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> In message <48a260244f.MThompson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Matthew Thompson <mt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> After the moanings on here about lack of BBC/Acorn coverage in Retro
>> Gamer, it is well worth checking out the new issue of Retro Gamer as
>> there is a BBC Micro "Retroinspection" article, covering 12 pages,
>> lots to read and plenty of screen-shots.
>>
>> Be nice if they could follow it up with an Archimedes article, a lot
>> of quality home grown titles there many gamers would have missed.
>>
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> Moanings? Well yes, the fact that companies who'd exploited the BBC
> Micro market suddenly decreed that it was no longer "viable" and
> rejected conversions that were every bit as good as the versions on
> other (sometimes inferior) hardware e.g. "Bubble Bobble". Ocean,
> Firebird etc.
Bubble Bobble was great on the BBC can't understand why it wasn't
released as it was finished, another example is Cookie, I loved that
game on the Spectrum , wanted a BBC version yet it existed all this
time, and its' a million time better than the Spectrum version too !
> Yes, that the inverted snobbery of the BBC being a solely education
> plaform despite it brough computer literacy to a generation in this
> country and abroad had led to it being overlooked by endless magazine
> articles throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
> Of course Firebird, Ocean etc are no more but the operating system
> developed by Acorn lives on. Thankfully everything isn't reduced to a
> bean-counter equation.
Totally agree, despite the excellent BBC article this month, (although
some odd games appear in the best games - cops & robbers by Atlantis
Software ? please it was awful) there is certainly a bias and
ignorance towards the BBC.
I am fed up with seeing articles on games without no mention of a BBC
version existing, the latest one is Bounty Bob Strikes Back, no
mention of the Beeb version, clearly I imagined playing it then !
Even less coverage is of the 32bit range, whilst this was never
mainstream, I feel plenty of quality games were released for example
Starfighter 3000 which later became a PlayStation game, and ArcElite &
Last Ninja are arguably the best ever versions - I have emailed Retro
Gamer saying a 32bit Archimedes follow on article would be good, they
can feature obscure Japanese handhelds, Dragon and Oric 1 why not the
Archimedes?
Matthew
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