Motocross Challenge GBA Cart & RGCD #03 Progress
1st August 2007 by James Monkman
Yup, we've done it again. There's a new game listed for sale in our online shop - and it's a game that a lot of you have been waiting for... RGCD and DHG Games present the authorised cartridge release of RGCD #02's featured game; Motocross Challenge!
Originally planned as a commercial GBA release, Motocross Challenge had been in development for three years by relatively small indie developer DHG. In 2006 they signed the game to what they describe on their website as "a very big and international publisher that shall remain unnamed". After a further six months of solid work, the game was finally completed in February 2007 - yet while it was in final testing the publisher decided that the GBA market wouldn't support enough sales of a non-licensed game to make releasing it worthwhile. The project was thereafter cancelled, despite just needing to be written to a cartridge, stuck in a box and shipped to the shops.
Without the necessary resources to port the game to another platform and with a strong desire to actually let someone play the damn thing, DHG made the amicable decision to host their opus for download from their website. However, following our glowing review of the game, we at RGCD thought that this outstanding title should be given the proper cartridge release that it deserves. So with DHG Games' authorisation we've created a limited batch of MXC cartridges for you to buy and plug into your GBA, SP, Micro or DS! Get it from the RGCD Shop page now!
Anyway, now that shameless plug is out of the way, here's the real news. RGCD #03 is now well over halfway complete and is well on track for completion by the 24th of August. However, don't expect to see it here until the 27th - we'll be far too busy nursing our hangovers from Retro North to upload it any sooner!
Also, regular readers may be interested to hear that the RGCD team has four new team members; Gnome, Mike Bevan, Mike Rawlings and Neil Ebray (see the about page for their bio's). As always, there's still room for plenty more writers, so drop us a line on the contact page if you think that you've got what it takes to be a RGCD writer!
Finally, I've also made an effort to update the links page. Admittedly that's not very exciting, but it's news nonetheless!
