Genesis Mission was fast to provide us the heads up by way of Fb at this time, that not solely have they launched a recreation for the Commodore 64, however this recreation often known as ‘Dominion’ by Micro Media, was discovered and recovered by Hedning of GP! As within the phrases of Genesis Mission “A shooter that James Doyle & Mark Hughes made in 1988, between “Grasp Blaster” and “Black Tiger”, which was shelved and forgotten about has lastly been discovered when hedning struck gold on an previous disk. It was given the Zyron remedy with a +2-trainer and a highscore saver, and playtested by Paladin. Blast away!”
And this is the total particulars contained throughout the textual content file! “This previously unknown recreation, developed by among the distinguished C64 recreation makers behind Grasp Blaster (Zeppelin Video games, 1988), Black Tiger (U.S. Gold/Capcom, 1990), and Hydra (Domark/Tengen, 1992) – particularly Mark Hughes, James Doyle, Peter Wolfe, and Steven Chandler, with music by Mark Tait – was found on a random, doubtless Dutch, floppy disk. The way it ended up there stays unknown”.
“The sport’s music, nevertheless, was already recognized because of a music demo launched by Mark Tait – although there was no point out or hint of a recreation really utilizing it. To shed some mild on this thriller, we reached out to one of many recreation’s programmers; Mark Hughes – nonetheless lively in recreation improvement at this time – and we’re delighted to have the ability to share some background on this outstanding discover”:
“As a little bit of background, 4 of us on the credit had been all mates from faculty, me, James Doyle, Peter Wolfe and Stephen Chandler. James and I had realized how one can code over the summer season of ’87 (we had been round 16 years previous), made some demos, and despatched them out to publishers within the hope of getting some work. Dave Baxter, a producer at Elite Video games on the time, wrote again and steered that we might rip off a brand new recreation that was going to be launched within the arcades later that 12 months, Blasteroids”.
“He wished to do that on the facet although, not by Elite, so setup his personal Firm referred to as Micro Media. Then he organized graphics and music from different folks. We completed “Grasp Blaster” in early 88, and Dave began going spherical publishers attempting to promote it. Whereas that was occurring, James and I began on Dominion, and enlisted Peter and Stephen to do the graphics”.
GAME CREDITS
- Programming: Mark Hughes & James Doyle
- Graphics: Stephen Chandler & Peter Wolfe
- Music: Mark Tait
- Co-ordination: David Baxter
CRACK CREDITS
- Unique provide and this textual content typed in
- by hedning
- Linking, coach and hi-saver by Zyron
- Examined by Paladin
And that is all there’s to say about this superior launch, so head on over to both hyperlink 1 or hyperlink 2, to test it out!
