Popular games published by company SoftSide Publications

01.06.1981

Arena of Octos is a single-player, turn-based combat video game for the Apple II and TRS-80 computer families. It was created by Steve Kropinak and Al Johnson in 1981 and published by SoftSide magazine. The player assumes the role of a human space pilot, captured by an aggressive race of green-skinned aliens known as Octons after straying into their space. To win freedom, the human must become a gladiator and engage in physical combat with numerous Octon warriors.

31.12.1982

You play as a fleet commander and your task is to escort a convoy from one end of the map to the other within a set time limit, with at least half the convoy vessels surviving the U-boat wolfpack hiding in the depths. The fleet commander has six destroyers for protecting the convoy and clearing the sea of submarines. The ships are equipped with sonar to discover the submarines and a number of depth charges and torpedoes to destroy them with. Only a limited amount of moves may be made during each turn.

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01.01.1970

African Adventure is a video game published in 1997 on DOS by Softside. It's an adventure game, set in an interactive fiction and puzzle elements themes.

31.12.1981

The object of this game is to completely fill the board with as many pieces of your color as you can. To do this you must outflank your opponent's pieces and flip them to your color. Outflanking can occur horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The game ends when the board is full or when both players can't move. Whoever has the most pieces wins.

31.12.1983

Card game for Atari based on Five-Card Stud Poker.