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fighting certainly wasn't our first choice. Or at
least not mine.
I was thinking about a 3D game where the
player could control a
bunch of Commandos
through the jungle, the
goal being to assassinate
different criminals and drug
lords hidden deep inside
the jungle. However, the
rest of the team thought
the game wouldn't be
action packed enough -
and they were right.
We tried it and it looked
OK butt realised it shouldn't
be our fi rst game.
Consequently, Capital
Punishment was eventu
born.
show for the world to find out about us, and that's
when we believe we were officially established as
a developing team '
Before the Amiga show, not everything was
running to plan. -
the On president t h e of Amiga Technologies, Petro
Tyschyschenko. fi r s t addressed the public, our stand
had been covered with beautiful 'clickBOOM'
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although we didn't have a single Amiga
on which to show Capital Punishment because
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e we managed to borrow one from an employee
sof an hInterested o company and just as we
w managed , to connect everything up. Mr
Tyschyschenko a f paid us a visit, we showed him the
tdemo, eand
he was very impressed - especially
rafter
hearing that it worked perfectly on a
unexpanded Amiga Al203.
After the president of Amiga Technologies visited,
the public began to spark interest. -
By the day, t hwe e were e giving n d away free demo disks to
oall who f wanted them. On the Sunday we hod a
Capital Punishment tournament. Two brothers
managed to reach the final, with one emerging
victorious after seven rounds. He will receive a
free copy of the game once it's available in
The purpose
was to create
ultimately
playable
videos games
that would
bring everything
good
about the
arcades to
home
computers