The Sega Game Gear got a version of the movie-licensed platform game, The Addams Family, in 1993. This one was programmed by Arc Developments, and not by Ocean Software (who had done most of the other versions). It was published in North America and Europe by Flying Edge, and by Acclaim in Japan.
Developed by a company called “The Kremlin“, and published by Domark in Europe and Tengen in Japan, James Bond 007: The Duel is a Sega-only scrolling action game that was released for the Game Gear in 1993. The game was also released for the Megadrive/Genesis and the Master System, but for no other consoles.
The Game Gear is a handheld games console, first released in Japan in 1990, by Sega.
The sequel to the hit 1997 racing game, Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo 2 carries on where its predecessor left off, only this time the experience is spread over two separate discs (in this case, CD-ROMs – not DVDs), one containing the “Arcade Mode“, and the other offering the “Gran Turismo Mode“, which is basically “Simulation Mode” from the previous game.
Gran Turismo 2 was again developed by Polyphony Digital, and was first published by Sony in 1999.
A ‘consolised’ remake of the PC version of Far Cry, released for the original XBox in 2005, by Ubisoft. Far Cry Instincts was developed by Ubisoft Montreal.
Here’s a short sequence of screen grabs that I took when setting up a PlayStation 3 for the first time recently…
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The fourth instalment in the Gradius series was released into arcades in 1999, by Konami.
Star X is a third-person space shooter, of a similar style to Star Fox. In fact: it wouldn’t be unfair to call it a Star Fox clone. It uses simple polygonal 3D graphics to create the world and sees you flying around in a small spaceship, blasting things. Star X was developed by Graphic State and published by BAM! Entertainment in 2002.
It’s *SPOOKY SEASON* and we’ve got this for you! 😀
Which version of The Addams Family does the above screenshot belong to? See the answer at the bottom of this article…
The Addams Family for TurboGrafx-CD was developed by ICOM Simulations, Inc. and first published by NEC Technologies in 1991. It does not follow the template of all the Ocean ports of this game. It instead does its own thing entirely and takes advantage of the audio streaming from the CD by adding lots more sound and speech. Which gives it a distinctive “talkie” feel.
