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Briefly
mentioned in the EBES interview in Commodore Format, Captain America
was one of the big titles being planned for release to save the
C64 software scene.
Nothing
was ever heard more of the game or its plans, except that it was
going to make up for the pathetic release by 'Go!' Software.
Sadly,
as with most of the EBES titles planned, the game fell by the
wayside as support virtually dried up for UK software and people
moved onto the 16-bit machines for good.
All
sprite animations were completed for the game, including as Russ
describes "Shield Throwing" and "Bad guy"
animations. Also some level design was completed, but the game
never really made a playable state, apart from maybe a few sprite
test demos.
The
game promised overall to give UK C64 users something to shout
about after Mayhem, and had EBES recieved the support and its
members didn't move on so quickly, then there may have been something
to shout about.
All that seems to remain as a glimpse is this small image that was printed in Commodore Format, and not part of the GO! game (We checked)...
However,
as this review mentions, sprites and level design was done. And
so a search begins to bring home the remains of this EBES title. It seems this may well have been a title being developed in Germany/Sweden as EBES was spread also at first across these two countries. We need to track down the other members of EBES to find out more.
Another
EBES tragedy, due to the UK scene death misfortune...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Russ Michaels)
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