subLOGIC / Microsoft 1988
Genre: Simulation
Wertung: 4/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: PC

In the 1980s, Microsoft was not known for gaming. At that time, the still fledging company tried to persuade the world that MS-DOS was the best thing since sliced bread, and that their VisiCalc software could take on Lotus 1-2-3 any day. There was one exception, though: Microsoft was the pioneer in civilian aviation simulators. Let me correct myself: Microsoft was the publisher of one such pioneer, Bruce Artwick, and his company, subLOGIC.

New World Computing 1989
Genre: Rollenspiel
Wertung: 5/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: PC

Might and Magic II was a huge improvement over the first game of the series. The Graphics were pushed to their limits, the gameplay enhanced by a new skill and NPC system and the world even bigger than in the original game. It took me over three months of intense gaming to finish this one; something that can be compared only to later Might and Magic and Wizardry series. I keep playing the game until today. While I rarely finish it, I still enjoy the early stages of character buildup.

New World Computing 1992
Genre: Rollenspiel
Wertung: 3/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: PC

A wizard appeared from nowhere and now declared itself Lord of Xeen. And your party should help the king to get rid of him and restore peace to the world through the sword.

It isn't a complex or deep game, it just haves a lot of enemies to dismember while exploring the land, its cities and the dungeons in search of keys that will get you to new places to clean. Few things will give you something that is not directly related to violence, just a few spells for travelling; or the skills, that may allow you to travel through different terrains, activate the automap or give you a natural compass.

New World Computing 1993
Genre: Rollenspiel
Wertung: 3/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: PC

Alamar, the powerful wizard and artificial being has declared itself lord of one side of the Xeen world. Now your team will have to get rid of him, but not before saving the queen from the undead life, restoring the castle to our reality and helping the dragon pharaoh, as only him can help you.

New World Computing 1987
Genre: Rollenspiel
Wertung: 5/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: PC

Might and Magic was created by a small group of people, led by Jon Van Caneghem in 1987, as the first game of the highly acclaimed New World Computing. The story behind releasing the game sounds almost like a fairy tale. After Might and Magic was finished, Jon Van Caneghem approached numerous publishers, only to be rejected time and time again. He decided to publish the game himself, from his apartment, and it turned to be a surprise hit, selling 5,000 copies the first month. After that, he managed to land a sweet deal with Activision, which enabled New World Computing to remain the publisher, and Activision only handled the logistics.

New World Computing 1993
Genre: Rollenspiel
Wertung: 3/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: PC

World of Xeen is the union of Might and Magic 4 and 5, got from copying xeen.cc from MMIV to the MMV directory. The game gives you the two sides of the coin shaped world of Xeen to explore in your quest to wipe the evil out from it, and a third, and short, new adventure.

GCE 1981
Genre: Action
Wertung: 3/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: Vectrex

One of the easier games for the Vectrex, it is also the one that was in-built, instead of cassette-based. When the game starts, a UFO drops some mine-eggs. These eggs hatch into full-grown mines which move around, and which, if you shoot them with your space-ship, will explode and cause two eggs with smaller but faster mines to hatch. Destroy all mines to finish a level, but beware of the UFO which will return to lay some more mines each level! There are five types of mine, normal mines, mines that shoot back when destroyed, homing mines, homing mines that shoot back and invisible mines that shoot back.

Konami 1990
Genre: Denkspiel, Action
Wertung: 5/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: NES

Use your head to break some blocks, move others, while a few enemies try to be annoying to avoid you from solving the many platform puzzles which form this game.

It seems the main character, a walking moai, an Easter Island statue, goes in search of smaller ones with some kind of relation to it. But well, as if one cares with this kind of game, the only impact it have is that you should get them to finish the level, so each one always is the same, but not in the same way. Start somewhere around the place, make your way to them and then reach the big doors to finish the level.

Lucas Arts 1992
Genre: Adventure
Wertung: 6/6
Sprache: English, Deutsch, Castellano
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: Amiga

Guybrush Threepwood, der Bezwinger des Geisterpiraten Le Chuck ist zurück! Im Moment sitzt er gerade auf Scabb Island fest, und leider ist sein Ruhm langsam am Abklingen - seine Kumpel sind es so leid, immer wieder seine gleiche Geschichte zu hören, dass sie sich schon umbringen wollen, die Bücher, die er über seine Heldentaten geschrieben hat, sind lange aus dem Fachhandel verschwunden, die meisten Leute erkennen ihn nicht einmal mehr, wenn er seinen Namen sagt. Letztendlich kapiert selbst Guybrush, dass es so nicht weitergehen kann. Um seinen Ruhm wieder aufzufrischen, will er ein noch größeres Abenteuer bestehen, an dem schon zahlreiche mutige Männer vorher gescheitert sind: die Suche nach dem legendären Schatz Big Whoop!

Infocom 1986
Genre: Adventure
Wertung: 4/6
Sprache: English
Lizenz: Kommerziell
System: PC

Der Spieler übernimmt die Rolle eines amerikanischen Privatdetektivs, der durch die Lösung einiger vertrackter Fälle bereits einen gewissen Ruhm erlangt hat. Eines Tages kommt ein Brief von der alten Freundin Tamara Lynd, die bald einen englischen Lord zu heiraten gedenkt. Im Schloss ihres Verlobten tauchte in letzter Zeit einige Male ein Geist auf, der es anscheinend hauptsächlich auf Tamara abgesehen hat. Ist es die legendäre "Weiße Lady" oder der Geist der erst kürzlich umgekommenen Deirdre? Oder aber hat der Spuk doch eine irdische Ursache? Um all das zu klären, reist man über den großen Teich in die "alte Welt".