Software of the Month Club March 1995 Games Gemstones III = GEM3.ZIP by William D. Rinehart Modeled after the classic Breakout game. This program is nicely designed with excellent graphics and quality sound. The object of Gemstones III is to clear all the gems on the screen and advance thru all the levels. The raw and processed gems are the only gems required to be removed before the player is advanced. With some clever paddle control, the other gems can be used to greatly increase a player's score. Note: Gemstones III requires a VGA monitor and at least 554 Kb of free memory to run. Heretic v1.0 = HERETIC.ZIP by Raven Software Corporation and Id Software At last! It's here! The one you've been waiting for Heretic! The graphic masters of Raven Software have conspired with the technical geniuses at Id Software to create a supernatural blast-fest. Heretic has everything you loved in Doom and more! Look up, look down, fly through the sky, find magical artifacts, struggle against winds and currents, navigate volcanic pits and ice covered passages, smash creatures beneath a rain of flame and face the darkest horrors of the abyss! One of the most realistic and visually dramatic 3D environments ever designed! This fast paced game places you in the heart of an evil 3D world. To purge the evil from the land, you must battle hordes of frightful monsters with your powerful arsenal. Are you good enough?Heretic portrays graphic violence that may not be suitable for younger children. NOTE: Heretic requires an IBM compatible 486 or better with 4 Megs of RAM, a VGA graphics card and a hard disk drive. A Sound Blaster or 100% compatible sound card is recommended. A network using IPX protocol is required for network gameplay. Highway Hunter = HUNTER.ZIP by Omega Integral Systems Five years ago the Axis of Allied Planets took over Earth. To make the Earth more hospitable, these off-worlders installed terraformers to reshape the environment. Unfortunately, these changes are killing off all human life! You must escape the "adjustment camp" and join the freedom fighters. Guide your sophisticated high tech car across the treacherous roads of transformed Earth in this exciting arcade-style shooter. An assortment of weapons, enemies and ever changing difficulties keep you glued to your screen!Fantastic graphics, a megaton of enemies and a great sound track make this one of our favorites! NOTE: Requires a fast 386 or better CPU, 570K free RAM, 2 Megs HD space, a VGA card and monitor. A joystick or mouse, and a Sound Blaster or compatible sound card are recommended. MindGame v1.06 = MIND_106.AIP by Michael Werneburg The object of Mindgame is to guess the colours of a row of pegs. By default, you have to guess the colours of four pegs in six attempts. This is configurable, allowing peg row lengths between three and six, as well as three through fifteen attempts. You make your selections for each position in the row by clicking on one of the large pegs appearing on the left side of the screen. You may undo a selection at any point before the row is completed, by clicking anywhere on the screen with the right mouse button. Note: Mindgame reqires a 386 with an SVGA compatible video system with 640x400x256 colour, 640x480x256 colour or 800x600x256 colour support and 512k of video RAM. Molecule Ball = MOLYBALL.ZIP by Europress Software A unique spin of an old game, Asteroid's. You job is to pilot your helicopter around the screen shooting molecules of assorted colors. As each molecule is hit it explodes into Atom's of different colors, watch out for the boomerang. This game is fun to play for young and old. If you have a sound card the program sense's it automaticaly. Note: Requires Windows 3.1x Nightmare 3-D for Windows = N3WIN.ZIP by David P. Gray Enter the house of the evil Dr. Hamerstein aided by his host of nasty minions. He has captured your beloved sweetheart Penelope and imprisoned her to carry out his evil experiments. As Hugo, you venture into the horrific world of Dr. Hamerstein on your perilous quest for Penelope and a mystical mirror which leads to the "other side". The mission to rescue Penelope will not be an easy one. Not only must you defeat the crazed inhabitants of the house including Dr. Hamerstein himself, you must also solve numerous puzzles along the way, some of which are easy, some not quite so easy! Finally, your journey will take you through a mystical mirror to the "other side" where you will confront Dr. Hamerstein who is holding poor Penelope captive. Do all of this from a "First-person perspective" similar to Doom and others like it. This program install the new WinG (Windows graphic driver) system, designed to allow better graphics for Windows and a joystick program for Windows as well. Both of these additions are Microsoft developed for Windows 3.1x and Windows '95. Note: Requires 386 or higher running Windows 3.1, 4 Mb recommended, 256-color VGA Any Windows-compatible sound card, Mouse and joystick supported. Space Nightmare v1.0 = SPCNGT.ZIP by Microdem The Earth has been invaded by the Spiords of the Vaftrz galaxy! They are intent on stealing copper from our copper mines. With secret airships built by Canadian forces, your destiny is chasing the invaders and destroying them before they steal all of the Earth's copper or before they destroy you! Do whatever you have to in order to save the Earth! Softstar Mindgame by Softstar Research, Inc. Move your player around the screen to avoid being hit by different explosions. As you see each explosion fire your laser at it. If your aim is good you will see another explosion (red) that lets you know that you hit the area. You must shoot varrying amounts of explosions to advance to the next level. This is not just a simple shooting style game, varrying difficulty can challege most people. Note: Requires Windows 3.1x and VBRUN300.DLL Squarex = SQUAREX.ZIP by Soleau Software Control your piece and attempt to draw lines around squares. Capture the square by drawing all four sides. Sound simple? Not if you throw in changing layouts and if you're being chased by different computer opponents! Challenging! Trap Shooting = TRAP.ZIP by Ian Firth Shoot at clay pigeons using your mouse to "target" the cross hairs and click to fire. Each round has 25 clay pigeons, and each level is increasingly difficult. An excellent, if frustrating, way to improve your hand/eye coordination. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL, included in your most recent Utilities Collection, and Windows v3.1. TicTac = TICTAC.ZIP by UNKNOWN A very well designed version of Tic Tac Toe for Windows. This program is simple to use and play. The object is to place (3) X's or O's in a row, vertical-horizontaly-diagonly. There are no fancy features to change or modify the game, this is a straightforward Tic Tac Toe game. Just want to play a simple game, this is it. Note: Requires Windows 3.1x Xatax v1.01 = XATAX101.ZIP by Pixel Painter's Years from now the Earth stands on the brink of peace, no longer do weapons of destruction exists. Man is excited about finally acheiving what was said to be impossible. Unfortunetly, it's not up to Man, but to Xatax. A alien life form that is destroying worlds throughtout the galaxy, Earth is next. Your job is to stop Xatax from destroying the Earth. Only the skilled will survive this game! Note: MS-DOS version 4.0 or higher, 80486 or higher, 4 Meg RAM or more, Color VGA Reccomended: Adlib, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro or Compatible, Joystick or GamePad