From: "Craig Stewart" <craig@ventsim.com>
Date: March 31, 2005 6:29:40 AM GMT-06:00
To: <cboyle@mercurytickets.com>
Subject: Coco Program

Hello, 

I'm amazed to find one of my old games in your list SPACE MARAUDER - it was a game entered into an Australian Coco game competition and was selected for local distribution by Tandy (Radio Shack).Ê Your quite welcome to add a download if you have the binary.

Regards, 

Craig Stewart 

From: L. Curtis Boyle [mailto:cboyle@mercurytickets.com] 
Sent: Friday, 1 April 2005 1:29 AM
To: Craig Stewart
Subject: Re: Coco Program

Cool... do you have any other information on it? It has some quite good
effects... did it ever get distributed in North America? Who sponsored the
game contest?

On Apr 1, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Craig Stewart wrote:


A magazine called Australian Coco ran a competition every year, the winner
of which would be distributed by Tandy (Radio Shack) Australia.  I don't
think the programs often ended up being sold overseas.  Space Marauder won
the 1987 (I think) competition although this game is not one of my better
efforts.  The previous year was won by another game of mine for CoCo3 called
"Pursuit", a fast game which the player had to dodge multiple spinning
blades - I thought this was a more fun game.  Both games sold around
2000-3000 copies from memory.   Other games that I've wrote that were
popular (and have vansihed) are Tangle, Tanks and Shootout (Coco 1/2 games).

Keep up the good work archiving this stuff.

Regards,

Craig

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