Close around to this time of year last year, within the last 1-2 weeks, I had an itching to revisit an educational game that I played so much in my childhood: Bodyworks Voyager: Missions in Anatomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyworks_Voyager:_Missions_in_Anatomy

You can easily find and download the game online. The game is for Dos, so Dosbox is the way to go to play it. To this day, I still have the physical CD of the game even about 30 years later! However, I either ended up simply copying the files off the CD to a directory on my hard drive to run the game, or I downloaded the game and ran it from that. Can't remember now. That reminds me, I should really make a CD image dump of the game, similar to how I made one of my physical Lemmings/ONML CD earlier this year

Picture of my CD of the game that I've owned since my childhood attached

   

If you haven't heard of this game, you're forgiven, as it's a super obscure one. Basically, it combines answering questions about the human body along with an arcade-like style of shooting and destroying various microbes in order to save the patient. There are two types, ones that attack the ship, and ones that attack the body/patient. In any given tour, there are 60 missions total, so it can feel super redundant and repetitive, but honestly the arcade style gameplay, the part of the game when you're not answering the medical quiz questions, is the main part of the game that keeps me addicted It's still a lot of fun, and I must say the soundblaster soundtrack is excellent! Unfortunately, only Midi versions of the soundtrack is available for download. The soundblaster version isn't anywhere to be found, as apparently no one has ripped the soundblaster soundtrack. Such a shame, because the music is so good!

Playlist link of my LP of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbp2m4KlFpJsHcaATpDEt_ajOoaRd_5R_

I also posted a more in-depth analysis of the game in my LP topic:

https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=5180.msg102249#msg102249

Quote from: Swerdis on August 23, 2026, 07:58:38 AMBesides Lemmings, I play several games, mostly role-playing or strategy. I'm glad to hear that people still like Age of Empires, and I do so as well. I play the Definitive Edition of AoE II for some years now. I don't play free mode, only the campaigns and on hard difficulty - only gold medals count.

Age of Empires is a classic! While I do have the definitive edition, I ended up scouring around the web to find the original, as I just missed the original sounds/music of the game too much. I honestly think the AoE DE doesn't do them justice sadly.

As for AoE 2, I need to rectify and play through that and its Conquerors expansion. I only played through the original AoE last year and I just stopped there without continuing through with AoE 2 as well. I have only played custom maps and the tutorial campaign. I still haven't played any of the other AoE 2 campaigns, though I believe I played a bit of the first AoE 2 campaign before I stopped out of frustration with the UI of the DE of the game.

Besides AoE and AoE 2, the only other game I owed in my childhood was Age of Mythology, which is kind of a spin-off of AoE but the gameplay is very similar.

I haven't bought AoE 3 or 4, so I don't know how they compare to the first two AoE games.

Quoteto step backwards one frame at a time [...] allows for levels which require framestepping shenanigans as part of their solution.

That's allowed already from the forwards framestepping after a restart (= a rewind to the beginning of the level). It's merely annoying to see how different variants of an assignment play out.

How does the culture demand/reward unassisted solving? Might be worth investigating the design issue from this side instead? I'd imagine everybody still pauses all the time.

Quote from: WillLem on August 23, 2026, 01:43:12 AMit's a shame that forwards framestepping was added. I accept it because even Amiga Lemmings has a pseudo 'forwards-framestep' (pressing and holding pause causes the game to repeatedly step forward one frame at a fixed rate).

You're aware of the game design issues, and you're aware of the costs of implementation. I agree that there is no clear route forward.

-- Simon

Besides Lemmings, I play several games, mostly role-playing or strategy. I'm glad to hear that people still like Age of Empires, and I do so as well. I play the Definitive Edition of AoE II for some years now. I don't play free mode, only the campaigns and on hard difficulty - only gold medals count.

Other games I frequently play are Stellaris (I love this game!) and Civilization VI (I don't particularly like CIV VII). As for role-playing games, I'm just about finishing Pillars of Eternity II. And - please don't laugh - I also like the Microsoft Flight Simulatur 2024. That's probably not even a game - but for me, it's totally relaxing after a hard day of work and when I have put my children to bed.

Oh wow, I really like what I see here, especially the object where you could put it being the exit to retain the black BG in the exit.

Alternative solution that I found to Planet 7 - A Study in Scarlet after I recently solved Moon 7 in NepsterLix. Replays attached, one for New Formats NL v2.0, and one for Old Formats NL v1.11.

Also links to the video solutions:

New Formats NL Planet 7 alternative solution - https://youtu.be/urfdpCJ4LCk

Old Formats NL Planet 7 alternative solution - https://youtu.be/ve6q5OutgkE

Wow, what an excellent and clever solution! When I found this for the NepsterLix version, I was completely blown away by the solution Note that the other solution that works on NepsterLems doesn't work on the NepsterLix version of the level. As such, IMHO this solution is much harder to find and hence Moon 7 from NepsterLix should be ranked higher! Because there are two solutions for the NepsterLems version, one of which is much easier and seems to be the only solution that most in the NL community know about, Planet 7 is placed fine as is, but yes, if that solution wasn't possible in NepsterLems then it should also be ranked higher!

In any case, this alternative solution to Planet 7 gives me a level idea of mine for my Lemmings Memories pack, so a BIG thank you to Nepster for this one and inspiring a level for my level pack!

I've also reattached my entire replay collection for both New Formats and Old Formats NL with the alternative Planet 7 replay solution included so that Planet 7 for both collections has two replays! Apparently I haven't posted my latter replay collection (I thought I did) I've done that now!

edit: Oops, looks like I didn't attach them when I said I did I've attached my replay collections now!

Finally, playlist of my video solutions for the Old Formats NL v1.11 of NepsterLems because apparently I didn't link to and post it in this topic either

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbp2m4KlFpJvy6ugFd5PkkGHlXYDbQ73y       

Solved the Paradise levels. These are excellent!

Been in a Tales Of mood lately so I've been giving Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology a try on PSP. It's pretty alright, I like the job system, but the gameplay gets surprisingly monotonous. The amount of strategies you can really deploy in battles is minimal and dungeon crawling is pretty slow, especially when it's tight corridors full of unavoidable enemies.

Seeing my favorite characters together in a goofy crossover makes it worth it though. Definitely the main selling point of the game. Hopefully the later games in the series make the gameplay more tasty, but, eh, I'll see.

Would help if it was multiplayer though--I'm so used to Tales games being multiplayer RPG fun, playing a single player one is surprisingly lonely!

I had it as a kid but I thought it was a little too convoluted and confusing to play. Definitely didn't like it as much as the original Lemmings games or even Paintball. I haven't played it since then, though, I'm interested in going back to it now that I have about 20 years of distance from my original experience.

The soundtrack is stellar though, I still listen to it to this day.

Thank you so much for understanding and for the warm welcome! I haven't been on a forum in about 12 years so I get a bit nervous about following etiquette.

I am happy and excited to be here!

Nice work! The fact you've pushed the limits of MS Paint to create this makes it particularly impressive