Guildford, Surrey - September 2001. The Reservoir Gods announce the imminent
release of "Chu Chu Rocket"; an arcade puzzle game for the Atari STe and
Falcon030.
"Chu Chu Rocket" originally appeared on the 128-bit Sega Dreamcast console and
immediately gained critical acclaim for its innovative and addictive gameplay.
"Chu Chu Rocket" is a game for 1 to 4 players. It incorporates a number of
different modes of play including a four player battles, single player puzzle
levels and co-operative challenge stages.
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The base machine for the game is the Atari Ste, it was felt that this was the
minimum requirement to achieve a comparable gaming experience to the 128-bit
original. The extra hardware features of this machine are used to their
fullest extent, including the blitter, extended palettes, jaguarpad support
and stereo sampled sound.
The game features graphics by "shTHREE" and new Reservoir Gods member "neo". It
also has an unprecedented 14 pieces of exclusive new Sid-Sound music composed
by the award winning "MSG".
All the original sound effects from the DreamCast version have been sampled for
this version, including all the sampled speech.
The game features 100 levels of puzzles across 4 different worlds, 25 levels of
multiplayer gaming and 25 challenge stages. There are extra secret features
which get unlocked on completing sections of the game.
Reservoir Gods were formed in 1994 as a software team developing products for
Atari computers. There releases to date include the games "Double Bobble 2000",
"Tautology 2", "SkyFall", "Static" and "Bunion Canyon". They have also created
the art package "GodPaint", GameBoy emulator "GodBoy", Nintendo NES emulator
"GodleNES" and have been responsible for the disk magazine "Maggie".
After a period of inactivity, they are now hard at work creating new products
for the Atari platform, ably supported by new members "neo" and technical
specialist "Griff" (former of "Inner Circle").
"Chu Chu Rocket" is set to ship in October 2001.
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Further information available at http://rg.atari.org
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