Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome is an expansion pack for the real-time strategy game Age of Empires. It is based on the rise of the Roman Empire, and adds the Roman Empire and three other playable civilizations to Age of Empires.
Gameplay-wise, the expansion introduced numerous interface tweaks, such as unit queuing, the ability to double click a single unit and highlight others of the same unit-type, balancing damage done by catapults, and the option to increase the population limit beyond 50 (only in multiplayer games). By installing the 1.0a update from 1999, it is also possible to use the period key to cycle through idle villagers. The Rise of Rome also features a new Roman architectural design, shared by all four new civilizations, the Romans, Palmyrans, Macedonians and Carthaginians. Four new researchable technologies have been added. Additional new features include five new units, four new random map types, and a larger map size option. Pathfinding for all units is also considerably improved. New music was
A JumpStart game released by Knowledge Adventure in 1998. It is a part of the JumpStart Learning Games series. It focuses on teaching math skills for ages 5-8.
Star Wars: DroidWorks is a 1998 edutainment computer game and the premiere title from LucasArts subsidiary Lucas Learning. It uses the same engine as LucasArts' previous title Star Wars: Jedi Knight. The creators aimed to create a game that would be both appealing and nonviolent. The game's original release date was moved up by months, which resulted in the development team cutting some planned game features.
The game's plot involves the player saving the galaxy by manufacturing droids with specific abilities, such as the ability to see in the dark or jump, to complete missions. The educational portions of these missions teach players about concepts such as energy, force, motion, simple machines, light, and magnetism.
Star Wars: DroidWorks received high praise from critics, sold well, and won numerous awards and accolades.
Vigilance is a third-person shooter that follows eight agents working for the counter-terrorist organization SION (Special Intelligence Operations Network). The game combines first and third person perspective, allowing the player to control one of eight agents each with varied strengths and weaknesses. Aside from the basic single player mode, it also came with a support of play over LAN and Heat.net.
JumpStart Spelling is game released by Knowledge Adventure in 1998. It focuses on teaching spelling skills for ages 5-8. It is a part of the JumpStart Learning Games series.
In this game, CJ must venture through a prehistoric land to save Edison from some cavemen who have captured him to use him as a light source.
Hopsalot, the Jump Start bunny, is showing off his Great Grandrabbit's gramophone, when he is suddenly pulled right into the gramophone's trumpet and into the Land of Music, hot on the trail of a batch of sour notes. It appears that the evil Sir Sournote has soured all the music; Hopsalot must travel throughout the Land of Music collecting all the ruined notes in his bag, and bring them to the Concert Hall to sweeten them again.
As a member of Delta Force — The Army's Elite, top secret special forces unit — the word 'impossible' is not in your vocabulary. In Delta Force, you will conduct missions swiftly and silently, in every possible terrain, under every imaginable condition and through unconventional means.
Advertised as "The 1st Non-Violent 3D Shooter", Extreme Paintbrawl is the first game in the first-person shooter genre to be based on the sport of paintball. It is cross-promotional with the Sheridan and Crosman brands of gear.
JumpStart Adventures 6th Grade: Mission EarthQuest is a JumpStart game released by Knowledge Adventure in 1998. It is designed to cover a full curriculum for sixth grade.
In this game, an organization known as EarthQuest must stop a spacecraft's artificial intelligence, A.R.T., from wreaking havoc on the ecosystems of the world in his quest to redesign Earth.
Marathon: EVIL, the first conversion for Marathon Infinity, was long regarded as one of the scariest and finest. Marathon: EVIL features a few new weapons and monsters.
Take on the role of an alien head-hunter and prepare to be pitched into an inter-galactic, gladiatorial competition. Battle with 225 of the most unusual opponents you'll ever meet from projectile spitting Punk Rocker Head One Eyed Shepherd Head, a heat-seeking sheep thrower. Even Little Old Lady head comes armed with a pretty active set of choppers.
Everyone's after the same thing-each other's head. What you have on your shoulders fives you your combat powers. Win a battle - collect your opponent's head. Need a different ability - change your head. Move from asteroid to asteroid collecting as many heads as possible - but try not to lose yours.
The little die-cast cars from Matchbox make their way to the Game Boy Color with HOT WHEELS STUNT TRACK DRIVER. You can choose from five different Hot Wheels cars, including Way 2 Fast, Tow Jam, Shadow Jet, Saltflat Racer and the Twin Mill each with unique strengths and weaknesses. After picking the right car, take it for a test drive on one of the six tracks in the Single Race mode. When you want some stiff competition, try to win successive races in the Tournament mode. And if your friends think they can drive better than you, make them prove it with the two-player link cable option. In all of the modes, the key to winning is to maximize your speed by pulling off big stunts. Find out if you have what it takes to become a Hot Wheels Driver in HOT WHEELS STUNT TRACK DRIVER.
Enter the bizarre and alien world of Dominant Species- the next generation command and control real time strategy game with fully 3-D creatures and terrain. You are a powerful alien intelligence engaged in constant and deadly conflict with other hives over the possession of Anima, the precious substance that sustains you and your fellow aliens. However, unwelcome humans have arrived on your planet and threaten to upset the balance of conflict between hives that has raged for countless millennia. Attempting to take the priceless Anima and use it to create immortality, humans join an epic battle of survival of the fittest.
Barrage is a semi-futuristic shooter which gives you control of a powerful hovercraft and pits you against hordes of faceless enemies, all with the goal of blowing everything up before the time limit runs out.
Richman 4 is the fourth main installment in the Richman series, developed and published by Softstar Entertainment. It's a classic computer board game in which players earn money by luck (dicing) and strategy (buying land and buying cards) to defeat other players.