Which MIA game would you love to have?

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Re: Which MIA game would you love to have?

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stupidget wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:31 pm Mega tree was a separate game to Willy meets the tax man and was about 40% complete:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/megatree-jsw3/
If I'm reading that page right, 'Willy Meets the Taxman' was an alternate title used to refer to Megatree, and the game hadn't got anywhere near 40% finished.
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Ralf wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2019 9:55 am I would also like to see some games released only as demos from Russian scene. For example remakes of big games from early 90s: Mortal Combat, Warcraft, Civilisation, Worms, Legend of Kyrandia...
MK is already done years ago, Warcraft is nearly done (Black raven), while Worms and Kyrandia are playable demos AFAIK.
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djnzx48 wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:14 am
stupidget wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:31 pm Mega tree was a separate game to Willy meets the tax man and was about 40% complete:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/megatree-jsw3/
If I'm reading that page right, 'Willy Meets the Taxman' was an alternate title used to refer to Megatree, and the game hadn't got anywhere near 40% finished.
This is what I read:

But after recent conversation with Matthew Smith, it seems the “coin collecting” and “Taxman” references were mixed up with his other title “Miner Willy and The Taxman”… a completely separate game.

I've downloaded the ZIP file and theres a Powerpoint with some screenshots and a C64 file but that's it.
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MK is already done years ago, Warcraft is nearly done (Black raven), while Worms and Kyrandia are playable demos AFAIK.
Well, I should be more precise, I guess.

Morta Kombat has a full version but it has tiny sprites and for me doesn't have the feeling of the original much:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=12965
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I'd like to see this version completed:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=12966
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As for Black Raven, I agree. It's great. But we still have:

- unfinished Black Raven 2 set in space, that would be a great game too:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=12760
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- unfinished Warcraft

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=13121
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A lot of great projects were started in Russia, unfortunately much less were finished.
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well, "never finished" isn't technically "mia"
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I would loved to have seen Chuckie Apple, Nigel Alderton’s true sequel to Chuckie Egg that was heavily inspired by Mr Do. There’s the original design drawings for it here:

http://www.bagshot-row.org/chuckie-egg/ ... apple.html

The interesting thing is that his next game, Kong Strikes Back, is heavily inspired by Mr Do’s Wild Ride. The main character in Kong Strikes Back looks incredibly close to Hen House Harry (well the hat is a giveaway!) which always made me think that Kong Strikes Back maybe started off as Chuckie Egg 2 but had the Kong name (and Kong itself) added in later.The sound FX for collecting the hearts is exactly the same as collecting the eggs in Chuckie Egg and you could see how those hearts could easily be replaced by eggs.

https://youtu.be/3r-NUNZmrHM

Anyone want to hack Kong Strikes Back and make it Chuckie Egg 2: The Bird Strikes Back ???
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redballoon wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:42 am Wreckers by Denton Designs. Crashed Smashed and everything!
Yes! Brilliant call! This was the sort of next game in the Great Escape and Where Time Stood Still “series” of games, wasn’t it? I would love to see that being finally released!
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