Baldies

Baldies (1995)

by Creative Edge Software, Atari Corporation
Genres:Simulator, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Themes:Warfare
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Baldies is a real-time strategy video game. In the game, players build and manage a community of the titular short and plump bald characters with the ultimate goal of conquering the world by defeating similarly-looking short little hairy people known as the "Hairies".
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user avatar@Cyrek99user avatar@Cyrek99
January 29, 2025
If this ever gets added, make sure it IS the PC version published by Panasonic, NOT the underwhelming Atari Jaguar, PSX version. Perhaps one of the hardest games, but most fun unique type of strategy game.
user avatar@Camelsoundsuser avatar@Camelsounds
January 31, 2025
One of my earliest memories in gaming. Still one of the weirdest games i've ever played. Mechanics I've never seen in any game since, extreme gore, still cute..
I must have spent well over a hundred hours in the demo when I was a little kid. The single snow map. With the audio bug if you EVER made the mistake of drowning a baldy or hairy. Dear god, that infinite audio bug. Only fair, though. I spent the whole game torturing them and they returned the favor. I've never found a game that replicates even half the magic of this simple, stupid, wonderful game.
user avatar@Gwenni0488user avatar@Gwenni0488
February 05, 2025
One of the first games I have played. It was just the demo version but i played for so many hours! since then it is my first love i have tried for so many times to get and play the full version. Funniest part of this journey i bought an original Atari game disc for lots of Money on Ebay because i didnt know Atari was a console not just the Publischer that hurts so bad ^^ I swear to myself one time i would play the full game and if its the last thing i ever would do ! Please help me to get my dream come true...
user avatar@adept5user avatar@adept5
April 20, 2025
I played Baldies waay back in 94 from a demo disk that was sold in King Soopers. It has all the faults rts games of that era had but it made up for in charm and depth. You play as a group of bald humanoids who are in a total war with the hairies,a group of genocidal men with a full head of hair and beard. The gimmick of this game is that you can build housing and assign baldies to four sectors of the house and each has a role. Red baldies relax and reproduce,white baldies take the items you drop on the building to create traps,blue blue baldies maintain the house and green are soldiers who manufacture ammo or can be sent to harass the enemy. You assault the enemy by clicking on the enemy structure with a shield which then attracts your grunts who chase the hairies and shoot them or if close deck them with a powerful right hook. Your guys get close to an enemy structure and they start lobbing grenades or burst through the front door. It's a wonderful game and I can't endorse it enough.
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