Lost forever?
Accelerator was demoed in ST Action #31 all the way back in 1992 and appears
to have never been released. Well, I may be wrong as I'm hoping there are
registered versions out there... somewhere... as the full game would have only
set someone back a tenner. That's pretty decent and I expect a few copies were
sold? Well, I really hope so.
This racer looks, and plays, a LOT like a certain Atari racer, but, with
smooth scrolling. Digital Reality was going to be the 'publisher' so I'm
assuming they went Kaboom or the guys gave up? Has anyone got any information
to share? I hope the full version can be found one day. Let me know if you
have information or a disk image!
Credits...Digital Reality LtdPeter Thorp (coding)Hamish Cooper (graphics + sounds)
AtariMania has the download of an early demo version and it's ace so we need the full game desperately!
It was the first top view scrolling race car game. Sadly it was not published anywhere other than the ST Action Cover disk. An offer was handed over for it to be evolved into the first 16bit version of the CodeMasters game 'Micro Machines' but the offer was too weak and history went another way. There were other games by Digital Reality on this cover disk that was dedicated to this small team. Those games were a different take on the game BomberMan. An awesome two player version of Tetris. And a new game called 'Shove It' which again was never published until a rebuild 10 years later created in Flash for the web.
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for the comment - are you Peter?
DeleteFor all interested, this olde page I should update! But Atarimania have three Digital Reality games listed: https://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-st-digital-reality_developer_2125_S_G.html