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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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http://www.4shared.com/file/114123477/8e7e144d/Framed.html

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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!

Download it for fun!
http://www.4shared.com/file/114110259/a68f244/BRIX.html

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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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http://www.4shared.com/file/114971564/8114db17/tubes.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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http://www.4shared.com/file/114252044/b75b7733/Pune.html

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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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This game is surprisingly fun. The sound and music are sparse, but it’s a fun interactive board game that can have up to 5 players battling it out at sea. Though originally released as shareware, Imagisoft stopped producing games altogether and released their educational type games as freeware!

http://www.imagisoft.com/rdhook.htm

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Rescue Rover is a computer puzzle game from id Software, published by Softdisk in 1991. The game was distributed as shareware, with the first 10 levels making up the shareware version, and another 20 levels being present in the registered version.
This is one of several games written by id to fulfill their contractual obligation to produce games for Softdisk, where the id founders formerly were employed. A sequel, Rescue Rover 2, soon followed. Roger and Rover are the names of the 2 main characters. Rover the dog is frequently kidnapped by robots, and it is the player’s (Roger the owner) job to enter into robot territory get him back, hence the name “Rescue Rover”.

Check out the famous names in the credits at the start. This game launched legends!

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114108796/c87d636d/ROVER_Shareware.html

P.S. Sorry for sucking. This is one of the few more famous shareware games I actually never really got to play as a youngster.

Edit:

Apparently this game was originally made as part of the “Gamers Edge” subscription service and was only broken up into shareware after the departure of ID personnel. So says a little bird ^_^

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