In Marksman Shooting, you shoot red spots on a several number of targets in order to score points before they disappear. Try to shoot at least ten targets, otherwise your qualification score may be low. If you beat the qualification score, you proceed to the next round. Otherwise, the game ends.
Super Maruo is an unlicensed game released in Japan in 1986. Although very rare, this game is the first unlicensed Famicom game and the first unlicensed adult Famicom game as well. Despite the name, it has no relation to Mario at all.
Super Soccer is a soccer simulation developed for the Spectrum 48/128 by Imagine Software in 1986. It was also later released by Ocean Software as a free game with Crash Magazine.
Control is either with joystick or keyboard. gameplay is either single player against computer teams, or up to 8 players in a turn-based multiplayer mode.
Games last about 5 minutes, and a timer counts this down, but stops to wait for penalties, free kicks, half-time, etc.
The player controls one team member at a time, and this player is shown by a halo above their head. If this player moves away from the ball too far or for too long, control is switched to the next nearest player on the football field. Players with highest score at the end win the match.
In a different twist for adventures you play a Goblin called Gonj who used to be friends with the Humans but now hides away underground in your home to stop yourself from being killed. Your problem is that your pantry is nearly empty again so you must go up to the surface into the castle above and steal food. This then begins various adventures and quests.
Trollbound is a graphic text adventure where you see a picture of your surroundings and text to describe them. You type in commands to control your hero.
Following a familiar theme, an evil power rises when an undead wizard once banished to the mountains of Mortran returns to terrorise the villagers of a small village in the fantasy land of Hapshal.
The followers of the undead wizard Trantoss have been gathering the shattered pieces of the golden mace that once gave him his powers and the player takes control of two brothers, the strong woodcutter Lobo and the stealthy rogue Scarn whose mission is to thwart their evil plot.
Legend has it that deep in a mountain in the land of Meridan lies a Guardian who is believed to be eternal and would provide help to the people in their darkest need. The Guardian is needed now as Silvian have invaded Meridan once again, destroying everything and killing people with new and strange weapons. You have decided to test the legend of the Guardian by exploring the lands ahead to find the mountain that contains the Guardian. You start your quest waking from unconsciousness in your destroyed room.
Pilgrim is a text adventure where text on screen describes your location and you type in commands with the keyboard to control your hero and interact with each location.
You find yourself lying on a raft floating in the middle of the sea with no land or anything in sight after you had to abandon ship with the rest of the crew into shark infested waters. Your aim in this three part text adventure is to get yourself back home as you face various challenges and quests, as well as face many monsters and creatures on your travels. Each location is described by text and you type in with the keyboard, commands to control your hero and interact with the locations. Each time a character speaks to you, you can hear it with digitized speech.
When the very first Macintosh computer came out (128K RAM, 400k floppy) in 1984, my brother Randy Wilson wrote a video game called originally "Gravity Well" internally, and eventually "Continuum" when it was released (when released it was unable to run on the 128K Mac, instead it required the very next upgraded model of 512K).