THE COMIC BAKERY CONUNDRUM! Following on from the recent Nemesis reveal, Steve Lockley mentioned to me that he worked on the Z80 version of Comic Bakery (indeed, it was advertised to appear on the Spectrum and Amstrad, but in the end only the C64 version was released). Heres what he said: *** Comic Bakery is a bit of a strange one though because we didnt produce it for Nemesis Management Company Ltd. We [Cyclone Program Conversions Ltd] were asked to convert this through Oasis software who produced Laser Basic for which we wrote the graphics design utility on the Amstrad when it was ported from the Speccy. Oasis went bust (owing us a considerable amount of money) and their titles were sold to Ocean. Im not sure quite what happened to Comic Bakery around then. Presumably somewhere along the line it was licensed with the other Konami games to the Imagine label and they may have either decided to either do their own conversion before abandoning it or they may have believed they had the version produced by us as part of the assets from Oasis but didnt. We certainly never got paid anything for the game which was finished (or all but finished). Ive still got a copy of that somewhere along with a few others. We were also asked to convert Iron Horse, I believe this is another one where other programmers had let them down. We had just started on that when NMC Ltd was wound up and the titles transferred to Imagine. At that point we stopped the conversion, so it was never produced. *** Steve promised that hed try and dig out Comic Bakery, but did mention that it would probably be the CPC version that he still had (as this would hace been further along than the ZX version). Ultimately though, I lost touch with Steve (he used to work at the same regional newspaper company as me) and I havent been able to contact him since 2009.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:23:53 +0000
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