Atari Vintage Games: ST Computers

Game Title: Wishbringer
Game Type: Adventure
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Please write a review of this text-adventure.

Game Title: Wizard's Crown
Game Type: Adventure
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Your quest is to seek out the priceless crown. Start by creating a band of adventurers and recover the crown.

Game Title: WolfChild
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Dr. Kal Morrow has been kidnapped because of his research into genetics and the creation of human-animal hybrids. During the kidnapping, his family was brutally murdered by the terrorist organisation CHIMERA.

As his surviving son Saul, your quest is to avenge his family's death and seek out your father. Using your father's research, you become a wolf-man and sets out to find CHIMERA's base and defeat their leader Karl Draxx.

Collects enough power-ups to aide your quest, however, if Saul loses health, he turns back into his human form and only has his fists to fight the numerous enemies.

Game Title: Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Eleven years have passed by since Tom rescued his girlfriend from the clutches of the evil King. Word of Tom's journey soon spread throughout Wonder Land.

Eventually, the peace was broken when a ferocious fire-breathing dragon. Defenceless that they were, the people were quickly taken over and the tranquil and serene kingdom was transformed into a land of demons and devils.

Your mission is to defeat the dragon and once again restore peace.

You must travel through 12 locations. During your journey, use your sword to defeat the monsters. Recover the gold coins or bags of cash left from killing the monsters, which can be used buy better weapons, shields, armours and boots.

At the end of each location, are dreaded bosses which are difficult to defeat.

Game Title: World Championship Soccer
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Choose a team representing one of twenty-four countries around the world to participate in the World Championship tournament. Once your team is picked, select which players to have on the field.

The game supports single exhibition matches, either against the computer or against a friend.

Game action is viewed from above is rather simplified as player control is limited to players closest to the ball. Among the rules missing from the game are rules causing penalty flags and offsides.

Game Title: World Class Leader Board
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Wind, snap and power are the only three controls keeping you out of the bunkers, water and rough which make for more complex courses than the 8-bit versions of the original.

Using the course editor, you make the courses suit your needs.

Game Title: World Games
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Olympics style sports game. The following events are included:

1) Skiing
2) Weight Lifting
3) Barrel Jumping
4) Sumo Wrestling
5) Bull Riding
6) Cliff Diving
7) Log Rolling
8) Caber Toss
9) Pole Vault
10) Platform Diving

Game Title: Xenon 2: Megablast
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 16bit

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Game Title: Xenophobe
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: After a distress call was received from a space station orbiting your home world, then complete silence. However, a single ship managed to leave the planet. The pilot tells a tale of pods that hatch into acid-spitting Xenos.

A small band of engineers were dispatched to combat the Xeno threat before it takes over all the space stations and, eventually, your home world. Assemble your band of engineers and fight the Xenos on each station, striving to either clear it or abandon it.

You start out with a standard issue laser but can use any weapon that you can find. Keep an eye open for Phasers, Lightning Rifles, Poofer guns, and bombs.

Game Title: Xevious
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Xevious was a scrolling first-person shooter, and while a common game form today, was a new style of game play in 1982. Coupled with the graphics and game play, Xevious became very popular in arcades and was soon ported to all the popular game consoles and home computers of the time.

Game Title: Zero 5
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: Zero 5 is a wild space-shooter where you are in control of a small and manuverable fighter craft or a powerful warship.

Your mission is to defend the earth from alien attack over dozens of missions where you travel through deep space to meet enemy convoys head on and shoot across asteroid and planet surfaces taking out installations.

The game includes three play modes:

1) HIT-PAK Mode is like a variation on the Missile Command 3D VR mode where you are in a turret with four guns to blast everything in sight such as asteroids. There are no power-ups in this mode.

2) BAMBAM Mode consists of piloting around in your fighter shooting every object that moves in 360 degrees. Power-ups are available in this mode.

3) TRENCH Mode is a Star Wars style shooting where you fly your fighter through a trench. Power-ups are available in this mode.

Game Title: Zool
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: You are Zool, a special ninja.

You goal is simple: run and jump, climb walls and shoot your enemies. Obtain power-ups to make your goal easier to achieve.

In the options you can change the difficulty and the game-speed two times, the continues and the background music (Rock or Funk).

Game Title: Zork Trilogy
Game Type: Adventure
Game Generation: 16bit

Game Description: The Zork Trilogy is a compilation distributed by Infocom of all three games:

Zork I: This is the first game in the trilogy that started it all. You are introduced to the Land of Quendor and begin with your Elven sword and an old brass lantern. Battle the Thief and the Troll and outwit the Cyclops as well as sail the mighty Aragain River.

Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz is a senile mage who can only cast spells beginning with the letter F. Your mission is to obtain all three orbs and free the demon.

Zork III: Zork III ties up the loose ends left by the first two Zorks. The purpose for being in Quendor is revealed.