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These 3 spring to mind
Platoon
Batman
Double Dragon
 

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Re: C64 games that were better than thier Amiga counterparts ?
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2011, 08:29:33 AM »
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Are we factoring in loading times and dodgy tapes ? :)


I hate the whole loading times and dodgy tape talk of today.
It was very rare for an original tape to fail loading unless it was on the Spectrum or Acorn Electron.
The C64's datasette helped prevent load errors as they were usually caused by incorrect volume settings.There was just as many disc read errors from dodgy disks or drives.

Loading times were also not as long as people think. True there were some games that had stupid load times but then developers started to add turbo load features and multiload features.
People also forget that you had some great music while the games were loading and sometimes a game to play (Invade-a-Load). Both things I miss when using an emulator.
 

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Re: C64 games that were better than thier Amiga counterparts ?
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2011, 09:27:42 AM »
Name me 3 games that take 15 minutes to load.

Ocean games took about 4 - 5 mins

30 seconds to start the intro music 3 - 4 min tune 30 seconds to load the final bits
 

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Re: C64 games that were better than thier Amiga counterparts ?
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2011, 03:57:13 PM »
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Operation Wolf, Turbo Outrun and Airborne Ranger. Everything.


I am going to load these up and time them when I get the chance

Will need a spare 45 mins
 

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Re: C64 games that were better than thier Amiga counterparts ?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2011, 07:15:42 PM »
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Operation Wolf, Turbo Outrun and Airborne Ranger. Everything.


Operation wolf can be struck off the list.  Approx 3min 30 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKkES1KrjKI


A Typical Ocean Game took about 4 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQYZ-YA9o2g&playnext=1&list=PLC7089C1A4DB71C7C

and a US Gold game cold take about 2 mins
USGold Nova Load  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phLzHizznSg

A mastertronic game would sometimes allow you to play another game while you wait to play the game your loading (and that would last about 2 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCR6xnv1kE