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- │ WIZARD GAMES Shareware Releases - Summer 1990 │
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-
- WIZARD is a programming collective based in Scotland, with a range of games all
- available only for the IBM PC (and compatibles) via mail order. WIZARD believes
- that current PC games are overpriced and overpackaged (not to mention lacking in
- imagination). We are creating a series of unique and innovative games, designed
- to take full advantage of the size and power of IBM PCs and compatibles, and we
- are marketing these primarily via the 'try before you buy' shareware method.
-
- If you like any of our shareware releases, then please support us by registering
- for the game concerned. Registration costs £12 (US$20) per game, and entitles
- you to the latest full enhanced registered version of the game concerned, with
- LOAD and SAVE game facilities and other additional features. Registration also
- puts you on our mailing list for information on Wizard releases - and there are
- several of these a year!
-
- System requirements for WIZARD releases are IBM PC/close compatible, with 512k
- RAM and CGA/CGA compatible graphics card. We have many reports of our games
- being run successfully on a wierd and wonderful variety of machines, eg Apple
- Macs, Hercules graphics machines, etc using appropriate DOS/CGA emulation
- hardware/software.
-
- What they say about Wizard Games:
-
- 'thanks for the work you are doing in the underdeveloped - yet overpriced -
- PC games world' - P Walker,Bradford
- 'these are just the type of games I have been waiting for. Keep up the good
- work' - C Meeks,London
-
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- │ THE SOCCER GAME (c) 1989 New Era │
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-
- Congratulations,you have just been hired as the new manager of a professional
- soccer team. Find out if you can handle this exciting job with THE SOCCER GAME,
- a sports managerial simulation game.
-
- THE SOCCER GAME is larger in scope and much more comprehensive than any
- currently available soccer management game: forget the rest, try out the best!
-
- Programmed by a certifiable soccer maniac, who was simply fed up with the lack
- of detail and scope in available soccer management games, THE SOCCER GAME uses
- the memory and processing capacity of the PC to create a game far larger in
- scope and far more entertaining and demanding than any of the rest.
-
- The object of this outstanding game is to become a succesful manager of a soccer
- team. You start out managing a fourth division team, and try to work your way up
- to the top of the first division, and on to international cup success. You
- select the team players, and staff. You demonstrate your skills by trading and
- buying players, by selecting the best teams to play, and by making the best
- deals.
-
- Features include:
-
- YOUR TEAM: up to 20 players, each with emotional stability, age, experience,
- skill, fitness, and consistency. Contract termination, and renewal. Players on
- free loan. Field positions, injuries, retirements, testimonials. Buy/sell
- players, directly or via transfer market. Hire/fire staff. Reports and advice
- from staff. Fixture list. Next match information. Offers to manage another team
- during the course of the game.
-
- OTHER TEAMS: 1270 players. 4 divisions (20 teams in each). 20 international
- teams. Physio, treasurer, scout, & assistant for each team. Edit team and player
- names. View any team's squad at any time. Information on signings between teams.
- Full information on individual players.
-
- FIXTURES: League tables for all 4 divisions. League Cup. FA cup. Cup Winners
- Cup. UEFA cup. European Cup. Friendly matches. Optional match highlights.
- Results from all matches. Man of the match. Scorers. High goal scorers list.
- Player of the month. Young player of the month. Manager of the month.
-
- FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Buy and sell team shares. make and sell records(!). Bank
- loans.Weekly cash flow with gate receipts, sponsorship, TV and radio fees,
- salaries, ground maintenance, tranfer fees, betting.
-
- PRESENTATION: Full windowing and pull-up menus. Colour. Music. Instructions.
- On-screen help. Levels of difficulty. Print outs.
-
-
- What they say about THE SOCCER GAME:
-
- 'congratulations on a full and comprehensible game' - J Whiting,Colchester
- 'enjoyed it immensely.. addicted' - N Loader,The Netherlands
- 'thank you,at Wizard games, for the many challenging hours' A,P&R Powell,Pudsey
- 'excellent game' - D J Hayes, E Grinstead
- 'extremely easy to use - the program matches and even exceeds the majority of
- commercially available software, with regard to text displays,help screens, and
- pull down menu facilities. Excellent value for money!' - C Longdon,Chippenham
- 'extremely well written game' - P G Jones,Leeds
- 'thank you for the SOCCER GAME - I think it's brilliant' - V Holmen,Manchester
- 'excellent - completely hooked on it' - J Holden,Cambridgeshire
- 'it IS compulsive - thanks very much for a great game' - D Johnson,Wiltshire
- 'I admit I am addicted to your imaginatively titled "Soccer Game" - Keep up the
- good work' - D Demetriou, Southgate
- 'I have in the past played all the football strategy games available and I
- consider "Soccer" the best and most reaslistic available.' - Chris Broadbent,
- Swindon
- -'brilliant' - A Powis,Hereford
- -'brilliant and very addictive' - D Farmer,Staffs
-
- (these are just a small selection of the rave quotes this game produces!)
-
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- │ GRAND PRIX (c) 1989 Hole In The Wall │
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- Manage your own Formula 1 racing team! You are in charge of finances, hiring and
- firing of drivers, design staff, and mechanics. You must select and purchase
- cars, engines, and other items necessary for a succesful season. You start out
- with limited money with which to build up your teams, and must obtain
- sponsorship, and negotiate loans.
-
- Once you have a completed team, it's time to start racing! There are 16 races in
- each Grand Prix international season, and you must try to qualify for each. With
- a skillful driver you may win a race. With a good chief mechanic you could win
- more. If you have an experienced chief designer your car may last the whole
- season. And if you manage to put all the parts together, the constructors and
- drivers championships await you!
-
- Grand Prix is, to the best of our knowledge, the only game of formula 1 team
- managment available. Its features include:
-
- - run the season with one, or two (if finances allow) drivers.
- - control finances, obtain sponsorship and loans (beware the loan shark!)
- - control spending on car/engine development, and salaries
- - select drivers from transfer market
- - experience history, age, skill, temperament, for each driver
- - realism: real-life circuits,teams and drivers.
- - circuit statistics, lap records, team records
- - qualifying and race lap times, best and average
- - accidents, breakdowns, injuries
- - graphs/charts of team/driver/competitors performance for the season, and for
- the game to date.
- - customise team names
- - slick presentation, colour, sound, easy and fast to operate
- - on-line help and instructions
-
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- │ INSANITY (c) 1989 Wizard Games │
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-
- A huge maze-base adventure game, where INSANITY rules! Find clues, solve puzzles
- and try to stay alive in a place where the unexpected is common, and pandemonium
- is found at every turn!
-
- As you tru to find your way out of the labyrinth, you'll encounter many strange
- things, You'll meet a wizard, pass through stars, collect ammunition to defend
- yourself against little red fiends, explore a castle and church along the way,
- play games like seven card challenge and a fast paced soccer match. Most things
- won't make sense, but if you can find a method to the madness, you could find
- the key to end your search for a way out of INSANITY.
-
- INSANITY is a highly challenging and entertaining game suitable for all the
- family. It comes with a built in demo to give you an idea what the game is
- about.
-
- Insanity realy has te be seen, rather than read about!
-
- 'INSANITY: It's Brilliant' - J Amandini
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- │ POPSTAR (c) 1989 Wizard Games │
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-
- You are an unknow hopeful, trying to gain popularity and chart success in the
- crazy world of sex,drugs, and rock and roll! Your health, alertness, creativity,
- happiness, and drug intake, are constantly monitored and must be carefully
- controlled.
-
- The aim of POPSTAR is to become a star, then a megastar: by playing gigs around
- the world to create some popularity, by promotional activities, and by recording
- and releasing records and making videos. You must constantly watch your health
- and emotional state, as the crazy world of sex drugs and rock and roll is very
- arduous. You will be tempted continually into partying and drug taking, but
- beware! You will need holidays and perhaps even health sanitoriums,
- rehabilitation clinics or even hospital to recover from your excesses!
-
- ACTIVITIES: touring - pubs, clubs, halls, stadiums. Support tours. Recording -
- various studios. Make videos - various producers. Negotiate record contracts,
- and record company loans - various labels. TV and radio appearances. Promotional
- autograph and interview tours. Parties. Holidays - various locations. Health
- sanitorium. Drug taking. Drug addiction and rehabilitation. Drug busts.
- Hospital. Consult your analyst. Visit your doctor. Bankrupcy. Death.
-
- INFORMATION: local,UK,European, and American top 100 charts, updated every week.
- Various regional and international top 100 popularity polls. Detailed history
- of your own releases and tours. Information on new releases. Record and video
- reviews. Gig reviews. Advice from manager, band and friends.
-
- PRESENTATION: full windowing and bar menus. Special effects. Colour. Sound.
- Instant context-sensitive help and information always available via function
- keys. Bar graph displays. Friendly interactive style.
-
- What they say about POPSTAR:
-
- 'played for hours at it' - A Turner,Bolton
- 'wonderful! just my sort of game. Keep up the good work etc' - Alan Rose,Ilford
- 'what a brilliant game' - R Thomas,Swansea
- 'most impressed' - B Clay,Suffolk
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- │ OLIGOPOLY (c) 1990 Wizard Games │
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-
- OLIGOPOLY is light-hearted but detailed game of business management- you must
- build up your business in the face of cut-throat competition: hire/fire staff,
- build factories, set prices and marketing and research budgets, deal with
- strikes, and generally play at being a capitalist!
-
- You have just inherited a business, called "USELESS LIMITED" from a sadistic
- uncle of yours. USELESS ltd makes silly little devices called "Incomprehensible
- Gadgets" which the general public seem to think are essential aids to modern
- living (yes folks "no home should be without one").
-
- "Oligopoly" is the state where a few companies between them dominate a market.
- In the market for "Incomprehensible Gadgets" there are six companies including
- you, and there is some limited foreign competition which will only get a
- foothold in the market if the six companies are fairly incompetent.
-
- CUTTHROAT ltd will concentrate on price competition, aiming for a low profit
- margin on a high volume of sales.
-
- TOPNOTCH ltd goes for good quality design and expects customers to pay premium
- prices for it.
-
- IMAGE ltd loves to promote itself, so concentrates on marketing, again
- expecting premium prices for such a fashionable name...
-
- STEADFAST ltd as rather boring and conservative and tries to survive by taking
- as few risks as possible (you could say it depends on the boring conservative
- core of the general public for its'' sales!)
-
- SHADOW ltd copies you (except when you do really stupid things!), as they don''t'
- have minds of their own (shame....).
-
- So the aim of the game is to destroy the competition and get yourself a
- complete monopoly of the market for "Incomprehensible Gadgets"
-
- You have control over all aspects of USELESS ltd''s activities - production
- of the gadgets, design and development of revised models, and selling and
- marketing of the finished gadgets. You have a workforce to control and
- factories and equipment to organise, buy and sell.
-
- To help you run this business, you have a good computer system (programmed by
- WIZARD, so it must be quite wonderful) giving you a variety of graphical and
- financial information. It is up to you to figure out how to make sense of it
- all!
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- │ WIZARD GAMES 4 Hoselaw,Kelso,Scotland,TD5 8BP │
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