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[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] -Rating scale: (0-19)/100 = In a nutshell, it sucked! (20-39)/100 = Still crap but slightly better. (40-49)/100 = Possibly worth downloading. (50-69)/100 = Pretty decent game. Might want to check it out. (70-79)/100 = Worth the download if you like that type. (80-89)/100 = Very good, 9 outta 10 its worth the download. (90-99)/100 = Excellent game, a MUST download. 100/100 = HOLY SHIT I'VE NEVER SEEN A BETTER GAME! RATINGS are based on the game idea, graphics, sound, playability, ingenuity, versatility, and a lot of other words ending in `ity'. These games are based on what happens on MY COMPUTER ONLY, unless stated otherwise. I always first follow nfo directions, and if those don't work or are not available, I then try other ways. So just b/c it doesn't work for me, doesn't mean it won't work for you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -<*><*> THE GAME REVIEW <*><*>- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zapitalism (c) LavaMinds [xx/30] _____ _____ ____ _____ ________________ \_ | \ \/ / _ /__\_ \_/ _ \ | _ \_ \ _/ \ \ __/___/ | / / |___| |____|___/ /_\ \___|_______/ ::d|___|::::::.\___/.:.\___\:::::::::: -Filenames: HBD-ZAP?.ZIP Zhis Zis Za Zeally Zoring Zimulator Zame. Zou Ztart Zith Za Ztore Zand Zou Zry Zo Zake Zit Zhe...oh I'm sorry, I got caught up with the name. Anyway, you get to pick a store you want to own, and you buy products wholesale and the sell them in your store. You must advertise carefully, and sell at some- what fair prices and try to make you and your store rich. There is no sound which makes this only more boring. Unless you think this could help you plan for the future by testing out your business management skills, then you probably won't enjoy it at all. It's for win/win95 and the graphics aren't too bad, but it's not a game you'll have `fun' playing. RATING: 46/100 Üß Ü [01/01] ÜÜÛßßÛÛÜ ÛÜ Ü ÜÛÝ ßÛÜ ÛÛ²Ý ÛÛÞ²²ÛÜ ÞÛÜ Þ²Û °° ÛÝ °°ÞÛÛ ° Þ²ÝÛÛÝßÛÜ ÛßÛÝjaguar ÞÛÛÝ ÜÛß ÜÜÜ ÛÛ ÜÛßÞÛÛ ßÛß Þ² ÜÜÜ Û²Û ßÛÜ ÜÛÛßß²ÝÞÛÝÜÛÛ²ÜÞ²Ý ÛÛÞ²ßß²Û ÞÛÝ Þ²²ÜÞÛÜ ÜÛ Û² ßÛÛÝÛÝ ° °° Þ²ÝÛÜ ÜÛÝ ÛÛ ÜÛÛß ßÛÛÛ²ßßÞÛÜ ÞÛ²ÛÞ ÛÛß ßßÛ²ßß Üß Power 2 Play for Windows ßÛ -Filenames: KRMAP2P.ZIP This isn't a game, but some of you may have thought it was. It has to do with games however. It allows you to play some of the older dos games in windows. Now why in hell you would want to do this, I dunno, maybe for someone who is totally clueless and doesn't know how to use anything but winblowz, other than that I don't know why you'd use it. Anyway, if you do need it, pick it up, nice and small, and then you can have lots of fun playing old games in win. RATING: UTIL/100 Way Cool Strategy Games For Windows 3.1/Windows 95 [xx/07] . . d$ Demented d$ Dimensions .$$$$$ýS@$s, .$$$$$ýS@$s, `$$$$$ $$$$$ `$$$$$ $$$$$ ö$$$$$ $$$$$ ö$$$$$ $$$$$ .$$$$$ $$$$$ .$$$$$ $$$$$ `$$$$$ $$$$$ `$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$ $$$$$s$$Yý'. $$$$$s$$Yý'd$$$ `ýY$$$$$$$$$S@ssssssssss@S$$Pý' -Filenames: DD-WCSG?.ZIP Simply put, a collection of crap you don't want. It's battleship , landmine , and some game called Slay, which you try and conquer the land. They are all cheap ass crap, and unless you have a fondness for annoying .wav files and games that couldn't entertain your 90 year old grandma, then don't bother. RATING: 32/100 Way Cool Word Games For Windows 3.1/Windows 95 [xx/04] . . d$ Demented d$ Dimensions .$$$$$ýS@$s, .$$$$$ýS@$s, `$$$$$ $$$$$ `$$$$$ $$$$$ ö$$$$$ $$$$$ ö$$$$$ $$$$$ .$$$$$ $$$$$ .$$$$$ $$$$$ `$$$$$ $$$$$ `$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$ $$$$$s$$Yý'. $$$$$s$$Yý'd$$$ `ýY$$$$$$$$$S@ssssssssss@S$$Pý' -Filenames: DD-WCWG?.ZIP Same thing as the Strategy shit, except you got some even more boring puzzle like games. They are: WordMax, Easy Crosswords, and Word Squares. All of which you can get by buying a newspaper for 25 cents. So once again, don't bother unless you have a need for it. They aren't going to blow you away. RATING: 28/100 ________________________/¯|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/÷e÷/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ JAGGED ALLIANCE: DEADLY GAMES [xx/40] +------------------------------------------+ -Filenames: PSGJAG??.ZIP Deadly Games is the follow up to the original Jagged Alliance game. However back in those days, games were at the most maybe 35 disks, and they had sound clips and intros and what not. Today you get 40 disks, and all you get is the frigging core shell game itself. No speech, no intro, no nothing. You're really better off just getting the 1 level demo and be able to experience it much better. The game goes like this, you have a mission to accomplish, and you select your crew of men or women, dorks or psychos, scientists or drunks on probation to help you out. You pay their salary, you get to use them how- ever you want to. The people are equipped with all different weapons and knowledge, ability, resources, and other stuff. You use them on a map like game engine to manuever them to the main objective, without of course getting them killed. The graphics did not impress me, as they were a lot more blurr- ier and less detailed then they were in the original. There is no speech . The game will certainly challenge you, and is not an easy game, and the computer ain't a dimwit. However it does take a while for the computer to act out it's turn . Anyway, if you do plan on enjoying this one, you will need the addons, so read the reviews on those too. The RATING for this game is BASED ON ON THE CORE OF IT only, so to judge what it would be like with the addons, add each addon's rating accordingly. RATING: 61/100 iNtErNatiOnAl AsSoSciAtiOn of . ________________________..._____ . . : .< ___ \____ | | /(__):/ ____> :. : . \/ .__/ __ | <_| |/\___ \ . . .. s%|__|::\______/__|__\___|_______/ . : JAGGED ALLIANCE INTRO SEQUENCE XX/14 -Filenames: JAGINT??.ZIP Welp, followed the nfo, and used the deadly.bat, but it comes out with a bad command line, which is understandable, when you look at this line in it: ".\INTRO\SMS320 /flic=e:\intro\dgcredit.sms /snd=.\intro" I don't know what the hell that is supposed to do, but it doesn't do shit. RATING: NA/100 iNtErNatiOnAl AsSoSciAtiOn of . ________________________..._____ . . : .< ___ \____ | | /(__):/ ____> :. : . \/ .__/ __ | <_| |/\___ \ . . .. s%?__|::\______/__|__\___|_______/ . : JAGGED ALLIANCE MULTIPLAYER ADDON Get this if you want to play on a network!!! [XX/49] -Filenames: JAGMUL??.ZIP Yes, you need to get another 49 disks, ON TOP OF the original 40 disks just to play it over your network. You can't just get this alone, so enjoy the humongous space hogging. Remember, add each addons rating to the original game to figure out what your final rating would be. RATING: 5/100 iNtErNatiOnAl AsSoSciAtiOn of . ________________________..._____ . . : .< ___ \____ | | /(__):/ ____> :. : . \/ .__/ __ | <_| |/\___ \ . . .. s%|__|::\______/__|__\___|_______/ . : JAGGED ALLIANCE SOUNDS XX/55 -Filenames: JAGSND??.ZIP This is the addon, that if you bother to even get any, you should get. It's not exactly worth the 55 disks, but it makes the game a lot more realistic and enjoyable. Now you'll be able to hear your people say how much of an idiot you are and you can hear them cry out in pain. Also you can hear the mission briefings . So if you found that you liked the plain game, then look into getting this. RATING: 17/100 ========================================= Additional Jagged Alliance Notes and Help ========================================= Although I wasn't able to get to it in the limited time I have, I am told that the game crashes after the 2nd or 3rd mission. Well a person named MrData was kind enough to suggest this method for fixing that problem. I'm pretty sure it works, but if you are having problems, it couldn't hurt too much to try this out, or you can try out the second method listed after, OR you can get the fix released by a group called Axis. (1) Copy any file from GUS directory to MIC directory, (2) Then rename that file to those files that are in MIC directory. Like this: goto GUS directory copy 95A X:\DEADLY\MIC goto MIC directory copy 95A 96A copy 95A 96B copy 95A 96C copy 95A 96M1 copy 95A 96M2 then you can delete 95A --OR-- You can use this .bat file @echo off echo. echo Jagged Alliance Deadly Games Level 2+ Fix echo ========================================= echo This fix should be run from /DEADLY games dir or whichever dir game was echo Un-RARed into. echo. echo Please wait... copy GUS\95a MIC\96a copy GUS\95b MIC\96b copy GUS\95c MIC\96c copy GUS\95m1 MIC\96m1 copy GUS\95m2 MIC\96m2 echo. echo Patching Complete... Game should now work past Level 2 echo. --END of .bat-- If you do find an interest in getting Jagged Alliance, the most suggested thing to do would be to get the original game core <40 disks> and if you find you really still like it, you should get the sound addon <55 disks>, which will give you a grand total rating of 78/100 <95 disks however>. The game is very similar to the game Deadline, however it's much more sophisticated, and on a totally higher game engine design. So in conclusion, the general rating for Jagged Alliance will be the below listed which is basically an overall estimate, not total, of the game and it's addons. RATING: 74/100 Minimal Rip of Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games ¤¤¤¤ Released by Reality Couriers ¤¤¤¤ 08.09.1996 (8:th of September) [x/9] -Filenames: RC_JAG2?.ZIP You could just say "screw all those addons and those huge amounts of disks to d/l" and get this simple, 9 disk, perfectly working game. A major congrats to these couriers for nicely cutting this game down, and to be honest, I did not notice any differences of importance between this and the 40 disk PSG release. It works fine, no need for a fix. So get this one if you can find it. I'm not sure if the addons will work accordingly, but you don't need a network addon because this one works with it, or so they say. RATING: 67/100 ________________________/¯|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/÷e÷/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ NFL QUARTERBACK CLUB '97 (c)Acclaim [xx/41] +------------------------------------------+ -Filenames: PSGQBC?.ZIP Another great game this week, is this football game. Graphic modes to support those with p/166's all the way down to those with a 486/25. This game has it all, from the touchdown dancing, to the linebacker's screaming "I'm going to get you suckah', to measuring with the chains for first downs, and plenty of weather, field, and other options to keep you busy with. It has of course the full seasons, simulation and a quick play option. It's a great game, and it definitely is worth getting if you play football games. It has all the real players (pictures of some too) and teams. It's just a really good foot- ball game, with tons of camera angles to customize it the way you want to see it. Nice close up action, so the guys don't look like little stick figures from a blimp. This one has got it all....except modem play. No need for any cracks or addons and you're ready. RATING: 83/100 iNtErNatiOnAl AsSoSciAtiOn of . ________________________..._____ . . : .< ___ \____ | | /(__):/ ____> :. : . \/ .__/ __ | <_| |/\___ \ . . .. s%|__|::\______/__|__\___|_______/ . : NFL QB CLUB 97 - ViDEO ADDoN- XX/14 -Filenames: IAPNFL??.ZIP Basically this is 4 avi files. Two of which are a waste of space, the acclaim and iguana avis. The other one is the intro, which does not even play and can't be viewed with an avi viewer b/c of some weird decom- pression it uses. The other is the avi for when you win the superbowl, which might end up being the only one you ever even see. So is it worth it? Hell no. Don't bother even if you liked the game, unless you really think you'll win the superbowl and want to see the 26 second avi. RATING: 21/100 ________________________/¯|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/÷e÷/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ GNB 5: DEMISE OF THE DREADNAUGHTS [xx/06] +------------------------------------------+ -Filenames: PSGGNB??.ZIP You know, I wasn't feeling tired at all, until I played this game. Now I'm ready to go hibernate. In the SSI tradition of war games, comes Great Naval Battles #529,637,245. The difference from the last one? Nothing other than different scenarios and some options you'll never use anyway. It's just yet another war game with lots of statistics and graphics that remind you of road maps . There didn't appear to be any sound in the game, even though there is a setsound.exe and they said they didn't rip anything out. Only for those dying for a war- game, and even then you could go get Jagged Alliance. RATING: 42/100 Pinball Prelude (c) Effigy [01/02] _____ _____ ____ _____ ________________ \_ | \ \/ / _ /__\_ \_/ _ \ | _ \_ \ _/ \ \ __/___/ | / / |___| |____|___/ /_\ \___|_______/ ::d|___|::::::.\___/.:.\___\:::::::::: -Filenames: HBD-PP??.ZIP Here's a cheapy pinball game. There are three tables, a jungle-cavelike one, a futuristic wannabe one, and uhh well another one. They are not that good, mainly because it is way too hard to follow the ball because it goes too fast for the screen and the colors they chose for the balls are stupid because they blend in with the background at times. The game is pretty basic, not a lot of `inside' games in them, except for the second one which has foosball in it. It supports low and hi res gfx mode, except the low-res is close up and goes too fast, and the hi-res is further away and looks like shit and makes it hard to see some things. Unless you need one, don't bother. RATING: 37/100 ________________________/¯|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/÷e÷/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Bubble Bobble Combo (c) Acclaim [01/04] +------------------------------------------+ -Filenames: BOBBLE-?.ZIP Here's the classic game, which I thought was that game with the bubble and like you blow them up and trapped the guys in it, but I guess I was wrong, because this is the one where you are some faggot little kid and you can shoot rainbows and kill the little bugs and you collect fruits and vegetables (b/c they are healthy and good for you) and you move up higher and higher, then you move to the next level and then eventually you get to a boss. It's not too hard, very simplistic, but the controls are a little annoying (a for left, w for jump, d for right, and spacebar to shoot faggot rainbows). The graphics will remind you of your old nintendo games, be sure to get the fix to make it work : "Most crackers use Soft-Ice/W to crack 4GW/DOS programs, for this reason the cracker probably didn't test whether the game works in dos environment, as expected, I come to the rescue and release a better cracked version (that doesn't even check the floppy drive)." RATING: FIX/100 XENOPHAGE:ALIEN BLOODSPORT(C)APOGEE [17/17] ________________________/¯|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/÷e÷/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ -Filenames: PSGXEN??.ZIP This is a figthing game . It's kinda crappy, but yet kinda good. The characters are nice and close up, but perhaps too close and too bulky. They are limited to a strong and weak punch. They do however have certain moves per character. There are finishing moves and all sorts of secrets too. The sound is pretty good and the music is even better. But the graphics are not that impressive, even with the SVGA on. It has enough options, setting up keyboard and joysticks, and game options to let you make it the way you like. There are however only a choice of 8 different charac- ters to choose from. If you do get it, be sure to check out the "Demo" from the menu, it's actually the intro, with a demo at the end of it. Not bad for it's size, and if you like fighting games it's worth looking into, however you can easily beat this one or easily get bored with it. RATING: 60/100 ________________________/¯|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/÷e÷/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ BUG for Windows/Win 95 (c) Sega PC [XX/34] +------------------------------------------+ -Filenames: PSGBUG??.ZIP Well this is supposed to be for Win 3.1 too, but apparently it isn't or some- thing. I unarjed the mofo and then pkunzip'ed the cracked .exe and then ran it in windows, and it came up with a Win32s error saying some shit .dll was not in the library. So that only leads me to believe it's miss- ing some win files or doesn't work. Path0s tried to get it to work also, see his problemsin the win95 section. RATING: NA/100 iNtErNatiOnAl AsSoSciAtiOn of . ________________________..._____ . . : .< ___ \____ | | /(__):/ ____> :. : . \/ .__/ __ | <_| |/\___ \ . . .. s%?__|::\______/__|__\___|_______/ . : BUG! VIDEO ADDON for Win 95! [xx/33] -Filenames: IAPBUG??.ZIP Funny how the video addon is only for win95...things that make you go `hmmm'. RATING: ADDON/100 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <*> WIN '95 REVIEWS <*> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE $$ gg $$ $$Pg. j$"$c $$""" ::::: $$ $ $$ gg $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ ::::: $$ $ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ggg ?$g$g$P $$ $$ $$ $$g$$ gg $$ mc ------------------- $$ gg $$ $$ $$ --- Reviews from pAth0s... ?$g$P ?$g$P GR! Accept no substitutes. Only the Ionizer\pAth0s tag team tells you what you wanna know, when you wanna know it! !#! SEND ME MAIL NOW!! pathos@ns2.clever.net !#! --- Testers System info --- Hardware: p-90, 16M ram, 512k cache, Diamond 64 2m Dram, Awe32, 17" ADI, EIDE Software: 95 Oem Service Release 2 (includes directX2, and stuph) All the latest drivers for the above hardware. --- Ratings/Points System --- 100-90= LEECH IT OR DIE! 89-70= Check it 69-50= Ehh maybe 49-30= Prolly not 29-1= Shitzville!! 0= Don't Work _____________________ __________ _____________________ Monster Truck Madness *GOLD* FINAL [21/21] _ ________________________ _____ ________ _ \\_____ \_____ \_____ \/ . \\_____ \\ dZG/\ __// _ |/ ____/. | \/\ __/ _/ \ \/ /_ _/ /_ | ! _/ \ \ \____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_ =======\___/===—1911—CD—DIVISION—======\___/ -Filenames: RZR-MM??.ZIP I reviewed the beta a few weeks ago, here's what I said about it then: "I'll like it a lot better once the final comes out. I do have to say that the synth muzak flippin rocks though and the grafix are a lot better than average. This will prolly be one of those "unbelievable directX games" I talked about a couple weeks ago. As far as the juice of the game, you can pick one out of about 10 of the most popular monster trucks to race with. Theres 4 different types of races too. Drag (side by side car crush), Rally (offroad enduro type), Circuit, and Tournament. You can set up suspension, gearbox, and tires on your truck for the different types of tracks/races. Don't have more than 4 other trucks racing against you when you first start out tho, the traffic kinda sucks. There's many different resolutions, textures, and toggles to optimize video/processor speed, as well as audio, and joy/keybd setup. As a little side note, from what I gather about the help files included, MS is planning on devoting a whole webpage to this game, with possible tournament type netgames once the game goes final. This one will definately be worth checking out!" To be quite honest, I couldn't see a whole lot of difference between this version and the beta. I think some of the screens looked different in the final, but nothing by way of game play. It still swaps in the middle of gameplay, which is kinda funny that all the directX games I've played don't run choppy cuz of a swap, plus I really dont think it should swap with 16M of ram with nothing else running. Same score as the beta. Still a great game! ** Points: 74 - Good game, but still had the swap problems like the beta. šUUýš UUUýýýY šš š š š šUUUš šUUýš šš šššš áUUUýá šUý šýY_ýYšUý_U Uýý UUýýý Y_Uš ýY_Uš á šš ýY_Uý UýY_Uý_Ušššš áUUýá _Uý ýY_UýY šššUýý šýY_Uý UýY_Uý šš UUý á šá _Uý ýY_UýY UUýý _UýY_Uý UýY_Uý_Uý UUý šýýY Y_Uý ýY_UýY áUUUý _Uýý UýYáUY_ýý_Uý UUý Uýý UY_ýý ýYáýýY áUý áýýY áUš ááá ááááá UUý ááá áY cH áš áá á á áááááýá á á .iLL. FREE ENTERPRiSE By TSuNAMi [X/6] .iLL. -Filenames: ILL-FRE?.ZIP ** NOTE: This game is supposedly for Win AND Win95, however it gave Ionizer some weird Win32s errors, but it runs fine under Win95. A cool sim type of game. Your job is to set up a company and produce products to sell. It's not the average simcrappy type of game though. You play the role of a plant manager, and you have to set up and place machines, and workers for the machines, as well as different office people and so forth. There was only one major problem with this, the largest time advance you could set was 10 minutes. Meaning you could only jump 10 minutes at a time in the game. It takes a little while to setup as far as purchasing your machines, and getting your employees settled, but after that, rock and roll... Lotsa stuff to look at, mess with, and fuck up :P This one's a winner.. Kept me busy longer than I shoulda been :) ** Points: 81 - At least give this one looksee, unless the only games you play are 3d kill em all clones. ________________________/_|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/öeö/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ BUG for Windows/Win 95 (c) Sega PC [XX/34] +------------------------------------------+ -Filenames: PSGBUG??.ZIP *** A hardware-only DirectDraw object creation was attempted but the driver did not support any hardware. Could not initialise DirectDraw. Umm bullshit. MS Monster truck just installed directX2, OSR2 comes with DirectX, so this things on crack. My guess is that a file was left out or something.. Dunno. If anyone else gets this thing to work, mail me and let me know how. ** Points: NA - DirectX error, on a perfect directX2 system. _____________________ __________ _____________________ eehhh That's all folx! And remember, vote LIBERTARIAN!! -pAth0s ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <*>THE GAME OF THE WEEK<*> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have a tie this week, the awards goes to PRESTIGE for both of them . PRESTIGE wins the award for their release of JAGGED ALLIANCE 2 and NFL QUARTERBACK CLUB '97. Two excellent games this week, and plenty variety in games this week overall. We had some fighting games, sports games, pinball games, action/war games, and even platform games. This week was mainly dominated by Prestige. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <*>OTHER RELEASES<*> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ____ ____ ____/ /___________/ /_ -:-/\-:- \__ ____ _ ____ \ The New / / / / / / / Breed / / / / / / / -:-\/-:- \___ /___/ /___ / Presents: <::::\_/::::\__/::::\__/:::::::::::> Rings of the Magi for Windows (reg) Grand Master Edition (c)MVP Software <==========================[01/01]=> -Filenames: TNB-RTMR.ZIP -Note: Dupe, released by Tyranny back in December of '95. ________________________/¯|__/| ___________ \___ \ __ / __/ __/ / |/ ____/ __/_ | __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| / |___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\ +--------\___/÷e÷/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+ Z *TRAINER* [xx/01] +------------------------------------------+ -Filenames: PSG-ZTRN.ZIP -Note: There actually was a trainer released for Z already, but here's another one for ya. Alien Incident Intro-Animation XX/49 ************* **************** *************** ***************** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ************** *************** ************** *************** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *************** **************** ************* *************** -Filenames: 3BAIIN??.ZIP Alien Incident End-Animation XX/21 ************* **************** *************** ***************** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ************** *************** ************** *************** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *************** **************** ************* *************** -Filenames: 3BAIEN??.ZIP -Note: Here's the intro/end addons for Alien Incident, if you kept it. Strike Base *Da Minimal RIP* [xx/03] .-------, .---, .---, .--, .---, _\_ __ \ _\_ | _/ _\ || _/ / \____/__ \/ /\ \_ SnK / | / / \_ _/_ _|_ _\_ _/\_ _/ `-------' `--' `--' `--' `--' úù:riPPed by WoLFGaNg:ùú -Filenames: EHW-SB??.ZIP -Note: Just a highly minimized version of this game already reviewed. The Other White Pakis Present: Free Enterprise Video Addon [XX/22] -Filenames: FEADDN??.ZIP -Note: Addon. DR. SEUSS'S ABC [01/48] __ . __ . __ . .,s$ý'`$@s.: .sý"'"ýs,. :.,,sý"''$$@..: :.$$$$s, `ý"' $$$ $$$s @$$$ ,. s$$$:: ,$$$$ : .::.:`ý$@. s$$$ý.ýÓ$$.`"ýý"''. :`""ýÓ :. : .. `"ýýÓý"' :.:`ý$s,,@$$s : [ - f U L L T H R O T T L E - ] -Filenames: DRSEUS??.ZIP -Note: Living books series for little kiddies. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <*>UPCOMING RELEASE DATES<*> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -All projected dates are as of SEPTEMBER 9TH 1996, 8:15am (EST) and based on STORE release dates. The info. in this section is updated WHEN AVAILABLE. Key to system types: DCD = DOS CD WCD = Windows CD HCD = Windows/Mac. CD W95CD = Win 95 CD W3 = Windows Disk W953 = Win 95 Disk D3 = DOS Disk YY/MM/DD| Name of Game | OS | Company ----------------------------------------------------------- 96/08/30 MEGA RACE 2 DCD MINDSCAPE 96/09/01 DEADLY SKIES DCD JVC COMPANY OF AMERICA 96/09/02 NFL QB CLUB 97 DCD ACCLAIM 96/09/02 IRONMAN/XO DCD ACCLAIM 96/09/02 GOLF NICK P DCD GT SOFTWARE 96/09/02 AD&DCORERULESDCD TSR 96/09/02 DUNGON KEEPR DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/02 HIST WORLD DCD AVALON HILL 96/09/02 POWERSLAVE DCD PLAYMATES INTERACTIVE ENT 96/09/02 DUKE ZONE DCD WIZARD WORKS 96/09/02 MANIC KARTS DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/02 DEADLY GAMES DCD SIR TECH 96/09/02 SILNT HTR PATL DCD MINDSCAPE 96/09/02 F22 LIGHTNING2 DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/02 KILRATHI SAGA DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/02 CRUSADE:REGRET DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/02 RAPID FIRE PAK DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/02 ULT GAMERS PAK DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/03 MORTL KMBT DUO DCD ACCLAIM 96/09/03 PRAY FOR DEATH DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/05 BUBBLE BOBBLE DCD ACCLAIM 96/09/05 ALIEN TRIL DCD DIGITAL PICTURES 96/09/09 HIND DCD INTERACTIVE MAGIC 96/09/10 HARDLINE DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/15 MAST/ORION 2 DCD SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE 96/09/15 MAGIC GATHER DCD SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE 96/09/15 OVER REICH DCD AVALON HILL 96/09/17 ASSASSIN 2015 DCD WEA VIDEO 96/09/17 NATO FIGHTERS DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/24 BEDLAM DCD GT SOFTWARE 96/09/24 C&C RED ALERT DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/25 COMANCHE 3.0 DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/27 SYNDICATE WARS DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/27 MADDEN NFL 97 DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/27 NHL HOCKEY 97 DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/30 WAR GMES COLL DCD MINDSCAPE 96/09/30 STL PANTHRS 2 DCD MINDSCAPE 96/09/30 BLOOD/MAGIC DCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/09/30 AZRAEL TEAR DCD MINDSCAPE 96/10/01 BARB DESN REFL WCD MATTEL 96/10/01 BARBE STRY MKR WCD MATTEL 96/10/01 BTLCRSR 3000 DCD TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE 96/10/01 SCENERY ITALY DCD WIZARD WORKS 96/10/01 GRID RUNNER DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/07 PRIVATEER 2 DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/10/15 NCAA BASKETBLL DCD GTE INTERACTIVE MEDIA 96/10/15 NEO HUNTER DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/18 PGA96:WNTWRTH DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/10/25 ARMOR FIST 2.0 DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/10/27 TOONSTRUCK DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/29 STAR GENERAL DCD MINDSCAPE 96/10/29 TIMELAPSE DCD GTE INTERACTIVE MEDIA 96/11/01 JETFIGHTR III DCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/11/01 VR BASEBALL DCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/11/15 LANDS OF LORE2 DCD VIRGIN GAMES 96/11/15 AH64D:KOREAN DCD ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/02 POLITICARDS HCD MASQUE 96/10/01 MOTHER GSE LRN HCD MATTEL 96/10/01 FSHRPRCE PARNT HCD MATTEL 96/10/24 SIM PARK HCD MAXIS 96/10/01 SIDWNDR GAMEPAD MICROSOFT 96/08/29 MUMMY WCD INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 96/08/30 TRPMKR 97 WCD RAND McNALLY 96/08/30 STREETFND 97 WCD RAND McNALLY 96/09/01 HTWHL TOY CAR WCD MATTEL 96/09/02 WOOD SHIP MEN WCD AVALON HILL 96/09/02 NECRODOME SHR W5CD MINDSCAPE 96/09/02 DUKE WIZARDS W5C WIZARD WORKS 96/09/09 LIGHTHOUSE TCD SIERRA-ON-LINE INC 96/09/13 NTSCP3.0 PED WCD NETSCAPE 96/09/15 DAGGERFALL DCD BETHESDA 96/09/15 ENCARTA97 DX WCD MICROSOFT 96/09/16 SCRABBLE WCD HASBRO INTERACTIVE 96/09/17 NETSCPE GOLD WCD NETSCAPE 96/09/20 MS VIS J++1.0W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/24 MON NIGHT FB WCD DISNEY SOFTWARE 96/10/01 BARBE PRN&PLY WCD MATTEL 96/10/01 BARBIE DESIGN WCD MATTEL 96/10/01 NOIR WCD CYBERDREAMS 96/10/01 OTHELLO WCD HASBRO INTERACTIVE 96/10/14 ULT YAHTZEE WCD HASBRO INTERACTIVE 96/10/14 CLUE WCD HASBRO INTERACTIVE 96/10/22 9 WCD GT SOFTWARE 96/10/24 QCKN 6 WCD INTUIT 96/10/24 QCKN DX 6 WCD INTUIT 96/10/29 COLLEGE FTBL WCD DISNEY SOFTWARE 96/11/01 HOT WHEELS MOUSE WCD MATTEL 96/10/24 QCKN 6 W3 INTUIT 96/08/29 OLYMPIC SOCC W5C U.S. GOLD INC. 96/08/30 MORT KOMBT 3 W5C GT SOFTWARE 96/09/01 NEVERHOOD W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/01 REAL TROUBLE W5C U.S. GOLD INC. 96/09/02 DESTINY W5C INTERACTIVE MAGIC 96/09/02 MARATHON 2 W5C BUNGIE SOFTWARE 96/09/02 MECH 2 MERCS W5C ACTIVISION 96/09/09 NECRODOME W5C MINDSCAPE 96/09/14 AUTOMP ST +5 W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/14 AUTOMP ST+DX W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/14 AUTOMP TRP5.0 W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/15 GREET WKSHP W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/15 MS PICTURE IT W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/15 DEADLY TIDE W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/15 PUBLISHER 97 W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/15 CRL MEGA GAL W5C COREL SYSTEMS 96/09/15 DIE HARD TRL W5C FOX VIDEO 96/09/16 DRK SUN:ONLINE W5C MINDSCAPE 96/09/17 GOLDEN NUGGET W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/17 CIRCLE/BLOOD W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/20 HEXEN W5C GT SOFTWARE 96/09/20 ENCARTA 97 STD W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/24 STAR CONTR 3 W5C WEA VIDEO 96/09/24 WARWIND W5C MINDSCAPE 96/09/24 AGILE WARRIOR W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/24 GRAND SLAM 97 W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/24 C&C RED ALERT W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/09/27 DIABLO W5C DAVIDSON 96/09/27 NORT UTL 2.0 W5C SYMATEC 96/09/27 ROAD RASH W5C ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/27 PGA TOUR 96 W5C ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/09/27 NORT UTL 2.0 U W5C SYMATEC 96/09/27 WRLD ATLS 2.0W5C MICROSOFT 96/09/27 SHERLOCK:ROSE W5C ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/10/01 STR TRK GEN W5C SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE 96/10/01 DOMINION W5C 7TH LEVEL 96/10/01 CLANDESTINY W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/01 NAVY FGHTERS97 W5C ELECTRONIC ARTS 96/10/02 WESTWORLD 2000 W5C SIMON & SCHUSTER 96/10/15 REVERENCE W5C CYBERDREAMS 96/10/15 ELEVENTH HOUR W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/15 ENEMY NATIONS W5C VIACOM 96/10/21 HYPERBLADE W5C ACTIVISION 96/10/22 CADDY HACK W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/22 SCORCHED PLNET W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/27 COMMAND/CONQR W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/29 GALACTIC MRAGE W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/10/29 ODDBALLZ W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/11/01 TERRACIDE W5C U.S. GOLD INC. 96/11/01 PUZZ/TRILOBYTE W5C VIRGIN GAMES 96/11/12 TITANIC W5C GTE INTERACTIVE MEDIA 96/11/18 BATTLESHIP W5C HASBRO INTERACTIVE 96/11/18 RISK W5C HASBRO INTERACTIVE 96/12/01 DEATHTRP DNG W5C U.S. GOLD INC. 97/01/01 MINDWARP W5C MAXIS 97/03/01 MORTIFICATOR W5C PLAYMATES INTERACTIVE ENT 96/09/30 HLTHY PC 1.0 W3 SYMATEC 96/09/30 CLNSWP 3.0 W5C QUARTERDECK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <*>CORRECTIONS<*> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Hey if I make a mistake, be sure to write me and let me know, cuz 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