New Argos Gameware Entertainment Digest, Volume I offers five Windows games: Alien Checkers, Jewel Thief, Maze Master, DoubleMatch & Quadrille solitaire and 2 bonuses

Business Wire, Jan 5, 1995

MAYWOOD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1995--Argos Gameware introduces an almost addictively challenging new collection of games for Windows computers, including Alien Checkers, Jewel Thief, Maze Master, DoubleMatch and Quadrille solitaire. Some of the games in this collection may seem familiar, but there are delightful twists to them, from cowardly monsters to mouse-driven mice. New Argos Gameware Entertainment Digest(TM), Volume I for Windows is available for $29.95 (all prices suggested US resale at participating resellers; inquiries invited).

In addition to these games (Alien Checkers, Jewel Thief, Maze Master, DoubleMatch and Quadrille solitaire), Entertainment Digest, Volume I also includes, as a bonus, sample Argos Gameware ArtApart(TM) on-screen multimedia jigsaw puzzles and WordHunter hidden-word (letter grid) puzzles.

When playing Alien Checkers, your opponent is a menacing, monstrous, otherworldly player with a bully's snarl and (on audio capable systems) an audible growl; his attitude changes considerably when you beat him. You can disable the animated alien for a more routine human vs. computer game of checkers, with your choice of several levels of machine expertise and skill. Players can also select the rule sets by which they'll play.

Jewel Thief requires a deft hand as a player attempts to pluck precious stones from hordes of hazards which become more difficult as play continues. The game even delivers a secret reward for any player who manages to make it all the way through to the end.

You become a mouse (blind or sighted, at the player's selection) when playing Maze Master. The walls of these mazes can be tall, short or ``glass,'' and players can choose how difficult a maze to run. There's even an option to print one to 100 mazes, on demand. The game even keeps a record of the players with the best times at each level, with a separate list of those playing today. On an audio capable system the game opens with a trumpet fanfare and the mouse sounds surprisingly like a race car, accelerating through its gear range.

One to four (human or computer) players match up the pairs of pictures and patterns to reveal clues beneath in DoubleMatch. Pick a level of difficulty from inept to intelligent. On audio-capable computers, sound effects are an option.

Quadrille is a classic, but, to most card enthusiasts, unfamiliar solitaire game. It involves counting up and counting back as the cards inexorably count down to the end of the game.

Argos also offers ArtApart animated multimedia Windows jigsaw puzzles with 3D-look interlocking pieces ($39.95, including 12 color images). Cut the puzzle into as few as 15 pieces, or more than a thousand. On an audio-capable computer, the sound effects are both appropriate and amusing.

The Argos Gameware Division (founded 1994) of H&M Systems Software, Inc. creates nonviolent computer game software. While there is no killing, no violence and nothing in these games requiring parental intervention, there is still fun and provocatively challenging action throughout the scores of games in the Argos collection.

For further information contact Argos Gameware Division, H&M Systems Software, Inc., 25 East Spring Valley Avenue, Maywood, NJ 07607-2150; phone 201/845-3357; fax: 201/845-4638.

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