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A
previously unknown title which was dug up thanks to Simon Birrell.
His old friend, Patricia Mitchell was
programming C64 game called "Save the
Hippy" .
The
aim of this game was to collect dope from the garden of the hippy.
The actual style of gameplay is currently unknown, possibly it
may have been overhead?
Patricia
never got to finish the game or as a result release it. Patricia
later moved to marketing and management and gave up programming
altogether.
Richard Hewison recently interviewed Patricia in an article for Retro Gamer magazine on Virgin Games, and the following was said:
"Patricia Mitchell joined Virgin Games from Thorn EMI and was originally meant to be one of the first female computer games programmers. She had learned assembler on the Atari 800 and began writing 'Save the Hippie' for the Commodore 64.
However, the game was abandoned when Virgin realised that the quality of titles they had released to date were no longer sufficient and they changed tactics and reduced the quantity and significantly upped the quality of their games. This meant that 'Save the Hippie' had to be sacrificed and was therefore abandoned. "
Richard is going to ask Patricia more about the game, such as what it was about and if anything by chance has survived. We live in hope that something can be recovered!
Does
anyone know any more on this game?...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Simon Birrell, Richard Hewison, Patricia Mitchell)
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