| Credits | |
| Published: | 1991, Storm |
| Developer: | The Sales Curve |
| Coder: | Ronald Pieket Weeserik, John Croudy |
| Graphics: | Ned Langman |
| Information | |
| Hardware: | OCS, ECS |
| Disks: | 1 |
| License: | Commercial |
| Language: | English |
| Players: | 1 or 2, Simultaneous |
| Orig. Price: | £25.99 |
| Categorization | |
| Genre: | Platformer |
| Subgenre: | Single Screen |
| Tags: | arcade, cartoonish, cooperative, cute, jumponthings, platform, powerup, single |
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Added by Kim Lemon on Aug 18, 2004. Viewed 46612 times.
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Read review by Dastardly
Graphics: 10 ‧
Music: 10 ‧
Playability: 10 ‧
Overall: 10
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Simply beautiful! No stop since I've finished... Well balanced, well designed, sweety monster and addictive game play...who wants to kill the pink snake?!
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Just when I think I've got straight in my head 'The Top Ten cutesy Amiga tunes Ever' I remember about RODLAND! Very enjoyable and polished game.
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A great game, very well converted from the arcade.
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Rodland on the Amiga is a very competent rendition of one of the best yet overlooked arcade games in the genre. There are some minor technical and gameplay differences but it is still a very enjoyable conversion. One button joystick controls works well since the gameplay does not involve jumping and lack of continues is balanced by the relative ease at obtaining extra lifes. Unfortunately, Storm did not convert the second episode that is accessible in the arcade version via a sort of konami code, even though the extra life giving fairy picture and the introduction tune are taken from that episode (7/10).
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Played this game with my sister so much as a kid and even now occassionally when she babysits for me. Got given it as part of a two-game bundle (I forget what the other game wad) and is still to this day one of my favourite arcade style games. Simple but beautiful graphics, cute music, easy fluid controls and a difficulty curve that still gives me a challange even now.
Can't recommend this game enough!
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I can't think of a game that I have played through as many times even today
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From the cute characters, to the colorful graphics, to the engaging gameplay: Rodland is pretty much flawless. When I tried to complete it this year, it took me about eight or nine attempts until I finally managed to beat all 40 levels and the final boss. That was five or six hours spent well.
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Good fun but pales in comparison to Parasol Stars I feel. 7/10 from me.
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Perfectly cute arcade platformer. Best played with a girlfriend at your side. The only flaw about it is the low difficulty. But it's so entertaining you would'nt regret to play it twice in a row ...
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Excellently crafted little gem that proved to be more addictive than heroin! Read my review to know more about what I think about this game.
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Realy awesome game. Only problem I ever had was with not having enough room to smash the bees around.
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One of my favourites! Especially with 2 players...it was cute (and the elf woman kinda hot, what?)
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One of my favourites! Especially with 2 players...it was cute (and the elf woman kinda hot, what?)
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I've lost many time of my night playing it when I was Under 16, and I'm still playing.
It's a nice actractive funny game, I think my childre will love this retro !
My vote is ... 8.5
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Awesome game, a great variant of one my fav style of games: Bubble Bobble and Rainbow islands. Rodland is one step further!
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Great Bubble Bobble style arcade game.
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My bro played this quite a bit on the old commy...come to think of it i think he played this one a lot too! Nice cutesy gfx and a nice change from blowing bad guys into oblivion.
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This is fantastic arcade game. Decent colourful graphics, great sounds and music, easy controls, great enemies and weapons
2 player is where it's at though, if you can get a friend or family member to play it with you will have loads of fun, it's up there with Lotus', Chaos Engine, Bubble Bobble etc in terms of multiplayer fun
Give it a whirl you won't be disappointed!
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Excellent arcade platformed in both 1 or 2 players. Highly Enjoyable!! 9/10
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Absolutely loved this game as a kid. Great game.
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Another excellent arcade platformer. It's short, containing only 40 single-screen levels, and it's not especially difficult to play through. But it's so much fun, has a brilliant two-player mode, and it's just completely gorgeous and cute. You have to have a heart of stone not to love this.
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An average game. I don't follow all the hype on this one. The game is quite simple, a bit challenging and addictive but nothing that really makes it awesome. It is rather for small children. The whole game can be finished quite fast and the whole technique during the play is to collect every flower to get into the sub-game and catch extra life. Simple as that and repetetive.
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Cute colorful graphics. This one's fun to play--minus my abilities on a joystick--I had trouble keeping my 'protagonist' in play:]
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Another irresistible conversion by The Sales Curve: Rodland is on the Olympus of cute platforms (along with New Zealand Story and few others), impossible to resist at those little fantastic animations, colourful backgrounds, garish sprites and monster gameplay..maybe the screens and the object looks very simple, but the 1st class contains deserves the best regards...
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An incredible conversion that keeps all the cute charm of the arcade original while playing even better.
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Very interesting gameplay, and not too difficult like some other games, so you don't lose interest too quickly.
The graphics are very brightly coloured and somehow friendly-looking. There is some very cute music and the overall concept can get you addicted. One thing I must say though... This is MUCH better in 2-player mode!
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This is how to do an Amiga arcade conversion. Nicely animated characters, bold, colourful graphics and a perfect difficulty curve make for fantastic playability. I find the last boss too fiendishly difficult, but that's probably just me. The best game to come from Storm (what happened to them anyway?)
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I don't understand why after a finish a level, my character does not go to the next level automatically.
Anyway, this trick applies to the arcade version :
After inserting a coin (5), press the player 1 'down' (Cursor DOWN) button 3 times and START (1). This will activate the extra mode, so you can play with all new levels, gfx and music.
Have fun !
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This game is better than the Arcade original.
The difficulty is tweaked ever so slightly down, making it more playable and less frustrating. Also, the overall presentation seems to be just that little bit cuter/friendlier. Compare the arcade to this and you might see what I mean?
It's one of those games you come back to just for a quick thrash, and spend an hour or two instead.
Brilliant! 9/10
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The first game i ever played on the amiga! So much fun, I loved it, ahh the memories
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Very nicely done arcade conversion that's plenty of fun to play, particularly with 2 players.
It's a shame The Sales Curve didn't do more conversions.
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Tremendous fun to play and addictive: there's not much better you can say of an action game like this. Everyone who likes gaming should play this at least once in their life.
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Forgot about this little gem of a game managed to get hold of copy on amiga cd still great platform game.cute graphics.
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Fantastic conversion, and arcade perfect, even down to the extra life bonus screen, possibly a little easy for seasoned gamers, but you'll love the experience tho, blows the imo overrated bubble bobble clean out of the water.
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Playing this game makes me 100% positive theres a 12 year old girl trapped inside me.
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My favourite platform game...
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A great and cute animu game conversed from the Japan-only coin-op. The only thing I have against this game is the atrocious ad-art with a very funny slogan saying "So cute... It'll make you puke". Why I said the ad-artwork was so atrocious was because in the game the fairy children are animu like, while they look like troll children in the ad.
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Actually this play better than the coin-up for me, even without the further levels
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Really fine platformer with super-extra-cute graphics.
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Great game. Super playability and top graphics. Loved the contradiction of the cuteness Vs the way you killed things by bashing them one way then the other! 8/10
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Bubble Bobble is a much better game...
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...in the arcade. Why were second-rate games like this, Silkworm, and Pang ported to the Amiga with near-flawless results, while first-rate arcade games like Bubble Bobble, Outrun and Strider were converted sloppily, ranging from mediocre to downright terrible?
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Better than the arcade version - Proof that the Amiga could have pulled off a lot better conversions then it usually did =(
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Someone needs to explain this one to me at some time. There is nothing special at all about this game - yet I know I played it a fair bit and enjoyed playing it. What's even more amazing is it grows more on you! This one had to be tried and somehow they pulled off the impossbile on this one. I remember the advertisment line even now - So Cute It'll Make You Puke. Strangley good....
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Playability rules!!
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Well made conversion of great arcade game. Cannot challenge Bubble Bobble but is one of the best games in that genre anyway.
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An extremely cute arcade game with music that will get stuck in your head the first time you play it. Really fun and addictive too... Why couldn´t US Gold make quality arcade conversions like these???
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Really sweet little game- nice graphics, not too troubling, and great in two-player. Right up there with Parasol Stars.
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A great two player game underrated by many.. Well worth obtaining
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Very good platform game, cute GFX and nice to play
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Play with a friend and it's still brilliant fun. Beats the Amiga conversions Bubble Bobble (and Parasol Stars) for playability and utter cuteness.
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Very nice game.
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This is no Rainbow Islands, but an even better conversion job.
Saveable high score table too!
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This is quite good, but overrated, in my opinion. Yes it's got that 'cute' gameplay like Bubble Bobble does, but it ain't a patch on that game (well, the arcade version anyway!). Rodland has excellent Graphics and nice sound, but I found the gameplay to be a tad monotonous after a few screens. Think about it...
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Another game no one has a bad word for. Original design concepts coupled with balanced gameplay makes this a buried gem.
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A long time ago, I saw this game in action on TV. It got me really interested and I was thinking 'I'm gonna play this game one day and love it'. And you're right, I did get hold of it one day, and I loved it! The main character sprite is very cute, as are all the little enemies you unfortunately have to kill. But what I really love about this game is the cute music! Even though it loops, I can't get enough!
Truely exceptional.
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Rodland is more than arcade perfect. Amiga version plays faster and smoother because you do everything with one joyctick button. Fire for whacking and fire + up/down for ladder building. Nice and simple where arcade original had different buttons for actions. Add cute and colourful graphics to the mix and you get one gem of a game you can't afford to miss, especially in these times when violent and sick games rule the market.
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Is there life after Bubble Bobble? Yes, there's Rodland! The graphics are insanely colourful and pretty, and the gameplay is tight and not too hard (my kid cousins could play this when I babysitted them, made my job a lot easier!). The lack of jumping always frustrated me a bit, though.
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Amazing playbility. It's feels so damn good to wack enemies around. An all-time classic
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Rodland is a Bubble Bobble kinda platformer. The game features very nice cute graphix and good sonics. There are also a few new original ideas thrown in, like the methods of killing your enemies and making your own ladders. The game is very well made and truly addictive. In two playermode this game is almost unbeatable in the platform-genre. Check it out! Really nice!
Graphics: 8/10
Sound: 8/10
Playability: 9/10
Overall: 8/10
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The actual method of killing enemies (grabbing them with a stick and whacking them from side to side) is surely one of the most amusing sights in any Amiga game. The levels are impeccably designed, the difficulty curve smooth (although the game's perhaps not the hardest ever) and the controls respond perfectly and consistantly. The kind of design only the Japanese get right, combined with typically excellent European Amiga programming.
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Very funny... You can play it with a friend also. Good graphics, cute game... Nice sound
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One of the greatest platform games on Amiga! I played this one with my cousin to death and finished it thousands of times! Today I wonder how on earth I managed to get that high highscore. (Yes. I still have it installed on my HD!)
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Lovely little game, if a bit short and easy
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Quite funny to see that the C64 version lived quite up to the 16-bit requirements. The lack of background graphics didn't really influence that version. Then again, trees and castle walls are only interesting for so long.. Great game though!
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Completed many, many times with my brother together. A classic! Remember the cheat? Pause the game, press HELP 5 times and unpause
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A great conversion of an excellent arcade game, worth remembering for graphics, music and gameplay. Rodland sure wasn't the most challenging Amiga game, but it managed to be addictive from the very first go - a little classic.
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