ChinnyVision - Ep 537 - Gilligan's Gold - Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, C64

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The early days of Ocean were filled with arcade knock off games and Gilligan's Gold is no exception. An identical unofficial clone of Bag Man, you have to fetch the bags of gold and put them into your mining cart.
Released on the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, ChinnyVision plays the game on original hardware.
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00:00 Titles
00:15 Introduction
00:58 Spectrum
01:59 Amstrad CPC
04:30 C64
06:18 Amstrad CPC
07:52 Spectrum
09:10 C64
10:53 Amstrad CPC
12:05 Conclusion

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16 июл 2024

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@paulmurphy5614 5 месяцев назад

A shout out to Steve Wright on the Amstrad’s high score table??!!! What a coincidence! RIP Steve.

@craigwalker3194 5 месяцев назад

I had Gilligan's Gold For the Spectrum. Came as part of a compilation called Softaid. Wasn't too bad. R.I.P. Steve Wright.

@gdparry2727 5 месяцев назад

That's how I got it - borrowed friend's copy

@robsmall6466 5 месяцев назад

At least the Amstrad version looks like it takes place in a gold mine. Unlike the other two

@markwrightrf 5 месяцев назад

Steve Wright mention in the high scores - serendipity. Love the vid, Chiny.

@chinnyvision 5 месяцев назад

Recorded about a week ago so yep, a happy accident.

@nemofox_68 5 месяцев назад

Did you know that Bagman (Le Bagnard in French) is the first video game entirely created by a French company (called Valadon Automation) ? This company specializes in industrial electronics, located in the department of Saône-et-Loire (center of France). Initially it manufactured power supplies for a company that distributed arcade cabinets, René Pierre. Then it began to design a first game : Millpac, a bootleg of Milipede, illegally, then Bagman in 1982, the great success of the compagny, then Pickin', a sokoban. In 1983 it released Super Draw Poker, in 1984 it was Super Bagman and to finish Tank Buster in 1985. The company then stopped all incursion in this area following the video game crash.

@julienbraudel7109 5 месяцев назад

Beau commentaire, tu m'as coupé l'herbe sous le pied

@julienbraudel7109 5 месяцев назад

It is also the first french arcade game if i am correct; and one of the few, since french developpers did not do so many arcade games..

@nemofox_68 5 месяцев назад

@@julienbraudel7109 😉C'est vrai que les Français n'ont pas excellé dans le jeu d'arcade. Je ne sais pas si un autre hit existe d'ailleurs sur cette plateforme.

@andyc8257 5 месяцев назад

The sprites on the Amstrad appear to be XOR'd onto the screen (which is faster than fully masking them), so the reduction in colours is probably to avoid graphical corruption when climbing ladders etc (you can see that there is some telltale corruption when in front of wheelbarrow etc) I used to have the Speccy version back in the day. It's horribly unfair it places and occasionally a bit janky but it was one of those games I'd go back to because it was just fun jumping in and out of the moving minecarts.

@Popmetalj 5 месяцев назад

I got my C64 in February’85 and Gilligan’s Gold came into my life as part of the SoftAid compilation a few months later. All the criticisms levelled at GG are valid and yet…I love it! It can infuriate me beyond belief but I will always have another go and even now 39 years later, I’m not done playing it. Clearly I have issues.

@talideon 5 месяцев назад

I remember seeing an ad for this as a kid in an old C&VG annual my father got by accident. I think it was the one with Dragon's Lair on the cover.

@Channel84VarietyShow 5 месяцев назад

Played this so much on my Speccy. Time to dig it out once again!

@swevicus 5 месяцев назад

I had the Spectrum version in my youth. That reminds me: the Spectrum version is one of the few games that I've come across that will crash the machine if you try to snapshot it or save it to disk. I've used a Multiface and a Plus D disk interface, and my Spectrum is having none of it. I haven't tried with the DivMMC Future yet. It's one of those games which use a fancy turbo loader that doubles as a form of copy protection (Speedlock), so I suspect that may be the culprit. That aside, it's a fun little game even if it is a ripoff, and I remember my nephew loving it to bits when I introduced it to him. The Spectrum version also fails to update the score counter properly. It's a "meh" game on all platforms, really, but given its arcade genesis, it's understandable.

@SwainyAtRetroAsylum 5 месяцев назад

I had the Spectrum version and despite it looking a bit rough, I found it really playable and was really pleased when I eventually played the arcade version a couple of years later.

@virtuafighter3 5 месяцев назад

I think the character animation is good on the Spectrum. The characters throw their arms about well. It looks hectic. (The commentary is a bit harsh on the Spectrum version here).

@NorthWay_no 4 месяца назад

I should still have my C= 64 tape here somewhere. I always thought the attract screen music was very nice (at the time). Later on I got a copy of Baggitman which is another (better) clone.

@markboyle9941 5 месяцев назад

As a CPC owner for the last 39 years I may be a bit biased but the Amstrad version is the pick of the bunch despite the lack of music. I just like the graphics and sprites.

@ivarfiske1913 5 месяцев назад

Good memories of the Amstrad CPC version. Too me it looks like the C64 isn't the only one of the three main 8-bits that can do earth colours.

@Eshaktaar 5 месяцев назад

It was the perfect game to use lots of brown on the C64 but they went with eye-searing cyan instead.

@paulpatrick885 4 месяца назад

The Spectrum version has an unusual look for a spectrum game with such chunky looking sprites - the gameplay on the Speccy is fine but it looks a bit rough. There was also Bagitman on the C64 which was another unoffical conversion of Bag Man and a very early C64 game and also came out on the Dragon32.

@jantimmerby 5 месяцев назад

The Spectrum version makes me think of Ampelmann. The little red and green men at the traffic lights at pedestrian crossings., the East German version

@faenethlorhalien 5 месяцев назад

Dammit! I got Spandau'd!!!

@clauscombat418 5 месяцев назад

"I am... Bagman!"

@markwrightrf 5 месяцев назад

I wonder if Bruce Lee (or 'Lee' as Linda insists we now call it) would have proved popular if ported to the arcade.

@OperationPhantom 5 месяцев назад

Amstrad looking the best here but it's awfully quiet. For the C64 you could also pick up Bagitman (!) in 1984, which is in all respects a better match for the arcade. (Oh... and recent games for the C64 are Bagman comes back and Bagman strikes back, for the craving Bagman addict).

@statto4ever 5 месяцев назад

My memory was playing this on Vic 20, but I guess not. Must have been either later on my C64 or a different clone?

@mr.y.mysterious.video1 5 месяцев назад

Nice use of colour ur on the spectrum version avoiding clash

@random_precision_software 5 месяцев назад

The amstrad version looks the best IMO

@JustWasted3HoursHere 5 месяцев назад

Wow, there's a difference between making a game that is _influenced_ by another game, like the numerous maze games and shoot'em-ups out there, but a complete rip off of every aspect of the original is a little TOO on the nose. I'm surprised Stern didn't sue.

@julienbraudel7109 9 дней назад

Stern is not the developer here, they only distributed the game in the US. Bagman is a french arcade game’developed by Valadon Automation.

@JustWasted3HoursHere 9 дней назад

@@julienbraudel7109 Well then I'm surprised that Valadon Automation didn't sue.