Black Tiger

Juanma 2018-11-26
(2/10)
Atrocious frame rate... Essentially unplayable.
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e5150 2017-06-26
(5/10)
The scrolling is so slow and jerky that it ruins everything. And the graphics aren't that good, the bobs and background share the same 8 colors?
Still a somewhat playable game 4.5/10
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tertronostalgic 2015-06-30
This looked good static, but wait until you saw it moving.... Oh dear ....
Its gotta have the worst scrolling i've even seen in an Amiga arcade game - hideously jerky and totally unacceptable, even more jerky than usual.
The Amiga could do a lot better than this, just look at Switchblade 2 or Leander or Turrican 2
It really angers me the way US Gold released a full price game like this.
Typical rush job from them.
Shame on them 3/10
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MCMXC 2014-07-03
(2/10)
What a shame... It really liked a good conversion but... The jerky scroll, the slow movements and the bad controls really ruined everything! Vote 2/10
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rhorschack 2012-11-13
(4/10)
Atrocious scrolling and irritating sfx basically ruin this conversion completely. Too bad cause the gfx and level design are ok.
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Colonel Kurtz 2012-05-21
(5/10)
So much for custom chips, huh?

You know, after seeing so many botched arcade conversions that many, myself included, would call ''ST ports'', I'm beginning to actually want to play some Atari ST games. I refuse to believe a well-coded game for that platform would inevitably move and scroll this bad.

By way, does anyone know who developed this port for US Gold?
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mapo 2011-12-31
(4/10)
I played the st version in my tv and the graphics look better because the tv blur the screen. Anyway its a crap st port that deserves no more than 4.
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stooart 2011-01-19
(4/10)
Hmmm. I did play this as I liked the arcade game but the gfx seemed garish (ST fault again?) and scrolling was indeed jerky (must be that pesky ST!). Was fun for a little while but nothing to shout about.
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Patarival 2010-07-22
No this is not a good game. Jerky scrolling and jerky movement, poor animations and sluggish control.

If you want a good game that utilizes similar style, try "Myth" or "Satan".
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nikki_sinn 2009-10-17
The arcade version was so good...well maybe cause i was a kid and that was one of my first arcade games...dunno 'bout the amiga version or other home computer version...as a game is very good...
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bbr 2008-07-10
(8/10)
Strange all these complaints, i recall my amiga ran this game just fine. It was just pretty hard to get past certain parts.
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MC68000 2008-02-13
(4/10)
We had the Arcade machine at the shop in my street when I was a kid, a friend and I soon got good enough to complete the game on one life. I still play it from time to time (emulated) on my GP2X, and that friend went on to buy the arcade cabinet which sits in his office!

Blacktiger is a classic, one of the first Arcade machines to have a >1000 colour palette, it looks great and plays superb. Sadly, the Amiga version only fulfills the former and fails miserably at the latter with its sub-10fps framerate. Whether its lousy coding or some limitation of the host machine, or a combination, I dont know?

In short, if you want to play BT in all its greatness, leave the Amiga port to its obscurity and hit MAME instead - 4/10.
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dlfrsilver 2007-05-31
(1/10)
Once again some lame ST amateurish programming. This game has nothing
hard to do technically, but they failed anyway to convert this game normally.

the sprites are small, how did they done to make the scrolling so jerky and rubbish? CPS 1 only display 256 colours on screens......

I'm fed up. Why have they developed games on ST setup? When Amiga got
better tool to deal with these kind of games?
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Kai 2007-03-02
(4/10)
Jerky scrolling and slipshod controls. (42%)
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Haplo 2006-05-01
(5/10)
If it wasn't this slow...
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Maff Rignall 2005-05-17
(2/10)
It might look just like the arcade in the screenshots - in fact, the coders have captured the coin-op's look and feel almost exactly. But any resemblance soon disappears once the game starts moving - it's awful! Not just the juddery scrolling (which is baffling enough on its own), the whole game is completely unplayable.

Yet another missed opportunity. I mean, Black Tiger was a pretty ordinary coin-op, but back in the day it was often the mediocre coin-ops which made the best conversions (one of the reasons why, for example, Silkworm was a much better Amiga game than Power Drift).

Given how close the Amiga's hardware was to the arcades of the time, it's mystifying as to why so many of these conversions were so resolutely awful... But they were. Just play this if you need proof. 2/10.
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eksosrock 2005-05-04
(6/10)
The Amiga had the ability to match the arcade, but fails with this. The game itself is cool, so it deserves some points though. Go MAME.
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Guybrush Threepwood 2005-05-02
(4/10)
I remember this game slightly in the back of my mind, it wasn't that good to tell you thr truth and would only say that it was just a basic standard platform game yet poorly converted
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Inferno 2005-04-14
(4/10)
Looks nice enough until it stands still, collapses as soon as it starts moving. That's Black Tiger on the Amiga, just another crap conversion from U.S. Gold. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Magog 2005-03-31
(3/10)
CRAP! The C64 version is much better and thats not that good either!
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starvingwriter82 2005-02-27
(4/10)
Just another example of a decent arcade game getting turned into a mediocre game by a lazy and uninspired conversion. Nothing to see here.
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lux 2005-02-18
(5/10)
Everything looks nice and neat but when the game starts to scroll all the expectations evanish like snow under the sun.
Another poor Amiga porting of a classical arcade gem.
U.S. Gold? No U.S. S...T !
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