A short entry for a recent recovery from the archives of Paul Allen Newell, where researchers unearthed a lost storybook game that was being created by both Paul and Centipede creator Dona Bailey for Activision.
More details can be read about the recovery here, though subscribers will have full access. The game asks you to choose between three different characters, Cathy, Beth and Kent and then goes through like an interactive book, asking you to carry out tasks and interact with other characters.
A recovery effort was made by researcher Katie Biittner, where the source code was recovered and compiled up. It seems that the program is very advanced.
A detailed article will be published in ROMchip around December time, where we hope to learn more and even be able to play the prototype itself. We’ve spoken with Paul in the past too, so once the article has been out for a while – we’ll hopefully learn more from Paul too to include in this page.
An exciting development, so watch this space!
Contributions: Katie Biittner, Fiery Phoenix, Joshua Dove
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