Heartfelt, but rather unrealistic wishes like ruling the world, unlimited processing power or an evening playing poker with three celebrities usually fall into the sphere of competence of a fairy. In case one happens to show up in your home: don’t ask for that poker game. That’s already been taken care of, thanks to New World Computing. NWC-mastermind Jon Van Caneghem invited three class B TV celebrities of the mid-90s for a day of green-screen filming. The result is called Multimedia Celebrity Poker.
If you’re into TV series, then you’ll probably have no trouble recognizing the faces of your opponents. Sitting at the poker table are Jonathan „Riker“ Frakes (Star Trek: Next Generation), appearing somewhat tight-lipped; talkative comedian Joe Piscopo (Saturday Night Live), showing off his array of impersonations; and aging starlet Morgan Fairchild (Hotel, Falcon Crest), sitting stiff and generally trying not to look too lost. Digitized video clips, seamlessly integrated into the main frame, depict all a
WinFish 3 - Fly Fishing features beautiful 256 Color Graphics and Animation. Select your Fly, Line, and hit the River. Full realistic fishing, river, and nature sounds. See if you can catch the BIG one. Full 180 degree scrollable view of the river to watch as your line floats downstream.
Max and Marie Go Shopping is an educational adventure game where the player must help two young anthropomorphic dogs, Max and Marie, buy all the necessary things for Aunt Lisa's party.
Each location in the city is represented by a full-screen scene where the player can click on things and people to interact with them, or just trigger a funny animation. The player can move between various places in the city by riding a bus, or just by clicking the icon that allows him to instantly move to any location.
Something terrible has happened at Awkward Manor! For all those who love a good murder mystery, here is a new twist. Now you can explore an elegant English mansion, just as if you were there in person. Forget virtual reality- Virtual Travel makes it real! There are ten different game levels to satisfy every age and ability. As a gumshoe detective at Level 1, you'll get lots of help, but as a skilled detective at Level 10, it could take you an hour or more to solve each mystery! Awkward Manor has fourteen beautifully photographed rooms and thousands of places where suspects may have left clues... there's a clue now, under that chair! It looks as if Major Gallop was in the library! When was he there? Ring for the butler, he may be able to help you... Oh well, not this time! Let's go upstairs to the Royal Bedroom... Mrs. Thatcham's there! She may know more about the Major's movements! Let's ask her where she was at 7.45... Yes! As she walks away, she says she was with Major Gallop in the Ballroom! Maybe he was in here
The Lie is an entry in the Puddle Books series. It teaches children ages three to eight the importance of telling the truth. In the main screen, the player can select a storyteller, and navigate through the pages. On each page of the story, the selected storyteller reads the page out loud. Clicking on the picture on the right of the page leads the child to an activity. In some pages, a song will play with animation accompanying it before leading to the activity. The game features reading comprehension and vocabulary.
The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack (BOMEP) was a collection of thirteen 16-bit simple games sold separately from Windows. It was published in the Microsoft Home series of software. They were selected as the best games from the previously released Microsoft Entertainment Pack series.
Solitaire Twin Pack contains two card games, Pyramid Solitaire and Golf Solitaire.
Both games are played with the mouse and come with in-game help text, and the ability to change the pattern on the back of the cards. Only Pyramid Solitaire has an Undo function and only Golf Solitaire has a Save Game option.
Power: The Game is an turn-based wargame in boardgame style. The objective of the game is to defeat your opponents in by capturing their Flag with infantry. Tanks, planes and ships can be used to help cover your position and give you sufficient power. Available are tanks, planes, ships and infantry. The game is divided into timed rounds of combat, with the entire conflict lasting two hours or less. During each round all players make their moves simultaneously. You are allowed to issue up to five commands during each round. At the end of each round all movement is seen, all conflicts are resolved and all power units when they occupy a foreign country with any piece through an entire round.
Mind Games Entertainment Pack For Windows contains ten classic games for Windows, including Chess, Chinese Chess, Bridge, Backgammon, Reversi, 4 In A Line, Checkers, Go, Gomuku, and Renju. Each can be run directly off the CD, or the pack can be installed to the hard drive. In general, games are played only against the computer, on one of four difficulty levels, with the option of setting up a specific scenario, changing some rules, and an undo ability.
The evil wizard Grackon has casted a Spell of Deadly Silence on Castle Crondiff, which has caused that all in the castle have vanished. However, his plans to prevent the King from having a heir have failed. For the good wizard Troda has intervened and saved Atamus, the young prince. You are that young prince, and you have returned to the castle to try to lift the curse. The doors are closed behind you. If you fail, the place will be doomed forever. Grackon's curse is a 1st person point and click adventure that plays in a 3D environment. All actions take place within the castle. The action window covers about 1/3 of the screen when the player simply walks through the corridors and rooms of the castle, but the close-ups are a bit bigger. At each stopping point the player can pan around at 90 degrees intervals. While examining some places/objects, the player will hear voices of the persons that have disappeared (not captioned). The game has six saving slots. The player can die in the game.
Challenge yourself with 24 exciting games for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1. Look out for the cat in Cheesy Pursuit. Put on your best gambler's face for the Poker Machine. Fine tune your strategies in Black Box Chess. Test your photo-graphic memory as you try to pair similar cards together in CardMatch. Place boulders on the targets with your Bulldozer. Watch out as as each level gets harder and harder. Your whole family will enjoy the variety of fun and challenging games!.
In this game the player is presented with a well known word or saying in which all the letters have been replaced by another, for example all the A's may have been replaced by G's, the B's by Z's and so on. The object of the game is to decode the phrase.
Core Meltdown is a single-player, strategy game that is played against the computer on 7 x 7 grid, this is the default size but the game configuration allows the player to select either a 5 x 5 or a 6x6 grid. This is a turn-based game with the player trying to eliminate all the opponents pieces to win. Pieces are placed on the grid in empty squares. If the player wishes they can enhance their piece by placing another in the same square. When enough pieces have been placed in a square the piece explodes and populates all the surrounding squares. Any pieces in these squares belonging to the opposing player are captured in the process.
Cheesy Pursuit is a single-player, arcade, strategy game where the object is to achieve a high score. The game is played on a grid in which all squares are filled with kinds of cheese. The player controls a mouse which is initially in the centre of the grid. The object of the game is to eat all the cheeses without being caught by the cats which patrol the game area. As the player progresses through the levels there are more patrolling cats and they move faster and in less predictable paths.
Checker Connector is a single-player, strategy game that is played against the computer on 7 x 6 grid. It is a computer version of the classic board game Connect Four. This is a-turn based game in which the player and the computer take turns placing pieces on a board. The objective for each player is to create a line of four of their pieces, the one who accomplishes this first wins the game. The game is entirely mouse controlled. It is played in a window which cannot be re-sized. The game has sound, four levels of difficulty, in-game help screens, and a choice of playing piece, colour and screen background.
The player is shown thirty-six picture cards turned face down and must turn them over, two at a time. Matching pairs are removed from play, non matching pairs are turned face down again.
The player drives the eponymous Bulldozer and must push rocks onto targets. The vehicle is driven via the arrow keys. There are sixty levels in the game. Every four levels the player is given a password which allows them to restart at that point.