Battle of the Ports

[DeathAdder]

Could you add Tiger Heli / Twin Cobra?

[Yakumo]

Could you add Tiger Heli / Twin Cobra?

Sure, why not. As long as there are more than 3 or more ports that aren't emulation.

[DeathAdder]

Arcade, Famicom, PC Engine and Megadrive off the top of my head are the ones I know of. A quick wiki suggests a couple more.

Kyuukyoku Tiger, not Tiger Heli I meant.

No idea how easy it is to emulate them.

Cheers for doing the shows. I always enjoy watching them.

[Asura]

Mr Heli had an Amiga release too; I had it.

[Mayhem]

Mr Heli came out on the C64 too.

[Yakumo]

Mr. Heli has been added to the list of future episodes along with Kyuukyoku Tiger.

[Nu-Eclipse]

I guess it's because the arcade Shadow Dance wasn't all that good. I much prefer the Mega Drive release. Not sure why ESWAT was changed though.

Shadow Dancer is a fine coin-op. Only problem is the brutal difficulty of it.

[QualityChimp]

It's a testament to how much we enjoy these videos that we keep asking for more, MORE MOAR!

I love the boxart for all the Tiger Heli games. Probably more than the games, if I'm honest!









Oh wait, that's Charl Schwartzel, not Tiger Woods.

[Yakumo]

Great stuff guys. Started work on the next show last night. Followers on Twitter will know what it's going to be @RetroCoreYakumo

[Yakumo]

Shadow Dancer - Battle of the Ports!

[Asura]

This is going to sound weird, but I have very distinct memories of playing Shadow Dancer for the Amiga, but the version in that video isn't the one I played.

Yakumo, did they later do a port of the Megadrive's game to the Amiga, as Shadow Dancer 2 or something?

I remember it very well because the dog was such a weird idea; it didn't look anything like the version in this video.

[Yakumo]

There's only one version of Shadow Dancer on the Amiga as far as I'm aware.

[chojin]

Enjoyed that, loved the arcade version and MD version although different is still a firm favourite of mine.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Enjoyed that, loved the arcade version and MD version although different is still a firm favourite of mine.

They're both excellent games in their own right. Tsukachan's work on Shadow Dancer's music (especially the MD version of the game) is outstanding.

But I STILL don't understand why the MD port is a re-adapted game, especially when the MS version is basically a port of the coin-op (a similar stunt that was pulled with E-SWAT).

[Arashikage]

I still feel bitter over Mean Machine's drubbing of MD Shadow Dancer, did they actually play the game? It's a tremendously underrated game, one of the machine's finest.