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Striker ’95
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Rage Software GAME PUBLISHER:Time Warner Interactive Copyright 1995, Rage Software Striker ’95 is an above-average soccer game that features some of the best graphics for its time. Similar to Actua Soccer by Gremlin, Striker ’95 features a true 3D environment, with rotoscoped player animations…
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Dawn Patrol
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Rod Hyde & Mark Shaw GAME DEVELOPER:Rowan GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1994, Rowan Having mastered World War 2 flight sims genre with games like Overlord, which was one of the finest flight sims ever made for the Amiga, Rowan Software turned their attention to WW1 air…
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Xiphos
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Anthony Wilkes GAME DEVELOPER:Electronic Zoo GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Zoo Copyright 1990, Electronic Zoo Electronic Zoo’s Xiphos is relatively unknown first-person sci-fi shooter that recalls Ian Bell’s classic Elite in interface and style, although with a much more simplified and narrow scope. The plot is your typical blast-the-alien…
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Wayne Gretzky Hockey
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ed Fletcher & Julian Lefay GAME DEVELOPER:Bethesda Softworks GAME PUBLISHER:Bethesda Softworks Copyright 1989, Bethesda Softworks One of the best sport simulations ever made, Bethesda’s Wayne Gretzky Hockey is a classic hockey game that has it all: knuckle-blistering action in the rink, coaching options, great graphics (for…
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Wayne Gretzky Hockey 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Craig Walton & Julian Lefay GAME DEVELOPER:Bethesda Softworks GAME PUBLISHER:Bethesda Softworks Copyright 1990, Bethesda Softworks A better sequel to Bethesda’s classic Wayne Gretsky Hockey, WGH2 takes the innovative hockey sim to the next level with much sharper graphics, more player options, and even the ability to…
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Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Bethesda Softworks GAME PUBLISHER:Bethesda Softworks Copyright 1991, Bethesda Softworks Last and arguably best in Bethesda’s Wayne Gretzky Hockey series, Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3 continues the legacy of its predecessors with even better VGA graphics, more player stats, and longer league play. As with earlier…
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Armour-Geddon
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Paul Hunter & Ed Scio GAME DEVELOPER:Psygnosis GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis Copyright 1991, Psygnosis Armour-Geddon is a unique 3D combat sim with a nice strategy twist. Your mission: destroy a heavily defended laser weapon by building a fight force and gathering new technologies until strong enough to stop…
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Ballistix
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Martin Edmondson & Nick Chamberlain GAME DEVELOPER:DMA Design GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis Copyright 1989, Psygnosis Ballistix is a decent – for its time – conversion of Reflection’s fast-paced Amiga airhockey style game that is set in a fantasy scenario. The conversion was done by popular designers DMA Design,…
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Blood Money
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:DMA Design GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis Copyright 1989, Psygnosis To cut it short: Everything that made the Amiga version of Blood Money one of the most enjoyable shoot’em ups ever is missing is this PC conversion. So what’s left is a mediocre game– the great soundtrack,…
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Menace
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:DMA Design GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis Copyright 1988, Psygnosis Standard side-scrolling shooter from DMA Design (designers of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto among other Psygnosis classics). Menace was their first title, written for the Amiga first in 1988. This is a decent PC conversion, although it’s…
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Icebreaker
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Andrew Looney GAME DEVELOPER:Magnet Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Fox Interactive Copyright 1996, Magnet Interactive One of the best and most unique puzzle games ever made, Icebreaker is the brainchild of Andrew Looney (no, I’m not making his name up), eccentric puzzle game designer who has a penchant for…
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Theatre of Death
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Software Shed, The GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis Copyright 1994, Software Shed, The Theatre of Death is a fun, innovative isometric action/strategy hybrid by Software Shed/Psygnosis. The game is similar in many ways to Cannon Fodder, but a lot more complex. In this futuristic tactical combat game,…
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Pinball Dreams
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Illusions GAME PUBLISHER:21st Century Entertainment Copyright 1993, 21st Century Entertainment Pinball Dreams on the Amiga, developed by Swedish developer Digital Illusions, ex-demo group members, was a huge hit and a revolution in the genre. This PC conversion was done by “they-proved-to-be-uncapable” Spidersoft and…
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Pinball Illusions
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Illusions GAME PUBLISHER:21st Century Entertainment Copyright 1993, 21st Century Entertainment Sequel to Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Illusions is the last game in Digital Illusions’ trilogy of pinball games and they finished it off with a bang! =) The conversion of the AGA-only Amiga game…
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Pinball Fantasies
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Illusions GAME PUBLISHER:21st Century Entertainment Copyright 1993, 21st Century Entertainment Pinball Fantasies is an excellent sequel to Pinball Dreams, featuring yet again four brand-new multi-screen tables to play on. The tables are called Party Land, Speed Devils, Billion Dollar Game Show and Stones…
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Aces of The Deep
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mike Jones GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Dynamix Copyright 1994, Dynamix Following classic Aces over Europe, Dynamix moved from the heights above the ground into the depths of the ocean. Aces of the Deep is WWII U-boat simulation, putting you into the command of a German submarine. As…
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Aces of The Pacific
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Damon Slye GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Dynamix Copyright 1992, Dynamix Certainly one of the best World War II combat flight sims of its time and arguably one of the best ever, Aces of The Pacific features a huge number of planes, decent controls, a nice 3D graphics-engine…
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Aces over Europe
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Damon Slye GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Dynamix Copyright 1993, Dynamix Aces over Europe is a great follow-up to Dynamix’ first World War II combat flight sim Aces of the Pacific. Playing in the European theater of war, you have the option to fly either for the German…
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Ace of Aces
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Michael Bates & Rich Banks GAME DEVELOPER:Artech GAME PUBLISHER:Accolade Copyright 1987, Artech Ace of Aces is an old World War II flight simulator offering some neat features for its time like multiple cockpit views and fairly good use of bitmaps. However, it’s more of an arcade…
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Afterburner
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jack Rebbetoy GAME DEVELOPER:Unlimited Software GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1989, SEGA Hokay, for those of you who haven’t seen it in the arcades and missed the Megapreview a couple of issues ago, Afterburner goes like this: launch your F-14 Tomcat from the flight deck of an aircraft…
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Harlem Globetrotters
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1990, GameTek A very disappointing, sub-par basketball game based on the show basketball team Harlem Globetrotters. Well, even for 1990, I would say that this is a very poor simulation of the sport. Ugly graphics, hardly any sound, simple and…
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Crack Down
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1990, SEGA Crack Down is a decent conversion of SEGA’s Mega Drive/Genesis top-down shooter. As with all good arcade games of yore, Crack Down is simple to learn but challenging enough to keep you playing. There aren’t any complicated moves…
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Evasive Action
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Glyn Williams GAME DEVELOPER:Software Toolworks GAME PUBLISHER:Software Toolworks Copyright 1994, Software Toolworks From Glyn Williams, co-founder of Particle Systems comes Evasive Action, an innovative combat flight simulator featuring dogfights with planes from as early as 1917 up to the future of space combat of 2064. Overall…
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Stratego
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ken McLeod GAME DEVELOPER:MindSpan GAME PUBLISHER:Accolade Copyright 1990, Accolade Solid computer version of Milton Bradley’s classic board game Stratego. This PC conversion of the Macintosh game was done by MindSpan, and it was the only non-sport game they ever developed. Hasbro released the second computer version…
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A-10 Tank Killer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Damon Slye GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Dynamix Copyright 1989, Dynamix A-10 Tank Killer is a classic early flight simulator by Dynamix based on the Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II. Very nice graphics for its time and already showed some signs of the quality that made Dynamix popular with…
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A-10 Tank Killer v. 1.5
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Damon Slye GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Dynamix Copyright 1991, Dynamix Updated version of Dynamix’ oldie flight sim A-10 Tank Killer from 1989. This one was released after their huge success with Red Baron two years later and features additional missions including a Desert Storm scenario, overall improved…
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Secret Island of Dr. Quandary, The
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mark Paquette GAME DEVELOPER:MECC GAME PUBLISHER:MECC Copyright 1993, MECC One of the quirkiest edutainment titles ever made, The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary is a fun educational adventure game for kids ages 8 and up. The plot is a wacky combination of science and superstition: while…
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Number Munchers
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mark Paquette GAME DEVELOPER:MECC GAME PUBLISHER:MECC Copyright 1988, MECC In the designer’s own words about this popular children’s title: “You, as the energetic green Muncher, run around a grid eating prime numbers while being chased by wicked and hungry Troggles who eat you if they catch…
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Dinopark Tycoon
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mark Paquette GAME DEVELOPER:Manley Associates GAME PUBLISHER:MECC Copyright 1993, MECC One of the most original “business” games ever made, DinoPark Tycoon is a great concoction of education and strategy. Fans of Jurassic Park take note, here is the game you’ve been waiting for 🙂 Construct and…
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Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jeff Gamon & Steve Leney GAME DEVELOPER:Mindscape GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape Copyright 1996, Mindscape Two more regiments of Skaven warriors just marched into sight. Your cavalry is engaged with a pack of Orcish archers and your infantry has its hands full with the first two Skaven regiments. The…
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Space Harrier
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David R. Mattern & Brian A. Rice GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1989, SEGA SEGA’s arcade 3D shooter brought to the IBM-PC. The arcade game was fantastic for its time (1985) and mainly lived from its great graphics and sounds. Most conversions were unable to capture…
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Thunder Blade
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Chris Butler GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1989, SEGA Thunder Blade is a below-average conversion of a SEGA arcade game. Although missing the original’s sharp and fluid graphics, this PC version is still a decent shooter without a lot of variety. You get three lives, your…
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Michael Jordan in Flight
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:ZCT Systems GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1992, ZCT Systems Michael Jordan in Flight is a neat basketball game, one of the first to use digitized video footage of players, although the results are not very effective. It was also one of the first games…
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P.T.O. II
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kou Shibusawa GAME DEVELOPER:KOEI GAME PUBLISHER:KOEI Copyright 1995, KOEI P.T.O. II is the sequel to KOEI’s P.T.O. (Pacific Theatre of Operations, which never came out for the PC) and is a much improved and better game then the first one. One of KOEI’s last PC games,…
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Inferno
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Image Design (DID) GAME PUBLISHER:OCEAN Copyright 1994, Digital Image Design (DID) A great sequel to DID’s underrated sci-fi space simulation Epic, Inferno continues the storyline of the Raxxon – Terran conflict that began at the time of Epic. The premise is more interesting…
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ThunderHawk
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Core Design GAME PUBLISHER:Core Design Copyright 1991, Core Design ThunderHawk is Core Design’s good Amiga helicopter simulation converted to the IBM-PC. I played this game to death back then on the Amiga. The PC conversion is very well done, as it should be with…
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Action Fighter
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Core Design GAME PUBLISHER:Firebird Copyright 1989, Firebird Core Design’s computer conversion of SEGA’s top-down shoot’em up Action Fighter for the Sega Master System and Mega Drive. Actually quite a good conversion of this fun little game. In Action Fighter, you start your mission as…
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International Karate
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Arthur MacLean GAME DEVELOPER:System 3 GAME PUBLISHER:System 3 Copyright 1989, System 3 Well, three years after the original game they seemed to have brought out a PC conversion of the C64 all-time classic International Karate. But *MyHeartBreaksAndBurstsIntoTears* when seeing this, one wonders why they raped this…
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Crime Wave
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bruce Johnson GAME DEVELOPER:Access Software GAME PUBLISHER:Access Software Copyright 1990, Access Software Arcade-style action game by Access Software – very “inspired” (to put it mildly) by the coin-op game Narc. Nothing special, except that most of the blood-filled graphics are digitized – as done very often…
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Swap
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:C. Bertrand & E. Forsans GAME DEVELOPER:Microids GAME PUBLISHER:Microids Copyright 1991, Microids Swap is a nice puzzle/logic game by Micro?ds. This one is one from the more tougher category. You’ll have to clear a board made-up of coloured tiles (squares, triangles or hexagons) by swapping them…
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Sliders
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Microids GAME PUBLISHER:Microids Copyright 1991, Microids Little action-sports game by Micro?ds. In short, Sliders could be described as a mixture of Marble Madness and one-on-one soccer. Two players (you vs. a friend or computer) control a little marble over an isometric-view playfield, trying to…
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Cartooners
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:ITDA GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1989, ITDA Not exactly a game, but a nice little tool to create animated cartoons. There aren’t that many options to play around with, but still enough to create some cool cartoon sequences. Since everything is fairly easy, this…
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Imperium
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Nick Wilson GAME DEVELOPER:Electronic Arts GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1990, Nick Wilson A very complex futuristic strategy game about galactic domination and a very special anagathic drug. You have been elected as the leader of Earth’s galactic empire and are now in control of the empire’s…
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Dominium
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Microids GAME PUBLISHER:Microids Copyright 1992, Microids Dominium is one of the early real-time strategy game that focus on planet conquest and resource management – as they have become so common nowadays. Overall fairly poor and far inferior to similar games such as Dune 2.…
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Zoop
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Hookstone GAME PUBLISHER:Viacom Newmedia Copyright 1995, Viacom Newmedia Zoop is a fun action puzzler developed by British company Hookstone. One of the better Tetris-inspired games, although doesn’t quite have that illusive “just one more round” quality of Tetris. GameSpot’s excellent review says it all:…
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Goal!
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Dino Dini GAME DEVELOPER:Virgin Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1994, Virgin Interactive Arguably the best soccer game ever made, Goal! is the last soccer game by Dino Dini, the meistro behind such classic soccer games as Kick Off series and Player Manager. The hallmark of Goal!…
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Empire Soccer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Graftgold GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1994, Empire Interactive A fun and humorous soccer game, Empire Soccer offers nothing new to the genre dominated by Sensible Soccer, but still stands out with its cartoonish graphics, big player sprites that are much easier to see than…
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Powerslave
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Lobotomy Software GAME PUBLISHER:Playmates Interactive Copyright 1997, Lobotomy Software Powerslave is a fun and innovative first-person shooter whose excellent graphics and level design are unfortunately overshadowed by serious interface problems and bugs (which are probably related to the fact that the game was converted…