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Steve Turner on the canned versions of 16-bit Bushido

“I always intended to do other versions of Bushido. I designed the game thinking it would be brilliant on the Amiga and the ST. The original name of the game was ‘Destiny,’ because I was thinking it would change the destiny of the company. I thought: ‘I’ve really got to come up with something – an original game to lift the company and give us a new tranche of work.’ I was thinking if I could get this all on the C64 I could prove the concept, and then get contracts to do the same game on the Amiga, PC and ST – where I could see would be the big money for it. It would have taken us on to new things, It would have been sort of like a bootstrap for the nextgeneration systems. But it never happened because Bushido just didn’t sell, and so the publishers weren’t interested.”