Games with Hercules Graphics

The Hercules Graphics Card (HGC) was developed in 1982 by Van Suwannukul in his garage in the small town of Hercules, California, hence the name. Suwannukul developed the system so that he could produce his doctoral thesis on PC equipment using his native Thai alphabet. It was compatible with the text-only MDA adapter, but allowed addressing each pixel seperately. Thus a Hercules Graphics Card could produce monochrome graphics at 720×348.

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?	edu	85
Karateka	Fighter	86	Jordan Mechner
Space Quest I	Adventure	86
Space Quest II	Adventure	87
Tetris		87	"CGA Emulation", but looks nice enough
20000 Leagues Under the Sea	Adventure	88
Teenage Queen	Strip Poker	88
Blockout	Tetris	89
Pipe Mania	Puzzle		Works well and looks nice
Budokan	Fighter
SimCity	strat
Bad Blood	RPG	90	Nearly unplayable
Chip's Challenge	Puzzle
Ishido	Puzzle
Moonbase	strat
Ultima VI	RPG
Geisha	Adventure		Muriel Tramis
Lin Wu's Challenge	Puzzle
Rock'n Roll	Arcade
Zeliard	Action		PC-8801mkII SR 1987
Maupiti Island	Adventure	91
Sarakon	Puzzle
X Rock	Tetris
A-Train	strat	92	Take the A-Train III
Oxyd	Puzzle	92
SimCity Classic	strat	93	No sound and music

This list contains only DOS games. Windows up to 3.1 supported Hercules, and I guess quite a few Windows games will have run that way too. One where I know for sure is Balance of Power. Waxman should as well, since its graphics are monochrome.

Interesting enough, most games that supported Hercules graphics did so at a time when other graphics adapters were already out, even common. As far as I know, there never has been a game that was created especially for this graphics mode, very unlike the monochrome hi-res games on the Atari ST, which formed a sort of seperate genre and catered to a different audience.