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Yet another early version of a released game which has never seen the light of day.
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Soccer Simulators
was previously in production by none other than
Simon Nicol, working with Said Hassan
of Rigels Revenge fame.
According
to Said who recently spoke to GTW, him and Simon were assigned
the game (A port of a crappy Z80 game) and the conversion was
a real "hack and slash" job. Simon apparently was more
for living the life than working, and so the game was a pile of
crap.
The
Darling's were apparently not very amused with their Codemaster
GOLD title, so they scrapped what Simon and Said produced, and
brought other people in quickly put together a better game. Not
that the released one was any good anyway...
So
now it remains to be seen if a piece of Simon Nicol's long lost
work could be uncovered one day. Even if its a pile of tripe,
many fans of Simon's work would probably be curious to see what
his conversion was like.
Said
has confirmed that he has nothing of the game, so really it is
down only to Simon if he still has the game. Said suggests that
Simon may wish to forget this game.
A
pile of tripe, but we still want to see it... mad :-) ...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Said Hassan)
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