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Crazy Faces for Game Gear
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It's been a month since the last batch of releases, and I've come back with another little pearl this time - the recent streak of luck following NBA JAM, Street Hero and Korean rarities continues!
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I've managed to acquire a prototype cart of Unreleased Game Gear game Crazy Faces. The game has been discussed before but no prototype had surfaced - until now! Crazy Faces was developed by The Kremlin in 1993 (same developers as SMS/GG versions of Desert Strike and Prince of Persia among others). It is an original variation on sliding puzzle games where you have to push around blocks to assemble a picture. The pictures here are based on Domark properties - and Sonic! The prototype we managed to get hold of doesn't come with music but otherwise looks pretty solid and fun. It is unsure whether the game development ever reached completion or why it was canned. Enjoy another treasure from SMS Power! |
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Reason for being unreleased
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I think I know why this game is unreleased. It is very similar in gameplay to a Nin-do Gamboy game from 1993 called "Splitz". They are both clones of an earlier 8-bit computer game called "Split Personalities". Either "The Kremlin" chose to ripoff "Splitz", or two companies chose to ripoff "Split Personalities" at once. Either way, it appears that threat of a lawsuit cancelled the game. | |
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Thanks, great release! | |
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Good work, Bock. | |
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...or maybe no publisher was dumb enough to expect people to pay full retail price for a sliding puzzle on the Game Gear? |
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Wackypedia tells me that "Split Personalities" was made by Domark, so it was their own IP. (The Kremlin were an in-house dev team at Domark.) | |
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Also I slightly disagree on TheRedEye's remark, handheld always had room for "small" puzzle games, if you consider e.g.: the Poker Face Paul's series we are in a similar league, Domark could have released that. Not saying it would have been a hit but 1993 was a decent year for the Game Gear. | |
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But if you really wanted to play a portable sliding puzzle game, you could probably find one for a dollar or whatever pharmacies/grocery stores charge for their random crappy toys. :P
(whereas with poker, it is perhaps less convenient to carry around a stack of cards to play at any time.) |
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This game is a lot better than the traditional sliding puzzles. It has more depth, and is much less frustrating for me. A similar game "Splitz" was released, so I don't know why this one wasn't. The quality is sure there. | |
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Just discovered lead programmer Michael A. Carr's website. He mentions about Crazy Faces that "This was a short project I did just before I started work on Desert Strike. It is a conversion and update of the old Commodore 64 title, Split Personalities. Unfortunately things didn’t quite work out and the game which was almost complete was dropped."
I wonder what it was that "didn't quite work out". http://www.thegameengineer.com/blog/game-portfolio/crazy-faces/ Also note the "Marko's Magic Football" and "Desert Strike" pages in the right menu there, that Carr worked on. Someone with editing access to the SMS Power! game database should add that "Marko's Magic Football" was developed by The Kremlin. (I've just added that information to the RetroCopy game database here http://www.retrocopy.com/sega-game-gear/markos-magic-football.aspx ) |
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He seems only to mention the Mega Drive version of Marko's Magic Football. | |
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Oops, didn't notice it said Mega Drive for that one... | |
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Hey is this game out? | |
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Yes it's been released. | |
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