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Paddle Mania was an arcade tennis game which was mentioned as being a title for conversion in Commodore User, September 1988 by French software company FIL.
UK representatives of FIL were The Sales Curve - but although Silkworm and Ninja Warriors made it ... this didn't.
FIL later lost funding, so its possible that Sales Curve went their own way and decided not to convert this game. This was the last we knew about the game.
However, in 2011 after C64.com converted some disks from Darren Melbourne - we found a music demo which had a huge set of tunes by David Whittaker - and quite good ones too! .... We made some recordings of a few of the key tunes and passed these over to Darren to check. He confirmed that the tunes were for the Paddle Mania conversion.
We were informed that Paddle Mania was written by Mark Greenshields under contract for Pantheon Software, but Mark confirms he didn't work on the game. The graphics were believed to have been done by Sam Mohibull. However, the Pantheon Software lead could mean that it was the guys behind Superkid who may have done the conversion. We need to do some more digging!
As for the game, it was a sort of Table Tennis game meets Speedball. According to Darren, the game was axed for reasons unknown and entire resource was moved onto Continental Circus instead (possibly because Paddle Mania bombed in the arcades). It could well be that the music is the only reminant of the game that remains.
Do you know anymore about this game?...
Frank.
(Additional source credits - Rob Whitaker, C64.com, Darren Melbourne, Mark Greenshields) |
