Spooky, a talkative ghost who lives in the attic of an all-American home, uses humor and games to teach kids how to type. Built-in intelligence enables him to continuously create new lessons based on your child's typing accuracy and speed. Starting with simple lessons that teach the location of the keys, your child will advance through exercises and games that challenge problem areas. Printable reports allow you to track progress.
Fly8 is a single player, wire frame flight simulator that, in the author's words "puts more emphasis on the dynamics than on the cosmetics". It written in 'C' and is a reworked and updated version of an earlier program from 1974 that was also called Fly8, that ran on a PDP-15.
Buubuu Mario (Buzzing Mario) is a common Mario arcade-ride hybrid game released only in Japan by Banpresto. Very little is known about it and can only be assumed through video playthroughs. The game is a combination kiddy ride/video game starring Mario and Yoshi. The player sits in front and must steer the car to avoid boulders in the road, while sculpture representations of Mario and Yoshi sit in back.
TFX (Tactical Fighter eXperiment) is a flight simulation where the player can fly with F-117A, Eurofighter 2000 or F-22 Superstar in various scenarios as a UN fighter pilot. Before the player begins his/her duty, there is a need to complete 10 training missions. Only then will the rest of the possible game modes be available. The game also contains a mission editor where the player can create his/her own missions in any of the chosen scenarios.
A fish and aquarium simulator, El-Fish lets your catch, breed, evolve, and even mutate tropical fish, then render them and let them loose in an aquarium that you design. Except for a few pre-canned graphics and animations, all fish, plants, and even backdrops and floor gravel in El-Fish are generated by the user using genetic algorithms that simulate real life in both appearance and movement.
This game allows the player to take control of an F-117A Stealth Fighter. The game is broken down into either an arcade or campaign mode.
In the arcade mode, the player can decide the number of enemy air and ground units, the environment, length of mission, and the difficulty level. This mode allows the player to hone their skills in order to prepare for the campaign mode.
The campaign mode is the main part of the game and contains 30 missions. The game includes nine theaters of combat such as training missions in the Nevada Desert, to the conflict in Panama, and also to the Gulf War. Each mission has a primary object that must be destroyed in order to advance to the next mission.
The most ambitious and far-reaching of Maxis’ Sim lineage, Sim Earth puts you in charge of an entire planet throughout its 10 billion year lifespan. Your ultimate task is to guide the planet’s inhabitants into the stars, from its humble single-celled roots.
The main threats you face include pollution, disease, famine, war and global warming. The controls available to you include the chance to move mountains and continents, creating different levels of species, and unleash tidal waves and earthquakes so as to reshape your planet. All of these things take from your limited energy, which must be replenished.
An entire planet becomes your laboratory in this large-scale simulation game. Players help foster new life and promote its evolution into life forms of higher intelligence. Guide civilization along the path of evolution until it can achieve Exodus, the ultimate goal of settling on another planet. The basic challenge of the game is to maintain a comfortable environment for the life forms by adjusting atmospheric and geological parameters. Small organisms called Prokaryote and Trichordate will grow and evolve into a multitude of life forms. Making a drastic change is a recipe for disaster.
Command a fearsome dreadnought and fight for control of the North and South Atlantic as either the German Imperial Fleet or the British Royal Navy during WW I. Fight a single mission, a campaign or the entire war while commanding 1 ship, a squadron of ships or the entire fleet. Experience night combat, torpedo attacks, salvos of exploding shells and burning ships. WW I naval combat comes to life with SVGA and VGA graphics, and with digitized video and sound effects. Over 100 missions to play.
A320 Airbus: Edition USA is the successor to A320 Airbus which focuses on a realistic simulation of flying. The main difference is a new flying area which covers the USA between the Western and Northeastern coasts with about 240 airports. Additionally the flight physics are improved. During gameplay the player has to fly specified routes and navigate himself by using the supplied map. There is also a training mode available.
Experience the intensity of aerial combat in the European Theater of W.W.II following the award-winning Aces of the Pacific, Aces Over Europe is Damon Slye's most accurate and detailed simulation yet.
From the beaches of Normandy to the war-torn ruins of Berlin, pilots will fix with the U.S. Army Air Force, the R.A.F. and the German Luftwaffe, patrolling the front lines, targeting supply depots and coming face-to-face with moving ground targets and fortified artillery bunkers.
It's an all-new aerial battle over land and sea as you strap into the aircraft that made history and take to the skies with the valiant men and women who will be forever remembered as the Aces over Europe.
As the name suggests, this flight simulation gives you a chance to fly most of the famous fighter models from World War 1 to the present day. You can fly the Sopwith Camel, the Spitfire, the F-4 Phantom, the Harrier Jump Jet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the Fokker DR1, and the MiG-23, each with realistic and functional cockpit features. The game offers 6 historical missions, a duel mode and a "What If?" air duel. In the latter, you can apply weapons from different time periods to aircraft, and try to shoot down a modern plane using an older one.
Scare the evil, greedy Sardinis out of their houses by turning everyday household objects into something scary, funny or just plain gross. Or use your special spells to really send 'em shrieking. But you gotta hurry, 'cause your ectoplasm may run out! 16 megs of cool graphics, gross special effects and blood-curdling sounds. Unique 3/4 view perspective. Over 400 scary, funny or gross fright items, each causing something different to happen. Five special spells: Zom-B-Ize, Supr-Scare, Boo-Doo, Ecto-Xtra and Dog-Off. "Killer" dungeon with 12 different paths!