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GAME DEVELOPER:Technos Japan
GAME PUBLISHER:Technos Japan
Copyright 1993, Technos Japan
Kunio-kun no Dodge Ball for the SNES is definitely the best dodgeball game, and among the best console sports games ever. Released only in Japan, the game has been translated into English, thanks to the efforts of Azelistic fangroup. Dodgeball [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Magnetic Fields
GAME PUBLISHER:Gremlin
Copyright 1990, Magnetic Fields
Supercars is a fun top-down racing game stylistically reminiscent of – and probably influenced by – Super Sprint series. Designed by a talented group of programmers who later produced the Lotus series of games (only the last of which was released [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Attention to Detail (ATD)
GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis
Copyright 1999, Attention to Detail (ATD)
Rollcage is a fun futuristic racer from Attention to Detail (ATD), a short-lived UK developer. Published by Psygnosis in 1999, the game did not sell very well despite introducing a number of cool features to the genre [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Michiel van de Panne & Cedric Lee
GAME DEVELOPER:Motion Playground
GAME PUBLISHER:Motion Playground
Copyright 2001, Motion Playground
One of the best “physics-based” games I have ever played, Ski Stunt Simulator is a great game that superbly emulates the physics involved in performing acrobatic ski stunts. In addition to a very authentic [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Rayland Interactive
GAME PUBLISHER:Project 2 Interactive
Copyright 1998, Project 2 Interactive
Mad Trax is a decent space racing game that unfortunately brings little innovation to the crowded genre. Sharky Extreme’s review explains quite well why this is merely an average underdog:
“The idea for the game is simple. As in [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Accolade
GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts
Copyright 1997, Accolade
Test Drive: Off-Road is a disappointing entry in Accolade’s classic Test Drive series. Even a rocking soundtrack cannot save this marginal underdog from mediocrity. Greg Kasavin’s review at GameSpot says it all:
“The ancient conflict of man vs. nature rears its proverbial head [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Telstar
GAME PUBLISHER:Telstar
Copyright 1998, Telstar
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GAME DESIGNER:Mat Dickie
GAME DEVELOPER:MDickie
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2003, Mat Dickie
Big BumpZ is an addictive and original freeware wrestling game from Mat “MDickie” Dickie, maker of a fun series of wrestling game including Wrestling Mpire and Booking Mpire. In Big BumpZ, your goal is not to battle opponents in wrestling matches, [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Mat Dickie
GAME DEVELOPER:MDickie
GAME PUBLISHER:MDickie
Copyright 2004, Mat Dickie
Booking Mpire is an excellent wrestling management simulation from Mat “MDickie” Dickie, arguablye among the world’s most underrated “lone wolf” designers. This is no average wrestling game: instead of playing a wrestler, you play a promoter who must boost the popularity [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Namco
GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape
Copyright 1988, Namco
Pole Position II is a decent EGA/VGA conversion of Namco’s arcade hit of the same name. The premise is the same as the original: drive your F1 as fast as possible to qualify for “pole position” in the race. The only differences from [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Shawn Bird
GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix
GAME PUBLISHER:Sierra On-Line
Copyright 2001, Dynamix
An unfortunate casualty of when Sierra (or more accurately, Havas Interactive) shut down Dynamix in 2001, Minigolf Maniacs is a superb unreleased mini golf game that was 80% complete – less than a month from going gold – when the axe [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Simon Read
GAME DEVELOPER:New Star Games
GAME PUBLISHER:New Star Games
Copyright 2004, Simon Read
New Star Soccer 2 is a wonderfully unique and addictive shareware underdog about the life of a footballer. Arguably the world’s first “footballer simulation,” your goal in NSS2 is to become the best footballer on the planet [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Gremlin
GAME PUBLISHER:Gremlin
Copyright 1996, Gremlin
UEFO Euro 96 England (Euro 96 for short) is a fun and quite unknown football game from Gremlin. Although based on its Actua Soccer engine, Euro 96 is slightly worse than most in the series, perhaps due to Gremlin rushing it out the [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Dreams Multimedia
GAME PUBLISHER:Digital Dreams Multimedia
Copyright 1997, Digital Dreams Multimedia
World Wide Rally from Digital Dreams Multimedia (DDM) is an average first-person rally racing game. A wide variety of rally cars and courses unfortunately do not make up for the game’s many shortcomings, chief among which is [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Bethesda Softworks
GAME PUBLISHER:Bethesda Softworks
Copyright 1995, Bethesda Softworks
This concise review at GameSpot says it all about this lackluster bowling game from Bethesda that could have been great:
“I’m sure there are people out there saying “Yeah, football and baseball are great, but when is a bowling game for [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Distinctive Software
GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape
Copyright 1991, Distinctive Software
Arguably THE best action-oriented boxing game ever made for the PC, 4-D Boxing is a revolutionary sports title from Distinctive Software that does to the boxing genre what Stunts does for racing. Trixter in his review at MobyGames says it all [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Nadeo
GAME PUBLISHER:Digital Jesters
Copyright 2004, Nadeo
The best Stunts!-style game I have ever seen barring the original classic, TrackMania is a wonderful underdog from French developer Nadeo, published exclusively on-line by Digital Jesters. The excellent review at PC Gameworld says it all:
“It’s a strange truth that sheer simplicity [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Alan Roireau
GAME DEVELOPER:Quest Inc.
GAME PUBLISHER:Avalon Hill
Copyright 1985, Avalon Hill
An early pioneer in the genre of American football that was not nearly half as good as NFL Challenge. Ostentatiously based on Avalon Hill’s best-selling football boardgame, Super Bowl Sunday is much more simplistic than the board game classic, [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Konami
GAME PUBLISHER:Konami
Copyright 2002, Konami
First of all, let me make this clear:
THIS GAME IS NOT PRO EVO SOCCER/WINNING ELEVEN
Fine. Now that I’ve warned about this, let me explain a bit further. By the turn of the millenia, the ISS franchise was split into two games: Pro Evolution/Winning [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Codemasters
GAME PUBLISHER:Codemasters
Copyright 1994, Codemasters
The Premiership is a decent football (soccer to you Americans) management simulation from Codemasters. Your job, as the name implies, is to guide a team of your choice to the top of British premier league. While it won’t compete with the venerable Championship [...]