|  Darron Broad's map of Mercenary scanned! | | Posted by MIK on 2002-02-10 |
 Darron Broad's map of Mercenary scanned!
(Left) In the mug shot is me holding what can only be one of the rarest map's of Mercenry ever in existence. This infact is a comprehensive toutist-guide to Targ Central City! Issued by the Palyar information committe you can see in full glory all named roads and structures on the planet surface. Just to give you an idea of the actual size I thought I'd pop that one up because the scanned version as you can imagine is a MONSTER.
Last month Darron Broad (Author of Tomcat and Task Force for C16/Plus4) was heading down to my home town (Southampton) to celebrate one of his many birthdays with some friends and said we should meet up! Wow this was brain doing, I mean I was 16 years old at the time when I bought this dudes games and here I was with a chance of meeting the man him self :-) We met up in a local pub in Romsey and before I even had a chance to say "hi" he said "I got something for you take alook" and out came this awesome map!
I was blown away and yet there was even more Mercenry stuff up for grabs (this I'll scan another day). Anyways I asked Darron where on earth did you get all this cool stuff, he said:
When I was about 20/21 (1986/87) I went to a show in London Olympia and there was the Woakes dude, with what looked like his dad on the stall and he was playing the new Atari ST version of Mercenary, and it looked good as the GFX were way smooth, but still wireframe? There I bought the Mercenary add-on hints pack with the maps etc as you have them, plus the Legendary Badge! I do remember tho, that I was not allowed to buy beer because they thought I was underage, haha, and I am sure it was when I was 21 ;-)
I guess your wondering how did I got so lucky. Well Darron has kept all this stuff in his basement for many years and said he couldn't trust him self anymore with them and just to be safe he said I was worthy of taking care of them. hanks dude! At the end of the day Darron wanted to share his maps with us all so we owe him a many big thanks, for now the LARGEST map of them all is here, enjoy :-)
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