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Pole Position (Arcade)
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Graeme Devine GAME DEVELOPER:Namco GAME PUBLISHER:Datasoft Copyright 1983, Namco One of the most loved arcade games, Pole Position is a watershed in arcade racing games and was THE game that set standard for all subsequent “checkpoint racers” (i.e. racing through checkpoints against the clock). Designed by…
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Cho Ren Sha 68K
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Famibe No Yosshin GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, Famibe No Yosshin Cho Ren Sha 68K is another excellent shooter from Japans incredibly prolific freeware game development community. This vertical shooter boasts excellent 2D graphics, soundtrack, and a lot of neat ship designs, especially the bosses.…
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Hyperspace Delivery Boy!
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tom Hall GAME DEVELOPER:Monkeystone GAME PUBLISHER:Monkeystone Copyright 2002, Monkeystone Hyperspace Delivery Boy! is a very fun action/adventure/puzzle concoction from Tom Hall, John Romero and Monkeystone, the company the two id Software legends founded after leaving Ion Storm in 2001. The first PC game from Monkeystone (who…
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Tamarin
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kouyousha GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Kouyousha Tamarin is a fun and unique freeware puzzle game that plays like a variation of Rubiks famous tile puzzles. The game is simple to learn, but hard to master. You basically move a 2×2 magnifying lens around the…
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Hosen
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Anonymous Hosen is a nice freeware puzzle from Japan that offers an innovative twist to Pipe Mania and similar games. Instead of connecting pipes together to channel water to the destination, your goal in Hosen is to connect rails…
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MathDa, The
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Higo Yoshiyugi GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Higo Yoshiyugi The MathDa is a challenging and refreshingly unique board game for 2 players (computer player is available) with a simple premise: place numbered tiles with values between 1 to 25 on the board until there is…
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Storm Caliber
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SRX Software Production GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, SRX Software Production Storm Caliber and Messier are two excellent freeware shooters from Japan. Both games feature fun gameplay, imaginative enemy ship designs, and plenty of cool power-ups to use. The graphics are excellent, although it is…
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Messier
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SRX Software Production GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, SRX Software Production Storm Caliber and Messier are two excellent freeware shooters from Japan. Both games feature fun gameplay, imaginative enemy ship designs, and plenty of cool power-ups to use. The graphics are excellent, although it is…
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Typing Racer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Anonymous Typing Racer is a fun 3D racing game designed to help improve your typing in a fun and addictive way. In this “rail shooter” (i.e. you don’t have control over your movement), alphabets (or numbers, depending on what…
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Pong & Kooky’s Cuckoo Zoo
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Susan Mahoney GAME DEVELOPER:Mahoney Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1993, EA*Kids Pong & Kooky’s Cuckoo Zoo is the last release in EA*Kids’ quality but short-lived product line designed for young children. This preschool title features nice background graphics and animations, recorded speech, and over 15 mini-games…
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K1 Tank
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Taff System GAME PUBLISHER:Taff System Copyright 1994, Taff System K1 Tank is an oldie but goodie first-person action game from South Korea. The game puts you behind the wheels of K1 tank, mainstay of South Korean army developed by Hyundai based on the design…
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Moto Racer
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Paul Cuisset GAME DEVELOPER:Delphine Software GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1997, Delphine Software Moto Racer is the first title in a relatively successful series Delphine developed for Electronic Arts. This 3D arcade motorcycle racer allows you to ride superbikes and motocross. Race Time Attack, Single Race, and…
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WinDepth
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Bio_100% GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1999, Bio_100% WinDepth is an excellent modern fanmade version of Atari’s classic Depth Charge submarine-sinking game. The idea is simple: you control a battleship that drops depth charges from the surface to destroy submarines down below. Since the charges take…
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GFID Advance Place: Project Zero
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Anonymous GFID Advance Place: Project Zero is a fun freeware vertical shooter from Japan. Although the ships (including your own) are smaller than in an avarage shooter, this makes the playing field quite large in comparison, thereby allowing awesome…
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Renga Funsai Yuugi
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Anonymous Renga Funsai Yuugi is a novel combination of vertical shooter and Breakout: your spaceship is equipped with flippers, which you use to bounce the ball back to destroy the blocks on the top of the screen. The graphics…
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Soldiers at War
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Slaydon GAME DEVELOPER:Random Games GAME PUBLISHER:Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) Copyright 1998, Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) Soldiers at War is one of SSI’s last published games, a valiant attempt to capture the feel of WWII in a squad-level game similar to X-COM. The game is a…
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DriftZone
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Dirk Vandenheuvel GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Dirk Vandenheuvel DriftZone is an outstanding Asteroids-style game that adds a lot of gameplay options and bells & whistles to the addictive shoot-the-asteroids gameplay of the arcade original. There are two different game types available: a ‘Classic’ mode…
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Fighters Kyodotai
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Alicuu GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Alicuu Fighters Kyodotai is a great freeware 2D fighting game from Japan. Although the game?s graphics looks a bit outdated in VGA, Fighters Kyodotai shines through in the gameplay department. To begin with, there are dozens of characters to…
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Zone Raiders
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Gion Camaj & Joe Campana GAME DEVELOPER:Image Space Incorporated GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1995, Image Space Incorporated Zone Raiders is a decent 3D futuristic driving combat game that unfortunately doesnt offer anything to set it above Wipeout XL or Quarantine. In the game, you play an…
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Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Software Creations GAME PUBLISHER:Acclaim Entertainment Copyright 1994, Marvel Comics Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety is the sequel of Maximum Carnage, one of the best superhero action games ever made. Unfortunately Maximum Carnage was never released on PC, so PC gamers will have to take…
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International Sports Challenge
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Harlequin GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1992, Empire Interactive International Sports Challenge is a good multi-sports simulation that offers a decent variety of sporting events, satisfying depth of gameplay, and good user interface (although very high joystick proficiency is required to beat this game). Although…
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Game, Net & Match!
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:MediaGames GAME PUBLISHER:Blue Byte Copyright 1998, Blue Byte Game, Net & Match! is the long-awaited third game in Blue Bytes excellent Great Courts tennis game series. Unfortunately, GNM is not as good as its predecessors: despite SVGA graphics and more gameplay options, the game…
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Frightmare
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Rod Ashley & Sean Conran GAME DEVELOPER:Cascade GAME PUBLISHER:Accolade Copyright 1991, Cascade Frightmare is an okay shooter first published by Cascade Games in 1987. This Accolade-published PC version dates from 1991, and ranks among one of the rarest PC games ever made. Unfortunately, rare doesnt necessarily…
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21 for 1 to 4
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:John Klein GAME DEVELOPER:SoftDisk Publishing GAME PUBLISHER:SoftDisk Publishing Copyright 1989, John Klein 21 for 1 to 4 is a very simple blackjack card game for 1 to 4 players (as the name implies). Nothing much to say about this one, except that its worth mention as…
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Seven Years War
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tea-Gon Kim GAME DEVELOPER:HQ Team GAME PUBLISHER:HQ Team Copyright 1997, HQ Team Seven Years War is a decent WarCraft II clone that is, a real-time strategy game – based on the Seven Years War, the period between 1592 and 1598 A.D. during which Japanese shogun Toyotomi…
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Powerslide
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Greg Siegele GAME DEVELOPER:Ratbag GAME PUBLISHER:GT Interactive Copyright 1998, Ratbag Powerslide, created by talented Australian developer Ratbag, is a post apocalyptic racer with heaping helpings of style, character and best of all, fun. I think the official website describes the game best when it says “The…
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Techno Puck
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Y. Fujii GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Y. Fujii Techno Puck is a cool Pong-style paddle game with some nifty features including dual paddles, power-ups, special items, and different level designs. Similar to air hockey, your goal is to knock the ball past the opponent’s…
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Iskib
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Scott Ramsay GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1989, Compute! Publication Iskib is a very rare 2D side-scrolling platformer designed to be included with an issue of Compute! magazine – one of the first instances such marketing gimmick was used for a PC magazine. The object of…
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Eternal Daughter
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Derek Yu & Jon Perry GAME DEVELOPER:Blackeye Software GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Blackeye Software Eternal Daughter is an excellent platformer from Blackeye Software, the wonderful folks who brought us outstanding freeware titles like Snowbrawl and Diabolika. The game casts you as Mia, a young girl born…
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Spirit Warrior
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:CG Computer Graphic Corp. GAME PUBLISHER:CG Computer Graphic Corp. Copyright 1997, CG Computer Graphic Corp. Spirit Warrior is a marginally above-average 3D fighting game from Taiwanese company CG. The game is very little known because it was never marketed outside Asia, and it never…
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Frogger II: Three Deep
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA Copyright 1984, SEGA Frogger II: Three Deep is a fun sequel to Ataris cross-the-road classic Frogger. Instead of the road, this time Mr. Frog must swim from the bottom of his pond past deadly foes to get to three moving home…
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Death Squadron
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mark Currie GAME DEVELOPER:Gatecom GAME PUBLISHER:Gatecom Copyright 1992, Mark Currie Death Squadron is a rare commercial ripoff of Mark Currie’s 1990 freeware Chopper Commando 2, a fun oldie Sopwith-style 2D aerial bombing game for DOS. Gatecom pretty much took Currie’s game, changed the name, and marketed…
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PicoShot
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:PPM Soft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, PPM Soft PicoShot is potentially the worlds smallest shooter ever made. At first, I hated this game. Really. I wondered what was the sense of making a game which takes a tiny, stamp-sized, 64×64 window, moving a ship…
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Double Dragon
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Masahiro Yoshihara GAME DEVELOPER:Arcadia GAME PUBLISHER:Arcadia Copyright 1988, Technos Japan Double Dragon is a disappointing PC version of Technos’ classic beat’em up series that were very successful in the arcades and on console systems. The plot, if you haven’t heard of this blockbuster before, goes as…
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Double Dragon II: The Revenge
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Masahiro Yoshihara & Mike Day GAME DEVELOPER:Binary Design GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1989, Technos Japan After Arcadia did a dismal PC conversion of Technos’ arcade blockbuster Double Dragon, Technos USA wisely decided to choose a different company to do a PC conversion of the second game,…
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Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Masahiro Yoshihara & Morten Grouleff GAME DEVELOPER:Virgin Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1992, Technos Japan Ask any longtime action gamer, and most will tell you that Technos classic arcade classic Double Dragon series took a nosedive with the final game in the trilogy, Double Dragon III:…
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Defcon 5 (Millennium)
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Millennium GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis Copyright 1995, Millennium Defcon 5 is a good first-person action game from Millennium that deserves much more attention than it received, although original Playstation version (published by Data East) did marginally better than this rare PC port. The game takes place…
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Plastic Kitten
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Moritz Moeller GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Moritz Moeller Plastic Kitten is a great freeware Q*Bert clone for the PC designed as a promotional game for Muschihaus, a German music label. You play Plastic Kitten, an anime-inspired voluptuous cat-woman who must save the world from…
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Warhammer: Dark Omen
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jeff Gamon & Steve Leney GAME DEVELOPER:Mindscape GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1998, Mindscape Warhammer: Dark Omen is a superb sequel to Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, Mindscape’s first real-time tactical strategy game based on the Games Workshop’s popular tabletop RPG franchise. The game boasts superior…
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Warbirds III
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bill Stealey GAME DEVELOPER:iEntertainment Network GAME PUBLISHER:iEntertainment Network Copyright 2000, iEntertainment Network Warbirds III is an extremely good flight sim, designed mainly for multiplayer gaming, but can be played offline aswell. The successor to Warbirds 2.xx (incremental releases were made), this is a WW2 flight simulation…
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World War II
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Steve Evans & Christophe Plattet GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, Christophe Plattet Aaah, those were these days…. Here is a true gem for all you oldtimers who, like myself, have started gaming back when ZX Spectrum or Commodore’s C=64 were state of the art. World…
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Gundam Wing: Endless Duel
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Natsume GAME PUBLISHER:Bandai Copyright 1996, Bandai Endless Duel is the first and only game based on Bandais popular giant-robot Gundam Wing anime/action figure series, part of the long-running Mobile Suit Gundam universe. The game is a 2D fighting game similar to Street Fighter, only…
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Katharsis
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Metropolis GAME PUBLISHER:Metropolis Copyright 1997, Metropolis Katharsis is a decent modern shooter that offers excellent 3D background graphics (although not the ships themselves), and even a plot (!). The premise is quite clich? (i.e. defend the planet against the evil Conquerors), but the game…
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FormulaPC
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Onyx GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Onyx FormulaPC is an excellent fanmade PC version of Formula D?, a unique board game from EuroGames that captures the spirit of Formula One racing in a whole new way: on the tabletop. Like its board game original, FormulaPC…
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Kunio-kun No Nekketsu Soccer League
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Technos Japan GAME PUBLISHER:Technos Japan Copyright 1993, Technos Japan Kunio-kun No Nekketsu Soccer League (roughly translated as “Hot-blooded Kunio-kun Soccer League”) is a superior sequel to Technos better-known Nekketsu Koukou Soccer (released in the US and Europe as Nintendo World Cup Soccer). The story…