This past couple of days, I received an email from a hobbyist name Andy Cooper who said that he had three other Take-1 movies, not already in the Take-1 Library. Being as these original movies are getting harder and harder to find in the wild, this was definitely welcome news.
Come to find out, the author of these new movies was none other than the author of the alternative Karateka III 3-disk movie. The movie Karateka III : The Return of Her features graphics similar to Karateka II unlike the other Karateka III movie. This was definitely interesting and we wanted to see what was in these new disks.
The three new movies are:
- Road Warriors of the Barren Wasteland (1-disk)
- Space Bounty Hunter (2-disks)
- Karateka III : The Return of her (2-disks)
As to what inspired the three movies originally, Andy had the following to say:
- Space Bounty Hunter was a passion project between my friend Lance and I. We were delving into Sci-Fi comics at the time, and both connected on our love of Apple 2 games. We were writing the adventures of a Bounty Hunter (Blaster Hagen), and wanted to make a Take One movie of an episode. If I remember correctly, most all of these graphics were custom drawn by myself, with the exception of the main character which was was ripped from Captain Goodnight and modified a bit. I used a lot of Beagle Brothers graphics and text software to make the graphics. It’s been so long, but I believe I also ripped the auto boot loading from the Karateka 2 disk, and taught myself the underlying modded basic to make sounds and run the disk. When going to digitize this, I actually had to sector copy it from the original disc, as it was too hard to get past all the hidden directories and boot sectors. The “FSCC” at the beginning title stood for “Frontier Software Cracking Club”, which did very little Software writing or actual cracking at the time, as we were kids.
- Road Warriors of the Barren Wasteland was obviously inspired by a similar film title of the era, but intermingled with one of my favorite games of all time- Rescue Raiders. I don’t remember the exact method, but I remember stealing images from commercial games, and storing graphics in memory to steal for the taking and incorporate into Take One titles. I had a great time making this one, a pity I didn’t go on to side two.
- Karateka 3 – Rev B – was inspired by the Take One title “Karateka 2”, which my teenage mind felt wasn’t violent ENOUGH. Lots of blood, lots of guts, lots of stumbling through those guts in this one. Also: Guns! This is my 80’s teen interpretation of a Horror Ballywood movie. Good, bloody gore without holding back. An action movie where what you want to happen does! I guess I never got around to making it an auto-booter.
You can now download al of these movies in the Movie Library!
