Simon_Belmont wrote:> Renaissance2K wrote:
>> I don't know if this counts. It wasn't released here. It also wasn't released
> anywhere.
>>
>> I saw a magazine ad in Next Generation for a PC port of Warhawk - the original
>> 1995 PlayStation shooter, not the online-only PlayStation 3 multiplayer fest -
> that
>> never amounted to anything.
>>
>>
>> I was a big fan of the PlayStation original and wanted the game to see the same
> treatment
>> that Twisted Metal 2 and Jet Moto did with higher-resolution graphics and 3D accelerator
>> support, plus more control options. I even sent an email to Singletrac to ask
> what
>> was up, but all they did was confirm that the project was cancelled.
>>
>> There's a part of me that holds out hope that a prototype will surface one of
> these
>> days, like the rediscovered PC port of the original Twisted Metal. Seems unlikely,
>> though.
>>
>>
>
> I LOVE the original Warhawk. Did you play the Tiger Electronic games version? Its
> actually pretty awesome, the whole unit is shaped like a flight stick. My brother
> and i used to try to beat eachothers high scores on beach trips and then on the way
> home, we'd hope for a bunch of street lights, lol.
>
> A similar thing happened with the underrated, super ahead of its time PS1 shooter,
> Codename Tenka. It ended up getting a VERY small PC port release. I actually prefer
> the PC version.
Thanks to you guys posting, I picked up a copy of Warhawk for ps1 I saw when I was in Owensboro this weekend