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Meteor
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:James Bunting GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, James Bunting Meteor is a fun top-down on-foot shooter game that is reminiscent of Cannon Fodder and Commando, among others. You play Sergeant Ash, diehard soldier whose mission is to recapture the control center of a space-based weapon…
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Robo Rumble
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Metropolis GAME PUBLISHER:Interactive Magic Copyright 1997, Metropolis Robo Rumble is a decent real-time strategy game (in fact, one of the first 3D releases) that features some new concepts to the tried-and-true genre dominated by Westwood’s Command & Conquer series. The game is set on…
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Isle of Four Winds: Rune War
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Arcanium Productions GAME PUBLISHER:Arcanium Productions Copyright 1997, Arcanium Productions The Isle of Four Winds – Rune War is a unique Mahjong game that wraps the traditional Oriental board/gambling game with a Western-style fantasy mythos, with a plot and “Rune War,” an average conquer-the-map game.…
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Fields of Fire
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Empire Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1997, Empire Interactive Fields of Fire (released as War Along the Mohawk in the US) is an interesting tactical-level real-time war/strategy hybrid with a dash of RPG elements. The game takes place in the early 1700’s, casting you…
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Outwars
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SingleTrac GAME PUBLISHER:Microsoft Copyright 1998, SingleTrac Outwars is a fun, innovative 3D shooter/strategy hybrid from SingleTrac that feels like Looking Glass’ Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, except with a more stereotypical plot (think Starship Troopers) and “canned” NPCs but adding plenty of fun multiplayer…
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FireFighter
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Nick Wallace & Tim Wallace GAME DEVELOPER:Vortex Software Design GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Vortex Software Design FireFighter is a fun and unique action/strategy game s a fire commander to coordinate the activities of firefighters in controlling outbreaks of fires, extinguishing the flames as quickly as possible…
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Biliardo 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Marco Chiesi GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Marco Chiesi Biliardo 2 is a great simulation of various billiard games played in Italy. The available games are: 5 Pins, Goriziana, Bowls, Carom (normal, 1 cushion and 3 cushion) and 3 Balls. The game includes complete rules…
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Mini-Avalanche
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Detlev Schaefer GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Detlev Schaefer Mini-Avalanche is a nice little PC version of Avalanche, a 1966 reflexes-oriented game from Parker Brothers. In this 2-player game, the players take turns dropping balls from the top of the board. On their way to…
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Farkle
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Hardesty GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, David Hardesty Farkle is a small but fun PC version of a medieval dice game of the same name. The objective is to score points by rolling combinations of dice, until one player scores over the ‘game’ score.…
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Creed, The
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:ZeroHour Studios GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1999, ZeroHour Studios A good example of a “great concepts, botched execution” game, The Creed is very innovative cyperpunk action/adventure that could have been the definitive game of its kind before Deus Ex comes along, if only the…
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MER Innebandy
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Unique Development Studios (UDS) GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1997, Falcon Bryggerier AB Floorball is a sport that was invented in Sweden in the early ’70s. Based on American street hockey, it’s a game with two sides, five players and a goalkeeper on each side. The…
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Speed Demons
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Microids GAME PUBLISHER:Microids Copyright 1997, Microids Speed Demons is a disappointing semi-futuristic offroad 3D racing game from Microids that ruins a good premise with terrible gameplay. While the graphics are above average, the control for the cars is extremely poor: it took me many…
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GT Racing ’97
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Blue Sphere GAME PUBLISHER:OCEAN Copyright 1997, OCEAN GT Racing ’97 is a very quick car racing game similar to Screamer and Need for Speed. Although the game doesn’t boast any innovative features to make it stand out from the crowd, it is nonetheless a…
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QAD: Quintessential Art of Destruction
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Eddie Edwards & Jon Ritman GAME DEVELOPER:Cranberry Source GAME PUBLISHER:Philips Media Copyright 1998, Cranberry Source QAD is a disappointing 3D action flop from Cranberry Source, a small UK company formed by Jon Ritman, famous designer of several Spectrum computer classics including Head over Heels and Match…
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Alien Odyssey
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Argonaut Software GAME PUBLISHER:Philips Media Copyright 1997, Philips Media Alien Odyssey is a fun but little-known multi-type action game by Argonaut Software that is similar to Cyberia in concept: it’s got action, flight sim, adventure, and Full Motion Video (FMV) sequences all rolled into…
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Dragon Dice
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Interplay GAME PUBLISHER:Interplay Copyright 1997, TSR Dragon Dice is a competent PC version of TSR’s fantasy dice game of the same name. Interplay did their best to make the game as faithful to the original dice game – and that is ultimately the problem,…
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Orb Wars
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Simo Savolainen GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Anonymous Copyright 1998, Simo Savolainen Not to be confused with Simutronic’s multiplayer game of the same name, Orb Wars is a fun two-player shareware “caveflyer” game with a familiar concept: two players pilot their spacecrafts and try to destroy each other.…
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Gal Pani X
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Anonymous Gal Pani X is a fun clone of Qix, Taito’s famous arcade game with a simple gameplay: draw lines to create separate portions of the screen while avoiding nasties. Gal Pani X takes the concept one step further…
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Machine Hunter
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Eurocom GAME PUBLISHER:EIDOS Interactive Copyright 1997, Eurocom Machine Hunter is a fun top-down military action game that deserves much more attention than it received. The plot is simple: it’s 2034, our mining robots on Mars have been reprogrammed by aliens, and you, of course,…
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Amanagi
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Anonymous Amanagi is an excellent horizontal shooter from Japan that boasts excellent 3D graphics and gameplay. Formerly shareware, the game has been released into the public domain by the author. The animations are very smooth, the ship designs are…
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PureSim Baseball
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Shaun Sullivan GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Anonymous Copyright 2002, Shaun Sullivan Being a one-man product, PureSim Baseball is one of the deepest, most sophisticated baseball management simulations around. You are put into the role of a general manager of a professional baseball team and are in charge…
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Bazaar
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Sid Sackson & Howard Shulman GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Anonymous Copyright 2002, Howard Shulman Bazaar is an excellent shareware PC version of Sid Sackson’s outstanding board game of the same name. Bob Claster, maintainer of the Internet’s best website about this prolific game designer, says it all…
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Ocean Battle, The
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Anonymous The Ocean Battle is an exceptional freeware game – one of the few that boasts such outstanding production value that will make you wonder why they are released as freeware instead of shareware. The game puts you behind…
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Blip & Blop
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Loaded Studio GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Loaded Studio One of the best freeware action games I’ve ever played, Blip & Blop is (as its own programmers admit) a clone of Metal Slug: and the machine gun is practically the same as the famous Neo…
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Nantonaku Majyan
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Anonymous Nantonaku Majyan is a fun freeware Japanese Mah Jong game for up to 4 players, any of whom can be computer-controlled. If you have never heard of it before, multiplayer Mah Jong is a popular tile game that…
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Biohazard
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Fallen Angel Industries GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Fallen Angel Industries A fun little game from the makers of the phenomenal Factor X, Biohazard sees you as a man affected by many diseases all together, each with its time of incubation. To avoid death, you…
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Battle Painters
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:JJ Soft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, JJ Soft Relax, friend. For this review, I am going to lead you into a dreamworld of happiness and colour, and it’ll read sort of like a hypnosis script; although not a particularly beneficial one. Unless you really…
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Icy Tower
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Johan Peitz GAME DEVELOPER:Free Lunch Design GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Free Lunch Design Hope you’re hungry, ‘cos this is one tasty free lunch. Harold wears a hat and has a lot of time on his hands. He finds a really, really (infinitely, in fact: doesn’t the…
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RoX
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Safrosoft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Safrosoft Safrosoft’s RoX is not just well-polished with its lush graphics, it’s also one of the most successful puzzle-hybrids I’ve ever seen. Putting together the elements of Sokoban and Boulder-Dash, both popular games with many abandon- and free-ware fans,…
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Stick Soldiers
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tim Cowley & Dylan Allison GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Whitespace Unlimited “Stick Figures Wield Guns In Bizarre School Sketch-Book Shoot Out.” Ultimately not as satisfying as Liero, this game is still recommendable. Although only one-player, you can play in teams or one-for-all deathmatch, a…
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Zombie Smashers X
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jim Silva GAME DEVELOPER:Totally Screwed GAME PUBLISHER:Totally Screwed Copyright 2002, Totally Screwed If you liked River City Ransom, don’t bother reading this review. Just download this shareware demo and play. Ditto if you’re a fan of B-Movies and like the idea of: Jump kicking a zombie,…
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Schiffbruch
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Dirk Plate GAME DEVELOPER:dP Software GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, dP Software Schiffbruch (German for “Shipwreck”) is a great survival simulation/strategy/adventure game similar to Robinson’s Requiem. The premise is as follows: you are stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific. Your job, naturally,…
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SnowMotion
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Twisted Pair GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Twisted Pair SnowMotion is a great freeware brainteaser from independent German developer Twisted Pair. The premise is so unique and innovative that its hard to believe nobody has come up with it sooner: your goal is to make…
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Catch The Sperm 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Claude Cueni GAME DEVELOPER:Phenomedia GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Phenomedia Catch the Sperm 2 is a superior sequel to the original Catch the Sperm, very popular promotional game developed by Swiss division of Phenomedia, arguably the worlds best promotional game developer today. Released as part of the…
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Dogfight
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Thorsten Kuphaldt GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Anonymous Dogfight is the best modern remake Ive ever come across of Sopwith, an early 1980s air combat classic. In addition to upgrading the graphics to SVGA with incredibly high details of both planes and scenery, Dogfight adds…
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Die Slave
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Sexy Death Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Sexy Death Entertainment Die Slave is yet another excellent freeware shooter from Japans rapidly growing freeware development scene. Similar to Vsys Gaiden and Amanagi, this horizontal shooter features full 3D graphics for everything from ships to asteroids…
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Stroke
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Birdman GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Birdman Stroke is a fun third-person freeware puzzle game with a simple premise: collect all the different color gems and exit. The catch is that the floor tile you stand on will disappear once you step away, so you…
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Smoke Attack
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Claude Cueni GAME DEVELOPER:Phenomedia GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Phenomedia Smoke Attack is another fun freeware game from the Swiss division of Phenomedia, one of the worlds best promotional/tie-in game developers (an increasingly popular genre now commonly referred to as ad-games). Commissioned by Switzerlands Federal Office of…
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Triptych
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Alex Austin GAME DEVELOPER:Chronic Logic GAME PUBLISHER:Chronic Logic Copyright 2002, Chronic Logic Triptych is a great falling blocks game from Chronic Logic. If you think coding another Tetris clone is an unworthy pursuit for a designer of such original games as Pontifex and Bridge Builder, rest…
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Crime Cities
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Techland GAME PUBLISHER:Techland Copyright 2000, Techland Crime Cities is an excellent cyberpunk action game that deserves to be considered one of the best. This excellant game takes the atmosphere of The Fifth Element and adds a touch of Grand Theft Auto 3, although the…
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Magical Broom Extreme
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Anonymous Magical Broom Extreme is another spectacular freeware shooter from Japan with jaw-dropping 3D weapon effects and very good gameplay. You control a cute little anime witch who shoots from her broom. The objective, naturally, is to make your…
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Malos
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Luke Hodorowicz GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Luke Hodorowicz Malos is a unique strategy/action hybrid that plays like a board version of “Tag” game. As the official page describes, “…each level contains a set of red tags on a grid. As the player, you control…
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Building Panic
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ryuuto Yamada GAME DEVELOPER:Yamada No Ana Project GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Ryuuto Yamada Another excellent game from freeware developer Yamada No Ana Project, who is dedicated to producing games based around the same cast of characters, led by Doka-chan, a stubby construction worker and his friends.…
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Doka-Chan no Block Kuzushi 2
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ryuuto Yamada GAME DEVELOPER:Yamada No Ana Project GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Ryuuto Yamada Another excellent game from freeware developer Yamada No Ana Project, who is dedicated to producing games based around the same cast of characters, led by Doka-chan, a stubby construction worker and his friends.…
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Doka-Chan no Oni Gokko
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ryuuto Yamada GAME DEVELOPER:Yamada No Ana Project GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Ryuuto Yamada Another excellent game from freeware developer Yamada No Ana Project, who is dedicated to producing games based around the same cast of characters, led by Doka-chan, a stubby construction worker and his friends.…
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Trap Pinball
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ryuuto Yamada GAME DEVELOPER:Yamada No Ana Project GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Ryuuto Yamada Another excellent game from freeware developer Yamada No Ana Project, who is dedicated to producing games based around the same cast of characters, led by a stubby construction worker and his friends. Like…
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XSynergy Gate
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Sexy Death Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Sexy Death Entertainment XSynergy Gate is an outstanding 3D shooter from Sexy Death Entertainment, makers of Die Slave. The game is a vertical shooter that boasts excellent production values, jaw-dropping graphics (especially if you have a 3D…