Q: What's up with Goal to Go?

A: Goal to Go runs on the same hardware as Cliff Hanger. While the Cliff Hanger driver was being actively developed, we added a Goal to Go driver since it theoretically would work with the Cliff Hanger driver. During this time, Goal to Go would show laserdisc video but could not be played because the graphics were scrambled. As we tried to improve the Cliff Hanger driver, we accidentally disabled the laserdisc video in the Goal to Go driver. As a result, the Goal to Go driver became less functional than it previously was. No developer has ever had enough interest to go back and try to get the Goal to Go driver back to its former UNPLAYABLE state, nor to make the game fully playable, despite the obvious fact that since the Goal to Go driver is unplayable, it means that our Cliff Hanger driver isn't emulated correctly.

As a result of this situation, some Daphne users have expressed an unusual amount of interest in Goal to Go. Some Daphne users want to know why the game no longer works (it never did). Other Daphne users want to know where they can get an old enough version of Daphne in order to 'play' the game (since it was never playable, the most anyone can hope to do is find an old version where the laserdisc video is visible). The interesting thing about the whole Goal to Go situation is how unsettled some people can be about previously having something and losing it (previously being able to see the laserdisc video, and now no longer being able to). I am quite convinced that if someone actually got Goal to Go fully working, that interest in this game would drop to about 0 percent and no one would ever think or talk about it again.


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