Puffy Squad Collector’s Edition includes Amiga version

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Galahad masters Amiga Putty Squad

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I think in this case you have to give benefit of the doubt to Retro Gamer. They were duped big time. One of the editors says that they're disappointed by Mark telling a completely different story to Eurogamer on their own forum.

Imagine if it was a legitimate mistake (which it's not but bear with me). You've just had a free 2 page spread in Retro Gamer, and suddenly realise they've written saying the Amiga version is coming out when it was just an idea. Wouldn't you be on the phone to Retro Gamer magazine as soon as possible and clear the story up? Get something ready for the next issue, post on the forums etc? And the first thing would be to mention it on the System 3 website of course. That would be the logical thing to do. And did any of that happen? Of course not.

What does that slimeball Mark Cale do instead? He goes behind their back to a completely different publisher, and gets more publicity to effectively blame Retro Gamer for publishing the article.

One of the guys on EAB is friends with someone at Retro Gamer and posted this information about it:

"Okay, I've been in touch, and the editor of Retro Gamer Magazine has whole heartily agreed that Mark Cale is an obsessive liar for taking advantage of the Amiga community like this scamming pre-orders on a Fault promises of releasing a lost piece of software is is an complete and utter lie and would not of ran this news story known before hand."

Overall, go easy on Retro Gamer. Mark Cale is the jerk-off here, not Retro Gamer magazine.

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This load of codswallop just posted on their Facebook page:

Dear Friends and fans of System 3

In our excitement for the launch of a re-imagined Putty Squad, we set about doing something that we believed would reward the dedicated fans around the world. In an interview with Retro Gamer magazine, we announced that every pre-order would receive the original Putty Squad intended for release on the Amiga, on an Amiga disk, in the originally intended box. This would’ve been a brilliant achievement, and we were so passionate about making it happen. Sadly, we’re not able to deliver on this ambition.

Three issues meant we have had to retract this offer. Much like the last hurrah of the Amiga software market, it isn’t economically possible to create Amiga disks anymore. The prices were far too high and supply was very short. We also had issues creating a master disk to go to manufacture so that even if this disk price and shortage was not an issue our systems cannot now master an Amiga game. And finally retail were not very keen on supporting an Amiga disk as a promotion. They they had no way of checking if a disk was returned as faulty and may have been forced to refund the promotion.

Game Stores and System 3 are looking at offering another pre order offer and this will be announced by the end of the week. For announcing this Amiga pre-order idea through Retro Gamer and not being able to carry through on this promise, I and everyone here at System 3 is deeply sorry.

Sincerely

Mark Cale