So this version you see here was cancelled, and another team clearly brought in to create a whole new game around the story/theme. Thanks to Peter Weighill for digging out an early advert for the game, it is confirmed that this was intended to be the “Circus of Fear” Inspector Gadget game eventually released by Melbourne House. This updated version has been added to the downloads section as well. #INSPECTOR GAGET GAMES PLUS#Plus it has the music which has been sitting in HVSC for a while. It was discovered that the version in Gamebase 64 has the missing intro sequence, which is a very faithful rendition of the cartoon’s intro. You can check it out for yourselves from the downloads area below. No music exists in the preview, apart from an awesome rendition of the theme tune in the intro sequence, a lot more accurate than Jason Brooke’s version in the final released game, and much closer to the the cartoon and the style of old Melbourne house music. Collecting certain objects, makes you jump to other screens, but overall its very unstable and crashes a lot. Very faithful to the cartoon original, and much more fun compared to the very poor effort we eventually got. Gadget has to run through a horizontally scrolling level (very much best described as a Metro Cross clone), jumping obstacles and getting Gadget skates and other gadgets like the Helicopter, spring legs and other bits. It even seems that the charset was nicked too from Muncher/Street Hassle! Graphically very funny, and the animations for each part of Inspector Gadget are very faithfully reproduced. This version of the game is much closer to the style of Melbourne House games which was typical at the time (Muncher, Street Hassle), with a chunky main character (Though accurate and well animated!). When researching for GTW and generally playing various games, I came across this interesting preview of the game, which is nothing like the abysmal game that was released. Loading up the game when I got home, I was sadly disappointed to find a poor arcade adventure game based around a murder at a circus. So much so that when I found the game in a second-hand shop, I was quick to buy it. #INSPECTOR GAGET GAMES SERIES#It almost brings a tear to my eye when thinking back to watching this great cartoon series as a young kid.
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