General info for: Scooby-Doo [#ID: 4365]
Title:
Also known as:
Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo in the Castle Mystery
Release Date:
1986
Original Publisher:
Availability:
Available
Message Language:
English
Machine Type:
ZX-Spectrum 48K
Maximum Players:
1
Graphical Views:
Screen Movements:
Original Price:
£7.95
Original Price according to SPOT/SPEX:
6.95
*** Data provided by SPOT/SPEX is unconfirmed. Please help us validate this information!
Average mag. score:
88.14% (7 reviews)
Remarks:
A much-hyped game, Elite first started advertising this from around Autumn 1985. The advert billed the game as "the first ever computer cartoon" and featured some mouth watering screenshots. The game was to be similar to the laser disc arcade games such as Dragon's Lair. Issue 21 of Crash carried a full preview of the game.
The game was to feature all the characters from the cartoon and was set in a Scottish castle owned by Shaggy's auntie. The castle is haunted and Scooby and the gang have 48 hours to solve the mystery.
The game is said to "feature seven or eight action sequences which are separated by descriptive scenes in which characters in the game interact by meeting together and having a chat..."
"In the action sequences you will follow Scooby and Shaggy as they search the castle and need to help them solve (or avoid) problems as they arise and generally guide them on their way. You drive the action in the game, acting rather like a film director, taking decisions which affect the outcome of events. After each action sequence has been played through, the scene will fade to a descriptive section where you eavesdrop on conversations and can pick up clues, tips and hints which will help you solve the mystery."
The game was scrapped as the Spectrum was not capable of handling such an ambitious project. Issue 47 of Sinclair User reported: "while the graphics in the game ... are supposedly unbelievable the game is a shambles. Lack of memory has been blamed for the failure to release the game". Elite were, however, supposedly considering releasing the game for the 128K Spectrum.
Faster Than Light then developed the game for Elite, a much more conventional platform and ladders game, which was released towards the end of 1986.
The game did spawn the Scooby Award in the Gremlin column of Sinclair User which was given to much-delayed games!

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User Score
Score:
6.7
Total votes:
10


Stats:
  8:  
  20% (2)
  7:  
  40% (4)
  6:  
  30% (3)
  5:  
  10% (1)

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Elite Systems Ltd (UK)
1986
Scooby-Doo.tap.zip
English
Elite Systems Ltd (UK)
1986
Scooby-Doo.tzx.zip
English
Encore (UK)
1986
Scooby-Doo(Encore).tzx.zip
English
Zafi Chip (Spain)
1986
Scooby-Doo(ZafiChip).tzx.zip
English

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LICENCE TIE-INS / INSPIRATIONS
Origin: Tie-in Licence
Type: Cartoon
Owner(s): Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc (USA)
Releases
1986
£7.95
unknown
1986
£1.99
unknown
1986
1200.00 Ptas
Authors/Contributors
Compilations featuring this title
Title: 6-Pak
Publisher: Hit-Pak (UK)
Date: 1987
Release Type: Full version
Alternate Title:
Date: 1989
Release Type: Full version
Alternate Title:
Date: 1988
Release Type: Full version
Alternate Title:
Date: 1990
Release Type: Full version
Alternate Title:
Publisher: Magazine Load 'n' Run - covertape from issue #43 - 1987/Nov
Date: 1987/Nov
Release Type: Unauthorized version
Alternate Title: Fantasmi
Page: 30 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review
Score: 91%
Page: 112 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review
Score: 89%
Page: 43 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review
Score: 91%
Page: 58 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review
Score: 4/5
Page: 38 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review
Score: 9/10
Page: 60 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review
Score: 9/10
Page: 46 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review
Score: 86%
Page: 8 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note
Page: 14 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Feature - Elite - Exploding Into Action
Page: 62 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: CompoEntry
Page: 130 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Preview
Page: 110 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: CompoEntry
Page: 107 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: CompoResult
Page: 94 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Preview
Page: 58 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: CompoEntry
Page: 100 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: CompoResult
Page: 119 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Feature - Reviewers Challenge
Page: 67 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Hack/Poke
Page: 49 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Hack/Poke
Page: 39 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Hack/Poke
Page: 60 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Hack/Poke
Page: 27 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Tips - Tokes
Page: 30 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Tips - Tokes
Page: 66 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Tips - Tokes
Page: 4 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note - Scooby Doo scrappy-dooed
Issue: 1999/Sep
Page: 0
Article Type: Information
Page: 7 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note
Page: 7 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note
Page: 105 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Preview
Page: 16 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Hack/Poke
Page: 32 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Feature - Framed
Issue: 1988/Aug
Page: 42
Article Type: Hack/Poke
Page: 11 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note
Page: 5 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note
Page: 29 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Hack/Poke
Page: 9 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Feature - The Games that Time Forgot
Page: 11 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note
Page: 3 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note
Page: 28 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Two-page ad
Page: 26 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad
Page: 35 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert
Page: 24 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert
Page: 25 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert
Page: 31 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad
Page: 79 (PDF) (VIEW)
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Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
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Page: 14 (PDF) (VIEW)
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Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
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Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
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Page: 140 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad
Page: 42 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Two-page ad
Page: 8 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad
Page: 164 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert
Page: 154 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert
Page: 116 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review (Frank Bruno's Big Box)
Page: 93 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review (Thrill Time Gold 2)
Score: 52%
Page: 29 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review (6-Pak)
Score: 8/10
Page: 75 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review - Attack of the Compilations! (Thrill Time Gold 2)
Score: 53%
Page: 60 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review (6-Pak)
Score: 8/10
Page: 38 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review (Frank Bruno's Big Box)
Score: 7/10
Page: 82 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Review (6-Pak)
Page: 116 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Feature - We Wish You A ... Cheapy Christmas (Frank Bruno's Big Box)
Page: 73 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Hack/Poke (Frank Bruno's Big Box)
Page: 10 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note (6-Pak)
Page: 21 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note (6-Pak)
Page: 112 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: News/Note (6-Pak)
Page: 5 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: CompoEntry (6-Pak)
Page: 20 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Two-page ad (Thrill Time Gold 2)
Page: 24 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Two-page ad (Thrill Time Gold 2)
Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad (6-Pak)
Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad (6-Pak)
Page: 3 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad (6-Pak)
Page: 13 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (6-Pak)
Page: 3 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (6-Pak)
Page: 41 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (Frank Bruno's Big Box)
Page: 10 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Two-page ad (Thrill Time Gold 2)
Page: 48 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Two-page ad (Thrill Time Gold 2)
Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad (6-Pak)
Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad (6-Pak)
Page: 132 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad (6-Pak)
Page: 19 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (6-Pak)
Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (6-Pak)
Page: 29 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (6-Pak)
Page: 13 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (Frank Bruno's Big Box)
Page: 24 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Two-page ad (Thrill Time Gold 2)
Page: 19 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Full-page ad (6-Pak)
Page: 17 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (6-Pak)
Page: 2 (PDF) (VIEW)
Article Type: Advert (6-Pak)