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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Beneath Apple Manor	Quality Software	1983
M-ss-ng L-nks	Sunburst Communications	1983	Players complete the partial phrases from famous literature.
Pits & Stones	Orion Software	1983	[110]*Play Mancala against the computer or another human. There are 6 levels of difficulty for both modes. There is in-game help available. Using the composite out of an IBM CGA card will display the game in 16 colors, otherwise there are only 4. The music can be turned off. The game begins with the same number of stones in every pit (up to 6). Collect as stones in your home pit. A turn begins by selecting a pit with stones (F9). This group is placed one-by-one in the closest pit, then the next, and so on and proceeding counterclockwise around the board. You keep the last stone and move again, if it lands in your home pit. PC Magazine 1984-12-25 rated it 3 for fun, 4 for challenge, 4 for sound/graphics for a total score of 11 (of 18)*128K RAM for DOS 1.1, 192K RAM for DOS 2.x monochrome or color/graphics display and adapter.
SPOC the Chess Master	Cypress Software (SDL Corporation)	1983
Square Pairs	Scholastic (Teaching Tools Software)	1983
The Square	author	1983
Math Man	Scholastic (Applied Systems Knowledge)	1984
Webster: The Word Game	CBS Software (Heuristic Software)	1984	Noah Webster has been called "Father of American Scholarship and Education". He is know for his Dictionaries that happened not to preclude words based on his personal taste. He did, said, and wrote things that were somewhat counter-culture in his lifetime. I'm certain he would have approved of this game based on its content. But I still have to wonder how he would react to use of the phrase "demon words" for potentially high scoring words and the title art including a devil flipping off the viewer.
Jenny of the Prairie	Addison-Wesley Publishing	1985
Keyboard Cadet	Mindscape (Mirror Images Software)	1985	So far I couldn't find a DOS-PC version of this edutainment game anywhere.
Madball	MicroTec	1985	You control a cube in an attempt to not get hit by the balls.
Striker	author	1985	Also released by Keypunch Software on the compilation "Strike Force" in 1987.
Battle of Antietam	SSI	1986
Math Football: Rounding	Gamco Industries	1987
Math Football: Whole Numbers	Gamco Industries	1987
Algernon	Sunburst Communications	1987	You're a mouse in a lab, in a maze, with cheese. The player 'programs' the mouse to navigate the maze in steps. Each step can be turn left 90 degrees, right 90 degrees, moving a specified number of pixels, or end the program. The easiest difficulty lets players enter an instruction and execute it immediately. Hardest difficulty requires entering the entire program before execution. Mazes come in multiple difficulties as well. Players can create their own mazes as well.
Knight Games	Mastertronic (English Software)	1988	Fight an human or computer opponent in Sword Fight 1, Sword Fight 2, Quarterstaff, Pikestaff, Ball and chain, or Axeman (Axe) as knights in one-on-one combat in the well known fighting game style. Take turns in Archery (Bow) or Crossbow shooting at targets using a cursor. Each player can choose is keyboard or joystick control independently. 'Difficulty' consists of choosing 4, 6, or 8 minute rounds. Players have hit points that can be exhausted for a score bonus to the winner. Hits score points. Score is not cumulative between game nor recorded. The fighting is in the context of jousting matches. However the famous horse and lance matches are not present making it more of the general hastilude type games. [Zerothis]
Red Storm Rising	MicroProse	1989
Checkers	author	1989
Command H.Q.	MicroPlay Software (Ozark Softscape)	1990	[22]* [52]* [37]***1 player, or 2 player via modem. Requires a mouse. Awarded CGW's Wargame of the year. Real-time pont-and-click world war (WWI, WWII, WWIII) update of the <a href="../lista4.asp?fname=Modem%20Wars">Modem Wars</a> concept, Danielle Bunten admits that the Axis and Alies board game influenced deveopelment of this game. The WWIII simulation was inspired by Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising but includes nukes. This game was later updated with Dani's authorization by a group of fans. There was a Win9x version planned, but it was cancled when Mindscape took over Microprose.
Final Orbit	Innerprise (Aftershock Entertainment)	1990	Save the environment!! The garbage dump moon, Blurgett II, has spawned new life forms out of our plastic bags and Styrofoam cups! The filthy creatures have destroyed the reactors maintaining the garbage moon's orbit, leaving it to smash the Earth like a rotten tomato! If not stopped, it will rain 200 years worth of refuse onto our pristine planet! As a proud member of the Elite Sanitation corps, you must fight your way through hordes of moldy mutants and terrifying trash to the core of the moon and blow it to harmless and manageable pieces. * Unique software engine that custom configures itself to the computer's graphic adapter, memory and processor speed! * Amazing arcade style graphics and animations throughout! * 1 or 2 players simultaneously! * Intensely addicting arcade action! * Nine different challenging levels! * Four levels of difficulty! * Easy to use keyboard or joystick controls! * Smooth playing on CGA, EGA, VGA, MCGA and Tandy computers The smoothest scrolling and animation ever for the PC!!
Galleons of Glory: The Secret Voyage of Magellan	Brøderbund	1990
Operation Combat	Merit Studios	1990	The Tandy specific version required using the "Operation Combat - Tandy Start-up Disk #1". After this disk was booted or the TCOMBAT executable was manually run (this was an option), then the normal DOS disks were used by the game with the user swapping disks when and as instructed. "Com●Bat" is a pun. It is short for COMputer BATtle and a joke about COM and BATch executable files. Nullmodem cable, network and modem play is fully cross-platform between all versions. If you can find or make the cabling to connect a Tandy 1000 to a Mac?! Tandy 1000 models with a serial port may require moving a jumper pin on the motherboard. Most models don't come with a serial port and require add-on hardware. And a reminder, if you have a serial mouse and want to play against someone over a serial cable then you have a serial problem.
SimEarth: The Living Planet	Maxis	1990	Reviewed on a special folder about "god games". [22]* [22]* [63]* [52]* [44]* [37]*Take charge of an entire planet from its birth until its death--10 billion years later. Guide life from its inception as single-celled microbes to a civilization that can reach for the stars. Inspired by James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, SimEarth simulates the Earth as a single living organism.
World Golf 2	RufusPro Software	1990
ANIMAC	author	1991
Golden Axe	Sega	1991	The unpatched game will indeed run in Hercules graphics mode but will not run on a Hercules card. The game checks for a CGA card when loading and goes crazy when it doesn't find it. A patch will fix it.* [52]* [37]*The game leaves an unused black band on the screen's right edge, this is likely an artifact of very basic platform conversion.For 1-2 players simultaneously (cooperative or versus).Supports EGA, 4 color CGA/MCGA/Tandy, Hercules, 16 color Tandy and VGA GPUs.*This has nearly picture-perfect graphics that are nearly on a par with those of the Genesis, but suffers from some slowdowns at times. Its sound is also limited to blips and chirps from the PC speaker and so music is not an option. The year is either 1990 or 1991 as records vary. [b]Trivia[/b] from Mame.dk Golden Axe page 'The kanji [Japanese character] on the title screen actually reads 'Senpu', meaning 'Fighting Axe'. This is an example of 'gikun', where Japanese artists use the phonetic value of a character to determine the game's name, and not the meaning of the character itself.' [Garrett]
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan	Mirrorsoft;Konami (Beam Software;Papyrus)	1991	Are you hero enough to ride with Gandalf, Aragorn and the other Fellowship characters against the armies of the traitorous wizard Saruman? Then experience Riders of Rohan, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the greatest epic fantasy ever written. Riders of Rohan represents the most faithful re-creation of Tolkien's work yet developed for the microcomputer. Command the elite cavalry of Rohan as the Riders battle to save their land from the wicked forces of darkness. Destiny lies in your hands as you race with Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli while they attempt to save the captured Hobbits from a fate worse than death. Rohan's lush green grassland, soft rolling hills, and peaceful meadows blend with enchanting music to form a beautiful, inviting environment... a stark contrast to the clashing swords, thundering horses, and piercing battle cries that fill a land at war. See Tolkien's world unfold before your eyes in this masterful blend of fantasy role-playing, arcade action, and tactical wargaming. Riders of Rohan is a game that will both challenge and entertain you -- a timeless addition to any software collection! • Lead the elite cavalry of Rohan as they battle across realistic 3-D terrain using the sophisticated wargame system, or let the computer fight "quick" combat. • Fight spectacular one-on-one duels with the evil Orcs and Dunlendings. • Test your reflexes with the fully animated arcade sequences. • Live out the traditional story line or build your own saga in true Tolkien flavor. • Converse with characters who bring Tolkien's magical prose to life. • View dazzling, detailed graphics in MCGA/VGA, EGA, and Tandy modes. • Enjoy easy-to-use mouse or keyboard interface, with multiple levels of play. • Includes a complete illustrated guidebook to the people and places of Middle Earth.* [159]* [22]* [22]* [37]
Mickey's Crossword Puzzle Maker	Walt Disney Computer Software (Legacy Software)	1991
The Secret Codes of C.Y.P.H.E.R.: Operation Wildlife	Tanager Software Productions	1991	At a secret facility hidden in a feed store, decipher a variety of encrypted messages for various clients. Don't let your decryptions fall into the wrong hands. Some field work consisting of receiving, delivering, and verifying messages. Possibly one of the most realistic 'secret agent' games ever made. Note however, real would encrypted messages are almost always about verifying the authenticity of the message rather than obfuscating the message itself. This is and edutainment game with cryptography, mammals, botany, geography, English, American Sign Language, Morse Code, Braille, and Semaphore. 4 Levels of difficulty. There is a multiplayer feature that allows one player to send encrypted messages to another.
The Simpsons: Bart's House of Weirdness	Konami (Distinctive Software)	1991
Alcatraz	Infogrames (221B Software Developments)	1992	Alcatraz has already sheltered the biggest mafia gangsters, but not one as ruthless as the boss of the drug cartel, Miguel Tardiez, who took refuge with his men in the former prison. Your mission consists of capturing the dealers, burning all the stocks and destroying the secret laboratories... There, where all the others have failed, you must be successful. In case of problems, do not count on anybody to help you. - SONORIFIC GAME PLAY - 1 OR 2 PLAYERS SIMULTANEOUSLY - 100 % DANGER
Amarillo Slim's 7 Card Stud	Villa Crespo Software	1992
Disney's Beauty and the Beast: Be our Guest	Disney Software (Infogrames)	1992
Hawaii State Trivia	Software Creations	1992
Maine State Trivia	Software Creations	1992
Space Adventure	Knowledge Adventure	1992
The Adventures of Maddog Williams in The Dungeons of Duridian	Game Crafters	1992	The protagonist is an inventor by profession.***Originally shareware, later released as freeware.
Ugh!	PlayByte (Bones Park Software Artistic)	1992
Dungeon Hack	SSI (Dreamforge Intertainment)	1993	This game uses the same engine as Eye of the Beholder III. But generates random dungeons and encounters.
God of Thunder	Software Creations;Impulse Games (Adept Software)	1993	The title screen appears to be anamorphic with actual resolution of 320x400 (horizontally doubled to 640x400).***The year is 927 A.D. (as mortals reckon time) and the Almighty ODIN has summoned you, his faithful and heroic son, to The Great Hall of Asgard. Armed with only your enchanted hammer and considerable wits, you must journey to Midgard and destroy Jormangund! [Adept Software]
Heirs to Skull Crag	SSI (MicroMagic;SSI)	1993	Heirs to Skull Crag is the game, exclusively available in no other package game, real game, actual game, existing game, playable game, completable that comes the the Unlimited Adventures game creator which is in every other videogam database with tools to create AD&D based adventures, or even other types of adventures based on the Gold Box Engine. The executable is "FRUA.EXE" and the letters stand for "Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures". But UA is by no means limited to the Forgotten Realms setting. Materials from other settings are included and players are free to create their own or download UGC from the aforementioned site.
Prehistorik 2	Titus	1993
Regatta	Gamos	1993
Ruckus Poker	Villa Crespo Software	1993
Veil of Darkness	SSI (Event Horizon Software)	1993	[b]difficulty[/b] - adjusts only combat difficulty which isn't the main point in this game, so you don't need to bother with it as much as with the real problems (puzzles).***Back in the days when I had the chance to try this I found the puzzles to be extremely difficult, but my English skills weren't up for much anything back then either, so it might be that was the only problem with it. The game had an unusually dark feel to it, but since I never got very far, I can't really tell much of it. The story started with a plane crash though, where the player was stranded in some foggy valley with no way to contact the outside world and there was a small rural-ish village. The gameplay was a mix between action and adventure (not action-adventure mind), with the interface being like that of an RPG game. It had mostly a slowish pace akin to some older RPGs and adventure games, with few but hard battles.
XenoPhage	Apogee Software (Argo Games)	1993
Dungeons of the Unforgiven	MoraffWare	1993	DOSBox 0.73 doesn't seem capable of handing any of the graphics modes gracefully (though they never were that well done anyway). Either the monster sprites or the world textures are messed up (and any less than 256 color mode is just ugly).
Bio Menace	Apogee Software	1993	Intelligence reports indicate that a man calling himself Dr. Mangle is responsible for the mutants and the destruction of Metro. You will have to battle your way through levels packed with evil mutants and robotic guards to finally infiltrate Mangle's fortress and defeat him. You think to yourself that this will be the most dangerous mission of your life. Snake Logan is a weapons expert, and uses several throughout the game, including a high-powered machine gun and grenades. [3D Realms.com]**[b]Episodes:[/b] 1 - Dr. Mangle's Lab * 2 - The Hidden Lab * 3 - Master Cain***Made into freeware in Dec 2005
Alien Carnage	Apogee (Interactive Binary Illusions;SubZero Software)	1993	Earth is on the verge of a takeover by aliens intent on turning humans into mindless slave zombies, who can be used in their conquest of the universe. Harry's called into action to Space Station Liberty and given orders to penetrate the alien ship which has burrowed itself under a high-rise city. In addition to the flamethrower, Harry can use weapon dispensers, giving him access to weapons like the photon cannon, guided missiles, grenades, shields, micro nukes, and the very powerful Omega bomb. It's an arsenal that will have the aliens shakin' in their slimy shoes. [3D Realms.com]*1993-10-10 Halloween Harry released 1994-11-02 Alien Carnage v1.0 released -- episodes 1 and 3 were switched, otherwise identical to Halloween Harry v1.2 2007-05-24 released as freeware. Rights held by John Passfield. ([url]http://www.3drealms.com/news/2007/05/alien_carnage_freeware.html[/url]) Halloween Harry was the name of the shareware version of this game, but it was changed to Alien Carnage for the commercial version in hopes of getting better sales, but [game=#19653]Doom[/game] was likely the reason for the poor sales. Shareware version included the first episode as usual.[b]Minimum:[/b] 286 CPU * 517 kB conventional memory * 7 MB HD space [b]Recommended:[/b] * 386 CPU * Soundblaster-compatible soundcard

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