Very early days for this entry, but this is based from a conversation that GTW had with Alan Botwright (Who worked on Brides of Dracula), who mentioned what C64 titles he worked on including Judge Dredd and a game called “The Last Stuntman”
This was a game that was unreleased and meant for CRL in the late 1980’s via their new label Actual Screenshots. We assumed it to involve cars, but were not sure of the perspective of which the game was to be played, or any other details.
Alan mentioned that the game was split into 6 parts, essentially mini games which were developed independently by different developers. Alan produced the last level which involved jumping from a plane and fighting for a parachute in mid-air.
Mark Semczyszyn got in touch to say that he had seen the storyboard for the game around 1987/88. He had a telephone conversation with Mike Hodges, who was putting people from Compunet together. It was confirmed the game was going to split into parts and Mark was offered the parachute sub-game, crashing into a barn.
Mark said he was interested in doing artwork for the game on the Commodore 64 version after speaking with Mike on the phone, and got a design storyboard in the post with a contract for about £250. He never got to speak to a programmer, but the remote coordination and lack of time meant that Mark wasn’t able to commit. So the design document was returned along with the contract.
Unfortunately not much else was known just yet, but we hope to get some more developer names soon!
There was primarily an Amiga/ST version in the works though, which Drew Northcott worked on though. Thanks to Brendan Phoenix, a very short preview was shown in Amiga Action issue 1 of the Amiga edition of the game. This shows the part that Alan mentioned working on.
If you know anything more, please do get in touch.
Contributions: Ross Sillifant, Brendan Phoenix, Stephen Stuttard (scans), Mark Semczyszyn
Again, not for the C64, but there’s details about the game here.
http://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture.php?src=amiga_action/magscans/aa01_1989_10/006.jpg&c=82293&n=1&filesize=321509
Amiga Action Issue 1 – page 6
Sadly it’s not from C64 version but a screen and details of game itself, did features in UK Press.
Forwarding over scan now
Cheers Ross, adding now :)