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-= GAMES =- Disc 23: EMPIRE a stratedgy game on a grand scale. Contains no graphics as it is a port over from IBMs etc and has no sound either. Lots of instructions, requires lots of time and runs through the CLI. Disc 24: HACK - The first version of the incredibly playable rpg. A bit like dungeonmaster in plan view. Only small icon graphics but the game plays very well as you pilot your way through the rankings and through the dungeon levels to find the amulet. Once found you then have to proceed back through the levels and escape. Great fun. Disc 44: This is a playable demo of Star Ray (the 1st level) a game very reminiscent to Defender. Ultra fast smooth scrolling and good gameplay. Commercial version available for 24.95 rrp The bootblock on this disc may be highlighted as SCA virus by some virus detectors, it is not and will not spread or cause any harm. If it is removed the game will not work. Will NOT work On Issue 1.3 machines. Disc 71: This disc contains a selection of games, 2 written with Abasic (supplied as well). Features: Amoeba Invaders (Brilliant space invaders game) Tron Cycles game, Cluedo (great adaption of the board game),Monopoly, Klondike (great cards patience game) and Missile Command. Disc 83: An excellent playable PD game here, one of the best PD games existing! Basically resembles the sucessful 'Thrust' type game. You have a small craft which you have to move around a set of obstructions and collect keys in order to reach the next level, of which there are 17. Play is by keyboard but doesnt detract from a really addictive game which most people get more out of than some commercial releases. Disc 133: This disc contains a really good playable demo of Shanghai the chinese tiles/patience game. Also included is the user-definable COSMO (Asteroids) game which is very good. There are also some Flight Simulator 2 information files which add extra fun and clues to new locations. Disc 135: Games disc featuring Backgammon,Cosmo,Missile Command,Tunnel Vision,3D Breakout (needs 3d glasses) and Cosmo Version II. Disc 149: Moria - The great RPG has been speeded up and generally made much more playable. This is version III and tweaks include nice inter-level graphics. A must for 1meg adventure fans, this game is SO playable!! A little bit like Hack and Larn but more involved, offers HOURS of gameplay for 1meg users... Disc 159: Games Disc containing Asteriods,Backgammon, Egyptian Run,Gravity Wars,IFF2Pcs. Iff2pcs is a diy jigsaw puzzle, just add your own 16color iff file and hey-presto! Disc 173: Features Chess, Othello, an Adventure Creator, and Space Ace demo.. amongst other utilities. The Chess game is characters only but I am told it plays quite a strong game.. but not being a chess player I couldnt put that to the test. Disc 174: Contains a version of the Collosal cave adventure game by Crowther and Woods. Includes some utilities (check utilities section for listing of these). Disc 175: Larn. A great rpg in the style of Hack but with more features and superb gameplay. Once 'into' it you play for HOURS! One of our favourite PD discs yet. Great for RPG fans, works fine in 512K and is highly reccomended. Poor graphics no sound but really playable! Disc 204: Buggy Commando. A playable demo rather like the old Moon Alert/Moon Buggy games, control your buggy over obstacles.Featured in The One. Disc 282: Paranoid Game. Very good Pd arkanoid clone that even includes a screen designer. Good value for a Pd game. Of german origin. Disc 307: 3 Games by Agatron, Mad Race, Space Race and Light Cycles 3D (a nice version of Tron in 3D by Tobias Richter). Also included are a 3D object editor called Viking, IFFload and IFF-C utilities, Taskmanager, Selector and Blinker (a utility to flash the power led). Disc 309: The 1meg Star Trek game featured just about all 310: over the place. Its on 3 discs and plays close 311: to the St commercial version ie not brilliant but for Trekkies and sci-fi fans its good value. Remember you will need all 3 discs and this will set you back 6.95 Live long as prosper. Disc 355: A nice playable demo of Blood Money by Pysgnosis, one of the better shoot`em ups to appear in a long while (actually we werent too keen until we played it, its very addictive!) this demo allows 1 or 2 players (simultaneous) to play the first level. Good demo. Great Game! Disc 369: HACKLITE. The lastest version of Hack sent by Rhys of Compunet (ta!) this version sees added features, better speed and a new install program that allows easy set-up onto Hard-drives,or any other device you can think of! Hack is a really playable game, especially if you like RPG games. Disc 370: Anyone for Tennis?? This 1meg Tennis game allows two people to battle it out on centre court using their joysticks. This german shareware program was sent by a friend of ours, Guido who writes for a German PD magazine. Hi guido - hope the music was ok! Disc 402: Nice playable uridium-style sort of game. Written by a german chap. Nice music. Thanks to Guido for sending it! Disc 430: A full adventure game by Jim MacBryne - The Golden Fleece, an epic adventure and it has a real good parser (that means you can type take everything except the vaseline and rubber hose) - Jim Reckons its as good as anything by INFOC*M - why not try it out? Thanks must go to Jim for submitting it to us! Disc 445: Castle Of Doom! An adventure game with graphics more suitable for the beginner. Simple parser and fairly easy going. Disc 454: Various Games. Includes a really playable of the Arcade game "Qix", Blue-Moon which is a card patience game, Orbit 3D gravitational shoot em up! (??), Wordsearch - gives you random word puzzles to attempt.Asteroids - updated version with better graphics than the older version. Filling up the space is the marvelous Tree Frog animation as featured in The One last month. (Plus an unlimited supply of plump flies for your frog to happily munch on). Disc 483: A demo of the game Xenon 2, contains half of the first level and should be enough to convince ANYONE of the sheer quality of this game! Due in September rrp 24.95! Bomb the bass music included in this demo! Disc 492: A great little game from the German PD sent to me by Guido Coenen. It involves taking your man (werner) around the screen to collect his beer! [Already I like this game] You havent got it easy as some guys are chasing you and also you have to avoid and maneouvre around falling rocks in true bolderdash style. Great for PD! Disc 497: Heres a demo to make your trigger finger itch! This is a product demo of "Battle Squadron" which is the follow up to Hybris. Featuring full Pal scrolling, twin player simultaneous action, added horizontal scrolling (as in the game sidewinder). Great sound, great graphics and probably the most arcade lookalike yet to appear. Time to oil your joystick methinks... Disc 498: Another product demo (by the way we will deduct a pound off a purchase of the game if you have previously had the demo!). This is a demo of Ancos playable `Rally Cross` - a 4 player super sprint clone that includes new tracks and night driving by headlights. Looks VERY good. Disc 514: Space Ace Demo. Readysoft`s follow up to the amazing Dragons Lair (remember THE demo 181?) is here and it looks even better than the first! Nearly half a minute of top notch, near faultless animation from the game. PLUS Readysoft have excelled themselves in the compression department as they have managed to squeeze a whole host of samples in aswell, including the unforgetable "I`ve only been kidnapped by aliens, thats all!" One meg owners get a continous loop of the full demo, Half meg owners can choose between the first and second parts. Disc 517: Pictionary Demo from Domark. The Game of quick draw makes it onto the Amiga. And heres the demo, not playable, just sit back and watch. Disc 522: Interphase Demo. Imageworks latest looks like being one of, if not, THE best 3D games yet seen on an Amiga. Superb graphics and speed, and a decent plot to boot. A sort of strategy come action game that should please most games players out there. Heres a chance to see before you buy. Disc 525: Ghostbusters 2 Playable demo. Play one level from Activisions megabucks film license. The game is out now so if your interested, try the demo first! Disc 527: MoonWalker Demo. Jacko hits your Amiga! Actually this isn`t that bad. A few pieces of animation from US Gold`s game of the film of the record of the operation of the strange mind. The best bit being the grand finale, featuring the infamous spin. ** 1 Meg only ** Disc 528: Dragons Breath Demo. The intro and a few stills from Palace`s "RolePlaying/Strategy Game of 1990" , Anyone who saw the Work in progress feature on this game in The One recently would`ve seen the amazing graphics, now`s your chance to see them for "real" on screen. The whole thing is backed by some very nice atmospheric music. Disc 529: Lets go TOOBIN`, preview of Domarks conversion of Atari`s Mega Arcade game, race down the river in an inflated innertube, avoiding various nasties along the way. Again, this isn`t playable just sit back and watch. Disc 530: Cinemaware Basketball Slideshow. 8 Pictures from Cinemawares forthcoming simulation. More great graphics from one of the leading Amiga Developers The game will be coming out sometime in 1990 via Mirrorsoft, and if this demo is anything to go by , it should be pretty amazing! Just to prove 17Bit are THE leading PD suppliers we actually received this demo BEFORE Mirrorsoft even knew one existed! How`s that for speed??!! Disc 532: Future Wars Demo - Delphine Software. Very good new demo of Delphines latest Graphic adventure/ action game. Shows the intro and then cycles through a few scenes from the game. Looks tres bon (as the Frenchies would say). Disc 539: Clownamania Demo from Starbyte. 3D Platform type game that casts you as a clumsy clown!! Not Playable, just a rolling demo. Disk 555: X-OUT from Rainbow Arts. Playable demo of the soon to be released shoot em up from the German based company. This first level plays very well and the game should be something to look out for! It's a sort of underwater R-Type with loads of extra weapons to blast all the nasty baddies!! Disk 556: The Holy Grail, by Jim MacBrayne. The follow up to The Golden Fleece (Disk 430). Good text only adventure that has you on a quest for..well the Holy Grail! Excellent parser and very well presented a MUST for all adventure fans every where! Please note this game requires ONE MEG! Disk 563: After the War - See before you buy autorunning demo of Dinamics latest, a sort of Beat em, shoot em or generally do-anything-as-long-as-you kill-em UP! Not playable, just sit back and watch.. Disk 566: Odds 'n' Sods - A couple of Product demos and some music on here; we have demos of the excellent drivin' game DRIVIN' FORCE from DMS. Also a demo (in the form of a mini slideshow with soundFX) of Gainstars forthcoming Adventure Dragon Quest - Looks very good, and recently got 82% in CU. We also have 3 excellent pieces of Music, un- fortunately the original disk they were supplied on was corrupt so I do not know who wrote them! Needless to say they are very good indeed! In fact I would class the second one as my favourite piece of amiga music EVER! Very funky, very 70's very... original, especially for the Amiga! Disk 594: Elvira (Mistress Of The Dark) DEMO. Running demo of the forthcoming Horrorsoft game featuring Miss Elvira and her "assets" (ehem). This game is going to be a sort of Adventure/RPG type game where the aim is to rescue Said temptress from her capturers, the graphics look extremely impressive and in parts are quite gruesome (so don't watch if you are squeemish!) also has some sampled atmnospheric spot effects and a tadge of Sampled speech from Elvira herself, though it sounds as though she is doing her Shy Postman impression and none of us can actually make out what she says... This is a very good demo and fans of this type of game should be well impressed. Disk 595: THE STAR TREK GAME! Brilliant 2 disk game from the ultimate trekkie Thobias Richter, designer of all the AGATRON Start Trek animations, and part of the team that brought us Oil Imperium, Thobias has now released his latest game into the Public Domain. Featuring Brilliant (as you'd expect) graphics and sampled sound this has you on a journey where no man has ventured before, a journey into space (The final frontier etc etc) where you must carry out a series of missions, search out various planets, avoid the enemies ships, Captain your ship and ensure the safe keeping of your staff. The whole thing is very well put together, but the instructions are in German so it may take a while for you to sort things out. Works fine in half-meg, but one meg owners get added extra sound effects. Disk 600: AMOS DEMO. Stunning demo of Mandarins forthcoming Game Creator. This disk is a brilliant example of what to expect when AMOS is finally released in May. Shows moving, animated sprites and bobs. Brilliant scrolling routines (Amazing IFF piccy scrolling!) And all from BASIC! Should set the Amiga world alight when it is released. Heres a great chance to whet your appetite! Anyone with any level of interest in proggramming should check this out! IT'S BRILLIANT!! Disk 607: St Bash!! - Great PD space invaders type shoot-em-up from a 17Bit member in Germany (unfortunately you didn't sign your name on the letter, so whoever you are THANKS!) the aim is to blast your way through 520 levels of St related sprites (spinning ST logos etc), and there are several various levels of play so you can make the game as easy or as difficult as you want. With all the available options and great playability this will keep you amused for quite a while and should keep your kids quiet for an hour or two!! Better than Amoeba Invaders?? Well, I'll let you make the decision........ Disk 615: Castle Master Slideshow. 15 stills from the forthcoming Incentive/Domark game. The latest game to feature Incentives 3D routines known as Freescape - here's a chance for you to see what the game looks like before you part with any cash! Disk 621: E-Motion - Playable demo of U.S. Golds "soon-to -be-released" strategy puzzle game. 4 levels are on here for you to test out. Looks very good indeed, ideal for those of you who like to use your old grey matter rather than just sit down and blast!