Obsession (video game)

Obsession is a pinball video game developed and originally published by Unique Development Sweden for the Atari STe on December 2, 1994. It is one of the last official releases for the Atari ST platform after being discontinued in 1993 by Atari Corporation. It was later ported to the Amiga on June 1995.

Obsession
Original Atari STe cover art
Developer(s)Unique Development Sweden
Publisher(s)Unique Development Sweden
Designer(s)Peter Zetterberg
Programmer(s)Hans Härröd
Kalle Lundqvist
Michael Brunnström
Tord Jansson
Artist(s)Jimmy Gustafsson
Composer(s)Per Almered
Platform(s)Amiga. Atari STe
ReleaseAtari STe
  • EU: 2 December 1994
Amiga
  • EU: 1 June 1995
Genre(s)Pinball
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

Obsession is a 1-2 player game with low resolution and keyboard controls. It comes with four different types of tables: "Aquatic Adventure", "Balls 'n Bats", "Desert Run" and "X-ile Zone". Obsession was also inspired by other games such as Pinball Dreams by XXI Century Entertainment. However, by December 2, 1994 Obsession was complete and UDS had started to work on Absolute Pinball.

Development and release

In a recent interview with Tord Jansson, one of the main programmers of the game stated that Atari Corporation gave the team an Atari Jaguar development kit which he and Ulrik Lindahl, another programmer at UDS spent time with it and created a conversion of the game with only three out of the four tables to the Jaguar in a few days except the music and sound effects, however, they decided not to support the system due to its low sales and sent back the development kit to Atari Corp.[1]

Reception
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References
  1. Graveyard, ST (June 28, 2018). "INTERVIEWS - Tord Jansson". atarilegend.com. Archived from the original on 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
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