The Horde (video game)

The Horde
Developer(s)Toys for Bob
Silicon Knights (Saturn)
Publisher(s)Crystal Dynamics
Designer(s)Paul Reiche III
Fred Ford
Platform(s)3DO, DOS, Saturn, FM Towns
Release3DO
DOS
Sega Saturn
  • EU: May 1996
  • NA: 1996
FM Towns
  • JP: April 28, 1995
Genre(s)Strategy
Mode(s)Single-player

The Horde is a hybrid action-strategy video game that was originally released for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer 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.

  1. ^ "Selected Viewing Guide". The San Francisco Examiner. March 6, 1994. p. 225. Retrieved June 9, 2023. Crystal Dynamics will release [The Horde] for the 3DO machine this week at a list price of $59.99.