Xenon 2 Megablast: Atari ST (1989) - Longplay

[@goodoldtos2583]

My favorite game on ST! Well played ! In 89, it took me 2 weeks of hard fail and try iterations to compelte it with no cheat!

[@MrGreedylou]

ahh the memories....this and speedball 2

[@gregmonod4649]

And Gods !

[@knighthawk6606]

Always wished their was more levels so many memories and hours spent playing this game.

[@netshaman9918]

OH yeah !

[@CM-Leviathan]

This soundtrack was the bomb, and was so much better on the Atari ST than the Amiga 500

[@Milkymalk]

Too bad you can't hear it any more as soon as you push the trigger because all channels are used up for SFX, unlike in the Amiga version ;-)

[@SylwesterPietrzyk]

Quite opposite actually. As an Atari ST fanboy I must admit that Amiga’s sound and game graphics capabilities were just better than in ST. It was STE that finally matched Amiga’s capabilities in this matter - you can find on YT Xenin 2 gameplay on STE - s oh and is about the same as in Amiga version and soundtrack is not interrupted for SFX as STE has DMA sound.

[@godslayer1415]

Controls were better on the Atari ST - Amiga had weird lags

[@atarijaguarsgarage8873]

@@CM-Leviathan Sometimes memories can fail us.:) Amiga was one of the best sounding systems, Atari ST much worse.

[@valenrn8657]

​@@SylwesterPietrzyk The Atari STE version didn't match the Amiga 500 e.g. Dread. Amiga has 32 colors or 64 color EHB without a raster beam color palette change. Amiga still has 8 hardware sprite engines. Amiga's raster beam color palette change feature is fully driven by the Copper. Copper enables 8 hardware sprite engines to be reused. 1989 Amiga 500 Rev 6A has ECS Agnus update. Hardware dual playfield mode, HAM6, and 64-color EHB are six-bit plane modes. Atari STE has 16 colors without a raster beam color palette change. Atari STE has a four-bitplane capability like Atari STe. --- As Dread shows, Amiga Blitter is flexible enough for C2P acceleration. Amiga hardware sprites were used for the player's gun object with an independent color palette.

[@virtual-adam]

Was a bit disappointed when I found out the in game music was so bad. Especially after seeing my mates Amiga version.

[@TPau65]

Well, there is a special STE-version with DMA music-streaming from Harddisk, playing the Original music in the Intro and ingame! 😁

[@CastleKnight7]

virtual-adam I prefer the chip music as it sounds more like a computer game should.

[@tgktgkify]

...and the award for Best Use of 4K Video goes to...an Atari ST screen capture! 🤣🤣

[@ktfp]

So many happy memories playing this game. My old man bought this from me in early 90’s. What a time to be alive.

[@timpeachey9394]

The 90's...when crazy people were rare and people didnt look like dyed hair tattooed weirdos.

[@noelht1]

This was Ace

[@hieroglyph321]

Oh mmy gosh ... that intro music and I'm back in my teens. Thanks

[@AtariCrypt]

Just awesome. Love this :)

[@Generation-80sss]

Vraiment super, je n'avais jamais été aussi loin avec mon Atari ST en 1990. C'est la première fois que je vois le jeu complet. Un grand merci

[@MrIrrepressible]

Had this on a speccy 48k and loved it

[@killaskrilla5320]

Amazing graphics for 1989

[@WikoLite3172]

nostalgia 🥰 🥰 🥰

[@themightyimp08]

DJ Yoda dropped this at The stranger things Margate Dreamland AV set last night 28/08/2022 and mixed the lyrics over the top. Brilliant!

[@sturycroft]

0:28 when you’re listening to Earth Wind and Fire and that piss-poor recorder version kicks in….

[@Zaky-Tocapelotas]

Fantastic game ! Don't understand why the remade Godz but not this or Speedball 2. I completed this back in the day. Great vid man, thanks for posting the nostalgia :)

[@TPau65]

Very well played! Interesting move to avoid these bat-like enemies in Level 4 at 36:18 ! I always hated these. 😉

[@jaynicho2007]

The music sounds like the same used on ‘Assault On Precinct 13’

[@williamgeorgefraser]

This was my favourite game on my ST along with Archipelagos.

[@vtvt2384]

Excellent jeu, terminé avec mon pote "le bab"

[@michelpayette4691]

which emulator do you use ?

[@1Dustin]

Wow, the Atari had such better audio then the Amiga!

[@magicstu]

It really diddnt - smh. The intro was one massive sample!

[@vader11373]

Well pet shop boys and erasure did ok with a 1040 ste!

[@gutz323]

@@magicstu it really did. It was the Atari STE not just the ST that people wanted for the sound card. Lots of popular electronic groups of the time used the Atari STE to make pop songs. Listen to the intro on this video, then go and have a look at the Amiga version, this version has a perfect sound sample of the original song. I had an STE at the time just for gaming, but I did regret it, the Amiga would have been a better choice for me, since more friends had the Amiga. I also found some earlier games would not load on the STE but would load on the normal ST.

[@DroneShots_UK]

​@@vader11373 that's because they used it for midi. Not the sound chip.

[@dominicfastbender4029]

To be fair, the Atari ST was far better at creating music and sequencer programs like cubase than playing it back. It was the machine that allowed many of the best creators of the 90s to exist. It was ok for games but what it was, was a genius tool for creation. The Amiga and others were not even close. The best musicians, back in the day, all used the ST. The Amiga had a slightly better playback chip but could not match the ST for creation. So you could create it for commericlal output or whatever, then convert to ST. You didnt buy an ST as a gaming toy, in the main. IT was great at hooking up to your midi studio and compatibility in my experience. I am talking Korg M1 days

[@valenrn8657]

The Amiga was the Video Toaster and raytracing machine. Amiga 500 (with Kickstart 2.04 ROM or greater) can be upgraded with a 68040 CPU accelerator in 1992 and the same upgrade ability allowed the recent Vampire AC68080 and PiStorm-Emu68's emulated 68040 to exist. 1989-era Amiga 500's Kickstart 1.3 ROM allowed 68020 and 68030 CPU accelerators.

[@valenrn8657]

1987 era Amiga 500's Paula allowed 14-bit audio with 56 kHz via drop-in ECS update. 1989 Amiga 500 Rev 6A's ECS and Kickstart 3.x drop-in update is without jump wire PCB modification.

[@TheFrostynator]

Very bad sound in the ST version. AMIGA RULES...