#speccyvstheworld — Public Fediverse posts
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Bomb Jack: A Home Port Comparison
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/3866272
#Gaming #RetroGaming #SpeccyVsTheWorld #BombJack #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #C64
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Bomb Jack: A Home Port Comparison
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/3866272
#Gaming #RetroGaming #SpeccyVsTheWorld #BombJack #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #C64
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Bomb Jack: A Home Port Comparison
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/3866272
#Gaming #RetroGaming #SpeccyVsTheWorld #BombJack #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #C64
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Bomb Jack: A Home Port Comparison
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/3866272
#Gaming #RetroGaming #SpeccyVsTheWorld #BombJack #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #C64
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Bomb Jack: A Home Port Comparison
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/3866272
#Gaming #RetroGaming #SpeccyVsTheWorld #BombJack #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #C64
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#GreenBeret is a hard game to love because Green Beret is a hard game to play! It got ports though, so comparisons must be made.
A simple game: run to the right, murder fools with your knife and healthy fear of communism.
#Amstrad is worst of all. Your guy looks like Robin Hood and it's hard as balls. #Spectrum is better. Crisp graphics, but hard as balls. The #C64 port looks great and plays well but has some obscene hit boxes. Also balls hard.
Narrow C64 win!
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To celebrate #Furrtek's beta release of the #TMNT arcade game core for #MiSTerFPGA, I thought I'd compare the 8-bit micro ports. For science!
The original arcade is famous for being the game that made you wish you had enough friends to play it properly. It was also big, bold, colourful and sounded amazing... so it should be fine on our ageing 8-bit pals, right?
Luckily, they're all pretty good. But which port is the true "party dude"? #Cowabunga!
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What #videogame jumps into your mind when you think of #CouchMultiplayer?
Halo? Goldeneye? Overcooked?
For me, couch multiplayer gaming will always be #CaliforniaGames. It was a game that my friends and I played endlessly back in 1989. Couldn't get enough of it... To this day, it remains one of my favourite #Sega #MasterSystem games.
It also got a tonne of ports... but were are any of them any good?
Join the hack and find out, my dude...
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Remember #Karnov? The 80s coin-op about a portly, topless Russian guy that you're not entirely convinced you didn't dream up when you were "figuring yourself out"? Well, it was real, and it had 8-bit ports.
All are plucky attempts that capture the arcade well. All have limitations, but all feel like Karnov.
#Amstrad is garish and slow, #Spectrum is surprisingly fast and colourful!
And, for some reason #C64 looks like a #Spectrum port! Block scroll and all!
A Speccy win!
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By the late 80s, home arcade ports fell into two categories: ports that try to retain as much as possible of the arcade, but fall foul of hardware limitations; and ports that take inspiration from the original, but are basically new games.
The #Amstrad and #Spectrum ports of #BlackTiger are the former - clunky, monochrome, but clearly Black Tiger. While the #C64 is the latter - smooth with tiny sprites and different mechanics.
A narrow Spectrum win, based on moxy alone.
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By the late 80s, home arcade ports fell into two categories: ports that try to retain as much as possible of the arcade, but fall foul of hardware limitations; and ports that take inspiration from the original, but are basically new games.
The #Amstrad and #Spectrum ports of #BlackTiger are the former - clunky, monochrome, but clearly Black Tiger. While the #C64 is the latter - smooth with tiny sprites and different mechanics.
A narrow Spectrum win, based on moxy alone.
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By the late 80s, home arcade ports fell into two categories: ports that try to retain as much as possible of the arcade, but fall foul of hardware limitations; and ports that take inspiration from the original, but are basically new games.
The #Amstrad and #Spectrum ports of #BlackTiger are the former - clunky, monochrome, but clearly Black Tiger. While the #C64 is the latter - smooth with tiny sprites and different mechanics.
A narrow Spectrum win, based on moxy alone.
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By the late 80s, home arcade ports fell into two categories: ports that try to retain as much as possible of the arcade, but fall foul of hardware limitations; and ports that take inspiration from the original, but are basically new games.
The #Amstrad and #Spectrum ports of #BlackTiger are the former - clunky, monochrome, but clearly Black Tiger. While the #C64 is the latter - smooth with tiny sprites and different mechanics.
A narrow Spectrum win, based on moxy alone.
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By the late 80s, home arcade ports fell into two categories: ports that try to retain as much as possible of the arcade, but fall foul of hardware limitations; and ports that take inspiration from the original, but are basically new games.
The #Amstrad and #Spectrum ports of #BlackTiger are the former - clunky, monochrome, but clearly Black Tiger. While the #C64 is the latter - smooth with tiny sprites and different mechanics.
A narrow Spectrum win, based on moxy alone.
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Some folks claim that the NES version of Marble Madness is the best home port. I can't possibly comment on that, as my remit is purely the 8-bit micros.
And on those, I can safely say that the #C64 wins. It is the only port that actually attempts to convert the coin-op. It's not bad either. Not great, not terrible.
The #Spectrum and #Amstrad, on the other hand, got something else. Something slow, painful and annoying. With a construction kit...
Play #Spindizzy instead.