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Recently highlighted in a recent interview in 2010 with David Crane, Retro Gamer issue 79 established from David Crane that the driving segments and car building scenes in the famous Ghostbusters game was originally meant for another game.
Already in production was a game called Car Wars, which allowed you to build up your car and kit it out and then drive around.
When Ghostbusters came along, there was only 6 weeks to get the game out - so Car Wars and its car building elements was ideal and taken and turned into part of Ghostbusters instead to save time.
But what of the original game? ... How much different would it have been compared to the Ghostbusters incarnation, and would the driving sections have differed much? Is there also a version of Car Wars still around to this day? ... maybe with some unused music or anything else?
It's early days yet - but we believe that David Crane may have been behind the original code. Maybe he still kept something of this long lost C64 game?.... Could anything of this be found?...
Frank.
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source credits - Stuart Hunt) |
