Simulmondo

Simulmondo was an Italian software house from Bologna. Specialized video game developer and publisher, it has produced about 150 video games for Commodore 64, Amiga, PC and Atari ST.^[2][3][4]

Simulmondo S.r.l.

Industry	Video games
Founded	1988[1]
Founder	Francesco Carlà
Headquarters	Bologna, Italy
Key people	Francesco Carlà (Founder and CEO), Ivan Venturi (Programmer), Riccardo Cangini [it] (Graphic and Designer)
Number of employees	20
Website	www.simul.it

Initially founded in 1988 by Francesco Carlà and Riccardo Arioti,^[1] via an agreement with publisher Ital Video,^[5] Simulmondo was among Italy's most important game developers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mainly developing titles for home computers.^[6]

Simulmondo released games mainly for the Amiga, MS-DOS and the Commodore 64 platform. The latest Simulmondo game, the middle 90s, had been released for the Windows 95 platform. For the distribution of the games, Simulmondo used an innovative strategy for the time: Simulmondo branched out into an early form of episodic gaming, by publishing short adventures that could be completed in one or two hours and distributed them on newsstands at a price much lower than that of the complete games sold in a normal shop.^[7] In this way, Simulmondo could reduce development costs and maximize profits. Games were usually distributed as tapes or floppies.

Simulmondo's most famous games were licensed video games based on comic books, such as Dylan Dog, Spider-Man, and Tex Willer.

By 1993, the company had lost many of its original programmers and artists, like Ivan Venturi. By the following year, Simulmondo had all but disappeared from the mainstream video games market.^[8] In its final years, the software house developed games for television programs, like interactive games for the kids' program Solletico and a football engine for Processo di Biscardi.

List of games

#	Title	Release year	Platform(s)
1	Bocce	1987	Amiga, Commodore 64
2	Italy '90 Soccer	1988	Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
3	Simulgolf	1988	Commodore 64, MS-DOS
4	F.1 Manager	1989	Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
5	The Basket Manager	1990	Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
6	1000 Miglia	1991	Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
7	3D Scacchi Simulator	1991	Commodore 64
8	500cc Motomanager	1991	Amiga, Commodore 64
9	Basket Playoff	1991	Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
10	Big Game Fishing	1991	Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
11	Formula 1 3D	1991	Amiga, Commodore 64
12	Formula 1 3D: F.1 Manager II	1991	Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
13	G.P. Tennis Manager	1991	Amiga, Commodore 64
14	I Play 3D Soccer	1991	Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
15	I Play Football Champ	1991	Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
16	1st Chess Tutor	1992	MS-DOS
17	3D World Boxing	1992	Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
18	3D World Soccer	1992	Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
19	3D World Tennis	1992	Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
20	Dylan Dog: Gli Uccisori	1992	Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
21	Extasy	1992	Amiga, MS-DOS
22	I Play 3D Tennis	1992	Commodore 64
23	Italian Night 1999	1992	Amiga
24	Diabolik	1993	Amiga, MS-DOS
25	Dylan Dog	1993–1994	Amiga, MS-DOS
26	Dylan Dog: Attraverso lo specchio	1993	Amiga, MS-DOS
27	Simulman	1993–1994	Amiga, MS-DOS
28	Tex	1993	Amiga, MS-DOS
29	Tex: Piombo Caldo	1993	Amiga, MS-DOS
30	Time Runners	1993–1995	Amiga, MS-DOS
31	L'Uomo Ragno	1994	Amiga, MS-DOS
32	Mosè: il profeta della libertà	1996	PC
33	Viaggio nel corpo umano	1996	PC
34	We are Angels	1997	PC
35	SoccerChamp	1998	PC

Note: We are Angels was developed by Simulmondo but released by ARI GAMES. It's a game based on the TV series Noi siamo Angeli.

Cancelled titles

#	Title	Release year	Platform(s)
1	Martin Mystère and the secret of the Birdman	Cancelled	PC