Jasper’s Journeys
By Joseph and John White (1997) Jasper’s Journeys is a good looking jumping game, with great sound effects and animation. You play an elf-like creature, and you jump around, collect items, etc. It’s very well done. The jumping and movement is somewhat ‘floaty’, but you’ll quickly get used to it and overall the game is quite enjoyable to play and it runs very...
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By Filipe Mateus (1994) Gobman is one of many Pacman clones that is available on the DOS platform. Gobman features many different game board layouts (unlike the original Pacman game which only has one layout). There are also new items that you can pickup to help you collect the dots and avoid the ghosts. The difficulty level in this game is not as intense as in some other Pacman clones I’ve...
Read MoreFire & Ice
By Graftgold (1995) A VGA run’n'jumper with nice graphics (for VGA) and a neat premise: You throw ice balls at enemies to freeze them, and then run into them to make ‘em shatter. (Note: You must run this game in straight DOS … if you attempt to run it from Windows, you’ll get an error message, and the program will stop.) Download Fire And...
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By Cark Erikson (1992) A neat little EGA platform game. It looks and plays sort of like an early Apogee game. It’s enjoyable, as long as you turn the extremely annoying PC speaker sound effects off. (On the main menu.) Download Elfland (Mega-Upload) Download Elfland...
Read MoreDoubleSpyGuy
By Jay Carson (1990) DoubleSpyGuy, due to its nature as a text-mode sidescrolling jumping game, features limited graphics, sounds, and gameplay. The object is to collect all of the boxes (ASCII char #254 if you’re interested) on each level while avoiding (jumping over) the enemies. It does play relatively well for an ASCII jumping game, and also includes a level editor to create your own...
Read MoreDiamond Dash
By David Fleming (1993) Diamond Dash borrows heavily from the classic Lode Runner game. It involves ladders, getting chased by baddies, collecting diamonds and using your ‘proton accelerator’ to blast holes in the floor to trap them. The graphics are extremely minimal (think Jumpman style) but if you’re a fan of Lode Runner you will probably get some enjoyment out of this...
Read MoreDentureman
By Nissen Ventures (1997) DentureMan is a strange clone/reworking of the classic Pacman dot-eating game. The playing field scrolls as you (disembodied teeth) proceed to eat all of the dots (toothpaste?) and avoid the … uh, things. There are three different levels you can play in the shareware version, and while DentureMan offers decent (yet weird) graphics it doesn’t really improve...
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By John Paul D’India (1994) This simple platform game contains some interesting concepts, such as the ability to have and use different magic powers and special items at the same time. However, the controls of your wizard (especially jumping) make this game very hard to play, due to the fact that it’s hard to get him to do what you want. Nevertheless, the game features nice looking VGA...
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