RESURRECTING PUTTY SQUAD

Christmas is a time for miracles, but this one was 19 years in the making. Darran Jones speaks to those responsible for resurrecting System 3’s Putty Squad

IN THE KNOW » PUBLISHER: SYSTEM 3 » DEVELOPER: JOHN TWIDDY » RELEASED: 2013 » PLATFORM: AMIGA 1200 » GENRE: PLATFORME Few Amiga owners will forget 24 December 2013 for it was the day that the impossible happened. Some 19 years after its original release date, the Amiga 1200 version of Putty Squad was finally released. For many Amiga owners it was nothing short of a Christmas miracle. So why on earth would an ancient computer game get published nearly two decades after its original release? To begin this answer we’ll need to go back to issue 64 of Retro Gamer when we interviewed System 3’s John Twiddy about his impressive career. John revealed to us that he had not only converted the Amiga version of Putty Squad to PC,…

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