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Arcade Games Contents: -----Shoot-Em-Up Games -----Falling Block Games -----Street Fighting Games -----Artillery, Tank & Missile Games -----Snake Type Games -----Virtual Reality Games -----Breakout Games -----"Pipe" Games -----Ropes & Ladders Games -----Classics -----CGA Arcade Games -----"B"-Level Games -----Other ====================== -----Shoot-Em-Up Games: [BANDIT] Bandit 1.1 (O'Shea, Mike; $6) is a shoot-em-up spaceship game. [CHOPPER] Chopper Pilot Mission 1 (Cave Data Software; $10) is a shoot-or-be-shot commando game. You fly a helicopter and battle your way into the enemy bunker to find secret documents. You must get out alive and fly back to base; all while trying to avoid mines, alarms and killer robots. It features VGA animated graphics,sound effects, and more. [CYBERWAR] Cyberwars (Gibbs, John; $12) You must protect your home planet by destroying the enemy cyberwarriors. The game has excellent graphics, but surviving for very long is extremely difficult. Requires VGA. [CZ] Combat Zone [Rockland Software Productions; $20] is a fast-paced arcade war game. Win as many battles as you can and get promoted through the ranks. Requires VESA compatible SVGA graphics card w/1 meg video ram, monitor capable of 1024x768x256 colors, Microsoft compatible mouse, sound card and 4MB of hard disk space. [DRAKLOR] Dungeons Of Drakklor 4.1 (DRAKLOR) (Neri, Mark; $15) You are a brave explorer searching for the fountain of life. There are 11 levels of tricks, traps, and creatures to overcome in your search. Requires 512K and EGA/VGA. [FIGHTER] Rocket Fighter (Sherwood Forest Software; $15) puts you in the pilot's seat of a rocket fighter plane in deep space. Your mission is to take out the enemies of the Alliance armed with only the laser cannon in your ship and your piloting skills. Requires VGA and a hard drive. [GTWRLD1, GTWRLD2, GTWRLD3] GateWorld: Episode 1 - The Seed Ship 1.4 (Homebrew Software; $34) is a fantastic spaced-out arcade game. In this episode, Captain Klondike is rudely awakened from hypersleep by Stella (the spaceship's computer) warning of a collision course with a very large and mysterious-looking asteroid. Unfortunately, this asteroid contains the sinister G.O.R.G. computer as well as an unimaginable treasure of gold and jewels. The good Captain will encounter a variety of unusual creatures in his search for wealth including giant cave bats, bouncing blue eyeballs, cosmic killer starfish, and devious mechanical menaces. This excellent game features over 2MB of colorful Nintendo-quality scrolling graphics, three skill levels, and supports eight different sound cards. Other features include game save/restore options, joystick support, on-line hints, and much more. Requires VGA, 560K RAM, and a 286 or better. [GLACTA] Galacta 1.1 (Puckett, Sean M.; $12) is a shoot-em-up space game like the old Galactica arcade game. Features include great 256-color VGA graphics, sound effects and joy stick support. Requires 286+ and 640K RAM. [GALACTIX] Galactix 1.3A (Cygnus Software; $15) is a deep space, shoot-em-up arcade game with digitized sound, music soundtrack, and professional quality graphics. The overall play of the game is pretty-much standard space shoot-em-up, but with a couple of twists, and with beautiful graphics and support for joystick, mouse, and a sound card for music and sound effects. [GVT203] Graviton 2.03 (Daniel A. Sill; $10) is an excellent simulated vector graphics space game. You fly into a solar system and if you can get past enemy ships and if you don't let gravity pull you into the sun, then you go to each of the planets. On the planets, you must destroy gun turrets and take on fuel while watching out for sky mines that will come after you. You also have to maneuver your ship to avoid crashing. This is a very challenging game. EGA/VGA required. [HORUS] Eye of Horus 1.5 (JMS Enterprises; $10) Aliens from a distant dimension are threatening the Earth. In this shoot-em-up style game, you must blast away at your enemies before they get close enough to shoot at you. You only get one shot at each alien, and there are pesky Sweeper ships at higher levels that can block your shots. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. [JUMPJET] JumpJet (Montsoft; $15) is a fighter plane shoot'em down type of arcade game where the you can test your shooting skills. You must complete specific missions described before each play that progress in difficulty. Graphics are very good and smooth. Support is specifically provided for CGA, high and low resolution EGA, and Hercules. If you have an Ad Lib compatible sound card, the program will use it for sound effects. This is a must-have for arcade game lovers. [KILOBLST] Kiloblaster 1: Death of a Starship (Epic MegaGames ASP; $30) is a fantastic, arcade quality shoot-em-up space game. It features 30 levels of non-stop action, SoundBlaster compatible music and sound effects, beautiful ray-traced graphic backgrounds, joystick support, and much more. As the Captain of the Starship Kiloprise you must stop an enemy horde from conquering the Earth. As you blast away at the unending avalanche of aliens, you can gather fruit and other objects that increase your firepower. Requires 512K, EGA/VGA, and 286+. (This apparently will NOT work with the disk compression utility STACKER.) [NOVA] Nova Strike 2.1 (Nova Strike Software; $8) is a space flight simulation combat game. You must develop the flying and fighting skills and strategies necessary to destroy all the enemy ships. Requires a 286 or better, VGA and a mouse. [OVERKILL] Overkill 1.2 (Tech Noir; $30) is an excellent arcade space game with superior VGA graphics. You must stop the advance of a powerful alien armada that has overrun the planets of a nearby solar system. As you approach these strange planets, you are greeted with wave after wave of weird and wonderful creatures. After the destruction of some of these enemies you are rewarded with new weapons and fuel. Other features include joystick support, Sound Blaster music and sound effects, three difficulty levels, CGA support, and much more. [Phylox] Phylox (Beavis-Soft; 25 pounds Sterling) Strap on your jetpack and track down the mutated insects that are threatening the existance of the human race. Using your laser rifle and grenades, you must enter the breeding caverns of these nightmarish bugs and destroy everything that moves. Phylox has excellent VGA graphics and SoundBlaster compatible sound effects. Requires a 286/12 or better machine, a hard disk, and 640K. [SHOOTING] Shooting Gallery (Anderson, Nels, ASP; $10) is a terrific arcade shooting game with several different challenges. The shooting gallery would be good enough by itself, with its many different targets whizzing by, but there is also a skeet shoot and a quick-draw contest that should you turn you into the Fastest Mouse in the West. Get past those, and you face a shoot-out with the bad guys, but don't shoot any innocent bystanders! VGA and a mouse are required. [SPACEKL] SpaceKill I (Neurosport; $15) is a space battle game in which you must maneuver through asteroids and mine fields, defend your docking station as well as your ship, and fight the enemies ships. EGA/VGA required. [STARDEF] Star Defense (Forben Software Engineering; $15) is an arcade game with high-quality digitized voice and sound effects that play through the PC's speaker. The object is to protect your missile silos from enemy bombs. There are five levels of action, each a bit more difficult than the last. Requires 286 or 386 with EGA or VGA. [STARFIRE] Starfire 1.4 (Silver Lightening Software; $20) is an action-packed shoot-em-up space game. An invasion fleet is headed towards the Earth. You must blast away at the enemy while avoiding the fire and smart weapons of the mother ship and its fighters. As you fly close to the huge mother ship, you must also avoid running into objects jutting out from it. Other features include keyboard/mouse/joystick input, and sound card support for music and sound effects. Requires 256-color VGA for the great hi-res graphics, and a 286 or faster CPU. [STRYKER] Major Stryker 1.4 (Apogee Software; $34) is a shoot-em-up space combat game. You pilot a high-powered space ship through space stations, lava caves and alien cities. Features include triple-parallax scrolling, EGA/VGA highspeed animated graphics, Ad Lib and Sound Blaster support, cinematic sequences, joystick support, a demo mode, and the ability to save/restore up to 10 games. [WOLFENST] Wolfenstein 3D 1.4 (Apogee Software; $39) as Capt. B.J. Blazakowicz on a reconnaissance mission, you must try to infiltrate a Nazi fortress. Captured and awaiting execution you try to escape the prison in which you are held and get the plans to the Allies before they suffer a major defeat. As with all Apogee games, you get beautiful, full-color, smoothly scrolling animated graphics, sound/music card support, mouse and joystick and Gravis game pad support, and all the other professional touches. [XERIX] Xerix 1.3 (Reville, Brendan; $0) is a futuristic shoot-em-up game with great graphics and sounds. You guide a space ship through a strange new world and destroy or avoid enemy obstacles. It supports VGA/MCGA graphics, Adlib and Sound Blaster sound cards, expanded and extended memory, and a mouse or joystick. Requires 500K free disk space. [XLAGIT] Xlagit (Tangtrakul, Atakorn; $5) is a shoot-em-up action game in which international flags are dropped randomly from the top of the screen, and you must destroy ONLY the Iraqi flag. The more points you amass, the faster the action gets. If Sadamm's smiling face appears you can blow him away for extra points. This game requires a mouse, and has excellent EGA/VGA graphics, but also supports CGA. -----Falling Block Games These games are often referred to as "Tetris" type games, but Tetris was not the first game of this type (see "Beyond Columns"), so we call them "Falling Block Games". [BEYOND] Beyond Columns 1.1 (Taylor, Brad P.; $0) "...is like Tetris, only different." That's what our write-up of this program would have been before reading the background given by the author, who says: "The original Columns game was invented for the X window system by Jay Geertsen of HP" before Tetris came along. In this game, you control columns as they move down the screen, much like with Tetris. However, each column is composed of three different blocks and you make the columns dissolve by getting three blocks of the same color or design (your choice of several block designs is given) in a row, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. To further complicate things, you can rearrange the blocks within the columns so that, for example, if a column on the bottom has two green blocks on top and the falling column has a green block in the middle, say, you can rotate the middle green block to the bottom of the column so that when it lands on the column with the two green blocks, there will be three green blocks in a row, causing them to dissolve. In our opinion, this program is a lot more difficult than Tetris. The Easy level drove us to a nervous breakdown. The bad news: it is for VGA or MVGA only, and it appears that you have to reboot to get out of the program. [BRIX_EM] Brix I (Epic MegaGames ASP; $34) is a falling-block game with a lot of features: lasers, elevators, lava, anti-gravity, and more. There are 112 levels to challenge you. The game features superb VGA graphics and animation, Sound Blaster music and digital sound. Requires VGA, 286 or better, 512K RAM, and a hard disk. [BRIX] Brix 2.0 (Dlugosz Software; $5) is an impressive falling-block game. As you progress to higher levels, the game speed increases, the playing field becomes smaller, and the puzzle shapes become more complicated. Other features include solo play or head-to-head competition, four difficulty levels ranging from easy to impossible, and more. A sliding tile puzzle game is also included. EGA/VGA required. [COLORJB] Colors 1.1 (BONCZYK, JIM; $?) has many new strategies. Requires VGA. [CUBER] Cuber 2.0 (Soleau, William; $12) is a challenging variation of the falling block game. [DBLOCK] Double Blocks (Yale, Ernest Yale; $5) is a falling block game for one or two players. The program is well designed, colorful, and has good sound effects which can be turned off. Because it uses ASCII characters for graphics, it will work with any type of video. (The author can no longer be reached at the address listed in the documentation.) [DOUBLNK] Double Link (Tupaczewski, Paul; $15) is a very addictive falling-block game. An oblong shape, which is actually two round units linked together, is dropped down the chute. Sometimes they are the same color, but often they are not. When four units of the same color are aligned together vertically or horizontally, they disappear and the other units in the links are left behind. If a unit left behind was being held aloft by its partner, it drops when the partner is removed. This can set up a chain reaction as a unit drops to form a group with three matching units below it. Each level starts with more and more Meanies (units with faces) in the chute. Once all of the Meanies are removed by grouping matching colors with them, the level is over. [EGAINT] EgaInt 0.94.12 (Ng, Eric; $0) is a falling block game. Several options are available such as a tournament mode, your choice of control keys and block styles, and eleven levels of play. Requires EGA/VGA. [MULTIX] Multix (Blackstone Software; $10) is an interesting and challenging falling-block game. The falling pieces are very irregularly shaped, so placing them is very challenging. You can "crunch" a portion on the piece to make it fit better, but this will subtract from your score. Requires EGA. [NYET] Tommy's Nyet 04.29.90 (Tommy's Toys; $?) is a basic falling-block game. [NYET3] Nyet III [PROLINE Software; $40] is a super falling-block type game with many innovative features. There are many different variations of the game, such as one in which blocks that have already come down partially melt away and the next in which appendages suddenly appear. You have to win "money" on the lower levels with which to buy tools for taking on the higher levels. The program features great graphics, sounds, and opening animation. Requires VGA, hard disk, 286+. [ROPO] Rodeo Poker 1.0 (Herring, Steve; $8) is a western-style falling-block game. Instead of falling blocks, this game uses playing cards that drop down four chutes for you arrange into groups of five to make winning poker hands. You can jump a card from one chute to another. The better the hand the bigger the score. [STT] Shift Tac Toe (Hanchin, Len; $10) is a falling block type game in which you must shift the colors of three vertical blocks as they fall so that they will match up with other blocks of the same color. It starts off easy, but the action gets faster, the longer you go. [TEAMTRS] Teamtris (Cinetic Systems; $0) is a falling-block game that lets you play against a human opponent, as well as playing solo. You can choose between two board sizes. VGA required. [TEXTRIS] Textris 2.0 (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $12) is a falling-block game that makes you spell words as the letterblocks fall. If you like Tetris type games and you like word games, we guarantee that you will love Textris. Words can be made horizontally or vertically and must be from 3-7 letters long. When the letterblocks form a word, they are highlighted for a moment and then removed. The blocks above those being removed move down a row and if any new words are formed as a result, they are removed too. Points are awarded according to the difficulty of the words spelled. A game like this requires a good dictionary built in for determining when a word has been spelled. If it has a poor or limited dictionary, you will be frustrated by its rejecting words that you know are good. We were very satisfied with Textris' dictionary. Requires EGA/VGA. [TOWERS] Towers (Cascoly Software ASP; $24) The object is to build a tower one level at a time with falling blocks of various sizes. You need quick reflexes to be able to fit the blocks in the tightest pattern. There are detailed 3-D perspective graphics that change as you scroll the screen. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. [VALGUS] Valgus Squared (Glenn, James R. Jr.; $10) is a falling-block game with pieces moving in from all four sides. The object is to complete squares around the block in the middle. Since you never know what direction the next piece will be coming from, you do not have long to react, making this a very challenging game. [XTETRIS] xTetris 2.0 (Singer, Daniel; $0) is a falling-block game which includes triangular shapes as well as rectangles. [XXIV] XXIV (Ambachtsheer, Mark; $10) is a falling-block type math game. Sets of three numbers fall and the object is to get numbers to multiply together to equal 24, horizontally or vertically. Three levels of difficulty keep you on your toes. -----Street Fighting Games: [HORROR] EndLess Horror (JMS Enterprises; $10) is a parody of the Street Fighter arcade type game. All the ozone has burned up and you must fight off the evil Froggers. [EXECUTE] Executioners (Bloodlust Software; $35) is an intense fighting game for 1 or 2 players. It features a total of eight fighting moves, and machine guns, and a variety of strange super-villians. It also features music and digitized sounds effects. Requires VGA and 386+ with at least 1 meg of expanded memory. [KUNGFU] Kung Fu Louie (Salgado, R.; $30) is an arcade game in which you, as Kung Fu Louie, must fight the "evil" martial artists. This is a MAJOR programming effort covering three disks. The documentation lists a dozen people as co-authors. The program requires a 286 or 386 computer with EGA compatible video to keep the realistic karate graphics moving smoothly and quickly. The AdLib music card is supported, but if you don't have one, you will still get a musical soundtrack on the PC's speaker. A couple of the authors are karate students, and it shows in the graphics and play of the game. A front punch does the least damage, but can be thrown the fastest. A back spinning hook kick to the head is the most damaging blow, but is so slow it is easily avoided or countered by a faster technique. Two other techniques, a front snapkick to the body and a roundhouse kick to the head, do medium damage at medium speed. There are four different scenes, and you have to defeat several "bad guys" at each location, and of course, the competition keeps getting tougher. The scenery is very impressive. -----Artillery, Tank & Missile Games: [BATALIA] Batalia is a two-player game in which you and your opponent each have a space ship and the object is to be the first to shoot the other a total of ten times. Barriers, etc, are placed on the screen for you to hide behind and maneuver around. The screen changes after each hit. [BOMBAWA] BombAway 1.2 (Delaroderie, Rad; $10) combines two popular programs EGABomb and VGABomb. It is a high-resolution, mouse-supported (not required) graphics game in which two players fire artillery shells at each other under a moonlit star-filled night sky. EGA/VGA required. [GROUNDWR] Ground War (Enque Software; $10) is a two-player multi-tank game, that involves both hand-eye coordination and strategy. One player takes the position of the Allies, while the other takes the position of the Iraqis in controlling eight tanks each around ammo dumps, fuel tanks, bunkers and mine fields. Requires EGA/VGA. [GRAVWAR] Gravity Wars (Ismail-Beigi, Sohrab; $0) is an interesting variation of the old two-player, tank aim-and-shoot type game. Instead of tanks, you have space ships, and the gravity of nearby planets and stars affect your shots. For each game, you can toggle through randomly drawn star systems to find one that looks particularly interesting and challenging. VGA required. [HAVOC] Electron Havoc 1.1 (Shramko, John; $10) lets you and an opponent take turns firing at each other's space ships. You must adjust your firing speed and ship location to allow for gravity pockets. Requires VGA and a mouse. [NITEFIRE] Nitefire is a two-player tank game. You take turns moving or shooting. Before shooting, you can adjust the angle and velocity. The first one to hit the other wins. [PATRIOT] Patriot 1.1.1 (Jaeger, Bruce; $0) is a tough VGA arcade game in which you must guide Patriot missiles against Scud missiles. A mouse is required. [SANDSTRM] Sand Storm 2.1 (Johndrow, David A. ASP; $23) is a missile war game based on Desert Storm. You must defend cities, oil wells and barracks from scuds and jet attacks with your Patriot missiles. Then guide your Tomahawk missile through anti-aircraft fire to knock out enemy weapons plants and mobile scud launchers. The game includes 20 missions and a Gulf war map. Requires EGA/VGA, mouse and 384K RAM. [SCORCH] Scorched Earth 1.2 (Hicken, Wendell; $10-$20) is a thrilling artillery game for VGA. If features colorful graphics and allows up to 10 players. You can use a mouse, joystick, or keyboard. One player can compete against computerized players or mix computerized and human players. [SCUDATK] Scud Atak2 (Peterson, David Lee; $5) is a missile-attack type game. Features include excellent VGA graphics, a synthesizer music soundtrack and digitized sound effects and speech (with sound cards), and joystick and mouse support. With multiple missiles and aircraft, this is a very challenging and enjoyable game. [STORM1] Space Chase I: City Under Siege (Safari Software Productions; $19-$34) Jason Storm battles the forces of evil for control of a vast city. Features 10 levels of play, excellent EGA/VGA graphics, and original Adlib/SB music tracks. Requires 286-16+, 530K RAM (580K and sound card for music), EGA/VGA and 2MB of disk space. [TANK] Tank is a two-player tank game, or you can play the computer. Unlike NiteFire, you don't take turns. Firing, adjustment of angle and velocity, shields, movement, all take place constantly by both sides. Slow-down required. [TANKWARS] Tank Wars (Morse, Kenny; $10) is not your typical aim-and-shoot tank game. It looks like the old VGA-Bomb on the surface, but one major difference is the variety of weapons from which to choose. Another interesting difference is the choice of six opponent types, and the attackee has defensive options. VGA is required, and a mouse is optional. [TVBOMB] TV Guided Bombs (VTS; $3-$13) is a game in which you must guide a camera equipped bomb down the air shaft of the bunker. [VGABOMB] VGABomb 1.0 (Delaroderie, Rad; $5) is an artillery combat game. -----Snake Type Games [ASP] ASP Attack Plus 2.0 (The Hodges Enterprise; $10) is patterned after the old snake games which were among the first games available for the PC. In the game, you guide the snake around gobbling up food as it appears. The snake grows longer with each bite, however, and if you run into yourself or a wall, it's off to snake heaven. What makes ASP different is that the better you do, the more walls start sprouting up. If that isn't challenging enough, you can choose to steer the snake with only left and right turns from the snake's perspective, as opposed to using the four arrow keys which always result in movement in the arrow's direction. [EGASNAKE] EGASnake 1.0 (Hulthin, Michael; $10) is an EGA version of the old Snake game. It has realistic looking rats for the snake to eat, adjustable speeds, and multiple board layouts. [Reflex] Reflex (3F Productions; $15) is a "snake" type game. The object is to move your worm through many levels, collecting points by eating and avoiding your enemies. Good graphics and color. [SLITHER] Slither (Jamison, Brian; $10) is a variation on the old classic Snake game. You must try to eat rats and other cretures without running into the walls or yourself. Features include two-player games, Sound Blaster support, and more. You can also play against the computer. [SNAKE] Snake (Lorati, Roger; $5) is another variation of the old Snake game in which you must guide the constantly growing snake around the screen to eat the pellets without running into itself or other obstacles. There are a couple of interesting twists to this one. [SQUIRM] Squirmer 1.30C (SQUIRM) (Parker, Stephen L.; $10) is a sophisticated variation of the old Snake type game in which the ever-lengthening worm must maneuver around to swallow stuff while avoiding running into things. Transporters take you to different levels, and eating a clock gives you more time. Eating dynamite sticks will cause part of the worm to explode, making it easier to maneuver, but if the worm is not long enough, it may all explode and you die. [TROFF] Troff (Soumarokov, N.; $10) is a game that combines the old "Snake" type game with the old "Blockade/Tron" type game to come up with a tough new challenge. You must race the computer's snake to get to the randomly appearing "pellets", and at the same time try to make the computer's snake run into your snake, a wall or itself while avoiding having the computer's snake do the same to you. There are four levels of randomly moving walls. Pascal source code is included. Requires a 286 machine, EGA and DOS 3.3+. The game is well designed, challenging and fun to play. (The author is a 17 year-old Soviet citizen living in Vienna, Austria.) [VENDETA] Vendetta 1.0 (Elder, Steven; $10) The object of the game is to shoot the bad guys that are hiding around town. You have to scroll the screen to see the whole town, and you have to be fast to get the bad guys before they get you. Requires 640K RAM, VGA, and a mouse. -----Virtual Reality Games: The following games were created by "virtual reality" game creation programs. The graphics and play are not as good as arcade games written with regular programming languages, but are worth a look. [MODSS] Menace of Dr. Spoil Sport (Leithauser, David; $5-$10) you need to get to Dr. Spoil Sport's space station above the earth, disable the weapons before he blasts the earth with a super laser, and avoid all the traps and robot guards. VGA required. [ZAPPER1, ZAPPER2] Zapper in Neverwhere 1.0 (Acord Games; $20) In this 3-D, scrolling, virtual reality type game, a freak lightening bolt draws you into an alternate dimension inside your computer. The denizens of this strange universe offer to help you return to Earth if you help them defeat their ancient enemies the Zargons. The bizarre landscape is peopled with strange pyramid-shaped beings who provide you with clues and teleport you to other areas in your quest to escape. Features include SoundBlaster-compatible sound effects and music. VGA required. [ZAPPER4] Zapper 4 Lost In Zapperstein (Acord Games; $20) is an action/arcade in which you return to Neverwhere to save the Zargons from an evil ruler. The Zargons are being held captive in Neverwhere's capital city of Zapperstein. You must not only save the Zargons, but still escape safely from the bizarre world inside the computer. Features scrolling screens and sound effects. [ZAPMAN] Zapman 1 The Fantastic Zapman (Acord Games; $20) you must help free Zapman from evil aliens. You run, jump and shoot your way to freedom through 20 levels of aliens and hazards. Features scrolling screens and sound effects. Requires VGA and a hard disk. [ZOOSE] Zoose 1 - Zapped by the Light! (Acord Games; $20) You play the role of superhero, Captain Zoose, who explores strange worlds and fights to save humankind from space invaders. Features scrolling screens and sound effects. [CAPNZAPN] Capn Zapn 1 Kozmik Journeys (Acord Games; $20) You are a space explorer who journeys to other planets collecting treasures and fighting monsters. Features 20 levels of bizarre worlds, animated adversaries, scrolling screens and sound effects. Requires VGA and a hard disk. -----Breakout Games This should be considered a subset of "Classic Games", since Breakout games were among the original arcade games -- not very far removed from the very first arcade game, Pong. [ARKEGA] Ark (DeMers, Scott; $0) is a breakout game with an interesting feature - the files that define the different playing screens can be edited with a text editor, allowing you to easily create customized playing fields. You could make a whole set of screens for special promotions or events, for example, limited only by your imagination. [BANANOI] Bananoid (Rieder, William; $0) is the best breakout type game we have ever seen on a PC. It requires VGA or MCGA, a mouse, and at least a 286-10. The graphics are beautiful. One unusual feature is that the playing field is two screens wide and scrolls smoothly as you move the mouse. Another unusual feature (for a breakout game) is that every once in a while, one of the colored blocks that you are breaking out falls down the screen and if you catch it with the paddle, it changes the paddle (to narrower, double-wide, or "sticky"), or it changes the paddle to a ship which can fire laser blasts at the remaining blocks (while the ball is still bouncing around, of course), or it advances you to the next screen. Which of these happens depends on the color of the block. [BREAKOU] Breakout (Strausberg, Hal; $0) is a new version of the old Breakout type of game. It requires an EGA or better. [BRICK] Brick (Bly, Vincent; $0) is a Break-Out type game. [BROKOUT] Brokeout 1.1 (Cox, Doug; $0) is a no-frills breakout game that requires a mouse and VGA. [DRAGNFW] Dragon (Willshaw, F. A.; $?) is a game like Breakout, but with a lot of twists. [POPCORN] PopCorn (Lacaze, M.; $0) is a fantastic breakout game with all kinds of special effects. There are two problems: the documentation is in French, and the game plays at a speed about ten times that of the surrounding graphics. See the write-up of this program in the REVIEWS directory (GA_03) for tips on running this program. [SBLAST] Moraff's Super Blast I (Moraff, Steve; $0) is an advanced breakout type game. There are multiple screens with lots of surprises, including sticky paddles, multi-balls, and much more. Some of the screens require a lot of patience to master, but getting there is half the fun. Virtually all video systems are supported, from CGA to Super-VGA. A joystick is supported on AT's. -----"Pipe" Games: In these games, you have a limited amount of time to lay pipes (or paths, etc.) which pop up in random configurations. The object is to lay the longest continuous path possible. [LAVACAP] Lava Cap (Soleau, William; $15) is a variation of Soleau's popular Oilcap game, but with many enhanced features. It seems much harder to us. If you are not familiar with this type of game: the scenario is that a volcano is getting ready to erupt, and you must lay pipes, which come in different configurations, to direct the flow of lava. The longer the uninterrupted path you are able to create, the higher your score. You must reach certain point totals to continue to advance to each of the 20 levels. EGA/VGA and a mouse are required. [OILCAP] OilCap (Soleau, William; $12) is similar to the game Pipe Dream. You must place pipe links to contain the flow of oil before it reaches a dead end. You can optionally speed up the flow of oil after you have placed all your links down. EGA/VGA and a mouse are required. [MAINBRK] MainBreak 4.0 (Soleau, William; $?) - connect the water pipes. [RUNOFF] Runoff 2.0 (Soleau, William; $14) - 50 challenging levels. The game requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. [UPWALL] Up the Wall (Soleau, William; $10) [WALLPIPE] Wall Pipe 1.0 (William Soleau; $12) is a sequel Oilcap (above). It pits you against the clock as you try to keep water flowing from a well by creating a series of pipe links to control its flow. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. -----Ropes & Ladders Games: The mall aracade game "Donkey Kong" started the "ropes & ladders" type arcade game. This section contains variations on the theme. Also see KONG under Classics and JUMP_JOE under CGA games. [ALDOEGA] Aldo's Adventure (Ibach, David and Benjamin; $15) is a graphics game of the ladders, ramps, hazards, and treasures variety. The graphics are all professional quality. Requires a 286 machine and EGA/VGA. [ALDO2] Aldo Again (Ibach, David and Benjamin; $15) if you liked Aldo-EGA you'll love Aldo Again. In this new game Aldo has more ramps, hazards and ladders to climb and more treasures to gather. The Mad Maze is guaranteed to wipe you out. EGA/VGA and 286 required. [ALDO3] Aldo Assault (Ibach, David and Benjamin; $15) is the sequel to Aldo's Adventure and Aldo Again. Features include ramps, ladders, treasures and hazards. It has new scenes, superb animation, and more. Requires EGA/VGA. [DIADASH] Diamond Dash (Fleming, David; $15) is a run-jump-ladder-climbing type game, but instead of jumping over bad guys, you have to blast holes for them to fall into so that you can walk over them. There are five levels of play. EGA/VGA required. [JETPK11A] Jet Pack 1.1 [Software Creations, ASP; $20] is a climb-and-jump type game, but with the twist that you also have a jet pack with which to fly around while you collect treasures and avoid various deadly creatures. -----Classics The games in this subsection are versions of classic old arcade games. Some (but not all) of these are older games which use only CGA graphics and which may require a cpu slow-down utility. Others of these are new programs with excellent VGA graphics. [3_DEMON] 3-Demon (Price, John D. & Richardson, Rick; $10) is a PacMan-type game from the perspective of PacMan for a really interesting twist on an old game. You can also switch to an overhead view. [ABM] ABM (Clone Sales; $?) Defend cities against a missile attack. Slow-down required. [ASTRO] Astro (Gangola, Dave; $?) is a good version of Asteroids, but it does not run on a system with a 101-key keyboard. [BEAST] Beast (Baker, Dan; $20) You push blocks around the screen to try to trap the baddies. [BLORT] BLORT! is a strange variant on SPACE INVADERS. [CATCHEM] CatchEm (Edson Software; $15) is similar to the old Atari arcade game, Kaboom!. The object is to catch all the falling items. The type of item changes with each "wave". It may be raining cats and dogs in one wave and kitchen appliances in another. The changing graphics makes the game more interesting than Kaboom!. It takes a long time to get up to a pace that is really challenging, but we seem to recall that Kaboom! was the same way. Requires VGA (with 256k), a mouse, and a 286 or faster. [CD_MAN] CD-Man (Creative Dimensions; $15) is a 3D animated PacMan-style game with beautifully detailed screens. Features include 1-2 player support, adjustable game speed, sound effects, and excellent graphics. Requires 512K and VGA. [CENTIPD] Centiped is played like the famous arcade game Centipede. [CHOPPER] Chopper Commando 2.0 (Currie, Mark & Schindlbeck, T.J.; $?) Fly a helicopter combat mission, bombing and shooting the enemy. There are three levels of play, and all of them are tough, even the "wimp" level. [CLONINV] Clone Invader (Quiring, Gary; $20) is a clone of the old Space Invaders arcade game. It has colorful graphics and can be configured for virtually all cpu and video types. [EGAROID] EGA-roids 1.0c (Designer Software; $5) is a high-resolution asteroids game for the EGA. The graphics are terrific, but we had trouble getting the feel of the keys the program uses for different functions. We suspect that the key selection was based on a standard keyboard rather than the 101-key keyboard. EGA required. We have also included in this archive a patch (by John Deurbrouck) that will increase the maximum number of ships from three to thousands, so that you can get more practice. It will also create a new EGAroid file that allows only one ship, for when you are ready to really prove your skills. [GFF] Galactic Food Fight (Dondzila, John; $0) is an arcade game along the lines of the old Defender type games. VGA is required. A cpu slow-down utility may also be required. [GOTCHA] Gotcha 1.0 (Herring, Don; $0) is a variation of the game of Qixx. The object is to lop off portions of the screen without being hit by the moving lines. Requires VGA. [HOPPER] Hopper ($0) is like Frogger. [INVADERS] Invaders is like Space Invaders. [JOUST] Joust VGA (Sharpless, Dave; $10) is a well-done PC version of the popular arcade game. The graphics are very good. CPU slow-down may be required. [KAMAKAZ] Kamakaze is an arcade game where the object is for you to kill all the Wimps (the enemy) before they ram their ships into yours and destroy you. This game is similar to the old Asteroids game. [KONG] Kong is similar to the arcade game Donkey Kong. The graphics are a little on the crude side, but we still found the game to be challenging. [MISSILE] Missile Attack 3.0 (Soleau, William; $12) puts you in control of the city's anti-missile battalion. True EGA and a mouse are required. [PANGO] Pango You attempt to clear bees in the field within one minute by squashing them with blocks. [PCFEND] PC-Fender (Mealey, Bruce; $0) is an excellent implementation of the old arcade game Defender. 286 & EGA or better required. [PCMAN] PCMan is an EGA rendition of the classic Pacman game. It requires at least a 286 machine and EGA. It has ten levels of play, and many playing fields. [QUBERT] Qubert (Piazza, Bill; $?) The object is to make "Bert" jump from one tile to another causing tiles to change color. After changing all tiles, you move on to the next level. [ROUND42] Round42 is a space invaders game with 42 rounds of different aliens to zap. This is definitely at the top of the heap of space invader type games. A slow-down utility may be needed. [SPACINV] SpaceInv is an arcade "Space Invaders" type of game. [XONIX] Xonix is a simple game that is fun. Use the cursor keys to dart across the box holding the bouncing "whatevers" without them hitting your path. As you cross the box, you continue to reduce the size of the box until you move onto the next screen. -----CGA Arcade Games These games are older ones which only use CGA, but which still are fun to play. [BRDBRAI] BRDBrain try to make the bird fly down to the water and catch a fish without drowning, getting hit by a wave, etc. Requires BASIC. [BUMPMAZ] BumpMaze 1.5 (Soleau, William; $15) is a combination of billiards and pinball. See the Reviews files for additional comments and instructions. [CREEPS] Creeps 2.1 (Applegate, Bob; $10) Your ship has to navigate around a grid of blocks in which the enemy is also moving around in force. The levels we tried were not extremely challenging (the enemy never shoots back, for example). So it is simply a matter of time before you mop up the enemy forces. [DUNJAX] Dunjax 1.02 (Mather, Jeff and Niec, David; $5) Shoot and jump your way through massive underground labryinths filled with hazardous traps and relentless creatures. Good graphics and a challenging game. A cpu slowdown may be required. [FLIGHT] Flightmare is a two-part arcade game. You are in a jet. First you fight other jets, then you switch screens and must battle ground forces on motorcycles. Good graphics. [GALACTC] Galactic Battle (Goble, Brian; $0) is a shoot-em-up arcade game for one player. You must use your spaceship to fight off attacks by hordes of evil aliens, destroying as many enemies as possible while enhancing the features of your ship. The game features an infinite number of levels, each consisting of 11 different waves of aliens. At the end of each level you must do battle with the deadly Mother Ship, and each impending wave brings on smarter and more powerful aliens. [GTIXI] Galactix I (Wright, Richard L.; $10) is an arcade game in which you must find objects and solve puzzles while avoiding dangerous robots and guards. This is a very tough game. Cpu slow-down may be required. [GAPPER] Gapper ($0) is a high-speed arcade type game. CPU slowdown utility needed. [JUMPJOE] Janitor Joe (Bales, Kevin; $0) is stranded in a space station with crazed robots trying to kill him. You have to find his keys and escape. This is a very well done "jumping and ladder" type of game. [KILLBEE] Killer Bees (Arcade Games; $0) is a manual-dexterity game in which you must protect your man by shooting down killer bees. Requires a mouse. [KILLER] Killer is an arcade game in which you wipe out the killer bees. [LANDER] Lander See if you can set down your Lunar Lander safely on the ground. You can use the rockets to look for a safe place to land, but don't run out of fuel! [LEM] LEM requires you to try to land a lundar lander or the moon. BASICA or GWBASIC required. [MARS] Monuments of Mars (Apogee Software; $12) is a "run, jump and shoot" type game in which your mission is to save captured astronauts from a secret underground city on Mars. There are 20 screens to conquer (we only got past two!), with all sorts of tricky enemies and dastardly traps. [METAPIN] MetaPin is a pinball game. You select change the number of players with the right shift key. Start the game by pressing the left shift key. Adjust the starting shot force with the up and down cursor keys. Control the flippers with the left and right shift keys. Cpu slow-down required. [MOON] Moon is an arcade game in which you try to keep the enemy from stealing fuel while your ship is being refueled. [NINJA] Ninja (Kemmetmueller, Robert; $0) is a graphics, arcade-type game where you fight the enemy ninjas by kicking, striking, ducking and jumping. [NTRAID01] Night Raid (Software Creations, ASP; $15) challenges you to shoot planes, bombs, and paratroopers out of the sky. Although you can hold down the trigger and blow away everything, missed shots lower your score and you will soon run out of ammo. [PIRATES] Pirates (Wanta, Michael J.; $0) puts you in command of the pirate space ship ROGUE II. Your mission is to plunder the galaxy, and avoid destruction by the forces of good. You can visit planets, gamble in cosmic casinos, dock with space stations, and generally wreck havoc on an otherwise peaceful universe. [PROTON] Proton (Fencik, Mike; $0) is patterned after the life size game in which two teams sneak around a room and try to zap each other with phasers. [PYRAMID] Pyramid is an arcade-type game where you move up and down the pyramid trying to change the colors of all the blocks without getting hit by the bad guys. System slow-down utility required. [REBOUND] Rebound is a combination of pool and pinball. You must hit the ball in the hole within the time limit. [RIMTRIX] Rimtrix (Wright, Richard L.; $10) is an arcade puzzle game in which you guide a ball through a series of tiles and into colored cups. The path of the ball can be changed by rotating and moving the tiles. Slow-down utility may be required. [SSPIRAL] Space Spirals (Anderson, Alan; $4) is an unusual space arcade game. You have to protect a space station and an approaching star ship from attack. Each swarm of attackers has new, more devious ships. The level of play can be set from easy to hard and slow to fast, so it is suitable for most ages. [SW_BS] Spacewar (Seiler, Bill; $20) Destroy the other ship before it destroys you. Use your Photon torpedoes or phasers to reduce its shield energy. A hit with no shields will destroy the ship. [TURBODR] Turbo (Ross, Doug; $5) is a race car game. The goal is to get as far as possible while crashing as few times as possible. You will be slowed down by trucks and pokey cars, just like in real life, but when you pass them, you have to watch out for the speeding convertible coming at you from the other direction. [WILF] Wilf II 3.0 (Cluley, Graham; $17) you must guide the wibbling Wilf through a series of mazes, while avoiding the evil Glumphs. Your mission is to spread strawberry jam over the entire maze, and if you succeed, you are given another maze to wander. You can fire pom-poms at the Glumphs, but they always seem to come back. Beware the evil Frank, who gobbles up your jam almost as quickly as you can spread it. The SoundBlaster compatible sound effects included are hilarious. [WILLY] Willy is a jump-and-climb type of arcade game that is very well done. [WIZZARD] Wizzard is a pinball game. [XAPTRON] Xaptron (Rinzai Satori Production; $0) is your basic shoot-em-up game. Requires a mouse and EGA/VGA. Nice graphics. It is a *very* tough game. [XBALL] X-Ball (Wright, Richard L.; $9) is a game where the object is to hit matching pairs of tiles with a bouncing ball. This is a challenging game that requires a lot of skill and concentration. [XO] XO is a spaceship shoot-em-up arcade game. -----"B"-Level Games: The games in this section are fun, but not of the same quality as the other games in PsL, even though some feature sounds and EGA/VGA graphics. [AV] Arcade Volleyball is a cute, simple little game in which two little round characters play volleyball by jumping and moving back and forth to hit the ball. The ball bounces off the sides and top of the screen to give some strange angles. This is a two-player game. [CUBITS] Cubits (Schaller, Brian; $20) requires you to quickly move all the cubits to the next level by kicking, flipping or pushing them into the corner probably need a slow-down utility. [DRAGCIT] DragCity 3.0 (Nikula, Richard; $10) is a drag racing program. You can choose from six different sets of gears, or use automatic transmission. A mouse is optional, and EGA is required. Multiple players can compete, top 10 times and speeds are saved, and accelerator sensitivity is adjustable. While this has none of the action and extensive graphics of retail games like Grand Prix Circuit, is still has some entertainment value. [FANS] Fans (Mettus Graphics; $0) is an arcade game of the shoot-em-up genre, but with some strange twists to it. Fans has good graphics, for which EGA video is required, but the play is a little weak, in our opinion. [FLEES] Space Flees (Independent Software Group, Inc.; $0) is an action arcade game. EGA/VGA required. The key assignments assume an AT-style keyboard and do not work well on a 101-key keyboard. [MOTORMA] Motor Mania (Hewitt, Eric; $11) is high speed motorbike game in which you race through a series of jumps. This is similar to the arcade Excitebike. On our system, the menu overwrote itself on one line, meaning that you had to actually move the cursor one line past a choice to select it. [PEARL] Pearl (Dore, M. C.; $15) requires you to defend the ships in Pearl Harbor from the incoming Japanese planes. Good graphics. [STRIKER] Striker (Williams, Derek; $10) requires you to navigate a helicopter through enemy territory and complete five different missions. Various obstacles, including five different kinds of aliens, gun turrets and missiles, try to keep the player from completing his mission. CGA compatible graphics required; joysticks are optional. -----Other: [AIRPUCK] Airpuck 2.0 (Mandel, Bob; $10) is a 3-D version of air hockey similar to Shufflepuck Cafe on the Mac. You play against an unusually good computer opponent. A mouse is required, and the game appears to require EGA/VGA. [BIGBOBS] BigBobs (Sherwood Forest Software; $15) You must guide the waitress at Big Bobs out to the parking lot in search of a shining star. When hungry dogs, customers, or whatever approach, you must give them food or suffer the consequences. Be careful of the customers who may take you for a spin that you will not enjoy. Requires VGA and a hard drive. [DINOHUNT] DinoHunt [Sherwood Forest Software; $15] Help Nicky Neanderthal pursue dinosaurs across the prehistoric landscape. Get them before they get you! Requires VGA graphics and a hard drive. [ENTRAP] Moraff's Entrap 4.1 (Moraff, Steve; $0) is a multi-level 3D maze game. You must travel around a suspended grid, trapping or avoiding pesky monsters. The bad guys get smarter as you go along, and the going gets tough very quickly. This game is compatible with any video from Hercules mono to Super VGA. Mouse support is provided. [GARBAGE] Garbage 1.2 (Jarrett, Eric; $8) is an arcade game in which you try to throw the trash into a can with the highest point-value. It involves both chance and skill. Requires EGA/VGA. [HELL] Elevators from Hell 1.2 (JMS Enterprises; $10) You must escape from the psychopathic robot guard in a deserted building. Before you can exit, you must gather all the gems located on seven different floors. The elevator is your only access to these floors, but the killer robot knows how to use the elevators too. EGA/VGA is required. [ICYMETL] Icy Metal (Mandel, Bob; $10) provides three different simple but elegant hand/eye coordination games. All three involve the use of a ball, and/or funnel and donut-shaped objects. Game 1 (displayed) requires you to drop the ball into the funnel while avoiding the floating donut that steals your points away, Game 2 uses alternating funnels, and Game 3 requires you to shoot the ball through two donuts. 256-color VGA display and a mouse are required. [KOOLAH] Koolah (Teittinen, Marko; $0) is a computerized version of the wooden maze game in which you turn knobs to roll a metal ball through a maze while avoiding holes. In Koolah, the maze gets more difficult as you progress to higher levels and a time limit keeps things moving. [MADPAIN] Mad Painter 1.0 (Elder, Steven; $10) The objective is to paint the center line on all the streets in town with your painting truck, while avoiding other maniacal drivers. An occasional cloud washes away a section of street you have painted and the area must be repainted. When you've completely painted the town, you advance a level and begin again. Requires 512K RAM and EGA/VGA. [MPINBALL] Moraff's Pinball 5 (Moraff, Steve; $0) is a pinball game for EGA/VGA. It supports VGA in its high-res, 640x480, 16-color mode. Unlike the old pinball games that have been around for years, this one will run at the correct speed on any CPU, from an 8088 to a 486. The playing field is well designed and should keep your interest for many games. [MUSTANG] Mustang 3.0 (Schmitt, John; $12) you fly a WWII Mustang through an increasingly difficult array of evil enemy fighter planes and larger enemy bombers. Throughout the never ending mission, the Mustang can augment its arsenal by picking up special gifts that float down the screen. EGA/VGA required. [POOLSHRK] Pool Shark 1.1 (Eduline Software Productions; $6-$12) is a 3-D pool game with nice graphics and interface. The "shareware" version comes with five balls. Mouse, VGA/EGA required. [PROTEC] Protec Pinball 1.06 [Lottermoser, Wilfried; 35 German Marks] is an excellent pinball game. The action was a little too fast on a 486-66, but was still playable. [RACE] Race (Erikson, Carl; $5-$15) is a game of miniature car racing. The cars can accelerate, decelerate, or turn through the race courses while many obstacles block their progress including walls, slopes, gates, tornadoes, and gas slicks. The more tracks a car successfully completes, the better the car becomes in areas such as acceleration, speed, traction, and helicopter speed. Also, Race! lets the user design his own race tracks on which the cars compete. CGA compatible video is required and an EGA version is provided. The game is fun and challenging. [RAMPCUB] Rampcube 1.0 (Soleau, William; $12) calls for a good eye and fast reflexes. This is another challenging, high-quality game from Soleau. You have to catch colored tiles as they slide off of a ramp and arrange them into cubes in the grid below. If you do not catch one in time, it will fall into the slot below it, probably messing up your cubes. EGA/VGA required. [SFLY] SuperFly 2.0 (Anderson, Nels ASP; $17-$19) Armed only with a fly swatter, you must swat flies, roaches and spiders while avoiding being trapped by them. The goal is to swat the Super Fly itself, and each round presents different obstacles that make it increasingly difficult to end the insect menace. EGA or VGA required. [SNARF] Snarf 2.02 (Kaser, Everett; $10) is an arcade game similar to the commercial arcade game, Tutankham. It is a very challenging game with fast action and excellent EGA/VGA graphics. You can create your own levels with a special editing function. This rivals many commercial games and is a lot of fun! [SHARKS] Sharks (Alive Software; $20) 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. This version supports all video types. Also see VGASHRK. [VGASHRK] VGA Sharks (Alive Software; $20) 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. This VGA version takes full advantage of the detail and color shadings that VGA offers. See SHARKS for other video types.