Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!SYSD.SALFORD.AC.UK!KEITH From: KEITH@SYSD.SALFORD.AC.UK (Keith Wolstenholme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Arcade games on the ST Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 88 14:29:05 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 130 In article , knutsen@athos.rutgers. > Roadblaster (singular, I believe) is indeed excellent, but then, the > quality of the average Atari coin-op is very high. Witness 720, > Rolling Thunder, I Robot, Dragon Spirit, Gauntlet and Gauntlet II, > Major Havoc, APB, et. al. The UK software houses are very fond of arcade conversions at the moment (some of which have actually made it to the market). I thought the games fanatics out there might like a list of what to look out for ! Below is a list of arcade conversions either availbable now or under development for the ST by UK software houses. I've probably left a number of titles out, this is all from memory but I think I've got the publishers right ! Some of the comments have been "gleaned" from various UK ST and Games magazines. First the actual arcade conversions: Title Publisher Notes Roadrunner US Gold - Now available in a Indianna Jones " - 4 game compilation Gauntlet " - Metrocross " - Rampage Activision Buggy boy Elite Getting good reviews Road Blasters Activision ? Under development Xenon Melbourne House ARCADE QUALITY vertical scroller Sidewinder Melbourne House " " " " (easier than Xenon) Roadwars Melbourne House Difficult to describe ! Good graphics Gameplay not great. Gauntlet 2 US Gold Just out. 4-PLAYER with adaptor. Space Harrier Elite Under deleopment ? Things seem to have gone quiet on this. Early reports were interesting. 8 bit versions have been out for over a year. Star Wars Domark Good conversion, maybe a little slow. Empire Strikes Back Domark Under development. Return of Jedi Domark Under development ? For Xmas. Rolling Thunder US Gold ? Just out. Competemt conversion. Slap Fight Ocean Average Conversion. Ikari Warriors Elite Average Conversion. Outrun US Gold Good Conversion. Bubble Bobble Firebird Good Conversion. Bionic Commandos US Gold Under development. Halls of Kairos US Gold Under development. Sold as "Desolator". Alien Syndrome The Edge Status unknown ? Darius ?? A company had a Darius machine on display at last years PCW show. Nothing has been mentioned since. There's also a few original games that may be worth getting: The Last Ninja System 3 Under development (for a looong time!). Return to Genesis Firebird Smooth horizontal, parallax, scroller. Leathernecks Microdeal 4 Player. Whirlygig Firebird Under development. Screen shots look good. Black Lamp Firebird Good platform game. Backlash Novagen 16 bit version of Encounter (on the 8 bit and C64). Mindless blasting. Its great ! Damocles Novagen Under development. Sequel to Mecenary. Graphics are completely different. Gameplay ? Captain Blood Infogrammes Recent release from a French company. English language version just out. Space exploration. Great graphics, good sound. Takes some time to get into it ! Carrier Command Firebird Wow ! Combat/war game with arcade/ Flight simulator graphics. Solid filled 3-D graphics. Animation is very smooth. Virus Firebird This is the game used to "sell" the Acorn Archimedes - difficult to describe. Byte carried a screen shot in a news item about the Archimedes. Reports of the conversion are very favourable. Starglider 2 Firebird Under development. Should be ready "soon". Firebird have started to advertise it. Graphics are solid, filled, 3-D. Should be as smooth as Carrier Command. I have a mono monitor so have not actually got many of these games, but I have seen and even played some of those that have been released. Have fun ! JANET keith@uk.ac.salford.sysd ARPA: keith@sysd.salford.ac.uk PHONE: +44 61 737 7010 POST: 3-S, Computer Centre, Salford University, Salford, M5 4WT, U.K.