Six ruthless dictators have collaborated to create the planet Draconia, which contains some of the most gruesome and harmful life-forms imaginable, all indulging in some rather unsavoury actions. Thus, you must go in your spaceship to destroy them all. The game is a side-scrolling R-Type-influenced shoot ’em up consisting of six visually-diverse levels. Waves of … Read more
Laser Squad is by the same designer as Microprose’s classic X-Com: UFO Defense. It brings to the table an immersive gameplay environment as well as many innovative ideas that weren’t available in any other game of the time. In Laser Squad you control a group of “marine”-like soldiers (and the occasional cyborg). Before taking them … Read more
In the far future, the human race has abandoned Earth for the reaches of outer space, having ruined the planet in the relentless quest for resources and in endless conflict. In a desperate search to find a new home, they found Evath, a life-sustaining planet with two moons, Mitral and Tricuspid. They sent a ship, … Read more
Annals of Rome begins in 273BC and sets you as a Roman senator, with the ultimate aim of colonizing as much of the known world as possible, and retaining that power against Carthaginians, Vandals, Parthians, Persians and all the other world forces. You have a strong army at your disposal, and can direct your generals … Read more
Rambo is a side scrolling platform game where the player controls Rambo with his mission to Vietnam. The game starts at the military base before getting sent to Vietnam. In Vietnam, Rambo has to fight animals in the jungles, swamps, and caves like wasps, snakes, fish, tigers, bats, spiders, birds, apes and flamingos. Before making … Read more
Border Zone is an interactive fiction video game written by Marc Blank and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released for MS-DOS, Apple II, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and Macintosh. Unlike most other purely text-based games, Border Zone incorporates real-time aspects of gameplay. It is also Infocom’s thirtieth game.[citation needed] Its tagline is … Read more
Alf’s best buddies from Melmac have crash-landed their spaceship on Earth! The dreaded Dog Catcher was alerted and he is on his way to nab Alf’s friends! Guide Alf through the maze-like neighborhood, as he collects all that was lost from the spaceship. Join him in the race against time and the Dog Catcher as … Read more
Sequel to Tau Ceti and written by the same author, Pete Cooke. The game-play is similar — the player pilots a ‘skimmer’ through a 3D world — but with many extra features. Instead of a single, large game world, the story-line is mission-based (but allowing the player some control over the order of play). The … Read more
Call it a sequel… And you’ll land up flat on your back. They called International Karate ‘the greatest Karate beat ‘em up yet’ (Commodore User). And who are we to argue? But ARCHER MACLEAN has come up with a stunner: A third fighter. An amazing animated background. New moves (including double head-kick and a spectaclular … Read more