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1989
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Mental Blocks
Mental Blocks…. 1. A 1 or 2 player contrivance designed to amuse by presenting graphics puzzles to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.2. A computer game that’s guaranteed to baffle, confound and frustrate your understanding. Can anyone solve these Mental Blocks?
PC / Accolade
Heat Wave
Bring the ocean to a boil!!! They rumble like thunder in the distance…the unmistakable sound of 3200 horsepower ripping apart a calm sea…Heat Wave….Offshore Super boat Racing puts you at the helm of 4 nautical thoroughbreds as you complete on a circuit of realistic, three dimensional courses. Race on open ocean, rivers and through city canals; race in different weather and water conditions.
Amiga / Accolade
Blue Angels
Blue Angels Fromation Flight Simulation takes you from ground school to the wild blue yonder: You’ll perform the actual air show maneuvers that have made the Blue Angels legends of the sky.
Accolade
1988
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Rack ‘Em
Lock up that two-piece custom made pool cue. With Accolade’s Rack’Em, you’ve got all the markings of a Saturday night at the pool parlor. Game includes animated top-down view for aiming, a variety of trick shots, plus designing your own. Choose various physics including English degree and power, aim and shot power. Practice any missed shot with the restore shot feature.
Commodore 64/128 / Accolade
Serve and Volley
Serve & Volley…the most realistic computer game ever made. Full 3D tennis court view with action windows; three levels of play and court surfaces; full complement of strokes; adjustment of playing attributes including endurance vs. speed; accuracy vs. power; forehand vs. backhand and many other features.
3.5” disks for PC / Accolade
1987
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The Train
The Train: With the help of a brave corps of Resistance fighters, you will actually engineer a W.W.II locomotive engaging in some of the most realistic and hostile combat simulations ever created. Traps, ambushes, and sabotage may await you at any station, any bridge or any crossing. Gunboats will blast you off the rails…..The Train…Shovel coal or shovel your own grave!
Commodore 64/128, 3.5” PC / Accolade
Apollo 18
Apollo18 puts you at the command console of Mission Control as the Saturn V rocket clears the launch tower. If you blast off at precisely the right moment and jettison each stage before the next ignites, you will send the Apollo command module, moon-based. Apollo 18 places you in manual control of the Apollo lander during descent to the hostile lunar surface. It’s zero gravity…. with zero margin for error.
Commodore 62/128 /Accolade
Mini-Putt
MiniPutt…..the wackiest miniature golf game in the world!! This game is the ultimate miniature golf challenge; a magical, animated “Golf-O-Rama” filled with pee-wee putting pandemonium that not only tests your skills….it tests your sanity! Strait jacket not included!!!!
Commodore 64/128 PC / Accolade
1986
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Killed Until Dead
It’s the annual meeting of the Murder Club. The world’s five best-selling murder-mystery writers has just one thing on their hidden agenda: how to kill each other!! And you, as Hercules Holmes, World’s Greatest Detective, have only until midnight to prevent the crime. Your clues are from electronic surveillance, often-unreliable informers.
Commodore 64/128 / Accolade
Ace of Aces
You’re a Royal Air Force Pilot….in Nazi Gunsights!!! To become an Ace, you and your trusty Mosquito Bomber have four impossible missions: Destroy the Nazi VI Buzz bombs before they destroy London; sink the U-Boat lying in wait for Allied troop ships; knock down the enemy bombers and fighter planes and bomb their supply train without injuring our POW’s.
Commodore 64/128 / Accolade
Deceptor
Now, you have the power of transformation… you are Deceptor! The Elders of the planet Cadon have given you The Power. It is now time to prove yourself worthy of it. Prepare to undergo the incredible transformations!
Advantage
1985
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Dambusters
You’re in command of a Lancaster bomber on an RAF bombing mission to wipe out the great power dams inside Nazi Germany! You will have everything you need; pilot’s screen, instrumentation, navigator maps, bombsights and the comforting sound of four Rolls Royce Engines. You will also have deadly Nazi night-fighters, anti-aircraft flak and blinding spotlights…all aimed at wiping you out!!!
Commodore 64/128 / Accolade
Desert Fox
A cunning foe who knows no fear….....Desert Fox!!! Sweeping across desert sands, laying low the allied forces, you try to halt the progress of your foe and rescue the North African forces from the enemy using Realistic Voice, Simulation, Maps, Instruments, and other devices.
Commodore 64/128 /Accolade
Fight Night
Fight Night….A Knockout of a Game!! Go through tough training, exhausting sparring, then wind up in the Main Event against five of the world’s pug ugliest!! Build the fighter you want!! Choose his weight, height, reach, and agility. Then hope your judgment pays off.
Commodore 64, Apple II, 3.5” disks for PC/DOS / Accolade
Hear! Hear!
Designed to work with ICL’s Pitchrider 64 MIDI interface, Hear! Hear! Provides you with an entertaining way to learn and practice music skills using your own instrument. Hear! Hear! – the world’s first truly intelligent computer music tutor.
Commodore 64/128 / IVL Technologies (DOD)
1984
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Wizmath
Wiz Math….only by forming true mathematical equations can you outsmart the jailer and help the Spook escape from his castle dungeon. Many features including Skill Focus, Math Concepts and equations using binary, decimal and hexadecimal numbers.
Commodore 64/128 / Sierra On-Line
Wiztype
The wizard of Id brings an unprecedented variety of typing activities to Wiz Type….Skill Focus, Typing words, Sentences and Paragraphs. Liberally spaced with cartoon gags including six models and 20 levels.
48K disk, Commodore 64, 5.25” PC/DOS / Sierra On-Line
B.C.II Grog’s Revenge
Grogs Revenge. He thrilled you with Quest for Tires, now Thor, the first man is back in an intelligent adventure to find the meaning of life! Join him as he winds his way up and down mountains, and through a maze of caverns. Avoid the wheel crunching Tiredactyls as you scoop up clams to pay the toll keepers.
Commodore 64/128, (Atari, Amstrad, BBC and Spectrum) / Sierra On-Line
1983
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River Raid
River Raid, Activision’s battle adventure classic, is ready to explode on to your ColecoVision system. Your hands sweat as they jerk the controls, and you’re propelled over the River of No Return. The action is relentless. The farther you fight your way in, the narrower the channel becomes and the chances to refuel grow slimmer and slimmer. Courage, the code. River Raid, the adventure. Can you make it?
ColecoVision / Activision
Quest for Tires
Quest For Tires…enter the wacky lovable world B.C….Thor. From the first man comes the last word in computer games. He zips through the world of BC on his prehistoric unicycle…His mission…to rescue the “Cute Chick” from the hungry dinosaur.
40k disk for Commodore 64/128, Apple, Atari, IBM-PC, Coleco Vision / Sierra On-Line
1982
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Skiing
It’s race day at the ski resort. All the big racers are here for the NABU CUP CHALLENGE and there are races for the novice and the expert alike. Each race can take up to six entries. So get those edges sharpened and tighten up your boots! Here is your chance to test yourself against the best skiers in the world. The crowds have gathered at the finish area and the skiers are waiting up at the starting gate.
Nabu / Nabu Network
Zot
Welcome to another of our B.C. Games! The ants and the anteater are at it again. The anteater is chasing the ants through the sand dunes and they are, as usual, trying to evade him. However, the ants are also conspiring to get rid of the anteater. It will take four of them to do the job. Anteater must ‘zot’ all the ants before those four can get under him and carry him away. Each battle between them becomes faster and more furious as the game progresses.
Nabu / Nabu Network
Macbeth
Macbeth is an electronic version of the ancient board game of ‘Reversi’. Like checkers, it can be easily played by the very young, but can also involve some high-level strategy. One lucky, or well planned, move near the very end can completely reverse your fortunes. You’ve no partner? The computer loves to play, and it plays at whatever level you want.
Nabu/ Nabu Network
BC Match Up
Here is another of NABU’s popular B.C. games. B.C. MATCHUP is an electronic version of that old card game ‘Concentration’, or you may know it as ‘Memory’. That elusive group of B.C. characters is hiding behind the squares, waiting to be discovered. There are three levels of difficulty so that even the very young can play.
Nabu / Nabu Network
Astro Lander
Finally! Months of ground school behind you, and now, the big test. Your solo landing in space! Just you, your Astro Lander and Asteroid Z-12, with promotion the reward for success and oblivion the price of failure. Master the most hazardous landing pads on Asteroid Z-12 and you could be assigned to explore new worlds. Make one mistake and it’s game over!
Nabu / Nabu Network
Wiz Type
Welcome to the Wizard of Id Typing School!! An army of spooks and dragons, along with the cheery Wizard of Id, combine to make your lessons anything but dull. Your skill and accuracy in typing are needed to give the Wizard the power to zap the spooks that continually stalk him. If you are too slow, or make too many mistakes —- good buy Wizard!! He gets ‘fried’ by a dragon. So choose a level that suits your ability. The Wizard of Id will mark you lessons carefully and advise you on your progress.
Nabu / Nabu Network