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Nibbles
1991
Nibbles
1991
Nibbles is a simple video game and variant of Snake. It was inspired by an early 1980s game called Hustle from the Radio Shack TRS-80 micro-computer. (It was not influenced by Mozaik Software's 1984 Amstrad CPC game, Nibbler, despite the similar names.) Nibbles was written in QBasic by Rick Raddatz, who later went on to create small business companies such as Xiosoft and Bizpad. The game's objective is to navigate a virtual snake (or worm) through a walled-space while consuming numbers (from 1 through 9) along the way. The player must avoid colliding with walls, other snakes or their own snake. Since the length of the snake increases with each number consumed, the game increases in difficulty over time. After the last number has been eaten, the player progresses to the next level, with more complex obstacles and increased speed. There is a multiplayer mode which allows a second player to control a second snake by using a different set of keys on the same keyboard. Nibbles originally became popular because it wasQbasic Gorillas
1991
Qbasic Gorillas
1991
star 8.7Gorillas is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1991 by IBM corporation. It is a turn-based artillery game consisting of two gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other above a city skyline. The players can adjust the angle and velocity of each throw, as well as the gravitational pull of the planet.EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
1991
star 7.4In EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus, the player is cast into the role of Adam, the twelve-year-old son of the famous ecologist Noah Greene. One day, his father rescues a dolphin from an abandoned fish net. As Adam becomes more friendly with the creature, he is amazed to discover that the dolphin can talk! Adam finds out that his new friend is Delphineus, the messenger of the whale king Cetus. As a qualified scuba diver, Adam is chosen to venture into the underwater kingdom of animals known as Eluria, and help its inhabitants. The game's interface and basic gameplay are similar to those of other Sierra adventures: the player interacts with the environment by selecting icons that represent verb commands ("Look", "Talk", "Use", etc.) and applying them to objects or characters. Compared to most other adventure games by the same company, the difficulty level is lower, with the intention of making the game more suitable for younger players; for instance, it is impossible to "die" or get irrevocably stuck in the game. DesZZT
1991
ZZT
1991
A DOS-based ASCII game creation program. Built for simple, top-down shooter or adventure games, with a built-in object-based programming language for added complexity.Timequest
1991
Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy!: The Armageddon Machine
1991
star 8.8After completing the mission in episode one, Keen learns of the Shikadi's enormous ship, which doubles as the largest weapon ever built. So in episode two, titled "The Armageddon Machine", Keen faces his greatest challenge yet - to save the Galaxy!Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy!
1991
Following the Invasion of the Vorticons, the story arc of Goodbye Galaxy! takes Commander Keen to a planet to rescue the Keepers of the Secret of the Oracle, which know the location of the Shikadi's doomsday device, The Armageddon Machine.Falcon 3.0
1991
Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter!
1991
star 7.9A mean bunch of hungry aliens have your babysitter and they're planning to make her their main course. Now it's up to you, as Billy's alter ego Commander Keen, to climb into your homemade Megarocket and save her. Or risk explaining what happened to your parents. The only question is: Can you complete your mission before dinnertime?Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy!: Secret of the Oracle
1991
star 7.8In episode one of the fourth episode of the Commander Keen series, "Secret of the Oracle", Keen rockets to an alien planet to rescue the Keepers of the Oracle, who are the only ones capable of helping Keen find out more about the Shikadi.Aldo's Assault
1991
Aldo's Assault
1991
Aldo's Assault" is the third in a series of MS-DOS platform/arcade titles inspired by the Super Mario Bros. series. The player controls Aldo who climbs ladders onto steel beams while dodging barrels and grabbing treasure. A timer counts down and each bit of treasure adds to the player's score at the end of each stage. Aldo eventually careens across the skyscrapers of Kong City attempting to steal a treasure chest from an enemy helicopter, and in the next stage we realize he is a wanted criminal. No giant ape makes an appearance, and barrels materialize from no where to torment Aldo. If a player loses all of their lives, they are pushed back to the DOS command prompt.Road & Car: Test Drive III - The Passion: Add-On Disk 1
1991
This add-on to Test Drive III lets you drive the Acura NSX and Dodge Stealth RT Turbo, in New England territory including Cape Cod and Niagra Falls.Dr. Sbaitso
1991
Dr. Sbaitso
1991
Less of a traditional game and more of a cross between a benchmark tool and a time waster, Dr. Sbaitso was a talking artificial AI program that came with early Sound Blaster cards. He posed as a psychiatrist, but many of the answers Sbaitso gave the player were rambling and nonsensical.Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
1991
star 5.6After the success of the simulation titles Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain® and Battlehawks 1942 in the late 80s, LucasArts decided to follow up those games with another World War II simulation title: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. Released in August 1991, the game followed the campaign by the US 8th Air Force to cripple the German Luftwaffe during the final years of World War II. Players could fly in either American or German warplanes. The game was remarkable because many of the playable airplanes were still under development during the war. In other words, the planes were never used extensively in battle, so players could explore “what if ” possibilities with the game. Those possibilities were further expanded by four Tour of Duty expansion packs. The planes in those expansions included the P-38 Lighting, a twin-engine escort fighter and the German Do335, an interceptor aircraft that featured a conventional tractor propeller in the nose as well as a pusher propeller behind the tail of the aircrafTradeWars 2002
1991
TradeWars 2002
1991
Trade Wars 2002 is a classic BBS door game that has been actively played since the late 1980s. The player controls a spaceship in a Star Trek-inspired universe, trading resources at a profit to build up a space empire of planets and space stations. It was later adapted to play over the internet and external tools were built to automate repetitive tasks. The game is still playable on many web BBSes today.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions
1991
Shredder wants to rule Manhattan, so he's saturated the neighborhoods with his henchemen. The heroes in a half-shell must out-ninja Shredder and his thugs before time's up in Times Square! Put your best moves to the test against Bebop, Rocksteady, Triceratons, moussers, foot soldiers, gangs and assorted villains in 15 challenging missions. For the first time ever two turtles can join forces to take on the enemy packed streets as a team. Choose Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo or Donatello to shell out each turtle's unique ninja talents. Time is not on your side. You've got to beat the clock as you round up clues and battle it out in the real time fight sequences.Lemmings
1991
Lemmings
1991
star 7.9This port of Lemmings is mostly on par with the original graphically. However, there is a slight downgrade in overall quality and color, most notably with the UI. The music has also been reproduced for the available sound cards, eliminating sample-based sounds (including the vocal sfx). The intro has also been cut entirely. This version was released as a 5.25" floppy disk, 3.5" floppy disc, and as a CD-romLegends of Murder II: Grey Haven
1991
This is the second adventure in which the player takes on the role of the Inspector, a crime-solving fighter/mage. This time around, an apprentice at a school of wizardry has been murdered, and the player must investigate and find the culprit. The player must move around a rather tiny map of his or her surroundings, searching for clues, talking to other characters and occasionally fighting enemies through a menu-based combat system. There are items to collect and equip, experience points to gain, spells to cast and, of course, a crime to solve.Elite Plus
1991
Elite Plus
1991
Elite Plus was upgraded to take advantage of EGA, VGA and MCGA. It was coded entirely in assembly language by Chris Sawyer, who later wrote RollerCoaster Tycoon. Elite Plus had a ninth galaxy that can only be reached by hyperspacing into Witch Space.
