Skyroads is a fun action game, where you must steer your rocket-propelled mobile capable of jumping through a track of floating panels, tunnels and obstacles. Special panels fuel your ship, speed or slow it or just plain destroy you. Graphics are made with neat, functional plain vectors-- it ain't fancy, but in some tracks the geometrical design and use of colours result in minimalistic beauty. Sweet ole Adlib-music adds to the game's atmosphere, which in itself is consistent. Gameplay is well-though, balanced to be challenging but not too fustrating. Player has an unlimited supply of ships and a loss of one isn't really noted (you just have to restart the track), which is great since you really have to fail a couple of times before you can unravel the secrets of each track.
Overall, Skyroads is highly recommended to anyone who likes arcade racing games. Two thumbs up! Formerly shareware, the game has recently been released as freeware by its developer Bluemoon Interactive, along with the rare X-Mas edition, and early EGA version of the game called Kosmonaut. Three cheers to Bluemoon, and let's hope that more game companies will follow suit :)
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It may be hard to believe, but I am someone who saved this game on a 3.5-inch 2DD floppy disk and ran it directly from DOS. If my memory serves me correctly, I once stored the Windows 95 installation disk on 20 to 30 3.5-inch 2DD floppy disks instead of a CD-ROM. Determined to reinstall Windows 95 even if the world were to end, I treasured those 3.5-inch 2DD floppy disks. However, I recall that one of the disks got wet, forcing me to discard them all.
Who didn't have this game on a CD somewhere? Great mindless time waster at the time
Don't know if anyone can relate, but the memory of this game that stuck with me the most was that satisfying bouncing sound of the ship landing a jump.
Demo version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240316013202/http://www.bluemoon.ee:80/history/skyroads/skydemo.zip
Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeYgYhPGPlM
Beta version (titled as "Cosmonaut 2"): https://archive.org/details/Skyroads_Beta_Cosmonaut2
Thank You! I played this game in the mid-nineties at my best friend's house on his Compaq with Intel Pentium 1 processor. I can't wait to play it again.
OH GOD THIS GAME FINALLY!!!
I so remember playing this game way back in summer of 2001, with Need For Speed 2 SE on my Windows 98 PC. Had been looking for the game for more than a decade honestly.
Classic awesome game!!!
This classic brings back so many fond memories of playing DOS with my friends back in the Day Care Days. We spent hours on this & Tank Wars as well. Beautiful Times!
RAMU BAYA: Did you crash a lot?
Awesome childhood game!
Fun childhood game, I remember this game used to annoy the shit out of me, tried it again, still does, but still fun.
I am not sure that I finished this one or my brother did but I am sure this one had depressed me a lot. Haha. I feel thanks to the developer who gave me such wonderful times :)
"RAMU BAYA:SOOOOOO BORING"?!?!?!? WTF This game is one the best MS-Dos Classics I used to spend hours playing just the demo as a kid
and to those of that have trouble loading a 16-Bit MS-Dos application on a 32-Bit or 64-Bit Operating System go research dosbox actually research what it does don't just use it you'll do yourself a big favor by understanding that a 32/64-Bit OS can't run 16-Bit applications
:O the two first games (and a bit later Worms 2) that i ever played was Skyroads and DX-Ball! Ze nostalgia!
:O the two first games (and a bit later Worms 2) was Skyroads and DX-Ball! Ze nostalgia!
Nice game
Boring!?!?! No way.. Skyroads was an absolute classic. Very challenging game. I've spent many hours on this one back in the 90's and also in more recent years. Classic.
SOOOOOO BORING
This is very nice.
a lot of nights spent with friends and after go late to bed with the red eyes
will it work for windows 7
thanks
super. i like sky roads.
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