Tag Archives: Peter J. Cook

Commando, Atari ST

The Atari ST and Amiga conversions of Commando are more or less identical and play pretty much the same, because they were both developed by the same group of people, for publisher Elite Systems, and released in 1989.

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Commando, Amiga

The 1989 Amiga version of Capcom‘s classic Commando was ported and published by Elite Systems, and it’s not too bad, although it’s definitely not perfect.

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Shadow Fighter, Amiga CD32

After the disappointment of Ultimate Body Blows it is good to find a decent beat ’em up on the Amiga CD32, and this 1994 release from Gremlin is pretty good.

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Zool 2, Atari Jaguar

Gremlin Graphics‘ lollipop-endorsing, ninja hero Zool was in our faces all throughout the early ’90s. He was supposed to be a kind of ‘anti-hero alien ninja’ to mirror the ‘coolness’ of Sega‘s Sonic the Hedgehog, but only made relatively minor inroads into gaming history with two games that originated on the Amiga then were later ported to a variety of different platforms. Zool 2 was converted to the Jaguar by Imagitech Design and was released in North America and Europe in 1994, and later in Japan, in 1995.

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