UFO:Enemy Unknown CD32

[adolescent]

Hyperspeed wrote:

EDIT: Oh wait, there was a little white Marty too wasn't there, looked like a PSone. What year was that released?

:crazy:

All of the Fujitsu FM Towns Marty systems looked like consoles (they look very similar to the PC Engine Duo/Turbo Duo).  Don't confuse the Marty with the FM Towns computer systems.  The Marty was always positioned as a game console.  Like I said they were released in 1991.  A full two years before the CD32.

[koaftder]

will it play on game cube?

[Louis Dias]

koaftder wrote:
will it play on game cube?

yeah, right after YOU port AKIKO

[Hyperspeed]

adolescent: Oh, I was confusing it with the computer. Not hard to do since FM Towns is a brand from Fujitsu... so Marty would be equivalent to the '1200' bit bit of Commodore Amiga A[1200]!

:-D

Commodore may not have been totally wrong. The CD32 was the first 32-Bit CD console (released in any country other than Japan).

;-)

One could argue though that the CD32 had 32-Bit AGA Lisa, what was the Marty's GFX bandwidth?

Interesting bit of kit the Car Marty is, Sega copied this with the Hi-Saturn didn't they?

When you compare the games on CD32 (Aliens Breed, Roadkill etc.) and the schoolgirl based filth on the Marty you can understand why one was a little more available in the West.

:-D :-D :-D

EDIT:
Wasn't there a sequel to UFO:Enemy Unknown on PC called 'XCOM - Apocalypse' ?

[Louis Dias]

Apocalypse was the 3rd or 4th sequel.
I have just about all the PC iterations except the original which I have on the CD32 and am now selling.

I even have the so-so X-COM Enforcer action 3rd person shooter.

Adolescent:  I said "The World's" first 32-bit CD-based console, not Japan's.  I guess I should have said "mass-market" as well.  They did sell over 400,000 last I heard.

[Hyperspeed]

400,000 CD32s were sold worldwide?

That's pretty low considering the Mega-CD sold 270,000 and I think that was just in the UK!

Anyone know of a chart of sales figures, that'd be really interesting!

[adolescent]

Hyperspeed wrote:
That's pretty low considering the Mega-CD sold 270,000 and I think that was just in the UK!

The Playstation sold over 100,000,000 consoles and has an excellent X-Com port.  :-D

@lou

Sorry, I thought you meant "world's first" not "world's first (in Amiga fantasy land)".  :crazy:  

[Louis Dias]

adolescent wrote:

Sorry, I thought you meant "world's first" not "world's first (in Amiga fantasy land)".  :crazy:  

If it's not for sale outside one market then it's not a worldwide product.  That's Marketing 101.  :rtfm:

[Hyperspeed]

lou: I think we shall have to accept defeat here. World First should mean the first to be released in the world, we had the opportunity to buy it through importers but didn't.

We should definately make a list of all Amiga's '1st Done' achievements and maybe a list of EXCLUSIVE games that never appeared on any other format.

[Louis Dias]

Hyperspeed wrote:
lou: I think we shall have to accept defeat here. World First should mean the first to be released in the world, we had the opportunity to buy it through importers but didn't.

We should definately make a list of all Amiga's '1st Done' achievements and maybe a list of EXCLUSIVE games that never appeared on any other format.

Even that list is shortening because I've seen alot of old Amiga games on the GBA.  Even "The Chaos Engine" had a Sega Genesis port...and possibly another system and even PC port.  Though it was called something else and it was 2 years after the Amiga version.  Brutal Deluxe was released on the GBA within the last year or so as well.

[Hyperspeed]

Did PayBack make it to GBA? I heard they were trying to port it...

Speedball 2 was also rumoured.

[Louis Dias]

I know Speedball was released last year.

[adolescent]

Hyperspeed wrote:
Did PayBack make it to GBA? I heard they were trying to port it...

Payback was finally released for the GBA last year (at least in Europe).  I haven't been able to find a copy in the US yet.