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New games

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:22 pm
by Bas
Popping up for the first time, anyone heard of it?

Eat or be Beaten (Firesign Theatre / Warner Bros.) 1984
Nick Danger - Danger in Dreamland (Firesign Theatre / Warner Bros.) 1984

All noticed here


somehow i feel this is not right. Please tell me the opposite because it sounds good!

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:22 pm
by Devin
I have never seen these and the publishing date of 1984 seems a little bit out :?

Re: New games

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:40 pm
by oaacdi
The whole article is at http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/ar ... d2037/pg4/

Eat or be Eaten was at the end released as CD+G, a title that took me quite some years to get. I made screen captures and only a few were posted on this Forum, but I posted all the captures at the Photo section of the Firesign Theatre Yahoo group.

"In 1985 The Firesign Theatre was approached by Philips to write two demonstration games for their new CD Interactive machines. Eat Or Be Eaten, was recorded as a 99 track demo and the accompanying graphics made but the actual finished project was never published commercially. Danger In Dreamland, a Nick Danger Hollywood studio back-lot murder mystery game, was written but not recorded. Eat Or Be Eaten (1985) was salvaged and released as the first CD with subcode graphics, and the game paths strung together to form a story with some commercial parodies, on Mercury Records. The commercials were excised and put out for radio airplay in both a 7" and 12" version called Bites From Eat Or Be Eaten. The theme was further developed into a highly successful 30 minute Cinemax special, also called Eat Or Be Eaten (1985), that too, has been released on video (1986). The remaining Firesigners also provided voices for some of Mattel's Intellivison games, including Bomb Squad and B52 Bomber."


Bas wrote:Popping up for the first time, anyone heard of it?

Eat or be Beaten (Firesign Theatre / Warner Bros.) 1984
Nick Danger - Danger in Dreamland (Firesign Theatre / Warner Bros.) 1984

All noticed here


somehow i feel this is not right. Please tell me the opposite because it sounds good!

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:20 pm
by Bas
Nice info!
so both of them were some 'stretched' CD-G's? To call them 'games' may be a little misleading ...

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:29 pm
by Philipscdi.com
A little... (?)

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:30 pm
by Devin
What makes a game a game?

This is a topic I constantly struggle with for certain titles which makes me go along with what Philips used in the various catalogue entries and is what i'm using to reform the Games Archive. So it could be bye bye Asterix!!

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:40 pm
by Bas
Asterix is a game aimed at a younger audience... A CD-G with a small interactive plot-line is still an audio-album with graphics, not a game. Come on, this is ridiculous.

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:18 am
by Bas
Next thing,

"Marlboro Go"

Image

as far as I know this was a prototype for the Atari, but apparently it has been listed in a cd-i list.

I can't find any resource however....

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:22 am
by Philipscdi.com
I have a marlboro game on CD-i but I'd have to look for it... I'll check it out tonight and tell you about it.
I think it was called differently, though...

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:34 am
by Philipscdi.com
I can't find the game, but i remember the name...

Marlboro Follow Me!

It was a game where you had to drive your car through the desert, MicroMachines-style.
That's all I can recall.

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:44 pm
by Bas
i don't know what to think of it.... is it something promotional? There's nothing to find about it on the net. Keep looking, I need to see it!



Devin, maybe it's an idea to divert the children games from the other games. You shouldn't exclude titles like Asterix, Surf City, Haunted House and the likes from the archive!

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:25 pm
by Bas
Unfortunately no-one can verify this information, or show some visual material of it..... :(

In the meantime, blurb has added another two:

Quizmania - Giunti Multimedia

Super Test - Giunti Multimedia

Appearing to be Italian releases. With all these 'trivia titles' the game library could be expanded indeed, but i don't really see this as an actual game. However.....

Let us know if you have it...
I can't find the game, but i remember the name...
But Mathijs, you're sure about this!?