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Originally Posted by ImmortalA1000
There were two huge problems for CDTV that Commodore could not help with.
1. By 1990 no American company would put together a team of 30 coders/designers/ECS specific pixel artists/musicians to do a proper CD based game conversion as Defender of the Crown II shows can be amazing for that hardware when done right. Basically it is an Amiga 1000 with 1mb chip ram and a CD drive, which is why it is called the CD1000 by the way. Nobody would buy a CDTV for rubbish like Xenon II sorry, crap OCS disk based shmup with 16 colours and a free CD-single effectively playing in the background. FAIL
2. Commodore had stopped doing any software once they had gone Kamikaze on their profits after Jack Tramiel was forced to leave by the childish Irving Gould. So they could not bring out a single title to sell the machine.
Defender of the Crown CES demo and release of pixel perfect Marble Madness would have sold quite a few more Amiga 1000 machines if they had been in proper retail outlets, even if they were just selling Sony Trinitron TVs or Bang and Olufsen Hi-fi's. It was easier to complete a PS1 RPG than find a shop selling the Amiga 1000 back then. If you thought the Amiga A1000 was just unlucky, the CD1000 was like experiencing a car crash in slow motion....with the controls of the car not being responsive in any way.
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Unlike Sega or Nintendo, Commodore didn’t make much software to sell their machines they left it to 3rd parties, bar a couple of later titles they nabbed off Cinemaware and just updated.
Personally Xenon II like it or hate it was one of the better examples of enhancing an Amiga game for CDTV, with the full cd soundtrack, updated front end, speech and profiles and pictures, certainly a very nice update if you loved the game. Much better than straight ports than most of the CDTV games were i.e Turricans, Monkey Island, Lemmings etc were a piss take for consumers, only a handful of games bothered to include extras, so a little unfair to pick out Xenon II at least they took a risk and and supported the machine, Falcon was another great update along with Sim City, other than those its really picking at straws.