FunPack
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FunPack is a compilation video game of seven games published by WayForward Technologies for Windows 3 in 1992. It was the first in the FunPack series. The game was originally released on a 3.5" or 5.25" floppy disk, but, in 1993, a CD-ROM version was released under a different publisher.
The various games were made by a variety of developers and included the following:
Title | Game Type | Developer |
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Blitzer | Scrolling shooter | Steve Sherman |
Block Breaker | Breakout clone | Yutaka Emura |
Chomp | Pac-Man clone | Jerry Shekhel |
Emlith | Tetris clone | Yutaka Emura |
Hyperoid | Asteroids clone | Hutchins Software |
Jewel Thief | Original | ServantWare |
Warheads for Windows | Missile Command clone | Brian Lowe, Eric Steadle |
The CD-ROM re-release was published by WizardWorks Group which replaced Jewel Thief with Squash! developed by The Wiz Kids, although the box art still listed Jewel Thief.
Personal
Own? | No. |
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Won? | See individual games. |
On the days before the end of 8th grade, a friend of mine was talking about his copy of FunPack. He spoke highly of the games, especially Block Breaker, which intrigued me and I asked him to lend me the game. One day before the last day of school, he gave me his disk and I took it home and installed it. I was a bit disappointed by the games, as most of them were just clones of games I was already bored with. I ended up forgetting his disk in my computer and, when I saw him on the last day of school and he asked for the disk, I was really embarrassed. He ended up having his parents drive him over to my house the next day to pick up the disk, and I felt really bad because the circumstance made it look like I was trying to steal the disk from him. The only game that is unique, which was also the only game I was interested in, was Jewel Thief, just because it was so unique. It's also the only game that is winnable.
Review
3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Best Version: Windows 3
— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- Although most of the games are clones of older games, it's nice to have them on the Windows platform.
- A couple of the games support display sizes beyond 640x480 resolution, which is always nice.
- Yutaka Emura's games have a lot of customization options.
Bad
- None of the games were impressive in 1992 at a time when many kids had an SNES.
- All of the games lack music.
- None of the games support two players.
- Chomp! doesn't have a frame limiter. Instead, you're supposed to manually set a delay in its settings.
Ugly
- There isn't anything severely wrong with this package, it just isn't that good.
Media
Box Art
I can't find a copy of the diskette box, but I assume it's similar to the CD release since the back of the CD release has a screenshot for Jewel Thief.
Links
- Video Games
- 1992 Video Games
- Video games published by WayForward Technologies
- Video games published by WizardWorks Group
- Windows 3 Games
- Software Distribution Model - Commercial
- Video Games I Don't Own
- Video Games That Can't Be Beaten
- Video Game Rating - 3
- Video Game Graphics Rating - 2
- Video Game Sound Rating - 1
- Compilation Games