Finally got some good CD32 NTSC games... OH MY!

[amigakid]

What amazing is how this thread has gone from the CD32 to everything but the CD32.

[LoadWB]

amigakid wrote:
What amazing is how this thread has gone from the CD32 to everything but the CD32.

hehehe Indeed :-)  But I have been digging through my archive of software, and I forgot about Test Drive II.  It has rolling scenery, though still nowhere as good as Lotus III.  (I know, OCS versus AGA, 68000 versus 68020, but I made a statement earlier and this example has the potential to discredit that statement.)

Something I find striking is the amount of detail and work that went into the Commodore 64 versions of games versus the Amiga.  In some cases the music and graphics of the C64 were very edge, while the Amiga version were either stripped down in comparison, an exact copy of the C64 version (or vice-versa dependent upon history and perspective,) and in both cases did little to really showcase the power of the Amiga.

Test Drive II I feel is a good example.  The Amiga version adds very little against the C64 version, except for sampled speech; even the music composition is different.  Arkanoid II is another, where the C64 version had awesome music which played very well on a stereo system at full blast.

That's not to say that all games are like that.  SOTB, for instance, is remarkable on the Amiga and the C64 conversion does a LOT to try to live up to its big younger brother.

And I completely forgot to dig up the Dreamcast information I promised.  I spent today handling two emergencies and making dat moonay so the house remains mine for another month :-D

[jmbattle]

I believe the CD32 Lotus Trilogy was nothing more than disk images of the original OCS games with a custom loader.

Certainly, in their day, the Lotus games were excellent (as was Jaguar XJ220, incidentally), however the CD32 release was most disappointing.  An AGA version, coded to take advantage (!) of the 68020, additional chipmem and possibly even the extra Akiko chip, could have seriously impressive.

Cheers,
James
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[marcfrick2112]

LoadWB: Glad to hear you're enjoying your CD32. Very under-rated, IMHO. There are quite a few very nice games.

Might I recommend:
Defender or the Crown II
Simon the Sorceror (the 'talkie' version)
James Pond II: Robocod

I have many other game consoles to play (yep, 2 Dreamcast's here too) but I play my CD32 at least once per week.

[Tomas]

I think Sega should take some of the blame themself... Here in Norway the Sega was not marketted at all, and i bet the case was the same in other european countries as well. You could not walk into any game store and buy a dreamcast like you do with a playsation, nintendo or similar.

Same thing with saturn.. it was nowhere to be found  :-(

[foleyjo]

Matt_H wrote:

Makes me also think of the ill-fated Dreamcast, or XBox Beta, I should say. Man, Sega got screwed.

That's what happens when you partner with Microsoft.

Is that why the Commodore 128 flopped?

[LoadWB]

foleyjo wrote:

Is that why the Commodore 128 flopped?

Are you trolling?  The comparison is invalid.  The C128 didn't make it as a hit for a number of reasons which seemed pretty well outlined in "On The Edge," so I won't regurgitate them here.  None of these issues applied to the fall of the Dreamcast.

The only similarity is that both now fall into a niche cult following as being very advanced and flexible machines for their respective eras.

[foleyjo]

Not trolling at all.

if you boot up a C128 you can see it has Microsoft written in big letters along the top ("3rd line down (c) 1977 microsoft corp.")
backing up the statement about partnering with Microsoft