3D World Boxing: (<1Mb)
This game was released in 1992, with graphics that could have been from five years later. Nicely rendered for its time. Well worth a checkout if you like beat ‘em up games.
The first thing which struck me about this game was that you can begin playing very quickly; there are not that many tiresome menus. You choose either a one-off match, where you just select two boxers, or a complete championship. Go one-off and set the number of rounds and the time of each one.
Then, to start off, an easy match between the first-ranked boxer vs. the twenty-first is a good way to go. You can play around a little with the poor chump before placing him firmly on the canvas. Nice clean fun, but it doesn't offer anything special.
The Championship is the far more interesting type of game; this is where you train a boxer and take him up the rankings. You start out by meeting a few losers, so you get the hang of the game, but the skill of your opponents rapidly increases. So you need to prepare in the best way: by looking at the other boxer's weaknesses and distributing your skill points accordingly. If he has a weak defense, try hitting that chin a few times with full power, and he'll soon be seeing stars. A high endurance, on the other hand, means you've got a long, gruesome fight on your hands.
Graphically this game holds its own, as you can see. Sports games in general don't really need high class graphics, but this game actually looks ok. The music, though, (and I'm going out on a limb by calling it that) is not anything you'd put in your stereo on a Friday night...
So far so good, but: The controls suck! Yes, I'm sorry, but that's the way it is... It's hard to make your boxer understand which punch you want him to throw and when. Many times you'll be caught cursing the guy for just jumping around without doing much of anything. This is largely due to the fact that you can't set up the keys to control him, so you're left to the cursor keys and Enter...
But with a lot of training (and maybe cursing) you might actually still like this game. And the gaming world is awfully dry of decent boxing games, so give it a try!
Download Link
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/459/3D+World+Boxing.html
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Seven Days A Skeptic:
I was going to post this one at the same time I posted 5 days a stranger, but I’d posted several point and click adventures so left it for a rainy day. I presume Wizzard has assignments to complete. I really don’t know how he manages to post games on a regular basis, study and set up servers at the weekend. All I can say is you’re marvelous. I thought I’d post the following games in your absence. I’m off to the USA in a little over 6 hours time, so this will probably be my last post for a few weeks (well to post games at least)
7 Days a Skeptic is the very good 2004 sequel to 5 Days a Stranger. Like its predecessor, this is one of my favorite AGS and adventure games. Definitely worth a try.
Many centuries have passed since the DeFoe Manor incident. It is now no more than folklore and forgotten stories. The human race is going "where no man has gone before", and the invention of warp technology is fast-pacing the spaceship program. Due to vehicle shortages, the Earth Federation instigates a new program that upgrades old and retired spacecraft. The Mephistopheles is the first to undergo this program. Crewed by a new complement of six crewmen, the Mephistopheles is assigned to map out the Caracus galaxy. A few days into the voyage, the crew sight a metal locker with the name DeFoe on it. They open it to find nothing in it - or so they think...
Note: This game is gorier than 5 Days a Stranger, so I would not recommend this game to anyone who had a problem with the violence in its predecessor.
If you get stuck there’s a walkthrough available from the download page.
Download Link
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/271/7+Days+a+Skeptic.html
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Pinball Dreams and Pinball Dreams 2: (2.33Mb)
Digital Illusions' pinball series in the early ninetees were a real hit! They featured beautiful graphics, dynamic and realistic gameplay, all kinds of tables and much more. Pinball freak or not, once you run this game you will be glued to the screen for hours :) You can even tilt the table. There are many "missions" hidden within each table, and new ones open up as you reach higher scores. I played this game oftenly, and I haven't unlocked all the missions, so believe me when I say that there is a lot of potential there :)
Of course, I can't neglect the fact that the music and sound effects are simply fabulous! All in all, a mark of 5 for phenomenal graphics (bear in mind that this is 1992.), wonderful SoundBlaster sound effects and music, and generally for being probably one of the best pinball series ever to be published on PC!Pinball Dreams 2 is, obviously, the sequel of much praised Pinball Dreams. The sequel brings us 4 new tables with lots of gameplay on each one of them! The tables are named as follows: Neptune, Safari, Revenge of the Robot Warriors and Stallturn. You can see a screenshot of a portion of each table to the right.
Every table offers a unique theme and experience. If you are a pinball fan, you will not get bored of it quickly. When comparing with its prequel, the graphics have been improved as well as the sound. The tables are truly gigantic and there is a lot to discover on every one. A mark of 4 then for excellent gameplay, sound and graphics, but nothing new and spectacular! If you like pinball games and haven't played this one, it's 4 tables are guaranteed to provide you with hours of fun!
Download Link
Pinball Dreams:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/41/Pinball+Dreams.html
Pinball Dreams 2
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/89/Pinball+Dreams+2.html
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