The next two look like some foreign pirate importer has had a load of non-specific colour inserts printed in bulk, then had some lackey stick them in a typewriter and add the title of whatever is copied onto the unmarked casette.
The Dracula one may well be a home-made mail-order job - possibly worth scanning the insert for the archive. According to the adverts there were 16K ZX81 and 48K Spectrum versions. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007123
The last one is strange, as it looks like a bulk-printed label where someone then used a label printer to add the title. Yet the casette has a professionally printed title and the company name matches the label. But the printed date pre-dates the Melbourne House game by two years!
However, an archive search for Mugsy reveals a much earlier - and relatively unknown - strategy game for the ZX81 - so this could be quite a rare old find!
Thanks guys, only reason i posted about the Outcast game is because the disk version is absent from the archive, these are all for sale, not from me though, anyone interested contact evildoctorshortcrust AT live.co.uk
Wow. I fondly remember this game (Tomb of Dracula) on the ZX81 but never got it for the Speccy. Played it for hours back then. Fast forward several years to the Amiga era and I started a conversion using AMOS Professional. About 35% code completed if I remember rightly. Also did some mock-up pictures in DPaint. Not even sure if I've still got the source code. Another unfinished project - real life got in the way. :)
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The next two look like some foreign pirate importer has had a load of non-specific colour inserts printed in bulk, then had some lackey stick them in a typewriter and add the title of whatever is copied onto the unmarked casette.
The Dracula one may well be a home-made mail-order job - possibly worth scanning the insert for the archive. According to the adverts there were 16K ZX81 and 48K Spectrum versions.
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007123
The last one is strange, as it looks like a bulk-printed label where someone then used a label printer to add the title. Yet the casette has a professionally printed title and the company name matches the label. But the printed date pre-dates the Melbourne House game by two years!
However, an archive search for Mugsy reveals a much earlier - and relatively unknown - strategy game for the ZX81 - so this could be quite a rare old find!
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