Description of The Adventures of MicroMan
MicroMan, is an arcade-action style game for Windows. The object of MicroMan is to run, jump, duck, climb and shoot your way past the enemies while exploring new areas and collecting special powerups! MicroMan's up-beat music, spectacular sounds, colorful graphics and addictive gameplay run smoothly on virtually any computer system!
History of Microman
Microman was created by Brian L. Goble and started as a graphical demo of the library called WAP developed by him, which he was trying to sell to game developers. This library aimed to establish a standard for game creation (similar to what DirectX did in the following years). However, the demo became more popular than the animation library itself, prompting Goble to turn that demo into a Shareware title (The Adventures of Microman) in 1995, becoming one of the best puzzle/action titles for Windows 3.1. The game was notable for incorporating high-quality digitized audio and smooth animations.
In 1999, Goble released a new version (compatible with Win95 and later) called "Crazy Computers," which upon purchase, entitled players to the second adventure: "Savage Stones," and teased the third adventure: "Wild Waters," which never saw publication, with only a few screenshots available.
Brian L. Goble also worked as a software engineer at Monolith Productions from its inception in 1994 until 2002, contributing to games like Shogo, Blood 2: The Chosen, Claw, No One Lives Forever, among others.
As a fun fact, in Blood 2: The Chosen, there is a cheat code "mpgoble" that displays the message: "Brian L. Goble is a programming god!", a cheat code that also exists in Claw.
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J.D 2022-10-01 2 points
"The Adventures of Microman" is such a nostalgic little platformer, seen it on many compilations back in the day, this is the shareware version (only includes the first chapter "Crazy Computers" ver 1.5), this is not a DOS game but a Windows 3.1 title which means to get it to work you have to download Win 3.1 emulator (or running 3.1 through DOSBox), or VM running windows 95 (since it's supports DOS and WIN 3.1 games). i played this version 1.5 and 2.0 version. the only differences is the 2.0 has better compatibility, it's supports both 16 and 32 bit, and runs smoothly, however they changed tue voices, in the 1.5 they have this more 1960/70's cheesy but memorable robotic voices and ones of the robots lines is "YOU WILL DIE!" and when you pick up an item a crowd of people saying out loud you what item you have picked up. in 2.0 registered version they changed the cheesy robotic voices for a deep booming echoey voice for everything inclusing the robots, the main character and for collecting items. They even changed the "you will die!" line from the robots to "you will fall!" which sound more tame, but it’s a nitpick. it did got a seconed chapter "Savage Stones" (also known as Microman 2) which came out in 1999, but it's not the easiest game to find online i did finally found it but it took some digging. a third chapter was planned called "Wild Waters" or Microman 3, but it got scrapped after chapter 2 for some reason.
zeph 2016-02-27 2 points
I saw this on Game Empire too. Man so many old game collections back then.
Jojopeterjohn 2015-07-27 -3 points Windows 3.x version
When I try to run it in DOSbox it says "This game requires Microsoft Windows" But it won't work in Windows. Help!
Drew 2015-07-25 4 points Windows 3.x version
I played this off of a game disk called Game Empire, if anyone remembers that.
jojopeterjohn 2015-04-08 1 point Windows 3.x version
Does this work on DOSbox? I tried to open it like any other game and it said: "this program requires Microsoft Windows" But it doesn't work on Windows either... Please help!
J4k0b42 2014-04-11 2 points Windows 3.x version
I had it on a CD named 300 Great Games, if that helps/
Nadz 2013-02-25 0 point Windows 3.x version
does anyone know of a mac download for this game... over played it as a little boy and loved it
Max 2012-12-11 0 point Windows 3.x version
Ian what was the name of that CDroom with the compilation ??
a 2012-09-25 0 point Windows 3.x version
it won't work in dosbox because it's a windows game, not dos..
Beth 2012-03-08 0 point Windows 3.x version
I remember playing this game in middle school on the old computer they had. I downloaded this game and Dosbox wouldn't play it for some reason.
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Various files to help you run The Adventures of MicroMan, apply patches, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.
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Windows 3.x Version
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: Mad Data, Sofsource, Inc., bhv Verlags GmbH
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DownloadAdventure 1: Crazy ComputersVersion 2.0 Registered
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DownloadAdventure 2: Savage StonesVersion 2.0 Registered
549 KB
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