Hey all, first sorry for being away for so long, a great deal of bad stuff has happened to me recently...
Anyway, trying to get my mind off of things, I was looking thru my old UK Amiga magazines....it started up a big retro urge, and been playing TONS of Theatre of Death, by Psygnosis, a rather obscure 'Cannon Fodder'-ish kinda game. OK, funny thing is, the game is really only average... and apparantly got dismal reviews by most Amiga mags....
But, it meant a lot to me, after ALL the work it took me to get the game in the first place.... Being a UK release, it's of course PAL, and I find out to my horror 1MB chip RAM, and my 'still nearly new' A500 had a measly 512K...ToD is also Super-glitchy in NTSC.
So, I decide to take a soldering iron to my precious 500. Well, the job was messy, but it worked. So, ready to ring up Amiga dealers to get a copy.... Nope, NO one in the states has the game....{sighs} No worries, I'll order it from Premier Mail order in the UK.... even THEY didn't have the game.
So, armed with a large pot of coffee to stay up past 4AM... I called Psygnosis directly, and got the game that way! I really lucked out too, at this time Sony had just taken them over....
Finally, I was playing this game I needed to have so badly... The owner of a large PD place I ordered from was a bit-time gamer... and sent me some disks of PAL booters, degraders, etc., and the instructions on enabling 1MB CHIP on a A500.
Yea, the game is primitive by todays' standards.. But, I just had a lot of fun. The opening music is quite brilliant, IMHO... too bad the in-game music isn't better tho... LOL
BUT, the real reason for all the fuss.... I am a HUGE Sci-Fi nerd.... and the last set of levels were set on the moon, with Eagle spacecraft dotted about from Space: 1999! Sadly, they aren't flyable, tho they can be blown up.
I wonder if this was Pygnosis' last Amiga game, or at least close...
And I love the last line in the credits:
And to all those who live under the sign of the owl.
Well, thanks for hearing my 'geek moment' LOL!