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.
Berusky is a logic game based on an ancient puzzle named Sokoban.
An old idea of moving boxes in a maze has been expanded with new logic items such as explosives, stones, special gates and so on. In addition, up to five bugs can cooperate and be controlled by the player.
In order to leave each level (there's about 120 levels in the game) it is necessary to own five keys and also to have a free way to the exit.
Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up is an MS-DOS computer game featuring Mario and friends. The game is essentially a digital coloring book, containing illustrations by Rick Incrocci. A few pages have animated sequences. The pages are themed after common careers. Characters in the game include Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Toads, and Bowser. Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up features Bowser both as he appears in video games and as he does in the Super Mario cartoons. Link also makes cameo appearances on the Chef/Waiter and Travel guide pages.