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STREET HAWK

VARIOUS, 1986

■ Riding in on the coattails of came in 1985, effectively replacing a high-tech car with a high-tech motorbike. to the Kays catalogue and magazine as a subscriber perk (the subs offer was first mentioned in issue 18), and when development stalled, it rushed out a -style platform game to satisfy these demands. According to an interview with Gary in , the first never went on general release. Ocean then released an official version programmed by in-house coder Paul Owens in late-1986. While this newer version was graphically pleasing, especially on the ZX Spectrum, it was met with indifference, and a proposed C64 version was canned.

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