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[AMSTRAD CPC] Pac-Land - Longplay & Review
10 August 2011, 6:55 am

 

	[AMSTRAD CPC] Pac-Land - Longplay & Review Review and longplay of PacLand on the Amstrad CPC! One of the earliest scrolling platform games in the arcades gets a conversion 5 years later... games had moved on a lot by then so how does this play? Based on the short lived cartoon series, Pac Man comes alive in a silly story of rescuing fairies! (c) Namco/Midway 1984 & Grandslam/Quicksilva 1989 cpc-power.com en.wikipedia.org	From: Xyphoe Views: 1 1 ratings
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[MacDeath]

8bit war video.


Strangely the speccy versions seems to be CPC ported, as you can see some letter characters are in "mode0"...

quite strange...

Needless to say the C64 version features a proper scrolling so easily wins the contest.

That's perhaps the main critic to do on the CPC version : it lacks a proper Scrolling, but also it could have used some bits of extra animation for some sprites.
And finally it seems to slowdown a little bit.

But on the other hand the sounds are good and the graphics are quite accurate compared to the arcade.

It pulls out a decent Mario-Like feeling.

[Xyphoe]

Yea it could have been quite a decent little simple fun platformer, but it's ruined by the flick screen scrolling, shame

[Gryzor]

I always hated this game. I found it to be kids stuff, like a coloring book or something.

Why do the 8-bit Wars vids have Dizzy as a Spectrum character? Doesn't make sense!

[MacDeath]

Why do the 8-bit Wars vids have Dizzy as a Spectrum character? Doesn't make sense!

The guy is a speccy fanboy.
He can't see colours.

[mr_lou]

Xyphoe, I'd love the following from you:

A list of all the videos you've done, so I could select which ones I'd like on a DVD-collection. Then you'd make me a DVD ISO with a menu for me to select which long-play video I wanted to watch. Perfect when being stuck in bed with the flu or something.
Gimme the list and name your price. 

[Gryzor]

Xyphoe, I'd love the following from you:

A list of all the videos you've done, so I could select which ones I'd like on a DVD-collection. Then you'd make me a DVD ISO with a menu for me to select which long-play video I wanted to watch. Perfect when being stuck in bed with the flu or something.
Gimme the list and name your price. 

Well, couldn't be easier than http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Xyphoe#grid/uploads . Then download them vids (maybe through JDownloader, it's very nice and automagic) and use ConvertXToDVD to convert them...

[Shaun M. Neary]

I used to love this game in the arcades!
I could never find the CPC version of it in any shops in Ireland though, it wasn't until 1995 when a certain someone from this very forum (you know who you are!) sent this to me on a disk close to Christmas. Loved clicking around on it until i got to round 3, and couldn't for the life of me work out the springboards.


In the arcades, it was a case of jump and keep tapping right, but it didn't work on the CPC version.


Thanks to this video, I finally got there. Will have fun with this one now.