Arcade Games


Contents:

-----Shoot-Em-Up Games
-----Falling Block Games
-----Street Fighting Games
-----Artillery, Tank & Missile Games
-----Snake Type Games
-----Virtual Reality Games
-----Breakout Games
-----"Pipe" Games
-----Ropes & Ladders Games
-----Classics
-----CGA Arcade Games
-----"B"-Level Games
-----Other

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-----Shoot-Em-Up Games:

[BANDIT]
Bandit 1.1 (O'Shea, Mike; $6) is a shoot-em-up spaceship game.

[CHOPPER]
Chopper Pilot Mission 1 (Cave Data Software; $10) is a shoot-or-be-shot
commando game. You fly a helicopter and battle your way into the enemy
bunker to find secret documents. You must get out alive and fly back to
base; all while trying to avoid mines, alarms and killer robots. It
features VGA animated graphics,sound effects, and more.

[CYBERWAR]
Cyberwars (Gibbs, John; $12) You must protect your home planet by
destroying the enemy cyberwarriors. The game has excellent graphics, but
surviving for very long is extremely difficult. Requires VGA.

[CZ]
Combat Zone [Rockland Software Productions; $20] is a fast-paced arcade war
game. Win as many battles as you can and get promoted through the ranks.
Requires VESA compatible SVGA graphics card w/1 meg video ram, monitor
capable of 1024x768x256 colors, Microsoft compatible mouse, sound card and
4MB of hard disk space.

[DRAKLOR]
Dungeons Of Drakklor 4.1 (DRAKLOR) (Neri, Mark; $15) You are a brave
explorer searching for the fountain of life. There are 11 levels of tricks,
traps, and creatures to overcome in your search. Requires 512K and EGA/VGA.

[FIGHTER]
Rocket Fighter (Sherwood Forest Software; $15) puts you in the pilot's seat
of a rocket fighter plane in deep space. Your mission is to take out the
enemies of the Alliance armed with only the laser cannon in your ship and
your piloting skills. Requires VGA and a hard drive.

[GTWRLD1, GTWRLD2, GTWRLD3]
GateWorld: Episode 1 - The Seed Ship 1.4 (Homebrew Software; $34) is a
fantastic spaced-out arcade game. In this episode, Captain Klondike is
rudely awakened from hypersleep by Stella (the spaceship's computer)
warning of a collision course with a very large and mysterious-looking
asteroid. Unfortunately, this asteroid contains the sinister G.O.R.G.
computer as well as an unimaginable treasure of gold and jewels. The good
Captain will encounter a variety of unusual creatures in his search for
wealth including giant cave bats, bouncing blue eyeballs, cosmic killer
starfish, and devious mechanical menaces. This excellent game features over
2MB of colorful Nintendo-quality scrolling graphics, three skill levels,
and supports eight different sound cards. Other features include game
save/restore options, joystick support, on-line hints, and much more.
Requires VGA, 560K RAM, and a 286 or better.

[GLACTA]
Galacta 1.1 (Puckett, Sean M.; $12) is a shoot-em-up space game like the
old Galactica arcade game. Features include great 256-color VGA graphics,
sound effects and joy stick support. Requires 286+ and 640K RAM.

[GALACTIX]
Galactix 1.3A (Cygnus Software; $15) is a deep space, shoot-em-up arcade
game with digitized sound, music soundtrack, and professional quality
graphics. The overall play of the game is pretty-much standard space
shoot-em-up, but with a couple of twists, and with beautiful graphics and
support for joystick, mouse, and a sound card for music and sound effects.

[GVT203]
Graviton 2.03 (Daniel A. Sill; $10) is an excellent simulated vector
graphics space game. You fly into a solar system and if you can get past
enemy ships and if you don't let gravity pull you into the sun, then you go
to each of the planets. On the planets, you must destroy gun turrets and
take on fuel while watching out for sky mines that will come after you. You
also have to maneuver your ship to avoid crashing. This is a very
challenging game. EGA/VGA required.

[HORUS]
Eye of Horus 1.5 (JMS Enterprises; $10) Aliens from a distant dimension are
threatening the Earth. In this shoot-em-up style game, you must blast away
at your enemies before they get close enough to shoot at you. You only get
one shot at each alien, and there are pesky Sweeper ships at higher levels
that can block your shots. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse.

[JUMPJET]
JumpJet (Montsoft; $15) is a fighter plane shoot'em down type of arcade
game where the you can test your shooting skills. You must complete
specific missions described before each play that progress in difficulty.
Graphics are very good and smooth. Support is specifically provided for
CGA, high and low resolution EGA, and Hercules. If you have an Ad Lib
compatible sound card, the program will use it for sound effects. This is a
must-have for arcade game lovers.

[KILOBLST]
Kiloblaster 1: Death of a Starship (Epic MegaGames ASP; $30) is a
fantastic, arcade quality shoot-em-up space game. It features 30 levels of
non-stop action, SoundBlaster compatible music and sound effects, beautiful
ray-traced graphic backgrounds, joystick support, and much more. As the
Captain of the Starship Kiloprise you must stop an enemy horde from
conquering the Earth. As you blast away at the unending avalanche of
aliens, you can gather fruit and other objects that increase your
firepower. Requires 512K, EGA/VGA, and 286+. (This apparently will NOT work
with the disk compression utility STACKER.)

[NOVA]
Nova Strike 2.1 (Nova Strike Software; $8) is a space flight simulation
combat game. You must develop the flying and fighting skills and strategies
necessary to destroy all the enemy ships. Requires a 286 or better, VGA and
a mouse.

[OVERKILL]
Overkill 1.2 (Tech Noir; $30) is an excellent arcade space game with
superior VGA graphics. You must stop the advance of a powerful alien armada
that has overrun the planets of a nearby solar system. As you approach
these strange planets, you are greeted with wave after wave of weird and
wonderful creatures. After the destruction of some of these enemies you are
rewarded with new weapons and fuel. Other features include joystick
support, Sound Blaster music and sound effects, three difficulty levels,
CGA support, and much more.

[Phylox]
Phylox (Beavis-Soft; 25 pounds Sterling) Strap on your jetpack and track
down the mutated insects that are threatening the existance of the human
race. Using your laser rifle and grenades, you must enter the breeding
caverns of these nightmarish bugs and destroy everything that moves. Phylox
has excellent VGA graphics and SoundBlaster compatible sound effects.
Requires a 286/12 or better machine, a hard disk, and 640K.

[SHOOTING]
Shooting Gallery (Anderson, Nels, ASP; $10) is a terrific arcade shooting
game with several different challenges. The shooting gallery would be good
enough by itself, with its many different targets whizzing by, but there is
also a skeet shoot and a quick-draw contest that should you turn you into
the Fastest Mouse in the West. Get past those, and you face a shoot-out
with the bad guys, but don't shoot any innocent bystanders! VGA and a mouse
are required.

[SPACEKL]
SpaceKill I (Neurosport; $15) is a space battle game in which you must
maneuver through asteroids and mine fields, defend your docking station as
well as your ship, and fight the enemies ships. EGA/VGA required.

[STARDEF]
Star Defense (Forben Software Engineering; $15) is an arcade game with
high-quality digitized voice and sound effects that play through the PC's
speaker. The object is to protect your missile silos from enemy bombs.
There are five levels of action, each a bit more difficult than the last.
Requires 286 or 386 with EGA or VGA.

[STARFIRE]
Starfire 1.4 (Silver Lightening Software; $20) is an action-packed
shoot-em-up space game. An invasion fleet is headed towards the Earth. You
must blast away at the enemy while avoiding the fire and smart weapons of
the mother ship and its fighters. As you fly close to the huge mother ship,
you must also avoid running into objects jutting out from it. Other
features include keyboard/mouse/joystick input, and sound card support for
music and sound effects. Requires 256-color VGA for the great hi-res
graphics, and a 286 or faster CPU.

[STRYKER]
Major Stryker 1.4 (Apogee Software; $34) is a shoot-em-up space combat
game. You pilot a high-powered space ship through space stations, lava
caves and alien cities. Features include triple-parallax scrolling, EGA/VGA
highspeed animated graphics, Ad Lib and Sound Blaster support, cinematic
sequences, joystick support, a demo mode, and the ability to save/restore
up to 10 games.

[WOLFENST]
Wolfenstein 3D 1.4 (Apogee Software; $39) as Capt. B.J. Blazakowicz on a
reconnaissance mission, you must try to infiltrate a Nazi fortress.
Captured and awaiting execution you try to escape the prison in which you
are held and get the plans to the Allies before they suffer a major defeat.
As with all Apogee games, you get beautiful, full-color, smoothly scrolling
animated graphics, sound/music card support, mouse and joystick and Gravis
game pad support, and all the other professional touches.

[XERIX]
Xerix 1.3 (Reville, Brendan; $0) is a futuristic shoot-em-up game with
great graphics and sounds. You guide a space ship through a strange new
world and destroy or avoid enemy obstacles. It supports VGA/MCGA graphics,
Adlib and Sound Blaster sound cards, expanded and extended memory, and a
mouse or joystick. Requires 500K free disk space.

[XLAGIT]
Xlagit (Tangtrakul, Atakorn; $5) is a shoot-em-up action game in which
international flags are dropped randomly from the top of the screen, and
you must destroy ONLY the Iraqi flag. The more points you amass, the faster
the action gets. If Sadamm's smiling face appears you can blow him away for
extra points. This game requires a mouse, and has excellent EGA/VGA
graphics, but also supports CGA.


-----Falling Block Games

These games are often referred to as "Tetris" type games, but Tetris was
not the first game of this type (see "Beyond Columns"), so we call them
"Falling Block Games".

[BEYOND]
Beyond Columns 1.1 (Taylor, Brad P.; $0) "...is like Tetris, only
different." That's what our write-up of this program would have been before
reading the background given by the author, who says: "The original Columns
game was invented for the X window system by Jay Geertsen of HP" before
Tetris came along. In this game, you control columns as they move down the
screen, much like with Tetris. However, each column is composed of three
different blocks and you make the columns dissolve by getting three blocks
of the same color or design (your choice of several block designs is given)
in a row, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. To further complicate
things, you can rearrange the blocks within the columns so that, for
example, if a column on the bottom has two green blocks on top and the
falling column has a green block in the middle, say, you can rotate the
middle green block to the bottom of the column so that when it lands on the
column with the two green blocks, there will be three green blocks in a
row, causing them to dissolve. In our opinion, this program is a lot more
difficult than Tetris. The Easy level drove us to a nervous breakdown. The
bad news: it is for VGA or MVGA only, and it appears that you have to
reboot to get out of the program.

[BRIX_EM]
Brix I (Epic MegaGames ASP; $34) is a falling-block game with a lot of
features: lasers, elevators, lava, anti-gravity, and more. There are 112
levels to challenge you. The game features superb VGA graphics and
animation, Sound Blaster music and digital sound. Requires VGA, 286 or
better, 512K RAM, and a hard disk.

[BRIX]
Brix 2.0 (Dlugosz Software; $5) is an impressive falling-block game. As you
progress to higher levels, the game speed increases, the playing field
becomes smaller, and the puzzle shapes become more complicated. Other
features include solo play or head-to-head competition, four difficulty
levels ranging from easy to impossible, and more. A sliding tile puzzle
game is also included. EGA/VGA required.

[COLORJB]
Colors 1.1 (BONCZYK, JIM; $?) has many new strategies. Requires VGA.

[CUBER]
Cuber 2.0 (Soleau, William; $12) is a challenging variation of the falling
block game.

[DBLOCK]
Double Blocks (Yale, Ernest Yale; $5) is a falling block game for one or
two players. The program is well designed, colorful, and has good sound
effects which can be turned off. Because it uses ASCII characters for
graphics, it will work with any type of video. (The author can no longer be
reached at the address listed in the documentation.)

[DOUBLNK]
Double Link (Tupaczewski, Paul; $15) is a very addictive falling-block
game. An oblong shape, which is actually two round units linked together,
is dropped down the chute. Sometimes they are the same color, but often
they are not. When four units of the same color are aligned together
vertically or horizontally, they disappear and the other units in the links
are left behind. If a unit left behind was being held aloft by its partner,
it drops when the partner is removed. This can set up a chain reaction as a
unit drops to form a group with three matching units below it. Each level
starts with more and more Meanies (units with faces) in the chute. Once all
of the Meanies are removed by grouping matching colors with them, the level
is over.

[EGAINT]
EgaInt 0.94.12 (Ng, Eric; $0) is a falling block game. Several options are
available such as a tournament mode, your choice of control keys and block
styles, and eleven levels of play. Requires EGA/VGA.

[MULTIX]
Multix (Blackstone Software; $10) is an interesting and challenging
falling-block game. The falling pieces are very irregularly shaped, so
placing them is very challenging. You can "crunch" a portion on the piece
to make it fit better, but this will subtract from your score. Requires
EGA.

[NYET]
Tommy's Nyet 04.29.90 (Tommy's Toys; $?) is a basic falling-block game.

[NYET3]
Nyet III [PROLINE Software; $40] is a super falling-block type game with
many innovative features. There are many different variations of the game,
such as one in which blocks that have already come down partially melt away
and the next in which appendages suddenly appear. You have to win "money"
on the lower levels with which to buy tools for taking on the higher
levels. The program features great graphics, sounds, and opening animation.
Requires VGA, hard disk, 286+.

[ROPO]
Rodeo Poker 1.0 (Herring, Steve; $8) is a western-style falling-block game.
Instead of falling blocks, this game uses playing cards that drop down four
chutes for you arrange into groups of five to make winning poker hands. You
can jump a card from one chute to another. The better the hand the bigger
the score.

[STT]
Shift Tac Toe (Hanchin, Len; $10) is a falling block type game in which you
must shift the colors of three vertical blocks as they fall so that they
will match up with other blocks of the same color. It starts off easy, but
the action gets faster, the longer you go.

[TEAMTRS]
Teamtris (Cinetic Systems; $0) is a falling-block game that lets you play
against a human opponent, as well as playing solo. You can choose between
two board sizes. VGA required.

[TEXTRIS]
Textris 2.0 (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $12) is a falling-block game that makes
you spell words as the letterblocks fall. If you like Tetris type games and
you like word games, we guarantee that you will love Textris. Words can be
made horizontally or vertically and must be from 3-7 letters long. When the
letterblocks form a word, they are highlighted for a moment and then
removed. The blocks above those being removed move down a row and if any
new words are formed as a result, they are removed too. Points are awarded
according to the difficulty of the words spelled. A game like this requires
a good dictionary built in for determining when a word has been spelled. If
it has a poor or limited dictionary, you will be frustrated by its
rejecting words that you know are good. We were very satisfied with
Textris' dictionary. Requires EGA/VGA.

[TOWERS]
Towers (Cascoly Software ASP; $24) The object is to build a tower one level
at a time with falling blocks of various sizes. You need quick reflexes to
be able to fit the blocks in the tightest pattern. There are detailed 3-D
perspective graphics that change as you scroll the screen. Requires EGA/VGA
and a mouse.

[VALGUS]
Valgus Squared (Glenn, James R. Jr.; $10) is a falling-block game with
pieces moving in from all four sides. The object is to complete squares
around the block in the middle. Since you never know what direction the
next piece will be coming from, you do not have long to react, making this
a very challenging game.

[XTETRIS]
xTetris 2.0 (Singer, Daniel; $0) is a falling-block game which includes
triangular shapes as well as rectangles.

[XXIV]
XXIV (Ambachtsheer, Mark; $10) is a falling-block type math game. Sets of
three numbers fall and the object is to get numbers to multiply together to
equal 24, horizontally or vertically. Three levels of difficulty keep you
on your toes.


-----Street Fighting Games:

[HORROR]
EndLess Horror (JMS Enterprises; $10) is a parody of the Street Fighter
arcade type game. All the ozone has burned up and you must fight off the
evil Froggers.

[EXECUTE]
Executioners (Bloodlust Software; $35) is an intense fighting game for 1 or
2 players. It features a total of eight fighting moves, and machine guns,
and a variety of strange super-villians. It also features music and
digitized sounds effects. Requires VGA and 386+ with at least 1 meg of
expanded memory.

[KUNGFU]
Kung Fu Louie (Salgado, R.; $30) is an arcade game in which you, as Kung Fu
Louie, must fight the "evil" martial artists. This is a MAJOR programming
effort covering three disks. The documentation lists a dozen people as
co-authors. The program requires a 286 or 386 computer with EGA compatible
video to keep the realistic karate graphics moving smoothly and quickly.
The AdLib music card is supported, but if you don't have one, you will
still get a musical soundtrack on the PC's speaker. A couple of the authors
are karate students, and it shows in the graphics and play of the game. A
front punch does the least damage, but can be thrown the fastest. A back
spinning hook kick to the head is the most damaging blow, but is so slow it
is easily avoided or countered by a faster technique. Two other techniques,
a front snapkick to the body and a roundhouse kick to the head, do medium
damage at medium speed. There are four different scenes, and you have to
defeat several "bad guys" at each location, and of course, the competition
keeps getting tougher. The scenery is very impressive.


-----Artillery, Tank & Missile Games:

[BATALIA]
Batalia is a two-player game in which you and your opponent each have a
space ship and the object is to be the first to shoot the other a total of
ten times. Barriers, etc, are placed on the screen for you to hide behind
and maneuver around. The screen changes after each hit.

[BOMBAWA]
BombAway 1.2 (Delaroderie, Rad; $10) combines two popular programs EGABomb
and VGABomb. It is a high-resolution, mouse-supported (not required)
graphics game in which two players fire artillery shells at each other
under a moonlit star-filled night sky. EGA/VGA required.

[GROUNDWR]
Ground War (Enque Software; $10) is a two-player multi-tank game, that
involves both hand-eye coordination and strategy. One player takes the
position of the Allies, while the other takes the position of the Iraqis in
controlling eight tanks each around ammo dumps, fuel tanks, bunkers and
mine fields. Requires EGA/VGA.

[GRAVWAR]
Gravity Wars (Ismail-Beigi, Sohrab; $0) is an interesting variation of the
old two-player, tank aim-and-shoot type game. Instead of tanks, you have
space ships, and the gravity of nearby planets and stars affect your shots.
For each game, you can toggle through randomly drawn star systems to find
one that looks particularly interesting and challenging. VGA required.

[HAVOC]
Electron Havoc 1.1 (Shramko, John; $10) lets you and an opponent take turns
firing at each other's space ships. You must adjust your firing speed and
ship location to allow for gravity pockets. Requires VGA and a mouse.

[NITEFIRE]
Nitefire is a two-player tank game. You take turns moving or shooting.
Before shooting, you can adjust the angle and velocity. The first one to
hit the other wins.

[PATRIOT]
Patriot 1.1.1 (Jaeger, Bruce; $0) is a tough VGA arcade game in which you
must guide Patriot missiles against Scud missiles. A mouse is required.

[SANDSTRM]
Sand Storm 2.1 (Johndrow, David A. ASP; $23) is a missile war game based on
Desert Storm. You must defend cities, oil wells and barracks from scuds and
jet attacks with your Patriot missiles. Then guide your Tomahawk missile
through anti-aircraft fire to knock out enemy weapons plants and mobile
scud launchers. The game includes 20 missions and a Gulf war map. Requires
EGA/VGA, mouse and 384K RAM.

[SCORCH]
Scorched Earth 1.2 (Hicken, Wendell; $10-$20) is a thrilling artillery game
for VGA. If features colorful graphics and allows up to 10 players. You can
use a mouse, joystick, or keyboard. One player can compete against
computerized players or mix computerized and human players.

[SCUDATK]
Scud Atak2 (Peterson, David Lee; $5) is a missile-attack type game.
Features include excellent VGA graphics, a synthesizer music soundtrack and
digitized sound effects and speech (with sound cards), and joystick and
mouse support. With multiple missiles and aircraft, this is a very
challenging and enjoyable game.

[STORM1]
Space Chase I: City Under Siege (Safari Software Productions; $19-$34)
Jason Storm battles the forces of evil for control of a vast city. Features
10 levels of play, excellent EGA/VGA graphics, and original Adlib/SB music
tracks. Requires 286-16+, 530K RAM (580K and sound card for music), EGA/VGA
and 2MB of disk space.

[TANK]
Tank is a two-player tank game, or you can play the computer. Unlike
NiteFire, you don't take turns. Firing, adjustment of angle and velocity,
shields, movement, all take place constantly by both sides. Slow-down
required.

[TANKWARS]
Tank Wars (Morse, Kenny; $10) is not your typical aim-and-shoot tank game.
It looks like the old VGA-Bomb on the surface, but one major difference is
the variety of weapons from which to choose. Another interesting difference
is the choice of six opponent types, and the attackee has defensive
options. VGA is required, and a mouse is optional.

[TVBOMB]
TV Guided Bombs (VTS; $3-$13) is a game in which you must guide a camera
equipped bomb down the air shaft of the bunker.

[VGABOMB]
VGABomb 1.0 (Delaroderie, Rad; $5) is an artillery combat game.


-----Snake Type Games

[ASP]
ASP Attack Plus 2.0 (The Hodges Enterprise; $10) is patterned after the old
snake games which were among the first games available for the PC. In the
game, you guide the snake around gobbling up food as it appears. The snake
grows longer with each bite, however, and if you run into yourself or a
wall, it's off to snake heaven. What makes ASP different is that the better
you do, the more walls start sprouting up. If that isn't challenging
enough, you can choose to steer the snake with only left and right turns
from the snake's perspective, as opposed to using the four arrow keys which
always result in movement in the arrow's direction.

[EGASNAKE]
EGASnake 1.0 (Hulthin, Michael; $10) is an EGA version of the old Snake
game. It has realistic looking rats for the snake to eat, adjustable
speeds, and multiple board layouts.

[Reflex]
Reflex (3F Productions; $15) is a "snake" type game. The object is to move
your worm through many levels, collecting points by eating and avoiding
your enemies. Good graphics and color.

[SLITHER]
Slither (Jamison, Brian; $10) is a variation on the old classic Snake game.
You must try to eat rats and other cretures without running into the walls
or yourself. Features include two-player games, Sound Blaster support, and
more. You can also play against the computer.

[SNAKE]
Snake (Lorati, Roger; $5) is another variation of the old Snake game in
which you must guide the constantly growing snake around the screen to eat
the pellets without running into itself or other obstacles. There are a
couple of interesting twists to this one.

[SQUIRM]
Squirmer 1.30C (SQUIRM) (Parker, Stephen L.; $10) is a sophisticated
variation of the old Snake type game in which the ever-lengthening worm
must maneuver around to swallow stuff while avoiding running into things.
Transporters take you to different levels, and eating a clock gives you
more time. Eating dynamite sticks will cause part of the worm to explode,
making it easier to maneuver, but if the worm is not long enough, it may
all explode and you die.

[TROFF]
Troff (Soumarokov, N.; $10) is a game that combines the old "Snake" type
game with the old "Blockade/Tron" type game to come up with a tough new
challenge. You must race the computer's snake to get to the randomly
appearing "pellets", and at the same time try to make the computer's snake
run into your snake, a wall or itself while avoiding having the computer's
snake do the same to you. There are four levels of randomly moving walls.
Pascal source code is included. Requires a 286 machine, EGA and DOS 3.3+.
The game is well designed, challenging and fun to play. (The author is a 17
year-old Soviet citizen living in Vienna, Austria.)

[VENDETA]
Vendetta 1.0 (Elder, Steven; $10) The object of the game is to shoot the
bad guys that are hiding around town. You have to scroll the screen to see
the whole town, and you have to be fast to get the bad guys before they get
you. Requires 640K RAM, VGA, and a mouse.


-----Virtual Reality Games:

The following games were created by "virtual reality" game creation
programs. The graphics and play are not as good as arcade games written
with regular programming languages, but are worth a look.

[MODSS]
Menace of Dr. Spoil Sport (Leithauser, David; $5-$10) you need to get to
Dr. Spoil Sport's space station above the earth, disable the weapons before
he blasts the earth with a super laser, and avoid all the traps and robot
guards. VGA required.

[ZAPPER1, ZAPPER2]
Zapper in Neverwhere 1.0 (Acord Games; $20) In this 3-D, scrolling, virtual
reality type game, a freak lightening bolt draws you into an alternate
dimension inside your computer. The denizens of this strange universe offer
to help you return to Earth if you help them defeat their ancient enemies
the Zargons. The bizarre landscape is peopled with strange pyramid-shaped
beings who provide you with clues and teleport you to other areas in your
quest to escape. Features include SoundBlaster-compatible sound effects and
music. VGA required.

[ZAPPER4]
Zapper 4 Lost In Zapperstein (Acord Games; $20) is an action/arcade in
which you return to Neverwhere to save the Zargons from an evil ruler. The
Zargons are being held captive in Neverwhere's capital city of Zapperstein.
You must not only save the Zargons, but still escape safely from the
bizarre world inside the computer. Features scrolling screens and sound
effects.

[ZAPMAN]
Zapman 1 The Fantastic Zapman (Acord Games; $20) you must help free Zapman
from evil aliens. You run, jump and shoot your way to freedom through 20
levels of aliens and hazards. Features scrolling screens and sound effects.
Requires VGA and a hard disk.

[ZOOSE]
Zoose 1 - Zapped by the Light! (Acord Games; $20) You play the role of
superhero, Captain Zoose, who explores strange worlds and fights to save
humankind from space invaders. Features scrolling screens and sound
effects.

[CAPNZAPN]
Capn Zapn 1 Kozmik Journeys (Acord Games; $20) You are a space explorer who
journeys to other planets collecting treasures and fighting monsters.
Features 20 levels of bizarre worlds, animated adversaries, scrolling
screens and sound effects. Requires VGA and a hard disk.


-----Breakout Games

This should be considered a subset of "Classic Games", since Breakout games
were among the original arcade games -- not very far removed from the very
first arcade game, Pong.

[ARKEGA]
Ark (DeMers, Scott; $0) is a breakout game with an interesting feature -
the files that define the different playing screens can be edited with a
text editor, allowing you to easily create customized playing fields. You
could make a whole set of screens for special promotions or events, for
example, limited only by your imagination.

[BANANOI]
Bananoid (Rieder, William; $0) is the best breakout type game we have
ever seen on a PC. It requires VGA or MCGA, a mouse, and at least a 286-10.
The graphics are beautiful. One unusual feature is that the playing field
is two screens wide and scrolls smoothly as you move the mouse. Another
unusual feature (for a breakout game) is that every once in a while, one of
the colored blocks that you are breaking out falls down the screen and if
you catch it with the paddle, it changes the paddle (to narrower,
double-wide, or "sticky"), or it changes the paddle to a ship which can
fire laser blasts at the remaining blocks (while the ball is still bouncing
around, of course), or it advances you to the next screen. Which of these
happens depends on the color of the block.

[BREAKOU]
Breakout (Strausberg, Hal; $0) is a new version of the old Breakout type of
game. It requires an EGA or better.

[BRICK]
Brick (Bly, Vincent; $0) is a Break-Out type game.

[BROKOUT]
Brokeout 1.1 (Cox, Doug; $0) is a no-frills breakout game that requires a
mouse and VGA.

[DRAGNFW]
Dragon (Willshaw, F. A.; $?) is a game like Breakout, but with a lot of
twists.

[POPCORN]
PopCorn (Lacaze, M.; $0) is a fantastic breakout game with all kinds of
special effects. There are two problems: the documentation is in French,
and the game plays at a speed about ten times that of the surrounding
graphics. See the write-up of this program in the REVIEWS directory (GA_03)
for tips on running this program.

[SBLAST]
Moraff's Super Blast I (Moraff, Steve; $0) is an advanced breakout type
game. There are multiple screens with lots of surprises, including sticky
paddles, multi-balls, and much more. Some of the screens require a lot of
patience to master, but getting there is half the fun. Virtually all video
systems are supported, from CGA to Super-VGA. A joystick is supported on
AT's.


-----"Pipe" Games:

In these games, you have a limited amount of time to lay pipes (or paths,
etc.) which pop up in random configurations. The object is to lay the
longest continuous path possible.

[LAVACAP]
Lava Cap (Soleau, William; $15) is a variation of Soleau's popular Oilcap
game, but with many enhanced features. It seems much harder to us. If you
are not familiar with this type of game: the scenario is that a volcano is
getting ready to erupt, and you must lay pipes, which come in different
configurations, to direct the flow of lava. The longer the uninterrupted
path you are able to create, the higher your score. You must reach certain
point totals to continue to advance to each of the 20 levels. EGA/VGA and a
mouse are required.

[OILCAP]
OilCap (Soleau, William; $12) is similar to the game Pipe Dream. You must
place pipe links to contain the flow of oil before it reaches a dead end.
You can optionally speed up the flow of oil after you have placed all your
links down. EGA/VGA and a mouse are required.

[MAINBRK]
MainBreak 4.0 (Soleau, William; $?) - connect the water pipes.

[RUNOFF]
Runoff 2.0 (Soleau, William; $14) - 50 challenging levels. The game
requires EGA/VGA and a mouse.

[UPWALL]
Up the Wall (Soleau, William; $10)

[WALLPIPE]
Wall Pipe 1.0 (William Soleau; $12) is a sequel Oilcap (above). It pits you
against the clock as you try to keep water flowing from a well by creating
a series of pipe links to control its flow. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse.


-----Ropes & Ladders Games:

The mall aracade game "Donkey Kong" started the "ropes & ladders" type
arcade game. This section contains variations on the theme. Also see KONG
under Classics and JUMP_JOE under CGA games.

[ALDOEGA]
Aldo's Adventure (Ibach, David and Benjamin; $15) is a graphics game of the
ladders, ramps, hazards, and treasures variety. The graphics are all
professional quality. Requires a 286 machine and EGA/VGA.

[ALDO2]
Aldo Again (Ibach, David and Benjamin; $15) if you liked Aldo-EGA you'll
love Aldo Again. In this new game Aldo has more ramps, hazards and ladders
to climb and more treasures to gather. The Mad Maze is guaranteed to wipe
you out. EGA/VGA and 286 required.

[ALDO3]
Aldo Assault (Ibach, David and Benjamin; $15) is the sequel to Aldo's
Adventure and Aldo Again. Features include ramps, ladders, treasures and
hazards. It has new scenes, superb animation, and more. Requires EGA/VGA.

[DIADASH]
Diamond Dash (Fleming, David; $15) is a run-jump-ladder-climbing type game,
but instead of jumping over bad guys, you have to blast holes for them to
fall into so that you can walk over them. There are five levels of play.
EGA/VGA required.

[JETPK11A]
Jet Pack 1.1 [Software Creations, ASP; $20] is a climb-and-jump type game,
but with the twist that you also have a jet pack with which to fly around
while you collect treasures and avoid various deadly creatures.


-----Classics

The games in this subsection are versions of classic old arcade games. Some
(but not all) of these are older games which use only CGA graphics and
which may require a cpu slow-down utility. Others of these are new programs
with excellent VGA graphics.


[3_DEMON]
3-Demon (Price, John D. & Richardson, Rick; $10) is a PacMan-type game from
the perspective of PacMan for a really interesting twist on an old game.
You can also switch to an overhead view.

[ABM]
ABM (Clone Sales; $?) Defend cities against a missile attack. Slow-down
required.

[ASTRO]
Astro (Gangola, Dave; $?) is a good version of Asteroids, but it does not
run on a system with a 101-key keyboard.

[BEAST]
Beast (Baker, Dan; $20) You push blocks around the screen to try to trap
the baddies.

[BLORT]
BLORT! is a strange variant on SPACE INVADERS.

[CATCHEM]
CatchEm (Edson Software; $15) is similar to the old Atari arcade game,
Kaboom!. The object is to catch all the falling items. The type of item
changes with each "wave". It may be raining cats and dogs in one wave and
kitchen appliances in another. The changing graphics makes the game more
interesting than Kaboom!. It takes a long time to get up to a pace that is
really challenging, but we seem to recall that Kaboom! was the same way.
Requires VGA (with 256k), a mouse, and a 286 or faster.

[CD_MAN]
CD-Man (Creative Dimensions; $15) is a 3D animated PacMan-style game with
beautifully detailed screens. Features include 1-2 player support,
adjustable game speed, sound effects, and excellent graphics. Requires 512K
and VGA.

[CENTIPD]
Centiped is played like the famous arcade game Centipede.

[CHOPPER]
Chopper Commando 2.0 (Currie, Mark & Schindlbeck, T.J.; $?) Fly a
helicopter combat mission, bombing and shooting the enemy. There are three
levels of play, and all of them are tough, even the "wimp" level.

[CLONINV]
Clone Invader (Quiring, Gary; $20) is a clone of the old Space Invaders
arcade game. It has colorful graphics and can be configured for virtually
all cpu and video types.

[EGAROID]
EGA-roids 1.0c (Designer Software; $5) is a high-resolution asteroids game
for the EGA. The graphics are terrific, but we had trouble getting the feel
of the keys the program uses for different functions. We suspect that the
key selection was based on a standard keyboard rather than the 101-key
keyboard. EGA required. We have also included in this archive a patch (by
John Deurbrouck) that will increase the maximum number of ships from three
to thousands, so that you can get more practice. It will also create a new
EGAroid file that allows only one ship, for when you are ready to really
prove your skills.

[GFF]
Galactic Food Fight (Dondzila, John; $0) is an arcade game along the lines
of the old Defender type games. VGA is required. A cpu slow-down utility
may also be required.

[GOTCHA]
Gotcha 1.0 (Herring, Don; $0) is a variation of the game of Qixx. The
object is to lop off portions of the screen without being hit by the moving
lines. Requires VGA.

[HOPPER]
Hopper ($0) is like Frogger.

[INVADERS]
Invaders is like Space Invaders.

[JOUST]
Joust VGA (Sharpless, Dave; $10) is a well-done PC version of the popular
arcade game. The graphics are very good. CPU slow-down may be required.

[KAMAKAZ]
Kamakaze is an arcade game where the object is for you to kill all the
Wimps (the enemy) before they ram their ships into yours and destroy you.
This game is similar to the old Asteroids game.

[KONG]
Kong is similar to the arcade game Donkey Kong. The graphics are a little
on the crude side, but we still found the game to be challenging.

[MISSILE]
Missile Attack 3.0 (Soleau, William; $12) puts you in control of the city's
anti-missile battalion. True EGA and a mouse are required.

[PANGO]
Pango You attempt to clear bees in the field within one minute by squashing
them with blocks.

[PCFEND]
PC-Fender (Mealey, Bruce; $0) is an excellent implementation of the old
arcade game Defender. 286 & EGA or better required.

[PCMAN]
PCMan is an EGA rendition of the classic Pacman game. It requires at least
a 286 machine and EGA. It has ten levels of play, and many playing fields.

[QUBERT]
Qubert (Piazza, Bill; $?) The object is to make "Bert" jump from one tile
to another causing tiles to change color. After changing all tiles, you
move on to the next level.

[ROUND42]
Round42 is a space invaders game with 42 rounds of different aliens to zap.
This is definitely at the top of the heap of space invader type games. A
slow-down utility may be needed.

[SPACINV]
SpaceInv is an arcade "Space Invaders" type of game.

[XONIX]
Xonix is a simple game that is fun. Use the cursor keys to dart across the
box holding the bouncing "whatevers" without them hitting your path. As you
cross the box, you continue to reduce the size of the box until you move
onto the next screen.


-----CGA Arcade Games

These games are older ones which only use CGA, but which still are fun to
play.

[BRDBRAI]
BRDBrain try to make the bird fly down to the water and catch a fish
without drowning, getting hit by a wave, etc. Requires BASIC.

[BUMPMAZ]
BumpMaze 1.5 (Soleau, William; $15) is a combination of billiards and
pinball. See the Reviews files for additional comments and instructions.

[CREEPS]
Creeps 2.1 (Applegate, Bob; $10) Your ship has to navigate around a grid of
blocks in which the enemy is also moving around in force. The levels we
tried were not extremely challenging (the enemy never shoots back, for
example). So it is simply a matter of time before you mop up the enemy
forces.

[DUNJAX]
Dunjax 1.02 (Mather, Jeff and Niec, David; $5) Shoot and jump your way
through massive underground labryinths filled with hazardous traps and
relentless creatures. Good graphics and a challenging game. A cpu slowdown
may be required.

[FLIGHT]
Flightmare is a two-part arcade game. You are in a jet. First you fight
other jets, then you switch screens and must battle ground forces on
motorcycles. Good graphics.

[GALACTC]
Galactic Battle (Goble, Brian; $0) is a shoot-em-up arcade game for one
player. You must use your spaceship to fight off attacks by hordes of evil
aliens, destroying as many enemies as possible while enhancing the features
of your ship. The game features an infinite number of levels, each
consisting of 11 different waves of aliens. At the end of each level you
must do battle with the deadly Mother Ship, and each impending wave brings
on smarter and more powerful aliens.

[GTIXI]
Galactix I (Wright, Richard L.; $10) is an arcade game in which you must
find objects and solve puzzles while avoiding dangerous robots and guards.
This is a very tough game. Cpu slow-down may be required.

[GAPPER]
Gapper ($0) is a high-speed arcade type game. CPU slowdown utility needed.

[JUMPJOE]
Janitor Joe (Bales, Kevin; $0) is stranded in a space station with crazed
robots trying to kill him. You have to find his keys and escape. This is a
very well done "jumping and ladder" type of game.

[KILLBEE]
Killer Bees (Arcade Games; $0) is a manual-dexterity game in which you must
protect your man by shooting down killer bees. Requires a mouse.

[KILLER]
Killer is an arcade game in which you wipe out the killer bees.

[LANDER]
Lander See if you can set down your Lunar Lander safely on the ground. You
can use the rockets to look for a safe place to land, but don't run out of
fuel!

[LEM]
LEM requires you to try to land a lundar lander or the moon. BASICA or
GWBASIC required.

[MARS]
Monuments of Mars (Apogee Software; $12) is a "run, jump and shoot" type
game in which your mission is to save captured astronauts from a secret
underground city on Mars. There are 20 screens to conquer (we only got past
two!), with all sorts of tricky enemies and dastardly traps.

[METAPIN]
MetaPin is a pinball game. You select change the number of players with the
right shift key. Start the game by pressing the left shift key. Adjust the
starting shot force with the up and down cursor keys. Control the flippers
with the left and right shift keys. Cpu slow-down required.

[MOON]
Moon is an arcade game in which you try to keep the enemy from stealing
fuel while your ship is being refueled.

[NINJA]
Ninja (Kemmetmueller, Robert; $0) is a graphics, arcade-type game where you
fight the enemy ninjas by kicking, striking, ducking and jumping.

[NTRAID01]
Night Raid (Software Creations, ASP; $15) challenges you to shoot planes,
bombs, and paratroopers out of the sky. Although you can hold down the
trigger and blow away everything, missed shots lower your score and you
will soon run out of ammo.

[PIRATES]
Pirates (Wanta, Michael J.; $0) puts you in command of the pirate space
ship ROGUE II. Your mission is to plunder the galaxy, and avoid destruction
by the forces of good. You can visit planets, gamble in cosmic casinos,
dock with space stations, and generally wreck havoc on an otherwise
peaceful universe.

[PROTON]
Proton (Fencik, Mike; $0) is patterned after the life size game in which
two teams sneak around a room and try to zap each other with phasers.

[PYRAMID]
Pyramid is an arcade-type game where you move up and down the pyramid
trying to change the colors of all the blocks without getting hit by the
bad guys. System slow-down utility required.

[REBOUND]
Rebound is a combination of pool and pinball. You must hit the ball in the
hole within the time limit.

[RIMTRIX]
Rimtrix (Wright, Richard L.; $10) is an arcade puzzle game in which you
guide a ball through a series of tiles and into colored cups. The path of
the ball can be changed by rotating and moving the tiles. Slow-down utility
may be required.

[SSPIRAL]
Space Spirals (Anderson, Alan; $4) is an unusual space arcade game. You
have to protect a space station and an approaching star ship from attack.
Each swarm of attackers has new, more devious ships. The level of play can
be set from easy to hard and slow to fast, so it is suitable for most ages.

[SW_BS]
Spacewar (Seiler, Bill; $20) Destroy the other ship before it destroys you.
Use your Photon torpedoes or phasers to reduce its shield energy. A hit
with no shields will destroy the ship.

[TURBODR]
Turbo (Ross, Doug; $5) is a race car game. The goal is to get as far as
possible while crashing as few times as possible. You will be slowed down
by trucks and pokey cars, just like in real life, but when you pass them,
you have to watch out for the speeding convertible coming at you from the
other direction.

[WILF]
Wilf II 3.0 (Cluley, Graham; $17) you must guide the wibbling Wilf through
a series of mazes, while avoiding the evil Glumphs. Your mission is to
spread strawberry jam over the entire maze, and if you succeed, you are
given another maze to wander. You can fire pom-poms at the Glumphs, but
they always seem to come back. Beware the evil Frank, who gobbles up your
jam almost as quickly as you can spread it. The SoundBlaster compatible
sound effects included are hilarious.

[WILLY]
Willy is a jump-and-climb type of arcade game that is very well done.

[WIZZARD]
Wizzard is a pinball game.

[XAPTRON]
Xaptron (Rinzai Satori Production; $0) is your basic shoot-em-up game.
Requires a mouse and EGA/VGA. Nice graphics. It is a *very* tough game.

[XBALL]
X-Ball (Wright, Richard L.; $9) is a game where the object is to hit
matching pairs of tiles with a bouncing ball. This is a challenging game
that requires a lot of skill and concentration.

[XO]
XO is a spaceship shoot-em-up arcade game.


-----"B"-Level Games:

The games in this section are fun, but not of the same quality as the other
games in PsL, even though some feature sounds and EGA/VGA graphics.

[AV]
Arcade Volleyball is a cute, simple little game in which two little round
characters play volleyball by jumping and moving back and forth to hit the
ball. The ball bounces off the sides and top of the screen to give some
strange angles. This is a two-player game.

[CUBITS]
Cubits (Schaller, Brian; $20) requires you to quickly move all the cubits
to the next level by kicking, flipping or pushing them into the corner
probably need a slow-down utility.

[DRAGCIT]
DragCity 3.0 (Nikula, Richard; $10) is a drag racing program. You can
choose from six different sets of gears, or use automatic transmission. A
mouse is optional, and EGA is required. Multiple players can compete, top
10 times and speeds are saved, and accelerator sensitivity is adjustable.
While this has none of the action and extensive graphics of retail games
like Grand Prix Circuit, is still has some entertainment value.

[FANS]
Fans (Mettus Graphics; $0) is an arcade game of the shoot-em-up genre, but
with some strange twists to it. Fans has good graphics, for which EGA video
is required, but the play is a little weak, in our opinion.

[FLEES]
Space Flees (Independent Software Group, Inc.; $0) is an action arcade
game. EGA/VGA required. The key assignments assume an AT-style keyboard and
do not work well on a 101-key keyboard.

[MOTORMA]
Motor Mania (Hewitt, Eric; $11) is high speed motorbike game in which you
race through a series of jumps. This is similar to the arcade Excitebike.
On our system, the menu overwrote itself on one line, meaning that you had
to actually move the cursor one line past a choice to select it.

[PEARL]
Pearl (Dore, M. C.; $15) requires you to defend the ships in Pearl Harbor
from the incoming Japanese planes. Good graphics.

[STRIKER]
Striker (Williams, Derek; $10) requires you to navigate a helicopter
through enemy territory and complete five different missions. Various
obstacles, including five different kinds of aliens, gun turrets and
missiles, try to keep the player from completing his mission. CGA
compatible graphics required; joysticks are optional.


-----Other:

[AIRPUCK]
Airpuck 2.0 (Mandel, Bob; $10) is a 3-D version of air hockey similar to
Shufflepuck Cafe on the Mac. You play against an unusually good computer
opponent. A mouse is required, and the game appears to require EGA/VGA.

[BIGBOBS]
BigBobs (Sherwood Forest Software; $15) You must guide the waitress at Big
Bobs out to the parking lot in search of a shining star. When hungry dogs,
customers, or whatever approach, you must give them food or suffer the
consequences. Be careful of the customers who may take you for a spin that
you will not enjoy. Requires VGA and a hard drive.

[DINOHUNT]
DinoHunt [Sherwood Forest Software; $15] Help Nicky Neanderthal pursue
dinosaurs across the prehistoric landscape. Get them before they get you!
Requires VGA graphics and a hard drive.

[ENTRAP]
Moraff's Entrap 4.1 (Moraff, Steve; $0) is a multi-level 3D maze game. You
must travel around a suspended grid, trapping or avoiding pesky monsters.
The bad guys get smarter as you go along, and the going gets tough very
quickly. This game is compatible with any video from Hercules mono to Super
VGA. Mouse support is provided.

[GARBAGE]
Garbage 1.2 (Jarrett, Eric; $8) is an arcade game in which you try to throw
the trash into a can with the highest point-value. It involves both chance
and skill. Requires EGA/VGA.

[HELL]
Elevators from Hell 1.2 (JMS Enterprises; $10) You must escape from the
psychopathic robot guard in a deserted building. Before you can exit, you
must gather all the gems located on seven different floors. The elevator is
your only access to these floors, but the killer robot knows how to use the
elevators too. EGA/VGA is required.

[ICYMETL]
Icy Metal (Mandel, Bob; $10) provides three different simple but elegant
hand/eye coordination games. All three involve the use of a ball, and/or
funnel and donut-shaped objects. Game 1 (displayed) requires you to drop
the ball into the funnel while avoiding the floating donut that steals your
points away, Game 2 uses alternating funnels, and Game 3 requires you to
shoot the ball through two donuts. 256-color VGA display and a mouse are
required.

[KOOLAH]
Koolah (Teittinen, Marko; $0) is a computerized version of the wooden maze
game in which you turn knobs to roll a metal ball through a maze while
avoiding holes. In Koolah, the maze gets more difficult as you progress to
higher levels and a time limit keeps things moving.

[MADPAIN]
Mad Painter 1.0 (Elder, Steven; $10) The objective is to paint the center
line on all the streets in town with your painting truck, while avoiding
other maniacal drivers. An occasional cloud washes away a section of street
you have painted and the area must be repainted. When you've completely
painted the town, you advance a level and begin again. Requires 512K RAM
and EGA/VGA.

[MPINBALL]
Moraff's Pinball 5 (Moraff, Steve; $0) is a pinball game for EGA/VGA. It
supports VGA in its high-res, 640x480, 16-color mode. Unlike the old
pinball games that have been around for years, this one will run at the
correct speed on any CPU, from an 8088 to a 486. The playing field is well
designed and should keep your interest for many games.

[MUSTANG]
Mustang 3.0 (Schmitt, John; $12) you fly a WWII Mustang through an
increasingly difficult array of evil enemy fighter planes and larger enemy
bombers. Throughout the never ending mission, the Mustang can augment its
arsenal by picking up special gifts that float down the screen. EGA/VGA
required.

[POOLSHRK]
Pool Shark 1.1 (Eduline Software Productions; $6-$12) is a 3-D pool
game with nice graphics and interface. The "shareware" version comes with
five balls. Mouse, VGA/EGA required.

[PROTEC]
Protec Pinball 1.06 [Lottermoser, Wilfried; 35 German Marks] is an
excellent pinball game. The action was a little too fast on a 486-66, but
was still playable.

[RACE]
Race (Erikson, Carl; $5-$15) is a game of miniature car racing. The cars
can accelerate, decelerate, or turn through the race courses while many
obstacles block their progress including walls, slopes, gates, tornadoes,
and gas slicks. The more tracks a car successfully completes, the better
the car becomes in areas such as acceleration, speed, traction, and
helicopter speed. Also, Race! lets the user design his own race tracks on
which the cars compete. CGA compatible video is required and an EGA version
is provided. The game is fun and challenging.

[RAMPCUB]
Rampcube 1.0 (Soleau, William; $12) calls for a good eye and fast reflexes.
This is another challenging, high-quality game from Soleau. You have to
catch colored tiles as they slide off of a ramp and arrange them into cubes
in the grid below. If you do not catch one in time, it will fall into the
slot below it, probably messing up your cubes. EGA/VGA required.

[SFLY]
SuperFly 2.0 (Anderson, Nels ASP; $17-$19) Armed only with a fly swatter,
you must swat flies, roaches and spiders while avoiding being trapped by
them. The goal is to swat the Super Fly itself, and each round presents
different obstacles that make it increasingly difficult to end the insect
menace. EGA or VGA required.

[SNARF]
Snarf 2.02 (Kaser, Everett; $10) is an arcade game similar to the
commercial arcade game, Tutankham. It is a very challenging game with fast
action and excellent EGA/VGA graphics. You can create your own levels with
a special editing function. This rivals many commercial games and is a lot
of fun!

[SHARKS]
Sharks (Alive Software; $20) is a professional quality arcade game in which
you, as a scuba diver collecting marine samples, must evade and fight off
sharks while you go about your work. This version supports all video types.
Also see VGASHRK.

[VGASHRK]
VGA Sharks (Alive Software; $20) is a professional quality arcade game in
which you, as a scuba diver collecting marine samples, must evade and fight
off sharks while you go about your work. This VGA version takes full
advantage of the detail and color shadings that VGA offers. See SHARKS for
other video types.