Gearheads

Windows - 1996

Also available on: Windows 3.x - Mac

Alt names	ギアヘッズ, Gearheads : Un jeu de stratégie fondé sur "la révolte des jouets", Gearheads: a furious war of wind-up toys, Gearheads: a wacky war of wind-up toys, Gearheads: aufziehen, loslegen, durchdrehen - cool bleiben
Year	1996
Platform	Windows
Released in	Germany, United States
Genre	Strategy
Theme	Board / Party Game, Licensed Title
Publisher	Philips Interactive Media, Inc.
Developer	Philips Interactive Media, Inc., R/Greenberg Associates Interactive
Perspective	Isometric

4.17 / 5 - 6 votes

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Description of Gearheads

This inventive puzzler sadly disappeared from stores in less than 6 months after its release.

The premise is simple: try to get 21 wind-up toys over to your opponent's side before he can do the same to you. The difficulty lies in the unique abilities of toys, e.g. Clucketta the chicken can lay tiny wind-up chicks, and Handy can wind up toys that wind down. A fun and charming game that combine arcade reflexes and puzzle elements into a very captivating experience. The game is essentially a great variant of paper-rock-scissors game, and can be considered a modern update of EA's classic Archon, but with a more cartoony feel. Thumbs up!

Review By HOTUD

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How to play Gearheads Windows

The game doesn't work on modern 64-bit systems, use Virtual Machine with old Windows to play the game. For example, the game works fine on DOSBox + Windows 3.1

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Comments and reviews

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DyXel 2015-10-07 1 point

You should put the Windows version too!

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LinesofLatitude 2014-10-26 0 point Mac version

THIS GAME WAS AWESOME :D
Finally found it after all these years! Thanks!
Now to figure out a way to play it

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