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Another
rare sight from Apex Productions.
While
Creatures 2 was in development, there
were a number of ideas thrown around, and one of them was this
very demo.
This
was to be a Bonus Game within Creatures
2, where Clyde would have driven a car
and taken part in a mini game. I'm assuming the game would have
been similiar in Bonus Game style to those in "Ice Guys"
and "CJ's Elephant Antics".
For
reasons currently unknown, the idea was shelved (Possibly memory
problems?). And sadly the game was never fully started to a playable
state or included in the released game.
All
that exists now is a parallax side scrolling road effect with
some bushes that fly past. There is also a strange line at the
top of the screen, which looks like telegraph pole wire without
the poles. Possibly Steve and John never quite finished this effect.
Upon
searching through the game's code and sprites, there were found
to be no traces of a car, but a Clyde set of sprites. These however
are found to be remains of one of the released Torture levels,
which you can possibly get running via a SYS call, which brings
the assumption that the BONUS would have occured if you done something
within a particular Torture Level.
Overall
this is a glimpse of what could have been an additional feature
to the excellent Creatures 2. There is nothing more to look for
or to get from this preview, so it is something for fans of Apex
to look at for curiosity's sake.
From
what was a great idea, which didn't quite make it...
Frank.
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