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You
may be screaming at me for putting this game in the archives,
but this is no normal version of Chiller.
The
game basically was originally withdrawn due to the connection
to Michael Jackson's Thriller music
video at the time of the game's release.
The
game originally featured a neat rendition of Thriller by David
Dunn, but Mastertronic decided that they could face possible
legal action because of the music and asked for the music to be
changed immediately.
The
problem was, that a few copies of the game sneaked out with the
original music, before Mastertronic canned the first version,
which are extremely hard to find. You basically will have to buy
every copy of Chiller to ever find an original with the original
Thriller music... I have now 8 copies of the game, and originally
had no luck.
However,
recently Gareth Dolloway noticed this review and offered his own
copy of Chiller, which is infact Version 1. So now thanks to Gareth,
GTW can now bring you a .TAP image of the original version 1.
The
game itself is familiar to all, created by the Darling brothers
before they established Codemasters. The new music made and put
in the game they eventually sold on large scale, never suited
the game properly.
Site vistor, Carl Speed, had the following to say about the game:
"I just wanted to say that there is a difference on the front covers that I've noticed. The V1 seems to have no mention of Burner Loading System on the top right red triangle section. Only the newer version does. I'm not sure if this is absolute, but I'm sure it probably is. Thought I'd pass on the discovery, in case people are looking for the version."
Well, I checked and I think he's right!.... Basically it seems that if you have a copy which doesn't have the "Burner Loading System" mentioned, you could have an earlier edition with the original music in. Time to start checking!
Additionally we found this early screenshot in an early issue of Your Commodore - which must have been dropped from the final game... what was it to be used for?...
Thanks
to someone who got hold of a copy of version 1, you can now download
the game how it should have been... or sounded at least!
Oowwwwwwwwwww!...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Warren Pilkington, Gareth Dolloway, Carl Speed)
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