|
Famous
for the fantastic Crazy Comets and Mega Apolcalypse, it was a
honour to finally meet Simon Nicol
at 2003's BIT5 Brighton event.
Aswell
as talking about Mad Planets to Simon, Simon started conversation
about a Car game which he was writing for
Virgin Games in the 80's, which featured a road effect
like no other.
Simon
talked about seeing Mark Kelly's road effect created for Turbo
Outrun, and Simon instantly said "You
call that a road?, now this is a road.." and created
his own amazing road effect.
Virgin
are assumed to have liked this what he created, and got Simon
to produce the game for them.
A
friend of Simon's recently had this to say about the game...
"His
road routine was impressive, fast smooth and very hungry (CPU
& RAM as far as I can remember). He spent about 3 months fiddling
with it while working for Martech, then came and worked with me
for a bit. Martech were not best pleased, they were expecting
a game out of him... and were paying him 2k per month then - he
was riding the crest of Mega Apocalypse at the time (hell of a
starfield that one...). I don't know that the game really got
any further than the road - there was another programmer Dave
Martin (Martech) imposed on Simon to help him (make sure he did
something) - can't remember his name, sorry."
Not
much else is known apart from this at the moment, no real title
or anything. Hopefully Simon will help GTW find out someday soon.
It
is rumoured that Simon has all his source disks, and may be willing
to pass on anything there is of his Car game, which would be a
fantastic privilage to see. We will have to wait and see on that
one though....
Time
will tell on this game...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Simon Nicol, Said)
|
