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Archer Maclean's Pool

MS-DOS - Released - 1992

Using the game engine from Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker, this game recreates pool in minute detail. A bold 3D graphics engine with realistic physics and millions of shot permutations (in terms of direction, speed and spin) is at the heart of it. Three versions of pool are offered - UK and US 8-ball as well as the fast-paced all-action 9-ball game. There are 20 computer opponents, with the hardest of them being almost unbeatable, as well as two-player and trick-shot modes. Unlike the original release of Whirlwind Snooker, you can save more than one game on the disk at a time.

Caesars Palace

Apple Mac OS - Released - 1993

An upgraded version of the NES version, Caesars Palace for Macintosh features Blackjack, Baccarat, Poker (Paigow, 7 and 5 Stud, and Draw), Roulette, Craps, Slot Machines (Fortunes of Gold, Mighty Gladiators, and Seven Hills of Rome), Video Poker, Joker's Wild, Video Keno, and Video 21. The player can switch between games at any time, can save or load a game, can play with up to four friends (or computer players; four different levels of AI are included) in games where it makes sense, can customize the games, and can view examples of professional play.

Checkout

BBC Microcomputer System - Released - 1984

Checkout is a maze style puzzle game released by Virgin Games for the BBC Microcomputer.

Continental Circus

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Released - 1989

The home conversions of Continental Circus lack the full-on 3D and special glasses of the arcade version, but retain the essential gameplay structure. The first race is in Brazil and features 100 cars, and requires you to finish in the top 80 in order to qualify for next race. As you work through the 8 races the size of the field steadily decreases, but so does the worst acceptable finishing position to qualify. The car has high and low gears, and is susceptible to damage from contact with another car. Once you hit a car or a piece of the trackside scenery you will be called into the pits - fail to make it back, or hit another car, and you will crash and lose several seconds.

Cool Spot

Commodore Amiga - Released - 1993

Cool Spot is a colorful 2D platform game featuring the 7-Up mascot as the main protagonist. The game objective is fairly simple and straightforward. The player character has to collect enough number of cool points throughout each level in order to find and rescue his captured uncool Spot buddies and complete the game.

Cool Spot

MS-DOS - Released - 1994

Cool Spot

Sega Game Gear - Released - January 1, 1993

Cool Spot

Nintendo Game Boy - Released - 1994

Charge, blast and hurdle through this fun and frantic adventure without losing your cool - or your shades! As COOL SPOT, you'll stop at nothing to rescue your SPOT buddies when they get snatched by powers uncool! Shoot the curl, and whip through a stomach-dropping rollercoaster ride in a carbonated quest to chill out your foes! - Hundreds of outrageous foes! Watch SPOT give cheese-slinging mice, slime balls, and crappy beach critters the deep freeze! - 8 levels of side-splitting fun plus 6 bubble-bashing bonus rounds! - High energy jams with hair-raising (bald red fellows excluded) sound effects!

Cool Spot

Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - December 10, 1993

From surfing at the beach to riding miniature blimps in the world's largest toy store, SPOT races his way through this carbonated quest to save his fun-loving red friends when they get snatched by powers uncool.

Cool Spot

Sega Genesis - Released - April 1, 1993

Charge, blast and hurdle through this fun and frantic adventure without losing your cool - or your shades! As COOL SPOT, you'll stop at nothing to rescue your SPOT buddies when they get snatched by powers uncool! Shoot the curl, get loco on a runaway train, and whip through a stomach-dropping rollercoaster ride in a carbonated quest to chill out your foes! 11 levels of side-splitting fun plus 6 bubble-bashing bonus rounds! In-your-face obstacles, tricky maneuvers and 360 degree Cool Shot fire range! Graphics so hot - you'll need your own shades!

Creepers

Commodore VIC-20 - Released - 1983

Creepers is a 1-player arcade game for the VIC-20. The player controls a ship that moves vertically along the left hand side of the screen and fires to the right. Aliens try to transfer blocks from the bottom to the top of the screen. Each alien travels in a vertical path, and if an alien does not find any blocks, it turns into a deadly mutant that streaks towards the player. The goal is to shoot all aliens before they can fill their stores. If this happens, the player loses a life. Every harder level, more aliens move at the same time.

Deluxe Scrabble for Windows

Windows 3.X - Released - 1992

Deluxe Scrabble gives lets you play against 9 skill levels of computer opponents, or another human player. The game also allows for an Arbitrator who can view all players' racks as well as edit the board. There is a timer that you can activate to increase the challenge... there are 13 settings from 10 seconds to 1 hour per turn, as well as off. The game also has two word lookup features for finding words that your letters can create. Both features use the Official Scrabble Dictionary, where you can also view and edit the definitions.

Dino Hockey

Nintendo Entertainment System - Unreleased

Dino Hockey is a cancelled ice hockey game for the NES, which was given a fleeting mention in GamePro magazine. A prototype was eventually found by the Nolan brothers and dumped on July 21, 2013. The prototype is of a very early build, which is extremely unstable and crashes frequently.

Disney's Aladdin

Sega Genesis - Released - November 11, 1993

SEGA presents a Disney/Virgin Games co-production of Disney’s Aladdin. Hang onto your carpet for ACTION and FUN! Aladdin slashes his shining scimitar to fight through Agrabah, escape the Sultan’s dungeon, survive the fiery Cave of Wonders, snatch the Genie’s Lamp and save Princess Jasmine from the evil Jafar! - All-new technology creates animation so smooth, it’s like watching a real animated film! - Aladdin battles thieves and desert warriors, and barely dodges danger on his high-speed carpet! Survive Jafar’s troops for a dash through special bonus rounds! - Hilarious! Palace Guards drop their drawers and camels spit dirt wads. Aladdin ping-pongs like a pinball INSIDE the Genie’s Lamp! - Academy Award winning music straight from the movie, with favorites A Whole New World, Friend Like Me and more!

Election

Amstrad CPC - Released - 1987

Election is an arcade adventure as you try to become Prime Minister released at the time the UK was having its own election in 1987. You have the choice of five candidates based on real people at the time, Matcher (Conservatives), Ninnock (Labour), Paul (Idealists), Owing (Alliance) and Pig-Iron (Alliance). Once you have selected your candidate it's time to go out into the big wide world viewed from above and flick-screen, and attempt to get 101 votes or more to get the majority needed to become Prime Minister. You travel around the area trying to convince people who roam around the various screens to vote for you by talking to them, picking up manifestos or picking up various icons. You move your candidate around with the joystick and to complete other actions you select options from a menu like take, drop, give, ask, order, canvass and slur. If you come across a manifesto you must take it back to your HQ before placing it in a special location shown by a map provided with the game. Icons you will come across on your travels will increase your credibility, celebrity, slur fellow politicians and give incentives for your party members. The hardest route is a clean campaign but taking the easy route of dirty tactics can work against you as the other politicians start a dirty campaign against you.

Global Gladiators

Commodore Amiga - Released - 1993

Global Gladiators is a platform game licensed from fast food chain McDonalds. While playing through the game's 12 levels you'll notice McDonalds logos, burgers and all sorts of family restaurant type stuff as you take Mick and Mack (the game's protagonists) on a journey to clean up "Monsters of Slime World", "Toxi-Town" and more.

Global Gladiators

Sega Game Gear - Released - May 26, 1993

The bubble-blowing, goo-shooting, high-fivin' Mick and Mack are unleashed into Sega action in their new global adventure, THE GLOBAL GLADIATORS! Vividly dramatic landscape and scenery fill every world as Mick and Mack spring, dash and blast through the game. From skidding through perilous peaks in a world of ice, to dodging the infamous Red Snappy Piranha in the deep, dark Mystical Forest, Mick and Mack take players through multiple worlds and levels of slime-busting fun! Add Mick and Mack's exclusive high-tech Goo Shooters and you've got a Global Patrol ready to take on the world!

Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker

MS-DOS - Released - 1991

A 3D snooker simulator. The table and cue can be turned through almost any angle, with shot strength and spin as required too. An on-screen dotted white line shows the path of your ball, including the next bounce. There is also a "trick-shot" mode, allowing you to recreate classic snooker trick shots (well, not the one with the basket. Or with the cues lying on the table. Or the one with the girl lying on her back with the pink ball in her mouth. But you know). And if you dawdle too long, the balls pull faces at you. Honest!

Leisure Genius presents Monopoly

MS-DOS - Released - 1985

This version of the classic board game supports several graphic formats and offers some different options. From 2 to 8 players can play the game, and they can all be computer players if you wish. This allows you to just sit back and watch as the computer takes over. You can choose to play a short game with a specified time limit, or a standard game, and there is a save game feature. All actions are handled entirely by keyboard. Questions appear in the center area of the board (for buying property, for instance). Pressing the first letter of a word from the top bar takes that action (Q for Quit as an example). Player stats can be viewed on the screen.

M.C. Kids

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - February 1, 1992

Meet Mick and Mack - the coolest kids in McDonaldland. Now that Hamburglar has run off with Ronald's magic bag, the M. C. Kids need your help to find him. You'll need to move pretty fast to dodge creatures like Goferit and I. Psycho, solve tricky puzzles and explore the secret levels of McDonaldland. If you're going to help the M.C.Kids track down Hamburglar, you're going to have to make some totally fresh moves of your own. Oh yeah - once you've figured out how to play this game right side up - try it upside down!

McDonaldland

Nintendo Game Boy - Released - 1992

McDonaldland is a 1992 platform game developed and published by Virgin Interactive and published in Europe by Ocean. As a licensed product for the McDonald's fast food franchise, the game occasionally features the various logos and characters from McDonald's restaurant signage and television advertisements, for the purposes of plot advancement and power-ups. It stars two children who venture into the fantasy world of McDonaldland in order to return Ronald McDonald's magical bag, which has been stolen by the Hamburglar.

McDonaldland

Commodore 64 - Released - 1992

McDonaldland

MS-DOS - Released - February 1, 1992

The Hamburglar has stolen Ronald's bag of magic tricks! In this 2D platformer, it's up to you to play as Mick or Mac and get it back. Go across various lands and meet McDonald's characters as you travel to places like Ronald's Clubhouse, Birdie's Treehouse, and the Hamburglar's Hideout as you collect Ronald's cards. To kill the many animal enemies you will find, you must collect bricks and throw them. In some sections you will travel along water in a dinghy; also watch for moving platforms and bonus sections, The game features seven different worlds with over 30 main levels and nine bonus levels.

McDonaldland

Commodore Amiga - Released - 1992

Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators

Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Unreleased

Mick & Mack was a McDonald's licensed game developed by David Perry at Virgin Games. It appeared on various Sega systems and the Amiga, though they cancelled the SNES version. It is a platform shooter game with an environmental theme. The game was shown at the Winter 1993 CES, apparently after the Genesis version was already out. If one was to venture a guess, it probably wasn't completed because it would have come out too long after the Genesis version, and possibly too close to the release of Cool Spot. The in-game copyright screen says 1993, so it was almost certainly in development after the Genesis version was already released.

Monopoly Deluxe

MS-DOS - Released - 1992

Monopoly Deluxe is a conversion of the classic board game. The game allows for some user-based rule changes such as money given for landing on "Free Parking".

Musicolor

Commodore CDTV - Released - 1992

Musicolor is an educational game that teaches music theory to children. It is based on the music teaching method developed by Candida Tobin and contains 15 lesson each with a number of interactive activities. Most activities involve listening to sounds as they are played and then clicking on various icons or graphics on the screen. Sometimes the player is asked questions regarding the sounds being played. Some activities are built around colour and work like colouring books. There is also a composition tool that allow the player to freely create tunes. The lessons are as follows: - Lesson 1: Instructions (on using the program) - Lesson 2: Notes & Colours - Lesson 3: Pre-composition - Lesson 4: Composition - Lesson 5: Shorthand - Lesson 6: Note lengths - Lesson 7: Pitch - Lesson 8: Passing notes - Lesson 9: Time - Lesson 10: Harmony - Lesson 11: The sixteenth - Lesson 12: Accidentals - Lesson 13: New Scales - Lesson 14: Minor chords - Lesson 15: Tetrachords & scales

North Polar Expedition

Commodore CDTV - Released - 1992

In North Polar Expedition the player is tasked with leading an expedition to the North Pole. The story and setting are inspired by an actual transglobe expedition by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The game uses photographic footage from the expedition in question. In the game the player is presented with all kinds of different situations in which the player must choose how to act, mostly in a choose-your-own-adventure style. Points are earned and a score is kept to compare different expeditions. Each new expedition presents the player with different problems. The player takes on the role of different members of the expedition in different situations. The game comes with a copy of Sir Ranulph Fiennes book To The Ends of the Earth.

RoboCop Versus The Terminator

Sega Genesis - Released - December 1, 1993

Set a few years after RoboCop's invention, the story involves SAC-NORAD contracting Cyberdyne Systems on building Skynet. Cyberdyne used RoboCop's technology in creating Skynet. When activated, Skynet becomes self-aware and launches a war against mankind. In the future, Skynet sends several Terminators back to the past to cripple the Resistance. After destroying one of the Terminators, RoboCop proceeds to Delta City, where he confronts RoboCain. After RoboCain was destroyed, RoboCop battles his way to the OCP building, where he defeats all the Terminators. After defeating an ED-209 unit reprogrammed by the Terminators, RoboCop plugs himself into a console. Unbeknownst to him, RoboCop gave Skynet information it can use. This ends up with RoboCop falling into a trap. In the future, RoboCop assembles himself, where he battled in the Terminator-infested future and destroyed Skynet. The Mega Drive/Genesis version, which was the original lead development of the game and was programmed by Virgin Games USA making use of David Perry's Mega Drive/Genesis engine, is loosely based on the 1992 four-issue comic book mini-series of the same name.

Shinobi

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Released - 1989

ENJOY FRANTIC oriental action in this Ninja beat-em-up. Search for kidnapped children and dispose of marauding thugs with blows from feet, fists and shuriken stars. Classic SEGA coin-op thrills! One hot summer's day, everything began to go wrong. As the most famous graduate of a secret oriental Ninja school, you had been invited back to the annual graduation ceremony and prize-giving. Having enthralled the junior classes at the assembly with your tales of international ninjiing, you were just about to move on to handing out prizes to the seniors when there was a flash of Dark Ninja Magic and Bwah Foo made an unscheduled appearance. Few of the pupils realised who Bwah Foo was, but within a ninja-second you had identified him and realised that this once-illustrious graduate of the Ninja school had turned to the Dark Ways. Transfixed by Bwah Foo's Holding Magic, you were unable to move a muscle oven twitch a tendon as Bwah's henchmen led away the entire junior class. Then the evil Foo issued his personal challenge to you. With one mighty bound he somersaulted onto the speech-giving platform and thrust his face in front of yours. "Why if it's not Joe Musashi", he sneered, "Old Goody - Two Shurikens himself. Well, well, well." (Clearly the quality of teaching on the Dark Side has slipped abominably, you thought to yourself, as Bwash Foo ranted on in clipped baddie-speak, the like of which was normally reserved for second-rate pantomimes is seaside towns.) "... well, well, well. It's gold I want", Foo continued, "all the gold in the School's coffers. And if I don't get my gold by Wednesday evening I'll kill every last member of the Junior Class and THEN you'll be sorry." And with a maniac crackle and a flash of green Ninja Magic, he was gone.

Sorcery

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Released - 1984

You are one of the last four remaining great sorcerers. When Necromancer kidnaps the other three, it is your task to rescue them within a time limit in this action adventure hybrid. The player must fly through 17 screens including wastelands, a river and the woods, collecting items and keys to access other screens. Avoid evil ghosts and sorcerers, as they will drain your limited (but replenishable) energy. The final destination is Stonehenge, where the player must kill Necromancer using one of the three potential objects discovered during your journey.

Sorcery

Enterprise - Released - 1985

Sorcery

Microsoft MSX - Released - 1985

SOS Terrorists II

Commodore 64 - Released - 1991

The sequel to SOS Terrorists aka Terrorist released by CBM and Virgin\Aakosoft respectively. It is a multi-genre action\strategy\shooter. You control an anti-terrorist squad with access to multiple forms of vehicle and weaponry to stop the terrorists from overrunning a randomly generated city location with all the tools at your disposal.

Super Stock Car

Commodore 64 - Released - 1990

Super Stock Car is a scrolling overhead driving game where just part of the track is shown on the screen and the game scrolls when you move your car. You have to drive over various tracks against three other computer controlled cars and finish 1st over a number of set laps. If you finish 1st then you move to the next track, fail to finish 1st and it's game over. Hitting the sides or other cars slows your car down but no damage is inflicted.

The Computer Edition of Risk: Deluxe: The World Conquest Game

Apple Mac OS - Released - 1994

The Computer Edition of Risk Deluxe: The World Conquest Game is a Macintosh-exclusive, expanded edition of The Computer Edition of Risk: The World Conquest Game. Enhancements include: All-new graphics All-new sound effects A smarter computer AI And a streamlined interface which makes gameplay much faster.

Untitled Racing Game

Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Unreleased

There is not a whole lot to say about this game. It appears to be a one track demo of a top-down racing game, presumably by Virgin Games. There is a two player split-screen mode already implemented. The controls are smooth, and the music and sound effects are solid. The graphics are ok, but the cars are really squished. As far as I can tell, no finished game ever came from this. There are some fragments of Super Bomberman in the ROM image, which was likely burned onto the EPROMs prior to this demo.