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The history of rolling thunder remastered 2023 documentary
Hey everyone, just wanted to share my latest video endeavor were I do a brand-new video on one of my favorite run and gun games rolling thunder. I talked about the Amiga and also the speed hack that was released last year.
Hope you enjoy it. [ Show youtube player ] |
08 September 2023, 07:43 | #2 |
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Nice segment of McGeezer fixing the Amiga port.
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08 September 2023, 08:55 | #3 |
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very nice video of one my favorite arcade game of my childhood.
Oh and strangely you've not mention the excellent Shinobi by Sega who is for me an improved version of Rolling Thunder. |
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If you're ever looking for something new to research how about Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters I loved the game on the Amstrad (such time care and love went into this port) and Amiga so I bought a dedicated arcade machine. Last edited by alexh; 08 September 2023 at 09:44. |
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Download: http://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/Th...quired.%5d.adf I haven't tried it myself though. |
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I did mention it but only briefly. Shinobi was released six months after rolling thunder so it's possible it was merely a coincidence that the gameplay was so similar
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Download doesn't seem to work, but I think a whole new port of Rolling Thunder might be needed. What was released is ghastly in every way, even for such an early release. It never seems to end up on lists of the worst Arcade > Amiga conversions, but for me its as pathetic as almost any, considering that they didn't even implement the gameplay properly, and the arcade original is hardly technically demanding in a way OutRun or Power Drift were.
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yeah its 1 of those contenders for "modern remake" which looks like its needed badly rather than fixing up the original.
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The animations on this game are so well done, that I always wondered if some rotoscopy of the real characters was used to draw the frames.
Same as with Another World, and Flashback. |
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In June 1988 the Amiga conversion earned the title 'conversion flop of the month' in the German ASM magazine:
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I remember, reading somewhere (probably on this forum) where coders discussed how Tiertex actually managed to achieve that slow of a speed, because even on an very unoptimized code, it should run faster. |
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You could try to contact Donald Campbell via linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/donald-campbell-8a59864
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