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Hunchback at the Olympics

def chrisdef chris
edited September 2013 in Games
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020263

archive says MIA, but not 'never released'. did it actually come out though?

The artwork looks like it was done by the same person who did the JSW cover:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=PersonalComputerGames/Issue12/Pages/PersonalComputerGames1200004.jpg

Those screenshots don't look speccy....
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  • djgarfdjgarf
    edited August 2013
    it never came out on the spectrum
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited August 2013
    ok thanks. Thought that might be the case

    anyone know if it was actually made for the spec and just shelved?

    I would really like to play this game
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited August 2013
    Was it released for the C64?
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited August 2013
    yeah looks like it.... wouldn't want to go anywhere near that tho'

    #speccy4life
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited August 2013
    I have a C64 emulator somewhere... only games I've played on it are Anarchy and a Melbourne House game called The Dark Tower that Mrs Spoons used to have when she was little.

    Yes, she used to be a Commode owner, spit spit.
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited August 2013
    so you can have the last word in any argument then... "you used to own a commodore":-)

    tbh I never even played on one back in the day, and only saw a c64 game 'in action' when someone posted a vid on here last year. somehow no one at school or in our village had one growing up, it was all spec-heads
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited August 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    somehow no one at school or in our village had one growing up, it was all spec-heads

    Utopia! But what did you argue about in the playground?
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited August 2013
    YS vs. SU used to cause some friction!
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited August 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    so you can have the last word in any argument then... "you used to own a commodore":-)

    To be fair it was more her older brother's than hers. She's still got it somewhere round her mum's house with the original box and it still works - I think her mum wants me to sell it for her but I keep putting it off.
    def chris wrote: »
    tbh I never even played on one back in the day, and only saw a c64 game 'in action' when someone posted a vid on here last year. somehow no one at school or in our village had one growing up, it was all spec-heads

    Same here - I didn't know anyone with a C64 even though I used to fiddle about with them in Boots sometimes on a Saturday. Most of my computer-owning friends had Spectrums, apart from my best mate Gary who had an Acorn Electron, and another mate who I think had a Dragon 32 or something. Two sets of cousins and a lad over the road who used to babysit sometimes also had Speccies.

    It's no coincidence that I grew up in the town of Kempston :) (MattLamb will know exactly where that is)
    MattLamb wrote: »
    Utopia! But what did you argue about in the playground?

    Whether or not there was a screen called "Dr Jones Will Never Believe This Too" in JSW (I was right, there wasn't) and who was better - Head or Heels :)
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • GrunakiGrunaki
    edited August 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    ok thanks. Thought that might be the case

    anyone know if it was actually made for the spec and just shelved?

    I would really like to play this game


    It's emulated under MAME.. It was Century Electronics trying to cash in on the 'Track & Field' and 'Hyper Sports' craze of the time, using their only original character who actually got some recognition.

    (Most of their games were blatant rip-offs of other popular arcade hits of the time - mostly from other countries like Japan and the US who weren't as geared up for international legal action as they are now.. Century were based on some industrial estate near Manchester.)
  • carlssoncarlsson
    edited August 2013
    For what it is worth, the TZX Vault suggests that this game was shelved when Ocean acquired the rights to do a conversion of the original Hunchback game.

    This is interesting, as the C64 version of Hunchback (Ocean) is dated 1983 in both GB64 and Lemon64, while Hunchback at the Olympics (Software Projects) is dated 1985. Since both sites have the same data, I would assume it is relatively accurate and partly breaks the suggestion from the above site that Software Projects for some kind of legal reasons (?) never released the sports game. However one would imagine they got the rights from Century Electronics to do this arcade conversion.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited August 2013
    Grunaki wrote: »
    It's emulated under MAME.
    sorry for my ignorance but what does that mean... There's a playable version ?
    carlsson wrote: »
    For what it is worth, the TZX Vault suggests that this game was shelved when Ocean acquired the rights to do a conversion of the original Hunchback game.
    ah,forgot to look there. Cheers
    leespoons wrote: »
    Same here - I didn't know anyone with a C64 even though I used to fiddle about with them in Boots sometimes on a Saturday.
    Our local boots was the main place for speccy games (joint tied with wh smiths) but they never had comps set up to play on... almost certainly would've got vandalised. I'm surprised any stores did this tbh
  • Rebelstar without a causeRebelstar without a cause
    edited August 2013
    My local Boots used to have a Nes set up with Super Mario Bros on it that you could play. Now it just has cosmetics.
  • GrunakiGrunaki
    edited August 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    sorry for my ignorance but what does that mean... There's a playable version ?

    MAME is Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. It's not the Speccy version, it's the actual arcade game. Check your PMs.
  • MartinUKMartinUK
    edited September 2013
    Rebelstar without a cause wrote: »
    My local Boots used to have a Nes set up with Super Mario Bros on it that you could play. Now it just has cosmetics.

    I don't remember any systems you could play on in my local Boots, but I do remember it selling Spectrum games. When the Spectrum died out they had endless copies of Line of Fire, Turtles, Klax and a few others on sale for 50p, some of which I bought (even though I had an Amiga by then -Klax especially didn't need fancy graphics to be fun)
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