Treasure Quest was a puzzle game in which the player moves from room to room in the mansion of Professor Jonathon William Faulkner, who has bequeathed 1 million dollars to any student who can solve the puzzles he has laid out. To move from one room to the next, players must find a famous quote from visual clues, words and anagrams, and then derive an ultimate solution to the game.
The protagonist of this game is the Muncher, thus named for his insatiable appetite for knowledge. Muncher is presented with a trivia category and a board with 20 possible answers. To win at the particular board, the player must steer Muncher to the correct answers and devour them.
Space Dodge'm (sic!) is a shareware conversion of the game of Dodgem, a very simple yet complex game invented 1972 by mathematics student Colin Vout. The name originates from the fact that you'll often have to "dodge" around the pieces of your opponent to advance your own.
This conversion places Vout's abstract board game in a science fiction setting with an added time limit, playing in a space station which is about make fatal contact with an asteroid. Your goal is to evacuate all your shuttles or landers in time, while preventing your opponent to do the same before you.
The game is played on a simple square board, with players taking turns moving one token to a neighboring square at each turn. It is not allowed to move onto an occupied square or backwards, only in the direction of the evacuation pads (up for shuttles, right for landers) or sideways. That's it. The amazing thing is that these primitive rules produce quite a devilish game, where you have to try to block your enemy pieces, while taking care no
Logic Quest is an educational game focusing on building thinking and problem solving skills. Solve the existing puzzles or design your own 3D labyrinths full of locked doors, puzzles, and perhaps even a robot or two.
Sonic's Schoolhouse is an educational computer game that teaches young learners mathematics, reading, and spelling, released in 1996 with collaboration of Sega and Orion Pictures Corporation.
In addition, players can earn access to two mini-games (a collect-the-rings game and a match-the-statues game) and a "field trip" section which gives them numerous facts on the various animals in the game (through video clips).
"La gran aventura de las palabras" (The Great Adventure of Words), also known as "Aprende con Horacio" (Learn with Horacio), is an educational game by the Anaya publishing house where you play with the great Horacio, Rodolfato, and Alfabeto, crossing their entire labyrinth house full of puzzles, reading challenges, and all sorts of language-related games.
A puzzle game that's also a screensaver. Riddle of the Runes features over 200 pieces of fantasy artwork across D&D campaign settings. Find hidden clues in the images to discover the location of a stolen treasure.
Super Concentration is a memory game in which the player has to match pairs of cards in order to clear the deck and win the game.
The shareware version only includes level 1 and 2, the registered version unlocks the rest of the game.
Solitaire Twin Pack contains two card games, Pyramid Solitaire and Golf Solitaire.
Both games are played with the mouse and come with in-game help text, and the ability to change the pattern on the back of the cards. Only Pyramid Solitaire has an Undo function and only Golf Solitaire has a Save Game option.
Mind Games Entertainment Pack For Windows contains ten classic games for Windows, including Chess, Chinese Chess, Bridge, Backgammon, Reversi, 4 In A Line, Checkers, Go, Gomuku, and Renju. Each can be run directly off the CD, or the pack can be installed to the hard drive. In general, games are played only against the computer, on one of four difficulty levels, with the option of setting up a specific scenario, changing some rules, and an undo ability.
Challenge yourself with 24 exciting games for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1. Look out for the cat in Cheesy Pursuit. Put on your best gambler's face for the Poker Machine. Fine tune your strategies in Black Box Chess. Test your photo-graphic memory as you try to pair similar cards together in CardMatch. Place boulders on the targets with your Bulldozer. Watch out as as each level gets harder and harder. Your whole family will enjoy the variety of fun and challenging games!.
In this game the player is presented with a well known word or saying in which all the letters have been replaced by another, for example all the A's may have been replaced by G's, the B's by Z's and so on. The object of the game is to decode the phrase.
Core Meltdown is a single-player, strategy game that is played against the computer on 7 x 7 grid, this is the default size but the game configuration allows the player to select either a 5 x 5 or a 6x6 grid. This is a turn-based game with the player trying to eliminate all the opponents pieces to win. Pieces are placed on the grid in empty squares. If the player wishes they can enhance their piece by placing another in the same square. When enough pieces have been placed in a square the piece explodes and populates all the surrounding squares. Any pieces in these squares belonging to the opposing player are captured in the process.
Cheesy Pursuit is a single-player, arcade, strategy game where the object is to achieve a high score. The game is played on a grid in which all squares are filled with kinds of cheese. The player controls a mouse which is initially in the centre of the grid. The object of the game is to eat all the cheeses without being caught by the cats which patrol the game area. As the player progresses through the levels there are more patrolling cats and they move faster and in less predictable paths.