Description
Brataccas is a game that combines exploration, puzzle-solving and combat. You play a character named Kyne, a man who has a price on his head. You must search the mining asteroid, Brattacus, to gather proof of a government plot against you and to try to stay alive. Surveillance cameras are watching you, so take any chance to disable them.
Brataccas is a place where greed and corruption rule the day. The residents are treacherous, and while they can be bribed they are not above murder, so the player has to be careful.
Alternate Titles
- "Bandersnatch" -- Early development title
User Reviews
The Press Says
| ANTIC |
Jun, 1986 |
5 out of 10 |
50 |
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Trivia
Development
Brataccas was originally being developed in 1984 as an ambitious game for the Sinclair Spectrum called
Bandersnatch which was, according to
The Purple Owl, "to come in an A4 sized box containing around 30 'goodies' including a required additional piece of hardware for your Spectrum computer (an add-on device which was planned to add more colours to the system). The retail price of
Bandersnatch was expected to be around £40 and it was to be a completely new concept in computer games. Apparently 10 professional artists were working on the graphics alone."
Unfortunately, the collapse of Imagine in 1984, the company developing the game, curtailed the hopes of
Bandersnatch's designers. However, many of the same designers continued the project in a new company, Psygnosis, founded by Ian Hetherington, the former director of Imagine. But instead of releasing it for the Speccy, they used the new 16-bit platforms found in the Amiga and the Atari ST.
As the history page at
The Purple Owl put it, "[u]nfortunately it never quite lived up to the lofty ideals of the former game but it was the catalyst for what was to come."
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