Camel Trophy Videogame

Alessandro Grussu

The game mentioned here was well known among Italian Spectrum users in the second half of the '80s, being the first (and probably the last) fully Italian mass-produced single game (i.e. not part of a tape magazine compilation) for the Spectrum. Yet there is no entry for it even as MIA.

The website I already mentioned in this thread hosts a ZIP file containing the TZX of the original tape, plus scans of its manual, but since there are also hacked games there, I cannot post any link to it here.

Other infos:
Title: Camel Trophy '86
Publisher: Aquarius Edizioni
Game design: Simone Maiocchi
Technical assistance: Giorgio Arcangeli
MC programming: Eugenio Ciceri, Bruno Molteni
Computerized cover: Gianluca Magnani
Officially licensed from Camel Productions, 1985.

EDIT: Sorry, just realized this is the wrong forum - please move it to the Infoseek one.

Ivanzx

Alessandro Grussu wrote: »

The game mentioned here was well known among Italian Spectrum users in the second half of the '80s, being the first (and probably the last) fully Italian mass-produced single game (i.e. not part of a tape magazine compilation) for the Spectrum.

Yet there is no entry for it on the MIA.

The website I already mentioned in this thread hosts a ZIP file containing the TZX of the original tape, plus scans of its manual, but since there are also hacked games there, I cannot post any link to it here.

Other infos:
Title: Camel Trophy '86
Publisher: Aquarius Edizioni
Game design: Simone Maiocchi
Technical assistance: Giorgio Arcangeli
MC programming: Eugenio Ciceri, Bruno Molteni
Computerized cover: Gianluca Magnani
Officially licensed from Camel Productions, 1985.

Nice! Lets hope the italian games start getting more classified from now on, since in the last days the interest has raised :)
By the way, this game was mentioned in the computeremuzones forums (in spanish):

http://computeremuzone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4494&hilit=camel+trophy

and I just read that I informed in WoS about this and the rest of italian games in that website, I did not remember that at all :D ! I guess that the fact that most of them are hacked games made the situation not advance and the original ones were never extracted until Ralf started to do it :)

Ivanzx

Please, mods, move this thread to Infoseek, since its been here for 3 days :D, so Martijn can create the entry for this italian game ;)

Ivanzx

By the way, Alessandro, do you think it would be possible to find this game in ebay or via any spectrum user? so we can preserve the inla, etc...? If it was mass-produced, there must be any copy around...

Also, I found out I spoke about this like 5 years ago!! Its time to preserve this, right?! ;)

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18064

Alessandro Grussu

The www.rescogita.com hosts the inlay scans, but since all material on that website is copyrighted, I doubt we could distribute them. Maybe someone from the preservation department should contact the website holder.

Surely finding a working copy of it would mean the cutting of the Gordian knot! :)