old console magazines dig...

I just happened yesterday to have read through issue 21 of Super Play magazine, which has a tiny interview with the creator of Vortex, Mike Powell:

"The game is my idea. At the time, Argonaut Software were approaching various people to take advantage of the new Super FX chip and I was interested in doing it. Vortex is an original game; there's no sort of licence tie-in or anything. Basically, it was meant to be a development on Starwing, trying to introduce 3D to the SNES, really."

The "Transformers" theory is just some type of Quartermann-style dreaming, I think. Magazines will print anything given a lack of solid facts.

 

Same was on print in Power Player too. @Mike Powell's comment on Vortex.

The Nordic "Super Play/Power Player" got a lot of its content from the English Super Play (and maybe some vice versa too? At least some of the Nordic guys did attend various game shows and other stuff for some of their articles)

It's a bit funny to see how similar the English (probably original) text is to an old translation I did of the Norwegian print found in a Powerslide article (It has probably gone through the following English->Swedish->Norwegian->English. Hooray for intermediate languages!)

Can find the stuff here, along with some other random poor pics I did of some magazines showing various old SNES stuff. (PS: I wanna slap myself for some of those translations. Will probably, sometime, get around to properly scanning these later + re-translating most of it.)

 

Not for the NES, and not from Camerica, but from NEC and designed to allow the PCE CD/TurboCD to be used as a SCSI CD-ROM drive for the computer.

You plugged the CD drive into the adapter cable and then plugged the adapter into your machine. Viola, instant SCSI CD-ROM.

It never shipped as prices on PC drives dropped quickly enough that the adapter wasn't cost effective, but it was complete and working in the prototype state.

Very sweet piece of kit.

-hl718

 

Nope, Gamepro magazine reported on a rumoured/prototype adaptor from Camerica that would load games from CD via the headphone jack onto an NES cartridge. Kinda similar to the old computer cassette drives...

 

I believe popel meil is popful mail which probably had the title translated, and it was released in the US and japan at least. Not sure about europe. you can tell by the screenshot

 

some interesting things:

same more digging!

http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...olemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=028&page=8
here is stated that the psx will have 5MB of video RAM. Also it's said that it'll manage to run FMV at 60fps.

here are some promotion items that were around in italy, made in the same factory that produced swatch clocks:
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...lemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=028&page=17

i think i still have the green clock with yoshi!

here are information and pictures of the "transformers" game:
http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ma...lemania.htm&base=Consolemania&num=028&page=25

it was going to be called citadel and you would take control of a "machine" that can morph in a tank, machine and a jet fighter. snes with sfx, obviously!

 

This makes me laugh :lol:

Those images are from Vortex. The name Citadel as a title for it rings a bell. Pretty sure I've seen it under that name before. +Citadel, curiously enough, matches up with the initial name of Argonaut's "King Arthur's World", which was Castles (later Havoc, before becoming King Arthur's World)

 

I have an old issue of NP that shows Vortex in the pakwatch section, with the name Citadel. I wonder why they changed names.

 

Probably Citadel being a project name and the publisher/marketing deciding that Vortex was a better name.