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Super Bowling is a third-person bowling game. Players may bowl in several different environments, which range from ice ponds to neon-lit Chinese temples. Players can face-off against characters in their home stages, much like a fighting game. If the player wins they can then play on these stages in other play modes.

Multi-player modes are also available, with a number of different variations.

The series continues with a set of 70 new mini-games. Play in the new single-player Story mode, or bring in some friends for Party mode. Four player games and a new two player mode are also available for play.

In Battle Royale mode (four player), you race around different boards to earn the most stars and coins. At the end of each round, you face it off in one of the mini-games, which can be chicken chases, snowball fights, or various other competitions.

Duel mode allows play between just two people. You still race around the board, but mini-games are only played when you land on a specific square. Another play change is the addition of another character for your team, allowing tag team-style action in the game.

Story mode is essentially the same as a Battle Royale, except your opponents are played by the computer.

Race motorcycles in this arcade port based on the real-life Isle of Man Trophy Race. There are two courses to race with the usual reversed and mirrored variations on the tracks. Also provided is a short and long version of the main course. Play modes include arcade (standard tracks), PC mode (added variations), time trial, and network games with up to eight people.

On a trip with his parents to every kid's favorite place in the universe (Disney World, of course), Cosmo becomes stranded on a planet, his parents vanished. You direct him as he runs and jumps through different lands, such as alien tropics, haunted forest, ice cave, and future world, to find his parents. Along the way he encounters the various platform baddies that he must either jump to death in the classic style or destroy with bombs. Bombs are also useful for finding secrets. Cosmo is also armed with suction cup arms which he can use to climb up tall walls.

Head Rush takes the gameplay and style of the You Don't Know Jack series and creates a teen-angled trivia game with it. The basic format of the game is the same as in the YDKJ, the major difference being a shift from sexual humor to toilet humor and a change in art style to cartoons.

This sequel to Bust-a-Groove adds new characters and music to the dancing game. Other changes were made in the interface graphics, but the bulk of the gameplay is the same as the original.

Match the moves shown on-screen in this Simon-like game to dance. Keep up with the continuing commands and your persona will be able to do combos and other fancy moves. Dance different styles as a disco throwback, a breakdancer, a robot, and others, either alone or with a partner. When dancing with a partner, coordination is important so you can gain a clear lead on him. When dancing together each character gets an opportunity for a dance solo. Don't waste it as it's a great time to rack up points.

Fireworks are launching across a city's skyline. In this puzzle game, you must connect them quickly to have them explode. Earn more points for detonating more fireworks at the same time. You can also work against another player to see who can gain the most points. Be careful, as control of the screen can shift and one player could be left with few fireworks to explode.

Play three-on-three basketball in the arcade style of older Midway games, such as NBA Jam and NBA Showtime. Besides playing regular games, you can also play mini-games like Around the World and 21.

Simon has been taken to the next level in this arcade dancing game. The game cues you which direction to step. You use a special floor mat to step out the moves in rhythm. The more moves you step out keeping the beat, the better your character does on screen. You get to choose from 28 different songs to dance to. It's possible to dance alone or with a friend.

Strikers 1945 II is a 2D side-scrolling shooter with a WWII theme. Use basic weaponry and many power-ups for real and not-so-real aircraft from the age. To keep in sync with the arcade version, the home versions are presented in a letterbox format.

This kart racer features the Smurfs as characters. Choose one of eight (with four secret) characters to race with among various climates and regions. You can race in single player or championship modes, along with a Capture the Flag-style Flag Race.

This addition to the offline series of You Don't Know Jack games borrows 1000 questions from various You Don't Know Jack the Net Show episodes. It also adds a new question type, Wendithap'n. With this new question type, players compare two events, then decide whether or not the originally given event occurs before or after a variety of other events; there is also a possibility that one of the latter events never occurred.

Take to the cliffs in this mountain climbing game for kids. Choose your equipment wisely before you climb each mountain. You can decide to take various climbing equipment, first aid stuff, and plenty to munch on. Choose your anchor points and where you climb up the face. Be sure to avoid falling rocks, snakes, and other hazards as you make your way up. Careful that you don't fall. There's also plenty of abandoned mines to speed through to hasten your journey to the top. You'll travel around the southwest to many different famous rock faces with progressing difficulty.

This is another updated version of Mixed-Up Mother Goose. This version has a new set of graphics, but more "visibly," a redone soundtrack that has all of the nursery rhymes played in different musical styles.

The phone rings at 9:05 AM after a rough night. It's up to you to get up and get moving in this short piece of interactive fiction.

You're Tracey Valencia, freshman at the University of Dorado. You're driving through the desert to be home for Thanksgiving, and your car breaks down. In this text adventure, you must do what you can to make it home.

In this text adventure, you journey between various short stories that are connected solely by color. At any one time, you may be speeding on the road with a friend, landing on Mars, or teaching your daughter about astronomy. It all wraps together in the end, though.

The King of Piedmont is dying. You are the Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte, and aside from the Queen the only other person who knows of the King's actual status. Leveraging this knowledge, you must position yourself such that when the King finally dies, you are in position to act as regent for his five-year-old son.

Learn about physics and simple machines as you build your own Star Wars droids. Once you have selected various parts to put together in the droid, you pilot it through many different missions in a 3d environment. The beginning training missions teach you about the concepts. Once you get to the final mission, you'll be navigating your droid to find the Empire's Assassin Droid Factory so you can reprogram them to save the Alliance.

You are given the task of creating a new ecology for Gungan colonizers. In this game much like SimLife, you decide where to put creatures in the new world. You must juggle things so all of the creatures are well-fed, there is no over-population, and most importantly that the Gungans are living in harmony with the other species.

Assume the role again as Jake Peril as you journey in the Evil Empire taking treasure away from the evil Mad Monks. As with the original Lode Runner, gameplay involves moving around screens full of platforms and ladders collecting treasure.

This new version adds multiplayer play, with 150 levels to play on. The single-player game has the original levels plus 30 new ones. Many hazards not found in the original are added. The ability to create your own levels is also included.

In 2065, the world's military forces were transferred to the World Wide War Web in an effort to eliminate bloodshed. All the countries, whether they be a superpower or in the Third World, were justly represented. Wars were fought through this system, and the winner would take the loser's electronic infrastructure. However, the system was flawed. It was prone to be hacked. In this state of "wargasm," the world has fallen into a state of corruption. It is your duty to bring order back to the world in this 3D RTS. One thing, beyond the basic RTS play, is the ability to possess any of your units and control them directly.

Armpit VI is a mining planet rich in ore known as Uptite, which can be refined into the very valuable Upshot. The planet is owned by a corporation named Amalgamated Vacuum, which runs its own Security Force. Alias Node is a member of AVSF, and also the only human on the planet. One night, he and his partner Maksh nearly witness the assassination of a fellow officer during an investigation of a break-in. The trace leads to the local bar, The Thirsty Tentacle. Unfortunately, the killer appears to be a shape-shifter capable of assuming the likeness of any of the multiple aliens in the bar. To make matters even worse, Maksh has been abducted. Alias Node has only a few hours to find the criminal before he escapes on a space shuttle.

The Space Bar is a humorous puzzle-solving adventure game. Navigation is done by moving between pre-rendered backgrounds, which can be viewed from different angles using full camera rotation. Many areas and objects can be zoomed on and interacted with in a fairly detailed fashion via context-sensitive menus. Conversations with the characters contain recurrent commands allowing the player to order them to perform actions, ask about various topics, as well as assume different attitudes. Following the tradition of older text-based adventures, each action advances the game's clock by an equivalent of a minute. Certain events will occur and characters would appear depending on the game's internal time. There is an overall time limit of several in-game hours.

Alias Node possesses a unique ability known as Empathy-Telepathy ("emp-tel"), which allows him to enter the worlds of several alien bar patrons and control them there. Each such segment plays as a self-sufficient adventure game on a smaller scale, with inventory-based, logic, and time-based puzzles. Controllable aliens include a shady character in conflict with the authorities, a teenage tree-like creature "rooted" by her mother, a robot specializing in alien sports, and others. Their gameplay may differ as well - for example, one of the aliens can use his tail for interaction; the insect-like bartender sees the world through his many eyes, etc. Most of the segments also involve unique application of local lore and rules, reading various documents for clues, and so on.

Once an emp-tel segment has been solved, crucial information is obtained, bringing the protagonist closer to the goal of his investigation. It is possible to tackle those sections in any order, but all of them must be eventually completed. In the bar itself, as well as in the alien worlds, the player has access to a map at all times. Alias Node's log contains general information about the aliens and the ongoing investigation and lists collected clues.

Back in the glory days of the Aztecs, the emperor has a bad dream. He learns that white men are coming to destroy him, and the only way to stop them is to have a man named Quetzal find a crystal skull. In this adventure game, you bring Quetzal through the Aztec empire in his quest to find the crystal skull and save his empire.

Croc is on a quest to find his parents. However, Baron Dante has kidnapped the Gobbos kings. Croc then turns his attention to rescue all of the Gobbos kings.

You travel across 48 levels in this free roaming 3D game. You have to beat all the levels in a village (except the secret level) to move on to the next one. In each village, (except the 4th village) are 5 regular levels, 2 bosses, and 1 secret level. Regular levels are levels where you just beat them and get certain items in them.

Bosses are levels where you go through one section then fight a monster at the end. Secret levels are levels where you collect the jigsaw piece. Once you collect the jigsaw piece in all 4 secret levels and defeat Baron Dante, Swap Meet Pete will take you to the lost levels.