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

Episode 4 August 14, 2022 00:59:54
S5:E4: Atari ST Halcyon Days of 1989 Part 2: Fun Imported From Europe
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S5:E4: Atari ST Halcyon Days of 1989 Part 2: Fun Imported From Europe

Aug 14 2022 | 00:59:54

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Show Notes

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: 

  1. Action Fighter (Firebird) - Sega Arcade Port
  2. Airborne Ranger (Microprose) - Military Sim
  3. Axel’s Magic Hammer (Gremlin) - Multi Screen Platformer
  4. BAAL (Psyclapse) -  Arcade Platformer / Shooter
  5. Bad Company (Logotron) 3D first person fly / drive and shoot
  6. Ballastix (Psyclapse) - Sports Marble game
  7. BattleHawks 1942 (Lucasfilm) - Battle / Air sim
  8. Blasteroids (Mirrowsoft/Imageworks) - Atari Coin-op Conversion
  9. Blood Money (Psygnosis) - Hor / Vert Scroll and blast
  10. Bloodwych (Mirrowsoft/Imageworks) - RPG 3D
  11. Breach (Omnirend) - Squad Strategy . Combat
  12. Captain blood (Mindscape) - Adventure /Arcade 2D
  13. Commando (Elite) - Capcom Arcade Conversion
  14. Darius + (Edge / Softek) - Horizontal Shooter - Arcade conversion
  15. Demon’s Winter (SSI / EA) - RPG 2D
  16. Double Dragon II (Virgin) - Arcade Scrolling Beat-em-up
  17. Dragon Spirit (Domark) - Namco Vertical Scroller Conversion
  18. Fighter Bomber (Activision) - Air Combat Sim
  19. Forgotten Worlds (ARC / US Gold) - Capcom Horizontal Scroller shooter
  20. US GOLD Giants - 1943 The Battle of Midway, Gauntlet II, Out Run, Street Fighter.
  21. Hard Drivin’ (Domark) - Atari Arcade Conversion
  22. Hostages (Infogrames) - Police Simulation 
  23. Hound of Shadow (EA) - Graphic Adventure
  24. License to Kill (Domark) Shoot’em Up Misc
  25. Lost Dutchman Mine (Magnetic Images / Innerphase) - Adventure Arcade 2D
  26. Macadam Bumper (Pocksoft / Infogrames) - Pinball . Pinball Construction
  27. Microprose Soccer (Microprose) - Soccer with indoor soccer 
  28. North and South (Infogrames) - Various Historical Arcade Game
  29. Pirates (Microprose) - Adventure / Arcade 2D
  30. Populous (EA) - World creation and destruction Sim
  31. Power Drift (Activision) - Sega Arcade Conversion - driving / racing
  32. Precious metal Ocean Compilation - Arkanoid, Captain Blood, Super Hang-on, Xenon.
  33. Rick Dangerous (Microplay / Firebird) - Arcade platformer / Multi screen
  34. Robocop (Ocean) - Horizontal scrolling blaster . beat em up
  35. Roller coaster Rumbler (Tynesoft) - Shoot em up 3D
  36. Sidewinder II (Masertronic) - Horizontal Shooter
  37. Sim City (Maxis) - Simulation
  38. Sleeping Gods Lie (Empire) - RPG 3D
  39. Strider (Psyclapse) - Capcom Arcade Port - Horizontal and Vertical scroll and fight
  40. Stunt Car Racer (Microprose) - 3D racing
  41. Super Wonderboy in Monsterland (Activision)  - Sega Port Arcade Platformer / Scrolling / adventure
  42. Switchblade (Gremlin) - Arcade Adventure Platformer Multi Screen
  43. Thunder Blade (US Gold) - Sega Coin Op Conversion
  44. Toobin (Diomark) - Atari Coinop conversion
  45. Vincators (Domark) - Atari Coin op conversion
  46. 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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