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Music (5/5): The music in this game is absolutely wonderful. Mutants explode into big bursts of gore when killed, and when you kill the robots, explosions, fire, and shrapnel fly everywhere. The scare-factor was toned down a bit in Volume 2 (The mutants started looking more cartoonish), but the violence wasn't. The eyes and hair on characters are very realistic-looking, and some of the monsters are quite creepy-looking especially the ones from Volume 1. =Basic Overview= Graphics (4/5): While EGA Graphics on DOS computers were starting to become pretty outdated by the end of 1993, this game was able to do quite well with just 16 colors. I have been playing it on an external hard drive for the past few days, and have experienced absolutely no memory restrictions.
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On a Windows PC, your best bet is to run the game from an external hard drive. Turn off all sound in some stages if you are running on your Windows or DOS drive (C:). You can rename them back to their previous names when you are done playing.
#Microman game 1993 Pc
System Requirements: - EGA Card or better - A PC Speaker or a Sound Card (Use VDMSound to hear the SB effects on a Windows XP Computer) - MS-DOS 5.0 or better Memory Problems: There are several things you can do if your game suddenly stops due to lack of memory: - If you are running on a DOS computer, rename your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files to AUTOEXEC.OLD and CONFIG.OLD. It is pretty gory, so if the violence level of, say, DOOM, or something offends you you might not want to play this one. It was also the last Apogee game ever to use EGA graphics. (Dangerous Dave 3 & 4, and Scubaventure were released the very same year). It uses the game engine of the later Commander Keen games, Scubaventure, and Dangerous Dave 2, 3, and 4. About the game: Bio-Menace is a 1993 MS-DOS game by Jim Norwood published by Apogee. B I O - M E N A C E ! ! ! by the-micro-man.
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Look at this watch! Would you ever know, that it could turn into a robot radio?
Well, now you do!
The 1980s was an era of cool watches – ones that not only told time, but played video games, calculated math problems, and even concealed by a giant plushie.
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Was your watch a purple plush elephant?  Mine was!
Anyway, watches for kids (many whom probably couldn’t tell time yet) in the 1980s were wearable fun, and in today’s commercial from 1985, proved that it isn’t just a watch.
It could be a boom box…
A robot radio…
A jet, scorpion, car to robot, and even a calculator to robot!
Or even…a gun?!
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Imagine showing off this watch to your friends?
What is this amazing technology?
Why, Kronoform!
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Kronoform was manufactured by Takara, a Japanese toy company that manufactured Transformers toys in Japan, among other toys that were licensed internationally by other companies, including Mego and Hasbro.
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Kronoform was an attempt by Takara to market Diaclone and Microman toys in the United states that hadn’t been licensed by Hasbro for the Transformers line of toys.  The “time machine” Kronoform watches were taken from Takara’s Watch Q line in Japan.  Autoceptor, Deceptor, and Kaltor were released in Transformers packaging.
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Eventually, The Robot Time Machine and Scorpia would get releases as Generation 2 Transformers in 1993.
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Takara merged with rival Japanese toy company Tomy in 2006, and the companies combined are now known as Takara-Tomy.  As for Kronoform, the line was considered to be unsuccessful, and the watches were discontinued by 1986.
Pretty sure having a toy gun strapped to your wrist, a realistic-looking one at that – probably didn’t help.
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Not since the Time Ring has a timepiece attempted to be something so much more.
I’ll stick to my giant plush elephant timepiece, thank you very much.
Have a great Throwback Thursday!
On this #ThrowbackThursday, watches that turn into robot radios, robots in general, planes, and even...guns?! Look at this watch! Would you ever know, that it could turn into a robot radio?
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