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I
remember seeing this game after recieving a load of old disks
from a company called Shareware Plus. This was one of the many
previews I found hiding away, classed as PD/Shareware. Now the name has been suggested to be Babylon by one crew, but actually the game never had a proper name, so Babylon is kind of a working title, as was Paralax game which was given when Onslaught released it.
Anyway, this unnamed game is an
awesome little preview of a game which owes a lot to the Mario
games, Mayhem and maybe a bit of Castlevania?
This
neat little platformer works in similiar fashion to Mario, by
busting blocks with your head and squashing some characters by
jumping on them. Collecting a special treasure chest will allow
you to throw fire tourches at your enemies.
Starting
with a cool Uridium style title screen, with large scrolling letters
(Spelling "Demo").. The game has no name, even though
the preview has been named Babylon. This is not the real name.
Graphics
are neat and impressive, with some cool parallax later in the
preview, and some Mayhem-esq style lightnining effects. Scrolling
is very smooth horizontal scrolling, with an easy to control character.
There
is no sound, and only one level in this preview, but it is likely
that the game made it much further... The amount of detail in
just this one level is brilliant, so surely
Kopido got a bit more of it done before it was scrapped
for whatever reason?
Well,
it seems not... the game only really got to this stage in its
life as you see here. The programmer gave up on the game due to
asking for too much money, and no publisher wanting to touch the
game. Deekay/Crest wanted to ressurect the game recently, but
it was found that sadly all the work disks were lost. Xayne/Crest
was to do the music.
Stunning
platformer, small... but stunning...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Christian Widmann, Jazzcat)
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