Title: Sim City (£35)
Poor port of the classic 'God' game. Running only in a desktop window, vile use of colour (predominantly red) ruins this game, and you can't even scroll the window in the normal RISC OS fashion - you must hold down a mouse button near the edge of the window. Eurgh! It's also far too expensive. On the other hand, it is still Sim City, and so quite fun to play, if you can put up with the crippling scrolling method. Also see Sim City 2000.
Links: None
Supplier:

Title: Sim City 2000
Superbly fun game. This is a vast improvement on the Acorn version of Sim City. It runs outside the desktop this time, features much nicer graphics, and has a bit more depth. Two versions are available: a Risc PC version and an A5000 version, the latter having a minimum specification of a multiscan monitor, harddisc and 4Mb of RAM.
Links: None
Supplier: Krisalis
Players: 1
Type: God
Needs: 4MB  HD   OS 2: ?   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: Yes, with Crunchfix - but some sound corruption

Title: Simon the Sorcerer (£40 floppy/45 CD)
This point'n'click adventure game often relies on you meticulously searching each screen pixel-by-pixel with your mouse pointer, and problem solving relies more on the "try doing everything" approach than anything else. Conversations are long and tedious, and the fact that you can't step through them at your own speed - you have to wait patiently for the next sentence to appear - makes certain parts of the game extremely tedious. Even at its fastest, the game seems to assume you have a reading age of about five. But despite all this, the game is still fun - most of the time! The majority of the graphics are lovely, although there is a disturbing tendency to map everything to grey in some of the backgrounds - some dithering would have been nice, and there is no special Risc PC version. Due to some mild bad language this game may not be appropriate for young children.
Music doesn't work with 16-bit sound. Unplayable without a harddisc. Also available on CD (but don't buy that version, since the speech breaks up continually).
Links: None
Supplier: Gamesware
Players: 1
Type: Adventure - point'n'click
Needs: 2MB   OS 2: ?   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: No

Title: Slappit
Like Ballistix on the BBC (and others), where you have to guide a ball into your opponents goal, traversing a pitch littered with odd obstacles. Not very good.
Links: None
Supplier: Unknown
Players: 1
Type: Sport
Needs: OS 2: ?   OS 3: ?   RPC: ?   SA: No

Title: Small
Simplistic maze game with raytraced graphics. Quite nicely put together, however.
Links: None
Supplier: Virgo Software
Players: 1
Type: 3D maze
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: Yes

Title: Speedball 2 (£25)
Fun if you like this sort of thing. Futuristic football-type game.
Links: None
Supplier: Krisalis
Players: 1
Type: Sport
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: No

Title: Spheres of Chaos (£25)
Check out the Spheres of Chaos homepage which also includes a downloadable Windows95 version of the game!
Links: None
Supplier: Matt Black
Players: 1
Type: Asteroids
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Game On   SA: Yes

Title: Spitfire Fury
This was never actually released, despite lots of advertising over several months!
Links: None
Supplier: 4th Dimension
Players: 1
Type: Flight simulator
Needs: OS 2: ?   OS 3: ?   RPC: ?   SA: ?

Title: Spobbleoid (£26)
Some nice graphics for this sliding block puzzle game, but very simple game design which often relies more on learning and replaying levels than on skill.
Links: None
Supplier: 4th Dimension
Players: 1
Type: Puzzle
Needs: OS 2: ?   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: ?

Title: Spobbleoid Fantasy (£30)
Sequel to Spobbleoid. As for the original game, some nice graphics but very simple game design which often relies more on learning and replaying levels than on skill.
Links: None
Supplier: 4th Dimension
Players: 1
Type: Puzzle
Needs: OS 2: ?   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: ?

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