Believed to be part of what was meant to be a “Crazy” series, Trick Ramp Crazy was to follow Combat Crazy on the Silverbird range.
It never surfaced, although being mentioned as a title for C64, Amstrad and Spectrum.
It is believed that the game was to be developed by Probe Software, but we know very little apart from this. The Bird Sanctuary describes the game as:
“A Spectrum skateboarding game, probably influenced by Atari’s 720 degrees coin-op and coded by budget stalwarts, Probe Software.”
It has been confirmed by the artist Andrew Morriss that the game was actually released as Cheap Skate by Silverbird. Therefore, it is a case closed!
Contributions: Andrew Morriss
I did the graphics for this game. Daryl Bowers coded it. We originally called it Cheap Skate, but Silverbird renamed it. We wrote it in a couple of days while very drunk. It was released and I have a retail copy somewhere.
Thank you so much Andrew – this confirms that the game was just released as Cheap Skate (https://gb64.com/game.php?id=1410&d=18&h=0), so i’ll close the case on this one!
Did you work on any other C64 games out of interest? (I’m assuming you’re not the same Andrew Morris (with one “s”) who worked with Shaun Southern?)
Hi Frank, I did the C64 conversions of Star Raiders II and Baal. I don’t remember much about those days, because we were generally a little worse for wear.
I’m this Andrew Morriss. https://www.mobygames.com/person/1547/andrew-morriss/
Thanks Andrew! I’ll email Gamebase64 to add those credits. Don’t suppose you can recall who coded Star Raiders 2 by any chance? (No worries if not!)
Daryl Bowers coded SR2 on the C64.
Thanks Andrew!
I wonder if this was released as another game?