Simulmondo

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Simulmondo S.r.l.
Industry Video games
Founded1988 [1]
Founder Francesco Carlà
Headquarters Bologna, Italy
Key people
Francesco Carlà (Founder and CEO), Ivan Venturi (Programmer), Riccardo Cangini  ( it ) (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 video games for Commodore 64, Amiga, PC and Atari ST. [2] [3] [4]

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Initially founded in 1988 by Francesco Carlà and Riccardo Arioti, [1] via an agreement with publisher Ital Video, [5] Simulmondo was among Italy's most important game developers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mainly developing titles for home computers. [6]

Simulmondo released games mainly for the Amiga, MS-DOS and the Commodore 64 platform. The latest Simulmondo game, the middle 90s, had been released for the Windows 95 platform. For the distribution of the games, Simulmondo used an innovative strategy for the time: Simulmondo branched out into an early form of episodic gaming, by publishing short adventures that could be completed in one or two hours and distributed them on newsstands at a price much lower than that of the complete games sold in a normal shop. [7] In this way, Simulmondo could reduce development costs and maximize profits. Games were usually distributed as tapes or floppies.

Simulmondo's most famous games were licensed video games based on comic books, such as Dylan Dog, Spider-Man, and Tex Willer.

By 1993, the company had lost many of its original programmers and artists, like Ivan Venturi. By the following year, Simulmondo had all but disappeared from the mainstream video games market. [8] 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

#TitleRelease yearPlatform(s)
1Bocce1987Amiga, Commodore 64
2Italy '90 Soccer1988Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
3Simulgolf1988Commodore 64, MS-DOS
4F.1 Manager1989Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
5The Basket Manager1990Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
61000 Miglia1991Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
73D Scacchi Simulator1991Commodore 64
8500cc Motomanager1991Amiga, Commodore 64
9Basket Playoff1991Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
10Big Game Fishing1991Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
11Formula 1 3D1991Amiga, Commodore 64
12Formula 1 3D: F.1 Manager II1991Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
13G.P. Tennis Manager1991Amiga, Commodore 64
14I Play 3D Soccer1991Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
15I Play Football Champ1991Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
161st Chess Tutor1992MS-DOS
173D World Boxing1992Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
183D World Soccer1992Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
193D World Tennis1992Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
20Dylan Dog: Gli Uccisori1992Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
21Extasy1992Amiga, MS-DOS
22I Play 3D Tennis1992Commodore 64
23Italian Night 19991992Amiga
24Diabolik1993Amiga, MS-DOS
25Dylan Dog1993–1994Amiga, MS-DOS
26Dylan Dog: Attraverso lo specchio1993Amiga, MS-DOS
27Simulman1993–1994Amiga, MS-DOS
28Tex1993Amiga, MS-DOS
29Tex: Piombo Caldo1993Amiga, MS-DOS
30Time Runners1993–1995Amiga, MS-DOS
31L'Uomo Ragno1994Amiga, MS-DOS
32Mosè: il profeta della libertà1996PC
33Viaggio nel corpo umano1996PC
34We are Angels1997PC
35SoccerChamp1998PC

Note: We are Angels was developed by Simulmondo but released by ARI GAMES. It's a game based on the TV series Noi siamo Angeli.

Cancelled titles

#TitleRelease yearPlatform(s)
1Martin Mystère and the secret of the BirdmanCancelledPC

References

  1. 1 2 "Simulmondo: Company profile". Internet Archive. 1992. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "I videogiochi dell'incubo". Multiplayer.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  4. ↑ "In sviluppo Pride Run, primo titolo dedicato al movimento LGBT • GamesVillage.it". GamesVillage.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Simulmondo - MobyGames". MobyGames. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  7. ↑ infogiochi (2023-02-19). "The history of Simulmondo". Neperos. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  8. ↑ 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.


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