Old game COMPILATION, long story....
 

So, as this is my first post, I just want to start off by saying how awesome Abandonia is. This site has been invaluable for my tracking down of old DOS games I used to play as a kid, and really got me into playing old DOS games in general. Abandonia Reloaded also has been a huge influence in getting me into the freeware scene, so it's good all around.

Now that that's out of the way, let's get down to business. Sometime in the mid/late-90s, I received a game compilation by my mother, in addition to a fantasy game which I'll probably ask about in another topic some time. This game compilation was basically a CD-ROM filled with shareware games, and there were a heck of a lot, let me tell you. The thing is, I can't remember the name of the compilation for the life of me! It's been driving me crazy for around a year or two now. I originally thought it was called Epic MegaGames...until I found out that "Epic MegaGames" was the name of the company that made some of the games on the disc!

Thankfully, I remember a few of the games on this CD. You've got your classics like Jazz Jackrabbit, Scorched Earth, Jetpack, and The Adventures of Maddog Williams. However, there were a LOT of other games on the CD, some of which I can only describe vaguely. For example, there was one action-platfomer that had you defeating aliens with a vegetable gun (?), another that had you fighting giant insects in a desert maze (?!) and yet another which put two mechs fighting in a maze. So, you were really all over the place with developers here, Epic MegaGames, Software Creations, others that I can't even remember.

I'm afraid that the only other piece of information I can give was that the main menu was grey, with buttons corresponding to different genres of games, and clicking on a button would take you to games of that genre. I honestly can't remember anything else about it, but I'll try to answer any questions you have.

If anything, I'd like the name of this compilation and, if possible, a list of all the games on it, since a few of them were actually pretty interesting. I've been searching all over my house for months looking for this CD, but I think my mom threw it out a few years ago. Any info you can find would be greatly appreciated!

I think the game disc you're referring to is "GCW Games for DOS", and the one with the vegetable gun is probably "Pickle Wars", the one with the robots is "Megatron", the disc contains, JJR 1, Scorched Earth, Jetpack, and The Adventures of Maddog Williams, the only the comes to mind on the insects in the desert maze is one of the Skunny series except for the maze part. The disc contains, Nightmare 3D, The Last Half of Darkness Part 1 (:akimbo: :butcher:), Doom, Cyberdogs, Wolfenstein, Stalker, War Wizard, Commander Keen 1, 4, And Dreams, to name a few. (big disc)

Yes, I think you're right! I'm afraid I can't exactly confirm this or not, but I do think you're right. How did you come to this answer, just to sate my curiosity, do you have a copy of the disc?

I have the disc, everything you said sounds like it except for the insects, and Last Half of Darkness is :evil: . It does have some good ones on it. (JJR 1 :pwnd: ) A few more it has is: Hugo 1-3, In search of Dr. Riptide (submarine side-scroller), Jazz Jackrabbit 1 ( :nuts: ), One Must Fall 2097 ( :borg: ), One Must Fall (no 2097 :karate: ), Lost Vikings (demo), Black Thorne (demo), Dragon Shard, Traffic Department 2185, this weird magazine demo (Twilight Zone music plays), Monster Bash, Scuba Man, Billy the Kid, Smashing Pumpkins into Smash Pieces of Debris, (weird title, weirder game :rambo: :apple: ), and many more. Maybe you might be thinking of SPiSPoD. (it has a desert level with pumpkins, and maybe something that looks like a bug, 'cause its been a long time since I played that.)

I got those...two different one's. Those also include walktroughs and copy-protection answers.

I'm thinking this is probably super-against the rules, but would it be possible to make an ISO of the disc and host it at a filesharing website? It would be a huge blast-from-the-past experience for me, and I remember there were actually a few games that I never played, for one reason or another.

I'm quite sure it would be impossible, but I'll list the most of the disc.

3D:
Curse
Mino Dino (demo)
Mazeworld
Megatron
Nightmare 3D
Nocturnal Nightmares
SPECTRE
3D World

Action:
Brudal Baddle
Jazz Jackrabbit 1
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Spear of Destiny (demo)
Wolfenstein 3D
Zone 66

Adventure:
Abyss
Arcy 2
The Walls of Bratock (demo)
Cireneg
DENARIUS AVARICIUS SEXTUS (?)
The Dragon's Domain 3 - Death Rising
DRAGONS SHARD
Dungeons of the Unforgiven
Death Watch (Ancients 1)
Gallion
God of Thunder
Grimlor
Hocus Pocus
Hugo House of Horrors 1 AND 3 (sorry about the mistake with 2)
King Aurther's K.O.R.T.
Ken's Labyrynth
Last Half of Darkness
Maddog Williams
Majik
Mystic Towers
Paganitzu
Sword Quest 1
Quest 2
Reaping the Dungeon
Shadowkeep
Sherwood Forest
Snarf
Space Jam
Stellar Explorer
Stone Mist 2
Vampyr
Moraff's World
Zorak
Champions of Zulula
ZZT
Super ZZT
Psionics

Arcade:
AstroFire
BattleStar
BipBop 2
Bomber
Death Bringer
Defender
Depth Dwellers
Galactix
Gamma
Star Goose
Gravitron
Isle of the Dead
Jogger
Kaeon
Kilo Blaster
Last of the Free
Oxyd
Phylox (demo)
Pong Kombat
Quick Fire
Roadkill
Stellar Defense II
Street Fighter 2 (So weird I'm not sure want it is.)
Solar Winds
Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom
Space Blaster
Space Pilot 2
Spitwad (?)
Star Fire
Star Hammer
Star Mines 2
Tube World
Tzone (?????)
Xquest

Board: (Mostly Chess games.)

Card/Casino: (Mostly Slots and Poker and Blackjack)

Classic: (Pac-man and tetris style games)

Cars&Planes:
1942
Corncob
Cyclewars
Ford III
Lotus
SkyRoads
Slicks 'N' Slides
Switch
WE (???)

Demo: (all demos)
Beauty & the Beast
Black Throne
CyClones
Front Page Baseball
Gobliiins
Lemmings 2
Lost Vikings
Mech Wars 2
Settlers
Sim City
Sim Space
Terminator Rampage
Theme Park
Tie Fighter
The Travellers

Fighting:
Blood of the Ancients
Body Blows (demo)
One Must Fall (no 2097!!!!)
Sango Fighter
Havoc
Scorched Earth
Desert Storm Command
Phage Fight
Zag it (???)

Last Minute Stuff:
Clash of Spears
War Wizard
Jazz Jackrabbit XMAS
Iron Seed Demo
Cyber Dogs
Blake Stone 3
One Must Fall 2097

Misc:
Bunny Blast
Dzone
The Endless Night
Green
Jimball
Mechwars
Paper Airplane
Wari (????)

Scrolling Action:
Balloons
Bernie (????)
Billy the Kid
Bio Menace
Blake Stone 3
Captain Comic
Cosmo
Creepers
Darkages
Dino Predators
Duke Nukem 2
Electro Body
Electro Man (the same as above, but Epic)
Elfland
Gate World
Gods
Heartlight
Heroes
Halloween Harry
Jet Pack
Jill of the Jungle
Keen 1
Keen 4
Keen 6 (demo)
Keen Dreams
Machine Nation
Major Styker
Monster Bash
Orion

This is not all of it but I hope this helps.

There was a Blake Stone 3? :weird:

Sorry, I would like to help you but many games of that compilation are still sold or protected, it's forbidden here. You can't do that into Abandonia...you are both free to do what you want, but out of this site.
Thanks for collaboration. :)

This could be interesting for you btw, EpicMegagames store:
http://www.epicclassics.com/

Actually It's 1, but that's what it says (and I think there might be a 3. :dunno: )