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-= GAMES =-
Disc 23: EMPIRE a stratedgy game on a grand scale.
Contains no graphics as it is a port over
from IBMs etc and has no sound either.
Lots of instructions, requires lots of
time and runs through the CLI.
Disc 24: HACK - The first version of the incredibly
playable rpg. A bit like dungeonmaster in
plan view. Only small icon graphics but
the game plays very well as you pilot your
way through the rankings and through the
dungeon levels to find the amulet. Once
found you then have to proceed back through
the levels and escape. Great fun.
Disc 44: This is a playable demo of Star Ray (the 1st
level) a game very reminiscent to Defender.
Ultra fast smooth scrolling and good gameplay.
Commercial version available for 24.95 rrp
The bootblock on this disc may be highlighted
as SCA virus by some virus detectors, it is not
and will not spread or cause any harm. If it
is removed the game will not work. Will NOT work
On Issue 1.3 machines.
Disc 71: This disc contains a selection of games, 2
written with Abasic (supplied as well).
Features: Amoeba Invaders (Brilliant space
invaders game) Tron Cycles game, Cluedo
(great adaption of the board game),Monopoly,
Klondike (great cards patience game) and
Missile Command.
Disc 83: An excellent playable PD game here, one of
the best PD games existing! Basically resembles
the sucessful 'Thrust' type game. You have a
small craft which you have to move around a
set of obstructions and collect keys in order
to reach the next level, of which there are 17.
Play is by keyboard but doesnt detract from a
really addictive game which most people get
more out of than some commercial releases.
Disc 133: This disc contains a really good playable demo
of Shanghai the chinese tiles/patience game.
Also included is the user-definable COSMO
(Asteroids) game which is very good. There are
also some Flight Simulator 2 information files
which add extra fun and clues to new locations.
Disc 135: Games disc featuring Backgammon,Cosmo,Missile
Command,Tunnel Vision,3D Breakout (needs 3d
glasses) and Cosmo Version II.
Disc 149: Moria - The great RPG has been speeded up and
generally made much more playable. This is
version III and tweaks include nice inter-level
graphics. A must for 1meg adventure fans, this
game is SO playable!! A little bit like Hack and
Larn but more involved, offers HOURS of gameplay
for 1meg users...
Disc 159: Games Disc containing Asteriods,Backgammon,
Egyptian Run,Gravity Wars,IFF2Pcs. Iff2pcs
is a diy jigsaw puzzle, just add your own
16color iff file and hey-presto!
Disc 173: Features Chess, Othello, an Adventure Creator,
and Space Ace demo.. amongst other utilities.
The Chess game is characters only but I am
told it plays quite a strong game.. but not
being a chess player I couldnt put that to the
test.
Disc 174: Contains a version of the Collosal cave
adventure game by Crowther and Woods. Includes
some utilities (check utilities section for
listing of these).
Disc 175: Larn. A great rpg in the style of Hack but with
more features and superb gameplay. Once 'into'
it you play for HOURS! One of our favourite PD
discs yet. Great for RPG fans, works fine in
512K and is highly reccomended. Poor graphics
no sound but really playable!
Disc 204: Buggy Commando. A playable demo rather like the
old Moon Alert/Moon Buggy games, control your
buggy over obstacles.Featured in The One.
Disc 282: Paranoid Game. Very good Pd arkanoid clone that
even includes a screen designer. Good value for
a Pd game. Of german origin.
Disc 307: 3 Games by Agatron, Mad Race, Space Race and
Light Cycles 3D (a nice version of Tron in 3D
by Tobias Richter). Also included are a 3D
object editor called Viking,
IFFload and IFF-C utilities, Taskmanager,
Selector and Blinker (a utility to flash the
power led).
Disc 309: The 1meg Star Trek game featured just about all
310: over the place. Its on 3 discs and plays close
311: to the St commercial version ie not brilliant
but for Trekkies and sci-fi fans its good value.
Remember you will need all 3 discs and this will
set you back 6.95 Live long as prosper.
Disc 355: A nice playable demo of Blood Money by Pysgnosis,
one of the better shoot`em ups to appear in a
long while (actually we werent too keen until
we played it, its very addictive!) this demo
allows 1 or 2 players (simultaneous) to play the
first level. Good demo. Great Game!
Disc 369: HACKLITE. The lastest version of Hack sent by
Rhys of Compunet (ta!) this version sees added
features, better speed and a new install program
that allows easy set-up onto Hard-drives,or any
other device you can think of! Hack is a really
playable game, especially if you like RPG games.
Disc 370: Anyone for Tennis?? This 1meg Tennis game allows
two people to battle it out on centre court
using their joysticks.
This german shareware program was sent by a
friend of ours, Guido who writes for a
German PD magazine. Hi guido - hope the music
was ok!
Disc 402: Nice playable uridium-style sort of game. Written
by a german chap. Nice music. Thanks to Guido for
sending it!
Disc 430: A full adventure game by Jim MacBryne -
The Golden Fleece, an epic adventure and it has
a real good parser (that means you can type
take everything except the vaseline and rubber
hose) - Jim Reckons its as good as anything by
INFOC*M - why not try it out? Thanks must go
to Jim for submitting it to us!
Disc 445: Castle Of Doom! An adventure game with graphics
more suitable for the beginner. Simple parser
and fairly easy going.
Disc 454: Various Games. Includes a really playable of the
Arcade game "Qix", Blue-Moon which is a card
patience game, Orbit 3D gravitational shoot em
up! (??), Wordsearch - gives you random word
puzzles to attempt.Asteroids - updated version
with better graphics than the older version.
Filling up the space is the marvelous Tree Frog
animation as featured in The One last month.
(Plus an unlimited supply of plump flies for
your frog to happily munch on).
Disc 483: A demo of the game Xenon 2, contains half of the
first level and should be enough to convince
ANYONE of the sheer quality of this game!
Due in September rrp 24.95! Bomb the bass music
included in this demo!
Disc 492: A great little game from the German PD sent to me
by Guido Coenen. It involves taking your man
(werner) around the screen to collect his beer!
[Already I like this game] You havent got it easy
as some guys are chasing you and also you have
to avoid and maneouvre around falling rocks in
true bolderdash style. Great for PD!
Disc 497: Heres a demo to make your trigger finger itch!
This is a product demo of "Battle Squadron"
which is the follow up to Hybris. Featuring
full Pal scrolling, twin player simultaneous
action, added horizontal scrolling (as in the
game sidewinder). Great sound, great graphics
and probably the most arcade lookalike yet to
appear. Time to oil your joystick methinks...
Disc 498: Another product demo (by the way we will deduct
a pound off a purchase of the game if you have
previously had the demo!). This is a demo of
Ancos playable `Rally Cross` - a 4 player
super sprint clone that includes new tracks and
night driving by headlights. Looks VERY good.
Disc 514: Space Ace Demo.
Readysoft`s follow up to the amazing Dragons Lair
(remember THE demo 181?) is here and it looks even
better than the first! Nearly half a minute of top
notch, near faultless animation from the game.
PLUS Readysoft have excelled themselves in the
compression department as they have managed to
squeeze a whole host of samples in aswell,
including the unforgetable "I`ve only been
kidnapped by aliens, thats all!"
One meg owners get a continous loop of the full
demo, Half meg owners can choose between the first
and second parts.
Disc 517: Pictionary Demo from Domark. The Game of quick
draw makes it onto the Amiga. And heres the demo,
not playable, just sit back and watch.
Disc 522: Interphase Demo. Imageworks latest looks like
being one of, if not, THE best 3D games yet seen
on an Amiga. Superb graphics and speed, and a
decent plot to boot. A sort of strategy come
action game that should please most games
players out there. Heres a chance to see before
you buy.
Disc 525: Ghostbusters 2 Playable demo. Play one level from
Activisions megabucks film license. The game is
out now so if your interested, try the demo first!
Disc 527: MoonWalker Demo. Jacko hits your Amiga! Actually
this isn`t that bad. A few pieces of animation
from US Gold`s game of the film of the record
of the operation of the strange mind. The best bit
being the grand finale, featuring the infamous
spin. ** 1 Meg only **
Disc 528: Dragons Breath Demo. The intro and a few stills
from Palace`s "RolePlaying/Strategy Game of 1990"
, Anyone who saw the Work in progress feature on
this game in The One recently would`ve seen the
amazing graphics, now`s your chance to see them
for "real" on screen. The whole thing is backed
by some very nice atmospheric music.
Disc 529: Lets go TOOBIN`, preview of Domarks conversion of
Atari`s Mega Arcade game, race down the river
in an inflated innertube, avoiding various
nasties along the way. Again, this isn`t playable
just sit back and watch.
Disc 530: Cinemaware Basketball Slideshow. 8 Pictures from
Cinemawares forthcoming simulation. More great
graphics from one of the leading Amiga Developers
The game will be coming out sometime in 1990 via
Mirrorsoft, and if this demo is anything to go by
, it should be pretty amazing! Just to prove 17Bit
are THE leading PD suppliers we actually received
this demo BEFORE Mirrorsoft even knew one existed!
How`s that for speed??!!
Disc 532: Future Wars Demo - Delphine Software. Very good
new demo of Delphines latest Graphic adventure/
action game. Shows the intro and then cycles
through a few scenes from the game.
Looks tres bon (as the Frenchies would say).
Disc 539: Clownamania Demo from Starbyte. 3D Platform type
game that casts you as a clumsy clown!!
Not Playable, just a rolling demo.
Disk 555: X-OUT from Rainbow Arts. Playable demo of the soon
to be released shoot em up from the German based
company. This first level plays very well and the
game should be something to look out for! It's a
sort of underwater R-Type with loads of extra
weapons to blast all the nasty baddies!!
Disk 556: The Holy Grail, by Jim MacBrayne. The follow up to
The Golden Fleece (Disk 430). Good text only
adventure that has you on a quest for..well the
Holy Grail! Excellent parser and very well
presented a MUST for all adventure fans every
where! Please note this game requires ONE MEG!
Disk 563: After the War - See before you buy autorunning
demo of Dinamics latest, a sort of Beat em,
shoot em or generally do-anything-as-long-as-you
kill-em UP! Not playable, just sit back and watch..
Disk 566: Odds 'n' Sods - A couple of Product demos and some
music on here; we have demos of the excellent
drivin' game DRIVIN' FORCE from DMS. Also a demo
(in the form of a mini slideshow with soundFX) of
Gainstars forthcoming Adventure Dragon Quest -
Looks very good, and recently got 82% in CU. We
also have 3 excellent pieces of Music, un-
fortunately the original disk they were supplied
on was corrupt so I do not know who wrote them!
Needless to say they are very good indeed! In fact
I would class the second one as my favourite piece
of amiga music EVER! Very funky, very 70's very...
original, especially for the Amiga!
Disk 594: Elvira (Mistress Of The Dark) DEMO. Running demo of
the forthcoming Horrorsoft game featuring Miss
Elvira and her "assets" (ehem). This game is going
to be a sort of Adventure/RPG type game where the
aim is to rescue Said temptress from her capturers,
the graphics look extremely impressive and in parts
are quite gruesome (so don't watch if you are
squeemish!) also has some sampled atmnospheric spot
effects and a tadge of Sampled speech from Elvira
herself, though it sounds as though she is doing
her Shy Postman impression and none of us can
actually make out what she says... This is a very
good demo and fans of this type of game should be
well impressed.
Disk 595: THE STAR TREK GAME! Brilliant 2 disk game from the
ultimate trekkie Thobias Richter, designer of all
the AGATRON Start Trek animations, and part of the
team that brought us Oil Imperium, Thobias has now
released his latest game into the Public Domain.
Featuring Brilliant (as you'd expect) graphics and
sampled sound this has you on a journey where no
man has ventured before, a journey into space (The
final frontier etc etc) where you must carry out a
series of missions, search out various planets,
avoid the enemies ships, Captain your ship and
ensure the safe keeping of your staff. The whole
thing is very well put together, but the instructions
are in German so it may take a while for you to sort
things out. Works fine in half-meg, but one meg owners
get added extra sound effects.
Disk 600: AMOS DEMO. Stunning demo of Mandarins forthcoming
Game Creator. This disk is a brilliant example of
what to expect when AMOS is finally released in
May. Shows moving, animated sprites and bobs.
Brilliant scrolling routines (Amazing IFF piccy
scrolling!) And all from BASIC! Should set the
Amiga world alight when it is released. Heres a
great chance to whet your appetite! Anyone with
any level of interest in proggramming should check
this out! IT'S BRILLIANT!!
Disk 607: St Bash!! - Great PD space invaders type shoot-em-up
from a 17Bit member in Germany (unfortunately you
didn't sign your name on the letter, so whoever you
are THANKS!) the aim is to blast your way through
520 levels of St related sprites (spinning ST logos
etc), and there are several various levels of play
so you can make the game as easy or as difficult
as you want. With all the available options and
great playability this will keep you amused for
quite a while and should keep your kids quiet for
an hour or two!! Better than Amoeba Invaders??
Well, I'll let you make the decision........
Disk 615: Castle Master Slideshow. 15 stills from the
forthcoming Incentive/Domark game. The latest game
to feature Incentives 3D routines known as
Freescape - here's a chance for you to see what
the game looks like before you part with any cash!
Disk 621: E-Motion - Playable demo of U.S. Golds "soon-to
-be-released" strategy puzzle game. 4 levels are
on here for you to test out. Looks very good
indeed, ideal for those of you who like to use
your old grey matter rather than just sit down
and blast!