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More from Mastertronic, this time from Binary Design who did a number of titles for the budget label.
3D Boat Assassin was being worked on by Haydn Dalton, doing the graphics. The game was in the mould of Live and Let Die, and described as a Fire and Forget game on water. The code was being done by Paul Gill who had the following to say:
"This would have been the begining of 1989 when I was working for Binary Design Ltd. In their infinite wisdom they decided to let a bunch of us work from home hence making a saving on renting an office. Alas, they also decided to make a saving by not paying us.
With no money coming in I- no pun intended- jumped ship and got another job.
The game was a 3d shoot 'em up. I remember rewriting the 3d engine several times before I had it running properly. I think I spent about 6 weeks working on the game, at home, before they stopped paying me what I was owed. My main recollection was that I existed on a diet of cup-a-soup, eek!
As I remember the core of the game was pretty much done before the money ran out. I guess another month of tweaking and it would have been finished. Shame really. "
Haydn had the following to say to start with...
"Yes I worked on 3D Boat Assassin, I knew it as Speedboat Assassin, so I'm not sure why the name was changed. This was the 2nd or 3rd game I'd worked on at Binary Design, but it was never released and I'm not sure why. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I didnt keep anything from my days at BD, you may want to try and hunt down Paul Gill, he was the programmer on it."
Sadly when Paul was asked if the game still existed, he said that he no longer had any disks, so it could be that this one is sadly long lost now. The Amiga and Spectrum versions did however make it ... http://amr.abime.net/review _5185 and http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004739
It seems that the game was fairly playable, so we hope to try and find something of it, but there is very little hope now...
Could well be case closed i'm afraid...
Frank.
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source credits - Haydn Dalton, Martin Smith, Paul Gill, Leszek Chmielewski) |
