games

• A-Zoo Evasion
  he fate of Earth Colony Alpha-312 lies in your hands! Depleted of mineral stores necessary for the function of planetary life support systems, you have been sent to Quantor, its mineral-rich satellite. Your mission is to harvest the moon's fertile crust, collecting minerals essential for the continuation of ECa312. Your task is complicated by the presence of exotic indigenous life forms - grotesquely flopping, crawling, infinitely varied, and convulsively undulating. While harvesting, you struggle to avoid the gnashing teeth and clenching pinchers of these innumerable hostile species, relying upon other naturally found elements to defend yourself. A-Zoo Evasion, an original game for the Newton MessagePad platform (OS 2.0 or higher), features animated biomorphic artificial life forms of nearly infinte variety, bred as the game progresses from a gene space of well over one million.
• aMAZEing
  aMAZEing is a maze game with a twist. It randomly creates mazes with bridges that "hop" over the other paths. Great for kids and even adults. Works on 110, 120, 130, eMate and MP2000 -- Freeware
• Arcade Pack
  Arcade Pack contains four games: Birds with Lances, Frogs vs. Cars, Rocks in Space, and Missile CommAnt. You can order them as a package or individually. Birds with Lances is a game where you take on the role of the pilot of a bird with a lance, and you must fight enemies in a tournament. Frogs vs. Cars is a game in which you take on the role of a frog trying to cross a busy street, and then navigate across a swiftly flowing river. You have to avoid being smooshed by speeding cars and trucks, and then leap from log to log (or turtle, or alligator) and finally to safety in one of the niches at the top of the screen. In Rocks in Space you are a spaceship pilot who must destroy rocks floating around in space, and a few other things that are out there as well. In Missile CommAnt, you must defend your anthills from deadly pesticides, bees, and spiders.
• Attaxx for Newton OS 2.x
  Attaxx is a simple board game similar to Othello or gomoku which can be played against the computer or a friend. -- Freeware
• Backgammon
  Backgammon for the Newton is based off of the traditional board game. Backgammon can be played with one or two players, or you can even watch the Newton play itself!
• Battleship
  Finally, Newton users can engage in the classic game of sink or be sunk. Battleship further adds to Newton games by offering a wide variety of game options. Users can play against three different computer opponents or match wits against a human. While Battleship allows two players to play using one Newton, what separates Battleship from most Newton games is that Battleship is IR-Enabled! IR-Enabled Battleship allows two players with two Newtons to go head-to-head in the most deadly game to hit the seven seas!
• BGGL
  BGGL software is a word finding game. It presents a jumbled set of letters, and you do your best to find words. Using BGGL sharpens your word skills.
• Blackjack
  Play Blackjack against the Newton. The Newton plays the roll of the dealer, abiding by standard Blackjack rules.
• Boxer
  Boxer is a first person animated boxing game. You control the action while it happens. You can fight three diffrent levels of opponients, set the round length and the number of rounds, and Boxer is easy to play for left handed or right handed people. Boxer also keeps a record of all human players.
• Bricks
  The newest game for the MP 2000, is a revolution in handheld gaming! This ball-and-paddle game features smooth-scrolling action, a responsive interface and extensive animations. For those spare moments on your lunch break or those long hours on the airplane, you'll love the challange of Bricks! -- Commercial (demo available for download)
• Champions Character Creator
  Champions is a small utility for the Newton that assists in the onerous process of creating characters for the Hero System Champions role-playing game system. It only runs on NOS 2.0 Newtons, and requires approximately 11K of storage. -- Freeware
• ChessPro
  Newton ChessPro 1.00 is the first chess playing title for the Newton. The Newton ChessPro is a full fledged chess playing program complete with an opening moves library and unlimited levels of play. The user can play against the computerized ChessPro opponent or it can be used by two players as an electronic chessboard. ChessPro can even play against itself. The user can optionally play just a few moves and then close the program, then next time the user launches ChessPro, it will remember where the user left off and the user can continue the game.
• Chiral for the Newton
  Chiral is a gem of a game based on the formation of molecules, kind of like a cross between Tetris and that 10th grade chemistry class you tried to forget. It is fast paced and can be quite nerve-wracking. The goal of the game is to take atoms that can bond with 1, 2, 3, or 4 other atoms and place them in such a way that they form a molecule where all bonds are satisfied. Original game concept by Ambrosia. Check them out at http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com.
• Coinflip
  Newton owners always have a Newton with them, but may not have coins. Look no more. You can choose a Roman coin or a generic token, there's voice output, and for the MP100 crowd there's a lite version included. RAK-ware (see the docs).
• CopyCat
  CopyCat is a fast and fun music-based memory game. -- Shareware
• Crazy Dice v1.0
  A Newton based luck & strategy game for multiple players.
• Crypto
  Crypto supports solving crypotgram, code, cipher (single character substitution) puzzles, like those in newspapers. Crypto is a 2.x-only Newton application: it works best on MesssagePad 2000 (MP2K) or eMate, but it can also be used with short puzzles on smaller screens (MP130 or MP120). -- Shareware
• DD Dice V-1.0
  DD Dice is a Newton 2.x package that visually allows the rolling of six different dice. The package is aimed at people who play roll playing games. DD Dice is FREEWARE and can be distributed freely. -- Freeware
• DeepNewt
  A chess game for the Newton.
• DeepSpaceNewt
  DeepSpaceNewt is based on the old Star Trek(r) text-based game.
• EggHunt
  Deep in the recesses of the Newton 2000 ROM are 2 hidden games; Poker & Patience. This tiny application will allow easy access to these games by presenting you with a small floating window containing a button for each game. -- Freeware
• Go-Go!
  A monochrome dancing go-go girl for your Newton!
• hangMan
  hangMan software (hM) is a word guessing game. Using hM sharpens your word and spelling skills. hM works with your Newton's dictionary. Over 40 plug-in dictionaries available!
• Insults
  A small application which calls you names. Lots of fun. -- Freeware
• Jig! Strategy Game
  In Jig, you and your Newton (or another player) take turns placing tiles, which must fit as if in a jigsaw puzzle. When you match symbols, you capture the other player's tiles. The winner has the most captured tiles when the board is full. It's the perfect game for when you have to wait 5-10 minutes.
• Jumble
  Jumble is a word search game to be played on the Newton. It is capable of generating an infinite number of diffrent puzzles, with topics ranging from animals to cars. Jumble can be played with a variety of levels, and will keep track of the best played games.
• Litton
  This is a puzzle program for the Newton. The object of this game is to flip tiles so that all tiles face the same side. When you tap one of 16 tiles on the board, it flips over to show its other side (heads/tails). This in turn cause other tiles to flip as well. Easy, you say? We don't think so.
• Lunar Landar PRO
  Take your newton on an Apollo mission with our extremely popular Lunar Lander game -- The ultimate in arcade action on any PDA.
• Mahjongg for the Newton, Version 1.5c
  From Sanj Sridhar Vakil's -- Mahjongg is an ancient chinese game usually played by four players with tiles similar to dominos. This is an Newton version for the solitaire game originally seen on the PC and later ported to SunView and then pretty much every other platform in the world.
• Motile!
  Moe's goal in life is simple... to reach the star in each of the mazes in Motile. It's a simple goal. But the clock is ticking, there are traps and enemies everywhere, and...hey, the walls in these mazes are all wrong! Maybe it's not so simple... It's your job to help Moe reach the star in each maze by placing and removing walls. Tap a wall to remove it; tap a dotted line to place a wall. Be careful, each maze has limits on placing and removing walls! -- Commercial (demo available for download)
• Newt Tac Toe
  The Newton 3-D Tic Tac Toe game. Play a 3-D Tic Tac Toe Game on a 4 x 4 x 4 grid, it's fun and easy. Also available as a Zip file.
• NewtHack
  NewtHack is a new hack and slash adventure game for Newtons with the 2.0 operating system. Traipse around randomly generated dungeon levels, explore rooms and find creatures and treasure within. Newthack is the first Newton game in the style popularized by games such as Rogue and NetHack.
• Newtiles
  A tile based solitaire game. The tiles are stacked in a pyramid fashion and the goal is to remove all tiles from the game board. This is accomplished by removing pairs of "free" tiles. -- Freeware
• Newton ChessPDA
  A full-featured chess database for the Apple Newton MessagePad (all Newton variants). ChessPDA allows you to enter games or chess problems (arbitrary positions) and replay them automatically or one move at a time. You may also take back moves, temporarily mark positions for analysis, revert to previously marked positions, and much more! ChessPDA does legal move verification (legal verification can be turned off) and thus can be used by two players as an electronic chessboard. You may also replay library games or chess problems.
• Newtris
  A Tetris™-like game.
• NewtWars
  -- Freeware
• Nflight [ New: 12/20/97 ]
  Nflight is a real-time, vector graphics, 3D flight simulator for use on Newton MessagePad 2000s. Includes throttle control, 8-direction control stick, altimeter, fuel gauge, airspeed indicator and 3D cockpit display.
• PeggySu 1.0 (17K BinHex)
  A puzzle program for the Newton. On the screen is a board with one black peg and many grey pegs. Object of the game is to move the black peg to the center hole by jumping over (and eliminating) other pegs. The less pegs you have at the end of a game, the better your score gets.
• Picofermibagels
  Similar in concept and strategy to MasterMind and Jotto. For each guess, you will see one or more of - Fermi-a correct digit placed correctly; Pico-a correct digit placed incorrectly; or Bagels-no digits are correct. Winning is indicated by "Fermi" for all digits, and an audible sound. Unlike MasterMind, PicoFermiBagels does not allow duplicate digits. You can choose to work with 2 to 5 digits, and whether or not to include zero. Good numb er practice recognition for the Newton! 1.3 (1/1/96) - NOS 2.0 compatible, created with Newt Development Environment, includes Newt source.
• PocketBackgammon 2.1
  A serious backgammon game for your Newton!
• Puzzle
  Puzzle is a O.S. 2.0 compatible slide puzzle -- Freeware
• Reptile
  It's a jump-over-the- peg-till-you-are-left-with-only-one-peg type of game with a few little twists. This game provides 10 skill levels to play at. If you like this game, please try our "Little Peking v1.2," another puzzle game for the Newton, and it's free.
• SameGame
  Remove patterned squares from a game board. The squares can only be removed if they're the same pattern, and adjacent. The goal is to remove all of the squares.
• Solo DX 2.0
  Solo Deluxe is a Newton version of four popular Solitaire games. With Solo Deluxe, you can play Klondike, Canfield, Pyramid and Aces, each with different playing options.
• Space Voyage I (BinHex) or uuencoded version
  The year is 2299. The entire federation of planets is looking forward to the turn of the century. How lucky you are to be an ensign on the starship "Future." Your starship is at the distant planet Courage IV to prepare the treaty of peace between the Federation of Planetary Worlds and the Worlds of Trinari.
• SquashEm
  A ShareWare ($5) game in which the object is to squash all the bugs that pop up on the screen. But don't squash the woodland creatures! That would be cruel! Download it and have fun. Ps. The author won't be responsible for broken screens, so crush dem bugs gently!
• St. John Morrison
  A number of programs, mostly shareware and freeware, developed by St. John Morrison. Currently they have CoinFlip, LifeKeeper, Loved1, and Set24. Stay tuned for new releases.
• Stacks
  Stacks is a strategy game. You need to "jump" tiles on a board in order to remove them. However, if you jump one tile on top of another, they combine into a more difficult tile to remove. This is very similar to the game Tesserae.
• Sub Patrol
  A fast action game of strategy and reaction speed. As commander of Sub Patrol it is your duty and honor to lead your nation to victory at sea. Gain points by neutralizing enemy submarines. You are rewarded for the efficient use of missiles and special weaponry. Your fair play in rescuing survivors of enemy subs will not go unnoticed. -- Commercial (download not available)
• Um-Meter
  Is used to measure the um-rate of boring lecturers. It allows you to measure the Um, Er and Ar rates of the lecturer and has (disablable) alarms in case these levels exceed critical limits. -- Freeware
• Word Grid
  WordGrid is a game to find words contained in a puzzle grid. To find a word, draw a single line on the grid connecting the letters that make up the word. The line does not have to be straight (it can zig-zag and cross) but must be made in a single stroke; you cannot lift the pen until you have connected all the letters. In addition, the minimum length of words is four letters; this limits the number of legal words contained in each grid to a manageable amount.
• WordGrid
  A game to find words contained in a puzzle grid. To find a word, draw a single line on the grid connecting the letters that make up the word. The line does not have to be straight (it can zig-zag and cross) but must be made in a single stroke; you cannot lift the pen until you have connected all the letters. In addition, the minimum length of words is four letters; this limits the number of legal words contained in each grid to a manageable amount. -- Shareware
• WordWar [ New: 12/22/97 ]
  WordWar is a multiplayer Scrabble-like word strategy game. It supports 1 to 4 players. -- Freeware
• World Conquest
  A strategy game played on a map of the world consisting of 42 countries. Up to six players can play together. Countries are assigned either randomly or by rotation. The object of the game is to conquer the world. You can also pit the customizable computer opponents against each other for exciting battles. Compete with friends to see who can create the best opponent.
• xWordBuddy
  xWordBuddy is a crossword player for the Newton 2.x line of handheld computers. While xWordBuddy ships with 4 unique xWordPuzzles, it comes with the ability to import .puz or 'Across Lite' format puzzles from a desktop computer. Many newspapers which have migrated to the Internet, including the New York Times, have started to publish their puzzles in a format which can be downloaded to your computer and now to your Newton. -- Commercial (demo available for download)
• Yatzy for Newton
  New and improved Yatzy game for newton in English or Norwegian. -- Freeware
• Yatzy
  Yatzy 2.01 - Yatzy is a dice game, the object beeing to score maximum points by filling in all scoring categories with dicerolls. FEATURES - Two type of games - Standard and Forced; Statistics - Average score, Number of Yatzys etc.; Rankinglist - Top 10 scores for each type of game. Flexible options - Lefthanded players, Adjustable bonus limits, Extra rerolls (if not all two rerolls are used, they can be used later), Automatic holding in Forced play etc. You can tap a scoring category at any time during play to see the points your dices will give. Works with 1x & 2.0 OS.
• YAZI - Yet Another Z Interpreter
  Beta version of YAZI -- Includes minizork, a demo version of zork, and minico, a monospaced font created by Michael Paey.
• Zachary's Wheel for Newton 2.0 Home Page
  Wheel of Fortune for your Newton -- Commercial (download not available)
• game utilities
  utilities, assistants, etc for games

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