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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
DND	RO Software	1984	Verion 2.0 re-release under the title "Dungeons of the Necromancer's Domain" in 1988.
Corncob 3D	MVP Software (Pie in the Sky Software)	1992	Corncob 3D is the shareware version, Corncob Deluxe is the full registered version. Has expansion called "Corncob Other Worlds Campaign".
SpellCraft: Aspects Of Valor	Brøderbund Software (Asciiware)	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.
Space Hulk	Electronic Arts	1993	Cleanse and Burn. Confirmed Genestealer infestation on the hulk. Launch 100 Space Marines. Beholden to our honour, prepare for death. The year is 2 247 989 M41. Join the Space Marine Warriors from the Dark Angels Chapter of the Legiones Astartes as they battle the Genestealer hordes, a terrifying race who travel in derelict vessels known as space hulks. Power up your Terminator Armor. You're going in.*CD-ROM version [22]* [22]* [59]1994 CD-ROM version [37]**Original floppy disk version [37]
Backlash: A Turret Gunner Simulation	Sanctuary Software Studio	1994	You're in control of the aft turret of a starship and your job is to protect it on its flight through space from Dirians. Playable either with joystick or mouse or keyboard, though keyboard combined with either joystick or mouse is optimal.
Blackthorne	Interplay Productions (Blizzard Entertainment)	1994	Interplay provides a version of this game to download from battle.net. Comes packaged for play on Windows using DOSbox or an alternative package for Mac using DOSbox. The executable zip file is encrypted preventing it from being run on non-windows systems without using Windows emulation. Once installed, the game should theoretically work on DOS, FreeDOS, or most any system DOSbox runs on. However, Blackthorne's the setup executable is not included making sound configuration especially problematic. This game is not Freeware. Blizzard retains full copyright and the downloaded version includes and EULA restating Blizzard's ownership. No right to redistribute or otherwise treat this version as Freeware is granted by Blizzard.***[b]from another world[/b] - you're actually native, but was transported as an infant into another world where you grew up, and now you've returned to bring your royal boot to the Face of Evil. [b]unrestricted violence[/b] - player can freely kill the slaves as much as the orcish monsters.
Ascendancy	Virgin Interactive (The Logic Factory)	1995	[22]**[b]Species:[/b] Minions - sentient robots, the only artificial "species" in Ascendancy; presumably nano-scale * Snovemdomas - woolly mammoth-like creatures * Orfa - strange centauroids with gaping, flaming maws * Kambuchka - too bizarre to describe * Hanshaks - seemingly brains with hands, whiskers and a hole in the middle * Fludentri - sentient "polymerized" liquid * Baliflids - mangy rat-like creatures * Swaparamans - two-headed tendril creatures * Frutmaka - odd fungal tree-like creatures * Shevar - completely inorganic creatures (presumed to be from different dimension/reality in game mythos) * Govorom - tentacle creatures with some parts remotely resembling human females * Ungooma - ugly fly-like creatures (of similar size) that mindcontrol larger creatures * Dubtaks - manta-like creatures * Capelons - "masses of flowing fibers who can rearrange their bodies quickly to assume any shape" * Mebes - large translucent unicellular creatures * Oculons - massive eyeball on legs and with tentacles * Arbryls - haggard plant-like creatures * Marmosians - insectoids * Chronomyst - jellyfish-like creatures * Chamachies - centauroid somewhat chameleon-like saurians * Nimbuloids - sentient dense gas clouds***I can't remember much of this game except the music was nicely atmospheric and set a fantastic mood for the game. The game itself was rather boring if you think of anything else :) Quite unique in the sense that the game actually uses 3D space instead of 2D mapping of it, something even recent (2009) real 3D games (with polygons and all that) haven't done. The base building bit is the only part that doesn't use this.
Velcro Mind	Jazz Software	1995	You must catch balls with the sides of the disc with corresponding color and deliver them to the same colored hand. The game is controlled solely by mouse with the left and right buttons handling rotation.
Blood & Magic	Interplay (Tachyon Studios)	1996
Fragile Allegiance	Gremlin Interactive (Cajji Software)	1996
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri	Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Looking Glass Technologies)	1996	Supports resolutions 320x200 and 320x400, the latter is horizontally stretched to virtual 640x400 in all compliant displays.
Daggerfall	Bethesda Softworks	1996	The various demo various support sound hardware that the final version does not.* [84][b]Minimum:[/b] DOS 6.0 * 66 MHz 486DX2 CPU * 8 MB RAM * 50 MB HD space * mouse [b]Recommended:[/b] * 450 MB HD space [b]Soundcards:[/b] Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, AWE 32 Pro Audio Spectrum * Ensoniq Soundscape * Gravis Ultrasound*2009-07-09 made temporarily available for free, on the 15th anniversary of the Elder Scrolls series.Latest version: 1.07.213 (as of ?)*The control system for Daggerfall was surprisingly advanced for its time (in DOS game, anyway), I think. You could easily have mouse look in and practically use similar-ish control mechanism to what's in modern games (e.g. in Dark Messiah) to control which way or how you swung your weapons. The only difference was that instead of swinging in the direction you moved, it swung in the direction you dragged the mouse, which in effect prevented you from turning around with the mouse as long as you had the attack button pressed. The controls were also quite customizable, since you could easily configure them to resemble something similar to that time's control system. The game was also quite unique that you could scale any* straight wall almost indefinitely, defying any laws of sensibility by dragging yourself across to heights that made no sense. Lack of this ability was one of the most disappointing factors in the sequels, I think (though I have to really blame the blatantly lighter mood of the other games for _really_ disappointing me.. honestly, the story description of both Morrowind and Oblivion is much darker, yet I feel like I'm playing in some kind of [[link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies Teletubby]] land).**The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall is the second chapter in the highly acclaimed Elder Scrolls role-playing series. Its predecessor, TES: Arena, won over twenty Best Role Playing Game of the Year awards and set a new level for computer role plating. TES: Daggerfall is the most ambitious CRPG ever created and surpasses the high standard set in Arena. Daggerfall offers you an opportunity to adventure in total freedom within a world where your destiny is of your own making and consequence evolves from your decisions. A world of love and darkness, magic and sorcery. Whether you choose to follow a quest or to venture out alone, you will interact with thousands of people as you travel across an expansive land in a time of fantasy and imagination. The largest world ever created for a computer role-playing game. Adventure through thousands of cities, villages, dungeons, graveyards, ruins, castles, shrines and farms. * Interact with thousands of characters, both in dialogue and action. * Involve yourself in a complex world of constantly evolving political intrigue. * Own property and ships, participate in the politics of guilds and other organisations and trade goods and services. * Customise your character or even create a unique character class. * Participate in numerous large-scale, complex quests or venture off on your own. * A multiple path story, with several different endings. You decide how the game is played and won. [Box blurb]***Daggerfall is the sequel to Arena. The world is HUGE, with litterally thousands of NPC's, hundreds of towns and dungeons, and a nearly infinate number of choices that can be made. You can spend time on side quests, or attempt your main goal of saving Daggerfall from the spirit of it's dead king.
Tomb Raider	Eidos Interactive (Core Design)	1996	[quote=anonymous]Gold edition has two extra levels: 'The Shadow of the Cat' and 'Unfinished Business'.[/quote]*DOS version package prominently advertises that it runs under windows95 and it does. But it is a native DOS game with a native DOS installer.*Lara Croft is employed by Jacqueline Natla ,to find an artifact rumored to be hidden in a temple in Peru. When she finds it she realizes that it is one of the 3 parts of a more important artifact, the Scion,which is the key to activating the Great Pyramid of Atlantis. She also discovers though, that Natla, her employer is not what she seemed to be. She was one of the 3 rulers of Atlantis and she had one of the 3 pieces of the artifact. The other two belonged to Tihocan and Qualopeg. However, she abused its powers, creating a race of monsters which destroyed Atlantis. The other 2 rulers froze her into what they thought would be an eternal prison. She, however, managed to escape and now wants to create mutated species again. Lara has to stop her, but that's quite difficult, because she is both powerful and intelligent. Lara now needs to find all the three pieces of Scion, race against Natla's henchmen and then go to Atlantis for the final battle.
Clonk 3: Radikal	RedWolf Design	1997

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