A very short placeholder entry for yet another missing 1987 Computer Novels title – The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Mentioned in Svenska Hemdator Nytt No.4/1987, it is suggested that the game would be released soon by the company on the Commodore 64 and 16-bit platforms. It was never to see release on any platform, and only The Three Musketeers would see release.
A feature appeared in Swedish magazine Datormagazin, issue 7 1987, page 4, with P Diab at publisher American Action which adds a few snippets, where they say:
“We are planning to release the Computer Novels series for all computers I just mentioned [previous passage: Atari 520 ST, Amiga, C64, C128, PC]. This also includes all other games. The Computer Novels series will also be published in special editions for the C128. It won’t be a direct conversion from the C64, more like a Deluxe version of the C64 game.”
Followed by:
“I’ve heard some loose rumours about “The Scarlet Pimpernel”. Is that something you intend to release?
Yes and no. We have it planned as the fourth [part] of the Computer Novels series, but we have not decided yet whether to publish it since we don’t yet know how people will react to the series. If all goes well and we come up with more action parts we will release it, the goal is for no games in the series to resemble each other.”
Was anything ever started, and can anything be found? As Anonymous Contributor suggests, this seems to imply that perhaps the game is at best on the drawing board, but no more.
Contributions: Anonymous Contributor, Martin/Stadium64
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