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Epyx-Spr86catalog THE MOVIE MONSTER WINTER GAMES SUMMER GAMES II SUMMER GAMES® THE WORLD'S GREATEST THE WORLD'S GREATEST GAME™ Experience the challenge of seven Summer Games II challenges you to You're an Olympic athlete competing FOOTBALL GAME™ BASEBALL GAME® different sporting events. In the eight different Olympic-style events. in eight key events at the Summer Now you can become a part of the Bobsled, you're right in the tube Compete against the computer or up Games. How well can you score in Finally, a football game that not only Match the Classics against a recent famous old time Japanese monster careening along the walls. At the Ski to seven opponents in Rowing, Triple Track, Swimming, Diving, Skeet puts you on the field, but also on the World Series or All-Star team, or movies and play the role of the mon- Jump, you control your form in take- Jump, Javelin, High Jump, Fencing, Shooting, Pole Vaulting, Gymnastics sidelines in the coach's shoes. Use the trade players and create your own ster! Defeat the combined forces of off, flight and landing, while timing Cycling, Kayaking and Equestrian. and more? Summer Games has "Playbook" or design your own team. Use actual statistics to deter- the Army, Navy, Air Force, and even a counts in Figure Skating. Choreo- Filled with graphics and realistic superb state-of-the-art graphics and offensive and defensive plays. Then mine your lineup, then watch the mad scientist or two. For the first graph your own routine in Free Style animation, add roaring crowds and sound effects. In each event you must grab the joystick and put your strategy action unfold against an opponent, or time, you control the monster's Skating or go head-to-head with your unique joystick action, and you'll be plan and execute your game strategy to the test. You control key players to the computer. Choose between man- destiny, because you control the competition in Speed Skating. Hot ready for the 1988 games! Opening in order to maximize your score. So run a sweep, make a tackle, throw a aging and controlling your team, or monster. Pick your favorite monster, Dog Aerials test your agility, while the Ceremonies, medals and your choice realistic, there's even an opening pass or kick a field goal. This one is just managing. Two disks with over 75 then pick the unlucky city and let the Biathlon tests your endurance. of countries are all part of the Sum- ceremony and awards presentation sure to become your favorite football teams, trading functions, improved fun begin. Get The Movie Monster There's even an opening ceremony, mer Games II experience. Here's after each event. Change into your game. graphics, and even trivia questions! Game and kiss New York Good-Bye! complete with national anthems. eight more chances to Go for the Gold! running shoes and Go for the Gold! One or Tlvo Players ^ One to Eight Players One to Eight Players /d One to Eight Players One or Tlvo Players / One or Tlvo Players ( Amiga • Apple II • Atari • Atari SI • CM/12J • UN PC • MM Amiga • Apple II • Atari • Atari ST • C64I128 • IBM PC • MAC Anita • Apple II • Atari • Atari ST • CM/US • IBM PC • MAC Amiga • Apple II • Atari • Atin ST • C64/128 • IBM PC • MAC Amiga • Apple II • Atari • Atari ST • C64128 • IBM PC • MAC Amiga • Apple II • Atari • Atari ST • C64/128 • IBM PC • MAC TEMPLE OF APSHAI PITSTOP II® TEMPLE OF APSHAI® IMPOSSIBLE MISSION® ROGUE™ JET COMBAT SIMULATOR TRILOGr The first auto race game that gives The chance to perform heroic deeds As a member of the Anti-Computer Your task is to make your way through Jet Combat Simulator recreates the Begin by exploring the Temple of you a chance to go head-to-head awaits you in the Temple of Apshai. Terrorist (ATC) Squad, your mission is a maze of seemingly never-ending hi-speed aerodynamic performance of Apshai', seeking treasure and slaying against your opponent in different Unlike other adventure games, your to reach the infamous Elvin, who is dungeons and return with the "Amu- the real thing — a McDonnell the monsters lurking within. Then the race tracks all over the world. With character grows stronger, more holding the world hostage with the let of Vendor". Beware, your path is Douglas F-15 Eagle. Try night land- Upper Reaches of Apshai" await you. Pitstop II, you can experience the intelligent and better equipped as you threat of nuclear annihilation. Elvin is strewn with trap doors, deadly darts, ings in 50-mph crosswinds. Intercept Here lurks new danger, mazes and thrill of speed and competition as you gain experience. Be prepared to hidden in his data base installation, sleeping gas and of course the usual enemy aircraft at 30,000 feet. You've hordes of evermore evil monsters. If battle your opponent in a race against contend with four different levels, protected by robot defenders. Can assortment of not-too-friendly mon- got the latest in on-board avionics and you survive, you must now face the the clock. Now, more than ever, your over 200 chambers, priceless trea- you penetrate his complex, break into sters. But keep the faith, along the a computer co-pilot. Take on the Curse ofRa', a journey into the racing strategy and your pit crew's sures, and 20 monsters all looking for his computer system, piece together way you will find weapons, treasures enemy's Ace pilots, in one-on-one deserts of mythical Egypt. Will you speed and performance, combined their next meal. Slay them all, and the puzzle and abort his plans? The and magic scrolls to aid you in your stratospheric dogfights. You can make have the strength and power to with your skill on the track will deter- escape with great wealth to live and survival of the world is in your hands! quest. You could spend hundreds of it. You've got the right stuff — your prevail? Will you ever know...the mine the winner. Pitstop II— because fight another day. hours playing Rogue...and still not wits and the F-15 Eagle! secret of the Temple of Apshai? auto racing is not a solo sport. uncover all its secrets. One Player /$ /$ One or Tlvo Players (/A| \a • Apple IOneI • Atar Playeri • Atari ST • C64/12S -IBM PC • MAC One Player $ ^ One Player ^ £ One Player /f JL,^ Amiga • Apple II • Atari • Atari ST • CM/12! • IBM PC • MAC Auriga • Apple II • Atari • Atari ST • C64/12I • IBM PC • MAC Amiga • Apple II • Atari • Atari ST • CM/12S • IBM PC • MAC Amiga • Apple II • Atari • Atari ST > C64/128 • IBM PC • MAC Amiga • Apple II > Atari • Atari ST • C64/128 • IBM PC • MAC 1985 1985 THE WORLD'S GREATEST THE WORLD'S GREATEST THE EIDOLON™* © LFL KORONIS RIFT™* © LFL FOOTBALL GAME™ BASEBALL GAME® Discover the secrets of The Eidolon, a Explore the fabled Koronis Rift. On a mysterious 19th Century machine remote backwater planet, enveloped Finally, a football game that not only Match the Classics against a recent with the powers to manipulate the in deadly radiation, take part in this puts you on the field , but also on the World Series or All-Star team, or forces of magic. If you can control the daring raid to claim the Ancients' sidelines in the coach's shoes. Use the trade players and create your own energies of this ancient apparatus, an exotic technologies. Contend against "Playbook" or design your own team. Use actual statistics to deter­ unseen world is yours to explore. The hostile alien guards and vanquish offensive and defensive plays. Then mine your lineup, then watch the Eidolon lets you teleport and trans­ them by destroying their base. Tu grab the joystick and put your strategy action unfold against an opponent, or fonn the creatures of this uncharted survive you must seize weapons and to the test. You control key players to the computer. Choose between man­ realm, create and capture magic shields from abandoned hulks and the run a sweep, make a tackle, throw a aging and controlling your team, or fireballs ... perhaps even alter the flow ruins of interplanetary civilizations. pass or kick a field goal. This one is just managing. 1\vo disks with over 75 of time itseltl The Eidolon - scientific The secrets of the Ancients are yours sure to become your favorite football teams, trading functions, improved curiosity or passport to another ... if you dare. game. graphics, and even trivia questions! dimension? _,., One or 11.vo Players ... ~ )... One or 11.vo Players 1--.}. ,.,. One Player r• One Player blip • A,,ie II • Atm • Abri ST • CH/121 • IH l'C • MAC Alli(l. Apple II • Auri. Abri ST. CH/121 • llM l'C. IAC blip • Apple II • Auri • Abri ST • CH/121 • Ill PC • IAC Allica • A,,ie II • Abri • Abri ST• CH/121 • IH l'C • IAC 1985 © 1985 LFL ROGUE™ JET COMBAT SIMULATOR® BALLBLAZER™* © LFL RESCUE ON Your task is to make your way through Jet Combat Simulator recreates the Unique split-screen, 3-D graphics give FRACTALUS! TM* a maze of seemingly never-ending hi-speed aerodynamic perfonnance of you and your opponent a first person dungeons and return with the "Amu­ the real thing - a McDonnell view of the playfield. You race your Your mission is to fly your Valkyrie let of Vendor". Beware, your path is Douglas F-15 Eagle. 1ry night land­ opponent across the playfield in your Fighter through the Jaggi defenses strewn with trap doors, deadly darts, ings in 50-mph crosswinds.
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