Dust Hill Zone

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Dust Hill Zone can be refered to as two things:

• Early Mystic Cave Prototype
• Desert Concept Art

The "general view" of Dust Hill would describe a desert area hot and sandy. This would apply with the concept art as seen above. Although, in technicality, there is no piece of animation discovered as of yet to show that Dust Hill was a playable level. The name Dust Hill Zone was meant for this desert level as confirmed twice by Brenda Ross. However, the level pointer from the known beta released by Simon Wai until the final was set for Mystic Cave Zone.

The concept of this zone was to begin with a desert setting and as the level progresses, the palette changes to a winter setting [ex: from sand to snow; from cactus to christams trees] as described by the zone artist, Brenda Ross.

In the pictures above, the left one uses inaccurate colours while the one on the right is using the correct colours. The middle one was printed on the back of a Sears, Roebuck and Co. Magazine from a November/December issue of 1992.

Not much detail is known about this zone, so other pieces of information may be missing from this article.

NOTE: Although Brenda Ross herself has never called this zone "Dust Hill zone", it is not definite that this title would not have gone to this desert level. Presently, there is no photographic evidence to show that Mystic Cave's prototype name was Dust Hill Zone BEFORE this known beta.