05 April 2004, 08:16 | #1 |
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Day Of The Tentacle was released on Amiga, right?
I'm having an argument with some people over at the AdventureGamers.com board, trying to convice them that DOTT did see an Amiga relase. I'm sure as hell that I played it back in the day but would like someone here to confirm it. Cheers.
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I wish it had been! But unfortunately it wasn't. If only ScummVM was around in those days...
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05 April 2004, 11:07 | #3 |
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Then how in the hell do I have these memories of playing it? Very odd indeed.... and disturbing.
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05 April 2004, 11:18 | #4 |
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Maybe you remember playing the demo of DOTT that was released back then.
It was available on many cover CDs. |
05 April 2004, 11:29 | #5 |
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Yeah, could very well have been the demo. Well at least I know my mind isn't completely tricking me.
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05 April 2004, 12:50 | #6 |
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I was wondering what you meant by the best amiga message board there is
I'm CrimsonBlue on Adventuregamers EDIT: btw, anyone know where I can find that demo? I can't seem to remember this demo, even though I bought a lot of magazines with coverdiscs (CDs). Didn't have a CD-ROM at the time though, so it may have passed me. Although I find it strange that this game was never mentioned in any magazine, seeing as they came as far as releasing a demo of it. After all, LucasArts games wasn't something they'd ignore was it? |
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Cool, I didn't know there was a demo.
No idea why it wasn't release but I think these factors may very well been a consideration.... o Amiga market "on the out" commerically o Game was big in size then, how many Amiga people had CD ROM's? Besides, it didn't seem to be "fashionable" to produce Amiga stuff anymore Actually, I would have bought that game if it would have come out on the miggy, Sam and Max too. I saw them at a friends and really wanted them. To this day have have played neither. So much for brand exposure. |
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I've never seen the demo either. Seems odd that they should port the engine, then not bother releasing the game.
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I don't think this was ever made as a demo, it would have turned up by now surely.
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I've got a vague recollection of someone making a home version of the first part of it on the Amiga. Not an official demo at all.
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Yes, that's the thing, an unofficial "port" done by someone. You probably played that thing. Somebody here posted it in teh Zone eons ago, but I forgot who he was (probably Amigaboy)
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Remember that the HOL is intended for this sort of question - often there will be an entry for an unreleased Amiga game to dispel rumours of its existence on the Amiga.
In the case of DOTT, the HOL entry tells us that it's only available on the Amiga through an interpreter: http://hol.abime.net/?id=3442 |
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Yeah, I know, but I can't blindly follow the information of a website. Sometimes they're just plain wrong.
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The HOL is (hopefully) getting more accurate all the time, although there is still incorrect information in it. We do try to research things thoroughly for it!
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