Necrodome

KING OF THE ROAD!

Sunnyvale, CA—November 01, 1996--Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI), today announced the release of NecrodomeTM, a high-powered, first person perspective driving game of speed and destruction. Produced by SSI under the Mindscape label, Necrodome is the first of several collaborative efforts between the two companies.

In Necrodome, you enter into the future where sport has turned deadly! Drive heavily armed combat vehicles against your opponent in 15 distinctly different arenas. Strive to remain victorious so you can participate in the ultimate challenge - the contest in the Necrodome!

Have a blast with a buddy! Play cooperatively. While you drive, your partner can be your turret gunner, an innovative twist for this genre. The use of true physics models make jumps, rolls, spin-outs, crashes, and explosions breathtakingly real! Necrodome is so graphically detailed you will smell the smoking tires, feel the rain, shiver in the icy cold, and fumble your way through blinding fog!

"Necrodome is fast and furious! Your adrenaline level will reach new heights!", says Chuck Kroegel, SSI's President. "Cooperative play is a clever feature that makes Necrodome not just an ordinary action game."

Necrodome is a real-time action packed game! Play via modem or make it even more frenzied by playing online via TEN (Total Entertainment Network). So buckle-up, log on and merge onto the gaming highway for gut-wrenching hours of explosive entertainment!

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Press Release

WOULD YOU KILL FOR MONEY?

Then join the NECRODOME fight...

• Multiplayer network/modem Realtime 3D arcade game

• NECRODOME puts you at the wheel of an incredibly powerful armored vehicle - bristling with hi-tech weapons

• True cooperative play allows 2 players to a single vehicle - while one drives the other can concentrate on blasting anything that moves!

• SVGA graphics and digitized sound effects

• Built-in Internet play

• This game is about survival! Survival of the fittest!

• Windows 95 Direct X2 Support (superior graphics)

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PC Player Magazine DK (November, 1996)

NECRODOME

Beweise, was wahre Freundschaft ist!

Mit Multiplayer-Modus über Netzwerk und Modem

Kleine Freundschaftsprobe gefällig? In Necrodome erwarten Dich und Deinen Kumpel zehn düstere Arenen voller schwerbewaffneter Gladiatoren, die Euch ans Leder wollen. Da müßt Ihr als Team durch - tot oder lebendig! Schwingt Euch als Fahrer und Schütze in den Panzer, und ab geht die Action bei diesem gnadenlosen 3D-Shooter. Und immer schön cool bleiben! Sonst erreicht Ihr ihn nie - den Endkampf im Necrodome! PS: Wenn Dein Kumpel mal keine Zeit hat, kannst Du Necrodome auch alleine spielen!

Erhältlich für WIN 95.

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Print advertisement - PC Player 04/1997

Necrodome is real-time, 3D, futuristic motorized mayhem. Drive a powerful, armored vehicle bristling with mega-weapons. Win or die in 30 daunting arenas. Keep on winning and you'll make it to the Necrodome. This real-time action-shooter features performance-based vehicle upgrades, multiple camera angles and more gut-wrenching action than you can handle. If you don't have the drive to survive, put Necrodome back on the shelf.

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Developer's website

Necrodome is a POV car combat simulation that can be played single player or multi-player. For even more fun team-up with a friend on one vehicle and go against the rest of your friends on theirs.

Full version is in stores now! Download the shareware version.

From RAVEN Software

In conjuction with SSI and Mindscape.

System Requirements:

Pentium 60 or better

With Win95

or Sony Playstation.

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Features: Network/Modem play,

Over 30 Arenas,

Unique 3-D rendered cinematics,

Ability to leave your car and explore

or do combat on foot.

The Story:

The old governments were gone.

The old ways of living were gone. Nothing remained of the way things had been, nothing but the desire to compete and the need for heroes... Seeking ever more-violent forms of entertainment, the gore-starved populace of the New World city-states turned to vehicle pit fighting. At first, it was crude - one car against another in a simple pit or warehouse. Then sponsors came in; built bigger, more devious pits,and promoted single drivers against larger number of foes. Soon each city-state had their own pit or "Arena". Special care was taken to provide a special feel to each - representing the attitude of those who owned it. The leaders of some of the city-states then gathered and laid the plans for the"The Circuit". A heirarchy of the pits was developed based on their difficulty - with the culmination being the Necrodome... Remotely televised, the sport is the biggest past-time in the New World. No other sport or competition exists to rival the trials of these modern-day heroes. Nothing could. The wars are now a dim memory to most people. The Circuit is the goal of every young hotshot with a car, and the death of most. No one has ever survived the whole Circuit, and only one has ever made it to the Necrodome.

That dead man's name is still whispered in awe to this day.

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Developer's website