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Attack Wave (2009) - MobyGames
Earth is under attack of aliens. Luckily a forgotten SDI satellite named "Hercules" is in the orbit and still functional. Badly, the automatic targeting system is broken, so manually control of the weapon is required -- and taken by the player. Attack Wave plays similar to Missile Command, without reaching it's tactical depth. Waves of alien spaceships approaching from the top of the screen. Left and right the satellites weapons are positioned.
Nuclear Waste Dump
In Nuclear Waste Dump the player takes the role as garbage collector. As the title suggests, it's not about ordinary waste, but nuclear waste. The game is an extended remake of the type-in program Uncle Henry's Nuclear Waste Dump by James Hague released in Antic magazine in 1986. The game is a puzzle game in which the cans of waste are falling from the top of the screen to the bottom and stacking up if other barrels are already present in the same column.
Twix (1992) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Specs Releases Patches Prices Forum Contribute Released October 3, 1992 on Atari ST Credits 3 people Publishers Developers Moby Score n/a Collected By 1 players Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type 3.5" Floppy Disk Input Devices Supported/Optional Keyboard Number of Players Supported 1 Player [ view all 6 specs ] Description Twix is an implementation of the board moving puzzle known as Khun Phaen...
Znax (2006) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Specs Releases Patches Prices Forum Contribute Released October 2, 2006 on Atari ST Credits 6 people Publishers Developers Moby Score n/a Collected By 1 players Genre Puzzle Perspective Top-down Visual Fixed / flip-screen Gameplay Tile matching puzzle Interface Point and select Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type Download Input Devices Supported/Optional Mouse Number of Players Supported 1 Player [...
Heartland (1996) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Specs Releases Patches Prices Forum Contribute Released September 28, 1996 on Atari ST Credits 11 people Publishers Developers Moby Score n/a Genre Action Gameplay Arcade Platform Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type Double-sided Disk Number of Players Supported 1 Player [ view all 7 specs ] See Also Heartland (1986 on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC) Description Sissy and Sassy have lost...
Pixel Quest (2015) - MobyGames
Pixel Quest is a Picross puzzle game that pays tribute to several classic ZX-Spectrum games. The game contains 55 puzzles in total and solving each one reveals a hero or a piece of pixel artwork from famous ZX-Spectrum games from the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Manic Miner, Finders Keepers, Starquake, and Cybernoid.
Filler (2012) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Specs Releases Patches Prices Forum Contribute Released August 24, 2012 on Atari ST Credits 1 person Moby Score n/a Genre Strategy / tactics Gameplay Arcade Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type Download Input Devices Supported/Optional Mouse Number of Players Supported 1 Player [ view all 6 specs ] See Also Filler (1990 on DOS) Description Filler is a conversion of the browser game Gimme Friction...
Mac Pan (1987) - MobyGames
Mac Pan is an extended implementation of Pac-Man idea on Atari ST computers with monochrome monitor. Like in the original game, the player controls a circled avatar trying to munch all dots in a level before getting caught by four wandering ghosts. On eating on of the rare power-pills, you can temporarily reverse this and chase the ghosts and kill them for extra points.
Lombric (1999) - MobyGames
Description Lombric is a Tron-like game inspired by the 1998 game Viper by Eclipse. In this snake-like game up to three human players move their snake-head across the level keeping a trail of their previous route behind them. A collision with either the own tail, the tail of another player or any obstacle in the level kills the player. That player last-standing wins the round. The obstacles and starting positions are randomly placed at the start of each level.
Robotz (1990) - MobyGames
The exploration space vessel "DARWIN 8" is in troubles: it is invaded by alien robots, who killed the whole crew, leaving the player as last survivor to fight the intruders and clear the ship. The player blasts his way through 40 levels shooting robots. But there is a problem: the robots are protected by "positronic generators", which have to be destroyed before the moving robots are receiving damage from your weapon.
Platonix (1993) - MobyGames
Platonix is a puzzle game in which your goal is to clear a complete board of stones. You control a cursor and after moving this cursor on a field, the field vanishes and you cannot go back. Therefore the route to clear all stones have to be carefully planned to avoid a lock in. Often there are several possibilities to solve the level. Points are only rewarded after finishing a level. The amount is determined by the leftover time from the counter and the amount of lives left after clearing the level.
Pacman (1995) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Specs Releases Patches Prices Forum Contribute Released July 18, 1995 on Linux Credits 2 people Moby Score n/a Collected By 1 players Genre Action Perspective Top-down Gameplay Arcade Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type Download Input Devices Supported/Optional Keyboard Number of Offline Players 1 Player [ view all 5 specs ] See Also Pacman (1989 on Amiga) Pacman (2001 on Windows) Pacman (2002 on...
Viper (1998) - MobyGames
This multiplayer Snake-type game is a remake of a shareware Amiga game of the same name. All six(!) human players gang up on the same keyboard, controlling their ever-growing snakes by steering them left or right. The six snakes start out at random points throughout the playfield, and can travel at any angle, without the common restriction of 90-degree turns. Curiously, as each viper grows, it develops naturally-occurring holes along its body.
Bauernkampf (1988) - MobyGames
Bauernkampf (english: pawn fight) is a small board game played on a 5x5 board. On the upper side there are five computer controlled pawns, while on the lower side two player controlled knights are standing. Movement of the figures is like in the chess games: pawns can move one or two fields first and capture other figures diagonal only. The knights can move two fields forward and one field to the side (in any direction).
Lamemine (1993) - MobyGames
Lamemine is a puzzle game heavily inspired by the Minesweeper variant shipped with Windows 3.1. The goal of the game is to locate all bombs on the board and mark them. Any field revealed shows the amount of bombs around this field. If there are no bombs surrounding the chosen field, all adjacent fields without bombs around are revealed. If there are bombs around, a number shows how many. On the square board this can be 1 to 8. If the player marks all bombs on the board, the level is won.
Creature Power (1990) - MobyGames
Creature Power is kind of a puzzle game. The player's job is to reach a jewel hidden deep in the sea by transforming into several animals. But before that can be done, you have to qualify in a sub-game: the "Creature Power Frog Race". There are always two frogs competing and over three laps they randomly move forward (no user interaction is required or possible). The winner of the race is allowed to enter the "Creature Power" part of the game.
tictactoe (1997) - MobyGames
Either playing with two players or playing against an AI is possible. Playing against the AI you can chose if you want to start yourself or if the AI is starting. The game is implemented as system- and multitasking friendly application.
Mah-Jongg (2002) - MobyGames
Mah-Jongg is a browser implementation of the tile matching Shanghai/Mah Jongg theme. A board with 144 stones, separated in groups of four identical pictures, has to be cleared by removing two tiles with the identical picture. Tiles are only removable if they are "free", which means they do not have another tile on the left, right or above them. The game features two tile sets and six different layouts for the board. The amount of possible moves and hints with pairs of possible removals can be shown.
AtariScene cardbattle EX plus α
AtariScene cardbattle EX plus α is a card playing game. Two players having a pile of cards and each round is played with the card on top only. Each card comes with four attributes with values from 1 to 10. The player who won the last turn is choosing one attribute and the cards are compared by the number of this attribute. The player with the higher number wins the round and is getting both cards.
Killing Spree (2014) - MobyGames
Killing Spree is a shoot-'em-up, which scrolls to the horizon. The landscape is created with polygons, and zooming sprites are used for enemies and details like trees. The player flies with his spacecraft with selectable acceleration, can move up, down, left and right, which causes the landscape also to scroll horizontally.
Galactic Empires
Galactic Empires is a multi-player turn-based strategy game. Up to seven players compete to conquer the galaxy. Each player is starting on a home planet and a certain amount of ships. Each turn, the fleet or parts of it can be moved. Travelling to other worlds takes time, and reaching distant worlds may take several rounds. During each round, random events may happen, from pirate attacks or natural disasters, affecting one or more players and fleets.
r0x (2009) - MobyGames
Inspired by the meteor-storm bonus level of Deluxe Galaga, the main idea of the r0x gameplay is avoid floating rock particles in vast space. While you avoid rocks, you can increase your score by collecting treasure, save some floating astronauts and collect extra ships and bombs. Game keeps track of best highscores in Arcade mode. In addition to Arcade mode, there is also a two-player battle mode where players compete by saving the floating astronauts.
PUNSSi (1995) - MobyGames
PUNSSi is an arcade game for two players. Each player is controlling a ball and a third ball is on the field which must be pushed to the area of the opposite player by flying into it. The balls are accurately accelerated and the balls are reflected in the angle and impulse of their collision. The player is gaining points when the ball is in area of the opponent. Some spice to the game are two little droids following both players and trying to catch them (one droid follows one specific player).
Bob Fossil's Sudokuniverse
Bob Fossill was promoted to the king of the Sudokuniverse, a land disordered by logical problems. His quest is to recreate order by rebuilding the land, which is done by defeating life forms by solving their puzzles. Bob Fossil's Sudokuniverse is a Sudoku implementation. A squared board of size 9x9 fields is divided into nine 3x3 blocks. In each block the numbers 1 to 9 must exactly appear one. But the same is true for each row and column of the 9x9 board.
Tautology II (1995) - MobyGames
Tautology II is an enhanced version of the game Tautology released one year earlier. In terms of gameplay both games play identical and feature the same modes for single player and multi player games. So, still the board have to be cleaned by connecting identical stones or stones from the same set, with a maximum of two edges in this connection. The successor differs in terms of game options and convenience.
Premium Mah Jongg
Premium Mah Jongg is a Shanghai implementation. It features the "Turtle" layout for stones and the standard 144 stone set. There are two game modes. In "Solitaire" mode, you simply can play without any time pressure while in "Tournament" mode you have, with increasing difficulty, between 12 and 4 minutes to clear the board. If you get any advice from the program to show possible moves, the high score is frozen at this time. If there are no more possible moves left, the game is instantly ended.
Downfall (2011) - MobyGames
Downfall is an "endless runner" type of game in which the environment is constantly moving and control of the player is strictly limited. The player is controlling a little guy, travelling down over myriads of platforms which constantly scrolling from the bottom to the top. Moving is only possible from left to right, no jumping is possible. Leaving the stand on a platform, the player is starting to fall and must land on a deeper platform.
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry be happy is a shareware conversion of the German board game Mensch ärgere Dich nicht! (which is very similar to the English board game Ludo, as both are variants of the Indian Pachisi game). Two to four players race the board to finally enter their home with all four figures. Movement is done via a dice roll, with the difficulty you require a six to leave your starting area.
Clogged Up (2004) - MobyGames
Clogged up is a moving puzzle game. On a 6x6 board your goal is to reach the exit with your clog shoe. It can only left and right and the way is blocked by many different stones in different lengths (2-4). All those stones can only be moved in the direction of their orientation, so some can moved up and down, others left and right (in later levels there are blocks movable in all directions). You have to move the stones until the way is free for your clog to move to the exit.
Bugger! (1998) - MobyGames
Description Bugger! is an extended conversion of the classic coin-op Frogger for one up to six players. Frogs are standing at one side of a road and want to reach the other side. Carefully jumping up and down the frog can change the lanes on the road, avoiding the many cars driving on it. Cars are not simply passing by with a constant speed in this game, but also accelerate or get slower on occasion.
Ausbruch (2004) - MobyGames
Ausbruch (German word for "Break out") is a puzzle game played on a board of the size 14x15. In the beginning on each tile there is a small person standing. Each of those little men and women are wearing a sweater in one of four possible colors. If at least two persons of the same color are standing beside each other, they can be removed. On a removal, all tiles connected in the same color are removed.
Memory (1992) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Releases Specs IP Prices Forum Contribute Released April 2, 1992 on Atari ST Credits 1 person Publishers Moby Score n/a Genre Puzzle Perspective Top-down Visual Fixed / flip-screen Pacing Turn-based Gameplay Board game Cards / tiles Mental training Tile matching puzzle Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type Double-sided Disk Input Devices Supported/Optional Mouse Number of Players Supported 1 Player [...
Double Juggle Vegetabobble
Charlie is keen about balls. Due to some bad circumstances, he is forced to run away and join the circus. But Dr. Hasselhoff, the circus leader, is only hiring him if he proofs worthy. In the arcade game Double Juggle Vegetabobble you have to help Charlie to join the circus by solving the juggling challenge. There are three vegetables which has to kept in the air, by moving Charlies arms left and right. The balls only have to be touched for a very short time so they bounce back in the air.
Pooz (2005) - MobyGames
Pooz is a puzzle game with several playing modes. You control a small guy in the middle of the screen and are only able to move in a small 4x4 area. Pills are constantly appearing at the outside and moving towards the centre. The pills are colored in four colors, while the player itself is also having a color. Pointing to a pill with the same color in the direction of the player, the pill disappears.
Alfreds Kistenlager Schiebereien
Alfreds Kistenlager Schiebereien is a conversion of the puzzle game Soko-ban to be played on the monochrome display. A worker named Alfred must move boxes distributed in a level to their destination spot. All levels are on a single screen. It features all 50 levels from the original, but also adding an editor to modify existing or add new levels, which can also be saved to disk.
Mortar (1998) - MobyGames
Mortar is an Artillery variant and the authors name the inspiration in games like Ballerburg and Scorched Earth. Two player are controlling an cannon at opposing ends of a level in an randomly created landscape with hills and valleys. The goal is to destroy the opponent player by hitting the cannon. Each turn each player has a single shot and can set the strength of the shot and the angle of the cannon.
Mem (2002) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Releases Specs IP Prices Forum Contribute Released February 17, 2002 on Atari ST Credits 1 person Publishers Developers Moby Score n/a Genre Puzzle Perspective Top-down Visual Fixed / flip-screen Pacing Turn-based Gameplay Board game Cards / tiles Mental training Tile matching puzzle Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type Download Input Devices Supported Mouse Number of Players Supported 1 Player [...
KDiamond (2008) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Releases Specs IP Prices Forum Contribute Released February 8, 2008 on Linux Credits 6 people Publishers Moby Score n/a Genre Puzzle Perspective Side view Visual Fixed / flip-screen Gameplay Falling block puzzle Tile matching puzzle Interface Point and select Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type Download Input Devices Supported Mouse Number of Offline Players 1 Player [ view all 5 specs ] Official...
Penta (2005) - MobyGames
Penta is a puzzle game with moving mechanics. The 5x5 board is filled with numbers from 1 up to 25. The goal is to sort them from the upper left corner (1) to the lower right corner (25). You can do this by rotating either columns or rows (e.g. if you rotate a row to the right with number "6" most left, after rotating it will be most left). For each level you only have a specific amount of moves to reorder the numbers. Running out of moves ends the game.
Roger (2004) - MobyGames
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Releases Specs IP Prices Forum Contribute Released January 22nd, 2004 on Atari ST Credits 2 people Publishers Developers Moby Score n/a Genre Action Gameplay Arcade Platform Business Model Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain Media Type 3.5" Floppy Disk, Download Number of Players Supported 1 Player [ view all 7 specs ] Description In Roger you control a small ball with feet and a red glasses and your aim is to collect all...
Quartet (1987) - MobyGames
The Good Pretty faithful conversion from the arcade version. Catchy music. The Bad Annoying enemies. Some obstacles are annoying. Bosses are annoying. Only two players can play at a time, no third or forth player support available. The Bottom Line Quartet was a obstacle jump and run shooter that came out around the time of Afterburner. I believe it was SEGA's answer to Gauntlet as you could control 4 different players, and yes they each were associated with a primary color.
Dungeon Master (1987) - MobyGames
The Good Back into 1990, i had a PC and an MSX and played only Action/Platform games on it. I didn't pay much attention to adventure games, and never even knew or considered playing an RPG game. In fact, I liked action and didn't even think that games can be of other categories than action or reflexion/puzzle games. One day in 1990, my uncle who had a 286 at that time, gave me a copy of a game with the name 'Dungeon' handwritten on top of an old 3in1/2 diskette.
Legend of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
The Good Where platforming elements are concerned there are a few clever puzzles in the levels to break up an otherwise combat heavy game. If you like breezing through levels, this title won't be a problem. The ability to hold some items and use them later is a handy mechanic in the game. This game features not just Mickey, but also Goofy, Donald and Pete, not that they do too much in the game. The Bad Graphically this game is unimaginative with little to no backgrounds, just flat colours.
Germ Crazy (1991) - MobyGames
In Germ Crazy, you play the part of a fledgling surgeon who must protect his patient from a debilitating, flesh-eating virus. The disease must be stopped by whatever means necessary; whether by antibody injections, black market drugs, amputation, or all-out germ warfare. Just be sure that your patient doesn't suffer too much surgical abuse or else he will be greeted by Mr. Grim Reaper himself.
Static (1998) - MobyGames
Static is an implementation of the card game Patience. But: it comes with a twist: it is not only the slow single player game to relax, it is also a hectic competitive multi-player game for up to four players, coming with extensions to the card game. The goal is to finish your four piles before any other player do. As there are some bonus items, you can encourage to finish faster than your opponents, or hinder the others to finish or even steal their cards.
Sonic the Hedgehog
The Good Sonic The Hedgehog made waves across both SEGA consoles & SEGA gamers when he was introduced in the early 90's. Like myself and many, others others I was swept away by these waves. Falling in love with the great balanced difficulty and amazing character with a style and a coolness not yet seen on the Master System. The first thing you'll notice in the early minutes of the game is the animation of Sonic himself.
Fred Couples Golf
Overview Credits Reviews Covers Screenshots Videos Promos Trivia Releases Specs IP Prices Forum Contribute Released December 23rd, 1994 on Game Gear Credits 49 people Publishers Developers Moby Score n/a Critics 68% (4) Players (2) Collected By 5 players Genre Sports Perspective Top-down Sport Golf Misc Licensed ESRB Rating Kids to Adults Number of Players Supported 1-4 Players [ view all 2 specs ] Description In Fred Couples Golf the player chooses from one of four generic golf courses and...
Rick Dangerous 2
The Good Right after surviving his first adventure, Rick Dangerous has no time for vacations. For his new mission, he gets rid of the old Indy-style hat and coat, revealing a dashing superhero outfit - complete with blue cape and laser gun. This time he's up against the evil Fat Guys from outer space, to defeat them he has to make his way through five big levels.
Only! Valency (1994) - MobyGames
Only! Valency is a puzzle game in which you have to reconstruct molecules. Each molecule is consisting of atoms in six different colors with connections to each other. On the lower border you have a strip with according atoms, which you can scroll left and right to select an appropriate color. You can only set atoms on spots connected to any atom already added to the molecule (and in each level at the beginning one atom is given).
Revenge of the Mutant Camels
A competition held on the day of the C64 version's original release took the winner to Egypt, to ride a real camel around the Pyramids. The game was written over a two month period. Programmer Jeff Minter spent hours at the zoo watching a real camel in order to model the camel's animation in the game. Jeff Minter released the full version of the game as a free download on 8 February 1997, along with Llamatron: 2112.
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