Shaggy the Atarian Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I suppose that if anyone will appreciate this, it'll be here on AA On a non-arcade sidenote, I imagine that had Atari been more forward thinking about it in the late 80s, they really could have made Bentley Bear a real mascot by porting the arcade version to the 7800 and Lynx, but also by putting him into other genres (like Nintendo did with Mario and games like Dr. Mario, Mario Golf, etc.). I also wonder how the Jaguar would handle a 3D Crystal Castles in the style of Super Mario 64 (using shaded polys, of course)? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris+++ Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 (edited) Great job! Very thorough! I really enjoyed that. The best home conversion was done by Thundervision for the C64. Curiously, it's much better than AtariSoft's own adaptation for the same computer. (I can't find a YT film of the Thundervision game that doesn't horizontally stretch the playfield and make it look quite different.) This kind of explains why there are two different C64 versions, in case anyone's interested. I disagree with the writer that Thundervision's translation only has an "edge" over the Atari version. I think it plays a lot better. https://www.skunkworx.org/goa/cgi-scripts/game-system-review.php?game=crystal-castles&system=c-64&systemext=thundervision Edited February 17, 2022 by Chris+++ Forgot something. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy the Atarian Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 Thanks! Also I did not know about that Thundervision version, thanks for the link! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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