Tubes is a shareware color matching puzzle game. The main screen shows a series of overlapping transparent tubes climbing from the bottom and curving at the top towards the center. Colored balls, or elements as the game calls them, travel through these tubes to their exit holes.
The objective is to catch the falling spheres with a test tube, moving it sideways underneath the tubes exits with the mouse, keyboard or joystick. The test tube can hold up to five elements. The player has to press a button and drop the elements inside a beaker at the bottom, aligning them vertically, horizontally or diagonally by three or more of the same color. Every level has a number of drops allowed, and when the player fails to catch too many elements the game is over.
Besides the elements, special balls also appear randomly inside the tubes that help or hinder the player. The multicolored element acts as a wildcard, and can be matched with any color. The F element removes space inside the test tube. The M element fills the test tu
Dive into the ultimate experience of space combat with this first-person flight simulator! Take command and engage in thrilling battles across multiple difficulty levels, ensuring both novice and seasoned pilots can test their skills in the vast expanse of space. Are you ready for the challenge?
Operation: Inner Space is an action game developed in 1992 and published in 1994 by Software Dynamics for Windows. The player's mission is to enter the computer (represented by "Inner Space") in a spaceship and recover the icons and resources that have been set loose by an invasion, and ultimately to destroy the "Inner Demon". The player interacts with other spacecraft along the way, and can compete in races for icons.
You can choose a ship from one of six teams (there is also a seventh AI-only team), and interactions will depend almost entirely on which team you pick. All of the teams have relations with each other.
The player controls Block-man. Block-Man is in a game-area bounded by red bricks and flaming torches, representing the room he's in. Every room has an exit and from his starting position Block-Man must get to that exit. In his way are walls and pits that he must overcome. The only available resource are building bricks. The only commands available are move left / right. pick up/put down and climb (a maximum of one brick only). Using these commands the player must solve the puzzle and get Block-Man to the exit of each room.
The shareware game consists of ten levels. The full, registered, game has more levels, and for a further fee a constructor option that allows the player to create and play their own levels and those of other game owners is available.
Dazzeloids is a 1994 children's CD-ROM game created by Rodney Greenblat, who also made PaRappa the Rapper.
It features Anne Dilly Whim, and her team of boredom banishers fighting
the forces of mediocrity set by the Mediogre and his geeky assistant,
Deliberately monochrome fighting game with a decidedly different and unique fighting system. Only released in Korea, but currently available directly from Byulbram Creature, worldwide.
Shariki (Russian: Balloons) is the original match three game. It was developed by Russian programmer Eugene Alemzhinym for DOS in 1994. The goal of the game is to gain progressively higher scores by matching three or more balls of the same color in a line (vertical or horizontal), by swapping adjacent balls. Each swap must result in a match. Matched balls are then removed, and new ones drop from the top to fill the gaps. The game is over when no more matches are possible in the game field.
A motion simulator arcade attraction released for SegaWorld arcades in 1994. Using Sega VR headsets, it was the first released video game to utilize head-tracking VR technology.
Rats! is a frantic game of rodent extermination in a race against time before the rats have a chance to mate and overrun the maze. To stop the vermin you use bombs, radioactive waste, gas, poison, plague rats, blocks and gender changing chemicals. Each weapon has its own characteristics so they need to be placed strategically or the rat population will keep increasing. And as the rat population increases your pulse rate will too!
Wanderlust is a surreal erotic FMV adventure game, released in 1994 by eMedia. In 1995 publisher Hybrid Technology released a German version of the game under the title CyberDreams.