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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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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And downright copying is godlike worship. When it’s done properly, it’s considered beautiful. Paganitzu takes that, does it well and is one awesome puzzle game as a result.

Paganitzu for MS-DOS computers

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The Incredible Toon Machine is a puzzle game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994. Even though it has been advertised as a sequel to Sid & Al’s Incredible Toons, it’s actually an enhanced version of it done for Microsoft Windows. Both games are sister products of Sierra’s famous The Incredible Machine series.

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Tetrolis is one of the many Tetris Clones alive and well today because of lawsuits back in the Street Fighter Era that established a game can have the same look and feel provided it is not mistaken for being the exact same IP. Coincidentally, this game was probably released before those lawsuits finished up but kudos to Vectorman for the nice music the game has.

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Lemmings is a puzzle game developed by DMA Design an published by Psygnosis in 1991. It has been originally released for the Commodore Amiga, and due to its success, it was ported to various platforms like 3DO, Acorn Archimedes, Apple IIGS, Apple Macintosh, Atari ST, Commodore C64, PC MS-DOS, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Sinclair Spectrum, and many, many more.

The basic idea of this game is based on the urban legend of the real lemmings going on migrations to eventually run into death. In this game, your goal is to safely lead as many lemmings as possible to the exit.

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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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Like many games released by Epic Megagames, Brix, a puzzle game of matching blocks, features a rich soundtrack of module based music. This game can be pretty addictive but at the same time, it is very simple. I used to play this game a fair bit when I was a kid and it’s still fun today!

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My Obligatory Shareware game for the day =D

Tubes is another matching puzzle type game, in the vein of Columns, Gems and the latter games like Puzzle fighter. In this game you catch different elements in beakers and chain them together to form “molecules”. There are also all sorts of other molecules that can help or greatly hurt you (like the grey coloured Xenon molecule, which does nothing and just gets in the way until you can find a way to blow it up). Overall a pretty fun and interesting game.

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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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According the the publisher, Alive Software:

A Jigsaw Puzzle game that overflows with color and brilliance. It loads a picture on the screen and scrambles the pieces. Can you put it back together?. Forty five puzzles are included.

VGA Jigsaw features SVGA support up to 800X600, but it will read and scale much bigger files. It will shrink large GIF files or expand small ones to fit the screen automatically.

It will also read any GIF or PCX file Black and White, 16 or 256 colors. There are literally thousands of GIF files available from BBSs or the Internet, so once you have VGA Jigsaw you can use any of those files as puzzles.

Requires: 386 or higher and VGA/SVGA display.
Options: Mouse and SoundBlaster compatible card.

This game I remember playing years ago when DOS was big and random shareware was fun.

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