- Release Date: 198X
- Genre: Shooter
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Time Zone
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Group Members:
Doug Wimbish,
Arthur 4x ,
Russel Booker ,
Funky Afrikan ,
D'Amazin ,
Bill Laswell,
Afrika Bambaataa,
John Lydon,
X,
Keith LeBlanc,
Bernie Worrell,
Queen Asia ,
Petawane ,
Skip McDonald ,
Nicky Skopelitis,
Aiyb Dieng ,
Sunstar The Funky Alien
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- Formed: 1983
- Genres: Rap
- Representative Albums: "Warlocks and Witches, Computer Chips, Microchips and You
Biography
Taking the same approach to hip-hop that funk maverick George Clinton took to his own projects, Afrika Bambaataa created the Time Zone project in the early '80s as another outlet for his projects. Despite the different name, their singles were essentially just Bambaataa productions, with various collaborators like Bill Laswell and James Brown included on certain tracks. Their first release was "Wild Style," a breakdancing single that employed the futuristic synth lines and tight funk instrumentation that he had pioneered on the massive "Planet Rock" 12". Next came the six-part "Unity" single, in which James Brown delivered verses while Bambaataa, bassist Doug Wimbish, guitarist Skip McDonald, and drummer Keith LeBlanc put together one of the funkiest beats of his career. The last '80s Time Zone project was World Destruction, a rap/punk crossover that utilized Public Image Ltd.'s Album lineup -- producer Bill Laswell, organist Bernie Worrell, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, and drummer Aiyb Dieng -- to deliver Bambaataa's angry duet with singer John Lydon. Although the track was a groundbreaking effort, Bambaataa retired the Time Zone name for almost ten years. In the fall of 1995, a number of Bambaataa's late-'80s/early-'90s singles and several new tracks were put together on Warlocks and Witches, Computer Chips, Microchips and You, a compilation credited to a new all-star version of Time Zone. Featuring many members of Bambaataa's Zulu Nation as well as several outside collaborators, it did share the same apocalyptic message and P-Funk-inspired music that made the original Time Zone singles so powerful, but it had a hard time connecting with rap audiences and proved to be the last release to use the Time Zone moniker. ~ Bradley Torreano, All Music Guide| Discography: Time Zone |
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| Publisher(s) | On-Line Systems |
| Series | Hi-Res Adventure |
| Platform(s) | Apple II |
| Release date(s) | 1982 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
Time Zone is a multi-disk graphical adventure game written and directed by Roberta Williams for the Apple II. Developed in 1981 and released in 1982 by On-Line Systems (now Sierra Entertainment), the game was shipped with six double sided floppy disks and contained 1,500 areas (screens) to explore along with 39 scenarios to solve. Produced at a time when most games rarely took up more than one side of a floppy, Time Zone is believed to be one of if not the very first game of this magnitude ever released for home computer systems.[1]
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Gameplay
The game allowed players to travel through time and solve puzzles while meeting famous historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.
The screen was a split graphics/text screen. The graphics were done in the Apple's high-resolution format, and the text was four lines at the bottom of the screen. The text described the current scene, including any objects that were in the scene, and allowed the player to type in two-word commands of the form [VERB] [NOUN]; e.g., "GET KEY", similar to that used in text adventure games.
Reception
Ultimately the game bombed due to the original retail price of US$99, which was considerably higher than usual for games of the time. It was promptly reissued the year of its release as part of the short-lived SierraVentures line.[2]
References
- ^ "Time Zone: An interview with Roberta Williams". Computer Gaming World: pp. 14–15. May-June 1982.
- ^ "IF-Legends.org entry on Sierra On-Line". http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/Sierra_On-Line,_Inc.html. Retrieved 2007-04-27.
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