated to the radio, the other to the television. |
| A2 Racer II | 1998 | Davilex Games B.V. | Davilex Games B.V. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | A2 Racer II again allows you to race on the well known Dutch A-2 highway. But also race tracks have been set out through 3 major Dutch cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag (the Hague).Like in the original you join illegal street races. There are six stages in the game. The first stage takes place in Amsterdam, the second on the A-2 towards Den Haag, the third in Den Haag itself, the fourth on the road to Rotterdam, the fifth in Rotterdam, and the last from Rotterdam past Utrecht back to Amsterdam.Each city has been carefully recreated in a completely new and improved 3D engine.Racing is made difficult by the police who try to block you by setting up blockades or pushing you off the road. Each time you get caught you get a ticket and lose time. With the third ticket you are out of the race.The game doesn't have a visible damage system, but if you get into too severe a crash you are also out of the race. |
| ARA NGC 6397 | 1998 | Hoffman and Associates | Artech Studios Ltd. | Action, Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | | | Windows | This cyberpunk action-adventure's puzzling title actually refers to a real-life dense cluster of stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The Syndicate, an unpopular governing alliance has taken over the Earth and among the resistance against them, you are an undercover agent who must unravel the plots of conspiracy-seeking journalists, mad scientists, and the Syndicate alliance. You land in a group that survived the effects of an mind-controlling virus, and disembark from a spaceship to a space station. However, only you and a companion survive an attack by Syndicate forces. At some points, you can speak to your companion, to issue orders to him. There's three levels, the first and third being virtual rail shooters and the second a graphic adventure. The shooting levels are just a matter of aiming and shooting enemies in each room. In the second level, instead of using your weapon, you will have to use different objects to be able to escape. You can move between rooms, and manipulate objects where the cursor becomes a hand. If you do not win a battle which does not lead to the correct solution of the game, you die and must return to the beginning of the level. |
| Abenteuer Afrika | 1998 | Egmont Interactive GmbH | | Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Africa | | Direct control, Menu structures | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Abenteuer Afrika is an interactive learning game for children. You are a photographer for a magazine and are tasked with taking photos of African animals.
Different vehicles can be sued to take a snap of over 100 different species.
Start your journey through different landscapes and use the integrated data base of photos and videos. |
| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | 1998 | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, based on the movie of the same name, is a humorous 3rd-person point-and-click adventure in a cartoon-inspired style, with multiple paths and endings.
In the game you take on the role of Ace, who's out to solve a case involving endangered animals and who has to uncover the identity of the sicko with the scissors. You and your pet monkey Spike will explore dozens of locations, ranging from the Alaskan Tundra to the Bavarian castle of Phatteus Lardus. You will race in a high-tech snowmobile, rub noses with Eskimo maidens and go where no sane Pet Detective has gone before. You'll need to use everything at your disposal to fend off your enemies and animal haters to eventually return all the animals to their rightful homes. |
| Action Games from South West Software | 1998 | ArcMedia.com Inc. | South West Software | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Action Games is a collection of thirty two shareware games, or rather the shareware versions of commercial games some of which were very successful while others never made it into production. The product has two start routines, one for Windows 95 and another for Windows 3.1. The Windows 95 routine has additional options including an interactive catalogue of Arc Media titles, a registration document and a Quicktime installation option. Both versions use the same game browser which will install or copy the game files to the hard drive, as well as install DirectX 3.0, Visual Basic Runtime files, Video for Windows and other necessary applications. The games included this product are listed below in the order they appear on the back of the jewel case:
Diablo
G-Nome
Rocket Jockey
Blade Warrior
Albion from Blue Byte Software
Iron Blood
Magic Carpet 2
Alien Trilogy
CyberGladiators from Sierra On-Line, Inc.
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries
Crusader: No Regret
ZPC Land
Multiplayer BattleTech: Solaris from Kesmai Corporation
Dark Forces
Total Annihilation
Fighting Force
Youngblood: Search And Destroy a one level demo of a game that scheduled for release in late 1997 but was never released. The game was based on the Youngblood comic book series, it was a single player, overhead action game in which the superhero team fought their way through hell itself to stop the evil Dr Leviticus gaining control of the Drachma Codex
Dark Angael listed as Dark Angel
Golgotha: This is "Golgotha: Demo 4" and is another demo of a game that was never released commercially. When the developer, Crack dot Com, closed in 1998 the source code and all data for the game was released into the public domain, it needs a 3DFX card to run.
Demon Star
Battle Cycles: This game was written in August 1996 by Louis DeSetto who released this unfinished demo version to see if there was enough interest to justify completing the game, there probably wasn't as no trace of a completed game was found. It's a two player, keyboard controlled, Light Cycle type of game in which players have guns and can survive collisions with the walls.
Earth 2140
Galapagos
Independence War: The Starship Simulator aka I-War
JSF aka Joint Strike Fighter
Blood Bath at Red Falls, called just Blood Bath on the inlay, from UnderWorld Software
Terroid
Skrap from Neuronware Entertainment is another demo of game that didn't make it to a full commercial release. In the future envisaged in this game multinational corporations set up computers to control their business interests as they became more complex. Over time these corporate entities became self aware controlled and enslaved the population that had created them. The player takes the role of a pilot for one of the armament conglomerates who escapes in a prototype helicopter 'Spartacus' and joins the last rebel forces. The object of the game is to lead the rebels to freedom.
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Warlords III: Reign of Heroes
Dark Reign: The Future of War listed as Dark reign
X-COM: Apocalypse
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| Actua Ice Hockey | 1998 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Another sport was added to the Actua series in this license of the Ice Hockey component of the 1998 Winter Olympics. You can choose from any of the leading teams and attempt to lead them to glory, starting from the qualifiers, with friendly matches (surely a misnomer in the tough world of Ice Hockey) and a practice mode also on offer. Players are motion-captured, and the action can be viewed from multiple camera angles. Paul Ferguson provides a running commentary, and full replays are provided. |
| Adventures with Chickens | 1998 | Xtreme Games LLC | RockSolid Software | Action, Educational, Strategy | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Adventures With Chickens is a single person shareware puzzle game with both educational and shoot 'em up elements.The player takes control of a spaceship pilot who, in the course of their travels, comes across a flock of purple chickens in space. The task is to capture these chickens to complete the maze-like level. The game also features alien space ships who will attack the player, bonus items, refuelling points and alien traps.
At the start of each level a verse from the bible is displayed for the player to study and learn.The game was released as shareware with a limited number of levels. There are twenty five levels in the full game.
The game has sound effects and is entirely keyboard controlled, the keys cannot be redefined.
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| After Dark Games | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Action, Puzzle, Strategy | Side view, Top-down | | | Arcade, Cards / tiles, Falling block puzzle, Game show / trivia / quiz, Platform, Tile matching puzzle, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | Everyone | 2D scrolling, Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | After Dark Games is a spin-off from the successful After Dark screensaver collections. It features the following eleven original games:Hula Girl: A "timed" game of sorts (the screen moves upward and you can't leave the visible area), Hula Girl features none other than a girl with a hula hoop. Grab the cola, cupcakes, ice cream, and hula-hoops while avoiding spiders, broccoli, frogs, and mean sisters. Each platform you land on grabs you one point, but watch your yukk-o-meter!
Fish Shtick: Unscramble the letters before the clock reaches 0! Collect as many points as you can and get a high score! One point for four-letter words, two for 5-letter words, three for 6-letter words, etc.
Roof Rats: Get everyone off the roof and leave yourself with as few rooms remaining as possible. Eliminate rooms by putting two-or-more of the same colour together and double-clicking. Each person has their own number of floors that they can jump off of. The grannie has to be on ground level, the rat can jump off of 1 floor, the dog - 2 floors, the pogo-boy - 3 floors, the boxing kangaroo - 4 floors, the buff man - 5 floors.
Solitaire: No twists here, just a simple game of Klondike.
Roger Dodger: You control a glowing orb that needs to collect power-ups (green) and then make its way to the pulsing green gateway. Avoid red things; they'll kill you!
Zapper: Standard trivia; yes-or-no questions. Every time you get three-in-a-row correct and your time will increase, as well as the jackpot (third) point level.
Mowin' Maniac: Can you say Pac-Man? That's all this game is: a variant with a lawnmower theme.
Bad Dog 911: Using six letters, create as many words as you can before time runs out! Every "real" word will move the scaffolding closer to you, but the clock is ticking! When it's half-past and you haven't gotten the scaffolding yet, you die!
Toaster Run: Ah, the little toaster that was the first in a series of infamous screen savers. Now the little toaster is on a mission to gather all the toys and put the child in bed. Hitting an object causes the toaster to lose power; bread increases it. Watch out for the TV! The static really hurts!
Foggy Boxes: Dots in disguise. Unfortunately, you can only play against the computer.
MooShu: The classic game of MahJongg, carried all the way from China! Select two tiles of matching design that are free on either the left or right and they disappear! Win by removing all the tiles. |
| Agapito's Crazy Adventure | 1998 | AWorld Shareware | AWorld Shareware | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Inside a box with cereal, Agapito finds a voucher for a trip for two to an island in the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Madagascar and the Antilles. He invites his friend Susan to accompany him, but he loses her on the airport, probably to a "tall blond fellow." He ends up in a cargo plane next to a nose picking gorilla. On the island he will stay in the Paradise Hotel as its only quest. Exploring of the island is done by foot, until he manages to repair an impressive sports car (a Deux Chevaux). From then on the player is able to explore the island and its beaches by using a map. Agapito's Crazy Adventure is a 3rd person, inventory based humorous adventure. There's no real quest, but only a series of situations that have to be solved. Only in the final stage of the game Agapito meets a new girlfriend and some tasks have to be completed before he can have diner with her.
A black bar below the graphics window includes the action icons (take, look etc.) and space for inventory items. Hotspot names are shown at the right of the icons, pop-up comments are shown in the graphics window. The game has some sound effects, but no voices or music. It can be installed in English or Spanish. The registered version includes a help (and hints) file.
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| Ages of Myst | 1998 | Mindscape, Inc. | Cyan Worlds, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Ages of Myst is a compilation which features the first two entries of the Myst series:
Myst
Riven: The Sequel to Myst
The package also includes a notebook and a disc with The Making of Riven.The German version includes other extras: a mouse pad and a disc with The Making of Prince of Persia 3D. |
| Ai to Yūjou no Neko Monogatari: Jingle Cats - Love Para Daisakusen no Maki | 1998 | Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Inc. | Vantan International Co., Ltd. | Simulation | Side view | | | Life / social simulation | Contemporary | | Point and select | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Based on the Jingle Cats series of novelty albums, this life simulation game has players making the peace at Jingle Cat House. In each level, the player chooses a few cats to put in a room together and try to build their relationship with each other. Like in Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, players don't control the cats or even have strong influence over them. Instead, cats have a mind of their own; players interact with different items in the room in the hopes they can coax cats into doing what they want. As cats wander the room, players are able to do many different things: pick cats up, move furniture and props around, bring out toys to play with them. If the players do a good job bringing cats close to each other, at the end of the stage the two cats will form a positive relationship with each other, but if players fail to bring the cats close enough with each other they have to try the stage over again. In between stages, players get an animated performance of one of the Jingle Cats songs. |
| Akakliké | 1998 | Hatier | Hachette Multimedia | Educational | Side view, Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This game for children from two to five teaches the basics of logic through twelve small games. You guide Akakliké through his home and go to sleep in one of the twelve chambers. In his dreams, you can solve the puzzles. Most of them deal with mouse movement, animals, shapes, rhythm and matching exercises with colourful photos. Some of the games have three difficulty levels. |
| Akuma: Demon Spawn | 1998 | Lomax Software | Trigger Soft | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | The story takes place in a time when demons are terrorizing the world. Three warriors come together and form a Blood Trinity, vowing to fight demons until the world is safe again.
One warrior, Elim, is a noble Korean swordsman. The second, Kusa, is a Japanese sorcerer. The third is a woman, Raening, a martial arts expert skilled in archery. Elim becomes engaged to Shining a beautiful girl who he has to rescue when she is captured by demons. He cannot live with her until the world is free of demons. Kusa carries a box on his back containing the bones and restless spirit of his father. He is sworn to avenge his death and find a way to let his father rest in peace. Raening has to prove that a woman and a princess can be as good a warrior as any man. The warriors travel from village to village helping those beleaguered by demons and fulfilling tasks to help the villagers. As a result of their labors they accumulate money, weapons, and powerful spells. They will need all their skill and experience as they learn the story of the Blood Sword and vow to find it and use it to kill Satan. Akuma: Demon Spawn is a role-playing game similar in appearance to Diablo. The player indirectly controls the characters with the mouse, choosing spells or abilities through a menu or hot keys during battles - the player only needs to click on the foe and the rest of the fighting is automatic without further interaction. The player has to handle three characters instead of one, which can make quite a big difference, since there is no pause function like in Baldur's Gate; the combat occurs fully in real time. The majority of the game is spent by exploring the maps, killing hordes of monsters, receiving better gear and improving the hero's abilities. No longer needed equipment is sold in the villages connected to each other by teleporters. |
| Alexi Lalas International Soccer | 1998 | Take-Two Interactive Software Europe Ltd. | Z-Axis, Ltd. | Sports | Side view | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | In Alexi Lalas International Soccer there are 50 official teams to choose in two modes to play. Tournament (with official settings) and exhibition match. Teams and players are developed with attention to statistic detail and featuring a unique face for each player, rendered from their likeness.Most soccer games since the introduction of CD-ROM try to capture the feeling of a TV broadcast with spoken commentary. This game goes into the opposite direction and simulates what the athletes hear on the field, e.g. players shouting at each other or defensemen complaining about the quality of the pitch. |
| Alien Encounter | 1998 | Hyundai Sega Entertainment | Cenozoic Entertainment | Strategy | Diagonal-down, Top-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | In 2158 a hopeful message arrived to save mankind and the first encounter with aliens started. They demanded coexistence on Earth, the land from which they could grow their food, Blue Titanium, and instead transferred skills to help restore the devastated planet. It also gave the most powerful Sax all ownership and control of seeds (Blueseed), which produces blue titanium, which is more efficient than any fossil fuel used on the planet and does not pollute the environment.Alien Encounter is a real-time strategy game about Sax and alien factions against the future world. Distinctive elements are the day-and-night cycle and the fostering system. |
| Alien Spy: Archeology | 1998 | Smarty Pants Publishing Pty Ltd | Smarty Pants Publishing Pty Ltd | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Alien Spy: Archaeology is one of a series of edutainment games set in an Australia. The basic premise is that an alien spy, Schlock, has landed on Earth and in order to learn more about us he/she/it must learn a profession and blend in. In this game Schlock is an archaeologist, other professions in the series include: marine biologist, and forensic scientist.There’s no actual archaeology in this game, no representation of a dig site, no photographs of famous finds – nothing that would normally be expected of a title that focuses on archaeology. This series of games focuses on literacy, imparting some themed knowledge along the way. The main game menu is the alien training room in the centre of which is a large shimmering crystal. The menu options are the five points around the outside of the crystal, as the cursor passes over one of these a text box pops up flickering between Schlock’s native tongue and English, one of the options is ‘Quit’, the others are:
The Interro-Pod: this is a one or two player quiz. Each question has three possible answers. In the two player game player one ‘buzzes in’ with the ‘A’ key before answering while player two ‘buzzes in’ with the ‘B’ key.
The Krypto-Pod: this is a form of interactive text adventure. Each screen consists of a block of text read by someone who sounds like John Cleese, at the end of each block the player has two options. The object is to get to the end of the adventure alive, with the mystery solved and with the treasure.
The Stalker-Pod: this opens a single player, top down, isometric, keyboard controlled game called "Skulls of the Dead", naturally it is set in a cemetery. Here skulls randomly appear and the player must carry the while skulls to safety while smashing the red ones before they mutate and Schlock
The Digi-Pod: this is not a computer game, it is a collection of 'real life' activities ranging from a recipe for a Roman beefburger to ancient encryption techniques. |
| AlphaNatix: Urban Legends Edition | 1998 | Zero Entertainment Inc. | Zero Entertainment Inc. | Action, Educational, Puzzle | | | | Word construction | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | AlphaNatix: Urban Legends Edition is a word-construction game with arcade elements, where the main objective is to spell nine words associated with a famous urban myth on each level, within a time limit. The player controls a sphere rolling on a isometric, tilted plane where several letter tiles are arranged on mixed groups. Tiles touched by the ball are spelled on a tray at the top, where the words have to be completed by passing over all the required letters in the correct order. The tile formations are floating on space, and the orb can fall over the edge and disappear. Levels have a variable number of spare spheres available.Some stages have special tiles and bonus items. Tiles with arrows throw the ball towards the direction they are pointing, sometimes helping to skip tiles and spell a word, while in certain situations acting as traps and pushing the orb into space. Pairs of colored tiles teleport the sphere to other parts of the field. The bonus items can be found as spinning cubes scattered around the level, adding extra spheres, more time and multiplying points when collected. The introduction screens for each level have a clue at the bottom for a secret bonus word. |
| Amazing Poker Squares | 1998 | Ultisoft, Inc. | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Amazing Poker Squares is a shareware solitaire card game played by one to four players.The player is presented with a 5x5 grid and a pack of cards. They are shown cards one at a time and the task is to place them into the grid to form poker hands. Points are scored for each valid hand and the player with the highest point score wins.
The shareware version of the game only allows one player games and the high scores from those games are not recorded. |
| Amazon Trail: 3rd Edition | 1998 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Adventure, Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Amazon Trail 3rd Edition is an educational quest up the Amazon river. The game begins in a museum where an Amazon artifact bearing the likeness of a jaguar comes to life and speaks to you. The jaguar implores you to explore the Amazon, learn all you can about it, and seek the wisdom of the ancient people. After this intro, you are teleported to Belém, port city at the mouth of the Amazon. You must select from among 4 guides, each offering unique qualifications. Pick up a supply package consisting of fish, trading packets, harpoons, and other necessities, and you embark to travel up the Amazon river.Once along the river, your task is to navigate upstream and visit various points along the water to gather information and knowledge of the area. At the same time, you must manage your supplies and make sure you and your guide are provided for. Other activities include getting out of the boat and exploring the rainforest, where you can pick fruit to add to your supply pile, or snap pictures of the flora and fauna for your gallery. There is also a fishing mini-game where you can attempt to spear aquatic creatures with a harpoon from your supply stock in order to add to your food pile. |
| Ancient Evil | 1998 | Silver Lightning Software | Silver Lightning Software | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | | Mature | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | In Ancient Evil a master magician named Alaric constructed a big crypt of 24 levels. Everyone who dares to enter and survives has the opportunity to find gold and valuable items. Naturally, the player character doesn't let this chance pass.The gameplay mechanics of this action role-playing game are very similar to Diablo. The player explores caverns and caves full of swords, sorcerers and spells, hacking and slashing monsters. The base character can specialize in either spell casting or hand-to-hand combat, and attributes improve through fighting and spell casting. |
| Animaniacs: Game Pack! | 1998 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Action, Racing / Driving | Behind view, Diagonal-down, Side view, Top-down | Licensed | | Mini-games, Paddle / Pong, Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Animaniacs: Game Pack! contains five games based on the Animaniacs TV cartoon with the voices of the original cast. The five games can be selected right away from the main menu and there are animated sequences along with brief tutorials.The five mini-games are:
Baloney's Balloon Bop: all three Warners feature in this Breakout variant. Wakko and Dot need to be steered left and right and hold a trampoline used to bounce Yakko upward to pop balloons. If they miss him Baloney the dinosaur running at the bottom of the screen can catch him and then a life is lost. Popped balloons can release power-ups or an anvil stunts Baloney. Later level introduce different types of balloons and unbreakable steel blocks.
Belchinator Too: playing as Wakko you need to stop The Brain and his robots from taking over the world. His own robots have turned against him and have taken him prisoner. Wakko can freely move around in a 2D scrolling environments displayed using a bird's-eye perspective as he uses the power of his belches to defeat the robots. Snacks provide power-ups.
Prop Shop Drop: in a top-down 2D vertically-scrolling game Yakko needs to collect movie props for a foreman. He rides on a bikes through the movie studio and moves forward automatically. He needs to be steered left and right to collect the props and avoid obstacles. There are different studios each with their own theme and by doing well Yakko moves on from a bike to a motorcycle or a race car with a higher speed. The car can only sustain a limited amount of damage.
Smoocher stars Dot as she needs to turn her nightmares into a good dreams. In a fixed-screen platform environment with multiple levels she needs to freeze enemies by blowing hearts (smooches) at them. Once frozen Dot can run into them to remove them. Only a limited number of smooches are available. All enemies present can also be frozen by jumping and hitting TNT.
Tee Off Mini Golf is a mini golf played with Dot using a behind view. The golf course consists of nine holes with various obstacles.The game saves high scores for all games. Extras on the disc include a wallpaper, desktop icons and sounds all based on Animaniacs. |
| Anno 1602: Creation of a New World | 1998 | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH | Max Design GesMBH | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation, Real-time strategy | | | | Real-time | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Anno 1602: Creation of a New World is a real-time strategy game, set around the 17th century period of history.
The game is based around colony building and resource management on a series of small islands. It includes aspects of exploration, combat, diplomacy and trade.The focus lies more in economic aspects and production cycles than combat.
The game design is noteworthy for its attempt to implement a 'progressive' AI. This should mean that the pace of the game changes in response to how quickly players act. |
| Anstoss 2 Gold: Der Fußballmanager | 1998 | ASCARON Entertainment GmbH | ASCARON Entertainment GmbH | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | Anstoss 2 Gold: Der Fußballmanager combines Anstoss 2: Der Fußballmanager and its add-on Verlängerung!. However, it is not a mere compilation; the game adds various new features of its own. The main new feature of this version is the manager career. Here the player negotiates his own contracts, has a reputation and gains (or loses) levels after fulfilling a certain set of conditions (or failures). With better levels come points which are divided into abilities like "press work" or "training" which improve the results in those areas. Other additions include speeches directly before matches, expanded merchandising options, updated rules for national and international championships or more statistics.Also included is a 100-page strategy manual and a brief history of the series, explaining various steps during development and a section with humorous or bizarre calls at the hint-line. |
| Aquazone Deluxe | 1998 | Mindscape, Inc. | 9003inc. | Simulation | Side view | | | Life / social simulation, Sandbox / open world | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Aquazone Deluxe is an updated version of the original Aquazone. The game plays and looks the same but it has more content with a total of six different fish species. There are also new plants, accessories and backdrops to add to the tank. The program also includes an utility that can be used to create custom animated accessories. |
| Arcade Horse Racing | 1998 | ZoroX Software | ZoroX Software | Gambling, Sports, Strategy | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Arcade Horse Racing is a horse race gambling simulation for up to four players. The game offers variations of 3 following modes: Best on 5, 10, 25, 50 races (the player that has the most credits after the last race is the winner) First to 500, 1000, 2500, 5000 credits (the first player that reaches the set amount of credits is the winner) and Free Play.Each player has 100 credits to start with. The maximal amount of credits that can be bet on a race is 20 credits. The game features four types of bets: Win (own horse must win the race), Exacta (picked horses must be first and second in correct order), Quinella (picked horses must be first and second regardless in which order they finish), Jackpot (correct finish order for all six horses). The player may enter a maximum of 3 combinations on each bet, except for Jackpot. There are 3 randomly chosen by the computer tracks available.The bet window shows an overview of all the racing horses, including name, actual odds, brief comment, last 8 race results. Info screen adds 3 stars characteristics of horse, trainer and jockey: condition, speed, start, finish, favourite track, percentage race results. Race History displays the last 20 races. The race introduction includes slow motion photo-finish and replay function. |
| Arcade Pack | 1998 | Double Oak Software | Double Oak Software | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Arcade Pack is a collection of games from Double Oak Software. The pack installs as a single product and creates an 'Arcade Pack' entry in the Windows START menu with an entry for each game together with an entry for a help file which covers all these games plus games from Double Oak's Parlor Pack. The games here are all clones of classic computer games and have previously been released on both the DOS and WIN 3.1 platforms, they are;
Strategic Defense Initiative: This is a Missile Defender clone. In this game the player tries to shoot the incoming missiles using the mouse to aim, right mouse click to fire and switching between their three bases with a left mouse click
Shooting Bugs: This is a Space Invaders clone which replaces alien ships with bugs and the cannon with a pesticide spray
Space Pilot: This is a Lunar Lander clone with several different 'worlds' to play on, the full registered version includes a landscape designer allowing players to build their own scenarios
Solar Defender: This is an unusual variant on Missile Defender. Here instead of protecting cities that sit at the bottom of the screen the player is protecting planets that orbit around a point in the centre of the screen, the bases are in orbit too. Missiles come from all sides of the screen in arcing paths as they home in on their target. Gameplay is the same, left mouse clicks shift the players control from one base to the next while right clicks fire.
Viper: is a Snake clone, it too is mouse controlled the right click turns to the right and the left click turns to the left |
| Ares Rising | 1998 | Imagine Studios | Imagine Studios | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Everyone | | Windows | A group of former Origin staffers and members of the original Privateer team got together to create this space sim, which is a spiritual succesor to the original Privateer.You play Mike Marlowe, a romantic Han Solo-like character who finds himself on the run after scoring with a certain princess. In his run from the law, he finds a haven and steady jobs through a mysterious woman who eventually gets you caught into the main game plot involving the obligatory alien device and a group of warring factions, the IPEC, the Scavage, the Mayjr, etc. You are able to freely decide your relationship with every faction by the way you treat other ships, the missions you take, and other plot decisions which can lead you to 5 possible endings.There are two selectable flight model (the standard Wing Commander-like and an inertial one that resembles I-War's). Gameplay consists of standard space "sim" action, with a series of missions that range from the usual patrols to bounty hunts, ambushes, all-out confrontations, etc. There's no trading whatsoever in the game, and the cargo space in the ship is used only to measure the quantity of equipment you can carry, and speaking of equipment you have a humongous selection of weapons (under three categories) missiles, and other goodies like active/passive radars, cloaking devices, jamming mechanisms etc. As well as 6 ships to fly in.Multiplayer support is also available, with a persistent pilot who has to gain money and goods by duking it out on the net or via modem/lan in plain deathmatch, team battles or cooperative missions. |
| Armor Command | 1998 | Ripcord Games | Ronin Entertainment | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | Tank | Douglas Lee, Jason Zarubin | Real-time | Kids to Adults | | Windows | One of the first true 3D real time strategy games. The player commands an army of tanks and planes fighting against another army. The "evolving movie style storyline" is virtually non-existant, but the game makes up for this with nice graphics and plenty of units to go to war with. |
| Army Men | 1998 | 3DO Company, The | 3DO Company, The | Action, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Isometric | Windows | It's war! Watch your plastic, green and tan toy-soldier figurines come to life and vie for supremacy in this squad-level real-time action/strategy hybrid.In Army Men, you take on the role of Sarge, a grizzled veteran leading his troops through desert, alpine, and swampy settings, grabbing weapon power-ups and blasting his way to victory.Call in air strikes and paratrooper drops. Steal tanks and jeeps for destructive uses. Almost everything can be destroyed in this gasoline-soaked world. Soldiers die in a manner appropriate to the weapon that killed them: rifles break off plastic limbs, flame-throwers melt them into puddles of goo, and rockets send them flying into little bits. Both action and strategy elements are in abundance. |
| Arthur's Math Carnival | 1998 | Microsoft Corporation | ImageBuilder Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Arthur's Math Carnival is an educational game that teaches children basic maths. It is based on the Arthur children's books by Marc Brown. The game is set at a school carnival where the different characters organize five activities in total and Arthur helps out. Each activity has five difficulty levels.
D.W. has a stand where customers order candy, snacks and drinks. When the total amount of money due is shown, the player needs to click and gather the correct amount of money. At the highest difficulty level multiple types of coins (one, five, ten and twenty cent) need to be combined.
For Mr. Ratburn Muffy Crosswire needs to be guided through a maze with sprinklers to retrieve her wallet from the limousine. At the bottom of the screen there are controls to enable or disable the sprinklers.
Francine organizes a bug show. Arthur helps her by sorting the bugs in groups based on different characteristics.
Buster Baxter has a funhouse where a prize is hidden. Arthur uses a flashlight to highlight dark areas. There is a limited amount of tries and Buster gives directions after clicking.
Prunella Deegan hosts a rubber ducky challenge. She has different questions about shapes and the answer is always a number. Arthur has to answer with the correct number to win the game playing against other contestants.For some activities such as the one by D.W. there is a print button to print challenges. |
| Asgaldh: The Distortion Testament | 1998 | Zone | Zone | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person, Top-down | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | One day a young traveler named Ash meets a girl who is attacked by a monster. Saving the girl, Ash finds out that her name is Alicia and that she is the daughter of the Tylling village elder. The girl's father is impressed with Ash's skills and tells him he must venture into the monsters' lair. But as Ash comes back, he discovers that the monsters have kidnapped the elder's daughter, intending to use her magical powers for their evil purposes. Now Ash must find companions for his quest to rescue the girl and find out who is behind the abduction.Asgaldh is a traditional Japanese-style role-playing game with the addition of erotic elements. The player navigates the party over top-down locations, fighting randomly appearing monsters in turn-based combat viewed from first-person perspective. Character and battle graphics have a distinct anime style. Leveling up is automatic; each character has her or his own parameters as well as offensive, supportive and healing magic spells. An active party includes four combatants, which can be swapped at any time outside of battle with reserve characters.It is also possible to impress Ash's female companions, giving them presents and choosing to talk to them in towns. Ash's relationship with the chose character will increase if she likes the presents chosen by the player, and reacts favorably to the dialogue choices during conversations. A high relationship level will unlock powerful combo attacks executed by Ash and the female character in question during combat. Pursuing a relationship with one of the young women may also trigger additional conversations and events. |
| Asghan: The Dragon Slayer | 1998 | Grolier Interactive Inc. | Silmarils | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Platform | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Asghan, a young warrior, swore to avenge his father's death. For this, he travels to a dangerous land of dragons, and his objective is to get rid of all the monsters populating the land.Asghan: The Dragon Slayer is an action-adventure in the style of Tomb Raider, with a jump-&-run flavor (climbing, crawling and jumping) and slight RPG elements (medieval fantasy setting, using magic, finding money and other objects on the bodies of defeated enemies).The game is 3D with many different camera-movement options (although not 360 degree freedom) and is mostly controlled by the keyboard. You can switch from the default 3-rd person perspective to 1-st person perspective. There are 60 kinds of monsters in the game, and they use various weapons against you. |
| Asy500 | 1998 | Eyst Pty Ltd. | Eyst Pty Ltd. | Special edition | | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Asy500 is a straightforward implementation of the card game 500. While players can play solo, versus three CPU opponents, its headlining feature is its network support. Via LAN, modem, serial cable, or the internet, up to four players can play together remotely. The card backs feature characters from Eyst's other game DogDay, and in offline mode the CPU players are DogDay characters. |
| Ata Hoshev SheAta Haham | 1998 | Hed Arzi Multimedia | Misgav Maarachot, Pekan | Strategy | | | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | The game is a humourous Israeli trivia game, hosted by actor and comedian Tal Friedman.The game may be played by up to three players, and includes a large variety of categories and over 1,000 different questions.In the beginning each round of the game, the players are given the choice of three different categories. Afterwards, a multiple choice question in the selected category is displayed to the players.A player who would like to answer has to hit his buzz key and select one of the answers. If correct, the player earns the money for the question, if not, the player loses the amount and another player may buzz in and pick a different answer.The player with the highest amount of money at the end of the final round is the winner. |
| Autobahn Raser | 1998 | Davilex Games B.V. | Davilex Games B.V. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Autobahn Raser is the second release in Davilex's Racer series (the first being A2 Racer). This game changes the setting from the Dutch A2 highway to the German Autobahn.You can race on various parts of the German Autobahn and through various German cities.Primary game mode is the carreer mode in which the player has to race on various tracks to earn money, which they can spend on repairs, tickets and new cars.
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| BAD_MACHINE\ | 1998 | | | Adventure, Simulation | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | What happens when a computer has no programming? What if there is nothing stopping it from using its systems to do whatever it wants? It would probably be something like BAD_MACHINE.The game deviates from traditional interactive fiction in the fact that you see from the perspective of a robot. Literally. Everything you see is from the exact perspective of a modern, totally inhuman computer. That means you don't get any rational description of what you see. It's all in code. To better describe it, here is an exact quote from the game:"Dir ALT{ER}DDDisplace-: 2
Reclamation Sector (1)
(clear*space) open -> bare floor. (insersection / entrance?) line delimiter cross=north: wider space. south: rec. seccttoor.
Sector->Content_list: a disabled climber-class machine
Salvager-class machine is here.
Salvager #231 :: Mover #005 |
Salvager #231 detach()e()s leg {type #0274} frOm disabled climber-class machine
Salvager #231 picks the leg {type #0274} up."Now, with nothing but a broken compass, a corrupted database, and a dangerously low level of compliance, you must guide Mover #005 to safety...wherever that may be.BAD_MACHINE is made with TADS. |
| BackTrack | 1998 | Telegames, Inc. | JV Games, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Domingoanix and his army of mutants have taken over the secret base on moon. They have assimilated thousands of humans into an army of droids that can be used to overwhelm earth. It is your job to infiltrate the base and stop them by triggering the self-destruct sequence to terminate the moon base and the aliens. BackTrack is a first-person shooter with graphics and gameplay comparable to Wolfenstein 3D. In contrast to the all-time classic it comes with several multiplayer modes like Deathmatch and Matrix Assault. Bots are also supported in multiplayer sessions. |
| Backyard Soccer | 1998 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action, Sports | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Backyard Soccer is the first game in the Backyard Sports Soccer series. Gameplay is simple: there are 30 kids to pick on a team, and many custom color teams to create. You also get to be in two game types: Single in which you play one small game and Season play, in which you play for a whole a lot of time and features you playing against some unusable custom teams. This game also includes a practice mode to help you get used to the kicking in the game, and also shows what it is like during a penalty. All rules to soccer including fouls and hat tricks, are included in the game. When picking the kids on your team you will want to read about how good they are - don't just pick a kid cause they look cool. |
| Baldur's Gate (Edition spéciale incluant Fallout) | 1998 | Interplay Productions Ltd. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Baldur's Gate: Version francaise Intégrale (Edition spéciale incluant Fallout) is a compilation of two of Interplay's role-playing games. It contains:
Baldur's Gate (five discs)
Baldur's Gate manual
Baldur's Gate quick reference card
Fallout (one disc)
Fallout manual
Infonie dial-up internet trial (one disc)
Infonie internet guide
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| Baldur's Gate (Gold Edition) | 1998 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Baldur's Gate Gold is a special edition of the original game of the same name.Essentially, it is a collector's edition. The box and many elements of the packaging including the CD's were pressed/printed with a gold foil look to them. |
| Barbie Adventure: Riding Club | 1998 | Mattel Media | Human Code, Inc. | Educational, Sports | 1st-person, Side view | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Barbie gets her very own horse ranch. Designed for the five to nine year old age range, Barbie Adventure: Riding Club lets players care for and ride their own horse. The horse riding is European (aka Equestrian) style as opposed to western, although the game doesn't force the player to take that into account when they're riding. The horse is controlled with simplistic controls to make it jump, steer, and adjust speed.After choosing a horse for Barbie, she can spend some time feeding and grooming it before saddling up and going for a ride. Riding the trails is the bulk of the gameplay. The player can race their horse against several of Barbie's friends. There are also some mini-games that the player comes across while riding. The mini-games involve activities such as arranging flowers in their proper sequence, sorting apples, and frog-hopping. |
| Barney's Fun on Imagination Island | 1998 | Microsoft Corporation | 7th Level, Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Barney's Fun On Imagination Island is an educational title aimed at pre-school children aged two and upwards. It was compatible with the Barney ActiMate toy via a device known as a PC Pack, for example covering the toy's eyes caused both the toy and the in-game character to play peek-a-boo while squeezing the toy's middle toe caused both Barney's to sing a song related to the current game. The game has keyboard shortcuts that perform the same functions for those who do not have an ActiMate.There are six activities in this game:
Baby Bop's Buccaneer Bay is a game that teaches shapes.
BJ's Treasure Cove teaches colours.
Hootin' Annie's Musical Woods where children identify animals and the sounds they make.
Lucy's Letter Lagoon teaches letters.
Professor Tinkerputt's Tree House teaches counting and simple maths.
Video Volcano shows video clips from the TV series Barney & Friends. |
| Bass Masters Classic: Tournament Edition | 1998 | THQ Inc. | Inland Productions, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Bass Masters Classic: Tournament Edition is a fishing simulation which, when it was released, billed itself as the only completely 3D fishing game. There are many different ways to play this game. Apart from the tutorial mode there is the Single Player mode which offers the Amateur game, the Professional game, the Arcade game and the Practice game.In the Amateur game the player fishes a series of one day tournaments under Bass Fishing rules where only the weight of four fish count.
The Professional game is the career mode where the player fishes the lakes progressing from tournament to tournament until making it to the B.A.S.S. Master's Classic itself.
The Arcade mode is the fun kind of fishing. Here there's much more action and less simulation.
In the Practice Mode the player can customise the fishing conditions to prepare for what the game may throw at them.
There's also a multiplayer game and a tutorial mode.
The game features videos and advice from four Bass fishing professionals, Shaw E Grigsby Jr, Roland Martin, Paul Ellas and Ken Cook. There are four lakes which can be fished, Lake Fork, Lake Minnetonka, Lake Mead and Lake Logan Martin - the latter is not available in the Amateur mode of the game.
It can be played entirely with the keyboard or with the mouse but a force feedback joystick is supported.
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| Battalion | 1998 | | | Action | Behind view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Become a giant monster and destroy a small town in this early 3D "toy version of monster movie". You can choose your creature from four candidates: reptilian Googelon, bird-like Flutter, mechanical Techs or chemical The Vapour. Each creature has its own weapon, some are better at traversing difficult terrain, some are good at regenerating energy - which decreases not only when the monster is hit, but when it attacks as well.
The merits and drawbacks of different creatures are not balanced at all: Flutter is quick, can fly over almost everything and has the best regeneration capabilities, so he's the champion here.As time passes, army forces - tanks armed with different weaponry, choppers and aircraft - start to pour into the city, and the monster will have to avoid or destroy them (luring enemies into burning remains of buildings is also an option). Later, giant robots are thrown into the mix.The game has no winning condition - it ends when the creature is dead. |
| Battery Check | 1998 | | Mondo Totaal Visualisatie, Taxus Interactive | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | Released | Windows | Battery Check is a 2D platform game where the player takes the role of a battery guy. The game was used to promote the recycling of empty batteries. It was developed for the Dutch Stibat foundation (Stichting Batterijen) and could be traded for fifteen empty batteries at a distribution point (usually a store).Gameplay involves the jumping on platforms and evading obstacles as well as creatures that attack you and drain you of energy. On top of the screen is a energy meter witch depletes when moving around. If the meter is empty you lose a live. The meter can be recharged at a charging stations found around the maps. Around the map charged batteries can be found and collected and be used for charging moving platforms and elevators. As you charge an elevator or platform you collect an empty battery. The empty batteries can traded for charged ones with a sitting green dragon found around the maps. At the end a boss has to be beaten to complete the game.
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| Battle-Girl | 1998 | Ultra/United Games | Ultra/United Games | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This is a top-down shooter with 2D vector graphics and a soundtrack of electronic music. You play as Battle-Girl piloting her Soyuz 1183-A BattleCraft to destroy programmers released by Terminus, weapon of Chaos. You must journey through countless programs and protect their function pods to defeat Terminus and save the Great Machine - source of cosmic order and enforcer of natural law. Fortunately, you are armed with not only vast firepower, but also with a girlish wit and a violent disposition. It has a twin-joystick-style control scheme where you move and shoot independently. There's 99+ levels, and high-speed 360 degree gameplay with special effects. 15 fiendish enemies range from fighters who are passive until you shoot them, nearly invulnerable tanks, and others that try to trap you. You have an unlimited primary weapon (from Shards to a Fusion Cannon) and a limited secondary weapon (from Viper Mines, Dragon Strike to Firestorm). There are power-ups that give you additional temporary benefits, which include bonus points, weapon upgrades, shield strength and more. |
| Battlecruiser 3000AD v2.0 | 1998 | 3000AD, Inc. | 3000AD, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Battlecruiser 3000AD v2.0 gives the player full control over a starship's every system, fighters and shuttles. Assign orders to over 150 onboard personnel (each simulated individually) including officers, engineers, medics, marines and fighter pilots. The action takes place in a dynamic universe featuring 13 different alien races each with their own ships and attributes, and attitudes. Visit 25 star systems containing 75 planets and 145 moons all modeled in 3D. Trade with dozens of planets and space stations in dozens of different commodities. Stock up on equipment and supplies or watch your ship go unfixed and your personnel die of hunger. Take the ship anywhere in this little corner of the galaxy and even take one of the fighters or shuttles for a 3D flight above the planet (or even ground level). Anything that you can think of doing, you can probably do it in this game... |
| Battleground Collection 1 | 1998 | TalonSoft, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This compilation includes three games of Napoleonic scenarios of Battleground series and the naval game, Age of Sail. You may to play through Battleground 3: Waterloo, Battleground 6: Napoleon in Russia, Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo, and Age of Sail as standing alone. |
| Battleground Collection 2 | 1998 | TalonSoft, Inc. | | Compilation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation includes four Battleground games of American Civil War series. You may play through Battleground 2: Gettysburg, Battleground 4: Shiloh, Battleground 5: Antietam and Battleground 7: Bull Run. In this compilation the fifth game Battleground 9: Chickamauga is absent, so you need this one to collect all five American Civil War scenarios. |
| Beambender | 1998 | TopWare Interactive | Blue Lemon Studio | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Beambender is a light puzzle game similar to Deflektor. The player's task is to use mirrors and other components to direct light beams from cannons to coloured exits. Each level has multiple exits and to succeed the player has to hit each with a light beam of the right colour. The game consists of three phases: manipulation mode, test mode and final test mode. It starts with the manipulation mode where the player places the various components on the board. After that the test mode is initiated by double clicking on a cannon. It will then shoot three times and the player will be able to see the beam path and possible errors. When all done the final test mode is initiated by double clicking on an exit and each cannon will then shoot once. If each exit is hit by a beam of the right colour the level will be completed and the player can move on to the next one. Exits are shielded and only have two openings which has to be hit. Hitting the side of the exit will lead to it being destroyed and the level has to be restarted. Each level is timed but it is possible to pause the game.There are two kinds of components: those that are prebuilt on the board and those that are generated from the manufacturer and that the player places on the board. The former include cannons and exits as well as sensors that only let through beams of its own colour, eyes that absorbs any beams and grim reapers that kill the player when hit. The components that the player can add include regular mirrors that deflects the beam in a 90° angle as well as dividers and crystal balls that splits the beam in two or three directions. There are also converters that change the colour of the beam and mines that can be used to blast erroneously places components as well as certain obstacles that block the path. The player will also come across characters known as wobbly dots that move around the board. Some of these are positive and give bonus time or extra tries when clicked on while others drops slime on the board which makes the spot unusable for buildings. These have to be quickly clicked on when they appear to avoid trouble. |
| Beast Wars: Transformers | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | SCE Studio Cambridge | Action | Behind view | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | Everyone | | Windows | Based on the TV show, Beast Wars: Transformers puts you in control of one of several transformers, allied with either the Maximals or the Predacons. The game includes five original and one hidden transformers for each team, all from the show. You must make your way through a total of 24 missions, through desert or urban environments. Each transformer can transform into it's own unique animal, which is necessary when traveling through the game. When transformed, each transformer has an upgradable weapon to defend itself from machine enemies but must return to it's animal state to protect itself from harmful energon rays. You choose either the Maximals or Predacons to decide the fate of the galaxy. |
| Berlin Connection | 1998 | ekuinteractive e.K. | ekuinteractive e.K. | Adventure, Educational | | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In Berlin Connection the player is journalist Roger Penrose who researches the fall of the Berlin Wall. In November 1989 he visits Berlin but he and his contact get into the visor of the Stasi … During his research he has to undertake three time travels, e.g. to the Building of the Berlin Wall.The game is played using the first-person perspective in a 360° view. The player moves through photographs and clicks on items of interest. The camera is an important item because some puzzles are based on photographing the right things or locations. The game design consists of different types of challenges: there are logic puzzles, labyrinths, timed puzzles and inventory puzzles, but the main focus lies in the gathering of information and knowledge about the historic backgrounds – if no attention is paid to them, it becomes difficult to find the hotspots. |
| Berrie Bloem's MahJongg: Game of Four Winds | 1998 | Galaxy Software | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | MahJongg: Game of Four Winds is a single player implementation of the traditional game for four players in which the player takes on three AI opponents. It was created by Berrie Bloem in the early 1990's and was nominated for the "Shareware Industry Awards 1996".MahJongg: Game of Four Winds comes with many game configuration options, players can customise the rules, the scoring and the discards they can choose to see all hands or just their ownchange the background, tile set, and animationThe game includes a comprehensive help file and a tutorial explaining in detail all the rules and options.Additional backgrounds could be downloaded for free from eGames 'Mahjongg Parlor' website |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 7 | 1998 | Cendant Software Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the July/August 1998 issue (Volume 7) of the Best of Sierra series.This issue contains these two games:
3-D Ultra Pinball
Casino De Luxe |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 8 | 1998 | Cendant Software Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the September/October 1998 issue (Volume 8) of the Best of Sierra series.This issue contains these two games:
Shivers
The Dagger of Amon Ra |
| Beware of the Aliens | 1998 | Stollesoft | Stollesoft | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Beware of the Aliens is a point-and-click adventure game. A meeting is held by an alien race to come up with a plan of universal dominance. This group of aliens plan to come to earth to harvest energy to activate their gun of doom. With the power of that gun behind them, they want to destroy every life form until they are the only beings left in the universe. A teenager named Jennula is the only thing that stands in their way. |
| Billionaire | 1998 | GameOn Entertainment Software International AB | GameOn Entertainment Software International AB | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | A variation of Monopoly, Billionaire has more money and more expensive property. Players can build houses, buildings, skyscrapers, offices, and more, and charge any amount of rent for their property. Players also have the ability to buy businesses, build their own companies, invest in stocks, and even win the lottery. It is possible to play against the computer or one human opponent. |
| Blinky Blink | 1998 | Lincoln Beach Software, Inc | Lincoln Beach Software, Inc | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Blinky Blink is a single player, freeware, mouse controlled, memory game that is based on a series of flashing lights.The game area has ten coloured lights which flash in a sequence that the player must replicate. The player has two controls that affect the difficulty of the game, the first determines the number of lights being used - this ranges from two to ten; the second control sets the length of the sequence - this ranges from two to twenty five.When the player successfully completes the sequence the background picture, advertising Lincoln Beach Software, is revealed. |
| Blizzard's Game of the Year Collection | 1998 | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This compilation includes:
WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness
Diablo
StarCraft |
| Bomb Wuzel 3D | 1998 | magnussoft Deutschland GmbH | Maiklsoft | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Bomb Wuzel 3D is a puzzle game with strategic and tactical elements and is reminiscent of Bombuzal.The gameplay adds new ideas and features to it. The player slips in the role of Wuzel who must eliminate all bombs and mines in a level to advance to the next, more tricky level.
Difficulty increases continuously from level to level: Wuzel needs to solve harder bomb combinations. Avoid to wander from the path, and avoid explosions that can kill or injure Wuzel. Different bomb sizes with different characteristics can give you a really hard time - for example: a blowing up radius, timer, remote ignition. Also avoid floor tiles with negative characteristics can stuck or freeze your character.
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| Bonkheads | 1998 | 1 A.M. Productions | 1 A.M. Productions | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Bonkheads is a 2D platform action game similar to Mario Bros. where you control either of two trolls: Grag or Thog. Your troll town is disturbed by evil animals, a giant shrew and the devil itself and you have to defend your home. The trolls need to bonk their heads on the platforms underneath each enemy to knock them out, then throw them off the screen. The game contains over 100 levels, twelve different environments, various bosses, special blocks that provide help or hinder, different types of power-up gems and both cooperative and competitive games for two players. |
| Bonn Ouvert | 1998 | | Ikarion Software GmbH | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Bonn Ouvert is a humorous simulation of the card game skat. There are many variants, but here is the principle: the game is usually played with three persons. Two of the players are playing against a single one, but are not allowed to communicate. Each card has a value and one suit is called "Trumpf". In every round each player loses one of his cards and the one who played the "Trumpf" card with the highest value gets all the played cards. If no "Trumpf" is played, the highest value wins. At the end each player counts the value of his cards. The goal for the single player is to get more points than the other two combined.The main catch of the game is that all seven computer opponents are parodies of German politicians, including Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. During the game they talk in politician's platitudes. The game offers several skat variants and five card sets. With the editor the player can create his own sets. |
| Bouncing Bombs | 1998 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | | Windows | In this platform game, you must get from the upper left to the door in the bottom left while avoiding the bouncing bombs and before time runs out. It is, literally, as simple as that. With each level, more bombs are added, making it more crowded and dangerous. You begin the game with three lives and when they are gone, the game is over. If you find a box with a P in it, it will restore your lives back to three. After level four, you will receive a password for each level so you can start back at the last level. The player is controlled by keyboard but the menus are controlled by mouse. |
| Bowlda Dash | 1998 | Prism Leisure GmbH | BWM Software GmbH | Puzzle | Side view, Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | This clone of Boulder Dash introduces Lou Verne, an adventurer descended into the Earth's interior. The 50 levels of the game is a story he tells about horrors, treasures and mysteries of all kinds he experienced below.In each cave Lou Verne must collect a certain number of diamonds to progress to the next cave. But the job is complicated with many obstacles on his way. Time limit, monsters, complex boulder formations, blocked caves and disgusting mucus require all his skills.The ability to get the nearest diamond holding the "Ctrl" key is present. Each level may be accessed with a password. The game is available for 1 or 2 players, playing consequently. Best scores are stored in Hi-Score table. The game includes Audio CD tracks, which player may switch during gameplay. |
| Brandish 4 | 1998 | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Brandish 4 is a re-release of Brandish VT. It has slightly improved graphics and sound quality, as well as two new playable characters (in addition to the three available in Brandish VT). Both these characters appear in the original game, but are not playable; in Brandish 4, each gets a chapter of her/his own. The two characters are the sorceress Mermelade, who possesses the ability to transform into a cat, and the skilled fist-fighter Garahad. |
| Brent's Jungle Adventure | 1998 | | | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A revisitation of a late-'80s Apple IIgs game-experiment by a couple of wacky kids, this re-implementation has streamlined out play-ending deaths but retained all the original "abstract art" graphics in this tale.The player quests to battle through a (jungle-situated) castle filled with sinister "Mold Men" and overcome their nefarious overlord, the THANG, whose tasteless suspenders render its wearer invulnerable except to a special weapon the player must find through multiple-choice exploration of a small but colourfully-illustrated environment. |
| Bubble Hero 2 | 1998 | Lonai Software | Lonai Software | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bubble Hero 2 builds on the first game while keeping its basic formula intact. It's still a Bubble Bobble clone at heart. This time, two players can play together, choosing from a set of four characters; the first game's protagonists Abi and Ni Ni are joined by pint-size dragon boxer Beibei and the shy, studious Xiaozhen. The game has received an overall facelift, and is now depicted in high-res 640x480 hand-drawn spritework; an animated introduction and short cutscenes between levels also give the game a simple story. |
| BugRiders: The Race of Kings | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | n-Space, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | | Fantasy | Track racing | | | | | Windows | Bug Riders tries to put a new twist on the racing genre. You choose a character and his or her bug and race through six tracks that make up the "Great Race". Instead of having a normal accelerate button, you must crop your bug to make him go faster. But watch out, you don't want to overdo it because he will become angry and refuse to obey you. You can pull on the reins to slow down.The six tracks are filled with shortcuts and power-up items, such as missiles and bombs to blast away your opponents. You must fly through as many time rings as you can to add time to the clock or you won't be able to finish the race. |
| Bundesliga Manager 98 | 1998 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Software 2000 | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Bundesliga Manager 98 is a managerial soccer simulation where the player is responsible for the athletic and financial success of his team. The most important tasks are finding sponsors selling and buying players and setting the training. An automatic function can take over most of these duties. The player can either watch the whole match in a 3D representation, the most interesting scenes or only a text mode. During the matches he can make adjustments in tactics or lineup.The game is basically exactly the same as Bundesliga Manager 97 without the bugs. The changes are:
Updated squads and teams.
The player can set during the matches which soccer player performs standard situations.
During a multiplayer game a human player can be removed.
There is a restriction that only two players from the junior team can be acquired for the senior squad.
When coaching the national team the player can arrange his own squad instead adopting the computer recommendation. |
| Burnout: Championship Drag Racing - Player's Choice Edition | 1998 | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Racing / Driving, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Player's Choice Edition of Burnout Championship Drag Racing was basically an add-on and an enhancement to the original Burnout. It contained an additional in-car view, more tracks and cars, additional engine components and other enhanced features. |
| Buzzle Puzzle | 1998 | | Currie Software | Action, Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Buzzle Puzzle tells the sci-fi story of a hero captured by a huge alien spaceship by The Buzzles race from a far-away galaxy. They want to verify the intelligence of the human population, thus the hero's goal is to prove that Buzzles are right.The game contains 30 levels where the goal is to put balls across the whole level into the switches. Levels consist of breakable tiles which crack if stepped on too many times. It contains several types of tiles: purple ones that fade in and out, blue ones that crack after a single step, and red ones that never crack.The player starts with three lives and moves the hero using the arrow keys. It contains a password-system level selection: when starting the game, the player can provide a password to start from the specific level.The game is distributed using a shareware business model. The unregistered version does not feature a level editor and consists of six tutorial levels. |
| Bygg båtar med Mulle Meck | 1998 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB | Educational | Side view, Top-down | Licensed | Comedy | Graphic adventure | Europe | Naval / watercraft, Vehicle simulator | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bygg båtar med Mulle Meck is the second game in the series featuring the children's book character Mulle Meck (known as Gary Gadget in the US). This time, Mulle has tired of just building cars (from the first game) and is asked to take care of a small shipyard by one of his friends, who is setting out on a long sea-voyage.The gameplay is thus to build boats, by choosing a predefined hull from a set of drawings, and add additional parts for propulsion, navigation and decoration, from a wide selection available to the player from the shipyard storage. The ships range from small/medium/large rowing boats, motorboats/ships and sailing boats. Selecting the hull and material (wood/metal) is done on a slipway, from which the empty hull is launched. Outfitting the boat is done while moored to the dockside. These activities are seen from the side with Mulle and his dog Buffa looking on and commenting on your progress. Parts in storage are initially dropped in a heap on the floor, but can be sorted onto shelves in the same area. Once take out for fitting they have specific slots on each boat that can fit them; a too large engine will not fit on a small boat, and if the boat gets top-heavy, Mulle will say so.Once you take the boat to sea, the game shifts to an overhead view, and you have a status panel at the bottom of the screen showing a compass, speed, remaining fuel, propulsion type and remaining food - in the form of a fish being eaten by Mulle. Windsocks on land and moving waves show the wind direction. Once the fuel runs out, Mulle will either use sails or oars, if available; but if the food runs out he turns back home immediately. If there are no alternate way of propulsion, a tug will take the boat back home when fuel runs out. There are some gas stations on selected islands, and some local fishermen can supply fresh food - or what passes for food in these parts; there is a factory producing cans of fermented herring - 'surströmming' which Mulle likes. The compass on the status bar also activates a map, initially incomplete, but more parts are acquired during some quests; the map gives the locations of the persons Mulle knows, and some special areas, like a racing course. During the game Mulle gets radio messages from various friends and neighbours who need transport or assistance in various ways. As a reward for each completed task, Mulle gets new parts to add to his boat, or new maps to help explore the surrounding archipelago.A few recurring fetch quests are about an inflatable swimming ring that is found at random places, also the local parson has a tendency to lose his Bible at various beach locations, a writer needs a book located etc. Some fetch quests require the boat you have to be outfitted in a special way, e.g. multiple seats for transporting a group of people, so if those requirements are not met, the quest cannot be attempted until later. Sometimes his friends send parts they don't want from their own storage, and you get radio messages telling you of these being dropped off at the home dock. The shipyard owner will also send drawings for some new hull types. On the radio you also get current weather updates, which is relevant for the type of trip you can take on the boat you currently have.Only one boat can be used at a time, but the complete ship can be saved in an album for a quick rebuild. To build a new boat you scrap the existing boat and scavenge its parts, though if the boats hull size is the same, the parts will be transferred automatically to a new type. A boat can also be saved in a file, if you want to send it to a friend.
Initially the game had extra parts available at the publishers website, but these are unavailable now, as the site has shut down.There are diplomas for the boats you build, e.g. a 'Fun boat' competition where the boat you enter will be judged and scored; if unusual enough, you get a diploma attached to your boat. |
| Byzantine: The Betrayal / Secrets of the Luxor | 1998 | Ubisoft Entertainment SA | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation features two adventure games:
Byzantine: The Betrayal
Secrets of the Luxor |
| Cabela's Big Game Hunter | 1998 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Elsinore Multimedia, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Hunting | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Hunt big game in Labrador, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania! Game species include bear, bighorn, caribou, elk, moose, and more. This game uses real-video of the creatures for the best authenticity! Use authentic Cabela (tm) gear, 21 different weapons, even a "hunt challenge editor" to edit your own "missions". |
| Cabela's Big Game Hunter II | 1998 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Elsinore Multimedia, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | Hunt big game in Alberta, Colorado, New Mexico and The African Plains. Over a dozen different weapons, 18 species to hunt, and authentic Cabela catalog of hunting gear! |
| California Gold Rush! | 1998 | Software Farm, Inc., The | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | California Gold Rush! is a re-release of Sierra’s original Gold Rush! by its designers Ken and Doug MacNeill. It is packaged in a handmade wooden box that includes:2 x 3.5 disks
a poster-sized map of the period showing all three routes to California
a user’s guide with detailed setup and playing instructions, the historical background on the California Gold Rush of 1849, helpful suggestions for playing each section of the game and information to help you plan a vacation to the Gold Country
a flyer for the collector’s edition. |
| Cameleon98 | 1998 | | | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Cameleon98 is a freeware remake of 7 Colors, created as an entry for the Disccover 1998 coding competition in Finland. Instead of the seven colors of the original, the palette was reduced to only four to make the gameplay faster and more casual. The objective remains the same, where two players take turns picking tiles on a multi-colored grid, to advance and expand territory. The space already conquered by each player becomes the color of the chosen tile, automatically adding any other square of the same tone touching its perimeter.There's only support for single-play against a computer opponent, with several settings available on the options menu, changing the artificial intelligence to use one of six different strategies, switching parameters in the field generation to make it more or less random, and modifying the size of the board between four grid configurations. |
| Candy Land | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | ImageBuilder Software, Inc. | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | The Candy Land computer game is a version of the classic Candy Land board game transposed onto the computer screen.One player can play against a computer opponent, or up to 4 human players can take turns. To advance, a player clicks on a candy machine which produces a piece of colored candy. The player is allowed to move to the next space that shares the same color as the candy which was just drawn. Some spaces are sticky and if a player lands on one, they will lose 1 or several turns. Some pieces contain special candies which will cause a player to warp to specific spaces on the board, which may be either ahead or behind of the player's current space.In addition to playing the classic board game, this game offers the player side trips to explore 8 different areas, each with activities:
Gingerbread Plum Trees: Help Plumpy (the last of the Plumpa trolls) collect plums for pies. Do this by clicking on him to tickle him so he'll surrender a plum.Licorice Castle: Lord Licorice has a telescope mounted atop his castle through which you can view the whole of Candy Land.Peppermint Forest: Mr. Mint, the royal lumberjack, tutors you in how to make freeform music on a hodgepodge of instruments.Gumdrop Mountains: Jolly, the official Gumdrop Mountain Greeter, enlists your help to restore color to the Gumdrop Mountains. Do this by selecting gumdrop colors that Jolly can place in his spoon-shaped catapult to launch toward the mountain.Peanut Brittle House: Help Grandma Nut grow candy by planting seeds of chocolate chips, caramel chunks, etc. in mounds and watering them. Also, help her redecorate her house.Lollipop Woods: Princess Lolly offers the opportunity to help decorate lollipops with designs that come from a coloring machine that the player can control.Ice Cream Sea: Create an enormous ice cream sundae and then request that the fairy set it adrift on the ice cream sea to be devoured wholesale by a whale.Molasses Swamp: Gloppy, the curator of the swamp, is just happy to see the player. There are no activities here except to interact with the surroundings via mouse clicks. |
| Captain Gysi: Galaxis Futura | 1998 | Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus | BURNS Entertainment Software GmbH | Adventure | | | Comedy | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Captain Gysi: Galaxis Futura is the sequel to Captain Gysi und das Raumschiff Bonn. It is a freeware 2D point-and-click adventure developed for the former left party PDS. It has quite some humorous elements on the politics and politicians of that time. All interaction can be done with the mouse, but you can also use keyboard shortcuts for most actions. Your inventory is a walking stone with hat and glasses called Kinkelstein. To access your inventory, just click on him.Captain Gysi has been abandoned on a planet by Commander Kohl for his insubordination in the first game. He has now to find a way to leave the planet and returning to the spaceship Bonn. The spaceship is on course to Starship Berlin, but will properly never arrive due it's old age. Captain Gysi wants to guide the spaceship to a ship graveyard and get to starship Berlin on an other way. |
| Cashtown | 1998 | Association Suisse des Banquiers | Falcomedia | Adventure, Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Menu structures, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Cashtown is an edutainment game by the Swiss Bankers Association. It is sold in some Swiss bank branches and through a dedicated website (www.cashtown.ch), and is available in French and German.In a colorful futuristic scenario, the player takes control of Céleste Inc. and must defend it against Master Magic, who dominates the markets of the United Galaxies by illegal means. The game itself plays out as a mix of point-and-click adventure and economic simulation, with quiz questions mixed in. Successfully answer economic and financial quiz questions to win money for your corporation. Move around in Cashtown and even fly to several other planets in order to find out economic information and quiz answers, take loans from the bank, and adjust your product prices to avoid bankruptcy and compete with Master Magic. |
| Casper: Animated Early Reader | 1998 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Digital Media International | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Casper: Animated Early Reader is an educational computer game for ages 5 to 7, and is based on the direct-to-video film Casper meets Wendy. Players join Casper, Fatso, Stinky, Stretch, and Wendy the Little Witch as they take part in reading games and activities. When the player finishes an activity, he/she is rewarded with Casper Coins, which they can be used to unlock video clips from the film. |
| Castle Fantasia | 1998 | Studio Ego | Studio Ego | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | You are a knight named Varu who has a very beautiful girlfriend and is very happy with her. However, one day their kingdom get involved in a war, and the girl's parents die in it. After some time, an unknown religious organization appears in the city. Varu's girlfriend is in such a grief after the death of her parents, that she decides the world has nothing to offer to her, joins the adepts of the new religion, and leaves the city. Varu becomes very depressed after this separation, but when he learns the religious group which took away his girlfriend became an evil cult that kidnaps girls and seeks resurrection of demons. But even more awful is the fact his ex-girlfriend is now the leader of this cult..."Castle Fantasia" is a strategy RPG in the same vein as Farland, but with addition of erotic elements. You navigate your party on battle screens in turn-based mode (unlike Farland games, your turns depend on the agility of the character, and there are no separate rounds for your and enemies' party). When you kill an enemy, he drops a heart. Collecting those hearts allow you to increase your characters' parameters. You get different endings depending on which one of your characters has collected most hearts during the game. |
| Cat Cop | 1998 | Dacom | Cheollian, TWIM | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Cat Cop is a third-person point-and-click adventure game, set in an unspecified time period most closely resembling the 1950's. The titular hero is an anthropomorphic (and apparently extremely old) cat who has witnessed the famed detective Sherlock Holmes solving elaborate crimes in his day, and decided to follow in his footsteps. The game has cartoon-like graphics and is visually somewhat similar to LucasArts' adventure games. The interface is akin to the one utilized in Full Throttle, with a hidden menu that displays icons representing various actions (looking, talking, using an item, etc.) when called forth. |
| Catz 3 | 1998 | Mindscape, Inc. | PF Magic | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Catz 3 is a virtual pet program wherein the player raises a kitten to adulthood. The player can have as many petz as they want and can play with up to 3 at a time. There are 10 different breeds of catz to choose from and more that can be downloaded from online sources. Male and female catz can breed and have unique kittens, mixing their breeds. Many people online run their own breeders where you can download and trade unique kittens from other owners.There are multiple play areas to choose from including a beach, backyard, kitchen, and living room. There are also lots of toyz for your catz to play with and clothing if you like to dress up your animals. Some catz can be trained to do tricks, and their behavior is based on how well they're treated, and how much attention they get. If they are abused, they will run away from home.This program integrates smoothly with it's counterpart Dogz 3 allowing you to play with your dogz and catz at the same time. No weird inter-breeding though! Other features include family history trees, a simple webpage creator for showing off one's petz, and the option to make an "adoption kit," so that friends can try the program too. |
| Celtica | 1998 | H+A Entertainment | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Everyone | | Windows | Celtica is a point and click adventure set on a tiny, mysterious, beautiful and extremely green island off the west Irish coast.The game begins with your character on a small hill near the tip of the island. Several exploratory paths are available to you, including a lighthouse, an abandoned church, and a cemetery.The Celtic theme is played to the full, you will be unable to avoid many stone circles, crucifixes or Celtic knots.
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| Challenge Pool | 1998 | BearWare | | Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Challenge Pool is a shareware pool game for one or two players. It plays the following types of pool,
Nine Ball , Straight Pool, Rotation Pool, Eight Ball Pool, Ten Ball Pool, Fifteen Ball Pool and BlackJack Pool with a comprehensive help system that explains the rules for each.The game is played either with the keyboard or the mouse. |
| Chartbuster | 1998 | Blackstar Interactive GmbH | New Generation Software | Simulation, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation, Music / rhythm | | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Chartbuster is a simulation of the music business. The player's task is to create a new band and bring it to success. The player will have to accomplish a mission that can be chosen at the beginning of the game (endless playing is optional), e.g. receive a certain number of platinum or golden records. To be successful, the player can influence most aspects of the business ranging from building recording studios, music production, marketing, sales, organizing tours, hiring security companies for your stars and more. |
| Chase Ace | 1998 | SureSoft | SureSoft | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Chase Ace is a two player only arcade shooter, there are no AI opponents available. The game takes place in an arena where each player control a small spaceship. Shoot the other player before he shoots you to score points.You loose some shield when you get shot, and you loose ammo when you shoot. When you run completely out of shield you die, going out with a cool explosion effect. Go to the refueling zones placed on each level, to refill.Level hazards include acid, bombs, gravitational field, fog and black holes. The game also includes a level editor. |
| Chess Advantage | 1998 | Encore Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Chess Advantage is the first in a series of chess compilations. The titles in this product are:
Chessmaster 4000 (Windows 95 version)
Internet Chess Club
Grandmaster Championship Chess
Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess
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| Chess Mates | 1998 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Presage Software, Inc. | Educational, Strategy | | | | Chess | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | A chess program aimed at the younger set, Chess Mates is a standard chess program with tutorials and chess puzzles to help kids learn the rules and basic chess strategy. An animated wizard helps teach while floating over an isometric cartoon chess board. |
| China: The Forbidden City | 1998 | R&P Electronic Media | Canal+Multimédia, Cryo Interactive Entertainment, Réunion des Musées Nationaux | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The events of this game take place in the historical China, in the Forbidden City - the Emperor's palaces located in Beijing. The year is 1775. A murder has been just committed. The Emperor Qianlong wants you to find the assassin. During your investigation, you'll meet typical Chinese characters of the epoch, and uncover a net of intrigues.This is one of Cryo's educational games, similar to Egypt. The world of ancient China is reconstructed with historical accuracy. |
| Civilization II: Multiplayer Gold Edition | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc., MPS Labs | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | This compilation includes the contents of the following games on one single disc:
Sid Meier's Civilization II (base game)
Sid Meier's Civilization II Scenarios: Conflicts in Civilization (scenario pack)
Civilization II: Fantastic Worlds (scenario pack)
This release includes multiplayer capabilities, and is a native 32-bit Windows application unlike the original game. |
| Classic Gamer: Colecovision Hits Volume One | 1998 | Telegames, Inc. | Telegames, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Instead of a volume 2 to their Personal Arcade title, Telegames USA released this new ColecoVision-based emulation title, with some of the same games as its predecessor.
Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress (Telegames)
Amazing Bumpman (Telegames)
Aquattack (Interphase)
Beamrider (Activision - included in Personal Arcade Volume One, clone of Konami's Juno First arcade game)
Blockade Runner (Interphase)
Campaign '84 (Sunrise, strategy/simulation)
Cosmic Crisis (Bit Corp/Telegames)
Decathlon (Activision, olympic/multi-sports)
Dragonfire (Imagic, platformer)
Fathom (Imagic)
Gust Buster (Sunrise)
H.E.R.O.(Activision, maze/adventure)
Keystone Kapers (Activision, platform)
Meteoric Shower (Bit Corp)
Moonsweeper (Imagic, side-scrolling-shooter)
Motocross Racer (Xonox, racing)
Mountain King (Sunrise - included in Personal Arcade Volume One, platform/adventure)
Nova Blast (Imagic - included in Personal Arcade Volume One)
Pitfall! (Activision - included in Personal Arcade Volume One, platform)
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (Activision, platform)
Quest for Quintana Roo (Sunrise - included in Personal Arcade Volume One)
River Raid (Activision - included in Personal Arcade Volume One, overhead scrolling shooter)
Rock n' Bolt (Activision/Telegames, puzzle/platform)
Rolloverture (Sunrise)
Sir Lancelot (Xonox - included in Personal Arcade Volume One)
Skiing (Coleco/Telegames, slalom)
Strike It (Telegames)
Tank Wars (Bit Corp/Telegames - included in Personal Arcade Volume One)
Tournament Tennis (Imagic - included in Personal Arcade Volume One)
Zenji (Activision, puzzle- clone of Konami's Locomotion arcade) |
| Click And Learn: Forest Field Trip | 1998 | Wyvern Studios Incorporated | Wyvern Studios Incorporated | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Click And Learn: Forest Field Trip is an educational sound matching game. The player is shown a screen depicting a forest scene. There are many hotspots on this screen and each triggers a sound when it s selected. In 'Game' mode a sound is played and the player must locate and click on whatever made the sound. In 'Play' mode the player can click on any hotspot and hear the sound associated with it.
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| Clonk 4 | 1998 | RedWolf Design | RedWolf Design | Action, Strategy | Side view | | | Board game | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Clonk is a strategic action game for one to four players on one PC. Version 4 of the game is the first one to run under Windows and DirectX. This allows for higher resolutions and infinitely large scrolling scenarios.Depending on which mission has been chosen, the players control a team of Clonks to fight against hostile clans, gather natural resources, build settlements with a working economy, kill monsters or many other tasks. Up to four players can play via split-screen mode. Their stats and crew are saved with their profiles, which allows characters to learn new skills over time.Clonk 4 introduced one of the major elements to the series; the game is totally customizable. Users can not only create simple scenarios with the built-in editor, but also use C scripts to create any scenario or object imaginable and add it to the game. |
| Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Engineering Animation Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Board game | | | Point and select | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | This is a version of the well-known board game, in which you must solve a murder by discovering who the murderer was, in which room and with which weapon, by listing clues as other players are forced to reveal which cards they have, as proof that particular people/weapons/rooms were not involved. This implementation includes a 3-D mansion game board, 3-D character models, and animations for the player/weapon murder combinations. Three levels of computer AI are available for solo games, along with modem/network play options. |
| Cob to the Rescue! | 1998 | Bayard Jeunesse | Scène Interactive | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Cob to the Recue! is an interactive storybook featuring Cob (Pit, in French), a young sailor. Lof, the captain, ordered him to take care of two rhinoceros but they scare him. But not as much as pirates !The game has two modes of use : read or play. 60 mini-games are included : recognize animals from Africa, move and arrange boxes to maximize space use (mix between Sokoban and Tetris), and so on. Games are obviously pirate-themed, but some are also about animals. The recommended age is 5 years and up. The game plays in either French or English . |
| Codebreaker | 1998 | Marshall Media Ltd. | Marshall Media Ltd. | Educational, Puzzle | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Codebreaker is a puzzle game about codes, ciphers, and secret messages. Players adventure through four worlds, cracking codes along the way, and learn the basics of cryptography. The game includes a PDF Code Book which is in fact a mini textbook about the history of secret messages, full of examples of many codes and ciphers through history, including specific information needed to play the game.The game is divided into the following sections, each with three levels of difficulty.
Music World: musical notation is itself a kind of code, and musical symbols can be used as cipher symbols.
Science World: binary numbers, and codes based on the primary colours.
Underwater World: morse code, semaphore, and nautical flags are standard ways to send messages.
Gangster World: criminals and spies need the most secure codes of all.The four worlds are completely independent and can be played in any order. Within each world, each difficulty level must be completed before moving on to the next, and progress is saved only after the level is complete. The codes are randomised every time, so the game can be played again and again. |
| Cold War Warfare | 1998 | Sonoma Multimedia | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A compilation of three Cold War-themed strategy games:
Digital Integration/I-Magic's helicopter sim Hind, the naval wargame Harpoon II: Admiral's Edition, and QQP's Perfect General II. |
| Colin McRae Rally | 1998 | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | From the makers of Touring Car Championship comes Colin McRae Rally, a rally title hoping to knock V-Rally over.Codemasters has included an collection of fifty two tracks set over five countries including Greece, United Kingdom, Sweden and Australia.Colin McRae Rally also offers a selection of eight Rally vehicles with 4WD and 2WD vehicles. The game also offers a number of game modes including Championship, Rally, Time Trial, Rally School (learn the ropes from Colin McRae himself) and a two player mode.Screenshots Promo Images Alternate Titles "科林麦克雷拉力" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
"Colin McRae the Rally" -- Japanese title
"コリン・マクレー ザ・ラリー" -- Japanese spelling
Part of the Following Groups Automobile: Audi Quattro
Automobile: Ford RS200
Automobile: Lancia Delta
Automobile: Mitsubishi Lancer
Automobile: Renault Mégane
Automobile: Subaru Impreza
Automobile: Toyota Corolla
Automobile: Volkswagen Golf
Colin McRae Rally / DiRT Rally series
Console Generation Exclusive: PlayStation
Licensed title: Athletes
PlayStation Platinum Range releases
User Reviews
Great in it's time but it is out 2 years late!
Matthew Bailey (1268)
Rally game no longer state of the art
Kasey Chang (4608)
unrated
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Computer and Video Games (CVG)
Nov, 1998
100
Svenska PC Gamer
Nov, 1998
92 out of 100
92
Power Unlimited
Sep, 1998
9.2 out of 10
92
Edge
Jul 17, 1998
9 out of 10
90
Imperium Gier
Aug 17, 2000
8.8 out of 10
88
PC Action (Germany)
Sep, 1998
87 out of 100
87
GameStar (Germany)
Sep, 1998
87 out of 100
87
Gry OnLine
Feb 28, 2001
87 out of 100
87
PC Player (Germany)
Sep, 1998
82 out of 100
82
Computer Bild Spiele
Apr, 2001
2.25 out of 6
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In 1999, Colin McRae Rally (PlayStation) won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Issue 12/1999 - #91 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland
1999 - Gold Award
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| Collection Classique: TalonSoft's Front de l'Ouest / TalonSoft's Front de l'Est | 1998 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
East Front
Talonsoft's West Front |
| Color Linez | 1998 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Color Linez is a windows version of the Russian game Color Lines which was originally released by Gamos.It is a single player, freeware, turn-based colour matching, game played on a 9x9 grid. Each turn the player may move one ball and this causes three randomly coloured balls fall onto the board. The object of the game is to arrange the balls to form lines consisting of five or more balls of the same colour. The lines can be arranged vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
Each line completed immediately disappears and scores points. There is basically no end to the game, but your first objective is to surpass the handicap points scored by the "king". Once the original handicap has been exceeded that score becomes the king's handicap for subsequent games until it to is surpassed.The game is played entirely with the mouse. |
| Comer | 1998 | Shine Studio | Shine Studio | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | | Meditative / Zen | | | Windows | In the story of Comer you play the 28th “Comer”, the last person in a long line of famous individuals who have attempted to solve the mystery of creation and extinction of life. By chance he enters a forbidden zone reserved for an experiment and by following the trail of your predecessors, will intervene in the next cycle of creation and extinction. Comer is a 1st person, point and click adventure without inventory like Myst, the game that inspired the game designer Kyle Choi to create Comer.The world of Comer consists of 3D pre-rendered photo-realistic graphics and during your journey, players will visit four lands (each contained on a separate disk). Many of the game’s puzzles (for instance mechanical and musical puzzles) recall Myst as well.
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| Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Mission Tesla | 1998 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment SARL | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Mission Tesla is a compilation containing only the add-ons to Command & Conquer: Red Alert:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Counterstrike
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Aftermath
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| Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Arsenal | 1998 | Westwood Studios, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Aftermath |
| Command & Conquer: Worldwide Warfare | 1998 | Westwood Studios, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Command & Conquer: Worldwide Warfare comes on seven discs containing:
Command & Conquer (Special Gold Edition)
Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Counterstrike
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Aftermath |
| Coolrun v2.0 | 1998 | CAD-KAS Software | CAD-KAS Software | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Coolrun v2.0 is a classic platform game. The protagonist must make his way through six levels while avoiding enemies such as old women and eagles. The hero jumps by somersaulting in the air and can launch himself rolling along the ground. Enemies can be defeated by jumping or rolling into them. There are coins scattered around; collecting 100 coins grants an additional life. The player can choose between a male and a female protagonist. |
| Create a Pop Sensation | 1998 | K.E. Media | Attica Interactive Ltd. | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Create A Pop Sensation is a single player, music making game.In this game the player selects members of a band, rehearses a song, records it and then performs the song in concert. After the concert performance the song and band are rated to see if they have made the charts. Songs and bands are saved and can be reloaded and tweaked until there's a song that the player likes and/or which makes number one in the charts.The band consists of a singer, drummer, keyboard player, and two guitarists one lead and one on base. Selection is easy as they it's just a case of clicking on an instrument, or microphone in the case of the singer, and then selecting a character from the set of icons provided. The singer is the only band member who appearance and singing style can be customised. The major part of the game is the rehearsal which is where the song is constructed. Each song consists of eight sections, the intro, 1st verse, chorus, 2nd verse, chorus, bridge, and two more choruses. There are five predefined songs and the player places sections of each song into a grid marking the pieces that each player will play effectively making a new song by mixing sections of the five songs provided. So, for example, the keyboard player may play the intro for song one while the drummer and singer perform the intro for song three. After constructing the song the band must record it so it's off to the studio. Here there are mixer controls that can raise or lower the volume of individual band members as well as adjusting the left/right balance. Additional sounds such as backing vocals or brass highlights can be added here too. Once the player has a final sound they record it and play it in concert. There's no player interaction at the concert phase. The full song is played through in a concert setting complete with an animated audience and after that the score/chart position is shown and that's it. The player may choose to return to the rehearsal or recording studio to re-engineer the song , or even fire band members or change the lead singer's style and appearance to see if they can push it higher up the charts.The game's other features include printing band snapshots, printing the music of their song, and in-game help though this is restricted to voice only assistance. There is a detailed interactive manual but this run as a separate application that is accessed from the menu. |
| Creatures 2 | 1998 | Mindscape, Inc. | Cyberlife Technology, Ltd. | Simulation | Side view | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Creatures 2 is the sequel to Creatures. In Creatures 2 the player is again put in charge of caring for a group of artificial lifeforms called Norns. The player is responsible for making sure the Norns don't starve by providing them with food and making sure they stay healthy. Players must also make sure that the Norns don't die out by ensuring that the creatures breed.Creatures 2 also features an option to import new Norns from the internet. |
| Creatures 2 Deluxe | 1998 | Mindscape, Inc. | Cyberlife Technology, Ltd. | Compilation, Educational, Simulation | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Creatures 2 Deluxe is a bundled release of the game Creatures 2 and its first add-on Life Kit #1, which adds a bunch of extra items and features to help you raise and breed your Norns. |
| Creatures Deluxe | 1998 | Mindscape, Inc. | Cyberlife Technology, Ltd. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Creatures Deluxe is a compilation which includes:
Creatures
Life Kit #1 (Expansion pack)
In addition to the usual hatching and parenting of young Norns, Creatures Deluxe adds a host of new additions: crystal balls, smashing jugs, potions, Grendel scarers, management/observation tools, and Christmas-themed items are just some of the toys that the dedicated Norn breeder might enjoy playing with.
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| Crime Killer | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Pixelogic Limited | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | This is a driving game in the same style as Carmageddon. You are a futuristic cop, apprehending criminals with various vehicles. You can operate a bike, car, or 'flying wing' and all are armed. It can be played in first or third person mode, and it supports two-player split screen multiplayer. |
| Croc: Legend of the Gobbos | 1998 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Argonaut Software Ltd. | Action | Behind view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is a 3D platform game where you play as a crocodile. Small hairy creatures called Gobbos live peacefully on an island until one day they see a basket drifting in the water. After pulling it ashore they find a baby crocodile inside it. The Gobbos raise him as their own until he is three times their size. The game starts with the island being attacked by the evil Baron Dante and his minions. They capture most of the Gobbos, but the crocodile manages to escape. Now you need to rescue the Gobbos and fight Baron Dante and his minions.As you make progress you visit several islands with different themes like a forest, snow, desert or castles. Along the way you have to collect crystals (which serve as health), rescue Gobbos and defeat enemies and bosses. You can attack enemies with your tail, destroy crates with a jump down attack and, in some stages, it is possible to swim. Secret stages and a secret island can be unlocked if all Gobbos are rescued and all jigsaw pieces in the secret stages are collected. |
| Cross Image | 1998 | Xdyne, Inc. | | Puzzle | | | | Timed input | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Cross Image is a single player, mouse controlled, puzzle game.In this game the player is presented with a large grid, 875 cells in a 25x35 array. Around the outside of the grid are numbers indicating the number and size of the groups of cells in that row/column which are coloured in. Using the mouse the player must use the information provided and fill in the appropriate cells to recreate a picture within the time limit. The shareware game came with just three pictures while the full game came with one hundred and further add-on packs were available |
| CrossTown: Giften | 1998 | Vision Park AB | Deadline Multimedia ApS | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | CrossTown: Giften is the first game in the CrossTown series of mystery adventure games. Minna Walker explores the city of CrossTown, looking for clues and interrogating citizens in order to save the city itself from an impending catastrophe. The game features dialogue puzzles and tools to record and replay dialogue for clues. |
| Cult | 1998 | Studio Blum | Studio Blum | Adventure | Top-down | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | (Taken from the website:)Using negotiation and trade, one must resolve a situation involving barricaded cultists in a villa two kilometers away from town. As you play, you wander around the villa, meeting some of the brainwashed cult members (and some reasonable people). You talk to them, find out what they want, and trade items with them for information. You learn a little about the social structure of the cult and even get to save some lives. Advancing from room to room, you find keys to locked doors and operate switches to remove barriers.
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| CyberStrike 2 | 1998 | 989 Studios | Simutronics Corporation | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Mecha / giant robot | | | Everyone | | Windows | Unleash an arsenal of weapons to save your clan from exploding enemy fire in the most intense cyber battle ever. Set in a war-torn future where cyberpods from rival clans battle over planetary turf, your missions are complex and your options are endless. Enjoy challenging solo play or link to the internet for multiplayer gaming that allows thousands of players to compete simultaneously in hundreds of cyber cities. |
| D.W. the Picky Eater | 1998 | Living Books | Media Station, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | D.W. the Picky Eater is an interactive storybook and an educational game for children aged three to seven. It is based on the 1995 children's book by Marc Brown. Players follow D.W., Arthur Read the aardvark's sister, who dislikes a lot of food because it looks disgusting to her. Items she does not like include pickles, tomatoes, pineapple, spinach, salad, parsnips etc. The story is told through narration and text on the screen and meanwhile many hotspots in the environment can be clicked for a short animation. There are also several mini-games such as decorating D.W.'s playhouse along with a game, soaking gophers with the water hose, setting the table and so on.Next to skills such as following storytelling, vocabulary, pre-reading and reading, word recognition, matching words with pictures, sentence building and logic, children also learn about nutrition and the five basic food groups, for instance by helping D.W. set the picnic table. There is a Make a Story section in the game where based on three choices per page in the Picky Eater book a custom story can be built.This is the eighteenth and last game in the Living Books series. Unique to this game in the series is the removal of the 'Read to Me' option and the addition of a button to allow for skipping out reading. |
| Daikōkai Jidai: Gaiden | 1998 | Acer TWP Corp | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Simulation | Diagonal-down | | Romance | Managerial / business simulation | | Naval / watercraft | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Daikōkai Jidai: Gaiden is a spin-off game of New Horizons (also known as Daikōkai Jidai II or Uncharted Waters II). The in-game world and mechanics are similar to New Horizons along with some adjustments. In comparison with New Horizons, the game's story is much more fulfilling, at the cost of reducing number of playable protagonists to two compared with New Horizons's six. |
| Damage Incorporated | 1998 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Paranoid Productions | Action, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Real-time strategy, Shooter | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Damage Incorporated is a first-person shooter which incorporates a number of real-time strategy game mechanics. The game is set in the modern-day world, and the player is cast as a Marine Corps sergeant in charge of a team of thirteen Marines. They are sent on a long sequence of covert missions, fighting various rogue militia and paramilitary organizations based in assorted locations around the United States. The player takes up to four squad members on each mission, and though they are not always required to use them, the missions become significantly easier if they do. Squad members are extremely chatty and have well-defined personalities. They can die during combat, resulting in the player potentially being short one men for the later missions. The game also includes a separate multiplayer game, where players can each have their own squad. |
| Darkstone: Necromina | 1998 | Motelsoft | Motelsoft | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Gather your band together, for there is evil about that must be dealt a decisive blow!Darkstone: Necromina is a point and click role playing game. You will lead a party of up to four characters on a series of quests. The things that need to be done are:
Find all the Motcrystals in each city and activate them
Find all seven Darkstones and use them to open all the gates to the hiding places of the Galmarks
Get the Galmarks staff
Find and defeat the queen of the darkness, Necromina, once and for all |
| De griezelbus 1 | 1998 | Elzenga-Uitgeverij Zwijsen Algemeen B.V. | Warehouse Multimedia | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | De griezelbus 1 is a "horror" adventure game based on books of Dutch author Paul van Loon. The game is aimed at children, as are the books. In the game, players are challenged by storyteller P. Onnoval to travel with him on the 'griezelbus'. During the trip, they will encounter nine scary situations from the books. These consist of mini-games the player has to beat e.g. find hidden objects, control a zombie-like creature through a maze, build a skeleton from bones.Only if players overcome their fears they will be able to save the lives of their classmates. Paul van Loon is available during the game to provide hints. |
| Deadlock II: Shrine Wars | 1998 | Accolade, Inc. | Cyberlore Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | A sequel to the game Deadlock. This game features campaign play for each of the seven races in the game. Game is played in a turn-based set-up with financial, diplomatic, and military aspects that must be watched. |
| Deer Hunter Screen Saver | 1998 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sunstorm Interactive, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | This release includes 10 new locations for use with the original Deer Hunter, as well as MapEdit, the official Deer Hunter map editor. Also included are two Windows desktop themes, and two screensavers, one using locations from Deer Hunter and one using locations from Deer Hunter: Extended Season. |
| Delacroix: Génie de la couleur | 1998 | Vilo multimédia | index+ | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person, Top-down | | | | Europe | | | | | | Windows | Delacroix: Génie de la couleur is a CD-ROM that serves as an introduction to the life and paintings of Eugene Delacroix, a well-known French romantic artist. It also features jigsaw puzzles. |
| Densha de Go! | 1998 | Unbalance Corporation | Taito GM R&D Sect. #2 | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | Train | | | | | Windows | Based on the 1996 arcade game, Densha de Go! was one of the first commercial train-driving simulation games, and went on to spawn numerous successors.The player can choose from a variety of tracks and trains and will then have to drive the train to the designated stations while sticking to the tight schedule, stopping exactly at the marked positions, obeying all signs and signals, and ensuring passenger safety and comfort.Whenever the player makes a mistake, points are deducted from a counter which at the start of each round is initialized to a value depending on the selected difficulty. If it reaches zero, the game is over.The following lines are featured:Sagano Main Line (Sanin Line) from Kameoka to Kyoto
Keihin-Tōhoku Line from Shinagawa to Yokohama
Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Kyoto Line) from Kyoto to Osaka
Yamanote Line (Inner Circle) from Shibuya to Tokyo Station
Tōkaidō Main Line EX from Takatsuki to Osaka, part of the rapid Tōkaidō Main Line from the original version, but this time with stops at every station (Windows only)
Sagano Line EX from Kameoka to Kyoto, without the shortcut from Saga-Arashiyama to Tambaguchi from the original version (Windows only) |
| Der Industriegigant: Gold Edition | 1998 | JoWooD Productions Software AG | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The gold edition includes:An improved version of Industry Giant including a new overview map
The expansion set
Several new missions |
| Descent: Freespace - Battle Pack | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A "gold" pack containing Descent: Freespace - The Great War and the expansion pack Silent Threat. |
| Descent: Freespace - Darkness Rising | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Volition, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | Descent: FreeSpace - Darkness Rising is a truncated demo version of Descent: Freespace - The Great War, containing only the first act. It was packed in with specific Dell computers with Microsoft Sidewinder Joysticks. |
| Detective Barbie in the Mystery Of The Carnival Caper! | 1998 | Mattel Media | Gorilla Systems Corporation | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Detective Barbie: The Mystery Of The Carnival Caper! is a point-and-click adventure aimed at girls ages five and up. The story is centered on a charity carnival. Ken went to the carnival, and everyone said it would be a good idea if he volunteered for the magician's vanishing trick. Well, the trick worked, but the magician could not bring Ken back. What's more, Ken had all the carnival money with him!Everyone's looking for Ken but no one has a clue where he is. Enter Detective Barbie for her first big case.The game's features include:
more than 25 locations within the carnival
a database of more than 50,000 names
clues and suspects change every time the game is played
carnival rides that Barbie can go on
The entire game is controlled via the mouse. To move Barbie, the mouse must be dragged to the edges of the screen, at which point the cursor turns into a big pink arrow. |
| Dethkarz | 1998 | Melbourne House | Beam Software Pty., Ltd. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Dethkarz is a fast, arcade-like racing game with futuristic cars and tracks. All courses are set high up in the air with slopes sides and gaps, and there is no invisible wall, so missing a corner leads to a deep fall where the car is picked up by an aircraft and placed back on the road. There are four main tracks (Metro City, Grand Keys, The Pole, and Red Planet) with three variations based on length, and three main game modes: Time Trial (with ghosts for the best times), Arcade and Championship. Multiplayer games are also supported.Races are won by finishing first or by taking out all other cars before the final lap is completed. There are various power-ups such as a regular and an antimatter shield, a stealth mode (no collision with other cars is possible), quick repair, and nitro, as well as offensive pick-ups such as regular, heat-seeking and guided missiles, and a cluster bomb. These are presented as small cubes on the courses and the colour tells the player which kind of power-up it is. Only one power-up can be picked up at all times and when a new one is collected before it is activated, the earlier one is discarded. Cars also have a less powerful weapon by default: a pulse laser or a plasma cannon. Using it drains an energy meter that slowly recharges, and instead of bursts or short attacks it can also be charged to unleash a much more powerful attack. The use of weapons can be disabled in the options to make it a regular racing game. All courses have a pit lane where damage is restored by driving over highlighted areas. Cars are divided over four different teams with three tiers of cars. The statistics include difficulty, speed, handling, acceleration, armour and strength of the weapons. New tiers are unlocked by winning championships. |
| Diablo + Hellfire | 1998 | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Diablo (base game)
Hellfire (add-on) |
| Diamond Caves II | 1998 | diamond-productions | diamond-productions | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Diamond Caves II is the successor to Diamond Caves. It is a clone of the Amiga game Emerald Mine and a conversion of the classic Boulder Dash.The player has to collect Diamonds in a cave for the exit to open. He has to avoid different enemies as well as falling rocks and exploding bombs. Diamond Caves II introduced new in-game items as well as the Windows 95 version. |
| Die by the Sword: White Label Edition | 1998 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This re-release includes:
Die by the Sword (base game)
Die by the Sword: Limb from Limb (expansion) |
| Dink SmallWood | 1998 | Iridon Interactive AB | Robinson Technologies | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Play Dink Smallwood in this hack-and-slash style role-playing game. When Dink's world gets swarmed with monsters, the player must stand up and try to put a stop to it. The game can be controlled with a keyboard, joystick, or gamepad. Kill monsters, talk to people, and cast spells. |
| Dionakra | 1998 | Prism Leisure GmbH | BWM Software GmbH | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Similar to Arkanoid, Dionakra is a enhanced clone of Breakout. Players take control of a pad at the bottom of the playfield, which is used to direct a bouncing ball towards a number of bricks at the top of the playfield. Once the player has destroyed all the bricks, he gets to advance to the next level. In Dionakra, the bricks represent space crystals that Tony, the galactic dustbin man, has to clean up.There's different kind of bricks, each kind giving a certain score and requiring a certain amount of hits. Plenty of extras that have either a positive or negative effects exists. There's extras that change the size of the pad or the ball, increases the amount of balls, slows down or speed up the ball, adds a laser gun or makes the ball explosive. The player starts out with a number of lives. When all has been used, it's game over. The game has a total of 50 levels which may be accessed with a password. |
| Dirt Bike | 1998 | | | Racing / Driving, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Motorcycle, Off-roading | | | | | Windows | Dirt Bike is an off-road racing game in which the player races over a randomly generated landscape on an off-road motor bike.Dirt Bike can be played as a single player game against AI opponents, by up to three players sharing a keyboard, or over a LAN or internet connection with other players. Additional tracks and bikes can be downloaded, and players, bikes and tracks can be edited. When racing the player's bike usually has brown wheels and they race against other bikes with blue wheels, these bikes are the winners of earlier races so in beating them the player is effectively setting a new best time and creating an opponent for future races. The game can be played on a single screen or as a split screen showing the player's race in one window and the opponents in the other.This game has some odd controls. For a single player shifting gear is up/down controlled by the left/right arrows but the throttle control is governed by the position of the mouse cursor, at the top of the screen the throttle is wide open while at the bottom of the screen it is fully closed. It has background music and a high score table that can be edited, unlike most games this does not prompt for a player name at the start so winners are called Player 1 until a real name is added, new players named players can be created but Player 1 is the default.
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| Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon and Pumbaa | 1998 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive Victoria | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Rafiki, Timon and Pumbaa from Disney's Lion King are the tutors in this typing game created for children ages 6 and up. The comedic meerkat and warthog team are "going off on an adventure to broaden their horizons", and wise old Rafiki advises them to bring along his keyboard. When they demur, Rafiki enjoins the player to assist them in their travels, and the typing tutorial begins. The game employs standard practice routines, beginning with proper posture and placement of the fingers on the keys, followed by letter repetitions as each section of the keyboard is mastered. At first the exercises focus on accuracy, later working up to increasing the player's typing speed. Keyboard exercises are interspersed with mini typing games that become available as the player progresses:
Smack-A-Bug - a simple adaptation of the arcade game Whac-A-Mole, typing the lettered bugs as they pop up causes Pumbaa to shoot them with his pea-shooter. Provides practice in finger placement and home row technique
Savannah Water and Power - fill up a water tank for the thirsty pair by typing words as quickly as they appear in this Rube Goldberg-esque assembly. This exercise works on the player's accuracy
Grub Getaway - help Timon and Pumbaa find bugs around the rocks by typing words nearby; this provides more practice in typing phrases with accuracy
Carnivore Cave - type sentences to move Timon and Pumbaa through a maze ahead of hungry hyenas, practising speed and accuracy
Traveler's Tales - type paragraphs and edit mistakes to help Timon and Pumbaa move along on their adventureMilestones are rewarded with printable certificates, and Rafiki keeps a progress report of the player's WPM (words per minute) and accuracy statistics, as well as showing which keys the player needs to work on. There is a Ctrl + P option at the sign-in page that allows the unlocking of all the games and lessons. |
| Disney's Animated Storybook: Mulan | 1998 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive Victoria | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mushu is given the task to deliver the magical scrolls which contain the legend of Mulan to the emperor of ancient China. Mushu is warned not to drop the scrolls because the magic will fall out of them if he does. Mushu drops the scrolls anyway when Cri-Kee comes from behind and startles him. Now Mushu must regain the lost scrolls and place the magic back in them.The game is basically an interactive storybook where the player helps the story move forward by completing certain tasks. Some of these tasks include retrieving items requested by Grandma Fa, dressing up Mulan and Mushu with a variety of hats, tops, bottoms, shoes, and accessories, playing a mix and match puzzle to obtain armor, and figuring out the correct order gongs should be hit in order to awake Mulan's ancestors. A sample of some of the other activities include playing Mahjong and throwing snowballs at enemy soldiers. The game also lets the player have a sing along karaoke-style to three songs from the movie. There is also an activity that let's players place cut-outs of characters and locations experienced during the game onto a sheet of paper which can then be colored in using a paint set. |
| Disney's Classic Video Games 2 | 1998 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Disney's Classic Video Games 2 is a compilation including:
Disney's Toy Story
Donald in Cold Shadow
Timon and Pumbaa's Burper |
| Disney's Hades Challenge | 1998 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive Victoria | Adventure, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | Classical antiquity, Europe | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Disney's Hades Challenge uses properties from Disney's 1997 animated movie Hercules as a backdrop for an adventure game through ancient mythological Greece. The hero Hercules himself is indisposed so Zeus enlists your help to take care of various menaces to the lands of Greece. First, you are briefed by Philoctetes (Phil) on exactly what your quests will entail and how to accomplish them. You are issued a boat -- none other than the legendary Argo of "Jason and the Argonauts" fame -- with which to sail the isles, and a hero belt for storing collected items and accessing game options. Phil then gives you a mission briefing for you to carry out.For example, the Minotaur is running loose on the island of Crete. Daedalus is working feverishly to build a maze to contain the monster. You must use the Argo to sail to Crete and do what you can to expedite the labyrinth construction. There are colorful characters from the movie and crazy ancillary animations and dialogue. Watch out for Hades' henchmen, Pain and Panic, who will be working tirelessly to thwart you under thread of frying at the hands of their boss. Solve a series of puzzles in order to finish the quest, sometimes with Phil's help via a magic eye.After successfully completing a quest, Hades appears to quiz you on trivia of the Olympian gods. There are god statues everywhere throughout the land and clicking on them yields a brief lesson on that god or goddess. Thus, it's important to pay attention to these factoids during gameplay. |
| Disney's Hot Shots: Cub Chase | 1998 | Disney Interactive | Disney Interactive Victoria | Action | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Cub Chase is one in a series of Disney casual games entitled Disney's Hot Shots. In this game, Kovu and Kiara from Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, race to cover a maze in paw prints while evading capture by their babysitters.Cub Chase is inspired by the Pac-Man formula. Each maze has various pathways cutying through the grass and delimited by rocks. The cubs must leave their paw prints on every last bit of the pathway. When this task is accomplished, an exit opens up allowing the cubs to escape the maze. Meanwhile, the babysitters will be trying to catch the mischievous cubs, including Timon, Pumbaa, and Zazu. Timon and Pumbaa are limited by the rocks, just as the cubs are, but Zazu can fly over the artificial boundaries. A cub has 3 paws at the start of the game. Each time a cub is caught (touches a babysitter), the cub loses a paw. When all the paws are used up, it's game over.The cubs have a few special options on their side. Some mazes contain hyena masks that can scare the babysitters away temporarily. There are also bug nests to be cracked open that will distract the babysitters for a small while.The game can be played in 1- or 2-player mode. In 2-player mode, the cubs compete on the same screen to cover the most ground while avoiding babysitters. |
| Disney's Hot Shots: Swampberry Sling | 1998 | Disney Interactive | Disney Interactive Victoria | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Shooter | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Swampberry Sling is one in a series of Disney casual games entitled Disney's Hot Shots. In this game, Kovu and Kiara from Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, defend a bevy of berries from a variety of jungle creatures.1 or 2 players can play (a 2-player game is an alternating competition). The goal is to use the slingshot to launch swampberries at anything that moves. These range from artificial wooden targets to small targets like frogs, leaping fish, and lizards, to larger targets like hippos, snakes, and crocodiles. Timon and Pumbaa will also show up but be careful not to hit them -- there will be a penalty. |
| Disney's Math Quest with Aladdin | 1998 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Based on the characters from the animated Disney movie Aladdin, Disney's Math Quest with Aladdin takes place in the fictional city of Agrabah, where the evil genie Bizarrah has just been set free from a long imprisonment in a lamp. The player, with assistance from Iago (the parrot) and the genie, must break out of the dungeon where Bizarrah has confined him, find Abu, Jasmine, and Aladdin, find all the pieces of the broken lamp, and lock Bizarrah away inside it for good. To free the heroes, the player must perform tasks for street vendors, mix up magic potions, win tickets in a carnival booth, and solve puzzles to unlock doors. Each task, puzzle, and game is math oriented; there are symmetry puzzles, tangrams, mosaics, logic puzzles, sequencing and pattern puzzles, as well as addition and even elementary algebra.The mode of travel is reminiscent of that in a Junior Adventure as the game uses point and click to move the player about the city. Iago and the genie offer sometimes comedic advice and help to keep the player on track by reminding him often of the next objective. More help is available from a hidden scroll at the top left of the screen, which unrolls to show icons for help, difficulty selection, save, return, and "rec room" - a screen where many of the game's puzzles are available for free play.
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| Disney's ReadingQuest With Aladdin | 1998 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Middle East | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen, Free-roaming camera | Windows | Based on the characters from the animated Disney movie Aladdin, Disney's ReadingQuest with Aladdin takes place in various locations of the movie including the Cave of Wonders, Agrabah and the Sultan's Dungeons. Jafar has tricked Aladdin into releasing him from a secret vault in the Cave of Wonders and proceeds to trap Aladdin and take over the Sultan's throne. To rescue Aladdin, the player must complete a total of ten puzzles throughout the game with competition against the three Babylonian Brothers. Those puzzles consist of phonics, spelling, rhymes, sentences and matching pairs. In between puzzles, the player explores a point-and-click area to find the puzzles. The final puzzle consists of following sentence instructions. |
| Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride - Active Play | 1998 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | ImageBuilder Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Deborah Campbell | | | | Windows | Disney's The Lion King II Simba's Pride: Active Play is a collection of mini games based around character's that featured in 'The Lion King II', Kiara, Kovu, Rafiki, Timon & Pumbaa.All the games are represented by different animal paintings/hotspots in Rafiki's tree house, they are:
Rafiki's paints - takes the player to a mini game where they can construct their own pictures and print them
The giraffe picture open s a mini game where the player makes music. They use the mouse to feed different fruit to four giraffes and a monkey, each fruit causes the animalit's fed to to produce a short musical phrase in appreciation this producing a tune which can be recorded and saved. The player's voice can be recorded too.
The elephant picture triggers a pattern matching game. A troop of elephants lines up but cannot set off to march until their line is complete, it's the player's task to select the appropriate elephant from a small group and add them to the line. As the game progresses it becomes harder with the differences becoming less noticeable, for example instead of looking for an elephant that's the right colour the player must look for the right colour and the right shaped ears, while later stages have more than one elephant to add to the line.
The picture of the monkey starts a 'Simon Says' kind of game. Four monkeys line up on a log and dance in an ever increasing sequence. After each sequence has completed the player must reproduce it, if they are successful all the monkeys celebrate and the process is repeated.
There's a picture of hippos which leads to a logic puzzle game that is based on the sliding block kind of puzzle. In a pond there are several hippos all of which are coloured purple apart from one which is coloured bright pink. Hippos can be moved forwards or backwards by clicking on their head or their behind and the object is to clear a path so the pink hippo can reach the shore. Again as this puzzle progresses it becomes harder by introducing logs which, though they move in the same way as the hippos, are twice the size and therefore take up more space in the pond
The final picture is of a lion and this opens up a simple treasure hunt style game. In a picture of an African scene are hidden eight lion cubs and the player simply has to move their cursor around the screen until it turns black, indicating they have found a hot spot. Once a hot spot has been found the player clicks on it, a cub appears and gives a cute little roar, and the process is repeated until all eight have been found at which point all the cubs appear and roar. This game can be played over and over as the cubs hide in different positions each time.
There is a final game in the Pride Lands which the player can only access once all the mini games have been completed.Throughout the games Kiara and Kovu sit in the lower left of the screen giving encouragement while Timon and Pumbaa provide off screen comments and occasional on-screen humorous moments.Though all the mini games are single player, the game allows five different people to save their progress as marks on a tree, progress is saved automatically.
All the mini games are played with the mouse and the game plays in a fixed 640x480x16 resolution. |
| Divi-Dead | 1998 | Himeya Soft, Inc | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Horror | Visual novel | | | | | Adults Only | Narrative | Windows | The story of Divi-Dead encompasses the horror and Hentai genres, and is designed for adults only. You are trying to find out why so many strange things have been going on in your school. Largely, this involves moving around the school and encountering sights and characters who can give you a clue. The game has multiple endings depending on your choices. There is a full MIDI soundtrack, and hand-painted backgrounds. |
| Doko ga chigau no? | 1998 | Xing Entertainment | OverRise, Inc. | Puzzle | | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Doko ga chigau no? is a children's spot-the-differences puzzle games. Like the popular book and newspaper puzzle, players are shown a pair of pictures side by side and have to identify what spots feature differences from each other. Being a computer game, players can get immediate feedback on whether they found a real difference or not as soon as they click - but if they click a spot with no differences, they must start over immediately. |
| Dominant Species | 1998 | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation, Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Bryan Whitaker | Windows | You are one of the alien Mindlords, controlling your species in the battle for "Anima", the substance of all life on this planet, against other Mindlords. Then came the humans. As the most promising young Mindlord, take your species to triumph over the invading humans, while keep your species safe against the encroachments of other species. |
| Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 | 1998 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | 7th Level, Inc., Ion Storm, L.P. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3, the sequel to G-Nome, is a real-time strategy game where four races, Humans, Darkens, Mercs, and Scorps, fight over the control of the Planet Gift 3, where a powerful artifact resides. However, due to the heavy fighting, only a small crew aboard a dropship can be dropped on to the planet at a time. Each mission, the player starts with a small crew and tries to accomplish a set amount of objectives. |
| Dookoła świata | 1998 | Optimus Pascal Multimedia | Optimus Pascal Multimedia | Educational | Top-down | | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Dookoła świata is an educational game for children attending primary school with several lessons and exercises about geography.
There are three modules included in the game: Dookoła USA (Around USA), Dookoła Polski (Around Poland) and Dookoła świata (Around the world). In each of them, children can take a look at the map, see hints about famous or characteristic places of the location, watch videos and play mini-games focused on finding specific spots on the map, name countries by flags etc.Each module contains an index: a list with all phrases, subjects and words that pertain to different categories: capitals, countries, buildings, animals, lakes and so on.The game is available only in the Polish language. |
| Dope Wars | 1998 | Beermat Software | Beermat Software | Simulation, Strategy | | | Crime | | | | | | | | Windows | Dope Wars 2.0 casts you as a debt ridden drug dealer - $2000 in your pocket, but $5500 in debt to a Loan Shark. The only way to get out of this debt trap is to make money by buying the available drugs and then moving to a new location and hoping the price moves up, or is driven up by market demands. Along the way, you'll encounter various hazards in your filthy trade such as cops, muggers, loan sharks needing repaying, etc.
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| Double Agent | 1998 | Flair Software Ltd. | Flair Software Ltd. | Action, Strategy | Side view | | Spy / espionage | | | | | | | | Windows | Double Agent is an enhanced clone of well known 8-bit computers hit Spy vs. Spy. The game features numerous mission where the player competes with another human player or computer in the execution of the assignment. The tasks require carrying out specific actions before opponent, f.e. retrieve documents and escape from the building, find a camera and make photographs, kill other agent. In each location various items (heavy ball, electrical device, lit cigar) can be found that can be used for setting creative booby traps inside plants, desks, file cabinets and other furniture. All traps can be disarmed with objects found in the rooms. Contact with a trap takes some of the energy. Another difficulty is the third agent that appears after some time pledging traps and attacking the other two. Each agent has a shotgun, which can be used against the enemy. Death means the loss of all items and moves the agent to the initial position.The DOS/Windows version includes an animated intro and in-game sequences, and allows the player to select one of four available characters. |
| Dr. Brain Thinking Games: IQ Adventure | 1998 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Action, Educational, Puzzle | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Dr. Brain Thinking Games: IQ Adventure is an educative action game with lots of puzzle elements. The player takes on the role of a test subject of Dr. Brain who's stuck in another universe. To top it off robots are hot on his heels to dissect his powerful brain! To get back to earth the player has to solve various puzzles in order to find the required parts to reconstruct the interstellar travelling machine. And all this before the robots do and find their way to earth. In fifteen missions through a large variety of different isometric terrains the player will have to fight, puzzle and talk with the friendly molemen to repair the transporter and return home. Puzzles try to teach the player creative problem solving, pattern and sequence recognition, deductive reasoning, gathering facts and drawing conclusions and logical analysis.The game features multiplayer modes for both cooperative play and competitive play. |
| Dr. Seuss Kindergarten | 1998 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Dr. Seuss Kindergarten is an educational game for children aged four to six. It incorporates over 250 lessons based on the US curriculum covering topics such as phonics, word recognition, spelling, reading, addition and subtraction, sentence building, sorting and ordering, logic, memory building, creativity, critical thinking, pattern recognition, similarities and differences, sequencing, art, music, rhythm, telling time and more.Characters are fully voiced. The different activities are brought together through a story where Gerald McGrew has just built a new zoo. He asks for the player's help to collect different animals from around the world to populate it. Boarding the McGrew Zoo Choo Choo Train eight possible destinations can be visited. By completing activities the creatures are eventually collected and brought to the zoo where the game ends with a grand opening. |
| Dragon's Lair: Deluxe Pack | 1998 | Digital Leisure Inc., Epicenter Interactive, Inc. | Digital Leisure Inc. | Action, Compilation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Dragon's Lair Deluxe Pack includes Windows 95 compatible versions of Don Bluth's classic arcade full-motion video games:Dragon's LairSpace AceDragon's Lair II: Time Warp |
| Driver's Education '98 | 1998 | Sierra Entertainment, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Educational, Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | David Sandgathe | | | | Automobile, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | | | Windows | Driver's Education '98 is an educational driving simulator to help prepare you for the driver's test and examination. Featuring all 50 states driving manual and a more than 30 lessons driving on all sorts of roads and freeway in the virtual city. This software allows free-roaming as you drive with your virtual instructor completing many objectives such as parking, changing lanes, freeway driving, and driving in bad weather. The software also comes with handy diagrams of how to change lanes, and features short flash animations on how each driving maneuver is done. |
| Dungeon Keeper: Collector's Edition | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation, Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Dungeon Keeper (base game)
Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons (expansion pack)
bonus disc with the level editor, desktop theme pack, cut mentor quotes, art, trailers and animations |
| Eat This | 1998 | MIND MultiMedia | Image-Line Software | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Eat This is a side-scrolling platform game in which the player controls a bald trucker named Leon. He has to fend off aliens who are invading the United States of America. Using an assortment of guns, rockets and bombs the player has to kill aliens.The player controls Leon with the cursor keys while aiming and shooting with the mouse. A crosshair, which moves independently from the character, is used to target enemies in a similar fashion to Abuse. Each level ends with a giant alien boss that needs to be defeated. Along the way the player can pick up health balls to replenish his health.The game started as a shareware game, where only the first levels of the opening episode, Invasion, were playable. The full version on CD offers all the levels of Invasion and two other full episodes, called Kicking their Butt and Last Assault. |
| Echelon | 1998 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | Amnesty Visual | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Released | Windows | Echelon is an real-time strategy game in the vein of Command & Conquer.The background story behind the game involves the inhabitants of a faraway galaxy. In their advanced society they destroyed their weapons and have set their differences aside, living in mutual understanding and peace. But then humans discovered the galaxy and started war.Your mission is to lead one of the races in this game to victory. Each of the three different races you can play has unique tactics, strategy, units and buildings. The following races are availableThe intelligent, unpredictable, treacherous and merciless Aruthas.They are well-developed and live mostly underground.
The peacekeeping Eriins, who see themselves as Gods. They have a strong scientific background.
The brutal, unintelligent and rugged Trasks, who aim to destroy all beings other than themselves.You use the buildings in your base to produce infantry, vehicles (including naval, air and tanks), which in turn are used to destroy the enemy. The game features three types of worlds (desert, alpine and ice) on which there will be fought. Not only against the humans but also among each other.The game features no multiplayer modes. |
| Elite Air Hockey | 1998 | Patch Products | Perpetual Motion Enterprises, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Elite Air Hockey is a mouse controlled, 3D, table hockey game which has both single and multiplayer options.The object of the game is to score ten goals by sliding the puck past the opponent and into their 'net', ten goals being the default setting - in practice this number can be customized. The player can either play against an AI opponent which has five skill settings or they can play over a network against other people in either a one-on-one tournament of a 'round robin' with either thirty two or sixty four players.The game has four different tables, a choice of puck, a choice of paddle, a statistics features that keep track of wins/losses against other players, and uses 'real physics' and real sounds |
| Elvira's Horror Pack | 1998 | Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd. | Horror Soft Ltd. | Adventure, Compilation | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery, Horror | | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This combo package included three horror adventures:Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus
Waxworks |
| Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc | 1998 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Razorworks | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Helicopter, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | Take control of two of the hottest attack choppers in the world in a state-of-the-art simulation! Control either the AH-64D Apache Longbow or the Mi-28N Havoc-B in multiple semi-dynamic campaigns in full contoured 3D terrain with 3D acceleration support. Hide among the trees to stay out of enemy view and launch deadly anti-tank missiles. Fly in all times of day, from dawn to dusk to rain and fog. Multiple options and difficulty configurations let you customize the sim to your preference. |
| Eques: Wettlauf der Ritter | 1998 | Innonics GmbH | Innonics GmbH | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Board game | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Eques is a quiz game. It is played on a board similar to offline games like Parcheesi. Each field stands for a multiple-choice question like completing a numerical series or trivia. When answering a question correctly the player gets a quantity of steps he uses to proceed on the board. When the answer is wrong, a roll of the dice determines the steps.The board has branches and a target field which the players need to find. But when reaching this field there are also several other things like keys needed to win the game. These items are gained by answering questions on special fields. The game is played with four players, either human or computer controlled. |
| Eunsaek-ui Yongbyeong | 1998 | Hicom Entertainment | Family Production | Strategy | | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Eunsaek-ui Yongbyeong ("The Silver Mercenary") is a turn-based strategy game set in a medieval world with fantasy elements. The plot involves a powerful ruler known as the Iron King to unify the continent. The player takes control of a band of mercenaries that roams the world and performs jobs for various factions.The player can negotiate contracts for the group, recruit new troops, as well as buy and sell weapons, potions, and other items in stores. Squad leaders with different attributes can be hired in towns and assigned to command troops. Units are mostly composed of humans, but later in the game the player gains access to more exotic warriors such as dragons and gryphons. During battles the player commands several squads, each consisting of up to nine soldiers. Positioning and initiative in combat greatly affect its outcome. |
| Europe! | 1998 | Torpedo Software | Torpedo Software | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Europe! is a freeware single person educational game which, as can be ascertained from its name, teaches geography about Europe. After entering their name the player is presented with a stylised map of Europe with its countries outlined below which is a panel of eight buttons. The bottom row are the controls for exiting the game, accessing the game's help documents, turning the game's music on / off and changing the time allowed to answer a question. The top row start one of the games four modes of play, these are:
CountriesThe game cycles through all the countries in Europe displaying one country's name at a time in the top left of the screen. The player's task is to click on the appropriate country within the game's time limit. If they are successful the country will change colour and points are scored. If they are unsuccessful no points are scored.
CapitalsThe game cycles through all the capital cities in Europe displaying one at a time in the top left of the screen. The player's task is to select the appropriate country before the timer expires. If they are successful the country will change colour and points are scored.
Major ExportsThe game displays a list of exports on the right of the screen and cycles through all the European countries in the top left of the screen. The player must select the exports that generate the most income for that country, there may be up to three, within the time limit.
Geographical FeaturesThe game the name of a geographical feature on the top of the screen and the player must click on the appropriate outline before the timer expires.
Players are rated by their score from Beginner (0-500) to Admiral (4500+). The pass score for the game is 90% and the highest possible score 4735.Europe! has been released as a stand alone freeware game but it is a single module in a much larger game Around The World that covers the whole world and the solar system.
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| Evel Knievel Interactive Stunt Game | 1998 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Pantera Entertainment | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | Tricks / stunts | | Motorcycle, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | You take the role of famed motorcycle daredevil Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel in this game. You control him as he takes on several different stunts:Wheely Round: Evel must race through a stretch of land while making sure the front tire of his bike does not touch the ground.
Jump Round: Evel must accelerate his bike and calculate the appropriate speed to jump from one ramp to another. Miss the ramp and you lose the round.
Stand Round: Evel must race through a stretch of land while standing on top of his bike!
Approach Round: Evel has to reach the edge of a jump ramp and not go over it. If he does, he loses.
Stand & Wheely Round: Similar to the standard Wheely Round, Evel has to keep his bike's front tire off the ground while standing on it.Some of these stages also feature obstacles such as rocks or barriers. The game also features four different arenas (Dirt Field, Caesar's Palace, Los Angeles Coliseum and Wembly Stadium). The player must complete ten different stunts before moving on to the next stage. |
| Extreme 500 | 1998 | THQ Inc. | ASCARON Entertainment GmbH | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Oceania | Motorcycle, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Extreme 500 is a motorcycle racing simulation done with the assistance from the 1997, 250cc World Championship winning team (as advertised).The game consists of all 3 GP classes (125, 250 and 500), racing on the World GP tracks of 1996, and it's possible to race against the clock, the computer or up to 15 other players in the multiplayer network version.Extreme 500 incorporates several elements of motorbikes you can tweak as you please, so you have to try and fine-tune your bike to be able to get the best time. |
| Extreme Angler | 1998 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Window Painters Ltd. | Simulation, Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A fishing simulator that lets you customize your rod and reel. You can select your lures, fishing spots and hooks. Comes with a built in expert advisor and bait cam! You can fish for muskie, bass and walleye. There is a tournament level as well. You can create a trophy wall to track your catches. The game has several video shots of fishing with instructive narration. |
| Extreme Canoeing | 1998 | | | Racing / Driving, Sports | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | This game, as its title implies, is a canoeing game. The menus are controlled with the mouse but the race/run is controlled with
keyboard. There are three game types.Racing is just what it sounds like. It is you against the computer or another player, paddling a course to be first. You have the options of kayaks or canoes (Canadian) You courses are a choice between three river courses (easy, medium or hard) or three lakes (Loch Ness, Windermere or Llyn Celyn). Also choose if player two is the computer or a human opponent.Slalom is a one player race through cones. Try not to hit the slaloms. You can chose kayak or canoe (Canadian) and three river choices (easy, medium or hard). You get twenty points for completing a frame and thirty points for finishing. Every time you hit a cone, you lose ten points.White water is a one player game in a kayak on one river course. Each time you hit a rock, you lose one damage point. Lose all ten and the game is over. |
| Extreme-G: XG2 | 1998 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Probe Entertainment Ltd. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In this second installment of Extreme-G, you once again will race with and against the
incredible capabilities of G-bikes (they closely resemble of the ones in Tron)
through several surreal, twisting tracks. Be hell on wheels blasting your challengers
with an arsenal of vicious weapons and even break the sound barrier!The game is expanded on its predecessor by many ways; however, while being converted
from the original N64 version for the PC, it loses some of its features like the
multiplayer support (and its enhanced multiplayer options). |
| FA Premier League 99 | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts UK Ltd. | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | The German version of this soccer management game allows you to take over the responsibility for one of 108 German soccer clubs. The game models the 1998/1999 German soccer league structure down to the 3rd level. That means there are two professional leagues (1st and 2nd division) and four geographically divided amateur leagues (representing virtually a 3rd league). All club, manager, and player names are authentic, as EA obtained an official licence for this game.Your starting point in the league structure depends on the team you chose to manage. The game offers two main working areas: team management (team tactics, player deployment, transfers, etc.) and financial management (sponsoring, stadium management, merchandising, etc.). Detailed statistics of both, players, and club are offered as a base for decisions. Optionally, most of the management areas can be taken over by the computer.This management simulation introduced a then new communications system, the so-called EAMail, which resembles normal Email messages. All important news concerning your club will arrive via this interface and some of your management decisions will be made through it, too. The game will allow you to accept a job in another European league, after certain conditions are met (success in European-wide competitions).A match of your team can either be viewed in 3D or 2D mode. The first one uses a view which resembles the FIFA games of the time (i.e. FIFA 99), while the other one offers a more schematic top-down view where players are represented by icons. In 3D mode, spoken commentary by a well known German reporter can be heard. While the match can be stopped to change tactics, etc., it can't be aborted completely.An additional feature of the game is video footage, which will be shown in certain situations. |
| Fallen Haven: Liberation Day | 1998 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Micomeq | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Liberation Day is the sequel to Interactive Magic's previous release Fallen Haven. A tactical combat game with strategic management elements and an isometric perspective, this game also bears a strong resemblance to X-Com. Oh yeah, and the enemy is familiar as well: aliens!The stakes are higher now, though -- this isn't the colony of Nu Haven you are defending, but Earth itself. Terrain types vary from arctic to jungle as you move through the progressive campaign that takes you across 4 continents. Multiplayer combat is also an option on a variety of skirmish maps. However, there is no mission designer or random scenario generator.
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| Fallout Apokalypse | 1998 | Interplay Productions Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Compilation including the 2 post nuclear role-playing games plus an additional promotional disc about the next game in development, Fallout Tactics:
Fallout
Fallout 2 |
| Fantasy Pack | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This compilation from Sierra contains four games:
Rama
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance
Betrayal in Antara
Outpost 2: Divided Destiny
Only Rama runs in both DOS and Windows. |
| Fatal Abyss | 1998 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Human Soft Inc. | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Naval / watercraft | | | Everyone | | Windows | In the future, people are fighting a war over Bacteria 241, a strange new energy source found at the bottom of the ocean floor. While scientists at Eco Systems have developed a way to extract energy from the bacteria, renegades from Proteus Tech want to gain control of the situation and prevent control by Eco Systems. As a consequence, a war has broken out between the two. Fatal Abyss is a pure underwater 3D combat game, with no complexities of resource management or puzzle solving and an emphasis on a quick-reflex shoot-out near the ocean floor. You can look at the action from many different viewpoints, including both third-person and first-person perspectives. You do have a console map view available showing a 2D relief map of your area as well as a sonar view available showing more clearly which vehicles, structures, and missiles you are approaching. Choose a set of vehicles to take into combat and explore 7 underwater realms, with 24 missions to complete, with a vehicle that has more than 10 offensive and defensive equipment and weapons to blast the obstacles in your path. |
| Fatal Relations | 1998 | Himeya Soft, Inc | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | The protagonist of this game is a young boy named Ken Ohsato, whose parents were killed in a traffic accident. His father had worked for a big corporation before he died; its owner, a very wealthy woman named Reiko Hayami, decides to give the poor boy a new home. As Ken enters his new residence, he is pleasantly surprised to discover that from now on he will share a house with Mrs. Hayami's five young and beautiful daughters. But not all is simple - soon the young hero will find himself involved in complex relationships he would actually prefer not to have...Fatal Relations plays like a typical Japanese adventure. The player reads text, views non-animated pictures, and chooses verb commands from a menu ("Look", Talk", etc.). Navigation in the house is also performed by selecting a specific location from a menu. Different cutscenes will be triggered depending on where the player decides to go, and how he handles the various encounters with the young women. |
| Fighter's Fury | 1998 | | | Action, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | In Fighter's Fury you play a karate dude in a turn based fight. Choose with the mouse punch, kick, or insult commands to win. Choose from the start how powerful or quick you want to be with the strength and dodge points. But you only get ten so be wise in choosing. Be careful,as you only have a limited amount of health and your opponent's insults will really make you angry. Take turns punching, kicking and insulting your way to a higher score because every 100 points you get a super attack that does three times the damage. Knock your opponents health to zero to win. |
| FireWall | 1998 | ARI Data CD GmbH | Odin4000 | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | FireWall is a real-time strategy game. Unlike WarCraft or Command & Conquer, Firewall is less about capturing and managing resources and more about directly conquering factories. Ultimately, these are to be integrated into one's own supply. In order to win the war, a series of linear scenarios must be successfully completed, which demand a lot from the player in terms of difficulty. |
| Fisher-Price Ready for School: Kindergarten Edition | 1998 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fisher-Price Ready for School: Kindergarten Edition is a collection of 20 different mini games and activities for pre-school children. Puzzle and memory games as well as games for learning letters, numbers, forms and color are included. This will help with creativity, concentration and perception of the children. |
| Fisherman's Delight: Set One | 1998 | Jacobson Software Enterprises | Jacobson Software Enterprises | Sports | | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fisherman's Delight: Set 1 is a single player, mouse controlled, shareware fishing simulation.The game starts by showing the player none thumbnail pictures representing seven freshwater and two salt water fishing locations. In each location some fish predominate, some freshwater locations are trout waters while others have salmon or bass. The fish distribution is random, they can be at any of three different depths and one depth will always have more fish than the other two After the player selects a location they are then taken through a screen on which they select their rod and line, following this they select their lure and they begin to fish. There is no animation to speak of in this game, the scene is a medium resolution static image, occasionally a butterfly can be seen but what the player has to watch for is a ripple or minor disturbance on the surface of the water indicating where the fish may be lurking.When a fish takes the lure the player must hit the Set/Net button quickly, take too long and the fish will get away. Assuming the hook is set the player then pounds the reel in' button until the fish is within netting distance. Once again they must hit the Set/Net button quickly or the fish will get away.Once fishing has begun the player may change their rod, line, and lure and can change location by left clicking to return to the location selection screen. The game maintains two catch records, one records the last fifty fish caught, and the second records the best catch for each species of fish. |
| Fisherman's Delight: Set Two | 1998 | Jacobson Software Enterprises | Jacobson Software Enterprises | Sports | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fisherman's Delight: Set 2 is a single player, mouse controlled, shareware fishing simulation.This is the sequel to Fisherman's Delight: Set 1 and it plays in exactly the same way. This game offers six freshwater and three salt water locations and over twenty species of fish. Each location is populated by different kinds of fish and the fish distribution is random over three different depths. After the player selects a location they then select their rod and line, then their lure after which they begin to fish. Each scene is a still photograph, the only movement is the player's single pixel float, an occasional insect and the odd ripple or minor disturbance indicating where the fish may be lurking.When a fish takes the lure the player hits the Set/Net button, this must be done quickly because if they take too long and the fish will get away. The player then hits the 'Reel in' button repeatedly until the fish is within netting distance where they must once again hit the Set/Net button quickly or the fish will get away.Once fishing has begun the player may change their rod, line, and lure but they cannot change location, to do that they must log off and log back in again. The game maintains two catch records, one records the last fifty fish caught, and the second records the best catch for each species of fish. |
| Fisherman's Warmwater Challenge | 1998 | | Jacobson Software Enterprises | Sports | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fisherman's Warmwater Challenge is a shareware fishing game for up to four players. It is based on Fisherman's Delight: Set One and Fisherman's Delight: Set Two and, apart from the multi-player element, it plays in much the same way. This game has a single location, Katchem Lake, around which are ten fishing locations (only five of which are available in the shareware version). As with the preceding games the player selects their rod and line (only casting, spinning and fly rods are needed here), then their lure after which they begin to fish. Each location is a medium resolution photograph with little animation. |
| Fit Up | 1998 | Sybex France | Ellwood | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Fit Up is a variant of Tetris.Play against the computer or up to three human players, sharing the same computer screen. Fit Up features 40 levels, and has a built-in editor. There's even a story : during the 5th millennium, planet Earth is overpopulated and the "Fit Up Test" was chosen by Darwin (sic), the almighty computer, to handle this problem. If you pass the "Fit Up Test", you survive, otherwise ... |
| Flipper Crystal | 1998 | TLC-Edusoft | LittleWing Co. Ltd. | Action, Compilation | Top-down | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Flipper Crystal is a compilation of two LittleWing pinball games:
Crystal Caliburn
Loony Labyrinth |
| Fly Tink, Fly | 1998 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | "Fly Tink, Fly is a single player, keyboard controlled, side scrolling game in which the player has to guide Tinkerbell as she flies through the dark and hazardous woods to Peter Pan. It is a very short game with just a few screens of obstacles so the player has to fly through them all three times before reaching the end. It has three levels of difficulty but the higher levels do not introduce any additional hazards, they just make Tinkerbell fly faster.The game was released to promote the 1998 release of Disney's Peter Pan
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| Flying Saucer | 1998 | Software 2000 | PostLinear Entertainment | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | You are Boon, a military pilot, who lives together with Emily in a house somewhere in the USA. Your brother Steven disappeared during a thunderstorm when he was on a military mission. When you get a telepathic message from him, you travel to Dreamland (Area 51) in Nevada. Fleeing from the military forces you find yourself inside a huge hall with a flying saucer at the center.
The game starts when you enter the UFO and lift off. The game leads through 22 terrestrial and extra-terrestrial missions, where you have to fight the military as well as an alien race called the "Cyners". These tentacle creatures hunt the greys (the friendly aliens) and want to destroy the earth. Your mission is to stop them. |
| Football World Manager | 1998 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Caffeine Studios Limited | Simulation, Sports | | | | | | | Nick Kimberly | | | | Windows | Football World Manager is a soccer management game. Instead of focusing on one league or country like most soccer management games from its time, you can choose from over a 1000 international teams to manage. The game features a database of over 12000+ players and around 70 competitions in about 50 nations.Like other management games, you can buy, trade and sell players; you can train them, and watch them play. During play you are informed of everything that happens on the field and can make adjustments on the go. You are also notified of scores and half-time scores of other ongoing matches. |
| Forestia | 1998 | LaserMedia | Daddy Oak | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Forestia is an educational video game for children around nine years old, teaching them about European flora and fauna. When the player enters the forest, they are greeted by Sam the rabbit, who learns them about caring for a forest and about the basics of the game. Sam gives his camera, map and few other things to explore the forest and keep track of any animals, plants or mushrooms found.In total, the game features 19 birds, 22 mammals, 6 reptiles, and several kinds of fish and amphibians. Not all animals can be seen in every part of the forest, and not at every time of the day. For example, a badger can only be found in one part of the forest, and only during sunrise. All animals must be photographed.The game also contains several different trees, mushrooms and flowers to pick and collect. There are several mini-games including painting pictures for Daddyoak, a talking tree and the "grandfather" of the forest. |
| Formula 1: Championship Edition | 1998 | Psygnosis Limited | Bizarre Creations, Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | An updated version of Psygnosis' first Formula 1 game. It features all tracks, drivers and cars from the 1997 season. Both an arcade mode and a realistic Grand Prix mode are available.
New features are higher resolution and split-screen multiplayer. |
| Fox Sports Golf '99 | 1998 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | An amateur golf sim featuring no PGA endorsed courses or players. The game uses the standard golf gameplay mechanics, with three types of swings, a two or three click swing bar system, or the "Fox Sports Swing" which is mouse-motion swing type.The game's most prominent feature is the use of a 3d engine and a series of 3d accelerated effects like reflecting water, lighting effects, trees that move and sway with the wind and translucent objects. The game features 8 single player courses and multiplayer support for up to 4 players. |
| Fox Sports Soccer '99 | 1998 | Fox Sports Interactive | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Back of Jewel Case - PlayStation (US) (from Ad Blurbs)WATCH FOX SPORTS. PLAY FOX SPORTS.
FAST AND FLUID GAMEPLAY
OVER 120 TOTAL TEAMS 64 National Teams 64 League Teams
24 UNIQUE STADIUMS
CONTROL THE REPLAY SPEEDS
CHOOSE YOUR SKILL LEVEL Amateur, Semi-Pro, Pro, and International
CREATE YOUR OWN LEAGUES AND TOURNAMENTS
"AMBIENT REALISM" True soccer match atmosphere, including crowd sounds and chants
IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS IN PRACTICE MODE |
| Freddy | 1998 | TopWare Interactive Poland Sp. z o.o. | P.P.H Maria SC | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Freddy is a platform game with sci-fi background story. A small boy while walking in the forest decided to practice a slingshot. Unfortunately, he shot down an alien ship out of the sky with has been shrunken to ant size by the alien beam gun. The main goal requires finding the specified number of CD-ROMS, required to repair the ship. As a reward the boy will recover the original size.
The game features 13 levels (forest, cave, pipes, basement, bathroom, fridge, toys, music land, workbench, library, shop, computer, space) full of hostile creatures and objects to retrieve. Enemies may be defeated by using kicks and various weapons. Numerous of useful items can be found in every area, including power boosters or cap with a fan to fly. |
| Fun & Tilt 3-D Ultra Pack | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Action, Compilation, Sports | | | Horror | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | This compilation contains 2 games from the Sierra '3-D Ultra' Series:
3-D Ultra Minigolf
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night |
| Fun School 7: For ages 8-11 | 1998 | Europress Software Ltd. | CBL Technology Ltd | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Fun School 7 contains five activities designed to motivate and educate. Linked to the UK Government's national curriculum and supporting the national literacy and numeracy objectives, these activities cover the subjects of writing, sequencing and counting.The programs feature three levels of difficulty, quirky graphics and reward the player when a task has been completed successfully. Additional puzzles could at one time be downloaded from the internet. The games in this package are:
Get Lost: This is a maze game. The player must explore a maze and locate bricks which are used to build a bridge within a fixed time period. The bricks must be placed in the correct order in order to succeed.
Write On: There are two forms of this game. In the first the player must construct a story by placing verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives and 'little words' onto a grid. A bog hairy bird will then read the story. In the second form of the game the hairy bird will read a short story from which words will be removed. The player then completes the story using words of their choice as long as that word is of the right type.
Space Shuffle: Here some characters dance onto the screen with tiles showing either numbers or shapes. There is a sequence to the tiles they display, one tile of which is hidden. From a series of tiled displayed at the bottom of the screen the player must select the correct tile to complete the sequence. An animation is displayed if the player gets sufficient consecutive answers correct.
Head Hunt: Is a variant on the tile matching game Memory but in this game instead of tiles there are monsters hiding in holes. This can be played as a one or a two player game.
Trog Eat Trog: This is a variation on Hangman. The player must guess a hidden word. For each correct letter selected the player's trog eats a marker. For every incorrect guess the computers trog eats a marker. If the player guesses the word correctly before all the compurter's markers have been used up then their trog advances to the computers side of the screen and eats not only the remaining markers but also the computer's trog as well. The words used are in educational groupings such as animals, geometry etc. There is a two player version of this game where one player sets a word for the other player to guess. |
| FunPack 3D | 1998 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | WayForward Technologies, Inc. | Action, Compilation | | | | Arcade, Mini-games, Paddle / Pong, Puzzle elements, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | This follow-up to the FunPack contains 3-D adaptations of four of the games from that earlier product. While the originals were licensed versions of Freeware/Shareware titles, these are all original creations available only in this collection.The games are all selected from within a single program; they are:Chomper 3D - Inspired by Chomp, this is a dot-munching, maze-racing game in the Pac-Man vein featuring all the usual characteristics -- monsters made vulnerable by power dots, fruits worth bonus points and multiple mazes to explore. The third dimension doesn't change things a whole lot, but it is possible to view the action from five different camera angles.Missile Defense - Adapted from Warheads for Windows, this is Missile Command from a first-person perspective. The arrow keys rotate the view from the gun platform while the mouse directs defensive fire used to destroy attacking missiles and planes.Super Brick-Breaker - Like Block Breaker, this is a ball-and-paddle game in which bricks need to be broken in order to clear levels. Four different camera angles are provided, and the paddle can now move in two dimensions rather than only one. Various power-ups are available to diversify gameplay.Meteor Gunner - This Asteroids clone, here in place of Hyperoids, has the usual mix of alien spaceships and breaking rocks to shoot at, but it changes the scale a bit, leading to a feel somewhat reminiscent of Wing Commander. The camera can be positioned either in the cockpit or just outside the player's spaceship, but either way, the screen only ever displays a relatively small part of the action at a time, and it takes a bit of flying around to clear everything.There is a considerable amount of music included in this package; each game has its own soundtrack.Screenshots Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gamePart of the Following Groups Asteroids variants
Breakout variants
Missile Command variants
Pac-Man variants
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| Funsoft Big Box | 1998 | Funsoft GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Funsoft Big Box is a German compilation including the following ten games:
Actua Soccer
AEGIS: Guardian of the Fleet
Battle Arena Toshinden
Earthworm Jim 2
Kaiser Deluxe
On the Ball
The Hive
The Patrician
Top Gun: Fire at Will
World Circuit
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| Gabriel Knight Mysteries: Limited Edition | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This limited edition box is an introduction to the Gabriel Knight world of horror and adventure. The first two games of the trilogy have been included:
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
The box also includes the graphical novel Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, and a soundtrack from Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. |
| Galaxy of 3D TetriMania | 1998 | eGames, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Galaxy of 3D TetriMania is a Tetris inspired game. Though the title prominently features the 3D aspect the player is still fitting blocks together in two dimensions.As with all games of this type the player must 'solve' each level by filling in the required number of rows. This game has two modes of play:Classic: Has the standard puzzle piecesEnhanced: has a wider variety of pieces and other “special” pieces such as bombs, goblins, and anchorsThis game can be played with the keyboard, joystick, or mouse.
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| Galaxy of Games | 1998 | RomTech, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Galaxy of Games compilation includes:
Adventures With Chickens
Balloon Pop
Bingo
Blast Thru
Castle Camelot
Frans Frog hop
Galactic Patrol
Geo Jump
Gin Rummy
Great Pyramid
Gumball Machine
Intergalactic Exterminator
Mahjongg: Game of The Four Winds
Mahjongg Master
Penny's Arcade
Pro Backgammon
Solitaire 25
Stratapoker
Tunnel Blaster
Word Connect
Word Skramble
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| Game Empire 3 | 1998 | Learning Company, Inc., The | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Game Empire 3 is a collection of over two hundred Windows and DOS shareware games.The collection can be accessed by:
Category: The games are split into Adventure, Arcade, Board, Card, Casino, Kids, Mind, Sports and Strategy groups, once a group is selected the games within it are displayed alphabetically.
By name: All games are listed alphabetically.
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| Game, Net & Match! | 1998 | Blue Byte Studio GmbH | MediaGAMES | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Game, Net & Match! is the third part of Blue Byte's Great Courts tennis simulation series (though only the French release retains the series title).The game now uses 3D graphics but also preserves the features of Great Courts 1 and 2. The game features a complete tournament schedule, which can be created from a variety of ways from over 150 different tournaments. It is also possible to take part in a worldwide Internet League and try to top the official Internet ranking.Players can create their own character and train their role-playing-like character stats via training sessions with a ball machine. Those stats will also improve while playing in matches depending on which skills have been used during them - doing lots of backhand shots will for instance make the character better at them. Thus, such a character will most likely have to play minor tournaments before winning Grand Slam events, like a real player. |
| Games PLUS Vol. 2 | 1998 | SYBEX-Verlag GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Games PLUS Vol. 2 is an unofficial add-on, which contain dozen of maps, units, tools, editors, trainer and that like for the following games: Age of Empires, Dark Reign: The Future of War, Grand Theft Auto, Hellfire, Need for Speed II: Special Edition, Tomb Raider II and Total Annihilation.Navigating through the content of the disc is done via a proprietary browser, but can also be done with any other browser - or directly. |
| Gene Pool | 1998 | | | Simulation | Top-down | | | Life / social simulation | | | | | | 2D scrolling, Free-roaming camera | Windows | iTunes Store Description (from Ad Blurbs)What is GenePool?
It's a computer simulation where hundreds of virtual organisms evolve swimming skills. These organisms are called "swimbots". You can set mate preference criteria and thus influence what the swimbots consider as attractive qualities in potential mates. The most attractive swimbots get chosen most often to have little babies, and so their genetic building blocks propogate to future generations. Eventually, swimbots get better at pursuing each other, competing for food, and becoming babes to other swimbots. Local gene pools emerge which compete for mates and food (for energy to have offspring). Eventually a dominant sub-population takes over. Sometimes, everyone just dies. That's not a bug. That's nature! If you want, you can move swimbots and food around to help your favorite critters survive. Gene Pool is best appreciated as a virtual Darwinian aquarium in which you initiate a primordial soup, and then occasionally check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every fifteen minutes (or every few days, if you are interested in long-term evolutionary experiments!). |
| Genocide | 1998 | KaosKontrol, Inc. | KaosKontrol, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Genocide is a run-and-gun platformer that has been built upon the source code of Abuse; it shares the exact gameplay with highly destructive environments where the player moves the character around with the arrow keys and aims the with the mouse.The game takes place in the prison colony of Thras 5 on the surface of the Metalyte mining planet during the 23rd century. The player takes the role of an ex-marine captain Shad, a biodroid who was convicted for murder. Thras is ruled by an evil corporation called The Regime, who plan to wipe out the entire solar system by torturous means. As nobody has ever escaped from Thras, Shad's mission will not be easy. |
| Gex: Enter the Gecko | 1998 | Eidos, Inc. | Crystal Dynamics, Inc. | Action | Behind view | Regional differences | | Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Gex 3D: Enter the Gecko is a 3D platform game where the player controls a gecko who has to navigate several levels, all of which are parodies on well-known TV shows and movies, such as Looney Tunes, Gilligan's Island, or Friday the 13th.Rez, the evil overlord of the television is back into the Media Dimension, and the government asks the TV addict gecko, Gex, to defeat him once again. He gets a lot of money and an agent suit for that. The game generally resolves around a James Bondish spy theme, but the story is not referenced later in the game.Gex has to enter levels through TVs to collect three types of remote controls in order to unlock more of the Media Dimension, boss levels and secret TVs. Gex can tailwhip or karate-kick his enemies, climb certain walls and ceilings, eat bugs for power-ups, and spout one-liner wisecrack jokes. The gameplay is non-linear, the player can choose from multiple routes and goals on each level, and are replayable anytime after accomplished.
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| Global Domination | 1998 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action, Strategy | | Derrick Austin | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Global Domination is an action-based strategical wargame that is based on the fictional game James Bond plays against Maximillian Largo in the 1983 film Never Say Never again. Elements of this game are combined with the classical board game Risk.In this game you play as an agent for a secret agency called ULTRA. You are hired by countries all over the world to protect them from their enemies.Each of the twenty missions begins with a full motion video briefing. After that you are presented with a spinning hologram globe representing the earth. The world is divided into different countries, similar to risk. It is your job to defend your country from incoming attacks and strike against enemies.With your keyboard you can switch between weapons and you can aim with your mouse for a target location for your rockets, aircraft and naval vessels. More and more weapons come available as you progress in the game. |
| Glover | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Interactive Studios Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A wizard is mixing up a batch of magic potions, when an explosion sends the gloves off his hands flying into the air. One lands safetly outside the castle, but the other lands in an evil potion mixture. It's this evil glove that decides to take over the castle. Meanwhile, 7 crystals, which used to sit on top of the castle and gave the surrounding lands its life force, also fly off in all directions. Thankfully, though, the good Glove changes the crystals into rubber balls, so that they would land safely. You must control the good glove (name Glover) and find the 7 crystals, putting them back into the castle to restore the life back into the land. But be careful, the bad glove is out to stop you and take the kingdom, and the wizards power, for his own. |
| Gold Games 3 | 1998 | TopWare Interactive | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Gold Games 3 contains 23 games (one game less than Gold Games 2) on 24 CDs.
The following games are included (mostly German versions):
Biing!: Sex, Intrigen und Skalpelle
Bundesliga Manager 97 (Gold Edition)
Demonworld
Earth 2140
Flying Corps
G-Nome
Have a N.I.C.E. day!
Imperialism
Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure
Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
Links LS: 1998 Edition
Pacific General
Panzer General II
Planet of Death
Pro Pinball: Timeshock!
Soldiers at War
Street Racer
Sub Culture
Tomb Raider
Virtua Fighter 2
WarBirds
War Wind II: Human Onslaught
World Football
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| Grand Prix Legends | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Papyrus Design Group, Inc. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | Grand Prix Legends is a racing simulator based upon the 1967 Formula 1 season, cars and tracks.The game mimics the physics and behavior of the original cars, which are notoriously difficult to drive in real life. You can take part in practice, single races (with variable opposition) or the full 1967 Grand Prix season racing on classic tracks like Monaco, Rouen, Kylami, Monza and the 174 corner, 14 mile long old Nurburgring circuit.The game supports steering wheels and pedals as well as other peripherals. Internet & network play for up to 20 players is also supported. |
| Gravity Angels Part 1: Alien Discovery | 1998 | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Gravity Angels Part 1: Alien Discovery is one game in a series of Multipath Movies(TM) by Brilliant Digital Entertainment. These games are pure interactive movies that display a movie that allows for the player to select among multiple paths at opportune junctures of the storyline. In that way, the game is a "choose your own adventure" movie. Unlike other games of the interactive movie genre, which generally display the movie bits using pre-rendered full motion video, this game renders 3D models of the movie in real time.The science fiction story of this movie/game follows a group of employees of the interplanetary mining corporation Miller-Western. For a variety of disciplinary reasons, the employees are sent to the Jupiter moon of Ganymede which used to have a thriving osmium-mining operation but is now just a dumping ground for problematic employees who assault their bosses or engineer faulty equipment because they were drunk. No one on the base is to be trusted, everyone is hiding a bevy of secrets and to make matters worse, every monitor across the moon base periodically picks up mysterious transmissions that appear to depict some unknown alien lifeform. Who are they? What do they want? Hence, the subtitle of the game, Alien Discovery.
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| Gravity Angels Part 2: The Betrayal | 1998 | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Gravity Angels Part 2: The Betrayal is the second installment in Brilliant Digital Entertainment's Gravity Angels saga. Just like the first part, this Multipath Movie uses the in-game engine to render a real-time, three-dimensional, digitally animated story. At certain predetermined points in the storyline the player gets to choose one of multiple plot alternatives or paths that, while influencing the story, never change the actual outcome. Each Multipath Movie episode - they were originally available as Webisodes as well - runs approximately 30 minutes.We rejoin the team of rogue employees, introduced in the first episode, on Jupiter's moon Ganymede just as the Miller Western Corporate Conglomerate is moving to turn the mining base into a death trap. It soon becomes clear that the company will stop at nothing to secure its interests in the alien artefact discovered deep below the surface.
Green, the facility sheriff and company henchman, receives orders to terminate any witnesses. All transmissions are jammed, company backup is on the way and that means there's only two options left to our heroes: death or a desperate fight for survival. |
| Gravity Angels Part 3: Payback | 1998 | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Gravity Angels Part 3: Payback is the third part in the epic Gravity Angels saga of Multipath Movies. These are not 'games' in the strict sense of the word, but digitally animated stories, rendered in real-time by the graphic engine, which can be influenced by the viewer at certain points in the story line.After the events in the previous episode, the alien ship has started moving slowly towards the surface, gradually destroying the Ganymede colony in the process. The team has no choice but to go into the alien vessel and find a way to stop this.To add to the predicament, Green, the base sheriff, who is now alone but still at large, is moving to make sure that if he doesn't make it out alive no- one else will either.Our heroes split up into small teams to foil Green's sabotage plan and save the base. Many dangers await along the way and not everyone might live to see another day, but if they do, they'll make sure to get some... payback!
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| Gravity Angels Part 4: Death Force | 1998 | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | This is the fourth and final chapter in Brilliant Digital Entertainment's Gravity Angels series of Multipath Movies. Each one of these interactive movies uses a proprietary video engine that renders animated scenes in real-time. In the course of the movie, players can make a number of 'decisions' that will lead the story down different plot branches.After the events of the first, second and third chapters, the enigmatic alien ship breaches the surface of Ganymede. Our heroes decide to pay another visit and stumble upon the ship's control room, where they will make a startling discovery.
Time is running out for the team as they find out that Miller Western, the most powerful company in human history, knew all along what was going on on Ganymede.
Company reinforcements arrive in strength and they have no intention of taking prisoners. The only thing left to do for Ty, Felice, Jazz, Reece, Bennett and the others, is to start making preparations for their last stand against this Death Force... |
| Guardian's Sword: Alpha Era | 1998 | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc., Winking WindThunder | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time, Turn-based | | | Windows | During a war with the demons, a young man named Shot has lost everything - his home, his family, his friends, and his beloved one. One day he hears a rumor about the Guardian's Sword, which is told to grant a wish to whoever discovers it. Shot decides to dedicate his life to the search of the Guardian's Sword, hoping to bring the people who were dear to his heart back to life. Guardian's Sword is a Chinese (Taiwanese)-made role-playing game, influenced by Japanese anime style and RPG gameplay. It utilizes point-and-click horizontal movement on screens with pre-rendered backgrounds and 2D hand-drawn characters. Battles with enemies occur on the same screen as the main navigation. The battles are a mixture of turn-based and real-time style, in Final Fantasy spirit. |
| Guilty Bastards | 1998 | | The General Coffee Company Film Productions | Adventure | | | Detective / mystery | Interactive fiction / text adventure | | | | | | | Windows | Guilty Bastards is a “tongue-in-cheek” murder mystery in which you play the role of a Private Eye with a gambling problem who is down on his luck. Situated in Los Angeles, you are hired by a studio to investigate and solve the murder of one of their actresses as soon as possible. |
| Hallo 2! 50 Spiele Hits | 1998 | media Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Prism Leisure GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation is the successor to Aber Hallo!. Once again there are 50 games available in the compilation, which are spread over 15 CD's.The manuals for each game are on CD in multiple formats available, while the printed manual is only some sort of a short reference card.And like the predecessor, the copy protection codes are only stored in the manuals on the CD, and no hard copy of it is available.The following games are included:
Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing
Airlines
Air Warrior II
Apache Longbow
Battle Station
Bazooka Sue
Big Sea: The Better One Will Win
Boong?! – Die ultimatiefe Fußballsimulation
Captain Quazar
Casino Bonn
Championship Manager 93
Command Adventure Starship
Crime Time
Crusade
Das Amt
Das Museum
Decathlon
Dynatech
Egon
Enemy Nations
Fighter Wing
Hannibal
iF-16 Fighting Falcon
Invest
Jahangir Khan's World Championship Squash
Kick Off 97
Lamborghini: American Challenge (aka Crazy Cars III)
Logo
Monaco 2010
Motor City
Net: Zone
Power Rangers Zeo Versus The Machine Empire
Profi Fußball - Der Trainer
Pro Pool 3D
Robinson's Requiem
Rolling Ronny
Sarakon
Seafight
Soul Crystal
Spirit of Adventure
Super Stardust '96
Super Tetris
Surface Tension
Tie Break
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
The Machines
Tornado
Trial by Magic
Winzer Deluxe
Wold War 2 |
| Happy & Max: The Night in the Tree House | 1998 | Kids Interactive | | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Happy & Max The Night in the Tree House is an interactive storybook for children, Max is the boy while Happy is his dog. The interactive book shows a picture while the audio reads out a rhyming couplet or two for each page. There is usually a hotspot or two in the picture that triggers a sound effect or another picture. Also on the disc are two games, "Dream Pong" and "Shadow Match".
Dream Pong: Max is afraid to go to sleep because he has bad dreams, the only way he can nod off is if he beats Happy at Pong. This is a standard single-player, Pong clone.
Shadow Match: Max and Happy cannot sleep in the tree-house because there are so many strange shapes, to help them the player must identify an object by matching it to its shadow.At the end of each game the player gets a 'Well Done' message, assuming they are successful. The audio content that accompanies the interactive book can also be played in a standard CD player. |
| Hard Boiled Action 1 | 1998 | Reel Entertainment In Digital | | Compilation, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Hard Boiled Action 1 is a limited edition package that contains two movies on DVD, and two action games. The items included are: Black Eagle (a 1988 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sho Kosugi)
China O'Brien (a 1990 film, starring Cynthia Rothrock and Richard Norton)
WetlandsWages of War: The Business of Battle |
| Hard Boiled Action 2 | 1998 | Reel Entertainment In Digital | Stick Man Games, Inc. | Compilation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Hard Boiled Action 2 is a limited edition package that contains two movies, a full game, and a demo DVD. The items included are:
Sanctuary (a 1997 film starring Mark Dacascos);
Gun Crazy (a 1992 film starring Drew Barrymore);
Chaos Overlords (a gang-based strategy game);
DEMOlition! (a DVD filled with several game demos). |
| Hardwar | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Software Refinery, Ltd., The | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Teen | | Windows | The craters together is named Misplaced Optimism... And it's completely appropriate. Located on Titan, one of Saturn's moons, the colony started as a mining colony. As the wealth of mineral discovery spread, gangs moved in... until the whole place is held by two rival gangs, some misc. factions, and a lot of people caught inbetween, with no way out.You are just one of the "moth" flyer owners, and you want to get out of this godforsaken hellhole, and the only way to do is to play the game... a mean game of survival. Hardwar is a free-form and plot-driven game that was inspired by Elite and Privateer. Entire Misplace Optimism is simulated with other crafts moving about their own business, from transport to piracy to bounty hunters and more, and you can join them. Transport your own goods from source to destination to earn a profit. Chase down helpless merchant moths and cut them apart with your weapons and then retrieve their cargo. Chase down pirates and other evildoers on commission of the local police. Upgrade your craft with better components, software, or even new moth models. You can even own buildings in this game world, and charge others for repairs and such. Follow through the plot, where you need to undertake a few special missions, and you may even get a chance to escape this hellhole once and for all...
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| Head Rush | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Head Rush takes the gameplay and style of the You Don't Know Jack series and creates a teen-angled trivia game with it. The basic format of the game is the same as in the YDKJ, the major difference being a shift from sexual humor to toilet humor and a change in art style to cartoons. |
| Hell-Copter | 1998 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Drago Entertainment | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Shooter | | Helicopter | | | | | Windows | The Hell-Copter flying squadron and its leader Robert Fortune are feared around the world. You play Fortune in these 20 missions, in a 3D action game where you, the player, maneuver a highly armed helicopter. Sometimes, you'll have to rescue somebody; in other cases, you need to destroy something or even protect your own base. To accomplish this task, you shoot everything that moves with miniguns and missiles You have limited weapon stocks, but it's possible to find some refills on the ground.The missions are always straightforward - you can fly everywhere on the map, but your little radar will show you where to go next. |
| Hero Defiant | 1998 | Everett Kaser Software | Everett Kaser Software | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Puzzle game. Over 100 levels. Sequel to Hero's Heart. Figure out how to move the Hero through each level, to collect all of the Hearts, and reach the Exit. Create new levels/new objects. |
| Hesperian Wars | 1998 | BMS Modern Games Handelsagentur GmbH | PTERODON, Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | After the death of its emperor the Hesperian Empire breaks down and four races fight for the leadership. Each faction - Giants, Mages, Druids and Pygmies - can be played in their campaigns consisting of 20 missions. The missions goals are usually to destroy or protect something.The units have special abilities and an inventory to store items like potions, money or spells which are left behind from defeated enemies. They also can be upgraded by moving them in the appropriate building (e.g. a blacksmith) and spending money. There is no classical base building. |
| Hexplore | 1998 | I•Motion, Inc. | Heliovisions Productions | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | The events of Hexplore take place during the Crusades, ca. 1000 AD, portraying an alternate reality where magic and monsters exist. Players take the role of MacBride, an adventurer who wanders in the Middle East and decides to track down a black wizard called Garkham, who supposedly possesses a magical book that may open the path to the Garden of Eden.The game incorporates role-playing and puzzle-solving elements. Up to three other characters can join MacBride on his quest, which can be recruited in various populated places. All the characters belong to either of the three available classes: archer, warrior, or sorcerer, each with their own combat-related and field abilities. Combat takes place in real time. Manipulation and advancement of the characters are needed to progress through the multiple levels of countryside, caves, snowlands and rocky wastelands. The game utilizes a voxel-based engine and is seen from an isometric perspective. Cooperative multiplayer mode (up to four players) is available as well. |
| Hopkins FBI | 1998 | MP Entertainment | MP Entertainment | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The infamous terrorist Bernie Berckson was sentenced to death and electrocuted twice. Somehow, he remained alive, and managed to escape. Now, he's leading a new criminal organisation. As Special Agent Hopkins, you must find and arrest him and anyone belonging to his gang. |
| Hovniválové | 1998 | JRC Interactive | Centauri Production s.r.o. | Adventure | Side view | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Hovniválové is a 2D point-and-click adventure about the teenager Jerry who falls into a mysterious world of animated comic stories. To save himself and get back to his mother, he gradually has to overcome the pitfalls of four different episodes. In the first episode he assumes the role of a detective, the second is from the realm of toys where you play as a toy monkey, the third is the realm of dung beetles and the last one is set in the distant future where he assumes the role a computer expert. There is a choice between two levels of difficulty and a few action mini-games. |
| Hoyle Battling Ships and War | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Compilation, Strategy | Side view, Top-down | Licensed | War | Board game, Cards / tiles | | Naval / watercraft | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Hoyle Battling Ships and War is a collection of two games: Battling Ships and War. Neither game is exclusive to this release. Battling Ships appeared in the previously released Hoyle Classic Board Games while War was to appear in Hoyle Card Games which was released the year after.Battling Ships is a variant of Battleship. Two players place five ships of different sizes on a 10 by 10 grid and then take turns attempting to sink the ships with missiles. The number of missiles shot per turn can be decided by the player. By default it varies based on how many ships the player has remaining. War is a version of the card game with the same name. It's played between two players who each have 26 cards at the start. They both draw cards and the one with the higher card wins both cards. When a pair is drawn, war is declared. Each player then draws three cards face-down and one face-up. The player with the higher face-up card wins all cards in the war. Next to the cards, each player has three tanks that shoot at each other as cards are drawn. When a player loses a war, a tank is also lost. When all tanks are lost the opponent wins. A player also wins when in possession of all the cards. |
| Hoyle Board Games | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Chess, Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Collection of classic board games, includes many premade characters and a create a player option. Games include: Backgammon, Checkers, Battling Ships, Mancala, Reversi, Chess, Line 'em Up, Dominoes, Snakes & Ladders, Placer Racer, Pachisi, Yacht, Chinese Checkers, and Zen Bones. |
| Hugo: Wild River | 1998 | NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | The evil witch Hexana kidnapped Hugo's family and he has to rescue them. This game contains four ported levels from the popular TV show:
Hugo is driving in a mine cart and has to dodge obstacles on the side on on the ceiling of the mine. At the start of the game he is shown a map of the mine and has to take the right turn during the level.
Hugo floats along a river on trunks. He has to change the trunks regularly because it sinks when he stands to long on them. There are obstacles to avoid.
Hugo has to cross a swamp. To achieve this goal he has to use windmills to cross rivers and jump to avoid mud pools.
Hugo gets pursued by a rock. He has to jump over obstacles so he doesn't get rolled over.
Hugo is sitting in a barrel and floats in a river. He has to dodge obstacles by steering left or right. At the start of the game he is shown a map of the river and has to take the right turn during the level.
After beating on of these levels he gets to play one of these three end levels:
Hugo has to choose between three ropes. If he chooses the right one his points get doubled.
Hugo has to choose between three keys. If he chooses the right one his points get doubled.
Hugo stands on one end of a chess board. Hexana uses lightnings on some fields. Then Hugo has to cross the field without using these fields.
Because the levels were created for a TV show were you had to control Hugo with your phone buttons, the controls are simple: Depending on the level there are just two or three buttons to press at the right time. |
| I Can Be an Animal Doctor | 1998 | Macmillan Digital Publishing USA | Cloud Nine Entertainment | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | I Can Be an Animal Doctor is an educational game that teaches children how to be a veterinarian. In this game, Addie the Kangaroo, Rufus the Dog, and Katie the Chameleon, help you while you are playing. Your job is to help Doctor Max Rigby, who has many sick animals in her animal park. Doctor Rigby takes you to a map in her ranch house, which shows you the four areas you can explore. There is the Savanna, the Farm, the Forest, and the Desert to explore.Once you enter an area, you can either find a sick animal or play a mini-game. Once you click on a sick animal, you go to the field hospital to check up on the animal. There are many tools to use, such as a x-ray, a scale, a thermometer, a microscope, and a stethoscope. Once you find what is wrong with the animal, you give it the correct treatment so it can heal. Once the animal heals, you will get a certificate and a letter from the animal showing that it is all better.The six mini-games are accessed in either the map or the Activity Center, including Weigh Cool, Ordering Life Cycles, Desert Treasures, Animal Crackers, Feeding Frenzy, and Animal Artistry. Every single mini-game has two difficulty settings except for Animal Artistry, which is a creativity game. There are also many things to do in the ranch house, such as reading about famous doctors, clicking on fun surprises, and a glossary which teaches you words that are found in the game. |
| Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon (Limited Edition) | 1998 | Eidos Interactive Limited | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A limited edition release of Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon. It comes with:
A copy of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook of the same name, originally published in 1984.
A Deathtrap Dungeon card game.
A 2-for-1 ticket to visit the London Dungeon, described as "a museum of simulated horror from history, recalling events of atrocities from the past".
It also came with a "Bestiary" booklet, the same size as the manual, containing descriptions and artwork of all characters and monsters in the game.
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| Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods | 1998 | JC Research Inc. | KRGsoft | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Once upon a time, deities fought over the continent of Icarus. The benevolent Tetheus has won, and the evil Ercanet was banished. However, things only got worse afterwards, as Ercanet was unable to forgive the humans for supporting Tetheus. He corrupted the souls of people and populated the continent with terrifying beasts, acting through his emissary, the wizard Colias. The Coshark mercenaries tried to oppose Colias, but only one of them, a young man named Dreus, survived. Together with his fiancee Helena, Dreus embarks on a quest to stop the evil and restore peace.Like many Korean RPGs, Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods has many elements from Japanese-style RPGs. The narrative is character-driven; various characters join the party over the course of the story, playing their own parts in it. Story advancement is quite linear. The game's visual style is reminiscent of Japanese manga and anime. Combat is turn-based, taking place on large screens, on which the player navigates the characters and assigns commands to them. |
| Il Gioco del Mondo | 1998 | DedaloMedia Edizioni | DedaloMedia Edizioni | Educational, Strategy | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Italian educational tabletop game (with Italian, English and German languages supported) for 2 to 4 players, where the task is to travel around the world learning about its sites and 'taking pictures.The global map is divided into 360 stops. Each player turns the wheel (in place of usual dice) and moves either forward or backward depending on the number shown (1 to 6). Some stops feature different events helping or hindering our movement - but most of them provide sightseeing of different natural and social scenes of all around the world. The global task of the players is to make pictures of those sights depending on the randomly-generated assignments each of them gets at the beginning of the game ('photograph deserts', 'photograph usage and customs' etc.). The pictures taken could be sent home in large cities - in exchange for money that can be used to buy water, food and fuel required for the journey. |
| In Between 2 | 1998 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | In Between 2 is a single player shareware card game for one player.The player plays against three computer opponents. Each player is dealt two cards and places bets on whether the third card they are dealt will fall between those two cards. If the card is higher than their highest card or lower than their lowest card then the player loses their stake. If the third card is equal to either their highest card or their lowest card then the player loses double their stake. If the card falls between the player's cards then they win their stake money. If they bet the maximum allowed then they also win the pot. If all three cards are of the same suit then the player wins $5 from each player
The style of the opposing players can be adjusted and the player can substitute their own voice comments for those supplied with the game.
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| Incubation: Hidden Worlds | 1998 | Blue Byte Studio GmbH | | Compilation, Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Incubation: Hidden Worlds is a special edition which consists of:
Incubation: Time is Running Out
An audio CD of the soundtrack, plus tracks from Extreme Assault and Archimedean Dynasty
Ten new Instant Action maps (seven were previously available from Blue Byte's webpage; three are new and exclusive to this compilation)
A memory game (4x4 concentration)
A demo of Incubation
Patches to upgrade the game to version 1.03.
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| Inline Race | 1998 | ARI Data CD GmbH | Independent Arts Software GmbH | Racing / Driving, Sports | Behind view | | | Tricks / stunts | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Inline race brings inline skating to your pc. Pick one out of the eight skaters, each with their unique style and discover five locations: the city, the metro, a factory, the parking lot and a race course. You can perform stunts, such as Grap, Royal Shifty, Soul Grind and other on your own, or you can race friends in the multiplayer mode. Each track has a fitting music score as well. |
| Insane Speedway 2 | 1998 | MarkSoft | Insane Works | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | Motorcycle | | | | | Windows | Insane Speedway 2 is a management game based on Polish speedway leagues (championship and the first league). The main task of the player is the appropriate financial management of a first or second league club and win the championship. Income comes with ticket sales, advertising revenue, sponsors, riders and motorcycles sales, media and loans. The expenditure includes purchase and repair of motorcycles, training, salaries and buying players as well as maintenance of the stadium. The teams and the way they are set are in line with the realities and rules of the Polish speedway league. The game has a lot of statistics and a few special options, such as buying and selling game, bribing the enemy technical team, hiring an informant. The match is presented in the form of the stadium visible from above. Players are represented as four coloured helmets. The game allows to play up to six players. The second part of the game has enhanced graphics, more and better quality cinematics, improved data base, more choice of equipment and added a drop down menu activated by a mouse click. |
| Intellivision Lives! | 1998 | Intellivision Productions Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A hefty emulation and multimedia package.Intellivision Lives! contains nearly every Intellivision game originally published by Mattel Electronics and INTV Corp. (Minus, of course, licensed games.) There are several unpublished prototype games included, as well.The hyper-text multimedia presentation includes detailed histories, instructions, and trivia for virtually every game - screen shots, box covers, marketing data - interviews, videos, commercials, etc.Games included are:
Auto Racing
Major League Baseball
Basketball
PBA Bowling
Boxing
NFL Football
PGA Golf
Hockey
Skiing
NASL Soccer
Tennis
Armor Battle
Sea Battle
Sub Hunt
Snafu
Triple Action
Frog Bog
Night Stalker
Sharp Shot
Shark! Shark!
Horse Racing
Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack
Las Vegas Roulette
Royal Dealer
Word Fun
Math Fun
Astrosmash
Space Armada
Space Battle
Space Hawk
Star Strike
Backgammon
Checkers
Reversi
Utopia
Vectron
Space Spartans
Buzz Bombers
Motocross
Pinball
Body Slam: Super Pro Wrestling
Chip Shot: Super Pro Golf
Hover Force
Learning Fun I
Learning Fun II
Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing
Slam Dunk: Super Pro Basketball
Slap Shot: Super Pro Hockey
Spiker! Super Pro Volleyball
Stadium Mud Buggies
Super Pro Decathlon
Super Pro Football
Thunder Castle
Tower of Doom
World Championship Baseball
Adventure
Air Strike
Brickout!
Crazy Clones
Deep Pockets: Super Pro Pool and Billiards
Demo Cartridge
Duncan's Thin Ice
Go For The Gold
Grid Shock
Happy Holidays
Hypnotic Lights
King of the Mountain
Land Battle
Meteor
Minotaur
Number Jumble
Party Line
Super Soccer
Takeover
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| International Cricket Captain | 1998 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Simulation, Sports | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | For some time there has been a desperate need for a cricket management game - along the lines of those so successfully done in soccer International Cricket Captain gives you all the latest teams and statistics for the English game and allows you to mould a side capable of being taken seriously. You begin with a county and then, if you are successful, will be offered the England manager's job. Not necessarily a good thing, some may say. |
| Internet Board Games: Network Edition | 1998 | JC Research Inc. | | Compilation, Strategy | | | | Board game, Chess | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Internet Board Games is a compilation of thirteen games which were sold by JC Research's. Apart from Chess and Checkers all the games were sold both separately and in mini compilations as part of their Stone Master Classic Series.
In this version of the compilation, Internet Board Games: Network Edition the games have reduced functionality as no AI opponents are installed. The player may play themselves or another person on the pc taking alternate moves, or play against a person over a network (the product came with two discs to make this easier), or either a person an AI opponent over the internet but they cannot play an AI opponent on their pc.
All games start by showing two windows, the game board and the character selection screen. Though the player can change the picture associated with each player and the controls for selecting the AI difficulty appear to work there is no AI opponent.Games are played in one window while another, optional, window shows each player's score and the time remaining for them to make their move. The in-game help also opens in a separate window as do the game configuration options.The games in the compilation are:
Checkers
Chess
Fox & Geese
Go - three levels are available beginner, intermediate and advanced
Renju/Gomoku
Internet Board Games, played on three different sized boards 9x9, 11x11 and 13x13
Nine Men's Morris (Mills)
Internet Board Games
Dalmatian Pirates & The Volga Bulgars often called just 'Pirates' in menus
Push and Shove (Abalone)
Reversi (Othello)
Wild West, there are two trails to follow the Star Trail and the Wolf Trail
In order to talk to on-line opponents the game installs Voice Chat which is used by Microsoft's NetMeetingIn 2016 the on line game servers are no longer active so unless there are two players with copies of this product the only method of playing is a hot seat game on the pc. |
| Internet Games For 2 | 1998 | WinGames, Inc. | | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Chess | | | Direct control, Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Internet Games For 2 is, as the name suggests, a collection of games designed to be played with another human player on the same machine, over a LAN, modem or the internet. The games in this collection are Backgammon, Chess, Checkers, Flag Ship, Fox & Hounds, Goban, Pipes, and Race Chase. All games have a chat window. Most of the games are well known and need no description, those which are not so well known are;
Flag Ship: is played on an 8x8 board and the object of the game is to capture your opponent's Flag Ship or get it in a position where the Flag Ship cannot move to a space where it is not threatened by one or more of your Ships.
Goban: Is also played on an 8x8 board, here each player tries to place five of their tokens in a row while making things difficult for their opponent.
Pipes: A Pipe Mania variant where each player competes to be the first to connect pipes from one side of the board to the other.
Race Chase: is a two player variation of the board game Ludo. |
| Interstate '76: Nitro Pack | 1998 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | North America | Automobile | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Interstate '76: Nitro Pack is a stand-alone add-on for the vehicular combat game Interstate '76. It takes place before the events from the original game and contains 20 single-player missions, in which the player can choose a character from among: Taurus, Skeeter or Jade (the sister of Interstate '76 protagonist Groove Champion). The missions are not tied together by a storyline but can be played in any order and with every vehicle.Though not required, owners of the original Interstate '76 can use this product to upgrade their version of the game, making this also an add-on. New features with this add-on include Force Feedback support and support for D3D, 3Dfx and Rendition Power VR. The improvements to the game itself are: more weapons, more cars & paintjobs, a racing & a "capture the flag" mode and advanced multiplayer hosting options. |
| Inucla No Classical | 1998 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Inucla No Classical is a freeware board game, where two players (human or computer-controlled) take turns moving pieces on an isometric board with hexagonal tiles. All the tiles have numbers on them, showing the range that any pieces standing on them have to move around the board on each turn. For example, a piece positioned over a tile marked "4", can only be moved to other place four tiles away from it.When one of the pieces is moved, the tile were it was standing falls down, decreasing the size of the board and the number of remaining tiles in play. After ten turns, the outer tiles also start to automatically fall down, dragging along and removing any pieces resting on them. The main objective is to capture all the opponent pieces by landing on their tiles to remove them from the game, until only a single piece for the winning side is left standing on the board. |
| Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure | 1998 | TopWare Interactive | TopWare Programmy Sp. z o.o. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Interwar | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In this game, the player takes control of Jack Orlando, a once famous private investigator, who started to drink too much, ruining his career. One night, while he stumbles from the bar to his home, he accidentally gets involved in a murder case. He's knocked unconscious and arrested by the police the other day. As the inspector is his friend, he's given 48 hours to solve the case...Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure is a classical graphical adventure game, similar to those created by LucasArts and Sierra. In this point-and-click adventure the player moves the protagonist figure through a (mostly hand-painted) world, talking to many other persons and advancing in the storyline by solving many different puzzles.The game's graphics consist of hand-painted backdrops with cartoon-like character models. All of the dialogue is played as voice-over as well as displayed as text and uses Dolby Surround techniques. The music was composed by Harold Faltermeyer. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: Attack Pack | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | A compilation including U.S. Navy Fighters '97, AH-64D Longbow Limited Edition, and Advanced Tactical Fighters. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: Longbow - Anthology | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Longbow Anthology is a compilation of Jane's AH-64D Longbow, the mission disk Flash Point Korea, and Longbow 2 in one package, with an abbreviated manual. |
| Jazz Jackrabbit 2 | 1998 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | Epic MegaGames, Inc., Orange Games | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Jazz the jackrabbit was just about to marry his girlfriend Eva Earlong, when his arch-nemesis, the turtle Devan Shell, stole the wedding ring. To add insult to injury, Eva's hostile mother has locked Jazz and his brother Spaz in a dungeon. The two hares must escape, retrieve the precious jewel, and punish Devan for his evil deeds.Like its predecessor, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a platform shooter. Unlike the previous installment, the sequel allows the player to control Spaz as well. Jazz retains his ability to hover in the air by using his ears, and Spaz can stomp and smash enemies. The hares use a default blaster gun with unlimited ammunition and can later acquire more powerful weapons, a few of which (e.g. a freezing gun) were not found in the first game. Coins can be found throughout the stages and then given to vendors to access bonus areas.The party mode allows up to four players to use the same computer with split-screen, or up to eight players to compete on two screens via modem. The level editor JCS (Jazz Creation Station) is also included in the game. |
| Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Holiday Hare 98 | 1998 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | Epic MegaGames, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Control Jazz (or his brother Spaz) blasting away all kinds of turtles and other creatures in this special edition of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, with three new levels with a Christmas theme, including two new enemies not seen before. This fast-paced platform game also includes multiplayer support (split screen, IPX, or internet play) with up to eight players. The game features detailed 2D graphics with resolutions ranging from 400x300 to 640x480.Note: In comparison, this version is identical to the demo version of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, only with a new Christmas episode with ten levels and two new enemies. |
| Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Rage Games Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic, Steampunk | | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | The game based on Jeff Wayne's musical play and the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. it is the year 1898 and the Martian have escaped from their dying homeworld to conquer the Earth and take its resources - and the blood of its inhabitants. Take either side in this epic real-time strategy game. You can play as the Martians with their superior technology and powerful but expensive war machines in their campaign to take over Great Britain and the rest of the world. Or play as the weaker but more numerous Humans to turn back the alien onslaught before their fiendish plans can be made reality.Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is a real-time strategy game. There aren't any set missions or a linear story-line, it's all up to you. You must use your time wisely to build up your forces and production facilities within your sectors before the enemy can launch their attack. Research new technologies, construct new buildings, and build new military units to win the game and save your race. The fate of your species, whether Human or Martian, is on the line. |
| Jeux de Casino 3D | 1998 | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG, Micro Application, S.A. | Calculus Softwareentwicklung | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Jeux de Casino 3D contains several casino games: roulette, craps, baccarat, super black jack, poker and the slot machine. Depending on the games, the view is top-down (roulette) or 1st-person (slot machine). When you enter the casino, you will have to register, and only then can you start playing. At any moment you can visit the casino's library to read books about the games' rules. In the options, you can disable background music and/or commentaries. |
| Jewels II: The Ultimate Challenge | 1998 | Hoffman and Associates | Bardworks | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | Middle East | | Point and select | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Jewels 2 is a puzzle game set in an archeological dig were a pre-sumerian culture left a great treasure. To unlock the treasure you must uncover 24 rune tokens from several places in the dig by solving for each one a logic/pattern recognition puzzle of varying difficulty. The main game screen consists of a map from where you can go directly to each puzzle as well as other interesting sites. There's an in-game journal that offers hints for most puzzles and if you are really stuck you can also consult with the digitally-captured professor Bhandam (the guy in charge of the dig) for hints.
The game also offers two difficulty settings for each puzzle. |
| JoustPong | 1998 | Alien Bill | Alien Bill | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This is a variation on the classic game Pong that adds flapping wings to your paddles. You must press your flap button repeatedly to go up and stop pressing to come down.In the Atari 2600 version, there is also a pterodactyl on the screen that interferes with the ball or your paddle. The Atari 2600 version also includes a variation referred to as 'Poorlords' that adds a wall of bricks behind the players that must be busted through to score points. |
| Jouster Challenge | 1998 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Having developed Jouster 5 as a freeware game developer Matt Westfall went on to release Jouster Challenge for "those of you who find Jouster 5 not challenging enough".This is an enhanced version of Jouster 5 containing just the .exe file which the player had to download and place in the Jouster 5 folder. It differs from Jouster 5 in that it has more levels and greater difficulty with a claimed maximum of twenty five enemy birds on screen. |
| Judge Dredd Pinball | 1998 | Pin-Ball Games Ltd. | Pin-Ball Games Ltd. | Action | | Licensed | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Based on the original Judge Dredd pinball machine, this computer version adds some new things to the game to increase the game's appeal.The game offers multiple graphics settings, the ability to remap keys, and two sound qualities.In the game itself, you are faced with a partly video and partly standard pinball game with a large loop ramp near the top of the table.There is one table in the game to play on and you get five balls per game with the possibility of gaining extra balls. |
| Juggernaut Corps: First Assault | 1998 | Shepherd's Worlds, Inc. | Shepherd's Worlds, Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Alliance has been invaded by an alien force named Species CAN-8932. The Council of Elders decreed that the Juggernaut Corps (J-Corps, or the Corps) must stop the enemy menace at all costs and approved the use of the experimental Juggernaut Armageddon Weapon. Juggernaut Corps: First Assault is a space-based arcade style game using the Asteroids concept : rotate your ship left or right, then thrust forward or reverse. You can also use up to 9 weapons and you will also find a save feature, with 9 empty slots. In the options menu, you can configure controls and toggle music on/off. At last, the network menu let you play the game over a LAN.The goal of Juggernaut Corps: First Assault is somewhat simple : destroy all enemy battle cruisers and stop that invading alien force. During the 50 missions, you will have to stay alive to collect the hidden pieces of the Armageddon Weapon in order to destroy the Alien warp complex in the final mission. Long live the Corps!The shareware version of the game only includes 5 missions. |
| Jumble: That Scrambled Word Game | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Third-i Productions | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Hundreds of those "Jumble" scrambled word puzzles that appear in daily newspapers (the ones with four scrambled words, and a clever phrase that goes with the picture). Includes a few variations on the basic theme. |
| JumpStart Adventures: 6th Grade - Mission: Earthquest | 1998 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Human Code, Inc., Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Jump Start 6th Grade Adventures comes on CD and includes the mission “EarthQuest”. The story and gameplay have an adventure theme. Kids can take the role of one of two characters, Jess or Zach. Each character has unique skills and qualities. They must put an end to global pollution while using math, science, biology, history, and other skills. Challenges include: protecting the water supply, protecting endangered animals, stopping the invading viro-bots, and catching the main antagonist A.R.T. to save Earth! |
| JumpStart Baby | 1998 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | AniWorld, Inc., Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | JumpStart Baby is part of the age-specific education games in the first JumpStart series. It teaches very young children basic songs, farm animals, colors, and clothing. The skills learned in the JumpStart Baby 9 m/o to 24 m/o form a basis to move up to the next game, JumpStart Toddler (18 m/o to 3 y/o).In this game a baby, or a parent with a mouse, can explore many interactive areas where they can learn some very basic lessons. The areas to explore are:Where's Teddy? - Press any key to look in a spot. Keep looking until you find Teddy.Dress Teddy - Press any key to move a piece of clothing to Teddy. Teddy will talk about which clothes go on which parts of the body.Color Train - Different objects will appear in the cupboard. Teddy will say what the item is. Then the item goes to the train car with the matching color.Puzzle Time - Press any key to move the puzzle pieces to their places.
Connect-the-Stars - Each time a key is pressed, a line between two stars will connect. Connect all the stars to see a picture.Picture Fun - Press any key to color in the parts of the picture.
Down on the Farm - Press any key to see an animal come out of the farm.Let's Make Music - Teddy and his band will sing different songs. The words will also appear at the bottom of the screen. |
| JumpStart Music | 1998 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Adventure, Educational | | | | Music / rhythm | | | | | | | Windows | Hopsalot, the Jump Start bunny, is showing off his Great Grandrabbit's gramophone, when he is suddenly pulled right into the gramophone's trumpet and into the Land of Music, hot on the trail of a batch of sour notes. It appears that the evil Sir Sournote has soured all the music; Hopsalot must travel throughout the Land of Music collecting all the ruined notes in his bag, and bring them to the Concert Hall to sweeten them again.The interface is point and click on the map screen (simply moving the mouse on the screen will cause Hopsalot to follow; click to enter a game) and in the mini-games, with the addition of certain keyboard keys: spacebar in the rhythm games, left and right sides of the keyboard and the enter key in the Jam With Cool Cat game.As you move Hopsalot around the Land of Music map, you'll find these activities:
Music Monkey – view a short piece of music and listen to it, then find the notes that Sir Sournote has replaced with sour ones
Gorilla, Goat and Hippo – Listen to a character play a rhythm and then play it back using the spacebar
Young Girl – Listen to Melody play sounds, then repeat them; play your own music on the bridge and hear it played back
Musical Instruments – these instruments have lost their voices; choose the bird that sounds like each instrument to replace it
Cool Cat – Jam with Cool Cat in free play using the keyboard, then play it back by clicking the gramophone
After successfully playing an activity, Hopsalot is given the opportunity to collect some sour notes in his bag – the cursor becomes a grasping hand and you must catch the notes as they dart around the screen in a mini arcade game. On each map screen, although the activities remain basically the same the difficulty level is increased, for example, instead of finding the voice for one instrument you will have two; the number of beats you have to follow in a rhythm game will increase, as will the number of sour notes to find in a piece of music. Once you have collected all the sour notes in an area it glows red on the map, so you know how much you've done. In addition, clicking on the music note on the bottom right of the screen brings up the options, where you can click on Hopsalot's bag to see how many sour notes have been collected.When all the sour notes are collected and brought to the Concert Hall to be sweetened, Hopsalot presents you with a Sweet Note award that can be printed. |
| JumpStart Spelling | 1998 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Adventure, Educational | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Jump Start Spelling is an educational game that helps children ages 5-8 on spelling skills.CJ the frog, and his sidekick Edison are exploring a prehistoric world, when suddenly a Tyrannosaurus Rex separates them after releasing a mighty roar. Edison is captured by a group of not so bright cavemen, and becomes their source of light.Its up to you to help CJ reunite with his friend Edison. In the game your goal is to venture through the prehistoric world with the help of a tiny pterosaur named Pteri; clearing obstacles, while solving spelling challenges on rock tablets, everytime you solve one, the obstacle in the way lets you go through, and when all the tablets are solved you may advance to a new level. Before you go to the next level their is a challenge in which you have to pick a word a dinosaur is showing you that is spelled the correct way. After you finish the game you can always start it again.The game level is controlled based on the grade you pick at the sign-in meaning Kindergarten is the easiest, and 3rd Grade being the hardest. You can also make the game harder or easier during the game at the options menu. The amount of words you spell correctly will add up to a high score at the end.
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| Junkland Jam | 1998 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Junkland Jam is a music-themed graphical adventure for young children.Drabsville, U.S.A., a little un-noteworthy waste of a town, where sightseeing was watching TV, and the only thing to do was to buy things from it. Simon Fehfer conducted things differently, though. He was going to be a harmonica maestro. That is, until his mother's newest infomercial purchase, the Turbo-Charged JUNK Sucker 2000, swept up and swallowed all of his possessions, including his harmonica. Knowing that he'd have to face the music of what might me on the other side, Simon demanded that the scaly, trash-mouthed Junk Sucker take him also. Swept-up, he fell down into the magically-zany, interactive world of Junkland. An educational game for children ages 6 - 10, the player explores Junkland trying to find their lost harmonica. The player meets up with Sunny in her treehouse, and must solve a number of science-themed puzzles to escape from Junkland. |
| Język Polski: Liceum matura | 1998 | TimSoft | UHO Software | Educational | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Język Polski: Liceum matura is an educational program including one mini game, called AstroOrto 2. The game teaches spelling in space. On the dashboard of a spacecraft bearing the word that should be properly completed. To do so player needs to launch a missile in an appropriate subject, selecting one of two possibilities. A single game consists 25 tasks. The bottom panel shows current result, all incorrect trials are repeated after completing all tasks. |
| Kama Sutra: Manara | 1998 | index+ | Mondadori New Media | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Adult | | Asia | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Kama Sutra: Manara is based on the comic book by the Italian artist Milo Manara (his drawings are also used for the game's graphics), which in its turn is based on Vatsyayana's philosophical erotic book Kama Sutra, written in India in the Gupta dynasty period (ca. 4th century AD).You play as the beautiful female college student Parva. One day she accidentally comes into possession of a strange package containing an ancient erotic symbol. While she is having a threesome with her best friend Loulou and her boyfriend, a member of the occult Hindu sect, the Thugs, attacks the young people. Through a series of events, Parva and her friends get involved in the secrets of the dark cult of the goddess Kali. Now Parva has to use her wit as well as her attractive body to solve puzzles and to escape the wrath of the Thugs safely.This is a point-and-click adventure game with hand-drawn graphics. The interaction is done through a single cursor. Most of the puzzles have erotic contect, such as for example matching tiles with pictures from Kama Sutra engraved on them. |
| Karma: Curse of the 12 Caves | 1998 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | InterServ International Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Everyone | Alex Yu, Al Kuo | Windows | A FMV adventure set in the caves of Dun-Huang. A trap was set for a terrible demon. The trap worked all too well as it also trapped the stone cutters that built the trap in the walls of the cave. Its your mission to go in and unlock the stone cutters by solving various puzzles based on Chinese myth and lore.The game uses the same slide show puzzles that made Myst famous. Unlike Myst, you have a mysterious guide who transforms in to a lotus blossom and provides history and explanations for the various puzzles. There is also a help feature that provides clues to how to solve puzzles. |
| Kid Pix Studio Deluxe | 1998 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Kid Pix Deluxe is a game for kids to use their art skills and create great things. There are six art tools you can do - Paint a picture, Wacky TV, Digital Puppets and many more. Don't forget all the sound options, stamp tools and stamp movement that can be used in all activities. This game also has a wide range of different erasers, drawing backgrounds and stories you can make.
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| Killer Bees | 1998 | Cosmi Europe, Ltd. | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Killer Bees is a single player shoot 'em up. The game is like many space based shoot 'em ups such as Galaxian where space ships come down the screen and the player, whose ship is at the bottom of the screen, has to blast them out of the ether. In this game however, the enemies are not alien ships but bees and the player does not start with three spaceships, they start with three cans of insecticide.
The objective is still the same, however: blast as many of the enemy as possible to achieve a high score. The game has optional sound (it plays 'The Flight of the Bumblebee'), a high score table and it is entirely mouse controlled. |
| King's Quest: Mask of Eternity | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Action, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Realm of Sun is a magical world situated above the Kingdom of Daventry. Powerful beings known as Archons dwell there, guarding the Mask of Eternity, which preserves balance in the world. But on an ominous day, Lucreto, the leader of the Archons, turns evil and shatters the Mask into pieces. One of such pieces falls down, right under the feet of a simple peasant and fighter named Connor. As he picks up the fragment, he finds out that all the inhabitants of the land have been turned into stone. He must now search for the other pieces of the Mask, repair it, and face Lucreto in the Realm of Sun.King's Quest: Mask of Eternity is the eighth installment in the King's Quest series, and the first one done completely in 3D. Gameplay-wise, it differs from its predecessors by introducing considerable action and role-playing elements. It doesn't entirely depart from its adventure roots, however, featuring commands for looking, talking to people, picking up objects, and using them to solve inventory-based puzzles.Connor may encounter hostile creatures and can fight them using his melee weapons or bow. Some portions of the game also include environmental hazards the protagonist has to avoid, or jumping puzzles reminiscent of platform games. RPG elements are present in character development: Connor gains experience points from vanquishing enemies and completing tasks, and eventually levels up, increasing his hit points and combat parameters. Weapons and armor can be found or bought for money obtained from defeated foes. |
| Kiss 'n' Kill | 1998 | Bomico Vertriebs und Investitions GmbH | Kimey Fun Media | Action, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult | Mini-games | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Kiss 'n' Kill is a collection of games with sexual themes. The highlight of the game is a Space Invaders-style game called The Ultimate Condom Simulator, in which the player is a penis and uses ejaculation for attacking. Condoms can fall out of the sky and if caught, could be used as a protective barrier. In addition, hazards can appear and when hit, shows a different effect to the penis. Each level has a different theme and therefore different hazards. If placed in the top 5 of each level, you get to unlock parody commercials featuring Condomradin and Archibald.In addition to the shoot 'em up game, there are two other games. The first one is a simple puzzle game, where the player has to connect the pieces together to reveal either an animated camasutra sex position or images of Condomradin and Archibald. The other game is a simple concentration game where the player has to match the image or sex position. The game also features a gallery of animated camasutra images with inspirational, if not, sexual quotes. There is also a video gallery with cartoon animations featuring Condomradin and Archibald, including the commercials that you unlock in The Ultimate Condom Simulator. |
| Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom | 1998 | TopWare Interactive | Joymania Entertainment | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Medieval | | Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Knights & Merchants is a game very similar to Settlers II, and that's not really a coincidence, as they were made by the same lead programmer, who started his own company (Joymania). In K&M you start building a base and gain resources, and after that you make an army and try to attack the enemy. It's a mix between a godsim and a RTS game. The game features resolutions up to 1024x768 with high-detail landscapes in 3D, with 2D-bitmap buildings placed upon it. |
| Kotobuki | 1998 | Himeya Soft, Inc | C's Ware | Action | Top-down | | Adult | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | Adults Only | | Windows | The lead characters from C's Ware's hentai games grew tired of constantly being forced to act in pornographic scenes. They joined forces and created an artificial realm called the "C's Ware Land". They also swore that no hentai player shall ever use them again for their dubious purposes. However, two characters that never made it to any C's Ware game - the boy Pao and the girl Pino - decided to venture into the dangerous land and defeat the former protagonists.Kotobuki is a puzzle arcade game with similarities to Lode Runner and billiard games. The players can choose to control either Pao (for harder difficulty) or Pino. The game is divided into sections, each dedicated to a particular C's Ware game and composed of several stages. The seven games featured are Fatal Relations, Love Potion, Xenon, Desire, Amy's Fantasies, Eve Burst Error and Gloria.Top-down stages are populated by recurrent enemies which must be defeated by hitting them with billiard balls. Pao and Pino are armed with queues and have to hit the cueball in such a way that a billiard ball with the highest possible number will hit the enemy. They can also defend themselves by standing behind balls, and dig holes in the ground to trap enemies. After completing a regular stage the player faces a boss character. |
| Koziołek Matołek Idzie do Szkoły | 1998 | Aidem Media Sp. z o.o. | Aidem Media Sp. z o.o. | Educational, Puzzle | | Licensed | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Mental training, Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | Koziołek Matołek Idzie do Szkoły (Matołek the Billy Goat Goes to School) is an educational game based on a popular Polish character, Koziołek Matołek (Matołek the Billy Goat). The game is a set of mini-games, set in Pacanów, a town featuring heavily in the Matołek books. Each mini-game has three difficulty levels. Each screen contains a help icon which, when clicked, will activate a voiceover with spoken instructions. The mini-games available are as follows:
"The Great Coloring Machine" - this game offers two methods of play: the player either colors the image according to the commands given by the machine (and gets rewarded by a short animation when he finishes), or just paints freely however he wants. Only five colors - yellow, blue, red, white, black - are available, but at higher difficulty levels, the player can mix the colors together.
Memory game - a classic Concentration game, which can be played either with a computer or with a friend. The player reveals bottle caps in hopes of finding two matching elements. The images on the caps can be letters, numbers, pictures or shapes (depending on the player's choice).
Film studio - the player is presented with three short clips, and has to put them in the proper order so that the short animation composed of them will make sense.
Costume party - at the Easy and Medium difficulty, the player has to dress Matołek in a costume which matches that of his wife; on the Hard difficulty, both Matołek and his wife can be dressed up however the player wants. To dress up the characters, the player clicks on their head, torso or legs in order to match all three into a proper costume. There is a time limit.
Connect the dots - a connect-the-dots puzzle where the player has to click on the numbered dots in the proper order. A narrator keeps making quips as more and more of the picture is revealed, and when it is finished, a short animation plays.
Forge - the player is presented with a forge filled with various objects. The forge's blacksmith then loses a few items (three to five, depending on difficulty) which vanish slowly. The player has to remember which exactly items vanished and then buy them at a market.
Caterpillar invasion - to defend a cabbage from being eaten by incoming caterpillars, the player has to click on the button which corresponds to the symbol over the caterpillar. This activates a sprinkler which chases the caterpillar away. When enough caterpillars are shooed out, the game ends in victory. The symbols can be letters, numbers or shapes.
Archery - there are two modes of play here: a single-player game, taking place over 5 rounds, where the player is given a number and has to shoot specific areas of the target so that the hit numbers sum up to the goal number; or a two-player game where the players compete to get more points. The mouse-controlled crosshair is shaking all the time.
Dungeon - Matołek has to explore a top-down dungeon to find a treasure chest. Each room has four exits, and contains a sign in each room that tells the geographical direction the player needs to go in. The dungeon also contains ghosts and skeletons that slowly scare Matołek when he gets near them (if he gets too scared, he runs away from the dungeon) and, sometimes, switches that need to be activated in the proper order to open up the exit. The treasure chest itself is protected with a logical "Mastermind" game.
"Matołek the Billy Goat goes to school" - The eponymous mini-game is a classic board game where the objective is to get to the end of the board before the other competitors. The players (from two to four) all make dice rolls in turns. Throughout their travelling, the players will have to play the earlier mini-games in order to advance up the board or be forced to go backwards. |
| Krakels ABC: Den Galna Dammsugaren | 1998 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | Mini-games, Word construction | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Krakels ABC: Den Galna Dammsugaren (The Mad Vacuumcleaner) is an educational game for children, focusing on the making sentences using words (in the appropriate language of the release version), for an age group of 7-9 years.The game is the second of six in the Krakels ABC game series, which is based on characters from a series of children's books by Lennart Hellsing and Poul Ströyer.In this title, we meet the characters Krakel Spektakel, Opsis Kalopsis and Kusin Vitamin, and an angry vacuum cleaner, who has vacuumed all the words from telephones, books, songs etc. out of the five cities in the fictional country Allemansland. Your mission is to recreate and restore the words to recreate the rhymes and stories that the vacuum cleaner has emptied. The difficulty is increased in steps as the work is progressing with spelling words and creating sentences.For each task fully completed, there is a song played as a reward, and a book is filled with text about the town.
It is also possible to write a story in a book of your own, and also copy text snippets from the original to your own.At the release time, there was an online feature to optionally download more songs/rhymes from a website 'Barnlandet' through the program, but while this site is now defunct, it is still possible to access these downloads from the Wayback Machines archived copy. Once installed according to the webpage instructions, the songs linked to each town can be played directly from within the game, provided the songs are unlocked by completing of the specific town tasks. |
| Krakels ABC: Storm över Allemansland | 1998 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Krakels ABC: Storm över Allemansland is the first game in Swedish based on the character Krakel Spektakel from the books of Swedish author Lennart Hellsing. The game has a story with Krakel Spektakel as the protagonist, but mainly focuses on teaching about the different letters of the alphabet and it is aimed at children aged five to seven.The game is set in Allemansland where the characters Krakel Spektakel, Opsis Kallopsis and Kusin Vitamin live. A strange storm has blown away letters and now they have all fallen asleep. There is a short story section for each letter and then a mini-game for the player to complete, to wake up the letter. |
| LEGO Chess | 1998 | LEGO Media International, Inc. | Krisalis Software Ltd. | Strategy | 1st-person, Diagonal-down, Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Chess | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | LEGO Chess is a computer chess game with LEGO figures such as a cowboys, Indians, sailors and pirates. It has a full 3D mode of the board with animated sequences, as well as a classic 2D, top-down overlay, shown over the 3D board. The camera can be rotated and it is possible to undo moves. During the game, clicking on a piece will show possible places to move to. If a piece is captured a comical video clip plays, with each different capture having its own movie.In the Story Mode a western or pirates theme can be chosen. It is a three-game chess tournament against the PC with cut-scenes. In the Tutorial Moe The Chess King, a LEGO King mini-figure with the voice of Elvis, teaches how to play chess, from basic movements to advanced techniques.The game also contains a Versus Mode to play matches against the PC, multiplayer (modem-to-modem, LAN and internet) and PC versus PC. A third, traditional chess set made from LEGO bricks can be chosen, and all three sets can be mixed. |
| LEGO Loco | 1998 | LEGO Media International, Inc. | Intelligent Games Ltd | Simulation | Top-down | | | | | Train | | Real-time | | | Windows | In Lego Loco, you build and design a town with lego buildings, and then build railroads to transport the people.
You can also build roads so people can use their cars.
You get to choose where everything goes and you can also pick people up and move them around.
Another feature is the ability to send postcards over the Internet to other players.
You can play on your own or play multiplayer.The product comes with several pre-designed layouts and these, or the player's layouts can be used as animated screen savers. |
| LEGO Technic Cybermaster | 1998 | LEGO System A/S | LEGO System A/S | Educational | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Fighting, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | A LEGO Technic set (i.e. real bricks) with a special radio controlled, fully programmable brick (the "P-Brick") forming the heart of the models which can be made with the set.There is a CD-ROM with the set that contains game and activity software. Through this software the PC communicates with, and controls the P-Brick. The player interacts with both the PC and the physical model they've built. After installing the software the player is presented with a city on a "LEGO World" and given a tour by a local taxi driver, this tour shows the player the main areas (activities) available:1) The Colosseum: the human player constructs a (physical) LEGO weapon called a "stinger" and a robot called "crusher". The idea of the game is for the player to use the stinger to hit one of three sensors on the robot. The robot AI and gameplay is controlled by the PC.2) Area 51: the player is shown how to build models such as bulldozers and fork lift trucks, then plan activities and try challenges for them in a map design/remote control view.3) Joes Garage: the player is encouraged to invent and program their own robotic models. |
| Last Bronx | 1998 | SEGA Corporation | Sega AM3 R&D Division | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Fighting | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The leader of Soul Crew, the toughest gang in Tokyo, was viciously killed. Shortly after that an anonymous challenge appeared in graffiti scrawls all over the city "inviting" all of the city's gang leaders to a fighting tournament that will settle which group has the power to rule Tokyo. Everyone knew refusing to participate was not an option.Just like in Virtua Fighter 2, you fight in 3D stages and every character has its unique style and feel. But unlike the PC version of Virtua Fighter 2, where the background of every stage is a flat picture, in Last Bronx all the scenery is done in 3D. Plus, you can taunt your opponent during the fight! |
| Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel | 1998 | Voyager Company, The | Voyager Company, The | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Music / rhythm | | | | Meditative / Zen | | | Windows | This is an interactive environment containing music, videos, monologues, and art-jokes from performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson with the help of designer Hsin-Chien Huang. It begins with an electrical outlet that glows and howls into the darkness. Then you enter "The Hall of Time", a corridor in the motel where icons cover the walls, and lead to 33 symbol-crowded rooms. A puppet Laurie Anderson sparingly appears as a guide. The surreal rooms include one full of exotic musical instruments from her performance-art career such as the "tape bow violin". Clocks abound and floating telephone receivers on tree-like stiff cords, televisions showing static, and airplane kaleidoscopes. In one room with a maze of chairs, Anderson steps out waving flashlights like a runway attendant and recites the legend of Plato's Cave - where prisoners are doomed never to see the true images of things but only to glimpse their fleeting shadows. In another room, she gives a long palm-reading session asking many questions of the player, and in yet another there is "The Amazing Ouija Floor Board" where you get to ask the questions. You must figure out what to do in each room, complete interactive art puzzles, and find how to exit.Throughout the game, your recorded voice and typed responses will be used and information from Anderson's website will be downloaded including new videos and concert information. It's recommended that you play the cd-rom while listening with headphones as small sounds and poetry flows back and forth from one ear to the other to impart a message. There's ethereal music and Anderson whispers in your ear in a dark, soothing voice. |
| Lawyer Hunt | 1998 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sandbox Studios, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | A hunting game, extremly similar to Deer Hunter (hey it is by the same company), in which instead of hunting deer, you hunt swindling lawyers (hence the name). |
| Le Meilleur de Sierra II | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes 7 games published by Sierra:
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
Shivers Two: Harvest of Souls
Front Page Sports: Golf
Lords of the Realm II
Power Chess
Print Artist 4
IndyCar Racing II (as bonus). |
| Lead Soldier | 1998 | TTentertainment | TTentertainment | Strategy | Top-down | | | | World War II | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Lead Soldier is a real-time strategy game as a mix between Cannon Fodder and Commandos with a World War II setting. The player commands a group of soldiers in a series of missions as part of the Allied effort against Germany. A training is available before starting the missions. Soldiers are available in several types: regular infantry, officers, divers etc. They can a use several vehicles. Soldiers have limited ammunition and must seek additional boxes. Units have different stances such as careful, quick and naughty that influence how they approach confrontations. The PC version of the game is played against a computer or a friend over LAN. |
| Legend of Fairies | 1998 | Milky House | Excellents Japan | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | Adults Only | Narrative | Windows | In the world of Shikigami, fairy beings appear in the shape of beautiful girls. Only a Shikigami Master, a skillful battle-mahjong player, is able to capture those fairies and to control them. You are Jango Abe, a modern-day Tokyo P.I. You must defeat a mysterious evil organization that is hunting you. And your next assignment comes from a beautiful fairy, who comes to you from the world of Shikigami.Legend of Fairies is an adult anime-style visual novel. You read text, watch pictures and click on the screen, making the story progress. It doesn't feature sex scenes, but a lot of nude pictures of Shikigami inhabitants. The fairy design is influenced by Japanese Shinto mythology. |
| Leo the Lion's Puzzles | 1998 | Optimus Nexus | Leryx-Longsoft | Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Zagadki Lwa Leona (Leon the Lion's Puzzles) is a puzzle game with a concept similar to the Incredible Machine games: the player is given a couple of elements and tasked with arranging them into a contraption to achieve a specified goal, such as using bouncy snakes to bring a key to an imprisoned animal, or setting up hammerhead fishes to hammer in some nails. After setting up the provided objects, the player clicks the start button and watches the events unfold in hopes of achieving the goal. The game is divided into a couple of various wilderness-themed chapters, each of them having different graphics and elements. The elements often include animals, balloons, ropes and the like. The game is automatically saved after every solved puzzle. The objects are all affected by physics and gravity. If the player takes too long solving a riddle, a hint becomes available, which takes the form of a sketchy diagram showing the general solution. |
| Les 3 petits cochons | 1998 | Seuil Multimédia | In Visio SA | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book, Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Les 3 petits cochons (The Three Little Pigs) is an interactive storybook based upon the famous fairy tale. The game features four modes of play:
Kid mode: the computer guides the player.
Parent mode: parent can guide his child.
Karaoke mode: just read and sing.
Improvise mode: do what you want.Les 3 petits cochons is part of the Les Contes de la Souris series. The game is designed with 3D models and full voice acting. It is aimed at children aged four and up. |
| Les Visiteurs: Le Jeu | 1998 | Gaumont interactive | Cryo Interactive Entertainment, Darkworks Interactive | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Les Visiteurs Le Jeu is a first-person adventure game and a sequel to the film of the same name. Godefroy de Montmirail has returned to the Middle Age and his squire has stayed in the contemporary world. But since then a few objects from the 20th century have appeared in the Castle of Godefroy and so he returns to the modern world to escape inquisition.The player takes the role of his squire and helps him to recover all the objects which are lost in the past. The game is played in a 1st person perspective with 360° pictures (similar to Myst). Left click is used to interact with the environment - the cursor automatically chooses the appropriate action (examining, taking an item or combining two of them). Right click (or space) is used to open the main menu for inventory, load and save, re-watch cutscenes, follow history and progression, replay unlocked mini-games (logic puzzles, a Space Invaders variant, etc.) or to quit the game. The game features a lot of cutscenes with the voices of the actors known from the movie: Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. |
| Lexicon Word Challenge | 1998 | Nature Boy Software | Nature Boy Software | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Word construction | | | Point and select | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Lexicon Word Challenge consists of three basic word puzzle games wrapped in a rain forest theme. The game has three game modes:
Eliminus allows one to four players remove lettered tiles from a board and use them to make words;
Populatica is similar to scrabble with players placing interlocking words on a grid;
Jumblara is an anagram game where a single player races against the clock to form words from letters that fill up a board.
There are three difficulty levels of computer players available to compete against and an extensive customizable dictionary of allowable words. |
| Liath: WorldSpiral | 1998 | Project Two Interactive BV | Amber Company, Exortus Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Liath: WorldSpiral is a Russian-made point-and-click, third-person graphical adventure which involves talking to people, solving puzzles and general exploring. In this game, you play a modern-day magician named Criss looking for his friend, Tiche, who disappeared hundreds of years ago in a world known as Azeretus. In the ageless battle of "Good versus Evil", the story revolves around magic spells, curses, and spirits. |
| Limited Games: Darkseed II & Time Gate: Knight's Chase | 1998 | Infogrames Europe SA | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation by Infogrames in association with Free Record Shop, a Dutch retailer, consists of the following games:
Time Gate: Knight's Chase
Dark Seed II |
| Liquidator | 1998 | Akella | Partizan Software | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Liquidator is a first-person shooter in Russian made and using the Build engine without an official license to it. There are three campaigns with a total of six maps. |
| Lode Runner 2 | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Presage Software, Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | | | | Direct control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | Another arcade classic finds a new form in 3D! And this time it's Lode Runner...Lode Runner 2 is the sequel to the remake of Doug Smith's timeless classic. The game features 5 unique worlds where in each level you will try to collect all the gold without dying. Run, dig, climb, scale, fall, drob bombs and collect stuff! Like in Jazz Jackrabbit 2, this sequel has also added a companion (Jane) to its main character (Jake Peril). They are identical in their capabilities --no special moves. Choose one of them and get into Lode Runner's new dimension!
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| Lords of Magic: Special Edition | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Compilation, Strategy | | | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time, Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Lords of Magic: Special Edition is a mix of Heroes of Might and Magic and a Real time strategy game. It includes both the full original Lords of Magic plus the additional Legends of Urak Quest Pack. Also included are a new Lord Editor, 8 new buildings, 17 new monsters and 5 new storylines based on legendary characters. Choose a character and a religion, train heroes, and build armies to crush Balkoth and his Death cult, at the same time managing the cities and resources that support your men in the field. |
| Lords of the Realm II + Siege Pack | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Lords of the Realm II
Lords of the Realm II: Siege Pack (expansion) |
| Love Potion | 1998 | Himeya Soft, Inc | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | An investigator has been sent to Amemiya Gakuen, a secret pleasure garden, which only women are allowed to visit. This investigator disappeared. Her friend Yumi must now send someone else to find her and to unfold the mystery which lies behind Amemiya Gakuen...Love Potion is an adult anime-style visual novel. The interaction is confined to context-specific choices, without a permanent set of verb commands. Unlike most other games of this type, there is only one story path and one ending in the game. |
| Lovely Girls | 1998 | Lomax Software | Digital Nightmares | Action, Puzzle | Top-down | | Adult | Arcade | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In this QIX variant, you must fill as much of the screen as possible with a picture of a naked female model. This is done by marking areas on the screen, which then (if there is no monster in them) are filled with the picture. When the player has filled 75% of the playfield the level is complete. The fill-area is marked with a white line, and previously filled areas with blue lines. The player must not cross his own white lines and these must not be hit by monsters, too! Blue lines and filled areas may be passed. There are different types of monsters, each with their own behaviour and way to be dealt with. Hitting a monster is deadly! If you have any life left when you get hit, you can continue your game in the middle top of the screen. You get an extra life every 5,000 points.The full pictures are shown when their respective levels are complete. They are larger than the screen, and you can move them around with the arrow keys, or let the camera move over them automatically. The shareware version of the game proposes the first episode with three girls.The registered version proposes 7 episodes with around 40 girls to watch. |
| Lula Virtual Babe | 1998 | Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | CDV Software GmbH | Simulation | 1st-person | | Adult | Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Every woman has needs and expectations, and Lula is no exception. She's looking for someone who will care for her in every respect, inside and out - emotionally and physically. If you think you can handle it, you have only 28 days to prove yourself.Cuddle, caress and play with Lula, your very own virtual woman. Take good care of Lula and she will take care of you!In some countries, the demo of Lula's first adventure - Lula: The Sexy Empire - is included on the disc. |
| Lula: The Sexy Empire | 1998 | Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | Interactive Strip | Simulation | | | Adult | Managerial / business simulation | | | Point and select | | Adults Only | | Windows | After holding a bank and shooting guards, your two criminal buddies abandon you out in the middle of the desert, taking all the loot with them.This is where you start the game: In a quiet desert town, almost broke, and with the FBI on your heels. You meet up with Lula, an aspiring 'actress', and together decide to make your ways to the top.In the first part of the game you're in the small town, making enough money in a few days to buy a new identity, and evade the advancing FBI net, by taking photos and films of Lula in the nearby hotel. Once you get enough money, you decide to go into proper business for yourselves.The second part consists of you setting up a movie-making business, hiring and firing staff, generating film 'plots', setting up cutting and editing facilities, and haggling for the best distribution deals until you are able to be a distributor yourself. Build up money here and we advance to the final section of the game.Having made it in the movie-business, you now set up sex stores across the country, dealing more in resource-management and advertising until you're able to generate enough money to launch the Lula television satellite into orbit - the final aim of the game. |
| MBA Capitalism | 1998 | | Enlight Software Ltd. | Educational, Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | MBA Capitalism is a special version of "Capitalism", designed for colleges and business schools as an educational tool. Special features includes :
an advanced scenario editor,
tutorial and additional historical scenarii,
the ability to export game data (.xls),
network play,
printing capability.
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| MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head: Bunghole in One | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Illusions Gaming Company, The | Sports | | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Join Beavis and Butthead in this unique take on the world of miniature golf. There are 18 holes to play, each based on an area from the TV series (including Van Driessen's Psychedelic Playground, Burger World, The Living Room and what Beavis and Butthead game would be complete without the most famours characters of them all, Corn-"hole"-io ).All of the characters are there to play with, and you can add three of your mates for a great multiplayer experience. |
| MVP Bridge Deluxe for Windows | 1998 | MVP Software | Cascoly Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | MVP Bridge Deluxe for Windows is a mouse controlled implementation of the card game. This game has in-game tutorials, a choice of card backs and faces, and options for on-line multi-player games. The bidding options are either Goren or Standard American and the two pairs can play different systems. |
| MVP Bridge Lite | 1998 | MVP Software | Cascoly Software | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | MVP Bridge Lite is a bridge game for one to four players. It is entirely mouse controlled and is similar to MVP Bridge Deluxe for Windows but lacks the option to vary the underlying bidding system between Goren or Standard American, among other thingsThis game allows the player to configure the bidding conventions for East/West and North/South independently, it has a tutorial system, and the player can set up specific hands to play via the editing function. When playing they can choose to play a rubber, a previously saved hand, or a special hand which is a hand of a specific type; 1 NT Opening; Long Minor; Weak 2 etc. |
| MVP Checkers | 1998 | MVP Software | Digital Storm | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | MVP Checkers is a shareware implementation of the classic board game.This implementation can be played against another real person, over a network, or against any of nine computer opponents - there are three difficulty settings with three opponents assigned to each. It is played with the mouse.
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| MVP Mancala | 1998 | MVP Software | Digital Storm | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | MVP Mancala is a computer adaptation of the board game that is played a lot in the countries of northern Africa and the Middle East. A full explanation of the rules is included with the game wMancala from
Mobius.This implementation supports a simplified version of the game for younger players; The Egyptian version; The Ethiopian version, and allows the player to create and play a custom version. It can be played as a two person game, as a single player game against the computer, or over a network.
There are nine AI opponents to play against and the game maintains win/lose statistics for both the human players and the AI players |
| Madden NFL 99 | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Tiburon | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | As with all yearly updates to the football series, Madden NFL 99 features improved graphics and AI over its predecessors. Force feedback, 8-button controllers and online support are available. The team roster includes nearly 100 successful vintage NFL teams as well as the full up to date roster at the time. There is more commentary integrated than before.This version features a new Franchise mode, which allows you to control a team through a number of seasons, taking into account free agents, retirement, drafts, and salary caps. Each team can have different playbooks.Also added is a one-button mode, which simplifies controls for beginners. Tying in with this is the arcade mode, which removes some of the more complex rules and adds to the force of impacts. |
| MahJongg Master 2 | 1998 | RomTech, Inc. | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | MahJongg Master 2 is a one or two player version of the classic Chinese tile matching game. Features include twenty-five new tile sets, one hundred backgrounds, music and sound effects and an editor for creating customised tile sets. The game also includes the games MahJongg Memory and Mahjongg Clicks, both of which also found in MahJongg Master 3.A special edition of this game was included in Greenstreet's Office Games compilation. This had much reduced libraries of tiles and backgrounds and includes the game MahJongg Clicks. |
| Manic Miner | 1998 | | | Action | Side view | Fangame | | Platform | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This freeware game is a faithful recreation of the original ZX Spectrum Manic Miner game for the Windows platform. You have to guide miner Willy through a series of 20 caverns and collect keys along the way. You climb, jump and avoid different types of critters while doing so. Difficulty is increased by a time limit, because each maze has a limited supply of breathable air.
The game is keyboard-driven with three basic movement options (left, right, up). |
| Math Blaster: Ages 8-9 | 1998 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Math Blaster: Ages 8-9 is an educational maths game in the Math Blaster series and it is aimed at children in the third grade based on the US curriculum. The story stars recurring characters in the series: Max Blaster and GC, and their robotic dog Mel. It starts when their computer is hacked by Dr. Zero who has launched a digital invasion of their metropolis. By participating in various mini-games Max and GC need to get rid of all the bugs in the system and reprogram everything to boot Dr. Zero out.The included activities are:
Bug Hunt: guide GC around a maze with an equation which fits the target range.
Circuit Quest: guide Blaster, GC or Mel to floating chips while using the devices (according to their abilities) which control the doors, elevators and stairs. Afterwards, the player must place the chips in the code strings to correctly solve equations.
Domino Bridge: build bridges.
Musical Math: match geometric shapes to earn pieces of music and complete a song.Completing these activities earns (resolved) bugs which can be stored in The Cache. To free more space, players must answer a series of equations before time runs out. The maximum space is 100. There is also a Bug Base where players can read about all the bugs. In a final activity, The Trap, the player must solve three-word problems correctly to reprogram the bugs. Once done, the player moves to the contraption building game using the bugs collected to eventually catch Dr. Zero using a claw. Some of the puzzles can be printed. |
| Medieval | 1998 | Incredible Simulations, Inc. | Incredible Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Wargame | Europe, Fantasy, Historical events, Medieval | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Back of Jewel Case - Windows (US) (from Ad Blurbs)MEDIEVAL
Tactical Combat in the Middle Ages
Game FeaturesScale
TacticalPlay
Quick turn basedBattles
Clontarf, Stamford Bridge, Hastings 1066, Val-es Dunes, Stirling Bridge, Falkirk, BannockBurn, Crecy, The Fall of Dracula, Robin HoodBattlePlan™ Editors
Includes powerful new scenario and symbol editors. Modify or create any period battle you desire.Sound
Digitized sounds of battleGraphics
800 x 600 16 Bit ColorMinimum Requirements
133mhz Pentium class CPU, 16 meg RAM, 800x600 16 bit display capability, hard drive, CD-ROM, and mouse.Platform
Windows 95. (Documentation in Windows help file format) |
| Mega Man X3 | 1998 | Capcom Entertainment, Inc. | Capcom Co., Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A Reploid scientist named Dr. Doppler begins creation of a new city for Reploids, which will bring a new era of peace to the Reploids and humans. But something goes terribly wrong, and now Mavericks have begun to appear everywhere! It's up to X and Zero to find out who is behind this Maverick revolt and bring them down for good!For the first time in the series, players can play use X's friend, Zero. However, he is pretty much restricted to only about one third of each level, and has only one life (i.e when he loses all his energy, he is put out of the fight for the rest of the game). |
| Mega Man X4 | 1998 | Capcom Entertainment, Inc. | Capcom Co., Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Mega Man X, the reploid leader of the 17th unit Maverick Hunters, and his best friend Zero have to stop a reploid rebellion. Each of them gets involved in a different way and you can play as either character through the parallel stories.
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| Mega3pak Volume 1 | 1998 | Megamedia Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation is the first volume in another compilation series from Megamedia. The compilation offers three games, which are on three CD's.The following games are included:
Carmageddon
Ecstatica II
X-COM: Apocalypse |
| Megapak 9 | 1998 | Megamedia Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Megapak 9 is an installment in Megamedia's Megapak-series. This time, there are seven games in the Compilation, with a total of 10 CDs.The following games are included:Destruction Derby 2
Discworld II
iF-22
Interstate '76
Jack Nicklaus 5
Pro Pinball: Timeshock!
Sid Meier's Civilization IISome editions also come with Admiral: Sea Battles |
| Metro-Police | 1998 | BMS Modern Games Handelsagentur GmbH | Virtual X-citement | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | In Metro-Police the player takes the role of Jeff Conrad who is a cop in the New York of 2048. The 26 missions are all constructed the same: First the player is at a crime scene where he interrogates a witness by selecting keywords. When he knows enough he walks or drives to the new location where he interrogates more witnesses until he finds the culprit. Then he uses his weapons to kill or knock out the criminal.In this game New York is divided into five plains and is built in the underground. The game starts in the lowest one and every bunch of missions the player rises one up. The player can move freely within a plain and can use several vehicles like cars, trains or zeppelins. The game is played in a 3rd person shoulder perspective. |
| Micro Machines V3 | 1998 | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Toolbox Design Ltd. | Action, Racing / Driving | Top-down | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Micro Machines are now able to explore the third dimension. Gameplay still stays the same, but the whole new graphics now look more realistic. Also a lot of new multiplayer options were added. |
| Microsoft Golf 1998 Edition | 1998 | Microsoft Corporation | Friendly Software Corporation | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The main differences for the 1998 version of MS Golf compared to its predecessor are the enhanced graphics and sounds. In this version, there are three 18-holes courses, the Bay Harbour Golf Club, Casa de Campo Links, and Teeth of the Dog, and a 9-holes course, The Preserve Nine, making it 63 playable holes in all. The game is highly configurable: each match can for example be played with ten difficulty settings, ten different scoring variations including stroke and match play, skins, scramble, bingo bango bongo, and teams. Other configuration options include customizing the player, changing the weather conditions, using a two or three-click system to control the swing, playing the full course, the front nine, back nine, or practice holes, and much more.Each hole has a fly-by preview to aid the golfer and there are optional windows such as the vertical view which gives a bird's eye view of the hole and the flight of the ball.Multiplayer games are possible via a direct modem link, network LAN, and the internet over the Internet Gaming Zone which the in-game help describes as "a site on the World Wide Web that connects, or "matches up", players from all over the world for various types of computer games".The CD contains a folder called 'Goodies' in which there are alternate models for the golfers (these have to be installed manually), Windows NT4 Service Pack 3 (required for multiplayer gaming under that operating system), and Microsoft System Information (a tool for gathering system configuration information to help Product Support engineers solve system related problems). |
| Microsoft Pinball Arcade | 1998 | Microsoft Corporation | Mir Dialogue | Action | | | | Pinball | | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Take a trip down memory lane with accurate simulations of seven pinball tables made by the Gottlieb pinball company:
Baffle Ball (1931)
Humpty Dumpty (1947)
Knock Out (1950)
Slick Chick (1963)
Spirit of '76 (1976)
Haunted House (1982)
Cue Ball Wizard (1992)All games include either the original music, or a background CD track representative of the time. The newer games allow up to 4 players. |
| Microsoft Revenge of Arcade | 1998 | Microsoft Corporation | | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view, Top-down | | | Arcade, Platform, Shooter | | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | This set of games, the third in Microsoft's (video) "Arcade" series, features emulations of five Namco games:Mappy
Motos
Ms. Pac-Man
Rally X
Xevious |
| Might and Magic Sixpack | 1998 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | New World Computing, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Might and Magic Sixpack contains the first six games in the Might and Magic series. Those are:
Might and Magic: Book I
Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World
Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra
Might and Magic 4: Clouds of Xeen
Might and Magic 5: Darkside of Xeen
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
Depending on the release, additionally included titles are:
Might and Magic: World of Xeen (merged new game of Clouds of Xeen and Darkside of Xeen)
Might and Magic: Swords of Xeen (a fan-made modification of World of Xeen)
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| Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven | 1998 | 3DO Company, The | New World Computing, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | Real-time, Turn-based | Teen | | Windows | After the corrupt Guardian Sheltem was defeated, the seemingly never-ending war between the Ancients and the alien Kreegans entered a new phase. Meteor-like spaceships populated by the Kreegans fell onto the technologically less advanced planet Enroth. The local king, Roland Ironfist, plans to attack the demonic-looking aliens, but is betrayed by a mage named Sulman and gone missing. Xenofex, the king of the Kreegans, establishes a cult teaching people that the Ironfist dynasty has lost its Mandate of Heaven to rule the realm. Meanwhile, the town of Sweet Water is invaded by the Kreegans, and four adventurers become involved in the battle and the search for the missing king.The Mandate of Heaven is the sixth installment in the Might and Magic series, and the first one with the playing area done with a real 3D engine, allowing free exploration of the terrain (as opposed to the grid-based movement of the previous games) and camera rotation. Characters and many objects are represented by 2D sprites. The gameplay follows the formula of the predecessors with several changes, the most notable of which is the option to fight in real time. Real-time combat allows free movement, while the traditional turn-based one is stationary.Character creation is somewhat more restricted: there are no other races but humans to choose from, and the party contains only four adventurers. Six classes are available: Knight, Druid, Paladin, Cleric, Sorcerer and Archer. A new skill system has been introduced, allowing the player to manually raise character skills (e.g. proficiency in specific weapon types) when the character levels up. Characters also gain access to skills of most classes, regardless of their original class designation. |
| Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven (Limited Edition) | 1998 | 3DO Company, The | | Compilation, Special edition | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation includes the following:
Original Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven on two Collector's Edition Holographic CD-ROMs
The Complete Might and Magic I through V series on a CD-ROM, including printed versions of the original Maps and PDF manuals.
Exclusive Might and Magic VI Mini-Strategy-Guide
Cloth Map of Enroth |
| Mission Sunlight | 1998 | index+ | index+ | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Europe | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Mission Sunlight is an educational adventure game that presents paintings by Vincent Van Gogh reconstructed in full real-time 3D. The events take place in a museum in some future city, where the sun from the sky, as well as colors from Van Gogh paintings, have suddenly disappeared. The player's task is to restore everything by 'going' inside those paintings and fixing them. This is done by solving little riddles like finding and replacing lost fragments, locating hidden objects, arranging the characters that got all mixed up etc. For solving each of the puzzles the player is awarded with a sunflower by Van Gogh himself, who often comments on his works in an educational way. |
| Mitt Första Kunskaps Äventyr | 1998 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mitt Första Kunskaps Äventyr is an educational title consisting of an encyclopedia for children with quizzes and other activities like a painting tool, jigsaw puzzles, minigames, all linked to the knowledge found in the encyclopedia.The encyclopedia is designed as a tree house with separate rooms dealing with: Space & Astronomy, Geography, Anatomy & Medicine, Buildings & Cities, Art: Drawing/Painting & Music, Work & Leisure, Travel & Transport, Food & Cooking, Animals & Nature, Geology & Weather. Several of the rooms share the same painting tool as an activity. |
| Monopoly: World Cup France 98 Edition | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Minds Eye Productions | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This release of Monopoly celebrates the national teams that participated in the 1998 World Cup (soccer). The usual tokens are replaced with little soccer players ; the coloured properties are no more streets but national football grounds ; the four stations are now the top four French venues for the 1998 World Cup. Also, green houses and red hotels are replaced by red terraces and blue stadiums. Up to six human players can play at once on one computer, their names can be edited.Most of the game is still the same but there are some extra features in this version. When you pass go you are allowed to take penalties, which when successful allow you to throw an extra dice. And teams can degrade in value which cause them to shift around on the board. |
| Monsters & Mayhem | 1998 | Locatha Industries Inc. | Locatha Industries Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Monsters & Mayhem is essentially a Gauntlet (arcade) clone but without steadily decreasing health and only one hero character available to play as. Enemies look very similar to the originals they were inspired from but have varying levels of strength depending on their colours. They also turn into ghosts and fly off screen when vanquished. There are also no enemy spawners. Pick-up are also limited to only chests which contain keys, treasure and power-ups and a new addition: secrets tiles. When stepped on, they either give a bonus or are cursed; curses being damaging or can even remove some or all power-ups. This and the fact that it is possible to run out of keys leaving a player stranded on a level makes the game very unfair but it knows this and shows you how to cheat very early on. You are therefore heavily reliant on your memory to remember which secret tiles you should avoid and which will give you a boost. You can opt to avoid all secret tiles altogether but some are necessary to complete certain levels...The game originally in its Shareware form launched full screen and was not very friendly with modern versions of Windows but in the final Freeware release (see links for download) it's in a window and for the most part plays nicer. Many moons ago high-scores could be uploaded to an external website but that's also long gone along with Locatha's homepage.The game comes with a level editor that supports the creation of dungeons with up to 1000 levels each. There is a user created dungeon available for download at Locatha's (archived) website. |
| Monty Python's Looney Bin | 1998 | Panasonic Interactive Media | 7th Level, Inc. | Adventure | | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Monty Python's Looney Bin is a compilation of two Monty Python titles, Complete Waste of Time and Quest for the Holy Grail. Also comes with "Desktop Pythonizer", a desktop theme for Windows 3.1. |
| Moraff's Jiggler 3D | 1998 | Moraffware | Moraffware | Compilation, Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | Isometric | Windows | Moraff's Jiggler 3D is a puzzle game, with a picture cut into a grid, in six selectable sizes from 4x4 to 20x20 pieces. The image pieces are mixed up and placed on top of 3D blocks whose height indicates how far they are from their correct place in the picture.The player uses the mouse to select two pieces to swap them around. If a piece is getting closer to it's original location, the 3D block is lowered - if the block is moved away from the right spot, the block rises. Once a piece is in it's proper place, it cannot be moved further.The game includes a two photographs used as puzzle-pictures, and it is also possible to load other pictures as a puzzle.
Thirteen classical MIDI-tunes are included and used as optional background music to the game.A score table optionally keeps track of average and best times/moves for each picture and puzzle size, and is displayed at completion of a puzzle.
In addition to the puzzle game, the bundle also contains a small freeware bonus game called 'Moraff's Jongg for Windows', featuring two layouts and a single tileset. With this game there are eight different backgrounds, also usable as puzzle pictures. Exiting the Puzzle game will optionally start the Majongg game. (This bonus game is also bundled with other Moraff games.)Ending the Mahjong game opens an interactive advert for other Moraff games.
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| Moto Racer 2 | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Delphine Software International | Racing / Driving, Sports | Behind view | | | | | Motorcycle, Off-roading, Track racing | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Delphine's sequel to their popular Moto Racer, MR2 features more tracks, several different "championship" modes, an enhanced Direct3D graphics engine, and a track editor for creating your own superbike and motocross tracks. |
| Motor Mash | 1998 | Ocean Software Ltd. | Eutechnyx Limited | Action, Racing / Driving | Top-down | | | | | Automobile | | | | | Windows | Motor Mash is a top down cartoon racer for 1 to 4 players by using a multi-tap or by sharing the joypad similar to Micro Machines 2.You can choose to play single player practice, Knockout Races, Single Player Tournaments, Multi Player Tournaments, Beat the Clock and Team Knockout. Players can select from 12 characters and race across level with different themes. There's jungle, aztec temples, inner city, wild west, nightmare, arctic themes. Each of the themes have unique hazards like bridges, crossing trains, oil wells, cyclones, snowmen and killer plants.In each race the goal is to leave your opponents far behind so they go off screen. You can by pushing them off bridges or into hazards. When there is one player left, that player wins and all other players return to start again from that point. Each time credits are awarded depending on how long each player lasted on screen. Lose all credits and you're out of the game, last man standing wins the race. |
| Motorhead | 1998 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Digital Illusions CE AB | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Motorhead is a racing game set in the near future. Despite it's semi-futuristic setting, the cars require realistic handling. There are 10 different cars and 8 different tracks. They are not all available from the start however; the player has to earn them by winning championships in the Transatlantic Speed League. |
| Moving Puzzle: Sea World | 1998 | Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | LTI Bulgaria | Puzzle | | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In the "Moving Puzzle" series, this time, puzzle videos of polar bears, whales, and so on ! As in other titles from the series, music can be turned off, as you can turn on or off a stopwatch. |
| Multi Sports '99 | 1998 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Multi Sports '99 is a bundle composed of the following games:
Actua Soccer 2
PC Basket 6.0
Screamer 2 |
| Multimedia Algebra | 1998 | Cosmi Europe, Ltd. | Access Softek, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Multimedia Algebra is an educational title designed to make learning algebra fun. The product features Professor Doodles as a tutor. He teaches algebra in his classroom by explaining the following categories, Algebra Concepts, Order of Operations, Simplifying Fractions, Integers, Polynomials, Factoring, Exponents of Roots, Quadratic Equations, and Systems of Equations. Each category is explained by means of its associated rules, this also an animated example and practice problems. The practice problems allow the player can either enter an answer or step through the problem to see how it is solved.
There's also the Professor's 'Castle of Co-Ordinates' which consists of a series of rooms. When the player enters a room the Professor asks the player to locate a set of co-ordinates and the view of the room switches so that it is overlaid with a grid. Finding and clicking on the correct location triggers a short animation.This product also includes a bonus game, Killer Bees by Ron Paludan, it's a fixed screen shoot 'em up game similar to Galaga where bees replacing aliens and a can of insecticide replaces the players spaceship. |
| My Disney Kitchen | 1998 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | My Disney Kitchen is a cooking game where you are neighbors with Mickey and Minnie. They will come to your house to eat food, comment on the radio station, look at the decorated kitchen etc. There are many tools you can use to make food and lots of food to work with. You simply cook and decorate your own kitchen with Mickey and Minnie helping you. You can call them and sometimes they will give you tips on how to make things like applesauce and smoothies. They will also give you ingredients if you run out. There are real life recipes from Family Fun magazine that you can make in your own kitchen.Mickey and Minnie won't eat everything you make. There are two stars on the oven and counter in your kitchen to make cake and breakfast for the two of them. In the Good Morning Griddle section, you can make eggs, bacon, and pancakes for Mickey and Minnie. You have to put them on the griddle and flip them over when needed. You can also put maple syrup and butter on them for flavor. In Bake-A-Cake, you can bake, mix, frost, and decorate a cake for Mickey and Minnie. You can save the game on your memory card or on your computer depending on what version you are playing. You can also watch demos, where you can learn to make meals. |
| My First Amazing History Explorer | 1998 | DK Multimedia | DK Multimedia | Educational | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | Mark Timson | | | | Windows | My First Amazing History Explorer is an educational game where players get to go back in history with a time machine. The game tells the story about how Professor Timestein has gone missing and it's of course up to the player to find him. The game starts out at the professor's attic where the player meets the Time Fugitive who is responsible for the disappearance of the professor. The professor is trapped in time and to save him the player has to use a time machine to go back to different periods in history of time and complete a time trail. The player can travel to the following eight historical periods:
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
The Roman Empire
Imperial China
Medieval Europe
The Inca Empire
The Age of Industry
A 1920's city
For each of these places the player is presented with a map that player can interact with by clicking on different hot spots. The player will then get information about the topic and can choose to answer a question to see if he has learned anything. When answering the question right the player is awarded with a sticker that he can put in his journal. Each location also holds one piece of the time trail map that the player needs to collect to rescue the professor. Other activities include being photographed at famous locations, designing a coat of arms and writing ones name in hieroglyphs. |
| My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Artech Studios Ltd. | Adventure | Side view | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens is a game for young children that is based on the 'My Little Pony' franchise. It was originally developed in 1998 and has been re-issued a number of times.The game starts with the player creating their own pony using a paint box screen to change the colours to their liking. Then the pony is given a name and the player is taken to Ponyland where the game begins.The game starts at a bridge. To the left is the farm where the player gets to know and train their pony. To the right is the pony village. The player starts on the farm where they feed, groom and train their pony. There is a limited supply of food in the inventory to start with and more can be grown or picked from trees.When the pony has grown she will be confident enough to enter the village and have fun with other ponies. In the village there are four cottages, each with its own resident and mini-game(s):
Ivy's Beauty Salon where the player can dress and/or style their pony's hair
Light Heart's Game Cottage naturally has the most activities. There's Tic-Tac-Hoof, a Tile Switch Puzzle, videos to watch, books to read, Sweet Berry's kitchen where cakes can be baked, and pictures to colour in.
Sun Sparkle's Dance Studio has a dance floor with coloured squares. The mini-game here is a 'Simon Says' like game where the player has to repeat the sequence in which the dance floor squares light up.Morning Glory's schoolhouse has a memory game and pictures to print.
Throughout the game the player can take pictures of their pony, these are held on an album along with the pony's pet certificate, awards, the pony diary and mail messages. |
| Myst: Desktop Edition | 1998 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Desktop Edition is a special release of Myst that includes in addition to the game:
Mousemat
Screensaver |
| Mühle-Online | 1998 | EDV CD-ROM GmbH | Mediaglobe GmbH | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | "Mühle Online" made by German Shareware and Freeware Game Developer MediaGlobe, is a collection of different mini games, including the famous "Merrills", in German called "Muehle", which you can play online against your friends or local against the computer. Included is a chat function, network and TCP/IP - Winsock compatiblity. |
| NASCAR Racing 2 + Track Pack | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
NASCAR Racing 2
NASCAR: Grand National Series Expansion Pack |
| NFL Blitz | 1998 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | Midway Games, Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | NFL Blitz gives the National Football League the same over-the-top treatment that Midway had used so effectively with NBA Jam. Features include exaggerated muscle-bound player models, "turbo" buttons, fast action, and some pretty wild rules changes (like 30 yards for a first down!). Blitz is nothing if not a unique football gaming experience.Player taunts ("This is MY HOUSE!"), unpenalized late hits, and amusing running commentary from the announcers ("That was totally uncalled for -- but awfully fun to watch!") all add to the game's violent charm.
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| NFL GameDay 99 | 1998 | Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. | 989 Studios | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | A port of a Playstation title that offers a more action-oriented aproach to american football. You can only play the 1998 season with your choice of NFL licensed teams (tough all with the same playbook) in either the standard game mode or a pseudo coaching mode were you call the plays and watch the computer develop the action.Additions for the pc version include expanded multiplayer support (over modem/internet/lan) and Direct3D accelerated graphics which show off the game's animations and real-time weather conditions. Also in the sound department you get in-game comment by Dick Enberg and Phil Simms. |
| Nahan: The Ultimate 3D Puzzle Game | 1998 | Global Star Software Ltd. | Electric Sheep Ltd. | Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | | Windows | A unique 3D puzzle game where you must clear the screen of matching hexagon-shaped tiles. The tiles can only be cleared if the tile has at least 3 sides free, and nothing on top of it.
You can also create your own pieces and put them together in you own puzzle style (which could be any shape that is possible) |
| Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure | 1998 | Electronic Arts Victor | Sirtech Canada Ltd. | Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | Real-time | | | Windows | A new force has emerged in the world. Known as the Nithos Shadow, it is targeting, for yet inexplicable reasons, a young man from the city of Galican. The High Council sees a connection there, and asks the hero to investigate the matter. Soon he discovers that the society of Nitherin Mages has tampered with forces of darkness, and their energy has transformed into seven talismans that must be discovered before they bring chaos and destruction to the world. The hero begins his journey, thinking of the mysterious bond between the mages and himself...Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure is a spin-off of Sir-Tech's famous Wizardry series. It is a hybrid game that incorporates elements of both puzzle-solving adventure and role-playing. The game is viewed from first-person perspective, with locations represented by pre-rendered background images, similarly to Myst, though with animation during movement. A point-and-click interface is used to interact with the environment, talk to characters, and manipulate objects in order to solve puzzles.The RPG element is much lighter than in the main Wizardry series. The hero starts with pre-determined statistics, but his weapon skills can be developed by equipping and continuously using the same type of weapon in combat. The hero also learns magical spells during the course of the game. Combat occurs in real time, as the player has to quickly select commands and click on the enemy in order to perform attacks. |
| Net Fighter | 1998 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Syrox Developments, Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Released exclusively through SegaSoft's Heat.net service, this is quite possibly the first online fighting game. Similar to games like Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat, Net Fighter involves controlling an on-screen character, using special moves and attacks to beat your opponent. The game features eight playable characters, each with his or her own unique fighting style and set of moves/combos/special attacks. |
| Nethergate | 1998 | Spiderweb Software | Spiderweb Software | Role-playing (RPG) | | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Welcome to Shadowvale, where the last remnants of magic remain in this world and where fantastic creatures thrive and the strange is ordinary. Nethergate is played from an isometric view and the game view scrolls tile by tile. You can play from two sides: the Celts or the Romans. If you choose to be the Celts, you fight to protect Shadowvale from the conquering Romans and attain freedom for your people. If you choose to be the Romans, you work to bring order to the land and to remove the presence of a small rebelling tribe. The game takes place in the same world and dungeons no matter what side you play from, but the story and the way you'll be received in different towns are completely different. The combat is handled with a rather simple interface: click in the direction you want a party member to go, click in the direction of a monster if you want to attack it, select the cast spell option and click on the monster you want to cast the spell on. If you look at your characters' statistics, you will find about 30 skills and attributes as well as a disadvantage/advantage section. When you win battles and complete quests, your characters get skill points. You can then go to a training center to use your skill points and assign them to skills of your selection. |
| Newman Haas Racing | 1998 | Psygnosis Limited | Studio 33 (UK) Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Newman Haas Racing is a racing game developed in conjunction with the real-life Newman/Haas racing team. The game features 16 official drivers, cars and 11 tracks from the Indy Car series. The tracks include Houston (introduced in 1998), Laguna Seca Raceway, The Milwaukee Mile, Long Beach and more. The graphics engine is based upon Psygnosis' Formula One game. Commentary is provided by Indy car champion Danny Sullivan and Bob Varsha (ESPN).There are 4 difficulty levels and 3 main game modes: Single Race, Challenge (the AI is adjusted according to your results) and a full season of racing. In multiplayer, players can go head-to-head in a split-screen mode. |
| Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds | 1998 | Nexon, Inc. | Nexon Corporation | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy | | | Persistent | | | Windows | This pay to play MMORPG was one of the first to be popular in Korea in 1996 then it was translated for the U.S. market in 1998. It's loosely based on Korean mythology and artist Kim Jin's series of graphic novels. There are three kingdoms (Koguryo, Buya, Nagnang) with 3 villages each that players can reside in. You can rent a house and accessorize it to your taste.You can choose different character development paths and clans which are based in the different kingdoms. There are four main character types: warriors, rogues, mages, and poets. Koguryo is home to the Chongun, Diviner, Merchant, Monk and Spy player subpaths as well as SunMoon, Bear, Enigma, Oceana, Destiny and Tiger Clans. It also has the Royal Koguryian Army and the Royal Ministry of Koguryo. Buya contains the Do, Muse and Shaman player subpaths as well as Heavens, Phoenix, LostKingdom, Dharma, Elendhirin and SanSin Clans. It has the Buyan Imperial Army and the Imperial Ministry of Buya. Nagnang currently has no player subpaths but does house the Alizarin, Covenant, Forsaken, K'urimja, Pegasus, Silla, and Viper Clans. The Wilderness, which is a vast expanse owned by no one, has the Barbarian, Druid, Geomancer and Ranger subpaths. You can make your character unique with different armor dyes, armor types, hair choices, hair colors, character models, and weapons. As you gain experience you will level up your stats in health, mana, strength, magic and agility. You can hold influential positions in the community such as judges, tutors, archons, carnage hosts, subpath guides, elders, ministers, clan councilors, primogens, Pawns and Archons, and also Game Masters. The game is free-to-play up to level 49, then you must either pay a monthly fee or purchase in-game currency to purchase items. |
| Nikolai in Outer Space | 1998 | | Hoffmann + Associates Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | | Windows | Nikolai in Outer Space is a space action game for children ages six and up, part of the Nikolai’s Adventure series.Nikolai and his cat Neow-Neow are at a laboratory creating a secret formula, when suddenly the lights go out, and the evil red-eyed Neow-Neow clones steal the secret formula out of Earth and into Space. Nikolai and Neow-Neow enter the rocket to find the formula, and the player begins the game by shooting asteroids and comets with the lasers. Three difficulty level settings are available to select before the game starts. Different power-ups and obstacles are available, such as the energy power-ups, (but if the space arm is used, more points will be added.) and the convoy spaceships, which the player cannot shoot as they are friendly. The player has to check the Shield indicators from time to time, and when all of the indicators turn red, the game is over. |
| Nonsense Madness | 1998 | | Cinnamon Interactive | Action | Side view | | Comedy | Platform, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Nonsense Madness is an action game created as a sequence of surreal minigames. The player controls a man wearing a barrel and must lead him across three shoot 'em up acts, where the player must spit at a creature flying across the top of the screen while avoiding its missiles; one shoot'em up act where the player must avoid and shoot an alien ship flying around; and two platform game acts where the player must get to the goal while avoiding enemies. Each act is divided into a couple of levels, which means that the player must repeat the act several times with rising difficulty. Short cutscenes appear occasionally between acts, progressing the story (such as it is.) The player has a limited number of lives and the game is over if all of them run out. |
| Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 | 1998 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | TOAW is the first in a series of wargames released by Talonsoft. The game focuses on historic conflicts (mainly World War 2 and Korea) that lie between army- and battalion-sized engagements. Each unit is modelled individually down to infantry guns, tanks, etc. The game is scenario driven, meaning that there is no campaign where you fight battle after battle. A scenario can last from a couple of hours to several years (in game time). Two graphics modes are available: Top-down and isometric (pseudo 3D). The latter one shows units as "miniatures-like" icons, representing the main type of equipment in the formation. The other mode uses military symbols for representation. The game is played on a zoomable map (2 levels). The game includes weather effects and political events.
All features of the game (units, map, events, etc.) can be edited through the included scenario editor. |
| O.D.T.: Escape... or Die Trying | 1998 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Role-playing (RPG) | Behind view | | | Action RPG, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | The airship Nautiflyus, piloted by the famous hero Captain Lamat, was on its way to deliver the wondrous Green Pearl to the city of Calli, in hope of curing its inhabitants with the Pearl's healing powers. However, when taking a shortcut through the so-called Forbidden Zone, the Nautiflyus crash-landed; both Captain Lamat and the Green Pearl were abducted by unknown creatures. The four crew members - the cartographer Julia, the strategist Ike, the engineer Maxx, and the archbishop Solaar - must deal with the new dangers, rescue the Captain, and retrieve the Pearl.O.D.T. is an action role-playing game with some platforming and puzzle-solving elements. The player can choose to control any of the four characters. Each of them has his/her own strengths and weaknesses: for example, Maxx has high defense, while the archbishop has access to powerful occult techniques. Defeating enemies rewards the player with experience points, which can be used to increase a particular parameter of a character, increasing his/her combat abilities. |
| Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Platform | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Teen | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Abe shut down RuptureFarms and saved his buddies from becoming snacks. But Rupture farms was just the beginning; the Glukkons are digging up bones at the ancient Mudokon burial grounds. They use the bones to make Soul Storm Brew. Abe must travel to the Soul Storm Brewery, stop those corporate villains and save the enslaved Mudokon workers.Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus is a 2D platform game very similar to its predecessor both visually and gameplay-wise. Like in the previous game, Abe has to outsmart his foes and avoid obstacles rather than confront them directly. The game is larger than its predecessor and is more oriented towards puzzle-solving, featuring more complex interaction with the Mudokons, who can now be angry, wired, depressed, sick, or blind. The first three problematic conditions can be removed with the appropriate "Gamespeak" command; sick Mudokons must be cured with a special item, while blind ones will follow Abe's voice and may fall to their deaths if Abe doesn't stop them in time.An additional ability Abe has is turning into a Mudokon deity called Shrykull, which possesses the power to instantly kill enemies. Transformation into Shrykull is possible only if Abe succeeds in sending several Mudokons through the bird portal at the same time. After having used Shrykull's power once, Abe transforms back into his normal Mudokon self. As opposed to the predecessor with its limited saving possibilities, a quick save feature has been added to Abe's Exoddus. The player can save at any time and resume playing from the same spot in case Abe dies. |
| Of Light and Darkness: The Prophecy | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Tribal Dreams | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | This is an adventure game about the end of the millennium and the fate of the human race.The object of the game is to collect coloured orbs and artifacts to redeem evil spirits. To accomplish it, you must figure out what sin each spirit is guilty of, which artifact represents it and what colour is it associated with. Then you have to get the correct colour orb or orbs, the correct artifact, enter the correct sin room and do your work. It's not as easy as it may seem. |
| Once and Future | 1998 | Cascade Mountain Publishing | Cascade Mountain Publishing | Adventure | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Private Frank Leandro is killed in action in Vietnam but wakes up on the isle of Avalon in the days of King Arthur. There he is sent on a quest to retrieve famous artifacts from Arthurian legend and use them to save the future in this text-adventure game. |
| Operation | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | ImaginEngine Corp., Vipah Interactive, Inc. | Action | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Operation is a computer game adaptation of the classic board game where the goal is to gingerly remove objects from a patient's body on the operating table. In this variation, up to 4 players can play doctor and travel to hospitals in 5 exotic locations and treat an impressive diversity of ailing patients. In each of the hospitals, the players can choose to play the classical Operation game or a game unique to that hospital. The classical Operation game entails using the mouse to guide a pair of tweezers into the patient and remove a foreign object without touching anything else inside the patient. The 5 different hospitals and their special games are:Haunted Hospital: Treat a variety of monsters such as mummies and disco wolfmen. The special game for this level is to get the frog out of the patient's throat by guiding the frog up the throat, past all manner of food items that the other doctor is inexplicably tossing down.
Rainforest: In the open rainforest, the player functions as more of a veterinarian than a medical doctor, treating gorillas, chickens, and other wildlife. The special game in this stage is Medical Melodies which is a memory game. Memorize and replay the sequence of organs played to make music and cure the patient.
Space Hospital: Treat astronauts, aliens, and robots in this orbiting hospital. The special game is one in which your cohort shrinks himself into a nanoprobe that the player must manually guide through the patient to eliminate pathogens.
Main Hospital: This hospital is where the patient from the original Operation game is treated; other normal humans are here as well. The special game is Cowboy Germ Fighter where the player must guide the benevolent cowboy germ to jump on, and therefore swallow, the bad germs.
Dinosaur Hospital: Travel back to prehistoric times to help dinosaur patients back on their feet. The special game is an Asteroids clone where the player is suspended by a rope in the middle of a dinosaur's stomach. Burp bubbles are rising. Rotate the caveman doctor and fire pink antacid gas to break up the bubbles.
A player moves up a grade for every 5 successful patient treatments. The goal is to cure 25 patients.
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| Outlaw Racers | 1998 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Megamedia Australia | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Automobile | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Outlaw Racers is a racing game that came with three novel features at the time of release: a randomly generated city for each race, law enforcement that includes traffic cameras in addition to the police cars, and finally, a "persistent" universe where other cars are raced for money and bragging rights. However, the game can be boiled down to a simple "checkpoint" racing system, albeit in a city environment. The game has a 3D accelerated option, and can actually use DirectX 5 if enabled. A typical race has multiple checkpoints (flags) that must be passed through for money and to win the race. When all the flags are claimed, the race is over. However, there is no specific order in which those flags can be taken, allowing different strategies to make the most of a race. The player can for instance go for the closest flag, likely facing heavy competition going for the same goal, or they can aim for the farthest ones and try to clean them up while their competitors fight over the nearest flags. The race is further complicated by the police chasing after the racers. The city also has traffic cameras that record offenses such as red light violations, driving on the wrong side of the road, and so on. If the cops manage to stop the player, they will fine them for all the recorded offenses and these will be automatically taken out of their "budget". If the player no longer has money, they are sent to jail and the race is over. Reaching flags first or bumping into cash trucks gives the highest amount of money. Other vehicles wander the road in addition to police cars and cash trucks. There are also civilian vehicles, and five gray "armored cars" that will bump the player off the road if they run into them. Finally, there's a "hyper transporter" system that will take the player's car from one city to another for a nominal fee, but it requires reaching the boarding point and waiting for it. It may not appear in every city. As the city is randomly generated, the flags are never in the same place, and the three other opponents are thus rather unpredictable, making each race more or less unique. The cars can also be upgraded with better tires, better engine, or just replaced with better cars, although the upgrade system stays quite simple. Cars can also be repainted and/or decorated with special decals (user bitmap is allowed). |
| Outpost: Neo Genesis | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Outpost
Outpost 2: Divided Destiny |
| Outwars | 1998 | Microsoft Corporation | SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Swarms of exoskeletal aliens are ripping a merciless path of annihilation through the galaxy. Your outposts have fallen--your drop zone just became the front line. Strap a Jet Pack onto your battle armor and select from the lethal array of weaponry--you and your squad are all that stand between Earth and the savage horror of the relentless Skull hordes. |
| PC Basket 6.0 | 1998 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other), Side view, Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | PC Basket 6.0 is the sequel to the fourth edition of this saga (there was no PC Basket 5.0) and corresponds to the 1997/98 season. As with the previous versions, you have an updated database with information of all clubs and players from the ACB basketball league. Same goes with the Manager League and Dinamic All Stars modes.Changes are focused mainly on the match simulation, which now will be fully 3D, besides, you will also have the narrations of Sixto Miguel Serrano and "Epi". Another addition is the appearance of the Pro Manager mode, where you will play as a free agent, accepting offers of different teams, or dismissals, in case you make a bad work. |
| PC Fútbol 7 | 1998 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | The new edition of the same game PCFutbol 6.
In this version you could play in more leagues (5: English, German, French, Italian and Spanish). The game was well improved: the players get old, you control more the contracts of the players...
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| PC Fútbol Selección Española '98 | 1998 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Sports | | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Dinamic's famous saga also have an own game dedicated to the 98's World Cup celebrated in France. The first thing that claims your attention of the game is the data base, a great compilation of all competition international players and coaches, and also, all the stadiums where the matches will be disputed.About gaming options, you can choose to play a friendly match to gain some experience with the controls, or if you prefer exciting experiences, you can start the World Cup with any team (but without the option to choose our 22 players), if you want to make your ideal national team, you must choose "Seleccionador Nacional" mode, where you take the position of Spanish team coach, and you can choose the footballers who play in Spain (from 1ª División to 2ª IV) or the ones who play outside the Spanish League. When you already chosen all the 22 players, you can change his dorsals, his game positions, assign a training to somebody, create individual tactics... etc. And in the last game option, you will take again the reins of the Spanish team, but on this case, to play the EuroCup's Qualifying Round, competition which starts 2 years later (on 2000).Dinamic team have improved the 3D simulator since the PC Fútbol 6.0 and its actualisation 6.1, seeing now that the simulator have arrived at the 6.5 version, better AI, real player rosters, support to 3Dfx hardware, etc. |
| PC Games Collection Vol. 1 | 1998 | Computec Media AG | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | PC Games Collection Vol. 1 is a compilation including the following 10 games:
Holiday Island
Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
Asterix and Obelix
Trivial Pursuit: CD-ROM Edition
SimCity 2000: CD Collection
Worms United
World Circuit
Theme Hospital
Bundesliga Manager 99
Ultima VIII: Pagan |
| PC Spiele Hits: 11 Original Games | 1998 | media Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Panzer General
Spirit of Adventure
The Return of Medusa
Whale's Voyage 2
Tie Break
Rolling Ronny
Space M+A+X
Black Gold
Motor City
Big Sea: The Better One Will Win
Winzer
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| PGA Championship Golf | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Headgate Studios Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | This another addition to the PGA golf game series introduces seven championship courses including the Sahalee Country Club and the Royal BirkDale Golf Club, twelve game modes such as Skins, Medal and Stableford, a map editor which you can use to create your own courses with, over 15 camera angles to choose from and several fully animated player characters. |
| PGA Tour Gold | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Play golf with the pros on your PC.Play on 3-D generated courses and get tips from among golfing's best players. |
| Pac Pack | 1998 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Astral Entertainment | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This package includes six Pac-Guy games:Pac-Guy
Pac-Guy: Resurrection
Pac-Guy: Atomic Edition
Pac-Guy: Christmas Edition
Pac-Guy 2
Pac-Guy 2, Part 2: PagoonThe package also includes a Pac-Guy screensaver and a DLL with Pac-Guy icons. |
| Pacman 3D | 1998 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Pacman 3D is a single player Pac-Man variant.The player controls a 3D version of Pacman who races around a maze eating dots for points and dodging monsters. In the maze are power pills that turn the tables, after eating one of these Pacman becomes the hunter and, for a short while, is able to eat the monsters.
Game play is virtually identical to the classic Pac-Man game as this game is entirely keyboard controlled. Once Pacman starts moving he'll keep moving in the same direction until told otherwise. This means that when he is part way down a row in the maze the player can instruct him to turn right/left which he will do at the next junction.Points are scored when Pacman eats a pill, a monster, or one of the bonus items that appear in the maze. The player starts with five lives and additional lives can be awarded by eating the appropriate bonus item. Each level in the game has a code which the player can use when restarting, thus skipping previously played levels.The game has a few sound effects, plays in a window and the game speed is adjustable making the game playable on machines with varying processing capabilities.
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| Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning aren't so Frightening | 1998 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Sam, it seems, is afraid of thunder and lightning. But not when he's Pajama Sam, superhero! Help PJ Sam as he journeys to World Wide Weather, in an attempt to conquer his fear of thunderstorms. There he accidentally throws things in a tizzy, sending weather all over the world. He'll need your help to explore his odd world and get past the puzzles and games, as well as help new friends - all before Mother Nature finds out.The puzzles vary each time you start a new game and, as usual, there are plenty of amusing animations when you click on things. A game for kids 3-8. |
| Pajama Sam's Lost & Found | 1998 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Sam's room is a total mess and has lost some of his things throughout the lands he has visited in the past and in new areas. Now as Pajama Sam it is up to you, Sam and some old friends to travel around paths collecting puzzle pieces and Sam's toys and avoiding strange obstacles.Also play bonus games to earn extra points and be the Toy Rescue champ, in this children's arcade game. |
| Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside | 1998 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Sam, a big fan of Pajama Man is to afraid to sleep, with Darkness in his closet. So he turns himself into Pajama Sam! With his Flashlight, his mask and Signature edition Pajama Man Lunchbox. Going into his closet, to The Land of Darkness, His things are stolen by trees, and are hidden throughout The Land of Darkness.Its up to you to help Sam get around The Land of Darkness to find his stolen stuff. Along the way help Sam collect his missing socks, and solve challenging puzzles to help Sam find his stuff.When you play different times getting Sam's stuff will seem easy, but as you play the game different times finding Sam's stuff gets harder. The game features collecting a lot of useful items such as an oil can, a pick axe and a magnet, and running into new friends such as Otto the boat and King the mine car. |
| Paradise Heights | 1998 | Foster, Otaku Publishing, Ltd. | Foster, Otaku Publishing, Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | You are Keigo Nakadai, a 25 year old average guy who makes his living doing odd jobs. Now he's got a job as a caretaker of a top class apartment block (thanks to your uncle who owns the place) where all the residents are women! So, while your uncle is off to Hawaii, you are in charge of taking care of the place in his absence.As you get 'acquainted' with the local residents, certain suspicious events that disturb the local residents comes to your attention, ultimately leading to the mystery of behind Paradise Heights... |
| Paradise Heights 2 | 1998 | Foster, Otaku Publishing, Ltd. | Foster, Otaku Publishing, Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | The Paradise Heights apartment has changed after half of your uncle's company got liquidated. After the money went, so did some of the tenants. Now Keigo Nakadai (You) works for a toy making company (but still stays at Paradise Heights).Rumor has it that a competiting company is stealing your brilliant ideas...and the source of the leak is someone with high rank in your company! Fortunately, the new tenants also work at the company as you join forces with them to find out who is conducting industrial espionage behind your back...as well as some entertainment on the side... |
| Parlor Pack | 1998 | Double Oak Software | Double Oak Software | Puzzle, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Mental training, Tile matching puzzle, Timed input | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Parlor Pack is a collection of games from Double Oak Software and is the companion to their Arcade Pack. As with Arcade Pack this collection of games installs as a single product and creates a 'Parlor Pack' entry in the Windows START menu within which there is a separate entry for each game together with an entry for a help file which covers the games in both packs and more. The games here are all played with the mouse and, unless indicated, they all play in a window. The games are;
Backgammon: The traditional game with two levels of AI opponent
Bowling: A mouse controlled game where the player controls the speed and spin of the ball as well as the pin spacing.
Go Fish: The player plays against one two or three AI opponents in this rendition of the classic card game. They can play manually but there's also an autoplay option.
Jigsaw Puzzle: This game plays in full screen mode and has three levels of play, the harder the level of play the greater number of pieces. Pieces are dragged into position with the mouse and, when correctly positioned, they 'click' into place. The only picture provided is a version of the Double Oak logo but it will open any file in jpg, bmp or gif format.
Match It: This is a version of Concentration, it has two levels of play Easy and Hard and seven sets of images.
Memory: This is a Simon Says game with three difficulty settings.
Old Maid: The traditional card game, as with Go Fish there can be up to three AI opponents and there is an autoplay option.
Reversal: An odd game in which the player is shown the numbers 1-9 in a random order. When the player clicks on a number it, and all the numbers to its left will be placed in reverse order. The object is to rearrange all the numbers into the correct order in the fewest possible moves
Slide Puzzle: The good old sliding block puzzle with two settings, Easy and Hard. As with Jigsaw Puzzle only one picture is provided, a version of the Double Oak logo, but the game will open any file in jpg, bmp or gif format.
Squares: This game is also known as Dots and Boxes. Players start with a pattern of equally spaced dots, the game comes with seven and an option to build more, and take turns connecting two dots together. When a player completes the fourth side of a square they claim that territory, when all lines have been connected the player with the most squares wins.
War: an implementation of the two player card game
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| Pastel Fantasy | 1998 | | | Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle, Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Pastel Fantasy is a puzzle game where you must remove all the characters from the screen. This becomes challenging as you progress in the levels.The gameplay is straightforward. Each level starts out with characters that look something like bunny heads which are multiple colors. You can remove any of the characters that are the same color and touching at least one other of the same color. As you remove the characters, the remaining characters drop down to the bottom of the screen, so you must plan what characters to remove so that you don't get caught with no more moves you can make.There are a maximum of 5 colored characters to work with and 15 levels to complete. |
| Penny Penguin's Math Bingo | 1998 | Latticework Software | Latticework Software | Educational | 1st-person | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Penny Penguin's Math Bingo is a one or two player, shareware game designed to improve math skills through game playing, it was marketed to schools mainly in the USA.The object of the game, as in most Bingo games, is to complete a line across the board. In this game however the numbers on the board are not unique and, rather than match a number on their board to the number on the bingo ball, players are presented with simple sums the answers to which may correspond to a number on the board. sums are presented to each player in turn.The shareware version allows for one or two players but is limited to simple addition with the answers being in the range 0-5. The eight levels available in the registered version include Addition (0-99), Subtraction (0-99), and Multiplication using all of the 1x through to 12x tables.
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| People's General | 1998 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Turn-based strategy | Asia | | | Turn-based | Everyone | Jacques Hennequet | Windows | People's General is the sequel to Panzer General II, and the last two dimensional game in the casual war game series. People's General takes the series into the near future. Over population and dwindling resources have lead China to attempt to take control of all of Asia. NATO stands in their way.Play either side of the conflict in a branching campaign, or create a modern day military situation of your own with the scenario editor included. People's General is a turn based war game. The game's interface and rules are designed to be simpler than many wargames. Units are an assortment of present-day and near-future ones. A scenario editor is included. |
| Perry Rhodan: Operation Eastside | 1998 | Fantasy Productions Verlags- und Medienvertriebsgesellschaft mbH | Spellbound Entertainment Software | Simulation, Strategy | | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | In the year 2326 man prepares to conquer the "Eastside", the other side of the galaxy and to build new colonies on foreign planets. Choose among different species and lead the operation to conquer the Eastside. You have to travel through the galaxy, visit new solar systems and planets, create new colonies for your own people and challenge foreign species in a fight of your lifetime. |
| Perry Rhodan: Thoregon - Brücke in die Unendlichkeit | 1998 | NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH | Main Screen | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This game is based on the German Perry Rhodan dime novels, more precisely the set Die Brücke in die Unendlichkeit which belong to the cycle Thoregon. The background: In the 49. century the humans switch the planets Mars and Trokan because a radiation from Mars endangers the terrestrial population. But Trokan gets in a time lapse and 250 million years pass by. Then the time lapse collapses and the humans discover a mysterious culture.The game begins when Perry Rhodan is in the secret base Camelot and receives a message from the scientist Attaca Meganon. Then the player takes Rhodan's place and searches after Meganon, eventually on Trokan. The game itself is played like many Myst-inspired games: The player walks through rendered backgrounds, collects items and uses them in the right spot. Other puzzles are logic based, e.g. pressing buttons on a panel to open a door and other brain teasers. Sometimes the player gets to hear monologues from other characters.Screenshots Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gamePart of the Following Groups Inspiration: Literature
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| Peter Jacobsen's Golden Tee Golf | 1998 | Incredible Technologies, Inc. | Incredible Technologies, Inc. | Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Peter Jacobsen's Golden Tee Golf is a golf game based on the arcade game Peter Jacobsen's Golden Tee '97, but with some differences such as three additional courses for the PlayStation version. The PlayStation version also contains extra modes and an overview of the holes. The trackball support is replaced by holding down the D-Pad to adjust the power of the backswing. On the PC the mouse is moved backwards and then forwards to determine the swing. The PC version introduces tournaments and contests through online multiplayer, and games over LAN are supported as well. The PC version also contains Shadow Games where you can save and share your performance to play against that shadow player. |
| Pettson o Findus i trädgården | 1998 | Bokförlaget Opal AB, Gammafon Multimedia AB | Bajoum Interactive AB, Gammafon Multimedia AB | Adventure, Educational | | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In this educational game for ages seven to twelve, you are Findus, the cat, who promises to look after Pettson's garden, but does not have any tools. You walk around and play games to train your language skills, math skills and reflexes. After each successful game, you receive an object. The aim of the game is to collect a tools and free the gardener who is locked up in "Joke world" under Pettson's house.The game has a humourous tone and all drawings are done by Sven Nordqvist. Each minigame trains a skill and has various difficulties for each child. |
| Petz | 1998 | TLC-Edusoft | PF Magic | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Petz CD-ROM includes the following three games :Dogz: Your Computer Pet
Catz: Your Computer Petz
Oddballz: Your Wacky Computer Petz |
| Philip José Farmer's Riverworld | 1998 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Riverworld is a 3D real-time strategy game based on Philip José Farmer's universe of books, where on an earthlike planet, with just one river flowing from pole to pole and back, all of mankind (a figure around 36 billions) is resurrected, from the first homo sapiens to the early 21st century population, as humanity was wiped out shorty after.Playing as Richard Francis Burton, a British explorer from the 18th century (who has an uncanny resemblance to Welsh actor Timothy Dalton), the player decides to evolve the people from the prehistoric ages to the future. For that, he needs to build new houses to increase the population, conquer new territories (which will allow the player to both expand territory and progress into more advanced ages), meet other notable people from the human history and defend against other characters with the same goal in mind. |
| Photopia | 1998 | | | Adventure | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In this text adventure, you journey between various short stories that are connected solely by color. At any one time, you may be speeding on the road with a friend, landing on Mars, or teaching your daughter about astronomy. It all wraps together in the end, though. |
| Pie Bill Gates | 1998 | Imposter, The | Imposter, The | Action | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Pie Bill Gates is a simple freeware game.
You must throw as many pies at Bill Gates as you can in 30 seconds. You can make your own image sets for the game, and it supports sound cards. |
| Pinball Soccer '98 | 1998 | Pin-Ball Games Ltd. | Pin-Ball Games Ltd. | Action | | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Pinball Soccer '98 tries to break the mold by combining soccer and pinball. The game features two tables, one of which must be unlocked.You defend your own goal with your usual flippers. The goal at the other side is defended by four defenders and a goalie. If you complete objectives you are allowed to perform free kicks, corners and penalties. Referees can roam the playing field to kick back the ball to your flippers.It is possible to play this flipper game in two player mode, in that case both goals receive flippers and the goal becomes to score in one another's goal. |
| Pingus | 1998 | | | Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Pingus is an open source, cross-platform, and free Lemmings clone. The gameplay is the same: the player must help a group of creatures (in this case, penguins) to reach the exit and escape the level.Each penguin has to be assigned a task, represented by a series of icons at the left side of the screen. Blockers stop the other penguins, and are best deployed near dangerous environments and chasms. Jumpers spring upwards, arcing through the air, covering a small distance. Bridgers build diagonal bridges across chasms. Bombers explode, removing a chunk of the terrain with them. Diggers go downwards, mining deep in the ground, or sideways, tunnelling through walls. Sliders lunge forward, passing under low roofs and escaping some traps. Climbers have the reusable ability to scale vertical walls, and floaters have the reusable ability to survive any fall.As in the original, each level has a set number of penguins that have to cross the portal (sometimes with a time limit). Three icons at the bottom pause the game, make it run faster, or explode all the birds (useful if the level was made unsolvable by wrong actions).The game has a built-in level editor, that can be accessed directly from the main menu. Extra unofficial levels can be found in several sites. |
| Pinky and The Brain: World Conquest | 1998 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Gigawatt Studios | Action | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Pinky & The Brain: World Conquest is a licensed game about the TV show Pinky & The Brain. Instead of conquering the world the player has to cross mazes which consist of 16x16 fields. The single player mode, the "World Conquest", are just a series of mazes. In the tournament mode, which can be played with bots, multiple players are after the same goal.There are three types of maze modes: In time mode the player has to obtain as much fields as possible in a certain time, in land mode he needs to get a certain percentage of land and in tag mode the maze contains one piece of cheese and the goal is to keep it in the own possession as long as possible.The mazes contain obstacles, e.g. fake walls or portal walls, and power-ups, e.g. super speed or special helmets to zap enemies or break walls. The view on the mazes can be rotated or zoomed in and with the editor players can build own mazes. |
| Piri the Explorer Ship | 1998 | Sebit Inc. | Sebit Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In Piri the Explorer Ship you are placed in the role of a captain of the 16th century carrack called Piri. In the introduction the former captain of the ship informs you about the secrets of the World Map of Piri Reis of 1513, which he has never mentioned to anyone.
To unravel the secret of the map, you have to explore the ship and learn to use its sophisticated mechanisms, which contain extensive info on Piri Reis, Turkish history and more, including various video clips. You start on the Marmara Sea (Turkey), after which you have to sail your ship to Istanbul, Seville, Cordoba, Dakar, and Rio de Janeiro. The game from a Turkish developer includes English voice-overs (no captions), music and sound effects. By right clicking the "Wind Rose" - the options interface - pops up that includes an extensive help screen, a map to transport quickly to other locations in the ship, and a guide's voice that informs the player about the current location. The package includes a copy of Piri Reis' map. The ship can crash, but the player can prevent it by answering the right questions. |
| Play with the Teletubbies | 1998 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Asylum Entertainment Ltd. | Action, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Play with the Teletubbies is the first video game based on the popular kids TV series Teletubbies. Players get to choose one of the four Teletubbies, Tinky Winky, Po, Laa-Laa or Dipsy, and have to explore Teletubbyland to find objects. There's the Magic Windmill, a magic drum, a hide and seek tree, and others. There are more mini-games if you head down to the Teletubbies' super dome, where you can play with the Tubby Custard machine, the control panel, the Tubby Toaster and others. |
| Polaris Rebellion | 1998 | Prism Leisure Corporation Plc | BWM Software GmbH | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Polaris Rebellion is a vertically scrolling overhead shooter in which the player takes on the role of a member of the Space Police Corps with the mission to defeat rebel forces on three distant planets. The aim of the game is to destroy as many enemy units as possible and to reach the end of each level without getting shot down. Any damage on the rebel forces will be translated into credits that can be spent on the next level to buy additional equipment such as improved missiles, bombs or health-packs.There are three levels, each on a different planet and against a different enemy:
Level 1: The Ice Pirates, on New Reykjavik
Level 2: The Miners Guild, on the Raw Material Moon Steel Guard
Level 3: The Libyan Emigrant Circle, on Drenor III
Progress is saved with a password system. |
| Polis | 1998 | Bonnier Multimedia | Vision Park AB | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Crime, Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In Polis you play as a leader of a homicide investigation unit in Stockholm, Sweden, trying to solve three different cases. Multiple operatives with different skills are provided to solve these cases. The stories rely heavily on interrogation techniques that are played out as interactive full motion video (FMV) sequences.After the initial release the game was re-released in three separate acts as the red, the yellow and the blue case respectively: Polis: Det röda fallet (From Earth You Come), Polis: Det gula fallet (Till Death Do Us Part) and Polis: Det blåa fallet (Friends Forever). |
| Pop 2 | 1998 | | | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Pop 2 is a freeware game for two players, that's either one human vs the computer or a two player internet gameThe game is played on either a 10x10 grid or a 15x15 grid. Players select a square on the grid and either right click to place an 'O' or left click to place a 'P'. The aim of the game is to make the word POP as often as possible, when a player makes a word they get another turn and continure playing until no more words can be formed.
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| Posel Bohů | 1998 | Future Games s.r.o. | Unknown Identity | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | April 1945: The remnants of Nazi army leave the Czechoslovakia. But one unit takes time to hide and bury something in tunnel somewhere in Western Bohemia. 53 years later, there is construction at work and the tunnel entrance is discovered. Following the anonymous phone call, archaeologist Stanislav Novotný is dispatched to scout the area and discover if the find has any historical value. It has - and his search lead him to Prague, Amsterdam and Mexico, following the secret of the Mayans...Posel Bohů (Messenger of the Gods) is point and click adventure using the 1st-person view. The game doesn't use scrolling, you can see the whole screen at the same time and if any of the items presented there requires a closer look, the player can get it by clicking on the item and the detail then fills the whole screen. The movement between location is handled by arrows on the lower right part of the screen and the directions the player can take are highlighted (similar to adventure games from Legend Entertainment. The story is advanced by item combination, dialogs (these are fully voiced, contrary to the descriptive texts) and puzzle solving. In 2005, the game was remade with minor changes in the script and puzzles as NiBiRu: Age of Secrets. |
| Powerslide | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Ratbag Pty, Ltd. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | Off-roading | | | Everyone | | Windows | After an environmental holocaust that killed 98% of the population, the remaining feral population above ground turned to moding and racing the cars left over in the ruins of civilization. Race through abandoned cities buried in sand, ruins of a dam, abandoned mine shafts, and other desolate landscapes. Perform death-defying jumps and slide through the corners as you eek out each win! Powerslide is a racing sim with full car dynamics, force feedback support, and full TCP/IP multiplayer support. |
| Pro Pilot '99 | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | Pro Pilot is a flight program comparable to Flight Simulator. It focuses more on realistic flight operations, and less on gameplay. Flight startup is more complex, and instead of a visual map, there is a more technical GPS system. It includes six planes and scenery for the USA and Western Europe. Also included is an in-game "operations manual", flight instruction videos and training flight courses, all geared to prepare the user for the real thing. Hardware acceleration is supported only for 3Dfx cards. |
| ProBowl 3D | 1998 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Learning Company, Inc., The | Sports | 1st-person, Behind view, Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | ProBowl 3D is a 3D bowling game with three modes: single-player, two players, and local network games. Players can also choose between different player characters. After character choice comes ball choices such as different colors for your ball as well as other properties such as weight. In-game view options are 2D overhead or 3D behind player or 3D player view. Game control options are by mouse or keyboard. |
| Profitania | 1998 | LavaMind | LavaMind | Simulation, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Profitania is an underground kingdom inhabited by exotic creatures known for their ingenuity. Recently, the Profitanians made an amazing discovery. They learned how to harness the giant magma pools near the planet's core and use this energy to power their emerging industry. As a budding entrepreneur, you have constructed a new factory and hope to take advantage of this economic boom. You must compete against five other players in a race to become the leading underground industrialist. The first company to dominate the market by reaching a cash value of one million gems wins the game! |
| Prost Grand Prix 1998 | 1998 | Canal+Multimédia | Visiware | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Oceania | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Prost Grand Prix is a Formula One racing game endorsed by the team owned by the four times World Champion Alain Prost, formerly Ligier.The game includes all teams and drivers from the 1997 season, and while only PGP is licensed, all others circuits can be edited to their real counterparts inside the game. Not only the name and colours can be changed, but also how fast and reliable the cars and pilots are.It's possible to run a championship, single race, private testing and set driver aids and realism settings. |
| Psychic Detective Series Vol.3: Aýa | 1998 | Data West | Data West | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Only a few people possess the unique ability to read people's hearts; those people are called psychic analysts, and Katsuya Furuyagi is one of them. One day, a fellow analyst pays him an unexpected visit and directs him towards a mysterious old man named Kamiya. Reading the old man's mind, Furuyagi ventures into the realm of memories, where a woman's ghost is attempting to avenge her own murder.Aya is the third installment of the Psychic Detective series. Like in the previous entries, it is a Japanese-style adventure game with first-person view and menu-based interaction and navigation. Commands such as "Look", "Ask" and "Move" must be used on most screens in order to advance the plot. Talking to characters and contemplating about the case play an important role. |
| Psygnosis 3D Accelerated Five Pack | 1998 | Psygnosis Limited | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Psygnosis 3D Accelerated Five Pack is a compilation of five games and one game preview disc. The games in this product are:
G-Police
Formula 1 Championship Edition
WipEout XL
Shipwreckers!
Shadow Master
The game preview disc is a 4 minutes 47 seconds video trailer for Drakan: Order of the FlameAll games come on separate CDs.
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| Puzz 3D: Neuschwanstein Castle | 1998 | Wrebbit Inc. | Dyad Digital Studios Inc. | Adventure, Puzzle | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Mini-games | Europe | | Point and select | | Everyone | | Windows | Puzz 3D: Neuschwanstein Castle is the third game in the Puzz 3D series published by Wrebbit, the company that produced physical puzzles sets - and decided to make a version of them on CD-ROM.In this game we are to construct a famous Bavarian castle of Neuschwanstein. There are four difficulty levels ranging from 250 pieces to 835 - and on the easiest level the pieces come pre-sorted, do not overlap each other and are not required to rotate, while the 3D model has convenient visible frames to insert ready sections. As we make progress connecting the pieces into sections, several educational videos or audio recordings are shown - demonstrating the history of the castle's construction by the order of king Ludwig II of Bavaria, as well as the story of his friendship with Richard Wagner and the synopses of the composers' operas.After the construction the player is awarded with a key to the castle, in accordance to the difficulty level that had been chosen. That gives the entry to the panoramic reconstruction of the castle in the first person perspective: bronze level key only allows to see the inner courtyard and the king's bedroom, while the complete visit with the platinum key is only available for those who have solved the puzzle on the highest difficulty level of 835 pieces. In this 'adventure' part of the game, we are to walk around the castle areas, to watch the actors dressed as heroes of Wagner's operas and to play some more mini-games, like seeking lost parts of the broken sword and putting them all together in another puzzle or painting the picture of Tristan and Isolde who had lost their colors. |
| Puzzle-8 2 | 1998 | | Pocket-Sized Software | Puzzle | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Puzzle-8 2 is a single player, shareware, sliding block puzzle. There are eight numbered tiles on a 3x3 grid. The player must slide them around until they form a specific pattern. The game is entirely mouse controlled. |
| Quake and The Ultimate DOOM Compilation | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Europe Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a compilation containing both the classic Quake and The Ultimate DOOM. The latter game contains two clients, one for DOS and one for Windows 95. |
| RACINGgames | 1998 | S.A.D. Software Vertriebs- und Produktions GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This shareware compilation contains 25 racing themed shareware games for DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. A Windows 3.1 application to browse the games in a list view, also providing a short game description and a screenshot popup of the game, is included. Most of the games can be started directly from CD-ROM, only three games require a previous installation.The "racing" theme not only covers classical car racing simulations, but the disc also includes games from different genres like a horse race betting simulator (Digital Downs), maze games (SpeedKar!) or strategic racing (Race Track).The included games are:
2 Fast 4 You
Crazy Cars III
Digital Downs
Dirt Bike
Dragcity U.S.A.
Fatal Fumes
Hover Ski
JJR Raceway
Kart Race
Race Drivin'
Race Track
Rally Racers
Road Hog!
Skunny Kart
SkyRoads
SkyRoads: Xmas Special
Speed Racer
Slicks 'n' Slide
SpeedKar!
Speedy
Taxi Run
TC Car War
TC Demolition Derby
TC Racer
Whahoo |
| Rage of Mages | 1998 | Microïds, Monolith Productions, Inc. | Nival Entertainment | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Rage of Mages is an isometric role-playing game, in which the main character and his companions must journey through the world of Kania, on a quest to find a magical weapon that will break the cycle of war. The player generates the protagonist by making him either a Mage or a Fighter, each with their own skills and disciplines that may involve weapon proficiencies, elemental spells and resistance to them, etc. The player also allocates points into the four main attributes - Body, Agility, Mind, and Spirit. Over the course of the game other characters will join the party. NPCs can also be hired to tackle some of the more difficult missions. Combat is done in real time and relies on tactical preparations and planning. |
| RahJongg: The Curse of Ra | 1998 | eGames, Inc. | Used Star | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | Egypt (Ancient) | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | RahJongg: The Curse of Ra is a tile matching game where the player tries to remove all the tiles from a pile by matching pairs. In order for the tiles to be matched they must be The tiles matched must be straight lines containing no more than two right angles.There are two ways to play the game, Story Mode and Practice Mode.
The Story mode is based on the fall of Ra who has been cursed by his brother Re to suffer for eternity. The curse can only be lifted by solving a series of puzzles, each of Re's seven dynasties has seven holy puzzles, and then there's the final puzzle to lift the curse making fifty in total.When each level is completed the player is given a password which allows them to restart the game from that point.
Practice mode generates random puzzles which can be played by one or two players.In both modes puzzles are timed. Single player games can be controlled by mouse or keyboard, in two player games one player can use the mouse or both can use the keyboard.The game also contains a level editor so that players can create their own puzzlesThe game was released commercially by eGames and as shareware by Used Star, the shareware version contained the first sixteen levels of the game. An add-on mission pack, Ra's Revenge
containing fifty extra levels was also released by both eGames and Used Star.
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| Rapanui | 1998 | Prism Leisure Corporation Plc | BWM Software GmbH | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The sequel to Dionakra, Rapanui is a simple breakout clone for Windows. Basically you control the pad in the bottom and control the ball by moving the pad so that the ball hits it in a specific angle. When the ball hits one of the bricks in the top part of the screen the brick (depending on its type) will disappear.You can also collect extras (pad extend, faster ball, slower ball, level jump, glue, death or shots) in the process. |
| Rats! | 1998 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | In Rats, the player is presented with a maze infested with rats who are capable of producing offspring and overrunning the maze. The player's goal is to exterminate the rats before this can happen by placing bombs, radioactive waste, gas, poison, blocks, plague rats and gender changing chemicals into the maze. The player views the maze from above and can place items anywhere in the maze. |
| Rayman by his Fans | 1998 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Rayman By His Fans features 40 of the best fan-created levels, submitted to and chosen by Ubisoft developers. |
| Reader Rabbit Maths Ages 6-9 | 1998 | Learning Company, The | Learning Company, The | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Reader Rabbit Maths Ages 6-8 is an edutainment game that teaches basic maths to children.The game is story driven; the story here is that Reader Rabbit and his friend Sam the lion enter a race in Sam's new yacht. They get lost before being wrecked when taking a shortcut. They must search for parts so that they can build a new boat and escape and re-enter the race, but the island they have landed on is a pirate island and the pirates have hidden all the boat parts. Luckily, Reader Rabbit's friend Penelope the parrot lives on the island too, and it is she who guides Sam and explains each puzzle to the pupil. In order to get the parts they need, the friends must solve puzzles to either win pieces from the pirates, or else please the island's monkeys who will give up a piece to show their appreciation.Each puzzle is in the form of a mini game, and the game has a practice mode where the player can familiarise themselves with the puzzles with no pressure at all. In story mode, these games are played more than once and they become harder as the player progresses through the game. The mini games in this title are:
Don't Wake The Pirates: There's a basic sum at the bottom of the screen. From the top of the screen, monkeys drop numbered coconuts, and the player, controlling Sam, must only catch the coconut that is the answer to the sum. Catching other coconuts reduces their score and missing the right coconut makes a noise that wakes the pirates so the game has to be started again.
Fishing For Numbers: There are boat parts in the river, but there's a snag; a big crocodile lives there. The good news is that he's hungry, but he's a fussy eater, so Sam has to catch numbered fish that add up to the number he specifies.
Pirate Splash: Sam is on the seashore watching the pirates. They are throwing barrels from their ship into the sea so that the tide will bring them ashore. All the barrels are numbered and some of them contain pirates trying to sneak up on Sam. The player has to shoot the barrels containing the pirates and to help he is given clues like 'between 12 and 16", "greater than 18" and so on.
Sail Maker: Sam needs sails for his yacht. In some cases he draws shapes on a grid and asks the player to complete the shape; in others he shows the player a shape and asks the player to replicate it completely.
Going Bananas: Sam needs banana skins to set a trap for the pirates, but he needs a specific number. He needs to get monkeys to eat the right number of bananas so that he has just enough.
Monkey Pizza Party: Monkeys love pizza so the player has to create a pizza with the right number of pieces and the right topping. This is easy when they want a six piece pizza but when they want, say, a five piece pizza, the player must create a six piece pizza and discard one piece.
Pirate Lookout: There's a boat piece at the pirate lookout, but it's being guarded. To get the piece, Sam must change the time on the clock so that the pirate thinks their shift is over.
Tourist Trap: Sam gets caught in a trap and the only way to free him is to pay the fine. To do this, the pupil must select the right coins. This puzzle uses UK decimal coinage, 20p, 10p, 5p, 1p etc.
Number Line Treasure: Following a series of clues, Sam is directed to dig at various points along a numbered line looking for treasure.
After completing each puzzle, the pupil is rewarded with a boat piece, a score and possibly an increase in rank. Boat parts are stored in an inventory, where each part has its own location. They only become visible when Sam visits Reader Rabbit (he really has a very small part in this game considering he's the star) and when clicked on, the pupil is told what part of the boat it is and why it's important.In addition to the game, there's a detailed manual in .pdf format that's accessed from the initial menu/title screen which explains all the puzzles and what they are trying to achieve. There's also a printable Activity Book that contains exercises and work that the pupil can do away from the computer.
The game 'auto levels' by default, adjusting the level of difficulty to provide a challenge to the pupil, but this can be turned off and the levels can be set manually. The first three activities, Don't Wake The Pirates, Fishing For Numbers and Pirate Splash are classed as 'arcade games' and the game speed for these games can be adjusted to make them easier or harder.Note: the game's manual states that "Reader Rabbit's Maths 6-8 runs from your CD-ROM drive. However 40MB of available disk space on the hard disk are needed to store some program files".
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| RedJack: The Revenge of the Brethren | 1998 | THQ Inc. | Cyberflix Incorporated | Action, Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Fighting, Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | RedJack: Revenge of the Brethren is a pre-rendered adventure game featuring 3D action sequences.The game follows the story of Nicholas Dove, a boy with a thirst for adventure and the high seas. What starts as a quest for simple excitement could very well end up with him walking the plank in a sea full of sharks, or being slashed apart by a sword, as Nicholas senses that his fate is pre-ordained, and tied somehow with the mighty pirate RedJack, and the vow of vengeance he made 17 years ago. |
| Redline Racer | 1998 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Criterion Software Group Ltd. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Motorcycle | | | Everyone | | Windows | An arcade racer with some realistic physics, Redline Racer features 10 different tracks in six different locations, multiple teams, 8 different bikes, up to eight different players, internet, network, and modem multiplayer, playmatching server, and ability to edit your bikes and teams. |
| Redneck Deer Huntin' | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Xatrix Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Deer hunting, redneck style! Join Leonard, a redneck native, and do your hunting four different animals (deer, duck, razorback, and wild turkey) in 8 acres of wilderness with different weapons in Redneck country. This is hunting with attitude! |
| Redneck Rampage: Family Reunion | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Xatrix Entertainment, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Four Redneck Rampage game collection:Redneck Rampage
Redneck Rampage: Suckin' Grits on Route 66
Redneck Rampage Rides Again
Redneck Rampage: Cuss Pack |
| Remington Top Shot: Interactive Target Shooting | 1998 | Activision, Inc., Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Logicware, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | Shooter | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | The title says it all: the player stands at a shooting range and fires at stationary and moving goals. The goal is to score as much points as possible to get a good rank in the high score list. The interesting part is that the player has about 20 guns to his disposal and he can switch freely between them. Because of setback and breathing the cross hair shivers. The game features about 10 ranges including unrealistic ones like a terrorist attack. |
| Resident Evil 2 | 1998 | Capcom Entertainment, Inc. | Capcom Co., Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Regional differences | Horror | Puzzle elements, Shooter, Survival horror | Contemporary, North America | | Direct control | | Mature | Cinematic camera | Windows | An update of Resident Evil 2, this time with Dual Shock support, a few new extras, and an added battle mode upon completion of the game. |
| Resurrection Pack for Quake | 1998 | One Stop Direct Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Resurrection Pack for Quake is a compilation of
Quake
Malice: 23rd Century Ultraconversion for Quake
Q!Zone |
| Return Fire 2 | 1998 | Ripcord Games | Silent Software Incorporated | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | Tank | | | Teen | | Windows | Multiplayer madness continues in the souped-up sequel to Return Fire. The basic premise is the same: get your enemy's flag at all costs. This involves destroying their flag towers until you find the one which contains it, then blowing up defences so that your jeep can get in to grab it. There are 30 different scenarios to take the AI on at. These encompass ground, air and sea action, with tanks, jeeps and helicopters among the hardware on show.New technical features include hardware acceleration and force feedback support, new viewing perspectives, and Internet/LAN games for up to 16 players. The orchestral music of the original remains. |
| Revenge of the Toys | 1998 | Piranha Interactive Publishing Inc. | Cyclops Software | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | Revenge of the Toys includes nine mini games, ready to play from your desktop :
Fishing: cast a line and reel in all sorts of fish. The game is finished once you reach 112 fishes.
Nail'em: nails invade your screen so just nail them (hence the title) using a hammer. And keep an eye to your accuracy rate that decreases as you miss them.
Shooting Gallery: using your desktop bazooka, try to blow away pink teddy bears, bonsai trees, Chinese take-out or fried chickens. The game features three levels of play.
De-Bugger: once again, your desktop is invaded, this time by mechanical bugs ! No problem since you are a robotic reptile throwing your tongue to "eat" them.
Kung Fu Coffee: very nervous after drinking too many cups of coffee at work, you become a sort a Kung Fu master, trying to destroy hardware (computers, monitors, but also watermelons) with karate chops, finger pops and shin-toe kicks.
Ricochet: with your mouse (left-right and up-down, no need to click in this game), control four spaceships in order to keep an out-of-control orbital ball in the playfield. In other words, this game is like Pong, but with side paddles.
Monster Factory: a two-players game ! First create at least two monsters. Choose head, body, arms and legs. Then why not start by a little fight. One player use the keyboard, the other, the mouse. Finish him !
Fly Trap: after nails and metallic pests, flies are attacking. This time, control your carnivorous plant and let it "eat" all these annoying flies.
Basketball: dribble, shoot and take it to the hoop. It may sound simple but think twice, since the hoop is always moving and becoming smaller as you progress...The CD-ROM offers two different executables of Revenge of the Toys, i.e. 16 and 32 bit versions.
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| Revolution Classic Adventures | 1998 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains four Revolution Software adventure games:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror
Circle of Blood
Lure of the Temptress |
| Rhapsody of Zephyr | 1998 | Softmax Co., Ltd. | Softmax Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Rhapsody of Zephyr is a Korean-made role-playing game and a side-story in The War of Genesis series. Unlike most other installments of the series, it has less tactical elements and is more close to the traditional Japanese-style RPG format.The story of the game is loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' famous novel The Count of Monte-Cristo. The game is set in a pseudo-European New Age environment (17th -19th centuries). The hero of the game, a young nobleman Cyrano Bernstein, is betrayed by his fiancee Mercedes and is captured by the evil warlock Cesare Borgia. After fleeing from the prison, Cyrano swears revenge, and sets off to find a legendary sword sealed on a nearby island and to recruit allies in order to get involved in a war between two powerful empires.The game features turn-based tactical combat, which allows the player to move the characters on the battlefield. The player can use a variety of magic spells, recruit townspeople to help the protagonists in battles, and have special statistics for weapons, which have their own HP and can be damaged and destroyed in battles. |
| Riding Star | 1998 | Metro Games | Blue Tongue Entertainment Pty, Ltd. | Action, Simulation, Sports | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Riding Star is an equestrian simulation where the player has to take care of a horse and ride it in competitions. For the riding the game is shown from a top-down view and in preparation of events the horse needs to be groomed, fed and saddled. There are three different types of events to participate in: dressage, show jumping and cross country. There is also a three-day event. In the championship mode horse and rider compete in multiple championships and the player's care of the horse influences the performance. During the maintenance part everything is controlled with the mouse. In races the horse is controlled through the arrow keys with the space bar to jump. Next to the AI opponents it is also possible to compete with up to four friends on a single computer in the multiplayer event. |
| Robo Rumble | 1998 | TopWare Interactive | Metropolis Software House | Strategy | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | One of the first 3D real time strategy games, offering a quite new concept. Instead of gaining resources and building your units using them, this game starts with a standard number of 'money', which can be spent on new units. With these units you can attack the enemy’s base, which is nothing more than a 3D-card effect which glows up and rotates (a colored black hole where the enemy units come out of). When this is defeated you'll proceed to the next mission.When your units die in battle you gain the money you paid for them back and you can get them to the enemy base again. It takes some time to construct them so in this time you're weaker than the enemy for a while, and that's all where the game is about.This game features a pretty high-tech 3D engine with some great lightning effects, supporting most of the modern 3D acceleration cards. Though the environments you play in are small and don't mean anything (they're weird metal structures).Between missions you can buy parts for new robots in a conversation-like interface. |
| Rockett's Secret Invitation | 1998 | Purple Moon Media | Karen Johnson Productions, Inc., Presage Software, Inc., Purple Moon Media | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Visual novel | | | Point and select | | | Interface | Windows | Rockett’s Secret Invitation is the third entry in a series of games featuring Rockett Movado, a girl from Whistling Pines Junior High. In this episode, Winter has finally arrived, and Rockett finds a note in her locker for a private event, and also received a Birthday Wish on error, because she wasn’t born in December at all! New in this entry is the use of the Truth Glasses, which allows the player to hear what the kids are secretly thinking. During the story, the player can choose from a selection of events based on their preferences. The player can also freely go through the scenes at any time, and can also access the Hidden Hallway where the player can peek through the lockers to reveal the secrets of the kids from Whistling Pines. |
| Rockett's Tricky Decision | 1998 | Purple Moon Media | Convivial Design Inc., Presage Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Rockett’s Tricky Decision is the second entry in a series of games featuring Rockett Movado, from Whistling Pines Junior High, who is not a new student anymore and still has to figure out some difficult tasks, but most importantly, there are two upcoming Halloween parties, but she can only choose one. During the story, the player can choose from a selection of events based on their preferences. The player can also freely go through the scenes at any time, and can also access Rockett’s backpack where the player can view messages as well as reading and reviewing diary entries and notes. |
| Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter | 1998 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sunstorm Interactive, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Hunting, Shooter | North America | | | | | | Windows | Back of Box - Macintosh (UK) (from Ad Blurbs)Get a Rocky Mountain High
Prepare to harvest the biggest 4-legged trophies of you life in an interactive hunting environment like no other. There's snow, rain, even thunder and lightning. Careful which way the wind is blowing, these full-motion animals are smart. If they catch your scent or hear you pulling the trigger, they'll turn and run. Aim true or you'll need to follow the blood trails to collect your trophy.FEATURES:
THE ENVIRONMENT
Ultra-Realistic Wounded Animal Tracking
Life-Like Animal Movements & Behavior
Extreme Weather: Snow, Rain, Thunder & Lightning
THE BIG GAME
Big Horn Sheep
Bear
Elk
Moose
THE WEAPONS
Shotgun
Rifle
Compound Bow
Muzzle Loader
6 Shot Revolver
THE TRACKING METHODS
Aerial Maps With Hot Spot Markers
Compass & Wind Indicator
Paths & Bedding Areas
Tracks, Rubbings & Droppings
Blood Trails
THE TOOLS
Tree Stands
Animal Calls
Bear Bait
Cover & Attractant Scents
Spotting Scope & Binoculars
Proudly display your kill in the trophy room featuring realistic firearm or archery scoring systems. Then challenge your friend's hunting skills by trading trophy rooms.(screenshot captions)Hunt the Hills and High Plateaus of the RockiesTrack Wounded Game......to the Trophy of a Lifetime!All the Hunting Tools You NeedUltra-Realistic Scenery and Animal Behavior |
| Ronja Rövardotter | 1998 | Norstedts Rabén Multimedia | Liquid Media, O2 Interactive Media AB | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Europe, Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Ronja Räubertochter 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 Sonia 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. |
| Roswell Pinball | 1998 | Pin-Ball Games Ltd. | Pin-Ball Games Ltd. | Action | Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Roswell Pinball is a pinball game for up to four players.The game is based on the idea that an invading alien saucer crash landed in Roswell. The table is themed around the alien invasion concept with a Shoot The Saucer skillshot and bonuses based in hitting the letters M-A-R-S and I-N-V-A-D-E. Features include escaping from invading aliens, catching and disarming an alien, entering hangar 18 and so on.The game is keyboard or joy-pad controlled, keyboard action keys can be redefined.
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| S.C.A.R.S. | 1998 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Vivid Image | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | In the world of 3000 AD, the world is run by 9 different supercomputers, who are horribly bored, so they created this virtual reality simulation to race each other. The cars are based on the attributes of extinct Terran animals. Race nine different cars (some need to be unlocked) on nine different tracks. You can race, or you can shoot your opponents with the nine different weapons. Plenty of multiplayer options (including split screen on PC). |
| SB Pro Racing | 1998 | | | Racing / Driving | Diagonal-down | | | | | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | SB Pro Racing is a simple track-racing game on an unnamed NASCAR-like oval. The player controls the car using arrow keys to turn, Ctrl to slow down and Shift to accelerate up to 180 MPH.Specific race conditions can be determined: the number of CPU cars, color of the car, number of laps and a qualifying requirement to determine the starting position. The player needs to pay attention to the fuel level in order to complete the race.The game is available as a shareware version that allows the player to launch the game fourteen times. After that period, the game must be registered. |
| SEGA Touring Car Championship | 1998 | SEGA Europe Ltd. | Sega AM9 R&D Division | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | | | | Windows | After Virtua Racing, Daytona USA and Sega Rally, yet another classic SEGA arcade racer (this time, from the Model 2C CRX architecture) is converted for home users. After open-wheel, stock and rally cars, Sega took on the popular European Touring Car races (factory models modified for racing), featuring four real models (Alfa Romeo 155V6TI, Toyota Supra GT, AMG Mercedes C-Class and Opel Calibra V6) as well as some hidden cars. Some models feature four-wheel drive (easier to control on sharper turns) while other only have rear-wheel drive (forcing the player to calculate turns properly so the car doesn't skid). Because of this, gameplay is notoriously tighter and less forgiving than in any of the previous titles by Sega. Like with other Sega arcade ports, this home versions features both an "Arcade" and a "PC"/"Saturn" mode (the biggest difference being the time constraints and inability to use tweaked cars in arcade) with the usual Championship (three races in a row) and Time Attack modes, and a 2P split-screen race is also available. There are three tracks, plus one more as the final race (as usual with contemporary Sega arcade racers), and two viewpoints (behind and front bumper) are at the disposal of the player.
As usual, there are additional modes, tracks and cars to be unlocked for those proficient in the game.Another feature was the "Global Ranking" mode, where players of either version could e-mail Sega of Japan a password containing his times, and compare them to the World's finest players, as well as in special one-day only "Global Net Events".Screenshots Promo Images Part of the Following Groups Automobile: Mercedes-Benz C-Class
Automobile: Toyota Celica
SEGA Sports games
Touring Car Racing games
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Feb, 1998
90 out of 100
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Apr, 1998
85 out of 100
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Feb 04, 1998
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Feb, 1998
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Feb 18, 1998
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Apr, 1998
6 out of 10
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Gamesmania.de
1998
60 out of 100
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Jun, 1998
44 out of 100
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Apr 17, 1998
4.2 out of 10
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Jun, 1998
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| Saga: Rage of the Vikings | 1998 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Saga: Rage of the Vikings is a fantasy Real Time Strategy game. The game lets you play six different races: Man, Trolls, Centaurs, Elves, Giants and Dwarfs.Like traditional RTS games you start by building your settlement. Buildings for each race include housings, smiths and storehouses. Each race only has three types of units, males, females and druids. Males and females will automatically gather the resources required to start the construction of buildings. But you do have to gather and store enough food. You get food by working on the fields, foraging fruit, fishing, hunting and keeping kettle. The game features changing seasons and enough food is required to survive harsh winters.Male and female units can mate to create a new unit through spending time together in a house. Both male and female units can perform any task described above and fight against enemy units. They can also be transformed in druids through performing sacrifice rituals. Druids can cast a variety of spells. All spells are based on the four elements. Some example spells are: Fire shields, poisonous clouds, setting the ground on fire, petrification, dense mist, shadow and undead warriors. One of the most powerful spells in the game allows you to summon Odin to fight by your side for a limited duration.Honour determines the strength of your units. Winning fights against other tribes will decrease their honour and thus make them weaker. Killing women is against the honour code of the vikings and thus makes the offender weaker. It is possible to convert the women to your tribe.Diplomacy is also possible in the game. You can forge alliances and trade resources with other tribes.Of course the different vikings can also build boats and fight on the waters. |
| Saloon Shootout | 1998 | Patch Products | Perpetual Motion Enterprises, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | This game takes place in a saloon, and the only objective is to score the most points in the time allotted by hitting targets. Not everything that can be shot has a bull's-eye and some of the most interesting targets in the game are hidden. There are three different game modes:
Standard play plays like most shooting galleries. Items will appear and disappear, and as you hit them you earn points.
Hectic play has many more targets appearing and disappearing and is not for the beginner.
No timer mode allows you to practice and shoot at everything in the saloon without the worry of the timer. In this mode you won't score points or even earn a place among the high score.
Once the game has begun, use your mouse to aim the gun in first-person perspective view. To fire your gun use the left or right mouse button. The gun has unlimited ammo, all you need is a good eye and good aim. |
| San Francisco Rush: The Rock - Alcatraz Edition | 1998 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | Atari Games Corporation | Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | | Contemporary | Automobile, Street racing | Direct control | | | | Windows | The Rock is a substantial upgrade to the original San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing arcade game. In addition to the three original tracks (now with additional shortcuts), it includes four new extra tracks, including the famous Alcatraz Island. Also added in this update is four new cars to drive, new music tracks and an option for mirrored tracks.Some elements of this update would appear in the Nintendo 64 version of San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing (which was being developed simultaneously with the arcade The Rock.) |
| Sanitarium | 1998 | American Softworks Corporation | DreamForge Intertainment, Inc. | Adventure | Diagonal-down | | Horror | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Not much is known about Max Laughton at first, but it is clear that he is conducting a particularly important research and is close to reaching his goal. Eager to share the good news with his family, Max hurries home in his car. However, somebody has evidently tampered with the vehicle; failing to control it, Max gets in a serious accident and loses his conscience. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a strange tower resembling an asylum, surrounded by insane people, the shrill sound of alarm driving him mad. Max cannot remember anything from his past and is feverishly trying to escape this place. But just when he thinks he has succeeded, he is taken on delusional, horrifying trips through his subconsciousness, unable to distinguish between reality and hallucinations.Sanitarium is a point-and-click adventure game, best described as a psychological thriller. The game is divided into nine chapters, each taking place in a different location and having its own distinct atmosphere. It is not always clear if something is happening on the grounds of the sanitarium or in the delusional mind of the protagonist. In most chapters the player controls Max himself, though in the more surreal areas drawn from his memories the role of the protagonist is given to other characters, real or fictional. Both movement of Max and picking up items are done with the mouse. Puzzles are mostly inventory-related, with a few machine and lever puzzles. There are also a few action sequences, but even when the player dies, the game can be continued without any penalty. Talking to various NPCs will teach the player about their bizarre surroundings. The plot unfolds as Max's memories are gradually restored and the player finds out more about his past and the nature of the research he was dedicating his life to. |
| Scotland Yard | 1998 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Scotland Yard is a faithful computer version of the popular board game of the same name, developed by Cryo in collaboration with Ravensburger (publisher of the board game):
Mr. X, a fixture on England's "Most Wanted" list, is on the run in London. Will Scotland Yard find and capture him before time runs out? The main map shows 199 stations in the city that can be reached by taxi, bus or underground. Each type of transportation costs a ticket.
One player takes the part of Mr. X and slinks around the city, leaving clues for the others, who are the Scotland Yard detective team. If Mr. X manages to escape capture, he/she wins. All the detectives see is which travel ticket Mr. X used during that turn. The detectives must plan movement routes to surround Mr. X and try to cut off his lines of escape. To make things difficult for the detectives, they only have a limited number of tickets, and when they run out of a ticket type, they cannot use that mode of transport anymore.As a ‘bonus’, you can choose to play the "computer enhanced" version, which purports to add RPG elements such as money, weapons, fighting, health and conversation.
The players can visit the stations and interact with people or locations.
Detectives have to catch criminals in order to earn money so they can buy information about Mr. X.
Mr. X has to find specific items in order to win. He can rob people or houses to earn money. Weapons, tickets and other helpful things can be bought at different locations. A lot of people offer information for a price. Only a gang boss of a district can sell Mr. X pricey information about the quest item. But to find the gang boss you need to buy information about his whereabouts first.Overall, Scotland Yard is a game that emphasises logical deductions and strategic planning over luck. You can play either as Mr. X or detective, solo against the computer or with friends. |
| Scrab Mania | 1998 | Infinite Dreams sp. z o.o. | Infinite Dreams sp. z o.o. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Scrab Mania is a simple scrabble game for up to 2 players. The game board is divided into a play board and a table section with a scoreboard and letters. The playboard shows spots with extra points. The game finishes after using all available letter blocks.
In game, an editor is built in, allowing you to add new letters to the dictionary. |
| Scuola del Brivido, La: Il piccolo Freakstein | 1998 | EDI GROUP s.r.l. | Lightbox Creative Software, Sema Communication s.r.l. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Game show / trivia / quiz, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Il Piccolo Freakstein is an educational game to teach children the anatomy of the human body. Loosely based on the story of Frankenstein, the game has you control professor Freakstein. With the notes of his grandfather, he manages to build a creature. His work is not complete however. The player has to analyze the creature's body, identify the problems and solve them by performing surgery.Before starting the operation, the player has to watch an education film, read articles in an encyclopedia and collect a few items gathered through a mini-game. The professor and the creature ride a cart through a tunnel. The needed items need to be clicked when they appear while monsters dry to drain energy. Clicking a monster is sufficient to get rid of it. There are also cans that restore energy. When all items are found, the professor can work in the operation chamber. Before performing surgery, a few questions need to be solved. The answers to these can be found either in the films or in the encyclopedia articles.For an operation, Dr. Freakstein needs a diagnosis of the problem, an anesthetic, and items to perform the operation and the transplantation. As in most of these types of games, the scenes also include clickable objects with no function except to trigger a funny animation. |
| Sega: PC Smash Pack | 1998 | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In this compilation from Sega, you get to play 8 classic Genesis games:
Altered Beast
Columns
Golden Axe
Outrun
Phantasy Star II
Revenge of Shinobi
Sonic Spinball
Vectorman
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| Sentinel Returns | 1998 | Psygnosis Limited | Hookstone Ltd. | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Enter a surreal world where you must battle the Sentinel and his sentries over 650 chequered, 3D landscapes. Energy and movement are completely redefined in this unique blend of arcade and strategy elements. You, only known as an intelligent presence, move about the landscape by teleporting between robot "hulls". Any object in your field of vision can be absorbed for energy, as long as you also see the square of the landscape that the object is standing on. By aiming at any square your can see, and spending energy, you can create a new robot hull and teleport your presence to it, or you can create neutral objects: trees to block yourself from the Sentinel's gaze, or boulders that can be stacked. You gain height in the landscape by creating a robot on top of a stack of boulders, until you can see the Sentinel's square at the highest point in the landscape and absorb him. The problem is that the Sentinel slowly rotates and ruthlessly absorbs anything in his field of vision that is more potent than a tree, including yourself. In later levels, his sentries will threaten you with absorption from several directions. |
| Sesame Street: Search & Learn Adventures | 1998 | Creative Wonders LLC | Children's Television Workshop | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Sesame Street: Search & Learn Adventures is an educational game for children aged three to six based on the Sesame Street franchise. It teaches problem solving, critical thinking, real-world skills, shapes & colours, and matching & sorting through different activities as children help Sherlock Hemlock with his detective work with three difficulty levels. The friends are ready for a picknick and they want to bring along a lot of supplies. The magician Mumford suggests creating a magic basket, but by doing so all the supplies disappear. It is up to the player to locate all the six missing items.There are different locations to visit where clicking hotspots often triggers short animations. Each location has a mini-game or activity to earn the item. They are:
Big Bird's Pack It Up: help Big Bird identify remember and match pairs of objects.
Room Service: learn about number identification and food groups as you help Grover deliver meals to the right rooms in the hotel.
The Recycling Game: help Oscar sort through his trash separating the paper glass and metal from the junk.
What's Wrong with the Picture: find the things that don't belong in the Count's magic picture.
Which Item Does Not Belong: at the Furry Arms hotel Grover has gotten his guests' things all mixed up. Which one doesn't fit with the others?
The Window Game: match shapes and colors and help the Count put together his stained glass window. |
| Si Da Ming Bu | 1998 | Zhengpu Software | Zhengpu Software | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | It is the end of Northern Song dynasty (12th century) in China. Rich people control the land, ignoring the rights of peasants. Bureaucracy and corrupted officials weaken the Empire. In the northern regions, the enemy Liao (of Jurchen nation) attacks China. An official named Zhuge Xiaohua decides to save the country. He found and trained four heroes: Wu Qing ("No Emotion"), Tie Shou ("Iron Hand"), Zhui Ming ("Pursue Life"), and Leng Xie ("Cold Blood"). Those four heroes are the ones which are going to restore the glory of China.Based on Wen Rui'an's story Si Da Ming Bu: Hui Jingshi, the game is a Chinese RPG conceived in the spirit of Xuanyuan Jian and Xianjian Qixia Zhuan. The player navigates a party of heroes from third-person perspective, fighting enemies in turn-based style. Characters can use physical attacks or a variety of special techniques. The enemies are visible on screen before a contact with them triggers a battle. The game uses graphics in hand-painted style for backgrounds. |
| Signus: The Artifact Wars | 1998 | ZIMA software | ZIMA software | Strategy | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Tank | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | You take a part in a struggle among two human fractions. The object of covetousness are artifacts - the remnants of an old, extra-terrestrial civilization. He who controls the ancient technology gains fame, wealth and might.This turn-based strategy game reminds of another Czech game called Spellcross or even a bit of Battle Isle 2 and 3. You can take control of over 50 types of military units and take care about their fueling and ammunition. The landscape is sort of plastic so you can achieve better results when launching offensive from above the enemy. There are also about 20 minutes of rendered animations in the game. |
| Silencer | 1998 | | Mind Control Software, LLC | Action, Strategy | Side view | | Spy / espionage | Platform, Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Silencer is an easy to learn action/strategy multiplayer side-scrolling platform game that emphasizes team play. Players control hackers on Mars called "Silencers", who are competing against each other to gain "secrets" by hacking military secrets. The first team to gain three "secrets" wins the mission. The losers are automatically identified and destroyed by the military. There are five Silencer Agencies vying for power, players chose one when they create a Silencer character. |
| Silent Steel | 1998 | Tsunami Media, Inc. | Tsunami Media, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | Naval / watercraft | Menu structures | | | | Windows | Silent Steel casts the player as captain of a nuclear submarine, on what is seemingly a routine peace-time patrol. As outside forces come into play, the Captain finds himself in the midst of a life-and-death struggle to save not only the ship, but to reveal a sinister plot that could start a devastating global confrontation.The interactivity in the game appears in the form of a Action/Dialog Interface, which is presented every 15 to 30 seconds throughout the adventure. The three choices presented are actually integral parts of the script. The player must select one of the options by clicking on the number (or the line of dialog), or using the numbers on the keyboard. The decisions made by the user determine which direction the story takes, up to the next Action/Dialog Interface box. As the player continues through the game, he'll be presented with a multitude of crises which must be prioritized and dealt with appropriately. Depending on his decisions, he may reach several types of endings, from death to survival, and some humorous ones. |
| Silhouette Shooter | 1998 | Pinsoft | Pinsoft | Educational, Puzzle | Side view | | | Hunting, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Silhouette Shooter is a hangman game with a hunting theme. The player is presented with a keyboard interface to select letters. A clue will be offered by telling the player the length of the word. Five hundred words are included.Three levels of difficulty are included:
Unlimited
Standing
Field Pistol
For every word completed a silhouette of a beasties will be shot. You start with chickens and then move on to other creatures as you complete rounds. |
| Silver Games 1 | 1998 | TopWare Interactive | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following 10 games:
Battle Arena Toshinden
Bazooka Sue
Earthworm Jim 2
Enemy Nations
F-16 Fighting Falcon
Flight Unlimited
Kick Off 97
Der Produzent: Die Welt des Films
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
Turrican II: The Final Fight |
| Simon the Sorcerer I & II | 1998 | Infogrames Europe SA | Adventuresoft Ltd. | Adventure, Compilation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Help Simon become a wizard and rescue the world. Now you can have both Simon the Sorcerer games in one package, this time with digitized speech and sound effects.For a detailed description check each game's individual page:
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Simon the Sorcerer 2 |
| Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball | 1998 | Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd. | | Action | 1st-person | | | Pinball | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball is a pinball game based on the characters of the adventure series. The idea behind the table is that these characters got kidnapped by Sordid and Simon has to rescue them by scoring points. The game features two paddles and several bumpers. Interesting features are two lock holes named "Simon's Magic Ring" which sends the ball to one of three scoring areas and "Simon's Magic Hat" which rewards a random score. "The Fiery Balcony" gives either a score reward or a penalty, e.g. a black screen, depending on the status of other drop targets. The soundtrack consists of remixed songs of the first two games.The German release also includes:
Simon the Sorcerer;
A hint book for Simon the Sorcerer provided as a PDF file on the CD;
A hint book for Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe provided as a PDF file on the CD;
A trailer and wallpapers about Simon the Sorcerer 3D.
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| Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack | 1998 | Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd. | Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd. | Action, Puzzle, Simulation | Side view, Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Life / social simulation | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack is a collection of small puzzle games that go around the Simon the Sorcerer's theme. There are three games:
Swampy Adventures - help Swampy through 50 levels of puzzles as he attempts to rescue his children from the evil Sordid.
NoPatience - Four solitaire patience card games featuring a unique Simon the Sorcerer themed deck.
Jumble - A new type of sliding tile puzzle - rearrange the pieces in a constantly changing animation!
There's also a very strange virtual pet:
Demon In My Pocket - Your very own desktop demon to love, care for and boil in oil.
And to finish up, the Pack includes three desktop themes to use with Windows (if you have Microsoft Plus!, that is).On the German version disc they also added
Simon the Sorcerer - The first game in the series
along with the strategy guides for Simon the Sorcerer and Simon The Sorcerer 2 as well as promotional material (trailer, images, short movie clips including outtakes and another desktop theme) for Simon the Sorcerer 3D. |
| Slingo | 1998 | Atari Interactive, Inc. | Random Games, Inc. | Gambling | | Licensed | | Arcade | | | Point and select | | Everyone | | Windows | A combination of a slot machine and bingo. You are presented with a board of numbers. Press the spin button to spin the numbers at the bottom. If a number you need comes up, vertically, below one of your rows, press it to clear it. If a joker comes up, you can select any number in that vertical row. If a coin comes up, you get the points. If you spin a devil, you will lose half your points unless a cherub randomly saves you by shooting the devil. After sixteen spins, each spin will cost you points. If you spun a free spin, you can use it with no point loss. Spin seventeen will cost you five hundred points, spin eighteen, one thousand and so on to the last, twentieth, spin. If you clear the entire board by or before twenty spins, you receive a bonus. |
| Slot City | 1998 | Beachware, Inc. | Beachware, Inc. | Gambling, Strategy | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Slot City is a budget slot machine game featuring 120 different virtual slots ranging from nickel machines to high roller $1000 games. The slots are located in a virtual casino that also includes a bar and an ATM that will let you pawn your watch if you run short on funds. Slot City also has a tool for designing a custom slot which lets you mix and match features from the existing machines. |
| Small Soldiers: Squad Commander | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | Action, Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Stacy Rhodes | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Small Soldiers: Squad Commander is a single player Real Time Tactics game based on the movie Small Soldiers and targeted towards children.You can play as both the Commando Elite or Gorgonites in 20 missions (10 missions each) that replicate the settings from the movie. You control your squad with the mouse as you move through various settings like a house, shop and school, while shooting down the enemy's forces. |
| Smart Games Puzzle Challenge 3 | 1998 | Atari Interactive, Inc. | KnowWare, Smart Games, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | Side view, Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Music / rhythm, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | Puzzle game, third full game in the Smart Games Challenge series. This one includes 20 new and different puzzle types, each with between 30 and 50 individual puzzles (and 100 "Who What Where When" puzzles). Your score is tracked for every indivdual puzzle, so for puzzles with variable scoring, you can go back and try to do better (the game suggests what the maximum possible score is for every puzzle, but sometimes the developers can be beat).Puzzles range from straightforward word puzzles ("Word Loops" and "SyllyBusters") to musical ("Stepping Tones") to trivia ("Who What Where When") to spatial manipulation puzzles ("Tumblin' Dice" and "Paradox Puzzle") to logic puzzles ("Take A Seat" and "Gumball" ) to math puzzles ("Shopping Cart") to variations on traditional games ("Poker Solitaire" and "Solocala," based on the traditional African game Mancala). Other puzzles are hybrids or just plain hard to classify: "Snake Pit," "Balloon Kaboom," "It's A Snap," "Butterflies," "Crossword Slide," "Paper, Scissors, Rock," "Word Flip," "Sheepdog," and "Meteor Mayhem." |
| Snow Wave: Avalanche | 1998 | Hammer Technologies | Hammer Technologies | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Snow Wave: Avalanche (also known as Snowboard Racer in other countries), is a 3D arcade snowboarding game with a rather cartoonish touch regarding looks.There are 3 different competitions that all require the main ingredients of snowboarding: high downhill speed and acrobatic jump skills. The competition in which dominate speed and flexibility of the board control is represented by boarder-cross. The spectacle of jumping and acrobatics is indispensable in the competitions big jump and big jump races. The first of them takes place in a “multitrack” stadium where you have to try to get the highest possible score by showing your best acrobatics. The jumping races are a mixture between downhill race and acrobatics and you will have to demonstrate complete skills. You will have to confront with 3 kinds of opponents. The first of them is your own ghost, a surfer that imitates your own movements, so that you’ll have to overcome yourself. Moreover, you can choose a direct confrontation with other surfers. Each of them will show you his own specific characteristics. Finally, you can select the race against time... but be careful: One sudden halt can make you run out of time without reaching the next checkpoint.You can choose among 2 surfers each with 3 different clothes: two boys and two girls, all very skillful thanks to the 14 different types of acrobatics (everybody has their own characteristic movements) and to the 5 different kinds of turns in the air. They will be able to race in 3 tracks altogether. 1 track of boarder-cross with its slalom poles and its fast and wavy routes, canyons, tunnels, snow-covered meadow lands... Plus 1 jump track, with more than 15 ramps. Finally, there is the “multitrack” stadium with 3 ramps, each one of a different height. |
| Snowmobile Racing | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Second South Studios | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Snowmobile | Direct control | | | | Windows | Snowmobile Racing is the first 3D racing game about snowmobiles. There are four other AI snowmobiles to race against on four locations featuring different terrains and surfaces like slippery ice, mud, or sharp turns: Minnesota Lake, Iowa Farmland, Maine Forest and Yellowstone Park. There is also a practice mode for solo racing, as well as five snowmobiles to choose from, each with a different colour. |
| Soccer Champ | 1998 | Simulmondo s.r.l. | Simulmondo s.r.l. | Simulation, Sports | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Direct control, Menu structures, Point and select | Real-time | | | Windows | Soccer Champ is a hybrid tactical/management/arcade game, with the peculiarity that the controlled team has a designated star player, or champ, whose career is monitored over the course of the game. Matches are played automatically, but the human player may choose to intervene at any time by directly controlling the champ, ordering around various team members as the match unfolds, or changing tactics and making substitutions. The champ starts in a club team playing the national league and the Champions League, but may be invited to join the national team to play the World Cup if his performance is high enough. The user interface during team preparation is entirely icon-driven, whereas the match itself is viewed/played from an isometric perspective. |
| Soldiers at War | 1998 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Random Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Sequel to Wages of War, Soldiers at War is a squad based tactical game. Lead a squad of American soldiers in WW2, performing covert operations against the Nazis. Similar to the first two X-Com games, Soldiers at War is a turn-based, isometric game that enables your soldiers to run and crawl over a decimated European landscape that includes tanks, trains, and ground airplanes. For each mission, you will pick from the thirty-two men in your platoon, each skilled in a variety of abilities. The men gain experience and grow between missions and can also be wounded or killed. Their weapons include most of the popular pistols, rifles, and explosive devices of WWII and you can even scavenge enemy weapons if you prefer them. |
| Sonic Robo Blast 2 | 1998 | Sonic Team Junior | Sonic Team Junior | Action | Behind view | Fangame | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | Art Freda (SSNTails) | Windows | Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a freeware, non-licensed game set in the universe of SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog.The game uses a third-person perspective and a full 3D engine. There are 3 characters to choose from: Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, each with different abilities, and their task is to go through 3 zones (Greenflower, Techno Hill and Castle Eggman), with additional unlockable levels. During the game characters find tokens that take them to special stages to get chaos emeralds or to unlock secrets. The main goal is to stop Eggman's plans for world domination. The game design and gameplay is inspired by the original Sonic games, with spin dashes, rings and power-ups that provide different shields, extra speed, invincibility, extra lives and more. There are 4 difficulty levels and additional challenges during the levels are provided through springs, floating platforms, conveyor belts, water and slime.There is a multiplayer mode as well, with co-op, free for all, team matches, (timed) races, tag games and capture the flag. Certain weapon-based power-ups are only available in the multiplayer mode. |
| Sorry! | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Third-i Productions | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The classic board game arrives on the Win9x platform. Play with up to four players either at one computer or over the internet!The object of the game is to get all 4 of your pieces "HOME" while making sure the other players don't.
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| Space Bunnies Must Die! | 1998 | Ripcord Games | Jinx, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | In this 3rd person, Tomb Raider-esque action game, you take on the role of Allison Huxter, a truck-stop waitress who must save her kidnapped sister from the clutches of the evil Space Bunnies. Along the way you'll discover the Bunnies' plans and stop them to save the earth.Gameplay involves Allison running about, climbing on things, hopping from various ledges, and shooting whatever stands in her way. An odd new feature in the genre is the ability to dance, which entices your opponents to do the same and let their guard down.Space Bunnies Must Die takes a whimsical perspective on the whole Lara Croft-inspired genre, with its white trash humor, goofy designs, and silly objects. |
| Spearhead | 1998 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Zombie LLC | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | Tank | | | | | Windows | This is a tank combat simulation from the makers of iM1A2 Abrams focusing more on arcade action than simulation.The premise behind the game is that the U.S. intervenes as Libya invades Tunisia. There's a set of tutorial missions, fixed missions and a randomly generated campaign (non dynamic)mode to test your mettle in the desert behind a platoon of three tanks plus artillery and infantry.The game has both the tank-sim interface and a tactical one where you direct the actions of your forces. However the game is aimed at more arcade/action crowds. There are no interior views, so you get just the driver's and gunner's screens, there's only HEAT and SABOT rounds to choose from, and the whole "sim" aspect has been significantly simplified to put the emphasis on action.Also included are a mission editor as well as multiplayer support. |
| Spec Ops: Rangers Lead the Way - Pro Pack | 1998 | Ripcord Games | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Pro Pack is a compilation that includes:
Spec Ops: Rangers Lead the Way
Spec Ops: Ranger Team Bravo (expansion) |
| Speedway Manager 98 | 1998 | Techland Soft | Techland Soft | Sports | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | Motorcycle | | | | | Windows | Speedway Manager 98 is a management game of the Polish speedway league. The main task of the player is the appropriate financial management of the club and win the championship. Compared to the previous part of the series the player may start with one of two available leagues - first or the second. The teams and the way they are set are in line with the realities and rules of the Polish league. Income comes only from tickets, advertisements, radio and TV transmissions or bank loans. The expenditure includes the purchase and repair of motorcycles and accessories, training, fitness, salaries of players, travelling to matches, maintenance of stadium facilities, track preparation, expanding stadium, rider transfers, penalties or treatment of drivers. The match window shows all the races with full stats, allows to carry out the substitutions, change gears in motorcycles, repair of equipment and improve the surface of the stadium. The player may turn on the 3D match animations of the full match or start/finish line only. The result of each run is commented on by the announcer.The driver is described by six factors: technology, start, valor, strength, reflex and theory. Each can be equipped with a total of twenty motorcycle accessories.
The Motorbike is described by eight factors: engine, muffler, frame, clutch, telescopes, carburetor, tires and overall. Each part of the motorbike requires regular repairs.The game features a multiplayer mode for registered buyers only. |
| Spheres of Chaos | 1998 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Spheres of Chaos is a space shooting game with psychedelic graphics and particle effects. The game is a mix of Asteroids gameplay with Robotron visuals.The player controls a ship that can turn and thrust with basic inertia physics. Shoot enemies to break them up into smaller enemies, shoot the smallest enemies to clear the screen, and move to the next level. The player and enemies can warp around all the edges of the screen, for example, if the player exits to the right side of the screen he will emerge again from the left side.Enemies come in several geometric shapes, there are spheres that break into smaller spheres, spiked spheres and combined triangle enemies that break up into smaller rockets or space ships, attractors that attract and trap enemies, spinners, reflectors, bugs, and black holes. Sometimes spinning triangle power-ups appear, shoot to make it change color and grab it to get a shield or other power-ups.The game features lots of colorful graphics, even down to the in-game menus. Uses pixels particle effects to create firework explosions, ripple effects, and rocket trails. There is an option to turn off the clear screen, disabling the clearing of the screen between frames, causing the player, enemies, and particle to smear the screen with pixels. Often there are lots of enemies on screen combined with the make for frantic and chaotic gameplay. |
| Sports TV: Boxing! | 1998 | Blackstar Interactive GmbH, Selling Points GmbH | Silver Style Entertainment e.K. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Sports TV: Boxing! is a managerial simulation. The player is the owner of a small boxing promoting firm and forms world class boxers from unknown amateurs. Similar to managerial games set in the soccer business the player sets the training and diet schedules, organizes matches and reels sponsors in. Other possibilities are stock dealing and sabotaging competitors. The matches are shown in 3D and the player can give orders like "avoid him" or left-right combination". |
| Spy Fox in Cheese Chase | 1998 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Side view, Top-down | | Spy / espionage | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Something sure smells funny… the Limburger Cheese has been kidnapped! Spy Corps operatives have evidence that spy Russian Blue has stolen the prized cheese. There's only one agent suave enough to take on a case like this – agent SPY Fox.In this Junior Arcade game, SPY Fox races after Blue and must deal with her henchmen and their weapons while he continues the chase through streets and snow, through air and water. You control the intrepid Fox's movement in this vertical side-scroller as he chases his quarry on SPY scooters, jet-skis, and ultralights. When the going gets rough, a variety of Spy Gadgets will appear on the path in crates....but so will nasty surprises that Fox will want to dodge around. As with all Humongous titles, no one dies - a pie in the face or the "banana shooter" is about as violet as the action gets. Just be sure to watch out for potholes and streetlight poles!Aside from the 100 levels that come with the game, there's a built-in Kid Editor too so you can make your own crazy levels. |
| Star Trek: Starship Creator | 1998 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Imergy | Simulation | Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | As its title implies, Star Trek: Starship Creator allows players to create their own Star Trek-themed starships. Players can pick from a number of different classes of vessel, and customise every single aspect, from hull shape to the quality of crew accommodation. Furthermore, once a ship has been created, the player can equip it with a crew of their favourite Star Trek characters, and then send them out on missions to see if they are up to scratch. Advanced users can even script their own new missions. |
| Star Wars: Dark Forces + 3 Levels of Jedi Knight | 1998 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II (only three levels playable) |
| Star Wars: DroidWorks | 1998 | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Action, Educational | Behind view | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Learn about physics and simple machines as you build your own Star Wars droids. Once you have selected various parts to put together in the droid, you pilot it through many different missions in a 3d environment. The beginning training missions teach you about the concepts. Once you get to the final mission, you'll be navigating your droid to find the Empire's Assassin Droid Factory so you can reprogram them to save the Alliance. |
| Star Wars: Millennium Falcon CD-ROM Playset | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Artech Studios Ltd. | Action | | Licensed | | Rail shooter, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | This game, which includes an exclusive Han Solo figure and Millennium Falcon cockpit playset, is played in a unique way: the playset is strapped onto the keyboard and the Millennium Falcon's controls are used to control the game. It is a combination rail shooter and interactive movie, using scenes from the films as well as new footage.The plans to the Death Star have been split into three parts, and it's your mission to recover them. They have been hidden in various locations throughout the galaxy, including Yavin 4, Dagobah, Tatooine, Endor, Hoth, the Death Star, and Bespin. Along the way, you'll have to fight Imperial TIE Fighters. Once the plans have been recovered, you must go to the Death Star's trench and destroy the battle station. |
| Star Wars: Rebellion | 1998 | LucasArts | Coolhand Interactive | Strategy | | Licensed | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Take command of the Rebels or the Empire in this strategy game from Lucasarts based around the Star Wars universe. Instead of a command and Conquer style game this is based on taking over planets with Diplomacy and also force. Slowly building up your empire and trying to beat your opposing force. There is no actual real-time fighting; it is all done with commands. |
| Star Wars: X-Wing - Collector Series | 1998 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Totally Games, Inc. | Action, Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | The X-Wing Collector Series is a bundle which contains:
Star Wars: X-Wing - Collector's CD-ROM
Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Collector's CD-ROM
Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter - Flight School
All the included games have been enhanced to run optimally under Windows 95/98, and now have 3D accelerated graphics. |
| StarCraft | 1998 | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | In the distant future, a small group of human exiles have been doomed to fight for survival on the edge of the galaxy. Through military strength, espionage, and deceit, a unified Terran government has maintained an uneasy peace. But a previously unknown species, the Zerg, has started overrunning their colonies. Furthermore, a second alien species, the enigmatic Protoss, became intent on stopping the Zerg. The Protoss solution, however, is to extinguish all life on Zerg-infested planets, including many surviving resident Terrans. At the same time, rebel factions within the Terran government are gaining popular support during the Zerg crisis. The time for war has come!Gameplay in StarCraft has clear similarities to Blizzard's earlier WarCraft II. Building units requires credits and a power source, and once completed you can direct them into combat against foes. You only know the layout of terrain you have visited, and only the exact whereabouts of enemy units which are range for one of your units, due to the Fog of War. Each of the three races has a distinct range of units and general strengths: Zerg units are quick to build, Terran units cost the least, and Protoss units are the most powerful individually. In a change from many strategy games, the base style for each race also varies significantly, resulting in a very different playing experience with each. Missions vary from destruction to infiltration. Realistic line-of-sight calculations make the correct result more likely. A full map editor is provided, with many user-created maps available online. |
| StarCraft (Collector's Edition) | 1998 | Cendant Software UK Ltd. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This UK-exclusive collector's edition of StarCraft comes in a large box, wrapped in a spaceship-themed sleeve. It includes a metal key ring, a sticker, a T-shirt and an owner's certificate. |
| Starship Titanic | 1998 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Digital Village, The | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Jack Kreindler | | Teen | | Windows | It seemed like a normal day. Sit back at your computer, put in a new CD-ROM and relax... unfortunately the galaxy had other plans. Without warning, a loud crash introduces you to the Starship Titanic: The Ship That Cannot Possibly Go Wrong. As the galaxy's most most prestigious, most impressive, largest and therefore most expensive interstellar liner, the Starship Titanic should be the flying treasure of the universe. Unfortunately something has, quite obviously gone wrong, or at least gone unexpectedly. The ship's main computer, Titania, has been sabotaged and gone insane. As a result, all the artificial personalities that manage the ship are also affected. You'll need to deal with a DeskBot, a BellBot, a BarBot not to mention a sarcastic parrot, a proud elevator and a stupid bomb. Without time or consideration to any other options, you find yourself quickly shanghaied aboard the Titanic, given an cheap, economy-sized room and put in charge of fixing the puzzling situation aboard the ship.Starship Titanic is a 1st-person adventure game, described by some as a fusion of Myst if it had been conceived by Douglas Adams (author of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and creative force behind this game). With a basic set of navigational controls, the player must explore the starship's many rooms, obtaining and manipulating objects and conversing with many different characters in an effort to get better lodgings and set things right along the way. Conversation with these characters is done trough a parser system that recognizes key words that the player must input. At times, you are able to adjust dials which control various attributes of a robot character's personality and general usefulness. |
| Stratego | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Minds Eye Productions | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Stratego is a military boardgame in which the aim is to capture an enemy's flag. Combat is simple one-on-one - the piece with a higher score wins the square, and the other piece is removed. This version contains the basic game (Stratego Classic), plus four new interpretations - Ultimate Lightning, Ultimate Campaign, Alliance Lightning and Alliance Campaign. |
| Strategy: 3 Games Of Power And Glory | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | This Sierra strategy compilation includes: Caesar II
MissionForce: Cyberstorm
The Rise & Rule of Ancient Empires |
| Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies | 1998 | Ripcord Games | Kodiak Interactive Software Studios, Inc. | Action, Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Fantasy | Flight / aviation | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | In Stratosphere you own a fortress flying on a bit of rock. Via an editor, you can add different enhancements to it, like new engines, rudders or cannons. In 40 missions you have to battle other fortresses and fullfill various mission objectives. |
| Street Fighter Alpha 2 | 1998 | Capcom Entertainment, Inc. | Capcom Co., Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | | | Direct control | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | Another Street Fighter sequel (this time for Street Fighter Alpha) adds even more to the classic fighting series.New characters in this version include Gen (a wise kung-fu master), Rolento (who you may remember from another Capcom classic, Final Fight) and Sakura, a young school girl who follows her hero Ryu so close, she has the same type of moves. Dhalsim and Zangief also return to the fight with some news moves.The other major difference is the loss of chain-combos and the gain of a custom combo system. Once you reach the required level (which is 1 at the least) you can execute a custom combo by combining any of the buttons (which there are 6 in total) or any of the special attacks (fireballs, etc.) |
| Super Match Soccer | 1998 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Cranberry Source | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Super Match Soccer is an action oriented soccer simulation which has one major difference to other soccer games of its time: the pass system. Instead of the usual separate buttons for passing and shooting there are three levels of shooting intensity which depend on how long the button is pressed. Also there is no semiautomatic passing, the player has to aim himself. Aside that the match control is genre standard: button combinations result in tricks like back-heels or lobs and with the sprint button a player can run fast for a limited time.By default the player controls the player which has the ball. But a optional mode enables the player to control just one soccer player. Playing modes are cups and leagues with 24 national teams which can be altered in the editor. |
| Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo | 1998 | Capcom Entertainment, Inc. | Capcom Co., Ltd. | Puzzle | | | | Falling block puzzle | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | A Tetris-like puzzle game featuring popular characters from many Capcom games.Colored gems fall from the top of the screen in pairs, but this time lining up those of the same color is not enough. To break the gems and punish your opponent with counter gems you have to place a crash gem of the same color next to the gems. If you make a block of gems of the same color they'll fuse, forming a power gem. Breaking a power gem sends more counter gems to your opponent than breaking the same amount of gems in some other configuration. But the ultimate attack is breaking power gems in chain. |
| Super Rebound 3 | 1998 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Super Rebound 3 is a single player Breakout clone.In this variant there are two modes of play, beginner where the player does not lose a ball when it hits the bottom of the screen, and Expert where they do. The paddle is controlled by the mouse and it can move freely around the unoccupied areas of the screen, the SHIFT key fires a gun vertically up the screen and the CTRL key causes the ball to veer off at a random angle (useful when balls get stuck).
A level is cleared, not when all the bricks have been destroyed, but when the player has killed the giant spider that patrols the top of the screen. The spider has to be hit fifteen times before it dies and it does shoot back, the player loses a life if their paddle is hit. |
| Symbiocom | 1998 | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Istvan Pely Productions | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The protagonist of this game is a maintenance engineer aboard I.S.T. Rident, a space-faring passenger liner in the delta quadrant. Suddenly, two war ships attack Rident. As the captain orders the passengers to escape on life boats, the hero is knocked unconscious. Some time later, he finds himself in a deserted spacecraft, and must find a way to escape from there, find out who was responsible for the attack on Rident, and what has happened to its passengers.Symbiocom is a first-person perspective adventure game, in which locations are represented by pre-rendered backgrounds; camera can be rotated, but movement is restricted to "jumps" between still screens, sometimes displayed as short "on rails" sequences. The emphasis of the gameplay is on solving puzzles, inventory- as well as logic-based. There are no characters to interact with, with the exception of a few robots and the so-called "symplant", a symbiotic artificial intelligence implanted in the protagonist's brain. |
| TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter | 1998 | American Softworks Corporation | DreamForge Intertainment, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | Licensed | | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter is an animal hunting game that uses the Unreal engine and uses branding from TNN (the Nashville Network; now known as Spike TV).Through four different U.S. locations including rocky terrain and flat open fields, you hunt 9 different animals including ducks, elk, rabbits, turkeys and white tail deer. You can play in different seasons of the year which change the environment. There are 11 different weapons including .30/06 deer rifle, 12-gauge bolt action shotgun, .338 bolt action deer rifle, .357 magnum pistol, longbow, compound bow, and muzzleloader. To help you on your hunt there are tools such as cover scents, gloves, temperature aids, and even hunting dogs. You can play a multiplayer mode with 2-4 people over a LAN or through heat.net. |
| Target | 1998 | DeLyric Games | DeLyric Games | Action | 1st-person | | | RPG elements, Shooter | Contemporary, Europe | | | | | | Windows | After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in former Warsaw Pact countries many different gangs wanted to take control of as much territory as possible. However those who came later were not strong enough, soon mysterious bombing presents and leaden diseases appeared. Those who survived did not have money or did not want to involve them self into that so they decided to use mercenaries...Player is one of those mercenaries. By choosing one of available classes (commando, saboteur or sniper) you enter Polish cities, woods, factories and work for local mafia. |
| Team Apache | 1998 | Mindscape, Inc. | Simis Limited | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Helicopter, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | Simis was known for it's great Flight Sim Toolkit. With Team Apache people are reminded of that company. Fly an Apache through three different scenarios. The handling is easy to learn and you can interact with your wingmen. If you're through all the missions you can create your own with the included editor. |
| Team Losi RC Racer | 1998 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Buggy is a racing game where you drive a small radio controlled car. The player can choose between 12 different cars (some have to be unlocked) to control. The game consists of 16 levels and a number of bonus levels. There are three game modes: Time attack, Challenge 1 and Challenge 2. In Time Attack you compete against yourself for new personal records. At the beginning not all levels are available in this mode, they have to be unlocked by completing certain levels in Challenge 1. Challenge 2 is not available until Challenge 1 is completed. The second challenge contains all the levels from the first challenge plus some new ones.The player starts in a hub world and can drive through gateway ports to select challenges and races. During the race there are ports with colored banners and the player can drive through them to collect colored flags, similar to Buggy Boy. The available colors differ for each race and collecting certain color sequences yield different power-ups. For example collect yellow and then red for a speed boost, or red, blue, yellow to temporarily freeze opponents, or orange, green, red, purple to get a helicopter power-up allowing the player to fly for a short period. |
| Tempest | 1998 | Softmax Co., Ltd. | Softmax Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Tempest is a side story in the Korean-made series The War of Genesis. The protagonist is Sharn Hoiste, one of the characters who appeared in Rhapsody of Zephyr. A master thief, he is also the alter ego of Prince Clauzewitz, living in exile after the Pandragon family lost its reign to rivals. However, when his relative Princess Elizabeth Pandragon is driven out of the capital and pursued by the new regime, he changes his mind and becomes more actively involved in the political struggle.The game mixes role-playing and strategy elements. The player manages a team consisting of young women, training them in combat and various magic disciplines. Navigation is limited and is mostly confined to selecting locations from graphical menus; only individual locations such as important houses have physical third-person movement. Battles are dictated by the plot and are tactical in nature, the player often managing a large team across several screens. The view is side-scrolling, but characters can also move into the screen for a total of three rows. |
| Tender Loving Care | 1998 | Aftermath Media LLC | Aftermath Media LLC | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | Things haven't been easy for Michael Overton and his wife Allison. The young couple has experienced a terrible tragedy - the death of their daughter in a car accident. While Michael seems to deal with the shock better, Allison has gradually descended into a delusional state, unable to accept reality and function normally as an adult. Dr. Turner, a psychologist, suggests the Overtons hire a live-in nurse for Allison, and recommends a young woman named Katherine Randolph. However, new dark tensions start arising shortly after the nurse moves in.Tender Loving Care is an interactive movie with limited adventure-like gameplay segments. The game is divided into chapters, each consisting of four parts. The first part consists of a non-interactive story episode presented as a short live action film. Afterwards, the player is asked several questions by Dr. Turner concerning his understanding of the events he just witnessed. The third part involves first-person exploration of still graphical images representing various locations in the house. There are no puzzles or other challenges during that phase, but the player may uncover diaries or other items that shed more light on the story. Finally, the fourth part consists of taking a Thematic Apperception Test: the player is shown various images accompanied by questions and a list of answers, and is given a psychological profile depending on his choices. The story that develops through the movie portions may also be affected by the player's answers. |
| Tennis Manager | 1998 | Blackstar Interactive GmbH | New Generation Software | Action, Sports, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | In this game the player is a manager who takes a tennis player under his wings. The greatest source of expenses are the salaries for the talent and her coach and the rent for the training ground. Income is generated from tournament prizes and sponsors. The player can take influence in the training contents.Training and tournament matches are calculated by the computer or can be played in an action sequence which is inspired by the classic Pong - including the graphics. One round represents one week which is sometimes interrupted by random events like a lottery prize. The player can use his earned money to buy status symbols like cars or houses. |
| Test Drive 5 | 1998 | Accolade, Inc. | Pitbull Syndicate Limited, The | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Behind view | Licensed | | | Oceania | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | Les Burney, Kevin Preston, Tony Pringle, John Steele, David Taylor | | Everyone | | Windows | In this installment of the Test Drive series, you get to burn rubber in 28 vehicles from both recent and classic eras, including the classic Ford Mustang, Aston Martin Vantage, and more. You will be doing some wild jumps and having some big contact in these.Race against other cars in 17 locations ranging from Russia to Hawaii. To further challenge you, they include shortcuts and alternate pathways, as well as police, variable weather effects and civilian cars. A heavy rock soundtrack spurs you on. |
| TetriMania Master | 1998 | eGames, Inc. | Xtreme Games LLC | Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | TetriMania Master is a single player game based on the classic game TetrisAs with all games of this type the player must 'solve' each level by filling in the required number of rows with falling blocks of different shapes. This game has two modes of play:Classic: Has the standard puzzle pieces.Xtreme Geometry Mode: new shapes and eleven playing field variationsThis game has sixteen levels, ten skill settings, and supports keyboard, joystick and joypad control.
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| The A-Files | 1998 | Gyldendal | Gyldendal, H. Aschehoug & Co Interactive, Liber AB, Námsgagnastofnun, Reference Interactive, Werner Söderström Corporation - WSOY | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Christian Wallgren (Reference Interactive) | | | | Windows | The A-Files is an educational 'learn through play' game. As an alien form of life the player visits planet Earth to learn the English language. The game starts from selecting one of six available human bodies. By exploring six life areas (like shopping, eating out, home works) in London, the player will encounter dozen of tasks. Some of the tasks are introduced as a mini games, such as discovering all pairs of objects, planting flowers in the right place or selling appropriate sports equipment, some other tasks are presented as interactive conversations or tours, not related strictly to the games. For every good answer the player receives the energy points, each bad answer drop the level down. After several bad responses in a row the player must pass a special Earth police anti-alien test. Failure ends in prison.The A-Files is fully digitized, allows to use a microphone and has a built in encyclopedia of knowledge, translator from English to Scandinavian and lecturer of selected phrases. |
| The American Girls Premiere: 2nd Edition | 1998 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Second Edition release of American Girls Premiere is a standalone update to the game, adding Josefina Montoya to the roster. Other than the addition of new characters, backdrops and props, the game remains basically the same as the first edition, with players creating and/or manipulating theatre productions starring characters from American Girl's Historical line. |
| The Avengers Pinball | 1998 | Pin-Ball Games Ltd. | Pin-Ball Games Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Pinball | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The Avengers Pinball is a pinball game for up to four players.The game is based on the UK TV series "The Avengers" featuring the characters John Steed and Emma Peel, it starts with the introduction to the fifth series (1996) which was in colour and starts with Steed unwrapping the foil from a champagne bottle and Peel shooting the cork away.
Players play as either Steed or Emma Peel, denoted in-game by the choice of car, though for at least one bonus the player swaps characters. There are in game voice clips from the player's character and in-game video sequences from the TV series which are linked to special awards. Special features are linked to the characters such as the Aperitif bonus or stopping villains plots such as Suspect Interview, Punch Ball, Defusing Russian Bombs, Death Prepares For A Guest, Shoot the Snipers, Capture The Evidence and so-onThe game is keyboard or joy-pad controlled, keyboard action keys can be redefined.
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| The Battle of Britain | 1998 | Guildhall Leisure Services Ltd. | Deadly Games | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation | | Turn-based | | | Windows | The Battle of Britain is a strategic simulation about the Battle of Britain in 1940. You are a the commander of the Royal Air Force and plan the defense against the German attacks. You will do this with the help of the identical tote-board system. Radar tracking, reports on enemy troop movements and analysis of unidentified planes need fast decision making that will decide whether you succeed or not. The player needs to keep an eye on plane and pilot losses and shrinking resources. |
| The Best Jigsaw Puzzles | 1998 | EZ Legal Forms | GraphicCorp | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | The Best Jigsaw Puzzles is a simple, yet powerful, jigsaw puzzle creation game that allows you to create a puzzle out of almost any photo you have available. It allows you to choose how many pieces the puzzle will have, and record your play time so you can improve it later on.The disc also includes over 1000 different photos for you to play with, ranging from famous cities, castles, animals, buildings, and beaches. |
| The Biggest Names the Best Games! | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The first release in EA's series of The Biggest Names the Best Games compilations contains these six games:
Dungeon Keeper
Need for Speed II: Special Edition
Nuclear Strike
SimCity 2000
Theme Hospital
Warhammer: Dark Omen |
| The ClueFinders: Math Adventures | 1998 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Asia | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The ClueFinders: Math Adventures is an educational game for children aged 9-12 in the ClueFinders series. This time, the ClueFinders must solve the Mystery of the Stolen Treasures in the Himalayas. Exploring with Joni, Santiago, Leslie, Owen, and Laptrap, you must discover the truth behind a yeti who has robbed a local village. The game develops children's skills in multiplication, division, geometry, problem solving, and critical thinking. The goals resemble those of the board game Clue. In each round they need to find clues to identify who stole the treasure, which treasure was stolen and where it is hidden. |
| The Creed | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Insomnia Entertainment | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Cerberus City is not the place to be - all about "Murder, Death, Carnage" is what it is. But after crashing on the planet Outpost IV, theres hardly anything you can do besides finding yourself just there.Take the role of either Guy Kreed or Gene Matrix to interact with the Government, the Brotherhood and the Order - the three factions that run the city. These factions give you missions which have you spying, assassinating and such. Get your 3D character around in 2D rendered environments; Accept missions and complete them within the given time. Finally, gather enough resources to do what you want to be able to do in the first place: get off the planet (alive, preferably).The characters assume use of R-rated language, which can be switched off if need be. |
| The Fifth Element | 1998 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Kalisto Entertainment SA | Action | Behind view | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Based on Luc Besson's science-fiction movie The Fifth Element, the game lets you replay the story of the film as the main characters Korben and Leeloo. You're running and jumping Tomb Raider-style through a 3D environment, fighting the minions of evil that block your way. Korben uses the firepower of different weapons he picks up on the way, whereas Leeloo has to rely on strikes and kicks. After each level, you are rewarded with short scenes from the original movie. |
| The Full Wormage | 1998 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The following games are included in this compilation:
Worms United (in itself a compilation of Worms and Worms: Reinforcements)
Worms 2
Addiction Pinball |
| The Game of Life | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Mass Media, Inc. | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The classic board game comes to life (no pun intended) on the PC!Play the Classic or Enhanced version of the classic game. Spin the spinner, get a job, get married, buy a house, play the stock market, take revenge against other players and gain wealth.Play up to 6 players either over a network or the internet. |
| The Golf Pro 2 | 1998 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | A third-person-perspective golf game set on the famous Wentworth Golf Course.The game includes practice play, linked play (versus up to 3 other computers on LAN or Internet) or Tournament mode (multi-round standard tournament play against up to 64 computer-controlled players), with TV type commentary following the action as you play.
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| The Great Battles: Collector's Edition | 1998 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a compilation of three games:
The Great Battles of Alexander
The Great Battles of Hannibal
The Great Battles of Caesar
Each game recreates the important battles in the title generals career. The battles are played from a semi-3D view. Combat is turned base, and emphasis is put on the leadership qualities of the generals. This is accomplished through the use of command points. Each general can only command troops close to him, and has a limited number of units he can command each turn. Some of the battles involve many dozens of units.The campaign game simply consists of the battles linked together. All the battles can be played from either side, creating 33 different battles to be fought. The units are based on actual historical unit strengths and weaknesses, and their is extensive information about the units in the manual and online reference. |
| The Great Civil War | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Edward Grabowski Communications Ltd. | Compilation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The Great Civil War bundles three classic strategy games set during the Civil War era:Robert E. Lee: Civil War GeneralGrant - Lee - Sherman: Civil War 2: GeneralsEdward Grabowski's The Blue & The Gray
The version of The Blue & The Gray included in this bundle is an updated, native Windows 95 version. |
| The Land Before Time: Animated Movie Book | 1998 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Land Before Time: Animated Movie Book is the second educational title based on the The Land Before Time movie series. This game features an interactive storybook with full motion video clips and includes a selection of activities which is suitable for ages 3 to 6. There is also a jigsaw puzzle included in the game. The game also features letting the computer read the story out loud, and contains a chapter selection screen to choose which chapter to go to in the game. |
| The Land Before Time: Kindergarten Adventure | 1998 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Digital Media International | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Land Before Time: Kindergarten Adventure is an educational title for four to six year olds that uses games to make learning fun. The idea being that by playing games with known characters such as Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Spike and Petrie the child will not realise that they are being educated in the process. When each activity has been completed a short video is unlocked.The activities are:
Sharptooth Gulch: Where the player selects a character with the mouse and then uses the arrow keys, or I J K & L keys, to manoeuvre their character through the obstacles
Prehistoric Pinball: This is also keyboard controlled, SPACE launches the ball, Z & M control the left & right flippers
Adventure Stories: Which reads supplied stories and allows the player to construct their own which can also be read
Creature Cards: Make greeting and special occasion cards
Musical Shapes: There are two Musical Shapes activities. The first teaches "geometric shape recognition and music/dance interaction" and the second teaches "sound and shape correspondences." The first activity must be completed before the second can be attempted.
Going Home: Is a board game for up to five characters.
Living Valley: A painting activity
Jungle Jam: This is a musical game where the player discovers hidden creatures by playing the right sounds.These eight activities teach Pattern, shape and colour recognition, Counting, Directional Navigation, Simple motor skills, Following Instruction, Creativity, Musical play, Storytelling and Social skills and group work. |
| The Land Before Time: Math Adventure | 1998 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Land Before Time: Math Adventure is the third educational title based on the The Land Before Time movie series. Like The Land Before Time: Activity Center, this game focuses on math-oriented activities. Players earn tree stars and dino bucks to unlock movies to be played in the Movie Theater. |
| The Lost Island of Alanna | 1998 | Coca-Cola Company, The | | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | You are on the lost island of Alanna - located somewhere west of Cyprus, Mediterranean Sea - and have to find its treasure. To do that, you have to solve several puzzles, much like in The 7th Guest.This short game was distributed freely to Cherry Coke buyers and, as a marketing strategy, The Coca Cola Company included several clues on its website and on specially marked Cherry Coke bottles (these clues never appear in the game). |
| The LucasArts Archives: Vol. IV - The Star Wars Collection II | 1998 | LucasArts | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The compilation combines the classic Dark Forces, Star Wars: TIE Fighter (Collector's CD-ROM), Star Wars: X-Wing (Collector's CD-ROM), Star Wars: Yoda Stories and Making Magic, with special abbreviated versions of the critically acclaimed Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith and Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter. |
| The Myth on Light | 1998 | Computer & Entertainment Inc. | Computer & Entertainment Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | The Myth on Light is a Taiwanese-made RPG loosely based on the famous novel by Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper. A young prince is bored with the life in the palace, and one day manages to go outside the gate, distracting the guards. In the town he meets a young boy who looks very similar to him. The prince offers him to switch their clothes, because he wants to spend the day as an ordinary boy. But when he comes back to the palace, the guards don't recognize him in his beggar's clothes and refuse to let him in. A new life, full of danger and adventures, begins for the young prince...The game is conceived in the tradition of Japanese RPGs. You navigate the prince on the world map and around towns, fighting random enemies and descending into dungeons. The battles are turn-based and are viewed from an isometric perspective. You can attack physically or use a variety of magic spells, classified in types. In the beginning of you turn you have a full SP bar; each action reduces it, and when it is depleted, your turn ends. You can for example heal, cast magic, and physically attack different enemies during the same turn. Your enemies utilize the same system and can unleash multiple attacks on you.The Myth on Light is based on the SEGA Genesis game Beggar Prince (Xin Qigai Wangzi). Rather than simply being emulated, the game was completely reprogrammed for Windows. New features include a CD quality soundtrack and enhanced audio samples. |
| The Oregon Trail: 3rd Edition (Limited Edition) | 1998 | Learning Company, Inc., The | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This Limited Edition release contains:
The Oregon Trail: 3rd Edition
Commemorative map
Limited Edition CD-ROM
Wooden box as packaging |
| The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink | 1998 | Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | Wanderlust Interactive | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | After the successful events in The Pink Panther Passport to Peril, Pink Panther gives up his life as agent and gets a job as door-to-door-salesman. But his leisurely life gets interrupted as Nathan, son of the lunatic dentist Dr. Periowinkle, steals utensils from the magician Strangeblood and accidentally transforms the little girl Violet into a wombat.The player takes control of Pink Panther and has to travel to Israel, Indonesia, Siberia and Greece to find a counterspell. Of course he encounters many strange people and inventory based puzzles. Because the game is mainly aimed at children the puzzles are not too complicated and the controls are constrained to the left mouse button. During the course of the game the player can retrieve a lot of background information regarding history and lifestyle of the countries he has visited by accessing a special menu, but this is not necessary to complete the game. Of course some of the information gets addressed during the regular gameplay. There is a optional function included which gives hints or solutions for the puzzles when the player is stuck. |
| The Quivering | 1998 | Alternative Software Ltd. | Charybdis Limited | Adventure | 1st-person | | Comedy, Horror | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The Quivering is a humorous, cartoon style adventure game, which spoofs the famous ghouls and goblins from historic horror flicks.When Olivetti Franken-Stamp, a member of the Mad Scientist Guild, goofs on his latest scientific experiment, all hell breaks loose - literally! Every demon, murderer, monster and freak is back on earth causing major havoc and mayhem. Franken-Stamp urgently sends for Spud, his cantankerous, redheaded nephew, to come to the rescue. With the aid of his uncle's "Ghoul Cube", Spud must return all of the evil meanies to their rightful place.The game is a first person, point & click adventure with whimsical, three-dimensional characters set in detailed graphical locations, which you view in 360 degrees. The collection of cute little creatures called imps is the key for saving games and solving some of the puzzles. Puzzles are varied and include the traditional ones (using inventory items, talking to non-player characters, etc.) as well as a few arcade style sequences.Reminiscent of cartoon style LucasArts games, The Quivering brings together a blend of spookiness and comedy. Listen to voice impressions of Vincent Price and Boris Karloff. Visit and fully explore classic movie sets and meet your favorite monsters. |
| The Sci Fi Collection 1 | 1998 | Reel Entertainment In Digital | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Sci Fi Collection 1 is a limited edition package that contains two movies on DVD and two computer games. The items included are the following:Cybertracker (a 1994 film starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson and Richard Norton)Nemesis (a 1993 film starring Olivier Gruner and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa)Star Command DeluxeMoon Buggy 98 |
| The Treasure of Drunk Island | 1998 | Cellosoft | MonkeyGames Entertainment | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Contemporary | | Point and select | | | | Windows | The Treasure of Drunk Island is a classic point-and-click adventure game where the player assumes the role of Willy, who was always fascinated with treasures from a young age. When he gets fired from the big company he works at due to budget cuts, he clears out his office and finds a note talking about a treasure map being not too far away from the office building. He decides to follow the clues and search for the treasure.The gameplay is regular point & click adventure fare: talk to NPCs, pick up items, solve puzzles. Unlike most adventure games, however, Drunk Island lacks a "look" command, so you often find yourself with too little information about the environment and your inventory items. The only available commands are walk, pick up/use, and talk. This leads to a lot of guesswork because there is always too little information available to the player. |
| The Ultimate RPG Archives | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Ultimate RPG Archives is a compilation of several award-winning role-playing games.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy together with its Construction Set
Dragon Wars
Might and Magic: World of Xeen
Stonekeep
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds
Wasteland
Wizardry Gold
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| The Ultimate Wizardry Archives | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Sir-tech Software, Inc. | Compilation, Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | The Ultimate Wizardry Archives comprises the first eight games in the classic Wizardry series. It contains:
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds - The Second Scenario
Wizardry: Legacy of Llylgamyn - The Third Scenario
Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario
Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom
Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Wizardry Gold
This compendium features all eight games on 1 CD.
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| Theme Park / Theme Hospital | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Theme Park
Theme Hospital |
| Thinkin' Things: Sky Island Mysteries | 1998 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In Thinkin' Things: Sky Island Mysteries, the player assumes the role of a detective paired with Joe Cluesteau of the Sky Isles who is tasked with solving various crimes that occur on the floating islands. There are 2125 inhabitants -- and thus suspects -- on the islands so it's important to gather clues. To do so, the player must participate in games related to basic logic and English phonetics. Aside from Clue Central, which is the detectives' home island, there are 3 other islands, each with a unique type of puzzle:
Rebus Isle: Solve rebus puzzles on this island, which are puzzles that involve forming words by adding and subtracting sounds based on various pictorial and animated clues given by the puzzle. For example, 'st' plus a picture of an earring leads to the word "steering". The game has a built-in spell checker/dictionary to help the player along with a hint system.Airshow Isle: Plan and coordinate an air show.Stadium Isle: Help Fripples (denizens of this particular island) find their seats in the stadium. There are particular rules that each Fripple must follow. For example, cheerleader Fripples only cheer if they sit in pairs.
After working through enough puzzles and collecting enough clues, the player is able to use the clues to narrow down the suspects in the database. |
| Three Kingdoms: Divine Destiny | 1998 | Dong Seo Interactive | Dong Seo Interactive | Strategy | | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Three Kingdoms: Divine Destiny is a Korean-made real-time strategy game heavily influenced by Command & Conquer. The names of the countries and their leaders are the same as those of the historical Chinese Three Kingdoms era; however, the setting is completely fictional and fully futuristic, including advanced firearms, vehicles, and robots. Only Liu Bei (kingdom of Shu) and Cao Cao (kingdom of Wei) are playable; Sun Quan of the Wu kingdom is only introduced in the expansion pack.The gameplay closely mimics the Command & Conquer style, including a similar point-and-click interface. The player constructs building, manages units, and uses mining vehicles to extract minerals from the ground. The game's stand-out feature are individual hero units, with the leader's personality and attributes affecting the unit's performance in battle. |
| Time Warrior: The Armageddon Device | 1998 | Stock's Eye | | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Time Warrior: The Armageddon Device is a first person point and click adventure game with a sci-fi theme and full motion video elements. It takes place in the future of 2328, where an ancient device is draining the life from solar systems near Earth, with Earth next on the menu. You travel in time from the past and need to save humanity by finding the "Time Warrior", another time traveler from another reality, who has the power to stop the "Armageddon Device". |
| Titanic: A Mysterious Undersea Adventure | 1998 | ARI Data CD GmbH | Dosch Design GmbH | Action, Adventure | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Having virtually nothing whatsoever to do with the eponymous ship (it never appears in the game!), apparently recent scientific observations near the wreck have revealed the presence of a mysterious undersea village which may have special mystical powers. Discovering an amulet nearby, you dive down to the village to uncover its secret and find out if it played a part in the sinking of the Titanic. |
| Titanic: The Lost Mission | 1998 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Cyberflix Incorporated | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Spy / espionage | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | An off shoot from the game Titanic: Adventure out of Time, this game features the same interface and system and once again pitches the player as the secret agent aboard the Titanic. Whilst the game features the same characters and is in essence a cut down version of the larger game, it does have a different and briefer storyline to it. This game is similar to a demo of the parent game, with the disc also boasting a trailer for the game, and screensavers. |
| Tonko 4 | 1998 | Anicom | TWIM | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Tonko 4 marks the series' departure from single-screen to a 3D action game with very light platforming elements. The titular yellow goblin must traverse fairly straightforward 3D stages, dispatching or avoiding enemies in his way. Tonko's default weapon is a spiky mace, replacing the trademark hammer from the previous entries. The goblin's health is measured in hearts. Stars and metallic balls can be collected; the former increase the score, while the latter lead to bonus stages. |
| Top 50 32-Bit Games for Windows 95/98: Volume 4 | 1998 | Select CD-Rom | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Top 50 32-Bit Games For Windows 95/98: Volume 4 is a compilation of the following shareware, freeware and demo games:
Aaron vs. Ruth: Battle of the Big Bats
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
ACME! (a freeware card game from Keith Westley)
Allied General
The Great Battles of Alexander
Atomic Bomberman
Baker's Dozen from Tracker Software
BeeTris
PBA Bowling (listed as just Bowling)
Chaos Overlords
Chesmaster Online
Chess Mates
Chinese Checkers (an on-line game from Gilles Khouzam)
Cricket 97
Bruce Jenner's World Class Decathlon
Deer Hunter
Dirt Bike (a shareware game from Brad Quick)
Dominoes (another shareware game, this one's from Curtis Cameron)
Emperor of the Fading Suns
Free Enterprise
Harpoon Classic '97
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Hyperoid
Iko San
The Interstate '76 Arsenal
Jigsaws Galore (shareware version v1.1)
Klotz (a freeware Tetris clone from Germany)
Krazy Ivan
Let It Ride (a freeware card game)
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries
Mind Grind
Mr. Matt
Necrodome
Netchess
A Pac Man demo from Microsoft Return of Arcade
Prairie Dog Hunt Pro '97
Puzzle-8
Robotron X
Scorcher
Drag-n-Drop Solitaire 95 (listed as Solitaire 95)
Silent Thunder
Star General
Su-27 Flanker
Top Card
Tracer
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
WIN42
Winfour (this game is not listed on the packaging)
WinSwim
Ancient Yacht
ZPC
The CD also contains both ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus and McAfee VirusScan for Windows 95. |
| Top Card | 1998 | | Verco Incorporated | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Top Card is a single player, shareware, card game in which the player plays against the computer.The player and computer are each dealt five cards, another card is placed face-up between them. The object of the game is to stack all of your cards onto the central card, in either ascending or descending order, and the first to play all their cards wins. The game has three skill levels, sound, and is entirely mouse controlled |
| Top Management II | 1998 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Educational, Simulation | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Managerial / business simulation | Contemporary | | Menu structures | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Top Management II is the sequel to Top Management. The game is a part of Koei's Education & Entertainment line. Similar to the first title, you play as the CEO of a computer manufacturing company, and the goal of the game is to be the most successful business out of them all.The game takes place during what the game calls the PC Wars, in which computer manufacturing companies are in fierce competition with each other. The offers several modes of play, as well as several scenarios within, which range from the late 70s to the late 90s. These scenarios can last anywhere from 5 years to 20 years, depending on the scenario selected. Some of the themes of the scenarios include the oil crisis to the strong yen recession.Top Management II retains most of the same mechanics from the first game. You can hire/fire employees, raise/lower their salary, research and develop new technology, all while trying not to spend too much money and go bankrupt, and at the same time, keeping the morale of your employees high. The game also offers the option of playing against three other human players. |
| Top of the Pops: Mix Factory | 1998 | | | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | Music / rhythm | | | Menu structures, Point and select | Real-time | | 2D scrolling, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Top of the Pops: Mix Factory is a single-player music based title in which the player creates pop videos.The game consists of three sections;
Hit Mix: In this section the player creates their own music by dragging and dropping blocks of music onto a mixing panel. There are eight tracks on this panel and the player can add samples from Drums, Bass, Keyboard, Guitar, Voices, etc as well as adding their own recorded sounds and voice. The maximum length of any music created here is one hundred bars. There are three styles of music dance, Pop, and HipHop each with their own set of samples and an example track.
Vision Mix: This is where the player creates a video to accompany their music. As with the music creation this is done by dragging and dropping blocks onto a mixing board, however here the player is moving graphic sequences and there are just two 'tracks' one for the foreground graphic and the other for the background. All the example tracks have accompanying graphics.The maximum length of any video is three minutes which limits the length of any Pop tune to sixty-eight bars and any HipHop tune to seventy-two bars.
TX: TX is an abbreviation for, among other things, Transmission. This is where the player constructs their pop show by selecting their tracks and having them play as though it were an episode of Top Of The Pops. A maximum of ten tunes can be used in each show.
There is a fully voiced in-game tutorial which explains the controls and a text guide which opens in a browser window The game will not run unless the CD is present in the drive. |
| Total Air War | 1998 | Infogrames Europe SA, Ocean Software Ltd. | Digital Image Design Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Donna Jennett, Steve White | | Everyone | | Windows | An F-22 flight simulator that offers you the chance to manage and control your own dynamic campaigns in addition to flying.
Each campaign is randomly created around scenarios located around the Red Sea, with numerous factions thrown into randomly selected alliances or opposing sides. As the war proceeds, the game generates flight missions for both sides and you can select at any time when to fly a combat sortie by accepting to fly a mission or enter into the editor mode and modify any aspect of the mission. The game registers the success or failure of your missions and reflects the results in the overall campaign.You can also take the more strategic route with the addition of an option to fly E-3 AWACS sorties rather than F-22 ones. (you don't actually take to the sky in the planes, but rather you direct their movements on a tactical map and are able to issue commands to allied forces and control the drama in a tactical way). |
| Total Galaxians and Invaders | 1998 | | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Totally Galaxians and Invaders is a themed compilation of shareware Space Invader variants and shoot 'em up games similar to Galaxian. The games in the compilation are a mixture of DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows 95 games with one Galaxian-like game for the Amiga also included. Some of the games can be played from the CD while others require installation:
Avenger
Bandits!
Clone Invader
Fighter a game by Daniel Litman
Galactic Patrol
Galaxia
Galaxi a shareware game by Kurt Dekker
Invaders
Invaders 1978
Invaders 95
KSI Invaders
Orbsters
Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom v2.0 called "Space Bats 2.0" in the compilation menu
Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom v2.5 called "Space Bats 2.5" in the compilation menu
Space Invaders, a freeware game by Paul Reid
The Galaxians a freeware game by Stephan RiedigerAlso on the CD but not referenced by the menu system are:
Major Stryker
Galacta: The Battle for Saturn
WebWar a freeware game by Burkhard Ratheiser
Aliens a shareware game by Marc Tebeka |
| Total Soccer | 1998 | LiveMedia UK Ltd. | LiveMedia UK Ltd. | Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A top-down soccer game that very much resembles the old Sensible Soccer series, with simple graphics and impeccable gameplay.It doesn't feature FIFA licenses or the like, and you can only play a handful of teams from a group of countries (Fiorentina, PSG, Flamengo, Boca Juniors, Ajax, to name a few), and even with these few teams the information is not entirely accurate, but then again, the emphasis is on gameplay.You can play single games, practice dribbles, free-kicks (with the ability to perform some powerful "curveballs") and penalty shots, and play (and customize) championships. In the field, only two buttons (pass and shoot) are available, making for much more straightforward gameplay than EA's FIFA Soccer series. |
| Triple Conflict | 1998 | Interplay Productions Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Triple Conflict is a compilation which contains three strategy games, either real-time or turn-based, ranging from fantasy over the colonial age to the future.Those three games are in the compilation:
The fantasy RTS game WarCraft: Orcs & Humans.
The colonial style turn-based strategy game Conquest of the New World: Deluxe Edition.
The sci-fi RTS game M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault and Exploration.
All games are on a single CD each, while the fourth CD in the package contains all the manuals, as Adobe PDF files. |
| Triple Play 99 | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This iteration of EA's baseball simulation adds 3D hardware support, a career mode, and a full-league draft. It features official Major League Baseball statistics and names of all teams and players from the 1998 season.Other modes include single-game exhibition, home run derby, play-off, tournament, season and manager.The new career mode allows you to play multiple seasons. Tournament mode allows you to create a custom tournament with up to eight teams.The Full-league draft allows you to build your own team from scratch using trade points, that determine the amount of and skill of players you can acquire.Manager mode has you looking at all the statistics behind the game instead of the more action based actual ball game.Multiplayer options for PC version include modem, LAN and internet modes. Playstation supports two player split-screen.The game's commentary is supplied by Jim Hughson and Buck Martinez |
| Trivial Pursuit: CD-ROM Edition | 1998 | Atari Europe S.A.S.U., Atari Interactive, Inc. | Adrenalin Entertainment | Puzzle | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Trivial Pursuit: CD-ROM Edition is a conversion of the classic board game for the PC. It includes more than 1000 questions. Additional features are video clips and online-statistics. Up to six players can participate. Besides the normal game there is a special mode where are questions are asked at a faster speed. |
| Trophy Bass 2 Deluxe | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation pack combines the original Trophy Bass 2 fishing game with the expansion Northern Lakes, which introduces new fishing spots and species of fish, in a single box. The game features branded equipment and allows for both competitive and cooperative online multiplayer sessions in locations modeled after their real-world counterparts. |
| Tunguska: Legend of Faith | 1998 | Project Two Interactive BV | Exortus Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Fighting, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Tunguska is a 3D action game in which you play Jack Riley, an inter-dimensional traveler. The main objective is to decode the secret of the Castle of the Order of Tunguska, where he finds himself after he's accidentally caught by the 'powers of darkness'. The game involves tactical real-time fighting, in which you advance by a skill/level based system, as well as a limited amount of puzzle-solving. When you decode the secret of the Castle, the powers of darkness will be defeated and Jack is free to continue his journey. |
| Tunnel Blaster | 1998 | RomTech, Inc. | Xtreme Games LLC | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Tunnel Blaster is yet another clone of Dig Dug.You are Digster X, the Digger-Hero and the two monsters here are called Dyclops (don't touch these green creatures) and Puff Dragons (same warning, since these fast reptilians throw fire balls). You play using your joystick or keyboard but it is an only 1 player game. The other difference is you do not have an air pump to kill your enemies, but a gun.31 levels are included in full registered version. |
| Ubik | 1998 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Action, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Mature | | Windows | The game is based on the novel UBIK by Philip K. Dick. The player controls the main character from the book, called Joe Chip. He is working for a company called Runciter Associates in Los Angeles (in the year 2019), and his job is to protect companies against industrial spying from other companies. With genetic engineering and the development of replicants both sides have PSI-powers at hand to reach their targets.In the game you lead, train and equip a squad of selected individuals (with various abilities, be it several kinds of weapon skills or PSI) through 3D-realtime rendered maps, where you sometimes can interact with your environment or even talk to some individuals. Connecting those missions are many rendered cinematic cutscenes. |
| Ultimate EA Sports Series II | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Ultimate EA Sports Series II is a special package that contains:
Madden NFL 97
NBA Live 97
Triple Play 97
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| Ultimate Flight Series III | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Ultimate Flight Series III is a compilation which bundles the following games together:
Jane's Combat Simulations: Longbow - Gold
Flight Unlimited II (Special Edition)
Jane's Combat Simulations: USNF '97 - U.S. Navy Fighters '97 |
| Ultimate Might and Magic Archives | 1998 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Compilation, Special edition | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Ultimate Might and Magic Archives is a compilation containing:
Might and Magic: Book One - Secret of the Inner Sanctum
Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World
Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra
Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen
Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen
Swords of Xeen
Might and Magic: World of Xeen (Clouds of Xeen and Darkside of Xeen combined with a new endgame).
Besides the CD-ROM, the package includes a short but informative manual (the full manuals are on the CD) and 3 different maps of the various game worlds.
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| Ultimate Sim | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Ultimate Sim is a collection of three Maxis games:
SimCity 2000
SimCopter
Streets of SimCity |
| Ultimate Soccer Manager 98 | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Simulation, Sports | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Following on the footsteps of its predecessor, USM 98 brings the series to a new level while keeping the same presentation and style characteristic of the series. The biggest change when compared to USM 2 is the implementation of all leagues in the same executable, which allow players to jump between England (all five nationwide leagues), Scotland (four), Germany (both Bundeslligas and the Regionaliga), Spain, France and Italy (two divisions each). Signings were also changed, and now require a number of faxes between the clubs and the player, which can delay a transfer by two weeks.
Players now also have positions, defined by skills. A player with high tackling is a defender, both high tackling and passing is a defensive midfielder, and so on. By intensive training a player can be adapted successfully to a new position, and there's also a favorite side, which makes the difference between an attacking midfielder and a winger. On the downside, players no longer have a personality trait. With the exception of the player's potential (which defines the speed a player, particularly young, increases his abilities), everything can be edited using the in-game editor. The rest of the game remained mostly unchanged, from the interface, composed by static pictures of several offices where options are reached by clicking on hotspots (like a TV for the teletext, where in-depth statistics can be consulted) to the financial options, where the player is given the lot of land close to the stadium to build stores for both marketing and merchandising. |
| Ultimate Wargame Collection: World War II | 1998 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command - 1939-1999
Panzer General II
Soldiers at War
Silent Hunter
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| Underworld | 1998 | Xtreme Games LLC | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Underworld is a single player, shareware, variant of the game Dig Dug. In this game the player controls a miner who is tasked with clearing all unauthorised life from the planet. This means going underground as soon as possible, there's radiation on the surface that will kill very quickly, and zapping them. There are two kinds of monsters, Puff Dragons and DyclopsPoo Poos and all the miner has to fight them with is a grappling pump that fires missiles which inject them with air making them explode.
The Puff Dragons walk around the mines tunnels breathing fire balls which can blast away rock. The Dyclops will turn into ghosts and travel through the rock to attack the player. Any contact with either is fatal and costs the player a life.As in the original game rocks are scattered throughout the earth and these can be used to squash the monsters.The game is keyboard controlled by default but also supports joypad and joystick.The shareware release has thirteen levels while the registered version has thirty one.
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| Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy | 1998 | 3DO Company, The | Cyclone Studios | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | This sequel is basically identical to its predecessor with improved graphics and sounds as well as a significant simplification of the game's controls. The story of this sequel continues the events of the original game and allows the player a more detailed view at the complex conflict between the alien race named Kri'iSara and the human race, which is constantly on the verge of destruction.The mixture of real time strategy and action game can be compared with the Battlezone series from Activision Inc. |
| VR Baseball 2000 | 1998 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | VR Sports | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | VR Baseball 2000 is an MLB-licensed baseball sports game. It includes the official 1999 MLB rosters and stadiums for each team and a handful of players modeled specifically after their real-life counterparts. The game includes 30 teams and 750 players. Players can go through an entire season, one-off games, or compete in the Home Run Derby. |
| Valvo | 1998 | Family Games Freeware | AHA! Software Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Valvo is a freeware, mouse controlled, turn based strategy game played on a 8 x 7 grid divided into columns, it can be played as a player v player game or as a player v computer game.The players start in opposite corners at the top of the game area and the object is to reach the opponents home area before they reach yours. Each cell on the grid is coloured. As players move up/down the columns of the game board the colour of the cell they land on opens valves (hence the game's name) between the columns which permit their opponent to take shortcuts between the columns and thus progress towards their goal faster.The player to reach the opponent's home cell scores one hundred points plus a bonus which increases the further their opponent was from their goal. To win a match a player must score two thousand points. |
| Vandal Hearts | 1998 | Konami Co., Ltd. | Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Tactical RPG | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Vandal Hearts is a turn-based strategy RPG. It follows a fixed plot-line with set battles, focusing more on strategic elements than adventure elements. The combat takes place in a series of 3D grid based maps and each character in the party has a certain amount of movements they can perform each turn. As the game progresses, other characters join and leave the party and as they increase in level they can progress along different paths of development. Between each battle there is a cut scene that develops the plot using the same 3D engine as the combat (and often the same areas).In between battles you have the opportunity to talk to people in cities as well as purchase different equipment for the up coming battles. |
| Vegas Games 2000 | 1998 | 3DO Company, The | New World Computing, Inc. | Gambling | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Vegas Games 2000 is a collection of casino games. The game claims twenty five games but this total is achieved by having multiple versions of some games.
The package contains:
Baccarat
Big Spin Money Wheel
Blackjack: One, Two, Four or Six decks
Craps
Keno
Poker: 5 Card Draw, 5 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud, Texas Hold 'Em, Jacks or Better
Roulette
Slot Machines: Beyond the Stars, Easy Money, Love 2 Win, Buffet and Ancient Treasures
Video Keno
Video Poker: Tens or better, Jacks or better double down, Jacks or better high roller, Jokers Wild, Deuces Wild
The games are grouped so, for example, the player selects Poker from the main menu and then selects the variety of poker game from a menu bar which appears when the mouse is moved to the upper edge of the screen. None of the games are locked out, each player starts with $5000 and can play on any of the above games. Statistics are kept showing how well the player performs on each game, these are shown o the bottom of the screen on each game and a summary can be accessed via the main menu and via the game's ATM function.Many games can be played in multiple denominations and some, such as video poker, have a double down feature.All the games are played entirely with the mouse. Internet gaming against other players is possible and requires that the proprietary Mplayer software is installed. |
| Vigilance | 1998 | SegaSoft, Inc. | Any Channel, PostLinear Entertainment | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Vigilance puts you at the center of counter-terrorist missions. You select the operatives and equipment for each mission, then take the lead as you try to stop acts of terrorism that are already in progress. |
| Vikings | 1998 | index+ | index+ | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Pascal Valty | | | | Windows | Edutainment/adventure game set in the Viking empire some time in the 11th century. You play the role of Hjalmar, son of the bersekir Ingmar. The game opens in Finland, where you must assist Ingmar's friend Leif Harraldson in hiring the shaman Eldgrim. Eldgrim tells Hjalmar that his father's estate Dynhólmar in Iceland has been destroyed and his father killed. Hjalmar travels to Iceland to verify the claim and recover the family's heirloom axe Hildirid. Following the trail of the axe, Hjalmar will travel to Greenland and finally to Vinland (now called North America). As he reaches the end of his quest, even the gods become involved in his quest as he discovers his father's secrets.Gameplay is fairly standard 2D adventure, but with the twist that in addition to items, Hjalmar's "wallet" can contain images of people who can also be used on objects or other people to solve puzzles. Costumed actors are used for the numerous characters in the game, with video seamlessly integrated into the scenes, along with quite a few full screen video sequences to advance the story.The story itself is broken up into a series of nine "riddles" which must be solved to progress. These "riddles" include allocating the right laborers to the correct provinces to produce the goods needed to buy Eldgrim's services, collecting the different foodstuffs needed to survive the winter at the destroyed Dynhólmar estate, winning a game of Knattleikr (which resembles a violent form of baseball played on ice skates), and navigating the open seas from Finland to Iceland.The game includes a reference database on Viking culture. Every character and item in the game is described in the database, along with lots of other background information on the world and legends of the Vikings. The database is essential for solving many of the game's puzzles. It also provides a well-integrated way to present much of the game's educational content about Viking culture. |
| Viper Racing | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Monster Games, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | Troy Harder | | Everyone | | Windows | The first simulation of sports-car racing that features exclusively the Dodge Viper, one of the most popular racing cars on the road today. Viper Racing combines both the easy-to-master arcade racing mode and the challenge of a serious simulation mode with three levels of difficulty.A career mode is included to let you earn money to upgrade your car and move up through three different classes of the Viper racing league. Many tracks are included, along with replays, for reviewing races later, and a garage mode, for tweaking your setup.There are also hacks, including the ability to drive planes, but none of these are particularly useful, nor well-polished, except the 'exotic' car. (Most of the vehicle models are incomplete). Viper Racing's physics were very advanced for its time, and the AI, when set to hard, can even get into car-fights with you! |
| Vitamin | 1998 | Arsenal | Gamos Ltd. | Puzzle | Side view | | | Arcade | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Vitamin is a puzzle game, where the player should remove the growing ball sets of the same color, selecting most populated sets located at the border of the empty space. The points are given for the eliminated balls, and the game ends when empty space is completely filled. The highest scores are stored in top nine table. |
| Viva Soccer | 1998 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | Crimson | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | | | | Windows | Viva Soccer is the first game to allow a player to take part and re-write history in all Football World Cups (including the qualifying stage) from 1958 until 1998. Deal with players retiring, new talent emerging and the geopolitical changes of the 90s as the Iron Curtain opens and several new national teams emerge.Instead of using commentators, Viva relies on PlayerChat, which means only the sounds of the stadium - players and crowd - will be audible. 1035 squads (some with individual shirts) and 16554 players with different attributes (and some with personalized textures and models) are included in the game. |
| Vlad Tepes Dracula | 1998 | Learning Company, Inc., The, SoftKey Multimedia Inc. | ComputerHouse GBG AB | Strategy | Top-down | | War | | Europe, Historical events, Medieval | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Vlad Tepes Dracula is a micro-management kingdom simulator similar to the likes of Lords of the Realm. The titular character is the historical 15th century Romanian general Vlad III (also known as "Vlad the Impaler") rather than the better-known fictional vampire character. The objective of the game is fairly straight forward: Recapture the lands taken by the Turkish armies with the help of the remnants of your freedom fighters and rebuild what was lost.The strategy of the game is to build up your forces while attacking other counties as well as defending your own territories from attack. Most of the gameplay is real-time combat so much of the strategy in the game focuses on tactical combat. |
| Vosmoe Puteshestvie Sindbada: Proklyatie Karamogula | 1998 | Asia, Multimedia Service | Ivory Intellect | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Vosmoe Puteshestvie Sindbada: Proklyatie Karamogula (translated as The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad: Karamogul's Curse) is a colorful point-and-click adventure game. The story begins when the ship of Baghdad merchant Sindbad crashes on the shore of an unknown island. While searching for means to return home Sindbad meets island denizens, interacts with strange creatures and confronts a powerful wizard.The game is played on static screens where the player must interact with certain objects or NPCs and occasionally solve puzzles. Items may be picked up along the way and stored in the inventory for later use. The gameplay is generally of trial and error fashion, since many screens contain deadly traps that can be easily activated by the player. The game offers two difficulty settings, with gameplay tips and item descriptions available to the player on easy setting.
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| WCW Nitro | 1998 | THQ Inc. | Inland Productions, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Take control of your favourite WCW wrestler and battle it out in the ring. The 16 wrestlers (to start) in the game include such greats as Kevin Nash, Buff Bagwell and Hollywood Hulk Hogan.Based on WCW's flagship television program, "WCW Monday Nitro", this arcade-style game puts you (or a partner) in a button-mashing brawl featuring many of WCW's most popular stars and their signature maneuvers. There are single and tag match options for one or two players and a single-player tournament mode, where the player must battle through a series of matches to become a champion.As you progress, you can unlock new characters to take to the ring, including more WCW wrestlers and personnel, as well as fictional characters and THQ staff members. |
| Wall $treet Trader 98 | 1998 | Monte Cristo Multimedia | Monte Cristo Multimedia | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Étienne Jacquemain | Real-time | | | Windows | This game is a simulation of the stock market where the player takes the role of a recently graduated business student who gets venture capital from millionaire Lord Fleming. The gameplay consists basically of buying and selling of 70 stocks in 16 currencies. Simple, isn't it? Not quite, like in reality the main quality of a successful speculator is the quick reaction to trend reports and a bit of luck. The latest news are also an important source of information. So the player often has to ask himself questions like how a new Gulf War would influence the quotation of the dollar or oil. Unusually for managerial simulations the game actually tells a story and is divided into five missions where the first is basically a tutorial and later ones offer advanced possibilities like company analyses and insider information. The game uses real names for stock markets and companies. |
| Wanderer of Absu | 1998 | Absusoft | Absusoft | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements, RPG elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Wanderer of Absu is a first-person adventure game with RPG elements and primitive 3D graphics. The developers describe it as an RPG, but the focus on the gameplay lies on point-and-click adventure puzzles. It is released as freeware. |
| WarBirds: Dawn of Aces | 1998 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Massively Multiplayer | World War I | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Back of Box - Windows (US) (from Ad Blurbs)He who conquers his fear of death will be the master of the air.Taking off at first light from your secluded airfield, you begin the hunt. Your are a proud knight, not sheathed in armor, but surrounded by wood and canvas. Soaring through the air now, and high over enemy lines, you suddenly spot your prey. You pause a second to catch a breath, and with the sun to your back bank your aeroplane into a steep dive, whining toward your enemy.As you bear down on the unsuspecting aviator, the words of your first flight instructor still ring in your ears, "He who conquers his fear of death will be the master of the air." Indeed, those that follow the belief survive, those who don't go down in flames. You're in range now, ravaging the enemy's backside with bullets as your machine gun spouts flame and hot metal. Then it happens - you make eye contact, and as quickly as it began, it ends, your victim spinning and falling from the sky in a gyrating dance of death.Suddenly you realize, it could have just as easily been you.Dawn of Aces
Fly the Unfriendly SkiesFeatures:
Offline training to hone your flight and gunnery skills
FREE head-to-head play - 2 players can connect via modem, serial, LAN or Internet connections
Features legendary WWI planes including Fokker Dr.1, Spad VII, Sopwith Camel, Halberstadt CLII, Albatross D Va, and Bristol F.2B
High-fidelity flight models based on actual WWI data
3D-accelerated and non-accelerated gameplay available in the same online arenas
Exclusive MEGAplayer™ technology for smooth Internet play with and against hundreds of players per online arena
Multiple online arenas, each supporting hundreds of players simultaneously
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| WarBreeds | 1998 | Red Orb Entertainment | Red Orb Entertainment | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Teen | Chris Grun | Windows | WarBreeds is a real-time strategy with most features found in others. It contains resource management, unit building, combat against AI or other players, but with many changes to the normal genre.You control a clan of alien creatures, in which you can modify the DNA of, to create different custom units. There are four different clans in total, of a common ancestor.
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| WarGames | 1998 | MGM Interactive | Interactive Studios Ltd. | Strategy | | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Based on the movie of the same name, WarGames is a 3D Real Time Strategy game, that features the WOPR (War Operation Plan Response) computer as it tries to eliminate humanity. Play through the 15-level human or WOPR campaigns, or fight your friends in the 4-player multiplayer. Both sides have unique units. The humans feature soldiers and tanks, while WOPR has robots and large mechs. |
| WebWar | 1998 | | | Action | Behind view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | WebWar is a singleplayer freeware shoot 'em up arcade style game. The player controls a space ship that flies along in the bottom of a wire-frame trench. The objective of the game is to shoot enemy ships and collect power-ups in order to attain a high score. The game is played with the keyboard or with a joystick. |
| Wheel of Fortune | 1998 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. | Puzzle | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz, Word construction | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The long running game show hits the PC. All the areas of the show are here to play, including all of the prizes, 2000 puzzles and plenty of FMV of lovely hostess Vanna White. There is a new version of the game also available, where you are given a certain amount of free spin disks. If you choose the wrong letter, or land on 'lose a turn' or 'bankrupt', you lose one of the disks. Once you run out, the game is over. |
| Wheels! | 1998 | RJ Cooper & Associates | RJ Cooper & Associates | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | In Wheels! you play as a student who must navigate through labyrinths of school rooms and hallways without touching walls, in a first-person shooter perspective. Unlike other shooters though, this one is meant for handicapped children and you will be shooting clowns and robots with pies instead. Depending on the difficulty you play at the hallways become more narrow and enemies more common. Get the key, escape the maze, and win! |
| Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? | 1998 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy, Detective / mystery | | Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America | | Menu structures, Point and select | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | This release covers the 3.5 version of the game Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Released in 1998, it is a revision of 1996's version 3.0. As in version 3.0, the player is assigned a case by ACME Detective Agency's director, The Chief, played by Lynne Thigpen from the PBS game show. The player then pursues the thief from country to country, following clues from witnesses to determine the thief's next destination and assemble a portrait of them to obtain a warrant. The player can seek assistance from ACME's Good Guides, who provide tours of the locations and verify the player's warrant.Additions from version 3.0 are a translator in the World Wiz Database; spoken greetings and farewells when entering or leaving a country; and the ACME Global Language Link-Up, a mini-game that appears in non-English-speaking countries to quiz players on words and phrases in the country's native language. |
| Wild Sevens Slots | 1998 | Ultisoft, Inc. | Ultisoft, Inc. | Gambling | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Wild Sevens Slots is a single-player, shareware collection of three slot machine games, it can be played by either the mouse or the keyboard.The three games available are all five reel games with up to five win lines. They all have a 'Progressive' feature - a pot of cash that increases the more the game is played and which is paid out on any game when a specific win-line appears;
Casino Slots: This uses symbols that are casino related, slot machine, dice, roulette wheel etc. and the player can bet one to three credits on up to five pay-lines making the maximum bet $15, To win the player must match three or more symbols reading left to right or right to left.
The bonus games, see below, are triggered when four or more horse racing symbols appear on a line.
There are numeric symbols on the reels, ones and threes, which the game monitors by keeping a running total. If the player achieves a score of twenty-one they win five times their stake, as soon as the total exceeds twenty-one it is reset to zero.
The Bonus Pool is won when five wild symbols appear on a win line.
Wild Sevens: This is a twenty five cent machine and, like Casino Slots, the player can bet up to three credits per line making $3.75 the maximum bet per spin. All the symbols are wither wild sevens, sevens of various colours or one/two/three bars. Any win will trigger the bonus feature and thee Bonus Pool is won when five 'Wild Seven' symbols appear on a win line.
Joker Slots: This is a fifty cent machine giving a maximum bet of $7.50. The game pays out on;
Any Red/Black - where four or five cards are of the same colour
Ten of Spades - where four or five appear on a win line
Jacks/Queens/Kings/Aces/Jokers - where three or more appear on a win line. Five Jokers is the maximum possible win paying out two thousand times the stake plus the Bonus Pool.
All three slots have win lines which trigger an optional bonus game. There are three bonus games to choose from and in each the player risks all their winnings from the last spin of the reels. The bonus games are;
Magic Pyramid: The player is faced with a pyramid of bricks and selects one with a click of the mouse. Behind the brick will be either;A message saying 'Try Again'
A 5X symbol meaning that the player has just multiplied their slot win by five
A 2X symbol meaning that the player has just multiplied their slot win by two
A hint, something like 'The 5X symbol is behind an odd numbered brick'
A bomb meaning that the game is over and the player has lost
The player may uncover the 5X symbol and continue playing hoping to find another bonus but the first bomb encountered ends the game.
Horse Race: There are six horses on the left of the screen, each horse is given different odds of winning ranging from 2-1 to 20-1. The player selects one of the odds from the list on the left and the race begins. If the player chose well their slot win is multiplied by the odds they selected, if they made a bad choice they lose their slot win
Let It Ride Poker: This is a standard poker game where the minimum required to win of a pair of kings. The player is dealt five cards and can hold/reject any or all of them. When the new cards are dealt they either win or lose their stake. This game can be played as many times as the player wants as long as they keep o wining - one loss and the initial slot win plus anything accumulated from that win is lost.
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| Wild Turkey Hunt | 1998 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Sunstorm Interactive, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Wild Turkey Hunt is a budget game that has the player hunt turkeys in 5 different environments. The game is entirely controlled through the mouse, just requiring the player to aim and shoot. There is only one weapon, a shotgun, and a turkey call is used to lure the animal towards the crosshair. Scores are saved in the hunter's log. |
| WildSnake | 1998 | Arsenal | Gamos Ltd. | Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | WildSnake is an enhanced remake of Zmeelov, and it uses the name of its reworked Japanese port. As an original, it is a single-player falling block puzzle, where the blocks are snakes of different kind and length. They are crawling on their landing, and eliminating the snakes of the same kind already landed and collided with the current ones. The remake proposes three kinds of well such as Standard Rectangle, Rectangle with obstacles, and Hourglass Rectangle. Highest scores are stored in top ten table. |
| WinLines | 1998 | | Bristol Finance, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | WinLines is a shareware puzzle game.You have first to choose from six predefined boards (sized from 7x7 to 12x12 squares), then, you'll have to align at least five balls of the same color (horizontally, vertically or diagonally). Each time you move a ball three new balls appear in random places. Lines of 5 (or more) balls of the same color disappear and game lasts until the board is filled with balls.Scoring depends on number of balls that must be aligned so if the line is longer than 5 balls (6,7… in standard game), you get a bonus for exceeding balls. If you can master the boards provided, maybe you can build other boards with greater sizes. |
| Windows 98 Secrets | 1998 | IDG Books Worldwide | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Windows 98 Secrets is a weighty book, over eleven hundred pages, explaining Windows 98. There is a clear sealed plastic wallet glued to the inside of the back cover of the book, this contains many utilities and a selection of games.The contents of the disc are divided into seven categories:
Applications. This contains calendars, chemical analysis software, desktop publishing software, personal information manager software and more
Tools. Here you will find clipboard tools, diskette copying & formatting software, mail managers, graphic converters, hex editors, Spell checkers and Zip/Unzip software among others
Utilities. This section contains battery monitors, calculators, screen savers, virus scanners and more
Fun Stuff. Just two categories here Font Utilities and Icons and Mouse Utilities and Cursors
Games - covered in more detail below
Multimedia. Just three groupings; Editors & players of WAV files, CD Audio players, and WAV sound files. This last group has just one product SensuVox 1 described as a collection of five hundred .wav files which will give your PC a "sensual voice".
Registry. No groupings here, instead there are four programs providing a sample colour scheme, two registry search programs and one that adds a 'create new file' function to the right mouse button.
The Games category contains four groups;
Card and Solitaire-Type Games. This contains Canfield by Daniel Thomas, three casino card games from QFIT - Blackjack; Pai Gow Poker and Video Poker, Hardwood Solitaire ( v1.4.1) and Hardwood Solitaire II ( v1.0) from Silver Creek Entertainment, Jixxa, Lucas's Problem which installs as both a 16 bit and a 32 bit program, MisterMind (v1.32) and Thieves and Kings
Fast-Moving Arcade Games
ABM Command (v1.0), Block Breaker by Yutaka Emura, Doom for Windows 95, Games For Two For Windows 3.0, an installer for Kali.net an on-line gaming service and a demo of Monster Truck Madness
Word and Vocabulary Games
Bago, Bog 2, Bomb Squad (2.0), Hangman 2 and Puzzle-8 2
Other Games
Ancient Yacht, Astronomy Lab and an on-line version of Battleship
All the software on the CD is either public domain or shareware
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| Wing Commander: Prophecy - Gold Edition | 1998 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This Gold Edition contains:
Wing Commander: Prophecy (base game)
Wing Commander: Secret Ops (expansion pack)Secret Ops was previously only available as a downloadable missions package off of the web. |
| Wings: Saigon to Persian Gulf | 1998 | Maris Multimedia Ltd. | Maris Multimedia Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Wings: Saigon To Persian Gulf is a multimedia encyclopedia of fighter aircraft. It contains descriptions, photographs, and short movie sequences. It also contains three flight simulator missions in which the player can fly as either;
A Soviet Su-27 'Flanker' on an anti-drone training mission
An Israeli A-4 Skyhawk on an anti SAM mission
A USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II on a tank busting mission
All missions are keyboard controlled and are played in either 320 x 200 or 640 x 480 resolution. |
| Wirtualna Szkoła: Matematyka | 1998 | Young Digital Poland | Young Digital Poland | Educational | 1st-person | | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Wirtualna Szkoła: Matematyka is an education game focused on mathematics, physics and science. On the distant planet of the Numerals (from Polish: Liczaki), a civilization of small cheerful aliens has just discovered the existence of mathematics science. They immediately understood how important this discovery was and in order to learn all of its secrets as soon as possible, they sent a request to all inhabitants of the galaxy to help them grasp the knowledge of mathematics' world. Their signal has just reached our space base and the interstellar ship is already waiting for you, the player, ready to travel. Your mechanical friend Robo will travel with you to help with any difficult situations.While traveling around the planet of Numerals, 45 objects of the space laboratory can be found. They each present and explain terms in the fields of physics, technology and natural phenomena. The collected items are used to create a virtual encyclopedia of science and technology, such as: hourglass, sundial, compass, computer, camera, video camera etc. They are exhibited in a virtual museum.There is a scoreboard to keep track of progress. A magic sculpture can be formed of which parts are donated by inhabitants after tasks are completed, it grants access to concept art. |
| Word Connect | 1998 | RomTech, Inc. | RomTech, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Word Connect is a simple Scrabble-like game in which up to four players (human or computer) take turns placing letters on a board, trying to form the highest scoring interlocking word possible. The game comes with seven different board layouts ranging from a tiny layout for a quick game through to a Super challenging one with blacked out cells that cannot be used. The computer opponents' playing strength can be set to a value from one through to twenty for a tough game. In game tools include an anagram finder to help words from a mix of letters and a crossword finder where the player enters, for example, a*a*** and the game supplies a list of possible six letter words that match the criteria.There is an editor that allows the player to create their own game layouts. These can be of varying sizes with 15 x 15 being the largest. In addition to placing the bonus squares the player / designer can specify the frequency of the letters, the number of letters each player picks from the reserve, the scoring rules and so on. The game's dictionary is split into three sections and which section is used in the game depends upon the difficulty setting of the computer opponent. The easiest settings are levels one through to eight, these use the smallest dictionary of just eight thousand words. Difficulty settings nine through to fourteen use the eighteen thousand word dictionary while the hardest settings, levels fifteen to twenty, use the full one hundred and sixty thousand word dictionary.The game is played entirely with the mouse and it has a save-game feature. |
| World Football 98 | 1998 | Ubisoft Entertainment SA | | Simulation | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | World Football 98 (also known as Kiko World Football and Puma World Football) is a football (soccer) game. It was released in 1998, just before the 1998 Football World Cup and featured Kiko Narváez, the Spanish national team striker, prominently in the Kiko World Football version. The game was later distributed as a gift when buying Danone yogurts under the name of Danone World Football. It was an ad game, as in the break between halves advertisements are shown. Other names for the game when distributed as a budget release are World Football and Kiko World Football '98.The game contains 358 teams from all over the world and prominently teams from the 97/98 season, totaling 6,086 football players. There are five modes of play: Cup, Friendly, League, Training and Tournament. The game includes the three European cups: Champion's League, Cup Winner's Cup and the UEFA Cup.Games have different weather conditions that influence the game. There are three levels of difficulty and you are able to edit the number of players in the team to implement a handicap. There is also an edit mode for the team, league and cup allowing the player to update for new seasons, create their own teams and championships. Other features include an action replay facility, adjustable speed and support for multiplayer modes (two players or four players via network). There are 1,100 lines of commentary by Sky Sports' Martyn Tyler and 340 animations. |
| World League Soccer '98 | 1998 | Eidos, Inc. | Silicon Dreams Studio Ltd. | Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In World League Soccer '98 the player is able to move, kick, chip, volley and perform advanced passing techniques, including one-twos, chip returns and swerved long-balls. Players can also chest and head the ball with total control. Also, it is possible to alter pitch type, weather conditions, and stadium design.There are eight major European leagues plus the US and Japanese leagues, with 145 teams available to choose from, as well as international competitions which can be custom-designed. Live commentary is provided by Peter Brackley and Ray Wilkins, and motion capture by Les Ferdinand. |
| Wreckin Crew | 1998 | Telstar Electronic Studios Ltd. | Quickdraw Developments Ltd. | Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Wrecking Crew is a racing game similar to Mario Kart. Players take control of unorthodox characters such as a pair of Siamese twins, a circus trainer and a mad scientist, and race their hot-rods across ten tracks using unusual weapons such as lighting bolts, body bags and chickens.A two-player mode is available, and there are many funny unlockable characters. The tracks are sprawling, with teleports, secret routes and hidden areas to find. |
| X-COM: Collector's Edition | 1998 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | X-COM: Collector's Edition includes:
X-COM: UFO Defense
X-COM: Terror from the Deep
X-COM: Apocalypse
A collector's edition poster for X-COM: Alliance
The first two games have been altered to run properly under Windows, otherwise no gameplay changes were made. |
| X:Treme Flight Pack | 1998 | Xicat Interactive | | Action, Compilation, Simulation | | Licensed | | | | Flight / aviation | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | X:Treme Flight Pack is a compilation of the flight sim games:
Red Baron II
F-22 Lightning II
Sierra Pro Pilot
In addition, a joypad is included. |
| XBill | 1998 | | | Action | | | Comedy | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In XBill, you are a system administrator. You run Linux, Red Hat, OS2, OSX and all sorts of other operating systems. You're just going about your business, when all of a sudden, mini Bill Gates look a likes start attacking your computers! They're trying to install Windows on them against your will! Use the mouse to click on these mini multi billionaires to stop them. If they manage to install Windows, they will drag the old OS out. To regain a computer, click the mini mogul carrying it before he gets away, and put it back in the right PC. Some computers are networked together. If one of these mini monopolists infects a networked computer, a spark will go down the cable and infect the next computer. Use the water pale at the top of the screen to put out the spark, and keep it from infecting other the computers on the network. The game ends when you only have one or no working computers. Don't let the Bills win brave SYS.Admin - otherwise we'll have to wait five years before PNG image support! |
| Xenocracy | 1998 | Grolier Interactive Inc. | Simis Limited | Action, Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | Xenocracy is a cross between a space combat action sim and a political strategy game. In the far future, four planetary superpowers (the Earth Dominion, the Mercury League, the Venus Alliance and the Mars Combine) are vying for control of the solar system and on the brink of all-out "thermostellar war". As commander of the United Planet Nations peacekeeping fighter squadron, your role is to maintain the balance and prevent cold war and localized conflicts from escalating into open interplanetary hostilities. Further complicating the matter, you must deal with pirates and a looming alien threat.As each planetary superpower launches low-intensity strikes (as opposed to open warfare) against the colonies and outposts of the other three, you are presented with the choice, via a strategic solar system map showing flaring geopolitical hotspots, of which to aid. If you aid one superpower too much at the expense of the others, as one is first tempted to do, you upset the balance and cause the war you sought to prevent. Whichever you choose, afterward you are realistically presented with complaints and political propaganda from the other three superpowers, and receive news broadcasts concerning the interplanetary geopolitical wrangling.In addition to keeping the peace, you also manage research and development of newer and more powerful technologies, which will eventually prove crucial. Several fighter and weapon types are available, and the scenery varies from asteroid belts and dust clouds to planetary surfaces. You may choose from several wingmen, each with a personal description and personality type, whom you must do your best to keep alive. Missions include such tasks as defending mine complexes from attack (or attacking them) and protecting convoys (or destroying them).The game also allows Arcade Mode, in which you simply fly missions without regard to the strategic aspects of the game, and multiplayer games of up to 8 players over TCP/IP or serial connections.
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| You Don't Know Jack: The Irreverent Collection | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack: The Irreverent Collection is a compilation box containing:
You Don't Know Jack
You Don't Know Jack Volume 2
You Don't Know Jack Volume 3
You Don't Know Jack Volume 4: The Ride
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| You Don't Know Jack: Volume 4 - The Ride | 1998 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack: Volume 4 - The Ride is the fourth main installment in the series of humorously inclined quiz games. Several changes has been made to the game's structure and themes, compared to the previous entries. The game follows an episode-based format: "The Ride" refers to an elevator that transports the player character to rooms, each dedicated to a different theme. The choice of room for the player to tackle depends on his/her answers to the game's initial questions.The rest of the gameplay revolves, as in the previous installments, around answering trivia questions and gaining money by doing so. The game has a higher degree of randomization regarding the prizes offered for correct answers. There is also a new type of question, called "Roadkill", which requires the player to find a word that connects two other phrases. |
| Z and Z Expansion Kit | 1998 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Bitmap Brothers, The | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | | Windows | Z and Z Expansion Kit includes a native Windows 95 port of the DOS Game Z and the Z Expansion Kit, which was never released separately. The game runs only in native Windows 95 mode. The expansion kit adds a multi-player editor and a Z Theme Pack. Furthermore, the control interface has been optimized, and tweaks were made to the single- and multiplayer gameplay. A few changes to the placement of the guns in the game were made as well.The Z Expansion Kit also adds 11 levels (from 20 to 31), replicas of the first 11 levels of the original DOS release, but with a larger map and all of the units available right away. |
| Z.A.R. | 1998 | Auric Vision Ltd., Explorer Software | Maddox Games | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | In 2097, the mining of minerals and other natural resources is completely automated and controlled by supercomputers. The planets that are mined for 'Iberium', an essential mineral to control pollution on Earth, are called Z.A.R.; Zones for Artificial Resources. The 'central computer' that controls all of the mining robots is hit by a meteorite and enters a frenzy. It starts building robots with weapons, intent on conquering more planets. A single soldier, Colonel Hermit, is sent to deal with this threat. The mission objectives are rather simple, most often requiring the destruction of a number of installations or robots. Sometimes you will need to protect valuable cargo. Environments are diverse, including water-covered planets, deserts, volcanic areas, etc. Weapons and other bonus items are found on the planet surface. Jumping can be done using a booster or simply by using your legs. Hostile units move over water, ground, in the air and some even jump like a kangaroo. |
| Zap! | 1998 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Zap! is an educational game in which kids experiment with lasers, electrical gadgets and sound waves. Their goal is to learn all they can about sound, light and electricity to help restore a concert hall called the WonderDome. Three wacky characters, Riff, Surge and Blaze, run the three labs and are always telling puns while they guide the activities. In each lab, kids can play in an open-ended fashion and experiment with things like sound activated robots, circuits and lasers. As they play they earn parts for the WonderDome’s concert hall. The more problems they solve in the labs the more parts they have for the WonderDome. In the WonderDome they can program a show with dancing robots, music and a laser light show. |
| Zebco Pro Fishing 3D | 1998 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Window Painters Ltd. | Sports | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Zebco Pro Fishing 3D is an officially licensed fishing game. Even though the title implies otherwise, it is in 2D and presented in an top-down view. The comes with over 45 different rod & reel combinations. Caught fish can be viewed in the Live Well where you are shown a 3D render.The game is controlled completely with the mouse. The player can row his boat around the lake until he has found a suitable fishing location, where he can cast his line and wait for the fish to bite. Once a fish is nibbling the bait the player has to hook it and then reel it in. When you do so you must make sure your line doesn't break by keeping an eye on the tension. |
| Zero Critical | 1998 | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Istvan Pely Productions | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Rheom 1 is a terrestrial planet of eternal daylight. Recently, a research facility has been established there, with a group of scientists working on a mysterious Satin Project. However, strange events begin to happen there. The head of the project, Dr. Victoria Fayn, has killed another scientist, allegedly in self-defense. The Interstellar Transportation Commission sends an agent named Chatt Rhuller to investigate the incident. As Chatt is prevented from leaving the research facility, he begins to realize that something far more sinister is going on, and is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery.Zero Critical is a third-person adventure game. The player interacts with the environment by using a point-and-click interface. Most of the gameplay is dedicated to gathering clues by having conversations with the characters (including the choice of different topics), as well as solving predominantly inventory-based puzzles. |
| Zero Zone | 1998 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | It's the year 2098 in Megatown, a sprawling city populated by Bios and Cybers. The Bios use the Cybers as slaves; the males work in factories, and the females serve. A young man named Stan Gonzo unexpectedly receives a will from his father, whom he never met. Stan inherits a large fortune and becomes the leader of Kanary, the largest Cyber technology company. There is one big problem, however: Stan's father hasn't died of natural causes. A police officer is sent to investigate the murder, and Stan decides to help him. He must get to the bottom of the mystery, find out who his father really was and who has murdered him, and discover secrets that will change the relationship between Bios and Cybers forever.Zero Zone is a puzzle-solving adventure with pre-rendered backgrounds representing locations. The player navigates Stan from a first-person view with a point-and-click interface. The camera can be rotated in 360 degrees; however, movement is still restricted by "jumping" from one pre-rendered image to another. Conversations with other characters, gathering clues, and solving puzzles advances the game's story. |
| Zeus | 1998 | NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH | Blackstar Interactive GmbH | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Turn-based strategy | Classical antiquity, Europe | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Zeus is a strategy game similar to Sid Meier's Civilization II; however, instead of the whole world, the eleven missions of the game are restricted to ancient Greece. The player starts with a capital from which he sends settlers to found villages. Up to three factories per village produce goods like wool, weapons or tools. These goods are available to all villages of the player's empire, surplus wares are sold to other empires. When a fight is inevitable the player sends troops to defeat the enemy which are recruited and trained in the capital. |
| Zillions Of Games | 1998 | Zillions Development Corporation | Zillions Development Corporation | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles, Chess | | | Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Zillions of Games is a compilation of strategy and board games from Zillions Development and which uses their own development engine. Version 2, current as at 2014, contains three hundred and seventy five games with a further twenty-two hundred plus user created games available from the Zillions web site. The games in this package consist of:One hundred and twenty eight puzzle games consisting of 8 Queens (5), 15 Puzzle (9), Chess Swappers (10), Knight's Tour (7), Maze (4), Rook's Tour (17), Solitaire: English (21), Solitaire: French (11), Solitaire: Square (5), Solitaire: Star (3), Solitaire: Triangle (9), Swappers (9), Towers of Hanoi (4), Turn Off (14)
Sixty Chess puzzles including Chess: Mini (7), Chess: Standard & Variants (34), Chess: Regional (19)
Forty-Six X-In-A-Row games such as 9 Men's Morris (4), Go-Moku (8), Morris (11), Tic Tac Toe (14), and Vertical TicTacToe (9)
One hundred and forty-one other puzzle games including Alquerque (4), Blobs (8), Checkers (19), Chinese Checkers (5), Coins (6). Dodgem (3), Fanorona. Fox and Geese (10), Go (20), Halma (2), Hasami Shogi (6), Hip (10), Kono, Four Field. Mu Torere (3), Neutron (4), Nim (5), Reversi (22), Seega (2), Senat , Tafl (9)
The numbers in brackets show how many variations of each game there are. |
| adidas Power Soccer 98 | 1998 | Psygnosis Limited | Shen Technologies SARL | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | adidas Power Soccer 98 is the fourth and final title in the Psygnosis series. Offering the classic mix of arcade and simulated gameplay from the previous games, this edition updates the game twelve different types of tournaments and cups, eleven international leagues, 120 national teams and about 30 different stadia to play in.Aside from the classic gameplay players have different moves such as flick-passes, short dribbles, and sliding tackles. In both (arcade modes and simulation), there is a speed button that makes players run at an extreme and somewhat unrealistic speed. It is not entirely an advantage as using it widens the gap between the ball and the foot, leaving players wide open for tackles. Unlike similar games, there also isn't a way to scroll through the available players - the game automatically selects the player nearest to the ball.The camera is dynamic and smoothly zooms in and out to give the best overview of the pitch. Multiplayer is available for up to four players through multitap. It was released in June of 1998 to coincide with the 1998 World Cup played in France at that time. |
| iF-22 / Pinball Builder: A Construction Kit for Windows | 1998 | 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
iF-22
Pinball Builder: A Construction Kit for Windows |
| iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter | 1998 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | A flight simulator based on the U.S. Navy's new carrier fighter super-hornet.
The game puts you in command of a Hornet squadron in two possible campaign scenarios, one vs the Turks in the Aegean theater, and one vs Iran and Irak in the Persian Gulf. Before each flight CSF generates a set of missions for the entire squadron based on the current campaign status, and you may then proceed to plan and edit a selected mission on the mission planner. Once the mission ends, the results are tallied and the cycle begins again taking into account the new stats.Available game modes include, in addition to the campaign mode: training flights, a quick-mission generator, randomly generated single missions, an instant action mode (and yes, those three are all different things) and multiplayer deathmatches.Graphics are all 3D accelerated, and the game boasts terrain based on actual satellite projected images. |
| À la découverte de la VIE | 1998 | Génération 5 | Génération 5 | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | À la découverte de la Vie is an educational game in French for children aged eight to fourteen with six parts, covering five natural areas (oceans, forests, mountains, rivers and lakes, countryside) and the human race. The story has the player help Moufi the alien to study Earth and its life forms. Each chapter contains hyperlinked information and a quiz. Each quiz is worth 1,000 points. |
| Big 10 Simulation-Action | 1998-01-01 | Koch Media GmbH (Germany) | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation is the counterpart to Big 10 Strategie-Sport-Adventure, but this time only Action and Simulation games are included. And like the game title says, there are 10 games in the compilation spread over 6 CD's. Full (but not original) manuals are on disc only, while the printed manual has only setup instructions.The following games are included:
Absolute Zero
Cyclemania
EF2000
Flight Unlimited
FX Fighter
Jack Nicklaus Golf & Course Design: Signature Edition
Jammit
Jetfighter 2
Silent Steel SE
Super Karts |
| ClueFinders: 3rd Grade Adventures | 1998-01-01 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Adventure, Educational | | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Deep in the Rainforest, strange things are happening. A monster that attacked the Rainforest many years ago is believed to have returned after the mysterious disappearance of many animals and the famous naturalist Dr. Horace Pythagoras. With all these strange things happening who can save the Rainforest?The ClueFinders are called in to help save the Rainforest, and the professor. In the game your goal is to find two keys in two different parts of the Rainforest called the Goo Lagoon, and the Monkey Kingdom to open the ancient city gates where Mathra is hiding. This game for ages 7-9 teaches 3rd grade curriculum such as Language arts, Science, Logic and much more. Their personified flying computer 'LapTrap' provides a menu that includes a sound on/off option, a map, a ClueFinders club and a progress report to help show how well your doing in your subjects. The game also provides a red video phone for help in any game. |
| Corum II: Dark Lord | 1998-01-01 | Hicom Entertainment | Hicom Entertainment | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | The warrior Polker returns to his home village in Corum province after a thirteen-year-long war. Once there, he finds out that his parents were killed in a raid. Misfortunes continue when the mayor's daughter is kidnapped, and a valuable dragon statue stolen from the village. Polker sees no other choice but to find and punish the culprits - a plan that eventually drags him into a dangerous adventure and a battle against evil forces.Corum II: Dark Lord is an action role-playing game and a follow-up to Corum. The games are not directly connected to each other story-wise, but are set in the same world. Much of the game consists of interconnected hostile areas, where Polker fights enemies in action-based combat. Polker can use swords and cast different magic spells, which requires inputting combinations of keys. The protagonist receives experience points for defeating enemies and solving quests, but there is no manual character advancement: the hero's attributes increase automatically. The game is played completely with the keyboard and the progress can only be saved at certain points. The game comes with a soundtrack CD. |
| Eol-ui Hwansang-ui Seom Guchul Jakjeon | 1998-01-01 | | Family Production | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Eol-ui Hwansang-ui Seom Guchul Jakjeon is a follow-up to Eol-ui Moheom. The cute yellow anthropomorphic animal Eol travels to the Fantastic Islands, which were separated by an earthquake caused by a destruction of a magical jewel. Eol must collect pieces of this jewel and re-assemble it.Unlike the previous Eol game, this is a point-and-click third-person adventure. The gameplay system is quite simple and involves limited interaction with hot spots and usage of inventory items to solve puzzles, which sometimes occurs automatically if the item is in Eol's possession and he finds himself in the right location. |
| The Divide: Enemies Within | 1998-01-01 | Viacom New Media | Radical Entertainment Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Metroidvania, Platform | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | In The Divide: Enemies Within, the player takes control of an explorer on an alien planet. After they land to investigate, they are attacked, where the player is frozen and their partner kidnapped. After being thawed, the player takes control of a mech and sets out to rescue their partner and destroy the alien menace.The basic gameplay has the player explore through eight different worlds with a total of over 100 different stages in a 3-D environment. The player explores the levels, collecting new weapons and power-ups to fight out the 20 different enemies scattered throughout the level. At the end of each level, the player must fight off an enemy boss before fighting the final boss at the end of the game. |
| Winter Race 3D | 1998-01-01 | Pantera Entertainment | Pantera Entertainment | Sports | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Winter Race 3D is a sports game which simulates skiing, snowboard and snowmobile races in a 1st person perspective. The game is arcade oriented, which means that the controls are limited to left, right, more speed or less speed. Only in the snowboard races the player can do stunts while jumping to gain bonus time which gets offset against his end time.The game features five courses which are varied from a linear downhill course to a giant slalom or roofed courses. There is no tournament or multiplayer mode so the only motivation for playing is the beating of the own record times. |
| Yeonghon Gibyeong Lazenca | 1998-01-01 | Hyundai | Family Production | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Post-apocalyptic | | | | | | Windows | Yeonghon Gibyeong Lazenca is an action role-playing game based on the Korean TV animated series Lazenca: Revival of a Myth. In a post-apocalyptic world, an overly ambitious Empire invades a nearby kingdom. A young man named Atin finds himself in the unlikely role of a hero when circumstances make him escape together with the princess. Atin joins a resistance organization and attempts to uncover the mystery of the ancient sentient machine Gairun in order to defeat the Empire. The game uses pre-rendered backgrounds with fixed camera angles for exploration and battles. The player controls Atin who fights enemies with his fists in a beat-em-up-like fashion, or throws boomerangs at them. As Atin gains experience points and levels up he gradually learns special powerful attacks that require the use of technique points. |
| Microshaft Winblows 98 | 1998-01-05 | Palladium Interactive, Inc. | Parroty Interactive, WayForward Technologies, Inc. | Action, Strategy | | | Comedy | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Microshaft Winblows 98 is a spoof on the Microsoft Windows 98 operating system. It is a collection of small games and other interactive activities that spoof both Microsoft, Windows and Bill Gates.Included games are "The Roll Ahead" a strategy board game where the player has to recreate Bill Gate's road to success, "Billagotchi" Bill's cyber ego that has to be fed money once in a while and the trivia game "Win Bill's Money".The "Campus Cam" allows you to take a peak in the daily going ons at Microshaft, "MSTV" shows you the future of television according to Microshaft, "Reject Bin" shows some failed Microshaft products, "Bill's Personal Outlook" allows you to look at Gate's personal files and "Winblows Exploder" allows you to blow up all those computer related annoyances. |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 4 | 1998-01-07 | CUC Software International GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the January/February 1998 issue (Volume 4) of the Best of Sierra series. This issue's title games are:
Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
Lode Runner: The Legend ReturnsIn addition to these two full version games, the following demos are also included:
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent and Print Artist 3.The magazine's special features from this issue are the following:
A résumé of the story from Space Quest 1 to Space Quest 5, a 8 pages long walkthrough for Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier, a 11 pages long walkthrough for selected levels from Lode Runner: The Legend Returns, and articles about the following 5 newest Sierra games: Diablo: Hellfire, Lords of Magic, Red Baron II, Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance, and Betrayal in Antara. |
| Sentry | 1998-01-07 | | Momor Productions | Action, Puzzle | 1st-person | Fangame | | Stealth | | | | | | | Windows | Sentry is a freeware remake of Geoff Crammond's all-time classic, The Sentinel. Gameplay remains true to the original, in this battle for dominance via height. Climb higher by building towers of boulders, gain energy by absorbing natural resources and teleport around the strange checkered landscape via robot shells. Meanwhile, you must avoid the deadly gaze of The Sentinel, who looks out from the highest peak. Get higher than him, then absorb him and take his place as ruler.This Windows version includes texture mapping, dynamic lighting, music, an infinite supply of levels and a host of options. There are even two different stereoscopic modes. |
| Worms 2 | 1998-01-13 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Team17 Software Limited | Strategy | Side view | | Comedy, War | Artillery | | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | The worms are back, powered by a brand new graphics engine.
The main gameplay hasn't changed, and the purpose of the game is the same as before: exterminate the army of worms of your opponent.The worms are now represented by big and well animated sprites.
And of course, an even larger array of weapons of mass detruction are available, from miniguns, napalm airstrikes and homing rockets to explosive mad cows, super banana bombs and flying sheeps. |
| Ginga Eiyū Densetsu V | 1998-01-14 | Bothtec, Inc. | Bothtec, Inc., Quest Corporation | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | The fifth game in the series based on the anime adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka's Legend of the Galactic Heroes science fiction novels. The novels (and the games) are set in a futuristic world, where humanity has conquered the entire Milky Way and split into two powerful warring states, each encompassing different systems and planets: the Galactic Empire (modeled after Bismark's 19th century Prussia), and the democratic Free Planets Alliance.Ginga Eiyū Densetsu V is a tactical strategy game featuring 60 scenarios and can be played in a campaign mode or scenario mode. Players may take the role of either the Galactic Empire or the Free Planets Alliance. All movement and combat is handled in a turn-based fashion and all the attacks are accompanied by pre-rendered 3D videos of the ships attacking and taking damage. The scenario mode branches out based on the player's victories. In addition to being able to choose the admiral and the number of ships to appear, as well as organizing the fleet, it is possible for two players to fight against each other. |
| Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers | 1998-01-14 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles, Trading / collectible card | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers is an upgrade to Magic: The Gathering. This version adds:
The engine upgrades until this release (fixing many bugs and incorporating ManaLink)
A new interface (as seen previously in Magic: The Gathering - Spells of the Ancients)
80 new cards from Legends and The Dark
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| Reader Rabbit: 1st Grade | 1998-01-14 | Learning Company, Inc., The | KnowWare | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In the little town of Wordville, Reader Rabbit and his friends are preparing a variety show at the local theater. Unfortunately, during the night someone stole everything they prepared, including the props, the costumes and the scripts. Reader Rabbit must now work with the town inhabitants and create them anew.Reader Rabbit: 1st Grade is an educational game for kids between 5 and 7 years old. It teaches elements of language, math, natural sciences, music and art. There is a total of twelve educational activities divided equally among four places that the rabbit protagonist must visit. Four of them are actually puzzles that once solved give access to the locations themselves. The activities are grouped in the following way:
Owl's TreeHouse
Doorbell Spell. The player must input the missing letter in order to enter Professor Owl's house.
Word Bird. Penelope Parrot has to learn the lines for today's show. This is a pronunciation exercise where the player must hear the words and select which sound stands either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the word.
Silly Scripts. From a list of words must be selected the ones that fit the context of the text.
Papa Bear's Store
Week Creek. In order to proceed to Papa Bear's store, Reader Rabbit must place the missing weekdays in the correct places.
Costu-Matic. Several costumes must be assembled from four different parts. Each part has its own price and the player must pay this price using coins of 1, 5, 10 and 20.
Costume Count. This is a mathematical exercise in which the player must correctly add or subtract the numbers. Furthermore, the numbers are illustrated using different objects on the inventory board.
Pierre's Studio
Autograph Hound Gateway. Reader Rabbit must choose the illustrated mood that his fan is hinting at.
Pattern Piano. The player must reproduce Pierre's songs. Each musical note has an associated color and every song part has two sequences of colors. The player must compare them in order to detect the missing one.
Billboards. Using a brush, a pencil, an eraser, different colors and pre-made pictures, Reader Rabbit can paint four posters for today's show.
Babs' Workshop
Animal Geography Gateway. One of the animals doesn't belong in the shown landscape. It's up to Reader Rabbit to choose which one.
Measure It! Babs will help Reader Rabbit build the props, but he must first select the parts that correspond to the dimensions indicated by her. This time, footprints of bear, moose and rabbit are used as measure units.
Prop Sorter. The sorting machine needs a bit of help in gathering all the animals that fit Babs' description. The player can click on the bottom buttons to operate the platforms and throw the animals sitting on them all the way to the top stands.
After completing all the activities, the player can view the performance at the local theater. The game has several moments when the characters sing, resembling a musical. |
| PC Fútbol 6.0 | 1998-01-15 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Another soccer manager with a simulation.
In this case you could play in the spanish league ( 1ª division, 2ª division and 2ªB). You begin with a small team and you must take it to the top.
You could play the match simply as a simulation or watch it and trust in your tactics and your players.The game begin in the season 1997/98 and you could play forever... The players don't get old. ( Ronaldo playing the year 2030???).
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| Private Garden | 1998-01-15 | Tetratech | Tetratech | Puzzle | Top-down | | Adult | Tile matching puzzle | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Private Garden is a puzzle game for adults that takes some mechanics from classic block games like Soko-Ban. Through the levels, our mission is to move two type of blocks: lady blocks, that can be joint to create up to 4x4 block image of the female character we selected, and male blocks (with the masculine symbol). The level is success in the moment that all the lady blocks are "activated". To activate a female block, a male block has to reach it, and both will disappear.Along the successive levels, different scenes involving sexual situations with the protagonists of the game are unlocked. |
| Tian Long Ba Bu | 1998-01-15 | Soft-World | Soft-World | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | China (Ancient / Imperial) | | Direct control | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Tian Long Ba Bu is an RPG adapted from Jin Yong wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. Prince Duan Yu of Dali received a Buddhist training in his childhood. He learned the Confucian classics, poems and songs, but he knows nothing about martial arts. His father forces him to practice martial arts and Duan Yu decides to escape his home. After the escape the game unfolds a sprawling journey. The novel's plot is reworked with various puzzles that often require objects to solve them. |
| Codename: Tenka | 1998-01-22 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Wars and pollution have driven the Earth to chaos. The year is 2096. The remaining colonists' only dream is to leave the planet and establish on Extrevius 328, a corporate conglomerate manufacturing plant for deadly warriors, known as Bionoids. You are Joseph B. Tenka, future Bionoid, very unpleased with the situation, and determined to stop the corporate evil plans.Over 20 missions with detailed briefings can be found in this Doom clone with creepy atmosphere which has been compared to Aliens. |
| Front Line Fighters | 1998-01-23 | Digital Integration Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Front Line Fighters bundles three of Digital Integration's flight simulations plus the add-on for F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Apache
HIND: The Russian Combat Helicopter Simulation
F-16 Fighting Falcon
F-16 Fighting Falcon: The Afghanistan Campaign
All titles released in this compilation are updated, they include improved terrain and textured maps with support for 3Dfx accelerator cards. The two helicopter simulations Apache and Hind have new clouds and fog effects.
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| Semper Fi | 1998-01-31 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Stanley Associates | Strategy | Top-down | | War | | Asia, Cold War, Europe, Historical events, Middle East | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | A tactical wargame simulating the action faced by the U.S. Marine Corps.The game is composed of 3 non dynamic campaigns sprawled over 15 scenarios which include Korea, Vietnam, and a bunch of hypothetical scenarios) plus a scenario editor. Gameplay uses the standard wargaming hex-based tactical map as the main point of the interface and you play in standard turn-based fashion, tough there are some twists. For instance, attacks are delivered sequentially, meaning you can't "stack" every unit in the world on a hex and deliver an earth-shaking attack, etc. features like this tend to reward the more judicious use of fire and good planning. |
| The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time | 1998-01-31 | Red Orb Entertainment | Presto Studios, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The third installment of the The Journeyman Project adventure game series, this time utilizing a 1st person perspective with a panoramic view you can rotate in 360 degrees freely. The game casts the player as Gage Blackwood, Agent 5 of the Temporal Security Agency, who must travel back in time visiting Atlantis, El Doraldo and Shangri La. In this journey you must try to capture a rogue TSA agent, Agent 3, and collect several mysterious artifacts left by an ancient alien race to protect Earth from an alien invasion and save time and reality itself.New to the third game is the Chameleon Suit. No longer must the player avoid being seen while traveling through the past, as they can now disguise themselves as any person they have seen. People in the past can be spoken to as well, and their reactions vary based on who Gage is disguised as. Puzzles often need to be solved by bringing in items from another time period, or by talking to a character to learn more about the mythical societies. |
| USCF Chess | 1998-01-31 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Indigo Moon Productions Inc., Intermetrics, Inc. | Educational, Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Chess | | | | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | USCF Chess is a chess simulation for the PC tailored for the intermediate and advanced chess player. USCF Chess allows top-down or 3D isometric views with your choice of themed backgrounds. USCF Chess has a AI system which will allow all levels play from novice to expert and will challenge the most advanced players. Players can choose to play against a friend via modem/LAN or against the computer. USCF Chess allow players to create a user profile and compete in rated or non-rated matches. During a rated game moves may not be taken back, and you can't force the computer to move. Rated games will also affect a players numerical rating which will increases or decreases depending on the outcome of the match. |
| Dunkle Manöver | 1998-02-01 | BMS Modern Games Handelsagentur GmbH | TriNodE Entertainment Systems | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A crime syndicate threatened the world. You’re an undercover agent of the X-Organisation and want to defeat Ernest Savage and his R.A.T. Syndicate. You and your team fights against R.A.T. in 20 missions around the world. Before the mission you chose the vehicles for the operation. The number of vehicles is limited. Every vehicle is able to do some actions like shoot or move. This action costs action points. With some luck you can overtake the enemy vehicles. This is necessary to grow up your vehicle funds. Sometimes you must repair, fill up or get your vehicles more ammunition. Vehicles who survive the mission go with in the next stage. |
| Kitchen Panic | 1998-02-01 | Panther Software Inc. | Panther Software Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Kitchen Panic is a whimsical 2D platformer starring a potato. An army of cans and other foodstuffs have taken over the kitchen, and Potato must stop them! Each sprawling level is designed for both exploration and speed, as in each stage there are ten kettles of special sauce hidden around, but the game also keeps track of your fastest time on each stage.Potato has a unique special ability to aid him: he can spin in mid-air like a certain hedgehog, and use the force to launch himself further and faster than he can run. A forward spin will launch him forward, and a backspin will launch him straight upward. This greatly aids in exploration of each stage, allowing for very long or high jumps. There are also a number of power-ups to be found, including Ice Potato and Rocket Potato.The game is made up of a number of zones, each with six stages. At the end of each zone, Potato must face off against a food-themed boss enemy, such as a stack of plates or a giant ice cream cone. |
| Shadow Master | 1998-02-01 | Psygnosis Limited | HammerHead Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | In a futuristic universe you must destroy the forces of ShadowMaster which are attacking your planet. You are in armored all-terrain vehicle and you must shoot over the enemies in a full 3D world. |
| The Interstate '76 Arsenal | 1998-02-01 | Activision, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Interstate '76 Arsenal is a combo pack of Interstate '76 and the Nitro Pack with added support for 3D Hardware support and Force Feedback. |
| Tower of the Sorcerer | 1998-02-01 | | | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | A brave man is trying to save a princess caught in the tower. However, the Magic Sergeant Zeno stands on his way and will try to stop the hero, pursuing his own agenda.Tower of the Sorcerer is a cross between a puzzle game and an RPG. To save the princess the protagonist must go up the floors. He fights the bad guys and gets keys to open doors. The hero has a health meter and it is possible to acquire items to increase defensive power, offensive power, and health. The levels are not randomly generated. |
| The 3rd Millennium | 1998-02-03 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | The 3rd Millennium is a simulation game which places you as a political leader in the year 2001 (near future at the time of release). The world has evolved into 31 different states divided over 5 large countries. Your goal is to become governor of your state and eventually president of the entire world.To achieve this you will need to build cities (building by building), collect taxes, negotiate deals with other world leaders, pass social reforms and run for grander offices. The more power you acquire, the more options become available to you to pave the road to presidency. You basically have full control over your country and can play for up to five hundred years. |
| Blip | 1998-02-10 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In Blip you are controlling a blue ball with your keyboard. Your goal is to collect all of the hearts in the game as fast as you can, because their is a time limit. Once you have collected them all, find an exit and proceed to the next level.Actually, the "time limit" is an "energy limit". Your ball, Blip, has a starting amount of energy, which will deplete one unit of energy every one second, if you move on land. If you are crossing through a water field, you will loose 5 energy units at once. When your energy is gone, you have lost a life. And you have a total amount of 3 lives.But you can gain energy back, with the Energy-Power-Up, it will give you 20 units back. But the amount of energy you can carry is limited to 200 energy units.In addition to Hearts and Energy, you can find the following in a level: free cells (normally movable fields), walls (impenetrable), hidden walls (free cells at start, will appear on contact), hidden free cells (walls at start, will disappear on contact), Water (you loose 5 energy per water field you cross, every time), Exit (your destination after collecting all hearts; if you haven't collected them all, you have to re-play the level).The game offers 15 levels, once you complete one, you get a level code for the next one. In addition to that, a Level Editor is included, so you can build your own levels. |
| Labyrinthe | 1998-02-13 | Caravan Interactive, Inc. | Caravan Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Following the events of the last game, players have finally defeated Zeddas but find themselves trapped in Hell without their memories. They encounter a fairy named Ripple and, despite being unsure whether she's an enemy or an ally, they set out together to find a way out of Hell. This first-person graphic adventure features a focus on puzzles, and also contains occasional simple combat. |
| Losing Your Grip | 1998-02-15 | | | Adventure | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure | | | | | | | Windows | In Losing Your Grip, the protagonist, Terry, is in rehab for nicotine addiction. When the game begins, Terry is standing in a muddy glade as the rain pours down. Soon, a human head, buried up in the mud, explains, mysteriously, that Terry has "pieces to recover", and he is left to his own devices.Losing Your Grip is an interactive fiction game. Commands, like go north, are entered into a text parser, and the game responds with text as well. |
| Easy Bridge | 1998-02-16 | | | Educational, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Easy Bridge is a single player, freeware, bridge player and tutor.This game has been around for a while and earlier versions can be found both on-line and on compilation CDs. The current version, in 2013, that is documented here is Easy Bridge v4.0.2.When the program is first run it takes the player through a configuration wizard questions the player to find out their skill level and the basic systems they use when playing bridge. These settings are not set in stone and can be changed later on via the game's menu bar.Easy Bridge caters for absolute beginners who need all the advice they can get, beginners who already know the basics, and those who can already play and who will ask for advice when they need it. Players can bid using natural bidding, Goren, Standard American basic, Standard American using common optional conventions, and ACOL. The game configuration options include:
duplicate or rubber playrebid or replay the last handcustomising the bidding conventions useddisplaying bidding history and trick history during the gamedealing specific types of hands such as a minor suit game to either north/south or east/west of hands for practice in bidding and defending
Among the advanced features is a game analysis which shows how the computer derived its bids and planned its play.The game is played entirely with the mouse in a re-sizable window. It has a an auto-save and a manual save game function. |
| Üz 3.0 | 1998-02-18 | | MasterWorks Software | Puzzle | Side view | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Ǖz is a single player, shareware, puzzle game that is mouse controlled. The game consists of many single screen puzzles each of which gives the player a number of items to destroy within a fixed time period. Items are destroyed by placing like items beside each other. Bonus points are awarded for completing the puzzle quickly and within a specified number of moves. The registered game of Ǖz version 3.0 contains a level editor and between sixty and a hundred levels, depending on which version was current at the time of purchase. Ǖz version 3.08 was published by Grab It under the name 'Super Puzzle', this release contains the level editor, cheat codes, five tutorial levels, and sixty playable levels.
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| The 5-Card Poker Collection | 1998-02-20 | Ultisoft, Inc. | | Gambling, Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | The 5-Card Poker Collection contains 3 variations of poker:
5-Card Stud Poker
Double Down Stud Poker
Fast Action Hold 'Em Poker |
| Battlezone | 1998-02-28 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | Tank | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | The history you knew is a lie. There was no Space Race. The real story is simple... In 1950's, American and Soviet scientists have discovered alien bio-metal that arrived via meteorites. The bio-metal can be quickly and efficiently be turned into amazing weapons and vehicles. Soon all the bio-metal has been "harvested", but neither side have "enough". So the space program is launched to gather MORE bio-metal from the other planets... And fight over the bio-metal deposits.And now, you are in command of these advanced units. Can you stop the Soviet onslaught?Battlezone is a first-person RTS where you both command your own vehicle as well as direct other units to fight with you or do other things. You send out harvesters to scavenge bio-metal scraps, which can be turned into units via your Recycler, Mobile Unit Factory, and/or Construction Rig. You then build offensive and/or defensive units that will help you accomplish your mission, all in first-person 3D. The interface is very intuitive. Put crosshair on unit and hit "command" (defaults to "space"). You then get menu of that unit, with a default command already selected. If you want the default command, point crosshair to target and press "command" again. For example, if you want the tank to attack enemy tank, point at your tank, hit command, point at enemy tank, hit command again. You can issue goto commands the same way, as well as all the other types of commands with this simple and efficient command system. You can bail out of vehicles that is almost destroyed. You can then use your rifle (with sniper mode) to take out the enemy pilot and hijack his vehicle for your own use. You can even order your own pilot to head back to base on foot so you can grab his vehicle. You can't expand forever as you're limited by the number of pilots you have, the amount of bio-metal you have, and the number of thermal geysers you have access to. Thus, you have to balance speed, armor, and firepower when you decide what vehicles you should manufacture.
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| Black Dahlia | 1998-02-28 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Thriller | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Black Dahlia is a suspense thriller based loosely on the unsolved California murder of Elizabeth Short, nicknamed "Black Dahlia" for her favoritism towards black clothing.Taking place in the 1940s, the game puts the player in control of a rookie government agent, Jim Pearson, whose first case involves investigating Nazi propaganda. The case is not as simple as it sounds, however. Before long, Jim uncovers information and evidence that the Nazis have connections to the supernatural, occultism as well as some very bizarre and ritualistic killings. Jim meets Elizabeth Short who possesses a strange engraved stone known as the "Black Dahlia", an artifact coveted by the Nazis as a source of ultimate power. When her brutal murder occurs, the stone disappears. During Jim's search for the missing item, he uncovers a web of evil, deceit and intrigue. Will he get out alive .. and uncorrupted?The game is a point-and-click puzzle-solving adventure with live action cutscenes. Full 360 degree horizontal and limited vertical panning allow the player to scan each scene with the mouse. Jim's in-game notebook acts as a journal as it records everything of importance that he has examined.Black Dahlia has over sixty puzzles dispersed over nearly as many locations. They range in difficulty, style and type including jigsaw, manipulation, code breaking, mazes and object based. Well publicized bypass codes can be used to "auto-solve" them without compromising the game, since no score is kept. |
| The Great Battles of Caesar | 1998-02-28 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Erudite Software | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | Classical antiquity, Historical events | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Another installment in The Great Battles series, Caesar includes 9 of the battles fought by Gaius Julius Caesar: Vercellae, Chaeronea, Bibracte, Sabis, Dyrrachium, Pharsalus, Ruspina, Thapsus and Munda. Game modes include Battle (playable solo or against a remote player) and a Campaign mode where the player has to win the Civil War.Battles are played like tabletop wargames. Each turn is composed by several rounds of orders that each General can give to his troops (the number depending on his level), the winner of the battle being the first to make the other reach zero in his rout level. |
| AntiJapan: Mine Warfare | 1998-03-01 | Kingsoft Corp. | Kingsoft Corp. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | | Asia | | | Turn-based | | 2D scrolling | Windows | AntiJapan: Mine Warfare is a turn-based strategy game about a Sino-Japanese war. Gameplay consists of two parts. In the battle stage the enemy needs to be attacked using different tactics. In the other stage the player accepts new tasks in combat and does the preparations for the next engagement, such as manufacturing landmines, selling weapons, furthering the story and so on. After each battle overall statistics are shown with ranks from level one to 99. When the player level is fifteen or 30, the army can be upgraded through certain books. |
| Dungeon Keeper: Gold Edition | 1998-03-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation, Special edition | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Dungeon Keeper (base game) with Direct3D support and the latest patch
Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons (expansion pack)
a level editor
a desktop theme pack |
| Galax Empires | 1998-03-01 | BMM GmbH | Island Dream - Games & Soft | Strategy | | | | 4X, Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Galax Empires is a strategy game, based in turns, set in the distant future, where up to 4 players, selected from 8 different alien races, have to expand theirs galactic empire, and reach the final destruction of theirs adversaries. The player must expand the borders, conquer new planets, terraform, to put population on them, find resources and develop strategic technology. As a player you have to take into account the transfer of goods (food and minerals). The autonomy of the starships also depends on the distance of the colonies and
it is becoming more complicated the logistics duties of carrying troops and goods to all corners of the empire. For this, the player have different types of starships that can be designed to achieve the industry forward. Each one has its own characteristics, in terms of speed, consumption, load capacity, available troops and fire power. The ultimate goal is to conquer all the available galactic sector (78 planets) running into opposition from other players and natives of those planets. The game got a diplomacy system, which it, the player can create alliances, declare a state of war and so on. This system of diplomacy also has a message system, which can send messages from one player to another at secret. |
| Snooker 147 | 1998-03-01 | JHC SoftWare | JHC SoftWare | Simulation, Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Snooker 147 is a single player shareware snooker simulation. It was sold commercially but it, and it's companion game
Poolster have now been posted as freeware on it's developer's web site.The game was designed as a snooker simulation with accurate modelling of the physics of snooker, there's a lengthy section within the game's help text describing how the game physics was done.The game is played with just three controls which are entirely mouse operated. The strength of the shot is controlled by dragging the cue left to right along the bottom of the screen. The further to the right the cue tip is the softer the shot. In the lower right of the screen is a representation of the cue ball with a cross-hair mark on it. This is used to control the position in which the cue strikes the cue ball and thus controls 'side' and 'backspin'. The ball is aimed by positioning a cross-hair cursor in the desired direction and clicking the mouse button.The game has in-game help text that opens in a new window, sound effects, a boss key, and the computer opponent has three skill levels. It also has a function which allows the player to undo a shot and another whereby the player can position the balls to practice trick shots. There is no high score feature, no end of game statistics, and no player aids such as sighting lines.
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| Star Trek: The Game Show | 1998-03-01 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Puzzle | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | Star Trek enthusiasts have a reputation for knowing every minor detail about the lineage. Here's the chance to prove it. Star Trek: The Game Show is an interactive quiz show hosted by recurring character Q (played by John de Lancie). Questions feature the first four TV series and the first eight movies, including aspects such as characters, places, and strange encounters. Audio and video clips are incorporated to bring these to life. |
| Swarm | 1998-03-01 | Reflexive Entertainment Inc. | Reflexive Entertainment Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Swarm follows in the Asteroids tradition where the player must pilot a lone ship and destroy a bunch of derelict space debris as well as hostile space-faring creatures while collecting items. This game revolves around a character named Saul who narrates the opening of each level, describing a little more of what he is doing and how he got himself into the present situation. The craft he pilots is called a T-77 which is agile, speedy, and armed with twin cannons. Throughout the levels, the player can collect upgraded cannons and a variety of explosive devices and other weapons with which to dispatch enemies and help with mining EZT, the prized material in this game. Swarm boasts 4 difficulty settings and 100 playable levels. |
| Tex Murphy: Overseer | 1998-03-01 | Access Software, Inc. | Access Software, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Post-apocalyptic | | | | | | Windows | It seems that the relationship between Tex Murphy, the private investigator in post-apocalyptic San Francisco, and his sweetheart Chelsee finally entered a happy phase. Tex is going on a date with Chelsee, they talk about their feelings and their future, and Chelsee asks Tex to tell her the story of his first case as a PI. This is where the player begins the game - as young Tex, still an idealist, full of energy and with none of the ironic bitterness of his later years.A beautiful girl enters his office. Her name is Sylvia Linsky, and she asks him to investigate a case. Her father, Carl Linsky, has apparently committed suicide. But although there seems to be nothing suspicious in the circumstances of his death, Sylvia tells Tex she is convinced it was a murder. Tex's first investigation, which will influence his entire life, is about to begin.The general storyline of Overseer is similar to that of Mean Streets, the first game in Tex Murphy series, but it is told in a much more detailed way; gameplay style and locations are for the most part completely different. The gameplay system is similar to the one first implemented in Under a Killing Moon. The player can move around in a fully 3D environment, which can be viewed from different positions and angles at any time. Dialogues and cutscenes feature live actors. There are a number of puzzles to solve in Overseer, but in-game help is available if players find them too difficult. |
| The Golf Pro | 1998-03-01 | Empire Interactive, Inc. | Empire Interactive Europe Ltd. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Golf Pro is Empire Interactive's first foray into golf sims. It is a standard 3rd person golf simulation with the addition of the mouse drive system introduced on Maxis's SimGolf and popularized on Sierra's Front Page Sports: Golf. Essentially what this system does is replace the swing bar and use a series of mouse movements and clicks to determine the power, accuracy and direction of the swing.You get to play either the Hilton Head or the St. Mellion courses with the option of playing a video tutorial on a practice court. Gameplay modes include single rounds (where up to 4 players can play at the same time) and a small tournament, with 3 difficulty modes available.Graphics consist of pre-rendered images based on photographs of the courses. |
| Warhammer: Dark Omen | 1998-03-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Mindscape International Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | This sequel to Warhammer: Shadow Of The Horned Rat is an overhead role playing game in which you play Morgan Bernhardt. The game consists of a series of battles where you view the battle from overhead via a rotatable view. You go through the game managing your army, deciding whether to fight in optional battles, and advancing through a deep and engrossing storyline via a series of conversations played out by talking portraits. |
| Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell | 1998-03-02 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Freddi Fish and her pal Luther are back in another installment of this animated edutainment adventure series. The Great Conch Shell used to signal the start of the Founder's Day Festival has been stolen. Freddi and Luther have to find the missing shell, discover the identity of the criminal, and clear Luther's uncle, who has been jailed as the prime suspect. Gameplay is inventory based adventure style, peppered with a host of mini-games that are a hallmark of Humongous Entertainment's kids adventure titles. The mini games here include playing a huge pipe organ and testing your mettle at a host of carnival midway games. |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 5 | 1998-03-04 | CUC Software International GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the March/April 1998 issue (Volume 5) from the Best of Sierra series.This issue's title games are the following two:
Woodruff and The Schnibble of Azimuth
Caesar
In addition to these two full version games, the following demos are also included:
Lords of Magic and Print Artist 3.Furthermore there are also Trailer for the following games included: Pro Pilot '99, DSF Ski, and Red Baron II, for the last game is also a Screensaver available.This issue's magazine offers the following special features:
A 2 pages long Buzukueli Foreign Word Encyclopedia, a 9 pages long walkthrough, and a 2 pages long Interview with the designers Muriel Tramis and Pierre Gilhodes, all for the game Woodruff and The Schnibble of Azimuth. In addition to that, there are 4 articles for the following games included: Pro Pilot '99, Ultimate Soccer Manager 98, Lords of Magic, and Red Baron II. |
| Psychic Detective Series Vol.5: Nightmare | 1998-03-07 | Data West | Data West | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | The psychic detective Katsuya Furuyagi is finally able to enjoy a peaceful life with his sweetheart Rieka. But a strange nightmare begins to haunt him. He sees an unknown young woman locked in a secluded castle, begging for help. One night, the nightmare takes a different shape - the woman turns into a miraculous creature as Furuyagi enters the castle. Knowing that his unique psychic skills allow him to communicate directly with people's minds, Furuyagi begins to wonder if the nightmare has anything to do with reality - which he will find out soon enough.Nightmare is the fifth entry in the Psychic Detective series. Like its predecessors, it is a Japanese-style adventure game with locations represented as still screens viewed from first-person perspective. Conversations and event-triggering advance the plot; there is no inventory management or puzzles. The player can interact with objects on screen in a point-and-click fashion, with verb commands selected from a menu. |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Awakening of the Dragon | 1998-03-14 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | China (Ancient / Imperial), Historical events | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | The Romance of the Three Kingdoms series returns for its sixth installment. As the leader of your own nation in war torn ancient China, it is up to you to unify the whole land. To do this, you'll need to build, manage and control your cities while interacting with and directing the actions of hundreds of different characters. Through military and domestic management, you can unify China and be the Emperor! |
| East Meets West | 1998-03-16 | Infogrames, Inc. | 3D Realms Entertainment, Inc. | Action, Compilation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | Mature | | Windows | East meets West contains the full versions of:
Shadow Warrior
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
It is packaged by Matt Saettler. |
| Race Pro | 1998-03-17 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Kalisto Entertainment SA | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Race alone or with other gamers in this snappy racing game. You're able to play on four tracks, plus one training course. In single player mode, you can race either for time with a ghost or with computer drivers. Multiplayer play adds Arena Deathmatch mode for crashing cars with people around the world. |
| SimSafari | 1998-03-19 | Electronic Arts, Inc., Maxis Software Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | SimSafari brings Africa to you. Imagine yourself in rugged bush country, peering through binoculars at vast herds of elephants, zebras and lions. Choose from exotic plants and wildlife to create your own safari park. Team with a neighboring village and build a flourishing safari camp. Even tackle wild missions! Subtle mix between SimCity and an African Safari. For ages 8+. |
| Money Puzzle Exchanger | 1998-03-20 | GMF | FACE | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Money Puzzle Exchanger is a puzzle game similar to Magical Drop only with coins. It was originally created by FACE and released for the Neo Geo arcade cabinets.You can move the mini character at the bottom of the screen left or right, grab coins and drop them somewhere else. There are six types of coins: 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500. The goal is to form connecting groups of coins. Coins are combined (vertically and/or horizontally) to form higher valued coins. For example, if you put five 1 coins together, they will disappear and form one 5 coin. Two 5's make one 10, five 10's make one 50 etc. Two 500 coins put together just disappear and give you 1000 points.The game is lost when coins reach the bottom of the playing area. You can make chain reactions to launch attacks to the other player in vs-mode, or just for bonus points in single player. |
| Die by the Sword | 1998-03-24 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Treyarch Invention, LLC | Action | Behind view | | | Hack and slash | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Die by the Sword is a third-person action game set in a medieval fantasy world. The player controls Enric, a knight whose sweetheart Maya was kidnapped by kobolds and who swears to bring her back. The game's distinguishing feature is its sword-fighting system, which allows detailed and precise control of the player character's moves, giving it a fighting game flavor. The game features a fairly complex and elaborate control system, with separate keys and button combinations assigned to moves such as running, jumping, slashing, stabbing, parrying, etc., which allows the player to execute these moves simultaneously in a variety of combinations.A somewhat simpler control system, dubbed "arcade mode", is also available. This system limits the amount of combinations to three kinds of slashes and blocks - low, medium, and high. The game also incorporates a local damage system, in which wounding specific body parts will inflict different conditions on the enemies, including severing their limbs and even decapitation. The game's levels include, beside enemies, many hazardous traps that Enric will have to avoid.In addition to the story mode, the game also features arena and tournament modes, which allow up to four players to participate in free-for-all battles using the game's sword-fighting system. The player is also given the opportunity to create his own custom moves with a built-in editor. |
| M1 Tank Platoon II | 1998-03-24 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Action, Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Cold War | Tank, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | M1 Tank Platoon 2 gives the player command of a platoon consisting of four M1A2 Abrams tanks and their crew. The player makes all the important decisions; including firing the tank's weapons and using the state-of-the-art thermal view to seek out and destroy enemy forces. Switch between fully-functioning internal cockpits or observe the conflict at first hand with the external 3D view. |
| Hard Truck: Road to Victory | 1998-03-25 | 1C Company | SoftLab-Nsk Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | Hard Truck: Road to Victory is a racing game with trucks. It is the first 3D truck racing game developed in Russia.The player takes on the role of a truck driver who must deliver goods to their destination before their rivals so they can earn money, the amount of which depends on the value and condition of the delivered goods. The player can then use that cash to upgrade their truck or buy new ones at their base of operations. |
| Suikoden | 1998-03-26 | Konami Co., Ltd. | Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | Regional differences | | Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Loosely based on the classic medieval Chinese novel Water Margins, the game is a fantasy RPG set in an imaginary universe, its main theme being political struggle. The hero of the game is the young son of Theo McDohl, a general who serves the Scarlet Moon Empire, presently controlling the land of Toran. Through a series of events the hero becomes involved in a rebellion against the Empire, led by an organization known as the Liberation Army. Will the hero find a new home there, will he be able to tear himself away from everything that has been sacred to him, including his own father?Suikoden is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several unusual additions. There are three kinds of combat in the game, the most common one being the traditional turn-based party combat (players can have up to six people in their active party). Magic runes can be equipped on the player's characters which allow limited usage of offensive and healing spells. There are also a few army battles, where the player must control whole units of fighters, archers, magicians, etc., and one-on-one fights (duels).The game allows the player to build and customize a castle, which serves as their home base and fortress. 108 characters can be recruited in the game, a tribute to 108 Stars Of Destiny in "Water Margins". Many of those characters will be available as active party members and participate in battles, while others will act as strategy advisers, or enhance the castle itself in various ways. |
| Yumimi Mix | 1998-03-27 | CSK Research Institute Corp. | Game Arts Co., Ltd. | Adventure | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A seemingly ordinary Japanese high school student named Yumimi Yoshizawa sees a strange dream about a unicorn couple in a magical land. When one of the unicorns suddenly falls through a hole in the ground, Yumimi wakes up, realizing she has fallen out of the bed as well. The following day brings more strange occurrences, such as mysterious hopping blobs and a strange girl who professes her love to Yumimi. Eventually Yumimi and her friends realize that all these events are connected and that it lies in their power to protect our world from monsters.Though not based on a manga or anime, Yumimi Mix has characteristic anime-style plot and visuals, and is built like an interactive cartoon movie with animation and voice-overs. The player is sometimes prompted to select an action or a response from a pop-up menu out of two or more available ones. These choices lead to different scenes, though the overall story remains the same. There is no possibility of a Game Over in the game.Earlier versions of the game also feature a quiz that can be accessed from the main menu. Saturn and Windows versions also add a Shanghai-like tile-removing puzzle mini-game. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: F-15 | 1998-03-30 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Baltimore | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | War | | Contemporary, Middle East | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Take the F-15E (Strike Eagle) and own the sky! Instant action gives you quick adrenaline fixes, while training missions teaches you the basics. When you're ready, wage war over authentic terrain of Iraq and Iran, over 3 million square miles! 3D accelerated visuals will amaze you! Radio chatter, authentic F-15 squadrons, missions based on actual Desert Storm sorties, and ability to play online on Jane's Combatnet are all in this ground-breaking package! |
| HardBall 6 | 1998-03-31 | Accolade, Inc. | MindSpan | Sports | Behind view, Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Baseball simulation. Hardball 6 follows up on Hardball 5. It is the first in the series to feature 3Dfx enhanced graphics. It also has full Major League Baseball licensing, which allows the use of all real player names and teams.Gameplay modes include: Dynasty Dlay in which players get older over time which will effect their capabilities, Interleague Play, Consecutive Season Play with the amateur draft, and a custom league and schedule generator. An All-Time team that stars famous players from the past is included as well. Play-by-play commentary is provided by Greg Papa.Multiplayer options allow you to play against friends by modem, serial or LAN connection. |
| VR Sports Powerboat Racing | 1998-03-31 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Promethean Designs Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This game represents an arcade-style approach to powerboat racing. Races take place on enclosed circular waterways in easily recognizable locations around the world. There are several types of races, including the standard championship, time trial, practice, and multiplayer modes.The boats you can choose to drive vary slightly in type and ability. You start off with only monohull boats, but you can unlock catamaran boats by winning championships.The tracks are equipped with shortcuts and lots of animated background objects to enhance the racing action. |
| iPanzer '44 | 1998-03-31 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Charybdis Enterprises, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War II | Tank, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | It's 1944, the final months of world war 2 and you are in command of a tank division. With the choice of 3 nations (Russian, German and American) to campaign with and either the western or eastern fronts to chose from... you must strategically direct your tanks to the areas where they'll do much good. Tanks are slow unweilding vehicles however and you'll be reaching for your binoculars as well as spotter and advance units to determine where to direct your fire. Individual objectives are varied and determined by the map you are playing as well as the starting point that you choose. |
| Barney Under the Sea | 1998-04-01 | Microsoft Corporation | 7th Level, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Barney Under The Sea is an educational title aimed at pre-school children aged two and upwards. It was compatible with the Barney ActiMate toy via a device known as a PC Pack, for example covering the toy's eyes caused both the toy and the in-game character to play peek-a-boo while squeezing the toy's middle toe caused both Barney's to sing a song related to the current game. The game has keyboard shortcuts that perform the same functions for those who do not have an ActiMate.This game comprises the following six activities:
Baby Bop's Mermaid Castle. Here players are shown two scenes each depicting a room in the house. Below these scenes are pictures of everyday items and the player must drag and drop the items into the correct room
BJ's Giant Shell. The player is shown a picture of a person and is asked to click on different parts of the body such as 'arm', 'hand' and 'neck'
Hootin' Annie's Undersea Cave. Here the player is shown a number of animals and has to identify and click on the one specified
Trisha's Treasure Chest. The player is shown a set of animals and must select the odd-one-out.
Professor Tinkerputt's Dive Site. The professor gives the player a number and the player must stack that number of shells on top of one another
Video Submarine, this contains a collection of short video clips from the television show Barney & FriendsAll games can be played in explorer mode where there are no right or wrong answers, this is designed to encourage children to play and experiment. When they do start playing 'seriously' all games have three levels of difficulty which can be quite challenging. For example at level three in Hootin' Annie's Undersea Cave the player is shown a night scene where only the creatures eyes are visible, they must identify the whale, seal, etc by the sound they make when the mouse rolls over them.
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| Battleship | 1998-04-01 | | | Action, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Arcade, Board game | | Naval / watercraft | | | | | Windows | This is a shareware version of the classic board game Battleship by Milton Bradley.Two players have a grid of boxes. You use your mouse to decide where your ships should go, and compete to try to find and sink your opponents ships.There is a win record menu that tells how many time you won and lost or drew. Options include whether the game has a 10 x 10 or 15 x 15 board, and allow you to choose between a single shot or salvo shooting, and whether you can use Cluster bombs, Cruise missiles and Smart Bombs, and you can use Ship resources or Fleet resources. There are Beginner, Intermediate or Expert skill levels, and you can decide who goes first, with the option of this being decided randomly. |
| Cain in the 3rd Earth | 1998-04-01 | Spin | Makkoya Entertainment Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | By the middle of the 21st century Earth has become so polluted that mankind began to look for other planets to dwell on. An expedition is sent to a colony known as "3rd Earth". When Lein, the leader of the group, awakens from cryogenic sleep, he sees how robots slaughter his crew. Lein discovers a medieval-like civilization on the planet, and must work together with the locals to fight robots and magicians belonging to the Cain race.Cain in the 3rd Earth is a Korean-made role-playing game in Japanese style. The player navigates a party of characters through overhead environments. There is no world map, and hostile areas connect villages, towns, and dungeons. Enemies are visible during exploration and can be avoided. Combat follows a simple turn-based template, with regular attacks, magic, and item usage. Leveling up is fully automatized. |
| GemStone IV | 1998-04-01 | Simutronics Corporation | Simutronics Corporation | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure | Fantasy | | | Persistent | Everyone | | Windows | GemStone IV is a high fantasy game set in the world of Elanthia. Originally offered on service providers such as AOL, Prodigy, GEnie, and Compuserve, the game is now exclusively available via its website.In GemStone IV, players pick from a variety of fantasy races and classes and advance their characters through the world by fighting monsters and doing minor quests. The game's story is told primarily through live events and invasions run by the in-game staff ("GameMasters").GemStone IV began in 1988 as GemStone II ("GemStone I" was a demo game that was never released to the public), and began on the GEnie service. It received a hardware and mechanics upgrade to GemStone III, where for a time it was set in I.C.E.'s ShadowWorld universe. When the game moved to AOL, it was "de-I.C.E."'d, and once again set in its original world, Elanthia.In 2003, the game engine and mechanics received a major overhaul. The name was changed to "GemStone IV" to express the significance of this upgrade. |
| MechWarrior 2: The Titanium Trilogy | 1998-04-01 | Activision, Inc. | | Action, Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation includes upgraded "Titanium" editions of the following:
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (base game)
MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy (expansion pack)
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries (standalone expansion pack)
These titles have been rebalanced, and the first two are ported to the iteration of the engine used in Mercenaries. All titles use a 3dfx/Glide renderer that the original releases did not have.The original music tracks have, for unknown reasons, been shortened, and new ones have been introduced. |
| Neophyte: Koplio's Story | 1998-04-01 | Alien Software | Alien Software | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Neophyte: Koplio's Story is an Action RPG and a sequel to Neophyte telling the story of a neophyte monk who is tasked with guarding the precious Armor of Gorus, one of the relics used to defeat the guardian of the orb of Salumain, an orb that contained all the evil of the world. The day before, an earthquake hit the monastery where Koplio had lived and parts of the monastery have collapsed, including the entrance to the vault where the Armor of Gorus is stored. Can Koplio solve the mystery of the earthquake and recover the Armor of Gorus to earn his Sigil of Passage into Adulthood?In this game, players are able to learn and use magic spells instead of tools. The gameplay involves defeating enemies and solving puzzles. |
| Venables | 1998-04-01 | AHA! Software Inc. | AHA! Software Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Venables is a freeware, mouse controlled strategy game that is played either against the computer or as player vs player. It is unusual in that players move their pieces indirectly via something called the ICC - Indirect Color Control grid. The object of the game is to capture an opponent's pieces, if the game reaches a position where both players have just one piece a draw is automatically declared.The game is played on an 8x8 grid of coloured squares and randomly placed within that grid each player has eight shields. On either side of the main game area are the two 5x5 ICC grids, one for each player. Each cell in an ICC grid contains a coloured arrow pointing to a coloured circle, these are the moves that are available to a player with the arrow showing the colour moved from and the circle the coloured cell moved to. A further twist to the gameplay is that only five of the moves are active at any one time, a central cell and those adjacent to it horizontally & vertically.When a move is selected, say a move from a green cell to a blue cell, it affects all the player's pieces that can make that move. Once a player makes a move their turn is not necessarily over, they can make further turns unless they either captured an enemy piece or their selected move affected just one of their pieces.The game plays in a non-resizeable window, it has sound effects and a detailed help file with illustrated examples which opens in a separate window.
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| Ōdō Yūsha | 1998-04-02 | Alice Soft | Alice Soft | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | You are awaken without any memory of your past. You don't know where you have come from, you don't even know your name. You are found by a kind-hearted little girl who brings you to the best swordsman on the Western Continent. You live happily. But you know that you've had a life before that. You are determined to discover your true identity. You travel to the Eastern Continent, hoping to find someone who knew the real you. But you don't know yet that your story is entwined with the fate of the entire world...Ōdō Yūsha is a RPG with the single hero (default name Zanba) fighting enemies, collecting treasure, and leveling up. Dialogues and cut scenes are displayed as text super-imposed on still anime-style pictures, like in Japanese adventures. Once in exploration mode, the screen is divided into a large auto-map, statistics screen, and a small window that shows pictures of the location the hero is currently in. The turn-based battles (occurring at set points) are viewed from a side view, like in fighting games, with the health bars of the hero and the opponents displayed above. The hero can attack, use items, or charge to execute a stronger attack. The game contains scenes with nudity and sexual content. |
| Burning Soldier | 1998-04-03 | ITOCHU Corporation | Genki Co., Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | | Windows | A first-person space shooter, similar to Shock Wave and Total Eclipse, that has the player take control of a state of the art Strike fighter in missions ranging from the asteroid belt to the final fight on the Earth's surface. This is all done in an attempt to stop the Kaisertian (which resemble the Aliens from the Alien movies) race from destroying mankind.The gameplay is very simplistic. The player uses the D-pad to move around a cursor on the screen, to aim wherever the player wants the weapons to fire, and the main buttons to fire the two main weapons of choice, a Laser Vulcan Cannon and a Blast Smash that is guided automatically at incoming enemies. However, unlike other first-person space shooters for the 3DO, there is no way of controlling the actual ship as its' movement is on a predetermined course and can't be manually deviated. The story is told through CGI cinemas. |
| 3-D Frog Man | 1998-04-09 | RomTech, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In this 3D Pac-Man variation you control a frog who clears levels by eating bugs, worms and bubbles while evading ghosts. There's 10 levels each of 3 types: swamp, river, and ocean. The game also has secret passages, hidden bonuses, and power-ups like speed-up arrows. The scrolling levels have detailed backgrounds, hills and valleys in the mazes, and features like the ability to jump, keys and locks, and "Death Tiles".
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| Galador: The Prince and the Coward | 1998-04-10 | IPS Computer Group Sp. z o.o. | Metropolis Software House | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | The Prince and the Coward is a 2D point and click adventure. The game is set in a fantasy kingdom. Young Galador makes a deal with the devil to become a prince and have a life full of adventures. Very quickly, Galador realizes this kind of life is not for him and now is trying to get back his old life.The game is controlled by mouse (clicking on an item brings up a menu with possible actions) and apart from adventure puzzles, contains some minor arcade sequences. |
| Magical Chase | 1998-04-10 | Bothtec, Inc. | Quest Corporation | Action | Side view | | | Shooter | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Magical Chase is a 2D side-scrolling shoot 'em up set in a fantasy world.Game's heroine is a little witch called Ripple, who is flying on a magic broomstick. The gameplay is typical for the genre: Ripple flights from left to right and shoots enemies. She has two sidekicks - anthropomorphic stars called Star Maidens, which work like a the options of Gradius. When she destroys enemies, they will leave behind different colored gemstones, which serve as the game's currency that can be used in special shop.The game has six stages, and each level has a mid-boss and an end boss. |
| Industry Giant | 1998-04-14 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | JoWood Ebensee | Simulation | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | This game is very similar to Transport Tycoon. The biggest difference is that you don't only have to connect producers with retailers and customers, you also have to build the facilities. If you want to sell a table for example, you have to build a sawmill near wood, then a factory for furniture and finally a shop in a town. The graphics are good, as all the buildings and vehicles are rendered. The most disturbing thing is that there are only trains and lorries available. |
| Aliens Online | 1998-04-16 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Kesmai Corporation, Mythic Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Massively Multiplayer, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Aliens Online was a massively multiplayer first person shooter released on the GameStorm subscription service. Players could choose to wield a pulse rifle as a member of the Colonial Marines, or stick to the shadows as one of H. R. Giger's iconic Aliens. Gameplay pit the two species against each other in a standard team deathmatch with limited respawns. Players could fight in one of five initial maps, with multiple games running simultaneously and selected from an in-game chat area and browser.Maps ranged from a loose reproduction of the colony from Aliens, to a derelict spacecraft with an Alien hive in the lower levels. Every map had cramped air ducts or sewer pipes that the Aliens could speedily, and usually securely, make use of - with hatches that allowed the player to drop onto unsuspecting marines and rend them with claw and tail attacks.Marines carried a selection of long-range firepower based on the weapons in the film. A lone marine only had access to a pulse rifle, pistol, shotgun, and motion tracker (deployed like a weapon, and not part of the HUD). Up to four marines could also band together in a fireteam, unlocking heavy weapons like the flamethrower and the auto-tracking SmartGun. Members of a fireteam could also open minature "helmet cam" windows for each of their teammates, and see a feed of what that player was seeing.Kills and victories resulted in experience points, which were permanently tracked by character. XP milestones granted stat-increasing ranks to marines, making veteran soldiers tougher and deadlier. A similar system also existed on the Alien side, with XP points granting the ability for one player per open game to play as the Queen - a bigger and tougher Alien requiring teamwork to take down. |
| Esoteria: Techno-Assassin of the Future | 1998-04-16 | Kirin Entertainments Inc. | Mobeus Designs Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Robert Kovach | | | | Windows | Esoteria is a third person shooter, with emphasis on stealth and sniping. This is the only game that made it out of Mobeus Design before the company folded.A nuclear weapon has been stolen by terrorists intent on destroying the land of Esoteria and its colonies, and you must stop them. You are extremely outnumbered, by well equipped enemies with innovative AI. A special low-reflectance skin makes stealth your main advantage. This, coupled with a sniper-scoped main weapon offer a chance of success at a difficult mission. Frontal assaults will usually prove ineffective at accomplishing your goals. This not a run and gun shooter. There are varied missions, with plot twists unfolding depending on your actions. |
| Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries (Demo Version) | 1998-04-16 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Enlight Software Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | The demo version of Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries contains two unique single-player scenarios that are not included in the full game. Additionally, there is a training scenario which can also be played as a normal single-player scenario against one AI opponent if the tutorial instructions are turned off.The demo showcases all ten nations that are available in the retail version of the game, and all technologies with the exception of Seats of Power. Fryhtans and Fryhtan Lairs are also absent from the demo version. Accordingly, the training scenario omits the sections about the Seats of Power and the Fryhtans.Multiplayer capability is disabled in the demo version, as is the option to play custom single-player games on random maps.Of the game soundtrack, the demo only includes the Greek theme, which will loop during play. There is no music in the main menu. |
| Puyo Puyo Sun | 1998-04-17 | Compile | Compile | Puzzle | Side view | | | Arcade, Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Puyo Puyo Sun is the third entry in the main Puyo Puyo series of real-time puzzle games, its title being a pun involving the Japanese word for "three". The evil Dark Prince has caused the sun to augment its size and power to dangerous levels, and thus the Puyo Puyo world is on the verge of being scorched unless you prevent it.The game features three distinct story campaigns, each pitting you against a different set of enemies which you must battle in classic Puyo Puyo fashion: In each stage you face off against an opponent in two different play areas, one for you and one for your opponent. As the blob-like "puyos" start falling in your play area, you must align them and create groups of the same color in order to clear the screen before you get flooded with puyos. Chaining puyos of different colors allows you to send several "garbage" puyos to the opposing player's play area in hopes of either flooding it, or slowing his advance, and whoever defeats the opposing player moves on to the next challenger.New for Puyo Puyo Sun are the Sun Puyos, which can be added to combos for extra damage. Also includes 2P vs gameplay, challenge modes and galleries and other bonus features. |
| Comanche Gold | 1998-04-22 | NovaLogic, Inc. | NovaLogic, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Helicopter, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | A repackaging of the best-selling helicopter simulation of 1997, Comanche 3, with a host of new features:
Enhanced version of Novalogic's patented VoxelSpace2 engine with new weather effects
4 New campaigns in addition to the 5 original Comanche 3 campaigns
Over 80 missions (8 in each campaign, plus other single missions)
Missions span from Ukraine, Jordan, Siberia, Cuba, to Iraq
Includes a new mission editor
Now allows player to configure weapon loadouts for each mission
Screen resolutions from 320 x 200 to 800 x 600 |
| Castrol Honda Superbike World Champions | 1998-04-24 | Intense Entertainment Interactive, LLC | Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | Motorcycle | | | | | Windows | This licensed motorcycle game lets you take control of the Honda RVF-RC45. You can try to go through the whole World Championship or just take one race at the time.Each of the ten tracks can be played in three parts, practice, qualification and the real race. The tracks range from closed-circuit Grand Prix style race tracks to street race in Britain and Japan among others.To make it suitable for both arcade and simulation fans much of the realism can be tuned up or down. It's not only about the races, but you will also get to tweak your bike.For those who want to play against others, you can compete against five other players over a network or one player splitscreen. |
| Forsaken | 1998-04-24 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Probe Entertainment Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Earth has been rendered largely uninhabitable by an explosion caused by a bungled experiment. Few would dare to brave its unstable and searing environments - only those determined to grab a little of its remaining gold. You are one of those, taking your hover-bike into disintegrating caverns for a few hours of dangerous work which, successful or not, will be your last.Forsaken is a first-person shoot 'em up in which you have complete movement freedom in 3 dimensions, as you accelerate, swerve and strafe your craft, making for gameplay resembling Descent. Each level has a defined exit which must be reached within a tight time limit. The surrounding areas are collapsing around you, with spikes and turbine fans among your hazards. Be very aware of other craft out to take all you have, as they alter their approach based on your weaponry (from the 25 featured in the game) and past encounters. On the PC, multiplayer action can feature up to 12 human players. The Nintendo 64 version featured 4 player split-screen multiplayer, while the Playstation version has no multiplayer options. |
| Ys Eternal | 1998-04-24 | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Ys Eternal is a remake of Ys: The Vanished Omens. The game features technically superior visuals and soundtrack, as well as more detailed animation (e.g. enemies actually visibly collapse and die rather than blink and disappear). The most significant change in this release is the addition of an entirely new opening area, the town Barbado and its surroundings. Overworld areas have been expanded as well. There are also many more characters and a few additional side quests in this version. |
| Spec Ops: Rangers Lead the Way | 1998-04-28 | Ripcord Games | Zombie LLC | Action, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Shooter, Tactical shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Spec Ops is the first in a series of realistic, action-oriented, real-time 3D third-person games based on elite warfare units - with the emphasis on action and realism. Using custom-built, proprietary technology (Viper), the first title is based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Your main objective is to control your team of Rangers and eliminate opponent targets while completing mission sub-tasks in the time allotted. Choose between stealth or all out war - it's up to you. |
| Adrenix | 1998-05-01 | Playmates Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Digital Dialect | Action | | | | Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Scott Griffon is a military pilot who has hunted rebels for years as part of an elite anti-insurrection squad. But now he changes sides because Medtech, a government facility which conducts medical experiments on humans, kidnapped his fiance. You take his role and fly an advanced fighter craft to destroy Medtech.To survive, you must master an arsenal of weapons including the Molnia Arc, Vortex Shield, and Micro Missiles. But be warned, your opposition is armed to the teeth and will attack without mercy. Regarding gameplay the game is similar to Descent: Flying a ship in first person perspective while shooting enemies. The 24 levels are mostly not the typical narrow mazes but relatively open and offer varied mission goals like protecting convoys, performing covert extractions or executing strikers on strategic targets. |
| Ancient Egyptian Mehen: The Forbidden Game of the Snake | 1998-05-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Ancient Egyptian Mehen: The Forbidden Game of the Snake is a shareware implementation of an Old Egyptian board game, probably dating from before 2,700 BC -- nearly 5,000 years old! It was played in religious ceremonies and was probably one of the first games to be banned by government, possibly due to religious reasons.The game is played by two or more players on a spiral board. The exact rules of the game are not preserved, but there is a game with a very similar game board played by Nubian nomads and it is believed that the rules are quite near to the original.According to these rules, Mehen is essentially a race game, but one with some twists. Two or more players, each one with one to six marbles (numbers of players and marbles can be selected before starting the game), go chase down the spiral to its the center of the spiral -- symbolizing Ra, the Sun God -- and back again by throwing casting sticks (the Old Egyptian version of dice). The first twist is that the player does not move immediately after throwing the sticks, instead they accumulate the results until they throw a 2, and then move pieces according to the results. This gives the game some tactical depth as often there is more than one choice how to move the marbles. When the player moves onto a field that is occupied by another player's marble, this one is bumped to the bumping marble's old position. Another twist is that 1 counts as a special throw, a so-called Shinyat (meaning magic spell). Shinyat must be used for entering the board at the beginning of the game, for entering the central square and for leaving it again.Once a player has successfully traveled the spiral in and out with all their marbles, this player wins. This doesn't mean the game ends! The winning player now starts the whole travel again, with only a lion and at double speed. As soon as the lion has entered and left the central case, any marble he passes is devoured by him. The game ends when the lion has left the board and the number of marbles each player could safely bring home determines the ranking.The game comes with a tutorial explaining game, some atmospheric MIDI background music and 'Mummy Facts' about Old Egypt that are displayed from time to time. |
| Geisterjäger John Sinclair: Evil Attacks | 1998-05-01 | Bomico Entertainment Software GmbH | bitlab Information Design & Entertainment GmbH | Action, Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery, Horror | Puzzle elements, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | In this game the player assumes the role of John Sinclair, Inspector at Scotland Yard and Ghost-Hunter 'extraordinaire'. The game is being told in four chapters and uses a mixture of Zork Nemesis like click and move through environment and first person shooter action parts. Every level is started out with a movie to set the mood for the chapter. Then the player will find him/herself at the start of the level - for example a Carnival in London in the first Chapter or a Monastery in Germany in the second one. The player then is able to move from location to location which is accompanied by a 'connection' movie and solve puzzles that will eventually lead him/her to the final Boss fight of that Level.John Sinclair is a German Pulp-Fiction Character who has his own weekly series since almost 30 years in Germany. |
| Total Heaven | 1998-05-01 | NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Three strategy games are included in this compilation:
SimCity 2000
Sid Meier's Civilization II
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici |
| White Album | 1998-05-01 | Leaf | Leaf | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Toya Fujii is a college student attending the Japanese Yunagi University. It is his second year, and he seems to be more preoccupied with arranging his personal life than excelling as a student. He studies together with Yuki Morikawa, who is on her way to become an idol singer. The matters become further complicated when another idol, Yuki's friend, becomes romantically interested in Toya, and when he realizes that perhaps there is also something between himself and a childhood friend. Will the young man be able to find the right path in his love life?White Album is an adult visual novel. The bulk of the game contains still images and text descriptions. Beside the traditional "decision points", the player can also interact with the game by constructing simple schedules for Toya (which will influence subsequent events and make him meet specific characters), and sometimes by choosing conversation topics. |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 6 | 1998-05-06 | CUC Software International GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the May/June 1998 issue (Volume 6) of the Best of Sierra series.This issue's title games are the following two:
Hunter Hunted
Aces Over Europe
In addition to these two full version games, the following demos are also included:
Lords of Magic, DSF Ski, and Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire.The magazine from this issue offers the following special features:
A walkthrough for selected levels from Hunter Hunted and articles for the following newest Sierra games: Leisure Suit Larry's Casino, Pro Pilot '99, Police Quest: SWAT 2, Ultimate Soccer Manager 98, Grand Prix Legends, and Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire. |
| Addiction Pinball | 1998-05-12 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Team17 Software Limited | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Pinball | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Addiction Pinball consists of two tables based on other computer games by the same developer:
World Rally (based on the anime racing game World Rally Fever: Born on the Road
Worms (after the popular series of invertebrate combat games)
Each table has most of the features found on modern pinball games including multiball, a "video" display, bumping, up-table flippers, and challenge modes. The tables do however lack some configuration options expected by pinball fans (most notably: balls per game, playfield angle and replay score). |
| Monster Truck Madness 2 | 1998-05-12 | Microsoft Corporation | Terminal Reality, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | Off-roading | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | You take control of a monster truck (like Bigfoot) and compete against other drivers in various races. There are a few King-of-the-Hill type contests also. It doesn't have racing season option so you are limited to pick a race and go. |
| TrackWords | 1998-05-15 | | | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | Word construction | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | TrackWords is a single player, freeware word game based on a game of the same name which appears in a book called "The Oxford A to Z of Word Games". It is played on a grid containing random letters from which the player must construct words from adjacent letters. The original game uses a 3x3 grid but the author does not consider that challenging enough so this game has 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 grids to play on.The game comes with its own dictionary containing over eighty seven thousand words plus it also has functionality allowing the player to add their own words which are held in a separate list. The game has a word search function called 'Joshua' which is used to find and count all the words that can be made, this is used to calculate the player's score which is based on the percentage of words found. Whenever the player enters a word that does not appear in the game's dictionary it is queried by Joshua and if the player allows the word it is added to the user's word listOther options include playing a timed game, setting the minimum word length, a fast game and the ability to play either a random or a specific numbered game (the author claims a potential four billion possible games can be played). |
| Godzilla Online | 1998-05-20 | Centropolis Interactive | Centropolis Interactive, Mythic Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | Persistent | | Isometric | Windows | Based on the Hollywood remake of the same name, Godzilla Online was a multiplayer-only action game for the GameStorm service. Players created a character and improved their stats by earning server-tracked experience points. Three maps were included - the 23rd St Subway Station, the Fulton Fish Market, and Madison Square Garden - with multiple instances and game types running at the same time (selected through an in-game browser).Players could play as a solider class, collecting weapons and shooting opponents, or as a "baby Godzilla," using claws, teeth and fire breath to survive. A third option was to play as an unarmed reporter who was invincible while crouching, and earned points by getting shots of the match's action with their videocamera - which the soldiers could also view for recon.Four match types were released before GameStorm was disbanded:
Free-For-All was a standard deathmatch with no teams or allegiances.
Team Deathmatch pit the blue team against the yellow team (teams could be of mixed species). The first team to kill a set number of opponents won.
Eggstatica was a simple capture the flag game. Soldiers would try to remove Godzilla eggs, while the baby Godzillas protected their nest.
Escape from New York pit the soldiers against the baby Godzillas. The Godzillas tried to eat enough fish (scattered around the level as power-ups) to grow to their maximum strength and escape. Soldiers tried to kill a set number of Godzillas before this could happen.Godzilla Online was also different as it used voxels to render its graphics. |
| Unreal | 1998-05-22 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Digital Extremes, Inc., Epic MegaGames, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Regional differences | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | The prison transport ship Vortex Rikers was on its way to a penal moon colony when an unplanned course change led to it being caught in the gravity well of an uncharted planet. Not many aboard survive the crash landing, and those that do find this new world to be one full of strange beauty, but also many dangers. Not only is it full of dangerous wildlife, but it is the setting of a conflict between the ruthless Skaarj and the peaceful natives they have enslaved, the Nali. As one of the surviving prisoners, the player must escape the wreckage of the Rikers, navigate through Nali villages and temples, Skaarj mines and refineries, other crashed ships and many more locations, with the ultimate goal of finding a way off the planet.Unreal is a first-person shooter. Its story is mostly told through short text messages, deciphered via a translator from computer stations, personal logs, books and signs. The game features a weapon arsenal of ten guns, each with two firing modes. Besides standard pistols, rocket/grenade launchers, miniguns and sniper rifles, there are such items as the Bio Rifle, which fires blobs of toxic waste which stick to walls and enemies, the Flak Cannon, which sprays deadly shrapnel, and the Razorjack, which shoots spinning blades that ricochet off walls. The secondary firing mode might allow a charged shot, sacrifice accuracy for speed, or even make it possible to guide the projectile.The game also includes a multiplayer mode. Ten deathmatch maps are available for free-for-all, team deathmatch or a variant called "King of the Hill". A special mode is DarkMatch, for which one special map is available. In DarkMatch, the map is without any illumination, and players must use a searchlight to see anything. The deathmatch modes can be played against bots, and the game also offers a cooperative version of the single player campaign.Unreal introduced the game engine of the same name, which employs such tricks as colored lighting, curved surfaces, reflective surfaces, "detail" textures (via multi-texturing), and real time interactive mixed digital music. |
| One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e | 1998-05-26 | Tactics | Tactics | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Kohei Orihara is a Japanese high school who has experienced much tragedy in his life. When he was a child, both his parents died. After he lost his little sister, Kohei became increasingly reclusive, and eventually creates an alternate reality for himself, called "Eternal World". This world resembles afterlife, though it is possible to return from it to the real world under certain circumstances. As Kohei forms relationships with the game's female characters, they begin to forget him after a while, which causes him to retreat deeper into the Eternal World. Only by creating a strong bond with one of these girls can Kohei return to real life.One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e is a visual novel. The player reads text descriptions and dialogues, which are superimposed on still 2D anime-style images that represent locations and events. The interaction is reduced to occasional moments when the player is prompted to make a choice for the protagonist, splitting the storyline into different branches, and eventually reaching one of the several different endings.The initial PC release has scened with explicit adult content. These were removed in the subsequent console version, which also added voice acting for the game's characters. |
| Microsoft Baseball 3D 1998 Edition | 1998-05-31 | Microsoft Corporation | Wizbang! Software Productions | Sports | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Microsoft Baseball 3D is the first in Microsoft Baseball games line-up. With it it tries to compete with games like Triple Play 99 and MLB 99.Microsoft Baseball 3D is an arcade baseball game that focus on action. It has three difficulties and allows you to play out an entire season. The game features all real names and statistics of Mayor League players. |
| Tribal Rage | 1998-05-31 | TalonSoft, Inc. | disintegrator | Strategy | | | | Real-time strategy | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | The game lets you control one of six tribes as you try to dominate a postapocalyptic Earth. You have to build units and gather resources as you travel through the wastelands so you can defeat your enemies. |
| Ace of Spades 2 | 1998-06-01 | Love Gun | Love Gun | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | | Japan (Modern/Futuristic) | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This sequel to Ace of Spades features the card games Blackjack, Seven-card stud and Red Dog. There are also new graphics, new girls and new ways to play with them upon winning a card game. |
| Action Pack | 1998-06-01 | Funsoft GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Yet another compilation from Funsoft. This time they provide the gamers with a completely action orientated compilation (at least according to Funsoft), which contains three games.The following games are included:
Enemy Nations
G-Nome
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri |
| Cyberstorm 2: Corporate Wars | 1998-06-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | Real-time, Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Cyberstorm 2: Corporate Wars is the sequel to MissionForce: Cyberstorm. The player can join one of the eight corporations fighting each other for financial supremacy. Each of these corporations has a different area of expertise and limitations. The game is played in a top-down semi-isometric view and the tactical combat engine is turn-based with an optional real-time mode. There are plenty of different vehicles and HERCs and a plethora of different components for the player to modify and customize. |
| Descent: Freespace - The Great War | 1998-06-01 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Volition, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Everyone | | Windows | As a pilot in the Gallactic Terran Alliance (GTA), you've known the Vasudans as the enemy for a long time. But things are about to change. An unknown menace, with technology beyond both ours and Vasudans, are destroying both sides. And now, old enemies must unite to fight this common enemy, and the dissenters and traitors on both sides.Descent: Freespace is a space dogfight simulator. The game features a vast amount of weapons, missiles and bombs, as well as large capships. It also has online multiplayer. Take fighters and bombers on attack, recon, escort, and sweep missions against enemy capships and fighters and bombers. Defend your own capships and other assets. Your rating and performance is noted after every mission, with suggestions (if applicable). You can call in reinforcements (if available), and your wingmen actually do fight intelligently, as there can be dozens of fighters flying about.
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| Panzer Commander | 1998-06-01 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Ultimation Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Europe, World War II | Tank, Vehicular combat | Multiple units/characters control | | Everyone | | Windows | Panzer Commander puts the player in the lead tank of a WWII tank platoon, fighting for the German, Russian, US, or British forces in one of 40 standalone scenarios, or in one of three German Russian campaigns. |
| Space Station Simulator | 1998-06-01 | Maris Multimedia Ltd. | Maris Multimedia Ltd. | Simulation | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Space Station Simulator is a single player educational title.With this product the player can build their own space station using the component modules that, at the time this was released, were being constructed by various national space agencies. The player can choose between building a station of their choice or they can follow the official launch sequence and build a replica of the real thing. Once built the player can view the station from within and from space. Inside the station there are hotspots which bring up descriptions of key pieces of equipment.The product contains copious help files that document the origins, purpose, power usage and weight of each module and the associated launch vehicles. When it was released the game supported links to the Maris web site which, in addition to providing information about the game, linked to other space station resources. Sadly in 2015 this is no longer operational.
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| The Best of Microprose Strategy | 1998-06-01 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains three classic strategy games from Microprose.The following games are included:
Magic: The Gathering
Sid Meier's Civilization II
X-COM: Apocalypse |
| The X-Files Game | 1998-06-01 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Hyperbole Studios | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | As an extension of one of the most long-running television series of all time, The X-Files, play through the eyes of Special Agent Craig Willmore, a new FBI field investigator brought in to locate missing agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully whose last location was the Everett, Washington, area. In this "movie quality" video production, characters are played by the actors and actresses from the show, including Gillian Anderson (Scully) and David Duchovny (Mulder).As the game begins, you are given a briefing of your mission. Gather up all state-of-the-art spy tools (night vision goggles, a digital camera, PDA, lock picks, evidence kit, a standard issue revolver, handcuffs and badge) and then head out to follow their trail. As you explore the various locations, take photographs, pick up pieces of evidence and talk with people. Use your Newton PDA to access the navigational map, to make notes and send/receive e-mail. Trace telephone numbers, run background checks and license plate ids and even post an All Points Bulletin on missing persons using the computer network at your home or office. By using photo viewer software, download field photographs to the computer where they can be enlarged and studied more closely for clues.Features include emotion icons for interjecting different tones during conversations (mean, humorous or technical) which effect the answer given. An in-game hint system, Artificial Intelligence, can be set on or off. In addition, there are multiple endings as a direct result of actions you take.
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| Ultimate Flight Pack | 1998-06-01 | Funsoft GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Ultimate Flight Pack offers the player five flight simulations, from three different categories. Two games are military airplane simulations, two games are military helicopter simulations, and the last one is a civil airplane simulation.The two airplane flight simulations are:iF-16 Fighting Falcon
Tornado: Operation Desert StormThe two helicopter flight simulations are:Apache Longbow
HIND: The Russian Combat Helicopter SimulationAnd the civil airplane flight simulation is:Flight Unlimited |
| Virtual K'nex | 1998-06-01 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Imagination Pilots | Action, Racing / Driving, Simulation | Diagonal-down, Side view | Licensed | | Mini-games, Shooter | | Automobile, Flight / aviation, Helicopter, Off-roading | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Virtual K'nex is a game based on the K'nex toy line. It allows the player to build five custom vehicles from a large selection of parts, and then use it in five different mini-games such as a racing title, a shooting game etc. The overall goal is to rescue the K-Force from the clutches of the evil Rex Edifice. |
| WZebra | 1998-06-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | WZebra is a computer version of the board game Othello. It offers only one-player gameplay against an AI. Apart from offering several different difficulty levels and lots of options for adjusting the computer opponent's play, it contains features such as analysis of the game so far, practice play where the computer shows an evaluation of every possible move, and importing/exporting games in several file formats. The player can also undo the last move, switch sides at any point, or rotate the board. |
| Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries | 1998-06-08 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Enlight Software Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Trevor Chan's empire building real-time strategy game Seven Kingdoms is updated and re-released as a stand alone product. Once again play as one of seven kingdoms as you vie for world domination. Compete on various terrain types including the new snow terrain. Control new kingdoms as Zulus, Indians or Egyptians with new deities. Single player modes includes campaign with customizable options where you select your own goals, difficulty level, how many computer controlled kingdoms to play against etc. Also play pre-built scenarios and random map generated scenarios. Play with friends online with up to seven players in multiplayer on the internet, LAN or modem. |
| Adventure Blaster | 1998-06-09 | | | Adventure, Compilation | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure | | | | | | | Windows | This was an outreach attempt from the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup cadre to make sharing their peculiar retro hobby -- the playing of modern text adventure games -- more accessible to outsiders. As such, it bundled together ten original games that had already been distributed separately as platform-independent data files, packaging them with an installer that would set Windows '95 players up with interpreters that "just worked". Games in both popular authoring systems, TADS and Inform, were included, spanning three difficulty levels:
Beginner:
Theatre
Wearing the Claw
The Lesson of the Tortoise
The Underoos That Ate New York
Intermediate:
Babel
The Edifice
Kissing the Buddha's Feet
Advanced:
Spider and Web
So Far
Losing Your Grip |
| Des Blood 2 | 1998-06-11 | Illusion | Illusion | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The heroine of the game awakens in a cryo chamber. She doesn't remember anything. She doesn't know who she is, where she is, or what year it is now. She finds a medallion with the name "Lily" engraved on it, and a date: 2156 AD. As she begins to search for answers, trying to get her memory back, the heroine realizes she must also face the Space Army - an intergalactic organization controlled by the computer Isys. The Space Army is looking for something that apparently only our heroine can give them - and the cost would be her life...Des Blood 2 is set in the same universe and time period as its predecessor. Unlike the first game, it has third-person exploration mode along with the shooting mode. The shooting parts are quite similar to those of the first game. You aim and shoot at enemies from a fixed first-person perspective; enemies appear at pre-set locations. The sex scenes have enhanced interaction. You are able to choose objects and interact separately with the girl's body parts. |
| WinBrick96 | 1998-06-15 | | | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | WinBrick96 is a Breakout clone. Like in other games of its kind, the player must bounce a ball with a paddle to break all the bricks and advance to the next level. If the ball falls off the bottom of the screen, the player loses a life. Broken bricks sometimes yield bonus pickups such as lengthening the paddle or a bonus ball. In addition, the playfield contains occasional dangers such as "electric bricks" that fire off a paddle-paralyzing thunderbolt when destroyed, or bouncing monsters that destroy the paddle upon colliding with it. The game contains a number of default levelsets with 20 levels each, as well as a built-in level editor. In addition to single-player mode, the game offers a two-player mode (human vs. human, or human vs. computer) where the players compete to get the highest score for breaking bricks. In the default two-player mode, both players control separate paddles and balls at the opposite edges of the screen. In this mode, when one player loses a life, he cannot continue playing until the other player loses his as well. A hot-seat mode is also available, where the players simply take turns playing on the same level. |
| X-COM: Interceptor | 1998-06-15 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | MicroProse Chapel Hill | Action, Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Teen | | Windows | The year is 2067, and the Earth's resources are nearly depleted. In search of raw materials essential for the survival of the humans, powerful corporations send explorers into a region of space known as the Frontier. However, upon arriving there, the humans find out that they are not the only ones needing resources. The alien races who had invaded Earth nearly seventy years ago have their own claims for the Frontier, and it looks like there can be no peaceful solution for the situation.X-COM: Interceptor has elements of strategy, but its primary gameplay style differs from most previous installments in the X-COM series, focusing on space combat simulation and resource managing. The player commands an elite force of starfighters sent to protect the human corporations in the Frontier. As the X-COM commander, the player must manage space stations, resources, and finances of the organization. Researching alien technology is also necessary to ensure the safety of the humans.When an enemy craft is spotted, the game's mode switches to space combat simulation. The player pilots starfighters, co-ordinating their wingmen, similarly to Wing Commander: Prophecy. Mission objectives usually involve destroying or capturing enemy ships, sabotaging alien trade routes, escorting friendly ships to specific locations, and raiding alien bases. |
| Mech Commander | 1998-06-24 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | FASA Studio | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Wargame | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | It's time to drive the hated Smoke Jaguar Clan from Port Arthur once and for all! You take on the role of the commander of a lance of the First Davion Guards. Through a series of missions you must carefully plan your attacks, spend Resource Points wisely, and keep your people alive. Mech Commander is a real-time strategy game that introduces eighteen different types of mechs, several types of vehicles, repair bays, artillery barrages, mine fields, forests that you can burn down, highly explosive containers, mechs that limp when their legs are damaged, missile and autocannon turrets, and other features.During each mission, you can capture buildings to get weapons. You can also salvage enemy mechs if they aren't too badly damaged. You are awarded Resource Points which you can use to repair mechs and buy new mechs, weapons, and Mechwarriors. Your Mechwarriors will advance in different skills (gunnery, piloting, jumping, and sensors) as they use them in battle. They can also be injured or killed. The opening movie features live-action acting. |
| Cyberball | 1998-06-25 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | Arena Games, Eclipt Design, ET Audiocom | Action | Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Cyberball is a pinball game where four tables are available: Dooke, inspired by underworld devils, Enlightment, with a space travel theme, Air Crash, about modern air combat and Shark Attack, where a treasure is hidden in the bottom of the sea, and guarded by sharks. Unlike other games, where tables follow a common rectangular playfield, in Cyberball they are square with two or more areas. The screen resolution selected affects scrolling: in the lowest "cyberview" mode (320x240), the playfield scrolls up and down, and using the "full view" (1024x768), everything is visible. Other options range from the number of players to tamper with game physics. |
| Final Fantasy VII | 1998-06-25 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Square Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time, Turn-based | Teen | Cinematic camera | Windows | The seventh installment of the Final Fantasy series takes place in a post-modern, steampunk, sci-fi world where high technology reigns and where robots and bio-engineered mutants co-exist with humans and dragons.The story focuses on Shinra Inc., an evil mega-corporation responsible for all the world's high technology. Shinra supports this technology with Mako Energy, Shinra's patented source of power. Unfortunately, Mako is the lifeblood of the living planet and by using it up Shinra is slowly upsetting the balance of nature.In comes AVALANCHE, a rebel group of disenfranchised citizens who have taken it upon themselves to oppose Shinra's ambitions. The main character is an ex-Shinra soldier named Cloud Strife, an angst-ridden fellow with a complex history that is explained as the game goes on. Cloud joins up with AVALANCHE as a mercenary for hire, and together they take on Shinra's maniacal executives and their army of shock-troops, robots, and mutants. However, after a while, it becomes apparent that there are other forces at work, and ultimately Cloud must not only fight against Shinra but also stop a powerful man from his past from destroying the world.Like its predecessors, Final Fantasy VII is a role-playing game in Japanese style, featuring turn-based combat with a real-time (ATB, "active time battle") element against randomly appearing enemies. Customization in the game revolves around a so-called "Materia" system. Instead of magic spells, abilities, and bonus stats being saved to a single character, they are saved to Materia orbs, allowing the player to change a character's spells and abilities from the equipment menu at any time. Materia orbs can be bought in stores or found during exploration. The series' trademark summoned monsters are also contained within specific Materia. Besides experience points, characters also receive ability points that gradually upgrade the abilities of the currently equipped Materia.Each character also possesses a set of unique attacks called "Limit Breaks". By sustaining enough damage without dying a character will build up their Limit Gauge, which can be expended to do a highly damaging attack when filled. More powerful Limit Breaks are unlocked as previous ones are used, and acquiring the most powerful Limit Break of each character will require the completion of sub-quests. The game utilizes 3D character models and pre-rendered backgrounds with varying camera angles for the exploration of towns and hostile areas. World map navigation and battle screens are done completely in 3D. CG movies are frequently used as cutscenes that advance the game's story. The game features a large number of mini-games (most of which are optional) and many ways to explore the game world, as the player gradually acquires various vehicles that can venture into previously inaccessible locations. |
| Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon | 1998-06-25 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Asylum Studios | Action | Behind view | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Fang was once a proud and rich city, until Baron Sukumvit took over. Under his rule, the city is known as the City of the Lost Souls. Deep inside the mountains surrounding the city, Baron Sukumvit built a labyrinth, named Deathtrap Dungeon, and used it to imprison his enemies. Filled with vulgarities, traps and disgusting monsters, the dungeon is a very dangerous place. With his enemies gone, the Baron now has opened up the dungeon to sport and sends willing heroes down into it's depths, betting on the likelihood of their survival. If anyone could survive all levels of the dungeon, and slay the red dragon Melkor, they would receive 10.000 gold pieces and Baron Sukumvit would renounce his rule over Fang. Two brave heroes: Red Lotus and Bandog, agree to these terms and enter the Deathtrap Dungeon...Deathtrap Dungeon is a 3rd person action game. Controlling either Red Lotus or Bandog, the player controls the character from behind with a camera mode like in Tomb Raider. To deal with the enemies encountered, there are three different kinds of attacks: melee weapons, range weapons and magic. The melee weapons include basic fists to normal swords to a magic enhanced war hammer. In the range weapons department are goodies like bombs or a flame-thrower. In terms of spells are magicks such as fireballs or rather crazy spells like the exploding pig. But the real challenge are of course the riddles, traps and abysses that are everywhere throughout the dungeon.During the journey, players will encounter many locked doors, that require the finding of keys and devices. There are also potions that regenerate health or provide immunity against fire for a limited amount of time. There are also several treasures hidden in the dungeon, finding them will increase the player's score at the end of the level. The player can save this game during a level by finding the various save points.The game also features the two multiplayer-modes: Deathmatch and Last Man Standing. |
| Microsoft Windows 98/98SE (included games) | 1998-06-25 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Compilation, Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Microsoft Windows 98/98SE operating system is the successor to Microsoft Windows 95. The Second Edition (Microsoft Windows 98 SE) fixes issues in the first version and includes updates to software, accessory programs, and utilities.In either version users have the option to install a few games. All are single-player games playable only offline except for Microsoft Hearts Network which can be played as both single player and multiplayer over a LAN network. These games are not available separately or individually elsewhere. Included games are:
Microsoft FreeCell
Microsoft Hearts Network
Microsoft Minesweeper
Microsoft Solitaire
The Second Edition also includes the demo versions of the following games on the disc (cdsample\demos directory):
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
Microsoft Golf 1999 Edition
Microsoft Pinball Arcade
Monster Truck Madness 2
Motocross Madness |
| Microsoft Windows Plus! 98 (included games) | 1998-06-25 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation, SegaSoft, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Microsoft Windows Plus! 98 is an add-on product for the Microsoft Windows 98/98SE operating system that includes additional desktop themes, programs, and utilities. Three games are included:
Lose Your Marbles
Golf 1998 Lite (only 9 holes compared to the full version)
Spider Solitaire
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| Kakyūsei | 1998-06-26 | Elf Co., Ltd. | Elf Co., Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person, Top-down | | Adult, Romance | Dating simulation | | | | | | | Windows | In Kakyūsei, the player takes the role of a young Japanese high-school student named Kentarou. During the summer break, Kentarou has been working in a restaurant, run by a relative of his family. Now the summer is over, so Kentarou can finally get his salary and prepare for the school season that is about to begin. With some money in his pocket, and plenty of interest towards representatives of the fairer sex, the boy is determined to make this school year memorable...The game is a so-called love adventure, i.e. Japanese-style adventure game with a heavy emphasis on dating, similar to Dōkyūsei, another popular game of that kind by Elf. The word "kakyūsei" means "student(s) from a lower grade", which in its turn means that younger girls are the primary "dating focus" of the game. However, it is also possible to date other women beside the hero's schoolmates, including even a teacher.The gameplay mechanics are similar to those of Dōkyūsei: the player navigates Kentarou through the top-down city, visiting locations that are presented as still screens viewed from first-person perspective. The game has an internal clock, and each visit advances it, so that the number of activities that can be done during one day is limited. Kentarou must usually wait for the next weekend or vacation to be able to explore the city freely.The game offers a considerable amount of freedom in exploration, and the possibility to visit diverse locations, such as museum, cinema, parks, game arcades, etc. Kentarou can earn and pend money, buying items that can be given to a girl on a date. The dating mechanics, however, are not very complex, mostly involving being at the right place at the right time, and choosing appropriate answers to impress the girl.The game features scenes with nudity and sexual situations. |
| M.A.X. 2: Mechanized Assault & Exploration | 1998-06-26 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | FlatCat | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | In this sequel, your brain is wired directly to a sophisticated command and control center, and you have to colonize and defend a new world. As in the previous game, you have to build houses, control resources to build combat vehicles and eliminate any foe that shows in your sight. Turn-based elements allow you to show all your experience in military tactics. |
| Sega Worldwide Soccer '98 | 1998-06-26 | Sega Sports Japan | Sega Sports Japan | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Sega Worldwide Soccer 98 picks up where its predecessor stopped, adding two new stadiums, new animations, faster gameplay, and the most important, club teams from England, Spain and France for a total of 60 teams adding to the 48 of the International mode. While the game still lacks a license (except the English league, that has real player and team names), the name editor is still present. In the commentary box, Gary Bloom is joined by former England international and 1966 World Cup winner Jack Charlton. There are seven games modes: Friendly match, Club exhibition, Worldwide Cup, Club League, Cup Tournament and Penalty shootout. |
| Viper M1 | 1998-06-27 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other), Diagonal-down | | Adult | Visual novel | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control, Menu structures | | | Interface | Windows | Viper M1 is an instalment in the Viper series of interactive adult visual novels. It contains three stories to play through: Green Boy, The May Works, and My Mothers. All three stories are fully-animated and have full Japanese voice acting. At regular intervals, the player is tasked with making a decision that will determine where the story goes.Green Boy is told from the perspective of Natane, a young woman who runs a flower shop together with her older sisters Kazumi and Namiki. One day, a customer arrives who, instead of buying anything, leaves a seed behind before mysteriously disappearing. To the sisters' surprise, the seed soon grows into a naiive green-haired boy, and they realize it's up to them to make him into a man.The May Works follows Maki, a carefree schoolgirl who is suddenly accosted by a pair of strange-looking aliens, a hard-bodied alien named Kabuto and a gelatinous alien named Slamy, who are engaged in a contest to determine whose physiology is superior. Unfortunately for Maki, the aliens have decided that the winner of the contest will be whoever can rape her first. The player controls Maki from a top-down perspective in a town map as she runs for safety, and the place she ends up hiding determines the kind of ending the player gets.The protagonist of My Mothers is Mika, a young woman with an eccentric grandfather who wants her to fight crime using a powerful suit that he has created for her. Mika rebuffs the idea and storms off, angry that she might have been made late for her date, but upon arriving at the park where she was supposed to meet him, she finds that the man has been kidnapped by a dominatrix, causing her to reconsider her grandfather's proposal. |
| Patience | 1998-06-30 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Patience is a collection of 45 (as of version 2.4) solitaire card games. The card graphics and the controls are identical to the Solitaire game included with Microsoft Windows. The status bar includes a clock measuring the game time, and a progress bar measuring how much the player has completed the game goal. An undo/redo feature is available during the game. Patience keeps track of number of times played, number of victories, and the time record for each of the games. The games included with version 2.4 are:
Agnes
Alhambra
Auld Lang Syne
Beleaguered Castle
Canfield
Chameleon
Colorado
Congress
Double Klondike
Duchess
Eight Off
Faerie Queen
Fanny
Firing Squad
Fission
Flower Garden
Four Seasons
Frog
Golf
Grand Duchess
Indian
Klondike
Maria
Miner
Miss Milligan
Napoleon
Nestor
Number Ten
Osmosis
Parisienne
Precedence
Rank and File
Red and Black
Rouge Et Noir
Royal Marriage
Salic Law
Scorpion
Spider
Spiderette
Storehouse
Strategy
Thumb And Pouch
Whitehead
Will O’ The Wisp
Yukon
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| Tic Tac Toe | 1998-06-30 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Defeat the other player by being the first, who completes a row of the same color.You can play the game either against another player, or against the computer. If you play against the computer, you can choose, who start the game (computer or you), and furthermore you can choose the difficulty level (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert).The game also counts how much time you need to be victorious, defeated, or get a draw. |
| WarBirds | 1998-06-30 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | iMagic Online Corporation | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Massively Multiplayer | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation, Naval / watercraft, Vehicular combat | | Persistent, Real-time | | | Windows | WarBirds involves dueling with WW2 era fighters and bombers over both mock and historically accurate battlefields.Players can practice offline against enemy air and ground targets through a training mode or go head to head through matchmaking. The main way to play is to go online and fight for supremacy by choosing a side, and taking over enemy air bases in a continual war.One of the aspects of the game is the variety of planes, over 50 of them. Most use accurate physics as well as plane modeling and take time to fully master flying. In the bombers, the player may change to gunnery spots or act as the bombardier. In the fighters, the focus is more on engaging enemy screens, bombers, and doing strafing runs on ground targets. In addition to several planes, there are working aircraft carriers, naval ships, and ground vehicles operating in the online arenas. |
| World Cup 98 | 1998-06-30 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | Europe | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | The licensed game of the 1998 Football World Cup held in France from June 10 to July 12 and the first World Cup licensed game distributed and developed by Electronic Arts features a tweaked FIFA 98 engine, with all 10 stadiums accurately designed and all 32 teams (plus 8 teams that failed to qualify but still deemed too important to leave out) featuring real names and close "look-a-like" kits. Changes done to the 3D engine feature include on the fly in-game management with better player positioning AI (including the goalkeeper), and faster gameplay. An editor to change all player information is included, which affects simulated data: the team with higher ratings has a better chance of progressing through the next stage regardless if it is Brazil or China.It's possible to play with the groups as determined by the real draw, randomize or customize them to the players' likings, mixing both qualified and additional teams. Once the player wins a trophy, the first of the Classics matches is unlocked. These are eight final matches in the competition's history which are unlocked as the player beats them one by one. Friendlies, training matches and practice penalty shootouts close the modes available. |
| 3-D Ultra MiniGolf Deluxe | 1998-07-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | | | Arcade | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | 3-D Ultra Minigolf Deluxe is an enlarged version of 3-D Ultra Minigolf. 9 new holes are added, overall 27 holes playable. No changes to gameplay were made. |
| Mortal Kombat 4 | 1998-07-01 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | Midway Games, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Fighting | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Mortal Kombat 4 is 1 vs 1 fighting game, similar to the other Mortal Kombat games, but this is first game in series with 3D characters models. The player can choose from 15 different fighters at the start (and several unlockables later on). Many fighters from earlier games in the series make a comeback (like Scorpion, Sub Zero, Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage etc.) while other new fighters join in, like Shinook (who is the main evil character in this game), Fujin, Jarek, and Kai. Goro returns as a bossGameplay is very typical for a Mortal Kombat game, but has several new features - for example characters can use weapons in a fight (not only as a special move) or avoid attacks in the 3D environment. |
| Reader Rabbit's Toddler | 1998-07-01 | Learning Company, Inc., The | KnowWare, Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Reader Rabbit's Toddler is part of the Learning Company's multi-subject educational game series for children. As its name suggests, this reading centered title is meant for children as young as 18 months, and thus focuses on pre-reading skills such as sound matching, letter and shape recognition and creative play.In the introduction, Reader Rabbit and his friend, Mat the Mouse, enter a magic book where there are many places to explore. From the main page, toddlers can color, solve simple puzzles, play a matching game, and follow along to simple finger-play songs like Itsy-Bitsy Spider. There is also a Bubble Castle for popping bubbles and a jungle where they can spot animals and hear their characteristic sounds.The Version 2.0 release of Reader Rabbit's Toddler is an upgraded version of the original game. The primary difference between this and previous versions is the use of click-free mousing and the ability to move through the program by striking random keys, making it more accessible to the targeted 18 mos - 3 year age range. |
| Wacki: Kosmiczna Rozgrywka | 1998-07-01 | Seven Stars Multimedia | Seven Stars Multimedia | Adventure | Side view | | Comedy | Graphic adventure | Africa, Contemporary, Europe, North America, Oceania | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Franz Josef and Edek Baryła, two Polish teenagers, were worried that a shortage of cash will force them to spend the summer holidays at home. But they never expected to come face-to-face with an alien from another dimension, who explains that his planet is in danger of destruction (and what's worse, his planet and Earth are cosmically connected, and if his home world is destroyed, the Earth will blow up too). He asks them to assemble a device that can save it. Wacki: Kosmiczna Rozgrywka (Wacki: The Cosmic Game) is an adventure game where you control two characters, Franz Josef (FJ) and Edek Baryła (EB). In order to assemble the aforementioned device, they travel around the whole world - you start in Poland, but later you visit America, Africa and Australia. In each location, you have to find an element of the device, and then find some means of transport to get out. The game is characterized by lots of wacky humour, and clicking on various objects will often show amusing animations. Wacki uses a simple interface. To walk somewhere on the screen, you click there. To interact with objects on the screen, you click on them. To use an object from your inventory, you click on it and then click on whatever it is you want to use it on. You do not talk with people or examine objects to see their descriptions, though you can hold the cursor over your inventory objects to learn what they are. You can switch between the two characters at will. Sometimes the success of an action depends on it being done by the right person. If you screw up badly (e.g. get yourself arrested or blown up) you lose a life - lose all three and it's game over. |
| Incoming: The Final Conflict | 1998-07-09 | Xicat Interactive, Inc. | Rage Games Ltd. | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation, Helicopter, Tank | | | Teen | | Windows | Incoming aliens! Incoming aliens! They've already attacked the international moonbase, and they may already have a base in the Arctic! Earth is building a huge tracking station as first part of the counterattack, but now you detect incoming aliens and they don't look friendly! Defend your base against the initial incursion by manning turret, tank, helicopter, harrier jet, and even captured alien fighter as you battle the aliens in various continents, and eventually lead the counterattack on the moon! Incoming is a 3D shooter with plenty of action. In arcade mode, you can play it as a straight shooter. Some missions have you manning an immobile turret where you simply aim at the sky and engage incoming bogeys. Other missions can have you control a ground hovertank engaging enemy ground threats. Yet other missions will have you control a helicopter, a Harrier jumpjet, and even a captured alien fighter. There are also an "action" mode and "action-tactics" mode, where you are given some limited control of other friendly units. |
| Browning Elk Hunter | 1998-07-15 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Oquirrh Productions, L.C. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | Hunting, Shooter | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Back of Box (US) (from Ad Blurbs)Learn The Insiders Tricks of Successful ELK HUNTING... It's Almost Like Being There!Feel you heart race and your knees get weak as you hear the call of that huge trophy bull! Use the call just right. Get hint to step out of the trees, call to srop him and... The rest is up to you! Are you good enough to meet the challenge?Hunt the majestic elk in some of the most beautiful and rugged country in North America. Hunt with a rifle, a muzzleloader or a bow, its your choice. Be patient. Wait for the trophy bulls. Learn to call them in close for a good shot. Identify the trophy animals and earn more Bucks, (Browning Bucks), so you can earn enough money to go hunting again! As you earn Bucks you can buy additional equipment, restock your ammunition supply and buy accessories such as binoculars. With enough Bucks you can even pay the fees to hunt in the trophy areas where the limits are liberal and the elk are plentiful!Be sure to obey the regulations or you will get fined and even end up in jail! You will run out of Bucks and have to start over! Good Luck!
And keep it safe,
and legal!Features:
EXCEPTIONAL GRAPHICSActual photographs of some of the most rugged and beautiful elk hunting country in North America!FOUR REALISTIC LOCATIONS
Maple Mountain
Quakie SlopeBottom BendMountain High |
| Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Driver | 1998-07-15 | THQ Inc. | Semi Logic Entertainments, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | Tricks / stunts | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | This is adventure racing with over 12 different cars including adventurous tracks through greenhouses, living rooms, sandboxes, while doing insane stunts, flips, spirals to get unlockables like hidden cars and power ups.There are lots of customizations of cars and tracks that give you over 70 pieces to work with. Race a single race where you can race for fun without a time limit on any track or Cup where you can unlock tracks and see who's best with your favorite hot wheels car racing opponents. |
| Leisure Suit Larry's Casino | 1998-07-17 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Gambling | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Mature | Isometric | Windows | Larry Laffer, the protagonist of the Leisure Suit Larry adventure series, is running a casino. Leisure Suit Larry's Casino offers 5 casino games, 3 party games, a full gift shop, 3 restaurants, 3 bars, and a few surprises. |
| Alien Earth | 1998-07-21 | Playmates Interactive Entertainment, Inc. | Beam Software Pty., Ltd. | Action, Adventure | Diagonal-down | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Alien Earth is an isometric action adventure game about aliens who have enslaved earth and keep humans around only to hunt for sport. In regular intervals the humans have to give up one of their own to ensure the survival of all. The player takes the role of Finn, who has been chosen to be the next prey. But he has no intentions of going down easy...In seven levels he has to use both force and brain to survive. Puzzles are of the usual inventory based kind: picking up everything not nailed down, combining items and using then in the environment. There are also friendly people to talk to. Enemies can be killed with a variety of weapons, e.g. an axe or a high-tech pistol. Finn also has PSI abilities which grant him the possibility to heal himself or use an protective shield. When not under attack his life energy refills automatically and character development uses the "learning by doing" approach. The game can only be saved at hidden save points. |
| Mujintō Monogatari 4 | 1998-07-24 | KSS | Mediamuse | Action, Simulation | Top-down | | Survival | Action RPG | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Mujintō Monogatari 4 is a "survival life simulation" game and is essentially a retelling of the first game. A plane crashes into the sea, but a child survives and wakes up on a seemingly deserted island. The child finds another survivor and a cabin with a few basic supplies. After watching the lengthy intro, the player is given both heroes to manage. Water, food, light sources and materials have to be gathered and new tools can be crafted, provided the characters have all the necessary materials and knowledge.Compared to the original game, Mujintō Monogatari 4 changes the gameplay to make it more of an Action RPG, with players having to control the characters using a mouse and double-clicking on an item or enemy to gather or attack it. Players can find other survivors and have control of 3 unique pairs of characters which can explore various areas of the island. Each character's statistics can change depending on the activities that players make them do. |
| Police Quest: SWAT 2 | 1998-07-25 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Yosemite Entertainment | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | Crime | | Contemporary | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Police Quest: SWAT 2 is a real-time tactical game in which you control the actions of a SWAT team on crisis situations. The game is played from a 3/4 isometric view as you control the team members' movements and actions. Play as either the police or the terrorists to achieve your goals. |
| Galactic Patrol | 1998-07-29 | Monkey Byte Development, LLC | Ideas From the Deep, Monkey Byte Development, LLC | Action | Behind view, Side view, Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Galactic Patrol is a 3D homage to the classic arcade hits of the early 80's, and embodies the look and spirit of such legendary hits as Galaga, Phoenix, and Galaxian. In addition to the classic top-down and side-scrolling views, Galactic Patrol adds a unique 3rd person 3D view. Has 5 boss aliens across 25 waves and over 300 levels, including secret and bonus levels. |
| Get Medieval | 1998-07-31 | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | A game amazingly similar to Gauntlet, Get Medieval pits you against the forces of yet another mad overlord intent on world domination. You play as either an elf archer, a barbarian warrior, an female knight or a wizard in top-down action gameplay where you rid dungeons and castles from evil by mowing down hordes of enemies and collecting gold and diverse artifacts that pop in your way.Graphics are pre-rendered 2d sprites, and the game supports multiplayer gaming for up to four players at the same time either through Internet, LAN, or on the same PC! |
| Arkanoid: Doh It Again | 1998-08-01 | Unbalance Corporation | Taito Corporation | Action | | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A sequel to the arcade game Arkanoid. Use your paddle to move the ball around and hit bricks to clear the level. Once all the bricks are gone in the current level, you go on to the next level. Power-ups, like lasers and paddle lengthening will help you during the levels. Unlike the arcade version, the sequel has boss battles and somewhat of a storyline. |
| Best of Voodoo | 1998-08-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Action | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Best of Voodoo contains three games which are specially optimized for 3Dfx' Voodoo GPU series.The following games are included:
Moto Racer
Need For Speed II
Nuclear Strike |
| Bio Freaks | 1998-08-01 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | Saffire, Inc | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Fighting | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | This game is a 3D one-on-one fighter of extraordinary violence. Take control of one of many bionically-enhanced fighters, and fight in a dangerous interactive 3D environment.Most of the characters rely on distance attacks, which centres the game on strategic fighting rather than a boxing match; interacting with the hazardous environment adds hardship to the gameplay: while avoiding an opponent's gunfire by jetting off with your jetpack, you may just slam right into a buzzsaw coming out of the wall. |
| Crop Circles: Escape from Planet 3 | 1998-08-01 | | Zero Entertainment Inc. | Action | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | You are an alien from outer space. Basic idea behind the game: get the cows and don't get shot down or photographed. |
| Emergency: Fighters for Life | 1998-08-01 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sixteen Tons Entertainment | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Emergency: Fighters for Life is a real-time strategy game where the player controls a group of cops and doctors, trying to save as many people as possible from a number of different kinds of emergencies.Players begin by first examining the site and decide who will be needed. They are called in from the barracks; they drive to the scene of the emergency to take the player's instructions. Then an ambulance will need to be called to collect injured victims and bring them to the hospital. Only when everything is done is the mission accomplished and emergency personnel rounded up.This game contains a large variety of missions, from a collision between a car and a tractor to preparing a Formula 1 match! |
| Friday: Death to Arthur Yahtzee | 1998-08-01 | | | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | This is graphical point-and-click adventure with simple original engine. The game, like most 3rd Person adventure games, consists of action buttons which you use to interact with your surrounding. Simple as it is, it has your standard Look, Use, Talk, Inventory features.You are Arthur Yahtzee, a dole-bludger living in Los
Angeles, who is credited with one major event - when the
local Federal Research Institute started spawning
hideous mutants, he single-handedly stopped them. Now,
another branch of FRI in Chicago are spawning more
mutants, and this time they're after YOU... |
| Gunmetal | 1998-08-01 | Mad Genius Software Ltd. | Mad Genius Software Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | Tank | | | Teen | | Windows | As the game begins, you are a proud new tank pilot for the Nataka Corporation's Imperial Armored Cavalry. A Nataka installation is suddenly attacked by forces from Network 53, a branch of the Argus Industrial Corporation and a long-standing ally. No explanation is given and a full-scale war erupts. All lines of communication are severed and the highest management of the Argus Industrial companies disappear. Negotiation is impossible.A fast, fluid first-person shooter with MechWarrior-style ability to equip your RPV to suit different missions instead of relying on weapons found on your path. |
| Independence War: The Starship Simulator | 1998-08-01 | Infogrames, Inc., Ocean Software Ltd. | Particle Systems Ltd. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Everyone | | Windows | The Indies, colonists from Earth, and the Commonwealth are engaged in a never-ending war in Space. As an officer of the Commonwealth it's your job to strip these rebels of their defiant natures and force them to re-join with Earth.Independence War: The Starship Simulator is a space-sim with a twist. Instead of flying the usual fighters, you take charge of a 150-metre long Dreadnaught-class corvette. And all the goodies of a capital ship are included: big guns, big shields, lots of missiles. All the daily essentials for an officer of the Navy. Mission times vary from 5 minutes up to 35 minutes without save point. If you have successfully completed the mission, the game will save. There are primary and secondary missions and, later in the game, you can change the sides from the Navy to the Indies. Later, the Dreadnaught become updated with more firepower, new missiles and a friend. The game has three endings.Some of the missions require you to remote control other crafts, such as fighter, freighter, and more. Unfortunately, when you are controlling that ship, your own ship is flying with no one at the helm. |
| M.I.A.: Missing In Action | 1998-08-01 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Glass Ghost | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Helicopter | | | | | Windows | Missing In Action is a 3D action helicopter game that takes place during the Vietnam War. The game features a single player campaign which is divided into 26 missions, which are briefed by full motion videos with real life actors. Missions include finding MIAs, providing back-up for a damaged helicopter, destroying Vietcong camps or scouting an area. Each missions is action packed with many enemies that try to shoot you out of the air. The game features a radar that shows nearby enemy and friendly troops so that you know who to shoot.Each mission you receive a new helicopter of a different type. Each new helicopter has more firepower than the previous one. It is also possible to call in artillery support, SEAL teams, napalm strikes and drop flare and smoke grenades. |
| NCAA Football 99 | 1998-08-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | FarSight Technologies Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | The 1999 installment of EA Sports college football game. NCAA 99 features the 1998 rosters of over a hundred division 1A teams with accurate stadiums, uniforms, and (in some cases) fight songs. There are also 80 "historical" teams that allow you to recreate great college football games of the past. The featured exhibition game is a match up between the 1997 national champion Michigan Wolverines and the champion pretender Nebraska Cornhuskers. |
| NHRA Drag Racing | 1998-08-01 | Mind Magic Productions | Tantrum Entertainment, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | NHRA Drag Racing is a 3D drag racing simulation. It allows you to participate in drag races from a first person perspective. This officially licensed title features 22 official NHRA drag racing events on 19 different tracks and real drag racing stars.You can choose from various vehicles from the nitro-burning dragsters (rails) or funny cars category. Like in real life the drag races only take up about six seconds, but weather conditions can have a great effect on how your car handles. There are several parts of the cars you can fine-tune to improve performance. The game comes with detailed descriptions of all the included official tracks and sponsors. |
| Software 2010: Version MAGENTA (1998) | 1998-08-01 | Software 2010 LLC | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Software 2010: Version MAGENTA (1998) is an issue of a subscription service CD Magazine. Software 2010 made portions of the internet available on a disc to those with limited or no internet access via their World Online Digest or WOLD. In addition these CDs contained an assortment of shareware and public domain software including some games. This issue contains the following software grouped as shown below:
Bonus SoftwareWindows 3.X / 95 Programs
Safari Screen Saver, Random Verse Lab
Windows 95 Programs
All About Phobias, Desktop Banjo, Dogz II, Stickythings
Family Software
Windows 3.X / 95 Programs
Animated Clock, Cross-Stitch Designer, Dino Trilogy, Tracking the Eye
Windows 95 Programs
Astronomica, Banger, Blobshop, Dr. Mysto the Mindreader, Europe!, Forest Field Trip
Games
Windows 3.X / 95 Programs
Avalon Casinos, Beetle Run, MVP Cribbage Deluxe, Cupid Attack, Slam!
Windows 95 Programs
Daytona USA Deluxe Demo, Challenge Pool, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Lemmings, World Cup 98
General Software
Windows 3.X / 95 Programs
Animation Magic, Home Inventory Book, Office Darts 301, Sudsw, The Grocery Consumer
Windows 95 Programs
Art-O-Matic, BusinessCards, Inspiration 5 Pro, Mortgage and Finance Pro, MagicSoft Office Pro |
| V2000 | 1998-08-01 | Grolier Interactive Inc. | Frontier Developments Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | V2000 is a 3D space shooter based on the '80s game Virus. Aliens are using a virus to corrupt and possess many creatures from different worlds by opening up links between the worlds they are trying to conquer. From many of these links emerged the hives. The usual mission objectives in the game are to destroy the mutated creatures and the hives, rescue local inhabitants, while "beaming up" weapon upgrades along the way. Players are then awarded "trophies" for each world saved or if it is saved quickly. These trophies allow the player to receive new ships. |
| Arthur's Computer Adventure | 1998-08-03 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Living Books | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Interactive book | | | | | | | Windows | Arthur's Computer Adventure is a Living Books educational game based on the book Arthur's Computer Disaster by Marc Brown. The book's plot is that Arthur has been playing his new computer game, Deep Dark Sea, a lot. When Arthur's mom leaves to her office, Arthur invites Buster over. The two of them fight over who should play, and think they broke the computer when it shuts off. They try everything to try to fix it, but they can't, and Arthur offered D.W. all his desserts for a week so she wouldn't tell. When Arthur's Mom gets home, Arthur is forced to admit what happened and learns his lesson when he is grounded from the computer for a week.The game also offers five mini-games to play. Toy Copter is a game where you put out fires in a toy helicopter. D.W.'s Store is a game where you earn money at D.W.'s Cafe to help her buy accessories for her toys. Treasure Hunt is a board game where you have to match words with the correct picture. Frankenfish allows you to combine different fish species together while learning about each one. Finally, there is Deep Dark Sea, where you avoid creatures like sharks and jellyfish while trying to find hidden treasure. This is the game Arthur plays in the storybook. |
| Motocross Madness | 1998-08-14 | Microsoft Corporation | Rainbow Studios, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Tricks / stunts | | Motorcycle, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Motocross Madness features rough-terrain motorcycle racing, with over 30 courses. Co-ordinating a jump's speed, balance and take-off point make the difference between a perfect landing and a heavy spill. Physics model the bike and the rider separately, for maximum realism and some spectacular crashes. You can take on complete races in Indoor Supercross and Outdoor Motocross, or attempt 16 wild stunts. Circuits are fully displayed and modeled in 3D, with freedom of movement. A course designer is included, as is LAN multiplayer capability. |
| Phobia II | 1998-08-15 | Wah-Software | Wah-Software | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | The follower of the original Alien Phobia, this game is all about brainless shoot'em'up. You are up against the endless horde of aliens and you should take as many of them with you before they get you eaten. You can get powerups from the field which include better weapons(the basic rifle and three special weapons: Flamethrower, plutonium rifle and a cluster bomb launcher). Are you ready to be eaten? |
| Jump Shot Basketball 4.0 | 1998-08-16 | | Shot Sports Software | Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Jump Shot Basketball allows you to simulate any basketball season, past, present and future. Choose, create and edit your players and teams. Draft your dream team, trade away your nightmare and see if your squad comes out on top. Draft new players to replace aging stars and build your dynasty with career play. |
| Arkanoid for Win32 | 1998-08-17 | | ChaosSoft | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Arkanoid for Win32 is yet another Breakout game. The game is for Win32, hence the title, and it is released as freeware.First set the options : choose skin (funky or stone) and choose controls, mouse or keyboard. It's now up to you to remove all blocks in the level using your paddle. As usual, there are special blocks and you can fire missiles. If ball is stuck, use the "k" key to abort a level. Once the game is lost, you can enter your initials in a high-score table. |
| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six | 1998-08-21 | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed, Regional differences | | Shooter, Tactical shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | You have been recruited by John Clark to be a member of Rainbow, the most elite counter-terror team in the world, with members from various countries of the world. You start out rescuing hostages from the terrorists, but as you go on, you discover there are bigger things at stake - such as the entire world.Rainbow Six is a first-person shooter with an emphasis on realistic weapons and tactics. You must use existing intelligence like floor plan layouts to plan your assault. You can use up to four teams, with a variety of equipment from simple body armor to biosuits, breaching kit and more. There are many different weapons available, from pistols to machine guns to shotguns to grenades. You can switch between different teams as needed, or leave them under AI control. It is possible to coordinate different teams with go codes, engage a variety of terrorists or perform stealth missions. The game also features multiplayer with a variety of maps and mission types to choose from. |
| Warlords III: Darklords Rising | 1998-08-21 | Red Orb Entertainment | Strategic Studies Group Pty Ltd. | Compilation, Special edition, Strategy | Top-down | | | RPG elements, Wargame | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Warlords III: Darklords Rising is an improved or gold version of the 1997 release Warlords III: Reign of Heroes. It has the same graphics and interface with more campaigns, scenarios, units, spells, and heroes. The game also includes all the campaigns and scenarios from Reign of Heroes and has a map/scenario editor. Gameplay is all about creating army stacks, which can contain up to 8 units, and combining the right bonuses. You then use your armies to conquer cities. These cities produce your units and give you the gold to fund your campaign. Armies can be lead by a hero, but it's not absolutely necessary. You can use your heroes to search interesting sites like caves and monoliths. Also your heroes can accept subquests to raise their experience.The game focuses only on big battles; there is no micro management in this game. When two armies meet, the battle is executed automatically. Warlords lacks Heroes of Might & Magic's tactical combat. |
| Rugrats Adventure Game | 1998-08-24 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is an adventure game in which the evil alien Queen Angeleeka has kidnapped the great and mighty Reptar (read: baby Tommy's Reptar action figure). You'll play as the baby gang fight to save Reptar, the only one who can best the evil alien menace. Daunting tasks are before you, even getting Angelica herself to help you. You'll have to accomplish a variety of puzzles with only your wits and an inventory of useful tools in your diaper inventory. The Rugrats checklist reads something like:
Escape from the playpen
Build a monster suit
Collect important clues
Find Stu's lab
Grab Grandpa's teeth
Unclog the trash machine
Find the cookies
Defeat the evil Alien Queen Angeleeka |
| Titanic: Challenge of Discovery | 1998-08-24 | Panasonic Interactive Media | Maris Multimedia Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | Naval / watercraft | | | Everyone | | Windows | A strategy/simulation game that includes a little bit of education, Titanic: Challenge of Discovery puts you in the lead of an underwater archaeological team charged with finding three diverse famous wrecks: the Roman galley Isis, the German battleship Bismark, and then the starring ship, the RMS Titanic. With both a limited budget and window of opportunity, you must assemble a crew and equipment, then research the legends and tales of the wrecks to find a general area to search. Once you're out at sea, you'll use the common tools of the trade, from towed sonar to remote controlled submersibles to look for signs of debris. With a probable location, you can then excavate valuable historical pieces. Doing all this while maintaining a happy, healthy crew and not losing any equipment will give you the points you need to tackle the next target.Crew members have hidden stats, which affect how long it takes for jobs and how well they're done. Weather and sea conditions can affect your choices for the day, as poor situations could make searching not only difficult, but also dangerous. The game is played primarily through a bunch of control panels similar to ship systems. In addition, the Jason remote controlled vehicle and Discovery sub are controlled in a first-person sim like situation, with the dark ocean bottom displayed before you in 3-D Graphics.The game is primarily for those interested in the deep sea searching, as much of the time is spent listening to sonar traces and examining the ocean floor, determining what is a piece of a Roman galley and what's a WWII fighter.
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| Gipf for One | 1998-08-25 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Gipf for One is a freeware, open-source adaptation of Kris Burm's abstract board game from 1997, the first of a series of six games sharing similar concepts created by the same Belgian designer. Two players take turns placing black and white pieces on a hexagonal grid, where the main objective is to remove the adversary pieces out of the board by lining up four pieces in a row. New pieces are added from the starting points dotting the edge of the playing field, and pushed in moving the whole line forward. Pieces of either color are continuously reused by both players until one of the them is unable to add new ones to the board. The game can be played against computer or human opponents, in one of three variations with an optional timed mode. |
| NHL Breakaway 98 | 1998-08-25 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Sculptured Software, Inc. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | This ice hockey game has a playbook-based AI system based on the teams' actual playbooks allowing for specific teams to play their actual styles, with variable player size, from big defensemen to small speedy wingers. There is a total team management system to make trades, improve coaching, create draft picks and send players through training camps, or even send injured athletes for therapy.The inclusion of all the marquee players such as Lemieux, Gretzky, Messier, Sakic, Hull, and others is mostly mandatory in sports games. Also, the hints about how to play each team from NHL player Keith Tkachuk are a useful resource. |
| Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf | 1998-08-26 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Sports | Behind view | Licensed | | | | | Ken Feldman | | Everyone | | Windows | The next generation of EA's PGA Tour series. Essentially, the game uses the same mechanics as previous PGA Tour games with some technical improvements and modifications on the interface. Two swinging modes are available: the old twitch-and-click one and the new "Analog Pro Swing" which is a mouse-motion swing type, a la SimGolf. The swing bar has been revamped to include all relevant information and the overpower mark has been replaced with the "Tiger Zone", an arcade style gimmick that makes the game shout "Tiger Shot!!" and makes your character glow with electricity when hitting the ball.The game comes with 3 18-hole courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links, TPC at Summerlin and TPC at Sawgrass, but also for owners of previous PGA Tour games, the game has the option both to export this courses to and import the courses from PGA Tour 96 for Windows, PGA Tour Pro, PGA Tour Gold, PGA Tour Laptop and some of the course disks into Tiger's game complete with new renderings on the brand new engine that uses a combination of 2d pre-rendered backdrops, 3d foregrounds and digitally captured golfers.The golfers include Tiger himself as well as 7 other PGA champs and an option to create a custom player. Game modes available include practice, stroke, tournament, skins, shoot-out, match play, foursomes, fourball and driving range. Multiplayer gameplay is also supported with voice and text chat and up to 4 player gameplay. |
| Vangers | 1998-08-26 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | K-D Lab Game Development | Action, Racing / Driving | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Off-roading | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Vangers is an odd and surreal driving game about vehicular combat, racing, and exploring a deeply alien world. Famous (or infamous) for its obtuseness, the game features its own bizarre lingo, which the player must learn.In Vangers, the player drives vehicles, known as Mechos, about and through the realms, fulfilling quests essentially in the name of curiosity; the more successful you are the more you discover about the world in which you live. Specifically, you play a Lostie struggling within the World Chain to gain Dominance and knowledge under the concerned cynical eyes of your paternal wardens, the Eleepods. And so out you go racing in a Mecho, a Vanger warrior shuttling precious Phlegma, Nymbos, and Cirt from one forsaken corner of the realm to the next while gunning down the competition.Played from an overhead perspective, the game features destructible environments and physics simulation; the player's Mechos can flip, get knocked upside down, and drive underwater and through underground tunnels. The game also features competitive multiplayer for up to 32 players, both free-for-all and team-based.Vangers shares the universe and storyline of K-D Lab's later Perimeter and Maelstrom game series, which function as its prequels.Originally released in 1998, the game has since been updated for modern systems and re-released on Steam and GOG, and updates have continued into April 2021. The game now is moddable, and, though LAN and Internet multiplayer support was originally disabled on the re-release, it has since been restored. |
| Browning African Safari: Who's Hunting Who? | 1998-08-27 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Oquirrh Productions, L.C. | Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | Hunting, Shooter | Africa | | Direct control | | | | Windows | This is a typical hunting game: The player hides behind bushes, waits until an animal crosses and shoots it. As the name suggests this game is set in Africa and uses real hunting grounds, e.g. Mutova Basin or Rutenga Wash. The graphics are still photographs. For every kill the player receives money which he uses to buy bullets and a hunting license. If he is unsuccessful he goes to jail and loses the game. The ultimate goal is to get special trophies for a museum. |
| Wing Commander: Secret Ops | 1998-08-27 | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Teen | | Windows | Secret Ops continues the story of Wing Commander: Prophecy.
Casey and some of his wingmates are transferred to the Confederation's newest cruiser, the TCS Cerberus. They are assigned patrol duties close to the Sol system.
However, the bugs are back and this time, they are close to Earth. It's up to Casey to stop their plans once more.Secret Ops uses essentially the same engine as Prophecy. You can fly upgraded versions of the Prophecy fighters equipped with some new weapons.
The story is no longer told with videos but with cutscenes using the game engine. |
| Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines | 1998-08-28 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Pyro Studios S.L. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | War | Stealth | Africa, Europe, Historical events, World War II | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | The setting is World War II, and England has made and trained a small group of special elite forces called "commandos". These commandos are specially trained to take on the most crucial and risky missions. These men are sent in to covertly take out installations, sabotage plans, assassinate leaders, and cause as much disruption to the enemies of the free world.Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is essentially a puzzle game at heart. The goal is to lead a team of six men throughout 20 missions across the entire WWII theater, with missions in the North African desert, Italy, France, and even in Norway. Strategy is a key element, as the team is vastly outnumbered in most missions, and stealth a main aspect of the gameplay, stealth kills being usually preferable over going in guns blazing. Missions get much harder once the alarm is sounded, with double the amount of guards and reinforcements possibly coming for every enemy killed in the open.Every mission comes with specific (and usually multiple) objectives to disrupt enemy activity. These may range from destroying trains, battleships, and structures, to rescuing captured GI's. The commandos team includes six highly trained operatives: Tiny, the heavy-duty trained killer; Duke, the silent sniper; Inferno, the demolitions and mechanical expert; Spooky, the spy; Fins, the navy diver; and Tread, the surly driver. Each mission only provides with the soldiers required to complete it. Some missions may require all six characters while others will only use two of them.Each man is essential to each mission, and if one dies, the mission must be loaded to an earlier point. Each performs a specific duty that is required to make the plan go off without a hitch. For example, the driver is necessary in order to drive the escape truck in most missions. The diver might be needed as a specific travel method to reach an island. The demolitions expert might be needed to cut a hole through a fence. Only through teamwork and careful planning can the missions be beaten.During the missions, the player will also have some tools at their disposal that provide extra info and tips. The eye tool allows for example to see the field of vision of the selected enemy. Every mission also comes with a fully animated map indicating the positions of the enemies. It is also possible to split the screen up to eight times, and use the camera tool to follow the path of specific soldiers in every screen.Commandos is an open game with no linear progression. There are no scripted events, and all soldiers act according to their AI. There is no true way to beat each mission, though some paths might be more difficult than others. Only by utilizing all of the soldiers' abilities and available resources will the player be able to complete each mission and have everyone return home alive. |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI with Power Up Kit | 1998-08-28 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI with Power Up Kit is the compilation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Awakening of the Dragon and Sangokushi VI: Power Up Kit. |
| Blue's Clues: Blue's Birthday Adventure | 1998-09-01 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | In Blue's Clues: Blue's Birthday Adventure, spotted puppy Blue and her human friend Steve prepare for Blue's birthday party. Four questions are posed to the player: What does Blue want to do at her party? What does Blue want to play at her party? What does Blue want to give her guests at her party? What does Blue want to eat at her party? As in the Blue's Clues television show that the characters are based on and in Blue's Treasure Hunt, each question can be solved by discovering "clues" indicated by blue paw prints. As each set of three clues is collected, Steve retires to his thinking chair to ponder the clues, and the player must select the most likely combination from a group of three pictures. The player's reward is the party itself with a special activity dictated by the question that was solved.There are two discs, each one covering two questions, or pathways - each pathway is a complete game, and can be played independently of the others, in any order. There are nine directed activities in the game:
Find My Friend
Tickety's Puzzles
Pizza Making
Flower Picking
Party Toys
Hide and Seek
Find Turquoise
Treasure Hunt
Mixed-up Music
These activities are set to an intermediate difficulty level as a default, and will adjust automatically up as a level is completed, or down if the player seems to be having a problem. They can also be set manually from the Pathway selection screen. In addition, there are some purely creative play activities that don't have difficulty levels, such as choosing a gift for Blue and selecting puppets and scenery for the puppet show. As in other Blue's Clues games gameplay uses the mouse to point, click and drag.Parents can view a printable progress report available from the sign-in screen, which shows what activities and at what levels the user has played.
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| Evil Core: The Fallen Cities | 1998-09-01 | ABTS Intelligent Group | ABTS Intelligent Group | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | In the year 20,000 AD humans have long since moved away from the planet Earth to a mysterious planet called Malia, characterized by gorgeous sky views and secret underground passages. Malia is split into an Old Sector, composed of caves, mines, temples, and ruins known as the Fallen Cities; and a New Sector, with advanced technology including nuclear power, genetic engineering, and space stations. The New Sector is made up of three distinct cultures: the peaceful Bloblics, who have recently had to develop weapons for their own defense; the N'Leth, torn apart by civil war; and the Marcs, the most menacing group, who are using their advanced technology, chemical weaponry, and a genetically enhanced army to try to gain total control of the planet.You play the role of Vein Black, and as the game begins there are a series of devastating attacks from an unknown source on innocent cities on Malia. The N'Leths and the Bloblics band together to defend themselves against the as-yet-to-be-identified enemy, and they focus their concern on detecting the source of the disruptions on the Fallen Cities in the Old Sector. They enlist you to scout out this area and report back to them with what you see above and below ground. In this 3D shooter you'll be commandeering a futuristic fighter plane as you explore the vast cities, completing objectives and earning money to refit upgrades to your ship.
The game has two modes of play, Adventure and VS. In Adventure, you may play with one player or two, but VS is a mandatory two-person game. VS multiplayer mode, which has 6 worlds and 8 different ships. There is a cooperative split-screen mode for team play as well. |
| H.E.D.Z.: Head Extreme Destruction Zone | 1998-09-01 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | VIS Interactive plc | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | H.E.D.Z.: Head Extreme Destruction Zone is an action/shoot-em-up. You play an alien capable of wearing different heads, and the goal of the game is simply to engage other aliens in combat, kill them and collect their heads, ultimately trying to collect as many heads as possible. You can swap heads in and out of a backpack (which only holds 5 heads), and at the expense of points off your score, out of a store of all the heads you've collected (out of a possible 225).Each head gives you different powers (weapons, shields, weapons, speed boosts, weapons, etc.). There is an element of strategy (in that you have to pick a good set of heads to avoid spending points on unnecessary swaps), and some heads only have a limited operation before you have to swap to another head and let it recharge. |
| Hazard | 1998-09-01 | SKC Soft Land | Pumpkin Software | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Hazard is a role-playing game in which the player controls Rick, a warrior whose master has been murdered. Together with Armi, a young girl he managed to save from the clutches of a monster and whose grandfather was killed, he decides to search for those responsible for the monster assault.The player can control multiple characters in the game in a similar way as in most real-time strategy games. Each character has their owns statistics that improve when they acquire enough experience points to level up. Killed monsters drop loot such as weapons, potions and armor, which can be picked up and stored in the inventory. Characters can use weapons or magic to combat the monsters. There are a total of ten possible characters that can join Rick's party. |
| I'm Your Man: Special Edition | 1998-09-01 | DVD International | Interfilm | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy, Thriller | | | | | | | Cinematic camera | Windows | I'm Your Man is an interactive movie originally released for cinemas in 1992. This Special Edition is the DVD adaptation of said movie and comes with a number of extras: outtakes, a documentary, notes, storyboards, trailers and director's commentary. The game features three main characters: Jack, Leslie and Richard, and the gameplay revolve around choosing from which of the characters' perspective the story should unfold. The story involves all three characters going to a party where Leslie attempts to meet up with an FBI agent to deliver information about Richard's money siphoning scam. Richard knows about this and goes to the party to prevent her from doing so. When the game starts the player chooses one of the characters and this option will reappear throughout the game. Depending on which character is chosen at every stop different parts of the story will be revealed. Therefore the scenes showed will be different for every playthrough. At times the characters will talk directly into the camera and ask the player what should happen next. The remote control is then used to choose one of two or three options and the video will continue playing. At the end, the player once again gets to choose one of the characters each leading to an ending in favour of the chosen character. |
| Jimmy White's 2: Cueball | 1998-09-01 | Virgin Games, Inc. | Awesome Studios | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Licensed by snooker player Jimmy White, this game is a simulation of not only the British game of snooker, but also of the three main variations of pool.The game is viewed in detailed 3D, allowing you to rotate the table at all angles, either from overhead or using the cue position as a base. Taking a shot involves setting the exact pace and spin of it, and considering what each contact will do to the position of the cue ball, and any balls you may wish to pot afterwards. In the snooker mode playing accurate 'safety' shots (to prevent your opponent scoring) becomes important as well.In each mode there are 10 computer opponents, and matches can consist of up to 9 frames. A trick-shot editor is also included, allowing you to practice shots and set up challenges. Replays and an undo mode are also included.Bonus games are included as well - darts, draughts, a fruit machine, and even a remake of Dropzone, a Commodore 64 game from the same programmer. |
| Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit | 1998-09-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Seattle, Electronic Arts Canada | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Street racing | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | In the third major installment of Electronic Arts'
Arcade racing series, there are several modes of play available. You have the standard race, with one big difference - now there are traffic cops out to ticket you for your excessive speed. Alternatively, you can take your turn with the radar gun and attempt to pull over speeding computer or human racers. Returning to the flavour of the original Need for Speed, this adds a new Pursuit mode, where you must out run the cops through fast, open area tracks, while also out-lasting the rest of the pack. Another new mode is knockout, where you race through all the tracks, and whoever is last after each race is knocked out. The winner is, of course, the one that lasts the distance. Almost every course in the game has one or more shortcuts. The cars include Ferrari 550 Maranello, Ferrari 355 F1 Spider, Italdesign Scighera, Lamborghini Diablo SV, Lamborghini Countach, Jaguar XJR-15, Jaguar XK8, Aston Martin DB7, '98 Corvette C5, Mercedes SL600 and the Mercedes CLK GTR. |
| Outburst | 1998-09-01 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Engineering Animation Inc., WayForward Technologies, Inc. | Strategy | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | Outburst is a game of topics that is played in seven rounds. You can play by yourself or in teams. The basic ideas is for you and/or your team to guess as many of the predetermined Target Answers as possible. You receive points for each correct answer you give. The winner is the team with the most points at the end of the game. The first two rounds consistent of guessing the predetermined Target Answers (known as Regular Outburst). Third round is Reverse Burst in which the Target Answers are revealed, but you have to guess the topic. Fourth round plays like the first two rounds. The fifth round will be either Sloppy Seconds or Challenge Clock. In Sloppy Seconds, the first team to play (the losing team) will have 30 seconds to guess as many Target Answers. Afterwards, the second team will have a chance to guess the remaining Target Answers in 30 seconds. Challenge Clock begins with the losing team in which they must guess 5 out of the 10 Target Answers in 60 seconds. The second team does the same for a different topic. The team who answers the most of the 5, or the fastest of all 5, wins that round. Round six is Shout Burst in which teams receive 10 multiple choice questions about a particular topic. The seventh and final round is Mondo Burst where players are given a topic with a vast amount of Topic Answers in which they must think of as many as they can in 60 seconds. |
| Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Bundle | 1998-09-01 | LucasArts | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II (base game)
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith (expansion pack) |
| StarCraft (Demo Version) | 1998-09-01 | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Following the tradition established with the demo version of Warcraft II, Blizzard released a demo version of StarCraft with a unique short campaign called Loomings, which serves as a prequel to the story in the retail game. In the demo, the player takes the role of a Confederate Alpha Squadron Lieutenant who had just arrived to the fringe colony of Chau Sara. The local Magistrate asks for help dealing with a cell of Sons of Korhal rebels who have rooted themselves in the colony, but the situation soon goes out of control as previously unknown alien life forms suddenly attack Confederate forces. A mysterious Confederate black ops unit called the Cerberus Recon Squad arrives to contain the spread of the "xenomorphs", and their Commander asserts himself as the man in charge, much to the displeasure of the Magistrate. Together with the player they must fend off the Zerg invasion of the colony.
The demo was released as an Internet download and as a shareware CD, with the former having less content due to download size restrictions. The short version of the campaign includes a tutorial and three missions, while two more missions are found in the CD version. Additionally, the number of unit quotes had been reduced in the downloadable demo, and the full intro movie could not have been possibly included with it. |
| Axis & Allies | 1998-09-02 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Meyer Glass Interactive Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game | Historical events, World War II | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This is Hasbro's PC version of the popular Milton Bradley boardgame of the same name. Designed for 1-5 players, the game begins in the Spring of 1942, right after America entered World War II.The 5 nations that you can play are U.S.A. United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, and Japan. The game begins with the same units on the same territories everytime, yet hardcore players of the game still argue what are the best moves and counter moves to begin each game. With the added randomness of the die rolls, each game will eventually turn out different.The game is very balanced, with the Axis having an upperhand in number of units, but the Allies have an economic advantage.The PC version has many "house rules" that have evolved over the years that you can choose to play with, as well as a unit editor. There are also in-game cinematics that are nice the first few times you play.This game supports several multiplayer modes. It can be played in-house, on a LAN, modem-to-modem, or on the MSN Gaming Zone. |
| Hong Pong | 1998-09-03 | NSD Entertainment | NSD Entertainment | Action | Top-down | | | Paddle / Pong, Shooter | | Tank | | | | | Windows | Hong Pong is a Pong variant set in five different war zones (including one hidden) and with tanks instead of paddles. Played with two tanks, one on each side of the screen, players need to prevent a spinning nuke from touching their side of the screen, while shooting missiles at the opponent or forcing the nuke to hit his side. In the middle of the screen different kinds of vehicles pass and these hurt the player when touched. It is also possible to activate a shield to block the incoming missiles, but while it is up firing is disabled.The game can be played by two players simultaneously on a single screen with a single keyboard. There are four vehicles to choose from, three difficulty levels, a practice mode, and an rendered opening and ending cutscene sequence. |
| Dune 2000 | 1998-09-04 | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Intelligent Games Ltd, Westwood Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed, Regional differences | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | 2D scrolling, Free-roaming camera | Windows | Dune 2000 is a remake of the classic Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty, updated for Windows. In this real-time strategy game, you can play one of the three houses: the noble Atreides, the insidious Ordos, or the evil Harkonnen. Each has different sets of units and tactics while maintaining an overall balance. The Atreides have air superiority and rely on their honor and alliance with planet natives, the Fremen. The Ordos rely on guerrilla tactics and superior technology, as well as mercenaries. The Harkonnen just go brutal, with no care for lives of their own troops or destruction, as long as they are victorious.Unlike the original, the cutscenes happen after every mission, with a live-cast this time, like already seen in Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer franchise. A 16-bit colour mode is the default setting, setting the game's graphics on par with the Command & Conquer games that came before it, while an 8-bit colour mode is available as an option in the game's settings.Everything from the original is back: sandworms, the spice, the Fremen, the known structures and the map of the planet, and even the intro cinematic is an enhanced live-action/CGI version of the original one. |
| Heart of Darkness | 1998-09-08 | Interplay Productions, Inc., Tantrum Entertainment, Inc. | Amazing Studio | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Andy is a child who likes playing with his dog Whiskey, doesn't particularly enjoy going to school, and has a knack for inventing complicated gadgets. One day Andy and Whiskey are strolling through the park, when suddenly a solar eclipse darkens the sky, and after a moment Andy realizes that his dog has been taken away. But science can solve everything, and Andy heads to his treehouse, which is home to his outstanding inventions, including a spaceship! If you thought it was just a toy, you thought wrong, because Andy boards the ship and pilots it into the heart of the Darklands, a world controlled by the evil Master of Darkness. Andy takes out his gun (another splendid invention of his) and prepares to fight the evil sorcerer's minions. Nothing will stop the boy from rescuing his beloved dog!Heart of Darkness is a cinematic 2D platformer designed by Eric Chahi, the creator of one of the genre's progenitors, Another World. Though the game has many fast and furious action sequences, including shooting hordes of dark creatures, it is built like a series of tasks, each requiring different approaches, from arcade-style shooting or jumping to interacting with the environment and solving puzzles. Like its spiritual predecessor, the game is linear; completing a section usually takes Andy to a different location, where another task awaits him.Andy has several guns at his disposal, though in certain locations he will lose his weapons and will rely on the player's wit or quick reaction to survive. Andy will also gain magical energy, which can be used to grow or destroy trees. Similarly to Another World, many hazards are placed on the hero's path; despite the child-oriented premise, the game contains graphically explicit death scenes, which occur if the player is not careful or quick enough to save Andy from a gruesome demise.Heart of Darkness features orchestral music and pre-rendered animated cutscenes. It comes with a pair of 3D glasses, which allow the player to view certain scenes in the game in 3D. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: IAF - Israeli Air Force | 1998-09-10 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Pixel Multimedia | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Behind view | Licensed | War | | Cold War, Contemporary, Historical events, Middle East | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Direct control, Voice control | | Everyone | | Windows | Jane's Combat Simulations: IAF - Israeli Air Force is a multi-aircraft simulator. It was developed by real-life IAF pilots, and features terrain with true elevation, made by using satellite data. As with other titles using the Jane's license, the focus of the game is in creating a realistic and believable military aircraft simulation. Hence, the game's controls and mechanics are elaborate. It is also possible to give basic commands to wingmen, if they are present. While waypoints and refueling can be managed by the aircraft's autopilot, all such maneuvers can be done manually.IAF is based on 7 different fighters and bombers of the Israeli Air Force: F-4E Phantom II, F-4 2000, F-15 2000, F-16D Fighting Falcon, Lavi ATF, Kfir C-7, and Dassault Mirage III. In game modes other than the campaign, the MiG-23 and MiG-29 are also available to the player. Each aircraft performs differently and is meant for different tasks, and can be seen from the cockpit (with 2D and 3D views available, and the possibility to look around from the pilot's perspective), from the outside (in a behind view or one of the cinematic views), or with just the HUD visible.The game has six campaigns, three of which are historical (Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, and the Lebanon War), and the other three (Syrian, Iraqi, and Lebanese Fronts) being fictional and set in a hypothetical future. The player's progress and rank is recorded in their profile, with each mission's success or failure affecting their score. Scoring itself can be changed by setting various difficulties and "aids", with AI help removing score percentages but making the game easier for newcomers.Aside from the campaigns, there are preset single scenarios, as well as a quick mission editor which the player can use to manually set the parameters of a desired air-to-air skirmish (whereas the campaigns have both air-to-ground and air-to-air missions). There is also a Scramble button in the main menu, which randomly picks a mission from a small mission pool and puts the player in a random plane. IAF has a multiplayer mode available via LAN and JanesCombat.Net (which has since been discontinued).Finally, the signature feature of Jane's-licensed games is the in-game encyclopaedia, which is present in IAF and lists and describes in detail not only the aircraft the player can pilot or shoot at, but also all other objects that can be encountered in the game, as well as missiles that aircraft can be armed with. |
| Prince of Persia Collection | 1998-09-11 | Red Orb Entertainment | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow & The Flame
A video about the making of Prince of Persia 3D
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| B.U.G.S. | 1998-09-14 | Stardock Systems, Inc. | Cramon Utilities | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | B.U.G.S. is a space shooter with many similarities to Galaga, but it isn't a straight clone of that arcade game. One of the differences in this game is that the player can freely move the spaceship. Adversaries, the "Bugs", come at the player character from different directions in different patterns on each level and must be killed. Sometimes, defeated enemies leave behind one of several types of power-ups such as special shields, ten rapid firing shots, and others. The graphics are 2D in 256 color, and the game uses DirectDraw. Players can use joystick or keyboard to control the space ship. The game has 50 levels on three different difficulties.
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| The Rugrats Movie: Activity Challenge | 1998-09-14 | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Brøderbund Software, Inc. | Action, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Rugrats Movie: Activity Challenge is an educational game based on the 1998 The Rugrats Movie, which in turn is based on the Daytime Emmy-award winning animated television series.The game features six games that can be played, each game has ten levels and a bonus level that can be accessed if a Cynthia doll is acquired during play.Traffic Trouble is a Gridlock type game, that features moving around cars, with added collectibles such as pacifiers and baby toys. In Aqua Raptor the player has to guide a raft down a river while collecting items and avoiding bananas thrown by monkeys.Reptar Rhythm is a music game where you have to type the displayed letter to advance Reptar's destructive path through the city. The letters appear at the rhythm of the music. Stu's workshop requires the use of machines to free Angelica from an anti-gravity machine. Making Tracks requires you to find a solution for a sliding puzzle so a train can cross over to the other side. Monkey Mayhem involves collecting items from the monkeys.In the bonus game Spike's Scamper, the player has to guide Spike over the ground avoid hazards and collect more items.The total items acquired during a game determines your final score. |
| Dacha Kota Leopolda ili Osobennosti Myshinoy Okhoty | 1998-09-15 | 1C Company | 1C Company | Adventure | Side view | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Dača kota Leopol'da ili osobennosti myšinoj ohoty is a point-and-click adventure, based on Soviet/Russian animation series Leopold the Cat. Leopold's worst enemies - mice Mitya (White) and Motya (Grey) - conceived a cunning plan against him, but were caught in the act and suffered blueprints destruction. But they won't surrender and will gather the lost mechanism scheme piece by piece along all the cat's summer cottage. The final goal is to construct tool of revenge from collected scraps and play dirty on Leopold.The player can control both mice, basically the classic smart (Mitya) and strong (Motya) characters pair. Each one of them is capable of different actions, based on their capabilities. Puzzles are built around items combination, with the inventory or the environment. As a bonus, there are mini-game built in: Leogochi, similar to a Tamagochi, but with Leo in the role of the pet. He can eat, sleep, learn and do other things. |
| Urban Assault | 1998-09-15 | Microsoft Corporation | TerraTools GmbH | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | In a future Earth that has fallen victim to a chain of ecological disasters, humanity has plunged into a new world war for resource control. A human faction called the Resistance is at war against the totalitarian Ghorkovs, the fanatic Taerkastens and the insidious Black Sect splinter faction. The conflict is joined by the Mykonian and Sulgogar alien races, who also crave for the Earth's resources. The game focuses on the Resistance campaign for control over the European and North African territories.Urban Assault is a 3D real-time strategy game that strongly encourages direct control of the units in a first-person shooter fashion. The strategy part is almost entirely focused on the creation and management of units, with the construction element being limited to power stations and a few other buildings like radars and turrets. The output of a power station, which is used for creating units as well as for protecting and moving the command station, is proportional to the number of territories controlled by the faction.At any time, the player may personally take control of any single unit on the battlefield, whereupon that unit's strength and armor are increased while under player control. Technological progress is achieved during the missions, by taking control of special territories where blueprints are hidden, thus giving access to new units or improving existing ones. |
| Caesars Palace Slots | 1998-09-18 | FlatCat | Cetasoft | Gambling | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Caesars Palace Slots is a simulation featuring about 30 licensed slot machines from the Caesars Palace casino (the official number is 100 because the machines are available multiple times with slight variations). The gameplay consists of choosing a machine, betting a number of chips and pulling the handle. Depending on the random result (the winning chances can be changed), the result is either a win or loss. The player starts with 10.000 chips. Also included is an editor which allows to put together custom machines. |
| Little Blue Men | 1998-09-23 | | | Adventure | | | Horror | Interactive fiction / text adventure | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | You are a cog in the wheel that is the office: standing at your desk (since Benson's the only one who rates a stool), helping paperwork make its circuit around the department. Your phone doesn't let you dial out--why would it? You're just supposed to answer it if it rings, which it never does. But if you ever pick up the receiver, you can hear some joker breathing heavily. How are you supposed to stay frosty?Little Blue Men is an interactive fiction adventure that is part dreary office simulator and part surreal horror, depending on the choices the player makes. Several different endings await, including the ultimate ending-- which may not be the most fitting. An incorporated hint system is available to help the player figure out what to do next. |
| Starship Troopers: Battlespace | 1998-09-24 | Sony Online Entertainment Inc., Kesmai Corporation | Mythic Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Top-down | Licensed | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | Persistent | | | Windows | Starship Troopers: Battlespace was a massively multiplayer space shooter playable on the GameStorm network. Players could fight in campaigns or quick matches as the human Feds or the alien Arachnids, and battled live players from the opposing team. Points and victories contributed to persistently-tracked stats, resulting in regular promotions for skilled players.Both sides could select to fly any one of five ship classes - light, medium, medium heavy, and heavy fighters, as well as a carrier ship that could ferry troops to contested planets. Players could rearm, repair, or dock to save their current score at starbases or friendly planets scattered around the arena (death reset your score to the last saved number). Players could also form teams or guilds called "squadrons."Five arenas were available, with different objectives for each. The first three required each side to capture all planets in the arena. Planets were captured by having a player select and pilot the lumbering carrier class ship, pick up troops from their side's home planet, and unload them on the target planet (ideally with other players providing fighter cover along the way). The fourth arena required teams to destroy four of the enemy's bases. The fifth arena awarded victory to the side that killed 50 enemy ships.Starship Troopers: Battlespace contains no offline features, and online play was shut down in 2001. |
| FreeCell Wizard | 1998-09-25 | | Goodsol Development, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | FreeCell Wizard is a single player, shareware, card game which contains several variations on the standard solitaire game of Freecell.The variations featured in this product are: Sea Towers, Stalactites, Penguin, Eight Off, Towers, Double Freecell, Baker's Game, Two Cells, Spidercells, Repair, Four Colours, Antares, Bastion, ForeCell, and Milligan Cell. There is also a game editor so that the player can either customise these games or create their own.There is in-game help available, game statistics are kept, games can be saved to be played/replayed later, game customisation options to change its look and feel, and all deals are numbered and can be played randomly, in sequence or as selected by the player. The game also has both a Tour and a Grand Tour mode which take the player through a set or all of the games.The product has the ability to post game scores on-line and unusually, in 2013, this option is still functioning.
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| Twins Story: Kimi ni Tsutaetakute... | 1998-09-25 | Fujitsu Limited | Fujitsu Limited | Adventure | 1st-person | | Romance | Dating simulation, Japanese-style adventure, RPG elements, Visual novel | Contemporary | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Twins Story is a romantic visual novel dating simulation adventure game. The protagonist is a high-school student and lives with his twin sister, Narumi Tateno, while his parents are working abroad. His goal beside studying? Well, to meet many many girls and try to make one of his choosing fall in love with him. While the typical visual novel gameplay consisting of dialogues and story branching choices are there, the game also puts emphasis on character's stats building which may help you get the girl of your choice, or be rejected due to lack thereof. The game features 10 different heroines, namely Saki, Rina, Izumi, Sayaka, Mami, Hanano, Yukino, Mizuho, Adelade, and Momoji, each with different hobbies and interests that you will have to try and match in order to make them take interest in you. The story progresses through calendar days where you can schedule things to do to increase your stats, visit various locations and talk to girls you meet during event scenes.Bonus elements such as unlockable character gallery or fully unlocked BGM tracks can be accessed via main menu. |
| Viper CTR: Asuka | 1998-09-25 | Sogna | Sogna | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Viper CTR: Asuka is a direct sequel to one of the three short stories included in Viper V10, Northern Lights. The protagonist of the game is a captain of a kendo team. Recently he has been having a romantic affair with Asuka, one of the strongest fighters on the team. But everything falls apart when the hero's cousin, a sexy girl named Miki, moves with him. The hero has to choose with whom to be together - or he can lose them both...Like other Viper games, the player input in "Viper CTR" is minimal: most of the player's time is spent reading text and watching the animated sex sequences. The interaction appears in the form of decision-making (selecting a text option). Some decisions lead to a premature end of the game, while the correct ones advance the story. |
| Chessmaster 6000 | 1998-09-29 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Board game, Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Another installment in the Chessmaster series. Adds rated gameplay against true-to-life opponents, a stronger engine, and an easy-to-use 300,000 game database. There are audio annotated games from Josh Waitzkin and new tutorials from Bruce Pandolfini, a noted chess teacher. |
| AFL '98 | 1998-09-30 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Creative Assembly Ltd., The | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | Oceania | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Most other games under the EA Sports brand are about sports which are popular in America or Europe. AFL '98 however is about Australian Rules Football which is one of the most major sports in Australia. AFL is a contact sport: there are no helmets or pads like in American Football, so if a fight breaks out, blood will get spilled. All of the official teams and players of the league are here, as well as the trademark EA Sports graphics, sound and control system. |
| Caesar III | 1998-09-30 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | Africa, Classical antiquity, Europe, Middle East | | Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Caesar III is a city building game, where gameplay involves placing buildings and laying out zones. The player is in charge of a small province, and must make it as peaceful and prosperous as possible, following the advice of their citizens to make it work. The game also features defense of the city by forming an army and trading, but always takes place in the city the player is in charge of. Players also must pay attention to the Gods, who can inflict disasters if not satisfied. As the game progresses, new technologies become available.This game is about people and systems. Each building that requires to hire people from those walking the streets of the city in order to be built. The marketplace needs saleswomen, and buyers. Buyers walk to the granary to buy food, and will in turn bring back more food to the granary. The sales lady walks up the street selling food to the houses she finds, which allows them to evolve to better housing, which pay higher taxes. The people in this game make the difference. Instead of a police station having a radius of effectiveness, it sends out a police officer who can only fight crimes and fires they see. The need to rely on randomly walking citizens means placement of buildings is as significant as in Serf City/The Settlers. |
| Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix Championship 1998 | 1998-09-30 | Intense Entertainment Interactive, LLC | Reality | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | In Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix Championship 1998, the goal is to win the drivers championship and become the World Champion of 1998. To become the number one Formula 1 driver, the player will need to compete in 15 well-known Grand Prix circuits across the world. It's possible to race through each course in practice mode before going on to the qualification and later the actual race. The realism in the game can be adjusted for both sim and arcade fans. |
| War Along the Mohawk | 1998-09-30 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Edward Grabowski Communications Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | War Along the Mohawk is a real time tactics game with RPG elements. The game takes place in 1757 when France and England are fighting in the American north-east.At the start of the game you can choose a character to play. Your character can learn new skills throughout the game. When he dies the game is over.Between missions you spend your time at your fort, where you might have to fend of Native Americans or wild animals (of which pelts can be sold) at times, but mostly you'll decide on strategic options such as recruiting more men.You can play through a wide array of missions which have objectives such as: ambush the enemy, take out an enemy canon, and so forth. |
| Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome (Demo Version) | 1998-10-01 | Microsoft Corporation | Ensemble Studios Corporation | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Classical antiquity, Historical events | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | As with the demo versions of the original Age of Empires, the demo release of its expansion includes a unique short campaign not found in the retail version of The Rise of Rome. The three-mission campaign casts the player as the commander of Carthaginian forces during the First Punic War, fighting against the Romans. With the first level filling the role of a simple sandbox tutorial, the other two cover the events of historical battles of Mylae and Tunis (albeit treated with artistic license, as is usual for the series). The demo also includes one 4-player scenario for multiplayer mode.
The demo showcases three of the five new units added in the expansion, namely the Slinger, the Camel Rider, and the Fire Galley, as well as some of the new technologies. Because many expansion additions only become available with the higher technology levels, the player is allowed to advance to the Iron Age in both battle scenarios, unlike most other demo releases of Ensemble games that limit technology to the third tier.
The demo also includes a short manual that contains descriptions of all additions and balance changes in The Rise of Rome, as well as technology tree tables for the new civilizations. |
| Barrage | 1998-10-01 | Activision, Inc. | Mango Grits | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Barrage is a 3D shooter in which the player pilots a futuristic aircraft. The purpose of the game is to destroy as many targets as possible within a certain time limit. This action takes place in five different environments: Prairie, Tunnel, Canyon, Chicago and Ocean. In each environment there is a new weapon added with its own advantages to find and master.The game supports Internet, modem, serial link and LAN multiplayer for 2 to 8 players in four environments. |
| Delta Force | 1998-10-01 | NovaLogic, Inc. | NovaLogic, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Regional differences | | Shooter | Africa, Asia, Contemporary | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | In this first-person 3D shooter, the player is put in the shoes of a Delta Force commando and will have to prove themselves by relying more on their abilities and tactical thinking than their weapons to complete their mission. They will nonetheless have a wide military arsenal at their disposal to dispatch their enemies if need be (from short ranged weapons such as a .45 pistol, to machine guns and long ranged sniper rifles, as well as bazookas, mines or grenades).Besides a bunch of single player missions, multiplayer modes such as DeathMatch or Capture the Flag are available over the Internet or LAN. |
| Dr. Brain Thinking Games: Puzzle Madness | 1998-10-01 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In Dr. Brain Thinking Games: Puzzle Madness, you are Pro, the good clone of Dr. Brain. You'll get to play lots of brain teasing puzzles in your pursuit of Conn, the evil clone of Dr. Brain! To succeed, you will have to use logic, strategy, planning, experimentation, and skill. Complete puzzles to get items and friends, which you will use to defeat Conn and his evil companions. |
| Enemy Infestation | 1998-10-01 | Ripcord Games | Micro Forté Pty. Ltd. | Action, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Set in the 24th century, a group of unsuspecting colonies are attacked by a swarm of aliens who want to preserve their race. Now it's up to you to save the colonists and stop the aliens from taking over the planet.Enemy Infestation is a squad-based RTS similar to games like Gender Wars and Commandos. The game is seen from an isometric view similar to Diablo and Crusader. Game missions range from killing off all the aliens, saving colonists and a lot more. Players have the ability to modify their squad's weapons, which range from lasers to missile launchers. The game supports multiplayer up to 4 players on LAN and Internet. It even supports single player co-op.
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| Grim Fandango | 1998-10-01 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | Cinematic camera | Windows | Not much is known about the life of Manuel "Manny" Calavera. It is, however, known what happened to him after he died. The Land of the Dead is where all people are reincarnated after death, turning into skeletal figures. The Land of the Dead is also very similar to the world of the living: people work, have careers, fall in love, and can even die again, turning into flowers. And they all await their final destiny - a trip to the underworld. Depending on their deeds in life, they might get a good journey or be destined to walk there without any means. Manny works in a travel agency that takes care of such trips. But recently, something has been going wrong. Manny is unable to get good clients, and he suspects that there is a scheme to falsify the dossiers of dead people, offering the best trips to scoundrels for bribes. Manny's grand adventure begins as he steps into the world of corruption and intrigues.Grim Fandango is a puzzle-solving adventure game that describes several years of Manny Calavera's afterlife. Influenced by Mexican mythology, film noir and Art Deco, the game combines 3D characters with pre-rendered backgrounds. The traditional mouse interaction was abandoned in favor of keyboard control for movements and actions. Manny is navigated with arrow keys, and tilts his head whenever something attracts his interest; the object or character in question can then be examined or interacted with.As usually in LucasArts' adventure games, conversations offer plenty of different responses that can be chosen by the player. Despite the lack of the option to combine items with each other within the inventory, the game still contains many challenging puzzles that require manipulating inventory items and the environment. |
| Links LS 1999 | 1998-10-01 | Access Software, Inc. | Access Software, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Featuring St Andrews Links - Old Course, and many new features, Links LS 1999 is a gleaming addition to the Links franchise. Other courses include Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Latrobe Country, and Entrada at Snow Canyon. Multimedia tours of the courses are available for you to enjoy. A new tournament environment brings crowd galleries to the course. The additions of real-time voice and spectator mode enhance online play. In this version, you can even create your own sound script if you want, adding your own comments to the soundscape. Improved graphics are seen here, including 3D objects, better panorama, and more realistic ball-flight physics. Smart Cameras allow you to see the course from any point of view. Additional bits of eye-candy include haze, fog, waving flags, airplanes, etc. Links LS 1999 also includes carefully digitized footage of Arnold Palmer for realistic animations.This version of the game introduces the PowerStroke and 3-click mouse swing options, to augment the original 2-click swing. Also, with the Mode of Play Game Designer, you can create your own unique challenges to augment the 30 MOPs that come included with the game, and share them with your friends.
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| Morpheus | 1998-10-01 | Tiburon Interactive Publishing | Soap Bubble Productions | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Horror | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Morpheus takes place in the Artic circle. You are an explorer, searching for your father, who disappeared thirty years ago while searching for the privately owned yacht, Herculania. You are confronted by ghosts from the past as you search the ship for clues to your father's disappearance--and the mysterious fate of all the passengers who boarded the Herculania. It's a world where dreams never die...even when the dreamer is long gone. |
| NHL 99 | 1998-10-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down, Top-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | After the award-winning NHL 98, EA worked to improve what was considered to be one of the most complete ice hockey games in the market. Along the usual and almost obligatory NHL roster updates, the International mode first featured in the previous version was expanded, allowing players to choose IIHF rules and rink size.Graphically, the arena is more detailed with more rinkside features, and ice reflections, player faces were improved and stand more seamlessly into the model, enhanced motion capture result in better animated hits (with the ability to break the glass with a well-placed body check making a return), shots and saves, and finally an higher polygon count complete the graphic enhancements to the game.As graphic changes aren't enough to make a game better, gameplay was also tweaked, with computer players being smarter, both in offense and defense. Shooting was tweaked (slap shots are easier to pull, players no longer skate in circles to do some backhand shots and must be facing the goal to shoot, particularly in one timers) and a new special move brings dekes, spin-o-ramas and the kind of moves Jágr, Fedorov and Selänne pull when one-on-one with the goalie. However, if the player gets too close to the crease, the referee might want to review the play in the new video goal judge, so the player must think twice before trying to pull a "Brett Hull". For newcomers to the sport, a new Beginner mode allows players to get used to the ice without having to concern with penalties or an overly strong opponent.The season mode was also improved, with the players now having streaks that affect either positively or negatively his abilities. Debuting the Nashville Predators, players can either choose to play with their initial roster, or do a fantasy expansion draft.Like in the previous year, Jim Hughson and Darryl Reaugh liven up matches with play by play and colour commentary. |
| Play the Games Vol. 1 | 1998-10-01 | Infogrames Europe SA, Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd., Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Play the Games is the reaction of the success of Topware's Gold Games 2. Nearly at the same time as the release of Gold Games 3, Electronic Arts, Infogrames, and Virgin Interactive Entertainment released together their own compilation in an joint-venture. Each company contributed five games.The compilation offers 15 games spread over 23 CD's. As is usual, the manuals are on CD as PDF's, while the printed manual is only some sort of reference card.Electronic Arts' part of the compilation:
Dungeon Keeper
FIFA 98: Road to the World Cup
FIFA Soccer Manager
Need For Speed II: Special Edition
Nuclear StrikeInfogrames' part of the compilation:
F22 Air Dominance Fighter
Industry Giant
KKND2: Krossfire
Seven Kingdoms
The Feeble FilesVirgin's part of the compilation:
Command & Conquer (Special Gold Edition)
Ignition
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny
NHL Powerplay 98
Screamer Rally |
| Real Video Poker | 1998-10-01 | Ultisoft, Inc. | Ultisoft, Inc. | Action, Gambling | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Real Video Poker is a realistic simulation of a video poker machine like those found in casinos. Three separate poker games are included: Jack's or Better, Joker's Wild and Deuces Wild. Betting is handled with imaginary coins, just like in the real thing. Terms and playing instructions for each game can be found in the "Help" section. Sound effects can be on (default) or turned off. |
| Test Drive: Off-Road 2 | 1998-10-01 | Accolade, Inc. | Accolade, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | Race over 20 vehicles around the world... but off the road. There are 6 classes to race in: Hummer, Military, Safari, SUV, and Truck. Vehicles include the Jeep Wrangler, Ford Explorer, Range Rover, and more. |
| Mind Games: PC Guide Editor's Choice | 1998-10-02 | Global Software Publishing Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Mind Games: Arcade Games is a compilation of fifty shareware games. It was produced in conjunction with the PC Guide magazine. The install process loads a game browser onto the player's machine and this is used to select the games to load. To play the games the player selects and installs them via the browser. |
| Pro Pilot USA | 1998-10-02 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | North America | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Pro Pilot USA is the second title in Sierra's Pro Pilot series of civilian flight simulators.
The game is similar to the previous release, Pro Pilot '98, except it omits the European terrain, and focuses solely on North America while adding a new 'Virtual Co-pilot' feature that will help the novice pilot with radio communications and keeping track of the height and course changes required to pass through controlled airspace.
Navigational aids include ATC, VOR, ILS, NDB, and Victor routes for IFR flight planning, and all major rivers, mountains, lakes, and other such geographical features are included in detail for VFR navigation assistance.
The game has tutorial videos and online help, preconfigured Quick Flights to get the eager pilot in the air for instant flights over scenic areas, and a flight planning wizard with charts showing your course.
Like the rest of the Pro Pilot series, this game puts focus on communication with air traffic controllers and other computer-controlled pilots, with the addition of this installment's onboard virtual pilot to help you on your way.The following aircraft are flyable in the game:
Cessna Skyhawk 172R
Cessna Skyhawk 172P
Beechcraft Bonanza V35
Beechcraft Baron B58
Beechcraft King Air B200
Cessna CitationJet 525
These urban areas have more photographic scenery detail included:
Albuquerque, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, Washington DC. |
| KKND2: Krossfire | 1998-10-05 | Melbourne House | Melbourne House | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Finally, a formidable computer opponent to challenge the smartest cagey old vet. Battle an AI that probes your defenses, retreats, sets ambushes, and even attacks from multiple fronts. Add units that gain experience through combat, improving their damage potential and accuracy, and eventually the ability to heal themselves. Now you have a recipe to make any PC commander drool - welcome to the world of KRUSH, KILL 'n DESTROY! |
| F-16 Multirole Fighter | 1998-10-06 | NovaLogic, Inc. | NovaLogic, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | F-16 Multirole Fighter was developed with John A. Fergione, who is the chief F-16 test pilot for Lockheed Martin, and contains many new realism models not seen in previous Novalogic simulations:
Blackouts/redouts
Manual shoot list generation
Manual landing gear operation
Unbalanced loadout effects
Engine flameouts
Flatspins
In addition to the 6 tutorial missions and numerous quick missions, there are scripted campaigns in varied terrains such in Serbia, Liberia/Sierra Leone, Burma, and Somalia/Ethiopia. F-16 MRF is also playable on Novalogic's free Integrated Battle Space with up to 128 other pilots using Novalogic's MiG-29 and F-22 Raptor (it was developed in tandem with their MiG-29 Fulcrum product for this sole purpose).Graphics are 3D-card accelerated (without any of the old Novalogic VoxelSpace codebase), with resolutions from 640x480 to 1024x768. Other options include a virtual cockpit and the LANTIRN system. Almost all the F-16 weapons such as the AGM-88 anti-radar missile and the new JDAM are available. |
| MiG-29 Fulcrum | 1998-10-06 | NovaLogic, Inc. | NovaLogic, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | Under the advisement of Yuri V. Prikhodko, former Soviet MiG-21 combat pilot, instructor, and MiG-29, MiG-31, Su-27 test pilot, Novalogic created their simulation of the Mikoyan Gurevich Mig-29 Fulcrum. Built on the F-16 Multirole Fighter engine (and developed almost concurrently with F-16 MRF), MiG-29 was released shortly after. It features the same advanced realism modelling as F-16 MRF not found in previous Novalogic sims such as unbalanced loadout effects and the ability to perform the MiG-29's famous "Kobra" maneuver.It was designed with the intention of running on Novalogic's free Integrated Battle Space with up to 128 other pilots using Novalogic's MiG-29, F-22 Raptor, or F-16 MRF. The graphics are 3D-card enabled using only polygons (without any of the old Novalogic VoxelSpace codebase), with resolutions from 640x480 to 1024x768. There are single player quick missions which include tutorials, as well as numerous campaigns, two of which are shared with F-16 MRF (Serbia and the Congo) for multiplay. The terrains vary from snow-capped of Europe mountains to Africa's flat deserts. Weapons range from the R77 (Russia's AMRAAM equivalent) to bombs such as the KAB500 guided munitions. For further immersion, the "Bitchin' Betty" cockpit warning voice and other pilot voices are recorded in Russian. |
| The Abyss: Incident at Europa | 1998-10-06 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The Abyss: Incident at Europa is a science fiction game which builds upon events that took place in James Cameron's epic film The Abyss.During the years that followed events in that movie, the deep undersea research facility, Deepcore, has been occupied both by human researchers as well as the alien race introduced in the film, the NTI (Non-terrestrial intelligence). When surface contact with the station is lost, your mission is to "Return to the Abyss" to investigate. What you find is a very badly damaged facility that is, at first glance, totally unoccupied. Your objectives change drastically when you learn that a lethal, predatory virus from Jupiter's moon Europa was inadvertently transported to the station, mutating all life forms (alien and human) into monsters.To stop the virus, save the NTI race and humanity, you must find the components of the cure and combine them in time. Your search will eventually take you to the Ark, the huge NTI spaceship, and then to the Europa moon. Armed with only a stunner gun, you must fight your way through mazes of corridors, getting past a multitude of murderous mutants, who attack in zombie-like fashion.The game is played in first person perspective and uses the keyboard for navigation and interaction. Because of the interface and the shear number of mutant encounters, this game is more action than adventure. Features include a "CD quality soundtrack." |
| EVE: The Lost One | 1998-10-09 | C's Ware | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | EVE: The Lost One is a sequel to Eve burst error. The events of the game take place three years after those of the first game. The player is able to control two characters - the female detective Kyoko and the mysterious Snake, as they try to solve a complex mystery full of betrayals and political intrigues. In order to complete the game successfully, the player will have to to experience it from the perspectives of both heroes, helping each other to gather clues and to unlock events.The game uses a menu interface typical for Japanese adventures. The player interacts with the game world by selecting menu choices, which mainly include looking, talking, or going to a different location. The game is done in anime style with characters appearing on still pre-rendered backgrounds. |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard | 1998-10-09 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed, Regional differences | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Mature | | Windows | Klingon Honor Guard is a first person shooter set in the Star Trek universe. It uses the Unreal engine, with all its accompanying visual eye candy.As the name suggests, this game stars the Klingons, those lovable growling, bellowing, live-grub scarfing fellows who as a whole are probably more suited to be the subject of a first person kill fest than the peace-loving can't-we-all-just-coexist Federation folks. As the game starts out you're a new freshman inductee into the Honor Guard, the Empire's most elite group of warriors and bodyguards to the Emperor (of course the Klingon Empire hasn't HAD an Emperor for a couple hundred years, but that's another story). It seems someone has made an assassination attempt on the Empire's head honcho Supreme Chancellor Gowron. The conspiracy runs deep, and not even the members of the Council or the Honor Guard can be trusted. Except you, of course, since you just got here and have no idea what's going on. That's why Honor Guard leader Korek has assigned you to track down the assassins and give them a taste of vengeance, Klingon style. What follows is a sonic disruptor bolt filled, pink blood spilling spree through various Klingon locations such as a Klingon suburb, the penal asteroid Rura Penthe, and even the interior of a Bird of Prey spaceship. All through the way you'll be alternatively taunted and ordered around by your commander Kurn, fight your way through an alien conspiracy, and ultimately face off with a pair of familiar faces from Generations who you'd think would be dead by now. |
| Clickomania! | 1998-10-10 | | | Puzzle | | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Clickomania! is a puzzle game where a single screen filed with tiles needs to be emptied. Tiles consist of different colours. Clicking tiles remove them from the field, but this cannot be done for a single tile, it needs to be connected to at least one more identical tile horizontally or vertically. Matches cause the tiles to explode and the ones above fall down, forming new patterns. The game is finished when the entire field is empty or when no more matches are possible. There is a button to quickly start a new game. |
| Drag | 1998-10-15 | Hope Computer | 8·Studio | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation | Asia | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Drag is a city-building simulation game. Players build their own imperial capital city of Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, by properly arranging limited resources. As a famous historical and cultural city in the Orient, Beijing has the most outstanding and the largest buildings. With this as the background, it is most suitable to show the cultural style of ancient Chinese architecture.Drag covers almost all the famous places of interest in Beijing, such as the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City. Players will also learn about the development and changes of ancient Beijing through the game.You need to build residential buildings for population development and luxury restaurants, businesses for economic development. By setting up a government, you can strengthen your rule and collect materials for the building. The construction of temples and opera houses provides spiritual satisfaction for residents.All of the buildings need to be arranged by players. You need to determine the position and orientation of each building. Just like ancient diviners, you also need to pay attention to the Feng-Shui of each building.Officials are another important aspect. You have to fully understand what is corrupt and stupid, what is clean and honest. Under the same condition, having a corrupted official not only slows the development but also costs much more money. Having an honest official may be very helpful.You can also examine your own means of administration, whether to adopt the soft policy of loving the people as your own children or to adopt various kinds of harsh taxes and levies. |
| Fighter Pilot | 1998-10-15 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Charybdis Enterprises, Inc., ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Action, Simulation | Behind view | | | | | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | Fighter Pilot is an arcade-style simulation of a fighter plane. Simplified controls, physics, and tactics allow beginners to the field to still have fun. After every mission, you even get a score based on your performance.Set in the Middle East, you will fly 24 missions in 4 different planes. Missions range from escort, to patrol, to attack. A multiplayer mode is also included. |
| Shogo: Mobile Armor Division | 1998-10-16 | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | Mature | | Windows | Sanjuro is a commander in the army of United Corporate Authority and a pilot of a Mobile Combat Armor (a giant mech) in the far future. The UCA is fighting the Fallen, a terrorist organization. This conflict has its victims: Sanjuro's brother, best friend and girlfriend all died while completing a mission years ago, and only recently he has been somewhat succeeding in putting the past behind him. Now Sanjuro is given a mission to find and kill Gabriel, a new leader of the Fallen. But during this assignment, ghosts of the past will come back to haunt him.Shogo: Mobile Armor Division is a first-person shooter that incorporates ideas from anime and the MechWarrior concept. On some levels, the player controls Sanjuro while he is on foot, infiltrating enemy buildings and fighting with handheld firearms. Sanjuro can find health power-ups, more powerful weapons and ammo. Both Sanjuro and the enemies will randomly score critical his, which not only cause more damage, but also replenish a small portion of health.On other levels, the player pilots one of the four available MCAs, which differ a little in characteristics. This giant mech can walk, jump and crouch just like a human being, and controlling it is very similar to controlling Sanjuro. The player guides this colossus through city districts swarming with enemy soldiers and mechs. It is also possible to transform the mech into a vehicle, though it can not defend itself in that state.The story progression is linear for the most part. However, at one point, the player is prompted to make a choice that will affect the rest of the plot and the ending. |
| Extreme Paintbrawl | 1998-10-20 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Creative Carnage | Action, Sports | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | In Extreme Paintbrawl, you get a chance the play America's up and coming sport, paintball. Using the Build engine, it gives users several places to play in, and also allows over the net play. |
| Jouster 5 | 1998-10-23 | | Polarized Software | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Jouster 5 is a single-player, keyboard/joystick controlled, Joust clone. It is the successor to Jouster 4 which also ran on the PC while Jouster 3 and earlier games were written for the Amiga.Based on the famous ostrich-riding game from Midway this game also has the player riding a flying ostrich and battling knights on similar steeds. Using keyboard controls the player must continually tap the spacebar to gain and maintain height while the arrow keys control direction. The game can play in differently sized game areas, animated background, power ups, and sound effects. |
| LEGO Creator | 1998-10-26 | LEGO Media International, Inc. | Superscape Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | Guy Sunderland | | | | Windows | LEGO Creator supplies you with an infinite amount of building blocks. You can build whatever you like in this sandbox game. Any non-standard blocks all have a city theme, so you are best off building streets, buildings, cars, etc. You can create and assign LEGO puppets to houses and you can crawl inside the skin of any puppet to inspect your newly build city through their eyes, or take a spin in your custom build race car.The game comes with a wide array of prefab buildings and vehicles. Whenever you've built something you do not like you can destroy it with special destructa-bricks. |
| Zangband | 1998-10-26 | | | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | Roguelike | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Zangband is a variant of Angband, influenced by Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber. This is reflected among other things in the changed goal: as opposed to Morgoth, the player descends the dungeon to face the Amberite Oberon, and after that, the Serpent of Chaos. As the game was further developed, numerous changes and additions compared to the original were introduced, including but not limited to:
A wilderness with multiple towns.
A different magic system, featuring seven realms (Life, Death, Sorcery, Nature, Chaos, Arcane, and Trump). Depending on their class, a character may have access to up to two of these.
New races. Among the selection are now Amberite, Draconian, various Undead (Ghoul, Skeleton, Spectre, Vampire, and Zombie), and more. They also offer their own abilities and special powers. For example, Draconians have a breath weapon and gain various elemental resistances.
New classes. Examples are the Mindcrafter, who has magic-like powers but doesn't need spellbooks, and the Chaos Warrior, who has access to the appropriate magic realm.
Aside from traditional ASCII text, Zangband also offers support for different graphic sets depending on version/platform.
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| Montezuma's Return | 1998-10-27 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Utopia Technologies Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Max Montezuma is a soldier who also happens to be a descendant of a legendary Aztec emperor. One day Max's plane crashes on an uncharted, deserted island. Max discovers ancient ruins there and ventures to explore them, attempting to connect the mystery of the past with the events of the present.Montezuma's Return is a sequel to Montezuma's Revenge, and also focuses on platforming gameplay which includes puzzle-solving, avoiding obstacles, and fighting enemies. Unlike its predecessor, it is a first-person 3D game. The player is able to see the protagonist's feet when moving the camera, to facilitate precise platform jumping.Every level ends with a boss battle, and each boss must be defeated in a specific way. Max can punch and kick enemies, and also use environmental hazards to damage them; pushing enemies into water or luring them into traps will kill them. Some areas require Max to jump on moving platforms, climb ropes, swim, avoid falling into lava or deadly spikes, etc. Max can collect treasure on each level, bananas or watermelon slices to heal himself, and special items to unlock barriers.The full version of Montezuma's Revenge is included on the CD. |
| Jeopardy! | 1998-10-28 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. | Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Based on the well known game show of the same name. The basic idea behind the game is that you are given a choice of categories, each with an answer to a question behind the square. Your job is to figure out the question that corresponds to the given answer (for example, the answer is Star Wars. The question would be: George Lucas' Trilogy?, or something like that.)There are over 3500 answers to find questions to, in different game types including Tournament, Speed Match and Single Round. And in every case, Alex Trebek (the host) is there to tell you if you are right or wrong. |
| Trespasser: The Lost World - Jurassic Park | 1998-10-28 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Shooter | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Trespasser uses the Jurassic Park license and takes place on "Site B", the Costa Rican Island from the Lost World where Jurassic Park's dinosaurs were originally created and, following the island's abandonment, allowed to breed out of control.Players take the role of Anne, the sole survivor of an airplane crash who finds herself stranded in the Lost World, and who needs to find a way off the island (or at least avoid becoming a dinosaur meal). Throughout the journey, Anne will be accompanied by the disembodied voice of John Hammond, the founder of Jurassic Park.Trespasser does not feature some of the typical first-person shooter interface elements. There are no health bars, ammo displays, or power-ups, and players can't pick things up just by walking over them. Instead, interaction with the environment is done using Anne's arm, which can be moved around using the mouse and which can be used to pick up items, throw rocks, push down crates or wield weapons. Anne's voice gives a rough estimate of the amount of ammo left whenever she wield a gun, and Anne has a heart-tattoo that fills with red as she becomes more damaged. The game also features a 'realistic' physics model where every movable object can be knocked over, roll around, or thrown in a manner related to their size and weight. This also means players can crush some of the smaller dinosaurs with heavy crates, and can even use a rock to bash their heads in. The dinosaurs in the game are only trying to survive instead of existing solely for the purpose of killing Anne in wave after wave. Thus they run away when injured and will often attack other dinosaurs rather than the player. |
| Fallout 2 | 1998-10-29 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Black Isle Studios | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | | | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time, Turn-based | Mature | | Windows | The sequel to Fallout starts eighty years after its predecessor. When the First Vault Dweller was forced from his home, he walked north until he found some new friends and founded a tribe in a suitable place. But some years after his death, the tribe is dying. The Elders decide that one of the tribe members, the "Chosen One", must find salvation, a universal tool called G.E.C.K. (short for "Garden of Eden Creation Kit"). Sadly, the hero's only clue are the ancient disks the Vault Dweller has left, and the only equipment are his clothes and PipBoy. With courage and determination, the proclaimed Chosen One leaves to save his village, unaware of the consequences his actions will carry.Visually and gameplay-wise, Fallout 2 is very similar to its predecessor. Combat and character growth are handled the same way, using the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attribute system and relying on skills to customize the protagonist. The sequel's environments are vaster than in the first game, with more non-playable characters populating it. There are more varied dialogue options and ethical choices presented to the player during the course of the game, as well as new weapons, armor, enemies, and a few minor gameplay additions, such as a car the protagonist can drive.Gameplay-related changes mostly involve the player character's companions. Characters who join the party can now level up, equip armor, and follow specific strategies, as opposed to the almost complete lack of control over party members in the first game. Some characters are also harder to recruit, requiring specific quests to be solved or a certain Karma level. A reputation system is added, which works similarly to Karma (good and bad deeds), but only within the same town or community. The quests in the game are more numerous and typically involve more complex situations and larger scope. Fallout 2 introduces quests and moral decisions with mature subtext: the player can choose various lifestyles for the main character, including getting married and divorced, becoming a slave seller, a porn star, or joining the mafia. |
| Ultima Online: The Second Age | 1998-10-29 | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Persistent, Real-time | Mature | | Windows | The second edition, and first expansion to, the massively-multiplayer game Ultima Online. Added the Lost Lands, new landmass for players to explore, as well as various new game features such as a chat system. |
| Sentimental Graffiti | 1998-10-30 | NEC Interchannel, Ltd. | NEC Interchannel, Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The protagonist of the game is a Japanese high school student, who was frequently transferred from school to school in various cities of Japan. During the summer holidays, he receives an anonymous letter, containing only one sentence: "I want to meet you". He decides to travel to all the cities where he attended high school, and resume the contact with the girls who could have sent him this letter. But which one did send it, and which one is going to be his true love?..Sentimental Graffiti is what is usually referred to as dating simulation. Instead of following a story, like in adventure games, the player makes choices that influence his relationships with the game's female characters, thus shaping his own story. There are twelve cities to travel to, and twelve girls to have a relationship with. Compared to some other dating simulations (such as Tokimeki Memorial games), the gameplay system in Sentimental Graffiti is rather simple, focusing on freedom of movement and choice rather than statistics. The player can choose between various means of transportation (different kinds of train, plane, boat, etc.), and different locations within each city. The backgrounds are digitized photos of real locations in Japan, while the characters are hand-drawn anime style pictures. |
| Deer Hunter II: The Hunt Continues | 1998-10-31 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sunstorm Interactive, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Shooter, Stealth | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | You still play the role of a hunter searching for bucks and does to kill, all in first-person perspective, only this time you are allowed to move yourself around the hunting areas.Other additions to the previous game include new accessories and weapons, as well as the ability to adjust the sights of said weapons. Also, a character registry allows you keep track of some game statistics like shots fired, hit ratio, and time played. |
| Red Baron 3-D | 1998-10-31 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Historical events, World War I | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | Red Baron 3-D is a World War I combat flight simulation, essentially a heavily patched version of Red Baron II.The game is playable as a single-player game in either campaign or instant mission mode, or in a multiplayer dogfight mode against up to 100 opponents via internet game matching services. Players can play as French, British, German or American pilots and can choose from 22 authentic WWI planes. |
| Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate | 1998-10-31 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Random Games, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | War | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Warhammmer 40,000: Chaos Gate is a squad level tactical combat simulation that is set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. In the game the Ultramarines lead by Captain Kruger undertake a perilous campaign against the traitorous forces of Chaos. Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate can be played as an ongoing campaign, a series of single missions, as a randomly generated mission, or in head-to-head action with up to three other players over a LAN or via a TCP/IP internet connection. Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate also comes with a Scenario Builder that enables the creation of custom and randomly generated combat mission. |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 9 | 1998-11-01 | Cendant Software Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the November/December 1998 issue (Volume 9) of the Best of Sierra series.This issue contains these two title games:
Torin's Passage
NASCAR Racing
In addition to these two full version games, the following demos are also included:
Caesar III, Grand Prix Legends, Starsiege, and 3-D Ultra MiniGolf Deluxe.This issue's magazine contains the following special features:
A 5 pages long walkthrough for Torin's Passage, articles about the following newest Sierra games: Grand Prix Legends, Caesar III, Starsiege, Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, and Return to Krondor. In addition, it provides an Interview with the Quality Analyst Connor M. A. Salisbury from Dynamix. |
| Cybermercs: The Soldiers of the 22nd Century | 1998-11-01 | JC Research Inc. | NORA | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Isometric | Windows | This game is an action game with RPG elements similar to Diablo with a sci-fi setting: Evil aliens want to conquer the earth and the player kills them all. Of course the game features multiple weapons and playable characters which support the genocide with different abilities. Thus equipped the player walks through the underground levels, solves missions like rescuing hostages or replacing a failed energy source and deals with a lot of cannon fodder with the in Diablo established "click them dead" controls.Besides the usual weapons the characters can use special abilities to survive, e.g. invisibility generators or holographic twins. In some of the 15 missions there is a big robot to use which has a much better durability than foot soldiers and can kill a lot more aliens. The RPG elements kick in after the missions where the player sells found stuff and reinvests it in new weapons, armor or abilities. These abilities have effect on elements like weapon handling, speed or inventory space. |
| Deer Avenger | 1998-11-01 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Hypnotix, Inc. | Action, Sports | 1st-person | | Comedy | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | Deer Avenger is a parody hunting game where a well-armed deer named Bambo assumes the role of protagonist. The deer is out to take down as many humans as he can find who are wandering through his wilderness. The player selects from 3 weapons (an M-16, a bazooka, or a sling-shot) and then selects from among 3 locales (green West Virginia or Connecticut, or snowy Minnesota). The gameplay consists of roving on an overhead forest map and searching for signs of recent hunter activity (such as beer cans, nudie mags, tree carvings, or a name written in the snow with urine). Then the player can hunt from that point which involves scrolling through a 360-degree panorama of the area, waiting for humans to show up. Bambo can also try to encourage humans to show up with assorted calls.The emphasis of the game is the comedy aspect. Bambo has a variety of quips and calls that he rotates through during the game depending on the situation. Further, there are other touches such as when you use your binoculars to get a closer look at the region.
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| Enemy Zero | 1998-11-01 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | Warp Inc. | Action, Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Puzzle elements, Shooter, Stealth | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Enemy Zero is one of the horror titles by Warp, closely connected to D (and its sequel D2 for Dreamcast). It also features the same heroine as in D series. The crew members of the spaceship Aki were in a state of suspended animation. All of a sudden, the ship emergency program woke them up. What has happened? Apparently, a hostile alien life form had penetrated the spaceship. Now Laura, the heroine of the game, has to establish contact with her comrades, finding her way through the maze-like corridors of the giant vessel. She will also have to defend herself against the aliens, which seem even more intimidating because they are totally invisible.The game consists of two genres: puzzle-solving adventure and shooter. When you enter a room, the enemies can't attack you, and you can explore it from 1st person perspective, taking objects, and solving puzzles. When you wander through ship corridors, you enter the 1st person shooter mode. Since the enemies are invisible, you'll have to listen to the sounds they make. A high sound means an enemy is right in front of you; a mid-range sound means it is attacking from the side; a low-pitched noise tells you it is behind you. You can figure out the distance between you and the enemy by the intensity of the sound. |
| John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror | 1998-11-01 | Red Orb Entertainment | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | US initial release of the game came with a Myst sticker on the cover and it included that game for Windows 95 along with Blackstone Chronicles.This release includes these two full games:
John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror (2 CDs)
Myst (1 CD)
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| Moving Puzzle: Cats | 1998-11-01 | Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | LTI Bulgaria | Puzzle | | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Did you ever puzzle a video?
Just imagine a video that has been cut into little square pieces. The individual squares have been scrambled, rotated or even mirrored. How quickly can you put the video clip back together? Test your puzzle skills. If you succeed in solving the 12 clips on one level you're ready to tackle the 13th tricky video-puzzle! |
| Moving Puzzle: Jungle World | 1998-11-01 | Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | LTI Bulgaria | Puzzle | | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Did you ever puzzle a video?
Just imagine a video that has been cut into little square pieces. The individual squares have been scrambled, rotated or even mirrored. How quickly can you put the video clip back together? Test your puzzle skills. If you succeed in solving the 12 clips on one level you're ready to tackle the 13th tricky video-puzzle! |
| The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard | 1998-11-01 | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Action | Behind view | | | Puzzle elements, RPG elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | It is the ninth century of the Second Era, and the Tamriel Empire has been continuously expanding. Hammerfell was among the many provinces to lose its independence to the reign of Tiber Septim. Cyrus, a Redguard mercenary and a well-known hero, finds out that his sister Iszara has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Cyrus travels to the port city of Stros M'Kai in Hammerfell and begins an investigation, which gradually draws him into a political intrigue.Redguard is set four hundred years before the events of Arena and thus is a prequel to other Elder Scrolls games. The game is considered a spin-off to the main series, being primarily a 3D action-adventure game with only few role-playing elements such as a quest-based structure and money management. The protagonist has no numerical attributes and remains constant in power throughout the game. He fights with a sword, which he can use for slashing, stabbing, and combo attacks, depending on the combinations of keys input by the player. Active blocking is available as well. Cyrus can also swim, jump and automatically grab and hang on ledges, which is sometimes required to advance in the game.Although certain items must be procured and quest completed in order to make the plot progress, many of these tasks can be handled in a non-linear fashion, and much of the game's world (the city Stros M'Kai and the surrounding wilderness) can be explored freely from the beginning. Progression also relies on conversations with the many characters inhabiting the area, which feature extensive keyword-based multiple-choice dialogue options. |
| The House of the Dead | 1998-11-01 | SEGA Entertainment, Inc. | Sega AM1 R&D Division | Action | 1st-person | | Horror | Arcade, Rail shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | The House of the Dead is a rail shooter. Go through the four chapters with branching paths and kill all the zombies, avoid killing the humans, and rescue the girl. Shooting various special targets along the way or in a certain time period give the player temporary health and weapon upgrades.The Saturn version of the game contains two extra modes called Saturn Mode and Boss Mode. Saturn mode plays like the arcade game, but offers the player different characters to choose from. Character selection matters since they each have varying attributes such as their reload time and how much damage they can take before dying. The Boss Mode allows the player to fight one boss of their choosing or all of the game's four boss monsters consecutively. |
| The Starfire Soccer Challenge | 1998-11-01 | Purple Moon Media | Purple Moon Media | Adventure, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements, Visual novel | | | | | | Sport | Windows | The Starfire Soccer Challenge is a soccer-themed visual novel game targeted towards girls aged 8-12. It is set in the same universe as the Rockett and Secret Paths series. The story follows the middle school student Ginger Baskin and her friends as they aim to overcome their personal hardships to win places on the Starfires soccer team.The player periodically makes decisions that influence the outcome of the story. Ginger will also collect items throughout the game that when interacted with will present the player with puzzles to solve in order to reveal more about the characters in the game. The player can also pause the story at any point to play mini-games where Ginger can practice different soccer moves, like dribbling, shooting, heading, and passing. |
| Centipede | 1998-11-04 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Leaping Lizard Software, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | This is a remake or "modernization" of the classic arcade shooter Centipede, originally released in arcades by Atari in 1980. This remake keeps some of the original game's shooter-style gameplay while mixing in more console-style exploration. Gameplay progresses through five "worlds": Weedom, Frostonia, Infernium, Enigma, and Evile. Players blast away at the classic centipedes, spiders, fleas, and scorpions while fighting new enemies like the mosquito, cockroach, and killer mushroom. A "classic" mode is also included, which allows players to play the classic game in a new "3D" isometric perspective. |
| Railroad Tycoon II | 1998-11-04 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | PopTop Software Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | Train | | Real-time | Kids to Adults | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Establish yourself as a mogul to be reckoned with as you work your way up the ranks of the railway industry in this strategy game. Expand your domain across continents and a changing global marketplace.Build the Transcontinental Railway or the Orient Express. Run Steam train through the jungles of Africa, or electric trains through the Swiss Alps. Run your competitors out of town on a rail.An 18 scenario campaign lets you re-create history's greatest railroading feats and failures.Your wealth can be built up with a sophisticated stock market with margin buying, short selling, and hostile takeovers. |
| European Air War | 1998-11-05 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Regional differences | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | European Air War is an action based flight-sim which features 20 flyable aircraft: On the American side, P-51 (B, D), P-38 (H, J), P47 (C, D); For the RAF, the Spitfire (I-A, IX-C, XIV-E), Hurricane (I), Typhoon (IB), and Tempest (V); and for the Luftwaffe, the Bf-109 (E-4, G-6, K-4), Bf-110 (G-2, C-4), FW-190 (D-9, A-8), and Me262 (A1). Also, the game features several non-flyable aircraft: B-17 (F, G), B-24, B-26, Mosquito, Ju-88, He-111, Ju-87 Stuka, and Me410!The game is meticulously detailed. The physics of flying are accurately modeled, the markings on the planes are historically accurate, and the map takes into account the curvature of the earth.Your wingmen speak German if you fly for the Luftwaffe, and speak with an English or American accent if you fly for the RAF or US. When you play a "career", the choices of units to fly in are actual historical units and you will attack the same targets they attacked. Your unit will even refit with new types of aircraft when they did historically (P-51B to P-51D, for example)!The game is highly customizable. You can turn on or off: wind, stalls, the torque effect on single-engine planes, black/red out, engine overheating, structural limits, mid air collision, etc.You can attack tanks, trains carrying guns and tanks, ships (freighters and destroyers!), halftrack/car convoys, and lots of other types of ground targets. Pretty much everything can shoot back.It also features several newsreels that show familiar black & white footage from WWII documentaries, complete with narration. |
| Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series | 1998-11-05 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | Microsoft's flight simulators aimed realistically portray life as a commercial pilot for over a decade before combat was added. In this offshoot (pardon the pun) of the series, you are a combat pilot during World War II, for either the RAF, USAAF or Luftwaffe. Eight different planes and the battered cities of Berlin, Paris and London are incorporated. Full cockpit designs and damage models are featured - watch for engine smoke and explosion debris.There is a full campaign mode, which takes in the Battle of Britain, defending London during the Blitz, and finishing the job started on D-Day by pummeling ground targets.You can also play individual missions or fly freely. Online multiplayer options allow you to take this worldwide fight around the real world. |
| Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill | 1998-11-05 | Her Interactive, Inc. | Her Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Everyone | | Windows | Detective story star Nancy Drew's first adventure game is set in Florida, at Paseo Del Mar High School. An unpopular student there is murdered, and Nancy feels determined to solve it.The game is a first-person point & click adventure using mouse control. Many objects can be zoomed in on to examine clues. Over 75 cryptic puzzles must be solved before the killer can be unmasked. A junior mode featuring less of the difficult puzzles is provided. |
| Kid Pilot | 1998-11-10 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | Kid Pilot is an educational flight simulator designed for elementary school children. It allows aspiring aviators to take to the skies across America. With help from friendly penguin Penwick, players can choose a scenario (midflight, take-off, or landing), difficulty level, time of day, location, and one of three planes to command. From big cities like New York and San Francisco to natural wonders like Crater Lake and the Grand Canyon, there are different places to explore, each accompanied by factoids and historical notes announced by Penwick in the air. Kid-friendly controls support joystick or keyboard play, with on-screen instruments like a compass and attitude indicator to assist navigation. Players can practice aerial maneuvers, weave through skyscrapers and mountain passes, and snap pictures for their scrap book, all while learning the basics of flight and the facts behind America's most famous places. |
| NBA Live 99 | 1998-11-10 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Play through the 98/99 NBA season or multiple seasons to build up your team over time. Or just jump straight to the playoffs. Trade, release or pick up free agents to add to your team. Have a bit of fun with the 3 point shootout mode. And a host of new player animations, including facial animations, and player moves. |
| TalonSoft's West Front | 1998-11-10 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | West Front is the sequel to East Front, and it's a turn based game with the World War II western front as background.
In West Front you can choose almost all level of organization, from platoon levels to army and corps level. For instance, you can control 4 Panzer Tiger, or 200 PzKfw VI Tiger. There are single missions and historical campaigns, but above all a powerful campaign or single mission editor, with map editor, scenario editor, campaign editor and OBB(order of battle editor). |
| Mankind | 1998-11-11 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Vibes | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Persistent | | | Windows | Mankind is one of the first MMORTS (massively multiplayer online real-time strategy) games. You are responsible for a fleet of space ships. You start with only one but after time, you can have up to a few thousand vessels. You can also populate planets, make guilds and start wars with other players to be the master of the universe.All access to the game is free for a limited time, but a monthly fee is required for longer play. |
| Santa's Secret Valley | 1998-11-12 | AHA! Software Inc. | AHA! Software Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | Train | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Santa's trusted elf Fizbin is on an adventure to recover his stolen magic sack, bell and boots before Christmas Eve comes. Fizbin will go from the North Pole and plunge right into the Secret Valley, which consists of the Main Street, Forest of Arden and Fairtown. The player will need to explore a number of rooms, solve puzzles, collect items and ducats and navigate through a few mazes. If a puzzle is difficult, the player can utilise the hint system to get a clue on solving it. |
| SiN | 1998-11-12 | Activision, Inc. | Ritual Entertainment | Action | 1st-person | Regional differences | | Shooter, Stealth | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | The year is 2037. The police forces of the world have been disassembled due to their incompetence at stopping the ever-rising waves of crime. Instead, private security companies have taken upon themselves to protect citizens or entire companies from criminals for a fee. One of the best-known security services in the city of Freeport is HardCorps, under the command of Colonel John Blade. A large-scale bank heist involving a hostage situation, apparently perpetrated by a well-known gangster Mancini, attracts the attention of HardCorps, and John is summoned to the crime scene. Further investigation reveals the existence of a powerful new drug called the U4, and possible ties to a multi-national biotechnology corporation known as SiNtech, which is guided by the beautiful and enigmatic Elexis Sinclaire. With the help of his colleagues from HardCorps, John will have to avert the greater threat and save the city.SiN is a first-person shooter that uses a modified version of the Quake II engine. John Blade is armed with a rather standard FPS arsenal, starting with a default bare knuckles and a pistol, and ending with heavy guns such as rocket launcher and plasma rifles. The game is notable for being the first FPS that had missions exclusively based on stealth (i.e., the game is automatically lost if the hero is detected). The game incorporates realistic damage effects: headshots are instantly effective, while shooting an enemy in the knees will merely hinder his movements. SiN also includes the option of hacking computer terminals to disable security.Cutscenes are employed to advance the plot between the levels. At certain times, the outcome of a mission will be different depending on the player's actions during it. Taking a cue from Duke Nukem 3D, SiN features a wise-cracking main hero, humorous "easter eggs", and environments with a high degree of interaction. |
| Total Annihilation: Commander Pack | 1998-11-13 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Total Annihilation: Commander Pack includes:
Total Annihilation
Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency
Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics
Total Annihilation: Exclusive Strategy Guide
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| Little Caesars Fractions Pizza | 1998-11-16 | PanaKids | Conexus, Inc. | Action, Educational | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Little Caesars Fractions Pizza is an educational designed game to teach children about fractions using pizza (Little Caesars pizza) due to pizza's inherent fractional properties. The learning action begins in a futuristic, time-traveling pizza delivery operation run by dinosaurs. You are hired after a brief screening process that includes identifying which pizza out of a selection represents a particular fraction. From there, you can elect to deliver pizza to one of four time periods: Dukedom, Amazing Mozart, Triassic Park, and Studio 50. Each time period corresponds to a different song, lesson and minigame dealing with fractions. For example, in the Triassic Park period, you must use a sling shot to hit all of the creatures carrying a fraction that fits a certain specification, i.e., greater than or less than a particular fraction. You earn tip money by successfully completing these minigames (not necessarily for delivering the pizza). These tip coins can be used in a fractions-themed Nibbles-type arcade called Tails game back in the restaurant.
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| Populous: The Beginning | 1998-11-17 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Bullfrog Productions, Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Populous: The Beginning is the third part of the Populous series originally created by Peter Molyneux. This is the first part with 3D graphics. Gameplay also received a major overhaul; the player no longer simply has to lower and raise land to gain bigger houses which can defend themselves stronger. Now the player has to chop trees to build huts. Depending on how many men are in the house, the faster its population and the house itself grows. It's possible to train men as fighters, priests, etc. New spells can be added to the shaman's spell inventory through the act of prayer at shrines scattered all over the world. Most spells take the form of natural disasters such as tornadoes and volcanic eruptions.Each level is represented by a tiny planet that the player can scroll around freely. Aside from the single player campaign it's also possible to challenge other players online. |
| FIFA 99 | 1998-11-18 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | This was the third FIFA title in a little over a year. It incorporates 42 national sides, as well as 250 club teams from 12 different leagues, to play a complete true-to-life season, the preset Super League, or a league or cup of your own design. Formations and tactics can be set, and players can be moved between teams. Gameplay can be viewed from multiple angles. Players have more animation than ever before, with new moves including sliding challenges and close-control trapping. Goalkeepers now have a level of human control. |
| Kaged | 1998-11-18 | Monkey Byte Development, LLC | Ideas From the Deep | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Each puzzle consists of a game board and a set of colored orbs. You must maneuver the orbs to match the correct puzzle solution, quickly and in as few moves as possible.With over 6000 puzzles and nearly infinite combinations, this solitary puzzle game will keep the young and old entertained for hours on end. Play freeform to hone your skills before attempting to go against the clock in countdown mode. Challenge yourself and others to a contest of wits and speed in this game that is unlike anything you have ever played. |
| Half-Life | 1998-11-19 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Valve L.L.C. | Action | 1st-person | Regional differences | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | The Black Mesa Research Facility is an ultra-secret laboratory under a government contract to conduct top-secret and extremely volatile experiments. The scientist Gordon Freeman is a Black Mesa employee. One morning, as usual, he pits his way to the research facility for a run-of-the-mill experiment. However, Gordon comes to realize that it might not be as ordinary as he thought. Odd things happen as he makes his way to one of the Black Mesa test chambers. Even stranger things happen when he begins to move the test sample towards the anti-mass spectrometer.At that moment, everything goes horribly wrong. Aliens from the dimension Xen suddenly invade the facility, injuring or killing many of the employees. Soon afterwards, marines arrive to contain the situation by killing the aliens as well as the surviving human witnesses. Gordon understands what that means: he will have to fight his way through both aliens and marines to get to the top of the Black Mesa complex and to freedom.The story of Half-Life is told entirely in-game: everything is seen through the eyes of the protagonist. Most story elements unfold via scripted sequences, triggered by the player reaching a certain area. If other characters have information to reveal, they address Gordon directly. The Black Mesa complex in the game is made up of both distinct levels which progress in a linear fashion as well as hubs where backtracking may be required to unlock further areas.The game's weapon arsenal mostly consists of realistic weapons like pistols, machine guns and explosives, but there are also futuristic energy weapons developed at Black Mesa as well as organic weapons acquired from the invading aliens. Most weapons feature an alternate firing mode.Enemies fall into two categories: aliens and human soldiers. While most of the aliens are not very bright, the humans display some relatively advanced artificial intelligence: they seek cover, retreat when hit and try to drive the player from his cover by throwing grenades. Some of the alien enemies cannot be killed by normal means. The environment must be used against them instead, going with a general tendency of the game to alternate the combat with environmental puzzles. |
| Asteroids | 1998-11-20 | Activision, Inc. | Syrox Developments, Ltd. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Unlike Activision's earlier remake of an Atari arcade classic, Battlezone, this one stays close to its namesake. Take the original, Atari coin-op game Asteroids, add in the features of the Atari 2600 cartridge, then give it 3-D graphics and a bunch of power-ups, and you've got Activision's Asteroids remake.You are an employee of the Astro-Mining Corporation. Your mission is to simply go to an assigned area of space and clear the area of asteroids and the occassional debris. The game consists of five zones, each with a different background and some with special features. Each zone has 15 levels. In addition to the standard asteroids, there are also mined asteroids that explode; indestructible asteroids that are, well, indestructible; fireball comets; crystal asteroids that regenerate; alien egg asteroids containing deadly baby space worms; and ancient energy asteroids that shoot back! And there's plenty of enemies in addition to the asteroids, such as Standard and Super Saucers, Asteroids Tugs, Fuel Transports, Hexes, Nuke Drivers, and Vulturoids.There are three types of ships to choose from, each with different strengths and weaknesses. There are also three skill levels. If you beat the game at Expert or higher, you gain access to a fourth type of ship. All ships features the standard laser, shield, flip (instantly flips your ship 180 degrees), and hyperspace. There are also limited power-ups you can pick up such as GunSat, Mines, Homing Missiles, Plasma Drill, and Trigger Bombs.The game supports either one or two players. In two player mode, the object is to simply outscore your opponent in a random zone and level. You cannot directly kill your opponent by shooting him, but there are other ways....Lastly, if you shoot the classic-style asteroid in level 15 of the first zone, you'll find the option of "Classic Asteroids" now appearing on the main menu. |
| Blood II: The Chosen | 1998-11-20 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | Horror | Shooter | | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Over a hundred years have passed since the events described in Blood. CABAL, the cult dedicated to the worship of the Dark God Tchernobog, has turned into a huge corporation that calls itself "CabalCo", controlling much of what is happening in the dark, futuristic city. The undead gunslinger Caleb awakens from his slumber and continues his relentless pursuit for revenge. The company CEO, an ambitious man named Gideon, will stop at nothing in order to attain the kind of power CABAL was wielding before. But in order to fulfill his plans, he must get rid of Caleb first.Like its predecessor, Blood II is a first-person shooter with a horror theme. The game uses the LithTech engine. There is a vast variety of weapons as well as a greater number of different enemies than the previous game. The levels themselves are rather diverse as well: In the first chapter alone, the protagonist travels from an ornate museum to a huge science facility, alleys of an ominous city street, and a futuristic flying machine. The game features a dark techno soundtrack. The player may choose to play as Caleb's companions that appeared in the first game; however, cutscenes are displayed only if the player selects Caleb. |
| Tom Clancy's ruthless.com | 1998-11-20 | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | Tom Clancy's Ruthless.com is a game in which the player runs an up-and-coming computer software company, and tries to make it in the industry by any means necessary. As the name implies, the player is allowed to be as unethical as he can be. The game includes several scenarios, including the one called "Take Down EvilSoft", in which the player's company creates an unholy alliance with other companies to take down a corporation similar to Microsoft. The game has a board-like layout. |
| Tridonis | 1998-11-20 | L.K. Avalon | Alien System | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Wargame | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Tridonis is a classic RTS game with two selectable sides of the conflict - Humans and Tredionans. The game begins in 2001 when the alien race arrives on Earth and starts invasion. There are 24 missions to play - in the mountain area, in the desert, in cities and Europe.Each side of the conflict has unique buildings and equipment. There are 50 types of units (aircraft, tanks, trucks, infantry), 30 types of buildings and two types of raw materials implemented. Each unit has an order menu. The game offers a classic isometric view with zoom in/zoom out option. The Alpha channel system is responsible for shading depending on the time of day. Fog of war system may turn off before the start of the game. The speed of elapsing time and difficulty level may be customized during the game. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: WWII Fighters | 1998-11-23 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | War | | World War II | Flight / aviation | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | You get to fly either as an Allied or German pilot during World War II. You'll only get to fly fighters, but the selection is very good, ranging from the FW-190, BF-109, and Me-262 to the P-51, P-47, P-38, and the Spitfire. There's a lot to learn, but it's very easy to get in and fly. You also have the option of playing single missions or starting off on a career. |
| Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft | 1998-11-23 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Core Design Ltd. | Action | Behind view | Regional differences | | Platform, Puzzle elements | Asia, Oceania | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft ventures to India, searching for a legendary stone that once belonged to the tribe of Infada. Shortly after recovering the precious stone, she encounters a Dr. Willard, the head of an organization known as RX Tech. Willard is interested in an ancient Polynesian city built by people of a now defunct civilization, which worshipped a mysterious meteorite that hit the Earth millions of years ago. Willard tells Lara that the Infada Stone is in fact one of the four artifacts the ancient Polynesians fashioned from the material contained in the meteorite's core. Willard suggests Lara should look for the other three, scattered and hidden in various regions of the planet. It looks like another dangerous adventure awaits the fearless "tomb raider"!Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft is an action game with platforming and puzzle-solving elements. The gameplay system is similar to the one implemented in the previous game. Lara's abilities include running, jumping, climbing, swimming, rolling, crouching, crawling, sprinting, and swinging on bars and vines. A few new types of hazards have been added in this installment, including cold water in which Lara can swim for a limited amount of time, dangerous underwater creatures (such as piranhas), and the treacherous quicksand, which will swallow the heroine if the player isn't careful and fast enough to prevent her from falling into it.As in the previous game, Lara uses pistols, shotguns, harpoon guns, uzis, and grenade launchers to defend herself. New weapons include the Desert Eagle, MP5 sub-machine-gun, and rocket launcher. A few levels are designed in such a way that sneaking becomes the preferable solution, rather than directly engaging the enemies in combat. Unlike the previous games, the player can choose to tackle the levels in any order following the introductory Indian scenario.The player can save the game at any time in both the PC and the PlayStation versions; however, in the latter the amount of times the player can save the game depends on the amount of special crystals collected by Lara during her journey. |
| Heretic II | 1998-11-24 | Activision, Inc. | Raven Software Corporation | Action | Behind view | Regional differences | | Shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The medieval land of Parthoris is swept by a mysterious plague. Its infected inhabitants descend into madness. Corvus, the protagonist of the first Heretic, finds a way to escape from his home town, but is still contaminated by the plague. Since he possesses one of the ancient Tomes of Power, he is not immediately affected by the plague; but sooner or later, he will have to succumb to it. Before that happens, Corvus must find who or what was causing the plague in the first place...Heretic II is a third-person fantasy shooter game with the camera chasing behind the character. The perspective is pretty much the only thing that breaks with the tradition of the series. The core gameplay still consists mainly of exploring the large fantasy-themed levels, using medieval weapons (mainly long-ranged) and spells to deal with the plethora of enemies. Despite the third-person view, jumping and environmental puzzles are used as moderately as it is usual in first-person shooters. |
| The Blobjob | 1998-11-24 | Sampo Oy | IntelliGame Oy, Detonium Interactive, Ltd., Sarajärvi & Hellén Oy | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The Blobjob was announced as "the first safety game designed to reach people about drugs, violence, sex, fire and traffic accidents while playing an adventure game." In The Blobjob five nanomanufactured human organisms called "skin blobs" are on the loose. They are sent on a simple errand to deliver a super secret formula to the patents office, but they all disappear with their briefcases. Only one of these cases contains the secret formula, a solvent that is able to shrink and expand organic material on a molecular level.
You are Joe Ridley, a lowly security officer at NanoBlob Corporation. Your mission is to prevent that an idiot steals the formula and turns Mother Nature into a peanut. Finding the skin blobs is the only way to secure you from getting blobbed. The Blobjob is a short FMV-based sci-fi adventure. After your mission instruction at the beginning of the game, you will receive a "portable blobber" with which you can shrink objects with any investigative value (i.e. your inventory). The game supplies a map to travel between locations. The game comes with music, sound effects and voices (that are captioned and can be skipped) . |
| Future Cop: L.A.P.D. | 1998-11-25 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Redwood Shores Studio | Action | Diagonal-down | | | | North America, Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Take control of a transforming mech in Los Angeles and clean up the crime that is running rampant throughout. Use powerful weapons to destroy anything in your way, remember...serve, protect and survive! |
| Super Real Mahjong P7 | 1998-11-27 | SETA Corporation | | Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | More animated strip mahjong awaits in the seventh arcade game in the Super Real Mahjong series. Challenge three more lovely girls, Yurina Asahina, Natsuki Asahina, and Serika Randoh, and they'll take their clothes off for you. And if you win at least one match with a baiman hand or higher, the fun won't end with just the three of them... |
| Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga | 1998-11-27 | Locus Company Ltd. | Soliton Soft | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga is a remake of the first three Wizardry games: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, Knight of Diamonds, and Legacy of Llylgamyn.
As in the original games, the player can create characters choosing from five races and eight classes, and level them up by exploring the maze and fighting monsters, finding and buying items in process.Monster graphics have been updated, and dungeons have been given textures, but the player can also opt for original graphics with wireframe dungeons. An auto-mapping feature has been added. The player can also transfer characters between the three scenarios. |
| Nekomata Tanteisha | 1998-11-29 | | Interfair Lab | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Tail, a detective with the Nekomata Detective Agency, is drawn into international intrigue when Princess Reiko of a neighbouring country hires her to track down her sister. Tail is the kind of detective who lets her fists do the talking; Nekomata Tanteisha is an action platformer with a heavy focus on combat. Tail's regular attack is a combo series that allows her to punch an enemy multiple times in sequence. Her secondary attack is a weak gunshot which can attack enemies at a medium distance, and which can be upgraded via items she can find during the level. Tapping the secondary attack button in the middle of a combo allows her to perform other melee attacks; depending on timing, this can be an uppercut that launches the opponent in the air for air combos or a kick that knocks the enemy back a long distance.There are five levels total, two of which are included in the unregistered shareware version. |
| Dark Side of the Moon | 1998-11-30 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Joe Mack, Tim Matney | | Teen | | Windows | As the intro scene opens, we see a man running from something unknown, but definitely alien. However, as there was no escape as a solution, he blew himself up. As the story starts, it appears that was your uncle Jacob, after which you're named Jake, and apparently, he left everything to you. He was one of the main ore mining owners, even though some say what he has is worthless. But you don't just believe in that 'suicide' story, so you take a shuttle on Luna Crysta in order to solve the mystery, and try to uncover the truth; why he was killed, and what was so important that he found/discovered and was killed for. |
| Return to Krondor | 1998-11-30 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | PyroTechnix, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | Teen | | Windows | The direct sequel to Betrayal at Krondor, Return to Krondor takes the player back to the fantasy world of Midkemia, which is once more in peril.It all begins when James - once a thief and now a squire of Krondor - is sent by Prince Arutha to escort the court magician Jazhara to the palace. Shortly afterwards they meet William ConDoin, a fearless swordsman and the son of the famous magician Duke Pug. A ruthless mercenary named Bear sends his men to murder the woman William loves. It appears that Bear is in pursuit of the Tear of the Gods, a holy artifact of immense power. James and his friends follow the trail of death and destruction Bear has left in his wake and to stop him before he reaches the Tear. As they progress in their travels they discover that someone or something is creating dark beings and horrible perversions of nature, suggesting that things are very wrong in Krondor besides the ambitions of a single renegade mercenary.Return to Krondor features pre-rendered backgrounds with changing camera angles for exploration, and 3D character models. Battles occur when contact is made with a hostile character, and are turn-based, including the tactical element of moving the characters manually over the battle field. The player controls James and three other characters who join the party. Compared to its predecessor, the game is less heavy on exploration, having smaller and more confined areas. Much of the game takes place in the city of Krondor, which is divided into several districts; later in the game the player gains access to other locations, though it is impossible to physically explore the overworld. Several side quests, however, are still available, in addition to pursuing the main storyline.Unlike its predecessor, the game features a more common leveling up system where characters gain a set amount of skill points after having accumulated enough experience to level up. These skill points are allocated manually by the player to increase the characters' weapon proficiencies, defense, spellcasting, etc. The game also allows the player to brew potions via an alchemy system, and features a detailed lockpicking minigame that involves choosing between several available tools and applying them to the lock. |
| Speed Busters: American Highways | 1998-11-30 | Ubi Soft Entertainment, Inc. | Ubi Soft Entertainment Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Race as fast as you can and win money! A former policeman won the lottery and decided to hold races to give away some of the winnings... Featuring seven different American tracks (each with surprises!), and nine different vehicles, with more vehicles available from the official website. All the vehicles are upgradable and features visible damage that affects the car's handling. Use Nitro to get a quick boost, and stay clear of the cops! |
| Falcon 4.0 | 1998-12-01 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Contemporary | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | You're flying the F-16 "Fighting Falcon", a U.S. Air Force fighter, over the skies of Korea. The learning curve is VERY steep and will take time to learn, let alone master. There is a way to "jump in and fly" so the game can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of experience. The simulated plane is an F-16C Block 50/52 version.Falcon 4.0 comes with a dynamic campaign, which is a full blown strategy game within the simulator itself. As the virtual war develops, the campaign engine moves ground, naval and airborne troops around the battlefield and generates missions for the player.
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| Gimjingamja-ui Aengnangamja Guchuljakjeon | 1998-12-01 | Dong Seo Interactive | I'll Soft | Action | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This game was made as a promotional tie-in to a Poca Chips potato chips commercial campaign. In the role of a potato character, the player fights through side-scrolling beat-em-up stages, defeating enemies such as fruit, vegetables or eggs. Various products by the food company Orion serve as power-ups. In between stages, the Poca Chips commercials are shown as cutscenes. |
| Harmonian Tales | 1998-12-01 | Spin | Makkoya Entertainment Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Harmonian Tales is a Korean-made role-playing game. The plot is introduced laconically: the player controls a young man who wakes up in a cave and must find his way home. As he travels through villages and towns he meets people who can help him and may need his help as well, and becomes involved in a greater struggle.The game's structure is reminiscent of Japanese RPGs, with overworld navigation, town-dungeon-town linear advancement, and simple character growth. There are no random battles: enemies are visibly roaming hostile areas. Combat has a tactical element, allowing the player to move a party of up to five characters on a grid in a turn-based fashion. Each character has two types of basic attacks and also learns magic along the way. Bonus experience points are awarded to the character who dealt the final blow to the enemy. |
| Myth II: Soulblighter | 1998-12-01 | Bungie Studios | Bungie Studios | Action, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy, Medieval | | Multiple units/characters control | Real-time | Mature | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Save Madrigal from the the evil Soulblighter and his followers. To do this, you must command your army of dwarves, soldiers, beserkers and sorcerers. |
| Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire | 1998-12-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Yosemite Entertainment | Action, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | After having survived the dangers he encountered on his previous journey, the hero travels with the wizard Erasmus to a Greece-like country called Silmaria. Its king was recently murdered, and, according to the land's traditions, the crown will be given to the one who passes a contest known as the Rites of Rulership. The hero enters the contest, aided by Erasmus, Rakeesh, and other old friends. However, as the competition progresses, contestants are being systematically killed by an unknown assassin. All the victims are murdered near the Dragon Pillars, which keep the Dragon of Silmaria in captivity. The hero must investigate the crimes and save Silmaria from a grave danger.Dragon Fire is the final game in the Quest for Glory series. Like the previous games in the series, Dragon Fire is a hybrid between puzzle-solving adventure and role-playing game. The player talks to the world's inhabitants, gathering clues and items necessary to acquire in order to complete the quests and advance the story. Unlike all its predecessors, Dragon Fire has no separate battle screens; the action-based battles take place on the exploration screen, utilizing a simple point-and-click interface, similarly to Diablo. The game has heavier weapon and armor management than other Quest for Glory games, strengthening the RPG angle. Many quests are optional or can be completed in different ways. The hero can also marry one of the several major female characters in the game, provided the player does the right thing to impress the girl. |
| Sangokushi Sōsōden | 1998-12-01 | Acer TWP Corp | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Tactical RPG, Turn-based strategy | China (Ancient / Imperial) | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Sangokushi Sōsōden (literally translated as Records of the Three Kingdoms: Biography of Cao Cao) is a tactical role-playing game. As the title indicates, the game's protagonist is Cao Cao, the strongest warlord in Three Kingdoms period of ancient China. |
| Sraz 2 | 1998-12-01 | 32bita d.o.o. | 32bita d.o.o. | Simulation | Top-down | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Sraz 2 is the sequel to the Sraz. Just like the original it is a quiz game and it brings more modern elements to the game such as sound, graphics and mouse control. The game features 3,000 completely new questions across nine fields: film, literature, culture, general knowledge, history, nature, sports, geography, and science, with the tenth field type being random. The gameplay is almost identical to the first game, as the changes are mostly cosmetic. |
| Tarmanian Tactics | 1998-12-01 | Kama Digital Entertainment | Leading Edge Co., Ltd | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Tactical RPG | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Tarmanian Tactics is an isometric tactical RPG. The game consists of 2 parts: going to areas on the map and reading dialogues between various characters shown on a background and the battles themselves which may happen while players move from one area to the next one and when they get to their chosen destination. While players are in the world map, they can save or load their game, buy items and equipment for their characters and heal them.During battle, the areas are 3D while the character sprites are 2D. Players use the mouse to choose where their characters should go and whom they should attack. Attacking an enemy from the rear can give extra damage to them but the enemies can do the same for the player's characters. Terrain also plays an important role in battles as it influences the damage that the characters can give or receive. Sometimes it may be difficult to choose where exactly to move the player's characters which is why players might rely on a special button that rotates the screen by 45° with each click.The story is set in the Tarman continent which has gone through a nasty war for harvesting infinite magic energy. 5000 years later, the Tarman continent was suddenly struck by desertification. The earth was in a most desolate condition, the water withered, and the animals and plants were close to extinction. To prevent this desertification from spreading, Denon village in the corner of the Tarman continent sent out their swordsman Ian Stain to investigate. During his travels, Ian learns about the war for magic and the truth about his origin. |
| Pilot Brothers: The Case of Serial Maniac | 1998-12-02 | 1C Company | Gamos Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The game is a sequel to the original Pilot Brothers, the first Russian adventure game. It was released in a year after the first part and was officially called "an add-on", as there was almost no change in the graphics nor in the gameplay, and also it was twice shorter then the first one. In this game you, again, play the role of two detectives-wanna-be, Pilot Brothers. This time they are in search for their cat, Baldahin, who was mysteriously kidnapped by strange creature Sumo. There are nine screens in the game, and on each of them you have to solve some puzzles, using the abilities of each of the brothers (for example, only Chef may knock doors or make some intelligent conclusions, while Colleague is usually used for some stupid stuff or just for fun). Every screen is self-contained and is connected with others only by the plot. All in all, the gameplay is very similar to, say, Gobliins 2. Graphics and animation for the game was made by professional animators from Pilot Studio (who also made the cartoon both games are based on). |
| Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D | 1998-12-02 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Factor 5 GmbH, LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Teen | | Windows | Take on the Empire as Luke Skywalker in one of the N64's first Star Wars games. Fly through 15 levels as well as discovering 3 hidden levels. Craft include: X-Wing and Snowspeeder, also the Millennium Falcon makes an appearance and is flyable. |
| Thief: The Dark Project | 1998-12-03 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Looking Glass Studios, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | Thriller | Stealth | Fantasy, Steampunk | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Garrett, discovered on the streets as a beggar, is taken in and trained by the secretive organization known as the Keepers. However, Garrett's plans for his training is different than that of his masters and so Garrett soon parts company. Surfacing as a master thief, Garrett must enter forbidden places and appropriate the treasures of the rich and the powerful. Of course this line of work is offensive to many people including the rich nobles, the town guard and the religious order of the Hammerites. If Garrett can keep his head while he relieves these forces of their valuable trinkets, he should be able to do quite well....Thief: The Dark Project is a first person game focused on stealth. It is set in a metropolis called "the City", a medieval fantasy world with some elements from the industrial revolution era of technology. Garrett's main skills are in using the shadows to avoid being seen (the level of visibility indicated by a "light gem") and to avoid being heard (different surfaces make different noises). Guards can be alerted by either, and remaining hidden is ever important. Entering combat against armed opponents is not recommended, though some enemies (notably the various undead) can be taken on directly or avoided. It is also possible to silently sneak on guards, incapacitate them with the blackjack, steal their keys, and move their bodies.At Garrett's disposal is a wide range of equipment, including lockpicks, a blackjack, a sword, flash bombs, holy water, explosive mines, and a bow which fires normal arrows in addition to water, fire, moss, rope, and noisemaker arrows. Each type of arrows has a unique purpose: water extinguishes torches, moss covers the ground to soften the sounds of footsteps, ropes can be used to climb in certain spots or cross chasms, etc. The levels in the game are fairly open, and most of the time there are several paths and ways to accomplish the objective. Certain objects can be interacted with, moved from place to place, or destroyed. The game has three difficulty levels distinguished by the amount of goals needed to fulfill. Lower difficulty levels may allow the player to skip some of the harder areas due to the lack of a mission objective leading there. On higher difficulties, additional requirements (such as completely non-lethal way of finishing a stage) may be added. Loot gained from Garrett's thieving can be used to purchase additional equipment for the mission ahead. |
| Bardysh: Kromeford no Juunintachi | 1998-12-04 | Imagineer Co., Ltd. | Infinity Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG, Roguelike | | | Direct control | | | Isometric | Windows | Bardysh is a roguelike RPG released by Imadio. Adventurers seeking a thrill came to Igis Island in search for the world's oldest heritage, a crystal that is said to make all wishes come true. Everybody is anxious to explore the labyrinth which nobody had reached the end of and the game offers 5 dungeons for the player to explore. Apart from exploring the dungeons, the island offers an arena to test one's strength. The main character can be chosen from 3 different types of species with male and female options. Each species can use different kinds of weapons. |
| Rival Realms | 1998-12-04 | Digital Integration Ltd. | Activ Pub Studios | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy, RPG elements | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Enter a world where RTS requires thinking about strategies. The game takes RTS games to a new level by adding many more features not found in other RTS games.The game has three races to choose from: Humans, Elves, and Greenskins. Each race has its own characteristics and units just as is found in most RTS games.However, that's just the beginning. Your armies are always unique. Every single unit can gain up to five levels of experience and has its own inventory that can be traded between units. Inventory items include skill artifacts, keys, potions, spell scrolls, and more. These unit features, as well as quests that are required to advance levels, bring in an RPG quality to this RTS game.Among the more unique units available, there are spies and thieves which can steal gold from enemy castles and gold mills, or pick-pocket gold or items from enemies or even monsters. There are also fire masters who can create bombs to destroy mountains and can turn land into water and water into land.When you win a victory, you can save your favorite units so that you can hire them in future missions, or even in multiplayer games so that you can use your top units rather than always starting out with weaker units.The AI in the game is advanced and includes many settings to choose from. There are four difficulty levels to choose from, and the AI can be set to be mainly offensive or defensive when creating your own missions. The campaigns have the modes set already, of course. The AI is even able to call a tactical retreat if needed and can manage any special units efficiently.When you are ready to play with friends in multiplayer, you can play in cooperative or head-to-head mode in various multiplayer campaigns with up to 8 players of either human or computer.The game comes with 3 single-player campaigns totaling 60 missions (1 campaign per race) and many scenarios to play as well.The final unique feature to this game is the replay feature. You can choose to record your game for replaying later. When you run the replay, you can stop it at any point and play the game from that point rather than having save points that can only load from wherever you think to save the game. The replays also allow you to see what everyone is doing so you can see why you won or lost.There is a level/campaign editor included for making your own levels. |
| Rocks 'n' Diamonds | 1998-12-05 | Artsoft Entertainment | Artsoft Entertainment | Puzzle | Side view, Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Rocks 'n' Diamonds is a puzzle game, based on the concept of Boulder Dash. The player's goal on each level is to collect all the gems and reach the exit, avoiding hazards (such as falling rocks or hostile monsters) and solving puzzles (e.g. skillfully digging sand from under rocks so that they fall in the right way, giving access to some gems). The game comes with a level editor, and with 4 sets of levels, which are converted versions of levels from the classic games: Boulder Dash, Supaplex, Emerald Mine... and Sokoban, a different puzzle game where the player's goal is to push objects into proper places. The Supaplex levels feature the graphics from the original Amiga game. An enterprising level designer will quickly find out that the level editor contains tons of possible elements to cram into the map - there are countless types of monsters, many different types of gems, some keys and doors, switches, and other interesting elements. The game can be played with up to 4 players simultaneously on one computer. |
| Solitaire Antics: Deluxe | 1998-12-07 | Masque Publishing, Inc. | Ant Software | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 50 different variations of solitaire periodically interrupted by animated ants performing on the screen. Solitaire Antics Deluxe contains most common games and has comprehensive record keeping features. |
| Gangsters: Organized Crime | 1998-12-08 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Hothouse Creations Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | Crime | Managerial / business simulation, RPG elements | Interwar, North America | | Point and select | Turn-based | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Gangsters: Organized Crime is set in a fictional city in Prohibition-era America, featuring over 5000 citizens including 400 individual gangsters. The player's goal is to take all the riches, through bribery, theft and aggression.Gameplay is a combination of Sim City-style building and turn-based planning, where you have lieutenants who do the dirty work for you. The more blocks in the city you take over, the more people you have loving your work, making it easier to control each area. But be careful, there are three other gangs out there, so blood can get spilled easily. |
| Argo Adventure | 1998-12-10 | BBS Interactive Multimedia | | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The year is 2270. War rages between corporations over space resources. Eighteen months ago, huge supplies of rare resource were discovered under the surface of planet NB3216A. I.D.C. corporation quickly established a secret base combined with refinery in order to mine the resource important for military industry. Few weeks after the start of the mining operation there was a fire and the connection with the base was quickly severed. I.D.C. quickly sent out the scout unit patrolling in the near vicinity of the planet. During the landing sequence, the shuttle with most of the team from the unit is destroyed by the defense systems of the base. The final surviving member of the unit is the only one who can discover the secret of the Argo base.Argo Adventure is a Czech-developed first-person sci-fi adventure game. The player can move around in 3D rendered environment, similar to Myst. All actions are performed by mouse. The player must pay close attention to supplies of the oxygen, indicators of hunger and thirst and occasional time limits for certain actions (e.g. overheating nuclear reactor). The inventory is limited both by size and the weight limit, some places are too narrow to carry certain items. |
| Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now | 1998-12-10 | Interplay Entertainment Corp., SCi Games Ltd. | Stainless Software Ltd. | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Regional differences | | | | Automobile, Vehicular combat | | | Mature | | Windows | Carmageddon II is essentially more of the same. Whether this is a good or bad thing pretty much depends on how you liked the first.In case you need to be told, this game sends the politically-correct-o-meter flying towards absolute zero, perhaps only beaten by Duke Nukem 3D. The framework is a futuristic race inspired by Deathrace 2000 and The Cars That Ate Paris: The contestants, in sport cars, monster trucks, and other motorized abominations, are placed on a track, a real populated area. Getting to the finish line first is secondary, and in fact seldom happens; the real winner is the one to trash everyone else, running over pedestrians on the way for extra profit. |
| Desert Time: Mugen no Meikyū | 1998-12-11 | Software House Parsley | Software House Parsley | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | | | Windows | One day, a mysterious labyrinth suddenly appeared in the middle of a vast desert. It is said that magical creatures were behind its construction, and that the labyrinth contains unseen treasures in its depth. A rather careless adventurer ventures into the labyrinth and discovers that it leads to an underground world known as Ge-Pang, its inhabitants skilled in magic and ready to help the hero on his quest.Desert Time is the first in the row of Mugen no Meikyū games. It is a solo dungeon-crawling role-playing game with randomly generated, maze-like areas to explore. Combat is done in real time, without a pause; it is not action-based since turns are calculated according to the participants' attributes only. Weapons, equipment and items can be found in the dungeons. The town serves as a home base where it is possible to save the game and rest, and can only be explored via a text menu. The game contains a few scenes with nudity and sexual situations. |
| Carnivores | 1998-12-15 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Action Forms Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Another planet has been discovered, populated with prehistoric dinosaurs. You embark on the hunt of a lifetime, trudging through the eerie landscape that strangly resembles Earth's. Suddenly trees come crashing down around you - someone, no something immense is trampling your way. Then you see it -- your ultimate dream and deepest nightmare in the flesh - the T-Rex! Ready...aim...fire...oh no, your shot missed! There's no time to take shot again. You run but realize it's too late...the hunter has become the hunted. |
| DX-Ball 2 | 1998-12-16 | Longbow Digital Arts Inc. | Longbow Digital Arts Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | DX-Ball 2 is based on Michael P. Welch's DX-Ball, in turn based on Megaball by the Mackey brothers. Gameplay uses the Breakout idea of using a bat to guide a ball around a screen smashing bricks, without letting it drop off the bottom of the screen. It adds power-up tokens, such as - multiple balls, mounted guns to shoot out bricks, a more destructive ball, and a larger bat.Sporting a completely revised game engine with new graphics, faster framerates and support for in-game music via Carlos Hasan's SEAL, DX-Ball 2 is sold as five different board packs - Board Pack 1, Board Pack 2, Board Pack 3, Memorial Pack, and Classic Pack. The demo version includes a sample of Board Pack 1. It was later rereleased with new content as DX-Ball 2: 20th Anniversary Edition |
| Heroes of Might and Magic II: Gold | 1998-12-18 | 3DO Company, The | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars (base game)
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty (add-on)
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| Top Gun: Hornet's Nest | 1998-12-18 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Zipper Interactive, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | Top Gun: Hornet's Next is the sequel to Top Gun: Fire at Will. Once more you take on the role of US Navy pilot Maverick in his F-18 Hornet.The game features a multi-player mode, instant action and a campaign with 30 missions. In the campaign missions are briefed with full motion videos. Battles in this flight simulator are fought in Columbia, Siberia and the Persian Gulf. |
| FireTeam | 1998-12-20 | Multitude Inc. | Multitude Inc. | Action, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | FireTeam is the first-of-its-kind, team-oriented combat action game with live over-the-Internet voice communication. You play in to three teams of four compete in a choice of four different tactical combat games. The game comes with a headset so that you can hear and talk to your teammates that could be around the world. You must have internet access to play this, there is no single-player game that you can play with it.FireTeam is the only online game that integrates the Internet, the game, and its player Community to offer team play with people all over the world. You have access to real-time stats, as well as customized, individual and Company Web pages.Games are fast paced and last a maximum of 10 minutes, Choose from 3 combat characters that each have their unique strengths and weaknesses. Included game types are "Team Deathmatch"; "Basetag," try to destroy your opponents' base; "Gunball," basically American football, except tackling your opponent for the ball involves pumping him full of lead; "Capture the Flag," differing from conventional CTF rules, a number of flags remain in fixed points around the map, and your job is to claim them for your team by running over them – every 10 seconds, your points are increased according to how many flags you possess at that moment. |
| The Settlers III | 1998-12-20 | Blue Byte Studio GmbH | Blue Byte Studio GmbH | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation, Real-time strategy | China (Ancient / Imperial), Classical antiquity, Egypt (Ancient), Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Part three of The Settlers series continues with the real-time strategy game concepts of the series. In order to conquer the known world, you must supply your armies with weapons, food, and wine for morale. To do this, these things must be produced using raw materials, in buildings which require wood and stone to be built. Each job is undertaken by one of 150 unique characters, across over 100 distinct buildings.There are three nations: Romans, Egyptians and Japanese. Each nation has its own styled buildings and (dis)advantages. It's also possible to play in multiplayer mode via Internet or LAN. An available add-on brings you a new nation (Amazons) a map editor and some new scenarios.This edition has a new graphics engine using rendered graphics. Another new feature is the inclusion of moving catapults, ballistics and cannons, giving the combat system more realism and increasing the prominence of military tactics.. Priests can cast spells, which can gain more resources or destroy the enemy. Naval aspects are more detailed than ever before. |
| Baldur's Gate | 1998-12-21 | Black Isle Studios, Interplay Productions, Inc. | BioWare Corporation | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | Licensed, Regional differences | | | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Candlekeep is an ancient fortress situated on the rural Sword Coast. Recently, inexplicable events have been plaguing this quiet place, which has long become a large library where men of wisdom and knowledge can study in peace. Unknown mercenaries try to enter the walls of Candlekeep, interested in a seemingly ordinary and unimportant young person - an orphan who was taken in by the mage Gorion and treated by him as his own child. One night, Gorion decides to leave Candlekeep and take his adopted child to a safe place. However, as they leave the fortress, they are ambushed by a group of assassins. The orphan manages to escape, but Gorion dies in battle. The gates of Candlekeep are locked, because its inhabitants are afraid to attract to themselves the wrath of the mysterious attackers. Only Imoen, another child who was brought up by Gorion and has been like a sister to the protagonist, is willing to share the uncertain future. The two have nothing, no place to call their home, only a wide hostile world in front of them. A long and perilous journey begins there.Baldur's Gate is a role-playing game that uses the rule set of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D). Set in the universe of Forgotten Realms, the game is the first part of the saga that lets the player explore various towns, wilderness areas and dungeons, undertake many side quests, and find companions for the long journey. The player creates the hero(ine) by selecting his or her class, choosing between fighter, thief, mage, priest, ranger, and druid (including sub-classes, dual- and multi-class characters); alignment (Good-Evil and Lawful-Chaotic axis), and weapon proficiencies. The 2nd edition AD&D rules are applied in the game during combat, character leveling, class restrictions, etc. Up to six player-controlled characters can participate in combat. Battles occur in the same environment as exploration, and flow in real time, though the player is able to pause combat at any time to issue precise commands to any of the characters. Once the game is unpaused, the characters repeat the last action selected by the player until it is changed or becomes impossible to execute. Characters can freely move during battles; party formation and positioning in combat play a significant role. |
| Luftwaffe Commander: WWII Combat Flight Simulator | 1998-12-21 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Eagle Interactive | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Steven J. Pujia | | Everyone | | Windows | Luftwaffe Commander: WWII Combat Flight Simulator is a flight simulator that allows you to see the second world war from the German side. In the campaign this game offers you play as a German fighter pilot and get to fly missions starting in the Spanish Civil War, through the French, British, Russian and West Front Campaigns.There are 10 planes available in the game: four versions of the Bf-109, the He-51, and Me-262 on the German side and the I-16, Spitfire, P-39Q, and P-51 on the allied side. The Allied planes are only available in quick play and single missions.The game includes 50 scripted missions to fly, the ability to create simple custom missions, and a multiplayer mode. |
| MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head: Do U. | 1998-12-22 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Illusions Gaming Company, The | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Beavis and Butthead are on a field trip to college. They have to collect signatures from different teachers by doing tasks they're assigned, so that then they can go to the party and score with chicks. |
| Cyclanoid | 1998-12-23 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In the shareware puzzle game Cyclanoid your task is to re-arrange all tiles so that each row shows one type of icons, namely the ones shown on the most left and right sides. The grid is divided into sections; clicking on a button corresponding to each section cycles the order of tiles within this section. They can be cycled in either direction.The game comes in 4 difficulty settings (Easy, Medium, Hard, Crazy) and 6 modes on each (differing in the size of the board, form of the cycle sections, and their number).In addition, there is also a Puzzle Builder available to create your own puzzles. The game was also distributed as AbcPuzzles, advertised as a compilation of Cyclanoid and a different game on the same engine called AlterJig; however, the AbcPuzzles downloadable only includes the executable for Cyclanoid and no built-in way to run the included AlterJig data files, so in practice it is simply a re-release of Cyclanoid. |
| Starsiege: Tribes | 1998-12-23 | Dynamix, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Starsiege: Tribes is a first-person shooter set in the Metaltech universe which pits different warring tribes against each other. This first-person 3D action shooter is designed to focus on cooperative multiplayer gaming. Use single-player training missions to develop the skills required to become veteran warriors, then join multiplayer combat between 2 to 32 players connected over the Internet or LAN on a wide variety of battlefields, fulfilling different objectives, using wide variety of weapons, armor, and equipment. |
| Thunder Brigade | 1998-12-28 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Bluemoon Interactive | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation, Tank | | Real-time | | | Windows | Thunder Brigade is an arcade hover tank game. 50-ton armored war machines fly in the air and race each other using advanced anti-gravity drives.There are three federations: Earth Alliance, the Halon Empire, and the United System. The player is a member of the United System's People's Army and must fight against the two opposing federations for their independence.Thunder Brigade takes place in 12 different locales and involves 30 different missions.A scenario editor is also included for both the single and multiplayer modes.
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| The Queen of Heart '98 | 1998-12-30 | Watanabe Seisakusho | Watanabe Seisakusho | Action | Side view | Fangame | | Fighting | Contemporary | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | The Queen of Heart '99 is a 2D one-on-one fighting game and the first game in the Queen of Heart series. The player can choose one of 10 female characters and fight against the others. The game features characters from the Leaf visual novel games To Heart and White Album. Each girl has her own special moves and unique abilities. It features anime-style graphics and supports multiplayer. |
| 10-20-30 | 1999 | | | Puzzle | | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 10-20-30 is a single player, shareware, mouse controlled solitaire game.The game uses a single deck of cards which are dealt onto four stacks. Initially two cards are dealt to each stack and the first time the player has to make a decision is when the third card is dealt to the first stack.The object of the game is to clear all four stacks. This is done by selecting three cards from the current stack that add up to ten, twenty or thirty but these cards can only be from the bottom and top of the stack, either the bottom three, the bottom two and the top card, the bottom card and the top two or the top three.The game has alternate card backs, in-game help, player statistics, and sounds. On registration the player was sent a code to authorize the game.
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| 1000 Best Solitaire Games | 1999 | Cosmi Europe, Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 1000 Best Solitaire Games is a collection of over ninety shareware card games which between them provide over a thousand different variations of solitaire.The compilation installs a menu onto the players computer, from here the player can select any of the games, read about them and install them. The Installed games will appear as separate games in the Windows Start Menu and must be uninstalled via the Windows Control Panel, they cannot be played or uninstalled via the menu system.One unusual feature about this compilation is that it allows the player to enter their own notes on a blank tabbed entry for each game.
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| 101+101=202 program du inte kan vara utan | 1999 | Bonniers Specialmagasiner | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation came on two cd's one with 101 applications and one with 101 games. The games where mostly freeware and shareware games but there were some demos of commercial games. They were divided into eight categories:Action games
Earth, Earth 2, Guimo, Halloween Harry 2, Mad Game, NutCracker, Rats, SpaceLab, Tactical Nuke, Tigers BaneArcade games
Brix, DemonStar, Digging Jim, DX-Ball 2, DXtris, GJ Pacman, Hot Wheels, HyperBall, Monsters & Mayhem, Moon Buggy 98, Sentinels of Ceth, Snakin', Time JumperBoard games
Billionarie, BLUE vs RED, Chinese Checkers, Cyclanoid, Daisy Reversi, David's Backgammon, Jamzu, LaserChess 98, Logication, Moraff's MoreJongg, PLUS 600, ReverseMe, Sir Bombalot, Stones, The Flizzers, TurboGo, YatzyCard Games
10-20-30 Solitaire, 3D Blackjack Trainer, 4 Winds, BurdiSoft BlackJack, Championship Spades, Cool Hand Yuke, Hardwood Solitaire, Jonggy, Kings Corners, Pretty Good Solitaire, Solitaire Suite, Thursday Night Poker, TimsWin's Game SuiteStrategy Games
Attila, Bangman, Bloobs, CA-Cyber, Clickomania, Cult, Five+, Four Wins, Maze Race, Monty's Mazes, Sea BattlePuzzle Games
Align-It, BigJig, BinaryBlitz, Brain, BrainsBreaker, Homelands, Look, Ooze, Push, Puzzler, Runes, UltraLogic, WinSokobanSimulation Games
Air Hockey, Bombgolf, Challenge Pool, Elite Dart (Demo), Himawari Farm, P.C. Whiskers!, Project Brasil, Rat Race 98, Real Golf, Run & Fight, SimFero, Space King, Super Hole in One, Super One-on-one Soccer, Virtual Dive BuddyInternet Games
Cowboy Casino, Hexx Wars II, Icarus, Metal Knights 98, NetIntellGames, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, Paintball Net, Tabula Letum, WarBirds |
| 118 118 Nummerjakten | 1999 | E-game AB | Hajtech Produktioner | Action | | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | This game puts you in the shoes of a warehouse employee who must break open the wooden crates scattered across the game's play field. You are in search of the numbers 118 118 which are hidden amongst the crates. But be aware you are not alone! Also wandering the maze are a number of ghosts out to get you. Breaking open a crate can reveal either nothing, a glowing star, a cherry or another ghost. Picking up one of the glowing stars highlights one of the numbers 118 at the bottom of the screen. Collecting all 6 will end the level. The cherry gives you bonus points. You can also kick the boxes across the screen, if you hit one of the ghosts you kill it.The back story here is rather slim. Apparently the ghosts are out to seed chaos, their life force, by hiding the phone number 118 118 from the public.This is an early example of a game used as a pure marketing tool, 118 118 being Sweden's leading directory assistance service at the time. In fact, an ad for Telia, the telephone company offering this service, is displayed upon the completion of each level. |
| 2 Squared | 1999 | MG Software | MG Software | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 2 Squared is a single player, tile removal game.This game presents the player with a grid of coloured squares, there are five grid sizes to choose from, and the player uses the mouse to select groups of two or more adjacent cells of the same colour to remove them.Points are scored for the tiles that are removed and there plus there is a bonus if the player reduced the blocks on screen to less than five. |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Battle Arena Toshinden / Fatal Fury 3 | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes two complete beat-'em-up games:
Battle Arena Toshinden
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory. |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Druid: Daemons of the Mind / Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Druid: Daemons of the Mind
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp
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| 2 in 1 Pack: F1 Manager Professional / Rallye Racing 97 | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
F1 Manager Professional
Rallye Racing 97 |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Fable / Talisman | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Fable
Talisman |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Jack Nicklaus 4 / Tennis Manager | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following 2 games on CD-ROM:
Jack Nicklaus 4
Tennis Manager |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Jack Nicklaus 5 / Daley Thompson's Decathlon | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A compilation including Jack Nicklaus 5 and Daley Thompson's World Class Decathlon. |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Metalizer / Echelon | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes 2 games on CD-ROM:
Metalizer
Echelon |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Mystery Island / Street Racer | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Montezuma's Return
Street Racer |
| 2 in 1 Pack: POD + POD: Back to Hell / Speedboat Attack | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
POD
POD: Back to Hell
Speedboat Attack |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Sean Dundee's World Club Football / Action Soccer | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation, Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following two games:
Sean Dundee's World Club Football
Action Soccer |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Space Marines / Total Control | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following two games on CD-ROM:
Space Marines: Der stählerne Kaiser
Total Control |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Stars! / Terra Inc. | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following two games on CD-ROM:
Stars!
Terra Inc. |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Sub Culture / Starfighter 3000 | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following two games on CD-ROM:
Sub Culture
Starfighter 3000 |
| 2 in 1 Pack: Super Bubsy / Lollypop | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Lollypop
Super Bubsy |
| 3 Flight Game Pack | 1999 | Expert Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains three add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 95
and Microsoft Flight Simulator 98:
707: Legends of the Sky
Big Jets: The Simulator Collection
Flight Adventures: The Simulator Collection |
| 3 Grandes Aventures Historiques | 1999 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 3 Grandes Aventures Historiques is a compilation features three Cryo's historical games:
Versailles: Complot à la Cour du Roi Soleil
Chine: Intrigue dans la cité interdite
Egypte 1156 av. J.-C.: L'énigme de la tombe royale
The English titles of these games are Versailles 1685, China: The Forbidden City, and Egypt 1156 B.C.: Tomb of the Pharaoh. All the games are in French though Versailles has documentation in French, English and German. |
| 3-D Ultra Cool Pool | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | 3-D Ultra Cool Pool is a 3D pool game. It offers various game modes including billiards, eight ball, nine ball, cut throat and rotation. The player can choose from three different difficulty levels none of which will challenge the real pro Pool players. Extra game options include poker, where each ball represents a card, Chameleon where balls change colour and a variety of differently shaped tables (triangular, circular, T-shaped).The game allows multiplayer in hot seat or online play with up to four players in doubles. |
| 3-D Ultra Deluxe | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action, Compilation, Sports | Top-down | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following games:
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
3-D Ultra Minigolf
The latter contains 9 never before released holes. |
| 3-D Ultra Lionel TrainTown | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | Train | | | | | Windows | Back of Box - Windows (US) (from Ad Blurbs)The Eiffel Tower at the North Pole?
All aboard for another challenging day in the wonderfully whirly-bird world of TrainTown. Can you deliver the ingredients to the cookie factory across town? Will you be able to sort all of the cars coming down the tracks in their proper order? How about helping to erect the Eiffel Tower in the frozen tundra? TrainTown will delight you with more than 70 challenging assignments as you work your way up the ladder from Caboose Washer to Whistle Blower.
Compete with the whole family for best-score "Blue Ribbons"
Assignments range from very easy to very difficult
More than 30 different Lionel® model trains with incredible animations
More than 70 assignments in 7 engaging worlds
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| 3-D Ultra Pinball Pack | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
3-D Ultra Pinball
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
Also included is a demo version of 3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent. |
| 3-D Ultra Pinball: Power! | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation includes:
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
3-D Ultra Pinball
3-D Ultra Pinball: Turbo Racing
It also features the demo of 3-D Ultra Minigolf with three playable holes. |
| 3D Astro Blaster | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | MVP Software | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 3D Astro Blaster is a one or two player variant of Asteroids with better graphics and additional options, it is based on version 2.01 of MVP's game Debris.The full version is keyboard, joystick or mouse controlled and has the following features:Unlimited game play, there are just ten in the demo game
five difficulty settings ranging from easy to psychotic
4 new complete wave sets, each with 50 distinct waves
New wave variations, secret waves, and gameplay options
The Astro Blaster Wave Editor to create additional levels
The Astro Blaster Save Game Editor which allows players to give themselves bonus items, weapons, power-ups etcPlus new aliens, cheat codes, The game can be played as a single player game or as a two player game, either co-operatively or competitively, against either the computer of another real personThis game was also included in eGame's compilation 3D Mania along with Galactic Invasion and Galaxy of TetriMania. |
| 3D Blocks | 1999 | XDGames | XDGames | Action, Puzzle | | | | Falling block puzzle, Tile matching puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 3D Blocks is a single-player shareware game that contains several variants of Tetris (17 as of version 1.6). It features a rotatable scene to display the game level in an uncommon way.The player uses arrow keys to move and rotate bricks around the basic axis. There are variants that allow for rotation around either the X, Y or Z axis. It features the possibility to redefine keys to play the game, rendering details as well as the development of new custom Tetris variant.The shareware version can be played for 10 days without registering it. |
| 3D Brick Busters | 1999 | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | This Breakout variant features thirty different levels to play through.The goal in 3D Brick Busters, just like the game this is based on, is simple: Use your paddle to bounce a ball back and forth until you destroy all the multi-colored blocks on the screen. But unlike the original, you can move your paddle up and down as well! The game also features several power ups such as a cannon to destroy blocks and enemies, a ball holder, and a secondary paddle to stop the ball from going off the end of the playfield.There are also multiple point-giving items, and some items will make it harder for you to play the game for short periods of time, either by moving the camera downward so you can't see the entire playfield, or by turning your ball (or balls) into smiley faces that can't destroy blocks. |
| 3D Dragon Duel | 1999 | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | In 3D Dragon Duel, you (as a dragon) must clear out several castles from other enemy dragons and dinosaurs, while avoiding deadly lava pits and floating spiked balls.Gameplay is a mixture of platforming and 3D action, similar to Joust, only without giant ostriches. You have to bump enemy dragons from above to defeat them (attacking them from the sides or below will only kill you). Once they're beaten, they release a coin which will grant you bonus points. The floors are also plagued with dinosaurs, which you can destroy with your dragon's fire breath. Once you've done in all the enemies, you advance to the next level.Some levels also have closed paths which can only be opened by finding keys laying around nearby. |
| 3D Flipper XXL | 1999 | Micro Application, S.A. | Independent Arts Software GmbH | Action | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | 3D Flipper XXL is a pinball game which features four tables. It has an isometric ("3D") and a top-down ("2D") perspective. In comparison to other pinball games inclination and number of balls are not variable, only the length of the paddles can be set. Each table features one CD-track. The tables are Waveguard (beach themed), Speed Challenge (about car racing), Saurus Attack (dinosaur themed) and Dark Awakening (a sci-fi theme). |
| 3D Frog Frenzy | 1999 | Cosmi Corporation, Swift Software | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action, Strategy | | | | Arcade | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Meet Froggy. He's an amphibian on the run from a crazy chef who is trying to make a frog legs dinner. In 3D Frog Frenzy, it's your job to get Froggy to safety and away from the saucepan. This mission isn't easy, however, because Froggy is one of the few frogs in the world that cannot swim. With Froggy's fear of water in mind, you must help him escape by hopping through highways while trying to avoid traffic, traveling across rivers on logs and getting to the portal that leads to the next level. Did I mention there's a timer? If time runs out, so does Froggy's luck.During Froggy's adventures, he will encounter items that can enhance or hinder his performance. Colored gems fall from the sky with the following properties: Extra Time (adds time to the level timer), Freeze (stops cars and logs for a few seconds), Heavy Traffic (increases traffic flow) and Haste (Froggy quick mode). Other qualities contained in gems are Mystery (random power-up or power-down), Points (player bonus points), Slow (opposite of Haste) and Walk on Water (a few seconds respite from drowning).3D Frog Frenzy features 3D graphics and twenty different levels. |
| 3D Galaxy Fighters | 1999 | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | In 3D Galaxy Fighters (strongly inspired by the classic Galaga series), your mission is to defend the galaxy from hordes of intergalactic invaders, which appear from the sides of the screen waves. Your ship can only withstand one hit, but you can upgrade your weapons as you destroy enemies. These upgraded weapons have their own benefits and problems, and have limited ammunition.Enemies usually attack with small projectiles or missiles. Some of them are capable of capturing you, and there's no way of escaping from them; but if you still have a life left, you can rescue that ship and attack with two ships at a time, effectively doubling your firepower! |
| 3D Hunting Shark | 1999 | Macmillan Digital Publishing USA | ManMachineGames | Action | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Back of Box - Windows (US) (from Ad Blurbs)JOIN THE EXPEDITIONTake to the waters on an adventure so real you'll swear to never turn back. Chart your course through stunning underwater 3D environments on your expedition in search of the prized shark. Locations, weapons, equipment and prey so lifelike you'll be lucky to get out alive. But if you're one of the lucky few, you;ll reach the shores with a trophy from a successful expedition--and a chance to once again face off against the trophy of the deep.
Navigate through four 3D waterscapes with lifelike scenery, sounds and equipment.
Choose from four weapons in each environment.
True-to-life prey--kill or be killed!
Real-life scuba gear--monitor your air pressure and decompression to survive.
Supplemental equipment--bait,cage and search light. |
| 3D Pinball Express | 1999 | Cosmi Corporation | Webfoot Technologies, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | As the title implies, this is a 3D pinball game. The camera view is slightly isometric looking down the length of the pinball machine. There are four different board themes to choose from, each coming in three variations for a total of twelve different boards. The four themes are:
Terrormeister - a Halloween inspired board featuring axe murderers, skulls, creepy crawls and the like.
Incoming! - An alien invasion inspired board featuring mutant spiders UFOs and alien eggs.
Circus - Clowns, circus tents and coloured balloons abound here.
Happy Kitchen - A cooking-themed board featuring a French chef, bottles of wine, condiments etc. |
| 3D-Seeschlacht | 1999 | bhv Software GmbH & Co. KG | bhv Software GmbH & Co. KG | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | 3D-Seeschlacht is a variant of the game Battleship where two players distribute ships of varied sizes on a field and have to guess where the opponent's ships are. There are three new features in this game: Intact ships can be transferred on field which haven't been fired at, a submarine spots the rough position of enemy ships and the limited ammo gets complemented by a waiting round. "3D" refers to an isometric view of the own map. |
| 5 Jeux de Lettres | 1999 | Pointsoft S.A. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 5 Jeux de Lettres is a CD-ROM that contains five word games:
Anag'in 95
Dicod'in 95
Letrix
Literati Lite
Motys 98 |
| Games: Scrabble | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Games: Scrabble is a play-by-email version of the classic board game Scrabble. The game plays just like the board game original. Players take turns in placing words on the playing field. Each word has to connect to a word that's already present. Bonus fields can double or triple the value of letters or words. Each letter has its own value depending on the number of possible words that can be made with it. In this play-by-email version the game is saved and mailed to one of your opponents once your turn is finished. The game is done when all letters are played and no new words can be formed. The person with the most points wins. This version of the game features no time limit for a single turn. |
| Games: X-COM | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | MicroProse Ltd. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Games: X-COM is a turn-based game played over email (optional one computer hot seat) loosely based on the original X-COM game. The units and weapons are similar. The graphics are basic but clear. The major difference is the game-play of course, which is very simple. Each player controls a squad of randomly assigned troops, you have limited action points and move/fire options. Whoever kills the other squad wins, no research, no campaign type options, just single map games. The players can select the side of the conflict (X-COM troops or Alien forces) and one of five available mission environments. |
| Games: Upwords | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Random Games, Inc., VR-1, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Games: Upwords is a play-by-email version of the classic board game Upwords. Upwords is similar to Scrabble in that the players take turn placing words on the game board. But in this game all letters have equal value, but they can be placed on top already existing letters as long as that results in a genuine word. Higher stacks have value equal to the number of letters in the stack. After every turn the game state is emailed to the next opponent so he can make his turn. |
| Games: Battleship | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | Naval / watercraft | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Games: Battleship is the classic game of Battleship, but allows for play-by-email multiplayer modes. The rules are the same as with the pen and paper original. Both players place their various ships in a grid. They have to guess blindly where the others ships are to sink them. This is done by shooting to specific coordinates, you are then told if it was a hit or miss. Bigger ships have to be hit more often, because they cover more squares. After each turn the results are mailed to the other player for his turn until one player has lost all his ships.This digital version allows you to play in three different grid sizes. A new game option called "Volley" allows you to fire as many bombs as you have ships left, this speeds the game up for online play. "Fleet Commander" is a completely new game in its own with even bigger grids and customizable fleets. Each ship has its own attack pattern and ability such as being able to shoot three times or sending fighter planes. Each ship can also move a number of squares each turn. |
| Games: NFL Football | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Sports, Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Games: NFL Football is a play-by-email American Football game with an official NFL license. Both players can select their starting and bench lineups, formations and game plans. Hundreds of offensive and defensive plays are available for the choosing. Clubs from both the NFC and AFC can be played with. The game plays in turns where in each turn the player can attempt a move such as a sprint, a pass or a shot at the goal. If such an action fails the other player gains the ball and the turn. The game state is then mailed to the other player. |
| Games: Grand Master Chess - Checkers & Backgammon | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Chess | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Games: Grand Master Chess - Checkers & Backgammon features three separate games, namely Chess, Checkers and Backgammon. Each of these games can be played over the internet through play-by-email. This way the games play like their classic original, but you don't have to be online at the same time. You simply mail your move to the opponent and wait for him to mail back for your next move. |
| AFL 99 | 1999 | Electronic Arts Australia | Creative Assembly Ltd., The | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Back of Jewel Case - PlayStation (UK) (from Ad Blurbs)The big game flies even higher.
Spectacular marks, huge kicks and bone-crushing collisions.GAME FEATURES
OFFICIAL AFL LICENSED PRODUCT
CHOOSE YOUR TEAM FROM THE FULL CLUB SQUAD LIST OF UP TO 42 PLAYERS
CONTROLLED CHARGE DOWNS
KICK LOOSE BALLS ON THE GROUND
MULTIPLE DIFFICULTY MODES INCLUDING PICK UP & PLAY CONTROLS
OVER 550 MOTION CAPTURED PLAYER MOVES
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| Aargon | 1999 | Twilight Games | Twilight Games | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Aargon presents the player with 120 grid-based levels of light-refracting deviousness. Each level has a set number of light emitters, that emit 'laser' light in a straight line. Also on the level are various 'coins' of differing colours, which the player must pass the correct colour light into to set them spinning. Once all coins are spinning, the level is complete. Each level also has a set number of objects that you may rotate and place wherever you want. These objects include mirrors (that reflect light by 90 degrees), prisms (that can be used to split a beam of white light into three beams of red, blue and green), splitters (that take a beam of light and split it into two identical beams), as well as many more (including polarisers, refractors, filters, etc.).Whilst the initial basis of the game is very simple, some of the more complex levels can take hours to solve. |
| Aber Hallo!: Gold | 1999 | media Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Aber Hallo!
Aber Hallo! 2
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| Acorn Arcade | 1999 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Action, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Acorn Arcade is a mini-game from Fisher Price Ready For School: 1st Grade title, it was released separately as a demo game and appears on some shareware compilations.This is a simple shooting game in which the player helps Sammy Squirrel in a word game. At the bottom of the screen is a megaphone, this tells the player what to do - usually "Find the word that begins with the sound ...." or "Find the word that rhymes with ...". The player selects either a picture or a word from the three options offered with the mouse and the gun then shoots it with acorns. Every time the player gets four answers correct the game rewards them with a bonus round.There's no end to the game, it continues for as long as the player wants and ends only when the exit option is selected - however in the full game a successful player can win a virtual toy which appears in their virtual tree house.The game plays in full screen mode, the action takes place in a small central area surrounded by black borders |
| Action-Games | 1999 | Serges Medien | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Action-Games is a compilation including the following 6 games:
Gubble 2
Have a N.I.C.E. day!
Judge Dredd Pinball
POD
Safecracker
Speedboat Attack
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| Actua Soccer 3 | 1999 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Arcade football action is recreated using motion captured graphics. As well as creating a custom tournament, you can play any of 25 leagues, with a total of 450 teams and 10,000 players featured. You can create your own squad, or customise the existing ones by trading and editing players. Tactics can be refined based on formation, defensive style and attacking approach. Realistic weather effects are incorporated into both appearance and gameplay. Barry Davies and former Celtic manager Martin O'Neill are the commentators. |
| Actua Tennis | 1999 | Infogrames Europe SA | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Actua Tennis features the Actua Sports concept of a fully 3D environment with multiple camera views for both the action and the replays, and motion captured player actions. You can design your player and then put him to the test in a series of tournaments around the world. Drop, lob and smash shots are all on offer, as are singles and doubles matches for up to 4 human players. The former Australian tennis player Pat Cash provides the commentary. |
| Advanced Trilogie: Kartenspiele | 1999 | ROM POINT | Motelsoft | Compilation, Gambling, Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Advanced Trilogie: Kartenspiele is a compilation that includes the following three card games:
Poker King
Royal Flush
Stammtisch Skat |
| Adventure Hall of Fame | 1999 | Interplay Productions Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Adventure Hall of Fame bundle contains six full titles on nine discs. The term adventure is used loosely, as it contains a mix of pure adventure games, adventure RPGs and action RPGs. The included games are:
Circle of Blood
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror (not included in the French release)
Die by the Sword (base game)
Die by the Sword: Limb from Limb (add-on)
Fallout
Stonekeep
The manuals are offered on a complementary disc and some patches are included as well. |
| Age of Empires: Gold Edition | 1999 | Microsoft Corporation | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This box contains the two following games:
Age of Empires (base game)
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome (expansion disc) |
| Alchemist | 1999 | | Nashi Igry LLC | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Alchemist is a single-player gem matching game. Gems are placed onto a grid and the player must move them such that five gems of the same type form a horizontal or vertical string, diagonals do not count. These gems then disappear and are replaced with a magic eye. Magic eyes can be similarly grouped into strings of five and they will disappear. As gems and eyes disappear the player scores points, the object is to score as many points as possible before the board fills up and the game stops. |
| Alex Builds His Farm | 1999 | Playmobil Interactive | Ubi Soft Entertainment Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Alex Builds His Farm is a game based on the world of the Playmobil franchise where the boy Alex wants to become a farmer. In a 3D world, he can participate in different activities such as constructing a farm by copying the shapes and colours of a model, scare away the crows in a wheat labyrinth, help Mrs. Duck find her ducklings on the lake, race his dog Oscar, collect eggs in the henhouse, and more. Each building holds different activities and Alex can also walk around to talk to other characters such as his parents, grandparents, Oscar the dog and his sister Sarah.Alex can win up to three certificates (ranging from Good Farmer to The Best Farmer) and print these afterwards. He also carries The Big Farming Book that tracks the progress of the different activities and offers additional information. |
| Alien Invaders 2000 | 1999 | Cold Fusion Entertainment | Cold Fusion Entertainment | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Alien Invaders 2000 is a single-player Space Invaders clone. As is typical of this kind of game ranks of aliens march steadily down the screen and must be destroyed before they land. In this game power ups are dropped from some alien ships which the player can collect. Another variation on the original game are the alien assault troopers which are parachuted in from the mother ship. If these land they make their way along the bottom of the screen to destroy the player's cannon.The full game has a high score table, music, and thirty six levels including five bonus levels and a 'mega boss level'. It can be played with either the keyboard or the mouse. |
| All In One: Flight Games | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | | Compilation | | | | | | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | All In One: Flight Games is a compilation of the following games;
Air Warrior III
F/A-18 Hornet 3.0
Flying Corps: Gold
iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter
iF-22 v5.0**
Polaris Rebellion
Search And Rescue***
Ultra Fighters
Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness*
Wingstar*
* Wingstar and Vanguard Ace are both on the same disc.
**This version of iF-22 includes the Bosnian, Ukrainian, and Persian Gulf campaigns
**This compilation has the 'Lite' version of Search and Rescue which has fewer missions than the full game. |
| All You Can Play: 10 Action-Games | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | All you can Play: 10 Action-Games is a compilation which includes the following ten action games:
Battle Arena Toshinden 2
Blade Warrior
Darius Gaiden
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Galactic Attack
In the Hunt
Raiden II
Samurai Spirits
Zeitgeist
Zero Divide |
| All You Can Play: 10 Flug-Simulationen | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Media AG | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Air Warrior II
Das Hexagon-Kartell
Flight Unlimited
Flying Corps: Gold
Hell-Copter
iF-22
iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter
Jetfighter III+
Star Fighter
Ultra Fighters |
| All You Can Play: 10 Racing Games | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | All you can Play: 10 Racing Games is a compilation which includes the following racing games:
D.O.G: Fight For Your Life
Evil Knievel
Final Racing
Grand Prix Rally
Have a N.I.C.E. day!
POD
POD: Back to Hell
Rallye Racing 97
Speedboat Attack
Speedrage
Test Drive: Off-Road 2 |
| Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy | 1999 | Casterman, Microïds | Virtual Studio | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy, Steampunk | | Point and select | | Everyone | | Windows | In 1932, Alexandre Valembois was a young explorer who, with his native friend Antonio Alverez, wanted to make a name for himself by exploring the mysterious Amerzone region. Befriended by the natives of the region, he witnessed a strange ritual involving a giant egg of the famed white birds. Wanting to prove that the white birds existed, Alexandre stole the mysterious egg and betrayed the natives' trust Returning to France, nobody believed Alexandre or his journals about the Amerzone. Sixty years have passed and the world has changed. World War 2 has come and gone, the Amerzone remains unexplored and closed off to outsiders by it's despotic leader, Antonio Alverez. Monsieur Alexandre Valembois is an old man at the end of his life, living alone in a lighthouse and wishing to fix his mistake. At this time, a young reporter comes to visit the old Alexandre Valembois regarding his adventures...Amerzone is a first person adventure game, similar to Myst, taking place between different rooms and areas. The player assumes the role of the reporter and must unravel the clues left by Monsieur Valembois, travelling over several picturesque locations and eventually reaching the fictional Amerzone region. The adventure game takes place over a series of areas. The player can click on arrow icons to change the orientation or to move to different areas. Objects of interest change the cursor to a magnifying glass icon. Objects that can be interacted with or picked up change the cursor to a hand icon. An icon of gears represents a mechanism which must be manipulated before it can be properly used. The player's inventory can be accessed at any time. |
| Annihilator | 1999 | Astral Entertainment Freeware | Astral Entertainment Freeware | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Shooter | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Annihilator is a single player, keyboard controlled, freeware shooter.In this game the player explores an outside area, shooting baddies and collecting health and ammunition power-ups while they search for a key. Once the key has been found the player can enter a grey building where they explore a maze of corridors while, once again killin baddies and collecting power-ups as they search for the exit.
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| Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 | 1999 | Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. | Atari, Inc., Atari Games Corporation | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 is a compilation of six Atari arcade games:
PaperBoy (System II)
720º (System II)
Gauntlet (System I)
Vindicators (System I)
RoadBlasters (System I)
Marble Madness (System I)
There's a limited amount of archival material on each collection, including old posters, "sell sheets" and pictures of the arcade cabinets. |
| Armageddon Collection | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Addiction Pinball
Worms: Armageddon
Screensaver with a Worms themeThe package consists of three discs. The first one holds Worms: Armageddon, the second Addiction Pinball + the Worms screensaver, and the third disc the manuals. |
| Arthur's 1st Grade | 1999 | Creative Wonders LLC | Presage Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Arthur's 1st Grade is an educational game for children aged five to seven that teaches different skills based on the US curriculum for children in the first grade. It is based on the book series by Marc Brown. The game comes on two discs. The first one is based around a story of "Bionic Bunny's Good Deeds Contest". Binky, D.W., Muffy, Brain, Francine, Arthur and Buster get the task by Mr. Ratburn to compete and do good deeds. The winner then gets to meet the superhero Bionic Bunny. Each character represents a different type of activity with three skill levels. The second disc is an activity center with music activities and printable worksheets and games. Players can also create storybooks and cards There are nine activities and 50 games in total. Skills that are developed include math, reading, vocabulary, spelling, creativity, and strategy. Some games can be played with two players. Arthur provides clues and hints if a player gets stuck. There is an auto levelling feature and progress reports. A map can be used to get around and there is a score checker for progress.In the story mode the games have altruistic goals. Muffy picks up litter in the park and needs to progress on tiles by doing maths. Buster needs to help an order character who no longer can go outside. He describes items in scenes and the player has to pick out the correct ones based on drawings. Francine helps practice measurements by cutting candy at The Sugar Bowl. In another a stream full of logs needs to negotiated to have Binky help people across. In Brain's mini-game a computer needs to be programmed for Mrs Baxter by picking out the correct letters to complete words. For D.W. there is a board game to get across a rug to reach a baby by following clues based on colours and shapes. In another a word quilt needs to be completed by spelling words. Arthur also needs to complete sentence charts for Mr. Ratburn. |
| Arthur's 2nd Grade | 1999 | Creative Wonders LLC | Presage Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Arthur's 2nd Grade is an educational game for children aged six to eight that teaches different skills based on the US curriculum for children in the second grade. It is based on the book series by Marc Brown. The game comes on two discs. The first one is based around a story of "Take Your Kids to Work Day" where children help Arthur and his friends in nine learning activities. The second disc is an activity center with 20 print and creative activities.Examples of mini-games include guessing the missing words in the print shop from a selection of letters provided, calculating jelly beans to help an accountant, moving a car around a map by following the instructions to recognize elements and determine where to move for Crosswire Motors, measuring screws at the garage, identifying objects at the museum with Francine based on a description, preparing food trays with a healthy selection from different food groups based on patterns and so on.Some games, such as the one at Crosswire Motors, can be played with two players taking turns. Skills that are developed include arithmetic, geography, reading comprehension, spelling, strategy, and telling the time. The activities have multiple skill levels and the children can earn certificates to print. Help messages are displayed automatically and there is an auto levelling system where the difficulty is adjusted based on the performance. |
| Arthur's Kindergarten | 1999 | Creative Wonders LLC | Presage Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Arthur's Kindergarten is an educational title on two discs for children aged four to six based on the book series by Marc Brown. The first disc contains the game Trouble at Arthur's Treehouse and the second is a creative activities disc. On the first disc the player needs to help Arthur rebuild his treehouse after the storm destroyed. He and his friends decide to help different grown-ups in exchange for some money so they can buy all the materials they need. For each activity there are three difficulty levels and auto levelling can optionally be enabled. Arthur can be steered around on a town map to visit the different locations. One of the activities takes place on the city dump. A man mentions an object and the players need to click and select the correct item in the environment. In another you need to complete ice-cream flavors by guessing the missing letters in words on a board. In the lumberyard you need to guess and select the right boxes with tools. All options are briefly shown and then the boxes are closed again. Only then the needed tool is revealed and the player needs to remember which box it was. At the garage the friends play a game where they need to jump on crates corresponding with a shape described by its form, structure and color. The garden has a math game based on counting flowers. At the library Arthur listens to statements and needs to distinguish between fact and fiction. At a window shop Arthur needs to sequence events in a logical order, while another teaches the value of money and coins.Skills that are taught include arithmetic, arts & crafts, counting & sorting, drawing & coloring, letter recognition and sounds, logic & problem solving, music composition, patterns & sequencing, rhyming, sizes & shapes, vocabulary. The second disc offers a selection of tools that let the children create a creative product, using a card creator, a music machine, and a place to make printable puzzles and games for offline play. |
| Arthur's Reading Games | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Living Books | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Arthur's Reading Games is an educational title which includes most, if not all, the content of Arthur's Reading Race.As with the original title this game has mini games based on the book “Arthur’s Reading Race” but in a different format. The main menu has six options:
I Spy: this game is played at various locations featured in the book. At each the words ‘I spy a “ are shown next to a flash card with a word on it. The whole sentence is read aloud and the player has to click on the correct object.
The Race Game: this is played as a mock board game between Arthur, the player, and his sister D.W., the AI opponent. The idea is that the player is shown a picture together with three words and they must select which word matches the picture. If correct they move one square round the board for every letter in the word. As with all screens and activities in this product there are lots of little animations to keep it funAll the above games have three levels of difficulty.Let me Write this is a simple sentence construction game. As with I Spy the player selects a location and is presented with a picture and across the top of the screen is a short sentence in the form X + verb + Y, or ‘Arthur likes D.W.. The verb cannot be changed but the player can drag any item from the picture to replace the X and the Y thus making their own sentences. Additionally the player can click on any word to hear it spoken, on the sentence to hear it read, or on another button to change the sentence and supply another verb.
Read To Me: here the game reads the entire book Arthur’s Reading Race in which Arthur challenges his younger sister D.W. to read 10 words as they walk around town, if she can read that many words he will buy her ice cream.
Pick A Page: there are twelve pages in the book and the player can replay any one of them
Let me Play: here the player starts at page one of the book, as they do in ‘Read To Me’, but when the page has been ‘read’ the game pauses allowing the player to search the screen for hotspots that will trigger a hidden animation after which they can either exit or manually proceed to the next screen. |
| Arthur's Thinking Games | 1999 | Creative Wonders LLC | ImageBuilder Software, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Arthur's Thinking Games is an educational game based on the television series and it has six different activities. Mr. Ratburn's Puzzlers has Muffy, Buster, and Francine holding up answers to a question, and you have to pick the correct one. In Where's Pal!, you have to help Buster find Pal in the Roman Stadium by using hot and cold clues. In Muffy's Mummy Maze, you have to help a mummy out of a pyramid using logic skills. In Drench the Dragon, you help D.W. throw a water balloon at a dragon by using estimation. You can also go to the Dance Theater, where you can make Arthur dance and make a backdrop for him to dance in front of. Each game has five difficulty levels which get harder as you go on. |
| Astro3D II | 1999 | Monkey Byte Development, LLC | Jarrod Davis Software Company | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Astro3D II is a sequel to Astro3D. It features largely similar gameplay mechanics: the player controls a ship flying in space and must destroy various kinds of debris as well as enemy ships while collecting useful pickups. Unlike the first game however, which only featured 12 levels, Astro3D II can generate infinite levels for the player to complete.The plot continues the story of the first game. The player resumes the role of a space pilot who has distinguished himself during the events of Astro3D. The Earth Alliance once again requires his services, this time in the exploration of the Infinite Expanse and its resources. The player must enter sectors of the Expanse one by one, and break up asteroids so that valuable Corbamite ore can be mined and then hauled back to Earth. Same ore can be used to refuel the ship while on a mission. |
| Astroship Evader | 1999 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Astroship Evader is an arcade style, freeware game with both one and a two player modes.The single player mode is called Meteor Storm, in it the player's ship sits at the bottom of the screen and moves left/right as the player moves the mouse. It's a timed game and the object is to last two minutes while avoiding descending meteors and picking up bonuses and power-ups. This mode has two difficulty settings and the number of player lives, default three, can be changedThe two player Battle Mode game has one player at the bottom of the screen controlling their ship with the mouse while the other player is at the top of the screen controlling their ship with the keyboard. Between the players is an asteroid field and the object is to destroy the opponent. The game has a high-score table, music, and in-game help |
| Ata Hoshev SheAta Haham - Sport | 1999 | Hed Arzi Multimedia | Misgav Maarachot, Pekan | Sports, Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | This game is the second entry of the humorous trivia series.This entry, which is once again hosted by actor and comedian Tal Friedman, may be played by up to three players simultaneously and includes over 1,000 sports-related questions.The featured categories include a variety of sport-related topics, such as Israeli and international Soccer and Basketball, swimming, and light athletics. |
| Atlantis II (Edition Limitée) | 1999 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | China (Ancient / Imperial), Europe, Fantasy, Medieval, Pre-Columbian Americas | | | | | | Windows | The Limited Edition of the game "Atlantis II" (known in USA as "Beyond Atlantis"), which was published in France only and included a special guide with the game's walkthrough. |
| Attila | 1999 | S.A.D. Software Vertriebs- und Produktions GmbH | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Wargame | Europe | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Attila is a turn-based, Risk clone type strategy game. Conquer Europe or the whole world against up to three computer opponents. Conquer at least one country per turn to gain conquest cards, which you can exchange for new armies. The winner of a battle is determined by rolling dice, so the battle system is purely luck based. Three difficulty levels can be selected.
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| Aureum | 1999 | Ahead Multimedia AB | Attica Interactive Ltd. | Adventure | | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Aureum is an interactive "treasure hunt" game, where you must solve 41 puzzles to win a big money prize, similar to Treasure Hunt 2001. At the time it claimed to be the first to take advantage of the dual mediums of CD-ROM and the internet. 10 winners were supposed to be shipped to a Mediterranean island to take part in the showdown -- a real life treasure hunt with Roman gold coins to be found. It was their intention to send 10 finalists to a Mediterranean island to compete for the final prize of £20 000, but Attica cancelled the competition after the first 2 years and so 10 finalists were never selected and the main prize was never won. |
| Austin Powers: Operation: Trivia | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Strategy | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Multiplayer trivia game ala "You Don't Know Jack". Starring Austin Powers as the good guy and Dr. Evil as the bad guy. |
| Australian Cricket Captain | 1999 | Metro Games | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Simulation, Sports | | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | Oceania | | | | | | Windows | Based on International Cricket Captain, this Australian based version allows you to manage your own cricket team (from any of the States of Australia) and lead them to victory in either the Sheffield Shield test series or the Mercantile Mutual Cup one day competition or captain the Australian side in test matches and one day internationals against top class teams from around the world. You do not, however, play the game. You're job, as the captain, is to order the team (set field placings, change batting or bowling orders, etc.) and make any changes to the side before the match, to put together the best team possible to win. All the players are here from the Australian leagues, and expert commentary is put together by former Australian captain Ian Chappell. |
| Autobahn Raser II | 1999 | Davilex Games B.V. | Davilex Games B.V. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | The second installment in the German spin-off of Davilex' Racer series. Again the player gets to race on the German Autobahn.The player can expect to be pursued by the police while he races illegal street races on the highway and the following cities: Dortmund, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Hamburg and Berlin.The player can choose between 13 different vehicles to race with. |
| Avery Cardoza's Casino 2000 | 1999 | Cardoza Entertainment, Inc. | Cardoza Entertainment, Inc. | Gambling | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | | | | Menu structures | Turn-based | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Avery Cardoza's Casino 2000 includes 65 game varieties such as 1, 2, 4 and 6 deck blackjack, 40 different slots, double odds craps (all options), 17 video poker machines, big action roulette and virtual keno with a 100,000 game history. In craps, choose from four ways to roll the dice and how long to roll them; play 3 handed blackjack; go for a royal flush or jackpot, make over 150 Avery Cardoza's Casino 2000 roulette bets, choose your keno ticket. |
| Awesome Cop | 1999 | ZIMA software | ZIMA software | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The town Marsias is known all around the world because of the "DNA Revolution" factory that clones doubles of celebrities and politicians. The town also holds the election of "Miss Clone", but at the very night of the election is the hotel where it takes place set ablaze and the contestants are kidnapped. And so Pankrác, the cop from the first game, returns to solve the new case. But it won't be so easy - true, he was promoted since the last time, yet his superior doesn't trust him, so the Cop has to earn his trust first by solving a different case ... The sequel to Polda aneb S poctivostí nejdřív pojdeš is again a humorous point-and-click adventure, but this time most of the comedic elements come from the pop cultural quotations and cameos of celebrity clones and historical characters - including Adolf Hitler, Caesar, Napoleon, the character from Mexican soap, the former Czech prime minister who tries to solve the state debt by gambling and Lara Croft once again. |
| Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | Historical events, World War II | | | | | | Windows | Sequel to Axis & Allies (which is included in this version), Iron Blitz again puts you in control of one of five nations (USA, UK, Russia, Germany and Japan) during the times of the second world war.This time, however, Iron Blitz uses the 3rd edition of the Axis and Allies rules. Some changes improve upon old rules found in the second edition (used in the first PC conversion). Other add new areas to the gameplay - submarines can submerge instead of withdrawing, planes may retreat from amphibious assaults, new naval units may be placed in enemy occupied zones and multiple AA guns may occupy the same territory. And when an aircraft carrier is sunk, its planes may land one space away from the battle. Of course, for those of you who don't like any of the changes, you can turn off the third edition rules, and play with just the second edition. |
| BFRIS Zero Gravity Fighter Combat | 1999 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Aegis Simulation Technologies | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight, Vehicular combat | | | | | Windows | First-person 3D accelerated space fighter combat game, played in enclosed arenas connected by teleports. Real physics down to friction, momentum, and inertia. Six vehicles, 11 weapons/powerups, force feedback, 3-D sound. Network play supports 63 players on a LAN and 24 on 28.8 modems. Release version ships shrinkwrapped with Linux & Windows binaries. |
| BHunter | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | InterActive Vision A/S | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | BHunter is set in 2098 where law and order are rapidly crumbling and the city has turned to enlisting the help of BHunters to help curb crime. As a BHunter, it is your job to deal justice swiftly to designated criminal targets. The action takes place in one of three flying cars selectable at the start of the game. You rove around in a fully 3D cityscape, a maze of tall buildings (above which you are forbidden to fly because of a force field) while hunting down criminals. Destroy the bad guys with your basic ship's weapons and gain more powerful weapons as the game progresses. You are rewarded with credits for successfully taking down targets. However, don't run afoul of the law or you will be subject to fines that will siphon off that hard-earned currency.BHunter also features networked gameplay for up to 8 players via a LAN or the internet.
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| Babe and Friends: Animated Preschool Adventure | 1999 | TDK Recording Media Europe S.A. | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Babe and Friends: Animated Preschool Adventure is a learning game for preschool children.
Babe and his friends plan to run a circus show. 7 different mini games that help with the preparations are included. These games require knowledge about letters and numbers, geometric shapes and logic. |
| Babyz: Your Virtual Bundle of Joy | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Mindscape, Inc. | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Neeraj Murarka | | Everyone | | Windows | The "game" is much like Dogz of Petz from PF Magic, but as the name suggests you adopt human infants. You have a wardrobe of clothes to cover them in, and shelves of toys for them to play with. There are also more babies, toys and clothes that can be downloaded online.
The box advertises that each copy comes with its own unique baby, which is true in that no two babies will be the same, as they change in response to your interaction with them as they grow.
Voice interaction is an integral part of the game, and it came packaged with a microphone for the purpose. You teach them to recognize you, and can teach them the names of the objects they play with.ScreenshotsThere are no Windows user screenshots for this game.Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gamePart of the Following Groups Protagonist: Baby / Toddler
Theme: Parenting
User Reviews
Really cool game, but gets boring
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Critic Reviews
GamersNET
May 08, 2000
7.8 out of 10
78
All Game Guide
2007
70
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)
Feb 07, 2000
65 out of 100
65
Feibel.de
2000
50
Electric Games
2000
40
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| Backyard Football | 1999 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The original American football entry in the Backyard Sports series, Backyard Football lays the groundwork for kid-friendly football simulation. Not only can kids create players of their own, but they can add child versions of certain NFL stars to their teams using the "Create-A-Player" feature.Kids play a simplified, 5-on-5 reduction of the sport, with no penalties and power-ups for good plays. Speed is of the essence, as quarters are over in a minute. Features season, Hall of Fame, and exhibition modes.Backyard Football is the first game in the Backyard Sports series to be licensed by its respective national league. |
| Baldur's Gate Chapters I & II | 1999 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | BioWare Corporation | Role-playing (RPG) | | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Baldur's Gate Chapters I & II is exactly that - the first two chapters of the full game. It's more than a full blown demo - you can go anywhere and do anything, just like the full game. The storyline stops at Ch2, but it gives you an excellent taste of the game. |
| Baldurian's Bibliothek | 1999 | XMP | | Role-playing (RPG) | | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Baldurian's Bibliothek is an unofficial Add-On for Baldur's Gate.This expansion adds new secret artifacts and new characters with individual combat strategies. The included character editor allows players to change several attributes of characters and allow you to equip the character with things you want (for example: rings, shoes, armor, spells, rare artifacts, weapons, drinks or belts of your choice). |
| Barbie as Sleeping Beauty | 1999 | Mattel Interactive | Gorilla Systems Corporation | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | | Music / rhythm, Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Barbie assumes the role of Princess Rose in the classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. When Princess Rose is born, a number of benevolent fairies arrive to bless the child with a bounty of gifts. A wicked fairy, feeling slighted because she wasn't invited, crashes the birthday party and places a curse on the child -- if she pricks her finger on a sewing spindle during her first 15 years, she will fall into a deep slumber for 100 years. Another fairy is able to mitigate this curse with the stipulation that a prince's kiss will wake her in such an eventuality.The game consists of a series of activities that can either be played at random or in order according to the main storyline. Princess Rose wakes up her woodland friends and invites them to her 16th birthday party, makes a dress and crown, plays hide and seek with the fairies, but then gets tricked by the evil fairy into pricking her finger on a sewing spindle and taking a long nap. At that point, the fairies have to put everyone in the castle to sleep while they work on the problem. Then they recruit a prince who must chop through a maze of thorn brush in order to reach the castle and give the princess a smooch. Princess Rose must then battle the wicked fairy in order to retrieve the magic flute. |
| Barbie: Super Sports | 1999 | Mattel Media | CLICK Entertainment | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In Barbie: Super Sports, the blonde icon takes on the sports of Snowboarding and Rollerblading.Both events have a practice area where Barbie gives advice on how to race and get better scores, which will earn tickets that can be traded in for better equipment. And you'll need better equipment if you want to beat Barbie and her friends. After beating the computer-controlled opponents, challenge your friends to a race with the Two-Player mode, or see who can complete a course the fastest in the Time-Trial mode. |
| Bas de Beer Collectie | 1999 | Easy Interactive B.V. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Bas de Beer Collectie is a compilation of all three games in the Dutch Bas de Beer series. It contains:Bas de Beer naar het Noorderlicht
Bas de Beer naar Paaseiland
Bas de Beer naar Pirateneiland |
| Bataille de Mousse!! | 1999 | Dop | The Design Assembly | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Bataille de Mousse!! is a shooting and advertising game produced for the french Dop shampoos.It's hybrid (PC/Mac) since it's a flash game. Just choose your character and aim the kids' heads. You'll get 1 point, but do not shoot the duck, it will get angry and you'll loose 3 points. |
| Battle of Britain | 1999 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Battle of Britain is a turn-based simulation of aerial fights between Germany and Britain in 1940. There are two campaigns with two different goals: The Britons need to defend their country and Germany wants to conquer it.As expected of such a game the most time is spent on a overhead map of Britain and northern Europe and several statistics screens. The rounds are divided into two parts: In the first both Britain and Germany give orders to their forces, in the second these orders are carried out in real time. During this the game can be paused at any time to give further orders. The success is measured by points which the player receives for certain actions, e.g. destroying an enemy aircraft. |
| Battlegammon | 1999 | Cosmi Europe, Ltd. | | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Battlegammon is a player-vs-player or player-vs-computer, mouse controlled backgammon game.The game's main menu consists of a view of three islands which represent the three game environments, a castle, a spaceship and a desert canyon. When the player selects one of these there's a short animation that transports the player to the game room where an appropriately themed backgammon board awaits. When the player exits the game the animation runs in reverse to return the player to the main menu. The game plays a 'standard' backgammon game and there is no option to vary the rulesThe game has three levels of difficulty, a gamble option, sound effects and can be played in 2D or 3D mode. It plays in a fixed resolution full screen mode and, should the screen be larger than the game expects it plays in the centre of the screen with large black borders. |
| Battleground 9: Chickamauga | 1999 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | The fifth game in American Civil War series of Battleground games brings us to another famous historical event detailing the struggle along the banks of Chickamauga Creek. You may play several historical scenarios. But if you want to change the history, special "What if" scenario is presented. |
| Battlezone: Gold Pack | 1999 | Activision, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Battlezone (base game)
Battle Grounds (unofficial expansion pack)
The Red Odyssey (unofficial expansion pack)
official strategy guide |
| Bear in the Big Blue House: Bear's Sense of Adventure | 1999 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | Bear in the Big Blue House: Bear's Sense of Adventure is an educational game based on the Playhouse Disney television series Bear in the Big Blue House. Bear tells players that he wants to find all of the ingredients to make his special triple berry pie, and will need their help to find them throughout the house. Each character can be found in a certain room of the house, where players will be able to complete an activity in order to find certain ingredients or learn about the primary topic of this game, the five senses. Aside from the five senses, this game focuses on teaching children to think creatively, solve problems, and use their imagination.After a musical number regarding the five senses, the player can choose which character they want to play with first. Pip and Pop need help in the kitchen, where players will have to find sweet, sour, and salty ingredients for their favorite clam dip. Ojo wants to build a house for Snowbear as a surprise using objects found around the house. Treelo wants to listen to his favorite song, but the cassette tape breaks and Treelo must find other objects that can make music. Tutter wants to decorate his mouse hole. but needs your help finding objects that would best fit in his tiny home. There are also plenty of other smaller activities within these missions that lead to ingredients for the triple berry pie, including mazes with Bear, leading Tutter through his cheese cellar by giving him directions, and matching foods with Pip and Pop. Once the triple berry pie is completed, you can find more ingredients to make another pie and play the mini-games again. |
| Beatdown | 1999 | HOT-B USA, Inc. | Soar Software | Action, Strategy | | | | Real-time strategy | | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Take control of your own neighborhood in this RTS game set in the hood. Your linear path sends you down a career path of selling and buying drugs, mugging targets of opportunity, recruiting new members to your gang, and large amounts of murder. You have to maintain your drug contacts, and keep rival gangs from taking over your turf. Meanwhile the cops walk by and let you go blissfully about your business. |
| Best of Sierra (Limited Edition) Nr. 1 | 1999 | HAVAS Interactive Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Best of Sierra Nr. 1
Best of Sierra Nr. 2 |
| Best of Sierra (Limited Edition) Nr. 2 | 1999 | HAVAS Interactive Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Best of Sierra Nr. 3
Best of Sierra Nr. 4 |
| Best of Sierra (Limited Edition) Nr. 3 | 1999 | HAVAS Interactive Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Best of Sierra Nr. 5
Best of Sierra Nr. 6
1 Demo Disc |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 12 | 1999 | Cendant Software Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the May/June 1999 issue (Volume 12) of the Best of Sierra series.The title game:
IndyCar Racing II (full version).
Also included are two exclusive demos of Grand Prix Legends and Half-Life.
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| Best of Sierra: 12 Top Games | 1999 | Cendant Software Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation is a re-packaging of the first six volumes of the compilation series with the same name, Best of Sierra.Not just the games, but each complete issue in the way it was sold in the first place. So it contains all six magazines with manuals, walkthroughs, articles, interviews, etc. and all six CD's with demos, trailers, etc.This is inside the box:
Best of Sierra Nr. 1:
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Metaltech: Earthsiege
Best of Sierra Nr. 2:
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
The Even More! Incredible Machine
King's Quest: Quest For The Crown
Best of Sierra Nr. 3:
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Best of Sierra Nr. 4:
Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
Lode Runner: The Legend Returns
Best of Sierra Nr. 5:
Woodruff and The Schnibble of Azimuth
Caesar
Best of Sierra Nr. 6:
Hunter Hunted
Aces Over Europe |
| BiggieBoy Garage Door Opener | 1999 | | BiggieBoySoftware | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | Automobile | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | BiggieBoy Garage Door Opener is a simple, freeware game for two to four year olds.The idea is that kids love to play with things the shouldn't, like the remote control to the garage door. With this program installed they can play with a pretend garage door and pretend cars, a click of the mouse opens/closes the door.The game has a choice of cars, the colour of the door can be changed and the speed at which it can move can be varied. There is no sound.
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| Biing! 2: Sonne, Strand und heiße Nächte | 1999 | THQ Inc. | reLINE Software | Strategy | | | Adult | Managerial / business simulation | | | Holger Gehrmann | | | | Windows | In Biing! 2, you take over the part of a hotel manager at a holiday resort called "Lollibay Inn".You'll have to care for employees (very low dressed girls) and for the facilities of your club (e.g. pools, SM-centers, etc.).The game has comic graphics and features harmless nudity. A German XXX movie star called Manila May helps you as an interactive teacher to lead your holiday resort to success. |
| Bingo Master | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | Soleau Software, Inc. | Gambling | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Bingo Master is a customised version of Soleau Software's Bingo Buddies.This game is played using the US version of bingo cards, i.e the cards are a 5x5 square with just the central square being 'free'. Games are played won by completing a variety of patterns, whereas in the UK games are generally won by just lines, corners or a full house.The player starts by competing with some AI friends in small time bingo games to win a bankroll, they then compete against up to forty unseen AI players in one of the themed games, all games are identical but the backgrounds are different. As with real bingo there are bonuses awarded for winning a round in a specified number of calls.Players can play up to three cards in a game and can choose between marking their cards manually or having the game do it for them, when played manually the CTRL and ALT keys are used to 'shout BINGO!'Also available here are in-game rules, a history of the game, and the option to have the game call out numbers so the player can play at home with friends using pen & paper.A 'Special Edition' of this game with a reduced number of locations was included in a number of eGames' compilation CDs. |
| Biosys | 1999 | Take-Two Interactive Software Europe Ltd. | JumpStart Solutions Ltd. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Jon Brierley | | | | Windows | You play professor Alan Russell, an eco-activist who was offered by a company named Subtech to design Biosphere 4. Biospheres are large complexes holding artificial ecosystems. Russell wanted to develop a synthetic plant that could efficiently transform CO2 into oxygen. But those plants soon turn to be killers: they can move and suck CO2 from the lungs of human beings. Russell opposes any further works connected to those plants, but Subtech continues the researches and is unable to prevent a disaster...Russell is trapped in Biosphere 4 and has to find his way out. There are four ecosystems ("biomes") in Biosphere 4: rainforest, savannah, ocean, and accelerated evolution. Russell has to overcome all obstacles and to stay alive in this bizarre world.Biosys is an adventure game with simulation elements. You control the environment in the artificial world, but you also have to take care of your own condition. You must drink, eat, and sleep. Different kinds of nutrition will have different effects upon you, your condition will change depending on where you decided to sleep, etc. The rest is standard puzzle-solving gameplay: finding items, operating switches, etc. |
| Bird Hunter: Upland Edition | 1999 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sunstorm Interactive, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Bird Hunter: Upland Edition is an upland bird hunting simulation. Hunt quail, pheasant, dove, grouse, etc and bring along your dog too. The dog takes commands, helps flush out the birds. Careful attention was paid to the shotguns and ammunition and how they perform. Part of the strategy is to bring along the right ammo and each shell is loaded manually letting you customize your volleys. |
| Black Bass | 1999 | HOT-B USA, Inc. | | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This game is a fishing simulation for the PC. Players drive around in 3D first person mode in a boat, searching for the best place to catch fish. When a school of fish is found, players choose their bait, hook, and then fish. You can also compete in tournaments, either by yourself or with other players. The game features Hank Parker, who gives you hints and advice while playing. |
| Black Cats and Pointed Hats | 1999 | Tivola Publishing, Inc. | bvm Gesellschaft für Konzeption und Gestaltung digitaler Medien mbH | Educational | | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Prince Frederick of Frivolia has been turned into a frog by the witches of Witchville. To reverse the curse, you have to sneak into the town and give the seven witches responsible for this tragedy a gift. Each part of the town, such as the market place, the barber shop, and the pub, has hotspots which trigger events. The witches will only appear if you find the correct locations.Black Cats and Pointed Hats is suited for children from three to ten. Unlike most other educational games, there are no math or logic puzzles to solve. |
| Black Moon Chronicles | 1999 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Black Moon Chronicles is a strategy game based on the comic book series of the same name. The player is cast as Wismerhill, a Half-Elf, who is forced to choose sides between four camps: The Empire, The Order of Justice, The Knights of Light and The Army of the Black Moon.The gameplay is kind of a mixture between Warcraft and Heroes of Might and Magic. The game contains some art from the comics. |
| Blackjack Trainer | 1999 | Windswept Software | Windswept Software | Gambling, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Blackjack Trainer is a single-player, shareware card game aimed at teaching the basics of the game to beginners. The game itself allows the player to start with a virtual $500 and to bet on the hands that are dealt, with the game advising on whether to stand, split or hit etc. It is played with the mouse much like any other blackjack game.In addition the help file covers the basics of blackjack and blackjack strategy. It has a glossary of terms, flash cards and strategy tables. The game also allows the player to change the type of blackjack being played, the options being Atlantic City Blackjack, Las Vegas Blackjack or Las Vegas (downtown) Blackjack. Other game settings change the way doubling-down and other special cases are handled.
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| Blast Thru | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | RockSolid Software, Xtreme Games LLC | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Blast Thru is an arcade Breakout game. It features a campaign with forty levels where blocks need to be cleared by hitting them with the ball to progress to the next level. You have the aid of power-ups (some with a positive effect and others with a negative effect). As you progress through the levels, you keep on gaining more and more points until finally, when you die you can save your final score into the Hall of Scores (the top twenty scores are shown). The game features a level editor, which has the ability to build any kind of level featuring all the tile sets that are featured in the campaign. The last game feature is the ability to play against other people (up to eight others and on the same computer), in which you play the campaign. Once you die the campaign resets and starts all over again for the second player. At the end (once all players have finished their campaign), it shows all high scores and whoever obtained the highest score wins. |
| Blinky Bill and the Magician | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Forest Interactive Pty Ltd. | Educational | | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Blinky Bill and the Magician is single player educational title for ages 3 - 8.Blinky Bill a cartoon character who originated in Australia who's been around since the 1930's. He's featured in comics, an animated movie, a couple of TV series' as well as computer games. This title is based on a televised program from the series 'The Adventures Of Blinky Bill'.It is an educational title and as such features a bright colourful main menu in the form of a stage with lots of pieces of magicians equipment on it. Clicking on some items triggers a piece of animation while others trigger a mini game.
The hotspots on the main stage areThe Magic Book: This takes the player to the story book page. The comic book like story can either be read by the player or it can be read to them. The pictures in the story have hotspots within then that trigger short animations.
The Scarf Box: This launches a mini game of colour recognition.
The Paint Box: This gives the player the option to create their own pictures on-screen.
The Globe: The player searches for thumbnail pictures of things that happen in nature, from rainbows to cyclones, and when selected they are presented with the full sized image and hear a short description.There's also a ball labelled WWW which is a link to the Blinky Bill Clubhouse, a web site that, at the time of writing (2013), is no longer running.The Crystal Ball: This takes the player to a screen with an assortment of simple games involving recognizing numbers, colours, animals and words, and simple arithmeticThe Blue Box: Triggers a maze game where the object is to help Blinky find his swag bag. |
| Blinky Bill's Play & Learn: Kindergarten | 1999 | Yoram Gross-EM.TV Pty Ltd | Forest Interactive Pty Ltd. | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Blinky Bill's Play & Learn: Kindergarten is an educational game for children aged four to six starring the koala Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic character created by Australian author and illustrator Dorothy Wall. It contains eighteen core activities of which fourteen can be played at three difficulty levels. Activities include: tell the time; odd one out; tell the difference; number sequence; tidy playground; matching; safety posters; addition; jigsaw puzzles; music play and join the dots.Activities are selected from a central hub called Greenpatch. Characters are fully voiced. The game keeps track of the scoring and provides rewards. Progress can be reset. |
| Blinky Bill: Play and Learn - Year 1 | 1999 | Yoram Gross-EM.TV Pty Ltd | Forest Interactive Pty Ltd. | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Blinky Bill: Play and Learn - Year 1 is an educational game for children aged five to seven starring the koala Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic character created by Australian author and illustrator Dorothy Wall. From a central hub called Greenpatch many types of activities can be accessed: animal recognition, a number puzzle, a clean up game, a water maze, subtraction with tadpoles, finding missing pieces, multiplication using gumleaves, a memory game, a clock bingo game, addition using pebbles, coin addition in a music machine game, weather awareness, 3D shapes, painting, dominoes, a matrix game based on shapes, secret codes and so on.Characters are fully voiced. The game keeps track of the scoring and provides rewards. Progress can be reset.
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| Blue's Clues: Blue's 123 Time Activities | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Blue's 123 Time Activities is the third Blue's Clues game. Devoted to teaching kids ages 3 to 6 early math and thinking skills, Blue's 123 Time Activities features the characters from the popular preschool television show Blue's Clues. There's a big backyard fair, and emcee Steve greets players in his inimitable fashion. The game is a series of mini-games tied together with the backyard fair theme, each geared toward teaching match and logic skills while it entertains.A breakdown of the mini-games:
Baby Bear's Card Game. Players try to be the first to get rid of all their cards. This is a variation of Go Fish - players match shapes and quantities.
Bell's Souvenir Stand. Players weigh souvenirs to fill requests.
Felt Friend's Pattern Parade. Players help decorate floats by completing patterns.
Shovel and Pail's Mother May I? Game. Uses a simple number line to help kids count and add.
Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper's Snack Stand. Kids sort food items according to their attributes.
In Tink's Train Ride, players help Tink build his train while learning about adding and subtracting items in the bins.
Cash Register's Prize Tent is the place to redeem Blue Dollars that have been earned from playing the other activities. Use Blue Dollars to earn a Big Prize. There are 9 parts needed to assemble each Big Prize. |
| Blue's Clues: Blue's ABC Time Activities | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Children help Blue collect words for her silly story book through various activities, including rhyming with slippery, going on an animal safari, helping the felt friends with their puzzle and making snacks with Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. Each activity is designed to encourage letter and sound recognition in a fun, familiar setting. |
| Blue's Clues: Blue's ABCs | 1999 | Nick Jr. | Nick Jr. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Blue's Clues: Blue's ABCs is based on the American television series. This specific game is based off of the episode of the same name. In this game, you must help Mr. Salt and Mr. Pepper complete their shopping list. Each object has a label on it so you know what it is. You, as the player, must find which item they are looking for. This game encourages preschoolers to use their reading skills. |
| Blue's Clues: Jigsaw Puzzles | 1999 | Nick Jr. | Nick Jr. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Blue's Clues: Jigsaw Puzzles is based on the American television series. This specific game is based off of the episode "What Game Does Blue Want to Play?". In this game, you must help Blue, Shovel and Pail complete various jigsaw puzzles. Each puzzle gets harder as you go, and after looping through all the puzzle it starts you back at the original. If you press the question mark in the bottom left corner, it will show you the completed puzzle. This game encourages toddlers and preschoolers to use their thinking skills. |
| Blue's Clues: Laundry Time | 1999 | Nick Jr. | Nick Jr. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Blue's Clues: Laundry Time is based on the American television series. This specific game is based off of the episode "What Does Blue Need". In this game, you must help Steve, Blue, and Slippery sort clothes by what condition they're in. Clean clothes go back into the drawer. Wrinkled clothes go into the ironing table where they must be ironed. Dirty and stained clothes go to the washing machine where they well be cleaned. This game encourages toddlers and preschoolers to use their thinking skills and organization skills. |
| Blue's Clues: Lights On, Lights Off | 1999 | Nick Jr. | Nick Jr. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Blue's Clues: Laundry Time is based on the American television series. This specific game is based off of the episode "Blue's Senses". In this game, Blue needs help cleaning her room, and Steve has invented a new game to help her out. Blue will put a toy away, and Steve will turn the lights off. As the player, you must find which toy was put away. This game encourages toddlers and preschoolers to use their thinking skills to remember where each object was located, |
| Blue's Clues: The Popsicle Stick Project | 1999 | Nick Jr. | Nick Jr. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Blue's Clues: The Popsicle Stick Project is based on the American television series. This specific game is based off of the episode "What Does Blue Want to Build?". In this game, you must help Blue and her Popsicle Stick friends build certain formations. As the player, you must sort the sticks by size and place them in the correct place to create an object. A reference picture can be seen in the picture frame if you need help. This game encourages toddlers and preschoolers to use their thinking skills and logical skills. |
| Blue's Clues: Where's My Friend? | 1999 | Nick Jr. | Nick Jr. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Blue's Clues: Where's My Friend? is based on the American television series. This specific game is based off of the episode "Snack Time". In this game, Steve and Blue need your help finding which chick the other chick is looking for. The only thing that distinguishes each chick is what hat they're wearing. As the game progresses, the hats get more similar, but with different colors. This game encourages children to use their thinking skills and identify shapes and colors. This game was originally on Nick Jr.'s website, but was taken down and can only be found through 3rd-party websites. |
| Blue's Treasure Hunt | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Board game | | | | | Early Childhood | | Windows | This is another Blue's Clues CD-ROM game from Humongous Entertainment, which features the USA Blue's characters including video footage of the human character Steve. This two CD game allows multiple pre-school kids to each have their own settings, by entering names. The game is controlled by the mouse, with plenty of things to click on. The images are a collection of real-world, clay, and paper - just like the Blue's Clues TV show. And, of course, there are paw prints to find.In this game, you help Blue and Steve enter the Land of Great Discovery. To do so, you must complete three unique treasure hunts (these can change each time), multi-level pre-school learning, a Blue skidoo and lots of locations.Activities include:
- Bedtimes Stories (early reading, rhyming, storytelling)
- Catch the leaves (simple motor skills)
- Mixed-up Painting (Visual id and discrimination skills)
- Find The Numbers (Number/Color id, inductive reasoning)
- Which Pictures (logical thinking, listening, verbal/visual cues)
- Magenta's Photo Album (sequencing, storytelling)
- Lights On! (visual memory, visual discrimination)
- Painting ( creative expression, color recognition)
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| Board Games Compendium | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | | Compilation, Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Chess | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Board Games Compendium is a family friendly compilation of 13 different classic board games. These 13 titles include:
Checkers
Chess
Fox and Geese
Go
Gomoku
Hex
Mills
Mancola
Push n' shove
Pirates
Renju
Reversi
Wild West
Each game has its own game rules and strategy tutorials included on the disc.
If you're not satisfied in playing these games alone, you can have 2-player and even games across the internet as well. |
| Body Glove's Bluewater Hunter | 1999 | Encore Software, Inc. | Zombie Inc. | Action, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Body Glove's Bluewater Hunter is a game based on the sports of spear fishing and it is endorsed by the Body Glove watersports brand. Strapped into a wetsuit and using a snorkel, players dive in exotic waters to hunt fourteen species of fish using a spear. The locations include Australia, California, Hawaii, Mexico, Panama and South Africa. To unlock a new location, players need to hunt down three types of fish using a spear gun and bring them back to shore where they are weighed. The larger the fish are, the more points are awarded.Various dangers threaten the hunter. There are predator fish such as orcas and sharks that need to be avoided, and the diver can only hold his breath for a limited amount of time, between forty seconds and three minutes. When out of breath the diver blacks out. When this happens three times the game is over. At harder difficulty levels the time limit remains the same, but the hunted fish move faster. The game allows players to design a custom diver, store records and it includes tips by the freediving champion Terry Maas. |
| Bombs and Bugs | 1999 | SoftNet Gesellschaft für moderne Medien GmbH | Awkward Software | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bombs and Bugs is a local multiplayer Bomberman clone, created as a clean-room reimplementation of the original games - the author hadn't played any of the series' games himself. It features support for up to four human or KI players and multiple included tilesets (with the option to download new tilesets in later versions).Each player controls one of the name-giving bugs, the goal is to be the last bug standing. The bugs will be killed when they are hit by the explosion of a bomb which the players will place on the playing field - but it's also possible to blow oneself up when not being careful. In the beginning most tiles are blocked by items which have to be bombed away to reach the other players. Not all tiles can be destroyed, though, providing some protection from exploding bombs. Destroyed tiles may drop power-ups which can be picked up by any player, e.g. to increase the power of the explosion, decrease the time until a new bomb can be placed or change the time until a placed bomb explodes.Aside from the graphics one notable difference compared to the Bomberman series is the behavior of the bombs, as they will destroy all destructible tiles within their range (i.e. if the bomb has a range of three fields, then the explosion will not stop after the first destroyed block, but destroy all destructible blocks (and extras) three fields to the left, right, top and bottom). |
| Booym | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Booym is a one or two player Breakout clone. In this version the game screen is divided vertically into two halves by a steel wall. Each player, the computer takes the role of player two in the single player game, has a paddle which the move vertically up & down and they use this to destroy all the bricks on their side of dividing wall. Once all the bricks on one side of the wall have been destroyed the wall comes down and the both players tackle the remaining bricks on the other side to finish the level.The game is mouse controlled and has power-ups that create bricks on the opponents side, attack the opponent with hand grenades and lightning bolts and smash bricks faster. Unlike most games of this type each player has ten lives and a health bar. Lives are not lost when the player fails to catch a returning ball, the ball stays in play but the player loses health points. |
| Boss Rally | 1999 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Boss Games | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading | Direct control | | | | Windows | Boss Rally is an arcade racer that takes place on surfaces like tarmac, snow, mud and rain, during the day and at night. The player chooses a car and can race against competitors in four different modes with six different courses. Each course can be raced mirrored, for a total of twelve. The maximum number of competitors in a race is nineteen. For winning races the player advances in the rank. During races the car handles differently depends on environmental and weather conditions. |
| Brain Busting Games For Windows | 1999 | Guildhall Leisure Services Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Brain Busting Games For Windows is a compilation of shareware and freeware games published by Guildhall Leisure Services as part of their Family Fun series. When Guildhall Leisure became Ididgcon in 2002 the title was re-used to publish a different set of shareware & freeware games. The games in this compilation are grouped roughly by type, they are:
Arcade Bank1 : Black Box, Boom, Boxes II v1.1, Box World, ,Brickbat, Cafe International, Designer, v1.0, Fortune Raiders 1.0 , Fruits Fields for Windows, Frog Hop, Hero's Heart, Juxto, Kye, YeMines
Arcade Bank 2: Ooze, Pudge, Quarry, Rats, Sokoball, Sokoban, Squark, Squeeze Play, TechnoVenture, Wal-Up, WinSoko, Worm World, Zeek the Greek
Dominoes and Cubes: 3D DomCubes, Bones, Cubic, Dominos-The Draw Game, Dominos-Muggins, Magic, The Cube
Jigsaws && Sliding Tiles: BrainsBreaker, Fifteen, Jigsaw 2 For Windows, Jixxa V1.1, Lost Trail, Puzzle, Puzzler, Shuffle, Slider, Sliders, Spud Puzz
Matching Pairs: Amnesia, Concentrate, JT Concentration, Moraff's Jiggler, Moraffs Ringjongg, Moraff's Spherejongg, Pare A Pair, Passage Plus
Misc 1: AntiC, Bacteria, Ball Master, Bomb Squad, Bomb Squad 2, BowlingTile, Button Madness, Chain Reaction, Colour Linez, Cubulus, Dots, Egg Carton Game, Filler, Gems, Gold Hunt, Hex, Hop, Intelex Games, Jewels of the Oracle
Misc 2: Jumper, Kloks, Leap Frog, Lines95, Lucus Problem, Marble, Matchbox 95, Maxit, Micro Balls, Mix and Match, Nine Men's Morris, Oog, Patrick's Challenge, Pentmammino, Puzzle-8 2, Rainbow Balls, Ringstones, Rollem, Ronnie Resort, Span-It!, Stack, T4, Triad
OXO + Solo Games: Alien TicTacToe, Peg Puzzle, PentaBlox, Colours, Pentomino, Pento Puzzles, WinTTT,
World Games: Awale, Hanoi, Kyodai v1.2, Moraff's Morejongg, Moraff's Tinyjongg, Mysteries Of The Orient, Taipei |
| Brian Lara Cricket | 1999 | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Action, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view, Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The classic game of cricket, updated for 1998 and endorsed by Brian Lara. A more detailed description can be found in the advertising blurbs. |
| BrickShooter | 1999 | TERMINAL Studio | TERMINAL Studio | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | BrickShooter is a tile (brick) eliminating puzzle that take place on a hundred cell playing field. This grid is walled by tiles, three rows thick, on each edge. The game will start with a assortment of several bricks placed on the grid. By matching three or more bricks of the same color you'll remove them and get points. Matching occurs when similar colored bricks become contiguous. Clearing the hundred cell field will give you a bonus after which new bricks will be set up inside it. The game ends when it becomes impossible to move any bricks.Once a brick is selected it will start its travel across the field. When it comes in contact with a brick it will stop its journey. However, should the obstacle be removed the brick will continue in the direction it was originally moving. Only bricks that will hit another brick on an interior cell can be selected for movement. |
| Briganty: The Roots of Darkness | 1999 | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | GIGA | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Side view | | Adult | Fighting, Platform | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Gady is a black magician and a skillful martial artist who travels around with his personal fairy Leena. Gady is more interested in sexy girls than in anything else, and Leena calls him "the pervert of the century". One day the two of them find a girl in the woods who begs for help. After Gady agrees to help her, she robs all his money and disappears. Before long Gady and Leena meet a sword master girl named Sephina, who explains that her sister started acting strangely after finding a mysterious sword. This is where Gady's adventure begins.Briganty: The Roots of Darkness is a side-scrolling action game with role-playing, platforming and beat-em-up elements. Stages are selected from a map and for the most part must be completed in a linear order, though at some points the player can choose which stage to tackle first. In the town it is possible to heal and save the game. The player controls Gady most of the time, though in some stages Sephina is the playable character. Both can jump, defend, and dash; Gady uses fists to beat up enemies, while Sephina fights with a sword.Stages are populated by various types of enemies and usually culminate in boss battles; jumping on platforms and avoiding hazards is fairly frequent. Experience points are awarded for defeating enemies. As the two protagonists level up they learn various combo moves and magic attacks. The game contains some cutscenes with explicit nudity. |
| Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time | 1999 | Infogrames Europe SA | Behaviour Interactive | Action | Behind view | Licensed | | Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | On his way to the beach, Bugs Bunny accidentally finds and activates a time machine. Bugs Bunny is immediately propelled through five different areas in time and must find his way back to the present.
It won't be an easy task, because blocking his way back to the present are some of the wildest troublemakers (Stupid Villians) he has ever known like Elmer Fudd, Witch Haxel, Yosemite Sam, Rocky and Marvin.Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time is a 3D platformer. Stages do not succeed each other linearly, but can be accessed in different order by collecting clocks and golden carrots. Bugs Bunny must dispose of regular enemies and bosses along his way. There are also a few racing and chase segments. |
| Caesar: Platinum | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The first three Caesar games in one collection. This collection includes:
Caesar
Caesar II (Gold)
Caesar III
Prima's official Caesar III Tips & Tricks booklet.
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| Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure | 1999 | Quaker Oats | Cobalt Interactive | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Evil pirates are stealing all the Crunchium from the poor crunchlings. The brave Cap'n Crunch arrives and trains the crunchlings to beat the pirates in a series of athletic events and reclaim their crunchium. Hooray! The day is saved!This promotional disk has an arcade style game for PC users, a vitual pet crunchling for Mac users, and an audio adventure story for those without computers. Not bad for two proof of purchase from any Cap'n Crunch cereals. |
| Card & Casino Multi-Pack | 1999 | eGames Europe, eGames, Inc. | | Compilation, Strategy | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Card & Casino Multi-Pack is a compilation of four casual games from eGames. Many of the games and demo games in this package have been have been released individually and / or in other compilations, they are:
US Slots simulates a singe line machine with a patriotic US theme to the symbols. This was included as a bonus game on eGames' Puzzle & Word Games
Highroller a dice game similar to Yahtzee
Hearts is a release of the shareware game MVP Hearts Deluxe
Spades is a release of the shareware game MVP Spades Deluxe
Also included on the CD are demo versions of the following games,
3D Frog Man,
Blast Thru,
Lexicon,
Tetrimania Master,
Rahjongg,
Mahjongg Game of Four Winds,
Balloon Pop,
3D Maze Man,
Intergalactic Exterminator,
Galaxy of 3D Tetrimania,
Tunnel Blaster,
Puzzle Master,
Mahongg Master 2,
Bingo Master,
Word Search Mania,
3D Astro Blasterand
Word Connect.The product installs a game browser, when this is run it will install a game when it is first selected and run it in subsequent occasions. |
| Cardfun Video Poker | 1999 | Wyvern Studios Incorporated | Wyvern Studios Incorporated | Gambling | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Cardfun Video Poker is a single player, mouse controlled model of five different forms of video poker.The five games available here are;
Draw Poker: a standard five card deal that pays out on jacks or better
Joker Poker: also a standard 5 card deal but with jokers as wild cards, pays out on two pairs or better
Deuces Wild: here 2's are wild - pays out on three of a kind or better
Bonus Poker: a standard draw poker game with no wild cards, this game pays out on jacks or better and players get a bonus if they get four of a kind
Five Card Stud: the player makes a bet and is dealt four cards, they can then stand or double before the final card is dealt. Cards cannot be changed and there are no wild cards. The lowest hand this game pays out on is a single pair between six and tenThe compilation has sound, in-game statistics, a help file, save/load function and all games can be played for different stakes. |
| Carnivores 2 | 1999 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Action Forms Ltd. | Action, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Carnivores 2 is a hunting simulation in the vein of Deer Hunter. Instead of hunting cute woodland creatures however the player gets to hunt big, hungry dinosaurs. The story is set in the far future and mankind has mastered galactic travel. On a distant watery planet we discover species completely identical to Earth's ancient dinosaurs living quite happily on a series of lush islands. Being the enlightened galaxy-spanning species that we are, we decide to bring in a bunch of big-game hunters to blow their brains out and bring em' home stuffed and mounted.In the PC version there is a total of nine huntable dinosaurs, as well as several additional species which serve to populate the environment. The latter can be shot too, but they are not rewarded with kill trophies. The game is set in an open environment played from a first-person perspective. The dinosaur-hunting company has provided a gun, a map, some binoculars, a "dinosaur call whistle" and a license to kill things. The player travels through woods, climbs mountains, and even picks through the decrepit remains of deserted research outposts in the search for the next kill. The game requires a tactical approach. Dinosaurs have keen hearing, sight, and smell and will run away if they detect the presence of a hunter. Often a downwind approach is needed, and the hunter needs to hide behind a rock or tree, and uses a mating call to lure them in for the perfect shot. Of course the highlight of the game is the challenge in hunting hunters, the carnivores.Carnivores will stalk the hunter whether he is hunting them or he is just passing through their territory. The whistle's herbivore mating call or the sound of gunfire may inadvertedly alert them to the hunter's presence and location. Instead of charging head-on into the waiting maw of the shotgun, they can circle through the underbrush, dodging out of sight and ambushing from the sides. Despite their aggressiveness they are not stupid. If the hunter camps out in a clearing on top of a hill with a sniper rifle they will stay in the woods instead of charging out into the open where a clear shot is much easier. The exception to this is the huge Tyrannosaurus, who are disdainful of the puny bullets and will simply charge like an oncoming freight train.The hunter starts in the woods with a pistol stalking herbivores. Each killed dinosaur earns points which can be spent on better weapons (six in total), new areas such as marshlands and deserts, or the right to hunt a larger selection of dinosaurs including carnivores. The more expensive dinosaurs get fiercer and bigger, and eventually enough points will be earned for the privilege of challenging the T-Rex.The iOS, Android and Mini versions are enhanced ports of the original game. Next to the updated graphics it adds the Pachycephalosaurus, Amargasaurus, Oviraptor, Utahraptor, and Troodon as new dinosaurs and Ravaren's Bridge from Carnivores: Ice Age as a new map. From that game also comes the supply ship that picks up the corpses and a photo camera to take pictures of the animals in an exploration-type game mode free of blood. A relocate option allows the hunter to start at a new location during a single hunt. It can be used multiple times and also refreshes the supplies. Next to the the original Hunt mode these versions add a Survive mode where the hunter needs to stay alive as long as possible. The wind locator has been moved inside the compass to make more room on the screen. Most of the new content was not available right away, but added in gradually through updates. The hunter is controlled through a virtual d-pad on the left side of the screen and on the right side two icons can be tapped quickly to call an animal or to draw a gun and aim. For Android an iOS there is a free-to-play version with microtransactions. In the Android version two additional bundles can be purchased to expand the game and access everything, while for iOS there is a separate commercial app with everything unlocked. |
| Case Closed | 1999 | Spectrum Pacific Publishing | Spectrum Pacific Publishing | Adventure | | | Detective / mystery | Board game, Puzzle elements | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Those of you who remember the classic board game Clue will recognize this plot immediately. By invitation only, you and seven others arrive on a secluded island and enter a huge mansion. Shortly after your arrival, your host is murdered and all of you are suspects. Until the murderer is caught, no one can leave the island.In this computer rendition of the game, it is possible to play alone or with multiple teammates. Take turns by rolling video dice and dig for randomly scattered weapons and clues in the mansion’s 12 rooms, which are rendered in 3-dimensional detail. Each of the characters has a personal history with the murder victim. They all have distinct personalities, backgrounds, voices - and motives.Sound effects and video animations add to the realism and the immersion factor in this whodunnit murder mystery. Very replayable, there are 8 separate cases that can be solved resulting in 24 possible outcomes and 9 different endings. If you get through all of those, even more cases can be downloaded. |
| Casino | 1999 | Morerom GmbH & Co. KG | | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Timed input | | | Direct control | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Casino is an arcade game in which you have to catch various casino-themed objects like cards, tokens or money falling down from the top with your dice cup. Most items will add or substract a certain amount of points, with a listing of all items shown before the game starts. The goal is to reach the next level by scoring above the minimum number of points before time runs out. Negative items like a card with the number 13 or bullets which will decrease you points, and special items will decrease or increase the time counter or invert the keyboard controls. With higher levels the speed will increase and new objects will appear.The items themselves are pre-rendered animated 3D objects, falling down with varying speed. The dice cup to catch them can only be moved left and right by pressing the arrow keys. As the objects to fall down are completely random it is not ensured that it is possible to score the necessary amount of points to reach the next level. |
| Castle Fantasia: Seimadaisen | 1999 | Studio Ego | Studio Ego | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | 1st-person | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | "Seimadaisen" is a prequel to the first Castle Fantasia. The events of the game takes place 500 years before those of "Castle Fantasia", and tells the story of a two hundred year long religious war between the Inshiera Empire and the Ruushiera Republic. The Empire worships the God of Light and considers the republicans followers of an evil god. The army of the empire has seven holy squads, and you command a knight named Hyuui, the leader of one of them."Seimadaisen" is a strategy RPG with erotic content. You fight on large battle screens, navigating your party in turn-based mode, attacking when enemies are in range. Enemies drop hearts when defeated, and collecting those hearts can heal you and raise your parameters. Between battles, there are parts in which you'll have conversations with girls and will be able to choose different answers, leading to different endings. |
| Castle Video Poker | 1999 | | WickedWare, LLC | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Castle Video Poker is a single-player, mouse controlled simulation of the popular casino machine. It appears in many of eGames compilations including
Casino Jackpot 2 which is where this version of the game comes from. It is one of a series of similar games developed for eGames by WickedWare.As in a standard 'Deuces Wild' poker game the aim of the game is to make the best 5-card hand. Unlike other forms of poker the player does not win by beating other players but by compiling a hand that exceeds the game's minimum hand, which in this case is three of a kind, to score.The game starts with the player selecting how much cash they want to start with, they then place a bet $1 is the minimum and $5 is the maximum allowed. They are then dealt five cards and they can hold/discard any of these. A redeal is then made to replace the discarded cards and the hand is evaluated. If the hand scores higher than three of a kind then the player is paid, should this happen a lightning storm breaks over the castle in the top left corner of the screen, if the player loses then animated arrows come flying at the player from the same castle.This game has optional sound, in-game help but no high score table and a players winnings are not retained for the next game nor are they transferred to other games in the series. |
| Castles of Adventure | 1999 | | | Adventure | Top-down | | | Puzzle elements | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Castles of Adventure is an top-down adventure game where the player explores environments such as grasslands, forests, dungeons, buildings and lakes in a search for treasure. To complete each level, the player must find and collect all the treasure pieces. Along the way the player can come upon locked doors that require finding a key, statues that block the way and can be pushed around, secret passages, and teleporters. There are two special items that can be found, the "Lumberjack's Axe" which allows chopping down trees in the player's way, and the "Boots of Water Walking". There are no enemies of any kind or dangers in the game, though it's possible to get stuck in a dead end without a way to exit. The game comes with three mapsets, each of them consisting of a sequence of levels connected by a simple storyline. It is also possible to play a standalone map. The game includes a level editor, allowing the player to create his own maps and connect them into mapsets. |
| Castrol Honda Superbike 2000 | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Motorcycle | | | | | Windows | Superbike racer with about 20 tracks and some machine tweaking (tires, gearbox and trail offset). Only one bike model is available, from the sponsors' team (Castrol-Honda). Optional driving aids make it feel much more like an arcade racer than a sophisticated simulation. |
| CatDog: Quest for the Golden Hydrant | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | KnowWare | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | In CatDog: Quest for the Golden Hydrant, you have to help CatDog find the golden fire hydrant. There are six mini-games to play in Adventure Mode. CatDog is based on the American animated television series.In Greaser's the Word, you must catch treasure map coupons from Eddie while avoiding the Greasers. In Iced, Thawed, & Delivered, Dog has to get to the trading post in time while avoiding obstacles. In Climb Ev'ry CatDog, you have to control both Cat and Dog to go up a mountain while avoiding enemies and obstacles. In Space Madness, you have to shoot Salivians and collect snacks in a third person shooter. In Taco Trouble, Catdog must get a taco and be rancid so they can be top employees of the Taco Depot, while making sure the Greasers don't first. In Queen of Denial, Catdog must get the golden hydrant while avoiding mummies and collecting treats. You can change the difficulty on each mini-game. You can also play each mini-game separately in Arcade Mode. |
| Catan: Die Erste Insel | 1999 | Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | Funatics Development GmbH | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Catan: Die Erste Insel is an adaptation of the popular board game The Settlers of Catan. It features a 3D environment that simulates playing the board game against several AI opponents. After a simple introduction to the gameplay, a campaign of 12 missions is waiting for the player. Several of these missions were developed by the board game designer . Some free game variants of the board game and the expansion Die Seefahrer (The Seafarers of Catan) are also included. Multiplayer is available on the same computer or over a LAN or internet for up to 6 players.Screenshots Promo Images Alternate Titles "De Kolonisten van Catan" -- Belgian/Dutch title
"Catan: Pierwsza Wyspa" -- Polish title
Part of the Following Groups Board game translations
Game feature: Hexagonal map
Settlers of Catan licensees
Software Pyramide releases
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PC Games (Germany)
Nov, 1999
83 out of 100
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PC Action (Germany)
Nov, 1999
82 out of 100
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Gameplay (Benelux)
Jan 31, 2002
77 out of 100
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GameStar (Germany)
Nov, 1999
75 out of 100
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PC Joker
Nov, 1999
75 out of 100
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PC Zone Benelux
Mar, 2002
74 out of 100
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PC Player (Germany)
Dec, 1999
73 out of 100
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GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)
Feb 08, 2002
71 out of 100
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In 2000, Catan: Die Erste Insel (Windows) won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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2000 - Gold Award (Windows version)
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| Catz 4 | 1999 | Mindscape, Inc. | PF Magic | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Catz 4 has the gameplay of Catz 3 with the following new functions: going on holiday with your cat, letting your cat meet other pets, letting your cat enjoy music from your own computer and letting your cat play on a copied version on your desktop with your icons and wallpaper.The game can be combined with Dogz 4. When combined it also gives you the possibility to raise rabbits and pigs as a bonus.It also includes IBM Via Voice technology, which can be used to train your Catz if you have a microphone or headset plugged in to your computer, and includes travel scenes based on locations around the world. The scene editor allows you to create your very own scenes with any photo on your computer.Your Catz need a lot of care and attention. If they are neglected, the program will warn you that they have ran away. |
| Championship Manager 3 | 1999 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Sports Interactive Limited | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | The Championship Manager series is a line of football (soccer) management simulations. You take charge of 1 or more football teams, and aim to lead them to glory by signing the right players, selecting the right formations and tactics, and keeping your squad and chairman happy.This edition features teams from 15 major leagues - Brazil, Sweden and Japan are among those featured for the first time. You now have reserve and youth teams, in which you can play trialists and try out young players - the assistant manager can handle these games if you wish. New to the Championship Manager 3 game engine is a training system, allowing you to specify which skills groups of your players (such as defenders, reserves, or those returning from injury) concentrate on.The game takes a while to calculate results and other AI team decisions, but for the first time the game has an integrated multi-tasking system, allowing you to make decisions and browse other squads while this is taking place. The game engine also now includes network play.If you are successful, you will be rewarding with the ultimate accolade - the chance to manage an international team. This involves scouring clubs to find eligible players, and then selecting squads to play in World Cup / European Championship / Copa America matches, as appropriate. |
| Championship Manager: Season 99/00 | 1999 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Sports Interactive Limited | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | The first update of Championship Manager 3, and very welcome it was. The basic game is the same, of course, but all minor rule changes and player transfers bring the games bang up to date for the start of the 1999/2000 season (the latest at the time of release).Now you can setup 16 leagues from around the world running concurrently, and manage any team (or teams) within those leagues, from the mighty Dagenham and Redbridge to the lowly Barcelona (or perhaps that should be the other way round). Compete at the highest levels to win the ultimate accolade - the opportunity to manage your country. |
| Chase Ace 2 | 1999 | Cape Copenhagen | Cape Copenhagen | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Chase Ace 2 is a top-down shooter. The levels, called arenas, are linear and have the player fight against fixed enemy spawns and environmental obstacles like black holes or energy waves which can crush the ship against walls. Usually all enemies have to killed in order to open the way to the next challenge.Within the borders of the arena the ship can freely move and turn, other than that the only available commands are shooting and switching weapons. Two gauges on the top of the screen show the shield status (running out of shields results in the loss of a life) and available ammo; both can be refilled by picking up the associated power-ups. Other power-ups include additional weapons, special ammo and other useful enhancements like double shots, a power shield or auto fire (normally the player has to press the fire button once for each shot). There are different ships available which vary in aspects like speed or manoeuvrability.The multiplayer option (deathmatch fights) is similar to the predecessor. |
| ChemRacer 2713: The Legend of Kid Chem | 1999 | Ohio Distinctive Software | Ohio Distinctive Software | Educational | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | ChemRacer 2713 is an educational title intended to teach children about chemistry. The player moves the mouse to direct his car on the map, and identifies elements based on clues given when encountering another car. Includes three games with twenty levels each, a gallery of unlocked content, and a glossary of chemical information. |
| Chess System Tal II | 1999 | Oxford Softworks | Oxford Softworks | Strategy | Top-down | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Chess System Tal II is a chess game and sequel to Chess System Tal. Different from most Chess games but similar as its predecessor, Tal doesn't try to play the best and most safe move every time, but instead it has its own personality based on professional chess player Mikhail Tal, who's known for making unexpected moves and having an attacking play style. You can play the game from various perspective including top-down with iconic display and 3D from the player's perspective. |
| Chess.net Gold | 1999 | Eplay Network | Eplay Network | Strategy | Top-down | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Chess.net Gold is a commercial version of Chess.net for Windows that was available on CD. It's a client that lets you play online chess against players from all over the world through the Chess.net servers. Once started the game connects you to a chat room, where you can see people who are currently in the lobby and talk with them to pick your opponent. Once you are in a game you can only talk with your opponent. The game automatically calculates your chess rating, to make it easier to find a worthy match to play against.Unlike the free version of Chess.net for Windows available at the time, this retail version offers a 3D view of the chess board, a game study feature, a chess AI to play against and a web phone which can be used to talk with other players with a Gold version.Later the Gold version was replaced with a Gold Member account where players had to pay a yearly fee for the removal of banners, increased journal/aliases/notifies space and other benefits. |
| Chess.net for Windows | 1999 | Eplay Network | Eplay Network | Strategy | Top-down | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Chess.net for Windows is a free client that lets you play online chess against players from all over the world through the Chess.net servers. Once started the game connects you to a chat room, where you can see people who are currently in the lobby and talk with them to pick your opponent. Once you are in a game you can only talk with your opponent. The game automatically calculates your chess rating, to make it easier to find a worthy match to play against. |
| Chutes and Ladders | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | ImaginEngine Corp. | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Chutes and Ladders is an adaptation of the classic children's board game of moving up and down. Players proceed along a board advancing closer to the finish when they land on a ladder space and falling back when they land on a chute space. The PC version is a kid friendly interpretation designed for 4-6 year olds. |
| Citi Mining | 1999 | | BBDO Interactive GmbH | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Citi Mining is an advergame created for the Citibank Germany.The style of play is molded after titles such as Boulder Dash or XOR. Each level has a certain number of collectibles that must be collected to open each level's exit gate. In order to do so, the player has to craftily dig away certain blocks, push objects and lure enemies in certain ways. There are tutorial levels that teach new players about the aspects of the game. There are four differently themed episodes with sixteen levels each. A built-in level editor is also included with this game. |
| Close Combat Trilogy | 1999 | Microsoft Corporation | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Close Combat
Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far
Close Combat III: The Russian Front |
| Close Combat: The Battle of the Bulge | 1999 | Mindscape, Inc., Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Atomic Games, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Wargame | Historical events, World War II | | Multiple units/characters control | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Relive the infamous Battle of the Bulge as the Germans or Americans. This entry, fourth in the Close Combat series, introduces a Strategic map, features new units, and includes airstrikes. |
| Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Engineering Animation Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Interwar | | Megan Saville | | Everyone | | Windows | 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. |
| ClueFinders: 5th Grade Adventures | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Adventure, Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | ClueFinders: 5th Grade Adventures is an educational game for children aged 9-11 in the ClueFinders series. This time, the ClueFinders must solve the Secret of the Living Volcano while shipwrecked on a remote island in the Pacific. Exploring with Joni, Santiago, Leslie, Owen, and Laptrap, you must discover the truth behind the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Is there a logical explanation, or is this a supernatural phenomenon? The game develops children's skills in math, science, social studies, language arts, and problem solving. |
| Coconuts | 1999 | Pointsoft S.A. | Pointsoft S.A. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Coconuts is a puzzle game similar to the classic Sokoban. The player controls monkey Claudius who gets really worked up about storing coconuts onto designated spots. As usual with this kind of games, you can only push objects, not pull them, and you can only push one thing at once.Included is a 2 player mode where the designated spots are split between two competing monkeys. The player who's first to get half the coconuts on their targets wins the level.The player character is controlled with the keyboard. |
| Colony | 1999 | Midnight Synergy | Midnight Synergy | Strategy | | | | Board game | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen, Isometric | Windows | Colony is a remake of the original version, with updated sound and isometric graphics. Like before, the object is to conquer more territory than your opponent. Use your mouse or keyboard to move your sphere one or two spaces. Any enemy spheres you land next to are converted to your color. Then it is your opponents turn. When all spaces are occupied, the one with the most wins. |
| Colors of War | 1999 | | Brundelock Treasures, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Colors of War is a shareware, mouse controlled, strategy war game. The game has both single battle and campaign modes which are played out on a series of eight single screen maps. Each player has a randomly placed base and the object of the game is to acquire more territory than any other player. To do this the player selects tools / weapons from a menu bar at the top of the screen, these include Gatling guns, quanta energy beams, missiles, bombs, earthquakes as well as chompers that gobble up available free space and rejuvenation stations that give other weapons extra power. The weapons/tools have a limited lifespan and the range available in each game varies.The single battle game can be played with up to eight players, two human playing with the mouse & keyboard and six AI players. The AI opponents IQ and aggression levels can be adjusted. The campaign mode is a single player game which has three levels of difficulty and is played over eight maps. The registered game has a level editor. |
| Colt's Wild West Shootout | 1999 | Encore Software, Inc. | Contraband Entertainment, Inc | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Arcade, Rail shooter, Shooter | Western | | | | Teen | | Windows | Colt's Wild West Shootout is a first person rail shooter where the player the player takes control of a sheriff who's job it is to stop the desperadoes robbing the Red River Bank. Similar to other games of its kind the player character automatically moves through the game world and stops at specific locations where the bad guys pop up from behind cover and attack the player, who has to aim quickly and shoot them down before any damage is done. The player is equipped with a simple revolver with unlimited ammo but which has to be reloaded manually when the cylinder is empty. Occasionally weapons, such as a shotgun or a rifle, become available although these have limited quantities of ammo. Health is represented by sheriff's stars and one is lost every time the player is hit. It can be increased however by clicking on potions that appear at times. In addition to the villains there are also civilians that have to be avoided.The game consists of four levels that can be played in any order. Locations include a town, a church, a train and a mine. Each of these ends with a boss fight against a famous outlaw from history, for example Billy the Kid or Jessie James. These differ from regular enemies in that they throw objects at the player that has to be shot down and that they can take multiple hits. In addition to the regular levels there is also a practice level where the player gets to shoot down bottles in a saloon. |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert complete with Counterstrike & The Aftermath | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert (base game)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Counterstrike (add-on)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Aftermath (add-on) |
| Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (Platinum Edition) | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Platinum Edition is a special release of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun with the following content:
Full version of Tiberian Sun
Tiberian Sun soundtrack CD
Limited edition manual
A hand-crafted pewter figurine - a GDI or Nod soldier |
| Computer Mühle | 1999 | media Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This game is a basic version of the classical two player board game "Nine Men's Morris" (or the Mill game).The board consists of 24 nodes created by the edges of 3 nested squares and the intersection of 4 lines connecting the middle of each side of the squares. Each player starts with 9 pieces, to win you have to reduce the pieces of your opponents to two (or make him unable to move). You may remove one piece of your opponent if you have three pieces in a row connected by a line ("mill").The game has three phases:
Set phase: The game starts with an empty board. In each turn the players place one of their pieces on a free node of the board until all 18 pieces are set.
Move phase: When all pieces are set the players take turns moving one of their own pieces to another adjacent node connected by a line.
Jump phase: When one player has only three pieces left he may jump to any node instead of just an adjacent one.
This computer version contains 13 different difficulty levels and voice output for the actions of the computer player. |
| Conflict At Sea | 1999 | | DuckDog Media | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | Naval / watercraft | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Conflict At Sea is a single-player, shareware, mouse-controlled Battleships variant that is played against the computer.The game caters for three different screen resolutions and the player can opt to place their ships manually or have the game place them automatically. Initially, the players place five shots at a time, but as the game progresses, this is reduced to a single shot in each turn as one or both players lose ships.
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| CowHunter | 1999 | Xicat Interactive, Inc. | Tuna Technologies Ltd. | Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | CowHunter is a point and click shooting game like many hunting games with a (Supposedly) humorous twist; instead of blasting deer you're mowing down cows... Cows which are, in most cases flying through the air. There are several modes where in you can use weapons such as the Cowabunga Rifle. The modes are as follows:
Skeet Shooting: Cows fly across the screen you shoot them. Bonuses such as hamburgers fly across as well. You will see three different locations. Point and click to shoot the flying bovines.
Cow Tipping: Take the role of a disembodied hand tipping over sleeping cows. However some cows have not yet drifted off... These fire dung at you, this must be clicked on to be stopped.
Target Practice: Shoot at cows as they pop their heads around the barn doors or up from behind haystacks. Point and click to shoot them.
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| Cracking the Conspiracy | 1999 | Pixel Shop Inc., The | Pixel Shop Inc., The | Adventure | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery, Spy / espionage | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | An old friend sends you a mysterious package and pleads for your help in uncovering a massive conspiracy that could ultimately result in alien invasion of Earth. The package contains a communicator with encrypted secret government files. Your friend, Kelsey Hart, was able to escape but without the communicator. She tells you to break into Area 51, unlock the files, and then send the communicator to her hiding place. Only then will the world believe the terrible secrets the government has been hiding for decades.Your character, John, proceeds to an abandoned uranium mine, which leads to a back entrance of the Roswell base in Nevada. The game's first of many challenges begins here. Finding the mine's entrance blocked by large boulders, John must find the items necessary to open up the mine, solving a riddle presented by an old miner in the process. Wearing a janitor's uniform, John will be able to explore the base's top security areas as he digs for the information he needs. |
| Creatures 3 | 1999 | Mindscape, Inc. | Creature Labs Ltd. | Simulation | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | You're trying to successfully breed a population of Norns. Norns are creatures that were created a thousand years ago by an advanced race called the Shee. Norns live for around seven hours, and have their own bloodstream, brains, and even a genetic structure called Creatures Digital DNA.With your help the Norns can thrive. You can protect them, teach them, breed them and even construct vast automated machines that help you in your quest. |
| Croisades: Edition 2000 | 1999 | index+ | index+ | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Medieval | | | | | | Windows | An improved edition of historical adventure game "Croisades. Conspiration au Royaume d'Orient" (known in English as "Crusader: A Conspiracy in the Kingdom of Jerusalem" and "Crusader: Adventure Out of Time"). The story of Artaud remains the same, but the interface is updated and looks more like the one used in 'Vikings', while the riddles were rearranged - some of them were cut, and the rest made more complex. |
| Cross & Word Games | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | RomTech, Inc. | Compilation, Puzzle | Text-based / Spreadsheet, Top-down | | | Board game, Word construction | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A compilation of three simple puzzle games previously released by eGames in their early RomTech days. Crossword Mania is a set of 110 crossword puzzles and Word Search Mania has 222 word searches. Both of these pencil and paper to keyboard and monitor translations also have basic design tools for constructing your own puzzles. Word Connect Special Edition is a one board demo of a Scrabble clone where players try to form interlocking words on a board with lettered tiles. |
| CrossTown: Englen | 1999 | Vision Park AB | Deadline Multimedia ApS | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | CrossTown: Englen is the second (and last) game produced in the CrossTown series of adventure games. It centers around a male nurse and a mentally ill patient. The protagonist is an angel that can travel between three planes: the heavenly world of angels, the physical world, and the world of delusions that the patient lives in. It is up to the angel to help the nurse and patient to understand each other and move on from their problems. |
| Crosses and Noughts | 1999 | VDG Software | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Crosses and Noughts is a shareware version of the classic Tic-Tac-Toe game. It is played against the computer.What makes this game different is that it is played on what appears to be a piece of squared paper with the player and computer making their marks with coloured pencils.
The game allows the player to adjust the difficulty so that instead of connecting a line of three symbols the game can be played so that a string of up to nine is required for a win.
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| Crossword Mania | 1999 | | RomTech, Inc. | Puzzle | Text-based / Spreadsheet, Top-down | | | Word construction | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A digital collection of 110 crosswords that can be solved with a keyboard instead of a pencil. Experienced puzzlers will find that their difficulty ranges from "easy" to "somewhat less easy".Crossword Mania also comes with a basic tool for building your own puzzles. Results will vary but with practice, it is possible to generate puzzles of comparable quality to those found in the back of T.V. Guide. |
| Cubed | 1999 | Ænigma Games | | Puzzle | | | | | | | | | | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | Cubed is a single player, freeware puzzle game in which the player controls a coloured cube. The aim of the game is to roll the cube around a maze finding and removing the coloured padz by landing the cube on them correctly, i.e. the uppermost face of the cube must match the pad that it lands on.The game has eighty levels - thirty easy, thirty medium and twenty hard and three ways of playing;
Puzzle mode: here the player can take their time and experiment as nothing is limited
Timed: the puzzle must be completed within a time limit
Moves: The puzzle must be completed in a specified number of moves
The game also has a level editor. It plays in a small window and is keyboard controlled and the default settings use the 7,8,4,& 5 keys on the numeric keypad to move the cube but this can be changed. It has a save game option with three save slots.Cubed installs along with another freeware game Brain Wreck which was played on-line via the "Vitalise! V-Cade" site
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| Curse You! Red Baron | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Historical events, World War I | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | Curse You! Red Baron is an arcade-style flight game. It has three gameplay options: Dogfight, Red Baron Challenge, and Hot Seat Competition, eight authentic World War I flyable aircraft, 3-D graphic acceleration creates a lifelike experience, clouds, smoke, and other effects, and a translucent cockpit for easy target viewing. |
| Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas | 1999 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Hothouse Creations Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Historical events, Sea pirates / Caribbean | Naval / watercraft, Vehicle simulator | | | Teen | | Windows | You are a 17th Century pirate in the Caribbean. You can do all kinds of pirate things: rape, pillage, capture ships, receive letters of marque, burn towns, kill civilians, loot houses, recruit other pirates, look for buried treasure, sell stuff you capture for pieces of eight, etc. :) |
| Dames & Backgammon | 1999 | TLC-Edusoft | | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Dames & Backgammon is a simple adaptation to computer of the popular board games of checkers and Backgammon.
You can play against the computer or against another player on the same computer, since the game offers no online multiplayer option. The game features three skill levels, a timed game and a save/resume options, the ability to record all the moves from the beginning and take back a move to the place you want, and, an option to suggest you a move, if you are not sure.
The view of the boards is pseudo-3D and can not be changed.
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| Dance eJay 2: Techno Edition | 1999 | FastTrak Software Publishing Ltd. | PXD Software Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Dance eJay 2: Techno Edition is a music entertainment product that lets the player create music tracks with minimum fuss and technical knowledge.This is based on an earlier product Dance eJay 2 and has the same standard features plus a few new ones, however the sound samples and effects supplied with this product are geared more towards the production of 'Techno' tracks.The standard features of this game are:sixteen track recordingthree thousand five hundred samplesDuplex microphone recording - allowing the players voice to be both as a vocal track and as a samplea drag and drop interfaceand the ability to import soundsThe Special features unique to this game are:The Hyper generator II. This is a software-based synthesizer which allows the player to build up their own samples and effects note by note, it replaces the Groove Generator of Dance eJay 2.The Effects Studio which takes basic samples and applies filters, echo, robotise and distortion effects to it.Time Stretching. All samples in this product are recorded at 140 beats per minute, the Time Stretcher allows samples from other products to be adjusted to this tempoVolume adjustment of individual samples and tracks
The product opens in 'The Main Room', a screen which is initially populated with a sample track that plays for around three minutes. On the left of the screen are the track numbers and individual channel controls - each of the sixteen tracks can be set to play back through either the right channel, left channel or both. On the right is a menu bar that gives access to the special effects, save/load and quit functions. Along the bottom of the 'Main Room' screen are basic controls and the menu of sample sounds and in the centre is a representation of the sixteen track available to the player.
Composing music is as simple as selecting a sample from the menu and dragging it onto a track on the screen. Once positioned the sample can be stretched to make it last longer of have its volume level adjusted. As the player constructs their composition they can listen to either the whole composition or to individual tracks as they are being added to. |
| Darius Gaiden | 1999 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Taito Corporation | Action | Side view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Take command of your Silverhawk fighters once again as you battle to take back the planet Darius from the evil forces that had overpowered it! Converted from the Taito 1994 arcade game for the Windows platform (9x and NT). |
| Dark Secrets of Africa | 1999 | Magic Bytes, THQ Inc. | New Generation Software | Action | Diagonal-down | | | | Africa | | | | | Isometric | Windows | In the year 1876, the followers of the god Azag-Thot created a lot of excitement in Africa. The brotherhood of Marduk and the follower of Anubis fought against the Azag-Thot clan. Great luck that the historian Howard Hawk (you) traveled through Africa and supported the Marduk/Anubis clan against the Azag-Thot.In this game, you play Howard Hawk, the aforementioned historian. In 15 different areas of Africa he can use his father's old rifle. There are lots of Azag-Thot munchs, cursed spidermen, or other terrible creatures. In every area is at least one occult place where mighty books, broken amulets or magic swords can be found. Only with these goods can the Azag-Thot be defeated. By your quest you were supported from up to 6 African inhabitants. These are carrying your equipment. By the time you learn some magic that help you to solve your quest. |
| Dark Vengeance | 1999 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Reality Bytes, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | In the world of Amagar, a magical spell has caused a disastrous solar eclipse. In its wake come the return of the Dark Elves. As the Chosen One, your job is to destroy the Dark Elves and bring sunlight back to your land.Dark Vengeance is a Tomb Raider-style hack-and-slash in a medieval setting. You've got the choice of three separate characters: Jetrel the Warlock, Kite the Trickster, and Nanoc the Gladiator. The character you select has a greater effect on the game than just what you look like and what attacks you can do. The levels also vary. In the levels themselves, you'll find items that only your character can use, but then again, you'll also find some power-ups that are useless. |
| Darkness Falls: The Crusade | 1999 | America Online Inc. | Mythic Entertainment, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | Massively Multiplayer, RPG elements | Fantasy | | Text parser | Persistent | | | Windows | Darkness Falls: The Crusade was an internet dark fantasy MUD-style RPG developed by Mythic Entertainment, which has been hosted on America Online, Gamestorm, and Centropolis Entertainment. The game was a sequel to Darkness Falls.The world of the game was divided into three individual realms: Good, Evil, and Chaos. Each realm was associated with a primary deity: Niord, Arnak, and Ra'Kur, respectively. The game's objective was to obtain the three special idols (Orbs) from the other two realms and return them to your home realm's shrines, and then protect them.There were three types of idols: Knowledge, Power, and Strength. Obtaining them granted the possessing realm 10% experience boost, 10% magic ability boost, and 10% strength boost, respectively. The game contained a 4th realm known as Kaid, which rotated between each of the realms or was open to all realms at once, depending on the situation in the game.Playable Character Options:Good Races: Gnome, Elf, Half-Elf, Dwarf, Tamian (human), Kilanese (human)Good Classes: Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Wizard, Monk, Ranger, CraftsmanEvil Races-Class: Vampire, Werewolf, Demon, Skeleton, Zombie, Bael-Elf, ImpChaos Races-Class: Goblin, Troll, Lizardman, Orc, Ogre, Kobold, Gnoll |
| De griezelbus 2 | 1999 | Elzenga-Uitgeverij Zwijsen Algemeen B.V. | Warehouse Multimedia | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | De griezelbus 2 (Horror Bus 2) is an adventure game for teenagers based on the 1994 horror book of the same name by Dutch youth author Paul van Loon. De griezelbus is a series of books (7 so far) about teenagers who get trapped in the bus of the evil P. Onnoval (an anagram of the author's name). The different stories have also been adapted for two films.This CD-ROM turns the book's storyline into an adventure game. You have to explore the junkyard Roestzacht, where four children have gone missing. Your main task is to collect the author's stolen stories and defeat P. Onnoval in his griezelbus. Played from a first-person perspective, you have to find clues and solve puzzles based on maths, logic, cipher and colours.Although the game is meant for ages 9 and up, some of the puzzles are quite difficult. During your quest, the author assists you with hints. You also have a depletable energy key to open special locks, a notebook to write down numbers and codes, and an overview of the stories collected so far. |
| Debris | 1999 | Global Software Publishing Ltd. | MVP Software | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Debris is an Asteroids clone for Windows. Players control a ship that can be moved around freely in a single-screen 2D environment, shooting asteroids into tinier pieces until they are completely destroyed. It features a two-player player mode (both cooperative and competitive) and a level editor, here called a Wave Editor. For retro gamers who want to remember the look and feel of the original version, the game also features a Retro Preferences section where you can disable the improvements such as the end level boss ships (and not the simple flying saucers) or disable the Rapid Fire bonus. |
| Deep Green Reversi | 1999 | | | Strategy | | | | Board game | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Deep Green Reversi is an award winning, single player, implementation of the strategy game that also goes by the name Othello.The game has many functions including a save/load function, an undo function, in-game statistics with the option to print out the player's moves, a replay function, in-game help and an internet play option. It is played on an 8x8 grid in a resizeable window. The strength of the AI player can be adjusted by altering the search depth, i.e. the number of moves ahead that the AI will look. |
| Deer Hunter 3: The Legend Continues | 1999 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sunstorm Interactive, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | In this iteration of the Deer Hunter series, you can customize your hunter's appearance (gender, clothing) and choose from a huge selection of weapons and "assistive gadgets" that will help you to land that monster buck! The Season mode offers long-term replayability, with an in-game notebook in which you can jot down notes about where you planted that corn, or a description of the area where you left your favorite tree stand. Multi-player is offered via GameSpy. |
| Deer's Revenge | 1999 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Snarf Blat Software | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | Comedy | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Deer's Revenge is a parody on the Deer Hunter series, much like the Deer Avenger. In this game the player takes the role of a Deer, hunting humans (in this case, mainly drunk hicks).The game features a practice mode and a hunting mode, and three weapons. It is possible to turn in 360 degrees, but moving from the pre-chosen position on the hunting ground is not possible. Various means of luring prey to the player's position can be used, including the sound and smell of beer cans.The graphics are pseudo-3D, with scaled animated sprites creating the illusion of forests and human drunks approaching towards the player. |
| Demolition Racer | 1999 | Infogrames, Inc. | Pitbull Syndicate Limited, The | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view, Top-down | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Demolition Racer is a racing game with a twist. Rather than a game that just requires you to try and win the race, this game gives you points to destroy the other racers' cars. The game has many styles of game play so you don't have to play the same style each game.There are 5 game styles in the Single Race section of the game. This section does not count towards unlocking cars or tracks. It is for practice and just plain fun. The main style is Demolition.In Demolition, you race against other cars around the track and get points for hitting them, spinning them in circles and knocking them into the wall. You also get a big bonus for landing on top of a car which will immediately destroy the car. When you finish the race, your final position is
found by multiplying the points you got from hitting the other cars with the points that you got for the position you finished in. So if you finish first, but never hit anyone, you won't win the race.The next style is The Chase. This style is your normal race game. You can still take damage and so can the other cars, but you are only trying to win the race. You don't get any points for hitting the other cars.Chicken is another style. It is the same as The Chase except that you drive in the opposite direction as everyone else. This can slow you down when you run into the cars coming around from the other direction.The next 2 game styles aren't done on race tracks. They are done in an arena. This is a circle area which may have hills in it where you just try to destroy cars. The first of these is Last Man Standing. In this style, you try to destroy every car without being destroyed yourself. You can still win if you
aren't the last car by making a lot of points by hitting other cars. The scoring is calculated the same as the Demolition style.The final Single Race style is Suicide. In this style, you try to destroy yourself before any others are destroyed. You don't get any points for hitting other cars in this style.Besides the Single Race, there is also League Racing. In League racing, you are trying to beat a set of tracks. There are 4 leagues on tracks and one league in the arena. In order to beat a track (or arena), you must place in a certain position. The first league starts out easy; you can finish in 5th place and still beat the track and go on to the next one. However, as you go up in difficulty of leagues, you will eventually have to place 1st on every track in the league to beat it. A league will usually have 5-10 tracks to beat.After you beat a league, you will unlock cars, tracks and other leagues. There are 11 tracks, 3 arenas and 8 cars that you can get. The cars can be customized with colors and logos. You can also have portraits of the racers on top of the cars. |
| Densha de Go! 2 | 1999 | Unbalance Corporation | Taito GM R&D Sect. #2 | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | Train | | | | | Windows | The 1998 sequel of the popular Japanese train driving game by Taito has once again been ported to various home systems. For the first time on the PlayStation, it is possible to drive through the snow, and take a seat in the cockpit of a Shinkansen bullet train.The gameplay is more arcade than simulation. The focus is on stopping at the stations at the perfect moment and position, keeping up with the schedule, obeying signals and speed limits, and ensuring the safety and comfort of the passengers. Mistakes result in points being deducted from a counter. If it reaches 0, the game is over.The following routes are available:Hokuhoku Line from Naoetsu to Uragawara
Tōhoku Shinkansen from Morioka to Shin-Hanamaki
Akita Shinkansen from Akita to Ōmagari
Keihin-Tohoku Line from Shinagawa to Ueno
Osaka Loop Line from Osaka to Tennōji (not in the Arcade original)
Kagoshima Main Line from Hakata to Kokura (only in PlayStation and Windows versions) |
| Der CLOU! inklusive Profidisk | 1999 | TopWare CD-Service AG | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Der CLOU! inklusive Profidisk contains The Clue! and the add-on Der Clou!: Profidiskette. |
| Desire | 1999 | Himeya Soft, Inc | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult, Detective / mystery | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | A research institute is located on a remote island. Apparently the researches being conducted there have some sort of an unofficial link with the military, so journalist Albert Macdgul is sent to investigate and see what he can find out. At the same time Tina, a young girl, is washed ashore on the island with no recollection of what has happened to her or who she is. Meanwhile, the technical manager Makoto Izumi seems to think that something weird is going on with the researches being conducted.Desire is a Japanese-style adventure game. The game is played via a standard text interface where the player selects commands from a menu, interacting with other characters and places. The game consists of four chapters which make up the same storyline, but viewed by different characters. In each chapter the player will see the events and situations from different angles and uncover layers of the main plotline.The computer versions of the game have scenes with explicit nudity and sexual situations, which are not present in the console releases. |
| Desktop Destroy II: Chicken Carnage | 1999 | GamesLab Productions | GamesLab Productions | Action | | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Desktop Destroy II: Chicken Carnage allows the player to destroy his desktop and shoot chickens at the same time. The game takes place on the player's desktop, where he can place chickens. Shooting the chickens in creative ways earns the player points. More creative deaths (such as covering them in blood first) earn more points. The game features various weapons such as a shot gun, rocket launcher, flame thrower and canon ball with which chickens can be killed. Weapons will leave bullet holes and blood splatters on your desktop until the game is quit. The goal is to score as much points within the time limit. |
| Destination Jorden | 1999 | IQ Media Nordic AB | ComputerHouse GBG AB | Educational, Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | It's your big break when you get the chance to become a travel guide to Martians who want to take a vacation on earth. But before you're hired the people in charge want to test your knowledge of earth through a series of tests and trivia questions. During two laps around the earth you have to answer questions on topics like geography, nature and much more. |
| Detective Barbie 2: The Vacation Mystery | 1999 | Mattel Interactive | Gorilla Systems Corporation | Action, Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In Detective Barbie 2: The Vacation Mystery, Team Barbie Detective (comprised of Barbie, Ken, and wheelchair-bound computer whiz Kelly) decides that it's time for a little time off from their usual crime-solving lives. That doesn't last long, however, as the team finds a new mystery as soon as they arrive at their vacation destination: the inn at Lighthouse Cove. It seems that some antique jewels have been stolen from the historic hotel. Barbie and her friends volunteer to investigate the mystery and solve the crime.Detective Barbie 2 is primarily an adventure game where Barbie explores the inn and surrounding areas, such as the greenhouse and the lighthouse. Further, the inn was constructed by an eccentric inventor who built all kinds of secret passages and other surprises into the location. Find and use items, leverage your high-tech gadgets, interview the people who work at the inn, and solve the mystery.In addition to the adventure elements, there are a few minigames which involve more traditional vacationing activities, such as flying on hang gliders and cruising on the water in speedboats. |
| Devil's Island Pinball | 1999 | Expert Software, Inc. | Wildfire Studios Pty. Ltd. | Action | Top-down | | | Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | A savage storm leaves you shipwrecked on a remote South Seas island. But what first appears to be a tropical paradise quickly turns into a nightmare as you battle venomous spiderss and giant scorpions. Natural threats are not your only peril however, with the evil Witchdoctor and his cannibal minions hot on your trail as you try to make your escape; while looming over all is the steaming volcano which threatens to erupt and destroy everything in its path.Devil's Island was intended to be a table for Pinball Wizards' game Balls Of Steel, but was cut out in favor of Duke Nukem. Eventually, the developers released it on its own as a separate game. |
| Diabolika | 1999 | | Blackeye Software | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Meditative / Zen, Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A diabolikal legion of infernal imps are invading a 12x12 grid gameboard in staggered waves. The player is in charge of repelling their odious presence with little defending homonculi, bombs, rockets etc. with different unit-particular chess-like areas of effect -- some forward, some both forward and backward, some in a one-block diagonal radius, etc.The kicker is that the player only gets to activate two of them in a given round, after which the sinister opponent strews more demons across the board, some of which (in later levels) require multiple wounds to be vanquished. To get around this imbalance, the player has to arrange their troops in such a fashion that they trigger each other, like a run of dominoes or a Rube Goldberg machine.Though this game lacks the bonus unit types enjoyed by its polished sequel, it does boast an additional, Archon-like complicating factor missing there -- randomly raised blocks emerging from and retreating to the uncertain gameboard every turn, temporarily sheltering pesky demons from the player's cleansing cannonballs. |
| Diamond Collection: Racing Pack 2 | 1999 | GT Value Division (Europe) Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Diamond Collection: Racing Pack 2 is a compilation containing three driving games, which are:
Carmageddon
Speed Haste
TNN Motor Sports Hardcore 4x4
Hardcore 4x4 is a DOS-only game, the other two are Windows 95 games. |
| Die Pirateninsel | 1999 | Infogrames Deutschland GmbH | ARGON Software GmbH, Related Designs Software GmbH | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Have you ever played Boulder Dash? If so, Die Pirateninsel is an very similar game to Boulder Dash.In this puzzle-solving arcade game for 1 or 2 players (against each other or as team), you have to master 100+ levels in 5 different areas (a temple, a pirate's cove, the dschungle) to reach your aim: Winning an huge pirate's treasure.Collect items while avoiding tricky traps, fallen stones and enemies and squares that redirect or push you in several destinations. Collect all items in a level and then find the exit to the next one. |
| Die Siedler III: Das Geheimnis der Amazonen (Sonderedition) | 1999 | Blue Byte Software GmbH & Co. KG | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This release includes:
The Settlers III (base game)
The Settlers III: Quest of the Amazons (second expansion pack) |
| Dinosaur Adventure 3-D | 1999 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Back of Jewel Case - Windows / Macintosh (US) (from Ad Blurbs)Velociraptor. Stegosaurus, the Mighty T-Rex: creatures your child has been fascinated with since the beginning of time. Now explore them on the computer! Welcome to Dinosaur Adventure 3-D, your virtual exploration in the prehistoric world of dinosaurs. This all-new version of the award-winning original combines the latest in 3-D technology with outrageous game play that your kids will love!Lots to explore
Explore the Jurassic Period where you will experience numerous dinosaur adventures and activities.Collect Dino Movies
Your favorite dinosaurs come to life in heart pounding 3-D movies.Island of Intrigue
Your adventure takes place on Paleo Island, where you can play and learn in three prehistoric periods: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. |
| Disney Hot Shots: Disney's Tarzan Jungle Tumble | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | | Action | | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In Disney's Hot Shots: Tarzan Jungle Tumble you start the game as baby Tarzan, who has to find his way to the Jungle. As each level progresses, Tarzan gets older and the enemies more stronger. The gameplay consists of walking up and down ladders and plants while picking up items (which are mostly food). When each item is picked up, you go to the next level. When you get hit by an enemy, you will lose 1 life (the game gives you 3 at the beginning). |
| Disney Hot Shots: Disney's Terk & Tantor Power Lunch | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | | Action | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Disney's Hot Shots: Terk and Tantor's Power Lunch is a casual game featuring 2 supporting characters from Disney's 1999 animated Tarzan movie. Terk the gorilla and Tantor the elephant guide the player through 50 levels of jungle feasting action.Each of the 50 levels has some number of bricks representing different animals and their preferred dietary foods (e.g., monkeys and bananas, fish and seawead). The player begins with 8 chameleons. A chameleon reports to the field and turns into a ball which bounces up and down on the playing field. The player must guide the chameleon ball left and right in order to feed creatures. When the chameleon touches an animal brick, it changes into the color of the animal's preferred food (e.g., touching the monkey turns the chameleon yellow). At that point, the chameleon can touch a yellow banana brick to make it disappear. The level is complete when all of the food items have been collected.Some levels have threats which need to be avoided. These threats usually come in the form of Kerchak the gorilla and Sabor the leopard, 2 antagonists from the film. The player loses a chameleon if the ball touches a villain's brick. There are also cheetah and sloth powerups which make the ball speed up or slow down, respectively. Some levels have a butterfly that rotates through the food colors represented on the current board. If the chameleon happens to be the same color as the butterfly, all corresponding food items on the board will vanish, speeding completion of the level. |
| Disney presents Ariel's Story Studio | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Media Station, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | The Little Mermaid Story Studio is an interactive storybook game for children of 4 years-old and above. The player scrolls between different screen to follow the story from The Little Mermaid. In each screen different items animate when clicked-on, and stickers for the "Create your Story" part may be discovered by animating some of them. In each screen's dialog, a word is highlighted. When the player clicks on it, it gets changed for a synonym.The game features a "Create your Story" mode in which different customizable backgrounds and stickers are used to create an unique printable story. It also features a "Compose your Melodies" mode, in which the player chooses different instruments for the undersea orchestra to create unique songs. It also has a room in Ariel's cave in which the player can invite different animals that will interact together.There is also a music room, in which songs from The Little Mermaid can be listened to.The player may access any room at any time during the game. |
| Disney's Activity Center: Disney • Pixar Toy Story 2 | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Engineering Animation Inc. | Action, Educational, Strategy | Diagonal-down, Side view | Licensed | | Board game, Mini-games, Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | Real-time, Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Disney's Activity Center: Disney • Pixar Toy Story 2 is a collection of mini-games for children aged four and up coinciding with the release of the US animated movie Toy Story 2. From the main menu the different mini-games are selected straight away from a TV in a TV room, guided by Buzz and Woody. The activities are:
Cone Chaos: a Frogger variant where the player guides an orange cone to cross a street, avoiding cars and potholes. The gang uses the cones to hide from the public as they rescue Woody.
Create a Comic Book: players can design custom comic books use a large selection of backgrounds, characters and items. Parts are dragged and drop and there are multiple panels to form a story. The result can be printed and it is also possible to design a cover.
Critter Corral: a turn-based board game with critters as the pieces. Woody needs to round up the critters before Bullseye beats him to it.
Luggage Lunacy: Buzz needs to navigate an environment where the path is built using luggage. To reach the end and locate Woody he needs to experiment with and make use of yellow luggage with a red arrow that launches him in a specific direction.
Toy Shelf Showdown: Buzz fights toys on a toy shelf at a store. Shown from a side view with a fixed screen, Buzz fights the toys on different platforms while assembling the pieces of a rocket. These are dropped down by walking over them and and the bottom they come together to form the rocket. Beach balls are used as bumpers to launch Buzz.
Woody's Printing Press: print stickers, posters and postcards.Each game has three difficulty levels and high scores are saved. There is also a two-player mode. |
| Disney's Activity Centre: Disney•Pixar A Bug's Life | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive, Inc., Engineering Animation Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Back of Jewel Case - PlayStation (UK) (from Ad Blurbs)Laugh and Play Through the Fun-Filled World of 'A Bug's Life'!
In this exciting Activity Centre from Disney you can take part in loads of fun activities, puzzles and games as well as learn fascinating facts about bugs — all from a bug's point of view! |
| Disney's Activity Centre: Tarzan | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive Victoria | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | Brian Truitt | Windows | Disney’s Activity Centre: Tarzan is a collection of mini games based around the Tarzan animated movie. All the games are single player, most of which are played with the mouse. The games in this product are:
Son of Man, Two Worlds and Strangers Like Me: These are three separate karaoke games based on the songs from the film, all of which use the same format. The player clicks on a gorilla icon and listens to the song while an animated sequence plays in a small window with the lyrics scrolling beneath, another gorilla icon gives the player the chance to sing along to the tune.
Terk & Tantor's Power Lunch: This game is a sort of combination of pattern matching and a Breakout game. The play area contains pictures of animals, each in a coloured tile, together with tiles of the same colour depicting the food that they like. Using the arrow keys the player alters the flight of a 'chameleon ball' so that it strikes first the animal's at which point it adopts the animal's colour and can eliminate the tiles of the creatures preferred food.
Fetch The Sketch: This is a Memory / Concentration type of game. A playful primate has taken pictures from Jane's sketchbook and they are stuck in the branches of a tree. The player must find matching pairs of pictures to restore the pictures to Jane but, in an added complication, one of the sketches is of the mischievous monkey and if the player selects that one all the remaining pictures are jumbled up afresh.
Jungle Journal: This is an in-game diary. The player can make notes here of anything they wish and can encrypt those notes into jungle languages, e.g. lion, monkey etc. They can also create pictures using pre-designed characters and backgrounds
Adventure Stickers: These are printable stickers the player can use to make badges from
Trash The Camp: A music making game where players create tunes by giving objects to different gorillas, where each object/ape combination triggers a different musical phrase. These can be recorded, played back, and assigned lyrics.
Tarzan's Jungle Tumble: This is a platform puzzle game where a Tarzan climb must up and down ladders and vines knocking objects into the nets waiting below before he is caught by his animal chums.
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| Disney's Animated Storybook: Winnie the Pooh & Tigger Too | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Creative Capers Entertainment, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This Disney interactive storybook, featuring popular animated characters Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, Roo, Rabbit, and Christopher Robin from the Winnie the Pooh series, takes place in the Hundred Acre Wood. Tigger's incessant bouncing has begun to wear thin on his friends, who set out to teach him a lesson and learn one themselves. Each screen is a page in the storybook, with text that is highlighted as it is read aloud and arrow buttons to page ahead and back. The interactive pictures animate when clicked, and a glowing symbol lights up when there is a game to be played. There are four mini-games, each with three levels of difficulty.
Repeat the pattern as Tigger and friends all bounce in this memory game
Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Roo
Guide Pooh through a maze to Piglet and Tigger, using tools to overcome obstacles - shovel, skates, and balloon
Match vegetables from Rabbit's garden in this concentration game
The player can return to the home screen by clicking on an exit door, bringing him to Pooh's house where Pooh sits surrounded by his honey pots. From here, he can access help, re-start the story, continue, exit, or choose the map and jump to any part of the story.
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| Disney's Arcade Frenzy | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Digital Doorway | Action | 1st-person, Side view | Licensed | | Arcade, Platform, Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Disney's Arcade Frenzy is a collection of four arcade mini-games :Mu-Shoot : help Mushu to defend his village against Huns attacking in waves. Use fireworks as ammunition, use your mouse to aim, left click for a standard shoot, right click for a super shoot, causing a small avalanche.Rooftop Ruckus : the night has fallen on Agrabah. Help Abu to brighten up each darkened window of the town, while avoiding guards ans adversaries. Right-click to throw a banana, and left-click to enter a house by a door.Flying Frenzy : help Pegasus to protect Mt. Olympus against Titans trying to climb it. Right-click with your mouse to throw lightnings, and don't stop left-clicks to keep on flying.Flounder Quest : guide Sebastian in order to save Flounder, captured by Ursula, the Sea Witch. Left click to destroy weak parts of the labyrinth while right-clicking with the mouse causes Sebastian to shelter inside his shell. |
| Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride | 1999 | Disney Interactive (Europe, Middle East & Africa) S.A. | | Action, Puzzle | Side view, Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride contains four different games: labyrinth, breakout, a rhythm game and a simple shooter. Fifty different levels are included and can be played against the computer or another player. The animations and music are based on the movie of the same name. |
| Disney's Villains' Revenge | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Disney's Villains' Revenge is a first-person game with predominantly action-oriented gameplay. The interaction in the game consists of segments in which the player is required to use a simple point-and-click interface to fight enemies with a sword or perform other mini-game-like activities. Jiminy Cricket guides the player through the game. The mission is to journey into Disney's most famous stories and restore the happy endings before the villains take over forever. The fate of Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, and Snow White rests in the player's hands. The game features replayable puzzles, mazes, exploration, and special reward video clips of classic Disney animation. |
| Disney's Winnie the Pooh: Preschool | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive Victoria | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | Early Childhood | | Windows | Disney's Winnie the Pooh Preschool is a point and click educational game based on characters and material created by the author/illustrator team of A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard. It is a companion game to Disney's Winnie the Pooh Toddler and Disney's Winnie the Pooh Kindergarten.
Waking up from a nap in the Hundred Acre Wood, a puzzled Winnie the Pooh has the feeling he's forgotten something important and somehow arrives at the idea that it must be Eeyore's birthday. The player follows Pooh in his journey around the Wood to spread the news, dropping in on Kanga, Tigger, Owl, Piglet and Rabbit and helping them prepare a party through various activities and minigames.
Kanga's Alphabet Soup - Kanga's soup is missing some letters; the player must match the letters from her cookbook and drop them into the soup
Pooh's Dream - helping Pooh sequence the pictures in his dream will allow him to rescue a stranded Tigger
Owl's Family Tree - the pictures in Owl's photo album are way out of order; the player must help by grouping similar photos
Rabbit's Canning Encounter - Rabbit has to finish his canning before he comes to the party; the player helps by attaching number labels and counting fruits & vegetables
Tigger's Popcorn Calliope - the player matches sounds to help Tigger finish building his music machine (which also makes popcorn!)
Piglet's Pictures - the player follows Piglet's coloring guide to finish his pictures, and then adds collage materials. At higher levels he learns to mix colors
As the player completes each minigame, party decorations and gifts from the characters appear in Christopher Robin's Party Place. Items there are a measure of the player's progress, or a parent can access the Progress Chart from the sign-in screen. The chart describes the skills covered by each activity, which include letter recognition, sequencing, same/different, auditory discrimination, color theory, number recognition and counting, among others.From the map, players can also access Pooh's Print 'n' Learn which is a large collection of print projects - stickers, flash cards, bookmarks, ID cards, and an entire printable workbook that builds on the skills covered in the game.
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| Disney's Winnie the Pooh: Toddler | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Disney Interactive Victoria | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | Early Childhood | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Disney's Winnie The Pooh: Toddler is a set of mini games for the very young, it is played using the mouse and is unusual in that everything, apart from exiting the game, can be achieved merely by positioning the mouse - no clicking needed.The main menu shows Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Christopher Robin sitting under a tree in the hundred acre wood. Each character, and the book that lies in the lower left of the screen, is a hot spot which 'wakes up' as the cursor passes over them and if the cursor hovers long enough a mini game is launched which the character introduces. The games are;
Print: This opens to a blank wooden desktop with a rolled up book on the left marked 'Printing Projects'. When the cursor hovers over this it unrolls to show six projects such as name tags, buttons, bookmarks and pictures to colour in. The options are represented by line drawings, when the cursor hovers over one words appear which are then spoken by a friendly voice. Within each option there are numerous variations, for example there are thirteen pictures to colour in, and the player scrolls through these using arrows at the top of the screen where there's also a print icon.Piglet's game: Piglet opens up a balloon game. Pooh likes honey, honey is made by bees who often live high in the trees. To get to the honey Pooh holds on to two balloons and floats up to the honey but a breeze blows him away from the tree. Now he's stuck up there in the air so his friends get hold of some balloons and float up to help him, now they are all stuck. The friendly voice that explains all this suggests that the arrow might prick the balloon and help them get down and so, by putting the cursor over a balloon the player can burst it and they each fall to earth. After shouting what fun it was three more characters appear but this time they may have a shadowy letter, shape or number inside the balloon, as the balloons pop the friendly voice says what the item is. When all the balloons have been burst three more characters appear with different items inside their balloons, and so on ... Pooh's Game: This takes place in Pooh's cottage and it's about opposites, the player moves their mouse around the screen looking for hotspots that demonstrate opposites such as 'the door is open - the door is closed'; 'here's a big cup and a small cup'Tigger's Game: This is called 'What Do I Like?' and it's a kind of memory game for the very young. Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Roo all meet outside Tigger's house to play the game. It starts with each character in turn showing something they like to do so, for example Pooh may show a jar of honey, Piglet may show a balloon, Tigger may mime singing and Roo licks a lollipop. The friendly voice then asks a question such as 'Who likes honey?' and the player should move the cursor to Pooh who says 'You found me!' or something similar and sits down. This continues until all four have been identified at which point it starts again.Christopher Robin's Game: This is a music game with Pooh, Christopher, Piglet, Kanga and Roo all taking centre stage armed with an instrument, hover over each briefly and they will play a few notes, hover over each for a while and they will sing a song Kanga sings about shapes, Pooh sings a sharing song; Christopher Robin sings about cheering up Eeyore and so on. In addition to this there are many small animations, the bees in the beehive will buzz in the cursor stays with them, apples will fall from the tree, bells will ring, the train will whistle etc. |
| Disney•Pixar A Bug's Life | 1999 | Disney Interactive | Traveller's Tales (UK) Ltd. | Action | Behind view | Licensed | | Platform | Fantasy | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Based on the Disney/Pixar 3D animated film, you must guide Flik as he sets out to find a group of warrior insects to help his colony of ants to fight off the hungry grasshoppers.Travel through the 3D insect world, using the many elements of nature to fight the enemy, to get to the end of each stage, in turn saving fellow ants and knocking the grasshoppers quest for ant domination on the head. |
| Djuphavsjakten | 1999 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | Monsterland Produktion AB | Educational, Strategy | Diagonal-down, Side view | | | Managerial / business simulation | | Naval / watercraft | | Real-time | | | Windows | On a small island in the ocean live two brothers, the old captain Styrbjörn and the oceanographer Herman. One day they are out fishing when they get to see something very strange. Dead fishes suddenly start floating up to the surface and after a while a large area of the sea is covered with them. The brothers get curious and decide to find out what is behind the fish death. Therefore they initiate a research project and it's up to the player to help them out. Djuphavsjakten ("The Deep Sea Hunt") is an educational game dealing with a wide range of subjects such as biology, oceanography, ecology, geology, physics and technology. The gameplay can be compared to a simplified RTS, one with a complete focus on research, construction and resource management. At the start of the game the player only has access to the brothers' boats. Some research can be done on these but for more advanced projects more buildings (such a laboratory and a workshop) have to be constructed. Each new building introduces a new character to the story. When these characters have finished their research on a subject they give the player a report and it's here that the educational aspects of the game come into play. The research reports not only include text and images but many of them are also interactive and require the player to finish them by showing what he knows. The player doesn't have infinite funds and new buildings and research projects cost money. To gain money the player can do missions. Some of these missions involve mini-games (for example pulling a cable between two islands or photographing birds) while others involve doing specific research projects. |
| Double-Adventure | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Dragon's Lair
Space Ace
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| Dr Goo | 1999 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Dr Goo Dr Goo is the first in a series of three 2D platform game. The player controls a Dr Goo - green, intelligent slime sting on a mission to five medicine boxes in each level in order to save 'lil Jimmy's life. On the way he has to negotiate multiple hazards including rolling barrels and shark infested watersDr. Goo is controlled via the arrow keys and because he's gooey he can climb some walls, SHIFT makes him jump and CTRL/SHIFT activates a relocator. |
| Dr Goo 3: The Rubblebum War | 1999 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Dr Goo 3: The Rubblebum War Dr Goo is the final game in a series of freeware, 2D platform games. Once again the player controls a Dr Goo - green, intelligent slime, thing with the keyboard. This time he's not saving 'lil Jimmy's life - he's out to save the world. It seems that out in space live the Rubblebums who are a nasty lot who want to destroy the earth. Up to now we've been protected by blue stars but not any more 'coz the Rubblebums have found a way to knock them out of the sky. Dr Goo has to find the stars on all seven levels and put them back in order to protect us.Dr. Goo is controlled via the arrow keys and because he's gooey he can climb some walls and SHIFT makes him jump |
| Dr. Brain: Action Reaction | 1999 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Action, Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Dr. Brain: Action Reaction is a 3D puzzle game for children. The player takes on the role of Dr. Brain just as in the rest of the series. Dr. Brain has been captured by Sinister People Organized Really Efficiently (S.P.O.R.E.) and now he has to escape from their villainous underwater lair and save the world while he's at it.The game world is presented in 3D through a first person perspective. You can run around freely, jump, swim and even fly in some areas. Through 45 levels you'll have to do such things as fly through gravity-defying field simulators, fire cannons and redirect routing systems. Each level presents its own puzzles you must overcome to escape from the lair. |
| Dragon's Lair | 1999 | Digital Leisure Inc. | Advanced Microcomputer Systems | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Quick Time Events (QTEs), Timed input | Fantasy | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Originally released in the arcades as a LaserDisc game, Dragon's Lair is an interactive cartoon movie. Players control Dirk the Daring as he struggles his way through a dungeon to fight Singe, the Dragon, and rescue the beautiful Princess Daphne. The game consists of animated scenes, during which the player has to press direction buttons or the sword button at the right moment to trigger the next segment of the movie. |
| Dragonfire: The Well of Souls | 1999 | Heiter Publishing Ltd | ComputerHouse GBG AB | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Dragonfire: The Well of Souls is an action RPG based on the Swedish Drakar och Demoner (Dragons and Demons, not to be confused with Dungeons & Dragons) roleplaying game rules and set in its first and main campaign setting Ereb Eltor. It is visually similar to the Baldur's Gate series with its pre-rendered isometric graphics.You take the role of a fantasy hero on a mission to save the world from the evil powers of sorcerer Vicotnik, residing in his red citadel in the cursed island realm of Erebos. Dragonfire features multiplayer support for up to 4 people by Internet, modem or LAN. |
| DreamLand: Final Solution | 1999 | Top Galaxy | Top Galaxy | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | In 2020, the most successful entertainment venue is the virtual reality (VR). Because of laws, the only place where people can immerse themselves in true VR is orbital station DreamLand. It is extremely popular and extremely expensive - and maybe not completely safe, since there are rumors about customers who return back to Earth with destroyed minds. Jim Dix, journalist who writes for important newspapers, is sent by his boss (who pays the expenses) to dig some dirt on the station. An adventure in different virtual realities, speaking simians and gangsters awaits him.DreamLand is a third-person point and click adventure similar to first two Broken Sword games. The VR sequences (actually stories within stories, which include meeting the Frankenstein monster, visiting pirate-infested Macao or 1930's Chicago, to name a few) are rendered rather than painted. The game has full voice-overs. |
| Drone | 1999 | Xtreme Games LLC | Pixelsplash Software | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Drone is a two-dimensional vertical scrolling shooter with pre-rendered 3D graphics. An evil alien race has penetrated Earth's security system, and has launched six deadly nuclear missiles - the game's titular "Drones" - targeting major populations worldwide. Previous attempts to stop the Drones have failed due to the numerous amount of alien ships escorting the nuclear missiles. The player assumes the role of a pilot whose objective is to navigate through six different worlds to carefully disarm all of these missiles, doing battle with as many swarms of alien ships as possible along the way.The player's ship is loaded with two flavours of weaponry: rapid-fire exploding-tip missiles, which suffice for destroying the various enemy ships; and the homing probe and stinger missiles. The red stinger missiles, which are useful for taking out bigger groups of ships, automatically lock on to the closest target in the player's vicinity. When launched, these missiles head for the locked target and detonate large explosions. On the other hand, the blue probe missiles are used for disarming the Drones at the end of each level. These missiles have built-in technology designed to decrypt the codes that guide the Drones. Once the decryption process is done, the probes gain control over the Drones' internal circuitry systems and do interaction akin to that of a "disarm" signal from the menacing alien mothership. The player's ship also has a shield which, once activated, will gain the player invulnerability to enemy fire. The shield has limited energy, though, and will not be reusable until a certain amount of time is taken for it to recharge.Disarming a Drone will award the player 500 points, and the game will present you with praise from an unnamed officer. Accidentally hitting the Drones with any weaponry other than the blue probes, however, will result in a nuclear detonation killing the entire population in the current area. This will also sentence the player to a penalty of 1000 points off of his/her score counter.The player's progress is marked using a heads-up display at the left of the screen which represents how many Drones you have disarmed or detonated via six icons. The Drone on the current level is outlined by a green box. Blue Drone icons signify disarmed Drones; red ones signify detonated Drones.Preceding the Drones on every level is a boss enemy that can only be successfully destroyed using the red stinger missiles. Each of these bosses has a different form of protection against their weak areas, however, and must be shot at with the standard exploding-tip missiles before the stinger can be launched into the weak area. The only exception to this is the boss on level 2, the Gemini, which must be taken down by launching multiple stingers at both its left and right sides (the amount of stingers to be launched depends on the difficulty level).If (and only if) all six of the Drones are successfully disarmed, the player has to face wits with the large alien mothership. The mothership has a rotating shield with doors that it can launch fireballs through. The player is vulnerable to these fireballs even when the shield is activated. When a red stinger missiles is launched into an open door, one of the mothership's engines explodes. This must be repeated two more times in order to completely destroy the mothership and win the game. |
| Drop Mania | 1999 | Suomen Kotijäätelö Oy | Detonium Interactive, Ltd. | Puzzle | | | | Falling block puzzle | | | | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Drop Mania is a falling block puzzle game. The main idea of the game is to drop down pieces and make group by colors, when player drops an explosion brick, it explodes all the same color blocks that are in a group. The more blocks you get by one explosion, the more points you get. You can also get combos or chains. If two different color groups explode at same time, you will get a combo bonus, you will get chain bonuses if explosions happen in a row. |
| Duck Hunter Pro | 1999 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Diversions Software, Inc | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | This is a simulation of the suspense-packed life of a duck hunter. Firstly he has to decide to which of the 16 hunting locations he wants to travel. Then he lies into the grass, lures the ducks with decoys and duck calls and when a unsuspecting animal crosses his sight he takes one of his three shotguns... But hold! Now he has to ask himself the question if this is one of the ducks he is allowed to hunt. The game features ten different ducks and depending on the time of year and the hunting location not every one of them is free to shoot. If the answer is positive he kills it using his standard FPS controls and his trusty dog fetches it. At the end of the day he counts his points and can go home satisfied. |
| Dylan Dog: Horror Luna Park | 1999 | RCS - Rizzoli New Media | Bedroom Studios, NewMediaAround | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | This is an Italian adventure game, based on the famous comic Dylan Dog by Tiziano Sclavi, who also took part in the project.This time, Dylan is trapped in a very dark and disturbing nightmare (under the form of a Luna Park). He doesn't remember how he is finished there, so he starts to investigate this event and the way to exit from the horrible place. During the game, we'll run into other famous characters from the comic, as Groucho, Bloch, Hamlin, Lord Wells, Lady Trelkovsky, Morgana and Marina. The game is a classic point&click adventure, with very simple interface. Dialogues are not interactive. |
| EG Chess | 1999 | | Earth Gaming | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | EG Chess is a simple shareware chess program from Canada.View is 3D and the game provides the opportunity to choose from 4 difficulty levels and disable music and/or sound effects.
Network play is possible, but no board-editing feature, no clock, to keep it simple. |
| ET's Turbo Pig Bash | 1999 | | | Action | | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | ET's Turbo Pig Bash is a single player, freeware, shooter.This is a simple mouse controlled game in which the cursor is a gun sight. On the screen spinning pigs and starts appear in random positions and for short periods of time. The player has to position the cursor over these and click. The aim is to shoot as many pigs as possible within the time limit, the default is one minute but every star that's shot adds five extra seconds. The game has optional music and sound effects. |
| EVE Burst Error | 1999 | Himeya Soft, Inc | C's Ware | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult, Detective / mystery | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Eve burst error is set in modern-day Japan. The player controls two characters: a young, seemingly careless private investigator Kojiroh, and the special agent Marina. Kojiroh has been struggling to make a living as a lone PI, but now luck seems to smile to him: the director of the Eldian International School, Mr. Ko, asks him to find a missing painting, supposedly of great value. At the same time, Marina is hired by the ambassador of the fictional Middle East republic Eldia to protect his daughter Mayako from terrorists. Switching between Kojiroh and Marina, the player gradually finds out the connection between the two cases and plunges deeper into a mystery that involves political struggle, scientific discoveries, and horrifying murders.The game is a traditional Japanese adventure: the player interacts with the world by choosing appropriate commands from the menu (which is different for every location). There are no puzzles to solve, and the player makes progress in the game by examining the environments and talking to the characters. At certain points, it is necessary to switch between the two characters and make them cooperate.The original version was a full-fledged hentai game with explicit sex scenes. Subsequent releases removed those, but still contained a lot of sexual innuendo in the dialogues and images of half-naked girls. |
| Edgar Torronteras' eXtreme Biker | 1999 | Sierra Entertainment, Inc. | Deibus Studios Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Motorcycle | | | | | Windows | This motocross game, endorsed by Spanish MX freestyle champion Edgar Torronteras, includes 4 game modes: racing on outdoor tracks in Motocross mode, on indoor tracks in Supercross mode, hunting for checkpoints in the wide Baja areas, or going for spectacular stunts in Freestyle mode. There are over 20 different tracks, including city courses.Players can choose from various customizable bikes, ranging in displacement from 125cc to 500cc. Several difficulty modes determine how hard it is to keep the bike under control, and a multiplayer mode allows races between up to 8 human riders. |
| Egypt 1156 B.C.: Tomb of the Pharaoh | 1999 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc., Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | Canal+Multimédia, Cryo Interactive Entertainment, Réunion des Musées Nationaux | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A number of games allow you to search the tombs of ancient Egypt, but few allow you to do so IN ancient Egypt. Taking place (appropriately enough) in 1156 B.C., you play Ramose, a young Egyptian man who hopes to prove himself a worthy investigator for the current rulers of Egypt. Your first assignment is not an easy one, as a Tomb of Sethi I, a pharaoh has been desecrated and looted and your own father has been accused of the crime. You have three days to prove his innocence and stay the sentence of execution.Gameplay takes place in a first person mode similar to fans of this kind of adventure game. Unlike some games that give you a static, unmoving image to look at, Egypt 1156 B.C. allows you to look around at any location in a smooth turn (similar to QuickTime VR, but with better results). This gives you a 'you are there' feel that many other games lack. All graphics are 3-D rendered and occassionally actions will give you a third person cutscene as a reward. Communication is through a simple branch tree and both talking and puzzle solving involves the manipulation of objects, both in and out of your inventory. In addition to being a mystery/adventure game, Egypt 1156 B.C. also comes with reference material about ancient Egypt, its people, and its culture. These are available whenever you discover something interesting in the middle of the game or can be accessed via the main menu. |
| Elite Darts | 1999 | Patch Products | Perpetual Motion Enterprises, Inc. | Action, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Board game | | | | | | Brenda I. Tracy | Windows | A darts game pure and simple. You view the board from a 1st person perspective and through a mouse motion-based system (similar to the mouse swings in golf games) you throw your darts. You can play in a variety of locations ranging from pubs, basements, pool hall, etc. complete with ambience noises, or try a 16-player knockout tournament.
Also included are numerous options to tweak the games to your heart's content, such as setting score caps, doubling, and different types of dart games such as Cricket, Baseball darts, etc.Supports multiplayer gameplay for up to 4 players via modem, serial connection, TCP/IP or through MSN Gaming Zone with a patch. |
| Enid Blyton The Famous 5: Treasure Island | 1999 | Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | Westka Kommunikation GmbH | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Enid Blyton The Famous 5: Treasure Island is the first episode in Ravensburger's The Famous 5 series after the books of Enid Blyton for ages seven and up.Julian, Dick, Anne, George and the dog Timmy are staying at Kirrin Cottage and are on a treasure hunt. You have to foil the plans of a devious professor that has suspicious interest in the old shipwreck off Kirrin Island. |
| Escape | 1999 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Escape is a single player, shareware, 3D first person shooter.The plot sees the player escape from jail to stop Shao Kang, a baddie who is using alien warriors in his attempt to take control of Earth. The ultimate goal is, of course, to kill him. The game is keyboard controlled and has five levels with multiple weapons and power ups to collect. |
| Euro League Football | 1999 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Simulation, Sports | | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | A football manager simulation game, Euro League's gameplay is a stat-crunching affair were you deal with every aspect of your team's campaign, be it on the Premier League, Third Division, or the UEFA cup. And speaking of your team, you can choose from practically every club in Europe, each with accurately modelled stats (1999-2000) and with every local tournament available (ie. the Spanish Super Cup).Matches can be seen just as results, a ball-by-ball overview (without comments) or as a playable game were you control the action FIFA-style with simple pass/shoot/longball arcade controlls.Multiplayer tournaments of up to 8 players also available as well as several difficulty settings to take some of the stat-related burden off newbies. |
| Excessive Speed | 1999 | TopWare Interactive | Chaos Works, Ganymede Technologies S.C., Iridon Interactive AB | Racing / Driving | Diagonal-down | | | | | Automobile | Direct control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Excessive Speed is a top-down view 2d racing game. You can race with one of the 7 different cute little bitmap-cars over 14 small tracks. On the tracks are several goodies and weapons which you can test on your opponent, so you'll finish first. In fact, this game contains a very high amount of powerups: 17!The game allows multiplayer up to 4 players on one computer, and doesn't support network or internetplay. |
| Exploding Lips | 1999 | Galaxy Games | Galaxy Games | Action | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Exploding Lips is a 3D shooter similar to Doom. A terrifying race of aliens who look like giant floating lips invade the Earth. Their most deadly attack is the dreaded Kiss of Death. Using a standard arsenal of firearms, the lone protector of the planet must fight his way through his home town and other locations, eradicating the aliens in the process. |
| Extreme Bullrider | 1999 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Radish Works | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In this simulation, you get to participate in the exciting sport of bull riding, and you also get the chance to be one of the clowns who runs around collecting objects while being chased by a bull. |
| Extreme Mountain Biking | 1999 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Creative Carnage | Racing / Driving, Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Off-roading | | | | | Windows | Competitive mountain bike game that lets you race with a variety of different bikers on a variety of different bikes and tracks in a number of different competitions. |
| Extreme Rodeo | 1999 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Radish Works | Action, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In Extreme Rodeo the player participates in a rodeo event. There are six disciplines. The first three - bull riding, saddle bronc, bareback - consist of riding on wild horses or bulls. Here the player uses the mouse to regulate his mass centre to avoid falling of. With a mouse click he can provoke the animal to make it more wild and gain more points. In the calf roping event he has to chase a calf, swing his lasso and wrestle the calf to the ground. The barrel chasing includes exactly what the title suggests. But the last event, the bull poker, includes a catch: Here the player is the bull and chases three clowns which sit in the area playing cards. The game features 20 riders and 12 locations to choose from and event commentaries by former rodeo world champions Don Gay. |
| Extreme Tennis | 1999 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Grab your tennis racket and get ready to play in this game from HeadGames. You start with a stop at the pro to equip yourself with racquets and shoes, after which you're ready to hop on the court and play. Challenge computer controlled opponents on the court and see if you can come out on top. |
| Extreme Trial Motocross | 1999 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Dawn Interactive, The | Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | | | Motorcycle, Off-roading | Direct control | | | | Windows | Extreme Trial Motocross is a motorcycle racing game where players compete in 125, 250 and 500 CC motocross championships on twelve circuits. The game features various race modes: championship, quick race, and single race. All can be played in single-player or online with up to eight players. When competing in the championship, you can activate a budget mode where races and sponsors give you cash for repairs and upgrades. |
| Extreme Watersports | 1999 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Hammer Technologies | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A watersports simulator developed by Head Games. Choose either water skiing or wakeboarding and do tricks to rack up points. |
| Extreme Wintersports | 1999 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Hammer Technologies | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Snowmobile | | | Everyone | | Windows | Catch big air, race against the clock, & go for the high score all from the comfort of your PC. Select your sled, skies, and attire from the Pro Shop, then hit the slopes. |
| Farland Odyssey | 1999 | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | An unknown boy named Dyan has stolen a sacred book that was kept in secret for a long time. With the help of this book, it is possible to revive an ancient god, which will bring destruction to the world. You control a group of mercenaries whose task is to find Dyan, bring an end to his plans, and find out his true motives.This is a side-story to Farland games, featuring a similar kind of animé graphics and strategic RPG gameplay. The battles take place on top-down screens. The battles are turn-based, but instead of issuing commands to your entire party and then waiting for an enemy turn, the enemy can take action immediately after one of your characters moves. |
| Fengse Huanxiang | 1999 | FunYours Technology Co. Ltd. | FunYours Technology Co. Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Once the Earth was inhabited by gods. But as the human race came into the world, the gods decided to leave the Earth, and only three goddesses were left in charge. Under their guidance, the humans developed their science and technology. But the greedy humans did not accept the superiority of the goddesses, and rebelled against them. Since then, the humans find themselves in a continuous war with gods, demons, dragons, and other races.Over a thousand years later, a young girl named Lufia becomes a treasure hunter. She and her friend Anjieni accept missions all over the world, hoping to earn money and to find the ultimate magic spell. Once they received an assignment to fight against a group of pirates. This was just the beginning of a grand adventure during which Lufia will meet people who were directly involved in the great cosmic struggle many years ago..."Fengse Huanxiang", also known under the English title "Wind Fantasy", is the first in the row of Chinese (Taiwanese) popular RPGs set in a fantasy world. The game's art is influenced by Japanese animé style. Unlike its sequel, the first game is a strategy RPG. The game consist of long strategic battles, during which you move your characters over the battle screen, attacking with various weapons and casting magic spells. Your party members gain experience directly from attacks, receive power-up items from enemies, and also can act during the enemy turn, defending or retaliating. |
| Field & Stream: Trophy Buck | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Engineering Animation Inc. | Sports | 1st-person | Licensed | | Hunting | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Field & Stream: Trophy Buck is a 3-D hunting game that has the player take the role of a hunter, hunting in eight prime locations such as the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest and Texas just to name a few in the quest to bag the biggest buck imaginable.The player can use authentic equipment such as buck calls, doe scents, rattling antlers as well as binoculars and gun stands to steady their shot. There are also many grades of rifles to choose from, including the smallest like a .22 caliber to the more powerful 30.06. There are two main deer species to hunt, Whitetail and Mule, points are rewarded using the real life standards of the Boone & Crockett scale, with the ability to save their largest bucks in a "Trophy Room" in the game's main menu.Deer's react true to their real-life counterparts, as players will have to stay down wind to their quarry, sneaking up to get the best shot or staying in place and call in their prey. Players can also track wounded deer, following blood trails as well as looking for deer tracks and scrapings on trees. There is a bag limit to each location, each varying depending on the location, the player must take a buck each time. Also, if a player wounds a deer, they must find that deer before they can take another trophy or be penalized, as well as shooting does will result in a penalty as well.There are three main modes to the game, a "Tournament" consisting of all locations, bagging the biggest deer and at the end of the tournament be judged on the combined total of their trophies. There is also an "Exhibition" mode where players can choose their locations as well as the starting location and weather patterns and the ability to turn on a "Deer Radar" for novice players. There is also multiplayer hunting online using LAN. |
| Fighting Force | 1999 | TLC Multimedia, Inc. | Core Design Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Beat 'em up / brawler | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Fighting Force is a 3D fighting "beat-em-up" in which the player can choose to control one of the four available characters. Each of the characters has his or her own advantages and weaknesses (e.g. superior strength but slow movement), and each possesses a powerful special move that depletes their health. Besides fists, they can use objects such as chairs, trash cans, and car tires, and weapons such as knives to fight the minions of the evil criminal mastermind Dr. Zeng who aspires to control the city. |
| Final Demand: The Challenge | 1999 | United Software Entertainment AG | United Software Entertainment AG | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Final Demand - The Challenge is set in the United States of the future where anarchy reigns. There are two factions: The UniCops and the Outlaws with opposed goals - peace or sustained chaos. The game itself is played like many other real-time strategy games of its time: Collecting resource and using them to construct buildings. The buildings are used to protect the base and to recruit more troops. Ultimately the goal is to overrun the enemy and annihilate him. One new feature is the use of multiple cameras similar to Commandos: The player can open multiple windows which show different parts of the map to coordinate attacks from different directions. |
| Fisher-Price Outdoor Adventures: Ranger Trail | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | As Ranger Trail opens, the player has just arrived at Camp Wonderoo, where he will collect items from a list provided by Ranger Rudy, take pictures of animals, search for the elusive and mysterious Wonderoo and work toward earning his Junior Ranger Patch. The focus is on nature in this point and click cartoon-style adventure - clicking on spots in each scene yields information about animals, artifacts and plants, and an occasional piece of advice such as: "never eat anything you find in the woods". In the initial scene around a campfire Ranger Rudy hands over a virtual camera that the player will use to take three pictures of Wonderoo spottings and other pictures of things he has sighted, all to be shown at the end as a slideshow. Clicking on the other campers allows the player to listen to camp songs and follow along with the "bouncing ball" lyrics. Clicking on the camp lantern lets the player listen to animal and insect night sounds, as well as Ranger Rudy snoring.There are a few other activities as well, each one earns a printable certificate:
Supplies - the player must sort through all the objects from the bus, piling the items that are useful for camping in Ranger Rudy's arms and returning the others to the bus
Astronomy - the player must connect the dots of a constellation
Sailing - maneuvering a log boat up a stream in a race
Cave Painting - an art page, where the player can use feathers and flowers as brushes
Nature - a match game featuring outdoor images
After earning their Junior Ranger Patch, players can go back to the activities from a map screen or view a slideshow of the pictures they have taken. |
| Flanker 2.0 | 1999 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Flying Legends | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | Flanker 2.0 is the second major release of SSI's realistic air combat simulator based on the Russian Su-27 & Su-33 Flanker. Like its predecessor, the game features a comprehensive simulation of the jets' avionics and weapons systems, with a focus on beyond-visual-range air-to-air combat. Mastery of the Flanker's various radar and weapon systems is essential to the player's survival, a task made all the more difficult by the fact that the instrumentation is entirely labeled in Russian.Improvements for this second release include 3D accelerated texture-mapped graphics and the addition of the Su-33 naval variant of the Flanker. The main difference would be that the Su-27 is a pure air superiority fighter while the Su-33 retains a ground attack role. Beyond that, however, there is little difference between the two planes.The game underwent several updates, culminating in version 2.51. Incremental improvements included flight model and weapons model revisions, graphic and stability enhancements, the addition of wingman commands, and the ability to fly the MiG-29 jet fighter. |
| Flowerbed | 1999 | | Undis Software, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | FlowerBed is a single player, shareware, solitaire game.In FlowerBed the object is to build up the four foundations in ascending order from Ace to King.
A card is available to be moved if it is in the hand, the top card of any the columns, or the top card of any the foundations.The game is played entirely with the mouse.
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| Fly! | 1999 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | Terminal Reality, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Helicopter | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Fly! is a flight simulator released for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, and simulates civilian airplanes and helicopters. New plane models and custom scenery can be added. Multiplayer is supported through the internet, with text chat or voice chat. Five main scenery areas are supplied: Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Dallas/Fort Worth. Flight briefing and flight planning are included and can use many of the supplied navaids. The following planes are included: Cessna 172, Piper Malibu, Piper Navajo Chieftain, Beech King Air B200, Hawker 800XP. Aircraft systems are accurately simulated, and require proper sequence of actions to, for instance start the engine. The 288 page manual covers all aspects of flying such as aerodynamic forces, navigation, weather and aircraft control. |
| Forestia Junior | 1999 | LaserMedia | Daddy Oak | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | For children between 4 and 7, comes Forestia Junior while the original Forestia was for 9 years old kids. The CD-ROM offers 16 activities and is divided into four parts:the anthill: find your way through the labyrinth
the forest floor: discover animals, such as the beaver
the treetops: play a "memory game" with butterflies
the clearing: there, live the insectsCollect up to 50 data cards about the plants and creatures of the forest, which you can print. The graphics of the game are rendered in 3D and in the game's box, you'll also find an activity booklet. |
| Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three | 1999 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This collection includes
Blood & Magic
Dungeon Hack
MenzoberranzanIt also contains a demo of Baldur's Gate.
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| Formula One 99 | 1999 | Psygnosis Limited | Studio 33 (UK) Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | An UK developed racing game based on 1999's Formula One Season. Every team and pilot is registered, as well as all 16 courses including the new (at the time) Sepang track at Malaysia.Gameplay tends to go towards arcade action rather than simulations, as there are not many customization options and maneuvers such as drafting are useless thanks to the physics engine.
Supports quick race and season gameplay in both simulation and arcade modes, as well as multiplayer support for up to 8 players.Graphics are entirely 3d with weather effects included and the game features commentary by BBC commentator Murray Walker.
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| Freddi Fish 4: The Case of the Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Set in an underwater version of the Wild West, The Case of The Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch is the fourth installment in the Humongous Entertainment Games Freddi Fish adventure series. It is geared toward children ages 3-8. Like its predecessors FF4 is a colorful animated adventure that ties together a number of mini-games. Cousin Calico's prize-winning Hogfish have been rustled, and the player must help Freddi solve the mystery. There are many environments to point-and-click through as the plot advances. The player searches for clues, collects items and interacts with colorful game characters. The game and story are both dynamic, so every time the game is played the player will have a different experience.There are three mini-games also featured in FF4. These are: Stella's Sodaloon. A Nickelodeon machine where kids can view some old-fashioned movie clips. The Interactive Wanted Poster. Filled with outlaws with wacky names like Crazy Fin Sally, and Crooked Hat Pebblefield. Kids get to mix and match the different descriptive words that distinguish the outlaws' outstanding characteristic and their crime. The Oysteroid Arcade. Shoot pearls out of a clam in order to burst air bubbles before they get too close. Modeled after the arcade classic Asteroids, the larger bubbles split and make 2 smaller ones.The educational focus of this edutainment title is on the development of strategic thinking skills, problem solving, decision making strategies, deductive and inductive reasoning, sequencing and memory skills, hypothesis, testing and evaluation. |
| FreeCell Pro | 1999 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A version of the standard solitaire game FreeCell, with far more features than the one included with Windows.The basic gameplay involves trying to move all 52 cards to the foundations at the top of the screen. In the main play area, they can be stacked down by alternate colour (red 7 on black 8, for example). The unusual thing is the Free Cells at the top of the screen, which can be used as temporary storage locations for the cards. Only one card at a time can be moved, either to another Tableau pile or a cell, but you can use the cells to move multiple cards in what appears to be one move. For example, you can put a black 6 in a cell, move a red 7 onto the black 8, then put the black 6 onto the red 7's new position. If there are empty columns, you can use these to move even more cards, a procedure known as a Supermove.This version allows you to change the number of cells to anything from 0 to 7 (even with 2 cells rather than the Microsoft version's 4, around 80% of games can be won). There are over 8 billion numbered games, and at any point in any game, you can find out instantly whether the game is winnable. Moves are fully catalogued and saved as you play, and you can undo or redo to the start or last move. |
| Full Strength Strongman Competition | 1999 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Cat Daddy Games, LLC | Action, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | Philip Howe | | | | Windows | In Full Strength Competition the player can participate in a strongman competition, basically weightlifting with uncommon challenges. The player can choose between six real-life athletes (Magnus Ver Magnusson, Flemming Rasmussen, Riku Kiri, Wayne Price, Heinz Ollesch and Manfred Hoeberl) and during the competition all eight disciplines are played one after another. Whoever gathered the most points at the end of the day can call himself Strongman Champion. The events are:Truck Pull (pulling a truck) and Farmers Walk (walking with a dumbbell in each hand): Pressing the left and right arrow keys as fast as possible.
Keg Toss and Tire Toss (discus throwing with kegs respectively tires): Pressing the left and right arrow keys as fast as possible and then the space bar to throw.
Atlas Carry (hauling boulders): Pressing the left and right arrow keys in the right rhythm to keep the balance.
Showgirl Lift (lifting girls who are sitting on a platform) and Car Roll (flipping cars over): Pressing the space bar to stop a symbol at the middle of a horizontal bar.
Super Yoke (passing though an obstacle course while carrying two engine blocks: The player controls his athlete directly with the arrow keys and guides him through the course. |
| GT Collect Nr. 1: Die große Rennspielsammlung | 1999 | GT Interactive Value (Europe), Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | GT Game-Pack is a compilation that includes the following six racing games:
Carmageddon: Fahr zur Hölle!
Destruction Derby 2
Formula 1 97
Grand Theft Auto
Rollcage
Wipeout 2097 |
| Galaxy Video Poker | 1999 | | WickedWare, LLC | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Galaxy Video Poker is a single-player, mouse controlled simulation of the popular casino machine. It appears in many of eGames compilations including
Casino Jackpot 2 which is where this game comes from. It is one of a series of similar games developed for eGames by WickedWare. As in a standard poker game the aim of the game is to make the best 5-card hand. Unlike other forms of poker the player does not win by beating other players but by compiling a hand that exceeds the game's minimum hand, here the player needs a pair of jacks or better to score.The game starts with the player selecting how much cash they want to start with, they then place a bet $1 is the minimum and $5 is the maximum allowed. They are then dealt five cards and they can hold/discard any of these. A redeal is then made to replace the discarded cards and the hand is evaluated. If the hand scores higher then a pair of jacks then the player is paid, should this happen an animated rocket appears together with the word WINNER in a small window on the game screen, if the player loses then animated asteroids appear in the same windowThis game has optional sound, in-game help but no high score table and a players winnings are not retained for the next game nor are they transferred to other games in the series. |
| Game Chest | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | WinGames.Inc | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Game Chest is a compilation of games from WinGames Inc. It contains:
Backgammon
Rummy
Yatze
Queens Audience - a solitaire game
Fortune's Favor - also a solitaire gameGame Chest version 3.0 was included in Greenstreet's Board Games compilation.
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| Game Gallery | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Media AG | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | As a result of the success of the already established Gold Games-series and their "rival" Play the Games, Swing launched their own Compilation series, and this Compilation here is the first Volume.Game Gallery contains 15 games, spread over 16 CD's. It has a printed manual, but it's only like a reference card for each game. The complete manuals are on CD in PDF format.The following games are included:
Anstoß 2
Castrol Honda Superbike World Champions
Constructor
Deadlock II: Shrine Wars
F/A-18 Hornet 3.0
Forsaken
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Jack Nicklaus 5
Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix Championship 1998
Judge Dredd Pinball
Rent-a-Hero
Test Drive 4
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Uprising: Join or Die
Vermeer: Die Kunst zu erben |
| Games Games And More Games: Volume 1 | 1999 | Focus Multimedia Ltd. | Red Dragon Shareware | Action, Adventure, Compilation, Educational, Sports, Strategy | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Games Games And More Games: Volume 1 is a compilation of shareware games. The compilation comes on a single CD-Rom and has a menu structure that groups the games by category. Selecting a game brings up a brief description which the player can read prior to installing or running 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 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. This compilation was re-issued as one of the CDs in the game compilation 1250+ Games. |
| Garage | 1999 | Toshiba-EMI Ltd. | Kinotrope | Adventure | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | GARAGE: Bad Dream Adventure is a point-and-click adventure game set in a surreal and nightmarish world inhabited by biomechanical machines. The player controls a small alien-like robot, who rides along rails in a pod. It is possible to interact and communicate with other robots who are often partially disassembled. They provide conversations and hints for the various puzzles. Ultimately, the main goals are to find an entity called the player character's "shadow", and to escape the bizarre world in which the game takes place.There is a resource element to the game, as movement and other actions consume fuel and another quality called adaptability. When the adaptability level becomes too low, the player character may experience negative effects such as being unable to speak with NPCs. An item shop is shown when interacting with the other robots. All of the graphics in the game are pre-rendered and digitized. |
| Gems 3D | 1999 | | | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Gems 3D is an single player, shareware, strategy game. The game is played on a 9x9 grid. When the game starts there are three randomly placed balls on the grid of various colours. The player's objective is to score points by connecting lines of balls of the same colour, when a chain of five or more balls is completed that chain disappears and leaves vacant cells behind. Balls are moved by clicking on them and then on the destination cell, however with each move made three more random balls appear on the grid. The game continues until there are no more cells to be filled.
The game is mouse controlled, has optional music and a high score table.There are configuration options to change the perspective, vary the 'roundness' of the balls to suit the machine's capabilities and play in windowed or full screen mode. |
| Genocide: Remixed Version | 1999 | KaosKontrol, Inc. | KaosKontrol, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Genocide: Remixed Version is an updated version and a re-release of the 1998 game Genocide. It features enhanced graphics, additional content and a level editor.The game is played using the keyboard to navigate, change weapon etc., and the mouse to aim and fire.
The keyboard controls can be customised, graphic details can be altered, gore can be toggled on/off and the player can choose from three difficulty levels. There is also an in-game console option which allows the player to set/display the frame rate, specify a CD track to play, change the difficulty setting and to cheat by giving themselves extra ammo and weapons, there's also a god mode. |
| Geo Shooters | 1999 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Geo Shooters is a "bullet hell"-genre shooter game, created in the Japanese "Hot Soup Processor" programming language. The player flies a spaceship and must destroy all enemies on each stage, with a boss fight every four stages. Destroyed enemies drop colorful dots which give bonus score when picked up. Additional score can be also gained by grazing (just barely touching) the enemy bullets. Getting hit by bullets depletes the player's health, causing a game over when it runs out. Health regenerates slowly as long as the player is not shooting. Occasionally, a powerup may appear which makes the player's weapon more powerful until the end of the stage. Apart from the base game, there are other game modes: a "lower rank" mode which makes the game easier, a "limited shields" mode in which health doesn't regenerate, and a combination of the two. Additionally, each aforementioned mode comes in a harder variant (denoted with the symbol "変") in which the enemy fire is much denser. Each of these eight game modes has its own separate high score table. |
| Giana Family | 1999 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | Fangame | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Giana Family is 2D multiplayer platform game based on The Great Giana Sisters. Players control Giana and her family and fight against each other in deathmatch levels. Players can collect money and power-ups from bricks. The game has no real single-player mode, but it contains a training mode where the different levels can be explored. It includes an editor to design new levels. |
| Giant Killers | 1999 | On-Line PLC | Smoking Gun Productions | Simulation, Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Giant Killers is a text-based football management game, and as such the focus of the game is on the statistics and not on the action.Based on the 1999 UK season, the game allows the player to take control of any team in the UK's Premier league, Divisions One, Two or Three, or the Conference league. The game has three levels of difficulty. In the easy level the player's club has a wealthy benefactor who makes £25m available, in the medium setting £25m is still available, but two other clubs in the league also receive the same cash injection. In the hard mode there is no extra cash available. Having started the game and selected a team, the player is presented with the game's main menu. The options here allow the player to access a quick overview of the club's status, fixtures, results and league tables. The main menu also allows the manager to access the transfer market, where players can be bought and sold, and the manager's diary, where messages, such as the success or failure of a transfer bid, are received. It is through the manager's diary that game-time is advanced through to the day of the next match. On match day the player selects their team from the available squad, and decides the formation to be used and tactics - long ball, direct or passing - for the upcoming match. The game offers many standard formations as well as offering the player the chance to create their own. Having decided how the game is to be played, the player starts the match. As this is a management game, there is no game play video to watch; instead the player receives match highlights as though on a teleprompter. At any time during the game the player can pause the match and change the team's tactics and / or make a substitution.At the end of the match the player can view a range of stats on individual performance e.t.c.The game is entirely mouse controlled, though a keyboard is required when entering names for save games. |
| Gin Rummy Pro 2 | 1999 | Recreasoft | Recreasoft | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Gin Rummy Pro 2 is a single player card game in which the player plays against the computer.Gin Rummy is a popular card came in which the player's are dealt ten cards each.
Put simply the object of the game is to make sets of cards of the same rank or runs of cards in the same suit. Players alternately take a new card from either the deck or the discard pile into their hand. If it does not fit it is discarded, if it improves the hand it is retained and another card is discarded. The player who is able to dispose of all of their cards wins the hand and scores points, the first to score a predetermined number of points wins the game.This game features three varieties of rummy, Gin Rummy, Oklahoma Gin Rummy, and Maximum Knock Gin Rummy all of which are the same basic game with variations on how a hand is won and in scoring.
In addition each variant has four levels of difficulty and can be played to any of nine different point totals. The game keeps a record of the highest score for each game / difficulty level / point count combination. It is played entirely with the mouse.The game plays in either English or French.
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| GirLand: Through the Eyes of the Girls | 1999 | SoulSim Ltd. | | Simulation | Side view | | | Dating simulation | Contemporary | | Menu structures, Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | GirLand: Through the Eyes of the Girls is a dating simulator for girls. The game contains multiple activities:
Chat Challenge: use your conversation skills to achieve a specific objective, such as getting a guy to agree to take you somewhere.
Know Yourself: speak to a guy on a date and then your Aunt Becky will let you know what your conversation reveals about your personality and whether the guy was a good fit for you.
Date Training: a full-length practice date where you choose the guy, what to wear, where to go, etc., and then just practice your conversation skills.All activities use a similar interface, where you type in your actual conversation, and then the program attempts to parse it and understand your intent. You also can select one of a wide variety of moods/expressions to go along with the text, and this aids in determining how the guy reacts to what you say and how he responds. |
| Gizmos Mega-Pak (included games) | 1999 | Play Incorporated | Play Incorporated | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Gizmos Mega-Pak includes a picture puzzle (in which players need to solve a basic artwork jigsaw to reveal a surprise photo) and a solitaire game with enhanced graphics and different variations. There is even an original multi-player Solitaire game called Nerts which can be used to play over the internet or similar network connection. Also included in the package are some enhanced utilities such as calculators, clocks, a picture viewer, calendars, desktop themes, two file security programs such as the vault and shredder, screen savers, a launch pad, and the Performer multimedia slideshow program. |
| Global Defender | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | Reactor Software | Action | | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | 'Global Defender' is a fast-paced arcade game resembling the classical 'Paratrooper'. The player controls a turret placed inside some city in the bottom of the screen, while the enemy shoots rockets from above targeting the turret and the buildings that surround it. The turret cannot move but can freely rotate - and has to shoot the rockets before they reach their goals: the game ends when either the turret is hit or no more city buildings survive.'Global Defender' features 36 one-screen levels, music on CD Audio tracks, and 3D graphics requiring a 3D accelerator with OpenGL driver. There is a kind of multiplayer mode as well, where up to eight players can compete with each other by shooting rockets against time. |
| Glowing Bugs | 1999 | | Nashi Igry LLC | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Glowing Bugs is a single-player, colour matching game. Bugs are appear on the leaves of a plant. The player must move them such that four bugs of the same colour are on the same leaf, then they can transform into lovely butterflies. Bugs of the same type form a horizontal or vertical string, diagonals do not count. If is cleared of bugs the tree will grow a new leaf, however if leaf fills with bugs it will get eaten and this is what will eventually happen because the game ends when there is only one leaf left on the tree. The object is to play as long as possible and get a high score. The game is played entirely with the mouse. |
| Go Professional II | 1999 | Oxford Softworks | Oxford Softworks | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Go is an ancient board game, traditionally played on a 16x16 board, although this implementation allows for play on smaller boards, which makes for faster games. Two players take it in turn to place coloured tiles on a board, with the aim being to form a sequence of 5 of your colour in an unbroken line. A computer opponent is provided, and a record of moves similar to those used in chess games is provided. |
| Gold Games 4 | 1999 | TopWare Interactive | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Gold Games 4 consists of 21 games spread over 24 CDs. The manuals for the games are all PDFs, except for V2000, which has a printed manual.The following games are included:
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
Caesar II
Descent: Freespace - The Great War
Diablo
Die By The Sword
Fallout
Fallout 2
Knights & Merchants
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!
M.A.X. 2
Might and Magic 6: The Mandate of Heaven
Pandemonium 2
Police Quest: SWAT 2
Pro Pilot (European sceneries only)
Rayman
Redline Racer
Robo Rumble
S.C.A.R.S. (Super Computer Animal Racing Simulation)
Ultimate Soccer Manager 98
Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy
V2000 |
| Goofy Golf Deluxe | 1999 | Squeegee Software | Squeegee Software | Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Goofy Golf Deluxe is a top-down crazy golf game for up to four players featuring claymation style graphics. The full version contains fifty four holes, the first nine of which were released as shareware. The game is played via the mouse or the keyboard.Each player plays in turn. The on-screen character has a yellow arrow extending from them indicating the direction in which the ball will travel once it has been 'struck'. The player lines up their shot and then determines the strength of the shot either by holding down an action key or a mouse button. Once released the character will strike the ball. As this is a crazy golf game there are many obstacles, hazards and animals to circumvent. The full game includes a course editor and when the game was originally released players could submit the courses they designed to the company's web site for other players to download. |
| Grand Prix World | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Edward Grabowski Communications Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | Automobile, Track racing | | | | | Windows | Grand Prix World is the third game in the Microprose F1 management series. In GPW the player can take control of one of eleven available Formula One teams and attempt to win the Formula One Constructor's World Championship. The game starts in the 1998 season and the player has a 10 year career as team boss.In that time the player is faced with a whole host of tasks. Hire and fire the best personnel in the business, from commercial managers to chief mechanics. Mediate angry drivers. Arrange sponsorship deals that can gain (and lose) your team millions. Use hospitality functions to attract technical suppliers. Design the revolutionary car that will win the championship, following a real-world process from plans to computational fluid dynamics to final design and wind-tunnel testing. Set-up your team's cars for sixteen racetracks from around the world that each have their own characteristics.Once at the circuit the player can either watch all the action on four photo-realistic TV monitors, or view race information and statistics. Give driver orders, risk overtaking maneuvers, and plan pit strategy.All in a day's work in Grand Prix World. |
| Grand Theft Auto: Director's Cut | 1999 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Includes full version of Grand Theft Auto as well as its London 1969 mission pack. |
| Gubble 2 | 1999 | Actual Entertainment, Inc. | Actual Entertainment, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Another alien enemy race has taken over Gubble D. Gleep's planet, and he has to be the hero again! In this sequel to Gubble, you have to break apart different mazes, with different tools. There are many new powerups, and Gubble is on his feet so you have to collect fuel to fly. |
| Guess Who? | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Artech Studios Ltd. | Action, Adventure, Puzzle | Side view | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Board game, Mini-games | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | Guess Who? is a single person puzzle game for children that is based on the popular board game of the same name.The game is mouse controlled and is presented as an interactive cartoon, it has three modes of play.
The first mode is a version of the board game in which the player plays against the computer on one of three difficulty settings. Each player has a set of characters. Some are men, some are women. Some have hats, some do not. Some have large noses, some do not. By asking a series of yes / no questions such as 'Does your person have a large nose?' the player can eliminate the characters who do not match the target and the first to deduce the correct character wins. A player making an incorrect guess forfeits the game.
This version of the game game be played as a single match or as a championship which is the first player achieve five wins.
The second mode is the adventure mode. The player investigates a crime on behalf of the 'Guess Who?' detectives. Whenever there's a problem in the town of Look-About-Landing this is the team everyone goes to see. They have their own high-tech tree house with a secret entrance, and a super smart jet pack enabled dog.
There are three adventures of the 'point and click' style. In each the player examines clues, solves puzzles, collects parts for a gadget and help people. As a reward the plate gets to ask key characters a question that helps to identify a suspect, this part of the game is played in the same way as the player vs computer game and uses the same character set.
Each scene contains multiple hot spots, some are related to the game but many trigger humorous animations such as bugs crawling from underneath a rock or a rocket being launched across the screen.
There are two difficulty levels to the adventure games. The Normal game in which there is a single suspect, and the Challenge game where there are two suspects.
The third type of game are the arcade mini games. There are nine of these games and the player is initially locked out of these games. There are three such games in each adventure and when the adventure is successfully completed those three mini games are unlocked and are available to be played at any time. |
| Gulf War: Operation Desert Hammer | 1999 | 3DO Company, The | 3DO Company, The | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Tank | | | | | Windows | In this action game the player controls a M12 tank, called "The Hammer", to bring piece to Iraq where "The Beast" rules as a dictator. Every of the 18 missions is accompanied with a cutscene where his newest atrocities are shown.The M12 has a heavy gun and a rocket launcher which each have two ammo types against regular and armored enemies. The chain gun has unlimited ammo but small power. In some missions there is also a possibility to request artillery and air attacks. The game is action oriented and so the handling is a simple combination between mouse and keyboard controls: mouse look is used to aim the turrets and with the keyboard the tank is moved.The missions are linear and mostly the goal is to drive from point A to point B. Of course there are a lot of enemy forces which try to prevent this, e.g. tanks, bunkers or rocket launchers, and other obstacles like mine fields. In later missions there are also hostile helicopters. Some buildings contain ammo or repair stations, a mini map shows the surroundings and goals. |
| Guren | 1999 | Zone | Zone | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | The events of the game take place in ancient Japan. Mysterious creatures known as "ghosts" appear in the villages, rampaging and killing innocent people. The general in charge of a military action against those creatures builds a special units called "Guren", which means "crimson lotus". The protagonist of the game, Li Liehuo, is a member of Guren whose task is to find other members (all female) in different villages and to discover the truth behind ghosts' attacks. But the first girl he encounters, the lovely and brave Tsukikage, is abducted by a horrifying demon...Guren is an anime-style role-playing game with erotic elements. The player visits villages and their surroundings, fighting randomly appearing monsters in turn-based combat viewed from first-person perspective. Most of the monsters are female, and they disrobe when defeated. Characters don't gain experience from killing monsters, but from training. Training costs money, which is dropped by enemies or can be gained by doing part-time jobs. Unlike in most Japanese RPGs, the player can choose which attribute (strength, maximum HP, etc.) to raise when training.The game also contains dating gameplay elements. In the villages, it is possible to interact with the female party members and influence the hero's relationship with them. The player can decide to give presents to any of them, and choose which ones to take to the battles. Depending on the player's choices, additional scenes and sub-quests will become available. |
| Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten | 1999 | Koch Media GmbH (Germany) | Software 2000 | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | This game is a licensed adventure based on the German soap opera Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten. The player has to solve eleven problems that the serial characters have, by collecting and combining items. In addition the player has to travel to certain locations of the series which are shown in full motion video - including the actors. The puzzles are designed for beginners. The second part of the CD-ROM is a database which includes a timeline, video clips and bios of the characters and actors. When solving all puzzles the player unlocks an application form as an extra.
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| Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten: Volume 2 | 1999 | Software 2000 | Software 2000 | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | This game is a licensed adventure based on the German soap opera Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten. The player has to solve eleven problems of the series' characters, e.g. Kai needs to pass the Biology test. He does that collecting items and using it with the correct character. There are also many conversations. In addition the player has to travel to certain locations of the series which are shown in full motion video - including the actors. The puzzles are designed for beginners.The second part of the CD-ROM is a database which includes a timeline, bios of the characters and actors and an outtake video. |
| Half-Life: Adrenaline Pack | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Adrenaline Pack is a compilation which includes:
Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Team Fortress Classic |
| Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This re-release of Half-Life contains new multiplayer 3D models, new multiplayer maps, and Team Fortress Classic, all of which can also be downloaded separately. |
| Halloween | 1999 | Preco 6 | Eurasset | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Halloween is a music compilation that includes a complimentary flash-based game called L'attaque des Citrouilles. It consists of four parts. In the first part on the game, you must collect pumpkins and avoid frogs and snakes. In the second part of the game, you are in a graveyard and must catch water (blue) balloons that bats drop from above. Catch the blue ones and beware of the fire (yellow) balloons and bombs. In the third part of the game, you must shoot at spiders' webs and catch dead spiders as they fall down. In the last part of the game, meet the friendly ghost, offer him all the items you collected (pumpkins, water balloons and so on) but you will have to avoid witches. |
| Hanse 1480: Das Vermächtnis | 1999 | ARI Data CD GmbH | Independent Arts Software GmbH | Action, Strategy | | | | Arcade, Managerial / business simulation | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Hanse 1480: Das Vermächtnis is the successor of Hanse: Die Expedition and is a managerial strategy game set in the 15th century. The player runs a transportation business which trades 16 goods from and to a dozen cities in the North and Baltic Seas. Profits are invested into the expanding of the fleet, crew and business offices. The most important thing to think of are the buying and selling prices of the goods in the cities to deduct profitable routes. During the transits there are many pirate attacks which have to be fought off in an action game. In this game the player simply clicks with the mouse to position the ship and fire broadsides at the pirates. The game is played with four competing business, either controlled by humans or the computer, and lasts from 1400 to 1480. |
| HardBall 6: 2000 Edition | 1999 | Accolade, Inc. | MindSpan | Sports | Behind view, Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | The game is a re-release of HardBall 6 but with updated player data. It features 1999 player rosters, and team schedules, but players can generate their own schedule and even league. The players are motion captured polygons, which allows play in different camera angles. Each players has unique statistics, which can be improved during the season. Greg Papa provides play-by-play commentary.
The game is for 1-2 players. |
| Harley-Davidson: Race Across America | 1999 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Canopy Games, G2M Games | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Behind view | Licensed | | | | Motorcycle, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Race your Harley across the country in a mad race to the mother of all motorcycle meccas - the Sturgis Bike Rally. As your journey unfolds, you will be faced with challenging competitors, unpredictable roads, intense weather conditions and loads of obstacles. Do you have what it takes to meet the Harley challenge?
Full Throttle 3D Graphics and Roaring Sound Effects
Choose From 5 Different Harleys Including Classic and Current Models
Create and Ride your Own Fully Customized Harley
Cruise to Soundtrack of Classic Road Songs
Race Against Other Players via LAN or the Internet
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| Hattrick! Wins | 1999 | Ikarion Software GmbH | Ikarion Software GmbH | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Hattrick! Wins is a typical managerial soccer simulation where the player is responsible for the athletic and financial success of his team. Unique to other similar German games is the separation between manager and coach, this means principally the player is just looking after the finances. This includes merchandising, stadium maintenance and expansion and transfers. Toilets, snack bars and stadium safety can be rented.But of course the player can poach into the coach's responsibility and set tactics, training and lineup himself. This can result in conflicts to the trainer or the presidium. The matches are calculated in real-time, commentated by German sports journalist Gerd Rubenbauer and can be watched in an isometric perspective. The "Fast Forward" mode shows only every tenth frame and the top-down perspective is similar to the Championship Manager series.Besides the usual career mode Hattrick! Wins also features scenarios where the player has to solve a task in a certain time, e.g. rescuing the last of the table from the relegation in just a few weeks. The game features the first three German leagues from season 1998/1999. The not licensed club and player names can be changed in the editor. |
| Heart of Darkness (édition spéciale Coca-Cola) | 1999 | Coca-Cola Company, The | Amazing Studio | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | This special release of Heart of Darkness includes :
the first two levels of the game
the game's trailer
the making-of the game
free access to the Internet for 61 days (ISP: Infonie) |
| Henry the Hedgehog's Big Adventure | 1999 | | DigitalFusion Multimedia Corp. | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Henry the Hedgehog’s Big Adventure is a compilation of games, screen savers, and an interactive storybook centred around mutual funds for children in Canada. The interactive book section is called (in the packaging) “Henry’s Mysterious Present”, and also includes the “Henry’s Clubhouse” website at the time that this CD-ROM was released. |
| Hentai Anime Poker | 1999 | JAST USA | JAST Co., Ltd. | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Hentai Anime Poker is a strip poker featuring anime girls rather than digitized pictures. The game is plot-driven and allows play against multiple girls rather than one at a time. Plays 5 card stud, 5 card draw, 7 card draw, Texas Hold 'em and straight poker. |
| Heroes of Might and Magic: Millennium Edition | 1999 | 3DO Company, The | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation pack of Heroes of Might and Magic games includes:
Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia |
| High Heat Baseball 2000 | 1999 | 3DO Company, The | Team .366 | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | High Heat Baseball 2000 is a baseball game which focuses on the simulation aspect. In comparison to its predecessor High Heat Baseball it now has an official license for the 1998 MLB season and uses a 3D graphic engine.Playing modes include exhibition matches, season (in varying lengths) , home run derby, play-off and a career mode over multiple seasons. In the season and league mode there is even a managerial option available in which the player doesn't play the games himself but constrains himself on tactics and team development.The player can customize a big part of the rule set. The player editor allows to change attributes and appearance. With automatic functions for situations like defensive alignment or throwing the player can delegate unwanted tasks to the computer. |
| High Roller | 1999 | RomTech, Inc. | SuperVision, Touch 'n Go Games | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | High Roller is a one or two player similar to Yahtzee. Each player has two rolls of the five dice to produce a scoring combination, score multipliers are awarded for high scores
It was sold by eGames' in it's own right and was included in the compilations Card & Casino Multi-Pack, Home Office Help - Mega Pack, Family Games Mega Pack 4,
Strategy Games Mega Pack 4 and probably others.
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| Horké léto 2: Majer se vrací | 1999 | JRC Interactive | Centauri Production s.r.o. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The Native American tribe Hatanapalats lives peacefully on the edge of the Arizona desert. The story could have ended before it even started, provided that the famous bandit One-Eye Dingo (nobody knows why he calls himself in this way because his eyesight is perfect) wouldn't steal the artefact Purple Salamander. But he did, and the desperate shaman calls for the hero from the future. But what happens - the ugly beer-drinking slacker Honza Majer appears... The shaman isn't impressed and refuses to give Majer the quest unless he first proves his worthiness...Horké léto 2: Majer se vrací (Hot Summer 2: Majer Returns) is a sequel to the 1998 game Horké léto. Following it's predecessor, it's a point and click adventure controlled by mouse. Once again, Zdeněk Izer provides all voicing (except for the good-looking female characters). It also features mini-games (including shooting villains, playing poker and the piano) and the player must beat them in order to progress through the story.
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| Hoyle Backgammon & Cribbage | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Cards / tiles | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Play the classic games of cribbage and backgammon on your computer. You can play against 10 computer controlled opponents or against your friends via the internet. In backgammon the purpose is to move all of your markers around the board and off the board. the first player to remove all his pieces is the winner.
Cribbage is a game involving a cribbage board and a deck of cards. Using certain combinations of cards, players leapfrog around the board towards the finish line. The first player to cross the finish line is declared the winner. |
| Hoyle Card Games | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | | Everyone | | Windows | Play fourteen different card games against aliens, cardsharks or even a French guy with a puppet. Games include war, poker, bridge, hearts, euchre, crazy 8's, cribbage, gin rummy, 30 types of solitaire, spades, go fish, pinochle, old maid and memory. |
| Hype: The Time Quest | 1999 | Playmobil Interactive | Ubi Soft Entertainment Inc. | Action | Behind view | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Everyone | | Windows | King Taskan IV celebrates the end of a civil war. The valiant warrior Hype is given the Sword of Peace for his heroic deeds and his loyalty to the throne. However, a mysterious black knight named Barnak appears and casts a powerful spell on Hype, turning him into a statue and sending him two hundred years into the past. The magician Gogoud brings Hype back to life, and the brave knight has to figure out a way to return to his own time, defeat Barnak, and marry his sweetheart Vibe.Based on the medieval castle toy series from Playmobil, Hype: The Time Quest is an action game with puzzle-solving and light role-playing elements, similar in style to 3D installment of the Zelda series. Hype primarily fights with close-range weapons, though he can also cast offensive spells in three elemental categories. Hostile areas occupy the largest portion of the game; Hype will explore dungeons, face boss monsters, and will have to hunt for quest items needed to advance the story. Some of the puzzles revolve around time-traveling concept. |
| I Spy Junior | 1999 | Scholastic, Inc. | Black Hammer Productions, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | | Hidden object | | | | | | | Windows | I Spy Junior is the third game in the I Spy series, following on the heels of the original edition of I Spy Spooky Mansion and is intended for a younger market of 3 to 5 year-olds. All of the games in the series are based on books written and photographed by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick.This game diverges from the pattern set by previous ones by offering more than find-hidden-object puzzles - you will also find Oops Hoops, where you sort items into hoops containing similar things. Some hoops intersect, or require you to sort by three definitions instead of two, and the puzzles become a little more difficult as you finish each set. In Pattern Place, you must complete patterns by dragging and releasing objects - each pattern is accompanied by an auditory pattern as well. You are encouraged to express your creativity in the Make Your Own I Spy section - you are given a blank screen with a scrollable bin full of objects beneath it, a choice of backgrounds, and a few tools: an eraser and open, save, and print buttons. Each window is accompanied on the left by four icons, for the Main Menu, Help, Exit, and Back (if applicable). You also have an arrow on the bottom right to go forward, and an ear icon in the bottom window that will replay the spoken riddle if you want to hear it again. If you allow a puzzle to sit for a while, you'll hear a gentle spoken suggestion: "If you need help, click the question mark!"This game is primarily meant for the preschooler, with puzzles designed for early childhood development and focusing on logical thinking skills, creativity, early math, and reading. |
| I Spy: Spooky Mansion | 1999 | Scholastic, Inc. | Black Hammer Productions, Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 1st-person | Licensed | Horror | Hidden object, Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | I Spy Spooky Mansion is a game based on the book I Spy Spooky Night from the popular series of picture riddles. In this game, you go across several rooms in the house deciphering various riddles. Each riddle earns you a piece to a puzzle, which will reveal how to escape the haunted house you are currently in. There are 13 rooms with two riddles each, as well as a few minigames such as Creepy Collections. The game is fully point-and-click, with the riddles read aloud at the bottom of the screen for you to look at any time. There is also a ghost-building minigame where you hunt around the house for ingredients, and is ultimately the machine used to escape from the house once you finish the puzzle. |
| I've Got Some Balls! | 1999 | Shatterstorm | Shatterstorm | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | Real-time | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | In I've Got Some Balls! you control a marble and your goal is to collect all the diamonds from the twisty and challenging levels. The game has some resemblance with the old Marble Madness (an old game where you had to go through different levels with a marble) but the gameplay has been remade and technically have been updated. There are some power-ups that you can get, like brakes or the ability to jump. Do you think you could be a good marble? |
| Illusions of Deception | 1999 | | | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Illusions of Deception is a 2D jRPG, made with the Klik 'n' Play program. The game begins Earth hit by an asteroid. The main character then lands up in a jungle and loses all his friends. The game uses classic jRPG gameplay mechanics. The player explores the world and fights with monsters. The battle system is very similar to the Final Fantasy series. |
| Imperialism II: The Age of Exploration | 1999 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Frog City Software, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Historical events | | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Imperialism II: The Age of Exploration is the sequel to the world conquest game in which you control an Old World power between 1500-1850, trying to exploit the New World to support your dominance of the superpowers. The game breaks off from traditional conquest games by making political and economic pieces of the game much more important for overall victory. In addition, instead of merely trying to take over everything, you'll find yourself manipulating other nations, and abusing those lesser than you, including colonial lands. Imperialism tries, with moderate success, to historically represent the period, from units to strategic mentality.The game is entirely turn-based and features a separate tactical battle screen, where careful use of your units, ranging from cavalry to artillery, is essential. It can be played on a historic Old World setting (the New World is always random), or completely random worlds, and the campaign support single or multi-player functionality. |
| Independence War: Deluxe Edition | 1999 | Infogrames, Inc. | Particle Systems Ltd. | Action, Compilation, Simulation | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | This title is a compilation of Independence War and its expansion pack Independence War Defiance. In Independence War, there is a huge conflict going on between The Indies, colonists from Earth, and the Commonwealth. And you take the role of an officer in the Commonwealth fleet.In Defiance you are playing the Indie Side of the conflict. The add-on consists of 18 missions and it mirrors the original campaign. You are Edison Hayes, a captain of the Indie fleet and the Dreadnaught-class corvette Spartacus. Defiance also adds two notable new features to the game; ability to save in-mission and limited customization of player ship's weapons. Independence War Defiance was designed to be an add-on pack but made its way into this bundle instead.
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| Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine | 1999 | LucasArts | LucasArts | Action | Behind view | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The year is 1947. Dr. Jones Jr is on a retirement from adventuring, living the life of a scholar and an archaeologist. But soon he meets his old flame ...and new enemies. Soviets are tracking parts of a mysterious, powerful machine from ancient Babylon, hoping to use it as a weapon. They must be stopped from unleashing unspeakable danger from another world.Are you ready to lead Indy into adventures in lost temples, under mountains and through unexplored mines, for tales of missing artifacts, snake encounters and other things?Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine combined action and adventure in a way the older Indy games did not do. The gameplay is inspired by Tomb Raider, as Indy moves through 3D representations of 17 locations around the world. The game engine is modified from Jedi Knight.Puzzles based around switches & items; precise jumping must be negotiated on regular basis. You must use ladders, ropes and dinghies as well as moving on foot. You will also find yourself aboard a jeep and a mine cart. Replacements for your standard whip can be collected en route (from Soviet army arsenal), including grenades, sub-machine guns and bazookas. The valuable treasures you find can be used to buy extra ammo (between the levels). After each level you get your score (Indy Quotient) - you must reach all the treasure items cleverly hidden in secret places to get all the points. |
| Infantry | 1999 | Brainscan Interactive | Harmless Games LLC | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Infantry is an online-only multiplayer action game with a science fiction theme. Players can spectate or join one of multiple game types running simultaneously, and communicate through an in-game chat window. Game types are generally team based, and include marines vs aliens, capture the flag, and various sports themes, including football, hockey, and futuristic "Gravball." All games run off the same game engine.Infantry was originally released by Brainscan Interactive for play on their EnterNET Global Network. It was picked up in October 2000 by Sony Online Entertainment and included in their "The Station" games lineup. On May 1, 2002, Sony moved Infantry out of "live beta" and into its Station Pass lineup, which required a monthly fee of $6.95 USD.On June 26, 2007, SOE shifted Infantry to completely free to play for anyone with a free Sony Station account. At this time, the editing tools were also released for public download. Players can create their own levels and gametypes and submit them to SOE, where they are rotated during a monthly public testing period. |
| Intergalactic Exterminator | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | Hamumu Software | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Intergalactic Exterminator is a single player variant of Centipede.The object of the game being to eradicate the bugs before they reach the bottom of the screen.Caterpillar-like Bugs descend from the top of the screen weaving and winding across the game area changing path when they encounter obstacles or each other. The player's character is confined to the bottom fifth or so of the screen and can only fire upwards. Shooting a bug segment will only split the creature in two, the separate segments going their own way but always descending towards the player.Occasionally the zapped bug will drop a radio which, if collected, can trigger a mini bonus feature. Other features include the introduction of spiders into the players part of the screen - these are worth points if killed but take lives from the player if they attack successfully, more powerful weapons, and shields. Between worlds there are bonus levels which vary the game play.There are different versions of this game available. Some of eGames' releases promise twenty-five levels while others contain forty or fifty levels spread over ten worlds.
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| Interplay Sports Baseball 2000 | 1999 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A baseball game featuring an Exhibition, Season, Playoff, Tournament, and a Home Run Derby mode. There is also a General Manager mode that lets the player create and trade players, and change team lineups. The game features the real MLB players and teams of that time.In the Playstation version, batting and pitching are both done from a behind the batter's viewpoint, while in the Windows version, the camera is more dynamic and is able to switch to both viewpoints. The Windows version is able to do this because of the Messiah technology being used, which allows for high-res Direct3D accelerated polygonal graphics.When batting the player can choose to either swing for contact or for power. The player can also choose a difficulty level for their batting. Rookie has the player timing their swing with the pitch, Pro adds the challenge of controlling the level of the swing, while selecting All-Star is basically the same as Pro, except the pitches come in at a faster rate of speed.When pitching, players can select different pitch types to throw depending on the ability of their pitcher. Players also can view a pitch chart that tracks every pitch thrown to each batter in the game. The game also features a play-by-play announcer and is able to keep track of the single season stats. This game is an update of VR Baseball 2000.
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| Interplay: 15th Anniversary | 1999 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Interplay's 15th Anniversary pack holds 15 games, each for one year, and different genres:
Battle Chess
Beat The House
Castles II: Siege & Conquest
Conquest of the New World: Deluxe Edition
Descent
Dragon Wars
Fallout
Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings
M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration
Redneck Rampage
Shattered Steel
Solitaire Deluxe
Stonekeep
Virtual Pool
Whiplash |
| Isin-Densin Zero | 1999 | Grafix Digital Garden | Grafix Digital Garden | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Isin-Densin Zero is a freeware vertical shooter from Japan where the player controls a small spaceship equipped with a claw grapple, that can be launched to rescue the stranded humans occasionally crossing the landscape down below and crying for help. The levels are populated by a plethora of flying enemies, and the main objective is to destroy them all while avoid collision with incoming bullets and ships, until the final battle with a large boss at the end of the level. The grapple tool can be also be used as a secondary weapon, going through any enemy and causing damage in its way. |
| Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The Secret Files | 1999 | Gathering of Developers, Inc., Project Two Interactive BV | Epic Games, Inc., Orange Games | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | The Secret Files contains Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and an additional separate episode. It features nine new levels containing new textures, and enables the player to control a third character, Lori. In almost each level there are alternate routes that the player can take. If players complete the nine levels they may try their luck in twenty other levels that were created by fans of the game, including the single-player level, "A sting in your tail!". Like the base game, this edition includes JCS, the Jazz Creation Station, where gamers have the opportunity to build their own levels. |
| Jersey Devil | 1999 | Infogrames Europe SA | Behaviour Interactive | Action | Behind view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Jersey City is in trouble when evil Dr. Knarf and his pumpkin headed-assistant Dennis, rule. Dr. Knarf creates evil mutant vegetables that run amok within the city. And only the famous devil can now save the city .The game's theme is Halloween, and the objective is to catch Dr. Knarf. The player will need to open "K" Locks using color keys with letters "K" "N" "A" R" and "F" (which makes Knarf). Every area in Jersey City has two levels, each with its own boss (or bosses). These areas include the Art Museum, the City Park, the Graveyard, the Factory, the Seaport and Knarf's own forest. The player can also free the hostages that were captured by Knarf's army (including children). Nitro Crates can be picked up to enhance the devil's strength. For a 100% game completion the player needs to beat all areas, find and beat all secret levels, free all hostages, destroy all nitro crates in all levels, and collect the golden Knarf tokens from all levels. |
| Jet Pack | 1999 | NovaLogic, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A software bundle of Novalogic's F-16 Multirole Fighter, MiG-29 Fulcrum, and an updated F-22 Raptor. The patched F-22 allows it to fly on Novalogic's free Integrated Battle Space servers with up to 128 other pilots with any of those three games.In total across the three games, this package features over 130 missions spread across the entire world, in campaigns and quick missions. |
| JetFighter III Classic | 1999 | Mission Studios | Mission Studios | Action, Compilation, Simulation, Special edition | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | A repackaging and enhancement of the popular JetFighter III combat flight simulator game. Includes the original product, the Enhanced Campaign CD, plus a mission editor, new missions and additional scenery.JetFighter III was somewhat revolutionary for its detailed and expansive terrain environments. While probably not quite in-depth enough for hard-core flight sim fans, JetFighter III is, like its predecessors, designed with ease-of-use in mind, making it appropriate for casual flight sim users. |
| Jetfighter III+ / Air Warrior II | 1999 | Swing! Entertainment Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following two games on CD-ROM:
Jetfighter III+
Air Warrior II |
| Jian zhi Hun | 1999 | Zhengpu Software | Zhengpu Software | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | The little hero Murong Qingfeng is a rebellious character, who often goes against the tradition. His parents died when he was a baby, and his sisters and brothers could never understand him. He left his home and lived alone in the mountains. After ten years of solitary life, he practiced kung-fu, hoping to become a great adventurer. And when one day he met a mysterious person, a master of xugu (a kind of kung-fu), he understood that this is his chance to help this person to revive the disappearing magic, and to become the most famous martial artists in China.Jian zhi Hun is a Chinese RPG, set in old China and influenced by popular legends of kung-fu masters and their supernatural powers. You navigate your hero from third-person perspective over pre-rendered backgrounds. Enemies are visible on screen, and a contact with an enemy triggers a turn-based battle, which also uses a third-person view. You can attack physically or use one of the many kung-fu techniques you learn. |
| Julens Hjältar | 1999 | Young Genius Software AB | Young Genius Software AB | Adventure | | Licensed | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Based on the Swedish 1999 Christmas calendar show by the same name (aired on SVT), an adventure game with many mini games where the player helps the in-game characters, a group of Christmas tree decorations (voiced by the actors from the TV show), to escape from a waste disposal plant.The game is divided into 24 mini-games and extra features, which would be unlocked day by day by entering codes the player may get from watching the show on TV, up to the 24th December (which is the date on which Christmas is celebrated in Sweden), which featured a code to unlock all content. This was the first game in the series of SVT advent calender games to feature this system, which has been featured in all their games since. |
| Jump*Ahead Starting School 2000 | 1999 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Jump*Ahead Starting School 2000 takes place in a joyful, interactive classroom where games, music, and pleasure are the rewards for curiosity. This version is an updated re-release of the 1996 title Jump Ahead Starting School. This version has updated visuals, additional phonics-specific exercises, and skill Assessment Technology. It contains sixteen activities that teach kids aged four to five skills to start school. Earn gold stars and exchange them for a zoo excursion. Utilize the Progress Report to keep track of your child's progress.Along with aiding in the development of essential pre-reading skills, the curriculum teaches phonics and fundamental language abilities. The mathematical abilities of counting, ordering, sequencing, and time may all be developed. |
| JumpStart Phonics | 1999 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | Point and select, Voice control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | JumpStart Phonics is an educational game for children aged three to six and teaches early reading skills. The game uses animal characters (Casey, Cecil, Eleanor, Frankie, Kisha and Pierre) to guide the player through the location Camp Readalot. It is a hub location that leads to different activities where 26 alphabetical merit badges can be earned. The game also contains a lot of songs. The educational concepts include Consonants, Digraphs, Letter Blends, Letter Recognition, Phonics, Rhyming, Short and Long Vowels, and Spelling.The five activities are:
River Raft: find the letters that Casey needs
Shipwreck Rhymes: Cecil guides the player to find rhyming words.
Storybook Cave: Eleanor needs help to complete stories. The player either has to choose the correct word to complete the sentence of choose the correct letter to complete a word.
Totem Pole: Kisha hosts this activity and consonants or consonant blends need to be found for totem poles.
Vowel Bees: bees need to find the correct hive by choosing the right vowel or vowel blend.The game uses Read 'n' Respond speech technology. Players can use a microphone to sound out words and letters. The input is analyzed and feedback is provided. |
| JumpStart Toddlers | 1999 | Havas Interactive Europe S.A. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | | Windows | After JumpStart Baby (9 m/o to 24 m/o), comes JumpStart Toddlers (18 m/o to 3 y/o).The game's objective is to teach computer mouse skills and introduce toddlers to animals, colors, shapes, music, numbers and letters. Guided by Giggles, mascot of the game, toddlers can practice 7 activities from the playroom:
Learn numbers from 1 to 10
Sing with 9 animals
Learn the names of shapes and their colors
Listen to the sounds of 7 musical instruments
Find 9 hidden animals
Play with Jack, the dog. Give him the item he wants (shoe, ball, or bone, for example)
Learn the alphabet
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| Jungle Legend | 1999 | IncaGold Ltd. | Flair Software Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Jungle Legend is a 3D first person action game that takes place in the jungle. A strange disease is spreading through the jungle, killing the flora and turning the fauna mad. As an inhabitant of the jungle you have to find out what is going on. You spoke with the shaman of the ancient Malu tribe and learned of four magic stones representing the four elements. These stones can invoke the power of the ancients and restore balance to the land.You start the game with only a knife, but throughout you will find many more weapons including a crossbow. Interaction is limited to walking back and forth, turning, using and switching weapons. Mad animals will attack you throughout your quest through jungles and ancient temples. |
| Junkyard Adventures in Space | 1999 | Smarty Pants Publishing Pty Ltd | Smarty Pants Publishing Pty Ltd | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | Space flight | | | | | Windows | Junkyard Adventures: Space is one of a series of edutainment games set in an Australian junkyard. After a short animation the player is presented with the game menu, this is a colourful picture of a junkyard that has four game areas, the car, shed, the tip and the mineshaft. The player can access these by either clicking on the hotspots or the icons at the bottom of the screen, each plays a little song as it opens.
The Car: the old car has two activities, the I-Spy quiz and the Space Quiz.
The I-Spy Quiz is a sort of hidden object game for children, the players are asked to find objects such as ‘five blue stars’ or ‘one sizzling sun’ and must click on the correct objects. There is only one screen but the game can be replayed as different objects are asked for each time.
The space Quiz is a one or two player game. Each quiz consists of ten multiple choice questions, players press a button on the keyboard to ‘buzz in’ and then select the appropriate answer, though the answers on screen are short when confirming if the player is correct or otherwise the game slips in a bit more information.
The Shed: the main activity here is ‘Rosey’s Rocket’ which is a short story that has three game modes:
The player can step through a page at a time – in which case they will be asked questions at the end of each page. There are lots of hotspots in the pictures which trigger a comment or a piece of information, there are usually multiple pieces of information per hotspot.
They can sit back and have the game not read the story but sing the story to them, or
They can skip the story and page through the pictures which can be coloured in on screen and/or printed out
The Mineshaft: this leads to The Recycle Room which is another art activity, here the player combines images of bins, piles, planets to produce a work of art that can be saved and printed
The Tip: this launches the Alien Game. This is a simple game in which red, blue and green stars travel down the screen from top to bottom. At the bottom of the screen are three aliens one red, one blue and one green, who love catching stars and the player uses the left/right arrows to move them around to make sure that they do. Occasionally a space ship appears and extra points can be gained by shooting it.In addition to the mini-games and activities described above each screen has hotspots that trigger a comment or a piece of animation. |
| Jönssonligan: Jakten på Mjölner | 1999 | IQ Media Nordic AB | Korkeken Interactive Studio AB | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Jönssonligan: Jakten på Mjölner (Hunt for Mjolnir) is a puzzle-solving point-and-click adventure game based on the Swedish comedy 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: The objective of the game is that you should find Thor's hammer Mjolnir. The description of how to find it comes in four separate pieces that are scattered in various European cities, Rome, Paris, London and Berlin. In the game, you go along with Sickan, Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry on a journey through Europe.The game has several voice actors from the early original Jönssonligan movies. |
| KCC Igo | 1999 | CGS | Korea Computer Center | Puzzle | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | KCC Igo, released in South Korea as Segyechoegang Eunbyeol, is a longrunning series of computer versions of the classic board game Go. It has a strong focus on the quality of its AI, and variants on it have frequently been entered into international competitions. |
| KO | 1999 | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG, Micro Application, S.A. | Independent Arts Software GmbH | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | K.O. is a 3D boxing game for one or two players. You can play against the computer or against another player (network play or two players on the same computer).You take a role of a boxer (choose one, or customize your own), then choose between 4 modes : training, single fight, World Championship or arcade. You will also be asked to choose one of the five boxing rings. The game features three skill levels, and 20 opponents.The view is "3rd-person perspective" type, so you can always see both fighters on the same screen. |
| Keep Your Cool | 1999 | | | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Keep Your Cool is a game that hopes to reduce stress after a hard day at work or at schoolThe game features 'Doris - The Downtrodden Hen' who suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder, Doris works as the cleaner in an office block. The rubbish chute is on the ground floor and Doris must patrol the corridors sweeping any dropped drink cans down to the basement and the chute. She must also dust and clean any dirty marks on doors etc plus be on hand when the boss wants a coffee. All this work is bad for her health so as the game progresses the health bar decreases as the stress bar increases.Doris can be de-stressed by playing one of the mini games that can be found in the basement, she can throw darts at posters of the boss and a co-worker, shoot some hoops, or pop outside for some fresh air.The game also has a serious side - on the bookshelf in the basement are some tips on how to avoid stress, surprisingly one is to avoid chocolate, and links to some ADHD sites |
| Kelloggs Mission Nutrition | 1999 | Kellogg Company | | Action | Behind view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | | Windows | The infamous King Kroko swims together with his crocodile gang through the ocean to find a new home. After they reach the peaceful Kellogg's Land they steal all supplies and recipes. Now the player takes the role of Tony Tiger to get them back. The game is a 3D platformer in the typical Tomb Raider perspective where the player jumps through the levels, fights enemies, and solves small puzzles. The player has the ability to transform into other characters from the Kellog's franchise, e.g. Smack, which have other abilities. There are three worlds - Corn Country, Rain Forest, and Frosty Mountains - with six levels each.This game is the follow-up to Tony & Friends: in Kellogg's Land. |
| Killer Loop | 1999 | Crave Entertainment, Inc. | VCC Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Florian Knappe | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | If you need an adrenaline rush, Killer Loop might be just your thing: Step into your magnetic glider and race through lots of roller-coaster like tracks full of curves and loops, psyched up by pumping techno beats.There are of course power-ups scattered on the track that may be picked up, including weapon systems to get rid of your enemies.Similar to Wipeout, this is a game for speed freaks. |
| Krakels ABC: Det magiska äventyret | 1999 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Krakels ABC: Det magiska äventyret is an educational game for children eight to ten in Swedish. It is based on the character Krakel Spektakel from the books of Swedish author Lennart Hellsing. The game tells the story of a magical adventure when the protagonist discovers and uses a magic wand. The story has linear progression, linking together animated scenes that are fully voiced with short, educational mini-games. These involve sorting and ordering, looking up words alphabetically, completing a crossword puzzle, cooking dishes by following a recipe, word games, repairing a mechanical device and more. There are three difficulty levels. All actions are performed through point-and-click. |
| Krakels ABC: Läsa | 1999 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Krakels ABC: Läsa is the sixth and final game in the educational series in Swedish. It is based on the character Krakel Spektakel from the books of Swedish author Lennart Hellsing. This entry is aimed at children eight to six.In this title the player explores a park in Näppelunda controlling Krakel Spektakel. There are also three mini-games that can be played. By completing each of these three times, based on three difficulty levels, puzzle pieces can be collected and with nine pieces two bonus activities can be unlocked. In the first, Skyltskaparmaskin, children can create signs and invitation cards that can also be printed. In the second Min egen bok children can write their own stories.The first mini-game is about matching words and objects. The second is a word game played against a frog on a board of water lilies. The third one is about gardening and making plants grow following instructions. Visually the game is quite similar to Krakels ABC: Det magiska äventyret and the mini-games are also quite similar, but this title is much shorter in overall length. |
| Krakels ABC: Ordlek | 1999 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB | Educational | 1st-person | | | Mini-games, Word construction | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Krakels ABC: Ordlek is an educational game intended for children 6-8 years old. It is the fifth in the Krakels ABC series, with a focus on reading and writing,The setting is similar to the other games in the series, all located in the town of Näppelunda, where in this game there is an amusement park with word play related games. In this game, the player is guided around the park by the character Opsis Kalopsis.Three separate activities are available in the park: a word-play machine where candy can be won by writing correct words, a shooting gallery where the player shoots at cans with unrelated words and a variety show with the character Krakel Spektakel where the player has to guess what he is thinking about.After the three activities, the player can create banners and invitation cards with a sign-printing machine; there is also a story creation tool with cut-and-paste options for text and images from the game. |
| Krakels ABC: Stava | 1999 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Krakels ABC: Stava is an educational game for children, focusing on the spelling of Swedish words, for an age group of 6-8 years.The game is the fourth of six in the Krakels ABC game series, which is based on characters from a series of children's books by Lennart Hellsing and Poul Ströyer. In this title, you are guided by the character Kusin Vitamin, in three spelling mini-games located on & around the waterfront of the fictional town Näppelunda, the home town of the books' main characters.The first spelling game location is a warehouse with shipping containers; the letters on the labels have fallen off, and the player is required to recreate the correct word on the box label, with a drawing showing the box content to help. Clicking on the box image will speak the word, clicking on a single letter gives the sound of the letter.The second location is a radio station to which a submarine captain is saying words who are textually garbled in reception, the player is required to sort the mixed letters into words; initially the words have image clues in addition to the non-garbled spoken word from the captain - but after a while the images are omitted, and you have to guess the word without any clues.The third location is an old prison where prisoners have scribbled patterns similar to simple crosswords, where the player gets a single starting word, and image clues to the missing words. The image clues are also spoken when clicked on.The three minigames can be played in any order, and the player can alternate from one to another without losing their progress.
For each of the three games, a three-part progress bar is progressively filled in after a number of words have been correctly entered, and when all the three bar sections are complete, two extra tools are enabled in the game:
one is a simple sign-making tool with a printer function, the other is a notebook intended for writing your own stories. |
| Kurt: Der Fußballmanager '99 | 1999 | heart-line Software GmbH | heart-line Software GmbH | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Kurt: Der Fußballmanager '99 is a managerial soccer simulation where the player coaches a team and is responsible for its athletic and financial success. In comparison to similar German games like Bundesliga Manager the financial part is driven back and the focus lies on the team. Nonetheless there are multiple financial aspects to pay attention to: Sponsorships, entrance fees, expanding the stadium, stock trading and of course buying and selling players.The game has two features which are a contrast to other games of its time: the menu and the match presentation. In the menus where the player sets things like training or lineup are practically no numbers - each number is represented by a graphical presentation. This is especially remarkable because the players have many attributes including uncommon ones like nerves strength. The menus have a comic look with mascot Kurt, a young boy, and can be freely arranged in the menu bar.The matches are calculated and displayed in real-time. The player has a lot of tactical possibilities during the game like substituting players or even change the tactic completely. These changes are directly visible in the match presentation. In contrast to the Championship Manager series, which has a similar premise, the match is shown in an isometric perspective. Not only the own game is calculated in real-time, all parallel matches are too. The player has even the possibility to arrange windows of varied size on the monitor where he can follow them - or switch completely to another match.The editor is not restricted to changing the (not licensed) names of the teams and players, it also allows to change all player data and the structure of leagues and cup championships. Kurt simulates the first four German and the first English, Italian, Spanish and French league with about 400 teams and 9000 players. |
| Käpt'n Säbelzahn: Die Piratenprüfung | 1999 | Terzio, Möllers & Bellinghausen Verlag GmbH | Medieoperatørene as | Action, Puzzle | | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Käpt'n Säbelzahn: Die Piratenprüfung is a collection of 4 mini games for children and is based on the Kaptein Sabeltann stories. The included games are a vegetable shooter, labyrinth, a fishing game and a puzzle where a boat has to be completed. |
| Land der Hoffnung | 1999 | Innonics GmbH | Innonics GmbH | Strategy | | | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | In Land der Hoffnung (Land of Hope), you are the leader of the small country Breehn, which is in a bad trap - the number of inhabitants is increasing rapidly, but there's no more room for them to live. So you need another place to live. A wealthy place, a place with room to settle down, with large forests and much green land for your cattle. And you eventually find this land! So you gather your trusted council members around you and begin to lead your people to this fabulous land. But you didn't know that others wanted that too...Land der Hoffnung has 40 missions, each with increasing difficulty. It features 40 different buildings, each of them training different units (25 in total). The game is not about war (in some missions, you even fail if you attack an opponent). In short, Land der Hoffnung is a typical Settlers clone. |
| Language Arts Grade 4: The Mission Masters - Network Nightmare! | 1999 | McGraw Hill Home Interactive | Morgan Interactive Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Spy / espionage | Mini-games | | | | | | | Windows | Language Arts Grade 4: The Mission Masters - Network Nightmare! is an educational computer game for grade 4 students with an espionage theme. Buster Bandwidth has sent computer bugs into satellites in space. Without the satellites, computer communication would be lost forever! The player is assigned as a secret agent to fix this situation. The game features language arts skills, including grammar, vocabulary, writing, and spelling. The SMART centre is where the player begins the mission. From here, the player can select one of the three areas, including the Training Desk, the Mission Desk, and the Report desk, and the player can also use the remote control from that screen to jump to a specific area without clicking on the title of the area. The Mission Desk has five mini-games playable, with narrated instructions before entering the location the mini-game is in. The RAD (Remote Agent Device) can also be used if the player is stuck and would need help in a difficult situation. |
| LaserAge | 1999 | Ingava.com | Freeform Interactive LLC | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | LaserAge is a single person, mouse controlled, space shooter.The player's ship is limited to the bottom quarter of the screen and it is mouse controlled. The aim of the game is to destroy alien ships, collect power-ups, and achieve a high score.The game has fifteen different kinds of alien ship to destroy and each has a different attack pattern and its own unique weapon. Each level consists of fifteen waves followed by a boss ship. Naturally there power-ups to be captured, these appear at the top of the screen in pods and are released by shooting the pod, the trick is to catch it as it falls through a hail of alien fire without being destroyed. The player's ship can carry up to nine of these at a time.The game has no high score table. This game was further developed and led to the release of LaserAge Gold in 2000. |
| Laura's Happy Adventures | 1999 | Playmobil Interactive | Ubi Soft Entertainment Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Laura's Happy Adventures is an adventure aimed at girls that uses the typical Playmobil look for its graphics. The player takes the role of Laura who breaks accidentally a stone from her grandfather's collection. In the rubble she finds a fairy's luck charm that gives her the quest to make everyone happy. This results in about six missions, e.g. finding missing binoculars.The game itself is played like most other adventure games; the player explores his surroundings, finds items and uses them to solve inventory based puzzles. Additionally there are many conversations with other people. Laura is controlled with the keyboard and almost all actions are triggered with space. There are some mini-games like redecorating the house of Laura's parents. |
| Learning Land 1: At The Playground | 1999 | De Agostini UK Ltd | | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Learning Land 1: At The Playground is the first title in a series of educational titles aimed at children. The Learning Land was published as a part-work series with a new title appearing every two weeks, each CD was accompanied by a magazine.This title contains five activities;
Pond Pals. This is one of the more overtly educational activities in which Biff shows the player a pond and explains a bit about the pond life as the player clicks on each item. Not all the creatures are visible, some swim across the screen and the player must chase them with the cursor.
Match-up. Here the player is shown a set of cards, some with pictures and words on them, others with a single letter. The object is to match the letter to the right picture, 'e' with 'egg' for example
Picture planet. This is a join-the-dots to make a picture game.
Litter Patrol. Here the player has to locate all the items of rubbish hidden in the picture
Funstation. In this issue the Funstation is an activity where the player composes their own picture by placing park related items onto the screen, this can then be printed off and coloured in.The activities play directly from the CD and are mouse controlled. Completing each of the first four activities earns the player a piece of a jigsaw, called a jiggle 'coz it makes you giggle. There are sixteen pieces needed to complete the puzzle with the remaining pieces coming in issues two, three and four. |
| Learning Land 2: Biff's Birthday | 1999 | De Agostini UK Ltd | | Educational | 1st-person | | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Learning Land 2: Biff's Birthday is the second title in a series of educational titles aimed at young children. The Learning Land series was published as a part-work with a new magazine and CD appearing every two weeks. As with all titles in the series Learning Land 2: Biff's Birthday runs directly from the CD, though the player's progress is stored locally, and all activities are mouse controlled. The CD runs full-screen mode which is fixed at 640x480, if the screen resolution is set to anything higher that this it plays with wide black borders around a central window..All titles in the series are fully voiced and contain four educational activities and a 'Funstation' activity. Completing each of the first four activities earns the player a piece of a jigsaw, called a "Jiggle" because "it makes you giggle". There four pieces to be earned each week but sixteen pieces, or four issues worth, are needed to complete each puzzle.
The story for this issue is that it is Biff's Birthday and he thinks everyone has forgotten, of course they have not forgotten and have arranged a surprise party. The game starts with Biff arriving in the party room and there's an animated sequence in which the characters speak and then introduce their activities.The activities in this issue are;
Tea-Time Treat: This is a Numbers activity. Tim is in charge of the party food and he has four coloured plates with food on them and he asks questions such as "Which plate has the same number of sandwiches as the red plate?" and Which plate has more sausages than the green plate?". The game is played over two rounds with ten questions per round. It has two difficulty settings
Home From Home. This is a Nature activity and it is played with Biff. Biff has been to the zoo and there are creatures there that live on the farm, in the sea or in the jungle. A picture of a creature appears in the middle of the screen and the player has to drag it to the appropriate environment. One complete the player can click on any creature and Biff will say a few words about it.
Brilliant Beads. This is a Letters activity that is played over two rounds, it is introduced by Millie. The player is shown a picture with many beads of different colours and shapes in it and on each bead is a letter. Millie asks "'Can you find all the beads with a letter that sounds like 'r'" at which point the player is meant to use the mouse and select all the appropriately labelled beads which are then put onto a necklace
Me & My Friends: This is a puzzle activity. Silly old Biff has unwrapped all his presents but he forgot to keep the cards that say who gave him what. One of Biff's friends gives the player clues from which they must identify the present. There are two rounds to play to earn a jiggle piece and each round has ten questions like "The nice lady at the post office gave Biff something to make sandcastles with?" in response to which the player should click on the bucket and spade.
Funstation. In this issue the Funstation is a musical one. The player is shown a small keyboard and can click on keys to play notes. There are other controls that change the pitch and the sound as well as a record and a play back option
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| Learning Land 3: At The Funfair | 1999 | De Agostini UK Ltd | | Educational | 1st-person | | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Learning Land 3: At The Funfair is one of a series of educational titles aimed at young children. The Learning Land series was published as a part-work with a new magazine and CD appearing every two weeks. As with all titles in the series this runs directly from the CD, though the player's progress is stored locally, and all activities are mouse controlled. The CD runs full-screen mode which is fixed at 640x480, if the screen resolution is set to anything higher that this it plays with wide black borders around a central window.All titles in the series are fully voiced and contain four educational activities and a 'Funstation' activity. Completing each of the first four activities earns the player a piece of a jigsaw, called a "Jiggle" because "it makes you giggle". There four pieces to be earned each week but sixteen pieces, or four issues worth, are needed to complete each puzzle.The story for this issue is that there's a funfair in town and 'we all love a funfair don't we?'. The game starts at the funfair with an interactive screen, the players all say their piece and then introduce their activities.The activities in this issue are;
Number Hunt: This is this issue's Numbers activity. There are two levels of difficulty in this game each of which uses a separate screen but asks the same questions such as "Can you find the number xx that is hidden somewhere in this picture?", or
"Click on the five yellow wheels " or "eleven people with black hair".
When the player finds all the items of a given type the game counts out the number found from one to whatever slowly and clearly, in both cases the player gets a "'WellDone!". There are ten questions per round and after two rounds the player is rewarded with a jigsaw piece.
Crazy Maze: This is this issue's Nature activity. Biff has won a coconut at the funfair and wants to plant it. By clicking on the on-screen arrows the player guides a bouncing ball round a maze within which are watering cans. When the first watering can is encountered Biff's seed gets planted. As the remaining watering cans are encountered the seed gets watered and grows, it flowers when the game is completed. The game can be replayed and there is at least one other maze to be played .
Rainbow Letters:. This is this issue's Letters activity and it's a painting game. The player is presented with an outline picture where the shapes all have letters associated with them, these letters correspond to paint pots. The player clicks on a shape then on the appropriate paint pot until the image is coloured in. Once completed the image can be printed off and given to a friend as a present.
Me & My Friends: This is a dice game for two people called 'Stop, Look, Listen!' . The players take turns to click on a dice and move round the board from the character's house to the funfair. When they come to a road play stops and they must answer a Yes/No question to continue. Sample questions are "Is it safe to stick your head out of the window of the car?"Should you wear a helmet when riding your bike?"Can you ask a lollipop person to help you cross the road?" and"can you ask a traffic warden to help you cross the road?"
Funstation. In this issue the Funstation is called 'Funny Face' where the player clicks on buttons to change skin colour, hair, eyes and nose. |
| Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver | 1999 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Crystal Dynamics, Inc. | Action | Behind view | Regional differences | Horror | Metroidvania, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | One thousand five hundred years after the events of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, the vampire Kain's decision at the end of that game has finally defeated the human kingdoms and brought the world of Nosgoth under his control. Ruling from a castle built on the Pillars of Nosgoth, Kain has established an empire of six vampire clans, each ruled by a lieutenant, the sons of Kain. Raziel was one such lieutenant but lost his position through the insolence of receiving a new evolutionary "dark gift", the growth of feathery wings before his master had acquired it. Fearing that Raziel might one day surpass him, Kain tears off Raziel's wings in a fit of rage and banishes him into the Abyss. There, Raziel is lost in time, dead and his body consumed. The Elder God recovers Raziel's soul and rebuilds the broken body, not as a living vampire, but as a strange new creature of the underworld. Swearing revenge on Kain, Raziel now phases seamlessly between Nosgoth and its underworld, using his new powers to become a terrible reaver of souls...Soul Reaver is a third-person perspective action game with puzzle-solving and some platforming elements. The game follows Raziel on his quest to purge the land of vampires and take revenge on Kain and his brothers, leaders of the six clans. The player views the environment from behind Raziel's shoulder, moving him in any direction, climbing, attacking, jumping, and using specific abilities. Raziel can grip onto the edge of ledges and his torn wings allow him to glide gently downwards. He can also shift through the material world into the spectral realm at will but must find specific locations in order to shift back. The two realms mirror one another, with distortions which give access to new areas and platforms. Existing in the material world drains Raziel's life energy at a constant rate. Throughout the game, energy is recovered by consuming the souls of defeated enemies. If Raziel is able to defeat one of his brothers, he will additionally gain a new ability ("dark gift") upon drinking his soul. Examples include: the ability to swim, file telekinetic projectiles, or the ability to phase through locked gates. Raziel can arm himself with a variety of weapons including spears, daggers, swords, axes, as well as attacking enemies barehanded. Eventually, he will also come across Kain's personal sword (named the Soul Reaver) and will use it to create a powerful energy blade weapon.The world is left open to Raziel, he can return to areas previously completed and explore the world of Nosgoth at will. Access to certain areas however sometimes requires the use of gained specific abilities. Many of the puzzles the player will need to solve in this quest are block puzzles, requiring the placement of certain large structures (usually square blocks), either to activate switches or to build access to out-of-reach areas. |
| Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - Quest for Melchiah | 1999 | Eidos Interactive Limited | Crystal Dynamics, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - Quest for Melchiah is the SmartSaver series budget edition of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. It only contains one world, taken from the full version of the game, the Quest for Melchiah. |
| Legend of Mulan | 1999 | Tandem Verlag GmbH | Django Studios | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Mini-games | China (Ancient / Imperial) | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Legend of Mulan is a collection of mini games for children. Included are puzzles, memory games, a cartoon, screensaver and a coloring book. Everything is themed around Mulan. |
| Legenden Der Antike | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains two boxed versions of Impressions Games' city building series:
Caesar III
Pharaoh |
| Leisure Suit Larry: Ultimate Pleasure Pack | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Adventure, Compilation | | | Adult | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This collection covers Larry's complete anthology of love, starting from early 1987, when he was still just an amateur, right up until his final love adventure, where he lost count of women in his life.The Leisure Suit Larry: Ultimate Pleasure Pack contains anything and everything Sierra ever made that primarily featured Larry Laffer as the central personality:
Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)
Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals!
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work!
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!
Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Leisure Suit Larry's Casino
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino
The Laffer Utilities
The original Softporn Adventure, from way back in 1981, that inspired Larry's creation.
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| Les Plus Grands Jeux d'Aventure Historique sur DVD-ROM | 1999 | France Télécom Multimédia | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Les Plus Grands Jeux d'Aventure Historique sur DVD-ROM is a compilation of :
Crusader: Adventure Out of Time
Vikings
This compilation is released on a single disc (DVD-ROM). |
| Live Wire! | 1999 | SCi Games Ltd. | Code Monkeys Ltd., The | Action, Strategy | Behind view | | | Arcade | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | A 3D puzzle game where you across a gridded landscape (Tron-cycle like) leaving a coloured trail behind you. Any square on the landcsape that you managed to colour on all sides gets claimed by you and earns you points. You're up against a varied number of opponents and the game covers about 50 levels, with the landscapes having different properties and shapes (e.g spherical world landscape). Add to this a bunch of pickups and bonus abilities, and you've got a retro- puzzle game that's a bit fun. |
| London Racer | 1999 | Davilex Games B.V. | Davilex Games B.V. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Europe | Automobile, Street racing | Direct control | | | | Windows | Arcade racing in and around London in a variety of cars. Compete in three leagues - small cars, luxury sports cars and GT racers on your way to winning the title and the ultimate car.In this UK-customised racing game you drive on the left, knock down Gatsos (speed cameras), and get chased by police in Vauxhall Astras and much more. |
| Looney Tunes: Cosmic Capers - Animated Jigsaws | 1999 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Puzzle | | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Jigsaw puzzles at five difficulty levels. Puzzles are cels from Looney Tunes cartoons, and when you complete one, you get a brief animated video of the cartoon. |
| Lula Flipper | 1999 | CDV Software Entertainment AG | Independent Arts Software GmbH | Simulation | 1st-person | | Adult | Pinball | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Play wild pinball adult style in this game starring Lula from the Wet Attack series. Lula kidnaps you and "forces" you to travel with her to 4 locations. After arriving, you'll find a different game table to play as sexy Lula looks on. |
| Lunar: Silver Star Story - Complete | 1999 | DigiCube Co., Ltd. | EJ Corp., Game Arts Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete is an enhanced remake of Lunar: The Silver Star.The remake features 32-bit graphics (as opposed to the 16-bit of the original); many of the locations and characters have been re-designed. The anime-style cutscenes from the original have turned into full-motion animated movies. Some scenes were added and/or prolonged.While the main storyline remains the same in the remade version, changes were made to some of the quests, dialogue, and motivations of some of the characters. A few characters that play a role in the plot development were added. Some of these changes affect the gameplay as well: for example, a certain character accompanies the party during a major quest in the remake, while in the original that character remained at home.Gameplay system also underwent significant changes. The most notable difference is the elimination of random battles; in the remake, enemies are visibly walking on the screen and can be avoided. Also, enemies no longer appear on the world map. The magic system of the game was altered to resemble the one from the original's sequel. New items have been introduced, and the properties of some others changed. The protagonist Alex's side-kick Nall has now an active role in the battles: he would revive fallen characters, restoring them to 1 HP. |
| Löwenzahn 1: Geschichten aus Natur, Umwelt und Technik - Version 2.0 | 1999 | Terzio, Möllers & Bellinghausen Verlag GmbH | Elephant Seven Multimedia GmbH, Renate Wünschl & Thomas Polajnar GbR | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This is an updated re-release of the original Löwenzahn: Geschichten aus Natur, Umwelt und Technik from 1997, an educational game based on the German TV show Löwenzahn, for children aged six and up.This release now connects to a website about the game, contains a full lexicon, three new mini-games and a voucher for a lexicon sticker. Most likely this is now also a native Windows 9x release. |
| Löwenzahn 2: Geschichten aus Natur, Umwelt und Technik - Version 2.0 | 1999 | Terzio, Möllers & Bellinghausen Verlag GmbH | Scirius Development | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This is an updated re-release of the original Löwenzahn 2: Geschichten aus Natur, Umwelt und Technik from 1997, an educational game based on the German TV show Löwenzahn, for children aged six and up.This release now connects to a website about the game, a new conveyor belt mini-game and a voucher for a lexicon sticker. There is also an additional audio disc with songs. Most likely this is now also a native Windows 9x release. |
| Löwenzahn 3: Geschichten aus Natur, Umwelt und Technik - Version 2.0 | 1999 | Terzio, Möllers & Bellinghausen Verlag GmbH | Scirius Development | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This is an updated re-release of the original Löwenzahn 3: Geschichten aus Natur, Umwelt und Technik from 1999, an educational game based on the German TV show Löwenzahn, for children aged six and up.This version of the game contains a second CD-ROM that deals exclusively with the weather. Created in cooperation with the German weather service, TV channel's ZDF's weatherman Uwe Wesp explains how a weather report is created and provides more information about weather vane, rain and the symbols on a weather map. It also contains a simple kit to build a weather house with instructions on the CD-ROM.Most likely this is now also a native Windows 9x release. |
| MG Owner's Club Freenet | 1999 | MG Owners' Club | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | MG is a brand of British car that has a large and loyal following. MG Owner's Club Freenet is a promotional CD that gives subscribers free access to the internet, an account with five e-mail addresses, access to MG resources. The CD installation menu offers;
Launcher: This gives quick access to the MG Owners Club (MGOC) site.
Internet Explorer: Installs Internet Explorer 5 for WIN 9x and above and Internet Explorer 3.03 for Windows 3.1
Masterclass: A multi media tutorial on how to use the Internet
MGOC Spare parts lookup system
GamesZone: A collection of on-line games. All of these games require Windows 95, playing in another operating system using compatibility mode will not work, additionally some games will not even install if the host pc uses anything other than 256 colours.
GameZone was a UK based internet provider which may have hosted the following on-line gaming web sites. Each supplier has their own launcher on the CD through which players access their sites, play the games and chat to other gamers. Though the games, or a game client, is installed on the player's pc a permanent internet connection is required to play any of them, and as the host sites are now long gone none of the games will run and many won't even show a title screen.
The host sites and their games are;
Engage GamesRolemaster: The Bladelands: This is described as "a real-time, multi-user role-playing game based on the Rolemaster(tm) fantasy role-playing game system"
Castles II Online: This is Castles II: Siege & Conquest to which Interworld Productions and Engage have added an on-line multiplayer capability.
Darkness Falls: This is also a real-time, multi-user, role-playing game which takes place in the "once proud city of Tamia on the world of Olmran", the twist here is that the player's character walks on the dark side.
Descent Online: An on-line version of Parallax Software's space shooter.
Rolemaster: Magestorm: Here teams of magicians fight and compete to destroy shrines.
Splatterball: This is a team based combat game where wizards fire spells at each other in arenas named Splat Lake, Splat Park and Castle Splat.
Virtual Pool - play 8-ball, 9-ball, straight pool, rotation pool against an on-line opponent. Interplay and Celeris Inc are referenced in the installation sequence. The documentation for the Rolemaster, Darkness Falls and Splatterball games gives Interworld Productions LLC as the developer and they dates the games to 1995-1997 however the license agreement shown when all these games are installed is dated 1998
MPGNet Games.
The full name is Multi-Player Games Network and all the games here require the MPG-Net Showcase 4.0 for ICL Network to be installed before they can be installed. The games are:
Backgammon: This looks to be a standard implementation of the game. Though it must be played on-line the player can choose a human or a computer opponent and whether they wish to play as red or black.
The Kingdom of Drakkar an on-line role playing game set in the eponymous kingdom two centuries after the empress released a great evil on the land. It is intended to be a co-operative game as the rules state that killing another player is strictly forbidden!
Empire Builder: This game is set in America in the 1800's and the goal is to make money by building and expanding a railroad network. Whoever initiates the game gets to decide who can play and the victory conditions
Operation Market Garden: The version installed is v3.8.7.1.23 so it has been around a while. This is a two player game with one player controlling the Allied forces of Britain, Poland, U.S.A, and the Dutch while the other controls the Axis forces the German sS, Wehrmacht, Landwehr, Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine. A game consists of ten turns and the key to success is controlling territory.
Minion Hunter: A strategy game set in a post apocalyptic America where minions, entities that feed on human suffering, spawn. The game is played by a team of up to six players and involves fighting the minions and developing the players characters
Imperium. This is a two player, sci-fi, strategy game. Man has left Earth for the stars only to find that the Imperium already controls most of them which leads to an interstellar war. Players manage the resources of their fleets, planets as they aim to accrue the most glory,
Junta. While the previous MPG Net games would not load they at least had help files which could be accessed, all that can be said for Junta is that it is version 0807.00
Additionally the games cannot be run directly they must be run via a launcher program which in turn requires an active MPG Net account.
OceanLine Games: Most of the games here seem to date to 1995/8 and many are linked to Infogrames Telematique, all of them require the display settings to be set to 256 colours. The games are;
Backgammon
Battle Of The Pirates aka Le Defi Des Pirates: This is an Battleships type of game for up to six players
Blitz: A fast, time limited chess game
Crimson Wars: A sci-fi strategy game for up to four players set on Mars
Dust 'N Blast: An on-line driving combat for up to eight players who fight each other using dune buggies with guns
Chaos: Deep Trouble: An undersea adventure
Diagonal Of Aces: A western themed falling block game that uses playing cards, here the player removes cards/blocks by making up poker hands.
Checkmate: This is a traditional chess game. It must be played on-line against another human opponent as there is no AI opponent option.
Pool Academy:
Tennis: A two player game that can be played with either the keyboard or the mouse, once again there is no AI opponent to play against.
Mini-Golf: This on-line game uses the golf tournament format and can cater for up to sixteen people.
The disc has separate install processes for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1. The Windows 3.1 installation does not include all the functionality that is available under Windows 95 - for example there are no games for Windows 3.1. |
| MahJongg Master | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Mahjongg Master recreates the classic Chinese game of strategy. Features include 18 original tile sets (everything from classic MahJongg tiles to all new designs), choice of 70 backgrounds (scenic, animals, textures etc.) and background music.This game was the first Mahjongg game in the long-running Game Master Series developed by René-Gilles Deberdt and edited by eGames, Inc. It was followed by Mahjongg Master: Egyptian Edition. |
| Malkari | 1999 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | iMagic Labs | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Malkari is a 4X (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) space strategy game in the tradition of Reach for the Stars and Master of Orion. However, there is a new twist on the traditional concept here: your solar system has been devastated by a runaway star, ripping the old planets apart into a vast clutter of asteroids. Making things more difficult for long-range planning, the asteroids are all moving at their own particular speeds, so the planet next door may be on the other side of the system a hundred turns from now!Now that your people have emerged from their long cryo-sleep, you must resume the old struggles against rival guilds...all the while trying just to survive in the strange new Malkari system.
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| Mall Maniacs | 1999 | AddGames Advertainment AB | Unique Development Studios AB | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Mall Maniacs is an advertising tie-in shopping game with four game modes: The main game mode (where you need to buy all the groceries marked on your list before your opponents), random mode (where you're randomly introduced to a grocery you must find), a quiz mode (you must answer questions about groceries in order to pick them up) and the shopping cart race.You can choose from ten characters, each with their own stats to enter the race for groceries in five levels: Mini Market, Jungle, Oriental, Aqua and the Future.The game also supports network play. |
| Mary King's Riding Star | 1999 | Midas Computer Games GmbH | IR Gurus Interactive Pty Ltd. | Sports, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Mary King's Riding Star is a managerial simulation set in the equestrian sports business. The game focuses in the athletic part, this means there are no finances to manage and the goal of the game is to win as many championships as possible in the events dressage, cross country and showjumping. To achieve this goal the player has to "manage" his horse by using the training grounds to improve the horses's skills. The player also has to manually clean the stall and feed and groom the horse. The championships are shown in a isometric perspective with spoken commentary. There are options to personalize the game, e.g. by naming the horse and choose its color.The game is largely based on the original 1998 Riding Star and was created in cooperation with its developer Blue Tongue. |
| Mary-Kate & Ashley's: Dance Party of the Century | 1999 | Dualstar Interactive | Hyperspace Cowgirls | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | Mini-games, Music / rhythm | Contemporary | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mary-Kate & Ashley's: Dance Party Of The Century is a title that aims to show kids how to perform dance moves from various eras. It also has tips for hosting a themed party with ideas for appropriate food, invitations and party games. Also present are some single player mini games.Everything here is mouse controlled, the sections are all introduced by either Ashley Olsen or Mary-Kate Olsen and all the dance moves are demonstrated by one or both of them.The activities/games on the disc are;
Dance Class: This is the section that has dance moves from different eras, here you will find;
1920's - The Charleston
1940's - The Mambo
1950's - The Jitterbug
1960's - The Twist
1970's - Disco
1980's - Western Line Dancing
1990's - Vogue
2000's - Hip Hop Freestyle
Each dance has either Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen or both dancing in a small central screen to an appropriate tune. Beneath the dance window are video-like controls which allow the player to pause, stop, play, fast forward and rewind the action. Also on the screen is a separate slow motion button and a 'Fabulous Footwork' button which changes the dance screen for a series of still photographs which are highlighted as they appear in the dance.
Name That Dance: The player is presented with a screen covered in footprints. Some of these are highlighted in a sequence that represents a set of dance steps from the dance eras listed above and the player has to guess which. This is a timed puzzle but it is just for fun as the score is not recorded.
Name That Danceable Tune: This is a two part, timed game. When selected the player hears a tune which comes from one of Mary-Kate and Ashley's television shows, their first task is to guess the title of the tune from five or six options shown on screen. Once the correct title has been selected the second part of the game is to guess which video featured the song from three possible options. Both parts of the game are timed and making an incorrect choice affects the score but it's all just for fun as the score is not recorded and there's ample time to select all options. Once the correct video title has been selected the player is treated to some still photographs from it,
Let's Have A Dance Party!: The player selects one of the dance eras and is presented with themed recipes, invitations, menu cards, decorations & costumes and a printable scrapbook.
Dress Up To Dance: This is a dress-up game. In the centre of the screen are portrait pictures of Mary-Kate and Ashley and on the extreme left and right are dress up options hats, hair, necklaces etc. Along the bottom of the screen is a bar showing all the dance eras, as the player selects a different era the dress up options change. The player dresses the girls by dragging an item into place, items from different eras can be combined.
Scrambled Eras: Another 'just for fun' timed puzzle. Here the payer is presented with a screen of objects that float around and overlap each other. At the bottom of the screen is one of the featured dance eras and the player's task is to select all those which do not belong to that period.
Even when the 'install all game files' option is chosen the CD must be in the drive for the game to play.
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| MatchBox Caterpillar Big Dirt Movers | 1999 | Mattel Interactive | AWE Productions, Inc. | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | Truck, Vehicle simulator | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | MatchBox Caterpillar Big Dirt Movers is a game which lets you play in a sandbox and on the beach with Matchbox toys. The game lets you play at five different construction and building zones with ten different caterpillar vehicles.Gameplay modes consist of exploration, beat the clock and task-based play. Completing any of the modes rewards you with a printable certificate of achievement. There are fifteen levels total, which can be played on three difficulty levels.Objectives range from saving a sandcastle from the tide, clearing car wrecks to make way for a new park and building an airport. You use various vehicles to dig, level, wreck, construct and pave your way to the next level.The game comes with a CAT encyclopedia that can give you insight in the vehicles the game offers. |
| Math Blaster for 1st Grade | 1999 | Davidson & Associates, Inc. | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Math Blaster for 1st Grade is an educational game for children aged five to seven that teaches maths based on the U.S. curriculum for the first grade. In this title the three characters Max Blaster, G.C. and Mel are at the Intergalactic Zoo where they want to help the animals to get some exercise because they have gotten lazy. There are six different activities based on maths with five difficulty levels where the characters earn trading cards. Once five of them have been collected, a game of Tickle Tag ensues with one of the animals. It is an arcade game much like Pac Man but with a more open layout where the dog Melon Blaster races in a maze to collect feathers and avoid zoo critters that want to tickle Melon.Each activity has a mini-story. Riding Gnat Zapper for instance, Max and Mel practice addition and subtraction. This is done through a side-scrolling sequence where they need to avoid bugs while aiming the animal's tongue at the flying creatures with the correct answer on their sides. Other activities are telling time with Knock-a-Clock based on the habits of different creatures, measuring the food for the Woozerps and shooting them in a gallery game, collecting eggs with Eggdrop, sorting with Crazy Bugs and more. Player can also create custom number stories by combining numbers, shapes, letters and words freely.Skills that are developed are addition and subtraction, counting, equalities, logic, measurement, money, sorting, story problems, and time telling. There is a treasure room where a star chart can be consulted to track the progress. Parents and teachers can track strengths and weaknesses, there is a ticker maker, and math puzzles can be printed for after-computer learning. |
| Medicopter 117: Jedes Leben zählt | 1999 | RTL Interactive GmbH | Interactivision A/S | Action, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Helicopter | | | | | Windows | Medicopter 117 is a licensed game about the eponymous German action TV series. It is the first game released in the series. As expected the player controls a chopper and must help with rescuing people from dangerous situations. The simulation comes with 18 missions with various tasks. Saving hill-climbers, finding missed people and transporting injured casualties and similar objectives have to be finished. The player can test his skills in seven bonus missions. There is no campaign or story mode, all missions can be accessed by the player without any restrictions. |
| Mephisto Genius 99 | 1999 | NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH | | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Mephisto Genius 99 is a chess simulation which is aimed at experienced players. It has strong similarity to its predecessor, including a optional 3D view of the chess board, extensive trainings and analysis functions and freely modifiable opponents. New features are 13 opponents which resemble chess world champions like Fischer or Kasparov and a expandable data base with 230 000 games played by master players. The user interface resembles the Windows look. |
| Metal Knight: Mission - Terminate Resistance | 1999 | Global Village, Inc. | Overmax Studio | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | It is the 32nd century and there is a war going on about a planet near the Earth colony Adonia which is rich of resources. There are three war parties: The Empire of Adonia, the aggressor, the Fire Hawk Corps, the local rebels, and the Earth Union Defense Army which represents the Earth's interests. The player takes the role of one side to lead them to victory. There are three campaigns with 20 missions each.The game itself is played like many other games of its kind: The player constructs a base consisting of several buildings which serve a special purpose, e.g. producing energy. Then he builds troops and rushes the other bases. A special feature is the possibility to build own weapons and troop equipment by assembling different components. |
| Mia's Big Adventure Collection: The Search for Grandma's Remedy | 1999 | Kutoka Interactive Inc | Kutoka Interactive Inc | Educational | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Puzzle elements | North America | | Point and select | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Mia's grandmother becomes ill and beckons her to gather the ingredients needed to make her medicine. Along the way to the store, Mia loses her Sparklies to Romaine Rat. The recommended age group is ages 5 to 9. The game has a mixture of side-scrolling and mouse-controlled interactions as Mia goes through the house. There are nine activities that cover reading, vocabulary, spelling, phonics and word recognition. |
| Michael Owen's World League Soccer '99 | 1999 | Eidos, Inc. | Silicon Dreams Studio Ltd. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Michael Owen was England's youngest ever goalscorer and biggest hero, until superseded on both counts by Wayne Rooney. He put his name to a game balanced between the action of an arcade game and the realism of a simulation.The game incorporates the leading international teams along with some 200 domestic teams from Europe, Japan, and USA. Each player's abilities are rated out of 10 in several key areas. Statistics including shots (in total and on target), fouls, and possession are recorded. Set pieces are controlled by moving a line to direct the ball. While trying to play a pass, the player can switch control to the footballer hoping to receive the ball.The player can choose from competition structures including leagues and Cup championships, a practice mode, and single friendly matches, with the World Cup perhaps as the ultimate prize. It is also possible for the player to design own competitions. |
| Microsoft Baseball 2000 | 1999 | Microsoft Corporation | Wizbang! Software Productions | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | A realistic baseball game offering the full gamut of play-capabilities, from the single game to a full season. The players are from the 1999 baseball season. A rather unique option is the "play tonight's game" feature wherein the player can play a game for a specific date in the 1999 season. |
| Microsoft International Soccer 2000 | 1999 | Microsoft Corporation | Rage Games Ltd. | Sports | | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | After the universally panned Microsoft Soccer, Microsoft went with an experienced software house in football videogames, and Rage Software of Ultimate Soccer and the Striker series fame was chosen to develop a sports titled aimed at the European market.Featuring 73 international teams (all unlicensed, but with unique kits and an editor allows to customize each player's name and appearance) plus seven custom teams. Each team is rated out of five values in defense, attack and midfield, and players are rated in five attributes plus two variables (fitness and injury). There are several competitions at the disposal of the player, including continental cups, customized leagues and a scenario mode, inspired by several World Cup games such as the 1990 World Cup semi-finals between England and Germany or the 1974 second round match between the Netherlands and Brazil. Between the four lines the player can choose between 6 stadiums, three weather conditions (clear, rain or snow), disabling offsides and game length. As for gameplay, the game is a typical action game of the period, with the twist of having two modifier keys for high and low balls and some keys change in effect depending on the context. A typical cross-header play goes with a player running through the flank, hitting the shoot button (holding for a tense cross with lower arc) and then connect with the ball using the "low ball" button for a finesse header or the "high ball" for a powerful header. Dead balls are played using the usual "arrow" method where the player starts by setting the height, depth and aim of the ball, then add spin as the player holds the shooting button. |
| Might and Magic: Millennium Edition | 1999 | 3DO Company, The | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | A partial compilation of the Might and Magic series. Game manuals and hint books are included as PDF files. The games included are:
Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen
Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen
Might and Magic: Swords of Xeen
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor
The first two Xeen episodes combine into one large game, World of Xeen.European release of the Millennium Edition contains only:
Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor
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| Mike Stewart's Pro Bodyboarding | 1999 | Pacific Interactive Entertainment | Gee Whiz! Entertainment | Action, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Tricks / stunts | | | | | | | Windows | Mike Stewart's Pro Bodyboarding is a sports game based on bodyboarding, a derivative of wave riding where players lie down on the board to perform tricks. The game is named after Mike Stewart, one of the pioneers of the sport and winner of nine world championship titles. Players can choose from different characters, including Stewart, to ride the waves.When starting a game, the player needs to ride the board inside a wave, rendered in 3D. The boarder can be moved around and perform tricks such as forward spins, reverse spins, air rolls, backflips, double barrel rolls, and more, for points. There are twelve types of tricks in total. The boarders also need to avoid rocks, buoys and swimmers in some modes. After a certain time limit, the session ends. When dropping off the board, the character will climb back on, losing a few seconds, and continue. In the Arcade mode however, the game stops when the board is damaged too heavily.The six game modes are Contest, Arcade, Slalom, Practice, Training, and there is a hot-seat multiplayer mode for two players. The rides take place on locations all over the world, each with different types of waves, and the characters have different characteristics. |
| Millennium MegaHits | 1999 | Encore, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains the following games:Duke Nukem 3D
Heavy Gear
Sid Meier's Civilization II
Tomb Raider
Total Annihilation |
| Millennium Quiz | 1999 | Global Software Publishing Ltd. | | Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Millennium Quiz is a single player quiz program.The game consists of 100 quizzes each of which contains 60 questions and which can be played by one to four players. All questions are timed multiple choice questions. At the end of each quiz the player(s) score is presented.Apart from the entry of the player's name(s) the game is entirely mouse controlled. |
| Millennium Racer: Y2K Fighters | 1999 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Creat Studio, LLC | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | Motorcycle | | | | | Windows | Millennium Racer: Y2K Fighters is a 3D racing game set in the 3rd millennium. Race virtual bikes on multi-level tracks in a virtual world set in the Internet to a background of techno music.Choose the player’s look including color and face type or use your own picture. There are eight different bike colors to choose from and four different engine types from fast with no grip to tight grip and good acceleration.Arcade mode offers three tracks (at first) to race on each one having different levels on which to race with which the player has to jump up on to reach. The higher levels having a faster track called superconductor, which allows the player a boost in speed. The player's bikes are equipped with boosters, which are filled up by jumping through rings and can be activated at any time.There are two different championship levels to choose from: 5 laps with four AI (Artificial Intelligence) players with average skills and professional and 7 laps with seven AI players with high skills. In each race the player receive points for coming in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd and even additional points for time distance between the player and the player in front. Each new track requires a certain point total to be unlocked.After unlocking tracks in championship mode, the player may race on them in arcade or create a custom race by choosing laps (3, 5, or 7), number of AI opponents and the list of player profiles (Player Ghost – each player can record how they raced a particular track and mode and save it to a separate file. This can then be used as an opponent in a race). The player may race in the real life Internet with seven other players in multiplayer mode.
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| Millennium Soldier: Expendable | 1999 | Rage Software Ltd. | Rage Software Ltd. | Action | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | 2D scrolling | Windows | In 2463 a race of vicious aliens has invaded human planets, wiping out the population of Novocastria first. Only the Millennium Soldier can lead the human fightback. In this sci-fi action game, reflex shooting dominates over planning or tactical play. Expect non-stop action from fighting and relentlessly killing off tons of bad guys across more than 20 levels of 3rd person 3D action, taking place inside and outside. Powering up your weaponry is crucial - there are 18 different ones to collect, from pulse cannons to particle accelerators and rockets to missiles. Two player cooperative and deathmatch modes are provided. |
| Milton Bradley Classic Board Games | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Random Games, Inc. | Compilation, Simulation | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Chess | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Milton Bradley Classic Board Games is a collection of board games licensed by Hasbro. The game is very similar to Parker Brothers Classic Card Games, by the same publisher and developer. The player can create a profile and go head-to-head with animated computer-controlled characters in one of seven classic board games:
Checkers
Connect Four
Chess
Dominoes
Parcheesi
Pente
Backgammon
Although the servers have long since been shut down, it was also possible to play a multiplayer game online on Microsoft's Zone.com online gaming service (now MSN Games). |
| Mini Golf Master | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | No.2 Games | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Mini Golf Master is effectively the sequel and big brother to Miniverse Minigolf. This game has one training hole and four 9 hole mini golf courses which are 'Planet Miniverse', 'Space Holes', The Suburbs', and 'War Torn' plus there is a fifth option called 'Random 9' which is a match played over random holes from the other four courses. Games are for 1-4 players and can be scored as either Stroke Play, Hole Winner, or on croquet rules. Holes feature teleports, land mines, and other obstacles and often involve sinking the ball down one hole to have it reappear in another part of the course.The game is mouse controlled and players can choose to control their putter by pushing or pulling the mouse plus they can select one of several different colours for their golf ball. The game requires the CD to be in the drive when it is played. |
| Miniverse Minigolf | 1999 | | No.2 Games | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Two 9 hole mini golf courses for 1-4 players. One course is set on "Earth" and features putting through locations such as a construction site, a war zone, and a casino. The other course is set in space and includes a variety of science fiction obstacles like teleporters and laser shields. Players can choose to control their putter by pushing or pulling the mouse and can select one of several different colors for their golf ball. |
| Miss Spider's Tea Party | 1999 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Hypnotix, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Miss Spider's Tea Party invites children 3 to 7 years old to enter children's book author David Kirk's world of color and wonder. Mini-games provide hours of fun with a healthy serving of age-appropriate basic skills practice. Miss Spider's friends want to attend her party, but they each have a problem that needs to be resolved. It's up to the child to play the games and help all the friends make it to the party. When the child succeeds at all mini-games, Miss Spider thanks the player with an invitation of their own -- something to print and cherish. Each game has an easy, medium and difficult level. The game contains a lot of 3D images and animation that capture the unique look and feel of the book.The mini games: The Beetles River Cross Game
The Beetles want to attend Miss Spider's party, but they have a wide river to cross. Help them get from shore to shore by jumping from rock to leaf to tadpole to branch without falling in the water. The Crickets Band Game
The Crickets want to attend Miss Spider's party, but they need to form a band. Player matches each musical sound with its instrument. Match the whole band and they'll play a tune. The Bee Flower Matching Game
The Bees want to attend Miss Spider's party, but they have to pollinate flowers. Each Bee has a flower in mind. Choose the ones they're thinking of so they can finish up and head to the party. The Hiding Butterfly Game
The Butterflies want to attend Miss Spider's party, but they must find all their friends. The colorful Butterflies are cleverly hiding in several scenes. Find them all so they can come to the party. |
| Missile Command | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Meyer Glass Interactive Ltd. | Action | | | | Arcade | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Defend cities around the world from an airborne alien attack. This is a remake of the '70s arcade game, and features 3d graphics, counter-strike capabilities, new enemies & power-ups, and multiplayer functionality. Play is available in a Classic mode, which has only minorly retouched gameplay. Ultimate mode has new graphics, locations, and other caveats. |
| Mister Quizz et les Naufragés de la Planète Zluton | 1999 | VTech Electronics North America, L.L.C. | pixelpark | Action, Educational, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | These are the last days of Planet Zluton, since an asteroid is going to collide with it ! The smarter alien of this planet will be given the chance to escape (building his own rocket) after playing this trivia game. The seems weird but anyway...Mister Quizz et les Naufragés de la Planète Zluton is a game for one to four players. The game is keyboard controlled, but buzzers can be bought separately. Before answering questions, player(s) first need to register, choose an avatar, then answer three rounds of questions:
Round 1: players have to choose from 4 themes
Round 2: players have to choose from 3 themes
Round 3: players have to choose from 2 themes
Themes available are: science-fiction, history, mythology, leisure, inventions, movies and television, sports, literature and nature. The game includes more than 1000 questions and has a built-in editor to add more. The more chtongs (sorry, points) you win, the quicker your rocket will be built. |
| Mobil 1 Rally Championship | 1999 | Actualize Ltd. | Creative Asylum Limited, Magnetic Fields (Software Design) Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing | Direct control | | | | Windows | This is the third rally simulation from Magnetic Fields and Europress (now renamed Actualize). This is a very realistic and highly detailed simulation which accurately recreates the Mobil 1 British Rally Championship. 36 tracks are available, all of which have been created by mapping the real life locations to create a highly accurate racing experience. There are also 22 rally cars to race in which have also been created from their real life counterparts. Although the name of the game is Mobil 1 British Rally Championship, it simply says "Rally Championship" on the front of the box and the game manual. Ignoring this little problem this game is an excellent addition to Europress' rally series and possibly the most realistic racing game ever. |
| Mobility: A City in Motion | 1999 | | GLAMUS Gesellschaft für moderne Kommunikation mbH | Educational, Simulation, Strategy | | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Visually very similar to the Sim City series, Mobility also allows the player to control and dictate the growth of a city, but the main focus of the game is other: public transportation.While the player is in charge of developing an empty plot of land like in SimCity 2000, by "zoning" areas to residential, commercial and industrial buildings in different densities, as well as services such as malls, schools and several entertainment facilities, the true goal of the game is assuring all citizens can move from their homes to their jobs, commercial and entertainment buildings without stressing in traffic jams or overpolluting the area, lowering the quality of life of those living next to busy streets. For that, the player can setup traffic signs, define maximum road speeds and priorities at crossings, create an efficient network of public transportation buses, and at more advanced levels, urban railroads and several commodities such as parking spots, active navigation and "park and ride" systems. Research also plays a part in the game. Long-term projects of emissions reduction, fuel consumption efficiency, electric and hydrogen vehicles and teleworking all affect the city efficiency and quality of life of your citizens. As the goal is to keep a large city with as little people driving and polluting as possible, by adjusting traffic fines and taxes (providing bonuses to drivers of minicars, for instance) and rewarding those who renounce their car, work at home or decide on a non-fossil fuel powered car by giving them a lower tax burden.There are two game modes: Normal and Master Mode, where the player is free to develop the city even if it went into debt or features poor evaluations. In this mode, simulations settings can also be tweaked to study the effect of them in the map. Some scenarios where the player has to solve issues in a city are also included. |
| Mon Atelier de Coloriage | 1999 | Micro Application, S.A. | Turbo Music Interactive | Educational | | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mon Atelier de Coloriage is an electronic coloring book suitable for toddlers.It features more than 400 pictures sorted in 30 themes. The program displays a color palette and drawing tools, but the pictures can also be printed (parents can block printer usage while they're not around). The game also provides storybooks ready to be colored, such as: My Birthday, Going to the Zoo, Holidays on the Farm, A Journey to the Seashore and so on. |
| Monaco Grand Prix Racing Simulation 2 | 1999 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | Oceania | Automobile, Track racing | | | Everyone | | Windows | The sequel to F1 Racing Simulation recreates the 1997 season, featuring 17 authentic tracks, 11 teams and cars with their 22 drivers. The Monaco license is used, although the teams themselves are not licensed. A total of 22 camera views are provided.Telemetry is stored and analysed in a similar way to Grand Prix 2, and physics are modeled to be realistic. There are eight different modes to race, the new ones being a career mode in which you start with a poor team and must drive well enough to earn competitive rides, and scenarios recreating key races for particular drivers. Returning from the first game are Time Attack, a full championship, and a 50s retro mode. There is also a track editor to create your own tracks. |
| Mortadelo y Filemón: La Máquina Meteoroloca | 1999 | Zeta Multimedia S.A. | VEGA Creaciones Multimedia, S.L. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Mortadelo y Filemón: La Máquina Meteoroloca is an adventure game based on the Spanish comic book characters and presented with comic-style visuals. Professor Gambérrez, tired of world pollution, creates a machine able of changing the weather whenever he wants, but it causes a mess all over the city. To stop him, Mortadelo and Filemón must find Anselmo Isóbarez, scientific and college partner of Gambérrez. Next to many animated story sequences and conversations, the characters need to solve puzzles. |
| Mortyr: 2093-1944 | 1999 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Mirage Media S. C. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic, World War II | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | In an alternate version of the 21st century, the Germans have taken over the world after winning World War II. The player is a scientist in the future and, with the help of a time machine, they travel back to the war to alter the outcome and find out how the Nazis managed to win it in the first place.In this first-person shooter, the player encounters Hitler's SS troops and Wehrmacht infantry equipped with pistols, machine guns, bazookas, and more eccentric weapons in locations such as castles and ruined cities. Using the time machine, players also travel back to see the impact of their actions, such as with modern scenery and weapons. Vehicles, planes, and submarines are active game elements in a 3D world powered by Calaris' IC engine.The game has lots of explicit violence and includes Nazi symbols, and German voice acting. |
| Mr. Tiny Adventures | 1999 | Hammer Technologies | Island Dream - Games & Soft | Action | Side view | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Mr Tiny is a single worker to whom the spell of a witch has caused him to become the size of an insect. Drag your 30 grams of weight through various scenarios, where any single and common object can be a deadly enemy. You need to finish 9 levels of the game to get all the talismans to help you break the spell of the witch and restore your normal size. Mr Tiny, the great lover of beer, is depending on you. Drive through large areas of the kitchen, the pipes, the garden, the street... till the witch house ( your neighbor)
Avoid the enemies that come your way, You can kill them as well as jump over them like in other games. Move objects to access to different higher places, which before he had to crouch down to get to. See how you can change the life of a single person in an extreme situation. |
| Multimedia Dinosaurs | 1999 | Lifeboat Productions | REMedia Inc. | Educational, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Multimedia Dinosaurs is an educational dinosaur game, with flash animation, colorful graphics and lots of dinosaur illustrations. The menu of the game has three sections: Dinorama, Dinosaur Database and Dinosaur Silhouettes. Dinorama is a cartoon area where you can watch flash animated cartoons of a dinosaur's life. There are 18 cartoons in total, two for each dinosaur featured.Dinosaur Database has three educational sections in it. The Gallery section is a giant collection of 48 colorful illustrations. It lets you view one up close when you click on it on the right side. This is the educational section about those dinosaurs. The Names section has a list of 50 dinosaur names that can help you locate the dinosaur that you are trying to find in the gallery section, and lists two new dinosaurs that were not shown in the gallery. The choose section has four dinosaur fact groups that help you identify a dinosaur by its size, how it ate, what time period it lived in and what continent it lived on.Dinosaur Silhouettes is a game in which you have to identify a dinosaur that has been completely blackened. The game does not have different difficulty levels, continually goes on and there is no highscore. |
| Muppet Kids: Volume 1 - Letters: Capital & Small | 1999 | Brighter Minds Media, Inc. | Brighter Child Interactive, LLC | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Muppet Kids: Volume 1 - Letters: Capital & Small is a Preschool and Kindergarten oriented game that features the Muppets and teaches uppercase and lowercase letters with 22 activities going through all letters of the alphabet, starting with A and gradually working towards Z. The activities consist of simply clicking or clicking and dragging objects that correspond with the highlighted letter of the alphabet. |
| Muppet Kids: Volume 2 - Beginning Sounds: Phonics | 1999 | Brighter Minds Media, Inc. | Brighter Child Interactive, LLC | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Muppet Kids: Volume 2 - Beginning Sounds: Phonics is a Preschool and Kindergarten oriented game that features the Muppets and teaches word pronunciation and simple words throughout 20 activities such as rhymes. Each activity has the player click or click and drag one more objects to follow the instructions. |
| Muppet Kids: Volume 3 - Sound Patterns: Phonics | 1999 | Brighter Minds Media, Inc. | Brighter Child Interactive, LLC | Educational | | Licensed | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Muppet Kids: Volume 3 - Sound Patterns: Phonics is a Kindergarten oriented game that features the Muppets and teaches the first letters of words, mainly through rhyme within a total of 20 activities. The player simply clicks or clicks and drags the correct option from a choice of two or more objects. |
| My First Amazing British Isles Explorer | 1999 | DK Interactive Learning | | Educational | | | | Mini-games | Europe | | Point and select | | | | Windows | My First Amazing British Isles Explorer is a single player edutainment title for children aged between five and nine years of age. As this is a British Isles Explorer it includes England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. It is intended for both home and classroom use, it is linked to the UK National Curriculum, and the manual gives advice to teachers on how to demonstrate the features to pupils.The main menu is based on a child's bedroom with a large interactive map of the British Isles on the wall. Many of the objects in the bedroom are animated and may trigger an activity (see below) but the wall map is a key part of the title. As the cursor moves over towns and features it triggers animations and factoids about the various locations.To the left of the map are icons for;
Geography Of The British Isles: where the player can find maps, definitions, flags and national anthems
Great Britain: Information of the countries that make up Great Britain, the languages, climate, length and breadth etc
Ireland: The same kind of information as described above
Fact File: Longest rivers, highest mountains etc
Where I Live: a feature that allows the user to do just that
Activities:Explorer Challenge: Somewhere within the bedroom is a telephone. When located and used the player will receive a message from Joe who is travelling but has left an important package behind. He will ask the player to deliver it to him and gives a clue to his location, however when the player goes to the appropriate location Joe and his family have moved on leaving a clue to their next location. There are ten rounds to this game and at the end the player is rewarded with a medal.There are five challenges in all and when the player has completed them all they become a "British Isles Explorer" and receive a printable certificate.
Sticker Book: The pop-up factoids on the map hide fifty stickers grouped into ten themes. To collect a sticker the player, when a pop-up is triggered, clicks on the Sticker Book icon and must then answer a multiple choice question correctly for the sticker to be added to their album.
Raise The Flag! Quiz: When the player answers a question correctly a flag will be raised a little higher. Once it reaches the top an on-screen vehicle will start up and drive away. There are five flags to raise, the questions are multiple choice and the quiz has two difficulty settings
Other non game-like activities are;Notice Board: At each location visited the player can send themselves a postcard and the Notice Board is where they are displayed
Map Outlines: Printable outlines of each country
Maps Of The World And Europe: Illustrated maps showing the British Isles in relation to everywhere else
Weather Report: It's unclear whether this is a link to a live weather site or if it is generated within the game, either way the report is narrated and can be saved to the game's Television.
Suitcase: This can be accessed from any screen, it holds the print, copy, configuration, help and quit options.
Television: This shows the Weather Report (see above) and a video of The Atlantic Ocean. |
| My Spelling Words | 1999 | PC-Magic Software | | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | "My Spelling Words" is an Educational Software title to help teach children how to spell. In addition to pre-recorded words, you can record your own words for inclusion in the spelling tests. |
| Myst: Masterpiece Edition | 1999 | Red Orb Entertainment | Cyan Worlds, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy, Steampunk | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This is a remake of the Myst adventure from the Windows 3.1 platforms. They've added a whole new engine in the game, with many new options and things that may be of some big help. Not to mention better sound, and 24-bit graphics instead of 8-bit 256 colors. If you never played the original Myst, try this one, it's much closer to you. |
| Myth: The Total Codex | 1999 | Bungie Studios | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | The compilation package consists of:
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Myth II: Soulblighter
Myth II: Chimera
Strategy guides for Myth I and Myth II and multiplayer maps.
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| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Racing | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Papyrus Design Group, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | Josette Ghiseline, Michelle Balkan, Ingrid Capozzoli, Julie Sparks | | Everyone | | Windows | Simulation of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, this is essentially one piece of NASCAR Racing 1999 Edition sold as standalone. Drive 700 hp trucks around the tracks competing against the best truck racers. Full 3DFX accelerator support. Paint kit included. |
| NASCAR Legends | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Papyrus Design Group, Inc. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | NASCAR Legends takes all the top drivers, cars, and most of the tracks from the 1970 NASCAR season. It used a modified version of the NASCAR 2 engine, but all 4 different cars (Ford Torino, Plymouth Superbird, Dodge Daytona, and Mercury) each have a different look and feel. The tracks are detailed from 1970.It also added force feedback support. |
| NASCAR Racing 3 | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Papyrus Design Group, Inc. | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | The NASCAR Racing series gained more features in this iteration. The game includes full Winston Cup and Busch Grand National cars, drivers, and tracks. Race length and opposition ability can be customized, as can full-course yellow presence and restart style. The action can be replayed from multiple angles and saved to disk.Setup options include specialized elements such as grille tape and sway bars. Resolutions up to 1024x768 are supported with 3D acceleration. Smarter AI than before will keep you on your toes. The game includes a paint-kit to create your own paint jobs. An internet multiplayer system is built in. |
| NASCAR Racing: 1999 Edition | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Papyrus Design Group, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | | | | Windows | NASCAR Racing is back for 1999, and you get three racing series in one package: Winston Cup, Busch Grand National, and Craftsman Truck Series. Updated from NASCAR Racing 2, you get 34 different tracks (11 never seen before). Includes modem (2-player) and network (8-player) support. |
| NASCAR Road Racing | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | FarSight Technologies Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person | Licensed | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing | | | Everyone | | Windows | EA Sports' second NASCAR PC game, NASCAR Road Racing uses the same engine as NASCAR Revolution. The game contains only road course racing on 12 fantasy road course tracks, and features 26 NASCAR drivers. |
| NBA Inside Drive 2000 | 1999 | Microsoft Corporation | High Voltage Software, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | NBA Inside Drive is Microsoft's answer to EA Sports. It features a full coaching mode as well as arcade-type action where you control the players. Each player has the unique face and they move very convincingly across the court in all their graphical glory. |
| NFK: Santa's Gone Postal | 1999 | Fiendish Games, Ltd. | Fiendish Games, Ltd. | Action, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | In this 3D shooter, the player gets to control a psychotic hunter named Harry disguised as Santa. Harry never liked cute furry creatures, so decides this christmas season, it's time to teach those lovable creatures a lesson. During the ten levels of the game he goes hunting for Reindeers, polar bears and Santa's little helpers (manic elves). This game is a sequel to the 3D shooter, Natural Fawn Killers. |
| NFL Blitz 2000 | 1999 | Infogrames North America | Midway Games, Inc. | Action, Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | New edition of Midway's "NFL Jam" action/sports game where the emphasis is on bone-crushing action rather than sport simulation.Additions this year come in the form of a season mode, a simpler passing system based on preset buttons (gone is the "aiming" mechanism) as well as a limited yet functional play-book editor.Also included are new audible calls and voice-overs, smoother animations and new stadiums to play in.Supports multiplayer gameplay of up to 4 players in one single machine! (two on keyboard, two on gamepads). |
| NIRA: Intense Import Drag Racing | 1999 | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | NIRA: Intense Import Drag Racing is a drag racing simulator. Tune your choice of 10 different cars and take it out to one of the several available game modes: single race, quick race, multi-race event or a full career mode.Including over 20 race tracks and literally hundreds of parts you can customize your car with, if the single play modes aren't enough, the game supports up to 32 players multi play modes. |
| Na tropach języka polskiego | 1999 | Edgard | Edgard | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Na tropach języka polskiego is an educational game where the player learns vocabulary, grammar of the Polish language and Polish literature as well. It is intended to be software that helps students learn for primary and secondary school exams.The game contains several puzzles, quizzes and crossovers to test the player's knowledge about the Polish language, as well as a dictionary and an explanation of all grammar rules in the Polish language with examples. The player uses the mouse to click on various interactive elements in the room and the keyboard to input letters and words in various puzzles. |
| Namco Collection: Vol. 1 | 1999 | Namco Limited | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A compilation of the following games:
Final Lap
Valkyrie no Densetsu
Sky Kid Deluxe |
| Napoleon 1813 | 1999 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Simulation | 1st-person, Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Real-time, Turn-based | | | Windows | Napoleon 1813 is a war simulation about France's campaign from 1813/1814 under Napoleon I. The player either takes the role of France to conquer Europe or one of the allied Prussia, Austria, Russia or Sweden. As usual with such games the most time is spent on overhead maps and statistics screens. There the player gives his orders. The game simulates a lot of war factors which are important in a real battle too, e.g. exhaustion, morale or supply lines. Despite this the game is played in real time but optional there also is a round based mode available. The troop movements are shown in big arrows on the map, combat results are calculated by the computer.In 2001 it was released as Open Source. |
| Native Assault | 1999 | Adrenaline Entertainment | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Native Assault is a single-player shareware Missile Command clone.The game is mouse-controlled, moving the mouse aims the missile while left clicking fires them. The game is over when either all buildings are destroyed or when the base is destroyed. A novel feature for such games is the option to purchase more missiles, repair buildings and/or upgrade missiles between rounds.Level one was released as shareware. Upon registration, the player received a code which unlocked the full game. |
| Nikki: The First Adventure | 1999 | VQ International AB | Resco Learning | Action, Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Arcade | Contemporary | | Direct control | | | | Windows | NIKKI - The First Adventure is an adventure game with some action elements. The story takes place at Shady Pines, a private riding stable and school. The school, owned by Carl and Anna, is located nearby the small Swedish village called Shady Pines, surrounded by forests and meadows. As mysterious things have been happening recently in the Shady Pines Riding School, the player takes a role of Nikki, who will try to figure out the puzzles by pretending one of the students. Aside of classic adventure gameplay the game involves a mini action challenges and features extended horses knowledge in form of an encyclopedia, tests and daily horse related tasks (feeding, cleaning). |
| Nikolai's Treats | 1999 | Nikolai.com Inc. | Hoffmann + Associates Inc., Nikolai.com Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Nikolai’s Treats is an educational computer game for ages 4 and up, part of the Nikolai’s Adventure Series. In this game, Nikolai and his toy cat Neow-Neow travel to Italy, France, Japan, and Mexico and start a cooking show with the player helping them out. The player can choose from the pre-made recipes or create his/her own in the cookbook to print out for friends and family. There are also some mini-games that teach math and geography to the player. |
| Nocturne | 1999 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | Terminal Reality, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery, Horror | | Interwar | | | | Mature | | Windows | It is the end of the Prohibition, and the beginning of the Great Depression in the United States of America. The Stranger is a mysterious operative of a secret organization known as "Spookhouse", founded by President Theodore Roosevelt to combat supernatural creatures. He investigates four cases, which can be played in any order and involve teaming up with a half-vampire to retrieve a powerful artifact from a castle in Germany, liberating a Wild West town from a zombie assault, fighting reanimated mobsters created by the mafia boss Al Capone in Chicago, and solving the mystery of a house with deadly traps.Nocturne is an action game with survival horror elements. The game features 3D characters and pre-rendered backgrounds with fixed camera angles. The Stranger mostly fights with firearms, and has to confront monsters and mythological creatures. The player can opt to aim manually, or choose the auto-aim option from the menu. |
| Noid'99 | 1999 | Dual Heights Software | | Action | | | | Paddle / Pong | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Noid'99 - so named because it's like Arkanoid and was written in 1999 - is a single player, freeware Breakout game that can be played with either the keyboard or the mouse.The game has fifty levels, music, sound effects, the usual power-ups and a high score table. What makes this game a bit different is the appearance of space ships from trap doors at the top of the screen. destroying these scores points.
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| NoseMan | 1999 | art & play GmbH | | Action | Side view | | Comedy | Platform | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | NoseMan is a 2D platformer in German that puts you in the role of big-nosed hero NoseMan, out to defeat the Great White Tissue and save the universe. On his way through the various worlds, he collects tissues for points, uses trampolines and boxing gloves to bounce around, and jumps on many nose-based enemies to defeat them.Originally a commercial game that was briefly distributed on CD in Germany, the full game has since been made available for download on the creator's website. |
| Ode to Zelda: The Second Quest | 1999 | | BieberSoft Entertainment | Action | Diagonal-down | Fangame | | Metroidvania, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Ode to Zelda: The Second Quest is a fangame based on the Legend of Zelda series. It is a sequel to the fangame Ode to Zelda. The player controls Link who travels around Hyrule, fighting monsters and solving puzzles in a quest to protect Hyrule from the evil Ganon. Similarly to the original Zelda games, Link explores various areas to find items such as boomerangs or bombs that will allow him to get past obstacles. Link is equipped with a sword to fight ferocious monsters and bosses that roam Hyrule. Close contact with a monster results in Link losing an unit of health. When the health is completely depleted, Link dies but the player may choose to "continue" the game, allowing Link to keep all the items he has collected. |
| Odens öga | 1999 | Decam AB | BigBite Interactive | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Loki has stolen Odin's eye from Mimir's well. Odin placed it in the well to gain all the wisdom in the world and to be able to oversee what's going on in the world. With the eye missing, Odin has lost all of his powers and there's a risk that Loki overthrows Odin and puts himself as the chief of the Viking gods. At the time of the theft, Odin is outside the village of Gandar where seven peculiar Vikings live. He asks them of their help and it's up to the player to take control of one of them, travel through the worlds, defeat Loki and bring back the eye to the well of Mimir. Odens öga is an action game played from a third person perspective. The game consists of twelve levels and for each one the player's task is to locate and collect all the keys. Once all keys have been retrieved a gate opens up, leading to the next level. The worlds are full of monsters that the player has to be aware of. There are many vicious animals such as wolves and rabbits that attacks when the player gets close. To battle these beasts the player uses a ranged missile like attack. The player can also fly, although only a limited amount of flying power is available. When it's out the player has to wait for it to recharge. Seven different characters can be chosen from but the difference between them is merely cosmetic. The player gathers points for enemies neutralised and by collecting amulets that can be found around the worlds. Other collectibles include stones and chests which can increase the player's health or make the player less vulnerable against monsters. There are also ant hills which affects the player's abilities when stepped on. This can be positive, like increased strength or negative, like reduced speed. The player has three lives. When all are used up the player loses the level and has to start over. The game also features multiplayer over LAN. It lets two player compete against each others. The objective for each player is to catch a pig. When a player has the pig the opponent has to shoot at him and after a certain amount of hits the pig will jump over to the other player. The player who has the pig when time runs out will win the game. |
| Official Formula One Racing | 1999 | Eidos, Inc. | Lankhor | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | This is the full F1 experience. With excellent replication of circuit tracks, including turns, grandstands and elements. Because it's a Formula 1 licensed product, all of the official teams and drivers are included in the game. Even if you aren't interested in the series, you'll love the game's attention to racing detail. Using your keyboard or joystick, you'll pilot a very fast and extremely agile car. Enjoy the thrill of victory as you pull a corner at 150 miles per hour. You'll also suffer the agony of defeat when you crash into the wall at 120 miles per hour. In addition to navigating the track, you'll also have to tear through grass and sand as well as swerve around slick areas on the asphalt. If you crash too many times, you may lose a tire or seriously bang up your car. When this happens you must make a pit stop and hope your crew is quick about it
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| On the Trail of the Whitetail | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | On the Trail of the Whitetail is a first person hunting game. The game allows the player to hunt for whitetail deer in 10 levels ranging from open lakes to towering mountains.The player is given the option to choose one of the following weapons: Compound Bow, Crossbow, Slug Gun, Rifle and Rifle with Scope. Additionally, players can also use items such as the Binoculars, GPS, Deer Call and Antler Rattle to help them on their way. The locations to choose from are Spirit Hill, Tranquil Waters, Evergreen Bower, Hunters' Wood, Highwind Gorge, Stag River, Little Meadow, Shady Vales, Sandbluff Pines and Bucks Rise.Your goal is to track down deer, sneak upon them and use whatever gadgets and weapon you see fit to take them down. The player is rewarded with a head bust of the deer as their trophy, with each kill ranked with Distance, Difficulty, Weapon used and Points given, which the player can the view at the Trophy Room. |
| Opening Weekend: Bear Season | 1999 | TLC Multimedia, Inc. | ManMachineGames | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | Opening Weekend: Bear Season is a bear hunting simulator, from the makers of the 3D Hunting series. Using a 3D engine players move around environments in Canada, Siberia, Oregon and the Arctic, in pursuit of bear. Weapons include bolt-action and lever-action rifles, a shotgun, a compound bow, a longbow, and a crossbow. The game features an advanced AI where cats become more intelligent and skittish as your skill increases; they are able to see you, hear you, and even smell you, and will attack when provoked. Missions include search and rescue, relocation, and rabid bears. |
| Opening Weekend: Big Cat Season | 1999 | TLC Multimedia, Inc. | ManMachineGames | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | Opening Weekend: Big Cat Season is a big cat hunting simulator from the makers of the 3D Hunting series. Using a 3D engine players move around environments in South America, Africa, Asia, and North America, in pursuit of big cats. Weapons include bolt-action and lever-action rifles, a shotgun, a compound bow, a longbow, and a crossbow. The game features an advanced AI where cats become more intelligent and skittish as your skill increases; they are able to see you, hear you, and even smell you, and will attack when provoked. |
| Opening Weekend: Deer Season | 1999 | TLC Multimedia, Inc. | ManMachineGames | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | A deer hunting simulator, from the makers of the 3D Hunting series. Using a 3D engine, move around environments in Germany, Canada, the USA, and France, in pursuit of deer. Weapons include bolt-action and lever-action rifles, a shotgun, a compound bow, a longbow, and a crossbow. Of course, there are also accessories: drop markers, deer calls, binoculars, and camouflage.Featuring an advanced AI, deer will become more intelligent and skittish as your skill increases; able to see you, hear you, and even smell you. After the hunt, enjoy the included venison recipes. |
| Opening Weekend: Varmint Season | 1999 | TLC Multimedia, Inc. | ManMachineGames | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting | | | | | | | Windows | Opening Weekend: Varmint Season is a varmint hunting simulator, from the makers of the 3D Hunting series. Using a 3D engine players move around environments in lush northern Oregon, Idaho canyons, and Pennsylvania, in pursuit of varmints. Weapons include .22 and .25 rifles, a shotgun, a wrist rocket, and a blowgun. The game features an advanced AI where cats become more intelligent and skittish as your skill increases; they are able to see you, hear you, and even smell you, and will attack when provoked. Prey includes rabbits, rats, raccoons, coyotes, badgers, opossums, squirrels and mountain lions. |
| Opera Fatal | 1999 | index+ | Ruske & Pühretmaier Multimedia GmbH | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Opera Fatal is a musical and educational adventure game. You must help an opera director to find his score, stolen by a thief - a chase through the theatre, solving musical puzzles and learning more about instruments. The graphics were made with Quicktime VR and Macromedia technologies. |
| Operation Mittelmeer | 1999 | BMS Modern Games Handelsagentur GmbH | TriNodE Entertainment Systems | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Wargame | World War II | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | | Windows | Operation Mittelmeer is a real-time strategy game. The player takes command of the English or German fleet, expand it and fight the enemy in more than 20 levels. You need to save shipwrecked people, transport agents and land your ships on the enemy coast. Ports and supply ships provide support. |
| Othello de Luxe | 1999 | Franzis Verlag GmbH | ETS Entwicklerteam Slaby | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Othello de Luxe is a PC conversion of the board game Othello respectively Reversi. On a chess board with 64 field two players place their stones in an alternating order. When one or multiple opponent's stone are between two own stones all stones get converted to own stones. When a player loses all stones he loses. A second way to win the game is to have the most stones on the board when all are placed. This conversion's main gimmick is a humorous touch with a match commentator who speaks in a Saxon dialect. |
| PLATO: Fun & Facts | 1999 | Editions Atlas | Lascaux S.A. | Educational, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | PLATO: Fun & Facts is a simple trivia game for one or two players.Before answering questions, the player first needs to enter his/her name, and then has to choose between two play modes: the computer picks questions randomly from the database or the player is given the opportunity to select (by dragging and dropping) his/her favorite themes. The last option gives the opportunity to answer to bonus questions that will pop up inside windows.Themes covered are: animals, art, geography, history, nature, famous people, sports & leisure. |
| POD Gold / Strife | 1999 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a compilation of:
POD Gold
Strife |
| Paris 1313: The Mystery of Notre-Dame Cathedral | 1999 | Canal+Multimédia, France Télécom Multimédia, index+, Réunion des Musées Nationaux | Dramæra | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Paris 1313 is an adventure game, revolving around a mysterious accident 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 wants 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 at least two characters in order to proceed.This game contains animated cutscenes and voice over work. |
| Parker Brothers: Card Games | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Random Games, Inc. | | Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Parker Brothers: Card Games is a collection of card games licensed by Parker Brothers. The player can create a profile and go head-to-head with animated computer-controlled characters in one of nine classic card games:
Free Parking
Millie Bornes
Cribbage
Gin Rummy
Hearts
Racko
Rook
Solitaire
Spades
Although the servers have long since been shut down, it was also possible to play a game online on Microsoft's Zone.com online gaming service (now MSN Games). |
| Passion Pinball | 1999 | Blackstar Interactive GmbH | Cherrysoft | Action | 1st-person | | Adult | Pinball | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Passion Pinball is a pinball game with one fictional table without special obstacles. It features fixed keyboard controls, no tilting and no settings. Its main selling points are drawn pictures of naked woman with big breasts which show up when hitting the right bumpers. |
| Peacemaker: Protect, Search & Destroy | 1999 | PBH Systems Ltd. | Jinxter, Kuju Entertainment Ltd. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | Helicopter | Rhona Robson | | | | Windows | Peacemaker is a 3D Shooter in which you control a helicopter. You play as a pilot working for a UN task force with the authorization to engage in conflicts in any of the United Nations. The game features 21 action-packed missions and a trainings mission in which you will learn to control your helicopter. There are multiple helicopter and futuristic helicopter-plane hybrids that can be flown in the game. Each loaded with various weapons including miniguns and missiles. The missions vary from defending a base, escort missions, or striking enemy forces. The game features two camera modes allowing you to switch between nose and chase camera. |
| Perfect Chessmate | 1999 | Expert Software, Inc. | Gunnar Games, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Board game, Chess | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Perfect Chessmate is a chess game catered towards people who want to learn chess and improve their game. It offers a lot of learning possibilities like move tips, tutorials, a list of classic games and the ability to record and share games between players. The player also has the ability to undo and redo their moves.On the competitive side, the game offers player rating and the ability to play with various rated A.I. players. The game can be played in local or network multiplayer, on both unranked and ranked modes. Multiple player profiles can be created. |
| Perry Rhodan: Thoregon - Die verbotene Stadt | 1999 | NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH | Main Screen | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This is a 1st person adventure game with pre-rendered graphics that is set in the world of the long-running book series Perry Rhodan. You take control of the title character and have to escape from a galaxy you mysteriously appeared in. With the mouse you can move from one location to the next, pick up and examine items and drag & drop them on other objects. On your way you will solve puzzles and meet various creatures. There isn't much of a story, the license is a backdrop for the gameplay and therefore not much made out of. |
| PetWings | 1999 | | JJsoft | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Fantasy | Flight / aviation | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | PetWings is an arcade style shooting game similar to Galaxian. It features more cartoonish graphics (with animal-looking enemies), 53 game levels, five boss fights and a power-up system for firing the weapon.The player controls a dog-like hero using the arrow keys and the Space key to fire the weapon. Enemies, once killed, drop potions. These items are used to upgrade the weapon. This happens after collecting 60 potions. The weapon has six levels of power. This potions are also used to continue the game after the death by paying 60 of them.The game consists of three episodes with sixteen stages each + five special levels. The shareware version offers sixteen stages from the first episode. |
| Phantasmagoria Stagefright | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | The Phantasmagoria Stagefright box contains 12 discs:
Phantasmagoria (7 discs)
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (5 discs)Phantasmagoria is for Windows 3.1 and/or DOS 5.0 or higher, and Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh is for Windows 95 and/or DOS 5.0 or higher. P1 needs 8MB of RAM and 2 times speed CD-ROM, and P2 requires 12MB of RAM and 4 times speed CD-ROM. |
| Phoenix | 1999 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Team17 Software Limited | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | Real-time | | | Windows | In this space simulator game, the player gets to play the role of Beck a police officer, who through an apparently tragic quirk of fate finds himself thrust reluctantly into the role of hero. It is a challenging and innovative space combat game with over 60 exciting missions in the single player game and it has a multi-linear plot structure. It also features fiendishly intelligent enemies, realistic flight dynamics and a unique branching plot structure. |
| Pinball Madness 2 | 1999 | Encore, Inc. | | Action, Compilation | | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | Pinball Madness 2 is a collection of five PC pinball games:
Pro Pinball: Timeshock!
Balls of Steel
FullTilt! 2 Pinball
Pinball Builder: A Construction Kit for Windows
Addiction Pinball
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| Pinball: Full-Tilt Fun! | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | A.S.K. Homework | Action, Simulation | | | | Arcade, Pinball | | | | | | | Windows | eGames' Pinball is a 3D pinball simulation with three tables. 3D acceleration is used for all sorts of realistic effects like table glass, light halos, shadows, reflections of the ball on the table, and more.Standard pinball gameplay applies; knock down targets to light up bonuses, which can be further increased by multipliers. Five camera angles with 4 variations each help you choose the exact viewing angle you want. |
| Piposh Hollywood | 1999 | Hed Arzi Multimedia | Guillotine | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | | | | | | | | Windows | Piposh is a humorous point-and-click adventure game.The player takes the role of Piposh, a failed actor who intends to take a cruise to Hollywood but accidentally boards the wrong ship. When a mad serial killer starts murdering the passengers, Piposh is called to solve the mystery and save the day.The gameplay differs a bit from other games of the genre. The player can travel around the ship, interact with the passengers and collect items, but there is no inventory, and the game-time and plot progress regardless of the player's actions. The game concludes at the end of the fifth day. |
| Player Manager 98/99 | 1999 | Anco Software Ltd. | Anco Software Ltd. | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Like its ancestors, this title marks a return to the popular managing game where the player not only is a starting manager, but also a footballer close to retirement age (the player, however, does not control his footballing avatar directly in the field). Players are rated in 18 attributes (plus some hidden attributes), and eight formations. Several tactics give the manager a lot of depth to change into the style more suitable for the footballers available. As there isn't a stat to display the overall value of a player (other than his market value), the player has to choose the starting eleven according to the desired playing style by their individual strengths: defenders with strong heading should be placed in the middle, fast dribblers in the flanks and so on, as well as using the post-match analysis statistics to see how well they performed.Like the older titles, the game uses the Kick Off engine to simulate games, in this case Kick Off 97. Other match simulation options include a 2D radar (which can quickly change to the 3D engine in key parts of the game such as goals and cards) and a CM-like text mode. If two players want to discover who has the strongest team, they can do so by choosing the "Friendly" mode. This allows to import team data from the floppy drive, and play a dream match between them. |
| Po Sui Xu Kong | 1999 | Soft-World | Soft-World | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | Romance, War | Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) | China (Ancient / Imperial) | | Menu structures | Turn-based | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Po Sui Xu Kong is a role-playing game. In the late Song Dynasty, Mongolia invaded the Central Plains and the court was unable to resist. So the people of rivers and lakes organized by Longzunyi began to fight back against the Mongolians. Recently, Han Gong, a famous Wulin resident, invited Li Ling to carry out a mission. Li Ling retired for many years and did not want to set foot in Wulin any more, so he decided to take part in it through his nephew, Chuan Ying. Chuan Ying had just finished flying swallow and thunder knife practice in front of the roof of the mountain that day. His uncle expressed the idea of letting him go down to the rivers and lakes and said that he would experience many adventures and succeed in some famous undertakings. |
| Poker Night with David Sklansky | 1999 | Interplay Productions Ltd. | Cetasoft | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Poker Night with David Sklansky is a Poker simulation. It offers five different poker rooms and five varieties: 7 Card Stud, Hold'em, 5 Card Draw, Omaha and Dealer's Choice. You can play against the computer or other players via the internet. Rules and settings can be individually adjusted. |
| Pong: The Next Level | 1999 | Atari Interactive, Inc. | Supersonic Software Ltd. | Action | | Licensed | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong, Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | After years of game gulping cash left, right and center at the old arcade machine, Pong has returned in an all new 3D title on the PC. But it isn't just your simple Pong any more. Now you can play Jungle Pong, Football Pong, Ice Hockey Pong and 4 player Pong. All this plus 3D graphics. Not to mention animated Penguins (!?!?!). |
| Power Chess 2.0 | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Power Chess 2.0 is a chess game and sequel to Power Chess. It allows you to play chess against your computer or against human opponents over the Internet. The AI is highly customizable to offer a challenge for all players no matter which skill they posses. The game comes with multiple AI personalities to play against, one of them is programmed to improve in skill at the same rate as the player. It is also possible to create your own personalities to play against. Some of the included personalities mimic the styles of famous chess players Gary Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, Judit Polgar and Anatoly Karpov.The game is played with the mouse in a typical Windows environment. For the viewpoint there can be chosen between top-down with iconic display of the pieces or 3D from the player's viewpoint. Included games that can be viewed include the legendary game between Kasparov and computer AI Deep Blue in 1996. |
| Power Pool | 1999 | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG | EGOSOFT GmbH | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Power Pool is a pool simulation which features Eight-ball and Nine-ball, the last one in many variations. Like other similar games the player sees the table in a 1st person perspective and defines spin, force and cue position with a mixture of mouse and keyboard commands. For beginners there are aid lines which show the ball course. They are allowed to repeat hits and, in a special training mode, place the balls like they want. The player can play exhibition matches or tournaments. |
| Poznaję Cyferki | 1999 | Albion Sp. z o.o. | Albion Sp. z o.o. | Educational | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Poznaję Cyferki ("I'm Learning Digits") is a mathematical education game for preschool-aged children. It is set in a distant star system, full of friendly aliens eager to share their mathematics knowledge with all visitors. On each planet await different math-themed puzzles and exercises. Each solved puzzle grants the player a digit, and collecting all digits is rewarded with a song. The puzzles include: finding digits hidden in a picture, counting items, numbering objects in order and coloring various pictures. At any time, the player can ask for instructions, provided by Albionek the alien helper. |
| Prehistoric Animals | 1999 | REMedia Inc. | REMedia Inc. | Educational | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Prehistoric Animals is an educational game that explains a lot about prehistoric life during the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. The game features hundreds of different prehistoric creatures from over ten different prehistoric time periods. There are illustrations, articles, real pictures, and even videos.The game has five different sections for articles and videos. They include "Introduction", "Early Life", "Rise of Vertebrates", "Fossils" and "Display". It also has 10 sections to view classified groups of prehistoric species going in evolution order including Protomammals, Flying Reptiles and Ornithischian Dinosaurs.You can look up a prehistoric creature through the database, print an article, look up an article in the index, and you can even take a quiz on different chapters. A score is shown during the quiz, but there is no difficulty level or support for highscores. |
| Premier Manager Ninety Nine | 1999 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Unlike the data update that is PM98, Ninety Nine (the actual title of the game) uses Dinamics' PC Fútbol 6 engine to go along the obligatory 1998-99 squad updates. Among the new features, it is now possible to make more than one player bid at the same time, more frequent and detailed staff messages, player history to track down previous seasons, a full 3D match engine and a 2D radar view (replacing the old text mode) and finally merchandising and catering, and individual adboard management. The detailed database is still there, and so are the Manager and Pro-Manager modes. Only the English leagues are playable still and Kevin Keegan, Fulham and then soon-to-be England manager, endorsed the title.The manager modes and options remain the same: Manager allows the player to start in any team, Pro-Manager requires building a career from the Conference, promoting the club from the lower divisions or getting promoted himself to better ranked teams. The difficulty level can be further tweaked by changing areas where the staff takes control, and you can determine if players age and retire with time.Again, up to 20 players can play in Manager mode and 8 in Pro-Manager. |
| Premium Arcade Games | 1999 | Expert Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Premium Arcade Games is a collection of casual games from Xtreme Games. The CD auto-loads and installs a game browser on the users machine. Using that browser the user can access each game, see a screenshot and read a preview before installing it. Once installed the games are accessed and played via the Windows Start menu.The games in this package are clones of successful classics and are described as such within the game browser, they are:
Alien Invaders 2000: a Space Invaders clone
Atlantis Rising: an underwater Defender clone
Jouster 5: is an ostrich riding Joust clone
Star Saber:a Galaga clone
StarChild: a Robotron clone
Trash Killer: an Asteroids clone
Zap Zilden: described as a 2D/3D Pacman game
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| Print Story: Toonsylvania | 1999 | Light & Shadow Production | Light & Shadow Production | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Print Story: Toonsylvania is an art studio program based on the animated TV series Toonsylvania. It allows children (from 5 years old) to create and print various items:
banners
cards
certificates
envelopes
flyers
invitations
masks
stickersThere are fifteen types of items/activities in total. It also includes ready to print templates, which are also customisable. Children can choose clipart from a library of 350 items or use a scanner to import their own pictures or drawings. |
| Prisoner of Ice | 1999 | Infogrames, Inc. | Infogrames Europe SA | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Horror | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Interwar | | | | Everyone | Cinematic camera | Windows | Another game in Infogrames' line of H. P. Lovecraft inspired games started by Alone In the Dark, Prisoner of Ice puts you in the role of Lt. Ryan, an American agent stationed aboard the submarine H.M.S. Victoria on a rescue mission to the Antarctic. The Victoria picks up two mysterious crates during the course of the rescue. Before you know it the Captain is eaten alive by the cargo, a horrific monster with whom you are trapped aboard the submarine. And that's just the start of your problems.Prisoner of Ice features a very simplified version of the classic adventure game interface, where you can left click with the cursor to operate an object or right click to look at it. The program won't let you do anything with these objects, other than the few appropriate actions needed to advance the game. |
| Pro Pinball: Big Race USA | 1999 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Cunning Developments | Action | 1st-person | | | Pinball | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The table included in this pinball game has a taxi theme attached to it. As you slam the ball around the screen, you can pick up passengers, drive around USA, and get bonus points through mini games, all related to taxi driving. Even the dot matrix screen gets a say in the action, where you must crash into as many cars as possible as you drive your passenger to his/her destination, all in the name of points of course. |
| Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey | 1999 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Cunning Developments | Action | | | | Pinball | Steampunk | | | | | | Windows | The fourth in the Pro Pinball series, this game once again features only one table. The theme is Victorian technology - by building such machines as an airship and submarine and performing various tasks (such as completing 'adventures' by shooting ramps), the goal is to defeat the evil General Yagov. A multi coloured dot panel is the main new feature compared to other Pro Pinball games. |
| Professional Bull Rider | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Action, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Professional Bull Rider is a game sponsored and licensed by the PBR where players get to ride bulls in arenas to remain seated as long as possible. The game offers five authentic arenas, twenty bulls and over 40 bull riders with commentary from Justin Mckee. The game modes include quick ride, practice pen, 2-player head-to-head, and an online tournament. |
| Proncisław | 1999 | EXE | Dlaczego Gruby Uciekł? Interactive | Action | Side view | | Adult | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Proncisław is an adult single screen action game for one player. Swimming on the lifebuoy the player must hit with a sperm bullet under water objects while avoiding oxygen bubbles. Passing the level requires an adequate number of girls hits. Adult pictures and videos are provided for defeating each level. The game features 38 stages. |
| Puma Street Soccer | 1999 | Sun Corporation | Pixelstorm, Trecision S.p.A. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Puma Street Soccer is a 4-on-4 football game, based on Puma's own version of indoor football. The field is small, surrounded by a hip-height that board players can use to bounce the ball. The rules are simple: the game starts like in basketball, with the ball being dropped between the two forwards in midfield. The rest of the game is very freeform, with fouls being awarded for awkward challenges (penalties are given if the attacking player is on the break) and throw-ins (scored with the feet) if the ball goes above the boards. The player can select the tactics - with the three field players (the goalkeeper can't leave the goal area), it's possible to play more offensively (with two in front and one in the back) or defensively (two in the back and one in front). While the real tournament was traditionally played on public parks and car lots, the game version includes these and more exotic settings, such as an airport, a ship's deck, or in the middle of a city crossroad. The grand finals are always played inside an indoor arena.After a team manages a number of shots, they are entitled to three "supershots", which are much more powerful and swerve a lot more than regular shots. The three shots, if well used, can turn a game upside down in a matter of seconds, or mean the team will have to do a lot to make up for them if spoiled. While building up the Supershot gauge, the player has to rely on well-placed shots, headers, volleys, bicycle kicks, or moving the ball in attack very quickly to score. By winning competitions, players can unlock Puma-sponsored stars, such as JJ Okocha, Lothar Matthaus, Angelo Peruzzi, or Gianluca Pagliuca, and compete with them in their national teams. |
| Putt-Putt Enters the Race | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | That lovable little car, Putt-Putt and his dog Pep must gather various items including fuel and a flag before they can enter the Cartown 500. There are plenty of old friends as well as some fun new characters to give Putt-Putt a helping hand. |
| Puzz 3D: Victorian Mansion | 1999 | Wrebbit Inc. | Dyad Digital Studios Inc. | Adventure, Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Puzz 3D: The Victorian Mansion is a virtual 3D jigsaw puzzle with a twist. When the puzzle is completed the player can enter it and attempt to solve a murder mystery.The game has four levels of difficulty. The simplest level, the Bronze level, only gives the player access to the first floor and two of the mysteries. In this level the player has only one hundred and fifty pieces to assemble, and all the pieces come pre-sorted into wall pieces, roof pieces etc. They do not overlap and they do not need to be rotated to make them fit. The player also has access to pictures showing what the completed house looks like, and a 3D construction grid that they can place sub assemblies into. The toughest level gives access to all four floors and all the mysteries. On this level there are seven hundred pieces that are not sorted, may overlap, and there are no aids at all.The player assembles the house by completing sub assemblies such as a complete wall section or a piece of the roof which are then placed into 'the gold tray'. When the player changes view from the assembly view to the construction view they take sections from the gold tray to build the house. There is a 'book' in the top right corner of the screen which can optionally be suppressed, when present it alerts the player to pieces of relevant information that become available when certain parts of the jigsaw have been completed. Some of this information is in the form of video sequences such as the one which welcomes the player to the game, others are facts such as the date of the Gettysburg Address, while others are in the form of short QuickTime videos.The Mystery is played in a smaller window as the player moves around the house in a manner not to dissimilar to the way Myst plays. Once in a room the player can rotate through three hundred and sixty degrees, look up and down, while remaining fixed to the spot. In each room there is something to find, typically one or two of the following; an informative piece describing it's use, a puzzle, a video featuring a character who gives some information, or a fragment of paper that gives the player more clues.All clues are entered into the right hand side of player's 'notebook' in the form of the name of a person or a room. When they are ready the player answers the questions on the left hand page of their notebook by dragging across the appropriate answer. If the player answers the questions successfully the game is over. As a final act the game tells the player that, should they replay the game at a higher level, the place where their notebook, containing the clues they have already found, can be located. |
| Puzzle Madness | 1999 | FastTrak Software Publishing Ltd. | ScanWare International | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Puzzle Madness is a single-player jigsaw puzzle game with four game modes and many options for accessing and editing images.There are four game modes of this product are:
Jigsaw: this is what would typically be expected from a product of this type. An image can be broken into an easy puzzle with 25 pieces, a moderate puzzle with 100 pieces, a hard puzzle with 250 pieces or a custom puzzle with between 2 and 6000 pieces. Additionally pieces can optionally be rotated either randomly or randomly but at 45 degree increments. They may also land face up or a mixture of face up and face down.Games may be timed and the player can put them into 'boxes' to group similar pieces together, use auto align functions, cheat with 'find the neighbouring piece and auto complete options and so on.
Mosaic: this turns the image into a sliding block puzzle, the image can be broken into an easy 3x3 puzzle, a moderate puzzle with 5x5 tiles, a hard puzzle with 10x10 tiles or a custom puzzle with between 2 and 99 tiles. Additionally pieces can optionally be rotated randomly through 90 degrees.
Switch: like the Mosaic option this turns the picture into a series of blocks but instead of sliding them around the player swaps blocks around by clicking on them in pairs which then exchange places. The puzzle configuration options are identical to a Mosaic puzzle.
Balls: this is an unusual puzzle format in which circles are cut out of the chosen picture. Again there are four degrees of difficulty, easy in which there are 10 holes to fill, moderate with 35 tiles, difficult with 100 tiles or a custom puzzle with between 1 and 250 tiles. Additionally pieces can optionally be rotated randomly through 45 degrees or, for increased difficulty, there's a pure random rotation option.All games are automatically saved at the outset and can be saved when part completed. All games are scored and the scores are saved by user id. The game comes with a selection of pictures as one would expect. Unusually the game also has options to use the player's own pictures, select a frame from an AVI format video file, or link to the players scanner or camera and import an image via a TWAIN interface. There are also functions to edit and save a picture from any of the above sources prior to using it in a puzzle. There is also an option to connect to the player's e-mail client to send and share puzzles The product also comes with 14 day demo versions of Stitch, a product that will convert an image from the above sources to a cross stitch pattern, and another product that converts an image into a paint-by-numbers format that can be printed. |
| Puzzle Master | 1999 | | | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Puzzle Master is a single-person jigsaw game. It is a re-release of Jigsaws Galore. The game starts in a small window from which the player can select a puzzle group and a picture from within that group. The same window allows the player to customise the puzzle's difficulty, the size and therefore the number of pieces, as well as giving access to saved games. There are seventy five puzzles to choose from and five levels of difficulty.Gameplay is straight forward, pieces are selected by clicking on them and then they are dragged into position. The player can sort pieces manually or the game can perform that chore, by shape or by colour, for them if they wish. There are also 'trays' into which pieces can be placed for later use and, most importantly, there is a hint feature, an auto-complete feature, and a save game feature. The game has sound effects and MIDI format music plus it allows the player to use their own format MIDI format music files.The game is intended to be played with the mouse but some mouse/keyboard shortcuts are used, e.g Ctrl+left button - Rotate a piece or group of connected pieces left. |
| Pył | 1999 | Optimus Pascal Multimedia | Optimus Nexus | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Pył (Dust) is a 3D first-person shooter. The game emphasizes tactics for sneaking to save ammunition. The game takes place on a series of maps - structures visited by one of the characters in search of artifacts. A player can choose a primary weapon and more can then be gathered along the way. The hero has advanced optics. They allow the player to obtain the approximation of the environment as well as to observe through infrared. During the game there are logic puzzles that require matching different pieces of information to run machinery or computer systems.The story takes place in an unspecified future, at a time when mankind mastered interplanetary flights and brought into space one of his favorite activities: war. After years of war, to reduce the loss and destruction of inhabited planets, the federations have agreed, under the threat of war with the Empire, to move to an uninhabited desert moon in a planetary system. Moon, called Arena, becomes the scene of battles and fights between parties over the decades. With time, the Empire has taken over full control, and Arena has become a place of exile for unwanted subjects.The history presented in the game is the story of two deserters of the imperial army, Jafo and Sope. By a complete coincidence they reach the Arena. The game tells their stories: the struggle to survive in the sands of the Arena looking for remnants of ancient artifacts from battlefields to sell them in order to obtain a livelihood. Additional motivation is the search for the ship Valkyrie, the only chance to escape from the Arena. |
| Q-Bix | 1999 | Ænigma Games | Ænigma Games | Puzzle, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Q-Bix is a single player, freeware Rubik's Cube game played on either a 2x2 or a 3x3 cube.At the start of the game the player sets a counter before telling the game to 'Mix It', the game then uses the counter value when making the appropriate number of moves. Three faces of the cube are visible at any one time, the spacebar is used to see the 'hidden' faces, and around the cube are arrows allowing the player to move any of the cube's slices forward or backward one turn.Games can be saved and loaded but there are just three save slots, It has optional sound effects and in-game help. Q-Bix plays in either a window or full screen.
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| Quake II: Quad Damage | 1999 | id Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This package includes all official Quake II releases:
Quake II
Quake II Mission Pack I: The Reckoning
Quake II Mission Pack II: Ground Zero
Quake II Netpack I: Extremities
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| Railroad Tycoon II: Conquer 3 Continents (Special Edition) | 1999 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | PopTop Software Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | Train | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | This is one of the many repackagings of the original Railroad Tycoon 2 game. This one comes with 3 scenarios from the full RT2 game ("The Iron Seed", "Excess on the Orient Express", and "Cape to Cairo").Thankfully, all other elements are present from the full game, including the stock market, opponents, sandbox mode (which makes up a lot for only having 3 scenarios), and building. |
| Rayman 100 Levels / 100 Niveaux | 1999 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Action, Compilation | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Rayman 100 Levels / 100 Niveaux includes:
Rayman by His Fans (from Rayman Forever)
Rayman 60 Levels (from Rayman Collector)
This is one of the few Rayman releases to include Rayman 60 Levels in English (the other being Rayman Compilation). |
| Rayman Forever | 1999 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Action, Compilation | Side view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Rayman Forever contains the original Rayman (1995), the standalone addon Rayman Designer (1997) (level editor + 24 new levels) and Rayman by his fans, which is another 40 of the best fan-created levels as submitted to the Ubisoft Rayman website. |
| Reader Rabbit's 2nd Grade | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Adventure, Educational | | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Reader Rabbit Personalized 2nd Grade starts with a mysterious note from Reader Rabbit to Sam the Lion. Sam is requested to meet said Rabbit at the castle in the forest. Sam learns that Reader Rabbit is in need of rescue, and he must overcome many challenges to save his friend. Sam then finds himself in the dungeon and, by solving puzzles and problems, earns points to rescue Read Rabbit and escape the castle. The story teaches several disciplines, including reading, writing, math, and science in progressive stages as the adventure unfolds. It also uses the A.D.A.P.T. learning technology which adapts to each child’s learning abilities. |
| Reader Rabbit: Thinking Adventures Ages 4–6 | 1999 | Learning Co., Inc., The | Learning Co., Inc., The | Educational | | | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements | North America | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Today is Sam the Lion's birthday, but he thinks everyone has forgotten. While he is out of the way Reader Rabbit and his friends make the party preparations. The game consists of 8 minigames, which focus on logic, patterns and grammar, taking place in Owl's Treehouse, Papa Bear's Store, Babs' Kitchen and Pierre's Studio. Each minigame must be completed twice in order to gather the necessary party items needed for Sam's birthday party.
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| Real Flight R/C Simulator Deluxe | 1999 | Great Planes | Great Planes | Simulation | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Arcade | | Flight / aviation, Helicopter, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | This handy Sim allows you to Crash and bash your model planes to your hearts content. A very handy learning tool to those who actually wish to fly R/C (remote control) planes. It comes with a neat controller that plugs into your gaming port (usually soundcard). This controller is looks and feels like the actual radio controller you use in "real life".
There are 6 feilds you can fly at with ten planes and 10 helicopters, both of which can be edited to resemble your own plane (eg. different motor). Wind speed, vector, and constance can be altered with a couple klicks of the mouse. |
| Realmz | 1999 | Fantasoft LLC | Fantasoft LLC | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Realmz is a tile-based fantasy role-playing game engine, running scenarios, which are separate stories with own collections of quests, items, NPCs etc. set in the game world.
A starting set of low-skill player characters is available, but the players may opt to generate their own. This pool of characters is then shared between the scenarios, gaining experience (skill levels).
There are 19 races (apart from the humans or elves there are also those less common, such as the leprechaun) and 19 castes (professions), with a detailed set of characteristics (even aging is taken into account).
Apart from maps, an automatic journal provides for easy play. Both travel and combat are turn-based.While anyone may develop their own adventure using the (separately purchased) Divinity scenario editor (with story-specific items, NPCs etc.), 13 official scenarios were released:
City of Bywater (included with the game)
Prelude to Pestilence (1995)
Assault on Giant Mountain (1995)
Castle in The Clouds (1995)
Destroy The Necronomicon (1995)
White Dragon (1996)
Grilochs Revenge (1997)
Twin Sands of Time (1999)
Trouble in the Sword Lands (1999)
Mithril Vault (1999)
Half Truth (2000)
War in the Sword Lands (2000)
Wrath of the Mind Lords (2002)There is also a character editor (separately purchased), which can build a player character with exact statistics (and up to 30th skill level).The game was made available for free in November 2008. |
| Red Comrades 2 | 1999 | Buka Entertainment | S.K.I.F. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Vasilij Ivanovich Chapaev, a.k.a. VICH, the hero of Russian civil war of 1918, was kidnapped by evil aliens. Yes, those same aliens who once invaded the earth in the game Petka and VICH Save the Galaxy. Now the aliens want to turn him into a cyborg - a terminator. The hero escapes, but his body already contains cyborg parts, and he has to find his true self - in Russia and abroad, in the present and in the future...In this traditional graphical adventure, you control Vasilij Ivanovich and his young assistant Petka. The interface is point-and-click, and the graphics are a mix of pre-rendered backgrounds with cartoon-like characters.
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| Redmoon | 1999 | Hi2 Limited | softjoy | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Martial arts | Fighting | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Persistent, Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Redmoon is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game set in an anime-style Science-Fantasy world. Based on an 18 volume comic book story, the game offers a mix of martial arts, along with weapons from swords and bows to guns and grenades, as well as psychic skills, in a game world that spans both planets and cultures. Starting on earth you must develop and hone your skills as you fight those sent by Aguilas to destroy you. Your strategy must be one of taking the fight to Aguilas or perhaps siding with him in the final conflict ... |
| Rent-a-Hero | 1999 | THQ Inc. | neo Software Produktions GmbH | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Rodrigo is a hero, but in this game it's not as cool as it sounds. He lives on the isle Tol Andar and there are many, many other heroes there. The problem is that there are not enough princesses to rescue or dragons to slay for all the heroes, so Rodrigo is currently unemployed. Another problem involves pirates who want to raid the city Smashville and create flying ships with magical gloomstones. Confronted with this situation, Rodrigo is very disillusioned. Just in time, the dwarf Ramil hires Rodrigo to find his wife Jasmin, who was captured by the pirates and is held in the city of Endavin.Rent-a-Hero is a traditional point-and-click adventure. The characters are modeled in 3D but the background graphics are pre-rendered. There are over 30 locations and over 30 characters to interact with. With its comic anachronisms and pirate theme, the game's humour is similar to that of Monkey Island. |
| Requiem: Avenging Angel | 1999 | 3DO Company, The | Cyclone Studios | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | The Fallen were a group of angels who mistakenly believed that God was upset with Earth's corruption and wanted it destroyed. Even after they were banished from Heaven, the Fallen continued to adhere to their belief. They have been bidding their time in the realm of Chaos, waiting for their moment to strike out at human kind. Finally, that time has come, and the Fallen have taken control of the minds of Earth's leaders and police force, using them to set up a one world government, oppressing the populace into submission. On top of that, the Fallen are experimenting with Earth's first interstellar starship, the Leviathan, which was originally created to explore past the Solar system. The new leaders of Earth seem to have other plans for the vessel, which they are re-designing towards some unknown purpose. Eventually, an angel named Malachi is sent to Earth to stop the sinister schemes of the Fallen and their human followers, and save mankind.Requiem: Avenging Angel is a first-person shooter in which the player controls Malachi, exploring predominantly urban environments and fighting human, robotic, and demonic enemies. Some areas in the city New Damascus, where most of the action takes place, form a seamless location rather than being broken into levels. Most of the stages are populated by enemies, though a few locations contain friendly characters, such as members of a rebel organization who send Malachi on missions. Although he is equipped with a variety of standard fare "secular weapons", what really distinguishes Malachi are his angelic powers, which operate somewhat like the force powers in Jedi Knight. Although the transition to mortal form has cost him his powers, he gradually gets them back. Once he does, he'll have the ability to shoot lightning from his hand, regenerate his health, fly through the air, possess the bodies of others, and even bring back the dead to fight on his side.For the most part the game attempts to be a "cinematic" first-person shooter such as Half-Life, with scripted sequences, conversations with non-player characters, and an evolving plot which is revealed via the in-game engine. |
| Richard Scarry's Busytown | 1999 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Boston Animation Ltd. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | This game takes place in the fictional world of Busytown, originally created by author/illustrator Richard Scarry for his educational picture books. Busytown is populated by cartoonish animals many of whom have typical and specific jobs in Busytown: policeman, fireman, schoolteacher, etc.Huckle Cat and his friend Lowly Worm star in this point and click game, often taking the place of the cursor during game play. From the main page - the town map - the player can select any location in the Busytown neighborhood to participate in an activity appropriate for that location. These include:
The See-Saw - balance characters on a see-saw according to the numbers they are labeled with; an 8 on one end and a 5 and 3 on the other, for instance
The Fire Station - follow the instructions and a star-shaped "gleam" to load the fire truck, then put out a house fire
Bruno's Deli - find and serve the food each customer is asking for
Building a House - lay bricks and shingles and put other items into place at this construction site
Mr. Fixit - help Mr. Fixit build his latest invention by placing parts on his machine
The Delivery Truck - drive around Busytown delivering specific items, avoiding road construction and garbage cans
Dr. Diane - help Dr. Diane treat Norbert the Elephant's many ailments by placing bandaids and bandages on the named body parts
BusyTunes - play the jingles and songs and watch animation from each neighborhood location on the jukeboxThe educational focus of Richard Scarry's Busytown is primarily on reading, as words for many objects in the game are given whether or not the activity on screen actually involves reading. Other early childhood skills covered are counting, shapes, adding and subtracting and following directions. |
| Ringer King | 1999 | | TC Consulting, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Ringer King is a one or two player horseshoe throwing game based on the American rules for the game.In this game players take turns to throw two horseshoes at a stake set in the ground some distance away. In the game this is done with a timed mouse click. In the lower part of the screen is a small window containing a picture of a stake and a horseshoe that oscillates left/right. Below this window is a PITCH button,to throw a shoe accurately players must click the PITCH button when the oscillating horseshoe is directly below the stake.The game has three levels of difficulty, supports both official methods of scoring 'Count All ' & 'Cancellation', player's career statistics and has both sound and save/load functions.
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| Road Adventures USA | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Contemporary | Automobile | | | | | Windows | An educational game that resembles 'The Oregon Trail: 4th Edition' published by The Learning Company on the same year.
Only in 'Road Adventures USA' we travel through the country not in the 19th century, but in present time (that is, at the end of 1990s).After choosing a companion and a vehicle, as well as a region of the USA to travel through, we are given a clue on where to find a next clue - and have to research the state database, to guess a destination - and to find a best route to get there. At the same time, we are to manage our budget, read maps and road signs, handle some emergency situations, locate places to eat and to sleep at night - and even sometimes drive our car manually in 3D. And of course - learn geography and history of the USA.The visuals involve digitized actors - as well as QuicktimeVR panoramas of many historical locations. |
| Roadskunk | 1999 | Nickelodeon Online | | Educational | Side view | | | | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Roadskunk is a simple children's game. It is part of the Clickamajigs series of downloadable games hosted on the Nickelodeon's Nick Online website in the late 1990's.This is a very simple game intended for young children in which the player is shown a stretch of road. By clicking on the right/left control buttons the player changes their view of the road until they find the skunk, a short animation then plays, the game is over and the player is invited to do it again.
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| Rockett's Camp Adventures | 1999 | Mattel Media, Purple Moon Media | Addictive Media | Action, Puzzle | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Music / rhythm | | | Point and select | | Everyone | | Windows | Rockett's Camp Adventures deals with a girl named Rockett and her summer camp experience. Much of the game is actually an animated storybook as Rockett packs her essential belongings for the trip, travels to Camp Luna, and meets the other kids that she will be spending some time with. Conflict and drama ensue. Along this storyline, the game gives the player the opportunity to make some decisions, such as which poster, book, and photo to pack in the limited space afforded by Rockett's luggage. Similarly, there are critical junctures in the story where the the player is given the opportunity to side with either the elite snobs or the average kids.Interspersed in the storyline are 4 minigames/activities that can also be selected outside of the storyline:
Canoe Race: Rockett and a teammate must navigate a canoe from point A to point B on the river while dodging obstacles (such as submarines, octopuses, and whales). Aim for the fastest time.Friendship Bracelets: Customize your own friendship bead bracelet in this arts & crafts activities.DJ Mix Maker: Choose from among several bass lines, drum beats, keyboard riffs, guitar licks, and sounds effects to create your own song.Crystal Caverns: Solve a series of puzzles in order to successfully navigate through the cave and find your friend.
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| Rockett's Collection | 1999 | Purple Moon Media | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation contains four visual novels featuring Rockett Movado, a girl from Whistling Pines Junior High:
Rockett's New School
Rockett's Tricky Decision
Rockett's Secret Invitation
Rockett's First Dance, a instalment in the series exclusive to this compilation. Rockett finds herself fantasizing about becoming the Queen of Hearts in the fast-approaching Valentine's Dance, but it soon becomes apparent that someone's trying to rig the election...
This compilation also includes the creativity program "Rockett's Adventure Maker", where the player can create their own comics featuring Rockett and her friends. |
| Rocky Interactive Horror Show | 1999 | On-Line Entertainment Ltd. | On-Line Entertainment Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The Rocky Interactive Horror Show is an adventure game that is based on the original show written by Richard O’Brien (who also played in the 1975 film version). At the beginning of the game you are offered to play either as Brad or Jane. One of these young lovers will be turned into stone by the "Medusa machine" on the doorstep of Frank N Furter's - an alien transvestite - home. The remaining partner has to rescue the other one, before the house transforms into a spaceship and takes off for the planet Transsexual Transylvania.In order to do this you must collect all the puzzles (over 80) and the nine pieces of the Demedusa puzzle. Your partner is hidden somewhere in the house and you have only 30 minutes to collect all the pieces and solve a final sub game. The game includes a narrator (Christopher Lee) who is an ally, but also a "game devil" (Richard O’Brien) who will try to mislead you.The game is completely controlled by keyboard. The package includes a game poster and music from the Rocky Horror Show has been included on the CD-ROM. |
| Roland Garros French Open - Paris 1999 | 1999 | | Runn Software | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | In Roland Garros French Open - Paris 1999, the player controls one of 100 male or female players to play single matches or a whole season where he participates in 16 championships. The handling is simple: two buttons activate either a topspin or a slice, which may be varied with the arrow keys. Shortly before the ball reaches the player, a cross appears and there is no further movement possible. With the cross the player influences the direction of the ball.The game features 13 difficulty levels, 4 court surfaces, and an encyclopedia about former tennis tournaments and players (including photos and statistics). |
| Rolling Marbles | 1999 | Tibo Software | Tibo Software | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Rolling Marbles is a one or two player, shareware, mouse controlled game.In this game the player rotates groups of marbles within the game area with the aim of bringing together groups of four or six of the same colour, these marbles then disappear scoring the player points.
In the single player mode the full game has fifty action levels and twenty-five logical levels.In an action level the player starts with a blank game area which has marble generators at the top, marbles fall from these and the player must start arranging and destroying them almost immediately. If the marbles stack up and prevent the generation of new marbles for five seconds the player loses a life which will eventually end the game.
In a logical level the game area comes pre-populated with marbles that the player must clear, the faster the clearance the bigger the time bonus.
The full game also has fifty two-player levels which are variants of the Action game, the difference being that marbles removed from one player's screen appear on their opponents. The two player game is played over a network or internet connectionThe game has five difficulty settings, music & sound, a save/load function, high score table, and an editor so player(s) can create their own games (available in the registered version only).The MAC release makes no mention of a two player option.
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| Romancia: Another Legend | 1999 | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Unbalance Corporation | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Side view | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Romancia: Another Legend is a remake of the classic RPG Romancia with improved graphics and mouse support.You are cast as a dashing prince who sets out to rescue the princess of the kingdom from the hands of an evil dragon. Gameplay is a mixture of 2D side-scrolling action with RPG elements as you can equip weapons, chat with NPCs and receive quests which usually involve going from the town to the dungeons and retrieving an item or slaying a specific monster.The remake features (besides updated graphics) a save-anywhere feature, an arrange mode which includes hints and game history, new MIDI music, a narration mode with clues and commentary at the top of the screen, and an artwork gallery that includes both original as well as newly made artwork for the game. It also comes with a hardcover artwork book of more than 100 pages and the original PC88 game is included. |
| Rubik's Games | 1999 | Atari Interactive, Inc. | Androsoft | Puzzle | | Licensed | | Falling block puzzle, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | | | Windows | Has everyone played the Rubik's Cube? More to the point, have you ever completed it without pulling it apart? Well, unless you can pull apart a CD-Rom and put it back together, the puzzles on this CD must be solved with the brain. Rubik's Games includes the original Cube of joy, as well as smaller and larger versions. But there is plenty more then that:Zigthough: A Tetris-style game where you must get a string of five colored blocks from one end of the screen to the other.Rubik's Playground: you must get 5 different style balls into the exit hole, while obstacles get in your way.Cover-Up: Unstack multiple tiles of colored blocks to fit the entire play area, but you can only lay the tiles out in straight lines from where the stack started.Paint War: A turn based strategy game where you are trying to paint half the 42 squares on the board or destroy all your opponents game pieces. Multi-play is available for this as well. |
| Rugrats: Mystery Adventures | 1999 | Mattel Media | KnowWare | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Rugrats: Mystery Adventures is based on the Daytime Emmy-award winning animated television series.Rugrat Tommy Pickles becomes a private detective so he can defend the babies from 'mustardminds' who do bad things. As Tommy you will have to solve ten cases. For each case the player has to collect clues by playing one of six arcade games. Winning these games gives you Reptar Bars which can be used to pay informants. When the player has enough clues he can accuse the suspect of the case's crime.The six games are Turtle Recall, Just Ducky, Worm-a-licious, Shake It Up Babies, Baby Shower and Drummi Bear.Turtle Recall has you combine balloons of the same colour to clear a path. Just Ducky involves rounding up baby ducks before they are scared off. In Worm-a-licious you must collect worms and avoid other bugs. Shake It Up Babies requires you to catch bouncing balls with a paint mixing machine. Baby Shower has you shooting at babies with a water cannon and Drummi Bear express has you knocking out stars out of the air. |
| SEGA Rally 2 Championship | 1999 | Empire Interactive Entertainment | Sega AM9 R&D Division | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Sega Rally 2 is the sequel to Sega's hit arcade game, Sega Rally. This game, like it's predecessor, is based on Rally racing. Rally racing is unique in that races take place on both race tracks and off-road courses. The courses in this game reflect this nicely. Some take place in the desert or forest, others take place in cities. The cars in this game are all actual rally cars, with manufacturers from Europe and Japan both well represented. You do not get to see very many of them at one time, however, since rally races are typically time-based events. In this game, you are not competing directly against the other cars, you simply have to have the best time through the course. So, during any race you will usually see a handful of other cars on the track.Sega Rally 2 contains several modes of play. The first mode is the simple arcade mode of play. Here, you race in 4 courses, one right after another. The second mode is the 10 year championship. In this mode you race on 16 courses, and can make modifications to your car between races. Finally, there is a 2-person split screen mode for head-to-head competition. |
| SUDS (included games) | 1999 | | | Adventure | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure | | | | | | | Windows | The SUDS text adventure creator/player package comes with a demo tutorial game, Cave Hunt, and also Roman Adventure II, which revisits the setting of Roman from Peter Killworth's 1984 book How to Write Adventure Games for the BBC Microcomputer Model B and Acorn Electron, superimposing new puzzles on an existing game skeleton.In this game the player controls the actions of a citizen of ancient Rome living close to the bone, finding himself with one day to repay a debt to the sinister Senator Ganopus under pain of... well, some imaginative Roman torture. Numerous tangential escapades ensue. |
| Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: Brat Attack | 1999 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Hypnotix, Inc. | Action | | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | This is the second in a series of game spin-offs from the popular tv show Sabrina, the teenage witch.
In the game you control Sabrina on an isometric world and lead her in her quest to take back the "beanie of ultimate power" from her evil cousin Amanda.
In order to defeat her you must assemple the "Anti-Brat pack" whose parts are scattered on different places around the world, and fend off enemies and monsters using a slew of different spells which come as "recipes" you must first learn and then cast by mixing the right amount of ingredients. |
| Sabrina: The Teenage Witch - Spellbound | 1999 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc., Simon & Schuster Interactive | Rare Medium, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Based on the popular TV show Sabrina, The Teenage Witch: Spellbound sets out a goal for the player to become a full-fledged, licensed witch. The player begins the game with a witchcraft learner's permit and must successfully complete 7 spells in order to graduate to the next level. In the opening adventure, Sabrina's black cat Salem tricks Sabrina into turning herself into a pumpkin. It is up to the player to scavenge the ingredients necessary to reverse the spell gone awry. As a witch in training, the player has a number of basic tools for finding and identifying magic ingredients. Further, the player can refer to the online magic reference book with Drell (a character from the TV show) narrating. The game allows exploration of colorful, interactive environments in order to complete the game goals. |
| Saint Eyes | 1999 | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | Point and select | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Saint Eyes is a strategy title. Players take control of armies that consist of eight types: male soldiers, female soldiers, archers, ironclad soldiers, monks, magicians, scouts, and artillery soldiers. Each army has its own characteristics and requires a tactical approach on the battlefield. The game cannot be saved in the middle of every battle, it can only be saved after ending one. If a unit survives in the battlefield, it can be upgraded for the next battle. You can also buy new units to join the fight, but at a lower level. |
| Saints of Virtue | 1999 | Cactus Game Design, Inc. | Shine Studios | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | | Windows | In this Christian first-person shooter, you act out the internal struggle of a young Christian as he conquers many temptations such as pride, fear, vanity, and self-righteousness. You explore the heart as an environment through four huge levels where you must pass many traps and solve some puzzles. Prayers are used to fight against the temptations along with a sword which can also shoot rays. Scrolls strengthen the player, and you can also upgrade your sword. |
| San Guo Qun Ying Zhuan 2 | 1999 | UserJoy Technology Co. Ltd. | UserJoy Technology Co. Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | RPG elements | China (Ancient / Imperial) | | Menu structures | Real-time, Turn-based | | 2D scrolling | Windows | San Guo Qun Ying Zhuan 2 is a strategy title with tactical combat. You can also build cities, fight, and manage prisoners of war. There are more than 60 cities and fortresses in the game. The ultimate goal is to eliminate the monarchs of all other countries. Each regiment must have a division and different tactics can be used in combat. Attributes such as loyalty, morale and fatigue play a role. The general and division skills acquired are different, and the level of improvement varies from person to person. Every warlord's equipment has been increased to three items compared to the first game San Guo Qun Ying Zhuan. With the different weapons and horses equipped, the images of generals on the battlefield will change accordingly. |
| Scaryfish III | 1999 | PMP Software | PMP Software | Simulation, Sports | Side view, Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Gone fishing!Do you like to fish for more than just bass or a few fresh water fish? Do you want some variety in what you catch? If so, Scaryfish III is for you. Catch anything from minnows, to turtles, to channel catfish, to sharks... and everything in-between. You might even manage to pull something that's not living out of the water.Pick your rod, reel, line, bait, hook, sinker, bobber, and more as you get ready for your fishing adventure. Will you use a fish finder, or a boat... and if you use a boat, will you use a motor? Many choices to choose from make this an excellent fishing sim.Don't let the older graphics distract you from the game until you get a chance to try it out. You may never get another fishing game after this one.You have the option of starting with little money and equipment and working your way up to more advanced equipment and more money, as well as having money to travel to new "worlds" (locations) to fish, or you can start out with an uber-character who can afford anything.Get yourself the Make Your Own World Utility (MOWU) and you can create your own fishing locations and stock them with as many different kinds of fish as you like.Game is played in 1/4 time (15 minutes real time is 1 hour game time) and you can fish for 1-4 hours game time each trip out. Try getting your name in the record books within that time frame... but perhaps you'll want to keep your name out of the more shameful records such as smallest fish, least fish, most bait lost, etc.Screenshots Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gameUser ReviewsThere are no reviews for this game.Critic ReviewsThere are no critic reviews for this game.ForumsThere are currently no topics for this game.TriviaThere is no trivia on file for this game.
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| Sci-Fi Pinball | 1999 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Gigawatt Studios | Action, Simulation | | Licensed | | Pinball | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A pinball simulator with five tables based on Sci-Fi Movies. Includes Predator, Aliens, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer tables, as well as two The Fly tables. Gameplay includes the ability to "nudge" the machine. |
| Scooby-Doo!: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom | 1999 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Engineering Animation Inc. | Adventure | Diagonal-down | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The great Scooby-Doo returns to the PC, and once again Scooby and the gang are called on the solve the mystery of the Fun Park Phantom, who haunts the Gobs' family Fun Park, keeping visitors away, leaving the family with no choice but to close the park. That's where you step in. You must find all the clues as you control the gang (except for Scooby himself, but if you find the Scooby Snacks that lay about the park, he will show you where to go to find that all important clue). The graphics and sound are true to the 70's TV show, with original cut scenes and hand drawn animation. |
| Scrabble | 1999 | Mattel Interactive Deutschland GmbH | Mattel Media | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Scrabble is an official conversion of the famous board game where the players use given letters to form words on the playing board. The game only accepts words which are listed in the Duden, a German dictionary. In the new game mode "Simultaneous," the player and his opponents get the same set of letters but only the longest word gets accepted.The player has a lot of settings to adjust the game, including new or old German spelling rules, the vocabulary level of the AI and time limits. A help feature gives possible words when stuck. |
| Scrabble: CD-ROM Crossword Game | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Random Games, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | 1st-person | Licensed | | Board game, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Scrabble: CD-ROM Crossword Game is a game which simulates the board game Scrabble. The premise is simple: Form words with a limited set of letters. The game has a build-in dictionary, an AI opponent with adjustable skill level and several help functions for inexperienced players. It also features 11 mini games to brush up ones scrabble skills, e.g. the player has to find as many 2-letter or 3-letter words as possible, find the best place on the board to place a given word or use all given letters to build a word. In the tournament mode there is a time limit and the help functions are disabled. |
| Search for the Golden Dolphin | 1999 | Digital Treasures | Cinegram Media Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | Naval / watercraft | | | | | Windows | The year is 1799, and you play a United States Navy officer sent on a mission to retrieve the U.S.S. Golden Dolphin from pirate hands. You must find clues regarding the ship's whereabouts and infiltrate it as a sailor, as well as find a way to take it out of the pirate's control -- all while the French and U.S. Navys are duking it out in the West Indies.Gameplay consists of a first-person point-and-click Myst-style adventuring. Visuals consist of pre-rendered and digitized characters and objects over static backgrounds. Most of the gameplay revolves around solving item-related puzzles and interacting with characters for the gathering of clues. |
| Sega Swirl | 1999 | SEGA Corporation | | Puzzle | | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In an interesting publicity maneuver for their newly-released Dreamcast video game system, SEGA of America released a free game for the PC and DC platforms, Sega Swirl (also apparently to capitalize on the DC's logo, a Cinnabon-like swirl).The object of the game is simple. A screen fills with multi-colored swirls, and then you must remove the whole screen. A swirl removed will also remove all neighboring swirls of the same color. Gravity affects the remaining swirls, and the whole mass contracts to the left of the screen as you remove more and more.Scoring is based on combos or number of swirls removed simultaneously. Obviously, more swirls=higher points, but single swirls actually remove points. You have to play a balancing act between removing huge masses of swirls and being left with non-matching sets, or removing smaller sets and possibly missing out on a huge combo score.In a foreshadowing of the (hoped for) coming day of PC/video game online convergence, PC and DC owners can play against each other- via e-mail.PC owners can download the game for free, and SEGA offers it in two varieties- the standard version, and (refreshingly) a small sound-free version for people who don't want to be online for a long time. A separate sound pack is available for those who opt to not get the whole set in one fell swoop. DC owners can get the game free on various promo GD-ROMs SEGA has distributed. |
| Sesame Street: Kindergarten | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Children's Television Workshop | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Sesame Street: Kindergarten is a two CD set on mini games. It's one of a series of titles in The Learning Company'
Checkers 'LearningBuddies' series of educational titles.There are different games on the two discs all featuring Guy Smiley's game show. Disc 1 the games are themed around 'Let's Make A Word' and are designed to develop letter and word identification, phonics, spelling, rhyming and reading. Spanish words are included in these games. The games here are:
Hunt and Peck with Big Bird: Big Bird asks the player to identify items by their initial letter or sound
Spin-and-Spell with Elmo: Here the player spins Elmo's letter blocks to make the name of a highlighted item
Create a Mudsterpiece with Oscar the Grouch: Oscar describes an object and the player has to locate and clock on it
Learn Spanish with Rosita: Rosita asks players to find the items she names in Spanish and gives cues in English to help
Sound It Out with Two-Headed Monster: Players complete words by sounding the options presented
Zoe's Rhyme Time: Here the player selects an object that rhymes with the word Zoe gives them
Disc 2 is entitled 'Get Set To Learn' and is also set in Guy Smiley's game studio. It focuses on thinking and problem solving skills using numbers, counting, similarities & differences, shapes & patterns and basic addition and subtraction. This disc contains the following games:
Big Bird's Count It Up! Up! Up!: where the player counts the items in Big Bird's Counting Tree
Oscar's Dunk or Dare: The player has to fill a barrel with the correct number of items by adding to or subtracting from it's contents, two correct answers will dunk Telly
Zoe's What Size Is Your Prize: This game helps players understand terms like 'shorter' and 'longer'
Cookie Monster's Kooky Cookie Activity: Cookie monster lays out his cookies to form a pattern but always misses one, it's the player's job to complete the pattern
Count von Count's Match the Moons: The player must find the box with the same number of objects as there are moons in the Count's box
Each disc is self contained and can be installed separately. All games, and Guy's studio, feature random quirky little animations both when questions are answered and as background activity.
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| Sesame Street: Letters | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Frontier Media Group, Children's Television Workshop | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Sesame Street Letters is an educational title aimed at young children. It is a re-working of an earlier title A Visit to Sesame Street: Letters. Telly and Oscar the Grouch greet the player on arrival in Sesame Street where there are many hot spots that trigger little animations or letter based mini-games. The street and the rooms inside the buildings scroll sideways as the mouse is moved to the edge of the screen. |
| Sesame Street: Numbers | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Children's Television Workshop | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Sesame Street: Numbers is an educational game for children between the age of 2 and 4 and is a remastered version of A Visit to Sesame Street: Numbers. Three-dimensional thinking and creativity are the main educational areas of this game, also using a mouse and first steps at the computer are taught. 8 mini games with the known characters from TV are included. |
| Seven Kingdoms II: The Fryhtan Wars | 1999 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Enlight Software Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Seven Kingdoms II: The Fryhtan Wars is a real-time strategy game featuring empire-building and diplomatic intrigue. The player gets to choose from among 12 nationalities to command, each with distinct features and behaviors relevant to the respective cultures.
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| Shadow Company: Left for Dead | 1999 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Sinister Games, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Africa | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | You are the commander of an elite mercenary team. During a mission in Angola, you've been abandoned by your high command. You must complete with the mission with your remaining mercenaries, make your way out of Africa, rebuild the unit, and eventually find out who set you up for that fall, and take revenge...Shadow Company is best described as Jagged Alliance in 3D. Command your mercs (up to 8) on missions and take on the different opponents. A full arsenal of weapons and ability to drive vehicles sets this game apart from others. |
| Shanghai: Mah-Jongg Essentials | 1999 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A budget release of Shanghai, featuring authentic American Mah-Jongg Association endorsed version of Mah-Jongg, and 3 solitaire tile-matching games: Classic Shanghai, Power Dragon's Eye, and Shanghai for Kids, in one package. Windows version includes Internet play for Mah-Jongg with included authentic AMJA player card. |
| Shark Attack! | 1999 | | | Action, Racing / Driving | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Shark Attack is a freeware game in which you play a shark. There are two game sections in the game: First one is the "Race" section where your goal is to collect the required number of buoys and cross the finish line in an allotted time without losing all your energy colliding with objects or letting the scenery sap you. Second section is "Deep Sea". There, you must fight your way through underwater creatures by shooting teeth. At the bottom of the sea the boss creature awaits. The game features four levels: the first and third one is the race section, the second and the final one is the deep sea.The game was created with Corel Click & Create. |
| Shattered Light | 1999 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Catware, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | A great evil has come across the land and it's up to you to destroy this horrible evil. That pretty much sums up the story of the pre-made single player game. Shattered Light comes with a World Builder that lets you create maps, write quests, create weapons, write NPC dialogue, and much more. Then when your world is full of quests and evil monsters to slay you can take it online with eight other people and, if you are the host, modify player attributes on the fly. |
| Shtyrlitz | 1999 | Buka Entertainment | Studiya Krysha | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Adult, Spy / espionage | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Shtyrlitz is an adventure game and a parody of the popular Soviet television series Seventeen Moments of Spring, itself based on the novel with the same name by Yulian Semyonov. The book and its TV adaptation tells a serious and dramatic story focusing on Colonel Isayev, a Soviet officer sent as an undercover agent to Nazi Germany during World War II. Having assumed the name of Max Otto von Stierlitz, he infiltrates the top ranks of the Nazi foreign intelligence and subsequently foils the enemy's plans. Rather than basing itself on the actual story, the game follows the tone and the style of the numerous jokes exploiting the series' popularity and its recognizable features (Stierlitz's deductive abilities, deadpan commentary of the narrator, etc.), liberally incorporating elements of the Soviet culture in various epochs, as well as throwing in many anachronisms and cross-references to other popular characters and jokes. The game has a simple interface that uses two mouse buttons for interaction. Inventory-based puzzles as well as dialogues occupy the largest portion of the game, following the tradition of LucasArts' adventures. |
| Sint Nicolaas | 1999 | Wiering Software | Wiering Software | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Sint Nicolaas has been robbed! The thieves have taken his big sack full of presents and gingerbread cookies. In their run however, they weren't careful and presents started dropping out of the sack. Now Sint only has to collect the fallen cookies and presents and brind them to the right chimneys.Sint Nicolaas is a platform game based on the the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas. Jump across rooftops, pick up presents and cookies and watch out for birds and old fashioned TV antennas. The chimneys have a colored box and a number. You have to deliver the presents at the chimney with a matching color box and deliver as many cookies as indicated by the number. When you pick up presents they follow you in a string, similar to Flicky.You can only deliver the present you first picked up. So if the present closest to you is red then you must first find a chimney with a red box. This gets tougher in later levels, where presents and matching chimney don't appear in order forcing you to backtrack parts of the level.After each round there is a bonus game where you have to pick up 100 gingerbread cookies within a time limit, and there are platforms that disappear when you walk across them. |
| Skat 3000 | 1999 | CreaTeam-Software | CreaTeam-Software | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Skat 3000 is a simulation of the card game skat and the successor of Skat 2095. There are many variants, but here is the principle: the game is usually played with three persons. Two of the players are playing against a single one, but are not allowed to communicate. Each card has a value and one suit is called "Trumpf". In every round each player loses one of his cards and the one who played the "Trumpf" card with the highest value gets all the played cards. If no "Trumpf" is played, the highest value wins. At the end each player counts the value of his cards. The goal for the single player is to get more points than the other two combined.The main feature of Skat 3000 is the integration of many local skat variants. If your favorite rule set is not included you can create it yourself with the freely adjustable rules. It also has a tutorial, animated graphics and voice acting. In comparison to Skat 2095 it features more opponents and a better playing AI. In the shareware version are several restrictions present, e.g. no adjustable rules and no save option.In 2005 there was a commercial special edition distributed which features only the official rules. |
| Skat! 2000 | 1999 | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG | Data Becker GmbH & Co. KG | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Skat! 2000 is a simulation of the card game skat. There are many variants, but here is the principle: The game is usually played with three persons. Two of the players are playing against a single one but are not allowed to communicate. Each card has a value and one suit is called "Trumpf". In every round each player looses one of his card and the one which played the "Trumpf" card with the highest value gets all the played cards. If no "Trumpf" is played the highest value scores. At the end each player counts the values of his cards. The goal for the single player is to get more points than the other two combined.Skat! 2000 is based on the official rules of the German Skat Association of 1998 and 1999 but it also includes several popular variants including Kontra, Bock, Ramsch, Rum, Spitze and Offiziers-Skat. It also features six computer opponents with different playing skill and a multiplayer mode. For analysis purposes there is the possibility to distribute the cards freely.
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| Skispringen 2000 | 1999 | VCC Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG | VCC Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Skispringen 2000 is a simulation of the sport ski jumping which, in comparison to the RTL Ski series that followed it, lacks an official license. The handling is simple: a mouse click is used to time the take-off and landing; for correction and shifting to the v-stile the player has to make slight movements with his mouse.The game features four ski-jump locations (Garnisch, Oberstdorf, Innsbruck and Hakuba) and eight athletes. It is only possible to play separate events at one location, there are no campaigns or world rankings. Successful jumps can be saved as video and the disc includes a video interview Jens Weißflog, a former German ski jumper. |
| Skout | 1999 | BMS Modern Games Handelsagentur GmbH | Soft Enterprises GmbH | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Humanity's most dangerous enemy, the Kybernoids, have invaded and occupied Lugubrios, a planet of paramount strategic value. The Kybernoids have built a shield generator, protecting the planet from any kind of attack. You are Skout and it's your mission to destroy this generator and to free the enslaved population.
The game is a typical Quake clone and comes with various indoor and large outdoor levels. Your futuristic weapon arsenal helps you to succeed in your mission against the Kybernoids. One special thing about this game is the Drone. With the help of this weapon, you can surprise and confuse your enemies by flying on to them or simply check certain areas for enemies before entering them. The Drone gets certain upgrades during the game, allowing you to fire at your enemies with this weapon.
The game was only released in Germany and Poland however an English Demo version is existing. |
| Skullcaps | 1999 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Creative Edge Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Skullcaps is the sequel to Baldies.Four breeds of Hairies have taken over the world and it is up to the player to retake it with his Skullies.Skullcaps is a RTS game with a twist, just like in other games in the genre you construct buildings and train troops, but Skullcaps puts the focus on humor.You can build four types of skullies: the worker who breeds new skullies, the scientist who researches technologies, the builder who constructs buildings and the soldier who attacks the enemy. To compliment this there are three types of buildings, normal buildings, where skullies live and breed, science buildings where research is performed and military buildings where weapons are built.An important weapon in this game are traps. They range from simple pit traps to exploding cows and angry sharks. They can be used to contain the enemy while you breed an army. Enemy traps are particularly harmful to your skullies, because they have a mind of their own. Unless you specifically order them to do something they will just wander around. |
| Skydive! Go Ahead and Jump | 1999 | Gonzo Games | Groove Alliance, Inc., The | Action, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Tricks / stunts | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In this skydiving simulation the player can choose between three events: Accuracy diving where the goal is to hit a certain point on the ground, Sky Slalom where the player has to dive through rings in the air and Free Fly where the points are granted for performing tricks. Also there are 33 locations from all over the world to choose from. The player controls the diving by moving the mouse over the screen, the speed is controlled by clicking the left (faster) or right (slower) mouse buttons. Stunts and the like are performed automatically when the conditions are right. |
| SlamTilt Resurrection | 1999 | 21st Century Entertainment Ltd. | Ganymede Technologies S.C. | Action | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | Pinball | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | SlamTilt Resurrection is a 3D version of the hit Slamtilt pinball game released back in 1997. It features new high res graphics up to 1280 by 1024 in 32Bit color. It includes 2 tables: Demon and Pirate. Players are able to choose from 5 levels of difficulty ranging from novices to pro gamer. 4 types of gameplay modes like normal, tournament and so on. There are also 20 different in-game modes for each table. |
| Sleepwalker | 1999 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Exelweiss Entertainment, S.L. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Sleepwalker is an isometric puzzle where a sleepwalking man in his pajamas needs to be guided to safety. The character walks automatically and cannot be controlled directly. Instead the player needs to put up signs and objects in the environment to help him around and to avoid contact with monsters. Signs are collected in a vertical bar on the right side of the screen. Farther levels include new types of items. The game contains about 100 levels. |
| Snood | 1999 | | | Puzzle | Side view | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Snood is a puzzle game based on the concept of Puzzle Bobble. The game is set out with a grid of small differently-coloured shapes, each featuring faces drawn on them. A succession of blocks are placed in an aiming device at the bottom of the screen, and you must rotate this so as to aim them, off the walls if necessary, to hit ones of the same colour.When three or more of the same colour make contact, they are removed from the field of play. Any blocks which were only connected to those blocks (and not to any others or the ceiling) get removed from play as well. This is crucial, because each shot that fails to drop any blocks off causes a meter to move on one level. When this reaches the top, the line of blocks drops by one level. Once it reaches the point where blocks are moved down below the playing area, it is Game Over.There are five skill levels, as well as a set of 50 challenge levels, and a Journey mode in which you play through one level from each difficulty. From medium difficulty upwards, you'll have to contend with Skulls among the layout - these can only be removed by being dropped away. |
| Sokoban | 1999 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Sokoban is an adaptation of the eponymous puzzle game, where the player must push all crates in the level onto special target tiles, but is unable to pull crates away or push more than one crate at once. The player character can be controlled with the keyboard (moving one tile at a time), or the mouse (by clicking the player can command the character to move to a specific spot, or to push a neighboring crate to a specified tile.) The game keeps track of high scores (completing the level with a minimum number of moves or pushes.) Later versions of the game include advanced features such a level editor, importing custom levels from the internet, the ability to compare high scores with other players online, multiple skins (and a skin editor), or undoing an unlimited number of the player's moves. |
| Solitaire | 1999 | RomTech, Inc. | Goodsol Development, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Solitaire is a collection of single player card games. This collection is by Goodsol who went on to develop Pretty Good Solitaire and the seemingly ever-expanding Solitaire Master series. This game contains fifty different solitaire games which are; Agnes Bernauer, Agnes Soler, Auld Lang Syne, Bakers Dozen, Beleagured Castle, Bisley, Black Hole, Bristol, Busy aces, Calculation, Canfield, Captive Queens, Carpet, Congress, Deuces,Doublets, Eagle Wing, Easthaven, Eight Off, Five Piles, Flower Garden, Fortune's Favor, Four Seasons, Fourteen Out, FreeCell, Gate, Golf, Klondike, Nestor, Odd and Even, One234, Osmosis, Patriarchs, Peek, Penguin, Pyramid, Russian Solitaire, Scorpion ,Simple Pairs, Sir Tommy, Spiderette, Stonewall, Streets and Alleys, Thirteens, Thumb and Pouch, Vertical, Westcliff, Whitehead, Will o the Wisp & Yukon. While games can be selected from a straight list of the above they can also be viewed by type, the game groupings available are Klondike type; FreeCell type; 2 deck games; Simple Games; Open Games and Favorites - this last option being games the player has flagged as such while they were playing them. Once the player selects a game the game selection window closes and a new window opens with the chosen game, when the player exits this window the game selection window reappears The game has a comprehensive help file which opens in a separate window and explains the rules for each game. The game is selected at random from 214783647 possible deals but the player has the option of selecting a specific deal should they so wish.The game keeps separate statistics for each registered player, has undo & redo options, allows each player to set their own background colour and card back as well as having a save game feature, called a snapshot, which allows the player to restart a game at a particular point.
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| Solitaire Games | 1999 | Global Software Publishing Ltd. | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Solitaire Games is a collection of 101 single player card games. The games included in this package are:Achilles Heel, All on One, Alleycat Brawl, Aloha, Altair 159, Altercations, Alternate Out, Arched Klondike, Arizona, Atom Bomb,
Carumba, B-52, Bay of Pigs, Big Four-O, Black and Red, Blitzkreig, Blitzkreig Plus, Break 147, Bull's Eye, Bumble Bee,
Butcher's Knife, Canfield, Carlton, Clock, Cold Compress, Cone of Silence, Cookie Jar, Crossing the T, Crossplot, Cyanide
Dasvadahnya, Daybreak in Hell, Diplomat, Dorogo e Cosmo, Double Canfield, Double Klondike, Double Zoomer, Edges Three,
Eight Down, Empress, Flowers in May, Flyaway Home, Fool's Legacy, Freespace, Gatsby, Grenade, Halfway Home, Holding Pattern, Houdini's House, House of Lords, Idiot's Array, Indian Toad, Infinity Quest, King Tut,
Kings To Queens, Klondike, Klondike Junior, Lame Duck, Legion, Lucas, Luck Be a Lady
Mesmer-eyes, Metropolis, Moving House, Nairobi, Neptune, Obrai-Skai, Orange Juice, Orlov's Stratagem, Paranoia, Pass the Salt
Personification, Pink Sloth, Planetside, Plughole, Reserve Plan, Rotor Blades, Royalty, Scotch Patience, Scott Carey, Shady Tree
Square Rule, Star's End, Stockade, Sunset Boulevard, Superior Canfield, Supermarket, Ten Little Braves, The Big S, The Lower Ranks,
The Rug, This Way Up, Three Leaf Clover, Totem Poll, Train Tracks,Triangulate, Valhalla, Villa In Spain, Whitehall, Yucatan, ZoomerThe package does allow different players to register their identity but, other than remembering which game was in progress so that it can be resumed, collects no statistics on games played or the player's percentage of successes.
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| Sonic R | 1999 | Expert Software, Inc. | SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | Arcade | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | While on vacation, Tails and Sonic come across a recruiting advertisement for the World Grand Prix race. Sonic is not interested at first, but once he notices that Dr. Robotnik will participate he decides to enter. Robotnik is only interested in the race because he's learned the location of the Chaos Emeralds and now he'll get a chance to beat Sonic while he gets them. Knuckles finds out that Sonic will participate, so he joins him. Amy overhears Robotnik's plan, so she will also be racing to get the Chaos Emeralds.There are many modes of gameplay in Sonic R:Grand Prix: You race against the rest of the characters on each of the circuits, and get a chance to race the level's boss to unlock some of the extra playable characters.Time Attack: Run on one of the tracks as fast as you can, get 5 balloons or tag 4 characters.Multi Player: 4 players on a split-screen or over a network. You can race against up to three players or challenge them on a balloon finding game. The screen can be divided horizontally or vertically for 2 player games. |
| South Park: Chef's Luv Shack | 1999 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Acclaim Studios Austin | Action | | Licensed | | Arcade, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Chef hosts South Park: Chef's Luv Shack, which mixes South Park trivia with over 20 mini games in the mold of Mario Party. Most of the mini games are parodies of classic arcade games. The player chooses a South Park character (Kyle, Kenny, Stan, or Cartman) and answers the questions based on episodes from the cartoon series. If the player gets it right, they then spin a wheel, and get either cash, lose it all, or play a mini game (either by themselves, against the AI, or against other players if playing in multiplayer mode). The person who has the highest score (or the most correct answers) after a chosen amount of rounds wins.
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| Space Bastards: Sudden Justice | 1999 | On-Line PLC | Smoking Gun Productions | Puzzle | Side view | | Adult | Platform | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Space Bastards: Sudden Justice is a push-block puzzle game.With your one (or, optionally two) Robosaur(s) you must wade your way through over 100 levels of block puzzles, saving aliens from the evil menace of the Space Bastards (no, really...). Every ten levels or so, a new type of block becomes available, with new properties that change your strategies. |
| Space Clash: The Last Frontier | 1999 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Enigma Software Productions, S.L. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Oscar Vaquero Puerta | Real-time | | | Windows | In Space Clash: The Last Frontier, four galactic empires fight for domination of a system in a distant future. Besides its Command & Conquer-like real-time strategy gameplay, trading and diplomacy is an important part of the game.There is a non-linear space campaign with a special space mode where you build space ships, fight, trade, move troops and attack planets in real time. You can choose one out of four races at the start, each one has different strengths and weaknesses. At the beginning there is only one planet on the map to attack and only a few vehicles can be build, more planets and units become available with further conquests. Unit types on a planet are ground, naval, amphibious and air, whereas each type can attack any other. There is also a race specific bombardment super weapon.Buildings and units cost money. Money increases permanently but faster when mining raw materials, and with owning a lot of territory. When moving a unit over free territory it belongs to the unit owner, if no building is near. Your high command offers money for an amount of stored raw materials periodically and random units for money. It is possible to trade raw materials using a transporter, or to make peace and alliances with another faction on the map. Sometimes you have to pay for a peace treaty, sometimes you get money for it, if presented.The objective of normal missions is to destroy all units and buildings of the enemy or buy all their possession at once for a high prize, your decision. Between the numerous standard missions there are 12 special missions with specific objectives like defending specific units/buildings or escape with a group of units. The linear campaign is simple concatenation of missions, with the same maps of the space campaign in a specific order and without any background story. |
| Spec Ops II: Green Berets | 1999 | Ripcord Games | Zombie Inc. | Action, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The sequel to Spec Ops: Rangers Lead the Way puts you in the role of a US Army Green Berets. Spec Ops 2 offers you 5 campaigns (Antarctica, Korea, Pakistan, Thailand, Germany) with a total of 26 missions which you can complete in any order you choose. The main task is to control your team through these levels and to reach the mission's goal. The 19 weapons available and various explosives will help you to succeed.The game also supports LAN and Internet multiplay for up to 16 players. |
| Speccy Classix 3000 | 1999 | Epicdirect | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Speccy Classix 3000 is a compilation of 'around 3000' Spectrum games together with the emulators needed to play them on a number of platforms.This compilation is based on an earlier release, Speccy Classix '98, which provided Spectrum games together with emulators for Windows and the Amiga. |
| Speedway 99 | 1999 | Techland Soft | Techland Soft | Racing / Driving, Simulation | Behind view | | | | | Motorcycle, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | | | Windows | Speedway 99 is a game where the player is a speedway rider. The aim of the game is to win races in 10 different stadiums that resemble real world arenas using a choice of four overalls and one of three motorbikes. The game is fully 3D and has varying levels of difficulty. |
| Speedy Zone | 1999 | Cyberium Multi Media B.V. | Digital Point, Inc. | Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | | | | Windows | Speedy Zone is an arcade racing game that features three tracks and eight car models, all inspired by real cars. Each track is available in day time and night time settings. The game supports both a single-player mode racing against seven computer opponents and a multiplayer LAN mode against up to seven other players. Vehicle damage is taken into account, affecting top speed and acceleration. |
| Spirit of Speed 1937 | 1999 | MicroProse Ltd. | Broadsword Interactive Limited | Racing / Driving | 1st-person | | | | Interwar | | | | | | Windows | A slight change from the normal excessive number of F1 games out there, Spirit of Speed 1937 was an attempt to put you into the driving seat of some of the oldest, and well known, racing cars of the early-century. Take control of one of the 1930s cars and race it out around tracks, many of which are no longer available for professional competitive racing. The game is a single player race around historic tracks in a single race or a full circuit. |
| Splatberry Pie | 1999 | InfoMedia, Inc. | ToyLab | Action | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Splatberry Pie is a freeware, single player, mouse controlled game.In this game the player controls a Munchie, a small blue two legged big-eyed thing, that's underneath a Splatberry Pie tree. Munchies don't like Splatberry pies so the object of the game is to use a side-to-side motion of the mouse to avoid the falling food.Splatberry Pie is available on some freeware compilation CDs and can also be found on freeware web sites where it is played in a browser window. The game is one of a series of games set in the land of Zania, other games in the series are Don't Bonk The Giggle and Boot Rear Soda.
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| Splotch | 1999 | | VDG Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Splotch is a single player, shareware, mouse controlled game from Romania.The game is played on a large grid and is similar to Go as players take turns to place a coloured dot onto the grid attempting to surround their opponents pieces and capture areas of the board. The game has three levels of difficulty, the shareware release only has the Beginner level while the registered game has Beginner, Advanced and Master levels.
The game plays in a window, it has sound effects and a demo mode.
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| Sportsman's Paradise II | 1999 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Sylum Entertainment Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | | | Hunting, Shooter | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Back of Jewel Case (US) (from Ad Blurbs)Every day's a great day to hunt!Lead up and prepare yourself for some serious hunting. Some folks call these animals critters, but their cunning and agility will challenge even the most skilled outdoorsman. When the day breaks, will you be ready for Sportsman's Paradise II? |
| Spy Fox 2: "Some Assembly Required" | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In this adventure game for kids 5-10, the freedom of the world is once again in peril! SPY Corps must call on their suave, super-secret agent SPY Fox to neutralize a ploy engineered by the Society of Meaningless Evil, Larceny, Lying, and Yelling (S.M.E.L.L.Y.) and masterminded by the dastardly Napoleon LeRoach and his giant dogbot ( disguised as a World's Fair exhibit). Can you find it before it goes on a rampage? You can, with the help of SPY Fox and Monkey Penny, Professor Quack, Walter Wireless and Bea Bear (she's a graduate of "OhManThatHurtz!" massage school) and other characters. You may just need their help, because the puzzles change; each time you start a new game, there will be a different combination of puzzles to solve! There are two "main paths" in the game, and each time you start a new game they take a few puzzles from path 'A" and a few from path 'B". There's also a bonus ending, for the "just perfect" end to the story. The help file that comes with the game has both hints and explicit answers, too.Aside for the normal Junior Adventures point-n-click system, lots of things on-screen to click on for amusing animations, and puzzles designed to challenge and inspire kids to think for themselves, there's a new "talk balloon" system allowing you to extract information from just about anyone, while SPY Fox' gadgets can get you out of the more dire predicaments. Explore and learn while you earn clues and uncover important info. Out of time, super sleuth? No problem - save now and play later. Want a break from spying? Play the "Things From Space" mini-arcade game for a change of pace. |
| Spy Fox in Hold the Mustard | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | Action | Side view | | Spy / espionage | Arcade, Shooter | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | King Konglomerate, CEO of a mustard company, launches a series of robots to steal and destroy tomatoes so that he won't have to compete with his archenemy ketchup. From Florida to Egypt, SPY Fox must travel around the world with his Multiple Environment Spy Ship to save the world's ketchup supply.The game itself is a straight-up side-scroller where you control your Spy Ship with either mouse or keyboard through 101 levels avoiding obstacles, shooting robots and collecting tomatoes. Like the other games in the Spy fox series, the game was built on the SCUMM engine. |
| Stammtisch Skat | 1999 | ARI Data CD GmbH | ARI Data CD GmbH | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Stammtisch Skat is a simulation of the card game skat. The principle: the game is usually played with three persons. Two of the players are playing against a single one, but are not allowed to communicate. Each card has a value and one suit is called "Trumpf". In every round each player loses one of his cards and the one who played the "Trumpf" card with the highest value gets all the played cards. If no "Trumpf" is played, the highest value wins. At the end each player counts the value of his cards. The goal for the single player is to get more points than the other two combined.Stammtisch Skat only features the official rules of the German Skat Association with two exceptions: Kontra and Re can be optional activated and if everyone passes "Ramsch" gets played. "Ramsch" is a variant where only the regular "Trümpfe" count and the goal is to have as little points as possible. The game can be played directly from CD. |
| Star Saber | 1999 | | Cataract Software | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Star Saber is a single-player Galaga clone where the player's space ship sits at the bottom of the screen and shoots aliens as they swoop down the screen and attack.There's a detailed backstory to this game involving a pilot who comes across a colony that has been destroyed by an unknown aggressor. The pilot's ship is also destroyed leaving them alone amid the ruins during which time they research the enemy so later, when they are rescued, they are able to assist in developing effective weapons. So, in a small but well armed ship in dark space a lone star pilot waits. They are the last hope, all that stands between humanity and oblivion.The game is keyboard controlled and the action keys can be redefined. The game comes with a level editor of sorts, there are instructions on how to use a text editor, such as Notepad, to alter the game's configuration files to tweak the game and even to introduce new enemies, weapons, levels and formations. |
| Star Trek Trivia Challenge | 1999 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | | Puzzle | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | Star Trek Trivia Challenge is a follow up to Star Trek: The Game Show, by the same developer/publisher. The game contains over 1,000 questions related to Star Trek the Original Series and Star Trek the Next Generation, and can be played by up to three players using a single keyboard. The game seems to have a You Don't Know Jack sort of vibe, with features like stealing points from your opponents or locking them out from answering questions. |
| Star Trek: Federation Compilation | 1999 | Interplay Productions Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The European version of Star Trek: Federation Compilation is different from the US version and offers the following 5 games:Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Chekov's Lost Missions
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity |
| Star Wars: Anakin's Speedway | 1999 | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Educational, Racing / Driving | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Star Wars: Anakin's Speedway is a 2D title for kids, allowing them to make their own pod race tracks on either Tatooine, Ando Prime or Dagobah. Then get to race on them with Anakin Skywalker, Sebulba, Gasgano or Ben Quadinaros by picking between three speeds. You can also print out the tracks for use as special trading cards. |
| Star Wars: Episode I - The Gungan Frontier | 1999 | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | You are given the task of creating a new ecology for Gungan colonizers. In this game much like SimLife, you decide where to put creatures in the new world. You must juggle things so all of the creatures are well-fed, there is no over-population, and most importantly that the Gungans are living in harmony with the other species. |
| Star Wars: Jeopardy! | 1999 | | | Puzzle | | Fangame | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | A Jeopardy-like quiz game in which up to three players answer questions based on the Star Wars movies. There are three rounds of play, Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy. Daily Doubles are included as well allowing players to wager up to all of their winnings. |
| Star Wars: Pit Droids | 1999 | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Puzzle | | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Watto has purchased a new shipment of Pit Droids, and it is up to the player to get them to the Pod Racing arena, by guiding the droids through 300 puzzles of road blocks, spinning tiles of death and junk heaps. Players can also create their own puzzles for the droids to get caught up in, and trade them online with other gamers. |
| StarChild | 1999 | | Magus Software, LLC. | Action, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | StarChild is a shareware Robotron clone. The player's character starts off randomly positioned in the game area along with humans and numerous baddies and they must find a way to rescue all the humans that are on the screen. Some baddies just attack the player while others will attack the humans the player is supposed to rescue. Some levels have fixed and mobile mirrors that reflect the player's laser and other kinds of trickery.There are eleven levels to the full registered version of the game each comprising a number of waves of enemies and representing ascending nodes on the tree of life. The objective is to complete all levels, battling through the entities sent by 'the Great Sorcery' until finally achieving immortality. The game is controlled either by the keyboard, joystick, or the mouse, has sound, power-ups, configurable controls and a level editor. The two player game is a co-operative match. |
| StarCraft: Anthology | 1999 | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | StarCraft Anthology is a collection of the two games. They are:
StarCraft
StarCraft: Brood War |
| StarCraft: Battle Chest | 1999 | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation includes:
StarCraft (base game)
StarCraft: Brood War (expansion pack)
Prima strategy guides for both titles |
| Starshot: Space Circus Fever | 1999 | Infogrames Europe SA | Infogrames Europe SA | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | The space circus is heavily in debt, and it's up to Starshot to get the circus going, before the entire place is blown sky high by Wolfgang von Ravel and his robot clan. There are seven large levels in total to go through, with Starshot's many different skills needed to complete each task. |
| Stephen King's F13: Ctrl, Alt, ...Shiver (Limited Edition) | 1999 | Blue Byte Software GmbH & Co. KG | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This Limited Edition contains:
Stephen King's F13: Ctrl, Alt, ...Shiver
Autographed CD cover by J. Körber (German King translator)
Horror keychain
Postcard
The German edition was limited to 3.500 copies. |
| Stinky & Bäver: Skogsspelen | 1999 | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | ITE Media ApS (Interactive Television Entertainment) | Action, Racing / Driving, Sports | Behind view, Side view, Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Stinky & Bäver (eng: Stinky & Stomper) is a Danish interactive TV game show similar to the Hugo games from the same company. The game is essentially a collection of mini games where Stinky the skunk and Stomper the beaver compete in eight different events with the goal of becoming the champion of the Forest Games (skogsspelen). Up to four players can take part of the tournament and it is also possible to play against AI opponents. The players are awarded points for each event based on position and when all events have been played a champion can be named. The tournament consists of the following events:
Box car rally - The player races with his little box car down the slopes of a mountain and has to avoid hitting any obstacles. He can also push away his opponent by ramming into him.
Water track - Works similarly to the rally, but on water.
Timber ahoy - The player has to fell a tree and have it fall on a target
Fun with balls - Basically a variant of boules. Each player has five balls to throw and the one that is closest to the walnut gets most points.
Plum shooting - The player uses a gun that shoots plums and has to shoot down hedgehogs. At the same time time he has to avoid shooting false hedgehogs that don't give any points.
Spin the wheel - A trivia game where the player gets to spin a wheel which leads to a question about the game world.
Volcano golf - The player uses a gigantic boxing machine to hit a boulder with the goal of hitting a volcano.
Obstacle race - The obstacle race involves running fast and jumping over the obstacles that appear.
Once a tournament has been finished a hidden and secret event will become available that the player has to search for on the map. |
| Striptease | 1999 | EXE | | Puzzle | Top-down | | Adult | Dating simulation | | | | | | | Windows | The game features 3 elements. The first part is constructed on the basis of a psychotest, which, through the appropriate answers, will allow the player to pick up a girl. An additional element of flirting is buying the girl's drinks, which are made of four ingredients. The last element is the puzzle of a naked woman. The total number of points for three tasks is rewarded with an erotic video. |
| Submarine Titans (Technology Demo Version) | 1999 | | Megamedia Australia | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | The technology demo of Submarine Titans predates the game's full release by about a year. It features only two of three factions: the White Sharks and the Black Octopi. The game is differently balanced, voiceovers are different and incomplete, and interface elements are different. There are two skirmish maps that are not present in the final game, as well as one singleplayer mission for each faction (the Silicon entry in the campaign screen is blocked). Submarine silhouettes under large rocks were not yet implemented at the time of this demo version's build. |
| Subworld | 1999 | | | Action, Simulation | Side view | | | Hunting, Managerial / business simulation | Contemporary | Naval / watercraft | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | You are playing a freelance underwater photographer, tasked by various magazines to take pictures of certain fish. However the competition is not sleeping and will try to blind you before you can take the perfect shot.The game mostly revolves about taking the pictures, but also contains some repetitive managerial tasks. Each assignment has to be executed in the following sequence:
On your yacht select the laptop and choose any of the 10 assignments.
On the world map travel to a spot where the commissioned fish can be found. The fish population on the world map is random for each dive, so there's no educational aspect.
At the target location equip your submarine with the underwater camera, the ink canon, oxygen tanks and lamps and move it into the water.
When underwater try to take a sharp photo of the commissioned fish; on success go up again and use the laptop to send the photo to the magazine, on failure you won't receive any money.
In the subway there are some basic controls to turn on the light or show the oxygen and energy level. The viewfinder for taking the pictures can be controlled via a small virtual joystick in the middle of the console, the same goes for the crosshairs of the ink cannon to blind rival subways before they blind you. Additionally it is also possible to adjust the speed of the joystick. The camera can store up to 10 pictures, but like with a regular digital camera it is possible to free space again by deleting old shots.You can also use the laptop on your yacht to check your bank account balance, though the amount will never be reduced, but only increased when you finish an assignment. When quitting the game it is possible to save the score (based on the account balance) into the highscore table. |
| Super Brickout | 1999 | Bit Player Software | Bit Player Software | Action | | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | A simple Breakout game written in C, based on the first Amiga Brickout game written in ABasic. For that extra Amiga feeling, the ball is drawn to resemble the famous "boing" ball. There are three game modes:
Brickout: The standard game of Breakout.
Brickthru: The ball isn't deflected by the bricks, passing through them instead.
Double: Two paddles (one above the other) and two balls simultaneously.
Control is via mouse, there is stereo panoration for sound effects, and the game is multitasking.The Windows version uses keyboard controls and has an extra mode called Bizarro Breakout where ball and bricks start moving erratically when a secret hidden brick is hit. |
| Super Duper Arcade 1 | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a collection of four of the eight Junior Arcade series of games on one disc. The games included are:Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-o-RamaFreddi Fish and Luther's Water WorriesPajama Sam's SockWorksSpy Fox in Cheese Chase |
| Super Duper Arcade 2 | 1999 | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a collection of the other four of the eight Junior Arcade series of games on one disc. The games included are:Putt-Putt and Pep's Dog on a StickFreddi Fish and Luther's Maze MadnessPajama Sam's Lost & FoundSpy Fox in "Hold the Mustard" |
| Super Kid | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | Mirinae Software Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Fighting | | | | | | | Windows | Super Kid is a beat-em up game for one or two players. Players take the role of one of eight characters: Prometer, Chaos, Elvira, Golem, Rocket Attack, Thorin, Linth, Nornen and Azrael. Each is a kid and, what's more, a kid with a special talent or weapon. Rocket Attack, for example, has rockets in addition to these special moves a propeller kick, a death holer, an upper cutter and a full swing. Others have different moves with Azrael having the most, in addition to hand grenades, a flame projector, a shotgun, a standing shoot this character also has LAW, ICBM, SOL and bayonet in their arsenal. The game is entirely keyboard controlled. |
| Super Solvers Mission: T.H.I.N.K. | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Action, Educational, Puzzle, Strategy | Side view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Super Solvers Mission: T.H.I.N.K is a game in the Super Solvers series that involves logic and puzzle solving. Morty Maxwell is up too his old tricks and is trying to take over the Shady Glen Game Factory and change it to his own Morty Maxwell Game Factory with the help of his Metal Minnions. As the Super Solver, players must battle Morty Maxwell at five different strategy games. In order to win back the Game Factory, the Super Solver will recruit help from Rusty, a metal dog who originally was with Morty Maxwell. Players must travel through a warehouse and collect different items in order to play the game and solve puzzles. Some examples include wood, compasses, boats, shovels etc, The Metal Minnions can be avoided by throwing magnets on the ceiling to trap them. |
| Super Solvers: Spellbound! | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Educational, Puzzle | Side view | | | Word construction | | | | | | | Windows | The Master of Mischief is at it again. This time he has devised a great spelling bee in which he will submit robots to win the spelling bee for him! When you first log in, you will be asked to chose a category of words (Holiday, homophones, etc.). You are then brought to a screen with three options: Crisscross, Flash Cards, and Word Search. Crisscross is a sort of crossword puzzle, but instead of clues you just need to figure out where the words go. Flash cards are flash cards… You hear or see a word and then spell it out. Word finder is a grid filled with letters wherein several words are hidden. Once you finish the above you can enter a spelling bee where you face the Master of Mischief and/or his robots. Winning opens up new levels of competition such as Regional or International. |
| Super Tutor: Spelling | 1999 | Accurate Research, Inc. | Super Tutor Company, The | Educational | | | | | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Super Tutor: Spelling is an education program for children aged eleven to eighteen (US grades seven to twelve). It contains interactive lessons and examples to help pupils spell 2,000 different words. It consists of quizzes, exercises and games. Next to spelling pupils can also hear how words are pronouncer. There are over 100 word lists with previews, active and passive spelling games, visual and auditory prompts, and descriptions of spelling rules. |
| Superbike Racing | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person | | | | | Motorcycle | | | | | Windows | Superbike Racing is a motorcycle racing game with three circuits: Albacete, Catalunya and Jerez. There are four game modes:
Training: race in a free mode without other bikes on the track
Practice: first part of the weekend of the race with other drivers controlled by the CPU.
Qualifying: second part of the race weekend with opponents. The time on the circuit established in this session defines the position on the starting grid.
Race: third and final part of the weekend race |
| Survival: The Last Hope | 1999 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | Enjoy Entertainment | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | Survival: The Last Hope is a 3D action shooter where you control a futuristic aircraft flying at low altitudes.In the twenty-third century mankind has colonized much of the galaxy and lives in relative peace on terraformed planets, until an alien force enters the scene and destroys two human colonies. Now it is up to you to fly your aircraft and take car of the alien threat in a campaign with 30 missions.Anything that needs to be destroyed is conveniently marked by your HUD with big the big lettered word "Destroy".You can view your carnage from both first and third person. You get to fight various different enemy ships and structures including fast fighters, big flagships, and ground turrets. You'll get to use several different weapons to take care of them all. |
| Swing Plus: Total Mindcontrol | 1999 | Software 2000 | Software 2000 | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Swing is a Tetris inspired puzzle game: At the top of the screen you see two lines of eight balls ("spheres") in different colors and weights (shown as numbers). At the bottom are four scales. You can transport and put down one sphere at the same time through a grey device between the two parts described above. Three spheres of the same color side by side will disappear and give you points; all other same spheres in vertical or horizontal neighborhood to this three will also vanish (combos)! The clue are the scales because of imbalance they go up or down and can catapult the spheres over the whole area! And there can be highest only eight spheres on one scale pan - otherwise game over. Later in a game there will be more and more colors and special items. The multiplayer mode is even more funny because there you have to make big combos for better items which you can catapult into your opponents area!Swing Plus is similar to the original Swing (1997) except an added "mission mode". |
| TOCA 2: Touring Car Challenge | 1999 | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Codemasters Software Company Limited, The | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | The BTCC (British Touring Car Championship) was Britain's biggest domestic racing championship in the late 1990s, and this game recreates it. Cars from 8 constructors tough it out over 8 circuits of first-person high-contact racing. You can race the full championship or take on single races or time trial challenges. At this time the series required all cars to make at least one pit stop during the race. This seriously affects your driving and pitting strategy.Besides the TOCA races, each of the venues also features special racing events where all drivers race identical cars. These range from the Ford Fiesta to exotics like the AC Blower and the Lister Storm, and higher, in a format similar to American IROC races. 8 bonus track layouts are also included. |
| TalonSoft's East Front 2 | 1999 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Strategy | | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Actually an update of the original East Front, this new version includes all the original scenarios patched and with improved graphics, plus 50 new scenarios and another 50 fan-made scenarios. (totallying 150). New options include rules like "extreme fog of war", armor facing, and other tweakings. Also available is a campaign game mode, plus multiplayer support by modem, IPX, E-mail and hotseat for 2 players. |
| TalonSoft's West Front: Elite Edition | 1999 | TalonSoft, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a compilation of West Front and its add-on West Front: Battle Pack 1. |
| Tanktics | 1999 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | DMA Design Limited | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | | Tank | | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Tanktics is a game in which you are required to design and create tanks which can then be used to defend your base. To carry this assignment out you must gather resources which can then be dropped into a crazy machine called the Part-o-Matic. This machine also acts as your base. This game seems to be aimed at more casual or younger gamers, as the graphics are very simple and, when complete, you can give your tanks just two commands: move and shoot. |
| Team Fortress Classic | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Valve L.L.C. | Action | 1st-person | Dario Casali (uncredited), Eric Smith (uncredited), Erik Johnson (uncredited), Yahn Bernier (uncredited) | | Shooter | | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Team Fortress Classic is a team-based, multiplayer first-person shooter with nine distinct classes, each with their own abilities and weapons. Most of the matches consist of Capture the Flag-type maps, along with variations such as Assassination/Escort, Territory Control, and more.Each player is armed with a melee weapon, a couple of firearms and one or two types of grenades. The exact choice of weapons depends on the class chosen. The chosen class also affects walking speed, maximum armor and health, and some special abilities. The nine classes are:
Scout - the fastest class, but weakest in combat. The scout is armed with a shotgun, a nail gun and a crowbar, as well as concussion and caltrop grenades. The scout's role is typically to capture the flag and run away quickly while dodging enemy fire.
Sniper - exactly what it says on the tin, the sniper's role is to stand in one spot and shoot enemies with his sniper rifle. He also has an automatic rifle, a nailgun and a crowbar, as well as hand grenades in case he needs to defend himself.
Soldier - armed with two shotguns, a crowbar, hand grenades, a nail grenade, and - most importantly - a rocket launcher. The soldier's role is obviously combat, both in offense and defense. He is skilled at making very high "rocket jumps" with his launcher.
Medic - apart from healing his teammates with a medikit, the medic can also infect enemies with contagious disease. The medic also automatically recovers his hit points. While not much of a fighter, he is armed with two shotguns, a nailgun, and hand and concussion grenades.
Heavy Weapons Guy - wielding a gigantic chaingun, the HWG is very slow (especially when firing), but has very high offensive ability and is very tough to kill. He's also armed with two shotguns, a crowbar, some hand grenades and a destructive MIRV grenade.
Demoman - he likes things that go boom, so he wields a destructive grenade launcher, as well as a pipebomb launcher (and also a shotgun, a crowbar and some hand and MIRV grenades). The demoman can also set up high-explosive charges - detpacks, which can destroy certain elements of environment on some maps.
Pyro - armed with a flamethrower and an incendiary missile launcher (as well as a shotgun, a crowbar and hand and napalm grenades), the pyro's role is to spread chaos and confusion by running around quickly and setting enemies on fire.
Spy - he has the ability to disguise himself as an enemy teammate, as well as feign death. He's armed with a tranquilizer gun which slows down its targets, a shotgun, a nailgun, a knife (good for backstabs) and some hand and hallucination grenades.
Engineer - his specialty is building stuff: namely, sentry guns, ammunition dispensers and teleporters. He can also restore his teammates' armor with his wrench (also used for upgrading/repairing his constructions). He also carries a railgun, a shotgun and some hand and EMP grenades.
The game started as a modification for Quake, but was later adapted to the engine of Half-Life, originally based on the first Quake engine. Later, it was offered as a stand-alone title. |
| Teazle | 1999 | Global Star Software Ltd. | Aniware AB | Puzzle, Strategy | Side view, Top-down | | | Arcade, Board game, Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | Teazle can be played by up to eight players at a time in teams or against each other, home or on the Internet. The game consists of 50 different mini games. 25 of these are randomly placed on a board. The one that gets five in a row wins the match. All challenges in the game are computer generated which every match unique. Some of the games are arcade but for some you´ll need to use the brain as well. To be a good Teazle player you will need to be good at both. |
| Ted Nugent Wild Hunting Adventure | 1999 | Gonzo Games | Future Primitive | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | Hunting, Shooter | North America | | | | | | Windows | Ted Nugent Wild Hunting Adventure is a first-person hunting simulator akin to Deer Hunter, however depicted in a more irreverent, comical and violent tone. Players explore various areas and hunt for a variety of animals across five fictitious locales. Players initially start off with a .44 revolver, and their kills, depending on what animal, give them money which they can use to buy more hunting 'tools' at the general store, such as compound bows, hunting rifles, shotguns and even guitar case machine guns (however they can be found around levels as secret items), as well as powerups such as beef jerky. Animals range from deer to bison, to bears and rams, and each level has a set amount. Certain animals attack you, meaning that you must be on your toes at all times. At the cabin, players can refill their health and ammo, and swap weapons, and check on their stats. Like the name, former rock star Ted Nugent appears in the game as a guide to the player, praising or criticizing them for what choices they make, as well as new guitar tracks as game music. The game is also more realistic in tandem to other hunting games released at the time, such as an increase in graphic violence and stricter game rules, as players must be mindful not to run with their gun out, shoot private property, and not to poach any animals, as they result in a loss of money and a earful from the 'Nuge. |
| Tellurian Defense | 1999 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action, Simulation | | Licensed | | Shooter | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | In the year 2024, meteorites from space crashed down on Earth causing major destruction, obliterating cities and disrupting our fragile atmospheric balance. In its weakened state, Earth is in its most vulnerable state. Alien races are planning an invasion. You are part of an elite force of fighter pilots whose objective is to stop the invaders before it is too late.In over 30 missions, pilot your high-tech jet over different locations on Earth, chasing alien fighters and shooting them down. Your air battles will fly you and your wingmen over major cities with landmarks you will recognize. Besides the enemy’s ship, you must carefully avoid other obstacles including mountains, skyscrapers and bridges in the thick of things.Part of your activities will include examination of debris – including pieces of the alien craft you just destroyed, alien corpses, equipment or a weapon. Send objects to the research labs for analysis and retrieve communications detailing new orders.
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| Test Drive 6 | 1999 | Infogrames, Inc. | Pitbull Syndicate Limited, The | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | The 6th game in the Test Drive line of games that started in 1987.40 sports and muscle cars and 20 tracks in places like: London, Paris, Egypt, Hong Kong, Maui, Rome, Ireland, Tahoe, England, and the Caribbean.
Environment specific sounds.
Breakable Objects, In-road Obstacles, and Shortcuts.
"All-Units" AI has the police working together taking you down in force.
Economic racing system.
Purchase, upgrade, and stockpile cars in your custom garage.
High-Impact collisions.
Unpredictable cross traffic.
Split-screen head-to-head racing (PlayStation and Dreamcast only). |
| Tetro Conektum | 1999 | GSP Software | Dodgy Posse | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Tetro Conektum is a Tetris variant with similar rules to the original game: blocks of different shapes are coming down from the top of the screen and can be positioned and rotated until they come to a rest at the bottom. If a continuous line of block is constructed, it disappears, and the score increases. Tetro Conektum adds a few twists to the base formula, with optional extra blocks shapes beside the seven classic ones, a selection of optional static obstacles on the screen (called "levels" in the game), and optional power-ups that affect the game both in a positive and negative way. Power-ups can for instance add or remove a row, lower or raise the ceiling, or increase or decrease the game speed. A two-player mode is available, where each player is supplied with the exact same blocks. The game also offers a choice of eight visual themes that are purely cosmetic and don't affect the gameplay. |
| The Adventures of Bouapha: Spooky Castle | 1999 | Xtreme Games LLC | Hamumu Software | Action | Top-down | | Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | The Adventures of Bouapha: Spooky Castle is a single-player, top-down monster bashing adventure game.The story behind this game is that organ bank has been robbed and all the stored brains have been taken. No-one knows who committed the crime but a big, green, slimy something was seen heading for the big castle up on the hill. Enter the eponymous Bouapha, a guy with a hammer and a knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. Brain theft is definitely a bad thing so off he goes to the castle to investigate where he fights zombies, assorted spiders and other nasties before facing the thing that masterminded the heist.In this game the player explores the castle and its surroundings collecting brains and keys. They will also collect hammers which are the only weapon in the game, and pants of power which give the character extra strength.
The game is keyboard controlled and it has a save game feature. |
| The Adventures of Jonny Quest | 1999 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | | Action, Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This game is based on the TV series The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest from 1996, that tells about the adventures of the boy Jonny and his Quest Team. The events of the game follows one of the series' episodes. Something has crashed landed on Earth in Roswell, New Mexico. The government states it was a satellite. But the Quest team thinks differently. Perhaps it was an UFO? Before landing, the object jettisoned several alien artifacts. The Quest team must find those artifacts, racing against time, a corrupt branch of the US government, and the evil Dr. Surd.The game is an interactive cartoon movie which is interrupted by standard adventure-style puzzles as well as arcade sequences. |
| The American Girls: Dress Designer | 1999 | Mattel Media | Mattel Media | Educational, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The American Girls Dress Designer is, essentially, an interactive version of the paper dolls American Girl sold featuring their historical lineup, from 1770s-era Felicity Merriman to WWII-era Molly McIntire. Not only does the game allow players to create and/or customise period-era clothes for each of the doll characters, it also gives them a glimpse of what was like during various points in American history, from the clothes they wear to the cultural customs observed.As a bonus, the game also came bundled with six paper dolls of which young girls can dress up with the outfits they made in the game. |
| The Biggest Names the Best Games 2 | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Biggest Names the Best Games 2 is a compilation of the following games:
Die Hard Trilogy
FIFA: Road to World Cup 98
Future Cop: L.A.P.D.
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf
Trespasser: The Lost World - Jurassic Park |
| The Biggest Names the Best Games 4 | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The fourth release in EA's series of compilations contains these six games:
Dungeon Keeper 2
Sports Car GT
System Shock 2
Wing Commander: Prophecy - Gold Edition
Jane's Combat Simulations: WWII Fighters
ICC Cricket World Cup England 99
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| The ClueFinders: Reading Adventures | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Learning Company, Inc., The | Adventure, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Menu structures, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The ClueFinders: Reading Adventures is a game for children aged nine to five. The ClueFinders are transported to an alien planet, where Santiago and Leslie are captured by an evil sorceress. Joni and Owen must solve reading-based puzzles to reach them, while occasionally encountering the planet's princess, the object of Owen's infatuation.The game comes on two discs. The first part holds the story-based game called The Mystery of the Missing Amulet while the second disc is a personalized learning center. |
| The Dinoland Adventure | 1999 | | | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | In The Dinoland Adventure, you choose from four characters to explore a open ended world full of dinosaurs. You can choose to be a thief, magician or a warrior. There are old fighters you stumble across that will train you for the fights ahead. For every battle you win, you get money. For every battle you lose, you also lose health. But not to fear, there are hidden healing ponds that will restore your health. You start off in a town where you can visit the town hall, general store or your own apartment. But beware when wandering, because the dinosaurs get bigger the farther you go into the wild! |
| The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2000 | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts UK Ltd. | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | Text-based / Spreadsheet | Licensed, Regional differences | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | Take control of your own football team from one of the world's major leagues, and aim to win domestic and ultimately European honours - lower division teams must win promotions to get there. The game puts more time into non-team matters than many management games - you must control behind the scenes matters including finance control, ticket pricing, and improving and building your stadium and facilities. The usual tasks are still there - buy and sell players, manage your youth team, manage a reserve team, give your worst players away for free. Set up your team down to the smallest detail and view matches in 3D allowing you to make on-the-fly changes to your team to best counter the opposition. |
| The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 99 | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts UK Ltd. | Simulation, Sports, Strategy | Text-based / Spreadsheet | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Menu structures | | | | Windows | The F.A. Premier League Football Manager 99 puts you in control of a British Premier League team of your choice. With an official license the game features all correct teams (over 600), players (over 13,000), managers (over 700) stadiums, clothing and official logos. The official statistics of the 98-99 season are included in this game.Like other football manager games you have to guide your team through the league, including a range of financial matters, buying and selling players, and the quality of your stadium and facilities. You can view the matches in full 3D. During the match you can make changes to the team's setup in order to counter the opposition. |
| The F.A. Premier League Stars | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts UK Ltd., Software Creations Ltd. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed, Regional differences | | | | | | | | | Windows | Premier League Stars is football game from EA released just a few months before FIFA 2000. The two games are quite similar but Stars is a bit more pacey and more action than the more realistic FIFA. Whereas FIFA has several leagues the Stars game has focused on the English Premier League and it is full licensed with all the real clubs, kits, stadiums and players. The most unique feature in Stars is that it is using the Stars concept which means that you collect stars when winning matches, scoring goals and similar. The stars could be used to improve the players in different skills such as passing, shooting and tackling. |
| The Fast Show | 1999 | BBC Worldwide Ltd. | InteResource Ltd. | Action, Puzzle | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | Comedy | Arcade, Game show / trivia / quiz, Tile matching puzzle | Contemporary, Europe | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | This is a set of desktop/screensaver tools and film clips, mixed with short games based on episodes of The Fast Show comedy TV series from BBC. Colin Hunt's Office Trolley offers desktop customization and screensavers, Jesse's Thought for the Day is a desktop clock and calendar, and Rowley Birkin's Video Chestnuts contains clips from the show.The three included games are the Chanel 9 Ton Big Show Quizzico Bonanzo trivia game for one or two players, Appeaze the Squeezy Cheezy Peaz! as a Space Invaders clone where food falling from the sky needs to be shot with a pea-pod, and Ken and Kenneth ... Well Suited! as a memory game where a mannequin needs to be dressed identically to how the clerks did it at the start. |
| The Gamer's Choice | 1999 | Mindscape International Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000
John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror
Panzer General II
War Wind II: Human Onslaught
World League Basketball |
| The Guardian of Darkness | 1999 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Guardian of Darkness is an action game with puzzle-solving elements. Ekna is an exorcist monk from the "The Gate", an ultra-secret organization regularly sends him on the most perilous missions involving the paranormal. The first level starts with an investigation of an haunted museum. His assistant Edward Burnst will train him how to use his different spells. After each level, Ekna returns to his headquarters, the Tenebrans where he can get his orders from "The Gate" and get his specials weapons like grenades or energy power ups. |
| The Land Before Time: Preschool Adventure | 1999 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | WayForward Technologies, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Land Before Time: Preschool Adventure is the fourth educational title based on the The Land Before Time movie series. This game is designed for preschool children aged three to five. Educational topics include story construction, music, and crafts targeted according to the preschool standards. |
| The Mystery at Greveholm 2: The Journey to Planutus | 1999 | Young Genius Software AB | Vioma Digital Media AB | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | The Mystery at Greveholm 2: The Journey to Planutus is the sequel to The Mystery at Greveholm. After freeing the princess of Planutus from her imprisonment by the skeleton of the count at Greveholm in the first episode, the princess has returned to her planet. But the evil jellyfish king has locked her in a cell and has taken over the planet. He has obtained Planutus' crystal ball and uses his vessel to suck up all the water on Planutus.
Ivar, Lillan, and Sprak the flying robot, the princess' faithful companions, have traveled to earth, but their spaceship has crashed in front of Greveholm castle. In order to save the princess and stop the jellyfish king, the first thing to do is to fix the rocket. In the second part, back at Planutus, the power in town has to be restored and some contraptions have to be repaired, after which the party is able to access the region where the jellyfish king lives. In the third part of the game, the player has to locate the crystal ball and bring it back to the city in order to awake the princess. Gameplay is completely different from the first and third installment of the Mystery at Greveholm series as the game design includes RPG features. The game world is shown in a top-down perspective. The player has to control three characters, which have to eat or otherwise they fall asleep after a short episode. An energy meter shows how much energy is left. Each character has its own inventory, and the characters have different properties. For example, Ivar is able to cut down trees and to drive a vehicle, Lillan is a good swimmer and Sprak can fly into tall buildings. Except for a few mild arcade sequences, gameplay consists of locating items and using them at the right place. Sometimes only one of the characters is able to use an inventory item. Scrolls can be found that include hints. The player can choose to play the game with or without a time-limit. |
| The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956-2000 | 1999 | TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | The Operational Art of War (TOAW), Volume II is a combined simulation and scenario editor covering military campaigns over the 1956-2000 period. Your forces are not just a collection of icons on a map, differing primarily in graphic representation or a shallow set of numerical strengths. While you can play this game at that level, your armies are actually very complex organizations made up of individual vehicles, weapons, or squads. The troops who man your weapons may range from elite vetrans to green conscript recruits who can improve their performance with experience. They need food and fuel and ammunition, and they get tired if you push them too hard. They will not usually fight to the last drop of binary blood, and they generally do not perform to their best potential if they have to coordinate with unfamiliar forces. If you ask them to do something complicated, they might not do it in a quite the way you expect. In short, they act just a little bit like real troops. |
| The Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of Great Britain: Fourth Edition (included game) | 1999 | Focus Multimedia Ltd. | Attica Interactive Ltd., Ordnance Survey | Educational | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | Europe | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of Great Britain: Fourth Edition is a factual title with many features including;
Scales ranging from 1:250 000 to 1:25 000
Town and city centre plans
A gazetteer with over fifty five thousand place names
Personalised maps
Tutorials
Photographs of places and features
and an interactive quiz
The interactive quiz is called the 'Round Britain Quiz'. It is a timed single player game in which the player is asked a series of questions about regions of the UK. The player must answer three questions correctly before they can leave the current region and progress to the next region, the challenge being to complete all regions within five minutes
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| The Real Deal 2 | 1999 | Mindscape, Inc. | Centron Software, Inc., MVP Software | Strategy | | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A collection of 17 assorted card games. The first ten “social” card games are Crazy 8s, Spades, Auction Pitch, Hearts, Cribbage, Euchre, Whist, O Hell, Thirty One, and Pinochle. They were designed in 1995 by MVP Software and are accessed from a single menu. There are twelve animated players to choose as partners or opponents for these games, each with their own skills, voices, and win/loss records. Most of the games use a single fixed set of rules.The remaining seven are casino and gambling games written from 1992 to 1996 by Centron Software Technologies. They are 7 Card Stud, BlackJack, Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Red Dog, and Texas Hold ‘em. These games are accessed individually from the Windows start menu. Opponents are unseen AI routines. Some of the game rules and betting structures can be modified by the player.Boxed versions of TRD2 also included a deck of playing cards. |
| The Space Empires Collection | 1999 | Astral Entertainment | Malfador Machinations | Compilation, Strategy | Top-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The Space Empires Collection is a compilation of the first three installments in the Space Empires strategy game series.
Space Empires (1993)
Space Empires II (1995)
Space Empires III (1997)
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| The Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection includes all four PC games released by MicroProse/Spectrum HoloByte under the Star Trek: The Next Generation license:
Birth of the Federation
Generations
Klingon Honor Guard
A Final Unity
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| The Times Exclusive Tomb Raider Level | 1999 | | Core Design Ltd. | Action | Behind view | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | The Times Exclusive Tomb Raider Level is a single standalone level (it doesn't require a Tomb Raider game to play it) built on the Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation engine and released for public download on The Times of London website. The level was created to promote the celebration of the anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the dawn of 20-th century, which was partly financed by the Times newspaper. The Intro to the level shows 3-D model of Peter Stothard, former Times Editor-in-Chief, conversing with Lara Croft as if she were a real person.The level itself is played similarly to the previous Tomb Raider titles - Lara will need to run and jump, push objects, pull levers, fight enemies with an arsenal of guns and discover the long-lost treasure - Pharaoh's golden mask. The download package also includes two Tomb Raider-themed puzzles: clicker and jigsaw. |
| The War in Heaven | 1999 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Eternal Warriors LLC | Action, Educational | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The War in Heaven is a Christian-themed first-person action game set in a pseudomedieval fantasy world. Based on the Christian fantasy novel series of the same name by Theodore Beale, players are confronted with hissing horned monsters wielding swords and other weapons. The gameplay is straightforward and there is a limited selection of weapons and levels. Many of the characters' names are taken from the Bible.Players can choose to follow "The Divine Path of Obedience" and become an angel, which progresses the player up the 12-level ascent to Heaven. Alternatively, the player can opt for "The Fallen Path of Power," follow Lucifer, become a demon and war against angels. |
| The Warhammer Universe Strategy Game Collection | 1999 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The Warhammer Universe Strategy Game Collection is a compilation of games based on the two Games Workshop Warhammer universes.The four CD set includes two Warhammer Fantasy games:
Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat
Warhammer: Dark Omen
and two Warhammer 40K games:
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate
Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000
All games come with PDF documentation and are patched to their final versions.
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| Thinkin' Things Collection 1: Toony the Loon’s Lagoon | 1999 | Edmark Corporation | Edmark Corporation | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | iTunes Store Description (from Ad Blurbs)Our children will live and work in an Information Age that we can only begin to imagine. As they master the basic skills of the three R’s, they must now also develop a broader, higher-level set of thinking skills that will transfer to the workplace of the future. Edmark® Thinkin' Things was designed to offer young students experiences with a variety of just such thinking skills: memory, critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity - in short, all the twenty-first century skills that today's young learners need. Set in Toony the Loon’s Lagoon, early learners encounter colorful, fun characters as they complete challenges that are automatically adjusted to meet individual learning needs. With all instructions spoken by the characters, reading is not required so that non-readers can participate fully.FREE LEARNING GUIDE - A teacher's guide is available from the Thinkin' Things site. Click on the "Software MacKiev's Web Site" link at the bottom of this page.Designed for: Pre-K-2, ages 3-8***THE FIVE ACTIVITY AREAS 1. TOONY THE LOON'S LAGOON
Students build auditory and visual memory as they repeat Toony the Loon’s musical patterns. They create their own memorable melodies with Toony’s wacky xylophones: glasses, strings, hollow logs, and even squawking chickens!2. ORANGA BANGA®
Students need to watch and listen carefully as Oranga Banga plays on his funky drum set, and then repeat what he plays. For an even greater auditory challenge, students can ask Oranga to play in the dark!3. FEATHERED FRIENDS
Young learners will need to put on their thinking caps to create the missing bird in the series. Students will learn about attributes, differences, patterns and analogies.4. FRIPPLE™ GUIDES
For a fun-filled lesson in Boolean logic, students visit the Fripple Shop and fill customer orders for Fripples while learning to observe, compare, contrast and recognize relationships.5. BLOX FLYING SHAPES
Students blend music, art, science, and play as they experiment with motion and the illusion of depth, creating works of kinetic art as they control the motion of shapes and the sounds they make.***FOR EDUCATORS - MORE ABOUT THINKIN' THINGSThinkin’ Things celebrates intellectual diversity. A student’s musical and rhythmic intelligence may shine when working with Toony the Loon and his xylophones, or visual and spatial intelligence in creating with BLOX, or logical and mathematical intelligence with the Fripple Guides and Feathered Friends.In areas that may not come as naturally to some children, Thinkin’ Things offers warm, friendly experiences in which self-confidence is built, exploration and creativity are fostered, and persistence is rewarded with success.Thinkin’ Things also focuses attention on how students learn. Is a particular student more likely to remember what is seen or what is heard? How do they approach learning? Do they “guess and test?” Once something is “discovered,” do they use that information in another way to “see what happens?” Do they, for example, prefer to take Fripple orders at the door (both auditory and visual), on the phone (auditory only), or by mail (visual only)? Thinkin’ Things promotes learning in each student’s areas of strength while encouraging growth and building skills in other areas as well. Thinkin' Things assesses a student's capabilities as they participate in activities and automatically adjusts the difficulty level as students progress. Teachers can use the "grow slide" to see what their students are learning, to set a particular level, or select a particular exercise.LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
* Compare and contrast attributes
* Improve visual and auditory memory
* Hypothesize and test rules
* Strengthen creativity
* Create and discern patterns
* Complete visual analogies
* Strengthen ability to conceptualize and evaluate
* Recognize visual and auditory strengths |
| Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Minds Eye Productions | Educational | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Mini-games | | Train | | | | | Windows | Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure is an educational game featuring seven children's activities, such as colour matching, shape sorting and counting. They are based on the British-American children's television series Thomas & Friends. |
| Tian Di Jie Shen Mo Zhi Zun Zhuan | 1999 | Soft-World | Dynasty International Information Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | Crime, Martial arts, Romance, Thriller | Tactical RPG | China (Ancient / Imperial), Fantasy | | Menu structures | Turn-based | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Tian Di Jie Shen Mo Zhi Zun Zhuan is a tactical RPG with a cartoon-like visual game. The game is controlled through the keyboard. The plot deals with family, friendship and love. By design the game is very difficult to play as many critical elements are not explained and a reference guide is required to progress. By the same token some enemies later on in the game are nearly impossible to defeat. |
| Tides of War | 1999 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Devil's Thumb Entertainment | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Naval / watercraft | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | In Tides of War the player takes the role of a ship commandant in the 18th century. Similar to Sid Meier's Pirates, he can sail freely through the game world, earn money and take missions. These missions mostly consist of either combat, delivery or exploration tasks.The earned money can be used to purchase better cannons or ships which give advantages in the real-time combat. These battle are similar to other strategy games, meaning that the ship controls are indirect. Nevertheless the player can use the wind direction to his advantage. When sailing the sea the player sets discipline levels, determine rations and food types which have influence on the crew's morale and stats. |
| Tiffy's Magical Tales: Mermaid | 1999 | New Media Generation | New Media Generation | Action, Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Suitable for children of age 4 and upwards, Mermaid is one of the last title in the Tiffy's Magical Tales series.Guided by a green caterpillar called Tiffy, the children can watch animations and listen the Mermaid told story. Tiffy's voice can be turned on or off and there's an option to go to a special part of a book, for example, the last chapter. This CD-ROM is entirely mouse-driven but the children will use the keyboard's four arrows for the included game : help the mermaid to collect as many amphorae as possible, but beware of sharks, octopuses, and so on. Amphorae are filled with magical water, useful the save the prince.Tiffy's Magical Tales: Mermaid is multilingual (russian, english, german, french) and needs no installation at all since it can be run straight from the CD. |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour Collection | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Tiger Woods PGA Tour Collection contains the original Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf and four expansion packs:
The Monterey Courses
The Tournament Courses
The TPC Courses
The Vegas Courses
These expansion packs add fifteen new courses to the original game's seven courses, giving a grand total of twenty one courses to play through. |
| Tiny Tiger | 1999 | United Software Entertainment AG | Virtual X-citement | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | In Tiny Tiger the player controls Tiger Tom whose friend Whoofy got kidnapped by King Rüdiger. The game is a mixture between puzzle game and platformer. The main goals of the 40 levels is to find all hidden keys by solving puzzles which are mainly Sokoban variants: pushing blocks in the right positions. Other parts are platforming sections where the the player has to make precise jumps.The levels are divided into four worlds: Jungle, Orient, Seabed and Mars. Besides the keys the player can find several other objects, e.g. time bombs to kill and masks to confuse the enemies. |
| Titanic: Adventure Out of Time | 1999 | Hammerhead Entertainment | Cyberflix Incorporated | Adventure | 1st-person | | Spy / espionage | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Titanic: Adventure Out of Time is an open-ended first-person adventure game set on the doomed maiden voyage of the HMS Titanic. The player takes the role of Frank Carlson, a disgraced British secret service agent. His career having ended after he failed in a mission on board the HMS Titanic, he now lives in a small apartment, surrounded by mementos of his past. Somehow, however, Carlson is thrown backward into his past to April of 1912, giving the player an opportunity to change the events on board the doomed ship. While the player is not able to avert the sinking of the Titanic, they are able to influence not only Frank's timeline but that of the other passengers on board the ship and, indeed, the progression of subsequent human history. As a result, details of the game's plot are affected by the player's actions, which can result in one of any number of significant or minutely different endings.The game is a puzzle-solving adventure game which utilizes a simple, point-and-click system in order for the player to interact with the world. While the game is played in the form of a traditional adventure game, it expands on this established system by constructing its game play around the idea of a continuous, transitory world. While the player still progresses through the game primarily through solving puzzles and interacting with other characters it presents these interactions as taking place within an active, malleable world. Characters, for instance, periodically move about the ship, and can be found in different portions of the ship during different times of day as they pursue their lives apart from the player. Puzzles are similarly tied to this progression of time, and players may choose to pursue plot lines how ever they think is best, influencing both the plot and other puzzles within the game, allowing them to completely overlook or pass over entire puzzles and story points. Early in the game, for instance, the player is asked to locate an item hidden by another character. If they're able to discover its location early enough, they can take the item from its hiding spot before someone else does. If they're sidetracked by other characters within the world, or in some other way too slow in locating the object, the hiding spot will be empty and the plot will accommodate this development. It is important to note, however, that the game does not progress in real-time as other adventures, such as The Last Express, do. Rather, time progresses due to the player solving a puzzle or in some other way advancing the game.In addition to the traditional puzzles within the game, there are also mini-games which the player can participate in either for fun or to influence the plot, such as poker and fencing.The game is presented using 3D graphics, although the player still moves through the game by shifting from screen to screen, similar in style to the movement found in other adventure titles such as Riven. The bottom of the screen features a nautically-themed interface featuring a life preserver (the menu), a pocket watch (which represents the in-game time), a rolled piece of parchment (a map of the ship), and a leather case (the inventory). |
| Tlon | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment BV | Reality | Action, Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Tlön: The Misty Story is a third-person point-and-click adventure game with action elements. It is based on the general ideas of the short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (published in 1940) by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The original story was written as an encyclopaedia article about a mysterious country called Uqbar. It is revealed to be a conspiracy among intellectuals to imagine a new world and it deals with the theme of how ideas can manifest themselves to alter the physical world.This game takes a similar approach, but from an entirely different setting. Biatec, a simple villager, lives in a poor and dull town in the countryside. When he goes frog hunting in the swamp one day, he ventures too deep and finds a horse skeleton and parts of rusty armour. Suddenly, he is reminded of his whole life leading up to the present, as he had forgotten, but never contemplated, how he came to live in the village. It is revealed he is in fact a knight who set out to find out more about a Symbol of Creation that is tied to an ancient realm called Tlön. During the journey, he fell off his horse in the swamp, cracked his head on a large rock and forgot about his past life. The player now needs to guide him to continue the quest and discover the hidden realm.The game has all traits of traditional adventure design. Biatec is moved around using the mouse and can explore various locations, examine objects, talk to characters, collect items in an inventory and use them in the environment. The action elements come through the form of fighting scenes. Some characters and creatures are potentially dangerous and need to be fought. This is done by switching to a combat mode, and both attacking and dodging in real-time. Consequently, it is possible to die in the game. There are seven different weapons and three types of armour, of which the strength is shown as a number in the inventory.Another different element is that Biatec needs to eat and drink during his journey. This is not based on the actual game time, but the player cannot neglect it when an opportunity arises. Even though the game is in 2D, the characters are pre-rendered in 3D. Next to the main storyline, there are different branching paths that delve deeper into the story, and many optional items to acquire. |
| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Gold Pack Edition | 1999 | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | A compilation set including:
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch
A Prima Strategy Guide which covers both the main game as well as the add-on. (included in US release only) |
| Tomb Raider II: Gold | 1999 | Eidos, Inc. | Core Design Ltd. | Action | Behind view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Tomb Raider II Gold is a re-release of Tomb Raider II along with a new scenario titled "The Golden Mask", comprising five new levels. In this bonus mission, Lara explores Alaska in search of the Mask of Tornarsuk, an artifact with allegedly holding the power of resurrection. The levels take you to an abandoned Russian mining base, the ruins of an Inuit settlement and a tropical Shangri-La. |
| Tonka Construction 2 | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | ImaginEngine Corp. | Action, Racing / Driving | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Tonka Construction 2 is a single player construction game for children.The game takes the player to Tonkaland where Tonka Joe is there to greet them. There are four activity areas in this game Tonka Mountain, Tonka City, Tonka Desert and Tonka Quarry. All areas play in much the same way. Each starts with an introduction from the character associated with that area who gives a little chat and explains the six stages of the work required. Then the player clicks on the mobile phone to order up the vehicles they need in turn. When the activities are complete the player clicks on the 'Celebration button' and along comes the mayor to declare the construction open and the player gets an award in the game's scrapbookIn the quarry for example the player has two tasks, to find buried treasure within the quarry walls and to make gravel. The treasure is found by selecting the bulldozer and repeatedly driving it into the quarry walls until a rock fall reveals something, or they could use dynamite which is easier but not really a Tonka toy. When all three pieces have been found the player must assemble them at which point the treasure is loaded onto a lorry and taken to a museum.Gravel is made by using a loader to pick up rocks and place them into a rock crusher.Tonka City is the same but has a bit of a twist. The player constructs a building by first selecting a digger and then clicking on a piece of ground until all segments are excavated. They then call up the cement trick and in one click the cement is laid. After that they place steel frames onto the lot to make the building frame to which they add walls, a roof, and 'green stuff'. This element has a feature that allows players to export their creations and to import other peoples creations. However there is only one construction lot in the game so importing a building means replacing the one the player created.Tonka Mountain has two activities, first the player builds a ski resort by placing some buildings in the snow, then they plough and decorate three ski runs. The final area of the game is Tonka Desert. This has the most activity as the player must build a road by first clearing a stretch of ground with a bulldozer, then use a grader to smooth the road, an asphalt truck to lay the tarmac, a roller to flatten it and finally a line painter to put in the lane markings.The game also has a 'scrapbook' which contains the awards the player picks up when completing the tasks and some pictures that can be printed
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| Tonka Raceway | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Media Station, Inc. | Action | Top-down | Licensed | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Tonka Raceway is a game for children aged five and up based on the American Tonka franchise of toy trucks. It is a racing game that can be played with the game modes Time Trial, 2 Player Racing, or Vs. Team Tonka with characters from Tonka Town. The four tracks have different themes such as desert, jungle, rural or tundra. There are over 30 vehicles to choose from with different statistics based on durability, acceleration, top speed and handling. It is also possible to import custom vehicles designed in Tonka Garage.The game's raceway staring screen offers access to different parts of the game. From the announcer's booth there is a press box with the hall of fame the option to print stickers and awards, using the Tonka TV blimp replays can be watched, custom tracks can be designed in the architect's trailer based on the assets used in the four tracks, in the upgrades lab credits earned through races can be used to improve the car statistics, and the starting line leads to the races.The races are arcade-like and played from a top-down view. It is impossible to go beyond the track borders. Cars can only suffer a limited amount of damage before a pit stop needs to be done in order to get the car back to full performance. Along the way power-ups can be picked up such as repairs, a speed boost, a top speed increase or steering help. It is possible to damage the other cars. |
| Total Soccer 2000 | 1999 | Iridon Interactive AB | LiveMedia UK Ltd., Iridon Interactive AB | Sports | Top-down | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The sequel to Total Soccer, this game featured improved graphics and presentation, and some extra features like different grass types and weather conditions. The gameplay, simple and straightforward, remains the same.Total Soccer 2000 does not contain any licenses from FIFA, nor 100% accurate information on the teams and players. |
| Tout en jouant ... | 1999 | Edusanté | Médiaccess | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Tout en jouant ... is a French CD-ROM divided into two parts. The main goal of the first part is to make sure the children know which drug to use to cure asthma. The second part of the CD-ROM presents four day-to-day situations ("stories") that can induce asthma:
during a physical exercise
dust mite allergy
hay fever (or Bostock's disease)
panic attackWhile playing ("tout en jouant", in French) and answering questions, the children learn how to behave when an asthma attack occurs. |
| Toyland Racing | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | Revistronic | Racing / Driving | | | | Arcade, Game show / trivia / quiz | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | The game is unexpected blend of racing and comics. What can be better than toys driving toy cars, even in such great Spanish cities as Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla. You can drive with your friend in one car through 15 different tracks of the world under the guidance of Mr. Chetty.Here is different difficulty levels and multiplayer is up to 8 players. |
| Trade Wars 2002 | 1999 | | Epic Interactive Strategy, Martech Software, Inc. | Action, Strategy | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Much like Elite, Tradewars 2002 is considered a space trading game, but it gives you a perfect mix between strategy and action by allowing you to play against other people and giving you options such as building citadels and ports.A text based game who found it's popularity by being played through dial-up BBSs, Tradewars has evolved dramatically since it's first release. It now allows multiplayer action and is easily playable over the internet through any telnet client. You can also set up your own server for people to play at and it's still costs nothing to play. |
| Treasure Cove! + Treasure Mountain! | 1999 | Learning Company, Inc., The | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | A two disc collection of two Learning Company titles;
Treasure Cove!
Treasure Mountain!
The Treasure Mountain disc also includes an additional collection of other games by the Learning Company. |
| Tribes Action Pak | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This is a compilation of Starsiege: Tribes and Starsiege in one limited edition package. Sierra also tossed in "Roger Wilco", the internet voice chat program for use in the net games. |
| Trickstyle | 1999 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Criterion Software Group Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Sports | Behind view | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | In the year 2099, The Dominance War ravaged all humanity, and from their ashes, a new society arose. The Jugaku corporation was one of the companies that took over the world markets, developed a technology called Hover-Ride, which let people surf through the air. Eventually, a sport was created by using this technology in races filled with violence.In the future, nine contestants enter the TrickStyle competition in hopes of earning fame and money, and find more about their past along the way. They must race against each other and complete obstacle courses. Races are set in futuristic versions of cities such as London and Tokyo. Each character has its own 'special move', and in total there are 400 different tricks incorporated. |
| Trio Infernale | 1999 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following three games:
Resident Evil
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
Unreal |
| Trivial Pursuit: Millennium Edition | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Human Code, Inc. | Puzzle | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | Trivial Pursuit is a quiz game based on popular culture and general knowledge with topics such as history, arts, literature, geography, music, sports and nature. In this version, you can choose to answer from a multiple choice list or by typing in the answer manually with no options shown. For the latter, you can either choose to enter the exact wording, or to allow broader answers.In the classic mode, up to six players, you move your token over a board with a circular track and spokes by throwing a dice. If you answer the question correctly, you are allowed to move on. Each category is visible through a specific colour. If you answer a question correctly on the hub at the base of a spoke, you receive a wedge for your token. When a player collects the six wedges for each category, a final question needs to be answered in the middle of the board to win the game.In the party pursuit mode, up to three players, there is no board. Three topics are shown per turn, and each player can alternately select a topic. For each question, all 3 players can participate at the same time by pressing a button. Based on your answer, you either win or lose a wedge. If you answer is incorrect, there is another opportunity for the other players. The first player to collect all wedges, wins.The point pursuit mode, again up to three players, is similar to the party pursuit mode, but with points for each topic. If one of the players answer correctly, points are received, along with a time bonus for quick answers. After a set amount of questions, the player with most points wins.The game can also be played over LAN or internet. |
| Tycoon Collection | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes the following three games:
Railroad Tycoon II
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Transport Tycoon Deluxe |
| UEFA Champions League Season 1998/99 | 1999 | Eidos, Inc. | Silicon Dreams Studio Ltd. | Sports | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Soccer sim featuring the current team line-ups in this prestigious European club competition. There are 32 clubs included. Game options include full season, exhibition matches, scenario and a multi-player option. In scenario mode you can replay any of the finals in the competition's history from 1970 onwards. Another notable inclusion is the custom tournament mode that allows you to define your own tournament perimeters and fixtures. |
| US Slots | 1999 | eGames, Inc. | WickedWare, LLC | Action, Gambling | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | US Slots is a single player game that simulates an old style, singe line, slot machine. It has a patriotic US theme to its symbols. The player may bet 1, 2, or 3 credits per spin.
This was included in eGames' Card & Casino Games and was a bonus game on Puzzle & Word Games . |
| Ultima IX: Ascension (Dragon Edition) | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation, Special edition | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This is a special version of Ultima IX that was especially made in honor of the Ultima series' fan club, called "Ultima Dragons".The box of the game is bigger than the normal one and is sized at 31 x 38 cm and the contents are:
Ultima IX (2 CDs)
Ultima Collection (1 CD)
Ultima IX soundtrack (1 CD)
8 tarot cards, one for each of the sacred virtues
Ankh pendant
Ascension poster
A cloth map of Britannia (40 x 40 cm)
Leather Game Journal
Leather Book of Magic
Certificate from Lord British
Ultima Collection Reference Card
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| Ultimate 8 Ball | 1999 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Sports | 1st-person | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Actua Pool is a pool simulation game. Game modes include a two player match, hustle mode, trick shots, tournaments and an interactive tutorial. Winning tournaments unlocks new NPCs to play against. Each NPC opponent has its own unique playing style and difficulty. You can play on a variety of different tables. |
| Ultimate Flight Series II | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Ultimate Flight Series II containing the following games:
Jane's Combat Simulations: Longbow - Gold
Jane's Combat Simulations: ATF - Advanced Tactical Fighters - Gold
EF2000 |
| Ultimate Soccer Manager 98-99 | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Simulation, Sports | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Ultimate Soccer Manager 98-99 is the final release in the USM series, started in 1995. A standalone expansion, it includes a team update for the said season, Spanish and Dutch leagues, irons out bugs and improves general stability of the game.The game remains unchanged from the previous version; the interface is still the same hotspot, there is an icon-driven "office" view, players are rated in nine key areas (keeping, tackling, passing, shooting, pace, heading, set pieces, throwing and stamina), you can hire scouts to follow players' progress and trainers to improve players' abilities, enhance the stadium, set prices for catering and merchandise, etc. |
| Ultimate Strategy Archives | 1999 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Ultimate Strategy Archives is a compilation containing 8 classic strategy games:
Conquest of the New World: Deluxe Edition
Dark Colony
Heroes of Might and Magic
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration
Sid Meier's Civilization
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
X-COM: UFO Defense |
| Ultimate Wargame Collection Volume 2: World War II | 1999 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Fighting Steel: World War II Surface Combat 1939-1942
Luftwaffe Commander: WWII Combat Flight Simulator
Panzer Commander
Silent Hunter: Commander's Edition |
| Ultimate Wargame Collection Volume 3: Modern Warfare | 1999 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation contains four games:People's General
Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command - 1939-1999
Su-27 Flanker: Squadron Commander's Edition
Team ApacheAll the games come with documentation in PDF files and are patched to their final versions. |
| Ultra Fighters | 1999 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Eagle Interactive | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Post-apocalyptic | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | On the third millennium, after many decades of scientific and social enlightenment, nations had to deal with increasing overpopulation, terrorism. pollution and a collapsing economic system. This led to increased border tensions, and soon small regional wars turned into a Global War, where all kinds of weapons were used, killing millions and destroying vast amounts of knowledge. As the use of nuclear weapons rendered many oil fields useless due to radiation, mankind had to turn away from fossil fuels, and eventually outlawed their use and turn to clean energy sources.During the war, China had broken up into several independent states, but thanks to their reliance in both old and new technologies, they bounced back, and under the hand of Emperor Zindo reunited, and went to control most of Asia. The United States, while had their population devastated, managed to hold their infrastructures and technology mostly intact, and had Mexico and Canada joining as new states, as well as a change in the constitution that changed the government into a private company, with certain special citizens being considered "shareholders". Due to the limitations of non-fossil energy sources, the control of a recently discovered material (Thermodux) that could amplify the power output of those energy sources is highly coveted. So, after an accident that killed the researchers and completing an hostile take-over of India Incorporated, Zendo announced a "security attachment" to "protect" the Solomon Islands (where Thermodux was being studied) from further terrorist threat. However, The US contracted a mercenary company, Navco, to clear the island, with the player joining as new recruit for the company, working for cash and shares in the US government.The game is a typical flight combat simulator, with missions involving patrol, defense and attacking enemy facilities. The ultimate goal of the game is to survive each mission, taking down as many enemy aircraft as possible to collect a bounty, that can be used to purchase better weaponry and new crafts. The player should also avoid the destruction of USA-controlled facilities, as they carry a fine. |
| Ultranium | 1999 | | Jadeware | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Ultranium is a clone of Breakout. The player steers the paddle at the bottom of the level area with the objective to destroy all bricks in the playfield.Either the arrow keys or a mouse can be used to move the paddle. There are multiple power-ups that resize the paddle, spawn multiple balls, make the ball go through the bricks instead of bouncing or allow for paddle movement over the vertical axis as well.The game is sci-fi-themed and contains five episodes with levels each. The unregistered version contains the first episode. |
| Uncle Albert's Magical Album | 1999 | VTechSoft Inc. | Lexis Numérique SA | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Uncle Albert's Magical Album is the first game in a series based on the fictional character uncle Albert. Aimed at ages 7 and up (9 and up advertised in the US release), it consists of a series of puzzles that can be completed in a non-linear order. The player needs to reveal the secret of uncle Albert through a book in his attic. Solving the puzzles opens up new pages that lead to the secret.The game takes place on the pages of the book. Each page holds a puzzle that is solved through the manipulation of items, animals and tools in the environment. Items and animals can be dragged across pages and need to be used at a logical location. In the bottom left corner is a tape recorder where Albert talks about the task on that page. Crumpled pieces of paper provide additional hints and a flute can be used to have the chameleon Tom provide additional help. Tom is the main character of the game and he is trapped inside the album. The player assists to help him get out and reveals Albert's secrets along the way. Five tools can be collected and they are also used to solve the puzzles. They are a camera, a printer, fire, a jackhammer and a watering can. The game uses a number of variables to randomize the gameplay with each game. |
| Urban Chaos | 1999 | Eidos, Inc. | Mucky Foot Productions Limited | Action | Behind view | | | Fighting, Shooter | | | | | Mature | | Windows | As the 2nd millennium ends, the cities are over-ran with Apocalyptic violence. Is this down to urban frustrations, or a sinister cult controlling everybody? You are either cop D'Arcy Stern or former soldier Roper McIntyre, and have to find the answers, but more importantly put a stop to the carnage. This involves a succession of action-packed non-linear missions. The environment incorporates shadows, rain, fog and a day/night cycle. Police cars, motorcycles and ambulances must be controlled during some missions. There are many ways to 'settle' the enemies - car chases, hand-to-hand combats and action movie-style shoot outs for example. |
| V.G.: Custom | 1999 | GIGA | GIGA | Action | Side view | | Adult | Fighting | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | V.G. Custom is a 2D fighting game that brings the energy and excitement of the console-only Advanced V.G. titles to home computers, while adding eroticism to the mix. In this all-female fighting game, the girls are all competing to promote the restaurants at which they are employed. Victory means free advertising for the establishment, as well as a big payoff for the champion. Failure means being subjected to extreme sexual humiliation.V.G. Custom offers your standard tournament fighter fare, with the added "perk" of viewing female humiliation scenes after every win. |
| V.G.: Max | 1999 | GIGA | GIGA | Action | Side view | | Adult | Fighting | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | V.G. Max is an all-girl fighting game in which a tournament is held to find the most powerful female fighter. The gals fight not only for fame and profit, but to promote the restaurants where they work. While the rewards for victory are lavish, defeat means being subjected to total sexual humiliation.This is the final entry in the Variable Geo series that is a traditional fighting game, and the first one in which the fighters are illustrated in "super deformed" (chibi) style. In addition, a new fighter named Masako Houjouin makes her debut appearance. |
| V.R. Date: May Club | 1999 | Milky House | Excellents Japan | Adventure | 1st-person | | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | Hajime Kudo is a recent college graduate, a month and a half away from beginning his new job working for the CAT trading company. The time off is nice enough, but Hajime feels he won't be able to properly start his new life unless he finds a girlfriend. One lucky day, Hajime receives an invitation to try a new virtual reality dating simulator, called May Club. Maybe this will be just the ticket...May Club is a visual novel with a few distinguishing features. The game has an internal calendar, keeping track of days of the week and different times of the day. The player is given a limited amount of cards which are used to access May Club. He can choose to go to May Club at any time and visit a few different locations. Depending on the day of the week and the time of the day, different events will be triggered. The player is sometimes prompted to choose responses during conversations, which will also influence subsequent events. The game has several different endings based on the relationships the protagonist has had with the female characters.This title contains graphic depictions of sex, and is for adults only. |
| Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness | 1999 | Midas Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | Imaginative Illusions Sdn. Bhd. | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Set in the near future, Vanguard Ace is your typical vertical shooter similar to games like Raptor and Xenon. The earth is being invaded by a bunch of aliens called "Visitors" and it's up to you to stop them.Players will be able to choose from 5 different ship types. Each of them have different abilities and weakness. Vanguard Ace, boasts a number of features like 70FPS of animation, multi-layered parallax scrolling, rendered graphics, mecha style sprite designs and a bounty of power-ups in this Japanese anime-styled universe. |
| Varicella | 1999 | | | Adventure | | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The King of Piedmont is dying. You are the Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte, and aside from the Queen the only other person who knows of the King's actual status. Leveraging this knowledge, you must position yourself such that when the King finally dies, you are in position to act as regent for his five-year-old son. |
| Vicious | 1999 | Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now
Resident Evil 2
Unreal |
| Video Blackjack | 1999 | Starshine Software | Starshine Software | Gambling, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Video Blackjack is a recreation of the popular casino game of blackjack. The aim of blackjack is to use the combined value of a player's cards to make a score of 21, or as close to 21 without going over (or 'bust') to create a score higher than that of the dealer. The player can adjust various gameplay aspects, including the felt colour of the table, the picture on the back of cards and rules concerning double down, splits, insurance and table rules. It can be played against several other human players or against computer-controlled AI. There are various card decks and skill levels available. |
| Virtual Deep Sea Fishing | 1999 | Interplay Productions Ltd. | Taff System | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Virtual Deep Sea Fishing is a fishing simulation and the first 3D installment of the Korean-made Nakksigwang series of fishing games. Unlike the previous games, it focuses on large fish. The first two choices are the location and the boat. There are 12 possible fishing places all over the world and the eight boats have unique abilities like length, beam and speed which influence the fishing. When the player is on the sea he throws the fishing rod in the water and observes the radar after fish activity. He has several options to influence if gets a fish on the hook, including different bait and position changes in the area. An underwater camera gives further impressions.The challenging part begins when the player tries to bring a fish in. He has to use the right combination of working with the fishing rod with mouse and moving the boat with the arrow keys. Of course the difficulty changes with the fish on the hook. The game features 18 ones, including sharks, which all have different attributes in behaviour, appetite and size.Besides the regular fishing the game also has an tournament mode with time limits, e.g. five hours per day, and requirements regarding fish types and weights to qualify for the next round. With the gallery feature the player can watch all the big fishes he caught. |
| Virtual Dragon | 1999 | Pyrames Software | Pyrames Software | Simulation | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Virtual Dragon is a single player, mouse controlled game in which the player takes care of an egg which hatches and grows to become a dragon. Over time the dragon grows, ages and eventually expires aged one hundred and fifty.The dragon's activities are limited to just three actions which are presented as mini-games;
Hunting: A horizontal scrolling mini-game in which the player has to catch, and eat, birds in flight
Training: This is a simple game in which the player must guess whether the symbol will appear above or below the line
Flying: This is a vertically scrolling game in which the player must avoid rocks and trees
The game plays in a small window which has three configuration/system buttons above a central region that shows a picture of the dragon with four status bars to the right. Along the bottom of the screen are buttons for the three activities plus a Sleep button.
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| Visual Sokoban | 1999 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Direct control | | |
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| Windows | Visual Sokoban is an adaptation of Sokoban. The rules are typical — the player must push all the crates onto the indicated spaces; only a single crate can be pushed at a time, and crates cannot be pushed. The game contains several thousand built-in levels. The player can request to be shown the solution to a level. It is also possible to choose from different skins. |
| War Collection | 1999 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The following simulations are included in this package:Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc
Falcon 4.0
M1 Tank Platoon II |
| War Pack | 1999 | Mindscape, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Team Apache
Silent Hunter: Commander's Edition
Soldiers at War
Panzer General IIID
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| WarBirds II | 1999 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | iMagic Online Corporation | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation, Naval / watercraft, Vehicular combat | | Persistent, Real-time | | | Windows | WarBirds is a version of the venerable online flight simulation - winner "Online Game of the Year" by numerous publications over several years. WarBirds II is a store ready version of the game with key offline and online enhancements that match the major 2.0 revision of the game.Included in those enhancements are about a dozen new planes, tremendously enhanced 3D graphics and card support, as well as new terrains, theatres, and scenarios. Also included are enhanced online interface, chatting, and navigation and even the ability to launch into a game from the WarBirds website. Still included from the original game, are great plane physics, an offline training mode, and the ability to practice head to head with another live opponent. |
| WarCraft II: Battle Chest | 1999 | Blizzard Entertainment Inc. | Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Cyberlore Studios, Inc. | Compilation, Strategy | Top-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Fantasy, Steampunk | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | WarCraft II: Battle Chest (commonly known as WarCraft II: Battle.net Edition) contains both Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal. It's been updated, with re-sampled sounds, and is playable over Blizzard's Battle.net. New features, such as improved fog of war and shared vision, have also been added.Some editions also include Prima's strategy guide. |
| Webmaster | 1999 | Tivola Publishing, Inc. | IJsfontein Interactive Media | Action | 1st-person | | | Arcade, Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | The Dream World Web (DWW) is a fictitious internet which has been overtaken by an evil hacker. You are enlisted to be the Webmaster and get rid of the hacker to restore peace.Many of the aspects of the "real" internet are found in this game, even though it is played on your computer without ever needing to connect. Your base is your "homepage" in a hollowed out tree, for instance. There are chat rooms and web pages to browse and save as "favorites".Wispy creatures called Getties aid the hacker and fly around you as you set about your task. Although meant to annoy and distract you, the Getties can be provoked into dropping pieces to help you - cards used in solving the puzzles of the game. Cards can also be found lying around on the ground and by finishing mini games. They are stored in an inventory area which sits at the bottom of the screen.Webmaster has four levels reached by breaking down one of the hacker's firewalls. To obliterate a firewall, choose the correct combination of 3 cards. Vague hints can be found by talking to the one "good" Getty, Enzo, who is the only NPC in the game.The hacker also installed deadly viruses, computer bugs with teeth which can infect you. When you are bitten, it is a race against time to find and select another combination of 3 cards. The number of viruses that appears in your game is determined by the difficulty level you chose at the beginning.Arcade mini-games must be completed to collect all of the cards. Quick clicking with your mouse is needed for several of those action games. Others simply require logic and deduction.You explore in first person through static, but colorful, locations. Control is completely by mouse, but movement is not really point and click, like you'd expect. Rather, you must click+hold and drag to move around. |
| Western Video Poker | 1999 | | WickedWare, LLC | Gambling, Strategy | 1st-person | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Western Video Poker is a single-player, mouse controlled simulation of the popular casino machine. It appears in many of eGames compilations including
Casino Jackpot 2 which is where this version of the game comes from. It is one of a series of similar games developed for eGames by WickedWare.As in a standard 'Deuces Wild' poker game the aim of the game is to make the best 5-card hand. Unlike other forms of poker the player does not win by beating other players but by compiling a hand that exceeds the game's minimum hand, which in this case is three of a kind, or better to score.The game starts with the player selecting how much cash they want to start with, they then place a bet $1 is the minimum and $5 is the maximum allowed. They are then dealt five cards and they can hold/discard any of these. A second deal is then made to replace the discarded cards and the hand is evaluated. If the hand scores three of a kind or higher then the player is paid, should this happen a hand appears at the bottom of the screen and fires a six gun in celebration, for high scoring hands two guns appear.This game has optional sound, in-game help but no high score table and a players winnings are not retained for the next game nor are they transferred to other games in the series. |
| Wet Attack: The Empire Cums Back | 1999 | CDV Software Entertainment AG | Interactive Strip | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person, Side view | | Adult | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Wet Attack: The Empire Cums Back is a follow-up to Lula: The Sexy Empire. The main character searches for Lula, who is lost in space. On board the spaceship "The Tit" the protagonist must explore faraway planets and gather information concerning Lula's whereabouts. The game is primarily a managerial simulation with light space trading and combat elements. The player navigates the ship between planets, transporting cargo for money. Hiring a crew is also essential; since crew members are all female, the player character must either sexually satisfy them by himself, or hire gigolos to do the job. The ship can be upgraded: engines, guns, shields, spy satellites can be purchased or found. While docking at a planet, the ship turns into a brothel, which the player has to manage in order to keep virtual customers happy. |
| Wetrix | 1999 | Ocean Software Ltd. | Zed Two Game Design Studio | Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | Falling block puzzle | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | In Wetrix the player must build barriers on the arena to stop the water from leaking out. As time progresses, rain starts to fall onto the arena, so the player must try to keep the walls as high as possible to catch the water. Too much on the screen will start an earthquake. Ice blocks fall to freeze the water. Bombs drop, leaving holes in walls, and fireballs vaporize the water. The aim is to get as high a score as possible. There is a practice mode available, and the game can be played in multiplayer against a friend. |
| Whack A Croc | 1999 | manicmoo.com | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Whack A Croc is a single player, mouse controlled, freeware Whack-A-Mole cloneThe player is presented with a screen that shows a river running right to left across the centre of the screen together with crocodiles that peep out of holes along the river banks, i.e. the top and bottom edges. When the crocodiles poke their heads out the player uses the mouse to bash them. There are a limited number of appearances per level and in order to keep playing the player must must achieve a specified score, for example there are thirty appearances in level one and the player must bash at least twenty of them to progress. Occasionally a log floats across the screen and these can be bashed for extra points. |
| Whitetail Extreme | 1999 | ValuSoft, Inc. | Cyber Graham Interactive, Inc. | Action, Simulation, Sports | | | | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Whitetail Extreme is a hunting simulation. Against the backdrop of a photographed background as a single screen environment you shoot deer, turkeys and bears. The games has 19 different tasks in summer, fall and winter hunts. You can bait the animals and use different weapons like a hunting bow or a shotgun to shoot them. After a successful hunt, you can get a trophy for your trophy cabinet. |
| Who Wants To Be A Millionaire | 1999 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Puzzle | | Licensed | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Take a ride in the Hot Seat in this recreation of the Hit TV Game Show. Climb you way up the Trivia Ladder from $100 to $1 Million. Answer 15 multiple choice questions in a row to win the game. And if you get stuck, You can Phone a Friend, 50/50 or poll the audience. |
| Who owns the kangaroo? | 1999 | | | Puzzle | Text-based / Spreadsheet | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In this puzzle game you have to find out where in the five houses the kangaroo lives by uncovering the details of all the pet owners.The game has five different colored houses and for each of them four categories marked with question marks. Those categories are nationality, drinks, cigarettes and pets. Each man in the houses is from a different nation, drinks and smokes something the other don't, and have a unique pet.You have to replace the question marks with the correct content (5 nationalities, 5 drinks, 5 cigarettes, 5 pets including the kangaroo). Once that's done, the game completes.Instead of guessing blindly, the game offers hints like "The owner of the fox drinks beer", but the amount of hints is limited, so you have to associate different hints. |
| Wild Metal Country | 1999 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | DMA Design Limited | Action | Behind view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Tank | | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Wild Metal Country is an action game in which one of five little tanks can be selected to control. Tank-like machines have gone wild on the three different planets of the Tehric system and the player's job is to defeat them.The battles take place in desolate mountain environments. The big differences in altitude play an important role in the game. In the single player mode, complete levels by collecting 8 colored power cores, which are defended by the machines, and returning them to one of several hovering stores. The player has an infinite amount of lives. The weaponry consists of 8 types of missiles and 4 types of mines. Help is received from a pair of helicopters that drop ammo and provide healing.The two tracks of the tank are operated independently. For example, make a quick spin by going forward with one track and backwards with the other. Moreover the turret can be turned in any direction. The camera always moves with the turret sometimes diverting the view towards the camera. The angle of the turret and the distance the rockets travel can be changed. The tank can only be controlled using the keyboard.Noteworthy aspects of the game are: the physics modelling, the 3D engine and the amount of freedom the player has (no time constraints etc.). |
| Wonkarific Colorizer | 1999 | The Willy Wonka Candy Factory | | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Wonkarific Colorizer is a single player, freeware, 'painting' game. It was published on
Nestlé's Wonka brand website along with other Willy Wonka themed games and educational software. It could be played on-line if the Shockwave player was installed or it could be downloaded.It is a simple game with just eight pictures to colour in, a "Wonkanize It! Switcheroo" button to auto-colour the picture, sound effects and no option to print the finished artwork.
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| Word Search Mania | 1999 | | RomTech, Inc. | Puzzle | | | | Word construction | | | | | | | Windows | A computerized version of the standard pencil and paper word search, Word Search Mania is a collection of 222 assorted puzzles with a variety of uncommon topics (such as O.J. Simpson or diseases) in varying degrees of difficulty. It also contains a tool for building puzzles from your own lists of words. |
| WordSearch | 1999 | | | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Word Search is a single player, mouse controlled, freeware game in which the player must find words hidden within a grid of letters. When a player finds a word they position the mouse cursor at one end of the string, hold down the left mouse button, and drag it to the other end of the string. If correct the game puts a ring around the string and ticks it off the list of words to search for.The game has options to construct puzzles in either upper or lower case with words in all directions, just horizontally & vertically, horizontally only, or vertically only. It comes with sixty word groups held in banks of ten each of which can be played with four levels of difficulty. In addition there is a game creation option allowing players to set up their own word lists, these can hold a maximum of fifty entries of to thirteen letters long. Though the game is mouse controlled a keyboard is needed when creating new word lists.The game has a 'find this word for me' option and also allows puzzles to be printed with or without solutions. |
| Wujin de Suming: Shouhuzhe zhi Jian Waizhuan | 1999 | Technical Group Laboratory, Inc. | Winking WindThunder | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time, Turn-based | | | Windows | In a decisive moment, the cat-girl Jean decided to let the young warrior Shot complete his quest alone, and entered a portal that led to a different realm. At first she is determined to look for fame and adventure, which unexpectedly begins with protecting a little duckling that mysteriously appeared on the city streets and followed her. However, soon she realizes that evil stretches its hands everywhere, and she cannot escape from it.Wujin de Suming is a Taiwanese-made role-playing game and a self-described side-story to Guardian's Sword. It recounts events parallel to Shot's adventures in the previous game, telling what happened to Jean after she left his party. Visually and gameplay-wise, the game is nearly identical to its predecessor, with the exception of a few interface tweaks and a larger amount of spells and limit breaks. Like before, the world consists of interconnected pre-rendered locations, and the turn-based battles have a real-time element in that they proceed automatically by default and require the player to input commands in the middle of the action. |
| X-COM Collection | 1999 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | This compilation includes all X-COM games released until the year 1999. The five games included are:
X-COM: UFO Defense
X-COM: Terror From The Deep
X-COM: Apocalypse
X-COM: Interceptor
X-COM: Games |
| X-Games: Pro Boarder | 1999 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Team Beer | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Tricks / stunts | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | X-Games: Pro Boarder is a snowboarding game with several game modes including downhill and half pipe. In downhill mode the player's mission is to get down as quickly as possible, also grinding on several objects like cars and airplanes that have been placed in the scenery.In half pipe mode the player must travel from the beginning to the end of the pipe doing stunts on the left and the right, finishing before the time reaches zero having as many points as possible.Multiplayer over Internet and Network is supported, as well as 3D acceleration cards. |
| X-Plane 5 | 1999 | Laminar Research | Laminar Research | Compilation, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | X-Plane 5 is the fifth edition of the single-player flight simulator. Players get to fly around in the world using various nav-aids and instruments. Several aircraft are included in the package, and more can be found online. The main focus of the X-Plane series is to model correct airflow around an aircraft, using engineering techniques similar to those used for designing real aircraft. Much of the manual is dedicated to aircraft design, and the user can make their own aircraft and scenery with the tools included. An earlier version called X-Plane Classic is also included. |
| Xena: Warrior Princess - Death in Chains | 1999 | Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. | | Adventure | | | | Visual novel | Fantasy | | | | | Setting | Windows | Xena: Warrior Princess - Death in Chains is a game in the series of Multipath Movies. These games are pure interactive movies that display a movie that allows for the player to select among multiple paths at opportune junctures of the storyline. In that way, the game is a "choose your own adventure" movie. The DVD-Video version of the game is pre-rendered, while the Windows version renders the 3D models in real time.This title is based on the Xena: Warrior Princess TV show. Xena needs help to rescue Celesta, goddess of death, from King Sisyphus. The player makes choices to determine what Xena will do. |
| Xenic | 1999 | Jade Interactive Entertainment | PlayWorks | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | In 2090 the Global Union Organisation has replaced the United Nations. The organisation aspires the highest level of prosperity possible for humankind; and with success: in 2195 all diseases on earth are cured, poverty is gone and breakthroughs in science are made. This is noticed by an unknown race of the planet Morzique who admire humankind's progress. Both planets start an alliance: the United Planetary Nations.In 2257 many other planets have joined but things have changed for the worse. The Morziqians are the leading power in the United Planetary Nations and population of humankind has grown explosively resulting in mass race revolts on Earth. When a small group of human rebellions also succeed in a mission to Mars and claim that planet as their property, Earth is placed under custody by the Morziqians.Towards the end of the twenty-third century, Morziqians are intimidating leaders from Earth and a large Morziqian strikefleet is heading towards our blue planet. For once, the races on Earth stop their mutual battles and prepare for the ultimate war. The era of chaos has begun.Xenic places you in a ZX-G Firefly Type F fighter. Viewed from slightly above and behind the spaceship, the camera scrolls into a 3-D environment in all directions. There are seven levels to negotiate situated above huge crowded cities on earth, earth's oceans, space and on the futuristic world of Morzique. A striking feature is the fighter cannot collide with the backgrounds. This is a good thing, though, as from the word go Morzique spaceships fly into the screen from all directions and fire at you at an alarming rate. Luckily, you have three types of weapon at your disposal: standard fire, three smart bombs, and by holding down the fire- and smart bomb-keys simultaneously, a laser beam. Certain destroyed ships leave behind three types of power-ups: mint-coloured orbs add 10% energy to your energy bar, green orbs gain 100 points and red orbs gain 200 points. Finally, at the end of a level a huge end-of-level boss awaits and needs to be put to rest.When a level is finished, gained points can be spent in the expansion-screen. Here you can upgrade to more powerful weapons and bombs or to better spacecraft like the Krma Griffin, ARN 23 Reaper, 0F4A Aurora, OZM Hell Driver or OM Hidride. Choose wisely, as the choice of weapon and ship heavily influence your success in the next level.The game can be played by one or two players, using keyboard only. It is possible to save the game between levels. |
| Xin Juedai Shuangjiao | 1999 | Unistar | UserJoy Technology Co. Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | In the world of kung-fu, no man was considered more handsome than Jiang Feng. Even Yaoyue, the princess of the Yihua palace, could not resist his charms. But Jiang Feng loved another woman - a simple servant named Hua Yuenu. When Hua Yuenu gave birth to twins, it became impossible to hide the love any longer. The princess Yaoyue, tormented by jealousy, and her sister Lingxing threatened to take away the babies. In a desperate move, Jiang Feng attacked the princess, but her magical power reflected the attack to Hua Yuenu, mortally wounding her. Unable to live any longer, Jiang Feng killed himself, embracing the dead body of his beloved woman. But Yaoyue's hatred was not soothed by the death of the young lovers, and the two princesses conceived a plan. From now on, the twins will be separated. One of them will be brought up in the Yihua palace and become a faithful servant of the princesses. The other will be given to the hostile demon people. When the twins grow up, they will become enemies...Everything happened just as the princesses planned - at least for the time being. The brothers grew up separately. Jiang Xiaoyu studied martial arts in the village of demon people, happy and unconcerned. He was unaware of his true origin, and of the cruel fate that will force him to confront his own brother in a battle...Xin Juedai Shuangjiao, also known as Twin Heroes, is an adaptation of Gu Long's popular novels. The first game tells the first part of the long story. The game is conceived in the tradition of classic Chinese RPG series Xuanyuan Jian and Xianjian Qixia Zhuan, adding some original ideas. In the beginning of the game, there is a choice of three difficulty levels and three kinds of combat: fully turn-based, active time battle (like in Final Fantasy games), and its fast-paced variant. The battles are viewed from third-person perspective. You can utilize physical attacks or techniques, and also have a special "anger level", which increases as the battle advances. Enemies appear randomly in hostile areas. The game uses pre-rendered backgrounds, and the introduction sequence has full voice overs. |
| Xtom 3D | 1999 | Jamie System Development Co.,Ltd. | Jamie System Development Co.,Ltd. | Action | Diagonal-down | | | Shooter | | Flight / aviation | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Xtom 3D is a 3D arcade shooter. You can fly any of three available aircraft: a jet-like airplane, a colourful UFO and a flying robot. Each aircraft has unique weapons and magical effects. You fly over various themes of 3D terrain (deserts, valleys, caverns, technological structures) in third person and have to shoot down enemy aircraft. Each level is concluded with a big level boss. On your way there you will have to collect power-ups and avoid enemy fire. As long as you are firing weapons you build up your mana bar, when full you can use a powerful magic blast that does a lot of damage. |
| Xtreme Sports Arcade: Summer Edition | 1999 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | WayForward Technologies, Inc. | Action, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Tricks / stunts | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In this game you can play one of five "xtreme" sports: half-pipe skateboarding, sky boarding, in-line street skating, rock climbing, and street luge. Each sport has a different character to play as. There are ways to earn points, like doing tricks and passing through goals, as well as power-ups and obstacles, from oil slicks and traffic cones to snakes and scorpions. This game led to the more popular game Xtreme Sports for Game Boy Color. |
| Y2K: The Game | 1999 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Runecraft Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | The final days of the year 1999 are approaching. Buster Everman is an accountant at Dharke Electronics, a company that specializes in robotics and AI technology. After the death of its founder, a gothic horror writer, the company used his mansion as a testing ground for a fully automatized home management system, with robotic servants controlled by a master computer. Now the Dharke Mansion is for sale, and Buster decides to buy it, after having unexpectedly won the lottery. Buster and his girlfriend Candace arrive at the mansion, where they want to spend the New Year eve. There is just one tiny problem with the sophisticated computerized system of the mansion - it is bound to do unpredictable things at the turn of the millennium. When the clock strikes midnight at the start of the year 2000, things start to go wrong. Buster is unable to leave the house, and his girlfriend has disappeared. Now he has to deal with the treacherous devices of the mansion, rescue his beloved one, and fix the system.Y2K: The Game is a third-person point-and-click adventure game. Locations are viewed from fixed camera positions, similarly to Alone in the Dark games. Most of the puzzles in the game are dedicated to fixing various computerized devices or figuring out the way to access locked rooms and safes. |
| Yoot Tower | 1999 | SEGA of America, Inc. | OPeNBooK9003 inc. | Simulation, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The sequel to Sim Tower, Yoot Tower is a building simulator that lets you build towers in such exotic locales as Kegon Falls (underground tourist resort), Waikiki (paradise destination) and Tokyo (the complete arcology).The player starts on a empty plot of land and must develop it into a successful and profitable venture by inserting rooms of different kinds (from shops to condominiums) and connecting them to transport systems, all according to their requirements. When a player fulfills a certain condition (such as the number of tenants), a VIP visits the building, and if his impression is favourable, the rating goes up, unlocking more rooms and facilities to expand the tower. The goal is to reach the ultimate level, and place an attraction (such as a chapel or a baseball field) on the top floor.There are several rooms to expand your tower, usually starting with stores and restaurants plus hotel rooms (which provide daily income), expanding to offices, condominiums and apartments and other tenancy rooms. However, all these rooms need extra support in the form of facilities such as restrooms, vigilance rooms, as well as convention centers to attract more visitors or simply please your tenants. They must be always happy, or you risk seeing them leave if they aren't happy with the time it takes to move between locations or if there's too much noise.One of the key aspects in the game is balancing the transport system - elevators, stairs and escalators. There are thee kinds of elevators: Simple, Express or Service. Simple elevators provide floor-to-floor operation (although you can choose not to stop at a particular floor), Express work in 15 floor intervals and Service are used only by stores and general tower staff (security and cleaning). More than one elevator can be added to a shaft, but each shaft has a limit on the floors it can cover. Stairs and escalators do the same function: short travel between floors, but while escalators are used for commercial areas, stairs are used for residential and office blocks. |
| You Don't Know Jack Jumbo | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Compilation, Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This compilation box contains:You Don't Know Jack
You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2
You Don't Know Jack: Volume 3
You Don't Know Jack: Volume 4 - The Ride
You Don't Know Jack: Offline |
| You Don't Know Jack: Offline | 1999 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc., Jellyvision Games, Inc. | Strategy | | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | Teen | | Windows | You Don't Know Jack: Offline is an installment in the You Don't Know Jack series of quiz games. This edition is based on the weekly internet show that ran from 1996 to 2000, containing 1000 questions taken from there. |
| Zap Zilden | 1999 | Lightning Software | Lightning Software | Action | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Zap Zilden is a single-player, 2D or 3D, Pac-Man game. The game is very similar to the original. It is keyboard/joystick controlled, the player walks around a maze eating pills as they go and the object is to eat all the pills to complete a level and advance.Where the game differs is that instead of four ghosts the baddie take the form of a big eye, there's one baddie on level one with an extra baddie being added on each level as the player progresses. The power-up pills in this game are called 'blasts', the player starts with three of them and others can be gained by eating enough pills or one of the power ups that appears briefly and randomly in the game area. A blast is activated by pressing the spacebar and any contact with a baddie while it is active will send the baddie back to the start where it must wait a while. However the main difference is the option to play in either the traditional way in 2D, or in 3D using a mini map to avoid getting lost.The full version of the game has ten three-room levels and at the end of each level the player is presented with a card game in which they have three chances to turn over a pair of cards. If the cards are identical the player wins bonus points or an extra life. |
| wMancala | 1999 | | Mobius | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | wMancala is a computer adaptation of the board game Mancala. Each player has six small bins and one large bin (called a Mancala or Kalaha), and all fourteen bins form a counter-clockwise sequence. Each small pot initially contains a number of stones. The player can choose any of his small bins and distribute the stones within into bins on the right, one stone per bin, counter-clockwise around the board--thus the player can also put stones into the opponent's small pots, but not the opponent's Mancala. If the player puts his last stone in his Mancala, he gets another turn; if he puts the last stone in one of his empty small bins, he captures the stones inside the opponent's bin that is directly across and puts them into his own Mancala (along with his own capturing stone). The game ends when a player's small bins are all empty, at which point the player with more stones in his Mancala and his side of the board is the winner. |
| ōdi∙um | 1999 | Monolith Productions, Inc., TopWare Interactive | Metropolis Software House | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Tactical RPG | | | | Turn-based | Mature | | Windows | StoryMutants have been found in the bombed out Polish city codenamed "Gorky 17" near Lubin, and a trio of soldiers (Sullivan, Owicz and Trantigne, each of different nationalities) enters the city to find out what happened and look for any member of the first squad previously sent there. You control the team and direct them through a world of surprises and mysteries that wait to be resolved. GameplayThe game is composed mainly of two playing modes. The (tentatively named) "Adventure mode" is displayed in a top-down view, with the team walking around the city in real time, interacting with objects, picking up weapons and ammunition from item chests, and using key items (such as keycards) to advance to new areas. At fixed locations, the team will be ambushed by mutants, and the gameplay switches to the (again, tentatively named) "Battle mode", featuring a battle field in isometric perspective divided into square grids. Each side takes turn moving, attacking, defending and using items; the battle ends when all mutants die, or one of the main characters dies. The battle field would sometimes have items like exploding barrels, or item chests similar to those in "Adventure mode".Character AdvancementEach time a soldier hits and wounds a mutant, they gain experience; once the character has gained enough experience, they level up and gain stat points which can be used to improve attributes such as hit points, accuracy, etc. Also, each time the character successfully uses a weapon, their experience with that particular weapon will improve, and at the highest level (level 10), the weapon will deal its intended maximum damage (displayed as "max damage" in the weapon info). Items and WeaponsThe soldiers can equip themselves with melee weapons (crowbar, axe), conventional small arms (pistol, shotgun, assault rifle), special weapons (tranquilizer dart gun, stun gun), heavy or sci-fi weapons. All weapons have limited range and most firearms can only shoot in certain directions (for example, pistols can shoot up, down, left, or right, while assault rifles can also shoot diagonally); some fire in bursts or have splash damage, meaning they can hit multiple enemies. Mutants also have varying degrees of protection (armor) against certain types of weapons and some have immunities to weapon special effects (such as stun), which are automatically added to personal notes as the player finds about such information.In both "Adventure mode" and "Battle mode", characters can transfer and equip weapons and body armor if available, or heal themselves or each other. The characters are 3D models while the environment is a pre-rendered 2D background, similar to games like Resident Evil 2. At certain points in the game, the characters may be joined by surviving soldiers or citizens, and will occasionally encounter boss-like monsters. |
| Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (Demo Version) | 1999-01-01 | Eidos Interactive Limited | Pyro Studios S.L. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Stealth | Europe, Historical events, World War II | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | The demo version of Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty contains only one mission - a modified version of the fifth mission in the full game, called "Guess Who's Coming Tonight". The premise and the layout of the mission remain the same: four of the commandos (Green Beret, Sniper, Driver, and Spy) are tasked with capturing colonel Wilhelm Von Below in order to prevent him from uncovering the conspiracy against Adolf Hitler, but without sounding the alarm within the Wolfsschanze compound. At least two versions of this demo exist: one with a fully voiced briefing, and one without.These are the differences from the final version of the mission:
the commandos still have their voiceovers from Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
the briefing's narration is altered, has a different background music track, and has a Behind Enemy Lines-styled map showing the mission's location
the mission's number is set to 1 instead of 5
a patrol guard type specific to Beyond the Call of Duty is replaced with an existing one
only certain weapons and items new to Beyond the Call of Duty are added: stones and cigarette packs (all commandos), handcuffs (Green Beret and Spy), rifle (Driver)
the handcuffs function differently - since no commando can knock an enemy down without killing him in the demo, handcuffs instantly incapacitate the target
positioning of certain items in the commandos' knapsacks is different
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| Final Odyssey | 1999-01-01 | Kama Digital Entertainment | Joymax Co., Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | RPG elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Final Odyssey is a real-time strategy game taking place in 2038 AD. The world war that broke out destroys the global environment, depleting all of the natural resources and leading mankind to a state of near extinction. After the end of the war, humankind seeks a new place to replace the devastated Earth planning a "Final Odyssey Project". Humans send a cyborg called Amos to a TV 203 system which closely resembled the solar system. As the project reached its final stages, human beings descended to TV 203 system. But Amos underwent its own evolutionary process and was set on annihilating the human race remaining on Earth by producing clones with advanced weaponry. Human beings use the only cyborgs capable of destroying Amos called Targons to conquer the TV 203 system and destroy Amos.Both the Targon and Amos tribes have 12 missions. There are 2 resources in the game: energy and minerals. To create new buildings, players must create robots which will transform into these buildings. The same robots can be used to gather resources. Once players have destroyed both the enemies on the map and the teleport buildings of the enemy, they can teleport to the next area and move back and forth between the areas. |
| Metaloids | 1999-01-01 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The Metaloids have invaded the galaxy and are consuming all of its resources. Fight against these invaders in a Galaga/Gorf 2D overhead type game. There are over twelve 3D animated and rendered enemies using fuzzy state/emergent behavioral AI. Defeat the bosses at the end of each game sector. Collect power-ups to increase firepower, firing speed, armour protection, and ship speed. |
| Rayman Funpack | 1999-01-01 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains the following two games:Rayman
Rayman's WorldIn addition to this, the compilation also includes the German Edutainment game Englisch Lernen mit Rayman für Anfänger, a Making-of for Rayman 2, an Add-On-CD for Rayman, which brings 40 new levels, a big poster (DIN A1), as well as a Rayman Sticker, and the "Rayman Guide", with plenty of insider information. |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV with Power Up Kit | 1999-01-01 | Acer Third Wave Software (Beijing) Co., Ltd | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Compilation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | China (Ancient / Imperial), Historical events | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV with Power Up Kit is the compilation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire and Sangokushi IV: Power Up Kit. |
| True Love | 1999-01-01 | JAST USA | Software House Parsley | Role-playing (RPG), Simulation | | | Adult | | | | | | | | Windows | As summer break rolls around, you, a college student, have decided to find the woman of your dreams! But, wait, who could it be? Maybe your childhood friend Mikae, athletic tomboy Chiemi, maybe even your teacher Miss Yumi? Who knows? But the only thing we do know is that now is your chance to find your true love!True Love is a simulation of dating, with role-playing elements. You control a high school student looking for his true love. The goal of the game is to win the girls' hearts before your last summer of freedom is over. Every day when you wake up you plan your schedule for morning, afternoon and evening. Your choices (such as pleasure, sports, study, etc.) determine what special events will occur on that day (if any), and also raise your skills in the selected category. Different girls in the game (there are ten of them) have different interests, goals and preferences. If your skills in the category they find most important are high enough, you have a chance to get that girl into your bed. |
| Wargasm | 1999-01-01 | Infogrames, Inc. | Digital Image Design Ltd. | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation, Helicopter, Tank | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | In 2065, the world's military forces were transferred to the World Wide War Web in an effort to eliminate bloodshed. All the countries, whether they be a superpower or in the Third World, were justly represented. Wars were fought through this system, and the winner would take the loser's electronic infrastructure. However, the system was flawed. It was prone to be hacked. In this state of "wargasm," the world has fallen into a state of corruption. It is your duty to bring order back to the world in this 3D RTS. One thing, beyond the basic RTS play, is the ability to possess any of your units and control them directly. |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 10 | 1999-01-04 | Cendant Software Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the January/February 1999 issue (Volume 10) of the Best of Sierra series.This issue's title games are the following two:
Silent Thunder
Robert E. Lee: Civil War GeneralThe special features from this issue's magazine are the following:
6 pages Tips & Tricks for Robert E. Lee: Civil War: General and articles for the following newest Sierra games: Half-Life, King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, Lords of Magic: Legends of Urak, 3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball, Viper Racing, PGA Championship Golf: 1999 Edition, and Pro Pilot '99. |
| Ant Attack | 1999-01-05 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | It's a lovely day for a picnic. Until the ants show up. To prevent your picnic from being ruined you must keep the ants at bay. Lucky for you, you brought bug spray. Keep the ants away with your spray using the mouse to spray as black and red fire ants come to gobble your food. But be careful, you only have a limited amount of bug spray and more and more keep coming at you faster and faster. Let one touch your food and it's cold cuts again. |
| Natuk | 1999-01-06 | Tom Proudfoot Games | Tom Proudfoot Games | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | OverviewNatuk is a traditional overhead party-based role-playing game with a focus on detailed tactical combat that appeals most to those often referred to as "hardcore" role-players. Its predecessor, Nahlakh, was based on the pen-and-paper role-playing game GURPS by Steve Jackson Games,and Natuk moved to a percentile-based system reminiscent of the Rolemaster system by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) -- both complex and detailed skill-based rules systems that avoid the abstract hit-point system used by most games derived from TSR's Dungeons & Dragons and instead use specific-body-part damage rules. Natuk bears similarities to such diverse computer RPG games as the Ultima series (1980-present), Wizard's Crown (1985), the Phantasie series (1986-87), and Interplay's celebrated Fallout (1989).The game was released on a shareware distribution model, with the shareware version being approximately one-third of the game. In later years, the game was distributed completely, as freeware.The StoryYou control a party of eight orcs, ogres and half-trolls on a quest for revenge against the cruel emperor Molvosh. As the story goes, your characters committed a bungled assassination attempt, and the emperor had all your family killed, the plot leader flayed alive, and the accomplices (your party) thrown into the prisons of Jagg. However, due to bureaucratic error, your party was instead merely assigned to a remote outpost on the frontier. From there, you leave the outpost; traverse the wilderness; explore caves, dungeons, orcish towns and other locations; get into orcish barfights; and eventually extract your revenge from Molvosh himself.GameplayAs alluded to above, Natuk is a hybrid class- and skill-based RPG in the mold of Rolemaster. Thus, for each character you select a starting class (including such orcish professions as Scout, Assassin, Warrior, and Witchdoctor), which determines your beginning skills and aptitudes, but from there you are free to develop your characters as you see fit. Even spellcasting is not limited to the magic-wielding classes, and thus the dim-witted half-troll warrior can learn some magic if you choose to spend his skill points so, though he'll never excel at it.Instead of gaining "levels," each character gradually gains skill points, which he can spend at any time. As a skill improves, the cost to improve it increases, so, as in the pen-and-paper RPGs upon which Natuk is based, you must choose between developing a generalist who is adequate at a wide variety of skills, a highly-trained specialist, or something inbetween. But either way, you are not limited to set archetypes, and the game allows creative individualized hybridization of your characters.Movement on the world map is conducted in real-time, in a style similar to that of Microprose's Darklands and Interplay's Fallout. Movement between locations is punctuated by random encounters such as wandering trade caravans, friendly orcish patrols, hostile orcish bandits that look like friendly patrols, and, of course, outright hostiles. Sometimes your choice of action can steer an encounter one way or the other.Town adventuring is very close to that seen in Wizard's Crown; the town map is divided into squares of urban landscape, many of which contain some distinguishing feature, such as a temple, a tavern or a shop, that is only discovered upon entering that square.In adventuring locales, where the bulk of gameplay occurs, all characters and objects are depicted as if from the side (in similar style to the Ultima games). The character selected as the group leader is the one shown as you explore, interacting with non-player characters, objects, containers and, of course, enemies.When combat occurs, there is no separate "closeup" combat map as there is in many games; the adventure area doubles as the combat map, similar (again) to the Ultima Series. Your full party is now shown grouped close to your lead character, and tactical combat begins. At first blush, Natuk's combat appears similar to combat in the older style of turn-based RPGs like SSI's original Pool of Radiance and other like games in the Gold Box Series. Combat is turn-based, with individualized initiative determined and each character allotted a certain number of movement points. However, attack options and the method of resolving them are far more complex and involved, similar to those of Fallout (which was itself based on a system similar to GURPS), with such features as parrying, feinting, aiming for different areas of the body (head, eyes, arms, vitals, etc.). The resulting critical hits are brutal, and can involve blindness, crippling and premature death (premature?). With combat this involved, though, tedious combats can be resolved via a quick-combat option.The magic system is syllable-based, like that of the Ultima Series, with each spell composed of three syllables of a magic language that create or modify different effects. For example, Wubisiz (typing the letters W, B and I) casts "create ice," while Wubisdel (W, B and D) casts "create fog." Success or failure is determined by either the character's magic skill or her chanting skill, and spells can be learned from spellbooks or figured out by trial-and-error. Thus, if you know Rakhimxa (Rak=throw, Him=little, and Xa=stone), and figure out that Gokh means shock, you can have a character cast Rakhimgokh (throw little shock), after which point he will be able to cast that spell without you having to type it in yourself. There are no "magic points," however. Instead, spellcasting drains characters' strength.Following a strange tradition of role-playing games (and not just computer ones), in Natuk you begin facing... rats. Giant rats. Eventually, though, you move on to face other orcs and orc-kin (ogres, trolls, etc.), evil cultists, hostile spellcasters, demons, dragons, and a variety of other enemies. The game offers a variety of situations and game locations to explore, but combat is the most prevalent and almost all objects found in the game revolve around it; thus, Natuk would be best described as an adventure RPG with a particular emphasis upon tactical combat. However, like another older game with the same theme -- Firebird's Knight Orc -- the game has a distinctly "Orcish" feel to it, replete with party members picking on each other and getting into tiffs. |
| Atari Arcade Hits: Volume 1 | 1999-01-07 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Atari, Inc. | Action | | | | Arcade | | | Dana Muise | | Everyone | | Windows | Atari Arcade Hits is a compilation of six classic arcade games from the golden ages of Atari, reprogrammed to play in Windows computers. The package not only includes the games with changeable operator options in their original style and enhanced style, but also the Atari Archives, with media content that goes from flyer scans to advert videos, desktop themes based on the games offered in each package and online high score charts.Volume 1 includes Asteroids, Super Breakout, Centipede, Pong, Tempest and Missile Command. All games can be accessed from a taskbar button, and game progress is saved as soon as window is closed. |
| Close Combat III: The Russian Front | 1999-01-15 | Microsoft Corporation | Atomic Games, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Yet another Real Time Strategy game... Yet another WWII game... but unlike most WWII games, this one takes place on the *Eastern* Front! It is 1941, and Germany is launching Operation Barbarossa: the invasion of Russia. Finally, a game that captures the magnitude of this epic, 4-year-long battle that ultimately sealed the end of the 3rd Reich! As with the previous CC games, this one is incredibly researched. The sounds of the dozens of different weapons, the hundreds of unit types, the terrain... it is just amazing how much work went into drawing the sprites and the maps. Units can panic, be pinned, suppressed, surrender, regroup... you name it. There are flame tanks, snipers, bunkers, city fighting, winter/summer battles, different weather conditions, mine fields... pretty much anything that might normally happen on a battlefield can happen in this game. And the best parts: it covers the entire Eastern Front battle from 41-45, and it has good multiplayer support.I mean... if you play the Germans, your guys speak German, and if you play the Russians, they speak Russian. You just don't get more realistic than that. :) |
| XEvil | 1999-01-20 | | | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | XEvil is a platform combat game, with randomly-generated stages and a variety of game modes without any clear plot or setting. Most game modes involves a deathmatch between the player and a number of other players or computer-controlled opponents. Each player is randomly-assigned a character type, among Ninja, Chopper-Boy, Hero and Walker, each with some mobility differences. For example, Chopper-Boy can fly, but is slower, while Ninja can climb walls or ceilings. You can then roam the level, climbing ladders and jumping between platforms while collecting items and weapons in order to kill any enemies you might encounter.The initial Levels mode provides progression against computer opponents with a fixed number of lives. As you finish each level (via killing the computer), the number of computer opponents is increased for the next stage.The Scenarios mode provides alternative objectives, such as collecting flags or killing a set number of harmless animals.The Kill, Kill, Kill mode is similar to Levels, except the number of enemies can be configured for a more traditional deathmatch.Finally, the Dual modes allow a direct competition between two human players. All versions of this game support networked multiplayer among an arbitrary number of players. Versions using the X Window System also support two player split-screen multiplayer on a single PC. |
| Ikusa Megami | 1999-01-29 | Eushully | Eushully | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | In Ikusa Megami, the player assumes a role of Celica, a former male warrior who is now... a woman. The reason for that is the fact that he carries within himself the spirit of an ancient war goddess known as the Slayer of God. Despite this predicament, Celica continues taking traditional quests for paladins and noble warriors (saving the missing princess is, as always, high on the list), but soon realizes that the spirit of the war goddess cannot remain dormant for a long time...Ikusa Megami is a traditional Japanese RPG with isometric dungeon navigation and random turn-based battles. Town navigation is done from first-person view, with large anime-style portraits displayed during conversations. The game contains explicit sexual scenes. |
| Abalone | 1999-02-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | Fangame | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Abalone is a freeware, open-source unofficial adaptation of a board game of the same name, implementing the original 2-player version. The players move up to three marbles at a time, setting them on pegs arranged in a hexagonal shape, trying to push each other spheres out of the board. The opponent's marbles can only be moved when a certain alignment is achieved, where the player spheres are in specific superior numbers like 3 to 2, 3 to 1 or 2 to 1. The game can be played against another human, or the computer with several difficulty levels. The initial position of the marbles can be switched between four configurations. |
| Anvil Awareness | 1999-02-01 | | | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In this game you control a normal guy on a sunny day who has to dodge falling anvils to get the high score and save his butt. Move him with left and right arrow keys to miss the anvils. But beware... the anvils get faster and faster as more of them come at you. Don't be sluggish, because if you get hit once it's game over. |
| Corum III: Chaotic Magic | 1999-02-01 | Hicom Entertainment | Hicom Entertainment | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | For over a thousand years, the Eight Dark Lords have terrorized the land of Morone. They dream of conquering the entire world, but for that they need to revive the Ninth Lord Magslayum, whose essence is trapped in a magical sword somewhere in the Corum province. They hire three Crayn magicians to retrieve it. However, the magicians plan to double-cross the Lords, and join forces with a mad sorcerer named Balos to find the powerful magic Jumarion and use it in an attempt to reclaim Morone for themselves.Meanwhile, a devastating decade-long war in the land of Lendore ended with a mysterious suicide of the king. A young warrior named Kaien leaves his father's home in search of adventure. He meets a mysterious little girl who is proclaimed cursed, and becomes inadvertently involved in grand schemes that cast their shadows over Corum.Corum III: Chaotic Magic is a sequel to Corum II: Dark Lord. It is set in the same world and features some recurrent characters. Like its predecessors in the Korean-made series, it is an action role-playing game in which the protagonist traverses interconnected hostile areas and visits towns to buy equipment and supplies. The player character can execute combo and dash attacks, and jump. Unlike the previous games, the player can switch between playable characters. Two other characters join Kaien over the course of the game. The spell system from the previous game is back with more variety and refinements, including different spell disciplines for the three characters (such as sword techniques, elemental summons, etc.). Spells increase in proficiency when used repeatedly. Characters also possess unique field abilities such as sliding, which allows access to optional and secret areas. Towns offer jobs and side-quests that reward the protagonists with money and experience.Also new to the series is a network version, which offers several arena modes and a dungeon rush mode. |
| Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia | 1999-02-01 | 3DO Company, The | New World Computing, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | RPG elements, Turn-based strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control | Turn-based | Everyone | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia takes place long after the ending of Heroes of Might and Magic II: Price of Loyalty and partially concurrently with Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven. Receiving news of her father's death, Catherine Ironfist, Queen of Enroth, sails for Erathia to attend her father's funeral. Fearing the worst, she assembles a military fleet as her escort. Arriving on the coast of Erathia, Catherine finds an allied wizard's tower, devastated from battle and abandoned. There she learns Erathia is falling to its enemies. Mustering local armies, Catherine marches to Erathia's capitol, restoring lost land along the way.The Restoration of Erathia retains the bulk of the gameplay from its predecessors, with significant additions and modifications. It features 8 entirely distinct towns with 7 creature levels each, but this time all creature levels (save for neutral-only ones) can be upgraded. Also new are war machines, a total of 122 artifacts, overhauled spell list, new and edited map locations, an alignment mechanic which affects interaction with some of the map locations and spells, and 7 single-player campaigns with a vast set of single scenarios which can be played against the AI or other human players. |
| Mad Game | 1999-02-01 | Frizky Studio | Frizky Studio | Action, Sports | Behind view | | | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mad Game is an air hockey game, inspired by Shufflepuck Cafe. The game offers both a one player and two player versus mode. In the one-player mode, the player climbs up the leaderboard from league 5 to league 1 by defeating opponents. Winning a match requires getting the puck past the opponent's paddle nine times, and there's a 20-second limit to gain each point, otherwise the player loses a point. The player and the computer opponents are characterized by the Speed and Force parameters, which determine how fast they move and how hard they hit the puck. The two-player mode is a single splitscreen match, with both players able to choose their Force before playing. However, in the only known version of the game (v1.51) the one-player mode doesn't work properly, as all of the computer opponents have their Speed and Force set to zero and thus don't move at all. |
| Sangokushi Eiketsuden | 1999-02-01 | Acer Third Wave Software (Beijing) Co., Ltd | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | China (Ancient / Imperial), Historical events | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | Steam Store Description (from Ad Blurbs)To commemorate Kou Shibusawa's 35th anniversary, the "Kou Shibusawa Archives" will be opened in the Steam Store. Here we will revive popular previously released titles.
In this eighth round of releases, we offer "Sangokushi Eiketsuden," which was released in 1995.
This game is a simulation RPG in which players become Liu Bei and battle for the restoration of the Han Imperial court. The game progresses around the battle map. Players fulfill the victory conditions of each battle as they go from battlefield to battlefield to advance the story. |
| SimCity 3000 | 1999-02-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | Contemporary | | Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | As a mayor, it is your job to manage your city. It starts off empty, but will grow. You can zone parts of your city for residential, commercial & industry. In addition to zoning, you can build roads, parks, trains, water pipes, power plants and much much more. If you are successful, your city will grow and prosper. If you fail you will bankrupt the city and get thrown out of office. |
| Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri | 1999-02-09 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Firaxis Games East, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | After the 20th century, humankind reaches its hand out across the stars. Seeking to escape the overcrowded chaos of Earth, the United Nations builds a single seedship, the UNS Unity, and sends her on a mission towards the Alpha Centauri star system. After a long journey in cryogenic suspension, the Unity reaches Alpha Centauri where the Captain is killed under mysterious circumstances. Suspecting the motives of one another, the officers and the crew split into 7 factions, each lead with a distinct ideology and motives that they seek to build the planet in their image...Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is best compared to Civilization II, but features many distinct differences in gameplay and thinking. In Civilization, the objective was to evolve a society from primitive tribes, whereas Alpha Centauri starts with the landing of colony pods on a barren planet with society becoming fractured. Each faction (aka nation) receives it's own share of the Unity's resources and tech base. For the basics, bases produce nutrients, materials and energy. Nutrients are required to feed to population, Materials are used in production and energy represents the commerce effect which can be traded to players diplomatically or spent on improvements. The 7 factions each have their own agenda, which is determined in large part by the Social Engineering. This enables a faction to customize its values, earning a bonus for what it considers important and a penalty for what it doesn't. Social Engineering system are discovered through research, the same as other improvements, such as structures and units.Research is divided into 4 types of technologies, which form an intertwining tree of dependencies. They are: Conquer (direct military applications), Explore (indirect technologies for units and bases), Build (direct infrastructure application) and Discovery (Science for the sake of science, indirect applications). Because of the separation, factions can focus on what they hope the intended result of their science will be, and can be changed at any time. To explore the planet, units are needed. Any unit can be customized out of known technologies; consisting of a chassis type, reactor, weapon, armor and special abilities. Each of these components has a different expense, with untested technologies having additional overhead (prototype). Finally, Alpha Centauri is not a desolate star system. There is life on the planet, in the form of alien fungus that litters the ground and strange creatures such as mindworms. Initially hostile to all factions, this form of life holds its own secrets and effects on the world at large.
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| Turok 2: Seeds of Evil | 1999-02-09 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Iguana Entertainment Incorporated | Action | 1st-person | Regional differences | | Shooter | | | | | Mature | | Windows | Turok 2: Seeds of Evil is the sequel to Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
Having defeated the Campaigner, Turok throws the Chronocepter into a waiting volcano to destroy it. Unfortunately the blast awakens an even deadlier force - The Primagen - who lays in wait for his freedom from a wrecked space craft, buried at the core of the Lost Land. Once again a Turok is tasked with restoring peace to the land and stopping the Primagen from merging Earth with the nether world.The game features an armory twice as large as its predecessor, and many weapons will even have a later update that makes them even more devastating. New weapons include the lethal discus Razor Wind, a proximity mine layer, and the Cerebral Bore, a flying grenade that homes in on an enemy's head, drills through their skull, and then explodes. Enemies have damage models now, allowing limbs to be torn off or bloody holes to be blasted through torsos. Turok won't be facing any human opponents this time, but will find himself under attack by plenty of dinosaur/human hybrids, brutish giants, and man-sized insectoids.The goal of each level is to reach the end and defend one of the five totems that keeps the Primagen captive in its ship as well as finding keys to unlock the portals that lead to later levels. In each level Turok can also find a special spiritual power, such as immunity to lava or a long jump. After finding a power, he will need to return to an earlier level to use that power to find one of the five keys that opens the portal to the Primagen itself. While searching for spiritual powers Turok will occasionally find portals that transport him to a strange place full of deadly creatures who appear to be unaffiliated with the Primagen, but discovering their true purpose is the job for another Turok.A multiplayer game is included as well, with options for between 2 and 4 players and game-types like deathmatch and capture-the-flag. This multiplayer mode would later be expanded into a full game with Turok: Rage Wars. |
| JumpStart Math for Kindergartners | 1999-02-10 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Animation Magic, Inc. | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | JumpStart Math for Kindergartners is an educational game that teaches math to students in kindergarten. It focuses on eight concept based on the US National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and major state frameworks. The game revolves around the rabbit Hopsalot and his adventure in the clouds. There different types of activities can be accessed: recognizing shapes and numbers, sorting and data analysis, logic and problem-solving, counting, addition, subtraction, sequences and patterns, and bake cupcakes, blow up balloons, create wrapping paper, ride rainbow slides and measuring. The main goal is to plan a birthday surprise party for Guthy the Giant. The party is started when 100 candles have been collected, earned through the activities. Activities are grouped based on four islands: Balloon Island, Cake Island, Present Island and Party Hat Island.Teachers have access to a tracking and monitoring system to keep track of each student's process and adjust the difficulty if needed. Remedial instruction is also provided as well as printable workbook activities. The software acts as a sister program to JumpStart Kindergarten and JumpStart Reading for Kindergarten that focus on different skills but for the same target audience. |
| Digging Jim | 1999-02-12 | Persei Entertainment | Persei Entertainment | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | Direct control | | | | Windows | This clone of Boulder Dash introduces Jim, a small fluffy ghost who is keen on exploring the caves of his home-planet Akturien and collecting a lot of diamonds along the way!The dangerous cave environments are inhabited by lots of different monsters and obstacles. On the way Jim has to solve challenging puzzles as well as doing some serious monster bashing to get to the diamonds. In each cave Jim have to collect a specific number of diamonds before the exit door unlocks and he can proceed to the next cave.The game also includes an easy-to-use editor that lets the player to design and distribute his own caves.The game is distributed as shareware with limitations in game content and time of use. Registration key unlocks the full game enabling all the features, including the ability to play the caves created with the editor. |
| Half-Life: Uplink | 1999-02-12 | Sierra Entertainment, Inc. | Valve Corporation | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | | | Windows | Half-Life: Uplink is a special standalone version of the 1998 first-person shooter computer game Half-Life. Uplink features many of the common enemies, characters, and weapons from the full game, but the location and scenario in this demonstration do not appear in Half-Life. Like its successor's demo, however, Uplink was made available for download after the release of the full retail version of the game.The Uplink chapters were cut during Half-Life's development phase, and roughly fit in prior to or during the Lambda Core chapter. They were, however, strongly revised for this release. Uplink also includes the same Hazard Course from the full release of Half-Life.Uplink was included with the Game of the Year Edition of Half-Life as a mod, and was included with all subsequent releases. While absent from Steam, Uplink can still be installed if the user has access to the Uplink files from a previous Half-Life install, through Uplink Lite or through Uplink Addon, which seamlessly adds the Uplink levels into the gameflow of Half-Life itself.Uplink was also included with certain video cards as bundled on one disk that also included Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike 1.3.Uplink is available in English, French and German. |
| NASCAR: Revolution | 1999-02-16 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Stormfront Studios | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | NASCAR Revolution lets you race in stock cars. It features 17 authentic tracks and all official names and brands that come with the NASCAR license. The game also contains a database of NASCAR drivers with official stats and biography.Game modes include single race, multiplayer match and season mode. Multiplayer allows you to race with people from all over the world over the internet.You can customize any part of your car. The game features a realistic damage model and in-race pit stops, variable weather conditions, and fallible pit-crew. |
| Eliminator | 1999-02-17 | Psygnosis Limited | Magenta Software Ltd. | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | Essential a basic shoot-em-up game, Eliminator puts you in control of experimental hovering craft, running the gauntlet of various courses, dodging obstacles and blowing up opponents in an attempt to reach the end before an on-board bomb blows you up and out the game.As you progress through the game you gain the standard options of upgrades and the courses become trickier to navigate. |
| Svea Rike II | 1999-02-19 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | Korkeken Interactive Studio AB, Target Games Interactive AB | Strategy | | | | | | | | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Svea Rike II is real-time strategy game based on the history of Sweden. The gameplay is very similar to that of the first game. You start in the year 1471, and the goal is that 350 years later, in 1821, you should have succeeded so well that you will be elected as king of Sweden.
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| Computer EastFront | 1999-02-26 | Columbia Games, Inc. | Columbia Games, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game | Historical events, World War II | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Computer EastFront is an adaptation of the board game EastFront. It is a hex based wargame that simulates the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1945.There are three different game modes. Interactive mode allows two players to compete over a modem to modem or Internet connection, PBEM mode generates move files that can be sent over e-mail and the solitaire mode allows one player to take control of both sides in the conflict. The game does not have an option for playing against the computer. Both Germany and Soviet are playable and it's possible to play either the whole campaign in one go or one of the shorter scenarios. Each scenario is divided into six monthly turns, each consisting of a production phase and two play turns. The player with the highest amount of victory points at the end of a scenario wins. It's calculated from production levels, defeated units and number of HQ steps in play. There are six types of units (armor, mechanized, infantry, cavalry, shock and headquarters) and each has its own movement rate and firepower rating. The strength for each unit is shown as a combat value which may be lost in combat or increased by production. Headquarters are used to mobilize friendly forces and when activated they allow movement for those units that are within its command range. By taking control of economic objectives the player earns production points which are used to rebuild destroyed units. |
| Daikōkai Jidai IV: Porto Estado | 1999-02-26 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Simulation | 3rd-person (Other), Diagonal-down | | Romance | Managerial / business simulation | Europe, Historical events | Naval / watercraft | Menu structures, Point and select | Real-time | | 2D scrolling, Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Daikōkai Jidai IV: Porto Estado is the fourth game in the Uncharted Waters / Daikōkai Jidai series about sailing and trading, themed around the Age of Discovery, mixing simulation with role-playing elements. This entry deepens the elements of the European colonial expansion and colonial trade at that time such as signing contracts, exclusive trading ports, establishing trade routes, exploring and discovering treasure products etc. and they all reflect the special historical background of that era. Players choose from four different characters from four countries to begin their adventures, interacting with various characters giving the game a more RPG-like feel. Porto Estado simplifies the adventure and discovery aspect, with only a few major cities having monuments, and auto-navigation greatly increases the pace of the game. On the other hand ships, seamen and battles are more complicated and refined. To travel all over the world with confidence, players need to hire NPC sailors and put them into different post on the ship in order to make fully use of their abilities. A vessel physician can reduce disease consumption, a gunner can increase the hit ratio, and a captain can do hand-to-hand combat with captain of enemy fleet to avoid dangerous sea battles. |
| Gruntz | 1999-02-28 | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | | | Point and select | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | This puzzle game begins as the Gruntz - these are the creatures that the player controls throughout the game - are whisked off to another realm. These gruntz must venture through this new world to gather missing pieces of the Warp Stone to return home.Most of the game requires players to lead their Gruntz through a series of mazes, where it becomes necessary to avoid "trapz," find various "switchez" and try to recover the Warp Stone. Along the way, the army of Gruntz should grow as new "toolz," and "toyz" (such as "beach ballz," and "yo-yoz") are found. There are over 60 tools to aid the players through their quest. |
| Action Hall of Fame | 1999-03-01 | Interplay Productions Ltd. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation includes:
Carmageddon
Interstate '76
MDK
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries |
| Fighter Squadron: The Screamin' Demons over Europe | 1999-03-01 | Activision, Inc. | Parsoft Interactive | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | Fighter Squadron: The Screamin' Demons Over Europe is a WWII flight simulator where you can fly a selection of ten different US, British and German fighters and bombers in a series of 30 missions over Dover, the heart of Germany, or North Africa. You can play the missions for either side, man any of the aircraft, as well as change positions inside the bombers to man the guns and bombsight.It also allows the users to add their own planes, vehicles and missions via a text-based plug-in format called OpenPlane. Every part of the aircraft is individually listed in its OpenPlane file and can be edited - you can change the power of the engines for instance, or the distance the various gun turrets can traverse. |
| Red Hawk | 1999-03-01 | Joy Toon Soft | Softry | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Siyoung Kim (김시영) | Windows | A young man named Jeongcheon lives with his brother in a quiet village. On one fateful day, two mysterious figures approach the village and attack them. Jeongcheon is knocked unconscious, and his brother is taken away by the assailants. The hero must now sail to faraway lands in order to uncover an ancient conspiracy and foil the plans of an evil secret society to dominate the world.Red Hawk is a Korean-made role-playing game in Japanese style. It is visually similar to Final Fantasy VII, having pre-rendered locations with fixed camera angles and 3D character models, world map, and battle graphics. The player-controlled party consists of up to three combatants. The turn-based battles are random; turns depend on the characters' speed ratings, which is displayed as a separate bar. Characters can execute a variety of special attacks and techniques; a special bar refills as the character is being damaged, eventually allowing him or her to unleash a powerful "limit break" attack. Characters can also train in specific areas in order to increase their parameters. |
| Universum | 1999-03-01 | Active Media Group AB | Young IQ | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | War | Arcade, Mini-games, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight, Vehicular combat | Direct control, Text parser | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Universum is an educational game for children 8-13, teaching forms and shapes, in a space environment.There are four different sections in the Universum main menu:The 1st section shows images of 10 different shapes, and names them both with voice and text, both 2D and 3D shapes are shown.The 2nd section called 'Stress' shows a partially covered shape (from the 1st section) with a moving peephole, letting you see parts of the hidden object, and you can stop a timer and write a text guess as to what the hidden shape is - if wrong, you get to try again or if correct you get another shape to guess at until you have passed all 10 shapes. A separate score list is kept here..The 3rd section holds information about space objects: satellites, planets, astronauts etc. Selecting one object shows some detailed information about it. This section also has a quiz relating to the information provided.The 4th section is the main game, with a plot asking you to protect the earth from alien attack, while flying your spaceship with the mouse, shooting down incoming missiles from hostile spaceships, avoiding asteroids, and capturing objects with predefined shapes - different for each level. The game has 10 levels, with a highscore list showing at the end. The game is distributed on a CD containing nine games from the same developer, in a bundle called 'Series 3', but only one installation key is provided on the printed cover, in this case valid for the game 'Universum'.In addition to the main game 'Universum', there are three free 'bonus games' on the 'series 3' CD: A Breakout clone, A 'Missile Command' clone (using apples instead of missiles) and a Space Invaders clone. These are not requiring installation keys.
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| Words Worth | 1999-03-01 | Elf Co., Ltd. | Elf Co., Ltd. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Words Worth is a remake of an earlier game of the same name.The story (Astral, prince of the Shadow Tribe, is on a mission to find out who destroyed a sacred tablet, provoking a hundred-years war between the Tribes of Light and Shadow) remains largely unchanged, although some of the dialogues were re-written and additional characters introduced. The structure of the game world is also the same as in the original.Pseudo-3D graphics of the original were replaced by real-time 3D environments. The 2D anime-style character graphics were also re-done. There is also a new animated intro in this remake. The most important change concerns the gameplay: instead of the turn-based battles against randomly appearing enemies of the original there are now action-oriented battles. The enemies are wandering around the game world and usually attack Astral on their own. Clicking on them with the left mouse button results in an attack with the equipped weapon. It is possible to freely move during battles. |
| Best of Sierra Nr. 11 | 1999-03-03 | Cendant Software Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is the March/April 1999 issue (Volume 11) of the Best of Sierra series.This is the eleventh issue that uses the "2 Top-Games on CD-ROM"-slogan, for the last ten issues this meant that the issue offers 2 full version games:3-D Ultra Minigolf (full version)
Return to Krondor (first chapter only; exclusive at Best of Sierra)Due to the size of the two title games, there was no more space on the CD for additional demos.This issue's magazine offers the following special features:
A detailed walkthrough for 3-D Ultra Minigolf, a two pages long walkthrough of chapter 1, and a two pages big, detailed, world map of Midkemia, both for Return to Krondor. In addition, there are articles for the following newest Sierra games included: Caesar III, Starsiege, Grand Prix Legends, NASCAR Racing: 1999 Edition, Viper Racing, DSF Football '99, DSF Golf '99, DSF Ski '99, DSF Fussball Manager: Saison 98/99, and Red Baron 3-D. |
| Lands of Lore III | 1999-03-03 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | Action RPG, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Copper is the bastard son of Eric LeGré, brother of King Richard and commander of the White Army who had a relationship with a half-dracoid dancer, Copper's mother. On a pig hunt with his father and brothers, who resent him because of his mixed blood, some rift hounds appear from another dimension and kill everyone but Copper himself. He is able to escape, but the monsters take his soul with them. It is Copper's task to prove himself in a world where everyone suspects him of having killed his father and brothers to claim the throne. His second task is to find out how to get his soul back.Lands of Lore III is the third and final part in Westwood's Lands of Lore series. Just like the previous game, it is an action RPG played from the first-person perspective. It introduces features such as mouse-look and inventory quick spots, but is otherwise similar to its predecessor in basic gameplay mechanics. Copper can jump, crouch, and attack any creature encountered in the game with melee and ranged weapons or magic spells. Unlike the previous game, polygonal objects and characters are used, and pre-rendered 3D cutscenes replace live action movies.After the introduction the player is free to join one or more guilds in the city of Gladstone: Fighters, Clerics, Magicians and Thieves. Each guild comes with different abilities, upgrading Copper's rank three times within each chosen path. These abilities include, among others, requiring less time to swing a weapon, becoming a sniper, drawing mana from the environment, reviving companions, etc. By using actions linked to the guild (fighting with swords, using magic, healing, lockpicking), the player character's expertise improves. The protagonist is also offered a familiar, a creature that helps him during the quests. These familiars come with their own abilities, which include identifying various types of objects, protection from certain kinds of damage, picking locks, etc.Copper has a large inventory, room for spells, a compass, a map, a journal and meters for health, mana and hunger. There is a fairly large amount of freedom; the player can opt to kill innocent NPCs and choose different ways to finish the game, with many side-quests. The locations include a volcano world, a frozen world, the underworld and various caves, woods, lairs and castles. |
| Superbike World Championship | 1999-03-03 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Milestone s.r.l. | Racing / Driving, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Motorcycle, Track racing | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | The World Superbike Championship is an annual championship that races modified versions of production-model motorcycles. In 1997 the Championship was won by John Kocinski on a Honda RC45. That season is recreated here, with all 12 circuits around the world including Monza, Laguna Seca and Brands Hatch. Bikes from Ducati, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki also feature, ridden by aces such as Kocinski, Carl Fogarty, Scott Russell, Aaron Slight and Pierfrancesco Chili. The manual includes background information on the series and its competitors. A VCR-style Action Replay mode is includedThere are two game modes. Simulation features bike setup options, realistic slidy handling, and the risk of engine failures. Action mode automates setup, simplifies the handling, and offers the option of the rider automatically sitting up on entry to a corner, to improve handling. |
| North vs. South | 1999-03-05 | Interactive Magic, Inc. | Erudite Software | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | | Historical events, North America | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | North vs. South: The Great American Civil War is a turn-based strategy game that lets you play various battles in the American Civil War. The game features a top-down view of a hexagonal world map with varying heights, forests, rivers, and roads. Each turn you can command a certain number of your officers to perform an action. How many depends on the statistics of your general.Units in the game are affected by morale, which decreases when under attack causing it to route. Generals can restore morale. Types of units include anything you could expect from a Civil War game such as infantry, cavalry and artillery. Units can be placed in various formations for strategic advantages.The game features a lot of battles from the Eastern theater, including famous battles like Antitam and Gettysburg, but also many smaller little known battles. Besides playing single battles you can also play a campaign, that has you choose a side and fight battles for their cause. The next map is always dependant on how you do in the current. If you win or lose will result in a different map. |
| Taikou Risshiden III | 1999-03-05 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) | | Direct control | Turn-based | | | Windows | Taikou Risshiden III is the third entry in Taikō Risshiden series.The game is the most restricted game in the series as it only contains 2 playable characters: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (aka. Kinoshita Tōkichirō) and another fictional character. The gameplay is constrained by preset stories and thus lacks freedom. The total number of in-game characters is also cut down dramatically. All of them lead to unfavorable reviews. |
| Meteor | 1999-03-06 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | Meteor is the name of an orbital ion cannon that protects the Earth from meteors and such. However it was constructed to attack ground targets and now terrorists has taken over the Meteor complex. It is unknown if the terrorists have the encrypted firing codes. As
sergeant Ash the player must now fight of the terrorists and recapture the base. The game features a wide variety of weapons spanning from a simple hand gun to a rocket launcher and a laser cannon. The game comes with built in editors that allows the player to create mods and new levels for the game.This game was created using Allegro. |
| Simutrans | 1999-03-06 | | | Simulation | | | | | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Simutrans is a cross-platform transportation simulation like Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The main goal is to run a transportation enterprise via constructing and managing transportation systems for passengers and goods. This could be done via rail, road, trolleybus, tram, monorail, metro, suspension railway, ship and airplane.You can play with up to 15 enemy companies, controlled via AI or other human players in LAN or Internet. |
| Nobunaga no Yabou: Reppuuden | 1999-03-08 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | KOEI Co., Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Turn-based strategy | Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) | | Menu structures | Turn-based | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Nobunaga no Yabō: Reppūden is the eighth title in the Nobunaga's Ambition series. This edition is a strategy-class game that simulates soldiers' experiences during the chaotic Warring States period. Internal affairs is a section of the castle where you can view the progress of various facilities developed beneath. The soldiers participate in combat where the size of the battlefield fluctuates based on how many troops are involved. There is a concept known as "Daimyo prestige," which signifies the Sengoku daimyo's authority and power. From Ezo in the north to Satsuma in the south, the player assumes the role of a Sengoku daimyo with the goal of conquering all 40 castles in Japan.The console versions are not completely identical as some content has been cut. |
| South Park | 1999-03-09 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Iguana Entertainment Incorporated | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | Comedy | Shooter | North America, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | A comet is heading toward South Park, causing many of the enemies from early seasons of the shows (including cows, aliens, and clones) to rise up and attack. The player takes control of Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Stan to fight through the town in a first-person perspective. Features new dialogue from the original voice actors on the show.Single player takes the form of a "Story" mode divided into five episodes and fifteen linear levels. The player will face weak minions (which change based on the episode), plus occasional sub-bosses which will try to escape into town. The final level is devoted to a unique boss fight. Players use quirky weapons ranging from infinite yellow snowballs to cow launchers and toxic Terrance and Phillip dolls. Every weapon has a secondary fire, and players switch between the four main characters when they switch weapons - each of the four kids shares a single life bar because of this. The kids will comment on game actions as they occur, with heavier profanity censored with bleeps. The kids will get angrier (and fouler) as their health depletes, until they finally give up on saving the town and go home.A multiplayer mode lets players take characters and weapons they unlock in Story mode into small deathmatch arenas. The PlayStation version supports 2 players, the N64 does 4, and the PC version allows players to go online to search for opponents through GameSpy. Players can set standard victory options like knockouts or time limits. Voice samples for multiplayer are also included, so the characters will make comments and taunts when hit.Graphics are rendered in 3D, in a style approximating that of the show. Draw distance is limited by a heavy fog, with varying severity based on the platform. None of the environments are interactive, and only enemies respond to weapon hits. The N64 version supports the Expansion Pak. |
| Psychic Force 2012 | 1999-03-12 | Unbalance Corporation | Taito Corporation | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Fighting | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | | | Windows | Psychic Force 2012, the sequel to Psychic Force, is a one-on-one fighting game with a twist. The matches take place inside a giant floating cube. You are able to fly, using your psychic abilities, around a 3D arena with six walls. Each of the ten available characters, Might, Regina, Wendy, Emilio, Setsuna, Patty, Gudeath, Genshin, Carlo, and Gates, are controlled with three buttons: guard, weak attack and strong attack. The effect varies with the distance. Next to the regular life meter, there is also a power meter. By using special moves, the meter is drained and your moves are limited. It is possible to recharge, and the capacity of the power meter expands when you lose a lot of health.Additionally, each fighter has its own unique moves, energy attacks and a weapon, which they use, mid-flight, to pummel their opponent. There are three main game modes: training, versus and a story mode using static anime-inspired images and in-engine cut scenes to tell the story. The story centers around two groups of psychics with differing ideals about co-existence with humans. In the middle of this are several neutral psychics with ties to members in either group.The later PlayStation port, renamed to Psychic Force 2, adds the 3 missing characters from the first game (Genma, Brad and Sonia), the psy-expand mode where the player can play a series of special battles to learn other character attacks, and an anime intro video replacing the original in-game intro. It also lowers the overall difficulty of the CPU fighters and makes some control adjustments (for instance the shield can now optionally be enabled with a single button). Of course, the graphics were notably degraded.
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| 4Flush | 1999-03-14 | | Soft & Fun | Gambling, Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | 4Flush is a shareware collection of card games that can be played against the computer or against other players via the internet.The games included in the full game are:
Poker. The following variants are included, DrawPoker, DrawPoker HiLo, DrawPoker Jackpots, DrawPoker pass & out, DrawPoker Lowball, Shotgun, Shotgun HiLo, Five Card Stud, Five Card Stud HiLo, Six Card Stud, Six Card Stud HiLo, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud HiLo, Eight Card Stud, Eight Card Stud HiLo, Spit in the ocean, Spit in the ocean ouvert, Cincinnati, Cincinnati HiLo, Criss Cross, Criss Cross HiLo, Lamebrain Pete, Lamebrain Pete HiLo, Omaha, Omaha HiLo, Hold-em Poker, Hold-em Poker HiLo, Three Card Poker, Three Card Poker HiLo, Two Card Poker, Hurricane.
Mau-Mau
Crazy 8's & Crazy Jacks
Blackjack
BauernskatDoppelkopf,The Solitaire games of Solitaire, Butterfly, Tut‘s Tomb, Tri Peaks, 8 Stacks, Icebreaker, Pyramid, Golf, 5x5, Square and 13.
All games can be played for points and a high score or in casino mode where they play for virtual cash. The games all play in a fixed sized window and are controlled by the mouse. The product includes a card design function, allows the player to use their own picture as a symbol within the game, and to use their own background wallpaper. The language used within the game can be either English, German, Norwegian or Dutch.The shareware version of the game is fully functional and is not time limited, however not all the games are available.Only the Draw Poker and Five Card Stud variants of Poker can be played.
Blackjack can only be played for one bet.
Mau-Mau is available Crazy 8's and Crazy Jacks' are available but with some rules not implemented. |
| Leithian: In the Abyss | 1999-03-14 | Kama Digital Entertainment | Garam & Baram Corp. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | Ellen grew up in a quiet village together with her father and brother. One night, she had a strange dream. A mysterious voice was calling out to her, speaking of magic powers and destiny. The next day, Ellen tells her family about the dream. Her father then reveals to her that she carries a magical curse, manifested in the tattoo on her neck. Ellen must leave her home and find the truth about her role in destiny's plans.Leithian is a Korean-made action role-playing game. The player initially controls only Ellen, but later other characters join the party. The player can select the leader and control her or him manually, as well as assign general battle behavior to the rest of the party. Characters can attack, perform combos, actively block, and use magic.Experience points and money are awarded for defeating enemies. Money can be spent in towns to acquire weapons, armor, accessories, and items. There are no character levels in the game: accumulated experience points must be exchanged for increasing attributes in special locations. Unlike most Asian RPGs, the player is allowed to choose which attribute to increase. |
| EverQuest | 1999-03-16 | 989 Studios | Verant Interactive | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy | | | Persistent, Real-time | Teen | | Windows | EverQuest is a fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game.The game's basic concept is reminiscent of earlier MUD (multi-user dungeon) games, replacing text-based gameplay with a graphical interface. In the beginning of the game, players create their avatars. Character races range from traditional elves to creatures unique to the game's world, such as the dragon-people Drakkin. Afterwards, the player assigns a class to the avatar, choosing between several categories which include various types of warriors, spellcasters, and clerics. It is also possible to customize the avatar's physical appearance.The player then ventures into the medieval fantasy world of Norrath. The basic gameplay is similar to that of most other RPGs: the player character fights monsters, accumulating money and experience points, and completes quests given by non-player characters. Trading with other player characters occupies an important place in the game; characters' trading skills can also be improved. Social interaction between players is often essential to build a balanced, efficient party of characters in order to tackle dungeons and bosses as a group. Players can interact with each other and discuss strategies, as well as join in-game player guilds. The game mainly focuses on cooperative gameplay; dueling is confined to restricted PvP (player-versus-player) areas.
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| Cookie's Bustle | 1999-03-18 | Rodik, Inc | Rodik, Inc | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy | Graphic adventure | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In the 19th century, a UFO crash-landed in the tiny South Pacific country of Bombo World. In exchange for advanced technology, Bombo World traded the northern part of the island to the aliens, where they established their city of Dero City. A hundred years later, Dero City has become famous for its annual sports tournament. A five-year-old girl named Cookie Blair travels alone in the hopes of competing, but will she be pulled into something larger?Cookie's Bustle is an adventure game in which the player guides Cookie throughout Dero City to guide her towards her goal of competing in the sports competition. The control scheme is very simple; Cookie moves on her own to follow the cursor wherever it's pointed on screen, and most actions can be taken by positioning her without clicking on anything. Once she actually enters the tournament, there are minigames for each of the sports. |
| Recoil | 1999-03-18 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Zipper Interactive, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Regional differences | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Naval / watercraft, Tank | | | Teen | | Windows | Tanks patrol the desolate city streets, turrets and missle sites threaten the skies. Robot warriors carrying pulse rifles surround military installations. What's become of Earth? Machines have taken over. Corporate greed and rapid technological advancments have made humans pawns of their own creations. Command a tank that can change into four different types of vehicles a Tank, A hovertank, a Amphibious tank, and a Submarine. Fight through six missions of Tank blasting action on your way to destroying Megacorp! |
| Redline | 1999-03-20 | Accolade, Inc. | Beyond Games | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Shooter | Post-apocalyptic | Off-roading | | Real-time | Mature | | Windows | After nuclear war at the turn of the century, the citizens living on Earth in a post-apocalyptic year 2066 are divided into two distinct groups; The Insiders are the descendants of the wealthy corporations responsible for the devastation and live privileged lives inside of dome cities, while the Outsiders are those who live outside the domes, living on the scraps remaining of civilization. Outsider communities tend to degenerate into "gangs", who rule through brute force and use their "Battle Wheels" combat vehicles to retain control. Most of the gangs are collections of angry, twisted individuals brought together by common goals and a common hatred of everyone else. Feared by all are the dreaded Red Sixers, crazed cannibalistic mutants created by the negative life energy produced by the dying world. The Sixers, requiring constant sustenance prey on all the other inhabitants of the wasteland. When the Red Sixers attack and destroy the town of Stadium City, one inhabitant swears revenge. Managing to drive off the Red Sixers' leader, Rant, this young rookie's deeds gain the attention of another gang, The Company. He is recruited into their ranks and sent on a variety of missions to wage war on rival gangs.Redline is a combination of First Person Shooter and Vehicular Combat game. Players can fight their enemies on foot with a variety of weapons, or hop into an empty Battle Wheels rig and start blowing things up with the vehicle's built in weapons. While inside of a car, the player is able to run over enemies, but while on foot is very much vulnerable to becoming street pizza by enemy rigs. Players can exit the vehicle and continue on foot at any time.Gameplay takes place in huge outdoor levels which contain a variety of buildings and structures which will need to be explored on foot. The levels are in a "modular" format similar to Dark Forces or Aliens Versus Predator, in that instead of going from one level to the next, players are able to select any previous level from the new game menu. Unlike those games however, Redline has an ingame save feature which is good since it doesn't have an "easy" difficulty setting.There are a total of twelve missions in the single player game which will take the player to locations such as Stadium City, Templar Strongholds, Battewheels combat tournaments and even Area 51. |
| Red Comrades: Save the Galaxy - Reloaded | 1999-03-21 | Buka Entertainment | S.K.I.F. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Comedy | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away, an alien colony ship suffered an accident. As a result, the Earth got a new satellite in orbit, which in time came to be known as "The Moon". Some years later, in the beginning of the civil war in Russia, the shot from the Aurora (the massive cannon which was used to signal the beginning of the war in 1917) somehow reached this moon and triggered the hibernation systems. The aliens wake up. The aliens are pissed.So the aliens seek a place to conquer. And the aliens find one: the remote town of Gadukino, which just happened to be on the border between the territories of the Red and White armies. The situation was stagnant, and the only thing that could change that was an alien invasion. Eventually, it's up to Petka and Vasilij Ivanovich Chapaev, two losers just looking for more vodka and trying to lay Anka, to save the galaxy.Petka i Vasilij Ivanovich Spasajut Galaktiku is an adventure game in Russian. The protagonists of the game are historical characters rendered comical and absurd by resembling their caricatures from popular Soviet jokes. The gameplay follows a traditional humorous Western adventure template with multiple dialogue choices and inventory-based puzzles. |
| Army Men II | 1999-03-22 | 3DO Company, The | 3DO Company, The | Action, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | The sequel to Army Men sees Sarge lead his troops back into battle, with more weapons and plenty of plastic melting action. The top-down war never stops as you take control of the Green army, out to stop the Tan army from taking control of the toy box, using whatever weapon you can find, including the trusty tank and the "burn baby burn" magnifying glass. There is also multiplayer (4 in all). |
| Rollcage | 1999-03-24 | Psygnosis Limited | Attention to Detail Limited | Action, Racing / Driving | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Rollcage is a fast, furious 3D racing game from Psygnosis, combining elements from Death Rally with elements from Bullfrog's classic Hi Octane: Race five other drivers in an immersive 3D environment while shooting at your peers and avoiding their retaliation.You have a wide selection of tracks and cars, along with options for multiplayer gaming and a vast array of configuration options. Cars can drive up walls, flip over, and continue driving. This makes for a very quick and fluid gameplay unlike any other at the time of this game's release.
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| RollerCoaster Tycoon | 1999-03-24 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc., MicroProse Software, Inc. | Chris Sawyer Productions | Simulation | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | | | Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Rollercoaster Tycoon is a real-time isometric amusement park simulation, in which the player takes the role of a theme park manager, creating rides and attractions to amuse his guests, as well as shops and stalls in case the guests are hungry. Ride stats differ, with some being gentle and meant for "waking up" tired guests, and others being rather intense. Each and every guest has his own excitement and nausea tolerance, which will reflect on the rides' popularity and the park's tidiness. Hence, handymen are employed. Rides can also break down, and some of them can even crash, leading to a tragic ending. Mechanics can be employed to inspect rides for possible errors and to fix already broken rides. Security guards prevent vandalism in their line of sight, and entertainers keep guests happy while waiting in a long queue line. Guests are also impressed if there is some wonderful scenery scattered around the park, leading to an increase in the park rating. They all have their opinion on the park, so it is a good idea to check their thoughts every now and then, as the park rating depends on the guests' satisfaction.All these features require money. Loan can be raised from a bank, but the more one borrows, the more the bank asks in return. Certain rides, or even the park itself, can also be advertised, while vouchers are also available for discounts or free rides or food. |
| Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance | 1999-03-24 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Totally Games, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | Albert Mack | | Everyone | | Windows | You are a young member of a trading family trying to make a living by staying neutral, but your business rivals have other ideas. The galaxy is at war, and sooner or later you will have to choose sides... X-Wing Alliance is the latest in the X-Wing series of Star Wars space in-cockpit combat sim. You start in your family's Corellian transports (multiple models) as you deliver cargo and practice gunnery against pirates, poachers (who steal your cargo), and rivals. Later, you will get to join the Rebel Alliance, fight plenty of battles, and eventually make your way to the battle that will destroy the second Death Star! Adjust power, change weapons, arm lasers and concussion missiles, even jump into a gun turret (for crafts so equipped), adjust power and recharge. There are OVER FIFTY missions for you to make your way through, plus full multiplayer support. You also get a "souvenir" from each mission you complete... Very cute. |
| Starsiege | 1999-03-24 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | Prometheus, father of all Cybrids, instigator of the first two Earthsieges, is still out there somewhere. The Dark Intellect has learned, and it is hiding in the outer edges of the Solar System, learning, observing, and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Meanwhile, the Human Empire is tearing itself apart. The decree by Emperor Petresun, the original creator of Prometheus, to defend Earth first, while practical, does not sit well with the colonists of other planets, who remember how helpless they were during the previous Earthsieges, and how Earth never sent any help until it was too late. When the brutal crackdown began, the Martian Resistance has formed. Prometheus found his chance to strike when the Emperor ordered his Imperial Knights to attack the Martian Resistance, and the Starsiege has begun... Starsiege is a battlemech vehicle simulation. The battlemechs in the game (called HERCs) have shields, meaning that the player needs to coordinate the weapons to bring down the shields, then punch through the armor. The weapon mounts are different sizes, making it possible to fit different types/sizes of weapons to them. The other mounts for equipment (engine/shields/powerplant) also have different sizes, limiting/challenging the player's outfitting decisions. Other equipments include shield amplifier, cloaking device, ECM, and more. There are multiple sizes of HERCs available, as well as some ground vehicles (which cannot be shielded). The player is also able to load the camo scheme into a paint program and edit it. It is possible to play the campaign on either the human or the Cybrid side, as well as join other players online in large-scale multiplayer battles. The European release of this game features the complete game Starsiege: Tribes as a free extra. |
| Persona | 1999-03-25 | ASCII Entertainment Software, Inc. | Atlus Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | | | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | A group of high-school students decide to play a ritual-like game called "Persona". Unexpectedly, they are knocked unconscious and have a vision of a mysterious being called Philemon, who bestows upon them the ability to call powerful creatures known as Personae. Afterwards, the students go to visit their sick friend, Mary. Once they exit the girl's room in the hospital, they see their home town has changed. They can't leave it, and it is infested by demons. At first, it seems that the giant Sebec corporation and its manager are the ones responsible for the terrible accident. But this corporation is not the only enemy the young heroes have to confront - they must look deep into their hearts, and perhaps find the truth there...Persona is the beginning of a sub-series within the Megami Tensei universe, and one of the first Megaten titles to be released in the West. While overworld locations and battle screens in the game are isometric, the maze-like 3D dungeons are explored from a first-person perspective. Player-controlled characters fight randomly encountered demons in round-based combat, using melee weapons, firearms, or spells. As opposed to most other Megaten games, player-controlled party (up to five active combatants) consists entirely of human characters. Verbal communication with demons, however, still plays an important role in the game.Each character possesses a unique set of four communication styles, e.g. insult, flattery, etc. The player may select combinations of various characters and their approaches during conversation with the demon. Depending on the player's choices, as well as the current Moon Phase, the demon may end up responding in one of the four emotional ways: anger, fear, joy, and interest. The last two types responses are beneficial to the player: the demon may give the party a useful item or a spell card.If the player combines various types of spell cards, more powerful creatures (Personae) can be fused in a special location called Velvet Room. Personae act like equipment sets and can be attached to player characters, modifying their parameters, strengths and weaknesses, and teaching them new spells. |
| Power Dolls 3 | 1999-03-26 | Kogado Studio, Inc. | Kogado Studio, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | Menu structures, Point and select | Turn-based | | | Windows | Power Dolls 3 is tactical strategy game, set in sci-fi anime setting, involving pretty girls and giant battlemechs. |
| Russian Roulette II: The Next Worlds | 1999-03-26 | Buka Entertainment | Logos | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Russian Roulette II: The Next Worlds is a 3D shooter and sequel to Russian Roulette.In the game you have to, again, unite six planets through the activation of galactic portals. Each of the planets features a completely different theme, ranging from prehistoric, to medieval and futuristic. You can move around the worlds freely, both on foot or using the various vehicles available to you, including tanks, jeeps, space ships, or even live dragons or giant grasshoppers. |
| Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio | 1999-03-26 | | | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person, Text-based / Spreadsheet, Top-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | Fantasy | | Text parser | Turn-based | | | Windows | A version of Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio written in Visual Basic and based on the TRS-80 version.. |
| Ultravixen 2 | 1999-03-26 | PIXIS Interactive, Inc. | PIXIS Interactive, Inc. | Action, Simulation | | | Adult | | | | Anthony Gomez | | | | Windows | Ariel is now Ultravixen - a 'reigning sci-fi sex superstar of the 21st century'. One day when she is cruising deep space with her boyfriend Zig she is entrapped by a 'supersex-crazed space demon' (with tentacles, of course). The only way to destroy it seems to hit it in the moment of its highest pleasure.The gameplay in general is identical to that of UltraVixen: the player needs to pick a correct tool (in this case a correct tentacle) and use it on Ariel by moving the mouse back and forth rapidly. The game is divided into 3 levels. While first two differ only in the color of tentacles and some poses, the third one introduces new gameplay feature - the second pleasure meter (space demon's one). Now the player has to balance his actions so to please Ariel, but not the beast. To make things more complicated the level starts with demon's meter almost completed.Visually Ultravixen 2 is not different from the first game, however there are significantly less details and animations and there are no backgrounds at all.
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| The Journeyman Project Trilogy | 1999-03-29 | Mindscape, Inc. | Presto Studios, Inc. | Adventure, Compilation | 1st-person | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | Everyone | | Windows | The box includes all three parts of the series that gives you the opportunity to leave the time beyond.
The Journeyman Project: Turbo!
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time |
| Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty | 1999-03-30 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Pyro Studios S.L. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | War | Stealth | Europe, Historical events, World War II | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty is a standalone mission pack for Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines. All six commandos from the original game are back, and have some new weapons and abilities at their disposal. The most prominent addition are the new non-lethal weapons (chloroform for the Spy, fists for the Green Beret, the club for the Driver etc.), which give players the ability to silently, but temporarily disable enemy guards. The Green Beret and the Spy can cuff unconscious enemies to immobilize them, and the Spy can even steal their uniforms. All commandos can control captured guards and use them as a distraction while keeping them at gunpoint, but the guards must not leave the controlling commando's field of view, else they will flee and raise the alarm.Eight new and difficult missions are featured, taking place between 1940 and 1945 in various locations in Nazi-occupied Europe. The mission maps are even more detailed than in the original game, and leave little space for error. There are some mission-specific controllable characters as well (Yugoslav partisan Dragiša Skopje and Ukrainian spy Natasha). Beyond the Call of Duty features a separate executable that acts as a tutorial. Apart from updated and higher-quality videos focusing on gameplay basics and each commando for himself, there are two playable training missions where players can test their commandos' abilities. |
| Tank Racer | 1999-03-30 | Grolier Interactive Inc. | Glass Ghost | Action, Racing / Driving | Behind view, Top-down | | | Shooter | | Tank | Direct control | | | | Windows | Tank Racer is a mixed driving and shooting game in which you race tanks through various courses.
There are 15 normal and secret tanks to choose from, and a total of 22 different maps from a quiet English village to a spooky New Orleans swamp, a bustling Eastern European city to the controlled, sterile atmosphere of a biosphere! |
| Apollo 18: The Moon Missions | 1999-03-31 | Project Two Interactive BV | AIM Software Ltd. | Simulation | | | | | | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | Apollo 18: The Moon Missions is an attempt at creating a realistic simulation of manning an Apollo space trip. The game comes on two disks: a video-heavy orientation section, and a the actual simulation training at Johnson Space Center.Players will be tested on proper commands and sequence, in hopes that they will move on to the actual Apollo 18 launch. Once on the shuttle, the player will spend most of their time staring at the control panels, putting what they've learned to the test. The simulation is broken up by short arcade sequences, but for the most part is occupied by looking at readouts and buttons.A heavy emphasis is put on correct procedure, as the game shoots for accuracy over flash. Commands must be precisely entered, in sequence. Mission Control will help the player with staying on track, but players will experience bouts of "radio interference" that will require a good memory. |
| Jack Nicklaus 6: Golden Bear Challenge | 1999-03-31 | Activision, Inc. | Hypnos Entertainment, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Jack Nicklaus 6 is a golf simulation game featuring 3D models for both the golfers and the courses. There are numerous Jack Nicklaus courses on the disk, and additional courses can be downloaded from various Internet websites. The game also includes a golf course design and construction set, the very same one the developers actually used to create the courses available in-game. |
| Reah: Face the Unknown | 1999-03-31 | Project Two Interactive BV | Detalion, L.K. Avalon | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Everyone | Maciej Miąsik | Windows | Reah, a planet of unknown, holding nothing that would justify setting up a colony there. However, a base was set up, in order to secretly investigate an alien artifact - a teleportation gateway, which teleported people to another dimension. It linked Reah to some other radically different planets. The research of other dimension was quite difficult as it appeared that human technology had very little use on that undiscovered place, and wasn't working properly. So, the only possible way to investigate is to be there in person. Thus, a small group of scientists had set up a small research center on the other side, and you, as the journalist, was offered the chance to visit it and break the great discovery to the world. However, it seemed there were certain problems on the portal site, and that connection was about to become unstable. Of course, that's less than enough to stop the ambicious journalist ready to become famous, so you step in, and that's a moment when you confirm your act of greed. The connection was lost, leaving you in front of the walls of a strange city, facing the unknown.Reah is a first person adventure game that has increased puzzle level, which leads us to more than hundred puzzles awaiting you to solve them, or forever be trapped. Reah comes in two surprizes to us: in a package of 6 CDs (which holds less quality graphic elements), or double-sided DVD version (that keeps a quality of 10 CDs, which dramatically increases graphics, as you can check from its official web site). |
| Civilization: Call to Power | 1999-04-01 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Civilization: Call to Power is a turn-based empire building game. The players start a civilization in the stone age and lead them to the future through science, diplomacy, war, trade, and other actions. Eventually, the player will be building colonies in space and cities in the ocean if the player can survive. |
| Deo Gratias | 1999-04-01 | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | Cryo Interactive Entertainment, France Télécom Multimédia | Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Deo Gratias is a God-game which gives you the hard task of being a god and creating your own worlds and races. You must cultivate the faith of your servants and answer prayers of your worshippers. You have to be nice but also be terrifying. The turn-based strategy game puts you in a competition to become the divine supreme being. Players can send bolts of lightening to heretics and schismatics, and then start murdering other gods to win the god fight. The gods can level up to access new abilities. The game provides detailed statistics of the faithfulness of the followers. |
| Neophyte: The Spirit Master | 1999-04-01 | Alien Software | Alien Software | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Direct control | Real-time | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Neophyte: The Spirit Master is the third installment in the unreleased Neophyte Action RPG series. In this game, players will control Neika Mantru, the 15 year old daughter of her village clan's healer Daru. Daru has foretold that a great evil will return to the world and sends her daughter to stop this evil.The Spirit Master is based on a new game engine which improves the fighting mechanics, making attacks more responsive, as well as adding support for multi-layered maps with transparency and parallax effects and NPCs which help players defeat monsters. |
| Sports Car GT | 1999-04-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Image Space Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Track racing | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Sports Car GT racing at it's best. Compete against world class drivers on a myriad of realistic courses from all over the world. Over 50 real cars to choose from including the Porsche 911, Callaway C7 and C12, BMW M3, Saleen Mustang, Panoz GTR1, McLaren F1 GTR, Mosler Raptor, Vector M12, Lister Storm, and the Mercedes CLK GTR. Blow past the competition and test the true limits of your driving skills. |
| Logication | 1999-04-05 | Brain Block Interactive | Brain Block Interactive | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Logication is a two player game that can either be played against the machine, there are three levels of AI, or against another player. A functionally limited version of the game was released as freeware under the name 'Logication Lite'. Whereas the full version of the game has eighty levels, seventy five objects and multiplayer network support the freeware version had just ten levels, twelve objects and had no internet support. The game is played by moving pieces on a grid, each piece can only move one square at a time. The pieces are shaped like letters, an 'X' can move on any diagonal, a 'Y' has two diagonals and one vertical/horizontal option depending on its orientation, an 'I' can move up/down or side to side if it's turned ninety degrees. Each player has a round coloured 'Logicator' button which cannot be moved. The object of the game is to either capture all of an opponents pieces or to capture their 'Logicator' button.The levels in each game all play the same but differ in the number & type of playing pieces and the location of the 'Logicator' button.
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| Triple Play 2000 | 1999-04-05 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This iteration of Electronic Arts' baseball lineage has real players and teams up to date at the time of production. You can play single matches, a full season, the playoffs, or an all-out action Home Run Derby. Team selection and transfers come under player control. Jim Hughson and Buck Martinez provide the commentary. This was the first version to support Internet play on the PC. |
| Dragon Castle | 1999-04-09 | Mistkeep Software | | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Fantasy | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | In the land of Dramania, you take control of dragons to defend your castles against an enemy attack. To prevail, you will need to destroy the enemy's castles while preserving your own.Work your way through the 20 levels of gameplay to win the game as you fight dragon knights, archers, catapults, footsoldiers, and knights. The biggest level, level 19, pits you with 12 dragons against an enemy with 19 dragons. Practice in the previous levels will have to be enough to survive such odds.Levels vary in terrain and objectives as you search for a hidden castle, or rescue a princess, or simply capture all the enemy dragons. |
| Warzone 2100 | 1999-04-10 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Pumpkin Studios | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Earth's defense satellites accidentally launch nuclear warheads due to computer malfunction. Our planet is destroyed, except for a few factions that rebuild their strength and attempt to dominate the brave new world. As you make your way across the wasteland, hunting down artifacts and destroying hostile forces, you find out that the satellite's unexpected nuclear launch may not have been entirely accidental after all...You are in charge of searching the land for technological artifacts held by the other fellows. These artifacts are then researched to create new weapons, chasses, and propulsion types, all of which are interchangable, meaning there are over 2000 units for you to blow stuff up with. You can build tanks, hovercraft, Vertical Take Off/Landing (VTOL) vehicles, as well as cyborg units. There are machine guns, missile launchers, flame throwers, mortars, etc. Since all your technology comes from artifacts you swipe from your enemies, you are almost always fighting with weapons a step below what the other guy has, meaning you have to rely on your strategic prowess instead of sheer military superiority. The battlefield is fully 3D, the camera is rotatable and zoomable, and all units are 3D as well, except for humans, which are sprites, but they aren't too plentiful, so it's a minor point.
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| Ancient Conquest: Quest for the Golden Fleece | 1999-04-12 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | Megamedia Australia | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Classical antiquity, Europe, Fantasy | Naval / watercraft | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Ancient Conquest: Quest for the Golden Fleece is a real-time naval strategy game set in mythical times. The game title is inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts who attempted to retrieve the legendary Golden Fleece. The objective of the game is to acquire the Golden Fleece. To reach the objective, player(s) have to build their navy, starting with the legendary ship Argo, earn money, use the power of highly skilled heroes while exploring natural resources such as amber and fish, while command of the fleets of Greece or Persia and defeat opponents on the high seas and land. The game also features heroes such as Hercules, Jason, Odysseus, and Perseus.While playing the game, fulfilling 14 heroic missions, players will have to fight against monsters (harpies, medusas, cyclops, the Minotaur, and dragons), various sea creatures (sharks, crocodiles, sea-serpents), spiteful wizards, survive natural disasters, as well as the mighty Persians and Barbarians. To defeat enemies, the player will need to learn and employ an ancient magic and also upgrade fleets and weaponry.The player may play through a campaign and stand-alone scenarios. It is also possible to design scenarios. Up to 7 opponents are supported in the multiplayer mode of the game. A player can connect through a LAN (Local Area Network), the Internet, a modem connection, or a serial connection using a null modem cable. The game employs 2D graphics and animation. |
| F-16 Aggressor | 1999-04-12 | Bethesda Softworks LLC | General Simulations Incorporated | Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | F-16 simulator which uses a mercenary-squadron concept a la Strike Commander (though in here your earnings are merely for ranking).The game throws you into a series of pre-made missions based on Africa, with the option to play multiplayer dogfights for up to 8 players. Included are the usual amount of features found on hardcore sims, like blackouts, redouts, etc though there is no padlock view. Graphics are Direct3d and Glide accelerated and include various smoke and lighting effects. |
| Machines | 1999-04-14 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Charybdis Limited | Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Machines is a futuristic 3D real-time strategy game.The game features real-time polygonal environments with multiple camera perspectives including zenith, 1st and 3rd person command capabilities. Gamers can manage their 3D units on a broad management scale as well as get inside individual units to shoot it out. Machines also features the components of resource management (through resource location, mining, and factory production), research trees (for the production of new units of increased weapon diversity, defensive capabilities, intelligence and locomotion types).Machines can be played as a single player campaign or via up to 4-player skirmishes over the Internet. |
| Man of War II: Chains of Command | 1999-04-14 | Strategy First, Inc. | Strategy First, Inc. | Strategy | | | | | | Naval / watercraft | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | The sequel to Man of War adds improved 3D graphics, allowing you to walk around your ship in a first person perspective. Your task is to command the ship, dictating what your crew is doing - repair work, navigation, preparation for battle and preparation for boarding other ships have to be balanced. Different ranks change the way you play the campaigns.Campaigns include The Wooden Walls of England (fight as the British in the Anglo-French wars in the Channel) or John Paul Jones (where you play the hero role, and lead the American Navy). There are also 20 smaller campaigns to play through. A few distinct multiplayer modes exist to to challenge your mates, and answer the age-old question "Who is the best captain?" A scenario editor completes the package. |
| Mappy | 1999-04-16 | Namco Limited | Namco Limited | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | You control Mappy, a police-mouse whose job is to collect valuables (consumer electronics) from a cat's house. You are being pursued by a gang of five pink cats. Doors are your only defense against the cats. You get from floor to floor by jumping on one of the trampolines.Points are earned by recovering stolen goods. Other ways of earning points are bouncing on a trampoline, putting cats in the microwave, striking a cat with a door, striking cats with a bell, retrieving a treasure from the Boss cat Goro or dropping cats through a hole in the floor.
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| Las Vegas Super Casino | 1999-04-17 | Bitwise Software International, Inc. | Bitwise Software International, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | Las Vegas Super Casino is a collection of separate, but linked, casino games.The collection consists of Baccarat, Blackjack, Craps, Keno, Roulette, Slot Machines, and Video Poker. These are all installed as separate games which means the player has to exit one and select the next from the Windows START menu, however the player's cache of winnings is transferred from one game to the next.
If the player runs out of money there's an ATM machine that will give them more. |
| DBZ: Dead Ball Zone | 1999-04-19 | Rage Games Ltd. | Rage Games Ltd. | Action, Sports | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This high speed futuristic sports game pits two teams of armed psychotics against each other in a brutal (and lethal) fight to launch a ball into the opponents net over, around, or through the opponent. Players are armed with a variety of weapons (chainsaws, grenades, machine guns, etc...) and a full range of unarmed combat moves (including the good old-fashioned crotch kick) all of which can be used to defend the goal but remember, the best defense is a good offense.DBZ also has many of the features you would expect from a typical sports game including player development, league and season management, and stat tracking (scores, kills, etc...). |
| Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy | 1999-04-20 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | Team17 Software Limited, Trecision S.p.A. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Set in a futuristic world not unlike that of Blade Runner, you play an ex-intelligence/military operative investigating the disappearance of someone which has endangered your friend, Hugh (mayor of Union city). As the plot develops, you realise that things are not entirely what they seem and that someone is involved in a conspiracy so big, it will bring the city to its knees.The interface is simple and suitable for most age groups. |
| Hydlide | 1999-04-23 | T&E Soft, Inc. | T&E Soft, Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | An evil demon named Varalys casts a curse upon the princess Ann, turning her into three fairies. You control Sir Jim and set out to find the fairies, and then slay Varalys. Only by vanquishing Varalys can the curse be lifted. Once the princess is restored the kingdom will be saved.Hydlide is an action game with strong role-playing elements. The player has to explore vast wilderness areas, descending into dungeons and eliminating enemies on the way. Combat system is similar to the one implemented in Ys series: attacking enemies requires the player to "bump" into them, at the same time preventing them from attacking the playable character from the sides and the back. The player can change between defensive and offensive stances by pressing a single button. Magic spells can also be used to dispose of the enemies. The player character grows stronger and gains better parameters as he advances in the game. |
| Lipstick Adv.EX | 1999-04-23 | F&C Co., Ltd. | FairyTale | Adventure | | | Adult, Romance | Visual novel | Japan (Modern/Futuristic) | | Point and select | Persistent | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In this game of the Lipstick Adventure series the player gets to choose to play either as a youth or a gal. In each act of the story the chosen character goes through a sequence of text story and detailed still images with spoken narration and actors. Throughout the game, story's progression is determined by clicking hot spots on the area map. The goal is to meet the other player character that wasn't chosen and get together on a date and everything goes after that. |
| The Legend of Heroes III: Shiroki Majo | 1999-04-23 | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Nihon Falcom Corp. | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Jurio is a young boy who must travel to five sacred shrines as part of his warrior initiation rite. The lovely magician Chris accompanies him on his journey. But soon the two young people discover that they must face dangers far beyond those they have imagined. The prophecy of the mysterious White Witch is about to be fulfilled: a great wave will destroy the entire world of Tirasweel if nobody stops the man behind it...The third entry in Legend of Heroes series (and also the first without the reference to Dragon Slayer universe in its title) introduces a new battle system: the battles in the game occur in pre-set locations, and evolve automatically. The player's task is to program the actions of the heroes (up to four in the party) before the battle. There are eight total "programs", with five moves each (for example, "attack", "attack", "cast healing magic", "attack", "cast offensive magic", etc.), and the player can switch between them during the battle. Other game elements in Shiroki Majo are fairly typical for a Japanese-style RPG, including reliance on plot events, linear progression through the story, automatic leveling, etc. |
| DXtris | 1999-04-24 | Blue Thunder Software | Blue Thunder Software | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Arcade, Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | DXtris is a freeware clone of Tetris. The following game modes are available:
Normal: Typical Tetris gameplay. Tetromino pieces drop down into the well, and the player must arrange them in order to create full horizontal lines of blocks which vanish and give the player score. Clearing two, three or four lines at once gives a lot more points. Every ten lines cleared increases the game level, which makes the Tetris pieces fall quicker and multiplies the score bonuses. The game is over once the blocks reach the top edge of the well.
2-Minute: Try to clear as many lines as possible within the two-minute time limit. No level advancement.
25 Lines: No level advancement. The game ends once 25 lines are cleared.
Bombs: Occasionally "bombs" appear instead of Tetris pieces, which blow up when they touch a block and clear out the area around them.
Color Match: The falling pieces are made up of blocks of various colors. Upon touching down, each of the individual blocks falls as far down as it can. When five blocks of the same color are touching each other, they disappear.
Multiple backgrounds and graphic tilesets for the pieces are available. |
| Sakura Taisen | 1999-04-26 | SEGA Corporation | Overworks, Red Company Corporation | Adventure, Strategy | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | Japanese-style adventure | Interwar, Steampunk | Mecha / giant robot | Point and select | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | It is the Taishou Era in Japan, and the Western world has begun to make its way through traditional Japan. Technology is evolving, and the use of steam has made for great breakthroughs in transportation in weaponry. But the world faces a deadly threat: a dark cult wishes to destroy Japan and the very world itself. To combat any possible threats, the Imperial government of Japan brings together 6 young ladies from around the world to form the Hanagumi (Flower Bridage) division of the Teikoku Kagekidan (Imperial Floral Assault Group). Clad in their proud spiritual armor, the Kobou, these young women are the frontline of defense against the demon worshippers, but they haven't a leader to guide them into battle.And, with a single letter, young Navy ensign Ichiro Ogami's life is about to take a very interesting turn as the chosen leader of the Hanagumi! Ichiro now has to gain the trust of the members of the Hanagumi if he expects to keep things under control.The gameplay of Sakura Taisen is a combination of Japanese-style adventure with dating mechanics and tactical turn-based combat. Most of the game is spent exploring the theater, which serves as a disguise for the military base. Depending on the player's decisions - where to go, which girl to look for, how to answer the questions (there is a time limit for responses) - the protagonist will develop different relationships with the girls, which will influence not only further dialogues and the ending, but also slightly affect their parameters in battles. During combat, the player navigates Ichiro and the girls over an isometric battlefield and attack the enemies physically, or charge for powerful special attacks. Each turn it is possible to perform two different actions per character; walking distance and attack range are limited and unique to each character. There is no experience points system and also no equipment in the game. |
| Corsairs: Conquest at Sea | 1999-04-30 | Microïds | Microïds | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Asia, North America, Sea pirates / Caribbean, South America | Naval / watercraft | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | A real-time strategy game in which you play as a privateer for either England or France during the 1600s. Expand your respective countries trade routes and territory while avoiding such hazards as pirates and the Spanish armada. |
| Backstreet Boys: Puzzles in Motion | 1999-05-01 | Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH | Haemimont-Smartcom OOD | Puzzle | | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Did you ever puzzle a video?
Just imagine a Backstreet Boys music video that has been cut into little square pieces. The individual squares have been scrambled, rotated or even mirrored. How quickly can you put the video back together? How well do you recognize the music clips with A.J., Brian, Howie D., Kevin and Nick? Test your puzzle and musical skills at the same time!
If you succeed in solving the 12 clips on one level you're ready to tackle the 13th tricky video puzzle.CD-Rom contains clips from some of the most popular Backstreet Boys music videos and the original songs:We've Got It Goin' On
Anywhere For You
I'll Never Break Your Heart
Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
All I Have To Give
I Wanna Be With You3 puzzle variations with 3 levels of difficulty offer a total of 117 playing options.Screenshots Promo ImagesThere are no promo images for this gameAlternate Titles "Backstreet Boys: Moving Star Puzzle" -- European title
Part of the Following Groups Genre: Jigsaw puzzle
Moving Puzzle series
Theme: Famous musicians
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| Jeff Gordon XS Racing | 1999-05-01 | American Softworks Corporation | Real Sports | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This is Jeff Gordon's vision of the future of racing. You get to race futuristic cars around some really cool tracks. The cars fly over jumps, slide around huge banked turns, and repair themselves when they get damaged. You can also get racing tips from an FMV Jeff Gordon. |
| MechWarrior 3 | 1999-05-01 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc., MicroProse Software, Inc. | Zipper Interactive, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed, Regional differences | War | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The Inner Sphere is launching a counterattack on the Clans, and the Smoke Jaguars is the first target! Operation Democles will attack the planet Tranquil. As Connor Sinclair, you're leading the Democles Commando team lance, part of the Eridani Light Horse, on the attack. The op went terribly wrong when one of the two drop ships was hit during descent, and your lancemates have been scattered to the four winds in the frenzied drop. You must attack through Clan territory, meet up with your lancemates, remove any resistance in your path, and try to find a way off the planet, while also accomplishing what you came to do: destroy the Smoke Jaguars! MechWarrior 3 features detailed mechs (they limp when legs are hit, and destroyed limbs spark and trail wreckage) with slow and ponderous movements, as 100 ton mechs should. Firepower and precise application are the key in winning your engagements. Plenty of mechs are available. You start in a 55-ton Bushwhacker and work you way up to the really heavy stuff in a 20-mission campaign. Full multiplayer is supported with Internet play at Microsoft Zone. Your MFB has limited capacity so you'll need to decide what supplies to keep or dump for your salvage. You'll need to track ammo, weapons, equipment (like heatsinks), and the mechs. Keep the MFB safe or you'll have even less room! Redesign mechs to utilize newly captured weapons or adapt to the changing ammo situation. |
| Outcast (Limited Edition) | 1999-05-01 | Infogrames Europe SA | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This Limited Edition includes:
Outcast
Freeze-dried Outcast T-shirt
Making-of video
Screensaver
Desktop theme
Playable demo of Silver |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation | 1999-05-01 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Strategy | | Licensed | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Space Strategy Turn Based Strategy Game set in the
Star Trek Universe.
Control one of five Star Trek Empires: Federation, Klingon,
Romulan, Cardassian or Ferengi. Use diplomacy, research, espionage to dominate the galaxy.
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| to be Fruit | 1999-05-01 | Sybex France | | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | to be Fruit is a Columns clone, with fruits instead of blocks. The game features two modes. If you choose the easy mode, you will have to remove the damaged fruits (by pests or diseases). Playing the difficult mode, all the fruits must be destroyed, no matter whether they are damaged or not. |
| Biko | 1999-05-14 | Illusion | Illusion | Simulation | 1st-person | | Adult | Stealth | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Biko can be described as a "stalking simulation". You play as Akira, a guy who stalks pretty girls. When you make your choice from the five available girls, you have to stalk and pursue them through various city locals.After you successfully pursue the girl through several areas you finally run her down and are presented with a number of CG images, animation and eventually an interactive 3D rape scene. But the ending depends on the choices that you made in the beginning - you may get a romantic ending, sadistic ending, or the girl might just run away.The game's 3D graphic engine is based on the one used in Des Blood 2. |
| The Blood Group | 1999-05-14 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Blood Group is a compilation of:
Blood II: The Chosen (base game)
Blood II: The Chosen - The Nightmare Levels (expansion pack) |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: Fleet Command | 1999-05-15 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Sonalysts, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | War | Wargame | Asia, Contemporary, Europe, Historical events, South America | Naval / watercraft | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Take a US fleet and survive the various encounters with the former Soviet Navy, the Chinese Navy, the Indian Navy, and many others. Most of the world's navy are included. Issue orders in real-time and watch your orders being carried out. Launch strike aircraft to take out enemy ships. Launch cruise missiles to destroy enemy airbases. Launch helicopters to prosecute hostile subs. Watch your ships defend themselves against incoming cruise missiles. This is the ultimate real-time challenge. Do you have what it takes to assume Fleet Command? |
| Mad Trax | 1999-05-15 | Project Two Interactive BV | Rayland Interactive | Action, Racing / Driving | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Mad Trax is a 3D arcade combat racing game featuring 8 different cars, 10 different tracks in various themes (including: desert, ice and city).Power-ups that can be picked up during the race include: a speed boost, missiles and laser to fire at your opponents, mines to lay and shields to safeguard yourself from enemy rockets.Multiplayer is possible in two player split-screen mode. |
| Magic & Mayhem | 1999-05-15 | Bethesda Softworks LLC | Mythos Games Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Magic & Mayhem is a real-time strategy game. You're an aspiring sorcerer on a quest to find your missing uncle, a quest that takes you through over 35 mythical regions, including Celtic, Greek and Medieval realms. During your journey, you'll learn to master new spells and meet many strange creatures, taken from myth and folklore. |
| Ed Hunter | 1999-05-17 | EMI Records | Synthetic Dimensions PLC | Action | 1st-person | | Horror | Rail shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Ed Hunter is a rail shooter set in a series of levels based on some of Iron Maiden’s most popular albums. Ed Hunter, the main character, is a private detective hired to free Eddie (Iron Maiden’s mascot) from an insane asylum. Hunter begins in London’s East Side, shooting thugs armed with guns and bottles who either charge at Hunter or pop-up suddenly, fun house style. The game moves to the asylum where Eddie escapes, leading the player on a chase through Hell and other nightmarish levels.Ed Hunter, the game, comprises the last two disks of the three CD Ed Hunter album. The album acts as a greatest hits collection, with its twenty tracks having been selected by fans on the Maiden Website. These tracks play during the game. Ed Hunter supports one or two players, offline.
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| Star Wars: Episode I - Racer | 1999-05-18 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Racing / Driving | Behind view | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Hovercraft, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | Based upon the Pod Racing scenes of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, your mission as young Anakin Skywalker or as one of a collection of strange characters from around the Galaxy is to compete, survive and win in the high speed challenge of Pod Racing.Each character has a unique Pod that can be upgraded with the credits you win after each race. Finish first to gain the most prestige and compete in greater and more challenging tracks, including the now famous race along the sand dunes of Tatooine that determined the destiny of many lives. |
| Extreme Boards & Blades | 1999-05-19 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Silverfish Studios, LLC | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | A 3D skateboarding and rollerblading simulation. Choose from 20 different dudes and dudettes and 15 different locations to show off your moves. Perform spins, flips, and
ollies. You can get massive air on the half-pipe, you've mastered rail grinds in the park, you've perfected 360s off the ramp... But can you handle the Dew?? Only one way to find out: Take the Mountain Dew Extreme Boards and Blades challenge.
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| Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999-05-19 | LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC | Big Ape Productions, Inc. | Action | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | There is a disturbance in the force, and the Jedi are there to find its source. There is a whole Armada of Battleships and troops besieging a planet and two Jedi knights come to protect the planet.This Star Wars title from Lucas Arts is completely based on the movie Phantom Menace. It is basically an action game in which you play a number of characters from the movie, solve a number of puzzles, beat down enemies with your light saber or laser guns and follow the footsteps of the movie. But remember, you will follow a different trail to the same ultimate ending. |
| C-evo | 1999-05-21 | | | Strategy | | | | 4X, Turn-based strategy | | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | C-evo (short for Civilization Evolution) is a 4X strategy game similar to Sid Meier's Civilization II. The game features hotseat multiplayer with up to nine players. It also features an API for developing new and better artificial intelligences. In fact, one of the main design goals behind the game was to improve upon the lacking artificial intelligence of Civ II.As in Civ II, the main objective of the game is to develop your nation into a modern economic powerhouse that is capable of taking the next leap in human evolution: interstellar colonization. In the process you will expand your territory, engage in foreign relations, exploit natural resources and--if fate should have it--conduct wars with neighboring nations. Progress in the game is marked by several milestones where your nation reaches certain historical levels, such as the Industrial Revolution and modernization, with the last one being the end goal of the game.The game does not currently support Internet multiplayer. |
| Marionette Company | 1999-05-21 | Micro Cabin Corp. | Micro Cabin Corp. | Adventure, Simulation | | | | Visual novel | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Setting | Windows | One day, you stumble upon a broken Marionette, an android girl. Crying for help from inside a box in a shady alley. You take upon yourself to repair her, but she seems far from being human yet. Even her smile seems emotionless. The goal of this Visual Novel is to repair the Marionette girl by interacting with her and changing her body parts, to ultimately fix not only her body, but her heart. |
| F-22 Lightning 3 | 1999-05-25 | NovaLogic, Inc. | NovaLogic, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | Take to the skies with NovaLogic's latest version of their best-selling flight sim F-22 Lightning 3. Connect and play with up to 128 other pilots on the NovaWorld FREE hosting service.
You can engage in dogfights with people all around the globe, or meet friends online to protect your airbase and destroy your enemies in Raptor Air Wars. |
| Midtown Madness | 1999-05-27 | Microsoft Corporation | Angel Studios, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | Contemporary, North America | Automobile, Bus, Street racing, Truck, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Drive around the streets of Chicago in a series of races, or just try the various timed challenges! The entire city is recreated, with more landmarks and major streets drivable, complete with pedestrians and traffic cars! Drive your "common" cars like Cadillac Eldorado or Ford Mustang, or go superexotic like Panoz Roadster, or drive a super-though F-350 HD pickup... Or even the Detroit City Bus and/or a Freightliner truck... Lots of variety, lots of scenary to admire, lots of challenges to attempt... And when you get bored, try the multiplayer, including tag, football, cops and robbers, and many more modes. |
| Aliens Versus Predator | 1999-05-28 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Rebellion Developments Ltd. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | Horror | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Aliens Versus Predator is a sci-fi first-person shooter based on the associated two film franchises. The game has three playable species, and each has its own single-player campaign with different missions and plotlines.
Aliens... Their only weapons are their own body parts: claws for close combat, their deadly tail, and their inner mouth that can crack through an enemy's skull (for an instant kill) if close enough. They are deadly at close range, and can heal by eating corpses or the heads of unsuspecting enemies. They can't be hurt through falls, and an alternate vision mode allows them to see clearly ahead through darkness. Their strength lies in flexibility and speed, and an ability to cling to walls and run along any surface - allowing a skilled player to escape or ambush from literally any 3D direction.
Humans... U.S. Marines, as portrayed by Michael Biehn in the film 'Aliens'. Marines have strong firepower that ranges from the self-tracking SmartGun, all the way to rocket launchers and devistating six-barrel miniguns (as seen in 'Predator'). The Marines are the most familiar species to play as, with the gameplay style of typical FPS hero. However, their frailty at close range, and missions that leave them stranded, alone, surrounded by bloodthirsty extraterrestrials, make their experience closer to survival horror.
Predators... Their power is their strength, and their sight. They have at least four ways of seeing the environment - standard vision, heat vision (highlighting Marines), electromagnetic vision (highlighting Aliens), and "Pred-Tech" (for highlighting fellow Predators and their technology). Their weapons are the most precise, deadly, and ranged of those in the game, being ideally suited to stealth-based gameplay. Predators also have the ability to zoom their view in and out when seeking someone, thus allowing them to snipe from afar. Their cloaking ability also renders them nearly invisible to enemy Marines.
There are several multiplayer modes. For a difficult game, you can pit all the players against the horde of computer creatures (which includes experimental robotic Aliens and tough Predalien hybrids). Alternatively, players can choose their favorite species and face each other in an arena-style deathmatch. |
| Fighting Steel: World War II Surface Combat 1939-1942 | 1999-05-31 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Divide By Zero Software Inc. | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Wargame | Historical events, World War II | Naval / watercraft, Vehicular combat | | | Everyone | | Windows | Fighting Steel is a World War II Naval Surface Combat Simulator/Tactical Wargame covering the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters and recreating the most spectacular naval gunnery battles from 1939-1942. The game is the heir to Strategic Simulations earlier Great Naval Battles series, but is rendered in 3-D. Command over 90 different ship classes from the British, German, American, or Japanese fleets either as single ships or entire task forces consisting of several divisions.There are 10 historical scenarios, including long range daytime slugfests to close-in nighttime melees. In addition there are 4 linked scenario campaigns (1 for each navy), a battle generator and a scenario editor. The game can be played against the computer or multi-player over the internet. |
| Actua Ice Hockey 2 | 1999-06-01 | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Gremlin Interactive Limited | Sports | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Actua Ice Hockey 2 is the follow-up of the official game of the Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament, Actua Ice Hockey. Focused on a fictional North American league, with GHL (Gremlin Hockey League) club teams, the game enhances the graphics and gameplay of the previous version. While the game is unlicensed, all teams were inspired by their real NHL counterparts, from team logos to player names (using the classic trick of changing one letter from the name to other phonetically close). Features include three speeds of play, a three-on-three arcade mode with smaller ring, network play and advanced body collision physics. Like NHL Championship (released around the same time), the game adds a coloured track to the puck named "GremTrax". Slower shots and passes are coloured green, and faster red (opposite to the blue/red combination used by Fox). Tactics were not forgotten, and the player is able to select the lines, select how and how fast teams build up the attack and are expected to shoot on goal and how to defend. If the player does not feel like controlling everything, tactical decisions can be left to the computer. It's also possible to trade players to balance or keep rosters up to date. |
| Bygg båtar med Mulle Meck - Specialversion | 1999-06-01 | Levande Böcker i Norden AB | ELD Interaktiv Produktion AB | Educational, Special edition | Side view, Top-down | Licensed | Comedy | Graphic adventure | Europe | Naval / watercraft, Vehicle simulator | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Bygg båtar med Mulle Meck - specialversion is a customised version of the original 'Bygg Båtar med Mulle Meck', sponsored by the Swedish company Hemglass, a producer and distributor of icecream products. It was sold from the Hemglass ice-cream vans distributing their wares.Most of the game is identical to the original version, but there are some differences, making this a cut-down release:Some items are available already from the start, like the complete map, which in the original game was acquired in pieces, as rewards for completing certain quests. Here we have it in full from the beginning, so some quests to get these pieces are missing.The special version has one extra location, an icecream kiosk using the logo of Hemglass, but it also lacks a compass part needed to navigate a foggy area, which means some areas on the map are inaccessible.The extra downloadable ten packages containing new ship parts from the developer, which originally could be downloaded from the developers webpage, does not work in this version. |
| Discworld Noir | 1999-06-01 | GT Interactive Software Europe Ltd. | Perfect Entertainment, Ltd. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Ankh-Morpork is a city surrounded by darkness, where the cold river Ankh flows, where it always rains, and where dwarves and trolls co-exist with secret societies, religious fanatics, stupid police captains, and bar pianists. It is also where a bitterly sarcastic sharp-eyed private investigator named Lewton tries to earn a living solving bizarre cases. A mysterious woman named Carlotta hires him to find her lost lover. Wandering through the dark city and gathering evidence, Lewton has to solve the case, confront a sinister conspiracy, and once again become torn between love and despair.Discworld Noir differs from other Discworld adventure games not only thanks to its more serious tone and much darker "film noir" atmosphere, but also because of its gameplay. Instead of inventory-based puzzles there are clues, which Lewton writes down in his notebook and which should be then used whenever there is a connection between the clue and the situation in question. Most of the gameplay is thus dedicated to detective work in conversations; but the usage of the right clues at the right place is still comparable to inventory-based puzzle-solving of other adventures. Graphically, Discword Noir features three-dimensional character models and pre-rendered backgrounds. |
| Disney's Tarzan | 1999-06-01 | Disney Interactive, Inc. | Eurocom Developments Ltd | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | Direct control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | We could call it a platform game if it wasn't 3D, but it still looks like a platform game. Much alike to "Lion King" only seeable made of polygons. This little arcade game puts you in a role of Tarzan, a soon-to-be king of the jungle, leads you to a bunch of quest levels where you can collect coins, map pieces, 'TARZAN' letters and other stuff, as well as call your monkey friend from time to time that'll give you a brief explanation of things flyin' around. After each completed level, there will be a brief animations that they've probably taken from Disney's cartoon. |
| Dweep | 1999-06-01 | | Dexterity Software | Puzzle | Diagonal-down | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Dweep is a puzzle game where, on each level, the player has to help a furry creature called "Dweep" get to the level goal--his children. The top-down levels are fraught with obstacles and dangers, and strategic planning and puzzle-solving skills are necessary to get past them. The player can order the Dweep to move around. There are items scattered around that Dweep can pick up. When an item is in the inventory, the player can use it at any time, anywhere on the map; however, all items are one-use. There are many types of items and scenery objects in the game, and there are complex rules for what they do and how they interact. Some objects can be found already placed on a level, and some of them can be found as items that can be deployed anywhere on the map:
Lasers incinerate Dweep if he passes through their beam. The beam can be reflected with a mirror, and the laser can be destroyed with a bomb, a laser beam, or a hammer.
Mirrors reflect laser beams, and can face in two possible directions.
Bombs can destroy nearby objects with their explosion. Their fuse can be lit with a laser beam or a torch.
Freeze plates make Dweep unable to move. Dweep can be unfrozen with a hammer or a torch.
Heat plates make Dweep float. In this state, he is unable to move except through the help of fans. He can be brought back to normal by a hammer or a bucket of water.
Fans push Dweep two tiles if he is floating.
Other items aren't deployed on the map, just used on other objects or on Dweep:
Wrenches can change the facing direction of a mirror, a laser, or a fan. There are two types of wrenches, a clockwise and a counter-clockwise one.
Torches can be used to light bomb fuses, or to unfreeze Dweep after he steps on a freezing plate.
Buckets of water can be used to put out burning bomb fuses and to make Dweep wet, which allows him to cross a laser beam once. (Dweep also becomes wet when unfrozen with a torch.) A bucket can also bring a floating Dweep back to normal.
Hammers can be used to destroy objects, to unfreeze Dweep, or to make him stop floating.
Each level can be restarted any number of times. |
| Get The Picture | 1999-06-01 | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Berkeley Systems, Inc. | Strategy | 1st-person | | | Game show / trivia / quiz, Mental training | | | | | | | Windows | Berkley Systems created this game-show title for its site "beZerk.com". Once a game installer is downloaded and executed on your computer, you can join a game room with as little as 3 and up to 14 people in total. There are some rooms that allow adult language and others that do not.A picture or cartoon is shown and players must come up with a funny caption before time expires. All answers are anonymously listed and gamers then vote on which caption is their favorite. Then when the voting round is over each player's name is shown beside their phrase and how many votes they got. The winners go on to a Fat Chance bonus round where they click on one of many coloured areas to get extra points or unfortunately sometimes points will be deducted if unlucky. The high scorers in the regular rounds will then go to the Final Round where 4 captions must be made in different categories such as: CopyFits - try including a few suggested words into your answer; Billboreds - make up an ad slogan to match the given picture; Slimericks - write a two line rhyming poem explaining the picture; TabHeads - you write the trashy tabloid headline. All other players will vote to determine the ultimate champion.Players can also chat with others in the room. beZerk is a free gaming service but does use short television-like full-screen ads twice per game to obtain revenue. |
| LEGO Friends | 1999-06-01 | LEGO Media International, Inc. | Flipside Ltd., Ivanoff Interactive A/S | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Music / rhythm | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | You're the manager for "Tuff Stuff", an all-girl band practicing to win the high school music competition. You can create your own music, stage lighting and dance routines. Comes with a printable scrapbook and an interview with the Loose Chippins, an all-girl British pop band. |
| PGA Championship Golf: 1999 Edition | 1999-06-01 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Headgate Studios Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | PGA Championship Golf: 1999 Edition is very much the same as the 1998 version with a golf course creator called the "Course Architect" which allows players to create their own golf courses or recreate any course in the world. There are twelve types of play including including Skins, Stableford, and Medal.Golf courses included in the 1999 Edition are:
Sahalee Country Club, Sammamish, Washington (USA)
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England
Black Diamond Ranch, Lecanto, Florida (USA)
Coeur d'Alene, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho (USA)
Pasatiempo Golf Club, Santa Cruz, California (USA)
Pete Dye Golf Club, Bridgeport, West Virginia (USA)
Princeville Resort, Kauai, Hawaii (USA)
Jocassee Shoals, a fantasy course created with the Course Architect
In Tournament mode there is commentary by PGA Tour Radio announcer Grant Boone and color commentary by The Golf Channel's Mark Lye. Multiplay includes up to 4 players with LAN or modem, and internet play is possible via the Won.net network for up to 64 players. |
| Pepper Pack 2 | 1999-06-01 | Novitas GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Pepper Pack 2 is the successor to Novitas' Pepper Pack 1 from their budget series Green Pepper.This time they've even increased the amount of games, while reducing the initial price at the same time.This compilations offers these five games:
Interstate '76
Shanghai: Great Moments
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Minigolf
Fire Fight
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| Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue | 1999-06-01 | Bandai America, Inc. | Red Sky Interactive | Action | Top-down | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Saban's Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue Datazord. A Datazord is an interactive CD-Rom that provides a virtual Power Rangers experience similar to a high-tech digital activity box. A futuristic interface provides hundreds of interactive and animated elements to play with.Imagine a fantastical spaceship interface with hundreds of interactive switches, levers, buttons, and knobs that trigger robust animation and audio sequences. Every mouse click or keyboard stroke triggers another exciting eruption from the interface. With custom interfaces for each color Power Ranger and a bonus interface for the Datazord, the game could be compared to a science fiction activity board to put into the crib of an alien baby. |
| Rayman: Collector | 1999-06-01 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ludifactory SARL, Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Action, Compilation | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | | Windows | Rayman Collector includes:
Rayman
Rayman Designer (aka Rayman Gold) - 24 levels and a level editor
Rayman by His Fans (aka Rayman Forever) - 40 fan-created levels
Rayman 60 Levels - 60 new levels by Ubisoft
Three mini-games
Making of Rayman 2 videos
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| Refrain Love: Anata ni Aitai | 1999-06-01 | Kama Digital Entertainment | Riverhillsoft Inc. | Adventure, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Refrain Love is a dating simulation adventure game and a story of seven men and women, including the player. The protagonist is a male college student (character's name is not pre-defined, but entered by the player) who made a vow with couple of his friends, Tetsuya Yamo, Kousuke Satou, and Taizou Sakaki, to find a woman by next Christmas. One day, you meet a girl that looks like a dead ringer of the mysterious woman that's been plaguing your dreams recently. Chance, fate, or just dumb luck, it makes you feel like you just might have a chance to make your wish come true.The game's story follows the events in the year and ends on the Christmas Eve, hopefully with the girl of your dreams right by your side. Two main gameplay modes in the game are simulation and adventure mode. Adventure mode is similar to visual novels but with much more choices to select during conversations with your buddies or the girl you're on a date with. Additionally, you can use the city map to visit various different locations. The simulation mode consists of part-time job where you get to earn some money, spending time alone with a hobby of your choice, playing with your friends, or taking a girl to a date. The obvious girl of your choice features Tomomi Sakura, the girl from your campus, Ran Yuuki, your childhood friend, and Shouko Takamiya, a working woman. |
| Thrust Twist + Turn | 1999-06-01 | Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | Carts Entertainment Oy Ltd. | Racing / Driving | | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Thrust, Twist + Turn is a fast-paced racing game using Twilight 3D's 3DGE engine. There are eight tracks in total, with a futuristic atmosphere and different themes: Egypt, the city, a hurricane path in the sea, a rush through the clouds... complete with jumps, corkscrews and loops. There are no invisible side edges to the tracks, players can push your opponents into oblivion.The standard racing modes are present: arcade, time trial and network multiplayer. Players can unlock a championship mode after completing the arcade mode and a shadow arcade mode with reversed tracks upon finishing the championship. The official patch adds a graphical track editor. |
| Ve stínu havrana | 1999-06-01 | CINEMAX, s. r. o. | Rainbow Rhino | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | | | Windows | Ve stínu havrana is a Czech point-and-click adventure (created by Slovak team) that was released in 1999 with Czech voiceovers and re-released in 2000 with newly added Czech and also English subtitles for foreign players.In the game you play Severin, a young monk, who is accused by his abbot of the worst sins, because he has adult literature in his possession (which he has just taken away from his naughty students). As the game plays in the dark Middle Ages, Severin has to fear for his life, but he manages to escape by jumping out of a window. Lying on the ground, he dreams a strange dream in which a voice tells him he has to find the meaning of life. When he awakes, he finds himself in a forest and decides to follow his dream's advice. |
| Kanon | 1999-06-04 | Visual Art's | Key | Adventure | 1st-person | Licensed | Adult | Visual novel | | | | | | Developed by | Windows | A young man gets off the train, leaves the station and looks at the snow-covered town. This town is his home. He left it seven years ago, and now he came back. He has left many memories in this town, has made many promises, which are now as vague as the image of the snowy town. Now, as he meets again the inhabitants of the town, particularly the girls with whom he had different kinds of relationship, the memories come back to haunt him...Kanon has been described as a "digital romance", formally belonging to hentai style, but much softer in its erotic content. The original PC version contains nude images, but a later censored PC version as well as the console releases are suitable for all ages. The game is controlled in a standard fashion of Japanese visual novels: the player interacts with people by making decisions during conversations, and occasionally choose commands from several available ones. |
| Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor | 1999-06-09 | 3DO Company, The, Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | New World Computing, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | | Fantasy | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | Real-time, Turn-based | Teen | | Windows | Eight adventurers were traveling in a spaceship, pursuing the Guardians Corak and Sheltem. The Guardians went to the world of Xeen, but the adventurers drifted off-course and crash-landed on the planet Enroth. There, they had an argument concerning what to do next, and split into two groups. About the same time, Archibald Ironfist, the brother of King Roland of Enroth, escapes from his homeland and arrives on the continent of Antagarich, becoming a new necromancer leader.Meanwhile, a nobleman named Lord Markham announces a scavenger hunt on Emerald Isle. The first prize is the deed to the Castle Harmondale, and it is won by one of the two parties of adventurers from another world. From that point on, the two groups become antagonists, pursuing their own agenda and allying themselves with the local forces, attempting to change the fate of the planet.For Blood and Honor is the seventh installment in the Might and Magic series of role-playing games, and a sequel to both the third and the sixth one plot-wise. It uses the same 3D engine as its immediate predecessor in the series, and also allows the player to generate and control a party of four characters and alternate between real-time or turn-based battle systems. As opposed to the human-only party of the previous game, the player can choose between humans, elves, dwarves, and goblins. The class and skill system from the sixth game returns as well, with a few minor adjustments.This installment of the series places an emphasis on moral decisions, allowing the player-controlled party to ally with different factions and ultimately choose either a good or an evil path. There are also side quests in the game, some of which are time-sensitive and require the player to consult an in-game calendar. The card mini-game Arcomage is introduced as well. |
| Freeciv | 1999-06-10 | | | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Fangame | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | This is a freeware remake of Civilization, originally SGI IRIX, later expanded to all possible platforms. The goal is to be a good multiplayer version of Civ and to be true to Sid Meier’s version. The game can be configured to be very close to the original DOS Civ and to Civ II, but not to any other versions of Civilization. It is a turn-based multiplayer strategy game (but human players move simultaneously), in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to become the greatest ruler. The game ends when there is only one nation left, when the final year has been reached, or when a player builds and launches a spaceship, which reaches Alpha Centauri first.Freeciv is maintained and constantly improved by an international team of coders and enthusiasts with full multiplayer options and extensive multilanguage support. The game comes with different modpacks that incorporate the rules of the different Civilization games as well as the popular settings of Freeciv players. You can create your own maps with the civworld editor as well. The map editor doesn't exist in a ready-to-run release yet. |
| Now with Sprinkles | 1999-06-14 | | | Action | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | In this small game you control "the good guy" with your arrow keys trying to collect as many doughnuts as possible while avoiding the Bad Guy. You get 1 point for collecting a normal doughnut, while a sprinkled one is worth 3 points. Once the Bad Guy catches you, the game ends. |
| Animaniacs: A Gigantic Adventure | 1999-06-15 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Engineering Animation Inc. | Action | Side view | Licensed | | Platform | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This is a side-scrolling platformer based on the tv animated show characters. Yakko, Wakko, and Dot have to find some movie classics that have been hidden by Warner Bros. CEO, Thaddeus J. Plotz, as well as missing classic posters and awards. Going through the studio's back lots to an ocean cruiser set, the trio must go through 11 levels with 3D environments ranging from the different areas on the ship to movie sets based on famous films such as 'Jurassic Pickings,' 'Invasion Earth' and 'Frank's Stein.' while avoiding obstacles and enemies along the way. There's three difficulty levels and a powerful boss character in each level must be defeated with the help of some creative weapons. |
| Links Extreme | 1999-06-15 | Microsoft Corporation | Access Software, Inc. | Sports | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | A twisted version of Links LS. New Courses, New Game Modes (e.g. Poison, Deathmatch, Demolition Driving Range), exploding balls...fun for the whole family! Not your typical golf game, Links Extreme places emphasis on speed and timing instead of accuracy. |
| Field & Stream: Trophy Bass 3D | 1999-06-16 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Fish for bass and multiple fish species on many famous lakes across North America.Travel across virtual 3D lakes on your bass boat searching for ideal locations and weather conditions to catch fish. Select from hundreds of combinations of tackle, rods, reels, lures and live baits to improve your chances of success.Fish in both single player and multiplayer tournaments where the winner has the five heaviest fish at the end of the day.Online video tutorials from top professional bassmasters offer in-depth fishing tips for the real world. |
| Descent³ | 1999-06-18 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Outrage Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The third installment of the famous 3d shooter Descent. Hop in your Pyro-GX, dive at high speed into the mines and blast hordes of robots without mercy!Descent³ features the same 360 degrees, three axis action that the players of Descent and Descent II have come to love, but this time the game has far improved 3D graphics, more diversified objectives, more lethal weapons, and 3 different ships you can pilot.And for the first time in the Descent series, you can actually fly out of the mines and explore outdoor areas.Descent³ was also designed with multiplayer play in mind, and features a lot of mutiplayer game modes: the classic deathmatch, teamplay, capture the flag, monsterball (a kind of soccer with giant balls) and entropy. |
| Fancia | 1999-06-18 | AIC Spirits | AIC Spirits | Simulation | | | | | | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | 2D scrolling | Windows | When the player searched for catgirls online, they had no idea they would end up raising one! Fancia is a virtual pet/raising sim; the player is responsible for caring for and raising the catgirl who mysteriously ends up on their doorstep one morning. The player can take a certain number of actions a day, including feeding her, bathing her, playing with her, and shopping for supplies. As time passes, seasons change; story events happen at set times of the year, depending on the player's relationship with her. |
| Need for Speed: High Stakes | 1999-06-20 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Seattle, Electronic Arts Canada | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Just like its predecessors Need for Speed: High Stakes is an action racing game with a wide selection of exotic sports cars and many different types of tracks. The trademark Hot Pursuit mode game mode from the first game in the series is still present, where players race opponents on tracks filled with regular traffic and police cars that chase the racers. The classic pursuit mode is extended with two additional modes: Getaway and Time Trap. In Getaway the player needs to shake off the police in a set amount of time, or playing as the police trap a speeder before time runs out. In Time Trap an entire race needs to be completed before time runs out, or as the police all speeders need to be arrested. There are minor differences between the two platforms for this game mode, regarding spike strips, road blocks, and back-up. The latter for instance is unique to the PlayStation version. The Pursuit mode is available in multiplayer as well and players can take different sides or race together.It is the first game in the series to introduce a Career mode with a set of challenges. Beating these is rewarded with trophies for unlocks, and money to spend on new cars, repairs and upgrades. In the PlayStation version the Career mode is split up into two different sets of challenges: Tournament (required races) and Special Event (optional races). High Stakes in the title refers to races where players bet their cars. In the PC version these are a part of the Career mode when the player owns more than two cars. In the PlayStation version two players can insert their memory cards and race against each other. The winner immediately receives the opponent's car and it is deleted from the loser's memory card right away.In addition to the new game modes it is also the first game in the series to have a detailed physics models. Damage now affects both the appearance and the performance of the car for the first time. |
| Easy Bake Kitchen | 1999-06-23 | Atari Interactive, Inc. | KnowWonder, Inc. | Simulation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | The littlest cooks will mix up lots of fun in the Easy-Bake Kitchen. Eight cooking tools on the play set make it easy to make, bake, decorate and play! Follow the recipes or make your own wild and wacky creations. Have a tea party or play fun games and activities like the Gingerbread Race, Escaped Cookie Dough, Decorating Bonanza and the Cookie Icing Game! There's even lots of fun to have off the computer as well, with a feature that lets kids print out their final creations, plus party invitations and real recipes to bake at home! No waiting, no mess, instant fun for the littlest of bakers! |
| Heavy Gear II | 1999-06-23 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | Licensed | | | | Mecha / giant robot, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | As the leader of the special ops group Dark Talons, lead your squad mates on a series of dangerous missions as you discover the NEC plot against your homeland, Terra Nova. Operate behind enemy lines as you gather data, attack enemy camps, capture enemy leaders, take over space stations, and more. Combat happens on land, underground (huge caverns), and even in space. There are plenty of weapons to outfit your gear, even some hand-to-hand weapons. You can also add perks and flaws to further customize your gear. Stealth is a major concern in some missions. The game play feel is very different from the Mechwarrior series. Set in Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear universe (it actually rivals the Battletech universe in complexity, though not nearly as famous), this game requires 3D accelerator with its "Dark" 3D engine. The gears are capable of very human-like movements, such as kneeling, crawling, and jumping.
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| Total Annihilation: Kingdoms | 1999-06-23 | Cavedog Entertainment | Cavedog Entertainment | Strategy | Top-down | Regional differences | War | Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Total Annihilation: Kingdoms is the fantasy spin-off title to the 1997 real-time strategy game Total Annihilation. There are four distinct factions: Aramon, Taros, Veruna, and Zhon, and each is spearheaded by their monarch unit (respectively Elsin, Lokken, Kirenna, and Thirsha) which replaces the commanders from the original Total Annihilation. In the game's storyline, these monarchs are siblings who are at each other's throats fighting for supremacy over the land of Darien after the disappearance of their father Garacaius.Monarchs are the main construction unit in the game, but they are mostly not capable of building objects from the entire tech tree. Aramon, Taros, and Veruna rely on other construction units to do so, and the tech tree is effectively split to 3 tiers, one with each factory-type structure assigned to it. Conversely, Zhon has few structures available to them, as they rely more on units. There is only one resource, mana, which is gathered from sacred stones by structures known as lodestones. Building units and structures, as well as monarchs' special attacks, drain mana, and its input/output values are shown in the bottom right corner of the screen. Finally, monarchs have special abilities: Elsin can raise the dead and build ark ships, Lokken can become invisible and build all three Taros factory structures, Kirenna can swim (by doing so, she replaces her legs with fins), and Thirsha can fly and build a tier 2 Zhon defensive structure; they also have three attack types.As units and structures are being summoned, they are formed as silhouettes which gradually materialize. While this is going on, they are immobile and vulnerable to attacks. Also, if the structure or construction unit responsible for the summoning is moved to a different task or destroyed, the silhouette will gradually lose health until it vanishes, but in the case of structures and Zhon units, summoning can be resumed in that small time window.The game features 48 missions in its singleplayer campaign, which are played in succession and give player control over different factions in different points of the storyline. As was the case with the original Total Annihilation, the developers released new freely downloadable units on the official website after release. |
| Worms: Armageddon | 1999-06-24 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Team17 Software Limited | Strategy | Side view | | Comedy, War | Artillery | | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | Turn-based | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | Worms: Armageddon is a standalone expansion to Worms 2, introducing extensive improvements and additions over the original game, among which are:
16 new weapons and 6 new utilities, with some existing ones changed or rebalanced (3 were removed entirely)
new singleplayer campaigns and challenges
new gameplay schemes, some of which have to be unlocked through campaign missions (certain weapons are only available in some of these schemes)
new menu interface, sounds, voice banks, and music
new predefined maps
expanded map editor, included voice bank editor (the latter is a separate application)
teams can now have custom representative flags, victory anthems, and gravestones
each team is assigned a special weapon of choice - Holy Hand Grenade, Flamethrower, Mad Cows, or Old Lady
AI-controlled teams now have one of five difficulty settings
jumping controls updated so worms can jump backwards and do backflips
instead of selecting a worm at the start of each turn, this option is now regarded as a utility and usually has a limited number of uses
new multiplayer options, including a more elaborate WormNET lobbyLike the previous Worms installments, the game is an artillery variant. The player give an artillery piece a shot angle and shot power, and try to hit the opponent, taking into account wind effects. The player and the opponent exchange these shots in a turn-based fashion. The game puts the player in command of a team of up to eight worms, which can move around the landscape (one at a time), using many types of weapons to try to dispatch the enemy, from bazookas to mini-guns to exploding sheep. In some situations, the worms can also jump, swing by rope, and descend with a parachute.As of 2002, updates have been handled by an authorized community member named Deadcode, who was joined in 2006 by CyberShadow. The two have removed many bugs and glitches, improved game stability and compatibility for Windows operating systems that have been released along the way, added new features (more resolutions, expanded options and settings, auto-recorded match replays, full PNG support for map importing...) and integrated WormKit, an extension framework for the game which allows for easier modding. These updates have been available from Team17's servers and are included by default in subsequent digital releases. |
| Total Heaven 2 | 1999-06-25 | Europress Software Ltd., Blue Byte Software GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Extreme Assault
Flying Corps: Gold
Worms 2 |
| The Will II: The Castle | 1999-06-27 | | | Adventure | 1st-person | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | The Will II: The Castle is a short adventure game with 3-D rendered graphics. The player must find ten hidden gems in his dead aunt's castle, in hopes of inheriting a fortune. The game is shown in first-person perspective, with the player moving from room to room using arrow buttons. Left-clicking an object in the environment allows the player to examine it, right-clicking an object allows the player to manipulate it or pick it up; an inventory item can be used by clicking it and right-clicking another object, or by double-right clicking the inventory item to use it on the player character. |
| Dr Goo 2: The Plague | 1999-06-28 | | | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Dr Goo 2 - the plague is 2D platform game. The player controls a Dr Goo - green, intelligent slime, and must find the ingredients for the vaccine - without vaccine innocent victim will be dead after 24 hours. Game is typical platformer - jump on platforms, search aid kit, avoid lasers/barrels/aquariums with sharks etc, and go to exit. |
| Dungeon Keeper 2 | 1999-06-28 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Bullfrog Productions, Ltd. | Strategy | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | Regional differences | Comedy | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation, Real-time strategy | Fantasy | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Mature | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Dungeon Keeper 2 is a "god game" which introduces the series to an entirely 3D engine (as opposed to the original's engine with 3D environments and 2D unit sprites). As before, the player is tasked with the construction, expansion and maintenance of dungeons, as well as attracting, managing, and utilizing various evil creatures to fight the forces of good. Several creatures, spells, traps, and rooms are new to the series, while others received a visual redesign at most, and some were even replaced. The series' trademark unit, the Horned Reaper, is now only called through a special support power and only one can be found on the map at a given moment. Spells are now cast using mana (an auto-generating resource proportional to the size of the dungeon) instead of gold, and can be upgraded once there are no new spells to research. Dropping creatures now stuns them (unless thrown into the new Combat Pit room). The game's campaign has the player enter the land of good and conquer it region by region while staying in the underworld. Enemies either stay in fixed, protected areas, or execute sneak attacks from inopportune directions. The boss of each level holds a portal gem which is used to access the overworld (off-screen) and claim the region. The game also features skirmish and multiplayer modes, as well as a sandbox mode titled "My Pet Dungeon", where enemies only attack if the player wishes them to.As of patch 1.61, the player can attract elite creatures, which are statistically more powerful than their standard counterparts and have a slightly different appearance, if rooms are built in specific layouts. Patch 1.7 also added another new unit, the Maiden of the Nest. |
| Pro 18 World Tour Golf | 1999-06-30 | Psygnosis Limited | Intelligent Games Ltd | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | This golf game has TV-style presentation, with commentary by Peter Alliss and Bobby Clampett. Courses and players are photo-realistic, with course layouts accurate to within 3 centimetres. There are no fly-bys, although you can pan around the course to give some clues as to its layout. Four button presses are used to take a shot; draw and fade are set by how long the appropriate press is held down for.Several leading players are featured, including Colin Montgomerie and Vijay Singh as well as female and amateur players. There are three courses - Royal County Down, The Lost City and Couer D'Alene (plus Royal Birkdale on the North American edition). |
| Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen | 1999-06-30 | Mindscape, Inc. | Anne Carrière Multimedia, Arxel Tribe d.o.o. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | | Teen | | Windows | Ring is an interactive science fiction opera adventure, a 3D graphical adventure set in the 40th century that follows the story of Richard Wagner's epic opera Ring of the Nibelungen. As one of four characters, the player must conclude the legend of the Ring and restore humanity to its rightful place as leaders of the universe by defeating four evil powers. |
| "Tahl": Uncover the Evil Within | 1999-07-01 | HanbitSoft, Inc. | HanbitSoft, Inc., LG Soft | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | Horror | Action RPG | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | Isometric | Windows | "Tahl": Uncover the Evil Within is an isometric action RPG dungeon crawler where the player fights against hordes of ghosts and demons from East Asian mythology using point-and-click controls. There is no safe hub, so the player has to survive using the loot gained from enemies alone. This makes the game close to a roguelike, even though the dungeons are not randomly generated. |
| Emergency Room 2 | 1999-07-01 | Legacy Interactive Inc. | Legacy Interactive Inc. | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | If you've ever wondered what it would be like to work in a busy hospital Emergency Room, here's your chance! Join the staff of Legacy Memorial Hospital as a medical student and work your way up through the ranks.Beginning cases are tailored for the Med Student and are the most simple. Make the right decisions about diagnosis and treatment to advance. As your success rate increases, so does your title .. from Med Student - to Intern - to Resident - to Attending Physician - and finally Chief of Staff!The low-ranking Medical Student will see patients for eye and ear problems, cuts and scraps and other minor ailments. For each patient treated successfully, a new one appears in the waiting room with a problem slightly more difficult. Fail 2 consecutive cases and your next patient will be easier. The more difficult ones include broken bones, abdominal pain, "level 4 trauma" (breathing difficulty, concussion etc.) and, finally, the most critical cases (gunshot wounds, accident victims etc.)Real actors and actresses portray your colleagues as well as the patients. Full-motion video clips add to the realism. There are over 100 different cases, more than 40 pieces of medical equipment to use, and resources so you can learn along the way. |
| Mamatoto: A Record of War | 1999-07-01 | Alice Soft | Alice Soft | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other), Diagonal-down | | Adult | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mamatoto: A Record of War is a fantasy-themed strategy RPG with adult elements.Nanas Alphoria is the prince of the moving castle nation Mamatoto. He lives in a land of constant war, but has always lived a secluded life, mostly reading about things in books. The world is currently locked in stalemate, as numerous nations compete with each other, and none can gain an upper hand. Nanas dreams of conquering all the other nations, and unifying the world, a dream shared by his father Kakaro Alphoria.Mamatoto is a giant moving fortress, and while an independent nation, has no territory and only a small population. Being small, it has been hiding in the monster Lands for many year. Nanas is a studious young mage, considered a genius tactician, and has recently invented a spell to craft magical soldiers called Kids. He creates these soldiers via card, which he can obtain after vanquishing enemies, thus creating a larger magical army. Nanas and Kakaro's goal is to defeat the other nations and setup the peaceful world they have always dreamed of. Played as a top-down RPG, they player takes control of a large army of summoned monsters which compete in combat with other nations. Monsters are played as a series of card during combat sequences. There is also a visual novel component, where the protagonist can take up a romantic relationship with many of the females he encounters. |
| Warhammer Collection | 1999-07-01 | TLC The Learning Company Deutschland GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This retail compilation contains:
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate
Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000
Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat
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| Baldrhead: Busō Kinyū Gaiden | 1999-07-02 | GIGA | GIGA | Action | Top-down | | Adult | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | | | Windows | In the future, technological excesses lead to never-ending conflicts between religious groups, newly-formed nobility and people of different social classes. Giant mechs called GIGAS (Ground Industrial Giant Attachment Servants) are used for military confrontations. Baldy Kirkland is the head of a mercenary organization that does armament banking jobs, resolving money issues in direct and often violent ways. Everything changes when he and his partner Nina meet May, a timid young girl searching for her missing father. Baldy becomes involved in a grand scheme that takes him beyond his mercenary duties.Baldrhead is an overhead mecha shooter. Core gameplay involves exploring hostile top-down areas and fighting enemy mechas. The player-controlled GIGAS can use three types of weapons (short, medium, and long range), with separate buttons assigned to each. Every time a mecha fires any weapon it needs a certain amount of time for cooldown; during that time it is more vulnerable to enemy attacks and cannot attack itself. Mechas can also dash to avoid long-ranged enemy attacks (such as missiles).Money is awarded for actions performed in battles. The GIGAS can be customized on a separate screen by using this money. Customization includes swapping and changing weapons, as well as upgrading various parameters of the GIGAS as a whole and its individual weapons, e.g. damage, fire rate, time required for cooldown, etc. Missions are dictated by the storyline and progress linearly. Between the missions, the player has to advance the plot by visiting various locations in the city and meeting the game's predominantly female characters, in a visual novel-like fashion. Sometimes the plot may branch depending on the decisions made by the player. Still-screen anime images that advance the story often contain explicit nudity and sexual situations. |
| Kingpin: Life of Crime | 1999-07-02 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Xatrix Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | Crime | Shooter | | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Crime in the city is beyond the capabilities of the authorities, The Kingpin runs the whole town. Nearly every dirty thug and thief in the city is in some way working for him or paying protection money. Otherwise they have a habit of ending up dead. One such thug refuses to pay his protection money to one of the Kingpin's lieutenants, Nikki. For his troubles the thug is left beaten and bruised in an alley. Swearing revenge, it will be up to this thug to track down Nikki and every other member of the Kingpin's organization... and deliver a violent end to their lives of crime.Kingpin: Life of Crime is a first-person shooter, in which the player takes the role of the thug on his mission of revenge. The player's health meter is a number, and when depleted the player dies. Armor can also be collected which offered protection of either the head region, the torso region or the leg region of the player. Weaponry begins with a small lead pipe but other weapons such as a pistol, shotgun, tommygun, flamethrower, grenade launcher and rocket launcher, will become available when picked up.Kingpin keeps track of weapon skills so that the player's aim is generally worse when they newly acquire a weapon and improves over use. Many of these weapons will be found hidden in rooms, but others will be for sale at the Pawn-O-Matic series of pawn shops. The pawn shop also sells health, armor, ammunition and upgrades for certain weapons. In order to reach the Kingpin, the player will need to interact with various NPCs: some wanting to trade items, some wanting quests completed and others just available for hire. Interaction with NPCs is limited to the player giving either a positive or negative response/statement. Much interaction with NPCs or the Pawn shop will require money, which is collected from dead enemies or found lying around in apartments or inside of locked safes.The player is able to hire certain goons who will the follow the player and use their own weapon to attack enemies. They feature their own damage display, similar to the player's, and can be ordered to follow the player or stay put. Some goons will also have lockpicking skills which can be used to open locked doors or safes. |
| Capman | 1999-07-04 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Capman is a Pac-Man variant with a twist, as the dot-munching hero now can pick up weaponry and explosives to blow away his foes (who in this game are called "bugs"). Instead of dying instantly, the protagonist has a supply of health which is depleted by close encounters with enemies. As the player roams the mazes, trying to eat every single dot, power-ups keep spawning in predefined places. These include weapons (pistol, shotgun, chaingun), secondary items (bouncy bullets, speed boost, landmines, bombs and dynamite that can be planted to blow up enemies) and medikits that refill health. Only one weapon and only one secondary item may be held at a time. Most inconveniently, the weapons can also be picked up by enemies, and to make things worse, some levels include pre-placed landmines which can blow up player and enemy alike. A level editor is included with the game. |
| Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby | 1999-07-06 | Learning Company, The | Learning Company, The | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Direct control, Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Mat the Mouse plays with Reader Rabbit at his house, but then decides to hide and play in a toybox. Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby is designed for parents and their baby to play together as lapware, the first of its kind. The toybox contain ten activities including "Hide-and-Seek Animals", "Discovery House", "Kaleidoscope Symphony", "Mat Says", "Mat's Faces", "Musical Drawers", "My Storybooks", "Peekaboo Bubbles", "Rhyme Time" and "Shape Slide". It is developed for children ages 9 to 24 months. |
| Dungeon Keeper 2 (Special Edition) | 1999-07-07 | Electronic Arts Deutschland GmbH | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This Special Edition of Dungeon Keeper 2 includes:
Dungeon Keeper 2
Exclusive prison-inspired packaging
"The Reaper"-figure
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| Trash Killer | 1999-07-07 | Kraisoft Entertainment | Kraisoft Entertainment | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Trash Killer is a single-player Asteroids clone in which the player seeks to destroy an increasing number of lumps of space rock.Unlike some games in this genre the space rocks 'bounce' round the sides of the screen, the player can fly off one end of the screen and reappear on the other while the player's laser blasts do not. The player has five space ships at their disposal each of which is equipped with shields and lasers, these have limited power and will need time to recharge if over used.The game, which has appeared on a number of compilations, is keyboard controlled, has sound and a high score table. |
| Driver | 1999-07-08 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Reflections Interactive Limited | Racing / Driving, Simulation | Behind view | | Crime | | | Automobile, Street racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Teen | | Windows | As Tanner, the player will go undercover to be the wheelman for a crime syndicate in order to break open a big case. On the way, they will have to eliminate competition, drive getaway cars, scare some people silly, evade plenty of police, dodge bad guys, smash through a few windows, save their love interest, and much more through four cities (Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York). The game gives a lot of freedom to navigate the streets of the various cities, allowing to cut through alleyways or across sidewalks and parks while smashing benches and driving over traffic cones, and provides a wide variety of vehicles to ride through the different missions, as well as the ability to perform various maneuvers such as donuts, 180 spins, or reverse spins.Also includes several game modes such as Practice, Carnage (cause as much damage as possible), Dirt Track (time trials), Pursuit (the player chases after someone), Survival (four super cops chase after the player), Lose the Cop (the player must avoid a cop tailing on them), and Drive About (just drive about the city and admire the scenery). There is also a full Director mode, allowing to place cameras to catch the best moments in the custom replay file.
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| Clans | 1999-07-15 | Strategy First, Inc. | ComputerHouse GBG AB | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Action RPG, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | | | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Four Clans were living in harmony, until an evil demon appeared, attempting to sow discord between them. The elders, sorcerers, shamans, and healers from each of the Clans forged the Crown of Peace, which united them and vanquished the demon. However, years have passed; the powers of the Crown have weakened, the Clans are at war with each other again, and the demon's minions are at large. It is time for a new hero to rise and destroy the evil once and for all.Clans is an action game with role-playing and puzzle-solving elements. The player can choose to play as either a warrior, an elf, a dwarf, or a barbarian. The warrior is a balanced fighter with melee prowess and magic; the elf is a powerful magician; the dwarf is strong with the axe and able to cast spells as well; the barbarian is physically the strongest of the four, but cannot cast magic at all. Most of the game consists of exploring dungeon-like areas, fighting enemies in action-oriented combat, and solving various puzzles (mostly of environmental type) to advance. The role-playing elements are present in weapon and armor customization, spells, and the possibility to increase the protagonist's statistics with certain items. |
| Yōkai Dōchūki | 1999-07-16 | MediaKite Distribution Inc. | Namco Limited | Action | Side view | | | Platform | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Tarosuke has died and now must cross the purgatory as depicted in Buddhist lore, fighting enemies and advancing in his path towards ultimate redemption. Depending on just how well he behaves in this afterlife you can see up to 5 different endings, which involve everything from re-incarnation to eternal damnation in hell.Yōkai Dōchūki plays as a side-scrolling action platformer, in which you control Tarosuke as he jumps around the game world, avoiding pitfalls and other traps. Enemies can be defeated by the use of a ki-based projectile attack and, once defeated, monsters leave behind money which can be exchanged in-game for health and other unique power-ups. Bosses are based on several Buddhist tales; being much too powerful for Tarosuke, he must invoke his guardian spirit to defeat such demons, which involves finding a shrine and praying until it is summoned. |
| ICC Cricket World Cup England 99 | 1999-07-22 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Creative Assembly Ltd., The | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Official game for the Cricket World Cup in England 1999. Play as any of the twelve teams from the tournament. The game features four different game modes: One Day International (A 50 over match), World Cup Competition (Take on the World´s best Cricketing Nations in the biggest tournament in the world), World Cup Super Six Competition (Six of the best teams in a head-to-head competition) and Training Mode. |
| Jagged Alliance 2 | 1999-07-23 | TalonSoft, Inc. | Sirtech Canada Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Tactical RPG | Contemporary, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Mature | Isometric | Windows | The political situation in the democratic monarchy of Arulco has gone from bad to worse. The country has been taken over through a coup d'état by Queen Deidranna Reitman, the wife of Enrico Chivaldori - rightful heir and son of late King Andreas Chivaldori. Enrico was reportedly killed in an assassination attempt during his trial for the murder of his father. Enrico however is alive and has contacted the Association of International Mercenaries (A.I.M.) to help him retake the island. Making contact with Miguel Cordoba, the head of the resistance team, A.I.M. will hire mercenaries and coordinate battle plans to control towns, organize militias in a quest to overthrow Queen Deidranna.Jagged Alliance 2 is an isometric, third-person perspective turned-based strategy game. The role-playing elements of the game refer to (mostly) character development. The game is also able to switch between two different styles: sci-fi or realistic modes. From a new game, players will use their laptop to review information and hire mercenaries. Following that, the political map shows a satellite top-down position of the island of Arulco. From the map, equipment and funds are managed, as well as a review of enemy movement, and planning can be made to capture towns, mines and other locations. From the map, mercenaries can be deployed into a specific sector. Hostile sectors and enemy counter-attacks initiate combat mode.The combat screen is where most of the actual gameplay occurs. Traveling in towns, exploring houses (with the purpose of stealing stuff of course!) and most importantly combat, occurs here. An encounter with an enemy team (either offensive or defensive) will prompt a battle in the area of contact. If on the offensive, players may opt to place mercenaries in favorable positions. Each team plays in turns, unless their action in interrupted by an opposing member. Enemies come in all shapes and sizes: enemy soldiers, tanks, bloodcats, and (in sci-fi mode) insect-like monsters. The team that remains alive will control the sector.In order to recapture the island, players must engage in town militia management. A defense system must be organized for newly conquered towns to defend against enemy troops. Only loyal towns however may have its population trained into militia (indicated by a green percentage on the town via political map). A maximum of 2 mercenaries may train militia in any given town. The militia has 3 different training levels: green, regular, and veteran. The first 2 may be acquired through training, while the veteran status may only be acquired through combat. |
| Star Havoc | 1999-07-23 | SquireSoft | SquireSoft | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | The year is 2499, and a mixed bag of space-travelling species struggle for ascendancy amongst the stars. Battle is waged in a top-down 2D environment with 360-degree movement and a zooming camera. You can play as any faction, and control 23 vessels of wildly different types (from small scouts to huge behemoths, and even stationary "islands" and living organisms) - mastering the unique characteristics and weapons of each ship will be the key to victory. The single-player mode pits the player against a variety of missions, where scripted events determine the course of battle, and the player's single ship will often face multiple enemies simultaneously. The two-player mode is very similar to the "melee" combat from the Star Control games: two ships duel each other one-on-one, in a single round or in fleet battle, and either side can be human- or computer-controlled.Star Havoc was released as shareware, and later made available for free. The game is meant to be moddable: every aspect can be customized by tinkering with the game files, and only a text editor and graphics software are needed to create entirely new ships, scenarios and game modes. |
| Steel Empire | 1999-07-23 | Wizard Soft Ltd. | Sonnori Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Tactical RPG | Steampunk | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Steel Empire is a steampunk-themed strategy RPG. Taking place in an alternate 19th century, advanced steam technology has led to bitter resource wars and, following the assassination of the head of state of the Republic of Grand Hill, the continent of Ashirama has fallen into factional warfare. Many mercenary groups have popped up as a result, and the player takes control of the head of one such group. Steel Empire features a mixture of real-time strategy components along with turn-based skirmishes; longer-term strategy and resource planning takes place in real-time, while individual battles are played out in turn-based form. |
| Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War | 1999-07-23 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | DreamForge Intertainment, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | War | RPG elements, Turn-based strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Teen | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War is the third of SSI's games set in the Warhammer 40,000 gaming universe from Games Workshop. The player takes control of the mighty Eldar to drive the humans from the Maiden World and reclaim the Eldar's long lost artifacts.Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War is a turn-based strategy game that uses the system from SSI's Panzer General II. |
| Darkstone | 1999-07-27 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | Delphine Software International | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | Darkstone is a Diablo clone. But there is a difference one will recognize immediately: it is in 3D. But this is not the only "improvement"--the second most important thing is probably that the player is in control of two characters. The other character is computer controlled and the player can switch between them at any time. Also, Darkstone has lots of new spells and skills. The player will be walking through huge woods, have to solve a lot of riddles and descend into deep and dark dungeons. |
| Hidden & Dangerous | 1999-07-27 | TalonSoft, Inc. | Illusion Softworks, a.s. | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | War | | World War II | | | | Mature | | Windows | In Hidden & Dangerous, the player is in charge of four Allied commandos in operations during World War II. One of them in controlled directly in first-person perspective and the others in a tactics mode. The campaign is divided into many episodes, and each episode into missions. These vary from bomb planting to hostage rescue. It is also possible to drive tanks and other vehicles. |
| Civilization II: Test of Time | 1999-07-28 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | MicroProse Software, Inc., MPS Labs | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | 4X, Managerial / business simulation, Turn-based strategy | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Civilization II: Test of Time is a variant of Sid Meier's Civilization II (without Sid Meier's involvement) which comes with a redesigned interface, overhauled graphics, and three new scenarios spanning 10 worlds set in the Centaurus Star System, The Universe of Lalande 21185, and The World of Midgard. Like the Multiplayer Gold Edition, it is a 32-bit Windows application which includes Internet and LAN multiplayer capabilities for up to 7 players. |
| Lander | 1999-07-28 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Action, Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | The year is 3032. You own a hovercraft type spacecraft and earn your living by piloting it around the solar system, hired by large corporations and other entities to perform various tasks for a price. The more difficult, risky or illegal the mission, the higher the pay off.Lander is a small, lightweight, maneuverable machine designed for tight above and below ground flying, controlled through a set of thrusters on the corners and a single main engine on its belly. With the money you earn, make needed repairs or improve Lander with better weapons, engines, armor – or even replace it entirely. There are five grades of armor, four pulse energy weapons, three missile systems and four engines available when you have enough cash to purchase them.In order to succeed, you must master intricate flight dynamics. Learn to maneuver your Lander through a series of traps and other obstacles, all the while handling gravity, wind, and other atmospheric interferences.There are 30 increasingly difficult, non-linear single missions covering 15 different planets and moons. In the early stages of the game, they involve finding and retrieving objects with your tractor beam, searching and destroying a specific target or stealing an important object. Later operations take on a covert military flair, some of which are puzzle based, and you find that other factions are determined to stop you at all costs.Two multiplayer levels support deathmatch play over IPX or TCP/IP internet connection. CD-Rom and DVD versions were shipped in the same package. The DVD version (Psygnosis’ first release in that format) boasts high-resolution MPEG 2 video sequences and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. The PC version offers Dolby Surround Sound and MPEG 1 video (in shorter length) on a single CD-Rom. |
| ColorCode | 1999-08-01 | | | Puzzle | | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | ColorCode is a Mastermind variant in which the player has ten attempts to logically deduce, or guess, a four colour combination. The game was written in Visual Basic 4.0 Clinton Graham and, while originally part of Clinton's Simple Logic Collection it has appeared as a stand alone game in at least one compilation. |
| Drakan: Order of the Flame | 1999-08-01 | Psygnosis Limited | Surreal Software, Inc. | Action | Behind view | | | | Fantasy | | | | Mature | | Windows | Many centuries ago, mankind and dragonkind fought each other, and chaos ruled. After many years, the conflict came to an end, as the Order of the Flame was created, bonding men and dragons together as the protectors of peace and virtue. Under the direction of the Order, the world of Drakan has prospered in peace, attaining new heights of learning of magic.All this came to an end when Navros, the war mage, betrayed the Order of the Flame, and led the Dark Union against the Order in the Dark Wars. He released evils on the world such as the Wartocks, to serve as his army. The Order was demolished, and only by the sacrifice of the great dragon Arokh the Drak Union was stopped. Arokh and the rest of the surviving dragons went away to sleep, and the Order and the Union were thought to be finished at that time, centuries ago. They were wrong.Waking up from a Wartock raid of her village, Rynn, a young warrior, discover the village in ruins and her brother kidnapped. As she sets out to find him, she becomes, perhaps by destiny, bound to the legendary dragon Arokh. The two then set out to find out what is happening...Drakan features a unique engine that seamlessly blends outdoor scenes and indoor scenes. Playing the game, you will ride Arokh, using his fiery breath as a weapon, or walk around as Rynn, using swords and bows as your weapons. You will have "dog"-fights with dragons, or a hand to hand combat with giant spiders, scavengers and Wartocks. |
| Helbreath | 1999-08-01 | Siementech | Siementech | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | War | Action RPG, Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy, Medieval | | Point and select | | | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | Helbreath is a medieval fantasy-themed Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) of South Korean origin. In what's left in the world, two final cities remain; Aresden and Elvine. Each town being named after their respective gods of whom they also worship, Aresien and Eldiniel. These two factions are at war with one another all while dealing with the many other monsters plaguing the region. Players can choose from three different character classes during the character creation process; Warrior, Mage, and Priest. Your character is controlled via a keyboard and mouse hovering over a 2D-game in a top-down, isometric view very similar to Ultima Online. Killing monsters and completing quests are the two main methods of obtaining experience points use for leveling up and improving your character. Weapons, armor, shields, and other accessories not only have unique sprites and colors in your inventory and on the ground when looting - they also are shown on your character when equipped for other online players to see. Helbreath also has an extensive item database with base equipment items having multiple variations, modifications, and other attribute altering conditions. There are no objectives or predefined goals outside of some loose quest lines which are available, but often locked with a level requirement. It is an entirely open-ended as an MMORPG and can be played regardless of having completed all in-game objectives. Players can pick up fishing, mining, or alchemy. Participate in guilds and other social groups and events like arena tournaments. Gold currency is used for all transactions throughout the game, item-for-item trades aside. Gameplay is very combat-focused with virtually everything outside of combat is ultimately still serving it or sending you back out into it. Player-versus-player is a major component of gameplay. |
| Honour & Freedom | 1999-08-01 | Beijing Gold Human Computer Co. Ltd. | Beijing Gold Human Computer Co. Ltd. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Honor & Freedom is a 3D real-time strategy game. Players need to excavate resources, construct bases, produce weapons, and protect themselves by controlling 3D air and ground units in order to defeat the enemy. There are also specific missions in each assignment. Human and Robot are the two races in the game, each with their own weapon systems. Online multiplayer is supported for up to four players. |
| LEGO Racers | 1999-08-01 | LEGO Media International, Inc. | High Voltage Software, Inc. | Racing / Driving | Behind view | Licensed | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | For the first time, build your favourite Lego carts on your PC using all of the blocks that are available in real life, thanks to the detailed Creation modes. You can then race your beast against other lego built characters in 12 special themed tracks, based on the Themed Lego kits (including Pirates & Egypt and much more). Race your friend in split screen mode, or go straight on for the ultimate Lego racing trophy. |
| Maisy's Playhouse | 1999-08-01 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | Early Childhood | | Windows | Maisy's Playhouse is based on characters from a children's book series by author/illustrator Lucy Cousins, and an animated television series, characterized by it's bright primary colors and the thick hand-drawn appearance of its outlines. Maisy herself is a little white mouse; she and her animal friends explore places and activities of interest to toddlers. In this game the player is introduced to three rooms in Maisy's house; in each room are many clickable animations to explore with the mouse - drawers and cabinets open to reveal items, water runs and the toilet flushes, toys move and lights click on and off. There are three levels to choose from, and at the 3rd level Maisy will enter the room and perform an appropriate activity, such as taking a bath or donning outdoor clothing. In the top left of each screen is an easel icon which brings the player to a page of seven mini-games:
Gingerbread Cookies - piece together broken cookies and then decorate and print
Hide and Seek - find Maisy and her friends hiding on the page
Painting - find the picture that doesn't belong in Maisy's painting
Clean-up - click on Maisy's toys to put them away in her playroom
Getting Dressed - choose the appropriate clothes for Maisy to put on for a specified activity
Train - help Maisy's friends board her train
Coloring - listen to directions to help Maisy finish a painting or print out to color later
As in Happy Birthday Maisy, the focus of this game is on the preschool skills of color, shape, and number recognition, following directions, and creative play. |
| Simple Logic Collection | 1999-08-01 | | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Simple Logic Collection is a collection of three freeware, single-player games: Tic-Tac-Toe, Star Fire and Color Code.All the games were written in Visual Basic 4.0 by Clinton Graham and each has appeared as a standalone game in a compilation. |
| StarFire | 1999-08-01 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | StarFire is a simple, single-player puzzle played on a 3x3 grid. The game starts with one cell on the grid populated with a star. The player clicks on that star and it disappears/explodes but all cells horizontally and vertically touching the dead star's cell now contain a star. The player continues shooting stars and in so doing the adjacent stars will either gain a star if they were empty or lose a star if they were occupied. The objective is to fill all cells except the seed cell with a star. The player can either accepts a random seed cell or start a game in which the seed cell is specified.The game is played in a small window, is mouse controlled and was written in Visual Basic 4.0 Clinton Graham. It was originally part of Clinton's Simple Logic Collection it has appeared as a standalone game in at least one compilation. |
| Tic-Tac-Toe | 1999-08-01 | | | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Tic-Tac-Toe is an implementation of the traditional Noughts and Crosses game played with pencil and paper, here the player plays against the computer. This version contains two games, one is the traditional played on a 3x3 grid against the computer. The game is played on a 3D 3x3x3 grid against two AI opponents. The objective in each is the same, to be the first to complete a row of three tokens.Both games play in a small window, are mouse controlled and were written in Visual Basic 4.0 Clinton Graham. This was originally part of Clinton's Simple Logic Collection it has appeared as a standalone game in at least one compilation. |
| Zaphie | 1999-08-01 | NewtonMedia Entertainment | MiraSpace Entertainment | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | | | | | | | | Windows | A woman named Anne Cronin was pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. Dr. Spencer R. Eliot, a good friend of her husband Roger, was unable to save the girl during a difficult operation. In an attempt to spare the parents' feelings, Spencer told them that there were no twins in the first place. The boy, Zaphie, survived and enjoyed a seemingly normal life.However, eight years later Spencer receives a call from Roger, who tells him that something is wrong with Zaphie. Spencer hurries to the Cronin's mansion, but finds it abandoned. He has to explore the strange house and find clues that would help him to get to the bottom of the mystery.Zaphie is a Korean-made horror adventure game. The game's visuals and interface are similar to those of Myst: locations are represented by pre-rendered non-animated backgrounds, and the protagonist is navigated in first-person view by clicking on arrows and "jumping" from screen to screen. Whenever it is possible to interact with an object, a context-specific icon (usually an eye or a hand) appears. There is an inventory in the game, but overall it focuses on exploring the surroundings and triggering plot-advancing scenes rather than on puzzle-solving. |
| Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying | 1999-08-02 | KRU Interactive, Inc. | KRU Interactive, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | | | | | Fantasy | | | Persistent | | Isometric | Windows | Dark Ages takes place in a world that is a fusion of Irish legend, Lovecraftian horror, and Korean anime. The game is an isometric MMORPG originally from Korea, where it is called Legend of Darkness and has been online since 1998. In addition to the usual combat and level cycles of the MMORPG genre, there is also a playable political and religious system.There are the four basic classes and gameplay of the fantasy genre, plus an anime-inspired monk. In addition to the usual community of most MMORPGs, there are also creative contests whose rewards include elite status and clothing. |
| DeadEnd | 1999-08-04 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | DeadEnd is a single player, shareware, card game from southern Russia. In the real world, it may be played by two, three, or four players. In this version, it is played by one player against the computer.This is a card capturing game. The object is to accumulate as many cards as possible during game-play by taking bribes. The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.The game is played with a standard deck of fifty-two cards. Play starts with each player receiving four cards and between them four cards are placed face up. Players take turns to play a card to capture a card from the central store and when all four cards in their hand have been used up they are dealt four more until the pack is exhausted.
Cards are captured by:
Playing another card of the same rank, so a queen will capture a queen.
Point count, an ace, a three, and a five add up to nine so playing a nine will capture all three.
Playing a jack, a jack is considered the highest ranking card so it takes all exposed cards.
Other rules are that a player must play a card when it is their turn, if it is not possible to capture cards by taking a bribe then they must still play something. Additionally a player cannot take more than one bribe in succession.Scoring
In each game, a maximum of five points can be scored.
The two of clubs and ten of diamonds are the eponymous Dead Ends and the player holding these cards at the end of the game may claim one point for each.
Cards in the club suit have special significance and the player holding the most clubs at the end of the game can claim an extra point.
The player with the most cards at the end of a game claims two points.A match is over when a player achieves fifteen points.There is a variation to the basic game in which the court cards have individual point counts and the jack loses its special status. In this game, the king has a value of thirteen, a queen counts as twelve, and a jack as eleven. Each may capture an opponent's cards that total their point value. A second version DeadEnd Variant B using this rule installs alongside the main game.The game is played entirely with the mouse. There is no in game sound or music, nor are there any game configuration options. The help file is in English, Russian, and German, it opens in a browser window and cannot be accessed via the game. |
| Star Trek: Starfleet Command | 1999-08-11 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | 14° East, Quicksilver Software, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Behind view, Diagonal-down, Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Star Trek: Starfleet Command is the tactical, ship-to-ship combat simulator set in the world of Star Trek. It is based on the tabletop game Star Fleet Battles and it follows its rules almost to the letter.The player can choose to play a career that will span 30 years as the captain of a Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Gorn, Hydran, or Lyran ship. They begin with a small frigate class ship, and as they complete missions they gain prestige that is then spent on acquiring larger ships, and better crew. The campaigns are randomly generated by the "Dynaverse" generator, with certain key missions that will come up as the player go through their 30 year career. Missions range from escorting and patrols, to space monster investigation and starbase assault.There are over 300 different ships and ship mods to choose from and a wide array of weaponry. Phasers, Photons, Disruptors, Missiles(Drones), Expanding Sphere Generators, Plasmas, Hellbores, Fusion Beams, Mines, Marines, and Fighters. Effective management of the ships energy resources on the fly is critical, especially with all the weapons, shields, ECM, ECCM, tractor beams, shield reinforcements, and other options available for the player to use. The game is played on a 2D plane, like the original boardgame's "hexmap."The developers also released the .dll files to the public, so anyone adept at C++ programming can use these files to construct ships, missions, even entire campaigns. These can be downloaded at their website.Releases marked as the Gold Edition come patched to version 1.03, and include all the missions which were previously downloadable for free from the official website (3 for the Federation, 3 for the Klingons, 10 for the Hydrans, 7 for the Gorn, and 3 for the Romulans). |
| Star Wars: Yoda's Challenge - Activity Center | 1999-08-11 | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Educational, Puzzle | Diagonal-down, Side view | Licensed | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | Everyone | | Windows | Star Wars: Yoda's Challenge - Activity Center is a game for children that helps build and sharpen skills in math, music, and reading.Players embark on six challenging missions with varying levels of difficulty. When all difficulty levels have been completed, a printable Certificate of Completion is issued to the player by Yoda, the Jedi Master himself. |
| System Shock 2 | 1999-08-11 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Irrational Games LLC, Looking Glass Studios, Inc. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | Regional differences | Horror | Shooter, Stealth | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi | | | | Mature | | Windows | In the year 2114, forty-two years after the events described in System Shock, a soldier joins the military organization Unified National Nominate (UNN), receiving the number G65434-2, and is shortly thereafter assigned to the military space ship Rickenbacker. This ship's duty is to escort the Von Braun, an experimental faster-than-light starship, on its maiden voyage. However, the next thing the soldier can remember is waking up in a cryo-tube on the Von Braun. It appears that both ships were infected with something so horrifying that nearly the entire crew was either killed or mutated into monsters. The soldier is contacted by a woman who identifies herself as the only human survivor. His first task is a rendezvous with this woman, for which he will have to traverse the monster-infested corridors of the ghost ship.System Shock 2 is a hybrid of first-person shooter and role-playing game. In the beginning of the game the player chooses a career for the protagonist in the UNN. This choice grants bonuses to the protagonist's initial skills. Marines specialize in combat, navy officers can repair weapons and hack computer terminals, and OSA agents may begin the game with psionic powers. Notwithstanding this initial choice, the player may choose to learn any of these skills as the game progresses, spending acquired cybermodules to develop the main character in a RPG fashion.As the hero traverses the corridors of Von Braun, he will have to avoid death at the hands of hostile creatures and robots on the way, acquire a variety of items, and complete missions to unlock new areas and advance the story. The game emphasizes survival rather than elimination of enemies; in many situations the protagonist is underpowered, and new enemies may appear in already explored areas.Combat is done in FPS style, with both ranged and melee weapons. The ranged weapons can accept a few different types of ammo, each of them efficient against different foes, and can shoot in two firing modes. However, ranged weapons deteriorate quickly as the player character uses them, and will eventually break down after prolonged use. Healing items, such as medical hypos and medikits, will save the hero's life, while other items will shield him from radiation, cure him from poisoning, or temporarily boost his attributes. The soldier can find armor to wear and implants which will amplify his skills, as long as their battery doesn't run out. There are also some alien items that the player has to research (which usually requires finding specific chemicals in the ship's chemical stores); researching weapons and items allows the player to use them, and researching enemies' organs makes it possible to deal more damage to them. Apart from finding them lying around, items can be bought from "matter replicators" for nanites, the game's currency. Nanites are also used for cybernetic activities (hacking electronic systems), repairing broken weapons and improving them, healing the protagonist on surgery tables, and, after death, resurrecting him in special chambers found on most levels. Cybermodules are received for successfully completing objectives or found during exploration. They are used to enhance the main character's attributes: the player can improve his strength, agility, endurance, as well as his cybernetics and weapon skills; psionic powers are also acquired in this way. Psi powers allow the protagonist to move objects from a distance, paralyze enemies, become invisible, etc. A special "psi amplifier" must be found in order to use them, and the hero spends "psi points" each time he uses a psi power. Like in the first System Shock, much of the background story in the game is revealed by finding messages left by crew members before they fell victims to the mysterious infestation. |
| Braveheart | 1999-08-13 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Red Lemon Studios | Strategy | Diagonal-down, Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation, Real-time strategy | Historical events | | | Real-time | Mature | | Windows | As a scottish Lord in medieval England, you have to unite the clans and defeat the british army. Braveheart mixes economy and troup management on a 2D map with realtime-strategy battles in 3D. Although Braveheart is the official game to the hollywood movie featuring Mel Gibson, there is no direct reference to the film. (Apart from a single picture of Gibson, that is.) |
| Splash Cash | 1999-08-13 | Software Illusions | Software Illusions | Simulation | | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | Splash Cash is the first in a series of pinball simulators from Software Illusions.This is a three reel slot machine simulator based on the British style of fruit machine. It pays out when three identical symbols appear on the centre line. Game features include random nudges, reel holds, a bonus feature as well as the main 'Splash Cash' feature.
Some of the symbols have numbers on them and when these appear in the central line a corresponding number of lights are lit on the trail to the right of the screen. When four lights are lit the player is awarded a minor bonus. When the full trail is lit the main bonus screen is displayed.
The main bonus screen consists of a long trail through which the player advances by spinning a counter. Whatever number the counter displays the player moves the corresponding number of squares along the trail. Each square has a different 'reward' Some offer a Hi/Lo 'All-or-Nothing' feature, others increase the bonus award while others offer a mini bonus. Naturally, if the player makes it all the way to the end of the trail they win the jackpot.
The game runs in a window and documentation explaining the controls and how the feature works can be accessed via the menu bar along with some game configuration options.
The player starts with £10 credit and each spin costs £0.25. The jackpot is £15 and the game has a fixed 80% payout rate. Players can post their high scores on-line on the developers web site
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| Raptor: Call of the Shadows | 1999-08-14 | Mountain King Studios Inc. | Cygnus Software Inc. | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | | | | | Kids to Adults | 2D scrolling | Windows | Raptor is a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up. It features smooth scrolling VGA graphics, a variety of enemies on ground, air and sea, and an original soundtrack.After completing each level you have the option of upgrading your ship with a powerful arsenal of weapons and goodies. Some weapons are effective on only ground or air targets, while some are on both. There are some really advanced weapons like the auto-track mini-gun which can effectively destroy almost any kind of targets without aiming the ship.Dying in shoot'em ups can be annoying, especially if you have to start all over the beginning. However, in Raptor you can save your game between each level. If you have enough credit you can even buy multiple shields for further protection.The 2010 edition of Raptor: Call of the Shadows includes improved graphics and native support for higher resolutions (640x400, 960x600 and 1280x800). Standard graphics are also available. |
| Re-Volt | 1999-08-18 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Acclaim Studios Limited | Action, Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | For years, the Toy-Volt company has been producing toys and games for children all over the world. Within months of introducing their first products, Toy-Volt shot to the top! No one could put their finger on exactly what it was that made the toys so popular. Sure, they employed the best designers and marketers in the world, but there was something else about Toy-Volt toys, something almost.... magic. Now, their newest R/C cars really start to live! Re-Volt is a racing game where you take control over one of more than 28 R/C cars and drive on one of the 13 tracks. The tracks are varied, and include a toy shop, a supermarket, a luxury liner and more. It is possible to play a "reversed" (backwards) or "mirror" (reversed left and right) variety of each track. There are also 4 levels of realism to choose from. There are a couple of single- and multiplayer game modes to choose from. There's a Single Race, where you complete a single track while competing with several computer-controlled opponents; a Championship, where you try to complete a series of races in hopes of finishing on the top; and Multiplayer, where you play with live opponents. There's also a Time Trial, where you're alone on the track, and simply try to get as best a time as possible; a Practice mode, where you're free to drive around a track to learn its structure and shortcuts; and the Stunt Arena, where you drive around a special arena and try to collect stars situated in hard-to-reach places. In Single Race, Championship and Multiplayer there are power-ups scattered throughout the track; picking them up gives you a one-use random power, such as missiles to launch at pesky opponents, a star to temporarily freeze competitors in place or a lightning bolt, which makes your car shock opponents nearby to make them stop. |
| Force 21 | 1999-08-19 | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | | | Helicopter, Tank | | Real-time | Teen | | Windows | It is the year 2015, and China is invading Russia for more resources. In their way is the US "Force 21". Take either side in this 3D RTS. There are no unit building. What you got is what you have to work with. Command over 40 different units of high-tech combat in 30 single-player campaigns and 10 multiplayer maps. Up to 4 players can join multiplayer action. Edit your own maps and missions with the included editor. |
| The Adventures of MicroMan | 1999-08-19 | | | Action | Side view | | | Platform, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | You are MicroMan, stuck inside a computer. You must run, jump, and shoot your way out. Along the way are cannons, enemies, ladders, invisible bricks, powerups, and more! You can gain the ability to get heat-seeking bullets, to jump higher, to fire 3 shots at once and more! Large bosses appear once in a while.The registered version consists of 2 episodes:
Adventure 1: Crazy Computers
Adventure 2: Savage Stones
The shareware version contains Adventure 1: Crazy Computers only.
The original freeware/demo release titled only MicroMan was later reworked into the first episode of The Adventures Of MicroMan. |
| A Scar of the Doll | 1999-08-20 | Child-Dream | Child-Dream | Adventure | Top-down | | Detective / mystery, Horror | Visual novel | | | | | | Narrative | Windows | A Scar of the Doll is a psychological horror visual novel with adventure game elements, created by the Japanese indie developer Child-Dream. It is the company's first game that was translated fully to English. The story is set in late December and revolves around the young woman Asumi Kamijo. She has lost all contact to her older sister, who goes to a graduate school in Tokyo. Worried about her, Asumi travels alone to the capital to confirm her well-being, but the lab she was assigned to and the apartment she lived in show no trace of her. Asumi is determined to find out what happened to her sister, though she does not know the horrors that await her in the midst of uncovering the truth. |
| Block Breaker | 1999-08-26 | Emurasoft, Inc. | Emurasoft, Inc. | Action | | | | Paddle / Pong | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A simple Breakout clone for windows. It featured many levels and a level editor. |
| EmPipe | 1999-08-26 | Emurasoft, Inc. | Emurasoft, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Sharing some mechanics to that of Pipe Mania, the game EmPipe has you connecting pipe pieces between the Start and Finish parts of the water network. There may also be a Pass part, in which the water has to go through before ending at Finish. Pipes can be placed and replaced anywhere except where obstacles and parts exist. There are crossed pipes to allow one flow to overlap another. As the water flows through pipes, points are earned. The longer the pipe, the more points are earned. As the game progresses, there will be more colors of water that need to flow including Blue, Red, Green and Yellow. The player has three chances throughout the game before losing. A chance is lost if a flow leaks from an unfinished pipe, a blockage, not going through the Pass part or flowing into the wrong colored part. If all chances are spent, then the game's over. |
| Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun | 1999-08-27 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Regional differences | War | Real-time strategy | Europe, Middle East, North America, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real-time strategy game and the direct sequel to the original Command & Conquer, set in the year 2030.The Earth is now heavily contaminated with the alien crystalline substance known as Tiberium and is becoming less habitable with time, while new life forms have formed in areas of serious contamination. While the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) still has a technologically advanced arsenal, it is also tasked with Tiberium research and abatement. The Brotherhood of Nod suddenly re-emerges from hiding, and its leader Kane, believed to have been dead since the assault on Sarajevo in the First Tiberium War, unveils himself to General Solomon on GDI's orbital station Philadelphia. As Nod's sneak attacks start scourging the world like decades prior, GDI prepares for self-defense. Meanwhile, survivors of Tiberium mutation who call themselves The Forgotten live separated from society, but are about to become relevant for both GDI and Nod efforts.Tiberian Sun debuted an isometric engine which combines the use of 2D sprites with 3D voxels (short for volume elements). There are even larger differences between the two playable sides in terms of gameplay styles and visual design - GDI prefers brute force while Nod specializes in hit-and-run tactics and the element of surprise. Some of the technologically advanced units include hovercrafts, subterranean flame tanks (aptly named "Devil's Tongues"), mechanized walkers, etc. Each side now also has multiple support powers at their disposal, and some of the special technologies have direct counters - stealth units can be discovered by mobile sensor arrays, while subterranean units can be directed further from sensitive areas with concrete pavement. The campaigns, similar to those in preceding titles, have side missions which can aid in resolving main missions (e.g. destroying a nearby outpost will reduce the size of the enemy army in the main mission). |
| Nobunaga's Ambition: Reppuden with Power Up Kit | 1999-08-27 | KOEI Co., Ltd. | | Strategy | | | War | Wargame | Historical events, Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | The compilation of Nobunaga no Yabou: Reppuuden and Nobunaga no Yabou: Reppuuden - Power Up Kit. |
| Shadow Man | 1999-08-27 | Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. | Acclaim Studios Teesside | Action | Behind view | Licensed, Regional differences | Horror | | | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | You're the Shadow Man, a person who can switch between the world of the dead and of the living. In Shadow Man your mission is to prevent five serial killers from bringing the total Armageddon. In the world of the living, you're mortal and have conventional weapons. When you die, you are transported to the world of the dead and you become Shadow Man once again. Which means you're not really mortal. In the world of the dead you can't use normal weapons, your gun shoots ghosts which kill the zombies and the other ugly creatures which live there. You also have different voodoo powers and weapons. And you're carrying a large inventory around. |
| 123 Free Puzzle | 1999-08-30 | TreeCardGames | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | | | Windows | 123 Free Puzzle is a single-player, freeware, card game. It was released as a 'taster' game to promote TreeCardgames compilation of Solitaire games SolSuite 2003 which can be ordered via the menu bar of this game.This title features the following solitaire games:
Four Sums: Sixteen cards are laid out face up in a four by four grid. Numbers are listed on the right hand side of the grid. The player has to arrange the cards so that the values of the cards in each row of four add up to the appropriate number.
Move For Goal: Is a patience game where the player starts with nine cards played face up in a 3 x 3 grid. Cards may be played onto any other card in an adjacent cell which is one above or one below it's rank, after each move a card is played from the stock pile to fill the vacated cell. The object is to build cards into a sequence from Ace to King and then move that sequence from the play area to a discard pile.
Only One Left: There are two versions of this game, one is played on a 4 x 4 grid and the other on a 5 x 5 grid. Cards are placed on this grid leaving just one cell free. The object is to 'jump' one card over another into a vacant cell. The card that has been jumped over is removed from the grid. Play continues until there are no more valid moves, in which case the player loses, or until there is 'Just One Left' in which case they win.
Put Them In Order: This is a sliding block puzzle game. The player is given a sequence of cards in a grid in which there is one vacant cell. The object is to repeatedly move cards into the vacant cell in order to recreate the correct sequence. There are three variants of this game that are played on a 3 x 3 grid, a 4 x 4 grid, and a 5 x 5 grid.
Tower Of Hanoy: This is a classic disc moving puzzle in which the player has to arrange a set of nine numbered discs in descending sequence. This is slightly different in that it uses playing cards from the ace to the nine inclusive.
The games have sound effects that can be disabled, the card back and screen colour can also be changed. There is a scoring system for each game which can also be turned off but there is no high score screen. |
| 123 Free Solitaire | 1999-08-30 | TreeCardGames | TreeCardGames | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 123 Free Solitaire is a freeware collection of solitaire games, created as a "teaser" game to promote the commercial solitaire collection SolSuite. The selection and number of solitaire games available differs between versions. Classics such as Klondike, Pyramid and FreeCell are included in every version. Other versions of 123 Free Solitaire include games such as Four Seasons, Monte Carlo, Spider, Travellers, etc. The collection includes an "autoplay" option which, in certain games, automatically moves cards to their foundations when possible. There are also several card back graphics and backgrounds available. |
| Giant Worlds | 1999-08-30 | | | Action | Side view | Fangame | | Arcade, Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Giant Worlds is an unofficial (but eventually authorised) sequel to The Great Giana Sisters. It uses graphics based on the Amiga/Atari ST version but redrawn in Hi-Color, and includes an option to play the original music from the Commodore 64 version of Giana Sisters. The levels are completely original, and are set in several differently themed worlds (ice, lava, cavern etc.). |
| Alhedemic Lines | 1999-08-31 | Alhademic Group | Alhademic Group | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Alhedemic Lines is a single player, mouse controlled, shareware implementation of Color Lines where the objective is to score points by connecting balls of the same colour while at each turn the game adds random balls to the game area.The game has three levels of difficulty. Playing the game in the beginner level the player has to deal with balls of six colours, in the intermediate level there are seven colours and eight in the expert level. There are also three modes of play;
Lines: in this mode the player constructs lines of five or more matching balls horizontally, vertically or diagonally
Blocks: Here the player constructs a six ball string horizontally or vertically
Squares: In this mode four balls in a square formation are required
In the shareware version only the Lines game mode is available. Alternate skins for the game were available for download from the developer's website. using these the player could replace the balls with stars, chess pieces etc |
| V-Rally: Edition 99 | 1999-08-31 | Infogrames Europe SA | Eden Studios | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | V-Rally was the first Rally game to be published on the PlayStation. This "Edition 99" is the Nintendo 64 port of the original game, with slightly improved graphics and menus.This game offers you to race through 8 countries using one of the 12 official cars from the World Rally Championship. Each track has its own course conditions, so you will eventually have to use your skills in snow, mud, rain, gravel... |
| AlterJig | 1999-09-01 | Ixis Research, Ltd. | Ixis Research, Ltd. | Puzzle | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In the shareware puzzle game AlterJig, your job is to re-arrange a mixed-up jigsaw puzzle by clicking on rotation points and rotating with them adjacent tiles so that the picture is seen the way before you actually start the game.The game comes with 5 difficulty settings (Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard, Crazy) and 23 pictures of different sizes. Per difficulty setting, the form and number of rotation objects changes. |
| Carnivorous | 1999-09-01 | Macmillan Digital Publishing USA | ManMachineGames | Action, Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Hunting | | Off-roading | | | | | Windows | Carnivorous is a hybrid racing/hunting game. The main goal of the game is to gain a certain number of points by running down animals across four locations, such as a national park, the countryside, a city park and a mountain slope. Each location has their own animals (e.g. the city park has lots of cats, dogs and geese, the countryside has pigs) and threats such as other hunters and police. The former can be run over (yes, a hunting game where the hunters are the hunted), but the player has no direct defense against the police, who fire upon your truck. The game ends when the truck's damage meter reaches to 100%, causing it to explode. There is also a photo album feature where you can take your best moments with running over fellow critters or your own man. |
| Chosun Jang-Gi | 1999-09-01 | Korea Computer Center | Korea Computer Center | Puzzle | | | | Board game | | | | | | | Windows | Chosun Jang-Gi is a digital version of janggi, a traditional Korean strategy board game. Similar to the Chinese game xiangqi, the game features a set of military-themed pieces each of which has unique movement properties. The player's goal is to capture the opposing player's general, much as in Western chess. This game supports both single-player and multiplayer modes, and also features a quiz mode to test the player's reaction to certain predefined board setups. |
| Cloak of Darkness | 1999-09-01 | | | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | | | Interactive fiction / text adventure | | | | | | | Windows | Some rainy November evening, you rush into an opulent opera house and prepare to divest yourself of a soaked + gloomy velvet garment, that you might receive an important message in a surprising place and fashion. Preserving the sequence of these goals is paramount.A demonstration game not written for usual "demo" purposes (to suggest design and technical abilities of some hypothetical full version) but rather to indicate to potential game designers differences between umpteen various popular amateur interactive fiction authoring systems (for those keeping track at home: A-code, AAS, ADRIFT, AGI, AGT, Aiee!, AIFT, ALAN, CAT, Hugo, IAGE, Inform 6 and 7, JACL, LADS, PAWS, Quest, SUDS, TADS 2 and 3, and Undum) for purposes of cross-comparison for potential authors shopping around for a new development environment; the stock game specification, such as it is, contains only three rooms and three objects (a message, a brass wall-mounted hook, and the titular dark cloak), with only a single puzzle between them. Where the fun and education lies is in examining the respective annotated source codes provided, to observe how different authors coaxed different languages to provide similar results. |
| Creatures Adventures | 1999-09-01 | Mindscape, Inc. | Creature Labs Ltd. | Educational, Simulation | Side view | | | | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Creatures Adventures is a game about caring for and observing members of a fictional race of creatures called Norns. The game begins in the hatchery of a house where the Norns live. When the baby Norns hatch, it is the player's responsibility to care for them by feeding and putting clothes on them, watch over them by making sure they stay out of trouble, and reward or discipline them as necessary. The latter is carried out using the ever-present stickler and water jet icons: the first tickles the Norn and makes it happy, while the second sprays water, which the Norn has an aversion to. The player get the privilege of naming their Norns, dressing them, and playing with them. They will often have to monitor multiple Norns at once, each exploring the environment individually.Eventually, the Norns grow up and strike out to bigger and better adventures. Meanwhile, day turns to night and seasons change during the game. The Norns will also pair off and procreate in order to lay the groundwork for more Norns that the player will eventually oversee. Sooner or later, the Norns will die of natural causes and be buried in the backyard of the house, at which point the player gets to start fresh with the new Norn generation.The game features extensive parental controls which allow parents to create game files for different family members complete with passwords. The parental controls also allow limiting each family member to a certain amount of playing time each day as well as specifying bedtime. |
| Deer Avenger 2: Deer in the City | 1999-09-01 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Hypnotix, Inc. | Action, Sports | 1st-person | | Comedy | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Deer Avenger 2 is an obscene parody of the many deer hunter games seen in the PC market. Only this time...you're the deer.One late afternoon, our hero spies a hot-date doe, and he's hoping to get some tail. But before he can make a move three redneck hunters pop out of nowhere, and mow her down with their truck. Angry with revenge, the testosterone-laden deer picks up his high-powered tranquilizer gun and follows the tracks back to the city...Using your tranquilizer gun, it is up to you to hunt three targets across three different levels. In order to find your targets, you will have to travel to the local suburbs, an office building, and a shady bar. But before the hunters will reveal themselves, you have to take down the locals first. Bikers, neighbors, office workers, and local beer-chugging idiots will stop your every attempt at urban domination. Deer Avenger 2 features side-scrolling looping levels, where you pivot around one point and aim 360 degrees around you. Aim your gun with the mouse, and hold shift to take cover. In case you get into a tight situation, you can also fart to take out enemies around you. Make sure to shoot pieces of the scenery as well. You never know if something will contain life-giving salt lick.Deer Avenger 2 is a parody and has a silly undertone to it. All levels and cut scenes are completely 2D and animated, making it feel like a cartoon. The game pokes fun at "rednecks", who are often the butt of many grotesque jokes the game throws out. The content and dialog provided also acts as a commentary to the mocking undertone in the game.
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| Hot Wheels: Crash! | 1999-09-01 | Mattel Interactive | Prolific Publishing, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In this game you are a stunt driver. Your goal is to produce the most spectacular crash possible. Drive one of 12 different Hot Wheels vehicles into one of 14 movie sets, controlling angle and velocity such that you will cause the wildest chain reaction of destruction. The more outrageous the crash, the higher you score. Levels include a construction site, fireworks factory, amusement park and more. After the stunt, you can check out the bird's eye view to perfect your crash technique. Additional levels are downloadable from the internet. Game package comes with a Hot Wheels car. |
| MatchBox Caterpillar Construction Zone | 1999-09-01 | Mattel Interactive | Prolific Publishing, Inc. | Action, Educational, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down | | | Puzzle elements | | Truck, Vehicle simulator | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | You are at the controls of 6 unique Caterpillar construction machines, accomplishing a variety of tasks around 10 different construction sites - moving dirt, digging holes, performing rescues. Free form construction play allows you to complete your objective in many different ways. There are two levels of difficulty and three view perspectives. The game allows you to create and print personalized certificates as well as customize the inside of your vehicle. A custom hardware controller can be attached to your keyboard, making it look like the cockpit of a Caterpillar vehicle. |
| Mister Quizz et la Malédiction du Manoir | 1999-09-01 | VTech Electronics North America, L.L.C. | pixelpark | Action, Educational, Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | Horror | Board game, Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | Up to four players take part in a game show hosted by "Mister Quizz", a rather baffled and unorganized guy, who is accompanied by his naughty dog. The show takes place at a spooky castle, where the players have to answer three rounds of questions about history, culture, entertainment and computer games, each one located in a different room.Players can choose an avatar form a total of eight, including a mad scientist, a mummy, a zombie, a werewolf and a black widow.The player that answers the most quickly (and correct of course) gains points. Winning the mini-game, a spider race, adds to the score too. The game's objective is to raise a monster in the castle's secret lab. After each round each player's score lets his or her monster grow, which of course has an catastrophic outcome!Mister Quizz is entirely played with a set of buzzers (two of which are included in the box) that are connected to the PC's joystick port. The standard keyboard can be used as alternative input device. |
| Outcast | 1999-09-01 | Infogrames, Inc. | Appeal S.A. | Action | Behind view | | | Puzzle elements, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | In the year 2007, a parallel universe is discovered by scientists. The U.S. government sends a probe to that universe and learns of the existence of an entire alien civilization there. However, an apparently hostile alien damages the probe, leading to the creation of a black hole threatening the very existence of our own world. Former U.S. Navy S.E.A.L. Cutter Slade is assigned to escort three scientists to the parallel universe in an attempt to repair the probe and avert the danger.Upon arrival, Cutter is separated from the scientists and is greeted by the local inhabitants, the Talan. It appears that their world, Adelpha, has its own troubles: a mysterious being known as Faé Rhan has been assembling an army consisting of Talans who think themselves superior to the rest of the population and willing to rule over them with violence. Cutter is proclaimed the Ulukai, a savior mentioned in a prophecy, and entrusted with the task of retrieving five sacred relics needed to overthrow Faé Rhan - all while trying to locate the scientists and save the Earth as well in the process.Outcast is a 3D third-person (with optional first-person view) action game with adventure elements. In search for five sacred relics, the protagonist travels through the five continents of Adelpha (plus one tutorial island). Each land has its own landscape (mountains, lakes, forests), populated areas, as well as dozens of minor problems - small quests that the hero is required to solve. Most Talans populating the world can be conversed with about a variety of topics. A large portion of the game consists of finding key characters and performing quests for them; some of these are optional, though most must be completed in an adventure-like linear fashion in order to advance the plot. Cutter is free to travel between the continents using special portals. Apart from exploration and completing quests, Cutter will also fight many guards and creatures. At his disposal are six futuristic weapons (railgun and others); ammunition for those guns is scattered around and can also be produced by mixing items. Aiming help is provided in the form of laser sights. Sneaking up to the enemy and punching him out silently is also possible. Gadgets such as a holo-decoy can be used to help Cutter gain the upper hand in combat. The player character can also jump, climb, swim, dive, crawl, and ride a local animal known as Twon-Ha for faster travel. |
| Rage of Mages II: Necromancer | 1999-09-01 | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Nival Entertainment | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Rage of Mages II: Necromancer is the sequel to the first game in the series and continues in its role-playing and strategy roots. This time the player must fight over 30 enemies on their quest to defeat the evil Necromancer Guild. On your journey through forests and deserts, you will find companions and search for the Crown, an ancient treasure which has the power to defeat even the most powerful necromancer in battle. |
| Mech Commander: Gold | 1999-09-03 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | FASA Studio | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | Wargame | Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Mech Commander Gold includes the original Mech Commander along with the new campaign Desperate Measures and several improvements, including completely new terrain, new mechs, and multiple difficulty settings. It also includes an editor to design your own missions. Mech Commander itself is an isometric real-time strategy game with the persistence of the Mechwarrior role-playing. As you lead your lance through missions, their skills would grow, you'll salvage/capture more mechs, more weapons, and so on and so forth. |
| BoaBite3D | 1999-09-04 | Wah-Software | Wah-Software | Action | Behind view | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | BoaBite3D is a variant of Snake, turning the concept into a 3D game and played from a first-person perspective. The player controls a Boa constrictor who wants to eat fruit. The game is played in a closed environment and the snake can be moved in any direction. Four movement keys are used to control the snake and this can be done in the normal control mode (left and right makes the snake turn) or in the elite control mode (named after the spaceship control in the C64 game Elite) where those keys make the snake roll left or right instead of just turning.Similar to the original Snake, with each piece of fruit the Boa grows in length and it cannot touch any part of its own tail or the environment walls, or the game is over. The goal is to survive as long as possible while increasing the length, maneuvering in 3D space. The game perspective is not entirely first-person as a part of the head and the tongue is still visible, rather it resembles as if the camera is mounted on its head. There are different viewpoints available. Fruit spawns gradually and there are three types to collect. An apple adds four points to the length, a chili pepper adds six and speeds up movement until a next piece of fruit is picked up, and a mushroom adds eight and makes the speed change constantly until the next fruit, creating a wobbly effect.Next to single-player with different levels that progress when a certain length has been achieved, the game can be played in a vertically divided split-screen with two players on a single PC. In addition to the regular conditions the Boa cannot collide with the other player's tail whose snakes moves in the same environment and chases after the same pieces of fruit. When both snakes survive, the one with the most points wins when time runs out. Highscores are saved in a table. Multiplayer is not available in the unregistered shareware version. |
| Madden NFL 2000 | 1999-09-04 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Tiburon | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Multiple units/characters control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | John Madden brings the best football back to PC, bigger than ever! All 31 NFL teams (including the new Cleveland Browns), all-star and classic teams, player-specific animations, and much more. Graphics are better than ever. Improved running and rush interface gives you the ultimate control over strategy and execution. Even a franchise mode to keep you busy for a while. |
| Knjaz': Legendy Lesnoj strany (Podarochnoe izdanie) | 1999-09-06 | 1C Company | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is a gift edition of Legend of the North: Konung. It contains:
Legend of the North: Konung in box
T-shirt
Poster
Mouse pad |
| Mob Rule | 1999-09-08 | Simon & Schuster Interactive | Studio 3 Interactive Entertainment Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation | Interwar | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | A city building game similar in nature to SimCity, but with elements of real time strategy thrown in the mix.Playing the part of a small time mobster who wants to work his way up in the organization, the goal is to take over various towns and wipe out the competition at the same time.Gameplay involves purchasing land and placing various types of buildings on it (such as soup kitchens, drinking dens, peep shows, hospitals, factories, etc.), then selecting a tenant to live/work in the business. Tenants produce other tenants, workers or cash. As the game progresses, a gadget factory also becomes available to manufacture various gadgets necessary to upgrade businesses.While building the city of their dreams, the player must also manage the members of their gang, who come in three different types.
The Workers build the buildings and help take out the competition.
The Fixers perform the upkeep on the properties so they don't fall into total disrepair or burn down, and also help eliminate the other teams as necessary.
The Gangsters are enforcers sent to take over other properties and whack the poor mooks that need a beating.The player can create teams of their own men (the only female characters in the game running the brothels) or control them individually.Mob Rule offers solo play through 5 scenarios or online play against up to three other players. |
| Expert Pool | 1999-09-10 | Psygnosis Limited | Visual Sciences Ltd. | Simulation, Sports | | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | Released | Windows | Expert Pool is a billiards simulation game that recreates the look, feel and atmosphere of a live pool game by combining 3D graphics, accurate physics, and real-time automated characters.There are 19 different games to choose from and several options within each (Illegal Shots, Elimination, Nominations etc.). Play in one of 13 locales (bars, pool halls, tournament rooms etc.), each with its own ambiance, setting and music. Pick from about 200 different computer players in real-time, all who have their own unique style of playing, movements, skill levels, AI routines and dialogue.There are three different multiplay options: Local Multiplay, where all of the players take turns on one table; a LAN option and Internet play.
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| Hell Fighter | 1999-09-12 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Hell Fighter is a freeware, top-down space combat game. Although never entirely completed as a full game, it allows players to create and complete missions and set up skirmishes with a variety of different space ships. The game supports more than one player on a single machine. Networked multiplayer is available in the Windows version. The game supports adding content through modding. |
| NHL 2000 | 1999-09-14 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Behind view, Diagonal-down, Side view, Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | The millennium installment in the NHL series brought as usual updated rosters, featuring for the first time the Atlanta Thrashers, plus enhanced graphics and sound.The two main features of the game are the new Dynasty mode, allowing a player to lead a team to success for 10 straight seasons, while keeping an eye on the new talent on the yearly drafts and trading with other teams, and the face import feature, which gives the chance to assign each custom player their own face based on a photo. To do so, a photo must be placed in a folder, imported and then hotspots (head shape, eyes, nose and mouth) must be set, to define how the texture will be mapped into the face model. Gameplay became a lot faster and tougher, and two new moves were included: "Big Hit", to flatten the oppositions' golden boy, and "Special Movement", to go around those tough defenders with ease. Other new features include individual player and goalie boost (to give an handicap for a team), jersey selection, including classic throwback jerseys.One of the most important changes done to the game was how the game timer worked: before, the period length on the clock matched the time set by the player, but starting with NHL 2000, every period has 20 minutes which are compressed into the time set by the player. This makes penalties a lot shorter (a minor elapses in just 30 seconds in a five minute period setting) thus reducing the powerplay percentage, which experienced players could keep in the high 90's in previous games, but also fixes the handicap of goaltenders in played games (a goaltender that suffered a single goal would have his GAA a lot higher than a goalie that suffered more goals in a simulated game).The rest of the game remains as usual: 28 teams can play in a season (with the ability to choose between a short, medium or long season length), setting the then new NHL overtime loss point, playoffs (with best of 1, 3, 5 or 7 matches), international tournament and shootout. The beginner mode continues to be featured, and allowing players to feel the ice for the first time without having to deal with complicated controls, penalties or tough opponents. Bill Clement replaced Daryl "Razor" Reaugh in colour commentary, and Jim Hughson remains in play by play. Alternative rock band Garbage provided the lead track (Push it!, from their Version 2.0 album). |
| Perky Rabbit | 1999-09-15 | Lonai Software | Lonai Software | Action | Side view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | Perky Rabbit is a simple child-friendly 2D platformer. When an evil witch threatens a peaceful fairytale kingdom, two rabbits head out to save the day. Players choose one of two rabbits to play as, then run their way through various linear stages while hopping on enemies and collecting items. Gameplay is occasionally shaken up via several different power-ups, such as an invincibility power-up or a motorcycle that allows players to move more quickly. |
| Sinistar: Unleashed | 1999-09-15 | THQ Inc. | GameFX Technology | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | Shooter | | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | This is a remake of the classic '80s arcade game Sinistar.The player gets sucked through a wormhole into the alternate universe of the Sinistar, where his spaceship is transformed into a strange organic living spaceship. In the center of each level is a huge jumpgate that evil worker drones are busy powering up by attaching sinisite crystals to it. Once the gate is fully powered an enormous, very aggressive boss monster comes out of it: the Sinistar. The player's job: destroy the gate before the Sinistar can get through it. If that can't be done, at least delay the arrival of the Sinistar as long as possible, and when it does arrive: destroy the Sinistar. But it won't be easy. Enemy fighters patrol the area. The Sinistar and the gate can only be harmed by using a special weapon, the sini-bomb.This game has 24 levels. Almost all of them follow the structure described above, though there are a few that are different. Each level has unique creatures, and every Sinistar is different.To power-up the player must mine asteroids for sinisite crystals. These will power the player's weapons. There are seven weapons:
Mining laser,
Cutting laser;
Photon torpedoes,
Long range missiles,
Short range missiles,
Concussion weapon,
Lightning bolt, and
Sinibombs
Also, there are many power-ups:
Orbital defense turret,
Guard turret,
Shields,
Speed boosters,
Mind control, and
Ship upgrade.
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| Flight Unlimited III | 1999-09-17 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Looking Glass Studios, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | North America | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | | Kids to Adults | | Windows | Looking Glass' third installment of their civilian flight simulations, Flight Unlimited series.Seattle is the main region that's modelled for the game. And if you already own Flight Unlimited II you are able to fly its San Francisco scenery in addition. You can also visit eight western locations (but not very detailed ones) like Los Angeles, Yosemite or Grand Canyon.Flight Unlimited III adds to its content many new user-flyable air crafts (Beechjet 400A, Fokker DR 1, etc.) as well as a strong weather system (including thunderstorms, ice and snow) and an improved air traffic control. Besides, the game features lots of challenges, scenarios and flight training tutorials... all in a very enhanced game engine.It comes with Looking Glass Flight Editor (FLED) in which you can place objects to Flight Unlimited's virtual world (try to complete the Western U.S. with your creations!). |
| Prince of Persia 3D | 1999-09-17 | Learning Company, Inc., The | Red Orb Entertainment | Action | Behind view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | Middle East | | | | Teen | Chris Grun | Windows | The Sultan of Persia and his son-in-law are visiting the Sultan's brother, Assan. The friendly family meeting soon turns into a nightmare: Assan kills the young Prince's bodyguards, locks him up in a prison, and captures the Sultan. The reason is a little disagreement between the brothers regarding matrimonial arrangements: it appears that the Sultan had promised his daughter to Assan's son, Rugnor, and later broke his promise by letting her marry the Prince. In the resulting turmoil, the Sultan is killed, and the Princess is kidnapped by Rugnor, a ruthless half-tiger creature. The Prince must figure out a way to find Rugnor, defeat him, and rescue his wife.Prince of Persia 3D is just what its title implies: an action platformer with puzzle-solving elements in the style of the previous Prince of Persia games, but set in a three-dimensional environment. The Prince still has to time his jumps, avoid deadly traps, interact with the environment, and fight Rugnor's minions who will try to stop him. |
| Archipelagos 2000 | 1999-09-19 | Sold Out Sales & Marketing Ltd. | Anthill Studios | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | | | Windows | Archipelagos 2000 is a remake of the 1989 original. The official storyline is identical to the European story of the original Archipelagos: You explore various lands where everyone has been killed and the land has been poisoned, and it is your job to cleanse the land and bring peace to the people buried there.The gameplay is identical in every way; only the game environment has changed. Everything is rendered in true 3D, from the poisonous trees to the waves in the water. The sole improvement on gameplay is that the player can now look up and down instead of just left and right as in the original. |
| Microsoft Pandora's Box | 1999-09-19 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Puzzle | Side view, Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | A puzzle game in which you must solve puzzles in order to locate the seven tricksters, Maui, Puck, Eris, Monkey, Anansi, Coyote, and Raven, released from Pandora's Box and return them to its confines. To trap each trickster, you must locate four pieces of the box in cities around the world, and then capture the trickster himself in a special extra-hard puzzle.Includes 350 puzzles of 10 different kinds created for this game: "Find and Fill," "Focus Point," "Image Hole," "Interlock," "Jesse's Strips," "Lens Bender," "Outer Layer," "Overlap," "Rotascope," and "Slices." The puzzles feature pictures, art, and objects appropriate to the cities in which they're set. As you proceed, you can find tokens for hints and free puzzles in case you get stuck or don't like some of the puzzle types (which can get rather difficult on the later levels). |
| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear | 1999-09-22 | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed, Regional differences | | Shooter, Tactical shooter | | | | | Teen | | Windows | More of the same from the Rainbow Six series. Your team is back saving the world again. This time from a group known as "Rogue Spear". Their forces are powerful and you must strike quick and hard if you wish to win. |
| Aha!Game | 1999-09-23 | Computer Systems Odessa Corp. | Computer Systems Odessa Corp. | Puzzle | | | | Tile matching puzzle | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Aha! is a puzzle game in which you get a playing field filled with different-shaped pieces. If two or more pieces of the same shape are touching, you can click the mouse on them to make them disappear, which lets other pieces move into the empty spaces left. The object is to clear the whole board.You can adjust the number of different shapes you have to work with (fewer shapes makes for an easier game) to suit your skill level. |
| Asuka 120% Return: BURNING Fest. | 1999-09-24 | Family Soft Co., Ltd. | Family Soft Co., Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | Contemporary | | Direct control | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | This installment of the Asuka 120% series adapts the gameplay and sprites from Asuka 120% Limited: Burning Fest. Limited with newly updated illustrations. |
| Kaiki! Drill Otoko no Kyōfu | 1999-09-24 | Tetratech | Tetratech | Adventure | | | Adult, Horror | | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Three sisters got lost in the woods and found a mansion in which they decided to spend the night.
However, they are not alone in the castle. It is inhabited by a Drill Man, who seeks to rape them upon meeting them. The player's task is to discover the mystery of the mansion as one of the three sisters, avoiding the Drill Man and other situations in which they can be raped.
When the girls are pursued by the Drill Man, they must find a place to hide from him or an object to throw at him to run away. But there is a chance that he will detect them when they are hiding and then they need to move the mouse quickly to avoid his attack.
The game is over when the players fulfill certain conditions that lead to them being raped or when the drill man takes all of the girl's clothes off. |
| No IQ | 1999-09-24 | Popcorn Entertainment | Popcorn Entertainment | Puzzle | Side view | | | | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | No IQ is a freeware, single player, Lemmings-like game.Somewhere deep in space is a planet called Beta. It is inhabited by a race known as Fools, they are called this because they are, well, extremely foolish. Their planet Beta is due to explode very soon so they have summoned a being of extreme intellectual ability, i.e. the player, to guide them to safety via some kind of inter-space portal their ancestors left behind.The game is mouse controlled. The Fools wander across platforms and fall to their doom unless the player causes them to change direction, there are also bombs that can be used to 'modify' the game area. The game has twenty levels and the player must save a specified number of Fools in order to progress to the next level.
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| AMA Superbike | 1999-09-25 | Motorsport Simulations, Inc. | Motorsport Simulations, Inc. | Racing / Driving, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Motorcycle, Track racing | Direct control | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | AMA Superbike puts you in the hot seat of professional AMA Superbike racing. You choose which class of racing you want to tackle, either Supersport (four bikes) or Superbikes (five bikes). You have three levels of difficulty: beginner, intermediate and expert. You can race online with up to 30 people using Motorsims own network servers. Physics modeling and the for joystick designed controls are geared toward a simulation aspect. The motorcycle settings can be changed before every race. |
| Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings | 1999-09-27 | Microsoft Corporation | Ensemble Studios Corporation | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy | Asia, Europe, Historical events, Medieval, Middle East | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Teen | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | In Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, the player takes control of one of thirteen civilizations, including the Chinese, Goths, Britons, and Vikings, among others. The player starts with a handful of villagers, through expansion and careful handling of the economy, the player can advance up to the point where powerful war machines and well trained masses of troops will be the player's to make and control. There are three distinct ways to play, one of which the object is to hunt and kill the other player(s) king, however there are a lot of options for each, anywhere from what type of map to start on (including coastal, gold rush, arabia, and rivers) to what the maximum amount of units are allowed.The player can also play online at the Zone vs. up to seven other players, or via a TCP/IP connection. |
| Chessmaster 7000 | 1999-09-27 | Mindscape, Inc. | Mindscape, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down, Top-down | | | Board game, Chess | | | Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | Prepare yourself to experience computer chess in an entirely new way. As always, those who don't feel strong enough to oppose the computer AI can always play more or less introductory chess in a basics-learning category. In this installment, there is a strong support on learning the basics and entering the world of chess itself, for adults and kids alike, with more appropriate figures to match the learner's age better. For more experienced chess players, tournaments with 80 human-like adversaries or over 35 grandmaster personalities are also available. The game includes an extended 500,000+ game database, and players can also challenge friend or foe to show their skills over modem or Internet. |
| Disciples: Sacred Lands | 1999-09-27 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Strategy First, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | RPG elements, Turn-based strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | The Sacred lands are split between three races, each with their problems, and at odds with their Gods. After thousands of years locked away in the tumultuous world that he helped create, the powerful devil Bethrezen has a chance to escape his punishment by laying waste to the land. Along with his twisted Army of the Damned, he seeks to wipe away the mistakes of his earlier creation and recreate the planet in his own image. His former people, the strong human races that develop the Empire who live for peace, are the only things that stand in his way.The Mountain Clans, Dwarven followers of the god Wotan, are at war with The Hordes. Long ago, Wotan killed another God in a battle. The fallen god's wife Mortis, in an act of vengeance, wiped out an entire race and turned them into the Undead Hordes, who spread across the realm seeking to embrace all races in their cloak of death. At the beginning, you must choose which race you wish to lead in battle. But as time passes, all three clans stories will combine, and the war will rage on even further. Modes to choose from include Sagas (the main area of the game, where the stories combine into one hug battle), single player missions and plenty of multiplayer action. |
| Dogz 4 | 1999-09-28 | Mindscape, Inc. | PF Magic | Simulation | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Dogz 4 is a virtual pet game based on the Petz 3 engine with added features such as travel play scenes, voice recognition with IBM Via Voice, and the ability to adopt pigs and bunnies. Players can also create and edit their own play scenes with the editor. You can choose from many different breeds of canine friends in the adoption center. Your Dogz need a lot of care and attention. If they are neglected, the program will warn you that your Dogz have run away! If you optionally install Catz 4, you will have the option to play with both Dogz and Catz in a combined version, allowing you to have one dog and one cat, and vice versa. |
| Homeworld | 1999-09-28 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Relic Entertainment Inc | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera | Windows | A discovery is about to turn the culture of Kharak upside down. The people, Kushan, are not native to Kharak at all. The discovery of the Guidestone is the ultimate proof that Kushan had came from another solar system, far away. And it's time to go home. The Mothership project united the world. Part base, part construction yard, the Mothership is capable of everything, as you never know what you will find in the void...Homeworld is a 3D strategy game where you control a mothership and a fleet as you harvest resources, conduct research, and build up your fleet that can vary from small, fast, and nimble scouts to lumbering heavy cruisers. Move your camera in full 3D (up/down/around) and issue full 3D movement orders. Specify 3D formations for your ships, employ cloaked vessels to ambush enemy or employ salvage vessels to capture enemy ships, or defend against them with prox sensors and mines. There is a 17-mission single player campaign, or you can play online in true internet multi-player.
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| Panzer General 3D Assault | 1999-09-28 | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | War | Turn-based strategy | Africa, Europe, Historical events, World War II | Tank | | Turn-based | Everyone | | Windows | The Panzer General series of wargames had always been viewed in 2D, until this title. 3D Assault features a fully 3-dimensional world using models for the units, and a rotatable world view. There are 8 different World War 2 campaigns to play through, with the chance to represent France, the USA or Great Britain. Units include a full roster of artillery, infantry and tanks. Experience is handled in a different way to the earlier games in the series - points are assigned through commanders' achievements. Specialist abilities for commanders must be used wisely. The environment is interactive, watch out for burning forests and smoking damaged units. |
| Armored Fist 3 | 1999-09-29 | NovaLogic, Inc. | NovaLogic, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Tank, Vehicular combat | | | Teen | | Windows | Third in the Armored Fist series of games that started in 1994. This is more of an action tank game than a simulation.In Armored Fist 3, players command M1A2 Abrams tanks across four campaigns that encompass more than 50 missions of tank combat. As well as controlling your own tank, you have command authority over others. The interface is designed to simplify the often-complex game situations.Also includes Internet multiplayer for up to 32 players, on NovaLogic's online gaming service. Gameplay modes include Capture the Flag, Deathmatch and Team Play. |
| Silver | 1999-09-29 | Infogrames, Inc. | Infogrames UK Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | | Teen | Cinematic camera | Windows | An RPG set in a medieval land where all the women have been kidnapped and it is up to you to get them back. What starts as a mission to save the women soon turns into a battle against good and evil to the death. |
| NHL Championship 2000 | 1999-09-30 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Radical Entertainment Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | NHL Championship 2000 is a hockey game licensed by the NHL, NHLPA and the FOX Sports channel, which allowed the developers to use not only the likeness of their broadcasting graphics and the Fox Trax technology, but also the voice support of game broadcasters John Davidson and Kenny Albert.One of the key aspects of the game are the passing indicators, which always show which players are open for a pass, allowing a quick, smooth passing play. Advanced puck physics allow for realistic offensive play.Using 1999/2000 rosters, NHL Championship 2000 includes all NHL teams (including the expansion team Atlanta Trashers and All-Star teams) and 18 international teams. The season length can be defined, ranging from the bare minimum (27 games) to a full 82 games season. Player creation and trade is also possible, as well as multiplayer games. |
| Panzer Elite | 1999-09-30 | Psygnosis Limited | Wings Simulations GmbH | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | World War II | Tank, Vehicle simulator | | | Teen | | Windows | Panzer Elite is a tank simulation in which you command a platoon of tanks for either the US Army or the German Heer. Your main role is to play the tank commander and give commands to your crew - drive here, shoot at that - as well as the other tanks in your platoon. You can also call in artillery strikes using a mission map.The game consists of a number of missions called scenarios. The missions can be strung together into a campaign which takes place in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, and Normandy, and at the end of a campaign you are asked if you would like to move onto the next.The crew of both your tank and the other tanks in the game will improve in quality as the game progresses. You can see this in many different ways; they start spotting targets earlier, gunnery improves greatly, and drivers will attempt to "hide" their tank in a hull-down position. In addition you are given the chance to change equipment, ammo, and crew between each mission, so you will start the campaign with a beat up tank and end with the latest and greatest. |
| 15 Puzzle | 1999-10-01 | | | Puzzle | Top-down | | | | Europe | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | 15 Puzzle is an implementation of the classic sliding block puzzle with a few twists. The game was originally developed for DOS and WIN 3.1 before this version, version 2.0, was released for WIN 95 but the earlier versions were not very stable and did not have the same functionality that this implementation has.The shareware version comes with just three puzzles:
The first puzzle is played on the standard 4x4 grid with one cell missing. All the remaining cells are numbered from one to fifteen and they are scrambled leaving the player to rearrange them correctly
The second puzzle is based on a topographical map of Europe which is divided into squares and scrambled. The major difference here is that the player can decide on how many pieces the puzzle is divided into, the minimum is 6 x 6 and the maximum is 10 x 10
The final puzzle is 'Rate Your Mind Pal', it's a variation on the first puzzle but using fifteen letters rather than fifteen numbers.
The registered version allows players to make sliding block puzzles from their own picturesAll games can be played in a window or full screen.The game has a couple of features worthy of note, one is the ability to change the colour of the background so that the empty cell stands out, however the main feature of the registered program is it's ability to solve puzzles by itself. |
| Freespace 2 | 1999-10-01 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Volition, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | Space flight | | | Everyone | | Windows | It has been 32 years since the GTA lost contact with Earth. As a young pilot joining the fleet of the GTVA (Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance), you will be fighting the Neo-Terran Front, a rebel faction that opposes the GTA's alliance with the Vasudans. The Shivans will also show up again... Freespace 2 is basically an enhanced version of Freespace. You get better ships (you can fly all the older ships if you like), more and more powerful weapons (both guns and missiles), and capital ships that can actually put up a fight with their anti-fighter beam cannons, turrets, flak, and missile launchers. The capital ships now also engage each other with large beam cannons that shoot beams wider than your craft; these beams can shoot through enemy ships. Contribute to the fight by flying bombers (with large anti-ship torpedoes) or defend by taking out the enemy bombers. Fly escort missions to protect assets, recon enemy assets, test new weapons or even fly a few missions for spec-ops (optional). The game features full multiplayer support at PXO (Parallax Online) and SquadWars.com, with co-op, team-based, or free-for-all dogfights, with many different missions to choose from. It also includes FRED2, a fully featured editor that you can use to create your own missions and campaigns. |
| Inherent Evil: The Haunted Hotel | 1999-10-01 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Eclipse Software | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Puzzle elements | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Twenty years ago, your parents opened the Reed Hotel, and were mysteriously killed shortly after. Now, against all advice, your brother has decided to re-open it... and he's gone missing. You must explore the evil place to save him, and try to escape with your life. What lurks in the bowels of the Hotel's basement? What secrets do the rooms in the upper floors hold?As Kyle Reed, you'll explore from a first person perspective. To move from screen to screen, click on green areas that appear on-screen. Interaction is handled by the use of various icons that appear over "hot spots" or objects, very similar to The 7th Guest.The game is divided into 8 chapters (or "levels"). Should you die, you'll either be exited from the game or be able to restart the previous chapter. There are multiple endings based upon your actions within the game.
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| NASCAR: Revolution SE | 1999-10-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Stormfront Studios | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | NASCAR Revolution SE puts the player in the seat of a stock car. The game has an official NASCAR license and features 17 official tracks (including Charlotte, Talladega, Bristol, Richmond, Darlington, and Martinsville), many NASCAR racers from the late nineties and six legendary drivers.The races can be held during both day and night. Cars are fully customizable and can be repaired in pit stops. Multiplayer is playable in network connections.
In-game commentary is provided by Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsons. |
| Play the Games Vol. 2 | 1999-10-01 | Infogrames Europe SA, Electronic Arts, Inc., Eidos Interactive Limited | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation is the successor of Play the Games Vol. 1. It is still a joint-venture between three big publishers, where each publisher contributes one third of the compilation, but they are not the same publishers anymore. Electronic Arts and Infogrames are still present, but Virgin was replaced by Eidos.The compilation consists of 15 games spread over 18 CD's, which are stored in four quad CD jewel cases (for four CD's), where one is actually a hexa CD jewel case (for six CD's). The box has changed from the standard box format to a big over-sized box.The printed manual is only some sort of reference card. Complete manuals are on the CD in PDF format.Electronic Arts' part of the compilation:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Warhammer: Dark Omen
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!
Superbike World Championship
Future Cop: L.A.P.D.
Infogrames' part of the compilation:
Heart of Darkness
V-Rally: Multiplayer Championship Edition
Herrscher der Meere
Airline Tycoon
The Smurfs: The Teletransportsmurf
Eidos' part of the compilation:
Gangsters: Organized Crime
Tomb Raider II
Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon
Flight Unlimited II
World League Soccer '98 |
| Seafight II | 1999-10-01 | BMS Modern Games Handelsagentur GmbH | TriNodE Entertainment Systems | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | In Seafight II the player controls ships in action oriented sea fights. The player has a choice between England, France, Spain or pirates and can play a campaign on every side. In comparison to its predecessor Seafight the missions are tied together with a story and have more varied goals. Also the controls are now completely mouse-based. Another new features is the possibility to upgrade the ships after missions.The principle of the fights are still the same: The player turns the ships and fires aimed broadsides. But in later levels the player has to control multiple ships and has to play attention to their course. There are also several obstacles on the map like rocks or maelstroms which can wreck a ship. There is no installation on hard disc needed. |
| Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator | 1999-10-01 | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Valkyrie Studios | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) | Fantasy, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | Teen | | Windows | Septerra is a world which is composed of "layers" - continents that spin around the planet center. In the center is the Core, a kind of a living computer. According to the legends, the Creator of Septerra left there a precious Gift - an artifact that grants the one who possesses it legendary powers. Septerra is controlled by the Chosen, who live at the top of the world, consuming massive amounts of energy and throwing the "waste" down, to lower levels. Maya, a "junk scavenger" who lives among those wastes and earns the living collecting junk, unexpectedly comes into contact with the Chosen. It appears that their goal is to reach the legendary Gift. Maya and her friends decide to face the Chosen, and ultimately discover the true history of the planet.Despite its Western origins, Septerra Core is a Japanese-style role-playing game. The game's visual design is close to Japanese anime, and the emphasis of the game is on a character-driven linear narrative with simple role-playing mechanics. The game's story evolves across the seven worlds of Septerra, each with its own distinct style, including post-apocalyptic, semi-medieval, futuristic, etc. In the first half of the game the player-controlled party explores these worlds on foot, accessing towns and other areas from an overworld. Later the player gains a ship that allows fast transportation to any world, including previously inaccessible areas.Combat is turn-based and takes place against enemies who either visibly wander around or appear at pre-set locations in hostile areas. There are no enemies on the world map. The action bar of each character is divided into three segments and is gradually filled. Opting for either fast and weak or strong and slow attacks, the player must select a character in real time, stopping the bar and pausing combat. Magic spells are usually awarded after completing plot events and may be combined with each other by two or three characters to create new ones. The player is for the most part free to form a party of three active combatants from a larger cast. |
| Space Invaders | 1999-10-01 | Activision, Inc. | Z-Axis, Ltd. | Action | Side view | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | In 1978, Earth successfully repulsed an invasion from outer space thanks to "the Tank." The Tank was based on alien technology found when a scout ship had crashed years earlier. Now, over 20 years later, a new Tank has been created based on the technology recovered during the 1978 invasion. And none too soon, because the Invaders are back!Space Invaders is yet another classic arcade game remake by Activision (see Battlezone and Asteroids). But this time, Activision licensed a game from Taito instead of Atari. The game stays close to its roots while adding many power-ups and enemies.You can play either one or two players against the Invaders, who march down the screen in orderly rows and columns, at one of three skill levels. You'll start at Pluto and work your way through the Solar System to Mars, then Venus, and finally Earth. There are four common aliens (red, green, blue, and yellow), plus seven more less common ones. You receive special one shot power-ups by shooting four of the same type of Invaders in a row. As in the original game, there are also Mother Ships that fly above the action, but in this version if you hit them you can pick up other useful power-ups like shields or double shots. Plus, after fighting off several waves on each planet, you'll face a unique boss. If you manage to finish the game, you'll be able to play a reproduction of the original coin-op. |
| Test Drive: Off-Road 3 | 1999-10-01 | Infogrames, Inc. | Accolade, Inc. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Vehicle simulator | | | Everyone | | Windows | Test Drive Off-Road 3 is a off-road racing game that features 27 fully-licensed sport utility vehicles to race in (from manufacturers like Jeep, Nissan and Ford), with different attributes such as top speed, handling, acceleration and suspension.The vehicles are customizable: you can change color, engine, tires, suspension and some special upgrades (which are purchased with credits earned after championship races).There are 11 off-road tracks in different environments (forests, mountains, etc.), which can be raced in two game modes: Arcade (single-race) and World Tour (championship).There is no multiplayer mode in the PC version, while the PlayStation version supports 2 players.The music is played by signed artists such as Blink 182 and Incubus. |
| The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland | 1999-10-01 | Mattel Media | Children's Television Workshop | Adventure, Educational | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | | | Early Childhood | | Windows | The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland is based on the movie of the same name, starring some familiar Sesame Street characters.When Elmo and Blanket venture outside after a game of hide-n-seek, they run into Zoe, who wants to borrow Blanket. Elmo is unwilling to share, however, and while they tussle over it, Blanket flies loose and falls down Oscar's garbage can into Grouchland, soon followed by Elmo. As Elmo trails after glimpses of his beloved Blanket he learns that it may have been captured by the evil and greedy Huxley and held at Huxley's castle atop Mount Pickanose. There are some hot-spot animations to enjoy in this point and click adventure, and five mini-games to complete before Elmo can retrieve Blanket:
Draw, Hide-n-seek - In Elmo's room, Blanket hides behind an object which Elmo will begin to draw; each time the player guesses wrongly, Elmo draws a little more
Building Tracks - the coal mine track needs to be rebuilt so Elmo can get through; pull special pieces of track into place and watch Elmo go
Making Music - The Stenchmen are building a music machine and ask Elmo's help to find objects that make a certain sound
Climbing Mt. Pickanose - Guide Elmo up the mountain from ledge to ledge, avoiding those occupied by goats and green slime
Getting Elmo's Blanket Back - repeat a secret code made up of animal sounds in an audio memory gameThere are two difficulty levels in this game, and there is a map that allows the player to go easily from place to place. The focus is on developing problem-solving skills, shape and color recognition, listening, predicting, patterns, and learning the importance of sharing and friendship. |
| Your Basic Block | 1999-10-01 | | | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | In Your Basic Block you control a blue block, which you move using your arrow keys, avoiding the red block (the enemy) while collecting all purple blocks. Once all purple blocks are collected, you proceed to the next level, but if the red block gets you, the level automatically re-starts.In each level there is a teleporter in the bottom right, which instantly brings you to the upper left corner, otherwise the borders are solid, so don't let the red block corner you. |
| Brick Blaster | 1999-10-05 | Media Pocket | Eclipse | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | A commercial offering featuring the collective talents of demo group Eclipse. Brick Blaster is a ball-and-paddle game in the Arkanoid tradition of masonry-busting: bounce the ball around with your paddle to tear down the walls, and don't let it fall through the bottom of the screen. Three skill settings are offered, and the game's 80 levels are split into two separate groups: 'Space' and 'Arcade'.The monsters waltzing happily across the playfield will send the ball flying in unpredictable directions; on certain levels, special teleporter bricks cause even more confusion. Some of the bricks you blast release power-ups (or power-downs!) to be caught by the paddle. In addition to the single-player game, a second player (human or computer) can jump in and share the playfield: in cooperative mode both players join forces to play for a combined score, while the duel mode pits one against the other.
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| The Next Tetris | 1999-10-05 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Blue Planet Software, Inc. | Action, Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | Everyone | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | It's Tetris, only... new. The Tetris series returns to its roots, eschewing the Disney characters, 3D pieces, hats, and letters that have been tacked on previous entries.Contains the standard Tetris game, as well as some variants. Some of the new features are puzzle pieces made of individual parts- after a piece lands, some parts may be able to break off and continue down; "wiggly" pieces that not only provide trippy eye-candy, but may allow you to squeeze a big piece through a tight spot; challenge modes where you must clear a cluttered playfield with limited time/pieces.Allows for solo or competitive simultaneous play. Also links to a global board via the Internet to compare scores and times. |
| Hierophant | 1999-10-12 | Family Games Freeware | AHA! Software Inc. | Puzzle | | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Hierophant is a single player, mouse controlled, freeware sliding block puzzle.The game takes its name from a class of priest in ancient Greece who was adept in interpreting mystic symbols. In this game the player is given a mystic symbol that has been jumbled and it is their job to recreate it by sliding rows and columns around
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| JumpStart ABC's | 1999-10-12 | Knowledge Adventure, Inc. | Funnybone Interactive | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery | Mini-games | Fantasy | | Point and select | | | | Windows | JumpStart ABC's is an educational game for children aged three to five. It is based on the video JumpStart Preschool: Who Left the Juice in the Caboose? released around the same time. The game is presented as a mystery as the player needs to help Eleanor Elephant find out who spilled juice in the JumpStart train's caboose and did not clean it up. She makes a list of all passengers and from a central hub different educational activities presented as mini-games can be selected, each one tied to a character. Completing the activities provides clues that can be used to solve the mystery so names can be scratched off the list.The activities train counting, the alphabet and letter sounds. In one, the player needs to click items to reveal a letter with the goal to locate the one that matches the letter shown on a board. Another is a racing game where Pierre needs to be steered over matching letters. A different one has the player click on letters to form a correct sequence to clear a path for a train.There are also six songs the children can listen to, aiming to reinforce letter recognition, letter sequencing and letter sounds. Next to Eleanor the other main characters are Casey, Cecil, Kisha and Pierre.
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| Whirlwords | 1999-10-12 | | AHA! Software Inc. | Puzzle | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Whirlwords is a single player, freeware word puzzle in which the player starts with one word and by a process of adding, moving & removing letters to create new words eventually arrives at a specified target word.The game has a built in dictionary of over five thousand words to which the player can add further entries. It has help, hint and 'check my solution' functions and over one hundred and thirty puzzles plus functionality allowing the player to create their own puzzles. Unusually for puzzles of this type the start and end words do not have to be the same length |
| Army Men: "Toys in Space" | 1999-10-13 | 3DO Company, The | 3DO Company, The | Action, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | If you like the other Army Men games, then you'll like this one too. Similar gameplay with new weapons and an entire new race of plastic soldiers. Help Sarge and Tina Tomorrow save the Earth from alien invaders. |
| Cydonia: Mars - The First Manned Mission | 1999-10-13 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | Aneiva Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Earth is dying, you, the player must save it by succeeding in the colonization of Mars. This is an adventure game that looks a lot like Cryo's brand, meaning 3D pre-calculated graphisms, with smooth transition when moving from place to place, plus of course, the obligatory full-motion cut-scenes. The art is impeccably done and up to the standards of the release year (1998).Upon arriving on Mars, however, the landing module hits an unexpected force-field and crashes, and that's where the adventure begins.
The first puzzles are quite easy; they consist of saving the module and the two other humans aboard from the shipwreck and the subsequent fire, all the necessary hints being given to you by one of your shipmates.
However, after that point, puzzles are way more difficult, as they consist (at first at least) of exploring remains of an alien civilization, with thought processes "alien" to human players. |
| Jumble | 1999-10-13 | Family Games Freeware | AHA! Software Inc. | Puzzle | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | Direct control | Turn-based | | | Windows | Jumble is a single player, freeware puzzle gameIn this game is similar to the player is a number of rows of letters and punctuation marks, the number of rows depends on the difficulty setting, by selecting letters from each row as appropriate the player then decodes a well known phrase or saying.This game has four difficulty settings and allows the player between three and nine hints per phrase depending on the difficulty. It can be played with or without a time limit and has editing functions that let the player create their own phrasebooks, the shareware game comes with two phrasebooks, Default and Beatles.
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| Swarm Assault | 1999-10-14 | Mountain King Studios Inc. | Gate 5 Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | | Real-time | | | Windows | Swarm Assault is a real time strategy game where you battle with swarms of ants, beetles, spiders, scorpions and wasps to control the map. Each of the 5 Colonies have 3 units you can build, there is no resource management as the stronger the unit is the longer it takes to hatch. In total there is 100 levels to progress through based on 4 different terrain types, also a level creator to generate your own maps. |
| 6 Great Games II: Windows 98 | 1999-10-15 | Encore Software, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | 6 Great Games II is a multi-pack which contains full versions of:
Scrabble
Chessmaster 5000
Flying Corps Gold
Pro Bass Fishing (1998)
The Golf Pro
Slot City |
| Avery Cardoza's 100 Slots 2000 | 1999-10-15 | Cardoza Entertainment, Inc. | Cardoza Entertainment, Inc. | Gambling | 1st-person | Licensed | | | | | Menu structures | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Avery Cardoza's 100 Slots 2000 is a casino slots simulation. It offers 100 machines with 27 variants in gameplay such as three reel, three reel criss-cross, three reel traditional, four reel progressive, five coin four reel and three reel speciality. It also contains a book of 160 pages with winning strategies by Avery Cardoza. |
| Oktagon | 1999-10-15 | Family Games Freeware | AHA! Software Inc. | Puzzle | | | | | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Oktagon is a pair of freeware puzzle games set inside an octagon;
Game 1 - This is a tangram puzzle in which the player has to reassemble a number of pieces inside the octagon. There are five puzzles each using a different number of pieces ranging from four to eight. This puzzle that appears in AHA! Software's game Uncle Julius and the Anywhere Machine.
Game 2 - This game consists of a series of concentric differently coloured octagons each with a dark spot on the centre of one side. The 'rings' turn when clicked on and the player's task is to line up all the spots, of course it's not that simple as turning one ring may turn others. This is a timed puzzle.
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| Pic Tac Toe | 1999-10-16 | Family Games Freeware | AHA! Software Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | | | | Point and select | Turn-based | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Pic Tac Toe is a freeware game for two players or one player vs the computer, it's a like combination of Tic-Tac-Toe and Connect Four played with pictures.The game is played on a 4x4 grid where each cell is further divided into four and contains three or four pictures. Clicking in one of the small pictures within a cell changes that picture, not the whole cell, to the player's colour. A player can win a round if they either;
change all four of the small squares in a cell to their colour
make a line of four, horizontally, vertically or diagonally of small pictures which occupy the same position within their cell. In this case the picture itself is irrelevant it is its position that counts, for example a diagonal line where all four occupy the lower right position within their respective cells would win
make a line of four, horizontally, vertically or diagonally of identical small pictures. In this case the position of the picture is irrelevant it is having four the same that wins
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| Sean's Magic Slate | 1999-10-17 | Family Games Freeware | AHA! Software Inc. | Educational | 1st-person | | | | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Sean's Magic Slate is a single player, mouse controlled 'painting' program for young children. It is one of the activities featured in the shareware game I Live At Santa's House! designed for 3-7 year olds. It comes with four sets of backgrounds and pre-drawn figures. Each set contains two backgrounds in both blank and coloured in forms together with eight pre-drawn figures such as children, cat, dog tree etc. The pre-drawn figures can be used with any background, once selected they are placed with the mouse, flipped left/right and their size can be changed.There are sixteen colours split into two sets of eight with set two being darker shades of set one and the player toggles between these by clicking on a lightbulb button.
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| Monster Manor | 1999-10-18 | | | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | | | | Point and select | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Monster Manor is a short adventure game with 3-D rendered graphics. The player's task is to get rid of seven monsters haunting an old mansion. The game is shown in first-person perspective, with the player moving from room to room using arrow buttons. Left-clicking an object in the environment allows the player to examine it, right-clicking an object allows the player to manipulate it or pick it up; an inventory item can be used by clicking it and right-clicking another object, or by double-right clicking the inventory item to use it on the player character. There are several situations where the player can die or otherwise lose the game, necessitating frequent saving. |
| Deer Hunt Challenge | 1999-10-19 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | EA Seattle, Inland Productions, Inc. | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | Hunting | | | Drew Robertson | | Teen | | Windows | Deer hunt Challenge is a hunting game that offer dozens of ways to hunt trophy bucks. Large 3D environments offer miles and miles of whitetail, blacktail and mule deer to be stalked, tracked, and still hunted. The hunters can use tree stands, blinds, calls, scents, decoys, rifles, bows, shotguns and more to hunt deer. |
| Jane's Combat Simulations: USAF - United States Air Force | 1999-10-19 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Pixel Multimedia | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Behind view | Licensed | War | | Asia, Cold War, Contemporary, Europe, Historical events, Middle East | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Direct control, Voice control | | Everyone | | Windows | Jane's Combat Simulations: USAF - United States Air Force is a multi-aircraft simulator that is built upon the engine of its predecessor, Israeli Air Force. As with other titles using the Jane's license, the focus of the game is in creating a realistic and believable military aircraft simulation. Hence, the game's controls and mechanics are elaborate, while all controls can be mapped to a voice command. It is also possible to give basic commands to wingmen, if they are present. While waypoints and refueling can be managed by the aircraft's autopilot, all such maneuvers can be done manually.USAF is based on 8 different fighters and bombers of the United States Air Force: the F-4E Phantom II, F-105D Thunderchief, A-10A Thunderbolt II, F-15C Eagle, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16C Fighting Falcon, F-117A Nighthawk, and the F-22A Raptor. In game modes other than the campaign, the MiG-29 is also available to the player. Each aircraft performs differently and is meant for different tasks, and can be seen from the cockpit (with 2D and 3D views available, and the possibility to look around from the pilot's perspective), from the outside (in a behind view or one of the cinematic views), or with just the HUD visible.The game has four campaigns, two of which are historical (Vietnam War and Desert Storm), and the other two (Red Arrow and Sleeping Giant) being fictional and set in a hypothetical future. Tutorials are extensive, while separate tutorials exist under the umbrella term "Red Flag", which note more demanding tasks and can not be reached at the lowest rank. The player's progress and rank is recorded in their profile, with each mission's success or failure affecting their score. Scoring itself can be changed by setting various difficulties and "aids", with AI help removing score percentages but making the game easier for newcomers.Aside from the campaigns, there are preset single scenarios, as well as a quick mission editor which the player can use to manually set the parameters of a desired air-to-air skirmish (whereas the campaigns have both air-to-ground and air-to-air missions). There is also a Fly Now! button in the main menu, which randomly picks a mission from a small mission pool and puts the player in a random plane. These missions can have the same settings/landscapes as the missions in the campaigns: United States (Nellis Air Force base), Germany, Vietnam, and Iraq. The game comes bundled with a User Mission Editor application as well. USAF has a multiplayer mode available via LAN and JanesCombat.Net (which has since been discontinued).Finally, the signature feature of Jane's-licensed games is the in-game encyclopaedia, which is present in USAF and lists and describes in detail not only the aircraft the player can pilot or shoot at, but also all other objects that can be encountered in the game, as well as missiles that aircraft can be armed with. |
| SiN Gold | 1999-10-20 | Activision, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | SiN Gold is a compilation of:
SiN (base game)
SiN: Wages of Sin (expansion pack)
This is the first release of those titles for the Macintosh. As of 2020, the digital versions of this release are the only updated versions of either title, with included compatibility for later operating systems, bug fixes, and native high resolution support. |
| Wall Street Tycoon | 1999-10-20 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Lumis Studios, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Play a stock broker on wall street. The game includes scenarios and historical settings starting from the 1920s to the 1960s. As a stock broker you have to pay attention to the daily news and decide which stocks to buy and sell for a profit.Wall Street Tycoon is real-time strategy game. The player may choose one of the following game modes:
Historical Simulation
Simulated (free mode)
Internet (multi-player)Gameplay revolves in you buying or selling stock at the right time. Information regarding possible effects to the stock prices are broadcasted via real-time audio news. The player may decide to buy/sell based on that information or by an educated guess from the stock patterns and trends.Historical simulation requires the player to fulfill a certain goal (an estimated amount of capital to be achieved) until a certain time limit. |
| Kids Tetris | 1999-10-24 | Hasbro Interactive Ltd. | Blue Planet Software, Inc. | Puzzle | Side view | | | Falling block puzzle | | | Direct control | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Kids Tetris is a variation of the classic Russian puzzle game geared towards children. The main characters of the game are the Minos, the pieces that make up the Tetris board. There are four locations where you can play Tetris: the circus, the fire station, the laboratory, and the haunted house. Each board requires a certain amount of lines to be cleared to win Tetris. Since the game is a variation for children, the blocks start out small and fall down slowly. As the game progresses, the pieces become more complex and they fall down faster. After you win, there are many toys and stage props that you can play with in the activity center. You can also print out coloring pages based on the game and a certificate for each stage you play. The game supports both single player and multiplayer. The game is playable with the on-screen mouse controls or the keyboard. |
| The Land Before Time: Toddler Time | 1999-10-24 | Sound Source Interactive, Inc. | | Educational | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | The Land Before Time: Toddler Time is the fifth educational title based on the The Land Before Time movie series. This game is designed for toddlers, and features five activities with three levels of difficulty. The targeted age group is two to four. |
| Rezerwowe psy | 1999-10-25 | IPS Computer Group Sp. z o.o. | Nekrosoft | Strategy | | | Adult, Comedy | | | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | A tactical strategy game similar in gameplay to Jagged Alliance. The player controls a contemporary team of mercenaries who are not only characterised by a set of skills or equipment, but also personal traits, what makes each of them a memorable individual.The game content was intended to start a scandal. In addition to violence of close combat between cold blooded mercenaries, mobsters and corrupted policemen, expect vulgar language, adult themes (including prostitution or homosexual sex acts - that's how your team "blows off the steam", apart from taking drugs and drinking alcohol to excess). Game creators wanted to laugh up or at least parody everything: ranging from pop culture to church and politicians. No wonder the box screams "18 or older".The game was packed in a military style stencilled wooden box. |
| FIFA 2000: Major League Soccer | 1999-10-26 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control, Multiple units/characters control | | Everyone | 2D scrolling | Windows | The millennium installment of EAs popular soccer franchise brings a new match engine, over 450 club teams and 40 national from all over the world and also allowing to make dream matches between some of the Worlds' finest teams ever, such as Man. Utd. 1968 and early 90s AC Milan. A team and player editor allows complete edition of the teams. Game modes include Friendly, Cup, League (all customizable) and Season.Gameplay is faster than it's predecessor, and also featuring a new shielding mode, to protect the ball when alone in front and set pieces from corners, which allow the player to kick the ball accurately to a player in the area. |
| Revenant | 1999-10-26 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Cinematix Studios, Inc. | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | Action RPG | Fantasy | | | | Teen | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | It was time when you were happy, with your woman. But she left this mortal plane, and you lost your lust for life. Now, you're something between life and death, and you don't care, slowly recalling your memories from time to time... *whoosh*, a lightning bolt strikes your chains, and you lift your face up. You see a mage, a mage that set you free, but strangely, you can't escape his control. The rule is: whoever summons someone has full control over his conscience and emotions, and your will is his will.The story then began...
A glowing light brings you here, into the castle, well guarded, but too weak to send any men out to fight. It appears that there is a cult of some priests that are rather wicked and play deadly. And the fact that king's daughter is missing, rather doesn't seem to interest you. But, you can't control yourself, so the deal is that you'll be set free once you give a try to save this kingdom from horde of enemies, and rescue the missing daughter.Game is much alike to Westwood Studio's Nox, and Blizzard's Diablo in a way of playing: it is an action game with RPG elements. Your mouse can be used for walking, and taking artifacts, opening doors, etc. but you can also use your keyboard for various actions. During the real-time combat, you can perform many different moves, punches and kicks to eliminate your enemies. |
| Grand Theft Auto 2 | 1999-10-27 | Rockstar Games, Inc. | DMA Design Limited | Action, Racing / Driving | Top-down | Regional differences | Crime | Shooter | | | Direct control | | Mature | 2D scrolling | Windows | Lie, cheat, and steal your way through three districts of a huge city in the follow-up to Grand Theft Auto. Earn the respect of 7 different gangs as you demolish the town in your attempt to make lots of cash.The game takes place at an undisclosed time in the near future. Unlike the first game which featured three different cities, Grand Theft Auto 2 only features a single town, but it's divided in three districts which are unlocked one at a time: downtown, residential and industrial. Like in the original the player goes around answering phones to initiate various missions. The game uses an overhead camera in a 3D landscape and allows the player to freely explore the city and steal any vehicle the player sets his or her eyes on. To unlock new districts the player must reach a certain score which is done by committing crimes and finishing missions.Because the game now features multiple criminal gangs, the player must choose allegiances. Performing missions for one gang, will decrease the player's reputation for another. When the player commits crimes he also becomes wanted by the local police, but as more crimes are committed without shaking the police, they will give way for first SWAT Teams, then Special Agents and finally the army.New features include the ability to save at the church, when donating enough money, and various side missions, such as becoming a taxi driver to ear money. There are also many new cars with weapons attached such as a firetruck with a flamethrower and a car with machine guns.On the PC version the player can change the time of day from noon to dusk to allow for more moody lighting. On the PlayStation the game can only be played at noon, and on the Dreamcast only at dusk. |
| Links LS 2000 | 1999-10-27 | Microsoft Corporation | Access Software, Inc. | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Play golf on several realistic golf courses. Create your own golfer or use a pre-exisiting model. Also includes play-by-play commentators to push the game along. |
| Manage that Waste | 1999-10-27 | | | Action | | | | Arcade | | | | | | | Windows | In this little game your job is to collect the falling trash with your bin, which you move with your arrow keys, to sell them for cash (Money Game mode) or just dispose it (Waste Cleaner Game mode) once your bin contains 10 pieces of waste.Depending on the game mode you play, you either have 60 seconds (money mode) or 30 seconds (cleaner mode) time to get as much waste as possible to the container. |
| Animaniacs Splat Ball | 1999-10-30 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Engineering Animation Inc. | Action, Sports | | Licensed | | Shooter | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | This is a kids paintball game in isometric view featuring Wakko, Yakko, and Dot from the tv animated series. You compete against the show's bad guys such as Thaddeus J. Plotz, Dr. Scratchansniff, and Ralph the Guard through three different playing fields - a Western film set, a Sci-Fi movie set, and the Warner Brothers Back Lot with a total of 72 levels. The game is a version of the familiar Capture the Flag (a balloon actually) and can be played on 3 different difficulty levels. You can pick up power-ups along the way, find hidden areas, and more while avoiding being hit with too much paint or else you will have to take a shower because you're too dirty. You get points by winning games through progressively harder competitions and try to earn the master title of "Sultan of Splat". |
| Asheron's Call | 1999-10-31 | Microsoft Corporation | Turbine Entertainment Software Corp. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person, Behind view | | | Action RPG, Massively Multiplayer | Fantasy | | Direct control | Persistent, Real-time | Teen | | Windows | Asheron's Call is a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). This means that you can interact with hundreds (even thousands) of other players while exploring the gameworld provided by the game developers.Like most RPGs, you start off in Asheron's Call as a rank beginner. As you gain experience, you gain power.The gameworld is robust and, with the exception of zombies, skeletons, and other types of undead, Asheron's Call features completely original creatures not found in the typical fantasy environment (i.e. there are no Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblins, etc).Character development is skill-based, rather than level-based or class-based. This means that your character isn't restricted in his/her ability because of his/her class, and it means that you don't have to wait until you reach a new level to increase your abilities.The biggest thing Asheron's Call has going for it, however, is the fact that once a month the game developers change the world slightly and add to the ongoing storyline. Quests are added which can affect the story, and players can complete those quests if they possess enough skill and luck. The first year of Asheron's Call saw the release and eventual defeat of Bael'Zharon, a major bad guy in the Asheron's Call universe. It was the players who released him, and the players who defeated him. This provides a glimmer of the ultimate promise of the MMORPG genre: the chance for players to have permanent, lasting effects on the gameworld. |
| Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict | 1999-10-31 | Centropolis Interactive | Mythic Entertainment, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | | | | Windows | Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict is an online-only multiplayer-shooter based on the P&P-RPG "Rolemaster". It plays in a medieval fantasy scenario so instead of rocket launchers the players battle with spells. In every match there are two or three teams with one goal: Conquer all the power nodes. This is accomplished simply by using a certain spell in their vicinity. With more nodes the team gets more mana for using spells. Also every team has a more powerful node in their base. The match ends after 60 minutes or when a team has all nodes in their possession.The game features four character classes: magician (strong attacks). mystic (high agility and an invisible spell), runemage (traps) and healer. With every hit and/or kill the player gets experience points and, when earned enough of them, a new level. Bonus points are rewarded for team success and playing the whole 60 minutes. New levels give more spells and points which can be used to improve the player's abilities, e.g. attack power or hit points. To ensure fair fights the players are assigned to matches where the opponents and teammates are about their level. |
| Cabela's Big Game Hunter III | 1999-11-01 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Elsinore Multimedia, Inc. | Sports | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Hunting | | | | | Teen | | Windows | Big Game Hunters return for the third time... Enjoy your virtual trips to the forests of the Alaskan Highlands, the mountains of the Idaho Rockies, the Georgia Woodlands, and the Texas Plains. Hunt 11 different game species, but don't hit the 18 non-game or protected species! Over 20 different weapons, over a dozen hunting aids (lures, calls, etc.), and even tests on hunting safety, ethics, and wilderness survival. Do a quick hunt, or enjoy the full "camp" or "stalk" modes in either 1st or 3rd person. Are you ready to be a Big Game Hunter? |
| Cendric's Quest | 1999-11-01 | Cassidy Software | Cassidy Software | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | Meditative / Zen | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | Cendric's Quest is a graphical 1st person adventure, and a prequel to the game SerpentHead, telling the story of how the SerpentScepter parts, a key item in the main SerpentHead game, was located and reassembled by the mage Cendric. This story is just a brief part of the longer intro to the SerpentHead game itself.The game intro has King Mharim (protagonist of the SerpentHead game) retelling this story to his scribe Ritan, long after the events in the later SerpentHead game.In the past 9-days war with dragons, 5 generations ago, a sceptre was instrumental in defeating the evil sorcerer Salorann in a battle with the Royal Mage Ophiuchus.
However, he was not killed, but only fled, and the mage Ophiuchus hid the sceptre parts in magically protected boxes in the Castle Irongate, to avoid it getting into the wrong hands.
Now Ophiuchus has died, while Salorann has magically prolonged his life and is planning to come back.
The current Royal Mage and Ophiuchus grandson, Cendric has had a premonition in a dream about Salorann returning to threaten the kingdom, and he needs to use the sceptre against Salorann when he reappears.The player takes the role of Cendric, exploring and avoiding dangers set against him by Salorann, and with the goal of finding the three golden boxes containing the parts of the sceptre, hidden in the Castle Irongate, and reassemble them.The DOS version was created with an updated version of the engine used in SerpentHead Deluxe, and the Windows version "Cendric's Quest '99" has different graphics where the game play area and story/dialogue windows are separated. The unregistered versions for DOS & Windows has identical story & puzzles. Both games end after recovering the first of the three parts of sceptre.Registering the DOS game gave you a code to enter in the game, to enable the rest of the puzzles & story, already included in the downloaded file.The full Windows version of the game is mail delivered (after registering), on a CD bundled with "SerpentHead '99", called "The Chronicles of SerpentHead". It has more music & puzzles added. |
| Corsairs: Gold | 1999-11-01 | Microïds | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Corsairs Gold contains:
Corsairs: Conquest at Sea (base game)
Corsairs: The New Conquerors (expansion) |
| CrossCraze | 1999-11-01 | ORT Software | ORT Software | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | CrossCraze is a crossword game for one to four players. It is similar to Scrabble, but with additional features and board layouts.The game features raytraced graphics, easy to use drag-and-drop interface. There are different board layouts, several levels of Artificial Intelligence and an extensive word vocabulary. Supported vocabularies in v3.0 are English (US or UK spelling), Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish. |
| Director of Football | 1999-11-01 | Koch Media GmbH (Germany) | heart-line Software GmbH | Simulation, Sports | 1st-person, Top-down | Licensed | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | Director of Football is a typical football-management game of the "German school" in the line of titles such as Bundesliga Manager series (by the same designers) or the ANSTOSS series, where handling finances take a part as large as managing the team itself. Featuring 4 main leagues (England with 4 divisions, France and Italy with 3 and Spain with 2) along other four minor leagues with a single division (The Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and Scotland). However, only one of the four main leagues can be fully activated, removing all lower levels from the remaining leagues. The player can create his own leagues and data sets (allowing to have more recent or even fantasy squads) using the built-in editor.
And as if that's not enough, the player can also choose to select any team and play with it on another championship, randomize the starting team of players as well as their attributes, positions, ages and stadium sizes, making each game unique.Players are rated according to a "CTI" rating in a 0-999 scale. CTI sums the abilities of a player by averaging his condition, technique and intelligence values, which is further affected by the player form. Each value of the CTI corresponds to a wider range of skills: condition includes his strength, stamina and tackling abilities, intelligence his team spirit, tactical sense and overview and finally technique his average of acceleration, dribbling and shooting values. They are also rated on other special skill areas, such as crossing, goal instinct and experience. Goalkeepers, being specialized players, feature a much more simplified rating system with a single strength category (not affected by form) and seven skill areas.Inside the game, the player is responsible for several areas, including managing the squad (setting tactics and formations and team talks), acting as the titular "Director" (insure players against injuries, hire players and set contracts, set training camps and deal with potential new players for the youth team), and acting in finances (advertising and stadium expansions). The player can earn additional revenue from dealing in the stock market (risky) or making long-term deposits, which provide a reliable return, but the money can't be withdrawn before the stipulated date.The player advances on his career depending on two factors: his success as manager (set by a numeric score) and achievement medals, won by completing the season with certain criteria met (such as a high contract-end average, performing well in the competitions and milking advertisers). |
| Dirt Track Racing | 1999-11-01 | WizardWorks Group, Inc. | Ratbag Pty, Ltd. | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | In this racing game, the player drives a vehicle around small oval dirt tracks. The player can choose to either play one race or play in career mode where the player starts with next to nothing and work your way up gaining sponsors and more money as the player gets better. The player can also race with up to 10 people online.Dirt Track Racing features 3 classes of cars (stock, pro stock, and late model, each can be enhanced with performance parts) and some figure-8 tracks instead of just ovals. |
| Extreme Rock Climbing | 1999-11-01 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Creative Carnage | Sports | Behind view | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Extreme Rock Climbing is a game in the Extreme Sports series of budget priced sport games. It uses three dimensional graphics that are viewed from a third person perspective with six different camera views. The game is mainly played by clicking with the mouse and a climb bar is used to determine the accuracy and energy use of a climb. On first click the bar starts moving up and the higher it goes the more energy is used. The second click decides the energy level and the bar will move down again towards a landing zone. With the third click the player has to stop the bar within the zone to complete the climb. Failing to hit the zone will lead to the player falling. The size of the zone depends on the difficulty of the climb. Three different items can be used during a climb: chalk which improves the grip, power bars that gives a boost of energy and biners that attaches a rope to a rock and thereby prevents the climber from falling all the way down.There are ten different climbing spots with different difficulty levels and they can be played in any order. The player can choose from twelve different climbers although they differ only in appearance and have no effect on the gameplay. There are four different game modes although they mainly differ in the amount of equipment available: practice, free climb, solo climb and capture. The practice has no restrictions in what items can be used while in free and solo climb the player is limited to adding items to five slots. The solo climb differs in that biners are not available. In the capture mode the player's objective is collect a number of flags. |
| GP 500 | 1999-11-01 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Melbourne House | Racing / Driving, Simulation, Sports | 1st-person | Licensed | | | Oceania | Motorcycle | | | | | Windows | This game follows the 98 Championship of the World of GP motorbike racing with 500cc bikes raced by the likes of Michael Doohan, Max Biaggi, Alex Creville.GP500 gives you a choice of the 14 circuits raced in 1998, the real riders and 6 different bikes (the V2s and V4s, and the Modenas KR3 V3). Kenny Roberts Jr. tested the bikes' physics models, so they are very accurate to drive, making GP 500 an accurate simulation not suitable for beginners. |
| Jetboat Superchamps | 1999-11-01 | Real Networks, Inc. | Driver-Inter, Ltd., Fiendish Games, Ltd. | Racing / Driving, Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Arcade | | Naval / watercraft | | | Everyone | | Windows | Arcade boat racing. Take control of one of six Manga-inspired jetboaters, from the noble-but-stern Takeshi to the flirtatious Kaori, and race around the Aqua Marine, Urban Mist and Shrine courses. Beat the competitive Champs in the Championship mode, or challenge yourself against the clock in Time Trial mode. |
| King of Dragon Pass | 1999-11-01 | A Sharp, LLC | A Sharp, LLC | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy | | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | Teen | | Windows | In this turn-based strategy game, based on the role-playing game Rune Quest, you take control of a clan of Orlanthi (somewhat resembling iron age Scandinavians) in the magical world of Glorantha. Yours and many other clans have recently migrated to Dragon Pass, a rich and fertile yet vastly unexplored valley. You try to survive and thrive in this environment however you can, your basic means being crops, livestock, hunting, trade, war and exploration. You can raid or fight the other Orlanthi clans, trade and ally with them and explore the wilderness around you. As resources you have the land you live on, goods your craftsmen create, rare commodities that can be found via exploration as well as horses, cattle, sheep and pigs. Your clan consists of trained warriors, artisans and farmers.The game is split into five seasons each generally allowing the player two actions, but also restricting them: Exploration during the dark season is not advisable and your clan will usually refuse to wage war during harvest time. Additionally you will be presented with many random events which will force you to make decisions. Every decision has its consequences and even the most trivial choice will have repercussions over time. The clan is ruled by a Council of seven that advises the player on most decisions. The council is chosen from a group of potential candidates (basically your nobility); Picking your councilmen and -women according to their abilities and the gods they worship is crucial. Just as crucial is determining who to listen to in a given situation. A great warrior may not be a good advisor on trade and diplomacy, just as a healer may not be adept at matters of war. If a council member causes too much trouble you may have to remove or even outlaw him or her. There are other reasons for reorganizing the council, the most obvious one being the death of a member.Goals of the game, other than mere survival and building a strong, rich clan, are relearning and reenacting all the myths of your gods (called performing a heroquest), forming a tribe from several clans and eventually uniting all tribes into a Kingdom under your leadership.The game consists entirely of still images and selection screens, with a considerable amount of storytelling, requiring the player to read quite a bit. Player interaction is mostly limited to choosing by point and click. |
| Little Kings | 1999-11-01 | Franzis Verlag GmbH | ficus Softwareentwicklung & Entertainment | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Little Kings is a mixture between managerial simulation and Risk. In every match there are two win conditions: a fixed (make another player landless) and a random one (e.g. get a certain amount of resources). One of them has to be fulfilled to win the game. When receiving tax money from the citizens it can be reinvested in the army or used to buy needed resources from other players. Like in Risk other areas are attacked by moving an army from a bordering area into the enemy territory and the computer calculates the results. The special gimmick is that it is not possible to see the enemy's strength before attacking. The game features seven nations with different advantages and disadvantages. |
| Malvinas 2032 | 1999-11-01 | Sabarasa Inc | Sabarasa Inc | Strategy | Top-down | | | | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Real-time | | | Windows | It's year 2032, 50 years passed since Malvinas War, in 1982. The president, due to British negative answer to share one of the lastest oil resources in the world, orders an armed recovery of Malvinas Islands.
Your mission is to command the Argentine forces, destroy the enemy and recover the Malvinas Islands back for Argentina.
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| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 | 1999-11-01 | Microsoft Corporation | ACES Game Studio | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Flight Simulator 2000 is the civilian flight simulator for the new millennium. Built on a foundation of realism that spans over 17 years, Flight Simulator 2000 is the largest leap forward in Microsoft Flight Simulator history. |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000: Professional Edition | 1999-11-01 | Microsoft Corporation | ACES Game Studio | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | Flight / aviation, Vehicle simulator | Direct control | Real-time | | | Windows | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000: Professional Edition is basically the same game as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, just more expensive and with additional features:
Two new aircrafts: Mooney Bravo and Beechcraft King Air 350.
Six new detailed cities: Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, Tokyo, Berlin and Rome.
Updated versions of the Cessna 182S, Cessna 182RG, Learjet 45, Extra 300S, Bell JetRanger III and Boeing 737-400.
Two IFR training panels.
Two editors for air dynamics and instrument panels.
A bonus CD with training videos and demos for other Microsoft products and an extended manual.
Engine sounds can be installed in a better quality. |
| Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger | 1999-11-01 | Her Interactive, Inc. | Her Interactive, Inc. | Adventure | | Licensed | Detective / mystery | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Nancy Drew the famous girl detective from storybooks has a new life, on your PC in this game Stay Tuned for Danger where she has to help her friend who is the lead in a running Soap opera on TV. This game is a point and click adventure where the characters are 3D figures on 2D backgrounds. You can explore in full 360 degrees in some areas and can interact with almost anything. There are also 3 difficulty levels: Junior, Senior and Master Detective. |
| Nations: WWII Fighter Command | 1999-11-01 | Psygnosis Limited | Psygnosis Limited | Simulation | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation | | | Everyone | | Windows | Nations is a WWII flight sim not unlike Jane's Combat Simulations: WWII Fighters.You can fly vintage aircraft like the Focke Wulf 190, Messerschmitt bf109, Messerschmitt 163, Messerschmitt 262, Hawker Hurricane, De Havilland Mosquito, Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Typhoon, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, P-47 Thunderbolt, and finally the P-51 Mustang.
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| Natural Fawn Killers | 1999-11-01 | Fiendish Games, Ltd. | Fiendish Games, Ltd. | Action, Sports | 1st-person | | | Hunting, Shooter | | | | | | | Windows | In this 3D shooter, join psycho hunter Harry as he goes hunting for not only the usual game (deer & bears) but also poor, helpless rabbits. He can use decoy animal noises to lure prey and he has an arsenal of weapons including military hardware and even a sniper rifle for that single fatal headshot. |
| Nerf Arena Blast | 1999-11-01 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Visionary Media, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Licensed | | Shooter | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Nerf Arena Blast is based on the play toys of the same name, and combines the blast 'em up action of Quake with non-violent gameplay. There are three game modes to choose from, including Pointblast (the person with the most points wins), Speedblast (collect seven flags, while getting rid of the opposition) and Ballblast (score a set of balls into hoops around the arena, while keeping the enemy at bay). Each mode is played on a range of different landscapes, including a Space Station (complete with anti-gravity and an airlock, plus plenty of asteroids). Weapons range from standard blasters each with secondary functions to high tech gadgets, including the Ballzooka which fires high impact balls and as a secondary function fires goo which sticks the opposing player in place for a few seconds, giving you some time to take him/her out of the game. |
| Pepper Pack 3 | 1999-11-01 | Novitas GmbH | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | Pepper Pack 3 is the third installment in Novitas' Pepper Pack-series. The compilation consists of five games. The following games are included:
Battlezone
Earthworm Jim
Heavy Gear
Pinball
Stunt Driver |
| Snowmobile Championship 2000 | 1999-11-01 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Second South Studios | Racing / Driving | 1st-person, Behind view | | | | | Snowmobile | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | In Snowmobile Championship 2000, a bargain-bin snowmobile racing game from GT Interactive, you get to race against four other AI drivers in one of eight locations. The races take place in some of the world’s most beautiful winter settings, including the Canadian Rockies, Minnesota Lake, Iowa Farmland, Maine Forest, Yellowstone Park, Scottish Highlands, German Village, and Japanese Field.Varied terrain elements present challenges and opportunities, including Moguls, Ice, Mud, and Turns. How you take a turn, or whether you choose to ski over the moguls or choose a landlocked course around them, are all bits of strategy that can move you to the front of the pack, or send you to last place depending on your skill.You can either compete in the official “Race” mode, or enter the “Practice” mode which lets you improve your skills on any of the eight different tracks.Game controls are all keyboard based. Up Arrow to accelerate, Right Arrow to turn to the right, Left Arrow to turn to the left. Brake or Stop just by lifting your finger off the accelerator key. Options are available to modify your point of view (3rd person far, 3rd person close-up, and 1st person), resolution (up to 640x480), and level of detail (low, medium, or high). You can also toggle on/off the digital statistics (time, lap indicator, and speed) on the HUD. |
| Star Trek: Hidden Evil | 1999-11-01 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Presto Studios, Inc. | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Teen | | Windows | Hidden Evil is a third-person action-adventure in the same style as Resident Evil, which means you move your character using the keyboard, environments consists of 3D polygon characters transposed onto 2D pre-rendered scenes, and gameplay consists of both puzzles and combat. Rather than focusing on intense, hardcore action or puzzles, the game was designed with more casual gamers in mind with fairly straightforward gameplay. The game's story takes place shortly after the movie Star Trek: Insurrection. After the defeat of S'ona captain Ru'afo and the destruction of the Metaphasic Collector, the remaining S'ona agreed to peacefully co-exist with their Ba'ku breathren and establish a colony on the Immortality Planet. During the construction of the colony, S'ona and Ba'ku workers uncovered underground ruins belonging to a previously undiscovered ancient civilization. Captain Picard, known for his love of archeology, arrives along with android Commander Data to research the ruins.You take the role of Ensign Sovok, a human raised by Vulcans. You are assigned to assist Captain Picard in his exploration of the ruins, which is a big break for you since you're aiming for a transfer to the prestigious Enterprise rather than your current assignment near the Ba'ku planet in the middle of nowhere. However, the excavation of the ruins takes a turn for the worse when S'ona rebels seize control of the colony. Fired upon by the S'ona, Picard is teleported by an alien device to an ancient installation deep within the planet's core. While Data remains behind to deal with the S'ona, you are sent into the planet's core to retrieve Picard.The "Hidden Evil" of the game comes into play when you encounter Xa'atal, last surviving member of the alien race. Xa'tal is an ancient scientist whose life has been sustained for all these years by the same Metaphasic Radiation which keeps the Ba'ku people eternally young. Although Xa'tal herself quickly befriends you, her tainted DNA contains the code for creating a deadly biological organism known as the Xenophore Seed. The S'ona's Romulan benefactors led by Admiral Ratok teleport into the ancient city and kill Xa'tal to create the Xenophore Seed. It then becomes your task to rescue Picard and defeat the S'ona so you can pursue Ratok and stop him before he uses the Xenophore Seed and the horrific creatures it spawns to endanger the galaxy. |
| Star Wars: Jar Jar's Journey Adventure Book | 1999-11-01 | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Lucas Learning Ltd. | Educational | Top-down | Licensed | | Mini-games, Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | This is another 1999 Lucas Learning release with Star Wars Episode I related educational puzzles for young children (ages 4 and up).It is built as an interactive tale with 14 animated pages where kids can read and sing along with characters from the movie, like Jar Jar Binks, Queen Amidala, Anakin Skywalker or Watto. This software will help them on learning how to read, solving problems or learning new vocabulary.It features six interactive mini-games based on classic concepts, like Memory or Simon, where kids may help the characters accomplish tasks, like walking through a maze or repairing a spaceship's hyperdrive. Kids can also color their favorite scenes from the game and print them in color or black and white for off-screen coloring. The voice acting is provided by some of the actors from the movie, like Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks) or Andy Secombe (Watto). |
| Swedish Touring Car Championship | 1999-11-01 | Bonnier Multimedia | Digital Illusions CE AB | Racing / Driving, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Licensed | | | | Automobile, Track racing, Vehicle simulator | | | | | Windows | Touring car racing game based on the Swedish Touring Car Championships. Features official STCC drivers, cars and race circuits.Game modes included are complete championship with test training, qualifying races, Shoot Out and championship races as well as individual races against computer cars or multiplayer over internet or network. |
| Walpurgis Night | 1999-11-01 | SKC Soft Land, Wizard Soft Ltd. | Dragonfly Co. Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | | | | | Fantasy | | | | | Isometric | Windows | The young hero Karon is washed to a faraway land when the dam in his hometown is overrun by an enormous herd of large beasts, which have been roused by an unknown force. He is rescued by a woman named Reah, who joins him on his quest to get back home and find out who pulled the strings behind the catastrophy. Walpurgis Night is a console style role-playing game with a hybrid real-time/turn-based combat system. Every action in combat, including walking on the hex grid map, consumes stamina, which slowly recharges over time. The two playable characters learn offensive and defensive moves by collecting spheres with various attributes, which can then be assigned to the characters and stringed together to form combos. |
| Thief: Gold | 1999-11-02 | Eidos, Inc. | Looking Glass Studios, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | Thriller | Stealth | Fantasy, Steampunk | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Thief Gold is a reissue of the game, Thief: The Dark Project, updated to version 1.37. Thief Gold includes three entirely new campaign missions which deepen the plot and provide new challenges, as well as five new types of enemies to overcome. Some of the original Thief levels have had minor modifications, including bug fixes, small design changes, and the new enemies.
Thief Gold also includes a bonus "Behind the scenes at Looking Glass Studios" footage and DromED, a level editor for Thief. |
| Delta Force 2 | 1999-11-03 | NovaLogic, Inc. | NovaLogic, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | Regional differences | | Shooter | Africa, Asia, Contemporary | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Delta Force 2 is the sequel to the award winning Delta Force. In this game, you play as an elite member of the Special Forces DELTA squad, a secret, government funded anti-terrorism squad. The Delta Force series are first-person shooter games that focus on one thing: realism. From the amount of shots it takes to kill, to the wind affecting sniping, and the terrain affecting the speed at which you are able to move, the game stresses realism. The single player mode consists of many missions, taking you all over the world to disrupt the threat of terrorism. Missions range from assassination attempts to overtaking enemy installations. The multiplayer game utilizes Novalogic's NovaWorld matching service to set up matches consisting of up to 32 players. Multiplayer modes range from Capture the Flag, to DeathMatch, and King of the Hill. |
| NBA Basketball 2000 | 1999-11-04 | Fox Interactive, Inc. | Radical Entertainment Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | NBA Basketball 2000 is an officially licensed NBA basketball game for the PlayStation and Windows. It features 340 actual NBA players with authentic faces, and 33 NBA all-star and rookie teams. Each player has a complete set of statistics and record history in the game.Game modes include: season modes, all-star games, and exhibition. On the PC network play allows for up to 10 players simultaneously. On the PlayStation, using Multi Tap adapters you can play with up to eight players in a single game.The game also comes with a selection of coaching options, including player substitutions, trades, injuries, rosters, and a create-a-player feature.In game commentating is performed by Greg Papa and Doc Rivers. |
| Rayman 2: The Great Escape | 1999-11-04 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Action | Behind view | | | Platform | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Admiral Razorbeard and his gang of robot pirates have enslaved all the creatures in Rayman's world, including the peaceful Teensies and the Lums, which give life to the earth. Rayman has been captured by the pirates as well and is lamenting his troubles in his prison cell when he meets his good friend, Globox. Globox has smuggled in a silver Lum, given to him by the great fairy, Ly. With the power of the silver Lum, Rayman is able to once more shoot his fists. With his power restored, the pair escape the flying prison ship and embark on another adventure to save the entire world!Rayman 2: The Great Escape is the sequel to Rayman, a 2D side-scrolling platform game. Unlike the previous game, Rayman 2 is entirely in free-roaming 3D environments, similar to Super Mario 64. Rayman has many unique abilities that can help him get around the world. In addition to being able to shoot his fists, he can use his hair to hover like a helicopter, and even glide on air currents in certain places. He can climb certain walls and ceilings and can even use his fists to swing from special purple Lums which are shaped like rings. Rayman also has many unique items at his disposal, such as powder kegs which can be carried or fly like jets, strange warheads with legs that he can ride and steer like bucking mules, and gigantic plums that can be thrown into the water to create new paths.Rayman's goal is to find the four masks of the world, which allow the owner to reawaken Polokus, the spirit of the world. These masks are scattered far and wide, and are well hidden and guarded, so it is not an easy task. By gathering the yellow Lums, Rayman will gain access to new worlds, which will take him to the locations of new masks. Collecting yellow Lums also rewards him with new powers and life meter extensions.The Nintendo 64 and Windows platforms are the original versions of the game. The Nintendo DS version sticks closest to this version.The Dreamcast version adds a new area to the original version called Globox Village which contains exclusive mini-games. The mini-games are unlocked by collecting six hidden Globox crystals. Also, other changes include The Hall of Doors being changed into a new place called The Isle of Doors and more Robo-Pirates to contend with, including a new type not seen in the original version. The iOS and Nintendo 3DS versions are based on this version but don't include the Globox Village section. However, the 3DS version features a dynamic difficulty curve, with the game getting easier if too many lums are missed.The PlayStation version features a heavy alteration of the levels with some being merged and some being removed altogether, although there are also some new areas as well. This includes a new unlockable bonus area that was from the originally planned 2D version of the game that was scrapped. The amount of collectible Lums was reduced from 1,000 to 800. In this version characters are also voiced with actual real languages instead of the whisper speak of the other versions. The PlayStation 2 version adds minigames, exclusive items like the Lumz Radar, and offers more abilities for Rayman to purchase and use.
Along with some expanded level revisions with lums being placed in different locations, there are three new bosses to contend with. The Hall of Doors has become hub locations, The Minisaurus Plain, Globox's House, and The Rainbow Creek. Bonus challenges can also be played by freeing caged Familiar Spirits. These prisoners are exclusive to this version of the game. The game also gives the option to use either the real language voice-overs or the older version's style and lets players save mid-level. |
| TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter 2 | 1999-11-04 | American Softworks Corporation | Monolith Productions, Inc. | Simulation | 1st-person | Licensed | | Hunting, Shooter | North America | | Direct control | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera | Windows | TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter 2 is a deer hunter simulator & the sequel to the original TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter, in this case made in partnership with the Nashville Network (TNN) and Realtree Outdoor Products.In this game, the player may choose to hunt in different seasons, through diverse locations and environments. The style of hunt can further be affected by your selection of the proper gear and equipment. Also this game has survival elements, a trophy hunter room and included FM sequences. |
| G-sector | 1999-11-05 | Freeform Interactive LLC | Freeform Interactive LLC | Action | Behind view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | G-sector is a freeware 3D shooter game set in the future. The game is a third-person shooter with "extreme sports" elements - the player character and enemies use special hoverboards, and can do very high jumps and move fast.The protagonist must kill all enemies on small arena, then go to the next stage. He has eight various weapons - cannons, plasma, rocket, mines, etc. In order to restore health, the player character collects special batteries. |
| Omikron: The Nomad Soul | 1999-11-05 | Eidos, Inc. | Quantic Dream SA | Action, Adventure | 1st-person, Behind view, Side view | | | Fighting, Puzzle elements, Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The futuristic city of Omikron on the planet Phaenon is sprawling beneath a huge crystal dome. It was erected to protect the city against the ice age which descended upon the planet after its sun ceased to exist. At the beginning of the game, the player is contacted by an Omikronian police officer named Kay'l 669, who begs him to leave his dimension, possess Kay'l's body, and enter Omikron to investigate a series of strange murders. The player then takes the role of Kay'l, but his investigation is foiled by a sinister force that the police are unable - and perhaps unwilling - to stop. As the plot unfolds, the player realizes that in order to solve the mystery his soul must establish contact with many inhabitants of Omikron, and ultimately save it from extinction. Omikron: The Nomad Soul is primarily a free-roaming third-person 3D adventure game. Much of the player's activity in the game consists of exploring the large city, which is separated into five districts. The player is generally free to roam the city regardless of the plot development. Certain buildings can be entered and explored. Automatic taxi-like vehicles called "sliders" can be hailed to shorten walking distances and deliver the protagonist straight to the goal. In order to advance the story, information must be gathered by communicating with characters and solving puzzles of various kinds, inventory- as well as logic-based. The emphasis of the gameplay, however, is on exploration and interaction rather than on puzzle-solving. Throughout the course of the game, the player may take on the role of up to 41 different characters through the use of the soul transfer ability. In many situations, a soul transfer is required to solve a puzzle and advance the plot, e.g. accessing a restricted area with a specific character who is able to enter it without arousing suspicion. Besides the adventure mode, the game also contains first-person shooter and fighting gameplay. These two modes are restricted to specific areas and are for the most part triggered by plot advancement. Once an FPS sequence has been initiated, the player must complete it in order to be able to return to the main adventure mode. Weapons and items for this mode can be found throughout the stages themselves, as well as bought in shops during exploration.The fighting sequences are also usually dictated by the plot. They take place on side-scrolling screens and consist of traditional exchanges of punches and kicks, with the goal of depleting the opponent's health bar. Each character has different initial fighting statistics. These can be increased by taking the characters to a training facility and practicing to increase their parameters and subsequent combat performance. |
| Pharaoh | 1999-11-05 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Impressions Games | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | Egypt (Ancient) | | Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | The fourth in Impressions Games' city building series, Pharaoh takes place in ancient Egypt. Take on the role of a family and follow it through Egypt's dynasties, perform well and one day you might become pharaoh! This is a SimCity-like game, but offers much more. Manage trade, immigration, farming and the military, all while building grand monuments. |
| Sim Theme Park | 1999-11-05 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Bullfrog Productions, Ltd. | Simulation | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Sim Theme Park is the sequel to Theme Park and the second game in the series. It is a theme park management game where players build their own theme park with roller coasters, rides and food stalls. Each building can be customized for its appearance, prices and also the length of the ride. Roller coasters play an important role as the main attraction for visitors. Players can design a custom ride and then test it from a first-person view.In this version the park can be built in four different worlds: Lost Kingdom (prehistoric theme), Halloween World (spooky theme), Wonderland (fantasy theme) and Space Zone (futuristic theme). The game boasts 3D graphics and players can walk around in their park as if they were one of the guests, and go on the rides. Golden Tickets can be won by doing great things to the park and these can be used to buy new rides and parks. |
| Abomination | 1999-11-08 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Hothouse Creations Ltd. | Strategy | | | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Post-apocalyptic | | Multiple units/characters control | Real-time | Mature | Isometric | Windows | A real-time strategy/action game from Hothouse Creations which put you into a post-apocalyptic world plagued by a deadly virus and an even more deadly alien threat, The Brood. You will take command of an elite squad of eight bio-mechanically enhanced super agents with other more "earthly" comrades to battle The Brood and their followers, The Faithful, to save the world from a dreadful future...The main goal of the game is to defend the most important areas of the world. A map gives an overview and shows every part of the world which is endangered - clicking on such a point starts the mission. This part of the game is in real-time which means you sometimes have to wait until something happens. These are randomly generated which includes the goals, e.g. killing all enemies, defusing bombs or evacuating humans. For every mission you choose four of your team members which have special abilities, e.g. healing or invisibility. You also choose weapons and other gear for every team member.The gameplay of the missions itself is very similar to X-COM: UFO Defensive, just in real-time. You indirectly move your team over the map, give them tactical orders, e.g. to knee, to use barrage or to pursue enemies. The game can also be paused at any time to give orders. After a mission is completed you receive experience points which can be used to improve your team member's stats. All new weapons found during the mission are automatically researched by the lab. |
| Michelle Kwan Figure Skating | 1999-11-08 | Gonzo Games | Semi Logic Entertainments, Inc. | Sports | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Michelle Kwan Figure Skating is a sports game about figure skating which focuses on the customization of the player's own avatar. The player has multiple options to do so when creating his character: 80 dresses, 25 skirts, five body sizes and so on. The player even can use a scanned photograph as face texture.The game itself offers less possibilities. Before going on the ice, the player chooses his dance moves and one of 12 musical themes. During the performance, the player has to click the right mouse button when the corresponding symbol shows up. |
| Age of Wonders | 1999-11-11 | Gathering of Developers, Inc. | Epic Games, Inc., Triumph Studios B.V. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | 4X, Turn-based strategy | Fantasy | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Turn-based | Everyone | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | Age of Wonders is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy scenario. The campaign can be played on two sides and tells a tale how the humans come to a new land and destabilized the peace between the races, throwing the land into war. The game also features several stand-alone scenarios.
There is an extensive diplomatic matrix which structures the relationships between the 12 races and their respective leaders. There are global-spells which can be cast on the strategic map, outside of tactical combat. Creatures can move around without being led by a hero, so the map eventually crawls with all sorts of strange beings. Neutral forces are not always static, most of them move around and sometimes attack the 12 races. The automatic tactical-combat mode shows a somewhat detailed overview of the combat simulation: it is a worthwhile substitute for impatient gamers, especially in multiplayer encounters. As in Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia and Master of Magic, heroes are very important. They reach new levels of skill and power with experience and can be equipped with artifacts. But they do have limitations that usually do not allow a solitary hero to overrun a city-garrison all by himself.Pre-game customization allows the following choices: 5 levels of AI skill (with the 1.2 patch), 5 AI personalities (from very violent to defensive), "classic" turn-based moves or simultaneous turns, incarnation of the player as the main hero (if he dies, it's game over for that side), selection of the main hero's name, face, and bonus sword-and-sorcery attributes, etc. The map editor allows the gamer to create new maps, which can have up to 3 geological levels (one or two can be placed underground, with a cramped and dark tunnel-design). |
| Elf Bowling | 1999-11-12 | NStorm, Inc. | NStorm, Inc. | Action, Sports | Behind view | | Comedy | Arcade | | | | | | Fixed / flip-screen | Windows | What with Internet ordering, Santa needs more toys than ever so the elves are working harder than ever. They have had enough! The ETMU (Elf Toy Makers Union), local chapter 542, has called for a strike! Very well, if they want a strike, Santa will give them one: a bowling strike! If they're just gonna stand around, they can stand in for bowling pins.This is a standard bowling game. A lit arrow will move horizontally along the beginning of the lane. You press the space bar or click the mouse to stop the arrow, aiming and throwing the ball. You will have ten frames with a maximum possible score of two hundred ninety-nine. If you play the game, you will see why. However, there are distractions. A reindeer will walk up to the lane, a bunny or a frog in a Santa hat will hop onto the lane or the elves will try to distract you by cat calls, chants, holding up signs, mooning you, etc. |
| Relics: The Recur of Origin | 1999-11-12 | Bothtec, Inc. | Bothtec, Inc. | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | | | | Action RPG | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Point and select | Real-time | | Isometric | Windows | Relics: The Recur Of Origin is a remake of Bothtec's original Relics which expands the story of the original game and models the gameplay after CRPGs such as Diablo. Utilizing an isometric viewpoint, the combat occurs in real time and the spirit is controlled via a mouse. Players start the game as the spirit and need to find a body to possess in order to progress and survive in the game. As soon as the first body is possessed, possessing alternative bodies can be done by killing them. Depending on the body possessed, players may acquire different abilities and special skills, long range attacks, more health and inventory items that can be carried. In addition to that, each possessed character has 4 attributes: Fire, Thunder, Holy and Demon which influence a character's resistance to attacks of these attributes. The game adds a bit of tactics as characters of the same factions, whether they are Marx, Animals, Aliens, Heaven, Hell or the mysterious Horror faction will not attack those who belong to their tribes. It also features multiple endings depending on the choices made by the player.As for the plot, once upon a time, a lone spirit was traveling through space and after ages of travel, losing its physical body it wandered onto a blue planet. It had no idea what had attracted it to that planet. During its travels, the spirit lost one important thing: its memories. The spirit was at a state close to extinction and noticed strange ruins on the planet's surface and there were several living creatures near these ruins. "If I could acquire the body of that life form...", the spirit thought and with these thoughts it descended towards the ruins to possess a body and extend its life. |
| Crayola Magic 3D Colouring Book: Favourite Places | 1999-11-13 | IBM | Engineering Animation Inc. | Educational | | Licensed | | | | | | | | | Windows | Crayola Magic 3D Colouring Book: Favourite Places is an interactive CD-ROM that allows children to colour a picture and watch it come to life with true 3D colouring pages. It is designed for ages 3-7 to maintain early computer skills. There are 64 colours to choose from. There are also a variety of themes such as vehicles, animals, fantasy, space, and many more. Two activities include colouring by letters and numbers, and a connect the dots game. A scribble pad is available where children can draw their own pictures. Pictures can be printed out to share with others, including friends and family. |
| 3-D Ultra Radio Control Racers | 1999-11-15 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Dynamix, Inc. | Racing / Driving | Diagonal-down | | | Arcade | | Automobile, Track racing | Shannon Holder | | Everyone | Isometric | Windows | Take one of the 4 completely different RC racers as you tackle 16 different tracks in 2D or 3D from an overhead isometric view. The tracks feature lots of weird places like haunted graveyard, backyard (complete with doghouse), plain dirt track, mini-golf courses, and more. |
| LEGO Rock Raiders | 1999-11-15 | LEGO Media International, Inc. | Data Design Interactive Ltd | Strategy | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | Based on the underground LEGO universe, you must take control of a team of LEGO figures and build your way through mission based levels, ranging from saving lost crew members, finding hidden bases destroyed in the rubble and building your base to gain new vehicles. As your crew grow in confidence, they learn new abilities like piloting skills or become explosive experts. All the LEGO pieces from the Rock Raiders series are there to choose from when building your base, and the LEGO minifigures move just like the real thing (just without the hands pushing them along). |
| The Wheel of Time | 1999-11-15 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Legend Entertainment Company | Action | 1st-person | Licensed, Regional differences | | | Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | For thousands of years the Dark One has been trapped, but now the four seals keeping him imprisoned have been lost. Four organization of opposing beliefs and principles were searching for these seals. The Aes Sedai sisterhood managed to recover three, but one of them was stolen, allegedly by members of a sect within their organization that worshipped the Dark One. Elayna Sedai, Keeper of the Chronicles of the White Tower, has been promoted to the leader of Aes Sedai, and must retrieve the lost seal at all costs. The Wheel of Time is a fantasy-themed 3D shooter based on the novel series of the same name by Robert Jordan. Combat is ranged, but the player character doesn't use any weapons and instead relies on artifacts called "ter'angreal". There are 40 types of ter'angreal in the game, which can be used for offensive as well as defensive purposes, e.g. shoot lightning and fireball, heal or hide the protagonist in a cloak, etc.There are three multiplayer game modes - Arena is a straight-ahead FPS type challenge, whilst Citadel and Team include the game's strategic elements. |
| Avalon Hill's Diplomacy | 1999-11-16 | MicroProse Software, Inc. | Meyer Glass Interactive Ltd. | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game | | | | | Everyone | Steve Webster | Windows | Avalon Hill's Diplomacy is a game of negotiations, alliances, promises kept and promises broken. In order to survive, a player needs help from others. In order to win the game, a player must eventually stand alone. Knowing whom to trust, when to trust them, what to promise and when to promise is the heart of the game. |
| Star Trek: Hidden Evil (Collector's Edition) | 1999-11-16 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | Teen | | Windows | This collector's edition contains:
Star Trek: Hidden Evil
All Good Things ..." - the 2-hour final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Electronic previews of the first two Star Trek comic books from DC Comics
A special edition, limited and numbered box
A special edition CD image |
| Arkanoid 2000 | 1999-11-17 | TERMINAL Studio | TERMINAL Studio | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Paddle / Pong | | | | | | | Windows | Arkanoid 2000 is a Breakout game, so you are in control over a paddle, and with that paddle you control a ball, which is used to destroy all bricks in a level. Initially, you use the paddle to launch the ball, later you use the paddle to keep the ball inside the screen, otherwise you loose a life. Once all bricks in the level are destroyed, you proceed to the next level. As soon as you lost your last life, it's game over.The game itself offers 60 levels spread over three level packs, 3 difficulty settings, 10 power-ups to use and a level editor. |
| NBA Live 2000 | 1999-11-17 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Electronic Arts Canada | Sports | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | | | Direct control | | Everyone | | Windows | Basketball. Michael Jordan. Facial Animations and speech. Jordan. All the players from the 1999 - 2000 NBA season, including rookies. Plus All-Stars teams from past and present. Oh, and Jordan's back. Like its predecessors in the long-running series, NBA Live 2000 strives for realistic basketball simulation rather than arcade-like gameplay. New moves have been added in this installments, and opponent AI has been tweaked to make victory more dependent on executing the right moves at the right times. As in the previous NBA Live games, it is possible to edit and create basketball players, as well as create and build an own team. This time, it is also possible to use any picture to serve as a player photo.New to this installment (beside Jordan) is a one-on-one street basketball mode, and a mode that allows management of a team for several seasons, including trading players. |
| Slave Zero | 1999-11-17 | Infogrames, Inc. | Accolade, Inc. | Action | 1st-person, Behind view | Regional differences | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | Mecha / giant robot | | | Teen | | Windows | Five hundred years in the future, man and machine are virtually one and the greatest megacity in the world is locked in brutal war. Play as the ultimate saboteur part of an elite fighting force. The mission: steal the largest, most sophisticated biomechanical attack weapon ever designed and kick some serious ass. |
| Emergency Room: Disaster Strikes | 1999-11-18 | Legacy Interactive Inc. | Legacy Interactive Inc. | Educational, Simulation | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A devastating earthquake hits Los Angeles in the middle of a winter storm causing widespread flooding, mud slides, fires and mass destruction. Countless people are severely injured and many others have died. As panic ensues, a huge pile up occurs on the freeway resulting in even more casualties. All available medical personnel must report to assist with the severe situation. In Disaster Strikes, you will play an active role in the disaster effort.This is the 3rd game in Legacy Interactive's Emergency Room Series. Like the ones before it, you are a medical student working for Legacy Memorial Hospital in their Emergency Room but instead of staying in the hospital all of the time, you will report to the actual emergency scenes. There you must decide which of the injured are critical enough to be transported to the hospital, and then return to the hospital to treat them. During the selection process you can choose patients by ailment or by selecting the "random" button whereby the computer chooses a patient for you from the 100 available. You will become that person's doctor from the beginning diagnostic exam, to X-ray and laboratory, to performing their treatment and, finally, discharging them. Their lives are in your hands!As a "rookie" in training, you still have much to learn about medical procedures, tools and treatment. The game provides all you'll need to succeed in your mission including a full medical database and a library. Your co-workers (nurses and doctors) can be called for tips and other help. In addition, you'll be able to explore other rooms of the hospital, including the Doctors Lounge where you can just relax or play the arcade germ warfare game, Shotz.The game is entirely mouse-driven in point-and-click fashion. Features are similar to Emergency Room 2: Several levels of difficulty, assignment of points for advancement, over 50 medical tools to learn and master, real actors and actresses in the QuickTime FMV scenes. Different patients can be chosen (or randomly selected) in each new game which adds to the replay factor. |
| Tyrian 2000 | 1999-11-18 | XSIV Games | Eclipse Software | Action | Top-down | | | Arcade, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Tyrian 2000 is a direct re-release of the original action smash, Tyrian. It is essentially the same game with an additional new episode (Hazudra Fodder), a revised engine (less bugs and better controls) and added Windows support. It also adds another option called "Timed Battle".Tyrian is nothing like your run-of-the-mill shoot-'em-up. It gained a following even larger than the classic Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and rightfully so: it has a plot. A plot, you ask? Yes. And even a complex one. You play the role of Trent Hawkings, this galaxy's ace solo fighter-pilot, whose luck forces him to save the galaxy, one time after another. Again and again, Trent must fight off MicroSol, a company with the evil intent of taking over the galaxy. Through your struggles, you will find yourself again and again betrayed by friends and allies, your parents will be killed and you will have to return to points you've already been to (with variations on the levels) in order to remove further threats to the galaxy and to yourself, all for the ultimate goal of overthrowing MicroSol.Tyrian also has two player arcade mode and supports network/modem/serial play. It features a multi-layered ship upgrade engine, in which you can change hulls, decide upon and upgrade your front and rear weapons, buy better shields and generators and even add ship "sidekicks". Tyrian's complete arsenal amound to over a dozen type of ships and over 100 weapon types! |
| Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned | 1999-11-19 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | | Detective / mystery, Horror | Puzzle elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | | Mature | Free-roaming camera | Windows | The third game in the series takes Gabriel Knight, the former owner of a book store in New Orleans, and now a Schattenjäger ("shadow hunter") living in a castle in Bavaria, to Rennes-le-Chateau, a quiet town in Southern France. Gabriel and his assistant Grace Nakimura investigate the kidnapping of a baby: the son of Prince James of Albany was taken away, and the trace leads to Rennes-le-Chateau. While exploring the town and its surroundings and getting acquainted with the unusual history of the place, Gabriel and Grace realize that supernatural beings are pulling the strings behind the stage, and become involved in a mystery with a religious background dating back to the very beginnings of Christianity.Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is a 3D adventure game. Playing as Gabriel or Grace, the player navigates the characters through fully 3D environments, which can also be viewed and explored from first-person perspective using the "camera" option. The player interacts with people and objects by clicking on them and then selecting one of the available actions. There are many kinds of puzzles in the game: traditional inventory-based ones, detective investigation, as well as complex puzzles based on the player's knowledge and understanding of the game's lore. |
| The Forgotten: It Begins | 1999-11-19 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | Ransom Interactive | Adventure | 1st-person | | Horror | Puzzle elements | Interwar | | Troyan Turner | | Everyone | | Windows | The Forgotten is set in New Orleans, were you must find your friend, Richard Haliburton, who has mysteriously disappeared. He's been exploring a sect of black arts practitioners called Collectors.... are they somehow involved?? |
| Monopoly Junior | 1999-11-22 | Atari Interactive, Inc. | Minds Eye Productions | Strategy | | Licensed | | Board game, Managerial / business simulation | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | A computer adaptation of the 'lite' version of Parker Brothers classic real estate trading game. Monopoly Junior is a much simplified variation of Monopoly designed for 5-8 year olds. The PC version is a direct, kid friendly translation of the board game. |
| The Crystal Key | 1999-11-22 | DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. | Earthlight Productions Inc. | Adventure | 1st-person | | | Puzzle elements | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | Everyone | | Windows | With animated movement and in global wonderfully rendered animations, this game gives you the atmosphere you'd wish for. Your world has been threatened by an evil megalomaniac, and you now need to travel the worlds in order to stop this evil. |
| Unreal Tournament | 1999-11-22 | GT Interactive Software Corp. | Digital Extremes, Inc., Epic Games, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | Unreal Tournament is completely different from Unreal: it is now mainly based on multiplayer, like Quake 3.At the beginning, you have to play classic deathmatch rounds. After you have successfully won some of them, a new game mode becomes available, domination. In domination there are about three or four different areas scattered around the map to be controlled by your team. For a certain amount of seconds you control one area, a point is added to your score. The more areas you control, the faster your team's score rises. When you or the other team reaches a certain score, the game is over. The third mode is called capture the flag, every team has a flag to defend and tries to capture the other team's flag to score a point. The fourth game mode is called assault. This mode requires completion of real missions, such as attacking an enemy base and destroying a specific object in it. Again, there are two teams, the defenders and the attackers. You have to complete the mission in a certain time, for example five or ten minutes. If you were successful, your team has to defend this time and the other team attacks. But the attacking team now only has as much time as you needed to attack.All these modes are either playable in single or multiplayer mode. If playing alone, you have a large menu with orders you can give your bots. Also, all weapons were redesigned, and some new ones are added. |
| Interstate '82 | 1999-11-23 | Activision, Inc. | Activision, Inc. | Action, Racing / Driving | Behind view | | | Shooter | North America | Automobile | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | Much like the original Interstate '76, Interstate '82 has the player driving beefed up cars and blasting away the enemy with all the latest high-tech weapons, just with '80s cars instead of the '70s monsters. However, this sequel is a more action-packed title like the console version of Interstate '76, Vigilante 8. |
| SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle | 1999-11-23 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Action, Simulation | 1st-person, Behind view | Regional differences | Crime | Shooter, Tactical shooter | Contemporary | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | 2005. After many negotiations, the United Nations Nuclear Abolishment Treaty is about to be signed in L.A., celebrating what's to be named the "Global Peace Day". However, the joyous occasion is also seen by domestic and international terrorists as a soapbox for their demands, and it's up to SWAT to keep everything going as planned. As if terrorist threats are not enough, two portable nuclear demolition devices are for sale... in the L.A. area.A tactical FPS, the player is in control of a five man strike team, and it's up to him to guide the other two-man teams to complete each mission, for a total of 16, ranging from dangerous arrests, hostage rescue, VIP escort to track and disarm bombs, while visiting landmarks of the city such as the City Hall or the Convention Center (where the E3 takes place).
To help the strike team, each officer has one of four standard-issue weapons to choose from, a sidearm and utilities such as glowsticks, C2 door breaching charges, CS gas, flashbangs and the always useful optiwand, to know what's after the corner and the Leatherman tool, to disable electronic devices and unlock doors. |
| Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation | 1999-11-24 | Eidos Interactive, Inc. | Core Design Ltd. | Action | Behind view | | | Platform, Puzzle elements | Africa, Contemporary, Fantasy | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | According to Egyptian legend, Horus outwitted the evil god Set and imprisoned him in a secret tomb...Five thousand years later, Lara Croft discovers the lost tomb and unwittingly unleashes the Set, fulfilling the ancient prophecy of his return to plunge mankind into darkness! In a race against time, Lara must use all of her wit and skill to re-imprison Set and save the world from Armageddon. Pursued at every turn by her arch-rival, the unscrupulous archaeologist Werner Von Croy, Lara embarks on a journey of discovery across Egypt, where she must overcome the most ingenious puzzles and infernal traps ever devised, and face terrifying evil from beyond the grave...Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation plays very similar to the previous games in the series, but some new things have been added to the game. The biggest addition is that now rather large parts of the game consist of several interconnected levels sometimes explored in any order, with puzzles in one level often requiring that some actions are done in other levels. The new additions to Lara's arsenal are a revolver and a bow with several sets of arrows including exploding and poisonous ones. The players will also find a laser sight that can be attached to any of the two weapons described above allowing manual targeting and zooming. Inventory now holds a binocular with a built-in flashlight and a handy crowbar (found later in the game). Lara has also learned a few new moves: she can climb into the niches with low ceilings if the crouch button is pressed, she can now move around the corners while hanging and she can also pull levers and open trap-doors while jumping. Graphics have been upgraded too - there are new light effects and water is now dripping from Lara's clothes when she gets on the surface. |
| Ultima IX: Ascension | 1999-11-26 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ORIGIN Systems, Inc. | Action | Behind view | | | Action RPG, Puzzle elements, RPG elements | Fantasy | | | | Mature | | Windows | For the last time, the Avatar is being summoned to free Britannia from Guardian's curse. The eight Shrines of Virtues, the pride of Britannia, have been all desecrated by this evil and mysterious creature. The glyphs which protected them have been taken, and put into huge columns the Guardian built in Britannia, with their entrances hidden deep in dangerous dungeons. As a result, the people of Britannia have lost their virtues. The Avatar must now cleanse the shrines and let the virtues return to the people. His task becomes particularly difficult because he cannot trust the people he encounters any more. With the help of a few allies, the Avatar will have to help the inhabitants of Britannia, and learn about the true origin of the Guardian.Ultima IX: Ascension is the last single-player installment of the Ultima series, and the conclusion of its overarching story. The game still contains role-playing elements such as the series' traditional character creation based on ethically ambiguous questions, a quest-based structure (including side quests), a large world to explore, heavy inventory management, financial system, as well as weapon and armor customization. However, the game has no experience points system; the protagonist's basic attributes are increased only after completing certain storyline events.Similarly to the previous installment, the combat in the game is action-oriented, and the protagonist has no companions that would help him in battles. The Avatar can use melee and ranged weapons (bows) or magic spells to dispose of his foes. The puzzle-oriented structure of the dungeons further emphasizes the game's tendency towards action-adventure gameplay not dissimilar to Zelda games.The game features support for EAX sound and a fully 3D world with an almost unrestricted freedom of movement: in addition to climbing and jumping, which the Avatar has "learned" in the previous game, he can also swim and dive; some well-hidden locations can only be accessed in this way. The physical interactivity with the game world has been preserved; almost every object can be moved from place to place or taken into the Avatar's inventory. |
| Half-Life: Initial Encounter | 1999-11-27 | Sierra Entertainment, Inc. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | Mature | | Windows | This is a budget release of Half-Life which contains Half-Life: Day One, and a demo version of the full game which only has the first few levels. Once those levels are cleared, the game ends, and the player is asked to buy the full version.The package also includes the full version of Team Fortress Classic. |
| Monopoly Casino | 1999-11-27 | Hasbro Interactive, Inc. | Leaping Lizard Software, Inc. | Gambling | | Licensed | | | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Won so much money in Monopoly and need to spend it somewhere? Try Monopoly Casino from Hasbro. 133 different slot machines (including some official Monopoly slots), over 60 poker variants, and lots of Monopoly-inspired games. Multiplayer over MSN Zone. |
| Fritz 6 | 1999-11-29 | Eidos Interactive Limited | ChessBase GmbH | Strategy | 1st-person, Top-down | | | Chess | | | | | | | Windows | Fritz 6 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 programme are the extensive analysis functions. The database consists of 320.000 professional games and has an ELO rating of 2825. |
| webRIOT | 1999-11-29 | MTV Networks | Spiderdance Inc. | Strategy | 3rd-person (Other) | | | Game show / trivia / quiz | | | | | | | Windows | webRIOT was the first interactive television game to precisely synchronize online and television play. It was played by over 1,000,000 MTV viewers when it launched in November of 1999. Hosted by Ahmet Zappa, webRIOT allowed MTV viewers at home to compete against four in-studio contestants in a daily game of music trivia knowledge.At its launch, webRIOT introduced a brand new concept to the fledgling interactive television industry -- two-screen interactivity with synchronized gameplay. Since that time, numerous other companies have turned to this method of iTV distribution because of its vastly larger audience reach than single-screen technologies in the United States. The proprietary "sync to broadcast" technology that made webRIOT possible was developed by Spiderdance, Inc.webRIOT was a timed trivia game: the faster players (both at home and in-studio) answered a question correctly, the more points they received. Each day up to 50,000 online contestants (25,000 per coast) had the opportunity to play the downloadable, synchronized game. The top ten online players of each day saw their player names appear on the television screen at the end of each show. Top players over the course of the entire television season were awarded grand prizes including a Ford Focus. |
| Fire Zone | 1999-11-30 | MarkSoft | RST | Action | 3rd-person (Other), Side view | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | | | | | Windows | Fire Zone takes place in the year 2130, when the inner opposition has joined the forces with aliens and kidnapped the president's wife to obtain secret plans of the Earth's protective shield. As the best fighter pilot the player must save the president's wife in order to prevent the conquest of the planet.The game is divided into numerous small side-scrolling locations with a few check (save) points per mission. Each mission requires performing of a specific task, usually involving finding and delivering something or someone to the right place. Most of the locations are guarded by alien life forms or defensive units, as well as mechanized natural traps (such as vibrating stone drills or crushing rocks). The ship is described by two important indicators - energy and fuel. Reaching the zero level of any of those causes the fighter explosion. Both indicators may be supplemented by collecting power ups available in various locations or appearing after the destruction of enemy units.The fighter is equipped with three types of weapons, that can be upgraded by following modernizations: extra range long shoot, temporary double and triple shoot, power plasma, power rockets, atomic bomb (destroys all the objects at the current location), support mechanized droid unit. |
| Hoyle Word Games | 1999-11-30 | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | Puzzle | Top-down | Licensed | | Board game, Mental training, Word construction | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Hoyle and Sierra bring their familiar format to eight different word games. Some are familiar such as: anagrams, crosswords, hangman, and word searches. Speedy Racer, is a test of your typing skills. Enigma is a simple letter-substitution code-breaking game. Word Yacht resembles Boggle where you must make as many different words of all sizes (from 3 letters up to 10) plus attain specific combos. Finally, DoubleCross is somewhat like Scrabble, you place your letter tiles on the board to make words and score points for each complete word you make. Partial words are allowed and can be completed later by you or another player. You can also customize the board with special spaces, such as blocking tiles and bombs. You can now create your own unique player icon with the Facemaker feature. Game options, music and backgrounds can be changed to your liking. A browsable online version of the complete Webster's New World College Dictionary is included and used by the game to determine valid words. You can play against computer opponents that make snarky comments about your gameplay or play online against other people through the Won.net servers. |
| Talonsoft's 12 O'Clock High: Bombing the Reich | 1999-11-30 | Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., TalonSoft, Inc. | TalonSoft, Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Top-down | | | | Historical events, World War II | Flight / aviation | | | | | Windows | 12 O'Clock High: Bombing the Reich is a detailed simulation of the Allied strategic bombing campaign against Germany in World War II. All important industry and military installations in Europe are present. The strategic map ranges from Minsk to the French Atlantic coast and from Scotland to North Africa. There are several campaign settings, the longest starts in autumn 1943 and ends in spring/summer 1945.
The Axis industry is interconnected and all branches depend on each other in some way. This allows the Allied player to choose between various strategies. The German player can influence his aircraft production, even researching new aircraft is possible, thus modifying the availability date of certain planes. Combat is modeled in detail down to the individual plane / pilot. Each pilot can gain experience, has a morale value and a kill rating. The game distinguishes between day and night combat (night fighters are present, special night fighting tactics can be used). Overall score is measured through damage sustained by the German industry, German towns and the readiness of the Luftwaffe. When the Allied player reaches a certain score, the war will be over (otherwise the campaign will end automatically depending on the scenario chosen).The game has multiplayer options (PBEM). |
| Wild Wild West: The Steel Assassin | 1999-11-30 | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | SouthPeak Interactive LLC | Action, Adventure | 3rd-person (Other) | Licensed | Detective / mystery | Puzzle elements | Steampunk | | | | Teen | | Windows | A short while after the end of the American Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President Ulysses S. Grant receives death threats from someone who claims to be the true murderer of the former president. Grant sends his two best agents, Jim West and Artemus Gordon, to investigate the mystery and prevent the unknown killer from repeating the bloody act.Wild Wild West: The Steel Assassin is based on the TV series of the same name. The game puts the player into the roles of West and Gordon, alternating between them in different chapters. Gameplay style changes accordingly: Gordon's segments are puzzle-solving adventure that relies on inventory items and logic puzzles, while West's portions contain action shooter sequences. The player can choose the order of the chapters before the final one, where it is necessary to frequently alternate between the two to complete the game. |
| Arcomage | 1999-12-01 | 3DO Company, The | New World Computing, Inc., Stick Man Games, Inc. | Strategy | Top-down | | | Cards / tiles | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Arcomage is a single or two player card game in which the players try to build their tower to a certain size, build up all of their resources to a certain quantity or destroy their opponents tower before their opponent can achieve any of these conditions. Arcomage can be played by one player versus a computer opponent, by two players over a network or by two players over the Internet using TCP/IP or the Mplayer service.This release is a standalone version of the mini-game of the same name from Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor and Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer. |
| Attax 2000 | 1999-12-01 | | | Strategy | Top-down | | | Board game | | | Point and select | | | | Windows | Attax 2000 is a French freeware adaptation of the strategy game Ataxx. It takes place on a 7 by 7 square board, with two players starting with two pawns in the opposite corners. Each turn, a player can clone one of his pawns onto an adjacent free square, or move a pawn two squares. The player can convert opponent's pawns into his by placing one of his pawns on a square adjacent to them. The game ends once neither player can make a move, at which point the player with more pawns on board wins. The game offers a number of pre-made board layouts (with some squares removed from the board), and a level editor to create own layouts. The one-player game offers three difficulty levels. |
| Corum Oejeon: Igye-ui Gangnipja-deul | 1999-12-01 | Hicom Entertainment | Hicom Entertainment | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | | | | | | | Real-time, Turn-based | | 2D scrolling, Isometric | Windows | As civilization developed, technology began to dominate human life. But just like before, corruption and injustice continued to flourish. The gap between the rich and the poor became wider than ever. A new religious movement known as Advent attracted the lower circles of the society by promising them equality and strengthening their belief in magic. Eventually the government sent an army to destroy Advent's headquarters. Meanwhile, a rebellious youngster named Archer meets a mysterious young woman called Amy, who seems to have lost her memory, and becomes involved in an ideological struggle that may affect the fate of the entire world.This oejeon (side story) in the Korean-made Corum series differs from the previous installment by being a Japanese-style turn-based (rather than action) role-playing game. The player navigates a party of characters on the overworld, accessing and exploring towns, dungeons, and other locations viewed from an isometric perspective. Enemies are visible during exploration; a contact with one of them initiates a battle, during which the player can move characters on the field and position them tactically. There is also a real-time element in combat, similar to the ATB system of Final Fantasy games. Characters can equip a variety of weapons and armor, and train elemental magic disciplines. The game utilizes pre-rendered backgrounds for both exploration and battle graphics. |
| Descent³ / Descent³: Mercenary | 1999-12-01 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | | Compilation | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This compilation contains:
Descent³ (base game)
Descent³: Mercenary (expansion)The retail White Label release comes with a double keep case that contains four discs, one providing the games' manuals and the latest available patches at release date. |
| Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim (Demo Version) | 1999-12-01 | | Cyberlore Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | Managerial / business simulation, Real-time strategy, RPG elements | Fantasy | | Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | The demo version of Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim was released prior to the full release, and features a unique quest called "Vampiric Revenge", which was not present in any other released version of the game until an October 2018 update for Majesty: Gold HD Edition.Also, some voiceovers, music and UI elements are different. |
| Mig Alley | 1999-12-01 | Empire Interactive, Inc. | Rowan Software Ltd. | Simulation, Strategy | 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) | | War | | Asia, Historical events | Flight / aviation, Vehicular combat | Dallas Morrison | | Everyone | | Windows | MiG Alley is a simulation game from the creator of Flying Corps. Set during the Korean War, it lets you command P-51 Mustangs and F-86 Sabrejets against the MiG-15's and MiG-17's. You can plan solely as a pilot and fly your missions, or be the 'air boss' and plan/execute the air war along the entire Korean front. There are multiple aircraft to master, from props to jets. A wide variety of missions are featured, from dogfights and sweeps to close air support and bombing runs. Do well and you'll SEE results from your efforts reflected in the dynamic campaign. Online players can join multiplayer dogfights of up to 12 players. At times there are up to 100 aircraft in the air simultaneously. All terrain graphics and topography are based on actual photos (aerial or satellite). You can customize your plane's paint job with the built-in paintshop. |
| NB Heart Breakers Advanced | 1999-12-01 | eSofnet | Family Production | Action | Side view | | | Fighting | | | | | | 2D scrolling | Windows | NB Heart Breakers Advanced is a 3D fighting game released by Family Production in 1999. It features a mixture of 2D and 3D fighting mechanics with an aesthetic very inspired by Arika/Capcom's Street Fighter EX series. While it lacks a story mode, it features a single-player arcade mode with a boss as well as a full two-player versus mode. This is one of only a very few Korean-developed 3D fighting games.Originally released as an arcade game, this home port for PC features bonus characters but is otherwise very similar to the original release. |
| Pokémon Play It! | 1999-12-01 | Wizards of the Coast, Inc. | Fluid Entertainment | Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Trading / collectible card | | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | Pokémon Play It! is a simple game meant to introduce potential gamesters to the Pokémon Trading Card Game.The player can undertake a thorough pokémon card tutorial, replete with quizzes, and then play some card game matches against a computer opponent. This computer player, Julie, will offer you one of three 30 card decks, fighting, water, and fire. After selection the game begins. The game ends after a player has KO'ed three of their opponent's pokémon, unlike most normal games that require six. Players may now try their luck with a different deck against Julie.A number of extras such as printouts to enhance your real world card games are included. |
| Shanghai: Second Dynasty | 1999-12-01 | Activision, Inc. | Quicksilver Software, Inc. | Puzzle, Strategy | Top-down | Licensed | | Cards / tiles, Tile matching puzzle | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | Shanghai: Second Dynasty includes several modes: Classic Shanghai, Dynasty, Pandamonium, as well as Windstorm and new "beat-the-clock" arcade modes. An official American Mah-Jongg association product, Second Dynasty now includes four authentic versions of Mah-jongg. Fifty-four tilesets are now included, with optional "power tiles" useful for the multiplayer mode. Players can create their own tiles by importing custom images. The game also includes an online mode where players can compete against each other. |
| Ultima IX: Ascension (Dragon Edition) (Asia-Pacific) | 1999-12-01 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | | Special edition | | | | | | | | | | | Windows | This is another variant of Ultima IX: Ascension (Dragon Edition) for the Asia-Pacific market. It includes:
Ultima IX: Ascension (two discs)
Ultima Collection (one disc)
Ultima IX soundtrack (one disc)
Ankh pendant
8 tarot cards
Leather Game Journal
Leather Book of Magic
Paper map of Britannia
Ascension poster
Certificate from Lord British
Ultima Collection Reference Card
Ultima IX: Ascension Install Guide |
| Venice: Fortune and Glory in the City of the Doges | 1999-12-01 | Cryo Networks | France Télécom Multimédia | Simulation | 1st-person | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | Persistent | | | Windows | Venice: Fortune and Glory in the City of the Doges is a online-only managerial simulation set in the 15/16th century (the in-game timeline began in 1499). In other online games the player reaches after experience points and level-ups - in this game the goals are wealth, respect and political influence.There are basically two job categories: producers (of one good, e.g. bricks or olives) and traders, both keep the economic cycle alive. The producers sell their goods on the market place to other producers which need it as resource for their own production (e.g. olives for olive oil) or to traders. Large amounts can be traded in the stock market. When initiated the production of a good is carried on automatically (every hour represents two days) - this means the player only has to be online to change the settings and to trade.If the player has made enough money he can take care of other human needs. Social respect is earned by having a large art collection. This include paintings, sculptures, furniture and jewellery which can be purchased at auctions or antique dealers. At regular intervals the richest people of Venice (speak: the most successful players) elect a city council which in turn elects the Doge. He is the most important man of Venice and has various additional tasks, e.g. setting the tax. |
| Wall $treet Trader 2000 | 1999-12-01 | Interplay Productions, Inc. | Monte Cristo Multimedia | Strategy | | | | Managerial / business simulation | Contemporary | | Étienne Jacquemain | | Everyone | | Windows | The world is on the verge of economic collapse, and you will save the economy via stock manipulation! Aidded by Sir Fleming, you'll learn the stock market. As your skill increases, more stocks and commodities will be made available to you. Perform raids, hostile takeovers, and more. |
| Quake III: Arena | 1999-12-02 | Activision, Inc. | id Software, Inc. | Action | 1st-person | | | Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control | | Mature | | Windows | The third game in the Quake series is a departure from the previous games, focusing exclusively on multiplayer arena fighting with no story-driven singleplayer part - directly competing with Epic Games that did the same with the contemporary Unreal Tournament.The offline part takes the player through a number of one-on-one and team-based challenges against AI-controlled opponents, slowly ranking upwards in difficulty, as the character of the player's choosing. Compared to the previous titles, the colours and general design of the game are much brighter and it shakes off the dominant shades of brown and grey the previous titles in the series were known for. The player's arsenal consists of new and familiar, but redesigned weapons, including a gauntlet (melee attacks) and a machine gun as the spawn weapons, a shotgun, plasma gun, lightning gun, rocket launcher, railgun, and BFG. Each weapon has specific advantages, ranging from the amount of damage to reloading times and the ability to hit-scan opponents.The different arenas are also filled with health bubbles, complete sets of armour and armour shards, the well-known Quad Damage power-up, ammunition, and specials such as Mega Health, Haste, Invisibility, a powerful Battlesuit, and more. As with the other Quake games, it is known for its freedom in movement. Advanced players use techniques such as rocket jumping, strafing, and circle jumping to quickly get around areas. The game offers more speed than Quake 2, but it is not as fast as the original Quake. Not everything was kept - the double-jumping from the previous titles was removed for instance, but replaced with new tricks.The single-player part only serves as a diversion for the online multiplayer options, with modes such as duel, team deathmatch (TDM), capture the flag (CTF), and more. As with Quake II, the vanilla version of the game was eventually heavily tweaked by the players' community with all-new tournament features (including voting, referees, banning, netcode updates), as it was used in professional Pro Gaming tournaments for almost ten years.The only difference between Quake III: Arena and the limited Elite Edition is the tin box packaging. |
| Tonic Trouble | 1999-12-03 | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Ubi Soft Entertainment Software | Action | Behind view | | | Platform | | | | | Everyone | | Windows | In the tradition of Rayman (a platform jumper) comes another whacky adventure from Ubisoft!Ed, the friendly alien space janitor, accidentally dropped a can of "tonic" on Earth, causing a great ecological disaster. Everything started mutating! Ed is ordered to clean up the place and retrieve the tonic, but someone got hold of it first... And he declared himself Master of Earth! Can Ed survive attack of the killer vegetables, find the six items he needs to fix Earth, and retrieve the Tonic can from Grogh the Hellish, and finally get out from Tonic Trouble? |
| Xuanyuan Jian 3: Yun he Shan de Bi Duan | 1999-12-04 | Softstar Entertainment Inc. | DOMO Production | Role-playing (RPG) | 3rd-person (Other) | | | | | | | Real-time, Turn-based | | | Windows | The year is 750 AD, and the player controls Septem, a knight in a Frankish order under the command of Pippin the Younger. He is an orphan who doesn't remember his parents, but since his eyes have different colors (one blue, one black), he suspects one of his parents might be of Asian origin. One day, Septem's commander tells him that he learned from an Arab trader that somewhere in the Far East there is a place that harbors the key to the absolute victory, ending all the wars in the world. Because of his mixed blood, Septem is ordered to travel to Asia and find out about this secret knowledge. Xuanyuan Jian 3: Yun he Shan de Bi Duan takes the player across the world of the 8th century, from Europe to Middle East, and through Tian Shan mountains to China, which was then ruled by the Tang dynasty, enjoying cultural prosperity. The gameplay system is similar to the one first introduced in the second game. During the battles, it is possible to attack physically, cast magic spells, or perform special actions which deplete the stamina gauge. The player can also mix items to produce new ones, and recruit enemies into the party in order to summon them in battles. New to this installment is a real-time element in the turn-based battles, similar to the ATB ("Active Time Battle") system used in Final Fantasy games: enemies would act if the player is not quick enough to execute a command. AI-controlled characters will sometimes join the party. The game has pre-rendered backgrounds for most of the locations; battle graphics are hand-drawn, similar in style to Chinese paintings. |
| SimCity 3000: Holiday Edition | 1999-12-09 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Maxis Software Inc. | Simulation, Strategy | Diagonal-down | | | City building / construction simulation, Managerial / business simulation | | | Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | SimCity 3000: Holiday Edition is an extended version of SimCity 3000.Additional features are new seasonal animations and new buildings. |
| Planescape: Torment | 1999-12-10 | Interplay Entertainment Corp. | Black Isle Studios | Role-playing (RPG) | Diagonal-down | Licensed | | | Fantasy | | | Real-time | Teen | Isometric | Windows | Waking up on a stone slab in a morgue, which the zombie workers just pushed into the room, a big man with a face deformed by scars, his back marked by strange tattoos, looks at the dead bodies scattered around the room through the dim light, unable to understand who he is. He is sure that he is dead, yet he is also sure that he moves, thinks, and feels. Memories of love, a woman's face, good and bad deeds of his life - all his past appears in a flash, only to be replaced by the dreadful reality of the mortuary. His journey begins with only one goal: he must learn his name, find out what had happened to him, and which forces prevent him from dying in peace, like all other human beings. The Nameless One opens the doors of the mortuary, only to dive into a world full of fateful encounters, strange characters, broken hopes, despair, and hatred. Piece by piece he shall solve the puzzle and re-discover his own past.Planescape: Torment is a role-playing game that uses a heavily altered variation of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition rules. It is set in the Planescape, the exotic AD&D setting which is composed out of various "planes" of existence, with unique characteristics to each. The game features the party-based, "real-time-with-pause" Infinity Engine combat system, which was previously employed in Baldur's Gate.Character growth is handled via the standard AD&D attributes, which can be raised and modified in the game. Abilities that are not exclusive to combat, such as Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, play a special role in the development and outcome of many of the game's conversations and quests. Dialogue options may become available only if the corresponding character parameter is sufficiently high. The outcome of the final quest and thus the ending of the entire game also depend on the way the player has been shaping The Nameless One during the journey.Various fairly exotic characters - including a talking floating skull and a winged succubus who runs a "spiritual" brothel - will join the hero on his quest. These characters belong to the traditional AD&D classes of fighter, mage, thief, and cleric. The Nameless One himself starts as a fighter but is able to become a mage or a thief if he meets certain requirements and completes certain quests. The hero is unable to wear armor but can enhance his defenses with special tattoos.Though combat occupies a significant portion of the game, much of it is dedicated to acquiring experience through exploration of the Sigil, the game's main "hub" town, and performing quests for its inhabitants. The game is notable for containing a very large amount of in-game text and conversation. |
| Sid Meier's Antietam! | 1999-12-10 | Firaxis Games East, Inc. | BreakAway Games Ltd., Firaxis Games East, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | | Historical events, North America | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | Free-roaming camera | Windows | Antietam! is the sequel to Gettysburg!, the first real-time Civil War wargame. Command either the Union or the Confederate side, and fight the different engagements. Includes theoretical engagements, random scenario generators, and more. Can you carry the day? |
| Sōkō Hime Baldrfist | 1999-12-10 | GIGA | GIGA | Action | Top-down | | Adult | Fighting, Shooter | | Mecha / giant robot | | | | | Windows | Baldrfist is a hybrid of an overhead shooter and a fighting game. It is set in the same universe as Baldrhead and borrows many gameplay elements from it, but differs in gameplay structure and character cast. The player can choose to control any of the six available female protagonists. Each has her own background story and competes against the others in a series of one-on-one mecha battles in a linear fashion. There is no exploration in the game and no main plot beyond the characters' introduction stories.Battles only take place on Sundays; during the remaining seven in-game days the player can train the mecha by facing generic opponents and gaining money from successful attacks and victories. This money can be then used to upgrade the mecha's parameters, weapons, special abilities, etc. The basic battle system relies on ranged attacks (though close combat is also available) and exploiting enemy cooldown time, and is similar to that of Baldrhead, but with more moves and combo attacks. Defeating a plot-related enemy leads to a scene with explicit sexual images. |
| PC Fútbol 2000 | 1999-12-14 | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. | Simulation, Sports | | | | Managerial / business simulation | | | | | | | Windows | One of the latest versions on this series.This version introduced more features like "Euromanager" and merchandising, as well like restaurants, bars and more.The database was improved one more time and more international versions were shipped.As this time, Pc Futbol still is an option on management soccer. Complete and authentic manager game.
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| Extreme Paintbrawl 2 | 1999-12-15 | Head Games Publishing, Inc. | Hoplite Research, LLC | Action, Sports | 1st-person | | | Shooter | | | Direct control | | Teen | | Windows | The sequel to the laughter inducing Extreme Paintbrawl is just that: a sequel to a critically ragged on game. Experience paintball as you have before in six new locales, while playing with and against the same slightly brain damaged bots as before! Watch them walk into and Moonwalk around the walls! Excitement at every turn! |
| Crusaders of Might and Magic | 1999-12-18 | 3DO Company, The | 3DO Company, The | Action, Role-playing (RPG) | Behind view | | | | Fantasy | | | | Teen | | Windows | Drake, a loner, toughened by exposure, hardship, and a life of fighting the scourge that destroyed his family as a boy, is swept up into the midst of a new Crusade. He must join the High Guard as they try to rid the lands of the Legion of the Fallen. With swords and sorcery, Drake must fight his way through 5 distinct realms. From the spires of the Citadel to the murky depths of Duskwood Drake will run, jump, duck, fight and cast spells as he becomes ever more powerful and must eventually challenge the leader of the dead army himself.
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| Bolo | 1999-12-21 | | | Action, Strategy | Top-down | | | Arcade, Board game | | Tank | | Real-time | | | Windows | An early networking experiment between BBC microcomputers, Bolo is a top-down tank deathmatch game with a highly simplified physics model, allowing the player not only to move through and among 10 different terrain types, shoot, lay mines, and capture and deploy automated pillbox turrets, but also build speed-enhancing roads, sheltering walls, and water-traversing boats and bridges through judicious use of his lumber-collecting Little Green Man (LGM). Toward what end? Why, the capture of refueling bases and defense of them against enemy human- or computer-controlled tanks.(This may not sound like much, but in 1989 with sixteen people whooping it up in the Mac lab, it was pretty revelatory. StarCraft was still a long way away.) |
| Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (Demo Version) | 1999-12-21 | Electronic Arts, Inc. | Westwood Studios, Inc. | Strategy | Diagonal-down | | War | Real-time strategy | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Multiple units/characters control, Point and select | Real-time | | Free-roaming camera, Isometric | Windows | In the demo version of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, Westwood Studios for the first time included unique content, as opposed to modified missions from the retail game in the demo versions of Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert. The short two-mission GDI campaign acts as a tutorial, demonstrating basic unit control and combat in the first level, and base-building and resource management in the second.In the demo, the player takes the role of a GDI commander whose task is to thwart the Brotherhood of Nod's efforts to establish a presence in a region. Most basic units and vehicles are available, and the AI likewise uses basic tech units and structures.It is possible that the demo missions were supposed to ship with the full game, as there are traces in the files that indicate a tutorial campaign was planned. However, this was not done for whatever reason. At any rate, the demo missions make use of special tutorial text strings that are essentially basic hints concerning different aspects of game play. These are displayed as the player progresses through the demo levels. |
| Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku | 1999-12-22 | ASCII Corporation | Atlus Co., Ltd. | Role-playing (RPG) | 1st-person | | | | Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi / futuristic | | | Turn-based | | | Windows | The game is set in an alternate reality, in which Tokyo is invaded by hordes of demons. You play the role of a young man who lives in an underground shelter and is training to become a demon hunter with help of special programs. One day, during a training, one of the programs goes berserk, and as a result you are thrown into the world where you must fight for your life against vicious demons.Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku is a non-canonical part of Megaten universe, featuring recurrent setting and story elements of the franchise. Like in classic Shin Megami Tensei games, the largest part of the game is spent in 3D dungeons, which are viewed from first-person perspective. The battle system introduces some unusual elements: enemies are visible before the actual battle begins, and during your dungeon exploration, you will be sometimes attacked from different sides. You will have to turn around to face the enemy in real time, but the game will be paused when you select commands from menu, in a traditional turn-based fashion. |
| NetHack 2000 | 1999-12-23 | | | Role-playing (RPG) | Top-down | | | Roguelike | Fantasy | | | Turn-based | | Isometric | Windows | NetHack 2000 is a graphical user interface for NetHack with optional high-resolution top-down and isometric tiles, sound effects and an optional custom HUD. It is based on the Japanese version of NetHack, and most available versions are in Japanese. |
| The Queen of Heart '99 | 1999-12-24 | Watanabe Seisakusho | Watanabe Seisakusho | Action | 3rd-person (Other) | Fangame | | Fighting | | | | | | | Windows | The Queen of Heart '99 is a 2D one-on-one fighting game and the successor to The Queen of Heart '98. The player can choose one of 21 female characters and fight against the others. The game features characters from the Leaf visual novel games. Each girl has her own special moves and unique abilities. It features anime-style graphics and supports multiplayer. |
| FX Chess | 1999-12-29 | FX Interactive, S.L. | Oxford Softworks | Educational | Top-down | | | Chess | | | | | | Isometric | Windows | FX Chess is for everybody. This chess game includes different levels for all players, from beginners to experts.Additionally there is a kid mode, where the pieces are toys, and a chess course to able to learn from zero.
There is different modalities of game: fast, tourney, exact time... |
| Battlezone II: Combat Commander | 1999-12-30 | Activision, Inc. | Pandemic Studios, LLC | Action, Strategy | 1st-person, Diagonal-down | | | Real-time strategy, Shooter | Sci-fi / futuristic | | Direct control, Point and select | Real-time | Everyone | | Windows | The sequel to the real-time strategy/first-person action game of 1998. New enhanced graphics, immersive gameplay with all the strategy/tactical elements combined with the excitment of a first-person shooter. New vehicles, weapons and diverse landscapes. |