Arcade Games [ABM_CMD] ABM Command (Kent Rollins; $0) is a faithful adaptation of the game Missile Command. You must defend your cities from an aerial attack, using either the mouse or keyboard to aim and fire your missiles. There are smart bombs, MIRVs, and bonus cities just like the classic arcade game. A 386 or better is recommended. [AFORCE] Alien Force 1.0 (Epps, Robert; $0) is a Windows version of an old pre-PC Apple game in which you guide your spaceship around a grid, blasting away at the enemy ships. [BANGBANG] Bang! Bang! (Lutton, David B. II; $10) is an artillery game for Windows 3.0. One or two players may participate. Players take turns firing their cannons at each other, taking angle, velocity, and wind speed into consideration. The player who blows their opponent to smithereens is the winner. [BDP150] Stardate 2140.2: Battles on Distant Planets 1.5 (Glacier Edge Technology; $15-$43) is a complex sci-fi battlefield strategy game for Windows. In the scenario provided, you must use your troops, tanks, rocket launchers, jets, and helicopters to destroy all opposing force units before they take over the world. You can play against the computer, against a human opponent, or watch the computer battle itself. SoundBlaster compatible cards are supported. Over 400K of disk space is required. [BLITZER] Blitzer 1.2 (Sherman, Steve; $10) is a "Defenders" type of video game in which you fly a helicopter, try to rescue the good guys, shoot down the bad guys, etc. The graphics are good, with a scrolling, mountainous background. (The author can no longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.) [BLOK_BR] Block Breaker 3.13E (Emura, Yutaka; $10) is a colorful Windows version of the old Breakout type game. Several challenging screens are included with four different speed options. WIN31 sound and MIDI are supported. [BRICKWN] Brick ($0) is a simple version of the classic Breakout type game. [BUGS] Bugs! 1.0 (Oasis Software; $5) is an amusing arcade game for Windows. You must navigate around 10 rooms, collecting keys and avoiding deadly bugs and electrified walls. [BUGSWAT] Angela's Bug Swat (Michael J. Murphy; $1) is a cute desktop game where you swat at bugs with the mouse cursor. Features include several bug speed options and WAV sound support. Requires VBRUN300. [CHOMP] Chomp 1.1 (Shekhel, Jerry J.; $20) is a faithful adaptation of Pac-Man for Windows. The animation is great and it is a lot of fun to play. [COLUMNS] Columns for Windows 1.2 (Rotenstein, John; $0) is a "falling block" game in which you must arrange the colors on the falling blocks into rows of three or more before they hit the bottom of the shaft. [EMLITH] Emlith 3.0 (Emura, Yutaka; $10) is a falling block game in which you can choose from up to sixty different shapes of falling blocks. You can also choose the block shape for your game, or you can select the "Challenge Mode" which uses multiple shapes. Other features include user selectable sound, oil-slicked blocks, exploding bombs, and more. [EMPIPE] EmPipe 1.01E (Emura, Yutaka; $10) is a pipe-laying type game. You must select sections of pipe to direct the flow of liquid from the starting point to the ending point. The mouse cursor will change into the next available pipe shape to speed play along. Other features include music, sound effects, high score listing, and more. [HERMAN] Herman and the Falling Rocks 1.01 (Bieling, Carl; $15-$30) is an amusing and challenging maze game. Your mission is to collect as many flowers as you can without letting any of the rocks fall on your head. If a rock hits you, then you die and have to repeat the level. There are a total of six levels, and you will have to die many times before you figure them all out. [HEX_TET] Hex-Tet is a falling block games which uses objects made up of polygons which, without looking very radical, add a whole new perspective to the game. [HURRI1] Hurricane 1.01 (Systems Software Developing, Inc.; $15) is an excellent adaptation of the classic arcade game Tempest. For those of you too young to remember, your firing cursor travels around a variety of geometric mazes while you try to shoot the bad guys that come from the center. [HYPROID] Hyperoid 1.1 (Hutchins, Edward; $0) is a clone of the old arcade game Asteroids. This is a pretty faithful adaptation with lots of interesting twists that make for addictive arcade action. [JEWLTHF] Jewel Thief 1.4 (Ligeski, Paul ASP; $10) is a mouse-driven arcade game where you try to steal as many jewels as you can while avoiding the ever-present guards. Once you steal all the jewels on a level, a trickier set of guards appears. You start out with nine men, and you lose a man (or more) each time a guard touches you or you leave the playing field. [MAGNETO] Magneto .90 (Marc-Thomas Clifton; $?) is an arcade game in which you move your magnetic pieces by reversing polarity. [MCBLAST] MacBlaster 1.10 (Gehr, Earl; $10) You have challenged the Evil Fruit Empire's monopoly on their graphic user interface, and they are not at all happy about it. Their smiley-faced computers hurl exploding mice and destructive copyright lawsuits at you. Your only weapon is an infinite supply of rotten apple cores which you hurl defiantly at the corporate Goliaths. Can you beat the Empire and give computer users freedom of choice? (In case our description was too subtle for you: this is a Space Invaders game with an anti-Apple Corp. bias.) [PLANAR] Planaria (Douglass, Bruce Powel; $0) is a Windows version of the classic Snake type game. You wander the screen as a hungry worm, devouring cute little kittens and avoiding all obstacles (including your own ever-lengthening tail). Each time you ingest a feline holes appear in your tail, providing additional escape routes. (Requires BWCC.DLL from the RUNTIMES directory.) [PYTHON] Paulie Python 1.0 (Way Out West-ware; $5-$15) is an exciting Windows variation of the old "snake" game. Your job is to slither around the eight imaginative mazes devouring all the mice and avoiding walls. To make things more difficult, your tail grows after you eat a mouse and other surprise obstacles are scattered about. [RUNNER] Runner 1.0 (SouthBay Software; $20) is a fast and fun animated game for Windows. Your runner must go from level to level turning on control lights and gathering fuel cannisters. Unfortunately, there is a rather nasty enemy runner looking to throw you to your death and turn off the control lights. Along the way you will encounter bouncing colored marbles that both help and hinder your progress, a wizard that will grant you another life, teleportation pods, and much more. Other features include a MIDI music soundtrack, interesting sound effects, and keyboard/mouse/joystick support. [SCW103D] Second Conflict for Windows (Galloway, Jerry W.; $0) the leader of the Empire has died without an heir, leaving the Galaxy in utter chaos. You are in command of one fleet and one solar system, and up to four people can play this incredible game of galactic supremacy. You must use scouts to investigate nearby star systems and decide which ones are worth colonizing and which are worth fighting for. You can also look at what opponents are building to determine the size of your attack fleet, and build transports to move troops and colonists to other star systems. Although the author refers to this as a "demo" version, it contains more than enough features to keep any gamer's interest. The graphics and playability are excellent, and help and strategy hints are always available. 640K and at least an EGA monitor are required. [SEMA] Space Exploration-Mission Alpha (Jeffrey R. Marken; $15) is an excellent Windows adaptation of the classic arcade game Lunar Lander. You must safely land your spacecraft on the treacherous terrain of several different planets, each with varying amounts of gravity and special obstacles. You must also successfully dock with an orbiting craft after your landing, keeping a careful eye or your fuel level and horizontal/vertical speed. [SNK_KLP] Snakes (Patch, Kevin L.; $15) is a very fast-paced game in which you must kill snakes without letting them kill you. You can't "win" this game. When you kill a snake, another snake takes its place. Play continues until you lose three lives. [SPACEW] Space Walls II (Taub, Adam; $0) is a difficult little game in which the object is to shoot the center of rotating walls, while avoiding flying into the walls or being hit by the two defending saucers. Many options are available to customize game play. [SPACRCK] Space Rocks (Adam J. Taub; $20) is an Asteroids-style arcade game. [TETWIN] TetWin (Briatico, Joe; $5) is a very attractive and challenging game of Tetris. The column width can be adjusted from 6 to 22 columns, and you can change the size of falling objects from 4 to 7 squares. There are nine levels of play, and you can also play a game with stationary pieces already in place. [TGUNNER] TailGunner 1.0a (Diversions Software; $15) is an action-packed space combat simulation. You are the tail-turret gunner of a futuristic spaceship, and must fight off hundreds of hostile ships as you try to escape enemy territory. Plasma cannons and pulse lasers are your main weapons, and an optional lock-shoot indicator helps you blow the bad guys out of the sky. Other features include 256-color graphics, WAV sound support, and more. Requires VBRUN300. [WARHEAD] Warheads for Windows (Steadle, Eric; $17) is an excellent version of the arcade classic Missile Command. Your job is to protect your cities from an unending onslaught of incoming missiles. Watch out for the dreaded Bomber, which appears from nowhere to pepper the skies with deadly Smart Bombs. The graphics and playability are very good. On two different test systems, when we first started the game, it ran very slowly. We restarted Windows and the game, and it ran at a more normal speed. [WINCMD] Windows Command 1.0 (Baldwin, Timothy G.; $3) is an adaptation of the arcade game Missile Command. [WINDOG] Prairie Dog Hunt 1.0 for Windows (Diversions Software; $15) is based on the cutesy arcade game where you bean helpless prairie dogs with a hammer as they emerge from their holes. However, in this game you have a choice of high-powered firearms and get to blast the furry little pests into a bloody stain. The impressive 256-color animated graphics and digitized sound effects make the massacre all the more enjoyable. You can control the number of dogs, and how many rounds of ammo you get. Watch out for the occasional rabid rodent, because if you get bitten five times you will die of rabies. [WINLAND] Lander 1.1 (TMA; $0) is patterned after the arcade game Lunar Lander. [WINTRIS] WinTris 3.0 (Kipnis Enterprises; $15) is a falling block game with lots of options available. The graphics and playability are excellent. [WORMWAR] WormWar is a rather FAST version of the old game of Centipede. By slowing our 486 down to 15mhz, we got it to run at a reasonable pace. Good color graphics on a VGA. [WOWSPL] WOWSpill (World of Windows Software ASP; $15) is an arcade strategy game where you must connect random pieces of pipe from a water faucet to a drain. Extra points are awarded for using the bonus pieces and for creating intersections. There are three different board sizes available, each with its own high score board. This is a fast-paced, non-violent "thinking" game suitable for the whole family. Requires VGA and 1 meg of free disk space. [WSLAM] Slam! 1.0 (Epps, Robert; $10) is an excellent air hockey game for Windows 3.1. It allows you to play on a 3-D table against a computerized opponent with adjustable speed and aggressiveness. You may also customize screen colors and the overhead view angle. A 386 or better CPU is required. [ZANTI1, ZANTI2, ZANTI3] Zanti! 1.2b (Sheaffer, Patrick; $5) is an exciting multi-media arcade game. You must guide the Zanti aliens into the hands of Earth's military. This is accomplished by connecting pieces of a tunnel from the invader's ship to an ending piece. If you have played any of the “Pipe Dream” type games, you'll understand how this works. There are great 256-color graphics and digitized WAV files to add to the enjoyment of the game.