ECS no. 1
ECS no. 2

Eco Phantoms

General info

Not Amiga Original

Relationships

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Stats

3,963

Genre

Conversions

Atari ST/E
PC (DOS)

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Hard Disk Installer

No

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1991
Eco Phantoms
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
English, German
2
Unknown
1994
Eco Phantoms
Commercial
Budget
Germany
English
English, German
2
Unknown

Notes

[1] The original main coders were Rickey Costas and Toby Simpson. However, Costas left halfway through game development and was replaced by Jeremy Sherlock. Sherlock was quite unimpressed with Costas' unfinished code and apparently rewrote much of it. Sherlock was so riled by the situation that he left Costas out of the coding credits and wrote the following message about him inside a file contained on disk 1 of the game:

'It must be said that Richard Costas was the original programmer along with Toby, on this project, but because Ricky walked out, and I took over from him, rewriting a lot of his shit and badly written, unproffesional and ridiculously long winded code, and the fact that this was only half finished, I have decided not to include this fat git in the credits for this game, signed Jez. I will credit Richard Costas with the blame for a lot of hassle, stress, late nights and my hatred for the twat!'

[2] Distributed in Germany by Rushware and in Italy by Leader.

Conversion Notes

PC versions: EGA, VGA

Screen info

ECS / OCS
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Screenshot ECS no. 21

Screenshot ECS no. 22

Box: ECS / OCS
Box scan ECS no. 1

Original Release (front)

Box scan ECS no. 2

Original Release (back)

Box scan ECS no. 3

Budget Release (front)

Box scan ECS no. 4

Budget Release (back)

Disk: ECS / OCS
Disk scan ECS no. 1

Original Release

Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

UK Advert (Amiga Format, Issue 17, 12/1990, Page 68)

ECS no. 2

Italian Advert

ECS no. 3

German Advert (ASM 4/1991, Page 49)

Manual info

ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Manual (English)

ECS no. 2

Reference Card (English)

ECS / OCS

During play, press and hold ‘J’, ‘E’, and ‘Z’ to replenish the life meter, weapons meter, and to activate the keys ‘1’-‘7’. Press ‘5’ to refill life meter and press ‘7’ to refill weapon meter. I haven’t tested all the keys yet.

Conversion info

Atari ST/E
No conversion screens found.
PC (DOS)
No conversion screens found.

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
ACE: Advanced Computer Entertainment
41 (Feb 1991)
836/1000
David Upchurch
1
Amiga Action
22 (Jul 1991)
75%
2
Amiga Format
19 (Feb 1991)
84%
Trenton Webb
1
Amiga Joker
Jun - Jul 1991
33%
Joachim Nettelbeck
1
Amiga Power
3 (Jul 1991)
53%
Jonathan Davies
1
CU Amiga
Dec 1990
80%
Tony Dillon
2

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
CU Amiga
Nov 1990
Preview
1
The One
28 (Jan 1991)
Preview
1

ECS / OCS

Lore Score: 63%

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