Here it is!

A bit of a question mark over this title. Although eventually released by Audiogenic in about 1992, it wasn't the same game at all which was first previewed in Zzap Issue #77. If you check the graphics (coming soon), you'll see there is a noticable difference to the game which was infact released. The game released was a slightly rehashed version of a cricket game by Audiogenic in the 80's.

So what happened to this other version?.... Did Audiogenic decide the leave the C64, scrap the current game and cut their losses by rehashing the old game? We are not too sure, but hope to find out soon what happened as we get in touch with Audiogenic, who are still going strong today.

As you can see from the screenshots, the version which was reviewed in Commodore Format back for issue 12. The game is considerably different. So why review a full game and not have it released?

We got in touch with Audiogenic, who are amazingly still going strong today. It has been found that indeed there was another Cricket game in development which was cancelled because the team weren't making progress. As a quick solution, the old game was recoded slightly and released at the end to make back some money.

Our new biggest lead is that some ex-Tynesoft guys were behind the unreleased version we have shots of here. So looking at the credits of previous Tynesoft games, we have a few names to check out and try and find out more. Audiogenic did not recall any names sadly, and do not have any of the code from this better looking game. It is now down to finding the programmers of the game to get something.

We have had confirmed that this is another case of magazines reviewing incomplete games. Audiogenic have told GTW that the game was never finished, so Commodore Format have reviewed an incomplete game in this case.

A bit unfair therefore to have such a low score when it wasn't infact even completed. Just how much *was* complete when they saw the game is unknown... But this is a big title to now
search for like many others such as Murder!. It may not be particularly special in terms of a game, but it will be a significant title to find for preservation regardless..

Where is this game now?...

Frank and Andrew.
(Additional source credits - Chris, Peter / Audiogenic)