Wizard was to be the last of Atari's 2600 games, but went unreleased in favor of the new 5200 games. Chris Crawford puts it this way:
"Wizard was spec'd as a 2K game, but just four months later, when it was ready, the marketing people had decided that everything should be 4K, so they asked me if I could expand it to 4K. To be honest, I really didn't want to work on the 2600 -- I was eager to get going on the 800. So I told them that you don't just expand a 2K game to 4K: you start from scratch and design it for 4K from the ground up. That was true, and marketing lost interest, so I got to move to the 800."
Since Wizard was never advertised in any Atari catalogs and it was never assigned a part number, most people don't even know if its existence.
Wizard can best be described as a cross between Berzerk and Wizard of Wor. You control a wizard (at least I think he's a wizard), who must attempt to destroy the swirling star shaped creature. The board layout is a giant maze, which makes it hard to run from the creatur
McDonald's Video Game is a parody of the business practices of the corporate giant McDonald's, taking the guise of a tycoon-style business-simulation game. The game presents the player with four views: The farmland, the slaughterhouse, the restaurant and the corporate HQ. Through each of these views, decisions can be made which will affect the fate of the player's company. In the game, the player takes on the role of a McDonald's CEO by choosing whether or not to feed the player's cows genetically altered grain, plow over rainforests or feed the player's cattle to other cattle (a practice known to spread mad cow disease). The player can also choose advertising strategies and public official corruption to counteract opponents of the player's actions.
In Enchanted Words you enter letters into a magical book, forming words in any direction and along any path. You need to create as many words as you can before the book is filled.
Poker: Texas Hold'Em 3D it is a single player poker game in which the player plays against up to nine AI players.
There are over seventy AI players, each with their own playing style however there is only one player voice and it is male. There are two modes of play, standard and tournament, the initial stake can be varied, the card backs can be changed, the player can change the camera angle and there is a cheat option.
Monster Truck Stunt Rally is a relaxing game in which you get the chance to drive a monster truck and have as much fun with it as you want. There are no actual rules or restrictions, except for the occasional fence that stops you from falling off the map. In essence, the goal is to push the car to its limits and see whether you have what it takes to perform daring stunts without destroying the vehicle in the process.
Mini Golf Castles allows up to four players to compete on medieval themed courses, each consisting of nine holes. At first, only one course can be selected, two others can be unlocked through tournament play. Four characters are available for visual representation. The aim is visualized by a punctured line indicating the direction of where the ball will go, the power of the shot is simply controlled by a button press and showed on a bar. There is an eight-stroke limit per hole. Some of the challenges are in tune with the medieval theme, like putting the ball at the right moment into a hole while an armour suit puts a sword down.
Zen Dynamics is a 2005 ZDoom partial conversion created by Xaser. It was created to demonstrate an implementation of weapon reloading in ZDoom, 7 years before it was officially and fully implemented as a weapon state. The game also includes features such selecting and deselecting frames, cutscenes, new monsters, new levels, new sounds, and 13 new weapons. Most of the levels are based on unfinished levels created by Malcolm Sailor which were released in 2000 in the "Assorted Scraps and Leftovers" collection.
At the 13th Annual Cacowards, this WAD was listed as a runner-up alongside Oniria.