Danny Burke's 32 colour graphics are lavishly rendered and convincingly animated, and the techno-house dance tune title music composed by Alister Brimble packs a punch worthy of a pixelated prize fighter. While it's a blatant counterfeit, unlike a 'Fony' TV, Body Blows is not without merit. Oh yes, spoilers behind! I almost forgot. If all this is a pop culture homage of some kind, it's extremely subtle. The first time you kick his botty, he sheds his apparently-human skin revealing his true form a T-800 style Terminator exoskeleton, only his is a model T-17 (of no significance I wouldn't have thought). He's the final opponent and must be defeated twice to complete the game. Max - a svelte yet potent powerhouse with a mysterious, deep, dark secret that was only ever alluded to in the magazines at the time - is the most remarkable character. Professional looking example of a sprayed A500. so I won't comment.Ī classy black sprayed A600 finished with white keyboard decals Sleek example of a graphite & black sprayed A1200 with keyboard stickersĪ1200 spotted at a demo scene party. JuneBUG DJ Machine designed for the VJ Red Button AgencyĪ1200 'Cabo' in a custom transparent dust case The 'leopard' Amiga 500 designed by Stefanie Tücking in 1989. The 1989 'balls' Amiga 500 design by German actress, writer, TV & radio Of the image currently loaded via a Gotek floppy emulator.Ī wooden DIY Amiga Walker case. Sometimes these are used to display the name If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.Ī particularly impressive example from the DIY Amiga portables collection.Īn A600 from the same DIY Amiga portables site.Ī CD32 sprayed white with custom decals as seen at Revival.Ī standard sized A500 next to an enormous quarter! Obviously.Ī1200 with embedded LCD. No, no, no and no! Not under any circumstances.Ī black air-brushed version of the 'balls' design featured further down the page. Proving insanity can be a good thing! They look likeĬommodore 64 keys in the middle. Way related to the contents of the magazine - the 'pin-up' of the modding world! Disappointingly, I don't think the cover was in any Captain Obvious here, nice to meet you.įorget the kids, won't someone please think of the moisture! Edmunds, UK, and sold for a whopping £4.20 in January this year.Ī sprayed, blue metallic A500. The collection shown in the first two pictures below was listed by a seller based in Bury St. Several of the original disks have been found in the wild and sold on eBay. The only connection appears to be that Codemasters - who published Super Skidmarks - went on to swallow up Audiogenic Software in 1997. Lemon Amiga forum member, MartinUK, shares that he was one of the 3500 people who purchased the game and sent in his registration card to receive the bonus disk, however, what he actually received in the post was the full release of Super League Manager developed by Audiogenic Software. Judging by some of the comments on the English Amiga Board and Lemon Amiga forum though, it doesn't appear that anyone has actually managed to get it running because it needs to patch a specific version of the original program disk, which has since been updated and is no longer available. The one and only issue of the magazine was made available in August 1995, and the ADF floppy image of it can still be found online labelled 'SkidMarks - Racer Disk Issue 1 (1995-08)(Acid).adf'. Well now I have the answer, and it's 'yes-ish'. The manual teased that the first release would be sent out in June 1995 and include new tracks, software updates and competitions.Īt the time we were wondering if this ever happened, or if it was merely a flash in the pan idea that went nowhere. In episode 34 John and Aaron covered the top-down racing game Super Skidmarks (aka Skidmarks 2), and through their research for the show discovered that the publisher, Acid, intended to distribute a regular accompanying disk-based magazine that would be issued to anyone who had purchased the original game, all for the price of a stamp. Their number is (415) 492-3200.An extract from the game's manual detailing ** then you will need to contact Broderbund Software ** ** NOTE: I cannot, by contract, give out any code to load or ** ** I can be reached in the following ways: ** ** I'm sure there are a few things missing. ** IFF-FORMs are constructed, layed out, and read. It assumes you have intimate knowledge of how ** ** This is a description of the format used for Amiga ** ** (c) Copyright 1988 Broderbund Software ** ** This is the IFF movie format for Amiga Fantavision. A / IFF Third Party Public Form and Chunk Specification / FANT.doc
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