JackGYarwood

I remember the original Game Boy game had a glitch where you could basically mess up the graphics and go onto other screens by pressing select at the proper time. Used to have so much fun just travelling through all these broken rooms I wasn't supposed to access yet.

@AllieKitsune Cheers for flagging! Fixed.

@Hydra_Spectre Wasn't that the Rozner Brothers and Hi-Tech? Beam worked with Hi-Tech a lot, I think, so that could be the confusion.

@MrModerate Yep, it probably isn't. The only way I can see it being useful is in randomizers maybe.

Funnily enough, I beat the game 100% last month and I remember coming to that obstacle pre-Water Temple and being like, 'There's got to be a better way to do this'. All the guides were like, 'Nope, just keep running!' Pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if the Ice Arrow placement was moved at some point during development because they needed something to place at the end of the Training Grounds that felt significant.

@TransmitHim They sold a ton of their properties off during bankruptcy proceedings. I'm waiting on the full list, but many of these could be the ones they sold off to the publisher Tommo.

@Pillowpants It's more about informing the techniques used. But you can sort of see the resemblance between the Sonic model and the Cat-O-9-Tails from DKC 2.

@BulkSlash Yeah, I've been trying to get an interview with him for a while, but I think he's just left those days behind. Either that or our messages never reach him (he's CEO of the company after all). Would be awesome to hear what actually happened with Nintendo and if he has a copy of those tracks Dylan mentioned.

@TransmitHim Agreed, I was looking for a way to shorten the headline and bodged the meaning in the process. Fixed now! Cheers!

@Bunkerneath That's a fair point! I think I may have even brought up Superliminal in my chat with them. It definitely seems to come from a similar space creatively.

@Razieluigi It's so weird it isn't mentioned anywhere. If 40,000 customers had it, you'd think we'd be seeing more boxes sold secondhand on eBay or even more articles about test markets. As far as I can see, there's nothing except the original announcement of the terminal.

@JJtheTexan Fixed! Appreciate you pointing it out

@K4sparius Good eye! I think you may be right. I was looking for GBA carts with stars on the cover. The Oracle of Ages one I guessed, but wasn't sure because the gold is completely smudged out of it.

@-wc- Yeah, they're like mutated humans though, aren't they? This game featured normal wildlife like gorillas, lions, and bears, alongside more mythical/fantastical stuff. Maybe it was that part of it that bugged them.

@Retromeo Ah good thinking! Can't believe I missed that. Updated!

@RetroGames Yeah, definitely! Hopefully, if the ROM does get dumped people will be able to capture some cleaner footage.

@AlessandroZPE It's a fascinating company. I first heard about them when exploring early (unlicensed) Beatles games for home computers.

I tried to track down Benaglia for an interview, and know the journalist Damiano Gerli has too, but sadly he just doesn't seem to be active or reachable through social media. I did speak to some of his colleagues though, who told me one or two things about the company like that it was named after Benaglia's daughter Linda.

@sabre230 Updated! Thanks for flagging the names and apologies again for the omission. I would love to chat with all involved with this eventually. It's such an incredible undertaking.

@RaistlinGP That would be it! I didn't see the bottom comment on the download page, so didn't realize it was a thing. It happened immediately after I opened the fog of war map, so assumed it was tied to that. I've updated it!

@GravyThief Crikey! That's a howler. Cheers for flagging. Just fixed it.

@ShiroHagen Agreed! Saturn all the way for me.

@BionicDodo YIKES! How did that happen? My morning coffee not kicking in most definitely.

@Gerald It's for PC. Updated now! Apologies!

@norwichred Yep, it's for PC atm. I've updated now! Apologies!

@MSaturn It's something I've always been meaning to look more into. Like everyone knows Mew and the truck, the Triforce in Ocarina of Time, and reviving characters in FF7, but there are probably a ton of strange localized myths about video games. It would be an interesting topic for a forum post probably!

@bippity_bop I always wanted to call a hint line, but the terrifying 'Secure permission from your bill payer' put me off as a kid. I used to have to rely on trading bits of math books with cheat codes/tips written on them in school. Obviously that then devolved into people making stuff up and tons of really strange urban myths about hidden characters and secret endings with impossible requirements.

@BloodNinja It's hard to demonstrate in a lead image, but if you look at the video you can see the enemies and objects have slightly more depth and dimension to them. You can see it more clearly in the video footage when staring at some of the bodies on the ground.

@BionicDodo Amen to that!

@mike_intv Ah good spot. Corrected! I misread my notes. The January 1984 issue is another that mentions Atarisoft and 'Brand new frontiers' for Atari.

@JJtheTexan It used to be on display in Rare HQ apparently. Now it's somewhere in storage. Damien actually had a lead on an image taken by a staff member. We've both been poking the guy to see if he can dig it out.

@JJtheTexan Cheers for the comment! I think it would be kind of unusual if that was the case.

The Stampers didn't do much work directly on Commodore 64. Instead, they usually had people work on the games for them, like Dave and Bob Thomas. It's more likely parallel thinking. Also, I have tried in the past to interview the Stampers, but have had no luck so far!

Funnily enough, in another case of coincidence/forward-thinking, the Stampers actually created a portable NES to pitch to Nintendo at the very same time Nintendo was unveiling the Game Boy. They were really on the cutting edge back then.

@BionicDodo Appreciate the feedback. His name was actually in the original headline I wrote, but it looked slightly too long (almost 3 full lines for a title). I also needed to try and keep that additional context in there for folks who might not know who he is simply by name.

I went through several variations for that part before settling on 'Former Sega Composer' - 'Streets of Rage Composer', 'The Revenge of Shinobi Composer' - but felt they might end up giving the false impression that this was something to do with those games and not The Scheme. Headlines can always be a bit tricky, but I'm open to improving.

@Fizza The J-Pop song pictured does have some flashing effects that do get a bit distracting. The backgrounds, though, are not as bad as they may seem. It's a bit like Tetris Effect, where you can mostly kind of zone them out.

@get2sammyb The corners pull you in a certain direction. Right turns pull you left. Left turns pull you right. You need to position yourself to the far right on right turns and to the far left on left ones. Lay off the acceleration when you feel you're getting dragged too close to the corner. You should be golden!