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Title: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: 4ppleseed on April 04, 2008, 10:45:58 PM
What would you say are some of the best Arcade conversion to Amiga? Looking back now I can't believe just how accurate some of the games were! Brilliant stuff.

Good ones I remember were Rainbow Islands and SWIV.

How about you? Which ones really gave you that 'Arcade at home' feel via your Amiga  8-)
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Daniele on April 04, 2008, 10:47:23 PM
IMHO Ghosts'n'Goblins from ELITE!
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Amithony on April 04, 2008, 10:49:57 PM
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4ppleseed wrote:
What would you say are some of the best Arcade conversion to Amiga? Looking back now I can't believe just how accurate some of the games were! Brilliant stuff.

Good ones I remember were Rainbow Islands and SWIV.

How about you? Which ones really gave you that 'Arcade at home' feel via your Amiga  8-)


I thought the port from the Nija turtles was ok. I like the Gianna sisters though I think it was a c64 conversion. There was a game that had ninjas that turned into robots, but i cant remember the title. I'll have to go through my 3000+ rotting DD disk collection :)
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: 4ppleseed on April 04, 2008, 10:51:32 PM
There really were some pixel perfect conversion! Amazing display of the Amiga in the late 80s and 90s running head to head with the Arcade.

SWIV? Or did I mean Silkworm? lol.

The New Zealand Story was a pretty seamless port too, if I remember rightly.


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Great Giana Sisters was in the arcade??

Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: 4ppleseed on April 04, 2008, 10:53:49 PM
Great Giana Sisters was in the arcade?? (Double post, soz ;))
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: SuperTurbo on April 04, 2008, 11:23:32 PM
rodland??
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: AmigaHope on April 04, 2008, 11:33:10 PM
Best conversion?

Arcadia games. =) Magic Johnson's Fast Break, Space Ranger, etc.

Since the arcade hardware WAS an Amiga with a cartridge port of sorts added, releasing the Amiga ports of these games was a cinch. =)
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Phantom on April 05, 2008, 12:14:41 AM
The New Zealand Story and Rainbow Islands for sure. Ocean made a variety of coin-op conversions, some of them are very good. Also I liked the first Mortal Kombat.
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Bazzaq on April 05, 2008, 12:20:37 AM
Pang. Its probably better than the arcade version.
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: ajlwalker on April 05, 2008, 01:39:18 AM
Pacmania
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Damion on April 05, 2008, 03:08:45 AM
Commando :p

Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: skolman on April 05, 2008, 05:07:42 AM
Bubble Bobble, Midnight Resistance, Pit Fighter, R-Type, R-Type II, Toki.
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: 4ppleseed on April 05, 2008, 02:20:50 PM
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Bazzaq wrote:
Pang. Its probably better than the arcade version.


Yeah Pang on the Amiga is great, one of my faves for sure :)

Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: skolman on April 05, 2008, 05:42:59 PM
Cabal, Golden Axe, Robocop, Terminator 2.
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Phantom on April 05, 2008, 05:54:34 PM
Hehehe... Operation Wolf and Combat School (was this a coin-op convertion, I don't remember)... :crazy:
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: AndyFC on April 05, 2008, 06:07:35 PM
Were there two different Terminator 2 games? The one I remember was dreadful, or was the arcade game just as bad, which makes this a good conversion?

I enjoyed (and still do) racing games and I seem to remember Super Monaco GP being similar to the arcade. Chase HQ didn't seem bad at the time either.
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Fransexy_ on April 05, 2008, 06:41:36 PM
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SuperTurbo wrote:
rodland??


+1

Is so perfect conversion that I always wondered if the arcade was actually an Amiga
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: skolman on April 06, 2008, 12:26:20 AM
Parasol Stars :-)
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Ivanhoe on April 06, 2008, 01:31:43 AM
Pang the best yeah.lol
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: Ivanhoe on April 06, 2008, 01:38:48 AM
I also like Golden Axe one of the bests.Rodland too.
Out Run not near to the Arcade but perfect to feel the magic of the game better than other 16-bit,8-bit versions.
Space Ace a truly movie on your Amiga.
Toki very good and Pit-Fighter near perfect.
There are tons of conversions too.
I also liked Big Run a racing game that I only played a bit.
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: x56h34 on April 06, 2008, 06:23:45 AM
Shadow Dancer was a good conversion, too. I am not sure if it was arcade perfect, but the best version of this game was on Amiga for sure.
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: fishy_fiz on April 06, 2008, 06:40:46 AM
Final Fight wasnt too bad I thought. Shadow Warriors was very close, minus a slightly pale color palette was next to perfect. Ninja Warriors was as close as possible without using the three screens of its arcade parent. Double Dragon 3 was also very close.
Title: Re: Best Arcade conversion to Amiga?
Post by: RMK305 on April 06, 2008, 10:56:40 PM
Operation Wolf
Chase HQ
T2 the Arcade Game
Final Fight

Arcade conversions are what made me need the Amiga at the age of about 11.