Jack Nicklaus Golf (CDTV) - "MIA" to "Unreleased"

[Velociraptor5]

HoL link: https://hol.abime.net/3552

I would say, this game should be changed from "MIA" to "Unreleased".

Now, start of quote... (the source is CDTV guide)

Jack Nicklaus Golf - Accolade, £39.99
Not a straight port of the Amiga game from 1989-91, but a totally new version announced in June 1991, using 9000 digitised course photos of Muirfield, rendered as HAM screens overlayed with 16 colour sprite animations of the players, an original score CD soundtrack along with over 20 sampled sound effects adding atmosphere to the game.

Despite being one of the most promising upcoming CDTV titles, and still being promised in June 1992, it totally vanished off release schedules in 1993, not even being moved to the CD32. Surprising Atari later bought the rights and announced the game in June 1994 for the Atari Jaguar CD for an early 1995 release, the early demos used the original CDTV graphics as placeholders, but the failure of the Atari Jaguar and its CD addon would ensure the game would never see the light of day.

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Judge for yourself, if the source is trustworthy.

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Velociraptor5

HoL link: start of quote... (the source is CDTV guide)

Link?

[Velociraptor5]

Originally Posted by alexh

Link?

https://archive.org/details/cdtv-gui...e/124/mode/2up

[alexh]

That's a homebrew collection of information? Not exactly reliable.

The images are from the Jaguar CD version.

I'd say this is not "unreleased" (which implies a disc image exists?) but MIA as it's still never been seen.

[Velociraptor5]

Originally Posted by alexh

I'd say this is not "unreleased" (which implies a disc image exists?) but MIA as it's still never been seen.

Unreleased
- original image usually doesn't exist at all (maybe demos of that games), because the game has never been officially released, or games were only planned... (but there may be a lot of exceptions). Sometimes the games were later recovered.
Look here for unreleased games:
https://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?B_unreleased=yes


M.I.A.
- game (image) exists and was probably seen by thousands of people, but nobody around HoL saw this game... or nobody wanted to add screenshots to HoL. There is a lot of games, which are available, but marked as "MIA" now in HoL.
I have an example from the last time, I found...
Spherical Worlds
https://hol.abime.net/5788

This game is normally available in TOSEC in "CD - Games - [ISO]" section, as "Spherical Worlds (1996)(NEO)[!]"

[NeoHippie2016]

I have Images of Spherical Worlds. Owner of the Disk AND CD Version!

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Velociraptor5

M.I.A.
- game (image) exists and was probably seen by thousands of people, but nobody around HoL saw this game... or nobody wanted to add screenshots to HoL.

Have a look here: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=110789

Surely the lazy people of HOL willfully ignore all games that could be added and all things that aren't correct. It's of course not because there's only a limited amount of time to be spent on a hobby project and there are maybe 5 people still actively working on it.