Pangea: Return To Planet Earth is sci-fi-pulp/space-opera-themed multiple-choice interactive fiction game presented as an interactive comic book. The game, self-described as adult in nature, is reminiscent of the Heavy Metal film and magazines.
The game was programmed in MMGRASP (MultiMedia GRaphic Animation System for Professionals). It was supposed to be the first episode in an ongoing series, but no subsequent episodes appear to have been released
Whatever We Decide to Call this Game is a text adventure game in which one finds themselves outside the doors of their new college with three tasks to accomplish - find a bathroom, enroll in classes, and get a parking sticker.
A basic 'arcade flight' game made by MVP Software. It was commonly found on old MS-DOS shareware collections and shovel-ware compilations. Has probably one of the most ridiculous intro videos of it's time.
TASO 131 is a multiplayer action game from the 1990s. Players use helicopters, cruise missiles, ground troops and paratroopers to destroy opponents’ bases while defending their own. In the campaign mode, players also design their own bases in a manner similar to real-time strategy games, constructing buildings from barracks to air defence systems.
During the 1990s, there was a whole scene of young guys in Finland making and playing small action-oriented PC games like this, known as suomipelit (“finngames”). The games were distributed via disk swapping and through bulletin board systems (BBS), and eventually also through the Internet (see TASO’s entry in Suomipelit.fi). Many of the most popular finngames, like AUTS and Wings, were split-screen multiplayer flying games inspired by a Finnish Amiga game called Turboraketti. TASO combined split-screen flying with elements from the first real-time strategy game I ever saw, Dune 2. The result was fairly successful. In 1997, TASO was awarded the first prize in a n
The Lost Episodes of Doom is a collection of three eight-level episodes for Doom by Christen Klie and Bob Carter. It takes place on the Jovian moons Callisto and Io, and on Jupiter itself. It was a commercial product and was included on a 3.5" floppy disk that was sold with a 246-page book that details the levels. The book is written by Jonathan Mendoza with some notes by both map designers.
The book was published by Sybex in January 1995.
This is an interactive story book aimed at younger children, where they join Billy Bear to visit his friend Luey. The game consists of 8-bit speech samples which the game use for reading the story to the player.