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Title: SeaTrek (£8)
Very simplistic search-and-find game, where you must wander around a large,
empty seascape avoiding the odd enemy and looking for randomly placed
tokens. Boring beyond belief. Generation Design offer a
free 14-day home trial of their games, and this game is aimed at children.
Links: None
Supplier: Generation Design
Players: 1
Type: Scrolling token collection
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: ?
Title: Serpents (£20)
Links: None
Supplier: CIS
Players: 1
Type: Snake
Needs: OS 2: ? OS 3: Yes RPC: Game On SA: AutoCache
Title: Shuggy (£26)
Very average arcade adventure game starring Shuggy the Elf. Simplistic design in the 'old school'
style of arcade adventure. Add £1.50 P+P if ordering direct by mail.
Links: Demo: Werewolf Software web pages Review: On these pages
Supplier: Werewolf Software
Players: 1
Type: Arcade adventure
Needs: 2MB OS 2: No OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Yes
Title: Sim City (£35)
Poor port of the classic 'God' game. Running only in a desktop window, vile use of
colour (predominantly red) ruins this game, and you can't even scroll the
window in the normal RISC OS fashion - you must hold down a mouse button near the
edge of the window. Eurgh! It's also far too expensive. On the other hand, it
is still Sim City, and so quite fun to play, if you can put up with
the crippling scrolling method. Also see Sim City 2000.
Links: None
Supplier: Krisalis
Players: 1
Type: God
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: No
Title: Sim City 2000
Superbly fun game.
This is a vast improvement on the Acorn version of Sim City. It runs outside
the desktop this time, features much nicer graphics, and has a bit more depth.
Two versions are available: a Risc PC version and an A5000 version, the latter
having a minimum specification of a multiscan monitor, harddisc and 4Mb of RAM.
Links: None
Supplier: Krisalis
Players: 1
Type: God
Needs: 4MB HD OS 2: ? OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Yes, with Crunchfix - but some sound corruption
Title: Slappit
Like Ballistix on the BBC (and others), where you have to
guide a ball into your opponents goal, traversing a pitch littered with
odd obstacles. Not very good.
Links: None
Supplier: Unknown
Players: 1
Type: Sport
Needs: OS 2: ? OS 3: ? RPC: ? SA: No
Title: Small
Simplistic maze game with raytraced graphics. Quite nicely put
together, however.
Links: None
Supplier: Virgo Software
Players: 1
Type: 3D maze
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Yes
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