Great Naval Battles IV Burning Steel expands the scope of SSI’s line of naval simulators to include World War II naval actions in many of the theaters that saw the shadow of the battle wagon. From the frigid Barents Sea to the balmy Mediterranean, the North Atlantic and the English Channel, the Allies can be pitted against Axis forces in one-day battle scenarios or longer campaigns. The Axis forces include the German, Italian and French navies, while U. S., British, and Soviet ships are available on the Allied side.
More than fourteen major engagements are featured, including the Battle of the Denmark Straits, Atlantic Convoy Run, and Bismarck and Prinz Eugen versus the Hood and Prince of Wales of the Royal Navy. In addition, over 100 random scenarios for either surface or carrier actions can now be fought. The player has a choice of difficulty levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert. The higher the level, the more the computer opponent receives an advantage in material, rate of fire, and accuracy.
Radix: Beyond the Void is a 2.5D First-person shooter developed by Neutral Storm Entertainment and published by Epic MegaGames for DOS in 1995.
In the mid-1990s, the popularity of Doom led to many shareware "Doom clones", with Radix being one of the few first person shooters which takes place in a zero gravity environment and where the player controls a ship rather than a human. In some sense, Radix is superficially similar to Descent. However while Descent had full 3D maps with six degrees of motion, Radix uses the earlier 2.5D map designs of Doom clones. These are characterized by flat levels with no rooms over rooms, albeit with slopes of various degrees. Despite being a spacecraft, motion is limited with no movements upwards or downwards, nor upside down.
Old Time Baseball is a 1995 sports video game designed and programmed by Don Daglow, Hudson Piehl, Clay Dreslough, and James Grove. It was developed and published for MS-DOS by Stormfront Studios. Built on the Tony La Russa Baseball engine, Old Time Baseball includes complete lineups of every major league team from 1871 to 1981, totaling 12,000 players.
2 Fast 4 U is an average futuristic racing game. Although the VGA graphics looks nice and the music decent, the game suffers from bad physics and lackluster track design. Turning a corner is practically impossible without hitting the curbs or sides of the track.
William Shatner's TekWar is a 1995 first-person shooter video game derived from the TekWar series of novels created by William Shatner and ghost-written by science-fiction author Ron Goulart.
In the land of Eire, the people suffer daily at the hands of the tyrannical Fomors. As one of several clans vying for power, struggle your way to the top and become the hero Eire needs in its darkest hour. Unite the land either through a combination of clever diplomacy or brute force while gathering various champions to your side.
The tormented spirit of Pumpkinhead has been let loose to seek vengeance among the living. In this fast-paced, splatter-packed adventure you are the Keeper of Spirits.
End Pumpkinhead's reign of terror... if you dare! Kill monsters, unlock puzzles, save souls and solve the mystery of Pumpkinhead's true origin. Only you can stop the slaughter!
I.M. Meen is a 1995 educational video game that runs on DOS, designed to teach grammar to children. In this game, the player must walk around a labyrinth, rescuing children and defeating monsters. The educational aspect of the game comes in the form of "scrolls", writings of I.M. Meen in which the player must correct the grammatical mistakes in order to rescue the children.
Flame Dragon 2: Legend of Golden Castle is a turn-based tactical role-playing computer game published by Dynasty International Information, a Taiwanese company. It was released in 1995 and is the second game in the series.
It is available only in Chinese, but gained some international popularity because of its attractive graphics (in DOS game standard) and excellent game mechanics. The first installment, Flame Dragon: Demon's Seal, is relatively unknown outside of Taiwan/China and the third installment, Flame Dragon Plus: Marks of Wind, never gained the same interest due to a significantly less smooth interface.
The game bears some similarity to games such as Final Fantasy Tactics. However, it is distinguished by its combat cut scenes, which are reminiscent of Japanese manga and evoke a comic strip feel. They have caused some people to mistakenly take it for a Japanese game, however it was developed in Taiwan.
CyberMage is a first-person shooter game with RPG elements designed by David W. Bradley. It was created by Origin and released by Electronic Arts in 1995. Set in a cyberpunk reality, the game is characterized by a dark, heavy atmosphere.
The player here controls the movements of a disc with their mouse. The disc is divided into four quarters, each a different colour, identifying with balls of four various colours zooming around the playfield and four differently-coloured wall-mounted hands grasping out, waiting for the player to deliver a ball of the appropriate colour. In order to ensnare a ball (as though they were complementary sides of a velcro connection), the player must rotate the disc using the mouse buttons to ensure that the side facing the ball is of the same colour as the ball itself when they connect. Colour-mismatched connections result in taking a hit; after twelve such failures, the game is over.
On a distant, isolated space outpost halfway across the galaxy, an unspeakable evil stirs. As Lt. Col. Hericksen, commander of a terraforming team, you must quickly respond to a mysterious distress call. Once you’ve landed, you soon discover that something cruel and vicious lies beneath the outpost’s surface. Something that terrifies even you.
(In)famous for jokes about it, the Polish city of Wąchock is the place where the story of the Polish adventure game Sołtys takes place.
You play the head of the village of Wąchock and your aim is to find the missing husband of your daughter (who apparently isn't very attractive if you know what I mean). Scared of his future, Leon decides to run away from the wedding and you are responsible for bringing this poor guy back.
The game is a classic point and click adventure in which you collect objects and find places to use them. You move from one location to another using special "location icons". Number of available locations to visit represents the game's progress. At first there are only eight of them and later on they increase to total number of 24. The game is full of Polish jokes and "play on words" technique to give player hints how riddles should be solved.
Primarily composed of puzzle adventure segments. The player must alternate between the two brothers and use their unique abilities to bypass obstacles and solve puzzles in an enclosed area typically consisting of a few screens. Daero can move heavy objects and use various tools, while Gaeseong is able to jump and is a skillful pickpocket. The game also contains some fighting sequences in which the brothers attempt to take on Mr. X in simple one-screen brawls, and driving sequences where they must escape a police pursuit.