Cosmo is also equipped with suction cup hands which allow him to climb and stick to surfaces to avoid danger.Īs with most platformers, the control system is pretty basic and the various levels across the three episodes should keep you entertained for a while. Unlike most other platformers of the time, Cosmo attacks by jumping on enemies and through the use of bombs. On his way to Disney World with his parents, their spaceship crashes and as a result Cosmo finds himself on an unknown planet searching for his parents. In Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure you play as Cosmo (of course). You may have missed this one back in the early 1990’s, but it’s definitely another fun platformer with a bit of a twist. Rating: 9/10 Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure screenshot. They both run and play well under DOSBox, and if you’re a fan of Wolfenstein 3D or Doom, these two games will definitely curb your appetite. Rating: 8.5/10 Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold & Blake Stone: Planet Strike Blake Stone screenshot.įirst released in 1993 with the follow up almost a year later in 1994, Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike are Wolfenstein 3D engine based games that take you into the future. One of my favourite aspects of Bio Menace is the music and sound effects – a definate trip down memory lane! Collect keys to open doors and enter broken windows to discover areas with weapon upgrades and gems which you can collect to gain extra lives.Ĭontrols can be customized as well, with the arrow keys being the default movement keys, ctrl for jump, alt for fire, and enter to use your grenades. Another game running under DOSBox, Bio Menace features 3 parts with increasing difficulty. Rating: 7.5/10 Bio Menace Bio Menace screenshot.įight mutants and robots as Snake Logan in this 1993 classic from Apogee. Featuring 5 distinct tables – Barbarian, Dark Side, Duke Nukem, Firestorm, and Mutation!, the game does add a bit of blood and gore but does include pretty realistic pinball physics.Ĭontrols are as expected and can be customized easily in case you’re not a fan of the left shift/right shift pinball controls and the board can be viewed in a follow the ball mode or with the entire table on screen. The follow ball mode can get a bit dizzying though, while viewing the entire table on the screen doesn’t give you the closest view possible as it only uses half the screen and you don’t feel quite as “in the game” as with the follow mode.īalls of Steel is a fun little pinball game that should keep you busy for a few hours – if not for the Duke Nukem themed table alone. Rating: 6/10 Balls of Steel Balls of Steel Mutation! board screenshot.įirst released in 1997, Balls of Steel will appease your pinball fix. The controls are simple enough, space to jump, and F to shoot and there’s not much more to it than that for this game. Be careful though, the enemy bullets are pretty hard to see and aren’t much bigger than a 5×5 pixel block. Once you die however, you start at the beginning of each level with no gear and must start over. You’ll need to find a pick axe to access a key in order to exit each dungeon, and can shoot enemies with bullets. In each episode, there are multiple levels where you must jump from platform to platform, finding switches to unlock blocks, coins, and access new areas. This time you hear news of a Viking map that was torn into four pieces and must be recovered in order to find the secret treasure cave. Rating: 8/10 Arctic Adventure Arctic Adventure screenshot.Īnother four episode side scroller, Arctic Adventure, you play as the character Nevada who must follow up a tomb find with a new treasure find to prove to your colleagues that it wasn’t beginner’s luck. Overall the game runs just fine in the DOSBox shell and I had no issues running it in windowed or fullscreen mode. The Games Alien Carnage/ Halloween Harry Alien Carnage screenshot.Ī classic from way back in 1994 Alien Carnage is a side scroller in which you play as Halloween Harry and are tasked with taking on humans-turned-zombie with your trusty flamethrower. Featuring four levels, you travel through the Sewers, Factory, Office Block, and finally the Alien Ship rescuing hostages and finding new weapons like guided missiles, shields, photon cannons and more.Ĭontrols are fairly straightforward, left and right arrow keys to move, up arrow to use your jetpack or access a weapons cache, space to switch weapons, and z to fire. This review is going to be a bit different than our previous reviews, simply for the fact that the 3D Realms Anthology contains a whopping 32 classic Apogee/3D Realms games! Since most of these games may be familiar to you, our 3D Realms Anthology review will take a quick look at each game in the collection.
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