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Checkered Flag (1991 Video Game)
''Checkered Flag'' is a racing video game released for the Atari Lynx in 1991. A remake was released for the Atari Jaguar in 1994. Destination Software also planned to release a Game Boy Advance version of the title around 2005, but it was cancelled before it was released. Gameplay As with most racing video games, the object in ''Checkered Flag'' is to complete a certain number of laps. Each lap has to be completed within the time limit. Should a player make a lap before time runs out, the clock will be significantly extended, allowing the player to make more laps. Development and release ''Checkered Flag'' was released in 1991, created and published by the Atari Corporation. It was a pack-in game with the system in the Australian and European markets at some point in the system's life. The game can support up to six players. Reception ''IGN''s Robert A. Jung gave ''Checkered Flag'' an extremely positive review, citing it as a "masterpiece" and giving it a 10 out of 10, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atari Corporation
Atari Corporation was an American manufacturer of computers and video game consoles. It was founded by Jack Tramiel on May 17, 1984, as Tramel Technology, Ltd., but then took on the Atari name less than two months later when WarnerMedia, Warner Communications sold the home computing and game console assets of Atari, Inc. to Tramiel. Its chief products were the Atari ST, Atari 8-bit family#XE series, Atari XE, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx and Atari Jaguar. The company Reverse takeover, reverse merged with JT Storage, JTS Inc. in 1996, becoming a small division which itself closed after JTS sold all Atari assets to Hasbro Interactive in 1998. History The company was founded by Commodore International's founder Jack Tramiel soon after his resignation from Commodore in January 1984. Initially named Tramel Technology, Ltd., the company's goal was to design and sell a next-generation home computer. On July 1, 1984, TTL bought the Consumer Division assets of Atari, Inc. from Warner, and T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raze (magazine)
Newsfield Publications Ltd (also known as Newsfield) was a British magazine publisher during the 1980s and early 1990s. Newsfield Publications Ltd was founded by Roger Kean, Franco Frey and Oliver Frey in 1983. Based in Ludlow, Shropshire, Newsfield published a number of popular computer game magazines from the mid-1980s to early 1990s. This line-up was later supplemented by a number of less successful magazines covering role-playing games, film, horror and youth culture. Faced with financial difficulties, the company went bankrupt towards the end of 1991. This didn't spell the immediate end for some of their magazines though. Another magazine publisher, Europress, continued to publish Newsfield's flagship publications, Zzap!64 and Crash, for a further six months before the former was relaunched as Commodore Force and the latter sold to rival publisher EMAP and merged with Sinclair User. Thalamus Ltd, Newsfield's sister company, was set up in 1985 to publish a number of compute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micromanía
''Micromanía'' is a Spanish computer game magazine. It was founded by the publisher HobbyPress, currently a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE. It was created in May 1985 and is one of the first magazines in Europe exclusively devoted to video games. It was first published soon after ''MicroHobby'', which had been created just a few months earlier by the same publisher. The magazine in its two first periods was a major outlet supporting of the golden era of Spanish software. ''Micromanía'' celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010. In July 2012, Axel Springer sold ''Micromanía'' to other owner, focussing its video game coverage in its other magazine, ''Hobby Consolas''. ''Micromanía'' team continues the printed magazine independently, published by BlueOcean Publishing. History The first issue of ''Micromanía'' was published in 1985, with new issues released monthly. The publication of the magazine has been divided into three periods, called in Spanish "Épocas". The first period la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobby Consolas
''HobbyConsolas'' is a Spanish video game magazine founded in 1991 by Hobby Press and published by Axel Springer SE. The first issue appeared in October 1990. The monthly magazine offers information about games for all consoles, and since 2012 has also covered video games for PC and mobile devices. In March 2014 it had a circulation of 32,129 copies, and had approximately 330,000 readers. Their official website is the fifth most visited Spanish video game website. Listeners of the Spanish radio program '' Game 40'' named ''HobbyConsolas'' the best game magazine of 1997. See also * '' Micromanía'' References External links * Archived HobbyConsolas Magazineson the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, ... {{videogame-mag-stub Axel Springer SE 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
