Blobbo is a strategy game for the PC made in 1984 by Continental Software. In the game, Blobbo, needs to finish cleaning his incredibly messy room by picking up all the toy chests and avoiding the different obstacles along the way.
Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer is a humorous, inventory-based point and click adventure game. By right-clicking on a hotspot a context-sensitive action interface pops up, showing the relevant actions. The game is a full talkie with captions, music and sound effects. It features a progressive traveling map, which allows to visit new locations after having solved various puzzles.
As a penniless music-video producer stranded in a bizarre alien dimension, your job is to videotape as many things as you can and, using your Personal Media Tower's built-in video/audio editing station, sell rock videos to the producers back on Earth.
2005 A.D. A deadly virus has infected the Supertank's ultrasophisticated computer systems, turning these mighty weapons of destruction against their creators. Humankind is on the brink of extinction. Free the battle zones from this robotic plague!
Pack your bags, have the neighbors collect your mail, and take a working vacation in the rainforests of SimIsle. Build tourist hotels, exploit natural resources and develop industry in a land of beauty and danger. Can you become wealthy and keep native populations, tourists, and industry leaders happy? Or will your actions destroy the delicate balance of a fragile ecosystem?
In this prequel to Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity, you play Infinity's mentor on his quest of hatred in which murder is the ultimate goal.
Infinity has been jealous of his brother, the Good King Garamond, for as long as he can remember, and all for a twist of fate. Infinity had been born too late to be king.
Set in the mystical castle of Valhalla, you encounter a horde of brain melting puzzles through four vast levels of dazzling graphics and exceptional gameplay in which the art of communication is the name of the game.
Use the joystick button to bring up a series of icon that let you access a map of the level, or to look at, pick up, operate, or move objects. The disk icon that is among them allows you to save, load, or restart a game. Some of these icons are available when you choose to use an inventory object on something on the screen.
There are two bars on either side of the screen. One bar is your stamina. Whenever you stand on a hazard, your stamina decreases. When you have no stamina left, y
Turbo Trax is a top-down racing game. The main game mode involves competing against five other competitors across a variety of different surfaced tracks such as dirt, racing circuit, ice and city. Each track has hazards such as oil slicks that will slow cars down, and turbo booster icons that will speed the car up when it's driven over. The player can collect money that is scattered around the tracks in order to buy tuned parts for their car. Before each race the car's setup can be adjusted for the conditions.
Sensible Golf is a 2D golf simulation.
Having been quite successful with their cute action soccer game Sensible Soccer, Sensible Software decided that the concept of "No fuss, just fun" could be applied to other sports, too. They chose golf.
Sensible Golf is not an accurate simulation of golf, but an action adaptation of the sport streamlined for quick and easy gameplay. Consequently, complications such as wind and terrain heights are not featured, although the green has little arrows indicating the slopes. Apart from that, the player's only concerns are the water and sand hazards, and the distance to the hole. As a result, Sensible Golf is instead a practice in target shooting, rather than a golf game.
Striking involves only two action: Aiming the pointer in the desired direction, and pressing the action button three times. The game uses the well-known three-click-control, with which you set power and swerve of the strike. The computer automatically suggests a proper club, but the player may change it man
In one-player mode there are 34 levels, accessed via passwords, 3 lives, and lots of powerup weapons. If one player completes the level, both advance to the next one (like Lotus 2, funnily enough. I guess I ought to think of a similarity to Lotus 3, just to complete the set). There's also the standard Death Match mode.
In Shivers, an adventure puzzle game designed by Marcia Bales, the player takes a dare from friends to spend a night in professor Windlenot's "Museum of the Strange and Unusual". The museum had yet to be opened and has been abandoned and forgotten ever since the professor has mysteriously disappeared 15 years ago, along with 2 students who are suspected to have wandered inside the museum. A collection of ancient South American vessels, believed to contain evil spirits, are removed from their display, opened and scattered all around the museum, with the spirits lurking in every corner. It is your task to find all the matching vessel parts, and capture them again before they can entirely drain your life essence. However, the task becomes harder as the entire museum is covered with puzzles which need to be solved in order to proceed.
For thousands of years ancient catacombs beneath Alexandria have harbored a dreadful secret.
Here, the worshippers of dark gods concealed a scroll containing spells, to unleash their terrible masters upon the world. The scroll has survived. So has the cult who created it, and once again the time is right for the dark gods to return. When a greedy thief unearths it and the scroll falls into your hands, you are the only one standing between the world and its destruction.
But time is short, and others seek the scroll.
A PC adventure game focusing on Chinese history.
Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom is a Myst-like graphic adventure computer game developed by Learn Technologies Interactive published by Time Warner Interactive and released for MS-DOS, Windows, and Macintosh systems.
Hidden somewhere in the sands of time lies a chilling story of deception and betrayal...
Prepare for the game adventure of a lifetime as you once again assume the identity of Agent #5 of the Temporal Security Agency. Falsely accused of altering Earth history, you are forced to walk the shadows of time, unearthing clues and escaping mortal danger while seeking crucial evidence that could clear your name and reveal the true identity of the conspirators who've framed you! Buried in Time's 3 CD-ROMs contain hour-upon-hour of engrossing gameplay, breathtaking full-motion 3D settings, seamlessly integrated live-action video, challenging puzzles, and an incredible soundtrack.
Connections is a first-person adventure game based on the documentary television show hosted by James Burke. Players are thrust into a world where different eras of civilization have been mixed together, and must make the connections that will make sense of it.
The Big Red Adventure is a PC adventure game in which you once again are Doug Nuts, an international thief. This time you're off to steal the royal crown of the Russian Czars. In order to get it you'll of course need to perform different little tasks, that don't seem to have any connection with your main objective. Well, you finally get into the museum and can already taste the crown in your hand, when the real adventure begins.
1830 is a railroad game set in the northeastern United States and southern Canada. You assume the identity of a railroad “Baron” and act as “President” of one or more Railroad Corporations. Your goal is to earn money. Money is earned mainly through owning shares of stock in the eight Railroad Corporations. Stock shares make money in two ways-they can provide ready cash via dividend payments, and they can increase in value.
If you’re the single largest stockholder in a Railroad Corporation, you become its President and operate its railroad, ideally, but not necessarily, for the benefit of all stockholders. The game ends when either: 1. A Baron goes bankrupt; or 2. The Bank runs out of money. The winner is the wealthiest Baron at game end.