Softdisk Publishing Games - LaunchBox Games Database

Anna's Gram

Apple II

Released

1987

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

This game was a recurring feature on several of Softdisk's disk subscriptions; each time it appeared on a...

Biodomes

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Biodomes is a side-scrolling shooter set in a future where Earth is uninhabitable due to nuclear warfare. Human...

Biology 101

MS-DOS

Released

1990

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 12

4.0

Biology 101 has five levels. The first level, SYSTEMS, deals with major organ and system functions; the next...

Calc-Man

MS-DOS

Released

1987

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 13

2.5

Calc-Man is a combination of Pac-Man and business software. The player controls a flashing square on a 9 x 20...

Catacomb II

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: 3.05
Total Votes: 11

3.0

Petton Everhail, the most powerful magician in the world is hired to recover an enormous treasure buried deep...

Catacombs Pack

MS-DOS

Released

January 1, 1991

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 2

3.0

The Towne Cemetery. The site of many sad departures from this mortal coil has now become your doom as you are...

Chagunitzu

MS-DOS

Released

1990

Community Rating: 1.83
Total Votes: 15

1.8

Chagunitzu is the predecessor of Paganitzu, and contains similar gameplay. The game is a top down puzzle game,...

Change Maker

MS-DOS

Released

November 1, 1991

Community Rating: 0.94
Total Votes: 9

0.9

In this children's game, a rabbit named Eddie is collecting change in his piggy bank. Each round, an amount of...

Circuitry

MS-DOS

Released

1992

Community Rating: 0.50
Total Votes: 2

0.5

On Disk Monthly's Circuitry is a Tetris-style game where the player needs to connect one side of a 'well' to...

Cuckoo's Nest

MS-DOS

Released

1987

Community Rating: 1.82
Total Votes: 11

1.8

For as long as you can remember, people have talked about the once-stately Victorian mansion on the edge of town....

Curse of the Catacombs

MS-DOS

Released

1993

Community Rating: 2.15
Total Votes: 13

2.2

Curse of the Catacombs is a first-person shooter very similar to the previous game. Once again, you're a mage whose...

Dangerous Dave: Dave Goes Nutz

MS-DOS

Released

1993

Community Rating: 2.62
Total Votes: 17

2.6

Dave Goes Nutz is the fourth installation of the Dangerous Dave series. Dave has to rescue his little brother...

Dangerous Dave Pack

MS-DOS

Released

January 1, 1991

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Dark Designs I: Grelminar's Staff

MS-DOS

Released

February 1, 1991

Community Rating: 1.62
Total Votes: 13

1.6

In this fantasy role-playing game, an army of evil extra-dimensional creatures is building above the Gandolan...

Dark Designs II: Closing the Gate

MS-DOS

Released

1990

Community Rating: 1.64
Total Votes: 11

1.6

Having recovered Grelminar's Staff in Dark Designs I: Grelminar's Staff, a group of adventurers must now journey to...

Dawgfight

MS-DOS

Released

1992

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Dawgfight is a fun, tongue-in-cheek arcade-oriented flight sim is set in the Western town of Hatfield. It's County...

Deep Sea Diver

MS-DOS

Released

1992

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 2

2.0

Your job is to probe the sea floor and gather all the treasure you can find. Of course, it won't be a cake walk....

Dino-Sorcerer

MS-DOS

Released

June 1, 1990

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 13

3.7

A mix-and-match program for kids, Dino-Sorcerer is probably best remembered as one of the earliest games coded by...

Dungeon of Shalan

MS-DOS

Released

1988

Community Rating: 1.95
Total Votes: 11

2.0

Somewhere deep inside a dungeon lives the evil Shalan. You are on a journey to find and kill him. But, before you...

Eight Queens

MS-DOS

Released

1986

Community Rating: 0.94
Total Votes: 9

0.9

See your PC solve the classic problem of placing eight queens on a chessboard with no two attacking each other....

Four Card Solitaire

MS-DOS

Released

February 1, 1989

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 10

1.0

In this solitaire game, the player has four columns to work with, and each starts with just one card in it....

FourSide

MS-DOS

Released

March 1, 1990

Community Rating: 1.10
Total Votes: 5

1.1

In this domino game, two players are each given a hand of five square tiles with numbers on each side. The players...

GeoTutor 1: Europe

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 10

1.0

Did you know that there are two countries which are completely surrounded by Italy? Or that Iceland is one of the...

GeoTutor 2: South America

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: 0.94
Total Votes: 9

0.9

Welcome to our second installment of the GeoTutor series. This month we present South America for your geographic...

GeoTutor 3: Central America

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: 1.10
Total Votes: 10

1.1

Welcome to our third installment of Geotutor. This month we present Central America and the islands of the...

Grammarama

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: 0.50
Total Votes: 2

0.5

Learn the rules of grammar the Big Blue Disk way. English lessons were never this much fun!

Handy Caps

MS-DOS

Released

April 1, 1991

Community Rating: 0.94
Total Votes: 9

0.9

This trivia game displays a map of the United States and quizzes the player on states and/or capitals....

How to Weigh an Elephant

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 10

1.0

This is a very short and simple EGA game that helps children estimate what animals are bigger or smaller than each...

Kingdom of Kroz

MS-DOS

Released

June 1, 1988

Community Rating: 1.73
Total Votes: 11

1.7

A text-mode action/puzzle game. You have to get to the exit on each level, which is made more difficult by...

Kitadel

MS-DOS

Released

1987

Community Rating: 2.15
Total Votes: 10

2.1

KITADEL is by the author of the Cuckoo's Nest adventure published in BIG BLUE DISK #14. It was with great dismay...

Legends of Murder Collection

MS-DOS

Released

December 31, 1988

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Legends of Murder Collection

Windows

Released

October 1, 2021

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

When a murder is committed under mysterious and supernatural circumstances, the Inspector arrives on the scene,...

Legends of Murder II: Grey Haven

MS-DOS

Released

May 1, 1991

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 9

1.0

This is the second adventure in which the player takes on the role of the Inspector, a crime-solving fighter/mage....

Legends of Murder: Volume 1: Stonedale Castle

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 1.45
Total Votes: 11

1.5

Legends of Murder is a fantasy/role-playing/murder mystery game. In Volume 1 of the series you, Inspector, have...

Magic Boxes

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 10

1.0

A mathematical game with a twist: you are given a four by four equation lattice with the symbols and numbers...

Missing Dots Matrix

MS-DOS

Released

May 1, 1991

Community Rating: 0.94
Total Votes: 9

0.9

This program displays phrases that appear to have been printed on a defective dot matrix printer -- they are...

Murder in the Museum

MS-DOS

Released

1988

Community Rating: 0.94
Total Votes: 9

0.9

Professor P. U. Plum, the curator of the Calhoon Museum, has been found dead in the museum's Dome Room. You,...

Nations and Capitals

MS-DOS

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.20
Total Votes: 10

3.2

NATIONS AND CAPITALS is one of the toughest quiz programs we've seen. After playing it, our resident Trivial...

Papu's Odyssey

MS-DOS

Released

1993

Community Rating: 0.67
Total Votes: 9

0.7

Papu's Odyssey is a fun puzzle game in the same style as Epyx's popular Chip's Challenge game, except that you are...

Pixel Puzzler

MS-DOS

Released

February 1, 1990

Community Rating: 1.14
Total Votes: 11

1.1

This program takes graphic files, splits them into squares and shuffles the squares around. By selecting two...

Planet of the Robots

MS-DOS

Released

1986

Community Rating: 2.25
Total Votes: 8

2.2

Welcome to the future! The freak time warp that picked you up in the late 1980s has dropped you here in the 23d...

Proto Type

MS-DOS

Released

March 1, 1989

Community Rating: 3.21
Total Votes: 12

3.2

This touch-typing tutorial includes a few games to help players practice when they're not taking lessons. The...

Relix

MS-DOS

Released

1993

Community Rating: 1.90
Total Votes: 10

1.9

Objective: Score points by boxing in objects that pop-up on the screen without hitting them. How to play:...

Same or Different

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 1.27
Total Votes: 11

1.3

This is a very simple EGA game that displays a screen with four images of random items and the child chooses...

Scramble

MS-DOS

Released

September 1, 1990

Community Rating: 1.08
Total Votes: 6

1.1

This game centers around rearranging the letters of words. It has several different modes. In the standard game, a...

Slordax: The Unknown Enemy

MS-DOS

Released

December 31, 1990

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 11

4.0

Legends tell of a race of super beings, the Slordax, who once tried to conquer the galaxy. The war lasted for a...

South American Trek

MS-DOS

Released

1986

Community Rating: 0.95
Total Votes: 10

0.9

Geography class. Remember the routine for the "region of the week"? Monday: read the chapters. Tuesday and...

Squares

MS-DOS

Released

March 1, 1989

Community Rating: 0.95
Total Votes: 11

1.0

In this Tic-Tac-Toe-style game, the player and the computer compete to be the first to make a 2x2 square within a...

Starship Encounter

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 1.18
Total Votes: 11

1.2

You are the lone astronaut on a long-range deep-space probe of the Horse Head Nebula. Your small ship is suddenly...

States and Capitals

MS-DOS

Released

June 1, 1988

Community Rating: 2.28
Total Votes: 9

2.3

This quiz game, included in Big Blue Disk #20, is designed to help players remember United States capitals. It...

Submarine

MS-DOS

Released

April 1, 1989

Community Rating: 1.77
Total Votes: 11

1.8

This game allows the player to control a simulated United States attack submarine. The game is played in a hybrid...

Terror of the Catacombs

MS-DOS

Released

1993

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 13

3.7

The evil Nemesis has discovered how to use Time Gates and has trapped you once again down in the catacombs,...

Tiles of the Dragon

MS-DOS

Released

1993

Community Rating: 2.59
Total Votes: 11

2.6

The goal of this game is to remove as many tiles from the board as possible. Tiles are removed two at a time,...

Western

MS-DOS

Released

1988

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 9

1.0

The object of this game is to capture and bring to justice (put in jail in other words) criminals in the Old West...

Word Ladders

MS-DOS

Released

April 1, 1991

Community Rating: 1.83
Total Votes: 9

1.8

Word Ladders is a variant on the common word puzzle in which the player must turn one word into another by changing...

Zig Zag Flag Shag

MS-DOS

Released

June 1, 1991

Community Rating: 1.30
Total Votes: 10

1.3

Zig Zag Flag Shag contains ten puzzles in which the goal is to move from the left side of a seven by twelve grid to...

ZZT's City

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 9

1.0

Ah, life in the big city. Everyone said it would be great, and you, foolishly believed them! Little did you know...

Softdisk Publishing

Anna's Gram

Add to collection

1987

5.0

Biodomes

Add to collection

1991

Biology 101

Add to collection

1990

4.0

Calc-Man

Add to collection

1987

2.5

Catacomb II

Add to collection

1991

3.0

Catacombs Pack

Add to collection

January 1, 1991

3.0

Chagunitzu

Add to collection

1990

1.8

Change Maker

Add to collection

November 1, 1991

0.9

Circuitry

Add to collection

1992

0.5

Cuckoo's Nest

Add to collection

1987

1.8

Curse of the Catacombs

Add to collection

1993

2.2

Dangerous Dave: Dave Goes Nutz

Add to collection

1993

2.6

Dangerous Dave Pack

Add to collection

January 1, 1991

Dark Designs I: Grelminar's Staff

Add to collection

February 1, 1991

1.6

Dark Designs II: Closing the Gate

Add to collection

1990

1.6

Dawgfight

Add to collection

1992

Deep Sea Diver

Add to collection

1992

2.0

Dino-Sorcerer

Add to collection

June 1, 1990

3.7

Dungeon of Shalan

Add to collection

1988

2.0

Eight Queens

Add to collection

1986

0.9

Four Card Solitaire

Add to collection