The game was also offered (at a budget price) as an exclusive mail-order purchase to both Commodore User readers in the December 1984 issue and also C&VG readers in their December 1984 issue too.
Dave Johnston remembers:
We created it as a quick free giveaway for a magazine in a matter on weeks using an in-house text engine (from Castle of Terror) and a tweaked sprite engine based on Way of the Exploding Fist code. Santa actually has multiplexed colour sprints as well as a hires monochrome edge sprite overlaid. It was never more than a demo really.
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