Whatever happened to Datasoft ?!?
Andreas Magenheimer
since Datasoft once was (and still is) one of my favourite 8bit vendors
and publishers, whatever happened to them ?? (or to Intellicreations,
since datasoft is a tm of IntelliCreations) - andreas
Lance Ringquist
they were one of my favorites also.
would'nt you love to see conan the barbarian, bruce lee, zorro, goonies,
etc. on cart?
thanks,
lance
Video 61 & Atari Sales
22735 Congo ST NE
Stacy MN 55079
Jessica C
Lance Ringquist wrote:
> i think electronic arts got them, i may be wrong.
> they were one of my favorites also.
> would'nt you love to see conan the barbarian, bruce lee, zorro, goonies,
> etc. on cart?
>
Totally. I love playing Bruce Lee, Just don't do it with a trakball :).
Jessica
Paul Irvine
For a challenge, play it with a light pen...
--
Paul Irvine
*Retro-gamer & old git*
Mindfield
<mage...@mail.uni-mainz.de> drooled an embarassing wet spot in his
lap as he typed:
Parts or all of this may be apocryphal, but as I understand it,
Datasoft was bought out by Batteries Included, who then proceeded to
go bust. (Or were bought out by Activision or EA or one of those big
companies, can't recall which. It's been a long time since I was
told what happened)
But yes, Datasoft was a great company. They brought out Alternate
Reality, after all -- my favourite game of all time on any machine.
Pity about Philip's quest for the rights, though. The PC remake he
was working on looked quite good.
----
Mindfield
"Nothing works contrary to nature, only to what we know of it." -Scully
Remove the badgers before E-Mailing.
Jessica C
> >Totally. I love playing Bruce Lee, Just don't do it with a trakball :).
> >
> >Jessica
>
> For a challenge, play it with a light pen...
> --
> Paul Irvine
>
> *Retro-gamer & old git*
Ow...That would hurt. No light pens to my name, fortunately.
Jessica
Andreas Magenheimer
Lance Ringquist schrieb:
>
> i think electronic arts got them, i may be wrong.
> they were one of my favorites also.
> would'nt you love to see conan the barbarian, bruce lee, zorro, goonies,
> etc. on cart?
> thanks,
> lance
>
> Video 61 & Atari Sales
> 22735 Congo ST NE
> Stacy MN 55079
Immediately !!
Although I already own them on disk I would love to buy them on carts
too...
How about other Datasoft productions, like Moon Shuttle, Gunsmoke
(Gunslinger), Dallas Quest, Neverending story (still hunting for the
disk!), Zaxxon (Sega, also released by Datasoft), Super Zaxxon, Pacman
(with interludes or intermissions), Thomahawk (originally by Digital
Integration, released by Datasoft also), Mercenary (originally from
Novagen), Drol (was it Datasoft or Broderbund? must have been Broderbund
since its only b/w on PAL, like many other Broderbund games), 221B Baker
Street, Porky and the wolfes (damn, I just forgot the name, but I have
it on disk!), A.R. The City and The dungeon (would need an elite/super
professional programmer to get them onto a cart) and many more I do not
remember now... -Andreas
Greg Goodwin
> From: Vid...@webtv.net (Lance Ringquist)
> i think electronic arts got them, i may be wrong.
> they were one of my favorites also.
> would'nt you love to see conan the barbarian, bruce lee, zorro, goonies,
> etc. on cart?
> thanks,
> lance
Bruce Lee.. most definately. The rest I haven't played.
Doctor Clu
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Jessica C
Greg Goodwin wrote:
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> > From: Vid...@webtv.net (Lance Ringquist)
> > i think electronic arts got them, i may be wrong.
> > they were one of my favorites also.
> > would'nt you love to see conan the barbarian, bruce lee, zorro, goonies,
> > etc. on cart?
> > thanks,
> > lance
>
> Bruce Lee.. most definately. The rest I haven't played.
>
> Doctor Clu
Goonies is awesome too, but Bruce Lee is the first one I discovered I had in
my collection, played it a lot, then I weeded out my disks and found Goonies,
Zombies, and a ton of others.
Jessica
Paul Irvine
>FamilyNet HQ: Telnet:\\www.family-bbs.net
>
>> From: Vid...@webtv.net (Lance Ringquist)
>> i think electronic arts got them, i may be wrong.
>> they were one of my favorites also.
>> would'nt you love to see conan the barbarian, bruce lee, zorro, goonies,
>> etc. on cart?
>> thanks,
>> lance
>
> Bruce Lee.. most definately. The rest I haven't played.
You what!!!
You call yourself an Atari person and you have not played Goonies, Zorro or
Conan???
(All made with the Datasoft game construction kit) ;-)
Andreas Magenheimer
(All made with the Datasoft game construction kit) ;-)
> --
> Paul Irvine
>
> *Retro-gamer & old git*
Hello,
is this construction kit (legally) avaiable somewhere ?!? -Andreas
Paul Irvine
Sorry to tell you, its a joke, hence the wicked smiley..
The joke being that if you look at all those games they basically look like they
came off a construction kit because they look so similar.
Sorry about the confusion
Daniel Miller
I read all the Conan books and saw the movies. The game doesn't do
Conan justice. I would go so far as to say it is rather crappy, with
garish colors and buggy graphics.
Bruce Lee on the other hand is a terrific 8bit game.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:29:59 +0100, Paul Irvine <del...@lineone.net>
wrote:
Paul Irvine
>They may look similar but they don't play similar... ly.
>
I never said they did..Although tbh they do in most cases :-)
Go and have a good look at them for 5 mins each, apart from the fabby Bruce Lee
they do play very like each other (obviously not with the Goonies multi player)
>I read all the Conan books and saw the movies. The game doesn't do
>Conan justice. I would go so far as to say it is rather crappy, with
>garish colors and buggy graphics.
What annoyed me with Conan and with Zorro a tad was the really tight pixel
perfect stuff needed.
>
>Bruce Lee on the other hand is a terrific 8bit game.
Indeed...Although dead easy to finish..
Mindfield
drooled an embarassing wet spot in his lap as he typed:
>>Bruce Lee on the other hand is a terrific 8bit game.
>
>Indeed...Although dead easy to finish..
Yes -- but great replayability, so you could finish it again and
again... :-)
Besides, I love it when the big green guy bellows (moos?)
Paul Irvine
>On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:24:33 +0100, Paul Irvine <del...@lineone.net>
>drooled an embarassing wet spot in his lap as he typed:
>
>>>Bruce Lee on the other hand is a terrific 8bit game.
>>
>>Indeed...Although dead easy to finish..
>
>Yes -- but great replayability, so you could finish it again and
>again... :-)
The old trick with starting a two player game (more lives) and then moving the
2nd player joystick around with your foot to keep it active worked a treat until
you became perfect at the game :-)
Erich Cranor
ached just a few weeks ago) I have to stand up for Conan too. I still have
fond memories of the rhythm of the...what was it, dragons? The level where
several different creatures are all the same noise at a slightly different
tempo, so the drift pattern took several seconds to repeat.
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