TI-8x archives

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.

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?!