man, the C64 had all the cool shoot em ups

[Khephren]

Zybex was pretty cool. But loved Katakis, Uridium and X-out. Does paradroid count?
As for R-type....I prefered it on my speccy (I know, i'll get my coat!)

[Khephren]

well, when everyone else is playing their C64's in 1982, you can wait till 1989 for your PCengine USA launch. Good luck with that.

[Khephren]

"Sure it is. It was only 3 years later, and uses a 6502 based CPU just the same."

your specificaly comparing architectures that are 7 years apart in date (you might as well say, hey why play doom? just wait and play unreal tournament!).

Seeing as your a coder, you should know what a massive gap that is, you should also know better than to come into other peoples threads with your fists swinging.

[Khephren]

Lets try this again, 1982....1989. I'm not the one who needs to pony up on Wikipedia Arkhan.

'waana play double dragon' -couple years wait for PCE after that came out.

'two processors arent that super duper different' other than one being 7 times faster than the other, you mean? been coding long dude?
 
as for dropping your pants, I know you only lube up for X68000.

[Khephren]

1) You were living in Japan then Arkhan, at the time of release? Or did you have to wait till '89 like everyone else?

4) If you think processor speed is not important, then there is only one 'dumbass' here, and I don't think it's me (on this occassion).

Yes I see how that works, iv'e been in videogame dev for 14 years, so I do have some small inkling.

Anyway, you want to continue your videogame discussion further, then PM me. I think we've highjacked this thread enough.

[Khephren]

I think maybe the thread title got him blowing steam 'man, the C64 had all the cool shoot em ups'
I took it to mean....the c64 got the good shooters, the Amiga, not so much (seeing as this is Amiga.org)

I think Arkhan took it as...compared to every other 8bit....ever.

[Khephren]

well, i'm done talking to him.

Did anyone ever play IO, i got it  as a budget release, that was pretty cool.
Also, http://c64s.com/ has an online emu, so I'm going to try some of these as they are mentioned.

[Khephren]

Yeah, the 64 was good for naturalistic gradients, but perhaps they were a bit pastel for arcade games. More muted, realistic games looked ace though.
 The speccy had that weird only two colours per 8x8 block going on, that was a killer.

Although it was never used as often as it could have been, I think your right about the CPC having a nice arcade palette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX4TDduqOXs&feature=related

[Khephren]

Yeah the computer varient was the CPC+ range, 32 colours from a 4096 palette, as I remember. It was a bit late in the day, and didn't get much use.

Personally, I think the C64 was stretched more than the Amiga in terms of quality as it went along (for shooters, that is).

[Khephren]

Who knew that there'd be drama about piss old games that we're the only ones who still give a shit about?.

Well, I was part of that drama...so, it was just the attitude of one guy on here that got me and others pissed off, not so much the PCEngine stuff. PCE is a pretty cool machine, after all!