Classic Personal Computer (PC) Games

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  • Jeopardy! Junior Edition

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1989, ShareData One of the longest-running game shows in existence today, Jeopardy! has attracted millions of faithful fans worldwide. The show’s charismatic host Alex Trebek becomes one of the — if not THE — most recognizable TV show hosts of…

  • Jeopardy!

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1987, ShareData One of the longest-running game shows in existence today, Jeopardy! has attracted millions of faithful fans worldwide. The show’s charismatic host Alex Trebek becomes one of the — if not THE — most recognizable TV show hosts of…

  • Jeopardy! 2nd Edition

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1988, ShareData One of the longest-running game shows in existence today, Jeopardy! has attracted millions of faithful fans worldwide. The show’s charismatic host Alex Trebek becomes one of the — if not THE — most recognizable TV show hosts of…

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1989, ShareData One of the longest-running game shows in existence today, Jeopardy! has attracted millions of faithful fans worldwide. The show’s charismatic host Alex Trebek becomes one of the — if not THE — most recognizable TV show hosts of…

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1990, ShareData One of the longest-running game shows in existence today, Jeopardy! has attracted millions of faithful fans worldwide. The show’s charismatic host Alex Trebek becomes one of the — if not THE — most recognizable TV show hosts of…

  • Super Jeopardy!

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:GameTek GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1991, GameTek One of the longest-running game shows in existence today, Jeopardy! has attracted millions of faithful fans worldwide. The show’s charismatic host Alex Trebek becomes one of the — if not THE — most recognizable TV show hosts of…

  • Wheel of Fortune

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1987, ShareData One of the most successful game shows ever made, Wheel of Fortune is a very popular TV program that catapulted Vanna White to stardom as one of the most recognizable TV celebrities. For those who has never seen…

  • Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1987, ShareData One of the most successful game shows ever made, Wheel of Fortune is a very popular TV program that catapulted Vanna White to stardom as one of the most recognizable TV celebrities. For those who has never seen…

  • Wheel of Fortune 3rd Edition

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1988, ShareData One of the most successful game shows ever made, Wheel of Fortune is a very popular TV program that catapulted Vanna White to stardom as one of the most recognizable TV celebrities. For those who has never seen…

  • Wheel of Fortune Golden Edition

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1989, ShareData One of the most successful game shows ever made, Wheel of Fortune is a very popular TV program that catapulted Vanna White to stardom as one of the most recognizable TV celebrities. For those who has never seen…

  • Wheel of Fortune Deluxe

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:GameTek GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1991, GameTek One of the most successful game shows ever made, Wheel of Fortune is a very popular TV program that catapulted Vanna White to stardom as one of the most recognizable TV celebrities. For those who has never seen…

  • Wheel of Fortune Junior Edition

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1987, ShareData One of the most successful game shows ever made, Wheel of Fortune is a very popular TV program that catapulted Vanna White to stardom as one of the most recognizable TV celebrities. For those who has never seen…

  • Price is Right, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:GameTek GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1990, GameTek One of the most successful Mark Goodson shows ever created, The Price is Right is a famous CBS gameshow that has acquired a loyal following for its endless variety of “pricing games.” The rule of the game is…

  • MTV’s Remote Control

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:Hi-Tech Expressions Copyright 1989, MTV In my opinion the greatest (and most underrated) game show ever made, MTV’s Remote Control is a fun, irreverent ‘trivia quiz’ game show that features offbeat humor, eclectic questions, and a great atmosphere. Despite having a great…

  • Classic Concentration

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1987, ShareData One of the better game show conversions for PC that Softie produced, Classic Concentration succeeds in capturing the excitement of the Alex Trebek classic TV show. In this wonderfully original game, the goal is to solve the rebus…

  • Classic Concentration 2nd Edition

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1987, ShareData One of the better game show conversions for PC that Softie produced, Classic Concentration succeeds in capturing the excitement of the Alex Trebek classic TV show. In this wonderfully original game, the goal is to solve the rebus…

  • Now You See It

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:GameTek GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1990, GameTek Now You See It is a decent computer version of the short-lived game show hosted by Chuck Henry, which was the show CBS replaced the hugely popular $100,000 Pyramid with (in one of their worst decisions ever). NYSI…

  • Press Your Luck

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Roger Pedersen GAME DEVELOPER:GameTek GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1988, GameTek A decent computer version of an oldie TV game show of the same name. Press Your Luck is best described as Wheel of Fortune meets Jeopardy!: a show that pits one champion against two challengers and requires…

  • HalfLight

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Grace GAME DEVELOPER:Gaping Wolf Software GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, Gaping Wolf Software Halflight is a fun freeware space shooter starring furry animals. It’s not revolutionary by any means, but it does offer one thing that most shooters ignore: a plot. And an interesting one at…

  • Hollywood Squares

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:GameTek GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1988, GameTek Hollywood Squares is a solid computer version of a popular TV game show starring celebrities, recently revived by Whoopi Goldberg. The game is basically a tic-tac-toe game with celebrities in the grid. The host (who looks nothing like…

  • Super Password

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1988, GameTek One of the rarer TV game show conversions, Super Password is a decent PC version of the Pearson game show, although it’s not very exciting since the game show itself isn’t very interesting to begin with. Super Password…

  • High Rollers

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Box Office GAME PUBLISHER:Box Office Copyright 1987, Box Office A good PC version of an oldie TV game show of the same name. In this novel combination of gambling and trivia, 2 contestants compete to remove numbers off a 3×3 grid by rolling a…

  • $100,000 Pyramid, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mike Cooley GAME DEVELOPER:Box Office GAME PUBLISHER:Box Office Copyright 1988, Box Office $100,000 Pyramid is a great computer version of The Pyramid game show, one of the most successful TV game shows ever made. The show was nominated 16 times for the Emmy Award, and won…

  • Wipeout

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1989, ShareData Wipeout is one of the most obscure Softie games ever, based on an equally obscure trivia game that managed to have an UK version despite lackluster ratings in the US. In this trivia game, a screen of sixteen…

  • Family Feud

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1987, ShareData If youve ever watched daytime television in the US, chances are youve run across a game show called Family Feud. It pits teams of five family members against one another trying to guess the most popular answers to…

  • All New Family Feud

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1989, ShareData If youve ever watched daytime television in the US, chances are youve run across a game show called Family Feud. It pits teams of five family members against one another trying to guess the most popular answers to…

  • Card Sharks

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Softie GAME PUBLISHER:ShareData Copyright 1988, ShareData A fun game based on oldie TV game show Play Your Cards Right, Card Sharks combines amusing surveys with a lot of luck to create a lively and entertaining half-hour. To gain control of the gameboard, contestants must…

  • Steel Panthers: World at War

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Gary Grigsby GAME DEVELOPER:Matrix Games GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Matrix Games The Steel Panthers trilogy was one of the most decorated and praised wargame series from SSI. Now Gary Grigsby and Matrix Games, the company he now works for, has licenced the name and came out…

  • Magic & Mayhem

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Julian Gollop GAME DEVELOPER:Mythos Games GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1998, Mythos Games One of the best games I’ve played in the 1990s, Magic & Mayhem is a severely underrated real-time fantasy strategy game designed by Julian Gollop, of X-COM fame. The game is in many ways…

  • Lord Monarch

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Nihon Falcom GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Nihon Falcom A great (and free!) PC version of Falcom’s 1992 console hit of the same name, Lord Monarch is a fun real-time medieval strategy game in cute “SD” (stumpy heads) style of Japanese anime. In Lord Monarch,…

  • Warrior Dragon

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Lumental GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, Lumental A cute little console-style RPG that is obviously a thinly-veiled clone of NES hit Dragon Warrior (better known as Dragon Quest in Asia), Warrior Dragon is a competent RPG that casts you as a gallant dragon (yes, a…

  • Fight of The Sumo-Hoppers, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tuomas Korppi GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Tuomas Korppi Perhaps the world’s only sumo computer game, The Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers is an original and strangely appealing fighting game where you try to to beat your opponent in the sumo tradition: force him outside the…

  • Martian Gothic: Unification

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Steve Marley GAME DEVELOPER:TalonSoft GAME PUBLISHER:TalonSoft Copyright 2000, TalonSoft Martian Gothic: Unification is a fun third-person action adventure that feels a bit boring and bland at the start, but evolves into a great rollercoaster of sci-fi fun toward the end. The game is reminiscent — some…

  • In Cold Blood

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Charles Cecil GAME DEVELOPER:Revolution GAME PUBLISHER:UBI Soft Copyright 2000, Revolution Revolution’s latest release is a bold departure from traditional point-and-click adventure games the company is famous for (Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword games). The result is a great spy thriller worthy of a James Bond…

  • Morpheus

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Glenn Dean GAME DEVELOPER:Soap Bubble Productions GAME PUBLISHER:Piranha Interactive Copyright 1998, Soap Bubble Productions One of the very few Myst-style games I really like, Morpheus is an excellent adventure that plays like a cross between Titanic: Adventures Out Of Time and Phantom of The Opera. This…

  • Metal Fatigue

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zono GAME PUBLISHER:Take 2 Interactive Copyright 2000, Zono One of the best giant robot games I’ve ever played, Metal Fatigue is an excellent real-time strategy games in the same mold as Command & Conquer, but with enough innovations to stand above the crowd. The…

  • Legend of Lotus Spring

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Anne-Marie Huure GAME DEVELOPER:Women Wise GAME PUBLISHER:DreamCatcher Interactive Copyright 2000, Women Wise One of the best games ever made with an Oriental motif, Legend of Lotus Spring (LOLS) is the first release from Women Wise, a new developer whose focus is to create games for the…

  • Spycraft: The Great Game

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tim Vanlaw & Andrew Goldmann GAME DEVELOPER:Activision GAME PUBLISHER:Activision Copyright 1996, Activision One of the best spy games you’ll ever play, Spycraft is an excellent thriller developed with input from William Colby, a former Director of the CIA, and Oleg Kalugin, a former Major General of…

  • Ardennes Offensive, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Roger Keating GAME DEVELOPER:Strategic Studies Group (SSG) GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Strategic Studies Group (SSG) The Ardennes Offensive by SSG is yet another in a long line of great wargames based on the Battle of the Bulge, and it follows in the tradition of the 1965…

  • Wing Commander: Secret Ops

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Rod Nakamoto GAME DEVELOPER:Origin Systems GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, Origin Systems Secret Ops was a free (and huge) stand-alone episode in the Wing Commander: Prophecy saga that was available for download from the game’s official site in 1999. It is not available for download there anymore,…

  • Avalon

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:MiG Outpost GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, MiG Outpost One of the better freeware RPGs with a quality that rival commercial releases, Avalon is an RPG in the classic anime “SD” (stumpy head) style, although it resembles Western comics more than Japanese anime. A village…

  • Mobility

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Glamus GAME PUBLISHER:Glamus Copyright 2000, Glamus One of the best city building — not to mention free— games ever made, Mobility is an incredibly realistic traffic simulation by German developer Glamus that plays like a cross between SimCity and Transport Tycoon. What makes the…

  • Enemy Nations

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Dave Thielen GAME DEVELOPER:Windward Studios GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1997, Windward Studios Enemy Nations is one of the best and most sophisticated real-time strategy games ever made. It’s also a game you’ve probably never played, because its slated publisher went out of business shortly after the game’s…

  • Hana-fuda

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ian Bowes GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Ian Bowes Hana-fuda is a solid Windows 95/98 version of a traditional Japanese card-matching game of the same name. Hanafuda cards are often known as ‘flower cards’, because each suit is depicted by a different flower. There are…

  • Scorched Earth

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Wendell Hicken GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1995, Wendell Hicken Scorched Earth is a simple, yet very exciting artillery combat game, based on a long line artillery games that began with Atari’s classic arcade game Lunar Lander. At its most basic level, Scorched Earth is a…

  • Liero

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Joosa Riekkinen GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Joosa Riekkinen Best described as “Worms done right” (that is, not turn-based), Liero is an incredibly addictive third-parson, 2D deathmatch style game in split-screen mode designed to be played against a friend (although computer opponent is available). There…

  • Treasure of Drunk Island, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Edmundo Ruiz-Ghanem GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Edmundo Ruiz-Ghanem An amateur adventure game inspired by LucasArts’ classic Secret of Monkey Island, Treasure of Drunk Island is a noble effort that unfortunatelly falls short due to poor interface. You are Willy, a hapless bloke who’s just…

  • Disciples: Sacred Lands

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Strategy First GAME PUBLISHER:Strategy First Copyright 1999, Strategy First Disciples: Sacred Lands is a great fantasy strategy game that has obviously borrowed concepts from the genre’s Top Dogs, Warlords and Heroes of Might and Magic, but also introduces a lot of new ideas to…

  • Starfight VI: Gatekeepers

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jukka Paajanen GAME DEVELOPER:JP-Production GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, JP-Production StarFight VI: Gatekeepers is an incredible spaceflight adventure game that saw over 15 months in development. Aside from the amazing fact that this game is freeware, StarFight VI also ranks as one of the largest freeware games…

  • Queen of Heart ’98

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Himeya Soft Copyright 1998, Anonymous One of the most obscure fighting games ever made, Queen of Heart ’98 is an anime fighting games that feature female fighters only. Based on popular Japanese anime series To Heart, Queen of Heart ’98 is not…