Darran@Retro Gamer Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I'm aiming to individually highlight each released arcade conversion for the Lynx and want to make sure I haven't missed any out. A.P.B. Block Out Checkered Flag Double Dragon Hard Drivin’ Hydra Joust KLAX MS Pac-Man Ninja Gaiden Pac-Land Paperboy Pit-Fighter Qix Raiden Rampage Rampart Roadblasters Robotron 2084 Rygar S.T.U.N. Runner Steel Talons Super Off-Road Toki Tournament Cyberball Xenophobe Xybots I'm not sure if the following 2 sports games are actual ports. Hockey? NFL Football? Shanghai? Also I noticed that there is a Shanghai arcade game, but again, am not sure this is a port. Super Asteroids? Not including this as they are enhanced versions Turbo Sub Again there is a Turbo Sub arcade game, but it looks like a different game Any advice greatly appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcp Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Checkered Flag : it's not the arcade port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Crumbs Mr Retro gamer.....are you people still going, have'nt seen a single issue distributed in c. london in AGES (i.e TCR/Oxford street and so on) Last issue i remember buying was when it was still published by the orig. publisher and it did a DPS on the 5200 (DPS=double page spread) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darran@Retro Gamer Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 Crumbs Mr Retro gamer.....are you people still going, have'nt seen a single issue distributed in c. london in AGES (i.e TCR/Oxford street and so on) Last issue i remember buying was when it was still published by the orig. publisher and it did a DPS on the 5200 (DPS=double page spread) We are still going, winning awards and selling very well thanks We're normally in Smiths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darran@Retro Gamer Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 Checkered Flag : it's not the arcade port. Is that official, or just not a good conversion? For example Buggy Boy on the C64 is a port of the arcade game, but not really anything like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBuell Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 (edited) Checkered Flag was a Lynx original title that was ported to Jaguar later. It only shares a name with two other versions (Arcade and ZX Spectrum). Shanghai was a port of the then-popular PC/Mac title. Hockey and NFL Football are original titles. I just wonder how you'd handle Battlezone 2000 though, since it started life as a new game, then was made to look more like the original arcade game with the new updates hidden as an easter egg. Might be safest to toss it with Super Asteroids/Missile Command in "enhanced" not a 100% port. Same with Rampage come to think of it, since it added a fourth character not in the arcade original, and wasn't called Rampage (when coded originally under Epyx) until Atari was able to license the name. Oh, and you have to include Pinball Jam, the machines were real arcade pinball machines. Elvira and the Party Monsters and Police Force were both released in 1989 under the Midway and Williams names respectively (both part of WMS). Edited October 20, 2011 by JohnBuell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darran@Retro Gamer Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 Thanks for the info JohnBuell. I've added Elvira and I'll be adding Battlezone and Super Asteroids, due to them being enhanced. It's admittedly a grey area, but I'd rather include them than not bother. Interesting about Checkered Flag, I'll ask Jerome about that as you'd think they'd just make a port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidcorp Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Shanghai? Also I noticed that there is a Shanghai arcade game, but again, am not sure this is a port. Shanghai was a Mahjong game [the first one I got addicted to as a matter of fact] and not based on any coin op as far as I know. Turbo Sub Again there is a Turbo Sub arcade game, but it looks like a different game Turbo Sub was definitely not an arcade port. Ed Schneider worked on that at Atari with Steve Ryno (designer) , Craig Ericson (producer) Bob Nagel (Artist), Rob Mariani(Aritist) while I was working on Toki. I don't recall if that was the EXACT team but they all were there and I *think* they worked on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darran@Retro Gamer Posted October 27, 2011 Author Share Posted October 27, 2011 Shanghai? Also I noticed that there is a Shanghai arcade game, but again, am not sure this is a port. Shanghai was a Mahjong game [the first one I got addicted to as a matter of fact] and not based on any coin op as far as I know. Turbo Sub Again there is a Turbo Sub arcade game, but it looks like a different game Turbo Sub was definitely not an arcade port. Ed Schneider worked on that at Atari with Steve Ryno (designer) , Craig Ericson (producer) Bob Nagel (Artist), Rob Mariani(Aritist) while I was working on Toki. I don't recall if that was the EXACT team but they all were there and I *think* they worked on it. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darran@Retro Gamer Posted November 2, 2011 Author Share Posted November 2, 2011 (edited) Well that's the list done. I'm not going to include Battlezone as it's not the original game. I'm doing the same for Super Asteroids and Super Missile Command, I'm not covering Pinball Jam in detail either. I'm also ignoring unreleased games (although all the above will be included within the feature). Thanks for the help I've received though, it's been really useful. Edited November 2, 2011 by Darran@Retro Gamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Stars Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Please tell us when the article is coming out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darran@Retro Gamer Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 The article will be in our issue for 8th of December. I'm going to get it checked with Marty G, chase a few things with a couple of the developers and it's all good. There's also an insane amount of great content that I just couldn't fit in. I'll be posting this on the forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFG 9000 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 This issue came out a few days ago, at least for USA subscribers. That means it should hit USA stores in another week or two. The article, of course, is great. It's 8 pages long (!) and focuses on Lynx arcade conversions with lots of interesting recollections on the part of the game developers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LX.NET Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Compliments Darran on the article. Picked up the Retro Gamer Magazine in The Netherlands a week and a half ago. Loved the article. The in-depth coverage and journalistic approach is a warm alternative to a lot of the pulp that is out there. My only advice: more of these kinds of articles, preferrably on the Lynx! This is only the third Lynx article that I know of in the history of RGM. And each begs for more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darran@Retro Gamer Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 I'm glad you enjoyed the feature. I'm more than happy to put more Lynx coverage in the magazine, and have wanted to do a piece on homebrew projects for quite some time. Unfortunately barriers have been in the way in the past, but we might be able to get something sorted in the new year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomH Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 (edited) I'm glad you enjoyed the feature. I'm more than happy to put more Lynx coverage in the magazine, and have wanted to do a piece on homebrew projects for quite some time. Unfortunately barriers have been in the way in the past, but we might be able to get something sorted in the new year. I've been a homebrew Lynx developer on and off for about a decade, am the author of this and the other Lynx (and the Freescape, Acorn Electron and Sam Coupe projects also shown on that YouTube account) and have three years of professional experience as a writer/editor. Is there anything I can do to help? I'm completely financially stable so I'm not fishing for a commission. Edited January 2, 2012 by ThomH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentper2 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Can more awesome games be ported to the lynx ? The lynx programmers are awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Stars Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Can more awesome games be ported to the lynx ? The lynx programmers are awesome Well, I´d recommend you visit this forum daily for the next week. Anyday something could happen now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjabba Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Can more awesome games be ported to the lynx ? The lynx programmers are awesome Well, I´d recommend you visit this forum daily for the next week. Anyday something could happen now... This week hmm...? Sounds intriguing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannesmutlu Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I'm aiming to individually highlight each released arcade conversion for the Lynx and want to make sure I haven't missed any out. A.P.B. Block Out Checkered Flag Double Dragon Hard Drivin’ Hydra Joust KLAX MS Pac-Man Ninja Gaiden Pac-Land Paperboy Pit-Fighter Qix Raiden Rampage Rampart Roadblasters Robotron 2084 Rygar S.T.U.N. Runner Steel Talons Super Off-Road Toki Tournament Cyberball Xenophobe Xybots I'm not sure if the following 2 sports games are actual ports. Hockey? NFL Football? Shanghai? Also I noticed that there is a Shanghai arcade game, but again, am not sure this is a port. Super Asteroids? Not including this as they are enhanced versions Turbo Sub Again there is a Turbo Sub arcade game, but it looks like a different game Any advice greatly appreciated hard drivn on the lynx could,ve be better by tweaking the engine to run and control a bit more smoother,but what really bugs me,is why dit they only had put one level in this version?? they could,ve easily put all 3 levels into it,what a quite shame,even the snes,gameboy and genesis version has all the levels included,i was thinking howabout an howbrew rompatch update for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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