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In Naanas you play as a man who's trying to catch bananas that a naughty monkey is dropping from a canopy, whilst avoiding coconuts which make you lose a life if they hit you.
You have 3 different movements in all - left, right and jump (this is needed if you miss a banana, as you lose a life if you slip on it). The game is played on a single screen, and you just have to keep going to see how high a score you can get.
This is the seventh game in Artic's Adventure Series. You play the role of a regular Joe living in the present, who wakes to find that the world is on the brink of all out nuclear war by a TV announcement.
The gameplay involves trying to find a way to survive this oncoming apocalypse by using ordinary items found around the house and garden, and to turn your house into a makeshift fallout shelter.
The game is authored with the Quill Adventure System and is more like the first games in the series in that it is purely text based unlike its predecessor Eye of Bain which had graphical illustrations of the rooms you are in. The game accepts the simple verb/noun commands.
Eye of Bain is the sixth in the Artic's Adventure series. The player takes the role of a warrior who is in search of the sacred Eye of Bain emerald, which is located within the Temple of Bain. The first task is to escape from a village, where the character is chained to a pole and awaiting sacrifice; once out of the village, they can continue their quest to find the gem. During the course of their adventure, the player will have to drink water to stay alive and avoid enemies and pitfalls along the way.
Unlike the previous games in the series, Eye of Bain has graphical representations of the room you are in. These are off by default and are activated by typing LOOK. You must then switch back to the actual input screen by pressing Enter. As in the previous entries, the player uses simple verb/noun commands.
This is the fifth game in Artic's Adventure series. The player takes the role of an adventurer who is on a quest to find the legendary Golden Apple, whilst also hunting down 13 other treasures. There are 3 main areas to explore: a large mansion, a ship and a mountainous island.
The interface is purely text driven, with no illustrations of the room you are in. The text is in different colours and on a black background, unlike the first few in the series which used the system default black text on a grey background.
This game is the first in Artic's Adventure series. You play the role of a spaceship pilot in the future who has been marooned on a hostile alien planet and must find his spaceship and fix it to escape. To hinder your progress are fiendish puzzles and a handful of alien NPCs.
The interface is purely text driven and there are no illustrations of the rooms that you are in. The text parser uses simple Verb/Noun for commands.
This game is an interactive version of the popular U.S. quiz show Wheel of Fortune complete with hostess Vanna White.
The game is played by trying to find a hidden word with only a few guesses allowed for the letters which is very similar to the pen and paper game Hangman. The other round which features the Wheel of Fortune involves you spinning the wheel which has various prizes both good and bad and whatever the pointer stops on when it stops revolving is what the player wins. This can be cash, a free spin or if you're very unlucky Bankruptcy which means you lose all the money you've earned up to that point.
Up to 3 Players can play together in multiplayer mode
In this game you play the role of Jonathan Harker, an Estate Agent who has visited Dracula's castle to conduct some business. The gameplay is a point and click style adventure except it has been tweaked to accommodate the Lynx controls. To interact with an object you move Jonathan next to the object with the D-Pad and then its name will pop up in the interaction bar. You then need to select an action such as Open, Close examine etc. The main idea of the game is to explore Dracula's castle while he is away and try to gather information that will prove he is a very serious threat to the mortal world. There are also other characters in the game to interact with and Bram Stoker (the writer of Dracula which this game is based on) is in the game in digital form to narrate the story.
This game, as the name suggests, is a hockey simulation which is very similar to Mario Lemieux Hockey. There are 22 teams to choose from which are based on the NHL 91 line up though they can be changed if the player wishes. You control 1 player at a time and the CPU controls the rest of your team though you can switch to a different player at any time if the need arises. There is also a fight penalty system where you have to continually punch the an opponent in order to proceed. The game is viewed from an isometric perspective as if you were sat in one of the crowd seats.
This game is a collection of casino games which are accessed by moving the player around the casino and selecting the preferred game table or machine to play that game. You start off with $1,000 to gamble with though you can get two loans of $500 if needed from the dealers. Once all your money has been gambled away it is game over.
The 5 games available are:* Blackjack
- Craps
- Roulette
- Slot Machines (Fruit Machines)
- Video Poker
In this game you play the role of Dirty Larry, an obvious pastiche of the no nonsense cop Dirty Harry of the movie of the same name, played by Clint Eastwood. The game starts of with the police chief giving you a harsh talking. You are ordered to bring in Mr Snuff, a high ranking goon in the criminal gang run by the Kingpin. The gameplay offers side-scrolling gameplay through the various streets, beating up the numerous thugs that try to attack you. Luckily Larry is armed with his trusty .45, though ammo is limited so it is best to use your fists when possible. There are pick-ups to collect which will replenish some of your health or give you ammo for your gun. Sometimes, weapons such as hand grenades or a machine gun can be found as well. You only have one life and once you die you have to start from the beginning again.
In this game you play the role of a tank commander who is fighting in a future war in the 21st century. The game is an update on the classic arcade game Battlezone and stays true to the original in terms of gameplay. The gameplay involves you driving round a landscape destroying enemy tanks and U.F.O.s whilst trying not to run out of fuel and also not getting destroyed yourself though luckily there are fuel pick-ups and power-ups to collect. You can also use the credits earned for completing missions to upgrade your tank. There are also a few different tanks to choose from including the Rhino which is heavily armoured but runs out of fuel faster than the other tanks.
Awesome Golf is as the name suggests, a golf simulator. There are 3 courses to play: one in the U.K one in the U.S and the third one in Japan. The gameplay involves you lining up your shot via an overhead view which when set up switches to a third person view. Whilst in this view you need to swing the club and stop it at the desired power and then stop it on the correct symbol to get the perfect hit. If you don't get it right you will either miss the ball or hit the earth. There are 14 clubs at your disposal, 8 irons, 3 woods 2 wedges and a putter which are selected by moving the hand cursor over your Golf bag and selecting the desired club.
Villatown has been under siege by a local gang known as the Scorpions. A rumor began to spread that the gang was going to commit a train robbery so the town's sheriff went out to investigate and was never heard from again. Seeking vengeance, the sheriff's son named Sam went out to fight the Scorpions, but was ambushed by some of the gang and was almost killed. Sam was luckily saved by an Indian Warrior named Little Chief. After Little Chief seen Sam's courage, he vowed to help Sam bring the Scorpions to justice. Sam became the new Sheriff in town and chose Little Chief as his deputy.
In this game you play the role of Sheriff Sam, a young gunslinger who travels the land fighting baddies and playing mini games. The main game play involves you moving around the towns horizontally collecting gold by hitting chest whilst at the same time killing the bad guys before they kill you. There is also an RPG element to it where you have to visit people in the towns in order to proceed like at the very beginning where you need to first acquire a knife and you are then able to smash the chest and get money in order to buy a key which in turn allows you to enter the Sheriffs building. Once you are made sheriff you can go to various towns hunting down an outlaw for the bounty money. There are also mini-games such as the shooting range where you have to shoot the bad guy targets whilst avoiding shooting the innocent bystander targets.
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In this game you play the role of the Whizzkid. The gameplay involves you collecting letters from the mouths in the corners of the screen and placing them in the sentence to spell out a famous saying. To hinder your progress are spinning wheels which both hurt you if you make contact and steal the letters from the sentence and take them back to the mouths where you have to go and collect them again. There is however a spray can that you can use to get the letter back off of a wheel. After completing a level you are told as the title suggests Who Said That.
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In this game you play the role of a man who has been deatomized by a rogue 6502 processor and are now trapped inside the computer. The gameplay involves you running around a maze collecting both the key which opens up the exit for the level and also the program disk. The MCP is following you all the time and if it makes contact with you you lose a life. There are also walls and blocks which switch from visible to invisible making it harder to run as you can't walk through them.
In this game you take the role of a contestant in the TV game show The Krypton Factor. The gameplay is divided up into different types of mental skill including Observation in which you are told a story and shown a picture. The story is then told again but with subtle changes along with the picture which alters. You must then type in what text has changed and also what has altered on the picture. There are also mathematical puzzles involving you remembering a sequence and working out the sum quickly as the clock is ticking away. As the game progresses there are also physical tasks to do including moving the Ergobuggy around a course and finishing off with a general knowledge quiz.
Conflict: Vietnam is the third game in Pivotal Games' Conflict series, this time going further back in time to the bloody battleground of Vietnam. The game is set during the Tet offensive in the year 1968.
The player takes over the roles of four soldiers who aren't, contrary to previous games, elite S.A.S or Delta Force soldiers. In fact, they are normal American G.I. who are separated from their unit during battle and have to fight themselves through enemy territory with hordes of hostile Vietnamese.
Game can be played by issuing orders to every member of the squad or directly taking control over one of them. In every mission, there are one or more main and several bonus objectives, like destroying all tanks in the area or collecting Vietcong documents. For each achieved objective, killed soldier or destroyed vehicle, squad members get experience points. Each one of them has different abilities (Sniper, Leader, Heavy Weapons, Medic) which can be improved with these points. To defuse one of the numerous booby traps, it is necessary to have skills in that ability.
The levels are set around the jungle and include underground Vietcong complexes or temples. In addition to enemies, friendly characters like allied soldiers or citizens can be encountered and talked to, with some of them giving bonus objectives to complete. Furthermore, some missions involve the use of stationary weapons like machineguns and driving jeeps or tanks.
The console versions of Conflict: Vietnam feature a split-screen multiplayer co-op mode with up to four players (Xbox), or two players (PS2). The PC version doesn't have this feature.
In this game you play the role of an adventurer who must make his way across the perilous abyss which many others before him have failed to do. The game starts with you seeing the network of bridges from a birds eye view and you have to decide which way to go as hanging around on the bridges for to long results in you falling into the abyss below. When you get off a bridge you are issued a challenge from the various monsters you encounter which ranges from mathematical questions to negotiating your way through various mazes. The goal of the game is to reach the end of the mountain of the golden lion which is represented by a flashing F.
In this game you play the role of a barbarian who must navigate his way through dangerous dungeons. The game is played from a third person side scrolling perspective and also has platform jumping parts to it. The barbarian is controlled by using left and right on the joystick to move and up and down is used to scroll through the various commands at the bottom of the screen. When a command is highlighted pressing fire will perform that action thus saving on extra buttons being needed to play. There are two weapons at your disposal. A sword which you start the game with and later a bow which is handy for long range attacks. There are many traps to avoid and various monsters who have different attack patterns.
In this game you play the role of a robot whose aim it is to kill all the robots in a factory. The gameplay involves you shooting a path though blocks to get to the next screen. There are also different kinds of robots to shoot which are blocking your path. Some robots cannot be destroyed and move up and down the screen you have to time it right to move past them. The blocks that have to be removed require two blasts from your laser to destroy them so quick reflexes are in order as standing about for to long can be hazardous. You have a bar which says KAPUT and each time you are hit a letter of it lights up, when the whole word is lit up its game over.
In this game you play the role of a man who has to try and defeat an evil wizard. The game starts with you outside a castle in the middle of a blizzard and you need to get inside quick as every move you take lowers your body temperature until you freeze to death. The game is played by typing in a direction or action you want the character to perform. There is also graphics to show you the location.
In this game you play the role of a teenager who is new to the big wide world. The gameplay is played very similar to Space Invaders but instead of shooting lasers at aliens you actually shoot the word "NO" at drug pushers who are shooting drugs at you. You have a resistance bar and every time a drug hits you it gets lowered until you end up dead of a drug overdose. This game was published by the Nottinghamshire Constabulary as part of their "Just say NO to drugs" campaign. There is even a flashing message that reads "AVOID ALL DRUGS" which is both helping you to play the game and maybe burning the message into your subconscious.
In this Game you play the role of 4 different Time Lords each named Dr What, Dr Where, Dr When and Dr Why. The different doctors are in separate time zones but can help each other out by altering history to aid a doctor in the future. The gameplay involves you jumping over platforms and picking up items which are used to solve various puzzles throughout the game. The game is based on the B.B.C science fiction show Doctor Who but names have been slightly altered as it isn't licensed.
In this game you play the role of "Doctor Goo", who has been given the task of stopping the evil Samorons from taking over the galaxy. The game is a totally unofficial version of the previous Doctor Who text adventures but the characters' names are spelled differently. You start off in your time machine and have to type commands to go to different places and solve puzzles. The style of the game is more comical with lots of jokes.
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