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two identical games?

ghbearmanghbearman
edited October 2007 in Infoseek database
would someone explain to me the story behind

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000327
(Lunar Attack)

and
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Bomb+Alley$&pub=^Your+Computer$&loadpics=on
(Jason Charlesworth's Bomb Alley)

which appear to be the same game...? Thanks.
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  • ADJBADJB
    edited October 2007
    Looking at the screenshot says they are not quite the same (Commercial version Has blue text background) but they do look too close to be an accident. Good chance it was re-released commercially, it wouldn't be the first Your Computer game to be commercial grade.

    The other alternative of course is somebody "Doing a Harry".

    ADJB
  • BloodBazBloodBaz
    edited October 2007
    The Bomb Alley version is classified as a Type-In but contains 5KB of machine code (that is a lot of DATA statements!). The BASIC component is not very typo friendly either.

    The additional info says " Published as Type-in in issue May '84, page 80" but doesn't say what the magazine was.

    Is this a mistake in Infoseek? Smells like it to me.
  • ghbearmanghbearman
    edited October 2007
    If I recall, it was Your Computer.
  • mheidemheide
    edited October 2007
    BloodBaz wrote: »
    The Bomb Alley version is classified as a Type-In but contains 5KB of machine code (that is a lot of DATA statements!). The BASIC component is not very typo friendly either.

    The additional info says " Published as Type-in in issue May '84, page 80" but doesn't say what the magazine was.

    Sorry, I reckoned

    PublisherYour Computer [SIZE=-1](UK)[/SIZE]

    could be seen as something of a hint. :lol:
    Lo and behold, lookie here and we have a complete match...
    Is this a mistake in Infoseek? Smells like it to me.
    So how does that smell? :razz:
  • jonathanjonathan
    edited October 2007
    It wouldn't be the first Jason Charlesworth game to be rereleased. Maggot was subsequently reworked to become Hot Shot, a YS type-in listing. Infoseek also lists one of his other type-ins, Space Quest, as possibly having a commercial release.
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  • BloodBazBloodBaz
    edited October 2007
    mheide wrote: »
    Sorry, I reckoned

    PublisherYour Computer [SIZE=-1](UK)[/SIZE]

    could be seen as something of a hint. :lol:

    Oops! Missed that!

    Wow! So it is a type in and a big one at that! Were Your Computer listing often that big? I was a Crash subscriber back then.
  • ADJBADJB
    edited October 2007
    Your Computer had massive type-ins every month for most formats. IF you could get them working some of them were very decent games but there were also a lot of utility listings that were a bit more than a renumber routine.

    Where Zaap and Crash were the Sun and Star of Computer mags YC was more The Times but with a Gruniad spellcheck.
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