Hello and welcome to my website. I used to program games for a little known gaming system called the Scorpion 8. It was highly unsuccessful and as a result, disappeared into obscurity! I later formed my own company POOMSOFT where we developed and produced games for various consoles until the late 1990s. Consoles come and go, some are successful, some aren't and many of the consoles I produced games for failed. I thought these games would never be played again but I was wrong. Thanks to modern technology, many of my games have been brought back to life through emulators and PC conversions. It feels great to offer a new generation of gamers a taste of Poomsoft. Here I present to you, Marty Poom's Game-O-Rama where you can play my games for free on your PCs.
John 64
(Amstrad GX4000)
John McMullen was a local celebrity back in 1991, he would go around the village shouting "ehh", "nebweela" and "flippont", kicking people in the back in the process. He turned out to have quite a personality and an interesting story to tell. I signed him on board for a series of games for the Amstrad GX4000, only one of which was actually produced. We utilized the latest motion capture technology as well as recording as much of his voice as possible. John turned out to be an obessive perfectionist and because of this, the game ended up taking 4 years to complete, by which time the console had been discontinued and was essentially obsolete. We released it anyway. A year after its release, we discovered that Nintendo had stolen our number for their new console the "Ultra 64" but at this point we weren't in a position to sue. In 2007 O'Neil Donaldson approached me with the idea of a full PC conversion and I said "Let's do this". This is all I can say. I invite you all to sample the game that almost never happened JOHN 64
Mel Gibson's Safari
(Scorpion 8)
Back in 1983 Mel was gaining quite a reputation after the release of his highly successful MAD MAX films and as a result he licensed his name to my first release. We used some of the most advanced techniques known at the time to project his voice on to the game with such crisp quality. We didn't realize it at the time, but we were breaking new ground in the gaming industry, the game wasn't such a commercial success but did go on to inspire many of today's great programmers and lives on in the cyber museum.
Mel in 1982 "Leave it to Mel" we'd say as he charged around like a fire-woman.
Flash forward 18 years and I was very excited to hear that a Scottish programmer called Franz Carr had managed to emulate the old rom image of Mel Gibson's safari and program a win32 front-end. He really has brought a little piece of history from the back shelf of the gaming revolution and shot it towards the youthful gamers of today, I'm sure they'll just love it. So I present to you, my baby, a project that took me 4 years to complete MEL GIBSON'S SAFARI.
The game for the PC was renamed Mel Gibson's Safari 3 (for legal reasons)
These days I'm in the House Alarms trade. "Ring 'em and see" - That's what we say from time to time, it keeps the day moving and keeps spirits high. I'll never forget my days as a programmer and working with Mel, those were the best days of my life. God bless the 80s.
This is the long-gone Scorpion-8. The look of this machine In my opinion inspired the Super NES. The system was a bit rough but played as smooth as a panther.
Copyright 2001-2009 Marty Poom.