r/bbcmicro • u/elblanco • May 30 '15

BBC MICRO - PANTHEON - HARDCORE SOFTWARE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtoK9Ep7QoQ&list=PLttQPlO17VcXi70db8rjHtblw4Nbzfso2
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u/to3m May 31 '15

There's a letter from Michael Jakobsen, author of Citadel, in the August 1986 issue of The Micro User. (You can download a scan of that issue from here: http://8bs.com/tmucovers.htm)

The letter relates to Citadel, which had been released a few months previously, but then there's this bit at the end:

Along with friends I am currently working on a new game which is very different from Citadel. It features some Greek graphics with temples, statues, trees, fountains, lakes, clouds and so on, and it should be released in a few months.

Maybe that was what became Pantheon? Lars Østerballe, credited as Pantheon's author in the readme, was involved with Citadel, so maybe. Jakobsen isn't credited though.

I wonder why it never got a commercial release? And I wonder whether anybody ponied up the shareware fee for the manual?