Abuse

Abuse
Companies	Crack dot Com, Electronic Arts
First release date	Aug 1995
Original platform(s)	DOS
Optimization notes	Freeware source port, General MIDI
Run & gun platformer
A spectacularly dark run & gun platformer with intuitive mouse-based controls, smooth animations, plenty of variety in weapons and monsters, and lots of secrets and puzzles. An included level editor is remarkably advanced for its time. The classic sprawling, secret-filled 2D level design is a throwback to the heyday of Apogee's DOS platformers, but with a slick presentation, snazzy mechanics, and violence fitting for a post-Quake world. The sole product of Crack dot Com, a short lived studio founded by one of the programmers behind Doom and Quake. Abuse-SDL now runs natively in Windows, with high color support and some other quality of life features.
Key people	Robert Prince, Dave Taylor