Author: Manu - Published: 20 May 2022, 4:07 pm
Tau Ceti is a mix of action, adventure, and space simulation initially developed for the ZX Spectrum by Pete Cooke in 1985. The game was also ported to Atari ST, C64, and MS-DOS. An improved version, called Tau Ceti: The Special Edition, was released for the Spectrum 128K and Amstrad CPC in 1987.
Cooke, also the author of Tower of Babel, had the inspiration for the game playing Gyron, another ZX Spectrum hit. Gyron was using some interesting graphics routines, and Cooke studied them in order to replicate them. Soon he was able to create something similar to draw a 3D world with shadows and a day and night cycle. Today it doesn't seem exceptional, but you should not forget it was 1985, and those were 8-bit computers.
Championship Manager: Season 03/04 is an updated edition of Championship Manager 4, the famous soccer/football management sim. Eidos released it in November 2003 for Microsoft Windows only.
Year: 2003 Genre: Sports Updated: 2022-06-23Tags: business simulation football soccer sport management
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games is a series of graphic adventures in 3D and third-person perspective, based on the famous BBC TV show Doctor Who, starring the 11th Doctor and his companion Amelia Pond.
Year: 2010 Genre: Adventure Updated: 2022-06-22Tags: 3d aliens detective doctor who freeware licensed science fiction spaceship tv series
Xenomorph is a sci-fi RPG set in space, developed by Pandora and published in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and - strangely - Commodore 64. The title is clearly inspired by the movie Alien.
Year: 1990 Genre: Role Playing Updated: 2022-06-10Tags: aliens dungeon crawler first-person science fiction survival horror
Disney's Tarzan (also known as Tarzan Action Game) is a platformer created by Eurocom Developments and published by Disney in 1999 for Playstation and Windows. It was also ported to Nintendo 64.
Year: 1999 Genre: Platformer Updated: 2021-08-24Tags: 2.5d jungle licensed movies nature polygons side-scrolling
Disney's Hercules is an action platformer game for Windows 95 and Playstation published in 1997 by Disney Interactive, based on the animated movie of the same name. During the firs...
Year: 1997 Genre: Action Updated: 2020-11-27Tags: arcade cartoon fantasy movies platform
Doom is the legendary first-person shooter created by Id Software and released for DOS in 1993. It was Id Software’s follow-up to their genre-defining Wolfenstein 3D. This was...
Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2021-01-21Tags: 3d fps horror science fiction shoot em up texture map
Age of Empires is a historical real-time strategy game created by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft in 1997 for Windows. It's one of the most popular video games franchises ever created.
Year: 1997 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2019-10-24Tags: classical antiquity history isometric management real-time rts war
Civilization II, or simply Civ2, is the second chapter of the most famous turn-based strategy video game ever created: Sid Meier's Civilization. The game's objective is to "Build an empire to stand the test of time".
Year: 1996 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2021-08-26Tags: 4x history management turn-based
