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This is one of the few rare occasions where the Spectrum version is among the best, if not *the* best of the bunch (including arcade originals when it applies).

Thanks for this video and this review, I wanted to give this game a try and wasn't sure which version I should check out. I think I'll go with Intellivision and Atari 2600 (with a PlayStation gamepad). Those are the only ones that I think got the pacing right. I liked the addition of the archer in the intellivision, so I'll give it a try.

Thanks for the video and web article. I remember having this game on Spectrum. I never completed it and was frustrated that I couldn’t find the blowpipe (there was an in-game picture on the box that I recall showed Jack using it). 37 years later and the mystery is solved…

Micro Machines - I have never played a single MM game that I liked. I really don't like top view racing games, and this one was more annoying than most. Even with the later 3D entries on various systems, I never liked them. With those, the camera never fully stays behind the cars and for some reason, you do one lap, then come to a stop. Alien Breed - I thought I'd love this game, but I didn't. With games like this, i like to explore every part of the level, and pick up all the items. Except with this game, the endlessly spawning aliens make that difficult to do. By the time I've explored the entire level and memorized it to the point that I can be sure I've been everywhere, I have no more ammo left. It kind of goes against my gaming instincts to play an action game like this and NOT kill everything that moves. Rick Dangerous - I liked this and played it enough to memorize the first level. However, the fact that you have to restart and play through it AGAIN every time you die on the second level discouraged me from learning that level. "Oh, I fell for a trap and that was my last life. Now I need to spend 10+ minutes going though level 1 again." North and South - I'm glad I'm not the only one who found the side-view parts unplayable. Rampart - I liked this, but I wasn't any good at it. I could never seem to capture more cannons during the rebuilding phase.

Amiga intro music is plain awesome, used to load the game just for it

Uus retrospektiivinen kanavan tilaaja Vantaan Martinlaaksosta 🇫🇮. Mä itte pelaan yhä alkuperäisiä tietokoneita, eli Commodore 64 (kasetti / levyke / moduuli) ja Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. Mulla oli pienenä lapsena SpectraVideo 728 (MSX) 1980-luvun lopussa 😺👍🕹️. Sun kanava ansaitsee isoa retrospektiivistä tykkäystä 👍🕹️. Kiitos 😺👍🕹️!

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Silirimpsis!

Such a great game! I still remember being so excited walking into Toys R Us to buy it as a kid.

C64 music kicks everyone else's butt.

High Speed was released somewhere in 1992 in Europe since it was featured (and added to the list of released games) in issue 4 of 1992 from Club Nintendo magazine.

The semi-fresh C64 port of Frostbite is also sweet

I think I prefer the Beeb/Elk versions of Frak despite the chunkier 2pixel scrolling and sprite flicker. The C64 version is a bit too 'zoomed in' for me.

I remember one reviewer of Citadel describing it as 'what JSW should have been'!!

One of my favourite games on the ZX Spectrum. It was quite easy to complete. The Intellivision version looks amazing

The C64 version is so much more fast and fun, though this version almost plays like a completely different game. Watch out when recording C64; the brightness is way up, and the dark grey (like the outline of Jack himself) is fare too light, making the game look too washed out (and ugly). Nice comparison video though!

When I heard there was a C64 version I was curious, expecting a superior version (vs the spectrum). Well, big letdown. The graphics on the spectrum are great for the time. The details when the shark changes direction amazed me.

The Spectrum version is the best one.

The sinclair C5 appearance in super pipeline 2 lol.

Bluemax from synapse was really good for 1983. It's too bad that we lost great american software companies in the mid 80s, especially imagic but also synapse, hesware... Rally speedway was unknown to me when I had a C64 in 1985, I would have loved it. It's like a much improved intellivision auto racing.

Percy the potty pigeon is charming. I love those early spectrum games that portrayed "normal life" in that spectrum pixelated poetic way. They really incite nostalgia in me.

Scuba dive was splendid for a 1983 game. It was feeling quite... immersive when I was playing in 1984. I did not know there was an oric version.

Nice video gaming series for our beloved Commodore 64 and actually very neat presentation. Definetely deserves more views! I remember seeing Miami Vice loading screen with the ocean loader music on my C64 back in the 80s. I was stunned! Then I remember playing the game. Yeap it wasn't good but I remember a very funny factor of it. When you are in the driving part and you make the car accelerate to like 200mp/h and hit something. I don't know why this thing always seemed funny to me for some reason!

I'll remember these tunes until the end of my life. I had this game on the Speccy. That's what made me add sound to my SCART cable, to better listen to them on my TV. I must have been 12 or 13. Awesome game, awesome tunes.

Nice trip thank you for the tour, i was a CPC at the time but got my C128 2 years after.

Subscribed. Thanks for the review online that included my TI-99 version , I wrote it in '21 ... and for it's inclusion here, it's nice to see my games getting a bit of play. One notable thing with my version was said that the walls don't change colour. This is noted, and if I ever make an update to this game then I'll get that fixed . I'm very pleased to see the game ranked among the other versions :)

I've played most of these games, thanks for a great video! Your narration is top-notch.

Nice game :-) I know the NES version..

It seems that you came to the Amiga a few years before me, I didn't play many of these titles and never heard of Zany Golf, which looks rather fun. It looks well suited to the Amiga's capabilities; nicely drawn and colourful graphics, good sound effects and music. I've always thought Hostages looks like a good game, though at the same time these games comprising of numerous mini-games have a limited appeal. I would have loved Firepower, that looks like a very fun two player game. My brother and I enjoyed a vaguely similar PD game from a magazine coverdisk in the early 1990s; Firepower would have been even better. Speedball 2 was an absolute instant classic, a superb game. My only regret is that we had a pirated copy, it deserved to be paid for (and of course a manual would have helped for more detailed info on what I was doing!). New Zealand Story is a game I saw occasional references to as a benchmark in great Amiga games, though it came out before we got our Amiga and wasn't the sort of genre that got me salivating, so I never played it. These days, I would probably appreciate it a lot more, though my efforts to get it working via emulation came to nought. Flashback was a bit of a sensation on all 16-bit platforms when it was released, I remember playing the magazine demo disk and being very impressed with the presentation. I also played a demo disk of Lemmings 2 and enjoyed it, a colourful and refreshed update of the original that wowed me in Xmas 1991, but not being a talented puzzle gamer (as much as I liked the original, I got stuck after a while and the same is true when I played it a few months ago with WinUAE!) I didn't get the full game. The Elvira thing always confused me a bit; it was clear that there was some sort of existing cultural reference that I was missing but I couldn't really understand what it was. In any case, I never played the game/s. I found the screenshots of her in magazines mildly titillating but more than an anything a bit embarassing; having erotic stuff in computer games has never been my thing, least of all as a child. Nice video!

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This movie had the most merchandise of all the James bond movies.

soon muy remake must be here :3

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It s another point of view of the game but i had played it with my master system and it s a nice game

c64 but atari xl have nice scrolling and animation for the computer

C64 :) but amstrad cpc have nice colors

i prefer zx version for colors, amstrad cpc sound horrible

C64 and cpc are the best, sound is advantage for commodore

C64 wins :) Best than amiga version ^^

Pharoah's Curse was awesome

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Bazooka Bill is like Green Beret with way worse graphics and music.

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