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name	publisher(developer)	year	description	platform
Altered Destiny	Accolade	1990	THIS DEFINITELY ISN'T KANSAS. An Animated Graphic Adventure™ One minute you're just a guy eating nacho-flavored popcorn. The next you're sucked through a TV into a fantastic alien world filled with exotic landscapes and lifeforms. Welcome to the surprisingly new destiny of P. J. Barrett. Follow P.J. through a marvelous universe of acid pools and frags, quirls and fluboxes, floaters and wraiths. There's a deep mystery here that only he — with your help — can solve. Put away the reality you've known. You won't be needing it on this trip. Written and designed by Michael Berlyn, Creator of Infidel and Suspended, Author of "The Eternal Enemy.* [142]* [90]* [49]* [83]* [33]* [22]* [52]* [37]***Requires an 8088 or 8086 CPU, DOS 3.0-3.3, CGA/EGA/MCGA/Tandy/PCjr/VGA/VGA(Tweaked) video, Adlib/Game Blaster (CMS)/Generic MPU-401 MIDI devices/Tandy/PCjr sound, Keyboard, Mouse. [Zerothis]	MS-DOS
Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh	Taito (NovaLogic)	1989		MS-DOS
Bad Blood	Origin Systems	1990		MS-DOS
Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess	Interplay (Silicon & Synapse)	1990		MS-DOS
Battletech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge	Infocom (Westwood Associates)	1990		MS-DOS
Blue Max: Aces of the Great War	Three-Sixty (Artech Digital Productions)	1990		MS-DOS
Bubble Bobble	Taito (NovaLogic)	1989		MS-DOS
Budokan: The Martial Spirit	Electronic Arts	1989		MS-DOS
Castle of Dr. Brain	Sierra On-Line	1991	The EGA+Tandy version was sold in a separate package.*The EGA+Tandy version was sold in a separate package.* [22]* [52]*[media=youtube]5a6I3qEuDzw[/media]	MS-DOS
Champions of Krynn	SSI;WizardWorks Software (SSI Special Projects Group)	1990	[87]* [83]* [33]* [17]* [49]* [22]* [1]* [52]* [37]	MS-DOS
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat	Electronic Arts	1991		MS-DOS
Code Name: Iceman	Sierra On-Line	1990		MS-DOS
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail	Sierra On-Line	1990		MS-DOS
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood	Sierra On-Line	1991	[22]* [52]* [37]***The sequil to [game=Conquests of Camelot]Conquests of Camelot[/game] and the final in the series. 1 player. There are 4 versions of this game, 16 color, 256 color, on 3.5 inch DD disk or 5.25 HD disk. A CD remake version with full speech and video was made in 1993 only a demo of it was released. Requires 8088/8086 CPU, DOS 3.0-3.3 (or DOSBOX), 640KB RAM, EGA/MCGA/Tandy/PCjr/VGA video, Adlib/Disney Sound Source/Game Blaster (CMS)/PC Speaker/Pro Audio Spectrum/Plus/ 16/PS1 Audio/Roland MT-32/LAPC-1/Sound Blaster/Tandy DAC/Tandy/PCjr sound, Keyboard and Mouse Optional PC Joystick, Number of Players: Offline This is copyrighted by Sierra On-Line but was available on the creator's website: [url=http://www.christymarx.com/writing/robin.htm]Download Page[/url] This download of the game files was removed when the became available in a Windows-only file on GOG. [Zerothis]	MS-DOS
Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation	Three-Sixty (Artech Digital Productions)	1990		MS-DOS
Day of the Viper	Accolade	1989		MS-DOS
Death Knights of Krynn	SSI;Softgold (SSI Special Projects Group)	1991	[22]* [52]* [37]***The second chapter in The Dragonlance Epic. v1.00 or v1.10 versions available. The only known difference (currently) is v1 was compressed with Turbo Pascal 5.5 and v1.1 with TP 6.0. Claims VGA support but does not actually use VGA mode? I suppose they were assuring VGA users that the game will run. [Zerothis]	MS-DOS
Don't Go Alone	Accolade (Sterling Silver Software)	1989		MS-DOS
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus	Sierra On-Line	1991	According to Sierra, the DOS version required for the original (disk version) is literally "DOS". Since DOS 3.0 was the first to use 286 features, I'm using that in this game entry (DOS 6.22 will run on an 8080). The disk versions of the game can officially be patched to be identical to the CD version which required DOS 5.0.* [22]* [52]*** [37]	MS-DOS
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark	Accolade (Horror Soft)	1990	[22]* [63]*Runs under the AberMUD5 MUD driver with a graphical front end added.	MS-DOS
F-14 Tomcat	Activision	1990		MS-DOS
Fighter Bomber	Activision (Vektor Grafix)	1989	[b]Addons:[/b] - Advanced Mission Disk* [124]* [62]* [90]* [33]* [49]* [17]* [83]* [82]* [22]* [1]*Review for add-on "Fighter Bomb: Advanced Mission Disk". [52]* [52]*** [37]	MS-DOS
Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact	Sierra On-Line	1990		MS-DOS
Gunboat: River Combat Simulation	Accolade	1990		MS-DOS
Hoyle Book of Games Volume 3	Sierra On-Line	1992		MS-DOS
Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 1	Sierra On-Line	1989	[1]*Hoyle Official Book of Games [52]* [52]***Includes the classical card games "Cribbage", "Crazy Eights", "Gin Rummy", "Hearts", "Old Maid", "Klondike Solitaire" If you know other Sierra games, you will surely enjoy the variety of your possible opponents, including King Graham and Rosella (Kings Quest), Roger Wilco (Space Quest) and Sonny Bonds (Police Quest).	MS-DOS
Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 2: Solitaire	Sierra On-Line	1990		MS-DOS
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure	Lucasfilm Games	1989	Europe, 1938. The Lost Ark was just a warm-up! Now Adolf Hitler is after the most powerful talisman of all - the Holy Grail. A few brave men stand in his way. Fortunately, one of them is Indiana Jones. And this time, he has his dad with him. The bad guys are in your face all the way - Nazis, mercenaries, traitors and spies. Not to mention everything the Luftwaffe can throw at you. Can you handle the heat? If you can, you just might earn a higher I.Q. (Indy Quotient) than the man with the whip and the hat.* [82]* [83]* [49]* [62]* [22]* [1]* [52]Minimal configuration: EGA / VGA monitor. 512Ko RAM. Mouse.**2009-07-08 on Steam, by LucasArts (lang: eng)	MS-DOS
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Vol. I	Interplay	1990	Interplay also released an enhanced CD-version of this game in 1993. The CD-version features several scenes of the cartoon-movie and a cd-soundtrack. Originally intended to be a Commodore 64 game, it was retooled for DOS and then Amiga.*** [37]	MS-DOS
Jack Nicklaus' Unlimited Golf & Course Design	Accolade (Sculptured Software)	1990		MS-DOS
Joe Montana Football	Sega (Mindspan Technologies Corporation)	1990	[63]***This game is actually really cool for an old game! I have the DOS version and can't stop playing it! It let's you make your own plays and keeps track of each player's stats. There are no real NFL players in it (except Montana), but you can change each player's name. Works for me!	MS-DOS
Jones in the Fast Lane	Sierra On-Line	1991	Jones in the Fast Lane is a simulation of a person's life, presented as a turn-based strategy game. You can play by yourself, or compete with other human players or the computer-controlled Jones. At the beginning of the game you determine what your goals are, in four categories - Money, Happiness, Education and Career: the higher your goals, the longer the game. The game itself is presented as something akin to a board game. The board represents the city where you live. Each turn (here, a turn represents a week of your life) you have limited time to act, and you have to choose how to spend it. Walking somewhere else costs you time, as well as working, learning, and looking for a job. The first thing you should do is looking for a job at an employment center. Since initially you have no education, experience or work history, you can only choose the simplest, lowest-paying jobs - such as a janitor or a cook. Later on, as you enroll into various courses at an university, you'll get smart enough to get the high-ranking jobs. But remember that some jobs require you to buy and wear expensive clothes. Work isn't mandatory, and you can dedicate time to working whenever you feel like it. The money you get can be spent in many ways. You can buy a snack at a fast food restaurant (you should eat something each week, or next week you'll have less time due to hunger). You can buy some appliances for your house, lottery tickets, newspapers and more. You can also store your money in the bank (a wise choice, considering the ubiquity of pickpockets) or invest into stock market. Remember that you have to pay rent for your house - if you don't pay for a long time, your landlord will garnish some amount from the money you earn at work. But if you get enough cash, you can rent a luxury apartment and move out of the stinky hole inside which you've been spending your life earlier!* [82]* [49]* [83]* [33]*A slightly enhanced CD-ROM version of this game with additional animations and CD-quality music was released in 1992.* [63]* [52]* [37]	MS-DOS
Keef the Thief: A Boy and his Lockpick	Electronic Arts	1989		MS-DOS
King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown	Sierra On-Line	1990	This remake of King's Quest uses the Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI) engine (the same used in King's Quest IV) instead of the Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine. It also featured twice the resolutions, music card support instead of the PC speaker, the story was expanded and made more linear, and lots of other details were modified. King's Quest Collector's Edition published 1994, UPC:0-20626-83312-7, includes this version on the 1st CD.	MS-DOS
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella	Sierra On-Line	1988	King's Quest Collector's Edition published 1994, UPC:0-20626-83312-7, includes this version on the 1st CD.*** [52]	MS-DOS
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!	Sierra On-Line	1990	King's Quest Collector's Edition published 1994, UPC:0-20626-83312-7, includes this version on the 1st CD.* [22]* [63]* [52]* [37]	MS-DOS
Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards	Sierra On-Line	1991	LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME? MEET LARRY. He's just turned 40 and he's still single. If you can get past the glow of his Grecian formula you can see his hairline beginning to make a hasty retreat from his forehead. Larry's leisure suit is of the highest quality (!00% man-made material, permanent press, too!). He wears at least 11 gold chains, and his freshly-capped teeth could blind you in a bright light. Down at the singles bar he tells the chicks, "sure I'm single...I got in a fight with my ol' lady and she threw me out." He doesn't tell them the 'ol' lady' was his mom, or that he was 38 at the time. YEAH, LARRY'S A JERK He's the ultimate blind date nightmare. The kind of guy you wouldn't want your daughter to meet, let alone date. But he's also become an unlikely cult-hero of the computer age. And he's the star of this new version of the 3-D Adventure Game classic. 3-D EQUALS DANCING, DRINKING, AND DAMES! Become the lovable nerd Larry for one fabulous night. You'll drink. You'll gamble. And, if you play your cards right, you might even meet the girl (or girls) of your dreams. Leisure Suit Larry is a humorous, harmless endeavor for adults. The object of the game is to help Larry over-come his jerkisms and lose his "you know what". It's a silly, risque romp through the singles' scene and a challenging adventure game that will test your street smarts and suave sophistication. So slip into your leisure suit and venture out into the land of the lounge lizards. We guarantee it will be a night you'll never forget. A New 3-D Animated Adventure Game featuring:* Hand-painted and digitized art in brilliant full color (including many of your favorite fleshtones). * An improved music card compatible stereo soundtrack that'll have you partying all night long. * More mouse-controlled "point-and-grope" commands give you quick, one-hand action scoring. * Incredible three-dimensional animation. Larry in front of speeding cabs, into hot tubs, across the disco dance floor. * Animated characters that come alive. They walk, they talk... they even ignore your best pick-up lines - just like in real life.* [22]* [52]	MS-DOS
Leisure Suit Larry 2	Sierra On-Line	1988	Who is Leisure Suit Larry? If you look up the word "nerd" in the dictionary, you're liable to find Leisure Suit Larry's picture as a definition. Leisure Suit Larry is the kind of guy you see in just about every seedy singles bar. He wears a white leisure suit with the shirt open to the waist (lots of gold chains make up for the lack of a chest). If you can get past the glow of his Grecian formula, you can see that his hairline is making a hasty retreat from his forehead. Larry is the original blind date nightmare - the kind of guy you wouldn't want your daughter to date, let alone meet. He is such a loser that Cosmo Magazine recently voted him "most negligible bachelor of the year." A Time Magazine article on "The War Between the Sexes" carried his picture with the caption "an unarmed innocent bystander." Why is Larry suddenly so popular with the ladies? On cruise ships, in laid back Los Angeles, and in other exotic locations, Larry is suddenly attracting the attention of all kinds of nubile nymphettes. He's been propositioned by a bikini'd babe at the poop-deck pool, suffered the seductions of a sadomasochistic spinster, even played "hide the onklunk" with a sexy spanish senorita. Why is it that some of the loviest ladies in the western hemisphere are so hot to get their hands on Larry - and why is he resisting their advances? Why is it that Larry has suddenly started looking for Miss "Right" (as opposed to Miss "Right-Now") and will he find her? Find out why when you play... LOOKING FOR LOVE (IN SEVERAL WRONG PLACES)* [124]* [49]*** [33]	MS-DOS
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patty in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals!	Sierra On-Line	1989	French version [22]* [22]* [52]***Are you smooth, suave, single guy on the make or maybe you fancy yourself the sleek, sexy femme fatale? Whoever you are, get ready for a look at the other side of life. In Sierra's latest 3-D adventure, Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals, you're BOTH As Larry... you'll get dumped by your woman and lose your job at Natives, Inc. What better reason to take off into the steamy jungle ruled by Amazon cannibal woman. As Patti... you'll follow Larry's trail deep into the overgrown jungle. Find your lover, and rescue him from a life of sex slavery at the hands of the man-eating cannibal Amazon women who have taken him prisoner. Leisure Suit Larry III is the first Sierra game ever to allow you to switch roles and see the story from another point of view. In our first ever role-switching adventure, you'll experience a new dimension of computer adventure. Become Larry, trying to find himself in the jungles of Nontoonyt Island, and Passionate Patti, searching for the man of her dreams (who seems to have dropped off the face of the earth).	MS-DOS
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti does a little Undercover Work	Sierra On-Line	1991	SEX, THUGS AND ROCK 'N ROLL. They're back in their silliest, sexiest adventure ever. Larry teams up with Passionate Patti for a rollicking gender-bending romp through the sleazy underside of the underworld. SWITCH SEXES ON THE FLY. Yes, every time you take a plane ride, you'll switch back and forth between Larry and Patti. Double the trouble, double the fun! IT'S LARRY & PATTI vs. A GALLERY OF GOONS. Passionate Patti is a fledgling spy for the FBI, sent o ferret out corruption in the music industry. Larry, cult-hero of the computer age and certified fashion disaster, is auditioning hostesses for the TV's syndicated steam-fest, America's Sexiest Home Videos. But watch out! The Mob wants to get pornography off the air and back into their balance sheet. Help Larry and Patti take on organized crime, the FBI, and the Citizens Against Nearly Everything in their spiciest computer caper yet. FANTASTIC FEATURES:Original score by Hollywood composer Craig Safan: Emmy nominee. Composer for the Cheers TV show. Composer of movie scores for The Last Starfighter, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, and many others. Hand-painted digitized graphics in fabulous full color. * No-typing 'grope and click' interface for quick-feel, one-hand action scoring. * Our most amazing and outrageous animation ever.* [103]* [159]* [22]* [52]*** [37]	MS-DOS
Les Manley in: Search for the King	Accolade (Manley & Associates)	1990		MS-DOS
Loom	Lucasfilm Games	1990	Long after the passing of the Second Shadow, when dragons ruled the twilight sky and the stars were bright and numerous, came the Age of the Great Guilds. Blacksmiths. Shepards. Clerics. Each dedicated to the absolute control of secret knowledge. Another such Guild was the Weavers. Over the centuries, their craft transcended the limits of physical cloth, until they wove the very fabric of reality itself. Now, a strange power has swept the Weavers into oblicion, leaving behind one Weaver boy to unravel the mystery. Help young Bobbin rescue his Guild... and you might save the universe from an unspeakable catastrophe.* [49]* [33]* [83]* [62]* [17]* [82]*CD-ROM version [22]* [22]* [1]CD-ROM version [37] [37]2009-07-08 on Steam, by LucasArts (lang: eng) - 256 color enhanced version (runs through some odd emulator that enforces 2xSAI or similar filter, too)**Fantasy adventure by LucasArts. This is one of their earlier adventure titles, and it's fairly short, but it's a fun story. You play Bobbin Threadbare, apprentice Weaver, a young man caught in the inevitable pull of destiny. The graphics use only 16-colors but are very well drawn (they're the kind that sold systems back then). The interface is simple, and the puzzles utilize the interesting concept of magic through a musical sequence. Certain actions cause magical notes to resonate through Bobbin's staff, and if he can memorize the sequence he can use it to invoke the action in another object. Some of the more ingenious puzzles also involve reversing a sequence to cause the opposite reaction. I think there should have been more throwaway animations for using the wrong sequence instead of just one generic 'wrong sequence' animation, but even without that the game is worthwhile, if short. The setting reminds me of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy for some reason. Of special note is the fine musical score, adapted from Tschaikovsky's ballet 'Swan Lake.'	MS-DOS
Mixed-Up Fairy Tales	Sierra On-Line	1991		MS-DOS
Monte Carlo Baccarat	Capstone Software	1991		MS-DOS
New York Warriors	Virgin;Arcadia Systems (Synergistic Software)	1990	The World Trade Center has been taken by terrorists! As the commander of an elite strike force, you are the one who can keep them from blowing it up! Unfortunately, jungle guerillas are nothing compared to the street gangs the city is overrun with. Fight your way through Romboids, Rastas, Killer Klowns, and many others. Blow them away with your powerful arsenal of bazookas, guided missiles, flame throwers, and other weapons of destruction - a collection of awesome firepower with incredible digitized sound effects. The only authorized version of the EXPLOSIVE new Coin-op Arcade game!	MS-DOS
Night Shift	Lucasfilm Games (Attention to Detail)	1990		MS-DOS
Oil's Well	Sierra On-Line (Banana Development)	1990		MS-DOS
Operation Wolf	Taito	1989		MS-DOS
Paku Paku	Paladin Systems	2011		MS-DOS
PGA Tour Golf	Electronic Arts	1990		MS-DOS

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