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'''Gryzor ''' was a port from the '''Arcade ''' game '''Contra ''' from '''Konami'''.

The Home Computer's home computer ports (Amstrad CPC port tooincluded) were mostly produced under licence by the Famous amongst Amstrad CPC user [[Ocean|OCEAN]] , the company from Englandfamous amongst Amstrad CPC user for it's good ports.

As said, '''Gryzor ''' is probably one of the best game available on Amstrad CPC, actually a port from Konami's '''Contra'''. Contra was often renamed from country to country and is probably featured in every Top10 games system to system for this standard.This is a "Run and Gun" style game, such as games like : [[Robocop]], Midnight resistance..more or less obscure reasons.

With vertical, horizontal and 3d (sort of) actionContra was renamed '''Gryzor''' because the term '''Contra''' could refer to "the Iran-Contra affair" or "Nicaraguan Contra rebels"... which were hot international political topics in 1987.

*Awesome colorfoul Being quite faithful to the arcade's colourful graphics.*Nice MusicIt exploits CPC's mode 0 very well.

*various levels and gameplays.varying gameplay

*lack of a proper 2 player modean entire stage.*lack of certain bosses/mini-bosses

This In CPC owner's view it is probably the best port amongst 8 bit computers, and stands up well against the other 8-bits in a fair comparison. It is always refered referenced as such by Amstrad CPC fans in the "8 -bit war" when C64 users claim it as a lame machinewars.

Even the [[Commodore 64|C64]] port was and [[MSX]] ports, two machines often judged superior to Amstrad CPC in many ways, were somewhat inferior compared to the CPC version. Unsurprisingly the MS-DOS PC version was miles behind too.

Note== Pictures ==  {||-|[[Image: Gryzor_Run_Legs.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor run animation - legs - combine with body animation]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Run_Legs_Parts.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor run animation - legs - sprites coloured]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Run_Body.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor run animation - body - combine with legs animation]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Run_Body_Parts.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor run animation - body - sprites coloured]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Fall_Back.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor fall back animation]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Fall_Back_Parts.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor fall back animation - sprites coloured]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Level1.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor level 1]]|} ==Technical== The MSX version engine code is a very respectable, modest port of Contrasimilar to [[Renegade]]. It This is NOT called Gryzor, expected because it's actually CONTRAwas written by the same programmer [[John Brandwood]]. So  Similarities:* Sprites are stored upside down (bottom to top)* Sprites are defined for mode 0 with pen 0 as transparent* An animation is composed of frames. Each frame is defined like Renegade, where there are one canor more sprites with x,y offset and width, height. * The tile map is composed of macro tiles.* Macro tiles are 4 tiles wide.* Each tile is 4x8 mode 0 pixels stored left-to-right and top-to-bottom.* Supports 128 KB of RAM (to load the whole game at once)* Each level't compare that one s data appears to define the CPC version. Secondanimations, this wiki doesn't need excessive amount of expressive map and perceptive statements made by CPC fanboyssprites. Differences:* Sprites are stored with pixels from left-to-right like normal. In other words * Unlike Renegade, the sprite draw list can have multiple entries for a character. For example the run and shooting animation, is two separate items in the list, each with it doesn't need things like "Epic Fail" and "sweet CPC version"s own animation. Whoever wrote that The legs and the MSX version body having different animations allowing the leg animation to be re-used with multiple body animations.* Level tiles appear to be shared across all levels* Macro tiles are either 8 or 7 tiles tall.* Level tiles are shared across levels.* The encoding of Contra the map is epic fail obviously uses little brains and instead flaunts his fanboy love different.* Unlike Renegade the sprites do not appear to be sorted in Y - at least not for CPClevel 0. On a related note* The animation data has an additional byte before the number of frames. This appears to be used for temporary data.* Character y origin appears to be at waist position. Level 2, what does have where the action is inside, the left half of the screen is drawn and then the graphics for the corridor are mirrored to say about draw the ZX Spectrum version?right half.

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