5001 Games

This is a games compilation of shareware and demo games which comes on four CD-ROMs, each CD contains a different type of game and has a menu program which autoloads naming the disc and showing the groups to which the games have been assigned.

There are many duplicate games in this compilation, for example: National Lampoon's Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1; it appears in different game groups, while some other games appear two, three or more times, but as different versions.

Not everything on these discs is a 'proper' game. There are many levels for games like Hexen, Command & Conquer: Red Alert , Doom and others plus tools to edit and create additional levels. Then there are the utilities for tracking statistics in various sports, managing office teams, picking Lotto numbers and so-on.
The discs and their game groupings are shown below together with some of the games they contain.

Disk1: DOS Software
The menu program groups the games by name so there is a group for every letter of the alphabet, for example, Arcade and Action Z contains the games Z, Zeux, Zone 66, Zong and all games whose name begins with the letter 'Z'.
Some of the games in oter groups are: Abuse, Alien Carnage, Apocalypse Cow, Denarius Avaricius Sextus, Terminal Velocity, Zool

Disk2: DOS Programs.
This is a miscellany of games and on this disc they are grouped by type, not by name as on Disc 1.
- The first two categories are Board and Puzzle A-K and Board and Puzzle L-Z. Examples include Argo Checkers, EGA Trek, Ladder Man III, and Moraff's Ultra Blast
- The group Card and Casino has card games like gin rummy and poker together with craps games and slot machine games and includes fifteen games from Tommy's Toys. Some of the games in this group are CoffeeBreak Card Games, Dr. Blackjack, MVP Bridge, Ultimate Gin
- Chess This group has both chess programs and libraries of chess games so, for example we have "1000 Misc Games from 1987" and "1994 Israeli National Championship games" in both ChessBase and Chess Assistant formats; "398 Michael Adams Games" in both ChessBase and Pgn formats; "Alekhine's Defense 10,593 games"; "Alybadix" chess problem solving software; demos of moby game="Battle Chess II">Battle Chess II and Battle Chess 4000; and National Lampoon's Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1.
- Command and Conquer. This group contains additional levels, map packs, patches and hacks for the game
- Descent Addons. Mainly additional levels with a couple of demo games, save game and an editor.
- Doom Wads. Over three hundred levels and level collections
- Duke Nukem 3D Levels. Not just more levels and level collections but map builders, alternate music, patches to introduce more gore, cheat codes, screensavers and more.
- Game Cheats & Hints Copies of cheat libraries from the mid 90's including other platforms such as the Super Nintendo.
- Game Demos. Split into four groups "Game Demos A-F"; "Game Demos G-M"; "Game Demos N-S" and "Game Demos T-Z". Among these are demo versions of The Legend of Seven Paladins, 688 Attack Sub, Operation Body Count, Heimdall. There are also few demos from the_Leisure Suit Larry_, Legend of Kyrandia, Lemmings and other series.
- Heretic Wads. Many levels and level collections including levels converted from Doom.
- Mahjongg Games. Just eight examples among which is Moraff's Mega Morejongg
- Mahjongg Tiles. Over a hundred different tile sets for use with the mahjongg games.
- There are two Quake related groups,
- Quake Levels which has around one hundred Quake levels, and - Quake Levels/utils which has maps, editors, map converters, texture tools and other utilities
- Red Alert maps. Lots and lots of maps, well over two hundred!
- Sport and Simulation. This group is a bit of a mixed bag, there are golf games, baseball games, and fishing games but there are some unexpected entries too. For example what's Traffic Department 2192 doing here? Among the other games are Screamer, Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf, and Darker as well as golf handicapping software and other utilities.
- Strategy and RPG. Here there are games like American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox, Aethra Chronicles, Bard's Quest, Galaxy Trek and The Great Ultizurkian Underland
- Tetris Games. Over seventy falling block games including 1993tris, Floatris, The Jelly Bean Factory and SITris.
- Trivia Games. There are geographical games, bible games, sports games and TV related games among the seventy plus games in this category. As well as Hawaii State Trivia there are several other state trivia games and four more games from Tommy's Toys
- Warcraft Maps/utils. Maps for Warcraft and utilities to create more and tweak Warcraft and Warcraft II settings.

Disk3: Win3.1 Programs
Once again the menu program for this CD has many game groups
- Arcade and Action. Another group of games that includes many diverse categories. Among the one hundred and fifty plus games present are: Amnesia, Bad Toys, Dave Dude and Moraff's Escapade plus twenty more games from Tommy's Toys.
- Board and Puzzle. There are over two hundred games here. There are chess games, three versions of Moraff's Morejongg, jigsaw puzzles and multiple Yahtzee games. Also in the group are Arasan Chess, Bad Toys pops up again here, Boxes II, Exile II: Crystal Souls and Oilcap Pro
- There are over three hundred games in the Card and Casino category which is probably why the games menu splits them into two groups Card and Casino A-K and Card and Casino L-Z
There are poker games, blackjack games, solitaire games as well as a surprising amount of software to help pick Lotto numbers for both US state lotteries and the Canadian lottery. Among the entries are Paradise Solitaire, Napoleon Solitaire, Pretty Good Solitaire v2.0a an early version with just thirty games, Noisy Video Poker and Blackjack v3.3, and Jennifer's Sexy Video Poker
- Educational Games. There are games to teach typing, Cambodian, reading, bible studies and maths and many other subjects. Some of the more unusual games are Build That Nuclide which teaches the structure of atomic nuclei, CRO Tutor 2 which simulates a single channel cathode ray oscilloscope, Dental Office which is described as "Multimedia dental education and entertainment, and Label That Diagram where players have to identify bones in the human body.
- Essential Tools There's a category like this on each disc but here, because these are all Windows games, other tools are needed. There is a version of McAfee, three versions of VB Runtime, Win 32s, WinG and WinZip.
- Game Demos There are surprisingly few demo versions of Windows games. The only games here are Gazillionaire Deluxe, Harpoon 97, Something called "Ice Demo" which is a demo for a game called Time To Die, Lemmings Paintball, MudBall Wall, SimTown and Virtual Chess
- Interactive Fiction. There are three game groupings in this category;
-- Interactive Fiction TADS: TADS is the Text Adventure Development System and the moby games database has a game group for such games. There are over fifty games here including Babel, Deep Space Drifter, Frobozz Magic Support, Kissing The Buddah's Feet, Maiden Of The Moonlight, and Uncle Zebulon's Will.
-- Interactive Fiction Toolkit. Versions of various utilities needed to design, create and run I.F games. Here you'll find the Adventure Game Toolkit, Frotz, Versions if Inform, Level 9 Interpreter and TADS 2
-- Interactive Fiction Zcode. C.I.A. Adventure, Curses, Inhumane, Mercy, Phred Phontious And The Quest For Pizza" and Softporn Adventure are among the sixty plus games in this group which also includes four of the Zork games.
- Misc. There are just under forty entries in this category and most are not all games. There are lists of blonde jokes, lawyer jokes and so on, some 'Magic 8 Ball' programs, astrology software, a chemistry laboratory simulator, issue 4 of War Cry Magazine, a dream interpreter and so on.
- Sports Games. There are over sixty entries here and they are a mixture of games and software. For example there are programs to manage American Pro Football Handicaps and Statistics, Office Football Management software, the 1997 NFL schedule and more of that sort of program. As for the games, well, the definition of a 'Sports' game has been well and truly stretched to breaking point and beyond because among the datrs, pool and racing games you will find Apollo a mission to the moon simulator, Depth Charge a single player Battleship game, FishHatchery a sort of business simulator, Komodo Market a stock market simulation and ProjectBrazil a Brazilian city simulator.
- Strategy and RPG. This group has over sixty entries, most are games but here are some gaming tools here too such as a character generator, Roleplayer's Companion - a roleplaying database, Galactic Tracker - a strategy aid for VGA Planets, and an program to help dungeon masters plan a gaming session.
- Tetris Games. There are only twenty-nine games in this category among which are; BeeTris, Emlith, Fructus, Gelules, GemStorm, and Iko San
- Trivia Games. There are only just eight examples on this disc, they are; El-Ixer - "An intriguing social game of skill and chance", MASH Trivia - inspired by the TV series M.A.S.H., Hollywood Rectangles - also based on a TV show, Purity Test - not really a trivia game, more of a character assessment, Simpson Trial Trivia - This is OJ Simpson not Homer Simpson, Trivia Quiz - v1.1, fifty multiple choice questions, Trivia Tic Tac Toe, and Yer Out! - a baseball trivia quiz.
- Word Games. There are crossword, hangman and word search games among the fifty plus entries in this category as well as programs to help create and solve them, example games include: Bago, and Word Wrestle.

Disc 4: Win 95 Software.
Just nine categories on this disc
- Arcade and Action. Fifty plus entries including '3 Dimensions' a Duke Nukem 3D loader, a level designer for Boxes III, 'GameBasic' and other tools. Among the games are Dave Dude, Flynn Sprint, MacBlaster, The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside - Just the Fozzie Bear segment as a game demo, NanoCore, Penny's Arcade, and SK-111 'Star Killer'.
- Board and Puzzle. This group has around one hundred games of all types. Apart from board games and puzzle games here are trivia games, card games, hangman games and yahtzee games. A few of the games are Arasan Chess, Board Games For 2, WinFour, Game Chest, Jigsaws Galore and RollOver
- Card and Casino. Lots of Lotto pickers, slot machine and card games here including three early versions of Hardwood Solitaire, Double Dynamite Video Slots and Lucky Stars Video Slots, Noisy Video Poker and Blackjack, Poker Broker, three versions of Slots of Trivia - the basic version; the sports version and Slots of Trivia 95 which includes the general, sports and movie versions.
- Educational Games. Around twenty games of all kinds from basic typing and spelling, chemistry, maths and World War II, among them are Dino Cards, Dino Numbers and Dino Spell and Penny Penguin's Math Bingo
- Essential Tools. In case they are not already on the player's machine here are DirectX (v2 & v5), VB Runtime (v1, v4 & v5), VirusScan 95 and WinZip
- Game Demos. Forty plus demo games including some classics and some not so well known games. Among the well known games are Close Combat, Earthworm Jim - just one level, Fury³ and Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures while among the less well known games are Space Dude, Gubble, Zyclunt and Robotron X.
- Misc. No games here but if you want a biorhythm calculator, windows themes and screensavers, DOOM and Heretic frontloaders, a "dumb little Ouija game" - that's the official description, and WAD authoring tools this is the place
- Sports Games. As with the sports groups on other discs this contains a mixture of games and utilities. For example there is 'League Manager 2.0' which is a "complete set of tools to track football (soccer) or hockey leagues data" and other tools of that ilk while among the games are Gopher Golf and A Day At The Races
- Strategy and RPG. There are just twenty plus games in the final category and among them are Dogs Of War, Entrepreneur, Exile: Escape from the Pit, and Stars!