5th Gear is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64, released on the Rack-It budget label. The original Commodore 64 version was programmed by Jeroen Leijten, with music by Theo and Renier Hongens. It was largely inspired by previous arcade games Steer and Go and Spy Hunter.
Ant Attack is an action game which innovated the usage of three freedom grades for an isometric perspective game. The freely explorable city, identified in the inlay blurb as Antescher, a combination of Ant and Escher, the famous visual paradox artist, is teeming with deadly giant ants. The player controls a boy or a girl … Read more
THE YEAR 2019: MANHATTAN AFTER A NUCLEAR WAR. FROM OUT OF THE DEBRIS RISES A HERO, JONATHAN ROGERS, KNOWN AS JUNGLE ROGERS, THE BOSS OF THE URBAN JUNGLE. HIS AIM: TO REACH THE LAUNCHING PLATFORM AND ESCAPE TO THE OUTER COLONIES, CROSSING A CITY IN RUINS PLAGUED WITH DISMAL SURVIVORS. RADIATION BECOMES UNBEARABLE AND TIME … Read more
“Soldier of fortune and one man killing machine Bazooka Bill has been despatched to Clarke Air Force Base in a last ditch attempt to rescue General MacArthur” Pentagon officials announced yesterday. You are Bazooka Bill, you must rescue the general from the revolutionaries using only your fists, and anything else you pick up along the … Read more
B-1 Nuclear Bomber is a Simulation game, developed by Microcomputer Games Inc. and published by Avalon Hill, which was released in 1983.
In Battle through Time you drive a small vehicle and have to fight through different worlds. At the first levels you have to avoid airplanes and their bombs and shoot them. Furthermore you encouter obstacles which you have to overcome. At the start you are in World War I, then in World War II. The … Read more
Avenger is a Space Invaders variant. The player has to defend Earth from endless rows of attacking aliens. Flying saucers can be shot for extra points.
Mr. Big is back in town, and this time he’s captured your brother! He’s being held at Big’s Pig Pen which is located on the upper side of town. The problem is, every gang in the city is out looking for you. It is now up to you to beat the odds and rescue your … Read more
In the future (2066) a genetic experiment (Project Firestart) onboard the Prometheus to get strong durable miners went wrong. Your job is to go onboard the Prometheus (which has been out of radio contact) and find out what happened. You will end up fighting monsters, gathering information on what really happened, and have a chance … Read more
Ballyhoo is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Jeff O’Neill and published by Infocom in 1985. It was released for ten different 8 and 16-bit platforms, including MS-DOS, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. It is Infocom’s nineteenth game. With a circus-themed plot, the game’s tagline was “Big-time suspense under the Big Top!” The player’s … Read more