h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

how about adding a listing/summary of all episodes ?

I'll try to find one. But streethawk sites are actually quite sparse. SFXs website had some sort of episode guide but ist down now. And Bravo's websites a little useless. But taken and noted.

I'd like to add that Street Hawk became well known in the UK in the eighties among owners of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer. A tie-in game was promised, and in fact offered as part of the benefits of subscription to the magazine "Crash". It failed to be released on time - in fact it became legendarily delayed, and when it was finally released, two years late I think, it was - surprise surprise - tripe. Two years in the computer and TV industries then as now was a lifetime. Didn't do the show many favours wiv ver kidz.

Interesting. Was it ever commercially released, and on any otehr formats (amstrad CPC, C64) also, hwat kind of game was it. I;m guessing driving and shooting and more importantly, did it ahve a near faithful reproduction of teh theme music liek teh Airwolf game?

With enough info it coudl eb included in teh entry.

It was certainly commercially released. I'm not sure what other formats it got onto. I'll find out what I can and get back to you...

OK. The home computer game version of Street Hawk was written by Paul Owens, author of such classics as Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Hunchback and Kong - no offence if you're reading this Paul, but any one of those three is worth a hundred of this. It was released in 1986 by Ocean Software. I can't remember exactly how late it was, and I can't find out. Or at least, I haven't yet...

I've actually played the game within the last hour (emulator...), so I can vouch personally for the following...

It used a variant of the Speedlock protection system characterised as "Speedlock 3" which incorporated a loading timer, increased loading speed, alternate border colours and the characteristic "ticking" leader (people who had Spectrums may remember what I'm on about, it's of no conceivable use to the Entry. It's included just to prove what a geek I am ). The game was a vertical scrolling shoot em up, in the mould of Spy Hunter. It included little messages from the "controller" character, telling you where crimes were happening, and telling you when you were getting damaged and stuff. It was, even by the standards of the time, pretty poor stuff.

It certainly made it over onto the Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128. It also may have been available for the Commodore 64 - pretty sure it was.

If there's any more actual information I can come up with, I'll let you know...

Thnaks. Most helpful. An update will happen. At somepoint. I'll post when it does.

Editorial Note: This conversation has been moved from 'Peer Review' to 'Street Hawk'. ...because it has been superseded by a new PR thread (and Entry) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F48874?thread=123150