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Vivid Image was a video game developer from the United Kingdom, founded in 1988 by Mevlut Dinc from Turkey (who came to Britain in 1979), Hugh Riley and John Twiddy, all former employees of System 3. Their debut game was ''Hammerfist'' for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, released in 1990. ''Hammerfist'' is also notable for being one of the few games that was developed for the failed and never released Konix Multisystem game console.〔http://www.konixmultisystem.co.uk/index.php?id=interviews&content=mev〕 Vivid Image also created the development system for the Commodore 64GS, another failed game console, and helped publishers with putting their games on the C64GS cartridges.〔http://commodoreformat.wordpress.com/the-mevlut-dinc-interview/〕 The Harrow-based developer had some success with games ''First Samurai'' (a title that's an allusion to ''The Last Ninja''〔http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displayfeature.pl?featureid=3〕 and was released on Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS and SNES in 1991) and ''Second Samurai'' (Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, 1993), but its most famous and successful game is ''Mario Kart''-clone ''Street Racer'', released by Ubi Soft in 1994 on Amiga, DOS, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, SNES, Sega Saturn and PlayStation. Mevlut Dinc also considered creating a 3D adventure game, inspired by ''Super Mario 64'', with Hodja, the Turkish character from Street Racer, but it never came to be.〔, 'In the chair with Mev Dinc'. In: ''Retro Gamer'' 131, july 2014, p. 90 – 95.〕 Problems for Vivid Image arose around 1998. The racing game ''S.C.A.R.S.'' for PlayStation and Nintendo 64 got a critical reception and Mevlut Dinc even admitted that "the tracks (the game ) were too short and too difficult, and it ruined the game".〔, 'In the chair with Mev Dinc'. In: ''Retro Gamer'' 131, july 2014, p. 90 – 95.〕 Furthermore, publisher Eidos' decided to cancel ''Street Racer 2'', that was already some months into development.〔https://web.archive.org/web/20030108152900/http://www.vividimage.co.uk/1EGDEinterview1.htm〕 Also ''First Samurai 64'' for the Nintendo 64 was cancelled while being in development planning stages.〔http://www.ign.com/games/first-samurai-64/n64-456〕 In 2000 Mevlut Dinc returned to Turkey and founded his own company, Dinc Interactive (later known as Sobee).〔http://www.mobygames.com/company/vivid-image〕 The last game developed by Vivid Image was ''Dual Blades'' for the Game Boy Advance in 2002. == Games == * ''Hammerfist'' (1990, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum) * ''Time Machine'' (1990, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum) * ''First Samurai'' (1991, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, SNES) * ''Second Samurai'' (1993, Amiga, Sega Mega Drive) * ''Street Racer'' (1994, Amiga, DOS, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, SNES, Sega Saturn, PlayStation) * ''S.C.A.R.S.'' (1998, Nintendo 64, PlayStation) * ''Dual Blades'' (2002, Game Boy Advance) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vivid Image」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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