Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

Pack 6 has the particular charm of a compilation where you are not asked to commit to one big idea. You start by hopping between Super Tetris, Aldo Again, Draw Poker, Green Phylox, and Space Miner, looking for the one that catches you. That can feel pleasantly low-pressure: if one game does not land, there are several others waiting without the sense that you have abandoned a long campaign.

It also means the package has no single rhythm or clear escalation. This is a grab bag, not a carefully paced anthology. Your enjoyment will depend heavily on how many of these six names turn out to suit your own taste, and the compilation does not offer the reassurance of a single standout premise carrying the rest.

Super Tetris comes with the pack’s most immediate point of friction. Before playing, you may be stopped by copy-protection questions whose answers are meant to be found in the manual. Fortunately, the CD inlay prints all 23 questions and answers in both English and German. Keep that inlay close; it is a workaround, not an elegant convenience, but it prevents the protection from becoming a permanent barrier.

Graphics

There is no shared graphical style to judge here: Pack 6 collects six separate DOS games rather than presenting one consistent world, cast, or screen layout. The CD inlay’s bilingual Super Tetris answer list is the most distinctive piece of the package itself, though it is more useful than attractive.

Story

The compilation’s only real throughline is its bargain-bin variety. These titles are gathered under the 5 Plus One banner, but Pack 6 does not frame them as chapters in a common adventure or build a larger setting around them.

That absence is not necessarily a flaw. A collection like this works more like a shelf of small diversions: each title has to make its own case quickly, and you are free to move on when it does not.

Do not come in expecting a narrative payoff from the package as a whole. Its personality comes from the contrast between its game names and the simple pleasure of seeing what each one has to offer.

Overall Experience

5 Plus One: Pack 6 is easy to appreciate as a period-specific curiosity and harder to recommend as a focused purchase. Six games for one disc gives it a decent shot at producing a personal favorite, but it also leaves you doing the sorting that a stronger compilation would do for you.

The manual-question protection on Super Tetris is a small relic of the era that can sour the opening minutes, even with the answers conveniently reproduced on the inlay. Once you know where to look, it becomes an annoyance rather than a deal-breaker.

Give it a chance if you enjoy old DOS compilations for their uneven, exploratory feel and do not mind treating the disc as a sampler. If you want one polished game with a clear reason to stick around, Pack 6 is too scattered to make that promise. You may also want to compare it with 5 Plus One: Pack 4.

Retro Replay Score

5/10