Amigos: Amiga Game Reviews

Domark and Vektor Grafix's 1988 Amiga port of Star Wars converts Atari’s legendary vector arcade coin-op into fluid raster graphics with digitised sound samples and mouse-controlled precision.

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Sales Curve’s 1989 port of The Ninja Warriors brings Taito’s ultra-wide cybernetic beat 'em up to the Amiga with letterboxed grit and an incredible chip-synth soundtrack.

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On this week's Amigos, we pack our passports and brace ourselves for some of the cheapest enemy hitboxes in 16-bit history to review Double Dragon III on the Amiga, Storm's highly accurate yet deeply flawed 1992 arcade conversion.🏆 Support our wacky, weekly Amiga podcast!https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcastMore Amiga Game Reviews:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaD3XRYu1lQRUrXT5aRTSNL5wMCkMOVlBSubscribe to the podcast version of the show at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/amigospodcast0:00 Take your wallet to the cleaners0:32 Arcade Release Dates1:52 Arcade Devleopers3:32 Arcade Cabinet Details6:18 Game Story7:06 First game with microtransactions?8:00 Special Moves9:00 Extra "Guys"12:20 Buying Weapons13:10 Stage Locations19:10 The NES Version was different and better23:38 Amiga Developers25:14 Boat's thoughts28:21 Aaron's thoughts35:54 Arcade Game Sales Performance37:08 Arcade vs Amiga Side by Side Comparison38:17 Amiga Magazine Reviews39:42 Listener Reviews41:10 Coming Up Next Week!#Amiga #Retrocomputing

On this week's Amigos, we stuff our swag bags full of diamonds and slam the vault doors shut to review Lock 'N' Chase, the classic 1981 arcade bank heist that tests your reflexes against a relentless squad of chasing constabulary.

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0:00 Slamming doors in the face of the po po
0:41 Arcade Background
1:01 The DECCO Cassette System
1:43 List of DECCO Games
2:29 Pac-Man Fever
3:47 What about Donkey Kong?
4:20 Game backstory
5:02 Game Mechanics
5:54 Aaron's arcade memories
7:50 Names of the police dudes
9:19 Super Pac-Man differences
10:49 Entrances and exits
12:00 Sound design
13:50 Game hardware
14:55 Game controls
16:39 DECCO Machine Copy Protection
18:15 Home ports
21:27 Recently sold cabinets
22:08 Amiga port developers
23:32 Port cheats
23:54 How it plays vs arcade
24:37 Amiga vs Arcade side by side
26:09 Gameplay strategies
27:44 How much blitter was used
28:23 Bugs present
30:11 Praise of the gate timing
31:44 Boat's final thoughts
35:21 Aaron's final thoughts
36:14 Listener reviews
38:08 Coming up next week!

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This year, instead of reviewing a game, we talk to various attendees from around the world!