la1n Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) The bitmap brothers in action with XENON II They are one of the biggest heroes of the 16-bit gamescene on atari st/amiga (and then snes) in those time with XENON, SPEEDBALL, XENON II, CADAVER, GODS, CHAOS ENGINE, Z etc. and now they are collecting money for a book about the bitmap brothers. You can see preview on the kickstarter site.Time to support them and bring the bitmap brothers to print. Make it possible on kickstarter!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrenwall/the-bitmap-brothers-universe > The book cover: You don't know them? than it is time to jump into their fantastic worlds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bitmap_Brothers Edited April 26, 2015 by la1n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataricrypt Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 So many awesome Atari ST games by these guys. Hard to pick a favourite! Maybe CE? Hope this gets enough backing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la1n Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 You have to look at the concept art for chaos engine .-) For me it could be CE, Xenon or Speedball. And i would decide for speedball because of the game mechanics are so radical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataricrypt Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 You're gonna hate me ... the only game I never like by those guys was Speedball. Xenon...wow such a beautifully done game. I came to the ST from the Spectrum and my jaw broke as it dropped and hit the floor. That music too!! One of those gaming moments in history where I knew the ST was for me. Awesome game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la1n Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 Xenon & Xenon II were of course perfect like all games of bitmap brothers .-) The perfect vertical shootemups .-) A milestones like R-Type. No question. Also the idea in II to add BombTheBass, the Shop etc. .-) Therefore no problem .-) I even understand why you could not like speedball .-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyfox Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Yeah Xenon one was a deal breaking when I got it..thought, how were they able to do more or less arcade perfect graphics as well as a full digitized video hud display with perfectly clear sampled speech? truly ground breaking!!! and at the time thought this has to be one of those once off special titles to appear on the Atari ST , boy I'm glad I was wrong on that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Dragon Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 The 2 Xenon's were nice, the Speedball's fantastic, but my heart will always be with Gods. For myself the Bitmap's finest hour.Never took to Chaos Engine to that degree, Magic pockets i bought after falling for the hype, bit rubbish dressed up nicely. I'm in 2 minds about the book though, i want it to do well, but as a 'consumer' pretty much everything i wanted answered over the years has been done via interviews with Ex-Bitmap Bros folk in Edge or on RVG etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tos5 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I Love Xenon. I search the Music from Xenon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Dragon Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 :-) Just downloaded a few Amiga Remixes of music from Xenon myself only yesterday.Fantastic stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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