Para acabar de vez com o enigma do infame programa TV POW, aqui esta o
cartucho de Intellivision que eles usaram:
Sharp Shot
Como eu disse, esse cartucho era extremamente simples. Aparentemente eles
tentaram disfarcar isso vendendo-o como se ele fosse um cartucho "infantil"
... Tsk tsk tsk
A seguir vai a descricao deste cartucho, tirada do site dos Blue Sky
Rangers:
(fotos podem ser encontradas em
http://www.makingit.com/bluesky/credits/action2.html#discs)
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
An exciting new target shooting game specially designed for children. There
are four different shooting ranges for one or two players. Hit the pass
receiver. Shoot down the spinning spacecraft. Bomb Navy ships. Fire at the
maze monsters. Challenging action for video game beginners.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
These four single-button games were originally programmed by APh for a TV
game show -- contestants controlled the single fire
button by saying "Pow!" With no advance notice, APh sent over these four
games stitched into one with the intention that Mattel
release it as a children's cartridge. Since Mattel by contract had to buy a
certain amount of product each year from APh, Marketing
agreed to release the cartridge, over the objections of Gabriel Baum, VP of
Application Software.
Gabriel particularly objected to the packaging. In a memo to Marketing
(August 31, 1982), he wrote: "...the packaging and
instructions do not in any way indicate that the game and graphic content of
the cartridge is extremely simplistic...I believe that Mattel Electronics is
going to be exposed to very unfavorable comment when consumers discover that
the quality of the cartridge is in many
ways reminiscent of early Atari games." In answer to this memo, Marketing
had a label added to the front of the package reading,
"Specially designed game for children over 4."
An M Network Atari 2600 version of the game was also submitted by APh. It
was rejected.
Carlos Madruga
(Helixx) "Nana korobi, ya oki."
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Recebida em Fri 31 Dec 1999 - 09:21:21 BRST