Heh yeah. I was mainly using Chase HQ as an example of the same sort of game type (with slightly different gameplay) being ported superbly to CPC which just makes the Outrun port look even more shoddy and pathetic.
For all we complain about the CPC version, at least our version handles corners. The poor old MSX could have at least been a Speccy version with a red car but as soon as you get to a corner it jerks around. Its like the car is going straight, jerks, goes straight again. Such a shame.
The one feeling you get about both the Spectrum and Amstrad versions is that given a few more weeks it could have been a good game. Although I don't think we would have ever got sound on 128k models, US Gold being the publisher.
I'll review Chase HQ another day! But it's not secret that I think it's great on the CPC and Speccy.