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vgadvisor · 2 months

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#magician #nes #eurocom

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n64retro · 15 days

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Duke Nukem: Zero Hour Eurocom / GT Interactive Nintendo 64 1999

#duke nukem: zero hour #eurocom #GT interactive #nintendo 64 #duke nukem #third person shooter #TPS #N64

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shinigami-striker · 4 months

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The End of Universal Interactive... | Thursday, 01.04.24

On this day, 30 years ago, former video game publisher, Universal Interactive Studios was founded, though they ended up consolidating into Vivendi Universal Games before they dissolved around 2008 (15 years ago), in which they merged with Activision.

Video games developed and published (down below):

1994

Jurassic Park Interactive (3DO, 05/10/94)

Way of the Warrior (3DO Interactive, 08/30/94)

1996

Crash Bandicoot (PlayStation, 09/09/96)

Disruptor (PlayStation, 11/20/96)

1997

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (PlayStation, 11/5/97)

1998

Spyro the Dragon (PlayStation, 9/9/98)

Running Wild (PlayStation, 10/7/98)

Crash Bandicoot: Warped (PlayStation, 11/3/98)

1999

Xena: Warrior Princess (PlayStation, 10/05/99)

Crash Team Racing (PlayStation, 10/19/99)

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage (PlayStation, 11/02/99)

2000

Spyro: Year of the Dragon (PlayStation, 10/10/00)

Crash Bash (PlayStation, 11/07/00)

2001

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (PS2, 10/30/01)

Spyro: Season of Ice (GBA, 11/07/01)

2002

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (GBA, 02/26/02)

Spyro 2: Season of Flame (GBA, 09/25/02)

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (multi-platform, 11/05/02)

2003

Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced (GBA, 01/07/03)

Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs (GBA, 10/28/03)

Crash Nitro Kart (multi-platform, 11/11/03)

I couldn't add every game on the list unfortunately since the majority of these releases goes to both Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon.

Comment below on what's your favorite (and least favorite) published by Universal Interactive Studios.

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earsplittingtrumpet · 5 months

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from Max's Vapor

#vapor #max #comics #eurocomics #fantagraphics

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retrocgads · 7 months

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USA 1997

#USA1997 #VIRGIN GAMES #EUROCOM DEVELOPMENTS LTD.#ACTION #LICENSED #IBM #PS1 #DISNEY'S HERCULES

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grishamanimationstudios102 · 5 months

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My new icon design for my profile on BlueBuddies.com! http://bluebuddies.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/profile/6579.html

The Smurfs are property of Peyo/IMPS/Lafig Belgium, S.A.

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judgeanon · 9 months

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How come 2000ad is still up but heavy metal isn't?

Ok, so, I'm gonna generalize a LOT here and say a lot of very broad, probably wrong stuff, but here's what I believe:

Classic Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant is always an artist first, story a very distant second kind of mag. Which sounds and is wonderful if you care about comic art (and you should), but doesn't really engender the kind of emotional attachment that brings people back every week to see how their favorite character is doing. It's an artist's showcase, a specialist magazine for a specialist audience that is always going to be smaller than the audience of the relatively more straightforward action/adventure sci-fi storytelling of 2000AD.

And remember that 2000AD was, for its first decade and a half of existence, aimed at literally children from 6-10. Yes, the art was gorgeous and insane and in some cases easily enjoyable by much of the same audience as HM/MH (in some cases directly inspired by it) but the large mass of readers were people who wanted to see what was going on with Dredd or Johnny Alpha or Rogue Trooper. Story and art were more head to head in terms of importance.

As an aside, that's something that I think happens a lot with British comics in general, especially ones that hire artists outside the Anglosphere: you get this mix of wild stylish French/Italian/Spanish art but with a lot more clear and straightforward action/adventure storytelling than what you see from those same artists. They lack the abstract weirdness of something like Le Garage Hermétique but gain more immediate appeal to people who are more interested in a story than in an artistic showcase. And in that way, they can also become gateways into the weirder stuff.

In a nutshell, Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant is about letting artists do whatever they want however they want it, while 2000AD is about telling stories that people want to buy and continue buying. And one of those is always going to reach a wider audience than the other.

#2000AD #Metal Hurlant #Heavy Metal #Comic books #Eurocomics #Vast broad likely uninformed generalizations

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oliveroctavius · 11 months

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how come so many capecomics people I run into also really like Urasawa's Monster, even ones who don't regularly post about other manga

#is there a common source? is this the next big thing #only manga I read that made a big impression on me in the past five years was Fullmetal Alchemist #in this family I am the eurocomics reader and my sister the manga reader and we pass each other recs down the middle

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geritsel · 2 years

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Edgar Pierre Jacobs - one very odd cover illustration for Tintin Magazine, c. 1947.

#bd #bande dessinée #eurocomics #edgar p. jacobs #tintin

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weirdominate · 1 year

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Sorry the backdoor pilot didn’t work out, unnamed prison guard.(The Golden House of Samarkand, by Hugo Pratt; 1980.)

#corto maltese #hugo pratt #italian comics #fumetti #eurocomics #classic comics #retro comics #comics out of context #bedtime comics

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doronjosama · 2 years

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Today's eBay spotlight (Seller ID: RadioIndy)! Heartbeat #2 (CVR A) from 2019! Gothic romantic drama by Maria Llovet from Boom Studios! #comics #heartbeat #eurocomics #mariallovet #boomstudios #2019 #ComicCollector #comicdealer #IndieComics #auctions #ebay #RadioIndy #DownsizingMyCollection #EverythingMustGo #BuyMyStuff #PandemicHustle https://www.instagram.com/p/ChKQzPluGdM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#2 #comics #heartbeat #eurocomics #mariallovet #boomstudios #2019 #comiccollector #comicdealer #indiecomics #auctions #ebay #radioindy #downsizingmycollection #everythingmustgo #buymystuff #pandemichustle

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spaghettioverdose · 2 months

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While I sincerely try to avoid using the word "Tankie", because yes it is way overused, lambasting British and European communists for coining the term to object to the USSR's intervention in Hungary is. Certainly a Choice!

I wasn't even particularly "lambasting" them. I was making fun of the fact that a term they coined is being used against them now.

Eurocommunists and European communists aren't necessarily the same thing. Not all European communists are eurocoms. That being said: trots, eurocoms and most British (and most European) communists deserve to be lambasted and bullied until they decide to stop being useless, chauvinistic dipshits.

Hey anon, want to tell me what was going on in Hungary that lead to the USSR intervening? You might say "an uprising" but who participated in the uprising? What were their aims and politics? Can you tell me? We can talk about how it was a failure of the Hungarian socialists and the USSR that the conditions that lead to the uprising remained until that point and many MLs have discussed this over and over, but in the end what is the correct move? Allow the nationalists to bring down socialism? It happened eventually and that's how we got the Hungary that we got today.

Tankie is a dogshit, useless, anticommunist term and there really is no serious use for it today by anyone with principled politics. But it definitely is funny when the morons who made it in the first place are getting called that.

#asks #anon

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n64retro · 1 month

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Mortal Kombat 4 Eurocom / Midway Nintendo 64 1998

#mortal kombat 4 #eurocom #midway #nintendo 64 #fighting game #scorpion #fatality #MK4 #N64

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shinigami-striker · 6 months

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35 years of Eurocom | Tuesday, 10.31.2023

It's been what like 35 years ago since former video game developer, Eurocom (formerly known as Eurocom Entertainment Software) was founded, but now, it's been 11 years after they dissolved after the critically-panned 007 Legends was released.

Let's compare 3 random games

The Good: Crash Bash (2000)

The Bad: Spyro: A Hero's Tail (2004)

The Ugly: 007 Legends (2012)