Has anyone called dibs on Solstice

[Shadax]

If not, then I would like to go ahead and lay claim to the rights of writing said article. Problem is, I don't really know if anything came after Equinox (although ICO seemed to capture the flavor of Solstice enough that my friends and I proclaimed it to be the spiritual ancestor back when it came out)

And I know of the any number of Spectrum games that influenced it, and I might take a look at them for a potential update (I'm in between computers right now, and the school thumbs their nose at people playing roms extensively.)

[GoTaS]

I.... kinda brought it up in the "Games that deserve to be on HG101" thread recently. Ed posted a reply about how there were sequels planned, and also ports, but I've never heard of this before.

Anyway, got AIM?

-GoTaS

[megatronbison]

Head over Heels is a very, very similar Spectrum game to compare to it as is Knight Lore!

[ReyVGM]

Shadax should definitely get the honors of writing that article. Shadax the hero and Shadax the writer

[Weasel]

megatronbison said:

Head over Heels is a very, very similar Spectrum game to compare to it as is Knight Lore!

And Batman, I believe.

[Shadax]

gotas said:

I.... kinda brought it up in the "Games that deserve to be on HG101" thread recently. Ed posted a reply about how there were sequels planned, and also ports, but I've never heard of this before.

Anyway, got AIM?

-GoTaS

Yeah, I'll add it to my sidewindow thingy. I'm visiting my family right now, so I'll only be on sporadically (once someone goes to bed and gets off a tv I'm going to hook up my NES and give it a quick run-through.

And sorry for not looking there before hand, I just usually avoid massive threads if I wasn't involved from the beginning. No one likes it when a newbie overplays his hand, or something like that.

EDIT: after reading your post about it on the other thread, I think you have more of a right to do this article. But if you need help writing or editing, or just want to include my notes, go right ahead and IM me.

[Malroth]

Solstice? Eesh...and I thought I was a masochist. I think it'd be a really interesting article, though.

[ed]

Oh! I just remembered that somebody - Rbudrick, I think! - made a map for Solstice. A nice map. A big map, and while I hosted it (for a while...I had to take it down for a while; I should probably put it back up) I had to fiddle around with it in Photoshop a bit to down the file size.

Anyhow, I discovered that Tim Follins did the music for Equinox. Hey, he's a great composer with his roots on the c64, programming the SID in an ingenious fashion for the rain/storm track of Ghouls 'n Ghosts (nice original tracks for that one, a good break from the arcade game). Mention that!

AND FINALLY: Oh my GOSH, I made a mistake. How could I confuse SOLSTICE with SHADOWGATE? No, no, NO, that won't do at all. I will print a retraction stating that I have not found any evidence of more than two games in the Solstice series. Sorry!

[aggroger]

megatronbison said:

Head over Heels is a very, very similar Spectrum game to compare to it as is Knight Lore!

Other great Spectrum games that inspired Solstice are Alien8 (sci-fi Knight Lore variant)and Spindizzy (Solstice crossed with Marble Madness,one of the hardest games I ever played,but very fun nonetheless).

[ed]

Okay, I put Rbudrick's Solstice Map on my site again. Actually, I have some extra space so I should see if he still has the better quality version.

home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/map_solstice.gif

Nice avatar, aggroger! @_@

[Yimpinkilp]

I've seen some game about Thomas the Tank Engine listed as a Tim Follin credit more than once, but I've always been too afraid to actually check the validity of that claim.