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- Software of the Month Club
- April 1997 CD-ROM Program Guide
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- - DOS Games -
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- Attila 2.5
- Worldwide conquest
- Conquer the world in this Risk-style strategy game. Build your
- armies, transfer troops, invade countries and more.
- * One player against up to four computer players
- * Earn extra armies
- * Blitzkrieg mode for fast play
- (Application by Lueder Osmers)
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- - Feature Program -
- Crazy Drake 1.01
- Wacky game
- Jump, climb, run, swing and shoot your way through this arcade
- adventure. As Prince Drake, you must retrieve the Sacred Golden
- Egg from Dr. FoulBrain and stop him from taking over LoonVille.
- Each level contains bonus items, evil henchmen, challenging
- obstacles and more.
- * Three huge levels
- * Save and load up to seven games
- * Shows thumbnails of each saved game
- * Supports 16-bit stereo sounds and parallaxing background
- graphics
- (Application by One Reality and Neurotech Software; Requires
- 8MB of RAM and 6MB of hard disk space)
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- DemBonz 3.2s
- Dominoes
- This double-six dominoes game imitates Mah Jongg. Play your
- dominoes to score points and block other players from scoring,
- while trying to be the first to play all your pieces.
- * Compete against one to three computer players
- * For one player
- (Application by Barrie Sargent)
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- FASTMAZE 4.1
- Puzzling
- Generate and solve three-dimensional mazes. Determine the
- number of columns, tilt and more. The more mazes you solve,
- the harder they get.
- * Two different styles -- square and hex
- * Backtrack your moves
- * Only one solution per maze
- (Application by James L. Dean)
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- LORDS OF DOOM PART 1 -- The Black God 1.42
- Save the world
- Become a hero by defeating the powerful evil demi-god in this
- fantasy role-playing game. Move around, talk to strangers, rest,
- eat, drink, and fight off ghosts, goblins, bats and other monsters.
- * Choose from six characters
- * Change your character's strengths, abilities and more
- * Pick up items
- (Application by Bartek Dzik, DzikoSoft)
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- Puzzler 2.0
- Game hints
- Have problems with jumbled words or crossword puzzles? Solve
- them quickly with Puzzler. Input jumbled letters and it
- unjumbles the words for you. It finds sentences associated with
- letters and gives solutions according to a pattern.
- * Choose from jumble, pattern and anagram options
- * It's fast -- even with long words
- (Application by Acropolis Software)
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- Solder Runner
- Battle your computer
- Travel into the computer's cyber-structure to hunt and kill enemy
- invaders that are after your system's CPU. Find colored chips to
- access other areas, collect batteries to fire energy pulses,
- gather data disks for extra points and accumulate positrons for
- more energy while avoiding viruses.
- * Automap feature
- * View rooms with the Editor
- * Save feature
- (Application by John Reder)
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- Strategist Checkers
- Hop, skip and a jump
- Match your wits against the computer in this classic checkers
- game. Remove all of the computer's pieces from the board before
- it removes yours.
- * Restart option
- * Score points
- * Track pieces
- (Application by Arthur Crump, AGCrump; Requires a DOS
- mouse driver)
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- TERROID
- Galactic adventure
- Armed with twin lasers and a powerful cannon, you must save
- your people from the clutches of the Xrimians in this side-
- scrolling shoot 'em up. Blast your way through enemy spaceships,
- cannon turrets, missile posts and armored tanks. Pick up protective
- shields, bombs, weapon power-ups and energy pods dropped by
- destroyed ships.
- * Three difficulty settings
- * Two levels
- * Supports sound cards and joysticks
- (Application by DIGITAL Nightmares)
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- TwinBloc
- Arcade action
- Can you survive this arcade game? Your character is ill-prepared
- and poorly armored, but you must still fight off everything the
- Razzerians can drop, kick and throw at you. Blast through their
- defenses and traverse the Time Block levels. They'll tantalize you
- with pictures from your home planet, hurl you through space and
- dazzle you with bizarre patterns. Good luck!
- * For one or two players
- * Five levels for one player
- * Four levels for two players
- * Sound card, mouse and joystick support
- (Application by Webfoot Technologies; Music requires expanded memory)
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