Argos Gameware ships new ArtApart 3-D interlocking jigsaw puzzles for Windows.MAYWOOD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 1995--Argos Gameware is now shipping its new multimedia jigsaw puzzles for Windows. Its on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. interlocking interlocking /in·ter·lock·ing/ (-lok´ing) closely joined, as by hooks or dovetails; locking into one another. interlocking Obstetrics A rare complication of vaginal delivery of twins; the 1st pieces form wonderful color pictures from as few as 15 to more than a thousand pieces, at the player's option. The pieces have a 3-D look, and a 3-D play, where pieces can be hidden under other pieces on the on-screen playing table. Optional sound effects sound effects Noun, pl sounds artificially produced to make a play, esp. a radio play, more realistic sound effects npl → efectos mpl sonoros (requires sound card), animation and game table variations accompany the action as players slide the pictured pieces into place. The new ArtApart(TM) jigsaw puzzle set for Windows with 30 puzzle pictures is available for $39.95 (all prices suggested US resale at participating resellers; inquiries invited). Players begin by picking a picture and specifying how many pieces to cut. Each piece has the familiar little knobs and sockets of traditional interlocking jigsaw puzzles. There's extra fun on audio-capable systems, from the sounds of scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends cutting out the pieces and the pieces clicking into place during play to the sound of an admiring crowd once the puzzle is complete. Players who choose from the more challenging ArtApart game options will appreciate its ability to save puzzles in progress, and resume them later. Argos also offers new Argos Gameware Entertainment Digest(TM), Volume I for Windows ($29.95). Entertainment Digest, Volume I includes Alien Checkers checkers, game for two players, known in England as draughts. It is played on a square board, divided into 64 alternately colored—usually red and black or white and black—square spaces, identical with a chessboard. , Jewel Thief, Maze Master, DoubleMatch and Quadrille quadrille Dance for four couples in square formation, fashionable from the late 18th through the 19th century. Imported to England from Parisian ballrooms in 1815, it consisted of four or five contredanses (see solitaire solitaire or patience, any card game that can be played by one person. Solitaire is the American name; in England it is known as patience. There are probably more kinds of solitaire than all other card games together. plus sample ArtApart and WordHunter puzzles. The Argos Gameware Division (founded 1994) of H&M Systems Software Inc. creates non-violent computer game software. While there is no killing, no violence and nothing in these games requiring parental intervention, there is still fun and provocatively challenging action throughout the scores of games in the Argos collection. For further information contact Argos Gameware Division, H&M Systems Software Inc., 25 East Spring Valley Ave., Maywood, N.J. 07607-2150; phone 201/845-3357; fax: 201/845-4638. -0- NOTE: Argos Gameware(TM), Entertainment Digest(TM) and ArtApart(TM) are trademarks of H&M Systems Software Inc. EDITORS ONLY: Contact Martin Winston, Newstips Inc., 13830 Braeburn Lane, Novelty, OH 44072 216/338-8400 fax: 216/338-3480 Black & white or color photography
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