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Currently hosting 3 games published by Interplay!
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Home of Retro PC Gaming
Currently hosting 3 games published by Interplay! |
| Alone in the Dark 1992 | |||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Adventure | |||||||||||
| Developed by I-Motion, Infogrames | Compatibility guide | ||||||||||||
| Published by Interplay | |||||||||||||
| Graphics: VGA 320×200×256c | |||||||||||||
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The first in Infogrames' series of 3D action horror adventure games. Jeremy Hartwood has hanged himself in a mansion called Derceto, and you must play either his niece or a private investigator and search the mansion to solve the mystery of Hartwood's suicide. Filled with puzzles and supernatural monsters, the hero must solve puzzles and sometimes use weapons to explore and survive the mansion. One of the first truly 3D games for the PC, Alone in the Dark uses polygonal characters and multiple camera angles to create a realistic and immersive world. Two demos were released, the first of which ends when the hero leaves the attic. A later demo added an attract mode with screenshots from the full version, but the demo doesn't end when you try to leave the attic — you're just stuck up there! Only the first stage is playable in the shareware demo. Downloads
AvailabilityI have found no ordering information for this game.
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| Descent 1994 | |||||||||||||
| User rating: 8.5 | DOS Shareware (partial game) | 3D Shooter | |||||||||||
| Developed by Parallax Software | Compatibility guide | ||||||||||||
| Published by Interplay | |||||||||||||
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You pilot a space ship that moves 360 degrees in all three dimensions in this famous shooter. You work for a mining corporation whose bases have been attacked by an invasion force that is heading towards Earth. The manufacturing facilities have been adapted from building mining robots to develop a robot army. Your mission is to move from mine to mine, destroy the core and escape before the entire mine is obliterated. Originally planned as an Apogee shareware title, the shareware version contains the first 7 levels and is missing a few of the weapons. The registered version has 30 levels. Downloads
AvailabilityInterplay has filed for bankruptcy protection and has closed its online store. Descent can still be ordered through Amazon as part of the Interplay 15th Anniversary Anthology. It can be downloaded in a ready-to-play DOSBox container from GOG for $5.99.
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| SimCity 1989 | |||||||||||||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Simulation | |||||||||||
| Developed by Maxis | Compatibility guide | ||||||||||||
| Published by Broderbund, Interplay | |||||||||||||
| Graphics: Hercules 720×348 mono CGA 640×200 mono Tandy 320×200×16c EGA 320×200×16c EGA 640×350 mono EGA 640×350×16c | |||||||||||||
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The original city-building simulator from this legendary series, later sold as SimCity Classic. In SimCity, you create residential, commercial and industrial zones and watch them develop. To be successful, they need roads and power. Industry does better when there is a sea port, and commerce improves when there's an airport. Create police departments to reduce crime and fire departments to put out fires when disasters occur. A map screen allows you to see where there is crime, pollution, traffic, police coverage, fire coverage, and see the land value, population density and population growth throughout the city. You determine the rate of taxation, and how well funded your police, fire and transportation departments are. All of these things determine how successful each neighborhood is, and creating a thriving city can be quite addictive. As in life, there are no goals. You may want to get the largest possible population, or perhaps a smaller community that has no pollution or crime. There are also eight scenarios that can be played with specific goals to achieve. You can't run power lines over roads in the demo for some reason. The game can only be played for 3 minutes in the shareware demo. SimCity Shareware Demo (568k) Play online AvailabilityCopyright holder Electronic Arts no longer sells this game. It can be ordered from Amazon: SimCity or SimCity for Windows 3.0 or SimCity Classic or SimCity Enhanced for CD-ROM or SimCity Enhanced Multimedia Edition, or as part of Sim Classics 3-in-1 Pack or Maxis Collections 1 or Maxis Collections 2 or Maxis Collections 3 or SimMania Pack or Interplay All-Nighter Collection.
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