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After
a fairly successful introduction, Flimbo was to be given another
roll in his very own sequel called "Flimbo's
Quest 2".
This
was to be a five level game with
massive maps including beautiful parallax scrolling, graphics,
animation and game play, improving much further over the original.
The
parallax scrolling was to be ditched, so the game could cope with
sloped platforms. It was more of the same, but to be far more
improved compared to the original game.
The
Dutch developers of the sequel as well as the original, Laurens
van de Donk and Arthur van Jole
were still waiting to be paid by System 3 for the first game.
Orginally according to speculation, it was rumoured they both
decided to halt work on the sequel after non-payment of the first
game, and so Flimbo 2 was shelved. Actually, Arthur confirms its
close, but infact they were only offered about £1500 to
do the game, and so it was cancelled.
Arther
did level graphics only, but sadly these have been long lost.
Only Laurens or someone else *might* have it tucked away somewhere...
or something at least... but its not all lost...
Music
was created and completed by none other than Reyn
Ouwehand, and it is recently thanks to the guys at High Voltage Sid Collection in Christmas 2009 that we have got chance to listen to the tunes (See link at top now). Sadly there was no preview present with the tunes :-(
Thanks to iAN CooG for also supplying GTW with the correct SID file for the game (Which just has the one tune, compared to the initial release which incorrectly had more tunes).
Currently
there sits a unfinished game in a playable stage, which GTW may
possibly get some screenshots of and hopefully some exciting news
one day... who knows. Sadly its not been good so far, Checks have been made to find the disks with the remains of the game, but sadly nothing has been found yet. Will anyone find anything?... We honestly don't know... This could sadly be
lost forever... :(
Flimbo
unfortunatly lost this quest...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Jazzcat, Arthur Van Jole, iAN CooG/HVSC)
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