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Can anyone please help identify this?

finisherfinisher
edited June 2008 in Chit chat
Check out this C64 Gryzor Box screen and take a close look the bottom-right screenshot. Now, at a first glance, that appears to be Gryzor ZX Spectrum. However, closely, it's somewhat far from it. The Hi-score and lives stats is missing; the map is slightly different and the graphics are definitely looking better. Could this be some sort of early version or something? Perhaps the Spectrum conversion enhanced by some peripheral? Any sort of thing?
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  • NickHNickH
    edited June 2008
    finisher wrote: »
    Check out this C64 Gryzor Box screen and take a close look the bottom-right screenshot. Now, at a first glance, that appears to be Gryzor ZX Spectrum. However, closely, it's somewhat far from it. The Hi-score and lives stats is missing; the map is slightly different and the graphics are definitely looking better. Could this be some sort of early version or something? Perhaps the Spectrum conversion enhanced by some peripheral? Any sort of thing?

    Could be a preview version - it was previewed rather heavily in the mags, so there should be preview screenshots in the page scans to compare it with.
  • finisherfinisher
    edited June 2008
    Page scans? Which ones/where to see?
  • NickHNickH
    edited June 2008
    finisher wrote: »
    Page scans? Which ones/where to see?

    Infoseek is the tool for this - here's the page for GryZor.

    Scroll down to the magazines section.
  • finisherfinisher
    edited June 2008
    There sure is a lot of different stuff going on there. My only guesses are:

    1) Modified screen settings (somehow)
    2) Modified screenshots (better possibility)
    3) Distorted color when the screenshots processes were made (another better possibility)

    All in all, their differences are not bigger than the one I linked. I must look into it more.

    By the way: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSinclair/Issue25/Pages/YourSinclair2500029.jpg Is that 10-copy offer for real? And is that offered game any different?
  • NickHNickH
    edited June 2008
    finisher wrote: »
    By the way: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSinclair/Issue25/Pages/YourSinclair2500029.jpg Is that 10-copy offer for real? And is that offered game any different?

    Heh - that meant that 10 people can win 1 copy of the game each :)

    It's a competition, not a special offer.
  • milemile
    edited June 2008
    NickH wrote: »
    Heh - that meant that 10 people can win 1 copy of the game each :)

    It's a competition, not a special offer.

    i always used to think that when i saw competitions to win 100 games, and i thought 'what would i do with 100 games, it must be for shopkeepers.'
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited June 2008
    Wow it seems to be a Gryzor super gun in a suitcase :) Sweet!
  • finisherfinisher
    edited June 2008
    Oh, I see. But, I mean, is that game in the special offer any different from the one already known?
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited June 2008
    finisher wrote: »
    Oh, I see. But, I mean, is that game in the special offer any different from the one already known?
    No, it's just a prerelease mock-up shot. Take a look at the inlay for Treasure Island Dizzy, you will see shots that are impossible. That scan is really bad and perhaps higher resolution rescans are needed of inlays if anyone has time (no!) but iirc (it's been a while since I got rid of mine) all or nearly all of the shots on the back are impossible to achieve even using the cheat code.
    The mock-up title screen even says Desert Island Dizzy, iirc.
  • finisherfinisher
    edited June 2008
    Ah, so that "Gryzor arcade in a suitcase" is a fake and the real thing is winning a copy of the game?
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited June 2008
    Ehhh no ;)
    The Gryzor arcade in a box is a super gun with arcade pcb.
    The games are... the games.
  • frobushfrobush
    edited June 2008
    The Ocean art department always got things wrong. The original magazine advertisment for Hyper Sports had the swimming event picture upside down...

    ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-adverts/h/HyperSports_2.jpg

    ...and the Cobra cassette inlay has an early screen shot (lower left) that has blocks missing...

    ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/c/Cobra.jpg

    I also remember being asked to do some game instructions for Kong Strikes Back - thinking that they would be taken and then modified by a team of experts. Nope. They printed them verbatim...
    The word "BONUS" appears on every screen when one letter will be highlighted.
    Every few seconds that letter will return to normal and another letter will
    be highlighted. If the player collects the ladder bonuses the highlighted
    letter will begin to spin. When all letters are spinning the player gains
    an extra life and bomb. The word "BONUS" will then return to normal.

    And they cocked-up the Firefly instructions too and had to put big black boxes over certain words.
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited June 2008
    frobush wrote: »
    And they cocked-up the Firefly instructions too and had to put big black boxes over certain words.
    Any idea what they said originally?
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