When We Made... Melkhior’s Mansion
Melkhior’s Mansion has around 260 rooms - considerably more than Atic Atac’s castle.
The best Ultimate game that Rare never made is how we’d describe Richard Jordan’s Atic Atac successor. Richie Shoemaker gets lost in the maze of its making
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t’s been more than 20 years since I’ve seen Richard Jordan. Our first exchange in 1998 was prior to him being photoshopped into a spacesuit to illustrate an article I’d overseen for PC Zone magazine about his fascination with remaking classic 8-bit games, one of which was a tribute to Jetpac he had been working on at the time.
Our meeting this time is to commemorate the recent
release of Melkhior’s Mansion, a spiritual successor to Atic Atac; another of his efforts to be based on a game from the early years of Rare, when the Sea of Thieves developer was known to all as Ultimate Play the Game. Sadly, on this occasion, since we lack the resources to digitally dress Jordan into some wizard’s robes, I was hoping he’d aged sufficiently for it not to be necessary. Alas, that appears not to be the case. Of course, I don’t tell him that.
Jordan’s first attempt at remaking Atic Atac was completed in 2006. It was very much a 00s remake, maintaining the original’s top-down perspective and replacing the pixel graphics.
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