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Were there classic arcade ports in the 80s?


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Here's a list of those I'm familiar with. I'm certain there are/were others. I'm not familiar with any ST versions of those you specifically mentioned though, no.

 

After Burner
Arkanoid
Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh
BattleZone
Buggy Boy
Crystal Castles
Double Dragon
Gauntlet
Gauntlet II
Ikari Warriors
Joust
Marble Madness
Millipede (was never actually unreleased)
Missile Command
Moon Patrol
Pac-Mania
Road Blasters
Robotron 2084
R-Type
Super Breakout
Super Hang-on
Tempest
Thunder Blade
Xenon
 

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16 hours ago, Hawkeye68 said:

Were there ST versions of the arcade classics (Galaga, Dig Dug, Ms PacMan, etc.) in the 80s?

 

For pre-1985 arcade games, there were lots of homebrew attempts at classic arcade games, some quite good.    But not so many official versions

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20 hours ago, zzip said:

For pre-1985 arcade games, there were lots of homebrew attempts at classic arcade games, some quite good.    But not so many official versions

Indeed. Jeff Minter, Sinister Developments and Dave Munsie were responsible for a lot of them BITD.

 

The ST got an outstanding version of Frogger in 2016 from Scott Clifford. There's a good version of Joust knocking about as well

 

We did OK for classics.

 

We've never had a near perfect port of Galaga though which is annoying (to me at least as it's my favourite old shooter). The Amiga got one recently which is a bit annoying 😆

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Love the double negative on Millipede, but great list. As mentioned, Atari themselves did a few official conversions to the ST in the early days, most of which weren't released for any other 16-bit, but are any of them as good as later unofficial clones? What about Mr Dig from the Budgie UK catalogue as a Dig Dug clone, is that any good? I'm thinking Pacman on Es as the best Pacman clone, but what about for the STFM?

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