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The Game Systems and Add-Ons

Megazeux

Brief Description

Megazeux stuff to download

Latest Version: 2.07

• Download Megazeux Version 2.07! (684K)
• Patch for updating any version to version 2.7. Just unzip it into your Megazeux directory! (254K)
• If you've already registered, here's a patch for any registered version to version 2.07. (253K)
• Freakish Town, a short game a lot like Freakish Town for ZZT.
• Download a scifi game called Star Force. (37K)
• A reasonable take-off of Tron; this game has you run around a screen, battling either a computer or human opponent.
• Software Visions was releasing, chapter by chapter, a new game called "Weirdness". Apparently they've discontinued the game, so this is probably all there'll be:

  The Game

  • Chapter 1

  The MOD

  • Chapter 1 MOD (441K)

ZZT

Description of ZZT

Download this zztz!

• Download ZZT! (126K)
• The Best of ZZT Part 1! This is a large game put together from lots of boards that were sent in as part of a contest. (42K)
• The Best of ZZT Part 2! Ditto. (23K)
• Code Red, shareware from Software Visions, is a very long game. As far as I can tell, it's considered by most AOL ZZT'ers to also be the best game out. It comes in three parts-you need to have beaten each previous part to move on.
  • Part 1 (69K)
  • Part 2 (63K)
  • Part 3 (50K)
• Escape From Castle Za Zoomda is an adventure in which you must find your way to freedom. There are three possible endings, I believe. (34K)
• Fred! comes in two episodes: Space Fred!, and Ffreddiannia, which you don't need to play in any particular order. Both are included in this package, along with Sivion. (See below.) Fred! is a fairly long game in which you fight off alien invaders. The graphics are decent, and it makes a good adventure. Warning: the second episode is extremely long, so long that a lot of computers (mine included) may not be able to handle it without setting up a boot disk.
• Freakish Town employs a 3-D aspect to its buildings; every building has a basement, ground, and upper floor, which are all represented in relation to the other buildings. It's a good thinker with some action.
• Link's Adventure is a very solid, long action quest. Tough bosses and a lot of gameplay time. It comes in three parts which can be played in any order, although obviously it makes sense to play them 1-2-3.
  • Part 1. (35K)
  • Part 2. (30K)
  • Part 3. (48K)
• Merbotia is a cool quest where you must defeat the standard evil monster, then save earth. Standard day for a hero, in a nice medium-length game. (23K)
• Mission Enigma, another Software Visions shareware game, is a difficult thinking game. As ever with SV's stuff, it's a good one. (74K)
• In a class of its own is Mission Renaissance, the product of the author's school assignment. It's a very well made, instructive game in which you travel through time (with better special effects than I've seen on many normal games) and interview various great people of the Renaissance. (38K)
• Part of the package containing the two Fred! episodes above, Sivion is a very long game with excellent graphics and a good plot. Unfortunately, it requires a password from Fred!, Episode 2 (located above), before you can play it. The password is BARNEY, and after you've gotten that confirmed on the right-o-meter, go back to the choice screen and touch the arrow by the passage you first came through. Hopefully that didn't confuse you too much and you can get into the game OK. (96K)
• Super Sleuth is a unique little mystery you must solve. It's only one screen, and once you've beaten it you're done (no replay value), but it's the only mystery I've seen for ZZT at all. (5K)
• Underground Bugtown, by Gregory Janson's Software Visions, is a fair-sized adventure with one very good puzzle. (24K)
• Yapok-Sundria is a humorous, fun game with no shooting, yet still a very good game. (27K)

Super ZZT

• Funland! is a seven level, fairly short adventure game.
• Life! Don't Talk to Me About Life! is directly based on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy", by Douglas Adams. I haven't played it all the way through, but it seems to work, and contains lots of funny excerpts from the books.

The Process of Downloading and Running Stuff

1. Have a directory with the game system you're going to use.
2. Download files to this directory. If a screen of garbage comes up when you click on a link, try holding down "shift" as you click, or use the other mouse button.
3. All of my files are zipped. You need PK Unzip to unzip them. Just save it into the same directory, and type "pkunzip filename".
4. Run the game system and enjoy.

Other ZZT/Megazeux links

Darren Hewer's Destiny Software Home Page, a site for Megazeux. All it has so far is some information on the company (which is looking for additional members!), but it should have more soon.

Claudio Leite's ZZT page, with several Software Vision games, the latest issues of Z Power Magazine, and Hyper ZZT, which creates new fonts and has a few new items to be added on to ZZT.

A ZZT/Megazeux page of links, plus a few games.

XR3's ZZT/Megazeux page, with copies of the game systems, and a few games he's made.

Mike Shawhan's ZZT page, which is the source for many of my links.

Hotwired is a sporadic semi-magazine, with info on upcoming and already released games.

The Square Ware home page, with two games to download so far.

Mike's ZZT and Megazeux Page doesn't have much yet.

Here's another ZZT page by MAtt Dujnic, with not a lot either.

AOL user pages with ZZT and Megazeux games have been indexed by Dan Draco at his AOL ftp site. I went through the pages he had indexed a few months ago and have put up everything I think is good, but the pages might have been updated by now, and just because I didn't like a game doesn't mean you won't.

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