Tag: Cinemaware

It Came From the Desert remake teased in trailer reveal!

Gamers look set to do battle with the mutant ants once again in this remake of the Cinemaware classic.

Defender of the Crown, Cinemaware’s Classic Adventure Coming to Intellivision

Way back in 2015 an Intellivision version of Defender of the Crown was announced on Atari Age. I’m sure most of you will fondly remember the Amiga version and how much of an impact it made on us back in 1986. Released on multiple systems including the Atari ST, Commodore 64 and even the Game Boy Advance, Defender of the…

Retro Revisited: It Came From the Desert (Commodore Amiga)

Following the launch of the Commodore Amiga in 1985, nobody could have foreseen the kind of impact that this revolutionary machine would have upon the computing industry. Equipped with a custom chipset that granted the machine advanced graphical and sound capabilities way beyond the capabilities of the competition (at least at the given price point), the Amiga was seen as an…

Defender of the Crown, Never Released ZX Spectrum Version Limited to 250 Units!

Defender of the Crown – ZX Spectrum The never released port! Developed in 1989 from “THE CAT” but due the lack of interest it was never official released. This is also a FIXED Version. Besides the .rom that you can find on the internet this version has the missing screen and is fixed for 48k/128k ZX Spectrum. Delivered in Box…

It Came From the Desert

[youtube KTWd_eyAmgQ nolink] It came from the Desert is a 1989 action-adventure game by Cinemaware. It was originally released for the Amiga, but later ported to MS-DOS, as well as released in distinctly different forms to consoles. The two console versions, for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (unreleased) and TurboGrafx-16, are very different from the versions released for computer platforms, in…