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Currently hosting 3 games published by Alive Software!
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Home of Retro PC Gaming
Currently hosting 3 games published by Alive Software! |
| Animal Quest 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Alive Software | Compatibility guide | |||||||||||||||||
| Published by Alive Software | ||||||||||||||||||
| Graphics: EGA 640×350×16c | ||||||||||||||||||
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A turn-based game where you pick an animal to play and move about a grid, trying to catch prey and avoid predators. Plants and animals are assigned positions in the food chain, and each animal eats different kinds of food. Animals you're trying to eat may eat some of the plants and animals that you consider food before you do. There are options to click on each creature to get a description of them, or see where they stand in the food chain, as far as what creatures are their predators and their prey. You gain points for eating other creatures and lose points for being caught by predators. Eating animals adds more points to your score than eating plants. When you get a score of 49, you gain the ability to move diagonally, which makes it much easier to hunt and avoid predators. The ability is lost if your score drops below 49. There are 4 episodes in this game, with only Forest Animals being playable in the shareware version. Forest Animals Downloads
AvailabilityAlivesoft still sells the registered version of this game for $20 on floppy disk or CD-ROM, or $10 as a registered download.
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| Dinosaur Predators 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Educational | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Alive Software | Compatibility guide | |||||||||||||||||
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| Graphics: EGA 640×350×16c | ||||||||||||||||||
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A turn-based game where you pick a dinosaur to play and move about a grid, trying to catch prey and avoid predators. Plants and animals are assigned positions in the food chain, and different dinosaurs eat different kinds of food. There are options to click on each creature to get a description of them, or see where they stand in the food chain, as far as what creatures are their predators and their prey. You gain points for eating other creatures and lose points for being caught by predators. When you get a score of 49, you gain the ability to move diagonally, which makes it much easier to hunt and avoid predators. The ability is lost if your score drops below 49. Gameplay is identical to Animal Quest, except for a few things. Because we've never observed dinosaurs, they are strictly defined as either carnivore or herbivore, reducing competition in the food chain. A herbivore doesn't need to worry about predators eating the plants it wants to eat whereas, in Animal Quest, even the strongest predators will often eat leaves and berries, too. Dinosaur Predators adds an option to answer trivia questions to gain points. There are 4 episodes in this game, with only Jurassic Dinosaurs being playable in the shareware version. Jurassic Dinosaurs Downloads
AvailabilityAlivesoft still sells the registered version of this game for $20 on floppy disk or CD-ROM, or $10 by download.
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| VGA Concentrate 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Traditional | ||||||||||||||||
| Developed by Alive Software | Compatibility guide | |||||||||||||||||
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Originally known as VGA Concentration, this is the traditional memory concentration game we all played as kids. Difficulty can be adjusted to determine how many cards you have to match. Some of the sets are interesting, like the European flags set. The registered version comes with additional sets.
AvailabilityAlivesoft still sells the registered version of this game for $20 on floppy disk or CD-ROM, or $10 by download.
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