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Baby Jo in Going Home
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1991, Loriciel Baby Jo is a quite fun jump’n run game by Loriciel – a bit similar to SEGA’s classic Wonderboy. You are baby Jo, a baby (in diapers, no less) who has to struggle through many levels to find…
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Booly
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Cribier Franck GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1991, Loriciel Booly is a fun puzzle game similar to Tetris but with a dash of electronics circuitry thrown in. The goal, as in all good puzzlers, is easy to say but hard to achieve: you have to bring…
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Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1992, Loriciel Bumby’s Arcade Fantasy is a mediocre action-puzzle game. Easy game principle, the typical “steer a jumping ball through obstacle-filled rooms while collecting stuff” game with some nice twists. Very easy at first, gets more difficult and complicated in…
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Mach 3
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:V. Baillet GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1987, Loriciel Mach 3 is a classic 3D shooter by Loriciel with a typical Michel Winogradoff sampled title tune – very cool. The action is very smooth and fast, and overall it’s a very polished CGA game that manages…
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Sherman M4
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:D. Arnaud & P. Jarry GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1989, Loriciel Sherman M4 is an oldie combat tank simulation by Loriciel. The game is set in a World War II scenario and offers most of the things you would expect from a game in this…
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Skweek
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1989, Loriciel Skweek is a decent PC conversion of Loriciel’s fun action/puzzle game, in which you control a wooly something over many levels, colouring the platform pieces by walking over them. Of course, there are many extras, bonuses and dangers…
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Space Racer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1988, Loriciel Space Racer is an oldie futuristic racing game with a “blast your opponents out of the way” action element. Quite fun and as in Mach 3, there’s a cool Michel Winogradoff sampled PC-speaker title tune. Should be played…
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Tennis Cup
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Dominique Sablons GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Zoo Copyright 1990, Loriciel Tennis Cup is yet another tennis simulation that came out in the early 90’s. Graphically, the game is a beauty with typical Sablons characters and design. It offers many options and play modes, such as Davis…
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Tennis Cup II
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Dominique Sablons GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1992, Loriciel Nice follow-up to Loriciel’s tennis game Tennis Cup from 1990. Gameplay has been nicely improved in this one, so finally you can also produce good strokes and winners more often from the baseline, than just from the…
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Timerace
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1990, Loriciel A fun variant of classic Chinese boardgame Tangram, Loriciel’s Timerace is more similar to QQP’s later underdog Origamo, but with simpler gameplay and tougher time limit. In each level, you are given triangles of different colors, four of…
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Tiny Skweeks
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1992, Loriciel Tiny Sweek is a nice puzzle game starring the Skweek characters. Starts very easy but gets a bit more challenging in later levels. The goal of the game is to get every Skweek to the pad with the…
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Turbo Cup
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1987, Loriciel Oldie arcade-style racing game by Loriciel. Features four different tracks to race on. Very nice for its time with good smooth graphics – for CGA standards. Similar to Br?derbund’s SuperBike Challenge, but with less emphasis on realism and…
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Westphaser
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1989, Loriciel Westphaser is a very nice Operation Wolf-style shoot’em up by Loriciel set in a Wild West scenario. Gameplay is simple: shoot targets as they appear on screen. Shooting innocents will penalize you, while shooting baddies earn score. Despite…
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Gazillionaire
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:LavaMind GAME PUBLISHER:LavaMind Copyright 1998, LavaMind One of the most entertaining Monopoly-style games ever made, Gazillionaire is a great multiplayer galactic trading game that combines solid gameplay with plenty of humor, replete with bizarre alien commodities subject to a wicked supply/demand curve. Gazillionaire is…
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FunRun
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:TerraTools GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, TerraTools An incredibly addictive game developed as a marketing gimmick for the German Karstadt AG for the relaunch of its e-commerce platform “my world,” FunRun is a colorful first-person driving game that features excellent 3D graphics, smooth animations, and…
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International Athletics
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1993, Zeppelin Games Also known as Olympic Games 92 (that one published by Opera Soft), International Athletics is another sports games collection in the style of Epyx’s C64 classic Summer Games or MindSpan’s Summer Challenge. Quite a decent…
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International Soccer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1994, Zeppelin Games Soccer game similar to Sensible Soccer. At first, it looks quite promising and graphically it can keep up with the popular game by Sensible Software. But International Soccer is really lacking in terms of gameplay.…
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International Tennis
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1993, Zeppelin Games Tennis game with ok graphics, nice sound and very good gameplay. It’s very easy to get some great shots together. When I first played the game, I complained about the lack of options, the extremly…
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Panza Kick Boxing
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Futura GAME PUBLISHER:Futura Copyright 1990, Futura Panza Kick Boxing is a very nice PC conversion of the classic Amiga kick boxing game by French company Futura. Probably one of the best fighting games ever made (and one of the few Thai boxing games in…
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Santa’s Xmas Caper
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1993, Zeppelin Games Jump’n run platformer starring “super-hero” Santa Claus, equipped with a load of snow balls, in his world-important mission to find the lost Christmas presents. Zeppelin’s rather pathetic attempt to corner the Christmas market is quite…
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Peter Schmeichel Soccer Manager
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1994, Zeppelin Games Peter Schmeichel Soccer Manager is a fairly primitive soccer management simulation of the English league. The relation with the Danish star is, as usual, just in the title and title pic. Choose your club, buy/sell…
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Sink or Swim
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ian Copeland & John Murphy GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1993, Zeppelin Games A fun action-puzzle game that nicely crosses elements from Lemmings, jump’n run games and [a James Cameron movie minus love story]. The SS Lucifer is sinking and so you’re off to…
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Stack-up
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Sanders GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1993, Zeppelin Games Stack-up is a little variation on the well-known and often copied Tetris type of game. Instead of vertical rows of blocks, you will have to handle horizontal rows of blocks in this one. As…
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Advanced Destroyer Simulator
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:D. Arnaud GAME DEVELOPER:Futura GAME PUBLISHER:Futura Copyright 1990, Futura Naval warfare simulator set in World War II, in which you control a British destroyer covering missions in The Mediterranean, The English Channel and The North Sea. Advanced Destroyer Simulator has an easy interface and nice graphics…
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Bully’s Sporting Darts
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Alternative GAME PUBLISHER:Alternative Copyright 1993, Alternative Well, you won’t play darts with tennis or golf balls in this game – although the game title and box cover might tell you that. Bully’s Sporting Darts is a fairly decent darts simulation, or better said: It’s…
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American Gladiators
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Imagitec Design GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1992, GameTek A mini-games collection based on that Amercian TV show thingie of the same name, probably one of the dumbest things ever to hit the TV screen. The game was developed by Imagitec Design, designers of such popular…
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Huckleberry Hound
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Alternative GAME PUBLISHER:Alternative Copyright 1993, Alternative Huckleberry Hound is a straight-forward jump’n run by Alternative Software featuring the Hanna-Barbera comic character. It’s your solid platform game, as used by other low-budget titles from, eg., Codemasters. Nice colourful VGA graphics – although a bit more…
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Popeye 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Alternative GAME PUBLISHER:Alternative Copyright 1992, Alternative Popeye 2 is a fairly poor jump’n run featuring the popular comic hero with an affection for smoking green grass, for a thin woman and as an abnormal feature in this game – jumping – although this was…
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Suburban Commando
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jason Heggie & Shadligh Dale GAME DEVELOPER:Alternative GAME PUBLISHER:Alternative Copyright 1993, Alternative Suburban Commando is a multi-style action game based on the movie of the same name. Features a fairly poor R-Type clone level, three standard jump’n run levels and three beat’em up levels. Well, quite…
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Arcade Trivia Quiz
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tony Reeves GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1993, Zeppelin Games Arcade Trivia Quiz is a trivia gameshow featuring many questions from various categories. Although it supports up to three players, playing solo is interminably boring, since there is no computer players– unless you like…
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Arnie 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Carlyle GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1993, Zeppelin Games Arnie 2 is a fun isometric view action shooter by Zeppelin. Nothing special here, but the game has vibrant VGA graphics, nice MOD music and pretty tough levels. In a plot that is similar…
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Carnage
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1993, Zeppelin Games Carnage is a nice little overhead racer in the style of Atari’s arcade classic Super Sprint. Progress in races to earn money, spend it on car improvements, nitro-fuel or mines – handy for staying on…
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Volfied
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Richard Horrocks GAME DEVELOPER:Taito GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1991, Empire Interactive Good conversion of Taito’s popular arcade game of the same name. The PC version adds many bonuses and extras to the original from the early 80’s. The game is very similar to an early game…
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SnowCraft
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kevin Chiu GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Kevin Chiu A cute little game that obviously takes its inspiration from a similar-sounding Blizzard blockbuster, SnowCraft is a fast and furious action game that features very smooth graphics, simple yet addictive gameplay, and that magical “just one…
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Gazza II
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Empire Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1991, Empire Interactive Poor soccer/manager mix endorsed by Britain’s “bad boy” Paul Gascoigne. You have the option to play either a standard soccer game or the management option only. Nice idea, but both are executed too poorly to…
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Pipe Mania
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Assembly Line, The GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1989, Empire Interactive A very addictive puzzle game, Pipe Mania is the European release of LucasFilm’s original Pipe Dreams. The game idea wasn’t new when it came out, but Pipe Mania executes the lay-random-tiles-to-form-a-pipe principle very well,…
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FenceOut
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:ZapSpot GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, ZapSpot A fun and innovative variation of Taito’s classic arcade game Qix, FenceOut is a fun little game in which you are a farmer who must set up fences to domesticate wild animals. Your goal in FenceOut is to…
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Campaign
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jonathan Griffiths GAME DEVELOPER:Empire Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1991, Empire Interactive “Billed as a strategic-tactical simulation of the World War II Western Front, it was marginally adequate on the former level and an arcade rendition of the latter. Some interface inadequacies contributed to the “vanillaness”…
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Picture Hunter
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Choopan Rattanapooka & Prapapan Thongmuang GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Choopan Rattanapooka & Prapapan Thongmuang A fun computer version of well-known “spot the difference” games that were popular in kids’ magazines, Picture Hunter features dozens of images to. Gameplay will be familiar to anyone who…
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Skuld
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Banpresto GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Banpresto A cute action game starring Skuld, the goddess from hit Japanese anime Ah! Megami-sama! (Ah! My Goddess!) series, Skuld is a fun mini-action game that features great animation, sounds, and addictive (albeit simplistic) gameplay. True to her job…
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P-47
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tim Roberts & Andrew King GAME DEVELOPER:Firebird GAME PUBLISHER:Firebird Copyright 1989, Firebird P-47 is a good PC conversion of Jaleco’s arcade game of the same name. A decent side-scrolling shoot’em up set in World War II. Two players can fight their way through at the same…
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Sentinel, The
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Geoff Crammond GAME DEVELOPER:Firebird GAME PUBLISHER:Firebird Copyright 1987, Firebird One of the most original games of all time, The Sentinel is one of Geoff Crammond’s early games, and quite an unusual one for him as it is everything but a racing game. The PC version, like…
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Weird Dreams
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Herman Serrano & James Hutchby GAME DEVELOPER:Rainbird GAME PUBLISHER:Rainbird Copyright 1990, Rainbird Weird Dreams is a very original surrealistic action/puzzle hybrid that is frustratingly difficult. The premise is strange but simple: you are a hospital patient, being put to sleep during a surgery. You then start…
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Allan Border’s Cricket
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Audiogenic GAME PUBLISHER:Audiogenic Copyright 1994, Audiogenic Probably the world’s best cricket game until Electronic Arts’ EA Sports version years later, Allan Border’s Cricket is also known as Graham Gooch World Class Cricket, Jonty Rhodes II World Class Cricket, and probably a myriad other names…
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Impact
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Audiogenic GAME PUBLISHER:Audiogenic Copyright 1988, Audiogenic Impact! is a quite good Breakout clone by Audiogenic with simple graphics but they do their job quite well. The bonus-system works a bit different to the usual Arkanoid way, in that you pick up an “extra-increaser” item…
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Loopz
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ian Upton GAME DEVELOPER:Audiogenic GAME PUBLISHER:Audiogenic Copyright 1990, Audiogenic Another nice little puzzle game that’s just right to play in that little break, Loopz is a faithful PC version of classic Atari game for the Atari ST computer. The game idea is fairly simple: place random…
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Ra
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Rainbow Arts GAME PUBLISHER:Rainbow Arts Copyright 1990, Rainbow Arts The mighty Egyptian god Ra has transformed you into a Scarabeus and then put you into the depths of a pyramid for 1000 years. The only chance Ra left you to get back to human…
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Exterminator
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Frank Prasse GAME DEVELOPER:Assembly Line, The GAME PUBLISHER:Audiogenic Copyright 1990, Audiogenic A faithful conversion of Gottlieb’s 1989 arcade game that was practically unknown outside Germany. Exterminator is an unusual shoot’em up with some nifty ideas, although it may be too strange for most people. The plot…