“OK,” you’re thinking, “fine and lovely, yes: but how does it play?”įor starters, despite sharing a title with official releases on the Amiga and TurboGrafx CD, the Genesis port of It Came from the Desert has almost nothing in common with those versions. As a result of all this, we can approach It Came from the Desert with more information than we usually have, and with a pleasant aura of legitimacy upon us. Then about ten years ago, the lead designer and programmer, Matt Harmon, kindly granted Sega-16 an extensive interview in which he discussed the game’s development and history at length. Ostensibly based on a highly-regarded Amiga game by Cinemaware, and slated for release on the Genesis, it was cancelled by Electronic Arts at the last minute, only to resurface years later as a free download from the Cinemaware website, making it one of the few Genesis ROMs that can be downloaded and played with the blessing of the IP owners.
By contrast, the story of how It Came from the Desert came to us is an interesting and uncommonly well-documented one.
Some unreleased games seem to have surfaced as anonymous ROMs, dumped in secrecy and with little or no information about their history and background.
Genre: Action Developer: New World Computing Publisher: Electronic Arts/Cinemaware Players: 1-2 Released: n/a
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