Ocean Software‘s Match Day is up there with the very worst football games on the Commodore 64. It was first released in 1984, following the original Spectrum version.
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PSI Warrior, Commodore 64
Created by Paul Voysey and Tayo Olowu, with graphics by Yemi Olowu, PSI Warrior is an almost mythical game, released fairly early in the C64‘s lifetime (1984) by Beyond Software.
Sir Lancelot, Amstrad CPC
An Amstrad conversion of the minor hit, Sir Lancelot, which was first seen on the ZX Spectrum. It was published by Melbourne House in 1984.
Raid On Bungeling Bay, NES/Famicom
The NES/Famicom version of Will Wright‘s famous overhead-scrolling helicopter game, Raid On Bungeling Bay, was developed by Hudson Soft in Japan and first published by Brøderbund on 22nd Feb 1985 (despite what it says on the game’s title screen).
Montezuma’s Revenge, Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 port of Robert Jaeger‘s classic platform adventure, Montezuma’s Revenge, is a cut-down version of the original. It reportedly has half the number of rooms seen in the original Atari 8-bit version. That said: it’s still relatively authentic in its look and feel.
Montezuma’s Revenge, Commodore 64
Robert Jaeger‘s classic platform game, Montezuma’s Revenge, was released for the Commodore 64 in 1984, and I believe that Jaeger did the conversion himself, so the game is pretty much identical to the Atari 8-bit original. At least, in terms of presentation.
3D Starstrike, Amstrad CPC
Written by Graeme Baird, Ian Oliver and Andrew Onions, 3D Starstrike was the hit-outta-nowhere* from Realtime Software, in 1984. Well, actually, that was the ZX Spectrum version, which came out the year before this – the Amstrad CPC port. Which was released in 1985.
*= Aided somewhat by the success of Atari‘s famous Star Wars arcade machine.
Montezuma’s Revenge, Apple II
Parker Brothers published an Apple II version of Robert Jaeger‘s classic platform game, Montezuma’s Revenge, in 1984.
Amidar, Atari 2600
A conversion of the 1981 arcade game (of the same name) from Konami, and published by Stern in North America in 1982.
Tournament Tennis, ColecoVision
Tournament Tennis on the ColecoVision looks and plays similarly to Match Point on the ZX Spectrum. It was first released by Imagic in 1984.