Atari Falcon Games
Released in 1992, the Falcon was an enhanced
Atari ST with 4MB RAM
and a plethora of new video modes. With a VGA monitor, you could
have 256 (out of 262,144) colors at 640×480, hi-color at 320×480,
or 1280×960 monochrome; hooked up to a TV you
even had hi-color at 640×480 (PAL) or 640×400 (NTSC).
Unfortunately, at the time, the Atari ST was already in decline,
and not much came of it.
While few games made use of the hi-res modes (the only ones I know
are those by Markus Binder, see link below), a few supported
the Falcon for 320×200, 256 color graphics, as you could have them on
the Amiga AGA chipset and PC VGA cards.
Games
Only few commercial games took advantage of the new possibilities
of the Falcon, mainly those of Silmarils. There were however
independent developers who created games especially for this
platform.
More Games
So few games supported the Falcon that it's possible to attempt
a complete listing. Note that it is hard to distinguish which games
just ran on a Falcon, and which required one.
- Aces High
- Ausbruch
- Black Hole, some sort of maze game (?).
- Blum, a platformer.
- Bomb Squad, a Dynablaster clone.
- Boom, a shoot-'em-up.
- Boulder Smash, a
Boulderdash clone using the uncommon resolution
432×432.
- Cannon Fodder.
- Crown of Creation, a space game.
- Des Lasers et des Hommes, a Doom clone.
- Enemy War II, a science-fiction strategy.
- Epi-Lepsy, obviously some sort of Pac-Man clone.
- Evolution – Dino Dudes.
- Frontier: Elite II.
- Gobliins 2.
- Gravon, a hovercraft sim.
- H2O, a Lemmings-like puzzle game.
- Impulse, Breakout in tru-color.
- K, something like Mario Kart.
- Killing Impact, a platformer.
- Knights of the Sky, a flight sim.
- Kwiks, a Qix clone.
- Llamazap, a shoot-'em-up.
- Moon Speeder, a racing game.
- Multi-Briques, Breakout.
- Operation Skuum, a shooter.
- Oxyd Magnum.
- Painium Disaster, a shoot-'em-up.
- Pinball Dreams.
- Pinball Obsession.
- Platonix, a puzzle game.
- Pushago, a tile-pushing puzzle.
- Q-Blue, a mix between Pac-Man and Soko-ban.
- Radical Race, a top-down racing game.
- Raiden (never officially released).
- Reeking Rubber, a racing game.
- Road Riot 4WD.
- Robinson's Requiem.
- Sensible Soccer v1.20 (a special cinema mode has been added).
- Shapes, a board game.
- Sheer Agony, an adventure.
- Space Fighter.
- Space Junk, adventure.
- Stardust, asteroid-style.
- Steel Talons, a helicopter sim.
- Substation, not sure what it is, but it supports MIDI network.
- TeknoBall, Breakout.
- Tetrhex
- Towers II
- Tron 2.
- Ultimate Minesweeper.
- Utopos.
- Vroom, a racing simulation (Lankhor).
- Willie's Adventures, a platformer.
- Wotanoid, Asteroids.
- X Moon, a shoot-'em-up.
- X-Tris, Tetris in tru-color VGA.
- Yuppie's Land, a platformer.
- Zany Golf (inofficial patch of the 1988 ST version).
- Zero 5.
- Zodiax, a shoot-'em-up.
Falcon Links
Last modified 2009-05-20
