Games from 1997

A 3D version of the popular summer pastime of Mini Golf. The game offers one course of 18 holes which can be played as front nine, back nine or entire course. A version of a skins game and playing against the clock are also featured. Up to four people can play and you can play over won.net (or whatever it is called now). There are also two different putting style, a traditional click and hold, and a move the mouse to swing version.

The third installment in the 3D Ultra Pinball series, this game has a dinosaur theme instead of the space and horror motifs of the previous games. Featuring 15 tables, the game appears to be bigger than the previous games, but most of those levels are much smaller than in the previous games. The story, although very short, involves crashlanding on an island taken over by a mad scientist, who is turning the inhabitents into dinos.

A RTS game with a few novelty features in it's day like troops gaining experience and free base building. You are the commander of either the Chosen or the 7th legion fighting for control of a post-apocalyptic earth in the distant future.

EA have regularly created sports games of high standards, but mainly of sports found in America or Europe. So it's of great joy that they present to Australia their own look on our favourite sport, Australian Rules Football, in AFL '98. AFL is a contact sport. There are no helmets or pads like NFL, so if a fight breaks out, blood will get spilled (and trust me, fights can break out easily if you get on the wrong side of your opponent). All of the official teams and players of the league are here, as well as the trademark EA graphics, sound and simple control system. Overall, this is an AFL fans dream come true.

A budget edition of AH-64D Longbow, this version removed the campaign mode, leaving only instant action and historical battles.

An amateur golf sim featuring no PGA endorsed courses or players. The game uses the standard golf gameplay mechanics, with three types of swings, a two or three click swing bar system, or the Fox Sports Swing which is mouse-motion swing type. The game's most prominent feature is the use of a 3d engine and a series of 3d accelerated effects like reflecting water, lighting effects, trees that move and sway with the wind and translucent objects. The game features 8 single player courses and multiplayer support for up to 4 players.

Actua Soccer Club Edition is a re-edition of Actua Soccer, released with the 20 teams of the English Premiership instead of international competitions. New commentary was recorded and some Premiership historical data was included. All remaining aspects of the game were unchanged or just tweaked. The rest of the game is well known to fans of the genre - it was the first fully polygonal football game on the market, which allowed an unprecedented graphical realism and (technically) unlimited camera angles.

Following the success of the first Actua Soccer game, a sequel was likely. The game is fast-paced with more of an action than simulation feel, and an emphasis on ground play rather than heading. A young Michael Owen provides motion capture to produce realistic player motions and actions - the different builds and styles of players are taken into account. 64 top international teams are featured, as are 24 distinct stadiums, with weather conditions having both visible and noticeable playing effects. This was one of the first games to feature 2-man commentary, with former England captain Trevor Brooking joining Barry Davies in the analytical role.

Cute, green-haired yet halfwitted creatures Lemmings this time appear in a platform game. As the only survivor Lemming that managed to rescue himself from the evil spell of Evil Ed, you (Lomax) must stop Evil Ed's distracting effect over the LemmingLand. In your quest most of your enemies will be Hench Lemmings which've been possessed by Evil Ed's evil spell. You will be mainly using your spin attack or -when grabbed- your magic helmet to free these imprisoned Lemmings from the spell. You have also some special abilities like building a bridge, digging horizontally through certain obstacles (just like the other Lemmings games) or throwing a flaming helmet that will help you to accomplish your goal. Ported to PC from the PlayStation version.

Control your tribe with the mouse. Make them build houses, docks, farms, and temples. Advance your civilization through time by learning new skills . The game allows for the player to advance through the ages expample.stone age,tool age, bronze age. If the player would rather get away from the historical aspect, the gameoffers a random terrain generator and a custom scenario builder. The game has four resources: food, obtained by hunting, farming, or fishing; wood, which has to be logged by hand; stone, which has to be mined; and gold, which can either be mined or obtained through trade with other players As a real-time war game, Age naturally revolves around gathering resources and producing units.

Sequel to the first online multiplayer flight simulator, the legendary Air Warrior. The premise of the game is to offer an extensive collection of WW2 planes to go head to head in multiplayer dogfights with up to 100 pilots at the same time. Though it's main focus is multiplayer gaming this edition of Air Warrior also aims to be a single player success with the addition of 360 pre-made missions sprawled over branched mission tree-like campaigns. Most of the missions take place in Europe but several pacific historical engagements are included, you'll be able to defend Pearl Harbor, make a B-25 raid on Tokyo, try to destroy the Yamamoto as well fighting the battle of Britain, etc. With every mission playable from either the Allied or Axis side. In total the game includes 45 aircrafts, each with their own flight models, cockpits and distinguishing features. The game uses flat polygon graphics with resolution support of up to 1024x768. As a bonus, the game includes a couple of short WW1 and Korean scenarios (with their own planes), four ground vehicles (for multiplayer use only) and a mission editor.

Air Warrior III starts by giving you more of what the series has already. For starters, it includes all of the Air Warrior II missions, planes and features. There's also four new Pacific planes (the Zeke, the Kate, the Val, the Oscar) and 6 new campaigns. Air Warrior III is also the first in the series to support 3D acceleration, providing a lot faster 3D action and effects. A major selling point of the Air Warrior series has been it's online play, and multiplayer play has been completely redesigned. The game box boasts dogfight in historical arenas with up to 250 players in the same mission.

Amulets and Armor is a mission-based role playing game. The game comes with a number of missions of varying difficulty levels that you can take in whatever order you choose, or even do over again. They each have four-five chapters, in which you basically explore a dungeon, kill a lot of enemies, grab some new loot, and find the exit. The game's graphics are dated, but the game is actually in full, textured 3d, and the engine does allow you to go 'up and down', as in over a spot where you were before. Enemies and items in the game are 2d sprites. The company that made the game fell apart shortly after its release and no new missions are avalible for the game.

For the first time ever in an arcade racer, take control of either NASCAR or Indy cars and cruise around 16 detailed tracks. There are 3 views available to drive from. As well as individual races, you can play a full career. Derek Daly and Bob Jenkins provide a running commentary. Outside factors such as pit-crew mistakes and mechanical failures can affect your races.

Beasts and Bumpkins is a real time strategy game. It tells the story of Lord Mildew (your alter ego!), a poor member of the royal family, that has been thrown away from his country. Your task is to complete over 30 missions in order to regain your former reputation. You´ll have to set up prospering towns in order to gain wealth, which is necesary to supply an army. With your army, you´ll have to defend your villages against beasts amd other evil folks. The gameplay can be compared with Blizzard´s Warcraft, althouth it lacks a lot of its qualities.

An adventure game based on Spider Robinson's series of stories about the unusual patrons of Callahan's bar. If you don't know the books, go read them. The game combines the bizarre adventures, strange characters, and twisted humor of the Callahan's series into a quest to save the universe from being erased by bored divine entities.

Motorized carnage. Ever wanted to hit pedestrians during a race? Now's your chance. At the beginning you have only one car. In the race itself you try damaging your enemies by driving into them; you can also kill pedestrians. Depending on how much damage you cause, your money counter rises. With that money you can upgrade your car. If you wreck a certain car in 4 races or so, you get to drive it.

Your the commander of the allied forces at Operation Market Garden. You can play as either the Germans or the Alies. You play on the battlefield in real-time. The battlefield is bloody and realistic, with scary screams of man down as you watch a man get his head blown off, (the games played in a topdown view,) and the ratta-tat-tat of the German machine-guns. The CloseCombat series have always been realistic because of the AI. Your men will run away if the Germans do a rush or something like that, and they'll be unresponsive if you make them do something stupid (like rushing tanks), and if they start to move into gunfire, your command of course, they'll go back to start or away from the enemy.

Comanche 3 is another release in Novalogic's Comanche series. This time improving the flight model and the graphics. Go around an extremely detailed area and fight the forces of evil. Comanche 3 is a based on America's most technologically advanced helicopter - the RAH-66 Comanche - developed by Boeing Sikorsky for the US Army. The first prototype became airborne only two months ago, and implementation of this 21st century combat chopper won't be until the year 2006. Fortunately, air combat enthusiasts can test-drive the next best thing to this 12 million-dollar aircraft, but don't expect this game to be just the original Comanche with new missions - both graphics and gameplay are leaps and bounds ahead of the simple shooter released almost three years ago.

Creatures is a very innovative game. You start with 6 eggs of Norns. Norns are cute little creatures who live in the Creatures world. Your task is to give them knowledge about the world they live in, learn them how to speak, how to use toys, an elevator, how to eat etc. They grow older, reproduce themselves and die. The world is very huge, and the simulation of the AI is terrific.