Battle of the Ports

It's indeed a cool and addicting game. I have memories of my older brother playing it a lot, during the short time we had a TK95 (ZX Spectrum clone). I don't think he even knows a MSX2 port exists. For me, I do remember playing it in one of my old phones, a Sony K750. Probably one of the best Java mobile games i ever played.

Overall, i was surprised to know there weren't any major console releases for this. And i have to say, it was funny to see the Gameboy version pretty much destroying most of the european computers. Even the animation was better.

 

Yeah, the GB version is really nice I was surprised by that port. The MSX 2 version has got to be the best though. Such a cool port even if it is unofficial.

 

A game I really don't like on this week's Battle of the Ports but since it was requested a million times, here it is.

 

Another classic from Tehkan this week with Star Force

 

great vids as always

 

Thanks. Next week is a game I think is pretty crap but I'm sure it has its fans.

 

Drugs, Pimps and gore from the late 80's. It's got to be NARC.

 

Nice! I happen to really like NARC so I'm definitely on board there. Also why don't you like Arkanoid?

 

i like narc, thought the amiga port was good when i was a kid.

 

Man, you guys will not like my opinions on Narc. I think it's rubbish.

 

How many of you know about this classic from ADK?

 

never heard of it in the west

 

Haha, why is that? It's a bit too short and somewhat unbalanced at times but I think there's a lot of fun to be had with it.

 

There was a Western Arcade release under the name of Kyros but it seems to be quite rare.

I just don't find Williams style of Arcade games fun. They truly unbalanced and in my opinion quite ugly. This is just my personal though though. It doesn't mean the game really is rubbish. I'm sure there are many games I like that people think are total crap

 

This week's entry surprised me as I hadn't heard of the game. I really like ADK stuff, but I suppose that I'm usually thinking of ADK Neo Geo games. What doesn't surprise me is how they always manage to screw things up ports on home computers in Europe.

 

It was surprising to me as well. The game itself, not the terrible home computer ports.

I wonder how much the license costed, specially when these ports were sold for cheap.

 

You got me thinking. Apparently Desolator was 12.99 GBP on disk in 1988. Per a random Google, that would convert to ~30-33 2017 GBP...which is about 40 USD. 8.99 GBP tape version would equate to about 30 2017 USD.

Doesn't seem cheap to me for the garbage they got...

However, those $50 NES games from I was a kid, when adjusted, equate to about 100 2017 USD, apparently. Quite a bit more..but a much better quality product (usually) in my opinion.

I imagine that it was fun that Euro home computer games were so cheap that kids could actually buy them...but unnnngh...what they got.

 

This week on Battle of the Ports I bring you a classic from Irem, Image Fight.

 

Nothing irks me more than a port of a classic game with one of those smoothing filters destroying the pixelated art. Some of these games don't even give you the option of turning off the filter. Why! How difficult could it be to supply the option?! Unless they destroyed every single art asset so it's not a filter causing the effect.

 

I also really dislike the blurry filters. Even in the early days of emulation I thought they were total arse and still think that now.