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- ADVEN_C.ZIP 114993 11-22-93 Adventure ($0) is an adventure game with
- | complete C source code.
- ADVENTUR.ZIP 119868 11-22-93 Adventure Games ($0) This is a collection of
- | old, text-based adventure games, most of
- | which require Basic. These are included
- | primarily for people who really love such
- | games or who are Basic programmers and want
- | to study the source code.
- ALICE.ZIP 160313 11-20-93 Alice in Wonderland (Johnson, R. C.; $10) is
- | an adventure game based on Lewis Carroll's
- | famous book. The adventures you have will be
- | based in part on the book, but in many ways
- | it will be very different. This is NOT an
- | easy game. We had trouble getting started at
- | all.
- BORIS.COM 44886 12-04-89 Boris (Targonski, Anthony; $20) In this game
- | you try to get all the necessary items you
- | will need to take on a one-way trip to
- | America without being spotted by the KGB.
- BTN_ADV.ZIP 100185 11-18-93 Button Games (Button, Conrad; $15) contains
- | two adventure games, "Castaway" and "South
- | America Trek".
- BTN_ADV2.ZIP 165563 11-18-93 Button Games #2 (Button, Conrad; $15)
- | contains the games Nebula, Dark Continent
- | and Red Planet.
- COMBAT.EXE 81216 12-04-89 Combat starts as an adventure game but when
- | you encounter monsters, it switches to
- | graphics for the sword fighting.
- CRYPTHS.EXE 70885 12-16-91 Crypt 2.0 (Herringbone Software; $12) is an
- | all-text adventure involving the exploration
- | of an English church, churchyard, and
- | underground vaults where great treasures
- | from British history may be found. These
- | treasures are protected by devious traps and
- | creatures both natural and supernatural.
- DEXPLOR.EXE 80620 01-18-91 Dungeon Explorer 1.0 (Murphy, John; $10) is
- | a graphical role playing game in which you
- | wander around the countryside, searching for
- | treasures and magic, and killing monsters.
- | You can purchase potions, weapons, armor,
- | and healing points at special shops. (The
- | author is no longer at the address provided
- | in the documentation.)
- DRED.EXE 65359 08-22-89 D.R.E.D. Attack (McWilliams, Wayne; $?) is a
- | text adventure game where you are one of the
- | top agents and your job is to keep peace and
- | stop all disturbances. Sound effects are
- | used effectively, but are optional.
- DROGANY.COM 26068 12-04-89 Droganya (Chodes, Steve; $5) is a bi-active
- | adventure game. The course of the game is
- | dictated by your response to the situation.
- | The goal is to free the souls of the
- | townspeople which have been trapped by the
- | evil Lord Droganya.
- CRUSADE.ZIP 100621 12-07-93 Crusade and Quest ($0) are two adventure
- | games set in the Middle Ages.
- DITCH1@.EXE 69662 12-12-91 Ditch Day Drifter (Roberts, Michael J.; $?)
- | is a text adventure game that takes place on
- | the campus of Caltech. You play the main
- | character: an undergraduate at Caltech. As
- | the story opens, you find that today is
- | Ditch Day, the Caltech tradition in which
- | seniors leave campus for the day, but not
- | before barring the doors to their rooms with
- | all sorts of complex puzzles and devices
- | called "stacks." Your job is to defeat the
- | stack left by the senior who lives across
- | the hall from you, in order to get into his
- | room and claim whatever treasures await you.
- DITCH2@.EXE 128522 12-12-91 See xxx
- DS_AWAKE.ZIP 81683 12-04-93 Deep Space Awakening (Stanley, Declan; $10)
- | is a text-based adventure game for advanced
- | players. You awaken in space in your deep
- | sleep capsule only to find most of your
- | fellow crew members have been devoured by an
- | unknown orange mold. You try to maneuver
- | around the damaged spaceship, seeking
- | survivors, and trying not to be killed.
- DS_DRIFT.ZIP 143378 12-05-93 Deep Space Drifter (High Energy Software;
- | $15) you are adrift in your spaceship,
- | nearly out of fuel and in the middle of
- | nowhere. The process of getting rescued is
- | where the adventure begins. In this
- | text-only adventure you must live by your
- | wits, and try to survive the dangers of a
- | hostile universe. There are several
- | interesting features that set this game
- | apart from other text adventures including a
- | "review mode" that lets you go back and look
- | at text that is no longer visible on the
- | screen, and a "Script" command that writes
- | everything you see on the screen (your
- | commands and the game's responses) to a disk
- | file.
- EVETS.ZIP 525409 11-20-93 Evets (Ackerman, Steven P.; $10) is a
- | role-playing fantasy adventure game. The
- | program creates a drama where the player(s)
- | are in a world of animated mythology. Each
- | player is a roguish character living by his
- | wits who attempts to challenge the fabulous
- | spirits, sprites and monsters of folklore.
- | Players explore endless labyrinths and
- | dungeons in search of treasure and glory.
- GALLANT.ZIP 97481 10-12-93 Sir Guy Gallant [Wright, Eddie R.; $10]
- | ("... & The Deadly Warning") is a mystery
- | adventure game. It is set in mid-17th
- | century England on the property of Gallant
- | Hall. You, as Sir Guy Gallant, a cavalier
- | knight of that era, must discover clues as
- | to who killed your father, the late Sir
- | James.
- GAMORAMA.ZIP 106836 11-18-93 Bob's Game-O-Rama (Maston, Robert A.; $?)
- | contains two adventure games.
- HAUNTED.COM 50843 02-07-90 Haunted - You search the neighborhood for
- | the kidnapped Pumpkin Man and rid the
- | neighborhood of ghosts and other nasties.
- HUMBUG.ZIP 146523 06-28-93 Humbug (Cluley, Graham; $20) HUMBUG starts
- | innocently enough as you are are sent to
- | your Grandad's for the Christmas holidays.
- | You must discover the significance of the
- | time machine in the cellar, play a round of
- | Wubble-A-Gloop with an octopus, hobnob with
- | some peculiar Vikings, discern the
- | intentions of the evil neighbors, and much
- | more. Getting used to some of the English
- | vernacular used in the story is part of the
- | fun.
- ISLAND.COM 50807 02-07-90 Island - You are stranded on an island.
- JACJIM.EXE 93691 01-14-92 Jacaranda Jim (Cluley, Graham; $20) In
- | JACARANDA JIM you are rescued by an alien
- | after crash landing on the strange world of
- | Ibberspleen IV. In this game you will do
- | battle with manic-depressive deckchair
- | attendants, navigate a sinister network of
- | dank caves, and decipher the mystery of the
- | floating sphere. All will be revealed if you
- | can just figure out what to do with the
- | gin-spitting pirate, a cucumber, and a piece
- | of gristle.
- KILLADV.COM 8050 10-10-89 KILLADV ($0) lets you try to survive as a
- | tourist lost in some burnt-out, deserted
- | buildings in New York City. BASIC required.
- LOSTGOLD.ZIP 137373 11-21-93 Lost Gold 1.02 (Johnson, Ray; $12) is a
- | detailed text adventure that takes you back
- | to search for the Lost Dutchman Mine. There
- | are lots of obstacles and hazards to
- | overcome, puzzles to solve, and assorted
- | treasure mines to explore.
- LOVEFIRE.ZIP 81124 09-29-93 Lovefire 1.2 (Pinnacle Software; $0) is a
- | branching story program. You get to make
- | decisions about the way the story develops.
- | It's a cross between a novel and an
- | adventure game. Oh yeah, and it's for women
- | only! Female chauvinist programmer...
- LUCIFER.EXE 75981 10-10-89 Lucifer is a real-time adventure game.
- | Real-time means that unlike other adventure
- | games where you can take your time entering
- | commands, you have to be fast on the
- | keyboard. An additional program lets you
- | create your own dungeons. A CPU slow-down
- | utility may be required.
- MCMURPHY.ZIP 86812 11-20-93 McMurphy's Mansion (Martin-A; $10) is an
- | all-text adventure game. It features an
- | on-screen map (no graphics required), help
- | screens and inventory list.
- PIRATE.ZIP 103055 11-23-93 Pirate is an interesting maze type of game
- | in which you try to work your way through
- | tunnels and ledges in and around a cave,
- | looking for a pirate's treasure. Once found,
- | you attempt to work your way back out
- | without losing the treasure. BASIC required.
- | Also in this archive is a French-language
- | adaptation of Pirate by Jean-Pierre
- | Cabannes. The player may use the numeric
- | keypad as direction keys, the labyrinth and
- | catacombs are more complicated, and the
- | second location of the treasure is at a
- | random place.
- REDPLAN.COM 60712 08-16-89 Red Planet (Button, Conrad; $20) You go to
- | Mars to secure the lost treasures of Aukbaa.
- | Upon achieving planetary orbit you find that
- | your fuel is depleted. Can you acquire the
- | Lost Treasures of Aukbaa and return home?
- | This is an advanced level game.
- SANITY 286091 05-10-92 Sanity Clause (McCauley, Mike; $10) is a
- | bizarre text adventure in which you attempt
- | to get Santa Claus around the world on
- | Christmas Eve by jumping from time zone to
- | time zone to stay at midnight. You must deal
- | with screwy elves, flying reindeer, hostile
- | climates, and other situations which defy
- | description. This game is suitable for all
- | ages; you cannot die and you don't have to
- | kill any one or thing, but if you fail in
- | your tasks Christmas will be ruined for the
- | entire world.
- SKULL.EXE 71045 11-19-89 SkullDuggery 3.1 (Jewett, David; $12) is a
- | classic text adventure, set on the southeast
- | coast of eighteenth-century England.
- SOGGY.EXE 327273 03-19-93 Shades of Gray (Steve Bauman and others; $0)
- | is a psychological thriller in the form of a
- | text adventure game. You awaken in a dark
- | room with three vampires discussing your
- | fate. After you burst through the door and
- | scramble into the desolate woods, you must
- | discover your purpose in this nightmare. You
- | will meet and talk with friends and foes on
- | your quest, and there are many
- | thought-provoking puzzles to be solved.
- SQUYNCH.ZIP 100621 11-23-93 Squynch (Malmberg, David; $0) is an
- | adventure game in which you try to save a
- | nation of very odd creatures by finding the
- | crown jewels. Easy to moderate difficulty.
- ST.COM 50505 08-22-89 Spectre Tower (McWilliams, Wayne; $?) is
- | another in a series of text adventure games
- | in which you play a top secret agent. This
- | adventure takes you through the Spectre
- | Tower.
- STAGEFRI.ZIP 140281 11-20-93 Son of Stagefright (McCauley, Mike; $5) is a
- | text adventure game. This game was the first
- | place winner in the third annual AGT
- | Adventure Game Writing Contest. In it, you
- | play the role of an actor or actress trying
- | to get out of an old, abandoned theater.
- | Along the way you'll run into creaky
- | catwalks, raging rivers, mini mazes, rogues,
- | royalty, rats and a zoo keeper.
- SUBMARI.COM 52200 02-07-90 Submarine - You are a crewman on a nuclear
- | submarine. It's up to you to make the
- | mission a successful one.
- TERROR.COM 27779 02-07-90 Terror - The government has sent you to
- | Antarctica where the enemy has a secret
- | weapon hidden in an ice cavern. You must get
- | in, steal the plans, and get back out.
- TITANIC.ZIP 123368 11-18-93 Beyond the Titanic is a text adventure game.
- UNNKUL1.EXE 161115 06-16-92 UnnKulian Adventures (High Energy Software;
- | $10) is a pair of richly complex,
- | well-written, text-based adventure games,
- | Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of ACME
- | and Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown
- | Unventure.
- UNNKUL2.EXE 179176 06-16-92 See xxx
- WIZ_LAIR.ZIP 212721 11-20-93 Wizard's Lair (Nowalk, Rick; $25) is an
- | adventure game where you will travel with a
- | group through the wilderness, the wasteland
- | or the hidden valley fighting various
- | monsters. Skill levels are acquired as the
- | game goes on.
- WS20.ZIP 74938 06-08-89 Wilderness Survival (Carroll, Christian D.;
- | $12-$15) is a fantasy adventure game in
- | which you get lost in the National Forest
- | with only a Swiss Army Knife and have to
- | find your way to the Ranger Station. Perils
- | include fist fights with Paul Bunyan, Davy
- | Crockett, and others as well as foot races
- | with Indians. Meanwhile, Rugglestone Ripper
- | is a murderer who has been hiding in the
- | forest and it's up to you to solve the crime
- | and bring him to justice.
- ZOARRE.COM 63009 08-16-89 Zoarre is an adventure game.
- DUDLEY.ZIP 140177 11-20-93 Dudley Dilemma (Barrow, Lane; $?) In this
- | game, you play the role of a Harvard student
- | living in Dudley House in his/her quest for
- | knowledge, adventure and a diploma. This
- | award winning game is a very clever,
- | humorous and challenging adventure in the
- | classic style of Infocom.
- LIFELESS.ZIP 249981 11-20-93 "Another Lifeless Planet..." C.1 (Drew,
- | Dennis; $?) ("...and Me with No Beer") is an
- | adventure game in which everything you do or
- | come in contact with has an express purpose.
- | You are a hapless astronaut stranded on a
- | hostile alien planet, trying to get to an
- | alien spaceship and rig it to blast off
- | safely. You will face perils such as deadly
- | Slurpers, Air Squids, Bladderbeasts, and the
- | terrible Pun Palm Tree. Prepare to die
- | horribly and often; we couldn't get past the
- | large, icky-looking monster. Requires 640k,
- | and a hard disk is recommended.
- MD_THIEF.ZIP 290895 11-19-93 Multi-Dimensional Thief (Finch, Joel; $0) is
- | a humorous text adventure game. Pop-up hints
- | are included.
- PORK.ZIP 169237 11-20-93 Pork (Malmberg, David; $0) is a parody of
- | Infocom's Zork text adventure, as well as
- | being an interesting adventure game. You do
- | not need to have played Zork to enjoy this
- | game. Requires a hard disk or high density
- | floppy.
- QUEST.EXE 89110 06-15-91 Quest Mini-Adventure Number #1 1.0 (Kemplin,
- | Rick; $0) is novella-type role playing game
- | that lets the player decide the story's
- | outcome by deciding plot turns. Quest is
- | more short-story than game. (Text may not be
- | suitable for children in places.) A
- | slow-down utility may be needed.
- T_ZERO.ZIP 219910 12-05-93 T-Zero (Cunningham, Dennis M. ASP; $15) is a
- | text-based adventure game that mixes
- | elements of fantasy and science fiction,
- | while exploring the nature of time. Your
- | task is to locate six objects scattered
- | across eras and landscapes, and manipulate
- | them in a fashion that will right the
- | troubled times. The prose featured in this
- | game is beautifully descriptive, although a
- | bit on the cryptic side. This is one of the
- | most unusual adventures you'll ever go on.
- CLIF_DVR.ZIP 204450 11-20-93 Cliff Diver (Farley, Patrick; $10) is an
- | adventure game in which you help Cliff
- | Diver, a private investigator living and
- | working in San Francisco, solve a crime. A
- | pop-up hint file is included.
- CRIME.COM 44932 02-07-90 Crime - You solve a crime that starts in a
- | video arcade.
- FBI.ZIP 126454 11-20-93 FBI (MicroMinded Software Co.; $20) is a
- | game in which you are are the director of a
- | team of up to eleven field agents which are
- | located all over the United States. Your
- | assignment is to guide these agents so that
- | they can chase and capture crooks.
- HIGHSEA.ZIP 289600 09-22-93 High Sea Homicide (Sherwood Forest Software;
- | $15) is a murder mystery game. While on
- | vacation aboard an ocean liner, you find
- | yourself in the midst of a murder mystery.
- | You must find the killer and bring them to
- | justice. Requires VGA & hard drive.
- ITTYBIT.ZIP 95094 11-20-93 Itty Bitty Mysteries (BEZ; $10) is a
- | collection of five different mysteries to
- | solve. Each mystery starts with a picture of
- | the situation and a little background
- | information. As you move the cursor around
- | the screen, it will change into a magnifying
- | glass when it touches a clue. When you are
- | ready to solve the mystery, you are asked a
- | series of question to see if you really have
- | all the facts. You don't have to be Sherlock
- | Holmes to figure these out, but you will
- | have to pay careful attention to all the
- | obvious (and not-so-obvious) clues at your
- | disposal.
- MDV.ZIP 146348 09-22-93 Mordorventure III 6.0 (Rockland Software
- | Productions; $17) is a role-playing fantasy
- | adventure game. Up to five people can play
- | simultaneously or play against the computer.
- | May require a cpu slow-down utility.
- SAMSPAD.COM 47127 08-16-89 SamSpade is an adventure that lets you solve
- | a mystery a la Sam Spade.
- SLEUTH.ZIP 55482 11-20-93 Sleuth (Miller, Eric; $?) is a
- | murder-mystery adventure game. As you begin
- | a game of SLEUTH a murder has just been
- | committed. Your job is to mingle with the
- | houseguests and to search the contents of
- | the house until you feel you have solved the
- | crime. Every game of SLEUTH is different so
- | you must fully explore the house each time
- | that you play.
- SWEDEN.ZIP 177070 11-20-93 One Night in Sweden (Gustafsson, Roger; $20)
- | is a murder mystery adventure or
- | role-playing game. It proceeds from a man's
- | point of view, but women could play it too.
- | This game is based on realistic interaction
- | with the characters in the story. There are
- | no "right" or "wrong" answers. You have to
- | be smart and tactical to inspire confidence
- | and get information, just like in real life.
- | You have to be even smarter to use the clues
- | and find out who the murderer is. The
- | program features high-res black and white
- | animated graphics and music. The game is
- | different each time you play.
- COL_CAVE.ZIP 177461 11-20-93 Colossal Cave (ImageIllusions; $0) The
- | object is to get into the cave, gather all
- | the treasures and get out alive. Requires
- | 384K.
- DUNGEONS.ZIP 74561 11-18-93 DND (Knight, Bill; $?) is a computerized
- | version of a popular role-playing game known
- | as Dungeons and Dragons.
- NETHACK.EXE 454417 10-12-92 Nethack (Fenlason, Jay; $0) is a game of 28+
- | levels, 150+ rooms, and countless corridors.
- | Danger abounds in this game. Besides a huge
- | inventory of monsters there are many traps
- | awaiting the unwary. Also, many of the
- | treasures you find (and you find plenty if
- | you live long enough) turn out to be very
- | hazardous to your health. In fact, if you
- | are an average beginning player, we can
- | safely predict that you will probably not
- | get past level 3 during the first 10 games
- | you play (unless you happen to fall through
- | a trap door). Required: 512k, hard disk.
- HACK.EXE 169790 10-12-92 Hack (Kneller, Don; $?) is a "Dungeons and
- | Dragons"-type game. Like the other Dungeons
- | and Dragons game on the library, a hard disk
- | or RAM disk is recommended. If you do not
- | have RAM-disk software, see the "Disk
- | Drives" section of the Guide. Hack is a
- | display oriented "Dungeons and Dragons" type
- | game. It is similar in style to ROGUE played
- | on UNIX systems but HACK is much richer in
- | character. Hack has many more monsters and
- | highly varied magic. The motivation in Hack
- | is to descend through the dungeon to find
- | the Amulet of Yendor, then return to the
- | surface. As you travel you will meet various
- | creatures (most of them nasty), find objects
- | (some having magical properties), and
- | experience many hazards in the dungeon
- | itself.
- OMEGA.EXE 292133 10-12-92 Omega (Brothers, Laurence R.; $?) is a
- | complex rogue-style game of dungeon
- | exploration. There are a number of ways to
- | win, and the game (via the oracle) may
- | impose some structure on your exploration,
- | but you need not follow all of the oracle's
- | advice. The game is very similar to Rogue,
- | Hack, Ultrarogue, Larn, and other such
- | games. Requires 640K of memory and a hard
- | disk.
- HUMONGUS.ZIP 338315 11-18-93 Humongous Cave (Softworks ASP; $15) is a
- | complex text adventure game based on the 550
- | point version of Colossal Cave. It
- | encompasses 300 different locations and over
- | 200 creatures, treasures, and puzzles
- | totaling 1000 points. There is an ingenious
- | help system that can be invoked at any time,
- | producing a topic menu. The clues are
- | revealed one at a time, so you can stop
- | looking if you don't want to cheat too much.
- | This is a vast, professionally produced game
- | which requires 512K of memory and 1.2 meg of
- | disk space.
- LABYRNTH.ZIP 110166 11-19-93 Deadly Labyrinth (West, Frank; $0) is a text
- | adventure game inspired by a series of books
- | from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman called
- | the Death Gate Cycle.
- EC3.ZIP 115907 08-25-93 Enchanted Castle (Wilk, Michael; $15) is a
- | very well written adventure in an old castle.
- EVILCRP.EXE 37426 01-22-93 Evil Crypt (Keisler, Curtis; $5) As Willie
- | the Wizard you have to recover your sword
- | and spellbook from the evil lord to to save
- | the people of Seleria. The evil lord has
- | granted you the opportunity to explore the
- | three levels of his evil crypt to gather
- | your possesions. You will encounter bugs
- | that can bite through steel, poisonous
- | snakes, intergalactic creatures, bottomless
- | pits and more.
- AMUSEUM.EXE 84261 12-11-90 Adventurer's Museum (Chapel, Lee; $15-$45)
- | requires you to search a cave for stolen
- | museum treasures, avoiding traps and
- | obstacles.
- BIGRIG.COM 45367 12-04-89 BigRig is a well-done game in which you
- | drive a big truck of freight across country.
- | You decide what type of freight to carry,
- | whether to spend money on maintenance,
- | whether to exceed the speed limit, etc.
- EMPIRE.COM 57284 08-16-89 Empire 5.0 is a simulation of a full-scale
- | war between two emperors, the computer and
- | you.
- FRIGATE.COM 60071 11-05-89 Frigate 1.2 (Kaufman, Matt; $0) is a
- | simulation game which pits you and your ship
- | against a Soviet fleet of vessels. The
- | object of the game is to destroy as many
- | Russian ships as possible while avoiding
- | destruction.
- IBC.COM 52693 08-22-89 International Bridge Contractors is a
- | business strategy game in which you compete
- | against other businesses.
- LIFEROD.EXE 72150 08-22-89 Down Life's Road (Von Pein, Daniel R.; $0)
- | lets up to three players compete against
- | each other or against the computer to see
- | who can deal with daily financial decisions
- | and reach a preset monetary goal.
- NATIONS.EXE 49789 09-19-91 The Strength of Nations 2.2 (del Rio,
- | Israel; $10) is set in the year 2019 in the
- | aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. You lead
- | one of the rebuilding nations. Up to three
- | people can play at once.
- OILWELL.COM 29731 08-16-89 Oilwell (MTK Software; $5) is a game of
- | strategy and luck for one player. As the
- | game begins, you have just just inherited an
- | oil company from your rich uncle. The oil
- | company has $50,000 in cash, a single
- | oilwell, and a mortgage. During the game you
- | must use your skill to increase your worth
- | to $3,000,000 in order to pay off the
- | mortgage. You have twenty turns in which to
- | do this. Each turn consists of unlimited
- | moves of buying, selling, refining,
- | searching for oil, starting wells, and
- | drilling on wells. At the end of each turn
- | you must pay your taxes. During the game you
- | may have to face strikes by the union,
- | fires, and random occurrences which may
- | influence the cost of crude oil or your
- | refining costs. Sounds like your average
- | work day in Houston.
- ROCKSTAR.ZIP 133443 12-04-93 RockStar (Wizard Games; $20) is a game in
- | which you are trying to gain popularity and
- | chart success in the crazy world of sex,
- | drugs, and rock and roll. Your health,
- | alertness, creativity, happiness, and drug
- | intake are constantly monitored and must be
- | carefully controlled.
- SEAWOLF.EXE 98681 10-08-90 Tommy's Seawolf 12.18.89 (Tommy's Toys; $2)
- | puts you in control of a submarine. Features
- | include real-time sonar display and
- | realistic sound effects. ASCII characters
- | are used for graphics, so it will run on any
- | machine.
- SPMINER.COM 30346 05-29-91 Spaceminer! (Nelson, Mark P.; $10) is a
- | text-based game that finds you in charge of
- | a mining colony on a remote mining colony on
- | Beta Crucis IV. You must make decisions
- | concerning the sale and purchase of the
- | individual mines, sale of ore to traders,
- | and procurement of food and supplies for
- | your people. Can you survive?
- SRULER.EXE 73672 06-06-90 Supreme Ruler Plus (Orcus Maximus Software
- | International; $0) is a game in which you
- | are the president of a small country trying
- | to beat up as many as eight other countries
- | in a race for land and wealth. It can be
- | played by nine people or up to nine computer
- | opponents.
- WISH25.COM 40032 08-16-89 WishingWell 2.5 (Rongey, Tony; $10) is a
- | petroleum exploration game. This game was
- | designed to be as close a possible to real
- | petroleum prospecting. The 2D and 3D
- | prospect maps present realistic subsurface
- | topography similar to common geological
- | maps. The economics and production also
- | follow rules which insure realistic game
- | play. Those of you who are familiar with the
- | oil business will appreciate the inclusion
- | of a simple production decline curve and the
- | limits imposed on production by depth and
- | formation characteristics. A detailed
- | financial statement is also included.
- | Although the simulation is complex the
- | instructions are simple, and play is fairly
- | intuitive. Requires CGA or EGA.
- AGT.EXE 304459 06-07-93 Adventure Game Toolkit 1.5 (Malmberg, David
- | R. & Welch, Mark J. ASP; $20) will allow you
- | to create and play your own text adventure
- | games. The Standard Level requires no
- | programming experience to generate
- | interesting games. The Professional Level
- | makes use of a special adventure game
- | language to create games that have the
- | professional look and feel of commercial
- | (eg: Infocom) adventure games. Games can
- | have up to 200 locations, 100 inanimate
- | objects, 100 people, animals or creatures,
- | and up to a 400-word vocabulary. Requires
- | 384k+.
- ADVCOMP.COM 28043 12-04-89 AdvComp is an adventure game compiler that
- | lets you create your own simple adventure
- | games. BASIC is required. (Not on a par with
- | AGT, above.)
- GAMSCAPE.ZIP 323182 11-21-93 GameScape Graphic C.2 (Drew, Dennis; $95)
- | helps you design adventure games. You can
- | describe locations and rooms, objects,
- | recognizable words, messages and occurrences
- | that happened within the game. You can
- | create games of any size, and include sound
- | and music.
- TADS.EXE 65024 11-21-93 TADS 2.0 (Roberts, Michael J.; $43) is a
- | development system for creating text
- | adventure games. It consists of a compiler
- | for a high-level object-oriented language, a
- | run-time system providing a sophisticated
- | player command parser, and a set of common
- | adventure objects such as a room or items
- | that the player can pick up and carry
- | around. Saving and restoring games, undoing
- | commands, controlling the on-screen display,
- | and several other low-level tasks are done
- | automatically by the system. A sample game
- | is included.
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