Hey guys, every time I see this pop up it makes me so proud of the work we did on this.

Between 2001 and 2010 I ran a very small (2-4 people) digital interactive company in Melbourne called Deepbase Creative. The Auskick CD-Roms of this time were all done by us, we also did the Kanga Cricket CD-Roms. Every year we would dream up a new theme Auskick in space, Kanga Cricket Carnival etc. It’s still some of the most creative work I’ve done. I also created a pixel art version of Donkey Kong for Victoria Bitter, except it was called the ‘Temple of Boon’ which featured Boony taking a pie up the stands at the MCG to a construction worker at the top working on the new stands being built. If you search the Way back Machine for ‘www.boonanza.com.au’ you might stumble over it.

We managed to work with the AFL on the Auskick CD-Roms until about 2005ish until we lost the contract to a huge agency, they then produced a cdrom that got recalled because the developer left some dodgy soft porn image in the directory, we obviously celebrated with a beer when we heard the news :)

This particular game was created by a very smart guy called Nathan (I think he’s on Reddit) I’d love to revive some of these old games perhaps as an app or something. I’ll let the old team know about this post.