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Super Dune 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:PowerC GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1994, PowerC Dune 2 was THE real-time strategy game that single-handedly created a new hot genre and catapulted Westwood to fame. Two years after its release, a group of Dune 2 fans created a special version of the game called…
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Super Fighter
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kwan Chuan Hoa & Ho Miung Li GAME DEVELOPER:C&E Inc. GAME PUBLISHER:C&E Inc. Copyright 1993, C&E Inc. One of the better Street Fighter 2 clones, Super Fighter features imaginative moves, special attacks, and fluid animations. As in Street Fighter 2, fighters that hail from all over…
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Super Hang-On
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Quicksilver GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1987, SEGA A faithful arcade conversion of a fun motorcycle racing games, with a lot of tracks and motorcycles to choose from. Much less realistic and more action-oriented than Accolade’s Cycles: Grand Prix International Racing, and overall is far too…
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Super Sango Fighter
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Death Adder GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Death Adder As the title suggests, this game is an ingenious home-brew game that pits fighters from Sango Fighter against those from Super Fighter in the ultimate fighting match. Death Adder did a great job ripping all graphics,…
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Super Solvers: Operation Neptune
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1990, Learning Company, The Another excellent game in The Learning Company’s outstanding “Super Solvers” series, Operation Neptune is a math edutainment title similar to Treasure Mountain, but aimed at older kids. As with other Super Solvers…
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Super Solvers: Spellbound!
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1990, Learning Company, The Yet another excellent title in The Learning Company’s “Super Solvers” line, Super Solvers Spellbound! offers one thousand words in four amusing games: Word Search, Flash Card, Criss Cross, and Spelling Bee. The…
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Super Solvers: Ancient Empires
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1991, Learning Company, The A fun edutainment title designed for kids ages 7 to 10, Ancient Empires is anoter solid game in The Learning Company’s celebrated “Super Solvers” line. Ancient Empires is a basically a treasure…
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Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1993, Learning Company, The One of the best games in The Learning Company’s “Super Solver” line, Gizmos & Gadgets is a great edutainment title that aims to teach principles of physical science found in everyday items…
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Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1990, Learning Company, The Designed for kids ages 7 to 10, Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue is a great educational game that aims at improving kid’s vocabulary. Gameplay is similar to Spellbound, but designed for older kids.…
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Super Solvers: Mission T.H.I.N.K.
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1994, Learning Company, The The last and arguably best game in The Learning Company’s outstanding “Super Solvers,” Mission T.H.I.N.K. teaches a wide range of skills while making the graphics and gameplay even more attractive. The evil…
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Super Solvers: Outnumbered!
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1989, Learning Company, The A fun game in the popular “Super Solvers” series, Outnumbered! was designed for kids ages 7 to 10 to help build basic mathematical skills, such as number recognition, counting, and basic algebraic…
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Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1989, Learning Company, The Treasure Mountain is a fun educational adventure in the successful “Super Solvers” series from The Learning Company. It is also the first in “Treasure” sub-series that had a few more games. Designed…
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Super Star Wars
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softgold GAME PUBLISHER:LucasFilm Games Copyright 1994, LucasFilm Games This is the never-released PC version of a console side-scrolling platform game from LucasArts. The game follows the plot of the first Star Wars very closely– as Luke Skywalker, you must fight your way from the…
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Super Tetris
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Alexei Pajitnov GAME DEVELOPER:Spectrum Holobyte GAME PUBLISHER:Spectrum Holobyte Copyright 1991, Spectrum Holobyte This follow-up to the hugely popular Tetris didn’t do as well commercially, but it does offer a lot of neat twists to the falling block concepts: two-player mode, special items such as bombs that…
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Superman
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:First Star GAME PUBLISHER:Capstone Copyright 1988, First Star The only comic book conversion so far that features the Man of Steel despite his being the most well-known of all superheroes, Superman is a fun action game that features both 3D airborne sequences where Superman…
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Supernova
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Scott Miller GAME DEVELOPER:Apogee GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1986, Apogee Scott Miller’s Beyond The Titanic and Supernova are two atmospheric, well-written IF that have sadly been ignored by the gaming public, perhaps due to the fact that their publisher Apogee is better known as an action game…
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SuperStar Ice Hockey
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ed Ringler GAME DEVELOPER:SporTime GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape Copyright 1987, Mindscape Ed Ringler immediately went from being a no-name designer to one of the most venerable sports game designers of all time with this underrated hockey classic that is almost as close as it gets except for the…
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SuperStar Soccer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ed Ringler GAME DEVELOPER:SporTime GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape Copyright 1988, Mindscape One of the most innovative and well-rounded soccer games ever, SuperStar Soccer was designed by wunderkind designer Ed Ringler whose SuperStar Ice Hockey won critical acclaim that was unfortunately not translated into big sales. And so it…
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Supremacy
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Perry & Nick Bruty GAME DEVELOPER:Probe Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1993, Virgin Interactive A great galactic domination game, Supremacy (known in Europe as Overlord) rivals better-known classic Master of Orion in solid gameplay and excellent AI, although with a less intuitive user interface and…
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Sword of Aragon
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Russell Shilling GAME DEVELOPER:Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) GAME PUBLISHER:Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) Copyright 1989, Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) Regarded by many wargamers as THE best fantasy wargame ever made, SSI’s Sword of Aragon is a true precursor of later classics Conquered Kingdoms and SSI’s own Fantasy…
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Sword of Honour
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Dynafield GAME PUBLISHER:Prestige Copyright 1993, Prestige This is a fun side-scrolling action game that did quite well on the Amiga but went unnoticed on the PC. Easy enemies and somewhat repetitive levels are made up for by excellent graphics and a lot of exotic…
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Sword of The Samurai
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Lawrence Schick GAME DEVELOPER:MicroProse GAME PUBLISHER:MicroProse Copyright 1992, MicroProse Sword of The Samurai is a rare gem undiscovered by many gamers. It’s very strange that the game did not garner any “Hall of Fame” status in computer magazines, because it is the best game ever made…
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T.K.O.
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Accolade GAME PUBLISHER:Accolade Copyright 1989, Accolade Arguably the first boxing games for PC to feature a first-person perspective (bouts in most other games were played from a side view), T.K.O. boasts great graphics for its time and realistic depiction of the boxers’ conditions (black…
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TacOps
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Major Holdridge GAME DEVELOPER:Arsenal Publishing GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1997, Major Holdridge Regarded by many wargamers as the BEST complex wargame ever made, TacOps is a simulation of modern tactical combat between US Army/US Marine Corps/Canadian Army and Russian equipped “opposing forces” (OPFOR). Most vehicles, unit organisations…
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Tag Team Wrestling
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Quicksilver GAME PUBLISHER:Data East Copyright 1984, Data East A decent conversion of the arcade game, Tag Team Wrestling, which itself was only an average game. Nothing really sets the game apart from other wrestling games, although it was one of the first. The controls…
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Take a Break! Crossword 1
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Sierra On-Line Copyright 1992, Dynamix Part of Sierra’s avalanche of “budget” games in the early 1990s, Take a Break! Crossword 1 and 2 actually delivers more “bang for the buck” than most other budget titles. It features dozens of puzzles from Dell…
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Take a Break! Crossword 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Sierra On-Line Copyright 1993, Dynamix Part of Sierra’s avalanche of “budget” games in the early 1990s, Take a Break! Crossword 1 and 2 actually delivers more “bang for the buck” than most other budget titles. It features dozens of puzzles from Dell…
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Take a Break! Pinball
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Sierra On-Line Copyright 1993, Dynamix Second and last in Sierra’s underrated Take a Break! series that began with Take a Break! Crossword, this is a good pinball game that eschews realistic ball motions in favor of fast action and imaginative tables based…
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Take Your Best Shot
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:7th Level GAME PUBLISHER:7th Level Copyright 1995, 7th Level This is a cool collection of screen savers and mini-games based on oscar-nominated cartoonist Bill Plympton’s works, which are like a cross between Dilbert and Monty Python: deadpan and sleazy humor that make fun of…
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Talisman: Changing the Sands of Time
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Polarware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1987, Polarware One of the few games set in exotic Arabia, Talisman combines the well-known Arabian myths of genies and evil vizors into a captivating game. As a Persian hero, find the legendary Talisman to destroy the evil genie who…
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Tandy MS-DOS v2.11
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bill Gates GAME DEVELOPER:Tandy Corporation GAME PUBLISHER:Tandy Corporation Copyright 1988, Tandy Corporation This version of MS-DOS is tailored for Tandy IBM-compatible BIOS only. Therefore, it will not boot under other systems. It should come in handy to anyone who has a Tandy computer but lacks a…
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Tank
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Spectrum Holobyte GAME PUBLISHER:Spectrum Holobyte Copyright 1991, Spectrum Holobyte Tank is a modern tank simulation that showcases Spectrum Holobyte’s strength in ultra-realistic simulation, although it never achieve the level of acclaim that Falcon 3.0 garnered. Tank is similar to Microprose’s best-selling M-1 Tank Platoon…
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Tapestry
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Daniel Ravipinto GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1996, Daniel Ravipinto Tapestry won second place at the second Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, and deservedly so. It is similar to Photopia in the way that the author clearly focuses more on the story and atmosphere than actual puzzles…
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Tapper
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ken Jordan GAME DEVELOPER:Midway GAME PUBLISHER:Midway Copyright 1983, Midway Good graphics, great gameplay– what else does a game need? Serve beer to customers and also collect the mugs back… a bartender’s job has never been better illustrated. I remember spending hours in vain on this game…
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Targhan
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Pascal Einsweiler & Michel Pernot GAME DEVELOPER:Silmarils GAME PUBLISHER:Silmarils Copyright 1989, Silmarils A straightforward platform game with a simple kill-the-evil-foozle plot, Targhan recalls Psygnosis’ earlier Barbarianbut with better graphics and more difficult monsters. Overall, it’s a standard side-scrolling affair that has some nice graphical effects and…
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Task Force 1942
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:MicroProse GAME PUBLISHER:MicroProse Copyright 1992, MicroProse One of the best and most overlooked naval wargame ever, Task Force 1942 lets you command either the American or the Japanese fleet in the most crucial naval battles of World War 2 in the Pacific theatre. The…
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Tau Ceti
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Pete Cooke & John Twiddy GAME DEVELOPER:CRL Group GAME PUBLISHER:Thunder Mountain Copyright 1987, Thunder Mountain One of the best games ever made for Commodore 64 that sadly got little attention on other systems, Tau Ceti is a classic space simulation that is still regarded by some…
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Techno Cop
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Chris Gray GAME DEVELOPER:Imagexcel GAME PUBLISHER:US Gold Copyright 1988, US Gold Techno Cop is a good futuristic cop game that offers two game styles: racing and platform shooter. Your job is simple: first, make your way to a crime scene. The screen shows your damage (it…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Image Works GAME PUBLISHER:Konami Copyright 1991, Konami After starting on a good start with the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, Konami fumbled the license with this inferior sequel, subtitiled The Arcade Game. The graphics somehow becomes so grainy and dull that you’ll have…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Missions
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Konami GAME PUBLISHER:Konami Copyright 1992, Konami One of the best superheroes action games ever made, Manhattan Missions is the third game in Konami’s line of platform games based on the lucrative license. The third time is really a charm for this game, as the…
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Tennis Elbow
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Goto Software GAME PUBLISHER:Goto Software Copyright 1998, Goto Software Despite having a curious name that describes an ailment associated with the sport, Tennis Elbow is quite an enjoyable arcade-style tennis game. The gameplay is quite easy because the ball is not *allowed* to go…
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Terminal Velocity
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mark Randel GAME DEVELOPER:Terminal Reality GAME PUBLISHER:3D Realms Copyright 1995, 3D Realms This is a fun, innovative 3D shooter that combines good graphics with knuckle-blistering gameplay. Pilot a futuristic vehicle in numerous blow-everything-in-sight missions. What sets Terminal Velocity apart from other 3D games is the cool…
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Terminator 2029, The
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Bethesda Softworks GAME PUBLISHER:Bethesda Softworks Copyright 1992, Bethesda Softworks Bethesda’s second game based on the hit Terminator movie sports a much-improved game engine that displays impressive graphics, but also has quite a few bugs. The game could be considered a “remake” of The Terminator,…
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Terminator, The
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Julian LeFay GAME DEVELOPER:Bethesda Softworks GAME PUBLISHER:Bethesda Softworks Copyright 1991, Bethesda Softworks An excellent and inventive 3D action game that casts you as either The Terminator or Reese from the hit movie of the same name. Although primarily an action game, the typical shoot-em-up formula is…