See the game in action

99Things is a small find-a-thing game where you look for things in puzzle squares and try to complete the puzzle as quickly as possible (or not!).

The game has been designed to use CGA Graphics (320 x 200 @ 4-Colors)

While it targets MS-DOS based computers from the 1980s it can run in DOSBox too!
It is released as Public Domain / Open Source and was written in Quickbasic 4.5

There are different modes you can play 99Things in:

  • QuickGame - Single, smaller board with less things to find. 
  • 99Things - 1 to 4 boards of 99 squares in size
  • Custom - play with lots of different settings!

With these modes you can choose to play a timed game, or a relaxing untimed game.
You can choose to clear things when you find them - to reduce the difficulty.

Download the full version with included source code here: 99Things v1.1a
Download a sample 360KB bootable disk image for your old school PC
Alternatively check the source out on GitHub

Want some more CGA based MS-DOS Action? - Check out my XyWords game here

Play In Browser

Thanks to JSDOS you can play 99Things right here in your browser.

Click here to play

System Requirements

99Things was designed to run on an IBM-PC or PC/XT but should run on newer PC's too

At a minimum: 8088 CPU at 4.77mhz or higher, 256KB RAM, CGA Graphics (320x200x4 colors), 200KB Floppy or Hard Disk Space

Recommended: 8088 or V20 CPU at 10mhz or higher, 512KB RAM, EGA Graphics, Mouse, Adlib Sound Card

You can run this in an emulator too if you prefer - DOSBox should be fine just set the cycles to match a 386SX or else the sound might be choppy.

Note: The game only runs in CGA mode. EGA Graphics will give you custom 4-color palettes!

Screenshots

Main Menu in CGA Mode

Custom Game Mode in CGA

Quick Game mode in CGA with "clear" things setting
99Things mode in CGA with Multi-board

EGA 4-Color mode is available too (for EGA/VGA Graphics Cards) and there are custom 4-color palettes to use too.

99Things mode running on an EGA Graphics Card
(4-Color mode)