|
Roller Coaster Rumbler
''Roller Coaster Rumbler'' is a rail shooter video game. It was designed by Subway Software (Arnie Katz, Bill Kunkel (journalist), Bill Kunkel and Joyce Worley) for British publisher Tynesoft, which published it in 1989. Versions appeared on MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64 with quality varying greatly among them. In this First-person (video games), first-person game, the player sits in the front seat of a roller coaster armed with a mounted machine gun and fires at pop-up targets which are released during the course of the ride. Reviews ''Roller Coaster Rumbler'' received mixed Review, reviews shortly upon release. ST Action, an English Atari ST-focused magazine rated it a 63%, stating it was "a cleaver demo", and called gameplay "bland" and "unchanging". Amiga-Spel, a Swedish Amiga-focused magazine, was more positive to the game, saying that "''Roller Coaster Rumbler'' is proof that there are still game producers with imagination and innovation" and "a very pointless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tynesoft
Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s. History The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time. It developed numerous games for a wide variety of 8-bit micros, particularly those less well catered for by other publishers such as the Commodore 16, BBC Micro and Atari 8-bit. They also had a budget label, Micro Value, that issued compilations, reissues and some original games. They had most success with their multi-load games such as ''Summer Olympiad'', ''Circus Games'' and ''Rodeo Games''. They also released licensed ports to smaller systems such as Software Projects' ''Jet Set Willy'' ( Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16/ Plus/4, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron), First Star Software's ''Boulder Dash'' (BBC, Electron) and ''Spy vs. Spy'' (C16/+4, BBC, Electron) and Mindscape's ''Indoor Sports'' (C16/+4, BBC, Electron). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |