| Credits | |
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1989, US Gold
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| Developer: |  |
| Copyright: | 1988, Capcom |
| Information | |
| Hardware: | OCS |
| Disks: | 2 |
| License: | Commercial |
| Language: | English |
| Players: | 1 or 2, Simultaneous |
| Orig. Price: | £19.99 |
| Categorization | |
| Genre: | Shoot'em Up |
| Subgenre: | H-Scrolling |
| Tags: | arcade, futuristic, horizontal, shootemup, shooter, sideways |
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Maybe I didn't practice enough but yes those controls were difficult to get used to. Could never totally master them.
The amount of stuff flying around hitting you didn't help either and only 1 life! 6/10
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For 1989,it's a superb shooter. I don't know why all these complains about the controls, it takes 5 minutes to get used to. A lot of fun in 2 players mod too.
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This was almost a fraud! At the beginning looks a good conversion, at least better than the average of the previous US Gold ones, and maybe you can just complain about the music (Very low quality compared to the original one), the controls (Need a lot of practice) and the girl of the shop (Really ugly compared to the original one!). But the more you go further, the more you notice that things go different compared to the coin-op... And finally... The game suddently ends at level 4, even if on the box it's written that the game has all the 8 levels of the coin-op! What a scam! Vote 4/10
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Just think that the arcade uses at least 150 colors, the Amiga/ST only 16, and 30% higher resolution than the Amiga. The graphics look stunning on the arcade, they really are state of the art. Plus the fact that you could not have 2nd button on the Amiga... So i think its a good effort.
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The controls are so bad that this game is unplayable. The scrolling graphics look great, but that's the only positive thing I can say about this atrocity.
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Technically amazing, but very few levels if you compare with original coin-op.
Anyway these facts are irrelevant because the game is uncontrollable due its rotation system. They could have include some customizable keyboards controls and maybe something could have been saved.
This game ( technically amazing as I said before ) made me think of how good could have been an amiga version of SNK's Prehistorik Isle
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Want a rush?
The first time I loaded this up (emulation), I got a cracked version and watched as the character blasted through all levels from start to finish. I was staggered by the colors and the art-work of this H-Scroller--this seems to me to be the epitome of '80's video art.
Handling?
I'll be generous and say it is unusual: to change aim, you have to turn the character all the way round on a '360' circle, to make your aim change(s). Other than that, it's fast and furious shooting.
The music is super-gloomy--it really sticks to your ribs
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The Amiga version is missing a lot from the arcade version, but it's not that bad. If only they got the controls right, so you wouldn't move left or right when rotating your character.
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Played both AMIGA and C64 versions alot and I have to say that except the fact AMIGA version had more colours the C64 owned this from the word "go"!
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An honest conversion from Arc Developments, but I think the true limit of this game is just the original Arcade... Nothing worthy to bother at...
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I bought this game when I went in UK (summer 1989), it is a bad conversion of a good arcade game, and half of the stages are missing...
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I remember me and my bro getting down to play this one and although quite enjoyable, it lacked a certain depth. The one player game was actually quite dull and the graphics and sound had no real polish. The speech was barley audible!
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Indeed, another over-rated conversion from the Arc grainy graphics department.
They totally botched the original gameplay too, notwithstanding the awkward job of translating the controls from the coin-op.
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I never played the coinop until MAME, but I remember me and a friend had the controls down after a while and from that point on the game grew. 2 Player mode is great fun, 1 player mode just doesn't quite cut it..
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A bland conversion of a decent coin-op, basically ruined by the impossibility to bring the arcade machine's peculiar control system over to the Amiga's one-button joysticks. And while quite impressive by Amiga standards, this really couldn't hold a candle to the original's graphics, believe me.
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Looks good, but virtually unplayable due to the eccentric control system. If you found Project X too easy, give it a try. Otherwise, forget it.
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I was expecting a lot from this game, but came away not wanting to play it much more. The scrolling is quite jerky, loading times are ridiculous and the control is plain awful! Considering the power of the Amiga, they might as well have not bothered. One for confirmed nutter shooter fans and nobody else.
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The Megadrive version of this was better, but this wasn't easy to convert to a one-button system, as the control was so complicated. It was okay once you got used to it, but unless you were a big fan of the arcade game it was barely worth it.
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This game looks good...but controlling the characters are awful.
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Goood game! Nice on the amiga indeed...
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I'm still pissed off with the Zzap! Editorial team over this one. This was the first Amiga game I ever bought, on the strength of their review (97%, Gold Medal). It was awful! The graphics were outstanding but the gameplay was incredibly detached and wooden. It's still worth finding a trained version and playing it through to the end, just to see all the graphics - some of those later levels and bosses look staggeringly good, even today - but it's a terrible game to play. 3/10.
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One of the first Amiga games I played. Average game. Don't know if I ever finished it.
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"i'll finish you today for sure".average conversion of a classic game from capcom
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