Titan

[doug_in_nc]

Hi, Can anyone help me with a question? I was looking through the TOSEC archive for one of the Commodore cartridges, and searched the CRT archive by "Commodore" to find it. What I noticed was that a game called Titan popped up in the list. I had never heard of a Commodore cartridge called Titan, so I assumed it was a mistake. Just to check, I opened it in Vice, and to my surprise it said Copyright Commodore Business Machines. I then assumed it must have been converted from a cassette game to fit into a cartridge, but I didn't find much info on it by googling. I did find it listed as an 8K cartridge image on Zimmers, though! Everygamegoing.com didn't have it under its list of all 808 games at all, and Ward Shrake's list of cassette games doesn't have it either. I had a look through the archives here at Denial, and it was mentioned as being "basically the same game as Mobile Attack", and sure enough you can see that there have been a few changes but it is clearly the same game (and a cartridge). What makes that confusing is that the copyright notice for Mobile Attack is (edit) from MSD not Commodore, and it is from 1982 not 1981. Does anyone know the history of this game? Did Commodore actually sell it before MSD or not?

[Miklós]

Good day.

I think the game developer for the first time
He wrote Mobile Attack
and then became a .crt version.

- "Commercial" catch.
Sell a game under two names.

Mobile attack runs 8k expansion.
"tape casette" media.

Titan is in the 8k $ A000-rom chip.

-The "lives" register of both games uses the same title.

It is easier to change the graphics than to write new "code".

Aggressor --- Andes attack
Robot panic --- Myriad
VIDEO VERMIN -- MUSHROOM ALLEY

[Rich]

Does anyone have a cover for this game please

[doug_in_nc]

Good day.

I think the game developer for the first time
He wrote Mobile Attack
and then became a .crt version.

- "Commercial" catch.
Sell a game under two names.

Mobile attack runs 8k expansion.
"tape casette" media.

Titan is in the 8k $ A000-rom chip.

-The "lives" register of both games uses the same title.

It is easier to change the graphics than to write new "code".

Aggressor --- Andes attack
Robot panic --- Myriad
VIDEO VERMIN -- MUSHROOM ALLEY

Both Titan and Mobile Attack are cartridges, and both seem to be rare (there's a old thread about Mobile Attack here viewtopic.php?f=1&t=483&hilit=mobile+attack ). Maybe there is a tape vesion of one of them, but I can't find it.

My main question was if Titan was actually sold by Commodore because the start-up screen says "Commodore Business Machines 1981", but I have never seen it in any list of Commodore game cartridges. Mobile Attack is from MSD and from 1982. It seems very odd that Commodore would sell a game themselves and then sell the code to someone else for them to modify it and sell it under a different name a year later. Does anyone have an original cartridge of Titan to confirm it's history?

[Mayhem]

Mobile Attack was definitely released on cartridge by MSD, I own it.

I have never seen an original for Titan, so I have no idea if it's actually a cartridge (unlikely) or a converted tape (more likely). There's a German version released on tape by Conmodore called Luftkampf which is quite similar to both games, so I wonder if that's a starting point.

[doug_in_nc]

Mobile Attack was definitely released on cartridge by MSD, I own it.

I have never seen an original for Titan, so I have no idea if it's actually a cartridge (unlikely) or a converted tape (more likely). There's a German version released on tape by Conmodore called Luftkampf which is quite similar to both games, so I wonder if that's a starting point.

Thanks Mayhem! I had a quick look at a youtube video of someone playing Luftkampf, and yes it certainly looks like that was the basis of both games. It has about half of the play features of the othe r two, but it definitely looks like the beginnings of Mobile Attack. I couldn't find anything from Commodore that looked like it with a name in any other language, so I'm guessing it was only Commodore Germany that sold it.