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King Pin
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Team 17 GAME PUBLISHER:Team 17 Copyright 1995, Team 17 Well, bowling is probably not one of those sports that cry for a computer conversion, but King Pin is actually a very nice game. In the style of Access Software’s oldie 10th Frame Bowling, but…
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Reach for The Skies
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Rowan GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1993, Rowan Following their success with Flight of the Intruder, Rowan’s second flight sim focused on WWII’s famous “Battle of Britain”. Reach for the Skies is an excellent combat flight simulator giving you the option to take part in…
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Overdrive
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Team 17 GAME PUBLISHER:Team 17 Copyright 1995, Team 17 Overdrive is a fun fast-paced overhead racing game by Team 17. In the style of Magnetic Field’s Super Cars 2, although not as enjoyable as that classic. It’s a conversion of the Amiga game from…
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Moonwalker
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Emerald Software GAME PUBLISHER:US Gold Copyright 1989, Emerald Software Moonwalker is a typical movie-licensed title with various different action levels, although it’s quite unique in a sense that it’s based on a musical movie– starring Michael Jackson, no less. The game has 4 levels,…
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BC Racers
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Core Design GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1993, Core Design A fun prehistoric racing game that was also released on many console systems, e.g. 3DO and Megadrive. The storyline is as simple as the gameplay: millionaire caveman Millstone Rockafella has arranged a formula BC contest with…
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SuperKarts
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jon Stuart GAME DEVELOPER:Manic Media Productions GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1995, Manic Media Productions One of the best go-kart racing games ever made for the PC, Virgin’s SuperKarts features excellent cartoon-style graphics, worldwide tracks, and addictive gameplay that strikes a good balance between car handling realism…
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SnapDragon
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mark Paquette GAME DEVELOPER:MECC GAME PUBLISHER:MECC Copyright 1992, MECC SnapDragon is a good collection of open-ended activities that facilitate early larning for toddlers/preschoolers. Friendly Snap Dragon and his pal Teddy will escort your child on a tour of exciting, animated places. Sleep under the stars. Have…
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Origin FX
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Origin Systems GAME PUBLISHER:Origin Systems Copyright 1993, Origin Systems One of Origin’s least known releases is a solid screensaver collection that features posters and scenes from famous Origin games (e.g. Wing Commander and Ultima). The screensaver modules are not as varied in style as…
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Yo! Joe!
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Scipio GAME PUBLISHER:Hudson Copyright 1993, Hudson Yo! Joe! is a nice two-player jump’n run game by Scipio, published by Hudson/Play Byte (Blue Byte). The option for two players to play together is not seen very often in this kind of game, so this differentiates…
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Low Blow
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mark Madland GAME DEVELOPER:Synergistic Software GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1990, Mark Madland Low Blow is a fun boxing game by Synergistic Software. Game graphics are ok with big nice boxer sprites, even though the animations couldn’t be described as being fluid. Fighting against computer opposition usually…
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Hard Drivin’
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jurgen Friedrich GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1989, Tengen Hard Drivin’ is a good PC conversion of Atari’s arcade racing smash-hit. The arcade game was revolutionary in realism and feeling. Of course, the computer versions were never able to capture anything from it. But they tried.…
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Hard Drivin’ II
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1991, Tengen Domark’s second try in converting Atari’s arcade racing hit after Hard Drivin’ from 1989. As far as I know, there was no Hard Drivin’ II in the arcades, so this one has seen its light only on computers.…
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Klax
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1990, Tengen Back in the late Eighties, Atari Games lost the Tetris license to Nintendo. Rather than admit defeat, the company instead set out to out-Tetris Tetris with a brand-new tile puzzle game for the arcade titled Klax — a…
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Pictionary
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1991, Domark Nice computer version of popular board game Pictionary. The game principle should be widely known: one player draws clues about a given expression, so that the other can guess the wanted word(s). If you’ve got a couple of…
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Pit-Fighter
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1991, Tengen Well, to make it short: Pit-Fighter is a horrible conversion of Atari’s arcade beat’em up. The arcade game was actually very good with nice digitized sprites and some cool effects, but the animations and graphics of the PC…
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Super Space Invaders
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1991, Domark PC conversion of Taito’s 1990 arcade game Super Space Invaders ’91. As you would expect, it’s the classic shoot’em up you all know, updated with lots of different extra weapons, various background graphics, a co-operative two-player mode and…
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STUN Runner
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1990, Tengen STUN Runner is PC conversion of Atari’s excellent futuristic arcade racing game from 1989, a mixture of rollercoaster racing, bobsled and a shoot’em up game. The game uses polygonal 3D graphics which are fairly fast but sadly not…
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Toobin’
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:M. Potente GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1989, Tengen Its time to put on your swimsuit, drop a coin down the coin slot and take a trip down the roaring rivers in the pursuit of treasures, spare patches for your tubes, as well as soda cans…
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Power Drift
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:Activision Copyright 1990, SEGA Power Drift should be familiar to those of you who owned a C64/Amiga or played arcade games in the late 1980s. For those of you who didn’t, then I think one can safely say that it inspired one…
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Powerdrome
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Michael Powell GAME DEVELOPER:Electronic Arts GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1990, Michael Powell Powerdrome is a fun futuristic racer with a great premise, marred by very bad mouse-based controls. Guide your sleek new racing machine round one of half a dozen tracks on different planets, overtaking experienced…
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Football Glory
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Croteam GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1995, Croteam Football Glory is an interesting Sensible Soccer clone that falls far short of that classic due to insipid gameplay and poor controls. The game offers many options, from World cup to European championships through to domestic leagues. You…
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Kick Off 3
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Anco Software GAME PUBLISHER:Anco Software Copyright 1995, Anco Software A great sequel to Dino Dini’s groundbreaking Kick Off 2 (although ironically NOT designed by him, since Dino Dini left Anco due to internal dispute, and went on to produce Goal! for Virgin). Kick Off…
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Match of The Day: Bundesliga
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zeppelin Games GAME PUBLISHER:Zeppelin Games Copyright 1994, Zeppelin Games Zeppelin’s final game before changing its name to Junkyard and sold itself off to Merit Studios, Match of The Day – Bundesliga is a decent soccer management game (SMG) centering on the German Bundesliga league.…
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Future Classics Collection
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Curt Toumanian GAME DEVELOPER:LIVE Studios GAME PUBLISHER:LIVE Studios Copyright 1990, LIVE Studios I’ll let MobyGames’ excellent rap sheet for this great action/puzzle collection speak for itself: “Future Classics Collection is a collection of five distinctly-themed, well-balanced games that stress action and strategy equally. Future Classics was…
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Dilbert’s Desktop Games
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Dreamworks Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Dreamworks Interactive Copyright 1997, Dreamworks Interactive Dilbert’s Desktop Games is a fun diversion for your computer that unfortunately becomes quickly repetitive. Dilbert is best known, of course, as the daily comic strip by Scott Adams that has become extremely popular in…
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Altered Beast
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jeff Gamon & Robert White GAME DEVELOPER:Unlimited Software GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1990, SEGA Another SEGA arcade conversion done by Unlimited Software. Altered Beast is a typical arcade side-scrolling beat’em up game. You all know it anyway. The conversion doesn’t look too good graphically but plays fairly…
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Doofus
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:X-ample GAME PUBLISHER:Prestige Copyright 1994, Prestige Doofus is a decent jump’n run by Prestige with colorful graphics, smooth sprites and surprisingly smooth scrolling even under Windows. Also features some nice adlib tracks by Thomas Detert (666). Not too many interesting new ideas in terms…
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Locomotion
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Prestige GAME PUBLISHER:Prestige Copyright 1992, Prestige Locomotion is a decent action/puzzle game with nice VGA graphics and adlib music. The game principle is not new and widely known but well executed. Navigate trains to their destination stations by switching the lines. Things get harder…
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Prophecy 1: The Viking Child
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:DMA Design GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Zoo Copyright 1990, Electronic Zoo Welcome to Odin’s world. A land full of good and evil, within which you must become Brian, The Viking Child, whose heroics have been foretold by the prophets and recorded in the oracle of the…
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Baldies
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Creative Edge GAME PUBLISHER:Panasonic Interactive Copyright 1995, Creative Edge Baldies is a fun action/puzzle game featuring follically-challenged “Baldies.” Baldies offers an extended gameplay experience that fuses the elements of Dune 2, Populous, and Lemmings, with over 80 levels, 15 special weapons, and five 3D…
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Montezuma’s Revenge
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Robert Jaeger GAME DEVELOPER:Parker Brothers GAME PUBLISHER:Parker Brothers Copyright 1984, Parker Brothers PANAMA JOE. That’s what they call him ’round these parts; though no one knows his real name or where he comes from. But one thing’s for sure, PANAMA JOE’s a daredevil from the word…
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Aargh
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Steve Coleman GAME DEVELOPER:Arcadia GAME PUBLISHER:Arcadia Copyright 1988, Arcadia A decent, “light” action game for 1 or 2 players, Aargh‘s premise is simple: play as either a gigantic lizard or lumbering giant to destroy prehistoric villages. Simple concept, fun execution. You need to watch out for…
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Football Manager 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kevin Toms GAME DEVELOPER:Addictive GAME PUBLISHER:Addictive Copyright 1988, Addictive Football Manager 2 is a great sequel to Football Manager 1, one of the world’s first soccer management classics on the Spectrum computer. Originally released by Kevin Toms on his own Addictive label (later swallowed up by…
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Bubble Ghost
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Christophe Andreani GAME DEVELOPER:ERE Informatique GAME PUBLISHER:Accolade Copyright 1988, ERE Informatique Published by Infogrames in France (Europe?), and published by Accolade in most other countries, Bubble Ghost is a simple and fun action-puzzle game in which you control a ghost and have to lead your bubble…
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Alien Syndrome
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tahir Rashid GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1989, SEGA A decent PC conversion of hit arcade game by SEGA, Alien Syndrome is an addictive top-down action blast. Like the arcade game, there is a two player option, which has the obvious advantage of doubled killing power,…
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APB
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Selwood GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1989, Tengen APB is a decent conversion of Atari’s 1987 arcade classic. A fun cartoon-style action game where you slip into the role of Bob, a police officer. Officer Bob patrols the big city in his squad car. Every…
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Mechanik
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Alexander Madej & Robert Kowalski GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1997, Freeware Perhaps the world’s only first-person train driving simulation ever made until Microsoft’s Train Simulator and the superb simulator from Japan called BVE, Mechanik is a reasonably realistic sim made by a group of Polish…
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Wings
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Miika Virpioja GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Miika Virpioja Wings is not the old unreleased (though widely traded) Amiga WWI-flight simulator by Cinemaware: it’s yet another of those Finnish games about flying little (usually v-shaped) ships around in a cave, properly armed for a violent…
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Cyberdogs
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ronny Wester GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1994, Ronny Wester Cyberdogs is a simple top-down viewed freeware shooter, where you control a marine (or two in co-operative mode) through a slightly maze-like randomized-looking level in pursuit of different objectives, such as finding some items or defeating…
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C-DOGS
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ronny Wester GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1996, Ronny Wester The much better sequel to CyberDogs, C-DOGS is a top-down viewed freeware action gem for up to two players, who control elite soldiers about to right the wrongs of the world and cure the bad guys…
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Joe Montana Football
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:MindSpan GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1990, SEGA Endorsed by Hall of Famer Quarterback Joe Montana, Joe Montana Football (JMF) was one of the first SEGA football games, released back in 1990. This company is known for manking great sports games — but ten years ago,…
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Baryon
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Game Factory GAME PUBLISHER:Game Factory Copyright 1995, Game Factory One of the best top-down shooters ever made, but also one of the most unknown due to lack of distribution, Baryon takes you on a cruise through alien-infested territory as you collect power-ups and shoot…
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Actua Soccer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ade Carless & Andy Findlay GAME DEVELOPER:Gremlin GAME PUBLISHER:Gremlin Copyright 1995, Gremlin Actua Soccer is one of the first soccer games ever that presents a true 3D environment and allows for up to 4 players to play on the same computer. The game is very long…
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Creature Shock
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Argonaut Software GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1994, Argonaut Software Creature Shock is one of the worst games ever made and a poignant example of how shallow gameplay can kill the game despite whiz-bang graphics. Let’s first get the (very thin) plot out of the…
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Superfrog
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Team 17 GAME PUBLISHER:Team 17 Copyright 1995, Team 17 One of the best platformers Amiga, the PC version of Team 17’s classic Superfrog is a faithful reproduction of the original (minus the excellent Amiga soundtrack). The game is a good example of a flawless…