________ __________ _____ __ __ __ __ __ _ _____ / || / \ / \ | \ / | || | \ | / \ \_______ || | __ /____\ | \ / | || | \ | | __ \ || | | | | | \/ | || | \ | | | ________/ || \_____/ | | | | || | \| \_____/ ______ __ _____ ______ ______ ________ | \ || / \ || / || | | || | __ ||__ \_____ || | | || | | || \ || |_____/ || \_____/ ||____ ______/ || June 1992 Edition A monthly guide to new and upcoming Atari ST games -------------------------------------------------- Edited by Zenobot ----------------- A CyberSysTek Publication ------------------------- Quote Of The Month: ------------------- "We believe these birth defects were caused by alcohol, smoking, improper exercise, and failure to properly wear seatbelts." (Official response from the office of the mayor of Denver to charges that birth defects in a particular area of town were caused by hazardous wastes dumped by Hughes Aircraft . Babies were being born without brains. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Z editorial: ------------ Epic finally showed up, but it's not nearly as good as it was made to be. It flies just like a jet fighter and the controls are real touchy. Oh well, next!!!! And now, a few tidbits of news: Sensible Soccer will be released by Renegade, not Ocean; that new British company, Mirage, will not be supporting the ST after all; See y'all next month! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ST Gaming News: --------------- New This Month: --------------- Domestic: --------- --Fighting For Rome (Merit/Impressions). --The Final Conflict (Merit/Impressions). --Merchant Colony (Merit/Impressions). --Pacific Islands (Readysoft/Empire/ODE). --Rotor (Microdaft). Imported: --------- --Bonanza Brothers (US Gold). --Champions (Krisalis) (Jahangir Khan's Squash/Manchester United/World Championship Boxing Manager) --Deliverance (21st Century Entertainments). --Discovery: In The Steps Of Columbus (Impressions). --Epic (Ocean/Digital Image Design). --Fantasy Pak (Daze Marketing) (Crystals Of Arborea/Colorado/Boston Bomb Club) --Ninja Collection (Ocean) (Double Dragon/Dragon Ninja/Shadow Warriors). --Samurai: The Way Of The Warrior (Impressions). --Space Crusade (Gremlin). --Storm Master (Daze Marketing). --Unreal (UBI Soft).--Utopia: The New Worlds (Gremlin), data disk. --Videokid (Gremlin/Twilight). --Winter Supersports '92 (Flair). --World Class Rugby: Five Nations Edition (Audiogenic). Budget games and re-issues: --------------------------- --Battle Chess (Star Performer). Top Twenty ST Games in the UK, May '92: --------------------------------------- (This chart is reprinted from ST Action and compiled by Gallup.) (Unfortunately, they got the bright idea to combine both the "Budget" and "Full-Price" charts into one big one!) 1 (1) (B) First Division Manager (Codemasters). 2 (2) (B) James Pond (GBH). 3 (8) (B) F-16 Combat Pilot (Action 16). 4 (4) (B) Toyota Celica Rally (GBH). 5 (1) (F) WWF Wrestlemania (Ocean). 6 (NE) (B) Rainbow Islands (Hit Squad). 7 (7) (B) World Cricket (Zeppelin). 8 (6) (B) Ultimate Golf (GBH Gold). 9 (5) (F) Oh No! More Lemmings (data disk) (Psygnosis). 10 (10) (F) A320 Airbus (Thalion). 11 (9) (B) International Ice Hockey (Zeppelin). 12 (3) (B) Paperboy (Encore). 13 (12) (B) Rick Dangerous (Kixx). 14 (2) (F) Another World (US Gold/Delphine). 15 (19) (B) Lombard RAC Rally (Hit Squad). 16 (5) (B) New Zealand Story (Hit Squad). 17 (3) (F) Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (Virgin). 18 (10) (B) Fantasy World Dizzy (Codemasters). 19 (NE) (F) Robocop 3 (Ocean). 20 (4) (F) James Pond 2: Codename Robocod (Millenium). [(NE)=new, (RE)=reentry, (#)=last month's position, (B)=budget, (F)=full-price] Mirrorsoft Crash Survival Update: --------------------------------- --Cannon Fodder (Sensible), saved by Virgin (UK). -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- The Guide --------- Stuff In The Works Without A Publisher Yet: ------------------------------------------- --Disaster Strikes (Nirvana Systems), --The Edge (Nirvana Systems), --Impossible World, no details. Accolade (UK): -------------- --Elvira II: The Jaws Of Cerberus, mouse-driven graphic adventure. 1 meg required, hard-drivable. Activision (UK): see The Disc Company (FR)... Action 16 (UK): see Digital Integration (UK)... Anco (UK): ---------- --Footbal Crazy Challenge, no details. --Tip Off, basketball. --------In the works: --English League, containing a full 4 division league. KO2 data disk. --Giants Of Europe, data on 30 major teams. KO2 data disk. --Kick Off 3. --Player Manager 2. Atari (UK): ----------- --------In the works: --Road Riot 4WD, conversion of the wacky armed buggy racing coin-op. Special version for STEs and TTs only. --Steel Talons, conversion of the really neat helicopter shoot'em'up/sim, also a coin-op. Special version for STEs and TTs only. Audiogenic (UK): ---------------- --Exile, omni-scrolling sideview action-adventure. --World Class Rugby: Five Nations Edition. --Wreckers (Denton Designs), isometric action-adventure on a space station. --------In the works: --Graham Gooch's World Class Cricket, just what everybody needs... --SuperLeague Manager, soccer management. --World Class Rugby, rugby. --World Class Soccer, soccer. Avalon Hill (US): ----------------- --Third Reich, conversion of classic wargame. Works in Med-res. Will not run on TTs. Beau-Jolly (UK): (Company that specializes in compilations) ---------------- --Board Genius, no details. Celebrity (UK): --------------- --------In the works: --Ian Botham's Cricket, ack! Codemasters (UK): (Budget game kings of the Universe!) ----------------- --Bubble Dizzy, action-adventure. --Cartoon Collection, contains Seymour Goes To Hollywood, Slightly Magic, Spike In Transylvania, Treasure Island Dizzy, and CJ's Elephant Antics. --Dizzy Collection, contains Kwik Snax, Treasure Island Dizzy, Fantasy World Dizzy, Magic Land Dizzy, and Fast Food. --Dizzy's Excellent Adventures, contains Kwik Snax, Prince Of The Yolkfolk, Bubble Dizzy, Panic Dizzy, and Spellbound Dizzy. --First Division Manager, sounds suspiciously like soccer to me! --Hover Sprint, futuristic hovercar racing game. 2 machines link-up. 2 disks. --Magic Land Dizzy, a cute sideview platform action/adventure. --Mean Machine, overhead view scrolling driving shoot'em'up. Crude. --Miami Chase, overhead-view car chasing game. --Pro Boxing Simulator, sideview boxing. --Pro Powerboat Simulator, overhead-view vertical scrolling boat race. --Quatro Arcade, a compilation containing Pro Power Boat Simulator, SAS Combat Simulator, Pub Trivia Simulator, and Nitro Boost. --Quatro Sports, a compilation containing BMX Simulator, Italia 1990, Advanced Ski Simulator, and Pro Tennis Simulator. --Sky High Stuntman, vertical-scrolling shoot'em'up. Totally inapropriate title since this game is kinda like Spy Hunter, but with other game styles thrown in. --Slightly Magic, action-adventure. --Tilt, no details. --Violator, overhead-view vertical scrolling shoot'em'up. --Wacky Darts, a retread of Mastertronic's World Darts. --Yolanda (Millenium), impossible platform game. --------In the works: --Steg, a cutesy platform game starring a slug. Yes, a slug... --Super Seymour Saves The Planet, no details. Core Design (UK): ----------------- --Heimdall, isometric viking action-adventure. 1 meg. --Thunderhawk, 3D polygons simplified helicopter combat game. The chopper used is fictitious and looks like the bastard child of an Apache and that new European gunship, whatever it's called... Gunship 2000 this ain't! Mouse driven, mission-driven, DS only. --Wolfchild, Strider-esque sideview scrolling beat'n'shoot. --------In the works: --Adventurers Compilation, contains Corporation, Hunter, and Supremacy. --Corporation II, maybe the interface will work this time. And maybe they'll add some originality and consistency to it... --Jaguar XJ220 Sports Racing, race against Ferrari F40s and Porsche 959s. Looks like Core wants a piece of the Lotus/Gremlin pie! --Untitled As Of Yet, a Jaguar game centered around the 24 Hours of Le Mans. D&H Games (UK): --------------- --Rugby Coach, manage a team. --Striker Manager, more soccer. Manage the team and play on it too. --------In the works: --Football Director III, more soccer. Daze Marketing (UK): (New home of Silmarils) -------------------- --Fantasy Pak, contains Crystals Of Arborea, Colorado, and Boston Bomb Club. --Storm Master, "He who controls the wind controls the planet" or something like that. Strategy game. STE enhanced. --------In the works: --Ishar: Legend Of The Fortress, no details. Delphine (FR): see US Gold (UK)... Digital Integration (UK): ------------------------- --------In the works: --Tornado, simulation of the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft. ************ Dream Factory (UK): (anything that's not a simulation) ------------------- --------In the works: --Gobliiins (Tomahawk), an amusing fantasy mouse-driven graphic adventure. --Supaplex, a Boulderdash remake. --The Drift, futuristic CRPG. ************ Action 16 (UK): (Repackaged oldies priced to go!) --------------- --Action Pack, contains Cosmic Pirate (Palace), Rotor (Arcana), Eliminator (Hewson), On Safari (Infogrames), Maya (?), Fast Lane (Artronics), Hostages (Infogrames), Sherman M-4 (Loriciel), Targhan (Gainstar), and Colorado (Palace/Silmarils). --A.T.F. 2. --Colorado (Silmarils). --Gridrunner (Llamasoft). --Hostages (Infogrames). --Iron Lord (UBI Soft). --Jupiter's Masterdrive (UBI Soft). --Kult (Exxos). --Mystical (UBI Soft). --North And South (Infogrames). --Rotor (Arcana). --Rotox (US Gold). --Sherman M4 (Loriciel). --Sir Fred (UBI Soft). --Tennis Cup (Loriciel). --Tintin On The Moon (Infogrames). Digital Magic Software (UK): ---------------------------- --------In the works: --Boing, platform game. --Escape From Colditz, isometric action-adventure based on the boardgame. --Goof, no details. --Shockwave, 3D flight shoot'em'up with tilting landscape. Digitek (US): ------------- --Big Business, by the same team who brought us Prime Time. You are put in charge of a large company and must make all the necessary decisions and transactions. A very silly look at business. Mouse-driven, digitized sounds. You also get an older game called Wall Street as a package deal. --Tie Break Tennis, previously released by Magic Bytes (DL). --------In the works: --Dinowars, educational arcade game. July '92. --Hill Street Blues, you get to run the whole station. Also runs in monochrome. Originally released by Krisalis (UK). Dinamic (SP): ------------- --------In the works: --Arctic Moves, snow version of Army Moves/Navy Moves. --Mega Fenix, an updated version of that ancient Centuri coin-op classic, Phoenix. A blast from the past! The Disc Company (FR): (No more ST products.) ---------------------- Activision (UK): ---------------- --Beastbusters, SNK coin-op conversion. Like Operation Thunderbolt with zombies. Ho-hum... DS only. --Deuteros (Ian Bird), mouse-driven strategic game. Sequel to Millenium 2.2. DS only. Good for developing management skills. Remember to kill the virus on Disk 2 (the data disk). --Hunter, 3D polygons adventure simulation. Fixed perspective (as in Virus). Mission-driven. Grab assorted vehicle and hardware to complete your various assignements. Cool in a Damocles sort of way... DS only. --R*Type II, IREM coin-op conversion. New graphics, same old game. Prime example of Japanese Game Design 101. It's an alright shoot'em'up... DS only. Domark (UK): ------------ --Grand Stand, contains Gazza's Super Soccer (Empire), Pro Tennis Tour (UBI Soft), World Class Leaderboard (Access), and Continental Circus (Virgin). --The James Bond Collection, contains Licence To Kill, Live And Let Die, and The Spy Who Loved Me, all previously released by Domark. --Mig 29M Super Fulcrum, 3D polygons simulation. Barren landscape. Sluggish controls. Hardly worth the $70 asking price. --Rugby: The World Cup, rugby. --Shadowlands (Teque), isometric fantasy CRPG. DS only, comes on 2 disks. 1 meg enhanced. Realistic area lighting effect: you can only see what's in range of your light source. Anime-style character graphics. --Super Heroes, contains The Spy Who Loved Me, Last Ninja 2 (System 3), Robocop (Ocean), Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Action Game (Lucasfilm). --Super Space Invaders (Kremlin), conversion of the Taito coin-op. The first wave looks normal enough, but after that, it's gimmicks galore!!! Expanding invaders, add-on weapons, cattle rescueing, end-of-level ships... --TNT 2, contains Hard Drivin' 2, Badlands, Hydra, S.T.U.N. Runner, and Skulls & Crossbones. --Virtual World, contains Driller, Total Eclipse, Castle Master, and The Crypt. --------In the works: --Championship Manager, soccer. --Columbus (Matthew Stibbe), the guy who "bumped" into America. Probably a mouse-driven strategy game. --Euro Football Champ, soccer. --Harrier Assault, simulation of the AV-8B Harrier jumpjet used by the Marines. ************ Tengen (UK): (Conversions of Atari Games coin-ops.) ------------ --Pitfighter (Tech), wild and wooly fighting game with all-digitized graphics. Looks a wee bit blocky. DS only. --Race Drivin', the outrageous Hard Drivin' sequel. The Super Stunt Track will bring you to your knees! 1 meg usage, STE enhanced, DS only. --Thunderjaws, sideview scrolling shoot'em'up. Conversion of the coin-op sequel to Rolling Thunder. The Thunderjaws coin-op wasn't that great to begin with, and this game doesn't improve on it; it's actually worse. The sprites are real slow. Avoid it. ************ Respray (UK): (Domark's budget label.) ------------- --APB (Tengen). --Hard Drivin' (Tengen). --Licence To Kill. --Shufflepuck Cafe (Broderbund). --Toobin' (Tengen). --Typhoon Thompson In: Search For The Sea Child (Broderbund). Dream Factory (UK): see Digital Integration (UK)... Eclipse (DL): ------------- --Lethal Xcess, vertical scrolling shoot'em'up. For those who have completed Wings Of Death and want more! Really good tunes! Really damn hard!! --Monster Business, a platform version of Dig-Dug, sort of... Mediocre. Electronic Arts (UK): --------------------- --Populous II (Bullfrog), available in 2 versions: 1 meg and 512K. Check the label on the box. Hard-drivable, modem and data-link support. --Powermonger: World War I Edition (Bullfrog), as promised. DS only. --Simcity/Populous (Infogrames/Bullfrog), a good pack! --Strike Fleet (Lucasfilm/Nickel Ltd), push-button modern naval warfare. Select missions and take control of various US Navy vessels. --Zone Warrior, sideview scrolling platform shoot'em'up. Not terribly colorful. --------In the works: --Birds Of Prey (Argonaut), 3D polygons flight combat simulation. 40 different modern-day aircrafts: Eagle, Tomcat, Falcon, Hornet, A-10 Warthog, SR-71 Blackbird, F-117, B-52, B-1, B-2 Stealth Bomber, C-130 Hercules, Tornado, and a bunch of MIGs, SUs, and TUs, as well as a 747. Missions include tank busting, airdrops, bombing, aerial recon, and CAPs (Combat Air Patrols). Sorry, no helicopters. --Castles (Interplay), medieval strategy game. Build your very own castle, or rather, round up enough materials and people to have it built. --Evolution (Bullfrog), no details yet. --Flood 2 (Bullfrog), no details yet. ************ Millenium (UK): --------------- --Kid Gloves II, basic Wonderboy style cutesy hack'n'slash platform. --Steel Empire (formerly Cybornetics), strategic game with mechs. 2 disks, DS only, 1 meg, STE. --------In the works: --Chinto's Revenge (Wing Lai), overhead-view action-adventure. --Global Effect, no details. --Haunted House, devious scrolling platform game. --Strike Command, sequel to Thunderstrike. --Tentacle (Eldritch The Cat), sideview scrolling space shoot'em'up. ************ Star Performers: (EA's budget label) ---------------- --Battle Chess (Interplay). --Flood (Bullfrog). --The Immortal (Sandcastle Productions). --Magic Fly. --Populous (Bullfrog). --Projectyle (Eldritch The Cat). --Starflight. Electronic Zoo (US): (Their phone is disconnected.) -------------------- Electronic Zoo (UK): -------------------- --Cougar Force, multi-format game. A mish-mash of unconnected arcade sequences. --Daylight Robbery, cutesy larceny game. --Galactic Empire, 3D polygons adventure simulation. Pretty bad. --Geisha (Tomahawk), an R-rated graphic adventure. Mouse-driven. --Germ Crazy, a strange game where you struggle to save the life of your brother from a nasty virus. Somewhat strategic. Mouse-driven. Terrible box art. --Under Pressure, robotic shoot'em'up. Huge sprites. Boring as hell. --------In the works: --Abandoned Places, fantasy CRPG. --Brigade Commander, real-time wargame. --Cardiaxx, a sideview scrolling shoot'em'up in the Defender vein. --The Enemy Within, a wargame set inside a human body. --Fireforce, sideview scrolling shoot'em'up. Mission-driven commando game. --The Magic Garden, gardening fun. --Son Of Zeus, another game based on the 12 Tasks Of Hercules. --Tracksuit Manager II, soccer. Elite (UK): ----------- --Virtual Reality Volume 1, contains Carrier Command (Rainbird), Midwinter (Rainbird), Starglider II (Rainbird), International Soccer Challenge (Microprose), and Stunt Car Racer (MicroStyle). --Virtual Reality Volume 2, contains Weird Dreams (Microprose), The Sentry (Firebird), Virus (Firebird), Resolution 101 and Thunderstrike (Millenium). --------In the works: --Caveman Ninja (Eldritch The Cat), Data East coin-op. --Edward Randy, Data East coin-op. --European Championship 1992, conversion of Tecmo's World Cup 90. --Last Battle, a beat'em up currently on the Sega Genesis. --Suzuka GP/Winning Run 2, Namco coin-op. Empire (US): see Readysoft (CA)... Empire (UK): see Entertainment International (UK)... Energize (UK): (Budget stuff) -------------- --Ancient Games (Golden Sector), lame Olympics sports game. --Cap'N'Carnage (Golden Sector), sideview shoot'em'up. Mediocre. --Cybercop, sideview flick-scrolling platform shoot'em'up. Really bad Robocop ripoff. It's slow, the graphics suck, the sounds effects are stupid, and you can actually walk faster than your bullets fly!!! Danger Will Robinson!! --Soccer Match, no details. Entertainment International (UK): --------------------------------- Arcade Masters (UK): -------------------- --Volfied (Arcade Masters), Taito coin-op sequel to Qix. Even has powerups! --------In the works: --Cool Croc Twins, cutesy sideview platform game. --Magic Boy, no details. ************ Empire (UK): ------------ --Deathbringer, sideview scrolling fantasy hack'n'slash. Really impressive parallax scrolling, only 3 attack moves, gets boring... --MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy, loosely based on the RPG system. Another Paragon Software disaster... --Pacific Islands (ODE), sequel to Team Yankee. 3D wargame. STE, DS only. --Space 1889, another Paragon Software RPG conversion. This one is actually pretty good. 1 meg required, comes on 2 disks, hard-drivable. --------In the works: --Award Winners, contains Dragon's Lair (Readysoft), Kick Off 2 (Anco), Populous (Electronic Arts), and Pipe Mania (aka Lucasfilm's Pipedream). --Campaign, WWII 3D wargame. Sep '92. --Cyber Space (ODE), cyberpunk CRPG. Dec '92. --Eye Of The Storm (Jason Kingsley), 3D polygons space combat game. Oct '92. --International Sports Challenge (Harlequin), not your average joystick waggling multi-sports game! It includes the marathon, several diving, swimming, and cycling events, and show jumping (that's the horse obstacle course jumping event). Get this: show jumping and all cycling is in 1st person perspective with 3D polygons! That's a little unusual... July '92. --MegaTraveller 2: Quest For The Ancients, hopefully better than 1. --Soccer Stars, contains Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, Microprose Soccer, Gazza II, and Kick Off 2 (Anco). Flair (UK): ----------- --Elvira: The Arcade Game, a not-so-bad sideview omni-scrolling platform shoot'em'up starring everybody's favorite Mistress Of The Dark. 2 disks, 1 meg enhanced, STE enhanced. --Winter Supersports '92, 8 events: bobsled, luge, giant slalom, speed skating, snowmobile racing (skidoo), downhill, bale jumping (?), and pro-ski (??). Futura (FR): see US Gold (UK)... Gainstar (UK): -------------- In the works: --Lords Of War, the ancient Atari game Warlords gets a new lease on life! If it ever gets released, that is... Gonzo Games (UK): ----------------- --Brides Of Dracula, sideview scrolling action-adventure where you can be good ol' Drac or Van Helsing. 2 players simultaneous, I think... Grandslam (UK): (Just when I think they're dead, they release another game!) --------------- --England Championship Special, action soccer. --------In the works: --Beavers (Arc Dev), cutesy sideview platform game. And wipe that stupid grin off your face!! This is not a teenage sexploitation game! --Die Hard 2, movie license. --Liverpool FC, soccer. --Nick Faldo's Golf (Arc Dev), never heard of him... Gremlin (UK): ------------- --Chart Attack Volume 1, contains James Pond (Millenium), Venus: The Flytrap, Lotus Turbo Esprit Challenge, and Ghouls'N'Ghosts (Elite). DS only. --4 Wheel Drive, contains Lotus Turbo Esprit Challenge, Team Suzuki, Toyota Celica GT4 Rallye, and Combo Racer. --Harlequin, bizarre platform game. --Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Magnetic Fields), where 2 can play in split-screen mode or with 2 connected machines, and 4 can play with 2 connected machines both in split-screen mode! Instead of racetracks, it uses road courses with a wide variety of weather and road conditions. Kinda neat. DS only. --Space Crusade, conversion of a boardgame similar to Heroquest. Overhead and isometric view strategic wargame. Take your squad of Space Marines through several hazardous missions aboard huge derelict spaceships. --Suspicious Cargo (Exile Designs/Imagitec Design), DM-style sci-fi graphic adventure. Nice graphics. --Utopia, Sim City on another planet with warfare! --Utopia: The New Worlds, data disk. --Videokid (Twilight), cutesy platform shoot'em'up. 2 disks. --------In the works: --Daemonsgate 1 (Imagitec), fantasy CRPG. --Flag, no details. --HeroQuest Twin Pack, contains HeroQuest and its first data disk, Return Of The Witchlord. --Jelly Bean, puzzler. --Little Divil, no details. --Pegasus, shoot'em'up. --Plan 9 From Outer Space, what a great idea! Let's make a game based on the worst science fiction movie of all time! --Zool, a console-quality platform game from the "Switchblade 2" team. ************ GBH: (Gremlin's budget label) ---- --BSS Jane Seymour. --Cloud Kingdoms (Millenium). --Combo Racer. --Deflektor. --Footballer Of the Year II. --Impossamole. --James Pond (Millenium). --Kid Gloves (Millenium). --Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge. --Manchester United (Krisalis). --Manix (Millenium). --Mindbender. --Resolution 101 (Millenium). --Shoot'Em'Up Construction Kit (S.E.U.C.K.) (Palace). --Supercars. --Team Suzuki. --Thunderstrike (Millenium). --Toyota Celica GT Rally. --Ultimate Golf. --Venus: The Flytrap. --Voodoo Nightmare. ************ GBH Gold: (Slightly more expensive than normal GBH titles) --------- --Greg Norman's Ultimate Golf (Virgin). Hawk (UK): ---------- --International Athletics, the return of joystick-waggling sports games! And boy is it a stinker!!! Avoid at all cost!! --------In the works: --The Executioner, a Oids-type ship shoot'em'up. Hewson (UK): see 21st Century Entertainments (UK)... Hex (UK): --------- --Top Banana, sideview scrolling cutesy platform. This game is simply hideous. The graphics are terrible, and the gameplay is non-existent. Avoid!! Hi-Tec Software (UK): (Lo-Tec is closer to the truth! Budget stuff) --------------------- --Black Hornet (Hive), vertical scrolling shoot'em'up. Tiny sprites. Boring. --Interchange (Pal Developments), amusing little overhead-view maze puzzler. You guide a little guy inside a maze and you must rotate the maze sections into their correct positions. Shoot and/or avoid various nasties. Password system. --Jetsons (221b), flick-scrolling action-adventure. --Scooby-Doo And Scrappy-Doo, no details. --Wacky Races (Pal Developments), sideview platform race game featuring the race-crazy Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. --------In the works: --Johnny Quest, no details. --Quick Draw McGraw, no details. Hit Squad (UK): see Ocean (UK)... IF... (UK): see Impressions (UK)... Imageworks (UK): see Mirrorsoft (UK)... Impressions (UK): ----------------- --Africa Korps, follow-up to Blitzkrieg May 1940. So low-tech, it's not funny. --The Charge Of The Light Brigade, wargame. --Cohort, mouse-driven Roman wargame. Uses the same system as Rorke's Drift. --Discovery: In The Steps Of Columbus (Golden Sector), kinda like 7 Cities Of Gold (remember that one? No? Oh...). DS only. --Feudal Lords (The Mindless Team), medieval strategy game. --Fighter Command (Golden Sector), strategic wargame. The manual describes the icons and buttons well, but it forgets to explain how to play the game! --Fort Apache, cavalry and injuns wargame. --Great Napoleonic Battles, rather self-explanatory, non? You get 3 of them: Marengo, Quatre-Bras, and Waterloo. --Merchant Colony (Video Vulture), strategic game of American colonies management in the 18th century. Mouse-driven. --Samurai: The Way Of The Warrior, no details. --------In the works: --Air Bucks, strategic business simulation. It's 1946; you have a DC-3 and some cash. Your objective: build up a world-class airline. --The Last Star Ship, space shoot'em'up. --Warriors Of Releyne, fantasy strategy game. ************ IF... (UK): (Stands for Interactive Fantasyfiction. Dictionary anyone? :) ----------- --Crime City, mouse-driven investigation game. You must clear your P.I. dad from a murder charge --------In the works: --The Hand Of St James, derived from that Sean Connery movie "The Name Of The Rose", which is itself based on Umberto Eco's book. Impulze (UK): see Zeppelin (UK)... Infogrames (FR): ---------------- --Advantage Tennis, another tennis game. --Alcatraz (221b), the sequel to Hostages, set on the island. --Killerball (Microids), looks exactly like the sport played in that sci-fi classic Rollerball. --Tetris, the classic puzzler. --------In the works: --Bandit Kings Of Ancient China (Koei), period wargame. --Call Of Cthulhu, probably based on the RPG system. --7 Colors, a Russian puzzler (yes, another one!!). --Tintin In The Land Of The Incas, based on 2 Tintin graphic novels (The 7 Crystal Balls, and The Sun Temple). --Viking, some sort of shoot'em'up. InnerPrise (US): ---------------- --------In the works: --Battle Squadron, overhead-view vertical-scrolling sci-fi shoot'em'up, currently available on the Amiga and Genesis. STE enhanced. Delayed again. They're busy working on MS/DOS and Mac stuff, so they'll finish it when they're done with the other stuff. Interceptor, Pandora (UK): -------------------------- --------In the Works: --Dominion: Dawn Of New Eden, 3D mouse-driven sci-fi graphic adventure. --Xenomorph II, a 3D version of Into The Eagle's Nest. Internecine (UK): see Storm Computers (UK)... Kaiko (DL): ----------- --Gem'X (Demonware), mouse-driven puzzler. Duplicate the pattern shown on the right side of the screen in the left side. Looks like Columns, but it ain't. Kixx (UK): see US Gold (UK)... Krisalis (UK): -------------- --Champions, contains Jahangir Khan's Squash, Manchester United, and World Championship Boxing Manager. --Face-Off Hockey, hockey version of Manchester United Europe. DS only. --Hill Street Blues, you get to run the whole station. --Manchester United Europe, soccer. --------In the works: --Ed Head: Private eye, no details. --John Barnes Soccer, more soccer. --Roofworld, no details. Leisure Genius (UK): see Virgin (UK)... Linel (SW): ----------- In the works: --The Champ, boxing simulator. --Kaiser, medieval trade/war/strategic game. --Necronom, no details. --The Neverending Story II, no data. Loriciel (FR): -------------- --Baby Jo, a sideview scrolling cute platform game. Take control of a baby and see how far you get. Amusing digitized sound effects, though the controls are a little sluggish. Average. --Golden Eagle: The Return, sideview flick-scrolling action adventure with super detailed animation. Looks neat. --Guardians, mouse-driven puzzler. --Paragliding, a new sport in which you throw yourself off a cliff or other high place and fly with a wing that looks like a very big rectangular parachute. 3 disks. Pretty pointless as a game... --Psyborg, 3D polygons space racing/puzzler. I vaguely remember playing something similar a long, long time ago... 2 disks. --Steve McQueen Westphaser, this is an Operation Wolf style shoot'em'up in a Western setting. Other than that, the reasons for involving poor old Steve escape me... --Thunder Burner, Space Harrier style 3D shoot'em'up starring a walker machine. Been done. Boring. --------In the works: --Out Board, overhead-view boat racing. Lucasfilm (US): (It's over. We won't even get Monkey Island 2...) --------------- --Their Finest Missions Volume One, mission disk (order direct from Lucas). --The Secret Of Monkey Island, a 3D graphic adventure of piracy, with a very pronounced sense of humor. Magic Bytes (DL): ----------------- --Air Supply, overhead-view vertical scrolling shoot'em'up. A virtual remake of Goldrunner! Why bother!?!?!? --------In the works: --Dinowars, "educational" arcade game. --Industrial Rebound, a 3D polygons shoot'em'up in the Resolution 101 style. --Second World, a strategy tale of two warring planets. Mastertronic (UK): see Virgin (UK)... MegaSoft Entertainment (US): ---------------------------- --Disciples Of Steel, fantasy graphic adventure. 1 meg; you can send away for a 512K version. Hard-drivable, comes on 3 disks. Melbourne House (UK): see Virgin/Mastertronic (UK)... Merit Software (US): (Well, this IS unexpected!) -------------------- --Fighting For Rome (Impressions), US version of Cohort. Roman-era wargame. --The Final Conflict (Impressions), WWIII wargame. --Merchant Colony (Impressions/Video Vulture), strategic game of American colonies management in the 18th century. Mouse-driven. --------In the works: --Traders (Linel), 4-players space trading game. Microdaft (US): (British imports) --------------- --Rotor (Arcana), mission-driven Oids style game, but you don't save anybody. Microprose (UK): ---------------- --Knights Of The Sky, 3D polygons WWI simulation. DS only, 2 disks, 1 meg, hard-drivable. The cure for Artech's really nasty Blue Max! --Microprose Formula 1 Grand Prix (Geoff Crammond/Pete Cooke), 3D polygons Formula 1 racing simulator from the man who dreamt up Stunt Car Racer. STE. Comes on 4 DS disks, supports 2 drives, and has a built-in copy program. Very decent frame rate considering the amount of detail. --Microprose Golf (The Thought Train), the next generation of ST golf games. DS only. --Railroad Tycoon, why play with an electric train set when you can run your own railroad company? Mouse-driven. Needs 1 meg. --Silent Service II, upgrade to that classic WWII submarine simulator. Keyboard only, DS only, 1 meg required, hard-drivable. --Special Forces (Sleepless Knights), a sort of sequel to Airborne Ranger. Overhead-view tactical commando game. DS only, STE. --------In the works: --Advanced Tactical Air Command (ATAC) (Argonaut), part flight sim, part strategy game. Pushed back to November '92. --Air Duel, a dogfighting simulator featuring aircrafts from WWI, WWII, the present day, and even a space scenario! 2 players can participate via a split-screen mode or a null modem cable connecting 2 STs. Designed by Glyn Williams, who also designed Warhead. --B-17 Flying Fortress (Vektorgrafix), 3D polygons combat simulator. Aug '92. --Covert Action, the closest you'll ever get to working as a field agent for an intelligence agency. --Gunship 2000, more missions, more choppers to choose from. --Lightspeed, something like Elite, sort of... ************ Rainbird (UK): -------------- --Midwinter II: Flames Of Freedom (Maelstrom), a BIG game. 3 disks, no hard drive support, and I'm not even sure it uses 2 drives! --UMS II: Nations At War, overhead-view global wargame. --------In the works: --Starlord (Maelstrom), light-source shaded 3D polygons space wargame that can be played at a strategic, tactical, or action level. --UMS II Planet Editor. ************ Spectrum Holobyte (UK): ----------------------- --------In the works: --Crisis In The Kremlin, you too can take charge of the Soviet Union and turn it into the mess it is today, comrade! --SuperTetris, will it ever end? Mindcraft (US): (Rules Of Engagement? Not for a while, or ever...) --------------- --Breach 2 (Omnitrend), overhead-view tactical futuristic commando wargame. Mindscape (UK): --------------- --Blue Max: Aces Of The Great War (360/Artech), WWI combat sim. From the people who brought you Blue Angels and Heatwave: Offshore Powerboat Racing. Ouch! Go for Microprose's Knights Of The Sky instead! --Captain Planet, based on Ted Turner's "green" cartoons. Sideview omni-scrolling platform game. Zzzzzzzz... --Captive (Tony Crowther), a mouse-driven futuristic 3D graphic adventure in the Dungeon Master style. Pretty good. --Knightmare (Tony Crowther), "Captive"-style fantasy 3D graphic adventure. DS only. Works with 512K, 1 meg enhanced, STE enhanced. --Legend (TAG), isometric fantasy graphic adventure from the design team behind Bloodwych (Imageworks). --Life And Death (Software Toolworks), the point and click hospital. --------In the works: --Captive II (Tony Crowther). --Dirty Harry, no details. --4D Sports Boxing (Distinctive Software), a 3D polygons boxing game. --4D Sports Driving (Distinctive Software), a 3D polygons stunt racing game. --Moonstones, fantasy CRPG. --Skid Marks, 3D polygons Hard Drivin' style driving game. --Ultima VI: The False Prophet, 1 meg required. Supports 2 drives. Mirrorsoft (UK): (Out of business. Most of these are still available.) ---------------- --Flight Of The Intruder (Rowan Software), 3D polygons flight simulator. Fly missions aboard an A6 Intruder and/or an F4 Phantom over North Vietnam in '72. Tons of features. Incredibly realistic. --Falcon: The Classic Collection, contains the original Falcon as well as Mission Disks 1 and 2. --Wolfpack (Novalogic), WWII submarine game. DS only. Hard-driveable. ************ Imageworks (UK): ---------------- --First Samurai (Vivid Image Dev.), sideview scrolling hack'n'slash beat'em'up. --Mega lo Mania (Sensible), strategic wargame. DS only. --Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Arcade Game (Probe), conversion of the Konami coin-op. Sideview scrolling beat'em'up. ************ Mirror Image (UK): (Classic re-issues) ------------------ --Austerlitz (Arc). --Bloodwych (Imageworks). --Carrier Command (Rainbird). --Defender Of The Crown (Cinemaware). --Federation Of Free Traders (Gremlin). --King Of Chicago (Cinemaware). --Onslaught (Hewson). --Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware). --RVF Honda (Microprose). --Speedball (Bitmap Brothers). --Starglider II (Rainbird/Argonaut). --Strike Force Harrier (Mirrorsoft). --3D Pool (Firebird). --TV Sports Football (Cinemaware). --Xenon II: Megablast (Imageworks). Mirrorsoft Casualties Stockpile: -------------------------------- (This helps keep track of which projects have been salvaged by other companies, and which ones are still in limbo.) ************ Saved: ------ --Cannon Fodder (Sensible), saved by Virgin (UK). --Fire And Ice (Graftgold), saved by Renegade (UK). --Legend (TAG), saved by Mindscape (UK). --Lure Of The Temptress (Revolution Software), saved by Virgin (UK). ************ Still in limbo: --------------- --Alien^3, based on the upcoming movie. --Battle Of Britain Jubilee, also known as Reach For The Skies (Rowan Software), WWII air combat simulator using honest-to-goodness, genuine, 100%, for real, 3D polygons. --Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge, 3D stock car racing. Looks cool. --Blade Warrior (Jason Kingsley), formerly known as Lord Of The Dancing Blade, a sideview fantasy hack'n'slash magic-using game with silhouette graphics. --Drop Soldier (Graftgold), some sort of 3D POV futuristic infantry wargame. Allows up to 16 STs linked-up (through MIDI I guess). --Duster (Realtime/Rowan), 3D polygons insect extermination simulator. --Mega lo Mania Data Disk (Sensible). --Mega lo Mania II (Sensible). Mythos Games (UK): ------------------ --------In the works: --Laser Squad II, sequel to the Blade Software game of tactical powered armor infantry combat. Novagen (UK): (Paul Woakes' company) ------------- --Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis (formerly Damocles 2: Double Trouble), further adventures in the Damocles Universe. No more flying around, you have to use the mass transit systems (cabs, buses, commuter ships, spaceships, etc...). There are some people to interact with. More of a graphic adventure than ever! Ocean (UK): ----------- --The Addams Family, cutesy flick-scrolling platform game. Nice graphics, console style controls (push the fire button to jump). --Epic (Digital Image Design), 3D polygons flight simulator in space. Battlestar Galactica was a big influence for the design of the various fighters and ships, and for the storyline too! The controls are extremely touchy, forget the joystick and use the mouse instead. Useless manual. DS only. --Parasol Stars, sideview cutesy platform game. The third chapter in the Bubble Bobble Trilogy. This time, you use some of those brightly colored oversized sun umbrellas instead of bubbles or rainbows. STE, 1 meg recommended, DS only. --The Rainbow Collection, contains Bubble-Bobble (Firebird), Rainbow Islands (Ocean), and The New Zealand Story (Ocean). --Robocop 3 (Digital Image Design), with 3D polygons. Might use a "dongle". DS only, 1 meg required, Mega STE compatible. 32 colors on STFMs and STEs. Comes on 3 disks. Not too terribly exciting. --The Simpsons: Bart Versus The Space Mutants (Arc Dev.), straight port of the Acclaim NES cartridge. DS only. --Smash TV (Probe), the insane Williams coin-op of Robotron-like TV massacre. Overhead-view non-scrolling shoot'em'up. DS only. Supports 2 joysticks. Bad white noise for the crowd, no digitized sounds, just boring explosions. --Space Gun, Sega coin-op conversion. Operation Wolf-style "Aliens" shoot'em'up. DS only, STE. Mouse, joystick, and Trojan Light gun supported. --Terminator 2: Judgement Day, just your basic average multi-format movie license. Pretty bland, neat intro though... --2-Hot 2-Handle, contains Shadow Warriors, Golden Axe (Virgin), Total Recall, and Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road (Virgin). --WWF Wrestlemania (Twilight), coin-op conversion. Take control of either the British Bulldog, Hulk Hogan, or the Ultimate Warrior and pretend to beat up other "wrestlers". Very limited moves. DS Only. --------In the works: --Billy The Kid (Level 9), multi-level shoot'em'up/action-adventure. --Demonsgate, CRPG. --Liverpool FC, soccer. --Ninja Collection, no details. --Push-Over, cutesy sideview platform game. --Retaliator II (Digital Image Design), 3D polygons flight simulator with a new batch of aircrafts: Apache gunships, A-10s Warthogs, Navy F-22Bs, SU-27 Frogfoots (Frogfeet?), Hind-D gunships, and the bogus MIG Ferret stealth fighter. You can finally perform real carrier landings. --SimEarth (Maxis), no details. --Snow Bros (Ocean France), coin-op conversion. The 2-players simultaneous mode has been dropped!! --Wizkid (Sensible Software), sequel to the classic Wizball. ************ The Hit Squad (UK): (Repackaged oldies priced to go!) ------------------- --Afterburner (Activision). --Batman: The Caped Crusader. --Batman: The Movie. --Beach Volley. --Bubble Bobble (Firebird). --Cabal. --Chase HQ. --Cybernoid II (Hewson). --Dragonninja, also known as Bad Dudes (Data East). --Head Over Heels, an old 8-bit classic makes it to the ST. --IK+ (System 3). --Ivanhoe. --The Last Ninja 2 (System 3). --Lombard RAC Rally (Mandarin). --Midnight Resistance. --Navy Moves (Dinamic). --Nebulus (Hewson), sold as Tower Toppler by Epyx. --The New Zealand Story. --Operation Thunderbolt. --Platoon. --Power Drift (Activision). --Predator. --Puffy's Saga (UBI Soft). --Rambo III (Taito). --Rainbow Islands. --Red Heat. --Run The Gauntlet. --Shadow Warriors (Virgin). --Super Hang-on (Electric Dreams). --The Untouchables. --Voyager. On-Line (UK): ------------- --------In the works: --Chaos In Andromeda, no details. Oxford Softworks (UK): ---------------------- --5 Intelligent Strategy Games, haw-haw. You get chess, bridge, go, backgammon, and draughts (that's checkers to us Americans). DS only. Monochrome too! --------In the works: --Omar Sharif's Bridge, already released by Interplay (US) for the MS-DOS. Palace (UK): ------------ --Boston Bomb Club (Simarils), another puzzler. Guide bombs through a maze of grooved tiles by manipulating gates, rotating tiles, etc... The whole thing is set in a private club in the '30s. Strange, but fun. Monochrome compatible. --Crystals Of Arborea (Silmarils), 3D mouse-driven fantasy CRPG. --Demoniak, text adventure with a few pictures. --Hot Rubber, UK version of Grand Prix 500 II (Microids). 3D chase-view motorcycle racing. Real-life tracks, 2 player split-screen mode. Average. --Metal Mutant (Silmarils), sideview flick-scrolling shoot'em'up. Guide a transformable robot through lots of levels. --Sliders (Microids), isometric Marble-Madness hockey type thing. --Swap, puzzler. --------In the works: --Complex, sideview scrolling shoot'em'up. Stryx meets Police Academy XXII... --Hostile Breed, you're in total control of a research station about to be over-run by mutant animals and plants. Wipe the suckers out!! Sounds like Millenium 2.2 crossed with Aliens with tons'o'weapons thrown in!!! --Super Barbarian, wonder what that's gonna be like! Pandora (UK): see Interceptor (UK)... Players Gold (UK): ------------------ --Heavy Metal Heroes, a remake of Outlands. Vertical scrolling space shoot'em'up. 2 players simultaneous mode, 4 levels. Blah... Pocket Power (UK): (Really cheap game re-issues: 2.99 Pounds!) ------------------ --Archipelagos (Logotron). --Bad Company (Logotron). --Beyond The Ice Palace (Elite). --Deflektor (Gremlin). --Eye Of Horus (Logotron). --Quadralien (Logotron). --Starblaze (Logotron). --Stargoose (Logotron). --StarRay (Logotron). P.S.S. (UK): see Mirrorsoft (UK)... Psygnosis (US/UK): ------------------ --Armour-Geddon, 3D polygons strategic shoot'em'up. Control 6 different vehicles in an attempt to find the scattered pieces of a neutron bomb. Looks good, but the manual ain't that great. The storyline is all wrong. --Barbarian II (Pandamonium Entertainment), sequel to Barbarian (Psygnosis). The annoying push-button control panel of the original is NOT missed! You need 1 meg to view the intro animation, but not to play the game. --Leander, pseudo-Japanese sideview omni-scrolling hack'n'slash. 2 disks. --Lemmings, a really funny and addictive little puzzler. Guide a certain percentage of Lemmings safely to the exit. You can order them to do certain things, like digging, mining, bashing, blocking, and exploding!! --Obitus, action-adventure with a mix of sideview and 3D sequences. --Oh No! More Lemmings, 100 extra levels for Lemmings. Available as a data disk and a stand-alone version. --Shadow Of The Beast II (Echelon Games), sideview omni-scrolling platform action-adventure. --------In the works: --Air Support, no details. June '92. --Amnios (Paul Lyons), space shoot'em'up. June '92. --Aquaventura, no details. Sep '92. --Athletics, no details. --Carthage, where you guide a chariot-driving messenger between cities. The roads are pretty dangerous, though. 3D and overhead-view perspective. --Infiltrator (Wayne Smithson), working title for a new platform shoot'em'up. --Lemmings II, no details. Fall '92. --Ork (formerly Gore)(DMA Design), sideview hack'n'slash in the Barbarian II (Palace) style. June '92. --Red Zone, motorcycle racing simulator. June '92. --Tomato Game, cutesy platform game. --Shadow Of The Beast III, Sep '92. ************ Sizzlers (UK): (Budget re-issues.) -------------- --Anarchy. --Baal. --Ballistix. --Blood Money. --Captain Fizz Meets The Blastertrons. --Menace. --Shadow Of The Beast. --Stryx. Rage (UK): ---------- --------In the works: --Striker, more soccer. Rainbird (UK): see Microprose (UK)... Rainbow Arts (US): see Electronic Zoo (US)... Rainbow Arts (DL): ------------------ --Logical, puzzler. --Masterblazer, an ST conversion of Lucasfilm's legendary Ballblazer. 3D split-screen 2-players future sport. --Turrican II: The Final Fight (Manfred Trenz), multi-level futuristic platform shoot'em'up. --------In the works: --Centerbase, futuristic trade and strategy game. --Fate: Gates Of Dawn, fantasy CRPG. --Mad TV, no details. --M.U.D.S. (Mean Ugly Dirty Sport), from the man who brought you Grand Monster Slam. Overhead view scrolling monster sport. --Rescue On Fractalus, ST version of the classic Lucasfilm fractals-using flight simulator/shoot'em'up. --Rotator, rotating overhead view tank shoot'em'up. --Transatlantic, the sequel to Black Gold/Oil Imperium. Mouse-driven strategic business simulation. This time, you're in charge of a company that operates ocean-going vessels. You make all the decisions. Readysoft (CA): --------------- --Dragon's Lair: Escape From Singe's Castle, the missing scenes from the first Dragon's Lair. What's next? Dragon's Lair: The Lost Episodes? --Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp, a planned coin-op sequel to Dragon's Lair that never made it to the arcades, until now. --Space Ace II: Borf's revenge, the further adventures of Space Ace. --------In the works: --Guy Spy, Indiana Jones style cinematic action-adventure. July '92. ************ Empire (US): (No US version of Cool Croc Twins.) ------------ --Pacific Islands (ODE), sequel to Team Yankee. 3D wargame. STE, DS only. --Sleeping Gods Lie (ODE), graphic adventure using a mixture of 3D polygons and sprites. Oxford Digital Entertainments' 1st game. --Team Yankee (ODE), 3D tank wargame based around the novel. --Volfied, Taito coin-op sequel to Qix. Even has powerups! --------In the works: --Campaign, WWII 3D wargame. Oct '92. --Cyberspace (ODE), cyberpunk CRPG. Dec '92. --Eye Of The Storm (Jason Kingsley), 3D polygons space combat game. Nov '92. --International Sports Challenge (Harlequin), not your average joystick waggling multi-sports game! It includes the marathon, several diving, swimming, and cycling events, and show jumping (that's the horse obstacle course jumping event). Get this: show jumping and all cycling is in 1st person perspective with 3D polygons! That's a little unusual... July '92. Renegade (UK): -------------- --Cadaver: The Pay Off (Bitmap Brothers), scenario disk for Cadaver (Imageworks/Bitmap Brothers). --Gods (Bitmap Brothers), sideview omni-scrolling mythological platform game. Great graphics, monsters that chase you all over the place, and lots of puzzles. Music by Nation 12. A good one! DS only. --Magic Pockets (Bitmap Brothers), cute sideview platform game. DS only. --------In the works: --Bitmap Brothers Volume 1, it's compilation time already? You get Xenon, Cadaver, and Speedball 2, all previously released by Imageworks (Mirrorsoft). --Bitmap Brothers Volume 2, contains Speedball, Gods, and Xenon 2: Megablast. --Chaos Engine (Bitmap Brothers), overhead-view scrolling shoot'em'up with up to 3 players (human or computer). Victorian sci-fi (ie: Steampunk). --Fire And Ice (Graftgold), cutesy platform game. Saved from Mirrorsoft. --Sensible Soccer (Sensible), a more Speedball-like approach to soccer. Looks promising. Screen 7 (UK): see Alternative (UK)... Simulations Canada (CA): (Text-only wargames.) ------------------------ --Pacific Storm: The Solomon's Campaign, WWII naval warfare. Simulmondo (IT): ---------------- --------In the works: --The Basket Manager, overhead view 5-on-5 basketball game. --500cc Motomanager, contains all the bikes, riders and racetracks of the 1990 World Championships. --Formula 1 3D, 3D polygons F1 racing game. --Italian Night 1999, graphic adventure. 16 Blitz (UK): see Virgin (UK)... Sizzlers (UK): see Psygnosis (US/UK)... Smash 16 (UK): (Re-released games at budget prices) -------------- --Captain Blood (Mindscape/Infogrames/Ere Informatique). --Operation Neptune (Infogrames, and also known as Project Neptune by Epyx). Software Projects (UK): (Budget stuff) ----------------------- --Manic Miner, sort of the Miner 2049er of the Sinclair Spectrum computers. It's a platform game (surprise-surprise!). Contains both a reconstruction of the original Spectrum levels layout, and a brand new 16-bit set-up. --Jet Set Willy, the sequel to Manic Miner. This one doesn't have a "Spectrum reconstruction", only a 16-bit version. Spectrum Holobyte (US): (For newer products, see Microprose UK...) ----------------------- --Flight Of The Intruder (Rowan Software), 3D polygons flight simulator. Fly missions aboard an A6 Intruder and/or an F4 Phantom over North Vietnam in '72. Tons of features. Very realistic. Starbyte (DL): -------------- --Crime Time, framed for murder in a foreign land, you must prove your innocence and get back home. Mouse-driven graphic adventure. --------In the works: --Crown, graphic adventure. --Lords Of Doom, fantasy graphic adventure. --The Return Of Medusa, sequel to the fantasy wargame Rings Of Medusa. This time, it has 3D dungeons. 3 disks. --Spirit Of Adventure, CRPG. Star Performers (UK): see Electronic Arts (UK)... Storm (UK): ----------- --Big Run, conversion of the Jaleco coin-op of Porsche 959 racing in 3D in the Paris-Dakar rally. Doesn't live up to its arcade counterpart. STE. --Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat, in the same vein as "Ironman" Super Off-Road, but with Indy cars. Leland coin-op conversion. --Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stones, sideview scrolling beat'em'up. --Final Blow, basic sideview boxing. --Rod Land (Random Access), non-scrolling sideview platform game. conversion of the Jaleco coin-op T&J, featuring wand-waving long-haired cuties with pointed ears. It has the neatest play mechanics since Rainbow Islands. One of my personal favorites... --------In the works: --Asylum, no details. --Brute Force, no details. --The Lawnmower Man, no details. --Solar Jetman: Hunt For The Golden Warship, no details. Storm Computers (UK): --------------------- ************ Internecine (UK): ----------------- --Napoleon 1, command level real-time wargame covering 1805 through 1814. Not compatible with the STE. Strike Force Designs (UK): -------------------------- --------In the works: --Touchdown! American Football, team management. Sublogic (US): -------------- --Great Britain Scenery Collection, for Flight Simulator II. --Scenery Disk 12: New England, for use with Flight Simulator II. --------In the works --California Collection, for Flight Simulator II. Oct '92. System 3 (UK): -------------- --System 3 Premier Collection, contains Tusker, IK+, Flimbo's Quest, and Ninja Remix (Last Ninja 2.5). --------In the works: --Changeling, featuring a shape-shifting machine. --Constructor, mouse-driven house-building on another planet. --International Karate Deluxe, beat'em'up. --The Last Ninja III, isometric flick-scrolling beat'em'up. 2 disks. --Myth, mythological shoot'em'up. Aug '92. --Silly Putty, platform game. --Turbo Charge, driving game. --Vendetta, Commando-style shooting, driving, and strategy, all rolled into 1. TEAM Software (US): ------------------- --------In the works: --3 Days At Gettysburg (Marshall Lake & Piet Francke), Civil War wargame of the Battle of Gettysburg. Tengen (UK): see Domark UK... Thalamus (UK): -------------- --Armalyte: The Final Run (Arc Developments), upgrade of a classic C64 game. Kinda like R*Type, but way tougher. --------In the works: --Arsenal F.C., more soccer. --Restrictor (Arc Developments), 3D sci-fi driving and flying shoot'em'up. Thalion (DL): ------------- --A320 Airbus, a very detailed simulation of the European airliner. Programmed by "Oberst" Rainer Bopf, a professional pilot of the Luftwaffe. --Enchanted Land, sideview fantasy cartoony platform game. --Tangram, mouse-driven oriental puzzle game. --Thalion: First Year, a compilation containing Chambers Of Shaolin, Seven Gates Of Jambala, Warp, and Leavin' Teramis. And a free T-shirt! --------In the works: --Dragonflight II, graphic adventure. --Tower FRA, an air traffic control simulation. Titus (UK/FR): (Some of the worst games ever released, until now...) -------------- --Blues Brothers, sideview flick-scrolling platform game. Find the instrument on each level. It's alright, if you like that sort of thing. There's nothing particularly Blues Brothers-y about it... --Crime Does Not Pay, mediocre game alternating between sideview flick-scrolling and mouse-driven graphic adventure. --Duck Tales: The Quest For Gold (Incredible Technologies), no details. --Prehistorik, sideview flick-scrolling cutesy platform game. --Titus The Fox, nice cutesy sideview platform game. STE. That's funny, I always thought that their mascot was a cat, not a fox... --------In the works: --Arachnophobia, no details. --Battle Storm, sci-fi shoot'em'up. --The Brainies, no details. --Crazy Bikes, no details. --Crazy Cars III, 3D racing game featuring the Lamborghini Diablo. Tomahawk (FR): -------------- --Gobliiins, an amusing fantasy mouse-driven sideview graphic adventure. Trojan (UK): (Makers of the Trojan light gun for STs.) ------------ --Cyber Assault, futuristic DM-style shoot'em'up. --The Enforcer, gangster-era shoot'em'up. --Firestar, kinda like Defender with a light gun... Turcan Research Systems (UK): ----------------------------- --Dreadnoughts, WWI text-driven 3D perspective warship wargame. Hard-drivable. 21st Century Entertainments (UK): (formerly Hewson UK) --------------------------------- --Deliverance, sequel to Hewson's Stormlord. It looks like Shadow Of The Beast. --Moonfall (The Evil 3), 3D polygons shoot'n'trade'em'up. Zzzzzz... --Rubicon, sideview scrolling shoot'em'up. Annoying disk swapping every time the game is over and you want to restart. Nothing earth-shattering... --------In the works: --Nebulus 2, sequel to that innovative game sold as Tower Toppler by Epyx. Probably a platform/puzzler/shoot'em'up. UBI Soft (UK/FR): ----------------- --Maupiti Island (Lankhor), graphic adventure with speech. --Ten Great Games (oh, yeah?), contains Ferrari Formula 1 (EA), Rick Dangerous (Firebird), Pick'N'Pile, Night Hunter, Carrier Command (Rainbird), Satan (Dinamic), Superski, Chicago 90 (Infogrames), Xenon 2 (Imageworks), and Pro Tennis Tour. (Final score: 3 greats, 4 alrights, and 3 stinkers!). --Unreal, multi-level fantasy hack'n'slash, alternates between sideview and 3D. 2 disks. --Vroom (Lankhor), the greatest Formula 1 racing game I have ever seen on any machine, computer or console!! Can be played in 3 different modes: arcade (joystick or mouse), training (mouse), and race (mouse). Modem and data-link support. Fast and smooooooth!!! But if you want a simulator, check out Microprose Formula One Grand Prix. --------In the works: --B.A.T. II, futuristic graphic adventure. --Celtic Legends, fantasy wargame. --Dyna-Blaster or Bomber-Man, no details. --Lightquest, sideview action/adventure. --Star Rush, shoot'em'up. US Gold (UK): ------------- --Alien Storm (Tiertex), Golden Axe with aliens! DS only. Booooooring... --Bonanza Brothers, sideview platform game with really weird graphics. --Final Fight (Creative Materials) sideview pseudo-scrolling beat'em'up, CapCom coin-op conversion. Why pseudo-scrolling? Because it's almost but not quite entirely unlike scrolling: very jerky. The main sprites are big and colorful though. Go against the Mad Gear Gang (giggle) and beat up baddies with names like Bred (snicker), Andore (guffaw), and Bill Bull (snarf). DS only. --Gauntlet III: The Final Quest (Software Creations), with tilted 3D perspective. DS only. --The Godfather: Action Game (Software Creations), multi-format. DS only. --MAX (Maximum Action Xtra), contains Night Shift (Lucasfilm), Saint Dragon (Storm), SWIV (Storm), and Turrican II (Rainbow Arts). --Mega Twins (Twilight), CapCom coin-op conversion. Cutesy sideview scrolling platform hack'n'slash. DS only. --OutRun Europa (Probe), announced two years ago, then cancelled, and now it's back! Race down a Motorway on a bike, then hop onto a jetski and cross the English Channel, then... I don't know, I lost interest. DS only. --Shadow Sorcerer (SSI), isometric fantasy adventure. DS only. --Their Finest Missions Volume One (Lucasfilm), mission disk. --------In the works: --Citadel Of The Black Sun. --G-Loc (Images), Sega coin-op sequel to Afterburner. --The Godfather: Graphic Adventure (Delphine), no details yet. --Greyhawk, a Dungeon Master style game. --Links (Access), think of it as Leaderboard III. 3D perspective golf. --Lucasfilm Special Pak, contains Zak MacKraken And The Alien Mindbenders, and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure. --Magic Sword (Probe), CapCom coin-op conversion. --Menander Brothers (Twilight), no details. --The Quest For Adventure Series #1, contains Operation Stealth (Delphine), Mean Streets, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Adventure Game (Lucasfilm). --Sporting Gold, contains 3 Epyx "Games" games: California Games, The Games: Summer Edition, and The Games: Winter Edition. --Street Fighter II, coin-op beat'em'up. --Super Sega, contains ESWAT, Golden Axe (Virgin Games), Super Monaco GP, Shinobi (Virgin Games), and Crack Down. --Super Sim Pack, contains International 3D Tennis (Palace), Crazy Cars II (Titus), Airborne Ranger (Microprose), and Italy 1990. ************ Millenium (UK): (For future releases, see Electronic Arts UK...) --------------- --The Adventures Of Robin Hood, isometric graphic adventure, mouse-driven. DS only. All the characters as so teeny! --Horror Zombies From The Crypt (Astral), scary platform action-adventure. DS only. --James Pond 2: Codename Robocod, the fish gets metallic! Omni-scrolling platform game. The Sonic for computers. DS only. ************ Delphine (FR): -------------- --Another World, "Cinematique" alternate reality action adventure. Looks strange. Plays like Prince Of Persia. It's really cool though!!! --Cruise For A Corpse, "Cinematique" whodunnit graphic adventure. The graphics have been seriously revamped and the interface further improved. Hard-drivable. *********** Kixx (UK): (Repackaged oldies priced to go!) ---------- --Action Fighter. --Axel's Magic Hammer (Gremlin). --Barbarian (Palace). --Barbarian II (Palace). --Bionic Commando (Go!). --Blasteroids (Imageworks). --California Games (Epyx). --Conqueror (Rainbow Arts). --Dragons Of Flame (SSI). --Forgotten Worlds. --The Games: Summer Edition (Epyx). --Gary Lineker's Hot Shot (Gremlin). --Gauntlet II. --Ghouls'N'Ghosts. --Hammerfist (Activision). --Impossible Mission II (Epyx). --Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Action Game. --John Lowe's Ultimate Darts (Gremlin). --LED Storm. --Moonwalker. --1943. --OutRun. --Rick Dangerous (Firebird). --Roadblasters. --Saint Dragon (Storm). --Steve Davis World Snooker (CDS). --Street Fighter. --Stunt Car Racer (MicroStyle). --Super Scramble Simulator (Gremlin). --Switchblade (Gremlin). --3D Pool (Firebird). --Thunder Blade (US Gold). --Tiger Road (US Gold). --Turrican (Rainbow Arts). --Vigilante (US Gold). --World Class Leaderboard (US Gold). --Z-Out (Rainbow Arts). --------In the works: --Stunt Car Racer (MicroStyle). Virgin (US): (Guess what? No more US ST versions! Low sales don'tcha know...) ------------ --Corporation (Core), futuristic adventure simulation. Infiltrate a large building filled with crazed and malfunctioning robots, human guards, and genetically engineered yucky things. Just your basic old-fashioned dungeon game with a new paint job. The interface ain't too great. --Spirit Of Excalibur, RPG with 6 different quests and an interface similar to War In Middle Earth (Melbourne House). Needs 1 meg. --Thunderhawk (Core), 3D polygons simplified helicopter combat game. The chopper used is fictitious and looks like the bastard child of an Apache and that new Eurocopter gunship. Gunship 2000 this ain't! Mouse driven, mission-driven, DS only. --Vengeance Of Excalibur, the sequel to Spirit Of Excalibur. --Wonderland (Magnetic Scrolls), text adventure based around the original Alice In Wonderland books. Features "Magnetic Windows", a totally new interface with resizable windows, auto-mapping, and other neat stuff. Virgin (UK): ------------ Virgin Games: ------------- --Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (Archer MacLean), 3D-polygons snooker simulation with light-source shaded balls and really fast screen redraws. --Realms (Graftgold), Populous-style game. 1 meg enhanced. --------In the works: --Apocalypse (Strangeways), helicopter game. --Archer MacLean's 3D Pool (Archer MacLean), using the Snooker graphic system. --Cannon Fodder (Sensible), combat "Lemmings"! --Dune (Cryo), based on the movie. July '92. --Floor 13, no details. --Lure Of The Temptress (Revolution Software), Lucasfilm-style adventure. --Rookies, squad-level mission-driven wargame, "Lemmings"-style. --Space Shuttle (Vektorgrafix), total 3D simulator. ************ Melbourne House: ---------------- --Magnetic Scrolls Collection, contains enhanced versions of Fish, Corruption, and Guild Of Thieves. All three now use "Magnetic Windows". DS only. --Vengeance Of Excalibur, the sequel to Spirit Of Excalibur. --Wonderland (Magnetic Scrolls), text adventure based around the original Alice In Wonderland books. Features "Magnetic Windows", a totally new interface with resizable windows, auto-mapping, and other neat stuff. --------In the works: --Conan The Cimmerian, action-adventure. ************ Leisure Genius: --------------- --Spot (Images), the game with the 7Up critters in it. ************ 16 Blitz: (Budget games) --------- --Continental Circus, 3D F1 racing game. No biggie. --Double Dragon, sideview beat'em'up. Ancient. --Gemini Wing, overhead view vertical scrolling shoot'em'up. --The Ninja Warriors, sideview scrolling shoot/beat'em'up. Good conversion. --Shinobi, sideview scrolling shoot/beat'em'up. Not the best conversion. --Silkworm, sideview scrolling shoot'em'up. Good conversion. --Xenon, overhead view vertical scrolling shoot'em'up. Bitmap Brothers' 1st. ************ Tronix: (Budget games, formerly called Mastertronic) ------- --Double Dragon II. --Golden Axe. --Italia '90. --Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off-Road. --Monty Python's Flying Circus. --Viz. Vulture Publishing (UK): ------------------------ --------In the works: --Siege Master, isometric fantasy CRPG. Zeppelin (UK): (Budget stuff) -------------- --Arcade Trivia Quiz. --F1 Tornado (221b), 3D polygons jet fighter shoot'em'up. --International Ice Hockey. --Sharkey's Moll, a 1920's Operation Wolf of low quality. --Stack Up, a Columns clone. --Titanic Blinky, cutesy flick-scrolling platform game. --World Cricket, urgh! ************ Impulze (UK): ------------- --Graeme Souness' Vector Soccer, soccer with 3D polygons. --Neighbours, isometric omni-scrolling racing game. Similar to Gremlin's Skidz, but dumber and smaller. Based on some sort of foreign TV show. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- How to read this guide: ----------------------- Products are listed in the following way: Company Name (CC- Country Code): (Comments, if any) -------------------------------- --Game Title (Authors), description of game type and additional comments. --Compilation Title, contains Game Title (Publisher), Game Title (Publisher), and Game Title (Publisher). --------In the works: (games not released yet) --Game Title (Authors), etc... ************ Company Name (CC): (different company, but distributed) ------------------ (by the company listed at the top.) --Game Title (Authors), etc... --Compilation Title, contains Game Title, Game Title, and Game Title. (If all the games are from the same publisher who's releasing the compilation) --Compilation title, contains Game Title (Original Publisher), etc... Companies are listed by alphabetical order and cross-referenced. Company country codes are: (US) USA, (UK) UK, (CA) Canada, (FR) France, (DL) Germany, (SP) Spain, (NW) Norway, (OZ) Australia, (SW) Switzerland, (IT) Italy. Games already released are listed first, in alphabetical order. Games about to be released or in the planning stages are listed under the "In the works:" heading, also by alphabetical order. Games that were announced and were never heard from again are listed under the "Lost In Space Department:" heading. Games are removed from the guide after being listed as available for 6 months, except for games re-issued at budget prices, which will always stay listed. A small glossary of game description terms: ------------------------------------------- --Adventure simulation: a graphic adventure where the environment is simulated with 3D polygons and/or sprites, and you move inside it. Examples: Damocles, Infestation, Corporation, Interphase, Castle Master, Cybercon III, etc... --Beat'em'up: legs-flyin' karate-choppin' two-fisted action-packed action! --CRPG: computer role-playing game. People have been arguing over this term for years. Some people believe there's no such thing and that all CRPGs are nothing but graphic adventures. They are usually the ones who play real RPGs. But since everybody uses the term anyway, I have to comply. --Graphic adventure: any adventure that doesn't use a command line as its sole interface. Examples: quite a lot of stuff really (Sierra, Lucasfilm, ICOM...). --Hack'n'slash: razor-sharp double-edged slice'n'dice fun! --Platform: jumpin'/climbin'/runnin'/slidin' action. --Puzzler: what you play when you want to use your brain, for a change... --Shoot'em'up: if it moves, shoot it. If it don't move, shoot it anyway. Usually combined with another game type. --Text adventure: any adventure that uses a command line as its only interface, even if it has pretty pictures (The Pawn, all Infocom games except Battletech). --Wargame: move your armies around. Mouse-driven or text-driven. --Perspective: sideview, overhead view, cockpit view (1st person), chase-view (viewed from a camera following your vehicle), isometric (three-quarters). --Scrolling: sideview scrolling (left and/or right), vertical (up and/or down), omni-scrolling (all directions), flick-scrolling (jump-scrolls from one screen to the next), non-scrolling (it just sits there), forced-scrolling (go with the flow, or die!). --DS only: shipped on double-sided disks. Single-sided disks can usually be ordered from the company with a coupon included in the packaging. --1 meg: one megabyte or more required. --1 meg enhanced: it works with 512K, but you get a few extras with 1 meg. --STE: compatible, but doesn't use the extra features. --STE enhanced: uses the advanced STE features. --Hard-drivable: installable on hard drives. --TT: works on the TT. Everything by Sierra seems to. --Modem support: play over phone lines. --Data link support: hook up 2 machines (or more) together. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you have any questions, comments, criticisms or suggestions, you can contact Zenobot on GEnie (A.BITTON1) in the ST RoundTable, Category 9 (Games), Topic 22 (ST Gaming Digest). 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