I didn't know this version 😮

One of the games that greatly improves gameplay performance on the Mega STe.

The Merman is no Jason Momoa is he? But a nice adventure game. I played the ZX Spectrum version and it hurt my eyes, but it was very pretty otherwise.

seems a less varied game than gauntlet II. shallow and repetetive. the isometric view isn't doing it any favors either.

I didn't even know this existed! This is why I like your channel :)

I know it's quite a different game but it reminds me of Battlemaster. Another game which has a great idea in it's kernel but doesn't quite pull it off - although perhaps G3 does it better

Have you tried the free remake of this game, it's amazing.

Hey sir, I had this game also too mostly as a cartridge when it was cool to go to Kaybee or Toys R Us for cartridges basically that was how I I recieved very many of them, it's such an honor to see this again, but don't like the new graphics so I can say that the 1987 video arcade version is better Keep on gaming!!! 🎮🕹❤💯

Wow, I used to have this game the same time I had the Atari 2600 with the wood console for 36 or 37 years, never quite really understood this game but it seems alright.

I saw and played Repton loads before I found out that it's a clone of poor Rockford's adventures. Quite enjoyed watching you playing and struggling a bit. Nice to see somewhere between someone who doesn't know a game and someone afraid to show mistakes

Excellent video Pete, really enjoyed this mate. I'm a noob but love the look of this and how it appears to play...

Hi Pete, the scrolling looks pretty good to me! it's true though that mostly the ST isn't a good scroller so what about trying some some STE enhanced games such as Outrun STE and Lotus Esprit STE and Great Giana Sisters STE. The STE is of course thje computer the ST should have beeen from the outset and the Falcon what the STE should have been. Oh well, that's history now. May be you could try running some games like Flying Shark with accelrated CPU (16 or 32 Mhz) which doesnt seem to effect game play speed but perhaps improves responsiveness when the screen is busy.

1:18 Dene Carter - a very respectable developer of game who gave away his game 'Moonring' for free.

Can you play this on Mac?

10:55 Death skill increased

What’s the background music at the beginning?

Been trying to get 9k+ on surfing for ages. Gotta ride the pelican.

5200 version is so much better. Smooth centipede movement not character based.

I've always loved how Millipede expands upon Centipede's core, and seeing (close to) side by side really shows the extra pace of Millipede off. Though I'll admit, the A8 Centipede is not my first pick of conversions to play, it's still enjoyable, and that's really what you've shown off here. Certainly a winning pair either way.

These games hold a special place for me because they, along with Oil’s Well, were my mother’s favorites. I grew up on a TRS-80 clone of Centipede, and then we had Millipede on the 130XE. Millipede is a fine sequel to Centipede, being iterative rather than transformative as a lot of sequels in that time were. Centipede and Millipede diabolically force you to divide your attention between the advancing centipede at the top of the screen and the spider at the bottom. There were so many evil spiders in early 80s gaming between Centipede and Millipede and Bill Williams’s games.

isn't it to do with the number of legs?

Apparently the guys going across the screen and poisoning the mushrooms are scorpions? I always thought they were slugs, maybe because of the whole garden-ish theme.

I like both games and always forget about the differences as soon as i play one of them

Millipede is a whole lot MORE of a game than Centipede. I never knew. Thanks Pete!

I very much appreciated your look at Centipede and Millipede for the Atari 8-bit. Definitely I came aware impressed with Millipede for the 8-bit as it seemed to be pretty balanced and allowed for a much longer gaming session than seemingly what Centipede was able to offer. As always, take care and I look forward to many more videos yet to come.

Well played, Pete :)

Not just Encounter blew it away, another Paul Woakes game- Mercenary in '85 or '86- pretty much destroyed this in terms of graphics and especially complexity. But yes, you're exactly right, if this had come out 4-5 years earlier, it would have been much better received.

While I can appreciate the attempt to make this version of Battlezone close to the arcade original, too many other games (such as Encounter or Robot Tank) had taken this idea and already had improved upon it. Sad this couldn't have come out a lot earlier, but thems the breaks.

It looks okay, but losing the glow of the vector graphics sort of reduces it to being a pretty dreary-looking game. I love the arcade game, and the Atari 2600 version is pretty good, but I don't think I could play this version too much.

great vid!

It being held late is doubly interesting, if only because of the 5200 port, which this ended up being far superior too. I do wish it were a better conversion, but it does the job I guess, which is enough, even in the presence of Encounter.

Looks competent but oh so late! Good review sir.

I always found it technically impressive, but never liked playing it

this is a good effort but yeah, encounter is the superior game in every way.

Thank tou for showing me this game. I am a huge fan of Nethack and Caves of Cud and this game looks perfect.

4:20:06 I love the Spaced reference :D

Great game! I loved Amiga version too. You can flight stealth mode: all radar are cut off.

Is there any way to play it on Gameastion Pro ( a26 a52 or a78 file type ? )

Everyone is talking this game and other O.G. like RPGs. I have to tell ya, the urge to play this one and Ancient Domains of Mystery is growing exponentially.

Looks wonderful, I love the art style.

Era una maravilla parecía complicado pero no, cuando le cogías el truco de hacían maravillas, aún tengo por ahí un CD con temas de este "juego", y todo con una calidad de 10

I like this game a lot

Honestly a pretty fun cave exploration game that is a bit undone by being a bit too hard in some aspects. Still, it was a game of the times and is still worth looking at today. Take care and I look forward to many more episodes yet to come.

That was indeed brutal... but the exploring aspect kept you gripped... even if he does have weak ankles.

The player character would be right at home in an English Software game: fragile and would disintegrate just by stubbing his toe.

I've always really enjoyed this one because the sense of exploration and wanting to get just a bit farther is very addictive to me. I'm not sure why, but it seems very particular to 8-bit games in this style - I like stuff like Metroid, too, and Spelunky as a modern take, but those are so hyper-caffeinated on sending enemies at you that they start feeling more like regular action games. Spelunker has a really balanced sense of pacing to me. Maybe it's because the only thing really chasing after you is the ghost, and everything else is more like an obstacle to navigate. It's you against the environment.

The Atari was underrated compared to the C64 considering the Atari had 16 times the colors, almost twice the CPU clock, true hardware scrolling, per-line color changes for all registers, 4 channels, USB-like SIO, CIO, ANTIC GPU with its own memory and instruction set, faster drive IO and it came out FIRST 3 years before the C64. People only bought the C64 because of price and memory.

This game was brutally difficult, yet somehow kept you coming back for more abuse.

Absolutely fantastic game. Incredibly varied and incredibly unique. And those pokey sound effects are really something else!

Honestly PGR3 was my least favourite of the series, but it was still a great game. Can't agree hard enough with your opening statement about the current state of racing games. It's been a long time since anything really grabbed me in the racing genre.