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Shufflepuck Cafe

Shufflepuck Café is a computer air hockey game developed by Christopher Gross, Gene Portwood and Lauren Elliott for Brøderbund. There are two game modes. The player can compete in a tournament, playing against…

6 July 1989

Shufflepuck Cafe is a sport developed by Brøderbund Software, released 6 July 1989 on Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga and Amstrad CPC.

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What Shufflepuck Cafe is

Shufflepuck Cafe is a sport game developed by Brøderbund Software and released in 1989. It is available on Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, DOS, Mac, NEC PC-6000 Series and Sharp X68000.

The premise, in the publisher's words

There is a general storyline behind the Amiga version of the game in which the player is an inter-galactic salesman whose spaceship has broken down. He needs to find a telephone to call the breakdown service and get the spaceship fixed. Shufflepuck Café is the nearest place for miles, so he goes in to use their telephone. The main eight Shufflepuck players are standing in his way and will not let him get to the phone until he has beaten them all. Once all are defeated, the player gets in his spaceship and flies off into the distance.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Shufflepuck Cafe come out?
Shufflepuck Cafe was released on 6 July 1989 for Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, DOS, Mac, NEC PC-6000 Series and Sharp X68000.

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