News Renegade’s release schedule was looking rather impressive with “Uridium 2” first up, followed soon after by “Turrican 3” and “Elfmania”. If that wasn’t enough, “Ruff ‘n’ Tumble”, “Sensible World of Soccer”, “Flight of the Amazon Queen” and “Z”) were all due by the end of the year. The last one - a real time strategy game from the Bitmap Brothers - was particularly interesting since it’d be years...
News In an effort to draw some attention away from the other popular gaming mascots, Mindscape decided to enter “Alfred the Chicken” in the Christchurch by-election. Alfred managed to bring in 18 votes - two ahead of the Rainbow Alliance Party. The resulting media “circus” was certainly worth the 500 quid it cost them. Europress teased some screen shots of racing sim “Rally”, though they were from the PC...
News A year after announcing they were leaving the Amiga behind, news arrived that Sierra On-Line were bringing “King’s Quest VI” to our beloved machine. The conversion was being handled by Charles Cecil’s Revolution which had created a hybrid of its “Virtual Theatre” system for the job to ensure the game felt at home on the system, rather than some shoddy PC port. Krisalis spawned a new sub-label, Buzz,...
News The first images of the fighters in Team 17’s “Body Blows 2” surfaced. Domark snapped up the rights to the F1 championship, with the appropriately named “F1” being the first title out the door. The infamous “Night Trap” had resulted in politicians & law makers wanting to create a new mandatory classification scheme for games. After Ocean signed a large deal with them, Digital Image Design revealed two...
This is a great piece on the mysterious text adventure creators, St Bride’s; an edited version of which appeared in GamesTM mag.
I’d written about them previously, but this article does a far better job at uncovering their somewhat bizarre story.
News The Amiga had a strong showing at this year’s Golden Joysticks awards. Team 17 and Sensible Software won Software House of the Year and Computer Game of the Year respectively, with Jon Hare giving a “stirring speech warning against the dangers of complacency.” The Amiga related winners were: * Software House of the Year: Team 17 * Computer Game of the Year: “Sensible Soccer” Sensible Software * Best...
News I’m guessing this was an April Fools joke, but the lead news story concerned PC game “X-Wing” appearing “on” the Amiga… as in, it was a photo of an “X-Wing” box sitting on an Amiga… Mindscape revealed that their upcoming Gameboy platformer “Alfred Chicken” would be getting an Amiga release. Ocean reckoned that the somewhat crowded car racer genre was in need of something with a bit more...
News Comic artist Dave Gibbons (of “Watchmen” fame) had been collaborating with Charles Cecil and Revolution Software on the cyberpunk point-and-click adventure “Beneath a Steel Sky”. It transpired that his involvement came about after he contacted The One to complain they’d forgotten to credit him for “Watchmen”. The mag decided to lend him an Amiga and a copy of “Deluxe Paint” for a followup article, which sparked his interest...
News Under the headline “Kick Off 3 Shocker!” came the news that Dino Dini had parted ways with Anco and signed with Virgin to develop a “world-beating follow-up to ‘Kick Off 2’”, with the working title “Goal!”. The move cast doubts on whether there would be an official “Kick Off 3”, though co-designer Steve Screech remained at Anco. From the ashes of the hyped “Apocalypse”, Jason Perkins and Robin...
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