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Again from the Commodore Format diaries, another Apex title
which fell by the way side.
This time,
Katapult Kidz,
a two player horizontally scrolling arcade adventure based
around schoolboys armed with catapults and causing general
chaos. The characters were based on those used in Squish, H20
and Destruction brothers. Although coming along slowly, it
seems that inspiration was not too strong with the game and
Creatures 2 was requested anyway by Thalamus to be developed, so
it was shelved.
After Creatures 2, they never went back to the game, which
suggests that the
Rowlands
became bored of the idea and moved on. A shame. We only really
have the screenshot of one of the sprites, but maybe we'll see
more one day?
This is what Apex said from the original article....
"Designed
at the same time as Squish, this was a horizontally-scrolling
arcade adventure based around two pranksome schoolboys armed
with catapults. These schoolboys were based on the characters
from Squish, H20 and Destruction Brothers as we thought they
were cuter than a really cute thing on national cute day. This
was axed from the Apex schedule to make way for Creatures 2 (out
now on cassette and disk)"
The Rowlands have all their disks, sadly packed away in
storage.... and it may be a long time before they are dug out
again to search for code/sprites. It might happen one day, but
due to their busy schedule in the mobile gaming market, it could
be a rather long wait.
Will anything be found of this game one day?...
Frank.
(Additional source credits - Andrew Fisher, Mort)
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