Klove Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 Guys.. "Survival Run". The ROM that we all believe to be a Data Age game.. "Has anymore proof to come to light that this IS in-fact an actual Data Age game?" I noticde that Albert doesn't have the game listed here or made available under the Data Age section. Also.. my cohorts at Data Age know nothing of the title at all. They've all seen the screen shots, too. That said, I'm wondering if it was maybe made the by the Data Age programmers, but possibly offered for sale elsewhere or potentially to another 2600 publisher at the time. For that matter.. "Where is it even mentioned that Survival Run was a Data Age title?" Thanks Gang. - Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Someone mentioned "Concert Escape" earlier in this thread; for the record, Journey Escape was reported to be called Rock 'n Roll Escape. Presumably in much the same way as "Chuck Norris Super Kicks" became Kung Fu Super Kicks" and G.I. Joe became Action Force. When a license is temporary, limited, or region specific you have to rebrand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) Guys.. "Survival Run". The ROM that we all believe to be a Data Age game.. "Has anymore proof to come to light that this IS in-fact an actual Data Age game?" I noticde that Albert doesn't have the game listed here or made available under the Data Age section. Also.. my cohorts at Data Age know nothing of the title at all. They've all seen the screen shots, too. That said, I'm wondering if it was maybe made the by the Data Age programmers, but possibly offered for sale elsewhere or potentially to another 2600 publisher at the time. For that matter.. "Where is it even mentioned that Survival Run was a Data Age title?" Thanks Gang. - Ken Don't Stop Believin', Ken. Check out page 39 of this 1982 CES review document: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-2600-ces-review-1982.pdf Description and title matches the proto. Also, Rock 'n' Roll Escape was the title that was used only on the manual cover by Gameworld when they owned the Data Age titles and distributed them in Europe: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-rock--n--roll-escape_15547.html Edited January 9, 2016 by Rom Hunter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 For that matter.. "Where is it even mentioned that Survival Run was a Data Age title?" Check out these links: randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-history-1982.html#history_bb_da_jun archive.org/stream/Video_Games_Player_Vol_1_No_1_1982-09_Carnegie_Publications_US#page/n7/mode/1up/search/%22Survival+Run%22 archive.org/stream/Video_Arcade_Games_Vol_1_No_1_1983-09_Creative_Computing_US/Video__Arcade_Games_Vol_1_No_1_1983-09_Creative_Computing_US#page/n38/mode/1up/search/%22Survival+Run%22 archive.org/stream/electronic-games-magazine-1982-11/Electronic_Games_Issue_09_Vol_01_09_1982_Nov#page/n109/mode/1up/search/%22Survival+Run%22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klove Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) Fellas, This is great information. Thank You so much for this. I wonder what the issues were that DA seemed to of killed it off. Sadly, this what I deal with when working with the old school publishers. Most don't even remember the names of their titles. BIG names like Journey, of course. Everything else, they sorta' rely on me to try and fill in the gaps for them. :-( This is great info. I'm betting that DA probably killed the title off shortly after CES. - Ken Edited January 9, 2016 by Klove 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Are the people you were talking with the programmers or some other position at Data Age? It would make sense for them to forget the games if they weren't the ones programming them. Another bit of proof for what it's worth... I have a few copies of Survival Run that were found with a WIP of Airlock. For some reason many people still don't think they're authentic prototypes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klove Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 WC, "Do you have dumps of them or ?" It'd be great to be able to includes these in the project, if at all possible. If not, that's completely undetandable. I have an artists working on "new" Data Age lab loaner / prototype cart labels. These are being recreated from copies of the one's that DA used back in the 80's. The "White" style one's are what we are going after. We did the same in the Activision Anthology. Thanks, Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I'm interested to see what you guys come up with The ROM is in this thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/159769-huge-lot-of-data-age-eproms/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I find it weird that there are multiple copies of a game that clearly isn't complete floating around. Sure that happened at large companies like Atari, but Data Age was pretty tiny and I imagine EPROMs were at a premium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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