August 14, 2022

S5:E4: Atari ST Halcyon Days of 1989 Part 2: Fun Imported From Europe

59 minutes

In this episode Steve and Jeff turn calendar to 1989 and discuss what it was like gaming on the Atari ST back then. They list and discuss close to 50 games that they purchased and played that year. for the Atari ST Computer.

Games Mentioned in this Episode:

Action Fighter (Firebird) - Sega Arcade Port

Airborne Ranger (Microprose) - Military Sim

Axel’s Magic Hammer (Gremlin) - Multi Screen Platformer

BAAL (Psyclapse) - Arcade Platformer / Shooter

Bad Company (Logotron) 3D first person fly / drive and shoot

Ballastix (Psyclapse) - Sports Marble game

BattleHawks 1942 (Lucasfilm) - Battle / Air sim

Blasteroids (Mirrowsoft/Imageworks) - Atari Coin-op Conversion

Blood Money (Psygnosis) - Hor / Vert Scroll and blast

Bloodwych (Mirrowsoft/Imageworks) - RPG 3D

Breach (Omnirend) - Squad Strategy . Combat

Captain blood (Mindscape) - Adventure /Arcade 2D

Commando (Elite) - Capcom Arcade Conversion

Darius + (Edge / Softek) - Horizontal Shooter - Arcade conversion

Demon’s Winter (SSI / EA) - RPG 2D

Double Dragon II (Virgin) - Arcade Scrolling Beat-em-up

Dragon Spirit (Domark) - Namco Vertical Scroller Conversion

Fighter Bomber (Activision) - Air Combat Sim

Forgotten Worlds (ARC / US Gold) - Capcom Horizontal Scroller shooter

US GOLD Giants - 1943 The Battle of Midway, Gauntlet II, Out Run, Street Fighter.

Hard Drivin’ (Domark) - Atari Arcade Conversion

Hostages (Infogrames) - Police Simulation

Hound of Shadow (EA) - Graphic Adventure

License to Kill (Domark) Shoot’em Up Misc

Lost Dutchman Mine (Magnetic Images / Innerphase) - Adventure Arcade 2D

Macadam Bumper (Pocksoft / Infogrames) - Pinball . Pinball Construction

Microprose Soccer (Microprose) - Soccer with indoor soccer

North and South (Infogrames) - Various Historical Arcade Game

Pirates (Microprose) - Adventure / Arcade 2D

Populous (EA) - World creation and destruction Sim

Power Drift (Activision) - Sega Arcade Conversion - driving / racing

Precious metal Ocean Compilation - Arkanoid, Captain Blood, Super Hang-on, Xenon.

Rick Dangerous (Microplay / Firebird) - Arcade platformer / Multi screen

Robocop (Ocean) - Horizontal scrolling blaster . beat em up

Roller coaster Rumbler (Tynesoft) - Shoot em up 3D

Sidewinder II (Masertronic) - Horizontal Shooter

Sim City (Maxis) - Simulation

Sleeping Gods Lie (Empire) - RPG 3D

Strider (Psyclapse) - Capcom Arcade Port - Horizontal and Vertical scroll and fight

Stunt Car Racer (Microprose) - 3D racing

Super Wonderboy in Monsterland (Activision) - Sega Port Arcade Platformer / Scrolling / adventure

Switchblade (Gremlin) - Arcade Adventure Platformer Multi Screen

Thunder Blade (US Gold) - Sega Coin Op Conversion

Toobin (Diomark) - Atari Coinop conversion

Vincators (Domark) - Atari Coin op conversion

Xenon II Megablast (Imageworks) - Vertical shooter

All music, video production. writing and game play by Jeff Fulton with help from Steve Fulton unless otherwise noted.

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