Welcome and thanks for watching 🤗 Fantastic game! Amazing what was achieved back then 👍🏻 I know it was a long time ago now, but can you recall, share any trivia with us about the development or other games you worked on. FX Fighter was one of yours wasn’t it?
Wip3out is the best looking ps1 game. And has one of the best soundtracks. Tomb raider 1-2-3-4 also have stood time well. Soul reaver too. Gran turismo 1-2. FFVII,VIII AND IX.
RE: Centipede, Colecovision actually released a trackball for a game called "Slither" or something. It was specifically designed for that game, and maybe 1-2 others that were current at the time (another was called "Victory"). Centipede was considered an "old" game by that time, but the trackball worked retroactively with it. Making it a damn near perfect arcade port.
Really glad I came across this video, as I only knew about some of these releases. Always thought Amstrad was in a class of its own back in the day, but it rarely got a chance to shine. I really wish there was some sort of a repository for all of these homebrew games though, as tracking some of them down was a pretty convoluted process.
@@ClassicReplay I check IRN several times a week - it is indeed a great way to track new retro releases. I was talking more about archiving the actual binaries or links to storefronts, in case the game is commercial. Many of the games in your video were only released as post attachments, on forums where membership is required to download them. In a few other cases the official download link was broken, and at least in one case the author's entire page was completely down. All in all, it took me several hours of playing google-detective to track down all the titles I was missing.
in '82 or '83, my mom took us to Toys R Us on Christmas Eve and bought the console - we picked out a handful of games and my parents let us stay up all night playing it - Christmas Day the neighbor kids came over and joined in definitely one of the best Christmases EVER
3:00 FEUD - I spent my of today hacking this game, I managed to get invincibility but so did my nemesis :)))) Tomorrow I'll do it right. Exolon clearly isn't perfect, ZX version is much better. Too bad you neglected "Rogue Trooper" it just shines on Amstrad CPC leaving ZX and C64 versions far behind. Thanatos is also the best on CPC. Tau Ceti is amazing and would be the best if it were not for its sluggishness on the stock CPC, good thing we have emulators that allow us set 125% speed (or more).
The Coleco Vision does not live up to all it's hype, it does not Blow Away the Intellivision, Donkey Kong was your typical poor quality home version of the arcade version, only 3 boards and no cut scenes and the control is horrible, it's sloppy and un responsive and Mario moves up ladders too slowly unless you double top up or down on the controller and Mario doesn't even spin when he dies and when you clear a board it just jumps to the next board, no high can you get screen and even the Adam Version still has the horrible control problem if not even worse, also the music is not accurate, it has no gaps between the notes. The Music is not as good as Intellivision because it is tiny and lacks BASS. Mr. Do plays the wrong Music and he throws a dot and not a ball and it's too choppy and the enemies kill you too easily and Digger that was a home brew conversion of the PC version was a better Mr. Do than the offical Mr. DO on Coleoco Vision. Frogger just keeps playing the same main tune over and over again and never plays any different songs. Omega Race is Not just like the Arcade, it's Not Vector style graphics and they added stuff not in the arcade, the Intellivision Home Brew replicated the Vector Style Graphics and the Sound Effects and Music are almost perfectly Spot On to the Arcade version. Miner 2049er 's timer is too fast so it's hard to clear boards beyond the first one. The Intellivision Home Brew is better because it's easier and has better control. Tutankham Arcade by Champ Games for the Atari VCS is better than the Coleco Vision version and so is Mappy Arcade by Champ Games because it has the bonus rounds and looks and sounds just like the Arcade Version. Most of the games don't have smooth scrolling like Zaxxon and Cosmic Avenger and Zaxxon does not look like the Arcade, the Fuel Tanks don't look anything like the Arcade Version and neither does the Zaxxon Robot. Coleco Vision still has flicker like the Atari VCS and only had 16 colors. The Controllers are even worse than the Intellivision Controllers. It's still a good system and definitly better than the VCS but so is any other system that came after the VCS. Mouse Trap is Awesome, with good music and graphics, so is Pepper 2 and Spy Hunter is good and easier than the Arcade Version and has surprisingly good music. GORF Is good too even if it's missing Galaxians and the voice because the Music makes up for the lack of voice. Lady Bug is good but the you get stuck trying to round corners is worse than the Intellivision version but the Graphics are better on Coleco Vision. Jump Man Jr. is good but the C64 has better music. but not as good graphics.
This probably sounds daft, but back in the day I didn’t really notice until people started pointing things out to me. The first real time I realised it was a major problem was when I played Sega Rally 2 in the arcade and then the same week played Sega Rally 2 on the DC. I couldn’t believe the difference
Thanks for really making this system and its library come alive for me. As someone with no connection at all to this side of the 8-bit sphere, your enthusiasm genuinely gets me hyped to jump in to a system I would have hardly known about. This is what youtube is for - great channels for passionate gamers.
Thanks for sharing this feedback. That’s my aim, to reach people that had never heard about these wonderful 8bits. I sit there sometimes watching vids about computers I’ve never heard of. I can also literally sit there for hours if I’m not careful and watch people restoring old consoles and computers. RU-vid from that perspective is amazing. Please spread the word and share this vid with other like minded retro enthusiasts ❤️
You know, I thought that was in there. One of my favourites for sure. In fact I completed it recently on the ZX Spectrum for the first time in 2 decades and it felt great. Thanks ☺️
All quality games there. I could never work out what to do in ATF, everything came at you so quickly and by the time I was ready to fire a missile the target had passed me by. Still great times had trying though. Ping Pong is one of the best, hardly ever gets the credit, but it’s a great challenge. Thanks
Looking the initial screen, I agree wonen should be given the opportunity to drive and not only be expectator in next OutRun. Maybe a "Flower attack mode" where Alberto requests tasks to the girl and gives her flowers as she completes them.
The footage is funny. Booty looks like me the first time i tried it and had no idea how the game worked 😂 hope you had never tried it before too! Mario Bros was good too, looked like me playing it for the first time as a 7 year old 😂 Great video ❤
Modern Amstrad games are really showing the power of the machine. Some great stuff being released. Great to see the updates at the end that show how much more the system could do than bad Spectrum ports.
It was a step up when programmed correctly. Sadly in some cases it was just seen as a quick and dirty extension to sell already existing/written Speccy code.
I loved Rainbow Islands as a kid. I played all home versions recently and apart from the TGCD arcade perfect one, i genuinely think Spectrum was the best home port of the game. What a great game.
Whats the game in the bottom left of the opening? Is there any other system where an all time top 50 would have such a high % of homebrew? Genuinely i would probably have about 40 homebrew at least.
We live in a world with such great homebrew that the games of Noentiendo get no attention despite the awesome Gandalf, Manic Pietro & Get Out of Mars being up there with the best games in each of the three genres.
Homebrew has Mighty Final Fight as a better beat em up, Rubinho Curacho as the best driving game ever, Gandalf as the best platformer, Manic Pietro the best Manic platformer. Cousin Horace the best umm, adventure? (Hard to classify Cousin Horace lol)
The Coleco system never had it's chance to reach it's pinnacle like the NES did with "Super Mario 3." I believe it was overpowered for what it could do and could have easily overtaken the Atari 2600 and possibly even the early days of the NES. So sad to think it never had it's chance. I mean, the damn thing was so advanced, it had cross compatibility with the Atari!
