Mark Plays… Champ Games (MS-DOS/PC)

ChampGames / Champrogramming / Champ programming was a game developer from the US founded by John W. Champeau. Robert Cole was in charge sound design. They produced quite a few wonderful ports of classic arcade games around 1996/1997 running on MS-DOS & Windows95 PCs.

In this video I check out their library of games:
– CHAMP KONG
– CHAMP MSPAC-EM
– CHAMP PAC-EM
– CHAMP GALAXIA
– CHAMP GALAGON
– CHAMP CENTIPED-EM
– CHAMP ASTEROCKS
– CHAMP INVADERS

An older version of the Pacman called Pacmaniac was released in 1993 and it featured a layout/graphics quite similar to the Atari/C64 layout of the Game. I may show that in another video when I find the disk.

It was also possible to use a CHAMP cable that allowed you to plug an old Atari compatible 9-pin digital joystick or equivalent into the parallel 25-pin printer port (LPT1, LPT2 or LPT3).

Games that were planned but were never released:
– CHAMP Joust
– CHAMP Missile Command 1 & 2
– CHAMP Defender
– CHAMP Basketball
– CHAMP Frog-em
– CHAMP Burger Chef
In 1998 the company went out of business.

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