Which MIA game would you love to have?

[djnzx48]

Horace to the Rescue and Willy Meets the Taxman.

[stupidget]

I was also intrigued by the idea behind the 'original' Scooby Doo, though I suppose as it materialised (just in a changed shape) some might say it's not really MIA.

Although I wasn't the biggest fan of Marsport, I would have liked to see how the sequel(s) - Fornax and Gath - turned out.

I remember seeing those original pics in Crash and thinking that the game would be amazing. When I look at the pics now you can see that they're just flat images in a graphics package like Artist or something similar. Does anybody know how much of that original concept was actually completed? From what I've heard it was going to be a similar game idea to Dragons Lair.

[DouglasReynholm]

Knowing Ocean back in the day the top should read :

"Advertise it now... worry about hiring some poor schmuck to write it in a week, later!".

On topic - the really obvious one to me is Mire Mare as Pete correctly expects, I just suspect that like any other late-stage Ultimate game you would have to expect some disappointment. Maybe best left as legend. Really can't think of any other Speccy 'vapourware' (that I would like to see anyway), what did we call the equivalent at the time?

[stupidget]

Surprised nobody has said Mega Tree by Matthew Smith. I remember the dev disks being auctioned on eBay back in 2004, but I don't think anything was ever released from them:

https://www.avforums.com/threads/matthe ... ay.127827/

Mega tree was a separate game to Willy meets the tax man and was about 40% complete:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/megatree-jsw3/

[Swainy]

Another one that I would like to at least see in action is the original version of Outrun Europa.



I event went as far as starting a mock-up myself.

[djnzx48]

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.

[Bedazzle]

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.

[stupidget]

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.

[Ralf]

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


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


- unfinished Warcraft

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=13121


A lot of great projects were started in Russia, unfortunately much less were finished.

[Lethargeek]

well, "never finished" isn't technically "mia"

[toot_toot]

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 ???

[toot_toot]

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!