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The White Barrows
ASP Software Ltd.1983
This is a text based game that has elements from a multiple genres dungeon crawl, puzzle, logic challenge, and even resource management. The back story is about a bad wizard who's stolen a magic chalice and you play the plucky adventurer who has to get it back. The bad guy is hiding in the ancient burial grounds, or barrows. The game is based on a map of the barrows in which there are 40 or so rooms. You are dropped randomly into a room. In other rooms are gnomes, trolls, dragons etc and in one room is the wizard. The game is played by moving from room to room exploring. You may view connecting rooms. You may raise a magic wall in an adjacent room. However you have only 400 magic points and viewing or raising a wall costs points so it's important to find the wizard before points run out. The game is a text game. There is only one graphic which is the map that shows how the rooms are connected.
Strategy 1: Invasion
ASP Software Ltd.1983
The player is a commander of Western Alliance's forces (blue tanks) and fights against Red's invasion (red tanks, of course). He must defend cities and destroy enemy units. Cities give supplies to increase army's strength. Battlefield has 135 squares (9x15) Player can make 3 types of commands - increase/reduce strength, and move.
Froglet
ASP Software Ltd.1983
Froglet is a 1-player Frogger clone. The player controls a frog that moves in cardinal directions, trying to cross two busy highways with cars traveling in opposite directions. The roads are separated by a river with moving lily pads that the frog must hop across. There are six homes at the top of the screen that the player tries to position their frog into. The player starts with five lives, and the game restarts if all are used.
Detective
1983
Detective challenges players to solve a mystery by deducing the correct combination of character, weapon, and motive. Players use logic and deduction to navigate through a grid, placing clues in the correct order. The game requires careful analysis of available information to solve the mystery efficiently.
Demon Knight
1983
You have to save the princess who was kidnapped by the eponymous kight.
Cells & Serpents
ASP Software Ltd.1983
Cells & Serpents is a roleplaying game. The player explores a series of unending randomized dungeon rooms fighting monsters and looking for treasure. At any time the player can choose to move left, right, or forwards. These can take the player to stairs up, stairs down, a blank wall, corridors, rooms, or doors. The player can not move beyond level 1, but as they move lower they encounter harder enemies and acquire greater treasure. Blank walls damage the player, and corridors present more movement options. Doors allow movement into rooms, and the player can listen at the door for clues prior to entering. Treasure contains gold, but sometimes contains armor and scrolls which make the player more powerful. When encountering an enemy, the player can choose to zap it with their limited spells to weaken the monster before attacking. In combat the player receives a randomized amount of damage, and if hit points reach 0 it's game over. The player receives a final score based upon levels cleared and monsters defeated.
Strategy II: Hunt For The Bismark
ASP Software Ltd.1983
This game is the sequel to Strategy I: Invasion. Your goal is to find the Bismark and make it sink by attacking. The Bismark is invisible till one of your ships is close to it. You also have aircraft carriers that can launch planes if so desired. The planes can then bombard/shoot the Bismark if it is in their range.
The Fall of Rome
ASP Software Ltd.1983
The Fall of Rome is a strategy game set in 395 BC where the Roman Empire was starting to lose it's grip from Barbarians and armies around Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. You have the chance to save the Empire by fighting off attacks or attacking your enemies around your various provinces over 12 turns. Each turn represents five years and is split into three phases, Income and Expenditure, Movement and finally Combat.
Conquering Everest
ASP Software Ltd.1983
Conquering Everest is a managerial game where you have to manage a team of people and control the movements of supplies and equipment to reach Camp 6 from Camp 0, before making a push to the summit of the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest over a number of days. Your team consists of a number of climbers, sherpas and porters, with equipment, tents, food and oxygen needed to be taken to the various camps on route. On day one you are presented with a weather report and four options which are Carry, Move, Route and Summit.