ElectroMan: platform shooter, pretty dumb.Epic Pinball: Great pinball games, many follow-ups.Jazz Jackrabbit: Fairly well-done Sonic the Hedgehog rip-off.Overkill: Yet Another Vertical Space Shooter.

Kiloblaster: Galaga descendent with OK graphics and good sound.

Solar Winds: decent Sci-Fi RPG/action game.

Jill of the Jungle: fun side-scrolling jumper action game.

Later came Worlds of ZZT (contest winners), Super ZZT (bigger boards, square graphics), and something else, I forget. Turns out they were turning commercial behind all our backs, and took the ' Mega' out of their name. Some wasn't, of course.Īnyway, they went into a quiet stage around 1997, during which they pretty much just released Jazz Jackrabbit 2, and maybe some more pinball games. They began producing a tremendous, disparate body of shareware, a good portion of which was worthy of Epic's trademark quality, enjoyability, and originality. In the next several years, Epic grew immensely. Epic held a contest for the best user-created ZZT worlds, many of the winners of which (including Allen Pilgrim) became Epic employees. ZZT became a tremendous hit, popular with fun-loving, computer-savvy people who enjoyed it's unprecedented in-game editor with built-in object-oriented scripting language.

Epic Megagames (formerly Potomac Computer Systems) was founded way back in 1991 (or thereabouts) by Tim Sweeney, to market his new shareware game ZZT.

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