Our next entry into the archives is one that I’m sure used to be here, but we removed for some reason. This was intended originally as a game for Ocean, but was never published and instead was picked up by Cascade and released as Zone Trooper.
This seems to be an earlier prototype with different panels and a loading screen that was never used. There might be a number of other differences compared to the released game. Thanks to contributor Dan (see comments), it’s been highlighted that if you press the space bar, you go back to maximum stats. So a testing mode left in?
Thankfully the earlier prototype snuck out many years ago via the cracking scene – so the question is why did Ocean decide not to publish the game? Hopefully we may someday get to learn more from developer George Wright.
Contributions: Fabrizio Bartoloni, Dan
If you press the space bar you go back to max stats. Definitely in testing mode!
Ah that’s cool, thanks for the spot Dan – i’ll update the page quickly to mention that. Certainly was very close to release – strange how Ocean didn’t take it on, and how another company did instead.
Couldn’t have been loads of work left to do on this, nice looking game. Very colourful and decent tunes.
I knew this title screen looked familiar…
Ripped off Rodney Matthews’ cover art for the first Praying Mantis album, “Time Tells No Lies”!
Wow, great spot Hoagie!