Magneto Bugs is a one player, dot munching, maze game. The objective of the game is to get as many of the white dots as possible while avoiding the bugs in the maze. As you move you leave behind red dots that can attract the bugs. This game is played with a joystick controller.
I have spent my weekend trying out this game along with two others I picked up. I kept coming back to this one. While it might look like a Pac-Man clone it is far from that game. The back of the package me
When it comes to Microprose games I immediately think of those 386 PC days when I spent countless hours on Railroad Tycoon, Covert Action, and Lightspeed. I never knew that Microprose really started with the C64 and Atari computers making tons of WWII based simulation/strategy games that I missed. So I started collecting just Microprose games for my XEGS. Today I write about one of those games called Decision In The Desert.
I'm not familiar with any of Microprose Commander Series games.
There was a time when buying a new game required using the packaging material to grab the consumer's attention. There usually was no limit to how far a software company would go to deliver a package that created an impulse buy. And by that I mean there was no other way around it...you simply had to have that game no matter what based on what the package looked like and how it presented the software inside the box.
Silent Service for the Atari 8-bit computer consoles was developed by
