The second game by Todd Replogle through his Scenerio Software company. Things will start having some proper dates to them from here. This is the year we say goodbye to the “no release date” (mostly). However, we expanded into other titles and developers here a bit more (with one huge one). Due to the inclusion of Trek Trivia, this product was withdrawn when Trek Trivia itself was withdrawn.ġ990 was another big year for Kroz, as most of the sequels for Kroz were released this year. The titles included here were “Asteroid Rescue”, “Block Five”, “Raiders of the Lost Mine”, “Rogue Runner”, Trek Trivia (Episode 1), & Word Whiz (Episode 1). There were no new titles here, this was just a “Greatest Hits” of sort. This was a compilation of several of the earlier titles from the catalog (despite the company only existing for a couple of years at this point). You can still download the freeware from our FTP site, and the game is playable online over at The Internet Archive.Ĭaves of Thor Links: The game was later released as freeware on. This was officially by Todd’s “Scenerio Software” label – it was his first game for Apogee. This was done by Todd Replogle, later known for Duke Nukem. The three episodes that comprised the full game were titled “Caves of Thor”, “Realm of Thor”, and “Thor’s Revenge”.įrom a gameplay standpoint, you can see games from this era progressing on from Kroz, but the ASCII beginnings of the company are still here in force. Other games didn’t do that, not quite sure why that happened here. Oddly enough, despite the series having the name “The Thor Trilogy”, it was mostly known as the episode name of the first game, “Caves of Thor”. Caves of Thor Caves of Thor gameplayĪlso known as “The Thor Trilogy”, this is a series similar to Kroz, in that it’s an ASCII adventure game. Also, this is the last year when we don’t know the true release dates for any of the titles. Given we do not have proper release date info for most of the 80’s releases, I cannot refute it, but I wanted to mention this just the same. Additionally, while our notes say that Adventure Fun Pack was released in 1986, there’s some websites that list it as 1989. There wasn’t a lot of new releases in 1989, as this was when the followups to Kroz were released – or produced. Either way, the date is lost to time, but I wanted to present that as a footnote for completeness’ sake. Our notes say they were released in 1988, yet the games themselves say 1990 on them. I will not link to this game nor provide a screenshot for the same reason as the last entry.Ī note about Trivia Whiz & Star Trek: TNG trivia. It too had the same legal threat and was withdrawn as a result. This one was by George Broussard through his own Micro/FX company. Similar to Scott’s Trek Trivia, this was about Star Trek: The Next Generation. Due to that legal issue, I will not be linking to the game, nor providing a screenshot. Rather than fight the suit, Apogee withdrew distribution to the title, and relinquished all legal claim to the game. After it was released, Apogee was threatened legally by Paramount over this title due to not having a license for Star Trek. Similar to the other two Whiz games, except this one was all about Star Trek, and written by Scott Miller. You can download the freeware from our FTP site. It is also available to play online over at The Internet Archive. Anyway, it was discontinued ages ago, and released as freeware on. I even remember one of them referring to this as the “Trivia game engine” – hahaha. It’s pretty much the same thing as Trivia Whiz. This was originally released by George’s own company, “Micro/FX”, and later re-released by Apogee. Word Whiz Links: Ī similar game to Word Whiz, only this time by George Broussard. It is still available on the 3D Realms FTP site. It is also available to play online over at The Internet Archive. Was released as freeware on, and then re-released again with source code on. There’s not a lot of info to divulge on this one. Word Whiz was a text based trivia game released by Scott Miller. If this year had a theme, it was “The Trivia Year”. If for some reason you happen to have verifiable info proving the date of any of them, please let me know. None of us really remember what the proper dates are at this point. The true release dates of these 1988 releases is lost to time. When originally published, it was a single post, but over time WordPress ended up not liking a post that was 33,000 words long. This is Part 2 of 8 of my History of 3D Realms / Apogee series.
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