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Post by dumbflag on Aug 29, 2003 15:47:46 GMT
there was an Ad Infitum game released by Mr Chip (the Shaun Southern one i believe).
also, and its very hard to find, there was a US release of Lions Of The Universe. I only had the disk so I don't know if it ever had a box or anything. bearing in mind the year, I very much doubt it.
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Post by Frank on Aug 29, 2003 17:48:11 GMT
Yeah, the AD Infinitum that Jas found was a working title for the eventual W.A.R game that Martech released. Review added next update  As for Lions... EBES sold the games in cheap monocrome sleaves/envelope type things. He actually imported the EBES europe catelogue into USA, so i'm guessing they all had the cheap packaging. The only one that was professionally done was Sword Of Honour, AFAIK Jas' shop actually sold that one.. but sold it before I could grab it |
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Post by merman on Aug 29, 2003 18:01:01 GMT
EBES and Megatronix were importing Sword of Honour from Germany... I had to wait ages for my copy (on 3.5" disk) because Dean at Megatronix had to wait for new boxes  |
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Post by Mayhem on Aug 29, 2003 21:49:48 GMT
My Sword of Honour has all the proper box and manual for it too  |
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Post by Frank on Aug 29, 2003 22:42:24 GMT
I think I was being cheap at the time... I didn't have enough pocket money to afford the 11.99 fee ..... |
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Post by T.M.R on Aug 30, 2003 2:00:25 GMT
i seem to remember that we only had the one Sword Of Honour - the boss wasn't best pleased about a title with that high a price tag so late in the C64's commercial lifespan and it didn't move particularly fast either...
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Post by Mayhem on Aug 30, 2003 14:09:01 GMT
Probably why when right at EBES' death, Jon let me have copies of almost EVERYTHING they'd ever brought in for £5 total |
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Post by Frank Gasking on Aug 30, 2003 19:33:12 GMT
Do you mean Russ or Jon Wells, Mat?... He did something similar, where he'd sell all his games off for £5 each, but only on normal blank disks, and fill the other side with cracks. I think he did a 3 games for £10 offer once... got Freds Back 3, Arc Doors and something else I think... but none came with their disk covers |
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Post by Spoony G on Aug 30, 2003 20:59:21 GMT
Re Mega Twins - Mike Ager (code) & Wayne Billingham (graphics) worked on Tiertex's Alien Storm around the same time, perhaps someone could could chase them.
Also, can I just draw your attention to two games that changed radically between their demo and full incarnations - USG's Final Fight & Audiogenic's Graham Gooch's World Class Cricket.
Great site, by the way
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Post by Frank Gasking on Aug 30, 2003 21:37:08 GMT
Actually.. I spoke to Mike a long time ago, but the emails stopped... I could try again I suppose? Thanks for the infos... its definately worth a try. As for Final Fight and GG Cricket.... do the demo's exist, or do you mean from screenshots you have seen?.... Thanks again! |
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Post by merman on Aug 31, 2003 9:55:23 GMT
I find Graham Gooch's Cricket very interesting. I think I've seen about three different version now, and there may be more (I believe it was also re-branded for Australia as Alan Border's Cricket).
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Post by Spoony G on Aug 31, 2003 14:05:15 GMT
Both Final Fight and GGWC screenshots appear in ZZAP! issue 77 (the one with the infamous Sonic referrence). It seems that the ZZAP! lads had access to a working demo of GGWC, judging by the screenshot, it seems completely different to the game that surfaced much later and a review was lined up for the following issue.
As for Final Fight, the preview shots look impressive, with large characters and detailed backdrops, and quite unlike the travesty that was actually released.
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Post by merman on Aug 31, 2003 17:05:49 GMT
Both Final Fight and GGWC screenshots appear in ZZAP! issue 77 (the one with the infamous Sonic referrence). It seems that the ZZAP! lads had access to a working demo of GGWC, judging by the screenshot, it seems completely different to the game that surfaced much later and a review was lined up for the following issue. As for Final Fight, the preview shots look impressive, with large characters and detailed backdrops, and quite unlike the travesty that was actually released. ...which reminds me of another "lost" game - the first version of Golden Axe. Apparently it had multiple enemies attacking (like the arcade game) but with some serious flicker. Anyone been in touch with Mark Kelly and Steve Crow? ;D |
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Post by Frank Gasking on Aug 31, 2003 18:31:37 GMT
I'll have a look at those pages again ... I think that these better looking versions were probably scrapped, due to the same problem as Golden Axe that Merman mentioned... it was probably slowing the games down too much, so they cut them down. I dunno what people want to take on earlier versions of games... i'm not sure if they count as GTW... but are people interesed in seeing early versions of games which are considerably different to the final version?... It was something that interested me... especially when I saw the preview of Dragon Ninja.... terrible |
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Post by Mayhem on Aug 31, 2003 18:34:28 GMT
Duh.. yeah I meant Russ I think Frank. Will have to check the letters I still have. But I got all of them on blue discs... stuff like Chicken, the 3 Fred's Back games, Dark Caves, Eskimo Games, Saliva Kids etc... all for £5 total |
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