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SNES, Amiga, and ST versions are best. The C64 version has a dull colour palette.

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1989 was a great gaming year and we enjoyed many good games back in the day...What a great and detailed review you have done there! I agree with you in most of the things you spotted! Back in the day i played that game in a green monitor cpc 6128 so i did n't see the blue black compination but the just shades of green! Although i enjoyed it and could complete it without cheats! I saw the other home computers versions later when i bought the rest machines! I haven't completed any other version than c64 with trainer and i am waiting for a whdload Amiga version with infinite energy to do so on my 030 amiga 1200! I also can't find a working 128k version for my divide on +3! Only 48k and i can't pass the first level...So i will wait for that and avoid emulators for now... I have never seen the other versions though but i must admit that msdos version was good and if it had sound it would be higher in rank! The console versions where unknown to me and i really liked the nes one as it is a better version than the home computers one! The SNES version is an improved version visually and in sound and it has so many changes that it is not the same game after all! I think that it has lost some of the nostalgia magic of the other versions but that is my opinion! I am waiting for your next review!!! :)

The SNES game was the one i played, I never saw the 1993 show as a kid so I was confused at first why none of the characters looked the way they did in the movie when i first got it but I still liked the game.

People forget the impact SEGA's disney titles made at the time. It was one of the games that people took notice of the genesis and what it could do. Elements from this game was used for Sonic, mainly the character moving when you stop playing the game for a few minutes. It also had an impact on future disney license games. Emiko Yamamoto, was one of the main designers of the illusion games and she ended up joining square where she produced kingdom hearts. SEGA threw down the guantlet and everyone had to step up their game when it came to disney. However the SEGA of america produced disney games nearly ruined SEGA's reputation of producing great disney games with not only fantasia but the little mermaid and tailspin which either had bad graphics, gameplay or both. SEGA europe manage to contribute when SEGA hired Traveler tales to do the megadrive/genesis version of Toy Story.

Bette sound an graphiks on the Speccy than the Commode 64

I thought you were making a mini documentary/anaysis of the 32x. But not too bad in any case.

This is why SEGA my fave games developer and publisher. Because of the sheer variety of games. How many companies that offered you FMV games to 3D polygon games and console only games and old school arcade ports? All on one system or spread across various SEGA systems. A combination of west and east game deelopment and ideas. There's no one that can touch SEGA's catalouge when it comes down to it whatever you think of the games themselves, its cool.

Ah I remember coding the video decoder and sprite stuff for Surgical Strike and it laying in exile for years until they resurrected it a few years ago. Glad to see it's still alive!

That was teh worsed video I've seen in a long time. My autism makes me think teh video maker is a scotch

Hi, great video

Great video

El port para 3DS me parece fantástico, y tiene la opción de imitar el movimiento mecánico y sonidos del arcade original 👌🏼

Hi, great short

I"m still scarred by saving up my money as a kid to get the 32X and upgrade both my Genesis and Sega CD, only for Sega to cancel it a year later. I didn't buy a Saturn, PSX or N64 as a result. Jumped back in with Dreamcast and then Sega did me dirty again.

1:18:10 "The market has slumped as rapidly as it peaked" The market didn't slump. We stopped buying 8-bit machines and bought the new 16-bit machines instead (Commodore Amigas, PCs, Games Consoles).

Nice video Andrew! As I mentioned over at the Sega Junkyard, this was one of the first games I ever got for the SMS and it's always been one of my favourites. It's a really fab port. It's also got an FM synth soundtrack as well as the regular PSG chiptune one.

Such a great video, I absolutely love the star wars Trilogy arcade machine, in the 90s my uncle managed a barcade and I used to get unlimited tokens and would dump them all into that cabinet

Good video, Did you ever see or get to play SEGA's Star Wars trilogy pinball game when SEGA briefly made pinball machhines back in the 90s?

SEGA got this because they became a partner with Dreamworks and universal Gameworks chain in the states which ended up with SEGA making more attraction style arcade games being released in the U.S. than there were before. Speilberg was in charge of the project and at that time was close to SEGA with them making the Jurrasic Park arcade and console sega games. SEGA only had the license for one game but since speilberg was impressed with SEGA and them both involved in gameworks, it wasnt hard to talk george lucas i giving SEGA the license whiccch would benefit all parties as george was prepping the special ditions. STAR WARS TRILOGY ARCADE and the following year STAR WARS RACER ARCADE game was one of the new first run exclusive attractions for gameworksstateside. However as we all know ultimatly SEGA's plan of expanding their arcade attraction parks outside of japan failed as their two major ones at the time, SEGA world trocaderoand SEGA sydney closed, but gameworks lasted longer into the early 2010s until SEGA sold it off

Loved the first Star Wars game SEGA released at the height of their model 1-2 boom. Reason i got the 32x which i never regretted. Especially for VF 1 which was a better port than the saturn version.

Great video! These Star Wars Arcades are really special!

Is the SEGA ARCADE version available in emulators like Retroarch?

A new retrospective channel subscriber from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮. Mainly, because i love ❤️ the 8-and 16-bit computers and game consoles 😺👍🕹️. COMMODORE 64 FOREVER 😺👍🕹️! Press play on tape LOAD "*",8,1 AMIGA FOREVER 😺👍🕹️! Insert disk 💾 2

I disagree with your opinion on which 8-bit version of the game is better! This is my favorite game ever so consider me as an expert on it! So although c64's sound is better ( sid classic... ), i prefer the more coloured version of the cpc on which the batwing behaves better and when you touch an enemy on air you don't fall down as in the c64 version in which the enemies in level 1-5 behave strangely with a bad pattern! You must also mention that the cpc second stage is the most playable than all 8bit's! Cpc version is also the only version with the full ending batman logo screen! In my opinion cpc is first, c64 is second but close enough is the speccy version in which the forth level is extremely flickering and very difficult to play! I also want to mention something strange for the 16bit versions...the st version has some cut scenes and lose screens which aren't available in the amiga version! I don't know why and my only thought is that there wasn't enough space in the disks! We certainly agree though on the superiority og the amiga version! What a game in it's era and certainly sold many amigas with that pack!!! Keep up the good work!!!

Very good and nostalgic trip. My one criticism was I found the repetitive background beats quite intrusive and annoying. Apart from that the period clips and detailed info was great, so thanks very much.

Amstrad CPC464 is missing in this video.

Some typos with the game names. Repton, not Receptron. Wizball, not Whizball.

"Recepton"? That's Repton.

Great video! Interesting games on the one hand for historical reasons but the games seem unfinished und rushed out. Thank you for putting time and effort for makin the video

3 equally bad versions of a game that was most likely only made to earn money by piggy backing of a great movie. I never saw this game back then and thank god it seems. But great review nonetheless, thanks and keep them coming please :-)

Well, this is an awesome video!

After a recent visit to Cambridge, and the computing history museum, this was a great follow up! Thank you.

Great review! I love the movie "Cobra" for its 80's coolness. The games though, are not capturing the vibe of the movie with all that women and baby cariages. The C64 version though had a cool Title-screen, which i recreated on the plus/4: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHu9l41qbJt2aNk

I'd say the Dragon had better graphics than the Speccy.. Just look at the donkey kong clone and compare to Spectrum

Speccy version is easily the best - RIP Joffa Smith, the same genius who made the Speccy version of Green beret.. The spectrum shouldn't have been capable of such smooth scrolling (note it has Parallax effect also)

a pity no 16-bit or 32-bit version

0:48 I remember Cobra It's a classic I don't care what people say 😂 I had this on my Speccy ae A kid, I know it's not a great game but I do have nostalgia for it, Always glad to see Spectrum game beat out the Commodore 64 😂 Fantastic video really enjoyed looking back at this

Hi, great short

Castle of illusion

I played this to death in the C64 but never finished it. Why? I never knew you had to throw grinade at the prison. I blew everything up, but never used grinade on the cell

Great video! Had the same idea, but you were first. The Music on the C64 really stands out and as you said it had the difficulty of an arcade game. This and Yie ar Kung fu were my firrst experiences in Homecomputer gaming on the 64.

That's awesome I would love to have a PS5 in the original Colours

At least on C64 version using silent weapons such as knives and non-explosive arrows can reduce enemies pretty much to zero at the begining of the game making the game a LOT easier.

Very nice indeed.🎮✅️🍀

Amazing video full of nostalgia! World of Illusion will always be one of my favourite games. Was one of the first games, that I played with my siblings, where we had to work together and not against each other. But as this video demonstrates we would always hit each other with our capes, to try and get to the cakes and sweets first. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Fantastic video, I would have said world of illusion and then castle of illusion In second, Disney games Were great in the late 80s early 90s On the 8 and 16 bit platforms

1:19:13 lol, those ARM stats on the white board. Thirty years later later Apple is a trillion dollar company with that processors grand babies.

Ocean were (quite famously) based in Manchester, not Liverpool.