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                                MVP Software                           
                            The Winner's Choice                        
           
        1035 Dallas SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507-1407   (616) 245-8376   
           
                                                                       
        If you like shareware games, you're in for a treat.  MVP       
        Software wants to give you more -- more graphics, more game    
        play, more fun with every one of our shareware games.          
                                                                       
        With 22 hungry game design teams, we're trying hard to be the  
        best.  Each team has its own unique gaming style, so MVP games 
        are distinctive and original.  No more me-too games here!      
        Give us a try!                                                 
                                                                       
        Not content with merely creating great games, MVP also brings  
        you the tools to design your own.  Read on for full details.   
                                                                       
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Ordering Information
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You may order any MVP Software product by calling toll-free 24 hours a day!
Call 800-968-9684 or 616-245-8376.  Have your MC/Visa ready when calling.
We also have distributors in Australia, England, Germany, Denmark, Japan, and
Italy for the convenience of customers from those countries.  Complete
information can be found in each product.

To receive the very latest software direct from MVP, call this BBS regularly.
As a distribution site it will have the latest and greatest MVP releases first!
 
                                Cannon Fodder

Cannon Fodder arcade game by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and distributed
exclusively by MVP Software <ASP>.  This hilarious new retail action game that
has taken England by storm is now available as shareware!  Loads of cool
graphics and witty game play.  PC Gamer says it is destined to be one of the
top games of the year!  Don't miss Cannon Fodder.  Remember, war has never
been so much fun!  Req 386, VGA, mouse.
 
                               Crusade In Space

If you like Master of Orion or other tactical/action space games, then
Stardate 2140.2: Crusade in Space is for you.   You are the Commander in this
new interstellar conflict game for Windows.  Build up your fleets, plan and
execute your strategy, and conquer the galaxy!  Unless of course your enemies
do so first.  Cool graphics, musical score, and sound.  Two complete Crusades
included in this shareware version.  Requires Windows 3.1. and mouse.
 
                      Games Magazine Presents Word Puzzles

Game Magazine Presents Word Puzzles, a graphical potpourri of word games for
players too smart or bored with the shareware shoot-em-up scene.  Includes 20
puzzles -- Crosswords, Cryptograms, Double Crosses, Word Scrambles, and Quote
Boxes.  Features very nice graphics and an original musical score for most
sound cards.  This game was first released in 1994 as a retail-only game.
MVP is proud to bring it to you as shareware, in conjunction with Villa Crespo
Software.
 
                           Literati Lite for Windows

Do you like Scrabble(tm)?  Literati Lite is a crossword board game for 1-4
players that will have you playing for hours.  Rack up extra points with
double and triple letter and word scores.  Two skill levels, built-in
dictionary, cool background music, and neat graphics.

Can you outspell your computer?  Do you consider yourself too intelligent to
play Apogee games?  Don't twitch!  Play Literati Lite for Windows!  Written
by real smart people for real smart people.  This is MVP's first Windows game.
Diana Gruber, referred to by Michael Abrash as a "Zen master" programmer,
and Bob Provencher, Windows programmer extraordinaire, collaborated to bring
you this triumph of game-play algorithm and interface design.  Don't miss it!
Requires Windows 3.1.
 
                           MVP Wordsearch for Windows

You've seen wordsearch games before, but none like this one.  Solve any of
the many included puzzles, or let the computer create one using your word
list.  Easy listening original sound track for your sound card, nice Windows
interface, and lots of fun.  Great for educational use!  Requires Windows 3.1.
 
                              Desert Storm Command

Hot Gulf War action, authentic video-capture animation, 256-color graphics,
explosive digitized sound, and a sizzling original musical score add up to
make this the best Desert Storm arcade game of them all!  Dump the sand out
of your boots, strap on your helmet and let's go!  Requires 286+, VGA, mouse;
sound card is optional.  You wanted hot action, MVP brings it to you!
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE.  PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED.
 
                           Sea School: Math Waves

Your kids (ages 3-8) will love this new learning game series.  Bright,
colorful graphics, delightful music, digitized sound effects and speech will
keep your young learner playing for hours.  Shareware edutainment at its
best!  Designed by a teacher, classroom-tested.  Requires 286 and up, VGA,
MS-compatible mouse.  Sound Blaster or compatible sound card recommended.

                                Arcy 2

If you like cool graphics and hot, mind-boggling puzzles, you'll LOVE Arcy 2,
all the way from Germany!  We got tired of all those run-and-shoot games, so
we decided to create something different.  The result is Arcy 2, the new hit
game from the people who brought you Pickle Wars and 3 Point Basketball.
Req 286+, VGA; Sound Blaster is optional.

                           King Arthur's KORT

Terrific new Medieval strategic war game in which you must conquer Great
Britain.  256 color VGA graphics, wonderful theme music, digitized sound
effects and voices!  Who says valor and chivalry are dead.  Prepare for battle
and the return of King Arthur!  Requires 286+, VGA, mouse.

                              MVP Bridge

If you like to play Bridge, or you would like to learn, MVP Bridge is for you.
Featuring professionally-designed VGA graphics, Sound Blaster support, and
exceptionally strong play, MVP Bridge is the best shareware Bridge game ever
developed.  Easy to use and learn, it has been used to teach Bridge as well as
improve the play of novice and advanced players alike.  With MVP Bridge you
always have a foursome waiting to play.  Requires 286+, 640K, VGA,
MS-compatible  mouse.  Supports Sound Blaster.

Version 1 was nominated by PC-Magazine as one of the five best shareware games
in all categories for 1994 and chosen by Computer Gaming World as the best
shareware card game of 1994.  Now in version 2 the best gets better with
improved bidding and game play.

                          MVP Bridge for Windows

The DOS version of MVP Bridge won major industry awards and general acclaim.
Now MVP Software takes the game a step further by setting the standard for
Windows card games.  Added features and a special registration offer make MVP
Bridge for Windows simply the best.  Even if you've never played Bridge before,
its online help and special "hint" option will have you playing like a veteran.
Req Windows 3.1.

                              Pickle Wars

Pickle Wars is HOT!  Dual-parallax scrolling, 256-color, georgeous cinematic
sequences, whimsical musical score, digitized sound effects -- you'll LOVE
this new game by Karen Crowther.  You play both the hero and the heroine of
the story as you desperately try to save your beloved Arcadia from the
dastardly invading Pickle race.  Will you find the ancient weapons in time?
Will our hero and heroine find each other?  Find out in Pickle Wars, the
whimsical, wacky new game sensation.  Requires 286+, VGA. Joystick, Sound
Blaster are optional.  Storyline written by Ellen Guon, lead writer of five of
the Wing Commander games.  A featured download on Ziffnet.

                            3 Point Basketball
                                                                         
Take on "ASBA" stars such as Shackle O'Deal and Bald Barkler in a 3 point
shootout.  The inimitable "BSPN" basketball personality Rick Vitality calls
the action as you fire up those threes.  Will you be "hot with the rock," or
are your shots better described as "what a brick, baby?"  3 Point Basketball
sounds great on your Sound Blaster, but you get digitized speech and sound
effects even if you have only a PC speaker!  Vivid 256-color 3D graphics,
great action, hilarious commentary.  Requires VGA+, mouse; Sound Blaster is 
optional.  A Top Pick on America OnLine.

                                 Corncob 3D
                                 
A Shareware Magazine Editor's Choice award winner!  Corncob was nominated in
two categories as by the Shareware Industry Awards, and has received rave
reviews in Computer Gaming World, PC/Games, In Flight, Computer News PC, and
Nuts and Volts magazines.

As you hear the scream of KLA homing devices that barely miss your wobbling
Corsair aircraft, you know you're in for the fight of your life.  You check
your altitude gauge, then steel yourself for another run at the enemy.  This
is just part of the action in Corncob 3D, the best shareware air combat flight
simulator ever!  With Adlib and Sound Blaster music and pulsating sound
effects, you'll be riveted to your seat for hours with this game!

Corncob offers over 20 different missions to achieve your objective of driving
the aliens from Earth.  It also includes a training mission, heart-racing
battles with alien aircraft (and even aliens themselves).  Written by a physics
graduate student, Corncob 3D is the most realistic air combat game on the
market today, retail or shareware.  Flight-simulation special effects include
stalls, side-slips, upside-down flying, and more.

According to Shareware Update magazine, Corncob's VGA graphics "are most
impressive indeed."  In addition, Corncob's virtual reality approach "is an
incredible effect that must be experienced to fully appreciate."  Providing
"hours of entertainment," Corncob compares favorably to retail air battle
games costing three times as much!

Version 3.42 is completely new and has no game-play or feature limitations.
All elements of the program are available in the shareware version, which is
identical to the retail version available in stores throughout North America.

Because of it's intense animation, Corncob requires VGA or SVGA and a 286 or
better computer.

                               Game Builder Lite

Have you ever told yourself that you could write great games if only you were
a better programmer?  Well now you can!

Game Builder Lite is not a programmer's library, but a full-featured game
authoring system that produces professional-quality games.  This is the
product that other game companies didn't want us to release, because now
anyone can write exciting graphics games.

Unlock the secrets of the great game creators even if you've never written a
line of code.  With Game Builder Lite you can create professional graphics
games with smooth, flicker-free animation.  Features include point 'n click
interface for your game, mouse support, sound effects, masking, object
animation and detection, and much more.  Write games in CGA, EGA, 256-color
VGA, even Tandy 16 color!

Game Builder Lite comes complete with everything you need to write a pro-
fessional game, including a full-featured paint program for creating or
modifying graphics, even digitized graphics!  Your games can be as short as you
like, or up to 400 graphics screens, which is bigger than commercial games!

A free game is included with the program that acts like a tutorial, showing
you how to design games.  You'll be writing your own game in no time, using
Gamebuilder's step-by-step, easy method.  In our testing, children as young as
eight years old could easily write games with Game Builder Lite, but the
software has many advanced features that experienced gamers will love.

Use Game Builder Lite to write adventure games, educational games, puzzle
games -- your only limit is your imagination.  Who knows, maybe you'll be the
next hot game developer!

Game Builder Lite requires a CGA, EGA or VGA graphics.  A mouse is recommended.

                                  MVP Paint
                                   
Now you can create or modify graphics the way the pros do it.  With its many
advanced features, MVP Paint is especially suited for producing or modifying
animated graphics.  Game designers or artists who demand top performance love
its ability to do animation, anti-aliasing, sunbursting, pallette matching,
interpolation, trending and a whole lot more.

Of course MVP Paint handles the basic functions -- line drawing, color fill,
circles, etc. -- with ease.  But it goes a step beyond with advanced techniques
not found in programs costing twice as much.  Included are sample code segments
to show you how to incldude VGA graphics in your Pascal or C programs, as well
as lots of extra goodies.

The registered version even includes the ability to save 256-color graphics in
Basic, C or Pascal code, doing away with the need to save and load a separate
.PCX or other graphics file.

MVP Paint has been used by top game creators for two years, and now we're
bringing the new version to you as shareware!

MVP Paint requires a VGA or SVGA and a mouse.

                                  Sand Storm
							      
If you like shoot-em-up, high-octane arcade games, then Sand Storm is for you!
Fire up your mouse for non-stop action as you try to intercept Scud and Jet
attacks with your Patriot missiles, then guide your Tomahawk missile through
enemy AA fire while on a search and destroy mission.  Can you successfully
take out enemy chemical weapons plants and mobile Scud launchers?  Includes
20 missions, digitized graphics, and a stunning Gulf War map.  This is the
fully-functional shareware version of the popular retail game, based on
Desert Storm.

Sand Storm requires a VGA or SVGA and a mouse.

                       Hoosier City: Assault of the Orcs

Selected as a cover disk in Holland!
                               
You're the only hope humans have in a world gone mad.  Mutant Orcs and their
cronies have taken over the Earth, which now supports life only in a few
domed cities.  Your mission: retake Hoosier City and make it safe for human
habitation again.  But the Orcs aren't all you must contend with.  Dragons,
giants, ghosts, and skeletons are just some of the foes that would love to
do you in.

With the wonderful hi-res animated graphics of Jason Pellerin, and the
fanciful game design of Keith Laverty, Hoosier City combines arcade action
with adventure game intrigue to bring you a truly unique gaming experience.

Because of intense animation, Hoosier City requires an EGA or VGA and a 286 or
better computer.

                             Robomaze II: The Lobby
                             
"You are a freedom fighter -- a member of the Resistance -- fighting against
your country's evil dictator."  So begins your adventure.  Employing colorful,
sparkling graphics, Robomaze II takes you on an epic journey never before
experienced on the IBM PC.

The Lobby is the first spine-tingling episode in the Robomaze II trilogy, in
which you find yourself trapped in the stronghold of the evil dictator.  In
The Lobby you must fight your way through the first 40 floors of this strong-
hold.  But the evil dictator's devious hanchman, the Mad Scientist, has 
concocted all sorts of cunning schemes to keep you from succeeding.

Find out why this game was MVP's first major hit.

"Robomaze II is HOT! . . . this is one not to be missed.  The clear, colorful
graphics and your control over the game leave nothing to be desired."
-- Shareware magazine

". . . professionally done, with excellent graphics." -- PsL News

                           Robomaze III: The Dome
                             
Highly addictive action/adventure sequel to Robomaze II in which you are a
freedom fighter hunting down the evil dictator.  You control the fabulous
Stalker robot as your search for keys, weapons and equipment; enter mysterious
underground hideouts such as Fort Doom and the Enclave of the Penguins;
encounter deadly poisonous plants.  Can you find the dictator and free your
beloved country from his tyranny?

Robomaze III: The Dome requires a 286 or better computer.

If you have an EGA or VGA system, download the file 1ROBO3.ZIP.  If you have
a CGA, download the file 1ROBO3C.ZIP.

                                Rapid Response
                                 
If you like war games such as Risk or Stratego, you'll love Rapid Response.
Command an army complete with conventional and nuclear weapons against eight
different enemy commanders and their forces.  Rapid Response features marvelous
hi-res EGA/VGA graphics.

You have been selected to test your skills as a master military strategist.
Commanding the yellow army, you have troops, various conventional weapons, and
tactical nuclear weapons at your beck and call.  Will you accept the challenge
posed by eight different enemy generals, each with their own style and tactics?

Rapid Response requires an EGA or VGA and 286 or better computer.

                                 Battle Ground
                                 
It's the US vs Germany in this two-player graphics WWII ground combat game.
Choose from over 30 different battle fields.  This game plays like some of the
great war board games.

Battle Ground is a vintage MVP game, first released in 1985.  When others were
content with text or ASCII graphics, we were leading the way with true graphics.
Many shareware vendors have been selling Battle Ground continuously for over
seven years!

Battle Ground requires CGA.

Thanks for supporting shareware and MVP Software.

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