A quick post showing an early Atari Lynx development which would eventually turn into something completely different. Thanks to Ross Sillifant for highlighting. Here we have Impossible Mission, which would eventually be released as Electrocop on the platform. The screenshot shown doesn’t really have any major differences (if any) at all, and it seems just the name was dropped for reasons currently unknown.
It has been rumoured for years that Electrocop was originally intended to be a sequel to Impossible Mission, though Greg Omi couldn’t recall if that was the case or not. However, it seems the press at the time were told that it was going to be called Impossible Mission. Several sources (including ACE magazine) have been added here, so you can see for yourself.
It begs the question of why the popular title was not used in the end – something perhaps we’ll run past some other people and will update here when we learn more.
With thanks to Ross Sillifant for the heads up and scans and resources, and also archive.org for some of the scans.
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And now thanks to the Atari community, Monster Demolition has turned up.
That is superb news! On it now to do some quick updates. I’ll link to the forum post. Also a later version of Vindicators too! :)
It is sad with that no ROM seems to still exist for Monster Demloliton or Rampage Deluxe.
You never know what might turn up some day! :)