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It was made by HAL Labs in Japan and shown at the CES show in June 1981. It was called Midnight Drive at that point, but they changed the name as Atari thought it was too similar to their Night Driver. It was released in 1981.

I haven't tried the first one. I'll definitely give that a go.

I hear a lot of people saying the Amiga SEUCK wasn't as good, but I don't know what the C64 one did that the Amiga one didn't. When I see C64 ones I don't see anything different, though it has been a while since I used it on the Amiga.

@@necronom These games (like SEUCK games, too) suffer from a lack of good proportion. This means things like the screen feeling too wide or too narrow, the objects like the player sprite or the enemies being too big or too small. One clear example for this is, porting the player sprite as just 'one sprite'. While on the C64 this most often ios perfectly fine,because one C64's sprite is taking an adequate portion of the overall screen size, this usually is terrible on the Amiga, becaise one single sprites width is just too small usiing the Amiga's resolution. And even while these things may seem like trivia at first, there are issues that come with these parameters not being 'right'. Those issues are timing related in character. For example: Crossing a higher resolution screen with same speed per pixels, will stuill take longer than on a higher resolution screen. This of course countns for each and everything on screen. For the player, for the enemies, for shots, for the background, for mutliplpe parallex levels, even for relation of the ingame objects to HUD size and whatever. And, as of course it's not possible to do a 'perfect conversion' in the meaning of everythiing being of identical size and proportions, yet making full use of the Amiga's capabilities (because that woudl require using fractions of pixels instead of full pixels), there just is reason enough to think that it's simply not possible to have most of these games even being good on the Amiga

@@necronom And games *not* being optimizied in these parameters, but actually feeling like the random result of what comes from framing C64 sized objects into the Amiga's resolutions and proportions, is what's making these games feel off and boring, because of the speed and timing issues that inevitably come with. Good games require system specific tuning, even if this means a redesign of a whole map, whole graphic set or even the essential gemeplay loop itself. And the Amiga is different machine requiring different games tailored towards it's dapabilities and limitations, too, just like the C64, and sadly not too many ported games on the Amiga can actually show what ther Amiga is capable of, when it comes to not only 'looking good and sounding good', but also being fun and entertaining, as we know. So, for converted C64 games being good on the Amiga, a whole redevelopment is needed instead of simple porting. Devs need to find different parameters for all timings and subsequently visual proportions of anything, and then do whole new testing if a game is actually fun for achieving this. And so I think the lack of adapting parameters towards the requirements of the Amiga in the 'size and speed' department of objects, is the main issue for SEUCK games not being fun on the Amiga, too

@@necronom And: Sorry for the mess and mass of replies.. somehow YT felt the need to censor my comments, when I wrote all text in one comment .

I think it's the best one. I used the thrust occasionally, but it's a bit clunky and I usually end up hitting an asteroid. Pressing space to jump is usually better depending on how many things are on screen.

I doubt it, but SID tunes are usually released (you can find them on the HVSC site) and can be played using something like VLC, or from a website like DeepSID. The previous game is on both those, but not the sequel at the moment I'm typing this. deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/B/Bayliss_Richard

I'm glad you like it. It's very random. I have a bunch of old computers so I just randomly play something and if I can upload a game that brings something new to TH-cam I'll do it. It's usually getting further in a game, a full playthrough, a game that hasn't been done, or something like that. I avoided the C64 until this week as it's very difficult to find a game that hasn't already been done several times by other people. Same with the Amiga. That's why I have quite a lot of PET and Vic-20 games, or more obscure games generally. Also doing them on the real computers brings something slightly new as most videos are from emulators.

That's my fault. I didn't notice it at the time. These days I always fix the delay from the capture as there is usually a 3 frame delay. This one was with my previous PC and had a longer delay which I didn't notice when watching it back.

It's here, with other versions: ko-ko74.itch.io/wizard-of-wor-for-the-commodore-pet

I don't know much about the TRS-80, but looking at some pics of games for it, they look very similar.

Indeed. All using the quarter/half/three-quarter character blocks as 'pixels' and positioning them within each character in the correct place. Very well done.

It probably took me about 8-10 goes to finish it, but you can still get better scores by having more lives left, being quicker, etc.

Yeah, I think it is more like Galaga.

The ZX81 and Vic-20 came out in 1981, then the Spectrum and C64 came out in 82, so the Vic was impressive at the time. It beat the Spectrum on several things, like the keyboard, disk drives, printers, sound, and sometimes graphics (depending on the game). The main problem was the lack of built-in RAM, and screen resolution.

Yeah, missing the 'Galaxians' level (as some ports did), and the last level is quite different. The Vic-20 version is better, and more similar to the arcade one. It's actually set in space for a start!

This is a pretty poor version. Quite stilted movement, missing levels and Laser Attack ships hardly moving. VIC20 smashed it.