+adamantyr Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) Curious on this one... As we all know, Texas Instruments often had two cover variations for their different cartridges. One was a simple background with pixel-based art directly from the cartridge itself, the other a more photo-realsitic image. I'm certain that the latter is a re-release from 1982 thereabouts to increase visibility. Example with Munch-Man: So, with Tunnels of Doom, I've only ever seen the first one. BUT... in an early TexComp catalog, they had a black-and-white trashy-looking photocopy ad for Tunnels of Doom that had what looked like the SECOND cover style, with a party of adventurers and fantasy style artwork. At least, it KIND of looked like that... the quality of the ad was very poor to say the least. Here's a clip of it from the 1988 TexComp catalog: Has anyone ever seen this alternate cover, or attempted to verify if it was ever actually released? My suspicion is that it was a mock-up that was planned but dropped when the entire TI-99/4a product line was ceased in late 1983. The TexComp owner may have just had a press release ad he copied it from for the catalog. Or maybe the TexComp guy created the artwork himself, but I'm not sure why he'd do that? Adamantyr Edited September 25, 2014 by adamantyr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) The 'Cyc' has a B/W picture of the new cover that came from a TI Ad kit and a small, poor quality, color picture that came from a brochure TI put out. My guess is that it was never published. Please be advised that since it's from the 'Cyc' it is copyrighted material.....etc....etc.... Edited September 25, 2014 by hloberg 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 In case anyone wants a copy of the original... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 The 'Cyc' has a B/W picture of the new cover that came from a TI Ad kit and a small, poor quality, color picture that came from a brochure TI put out. My guess is that it was never published. phm3042.jpg phm3042-a.jpg Please be advised that since it's from the 'Cyc' it is copyrighted material.....etc....etc.... Very cool! I need to look on my Cyc disc for that... It definitely looks like a planned cover that never made it to production... otherwise we'd see one or two about. The artwork is okay, the monster looks a little too "Alien" inspired for my taste. Adamantyr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Very cool! I need to look on my Cyc disc for that... It definitely looks like a planned cover that never made it to production... otherwise we'd see one or two about. The artwork is okay, the monster looks a little too "Alien" inspired for my taste. Adamantyr My thought too. When I looked at it I thought, 'hey, they ripped off Alien.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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