..I remember this game being mentioned in one of the earlier threads about games that should exist on the speccy... When mentioned, I could only envisage the Amiga version of the game, a game I used to play for hours.. Its a version that is no doubt similar to the Atari ST version shown in that link.. I honestly had no idea though that this was indeed the very same Wreakers game that was being referred to.. I had assumed that I was mistaken in identifying it as such in that thread, but wow... to see those preview screen shots on YS and crash... that came as something of a shock really... Anyone who has played the 16 bit versions will tell you that its quite an involving & complex game - and would therefore have been something of a major achievement to have pulled off on something like the Speccy... Most certainly, it would have to have been 128k only, as mentioned in one of those preview links mentioned in the WOS archive...
My question is - bearing in mind how unreliable (and damn right dishonest) some of the magazines have been in the past, concerning the "review" or even "preview" of games before they were released, how sure can we be sure that there ever was really anything ever made of this game, other than a few mock up screen shots?... We've seen this kind of scenario before, where a game review raves about a game that turns out to never have existed, or where we later find out that they had never had access to it...
..Certainly, the detail of information available in some of the "previews" seems substantial, but could have been culled from the 16bit versions released (assuming they were produced around the same time)...
..so how much do we "really" know about this game?...
It was due to be released by Audiogenic in 1991 using the WTSS engine which would have been awesome. It's a shame it was never released. It was the exact same story with Toki (which was supposed to appear at the same time), screen shots, a preview then - nothing.
The Toki screenshots released to the publications were mock-ups. That was according to the attached programmer.
But, using Infoseek, I see that Crash actually reviewed it! Does this mean that somewhere out there a working almost complete Speccy version of Wreckers actually exists?
Does this mean that somewhere out there a working almost complete Speccy version of Wreckers actually exists?
..after years of hanging around you guys, my naive faith in the ZX computer mags of that era has been shattered numerous times, so I would assume nothing of the sort!!!! :-?... A preview or even a "review" of a game we can't find now, doesn't guarantee anything in terms of whether it actually existed or not, hence the use of the double quotes around the word "really" in the last question of my last post... :(
PS: Id love to be proved wrong!!!... The game itself (on the 16bit formats) was actually very good..
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I can only guess that Denton Designs thought the Spectrum was a little past its prime by that point.
My question is - bearing in mind how unreliable (and damn right dishonest) some of the magazines have been in the past, concerning the "review" or even "preview" of games before they were released, how sure can we be sure that there ever was really anything ever made of this game, other than a few mock up screen shots?... We've seen this kind of scenario before, where a game review raves about a game that turns out to never have existed, or where we later find out that they had never had access to it...
..Certainly, the detail of information available in some of the "previews" seems substantial, but could have been culled from the 16bit versions released (assuming they were produced around the same time)...
..so how much do we "really" know about this game?...
But, using Infoseek, I see that Crash actually reviewed it! Does this mean that somewhere out there a working almost complete Speccy version of Wreckers actually exists?
..after years of hanging around you guys, my naive faith in the ZX computer mags of that era has been shattered numerous times, so I would assume nothing of the sort!!!! :-?... A preview or even a "review" of a game we can't find now, doesn't guarantee anything in terms of whether it actually existed or not, hence the use of the double quotes around the word "really" in the last question of my last post... :(
PS: Id love to be proved wrong!!!... The game itself (on the 16bit formats) was actually very good..