ECS no. 1
ECS no. 2

P.I.D. (Private Investigator Dollarally)

General info

Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

No WHDLoad installer.

Stats

2,119

Genre

Conversions

UNRELEASED

ECS / OCS

Version info

Yes
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Hard Disk Installer

No

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
?
P.I.D. (Private Investigator Dollarally)
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
Unknown

Notes

P.I.D. was an ambitious Amiga 500 project that Stavros Fasoulas had been developing from 1991 with the very talented artist Janne Oksanen. It had been put on hold because he had to concentrate all his time and energy into overseeing the Elfmania project.

When Elfmania was complete, he was back on track to complete his first real game since Galactic. But, due to death of the Amiga platform, Renegade passed on publishing the title in 1994 and Stavros decided to halt all further development. Although there was some preliminary talk with Sony to have it as a launch title for Playstation, P.I.D. was never developed any further on any platform.

P.I.D. was the last game where Stavros did coding and game design himself.

The gameplay was a cross between APB, Spy Hunter and Grand Theft Auto, except it was more cartoony and arcade-like.

Only one semi-playable demo ever existed of this game. That copy has sadly gone to data heaven.

Miha Rinne worked hard on the graphics for the project for 8 months, making 28 detailed character animations for the game, and was gutted when the project was axed and the animations never used.

Source: Miha Rinne's website (now defunct) and Miha Rinne's ArtStation page

Conversion Notes

Screen info

ECS / OCS
Screenshot ECS no. 3

Earlier, rejected sketch of title screen

Screenshot ECS no. 4

Unfinished AGA title screen by Miha Rinne

Screenshot ECS no. 5

Pixeling process #1: sketch

Screenshot ECS no. 6

Pixeling process #2: outlines and grays/blacks

Screenshot ECS no. 7

Pixeling process #3: color palette

Screenshot ECS no. 8

Pixeling process #4: antialiasing and rendering - by hand

Screenshot ECS no. 9

Incomplete in-game graphics

Screenshot ECS no. 10

Incomplete in-game graphics

Screenshot ECS no. 11

Screenshot ECS no. 12

Screenshot ECS no. 13

Miha Rinne made some of the cars

Screenshot ECS no. 14

Baby criminal (villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 15

Pingin (villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 16

Bimbo (villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 17

Fat Mama (villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 18

Cadel Fistro (villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 19

JayJay (villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 20

Sharky (bomb thrower villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 21

Dr.Basilika (Big Boss villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 22

Old Baron (villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 23

Evil Mario (villain)

Screenshot ECS no. 24

Miha's 1st scenery attempt

Screenshot ECS no. 25

Miha's 1st scenery attempt [alt 1]

Screenshot ECS no. 26

Miha's 1st scenery attempt [alt 2]

Screenshot ECS no. 27

Miha's 2nd scenery attempt

Screenshot ECS no. 28

Japanese tourists getting out of the bus

Box: ECS / OCS
Disk: ECS / OCS
Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

UK Preview (Amiga Power)

ECS no. 2

French Preview (Amiga Concept 10/1994, Page 29)

ECS no. 3

German Preview

Manual info

ECS / OCS

No manuals found.

ECS / OCS

No cheats found.

Conversion info

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

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Issue
Rating
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No magazine reviews found

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Format
61 (Jul 1994)
Rob Mead
Preview
1
The One
69 (Jun 1994)
Preview
1

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