Simulmondo
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Industry | Video games |
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Founded | 1988[1] |
Founder | Francesco Carlà |
Headquarters | Bologna, Italy |
Key people | Francesco Carlà (Founder and CEO), Ivan Venturi (Programmer), Riccardo Cangini (Graphic and Designer) |
Number of employees | 20 |
Website | www.simul.it |
Simulmondo was an Italian software house from Bologna. Specialized video game developer and publisher, it has produced about 150 videogames for Commodore 64, Amiga, PC and Atari ST.[2][3][4]
Originally founded in 1988 by Francesco Carlà and Riccardo Arioti,[1] via an agreement with publisher Ital Video,[5] Simulmondo was among the most important game developers in Italy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, developing mostly titles for home computers.[6] They also branched out into an early form of episodic gaming, by publishing short adventures in newspaper stands, through licensing with comic books like Dylan Dog and Tex Willer.
By 1993 the company had lost many of its original programmers and artists, like Ivan Venturi, and, by the following year, Simulmondo had all but disappeared from the mainstream video games market.[7] In its final years, the software house developed games for television programs, like interactive games for the kids program Solletico and a football engine for Processo di Biscardi.
List of games
# | Title | Release year | Platform(s) |
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1 | Bocce | 1987 | Amiga, Commodore 64 |
2 | Italy '90 Soccer | 1988 | Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
3 | Simulgolf | 1988 | Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
4 | F.1 Manager | 1989 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 |
5 | The Basket Manager | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
6 | 1000 Miglia | 1991 | Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
7 | 3D Scacchi Simulator | 1991 | Commodore 64 |
8 | 500cc Motomanager | 1991 | Amiga, Commodore 64 |
9 | Basket Playoff | 1991 | Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
10 | Big Game Fishing | 1991 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
11 | Formula 1 3D | 1991 | Amiga, Commodore 64 |
12 | Formula 1 3D: F.1 Manager II | 1991 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 |
13 | G.P. Tennis Manager | 1991 | Amiga, Commodore 64 |
14 | I Play 3D Soccer | 1991 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 |
15 | I Play Football Champ | 1991 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 |
16 | 1st Chess Tutor | 1992 | MS-DOS |
17 | 3D World Boxing | 1992 | Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
18 | 3D World Soccer | 1992 | Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
19 | 3D World Tennis | 1992 | Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
20 | Dylan Dog: Gli Uccisori | 1992 | Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
21 | Extasy | 1992 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
22 | I Play 3D Tennis | 1992 | Commodore 64 |
23 | Italian Night 1999 | 1992 | Amiga |
24 | Diabolik | 1993 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
25 | Dylan Dog | 1993-1994 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
26 | Dylan Dog: Attraverso lo specchio | 1993 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
27 | Simulman | 1993-1994 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
28 | Tex | 1993 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
29 | Tex: Piombo Caldo | 1993 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
30 | Time Runners | 1993-1995 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
31 | L'Uomo Ragno | 1994 | Amiga, MS-DOS |
32 | Mosè: il profeta della libertà | 1996 | PC |
33 | Viaggio nel corpo umano | 1996 | PC |
34 | We are Angels | 1997 | PC |
35 | SoccerChamp | 1998 | PC |
Note: We are Angels was developed by Simulmondo but released by ARI GAMES, it's a game based from the TV serie Noi siamo Angeli.
Cancelled titles
# | Title | Release year | Platform(s) |
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1 | Martin Mystère and the secret of the Birdman | Cancelled | PC |
References
- ^ a b "Simulmondo: Company profile". Internet Archive. 1992. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Audureau, William (2017-06-03). "Pourquoi l'Italie n'est jamais devenue championne des jeux vidéo de football". Le Monde.fr (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
- ^ "I videogiochi dell'incubo". Multiplayer.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-07-30.
- ^ "In sviluppo Pride Run, primo titolo dedicato al movimento LGBT • GamesVillage.it". GamesVillage.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-07-30.
- ^ Gerli, Damiano (2021-02-27). "Once we were giants: the history of Simulmondo - Italy's first software house - Part I". The Genesis Temple. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
- ^ "Simulmondo - MobyGames". MobyGames. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
- ^ Gerli, Damiano (2021-03-06). "Once we were giants: the history of Simulmondo - Italy's first software house - Part II". The Genesis Temple. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
External links
- Official website
- https://archive.org/stream/the-games-machine-italia-80#page/n15/mode/1up
- https://archive.org/stream/computer-videogiochi-11-speciale#page/n97/mode/1uphttps://issuu.com/adpware/docs/mc178/215
- https://www.advancedstudios.it/forum/index.php?/topic/3340-mos%C3%A8-il-profeta-della-libert%C3%A0/http://www.ag.ru/games/1st-chess-tutor
- Once We Were Giants: the History of Simulmondo on The Genesis Temple, a thorough history of the company in two parts.