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What's the deal with Cognito?
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:24 pm
by Kr0tki
I see that Kenny Daglish Soccer Manager and Draconus are listed as being produced by Cognito. Wasn't "Cognito" only a name of group of developers? I can see on Mr Bacardi's website that both games have the Zeppelin Games logo on their covers.
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:04 pm
by Atari Frog
Actually, Cognito was a Zeppelin Games label.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:28 am
by Kr0tki
Thanks, I get it now. I'm curious, was Cognito a label in the same way as Mastertronic Added Dimension was a label of Mastertronic? Was it to indicate higher production values?
Re: What's the deal with Cognito?
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:59 pm
by wesmond
I know it's been 2+years since this post, but I can't bear seeing unanswered questions that I know at least a little about...!
Zeppelin's standard label was all cassettes selling at £2.99 (UK). Disks weren't available in the shops for these, (although in an AirCrew club magazine, they said if you wanted them on disk, send them a letter/cheque or something).
Cognito was indeed fully Zeppelin (both the Cognito products were Ian Copeland's, who wrote a few of the budget range) full-price - only Draconus and Kenny Daglish Soccer Manager were available in that form. I believe they sold at first for £9.95 on cassette, and £14.95 on disk, and I think were intended to represent games with a bit more investment. (You could perhaps believe that for Draconus, maybe less so with KDSM). The tapes were packaged differently too - Draconus came in a double-tape box with larger artwork, so looked different from the budget releases.
But then soon after, I believe they re-released Kenny Daglish in the single tape artwork, budget form, and I got mine for £2.99. Possibly this was because it was extremely similar to World Soccer, the Zeppelin budget release at about the same time.
I've seen Draconus on ebay for non-Atari formats in the single-tape format with the red stripey style they started out with, but I've not seen it in that form for Atari, so I don't think it got re-released in budget form?
Cheers,
Wes
Re: What's the deal with Cognito?
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:10 am
by Atari Frog
I don't think
Draconus got another release.
I can't remember the last time I saw
KDSM on disk, ages ago I believe!
Very interesting note about disk versions being available through the club. Would be great to know if the programs actually shipped and what the packaging looked like!
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