The Horde
- Genres
- Strategy
- Platforms
- DOS · Sega Saturn · 3DO Interactive Multiplayer · FM Towns · PC-9800 Series
- Release
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer Apr 1994 Exact 3DO Interactive Multiplayer Apr 1994 Exact 3DO Interactive Multiplayer Jul 23, 1994 DOS 1994 Month only DOS 1994 Month only FM Towns Apr 1995 Exact PC-9800 Series Apr 28, 1995 Sega Saturn 1995 Month only DOS 1995 Month only Sega Saturn Mar 08, 1996 Sega Saturn Jun 01, 1997
- Credits
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UG
U.S. Gold
CD
Crystal Dynamics
BI
BMG Interactive
TF
Toys for Bob
SK
Silicon Knights
V
Vise
AM
Arrow Micro-Techs Corp.
S
SKC
- Board status
- —
About
The Horde is a hybrid action-strategy video game that was originally released for 3DO and was ported to the Sega Saturn and DOS. It also featured full-motion video sequences featuring a number of actors including Kirk Cameron as Chauncey and Michael Gregory as Kronus Maelor. Video sequences were reduced to slide shows (with full sound) in some versions. The game was bundled with the RealMagic MPEG playback card as a demonstration of the card's abilities to play back full-motion MPEG video via the card's hardware decoder, at the time software MPEG decoding was not viable due to the lack of processing power in contemporary processors. The music was composed by Burke Trieschmann and won Computer Gaming World's Premiere Award for Best Musical Score in 1994.
