Unreleased VIC-20 game
Unreleased VIC-20 game
Yesterday at the Vintage Computer Festival 10.0, a woman named Alex came up to our FCUG table and said that she had an unreleased commercial game. The story goes that back in the 1980's she worked for Imagic, that the game was ready to go, and that Imagic went out-of-business before the game had a chance to be released. She said she had the only copy of it. I eagerly told her that she should release the game -- whether to the public domain, as shareware, or as a commercial release -- and that the VIC-20 users around the world would be appreciative. She was surprised that there was still a VIC-20 following. I assured her there was and gave her not only the address to our club's website but also the address to the Denial forum (which she inputted into her IPhone). I told her to register here to see the messages, and the thousands of VIC-20 fans were reading the messages here. Here's hoping that the game eventually sees the light of day.
So excited that I forgot to ask
the name of the game,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
So excited that I forgot to ask
the name of the game,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
OH MY GOSH!
MULTICART! (I know....there's no more room!)
OH MY GOSH!
Unreleased Imagic game for VIC (shock, ack....grabbing in the air for ghostly apparition of Imagic cartridge prototype).
Let's PLEASE make sure this is archived.
I hope YOU got HER phone number too, in case she just forgets about this...
MULTICART! (I know....there's no more room!)
OH MY GOSH!
Unreleased Imagic game for VIC (shock, ack....grabbing in the air for ghostly apparition of Imagic cartridge prototype).
Let's PLEASE make sure this is archived.
I hope YOU got HER phone number too, in case she just forgets about this...
If you refer to Mega-Cart, don't worry if really this rom exist, is archived and she allows us we can ever remove something to get space for this extraordinary find !!!!ral-clan wrote:OH MY GOSH!
MULTICART! (I know....there's no more room!)
OH MY GOSH!
Unreleased Imagic game for VIC (shock, ack....grabbing in the air for ghostly apparition of Imagic cartridge prototype).
Mega-Cart: the cartridge you plug in once and for all.
Imagic games are of very high quality, so I am really hoping this one gets archived. I'm assuming that it would be a port of one of their previously released games. Let's see, we have:
Demon Attack
Atlantis
DragonFire
....these games are all on other platforms too....so what was the next title released by Imagic for the Atari/Intellivision? That would be a good indication of what this game might be for the VIC.
Demon Attack
Atlantis
DragonFire
....these games are all on other platforms too....so what was the next title released by Imagic for the Atari/Intellivision? That would be a good indication of what this game might be for the VIC.
Fathom ?ral-clan wrote:....these games are all on other platforms too....so what was the next title released by Imagic for the Atari/Intellivision? That would be a good indication of what this game might be for the VIC.
Moonsweeper ?
Take a look to this list.
Mega-Cart: the cartridge you plug in once and for all.
That list obviously needs updating. While the VIC-20 is covered on the site, a couple of the major 3rd party manufacturers mentioned don't have the VIC titles in their master lists.
Furthermore, the existing list of VIC-20 games contain at least two games on the rumor mill: Donkey Kong JR and Track & Field, both from Atarisoft. Perhaps someone should give allgame.com a helping hand to sort out duplicates, vaporware and instead add all the real cartridge games they forgot?
By the way, the Digital Press online rarity guide (maintained by Mayhem, I believe) lists four Imagic games as part of the rumor mill: Fathom, Moonsweeper, Nova Blast and Wing War.
Furthermore, the existing list of VIC-20 games contain at least two games on the rumor mill: Donkey Kong JR and Track & Field, both from Atarisoft. Perhaps someone should give allgame.com a helping hand to sort out duplicates, vaporware and instead add all the real cartridge games they forgot?
By the way, the Digital Press online rarity guide (maintained by Mayhem, I believe) lists four Imagic games as part of the rumor mill: Fathom, Moonsweeper, Nova Blast and Wing War.
Anders Carlsson
That's what I'm thinking...if she isn't involved in the hobby then there's probably little motivation for her to get this prototype to someone who will do anything with it.
I wouldn't have let her leave without at least getting an e-mail address or phone number! I would have blocked the door! Haha!
Oh well, I guess at least Robert stated to her the importance of the unreleased prototype. Perhaps that will make her think twice about throwing it out when she does a Spring cleaning.
I wouldn't have let her leave without at least getting an e-mail address or phone number! I would have blocked the door! Haha!
Oh well, I guess at least Robert stated to her the importance of the unreleased prototype. Perhaps that will make her think twice about throwing it out when she does a Spring cleaning.
Because there are no more Vintage Computer Festivals here in California and because it seemed that she was from the Silicon Valley, the only chance for her to show up again would be at a similar retro show in the area. Recently, the only shows in the area have been the Digital Game Museum's Atari Party which was held in Sunnyvale and the original Atari Party which was in Davis (which is actually rather far from the Silicon Valley).Jeff-20 wrote:The fact that she was at a vintage computer festival gives some hope.
If AP's organizer Bill Kendrick's invitation is still good, I would be able to set up a Commodore table at next year's Atari Party - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/ (Heh, Commodores among the many Ataris!) I could display C64 and VIC-20 set-ups and see who shows up.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug