TI-85 archives

Fast shmup (shoot-em-up). Destroy enemies coming from all directions firing bullets at you. Although it plays alright, it is still far from perfect. The worst thing is the flickering graphics: the enemies are half invisible, and there's far too much stars. Also there's so many incoming enemies that it's very hard to stay alive. Still a lot to be improved.

This is just a cool version of Simon. You have to repeat the left breakdancer, one more move each time. The cool thing about this Break Dancer is that when you do it fast enough, it kinda looks like they're dancing ;-)

This game is best described as an improved ZKart. It's not "3-D" anymore, but the tracks are cooler. It just seems more challenging. Entering your initials is one thing that could be improved, but besides that it's a cool game (better than ZKart in my opinion).

An assembly version of the famous Drugwars game. Not bad at all: eight hiscores, save option, and you can continue after 30 days. There's just a few random events though, and just four drugs. Also I liked the controls in Jonah's version better.

Good ol' Galaxian. Very smooth! Features hiscore table, different levels and enemies, bosses, and one huge boss at the end. All pretty cool, but once you've completed the game, you won't touch it again (maybe once or twice for a better hiscore).

Your basic Moonlander. Land your ship in as much levels as you can to get a hiscore. The graphics aren't real good and seem a bit choppy. Still it could be worse...

(Breakout) Move your paddle to bounce the ball, you know the story. This version comes complete with five speeds, five episodes and a hiscore table. Controls are good, graphics and options ok enough. A nice game.

A platform game based on the original Megaman. Your guy can move, jump and fire several weapons. There's nine levels (all different, but they do look the same/same enemies) each with it's own boss. These are not the original robot masters, but some hand drawn figures. Overall the graphics are just too basic, but it's works alright. It scrolls good enough and is certainly playable. Whether you want to keep it on your calc (with 23kB) is upto you.

What we have here, is one real good game! It's the Othello board game (you win if you turn the majority of the pieces into your color.) This version has got nice graphics: animating pieces, and two board views (large and smaller with scores.) You can play against a friend, or against the calc (three difficulties.) Speed is fast (fast computer moves), controls are perfect (either move with arrows, or cycle through the possible moves with +/-). It's even got a save game. May get boring of course if you don't like puzzle games, but it's really well done.

Another basic -> asm port. The result: the game runs alot faster, but the graphics still stink. Controls are too slow and score ain't saved. There are better race games outthere.

You're racin' a short track of four screens (no scrolling, the screen changes when you're at the edge.) Going off the track slows down, and there's a lot of objects on the track which stops your car when you hit them. Loses several points for being so short, and movement is too innatural (fast turning and accelleration; doesn't feel like a racing game...) Still fun to play a few times.

It wishes you a merry x-mas and happy 1997, and shows snow pixels falling down.

The classic game where you keep flying over some city bombing buildings before you run into them. It plays rather good, but lacks hiscore saving and a pause key.

Neat arcade space-shooter. Just fire your weapon and evade the incoming enemies. Smooth, fast, cool. Unfortunately some enemies appear on your ship, so you'll have to learn the levels to avoid being hit by ships. Upgrades are cool, but you'll lose everything when you die.

A nice semi-3D racing game. Looks pretty nice, different speeds, small, hiscore, just not very spectacular. At the beginning it's very easy, and at some point (~900 score) it gets very hard. It could use some other cars, obstacles, etc. Some flickering (see screenshot).

Classic tetris. Both singleplayer and multiplayer! Available for (and compatible with) nearly every TIcalc. Good scoring system, some multiplayer options (handicap), drop-key, rotating left/right, teacher-key... A few things that can be improved (grid, survival mode?) but this is probably as good as it gets. Really great game!

It's supposed to be an arcade shooter, alot like my own Nemesis. In level one you have to get passed the asteroids, in later levels destroy the ships. Your ship has four different weapons. However it's terribly, really slow. Too slow to be a real arcade. And big (20kb) too. The idea is good, but the program ain't.