Mart Poom's GAME-O-RAMA
Hello and welcome to my website. I used to program games for a little known gaming system called the Scorpion 8. It was highly unsuccessful and as a result, disappeared into obscurity! One of the games I programmed was Mel Gibson's Safari. Back in 1983 Mel was gaining quite a reputation after the release of his highly successful MAD MAX films and as a result he licensed his name to my first release. We used some of the most advanced techniques known at the time to project his voice on to the game with such crisp quality. We didn't realize it at the time, but we were breaking new ground in the gaming industry, the game wasn't such a commercial success but did go on to inspire many of today's great programmers and lives on in the cyber museum.
Mel in 1982 "Leave it to Mel" we'd say as he charged around like a fire-woman.
Flash forward 18 years and I was very excited to hear that a Scottish programmer called Franz Carr had managed to emulate the old rom image of Mel Gibson's safari and program a win32 front-end. He really has brought a little piece of history from the back shelf of the gaming revolution and shot it towards the youthful gamers of today, I'm sure they'll just love it. So I present to you, my baby, a project that took me 4 years to complete MEL GIBSON'S SAFARI.
The game for the PC was renamed Mel Gibson's Safari 3 (for legal reasons)
These days I'm in the House Alarms trade. "Ring 'em and see" - That's what we say from time to time, it keeps the day moving and keeps spirits high. I'll never forget my days as a programmer and working with Mel, those were the best days of my life. God bless the 80s.
This is the long-gone Scorpion-8. The look of this machine In my opinion inspired the Super NES. The system was a bit rough but played as smooth as a panther.
Copyright 2001-2003 Marty Poom.