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Writing for Info, Benn Dunnington gave the Commodore 64 version of World Games three-plus stars out of five and described it as "my least favorite of the series". Stating that slalom skiing was the best event, he concluded that "Epyx does such a nice, consistent job of execution, tho, that it's hard to take off too many points even for such boring material". [12]
Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and video game publisher active in the late 1970s and 1980s. The company was founded as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, originally using Epyx as a brand name for action-oriented games before renaming the company to match in 1983. Epyx published a long series of games through the 1980s.
Pages in category "Epyx games" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total. ... World Games (video game) X. Xenophobe (video game) Z. Zarlor Mercenary
In the United States it was published by Epyx in 1986 as World Karate Championship. [2] It was the first European-developed game to become a major hit in the United States, where it sold over 1.5 million copies, but it drew controversy for its similarities to Karate Champ (1984), which led to Data East filing a lawsuit against Epyx.
Temple of Apshai (also known as Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai) is a dungeon crawl role-playing video game developed and published by Automated Simulations (later renamed to Epyx) in 1979. Originating on the TRS-80 and Commodore PET , it was followed by several updated versions for other computers between 1980 and 1986.
Winter Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx (and released in Europe by U.S. Gold), based on sports featured in the Winter Olympic Games.. A snow-and-ice themed follow-up to the highly successful Summer Games, Winter Games was released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and later ported to several popular home computers and video game consoles of the 1980s.
The following list contains all of the games released for the Lynx. Unveiled at the January's 1989 Winter Consumer Electronics Show as the Handy before being rechristened as the Lynx, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the system was released to compete with 8-bit and 16-bit handheld consoles such as the Game Boy , Game Gear , and TurboExpress , initially starting ...
Dunjonquest is a series of single-player, single-character fantasy computer role-playing games by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx). Temple of Apshai was the most successful and most widely ported game in the series. The games relied on strategy and pen & paper RPG style rules and statistics. There were two types of Dunjonquest games: