31 December 2011, 14:23 | #1 |
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Conan The Cimmerian trivia and unknown? news?
hey,
found some really strange stuff at the virgin site regarding Conan, it pointed towards some magazine info october 1992 by Amiga Power. I had a look at AMR to confirm it. See page PAGE 93 of the 1992 October issue. The guy in charge says, there was no money left, the game will never be finished etc. now.. go to HOL, the game there is listed as released in 1991.... WTF? who is right `? was there a second game with the same name from the same developer? I got the game on orginal with box and manual etc, it does say 1991 indeed but according to my reciet i bought it in 1993 at a price of 199,- nok (about 21,99GBP) I can't remember if i completed the game or not, most likely not but it didnt feel unfinished IMO. cheers PS: links to the stuff: http://hol.abime.net/3075 http://amr.abime.net/issue_18_pages (select page 93) |
31 December 2011, 23:15 | #2 |
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Interesting game!. Didn't know there was a game based on conan for the amiga. Will check it out
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01 January 2012, 15:03 | #4 |
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This game does exist as WHDLoad.
Must try it out some day. |
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11 January 2012, 10:35 | #6 |
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@winloze96
i know, as i supported them with the DiskImages. @trypticon I am guessing the same aswell. Tried to look them up on Facebook, sadly there was like 100s of hits |
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A reply to an old thread, I know, but I only recently bought this obscure game........
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07 October 2013, 20:52 | #8 |
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in france it's a 1 month period. what you had in November was made for december, december for january, and so on.
This game seems to have been badly distributed, and worse, UBISOFT was the french publisher for this Virgin Title back in the day. Why is it so rare ? it's unknown. |
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07 October 2013, 22:22 | #10 |
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Yep, here the December episode got (and still gets) published in November (and probably was/is written between September and October) too. If a game was reviewed in February '92, it's safe to assume that the press copies were at least sent in late '91.
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02 November 2013, 19:21 | #11 |
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Thanks TCD! Hard to imagine that the game wouldn't have been released by Virgin in time for Christmas '91 if they had review copies to the Euro mags before then.
Interestingly, the game was developed in the U.S. by Synergistic, which may explain why the game is so obscure (and may have slightly delayed the Euro release). One of those games where it would be interesting to hear from the developers...... EDIT: Shame that another planned Conan game - Hyboria: Conan the Conqueror - never made it to release. Looked pretty good from the previews! http://amr.abime.net/amr_search.php?...Mozilla-search Last edited by DrBong; 02 November 2013 at 19:34. |
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