Games That Weren't 64

Doug Roberts speaks to GTW about 'Beast'...

"Just wanted to give you some background/info about my little 'Beast-Preview' from way back in 1991!

From what I remember this started life as an attempt to re-create a scolling foreground over a static background. There was no real intention to create a game or anything at that stage. But as always
one things leads to another and projects tended to take a rather unplanned route.

At one stage there I'd imagined using for a multi-load demo - where each part was behind a different door...

As such this preview is about as far as things got. There hand't been any thougts about the "game" itself or any gameplay aspects, and even the graphics are just rough and ready "test" chars/sprites.

It's interesting to note that this preview was only sent to Deek (Richard Rinn) who did the music/sound, along with the implicit instruction not to spread! So it's hardly a surprise to see the
Genesis Project intro on the front! I have no idea where they got the name "Beauty and the Beast" from!

Incidently, some of the graphics used for the score panel were part of an unfinished (yes, another unfinished project!) conversion of apicture from a Warhammer 40000 advert."

Doug Roberts.