Fantastic Voyage

[Toucan]

I was doing a little surfing on the Internet and came across an arcade game called "Bio Attack" by Taito (KLOV Page). According to the game's title screen, it says it was "Licenced by Fox Video Games". Is it possible this arcade game was an adaptation of Fox Video Games "Fantastic Voyage" (done for the Atari 2600), since it seems to be basically the same idea. Or did Fox licence the arcade and release it as "Fantastic Voyage" on home systems? Just thought I'd see if anyone else out there knew anything about this.

[Ze_ro]

Certainly seems like a plausible theory. I can neither prove nor disprove it, but your logic seems sound. Perhaps 20th Century Fox found out at the last minute they couldn't give Taito a license to use the Fantastic Voyage name, but the game was already ready to go?

 

--Zero

[Jess Ragan]

Bio Attack does indeed bear similarities to Fantastic Voyage... both the film and the video game. The 2600 version of Fantastic Voyage does a much better job of convincing the player that he's guiding a ship through a critically ill patient, however. Bio Attack is full of bewilderingly cheerful music and enemies that don't look like they'd be floating in anyone's bloodstream.

 

When you charge through a pink and yellow vein, blasting little pitchfork weilding demons and thousands of microscopic clones of Mickey Mouse, you don't wonder what the designers were smoking. You wonder what parts of their brain they bludgeoned with a hammer after they smoked it.

 

JR

[Toucan]

It sounds like a smart idea...Develop a video game for the 2600, if it doesn't sell well then try and have it turned into an arcade game by a well known manufacturer to try and boost sales. Although, the fact that the game is called "Bio-Attack" wouldn't really help "Fantastic Voyage" on the 2600. It is interesting though, since this probably means it's one of those "Consolse -> Arcade" ports.

Edited September 16, 2005 by Toucan