Classic Personal Computer (PC) Games

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  • MAG

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mike Teixeira GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1988, Mike Teixeira MAG is an early and very difficult Rogue clone written by Mike Teixeira in 1991. The game as well as the source code is now public domain, thanks to the author. The lack of interesting plot…

  • Sorcerer’s Bane

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Chuck Wood GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1991, Chuck Wood Another obscure Roguelike RPG, Sorcerer’s Bane was released as shareware in 1991, although registering the game only gets you a set of programs to add items and monsters, edit character stats, and resurrect characters from the…

  • Super Ken Senshi

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Fallen Angel Industries GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Fallen Angel Industries Super Ken Senshi is yet another superb freeware release from Fallen Angel Industries, one of the best “Klik” designer groups. Aside from excellent anime graphics and animations that FAIND usually delivers, SKS has a…

  • Raging Skies

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Robert Lupinek GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Robert Lupinek Raging Skies is a great 360-degree shooter from Darthlupi, make of Mage Craft which is another Top Dog game on this site. Although it is basically a straightforward top-down shooter as far as gameplay goes, numerous…

  • UFP

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:TRRN GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, TRRN UFP and SLD are two fun little arcade games from Japan from the same author. UFP is a cool shooter that lets you fly a paper airplane and shoots at balloons and other paper airplanes for points. The…

  • SLD

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:TRRN GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, TRRN UFP and SLD are two fun little arcade games from Japan from the same author. UFP is a cool shooter that lets you fly a paper airplane and shoots at balloons and other paper airplanes for points. The…

  • IFRIT

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Zac Soft GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Zac Soft IFRIT is a fun 2D horizontal shooter from Japan in the same vein as R-Type and similar games, albeit a lot simpler. Polished anime graphics, decent soundtrack, and solid gameplay round out this well-designed freeware. The…

  • Spout

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:kuni GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, kuni Spout is a fun arcade-ish game from Japan that is best described as an “abstract caveflier/shooter.” Similar to many Finnish freeware classics like V-Wing, your goal in Spout is simply to make your way safely from one level…

  • Destruction Desire

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Anonymous Destruction Desire is another excellent 2D one-on-one fighting game from Japan, created with Enterbrain’s popular Fighter Maker application that unfortunately is not available in English. In contrast to most games coded with M.U.G.E.N. engine, all the fighters in…

  • Dark Disciples

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Anonymous Dark Disciples is a fun “lite” top-down RPG that emphasizes thieving skills over battles. You start the game as a village denizen in a typical fantasy town, going about your daily business. But it won’t be long before…

  • War, Inc.

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Optik GAME PUBLISHER:Interactive Magic Copyright 1995, Interactive Magic War, Inc. is an innovative real-time strategy game that unfortunately ruins a lot of potential and a great stock market (!) module with lackluster gameplay, annoying bugs, and an unbalanced difficulty level. Featuring tech research for…

  • WWI Medic

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Tarn Adams GAME DEVELOPER:Bay Twelve Games GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Bay Twelve Games WWI Medic is a fast-paced, unique, and violent action game. In contrast to most other games set in world wars, your objective in WWIM is not to take lives but to save them:…

  • Leisure Suit Larry 2 Point and Click

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Al Lowe & redruM GAME DEVELOPER:Sierra On-Line GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, redruM Leisure Suit Larry 2 Point and Click is a great fanmade “re-release” of Al Lowe’s popular classic game. Basically it is the same game with one critical difference: the text parser has been replaced…

  • Super Football Sunday

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Alan Roireau GAME DEVELOPER:Quest Inc. GAME PUBLISHER:Avalon Hill Copyright 1985, Avalon Hill An early pioneer in the genre of American football that was not nearly half as good as NFL Challenge. Ostentatiously based on Avalon Hill’s best-selling football boardgame, Super Bowl Sunday is much more simplistic…

  • Hexxagon for Windows

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Paul Neave GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Paul Neave Hexxagon for Windows is a superb fanmade remake of a 1992 game of the same name from Argo Games. Hexxagon, in turn, is a variant of a neat strategy game called Ataxx which is implemented in…

  • Sailing: An Adventure in The Bermuda Triangle

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Dave Greenbaum GAME DEVELOPER:Dynetron GAME PUBLISHER:Dynetron Copyright 1983, Dynetron Sailing: An Adventure in The Bermuda Triangle is a decent but primitive action/sport hybrid from Dynetron, released way back in 1983. Your objective: finish sailing 3 legs around the Bermuda Triangle, rescuing stranded swimmers and rafters along…

  • Lost Valley

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Miguel Perez GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Miguel Perez Lost Valley is an excellent freeware action-oriented RPG that offers over 25 hours of gameplay, a lot of neat weapons and magic items, and smooth animations. Similar to Zelda, you will roam a huge gameworld, battling…

  • Virtual In 2

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Juna GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Juna Virtual In 2 is a great sequel to Virtual In, a fun one-on-one robot fighting game from Japan. If you hate the first game or “cute” stumpy-head Japanese games, there is no reason to try this one. But…

  • Zap’Em

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:IBM GAME PUBLISHER:IBM Copyright 1983, IBM Zap’em is a very lackluster “old skool” shooter from IBM coded in BASIC – one of their most disappointing releases. The description from MobyGames goes as follows: “Zap’em is an action game for one player. You control a…

  • Combots

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) GAME PUBLISHER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Copyright 1983, International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Combots is a below-average BASICA game distributed only among IPCO members. Due to limitations of the BASIC language and early 1980 hardware, the game amounts to…

  • CIA

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) GAME PUBLISHER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Copyright 1982, International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) CIA is a below-average BASICA game distributed only among IPCO members. Due to limitations of the BASIC language and early 1980 hardware, the game amounts to…

  • Lost Dutchman’s Gold

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) GAME PUBLISHER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Copyright 1982, International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Lost Dutchman’s Gold is a below-average BASICA game distributed only among IPCO members. Due to limitations of the BASIC language and early 1980 hardware, the game…

  • Rubik’s Cube

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) GAME PUBLISHER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Copyright 1982, International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Rubik’s Cube is a below-average BASICA game distributed only among IPCO members. Due to limitations of the BASIC language and early 1980 hardware, the game amounts…

  • Civil War

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) GAME PUBLISHER:International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Copyright 1983, International PC Owners Inc. (IPCO) Civil War is a below-average BASICA game distributed only among IPCO members. Due to limitations of the BASIC language and early 1980 hardware, the game amounts…

  • Capitalist Pig

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Thomas GAME DEVELOPER:DataCal GAME PUBLISHER:DataCal Copyright 1992, David Thomas Capitalist Pig is one of the most fun – and the most obscure – business simulations released in the early 1990s. In this innovative game that foreshadows Capitalism Plus years later, your job is to start…

  • Lines Continues, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Bepposoft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Bepposoft The Line Continues is a great sequel to The Line, a very original freeware platformer from Bepposoft. The plot, in the designer’s own words, is almost as wacky as the game itself: “It seems The Line continues. You’ve…

  • Diceies

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jonnathan Smadello GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Jonnathan Smadello Diceies is a good remake of a little-known puzzler called Palamedes, release only for the NES console. Your objective in this Tetris variant: keep the falling row of dice from reaching the bottom of the screen…

  • RotoCube

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Torbjrn Josefsson GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Torbjrn Josefsson RotoCube is a Rubik’s Cube style brainteaser that offers addictive and challenging gameplay alongside polished graphics that belies its freeware origins. As the author describes, the game is very similar to Cubulus, an oldie PC game,…

  • Dune Emulator, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jonathan McCarthy GAME DEVELOPER:Avalon Hill GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Jonathan McCarthy The Dune Emulator is a superb PC implementation of Avalon Hill’s classic boardgame Dune. In the author’s words, “[this] is a labour of love undertaken primarily as a means of learning the Allegro game programming…

  • Clyde’s Adventure

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Mike Voss & Jim Voss GAME DEVELOPER:Moonlite Software GAME PUBLISHER:Moonlite Software Copyright 1992, Moonlite Software Clyde’s Adventure is a below-average platform game for DOS that starts out promising enough before descending into mediocrity around halfway through. Your goal: make your way through each of the 32…

  • Strike Point: The Hex Missions

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Motivetime GAME PUBLISHER:Project 2 Interactive Copyright 1996, Motivetime Strike Point: The Hex Missions is a decent 3D action game that is better known on the PlayStation. The banal plot: Hex, an evil corporation, plans to destroy the planet’s ecosphere with strategically placed shockwave devices.…

  • Caverns of Xaskazien

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jeff Schiller & Jeff Sinasac GAME DEVELOPER:Little Devils GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Jeff Schiller & Jeff Sinasac Caverns of Xaskazien is a neat Windows remake (based on SDL) of an obscure but fun DOS Roguelike of the same name written by Jeff Sinasac as a shareware…

  • Settlers, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Blue Byte GAME PUBLISHER:Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) Copyright 1993, Blue Byte A great start to a great series, The Settlers (published by SSI in the USA as Serf City) is a fun micromanagement game that is based on a tried-and-true 4X idea, but executed…

  • Toy Shop, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jim Calhoun GAME DEVELOPER:Brderbund GAME PUBLISHER:Brderbund Copyright 1986, Brderbund One of the first innovative “edutainment” software titles, The Toy Shop from Broderbund is also one of the first software of its kind to have a hefty price tag: it retailed for over $75 in most stores.…

  • AnkerCAD

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Anders Isaksson GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Anders Isaksson A very nice “spin-off” of BlockCAD, a great LEGO building program reviewed on this site, AnkerCAD lets you build virtual models with bricks. The bricks are based on AnkerStein (“AnchorStones” in English), excellent LEGO-like toy that…

  • TUMIKI Fighter

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kenta Cho GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Kenta Cho In the crowded field of freeware shoot ’em ups, Kenta Cho’s games stand a league of their own. Innovations abound, from the abstract wireframe graphics, to randomly generated enemy gunfire, to fluid controls. Just when you…

  • Return of Egypt

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Driven Phantom Soft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Driven Phantom Soft Return of Egypt is a very good Castlevania clone from Driven Phantom Soft, sporting fluid 2D sidescrolling action, plenty of well-drawn enemies, and excellent level design. You star Moses as he returns to Egypt…

  • Shoujo Attack!

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Scott King GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Scott King One of the best Lemmings clones I have ever played and certainly the funniest, Shoujo Attack! is a great Lemmings clone that manages to parody Japanese anime/manga culture in the process 🙂 Your job: guide little…

  • TrackMania

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Nadeo GAME PUBLISHER:Digital Jesters Copyright 2004, Nadeo The best Stunts!-style game I have ever seen barring the original classic, TrackMania is a wonderful underdog from French developer Nadeo, published exclusively on-line by Digital Jesters. The excellent review at PC Gameworld says it all: “It’s…

  • Mario Forever

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Buziol GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Buziol One of the best fanmade Super Mario games, bar none, Mario Forever from Polish freeware group Buziol Games is a highly polished, addictive, and long Super Mario clone, featuring dozens of levels spanning multiple worlds, all the familiar…

  • Abu Simbel Profanation Deluxe

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Vctor Ruiz & Miguel Jimnez GAME DEVELOPER:Dinamic Multimedia GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, Miguel Jimnez Abu Simbel Profanation Deluxe is a superb fanmade remake of Dinamic’s classic platformer for the Spectrum computer. You are Johnny Jones, avid adventurer who explores a forbidden Egyptian temple (perhaps inspired by…

  • Pyjamarama

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Chris Hinsley & R.Granado GAME DEVELOPER:Mikro-Gen GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2004, R.Granado Pyjamarama is a superb fanmade remake of a classic Spectrum action/adventure game of the same name, released way back in 1984 by Mikro-Gen. The original game is the continuation of Wally’s adventure in the famously…

  • 4-D Boxing

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Distinctive Software GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape Copyright 1991, Distinctive Software Arguably THE best action-oriented boxing game ever made for the PC, 4-D Boxing is a revolutionary sports title from Distinctive Software that does to the boxing genre what Stunts does for racing. Trixter in his review…

  • Flight Unlimited 2

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Looking Glass Technologies GAME PUBLISHER:EIDOS Interactive Copyright 1995, Looking Glass Technologies After revolutionizing the 3D dungeon romp genre with Ultima Underworld and its sequel, Looking Glass Technologies turned their attention to the genre that is the perfect match for their powerful physics engine: flight…

  • AI Wars: The Awakening

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Nexus Interactive Studios GAME PUBLISHER:Nexus Interactive Studios Copyright 2000, Nexus Interactive Studios AI Wars: The Awakening is an innovative and very underrated FPS that requires a lot of effort to learn. But your patience will be well rewarded with a unique and captivating blend…

  • Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Greg Costikyan GAME DEVELOPER:Crossover Technologies GAME PUBLISHER:Discovery Copyright 1998, Crossover Technologies In my opinion the most “realistic” and fun strategy game ever made about scientific evolution, Evolution from Greg Costikyan is a unique, well-designed, and very well-balanced real-time strategy game that brings the concepts of evolution…

  • Ninja Rabbits

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:MicroValue GAME PUBLISHER:MicroValue Copyright 1991, MicroValue Ninja Rabbits and its sequel International Ninja Rabbits are two “faithful” conversions of a pair of terrible Commodore 64 games of the same names that star you as a rabbit who is tasked with saving a factory from…

  • Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Pop Software GAME PUBLISHER:Pop Software Copyright 1995, Pop Software Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom and the sequel Return of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom are two rare ‘retro’-style shareware shooters. From description at MobyGames: “[Invasion] consists of 66 stages, arranged…

  • Return of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Pop Software GAME PUBLISHER:Pop Software Copyright 1995, Pop Software Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom and the sequel Return of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom are two rare ‘retro’-style shareware shooters. From description at MobyGames: “[Invasion] consists of 66 stages, arranged…

  • Highway Fighter

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Alexander Safonov GAME DEVELOPER:Omega Integral Systems GAME PUBLISHER:Omega Integral Systems Copyright 1994, Omega Integral Systems Highway Fighter is a very obscure precursor to Highway Hunter, a shareware game from Russia published by Safari and later by Epic MegaGames. Although the game offers the same plot, similar…