A cart with the prototype of Tyrannosaurus Tex is currently for sale on Ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121045985532 Tyrannosaurus Tex is a first person shooter for the Game Boy Color. Unfortunately it was never released: http://www.gamestats.com/objects/013/013802/ I'd love to play this game on my GBC. Unfortunately the price is already over $100. Too expensive for me :-(
I loved it since the first time i saw on IGN. Pretty amazing game. If any anyone want to start a fundraising in order to release the rom count my 10 bucks in.
This real? is it normal a unreleased game on a Dr GB ? never mind, is the game realy the so called unreleased ? If a fund raise will be made ill post 5gold(euro/dollar)
Aww, sweet that people still remember this game! I've a box full of dev carts, design documents, concept art, CD backups, source code etc..for this game, its sat untouched for over a decade. If anyone can offer it a good home I'd happily donate it
SmoMo, if you there are any builds on a CD, or something easily accessible, that you could release that would be fantastic!
If you guys are starting a fundraiser im in i can donate $100. Are there any plans on who is going to run it? SmoMo will you do us the courtesy of uploading a few pictures and details and how much you would be willing to sell the whole package for? Also i just noticed that there was a public release for this game, smoMo are your builds (newer/older/Different) from the build that was released?
I'd say give it to me only because I'm starting up a website of releasing stuff I get and have already released one game, but that's probably not saying much lol. If Fandangos gets it I assume at least it will end up in public hands then since he's a good guy =p Hate to see it go to anyone who will only keep it to themselves.
No reply yet but I assume if you get it that would be also good news to the community. Either way both of us have busy hands, you with your university and me.. well.. I'm getting married )) Just for random information, after l_oliveira brought me here bramsworth was the first friend I made hanging around.
Actually I think the guy should message Nintendo Player since he just recently released the cart he bought. Who better to release more than the only guy that bothered releasing anything so far? Assuming others are out there and have been kept private.. I never PMd him btw so if he responded to you you'f be more likely to get it. I'm chasing after something else atm anyway Congrats on the engagement btw!!!
AH I just read the Nintendo Player article, wow so in depth the writer really put a lot of effort in that article. There should be the final version of the game in the box, but If I remember correctly the more interesting game was an unannounced followup. Well not a followup it was a totally different game but based on version 2 of the engine. It was a multiplayer game inspired by that old budget title Feud ( on the specutrm and C64 ), you could play as a variety of different Cooks ( Chefs? ) who ran around the world collecting ingredients ( like picking them off plants, or stealing Phoenex eggs from , erm, Phoeniexix I guess ) then you'd head back to your own walk in oven, bake it, and see what you'd made. The results were food weapons, and I'm kinda guessing at this point, explioding cakes, acidic cream squirt, inivisiblity pies, super speed sushi. Whatever, anyway, so you'd bake this arsenal of food then confront the other player ( who had been running around the same world doing exactly the same thing ) and have an almighty food fight to the death. LOL!! Anyway, that was by far the superior game imo
Hey Fandango! What a great point+click game that was, I think my favourite actually, the bit in the bohemian jazz club spontaining beat poetry was my favourite. "sizzle" (finger click) Anyway I used to hang out at this crazy Squat on the seafront in Brighton (UK) around 2001 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina_House , http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/indepth/squatters/1141327.Squatters_move_back_into_seafront_property/) , it was created by some strange artist cult group called Chalk Circle and noone really seemed to be in control but one guy who seemed to be more stoned than anyone else told me he used to make video games and had a cardboard box of stuff that he gave me when he found out I was into retro gaming. Anyway, it's actually at my mum's house in the attic but I should be able to dig it out, there were a few design documents, CDs with Backup dates written on them but probably more appealing is some were marked Alpha, Beta etc.. He did tell me a fair bit about the development of TTex and I remember that he was suitably chuffed that I had heard of the game before. I'd actually seen it mentioned in Retrogamer magazine a few months earlier. It is funny how this stuff just stays forgotten for so long then suddenly appears out of nowhere. I'd wonder what other stuff is just collecting dust in an attic somewhere. "Invasion of the robot zombie chickens from mars", was that the game that was going to be amazing for the Sinclair Spectrum, but noone has ever found it. I remember seeing an advert for it and wanting to play it.
Nice story. The great thing to live in places where those games are made (US, Canada, UK, Japan) is that you can actually meat some developers. If you can, take a picture of the box and put it up online, I bet tons of people would love to follow your treasure hunt. BTW: People come to me all the time to talk about Grim Fandango.. it's so sad they never made such a good game like this. A master piece even for today standards but it's not a point and click. Most of people play with a keyboard or a joystick, so it's more like an adventure. Still it blends into all those point and clicks from George Lucas game era.
I feel stupid for only just realizing the game says Tex in the title, not Rex =p Can't wait to see that box. The unannounced game sounds interesting. I'm surprised a development studio was taking on another project that got towards completion and even that one went unpublished. Shame. Whoa, let's not get too comfy with them
Hopefully the documents etc. see the light of day - thanks for saving them, SmoMo! If you need help with scanning etc., give me a shout. I'm UK based
there is a great article about the game on nintendoplayer.com http://www.nintendoplayer.com/unreleased/tyrannosaurus-tex/ article includes a download link for the rom
