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Ultimate Super Stack
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Oren Bartal GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Oren Bartal Ultimate Super Stack is an excellent sequel to Super Stack, itself one of the best freeware QBasic games ever made. The game is essentially a freeware remake of Kirby’s Star Stacker, a Gameboy Color game by…
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Super Sumo Wrestling 2002
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Michael Dowling GAME DEVELOPER:Typosoft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Michael Dowling Super Sumo Wrestling 2002 is a great freeware QBasic game about sumo wrestling a sport not usually seen in games (non-Japanese ones, anyway). The game sports nice SD (shrunken anime characters) graphics, fun gameplay, and a…
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Puyo Puyo 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Compile GAME PUBLISHER:Compile Copyright 1997, Compile Puyo Puyo 2 is a great sequel to Puyo Puyo, one of the best Tetris-style game that inspired numerous clones on its own. The gameplay remains the same as the first game: colored cartoon jelly blobs fall from…
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MarioUp
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Gilberto Lima Correia GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Gilberto Lima Correia MarioUp is a nice fanmade Mario Brothers game, coded in QBasic. Your job once again is to guide our plump plumber across the 2D side-scrolling levels, collecting stars while he can and jumping on…
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Earth 2140
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:TopWare Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Interplay Copyright 1997, TopWare Interactive Earth 2140 is a decent real-time strategy game set in the far future. Although it tries to be different from Command & Conquer, Earth 2140 is not different enough to warrant much interest from C&C fans.…
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Yie Ar Kung-Fu
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Friends GAME DEVELOPER:Konami GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Anonymous One of the most loved arcade games of all time, Yie Ar Kung-Fu is a pioneer in the one-on-one fighting genre, a timeless classic that offers many innovative features that became standard. The game casts you as Oolong,…
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Spread
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1993, Anonymous Spread is a fun freeware two-player board game from Korea with a simple premise: change the color of all your opponent’s pieces into yours. The rules are straightforward: you can move your piece on square at a time,…
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On The Ball 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Henrik Nordhaus & Gerald K?hler GAME DEVELOPER:Ascaron GAME PUBLISHER:Ascaron Copyright 1997, Ascaron Outside Germany, the Ansto? (a.k.a. On the Ball) series is rather unknown. Which is a shame, because this is easily the best series of football (or for US residents: soccer) management series ever made,…
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CHAMP Kong
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Champeau GAME DEVELOPER:CHAMProgramming GAME PUBLISHER:CHAMProgramming Copyright 1997, CHAMProgramming CHAMP Kong is a great remake of Nintendos classic Kong game that stars Mario, the plump plumber who will become much more famous in his own platform series. The goal is simple: your girlfriend has been kidnapped…
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CHAMP Centiped-em
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Champeau GAME DEVELOPER:CHAMProgramming GAME PUBLISHER:CHAMProgramming Copyright 1993, CHAMProgramming The description at CHAMP Games Fan Page says it all about this excellent remake of ATARIs classic Centipede: [CHAMP Centiped-em is] the great version of the classic arcade bug game.. Based on CHAMP Centipede, this version offers…
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CHAMP Ms. Pac-em
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Champeau GAME DEVELOPER:CHAMProgramming GAME PUBLISHER:CHAMProgramming Copyright 1997, CHAMProgramming The description at CHAMP Games Fan Page says it all about this excellent remake of ATARIs classic Ms. Pac-Man: “Based on CHAMP MS. Pacman, this version offers superb graphics, Soundblaster support and enhanced gameplay that truly makes…
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CHAMP Pac-em
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Champeau GAME DEVELOPER:CHAMProgramming GAME PUBLISHER:CHAMProgramming Copyright 1997, CHAMProgramming The description at CHAMP Games Fan Page says it all about this excellent remake of ATARIs gobble-the-dots classic Pac-Man: “…Based on CHAMP Pacman, this version offers superb graphics, Soundblaster support and enhanced gameplay that truly makes you…
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CHAMP Galaxia
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Champeau GAME DEVELOPER:CHAMProgramming GAME PUBLISHER:CHAMProgramming Copyright 1997, CHAMProgramming The description at CHAMP Games Fan Page says it all about this excellent remake of ATARIs classic arcade shooter Galaxian: “A great version of the famous arcade classic game – CHAMP Galaxia. Based on CHAMP Galaxian, this…
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CHAMP Asterocks
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Champeau GAME DEVELOPER:CHAMProgramming GAME PUBLISHER:CHAMProgramming Copyright 1997, CHAMProgramming The description at CHAMP Games Fan Page says it all about this excellent remake of ATARIs classic arcade shooter Asteroids: “Based on CHAMP Asteroids, this version offers superb graphics, Soundblaster support and enhanced gameplay that truly makes…
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CHAMP Invaders
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Champeau GAME DEVELOPER:CHAMProgramming GAME PUBLISHER:CHAMProgramming Copyright 1997, CHAMProgramming The description at CHAMP Games Fan Page says it all about this excellent remake of ATARIs classic arcade shooter Space Invaders: “Get ready to stop the invasion with CHAMP Invaders. This game offers three modes of play:…
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CHAMP Galagon
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Champeau GAME DEVELOPER:CHAMProgramming GAME PUBLISHER:CHAMProgramming Copyright 1997, CHAMProgramming CHAMP Galagon is a good clone of ATARIs classic Galaga, similar in style and gameplay to CHAMProgrammings earlier CHAMP Galaxia which was based on Galaxian. The gameplay is simple as ever: destroy the waves of Galagon ships…
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Galaxy
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tom Cleaver & Jay Wilt GAME DEVELOPER:Avalon Hill GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1993, Jay Wilt Galaxy is a superb fan-made remake of a classic Avalon Hill game of the same name, designed by Tom Cleaver and released for the Commodore Business Machine (CBM) 8000 in 1981. In…
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Thrust Deluxe
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Wiebo de Wit GAME DEVELOPER:Firebird GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Wiebo de Wit Thrust Deluxe is an excellent freeware remake of the classic C64 game Thrust, which is in turn based on Gravitar, ATARIs arcade classic. Your goal is to maneuver your spaceship through treacherous caves, fighting…
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Virtual On Cybertroopers
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1997, SEGA Virtual On Cybertroopers (which I will now refer to as VOOM, as it’s sometimes called Virtual On: Operation Moongate) was developed by SEGA’s Am3 team (now known as Hitmaker …an appropriate name, if you ask me), and first…
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Virtua Cop 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1997, SEGA Virtua Cop 2 (a.k.a. Virtua Squad 2) is a faithful PC port of SEGA?s arcade hit of the same name, a ?rail shooter? played from a first-person perspective, except this time you no longer can shoot with the…
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Gorilla
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Microsoft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1990, Microsoft Gorilla is a cute little BASIC game included free with the first version of Microsoft’s QBASIC program (the other being a QBASIC version of Nibblers). Casting you as a huge gorilla, the game is extremely simple: when it’s…
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Guardians
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel GAME PUBLISHER:Loriciel Copyright 1990, Loriciel Guardians is an interesting puzzle game from Loriciel which, true to their reputation, is quite unique in its concept. The game looks like a cross between Tetris and Origamo, except it’s a little more cumbersome and confusing. The…
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Casino Games
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:IBM GAME PUBLISHER:IBM Copyright 1982, IBM Casino Games is a very early casino game from IBM, coded entirely in BASIC. Albeit primitive graphics and gameplay (you can’t expect much more from a 1982 title ;)), the game offers decent options and underlying (mostly random)…
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Jetset
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1980, Anonymous Jetset is a primitive ASCII-only flight simulator program coded entirely in BASIC. This version is coded from the BASIC codes printed in an early BYTE! Magazine, sometime around 1979. You control the plane from a first-person perspective, watching…
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Snipes
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Drew Major & Dale Neibaur GAME DEVELOPER:Superset Software GAME PUBLISHER:Superset Software Copyright 1982, Superset Software Back to the old days. Where (a small) size was more important than the graphics. The glory days of ASCII games. Addictiveness was the trump card. How do you achieve addictiveness…
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Super Solvers: Treasure Cove
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Learning Company, The GAME PUBLISHER:Learning Company, The Copyright 1994, Learning Company, The Part of the “Treasure Trilogy” from The Learning Company, which includes Treasure Mathstorm (coming up on the site soon :)) and Treasure Mountain (already on the site), Super Solvers: Treasure Cove is…
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Velcro Mind
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John White GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1995, John White Velcro Mind is a fun and unique little freeware game that plays like a classic game of Simon crossed with the Mac classic Crystal Quest. Your goal is to move the multicolored Velcro circle around the…
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Helious
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Sean Puckett GAME DEVELOPER:Albino Frog GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1995, Sean Puckett Helious is a fun and unique arcade-style puzzler that is very hard to describe. Essentially you must maneuver a balloon through 18 different worlds (9 in Helious 1, the shareware version, and the other 9…
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Manager, The
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Software 2000 GAME PUBLISHER:Software 2000 Copyright 1992, Software 2000 The Manager is an excellent soccer simulation game that is unfortunately much less popular than Championship Manager, current champion of the genre. While Bundesliga Manager, the games German league equivalent, sells very well in Europe…
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Tappo II
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Sebastian Aaltonen GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Sebastian Aaltonen Tappo II is another fun ?caveflier? game from Finland, an action sub-genre that became very popular in that country in the early 1990s. The idea behind the game is the same as in every other caveflier:…
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V-Wing
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Simo Siiri GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Anonymous Copyright 1997, Simo Siiri V-Wing is one of the best cavefliers games ever made. Cavefliers is an action sub-genre that was very popular in that country in the early 1990s, inspiring many authors to release shareware and freeware cavefliers of…
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Hacker (Wadesoft)
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Wadesoft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1984, Wadesoft From the readme, “This program was created as a programming aid: to help WadeSoft decipher various file formats, such as .WAV and .TGA files. It can be used for this purpose as well as another – to help…
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Colossus
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Ripton GAME DEVELOPER:Avalon Hill GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, David Ripton Colossus is an excellent Java clone of Avalon Hill’s classic Titan boardgame that has long been out of print. The concept of Titan is similar to the likes of Fantasy General and Archon: it’s a…
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Creature Jungle 16
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Takeuchi Kouta GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Takeuchi Kouta Creature Jungle 16 is an excellent freeware top-down shoot em up (affectionately known as SHMUPS by fans) game from Japanese designer Takeuchi Kouta. The games objective is the same as all the other shooters: shoot everything…
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Huu Baku
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Anonymous Huu Baku is a fun arcade game from Japan that plays like a cross between Lander and Sopwith, with a little bit of strategic element a la Armor Alley thrown in for good measure. The idea is that…
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Armchair Quarterback
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Pseudonym GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1985, Pseudonym Armchair Quarterback is a decent free text-based simulation of American football. As the in-game description says, …nearly all aspects of the sport are simulated or taken into account, including actual statistics of professional teams in the 1980s. The…
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MahJong
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Anonymous MahJong is a nice little Mahjong game included for free with DOS/V, a Japan magazine. The game offers a no-frills, no-nonsense Mahjong experience. If you don?t know how to play the game, this one isn?t for you as…
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Dance With Intensity
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:SimWolf GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, SimWolf Dance With Intensity is an excellent fanmade clone of Bemani/Konamis Dance Dance Revolution, the unique dancing game that captured the arcade and Playstation world by storm, and has attracted a huge following as well as numerous add-ons and…
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Pango
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Sheng-Chung Liu GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1983, Sheng-Chung Liu Pango is an excellent freeware PC conversion of Pengo, SEGAs coin-op classic first released in 1982. Pango is the name of your alter ego in the game: a red penguin who must rid the screen of…
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Livingstone I Presume
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Opera Soft GAME PUBLISHER:Opera Soft Copyright 1988, Opera Soft Livingstone Supongo (Livingstone I Presume in English) is arguably the best game released by prolific Spanish developer Opera Soft. The game is another release in the very popular video adventure genre (i.e. 2D action/adventure platform-style…
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Bank Street Music Writer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Mindscape GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape Copyright 1986, Mindscape Bank Street Music Writer is an excellent music composition program that not only teaches you the basic concepts of music, but also allows you to write and “play” music as well. Although it helps if you can already…
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Jason Storm in Space Chase
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Safari Software GAME PUBLISHER:Epic Megagames Copyright 1993, Safari Software The only platformer developed by Safari Software, Jason Storm in Space Chase is a decent 2D side-scrolling platformer similar to Duke Nukem and Bio Menace. The game follows the exploits of Jason Storm, intrepid galactic…
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PC*Bert
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:J. Rowan GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1997, J. Rowan PC*Bert is an excellent fanmade remake of Atari/Parker Brothers’ Q*Bert, one of the most classic arcade games of all time. The gameplay is the same, and the controls are just as simple as in the original.…
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Bugs Bunny Cartoon Workshop
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Novotrade GAME PUBLISHER:Hi-Tech Expressions Copyright 1990, Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny Cartoon Workshop is a fun little game from Novotrade/Hi-Tech Expression that lets kids create their own Warner Bros. cartoon by following a few simple steps. Kids first choose characters and the setting of their…
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Flight Assignment: A.T.P.
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bruce Artwick GAME DEVELOPER:subLOGIC GAME PUBLISHER:subLOGIC Copyright 1990, subLOGIC Flight Assignment: A.T.P. (short for Airline Transport Pilot) from SubLOGIC is a classic civil flight simulator that was a breakthrough in the genre in many ways. For starter, the game offers a very vast scope: you can…
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Livingstone I Presume II
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Opera Soft GAME PUBLISHER:Opera Soft Copyright 1989, Opera Soft Livingstone I Presume II is an excellent sequel to Livingstone I Presume, Opera Soft’s classic side-scrolling 2D platformer. Adventure game fans will be glad to know that Opera Soft drops the action focus of the…
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Knight Exchange
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jim Chambers & Deborah Chambers GAME DEVELOPER:SoftDisk Publishing GAME PUBLISHER:SoftDisk Publishing Copyright 1988, SoftDisk Publishing Knight Exchange is a fun and quite unique board game based on concepts similar to chess. In this game, the board is a four by four grid. Twelve markers, each representing…
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Accordion
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:George Leritte GAME DEVELOPER:SoftDisk Publishing GAME PUBLISHER:SoftDisk Publishing Copyright 1989, SoftDisk Publishing Accordion is a fun multi-level solitaire card game on one of SoftDisk’s “Big Blue Disk” installment. The game is uniquely challenging yet easy to learn. More description from the game: “In each level, varying…