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Hanse makes you a trader in the 13th Century. Your hometown is Lübeck – a well known German seaport. With a ship and some money you want to become mayor of Lübeck. For this you must open stores in other cities – for example Riga, Malmö or Nowgorod. Every town has a special good (wool, furs or honey). After returning to Lübeck you sell these goods for a variable price. In Lübeck is a dockyard. There you can buy new ships. In Lübeck is also a bank for taking a credit. After marrying a woman and becoming childs you have to buy a teacher for your kids. You can send your childs on a expedition to find new cities. But after your death one kid should be in Lübeck. Then this child take possession of your store. Sometimes you were attacked by pirates or another countries. Then you have to place your cannons on a small strategic map for a automatically fight.
The game ends after 250 years or when you become mayor of LĂĽbeck or no child can take possession of your store.
The Lock 'n' Load compilation contains four first-person-shooters:* Kingpin: Life of Crime
The Caribbean Sea in 1570. England, France, Spain and the Netherlands fight for leadership of the colonies in the New World. This is the setting for Port Royale: Gold, Power and Pirates, the spiritual sequel to Patrician II: Quest for Power.
At the start of the game, the player chooses their national affiliation. In one of the cities of the selected nations, the player begins their career with a little ship with 19 goods they can trade. The prices change by offer and demand; after selling one type of good in a city, the price sinks. With enough money, the player can buy new ships or own plantations. With rising respectability among the population, up to 10 convoys with up to 100 ships can be controlled.
The aim is becoming Governor. To achieve this, trading and completing missions (finding the player character's captured mother and sister or a buried treasure) is required.
Sometimes pirates will attack the player's ships, then a sea battle starts. The player can only take control of one of the ships, with the CPU controlling the others. Like in Sid Meier's Pirates!, combat ends when either side's ships are sunk or flee the edge of the map.
The additional content of the Gold Edition was also included in the 1.30 patch for this version of the game, and was the foundation for the international version.
Somewhere in the ocean is a little island, inhabited by a President and three ministers (of the air force, navy, and army). The island also has ten other resident citizens. Every morning the President receives money from the American and Russian embassies, which can be given to the ministers or spent to improve the President’s residence in the Arctic.
When two of the three ministers vote against the President, there is a vote of non-confidence and an election happens. Now the player has to convince the population of their leadership abilities, using the unique skills of special contacts: the chief of the Secret Police, for example, arrests political enemies (the ministers), the radio disc jockey spreads false news and the priest sells weapons.
Three types of weapons also enter into these negotiations – tanks, zeppelins and submarines, one fitting each of the Defense ministries. After every round the player can attack their political enemies in a very military fashion.
Superfrog is a traditional jump & run platformer. You are a frog that once was a prince but was turned into the amphibious creature by an evil witch. Your loved one was kidnapped and you have to free her from witch's castle. Your enemies are animals like bees, snakes, hedgehogs, turtles or snails but later on you may find other beings like knights, mummies, robots or even your evil selves depending on the scenery you are in. Basically you have no weapons but in the game you may find small blobs that can be shoot diagonally up or horizontally to exterminate some foes. Some enemies can also be killed by jumping on them. Every stage has a time limit. In this limit you have to collect a pre-determined number of coins as well as other collectibles like cherries and apples that serve as a factor for a bonus score. There are also other power-ups like wings giving you the possibility to fly on a longer distance, slow pills and speed pills which, accordingly, slow you down or give you extra speed.
The game is divided into six worlds: forest, castle, circus, pyramid, winter and space. Each of the worlds consists of four stages. Between levels you may gamble your bonus score in the slot machine where you can win more points, extra lives or level password which can be used to access the level from the main menu. After completing the fifth world you will be able to take part in the bonus stage called "Project F" (made on a resemblance to Project X - another Team 17 game) which is a link between terrestrial and extraterrestrial worlds. After the game is completed or you just failed to do it, you can type your name into a high score table that can be saved onto the blank disk of your own.
Ports of Call gives you the job of a ship-owner. First you have to choose your hometown and after that you have to buy your first used ship. Then you have to charter freight and bring it to its destination. With this profit you can buy new ships and so on and on. You also have to repair your ships regularly. If you do not your ships will sink to the oceans.
Ports of Call is a classic German business simulation with some action sequences. In these sequences, you must steer your ship into the port or have to rescue some shipwrecked people.
Up to 4 captains can play at one computer.
You are a human general and have to fight against crazy robots on the surface of the planet Ansgar-15. Your units are also robots.
Your vehicles can be individual build out of 27 different parts. These 27 parts are divided in 3 components – weapon, vehicle and special. The robots were built in 3 factories (for every component you need another factory). The factories need the resource Angarium, which must be collected from the planet’s surface. In Colony Wars 2492 is no base management. The factories and all other buildings are on the map and must be conquered.
The maps have one of 4 different surfaces (snow, desert, etc.).
Your name is Kevin Codner – rescue mariner extraordinaire, answering the distress call of a sinking cruise liner, the SS Lucifer. You set off in your little submarine and board the ship where a horde of passengers desperately need your keen oversight and "shipsmarts".
In 60 levels you have to rescue as many passengers (dubbed the Dim Passengers) as possible. At the beginning the passengers fall through a tube in the level. Similar to Lemmings you have to find a way for the passengers to the exit of the level. In order to do so, you must blast hindrances such as cargo boxes and bulkheads with bombs or, when no bombs are left, reposition the boxes with a crane. There are also conveyor belts in the levels. If the belt moves in the wrong way, the passengers either can't use it or may even be transported to their dooms, being dropped off into water, fire or steam jets. You can usually choose the direction of the belts by pulling a lever.
There are several types of scenarios that Kevin Codner (you) are faced with throughout the game. Of course the puzzles get progressively more difficult, involving things like patching up cracked pipes to stop a lethal jet of steam from cooking the distressed passengers. You can blast away obstacles and stack crates in creative manners. For instance, you can have them fall onto each other to form a bridge across a gap or to provide shielding from fire. This is usually done by hoisting them onto conveyor belts using a crane.
Each level has a certain "save limit", meaning you have to save at least a certain amount of passengers. This again is akin a bit towards Lemmings, and lots of levels have a built-in time limit, represented by water pouring into the compartment, rising ominously. When the water rises high enough, the passengers will get carried along with it, and they can only swim for a short period of time before getting exhausted and drowning, so you'd better be on time with some assistance.
At the end of each level you receive a password (again, Lemmings-style) so that you may pick up your game from the current level without having to progress through them all from the get-go.
Genesis and SNES versions feature 100 levels. Also, the Genesis version shows a password only once in 5 levels starting from level 5. Although the passwords for each level actually exist, they are never given by the game.
Street Racer is a kart racing game similar to Super Mario Kart.
Up to four players can play by split-screen. If there are no human opponents, the player can drive against seven computer opponents in three leagues. If the player wins the first league, they can play the second and so on. The game has eight different vehicles with different skills in speed, haste or resistance. There are also some power-ups on the tracks such as bombs, nitro fuel, and health packs.
In Flamingo Tours you are the manager of a travel agency. With your starting money you have to reserve hotel rooms, buy buses, charter planes or hire some cruising ships. If you are successful over time, you can open more bureaus all over Germany. If you don’t have enough money you can go to the local bank for some credits. The game has 3 difficulty levels, and 4 players can play hot-seat together.
The Action Pack from Gathering of Developers contains:
It was published in a wide box with complete manuals.
In this arcade action game you control a helicopter. You have to blast all enemies. If you shoot enough of them, you can collect some extra weapons (rockets, laser). The game contains 30 levels. Sometimes you can choose between 2 ways but normally the game is designed very straight.
Heli Heroes uses the graphic engine from the RTS World War III: Black Gold.
World War III: Black Gold is a real-time strategy game with a futuristic theme. In the year 2015 the oil reserves are exhausted. Therefore, the USA, in the name of the United Nations, confiscated all oil sources in the world. The player must choose a side and lead it to victory in the global confrontation that followed.
With one of the three parties (USA, Russia or Iraq), the player can go through two campaigns, each having five missions. As in many other strategy games, the player can construct bases and other buildings. It is also possible to spent resources in research (weapons or technologies). The player has a choice between fifteen units types and thirteen kinds of buildings in the game. Every party has a specific skill: the Americans can overtake buildings, the Russians have chemical weapons, and the Iraqis are good in camouflage.
Rodrigo is a hero, but in this game it's not as cool as it sounds. He lives on the isle Tol Andar and there are many, many other heroes there. The problem is that there are not enough princesses to rescue or dragons to slay for all the heroes, so Rodrigo is currently unemployed. Another problem involves pirates who want to raid the city Smashville and create flying ships with magical gloomstones. Confronted with this situation, Rodrigo is very disillusioned. Just in time, the dwarf Ramil hires Rodrigo to find his wife Jasmin, who was captured by the pirates and is held in the city of Endavin.
Rent-a-Hero is a traditional point-and-click adventure. The characters are modeled in 3D but the background graphics are pre-rendered. There are over 30 locations and over 30 characters to interact with. With its comic anachronisms and pirate theme, the game's humour is similar to that of Monkey Island.
In this horizontal arcade shooter which is similar to 80s shoot 'em up Uridium, you have to shoot all enemies and survive through 14 levels. These include a Holographic world which transforms as you face it, an Aztec word with traps and curses, and a Mekka world full of battleships and tanks. The game also features large polygon-based boss enemies and two different weapons, upgraded by collecting boxes.
Space Marines is a tactical strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle or Nectaris. In the 50 missions of the game you have to play against up to 3 opponents. The story plays in the 3rd Millennium and is shown by Full Motion Videos.
The game has about 50 different weapon systems. You can upgrade your units and take them to next mission. The game knows also friendly fire.
Teamchef is another soccer manager from a German developer team. You have 11 seasons to make a great manager career. At the beginning you can’t go to the European Top Teams. You have to go to a little team and with success the greater teams ask you to train their teams. The game simulates the German, English, French, Italian and Spanish league.
Your job is buying and selling players, getting sponsors, improving your stadium. You can also hire another manager for your support.
The game is presented in a top down graphic and is realtime calculated.
Pole Position is another German sports-business simulation. But you’re not manager of a Soccer team – you manage a Formula 1 Team! Therefore Ascaron has licensed the Teams and Drivers from the 1995 Championship.
At the beginning you can choose an existing Team like Ferrari or Williams or build up your own Team. First of all you have to choose your drivers. The have all individual skills and prices. Michael Schumacher for example is in 1995 a good (not an excellent) but expensive driver. You have to sign up also some other team members – mechanics, race-manager and the pit-crew. Next you have to negotiate with the support companies. Tires, engine, gearing – all these things you need for your race-car. You also need some sponsors – you can also negotiate with these guys.
At the racing weekend you have to adjust your car to the track. The race was presented in a nice TV-oriented 3D graphic. At this time you can only keep your fingers crossed.
In this 3D Fighting Game you have to join one of eight different characters. All characters have different special moves. In the tournament you have to fight (and win) against all other opponents. Then you have to fight a “mirror fight” against a reflected image of you. Last but not least you fight against Gaia – the boss character.
Before trying to fight the tournament you can practice new moves in practice-mode. For beginners the game has some helping features. For example you can choose an auto-defense move. The game also has a two-player option.
Akte Europa is set in the 23th century where two parties rival about power: Europe and the United Nations (UN). The Europeans want to stop the expensive UN space program with their new super weapon Odin. The player takes the role of a UN commander and has to prevent this plan.
This game follows the usual real-time strategy formula but offers three unique features: There is no base building which means the player has to conquer the existing buildings on the map. Secondly there is only one resource (money) which gets consumed by using said buildings, e.g. reserve stations to fuel tanks or replenish ammo and factories to produce new units. The last new feature is the possibility to design new vehicles with individual weapon systems.
The 3D graphics feature real line of sight which means a vehicle standing on a hill can see further than a vehicle in a valley. Akte Europa also utilizes the "Fog of War" known from Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness: after revealing a part of the map the player can only see the enemy's movements if one of his units is in visual range.
In this traditional graphic adventure Caesar has conquered the whole world and so you’re living in the Roman Empire in the 20th century. You’re Gaius Ludus. You’re working in a museum as a cleaning man.
But – something is wrong. In a Caesar statue you find a mysterious message from the future. So you know what to do – save the world!
First you joined the liberty party – then you have to find the time portal. With it you travel in the past (to Caesar) and in the future. Thus changes the present…but be careful!
The airship Nautiflyus, piloted by the famous hero Captain Lamat, was on its way to deliver the wondrous Green Pearl to the city of Calli, in hope of curing its inhabitants with the Pearl's healing powers. However, when taking a shortcut through the so-called Forbidden Zone, the Nautiflyus crash-landed; both Captain Lamat and the Green Pearl were abducted by unknown creatures. The four crew members - the cartographer Julia, the strategist Ike, the engineer Maxx, and the archbishop Solaar - must deal with the new dangers, rescue the Captain, and retrieve the Pearl.
O.D.T. is an action role-playing game with some platforming and puzzle-solving elements. The player can choose to control any of the four characters. Each of them has his/her own strengths and weaknesses: for example, Maxx has high defense, while the archbishop has access to powerful occult techniques. Defeating enemies rewards the player with experience points, which can be used to increase a particular parameter of a character, increasing his/her combat abilities.
A crime syndicate threatened the world. You’re an undercover agent of the X-Organisation and want to defeat Ernest Savage and his R.A.T. Syndicate. You and your team fights against R.A.T. in 20 missions around the world.
Before the mission you chose the vehicles for the operation. The number of vehicles is limited. Every vehicle is able to do some actions like shoot or move. This action costs action points. With some luck you can overtake the enemy vehicles. This is necessary to grow up your vehicle funds. Sometimes you must repair, fill up or get your vehicles more ammunition. Vehicles who survive the mission go with in the next stage.
Herrscher der Meere ("Ruler of the Seas") is a traditional German business simulation. The player trades goods, explores ports or becomes a pirate. First the player needs to buy a ship out of five different ship types. Then some goods need to be acquired in order to become a trader. The game proceeds in real time and makes it possible to see other ships sailing on the map. In friendly ports the player can build factories to produce one of the sixteen types of goods. The battles are also in real time. Defeated enemy ships can – when not destroyed – be taken possession of.
The Reap is a classic arcade shooter in Zaxxon style and very similar to Viewpoint. The game has 4 stages. First you shoot enemies in a arctic oriented scenery. Next you fly through the deep oceans, wherein between shipwrecks and fish bones are sharks and submarines waiting for you. After this there comes a canyon-desert stage. Last but not least you fight your enemies in a skyscraper city. Every stage has two or three levels. Altogether there are 10 levels.
Your ship can get 5 weapon systems and all of them can be upgraded three times. The biggest weapon is a rocket blaster. You can also find bombs or invulnerability shields.
Solar Crusade, the follow-up to Chaos Control, is a cartoon-movie based science-fiction rail shooter game like Rebel Assault. The player takes on the role of a fighter for the Orbital Defense Force (ODF). At the beginning the ODF thinks that they have defeated their enemies – the Kesh-Rhan, but that was a mistake.
In five chapters, the player has to shoot everything they see on the screen. Some of the enemies leave ammunition or energy-pills on the battle field. In some cases, the player can choose the direction they fly in and may even stumble upon a secret level.
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