carmel_andrews Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Playing around with A800win+ recently and a couple of the games in question, it struck me how very similar (if not, the same) the games in the subject thread were Perhaps 'Flash Gordon' from mastertronic was basically a repackaged version of the game from 'Sirius' (which wasn't much of a game anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross PK Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I've seen this happen with a space platform game which took place in a space ship (can't remember the name) by Hewston I think on the ST. I then saw a game that was exactly the same (using the same engine) but it was in a spooky castle with skeletons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Flash Gordon for the Atari doesn't exist. Would've been a fully different game anyway... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasholzer Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Spider City = Flash Gordon on VCS (Sirius = 20th Century Fox) or Flash Gordon = Spider City on XL, depending on which came first. But I think 20th Century Fox purchased Sirius titles for the 2600 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Spider City = Flash Gordon on VCS (Sirius = 20th Century Fox) or Flash Gordon = Spider City on XL, depending on which came first.But I think 20th Century Fox purchased Sirius titles for the 2600 They may have traded Sirius for some A8 games in a larger title swap. A8 Alpha Shield = VCS Spacemaster X-7, and A8 Final Orbit = VCS Earth Dies Screaming. Various 20th C Fox games have been rumoured to exist for the A8 for years, and I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually found them all in some old Sirius exec's basement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Final Orbit = VCS Earth Dies Screaming. Yeah! I knew that i've played this title on A8. Thanx a lot for the hint! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Sirius Software and Fox's software division were like conjoined twins. Even the manuals for Spider City and the VCS version of Flash Gordon are virtually identical. "Spider City" is the setting for both games. IIRC there's only 4K of code in the Spider City ROM too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted May 30, 2007 Author Share Posted May 30, 2007 Atari mania...i think you'll find that flash gordon (by mastertronic) does exist for the A8, i think i have an emulator compatible image of it somewhere...i might be some time (as cap't. oates once said) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Sorry Carmel but I'm 100% sure it doesn't exist. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted May 30, 2007 Author Share Posted May 30, 2007 we'll just have to see about that won't we atarimania....who's up for a small wager? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urchlay Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Well, there's *some* game called Flash Gordon on the A8: http://www.langesite.com/atari/Holmes/Holm...Flashgordon.atr It appears to be the same game as Spider City though: http://www.langesite.com/atari/Holmes/Holm...ider%20City.atr ...and they both look just like the 2600 Flash Gordon game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Incidentally, Squish 'em (8-bit) would have been made as The Fall Guy (2600) had it ever been released. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Well, there's *some* game called Flash Gordon on the A8:http://www.langesite.com/atari/Holmes/Holm...Flashgordon.atr Correction: a dodgy cracked file is called Flash Gordon... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Incidentally, Squish 'em (8-bit) would have been made as The Fall Guy (2600) had it ever been released. Are you sure? I'm almost certain there were plans for an Atari 8-bit version of The Fall Guy. They're one and the same title then? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urchlay Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Correction: a dodgy cracked file is called Flash Gordon... *Shrug*. They're all dodgy cracked files in that collection. I had never heard of either game until just now, so I have no way of knowing which was actually released... Just trying to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Incidentally, Squish 'em (8-bit) would have been made as The Fall Guy (2600) had it ever been released. Are you sure? I'm almost certain there were plans for an Atari 8-bit version of The Fall Guy. They're one and the same title then? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Read the press release for the game. It describes the action of Squish em perfectly. The picture is also that of Squish em. http://www.atarihq.com/museum/2678/games/misc/fallguy.jpg Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Thanks, was completely unaware of that! -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 we'll just have to see about that won't we atarimania....who's up for a small wager?Check out this Mastertronic A8 release list, compiled by people who actually worked for Mastertronic and kept the company's records. Atari_Frog is rarely wrong about these things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 we'll just have to see about that won't we atarimania....who's up for a small wager?Check out this Mastertronic A8 release list, compiled by people who actually worked for Mastertronic and kept the company's records. Atari_Frog is rarely wrong about these things Notice those are only the 1.99 releases, Mastertronic released a ton more games than that (not saying flash gordon was one of them) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Nope, that's all of them, including the Ricochet range, the Plus series, the Entertainment USA label... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Notice those are only the 1.99 releases, Mastertronic released a ton more games than that (not saying flash gordon was one of them)They released many more games for other systems, in particular for the C64 and Spectrum, but not for A8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Well I'm an ass... I looked at the list and thought it looked too short.... then I compared it to the mastertronic games I own and realized this was definitely a foot inserted in mouth moment... I'll go over here in the corner and shut the hell up about things I know nothing of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Flash Gordon for the Atari doesn't exist. Would've been a fully different game anyway... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com I have hundreds, and hundreds or floppies and stumbled on one that was labeled as Flash Gordon. A8, I run it on the stock Atari 800. Like defender but in a maze. Did you ever find out more about it? Or maybe this is just spider city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 (edited) I tend to believe Steven Riding, he said he helped do Flash Gordon on the Atari 8 bit so maybe your both correct in some ways. Zeller Sirius Software 20th Century Fox Mastertronic? all had some form of it. it is listed on different sites as such, and it's part of some of those 'dodgy' collections people yammer on about. Mind you there were 'Demo' versions of the game and Complete versions of the game. The box, media, or material might have 'demo' labeled on them. I'd suspect eventually someone will turn up with a full version Flash Gordon, spider city adventure. It's probably in storage, a basement or hard drive of the people involved. Spider City might be an overseen portion of a broader version of the game, and made as a stand alone. Too bad we won't get the full story now. But like all other things, eventually enough pieces of the tale will come out, and maybe the software itself. Edited March 18, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 (edited) Well, turns out I was wrong, a prototype exists (I guess I'll have to eat my hat). Unfortunately, getting hold of it will probably be impossible now that S. A. Riding passed away. For the 976th time, the Sirius Software and Mastertronic games are completely different and have absolutely zero connection. This is what S. A. Riding's version would've looked like: http://gamebase64.com/game.php?id=2799 Edited March 18, 2023 by www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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