Simulmondo S.r.l.
IndustryVideo games
Founded1988[1]
FounderFrancesco Carlà
HeadquartersBologna, Italy
Key people
Francesco Carlà (Founder and CEO), Ivan Venturi (Programmer), Riccardo Cangini (Graphic and Designer)
Number of employees
20
Websitewww.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]

Simulmondo released games manly for the Amiga, MS-DOS and the Commodre 64 platform. The latest Simulmondo's game, middle 90s, had been released for 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 where usually distributed as tapes or floppys.

Simulmondo's most famous games where licensed videogames based on comic books like Dylan Dog, Spider-man 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.[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

# Title Release year Platform(s)
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 series Noi siamo Angeli.

Cancelled titles

# Title Release year Platform(s)
1 Martin Mystère and the secret of the Birdman Cancelled PC

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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