U.S. Gold Kickstarter Coming Soon - 'The Story of U.S. Gold'

zapiy · May 13, 2014, 22:58:15 PM

http://youtu.be/nf_FFXVt-H8

Chris Wilkins soon to be released kickstarter for a US Gold book....

TrekMD · May 13, 2014, 23:44:47 PM

Very cool!Â Be sure to let us know when the Kickstarter starts!Â

Greyfox · May 14, 2014, 00:44:32 AM

I'm treating my self to this..can't wait, helped with some imagery for the kick starter to make it great for them..:-)

Jag_Slave · May 14, 2014, 01:28:35 AM

Sounds Awesome!

zapiy · May 14, 2014, 08:50:53 AM

Yeah I am looking forward to this one.

TL · May 14, 2014, 14:37:14 PM

I knew about this a while ago but completely forgot to post about it.

I am not particularly excited about this one. US Gold mostly just published other peoples stuff, they put out very few original titles and a large majority of their stuff was also pretty crap.

zapiy · May 14, 2014, 15:01:45 PM

Crap?

Surely as a Publisher that were involved in lots of classic game releases deserves this recognition?

TL · May 14, 2014, 15:13:21 PM

Quote from: "zapiy"Crap? Surely as a Publisher that were involved in lots of classic game releases deserves this recognition?

They were not involved though, as I said most of what US Gold published was other peoples games. They had no input in their creation, development or programming. They simply distributed them on behalf of another company, US Gold were actually set up just to distribute games from the US that hadn't been released here. They can't really take the credit for other peoples work.

The games they did create themselves (which came a bit later) like HKM, Strider II, Italia '90, Moonwalker and Fever Pitch were crap.

In fact they were also responsible for the horror that is the release of World Cup Carnival, regarded by many as the worst game ever made.

zapiy · May 14, 2014, 15:15:56 PM

Agreed but they must have some stories to be told?? Maybe Chris will pop on and verify this will be worth reading???

TL · May 14, 2014, 15:19:24 PM

Quote from: "zapiy"Agreed but they must have some stories to be told?? Maybe Chris will pop on and verify this will be worth reading???

They probably do have plenty of stories but just not ones I would be that interested in as I have no emotional involvement in any of the games they made. I am sure the book will be fine, but the subject matter is not something I am at all excited about (unlike the Ocean book) so I have no interest in backing it.

The only thing I would be interested in finding out is what happened to their 5 Atari Lynx games that were announced but never released, but I don't hold out much hope of that.

zapiy · May 14, 2014, 15:27:32 PM

Lets hope that someone they get in contact with can share some light on that amongst other things.

TL · May 14, 2014, 15:40:00 PM

Problem is that almost nothing was done in house, US Gold pretty much just published stuff so getting hold of all the 3rd parties involved in their games will be a nightmare.

Greyfox · May 14, 2014, 15:46:16 PM

I'm sure there will be allot more that just 3rd party involvement, but I also like the inside story regarding these companies if cover in-dept..they had Probe doing stuff for them and I'm very interested in that. I like Probe's stuff. Salomon's Key and MetroCross..

TL · May 14, 2014, 15:48:50 PM

Quote from: "Greyfox"I'm sure there will be a lot more that just 3rd party involvement, but I also like the inside story regarding these companies covered in depth.. They had Probe doing stuff for them and I'm very interested in that. I like Probe's stuff. Solomon's Key and MetroCross..

Now a book on Probe I would be interested in . . . .

TL · May 14, 2014, 15:49:55 PM

I just noticed this topic was in the wrong section tooÂ