12 June 2003, 07:32 | #61 |
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Having had my attention drawn back to this thread by the last post, I re-read it and had a few comments about two of the games that are listed in The Wolf's list that was given earlier in the thread.
Transputor - This game was recently requested here and was posted to the Zone as part of a compact collection. It is listed in HOL with screenshots as well. There may not be a stand-alone version of the game available though. Winter Challenge - In the earlier post this was listed as an Accolade title from 1992. In HOL it is listed as a Thunder Mountain title from 1988, and it is shown as missing in action. I do have a working stand-alone adf version of this one, and if this is truly missing, I'd be happy to post it to the Zone. Unless Accolade released another game by the same name a few years later though, then I'm assuming that this was simply a mistake. |
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12 June 2003, 14:10 | #63 |
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Yeah, I don't seem to be able to locate a copy of Winter Challenge in my top tier stuff (what's on the HD), so please do post this.
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12 June 2003, 15:51 | #64 |
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Ok, I'll post it when I get home this evening.
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12 June 2003, 20:23 | #65 |
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Winter Challenge (aka Winter Olympiad 88 by Tynesoft) was released by Thunder Mountain in the US and may have been distributed by Mindscape. I'll know for sure when my copy rolls through the mail from the US in a few weeks.
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13 June 2003, 01:30 | #66 |
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I've just uploaded Winter Challenge to the Zone, so whoever wants it, go grab it. If I recall correctly, I think this is one of mine that I created using disk2fdi, so hopefully there will be no problems with it. It works as far into the game as I've gone, but that's not saying very much.
@DrBong I don't think Mindscape had anything to do with this one. The disk scan shown in HOL makes no mention of Mindscape, and the Mindscape logo that usually appears when booting anything they've touched is nowhere to be seen. |
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And Mindscape distributed stuff the world over. I think it was either Sweden or Australia (probably the latter) that most of the Amiga games there were distributed by Mindscape.
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13 June 2003, 07:43 | #69 |
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Well, I'm afraid I won't be able to shed any further light on the subject then if the only indication that they were involved was a sticker on the box. The box is long gone, and the instructions that came with the game only mention Tynesoft and Thunder Mountain. Maybe DrBong will have an update for us when the copy he just bought arrives soon ... which begs the question:
@DrBong Where the heck did you manage to find a place in the US that you could order a title like that from in it's original boxed condition? |
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ECP was perhaps better known as a big budget games publisher in Australia (especially for EA and SSI games) than as a distributor. They might have been on par with Imagineering in terms of the volume of games distribution they handled, though.
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13 June 2003, 21:51 | #74 |
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First of all, thanks Chuckles to post this gem in the zone.
Unfortunately, this isn't the game "we" are searching for. As you said the game is from Tynesoft and not Accolade, and my screenshot is totally different from this, the graphic is a little more detailed... However, be happy because you have discovered another lost game from the amiga graveyard! |
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Hi guys, This is my first post to this forum, so be nice hehe.
anyway I was wondering if anybody knows if the game Nobby the Aardvark by Thalamus was ever released. Im pretty sure it was unreleased as I can't find information about it anywhere except in Amiga Action. It was a platform game and was featured in the Blue Print section of Amiga Action Issue 36, page 54. The game looked crap, but I've never played a game with an aardvark as its hero, hehe |
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"Nobby The Aardvark" is actually mentioned earlier on this very page (on The Wolf's list), but you can read a bit more about it here:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=647& |
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Another unreleased one:
The Game Machine |
15 June 2003, 03:53 | #78 |
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Cool, thanks for the info Twistin'Ghost, I didn't realise Nobby was so well known.
BTW have these games been mentioned yet, Im sure they are unreleased: Esairs XII - by Arcane Rocket Rescue - unknown Flag - Millenium Strike II - Millenium (This was meant to be a sequel to an older release Thunderstrike) - Is this the same game as Strike Command (mentioned in HOL as unreleased) M - SSI (I suspect this game was released only on PC, and the screenshots are from the PC Version) |
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Nobby the aardvark wasn't that great a game I'd say. At least the C64 version wasn't and it didn't feel like it was missing something important.
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