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Post by fgasking on Feb 23, 2005 10:29:42 GMT -5
Its me again ;D
Does this game ring any bells?
< description from magazine >
SHYLOCK, MERCHANT OF VENICE
1989 Ocean
A maze game with the characters chased by a pound of flesh. Mark Wilson (MW20) created music for the game, featured in a music demo.
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Post by Gary on Feb 23, 2005 14:02:08 GMT -5
I bet it was in an April issue.......
Published on the 1st of that month, perhaps?
I do remember that that Shakespeare fellow was a bugger to negotiate the license with - a real Prima Donna!
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Post by fgasking on Feb 23, 2005 15:24:19 GMT -5
I wish it was, but sadly it was November, issue 55 of Zzap 64...  "'Kings of comedy' - Ocean director Gary Bracey announces SHYLOCK, MERCHANT OF VENICE."... then the rest of the blurb above. |
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Post by Gary on Feb 23, 2005 17:12:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember now - it was in a job lot of licenses with 'Rainman'.
Great game design - you had 5 seconds to count the matchsticks on the floor.
Trouble was, we didn't have any artists who could draw the matchsticks right.
Sorry, it sounds like the whole thing was a wind-up. More, I think, a fabrication of Zzap's than mine (which means it was probably Gary Penn, Ciaran Brennan or Garry Liddon).
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Post by LeeT on Feb 23, 2005 17:36:18 GMT -5
Hadn't ZZAP! lost its sense of humour by that point (it would have been in the Stu Wynne period, I think?).
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Post by fgasking on Feb 24, 2005 3:40:55 GMT -5
Thanks Gary.. i'll ammend it to say it was a practical joke of somekind. Some of the Zzap guys are still around, so i'll question them about it |
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 24, 2005 7:03:58 GMT -5
Ah...ZZap and Crash...
The tales that abounded about the boys who worked for the Freys.
Now there's gossip for you....but that's one we will definitely leave to the archives.
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Post by fgasking on Feb 24, 2005 7:25:35 GMT -5
Any chance of a hint ?  |
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Post by Swainy on Feb 24, 2005 8:16:17 GMT -5
"I'm not the only Gay in the Village" is about the best hint I should imagine.
Somone over at RLLMUK Forums found some very suspect paintings of boys by Ollie Frey a while back.
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 24, 2005 9:43:05 GMT -5
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 24, 2005 10:29:44 GMT -5
Ye Gods and little fishes! All very Tom of Finland and no mistake.... makes this particular cover of Zzap64 all the more worrying... www.zzap64.co.uk/zzapcovers/i21jan87.jpgespecially as there is an article inside with me in it... I feel sullied...and not in a fun spanky way. |
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Post by Paulie on Feb 24, 2005 14:10:22 GMT -5
Makes you wonder what Oli thought Gary Penn's hair was stuck up with!
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Post by Brian on Feb 24, 2005 15:10:12 GMT -5
that link explains a LOT.... I remember when this issue of zzap came out.. it was a bad day to be a c64 owner in school.. WTF?!  |
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Post by Gary on Feb 24, 2005 16:32:31 GMT -5
I actually own 4 framed (original artwork) covers from ZZap! which I picked up at an industry auction a few years ago.
I'm thinking of donating a pair for charity... maybe to be auctioned at this CGEUK thing in September....? ? ?
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Post by The Starglider on Feb 24, 2005 16:39:05 GMT -5
I thought it was common knowledge that Oli was gay? Or is that fact actually "rumour"   |
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