Solitaire Twin Pack contains two card games, Pyramid Solitaire and Golf Solitaire.
Both games are played with the mouse and come with in-game help text, and the ability to change the pattern on the back of the cards. Only Pyramid Solitaire has an Undo function and only Golf Solitaire has a Save Game option.
Mind Games Entertainment Pack For Windows contains ten classic games for Windows, including Chess, Chinese Chess, Bridge, Backgammon, Reversi, 4 In A Line, Checkers, Go, Gomuku, and Renju. Each can be run directly off the CD, or the pack can be installed to the hard drive. In general, games are played only against the computer, on one of four difficulty levels, with the option of setting up a specific scenario, changing some rules, and an undo ability.
Challenge yourself with 24 exciting games for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1. Look out for the cat in Cheesy Pursuit. Put on your best gambler's face for the Poker Machine. Fine tune your strategies in Black Box Chess. Test your photo-graphic memory as you try to pair similar cards together in CardMatch. Place boulders on the targets with your Bulldozer. Watch out as as each level gets harder and harder. Your whole family will enjoy the variety of fun and challenging games!.
In this game the player is presented with a well known word or saying in which all the letters have been replaced by another, for example all the A's may have been replaced by G's, the B's by Z's and so on. The object of the game is to decode the phrase.
Core Meltdown is a single-player, strategy game that is played against the computer on 7 x 7 grid, this is the default size but the game configuration allows the player to select either a 5 x 5 or a 6x6 grid. This is a turn-based game with the player trying to eliminate all the opponents pieces to win. Pieces are placed on the grid in empty squares. If the player wishes they can enhance their piece by placing another in the same square. When enough pieces have been placed in a square the piece explodes and populates all the surrounding squares. Any pieces in these squares belonging to the opposing player are captured in the process.
Cheesy Pursuit is a single-player, arcade, strategy game where the object is to achieve a high score. The game is played on a grid in which all squares are filled with kinds of cheese. The player controls a mouse which is initially in the centre of the grid. The object of the game is to eat all the cheeses without being caught by the cats which patrol the game area. As the player progresses through the levels there are more patrolling cats and they move faster and in less predictable paths.
Checker Connector is a single-player, strategy game that is played against the computer on 7 x 6 grid. It is a computer version of the classic board game Connect Four. This is a-turn based game in which the player and the computer take turns placing pieces on a board. The objective for each player is to create a line of four of their pieces, the one who accomplishes this first wins the game. The game is entirely mouse controlled. It is played in a window which cannot be re-sized. The game has sound, four levels of difficulty, in-game help screens, and a choice of playing piece, colour and screen background.
The player is shown thirty-six picture cards turned face down and must turn them over, two at a time. Matching pairs are removed from play, non matching pairs are turned face down again.
The player drives the eponymous Bulldozer and must push rocks onto targets. The vehicle is driven via the arrow keys. There are sixty levels in the game. Every four levels the player is given a password which allows them to restart at that point.
Black Box Chess is a single player chess-based puzzle game. It is one of a package of games produced by The Code Zone. Games from this package were used, in various combinations, in around twenty different game compilation packages.
Knight Moves is a mid-90s computer puzzle game. In the game you take control of a knight that must hop between spaces in the manner that a knight from chess moves. You must collect all the coins in each level to progress, meanwhile avoiding pumpkin headed scarecrows and other monsters as you hop in L shapes to progress.
Shanghai is a puzzle game using MahJongg tiles where you slide available matching tiles off the stack to reveal more tiles. Slide all 144 tiles off the board and you win the game.
This game includes four versions of the classic Shanghai game: The Great Wall (Shanghai meets Tetris), Bejing (Slide rows to make matches, Action Shanghai (clear tiles quickly before more appear) and Classic Shanghai (either regular or face down for an extra challenge).
The second game in the award winning Thinkin' Things edutainment series. Made for kids from ages 6-12, it aims to improve spacial awareness, creativity, analysis, observation, and memory.
You're a skillful thief condemned to death for trying to steal from the temple of Hera. However, Zeus himself frees you and gives you a task. Solve the puzzles of the Labyrinth of Minos on Crete to keep the Minotaur in and you may live.