showing 6 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | labelimagesubject |
| SimLife | Maxis | 1992 | labelimageminimize | |
| Star Control II | Accolade (Toys For Bob) | 1992 | The story mode is purely singleplayer, but the melee is playable by 1-2 human players.***I split SC2 and Ur-Quan Masters... no real reason other than [game=#162327]Ur-Quan Masters[/game] isn't the name of the original and the open source game doesn't have Star Control in its name, also UQM is ported to wider variety of systems, wasn't developed (the code, I mean, not the game content) and published by the same people, etc. etc.***Directly from the manual: The gameplay takes place 20 years after the great war of Star Control I. This time, your mission is to explore and liberate the various alien races and planets in the different star systems and take part in action filled space battles. Super Melee: A bonus game in which you take part in spaceship to spaceship combat with the choice of 28 different starships. Challenge a friend or the computer.***One of my favorite games. Good news everyone! You can play StarCon2 with slightly updated graphics (from the 3DO port) and remixed music on Windows (also, MacOS X and Linux)! Toys For Bob released the source code for StarCon2 and a dedicated team is working hard porting it to modern PCs. The project is opensource, that means you can download it for FREE! Did you hear that? FREE! Check here for details: [[link:http://sc2.sourceforge.net/]] [cjlee001] | labelimageminimize |
| SimCity 2000 | Maxis | 1994 | Based on the phenomenally successful SimCity, you're given a plot of barren land to zone into industrial, residential, and commercial areas. As your city grows, you must deal with crime, education, and health issues by strategically placing police stations, schools, and hospitals. Manage traffic, the budget, and the needs of your constituents, or face riots, ridicule in the press, and eventual impeachment. They also released several "Scenario Editions", an "Urban Renewal Kit" and a "SimCity 2000: Special Edition" which is an All-In-One Pack. Versions for Windows were also released. | labelimageminimize |
| Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure | Mindscape (Cryo Interactive) | 1995 | You play Lt. Col. Hericksen, an ex-colonial marine who is now the commander of a three-man terraforming team. Your objective is to travel to remote outpost B54-C in order to find the cause of a distress call your vessel received. Gameplay is a point-and-click adventure with limited, inventory-based puzzles. Grid-based combat is present as well. The player is given what amounts to timed objectives throughout the game, and must uncover the truth about the mysterious outpost's history before the colony's sudden destruction. The game functions as a sequel to Dark Horse Comic's Aliens: Labyrinth, and follows up on characters and events from the end of that series.*** [84]***A very unusual point&click adventure where events continue spiraling out of control regardless of your activity (like that incoming meteor shower right at the start of the game) and there's turn&grid-based combat even. Primarily based on some Dark Horse Aliens comics instead of the original movies.***Latest version: 1.0.3 (as of 1996-03?)***Comes on 2 CDs. | labelimagesubject |
| Star Control 3 | Accolade (Legend Entertainment) | 1996 | [b]keyboard[/b] / [b]mouse[/b] - combat is purely with keyboard, everything else is with mouse.***Has some crude support for running the game in Win95, but it's still DOS game.***Much like the Ultima series, the Star Control series is one of those retrogames that also has a loyal fan-base even today. With that said, most Star Control fans are about as enthusiastic about StarCon3 as Superman is about Kryptonite. [cjlee001] | labelimageminimize |
