In Marksman Shooting, you shoot red spots on a several number of targets in order to score points before they disappear. Try to shoot at least ten targets, otherwise your qualification score may be low. If you beat the qualification score, you proceed to the next round. Otherwise, the game ends.
Super Maruo is an unlicensed game released in Japan in 1986. Although very rare, this game is the first unlicensed Famicom game and the first unlicensed adult Famicom game as well. Despite the name, it has no relation to Mario at all.
Super Soccer is a soccer simulation developed for the Spectrum 48/128 by Imagine Software in 1986. It was also later released by Ocean Software as a free game with Crash Magazine.
Control is either with joystick or keyboard. gameplay is either single player against computer teams, or up to 8 players in a turn-based multiplayer mode.
Games last about 5 minutes, and a timer counts this down, but stops to wait for penalties, free kicks, half-time, etc.
The player controls one team member at a time, and this player is shown by a halo above their head. If this player moves away from the ball too far or for too long, control is switched to the next nearest player on the football field. Players with highest score at the end win the match.
In a different twist for adventures you play a Goblin called Gonj who used to be friends with the Humans but now hides away underground in your home to stop yourself from being killed. Your problem is that your pantry is nearly empty again so you must go up to the surface into the castle above and steal food. This then begins various adventures and quests.
Trollbound is a graphic text adventure where you see a picture of your surroundings and text to describe them. You type in commands to control your hero.
Following a familiar theme, an evil power rises when an undead wizard once banished to the mountains of Mortran returns to terrorise the villagers of a small village in the fantasy land of Hapshal.
The followers of the undead wizard Trantoss have been gathering the shattered pieces of the golden mace that once gave him his powers and the player takes control of two brothers, the strong woodcutter Lobo and the stealthy rogue Scarn whose mission is to thwart their evil plot.
Legend has it that deep in a mountain in the land of Meridan lies a Guardian who is believed to be eternal and would provide help to the people in their darkest need. The Guardian is needed now as Silvian have invaded Meridan once again, destroying everything and killing people with new and strange weapons. You have decided to test the legend of the Guardian by exploring the lands ahead to find the mountain that contains the Guardian. You start your quest waking from unconsciousness in your destroyed room.
Pilgrim is a text adventure where text on screen describes your location and you type in commands with the keyboard to control your hero and interact with each location.
You find yourself lying on a raft floating in the middle of the sea with no land or anything in sight after you had to abandon ship with the rest of the crew into shark infested waters. Your aim in this three part text adventure is to get yourself back home as you face various challenges and quests, as well as face many monsters and creatures on your travels. Each location is described by text and you type in with the keyboard, commands to control your hero and interact with the locations. Each time a character speaks to you, you can hear it with digitized speech.
When the very first Macintosh computer came out (128K RAM, 400k floppy) in 1984, my brother Randy Wilson wrote a video game called originally "Gravity Well" internally, and eventually "Continuum" when it was released (when released it was unable to run on the 128K Mac, instead it required the very next upgraded model of 512K).
Math Rabbit is a 1986 video game that serves as a spin-off to the Reader Rabbit edutainment series. It was made by The Learning Company for DOS and Apple II. A Deluxe version was released in 1993 for DOS, Macintosh, and Windows 3.x. Then in 1997, the game was remade for Windows and Macintosh under the title "Reader Rabbit's Math 1". The final remake for Windows and Macintosh in 1998 was titled "Reader Rabbit's Math Ages 4-6", with a personalized version released in 1999.
During the prohibition crime prospers in Chicago. Every shop owner lives in fear of raids or blackmailing. Bank and mail robberies are more and more common. Everybody can buy fire arms, the corrupt police is no help at all. In this scenario, up to four criminals who have recently been released from prison fight for the domination of Gangland. The way to the Mafia Throne is long and hard. At the beginning, you are a nobody whom not even the shop owners take seriously. You have to do quite a few nasty odd jobs before you can even afford a car or a gun, let alone a flat and your own little gang.
While the game itself mainly consists of PETSCI graphics, created with a modified charset, there are many comic-like multi colour images for the single buildings and events. The sound is not really worth mentioning, besides some FX and jingles there isn't any.
Pub games is a themed compilation of seven games that have been popular in public houses (drinking establishments) in the United Kingdom for decades. This package is aimed at young teens with the inlay card containing words like 'Here's your chance to find out what it's like in those smoke-filled haunts of adulthood'. All the games are two player games of the 'hot seat' variety - with the exception of Table Football where both players have their own action keys The games can be played either as a 'Full Pub Games Run' - which takes the player(s) through all the games and will take around two hours to complete, or a practice mode which allows the player(s) to select and games in any order.
Scoring in each game is self explanatory but in the 'Full Pub Games Run' players win £1 per game so the winner at the end of the run is the one with the most money.
The games are split on both sides of the cassette Side 1 - Menu, Darts, Bar Billiards, and Dominoes Side 2 - Table Football, Pontoon, Poker, and Skittles
Dig Dug is a 1-2 player arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth. Stopping you from doing this are two monsters, called Pooka and Fygar, who will continually chase you around. The only weapon that you carry is an air pump, which you can use to inflate the monsters to the point where they explode. (if you start to inflate them but stop doing so, the monsters will get turned back to their normal selves). Furthermore, rocks are scattered throughout the earth, and you can use these rocks to squash them. If the monsters do not find you for several seconds, they will eventually get turned into ghosts, which can walk through the earth. They are invincible and cannot be killed. From time to time, vegetables will appear in the center, and you can get these for points.
Avenida Paulista is a text-based adventure about a witch who kidnaps the brain of the director of the São Paulo Museum of Art and threatens to turn him into a goat.