After a long break I had time to work on the collection so I did, and over a short period I managed to complete it. It did require a fair bit of work, though.
I talked to Jeff Vance of Clickteam to ask about adding game pack games to the offering and he said yes. This is great because it means I could include the K&P Gamepack and CNC Space Games collection, but that also meant I had to get the games working on modern systems. This involved booting up my VM to load the AVI videos the games used in VirtualDub to convert them from a long-abandoned codec to one which is still supported.
I decided to move away from having a gazillion different releases for every game as too many games had tiny bugs in later Click tools and they mostly worked well enough when built in the original tools. Instead, I decided to bundle the tool with a PDF version of the article at https://www.create-games.com/article.asp?id=2327 to help people play old games. For some which really didn't work I re-built them on different tools.
I also worked to track down some of the old K&P Maxis games which were online releases of games featured in an old Klik & Play guide on making games. There are two games in that pack which I can't find online which are Soccer Death (designed by Will Wright, designer of SimCity and The Sims) and Normal's Quest (an RPG). If anyone has the originals released online then let me know.
I also created a guide to the games which to bundle with the .zip and finally I made a graphic to represent the games. Thanks to everyone who has supported this project!
For the finished product see: https://www.create-games.com/download.asp?id=9389
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