In the mid-90's, a software company called "Parroty Interactive" came and went. They pumped out a few pieces of software, each filled with minigames centered around a specific movie or TV show. Of these, they created "Star Warped" (a parody of "Star Wars") and "The X-Fools" (a parody of "The X-Files").
On the "Star Warped" disc, there was a demo for one of the minigames for the then-upcoming "X-Fools" disc, a PAC-MAN clone called "X-MAN". For the official release, the game's name would be changed to "Run, Agent, Run" (my guess would be to avoid confusion with another "X" property involving Mutants).
In the game, you play one of four stages, each one based around a classic episode of the "X-Files" TV show. You choose either Mulder or Scully (sometimes referred to in the included audio clips as "Mully" or "Scudder", even though the voice actors hop between using the 'real' names and the parody ones), and run around collecting folders (actual X "files", har har). Your power-up isn't a Power Pellet though, it's a gun, in which you have several seconds to shoot down the monsters roaming around the stage.
It's easily the most fun minigame on either of these discs, so thank The Little Green Men that it can be removed and isolated as its own launchable game!
Just launch "XMAN32" and you're good to go. If it won't open, run Troubleshoot Compatibility, and even when it launches and you get an error message, just hit "Continue". Trust me, it'll run on Windows 10.
However, if you complete the game and get a nice high score, you might want to Screenshot it, because once you close the game, your score'll disappear like a UFO into the night sky.
Enjoy!
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