Games - February '98

Windows 95 Games

note.gif (244 bytes)Important Note: Almost All Windows 95 games require you install DirectX first. This is a special set of enhanced drivers for things like video, sound and input. If you receive an error message like "Cannot find DSOUND.DLL" then you do not have DirectX installed.
    

Armored Fist 2 Jack Nicklaus 5 Course Designer Tumble Bugs Wing Commander Prophecy Star Command Deluxe Sid Meier's Gettysburg Catz II Dogz II Total Soccer Virtual Jigsaw Legal Crime War, Inc

Note: The links for some of these games may not run or install properly from within a Web Browser. If this happens, use Windows 95 Explorer or My Computer, to locate the path listed on the CD-ROM and run the .EXE file shown directly.

 

Armored Fist 2
From: Novalogic
URL: http://www.novalogic.com
Download the demo from:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/games/cnet/win95/games/af2demo.exe
Genre: Tank sim
Classification: G8+ (contains some low-level animated violence)
Full version: Now available
Local Distributor: EA (02) 9955 7744
List price: $89.95
Minimum system requirements: P120, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX3.0>

Here's your chance to pilot the US Military's newest battle tank - the M1A2 ABRAMS. Command your attack from a panoramic view of the battlefield or take charge of one of 4 different in-tank stations. Seize enemy bases, engage ground and air targets, call in artillery and air strikes, defend and capture territories.

 

Jack Nicklaus 5 Course Designer
From: Accolade
URL: http://www.accolade.com/
Download the demo from: ftp://ftp.accolade.com/demos/jn5/JN5DemoD.exe
Genre: Golf sim course designer
Classification: G
Full version: Now available
Local Distributor: Sega-Ozisoft (02) 9317 0000
List price: $89.95
Minimum system requirements: P120, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX3.0>

Design golf courses to play in conjunction with the Jack Nicklaus 5 golf sim. Tee off with Jack on beautiful courses all over the world. New 3D golfers - made with a breathtaking 2000 polygons - are the most lifelike and realistic ever seen in a golf game. Pro golfers were motion-captured to create incredibly accurate swings.

And, going 3D means you can position the camera anywhere, at any angle on the course to make shots and watch replays. You can even line up putts at the ground level for precise aiming.

 

Tumble Bugs
From: Voxar
URL: http://www.voxar.com
Download the demo from: http://www.voxar.com
Genre: Arcade
Classification: G
Full version: Now available
Local Distributor: TBA
List price: TBA
Minimum system requirements: P60, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX3.0>

Tumble Bugs is the most compelling, innovative, and downright fun little game you will play for a long time. Forget lavish backgrounds and hidden hot keys, there is real gaming joy to be had slipping, weaving and swooping at high speed as the Tumble Bugs blast each other from Earth to Teridon. As you engage in battle and the fighting ships zoom in closer to you, admire the fine detail and accuracy of their shapely hulls.

 

Wing Commander Prophecy
From: Origin
URL: http://www.origin.ea.com/
Download the demo from: http://www.origin.ea.com/
Genre: Space combat sim
Classification: M15+ (contains some low intensity depictions of animated violence)
Full version: Now available
Local Distributor: EA (02) 9955 7744
List price: $89.95
Minimum system requirements: P166, 32Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX5.0>, 3Dfx accelerator card

The saga continues. New heroes. New enemies. New story. Join the Confederation for the beginning of a new chapter in the most popular computer game series ever.

 

Star Command Deluxe
From: Metropolis Digital
URL: http://www.metro3d.com/
Download the demo from: http://www.metro3d.com/
Genre: Strategy
Classification: G
Full version: Now available
Local Distributor: TBA
List price: TBA
Minimum system requirements: P90, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX3.0>

This is the demo of Star Command Deluxe, an inter-stellar real-time strategy game from Metropolis Digital.

 

Sid Meier's Gettysburg
From: EA
URL: http://www.ea.com
Download the demo from: http://www.ea.com
Genre: Real-time strategy
Classification: G8+ (contains some low-level animated violence)
Full version: Now available
Local Distributor: EA  (02) 9955 7744
List price: $89.95
Minimum system requirements: P90, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX5.0>

Sid Meier's Gettysburg is a real-time strategy game simulating one of the most dramatic battles in history. It is Sid's first game at Firaxis, and one of the most eagerly awaited titles of the year.

 

Catz II
From: Mindscape
URL: http://www.mindscapeuk.com/
Download the demo from: http://www.mindscapeuk.com/
Genre: Pet sim
Classification: G
Full version: Coming soon
Local Distributor: TBA
List price: TBA
Minimum system requirements: P75, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX3.0>

Catz II is the follow up to the much loved virtual pet game Catz. Happy Catz need food, affection and a comfy place to call home. If you choose to adopt, your Catz will want you to pay them loads of attention. You can do this by grooming, training and playing with them a lot.

 

 

Dogz II
From: Mindscape
URL: http://www.mindscapeuk.com/
Download the demo from: http://www.mindscapeuk.com/
Genre: Pet sim
Classification: G
Full version: Coming soon
Local Distributor: TBA
List price: TBA
Minimum system requirements: P75, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX3.0>

Here's another chance to adopt your very own cyber pet in the sequel to Dogz. Happy Dogz need food, affection and a comfy place to call home. Dogz like you to give them a lot of attention. You can groom, train and play with your Dogz. Dogz love learning new tricks, too.

 

Total Soccer
From: Live Media
URL: http://www.livemedia.co.uk
Download the demo from: http://www.livemedia.co.uk
Genre: Soccer sim
Classification: G
Full version: Coming soon
Local Distributor: TBA
List price: TBA
Minimum system requirements: P75, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX3.0>

Total Soccer is a Windows 95 arcade soccer game, designed from the start with only playability in mind. A step back to the 'good old days' of 16-bit games, but a step forward for PC soccer games!

Like real soccer, Total Soccer is a game of skill, and as such will take some time to get to grips, and even longer to master. Also like real soccer, and unlike most other PC soccer games, the ball is not magically glued to the end of the players boot. This allows for greater freedom of movement, and allows real touch football to be played, with glancing headers, blocks and flick-ons all not only possible, but simple to achieve.

 

Virtual Jigsaw
From: SouthPeak Interactive
URL: http://www.southpeak.com/
Download the demo from: http://www.southpeak.com/
Genre: Puzzle
Classification: G
Full version: Coming soon
Local Distributor: TBA
List price: TBA
Minimum system requirements: P75, 8Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX5.0>

Virtual Jigsaw is a CD-ROM game that combines the interactivity of your home computer with the challenge of solving jigsaw puzzles. While other puzzles enable you to simply solve one-sided puzzles, Virtual Jigsaw allows you to increase your difficulty level by solving two-sided puzzles. So everyone from children to advanced jigsaw enthusiasts can enjoy Virtual Jigsaw.

 

Legal Crime
From: Byte Enchanters
URL: http://www.byteenchanters.com/
Download the demo from: ftp://cdrom.com/pub/gamesdomain/demos/LCrime105.exe
Genre: Action/strategy
Classification: G8+ (contains some low-level animated violence)
Full version: Coming soon
Local Distributor: TBA
List price: TBA
Minimum system requirements: P100, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 95 <DirectX5.0>

Chicago 1920. You need to be pitiless, cold, cunning, smart, yet elegant and loyal. Build a crime empire, gain political and economic control over the whole city, crush other gangs via cleverly timed attacks and legal bills. In real time, over the Internet.

The demo features an unlimited single player game and a maximum of 15 minutes to play a network game.

 

War, Inc.
From: Interactive Magic
URL: http://www.imagicgames.com/
Download the demo from: http://www.imagicgames.com/
Genre: Action/strategy
Classification: G8+ (contains some low-level animated violence)
Full version: Coming soon
Local Distributor: TBA
List price: TBA
Minimum system requirements: P90, 16Mb RAM, PCI graphics card, Windows 3.11 or later

In the 21st century, private security forces have evolved into powerful mercenary armies under corporate control. Take command of your own corporation and its armed forces, and assume control of research and development, production, and strategic and tactical combat. In this world, you are both Commander-in-Chief and C. E. O.

Research new weapons technologies, design and customise the ultimate war machines, and sell your mercenary services to the highest bidder. Build field bases, manufacture your weapons and defences, and annihilate the enemy. If your budget gets too tight to construct the awesome tank-flattening machines of destruction you need, then re-invest some of your earnings in the stock market. It's just another day at the office.

 


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