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The game lacks a structured plot or a specific goal to accomplish, with seemingly no way out of the character's predicament. This rather pessimistic tone is reinforced through the actual gameplay: Virtually everything that moves or looks anthropomorphic is harmful to the player. Now, his mission is personal: to explore and MicroMan now finds himself in a strange and hostile world where he is one However, since the Molecular Miniaturizer and it's creator had both beenĭestroyed, it didn't really matter-there was no hope to return him to his Bob Jones, now known as MicroMan, was never found after the explosion. Killing all those in the lab, including Dr. Miniaturizer suddenly started smoking and a few seconds later, exploded,

The experiment seemed to be a success but the Molecular After a few moments of blinding light, Bob Jones was reduced to the size ofĪ few microns. Power and the miniaturization process began. Wearing a special weapons suit, Bob Jones voluntarily stepped into the

'MicroMan is the victim of a top-secret experiment that went terribly wrong. The gameplay experience is not dissimilar to a lot of DOS side-scrollers I've played over the years, although in the original version the character walks in very small steps. In this case, the developer chose the latter option, using a 'Windows Animation Package' for sprite animation that the second half of the 'Micro1.txt' file spends trumpeting.

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Back in the pre-OpenGL/DirectX days, developers wishing to make a Windows game had to resort to doing without anything vaguely resembling smooth animation or advanced multimedia while putting up with a haphazard mess of APIs that didn't allow direct access to hardware, or write something from scratch to alleviate the situation. Perhaps unusually for a piece of Windows 3.x software, MicroMan is a fully-animated platform game complete with sound effects. It's a bit of a shame, since I found this to be one of the most intriguing games of its sort I've played. There is a (very) basic page on his website on the topic of the game, but otherwise (at the time I originally created this page) I found a dearth of information about MicroMan online. Also, a new version of MicroMan is being sold by Brian’s casual games company HipSoft ($19.95).Lately I've found myself mildly fascinated by 'The Adventures of MicroMan,' a shareware game from the Windows 3.1 era written by Brian Goble.

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Classic DOS Games also has a shrine that includes walkthroughs for the first two games in the series (adventures three and four were planned but ultimately unreleased).

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You can download the shareware version of the first adventure and find out more about it on Andrew Turnbull’s MicroMan fan page. You probably saw the game on one of those 1000-in-1-type Windows CDs back in the day.

However, it’s notable for being (I think) one of the earliest platformers on Windows 3.1 to feature smooth animation and sound effects, thanks to creator Brian Goble’s Windows Animation Package ( WAP). The Adventures of MicroMan is moderately fun but not a terribly exciting game series by today’s standards. Man, seeing this (submitted by Bood_War) brought back a crusty memory or two. There are a few interesting games people mentioned that I wanted to cover before we go! I decided we’ll have one last day of Classics Week before we return to new news. Classic: The Adventures of MicroMan By: Derek Yu On: June 9th, 2009