Lethal Moves
Steve Rich
Y'know in ish 100 of AA, when they said Streetfighter 2 had been
scrapped, they had a preview of a game called Lethal Moves which radical
software were developing. It was looking pretty good, but as far as I
know it never saw the light of day. Or did it? What happened? Did rob
buckley just give up all that coding work or what?
AND: what is rob up to these days?
Steve
PS - I must be one of the few people who actually liked ball bearing.
Just thoguht i'd say.
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Nich Campbell
: Hi all
: Y'know in ish 100 of AA, when they said Streetfighter 2 had been
: scrapped, they had a preview of a game called Lethal Moves which radical
: software were developing. It was looking pretty good, but as far as I
: know it never saw the light of day. Or did it? What happened? Did rob
: buckley just give up all that coding work or what?
I'm quite certain that Lethal Moves was never released (not that I cared
- I hate beat-'em-ups), and neither was Rob's other big project, Butch
Cowardice: The Undersea Adventure (the sequel to Eve of Shadows, regarded
by a few people as the best CPC adventure ever).
: AND: what is rob up to these days?
Don't know.
: Steve
: PS - I must be one of the few people who actually liked ball bearing.
: Just thoguht i'd say.
I liked Ball Bearing as well! I think Hairy's review of Ball Bearing in AA
was very unfair, and seemed to be based entirely on the facts that:
a) it is very similar to a PD game called Croco Magneto, which appeared on
an AA covertape a year or so before the Ball Bearing review appeared
b) Ball Bearing is not PD (well, it wasn't at the time it was released),
whereas Croco Magneto is
I think that Ball Bearing is a lot better than Croco Magneto and was worth
paying the money for at the time. See
<http://members.xoom.com/cpcreviews/b/index.html> for my slightly more
in-depth opinion.
I await Hairy's comments on this one with some anticipation.
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AndyC
> I'm quite certain that Lethal Moves was never released (not that I
cared
> - I hate beat-'em-ups), and neither was Rob's other big project, Butch
> Cowardice: The Undersea Adventure (the sequel to Eve of Shadows,
regarded
> by a few people as the best CPC adventure ever).
And neither was the DOOM clone advertised in the last AA. As for EoS, I
didn't like it much myself, although I could never get very far so
maybe it got better later on.
> : AND: what is rob up to these days?
>
> Don't know.
Last I heard he was developing something for the Gameboy Color. Can't
remember what though.
> I think that Ball Bearing is a lot better than Croco Magneto and was
worth
> paying the money for at the time.
Ball Bearing was alright, but not really worth paying for.
>See
> <http://members.xoom.com/cpcreviews/b/index.html> for my slightly more
> in-depth opinion.
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Before you buy.
Richard Fairhurst
> Did rob buckley just give up all that coding work or what?
> AND: what is rob up to these days?
Programming the Z80 - still. He's coding Gameboy stuff.
> PS - I must be one of the few people who actually liked ball bearing.
> Just thoguht i'd say.
Ball Bearing kicked ass. I played it many times more than I played
practically any late-vintage CPC game (even Prehistorik II, though only
just).
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David Cantrell
Fairhurst) said:
>Steve Rich <stephe...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Did rob buckley just give up all that coding work or what?
>> AND: what is rob up to these days?
>
>Programming the Z80 - still. He's coding Gameboy stuff.
Not for ... errm, errm, oh bugger ... that company in Croydon what was
mentioned in Edge recently and who converted Rainbow Six?
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Joan Buckley
AndyC <andyc...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:85ki8k$rp0$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <85katn$5q1$1...@sirius.dur.ac.uk>,
> Nich Campbell <N.A.Ca...@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Steve Rich wrote:
> > : Hi all
>
> > I'm quite certain that Lethal Moves was never released (not that I
> cared
> > - I hate beat-'em-ups), and neither was Rob's other big project, Butch
> > Cowardice: The Undersea Adventure (the sequel to Eve of Shadows,
> regarded
> > by a few people as the best CPC adventure ever).
>
> And neither was the DOOM clone advertised in the last AA. As for EoS, I
> didn't like it much myself, although I could never get very far so
> maybe it got better later on.
>
Hi all, Rob Buckley here. None of those games were released, mainly cos I
lost interest in throwing money and time into developing stuff nobody
wanted. Butch Cowardice was about 100% system, 40% graphics, 20% adventure
done.
Lethal Moves was 80% coded, 20% graphics. Shame really cos this was probably
the best bit of z80 coding I've done, which isn't saying much.
Abandoned was about 30% coded and 10% graphics.
Another game Fluff 2 was completed by somebody else using the original level
designer. It was the original game code, and an altered title screen, and
different graphics. If anybody noticed the preview in Amstrad action had 3
level designs (graphic sets) which I never put into the finished game. This
was about two years after AA closed, and the guy asked if he could enter it
into PD, which I agreed too. I suppose its floating around somewhere.
> > : AND: what is rob up to these days?
> >
> > Don't know.
>
> Last I heard he was developing something for the Gameboy Color. Can't
> remember what though.
>
I finished a game called Babe & Friends for the Color Gameboy last year,
have since worked on a cancelled Smurfs game, and now have signed up for
something that doesn't have a name yet. Apart from that I've been an
architect
> > I think that Ball Bearing is a lot better than Croco Magneto and was
> worth
> > paying the money for at the time.
>
> Ball Bearing was alright, but not really worth paying for.
>
Personally I think Ball Bearing (and Croco Magneto cos thats what BB was a
copy of) was my fav game. Crap programming though... which is a bit of a
speciality