In this game you control a bulldozer that rides around and pushes dirt.
Each dirt pile represents a "job". To keep from exploding you have to send in oil Samples to the cat dealership, then you will be told if the oil is good or bad. If you fail to do this occasionally your oil will go bad and you bulldozer will explode. To clean the oil you have to go to the cat dealership. You might also need some repair !
The goal of the game is to make the most money from finishing "jobs".
Planetfall is a sci-fi business trading game where the players command their own merchant fleet. They can travel between the different planetary systems (with changing business conditions), buy and sell any of the six available resources (uranium, iron ore, machinery, medical supplies, computers, and gems), make money and make deposits in banks. A game can have a maximum of 15 star systems.
This Cold War game puts the player in control of average American everyman Mike, charged by sudden circumstance with building a fallout shelter in his basement by slowly climbing two flights of stairs to the attic, where three cinder blocks need to be carried down to build it out of.
3D Grand Prix (for the ZX81 with 16K memory expension module) is a racing simulator with a first person view. You race against others on random generated track. You have to accellerate, brake, steer and switch (6) gears.
One of the first hospital management games. You hire staff, expand your hospital and advertise your services. But also take decisions on salary and how much medicine you prescribe to your patients. At times are prompted with text scenarios and have to decide how to handle them. It might be Yakuzas raiding the hospital, competing hospitals opening up, embezzling scandals etc.
A western astrology software. Enter your name and date of birth, and it will read your personality and fortune. Compatibility diagnosis is also possible. It comes with a manual for further research.
Solo Flight is a flight simulator game for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, and Apple II series released in 1983. It was later released for the IBM PC. The game was created by noted game designer Sid Meier, and published by MicroProse Software, which Meier founded in 1982 with Bill Stealey. The mission of the game is to fly solo over several states, delivering bags of mail. The game supported a fairly realistic flight model (for the time), and a large number of flight instruments were available. A map covering many states of the US was used, which even included altitude data (although the landscape always appeared flat due to the technology constraints of the time).
Space Shuttle is a simulation game where you are the pilot of space shuttle Discovery. Your goal is to launch the Discovery, establish an orbit around the Earth, open the cargo bay doors and recover a satellite to perform repairs, and finally land the Discovery successfully, all while using as little fuel as possible. Each time the complete mission is accomplished, it will then repeat at a higher difficulty level (in the higher difficulty levels the satellite has a more erratic flight path). The game is played from a first person perspective in the space shuttle cockpit where you can control everything from the shuttles engines to cargo bay doors. When the game is over you will be given a ranking which is based on the number of successful dockings and the amount of fuel that was used.
The Light Pen is an accessory for the Vectrex released in 1983 by GCE. It was quite revolutionary for its time, but because of the Great Video Game Crash of 1983, it ended up as a commercial failure. Packed in with the accessory was the game Art Master.
During its lifetime, GCE managed to release three games for it: Art Master, Melody Master and AnimAction. There was also a prototype, Mail Plane, that never managed to get a release.
Try this fun pizza making game. You have a limited time to make an eight-ingredient pizza. For this, you should get the right ingredients and in the same order as they are listed – and also the aproppriate utensils. When you finally put everything at the eight preparation tables, take the pizza to a hot oven to bake. If you manage to do it all, congratulations! Try all the 25 recipe variations and show your skills and technique in pizza making.
A demo program for the 3-D Goggles. BaronVR described it like this : "The effect is that of a track extending from the monitor surface to about 3 feet inside the monitor surface, the speed controlled by pushing up or down on the joystick..."
As far as Vectrex games go, the holy grail for many collectors and gamers is the unreleased flight simulator, Mail Plane. This quirky take on the tried and tested genre made use of the obscure light-pen accessory to control the airborne vehicle tasking you with delivering letters. Unfortunately nobody got to experience this unique offering back in the day following the games cancellation.
Having said that, the moment many of these deprived gamers had been waiting for finally arrived in November - a Mail Plane prototype cartridge surfaced on eBay in Pennsylvania, United States. Selling for a massive $877, one lucky bidder had finally secured the chance to experience this oddity once and for all, however, they had bigger plans for this title.
Understanding the demand for this long lost title, AtariAge user Vectrexer - the new owner of this Mail Plane prototype - decided to generously create a ROM image of the game cartridge and release it online for free to the masses.
As of today we can all finally experience Mai