Talk:Bandersnatch (video game)

Article contradicts other Wikipedia articles

 * 1) Article Psygnosis states: The fabled mega-games being created by the company, Bandersnatch (for the ZX Spectrum) and Psyclapse (for the Commodore 64), were fused into one to become Psygnosis' first release, called Brataccas.
 * 2) Article Brataccas states: Brataccas is believed to be the remains of the much hyped vaporware project Bandersnatch, which was partially developed by Imagine Software.
 * 3) This arcticle states: The directors Dave Lawson and Ian Heatherington then formed Psygnosis and Bandersnatch was given a release on the Atari ST, Amiga and Macintosh, renamed as Brataccas.
 * 4) and also: Bandersnatch itself was never released.

Statement 3 seems to indicate that Bandersnatch was simply renamed before release, or, in other words, released under a different name. This doesn't fit to stamement 4. Maybe statement 4 was meant to mean something like "Bandersnatch was never released under it's original name"?

However, statement 1 apparently indicates that Brataccas was a combination of Bandersnatch and Psyclapse, and not the original Bandersnatch. Apparently and contradiction to statements 3 and, to some extent, statement 2, but in accord with statement 4. Unless Bandersnatch and Psyclapse were different names for the same game on different platforms.

Great grief, what a fuss I make about some vaporware from the 80s! --80.134.4.13 10:33, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I've watched the BBC TV programme about the crash of Imagine, and they plainly state that Psyclapse only existed on paper at the time. Imagine folded in June 1984, and Brattacus was released a year later, so it'd be naive to think that a considerable amount of extra work didn't go in to Bandersnatch/Brattacus in that year.  That may have included folding in concepts from Psyclapse.  That would make all four statements kind of true.  Anyway, to get the truth of this I'm sure you'd have to go back and ask the original authors/directors.  By the way, another game called Gift from the Gods by Denton Designs is also alleged to be a descendent of Bandersnatch.  Richard W.M. Jones 12:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)