SMART EGGS OR HUMPTY-DUMPTY? Can Smart Egg Software's new budget label, Power-play, survive? The label is a collaboration between the Eggs (previously a development house for Mastertronic) and Maynard International (responsible for the Top Ten budget range). What's intriguing about the company is that they plan a 50/50 mix of graphic adventures and arcade or strategy releases. Adventures don't sell as well as arcade games, so can a budget label that relies on them for half its catalogue really make money? That's a pertinent point.' admitted Nigel Brooks of Smart Egg, 'One of our previous titles. Rigel's Revenge for Mastertronic, sold as well as any of their other titles, but that was an exception and of course we won't have such a high turnover as they do.' So what about the vital question of incoming cash? 'We'll try it out for the next three months and see how it goes', said Nigel, suggesting that if the adventures didn't cut the crumpet then they might reconsider and issue a higher proportion of shoot-em-ups and strategy. That might be difficult, because although the company -who will rely to a large extent on submitted products to maintain a budget-style high output - have received 70 games for evaluation. 9 out of 10 of them are adventures. However, they're unshake-ably confident about the future and it's certainly refreshing to see a company that doesn't rely entirely on forcing aliens to eat leaden death. Lefs hope Humpty stays on the wall Advanced Computer Entertainment Issue 3.88 CPCrulez[Content Management System] v8.732-desktop/c
Page créée en 537 millisecondes et consultée 2127 foisL'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
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