The Atari 2600 version of Namco‘s classic Pac-Man is notorious for being terrible… And it is truly rubbish… The animation of Pac-Man himself is awful, the ghosts flicker horribly*, the transition from a vertical maze to a horizontal one has not been well-handled, and the general all-round authenticity of the game is highly questionable…
*= Which is why I’ve chosen to alter some of these grabs, to give a better representation of the game, as seen on-screen.
The Atari 2600 version of the classic arcade shooter, Gorf, was programmed by Alex Leavens and first released in 1982 by CBS Video Games. It is a cut-down version of the arcade original*, with graphics and scenes that barely recreate it.
* = Yes, it doesn’t have the fifth ‘Galaxian‘ stage, which most commercial ports of the game are missing due to rights issues. Enhanced homebrew ports of the game have since re-instated it.
The Atari 2600 version of the classic arcade game, Missile Command, was programmed by Rob Fulop and initially released in April 1981 by Atari, Inc.
Like the majority of Android games (although certainly not all of them), this 2010 mobile version of Sega‘s classic Super Monkey Ball is available as an advertisement-filled free version, or a paid version with no ads.
Continue reading Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition, Android
The ZX Spectrum of Beach Head II was developed by Platinum Productions and published by US Gold in 1985.
The ZX Spectrum version of Beach Head was developed by Ocean Software and published by US Gold in 1984.
The C64 version of Taito‘s classic arcade game, Qix, was developed by Threshold Research and published in 1989 – in North America only – by Taito themselves. Continue reading Qix, Commodore 64
Developed by UK-based Sumo Digital, OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast is an enhanced version of Sega‘s OutRun 2 arcade game, with extra tracks, cars and other features.
OutRun 2 SP on the PlayStation 2 is a conversion of the updated arcade game from Sega. It was developed by Sega in cooperation with UK-based Sumo Digital and was released in Japan only in 2004. Note, though, that a version of OutRun 2 SP was released in the West as part of a different game…
The Soulcalibur series is a line of classic arcade fighting games, created by Namco and their dedicated development team, “Project Soul“. And this is a conversion of Soulcalibur II – from arcade to GameCube – first published in 2003.
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