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Title: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Vincent on February 07, 2005, 04:49:29 PM
Not quite Amiga related, but I got this (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=914) today and it originally only came with the game :-D

Words cannot describe how chuffed I am :-D
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Wain on February 07, 2005, 04:56:37 PM
For a long time I was trying to collect all of the psygnosis game shirts, never quite got there..then several were destroyed in moving over the years...sniff.
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: on February 07, 2005, 04:58:17 PM
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Not quite Amiga related


:-?

Not Amiga related???

Of course it is!
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Vincent on February 07, 2005, 05:00:35 PM
The t-shirt itself isn't and strictly speaking the game isn't as much Amiga anymore.

I've got the MasterSystem and MegaDrive versions of the first one and the MegaDrive and Amiga versions of the rest.  I just really need the Amiga and Spectrum version of the first one and the poster (which I've also won, but haven't recieved yet).
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: blakespot on February 08, 2005, 04:35:09 PM
I've got the Atari Lynx version (http://www.atarilynx.com/pages/shadowbeast.shtml) of the game.



blakespot
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: bloodline on February 08, 2005, 05:50:17 PM
I ahve all three Amiga ones, and the C64 one.
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: srg86 on February 08, 2005, 06:27:10 PM
My dad still has a Shadow of the Beast II T-shirt.

srg
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: TheMagicM on February 08, 2005, 06:45:50 PM
thats awesome!   Psygnosis always had bad a$$ games!!
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Vincent on February 08, 2005, 08:16:21 PM
I had no idea there was a version for the Lynx :-o

Looks good too :-D

I probably won't bother getting that tho - only getting ones I have consoles/computers to play on ;-)

--edit--

Got a SNES and a NES coming my way in a week or two... are there any SotB games for either of them?
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Bezzen on February 08, 2005, 09:30:57 PM
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Got a SNES and a NES coming my way in a week or two... are there any SotB games for either of them?


Hmm... it looks like it. Never heard of it before I found this image though.

Super Shadow of the Beast (http://www.cherryroms.com/screenshots/large/Super_Shadow_of_the_Beast_(U)(3654).jpg)
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Vincent on February 08, 2005, 09:46:24 PM
Gah!  They had to go and spoil it with "Super".

{bleep}s.

Ah well, almost guaranteed that there's no Shadow of the Beast 64 :-P
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Trooper on February 08, 2005, 11:39:53 PM
Oh yes there is. :-D

Here (http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D195)

Trooper
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: nels664868 on February 09, 2005, 12:37:03 AM
I've got the same shirt.
It came in the Shadow of The Beast Box for Amiga
The shirt is labled as Large, but it looks like a small.


nels
 
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Vincent on February 09, 2005, 12:41:39 AM
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Trooper wrote:
Oh yes there is. :-D

:lol:

Not exactly what I meant :-)

{edit}I prefer the monochromatic Speccy version than the colourful C64 version{/edit}

@nels664868

This is labelled as large too, but it looks like a medium to me.  I have other large t-shirts somewhere (I prefer extra large even though I'm a skinny bugger) so I'll compare it later.
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Waccoon on February 09, 2005, 02:39:05 AM
You know, I never did figure out what those mechanical antelopes on the box cover and T-shirt had to do with the game.
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: CU_AMiGA on February 10, 2005, 11:17:49 AM
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Vincent wrote:
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Trooper wrote:
Oh yes there is. :-D

:lol:

Not exactly what I meant :-)

{edit}I prefer the monochromatic Speccy version than the colourful C64 version{/edit}


The C64 version of Shadow Of The Beast rocked! Pure genius putting this game onto cartridge, making it much better than even the humble Speccy could do! :-)

Regards,
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Vincent on February 10, 2005, 12:13:22 PM
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CU_AMiGA wrote:
The C64 version of Shadow Of The Beast rocked! Pure genius putting this game onto cartridge, making it much better than even the humble Speccy could do! :-)

If only the Interface II for the Speccy48k took off there'd be more than 10 ROM Cartridges for it :-(
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Vincent on March 03, 2005, 02:25:51 PM
Just uploaded my Lemmings 2: The Tribes t-shirt to the gallery :-D

Thanks to the Funky Frenchman for reminding me about it :-)

--edit--

Oh yeah, I got the poster a week or two ago aswell.  All rolled up, not a mark on it at all :-o

I'll try and get a good piccy of that too :-D
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: blakespot on March 03, 2005, 03:44:18 PM
I never had the Shadow of the Beast shirt, but I did have the shirt for Psygnosis' "AWESOME" (http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/DBA1/Awes.html).

I ran across a pic of that shirt - wearing it here (http://www.blakespot.com/images/mls1.jpg).  A friend of mine gave me the boxed Awesome game for my birthday, having stolen it from a WaldenSoftware store earlier in the week.  Gak!


b
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Legerdemain on March 03, 2005, 04:32:14 PM
Uhm... this Shadow Of The Beast thing that is going on out there in the world...   like people claiming the game being so and so fantastic...   but really, I've played the games in the series some twenty times or something, each time hoping that the feeling I had of the game being so completely uninspiring and dull would be wrong, but each time I'm really disappointed. What's the deal? Good grapchis... yes? Good music... yes? Good game... no?
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Vincent on March 03, 2005, 05:30:47 PM
It's a cult game, don't try to understand the appeal :-P

It's just a ridiculously challenging game.  If you want to complete a game within a month don't play SotB.  The difficulty curve is off the scale before it really starts :-P
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: TjLaZer on March 03, 2005, 06:02:46 PM
The game is Great! ...but you need to turn on the trainer otherwise  it is useless.  :banana:

You can get the WHDLoad version that has the cheats, or you can try to do them with the codes but it's just easier to use the patch.
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: blakespot on March 04, 2005, 02:54:48 PM
I am sure many here don't recall, but when Shadow of the Beast came out for the Amiga, it was the most impressive combination of graphics, animation, and sound.  It was amazing to see the level of animation (and of such well rendered images) that was taking place.  As far as gameplay went, it was nothing at all special.  The only motivation to keep going was the hope that new backdrops would present themselves, really.  

At this point, I would say that the most impressive display of graphics + sound (forgetting animation) was still Defender of the Crown.  It is still a beautiful thing to behold.

Perhaps more impresive, relative to the platform specs, than Shadow of the Beast for Amiga is Shadow of the Beast for the C64.  I cannot believe the level of animation achieved on that 1MHz, 8-bit machine in that game.  It does not match the Amiga version at all, but the Amiga is many times more powerful a machine.




blakespot
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: retronerd on March 08, 2005, 01:05:01 AM
I love Shadow of the Beast for many reasons and although the Amiga version was a master piece of Graphics and Sound, I personaly think that the Super CDROM2 version for the PC Engine is the best version, Graphically the miggy cannot be touched but sound wise ...wow and if someone could put the miggy version of the game with the PC engines sound track then I think it would be almost perfect...well if a little more gameplay was added too. :lol:  :lol:
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Trooper on March 08, 2005, 01:42:53 AM
They could of made a CD32 version and used cd audio for the soundtrack (the best of both worlds  :-D ).

Trooper
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: DonnyEMU on March 08, 2005, 02:33:42 AM
Some reasons to love shadow of the beast:

It was the first dual playfield/parallax scrolling game on the Amiga platform and did things that weren't available on the PC or mac or home gaming platforms at the time. It was an ARCADE feature..

Also it was done by Psygnosis, who later was bought by Sony and folded into the Playstation development unit..
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: Sarek3 on March 08, 2005, 05:41:19 PM
I have the game and had the T-shirt way back when.  My son
took the shirt, and I don't where it is!

Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: AmigaAbattoir on March 08, 2005, 07:54:46 PM
Don't forget the music in it.  I even bought the Immortal CD because of the Shadow of the Beast music.
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: billchase on March 08, 2005, 10:02:20 PM
Someone is doing a digital remake of the game (for PC). It has
been mentioned in the forum in a previous thread.  It looks
like it will be really good when finished.

C Snyder
Title: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Post by: retronerd on March 08, 2005, 10:30:19 PM
I know I have mentioned the PC engine version already but I just wanted to add if you can get hold of the PC Engine version the whole of the soundtrack which is about 15 songs can be played on a standard CD player just skip track 1 and 2 on the disk....its worth buying just for the music.