01 March 2004, 21:24 | #1 |
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ST games that never made on Amiga...
Don't know if someone have already noticed this, but I ever guessed why some conversions were made only for ST and never ported on Amiga.
Strange, because graphics capabilities of these two machines were, in a certain way, extremely similar. And usually, when a conversion was planning for one of these machines, someone else was working on the other! Just some titles for example: Super Sprint, International Karate, Gauntlet, Hatris, Karateka, Oids, Game Over 2, Enduro Racer, Xevious... Not to mention other non-coversion titles...like "Where time stood still"... What's the reason about this "racism"? And I'm talking about their first years, where these two machines were solded in all their splendor, and anyone spend the day (well, almost!) to prove his computer was better than the one of his friend/rival. It should be great if someone can try to convert some of those titles on our machine... (a bit presumptuos, eh?) However, talking about the conversion titles, could someone post a complete list of these "amiga missing games"? |
01 March 2004, 21:42 | #2 |
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Galahad started work on a Super Sprint conversion. I am unsure how far he got though.
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07 March 2004, 12:41 | #4 |
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I bet you find that the reason they never made it to the Amiga were economic ones.
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07 March 2004, 12:52 | #5 |
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Galahad mentioned that he would try and convert Oids too didn`t he ? this and the Super Sprint one was before his life changed etc.. so who knows whats going on with them now!
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Re: ST games that never made on Amiga...
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If selling to a smaller market wasn't a factor, then development costs and convenience probably were. I imagine it was more economically viable for a game to be published on the Amiga if it could be conveniently ported across by the ST coders without having to spend too much time doing so. For the publishers, this meant that a separate Amiga team of coders didn't have to be paid, and there was less financial risk involved if actual sales fell significantly short of projected sales in the smaller Amiga market. |
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07 March 2004, 18:04 | #9 | |
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Re: Re: ST games that never made on Amiga...
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BTW, I never noticed that there was already a thread listing some "unreleased" games... http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9629 |
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