intellivision Unreleased Imagic Games : Beezer and Moonsweeper

[boxpressed]

I recently acquired a couple of Imagic press items from 1983. Both of them show screen mock-ups of a couple of unreleased games: "Beezer" and "Moonsweeper."

 

Beezer was a port of an arcade game by Tong Electronic. I did a little research and read that Gary Kato (of Intellivision Demon Attack fame) began programming it but never finished because the project was canceled.

 

Also, a version of Moonsweeper was planned. This was one of my favorite games on the 2600.

 

Anyway, these plans were news to me, and I thought you might like to see "what could have been."

[+intvsteve]

Da-yum! Great find! Mind if I pilfer these pics for even more Funhouse content on the To Do pile?

[boxpressed]

Da-yum! Great find! Mind if I pilfer these pics for even more Funhouse content on the To Do pile?

 

You bet. Let me know if you need a better scan.

[Intymike]

Moonsweeper is mentioned for the Intellivision on this german handout too. But I never heard of Beezer.

 

http://rz-home.de/~mluenzer/intellivision/spezial/imapro.htm

 

Moonsweeper and Wing War are also mentioned in the Fathom manual (with screenshot from the Intellivision version of Wing War).

Edited February 22, 2014 by Intymike

[boxpressed]

I just bought Alex Pace's Lost Games guide, and there is a datasheet for Beezer. The sheet includes the color photo but not the press photo (the scores look similar, but they are different).

[Rev]

 

 

 

[JoeM_Intellivision]

Hi boxpressed,

Thanks for sharing - pretty cool - I'm a big fan of pretty much all the Imagic games even though I haven't played all 14 intensely.

Joe.