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Interview with Color Dream + Scan

Jul 29, 2018 at 7:45:36 PM
LJL Kunio (0)
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I share an interview with Color Dreams for its beginnings, published in July 1989 at VideoGames & Computers.
Mention several games without launching: Pegasus, Outpost, Warbotics and Code Blue.
Also the idea of including an extra processor in a cartridge used later by the Super Cartridge.


 

Aug 6, 2018 at 12:57:57 PM
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This is awesome, I read it last week while on my lunch break.

Thanks for sharing!

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Family Bits:  An Unauthorized, Complete Guide to Famicom, Dendy, and Pegasus

https://famicomfamilybits.wordpre...
 

Aug 6, 2018 at 1:15:28 PM
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Hey I have one of those cart caddies! lol Nice read thanks for sharing OP!

Aug 8, 2018 at 12:49:42 AM
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Thank you for sharing this. Here are my thoughts about the content.

Wow. Fascinating profile. It sounds like they had a really innovative process. But from what I know, it did not live up to the ambition described here. I played the DOS version of Captain Comic when I was a kid. It's a pretty unique game, although I would make it a double feature with Metroid. When I first learned there was a Nintendo version (via ROMs, many years later), I was excited to check it out. It's not a great port. For all their talk about graphics expansion, it's not successful in Captain Comic. Just compare the player sprites. 6 colors in the computer version, same old 2 or 3 in the Nintendo version. And it's less color all around.

I am interested to look at more Color Dreams games. Does anyone know what happened with the Outpost project?

Aug 15, 2018 at 12:06:36 AM
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i bought jason smiths stuff and there is information and some documents from Brenda Huff about Code Blue and a whole guide to what Warbotics was going to be about. I imagine code blue got pretty far along - they were talking about in a 1989 ad alongside baby boomer and captain comic.

also found a label and box mock sheet with pms color calllouts up  hellraiser if anyone cares...

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Edited: 08/15/2018 at 12:06 AM by qixmaster

Aug 31, 2018 at 9:05:54 PM
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What does Warbotics look like, is it a shooter? How it looks?

Maybe they did not get programmed, of those mentioned at least Atlantis was programmed, although in the end it was not released.

Sep 7, 2018 at 5:55:11 AM
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There was a lot of vapourware coming from Color Dreams, however I wouldn't be surprised if some of these were actually programmed and were somewhere at some former Color Dreams employee's attic

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