One of the more famous members of the English Amiga Board posted a seemingly inocuous message asking if anyone knew Mark Cale's email address, so that he could impart his feelings on the matter. Once again, Amiga users had the game dangled in front of them, only to be snatched away.
This was due to mastering problems, a lack of floppy disks, hassles with faulty disk returns and problems getting permission from publishers to release the game. In November 2013, Mark Cale appeared in a video interview with Eurogamer where he said that the Amiga version was only an idea that Retro Gamer were not supposed to have published, and that the game was not going to be released. People were extremely excited and tried to order this special edition, but nobody had any success. as he stated that the Amiga version would be released with pre-orders as part of a collectors edition pack. The interview had the Amiga community excited.
October 2013 saw the release of issue 121 of Retro Gamer, which featured an interview with System 3 CEO Mark Cale. The conversion job to modern platforms was given to veteran Amiga programmer John Jones-Steele, who informed me that he was working off the original Amiga source code!
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Shortly after, email communication stopped, and no further information was known.įast forward to 2013, and System 3 announced the game to be released on a range of modern consoles, with graphics reworked for 1080p displays in 24 bit colour. John appeared to be agreeable to releasing the game. Several Amiga enthusiasts managed to contact John Twiddy in the early 2000s and were told that the game was complete and stored on DAT drives. It became the holy grail sought after by Amiga gamers. Orders were placed, money was taken, deadlines for delivering the game came and went, but the game was never released. Time passed, and a dodgy outfit called Alive Mediasoft claimed to have the game available for sale around 1997. A SNES version was released, but the Amiga version never materialised. Readers were eager to get their hands on the game!Īccording to Mark Cale, the bottom fell out of the Amiga market about that time, and System 3 had trouble finding stores to stock the game.
The game had received rave reviews and scores of 90% or more in the majority of magazines, and it was due to be released in late 1994. How the Amiga version of Putty Squad finally ended up being releasedĬhristmas 2013 will be fondly remembered by Amiga enthusiasts as a time of miracles! The Amiga version of Putty Squad was finally released, 19-and-a-bit years after being reviewed by all the major Amiga magazines.
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