Jetpack Christmas Special was a free release for the fans of the original Jetpack games. Santa Claus replaces the original hero and must collect presents instead of fuel.
Jetpack is a platform game available as freeware, originally published as shareware by Software Creations in 1993. The object of the levels is to collect all of the green emeralds scattered around the level while avoiding obstacles and enemies. Once accomplished, a door opens which the player must go through in order to advance to the next level. There is a single player, and a local multiplayer mode. The multiplayer mode supports up to eight players, where players take turns on the same machine.
The player is aided in his quest by a jetpack and a phase shifter, which allows tunnelling through certain walls. The environments, which usually consist of mazes of bricks, also feature vines, gold, ladders, ice, boxes, pillars, and conveyor belts. Other obstacles include jagged rocks, force fields, teleport pads, and indestructible bricks. In order to keep his jetpack running, the player has to collect fuel, by means of single/double tanks or fuel grids.
The game includes a simple level editor. Numerous levels have bee
Dstroy is a Bomberman-like game with several gameplay modes: single player, cooperation, and deathmatch! Up to four players can play on the same computer with split-screen. Dstroy has no network support.
In single-player (called story mode) and cooperative, the player(s) has to defeat all the monsters to advance to the next level. The levels consist of solid blocks, and breakable blocks. The players can break a block by dropping a bomb nearby. The bomb explodes only in vertical and horizontal directions, and any solid block will stop the explosion in that direction. Initially the bomb has a very limited range, and only one bomb can be placed at the same time. However when destroying breakable blocks, power-ups may appear. The most common power-ups is extending the range of your bombs, and the increasing the supply of bombs. Other power-ups include freezing all monsters, gaining increased speed, becoming invisible. Most of these are only temporary.
Deathmatch has similar rules except that no monsters are present. Th
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge is a real-time tactics game based in the FASA BattleTech universe. It is a direct sequel to BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception, though the gameplay is considerably different from that of the first title, which was primarily an adventure/role-playing game.
HOWZAT!? Melbourne-based development studio Beam Software's (eventually becoming Krome Studios Melbourne) first dip into the leg-bye laden world of cricket, released on the NES only in Australia.
In this game the player controls Werner Mueller, working as a Sysop at the GIC Headqurters in Futura City. One night, heavy explosions wake him unpleasantly from his sleep. He steps outside to see what happened, only to find himself in the middle of a deadly fight...
Angst: Rhaz's Revenge is a traditional first-person-shooter in the legacy of DOOM: the player walks through the levels and uses ranged weapons to shoot at enemies. The game has a steampunk setting in the style of Jules Verne.
One of the first games of iD Software. Sometimes it's claimed to be the first FPS or even first 3D game for DOS. The game used the same combination of scaled sprites and drawn walls that would later show up in Catacomb 3D and Wolfenstein 3D, but the walls in it are solid colors with no textures.
The second half of Helious. The graphics and overall design are the same as the first game; this game just adds more levels. Originally, the first part was available without charge as a shareware "teaser", and you had to pay for this second part, Helious II.
Helious is a two-part game in the shareware style, where the first half of the game is a giveaway, and the user must pay the registration fee to get the second half (Helious II).
Nyet 3: Revenge of the Mutant Stones is a Tetris variant written by Proline software. It consists of upto 108 stages, all based on the Tetris ruleset. The objective is to clear a set number of lines within the stage, but each has a twist in the ruleset discovered during play.
It ain't easy being a cameleer: not only do you have to survive a 40-mile trek across the Gobi desert, with only one camel and a quart of water -- you and your trusty humped steed have managed (somehow) to anger a tribe of knocked-kneed pygmies, who are now hot on your heels. All in all, you seem to be in a bit of a pickle.
Your canteen is good for six drinks of water, unless you find a way to refill it. On each turn, you choose a course of action: have a drink; forge ahead moderately, or at full speed (which works your camel harder); rest for the night; check your status; or give it up and hope for help. You'll have to watch your water supply, your camel's health, and your distance from the pursuing pygmies. To top it off, the wasteland is full of surprises: some are good (like the occasional oasis), others not so much (sandstorms and roving bands of nomads, who may try to capture you for ransom).
Monolith Productions' official expansion pack to Blood, featuring one new episode, six new enemies, a variety of bug fixes and a bloodbath level modeled after Monolith's corporate office.
Arcy 2 is a VGA puzzle game that might remind you a little of Kroz. You play a smiley face who must collect all of the keys in a level before you can leave. Each enemy moves in a specific way, so the puzzle is figuring out how to move through the level without getting killed. Some enemies will only move if you cross their path, some will kill you instantly, some move in straight lines and only turn left or right, and some will try to trap you. Rocks can be used to interpose something between yourself and your enemies, and sometimes must be used to destroy walls or barriers. The soundtrack gets old quickly (one stanza of "The Entertainer" plays in a loop forever), but the game is very challenging and should entertain anyone who is up to the challenge. There are 3 volumes in this game, with only the first volume playable in the shareware version.
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Are you looking for an environmentally responsible alternative? A game that's super-friendly and ecologically sound? Well then, have we got a game for you...
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The Creepers are on their way to their Butterfly Bowls but they can't make it alone. They need your intelligence and skills to get them there and only then can they spread their wings.
So how can you help?
Takin' your swatters, ramps, fans and magnets you take them on a great adventure through over 100 wondrous lands of caverns, forests and factories.
Can you save them from the bubbling tanks of boiling oil or from the hungry crows who swoop down to devour them on their fabulous journey?
Who knows?
But the real question is, are you good enough to survive the challenge of the Creepers?