Magic Pockets

Music

The Betty Boo song "Doin' the Do" is also in the PC version, but as a simple snippet of digitized sound on the PC, whereas on the Amiga it is a full module. The PC version developers transcribed the music to nearly every single sound device - Sound Blaster (complete with digital drums), Adlib, Tandy, MT-32, even PC speaker - and all the transcriptions are fairly accurate.

TV

An early version of the game was used on children's TV show Motormouth's call-in game Mighty Mo. Players had to give directions by voice commands which were interpreted into movements, presumably by someone playing the demo as instructed.

DOS version

The DOS versions of the game used a copy protection system where the game asks for a password after the first level. The password could be from a password sheet shipped with the game.

ST Version

A few early copies of the ST version had issues when running on the Atari STE (it hangs after all credits have been used up, or if the demo mode is left running for too long), despite this model having been available for 18 months when the game launched. Updated copies were quickly issued.

Awards

• PC Games (Germany)
  • Issue 01/1993– Best Arcade Action Game in 1992
• ST Format
  • January 1993 (issue #42) - #16 in '50 finest Atari ST games of all time' list

Information also contributed by -Chris, Martin Smith and mailmanppa