G: Guided missile allows ammunition to heat-seek.P: Power shot increases power of ammunition.S: Shield makes the character temporarily invincible.Round circles filled with scrolling colors: Increase energy.But first, a few comments on "bonus" items:
In the table below, I've (somewhat arbitrarily) numbered rooms by the order that the player approaches them, more or less. While it is true that a variety of objects pose danger to the player, practically all (including inanimate devices such as magnets) can be defeated with fired shots. "Crazy Computers" features a number of rooms for the character to walk through, many of which include interesting objects, hidden platforms, springboards, teleports, or pitfalls.
The shareware version consists of an "adventure" titled "Crazy Computers " a second episode ("Savage Stones") and several miscellaneous bonuses are alluded to in a $25 registered version, or at least was in 1993. Nevertheless I find it quite intriguing, in part because of the mystery involved. The game lacks a structured plot or a specific goal to accomplish, with seemingly no way out of the character's predicament. This rather pessimistic tone is reinforced through the actual gameplay: Virtually everything that moves or looks anthropomorphic is harmful to the player. Now, his mission is personal: to explore and
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MicroMan now finds himself in a strange and hostile world where he is one However, since the Molecular Miniaturizer and it's creator had both beenĭestroyed, it didn't really matter-there was no hope to return him to his Bob Jones, now known as MicroMan, was never found after the explosion. Killing all those in the lab, including Dr. Miniaturizer suddenly started smoking and a few seconds later, exploded, The experiment seemed to be a success but the Molecular After a few moments of blinding light, Bob Jones was reduced to the size ofĪ few microns. Power and the miniaturization process began. Wearing a special weapons suit, Bob Jones voluntarily stepped into the "MicroMan is the victim of a top-secret experiment that went terribly wrong. The gameplay experience is not dissimilar to a lot of DOS side-scrollers I've played over the years, although in the original version the character walks in very small steps. In this case, the developer chose the latter option, using a "Windows Animation Package" for sprite animation that the second half of the "Micro1.txt" file spends trumpeting.
#DOS GAMES MICROMAN WINDOWS#
Back in the pre-OpenGL/DirectX days, developers wishing to make a Windows game had to resort to doing without anything vaguely resembling smooth animation or advanced multimedia while putting up with a haphazard mess of APIs that didn't allow direct access to hardware, or write something from scratch to alleviate the situation. Perhaps unusually for a piece of Windows 3.x software, MicroMan is a fully-animated platform game complete with sound effects.
It's a bit of a shame, since I found this to be one of the most intriguing games of its sort I've played. There is a (very) basic page on his website on the topic of the game, but otherwise (at the time I originally created this page) I found a dearth of information about MicroMan online. Lately I've found myself mildly fascinated by "The Adventures of MicroMan," a shareware game from the Windows 3.1 era written by Brian Goble.
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