More Arcade Games
Description
More Arcade Games is another collection of shareware and freeware games published by Idigicon in their Family Fun series. The CD will autorun if allowed and this brings up a menu that runs in the centre of the screen. The menu presents the games in ten 'game banks' within which the games are held in alphabetical order. All games run direct from the CD with no installation required though a couple do register an error when trying to save a high score.
The games in each bank are:
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Bank 1:
- 3D Ten Thousand from LatticeWork Software
- 9 Men's Morris from Klepp Nikolaus
- Alien Force from Robert Epps
- Amazeing (v4.07) from Stuart Swain
- Asteroid ( v0.3) from Carl von Blixen
- Avoid The Roids from Brook Miles
- Bang! Bang! from David B. Lutton II
- Black Box from Chiltern Software
- Blackout from Zarkware
- Blitzer from Steve Sherman
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Bank 2:
- Blob Factory (v 1.1) from Jeremiah Golden
- Block Breaker (v 1.2) from Yutaka Emura
- Bow and Arrow from John Di Troia
- Brats from Albert C. Ashton
- BreakThru! from Chris Nokleberg
- Bricks from Curt Johnson
- Brickbreaker II from Shihwei Yu
- Bugs from Timothy G. Baldwin
- BustOut'98 (v1.Free) from Adam Rudolph
- Centipede from C. Caisotti
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Bank 3:
- Colors from Stefan Craatz and Verena Knels
- Columns from John Rotenstein
- Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons
- Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle
- Diaggle from Soleau Software
- Dodger from Ivan Mackintosh
- Duckhunt from Andrew G. Novotak Jr.
- Emlith (Version 3.00E) from Yutaka Emura
- Empipe (Version 1.00E) from Yutaka Emura
- Flaps from Soleau Software
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Bank 4:
- Fractal Fighters v1.1 from Giovanni Tummarello
- Frog Hop from Soleau Software
- Fructus from Philippe Basciano
- Gelules also from Philippe Basciano
- Graditor from Pentti Moilanen
- Hungry Snake from Stas Virhov
- Here They Come! from Stimulus Gaming
- Hexis from Kantar Development
- Hit Or Miss from Daniel Otis
- Hyperoid from Edward Hutchins
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Bank 5:
- Jewel Master (v1.1) from Peter Siamidis
- Jewel Thief from ServantWare
- Killer Cars from Simple Systems
- Klotz
- Kye (version 2.0) from Colin Garbutt
- Loopz Windows from Christophe Yvon
- MacBlaster from Earl Gehr
- Magneto from Marc-Thomas Clifton
- The Adventures Of MicroMan: Adventure 1: Crazy Computers
- Missile Attack! is another game from Peter Siamidis
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Bank 6:
- Misson Alphatron
- Moraff's Ultra Blast (version 3.0)
- Mr. Matt (v2.10)
- Ms. Chomp is another game from Peter Siamidis
- Murder
- Nitemare-3D
- Neural Ned in Ned's Worldr from David S. Smiczek
- Oilcap Pro from Soleau Software
- Order Of Omega from Arka Enternational
- Paulie Python
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Bank 7:
- Popper from Housemarque Ltd.
- Pac win (version 2.3) from C. Caisotti
- Mazemaker (v2.01)
- Pudge is by Damon Chaplin
- Qbob (version 1.3) from MoonRock Software Inc.
- Race Track
- Robots from Dave Hoy
- Robot Battle from Brad Schick
- Runner (v1.0) from SouthBay Software
- Six Feet Under
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Bank 8:
- Slam! from Robert Epps
- Smash-Em (v1.5) from Galt Technology
- Space Exploration by Jeffrey R. Marken
- Space Rocks
- Space Traveler another game from Jeffrey R. Marken
- Space Walls from Adam J. Taub
- Space Junkie from Tuan Huynh
- Squeeze Play from Henderson Graphics
- Squirmer The Game
- SwatM from Mainstay Computer
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Bank 9:
- TC Asteroids This and most of the games in this bank are the work of Anthony Carin
- TC Choplifter
- TC Invaders
- TC Joust
- TC Robot Bout
- TC Skirmish
- TC Spaceflight
- TC Startrek
- TC Virtual World
- Tetriszen The only game in this bank that is not from Anthony Carin
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Bank 10:
- Tiles and Tribulations from Technological Computer Innovations
- Tritris (v1.5) from Michael Greminger
- Warhead (v 1.01) from WayForward Technologies
- WarpCycle II from Florian Schulte and Bjoern Ischo
- Winroids from Stephen Baxter
- Wimtris from Kipnis Enterprises
- WormWorld for Windows: PC PLUS Special Version from Kevin Ng
- YATC from Duff Software
- Yateris from Peter Mueller
- Zeek the Geek from Sidewalk Software
- Zombie Castle from KomodoWare Entertainment
Most games are Win 3.x games, those that are for intended for different platforms are shown below;
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DOS games: Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons, and Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle
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Earlier versions of Windows : Diaggle (Windows v1.1), Flaps (Windows v1.2), Frog Hop (Windows v1.1), and Oilcap Pro (Windows v2.0)
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Windows 9x games: 3D Ten Thousand, Avoid The Roids, BustOut '98, Centipede, Fractal Fighters, Hungry Snake, Klotz, Moraff's Ultra Blast, Mr. Matt, Popper, Pac win, Race Track, Slam!, Smash-Em, Space Walls, Space Junkie, Squirmer The Game, Windows, Tiles and Tribulations, WarpCycle II, and WormWorld for Windows: PC PLUS Special Version
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Average score: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 1 ratings)
Boring interface, quite interesting content, not a keeper
The Good
This is an interesting collection of shareware games. The quality of the games is variable but that is to be expected in a shareware compilation but what I liked was the variety. Some compilations I've encountered pad their content with endless variants of Space Invaders or PacMac, not so this product. While some games are clones that share the same parent there aren't enough to cause irritation.
When I looked at the games in depth I was surprised that so many of them were developed for Windows 3.1, or earlier, but I was able to play a lot of them directly from the CD using a Windows 98 machine and many also played under Windows XP. Some even played under Windows 7 but others crashed the machine
The Bad
Windows 98 is one of the operating systems specified on the keep case cover. I have tried all the games under this o/s and a few of them did not run. This could be due to the way my system is set up or it could be that related to the games being developed for a Win 3.1 environment
Some compilations have a decent menu, ISV's 10 Tons Of Games for example groups games by type, gives a description, allows the user to play or install and so on. Here the menu is grey, basic, boring, and contains no information at all. No effort has been spent to make it look the least bit interesting or useful.
The Bottom Line
As someone who likes to find, play and submit old shareware games to this database I found this compilation to be a bit of a gem, being able to play the games from the CD is a bonus because it means less tidying up. However even I would say that while these games are of interest there's nothing here that I would keep and play over and over again.
Had I bought this to keep my kids amused then, even back in 2001, I think I would have been disappointed. The games are too simple, look too dated, and enough gave me problems in WIN 98 environment for me to know that I'd have been frustrated with the cries of 'Daaaaad! It doesn't work properly?'
Windows · by piltdown_man (255738) · 2016
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Game added August 31, 2016. Last modified January 18, 2024.