The beautiful vistas of farmlands, forests, mountains and deserts that greet you upon your arrival on Faland does little to calm your nerves about how you arrived at this strange land. Considering how dangerous it is with all the demons, monsters, wild animals and renegades running around you know you have only one thing you must do. Get back home.
The farm settlement of Or'gn is where your journey home begins. You and up to three players take turns trying to reach home while scoring as many points as possible. Since the journey is dangerous you may die but you will have multiple chances to continue your quest at a cost of demerit points. You must examine many items, talk to the inhabitants and solve side-quests. Arm yourself well and do battle with the enemies lying in wait. Earn ralls, the currency of choice around these parts, by finding treasure or trading commodities with shopkeepers. Raise your status high enough and you just may find your way back home.
Utilizing a rich back story FallThru is a interactive
Short, single player, humorous text adventure game. Claimed to be one of the first works of erotic interactive fiction, as well as one of the first games to allow the player to choose their sex and sexual orientation, with different paths depending on those choices.
Legends of Murder is a fantasy/role-playing/murder mystery game. In Volume 1 of the series you, Inspector, have been summoned to a small castle near the harbor city of Erdwyn to investigate the murder of the King. Hired by the advisor of the deceased King, an elf named Ash, you set foot in the castle after a long journey across the sea, and the game begins...
The ultimate purpose in the game is to discover the murderer of the King. The character is walking on a tiny map sized in 1/5 of the screen, and when he comes inside new room, the description is written. There are numerous riddles and puzzles to solve along the way, as well as many people to meet and places to explore. It is very important that you talk to everyone you encounter, search all rooms of the castle you enter, and make note of what you learn for later reference.
The Inspector (of Fighter/Mage class) has a number of personal attributes, common for RPGs, which affect the play of the game. Spells must be learned from special books. The higher a chara
The main character's aunt was a voodoo witch in New Orleans who made potions to help friends and neighbors with their afflictions. She was killed, and the protagonist has inherited her entire estate - with a catch: In order to receive the fortune coming to him, the hero must finish the potions his aunt was working on and solve the mystery of her death.
Last Half of Darkness is an adventure game that takes place entirely in and around a haunted mansion, complete with graveyards, crypts and foreboding swamps. The graphics in the game consist of a collection of still images. The main screen is divided into five major sections: the game world, inventory, list of exits, commands, and a description box at the bottom. The player has to position the mouse on a command (Move, Examine, Take and Operate) and left-click to perform that action. The game is available in both EGA and 256-color VGA mode.
Bong Bong is a simple arcade platformer, featuring a little bunny rabbit with an unquenchable passion for sugary foodstuffs. Climb ladders, jump over traps and hop across platforms to grab every food item in sight: get them all, and the next level will present an entirely new type of delicacy to quell your appetite. Beware the scorpions, and watch out for mystery jars - most of them will get you a score bonus, but some may contain a snake.
This compilation includes five Software Toolworks games in one disc :
.- Beyond The Black Hole
.- Bruce Lee Lives: The fall of Hong Kong Palace
.- The Chessmaster 2000
.- Life & Death
.- Gin King / Cribbage King
Not exactly a game, but a nice little tool to create animated cartoons. There aren't that many options to play around with, but still enough to create some cool cartoon sequences. Since everything is fairly easy, this one is probably more aimed at kids.
Gameplay is like mix-and-match-- just pick the backdrop, cartoons, objects, then add text to the blurbs to make a complete comic-book style panel. Animations are cute, but limited interaction with the characters probably means the program is meant more as a "print kit" than a game.
In TKO you can play the career of a boxer. Create your boxer by trading off a mixture of attributes, for example a boxer who cuts easily will not tire as easily, and a boxer whose best punch is to the head will not punch to the body as efficiently.
You starship is marooned on an alien planet! A team of six crew members must beam down to the surface of the planet in order to find energy crystals needed for take-off.
Beyond the Black Hole is a computer game developed by The Software Toolworks in 1989 for the PC/MS-DOS, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128. The player controls a scientific officer sent to investigate strange occurrences. the player uses cartography orbs to examine a variety of objects in space.
Caverns of Kroz is the 3rd game in the Original Kroz Trilogy made by Apogee founder Scott Miller in 1989. This one offers 40 levels. Gameplay and of course the use of ASCII characters as graphics are identical to Kingdom of Kroz.