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A report on the ECTS (European Computer Trade Show) of 1989 was featured by Computer Action magazine in their July/August 1989 issue, with discussion of many forthcoming games.
Inevitably, at least one of these did not come to fruition. Panic Stations from Gremlin is one example - it was also planned
for the Spectrum, and probably other computers. Panic Stations was to be a shoot 'em up in which you play a robot, trying to bring peace to a space station by destroying other robots. You had limited ammo and energy, but could collect a hover-car to travel around in (which sounds intriguing).
The screenshot in Your Sinclair shows a side-on view with a small map at the bottom, although it is not clear exactly how changing directions would be incorporated.
No game fitting the description was ever released. We have no credits for this one as yet, but hopefully somebody out there can help.
What happened to this one?
Martin Smith.
(Additional source credits - Peter Weighill,
Anders Hansen) |
