In any pre-2008 version of Microsoft Encarta, press ctrl z to start MindMaze. MindMaze is a built-in quiz shipped with pre-2008 versions of Microsoft Encarta. Players advance through a cursed castle maze, answering questions to move from room to room.
The player is transported back in time to break the curse on King Miser the First's castle. The castle consists of several floors, each floor holding 100 rooms in a 10x10 grid. To unlock a door between rooms, the player must correctly answer a multiple-choice, timed trivia questions.
Puzzle game in which a microscopic tank navigates electronic circuits, manipulating different components to direct power and get to the exit. 100 levels.
Tuneland is a musical children's computer game, produced in 1993 by a division of 7th Level, Kids' World Entertainment. The cartoon video game follows the character Little Howie, who is voiced by the television personality Howie Mandel on an adventure around Old McDonald's Farm.
Take a Break! Pinball contains a set of 8 pinball tables based upon various popular Sierra games: Larry's Big Score (Leisure Suit Larry series), Lots in Space (Draxon), Flipped Out Willy (The Adventures of Willy Beamish), Nova 9 (Draxon), Planet Xenon in the Beginning (Space Quest series), Quest for Daventry (King's Quest series), Reformation Day (Space Quest series) and Spaced Travel (Space Quest series)
The Magic Death: Virtual Murder 2 is a video game published in 1993 on Windows 3.x by Creative Multimedia Corporation. It's an adventure game, set in a detective / mystery theme.
One of a series of fully interactive comic book adventures for kids where you play as the heroic Victor Vector and his digital Saint-Bernard dog Yondo. They are field agents of The Museum of Fantastic Phenomena, and travel through time collecting unique items. In the games, the arch-villain Ram Axis, a virus spawned in the great crash of 2093, will often pop up in disguise in order to prevent their efforts. Players explore a virtual environment by clicking on the onscreen knobs and directional controls to move through the game. They click on images to talk to people, collect treasure and other items that may boost or diminish their energy level or are needed to solve puzzles. Information can also be retrieved from Yondo's data bank collar.
Some hardware companies often published their own games in order to bundle them with their hardware (when they couldn't get enough big-name games to sign with them). This is one such product. Forever growing garden's gameplay consists of selecting seeds, etc. and taking care of them in order to later sell your crops on the market and flowershop (were you can also make flower-arrangements, etc.) the game is aimed at kids, so everything from the interface to the objectives are kept very simple and straight-forward. Also the game is filled with hot-spots that start animations or sound effects.
The first 32-bit title in the Chessmaster series, Chessmaster 4000 Turbo offers features designed around the processors of the time. Modem and LAN play is available for the first time. Boards are viewed in 2D or 3D, and include many custom sets, with game options selected from surrounding windows and drop-down menus.
Entering moves is now easier - if you click on a square which only one of your pieces can move to, it will move there automatically. Full games (including 500 recreated real-life classics) can be analysed from an expert perspective, and a library of common opening move sequences is included. Computer players act in a variety of ability levels and play styles - some are prepared to play for a draw, others are focused on keeping the centre of the board tidy, and so on.
The New Kid on the Block is the fourth Living Books game based on the 1984 storybook written by Jack Prelutsky, and was released in 1993. Instead of just one story, it was a collection of 17 poems. It is hosted by Jack Prelutsky as he voiced the cartoon counterpart of himself.
The sequel to the original Gateway game, this is also a text based (but graphically enhanced) text game, in which you will explore hazardous situations and new worlds, and ultimately find out the fate of the mystic Heechee race.
SinkSub is an classic shareware title by Anders Wihlborg, originally released in 1993 for Windows 3.1, but which has seen ports to other platforms over the decades since.
The Interactive Adventures of Seymore Butts is an adult full motion video game with basic adventure game elements, although it's more of an interactive story than an adventure. The player takes the role of Mr. Butts as he meets his new attractive neighbor and attempts to romance her.
Wayne's World is an adventure game based on the movie with the same name. The game itself is a classic point and click adventure, and should not be confused with the platform game based on the movie.
You play both Wayne and Garth, and you can switch between them at any time. The plot is simple; In an attempt to save their tv-show, Wayne and Garth decide to hold a pizza-thon (a charity show with a pizza-theme) in order to raise money. In order to be able to hold the pizza-thon Wayne and Garth must embark on several quests to collect items and hire people they need for the show. The adventure includes participating in babe-jeopardy, joining a biker's gang and baking pizza. The graphics are in 2D and the sound contains several samples from the movie.