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Information about “INSANITY”
A huge maze based adventure game where INSANITY rules. Find clues, solve
puzzles, and try to stay alive in a place where the unexpected is
common, and pandemonium is found at every turn.
As you try to find the exit from INSANITY you'll encounter many strange
things. You'll meet a wizard. Pass through the stars. Collect
ammunition to defend yourself against little red men. Explore a castle
and a church along the way. Play games like seven card challenge or a
fast paced soccer match. Most things won't make sense, but if you can
find a method to the madness, you could find the key to end your search
for a way out of INSANITY.
FILE2173.TXT
Disk No: 2173
Disk Title: Insanity
PC-SIG Version: S2
Program Title: Insanity
Author Version: 2.0
Author Registration: $20.00
Special Requirements: 512K RAM and CGA.
A huge maze based adventure game where INSANITY rules. Find clues, solve
puzzles, and try to stay alive in a place where the unexpected is
common, and pandemonium is found at every turn.
As you try to find the exit from INSANITY you'll encounter many strang
things. You'll meet a wizard. Pass through the stars. Collect
ammuniti to defend yourself against little red men. Explore a castle
and a church along the way. Play games like seven card challenge or
fast a fast paced soccer match. Most things won't make sense, but if
you can find a method to the madness, you could find the key to end
your search for a way out of INSANITY.
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
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(c) Copyright 1990, PC-SIG Inc.
WIZARD.TXT
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ WIZARD GAMES Shareware Releases - Summer 1990 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
WIZARD is a programming collective based in Scotland, with a range of games all
available only for the IBM PC (and compatibles) via mail order. WIZARD believes
that current PC games are overpriced and overpackaged (not to mention lacking in
imagination). We are creating a series of unique and innovative games, designed
to take full advantage of the size and power of IBM PCs and compatibles, and we
are marketing these primarily via the 'try before you buy' shareware method.
If you like any of our shareware releases, then please support us by registering
for the game concerned. Registration costs £12 (US$20) per game, and entitles
you to the latest full enhanced registered version of the game concerned, with
LOAD and SAVE game facilities and other additional features. Registration also
puts you on our mailing list for information on Wizard releases - and there are
several of these a year!
System requirements for WIZARD releases are IBM PC/close compatible, with 512k
RAM and CGA/CGA compatible graphics card. We have many reports of our games
being run successfully on a wierd and wonderful variety of machines, eg Apple
Macs, Hercules graphics machines, etc using appropriate DOS/CGA emulation
hardware/software.
What they say about Wizard Games:
'thanks for the work you are doing in the underdeveloped - yet overpriced -
PC games world' - P Walker,Bradford
'these are just the type of games I have been waiting for. Keep up the good
work' - C Meeks,London
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ THE SOCCER GAME (c) 1989 New Era │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Congratulations,you have just been hired as the new manager of a professional
soccer team. Find out if you can handle this exciting job with THE SOCCER GAME,
a sports managerial simulation game.
THE SOCCER GAME is larger in scope and much more comprehensive than any
currently available soccer management game: forget the rest, try out the best!
Programmed by a certifiable soccer maniac, who was simply fed up with the lack
of detail and scope in available soccer management games, THE SOCCER GAME uses
the memory and processing capacity of the PC to create a game far larger in
scope and far more entertaining and demanding than any of the rest.
The object of this outstanding game is to become a succesful manager of a soccer
team. You start out managing a fourth division team, and try to work your way up
to the top of the first division, and on to international cup success. You
select the team players, and staff. You demonstrate your skills by trading and
buying players, by selecting the best teams to play, and by making the best
deals.
Features include:
YOUR TEAM: up to 20 players, each with emotional stability, age, experience,
skill, fitness, and consistency. Contract termination, and renewal. Players on
free loan. Field positions, injuries, retirements, testimonials. Buy/sell
players, directly or via transfer market. Hire/fire staff. Reports and advice
from staff. Fixture list. Next match information. Offers to manage another team
during the course of the game.
OTHER TEAMS: 1270 players. 4 divisions (20 teams in each). 20 international
teams. Physio, treasurer, scout, & assistant for each team. Edit team and player
names. View any team's squad at any time. Information on signings between teams.
Full information on individual players.
FIXTURES: League tables for all 4 divisions. League Cup. FA cup. Cup Winners
Cup. UEFA cup. European Cup. Friendly matches. Optional match highlights.
Results from all matches. Man of the match. Scorers. High goal scorers list.
Player of the month. Young player of the month. Manager of the month.
FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Buy and sell team shares. make and sell records(!). Bank
loans.Weekly cash flow with gate receipts, sponsorship, TV and radio fees,
salaries, ground maintenance, tranfer fees, betting.
PRESENTATION: Full windowing and pull-up menus. Colour. Music. Instructions.
On-screen help. Levels of difficulty. Print outs.
What they say about THE SOCCER GAME:
'congratulations on a full and comprehensible game' - J Whiting,Colchester
'enjoyed it immensely.. addicted' - N Loader,The Netherlands
'thank you,at Wizard games, for the many challenging hours' A,P&R Powell,Pudsey
'excellent game' - D J Hayes, E Grinstead
'extremely easy to use - the program matches and even exceeds the majority of
commercially available software, with regard to text displays,help screens, and
pull down menu facilities. Excellent value for money!' - C Longdon,Chippenham
'extremely well written game' - P G Jones,Leeds
'thank you for the SOCCER GAME - I think it's brilliant' - V Holmen,Manchester
'excellent - completely hooked on it' - J Holden,Cambridgeshire
'it IS compulsive - thanks very much for a great game' - D Johnson,Wiltshire
'I admit I am addicted to your imaginatively titled "Soccer Game" - Keep up the
good work' - D Demetriou, Southgate
'I have in the past played all the football strategy games available and I
consider "Soccer" the best and most reaslistic available.' - Chris Broadbent,
Swindon
-'brilliant' - A Powis,Hereford
-'brilliant and very addictive' - D Farmer,Staffs
(these are just a small selection of the rave quotes this game produces!)
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ GRAND PRIX (c) 1989 Hole In The Wall │
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Manage your own Formula 1 racing team! You are in charge of finances, hiring and
firing of drivers, design staff, and mechanics. You must select and purchase
cars, engines, and other items necessary for a succesful season. You start out
with limited money with which to build up your teams, and must obtain
sponsorship, and negotiate loans.
Once you have a completed team, it's time to start racing! There are 16 races in
each Grand Prix international season, and you must try to qualify for each. With
a skillful driver you may win a race. With a good chief mechanic you could win
more. If you have an experienced chief designer your car may last the whole
season. And if you manage to put all the parts together, the constructors and
drivers championships await you!
Grand Prix is, to the best of our knowledge, the only game of formula 1 team
managment available. Its features include:
- run the season with one, or two (if finances allow) drivers.
- control finances, obtain sponsorship and loans (beware the loan shark!)
- control spending on car/engine development, and salaries
- select drivers from transfer market
- experience history, age, skill, temperament, for each driver
- realism: real-life circuits,teams and drivers.
- circuit statistics, lap records, team records
- qualifying and race lap times, best and average
- accidents, breakdowns, injuries
- graphs/charts of team/driver/competitors performance for the season, and for
the game to date.
- customise team names
- slick presentation, colour, sound, easy and fast to operate
- on-line help and instructions
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ INSANITY (c) 1989 Wizard Games │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
A huge maze-base adventure game, where INSANITY rules! Find clues, solve puzzles
and try to stay alive in a place where the unexpected is common, and pandemonium
is found at every turn!
As you tru to find your way out of the labyrinth, you'll encounter many strange
things, You'll meet a wizard, pass through stars, collect ammunition to defend
yourself against little red fiends, explore a castle and church along the way,
play games like seven card challenge and a fast paced soccer match. Most things
won't make sense, but if you can find a method to the madness, you could find
the key to end your search for a way out of INSANITY.
INSANITY is a highly challenging and entertaining game suitable for all the
family. It comes with a built in demo to give you an idea what the game is
about.
Insanity realy has te be seen, rather than read about!
'INSANITY: It's Brilliant' - J Amandini
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ POPSTAR (c) 1989 Wizard Games │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
You are an unknow hopeful, trying to gain popularity and chart success in the
crazy world of sex,drugs, and rock and roll! Your health, alertness, creativity,
happiness, and drug intake, are constantly monitored and must be carefully
controlled.
The aim of POPSTAR is to become a star, then a megastar: by playing gigs around
the world to create some popularity, by promotional activities, and by recording
and releasing records and making videos. You must constantly watch your health
and emotional state, as the crazy world of sex drugs and rock and roll is very
arduous. You will be tempted continually into partying and drug taking, but
beware! You will need holidays and perhaps even health sanitoriums,
rehabilitation clinics or even hospital to recover from your excesses!
ACTIVITIES: touring - pubs, clubs, halls, stadiums. Support tours. Recording -
various studios. Make videos - various producers. Negotiate record contracts,
and record company loans - various labels. TV and radio appearances. Promotional
autograph and interview tours. Parties. Holidays - various locations. Health
sanitorium. Drug taking. Drug addiction and rehabilitation. Drug busts.
Hospital. Consult your analyst. Visit your doctor. Bankrupcy. Death.
INFORMATION: local,UK,European, and American top 100 charts, updated every week.
Various regional and international top 100 popularity polls. Detailed history
of your own releases and tours. Information on new releases. Record and video
reviews. Gig reviews. Advice from manager, band and friends.
PRESENTATION: full windowing and bar menus. Special effects. Colour. Sound.
Instant context-sensitive help and information always available via function
keys. Bar graph displays. Friendly interactive style.
What they say about POPSTAR:
'played for hours at it' - A Turner,Bolton
'wonderful! just my sort of game. Keep up the good work etc' - Alan Rose,Ilford
'what a brilliant game' - R Thomas,Swansea
'most impressed' - B Clay,Suffolk
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ OLIGOPOLY (c) 1990 Wizard Games │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
OLIGOPOLY is light-hearted but detailed game of business management- you must
build up your business in the face of cut-throat competition: hire/fire staff,
build factories, set prices and marketing and research budgets, deal with
strikes, and generally play at being a capitalist!
You have just inherited a business, called "USELESS LIMITED" from a sadistic
uncle of yours. USELESS ltd makes silly little devices called "Incomprehensible
Gadgets" which the general public seem to think are essential aids to modern
living (yes folks "no home should be without one").
"Oligopoly" is the state where a few companies between them dominate a market.
In the market for "Incomprehensible Gadgets" there are six companies including
you, and there is some limited foreign competition which will only get a
foothold in the market if the six companies are fairly incompetent.
CUTTHROAT ltd will concentrate on price competition, aiming for a low profit
margin on a high volume of sales.
TOPNOTCH ltd goes for good quality design and expects customers to pay premium
prices for it.
IMAGE ltd loves to promote itself, so concentrates on marketing, again
expecting premium prices for such a fashionable name...
STEADFAST ltd as rather boring and conservative and tries to survive by taking
as few risks as possible (you could say it depends on the boring conservative
core of the general public for its'' sales!)
SHADOW ltd copies you (except when you do really stupid things!), as they don''t'
have minds of their own (shame....).
So the aim of the game is to destroy the competition and get yourself a
complete monopoly of the market for "Incomprehensible Gadgets"
You have control over all aspects of USELESS ltd''s activities - production
of the gadgets, design and development of revised models, and selling and
marketing of the finished gadgets. You have a workforce to control and
factories and equipment to organise, buy and sell.
To help you run this business, you have a good computer system (programmed by
WIZARD, so it must be quite wonderful) giving you a variety of graphical and
financial information. It is up to you to figure out how to make sense of it
all!
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ WIZARD GAMES 4 Hoselaw,Kelso,Scotland,TD5 8BP │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #2173
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
INSANITY DAT 64000 2-04-89 3:05p
INSANITY EXE 84736 6-02-90 8:35p
INSANITY HIS 180 6-02-90 5:21p
INSANITY SCR 16000 1-28-89 3:40p
INSANITY WIZ 20001 6-02-90 9:13p
WIZARD TXT 13879 6-04-90 5:06p
GO BAT 38 1-01-80 1:37a
GO TXT 576 1-01-80 9:28a
FILE2173 TXT 1925 7-13-90 11:29p
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