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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
Day of the Viper	Accolade	1989		MS-DOS
Don't Go Alone	Accolade (Sterling Silver Software)	1989		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
Gunboat: River Combat Simulation	Accolade	1990		MS-DOS
Jack Nicklaus' Unlimited Golf & Course Design	Accolade (Sculptured Software)	1990		MS-DOS
Les Manley in: Search for the King	Accolade (Manley & Associates)	1990		MS-DOS
Star Control	Accolade (Toys for Bob)	1990		MS-DOS
Stratego	Accolade	1990		MS-DOS
Test Drive III: The Passion	Accolade	1990	[142]* [90]* [103]* [83]* [49]* [62]* [33]*[b]Addons:[/b] - Road & Car: Test Drive III - The Passion: Add-On Disk #1* [22]*** [37]	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
Power Drift	Activision	1990		MS-DOS
Sargon V: World Class Chess	Activision	1991	[22]* [52]*Directly from the game box: "The chess tutor and opponent for novices and experts alike."	MS-DOS
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye	Activision	1990		MS-DOS
Prince of Persia	Brøderbund	1990	[22]* [63]* [37]***One of the best platform games of all time. Playable for hours without rest. You start in a dungeon unarmed and must make your way through numerous traps to find a sword, then take on numerous baddies as you make your way through the dungeon. Then face the ultimate enemy yourself! A must play.	MS-DOS
Wolfpack	Brøderbund;Mirrorsoft (NovaLogic)	1990	In 1994 they released a CD-ROM version of this game. The only enhancement is the new intro.*1994 CD-ROM version. [22]* [22]* [1]* [52]*1994 CD-ROM version [37]Original floppy disk version [37]**The time is Autumn 1942. Allied shipping losses mount as the German wolfpacks stalk the convoy routes and sink an unprecedented amount of Allied tonnage. However, the Allied forces have discovered SONAR and RADAR, the technology for waging the most devastating kind of anti-submarine warfare. The odds are even, the Convoy Escort Commander in a destroyer matching wits against the Wolfpack Commander in a U-Boat, only one will enjoy a hero's welcome the other will rest forever in an icy grave. Wolfpack is a precise simulation of a confrontation between a German submarine wolfpack and an Allied shipping convoy, with attention to detail and interactivity exceeding that of current implementations, the simulation allows the player to take the part of either a Wolfpack Commander or that of the Convoy Escort Commander. Wolfpack offers the realism of a full scale, real time, strategic encounter. Features include: - Unique construction set - Several different scenarios - Accurate armaments and instruments - Superb graphics - One or two player option - Day/Night missions	MS-DOS
Monte Carlo Baccarat	Capstone Software	1991		MS-DOS
Trump Castle II	Capstone Software (Brian A. Rice)	1991		MS-DOS
Retro Fuel	Coconut Pizza	2020		MS-DOS
Budokan: The Martial Spirit	Electronic Arts	1989		MS-DOS
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat	Electronic Arts	1991		MS-DOS
Keef the Thief: A Boy and his Lockpick	Electronic Arts	1989		MS-DOS
PGA Tour Golf	Electronic Arts	1990		MS-DOS
Stormovik: SU-25 Soviet Attack Fighter	Electronic Arts	1990		MS-DOS
Battletech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge	Infocom (Westwood Associates)	1990		MS-DOS
Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess	Interplay (Silicon & Synapse)	1990		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
The Secret of Monkey Island	LucasArts	1990	[49]* [62]* [103]* [82]French CD-ROM version [22] [63]* [52]* [44]* [37]*The first 256-color LucasArts adventure game, and the beginning of their popular Monkey Island series. Join underappreciated hero Guybrush Threepwood on his quest to become the most fearsome pirate in the Caribbean! The game features charming, clever puzzles and hilarious writing.*Great game. 5 star. If you could download it with music and all that would be fantastic. In a world where old games are nearly all dead, it is good to know that Monkey Island will not die [Reagan ]	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
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
Night Shift	Lucasfilm Games (Attention to Detail)	1990		MS-DOS
Xenocide	Micro Revelations (Pangea Software)	1989		MS-DOS
Resolution 101	Millennium Interactive;Accolade (Astral Software)	1990		MS-DOS
Bad Blood	Origin Systems	1990		MS-DOS
Times of Lore	Origin Systems	1988		MS-DOS
Ultima VI: The False Prophet	Origin Systems	1990	[124]* [90]* [87]* [62]* [33]* [103]* [83]* [17]* [49]**Originally planned for the the Apple ][GS; but never to be realized. Due to the declining market share of the Apple ][ and poor sales of the ][GS, this game was moved to the older but more numerous Apple ][ platform (though no longer a relevant market force, their were still many, many Apple ][s in active use). That version turned out to be technically impractical and was also canceled. The project was started from scratch for a IBM-PC (MS-DOS) release. It was decided that character portraits could not be done on the 8-bit Apple II. In reality, they could have been done in the Apple II's double hi-res mode, but they would have been limited to 16 colors (32 simulated colors). The music and mouse interface were factors also. Again, the 8-bit apple could have done these also. All these things were built into the Apple ][GS hardware and/or system software The 8-bit Apple could actually do cassette quality digitized music and there was an Apple II mouse. Both of these would have required more software, more memory and a lot more storage space. Unless the customer wanted to be swapping disks or shell out a fortune for an Apple II hard drive (extremely rare and expensive at the time). So these features would have been missing from the 8-bit version. Origin successfully dealt with all of these limitations when they ported Ultima VI to the Commodore 64; then again when they ported another Commodore 64 version. But, the market share for the Apple II began a rapid decline on top of all these issues. The 16-bit version (IIgs) was abandon first then the 8-bit version was scrapped and the IBM-PC version was started from scratch. Note, the IBM-PC version had CGA, EGA, and Tandy graphics options which were all limited to 16 on screen colors. 4 colors for CGA on a non-composite monitor. It also had a greyscale Hercules graphics option. Of course most people played in 256 color VGA mode, but the other graphics options show that an Apple versions could have been done.* [22]* [1]* [52]* [37]***Comes with four 3.5' disks and seven 5.25' disks. Published by GT Interactive in 1992 in smaller box and without a cloth map. Cheryl Chen developed a computer language for the game's dialog called UCS ([b]U[/b]ltima VI [b]C[/b]onversation [b]S[/b]yste. Previous Ultima games had a software limits to how much text could be spoken by an NPC. Versions of Ultima IV utilizing UCS have no such limit. When the guy is channel surfing during the intro there's a man on TV holding a book that gets struck by lightning and turns to dust. The phone number on the screen is (512) 328-0282. People could call the number to buy the Official Book of Ultima by Shay Adams. This was a hint book, collection of Ultima lore, history and behind the scenes info. The Zebra-Centaur poster seen in the intro is based on a sketch by long time Ultima and Wing Commander artist Keith Berdak. A Nagel painting was first choice of the Ultima team and early unreleased version of the game had this instead. Origin was unable to secure the rights to use the copyrighted work, but it can nevertheless been seen on the back of the Ultima packaging in one of the screenshots. Fans sometimes blame censorship when different images are used in various ads and versions of the game. But in this case, the blame rests on another "C word". A full color version of Keith Berdak's Zebra-Centaur can be seen on his Facebook page (along with many NSFWs) Tools were extracted from development of this game so that Origin could, in theory, reuse them to rapidly and for less cost, produce other games. An early attempt to create a full game engine and SDK that would later become a standard practice. Savage Empire and Martian Dreams were fruits of this effort. Mythos: Caribbean Pirates and Legends from Greece, was planed to use these tools as well. But, SE and MD did not sell as well as had been hoped. Plus, the time and expense of developing these games was not much improved over TFP. Reuse of the Ultima 6 tools was abandon. This was not Origin's first try at game engines and would not be their last. An attempt was made with Ultima IV and would be attempted again with Ultima VII. [Zerothis]	MS-DOS
Windwalker	Origin Systems (Micro Magic)	1990		MS-DOS
Paku Paku	Paladin Systems	2011		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
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
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
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
Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact	Sierra On-Line	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
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

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