Published on2021/12/03 at 10:13
Perhaps some of you will remember when Hobby Press began to accompany its biweekly Microhobby with a tape, which included demos of upcoming releases alongside amateur games that were previously listed in the magazine.
The first tape, if memory serves me correctly, had a demo of "Thunder Blade" with it. It was exciting to be able to play an upcoming pitch, assess it, and decide if you got the entire game. But also, at a time when everything was beginning to be ephemeral and games were published like hotcakes, it could over-satisfy your cravings and discourage the purchase of the full game ... This was basically what happened to me, and it was which caused me not to get hold of the game whose demo appeared in the next installment, Navy Moves.
So, going back to the game at hand, I loaded the tape and was amazed for a long time with the technical calmness of the game; The truth is that it was quite new, you could appreciate the height thanks to the simulation of the third dimensions, and the graphics were very striking despite their absence of color. I loaded it up a few times (it must be the most deteriorated Microhobby tape in my collection) ... And there it was, like so many others. If I think about the number of games I bought in which I did not go beyond the first phase, it is easy to understand that I did not get the full game.
The MSX version has all the earmarks of being Spanish; you know, there is no foreign advertising or covers that testify to its launch outside our borders. By itself it is not an indicator, but it is enough to hesitate until we know something else. Many of these conversions were not signed, not even in code, and were wrongly attributed to the creators of the Spectrum version, from which they always came.
This version dispenses with the music from the original for ZX, which takes a few points off the final note.
The first tape, if memory serves me correctly, had a demo of "Thunder Blade" with it. It was exciting to be able to play an upcoming pitch, assess it, and decide if you got the entire game. But also, at a time when everything was beginning to be ephemeral and games were published like hotcakes, it could over-satisfy your cravings and discourage the purchase of the full game ... This was basically what happened to me, and it was which caused me not to get hold of the game whose demo appeared in the next installment, Navy Moves.
So, going back to the game at hand, I loaded the tape and was amazed for a long time with the technical calmness of the game; The truth is that it was quite new, you could appreciate the height thanks to the simulation of the third dimensions, and the graphics were very striking despite their absence of color. I loaded it up a few times (it must be the most deteriorated Microhobby tape in my collection) ... And there it was, like so many others. If I think about the number of games I bought in which I did not go beyond the first phase, it is easy to understand that I did not get the full game.
The MSX version has all the earmarks of being Spanish; you know, there is no foreign advertising or covers that testify to its launch outside our borders. By itself it is not an indicator, but it is enough to hesitate until we know something else. Many of these conversions were not signed, not even in code, and were wrongly attributed to the creators of the Spectrum version, from which they always came.
This version dispenses with the music from the original for ZX, which takes a few points off the final note.
MSX conversion: ?