The Naarjek Collection

It all started with Naarjek where you (a computer games programmer) go in to work one morning and find that you've been replaced by a Cyborg. Your employers have stolen your latest game designs and changed the access codes to lock you out of the system. Your only hope is to hack into the system to recover your work. This game, similar to Hacker on 8-bit machines, proved so popular that the author went on to write four followups, all of which are on this disk. In each game you must gain access then use the various resources within the Naarjek computer to learn how it 'thinks' and outwit it. On later programs this involves planting renegade programs (known as worms) inside the computer to carry out specific tasks. By Naarjek 3, the computer has assumed control over itself and locks out anyone it likes, even making human-like decisions at times. Due to self-mutating code, its 'personality' is ever changing and your attempts to 'break in' and regain control over the system are even more difficult than in previous releases of the game. Naarjek 4 and 5 follow on with the same theme (breaking into a computer system which has is controlled by its own artificial intelligence routines), it's just that the games are tougher to crack and different strategies are needed. The Naarjek Collection is for those of you who want a challenge and prefer mind games to shoot 'em ups. If you get stuck early on, there's a help program included for Naarjek 2, after that you're on your own! Naarjek 1 is colour only, the others run in colour or mono.