showing 5 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rollerblade Racer | Hi-Tech Expressions (Tahoe Software Productions) | 1993 | labelminimizeminimize | |
| 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 |
| Descent | Interplay (Parallax Software) | 1995 | Originally the levels were to be on board space stations. The use of a spacecraft and the micro-gravity nature of the environment actually do make a lot more sense this way. I mean, who flies a spacecraft into a mine? And why is there no evidence of gravity in the mines? (I vaguely recall the story of the game actually contrived something to explain the lack of gravity in the mines). The creative people decided that navigating space stations, although not in 3D, had been done to death already (and specifically it had been done in the FPS genre). After deciding on the new setting, game was refereed to as [i]Miner[/i]. Both documents and the source code used this title. Nobody much liked this title. The editor was name Med ([b]M[/b]iner [b]ed[/b]itor) but the dev team refused to call it anything but "The Editor". Based on the official designated title being chosen as [i]Inferno[/i], The dev team integrated inferno into source code. This official title only lasted 2 days however, as it was discovered that Ocean was releasing a game by that title and it would be published before [i]Miner[/i] could be. And there was an [i]Inferno[/i] episode of Doom.***Comes on 5 3½ disks. An identical version comes on 1 CD-ROM***[b]Minimum:[/b] * MS-DOS 5.0 * 33 MHz 386 CPU * 4 MB RAM * VGA GPU * MS-compatible mouse [b]Recommended:[/b] * 33 MHz 486 CPU * 8 MB RAM [b]Forward compatibility:[/b] * Runs under OS/2, Win3.x, Win95 and Win98 with expectedly higher system requirements.***The source code was released to public in 1997 under a proprietary license with a non-commercial clause.***Deep in the mines of Pluto, an unknown alien race has taken over the Post Terran Mineral Corporation and all intelligence shows that the planet is on a collision course with the Earth. Fly through over 30 levels of high speed, full 360° action in your attempt to stop the Earth's destruction. * Play against up to 4 players over the network * Scream down 3D texture-mapped passages * Locate and use hidden power-ups and repair stations * 'Morphing' Aliens * Intelligent Alien creatures that 'learn' your strategies * Plunge headlong down mine shafts * Multi-channel digitized sound effects and rock score [Box blurb] | labelimagesubject |
| Descent II | Interplay (Parallax Software) | 1996 | [b]Minimum:[/b] * DOS 5.0 * 50 MHz 486DX CPU * 8 MB RAM [b]Recommended:[/b] * Pentium CPU * 16 MB RAM * 16-bit stereo soundcard***The source code for the game's engine was released to public in 1999. The content remains copyrighted. [Zerothis] | labelimagesubject |
| Harvester | Virgin;Merit Studios (DigiFX Interactive) | 1996 | The year is 1953. When Steve Mason awakens in the quiet North American town called Harvest, he cannot remember anything. People claim to know him and even to be related to him, but he does not recall their names. As he explores the strange town, he encounters more and more eccentric people, whose behavior is difficult to explain. Everyone keep telling him that he should join the Lodge, the headquarters of the mysterious Order of the Harvest Moon. Steve is determined to find out the truth about the town and about himself, but he doesn't know that this truth is more horrifying than he could have ever imagined... Harvester is essentially a point-and-click, puzzle-solving adventure game. Though a weapon-shaped icon allows the player to attack characters, this can only be done as a solution to a puzzle, in order to advance the game's plot at specific points. The largest bulk of the gameplay is dedicated to traditional adventure activities: talking to characters and manipulating inventory items to solve puzzles. "Hot spots" indicate interaction possibilities, as in most adventure games of that period. The game features video cut scenes with live actors; for gameplay portions, digitized animations of the actors are super-imposed over pre-rendered background graphics.*** [84]***Welcome to Harvest: Population [s]51[/s] 50. With amnesia and a whole bunch of crazy people that don't make a lot of sense, you got to figure out what is going on. Welcome to the 1950s, 40 years before the make of this game. Confused, you must talk to everyone and find out what is going on. You cannot live in Harvest without becoming a Harvester! | labelimagesubject |
