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Started by felow, 22:53, 03 July 17

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kawickboy


In late 92 SF2 was announded on many computers from speccy to amiga & pc. Even the ST release was very late. So the 8 bits one...
Is mercs the last cpc game from usgold ?


Robocop 3, toki, superski 2, megatwins, spiderman, judge dredd (with a cpc picture on the packaging back) ... We saw many amstrad annoucements without any release. Even Parasol Stars for c64 is missing (the coder would have been robbed, this is the official reason  :picard: [size=78%] ).[/size]
In the indiana jones fate of atlantis manual there are ST loadings instructions but the ST release was canceled too.


I read on AA that in 92 in UK more cpc games were sold than snes one. Ok, it was probably mainly 3£ budget games or compilations and the snes only appeared on the market in April but there were still a really market. In France, surface granted to cpc games was often more important than amiga+st+pc together even with the lack of news.


Even is the speccy release was'nt finished, was it Tiertex behind ? In AA i read that the cpc authors were french, but us gold didn't work with french people before.

Shaun M. Neary

Quote from: kawickboy on 10:46, 26 September 17
Is mercs the last cpc game from usgold ?

I've a feeling Shadow Dancer and Alien Storm came out after Mercs, but I'm open to correction on that.
The gap between all those releases certainly wouldn't have been that big.
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Shaun M. Neary

#102
Did a little poking around. According to AA Reviews.

Shadow Dancer got reviewed in AA70.
MERCS got reviewed in AA 73.
Alien Storm got reviewed in AA 75.

Now to be fair, that was probably around the time the mag got their copies and doesn't necessarily indicate an accurate release time. I'd say they all came out around about the same time, to be honest. But I think that was the last of the US Gold releases for the CPC.

MERCS and Alien Storm were both Tiertex, Shadow Dancer was Images Software.
Currently playing on: 2xCPC464, 1xCPC6128, 1x464Plus, 1x6128Plus, 2xGX4000. M4 board, ZMem 1MB and still forever playing Bruce Lee.
No cheats, snapshots or emulation. I play my games as they're intended to be played. What about you?

ukmarkh

I think it might have been Megasports or G-Loc

Nich

Quote from: kawickboy on 10:46, 26 September 17
Is mercs the last cpc game from usgold ?

I reckon it was Bonanza Bros.

ukmarkh

Quote from: Nich on 21:06, 26 September 17
I reckon it was Bonanza Bros.


Bonanza Bros was released in 91...

Shaun M. Neary

Quote from: ukmarkh on 21:12, 26 September 17

Bonanza Bros was released in 91...

Actually Nich has a point here. It was actually released on 8bit formats in mid '92. The 8bits were the last to see it as Sega focused on getting it on the Megadrive first. Also appears it was the last US Gold full priced released that AA had reviewed.

Crash had previews of it in October '91, but it was a long way from being finished.
Currently playing on: 2xCPC464, 1xCPC6128, 1x464Plus, 1x6128Plus, 2xGX4000. M4 board, ZMem 1MB and still forever playing Bruce Lee.
No cheats, snapshots or emulation. I play my games as they're intended to be played. What about you?

ukmarkh

Quote from: Shaun M. Neary on 01:50, 27 September 17
Actually Nich has a point here. It was actually released on 8bit formats in mid '92. The 8bits were the last to see it as Sega focused on getting it on the Megadrive first. Also appears it was the last US Gold full priced released that AA had reviewed.

Crash had previews of it in October '91, but it was a long way from being finished.

Just noticed Sinclair User reviewed it in Jul, 1992 and G-Loc in Feb 1992, so definitely looks like Bonanza Bros is the one, thx Nich 



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kawickboy

#108
In France, in A100%, Shadow Dancer were reviewed on june 91, alien storm/g-loc/final fight on Christmas 91 and Mercs (probably forgotten somewhere) on august 92.
Bonanza Bros in automn 92.

Shaun M. Neary

Magazines are never an accurate source of when a game came out either as it's all dependent on when they get their review copies. More often, I ended up getting some games before the AA reviews came out. Chase HQ, P47 and Rainbow Islands were three classic examples.

I bought those on the premise of enjoying them in the arcades. But they were definitely out 1-2 months before AA reviewed them.
Currently playing on: 2xCPC464, 1xCPC6128, 1x464Plus, 1x6128Plus, 2xGX4000. M4 board, ZMem 1MB and still forever playing Bruce Lee.
No cheats, snapshots or emulation. I play my games as they're intended to be played. What about you?

Skunkfish

I would suspect that Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was the last new release from US Gold, although it may have only been released in France where it appears to have been distributed by Ubisoft... The disk label on CPC-Power has US Gold on it though.
An expanding array of hardware available at www.cpcstore.co.uk (and issue 4 of CPC Fanzine!)

kawickboy

ubi soft was lucasarts french distributor.

Skunkfish

Just spotted that cpcrulez has an image of the UK cassette version, I guess it must have come out here as well.
An expanding array of hardware available at www.cpcstore.co.uk (and issue 4 of CPC Fanzine!)

dlfrsilver

Quote from: Skunkfish on 10:51, 08 December 17
I would suspect that Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was the last new release from US Gold, although it may have only been released in France where it appears to have been distributed by Ubisoft... The disk label on CPC-Power has US Gold on it though.


U.S.Gold was its own distributor. it's Indy 4, but there's very low chances that ubisoft got the distribution of this title when U.S.Gold could do it alone.

kawickboy

Nightshift was handled by ubisoft wasn't it ?

mr_lou

Quote from: kawickboy on 15:40, 11 December 17
Nightshift was handled by ubisoft wasn't it ?

No that was LuBlu Entertainment.
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