Micro Machines Special Edition... again!
Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 7:08 pm
Just wanted to highlight the article Bas posted here on Interactive Dreams.
I've been conducting a little research with much help from Ashley Hogg, the CD-i version developer. Just to clarify a few points, the special edition as the only version released on CD-i featured more levels than the other platforms including Megadrive, SNES and so on. This is why it is called a 'Special Edition'. Furthermore the prototype v1.02 does fit with some documentation I've been reading. Specifically a 'Final Bug Report' for Micro Machines version 1.02 dated 22/08/95 which fits with the production date of 11/08/95 for the testing beta itself.
However I wouldn't go so far as to say it has more 'features' than the released product. It is simply an unfinished game and so any features would include game play errors, hot spot problems and system crashes! Having said that it is interesting to find an early production manual included. Which in itself went through many iterations, but this example does appear to be a near final release of the manual. Nice find!
I've been conducting a little research with much help from Ashley Hogg, the CD-i version developer. Just to clarify a few points, the special edition as the only version released on CD-i featured more levels than the other platforms including Megadrive, SNES and so on. This is why it is called a 'Special Edition'. Furthermore the prototype v1.02 does fit with some documentation I've been reading. Specifically a 'Final Bug Report' for Micro Machines version 1.02 dated 22/08/95 which fits with the production date of 11/08/95 for the testing beta itself.
However I wouldn't go so far as to say it has more 'features' than the released product. It is simply an unfinished game and so any features would include game play errors, hot spot problems and system crashes! Having said that it is interesting to find an early production manual included. Which in itself went through many iterations, but this example does appear to be a near final release of the manual. Nice find!