The Atari ST port of "Road Runner".
Road Runner a racing game based on the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts. It was released by Atari Games in 1985.
The player controls Road Runner, who is chased by Wile E. Coyote. In order to escape, Road Runner runs endlessly to the left. While avoiding Wile E. Coyote, the player must pick up bird seeds on the street, avoid obstacles like cars, and get through mazes. Sometimes Wile E. Coyote will just run after the Road Runner, but he occasionally uses tools like rockets, roller skates, and pogo-sticks.
In the game you are a racer on the circuit with three other racers. Entire track is visible on the playscreen and gameplay is flowed in top-down view. You may turn left or right, and accelerate your car, which drives much faster than other cars. Finishing 5 laps on each track of different shape, players must come in first to participate in next race. Otherwise, the game will be over. Sometimes your car can be immobilized for the rest of the race.
The game is available for 1 or 2 players. In 2 players mode one player should use keyboard and another player should use joystick to play simultaneously, while in 1 player mode player may choose between the controllers.
MIDI Maze is a networked first-person shooter maze game for up to 16 players.
The game area occupies only roughly a quarter of the screen and consists of a first-person view of a flat-shaded maze with a crosshair in the middle. All players are shown as Pac-Man-like smiley avatars in various colors. Bullets are represented as small spheres. The game is said to have introduced deathmatch combat to gaming in 1987
Checkmate is the most powerful and versatile chess program on the market with state-of-the-art graphics, a highly intuitive user interface, and the widest range of features found on any micro-computer chess program, many of which have never before been implemented on a personal computer.
War Heli was developed in 1987 by the two Swiss crackers M. Heubi und M. Köhler for the Atari ST platform. War Heli is a vertical shoot 'em up in a war setting. The player pilots a helicopter through an area where he has to destroy all enemy tanks. He has to be careful not to hit any ambulances. If he does so, his score gets set to zero. War Heli is a challenging game with high standards in graphics and technique for its time. War Heli came with a then unique feature: you could save the game to the disk and continue later. Further artists of the Argonica team were: T. Steimle, R. Gafner and H.P. Gysel.
A commercial chess game for the Atari ST by Alexander and Barbara Szabo, produced and market by their own company Szabo Software since 1986 , and distributed also through third party vendors like MichTron Corp. in the US, and Microdeal and Software Direct in the UK. TechMate has an own GUI with 2D Graphics Board and entering moves completely mouse-driven.