Heaven/TQA Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 ehm... just found star wars arcade game here http://people.freenet.de/mrbacardi/ in the zeppelin archive... stupid question...why was it rewritten? i mean there was a version out of the star wars arcade??? does anybody have some news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Weren't all the ports to the ST etc being done by Domark at the time and the Zeppelin version was part of this (or a later re-release)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Well, I think in the late 80`s the original Starwars Cartridge by Parker Bros. was not available anymore. So Domark did a remake - in my eyes a stupid and extremely slow remake. Luckily I have the original Parker Bros. cartridge which is much better... I guess that the Domark (and thus also the Zeppelin version) uses a higher graphics resolution and thats why their remake is so slow... -Andreas Magenheimer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_bernstein Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Andreas, I do prefer the Zeppelin version. It may be slower but it's a lot more ambitious too. AB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Could someone provide a link to this alternate version of Star Wars - I cant find anything on that site that referenced in the original post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_bernstein Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 http://people.freenet.de/mrbacardi/ Click on Games then, under the british section, click on Zeppelin Games. Star Wars can be found below the summary section. AB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Thanks - the website is deceiving, I didnt realize the page continued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Bacardi Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Why is the sit "deceiving" ? Games means games ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_bernstein Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Mr.Bacardi, Thank you for starting the Tynesoft section. Anco (UK) would be an interesting follow up but it's true that Atari Mania is doing a kick-ass job right now at covering almost anything imaginable. Anyway, keep up the good work. AB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Why is the sit "deceiving" ? Games means games ! When I went to the games page the break between British and American was right as the bottom of my browser - I didnt realize there was more to the bottom of the page. Maybe add the flags across the top with links to the various sections. My bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 Personally, I always thought the 2600 and 8-bit Parker Bros. versions of StarWars arcade sucked. When I found the Zepplin version a couple of years ago my faith was restored in a good home version of the game. I feel the Zepplin version is a MUCH closer tranlation and I actually thought it was faster? It's been a while since I played it though, and years since I played the PB version...but I feel the Zepplin version makes up for the joke that is PB's Star Wars, a perfect example in my book of the type of games that caused the video game crash, especially PB carts for the 8-bit that were hardly better than the 2600 versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 Er well, you may have not seen the follow-ups, like the (unofficial) "Empire strikes back" (a clone of Jeff Minters Attack of the Mutant Camels) and "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi". These Starwars versions do really suck !! Compared to them, "Starwars - the arcade game" is really good. But I have to say, that I did not play the Domark/Zeppelin version for quite a while. But as far as I remember, it was much slower than the PB version... -Andreas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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