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.
Andromedas Erbe is a German shareware adventure and sort of a sequel to Mission Supernova. This time the player takes the role of Peter Platon, a private detective who has to find out the whereabouts of a missing spaceship. His search leads Platon on many planets. The protagonist of the predecessor, Horst Hummel, still has a role as secondary character.
The controls follow the traditional SCUMM style: the player combines verbs displayed on the bottom on the screen with objects in the game world or the inventory to issue commands. The game features both inventory and logic based puzzles, e.g. sliding puzzles. Additionally there are mini games like a Tetris variant to solve. When leaving a planet, the coordinates - finding them is the objective of many puzzles - for the next have to be typed in manually. The graphics are a different from its predecessor: it is still played in first-person, but the backgrounds are rendered, inventory items are shown as pictures and there are some animated scenes.
SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit was a comprehensive city customization addon that gave players complete control over both city layout and building design, allowing them to manually place individual structures and create custom graphics sets using specialized drawing tools that maintained SimCity 2000's perspective and supported color-cycling animations.
The kit included over 100 futuristic buildings for post-2000 cities, the ability to print out your cities, and the ability to mix and match custom graphics sets. The created cities maintained compatibility with SimCopter and Streets of SimCity as well.
Escape from Ragor is a german fantasy role playing game, a typical dungeon crawler with tile-based movement and real-time combat. You're thrown into the labyrinthine dungeons of Castle Ragor and must now get out, overcoming the traps and obstacles set by its nefarious master, Megrim. Explore the walls of Ragor and find an exit. That will not be easy as your jailer tries to confuse and mislead you, and the dungeons are full of Megrim's minions and dangerous monsters.
The game is controlled entirely with the mouse, which is used to interact with the environment, manipulate inventory items and move the character around by clicking the navigational arrows on the interface. You can use items like spells, healing potions and poisons in fights with the enemies. Combat flows in real time and the outcome of any encounter ultimately depends on how fast you click the attack button, located in the centre of the navigational arrows. The simple combat system automatically uses an offensive magic spell if one is selected and the
An unconventional platform game. Besides collecting of bonuses, you must destroy
buildings and platforms in the playin by smartly placing bombs. You can use small,
harmless bombs or mor ones (four types are available) and enjoy yourself watching huge constructions explode in thousands of small pieces. Double screen with two simultaneous players, Italian and English language available.
In Clif Danger players control the titular protagonist who flies through the galaxy with his spaceship when he receives a call for help by the amazon queen Swihip. Her planet Pleasure 6 got invaded from the rather hostile Glox so it is up to him to save her population.
The game focuses on the typical run, gun, jump mechanics and as such the plot is not that important. The game offers twenty stages with multiple weapons, where Clif encounters a dozen different enemies and free the amazons from their rather inconvenient position of being bound on plugs.