 | Color Dreams Inc. What Other Companies Didn't Dare Do |
Color Dreams made two games featuring "Sodamn Insane". They were Operation Secret Storm and Happy Camper.
Color Dreams was threatened by various sources, but not sued, and Nintendo even referred to Color Dreams in a court case and used their method of production to show an example of a legal product, while suing someone else.
Color Dreams had planned a "Super Cart" that had more power than the normal Nintendo cart. It was in prototype form yet no software was ever made for it.
Nina Stanley still works making games, and is the daughter of the famous Ausley Stanley, known as "bear" in the 60s, and also at grateful dead concerts where he's well known for his scull jewelry which symbolizes the group.
Color Dreams also tried doing some development in Mexico, with a branch office and about 6 or 8 workers, but they never finished anything there.
Color Dreams was probably the only company that designed, programmed, built, and marketed their own product.
There was a bonus stage planned for Menace Beach, but the idea was scrapped. Martin Nielson, of NES World, provided me a picture of the sprites intended for this bonus stage because Martin knew I was interested in viewing this. This was as far as the bonus stage made it, I think the idea was scrapped to push a faster release.
Michael Denio has told me this about Captain Comic, regarding the glitch where you stand on top of the metal pole thing in the space area, and press up. I found this glitch in another area too--you can go above the roof in the computer room and this same glitch occures. Look at the pics below to understand what I am talking about, if you don't already know, then read what Michael's explanation for it is.
This was a bug. I had "doors" in my code to take you to different worlds. When a door was unused, I put it at coordinates 0,0. You'll note you can't actually get to the far upper left corner of any world (except the space world). So, you actually went through a door, but where it put you was random garbage.
There are two different labels for King of Kings, the original and the revised. A professional painter did the original label, but everyone thought it turned out lousy so Nina designed the revised label, which looks better I think.
I saw numerous copies of this weird Captain Comic cart. It is always the blue version of the cart, but for some reason the label was put on upside down! This isn't a one of a kind item, I've seen several in auctions and such, but it may be harder to find than the regular copy. I do wonder how this error ever managed to be made, and I wonder if this error was made to any other Color Dreams carts. Weird.
This boxart was snagged off of a game add for Color Dreams. Personally I think that this stuff is cool. 'Nuff said.
As a game's in development, it undergoes several name changes before the final game is produced. Color Dreams is no exeption, below is a list of a few games and their preproductive titles. Some of the preproductive titles are quite cool, I'd take Drug Czar over Raid 2020 any day. There may be more that I'm not aware of yet.
Original Title Released Version
Drug Czar Raid 2020
Who's Sane Who Operation Secret Storm
Lee Majors Game Secret Scout
The name Drug Czar was changed to Raid 2020 according to Frank Waung, because "Color Dreams thought the word drug would cause problems with parents, so we changed it to Raid2020." According to Valesh the name Who's Sane Who was changed to Operation Secret Storm because it sounded cooler. Lee Majors Game was changed to Secret Scout because they didn't get a Lee Majors license, according to Roger Deforest. Robert Bonifacio also told me that as far as he knows, King Neptune's Adventure was always the title for that game.
Name What They Did
Ken Beckett Crystal Mines, NinDraw developer
Robert Bonifacio King Neptune's Adventurer programmer
Al Bunch Voice (Robodemons), ran Bunch Games
Dan Burke Graphics: Raid 2020, Challenge of the
Dragon, programmer
Joel Byers Crystal Mines level design
Scott Davis Crystal Mines level design
Roger Deforest Music (King Neptune's Adventure, Bible
Adventures), programmer/graphics
(Secret Scout, Maggots, Free Fall)
Ron Degen Crystal Mines level design
Michael Denio* Captain Comic programmer
John Dwyer Challenge of the Dragon music
Leo Gilreath Author of Raid 2020 manual
Anthony R. Henderson Programmer of Castle of Deceit,
Captain Comic graphics
Mike Hunley P'Radikus Conflict graphics,
modeling (Play For Cash)
Charles Johnson Spiritual Warfare programmer
Vance Kozik Programmer: Menace Beach,
Spiritual Warfare, others
Dan Lawton Founder
Eddie Lin Founder
Nate Manchester Programmer
Jim Meuer Programmer: Baby Boomer, Bible Buffet
Phil Mikkelson* Founder
Jodye Pistole Castle of Deceit music
Ron Risley* Designer of super cart/Koala Chase
Sarah ?????
Sandy Sims Operation Secret Storm music
Danny Sosebee Crystal Mines level design
Nina Stanley Graphics: Menace Beach, Bible
Adventures, Secret Scout, Exodus,
Spiritual Warfare, King of Kings,
King Neptune's Adventures, boxart
Jim Treadway P'Radikus Conflict programmer
Jon Valesh Programmer/Graphics: Operation
Secret Storm, Happy Camper,
Pesterminator. P'Radikus Conflict
Nancy Valesh* Additional art (P'Radikus Conflict)
Rick Waldron Crystal Mines level design
Frank Waung* Programmer of Raid 2020
The box art to the right is of P'Radikus Conflict. The strange thing is that this box art was not the version used for the P'Radikus Conflict final release.
