...is the title of a game I'm looking for.
It's a side-scrolling shoot ém up style of game.
I'm pretty sure it's abandonware by now, because apart from one or two cheats sites (among which my own) I can't find anything about it anywhere.
Has anyone got any idea where I could find it?

Any further information? It doesn't even seem to be listed on Mobygames, and searching Google for "Eat This" won't give many useful results. So... any company, year it was published etc? Anything?

What happened to your ex-site by the way? I tried going there a few days ago, and it seemed to be down

Pretty obscure game, right?
Euh, let's see, it's a game my father found a long time ago. I assume it came from a slightly-less-than-legal source at the time, but since he's been dead for more than five years now, asking it's gonna be difficult.
I guess he installed it in 1998, and my recollection of the game's graphics confirm it must have been created somewhere between 1996-1998. Of the publisher, I have no idea, sadly. I'm currently looking through his old cd archive to see if I can find it. Probably not, but it's worth a try. Maybe I'll even find some other long-gone games.
Shall I post a list of the games I find?

My site is, indeed, down right now.
I'm currently looking for a way to change the design effectively. It should be up again within a few weeks, hopefully shorter.
(even though it's been down for a few months)

Edit: Okay, let's start the list of what I've found. Many of these games will be preserved, but some might not be.

Larry 1-7 (1 both vga and normal)
larry casino
Gex 3d-enter the gecko
commandos
Micro Machines v3
Tribal Rage
Xenocracy
softporn(the game)

These aren't very old. Now lets see about the other cds...

Edit:Now looking through another cd. Very confusing stuff.
I hope I can find something nice here...

-APBA pro football for windows, release date 9 sept 1995
-Astro Force 2 for Windows
-Atari Action Pack 1 for Windows
-Atari Action Pack 2 for Windows
-Dynasty League Baseball for Windows
-Take Your Best Shot
-Bicycle Classics
-Microsoft Easyball
-BRETT HULL HOCKEY 95
-Lemmings for Windows(nothing spectacular)
-Pitfall-the mayan adventure
-Sim City 2000
-Vermin for Windows 95

I also found quite a few utils here.
-Crayola Art
ooh, here's a funny one!
-NCSA Mosaic? for Microsoft Windows
-ten or so screensavers, ranging from snoopy to striptease
The list of apps is too long and the cd too confusing to go on like this.
if anyone's interested, i'll look it up

edit:currently, I'm going over floppy disks to see what I can find, using a file recovery program.

Here's the first disk:
SIMCGA - Simulate CGA with Hercules Monochrome Card

Written in September 1986 by
Chuck Guzis
153 North Murphy Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94086

second disk: very old game called "asklaver", sadly, damaged.

Edited by Johann67 at 14:05 on March, 10th 2005

WOOHOO! I got one to work!
It's in Dutch, sadly, but it's a very very old card game called "klaverjassen".
Rules are explained here:
http://www.pagat.com/jass/klaverja.html

:D I remember this one. We (me, my brother and my father) used this to play some (very jerky) games on the 8086-XT my father had brought home at some time. I also remember the joy about our first 286-AT and a few years later about the 486-DX (33MhZ) which I took over later () and used for long. That was at a time, when most "new" games required a 468-DX2 (66MhZ) as minimum... very annoying at that time...

...but now that I'm working and rich...

Ah... Yesterday...

Edited by dregenrocks at 15:32 on March, 10th 2005

I found a few working games now. All of them have been painstakingly revived from decomposing floppy disks from which they had been deleted.
I even found a space invaders game, which I can't slow down enough to play!

What are your preferred recovery programs?
This one is good(pc inspector file recovery) but I'm looking to get the most out of these disks...
Also, I have some which I can't run, but where I almost certainly know that they still work (like if I have three different copies which do the exact same thing)
Is someone willing to try those on a true dos computer or win 3.x machine?

Edited by Johann67 at 16:41 on March, 10th 2005

My work has been disrupted by paid work temporarily,
but here's what I've gleaned from the disks so far...

-an old PKZIP version(kinda useless)
-Klaver(the klaverjas game)
-3-demon(from 1983)
-de gouden kelk, a Dutch text-based adventure.
-Frogger(very old, can't give exact year but I can choose between monochrome and cga)
-Turbo-GoMoku
-Hi-Q
-Monopoly v5.1, dec 1985
-A tetris clone from 1988
-Sextris(does this one NEED preserving?)
-A few astrological simulations given to visitors of the observatory in Leiden in 1993
-Packman(1985?)
-Pitfall(not the mayan adventure, a monochrome game where you need to pilot a spaceship through a narrow cave)
-PCboss(some kind of disk utility, claims I have a 386 running at 2000 or so MHz)
-PCMan(pacman clone from 1982)
-A solitaire game, from the graphics I'd say early 1980s.
-Space Commanders II by AJF, monochrome space invaders game(really cool)
-The Game of Yahtzee by Malcolm Garrett

There's lots more to come, if anyone's interested...

Ah, it looks like you stumbled upon some Public Brand Software disks! I've got a ton of those, and I'll list them off when I get back to my computer that has them, which would be sunday/monday.

I've done a quick check, and about one-third of the real games isn't on the mobygames list.

Oh, some new ones:
-Electronic arts world tour golf(1986)
-Kalender(util that looks at system clock and gives a calendar of the current month, apparently millennium-proof)
-Turbo-Bridge
-Castle Adventure
-Roulette
-a utility called SHIp that "helps you position the read-write heads of your Winchester disk at a safe location for subsequent transport of the disk unit"

While you're at it: Try preserving them in their original state, i.e. in the same way they were on their original disks (if possible). Not pre-installed or anything like that.

I'll do my best, but most were damaged, so for a bunch of them, that won't be possible.
On the bright side, quite a few of them are single files, of which I doubt there ever was an install file. And those I named are in good working condition now

yet another question(I seem to be full of them today). I found a large number of .BAS files, some of which I distinctly remember being games.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do with those?

They could be source codes of programs in a Basic (.bas) language that have to be compiled. Are they PC games? Perhaps it's Quick Basic that came with DOS.

I've been trying to get them to work in a basic compiler, but I haven't had much luck. Here are three of them as an example.
I did find one compiler which told me that a compiler called BASICA may do the trick, but that one's nowhere to be found, sadly.
I'm very certain that I've played these three as pc games.

I've also found a game called "Striker" from 1985 (not in mobygames database) which includes an installer.
It lets me install but keeps on bitching afterwards.

By the way, is anyone interested in a preliminary archive containing all working games so far?

edit:dang, I think I found Blackjack, a game on HOTUD's most wanted list.
I can't get it to run

Edited by Johann67 at 17:07 on March, 11th 2005

I tried these .BAS files, but to no avail. It's definitely not Quick Basic. I can't even figure out what character encoding these files are using - only garbage comes out.

If you have problems with other games, just attach them here. I'll try them on my MS-DOS computer.

Thanks a lot for your help! That can make a big difference...

There are three games I'm having problems with now.

1. Digger. Once my favourite game, then missing for some years, now troublesome
It won't run under a native windows resolution,
and DOSBOX also gives a scrambled window.
I have four different copies of the file(digger.com)
from four different disks, and all give the same result. As this was once my favourite game (though I stink at it, never could get past level three)
I'm really hoping this annoyance will run.
I've added two, since all four are the exact same size anyway.
I've found a remake from another site. Still VERY interested in the original...

2. SPACEWAR or something. It seems to run, but even if I use CPUKILLER to slow down my PC by 99%, it still goes too fast for me to do anything.

3. STRIKER. All files are in the RAR, copied directly from the disk. It gives an error I'm not familiar with. This is the one I think least likely to work, but I found all files on another disk as well, so broken files may be fixable.
The dir STRIKER in the original dir is another instance from another disk.

Again, I really appreciate the help!

Edited by Johann67 at 23:32 on March, 12th 2005

Digger: Seems to work, but there's a problem with display. Everything seems to be drawn to the screen several times next to each other, making it impossible to figure anything out. Probably uses some strange video mode which even my video card from 1993 can't understand.

Spacewar: Working fine

Striker: Complains about a faulty disk. I thought this could be related to the files being write-protected, but using attrib didn't change anything. Most likely indeed corrupted. Could you just give me the uninstalled version to try?

Edited by Mr Creosote at 19:09 on March, 13th 2005

Temporarily back to the original topic: I found a link with a marginal amount of info on eat this:
http://www.ag.ru/geo/nfo/1797

Still working on those other games, but even though I'm a biologist, I can't clone myself

I've got some very good news about this topic: I've managed to find Eat This and quite a few other games on an old hard drive from my parent's old computer.
Eat This works! screenshot, of course, attached
I've also found this very interesting link:
www.eatthis.com
I just never thought about trying it...
It's not registered with any search engine I tried.
I've sent an e-mail to the makers asking if the game is still being sold.

For the other games: Apart from one or two games, I think I have gotten most of those still possible working. Shall I make a big review about all small games at once, or do you want separate reviews for all games?

Striker: What you got was what's on the install disk. The installer(strkhins.exe) just copies everything from the floppy it's run from to the harddisk.