Game with the Most Individual Ports

[+jgkspsx]

6 hours ago, electricmastro said:

Along with Fatal Fury, Metal Slug, and Samurai Shodown, Neo Geo games with the most versions, using avenues like ACA NeoGeo:

Those are emulated and not ports.

[electricmastro]

53 minutes ago, jgkspsx said:

Those are emulated and not ports.

Interesting how things like ACA NeoGeo can’t count as ports at all by some. I think I’ve always casually referred to them as ports, as well as seeing some others refer to them as such including the devs. Would you say that ports can only be physical or could there exist ports in some other digital capacity?

[Tanooki]

10 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Pinball Dreams is up there too. Probably the most ported pinball game after Farsight’s engine?

 

10 hours ago, electricmastro said:

If you go old school, it might be Pinball Fantasies, having been on systems like the Jaguar unlike Pinball Dreams. New school might indeed be FarSight's The Pinball Arcade.

Pinball Dreams and Fantasies should have an equal amount of ports, they tended to get handed around at the same time, even at times, together, such as Pinball Challenge Deluxe on the GBA in the UK, that has both in one package (I own it.)  It came out on so many obscure things, but relatively regionally not obscure like various Amigas and euro-PC formats.  There were some pretty poor house versions like the GB and Game Gear, decent stuff like the 16bit systems having it like SNES as well.  I'd really be curious how many versions you can dig up when you get into the weeds like that Nokia video.

[+jgkspsx]

Just now, Tanooki said:

Pinball Dreams and Fantasies should have an equal amount of ports, they tended to get handed around at the same time

Yeah, it looks like the Game Gear and the Jag are the only notable exceptions. Sorry GamePark.

[electricmastro]

1 hour ago, jgkspsx said:

The PS3 and PS Vita releases of Pinball Dreams and Fantasies are just the PSP version emulated, so I wouldn’t count them. Was the MeeMo version even released? All I find about it is a demo from Meemo Sverige: 

 

 

Seeing as how another user seems to just so casually have it in 2011 and its latest update having been in 2012, I'd presume so:

 

 

[electricmastro]

Perhaps the most mass-ported arcade game before 1985 that was never individually ported again after that:

 

[electricmastro]

Is Terraria the most physically ported game from after 2010?

 

[DavidD]

1 hour ago, electricmastro said:

Is Terraria the most physically ported game from after 2010?

Minecraft had a beta release in 2009, but an official release in 2011, and it looks like it was released on:

• Java (home computers)
• Windows
• Android
• iOS
• Windows Phone (whatever OS that is called)
• Xbox 360
• PS3
• PS4
• Vita
• Wii U
• Nintendo Switch
• New 3DS
• Xbox One
• Raspberry Pi

There are also variants for Minecraft Education, but I assume those are all based on the Java version.  There are at least 14 unique platform versions, then...

 

Edited June 2, 2022 by DavidD

[electricmastro]

41 minutes ago, DavidD said:

Minecraft had a beta release in 2009, but an official release in 2011, and it looks like it was released on:

• Java (home computers)
• Windows
• Android
• iOS
• Windows Phone (whatever OS that is called)
• Xbox 360
• PS3
• PS4
• Vita
• Wii U
• Nintendo Switch
• New 3DS
• Xbox One
• Raspberry Pi

There are also variants for Minecraft Education, but I assume those are all based on the Java version.  There are at least 14 unique platform versions, then...

 

I understand that Minecraft was physically released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Vita, Xbox One, Wii U, New Nintendo 3DS, and Switch, but no physical PC release, which makes it eight. I also found out that Angry Birds Star Wars had several physical versions released around 2012, being on Wii instead of Switch.

Edited June 2, 2022 by electricmastro

[+GoldenWheels]

On 5/21/2022 at 7:41 AM, electricmastro said:

Klax might also be a big example of a game that was ported or followed-up a lot back then, but not so much in recent years.

 

It was the 90s, and there was time for Klax.

 

Now, not so much.

 

 

 

 

[+wongojack]

/\/\ LOL - I was surprised to see Klax on the list.  I didn't even know about that game until I started getting into retro-gaming years later.

 

What about "Snake" and games like it.  It is kind of like Tetris in that there are so many versions of the move a worm like thing around a maze and don't bump yourself game that it would definitely be in the top group if you counted them all.  It was of course famously put on phones and all kinds of mobile doo-dahs.

[The Usotsuki]

6 minutes ago, wongojack said:

What about "Snake" and games like it.  It is kind of like Tetris in that there are so many versions of the move a worm like thing around a maze and don't bump yourself game that it would definitely be in the top group if you counted them all.  It was of course famously put on phones and all kinds of mobile doo-dahs.

I kinda blame Microsoft for that one in including a version of that with QBASIC in MS-DOS 5 and 6 (as well as PC DOS 5).

[electricmastro]

3 hours ago, GoldenWheels said:

It was the 90s, and there was time for Klax.

 

Now, not so much.

 

 

 

 

Maybe, but I suppose Lego Dimensions had time for the 90s though:

 

[roadrunner]

Pac Man for the Sharp X68000 is a unofficial port 

 

 

[Tanooki]

By the way Klax actually has TWO gameboy (b&w) ports, so it's under counted.  Google it.  The Japanese version and US/Int'l versions are core mechanics, largely nothing alike.  Two different games on the same arcade structure from two different companies.

[electricmastro]

Other mass-ported older arcade games:

 

Defender (16):

 

Adventure Vision (1982), Apple II (1983), Arcade (1981), Atari 2600 (1982), Atari 5200 (1982), Atari 8-bit (1982), Browser (2000), ColecoVision (1983), Commodore 64 (1983), Dedicated handheld (1982), Intellivision (1983), Macintosh (1994), PC Booter (1983), TI-99/4A (1983), VIC-20 (1983) and Xbox 360 (2006)

 

Rampage (16):

 

Amiga (1989), Amstrad CPC (1988), Apple II (1988), Arcade (1986), Atari 2600 (1989), Atari 7800 (1989), Atari 8-bit (1987), Atari ST (1987), Browser (2000), Commodore 64 (1987), DOS (1988), Lynx (1990), NES (1988), SEGA Master System (1988), TRS-80 CoCo (1989) and ZX Spectrum (1987)

 

Gradius (15):

 

Amstrad CPC (1987), Arcade (1985), Commodore 64 (1987), MSX (1986), NES (1986), Nintendo 3DS (2012), Nintendo Switch (2018), PC-88 (1986), PlayStation 4 (2015), Sharp X1 (1986), Sharp X68000 (1987), TurboGrafx-16 (1991), Wii (2006), Wii U (2013) and ZX Spectrum (1987)

 

Mario Bros. (15):

 

Amstrad CPC (1987), Arcade (1983), Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 5200 (1984), Atari 7800 (1988), Atari 8-bit (1989), Commodore 64 (1984), Game Boy Advance (2002), NES (1983), Nintendo 3DS (2013), Nintendo Switch (2017), PC-88 (1984), Wii (2006), Wii U (2013) and ZX Spectrum (1987)

 

Gauntlet (14):

 

Amstrad CPC (1986), Apple II (1988), Apple IIgs (1988), Arcade (1985), Atari 8-bit (1985), Atari ST (1987), Commodore 64 (1986), DOS (1988), J2ME (2004), Macintosh (1989), MSX (1986), SEGA Master System (1990), Xbox 360 (2005) and ZX Spectrum (1986)

 

Joust (13):

 

Apple II (1984), Arcade (1982), Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 5200 (1983), Atari 7800 (1986), Atari 8-bit (1984), Atari ST (1986), Lynx (1992), Macintosh (1994), NES (1987), Palm OS (2002), PC Booter (1983) and Xbox 360 (2005)

 

Spy Hunter (13):

 

Amstrad CPC (1986), Apple II (1983), Arcade (1983), Atari 2600 (1984), Atari 8-bit (1984), BBC Micro (1986), Browser (2000), ColecoVision (1985), Commodore 64 (1984), NES (1987), Palm OS (2002), PC Booter (1984) and ZX Spectrum (1985)

 

Pole Position (12):

 

Arcade (1982), Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 5200 (1983), Atari 8-bit (1983), BBC Micro (1984), Commodore 64 (1984), DOS (1988), Intellivision (1988), TI-99/4A (1984), Vectrex (1983), VIC-20 (1983) and ZX Spectrum (1984)

 

Alien Syndrome (10):

 

Amiga (1988), Amstrad CPC (1988), Arcade (1986), Atari ST (1988), Commodore 64 (1988), DOS (1989), MSX (1988), NES (1988), Sharp X68000 (1992) and ZX Spectrum (1988)

 

Rygar (10):

 

Amstrad CPC (1987), Arcade (1986), Commodore 64 (1987), Lynx (1990), Nintendo Switch (2018), PlayStation 4 (2014), SEGA Master System (1988), Sharp X68000 (1994), Wii (2009) and ZX Spectrum (1987)

Edited June 3, 2022 by electricmastro

[Tanooki]

Gradius is also on the Nintendo DS along with Contra, Pooyan, and various others in a Konami Arcade Hits DS card.  I owned it back when it came out in the 2000s.

[DavidD]

17 hours ago, electricmastro said:

I understand that Minecraft was physically released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Vita, Xbox One, Wii U, New Nintendo 3DS, and Switch, but no physical PC release, which makes it eight. I also found out that Angry Birds Star Wars had several physical versions released around 2012, being on Wii instead of Switch.

Ack -- for some reason I missed the "physical" part of your statement.  Yeah, that would seem to put Terraria ahead...

[electricmastro]

More ported arcade games:

 

Moon Patrol (15):

 

Apple II (1984), Arcade (1982), Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 5200 (1983), Atari 8-bit (1984), Atari ST (1987), BREW (2003), Commodore 64 (1984), MSX (1984), Nintendo Switch (2018), PC Booter (1984), PlayStation 4 (2018), Sord M5 (1983), TI-99/4A (1984) and VIC-20 (1983)

 

Robotron: 2084 (15):

 

Apple II (1983), Arcade (1982), Atari 5200 (1984), Atari 7800 (1986), Atari 8-bit (1984), Atari ST (1987), BBC Micro (1984), Browser (2000), Commodore 64 (1984), Electron (1985), Lynx (1991), Macintosh (1994), PC Booter (1983), VIC-20 (1984) and Xbox 360 (2006)

 

Rush'n Attack (15):

 

Amstrad CPC (1986), Arcade (1985), Atari 8-bit (1986), BBC Micro (1989), Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1989), Commodore 64 (1986), DOS (1989), MSX (1986), NES (1987), Nintendo Switch (2020), PlayStation 4 (2020), Thomson MO (1986), Thomson TO (1986), Xbox 360 (2007) and ZX Spectrum (1986)

 

Bump 'N' Jump (13):

 

Arcade (1982), Atari 2600 (1983), Coleco Adam (1984), ColecoVision (1984), Intellivision (1983), NES (1986), Nintendo Switch (2020), PlayStation 3 (2010), PlayStation 4 (2020), PSP (2010), PS Vita (2012), Sharp MZ-80K/700/800/1500 (1985) and Sharp X1 (1985)

 

Darius (13):

 

Amiga (1989), Arcade (1987), Atari ST (1989), BREW (2007), DoJa (2008), Game Boy (1991), J2ME (2007), PlayStation 4 (2016), SuperGrafx (1990), TurboGrafx-16 (1990), TurboGrafx CD (1990), Wii (2008) and ZX Spectrum (1990)

 

Life Force (13):

 

Amstrad CPC (1988), Arcade (1986), Commodore 64 (1988), MSX (1987), NES (1987), Nintendo 3DS (2013), Nintendo Switch (2020), PlayStation 4 (2015), Sharp X68000 (1988), TurboGrafx-16 (1991), Wii (2007), Wii U (2014) and ZX Spectrum (1988)

 

Mr. Do! (13):

 

Apple II (1985), Arcade (1982), Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 8-bit (1985), ColecoVision (1983), Commodore 64 (1985), Game Boy (1992), J2ME (2008), MSX (1984), PC-98 (1996), SNES (1995), Tomy Tutor (1983) and Wii (2010)

 

Solomon's Key (13):

 

Amstrad CPC (1987), Arcade (1986), Atari ST (1987), Commodore 64 (1987), NES (1986), Nintendo 3DS (2012), Nintendo Switch (2018), PC Booter (1988), PlayStation 4 (2015), SEGA Master System (1988), Wii (2006), Wii U (2013) and ZX Spectrum (1987)

 

Tapper (13):

 

Amstrad CPC (1985), Apple II (1984), Arcade (1983), Atari 2600 (1984), Atari 8-bit (1984), BBC Micro (1986), Browser (2000), ColecoVision (1984), Commodore 64 (1984), Palm OS (2002), PC Booter (1984), Xbox 360 (2007) and ZX Spectrum (1985)

 

Crystal Castles (12):

 

Amstrad CPC (1986), Apple II (1983), Arcade (1983), Atari 2600 (1984), Atari 8-bit (1989), Atari ST (1986), BBC Micro (1986), Commodore 64 (1984), Electron (1986), Windows (2010), Xbox 360 (2010) and ZX Spectrum (1986)

 

Flicky (12):

 

Arcade (1984), FM-7 (1986), Genesis (1990), Linux (2018), Macintosh (2018), MSX (1986), PC-8000 (1985), PC-88 (1985), SG-1000 (1984), Sharp MZ-80B/2000/2500 (1985), Sharp X1 (1985) and Windows (2010)

 

The Legend of Kage (12):

 

Amstrad CPC (1986), Arcade (1985), Commodore 64 (1986), MSX (1986), NES (1986), Nintendo 3DS (2014), Nintendo Switch (2019), PlayStation 4 (2015), Sharp X1 (1986), Wii (2006), Wii U (2014) and ZX Spectrum (1986)

 

The Tower of Druaga (12):

 

Arcade (1984), FM-7 (1986), Game Boy (1990), GameCube (2003), MSX (1986), NES (1985), Nintendo 3DS (2012), Sharp MZ-80B/2000/2500 (1986), Sharp MZ-80K/700/800/1500 (1985), Sharp X1 (1986), Wii (2007) and Wii U (2013)

 

Yie Ar Kung-Fu (12):

 

Amstrad CPC (1985), Arcade (1985), BBC Micro (1985), Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1986), Commodore 64 (1986), Electron (1986), Nintendo Switch (2019), PlayStation 4 (2019), Windows (2010), Windows Mobile (2007), Xbox 360 (2007) and ZX Spectrum (1985)

 

Athena (11):

 

Antstream (2019), Arcade (1986), Commodore 64 (1987), NES (1987), Nintendo Switch (2018), PlayStation 3 (2011), PlayStation 4 (2018), PSP (2011), PS Vita (2012), Windows (2008) and ZX Spectrum (1987)

 

Battlezone (11):

 

Apple II (1984), Arcade (1980), Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 8-bit (1988), Atari ST (1986), Commodore 64 (1984), PC Booter (1983), VIC-20 (1984), Windows (2010), Xbox 360 (2010) and ZX Spectrum (1984)

 

Track & Field (11):

 

Apple II (1984), Arcade (1983), Atari 2600 (1984), Atari 8-bit (1984), Commodore 64 (1984), MSX (1984), NES (1985), Nintendo Switch (2019), PlayStation 4 (2019), Xbox 360 (2007) and ZX Spectrum (1988)

 

Fantasy Zone (10):

 

Arcade (1986), MSX (1987), NES (1987), Nintendo 3DS (2014), Nintendo Switch (2019), SEGA Master System (1986), SEGA Saturn (1997), Sharp X68000 (1989), TurboGrafx-16 (1988) and Wii (2008)

 

Jungle Hunt (10):

 

Apple II (1984), Arcade (1982), Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 5200 (1983), Atari 8-bit (1983), ColecoVision (1984), Commodore 64 (1984), PC Booter (1983), TI-99/4A (1984) and VIC-20 (1984)

 

Karate Champ (10):

 

Antstream (2019), Apple II (1985), Arcade (1984), Commodore 64 (1985), iPad (2010), iPhone (2010), NES (1986), Nintendo Switch (2019), PlayStation 4 (2015) and Wii (2010)

 

Kung-Fu Master (10):

 

Amstrad CPC (1987), Apple II (1985), Arcade (1984), Atari 2600 (1987), Atari 7800 (1989), Blacknut (2018), Commodore 64 (1985), MSX (1985), NES (1985) and ZX Spectrum (1985)

 

New Rally-X (10):

 

Arcade (1981), BREW (2005), FM-7 (1984), J2ME (2005), Nintendo Switch (2022), PlayStation 4 (2022), Sharp X1 (1984), Wii (2009), Windows (2004) and Xbox 360 (2006)

 

Rolling Thunder (10):

 

Amiga (1988), Amstrad CPC (1988), Arcade (1986), Atari ST (1988), Commodore 64 (1987), NES (1988), Nintendo Switch (2022), PlayStation 4 (2022), Wii (2009) and ZX Spectrum (1988)

 

Side Arms (10):

 

Amiga (1989), Amstrad CPC (1988), Arcade (1986), Atari ST (1989), Commodore 64 (1987), DOS (1988), PlayStation 3 (2013), TurboGrafx-16 (1989), Xbox 360 (2013) and ZX Spectrum (1988)

[DavidD]

3 hours ago, electricmastro said:

More ported arcade games:

 

Moon Patrol (15):

 

Apple II (1984), Arcade (1982), Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 5200 (1983), Atari 8-bit (1984), Atari ST (1987), BREW (2003), Commodore 64 (1984), MSX (1984), Nintendo Switch (2018), PC Booter (1984), PlayStation 4 (2018), Sord M5 (1983), TI-99/4A (1984) and VIC-20 (1983)

 

It was also ported to the Game Boy Color in "Midway Arcade Hits: Spy Patrol / Moonhunter"

 

[Tanooki]

Ok I saw more of those Konami games on that DS card I brought up again in that list -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Classics_Series:_Arcade_Hits

For ease...pasted this:

Titles included in Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits

Title	Release	Original title
Scramble	1981
Tutankham	1982	Horror Maze (North America)
Pooyan	1982
Time Pilot	1982
Track and Field	1983	Hyper Olympic (Japan); Track and Field (Japan, compilation)
Roc 'N Rope	1983
Super Basketball	1984	Basketball (North America)
Circus Charlie	1984
Road Fighter	1984
TwinBee	1985	RainbowBell (North America)
Yie Ar Kung-Fu	1985
Shao-Lin's Road	1985	Kicker (Europe)
Gradius	1985	Nemesis (Europe)
Rush'n Attack	1985	Green Beret (Japan & Europe)
Contra	1987	Gryzor (Europe)

[electricmastro]

9 hours ago, Tanooki said:

Ok I saw more of those Konami games on that DS card I brought up again in that list -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Classics_Series:_Arcade_Hits

For ease...pasted this:

Titles included in Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits

Title	Release	Original title
Scramble	1981
Tutankham	1982	Horror Maze (North America)
Pooyan	1982
Time Pilot	1982
Track and Field	1983	Hyper Olympic (Japan); Track and Field (Japan, compilation)
Roc 'N Rope	1983
Super Basketball	1984	Basketball (North America)
Circus Charlie	1984
Road Fighter	1984
TwinBee	1985	RainbowBell (North America)
Yie Ar Kung-Fu	1985
Shao-Lin's Road	1985	Kicker (Europe)
Gradius	1985	Nemesis (Europe)
Rush'n Attack	1985	Green Beret (Japan & Europe)
Contra	1987	Gryzor (Europe)

Yeah, those are also nice. Companies have been pretty good about keeping older games accessible to newer generations I feel, like with Rampage:

 

[Rhomaios]

On 6/2/2022 at 2:50 PM, The Usotsuki said:

I kinda blame Microsoft for that one in including a version of that with QBASIC in MS-DOS 5 and 6 (as well as PC DOS 5).

It was also on the old Nokia phones which saw it soar in popularity again, much like Breakout did (I think?) when it was included on the original iPod.

[electricmastro]

Would The Bard's Tale be one of the most ported 3D games?:

 

[electricmastro]

Other mass-ported 3D games that were on the PS2:

 

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 14:

 

Android (2013), Fire OS (2013), iPad (2013), iPhone (2013), Macintosh (2011), PlayStation 2 (2004), PlayStation 3 (2012), PlayStation 4 (2015), Windows (2005), Windows Apps (2014), Windows Phone (2014), Xbox (2005), Xbox 360 (2008) and Xbox One (2018)

 

Crazy Taxi - 13:

 

Android (2013), Arcade (1999), Dreamcast (2000), GameCube (2001), iPad (2012), iPhone (2012), OnLive (2012), PlayStation 2 (2001), PlayStation 3 (2010), PlayStation Now (2014), Windows (2002), Xbox 360 (2010) and Xbox One (2015)

 

Syberia - 13:

 

Android (2013), Blacknut (2019), iPad (2014), iPhone (2014), Macintosh (2014), Nintendo DS (2008), Nintendo Switch (2017), PlayStation 2 (2003), PlayStation 3 (2014), Windows (2002), Windows Mobile (2006), Xbox (2003) and Xbox 360 (2014)

 

Psychonauts - 11:

 

Linux (2012), Macintosh (2011), PlayStation 2 (2005), PlayStation 3 (2012), PlayStation 4 (2016), Windows (2005), Windows Apps (2021), Xbox (2005), Xbox 360 (2007), Xbox One (2017) and Xbox Cloud Gaming (2021)

 

Rayman 2: The Great Escape - 11:

 

Dreamcast (2000), iPhone (2010), Nintendo 3DS (2011), Nintendo 64 (1999), Nintendo DS (2005), PlayStation (2000), PlayStation 2 (2000), PlayStation 3 (2008), PSP (2008), PS Vita (2012) and Windows (1999)

 

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance - 10:

 

GameCube (2002), Linux (2021), Macintosh (2021), Nintendo Switch (2021), PlayStation 2 (2001), PlayStation 4 (2021), Windows (2021), Xbox (2002), Xbox One (2021) and Xbox Series (2021)

 

Max Payne - 10:

 

Android (2012), iPad (2012), iPhone (2012), Macintosh (2002), PlayStation 2 (2001), PlayStation 3 (2012), PlayStation 4 (2016), Windows (2001), Xbox (2001) and Xbox 360 (2009)