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- à W h a t e v e r H a p p e n e d t o ..
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- (P r e v i e w s S p e c i a l)
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- ÇA look back over the last year's hot new games news.. Which of these
- made it, which have been buried for good, and hopefully, those games
- which are still in the pipeline even now..
-
- (Refer back to Maggie issues 19, 20 and 21 for original data from
- the 'previews' section..)
-
- üTop Byte.. (ST)
-
- ÇNot a brilliant year for them, We did get Stario's Xmas, and a 3-D
- arcade game Kryptonite Data.. Of the other games, not a lot is known,
- although James was advertising the role player game Aronath in the
- dying issues of ST Format..ü ÇThe present status of Top Byte is very
- uncertain at this time, with suggestions of problems between the
- proprieter and people owed money.. Any new information or attempts to
- set the record straight would be greatly appreciated..ü
- Ç
- üMerlin.. (Falcon)
-
- ÇWe were anticipating two new versions of 'Obsession' for the Falcon, as
- they had taken over the rights from UDS to produce this for the '030..
- An extremely casual approach from the Swedish end of things meant that
- vital data disks were extremely slow in forthcoming, or not at all,
- which put this project on indefinite hold..
-
- During 1996, we are alerted to an interesting release from 21st Century
- Entertainment for the PC entitled 'Absolute Pinball' the screenshots
- were *very* reminiscent of the original STe version of Obsession.. No
- prizes for guessing what UDS are doing now!
-
- üBad Mood.. (Falcon)
-
- ÇA Doom WAD player for the Falcon, eventually to be expanded to a full
- game.. Better versions are still making their way out, but no signs of
- the addition of the bad guys at time of writing.. Although one
- (unsubstantiated) report suggests things might have got a little bit
- further now.. Other add-ons, such as a GEM shell to overcome the rather
- basic .TTP command line interface have also been developed
- independently..
-
- Doug Little's involvement has slowed in the latter part of 1996, as he
- is hard at work on various Titan/Black Scorpion projects, especially
- the new Apex Alpha.
-
- üReservoir Gods.. (Falcon)
-
- ÇA beacon of consistency in a sea of broken promises.. A quieter year
- for them after the triumphs of 1995, but we still got Skyfall, probably
- the ultimate 'Columns' game anywhere, and Mr Pink is hard at work on
- his latest epic, 'Spy Hunt', an overhead view arcade game which should
- be ready for the end of the year..
-
- The ST-based 3-D racing game from the two non-Falcon members is still
- on hold as no suitable distributor can be found.. The Falcon Owners
- group CD-ROM front end collapsed with the end of that organisation..
- However, there is the possibility of further collaboration with certain
- people for demo-based productions as well..
-
- üVillage Software.. (ST)
-
- ÇReleased Bio-Hazard II for the ST, but main man, Rich Davey came off
- the Falcon altogether shortly thereafter..
-
- There is no sign of other Village Software releases such as Outrider or
- Warcry, or the adventure game Dark Ritual.. Nor is there likely to be..
-
- üSymposium previews.. (Falcon)
-
- ÇQuite a few new games were shown at the Hamburg event last April.. The
- most promising of these in all departments was 'Running', the Doom-
- clone for the Falcon, which featured a complete level, with full
- collision detection, with bad guys, and with the means to do them in..
- Virtually a complete game engine there, all that was needed was a
- little tidying up, and a bit of level design by Stax Developments.. The
- timescale that was suggested back then was about six months to complete
- the game.. Allowing for slippage, we should hopefully still see this
- one in late '96 or early '97.. The other potentially complicating
- factor is that this game will probably have some sort of commercial
- distribution, which always seems to delay things massively, at least
- over here in the UK..
-
- Two other previews included the arcade blasters, X-Moon,and Painium
- Disaster.. The former of these being produced by various parts of the
- German demo scene, the latter by a French group Cruor.. X-Moon is the
- more uncertain of the two, depending on a massive amount of internal
- co-operation between different groups, especially when certain people
- within certain groups might not be talking to each other any more!?!?
- Most demo scene orientated productions tend to keep very much to their
- own timescale as well, which is usually much longer than most other
- people's timescales!
-
- üStosser Soft.. (ST)Ç
-
- Tony Greenwood is another of life's more reliable people, as he managed
- to produce two new games this year, with a promise of a third to come
- shortly.. The first half of 1996 saw Island Strike, a fairly basic but
- well executed overhead helicopter based arcade game.. The Atari Shows
- in September saw the release of Heartland, a huge platform game
- reviewed elsewhere this issue.. A third game, believed to be an arcade
- adventure is forthcoming shortly.. Tony's games have the advantage of
- working on any ST or Falcon from 1 meg upwards..
-
- üNew Beat Developments.. (Falcon)
-
- ÇWe all cheered when we caught sight of the first preview of 'Willy the
- Adventurer', the first serious attempt to do a 'Rayman' on the Falcon..
- Loads of coding and good presentation, if a little bit short on the
- game itself.. According to latest news, this has not gone away, and has
- had quite a bit more added to it.. One possibility is a version
- enhanced for the forthcoming Nemesis Falcon accelerator..
-
- üDigi Tallis.. (ST)Ç
-
- News and a preview of another Doom clone, this one was intended to work
- on the STFM, putting one over SubStation, which needed an STe at
- least.. Jon Lewis is/was doing this one, but after the initial press
- release, it has gone quiet here.. At the same time, his previous game,
- Sub Aqua, took a while to emerge.. Any new news here??
-
- (Very latest reports suggest that Digi Tallis is still alive and at
- work on several other projects.. There is still movement on this game,
- but things are going very slowly..)
-
- üCroft Soft.. (ST)
-
- ÇThe people behind the Atari Times HTML diskmag.. Their game 'Mole
- Mayhem' seems to be on course for release shortly..
-
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-
- Well folks, that's your lot for now.. Any new developments on any of
- these titles will be reported here as soon as it happens, or we are
- told, which isn't necessarily at the same time!!
-
- (C) CiH, Nov '96
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