============================================================ T H E G A M E S A R C H I V E N E W S L E T T E R ============================================================ Number 1 * 4 April 1999 * http://gamesarchive.etmnet.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Newsletter index ------------------------------------------------------------ * What's new? + Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame added + Zeroth Zone added + Message board added + Awards * Top 5 downloads * Feedback + Andrei Zaitsev + Marc Lapointe * WebPoll * Coming soon ------------------------------------------------------------ What's new? ------------------------------------------------------------ - Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame added We've added a new game to our archive, called Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame. It's a very good game; excellent graphics and best of all, good gameplay. The game was originally made by Brøderbund Software in 1993. Now, the company 'Redorb' is reselling this classic (for only $19,95!). Then you get the first episode of 'Prince of Persia' and the second edition, where I am telling about. The following story will tell you something about this game. Title: Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame Author: Brøderbund Software File size: 1,10 MB Year: 1993 Version: Playable demo Website: http://www.pop3d.com/html/leg/leg_homelink.html Rating: [*][*][*][*][ ] When you stowed away on a ship bound for Persia, little did you dream that you would fall in love with the sultan’s beautiful young daughter. Still less could you have imagined that you, and unknown adventurer with neither wealth or title, would win her hand and be hailed by an adoring population as the new prince of Persia. In fact, the sultan had counted on marrying his daughter, if not to a king, then at least to a prince whose wealth and stature would favorably complement his own. The thought of giving her up to someone such as yourself upset the sultan so much that he nearly ordered your head cut off on the spot. Only the princess’ quick intervention saved your life. And only by means of the most eloquent pleading (backed by copious tears) was she able to persuade her father to grant your request. So it was that Persia gained a new prince. Until, one morning, you entered the throne room and found your place at the princess’ side already taken by someone who bore a disturbing resemblance to you. Worse, even the princess didn’t recognize you. At a word from the "Prince," the sultan’s guards laid hold of you. This was no time to argue. You broke free and leaped through the stained-glass window on the rooftop of the palace. With every guard in Persia after you, you barely escaped with your life by jumping onto a merchant ship. And so you returned to your humble beginnings, a fugitive once again, a stowaway on a ship bound for a foreign land. As the wind carried you away from Persia, even further away from the princess and the happiness that was all too briefly yours, you vowed that from that moment on you would live only to find your way back. You didn’t know who your enemy was, nor how you would defeat him but between you and the solution to this mystery lay your greatest adventure yet. With shipwrecks, mysterious caverns, deadly skeletons, and magic carpet rides, your days were filled with adventure, but your nights were plagued by visions of a dying princess. It seemed that Jaffar had survived his last encounter with your deadly blade and with the help of powerful magic, was pretending to be you. You had to return as quickly as possible to save the princess and put an end to the grand vizier’s tyranny once and for all. That sounds great, isn't it? And do you know that Redorb is working at 'Prince of Persia 3D'? They are working at the game for a few years now, so it could not be bad! You could take a look at http://www.pop3d.com/ if you like. If you want to download this game, go to The Games Archive at: http://gamesarchive.etmnet.com/ After that you must choose 'Games' in the frame to the left. Then you could select 'Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame'. You will get a HTML document with some information about the game. There you can find a link with which you can download the game. - Zeroth Zone added We have also added the game 'Zeroth Zone'. Title: Zeroth Zone Author: Fred Backman File size: 250 kB Year: 1999 Version: Freeware Website: http://www.femmefetish.com/games/ Rating: [*][*][ ][ ][ ] Zeroth Zone is a remake of the classic arcade game 'Scramble'. It's programmed by Fred Backman in Borland C++, so you must run it in MS-DOS. It's not hard to play. If you want to download this game, go to The Games Archive at: http://gamesarchive.etmnet.com/ After that you must choose 'Games' in the frame to the left. Then you could select 'Zeroth Zone'. You will get a HTML document with some information about the game. There you can find a link with which you can download the game. - Message board added New at The Games Archive is the message board. It's from BeSeen.Com, a free service. If you are searching for a game and you can't find it anywhere on the net, then you could post a message. Maybe someone will reply. - Awards We are proud because our site has won many awards! Most people like the design of the site. Some words from the owners of the awards: Webnet Webrating 5 stars: (http://www.webratings.net/) > "Sick of the new release games? Pick from and download > some of the old favourites. A quality site, that is well > worth taking a look at!" Shohoku's HOT Game Site Award: > "The site layout is pretty nice and also has some classic > games that I haven't heard of in a while on there. Once > again, good work and thank you for your application." ------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 downloads ------------------------------------------------------------ The following games are most downloaded: 1. Doom 2. Pinball Fantasies 3. Dark Forces 4. Wacky Wheels 5. Worms ------------------------------------------------------------ Feedback ------------------------------------------------------------ - Andrei Zaitsev In this section of the newsletter you can find messages from visitors of our site. > "Hi! I like your site. Back when there was few shareware > games, I used to track every single release from Apogee > and Epic (Comander Keen, Jill of the Jungle... heck, I > even remember then 60k 'Monuments of Mars' - a lots of > fun!). Now there seems to be too many games to try all of > them, so I concentrate on first-person shooters (Duke 3d, > Quake, Urban Assault)." - Marc Lapointe > Great page! I've always wanted a place to download my old > favorites, now you've made that place. Congrats on the > cool page. Thanks to all of them who sent messages about our site to us! ------------------------------------------------------------ WebPoll ------------------------------------------------------------ Here are the results of our WebPoll: What's your favourite Internet browser? Internet Explorer 47% 123 votes Netscape Navigator 44% 115 votes Opera 5% 13 votes other 3% 8 votes Total votes: 259 ------------------------------------------------------------ Coming soon ------------------------------------------------------------ We are making a HTML document for each game with information about that game. Like author, year, file size etc. We also give them a rating (from 1 star to 5 stars). 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