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Eurocom
Eurocom Entertainment Software was a British video game developer founded in October 1988 by Mat Sneap, Chris Shrigley, Hugh Binns, Tim Rogers and Neil Baldwin, to develop games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Eurocom expanded to Handheld game console, handheld game systems and major video game consoles. The company licensed arcade games to port to consoles, and developed a few original properties, such as ''Magician (video game), Magician'', ''Machine Hunter'', ''40 Winks (video game), 40 Winks'', and ''Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy''. On 23 November 2012, Eurocom laid off around 75% of their 200 employees. On 6 December 2012, the company laid off its remaining staff and closed. Games developed 1990s 2000s 2010s Unreleased References External links * * {{Eurocom Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom Video game companies established in 1988 Video game companies disestablished in 2012 Video game development companies Companies based in Derby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sphinx And The Cursed Mummy
''Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy'' is a 2003 action-adventure video game developed by Eurocom and published by THQ for GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. A version for mobile phones was released in 2004. THQ Nordic published a high-definition remaster for personal computer systems in 2017, and Nintendo Switch in 2019. Set in a fantasy world based on Ancient Egypt, the plot follows the demigod Sphinx and now-undead mummy Tutankhamun working against the schemes of the god Set. Gameplay features each character navigating environments which incorporate platforming and puzzles. Sphinx's sections incorporate combat and exploring open areas, while Tutankhamun's sections focus on elemental puzzles in Set's stronghold. Beginning as an animated film concept in 1999, the project was picked up as a video game and began production in 2000. The team wanted a focus on exploration and puzzles with an Egyptian aesthetic for its world and characters, with its gameplay being compared by its develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40 Winks (video Game)
''40 Winks'' is a platform video game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by GT Interactive for the PlayStation. A version was developed for the Nintendo 64, and reviewed in both '' Nintendo Official Magazine UK'' and ''Nintendo Power'' (whose January 2000 issue featured a strategy guide for the game), but was cancelled before release. On 12 February 2018, Piko Interactive launched a Kickstarter campaign confirming that the unreleased Nintendo 64 version would be released, and also a Microsoft Windows version through Steam. It was funded on the same day. The PlayStation version was released on Steam on 22 October 2018. A cancelled Game Boy Color port was discovered in 2021. Gameplay and plot ''40 Winks'' is a platform game where players act as siblings Ruff and Tumble. As the two are about to go to bed, their mother tells a story about the Winks and the HoodWinks. The Winks protect humans from nightmares and provide them good dreams. Meanwhile, NiteKap, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lethal Weapon (video Game)
''Lethal Weapon'' is a video game based on the film series of the same name created by Shane Black. It was developed by Ocean Software and Eurocom and released in 1992 and 1993 by Ocean and Nintendo. It was released in conjunction with ''Lethal Weapon 3'', the third installment of the series. NES and Game Boy version ''Lethal Weapon'' is a side-scroller, in which the player chooses one of the two Los Angeles police partners from the film series, Martin Riggs or Roger Murtaugh, and battles it out with criminals around the city. Battles are resolved via fists, guns and grenades. It is considered by gaming enthusiasts to be extremely difficult and frustrating in the fact that punching an enemy is more effective than shooting an enemy. However, the NES version is praised for its colorful graphics for 1992, and both versions of the game are universally praised for the music by Neil Baldwin. Arcade and Super NES version There was another version of the game released for the day's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machine Hunter
Machine Hunter is a top-down shooter game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software, published by MGM Interactive and distributed in Europe by Eidos Interactive. It was developed and released simultaneously in 1997 for Windows 95 and PlayStation console. It has been described as a clone of the 1995 game '' Loaded'', in that it uses an overhead perspective, extensive lighting effects, and over-the-top bloodshed. Plot In a bleak future, a virus is turning robots into killing machines. The carrier of the virus must be tracked down and destroyed if humanity has any chance of survival. Gameplay The game is presented in a top-down overhead perspective, with the option of a fixed or rotating camera. Players must guide the character through 17 unique stages whilst battling alien, mutant, and mechanical enemies. The primary focus is the rescuing of hostages and occasionally obtaining an item such as a key card, defusing or planting bombs, or completing an objective under a time lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magician (video Game)
''Magician'' is a side-scrolling action role-playing game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was designed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by Taxan. Plot According to the game's manual, an evil magician named Abadon was able to use his power to summon groups of evil beasts, and then built a castle for himself. He then sent out his followers to rid the peace-loving land of Merlwood of its most powerful wizards, a task that was accomplished with ease. While this was going on, a young man named Paul, an apprentice magician who lives in the land of Serenna, is preparing to go on a quest to travel across the land to learn all of the secrets from the ancient masters. However, he hears of the purging of wizards by Abadon, and instead sets out as the last wizard alive to defeat Abadon. Gameplay The player must navigate Paul through puzzles and mazes in order to acquire more items, which allow him to learn more spells, and weapons, which allow him to cast c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stone Protectors
Stone Protectors is a 1993 multi-media entertainment property consisting primarily of an action figure line and animated series. The series also had a tie-in video game released for the Super NES and the Sega Genesis. It was one of several attempts to market the troll doll craze of the early 1990s to young boys, similar to the official line of Battle Trolls toys. While not particularly successful, Stone Protectors generally followed in the same vein as contemporaries, including Toxic Crusaders, Swamp Thing, and the highly popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Back-story A kingdom built of crystals came under attack by the reptilian humanoid and troll-like Saurians whose leader, Zok, desired the powerful crystals protected by the Empress. Zok broke into the castle and reached for the crystals only to see them explode into pieces and fly to Earth. After being thrown out the back door of a New York City club, an awful rock band known as the Rock Detectors found the five magical s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Land
''Rod Land'', known in Japan as , is a 1990 platform game originally developed and published in arcades by Jaleco. Gameplay The player(s) control one or two fairies called Tam and Rit armed with a magic wand (rod). Following the concept of Taito's ''Bubble Bobble'', the rod doesn't kill the monsters directly, but only leaves them immobilized, crying. To kill them, the rod can grasp them in a magic force-field and the player can smash them repeatedly against the ground, from side to side, until they disappear and leave a power-up behind. Each level is only one small screen composed of monsters, platforms, ladders and, later, tunnels. Unlike other games of the genre, the players can never jump, but have to use ladders. They can conjure one custom ladder above or below them in order to go to the appropriate platform. There can be only one such 'custom' ladder; therefore if the fairy summons it again, it will disappear from its previous position in order to appear again next to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tesserae (video Game)
''Tesserae'' is a single-player video game developed by Nicholas Schlott based on Kent Brewster's DOS game Stained Glass and published by Inline Design in 1990 for the Macintosh. The game was also released for the Game Boy and Game Gear handhelds published by GameTek, developed by Eurocom. Gameplay Tesserae is played by flipping colored tiles over other tiles to remove them from the board. While flipping over tiles subtracts the color from the tile that was jumped, landing on a tile adds the colors, making it more difficult for that tile to be removed. Primary tiles of red, blue and yellow combine to produce secondary tiles of purple, green and orange. A gray tile is produced by combining all three primary tiles. Game play starts simple with only primary tiles on a rectangular board. More complex board shapes as well as introducing secondary tiles increases the difficulty. New releases In 2009, Aki's Playware acquired the rights to Tesserae and revived the game on the iPhone plat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Dini's Soccer
''Dino Dini's Goal'' is a soccer video game released by Virgin Games in 1993. It is considered by many to be the "true" sequel to '' Kick Off 2'' (in preference to '' Kick Off 3''), as ''Kick Off''s creator Dino Dini had moved from Anco Software and was responsible for all ''Goal''s engineering and game design. ''Goal'' introduced improved dynamics and A.I. over ''Kick Off 2'', as well as other innovative features, such as multiple camera views. The game shipped 60,000 units on the first day of release. ''Dino Dini's Soccer'' ''Dino Dini's Soccer'' was a conversion of ''Goal!'' for the Sega Mega Drive. ''Dino Dini's Soccer'' had all the relevant features of the Amiga version and it was graphically superior to it. The game implemented an innovative 4-way play feature. There was also a conversion to Super NES, developed by Eurocom, but this version was only an interpretation of the game, and Dino was unhappy to have his name associated with it, as he was not responsible for any of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bond Jr
''James Bond Jr.'' is an American animated television series based on Ian Fleming's ''James Bond'' franchise. Produced by Mac B, Danjaq and Murakami-Wolf-Swenson in association with United Artists, it follows the adventures of James Bond's nephew, James Bond Jr. The series debuted on 16 September 1991 and ran 65 episodes before ending on 13 December of the same year. It was the first ever television series produced based on the Bond franchise, and, as of 2025, is the only animated adaptation to date. Background This was the second attempt to create an animated series based on the Bond franchise. Bond screenwriter Kevin McClory announced in a February 1988 issue of ''Variety'' that he was working to produce an animated James Bond series called ''James Bond vs. S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'', to be produced by an unnamed Dutch company. The series never came to fruition. Eon Productions later began developing what would become ''James Bond Jr.'' The show was produced by Murakami-Wolf-Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaleco
was a corporate brand name that was used by two previously connected video game developers and publishers based in Japan. The original Jaleco company was founded in 1974 as Japan Leisure Company, founded by Yoshiaki Kanazawa, before being renamed to simply Jaleco in the early 1980s. This company was later acquired in 2000 by PCCW, who rebranded it as their Japanese game division, PCCW Japan, before reverting it to Jaleco in 2002. In 2006, Jaleco became independent from PCCW and renamed to Jaleco Holding, having their video game operations spun off into a new company, also called Jaleco. This new spin-off company was sold to mobile developer Game Yarou in 2009, with Jaleco Holding renaming itself to Encom Holdings shortly after. Jaleco is known for its arcade and home console video games produced in the 1980s and early 1990s, including '' City Connection'', '' Bases Loaded'', '' Ninja JaJaMaru-kun'', '' Exerion'', '' Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai'' and '' Rushing Beat''. Jaleco also prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
