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Poltergeist still MIA??

Mark R. JonesMark R. Jones
edited May 2014 in Games
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012012
I wanted to try this after remembering the ad from back in the day but it's still MIA. How can a game by someone like PSS still be missing after all these years? It must have sold some surely?
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  • def chrisdef chris
    edited May 2014
    unless you know for sure that it came out, I'd say it's probable that it was never released, as there are no magazine reviews, and the lone 'preview' in crash just vaguely describes it, no screenshots etc.

    I think some games listed as MIA in the archive were actually never released, - not 100% sure about that though.
  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited May 2014
    Yes, very much what def said. If you take a look, they also announce in Crash, 2 other games which never saw the light, Dr. Acula and the conversi?n of Hyper Biker:

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue09/Pages/Crash0900090.jpg
    <a href="http://rincondelspectrum.blogspot.de/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://rincondelspectrum.blogspot.de/</a>;
  • Tommy F-HTommy F-H
    edited May 2014
    Try this :-)

    http://www.emuparadise.me/ZX_Spectrum_(Z80)_ROMs/Poltergeist_-_The_Adventure_(1986)(Firebird)/81379-download

    WOS is not the Only-One !
    -and surely not as it was a couple of years ago.

    Here is the same URL in a more friendly setup: http://tinyurl.com/lpo9w9a

    Regards
    Tommy / Denmark
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited May 2014
    That isn't the game mentioned in the preview though, as it is an adventure game rather than an arcade game.

    Also, I'm sure I've played that adventure game before. Is it definitely called Poltergeist?
  • RalfRalf
    edited May 2014
    Well, it isn't really that hard to type "poltergeist" into search engine ;)

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekadv.cgi?what=1®exp=poltergeist

    There are 2 games called "Poltergeist". Once is MIA and another one isn't. It is the second one (by Firebird) which is also present on the warez site linked.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited May 2014
    MattLamb wrote: »
    That isn't the game mentioned in the preview though, as it is an adventure game rather than an arcade game.

    Also, I'm sure I've played that adventure game before. Is it definitely called Poltergeist?

    you sure? the Poltergeist in that Crash preview even describes itself as "Arcade Horror" if you look at the P.S.S. image...

    the other Poltergeist in Ralf's link is a text adventure so I doubt you mean that one.
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited May 2014
    def chris wrote: »
    you sure? the Poltergeist in that Crash preview even describes itself as "Arcade Horror" if you look at the P.S.S. image...

    the other Poltergeist in Ralf's link is a text adventure so I doubt you mean that one.

    Yes, the previews and the original poster was after the arcade action game. All the links provided so far have been for the text adventure.

    Sorry, maybe I wasn't being very clear.
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