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We are the Arcadians! Our mission: destroy all aliens.... The Arcadians drone as they fly in convoy overhead. Without warning some of them suddenly swoop down towards you: take aim and fire while avoiding their deadly dive-bombing tactics. For one or two players, complete with music, full sound effects, and table of Hi-Scores. |
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The flight simulator puts you in the pilots seat of a Spitfire Mk II single seater fighter. You can make it fly just like the real thing - taking off, turning, climbing and landing. In fact, you can do virtually all the things that the real aircraft can - loop the loop, rolling and any aerobatics you wish to attempt. Take care though, because things can go disastrously wrong and you may find yourself struggling to regain control as the aircraft plummets towards the ground. Incorporated in Aviator is a three-dimensional world ready for you to explore (map provided). Your score is based on successful landings and tests of skill such as flying between skyscrapers or under bridges. There is also a chance to repel unfriendly life forms from outer space both on the ground and in the air; a combined test of flying skill, navigation and tactics as you seek and destroy. |
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Black Box : Hidden within an eight by eight grid, four "atoms" represent a secret "molecular structure". The object of the game is to deduce the exact position of the atoms by examining the paths taken by "rays" fired into the grid. Gambit: The object of this game is for each player to attempt to be the first to get all of his four men back to the central "home" area. players position "walls" to direct their own men home or to block their opponents and can sens a man back to the start by running over him. |
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Boxer is a fast moving arcade-type game in which you try to catch baloons despite your opponent's attempts to stop you. Dodge falling weights, and the hammers, boxing gloves and dumb-bells which hurtle across the refters and will knock you flat if you can't avoid them! |
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How good a shot are you? Can you shoot down all the ducks, owls and rabbits before you run out of bullets? Watch out for the ducks which swoop down and steal from your already diminishing pile of ammunition. If you manage to shoot them all down then you can have a go at shooting the polar bear. However, when you let him escape, another group of birds and rabbits will appear and these won't be as easy to destroy as before. This game has full colour graphics, sound effects and includes a table of high scores. |
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"The adventure trade just isn't what it used to be", you reflect gloomily. Nobody seems to need a trusty sword or a keen intellect any more. You're down to your last silver piece, and there's tomorrow's dinner yet to be found. Sitting at the inn you contemplate earning an honest living for a change. Perhaps a steady income wouldn't be to boring, after all..... Suddenly, a cold draught and the slam of the door distract you from your train of thought, and seconds later, a tall, silver-haired figure in a black cloak slips on to the bench nect to you.... So begins your magical adventure, with wizardry and hocus pocus of all kinds, booby traps and fiendish riddles to be unravelled along the tortuous route to the Magic Ring of Power. Yur reward is to keep the treasure that you find on the way. |
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You are in charge of a paint roller which you must guide around the edges of a maze of rectangles. Trying to prevent you from repainting these lines are several monsters which attempt to catch and crush the roller as it moves along. There are two different kinds of screens to paint: one which offers you the chance of gaining bonus points by painting in rectangles containing different objects, the other which poses the problem of how to avoid running out of paint. |
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While orbiting the treasure-laden, but inhospitable, planet Doomawangara (Doom for short) your ship suffers a devistating attack from the local air defence system. Grounded on Doom, your ship is both damaged, and threatened with total disintergration due to the corrosive effects of the Doom atmosphere. Repairs to the ship must be made before you can escape, and there's also a tempting array of treasure to be collected; but the clock is ticking away all the while, and it's only a matter of time before the ship wil disappear in a cloud of dust, whereupon you must resign yourself to a life in the wilderness of Doom. |
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The discovery of time-travel last century opened up the galaxy to archaeologists searching for fragments of the year 1998, a year of such stupendous inactivity here on earth that it ceased altogether to exist. Swinging around a handy millisecond pulsar brought them to Arg in the late twentieth century, a remote minor planet inhabited by a race of friendly dragons, an advanced species though curiously devious, who were engaged in an intergalactic television phone-in programme (seen here of course two centuries ago under the title "Adventure Game" BBC TV). With the promise of future discoveries, the Argons insisted on subjecting them to a series of childish tests and problems, among them this game of Drogna, at which we usually lost because the chief dragon kept changing the rules. This definitive version of the game is now published in case anyone is foolish enough to revisit Arg! |
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Acornsoft Elite is the first in a new generation of 3-D space games featuring interstellar travel in a distant cluster of galaxies in the outer universe. Command your Cobra spaceship in a fantastic voyage of discovery and adventure, a supreme test of your combat, navigational and entrepreneurial skills. Trade between countless planets, using the proceeds to equip your ship with heat-seaking missiles, beam lasers and other weapons - corporate states can be approached without risk, but unruly anarchies may be swarming with space pirates. Black market trading can be lucrative but could result in skirmishes with local police and a price on your head! However you make your money, by fair means or foul, you must last onwards through space annihilating pirate ships and hostile aliens as you strive to earn you reputation as one of the Elite! |
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When the Alphoid battleship attacked Deep Space Station Coriolis and Alphoid lifeforms injected the air supplies with there own cyanide-based atmosphere, only one crew member managed to don his space suit in time. Unable to reach the armory, he must face the Alphoid warriors barehanded to defend not only his own life but also the vital computer records which the Space Station contains. In this game you control the crewman, manouvering him around the Space Station as he tries to destroy Alphoids before being destroyed himself - either by the enemy or due to lack of oxygen. |
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As a local historian, you had been alowed into the great library of Karoway Manor. There, between the pages of an ancient book, you find a seemingly much older sheet of paper. It told of a stone gateway to the mythical land of Karos opening only at midnight on the summer solstice. Were it not for the majestic stone arch in the centre of the manor lawn, and that it was by then dusk on Midsummer's Day, you might have replaced the page without a thought.... This is a vast and fascinating adventure with the accent firmly on intrigue and ingenuity. There is more than one route to many of the treasures on the island of Karos but, whichever path you choose, you will be beset by treachery. Even the recovery of the Talisman of Khoronz - of which you will learn on your travels - will be no guarantee of a safe return nor proof against the wish that you had remained a historian in some quiet manor library. |
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An arcade game on ROM Cartridge for the Acorn Electron. Hop the frog across the busy motorway trying to avoid four lanes of fast-moving traffic. To get across the river to the forg's lair you must leap on to the logs and turtles backs, but beware of the diving turtles, the crocodiles and the snake. Complete with music and full sound effects, dragonfly, timer and table of high scores. |
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You are the rightful heir to the Kingdom of hamil, but, stolen from your royal parents as a child, you have only just discovered your birthright. Unfortunatly, many other evil people have tried to prevent you from making your rightful claim, and usually by force. Pursued by hostile beings, you have fought your way to a sanctuary, safe for the moment from the terrors outside. You seem to be trapped..... but there may be more to this place than meets the eye... You must prove your identity, and gather all your treasure, to win - but many problems, puzzles and dangers lie in your path! |
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Guide mork through the labyrinth, eating fruit to replenish his dwindling energy supply. Crush the Tiger moths, shoot the Flitterbugs, dodge the Treshers and if you are not to exausted find and collect the magic crystals which lead to new and more challenging levels of the labyrinth. |
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Moon Base Alert! Moon Base Alert! As Moon Base commander, you must ward of the salvos of deadly neutron missiles falling from space onto your base. Sitting at your control console, with command of our three defence stations at your finger tips, you must knock out as many hostile missiles as possible. Beware the multiple war-head missiles, as these fragment on reaching a certain height, and then devistate your bases with missile fire. As the game progresses, intelligent missiles arrive on the scene. These avoid your fire, and must be destroyed with cunning. Complete with satellites and planes. |
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Steer your laser-ship through a hail of meteors smashing them with your laser bolts as they hurtle towards you on all sides. Avoid being hit by the missiles from hostile flying saucers which fire at you as they pass. Your ship is equiped with as many laser bolts as you can fire and as a last resort you can escape through hyperspace. Complete with sound effects and table of Hi-Scores. |
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Piloting an Emergency Space Capsule, your mission is to rescue six of your fellow astronauts stranded on the surface of an alien planet. Launch the Capsule from the mothership and guide it down to land safely on the surface, picking up one astronaut at a time and taking him back to the Mothership. Throughout your rescue attempt you must take care to avoid the meteors which drift above the planet and the alien craft which pursue your Capsule firing deadly missiles. Complete with sould effects, full colour graphics and table of high scores, Meteor Mission is fully compatible with either keyboard or joysticks. |
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Pursued by monsters along walls and up and down ladders, your only hope of survival is to outwit them by trapping them in holes which you dig in their path. You can score extra points by dropping the monsters through several levels, and the further you get the more you can score, as the monsters vary and become more devious. Quite an exhausting business, so keep an eye on the oxygen level which drops during each screen and eventually runs out, whereupon you will die. You have three lives, however, and can earn another one by scoring 3000 points. Includes score, ladder of high scores, excellent graphics, and sound effects. |
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Welcome to the adventure! This pack contains programs on cassette (disc) plus instructions for PHILOSOPHER'S QUEST, an "intelligent" adventure where the player explores a strange land full of weird and unlikely things, some dangerous, some even magical. In this new and authentic game the concept of the adventure is exploited to the full, and extended to include abstract thought as a means to progress and survival. However, wild speculation will get you nowhere - you have to use your wits! The object is to find all the treasures and bring them back to where you began, but in the meantime you have to sift clues, weigh up risks, spot magic words and remember which way you came! |
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You are flying low in the final approach to the target of your mission; the Martian's supply base, protected by anti-rocket missiles poised ready to shoot you down. Fire bullets and drop bombs to destroy fuel tanks and their servicing units, but you also have to concentrate on flying the ship: the walls of a cavern close in around you, and those mean little green things, the Phizzers, are out to get you. Out of the cavern again, and slap into a horde of meteorites - these ones are indestructible, so you have to dodge out of their way. Now skyscrapers loom up and the ship becomes entangled in a rather hazardous maze..... |
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This is a game for two players, and is suitable for both experienced players and learners. Full instructions and the Rules of the game are contained in the pack. You play and score as in the original game. The strength of the shot is controlled by varying the length of the cue, and you are given the option of using Backspin and Topspin in addition to ordinary shots. Acornsoft Snooker is fully compatible with either keyboard or joysticks. Note: Acornsoft Snooker is unsuitable for black and white televisions. |
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Command a starship against the attacking alien ships in this demanding high-resolution graphics game. You control the forward drive and sideways thrust of your ship, which is equiped with shields, long and short-range scanners, and a sector display of the stars and alien ships. |
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Guide the Snapper through the maze eating dots and fruit while trying to avoid being eaten by the creatures that chase you. If you eat a flashing dot the creatures become edible - eat them quickly before they revert to snapper-hunting mode. The game gets progressively faster, and with higher scores as the fruit increase in value. You must survive 13 screenfuls before catching a glimpse of the ultimate prize - the Acorn, worth 5000 points! |
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A classic adventure which you move through caves, fight with trolls, collect treasure and finally make your way to the Sphinx to collect your reward. But the Sphinx is not that easy to find, and along the way there are all the pitfalls - some predictable, and others not - typical of the adventure game. |
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Crash-landing your spacecraft on an alien planet, you find yourself taken prisoner and dumped into an arena littered with dormant lizards and other hostile creatures. Battle to the death with Killer Bees, Red Devils and poison Orbs, blasting them with your laser bullets, or setting the lizards onto them by firing at their dormant pods. The bullets will bounce off the walls of the arena, and can destroy you as well as the enemy. Keep an eye on the lizards, too, to make sure they don't get to close - they will pursue the nearest creature, even if that happens to be you! |
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Flying your Emergency Rescue helicopter on a routine patrol, you suddenly recieve a radio message to proceed immediatly to Mount Crona, a volcano on the east side of the island. As it last erupted 150 years ago, Crona was thought to be extinct but now it has erupted again leaving a number of sightseers stranded on the side of the crater. In a few hours the lava flow from the volcano will engulf them and they will die! Without a second thought, you turn your helicopter and fly to begin your rescue operation. Complete with sound effects, full colour graphics and table of high scores. Volcano is fully compatible with either keyboard of joysticks. |