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PC-Bakterien! is an arcade puzzle game done by TOM Productions in 1993. It was originally done in German and shipped as shareware on several local PC gaming magazines, and later translated to English by the original author. In this game, you take the role of Mikky, a worm-like defense microbe, and your goal is to defend the organism against the microscopic meanies. PC-Bakterien! has been released for PC MS-DOS and it’s one of the few games that is still maintained today.

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Nice little game.

Hocus Pocus is a 1994 side-scrolling platform video game developed by Moonlite Software and published by Apogee Software for MS-DOS. It is a 256 color VGA game featuring 360 degree scrolling and parallaxing backgrounds. A part of this title is distributed under the shareware license.

In the game, the player controls Hocus, a young wizard apprentice, sent on a quest by Terexin, leader of the Council of Wizards to prove his worthiness to join this council. To do this, Hocus has to beat 36 levels spread over 4 episodes, filled with over 30 different kinds of monsters, includings imps, ghosts, and dragons, and a boss at the end of each episode.

Despite being released around the same time as the film of the same name; it is not a spinoff nor has any relation to it.

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The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.
Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir… step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost… vanquish a horde of undead warriors unleashed by a foul necromancer, who also happens to have taken your brother hostage… guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home.
200+ unit types. 16 races. 6 major factions. Hundreds of years of history. The world of Wesnoth is absolutely huge and limited only by your creativity – make your own custom units, compose your own maps, and write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge up to 8 friends – or strangers – and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles.

The game is free for multiple platforms! Get it at http://Wesnoth.org !

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Hocus Pocus is a 1994 side-scrolling platform video game developed by Moonlite Software and published by Apogee Software for MS-DOS. It is a 256 color VGA game featuring 360 degree scrolling and parallaxing backgrounds. A part of this title is distributed under the shareware license.

In the game, the player controls Hocus, a young wizard apprentice, sent on a quest by Terexin, leader of the Council of Wizards to prove his worthiness to join this council. To do this, Hocus has to beat 36 levels spread over 4 episodes, filled with over 30 different kinds of monsters, includings imps, ghosts, and dragons, and a boss at the end of each episode.

Despite being released around the same time as the film of the same name; it is not a spinoff nor has any relation to it.

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This is an early alpha version of Warcraft II, a real-time strategy game done by Blizzard Entertainment in 1995. This demo from August 1995 was shipped to several PC magazines for preview use. It was not intented to be given to the end-user. Today, you’re free to try it, but Blizzard does not provide any support.

Regarding to the gameplay, it is still pretty close to the original game, but it already provides SVGA graphics, larger maps, a new fog of war and new units and buildings, even though you can use a few of them only. One interesting thing is that there are four types of resources: gold, lumber, oil and ore.

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Since it’s Christmas, I got a present for you: Descent II, a first-person shooter developed by Parallax Software and published by Interplay Productions in 1996. It’s one of the last games that Parallax developed before this studio was closed. Just as its prequel, Descent II uses a true 3D rendering engine featuring six degrees of freedom to move and to look around. It was released for PC MS-DOS, Linux, Mac OS, RISC OS, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Sony PlayStation.

In this video, you can see the full version that I got as a bonus on a PC gaming magazine over 10 years ago. SquarePulse and I, we wish you a Merry Chistmas!

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Creatures is an artificial life simulation designed by Stephen Grand and done by Cyberlife Technology in 1996. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows 3.x and Windows 95 and later ported to the Apple Macintosh, the Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. You start with a bunch of eggs to hatch and care for your Norns. The original Windows version came with a floppy disk on which six Norn eggs were saved that could be transported into the game. However, they were permanently erased from the disk after that, so you really had to be careful.

In this video, you can see the game trailer that explains the basics of this game.

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Ignition, known as Bleifuss Fun in Germany, is an arcade racing game developed by Unique Development Studios and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1997. In this game, you can choose between various vehicles with their own stengths and weaknesses and drive on different tracks that have a lot of hazards you can run in. It has been released for MS-DOS and Windows 95.

This video shows the German retail version that SquarePulse got as a present once. In Germany, it was marketed as part of the Bleifuss series, known as Screamer in the world.

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Warcraft Orcs and Humans Orc Mission Briefings Part 2
And yes i use cheats this is just for lore fans and no showoff in gameplay!!
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Sober 150 Days And Nights.

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Talking ABCs: A Day at the Beach. The Author (Redwood games) says the game was made before sound cards, so the voice all had to go through the PC speaker. Surprisingly clear for that old technology. This game used to be shareware, but now Redwood had released it as freeware outright.

Classic DOS Games says:
“Talking ABC’s: A Trip To The Beach is an early spelling game for children 2 to 6 years old. The game uses software called TurboSound to produce voice through the PC speaker, while the vast majority of games required a soundcard. There are three modes of play. In the first mode, the game announces a letter, which the player must find on the keyboard, and then an object that starts with that later is introduced and drawn onto the screen. In the second mode, the player can press any letter and the corresponding object is drawn to the screen, which the player can move wherever they want. In the third mode, three letters and three objects are displayed, and the player must draw a line between the letters and objects to make them match. Registered users received a copy of the game which displayed their child’s name, and could request a CGA optimized version which was much faster for CGA users. Additionally, they were promised a free game. Later versions promised a copy of Millions of Mazes, which may or may not have been the original free game.”

Download it for free!
http://www.redwoodgames.com/talkabc.zip (Official Download site)
http://www.4shared.com/file/114438065/c4ced3fe/talkabc.html (Just in case)

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