ChinnyVision - Ep 541 - Chevy Chase - Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC

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Chevy Chase is a 1991 budget racing game from Hi-Tec released on the Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC and has nothing to do with, er, Chevy Chase.
Race across America for some reason or other, powering up your car as you go. Original racing games on budget in the late 8 bit era are rare so how does this one stack up?
ChinnyVision checks out the game on original hardware.
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00:00 Titles
00:15 Introduction
00:20 Spectrum
01:51 C64
03:37 Amstrad CPC
06:09 Spectrum
07:33 Amstrad CPC
08:50 C64
10:08 Spectrum
10:59 Summary

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16 июл 2024

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@AndyHewco 4 месяца назад

Strange grey edge on the car for the Amstrad version is in mode 0 a byte is used for two pixels, and it will quicker to just draw the car than try to make it have transparent edges merging with the background. They've probably just put a grey pixel there as most of the time that bit of the car is on the road. It's running at a decent speed on the CPC for a change, so that's probably a good call.

@robsmall6466 4 месяца назад

Enjoyed the Amstrad version. Lovely graphics at the time

@dadgameruk 4 месяца назад

Enjoyed the video. Not a game I had come across before and it looks very playable on all the systems, with fluid graphics and an impression of speed, which some other titles around the same period lack.

@alk7934 4 месяца назад

Clearly that is a snake invasion occurring on that C64 level.

@thefamouseccles1827 4 месяца назад

The C64 engine will likely be using raster interrupts to set the background colour timed such as to create the striping effect used to create the illusion of movement whereas the Spectrum and Amstrad will be rendering the stripes properly. This is why the crappy sea effect on the C64 - they can't turn off the striping for only half the width of the screen.

@nekononiaow 3 месяца назад

Yup, this is a most sensible explanation. And on that note, it is a bit sad they are not using raster interrupts as well on the CPC to render the stripes since the machine was perfectly capable of doing it. Rendering them by drawing is quite wasteful. That CPC version would run even smoother had they used color splits for the sprites.

@lummatravel 4 месяца назад

I remember the demo of this on Your Sinclair. I don't think I understood the Chevy Chase references in the magazine at the time. I can't say that I wanted to find the full version afterwards

@ralang999 4 месяца назад

9:16 ahh that's known as the Sea of Programmer Laziness

@chinnyvision 4 месяца назад

Hah!

@garethbraint 4 месяца назад

I always thought this had something to do with the actual chevvy chase lol

@luffy-yy9zc 4 месяца назад

all versions are good 🙏

@merman1974 4 месяца назад

I don't remember seeing any reviews of this, just the name in a list of a mail-order company. It's better than Crazy Cars but it looks like it gets very boring - even with the "power-ups". That section on the C64 looks like corruption. The large sprite of the Spectrum version is quite impressive, and the Amstrad version is moving at a decent speed. I suppose it's not bad for a budget price.

@RodHull_TFW8b 4 месяца назад

C64 Brown is the brownest brown and so is C64 Red. #FACT

@SwainyAtRetroAsylum 4 месяца назад

I quite liked this when I first got it on the Speccy but as you say, it’s lacking in gameplay. It’s a shame that the author didn’t work on some full price games with a longer development time.

@sheepshead77 4 месяца назад

Had this on the Amstrad. Looks lovely but was just too hard. I never got very far in it at all

@craigcharlesworth1538 4 месяца назад

The game looks a bit dull but that C64 version is hugely impressive. Imagine paying £3 for that then looking askance at the copies of Cisco Heat and Chase HQ you paid full price for.

@chinnyvision 4 месяца назад

They certainly got a half decent racing engine running on the 64 which is more than most games did!

@nekononiaow 3 месяца назад

Yup, and it is a shame it did not occur to them to license it. That would have improved a lot of games and would have brought them quite a bit of cash which they apparently needed since they went bust thereafter.

@random_precision_software 4 месяца назад

Houses ? its a SHED ! 😀

@willrobinson7599 4 месяца назад

I'd of been happy with that back in the day on the c64 for 3 quid Amstrad version looks very nice too Speccy one again lovely detailed cars , nice use of the colour on the car

@turbinegraphics16 4 месяца назад

It would be good to hack the c64 version to use paddles and to make the collision of the car a bit thinner. Smooth graphics otherwise.

@markboyle9941 4 месяца назад

I had this on the CPC back in the day and I think it's still the pick of the bunch. It's colourful and responsive, just as a CPC game should be. C64 colours always seem a bit washed out to me.

@MrIrrepressible 4 месяца назад

why did they make the road so narrow and the cars so big?

@davidspencer7254 4 месяца назад

A question you may well ask yourself in the USA.

@robmclaughjr 4 месяца назад

Amstrad wins this one IMHO

@OnafetsEnovap 4 месяца назад

An OK budget game... just OK. What's with the buzzing on the Spectrum version when there's no sound?

@andyc8257 4 месяца назад

I think that's the engine noise. 😂

@MephProduction 4 месяца назад

Nice game but a bit boring after awhile. Goes to show the c64 is quite capable of doing playable racing games, so there's no excuse for titles like super hang on to be as rubbish as it was. But you can't fault this game too much for a budget title.