Georg Glaxo is a promotional game released by the Danish subsidiary of pharmaceutical company Glaxo. It's a side scrolling platform shooter where the player takes control of Georg, a boy who has asthma. The game consists of four levels, each representing one of the seasons of the year. In each level the young boy will come across various animals that he can dodge or shoot at. Some of these, like sharks, are direct dangers while others just affects Georg's asthma. If it gets too bad he will get sick, start to cough and move slower. However this can be prevented by taking the right medicine. There are three different kinds of medicine, Flixotide (orange), Serevent (green) and Ventoline (blue). The orange and green should be taken every morning and evening, while the blue one is taken when Georg gets sick. A green, yellow and orange meter shows the current condition. If the marker is within the green area everything is okay.
Hovering castle is one of the first Bulgarian games for PC. The game is a representative of the Quest genre, it was created in 1992 and is not commercial. The authors are Hristo Bozhinov, Ivan Kolev and Stanislav Evstatiev. Ivan Kolev and Stanislav Evstatiev later founded Dimension Design and Garga Games. The game has graphics of (320x200x256 colors) with drawn characters and setting, and even becomes "cult" for many players. The game is partly controlled by text commands in Bulgarian, such as "Вземи чашата", and there are constantly witty messages in Bulgarian.
Daisy Quest is an educational game intended for young children. The goal is to find the titular dragon Daisy in a magical game of hide-and-seek. While you explore the world, you come across various simple mini-games intended to test your knowledge of vowel and consonant sounds. When each mini-game is completed, a treasure will be collected which reveals part of Daisy's hiding spot. After all of the treasures have been collected, the player wins the game by finding Daisy at the revealed location.
A collection of three puzzle games: the solitaire board game Satori: Expert Edition, the jigsaw-like Expert Picture Puzzle, and the randomly-generated 3D-Maze: Expert Edition.
Included as a type-in as part of CPCINFOS Issue 53 and 54.
During the game, you direct a ball onto a checkerboard.
The goal is to reach the end of each level, within the time allotted to you. You can direct the ball using the joystick, going left and right and pressing the fire button to make it jump. Please note, the number of jumps is limited (it is indicated at the top of the screen).
Each color of the checkerboard has a function: blue tiles have no effect, light blue tiles make the ball jump, red tiles slow down the ball, yellow tiles accelerate your ball, green tiles block commands, purple tiles reverse the commands and black tiles are, well, holes.
Falling into a hole wastes time. To abandon a game, press ESC, and you return to the menu
You play the part of the head of a railroad company, with the aim of creating your own railroad empire, providing a successful mass transit system that will be an inspiration to the rest of the world. Another goal is to provide the impetus for your chosen city to develop. There are a number of different places to set up business each with different layouts and existing houses and businesses.
The main money earners are passenger trains, that can be scheduled to pick up passengers at the times of day when the demand is high. However, in the long term you need the city to develop. This requires setting up trains that transport resources to where they are needed. These resources are used to build houses, and other buildings, increasing the number of passengers for your commuter trains.
As the city develops, new businesses will spring up, such as stadiums, high rise office blocks, and ski resorts. You can also build your own businesses, the success of which will depend on the local population, the presence of competin
The game is divided into 5 different sections focusing on baby animals, animal facts, animal habitats, information on the San Diego Zoo itself and all about saving endangered animals from extinction. The content consists of several video clips, audio, photos and articles.
The Microsoft Windows port of Chip's Challenge is a top-down tile-based puzzle video game based on the 1989 Atari Lynx original. It includes 149 levels (one more than the original's 148). It was included in the Windows 3.1 bundle Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4 in 1992, and the Windows version of the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack in 1995, where it found a much larger audience.