With the thought that a lot of the more well known game developer/distributors are giving away arcade games I thought I'd check out 300AD, and found that they have three games to give away.
You can download them from the links below. I've copied the descriptions from the site rather than write my own short reviews, so the credit for the descriptions go to 300AD (apart from a few spelling mistakes and outright grammatical errors. One of the Arcamania games (Arcamania 1) was given away last year. I can highly recommend the free version.
Crystal Cave Christmas Treasure:
http://www.300ad.com/crystal_cave_christmass_treasure.php
Search for long-lost treasures in pitch black caves, pyramids and dark tombs of ancient temples in this wonderfull puzzle game!
Huge gemstones were sheltered from the sunshine for eons of time waiting for those who are brave. You as an intrepid tomb seeker must resolve puzzles of pharaohs, aztecs, fight kings and show courage in many adventures to get them all.
Crystal Cave is a supreme family-fun puzzle game. Collect all crystals from ancient lost tombs. Challenge your brain!
Crystal Cave Christmass Treasure is a freeware clone of the game Crystal Cave Gold. The game contains 26 levels and 10 train levels (from Crystal Cave), with lots of logical riddles as well as action elements. Use boulders, different types of rocks and teleports to get gems and to escape from monsters. Great fun for the whole family!
System Requirements:
- PC 400 MHz+
- 32MB RAM
- DirectX
Hint's page:
http://www.300ad.com/crystal_cave_hints.php
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Arcamania 2 Retro:
http://www.300ad.com/arcamania2_retro.php
ArcaMania 2 is a brick-busting classic Arcanoid clone in OpeGL with hi-color graphics, effects, sounds and monsters.
Arcamania 2 offers everything players liked on awarded first sequel of the game: great playability, graphics, level design plus over 100 new and even more challenging levels
divided into 3 scenarios with unique graphics, enemies and bricks each with geyser of color, with palettes blended onto the bricks
Lots of new visual effects (auras, smokes, flares, sparks, etc.)
More action with rotating brick rows, exploding bricks, bumpers and other improvements of gameplay
30 bonuses (many new ones since AM1, such as the shooting bonus)
Advanced aiming with pad just like in AM1
Tons of little but significant improvements in comparison with first part of the game
NO MORE PASSWORDS (this was a bug bear in the first game which stopped me from ever completeing it)
AM2 offers 4 player slots, so your brickbusting campaign is saved automaticaly as you progress through levels. No more annoying passwords.
AM2 saves score to file, that can be sent to our site. This will add you to Arcamania top player list.
Now negative bonuses (like "reverse controls" and "short pad") increase your score significantly, (if you take them!) This helps to distinguish a real hardcore player from green ones and makes the difference in their rank. (lol)
System Requirements:
- PC 200 MHz+
- 64MB RAM
- 3D Video Card 8 MB with OpenGL support
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Westbang:
http://www.300ad.com/westbang.php
This is a remake of an old 8-bit game of ZX-Spectrum and other older computers, but it has a lot of new graphic and visual and sound effects.
Animated movie like introduction.
25 missions with the story of a noname man who became a legend. Try your skills in campaign, from an easy beginning to a total carnage in final fight for 500 000$, that the biggest railway company stored in the bank for the wages for their workmen.
Meet over 20 characters and see if you can face hordes of cheap street roughnecks or lone but damn quick profi killers.
Watch the smashing intro that will remind you the atmosphere of an old western movies and listen to a cool music score.
As a special bonus you will get:
A Secret level made for men who have a cruel sense of humour ;-)
Cheats..
Full description of data files, that will help you to modify everything in the game or add as many levels as you wish, if you find our campaign too short or easy for you. Do you want to shoot some of your friend? Nothing is easier, just scan their photos and make them desperado's in WESTBANG.
System Requirements:
- PC 200 MHz+
- 64MB RAM
- 3D Video Card 8 MB with OpenGL support
