Back in 19th Century England, one man was able to kill and kill again without ever been caught. That man was Jack the Ripper. Now, the player is a Scotland Yard detective on the trail of this famous killer. He must converse with suspects, highlighting any important information that could be valuable to his case. Then, when he thinks he has enough evidence, the player pieces the clues together to finally catch the infamous killer.
Gloriana. is a management game set in the year 1550 AD, when Elisabeth becomes Queen of England.
The player is cast as the owner of a small trading company with the goal to gain wealth and influence, through the international trading of goods and accumulation of luxury items, until they achieve sufficient status to be granted the post of counselor to the Queen. The player has time until the year 1588 to achieve this esteemed position, at which point the Spanish Armada attacks England and the game ends.
Forever Legend is a freeware role-playing game inspired by Final Fantasy series. A young child from the outside world came into the realm of ordinary people from the huge meteor. The child, named Kilgaly, grows up to become a hero who has to vanquish evil and save his land. Gameplay is divided into overworld traveling and turn-based battles with menu options such as "attack", "magic", "item" and "run". The overworld is viewed from a top-down perspective, which switches to a side view during battles, like in Final Fantasy games.
Azalta is an adventure/role-playing game. But unlike most other games of this type, Azalta is much more than a simple single adventure; it is an entire game system with endless adventures, an infinite number of large worlds to explore, hundreds of puzzles to solve, creatures to meet, and items to find -- you can even create your own worlds/creatures/items!
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 (IFD), 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.