+jeremiahjt Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I have looked, but I cannot find what company was developing the Lynx version of Alien vs. Predator. I have seen a copyright screen showing the game was licensed from Activision. I also see Michael Archer was the programmer, but I do not know who he was working for. The answer has probably appeared on the forum before, but I had no luck in finding it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 3 hours ago, jeremiahjt said: I have looked, but I cannot find what company was developing the Lynx version of Alien vs. Predator. I have seen a copyright screen showing the game was licensed from Activision. I also see Michael Archer was the programmer, but I do not know who he was working for. The answer has probably appeared on the forum before, but I had no luck in finding it. These guys. Karl Jeffery went onto form Climax i think.. Activision had the licence to do home micro versions based on AVP, but never went anywhere with it. https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/alien-vs-predator/ Edited April 29 by Lostdragon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 6 hours ago, Lostdragon said: These guys. Karl Jeffery went onto form Climax i think.. Activision had the licence to do home micro versions based on AVP, but never went anywhere with it. https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/alien-vs-predator/ Images? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1 hour ago, jeremiahjt said: Images? The Biography stuff: Karl Jeffrey became the CEO of The Climax Group. He started out as a freelance video games programmer in 1987, developing games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and SEGA console platforms. He was involved with: -The Atari ST conversion of R-Type which was officially Images’ first published game. Images also helped Catalyst software to convert arcade Rampage to the Atari ST. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 10 minutes ago, Lostdragon said: The Biography stuff: Karl Jeffrey became the CEO of The Climax Group. He started out as a freelance video games programmer in 1987, developing games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and SEGA console platforms. He was involved with: -The Atari ST conversion of R-Type which was officially Images’ first published game. Images also helped Catalyst software to convert arcade Rampage to the Atari ST. That did not look like a G, but I could not come up with anything else that would fit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 @Lostdragon Did Images Software work on any other Lynx games that you know of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 @Albert Any chance you could add Images Software as the developer in the Alien vs. Predator entry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1 hour ago, jeremiahjt said: @Lostdragon Did Images Software work on any other Lynx games that you know of? I'm not on LinkedIn, so i can't access his full history. Atarimania only lists the aforementioned ST titles, but Mobygames has him down for Sky Shark.. https://www.mobygames.com/game/1313/sky-shark/credits/atari-st/ But i couldn't find them listing Lynx AVP. His Atari work looks rather limited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I thought Images turned into Rebellion software that did the Jag and PC versions of most AVP titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 9 hours ago, 4ever2600 said: I thought Images turned into Rebellion software that did the Jag and PC versions of most AVP titles. Rebellion Developments were , a Oxford-based game developer founded in 1992 by brothers Jason and Chris Kingsley. Lynx AVP Producer, James 'Purple' Hampton headed up the Atari team working with Rebellion on Jaguar AVP Hampton talks of the connections here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 13 hours ago, 4ever2600 said: I thought Images turned into Rebellion software that did the Jag and PC versions of most AVP titles. Some confusion might of crept in due to Kingsley claiming the concept of 3 seperate species campaigns on AVP was his idea, it wasn't.. #We have to take into account he's also taken credit for Doug Neubauer's Atari 400/800 Star Raiders,has changed his account of how Rebellion became Jaguar developers to start with. And from Q+A sessions with him, where he's asked about Lynx AVP, for example: Q) Did Alien VS. Predator on the Lynx ever get any further than the less than half finished prototype that is out there? Jason Kingsley No sadly not. Q) The Lynx AVP prototype is incredibly impressive, what did you think of the hardware itself? Jason Kingsley: Hardware was awesome at the time, but doomed to obscurity by fate. Q) Did you ever have any other Lynx games planned? Jason Kingsley I just can’t remember. In cases such as these, it appears the individual asking the questions wasn't aware Rebellion were never involved with the Lynx in any form, let alone AVP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Sooooooo short version is no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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