Antheads: It Came from the Desert II (1990) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Antheads: It Came from the Desert II

A Cinemaware classic returns for round two.Date: January 1st, 1956. Place: Lizard Breath, California.For five years, rumours have abound that numerous giant ants were sighted in the hills around Lizard Breath…

1 January 1990

What Antheads: It Came from the Desert II is

Antheads: It Came from the Desert II is an adventure game developed by Cinemaware and released in 1990. It is available on Amiga only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A Cinemaware classic returns for round two.Date: January 1st, 1956. Place: Lizard Breath, California.For five years, rumours have abound that numerous giant ants were sighted in the hills around Lizard Breath, even though these have been dismissed as “delayed hysteria” by the city’s inhabitants. Nowadays, the inhabitants of the region are far more interested in the substantial amounts of money, which pour in by means of the nuclear test program sponsored by the government. Even the strange stories that are heard about the hospital in Melville are not taken seriously, as everyone hastily adapts to the “atomic” future.All that only changed when Brick Nash stole a plutonium-cartridge loaded…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, historical, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Antheads: It Came from the Desert II launched on 1 January 1990, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream and Denaris.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream, Denaris.

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