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Stone Mist is a classic early Ultima style RPG, complete with turn-based battles and a fairly in-depth character generation system (that must be run separately before running the game). The story is typical fantasy RPG fare, and there are some quirks to the engine, but overall it’s a competently presented game with decent VGA graphics. … Continue reading “Stone Mist”

Sorcerer’s Bane is a little-known Roguelike RPG textmode game that has certain features that some other similar games lack, while also simplifying certain gameplay elements quite a bit compared to say Nethack or Crawl. Before beginning your Sorcerer’s Bane adventure you create a character by rolling stats and choosing options. Then you venture into the … Continue reading “Sorcerer’s Bane”

Race by yourself against the clock or compete with other motocross riders on 5 tracks full of long straights, large jumps and obstacles to win the Excitebike championship. Create your own tracks by placing jumps and obstacles of all different sizes and shapes on the track and choosing how many laps each race will have, … Continue reading “Excitebike”

Elite is a free-form space trading and combat simulation, commonly considered the progenitor of this sub-genre. The player initially controls a character referred to as “Commander Jameson”, starting at Lave Station with 100 credits and a lightly armed trading ship called Cobra Mark III. Most of the game consists of traveling to various star systems, trading … Continue reading “Elite”

Silmar is a rogue-like/hack type of RPG, with random generated dungeons, in which you as an adventurer are descending to fight monsters and find treasure. The game was first released for DOS around 1990, with later incarnations running on Windows, Linux and OS/X. The DOS version has tile-based graphics, and was split in three parts. The … Continue reading “Silmar”

Eliminator Boat Duel is a ruthless one on one boat racing game that can either be played against the computer or a human opponent. The races take place in such settings as open water, the bayou, and even industrial water districts. Each boat race consists of several sections. First, there is the starting line — … Continue reading “Eliminator Boat Duel”

You are Agent 17 (codename: “Otto”). Your mission is to secure all top secret documents from a security building and escape in the getaway car, located in the basement of the building. Enemies spies are scattered throughout the 30-floor building and they have only one mission: execute Agent 17 at all costs. There are several … Continue reading “Elevator Action”

This is a game of combat between giant mechanized dinosaurs named robosaurs in a faraway solar system named Spondylus. Mad robosaurs have overrun the planets of this man-made solar system and it is up to Professor Proteus to take the controls of the #1 robosaur, the Cyborasaurus. The goal is to get to the center … Continue reading “Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus”

All weekend ballplayers know softball’s no joke, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun with it. And when you step up to the plate in this cart you’ll find the wackiest bunch of players to ever hit a softball diamond! Play seven inning fast or slow-pitch games. In One Player mode, you … Continue reading “Dusty Diamond’s All-Star Softball”

Shape Shifter is an RPG by Jeff Kintz (aka J. Kintz) and one of his earliest known games; as such, although it includes some very interesting ideas, it’s a bit rough around the edges. As the title suggests, you can shape shift into three forms: A tiger, a snake, and a mouse, each with their … Continue reading “Shape Shifter”