https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15519
was produced using the Professional Adventure Writer (not the Quill as currently listed)
That one's from the "improved" Now Games compilation version.Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:24 am The first one seems from a re-release or fan-made version.
The in-game credits, list the author as Brian Howarth with artwork by John Blacow, so the ZXDB entry is correct.Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:57 pm According to the game entry, the authors were Brian Howarth and John Blacow but the inlay says Howarth and Mike Woodruff instead.
Perhaps, although in other games Mike (Michael) Woodroffe got a writing credit in the actual game, when he was involved... Perhaps they did the inlay first, before the game. I mean... they spelt his name wrong, for starters!
Fixed. It will show the original loading screen first, after the next ZXDB update.Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:24 am The entry of Sorcery (Virgin Games) shows a strange (at least for me) loading screen:
Instead of the classic
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sin ... orcery.scr
The first one seems from a re-release or fan-made version.
Done. It will be fixed in the next update.druellan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:13 pm Fairlight II seems to display the alternate loading screen instead of the retail one:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1715
"Original publisher" is a quite ambiguous term when we also have "original price" and "original publication" which do refer to the first published version, although I'm not sure there's any better way to word it.richl wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:46 pm Whilst I agree about Beach Volley, Inspector Gadget etc I'd still stick with the original publisher as Ocean, Melbourne House etc as they would have licensed them to Erbe, even if they chose not to publish the games themselves in the UK. They were the ones who produced the games and originally advertised them etc.
Yes, I don't see why entries should be called "Re-release #1", "Re-release #2" etc in the releases table. Just flagging the "Original Release" seems sufficient to me.
Things that don't exist
Beach Volley (485) - reviewed and advertised but never released by Ocean (10508) (the files at WoS are a from a cracked Spanish version, and the box front shown is the same for all formats).Inspector Gadget (2489) - reviewed and advertised but never released by Melbourne House (9522) (the scrapping was reported here: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 63&page=20).
- The Erbe (4437) release should be the "Original Release", the Ocean release should be marked "Never Released".
Vampire's Empire (5540) - reviewed and advertised but never released by Gremlin (5561).
- The Erbe (4437) release should be the "Original Release", the Melbourne House release should be marked "Never Released".
None of these titles had a Hit Squad (14438) re-release:
- The DroSoft (4025) release should be marked "Original Release", the Gremlin release should be marked "Never Released".
Firefly (1772)
Passing Shot (3629)
Legend of Kage (2848)
Superbowl (5058)None of these titles had a Ricochet (12321) re-release:
- All these releases should be removed
Confuzion (1048)
The Covenant (1098)
Gobbleman (2074)
Helichopper (2280)
Throne of Fire (5243)Maze Mania (3092) was not re-released on the Rack It (11956) label (the snapshot is of a Rack-It version, so it was presumably planned)
- All these releases should be removed
ACE (56) and ACE 2 (59) were not re-released individually by Encore, only as a compilation.
- The Rack-It release should be marked "Never Released".
- These two releases should be removed.
Update on this one:StooB wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 1:44 pm Superman - The Game (5069)
- original publisher is Telecomsoft (14343), not Firebird (4722) according to the original inlay (not available here, but uploaded by zzapmort to archive.org: https://archive.org/download/spectrumin ... nlay01.jpg)