Fearless Fred owns a factory comprising of 16 rooms. His job is to collect parts that are found lying on the ground within a strict time limit. There is only one problem. Each room is infested with robots and other dangers, and Fred has no weapon he can use against them. The only thing he can do is jump over them. If he makes any contact with them, Fred becomes electrocuted and he loses one of his life.
The player controls Jack, a superhero who can leap and glide. Someone has planted 24 bombs at famous tourist sites (the Sphinx and Great Pyramids, the Acropolis, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, and two cityscapes resembling Miami Beach and Hollywood, which appear only as screen backgrounds rather than unique game locations). Jack must fly around the screen to collect the bombs. Each screen uses a different configuration of platforms upon which Jack may run and jump. Eventually, the levels reoccur a number of times with increasing difficulty. Jack "defuses" the bombs by simply touching them. As soon as he has touched the first, he triggers a sequence in which another bomb's fuse lights up, and so on. A player can score a bonus in each round by touching 20 or more bombs in the correct lit-fuse sequence. Jack may also defuse an unlit bomb by touching it, but this impedes his opportunity to score the bonus for that screen. It also delays the appearance of the game's bonuses and power-ups. The C64 conversion uses a co
You are Agent One of the Galactic Police Force and you have been sent to a large factory to stop a Professor who is making gruesome creatures by machines inside five laboratories. The factory is flick-screen viewed from the side at a slightly elevated angle with the screen split into two floors and lifts need to be found and used to move about the floors to find the laboratories.
In a different twist for adventures you play a Goblin called Gonj who used to be friends with the Humans but now hides away underground in your home to stop yourself from being killed. Your problem is that your pantry is nearly empty again so you must go up to the surface into the castle above and steal food. This then begins various adventures and quests.
Trollbound is a graphic text adventure where you see a picture of your surroundings and text to describe them. You type in commands to control your hero.
Legend has it that deep in a mountain in the land of Meridan lies a Guardian who is believed to be eternal and would provide help to the people in their darkest need. The Guardian is needed now as Silvian have invaded Meridan once again, destroying everything and killing people with new and strange weapons. You have decided to test the legend of the Guardian by exploring the lands ahead to find the mountain that contains the Guardian. You start your quest waking from unconsciousness in your destroyed room.
Pilgrim is a text adventure where text on screen describes your location and you type in commands with the keyboard to control your hero and interact with each location.
You find yourself lying on a raft floating in the middle of the sea with no land or anything in sight after you had to abandon ship with the rest of the crew into shark infested waters. Your aim in this three part text adventure is to get yourself back home as you face various challenges and quests, as well as face many monsters and creatures on your travels. Each location is described by text and you type in with the keyboard, commands to control your hero and interact with the locations. Each time a character speaks to you, you can hear it with digitized speech.
During the prohibition crime prospers in Chicago. Every shop owner lives in fear of raids or blackmailing. Bank and mail robberies are more and more common. Everybody can buy fire arms, the corrupt police is no help at all. In this scenario, up to four criminals who have recently been released from prison fight for the domination of Gangland. The way to the Mafia Throne is long and hard. At the beginning, you are a nobody whom not even the shop owners take seriously. You have to do quite a few nasty odd jobs before you can even afford a car or a gun, let alone a flat and your own little gang.
While the game itself mainly consists of PETSCI graphics, created with a modified charset, there are many comic-like multi colour images for the single buildings and events. The sound is not really worth mentioning, besides some FX and jingles there isn't any.
Pub games is a themed compilation of seven games that have been popular in public houses (drinking establishments) in the United Kingdom for decades. This package is aimed at young teens with the inlay card containing words like 'Here's your chance to find out what it's like in those smoke-filled haunts of adulthood'. All the games are two player games of the 'hot seat' variety - with the exception of Table Football where both players have their own action keys The games can be played either as a 'Full Pub Games Run' - which takes the player(s) through all the games and will take around two hours to complete, or a practice mode which allows the player(s) to select and games in any order.
Scoring in each game is self explanatory but in the 'Full Pub Games Run' players win £1 per game so the winner at the end of the run is the one with the most money.
The games are split on both sides of the cassette Side 1 - Menu, Darts, Bar Billiards, and Dominoes Side 2 - Table Football, Pontoon, Poker, and Skittles
A mixture of a helicopter shoot'em up and a platformer, first published in 1986 by Alpha-Omega Software and re-released in 1988 by The Power House for the Commodore 64.
A flight simulation game in which the player controls a jet fighter-bomber and eliminates targets like radar stations, submarine bases or naval dockyards.
Ardok the Barbarian is the US release of the game Asterix and tha Magic Cauldron. Since the comic character Asterix is mainly known in Europe, the main character was turned into a Barbarian for this release, but the plot remained the same.
In the role of a Scotland Yard detective, you arrive at the McFungus estate in London, 1974. Angus McFungus is murdered and you are challenged to collect evidence and reveal the murderer. The game functions on a strict time limit and the detective loses the case if the murderer cannot be found in time.