Gearheads
Gearheads is a strategy video game developed by R/GA Interactive and Philips Media, and published by Philips Media for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in June 1996. The player deploys wind-up toys to get them…
Gearheads is a strategy developed by R/GA Interactive, released 1 June 1996 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gearheads is
Gearheads is a strategy game developed by R/GA Interactive and released in 1996. It was published by Philips Media. It is available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gearheads is a strategy video game developed by R/GA Interactive and Philips Media, and published by Philips Media for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in June 1996. The player deploys wind-up toys to get them across an arena while attempting to prevent toys from crossing from the other side. Players can play against the computer or another player. Single, customisable games can be played, or the player can play a series of games with set rules and a limited number of lives in a tournament. The game was designed by Eric Zimmerman and Frank Lantz, and developed in eighteen months. A major part of the game's design was the toys' interaction with each other, and the effectiveness of certain toy…
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Gearheads launched on 1 June 1996, within three weeks of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Final Doom, AH-64D Longbow and International Track & Field.
Released around the same time: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Final Doom, AH-64D Longbow, International Track & Field.
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