CPC games with multiple portings

[felow]

...I mean original release, not on a budget.

[Shaun M. Neary]

Someone can tell me if the package of DD and DDII two versions was the same?

Check cpc-power for all the different packaging. Although honestly, I've never seen either DD or DDII as a standalone release in Ireland, either as a 64k or a 128k version at full price. First time I found Double Dragon was on the 100% Dynamite compilation in 1990, and that was the crappy Dro-Soft version. But then, disc based software seemingly wasn't a major priority here in Dublin, tapes were pushed a lot heavier, so I'm assuming that was different in the UK.

The game was such a farce in terms of the Amstrad release because other formats had seen it well over a year before the Amstrad did. AA didn't even get to review it, which was a rarity. I wasn't even aware of the 128k version for several years later, probably because I had a 464.

Regarding DDII. Only ever saw the Tronix budget version, but again, cpc-power has scans of the full priced version cover, also worth having a nose at. =)

[jason9]

CpcRulez has a package gallery for all versions. It seems both (I an II) had a regularly release and a budget. Also both shared quite the same artwork and packaging:
http://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/double_dragon_1.htm
http://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/double_dragon_1-animagic.htm
http://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/double_dragon_2.htm
http://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/double_dragon_2-animagic.htm
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[Cholo]

Not entirely sure what counts, but here goes:
- the Bubble Bobble 4CPC remake
- Ghostbusters has 2 versions, one with a bounching ball and one with a arrow.
- Dizzy has a christmas version on a Amstrad Action covertape where the items are placed differently than the orginal Dizzy.
- Most Microprose games like Silent Service & Pirates! has multiple language versions, with different box art as well.
- The tape version Final Fight had an error so it crashed after a couple of levels. A few years ago a fixed version was released.
- Jack and the Beanstalk had a similar error. A repaired version was released long time ago that makes the game playable beyond map 3
- Many games was released with mutiple versions, even on the same tape and/or disc. This was usually bacause of the giant 16k screen size of the amstrad. So games like Yi Ar Kung Fu has 2 versions on the same tape .. one side has the game with the waterfall background and the version on the other side has the temple background. But the disc version uses both backgrounds in the same one version aka has the waterfall for the first 4 char fights and temple for the last 4. Barbarian probably takes the prices as it has 4 different versions on one tape. I recall seeing a strategy game (name escapes me) that had both a single player game on one side of the tape & a multiplayer version on the other.
- text/adventure games quite often has muliple system versions (cpc, pcw, spec3+) on the same disk and even on the same side of the disk. Quite common to have a normal version and a "extended graphics" version for 128k as well.