Anyone ever seen or heard of Hover Trax game footage?

mattyg · Post by **mattyg** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:19 pm

Whilst going through some old magazine back issues i found an article with a developer talking about EA's failed attempts at arcade games. He had been working on a title called "hover trax" that was canned a month before being released. It was a sports game that involved players on hover boards passing a ball and scoring points. What is most interesting though is when he mentions that it was up and running on 3DO hardware , hinting that the 3DO version was completed and was probably going to be released as an arcade tie in................mmmmmmmmmmm.

Anybody know anything of this..........

oldskool · Post by **oldskool** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:31 pm

Never heard of, or seen anything about this. Sounds interesting though.

Post by **3DOKid** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 4:19 pm

paging Bitrate to thread, Bitrate to the thread please.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:03 am

How big is the article Matty? Does it have any pics? What mag is it from? Is it worth scanning?

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:18 am

I may have some documentation on this. Unfortunately, those docs may be in storage. I'll have a look and get back to you.
I have not ever heard of or seen any code for the game though.

mattyg · Post by **mattyg** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:39 pm

The article was quite small - in fact I missed it on first read through - I'll dig it out tomorrow. The larger article was dealing with EA's attempts at the arcade market. I am in no doubt that this game was finished and hope the code is out there somewhere.
It was in an issue of Retro Gamer from late last year.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:23 pm

Do you know which issue? I subscribe to Retro Gamer, but I'm woefully behind on reading it.

mattyg · Post by **mattyg** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:27 am

Issue 67 page 82 - it was an interview with Bob Flanagan of Gauntlet & Paperboy fame.
Its in an aside box labelled EA no way.
He describes its non release as "probably the biggest heartbreak of my career" & "We had prototypes running on 3DO hardware..." and goes on to say that it was a cross between skateboarding , hockey and basketball.

Bob's work is legendary and if someone of his calibre was upset at its non release than this must have been something special.

I sincerely hope that this code still exists.