Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-10-26 Thread Jim Leonard
Karl Kuras wrote: exceptional version of Street Fighter II... nice graphics, but a specced Cool! I love pirate games written from scratch. I'll have to try to find this. The most interesting gadgets Sega seems to have released there was a master system that connected with the tv via

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-10-26 Thread Karl Kuras
Karl Kuras wrote: exceptional version of Street Fighter II... nice graphics, but a specced Cool! I love pirate games written from scratch. I'll have to try to find this. Well this probably doesn't count as legit, but check out: http://smspower.speedhost.com/ They have the rom file of

RE: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-10-25 Thread Hugh Falk
Was it even available (sold in) the U.S. market? I didn't think it was. Hugh -Original Message- From: Karl Kuras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo Hey Pedro... just contact Jose directly

RE: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-10-25 Thread Pedro Quaresma
: Assunto: RE: [SWCollect] Luis Royo Was it even available (sold in) the U.S. market? I didn't think it was. Hugh -Original Message- From: Karl Kuras

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-10-25 Thread Karl Kuras
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:26 AM Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Luis Royo I don't think it was either. I'm not sure of the following facts, but as far as I know: MSX is from Philips. It didn't even have many fans in Europe, due to the rampant success of the Sinclair

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-10-25 Thread Karl Kuras
, 2001 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo Oo! Spill! Well when there is THAT much enthusiasm about the topic In the 80's several latin American countries had tarriffs on imports which became great incentives for foreign firms to build products in those countries instead

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-10-24 Thread Karl Kuras
: Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo Karl Kuras wrote: Nevertheless, it has brought back many memories of very interesting games I had only seen on old Micromanias. Is your friend spanish? Yes, the site is run from Spain. I met him back when I was running Ami-Crypt on a big scale and he

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-10-23 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Karl Kuras wrote: Nevertheless, it has brought back many memories of very interesting games I had only seen on old Micromanias. Is your friend spanish? Yes, the site is run from Spain. I met him back when I was running Ami-Crypt on a big scale and he was surprised by the fact that I had Navy

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-07-31 Thread Pedro Quaresma
, July 30, 2001 8:38 AM Subject: [SWCollect] Luis Royo I'm assuming this is a nearly impossible question, but I'll have a go at it anyway: I'm a great fan of Luis Royo's (and Boris Vallejo's, but I don't hink BV ever had anything to do with computer games) art. I know Luis has made drawings

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-07-31 Thread Karl Kuras
Do you know if it has the same box drawing? I'm willing to collect all Luis Royo boxes. No, the original drawing for Lorna was done by Alfonso Aspiri (he did covers for the early Dinamic games, such as Camelot Warriors, Westbank and Abu Simbel Profanation. He also did titles for Topo such as

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-07-31 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Do you know if it has the same box drawing? I'm willing to collect all Luis Royo boxes. No, the original drawing for Lorna was done by Alfonso Aspiri (he did covers for the early Dinamic games, such as Camelot Warriors, Westbank and Abu Simbel Profanation. He also did titles for Topo such

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-07-31 Thread Karl Kuras
I've just seen the Game Over 2 box, it's definitely a Royo. But it was stated that it was originally to be known as Phantis... so this game had 3 names? Sorry, my goof on this one... it was called Phantis originally. Lorna was a game by Topo based on a comic book. Really great graphics

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-07-31 Thread Pedro Quaresma
I've just seen the Game Over 2 box, it's definitely a Royo. But it was stated that it was originally to be known as Phantis... so this game had 3 names? Sorry, my goof on this one... it was called Phantis originally. Lorna was a game by Topo based on a comic book. Really great graphics

[SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-07-30 Thread Pedro Quaresma
I'm assuming this is a nearly impossible question, but I'll have a go at it anyway: I'm a great fan of Luis Royo's (and Boris Vallejo's, but I don't hink BV ever had anything to do with computer games) art. I know Luis has made drawings to several computer games boxes, but I've only knowledge of

Re: [SWCollect] Luis Royo

2001-07-30 Thread Karl Kuras
://www.trantornator.com - Original Message - From: Pedro Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:38 AM Subject: [SWCollect] Luis Royo I'm assuming this is a nearly impossible question, but I'll have a go at it anyway: I'm a great fan of Luis Royo's (and Boris