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In article <May.5.09.40.18.1988.19483@athos.rutgers.edu>, knutsen@athos.rutgers.
> Roadblaster (singular, I believe) is indeed excellent, but then, the
> quality of the average Atari coin-op is very high.   Witness 720,
> Rolling Thunder, I Robot, Dragon Spirit, Gauntlet and Gauntlet II,
> Major Havoc, APB, et. al.

The UK software houses are very fond of arcade conversions at the moment
(some of which have actually made it to the market). I thought the
games fanatics out there might like a list of what to look out for !

Below is a list of arcade conversions either availbable now or under
development for the ST by UK software houses. I've probably left a
number of titles out, this is all from memory but I think I've got
the publishers right !

Some of the comments have been "gleaned" from various UK ST and
Games  magazines.

First the actual arcade conversions:

Title               Publisher           Notes

Roadrunner          US Gold        -    Now available in a
Indianna Jones        "            -    4 game compilation
Gauntlet              "            -
Metrocross            "            -

Rampage             Activision

Buggy boy           Elite               Getting good reviews

Road Blasters       Activision ?        Under development

Xenon               Melbourne House     ARCADE QUALITY vertical scroller

Sidewinder          Melbourne House        "      "       "       "  (easier
                                        than Xenon)

Roadwars            Melbourne House     Difficult to describe ! Good graphics
                                        Gameplay not great.

Gauntlet 2          US Gold             Just out. 4-PLAYER with adaptor.

Space Harrier       Elite               Under deleopment ? Things seem to
                                        have gone quiet on this. Early reports
                                        were interesting. 8 bit versions
                                        have been out for over a year.

Star Wars           Domark              Good conversion, maybe a little slow.

Empire Strikes Back Domark              Under development.

Return of Jedi      Domark              Under development ? For Xmas.

Rolling Thunder     US Gold ?           Just out. Competemt conversion.

Slap Fight          Ocean               Average Conversion.

Ikari Warriors      Elite               Average Conversion.

Outrun              US Gold             Good Conversion.

Bubble Bobble       Firebird            Good Conversion.

Bionic Commandos    US Gold             Under development.

Halls of Kairos     US Gold             Under development. Sold as "Desolator".

Alien Syndrome      The Edge            Status unknown ?

Darius              ??                  A company had a Darius machine on
                                        display at last years PCW show. Nothing
                                        has been mentioned since.

There's also a few original games that may be worth getting:

The Last Ninja      System 3            Under development (for a looong time!).

Return to Genesis   Firebird            Smooth horizontal, parallax, scroller.

Leathernecks        Microdeal           4 Player.

Whirlygig           Firebird            Under development. Screen shots
                                        look good.

Black Lamp          Firebird            Good platform game.

Backlash            Novagen             16 bit version of Encounter (on the
                                        8 bit and C64). Mindless blasting.
                                        Its great !

Damocles            Novagen             Under development. Sequel to Mecenary.
                                        Graphics are completely different.
                                        Gameplay ?

Captain Blood       Infogrammes         Recent release from a French company.
                                        English language version just out.
                                        Space exploration. Great graphics,
                                        good sound. Takes some time to get
                                        into it !

Carrier Command     Firebird            Wow ! Combat/war game with arcade/
                                        Flight simulator graphics. Solid
                                        filled 3-D graphics. Animation is
                                        very smooth.

Virus               Firebird            This is the game used to "sell" the
                                        Acorn Archimedes - difficult to
                                        describe. Byte carried a screen
                                        shot in a news item about the
                                        Archimedes. Reports of the conversion
                                        are very favourable.

Starglider 2        Firebird            Under development. Should be ready
                                        "soon". Firebird have started to
                                        advertise it. Graphics are solid,
                                        filled, 3-D. Should be as smooth
                                        as Carrier Command.

I have a mono monitor so have not actually got many of these games,
but I have seen and even played some of those that have been released.

Have fun !



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