Gem Software

Chateau

Chateau

Dragon 32/64 - Released - 1982

Disco Dan

Disco Dan

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Released - 1984

Disco Dan may sound like a progenitor of Dance Dance Revolution but is far from it. As the game starts out on the Tatung Einstein, you fly your spaceship through an asteroid belt in chase-view 3D (of the old sprite-scaling kind). Hitting an asteroid wears down your shield, indicated by the colour of your vessel. On the ZX Spectrum, you first have to run down a corridor viewed from behind Dan running into the screen. Here you have to avoid lines of lasers or creatures by jumping them to reach the core of the reactor. Upon arrival at one of many nuclear reactors on the brink of meltdown, you don your radioactivity-resistant spacesuit and enter the core, which is made up of a screenful of colourful discs, to manually shut it down. You do so by jumping from disc to disc, much like in Q*Bert, and this is what has given the game its name. The reactors are guarded by one or several small robots, though, as well as stray atoms. These will raise the count of any disc they occupy (six is close to meltdown), so that Dan must jump back across that disc. Using his gun, Dan can chase away the robots, but never destroy them. The control method in the reactor part is not the usual "pull in the direction you want to jump" method; instead, you rotate Dan in the orientation you want, and push up on the joystick to jump.

Floyds Bank

Floyds Bank

Camputers Lynx - Released - 1983

Games Pack I

Games Pack I

Dragon 32/64 - Released - 1982

Games Pack I is a compilation of four games. It contains: * Space War * Sheepdog * Torpedo * Snake The four games are not available separately and only as part of this compilation.

Monster Mine

Monster Mine

Dragon 32/64 - Released - 1982

Monster Mine is a maze game viewed from above with the whole maze on the screen and you have to move about the maze collecting gold nuggets. You start at the the bottom of the mine and you need to reach one of the exits at the top of the mine. The maze is the Eldorado Gold Mine full of the nuggets but there are monsters moving about the mine that need avoiding. Each row of the mine has a monster moving along it and if you enter one of the rows then the monster will head towards you at a faster speed. If you touch a monster it is game over and each mine has a different layout every time you play.

Monster Mine

Monster Mine

Camputers Lynx - Released - 1983

Monster Mine is a maze game viewed from above with the whole maze on the screen and you have to move about the maze collecting gold nuggets. You start at the the bottom of the mine and you need to reach one of the exits at the top of the mine. The maze is the Eldorado Gold Mine full of the nuggets but there are monsters moving about the mine that need avoiding. Each row of the mine has a monster moving along it and if you enter one of the rows then the monster will head towards you at a faster speed. If you touch a monster it is game over and each mine has a different layout every time you play.

Oh Mummy

Oh Mummy

Camputers Lynx - Released - 1984

The pyramids of ancient Egypt are known to be full of treasure, but it will take a brave man to uncover them, as the spirits have sent guardians to protect them. In this game you play an archaeologist, and mummies are after you. You have to run through a matrix (inside a pyramid), and make sure you unveil every treasure by walking around all 4 sides of each square. It's presented in a 2D top down view.

Oh Mummy

Oh Mummy

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Released - 1984

The pyramids of ancient Egypt are known to be full of treasure, but it will take a brave man to uncover them, as the spirits have sent guardians to protect them. In this game you play an archaeologist, and mummies are after you. You have to run through a matrix (inside a pyramid), and make sure you unveil every treasure by walking around all 4 sides of each square. It's presented in a 2D top down view.

Spannerman

Spannerman

Camputers Lynx - Released - 1983

Sultan's Maze

Sultan's Maze

Dragon 32/64 - Released - 1983

The legend goes that once upon a time a sultan was visiting the maze in Hampton Court. There he was robbed his jewels by a group of thieves, and his brave bodyguard entered the maze to recover them, only to be murdered by the thieves on his way back. In present day, the player is an adventurer who accepts the mission to explore the maze and recover the jewels. The maze is shown in a 1st person view, and the player has to navigate it in order to find the jewels and take them outside. Apart from getting lost and exhaustion, other dangers await him, especially in the shape the ghost of the Sultan's bodyguard, who still haunts the place. Sultan's Maze is a primitive 3D adventure well known to enthusiasts of the Amstrad CPC; in many countries it was part of the free game pack that accompanied the computer.

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