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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Magic Ball	Jojo Soft	19??
Compuzzler	Uptown Software (Wordware)	1984
Pinball Construction Set	Electronic Arts	1985
Boulder Dash Construction Kit	Epyx	1987	Boulder Dash™Construction Kit™ More thrills for Boulder Dash™ fanatics. And now with the Construction Kit,™ you can create your own den of doom. Or, for a truly riveting experience, you can mine for diamonds in one of the pre-constructed games. We've got to warn you. The place is gnarly. The amoebas are still here. The stray boulders. The nasty fireflies. The whole rotten mess. You could eat it bad on this one, pal. They say it's the greatest underground movement in known times. Think of all those diamonds down there. But remember, what goes down does not necessarily come back up... Designed by FIRST STAR SOFTWARE. INC.***The Boulder Dash Construction Kit features some fresh premade levels and an easy-to-use level editor. Officially the Construction Kit (or re-released as Boulder Dash IV on some platforms) was the last of the "classic" Boulder Dash games. Many mods and level packs that were created with the level editor can be found under lots of names.
Breach	Omnitrend Software;Artronic Products (Omnitrend Software)	1987	WE WANT YOU... FOR THE FEDERATED WORLD’S SPECIAL FORCES Moving my squad through enemy infested jungle. Suddenly Darrow’s detector picks up life forms 50 metres out. "Nothing but a couple of BRACHIATORS" he says to me. Just then Darrow takes it through the chest. We all hit the dirt trying to figure where the shot came from. And there it is... a BATTLE ROBOT. Hsiang shoots its sensory grid but it doesn’t do much good. It starts tracking him with its dual guns and suddenly he takes some hot plasma. Now it’s just me and the Kid Roki. "Roki" I said, "Direct fire at its lifters so it can’t move." So like a vet of 20 drops he rises on one knee and hits the thing right in the lifters. "That’s one less Battle Robot", he says. I toss an energy grenade at the hulk to make sure. Then we turned to start the long job of carrying the boys north to our landing craft. Sgt Sherwood FWS Seryachi Campaign. * Smooth animated movement and combat. * Amiga/Macintosh version includes digitized sound. * A campaign of several scenarios included in the game. * Up to 40 scenarios [should be "enemies" - Editor] per game – ranging from beasts to marines. Six different classes of opponents in all. * Equip your marines with 20 different objects – including rocket launchers, demolition charges and cracking units. * Build up your squad leader for special advanced training – all of his combat experience is saved! * Scenarios can have several different victory conditions which can be mixed together to form complex battles. * Additional scenario disks available. BREACH - A single player tactical-level combat game.
Macadam Bumper	ERE Informatique	1987
PC-Quizzer	Data Assist	1987
Stuart Smith's Adventure Construction Set	Electronic Arts	1987	The ACS came with two build-in RPG scenarios, "Rivers of Light" and "Land of Aventuria".
The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown	Electronic Arts (Interplay)	1987	Review for "The Bard's Tale: Construction Set". Reviewed again because of a problem in the review of #39 with black & white images. [22]*Review for "The Bard's Tale: Construction Set" [22]Review for "The Bard's Tale: Construction Set" [52] [52]* [49]*The Bard's Tale: Construction Set [37]The Bard's Tale: Construction Set, released in 1991, includes the game in 256 colors VGA plus a level-editor tool.**Wizardry style first person RPG with a decent story. Roll your own characters or use the pre-made "A-Team" to travel through (and below) the town of Skara Brae which has been plunged into eternal winter by the wizard Mangar.
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.
Brix II	Prism Leisure	1988	[1]
Demon Stalkers: The Raid on Doomfane	Electronic Arts (Micro Forté)	1988
Paladin	Omnitrend Software;Artronic Products (Omnitrend Software)	1988	Addons: - Paladin: The Scrolls Of Talmouth - Paladin: The Secret of Anforra - Paladin: Warmaster - Paladin: The Game Master*** [83]
Pharaoh's Revenge	Publishing International Entertainment	1988
Wargame Construction Set	SSI	1988
Pharoh's Revenge	Publishing International (Manley & Associate)	1988
Action Service	Infogrames;Mindscape (Cobra Soft)	1989
Diamond Ball II	H. Wilhelm	1989	Screenshots are from a demo version of Diamond Ball II which I found on a shareware CD. I couldn't find anything about the full version of this game on the internet. I just hope it isn't lost forever.
Firezone	PSS (Arcadia Systems)	1989
Harpoon	Three-Sixty	1989	1992 re-release of the game which includes "battlesets" (add-ons). [22]* [22]* [1]*Review for add-ons "Battleset 2", "Battleset 3" and "Scenario Editor". [52]* [52]*Review for two add-ons: "Battletest 3" and "Scenario Editor". [37]* [37]***Several addons with new scenarios and tools were released: - Harpoon Scenario Editor - Harpoon BattleSet 2: North Atlantic Convoys - Harpoon Battleset 3: The MED Conflict - Harpoon BattleSet 4: Indian Ocean / Persian Gulf - Harpoon Designers' Series: BattleSet Enhancer - Harpoon Designers' Series II: Post-Graduate Naval Operations & Tactics There are also several packs that include the main game with several of the addons bundled: - Harpoon & Battleset 2 - Harpoon Challenger Pak [Teran]
Roball	author	1989
RoboTank	author	1989
Spider	Kussoft	1989
Turbo Champions	Mastertronic	1989
4D Sports Driving	Mindscape;Brøderbund (Distinctive Software)	1990	Mindscape and award winning developers DSI bring a new era of games to your home computer - with the 4D Sports series. Here the 4th Dimension is realism and the action is amazingly real. 4D Sports Driving lets you loose on the most amazing test track ever built in the fastest and best cars the world's motor industry have ever created. This is the ultimate proving ground where you can test these super cars to destruction - literally! Take your pick from the mechanical stars of Road, Racing Circuit or Dirt Track including cars by Porsche, Ferrari, Lambourghini, Audi, Lancia and Honda. Put these power cars through their paces on stunts including the nerve-rackin' 360° loop the loop, the hair raisin' jumps, the breath takin' topsy turvey tunnels and the heart stoppin' pipe! Without a doubt 4D Sports Driving gives you the best selection of supercars and stunt obstacles ever seen in a driving game! 4D Sports Driving presents you with a large selection of 'ready-to-race' tracks to really test your skills to the limit. In addition 4D Sports Driving gives you a comprehensive editor to create your own 'nightmare' track - which you can save for future use or challenge a friend with. * Race against the clock or 6 different intelligent dare devil racers. * Amazing 'seat of the pants' stunt driving simulator * Fast, detailed and smooth polygon graphics. * Choose from 11 different performance cars. * Select from pre-set tracks or design your own. * 4D Sports Vision replay system lets you re-live your most perilous crashes and amazing stunts. * User selectable camera angles. * Digital sound effects and music scores.* [144]* [49]* [33]* [62]* [103]* [83]* [17]4D Sports Driving [22]Reviewed as "Skid Marks". Screenshots of the level editor are slightly different from the final version, might be reviewed from a prototype version. [22]* [63]*Reviewed as "Skid Marks". [52]* [37]*Reviewed as "Skid Marks". Screenshots of the level editor are slightly different from the final version, might be reviewed from a prototype version. [37]*Excellent 3D racing simulation with real cars. From Distinctive Software, the makers of Hard Drivin' Even can create your own tracks! And race from AI-based computer character opponents. called "stunts" in the game. as in "stunts.exe"
Breach 2	Mindcraft;Impressions (Omnitrend Software)	1990	An early squad-level tactical combat game, much like the X-Com series of games and the more contemporary Laser Squad. Breach 2 features turn-based combat from an isometric point of view set in the far future. As one of the more unique aspects the squad leaders gain experience from successful missions should they survive. Breach 2 is set in the same sci-fi universe as Omnitrend's Universe and Rules of Engagement series and shares the same backstory with those games. Breach 2 is a part of the IGS (Interlocking Game System) and compatible with the two Rules of Engagement games. This means you can use Breach 2 to resolve the tactical combat situations, boarding an enemy ship for example, you run into in the starship command simulation, which is the heart and soul of the Rules of Engagement series. A scenario builder is included with the game, making it possible to create your own missions and trade them.* [49]* [90]* [87]* [22]
Hock	ButcherSoft	1990
Jack Nicklaus' Unlimited Golf & Course Design	Accolade (Sculptured Software)	1990
Rocky	author	1990
UMS II: Nations at War	MicroPlay Software;Rainbird (Intergalactic Development)	1990	Addon: UMS II: Nations at War - Planet Editor (1992)* [52]Review for add-on "UMS II: Planet Editor" [37]** [37]
Red Baron	Sierra On-Line (Dynamix)	1990
Eggerland 3	Vampire Vengeance (CrazySoft)	1991
Laby	Dominik Schuierer	1991
Sea Battle	author	1991
The Bard's Tale Construction Set	Interplay	1991	A sample game is included with the construction set; [i]The Star Light Festival[/i]
ZZT	Epic Megagames	1991	[quote][list][][b]10-Oct-97 Download the Complete ZZT Series![/b] As a gift to Epic fans world wide, Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic MegaGames has released the complete ZZT as Freeware. Click here for a letter from Tim Sweeney and to download the complete ZZT. Note* There is no tech support available for ZZT.[/list][/quote]***First game by [company=Epic]Epic[/company], originally shareware but was turned into freeware later. Also the [i]first[/i] game extensible by scripting (custom ZZT-OOP language).
Stunt Island	Disney (The Assembly Line)	1992	[media=youtube]89jrh5sA0Yo[/media]***Often referred to as "Disney's Stunt Island." While this is a flight sim, the focus is on preforming and filming stunts rather than flying skill, scenery or combat. So its less sim, more game. Players can edit the stunts into videos and design their own stunts, videos and designes can be shared with other users.The action can be seen, from literally any perspective, since their are cameras set up to film each stunt and the player can switch between them durring their performance. 1st and 3rd person views are the most common, but some stunts will require more unique perspectives to see how to hit your marks. The conflict is primarily an 'entity v physics' and secondarily 'entity v machine'. The player's character preform stunts one at a time and is rated on how well they hit their marks (hitting marks makes for better scenes). In this 'career mode' there are 40 stunts to master. Beginning with simple ones like, fly through the canyon. But later ones are insane sounding, like land on the zeppelin, land on the moving train, or land on the skyscraper. You may recognize some of them from your favorite movies. The [gametag=langcomputer langcomputer]langcomputer[/gametag] tag applies because the stunt design is done in a custom, visual, even-driven language that's surprisingly easy to learn. You'll need to answer questions about the performance of aircraft (wingspan, stall speed, maximum altitude, etc..) after each install. These answers can be found in the manual but are mostly public knowledge since most of the planes in the game are real ones. It comes in a stiff carboard box (doesn't fold) with a manual and a map of the one island in the game (the set) where all the stunts are performed. Keyboard controls are available at all times. Mouse, 2-axis 2-button joystick, or 4-axis 4-button joystick (stick & throttle), are optional. This game runs under Windows 3.x & Windows 95. The display seems to be 3D polygons, but its very primitive and does not use 3D acceleration. But it has the advantage of being playable on a 33MHz system. [Zerothis]
Super ZZT	Epic MegaGames	1992
The New York Times Puzzle Master	Centron Software;Mindscape (Centron Software)	1992
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.
Jetpack	Software Creations (Adept Software)	1993	For 1-8 players, taking turns.***Made freeware presumably in 1998.
Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge	Gremlin Graphics (Magnetic Fields;Cygnus Software Engineering)	1993	Since this is the first Lotus game for PC, Gremlin didn't release it under the title 'Lotus 3 - .....'
Abuse	Electronic Arts (Crack dot Com)	1994	The source code and shareware version's game assets (excluding sounds) were released to public domain around two years after the game's release.
Wargame Construction Set II: Tanks!	SSI	1994
Bars	Mad Data (Team 200)	1994
Battles in Time	QQP	1995
Cyberbikes: Shadow Racer VR	Gametek (Artificial Software)	1995
Front Lines	Impressions	1995
Great Naval Battles Vol. III: Fury in the Pacific, 1941-1944	SSI	1995
Micro Machines 2: Special Edition	Codemasters	1995

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