Cave Story: Doukutsu Monogatari

Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by Studio Pixel   . It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations   and will have an official translation script published sometime in the near future.
This is really one of those games that can be considered an almost masterpiece of game design. There are so many wonderful and classic gaming elements, that I cannot even begin to describe just one quality well enough to say "It is for this one reason alone that Cave Story is a great game." There is just so much effort, originality and ingenuity behind this game and it really shows more and more as you play through it.

More info on Cave Story can be found on this web-site

AROS Port was handled by Bszilard Biró.

And it can be downloaded here and the data for Cave Story Deluxe here

Install procedure:

Copy "Doukutsu.exe" and the "data" directory next to the executable. After that all you have to is to start "nx", and have fun.

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OpenJazz: Jazz JackRabbit engine

Jazz Jackrabbit is a series of video games featuring the titular character of Jazz Jackrabbit, a green anthropomorphic hare, who fights with his turtle nemesis, Devan Shell, in a science fiction parody of the fable of The Tortoise and the Hare. Created by Cliff Bleszinski and developed by Epic MegaGames, the series debuted on the personal computer in 1994 with Jazz Jackrabbit. The series consists of two computer games and a handheld console game. He was originally the mascot of EpicGames.
OpenJazz is a free, open-source re-implementation of the classic jazz Jackrabbit ™ games. OpenJazz can be compiled on a wide range of operating systems. To play, you will need the files from one of the original games.

 OpenJazz Webiste can be found here

AROS Port was handled by Bszilard Biró - AROS EXEC-Thread

You can download it at AROS-ARCHIVES (not ready yet) and the shareware version can be downloaded at DOS Games Archives.

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Frogatto and Friends: leaping and bounding on AROS

Frogatto & Friends is an open-source “platformer” game which resembles an old-school 2D platformer game, starring a certain quixotic frog named Frogatto.
It's a big adventure with the usual classic stuff gathered in the videogame decades history in the genre - you walk and jump between solid footholds, fight monsters, collect coins, talk to people and buy new stuff, whilst you lead the frog through the story.
Althought the authors claim not trying to clone any specific game, a few games spring to mind when palying these, and naturally the character does remind Superfrog in the Amiga from Team 17 (gameplay wise it's a diferent story).

The original game website can be found here: http://www.frogatto.com/

AROS Port was handled by Bszilárd Biró and has some quirks and bugs at the moment...

Download the executable here and the data here...

Notes:

• Don't let the stylish graphics fool you, this is an OpenGL game, and it's unplayable without 3D acceleration.
• It takes some time to generate the "zipball"

Screenshot - AROS Port of Frogatto

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Neverball: 3D Ball madness

Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.
Also part of it is Neverputt, a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game, built on the physics and graphics engine of Neverball.
Neverball site can be found here http://neverball.org
More screenshots here: Screenshots

AROS Port was handled by Szilard Biró.

Download here: AROS-ARCHIVES

Neverball and Neverputt makes use of Gallium 3D (Hardware accelerated GFX). A 500MHz CPU or above is recommended.

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Sqrzx jumps into it's 3rd installment!

Sqrzx 3 by Retroguru is a pretty insane Jump'n Run Game with Puzzle elements available for a total of 17 systems (including AROS).
Also check  Sqrzx 1 and 2 also available from the game website.
Do bear in mind that this is an old playability difficulty setting (it's hard!).

http://www.sqrxz.de/2012/03/21/sqrxz-3-v1-00-is-here/

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The Goonies - Classic remake on AROS

This is a remake of one of Konami classics: The Goonies.

This game was made by Konami in 1986. There were both a NES version and an MSX version of the game; this remake is based on the MSX Version.
The remake was made for the 2006 competition organized by Retro Remakes.

The port was handled by (kas1e), and it's based on the OS4 and MorphOS earlier ports.

Story:
The action takes place in the sleepy seaside town of Cauldron Point - down in an area known as the Goon Docks. The Goonies are a group of local kids - Mikey, Brand, Mouth, Chunk and Data. One day they find an old treasure map in Mikey's attic. Data figures that this must be the fabulous hidden treasure of the notorious local pirate, One-Eyed Willy. The girls, Andy and Stef, join the other Goonies and the adventure begins. But the secret underground tunnels they are exploring are actually the hideout of the Fratelli Gang, and the Goonies are soon trapped! The Goonies have a powerful ally on their side, however, in the form of the huge and amiable Sloth.

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Maze of Galious - Retro remake

The Maze of Galious (MoG in short) was originally a Konami game for the MSX computer system. Its real name is Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious and is the sequel of another Konami game called Knightmare. 

There's a remake which is available at http://www.braingames.getput.com/mog/
It's an excellent  retro gaming experience, and has a lot of options which make it more appealing

The AROS port of this remake was done by Yannick Erb, is available here:
http://www.dusabledanslherbe.eu/AROSPage/download/mog.rar



It has a bug that he is still trying to iron it out...

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GISH - sticky glob of gaming goodness...

Gish isn't your average hero, in fact he's not your average anything... see Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend Brea goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open man hole and pulls Brea into the ground below. Following Brea's calls for help Gish suddenly finds himself in the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps and some of the most demented creatures imaginable.

With his gelatinous structure as his only means of defense Gish must follow the echoing cries of his damsel in distress deep into the earth below. What freakish creatures dwell in this subterranean land? Who is Brea's captor? And just how far down does the rabbit hole go?

Life isn't easy when you're a 12 pound ball of tar...

The version available was ported by Yannick Erb.

You'll need to download the demo version of the game or buy the full version and install data from it.


The game Website: http://www.chroniclogic.com/gish.htm

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Super Methane Bros - Puff and Blow...

Super Methane Brothers is a 1993 platform arcade game released for Amiga by Apache Software Ltd..
The gameplay is similar to Taito's Bubble Bobble.

Puff and Blow each have a Methane Gas Gun which fires a cloud of immobilising gas. If this comes into contact with a bad guy he will be absorbed into the gas and then float around the screen for a limited time. Bad guys are harmless in this state. Puff and Blow must suck the floating gas clouds into their guns and throw against a wall to destroy them. Bad guys then turn into bonuses which can be collected.


This is a conversion of the Commodore Amiga game, by Mark Rombust with permission by Apache Software Ltd to release this game as GPL. AROS port has been done by Yannick Erb.

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Yannick's AROS Work

Game Summary:
Trap baddies in a gas cloud. Suck into your gas gun. Throw against a wall to destroy them.

Game Controls:
Press Fire to start. Use “Player One” Fire for single player mode. Use "Player Two" Fire for two player mode.
You will then be prompted to input the player names. Use the keyboard to type in the name with a maximum of four characters. Press Return when you have finished.
The game will start.
Use the keyboard to move the player (See below for keys). Hold down the Jump higher. Use in combination with the Left and Right keys for directional jumping
Tap Fire to fire gas from the gun.
When a baddie is within a certain range from the players gun, hold Fire to suck a trapped baddie into the gun.
Release Fire to throw the trapped baddie from the gun.

Keyboard - Player One:
Cursor key Left / Right to move left and right
Cursor key Up to jump.
Cursor key Down to move down (Only used with the wings "Power Up")
Control key (CTRL) - Fire.

Keyboard - Player Two:
'A' key to move left
'D' key to move right
'W' key to jump.
'S' key to move down (Only used with the wings "Power Up")
Shift key - Fire.

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AROS is Abused...

Abuse is a dark 2D side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com in 1995.

It features beautiful lighting, realistic animation and nasty alien-like creatures to destroy.

This version allows Abuse to run at screen depths greater than 8bpp as well as fullscreen.

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