| |
Steven Day speaks to GTW about 'Bank Panic'...
"The
screen was done for an old acquaintance of mine who used to frequent
the same club as me. The title screen was all I did.
I have, to be honest, forgotten his last name but his first name was
Richard and he used to work freelance for Alligata. He wrote the 64
version of Knockout boxing for them, so u could track his name down
that way. He
used to live near Cannock, Staffordshire. an area that was heavily based
on the Coal industry. hence he worked as a programmer for the then Coal
Board.
That's about all i can remember about him. except he was the one who
leaked the original "Who Dares Wins" game onto the scene circuit.
(u know the one elite got banned for being too close to Commando)
Possibly an ex alligata programmer can shed some more light on him.
if u have one amongst your contacts.
As to the game, he was trying to sell the idea to Elite, who were specializing
in arcade conversions at this time, and this was never converted officially.
All that existed of the game were some basic animated screens which
did look the part and were done by himself on Koala painter. so this
game, had it gone ahead would have been notable for its use of animated
bitmaps in 1986.
I don't really have any concrete reasons for why it didn't go ahead
but probably enthusiasm waned on both sides. I know he was a professional
business programmer for the coal board at this time too.
West Bank was also released on a compilation too just after, and obviously
would have had an impact on sales, particularly as it was deemed not
to be worth releasing at full price, and was itself a close copy of
Bank Panic.
I can tell u for certain that there were basic animations and screen
layouts done in koala bitmap form, but that is all.
Whether they still exist i can't tell u tho."
Steven
Day.
|
|
