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Toucan
07-01-2004, 02:33 PM
HI!
Well, I just recieved a package today in the mail. Inside were prototypes for many released and unreleased games, and in addition many boxed released titles! Below is a listing of all that I got and plan on making avaliable to the Classic Gaming community at least through emulation:

(Screen Shots for Lobster Bay, one of the new games just found can be seen at: http://www.videogamehouse.net/Lobster_Bay_Preliminary.html )

Boxed Funware Cartridges:
-Schnoz-Ola
-St. Nick
-Driving Demon
-Ambulance
-Video Vegas
-Henhouse
-Rabbit Trail

Prototypes:
-Ant Colony
-Shanghai
-Ambulance
-Rabbit Trail
-Cave Creatures

Source Code Only:
-Lobster Bay

Let me just say right here and now that Lobster Bay is one great game! It is complete and very fun to play. It takes place underwater where you are a scuba diver trying to gather up treasures that are scattered on this platform underwater. This game has about 7 screens per level, making it a much bigger game than the normal one-screeners that Funware put out previously. There is a map above you that shows your location and where you are so you can guide your way through the ocean. It's amazing, and I should be able to get it dumped for emulation sometime this week. Also, the game Ant Colony is a new one too that I've never seen. It resembles The Attack where ants come after you and you have to spray them and their "boxes" (the boxes count down as in The Attack, but in Ant Colony the goal is to exterminate these boxes). All in all, there are some really neat gems here. I hope that everyone finds them as fun as I have today! I'll include scans of the Schnoz-Ola box for the internet as I don't think too many have seen this one before, cool picture on the box though!

Phosphor Dot Fossils
07-01-2004, 06:23 PM
WOW. Awesome find!

And ditto on the thank you for sharing it with the whole community. I look forward to playing some of these. :D

TheRedEye
07-01-2004, 07:45 PM
Might wanna cross-post that to Prototype Central.

Toucan
07-01-2004, 10:28 PM
Thanks for the messages guys! I will be sharing them as soon as I get the Ant Colony game going. As to cross posting this message to Prototype Central, good idea. I'll have to do that. Hope you guys enjoy the games once they come out on-line!

ianoid
07-01-2004, 10:38 PM
Wow! Really nice pile of stuff. How did you happen upon this all? Any chance of us TI99 lovers to get ahold of any of those boxed titles (PM me!) if you have a source that has a few to get rid of?

Schnozzola!? Never heard of it! Is it in the DP guide? Really cool! I look forward to seeing those other protos/new discoveries in action.

Toucan
07-01-2004, 11:23 PM
PM Sent.

Toucan
07-01-2004, 11:24 PM
PM Sent.

Toucan
07-02-2004, 07:24 PM
To all those interested. Lobster Bay is now avaliable for Download at the Lobster Bay website: www.videogamehouse.net/Lobster_Bay_Preliminary.html . Have fun. But be sure you read the "Readme" file included, it tells you how to run the game. Since this was only source code, I had to include a cartridge with the code so you could actually play the game. If anything goes wrong, let me know. Thanks!