Battle Bugs

In insect battlefield tactics, pausing the action lets you rearrange an army of ants, beetles, and other bugs before the next clash. The backyard maps turn cookie crumbs, puddles, and grass into terrain worth fighting over, while the campaign keeps changing its objectives.

Blind Justice

shapeshifting identity centers on a runaway genetic experiment whose changing forms uncover fragments of earlier lives. The collision of religious mystery, government pursuit, and form-switching combat is an unusual pitch; which transformation would you want to test first?

Blood & Magic

In mana-driven fantasy battles, Basal Golems produce mana and can be transformed into more formidable forces, keeping the focus on the battlefield rather than a conventional base. Randomly placed magical items and terrain effects give its Forgotten Realms skirmishes a restless edge.

Colony Wars 2492

factory-capture robot warfare puts production facilities directly on the map, so seizing and holding factories matters as much as winning a firefight. Its robot assembly system draws from 27 parts across weapons, chassis, and special modules; would you build a fast scout first or a heavy artillery machine?

Conquest of the New World

In colonial-era empire building, an expedition begins with a ship and grows through settlement, resource management, and dealings with indigenous tribes. The drag-arrow movement system is a distinctive sight in a turn-based strategy game, especially once scouts and soldiers spread across the map.

Conquest of the New World: Deluxe Edition

the customizable colonial campaign expands the earlier game with a scenario editor, map customization, national bonuses, and additional resources. Designing coastlines, rivers, and settlements sounds like the right invitation to compare homemade maps and the nastiest starting positions.

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands

In the escape from Draj, a party of escaped gladiators crosses Athas while gathering allies against the sorcerer-king Tectuktitlay. Four-character parties, psionics, and turn-based combat on the exploration map suit a setting where a desert road can become a tactical problem.

Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager

the siege of Tyr follows former gladiators into Tyr after its liberation, where the Lord Warrior and a rising Dragon threaten the city. Imported heroes can carry forward into a more urban adventure of rebel hideouts, city districts, undead forces, and side routes.

Darklands

medieval Germany by legend sends a four-person party through a 15th-century Holy Roman Empire shaped by folklore, local reputation, alchemy, saints, and monsters. Aging characters and permanent deaths make career choices feel harsh; which background would you risk for a first party?

Which of these DOS games best captures your preferred kind of planning: pausing an insect war, building a custom robot, guiding a colony, or surviving a turn-based RPG fight?

Africa

In Cold War influence contest, money can stabilize friendly states, unsettle hostile ones, and place rebels before the armies move. The hex map makes cities vital recruiting points, while dice-led combat and retreat routes can turn a prepared attack into a disaster.

Afrika Korps

In Libya and Egypt command map, Allied and Axis forces fight across 1941–43 North Africa with supply, artillery, reserves, and flanking all pressing on each turn. The strategic and tactical views suit the campaign, although the mouse scrolling and keyboard-heavy commands ask for real concentration.

Centurion: Defender of Rome

In Roman provincial conquest, taxation, public happiness, diplomacy, and legion recruitment sit alongside battles for provinces. Chariot races, gladiatorial bouts, and naval contests break up the map game, so compare which of those diversions you actually return to after a hard campaign.

F17 Challenge

In third-person Formula 1 season, Arcade mode demands top-three finishes while Normal mode lets championship points carry a poor result. Collisions bring damage and pit repairs into the race, making traffic and barriers as troublesome as the next braking point.

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge

In Lotus Esprit road race, 32 fictional courses, fuel stops, and a grid that pushes good finishers backward keep the arcade ladder lively. The simultaneous two-player split screen is still the obvious invitation here: who can handle oil slicks and refuelling without handing the other driver the race?

Rorke’s Drift

In Rorke's Drift defense, the 1879 outpost battle can be paused for individual orders before volleys and melee play out in real time. One scenario follows the historical deployment, while another varies the Zulu assault, so discuss whether you would rather defend a known layout or react to a changing attack.

Super Hang-On

In African checkpoint course, Africa serves as the Beginner route in a four-continent, against-the-clock motorcycle tour. Other riders block the road, off-road slips kill speed, and downshifting is the only stated way to slow the always-moving bike.

Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

In Tunisian campaign map, the push from Torch toward Tunis unfolds through five scenarios, including Kasserine and Mareth. Rivers can close a route, mountains can conceal movement, and alternate conditions such as Malta's control reshape the opening problem.

Which would you fire up first: the political maneuvering of Africa, the careful North African campaigns, or a race against the clock on Super Hang-On's Africa route?

Alone in the Dark

In the Derceto investigation, Edward Carnby or Emily Hartwood searches a Louisiana mansion after Jeremy Hartwood’s death. Painted backdrops, fixed viewpoints, scarce ammunition, and item-led puzzles make the estate feel deliberately hostile.

Alone in the Dark 2

Carnby’s pirate case sends Edward Carnby into Hell’s Kitchen to find Grace Saunders amid undead pirates and Elizabeth Jarret’s Voodoo. The detective-pulp setup is a sharp change from Derceto, while Grace’s escape chapters trade guns for hiding and quick reactions.

Ballz: The Director’s Cut

the spherical brawler is presented as a revised take on the ball-bodied fighting game, with combo exchanges and a line of animal bosses including a tyrannosaurus, kangaroo, scorpion, ostrich, and bull. How does its oddball roster compare with the stranger 16-bit fighters you remember?

Battle Pinball

the split-screen pinball race puts two score chases side by side, with four characters each linked to a dedicated table. Story battles and tournament brackets give solo sessions a route through the tables, but local competition is clearly the livelier match.

Blade Force

the Helipak campaign takes place in Meggagrid in 2110, where Dr. Grubert equips the player with a flight suit to fight the Pitt family. Seven missions mix urban flight, nine weapons, power-ups, hostage rescues, and boss encounters.

Brain Dead 13

the castle repair call turns a computer repair job into a chain of timed cartoon-horror escapes from Count Cain’s traps. It asks for route memorization and fast directional choices, then makes every wrong answer a gruesome animated gag.

Burning Soldier

the Kaisertian war keeps the fighter on a fixed route while the player moves a targeting reticle across incoming alien craft. Its Laser Vulcan Cannon and homing Blast Smashes suit asteroid fields, mines, and the final push toward Earth.

Cannon Fodder

the six-soldier campaign combines top-down command of a small squad with immediate gunfire across 72 missions. Bridges, forests, water crossings, grenades, rockets, and commandeered tanks turn each objective into a brisk tactical scramble.

Captain Quazar

Quazar’s galactic patrol follows an interstellar marshal through overhead firefights involving rescues, bomb disposal, and enemy clear-outs. Ammo, shield energy, grenades, and destructible scenery make reckless blasting a costly habit.

Which of these would you put on first for a 3DO evening: a Battle Pinball score duel, Cannon Fodder squad mission, or Burning Soldier target run?

1830: Railroads & Robber Barons

the 1830 board-game conversion puts its emphasis on share dealing, company control, and route building rather than the day-to-day spectacle of running trains. The hex map, operating decisions, and hotseat play make it a particularly stern railway game; would you rather build a dependable line or unsettle the table with stock sales?

1942: The Pacific Air War

this Pacific air-war sim lets a pilot move between cockpit action and an overhead command map, with American and Japanese campaigns alongside standalone missions. Its mission recorder is an appealing period extra, especially for anyone who enjoys revisiting a strike from another camera angle.

21 Gewinnt

this dice-driven 21 game trades Blackjack cards for repeated rolls of two dice, asking when to stand before the total passes 21. The shareware version is CPU-only, so compare its push-your-luck rhythm with card Blackjack: does the dice roll make you play more cautiously?

A Line in the Sand

this Middle East board-wargame adaptation covers Gulf War and hypothetical regional scenarios through turn-based land, air, and naval operations. Its Diplomatic Mode adds alliances, ceasefires, oil, and international pressure beside the military map; which side of that split would you spend more time with?

Abrams Battle Tank

this Abrams tank simulation centers on eight Warsaw Pact missions and switches among commander, gunner, loader, and driver stations. Ammunition choice, separate turret and track control, and missions across several environments give it a busier cockpit than its straightforward premise suggests.

Absolute Pinball

these four digital pinball tables include a rally, underwater treasure, Hollywood, and baseball themes, each with three flippers and scoreboard mini-games. The choice between scrolling and full-table views is worth debating: which perspective do you prefer when a table is packed with ramps and targets?

Aces of the Deep

this German U-boat command sim spans the Battle of the Atlantic in campaign form, while single missions can vary convoys, weather, and targets. Ten realism settings and crew automation let players decide how much of the boat to run themselves, from plotting and periscope work to routine tasks.

Aces of the Pacific

this Pacific Theater flight sim offers American and Japanese aircraft, carrier operations, anti-shipping work, bomber escorts, and a career across major battles or the whole war. Blackouts, weather, sun glare, and collision settings can be adjusted, making the same sortie feel very different from one setup to the next.

Aces Over Europe

this Western Theater sequel shifts the series to American, British, and German squadrons, with bomber escort, ground attack, and dogfight assignments. Its randomized objectives and varied aircraft roster make a useful comparison with its Pacific predecessor: which theater gives you the more tempting mission list?

Aces: The Complete Collector’s Edition

this Dynamix compilation bundles A-10 Tank Killer, Aces of the Pacific, Aces Over Europe, and Red Baron on one CD-ROM. It also includes the documentary “The Aviation Pioneers 1903–1939,” giving the set an early-flight-history companion alongside its combat simulations.

Of these DOS simulations, which one best captures the pleasure of managing a whole operation rather than simply steering one vehicle?

(T)Raumschiff Surprise: Periode 1

In the sci-fi spoof adventure, Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and Schrotty tackle inventory puzzles aboard a parody starship, including getting a music box working for the “Miss Waikiki” contest. The mouse interface uses left-click actions and a right-click context menu, while the original cast supplies more than 1,600 recorded lines.

101 Dalmatians: Escape From DeVil Manor

Patches' mansion escape puts Patches in Cruella De Vil’s mansion in a first-person “Puppyvision” view, searching rooms, secret passages, and puzzles for captured puppies. Wizzer the bird provides hints, and adjustable difficulty keeps the bone-shaped keys and matching games from becoming too punishing.

1½ Ritter: Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde

Sir Lanze's rescue mission sends the hungover Sir Lanze out of a dungeon and after Princess Herzelinde, who has been taken by the Black Knight. Its action coin separates looking, using, and talking, with item-combination puzzles joined by a Happy Families card game and chicken roulette.

15 Days

the divided art-heist investigation follows activist art thieves Cathryn, Mike, and Bernard as they steal a Cecil Rhodes portrait, while Special Agent Jack Stern investigates a death connected to its transport. The case alternates between the two sides, using third-person point-and-click investigation and puzzles rather than a fast heist pace.

1893: A World’s Fair Mystery

the Chicago fairground case begins with a diamond theft at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian Exposition and expands into kidnapping, murder, and conspiracy. Its text-led investigation uses a fairground map, visitor’s guide, optional hints, and more than 500 historical photographs.

1916: Der unbekannte Krieg

the raptor-filled trench escape drops a German soldier into a World War I trench maze where the immediate objective is to find a ladder before raptors find him. Thrown body parts can distract the creatures, while limited rifle rounds, flares, notes, and a gas mask shape the route through the trenches. How does this bare-bones chase setup compare with other short survival-horror oddities you have played?

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo

the Nautilus object hunt adapts Jules Verne’s undersea voyage as a hidden-object tour of the Nautilus, from observation deck to engine room. Finding listed objects is broken up by small tasks such as assembling a compass or repairing a control panel with spare gears.

2112: A Field Trip

the doomed Mars school trip is a text adventure set during the final 24 hours of a UNASA Mars colony, after a middle-school field trip goes badly astray. The player explores the spaceport, F.A.K.E. bio-dome, and Conformity Corner while working through Lt. Cecil Kraven II’s ciphers and dealing with Oona, a holographic AI.

3 Cards to Dead Time

Jess's Halloween convention mystery follows Jess, a woman who speaks with the dead, to a Maine Halloween convention after a shadowy dream figure gives her clues. Each chapter opens three tarot-card scenes where category prompts can ask for any matching object, alongside vinyl-record jigsaws, portrait puzzles, and mechanism challenges.

3 Cards to Midnight

Jess Silloway's tarot reconstruction begins with Jess Silloway waking without her memories, guided through seven chapters and a finale by three tarot-card choices per chapter. Its hidden-object scenes build compound words such as “night owl,” while rune puzzles, astrological matches, and restored documents add tougher stops between scenes.

Which of these setups would you most want to revisit: a political art-theft investigation, a historical fairground mystery, Captain Nemo’s Nautilus, or a Mars colony’s final day?

Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021

In ASCII galactic conquest, expansion begins by taking independent worlds rather than founding colonies. Planetary development runs automatically once a world is annexed, while research, fleet movement, warehouses, and orbital defenses keep the attention on conquest. Custom map files and random galaxies should make for a lively comparison with anyone who prefers a hand-built battlefield.

Armada 2525

research labs and fleet formations starts every race on a homeworld and lets two to six human or AI players push outward under either open-ended or turn-limited rules. Eight research fields open up buildings and ship classes, while fleet battles rely on formations and broad orders rather than individual ship commands. Its sparse diplomacy only permits responses to another empire’s peace offer, so early defenses have plenty of company.

Ascendancy

power-managed starship battles pairs race-specific traits with colony specialization across procedurally generated systems. In combat, weapons and shields draw from a finite energy pool, and ship slots must be divided among engines, weapons, and life support. The icon-linked Research Tree is a particularly handsome way to plot a route through its technologies.

Master of Magic

two-plane wizard warfare sends rival wizards across Arcanus and Myrror, where cities, roaming monsters, magical nodes, and enemy towers all compete for attention. Mana has to be split between spells, enchantments, and research, while battles can be played tactically or resolved automatically. Taking a node and binding an elemental spirit to it remains a wonderfully direct piece of fantasy map control.

Master of Orion

the race for Orion makes resource allocation a matter of sliders for research, shipbuilding, and finances, leaving room to concentrate on expansion and diplomatic pressure. Custom ship designs can combine engines, shields, cloaking devices, and weapons before the campaign’s fight for the Guardian-protected planet. The contrast between a quiet research pact and a sudden technology theft is still the right sort of space-opera mischief.

Star Lords

the early Star Lords prototype begins with one planet, then moves through colonization, research, ship design, diplomacy, and numerical combat reports. Its interface is described as rough, with no tutorial or help system, but turns resolve quickly and the research covers propulsion, weapons, and planetary economics. Put it next to Master of Orion and discuss which prototype-era ideas already feel unmistakably familiar.

Which DOS 4X do you return to for a long campaign: Master of Orion’s slider-driven space race, Ascendancy’s energy juggling, Master of Magic’s node wars, or one of the rougher early experiments?

A.E.

In the alien-defense shooter, a cannon restricted to the bottom of the screen fires into descending alien formations while bombs come back the other way. The later split and flanking attacks sound like the point where a familiar invasion setup turns properly hectic.

Airheart

the jet-float quest sends a pilot along waterways in a jet-propelled float, balancing tight steering against robotic defenses and underwater hazards. Its item hunt for relics and the need to strip protective pods from enemies give the action a pleasingly odd, deliberate rhythm.

Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress

In the fortress expedition, a countryside map links castles containing guarded treasures, while rope, meat, water, a gun, and a raft determine which obstacles can be tackled. Alcazar itself rises to three stories, making the crown hunt feel like a destination earned through route planning.

ALF: The First Adventure

the suburban ALF chase has ALF collect cats, spaceship parts, and a key before carrying the haul back to the garage. The dog-catcher and Willie Tanner patrol the neighborhood, so compare notes on whether you would prioritize a safe collection route or a faster dash.

Alfredo’s Stupendous Surprise

the birthday-cake nightmare puts Alfredo in a house with a talking cake and choices to run, hide, or investigate. With branches leading to different cartoon-horror outcomes, it is the kind of short-form oddity that invites a comparison of the most absurd route discovered.

Alien Ambush

In the mothership gauntlet, shooting a slow mothership releases two faster shuttles, and clearing all three targets advances the wave. The move from one mothership to paired attacks gives the four-wave cycle a clean escalation before it loops for score chasing.

Alien Typhoon

the Galaxian-style assault crowds the formation with color-coded invaders whose dives demand different responses from the player’s lone ship. Two motherships guarded by red escorts offer a tempting scoring target, but clearing the escorts first is the stated order of business.

Apple Cider Spider

the cider-factory climb casts a spider loose among rolling apples, presses, silk threads, and factory critters. The mix of web-slinging, vertical climbing, and conveyor hazards is an unusually specific setup; which obstacle would make the better centerpiece for a score attack?

Apple DOS 3.2 (included game)

the sideways brick breaker moves the paddle up and down the screen edge while the brick wall stands vertically, turning the usual Breakout layout on its side. Ball speed, paddle size, wall arrangement, and colors are all presented as settings to alter at the command line.

Apple Panic

the apple-trapping platformer forbids jumping, leaving walking, ladders, and freshly dug pits as the tools for handling legged apples. Since apple colors indicate whether a one-, two-, or three-level fall is needed, lining up holes becomes more important than simple pursuit.

Which of these Apple II action setups would you return to first: the ladder-and-pit tactics of Apple Panic, the guarded motherships of Alien Typhoon, or the route planning in Alcazar?

“Get Dexter!”

In Crafton’s laboratory escape, eight scientists hold the code fragments needed to open a route out of the compound. Colour-matched doors, draining hazards, Nurse Pods, and Xunk’s warnings make each isometric room feel like a compact planning problem.

1942

In the Super Ace’s sorties, the vertical assault runs from Midway toward the Final Area with three evasive rolls available per life. The carrier-to-combat rhythm and power-ups from enemy formations make it a clean test of pattern reading.

3D Starstrike

In the converted-moon assaults, the Starstrike fighter moves from space dogfights to surface defenses and a reactor trench run. The cockpit wireframe view puts catwalks, turrets, and the twin reactor pods squarely in the pilot’s path.

3D Time Trek

In the pirate search across Corillian’s sectors, the routine is map, sensor sweep, warp, then a cockpit fight when contact appears. Shields, damage, and energy demand some attention, although the scan-and-move loop can become familiar quickly; how would you compare that pace with a more immediate shooter?

3D-Pinball

In the tilted single-table challenge, five balls, ramp shots, bumpers, targets, and bonus changes keep the score chase moving. There is no centre pin or tilt mechanism, so compare its riskier drains with the pinball table you know best.

750cc Grand Prix

In the six British circuit sprints, each three-lap race asks for a top-three finish against seven rivals. The tilting view sells the bike’s lean, while fuel, tyre wear, and pit timing complicate the push through the field.

A View to a Kill: The Computer Game

In Bond’s chase from Paris to the mine, the action shifts from pursuing Mayday through Paris to searching City Hall and facing a bomb in an abandoned mine. That chase-and-puzzle mix follows Max Zorin’s plan to flood Silicon Valley.

A.L.C.O.N.

In the star-powered assault on Orac, collected stars select speed, shots, bombs, lasers, missiles, or shielding as the scrolling battle continues through boss encounters. Its single looping battlefield leaves little room to relax, especially with no continues.

Abu Simbel Profanation

In Johny Jones’s cursed pyramid expedition, a transformed adventurer searches Abu Simbel for keys that can lift his curse. Long and short jumps have to clear traps and guardians through the pyramid’s chambers.

Action Force

In Wild Bill’s bridge-building escort flight, the Dragonfly must protect an advancing AWE buggy while carrying bridge sections over broken ground. Enemy aircraft, bombs, and instant-death terrain turn every rescue into a sharp prioritisation exercise.

Which of these would you tackle first on a CPC: the bridge-laying pressure of Action Force, the precise jumps of Abu Simbel Profanation, or the weapon choices in A.L.C.O.N.?

Action Quest

In the ghost’s treasure run, a projectile-firing ghost crosses 30 fixed rooms, collecting treasure while traps, monsters, and a timer squeeze every decision. The mix of shooting and route-reading sounds closer to a compact maze puzzle than a leisurely adventure, and the countdown is clearly the boss of the show.

Adax

the six-sector expedition sends an agent across six sectors in search of disks, keys, supplies, and the route to an alien base. Punches, kicks, pistol rounds, and explosive spheres all have competing uses, while defeated enemies can restore health after a risky fight.

Advance of the Mega Camels

The supplied description of the camel defense sortie has a starfighter reversing direction and adjusting speed while enormous camel enemies advance on a base. Their shifting colors are presented as damage feedback; how does that compare with the visual enemy-state cues you remember from older shooters?

Air Rescue I

The write-up presents the helicopter labyrinth revision as a revised take on a helicopter rescue maze, with scientist pickups, time pressure, and drones patrolling every corridor. It also describes altered screens and fonts, so it is worth keeping those changes separate from the earlier game it references.

Airstrike

the Mark V assault is described as a side-scrolling run through caverns and defenses toward Fortress Gemini, with fuel and ammunition caches marked for collection. The central airlock target sounds like a proper arcade choke point: arrive stocked, line up the shot, and survive the return pressure.

Airstrike II

In the Mark X follow-up, five runs through the same Cyclon layout become harsher as enemy numbers rise, with fuel, ammo, missiles, and narrow tunnels dictating the pace. That repeated-map structure puts the emphasis on memorizing routes and improving resource use rather than discovering new scenery.

Aliants: The Desperate Battle For Earth!

The supplied account of the Earth liberation campaign alternates between crosshair-focused arcade sequences and commands issued across a 10-by-10 strategic grid. Landing at Valley Forge, earning an Admiral rank in a simulator, and moving Battle Carriers make for an unusually busy blend of formats.

Alien Garden

the crystal-life experiment follows an embryonic creature across a scrolling world of 24 crystal clusters, where feeding, stinging, or avoiding a cluster can determine survival. Crystal behavior changes between sessions, and a lineage can continue for as many as 20 generations.

Alley Cat

the alley-to-apartment chase has a black cat climbing from bins and fences to apartment windows, then tackling randomized indoor challenges involving fish, milk, birds, mice, and vases. The return to the alley before the heart-filled courtship screen gives its score chase a particularly silly, memorable rhythm.

Android

In the spare-parts search, a remote-controlled android searches a hostile space base for computer parts while health, ammunition, falls, and respawning robots complicate each trip. Its awkward step-by-step ladder climbing sounds like the defining irritant, but the fixed-screen search has real tension when supplies are low.

Which of these would you rather learn by repetition: Action Quest’s timed rooms, Adax’s sector routes, or Android’s hazardous base layout?

1 Ton

In the mouse-controlled crushing game, a one-ton weight is dragged and dropped with the mouse while a plunger brings new pedestrians onto the playfield. There is no visible score chase; compare your most reliable drop angles and see how long the simple setup holds your attention.

3-Demon

the wireframe maze chase turns Pac-Man-style pellet collecting into a first-person run through neon-lined corridors, with ghosts closing in around every bend. Clearing a required portion of the points opens the next level with the down key, so the decision is whether to sweep the maze or leave early.

3D Bomber

In the 3D bomb arena, destructible maze walls hide power-ups while timed bombs turn narrow corridors into traps. Matches can be played against the computer or over modem and serial cable, with the first player to score five blasts taking the round.

A2: The Ultimate Sequel To AUTS – The Ultimate Stress Relief Game

the cave-fighting sequel sends up to six players into side-scrolling cave battles with deathmatch and team options. Its expanded weapon selection, computer opponents, and random level generator make a good case for comparing a planned ambush with whatever chaos a generated cave produces.

ABM

the EGA missile defense game asks you to protect shield generators from incoming warheads using either mouse or arrow-key aiming. Runs continue through escalating waves and finish with counts for missiles stopped and interceptors launched, which makes accuracy an easy point of debate.

Abmis the Lion

In the potato-retrieval platformer, a lion king searches side-view mazes for potatoes stolen by a fox, using found objects to cross hazards and trigger switches. Every potato must be gathered before the doorway to the next level can be used; which obstacle would you rather tackle first, traps or charging animals?

Absolute Zero

the Europa vehicle campaign stages an alien attack on Europa across missions that change pilots and viewpoints. Seven vehicles include starfighters, recon scouts, and ground-based turrets, giving the defense of the colony a deliberately shifting pace.

Ack-Ack Attack!

the fixed-turret paratrooper shooter keeps you at the controls of a central turret, tracking paratroopers as they jump from passing aircraft. Easy, Medium, and Hard settings offer a clean test of how sharply the drop patterns and enemy speed change the pressure.

Adventures of Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet

In the Beetlejuice skeleton blaster, Beetlejuice fires loogies at skeletons while Lydia vacuums up the debris and helps turn pickups into heavier firepower. A skeleton can cage Lydia until a lightning bonus frees her, while the random underground worm makes a single mistake fatal.

Air Puck

the mouse-driven table hockey match confines your bat to a small area near the goal, making every return a matter of reading angles early. Set the winning score and puck speed, then decide whether a steady rally or a rapid-fire reflex contest is the better way to settle the match.

Which of these would make the better five-minute DOS challenge: the increasingly frantic missile defense of ABM, the tight goalkeeping of Air Puck, or a 3-Demon maze run?