A very quick entry, where contributor ‘Nicolas’ can recall seeing a C64 conversion of this early Cobrasoft game, which did see release on the Amstrad CPC: https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/meurtre_a_grande_vitesse.htm
Nothing of the C64 edition can be found online, and with Nicolas being a close friend of a coder in the Babygang group – its possible that a pre-release version of the game was perhaps obtained back in the late 80’s and Nicolas saw that.
Looking on Gamebase, there is a similarly titled game which may be by the very same author of this title called Murder on the Atlantic – its likely part of the same series, as this too was by Cobrasoft: http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=14700&d=18
Cobrasoft was founded by Bertrand Brocard, and the French wikipedia page (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobrasoft) on the house does list the game for the C64.
Interestingly in 2013, there was a crack intro release for the game, but no actual game. So what happened? … http://csdb.dk/release/?id=117273
Thanks to Sam64H and Olivier Cappelaere, the game has been found and fully preserved. The game was indeed released and just had a very limited release overall.
Case closed!
Contributions: Nicolas, Sam64H, Olivier Cappelaere
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Hi, I would contact by email, but that doesn’t seem available in the contact link. So sorry if this doesn’t relate directly to this game, but it seems to be another Cobra Soft developed title.
Politique Economique: I’ve been researching the Sega SC-3000 release of this, the results of which are here;
https://segaretro.org/Politique_Economique
This game was originally released by Answare for the Thomson TO7, they later released a dual release for Thomson TO7 / MO5 as was pretty common for the Thomson formats. Then we get articles of it getting released for C64 and SC-3000. I occasionally search for the C64 release, but haven’t seen anything yet. This article gives me hope that some of these obscure French games are still to be documented. That’s certainly the case for the Sega SC-3000 at least.
I just found an article for this game in Hebdogiciel (it’s linked in the Segaretro article) where they show the box art, and surprisingly it’s a dual C-64 / SC-3000 cassette, which I’ve never seen before. Now the language makes more sense when some of those articles describe it as being for “C64 et SC-3000”.
Anyway, I just wondered if you had heard of this C64 release before and had anything that could help. Also, thanks for the Tintin SMS release, that was great!
Hi Pirate Dragon, no problem at all and thanks for highlighting the game. I’m not aware of it, but I will add an entry on the site as soon as I can as a starting point with credit to yourself. It might potentially be out there, but hopefully it will get people looking in their collections.
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