| | Games: Info & Reviews [C] | [ Index - All games - # - A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z ] | | Please note that most of the games written specifically for the 100LX and 200LX are not listed here. You can find information on them, as well as download them, at S.U.P.E.R. If you wish to view only the games category, just click here! Any game titles in red indicate that I was unable to get the game to run on the palmtop. Don't forget that any information you have is of value - see the Submit page for more details! | | | | Capitalist Compendium | | Info | | This is a collection of three related titles, the idea in each being to amass as much money as possible. The first in the collection is Oligopoly, where you are at the helm of a business. Life is complicated by having five new-found rivals, each selling identical products to yours. Thus, the aim is simple: do your best to put them out of business! The second is Punter, a game plucked straight from the heartland of Gamblers' Heaven. Once again, making money is what it's all about, this time through various forms of gambling, from betting on the horses, through to cards and the stock market. Probably not the best choice if you've just signed up with Gamblers Anonymous... The final game in the compendium, Millionaire, despite its relative simplicity, is without question the most bizarre of the bunch. Your task, according to the game: "using only the spacebar, your wits and quick reactions, build £1000 into a MILLION before you die!". I would elaborate further, but this is one of those games which completely defies description. You have to play it to believe it! Each of the three titles is text-based, which means that all will run flawlessly on the palmtop, the only slight annoyance being the usual problems with the "colours" on the LCD screen. | | Status | | Shareware, by New Era / Wizard Games | | Runs on 95LX? | | Yes, but problems will occur because of the smaller screen | | Download | | capital.zip (103 Kb) |
| | | | Catch'em | | Info | | Catch'em is a neat game, written entirely in assembler language, which explains its tiny size. My thanks go to Boris van Schooten, the game's author, who kindly recoded it to assign the Ctrl key to "left" and the Alt key to "right" (in the original, it was the reverse, which made the game extremely difficult on the palmtop). So, think of this a Special LX Edition and, considering that it is free, why not download it and give it a try? The aim is to catch the falling blocks before they hit the bottom of the screen; in this version, Ctrl moves you left, and Alt to the right. Incidentally, the documentation can be found by viewing the included assembler code. | | Status | | Freeware, by Boris van Schooten (homepage) | | Runs on 95LX? | | No | | Download | | catchem.zip (3 Kb) |
| | | | Caverns of Gink | | Info | | As Professor George Jumpalot, your job is to find the sacred statue left by the ancient Ginkian civilisation. The gameplay, sadly, is as basic as the plot - the game is a standard platform affair, with the object being to avoid arrows being fired at you - arrows which are sadly invisible on the LX's screen! To add insult to arrow wound, the game runs far too fast and will need to be slowed down. | | Status | | Unknown, by
Tony Ginko (homepage) | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | Centipede | | Info | | This game, seemingly as old as time itself, is a shoot-em-up affair reminiscent of Space Invaders. The idea is to shoot all the various pieces making up a centipede before it manages to snake its way all the way down the screen. Apart from the fact that it will most likely need slowing down, Centipede worked well. | | Status | | Commercial software, by R.J. Grafe | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | Championship Boxing | | Info | | This is a boxing simulator that runs well on the palmtop. The emphasis is not so much on action-based gameplay; rather, there is a strategy mode whereby you are the boxer's trainer, and can give your man advice during a fight. Alternatively, you can just pick two boxers (you can create your own, as well) and watch them knock each other senseless. It's all very passive, as opposed to the real-life sport, but entertaining to watch on the palmtop! | | Status | | Commercial software, by Sierra On-line (programmed by Dave and Barry Murray) | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | Chess 88 (version 2.0) | | Info | | Chess 88 worked well (although the game does have a couple of quirks, most notably that of having to use Del to pick up pieces and Insert to place them). Unfortunately I have virtually no information on it. | | Status | | Unknown, by Don Berg | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | Chessmaster 2000 (version 1.06) | | Info | | It might have just been my particular copy, but the game would frequently lock up after a time, requiring a CTRL-SHIFT-ON reset. | | Status | | Commercial software, by Software Toolworks | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | Circus Games | | Info | | Games based on circus acts are few and far between, and probably with good reason. The idea is sound in this game where the idea is to successfully complete certain acts (such as unicycling and tightrope-walking), but the gameplay isn't up to much. Circus Games will also need slowing-down. | | Status | | Commercial software, by Keypunch Software | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | | | | Computer Scrabble | | Info | | The Computer Scrabble game plays very well on my HP 200LX. There are just a few kinks: - On startup, it sets caps lock on, so all your typing ends up in uppercase if you switch to another application.
- It was written for a CGA colour display, but is still readable and quite playable on the palmtop screen.
- There is so little room on the screen apart from the board that there is no place to put text information about the special keys used by the program, nor the values of the special squares (although they are graphically distinguished and they are available at a keypress).
| | Status | | Commercial software, by Leisure Genius | | Runs on 95LX? | | No | | Thanks to Alan Striegel for this information! |
| | | | Contra | | Info | | Despite running a slow-down program to run it as slowly as humanly possible, the game was really too hard to play, mainly because of the limitations of the screen. If you find a copy, give it a try - it will run on the palmtop, but don't expect to enjoy the game too much! | | Status | | Commercial software, by Konami | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | Cosmic Crusader | | Info | | Similar to the case of Contra, Cosmic Crusader will run, but is virtually unplayable because of the display. The game is a Space Invaders clone, but as you can't see the bullets, it's one heck of a difficult Space Invaders clone! | | Status | | Unknown, author not known | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | Crazy Cars | | Info | | Unfortunately, I couldn't get this one to run at all. It may be that this game requires an EGA display. | | Status | | Unknown, author not known | | Runs on 95LX? | | No |
| | | | Cycles Grand Prix | | Info | | As playable as Grand Prix for cars, this is the motor cycles simulation for the 200LX. | | Status | | Commercial software, by Accolade | | Runs on 95LX? | | No | | Thanks to Luigi for this information! |
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