Amiga Games That Weren't !! What is it? - Page 5

JudasEZT · 17 September 2003, 00:09

this forum is cool, I bet soon will post even the queen of england.

Richard, soundtrack of ChaosEngine is superb!!

7-Zark-7 · 17 September 2003, 12:02

WOW, Richard Joseph! Not here for a few days & look what happens! Still gotta take my hat off to your work on Cannon Fodder,Speedball 2,& even going back to your C64 days with stuff like Barbarian too. How you made something like the Cannon Fodder theme tune seem like a "CD off a floppy", is something I'll always respect!

05 October 2003, 22:02

Well at least one bit of the puzzle is solved. I've uploaded the Chinto's Revenge ingame music mod...

noises.iwarp.com

Note the htm extention! My crap server won't allow the mod extention but the file IS a mod. Rename as needed :-)

Richard

Amiga1992 · 07 October 2003, 18:43

Richard!!! Thanks a million

*stores mod in aGTW vault*

Methanoid · 10 December 2004, 09:46

Whatever happened to those nice looking games Team17 showed previews of to the Amiga mags... ISTR one was called King Something and looked like an RPG ???

Kodoichi · 10 December 2004, 10:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard Joseph

Note the htm extention! My crap server won't allow the mod extention but the file IS a mod. Rename as needed :-)

Is it really a mod? If so, Winamp should be able to play it, but it doesn't.

Edit: Oh great, your hoster automatically added a banner script into the file.

Photon · 11 December 2004, 01:54

I made a Pac-Man clone that was supposed to be on a CU Amiga cover disk... I got a job, so it was never finished. A friend was supposed to make levels for it, but he never did, it kinda ran out in the sand. It had a nice raytraced intro pic, tho.

But only two levels. If anyone's interested I'll dig it up.

11 December 2004, 04:23

RICHARD JOSEPH posted here and we can still find a reason to bitch.

mcbpete · 11 December 2004, 20:48

When does this site ETA. I'm getting itchy fingers waiting for it

Methanoid · 21 December 2004, 10:12

King of Thieves by Team 17.... didnt get published.. any idea why?

05 April 2005, 18:04

I may be wrong...because it's been a long long time ...but the only BUTLER involved with Universal Monsters was Simon Butler...the Artist and Designer on this project.

And the reason I know that is because it's me.

I designed this game for Ocean and worked on it until the end...not that the game was completed mind you...because it wasn't. The Coder, Mike Halsall slogged away at this for the best part of what seemed to be two years...might be wrong there as well...but he just couldn't get it to work.

All the graphics were finished by myself and Martin MacDonald...but unfortunately the game never saw the light of day.

ah well...never mind

who IS Chris Butler by the way?

7-Zark-7 · 01 May 2005, 17:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tandemar

who IS Chris Butler by the way?

*Bump*
Welcome Simon Butler to EAB! Your description on Frank Gasking's superb C64 GTW site about Total Recall Mk1 has to rank amongst the all-time funniest on-coming trainwreck disaster development stories! Not so funny to try & collaberate something quickly enough to prevent bankruptcy though, I'd assume.

As for your question,who was Chris Butler?!

Given you worked at Ocean, (& hence not likely to cross paths with someone who worked elsewhere), I guess its not a surprising question though!
Chris Butler was fondly remembered by many C64 veterans for his great arcade conversions. Though not pixel perfect, they tended to be quite playable. His best translations were C64 Ghost 'n' Goblins, Power Drift, & Ninja Spirit. Though not noted for his original C64 works, late in the C64's commercial life he also did Turbocharge for System 3, which was considered by many amongst the best 3D sprite based racing games for the C64. Before that he done games for Elite, U.S. Gold, & Activision amongst others.

mcbpete · 29 June 2005, 14:45

Any new ETA news? I so need to see this site

DeAdLy_cOoKiE · 29 June 2005, 15:07

http://hol.abime.net/4408

I've seen some nice looking pictures of this 3D game in an old mag, which I still have. Picture Metal Masters in 3D.

DrBong · 01 July 2005, 20:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcbpete

Any new ETA news? I so need to see this site

That's a question that's been asked here and at the C64 GTW site quite a few times over the last year, but it's continually ignored. Don't wait on the edge of your seat for an answer or anything!

andreas · 10 July 2005, 21:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tandemar

All the graphics were finished by myself and Martin MacDonald...but unfortunately the game never saw the light of day.

Cool

Well, if there's a slight chance that you still have some of the graphics ... could you try searching for them?

I think if the game is not available for one reason or another, it's at least better than nothing if we have a handful of good screenshots in HOL.
(and I am not talking about those from the demo on cover disk which is usually sized down to bits to fit in the very limited disk space

)

Also the unfinished (post-demo) game would be interesting to see, if you'd still preserved that disk, that is

mcbpete · 28 August 2005, 19:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrBong

That's a question that's been asked here and at the C64 GTW site quite a few times over the last year, but it's continually ignored. Don't wait on the edge of your seat for an answer or anything!

Damn, it's really frustrating because it looks such a fantastic project and with the C64 GTW providing hours of entertainment and with such great updates every month it just makes me long for an Amiga version even more. I'm just praying that the project has not been simply abandoned....

It seems rather ironic now that the site has the tagline "Coming Sooner Than You Thought" as I thought it was going to be open at least a year ago.

StarEye · 16 December 2005, 19:47

I remember seeing a screenshot of King of Thieves in an amiga magazine back then. I'll check to see if I can find the mag again.

cai24 · 30 January 2006, 12:38

Wow, I just now noticed this thread.. and I realized should have posted in this thread in the first place..silly me! ..there are lot of veterans here.. it warms my heart

I was working on a terramarque back at '94-'95 and I just recently had an OK from housemarque to publish my work on the net.. they will be up on my homepage later, I will let you know so you can get them for your archives if you want to.. material I got are gfx from unpublished elfmania datadisk and P.I.Dollarally I was doing with stavros..there's *quite a lot* of stuff that's never been seen before.. I just transferred and converted them all from my old disks last week..

but yeah, it seems I should post news here when the stuff is online..

blade002 · 31 January 2006, 07:35

Yeah, "King Of Thieves" looked like it was going to be a great game!. i remember seeing the preview shots of it in The One.

Another game that never made it through was one called "Dynamic Debugger", which was going to be the first ever HAM Mode platform game. I saw it advertised in ACE in about 1990 or 89 ?.. cant remember now, but i might try and dig up my old magazines and scan the add. It really looked great!!.

And whats this!?. RICHARD JOSEPH is posting on here???.. WOW!!.. HEY RICHARD, HOW THE HELL ARE YA!??, LOVE YOUR WORK!. hehehe..

Plus we also have one of the guys who worked with "Terramarque" here too!! BTW, how the hell did you guys manage to achieve that parallax scrolling routine in Elfmania???????... it blew my mind!

05 October 2003, 22:02	#83
Richard Joseph Posts: n/a	Well at least one bit of the puzzle is solved. I've uploaded the Chinto's Revenge ingame music mod... noises.iwarp.com Note the htm extention! My crap server won't allow the mod extention but the file IS a mod. Rename as needed :-) Richard Last edited by Richard Joseph; 05 October 2003 at 22:35.

05 April 2005, 18:04	#91
Tandemar Posts: n/a	Universal Monsters By Ocean I may be wrong...because it's been a long long time ...but the only BUTLER involved with Universal Monsters was Simon Butler...the Artist and Designer on this project. And the reason I know that is because it's me. I designed this game for Ocean and worked on it until the end...not that the game was completed mind you...because it wasn't. The Coder, Mike Halsall slogged away at this for the best part of what seemed to be two years...might be wrong there as well...but he just couldn't get it to work. All the graphics were finished by myself and Martin MacDonald...but unfortunately the game never saw the light of day. ah well...never mind who IS Chris Butler by the way?

31 January 2006, 07:35	#100
blade002 Zone Friend Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Age: 50 Posts: 2,616	Yeah, "King Of Thieves" looked like it was going to be a great game!. i remember seeing the preview shots of it in The One. Another game that never made it through was one called "Dynamic Debugger", which was going to be the first ever HAM Mode platform game. I saw it advertised in ACE in about 1990 or 89 ?.. cant remember now, but i might try and dig up my old magazines and scan the add. It really looked great!!. And whats this!?. RICHARD JOSEPH is posting on here???.. WOW!!.. HEY RICHARD, HOW THE HELL ARE YA!??, LOVE YOUR WORK!. hehehe.. Plus we also have one of the guys who worked with "Terramarque" here too!! BTW, how the hell did you guys manage to achieve that parallax scrolling routine in Elfmania???????... it blew my mind! Last edited by blade002; 31 January 2006 at 07:44.

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17 September 2003, 00:09	#81
JudasEZT Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: mercury Posts: 577	this forum is cool, I bet soon will post even the queen of england. Richard, soundtrack of ChaosEngine is superb!!

17 September 2003, 12:02	#82
7-Zark-7 Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Brisbane/Australia Posts: 1,270	WOW, Richard Joseph! Not here for a few days & look what happens! Still gotta take my hat off to your work on Cannon Fodder,Speedball 2,& even going back to your C64 days with stuff like Barbarian too. How you made something like the Cannon Fodder theme tune seem like a "CD off a floppy", is something I'll always respect!

07 October 2003, 18:43	#84
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Richard!!! Thanks a million stores mod in aGTW vault

10 December 2004, 09:46	#85
Methanoid Retired Quartex Sysop Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Roman Verulamium Age: 58 Posts: 1,873	Whatever happened to those nice looking games Team17 showed previews of to the Amiga mags... ISTR one was called King Something and looked like an RPG ???

11 December 2004, 01:54	#87
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	I made a Pac-Man clone that was supposed to be on a CU Amiga cover disk... I got a job, so it was never finished. A friend was supposed to make levels for it, but he never did, it kinda ran out in the sand. It had a nice raytraced intro pic, tho. But only two levels. If anyone's interested I'll dig it up.

11 December 2004, 04:23	#88
oldpx Posts: n/a	RICHARD JOSEPH posted here and we can still find a reason to bitch.

11 December 2004, 20:48	#89
mcbpete Zone Friend Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: London, England Age: 41 Posts: 239	When does this site ETA. I'm getting itchy fingers waiting for it

21 December 2004, 10:12	#90
Methanoid Retired Quartex Sysop Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Roman Verulamium Age: 58 Posts: 1,873	King of Thieves by Team 17.... didnt get published.. any idea why?

29 June 2005, 14:45	#93
mcbpete Zone Friend Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: London, England Age: 41 Posts: 239	Any new ETA news? I so need to see this site

29 June 2005, 15:07	#94
DeAdLy_cOoKiE Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 122	http://hol.abime.net/4408 I've seen some nice looking pictures of this 3D game in an old mag, which I still have. Picture Metal Masters in 3D.

16 December 2005, 19:47	#98
StarEye Zone Friend Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Norway Age: 46 Posts: 987	I remember seeing a screenshot of King of Thieves in an amiga magazine back then. I'll check to see if I can find the mag again.

30 January 2006, 12:38	#99
cai24 Graphics Astronaut Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ziggurath Posts: 34	Wow, I just now noticed this thread.. and I realized should have posted in this thread in the first place..silly me! ..there are lot of veterans here.. it warms my heart I was working on a terramarque back at '94-'95 and I just recently had an OK from housemarque to publish my work on the net.. they will be up on my homepage later, I will let you know so you can get them for your archives if you want to.. material I got are gfx from unpublished elfmania datadisk and P.I.Dollarally I was doing with stavros..there's quite a lot of stuff that's never been seen before.. I just transferred and converted them all from my old disks last week.. but yeah, it seems I should post news here when the stuff is online..

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