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Tag: arcade game

  • Spectre for DOS

    Spectre was released by Velocity inc. in 1992. It is a 3d tank battle game very much like battle zone and its descendants. It had numerous ports for systems such as the Macintosh and even a console version that was on the super Nintendo. I have only ever played the…

  • Turbo for DOS

    Turbo was created by Doug Ross back in 1987 and is a CGA game written for early IBM PCs. It is much like many old school arcade games such Outrun and Pole position. It is a driving game on a perfectly straight road, where you have to dodge traffic going…

  • VGA Leaper for DOS

    VGA Leaper is a Frogger clone written for DOS by Lee Chapel in 1992. We got this game on a shareware magazine cover disc in the mid 90’s, and never having played the original Frogger in the arcades we thought it was pretty good. If you’ve played Frogger in the…

  • Wizard of Wor on the commodore 64

    In recent years I got a commodore 64 micro computer in my efforts to begin collecting old computer hardware and software. I never had one of the machines when I was a kid, and thus did not know much about the software on the machines. I was a bit worried…

  • Xmris on NetBSD

    I had not heard of Xmris before I installed NetBSD on my sparc. I found the game when looking through package source for games that I could install and test out. It turns out that it will work on pretty much any Unix that has X windows installed. I played…