No Second Prize (Amiga) - A Playguide and Review - by LemonAmiga.com
63Welcome to No Second Prize. I played this is recently in the Lemon/EAB competition so it gave me a chance to take a few screen grabs and make this review. Of note, the game runs at full 50 frames per second but the screen ripper only rips at 30 FPS, so the images are not as smooth as in the real game.
PRODUCTION NOTES:
Video Captured: 6. May.13 (season), and 26. Oct.13 (speed runs)
Editing Started: 20 Nov.13.
Vid Completed: 12 Dec.13.
Version: 3, Rev: 3a
I originally didnt intend for so many racing games to be featured so early this season, and had planned for IK+ to be the video this week for episode #7, but the editing of IK+ fell behind, so it had to be rescheduled and pushed back to episode #14 instead. (I have since caught up with IK+, but I still have the voice-over to do). After a comment posted recently on a playguide video I pushed full speed ahead with NSP, as this was actually the only guide anywhere near in shape to be released and fill that gap.
After the madness of The Spy Who Loved Me, I spent the past two weeks making this, and I thought it all came together fairly well. But the final video was delayed by a few hours on release day while I edited out a few microphone clicks and added a few last minute captions. This edit created the bug with the music coming in at 20:26, and so with every edit comes a new set of bugs. I am defeated on that score.
All the best times listed were taken from the Lemon/EAB competition. The speed runs recorded for the second and third tracks were actually my all-time best times, which were used as my final scores of this tracks during the compo. I annoy myself by saying: 'these tracks are easy' several times during the show, and that everything is basically 'so easy', and the 20:26 bug, but apart from that I'm happy with the final video. This really is an excellent game. :)
The very end of the video was changed in the final days just before release to include a few adverts. A friend from the Lemon Forums asked me if I could give a shout out to his paranormal camping site. I then decided to add an advert for my own audiobook; which almost the whole of 2013 was spent making (hence no playguides for most of the year); and as the book there basically for donations I thought there wouldn't do any harm advertising it. I have also been working on a new kindle Ultimate PD review book with Robert Hazelby, Christian Clarke, Graham Humphrey and several other top Amiga reviews. The book is now in the final stages of production. This also gave me a chance to promote Rob Hazelbys blog site; a site which has been very kind to my reviews in the past. The guy who asked for this review in the first place, Jon Bryant, is also credited in the show near the start and also at the very end of the adverts, and his music also features over the adverts too.