New Games on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us The Bungeling Empire has stolen a huge cache of gold from its rightful owners, and your mission is to infiltrate its treasury and recapture it. This entails progressing through 150 screens of platforms, ladders and ropes.

The Empire has sent robotic guards down to protect the gold, and contact with any of these will cost you a life. Your method of escaping them is to press fire to dig a hole in their line of movement, thus causing them to fall in briefly, allowing you to move across the gap safely. Once all the gold has been collected, a ladder allowing you to move onto the next screen is added. Completing these screens often requires forward planning and precision.

]]> 09 Feb 2007 06:28:37 With cutting edge 3D wireframe graphics, Stellar 7 puts you in the cockpit of The Raven, an advanced combat tank. The tank is equipped with an unlimited supply of bullets, and a cloaking device. On each level, you have to destroy the other tanks and machines, and then you must travel through the warplink to the next level. Battle your way through 7 different solar systems until you reach the final boss, Gir Draxon.

]]> 18 Jan 2007 05:07:20 Digger was released by Windmill Software in 1983, popular in the era of the IBM PC with a CGA graphics card and monitor. Digger was resurrected by Andrew Jenner in 1998, when he reverse engineered it to run using VGA on fast Pentium based computers. The source code of the remastered version was released under the GPL with permission of the original author Rob Sleath.

]]> 24 Dec 2006 02:53:39 Journey To The Planets is a game written in 1983 for the Atari 800XL by a company called JV Software/Roklan Systems, and specifically by a gentleman named Jack Verson. It features a space traveler who visits various alien worlds, solves puzzles on them, and collects items to carry back to his ship.

It's pretty routine fare, and the gameplay is quite easy and forgiving, but what really draws the player into the game is the minimalist environment. It has the same appeal as the original Myst - uninhabited worlds, inexplicable objects - though, of course, it predates Myst by a decade. To today's gaming crowd, its blocky graphics and simplistic gameplay may not appeal, but for its time it was more than enough.

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