Savetz Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Russ Wetmore's unfinished Atari 8-bit game, Lulu. "It’s the last game I worked on before quitting the Atari 800. Lulu was a dancing elephant in the jungle trying to fill up dry ponds for the other animals while other animals tried to take her out. The game was only so-so, but the music was pretty good if I do say so myself. My agent and I had a falling out, and then nobody wanted to talk about publishing the game, so I stopped working on it." Russ wrote this in 1984, but it was not made available until today. He does not have the source code — in fact, he was amazed that he even had the demo disk. https://youtu.be/oozQv0mb2E4 My interview with Russ will be published very soon in the ANTIC podcast. But I couldn't wait to share this. Russ_Wetmore_Lulu_demo.atr 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 It definitely "feels" like a game from that time period. It has that charm which games then did and was perhaps lacking later in the Atari's life, those games seemed a lot more generic. It also sounds a bit like M.U.L.E.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 It also sounds a bit like M.U.L.E.. The whole intro thing is reminiscent of Mule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 The whole intro thing is reminiscent of Mule. Kinda like MULE meets Ballblazer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Looking forward to the interview. I enjoyed the last one with the creator of star raiders II. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Very nice, thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunsen Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Kevin, you are really a (THE!) Atari 8 Bit super heroe! Your contributions to the community are unbelievable! Thanks for all your work for us Atari lovin people! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Great to have it, shame its a one playable screen demo (unless I'm doing something wrong), love the music, it would be great to hear what was planned for it. Well done Kevin, 2 games no one bar a few knew existed..Great work.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Wow Kevin, 2015 was a major impact to the community with many, many gifts before the 24th this month. And now, you came again(!) with a: "One more thing...." What about making a year holiday, because your have done so much this year. Really great, thank you so much. We are deeply in your obligation, again! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricortes Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Interesting ATR to poke around with. Use a file viewer like Memopad to take a look. "Programmer's AiDE © 1982 Roklan Corp", "DAVE'S FUNNY FORMAT VERSION 1.1". You can also pick up the variable names. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I really like the animation in LuLu - Russ always seemed to take things one step further in his games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I really like the animation in LuLu - Russ always seemed to take things one step further in his games The sad thing about such stuff is that it was very missed back in the days. The game looks really nice by it's animations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I love the disk label it uses that font from Preppie. I always thought that font was fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Yep, the font found its way on to multiboots, cracks and releases everywhere....Really nice font. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Perhaps in the interviews you could express our gratitude to these guys for creating such good games. The Preppies and Sea Dragon still play nicely today 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Yes indeed, I still play Juimpman, Spelunker, Bruce Lee etc etc not because they are games I used to play but because they are bloody good games, I get the same enjoyment factor out of these games that I do from stuff on the 360 and PS4 as does my daughter.. 1K or 50GB, its the playability that counts.. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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