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Hopkins FBI
''Hopkins FBI'' is a 1998 point-and-click adventure game from MP Entertainment, most famous for very large (at the time) amounts of gore. A sequel titled ''Hopkins FBI 2: Don't Cry, Baby'', involving Hopkins having to rescue the President's daughter, was announced but never released. Plot Players assume the role of FBI agent Hopkins, who is on the trail of a criminal mastermind named Bernie Berckson. The pursuit takes the player through a variety of locations, including the FBI headquarters in a modern fictional city, a tropical island, and a submarine base. Development and release The game's highly stylized artwork was created by cartoonists, among them French artist Thierry Ségur. The artists drew each scene frame by frame, then they were scanned into the computer and retouched to produce the finished scenes. Quandary felt that the game was specifically designed for the male teen/pre-teen demographic due to being populated by "available/naked women and mostly bloody, grotesque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryo Interactive
Cryo Interactive Entertainment was a French video game developer, video game development and video game publisher, publishing company founded in 1990, but existing unofficially since 1989 as a developer group under the name Cryo. The company gained recognition for its adventure games, such as the commercially successful titles ''Dune (video game), Dune'', ''Dragon Lore and Atlantis: The Lost Tales,'' along with the Racing game, racing series ''MegaRace''. History Cryo was formed by members of ERE Informatique who left Infogrames (proprietor of ERE since 1986) – among these were Philippe Ulrich, Rémi Herbulot and Jean-Martial Lefranc. The first game developed under the Cryo Interactive moniker was the hit ''Dune'', which granted the newly formed software company both publicity and funding for further games under Virgin Group, Virgin until 1996, when Cryo started self-publishing inside the European market, and in North America through then partially owned Canadian publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-person Shooter
A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre, video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a First person (video games), first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the player character, main character. This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter video games, shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category. Since the genre's inception, advanced 3D computer graphics, 3D and 2.5D, pseudo-3D graphics have proven fundamental to allow a reasonable level of immersion in the three-dimensional space, game world, and this type of game helped pushing technology progressively further, challenging hardware developers worldwide to introduce numerous innovations in the field of graphics processing units. Multiplayer video game, Multiplayer gaming has been an integral part of the experience, and became even more prominent with the diffusion of internet connectivity in recen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loki Software
Loki Software, Inc. (Loki Entertainment) was an American video game developer based in Tustin, California, that porting, ported several video games from Microsoft Windows to Linux. It took its name from the Norse deity Loki. Although successful in its goal of bringing games to the Linux platform, the company folded in January 2002 after filing for bankruptcy. History Loki Software was founded on November 9, 1998, by Scott Draeker, a former lawyer who became interested in porting games to Linux after being introduced to the system through his work as a software licensing attorney. By December of that year Loki had gained the rights to produce a port of Activision's then-upcoming strategy game ''Civilization: Call to Power'' for Linux. This was to become Loki's first actual product, with the game hitting stores in May 1999. From there they gained contracts to port many other titles, such as ''Myth II: Soulblighter'', ''Railroad Tycoon II'', and ''Eric's Ultimate Solitaire''. Throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inner Worlds (video Game)
''Inner Worlds'' is a 1996 fantasy platform game by Sleepless Software Inc. incorporating some RPG elements. The game is concentrated on a werewolf character called Nikita who travels through a magical world fighting monsters and learning spells. Gameplay Although the game appears to be a typical platform game with levels grouped into three episodes, there are many RPG elements, which make the game much more complex. Although episodes must be played in proper order, the level structure of the game is not strictly linear as it is possible to skip some levels and return to them later in the episode. In addition to jumping, running and fighting monsters, Nikita is able to shapeshift into a wolf at any time, if she has enough mana, which gives her access to otherwise inaccessible locations. She also can collect many kinds of weapons and other special items such as keys, scrolls and potions. Some of them can give her some special abilities. It is even possible to enchant the weapon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abuse (video Game)
''Abuse'' is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com and published by Electronic Arts in North America and Origin Systems in Europe. It was released on February 29, 1996 for MS-DOS. A Mac OS port of the game was published by Bungie and released on March 5, 1997. The game's source code, along with some of the shareware content, has been in the public domain since the late 1990s and has been ported to Linux and many other platforms. Plot The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been unjustly incarcerated in a prison where the staff are performing unethical medical experiments upon the inmates. A prison riot occurs and an experiment goes horribly wrong. The people inside the prison - except for Nick, who seems to be immune - are infected with a substance called Abuse that transforms them into monsters. With the water supply in danger of being infected, Nick arms himself and fights through the horde to prevent this, and then escapes from the prison complex. Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Id Software
id Software LLC () is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk: game programmer, programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack. id Software made important technological developments in video game technologies for the IBM PC compatible, PC (running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, Windows), including work done for the ''Wolfenstein'', ''Doom (franchise), Doom'', and ''Quake (series), Quake'' franchises at the time. id's work was particularly important in 3D computer graphics technology and in game engines that are used throughout the video game industry. The company was involved in the creation of the first-person shooter (FPS) genre: ''Wolfenstein 3D'' is often considered to be the first true FPS; ''Doom (1993 video game), Doom'' is a game that popularized the genre and PC gaming in general; and ''Quake (video game), Quake'' was id' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quake II
''Quake II'' is a 1997 first-person shooter, first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Activision. It is the second installment of the Quake (series), ''Quake'' series, following ''Quake (video game), Quake''. Developed over the course of a year, ''Quake II'' was released on December 9, 1997. In contrast to the first game, which featured a combination of science fiction and fantasy elements, ''Quake II'' entirely drops the latter elements and is set during humankind's war against a rogue alien race known as the Strogg, half-mutant half-machine creatures whose homeplanet, Stroggos, is the target of the humans' invasion force. The player takes the role of a space marine (referred to as Bitterman) as he crash-lands on the planet and, being the last survivor of his squad, is tasked with completing a series of missions to cripple the Strogg and end their plans to conquer Earth. The game's storyline is continued in its expansions, including one tying in ''Quak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quake (video Game)
''Quake'' is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive. The first game in the ''Quake'' series, it was originally released for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, followed by Mac OS, Linux and Sega Saturn in 1997 and Nintendo 64 in 1998. The game's plot is centered around teleportation experiments, dubbed slipgates, which have resulted in an unforeseen invasion of Earth by a hostile force codenamed Quake, which commands a vast army of monsters. The player takes the role of a soldier (later dubbed Ranger), whose mission is to travel through the slipgates in order to find and destroy the source of the invasion. The game is split between futuristic military bases and medieval, gothic environments, featuring both science fiction and fantasy weaponry and enemies as the player battles possessed soldiers and demonic beasts such as ogres or armor-clad knights. ''Quake'' heavily takes inspiration from gothic fiction and in particular the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doom (1993 Video Game)
''Doom'' is a 1993 first-person shooter, first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software for MS-DOS. It is the first installment in the Doom (franchise), ''Doom'' franchise. The player player character, assumes the role of a space marine, later unofficially referred to as Doomguy, fighting through hordes of undead humans and invading demons. The game begins on the moons of Mars and finishes in hell, with the player traversing each level to find its exit or defeat its Final boss (video games), final boss. It is an early example of 3D computer graphics, 3D graphics in video games, and has enemies and objects as 2D images, a technique sometimes referred to as 2.5D graphics. ''Doom'' was the third major independent release by id Software, after ''Commander Keen'' (1990–1991) and ''Wolfenstein 3D'' (1992). In May 1992, id started developing a darker game focused on fighting demons with technology, using a new 3D game engine from the lead programmer, John Carmack. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linux Gaming
Linux-based operating systems can be used for playing video games. Because few games natively support the Linux kernel, various software has been made to run Windows games, software, and programs, such as Wine, Cedega, DXVK, and Proton, and managers such as Lutris and PlayOnLinux. The Linux gaming community has a presence on the internet with users who attempt to run games that are not officially supported on Linux. History Linux gaming started largely as an extension of the already present Unix gaming scene, which dates back to that system's conception in 1969 with the game '' Space Travel'' and the first edition in 1971, with both systems sharing many similar titles. These games were mostly either arcade and parlour type games or text adventures using libraries like curses. A notable example of this are the " BSD Games", a collection of interactive fiction and other text-mode amusements. The free software philosophy and open-source methodology which drove the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhapsody (operating System)
Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s. It is the fifth major release of the Mach-based operating system that was developed at NeXT in the late 1980s, previously called OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP. Rhapsody was targeted to developers for a transition period between the Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. Rhapsody represented a new and exploratory strategy for Apple, more than an operating system, and runs on x86-based PCs and on Power Macintosh. Rhapsody's OPENSTEP based Yellow Box API frameworks were ported to Windows NT for creating cross-platform applications. Eventually, the non-Apple platforms were discontinued, and later versions consist primarily of the OPENSTEP operating system ported to Power Macintosh, merging the Copland-originated GUI of Mac OS 8 with that of OPENSTEP. Several existing classic Mac OS frameworks were ported, including QuickTime and AppleSearch. Rhapsody can run Mac OS 8 and its applica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
