Flood

Development

Flood was originally developed to support four separate players, each with their own camera which could be toggled onto the main screen. The mechanism didn't function particularly well, however, and Flood was completely re-designed as a "cutesy platformer". By that time the development team had grown attached to the four-player design concept, and so it was revived in Bullfrog's later title, Syndicate

ST Version bug

Initial copies of the ST version crashed on the very earliest machines with TOS from 1985 if the player fails to reach the High Score table. When this issue was raised by a letter to ST Format magazine, Electronic Arts explained that this went unnoticed as none of their playtesters failed to achieve a high score. Replacement copies were issued within a few months

Awards

• Amiga Power
  • May 1991 (issue #00) - #77 in the "All Time Top 100 Amiga Games"
• ST Format
  • Issue 01/1991: #3 Best Platform Game in 1990 (Atari ST)
  • Issue 01/1993: #49 in '50 finest Atari ST games of all time' list.