Bill Lange Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 What is your favorite 8-Bit (Apple, Commodore) game never ported to the Atari series of home computers? Mine would have to be The Bard's Tale series. WRL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Castles of Dr. Creep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Oh heck, have you got a couple of hours...? On the C64: Armalyte, IO, Sanxion, Delta, Uridium, Uridium Plus, Nemesis, Salamander, Katakis, Enforcer, Crush, Subterranea, Retrograde, Lethal Zone. On the Spectrum: Chronos. On the VIC20: Dragonwing and Wunda Walter. ...and they were just the horizontal scrolling shoot-em-ups except Walter! =-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 The Turrican series... The question is, what was the better choice? No conversion or crap conversions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 The Turrican series... The question is, what was the better choice? No conversion or crap conversions? Yes, and "Rampage" is an excellent example of this problem. The 8-bit port is OK, but kind of crappy in comparison to most other console versions. I've also heard rumours that an 8-bit version of "The Bard's Tale" was actually in the works, but canned when 8-bit sales continued to decline in '86 and '87.[/i] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Ultima V and VI Bards Tale Series Wizardry Series Space Harrier Impossible Mission Galaga Defender II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Winter Games I & II Summer Games II California Games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Y'all getting senile? ELITE! (Gunship would have been nice too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Pirates also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 I would have wished that the conversion of Green Beret had been better, the game was wonderful and I played it hours on end but compared to the C-64 conversion it looked rather ugly. Silver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 I enjoyed Hypersports alot on the C64 - the clay shooting was great! The A8 was capable of this game IMHO. Some missed out so far: Paradroid and Impossible Mission plus those Last (lost?) Ninja's... Mark PS: One day I'll get back to Elite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Oh yes, add "10th Frame" and "World Class Leaderboard" to this list too. How close were these to being ported? Damm you Access! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Y'all getting senile? ELITE! As an aside, i heard a rumour ages ago from someone not entirely reliable in the industry that an excellent Atari 8bit port of Elite was done and dusted but some clause in the license Firebird had said it couldn't look better than the BBC version and it was canned... anyone know if this is true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheddy Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Y'all getting senile? ELITE! As an aside, i heard a rumour ages ago from someone not entirely reliable in the industry that an excellent Atari 8bit port of Elite was done and dusted but some clause in the license Firebird had said it couldn't look better than the BBC version and it was canned... anyone know if this is true? I think you'll find Mr. Wrathchild knows more about an Atari Elite than most... 30-Jul-03 Edit Maybe I should have noticed Mark's post mentioned Atari Elite before posting this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy California Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Defender II Do you mean Stargate? I don't know if the proto available is the final version but it kinda sucks IMO. Summer Games II and Winter Games were already in dealer catalogs, what happened? I once heard a rumor that Summer Games II was available in small quantities but so heavily protected that it never reached the pirate circuit... Other titles: Marble Madness, Impossible Mission, Rescue Raiders, Turrican, Great Giana Sisters, Driller, Gunship... Too many to list... ++ RC ++ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Hi there! All Cinemaware games. All Thalamus games. All Palace Games. All Graftgold Games. All Sensible Software Games. All Rainbow Arts Games. Greetings, Manuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon-paul Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Y'all getting senile? ELITE! As an aside, i heard a rumour ages ago from someone not entirely reliable in the industry that an excellent Atari 8bit port of Elite was done and dusted but some clause in the license Firebird had said it couldn't look better than the BBC version and it was canned... anyone know if this is true? The Rumor i heard was they ported the C=64 version but it was as buggy as hell as to be un-usable (shades of the elite 2 frontiers for the PC issues) and the Atari-8 market in the UK didn't justify a full re-write. Well you know what rumours are like! Yep, Elite, many of the good Arcade conversions never seemed to arrive, same with the numerous good games on other computers. lord of Midnight/doomdarks revenge would be nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 I'd have to second Marble Madness, & many of the Activision titles that were for C64 but not Atari. I recall an entry in ANTIC addressing this issue ("two for EA"): www.atarimagazines.com/v6n11/ioboard.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rdemming Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Oh yes, add "10th Frame" and "World Class Leaderboard" to this list too.How close were these to being ported? Damm you Access! Leaderboard golf exists for the Atari 8 bit Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy California Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Leaderboard golf exists for the Atari 8 bit Not Leader Board, World Class Leader Board. Has extra stuff like trees... ++ RC ++ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendon Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Just one for me: Kickman !!!!! Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 There's a Kickman clone available that's just as good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Wow... I've never played games on anything but Atari or PC! Let me check... Amiga - No C-64 - No TRS-80 - Nothing professionally written Spectrum - No Macintosh - No Adam - Eh, ColecoVision games don't count Apple II - Er... Don't think so... There was this one game on the Apple II that I remember. Bouncing Kamungas? I think I played it for about 5 minutes one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheddy Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 OK, so most of these were arcade as well as 8-bit ports, but... Space Harrier (of course) Out Run Mad Planets/Crazy Comets Super Sprint Sanxion (or any other good horizontal shooters from C64) I Robot (Fox, if you're ever bored..) and Elite (Mark, don't let David Braben put you off, I really can't believe he gives a stuff about our obsolete systems) BTW I'd be surprised if Firebird managed to do a version superior to the beeb original, after all the BBC runs at 1.8Mhz as well as the Atari, and I don't see any huge speed benefits to be had from the Atari hardware in this kind of game? Also presuming Braben and Bell used efficient line-draw and division routines. What do you think about this Mark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheddy Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 Nearly forgot: PacLand (Please JetBoot, resurrect this project!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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