The only even slightly interesting part of this game is the quite clever scrolling routine on the Speccy version that scrolls alternate lines on each frame giving an illusion that it's smoother than it really is. Just about the only element with any attention to detail that I can detect!
Aye. Back in the day, they did the filming on the actual locations. Then, they switched to shooting in Toronto for any big US city. Today? Mostly green screen. Rubbish...
Well, the digitized title screens on the Amiga and ST versions look nice? Thanks for slogging through this for another BOtP, Mark. Took one for the team this week!
I was already in my early teens in 1989 and yet I never knew until tonight that Red Heat got a computer game, probably because it wasn't released on MS-DOS or on consoles. I think the letterbox cropping and only showing the character from the waist up looks cool, at the very least. The background art is also decent (at least on the Amiga and Atari ST).
I remember getting this on tape for my C64 and being utterly disgusted. Think I loaded it 2 or 3 times, on the latter occasions asking "surely it wasn't that bad?" and quickly answering that question.
For Amiga games, I wonder if anyone has ever thought about/implemented something in an emulator to make two instances of the same game run at the same time so you can have both sound effects and music. Seems like it wouldn't be *too* hard given how powerful modern PCs are.
I remember playing this on the Amiga. The only saving grace was the music which also quickly becomes repetitive. What is surprising is that Special FX could actually make good ports when they wanted too, like Midnight Resistence.
We played the Amiga version, when it came out and thought it was mint - I was about 9 and it was only about the graphics, especially as at the time I think I only had a C16 at home! Then again I think we only got just past the hot rock bit and moved on - my mates dad used to come home, seemingly every weekend, with a disk tray full of the latest games so we rarely played any of them for long!
It looks like Someone discovered they can draw a character that resembles a real person enough to be impressive in a still screen shot- then tries to make a game out of it.
Ocean really didn't want to let US Gold take the crown of worst publisher without a fight. I think they did it, their film licences helped Ocean reach fetid depths of the cess pit that US Gold couldn't dream of reaching.
Vinny (Vinesauce) played the Amiga version of Red Heat months ago; he complained about the game relying on holding the single joystick button for every attack move. If he only knew the 8-bit ports are worse than the original...
Love the movie, but not the games for me Mark. I think I wasn't interested on all versions and thought I'll pass on them bro. But great viewi for sure and as always brother man. 8^) Anthony...
Hey Mark, I noticed you don't have a playlist for the early RC stuff. I just burnt the first 32 eps plus the SS and Saturn specials that I downloaded 20+ years ago to a disc for posterity and to make some room on my HDD. Just wanted to make sure you hadn't lost them or anything.
Err, there should be a play list for them. I'll have to look to that. Thanks for the heads up. I do have all the early shows backed up on DVDs myself so I they're not online I can always add them again.
@@RetroCore I scrolled through all your vids here and did find them so you shouldn't need to reupload. Just need to make a playlist for season 1 and 2 :)
and then they added film perforations to the C64 play area to double down on the cinematic gimmick and save ene more resources. The eurodevelopers art of never filling the screen.
Cool. 😎👏 I do Remember seeing this game of the movie reviewed BITD in C&VG and the like gettting Quite liked the movie despite Arnies German-come-russian accent 😂.
It's a misfortune to learn that this game was one of the worst Joffa Smith has ever designed. This guy made remarkable games for the ZX Spectrum, such as Green Beret, Cobra, or Firefly, my favorite. This is a case of somebody who hadn't had the same inspiration while transitioning from 8 to 16-bits. I don't know if he was responsible for the 8-bit converts, but the original Amiga and Atari ST ones are, definitely, abismal!
Special FX were capable of far more than this,far,far more. The ST version lost what little atmosphere there was on the Amiga version, with tinny and hissy AY sound. The C64 version has some lovely music but that's all it has going for it.
At least Arnold really looks like Arnold in the 16 bit versions,unlike the home computer versions of T2,total recall and last action hero. It's still a crap game but props to the sprite artists at least.
I remember fishing the amiga budget re-release out of a bargain bin in Future Zone as a kid. What a terrible game. Only entertainment was chuckling at that talking John Belushi head :D Why on earth did Ocean always create a bunch of mini-games to stick to the plot of a movie, rather than just make a platform game, like what console versions were doing? And one level was always either that bloody sliding puzzle thing, or a rip off of Mastermind. I don't think it was until The Addams Family movie game that Ocean finally twigged on the concept. and even then they went back to mini game nonsense with Their Untouchables port.
Probably the thought process was: a collection of mini games could represent key scenes AND give "more value for money". Too bad when they're no fun to play though.
IMO - Amiga, More colour in static screens and better colour in game due to larger palette than the ST. ZX Spectrum version has better sound (in 128k version, not shown) because it uses the beeper as a drum track where the CPC version can't. ZX version is smoother scrolling but has weird scrolling bug, but the addition of basic colour in the CPC looks nicer. C64 is ass
The game play is more like an interactive intro. Sad that c64 was the worst, but the game is crap overall so not a major loss, you've got to love those random 80s/90s action movie tie in's though, certainly a thing of the past.
I think the concept was good but the execution is poor, like a worse Cinemaware game heh. Ben-Hur was super wide like that but it was a rarity, they're clearly taking the easy route of very little height raster. With a 4:3 screen I've found 16:10 to be the best balance of crop and height resolution for widescreen. Much like window cropping the SFX-Only or Music-Only setup was a disappointing standard from C64 that should have died off in the transition to the Amiga. Nice to see some homebrew for C64 & Amiga proving it was BS.😉 Lol the rock crushing stage, in the movie it was more an endurance of heat/pain since his cover story was that of a forge worker. I do like the film strips and name placard in the C64 since it fills the crop more purposefully. I'm surprised how bad the ZX port came out, they're usually less of looker but tend to play well. CPC getting the typical lazy ZX port, sad since visually it can surpass C64 in the right hands.
I had almost all Amiga games and never heard of this until today... and yes I remember going to the movies to see this crappy movie. Also 5 to 10 fps were more than enough on these games.
I remember playing this on my buddy's Amiga 500 back in the day. The gameplay wasn't anything special but I was impressed by the graphics with detailed big sprites.
Oh my, I am so glad I didn't get this as a kid. I had an Amiga and growing up in the 90s, loved action films. I think the real reason that you only see the top half of the play area is because everyone is walking on an airport travelator. Also is it me or is the sauna scene the most gay non-gay thing ever? Like people jump down others' throats in the UK now about schools teaching their kids about same sex relationships, gender pronouns ETC, yet my parents would probably have bought me this and been fine with the naked except for pants fight in sauna scene... totally not homoerotic at all.
The whole gender Pro-nouns thing is bollocks. If I see a guy who feels he is a woman or the other way around they will be addressed by their biological Pro-noun. None of this they crap and so on. 👍
Expected better from special fx on the amiga . It was slow , boring and first level was very brown. Why didn't they at least animate some of the backgrounds, everything just static Disappointing game on all systems Maybe a renegade style beat em up would of been a better idea
"you don't buy games from graphics alone" - oh boy, you are so wrong, especially back in the days :D Now we are adults and we think in a different way but when we were kids with the cool stuff we have played at least a certain amount of crap
To be fair, some of the programmers of this era were in their late teens and at the bottom of the ladder of whichever software company they were at. When their manager told them "We have a licence for such-and-such and it has to feature this and this _and_ be ready in however-many weeks" they might not have been able to do much. So a lot of the time, they were probably just thinking of a paycheque.
I nearly bought this on my Amiga when I was younger. Thank god I didn’t, I bought a game called Ivanhoe instead. On second thought which may be even worse than this crap
I remember when this first came out for the Speccy and completed it in a week. While you had different gaming styles the main part was poorly done and didn't offer anything exciting. Shame really as this could have been a lot better.
They did tried to recreate the key scenes from the movie itself at least. Arnold here looks nothing like he did in the film. He wore his Soviet police uniform and later, suit and a tie. A T-shirt here? Bollocks...
I try to have a positive outlook on life. Believe that people are basically good. But given a terrible game based on a bad movie, somebody thought, “Let’s also make a version for the Specky.” That was a very bad person. Very bad.
I never knew there was a game beased on this movie. But Red heat is my least favorite Schwarzenegger movie, and judging from your video i didn't miss much.
Eh, well, at least with this game you're spared having to suffer through Jim Belushi. Nah. I'm sure he's fine in this movie and basically nothing else.
Why do the poor nurses get capped? but there were soo many crappy movie games usually by ocean or us gold on the 8 and 16 bit pcs even the godfather had one some of them made it on the nes tho
I watched it on Amazon Prime before making this video but sadly couldn't understand half of it because we only have two choices. Japanese dub (never in a million years) or Japanese sub. Problem with that is all the Russian sections are subbed in Japanese, Not English. Bummer.
@@RetroCore He, he Japanese dub does sound a bit surreal. Sometimes it can be hilarious if you understand the language (remember seeing bits of Knight Rider in German) but it's usually not an improvement. Though the movie isn't a classic and a bit underdeveloped in spots: it doesn't always make a whole lot of sense. But Arnie is in good form and apparently he did learn to speak Russian for the movie too!
Me: Mom, can we have Cho Aniki?
Mom: No, we have Cho Aniki at home, on the Amiga!
It was really no joy to play.
Cho Aniki on the Amiga?
@RetroCore No, sadly(?) only the russian Sauna level.
Lol, ah, I see what you mean🤣
Adoro questo format dei porting. Adoro specialmente quelli riguardo i vecchi sistemi, come C64 e Amiga (che avevo..). Grazie
I’m getting some “Sword of Sodan” vibes from this, in particular the Amiga and Atari ST versions.
It plays probay just as poorly.
One of my favourite games of my childhood!!! (Spectrum Version) ❤
The only even slightly interesting part of this game is the quite clever scrolling routine on the Speccy version that scrolls alternate lines on each frame giving an illusion that it's smoother than it really is. Just about the only element with any attention to detail that I can detect!
Oh man I never knew this existed. Classic film. Especially for me since it was filmed in Chicago. My home town.
Said the same thing when I saw the thumbnail.
@@uptown710 You’re from Chicago?
@ oh nah ,I meant not knowing this game existed. I’m an 82 child so you know this was one of my favorite films growing up.
*COCAINUM*
@@uptown710 Anunechiuadakladavitz.
Aye. Back in the day, they did the filming on the actual locations.
Then, they switched to shooting in Toronto for any big US city.
Today? Mostly green screen. Rubbish...
This is a rough game 😅
Thanks Mark 👍🏼
It really is! I hated playing this 5 times 😢
@@RetroCore 😅
Well, the digitized title screens on the Amiga and ST versions look nice?
Thanks for slogging through this for another BOtP, Mark. Took one for the team this week!
No problem!
I think the Amiga title screen is the only positive point about this game.
Ah yes, the pinnacle of game design. A short mini game collection based on a movie aimed at an adult audience.
I had no computers at this point in time so this is quite interesting!
You were very lucky. 😉
I was already in my early teens in 1989 and yet I never knew until tonight that Red Heat got a computer game, probably because it wasn't released on MS-DOS or on consoles.
I think the letterbox cropping and only showing the character from the waist up looks cool, at the very least. The background art is also decent (at least on the Amiga and Atari ST).
Yeah, id say the 16bit versions look pretty nice. Just a shame the developer forgot about gameplay.
I remember getting this on tape for my C64 and being utterly disgusted. Think I loaded it 2 or 3 times, on the latter occasions asking "surely it wasn't that bad?" and quickly answering that question.
I had no idea they made a game based on this. This game is certainly...something. Cue Shite of the Month toilet flush🚽.
?? what a surprise...
i understand that i don't know it regarding the versions available ^_^
schwarzy is very well pixelatedely done
For Amiga games, I wonder if anyone has ever thought about/implemented something in an emulator to make two instances of the same game run at the same time so you can have both sound effects and music. Seems like it wouldn't be *too* hard given how powerful modern PCs are.
That would be a must have mod for 90% of the Amiga game library.
It's like one of the devs played The Ninjawarriors by Taito in the arcades, tried to emulate it on the Amiga, and failed.
I remember playing this on the Amiga. The only saving grace was the music which also quickly becomes repetitive. What is surprising is that Special FX could actually make good ports when they wanted too, like Midnight Resistence.
The music is such a shame. One okay tune the is used on every level. Such a shame.
We played the Amiga version, when it came out and thought it was mint - I was about 9 and it was only about the graphics, especially as at the time I think I only had a C16 at home!
Then again I think we only got just past the hot rock bit and moved on - my mates dad used to come home, seemingly every weekend, with a disk tray full of the latest games so we rarely played any of them for long!
Lol, I'm sure there are many stinkers that I thought were great as a 9 year old 😊👍
Doctor and nurse casually standing around in a shoot-out. 1:55
Boy with pan on head. 2:04
Typical, "what do you see in a comic book hospital" mentality of the devs right there.
Now I see why we needed the ESRB....
Jeez, Arnie was in quite a few games back in the day!
He sure was but to be fair, he was in a lot of movies too, 😊
It looks like Someone discovered they can draw a character that resembles a real person enough to be impressive in a still screen shot- then tries to make a game out of it.
Ocean really didn't want to let US Gold take the crown of worst publisher without a fight. I think they did it, their film licences helped Ocean reach fetid depths of the cess pit that US Gold couldn't dream of reaching.
Masaya: We're the kings of homoerotic kusoge!
Special FX: Oi! Hold our pint, Sonny Jim!
Vinny (Vinesauce) played the Amiga version of Red Heat months ago; he complained about the game relying on holding the single joystick button for every attack move. If he only knew the 8-bit ports are worse than the original...
To be fair, most western computer games rely on one button 😭
A real stinker like most tie in of that era
Love the movie, but not the games for me Mark. I think I wasn't interested on all versions and thought I'll pass on them bro. But great viewi for sure and as always brother man. 8^)
Anthony...
As soon as I saw the video I though, there is now way there is a red heat game lol
There sure is. In Japan this was actually called Red Bull.
Chō Aniki at home.
Hey Mark, I noticed you don't have a playlist for the early RC stuff. I just burnt the first 32 eps plus the SS and Saturn specials that I downloaded 20+ years ago to a disc for posterity and to make some room on my HDD. Just wanted to make sure you hadn't lost them or anything.
Err, there should be a play list for them.
I'll have to look to that. Thanks for the heads up.
I do have all the early shows backed up on DVDs myself so I they're not online I can always add them again.
@@RetroCore I scrolled through all your vids here and did find them so you shouldn't need to reupload. Just need to make a playlist for season 1 and 2 :)
and then they added film perforations to the C64 play area to double down on the cinematic gimmick and save ene more resources. The eurodevelopers art of never filling the screen.
Oh yeah, I remember this stinker on the C64...😂
Love the movie. Never knew there were games based on it.
I still have my copy for zxspectrum, the game, poisonous 🤣🤣🤣
Cool. 😎👏
I do Remember seeing this game of the movie reviewed BITD in C&VG and the like gettting Quite liked the movie despite Arnies German-come-russian accent 😂.
Ah, C&VG, the magazine that would unapologetically take a dev's money for a good review. 🤑
It's a misfortune to learn that this game was one of the worst Joffa Smith has ever designed. This guy made remarkable games for the ZX Spectrum, such as Green Beret, Cobra, or Firefly, my favorite. This is a case of somebody who hadn't had the same inspiration while transitioning from 8 to 16-bits. I don't know if he was responsible for the 8-bit converts, but the original Amiga and Atari ST ones are, definitely, abismal!
They were all abismal so I guess starting of with a poor effort would just trickle down to the 8bits.
I thought there were shenanigans going on in the Amiga port... infinite ammunition lol
There sure were. The game is horrible so I'll take ever option I can get to make life easier 😅
Special FX were capable of far more than this,far,far more.
The ST version lost what little atmosphere there was on the Amiga version, with tinny and hissy AY sound.
The C64 version has some lovely music but that's all it has going for it.
Indeed. No matter which way someone looks at this game, it trully is a poor experience on all platforms.
Amiga music 🎶 A+
One of the most underwhelming licensed games ever.
It's not a game, it's a meme
At least Arnold really looks like Arnold in the 16 bit versions,unlike the home computer versions of T2,total recall and last action hero. It's still a crap game but props to the sprite artists at least.
Did not know they made a game out of this. Gachimuchi as heck
I remember fishing the amiga budget re-release out of a bargain bin in Future Zone as a kid. What a terrible game. Only entertainment was chuckling at that talking John Belushi head :D
Why on earth did Ocean always create a bunch of mini-games to stick to the plot of a movie, rather than just make a platform game, like what console versions were doing? And one level was always either that bloody sliding puzzle thing, or a rip off of Mastermind.
I don't think it was until The Addams Family movie game that Ocean finally twigged on the concept. and even then they went back to mini game nonsense with Their Untouchables port.
Probably the thought process was: a collection of mini games could represent key scenes AND give "more value for money". Too bad when they're no fun to play though.
I think you mean, James Belushi, Larry. John was the one with talent, something this game lacks, 😎
@@RetroCore Thats the one!
16-bit are fine, but what’s the point for Special FX to do stinker on 8-bits?
i guess they hate 8-bits system on computers
Money money money💵💵
Well, the game gives you the opportunity to play with the best gun of the world... The Podbyrin 9.2mm, of course 😂
This was a thing?
I'm afraid so.
IMO - Amiga, More colour in static screens and better colour in game due to larger palette than the ST. ZX Spectrum version has better sound (in 128k version, not shown) because it uses the beeper as a drum track where the CPC version can't. ZX version is smoother scrolling but has weird scrolling bug, but the addition of basic colour in the CPC looks nicer. C64 is ass
Ahhh....licensed games on the 80s.....
Yep, a license to produce rubbish.
One of my top 3 games of all time ! The Amiga version is awesome....just kidding!
You surprised me for a moment. 🤣
A great film! 👍🏻
it's almost as they were too lazy to animate the legs
I'm sure that was part of the reason😂. Save some effort.
The game play is more like an interactive intro. Sad that c64 was the worst, but the game is crap overall so not a major loss, you've got to love those random 80s/90s action movie tie in's though, certainly a thing of the past.
I think the concept was good but the execution is poor, like a worse Cinemaware game heh. Ben-Hur was super wide like that but it was a rarity, they're clearly taking the easy route of very little height raster. With a 4:3 screen I've found 16:10 to be the best balance of crop and height resolution for widescreen.
Much like window cropping the SFX-Only or Music-Only setup was a disappointing standard from C64 that should have died off in the transition to the Amiga. Nice to see some homebrew for C64 & Amiga proving it was BS.😉
Lol the rock crushing stage, in the movie it was more an endurance of heat/pain since his cover story was that of a forge worker. I do like the film strips and name placard in the C64 since it fills the crop more purposefully. I'm surprised how bad the ZX port came out, they're usually less of looker but tend to play well. CPC getting the typical lazy ZX port, sad since visually it can surpass C64 in the right hands.
This game probably would have been more fitting as a Terminator game, all youre doing is walking around slowly and shooting/punching people.
Very much like Terminator 1 for sure. I'm surprised a reskin was never made.
The Euro gaming industry was a complete and utter ripoff
Absolutely, which is why I had consoles.
I had almost all Amiga games and never heard of this until today... and yes I remember going to the movies to see this crappy movie. Also 5 to 10 fps were more than enough on these games.
There was a game based on this movie?? Would never have guessed
Yep. Many movies had home computer game ports and all were turd.
@ Hahaha true that, not all the home console ones were too bad though
I remember playing this on my buddy's Amiga 500 back in the day. The gameplay wasn't anything special but I was impressed by the graphics with detailed big sprites.
Oh my, I am so glad I didn't get this as a kid. I had an Amiga and growing up in the 90s, loved action films. I think the real reason that you only see the top half of the play area is because everyone is walking on an airport travelator.
Also is it me or is the sauna scene the most gay non-gay thing ever? Like people jump down others' throats in the UK now about schools teaching their kids about same sex relationships, gender pronouns ETC, yet my parents would probably have bought me this and been fine with the naked except for pants fight in sauna scene... totally not homoerotic at all.
The whole gender Pro-nouns thing is bollocks. If I see a guy who feels he is a woman or the other way around they will be addressed by their biological Pro-noun. None of this they crap and so on. 👍
Expected better from special fx on the amiga . It was slow , boring and first level was very brown.
Why didn't they at least animate some of the backgrounds, everything just static
Disappointing game on all systems
Maybe a renegade style beat em up would of been a better idea
"you don't buy games from graphics alone" - oh boy, you are so wrong, especially back in the days :D
Now we are adults and we think in a different way but when we were kids with the cool stuff we have played at least a certain amount of crap
Hahaha, in some cases as a kid, yeah, maybe 😅
Well, not going to add this to the “Must play” list 😊
Good choice!
What were programmers thinking? 😂
To be fair, some of the programmers of this era were in their late teens and at the bottom of the ladder of whichever software company they were at. When their manager told them "We have a licence for such-and-such and it has to feature this and this _and_ be ready in however-many weeks" they might not have been able to do much. So a lot of the time, they were probably just thinking of a paycheque.
This time none of the games are worth it. It's regrettable.
I nearly bought this on my Amiga when I was younger. Thank god I didn’t, I bought a game called Ivanhoe instead. On second thought which may be even worse than this crap
Haha, Ivan Hoe would also fit in to red heat the movie since it's full of Russians and hoes. 🤣
im newer liked that game, and 100% fair review. one of thing im also hated..... shirtless/t-shirts guys in a cold snow theme. why? lol. hihi.
Guys in a sauna located in the snow is quite popular 😂 Here in Japan they also do it but use a hot spring instead of a sauna.
@RetroCore hehe
Man, this game looks really awesome, though. (I know it sucks)
I remember when this first came out for the Speccy and completed it in a week.
While you had different gaming styles the main part was poorly done and didn't offer anything exciting. Shame really as this could have been a lot better.
They did tried to recreate the key scenes from the movie itself at least. Arnold here looks nothing like he did in the film. He wore his Soviet police uniform and later, suit and a tie. A T-shirt here? Bollocks...
I guess they could draw a uniform 😅
I try to have a positive outlook on life. Believe that people are basically good. But given a terrible game based on a bad movie, somebody thought, “Let’s also make a version for the Specky.” That was a very bad person. Very bad.
Money talks. Even in 1989 they'll have sold more copies on the ZX than the ST and CPC combined.
Lol, indeed.
I never knew there was a game beased on this movie. But Red heat is my least favorite Schwarzenegger movie, and judging from your video i didn't miss much.
You didn't miss a thing with this one. It's really bad. At least the game doesn't shove James Belushi down your throat unlike the movie.
Eh, well, at least with this game you're spared having to suffer through Jim Belushi.
Nah. I'm sure he's fine in this movie and basically nothing else.
I've never liked James Belushi. It's as if he's trying too hard all the time. His late brother, John was miles better.
🚭8-bit
Welp this is a pc game I’m surely skipping.
Yep, best to avoid this one.
Why do the poor nurses get capped? but there were soo many crappy movie games usually by ocean or us gold on the 8 and 16 bit pcs even the godfather had one some of them made it on the nes tho
Probably because in the movie one of the Russian mobsters is undercover as a nurse.
At least the movie was mildly entertaining and had Gina Gershon...
I watched it on Amazon Prime before making this video but sadly couldn't understand half of it because we only have two choices. Japanese dub (never in a million years) or Japanese sub. Problem with that is all the Russian sections are subbed in Japanese, Not English. Bummer.
@@RetroCore He, he Japanese dub does sound a bit surreal. Sometimes it can be hilarious if you understand the language (remember seeing bits of Knight Rider in German) but it's usually not an improvement.
Though the movie isn't a classic and a bit underdeveloped in spots: it doesn't always make a whole lot of sense. But Arnie is in good form and apparently he did learn to speak Russian for the movie too!
Hi, I'm Dick 😂
It seems to me the developers was doing plenty of "cocainum". What a terrible game!
What were the devs on to think this was playable? Cocainum? 🦵