>> Upon travelling to Ocean to explain the situation, Colin produced the 3 month demo again and stated that he’d be able to get the game back within short time. Sadly Ocean didn’t want to see it through any longer...
That's unfortunate as the second version likely would have been written much faster and have fewer lines of code.
fgasking•2h ago
Still hoping we might find something of it in the future. Though Colin binned all his personal disks about 10 years ago.
There's another due in the next few weeks with any luck :)
jcmeyrignac•2h ago
I worked for Ocean Software France at this moment.
Ocean Software stopped all development on Amiga and Atari ST, so there were a few games that we working on that were never released.
They wanted to focus on licenses, so all the other games were ditched
fgasking•1h ago
Hi there, thankfully Snow Bros and Liquid Kids were recovered in recent years.
Do you by any chance know anything about these two titles which are still at large? Guerilla War and Adidas Golden Shoe?
Not sure if i'm allowed to keep posting links here.
jcmeyrignac•1h ago
Yes, I programmed Snow Bros for the Atari ST. It was finished but never released. And no, I have no copy either.
When I worked for Cryo, I coded a game "Trashman" for the SNES. I still have a copy of the game but it's not finished.
fgasking•1h ago
Sorry to hear that. I suspect that you've been asked that question a lot too about still having it by the Atari community! :) . Hopefully something will surface in the future via other means.
That sounds very interesting about Trashman and would love to learn more sometime if you were up for talking about the game? If so, please feel free to contact me via the contact form link on the website.
teroshan•3h ago
And to be able to preserve released Video Games, please go support the Stop Killing Games [1] movement and sign the European Citizen's initiative [2] if you're an EU citizen. There is 1 month left to bring the subject to a discussion, and 500k signatures are missing.
I think all art and media should be preserved. It's been clear for decades current copyright laws aren't fit for purpose. Fair use within books is for collection so it should be for digital.
austinallegro•3h ago
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/parasol-stars/
ludicrousdispla•3h ago
That's unfortunate as the second version likely would have been written much faster and have fewer lines of code.
fgasking•2h ago
We were grateful though to recover our other holy grail: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/daffy-duck/
There's another due in the next few weeks with any luck :)
jcmeyrignac•2h ago
fgasking•1h ago
Do you by any chance know anything about these two titles which are still at large? Guerilla War and Adidas Golden Shoe?
Not sure if i'm allowed to keep posting links here.
jcmeyrignac•1h ago
fgasking•1h ago
That sounds very interesting about Trashman and would love to learn more sometime if you were up for talking about the game? If so, please feel free to contact me via the contact form link on the website.