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

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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