Classic Trainer is a business simulator that allows you to own five horses and race them over various seasons with the aim to win The Derby at the end of each season. Each season lasts 20 weeks, with the choice of three races in a meeting every week if you choose to race a horse. You start the game with £5000 and before a meeting you have various options for your horses and yourself, which cost you money. Give your horses a workout, treat their injuries, get a loan and retain a jockey. Once you are happy with your selections, you are then shown your horses and their fitness, class and race stats. You also have the option to sell a horse.
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0 is a flight simulator game. Follow Yeager's cursor, instrument settings and instructions on a couple of landings and you'll set her down right every time. Hug the ground at 50 feet, pull 8 G's around the pylon and streak full-throttle for home. Screaming toward earth at supersonic speed, you're a breath away from drilling a hole. In test piloting, the real hero is the one who survives.
ou control whether the head shall bump left or right, and how far up it will bounce, in a similar fashion to Mappy. You have to move across a series of bouncy platforms and pick up all items on the screen. Once all items are collected, the exit will appear so that you can go on to the next screen.
While most platforms are perfectly harmless, some have additional qualities, such as being destructible, thereby granting access to other parts of the screen. Some platforms are on fire, which will turn out lethal unless you have picked up a water droplet in advance.
Bumpy was remade for 16-bit platforms as Pop-Up, and then ported back once more to the Amstrad CPC.
If you liked the Arkanoid game, this program will blow your mind.
Fast-paced action! 30 screens with amazing scenery!
... and at the end, will you get there?
Aliens are attacking Icarus Earth Defence Base and within a hour and a half will occupy it, bringing bad news for the occupants of our planet. The solution is to send a android installed with the Oriental Disciplines of the East and destroy all the aliens over five levels to save Earth. You play the role of Bionic Ninja and you must use various martial arts as well as shruiken's and swords, to destroy or avoid the various occupants of the base. You are able to switch between any of the three attacking options by pressing the space bar at any time. If you are touched or shot by any of the enemy then you lose part of a power bar and if it empties then you lose one of five lives but extra power can be collected on the way. Each level is split into two sections and they must be completed within a time limit or it is game over.
Balloon Buster is a 1-player arcade game for multiple systems.
Buster the Clown throws a ball up into the air on a stage to burst all the balloons, and they must be burst in the exact order of red, green, yellow, and blue. Buster can jump left and right, change direction, and throw the ball up in the air. How high the ball is thrown depends on how long the throw button is held.
If two balloons are destroyed in one throw, or the balloons are burst in the wrong order, the player loses a life. The player has a limited amount of time to destroy all balloons on the screen. The player starts with a total of three lives.
If The A-Team looks familiar it's because it is little more than a graphic hack of another unreleased Atari game called Saboteur. At one point it was thought these games were the same except for the graphics, but after analyzing them I've found some slight gameplay differences. On this page I'll concentrate on the differences between Saboteur and The A-Team, for more information on the gameplay itself look at the Saboteur page.
It's unknown why Atari decided to change Saboteur into The A-Team, but we assume it's because they wanted a game based on the then popular A-Team TV show and didn't want to wait for a new game to be developed. At that point Saboteur was ready for release and Atari decided that they would attempt to integrate A-Team characters into a game that was already finished. The results are interesting at best, confusing to say the least.
This tennis simulation uses a top-down scrolling perspective. You are not in control of the player's motion, but once he gets close to the ball, shot selection is down to you. Standard shots plus topspin, lobs and stop volleys are available, by pushing the joystick in the right direction as you aim the shot.
The game supports up to 16 players in singles matches on a variety of court surfaces. It includes all of the major world tournaments - the four Grand Slam events at Melbourne, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and New York, plus the Davis Cup and Masters events. An early attempt at TV-style coverage is offered.
MechWarrior is the first video game released in the BattleTech game series. MechWarrior was the first video game to offer the player a chance to pilot a BattleMech from the view of a pilot (a MechWarrior). With this game the player has a great deal of freedom when compared to many of the follow-up MechWarrior games, which include choosing missions, buying & selling 'Mechs and parts, hiring lance-mates, and traveling throughout the Inner Sphere. Underneath the major game mechanics, the player had the option of following a role playing style story arc that would unfold over a five-year (game time) period.