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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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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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