TI-8x archives

The best-looking checkers ever. Too bad it's two-player/single-calc only, a singleplayer option (AI) would be nice. Also the board-flipping thingy should be an option.

Tic-tac-toe human vs. terrible TI-AI only. It's pretty hard... to lose. Even has a bug: lines are not always detected! C'mon everybody, keep the ttt games to yourself!

You're flying at high speed through a tunnel with mines. Quite a nice game, with five difficulties and five speeds. Better than R-Type anyways.

The first of Free Bird's three power (?) tools: the smallest password protection program. Instead of a "big" program (On86=0.6kb) you'll get a non-user-friendly one: besides displaying a block when you push a key it doesn't say a thing. Nothing better than On86, just smaller.

A simple yet very playable video poker game. No special options and stuff, but all the basics are well done. A very nice game, though it could use some more options (hiscore?)

Stop a line moving right at the position of the block, then stop the line moving down. If it misses, you're game over. It saves a hiscore with initials. Good if you've got nothing better to do.

Destroy the aliens. You can fire one shot at a time, and enemies can take more hits each level. Not that entertaining a game, but it makes sound! Not that you want to play it because of that, but still...

Good old Alien Breed. Walk around the station and kill the enemies basically. Well-done: complete with storyline, terminals, external levels, etc. Scrolling would look better if it weren't per tile, but besides that it's perfect.

OMFG! This game is sweeet! A great shooter like Alien Breed with all features like doors, all kinds of items, enemies (and bosses), four weapons, intex consoles (stores). When I reviewed the demo, I said it was too slow. This has been fixed though: this game now runs smooth and fast, with scrolling levels (20 of 'em even). Really amazing. Games usually take quite a while. You can continue using passwords, but not with a quick save. Also on the 83 it fills the entire memory. That's why it can't get a 100% score, but the game itself: perfection.

A fast vertically scrolling shoot-em-up. Enemies appearing from above and below (damn!) Quite cool game, although a little too hard for me. Trying to evade one vessel, I run right through four others, and with them shooting in level 2 it's, um... challenging. Just no high score, but all hardcore shmuppers should try this! Note: works on an 86 in YAS, but runs way too fast, and it crashes when you enable the delay :(

An old arcade a lot like Pacman. You move on a scrolling grid and have to eat all dots. Of course there's also some baddies, which you have to evade. You can also kick them a few times. Nice fast game. Just lacks a pause key.

In this Nibbles game you have to avoid the pixels rather than eat them. A fresh idea and it's quite cool. There's four difficulties, however no extra score =( Also I don't like the sudden speed increase when all pixels are drawn.

An ant (read: pixel) moves randomly over the screen. You can turn its trail on and off, and in- and decrease speed. It was actually meant to show a random number generator, so if you're not interested in that, don't download! The demo sucks azz!

Plays abit like the classic pong. Prevent the bouncing ball from hitting the ground on your side, volleyball rules apply. You can move and jump, and it's pretty nice. It sure misses the 2-player option :(

You have to fire an arrow right into the moving black box at the top. But since it always moves the same way, this is not very hard and gets really boring after a few minutes.

Classic Arkanoid (Breakout) in greyscales with (PC) level editor. Features falling thingies (score, bigger paddle, barrier at bottom, lives), three different blocks, teacher key, movement in 256 directions. Needs hiscore saving, a slow-move key and maybe more bricks.

A shell to run assembly programs on your 82. It can only run programs written for Ash. The installation is simple (just send a memory backup to your calc, and run Ash from the PRGM screen.) The shell just lets you select programs from a list, nothing more, nothing less. A good shell, but outdated by CrASH.

A small game in which you have to evade the falling icicles. Not the game to play for hours, but nice to play in a few lost minutes to break your high. Ver' good for the just 566 bytes it takes.

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.

The classic game where two players have to fire missiles at each other at exactly the right angle and speed. A nice version with a shop to buy all kinds of even better weapons. What could be improved: more movement points (you can move nearly nothing in the entire game), maybe more scenarios, a bit smaller? (AI?)

Move and jump your ball from plane to plane,. Like Plain Jump for the 86. This version has got better controls though (you can accelerate/decelerate) and graphics are better too: real 3-D with changing viewpoint if you move. Large level, which you can edit at startup (but not save). No external levels unfortunately, and it doesn't record your time either. With these features added, this game would rule all!

A baseball-like game when you have to hit a ball at the right moment and hope it moves right. Rules are like in real baseball (as far as possible). I personally don't really like this game: doesn't really demands skill and you don't see the guys moving (too simplified).

Walk from room to room killing all enemies inthere. Just mindlessly fire upon everything you see. There's also some smileyface which comes bouncing in after being in the same room for some time (and you can't kill him.) Luckily he can be turned off ;) Nice game to play when you're bored. It would be better if you could quit during the game (instead of first dieing 3 times..) Also hiscores ain't saved when running w/ zasmload, but hey we'll just use Ion.

A good blackjack game. It's got all the necessary features (even win/loss counter and highest score!). The A is always worth 1, never 11. This could still be improved, but for the other part it's a good game.

If you move into the house you lose, if you move down (bottom right) you win. That's all. Terrible source (large too) and does not work on ROM v1.4!

Pretty dull game where you must break as many blocks as possible. You can walk left and right, jump one block up and break blocks left, right and below you. Getting a hiscore requires more luck than skill.

Like I said in the 86-review, this is a good puzzle game, where your guy has to get to the exit using boxes. It starts off quite easily, but quickly gets harder and harder. It's a good game, except it drains your batteries.

Move the boxes away to get to the exit. Challenging game with 30 levels and hiscore. Graphics are in greyscale, but have a lot of flickering; I think it would look much better with plain b/w. So a good game, but bad graphics.

Control a guy that looks even worse than the Sqrxz-bug ;) he has to take all coins without getting hit by the arrows. Upto four arrows move in all directions, making it interesting to play. Controls could be improved (ie you can only move in 4 directions), and collision detection ain't perfect either. Still an OK game.

Classic bomberman. Place bombs, kill enemies, find exit, next level. With greyscale, several upgrades and multiplayer option (2 players one calc, or upto 4 players via link - although link didn't work on my calc ):

In Bomb Panic you actually have to go to a bomb (to disarm it I assume). To get there, you'll have to move the walls a little, and think fast since you've only got 40 seconds. 18 levels, but lacks some basic features like pause, hiscore, and the ability to begin in later levels.

Another Wac-A-Mole reflex game. Press 1-9 to whack the ghosts as fast as possible. Boo-Bash features five speeds, although you won't get any higher scores making them kinda useless if you go for the score. Also fairly large! I'd say go with Wak-A-Goomba.

Move your paddle to catch the bombs. Give it a chance, it's quite cool. It's fast and hard enough, but not too hard. This is really a game you'll want to play in lost hours to break your hiscore... but it doesn't save any hiscores!! Why, why?! 65% for the nice game; but this needs hi-saving..

You're a skating someplace with a lot of trash cans, and you have to jump over them. Another nice feature is that you can spin your board while jumping. Controls are OK. Besides that, nothing special, and no score counting. Overall: bored generation is boring (hahah...)

Just one word should do it: WOW! Bd's a diamond-game with everything it needs. The only thing that could be improved is external levels support and smooth scrolling - yes, just like in Repton - but if that would mean a size increase like in Repton, then this is perfect.

This is what I call a disgrace to assembly. You have to bounce back the ball, nothing special. No pause, no hiscores, no graphics (text-based) and a terrible game.

A bit like Sokoban with the difference that you (+) have to move the boxes onto the : where they disappear. Of course this can be pretty hard because of the obstacles. A good puzzle game, however it contains only four levels :(

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 ;-)

Slide puzzle with 15 levels. Nice patterns. You can practise one level, or do everything for a hiscore. No comments on the game; the menu controls are a bit confusing though (could be improved).

The famous puzzle-game where you have to clear each level of all boxes, by placing two or more boxes of the same type next to each other. This version features the breaking stones, teleporters and lava; but there are just six (easy) levels, there's no animation, and no continue (password/save).

One big huzzah for Bubble Bobble! This great game has finally been written for ticalcs. Although still under construction, it's very playable. Over 40 levels, several enemies, pickups (food, letters, and some upgrades and special effects.) It's also got save-n-quit, just no hiscore... yet. Certainly worth a try, and hope it'll get even better.
Unlike the 83-version, this one will work on an 86 (YAS emulated), not entirely correctly (text not displayed correctly.)

A Nibbles-game with ten (external :) levels, three speeds (but just one high score) and decent graphics. Controls seem a bit irresponsive at times, and it hasn't got going-backwards detection. Still an ok game.

A small multiplayer-only game, where both players control a moving laser-firing cannon, and try to destroy the other. The controls are placed as good as they can be, and it should be fun if you can find an opponent.

Yet another classic racing game. Nothing special (besides nice speed selection, and a bit large - 2kb) just terrible 8x8 pixels!

Nope, no fun casino game. Just some scrollable map of a casino.

Another catch but different: your objective is to walk over as many boxes as possible within one minute. Five different speeds, not too large, but no hiscores are saved, making it a bit senseless to play.

Catch the falling blocks with your paddle. Simple but complete: speeds up, hiscore (with initials), holding F1 moves faster, and under 1kb. The left/right keys are a bit weird: F4/F5.

Try to evade the falling rocks. Quite impossible 'cause of the terrible controls (slow response/repeat). Bad graphics, no hiscore saving, terrible game!

I actually really like FPSes myself, but no matter how much I like them; this game sux! I can't remember playing for more than one minute without crashing it. It's slow, and you can only turn 90 degrees. Then add there's no objective, and you have a very incomplete game that needs alot of work.

The square has to catch the circle (you can be both). The computer goes way to fast making it quite impossible to win. Nothing special, no hiscore save, no (re)play value.

Find and kill the chickens. The game's quite cool, but it's got some problems: you have to kill one chicken more each level. You also get more time to kill 'em and that's a bad thing, because once you know the level a bit, you'll always have enough time. You can't loose. Furthermore, after level 9 you restart in level 1 again. The only thing remaining is to get the highest scores possible for each level. This isn't really exciting, since it depends on luck mostly. Also time left ain't displayed correctly.

This game has the best controls ever: none! Just sit back and let the "chocobos" race each other. Ehm, I think you can play it with each other, betting on which one will win. Hehe; fun!

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).

A slide puzzle game like Fifteen. This one plays a lot faster though, is smaller, and has multiple (external) images to choose from. Still lacks hiscores and a teacher key.

An original game! Cells live according to the famous rules of life (they die with too much (>4) or too little (<2) neighbours) which is pretty cool on itself. But in this game you can help by adding or removing a cell each turn. 20 levels and hiscore save, well done! (With a demo-mode it would be complete)

A good Columns game (for those who don't know the game: it's like Tetris - though IMO less strategic.) A good version, with five difficulties (each with its own hiscore), and a teacher key! It's very much like Kollums for the 86, but was ported from some TI-85 version. Anyways, go check it out ;)

Basic Memory, with decent graphics and controls. Also tracks number of tries and saves highest score. However the field is just 5x4, nothing more, too small for me; i lost interest very quickly.

Connect-4 written in smallC; well at least it's not in basic... let's see, 2-player of course, but AI too. And not just any AI, it's a very slow one but pretty good as well (thinks 3 moves ahead; challenging at least, scalable skill would be much better). If it were written in asm this game would be less slow and large.

An extremely small and simple game. Control two dots by moving them up and down, so they don't hit the zigzagging line. Over time the dots come closer to each other so the game gets harder. A little like all those racing games. A good program (and the smallest game I've seen so far), but since the 86 has so much memory, I'd add a little more features: a pause key couldn't hurt, and hiscore (score is counted though).

Incoming asteroids (one at a time of course), destroy them by firing either up, down, left or right. If you were too slow (hit), you lose some shield. No score counting so you'll never know whether you played good or bad.

C'mon Jonah, you can do better than this! This is a singleplayer-only pong with some real bad AI. The gun feature would be real cool with two players or better AI. Also the paddles move too slow.

A shell to run assembly programs. The successor to Ash: it can run both CrASH and Ash files, and is superior in several aspects. No real special features like menus and stuff, just a plain shell (it does have a neat scrolling menu bar ;). But it is small (1kB). You'll want this one (if you've got an 82 that is).

Unfinished RPG-wannabe. One screen to walk on, with a piece of text and a non-functional shop, and some enemy-thingies bugging you.

A cool program which can be used to load or create custom fonts on your calc. Supports both fixed and variable (small) fonts. Like all font-programs display will get slower as you install more custom chars. The program itself is very complete but just a bit large.

While it doesn't do anything on it's own, together with applets/plugins Cymbol can be the ideal math program! The input is perfect (with backspace) and the interface is plain but neat! Standard included are: a log-base convertor, a square root reducer and the perfect quadratic formula solver!

To play a "joke" on your friends. It displays garbage and resets your calc unless you press the EE-key. Many hours of fun guaranteed! *sigh*

Your guy (or whathever it is) has to eat all thingies before the time runs out to advance to the next level. Challenging cause the time ticks away very fast. Annoying that holding a key takes a while to repeat, so it's often faster to repeat a key yourself. Also when you die you have to start back in level 1 again, and no hi-score saving.

Woohoo! In defender you have to protect/safe the city below from some ugly ships. Featuring several levels, much different enemies, a nice powerful laser, hiscore, and unfortunately some bug that sometimes crashes your calc :( An ending would be nice, too.

A Minesweeper clone with five difficulties. The graphics are pretty good, but it lacks hiscores, or even a timer, and doesn't g/o when you win.

Like version 1.2 but with a few improvements: graphics are in greyscale, there's a teacher key and speeds are better. The game's still the exactly the same, and size increases a littlebit as well, so score goes up only one or two percent.

Get your arrow passed the bouncing balls. It's basic but ok. A common play-again-to-break-hiscore game, though I can't imagine you wanna play this really a lot.

In Dodger you have to evade block-thingies coming from all sides (one at a time). Along the way speed will increase becoming almost impossible at the end (making it more a game of luck). Gfx not great (tile-based).

Donkey Kong basically. Plays okay i guess. Controls seem a little unrealistic to me. Graphics are playable, but not great (is that Mario?!?) And I do think it's too large (over 8kB) prolly because of the intro and titlescreen. Btw how do I beat level two?

A real "school"-game. We've all done it on paper, but that's barely as entertaining as doing it on your calc ;) You can play vs human or AI (although the computer's really too dumb to be playable), in fields sized 3x3 upto 9x6 (hmm, seems a little small, no extreme huge fields.)

It's all about the money. Basically: buy drugs when they're cheap, sell when they're expensive, and make enough profits to pay off your debt and make as much money as possible within 30 days (and get a hiscore!). Not very graphical (although it is asm), but it's a nice game anyway.

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.

A puzzle game in which you have to get all circles to proceed to the next, more difficult, level. And it gets really hard! Unfortunately a game cannot be saved, which drops the score by about 10%.

Another good RPG like Joltima. This one has got quite some story, even with multiple endings. Easy controls, total 16 magic spells and skills, several weapon and armor upgrades, bosses. The "world" is less advanced than in Joltima (much smaller, not as pretty, etc) but Dying Eyes has other cool features (the battles are more advanced, magic, the story and the thinkin ;) Try it!

It divides a number into all its prime factors. Quite nice, but don't enter a too large value, for it doesn't have a break key (so you have to wait till it's done...)

After playing Falldown Forever for the 86, this one looks really ugly! Still playable though. The two speeds seem a bit pointless since you get the same score for both.

You'll have to guide a falling ball through the holes so it won't reach the top of the screen. Five different speeds, each with a different background, saves top scores, and it has a two-player link option (not perfect, but it worx)! Wow! So simple, so nice, and a large replay value.

Your basic slide puzzle pushed to the limit. It's got some great graphics, but (because of this) it's quite huge for such a simple game. "I wonder if you can make a fifteen game better than this." Well, you can: think teacher key, best time saved, much smaller! (imo, leave out the neat effects so you have a smaller and much faster game, like Clickers.)

There's two arrows moving, horizontally and vertically. Try to fire when they're pointing to the middle of the screen. You can shoot five times, and the best total score is saved. A simple game which you might wanna have on your calc when you're bored.

Four in a row; two players only and doesn't detects lines. At least it's small, and it doesn't crash.

This is plain connect-4, but besides human vs. human it also has some advanced AI, in three difficulty modes! Plain but perfect.

Another Frogger. Cross the traffic and water and place yourself in the (six) homes. The screen is smaller because of the port (TI-82). 13 levels, butterflies and score (hi saved). Controls are a bit slower than in Frogger and sprites should be clipped.

The well-known card-game for your TI. Extremely well-done (fast, nice pointer, no-moves-left-detection (faulty on rare occasions though ):, with greyscale and statistics), and just like the PC-version. And the new teacher-key really kicks ass! Perfect for during (boring) classes.

Classic game in which you have to cross a road with traffic crossing left and right. On the other side you have to place yourself in each of the five "homes" to proceed to the next - more difficult - level. No scoring, just beat the (10) levels. Not much special things.

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).

Another look grannie, I can code asm!-game, hence the title. Collect as many $-thingies as you can within 60 "seconds". Even worse than Catch.

Watch your TI-OS-screen come to life! The famous rules (a pixel dies with too many or too little neighbours) apply - like in the 86-game Colony - and it runs at 5 frames a second! Also very small. One thing to be improved: it should change the graph screen so you can create anything to begin with.

One of the very few 3-D ticalc games. It's a racing game where you either try to beat the computer car or another player (via link). The graphics are simple, but really 3D (no sprites!) and playable.

A real neat arcade racer in which you have to evade the other cars. Traffic increases along the way. It's got three speeds and saves the hiscore for each. Great controls, ok graphics. To be improved? Maybe different cars, name w/ hiscore, pause key? Still this is fun!

A platform game alot like Sqrxz with one difference: you can fly (hover) for a short time. Looks and plays ok, but I haven't been able to get pass the first bug. I hope the completed version (?) will be a bit easier.

A puzzle game. Remove groups of two or more of the same tiles. If you think ahead, you'll be able to remove more. The game also contains an action mode, in which tiles are contantly added, and a versus mode to play against a friend (i haven't been able to test this one though..) Each mode has its own hiscore. Game controls are good (menu/hiscore keys good be improved though). Even has a save-n-quit key. Nice lil' game.

Ion is a great shell for both the 83 and 83+, to run assembly programs. It's got a program format incompatible with the older AShell/SOS shells, but by now most programs have been ported to Ion, and most new games are also just for Ion. (The TI-86 can also run several Ion progs with the Ion86 emulator.) The standard Ion is rather dull, but because of the module support, you can add the features you want (password protection and maps for example.) One disadvantage is you'll have to install Ion first; a very easy procedure, but you'll have to keep it in mind if you want to copy the shell to another calculator. Besides that it's a great shell.

Emulates TI-83 ion programs! There ain't much good ion-games around, but it's a pretty new shell so more may come soon (some RPGs?). Sometimes it's abit hard to see where the screen ends, and not every game worx yet (most do).

Help your surfer surf one minute without running into jawses and other junk. Plays a lot like Highway DX, but looks a little better. Nice greyscale gfx, but the gameplay could be better. It doesn't save hiscores, and why does it have to end after one minute?

Win 75%+ of the screen by drawing lines (without getting hit by a ball) and making closed spaces without balls in them. Balls are bouncing around (one more each level), making it very hard and challenging. Changable speed and hiscore saving.

A good and complex RPG, that keeps you occupied for quite a while. Lead your four guys around the world to get all 8 shards. Note this world is really big: while playing it myself, I even drew a map to find back the towns and stuff. In these towns you can rest your men, buy items and talk to ppl. Outside towns you'll be contanly attacked by enemy creatures (which can get pretty boring after a while). The best game ever, just a bit large, but who needs other games when you haven't completed this one yet?!

Hmmmm. How complex: eat 14 pixels in one of the five speeds, and the game is over. Hit a wall or yourself, and the game is over too. Doesn't have backwards-detection (die accidentally by going the other way) and why play it with just one level and no score count anyways?

You control a horse and have to try to make as many moves as you can. You can only move the chess-way, in L-shape, and you may not move on the same spot twice. A lovely game, but I doubt you'll play it more than a few times.

Like tetris but you here you have different kinds of bricks which you have to place together (3 or more of the same kind disappear and give you points). Real good game: 6 difficulties (3-8 different bricks) with different hiscore for each, good controls and teacher/boss-key. No multiplayer, but very nice!

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...

We all know Minesweeper, don't we? Well this is just that, except it has levels (with each level having more bombs in it). And it also doesn't "auto-click" the squares next to a no-bomb (empty) square, so you're spending more time "clicking" than you're thinking (which is bad ;)

In this puzzle-game you must destroy your target by controlling a few laser-cannons. Besides these cannons more toys are present in each level: mirrors, several different bricks, gates... Not my favorite, but still an ok game. Port could be better (usage of full screen and exit instead of clear ;) and could use a save/password to continue later.

An attempt @ the classic Zelda. While Link can move and fight the enemies, it's definately not finished yet. A few small bugs (like auto-writeback: how can i reset?) and just one "level". A few rooms with enemies, keys, and an easy boss. Nice graphics, but just a demo, nothing more. Completed, this could be good.

Move tiles to form a line of five tiles or more which makes them disappear. Otherwise three more tiles appear. It's got hiscore, and save+quit key. Maybe it could use different difficulties, but otherwise it's a very good game.

Like THX1138 this is a Nibbles-like game, but w/o the peas and with a ever-growing snake. Because it lacks hiscore saving, I didn't grade this game real high.

Forget about ZKart and all the tunnel clones; finally a good racing game has been made! With amazing (3D) graphics (level themes), weather, good controls, etc. The levels are quite long (alot of checkpoints), which is bad cuz this way you can't play a "quick game". But overall this game rules!

Why on earth was do people take time to make games like this, or even port them! I don't feel like wasting anymore words on this program, sorry.

Land your vessel on the weird shape thingy before you run out of fuel. You can land at any speed, gravity (or 0G) is bad (no acceleration for one), too random (sometimes landing is impossible), no score, etc. Much to be improved.

(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.

Blah blah. Drop your man from the helicopter onto the moving truck at the bottom, like StuntCopter for the 86. If you succeed, you play again. If you fail, you're game over and have to press clear before you play again. Graphics suck, game sucks.

While running, jump over holes and obstacles and blast away the enemies. A pretty cool and fast game. It's got 256 random levels but just saves one hiscore. Maybe could use a few more features.

Try to get to the exit of a maze as fast and effeciently as possible. The mazes come in six sizes, ranging from 15x15 to huge 65x65 tiles, each storing their own high score. Controls are good, program size is good... a plain, simple, but good game.

A new version. Even more pointless than version 0.4: no exit, just walk around. The levels are external, bigger, more textures. The game does seem slower than before, and screen size cannot be altered anymore. The source is included for someone else to finish the game (and I sure hope somebody does.)

Awesome racing game. Race as fast as you can to beat the level's hiscore. Going off the road (and braking too ;) will slow you down. The car can be turned in more than 127 directions, and the screen scrolls smoothly. So, easy controls, good graphics and gameplay, and eight levels included plus many more to come because of the easy level editor (Windows) included (look at the 2nd screeny :-) Really cool. May get boring because of the simplicity (no powerups or multiplayer or whathever...) but not anytime soon!

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.

After long anticipation, it's finally here! This MegaMan sure is the best looking TI-86 game ever. And if that isn't enough already, you also get a great MegaMan game, with 12 levels and bosses, 9 weapons, five endings, and more. All files together are over 70kB (!), but the levels are optional, so you can show off with just 20kB or so.. Definitely a game to at least see. The game is pretty smooth and certainly enjoyable (until you've finished it a few times (see all endings in all difficulties ;))

Like in Alien Breed, you walk around, kill enemies and find the exit. In Melt Man however, the scrolling is even worse: tile-based _and_ screen based (so you can't see an enemy coming if you're at the edge). Also less enemies (one) and variety. I'd certainly go with AB2.

An OK game in which you have to get the diamonds without walking on the mines. Since you can't see the mines, the only way to finish the game is to either be very damn lucky, or play it so often you know where the mines will be. Btw: it creates sounds!

Pretty weak minesweeper. It's got a timer, but doesn't store best time(s), graphics are too basic, blanks are not automatically cleared, sometimes you start on a mine, you can't see the square you're on...... need i go on? Go with another clone (Minesweeper85 or Demineur for example)

A nice port of Windows' Minesweeper. Three difficulty levels, good graphics and a timer (best times are not saved though): It's got a smooth mouse pointer, which imo doesn't work here: you can make a wrong click easier, and it plays slower (Demineur's controls are better.)

The best Minesweeper I've seen so far. It's got three difficulties, good controls, even custom fields, and actually saves your best times. I also like that your cursor starts on a blank tile (good!). The graphics could be better though (it's hard to distinguish marked and unmarked tiles.) Also could use a teacher key, and be somewhat smaller (needn't be 5kB). Still it's the best one around.

It's a waste of time to download this. Your guy has to reach the exit in a limited number of moves. The controls and graphics suck, and levels (just 5) are too easy to even call this a game.

Nibbles in five speeds, nine levels. Misses score and peas-left display during game. Saves hiscore with initials (entering name sucks and the same score for all speeds).

Another Nibbles, again with five speeds, ok controls, large snake; but just four levels, no score and no lives. Not a very good game.

Overall it's a nice Nibbles game (something I haven't seen that in any other Nibbles-games yet is that score decreases over time.) Levels are like in the original Nibbles. Unfortunatly it's also got several imperfections. Speeds are too fast (even at the slowest speed level 10 is undoable) and they make no difference in scores. Moving backwards by accident kills yourself, and in level 8 you run right into a wall when you start. These things really should be fixed.

Nice Nibbles clone, with some very good (greyscale) graphics. Controls are okay (except for the main menu: that mouse pointer thing sucks!), it's got a teacher key (save+quit), and a hiscore table (needs backspace for entering names though.) Levels are ok, it's just that they take too long: 25 apples per level. The ability to start in higher levels and speed options are a bit pointless when playing for hiscore. Also a bit large, but still quite good.

Fishing?? On a calculator? This sucks. Horrible graphics, and a game unworthy of even trying to understand.

Small easy to use password protection program. Prompts a customizable password (upto 15 chars long) upon calc activation. If entered incorrectly, it turns the calc back off. Doesn't work when you turn your calc off using some shell.

Win the game by ending up with more pieces than the computer. You can add one each turn, and all computer pieces between that new one, and any of your other pieces will become yours as well. It's not like Othello: you don't have to jump, and no diagonal moves. I really think the Othello rules are more thought out (better strategy). But there's already a perfect Othello game, so... Anyways, after winning a level, you go to the next (not much more difficult) level. Should at least have a 2-humans mode.

Based upon the 86 version. This version is a little better (except for the wall-graphics.) But after playing Peversi I really think the Othello rules are much better, plus these levels in Orbix don't work. They're not real exciting, and there's two you'll always lose if you start second. The computer is bad. In most levels you can defeat the AI with just a few moves. Also needs multiplayer option. Not real coolez or anything, imho.

Another classic by Patrick: pacman! Several levels, hiscore table, two speeds. However... the enemies are dumb and I think nine lives is too much (makes one game take too long, and saving doesn't work on my calc).

Rules are like in any Nibbles, eat the peas and get larger. The difference with any Nibbles, is that your worm can go any direction it wants, just by turning left/right, which feels much better. It looks great, plays great, and rules Nibbles!! You'll keep playing to beat the hiscore. And look at that size! One disadvantage: just one level. (That's why I'm continuing Scabby's project with Wormy btw, coming soon)

Oldskool Centepede. Just shoot the damn crawlies. Also featuring spiders and fleas. Too bad the pause key is buggy, the intro thing cannot be skipped, and... no hiscores! This game gets quite annoying if there's nothing to beat.

A puzzle game not unlike Brix/Vexed. Push two identical blocks onto each other and they disappear. You'll find some exceptions to this (two triangles for example make an unmovable brick). Nice game with save feature. The only thing to be improved is more levels! But seems they're already working on external levels..

A platform game where you can not kill anything but yourself. I played it several times but I just can't get over the jumping ugly at the beginning. According to the readme the levels start extremely hard (yea I saw) and get easier later on, which doesn't seem right to me. (on-calc level editor available)

Your guy has to eat all smileys and get to the exit. In some levels you have to get keys, or sneak behind enemies' backs, or walls appear out of nowhere. Graphics are in greyscale (tile-based however). Just 4 (external) levels so gets boring real soon... for now.

The best periodic table I could find. Featuring symbol, name, weight, boiling/melting point, first ionization energy and oxidation states for each atom (112). Atoms are searchable by name and number. Uptodate and pretty small.

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.

Arrite! This new version has both a hiscore table as well as a shield indicator. It sure is 200x better! Also got three difficulty levels plus three speeds (of which easy+slow is too simple: this option kinda ruins the need to play it alot to beat the game). Could use more levels.

Um yeah. If you're a Pokemon(tm)-fan you might wanna take a look at the six (!) different pictures of Pikachu. Otherwise, don't look at the screeny or you might suffer severe mental damage.

ROFL! Press the arrow once and the flipper will go up. Press it agian and it will come down. There is no ball yet. I'm still working on it. No comments :))

Pong, complete enough. Human vs. human/AI/wall or AI vs AI demo. Five speeds, five difficulties, and 3-11 lives limit. Still a bit too boring (there are better games).

Steer a ball over a three dimensional plane, without falling through the holes (by jumping over them). It would be better if up/down would change the speed (where faster would give more points) instead of just start/stop. Also hi-score should be saved for every level. Nice game though.

Like in his Archery game, you have to shoot at a moving target at the top. In Poke however, there are other moving objects which you may not hit. Too bad the hiscore feature didn't work, because otherwise it's a good game.

A skate-game much like Bored Generation. Although this game's an alpha release and thus incomplete, I doubt a game based on this can be any good. The graphics couldn't be worse, controls are slow, collision detection sucks... Don't download it.

Finally a fighting game for your TI! Looks nice, but this demo just has one enemy (and is really easy!) so you'll probably play it just once or twice. It's also very large.

No, this was not written in TI-Basic, although it sure looks that way. The only difference is that it's a bit faster. But the controls are bad, and it's huge (almost 10kb with help files deleted!) The game itself is pretty basic as well (get all phis without getting cought by the random moving Xes).

Get your arrow to the other side of the screen and back again, without getting hit by the balls moving at random speeds. Not a bad game, but i got tired of it after playing a few times.

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.

Just give it a cool name like Race 2000 and hundreds of downloads are guaranteed. This game is alot like ZKart-3D, and it also plays alright, the graphics however ain't that good. Looks like Glasscars, but it ain't 3-D. No hiscore saved. I'm not impressed.

The best thing of this game is the title-screen. In the game you should race around a track. This isn't quite possible, because the car moves and turns too fast, and there's no collision detection (can move right through walls). There's no score nor end. It could become a cool game (Megacar), but this is nothing.

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.

A shmup not quite like the original Raptor. Just enemies coming down way too fast. Your gun is stupid, and your ship moves too slowly. If you like real fast action games, try it; but I didn't like it.

Shell with password protection, memory locking (can cause crashes in some programs), 4 renamable groups, APD, contrast, descriptions, hiding, and TI-85 emulation. Little large.

Aaron's Raycasting Engine still under construction (it's likely to crash instantly and blow up your house or something.) But actually it's an ubercool RPG!! If you thought the FOV (field of view) in Joltima was leet, check this. Also has a fast mode if you think all this prettyness is too slow. Either way, a beautiful game with greyscales and good graphics.
The game itself contains several screens with objects, enemies (just one kind so far..), doors, switches, chests with items in it. These items can be herbs, keys, or new armor and weapons. And this stuff can have special effects, for example a sword of murder doing extra damage. Your character has your selected attributes (like strength for carrying stuff and damage, dexterity for hitting, etc.) like a real RPG. This game just has so much, but it's still unfinished. Meaning, it isn't _that_ big. So it just needs to get bigger, and also coming up is different enemies, missile weapons and an experience system. Can hardly wait....

Repeat the numbers displayed. You start with one digit, and each level you have to remember one digit more. Great for some mind exercising, and breaking the high scores. Nothing missing (even gots a timer), well done!

Yet another terrific game by Scabby: the classic repton/diamonds/boulderdash. Your guy has to get some diamonds to get to the next level. The whole game looks great, runs/scrolls smoothly, and uses external levels (each with one hiscore table). It's just too damn large (levels too), otherwise it would be 100% for sure!

Of course I downed this game the instant I saw the title. Could I finally play Rock-Paper-Scissors on my calc?? Unfortunately this game ain't as good as the real game. The graphics are barely recognisable (the real hand-symbols are much better.) It misses all the special features: competition, multi-player, hiscore... Someone really should make a good RPS-game (I once played a platform rps, really neat!)

Guide your ship up and down so it doesn't collide with the mines. Three difficulty levels each with seperate hiscore. Collision detection is not yet perfect, and I miss the cool features (all too basic).

Evade the incoming skullthingies. Like Avalanch, just upside down. Can be played at eight different speeds, each with its own hiscore. All good, except the controls are quite irresponsive which doesn't play well.

You play a nibbles-snake, and must evade the pixels appearing at random for as long as possible, while speed gradually increases. Good idea, bad game: no hiscore, slow/irresponsive controls (awful!) and some pixels appearing right in your path.

A Wak-A-Goomba game, where you must smack the white smileys (by pressing 1-9) but leave the black ones alone. You have less time to hit one each level, making it quite hard. However it does not save hiscores, which is bad.

Running this will shut down your calc. Maybe it can be used in a BASIC-program, but who'd do that? Anybody with just a little knowledge of asm could write this (optimized even 25% smaller ;)

SimCity for yer calc! Build your own residential, industrial and commercial zones in the right proportians. Place roads, police, hospital, power plant and stuff. The rules are pretty simple (example place a police for every x citizens). With disasters (optional), arcos and rewards a good (looking too) game. At a certain point the sims will go into space and the game will get pretty boring.

A small version of Simon where you have to remember and repeat the order in which the boxes (left, right, up and down) are selected. When you are make an error or you are too slow you lose. Highest score is remembered, so you'll keep playing it to break it.

A puzzle game in which you have kick boxes in order to get all the gems. Note the graphics are smooth and nice enough. 40 levels included which seems nice too, and even a level editor to create your own! Of course the story is the best of all (bonus points for the readme; really!) Much better than I expected. Grade's 80% at least.

You are a hardcore skier. Evade objects like rocks and trees, and keep collecting time and life in order to survive. Three levels included (each with seperate hiscore), but also an on-calc level editor! It's just the controls are a little irresponsive at times.

Eliminate all 50 pixels as fast as possible by placing your cursor on it and pressing 2nd. Very simple, and gets kinda boring.

Another welcome change to the classic Nibbles game. You control a real small snake and must let the enemy snake (which is ever-growing) kill himself before he kills you. He'll always come straight towards you so you can easily let him hit his own tail. In further levels however, he can go right through his tail several times, making it more difficult. Could use more features 'n stuff.

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

A great (classic) puzzle game in which you have to move all boxes onto a dot. Contains 50 levels! Too bad the game is not saved (select levels with +/-). Also controls seem a bit slow and no ending. Good game though.

Remove all pieces (except for the last one) by jumping one over another. The game's ok, just a little too basic, only seven levels, and all in french; bluh!

The most popular PC-game - god (yeah that's Bill) knows why. Think it'll load and run faster than the Windows version (unless you have Windows86 installed.) Controls ain't perfect, but they work. The game is ok, although I like Freecell better :P

Man, this is a terrible version! It's slow and bad sprite routine (ex. you can't see enemy bullets coming when you're shooting yourself). Besides that, all levels are the same, no different enemies, no bosses, no hiscore, nothing!

Win a level by destroying all enemies, lose when one runs into you. You can move in four directions (abit weird since you're in space). Anyway the game works, but doesn't have too many special features that really made me wanna play it again.

A two-player game in which each player flies a ship and has to destroy the other. Keys are a bit weird but make sense for a multiplayer game (customizable would be better). Although not much special things it can be fun. Misses 0G like in real space. BTW looks a lot like my own PC-game Noname.

A cool racing game with bitmap levels. The advantage is the levels can be real pretty, but this also means the levels are short and huge. Nice game but I don't think you'll wanna keep this on your calc.

Kinda weird game. You have to collect all coins, but you may not move off screen. The screen slowly scrolls and you can change the direction by going over an arrow. Funny, but there're too few levels included (2). A good level editor for DOS is included, so this still could become a nice puzzle game. (* Grade will increase if more levels get available)

We all oughta know Sqrxz by now. Sqrxz is a cool platform/puzzle game. It's a port of the TI-86 version. The port's just like the original (with some extra scrolling because of the smaller screen) just a lot slower. Too bad, for it removes some action from the game. Remember to set it at fast. The game's still nearly as cool, but a bit large for an 83.

Use your pad to push up the stalactites, while evading the bouncy balls. Funny, but not extremely challenging. Why the limit of max. 6 balls? Also entering your name sucks. Should be improved.

You have to guide your ship to the right edge of the screen without hitting the asteroids, while it is bouncing up and down. Along the way you can pick up stars for extra points, but when the time runs out you die. Nice, but abit boring: all levels are the same and nothing special happens. Quite large, too.

Man, these Starshit games are really getting annoying. Yet another evade the asteroids (ships here) game which doesn't have any features at all (not even hiscore saving). Did I mention it's big too? Try 7G.

Whooohooo! This game rules all! You control a heli and you can drop a guy from it by pressing 2nd. Try not to let him hit the moving haycart so the game will be over sooner. You can't see whether he did or didn't, so it's also kind of a gambling game :-) Amazing...

Drop depth charges to destroy the submarines coming by. The submarines move at different speeds and heights and they fire at will (you can take three hits). The first levels are too easy (don't have to do anything but fire), but from level eight the enemies get a new weapon which you will have to evade. Linear difficulty increase would be better.

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.

Another Mario, not as pretty as the Mickle-version. It has more enemies and water, but no moving platforms, fireballs, running, secrets, and some things are hard to see (black enemies on black background). A lot of extra levels available though, 'cause of the on-calc editor.

Amazing graphics! Smooth (+fast) scrolling platform game in four greyscales (title-screen in eight!), nice animations, good control, fireballs, running, mushrooms, moving platforms, secrets, plants, bowser, etc. Not completely finished, but looking very promising!

Shoot the targets before they reach the bottom. G/O after missing ten of 'em. The game starts slowly - too slowly. Not a quick game to play because you first have to shoot 200 of those thingies before it gets interesting. Sigh. Also always one at a time :(

A puzzle game in which you have to place 3 or more blocks of the same type on one line to make them disappear. There are 60 levels, starting simple, each with a password to continue later. Also has an endless mode which I think goes too fast.

You have to aim something (ball? prolly..) good enough to advance to the next level. Plays a lot like Aim, however you don't play to beat your hiscore, but to beat the enemies. Ie you have to hit a little more each level. Gets pretty old pretty fast. The graphics are lovely, but the program's also a little large (coincidence?) Not a game to be playing for hours.

Tron (Nibbles growing longer all the time) singleplayer only. Try to survive as long as possible. Five speeds, but no extra score, so no need. Good for a few tries, but no levels or multiplayer.

Just when I thought games couldn't get any worse, I played this. Imagine something bad, and this game has it: It is tictactoe (need I go on? :) Title stuff is like a basic game (no graphics at all, game graphics suck), controls are 1-9 (but you can use any other key as well, exit for example). It's 2-player only, you can put your sign (X or O) on top of an other one, it doesn't detect a line (so it goes on forever since exit doesn't work either), it crashes quite often (besides the fact you can't quit), and all this at the size of 2.6kB! (if you want a good laugh look at the source :P)

Oh no!! Another TTT! The only reason I looked at it is because it's different: it's "3D". Well kind-of. It's does seem to work once you know the keys. For one or two players, and more challenging than the classic version. A little large for a ttt-game.. but hey, cool greyscales.

Enemy ships moving right to left (one at a time) and you must destroy them. Nothing special (no explosions, upgrades, etc.) and some small bugs. No collision detection, hiscore is not saved, movement is very slow. Needs alot of work.

The Tower of Hanoi is another well-known puzzle game. The objective is to move all pieces from one pin to another, but you can only place a smaller piece on a larger one. It's fun, but it should save hiscores so you can show you beated a level.

A 2-player Nibbles-like game, but with the difference your tail doesn't go away. So either you die, or the other player dies before you do. Simple but quite amusing, at a wonderful size.

The very first ti86-game! Basic break-out with 22 levels, 5 speeds and hiscore save. Misses some exotic effects like falling upgrades, different blocks, etc. Looks more like an 83-game: it's plain and small (and uses clear key to exit).

Like Peaworm86, you control a snake which you can turn in any direction. It's playable at three speeds, each with its own hi-score. After eating ten peas you go to the next, smaller level. Eventually levels become too small to even turn around, so even skill won't help you to get a higher score.

Move your Y to eat the *s without getting hit by θs. Does that sound like fun or what. Speed increases from time to time, too. However, it looks like crap, and doesn't run smoothly: just like a basic game. It's extremely small, but I don't like it.

A real 3-D game! As a little ball, you have to roll to the exit without falling down. There's gravity and the ball responds very realistic. Several worlds are included as well as an oncalc level editor! I do think it's a bit hard, but call it challenging (and frustrating).

A nice puzzle game (brix), without objects thingies like teleporters =(. Controls are good, animation, enough levels (59) although too easy (two levels excepted, which seem unsolvable to me). It needs more difficulty (by adding special objects? ;) a save option (you can choose a level with +/-) and halts to stop it from draining your batteries.

In this game mario-bugs will appear in one of the nine squares, and you whack them as fast as possible by hitting 1-9. Each game takes approx. 40 seconds. It's fast and good for the reflexes, but eventually you'll get bored with it.

How original. Looks like a normal Tunnel game, plays like a Tunnel game... in fact, it is yet another Tunnel game. Nothing special here. Five speeds, but just one hiscore; no difficulty increase, etc.

This must be some kind of a joke... At first you're evading some lines like in the average game; then the lines disappear and something just kills you. Well no need to go out and try it. You might wanna take a look at the source though: this is an example of how not to code; terrible!

I'd call it ZKart3D with levels. You now try to get a hiscore in one of the five tracks. In some you can accelerate with 2nd, in others speed will be controlled by the track. The levels are better than in ZKart, but somehow it doesn't seem like _that_ much fun.

Shoot the ball in the enemy goal. Human vs. TI only (unrealistic AI and very easy to win). Your guy moves too slow, and sometimes moves on his own. Stupid game.

The TI86 really needs a Worms-clone! This is a start, but since you can't fire any weapon yet, it's kinda worthless. If someone would finish it, this could become a great game!

You control the horizontal movement of a bouncing ball, and must clear each level by collecting two identical bricks. It's got just five levels to start with, but also an on-calc level editor so you can make all you want. It could use a few stats on screen, and the ability to begin at a higher level.

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.

Yet another racing game. Not a good clone: no score recorded and the tracks are always the same difficulty (ie they don't start easy and get harder). No recommendations here.

My favorite shell. Looks nice and supports most features: APD, contrast, shows descriptions, file size, mem free and battery level, five renamable groups, hide, delete, nice icon support, and the best TI-85/82 emulation around (can run games >16kb!); just no password protection (no big deal). A bit large, but worth it!

Yoshi is a game in the Tetris class. Like in columns you have to put two of the same bricks on top of each other, but instead of controlling the falling pieces, you now control the pieces already fallen. The game itself is very good. It lacks a pause-key, and - looking at ZTetris - multiplayer. Everything else is perfect.

Yugi prevents anyone from deleting your memory. Resets (and self tests) will be harmless and deleting files must be done with the cos-key instead of enter. Very small and source is well-commented. Btw: doesn't crash programs like the Rascall memlock.

Good looking chess. Features 4greys, unlimited undos, save/load games, two-player only. Not all good though: it doesn't detect check/G-O and no AI. Implemented this game would really rule! (100%?)

This is version 9.0, although compared to the previous version, I'd call it v3.2 or something. Barely changed, and hiscore still doesn't work!! It is saved alright, but sometimes replaced by a lower score. Again, get the TI-85 version.

Shoot tiles to make groups which makes them go away. With some strategy you can make a lot come down at once, which always is a lot of fun. It's also cool to let them bounce via the sides to their place. Controls and movement is perfect, five difficulties each with seperate hiscore, quite small program size, and fun to play.

Running this will put a status-bar at the bottom of your (TI-OS) screen showing some modes: angle, notation number base, and decimal mode. These modes can easily be changed with F1-5. Not completely bugless, but this could be pretty usefull.

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.