Overboard! (1997) (1997)
Overboard! (1997) is a 1997 action video game made by SCE Studio Liverpool.
Overboard! casts you as a pirate captain commanding a ship across a top-down sea, attacking enemy vessels and plundering trade routes. Up to five players can compete with a multitap adapter, making it the kind of game that worked best with a crowded room. The ship doubles as a health bar in a literal sense: when it catches fire, crew members jump overboard and the count drops. Psygnosis built the multiplayer around chaos rather than strategy, which suited the pirate subject matter rather well.
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What is Overboard! (1997) about?
Overboard! casts you as a pirate captain commanding a ship across a top-down sea, attacking enemy vessels and plundering trade routes. Up to five players can compete with a multitap adapter, making it the kind of game that worked best with a crowded room. The ship doubles as a health bar in a literal sense: when it catches fire, crew members jump overboard and the count drops. Psygnosis built the multiplayer around chaos rather than strategy, which suited the pirate subject matter rather well.
When was Overboard! (1997) released?
Overboard! (1997) was released on 1 October 1997.
Who made Overboard! (1997)?
Overboard! (1997) was made by SCE Studio Liverpool.
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The anarchic multiplayer spirit here is close to what Crash Team Racing does with karts: a game that is nominally competitive but built for the noise in the room. Both reward the person willing to play dirty.
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