A first-person 3D shooter/vehicular action game set on a colonized Mars. Players pilot armed rovers and on-foot vehicles through hostile alien-infested environments to complete mission objectives, rescue survivors, and retrieve resources. Features fast-paced combat, destructible terrain elements, and polygonal graphics optimized for DOS PCs.
This prototype of a MS-DOS Port of Super Mario Bros. 3 was developed by Ideas from the Deep (IDF), which would later become known as id Software. It was presented to Nintendo, but was discarded.
The prototype has been found, and was donated to be preserved at the Museum of Play.
Aliens TC is a total conversion based on the movie Aliens, created in 1994 by Justin Fisher.
It was the first total conversion and is one of the most famous. In the week following the release of Doom II, there was more discussion in the Doom newsgroups related to Aliens TC than to Doom II. The popularity of the TC even reached outside the Doom community, for instance providing inspiration for the 1998 Dreamworks game Trespasser. Fisher was offered employment by various game developers (including Dreamworks for the team that would later make Trespasser), but declined in order to finish his university degree.
Dino Hunt is a single-player shareware game. The objective is to get Nicky Neanderthal back to his cave after first hunting the many dinosaurs that inhabit the area.
Roketz is a 360 degree scrolling shoot 'em up. It features gravity environment and thrust-and-turn gameplay similar to the likes of Thrust, Virus, and SubSpace.
Selectable game modes are the usual deathmatch combat mode and a racing mode where the players have to pass given checkpoints as fast as possible.
Dinotopia features a young man searching for his sister in a land where humans and dinosaurs live together. The story is based on James Gurney's Dinotopia.
Ultimate Pinball is an arcade-style pinball game and includes six different pinball tables to play, all based on themes as sports, horror, space, pirates etc.
The game features smooth scrolling, digitized sound, and local multiplayer capabilities.
Aro & Elmi is a German arcade action platform game that teaches kids the importance of brushing your teeth. The two main characters, Aro & Elmi, represent two types of toothpaste produced by Wybert, the company that commissioned this promotional game.
The levels are split into "Gum World" and "Tooth World", as the two toothpaste types are specifically intended for intense gum and tooth care, respectively. Each of the characters has two objectives: collect food debris and destroy the harmful bacteria that run around the mouth by hurling droplets of toothpaste at them. This ammo is limited, but you can increase it if you find extra toothpaste tubes of matching colour. Also watch out for secrets and bonus tooth care gel tubes that can be found in levels, often in secret places.
The game is made on a very professional level, with cartoon-like pre-rendered sprites for the characters and the bacteria that look like characters from a kids' TV show. German players call platform games "jump & run", and here you'll be doin