King Atari Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Me and Will were discussing this last night. Does anyone know exactly what happened to the lost gameline game "Save the Whales"? we both thought it might have been an environmental game. I have to express my opinion here that is somewhat related with prototypes, Tempest would know about this better than me, though: I think that some proto's were released in non-english speaking countries during the crash, so the company could make a profit while not losing one in the US. Me and Will also discussed how someone could have put the game on a Supercharger. The whole idea of a 'lost' game kinda creeps me out, protos are one thing, but a completed game is something else. We both thought that something was odd, what with all the protos turning up recently. I know there are more collectors, but it's almost unbelievable as to how they've lasted through all these years. Can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyXB Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 I wish there were a ROM for this game. I don't know how the game was, but the name is interesting. I love whales and dolphins so I am interested to see the game on a Emulator. Maybe there is somewhere the Prototype or a ROM. Somewhere must be the game because you can play it in the past on the Gameline. Or was I wrong? Matthias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by King Atari: I have to express my opinion here that is somewhat related with prototypes, Tempest would know about this better than me, though Heh, you probably made him a happy man again! Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 I was wondering about this one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 Everytime this subject comes up, I always ask the same question but never get an answer. Does anyone actually have proof, or remember, this being offered on Gameline. I for one never saw it on Gameline and I was a member from the beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 yuno what? rolenta may be on to somethin, i mean if rolenta doesn't remember anything about a "save the whales" game, perhaps there never was? how many suscribers remember it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RK Sparxster Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 i think i have the rom...I'll check, but I remember it being on a website for download, a few actually, and that its not very hard to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 well...i suppose that ends that doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 Hmmm, interesting game that. I've been saving whales for a few years, I've got one in my garage and it really smells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarinvader Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 I would have to say that this game must have at some time been made as an actual solid state ROM, it couldnt have existed with out being burnt to EPROM at some point. My bet is that some ****ing proto collector has got it locked up, only playing it on his own in a darkened room. Anybody know exactly what it was about or was it any good? Sounds like a bunch of dope smoking tree hunging hippy crap to me...brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 Well, I never saw it on my rom travels across the web, but then, I'm not too good at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarinvader Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 Im 99% certain theres not a ROM avaliable on the net for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted December 19, 2001 Author Share Posted December 19, 2001 It's most likely "Dolphin". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarimastermarty Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 Maybe well get lucy and one will pop up like lord of the rings and snow white. I doubt it bt hey theres a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 I'm not doubting the existance of the game because the title was announced back in the early '80s. What I do doubt is that this game was ever offered on Gameline which seems to be the popular belief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 If work was ever done on this title at Atari, odds are good that at least one proto exists somewhere out there. I would guess that the longer a title was in development the more lab loaner carts would exist. I'm not sure how development worked at Atari, but I bet in very early development these games didn't even make it into lab loaner carts since the programmer probably just used a bare board to test the game in a real VCS. Once the game got to a state where it'd need testing and could be shown to others (say, marketing and QA) then it'd probably be copied and put into lab loaner carts. And of course, once the game was finished it'd be given to reviewers as soon as possible. That's probably one of the biggest sources of these protos--the ones that got outside of Atari. Anyway, my point is that if the game was in development for any reasonable length of time, then it probably exists somewhere. Given the large number of protos that have surfaced in the last year (including games no one had ever heard of before), nothing surprises me any more. It sounds like several titles are going to be released at CGE2K2. Take a look at this quote from the recently updated CGE home page: quoteTo date, we've already secured three titles that were programmed in the early 80's and will debut at CGE this year. We also have several others in the works that we expect to have ready for the show. That's not to mention the homebrew guys. So that's three definite titles plus an unknown number of "others in the works". I'm not saying "Save the Whales" is in that batch (we can only speculate until CGE Services announces what the titles are), but there's only a finite number of prototypes out there and some day we'll get to a point where everything that can be found will have been. I need to look through lists of games that haven't yet been found so I can put together a short list of games I hope are revealed at CGE2K2. ..Al [ 12-19-2001: Message edited by: Albert ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted December 20, 2001 Share Posted December 20, 2001 One thing -- Save the Whales wasn't an Atari title as far as I know, but rather a Becktech game that might have been released through Fox had it been released at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted December 20, 2001 Author Share Posted December 20, 2001 FOX did release some crap, except for "M*A*S*H" and "Megaforce", those were the only good games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 21, 2001 Share Posted December 21, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Russ Perry Jr: One thing -- Save the Whales wasn't an Atari title as far as I know, but rather a Becktech game that might have been released through Fox had it been released at all. Woops, my bad, thanks for pointing out my mistake. I always think of Save Mary when I hear "Save the Whales", so that's what threw me off. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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