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Back Then...
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posted 04-17-2002 10:46 PM     Profile for Back Then...   Email Back Then...     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
There is an Activision game shown on the Atari age site that was found in a scrapyard and nothing is known about it. It is listed as Activision Unknown Game #1. I've never seen the game, but I believe it may be a game written in 1983 by Carol Shaw. It was called "Happy Trails" and was a "mind puzzle" type game. Even if I am wrong, does anyone know anything about "Happy Trails"? There is also a second unknown game listed too. I don't have any hints about this one.

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Marco
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PAL is not Import!

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posted 04-18-2002 12:56 AM     Profile for Marco   Author's Homepage   Email Marco     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I have an "unknown" Activision proto in my collection. Have you ever seen screenshots ("coming soon") of Happy Trails or anything?

Tempest, what do you make of this theory? Makes any sense?

Cheers,

Marco

[ 04-18-2002: Message edited by: Marco ]


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Eckhard Stolberg
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posted 04-18-2002 07:19 AM     Profile for Eckhard Stolberg   Email Eckhard Stolberg     Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Happy Trails was released for the Intellivision, so you might find information about it on the Intellivision Lives website. Judgeing from the screenshots, neither of the two unknown Activison prototypes seems to be Happy Trails.

Marco, which of the two games do you have and what is the gameplay like?

Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg


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Tempest
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Master of Prototypes

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posted 04-18-2002 07:27 AM     Profile for Tempest   Author's Homepage   Email Tempest     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I've never seen any refrence to Happy Trails being planned for the 2600. Of course Activison usually didn't put games in their catalogs until they were ready to be shipped.

If your talking about those two unknown Activision prototypes that are on AtariAge, then I have no idea. The first one looks like a Rubik's Cube/Sliding Puzzle type game that probably got canned because there just wasn't enough gameplay. The second proto looks very interesting, but it doesn't match any unreleased Activision games I know of.

Do you own them both Marco? How about a dump of that second one?

Tempest


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Marco
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posted 04-18-2002 10:45 AM     Profile for Marco   Author's Homepage   Email Marco     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I have the puzzle game - that one has been dumped already right? I don't have the other one (hey, can't have'em all!)

Cheers,

Marco


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Alex
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posted 04-18-2002 10:57 AM     Profile for Alex   Author's Homepage   Email Alex     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
If they've been dumped, we don't have them. If you want to dump the one you have, we'd be happy to put it online, or at least put up some better screen shots.

[ 04-18-2002: Message edited by: Alex ]

- Alex


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Back Then...
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posted 04-18-2002 12:06 PM     Profile for Back Then...   Email Back Then...     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I know of no dumped puzzle game by Activision. There is one online by Imagic I think.

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Back Then...
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posted 04-19-2002 03:54 PM     Profile for Back Then...   Email Back Then...     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Eckhard Stolberg:
Happy Trails was released for the Intellivision, so you might find information about it on the Intellivision Lives website. Judgeing from the screenshots, neither of the two unknown Activison prototypes seems to be Happy Trails.

Marco, which of the two games do you have and what is the gameplay like?

Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg


Thanx 4 info! I looked on the Intellivision site. As you said, that version of Happy Trails does not look similar to "unknown game 1" by Activision for 2600. However, characters in the 2600 screen shots look similar to ones in Kabobber.
Ditto to Marco!???

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Albert
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posted 04-19-2002 04:08 PM     Profile for Albert   Author's Homepage   Email Albert     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Back Then...:
Thanx 4 info! I looked on the Intellivision site. As you said, that version of Happy Trails does not look similar to "unknown game 1" by Activision for 2600. However, characters in the 2600 screen shots look similar to ones in Kabobber.

I asked Rex Bradford about this in the past and he claims that Unknown Game #1 has nothing to do with Kabobber and that neither of these Unknown games were created by him.

..Al


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Tempest
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posted 04-19-2002 04:27 PM     Profile for Tempest   Author's Homepage   Email Tempest     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
That game almost looks like a Save Mary type of game. Who owns that one and has he dumped it?

Tempest


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