Unseen Dropzone 2 assets, International Karate prototypes and IK graphical assets (Atari 800)

[@Kobold666]

Thanks for showing Archer's old disks. These videos are great.

[@_.OX._]

We need someone to take up the development of Dropzone 2!

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

Really wish Archer had implented underground caves in SNES Super Dropzone. Fantastic to see the work here.

[@atariandre5014]

Archer had a dedicated arcade cabinet for Dropzone and AFAIK he only adapted Dropzone for that machine to have the coin-mech work. I’ve seen a picture where a small part of that cabinet was on it when friends of mine went to visit him to buy arcade stuff from him. I bought a Lunar Lander PCB from him which a friend picked up for me during that visit.

[@FREEZE64UK]

Superb information recovered. Thank you for sharing it 👏😃

[@EdwardianTeaChest]

According to a Zzap! 64 interview, the plan was to trial a Dropzone arcade machine in a London arcade, but I have never seen any evidence of this, so I suspect that the idea was probably dropped (no pun intended).

[@st4849]

There aren't hi-res sprites (PMs) on the Atari 8-bit

[@GamesThatWerent]

Interesting - I wonder if these must have been just mock ups for the C64 then?

[@st4849]

@GamesThatWerent It's very poor for C64 sprites. I think he was thinking Atari 1st based on those PM designs, but they'd have been colored either on a scan line basis or via other PMs over/underlaid or OR'd with them. Still, "double pixel" width for each pixel. When you think it's hi-res it's just double pixel height too.

[@GamesThatWerent]

@@st4849 Thanks for your thoughts on this. It's just a huge shame we can't get to ask Archer more details and learn about exactly how the game was to play.

[@st4849]

@@GamesThatWerent 👍