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The Killing Game Show

1990 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1421541 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Killing Game Show is a run and gun video game developed by Raising Hell Software for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was published in 1990 by Psygnosis, then re-released later under the name Fatal Rewind for the Sega Genesis by Electronic Arts.

Gameplay

The player controls the robo-contestant as it fights for its life, avoiding booby traps, Hostile Artificial Life Forms (H.A.L.Fs), and the ever-present rising acid. There are 12 levels.

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The public source identifies “The Killing Game Show” as 1990 video game. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Killing, Game and Show.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Killing, Game and Show providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1421541. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Killing Game Show” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.