Which are the top 5 Platform games that you played in Amstrad?
My top 5:
1)Ghosts 'n' Goblins
2)Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
3)Sorcery
4)Batman
5)Saboteur
1 Rainbow Island
2 Rick Dangerous
2 Ghosts 'n 'Goblins
4 Gryzor (if considered a platform)
5 Rick Dangerous 2
Sorry, a mistake: the second position is only for Rick Dangerous :D
1-Super Cauldron
2-Rick Dangerous 128+
3-Saboteur 2
4-Turrican
5-Batman The movie
Being strict about the concept of platform game (if that is possible in our CPCs :laugh: ) I would go for:
- Turrican I
- Turrican II
- Twinworld
- Abu Simbel
- Pop-up/Bumpy
But again, are the Turricans proper platform games? and Pop-up/Bumpy? :)
I spent hours, days, weeks with Bomb Jack. Not a bad game at all...
1) Prince of Persia
2) Rick Dangerous 2
3) Turrican
4) The Goonies
5) Satan
So hard to choose so as honourable mentions: Stormlord, Super Cauldron, Switchblade, Addams Family & a bunch others that i probably forgot.
Some very questionable entries here in my honest opinion, The Goonies?! Turrican? (Turrican 1 and 2 are great games, but they're more side scrolling shoot em up of the Forgotten Worlds category really).
Mine
1. Rick Dangerous 2
2. Prehistorik II
3. Wonder Boy (surprised? It lasts for hours though and the difficulty increases at a gradual pace)
4. Saboteur II
5. Robocop
1. Manic Miner
2. New Zealand Story
3. Prehistorik II
4. Monty Python's Flying Circus
5. Switchblade (hey, it's as much a platformer as Robocop is)
1. Dizzy - The ultimate cartoon adventure <---- What a title! :D
2. Treasure Island Dizzy
3. Fantasy Land Dizzy
4. Magicland Dizzy
5. Spellbound Dizzy
Yeah, I was a big Dizzy fan back in the day, I loved them, always wanted to do my own little remake, but never found the time (And I do know there is fan made software to create Dizzy games, but its not the same as coding your own)!
Dabz
1. Prehistorik 2
2. Switchblade (if it's allowed)
3. Robocop 2
4. Manic miner
5. Super Cauldron
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This is a difficult one:
1. Potsworth and Co
2. Rainbow Islands
3. Rick Dangerous
4. Batman the Movie
5. Prince of Persia
I would just like to add that the Adams Family, Donkey Kong and Hudson Hawk were great platformers.
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Quote from: Shaun M. Neary on 00:37, 12 September 17
Some very questionable entries here in my honest opinion, The Goonies?! ....
Well, it guess it depends on how you define "platform game". Also dont get fooled by the fairly average movie its based on. The Goonies is like the clever child of Impossible Mission & Zorro. So instead of mediocre platforms with generic robots you get clever put togeher single puzzle screen formed by platforms, ladders and a good selection levers, pulleys, gears etc. to make up the puzzle. The clever part of the game is that you control 2 chars on the same screen that you have to keep switching between and at later screens will test your "multitasking" skills. Good controls & forgiving enough that you dont get dragged down by the usual "pixel perfect" misunderstanding of what the audience wants. Difficulty is also just right, starting of easy but will test you later in multiple clever ways from coordination to can you handle randomness. Majority of people can probably finish it in a couple of days. One of the few good movie license games that shouldnt be underestimated & worth a playthru.
I enjoyed the movie as a child of the 80s, to be fair.
I just wasn't bowled over by the game. I think it had great potential, but I though the characters movements were just so fiddly that it took a lot away of what it could have been. I'm not disputing it being worth a playthough at all, it is. But in a top five of Amstrad platformers? I'm not even sure I'd place it in a top ten, nevermind five.
Strictly my opinion though. :)
Top 5 Amstrad of all time means that could be homebrew.. I see no one?? Nowadays there are lots of good games! Past was better? [emoji14]
I was expecting games like Roland in Time, Blagger and manic Miner in this thread...
Question is, what is a platform game?
1. Willy Wino's Stag Night
2. Monty On The Run
3. Blagger
4. Rainbow Islands
5. Manic Miner
1) Chuckie Egg
2) Prince of Persia
3) Head Over Heels (does isometric count?)
4) Fantasy World Dizzy
5) Exolon
Ghosts 'n' Goblins would probably be on the list, if I weren't so terrible at it, and Rainbow Islands very nearly made it.
Hi-Tec made "Scooby & Scrappy Doo" as part of their Hanna-Barbera series of games which I thought was very nice. I think Hi-Tec also might of started writing Turbo The Tortoise, though Codemasters completed it, I think the story was that Hi-Tec went broke, which was a shame, fortunately Turbo The Tortoise was released which I think is also a very nice game.
Donkey Kong
The Lost Treasure Of Cuauhtemoc
Prince Of Persia
Rainbow Islands
Rick Dangerous
This thread has made me realise that I didn't play a whole lot of platform games....
I only just have enough to list a top five:
1) Frost Byte
2) Bruce Lee
3) Jet Set Willy
4) Monty on the run
5) Chuckie Egg
The Lost Treasure of Cuauhtemoc
Rainbow Islands
The New Zealand Story
Livingstone I Presume?
Bomb Jack
Jet Set Willy
Mutant Monty
Heartland
The Covenant
Movie
Ok some might not be classed as platform but these are fav/treasured games on the Amstrad.
Turrican
Jet Set Willy
Chuckie Egg
Wino Willy
Metal Army
I'm sure there are probably tons I have forgotten but these spring to mind .
Am I the only one who played Frost Byte?
Quote from: mr_lou on 19:15, 02 October 17
Am I the only one who played Frost Byte?
I think I tried ordering this game from the UK back in the 90s, but never got it. Having read Nich's review of it, I don't think I want to play it now, because it sounds like Invasion of the Zombie Monsters and that game bugged me until I gave up.
Quote from: AMSDOS on 10:01, 03 October 17I think I tried ordering this game from the UK back in the 90s, but never got it. Having read Nich's review of it, I don't think I want to play it now, because it sounds like Invasion of the Zombie Monsters and that game bugged me until I gave up.
I really don't think it's anything like Invasion of the Zombie Monsters.
Frost Byte is a rather calm game. Adventure exploration I'd say.
Quote from: mr_lou on 10:07, 03 October 17
I really don't think it's anything like Invasion of the Zombie Monsters.
Frost Byte is a rather calm game. Adventure exploration I'd say.
I'll have to try out Frost Byte sometime just to find out.
Quote from: mr_lou on 19:15, 02 October 17
Am I the only one who played Frost Byte?
We played it in Norway too, maybe we even got it from the same source ;)
Mikro-gen was a good place to start for coders, too bad they went out of business so early. Still the coders went on to other projects.
Rafaelle Gecco
Dave Perry
Chris Hinsley
Nick Jones
http://www.crashonline.org.uk/32/mikrogen.htm (http://www.crashonline.org.uk/32/mikrogen.htm)
https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/company/mikro-gen/ (https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/company/mikro-gen/)
https://books.google.no/books?id=SdEkDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=mikrogen+team&source=bl&ots=i-onMddQ7A&sig=EchW-xT1EN2gBCFwHwUJPsr5f6M&hl=no&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjE3anSotTWAhWoA5oKHeraDfMQ6AEIWTAH#v=onepage&q=mikrogen%20team&f=false
I have been playing The Lost Treasure Of Cuauhtemoc this afternoon, and it is just amazing quality. Very impressed. Did not know the CPC could do stuff like this.
My "immediate" TOP 3 list:
- Prehistorik 2
- Rick Dangerous
- Ghost'n'Goblins (both @Xifos (https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=186) and @Golem13 (https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1887) versions)
Then, a little extra: here is a list of platform games that I really *loved* to play when I was a kid
- Beyond the Ice Palace
- Phantis
- Teenage Mutant Heroes Turtles
- Terminus
- Vixen
- Batman the Movie
- Cauldron
- Savage
- Gryzor
- Trantor
- Rolling Thunder
- Dragon Ninja
- Ghost'n'Goblins
- Exolon
- Rygar
- Freedy Hardest
- Bomb Jack
.. ah, memories. I wonder what would be the feeling to replay those games 30 years later!
Switchblade gets my vote. I liked Death Stalker too but haven't played that for years so it might be total rubbish.
On prehistorik I can't get what the fuss is all about, I've tried it a couple of times and thought it was mediocre, maybe im missing something.
QuoteOn prehistorik I can't get what the fuss is all about, I've tried it a couple of times and thought it was mediocre, maybe im missing something.
I'm pretty sure there is a nostalgic reason for this.
Quote from: tjohnson on 22:13, 15 January 21
On prehistorik I can't get what the fuss is all about, I've tried it a couple of times and thought it was mediocre, maybe im missing something.
You miss that it's not prehistorik but prehistorik II !!! The first is one of the worst game ever on cpc.
1) Prince Of Persia
2) Shinobi
3) Gryzor
4) Skate Crazy (Platform Section)
5) Rainbow Islands
The Amstrad port of Prehistorik 1 would be really good, if only it didn't run like a snail.
Prehistorik 1&2
Super Cauldron
Titus The Fox
Prince of Persia
Barbarian 2
Mine:
-Ghost'n Goblins (Golem13 version)-Bombjack-Jack the Nipper II-Wonderboy (Old version, but now New WIP... :) )-Freddy Hardest
Dizzy games generally but I like Switchblade, Prehistoric 2, Rainbow Islands and Prince of Persia.
Addams family
Rick dangerous saga
Bubble bobble 4 CPC
Bombjack
The Lost Treasure Of Cuauhtemoc
Maybe in the futur il will add Operation Alexandra, i need more time to play.
Call me old fashioned, but my favo(u)rite platform games are old fashioned:
- Jetset Willy (the one with space travel and so on)
- Chuckie Egg
- Manic Miner
- Roland in Space
- Aligata Blagger
I don't fancy most of those newfangled other games mentioned here ;)
PS: Rick Dangerous, Gryzor and Dragon Ninja (is that a platformer?) were also pretty cool.
Quote from: mr_lou on 19:15, 02 October 17
Am I the only one who played Frost Byte?
I did! But I think it was bloody hard ..