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Multi-display

Video game concept

Player has or can have multiple displays of the game world and various aspects of it open at the same time on single screen.

21
games
9
platforms

Alternate names: Multiple displays, Windows

SimEarth: The Living Planet (MS-DOS)
SimEarth: The Living Planet
DOS 1990
SimEarth: The Living Planet (Windows 3.1)
SimEarth: The Living Planet
W31 1990
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (Windows)
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
WIN 2007-09-05
Hired Guns (Amiga OCS)
Hired Guns
OCS 1993
Sanxion (Commodore 64)
Sanxion
C64 1986
LV-426 (Windows)
LV-426
WIN 2007-06-29
Xbattle (Linux)
Xbattle
LIN ? *
Sanxion (ZX Spectrum)
Sanxion
SPC 1989
Space Hulk (Amiga OCS)
Space Hulk
OCS 1993
The Neverending Story II: The Arcade Game (MS-DOS)
The Neverending Story II: The Arcade Game
DOS 1991
spellcast (Linux)
spellcast
LIN ? *
SWAT 4 (Windows)
SWAT 4
WIN 2005-04
Not to be confused with display devices or multihead setup or picture-in-picture.

These may be fixed "screens" or movable "windows".

Example from eXperience112:

Popular tags

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Parent group

Interface

Games by year

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The first Multi-display video game was released in 1986.

Thalamus, Electronic Arts and Maxis published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 7
Linux 4
MS-DOS 3
Amiga 2
C64 1
Win3.1 1
Mac OS X 1
BSD 1
ZX Spectrum 1

Most common companies

Thalamus2
Electronic Arts2
Maxis2
THQ2
Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation2