Worse Things Happen at Sea (1984, ZX Spectrum) vs. Sailor's Delight (1987, MSX). Two very similar games by two completely different devs.
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Worse Things Happen at Sea (1984, ZX Spectrum) vs. Sailor's Delight (1987, MSX). Two very similar games by two completely different devs.
Another scene from Surf City (CD-I, 1994). It's from a song called California Girls. Here's some random women in swimsuits.
Another scene from Surf City (CD-I, 1994). It's from a song called California Girls. Here's Wendy Weaver showing her bikinis.
Surf City (CD-i, 1994) is a really cool interactive musical by Philips Sidewalk Studio, with music by Jan & Dean, The Beach Boy, The Ventures, Jerry Cole & His Spacemen. The animation quality in this is excellent!!
That's a horrible remake! Reminds me of how bad Giana Sisters 2D on Steam is, which takes the beautiful pixel-art version from Nintendo DS and ruins everything about it. No care or polish anywhere...
hi, i played the newzealand story untold adventure on steam, the remake of taito's 1988 classic arcade platformer, it's very bad!! i was gonna save this for a stream but it's too much of a downer
so here's a thread of things that are bad about it
There are still people out there using the 15+ year old blueMSX over the up-to-date openMSX... blueMSX can't run Akanbe Dragon properly, for instance. The map screens are COMPLETELY static.
Here's those weird diagonal lines I was talking about earlier:
Yeah, no snakes in this. The enemies are just moai heads and ghosts. The player characters are called Up-kun and Close-kun in Japanese, and Wrappy and Cappy in English.
Illustrations from the Japanese MSX manual of Q*Bert (1986, Konami). These ones were a bitch to clean up, as the manual was printed on this weird paper that had diagonal lines EVERYWHERE. Anyway, thanks to @bitsofbas.bsky.social for the original raw scans. (:
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Patrako from Cleopatra Fortune (Arcade) did an oopsie. This animation happens when you get a combo of 6 or higher.
Cleopatra Fortune (Arcade, 1995):
Back-Track! This TRS-80 Color Computer maze game has some nice looking 3D visuals from 1983:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jorZ...
I thought for a moment that this was a homebrew game that someone made for an old system in recent years, but no, it was a commercial game back in the 80s.
Before Super Nintendo and its Mode 7, we got scaling on the TRS-80 Color Computer back in 1980! There's some nice roaring and weeping sounds too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8cc...
Another death scene from War at Home (Windows, 2001):
War at Home (Windows, 2001) is one funny FMV rail shooter from Iran. It's clear that the developers and actors had fun making it. Just take a look at this failure clip, where the player gets shot by one of the enemies.
This strut from the Amstrad CPC/GX4000 game, Batman: The Movie, cracks me up:
Here's Tam and Rit from the arcade version of Soldam:
The Rodland girls Tam and Rit from Soldam (Game Boy):
There's a reason why the game is really difficult and cryptic. It was a competition game, where the winner would get a solid gold bar. I wonder if anyone won that. The closing date was January 17th, 1986.
Want a gaming challenge? Try to finish The Wreck MSX game. I bet you can't do it either! 😅 It's a first-person dungeon game by Electric Software from 1984. Here, you can even use these maps from the "Het grote MSX peeks, pokes en truuks boek" book to help(?) you.
imgur.com/a/h8NfvM5
Interesting glitch after finishing a full loop with max score in Konami's Q-Bert (MSX):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIT4...
There's some cool looking screens in Pachinko Monogatari: Pachi-slot Moaru Deyo!! (Super Famicom):
For those who don't know, Masashi Tashiro (AKA Marcy) is a Japanese former TV performer and a founding member of the band Rats & Star. He is nowadays better known for his controversies involving voyeurism, drug uses, and arrests.
High-res front cover scan of 'Tashiro Masashi no Princess ga Ippai' for the MSX2. This game was also ported to the Famicom. Big thanks to @bitsofbas.bsky.social for the raw scan! Masashi Tashiro has many princesses, indeed.
i.imgur.com/gMZOgFD.jpeg
I'd want to be able to post pictures in Chat.
Princess portraits from Tashiro Masashi no Princess ga Ippai:
There exist a PC-88 version of Back to the Future action game, developed by Makoto Ichinoseki and published by Pony Canyon, which is lost media. If anyone has or finds this, please dump it.
That would be great! Shame about Compile's demise. Nowadays D4 Enterprise owns most of Compile IPs (the company behind Project EGG/EGGCONSOLE), and Sega obviously Puyo Puyo.
In Casino Games (1989, Master System), if you fold in poker 10 times in a row, you get this weird silent scene of a walking dinosaur. Silly Compile!
