Throne of Fire

edited December 2007 in Infoseek database
a little mistake on your Throne of Fire WOS entry:

this game has never been released on the C64 unlike your page states.

Remains of an unfinished demo have just been made public:
http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Pages/t/Review_ThroneOfFire.php


greets from a C64 fanatic (EVVVIIIIIIIILLLLL!)
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  • edited December 2007
    Hi Adam Huemer!

    Welcome to the wonderful World of Spectrum, may you have many a good conversation here.

    Skarpo
    :-)
    PS The C-64 sucked back then and still to this day!!! :-P
  • edited December 2007
    Rough wrote: »
    a little mistake on your Throne of Fire WOS entry:

    this game has never been released on the C64 unlike your page states.

    Remains of an unfinished demo have just been made public:
    http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Pages/t/Review_ThroneOfFire.php

    I see, shame about that!

    The other 8-bit systems cross-references do not necessarily mean that the titles were published - if it was advertised was for that system, I mention it.
    Similarly, sites for those other systems can (and do) link to titles advertised for the Spectrum. We have entries for those unreleased ones, too, with a note telling so and possibly why.

    In this particular case, it was advertised, but sadly neither GB64 nor Lemon64 list it, so no link is given.
  • edited December 2007
    Well, it says "was also PUBLISHED on..." and that's false.

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005243
  • edited December 2007
    Rough wrote: »
    Well, it says "was also PUBLISHED on..." and that's false.

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005243

    Fair enough! So it's a wording problem. How would you propose to have it listed instead? I thought of 'advertised', but that doesn't work either, since only a tiny amount of titles were ever advertised...
    Suggestions are most welcome!
  • edited December 2007
    mheide wrote: »
    Fair enough! So it's a wording problem. How would you propose to have it listed instead? I thought of 'advertised', but that doesn't work either, since only a tiny amount of titles were ever advertised...
    Suggestions are most welcome!

    "This title was also published on the Amstrad CPC and was also scheduled for the Commodore 64 but was never actually produced."

    ... if the "Other Systems" field allows for unique/additional comments, that is.

    Skarpo
    :-)
  • edited December 2007
    There's a related issue with Solo Flight in that it wasn't also published on the Atari / C64 as it was never published on the Spectrum.
  • edited December 2007
    As the text displayed for that field is fixed (the database itself only maps ids), I'm afraid I have to ask for help with an updated text that will fit each and every circumstance.
  • edited December 2007
    There's a related issue with Solo Flight in that it wasn't also published on the Atari / C64 as it was never published on the Spectrum.

    Good point. Maybe the word "also" ought to be removed alltogether.
  • edited December 2007
    Skarpo wrote: »
    Good point. Maybe the word "also" ought to be removed alltogether.

    Unless we would use 'advertised', in which case 'also' would be correct.

    So right now I'm thinking of "This title was also advertised for and/or published on the [...]". Although it's a bit long, at least it's correct.
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