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NetStorm: Islands At War is a real-time strategy PC game, developed by Titanic Entertainment and published by Activision in 1997. Although a single-player campaign and tutorial missions are included, Netstorm is chiefly designed for online play, allowing for games of up to eight players. NetStorm takes place in the world of Nimbus, a planet whose crust has been sent floating off in to the atmosphere by the never-ending battles between the three god-like beings called “The Furies”, representing Wind, Rain and Thunder. The people now live on small floating islands, each with its own high priest; their only link to their patron Fury. The islands battle each other in order to capture and sacrifice the priests of their enemies to their own Fury so they may gain knowledge and power.

Activision officially released the game as Freeware in 2003.

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http://www.netstormhq.com/download.php?list.10

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Line Wars 2 is a classic space shooter Wing Commander/Tie Fighter type game by indie game developer Safari Software (who later went on to develop Highway Hunter and Tyrian). Line Wars 2 features 3 dimensional objects representing various spacecraft and objects in the game. You go mission by mission through the campaign story. In the shareware you can only perform 3 missions, from asteroid destruction to escorting a princess. The Music is on par with many Epic Megagames releases or Amiga game releases due to its use of Modular music. The game overall is pretty fun, though originally released in 1990, an enhanced version was put out in 1994 featuring high res graphics and other various enhancements (the version you’re seeing now). This game is actually still pretty fun now too.

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I haven’t seen this game anywhere else (possibly due to sucking) on the entire internet. Dug up from my old DOS shareware floppies I used to buy for a dollar back in the day, this 16 colour, pc speaker sound, bad play control game I couldn’t figure out what the heck to do with was among them. If this game was a little more polished it could have had potential… but I don’t see many people sending money to the maker of this game when people could buy Commander Keen or the like instead.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114309983/5ee64dc7/FBIFred.html

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From a shareware compilation of mine. The framerate wasn’t too great and I could not find a way to strafe. You pick up items with the enter key. This game looks like it was made using the Pie in the Sky software 3d GCS (Game Creation System). I used to own that program too but a friend lost the disks so long ago. Anyway, this game La Cosa Nostra is a mobster themed FPS game with the first episode as shareware, registered users get the second episode sent to them. I really know very little else about it. The Second level of the game (which I was too lazy to get to because I didn’t feel like putting any effort into getting to) features the Terminator movie theme for some reason… suggesting this game probably just uses midi music gathered from around the 1994 net.

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I always wanted to try this game. The only copy I could ever find was on a shareware compilation and the game seems bugged all to heck because it refuses to work past putting your character name in. The end of this video is where it crashes!

Wikipedia Says: WarWizard was a fantasy computer role-playing game that was released as shareware in 1993, first for Amiga, then ported to Ms-Dos for IBM-compatible computers. It was developed by MicroGenesis, a small company founded by Brad McQuaid and Steve Clover in 1989. Today, the game is most notable as the commercial start for McQuaid, Clover, and artist Milo Cooper, who would later work together at Sony Online Entertainment on EverQuest and at Sigil Games Online on Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.
The player acts as a “WarWizard”, a powerful magic-using character that fights and completes quests. WarWizard features VGA graphics and sound effects, but touted greater emphasis on gameplay than on anything else.
One notable feature of the game was its combat mode, which featured the ability to target specific parts of an opponent’s body, hampering movement or disabling the opponents altogether, rendering them unable to flee from the battle or to retaliate. The same thing could also happen to the player, WarWizard, himself.
Today, the game is mostly unknown except to a few fans and appears impossible to find anywhere on the net. Even the official site, which became unavailable from September 2007 (possibly connected to Sony Online Entertainment’s takeover of Sigil Games Online on 15 May, 2007), offered only a shareware version of the game for download. According to Brad McQuaid, the full version seems to be misplaced and nowhere to be found.
Few people mentioned to have ordered the full Ms-Dos/PC Version of WarWizard at the time, but never received any answer or the game. It appears that the game has been discarded by its makers without any chances ever for the full version to become available today for anyone.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114114876/2a149fd6/WWIZARD.html

This is the only download available of the game on the whole internet apparently… See if you can get it to run better than I could.

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I honestly could not for the life of me figure out what I had to do. I tried the various controls the game had listed, most likely it would have let me do something if I tried more combinations of keys. I can find no record of it online. It’s from an old Shareware compilation disc of mine. It appears to be a side scroller where you solve puzzles and try to prove your innocence from some sort of crime. Very interesting and odd… the protagonist is dressed like a typical gumshoe.

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This is a hard to find DOS shareware game. It features play similar to many other fighting games of the time and had graphics that were actually top notch for back then. Too bad I can only see the story, my floppy disc which had the game is corrupted so the actual game portion doesn’t load. A shame really. This game is in the vein of Kung Fu, Yie Ar Kung Fu, the original Street Fighter and many others.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114310346/cfc615a8/KFL.html

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Pune is a game very similar to snakes, the snakes themselves seperate occasionally, giving more controlled players and occasional “out” but what really makes the game stand out is the 8 player multiplayer for the full version.

Wikipedia describes Snake as:

Snake is a video game released during the mid 1970s and has maintained popularity since then, becoming somewhat of a classic. After it became the standard pre-loaded game on Nokia phones in 1998, Snake found a massive audience.
The player controls a long, thin creature, resembling a snake, which roams around on a bordered plane, picking up food (or some other item), trying to avoid hitting its own tail or the “walls” that surround the playing area. Each time the snake eats a piece of food, its tail grows longer, making the game increasingly difficult. The user controls the direction of the snake’s head (up, down, left, or right), and the snake’s body follows. The player cannot stop the snake from moving while the game is in progress.

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The best description I can think of for this game is that it’s a fun german shareware PC game that plays like the old NES game Baseball but has graphics somewhat similar to early SNES. The cost of the game to register is 20 Deutschmarks but the authour would accept half from elderly, students, poor and disabled. The game wasn’t exceptional in any way, but it was fun for its simplicity. Also, as a German thing the word Yab is pronounced “Jab”. The game features 2 real MLB team names but solely because of their colours. Blue = Blue Jays. Red = Red Sox. I let the game sit a bit to reach the credits then put it into demo mode to show the gameplay.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114313200/51beb040/YAB.html

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Vinyl was originally states to be the sequel to Jill of the Jungle, in fact, both games play very similarly. Appearantly Epic was not happy with the quality of the game so it was changed slightly and published by a different company instead. Epic published Jazz Jackrabbit over this. Not that Vinyl is a bad game, but it wasn’t quite up to the standards of the year.

Game Cover:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/misc-games/6392-1.jpg

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