Posted November 26, 2012
Wishbone
Red herring
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From Denmark
Iain
Going Retro
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aluinie
stealthy elf
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From United Kingdom
Posted November 26, 2012
sounds interesting considering how big the company was in the 8 bit - 16 bit era.
timppu
Favorite race: Formula__One
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From Finland
Posted November 26, 2012
Wishbone: Most movie tie-in games have always been crappy, and Ocean's were no exception. The only really good one of theirs I can recall was Batman: The Movie.
I think the Robocop 3 game was even better than the movie. :) I think it was also from Ocean. EDIT: And I mean specifically the PC/Amiga/ST version, not the Commodore 64/Sinclair Spectrum version.
PC: http://www.mobygames.com/game/robocop-3_
C=64: http://www.mobygames.com/game/robocop-3__ (I've never seen this, no idea if it is any good)
Wishbone
Red herring
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From Denmark
Posted November 26, 2012
Iain: It was tough starting out on Wizball, but after the stability upgrades things became much easier I remember. Collecting and mixing the different colours to return the needed specific colour to each world once your pots were full with the droplets collected. You also got your cat who was the satellite similar to other shooters at the time like R Type etc, gave you a needed firepower boost!
Indeed. If you didn't know what you were supposed to do, the game was just weird and frustrating. But once you figured it out (or someone told you how it worked), it was a fantastic game. It had an excellent singleplayer experience, but where it really shone was in the 2-player co-op mode, with one player controlling the Wizball and the other controlling the Catellite. It was just a pity that all of the ports to other platforms than the C64 didn't do the game justice.
Lone3wolf
Kai Grandmaster
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Posted November 26, 2012
Wishbone: It was just a pity that all of the ports to other platforms than the C64 didn't do the game justice.
Given the technical limitations of the ZX Spectrum 48K, they did pretty good. It didn't have fancy chips dedicated to sound (at least until the AY-3-8912 was added to the 128K(and "+" ) models and sprites/graphics modes... (at least until the Sam Coupé right at the death of 8-bit systems). Hell, I loved the little rubber-keyed fugly graphics with colour-clash. Made me care less about graphics in games, and more about gameplay and immersion.
boyo.115
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From United Kingdom
Posted November 26, 2012
Anyone placed a pledge yet?
Lone3wolf
Kai Grandmaster
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_ChaosFox_
Zero fox given.
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From Germany
Posted November 26, 2012
For the record, there's an unofficial remake of Wizball for the PC made by Retrospec. It's not bad at all.
http://retrospec.sgn.net/game/wizball
http://retrospec.sgn.net/game/wizball
boyo.115
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From United Kingdom
Posted November 26, 2012
Well the book is not going to be made without a little support :-)
SimpleUser
It's me, honest!
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From United Kingdom
Posted November 26, 2012
Getting the Sensible Software book as well so not to get this would be just plain wrong! :)
Just hope someone does an Infocom and Level9 books - those would be instant-pledge :)
Just hope someone does an Infocom and Level9 books - those would be instant-pledge :)
Post edited November 26, 2012 by SimpleUser
Red_Avatar
Be vigilant
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From Belgium
Posted November 27, 2012
Wishbone: It was just a pity that all of the ports to other platforms than the C64 didn't do the game justice.
Lone3wolf: Given the technical limitations of the ZX Spectrum 48K, they did pretty good. It didn't have fancy chips dedicated to sound (at least until the AY-3-8912 was added to the 128K(and "+" ) models and sprites/graphics modes... (at least until the Sam Coupé right at the death of 8-bit systems). Hell, I loved the little rubber-keyed fugly graphics with colour-clash. Made me care less about graphics in games, and more about gameplay and immersion.
Wishbone
Red herring
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From Denmark
Posted November 27, 2012
Wishbone: It was just a pity that all of the ports to other platforms than the C64 didn't do the game justice.
Lone3wolf: Given the technical limitations of the ZX Spectrum 48K, they did pretty good. It didn't have fancy chips dedicated to sound (at least until the AY-3-8912 was added to the 128K(and "+" ) models and sprites/graphics modes... (at least until the Sam Coupé right at the death of 8-bit systems). Hell, I loved the little rubber-keyed fugly graphics with colour-clash. Made me care less about graphics in games, and more about gameplay and immersion.