Typhoon Thompson - A Playguide and Review - by LemonAmiga.com
38Typhoon Thompson in Search For the Sea Child is an all-time classic; first released on the Apple II machine back in 1986 as Airheart; and still continues to be innovative today.
Production Notes: (click to read)
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Ripped: 3 Sept 2014
Started: 7th Sept 2014
Completed: 16. Sept 2014
Version: 3.0
Welcome to the last playguide and review for this season. 44 Shows didnt seem much at the start of this year; having already done so in 2012, but this time the work was 3 times harder due to adding lots of extra bits. I enjoyed this season up to Zool (which is one of my all-time fav reviews for a game I used to hate), but after Unreal I felt the last few games were a bit of a slog.
I had hoped to end the season with Lemmings but again this got pushed back due to several factors. I then had Rampage as the final game, but an error in the end credits of Tearaway Thomas meant Rampage came #43. Two weeks ago, having dumped the Lemmings idea yet again, I was reminded of this game and really wanted to cover it, so I made the recording (unpractised, but I could have completed this) and did the voiceover. The first version of the edit was complete for last weekend, but then I realised Rampage was game #43, so I broke off from this and went back to narrate Rampage, returning a week later.
Again I felt like I was shouting over the game rather than talking with it, and the intro music and commentary seemed louder than the rest of the review, but I tried to fix it with compromising the game audio. In the first edit I said the author was Dan Grolin, before I noticed it was 'Gorlin', so I fixed that. No comparison zone, as I had already covered Airheart in with the authors bio. I added the speech on the second pass of the edit, and I think my sense of humour came though; although it is more obvious this time. I thought about having the Sled speak like KITT, but in the end I went for a simple 'Autopilot Engaged'. A few Monty Python references made it, but not as many as I'd hoped.
The review was wrapped and upload a few days early, as it was the last review I didn't want to spend days fine-tuning it as it would have taken away from the experience. I have a long list of game titles for a possible Season 3, but I'm not sure if folks aren't dreadfully bored of my drones by now, so I'll leave that possibility for the future.
Thanks a lot for reading these, and for being my Amiga friends.
Dan.