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rRootage
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kenta Cho GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Kenta Cho rRootage and Noiz2sa are two unique and addictive vertical shooters that breath fresh air into the crowded, clone-proned genre of arcade shooters. What sets both games apart from other shooters are two very innovative design choices:…
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Noiz2sa
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kenta Cho GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Kenta Cho rRootage and Noiz2sa are two unique and addictive vertical shooters that breath fresh air into the crowded, clone-proned genre of arcade shooters. What sets both games apart from other shooters are two very innovative design choices:…
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Hardball V Enhanced
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mike Benna & Jeff Sember GAME DEVELOPER:MindSpan GAME PUBLISHER:Accolade Copyright 1997, MindSpan Hardball 5 Enhanced is the enhanced edition of Hardball 5, arguably the best entry in Accolade’s long-running series (many baseball fans have assured me that this is better than Hardball 6, the final game…
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Eco-Saurus
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Thomas Cardin GAME DEVELOPER:First Byte GAME PUBLISHER:First Byte Copyright 1991, First Byte Eco-Saurus is an excellent edutainment title from First Byte. Designed to teach kids about environmental conservation, you join friendly dinosaur Zug as an Environmental Conservation Official (E.C.O.) on a mission to save Eco Island…
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Rival Realms
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Activ-Pub GAME PUBLISHER:Titus Copyright 1999, Activ-Pub Rival Realms is a little known but highly underrated real-time strategy game from Romania-based developer Activ-Pub, published by Digital Integration in the UK and Titus elsewhere in the world. Games Domain’s review says it all about why RTS…
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Grand Slam
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Burst GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1997, Virgin Interactive Grand Slam is a disappointingly average baseball game that promised much more than it delivers. Baseball guru Tasos Kaiafas of GameSpot says it all in his scathing but fair review: “A couple of years ago, Grand…
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Cross Country USA
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Didatech GAME PUBLISHER:Didatech Copyright 1995, Didatech Cross Country USA is yet another excellent edutainment program from Didatech, one of the most underrated education software makers today. The program gets you to pick up various commodities at different cities, and deliver them all to a…
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Gunmetal
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mike Jackson GAME DEVELOPER:Mad Genius GAME PUBLISHER:Mad Genius Copyright 1998, Mad Genius Gunmetal is a decent first-person action game, similar to MechWarrior 2 in style except much simpler and not as much fun. The plot: it’s 2219 AD, and your job as a pilot in the…
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Space Quest 0: Replicated
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jeff Stewart GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Jeff Stewart Space Quest 0: Replicated is an excellent fanmade Space Quest game that in my humble opinion is even more fun than The Lost Chapter, another fanmade SQ game reviewed on this site a few years ago.…
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Kururu Kuzushi
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kojipica GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Kojipica Kururu Kuzushi is a unique Breakout clone that takes the action to 360-degrees by putting blocks in the middle of the field, and adding another paddle to the arena. You move the mouse to rotate both paddles in…
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PacManWorlds
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Danny Boyd GAME DEVELOPER:Danjo Software GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Danjo Software Definitely the best fanmade Pac-Man game I have ever seen, PacManWorlds is a fun game that brings the fun of Pac-Man into the 21st century with excellent graphics, nicely designed themed worlds, and the same…
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Galapagos: Mendel’s Escape
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Anark GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1997, Anark One of the most unique games ever made, Galapagos: Mendel’s Escape is a fascinating artificial life simulation that combines intricate puzzles, fantastic Escher-like worlds, and advances in AI technology to create a captivating game, although impatient gamers…
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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Ellicott Creek GAME PUBLISHER:Ellicott Creek Copyright 1986, Ellicott Creek Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos is an interesting text adventure that is more interesting by virtue of innovative designs than the actual gameplay. The game is based on the “affair of the Vatican cameos” mentioned…
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NAM
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:GT Interactive GAME PUBLISHER:GT Interactive Copyright 1998, GT Interactive Probably the worst FPS based on Build engine ever made, NAM is a terrible shooter that anyone would do well to avoid. Which is a pity, because the Vietnam War setting is one that is…
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Jazz Jackrabbit
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Epic Megagames GAME PUBLISHER:Epic Megagames Copyright 1993, Epic Megagames One of the best platformers to grace your PC screen, Jazz Jackrabbit was a very successful platformer by shareware standards, released by Epic Megagames in 1993 and spawned a number of well-received sequels. Similar in…
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Mascotte Blackjack
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Leonardo D’Alessandri GAME DEVELOPER:Mascotte Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Mascotte Entertainment Copyright 2003, Leonardo D’Alessandri Mascotte Blackjack is a nice shareware blackjack game that offers much more graphics pizzazz than most other card games on the market. While blackjack is not exactly something you can expect to find long-term…
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Mass Destruction
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:NMS Software GAME PUBLISHER:BMG Interactive Copyright 1997, NMS Software Mass Destruction is an addictive 3D shoot ’em up that would have been much more successful had it not been released a few years too late. Similar to Return Fire, the game offers frenetic top-down…
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HOTUpoly
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Karl Runmo & HOTUpoly Team GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Karl Runmo & HOTUpoly Team HOTUPoly (short from Home of the Underdogs-Poly) is our very own version of Monopoly game, converted from a Swedish multiplayer Monopoly clone called Kalles Monopol by three regulars of our…
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Out of the Sun
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Domark GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1997, Domark One of the most obscure flight simulators ever made, Out of the Sun is a competent World War 2 simulator from Domark, the second and last in its ambitious series of Macintosh-only sims that started with Flighting Nightmares…
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Zero Divide
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Zoom GAME PUBLISHER:Time Warner Interactive Copyright 1995, Zoom Zero Divide is an ambitious 3D fighting game that has a lot of potential that is thoroughly wasted by bad controls and repetitive gameplay. The result is a very average game that beat ’em up fans…
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Pathological
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Rainbow Arts GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Anonymous Pathological is a very polished enhanced fanmade remake of Logical, a neat brainteaser by Rainbow Arts. The official website says it all: “Pathological is a puzzle game consisting of marbles that roll along paths, and interact along…
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Grounstream
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:D.K. GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, D.K. Grounstream is another fun RPG/adventure/platformer hybrid from Japan. While it is not as good-looking or as addictive as Akuji the Demon, it is still a very fun game that succeeds in keeping you glued to the screen with…
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Wargasm
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Image Design (DID) GAME PUBLISHER:Infogrames Copyright 1999, Digital Image Design (DID) Wargasm is a fun but a bit too short 3D action game in the same vein as Incoming, except with authentic military trappings that fans of DID’s hard-core flight sims can expect.…
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Alien Trilogy
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Matt Nagy GAME DEVELOPER:Acclaim Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:FOX Interactive Copyright 1996, FOX Interactive Alien Trilogy is a lackluster first-person shoot ’em up that is a disappointing waste of the blockbuster license. Very loosely based on the three existing Alien movies, the game casts you as Ripley, space…
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Conan: Hall of Volta
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Eric Robinson & Eric Parker GAME DEVELOPER:SE Software GAME PUBLISHER:Datasoft Copyright 1984, SE Software Datasoft’s Apple II classic Conan: Hall of Volta is one of the best cross-genre action games I have ever played, bar none. I remember spending countless hours on our rickety Apple II,…
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Heroes [1995]
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1995, RealTech VR Heroes is an excellent Nibbles clone coded by RealTech, a demo group. Like Nibbles, your goal in the game is to maneuver a small vehicle around the arena, while collecting power-ups and avoiding obstacles, your opponents’ trails,…
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Piranha
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:D-Designs GAME PUBLISHER:D-Designs Copyright 1996, D-Designs Piranha from now-defunct Finnish developer D-Designs is an excellent Asteroids clone. Tomer Gabel’s review at MobyGames says it all about this very obscure underdog: “…[This] game really is great – excellent graphics, good (configurable! there’s a concept) controls,…
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Robots of Dawn
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Epyx GAME PUBLISHER:Epyx Copyright 1986, Epyx Robots of Dawn is a great text adventure based very closely on Isaac Asimov’s celebrated sci-fi novel of the same name. If you have never read the book (and you definitely should, if you like sci-fi novels), here’s…
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Die Hard Trilogy
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Michael Hart GAME DEVELOPER:Probe Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Fox Interactive Copyright 1996, Probe Entertainment Die Hard Trilogy is a fun collection of 3 different action games based on the three Die Hard movies. While none of the games stands out compared to similar games, as a whole DHT…
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Fight for Fame
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Stefan Hinum GAME DEVELOPER:Anonymous GAME PUBLISHER:Anonymous Copyright 1995, Stefan Hinum Fight for Fame is an excellent shareware real-time strategy game for one to six players set in the eigth century. The multitude of options makes Fight for Fame a deeper game than most RTS titles. You…
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Chess Partner
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Scott Murray GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1983, Scott Murray One of the earliest CGA freeware chess programs, Chess Partner by Scott Murray is an excellent chess game that surprisingly stands the test of time rather well – even 20 years after the initial release. Although…
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Rosemary West’s House of Fortunes
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Rosemary West & Roger Pedersen GAME DEVELOPER:Villa Crespo GAME PUBLISHER:Villa Crespo Copyright 1993, Villa Crespo One of Villa Crespo’s most unknown games, Rosemary West’s House of Fortunes is a good fortune teller program for DOS that packs a lot of options into a few floppy disks.…
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Expert Common Knowledge
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Rosemary West GAME DEVELOPER:Expert Software GAME PUBLISHER:Expert Software Copyright 1991, Rosemary West Expert Common Knowledge is a fun trivia game designed by Rosemary West, best known as one of the world’s most popular psychics. Basically a text-only trivia game not unlike Trivia Pursuit, this quiz program…
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M*A*T*H*S Circus
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Greygum Software GAME PUBLISHER:Greygum Software Copyright 1992, Greygum Software Definitely one of the best math titles ever made, M*A*T*H*S Circus is a collection of puzzle-like math-oriented activities for all ages. Although it may appear to be a program for young kids, don’t let the…
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Sports Spectacular
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Keypunch GAME PUBLISHER:Keypunch Copyright 1987, Keypunch Sports Spectacular is a very lackluster compilation of 3 sports games – yet another “rip off” maneuver from Keypunch: combining public domain games and selling them without the author’s knowledge, let alone royalty fee. The games included are…
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Learn about Programming
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Compedia GAME PUBLISHER:Compedia Copyright 1992, Compedia Learn about Programming is yet another excellent entry in Compedia’s long line of “Top Class” edutainment titles. As the title suggests, this little program teaches the basics of programming in concise multimedia lectures and fun multiple-choice quizzes. The…
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Learn about Fractions
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Compedia GAME PUBLISHER:Compedia Copyright 1992, Compedia Learn about Fractions is a good educational title by Compedia, part of its excellent “Top Class” series. Like other Top Class titles, Learn about Fractions offers a series of multiple-choice quizzes. Although the scope of the program is…
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America Adventure
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Knowledge Adventure GAME PUBLISHER:Knowledge Adventure Copyright 1993, Knowledge Adventure America Adventure is another solid title in Knowledge Adventure’s somewhat popular series based on Knowledge Adventure engine. In this title, you will learn about the geography, history, and general trivia involving the United States. In…
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Sticky Bear Town Builder
From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Optimum Resources GAME PUBLISHER:Optimum Resources Copyright 1991, Optimum Resources Sticky Bear Town Builder is one of the first titles in Optimum Resource’s popular Sticky Bear line of educational titles that is still going strong after more than a decade. Unfortunately unlike later games in…