Released in 1985 on DOS. It's an action and puzzle game, set in an arcade theme. You move the pointer, in order to fill a percentage of place:
a) without other dots must touch your line before reach your area,
b) without touching your line at back.
Legend of the Seven Paladins is a finished but unreleased game set to be released in 1994 by Taiwanese studio Accend built on 3D Realms' Build engine (of Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, etc.). While the game was cancelled as Accend never actually licensed the Build engine, it was leaked and released to various pirate BBSes as well as licensed out to a Korean developer that turned their early version into a full release. A fan translation has become available in 2019.
The game is set in medieval China, where the main character is transported from the modern world and finds themselves becoming a hero of the Shaolin Temple and has to uncover a conspiracy to topple the ruling dynasty.
How deep can you go? In Pitfall you manoeuvre your ship down a seemingly neverending shaft while avoiding the rock edges and disembodied faces. Use the left right keyboard keys to move your ship side-to-side and use the up and down arrows to slightly speed your ship up or slow it down. Hitting rock faces will take points off your hit-points but hitting those creepy floating faces will mean instant death. Your ASCII graphics ship has ten hit points to start with. Five additional points are rewarded as you manoeuvre further down deeper into the shaft every three thousand points. Occasionally you will find a floating star in the depths which will reward you a bonus of two hundred points. There are no multiple attempts down the shaft. Each destroyed ship means you must start all over again.
The Dungeons of Moria, or just Moria, is a roguelike computer game inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. The game's objective is to kill a Balrog, presumably Durin's Bane, deep within the Mines of Moria. A later port of Moria called Umoria (UNIX Moria) inspired the Angband roguelike game. This game influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo.
Little Willy's mother & sister were kidnapped while on a family trip to Earth II.
Help him save them in this EGA platformer while solving the puzzles, avoiding hazards, and blasting off enemies.
Visually and gameplay-wise, Little Willy resembles the Crystal Caves & Secret Agent games that were published by Apogee Software.
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.
The game consists mostly of mini-games, such as spotting Brainy in a crowd photo or blowing out the candles on Lazy's birthday cake. The player is to win these games in order to gain dewdrops, which serve as currency and points. The specific components the player needs to gather (and the amount of said components) are randomly generated at the start of the game.
A Journey Into Xanth takes place in the magical world of Xanth known from the books of Piers Anthony. The game is a classic interactive-fiction game, with a text parser as the sole user interface. It was developed using a contemporary toolkit (Adventure Game Toolkit v1.3).
You are playing a young man named Mim. Like all inhabitants of Xanth, Mim has a unique magical ability, the so-called talent. In his case he is able to conjure a magical mirror which can then be used to talk to any person he wants to, regardless of distance to that person. His talent makes him a quite important member of his local community, the Gap village. He serves as the villages' liaison to King Trent the ruler of the lands of Xanth, who resides in castle Roogna. Mim regularly corresponds with the King discussing various matters. This serves as the starting point for your adventure, as the latest communication with the King will result into a mission given to Mim.
Big Blue Disk was a monthly DOS disk magazine. It carried various games and applications for DOS as well as reviews and various extras. Some of them were freeware or shareware, or demo versions of commercial programs, but other material was original to the disk magazine. This issue contains:
- Dark Designs II: Closing The Gate
- Word Ladders
- Handy Caps.
The remainder of the space is taken up by clip art, articles and a file-searching DOS utility.
You are Lieutenant Klaus von Steinfeld of the 6th German Army. During the Stalingrad Offensive, you have been captured by the red army and deported to a secret prison in Western Siberia. You must try to escape from this heavily guarded prison or get over it to give to the enemy, thereby risking the death penalty.
The pen-and-paper game Battleship gets another digital translation, which pits man against machine for a round of grid-based marine warfare. Both sides get five ships each - of varying sizes - and hide them within their respective game boards, invisible to the opponent. Each side then proceeds to fire in turn, by selecting a target grid position. When all the squares occupied by a ship are hit, it is sunk; the first player to destroy the entire enemy fleet will rule the waves.