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=====Games
Contents:
=====Games
=====Education
=====Home, Financial
=====Home, Other
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=====Games
NOTE: See the \GAMES directory on this month's CD-ROM for a complete
collection of ALL the games in PsL's disk-based library.
Contents:
-----Graphic Adventure Games
-----Small Arcade Games
-----Large Arcade Games
-----Card and Casino Games
-----Board/Strategy Games
-----Logic/Puzzle Games
-----Strategy/War Games
-----Game Management
-----Kid's Stuff
-----Sports
-----Word & Quiz Games
-----Other Games
-----Graphic Adventure Games
Daymare 2 1.0 [DAYMARE2] (Jim Todd, reg. fee: $10) is a role playing game
with the object of defeating the bad guy. You can pick up items along the
way to help in your journey, throw objects and hurl spells at the enemy.
You may face ancient dragons, vampiric wizards and many other assorted
nasties. Requires VGA and a mouse.
Game Builder Lite 3.0 [GBUILDER] (David Snyder, ASP; reg. fee: $53) allows
you to create graphics adventure games with no programming. Your games can
include 256-color graphics, character and background animation, masking,
object inventory and detection, music and sound effects, and more. <PIRATE.PCX>
Reaping the Dungeon 1.0 [REAP] (Ron Heuse, reg. fee: $16) is a game that
lets you go below the surface of the planet Jupiter, through a complex
series of mazes, in search of treasure. Along the way, you can collect
weapons for fighting the various creatures you may encounter. Find the drop
chute to go to the next level.
-----Small Arcade Games
POD 1.10 [POD11] (Rob McDonell, reg. fee: $17) is an arcade game with an
outer space theme. The object of this game is to move your POD around an
increasingly complex set of colorful tracks, picking them up as you go.
Plan your steps wisely to avoid falling off or getting stranded. Requires
EGA or better. <SPACEBW.PCX>
-----Large Arcade Games
Ant Run 1.1 [ANTRUN] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $14) is an arcade strategy
game. The objective is to keep the ant running through the ant hill tunnels
as long as possible before it reaches a dead end. Requires EGA/VGA and a
mouse. <ANTRUN.PCX>
Back To The Forest 1.0 [BACKFOR] (Philippe Mercier, reg. fee: $34) is an
arcade/adventure game about a squirrel named Skunny. With the help of his
girlfriend Rosie, Skunny must rescue his friends from the evil
toads.
Features include 256 color graphics, parallax scrolling, masked foreground
objects, fast scrolling, two characters to choose from, SoundBlaster and
AdLib support, automatic smart save, joystick/Gravis pad support, and more.
Requires 640K, a hard disk and VG <backfor.pcx>
Billy The Kid 1.0 [BILLY10] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $22) is a 3-D
western action arcade game. You must escape from prison and survive the New
Mexico desert, buffaloes, bombs, gunmen, rattlesnakes and other surprises.
Features include joystick and SoundBlaster support, 3D overlapping objects,
and VGA horizontal, vertical, and diagonal scrolling action. Requires VGA,
286-16+ and 530K of memory. <BILLY10.PCX>
Desert Raid 1.0 [DESRAID] (Philippe Mercier, reg. fee: $24) is a
shoot-em-up arcade game with Skunny the squirrel. Skunny takes to the skies
with his bi-plane to destroy the manic SadMan Insane.
Features include 256 color graphics, funny animations, smooth horizontal
scrolling, smart enemies, machine guns, smart bombs, AdLib and SoundBlaster
support, automatic smart save, joystick/Gravis pad support, and a built in
PCX screen grabber. Requires 640K, a hard disk and VG <DESRAID.PCX>
Save Our Pizzas 1.1 [SAVEPIZA] (Philippe Mercier, reg. fee: $34) gives
Skunny the squirrel the job of getting back the recipe of the Pizza that
has been stolen by the evil Chef of Cadiz. Skunny travels back in time to
ancient Rome to retrieve the recipe.
Features include 256 color graphics, parallex scrolling, masked foreground
objects, SoundBlaster and AdLib support, interactive springs and catapults,
timer bombs, bribes for getting through doors, secret sections full of
goodies, automatic smart save, joystick/Gravis pad support, and a built in
PCX screen grabber. Requires 640K, a hard disk and VG <SAVEPIZA.PCX>
Starship Commander's Tactical Battle Simulator [TBS10] (William D. Hause,
reg. fee: $25) puts you in command of one or more starships in a battle
situation. Features include sound effects, music, animations, graphical
interface, real time scenarios, several ship types, mouse support and more.
Requires EGA/VGA and a hard drive. <TBS10.PCX>
ZONE 66 1.0 [ZONE66] (Tim Sweeney, reg. fee: $34) is a 32-bit arcade game
from Epic MegaGames with 256-color and 360-degree scrolling. You are the
pilot of the future in your fighter jet as you fly over enemy bases, taking
out missile sights and engaging in air-to-air combat.
Zone 66 Includes sharp, impressive graphics and digital sound. Requires
2MBf RAM, VGA graphics, an unStacked drive and no TSR
---Updates: Large Arcade Games
(GA-3a) Nova Strike 3.0 [NOVA] (Michael Kline, reg. fee: $15) is a space
flight simulation combat game.
(GA-3a) VGA Sharks 1.5 [VSHARK15] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $22) is a
professional quality arcade game in which you, as a scuba diver collecting
marine samples, must evade and fight off sharks while you go about your
work. NEW: Adlib/SoundBlaster support.
-----Card and Casino Games
---Updates: Card and Casino Games
(GA-04) 3D-Cribbage 1.4 [CRIBBAGE] (Mark R. Juneau, reg. fee: $25) is the
classic card game of cribbage.
-----Board/Strategy Games
Color Cross 1.01 [COLORX] (Gene Brown, ASP; reg. fee: $12) is a two-player
strategy game whose objective is to freeze all of your opponent's pieces.
Requires VGA and a mouse. <COLORX.PCX>
K-Chess 1.20 [KCHESS12] (Rob McDonell, reg. fee: $17) is a Chess game that
shows its own calculations as you play. It includes a hint mode that
calculates the best line of attack for several moves ahead. Play against
someone else or challange the computer to a match. K-Chess can be
controlled by keyboard or mouse. <CHESS.PCX>
RiskIt [RISKIT] (Val Mehling, reg. fee: $0) is a game of chance for 1 to 4
players. One or more of the players may be the computer. With each turn you
may have the chance to pile up the points but you may lose them all if you
Riskit once too often.
---Updates: Board/Strategy Games
(GA-05) Balloon Challenge 1.1 [BALLON11] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $14)
pits you against the computer as you each try to launch 25 balloons.
(GA-05) Robix 1.1 [ROBIX11] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $12) The objective
is get your colored blocks to the bottom of the game board by pushing rows
of blocks either to the left or right.
(GA-05) Ten-Thousand 2.0 [TEN_THOU] (Status Que Software, reg. fee: $10) is
a dice game for 2 to 6 players. NEW: mouse support.
(GA-05) Wall $treet Raider 4.1 [WSR41] (Michael D. Jenkins, ASP; reg. fee:
$25) is a simulation game of corporate finance.
-----Logic/Puzzle Games
Block-Man 1.0 [BLOCKMAN] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $16) is a mind-boggling
puzzle game. The objective is to reach the doorway in each room. Block-man
must lift and place blocks which are located in each room to find the
Princess. Requires EGA/VGA. <BLOCKMAN.PCX>
DOSMine 1.0 [DOSMINE] (David Vancina, reg. fee: $10) is a DOS game similar
to Windows' Mine Sweeper. <MINES.PCX>
FaceTrex 1.0 [FACETREX] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $14) is a strategy logic
game where the objective is to use your animated man to push faces located
on a 12x8 grid board onto their negative image located elsewhere on the
board.
The face grids will slide in the direction pushed until they hit either
another face grid or the side of the board, or special arrow grids which
redirect the face grid. 25 puzzles are included. Requires EGA/ <FACETREX.PCX>
RGB 1.0 [RGBZIP] (Antonio Cordoba, reg. fee: $10) is a geometric puzzle
game like Rubik's cube. All 16 cells must be turned to red by clicking on
adjacent cells. There are more 100 patterns to solve. Requires VGA.
Super 3D TicTacToe 3.0 [SUPERT] (Custo