It was meant to be a nice conversion for the cool budget kings of Flair, Microvalue. Eventually it turned out to be a nightmare for the game’s developer.
Topsy Turvy was being developed for Microvalue back in 1992 by Jed Adams (Who previously had worked on Putty and Fuzzball).
This was a conversion of an Atari ST game where you solved puzzles by flipping up and down from the top and bottom of the screen. Not much else is known about the actual puzzles involved. All we know is that the main character could not jump.
Music is unknown, but it was likely to be either Adam Gilmore or Sean Connolly.
Although completed, Microvalue wanted Jed to add loads of extras which were not in the agreement that Jed had been set to. Once Jed refused to do these extras, Microvalue lost Jed £750.
This was it, and the game was scrapped… no-one else came along and finished the title off. Jed had hoped that a cracker had sneaked it out, as what happened with Space Veg Corp, but sadly it doesn’t seem to be the case.
Jed sadly does not have anything of the game anymore… so it is very unlikely that this game may ever be found. That is, unless someone from Flair may still have something. But this is very unlikely.
So for now, we sit and wait.. and hope that something turns up out of the blue.
A puzzling end for a nifty sounding puzzler…
Contributions: Jed Adams
