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AXIS, The Gamecheater. Baseline Publishing unleashes AXIS, The Gamecheater, a control panel device that allows users to cheat, or “enhance”, both Macintosh and DOS computer games. While playing, users can outfit themselves with additional lives, weaponry, fuel or whatever will enhance each particular game.
AXIS is activated by the user through the use of assignable hot keys. Before playing a game, the player can open the AXIS control panel, choose the game to be played and assign the cheats to a specific hot key. Over 50 Macintosh games are currently supported by AXIS.
AXIS, the Gamecheater will run on any Macintosh from a Plus to a Quadra (including Powerbooks) with 1 or more megabytes of memory, using system 6.0.7 or greater. Baseline Publishing, 800/926-9677.
Freddy Pharkas. The year is 1888, the setting, post-Gold Rush California. As Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist, you uncover a treacherous plot to turn your once-thriving metropolis into a ghost town. With pestles and pistols, you defend your bucolic burg from one catastrophe after another. Arson, stampedes, hired guns, riverboat gamblers, even terminal flatulence! Every Hollywood Western cliche and character is here. You’ll meet the pretty, but shy, Schoolmarm, the Madame with the Heart of Gold, the faithful Indian sidekick, and a cast of the most memorable characters ever to grace your monitor’s silver screen. Point and click your way through sagebrush, livestock, cacti, buzzards, and swinging saloon doors. Drink your own mistakes from an authentic, working, late 19th Century laboratory! Unlock your hidden potential with your very own copy of the Home Medical Advisor, 1881 edition. Learn (and quickly forget) the real words to The Ballad of Freddy Pharkas!
REQUIRES: Macintosh, 8-bit (256) color, hard disk w/10MB, SuperDrive, 4MB,
System 7.0 or later. SUPPORTS: Mac Sound. Roland MT/CM-32, General MIDI. Sierra On-Line, 209/683-4468
Oh No! More Lemmings. Psygnosis brings you the second release in the incredibly popular Lemmings series. Oh No! More Lemmings consists of 100 brand new adventures featuring mind-challenging game play and amusing graphics in the Lemmings tradition. You’ll have to figure out how to help your Lemmings negotiate 100 brand new, complex scenarios full of danger and diabolically clever traps designed to keep them from getting safely to their destination.
Oh No! More Lemmings for the Mac runs on a Mac Plus and higher and comes with a suggested retail price of $49.99. Psygnosis, 617/497-5457.
Crystal Crazy. Crystal Crazy is the hilarious, long-awaited, arcade style sequel to Eddy award winner, Crystal Quest. Now there are more crystals to collect as well as pool balls to pocket, and fragile ornaments to smash. Avoid all the new nasties with names like Zinkelflashoxicationers, and gather the time bonus multipliers and bonus waves. Written with typical British humor and it retails for $49.95. Casady & Greene, 408/484-9228.
Spaceway 2000. Spaceway 2000 is fast, arcade action which supports 32-bit color graphics. The objective is to get off the intergalactic, alien-infested freeway and past pesky pursuing aliens. Players use laser cannons and shields and pick up desired objects like crystals and crates which are opened at the end of each wave to real the unexpected. It retails for $49.95. Casady & Greene, 408/484-9228.
ZOA - The Zone of Avoidance is a 3-D space flight simulation game. A player defends a remote space station from marauding, hostile aliens with a fighter plane equipped with a unique 3-D radar display. Weapons at the user’s disposal are cannons, missiles, and piloting skills. It retails for $49.95. Casady & Greene, 408/484-9228.
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