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"Chronos" and Gremlin

PopoCopPopoCop
edited December 2014 in Games
"Chronos" was released by Mastertronic. But there is a sign Gremlin'87 in the corner of a loading screen. Was this game supposed to be released by Gremlin but then sold to Mastertronic?
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ZX Spectrum +2 & PicoDiv SD,
Timex 2048 & divIDE 57c

Comments

  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited November 2014
    There was a Little research here:

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42642&highlight=chronos+gremlin

    ;) maybe we will some day reach the reason why...
    <a href="http://rincondelspectrum.blogspot.de/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://rincondelspectrum.blogspot.de/</a>;
  • jdanddietjdanddiet
    edited November 2014
    I'm talking to john at the moment, will ask him.
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited November 2014
    Never played it. The spaceship reminds me of the one in Ultimate's Cyberun:

    Chronos.gif
  • zx1zx1
    edited November 2014
    I've never played it, i join fire it up for the music that plays when it loads!
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • PopoCopPopoCop
    edited December 2014
    jdanddiet wrote: »
    I'm talking to john at the moment, will ask him.

    Any news?
    ZX Spectrum +2 & PicoDiv SD,
    Timex 2048 & divIDE 57c
  • Gennady DemidenkoGennady Demidenko
    edited December 2014
    I send this to Mastertronic. Please, wait.
  • Gennady DemidenkoGennady Demidenko
    edited December 2014
    From Mastetronic.

    Developer by the Radical Tubes and not a Gremlin, but maybe they had begun work and Gremlin lost interest and after this Chronos published by Mastertronic.
  • TMRTMR
    edited December 2014
    Perhaps Richard Aplin had something to do with it, i think he sometimes worked under the pseudonym Gremlin?
  • jdanddietjdanddiet
    edited December 2014
    I've asked John but he's not been very responsive of late. He seems a busy man!
  • Jason SpearsJason Spears
    edited December 2014
    I always thought the Gremlin done the loading screen and that was the signature rather than Gremlin themselves. Gremlin is also on the Agent X loading screen too for instance. Perhaps it's John Tatlock if he done the loading screen as well as the in-game graphics?
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited December 2014
    The music is influenced by early Jean Michel Jarre. If I recall it correctly.

    Apparently its highly likely that aliens from another galaxy if they ever come to earth will recognise some of it.

    Personally i'd have broadcast Dire Straights "So Far away" into deep space if I wanted a reply, but NASA thought "Calling Elvis" would be a better bet.
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