Veniss Video Game Classic
Jeff VanderMeer • September 18th, 2007 @ 1:57 pm • Uncategorized
You all remember the really old Veniss Underground video game stuff, right? For Atari? The story is, back when I couldn’t get the novel published, so I helped Atari turn it into a video game. It’s a really odd game, I have to say.
Thanks to Andrew Breitenbach for digging up the old image.
Jeff
September 19, 2007 at 6:29 am
Is it true that they made the boss fight with Quin at the end of the last Nicholas level impossible because they ran out of money before they could finish the Shadrach and Nicola levels? (Not that I ever got that far myself; stupid meerkats.)
September 19, 2007 at 7:35 am
Yes, that is true. They put way too much time and money into the “mobbing” scenes–thirty meerkats just grabbing onto you with their teeth, every step of the bleedin way.
jeff
September 20, 2007 at 9:50 pm
I even *got* to that kill screen once, but Twin Cities wouldn’t recognize my score because Billy Mitchell complained that I might have modified my cartridge. Do you know how many Super 8 cans I had to go through to film the whole thing?
F@#$%&g Billy Mitchell!
September 20, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I meant Twin Galaxies, not Twin Cities. Leave it to me to bollux up my own joke.
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