Commercial games
AMindForeverVoyaging.zip
Infocom's A Mind Forever Voyaging
The year is 2031 and the world is near the brink of collapse. A computer project by the name PRISM is the last hope, the only catch is that you are that computer program. You just found out that you are not a person, but are in fact the world's first sentient machine.
BeyondZork.zip
Infocom's Beyond Zork
In the Commodore 128 version, you can use the keypad for movement and the function keys as substitutes for commands, and you'll marvel at the intelligent use of windows and graphics capabilities.
Game implementor Brian Moriarty remarked, "One of the two best-looking versions of the game is the Commodore 128 version. It has good color, graphics use and full support from the machine." The Commodore 128 version allows the use of the numbers one through nine on the keypad as the directions of the compass, with the number five used to go up or down. The eight function keys can be defined to execute a command or group of commands when pressed. I found that because there are not really eight function keys, but four dual-purpose keys, it is best to define the most-used commands for the odd-numbered keys which don't require the use of the SHIFT key.
BUREAUCRACY.ZIP
Infocom's Bureaucracy
Once upon a time, a man moved from one apartment in London to another. He dutifully notified everyone of his new address, including his bank; he went to the bank and filled out a change of address form himself. The man was very happy in his new apartment.
Then, one day, the man tried to use his credit card but couldn't. He discovered that his bank had invalidated his credit card. Apparently, the bank had sent a new card to his old address.
For weeks, this man tried to get the bank to acknowledge his change of address form. He talked to many blank officials, and filled out new forms, and tried to get a new credit card issued, but nothing worked. The man had no credit, and the bank behaved like, well, a bank.
It's a sad story, one that gets replayed every day for millions of people worldwide. Of course, sometimes it's not a bank at fault: sometimes it's the postal service, or an insurance company, or the telephone company, or an airline, or the Government. But all of us, at one time or another, feel persecuted by a bureaucracy.
You begin in your new house. As per the letter in your package, you will fly to Paris just as soon as you get some money to take you to the airport. That money should be in today's mail, so you should be off soon... unless, of course, there's been some problem with the mail.
Oh by the way: The man in our story about the bank was Douglas Adams, the principal author of this game. The bank did finally send him a letter, apologizing for the inconvenience - but they sent it to his old address.
DasDing.d64
Das Ding ("The Thing") was a game released by Commodore Germany - it may have originally been planned as a commercial release.
Elite128.zip
Frontier Developments Ltd's Elite
"Elite" was written by David Braben and Ian Bell starting in 1982 while the authors were still at Cambridge University. It was first published by Acornsoft on the BBC Micro in September 1984 to huge critical acclaim. The rights to other computer platforms were then auctioned by Jacqui Lyons of Marjacq, and British Telecom then went on to publish on many other platforms under the name of Firebird.
In "Elite" the player starts with a basic Cobra MkIII space craft, and a measly 100 Credits. The player then has to survive in a hostile galaxy containing traders, pirates, police, bounty hunters, and an elusive alien race, the "Thargoids". The player can earn money in many ways, including taking say, food from an agricultural world to an industrial world, and machinery on the return journey. They may prefer to be a pirate themselves, or perhaps do a little of each.
"Elite" set many firsts, and was the first genuine 3D game on home computers. Even many years after its release it is fondly remembered. For example "Probably the best computer game ever" (The Times, December 1988). It went on to sell around 1,000,000 units, and is popular still, having appeared on most popular formats.
Elite still has very many fans throughout the world. There is a very active Usenet group alt.fan.elite discussing this game, together with the Frontier and First Encounters titles. This is almost certainly the longest running game Usenet group as it has been going since the mid eighties and still gets in the region of a fifty to a hundred posts a day.
elitedoc.sfx
Docs for the C128 version of Elite
Kikstart_2.zip
Mastertronic's Kikstart II
Experience all the excitement of dirt bike riding in this real life simulation. Push your bike to its limits as you pull wheelies, jump over cars, buses, vans, slow right down to go up wooden ramps and over trick walls and open up the throttle to accelerate over hedges, barrels and tyres!
Test your skills as a biker on 27 courses. An all-action simulation for 2 players against each other or 1 player against the computer.
The Commodore 128-version includes 3 practice courses and 3 sets of 8 courses, which makes a total of 27 courses, while the C64-version only has 1 set of 8 courses.
RockyHorrorPictureShow.zip
Activision's The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The popular cult-classic movie has spawned a computer game, complete with the same characters from the movie. You play Brad or Janet, trying to unfreeze your partner by finding parts of a Medusa machine hidden somewhere by Dr. Franknfurter. You run into the same crew of zany characters from the movie as you go about your task.
ThaiBoxing.zip
Anco Software Ltd's Thai Boxing
Thai Boxing is a one on one fighting game shown from an isometric perspective. Different joystick combinations let your fighter perform high, middle or low attacking moves as well as dodge or block his opponent's attacks. Fighters receive scores for successful attacks. The more difficult or effective the attack, the higher the score. Unless one fighter is knocked out, the fighter who has the highest score at the end of three rounds wins.
Although the game is shown from an isometric perspective, it is not possible to move in three dimensions.
TheLastV8.zip
Mastertronic's The Last V8
The Last V8 was the first game released by Mastertronic's new label MAD (Mastertronic's Added Dimension).The Commodore 128 disk-only version had different speech samples from the Commodore 64 version.
trinity.zip
Infocom's Trinity
You're neither an adventurer nor a professional trill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the city is vaporized moments after the story begins, you have no hope of survival. Unless you enter another time, another place, another dimension. Escaping the destruction of London is not the end of your problems, but rather the beginning of new, more bizarre riddles. You'll find yourself in an exotic world teeming with giant fly traps, strange creatures, and other inconveniences. Time and space will behave with their own intricate and mischievous logic. You'll visit fantastic places and acquire curious objects as you seek to discover the logic behind your newfound universe. And if you can figure out the patter of events, you'll wind up in the New Mexico desert, minutes before the culmination of the greatest scientific experiment of all time: the world's first atomic explosion, code-named Trinity.