Talk:The King of Chicago

Older version?

I remember seeing this game for the Macintosh long ago, but the graphics were pretty awful. According to this web page it was released in 1986, which would mean it pre-dates the game described in the article. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

According to http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/6119/ the release dates are 1987 (Amiga, Apple II, Apple Macintosh, Commodore C64/128), 1988 (Apple IIGS, IBM PC (DOS)) and 1989 (Atari ST), but http://www.channelzilch.com/doug/ dates the Macintosh version to 1986. Looking at the graphics it may be two different Mac versions. // Liftarn

A Mac game first.

I can confirm that 'King of Chicago' was first seen on the Mac in B&W. (The first color Macs were still over a year off.) Doug Sharp did the Mac version using digitized images of clay models. It was an idea before its time that worked much better a decade late in PS1 games like SkullMonkeys.

Also, the Mac was defintiely the first version and the only one distributed by Mindscape. The game underwent a complete graphic redesign for the Amiga with hand drawn images produced by the inhouse art team at Cinemaware. That artwork in turn was the basis for all of the ports that followed.