Game Over is an action and platform game developed and published by the Spanish company Dinamic Software in 1987. Ignacio Ruiz Tejedor and Pedro Sudón Aguilar designed it, Ignacio Ruiz Tejedor also did the art, and English Wikipedia lists Imagine Software as the publisher.
The player controls Arkos, a former lieutenant of the empress Queen Gremla who turns rebel. The first part takes place on the prison planet Hypsis; in the second, on the jungle swamp planet Sckunn, Arkos breaks into the queen's palace and defeats her Giant Guardian robot.
The game is famous for its cover. Luis Royo's illustration, first printed on the May 1984 cover of Heavy Metal, showed a visible nipple, and retailers required a logo to be placed over it. A redesigned version of Phantis, a separate game in Spain, was later sold internationally as Game Over II.12
Names and releases
| Region | Title on the box | Platform | Date | Publisher | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU | Game OverEnglish Wikipedia gives July 1987 and Imagine as publisher without per-platform dates. | ZX Spectrum | July 1987 | Imagine Software | 2 |
| ES | Game Over | Amstrad CPC | 1987 | Dinamic Software | 1 |
| ES | Game Over | Commodore 64 | 1987 | Dinamic Software | 1 |
| ES | Game Over | MSX | 1987 | Dinamic Software | 1 |
| EU | Game OverThomson TO7; listed by English Wikipedia only. | Other | 1987 | — | 2 |
| ES | Game OverListed by Spanish Wikipedia only; English Wikipedia lists Thomson TO7 instead. | MS-DOS | 1987 | Dinamic Software | 1 |
| ES | Game Over | ZX Spectrum | 1987 | Dinamic Software | 1 |
| EU | Game OverBudget re-release with a sanitised cover. | ZX Spectrum | 1990 | Alternative Software | 2 |
Box art by region
EU Game Over
Box art © its publishers, shown to identify each release. Scans: Wikipedia.
Version differences
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CoverUK edition
In the UK edition, the nipple on Luis Royo's cover art was covered with the Dinamic logo.3
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CoverCrash magazine advert
To print the image in Crash, the magazine's art editor Oliver Frey added a metal corset.2
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CoverAlternative Software 1990
Alternative Software's 1990 budget re-release used a sanitised cover.2
Reception
Your Sinclair gave the Spectrum version 9/10 and a YS Megagame award; Computer & Video Games gave 8/10 on Spectrum and 7/10 on Amstrad, MSX Extra 8/10 and Zzap!64 68%. The 1990 re-release scored 52% for its high difficulty, and Crash readers voted its advert and inlay the best of the year.2
In lists
Sources
Checked: 2026-10-13Text reviewed: 2026-10-13
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