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From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:GameTek GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1997, GameTek Mutant Penguins is a fun, cute little action game that plays a bit like Lemmings crossed with real-time strategy games like Command & Conquer. The largely irrelevant plot begins with radio and television transmissions from Earth bouncing around…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Beam International GAME PUBLISHER:Interplay Copyright 1997, Beam International Get ready for more nights of masochistic puzzle goodness, because the Lost Vikings need your help once again! In this excellent sequel to The Lost Vikings, the three brothers (Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1997, SEGA Sky Target 3D is SEGA’s rather half-hearted attempt to modernize its arcade classic Afterburner for the 1990s. Nothing much to say about this game, other than the fact that it looks and plays like Afterburner, except the enemy…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Hi-Tech Expressions GAME PUBLISHER:CAPCOM Copyright 1990, CAPCOM Mega Man and Mega Man 3 are two first PC versions of CAPCOM’s blockbuster Mega Man (Rockman in Asia) series of anime platform games. In one of their worst marketing mistakes, CAPCOM gave the task of converting…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Hi-Tech Expressions GAME PUBLISHER:CAPCOM Copyright 1992, CAPCOM Mega Man and Mega Man 3 are two first PC versions of CAPCOM’s blockbuster Mega Man (Rockman in Asia) series of anime platform games. In one of their worst marketing mistakes, CAPCOM gave the task of converting…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:CAPCOM GAME PUBLISHER:CAPCOM Copyright 1995, CAPCOM The first Mega Man game to be produced and marketed in-house by CAPCOM, Mega Man X is an excellent all-around platformer and a capable port of the hit console series. As with earlier games, Mega Man X follows…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:CAPCOM GAME PUBLISHER:CAPCOM Copyright 1996, CAPCOM A Reploid scientist named Dr. Doppler begins creation of a new city for Reploids, which will bring a new era of peace to the Reploids and humans. But something goes terribly wrong, and now Mavericks have begun to…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:CAPCOM GAME PUBLISHER:CAPCOM Copyright 1997, CAPCOM A short-lived but excellent entry in CAPCOM’s intermittent line of Mega Man series that is much more famous on console systems than on PC, Mega Man X4 is an excellent platformer that every arcade fan should definitely play.…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:PLBM Games GAME PUBLISHER:PLBM Games Copyright 1997, PLBM Games Gravity Well is one of the better modern remakes of classic Lander. The objective is straightforward: calculate the speed and direction correctly to land your lunar module on each of the bases. Gain more points…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1991, Anonymous One of the first truly good two-player games, Tunneler is best described as the multiplayer version of Digger: two players (using the same keyboard, i.e. hotseat mode) each control a tank that starts out on his/her own base…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, Anonymous ABM Command is one of the numerous clones of classic arcade game Missile Command, but this is one of the more faithful ones, with the familiar gray towns and green laser streaks across the sky. If you don’t…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Chris Lattner GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1996, Chris Lattner SpiffyPilot is a fun futuristic action game created as a senior project in high school. As the official description puts it, “…you control a ship that can jump, shoot, turn, and accelerate. So far, you can…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Housemarque GAME PUBLISHER:GameTek Copyright 1994, Housemarque Stardust is an excellent arcade shoot ’em up that is the clone of classic Asteroids game, and the precursor of Housemarque’s superior Super Stardust released years later. The premise is simple: shoot all the asteroids and other baddies…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Innerprise GAME PUBLISHER:Innerprise Copyright 1989, Innerprise Final Orbit is a mundane top-down giant robot action game that plays like the arena portion of BattleTech 1, except a lot more boring and repetitive. Essentially you pilot an egg-shaped robot from top-down, shooting everything in sight…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Pyros GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Pyros Pyros’ Mobile Miners is a decent attempt at revamping the classic 2-player tank combat game Tunneler for the modern day. It doesn’t quite succeed in retaining the addictive gameplay, but it’s still worthy of mention. Essentially instead of…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Blackwell GAME DEVELOPER:Virtually Real GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Virtually Real AuroraDibularos is a cute little driving action game from Virtually Real, makers of Destruction Carnival and other fun freeware games. Simple concept: stay on course for as long as you can, collecting power-ups and bonus…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Anonymous Azutama is a fun anime-style snowball fighting game, similar to Black Eye Software’s SnowBrawl. The game features characters from the manga (Japanese comic book) series called “Azumanga Daioh”. The gameplay is straightforward: “kill” the required number of opponents…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:FutureVision GAME PUBLISHER:Merit Studios Copyright 1994, Merit Studios Command Adventures: STARSHIP is a decent space combat action game that plays similar to Accolade’s classic Star Control 2, but without the intricacies of any storyline to get in your way 😉 Well, okay, there IS…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Glenn Broadway & James Sharman GAME DEVELOPER:Sales Curve Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Interplay Copyright 1997, Sales Curve Interactive SWIV 3D is a fun follow-up to SWIV, classic Amiga overhead shoot-em up which was in turn the sequel to Silkworm. Games Domain said it all about the appeal of…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Psygnosis GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis Copyright 1996, Psygnosis Giant mech battle games are all the rage these days. From Mech Warrior to Krazy Ivan, theres nothing like climbing into a giant robot and kicking some metal butt. After all, Ripley sure seemed to be having a…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Edward Kilham & Kalani Streicher GAME DEVELOPER:Ronin Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1996, Ronin Entertainment Neo Hunter is an ambitious cyberpunk action/puzzle hybrid that unfortunately is bogged down by repetitive action gameplay and far too difficult puzzles. At first glance, the games combination of futuristic setting,…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Piranha Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Piranha Interactive Copyright 1997, Piranha Interactive Best considered as the sequel to zany Dilberts Desktop Games developed by the same company, Revenge of The Toys is a great collection of fun mini-arcade games you can play from your desktop. The games…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zero Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Zero Entertainment Copyright 1997, Zero Entertainment AlphaNatix (pronounced Al-Fanatics) is a fun and unique puzzler from Zero Entertainment. First (but unfortunately only) in the Action-Word series, the best way to describe the game is Marble Madness meets Scrabble. Like Atari’s long-gone…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zero Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Zero Entertainment Copyright 1996, Zero Entertainment POP! is an addictive and unique action/puzzle hybrid from Zero Entertainment that combines lots of hot air with humorous and brain-teasing scenarios. Your job is to guide Pop, a cute balloon dog, to the moon.…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Technology Edutainment Network Laboratory GAME PUBLISHER:7th Level Copyright 1997, 7th Level HeliCOPS is an excellent futuristic 3D shooter in the same style as Terminal Velocity, but with a much more diverse gameplay. You play a cop working in Tokyo who pilots the helicop an…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Gorilla Systems GAME PUBLISHER:Gorilla Systems Copyright 1996, Gorilla Systems FlipOut! is an addictive, funny, and unique puzzler from Gorilla Systems, first released for Ataris Jaguar console. It is very difficult to describe the unique game concept of FlipOut!— it is most similar to those…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Gee Whiz! Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Gee Whiz! Entertainment Copyright 1996, Gee Whiz! Entertainment Zombie Wars is the superior and little-known sequel to classic shareware platformer Halloween Harry (a.k.a. Alien Carnage) published by Apogee. The plot picks up where the first game left off: the gang…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:WAH Software GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, WAH Software Phobia 2 is a simple but fun top-down shooter by the finnish Wah-Software. You are a space marine with a simple goal: survive as long as you can, and kill anything that moves. There is an…