Virtuoso (video game)

Virtuoso[lower-alpha 1] is a third-person shooter video game developed by MotiveTime Ltd. and originally published by Nova Spring and Elite Systems in North American and Europe for the MS-DOS in 1994.

Virtuoso
North American DOS cover art
Developer(s)MotiveTime Ltd.
Publisher(s)MS-DOS
3DO
Programmer(s)Andrew G. Williams
Mat Draper
Peter Wake
Artist(s)Andrew Taylor
Russell Phillips
Wayne Edwards
Composer(s)Thai Dyed Suicide
Platform(s)3DO Interactive Multiplayer
MS-DOS
ReleaseMS-DOS
3DO
Genre(s)Third-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

Virtuoso is a game where the player is a rock musician in the year 2055, who spends his time battling in Virtual Reality.[2]

Ports

A port of Virtuoso for the Atari Jaguar CD was announced in the January 1995 issue of online magazine Atari Explorer Online and was in development by Williams Brothers Developments and planned to be published by Telegames.[3] It was originally slated for a Spring/Summer 1995 release and later planned for a Q2 1995 release.[4][5][6][7][8] However, Telegames UK president Pete Mortimer stated in an email exchange with website CyberRoach that work on the port and other upcoming titles from the company for the Atari Jaguar platform were suspended after sales of previous titles published by them were not profitable.[9]

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "The game is Doom without the first person perspective or any of the fun."[2]

Electronic Gaming Monthly's Seanbaby placed it as number 5 in his "20 worst games of all time" feature.[10]

Reviews

Notes
  1. Also known as Virtuoso: Rock & Roll Shooting (Japanese: バーチャル・ソー: ロック そして ロール 射撃, Hepburn: Bācharu sō: Rokkunrōru Satsuei) in Japan on the 3DO.
gollark: Less, even.
gollark: It's been around for a *day*.
gollark: It's even commented!
gollark: It's about a fifth of the code of potatos now.
gollark: That is the potatOS main loader/updater/randomjunk.

References
  1. "3DO Soft > 1995" (in Japanese). GAME Data Room. Archived from the original on 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  2. "Finals". Next Generation. No. 5. Imagine Media. May 1995. p. 94.
  3. Bates, Darren (January 16, 1995). "Cuppa with the Dooz". Atari Explorer Online. Vol. 4 no. 1. Subspace Publishers. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  4. "Jaguar Roars With Telegames". Ultimate Future Games. No. 2. Future Publishing. January 1995. p. 50. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  5. "Actualités Internationales". CD Consoles (in French). No. 5. Pressimage. March 1995. p. 20.
  6. "Jaguar Roars With Telegames". Ultimate Future Games. No. 5. Future Publishing. April 1995. p. 42.
  7. "Feature - XT Generation Report - Atari Jaguar". MAN!AC (in German). No. 20. Cybermedia. June 1995. p. 40.
  8. Nepožitek, Marek (July 1995). "Konzole - Jaguar+CD - CD a virtuální realita již tento rok?". LeveL (in Czech). No. 6. Naked Dog, s.r.o. p. 44. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  9. Reutter, Hans (July 24, 2000). "Unreleased Or Unfinished Jaguar Games - Virtuoso". cyberroach.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-30. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  10. P. Reiley, Sean. "Seanbaby's EGM's Crapstravaganza - #5: Virtuoso (3DO)". seanbaby.com. Archived from the original on 2006-07-07. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
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