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Hoi (Let's Play!) Amiga game

by: Team Hoi

Publication date: 1992
Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Topics: hoi, commodore, amiga, game, 1992, platform, arcade, action, cute, team hoi, metin seven, reinier van vliet, ramon braumuller, dutch, game developers, game history, nederland, nederlands, netherlands, europe, european, platform game, platformer, spel
Language: English
Rights: Free, not for commercial resale or other commercial use without consent of the authors.
Item Size: 16.3G

Hoi (subtitled Let's play!) is a Commodore Amiga game, internationally published on two 3.5 inch diskettes in the summer of 1992. The game was created by Reinier van Vliet (game design and programming), Ramon Braumuller (music) and Metin Seven (game design and graphics).

The game's box featured the first-ever epilepsy warning for a computer game, because of the psychedelic visual effects in the final level.

Some text files with more info are included. Other available data includes MP3 audio files of Ramon Braumuller's Hoi soundtrack, magazine reviews, and several image files of Metin Seven's Hoi graphics. You can find all files here.

Please note that the graphics were made on and for CRT screens, and can look harsh on sharp modern screens. Most emulators can also mimic a CRT screen.

💡 There's also an AGA Amiga remix of Hoi, which is the recommended version, featuring a Workbench interface, unlimited lives option, high-score saving, and some minor refinements in the graphics.

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TEAM HOI

Team Hoi was one of the first game development teams in the Netherlands, existing of Reinier van Vliet (game design and code), Metin Seven (game design and graphics) and Ramon Braumuller (audio). Team Hoi was active from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, creating demonstrations, commercial games and three music editors (SIDmon, Digital Mugician and Syntrax) for multiple 16-bit computer systems, such as the Commodore Amiga, CD32 console, MS-DOS and Windows.

The productions were distributed internationally on traditional media: diskettes and CD-ROMs, predominantly before the dawn of the public internet, and reviewed in many major computer magazines around the world, including The One, Amiga World, Amiga Format, CU Amiga, Amiga Mania, The Games Machine and Zzap 64 / Amiga.

Among the publishers of Team Hoi's productions was the legendary Thalamus, publisher of the classic Commodore 64 games Armalyte, Creatures, Delta, Quedex and Sanxion.

In the early years — before their hit game Hoi — Team Hoi was named Soft Eyes (a.k.a. Softeyes), and included a fourth partner: Pieter Opdam. After the first Soft Eyes games Pieter emigrated to the UK to work for Team 17, of Worms fame.

During the Soft Eyes period Reinier, Metin and Ramon were also active in the Amiga demo scene as members of the Digital Force International (DFI), and created a range of music demos featuring whimsical a cappella raps that became widely known among Amiga users.

In the later years, coder Peter Schaap took care of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 conversions of Clockwiser, released in 1994.

LINKS

💾💽 Download and play Team Hoi games at the Internet Archive

📺 YouTube video playlist of Team Hoi games

🔗 Hall Of Light Amiga games database

🔗 Dutch Team Hoi Wikipedia page, including links to individual game info pages

🔗 Team Hoi's Peanut-butter Power Game in the national 'Dutch Games Canon'

🔗 More info about Team Hoi