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Author: Gustavo - Published: 8 July 2020, 8:19 pm
Arcade Snooker is a billiards (more precisely, snooker) game developed by Team 17 for Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000. The full game was released as the CU Amiga magazine cover disk in July 1995.
The title is the Snooker version of Arcade Pool, created one year ago by the same English company known for the successful Worms saga. In 1999, Microprose launched a sequel called Arcade Pool 2, very similar to its predecessor but with better graphics and an online option.
For the ones that are not experts, snooker and pool are two different games, despite being played with similar types of equipment. Snooker uses larger tables (but with smaller pockets), and it's played with 22 balls: 15 numberless pink/red balls, 6 numbered object balls, and 1 cue ball.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 4 July 2020, 12:10 pm
F17 Challenge is an arcade racing game created by Holodream and published by Team17 exclusively for the Amiga in 1993.
The game doesn't try to be considered a simulator. Rules of physics are not fully respected, so you cannot really compare this title with the racing sims by Geoff Crammond (e.g., Formula 1 Grand Prix). However, Holodream succeeded in creating a fun and straightforward racing game set in the Formula One world. You will be able to choose the most famous cars, such as Ferrari, Williams, McLaren, and Benetton. You will have to manage pit-stops carefully and avoid collisions with other vehicles, which can be very dangerous. Since the game could not use the official F1 license, the developers decided to leave all the pilot names editable. Brilliant idea, because you can create your favorite roster.
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Author: Adam - Published: 1 July 2020, 8:48 pm
Exile is an action video game ported by Audiogenic to the Amiga, Commodore 64, and Atari ST in 1991. The original title was developed in 1988 by Superior Software for the BBC Micro.
The game developer was Peter Irvin, also known for directing the successful Starship Command shooter in 1983 for the BBC.
Mike Finn is the main character of the adventure and one of the leaders of a space exploration organization called Columbus Force. In this mission, the hero must enter a disabled ship and rescue Commander David Sprake and his team. Meanwhile, the villain is a psychotic engineer named Triax, who presents himself as the rival to beat and advances the plot at the beginning of the game.
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Author: Gustavo - Published: 27 June 2020, 9:39 pm
Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True is a point-and-click mystery game developed by ICOM Simulations and published by Mindscape. The title was released initially for the Apple Macintosh in 1985, then released for Amiga in 1986, MS-DOS in 1987, NES in 1990, and other platforms later.
This was the first game developed by this company founded in Illinois that later on would be called Rabid entertainment, known by the saga of Beavis, Butt-head, and Sherlock Holmes. Deja Vu was also the first in the four-entry MacVenture adventure series, which later featured Uninvited, Shadowgate, and Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas
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Author: Gustavo - Published: 26 June 2020, 9:51 pm
Prophecy: the Fall of Trinadon is a single-player action RPG designed by Richard L. Seaborne and published by Activision in 1989 for the MS-DOS.
Wars and rebellions are commonplace in a world dominated by a tyrant named Krellane. Son of a father who was forced into exile for being part of an insurrection, the hero possesses magical and martial arts training to one day bring down the evil leader. The moment the protagonist begins his quest to fulfill this prophecy comes without warning, as his village is massacred, and he is the only survivor.
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Author: Gustavo - Published: 25 June 2020, 6:31 pm
American McGee's Alice is a third-person action-adventure developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts in 2000.
This entry is named after its renowned director and designer, American James McGee, who also worked on the Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Hexen, and Quake sagas. Also, he was in charge of directing the highly successful sequel Alice: Madness Returns and is currently working on the third part called Alice: Asylum.
The game is based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, novels written by Lewis Caroll in 1865 and 1871. Unlike the lighthearted tone of the source texts, this version has a much darker setting. Shortly after the original story, Alice is the sole survivor of a mysterious fire that takes her family and home, making her an orphan. This strongly traumatizes the protagonist, who enters a deep depressive well and becomes catatonic. She is later taken to the Rutledge psychiatric hospital, where she is constantly abused by its workers.
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