New Cloak and Dagger Pic found

[cx2k]

Was going through and archiving disks from former Atarian Jerome Domurat and on a disk labelled "Salk" I found this image hidden on there.

 

Was pretty cool to watch this load and realize what it was. Kind of felt like I was in the movie.

 

Anyway, thought I'd share it here since it must have been for the 8-bit version Dave Comstock was working on. No idea who the artist was.

 

Edited April 26, 2020 by cx2k

[abbotkinneydude]

Hello @cx2k

 

Thank you for rescuing thoses disks.

 

For those who aren't on facebook, you'll find below 2 links toward the facebook page of the National Videogame Museum.

 

Those discs were rescued by cx2k of the NVM and posted on the facebook page of the museum on April 16/17.

 

Those disks belonged to Ace Atari Graphic artist Jérôme Domurat and contained works by <unknown artist> AND Alan Murphy (5200 Countermeasure, RS Soccer, XEGS Bug Hunt with Rob Zdybel, lots of 2600 titles and 5200 works / protos).

 

I am including below all pictures from those 2 threads for everyone to see.

 

And yes, that Cloak & Dagger cut scene... Dave Comstock wasn't aware of it so this might have been Jérôme or somebody else working independently on his own (or something else required by mgmt).

 

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All screens by <unknown artist until verified> contained on disks belonging to Jérôme Domurat.

 

 

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All screens by Alan Murphy salvaged from disks belonging to Jérôme Domurat.

 

(unless I'm mistaken, the ATARI RESEARCH logo has never been seen before).

 

 

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Jérôme with Dave Staugas (2600 Millipede, Krull) and Jim Eisenstein (all three produced Neochrome on the, cough cough, ST).

 

 

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Jérôme Domurat ATARI era Linkedin section:

 

 

 

 

Edited April 26, 2020 by abbotkinneydude
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[koolmoecraig]

Very cool. thanks for posting

[Tempest]

Wow, very cool.  I always thought the 5200 Xevious title screen seemed too plain for the time.  Now we see that they had planned something better all along.  I wonder why it wasn't in the latest prototype?  Maybe there wasn't enough room?

 

The C&D pic is really interesting.  Too bad Jack is green or it would look really sharp.

[abbotkinneydude]

Between the James Morgan snafu and the unfinished state of the prototype (the gameplay isn't fine tuned, the color scheme doesn't look final), this might have been shelved before the intro screen was integrated within the game.

[Jetboot Jack]

Really nice find!

 

I love that cat/tiger sprite - using a single wider missile to extend the creature size to 20 pixels is a lovely use of slim resources!

 

sTeVE

[Tempest]

4 hours ago, Jetboot Jack said:

Really nice find!

 

I love that cat/tiger sprite - using a single wider missile to extend the creature size to 20 pixels is a lovely use of slim resources!

 

sTeVE

I believe that's supposed to be Smart Seymour who was the 'star' of Peek A Boo.  They went with a cartoon looking cart for the final version instead of the realistic looking one here. 

[Jetboot Jack]

4 hours ago, Tempest said:

I believe that's supposed to be Smart Seymour who was the 'star' of Peek A Boo.  They went with a cartoon looking cart for the final version instead of the realistic looking one here. 

That is very cool - thanks for the extra information, that's a game I was not aware of!

 

sTeVE

[doctor_x]

love those lisa's.