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- CHESS88.EXE 9728 03-04-84 Chess88 is an amazing game. The program is
- | only 9k, which is very tiny by today's
- | standards, yet it has great graphics and
- | plays a decent game for all but hardened
- | tournament players. It first appeared in
- | 1982 and for years remained the best
- | pd/shareware chess game available.
- EDCHESS.EXE 63406 03-18-92 Ed's Chess 2.3 (Hendricks, David and Bell,
- | John T.; $15) was at one time the very
- | strongest pd/shareware chess game available.
- | It can give a hard time to the retail-only
- | game Chessmaster and to most tournament
- | chess players. PowerChess seems to be just
- | as strong and has excellent graphics. Ed's
- | Chess is still a good game and its board
- | makes very good use of ASCII graphics. Since
- | it does use ASCII, it will run on any type
- | of video. The game has many features,
- | including saving/restoring games, move
- | take-back, choice of colors, varying levels
- | of play, recorded time for each move in
- | saved games, board and game editing, printed
- | game reports, and much more.
- PWRCHESS.ZIP 119168 12-03-93 PowerChess (Wild, W. and Heiss, H.; $35) is
- | a powerful, full-featured chess program with
- | excellent graphics. Features include
- | save/restore games, board edit, opening move
- | library, take back moves, print move
- | sequences, play black or white, hints for
- | learning game, set up checkmate puzzles, and
- | the ability to adjust the computer's playing
- | strength by varying its response time from
- | 10 to 300,000 seconds. We experienced some
- | oddities on our VGA system: the first time
- | we ran it, the Hints and the Information
- | screens were both blank. The next time we
- | ran it, they displayed information, but both
- | screens were the same. We had no problems
- | with the actual play of the game, however.
- | The author is no longer at the address
- | listed in the documentation.
- TRID.COM 5528 08-21-89 Star Trek Tridemensional Chess (Rutan, David
- | E.; $0) tells you how to construct a 3D
- | chess set like the one on the old Star Trek
- | series and how to play the game.
- TELCHES.COM 45834 08-21-89 Telechess lets two people play chess over
- | the phone. The opponent's move is
- | automatically displayed on the screen.
- WAXMAN.EXE 30753 10-17-91 WaxMan 1.1 (Bacigal, Ivan; $10) is a
- | surprisingly strong pop-up chess game. Since
- | it is a TSR, you can pop it up at any time
- | to play a few moves. Its use of ASCII
- | characters to represent the pieces is clever
- | and very well done.
- CHESSCLB.EXE 69698 04-01-89 ChessClb 2.55 (Wharry, Stephen; $5) keeps
- | track of a chess club's roster and
- | statistics for two rating systems. Each
- | rating system includes a club rating for
- | each member, the total number of points
- | accumulated, and the total number of games
- | played. CHESSCLB will also keep track of who
- | played whom, when, the result, their ratings
- | at the time and how many rating points were
- | earned/lost. The roster and statistics lists
- | can be sorted by ratings, total number of
- | games, total points scored, ID number, name,
- | or address. The program is fast, menu-driven
- | and easy to use.
- CHS_GEMS.ZIP 223554 12-07-93 Chess Gems & Jewels (Pep-Cal Software; $15
- | each) Gems is a collection of 12 chess games
- | from the world's best players that
- | illustrate and teach Chess tactics. The
- | Jewels section contains 12 lessons from the
- | best short games of postal chess players.
- CHSSCORR.ZIP 85964 12-07-93 Chess Corresponder (Pep-Cal Software; $15
- | each) will keep track of all your postal
- | chess games. It maintains a game board
- | showing the up-to-the-minute position for an
- | unlimited number of games. You can search on
- | a number of different index keys.
- CHSSNDXR.ZIP 84529 12-07-93 Chess Indexer (Pep-Cal Software; $15 each)
- | catalog chess games - yours or others of
- | interest to you. You can enter up to seven
- | search keys, such as the name of the opening
- | variation, type of end-game, etc.
- CHS_QUIZ.ZIP 477975 11-19-93 Chess Quiz Series (Pep-Cal Software; $0) is
- | a set of quizzes designed to help make
- | learning the game of chess fun. Quizzes
- | include an introduction to chess, the
- | Sicilian defense, king pawn openings, queen
- | pawn openings, and the English opening.
- CHSSPERL.ZIP 112980 11-20-93 Chess Pearls (Pep-Cal Software; $15) is a
- | set of 12 lessons drawn from the best short
- | games of the old masters of Chess.
- CHESSEDT.ZIP 84916 12-07-93 Chessedt (Wharry, Stephen; $10) will allow
- | you to build a personal database of chess
- | games, checking for notation errors as you
- | go. You can store the chess games as files
- | and bring them back into the program and
- | examine them at any position in the game,
- | which is especially useful for postal chess
- | players. Besides printer output, the game
- | and annotation can be output to a normal
- | ASCII file that can then be imported into
- | the text editor of your choice. You can
- | build a table of openings and your
- | success/failure with these openings. It will
- | allow you to build a list based on openings,
- | score, tournament, color, date, opponent,
- | ratings, and more. In this list you may
- | include as few as one and as many as every
- | game you have ever played. The program will
- | allow up to 100 moves and replies and up to
- | 50 annotation strings per game. Now the
- | tricky part - it took quite a bit of head
- | banging to figure out how to enter moves.
- | The documentation is sketchy on this and
- | gives no examples. To move a pawn, just give
- | the target square, such as "e4". To move a
- | piece, first give the letter of the piece
- | "in uppercase", then give the target square
- | "in lowercase". Example: to move White's
- | King's Bishop to Queen-Bishop-4, enter
- | "Bc4". To capture with a Pawn, enter the
- | starting "column" and the target " square".
- | Example: "ed5".
- CHESSAVE.ZIP 93945 11-20-93 Chess Saver (Pep-Cal; $15) allows you to
- | record and play back any game of importance
- | to you. Each move can also be annotated with
- | remarks. It precludes having to set up the
- | chess board every time you want to replay a
- | selected game. Also on the same disk:
- CHESTAC.EXE 102113 02-08-93 Chess Tactics provides examples of tactics
- | and maneuvers seen in expert games of Chess.
- CHSSTUTR.ZIP 105311 11-20-93 Chess Tutor (Pep-Cal Software; $15)
- | familiarizes you with many of the opening
- | lines of chess. It is not a tutorial on
- | those openings, just an overview. We
- | recommend it for anyone just starting to
- | study chess seriously.
- DNC.ZIP 108872 11-21-93 DNC 1.02 (Pawn Promotions, Inc.; $40) is an
- | excellent system for recording chess games
- | and analysis. You can enter comments and
- | alternative lines of play. The moves are
- | displayed on an attractive graphical
- | on-screen chess board as you enter them.
- | Descriptive or algebraic notation can be
- | used. You can load a database and step
- | through a game a move at a time, seeing the
- | moves displayed and reading the analysis and
- | alternative moves. You can also add your own
- | alternative moves and analysis to the
- | database at the same time.
- DIACHES.ZIP 109189 07-23-92 DiaChess 1.0 (TNT Software; $20) allows you
- | to record and print complete chess games
- | with a diagram for every move. It's a
- | valuable teaching and study tool for serious
- | players and ideal for printing a permanent
- | record of tournament games.
- TCCR.EXE 46964 08-05-92 The Correspondence Chess Recorder 1.0a
- | (Churchill, Eric; $15) helps you keep track
- | of postal or Email correspondence chess
- | games. Features include game printing,
- | several options for stepping back through a
- | game, three different forms of chess
- | notation, and more.
- FISCHR.EXE 241483 01-13-93 Fischer-Spassky 1992 (Pep-Cal SoftWare; $15
- | each) lets you replay all the games that
- | were played in the Fischer-Spassky chess
- | match in Yugoslavia 1992. The games are
- | heavily annotated, making this a good
- | learning tool as well. Also included is
- | COACH, a tutorial on the rules of Chess.
- K_VS_K.EXE 137767 03-22-93 Kasparov-Karpov 1990 (Pep-Cal Software; $15)
- | displays the 24 games of the 1990 World
- | Championship of Chess. This is Garry
- | Kasparov's and Anatoly Karpov's monumental
- | and decisive match in which Kasparov won.
- | The program lets you step back and forth
- | through each move. The games are heavily
- | annotated.
- KASPRV.EXE 149611 03-22-93 Games of Garry Kasparov (Pep-Cal Software;
- | $15) contains the best and recent games of
- | the current World Champion Garry Kasparov.
- | The games reflect his current ideology and
- | position about the various openings and how
- | he plays them. All games are annotated.
- NIGEL.EXE 147421 04-08-93 Games of Nigel Short (Pep-Cal Software; $15)
- | is a replay of recent chess games played by
- | the August 1993 world challenger, Nigel
- | Short.
- PERCENT.EXE 90865 02-08-93 Percentage Chess and Chess Tactics (Pep-Cal
- | SoftWare; $15 each) Percentage Chess is a
- | study aid for developing the playing skills
- | of Chess and a winning Praxis (method of
- | play). The program traces the most common
- | opening moves, 1.e4 and 1.d4.
- QUEENS8.COM 4593 08-22-89 Queens8 (Hack, Sidney; $7) is an ancient
- | chess puzzle that requires placing 8 queens
- | on a chessboard in such a way that none
- | threatens another. (Two queens on the same
- | row, in the same column, or on the same
- | diagonal `threaten' each other) You don't
- | have to know anything about chess to try to
- | solve the puzzle. All necessary instructions
- | will appear in the form of messages and
- | prompts.
- TAKEN671.ZIP 72454 09-15-93 TakeNote 6.7.1 [Katelansky, David; $10] is a
- | study tool for chess. It allows you to enter
- | multiple lines of play in one game and
- | easily switch among various lines. You can
- | also add notes and go through notes of the
- | game without losing the original position. A
- | tutorial is included.
- TRANSLAT.ZIP 90319 11-20-93 Chess Translator (Pep-Cal; $15) translates
- | opening moves into both the descriptive and
- | the algebraic equivalents as well as showing
- | the moves on screen. The Pep-Cal chess
- | programs use ASCII characters to display the
- | board and pieces, so they do not look
- | impressive, but they will work on any
- | monitor.
- BLITZ.EXE 40843 06-17-93 Blitz 3.6 (PC Solutions; $24) is a very
- | strong game of checkers with many options.
- | You can resize the checker board, alter the
- | response time, show movable pieces, select
- | two-player mode and more.
- CHECKJM.EXE 93170 04-05-90 Checkers 1.61 (McCranie, Judson ASP; $15) is
- | the best checkers game we have seen for the
- | PC. It has excellent graphics and plays a
- | good game. You can select colors and the
- | level of strength at which the computer
- | should play.
- CHKR_PF.COM 34097 05-28-90 Checkers (Franchuk, Peter; $0) lets you play
- | checkers against the computer. The program
- | is not very strong, but the complete Turbo
- | Pascal source code is included. If you are a
- | TP programmer, you may have more fun with
- | the source code than with the game. EGA
- | compatible video is required.
- CHEKKER.EXE 70151 03-26-92 Chekkers 1.7 (Shewchuk, J.D.; $15) is an
- | excellent version of checkers. It features
- | several levels of play, your choice of Hoyle
- | or Huff jump rules. Sound can be toggled
- | on/off. You can flip the board to change
- | sides and record game and board information.
- CHEXO.ZIP 85477 11-21-93 Chexo 1.0 (Soleau Software; $12) is a
- | strategy board game similar to checkers
- | except that you can only move a piece by
- | jumping over another piece of yours or the
- | opponent's. If you jump the opponent's, that
- | piece is removed. The object is to remove
- | all the opponent's pieces. Requires EGA/VGA
- | and a mouse.
- DYNAMO.EXE 35899 06-18-93 Dynamo Draughts 5.9 (PC Solutions; $24) is
- | the European version of Draughts, a variant
- | of checkers. Draughts is played on a 10x10
- | board, although this program allows you to
- | resize the board. One major difference
- | between Draughts and Checkers is the way a
- | king moves. Kings can move along an entire
- | diagonal, leaping opponents, landing on any
- | space beyond the opponent, and then taking
- | further leaps in different directions. You
- | can select the board size, number of men,
- | response time, auto-play, computer IQ,
- | corner shapes and more.
- BATLSHIP.ZIP 110162 11-20-93 BattleShip 2.3 (SimoneSystems Software; $15)
- | is a computerized version of BattleShip with
- | a twist. It features islands, mine sweeping,
- | submerge submarine, moving spy ship, and
- | more. Requires 286+ and mouse.
- WARSHIPS.ZIP 117919 11-20-93 Warships 2.5 (Tag Software; $15) is a
- | computerized version of the game Battleship.
- | You play against the computer, trying to
- | sink its ships before it sinks yours. It
- | features sound effects, nice EGA/VGA
- | graphics, and mouse control.
- ANTIC.EXE 73032 04-16-92 AntiC 1.11 (Cascoly Software ASP; $20) is a
- | cross between Othello and Life. The object
- | of AntiC is make the pattern a single color
- | color using the fewest number of
- | transformations. Each square is one of three
- | colors and sends its color to neighboring
- | squares in the network. If only one color
- | comes into a square, it takes that color. If
- | two colors come in, they cancel and the
- | square assumes the third color. Each time
- | you change a square, all squares in the
- | pattern are recalculated and redrawn.
- | Requires EGA monitor and mouse.
- APPLES.ZIP 99924 11-20-93 Apples & Oranges (Expert Source Code, Inc.;
- | $15) is the game of Othello using apples and
- | oranges rather than the usual black and
- | white pieces. Unfortunately, the program
- | plays a rather weak game, but the graphics
- | are unbeatable. So it's not that much fun to
- | play, but it's great for showing off your
- | video. Three levels of play are offered.
- | Requires EGA or VGA, 355k RAM and a mouse.
- BLOCKAD.ZIP 15491 06-17-93 Blockade 1.9 (PC Solutions; $15) is a
- | strategy board game similar to Othello. Each
- | player takes turns placing his pieces on the
- | board, but unlike Othello, your piece must
- | be placed adjacent to both one of your
- | pieces and one of your opponent's. The
- | effects of such a placement differ from
- | Othello as well. An interesting game.
- CAPTRCW.COM 60911 10-22-89 Capture 2.0 (CurtWare; $10) is similar to
- | Othello. The main difference is that you can
- | select a greater number of squares, up to
- | 400. You can play a friend or the computer,
- | or let the computer play itself. There are
- | three skill levels, but the strongest is not
- | as strong as other Othello type games in the
- | PsL. The program is easy to use and has lots
- | of features, such as being able to save a
- | game.
- DOUBOLO.COM 60561 04-23-90 DoublOlo (Soleau, William; $10) is the best
- | thing to happen to Othello since the
- | two-colored disc! While many programmers
- | have written "yet another rendition" of the
- | classic game of Othello (some of them with
- | excellent graphics and/or playing skill),
- | William Soleau, who has been writing a lot
- | of terrific games recently, has come up with
- | another winner. In this variation, the board
- | varies in size and shape and location of
- | obstacles on the board with each game. This
- | endless variety and different challenges is
- | sure to please anyone who has ever enjoyed a
- | game of Othello but who has grown bored with
- | the same old game all the time. Requires
- | EGA/VGA.
- FLIP_IT.ZIP 33077 02-18-93 Flip-It 4.7 (PC Solutions; $15-$24) is an
- | interesting variation of Reversi/Othello.
- | You can select various grid patterns and
- | sizes for the board. There is also an
- | unusual play-to-lose mode. Function keys can
- | provide help and rules or invoke an
- | auto-play feature.
- HEXES.EXE 54100 04-22-93 Hexes 0.93 (Foltz, H.D.; $0) is an Othello
- | game played on a hexagonal board.
- OTHL_EW.ZIP 70660 02-24-90 Othello 6.2 (Waud, Earl; $20) is an good
- | implementation of Othello for EGA or mono
- | systems. It has seven levels of play; can be
- | played by one or two players; has mouse
- | support and a "boss screen". This is not the
- | strongest Othello we've seen, but the user
- | interface is above average and the program
- | is strong enough to beat the non-expert.
- | (The author is no longer at the address
- | listed in the documentation.)
- REVERSI.COM 63655 06-24-89 Reversi 1.8 (Parson, David; $15) is an
- | excellent version of Othello that supports
- | CGA or EGA/VGA compatible video. It may be
- | the strongest of the bunch.
- TRIBOLO.ZIP 86630 12-09-93 Tribolo (Soleau, William; $12) pits you
- | against two computer opponents in a game of
- | three way Othello. The regular rules of
- | Othello apply, but having three participants
- | creates drastically different playing
- | strategies. Tribolo has excellent EGA
- | graphics and mouse support.
- TEGL1.ZIP 154359 07-26-93 The Big Games Package (TEGL Systems
- | Corporation; $35) is a set of five different
- | games for EGA/VGA: Monopoly, Mahjong
- | Solitaire, Klondike Solitaire, Mille Bornes
- | and Big2.
- TEGL2.ZIP 125649 07-26-93
- TEGL3.ZIP 180345 07-26-93
- TEGL4.ZIP 189259 07-26-93
- BACKGMM.COM 33650 08-21-89 Backgammon is just an electronic board and
- | dice with which you can play a human
- | opponent. The computer will not play you.
- BACKTDM.EXE 48121 11-15-91 Backgammon 5.1 (The Dream Machine; $12) is a
- | challenging version of the ancient board
- | game. It offers a multitude of playing
- | options and includes 10 levels of
- | difficulty. Pieces are moved by typing in
- | the position number you want to play. You
- | can save and recall games, switch sides
- | during play, take back moves, use a doubling
- | cube, have the computer suggest moves, and
- | much more. The program does not offer mouse
- | support, and it can be a nuisance to type in
- | numbers to move a piece. During testing, it
- | aborted to DOS when trying to save a game.
- | Despite these flaws, we believe it is the
- | strongest backgammon game in the library.
- BG.COM 38603 08-21-89 BG is a very good backgammon program. Moving
- | the blots is not exactly difficult, but it
- | could have been made easier to do. The
- | author warns you to expect to get crushed,
- | but it was not the strongest game in our
- | testing.
- BACKGAM.COM 57085 08-22-89 Backgammon is a backgammon game that is very
- | awkward to play, but which comes with
- | complete C source code. Even if you are not
- | a programmer, it is interesting to look at
- | the source and read the comments. If you ARE
- | a programmer, you should find the code to be
- | educational.
- BACK_JG.COM 40433 01-16-90 BackGammon (BACK (Gatewood, Joe; $0) is a
- | CGA version of BackGammon, with doubling
- | cube, graphics and running game score. It
- | plays a decent game, but no option is given
- | for turning off the annoying sounds.
- EGAGAM.EXE 85497 06-07-90 EGAGammon 2.0 (Evans, Daniel R.; $10) is a
- | beautifully done version of Backgammon for
- | the EGA/VGA. You play the computer or a
- | human opponent. Mouse or keyboard may be
- | used by the first player.
- PCGAMMON.ZIP 129316 11-21-93 PC-Gammon IV 1.1 (Repstad Computer
- | Consultants ASP; $25) is the best shareware
- | backgammon game to date. (We called to
- | register as soon as we finished reviewing
- | it!) It plays a very good game, but really
- | shines when it comes to the user interface.
- | In addition, you can save and restore games,
- | write a log of all moves to disk, and
- | customize set-up positions. Other features
- | include three user-selectable playing
- | strengths, three levels of AutoMove, and
- | modem play.
- HKMJ.EXE 78727 10-17-89 Hong Kong Mahjong (Fitch, Julian; $15) is a
- | version of Mahjong as played in Hong Kong.
- | It has excellent graphics because it is
- | written to run only on the VGA. Directions
- | are provided when you run the program. VGA
- | required.
- MAH_PK.EXE 72657 11-28-89 Mahjong 4.1 (King, P. E. ASP; $20) is the
- | game of Mahjong solitaire.
- MAHJNG.EXE 198672 09-17-93 Mah Jongg 4.1 (Anderson, Nels ASP; $10) is a
- | solitaire game played with Chinese tiles.
- | The "Boss Mode" allows you to Shell to DOS
- | to run other programs. A list of all pairs
- | of tiles played so far is available by
- | hitting the F2 key. You also have the
- | ability to load different tile sets. One
- | additional set, "Flags of the World", is
- | included along with a tile editor utility.
- MJLAPTP.EXE 60390 08-23-92 Mah Jongg LapTop 1.1 (Balewski, Ron; $15) is
- | a version of Mah Jongg written with black
- | and white graphics so that the tiles can be
- | easily identifiable on laptops and other
- | systems without color monitors. This is a
- | fun way to pass time at the airport, or
- | wherever else you have to sit around with
- | nothing but your laptop for company. Of
- | course, it is equally as much fun on any
- | kind of computer, but the color EGA versions
- | are usually more enjoyable on desktop
- | systems.
- MOREJONG.ZIP 244560 07-09-93 Moraff's Morejongg 3.0 (MoraffWare; $0) is a
- | unique implementation of the ancient tile
- | game Mahjongg. It contains tile sets with
- | monsters from the Moraff's World games,
- | letters of the alphabet, three letter words,
- | and traditional oriental tiles. You can
- | customize the colors of the tiles and
- | background, and virtually all video types
- | from Hercules to Super-VGA are supported.
- | Mouse is optional.
- SOLITILE.ZIP 188578 12-05-93 SoliTile (Everett Kaser Software; $15) is a
- | game of solitaire played with tiles, based
- | on the ancient Chinese game of Mah-Jong.
- | Features include multiple tile sets, a
- | built-in tile set editor, background
- | patterns and GIF pictures, optional music
- | and sounds, and much more. Layouts are
- | provided with anywhere from 4 to 168 tiles,
- | and the program can read and use tile sets
- | created for Nels Anderson's Mahjongg. The
- | slick user interface supports both mouse and
- | keyboard input. EGA/VGA is required.
- AGGRESS.EXE 82748 10-14-91 Aggression 1.05 (Expert Source Code, Inc.;
- | $15) is a unique graphic board game that
- | combines some of the aspects of checkers and
- | backgammon. The object is to get all of your
- | pieces from their starting side to the
- | opposite side before your opponent does from
- | a random starting pattern. Requires mouse,
- | EGA/VGA.
- CCHECK21.ZIP 206892 12-05-93 Chinese Checkers 2.1 (ImagiSOFT, Inc., ASP;
- | $20) is a colorful game based on the old
- | traditional played by kids and adults. The
- | graphics and play of the game are excellent.
- | If you have the inverted-T cursor pad on
- | your machine, you will need to turn off
- | NumLock and use the number pad to play the
- | game, as the 1-3-7-9 keys are needed for
- | diagonal moves. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse.
- DOMINO.ZIP 63066 08-26-93 Domino 4.2 (Ball, B. J.; $15) is an
- | excellent implementation of a two-person,
- | single-spinner game of dominos that you play
- | against the computer. Graphics are required.
- MEGAPOLY.ZIP 57231 11-23-93 Megagopoly (Visual Data Communications
- | Corp.; $18) is an investment strategy game.
- | The object is to reach financial
- | independence. The game simulates an
- | investment environment in which a player may
- | test his skills by interacting with economic
- | parameters, standard financial algorithms
- | and portfolio analysis. Save/Retrieve game
- | options are available. (The author can no
- | longer be reached at the address provided in
- | the documentation.)
- MUGGINS.COM 47936 03-05-91 Muggins 1.0 (Young, Scott; $8) is a
- | challenging domino game in which you play
- | the computer. The dominoes go up to 9-9
- | instead of the usual 6-6. The play of the
- | game and the graphics are very good. EGA/VGA
- | required.
- PACHISI.COM 55572 06-07-90 Pachisi (Leotti, George; $5) is a version of
- | an ancient game on which is also based the
- | modern game of Parchesi. One to four people
- | may play with the computer optionally
- | playing any unmanned positions. EGA\VGA
- | required.
- PIRATE.EXE 58030 06-06-92 Pirates (Tracker Software; $5) is a series
- | of challenging puzzles in which you move
- | from gold bag to gold bag without retracing
- | previous moves. It is based on Hiroimono,
- | which is a 14th century Japanese classic
- | involving Go stones.
- PROPRTY.COM 49598 05-29-91 Property Dealer (Clafton, David E.; $5-$10)
- | is a Monopoly-like game where the general
- | idea is to buy property in order to charge
- | rent and thus deprive the opposition of
- | their money. Up to six players can compete,
- | and features include customizing the board
- | size, saving and restoring games, and much
- | more, including a complexity beyond the
- | original Monopoly game. EGA is required.
- REDHOOK1.ZIP 188713 02-16-93 Redhook's Revenge 1.0 (ImagiSOFT, Inc. ASP;
- | $23) You will sail the seas as a
- | bloodthirsty pirate in this fantastic
- | animated board game. You roll the dice to
- | see whether you will fight a city, discover
- | treasure, get lost in a storm, answer a
- | trivia question, and much more. It combines
- | the elements of classic board games like
- | Risk, Trivial Pursuit, and Life with
- | beautiful graphics/animation and
- | entertaining theme music and sound effects.
- | Up to three people can play, and the player
- | with the most gold at the end of the voyage
- | wins. Games can be saved, and two of the
- | scurvy bucaneers can be controlled by the
- | computer. Old Redhook himself pops up on
- | occasion with some endearingly salty pirate
- | sayings. Requires 640K and VGA. An AdLib or
- | Sound Blaster compatible board is required
- | to hear music.
- REDHOOK2.ZIP 209411 02-16-93 See xxx
- SCOOT.ZIP 153735 12-05-93 Scoot-A-Long (Zimmerman, Ray; $25) is a
- | simple board game along the lines of
- | Parchesi. The first player to get all four
- | game pieces to home position, wins. Requires
- | EGA/VGA, a hard disk and 512K RAM.
- SCRABFAQ.ZIP 21164 10-06-93 Everything You'd Ever Wanna Know About
- | Scrabble 1.0 (Steven Alexander, reg. fee:
- | $0) is a collection of facts about the game
- | of Scrabble. It includes information about
- | tourney rules for U.S. and Canada, tips on
- | playing a better game and lists of
- | Scrabble-related books, periodicals, and
- | software.
- SKIMMER.EXE 70838 09-11-92 Skimmers (Just For Me Software; $17) is a
- | two-player game somewhat like Parchesi. One
- | player moves pieces to the right and the
- | other to the left, according to the value of
- | the dice. The first person to get all their
- | pieces across the board wins. The catch is
- | that after each set of moves, if opposing
- | pieces are in the same column, those with
- | with lowest total value get sent back to
- | square one. Skimmers is easy enough for
- | young kids to learn, but challenging enough
- | for adults. VGA required.
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