Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

59 minutes ago, Lynxpro said:

 

Interesting. It was my understanding the Atari ST sold well there, although not as well as the Amiga. But that was also a long time ago as with all Atari systems at this point...

 

I knew many people that had an Amiga. But I had never even registered that there was something called Atari ST. But then I wasn't looking for what else there was. 

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

13 minutes ago, Lynxpro said:

 

We all start somewhere...

No one I knew had any Atari computer or console back in the day. I have no idea how popular Atari stuff was in Sweden back in the day.

[An Atari XEGS discussion]

I recently interviewed a guy who worked on solen XEGS games. I was interviewing him for other reasons but I always pick up any video game history I can when talking to people. I'll publish what he said about it in some form.

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

3 minutes ago, Jinks said:

There is no company it is history. 

Indeed. I can't say I like that Infogrames just changed their name to Atari. Using the brand was one thing.

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

29 minutes ago, Jinks said:

Welcome to Atariage. Spend some time and read about the games that were made and then you can answer your question. 

I thought that might be the case. I really should learn more about Atari games and not just the company history 😅

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

23 hours ago, Giles N said:

can anyone do it?)

I have no idea if there is an active Atari 7800 homebrew community. I bet it's hard to dive into other people's code and finish stuff if you're not really good at it.

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

On 5/5/2020 at 7:12 AM, KevinMos3 said:

Maybe you were using ProSystem?

Yes you are right I used ProSystem. I'll just try to find a stand-alone version that can handle the RAM. I really don't like RetroArch that much, but it's kind of convenient to just have it all in one place.

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

I played it on the Stella emulator on RetroArch and the game broke just a short bit into the first stage ^^

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

I have never played the prototype. About how compete does it seem?

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

Missing in Action started out as a Sunsoft game by the way.

[Kangaroo For The Nintendo Famicom By Hal Laboratory.]

12 hours ago, TheRedEye said:

He told me this as well in 2013, but I believe that his memory is the ONLY source so we shouldn't take it as fact necessarily, he could be misremembering. 

I agree. A second source is needed when there are no other evidence.

[Should someone take upon them to make a completed version of Missing in Action?]

I have scans of the concept art for Missing in Action. I have also talked to four people that was involved in making the game.

[Svenskar??]

En svensk till!

[Kangaroo For The Nintendo Famicom By Hal Laboratory.]

I heard that Richard Frick who was Director of Software development at Atari at the time was the source of the information that Kangaroo had been ported to the NES. Since I am researching the history of Sunsoft I am interested in finding out if this is true.

I contacted Richard and asked him about it. What he told me was that when Jack Trimel took over Atari in 84 they cleared out some warehouses. And during that process Richard saw a cart marked Kangaroo. And I guess since he was Director of Software development he could see the difference between a Atari 2600 cart and a NES cart. But this was basically all he knew about it.

[Existence of Centipede/Millipede prototypes for the NES?]

There are a controller for the Famicom that can be connected in the extention port that has an extention port itself for another controller. I don't remember the brand and have no idea when it was released. I have played four players in the Kunio-kun hockey game that way.

[Document Sunsoft: The history of Sunsoft]

I'm working on a video I call Document Sunsoft: The history of Sunsoft. It will be -I hope- the most complete telling of the history of Sunsoft.

Is it anything about Sunsoft you think is important to include and find more information about.

 

If you have any questions about the project I am glad to answer them. I am aming to be finished by fall 2017.