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[Darran@Retro Gamer]

I'm aiming to individually highlight each released arcade conversion for the Lynx and want to make sure I haven't missed any out.

A.P.B.
Block Out
Checkered Flag
Double Dragon
Hard Drivin’
Hydra
Joust
KLAX
MS Pac-Man
Ninja Gaiden
Pac-Land
Paperboy
Pit-Fighter
Qix
Raiden
Rampage
Rampart
Roadblasters
Robotron 2084
Rygar
S.T.U.N. Runner
Steel Talons
Super Off-Road
Toki
Tournament Cyberball
Xenophobe
Xybots

I'm not sure if the following 2 sports games are actual ports.
Hockey?
NFL Football?

Shanghai?
Also I noticed that there is a Shanghai arcade game, but again, am not sure this is a port.

Super Asteroids?
Not including this as they are enhanced versions

Turbo Sub
Again there is a Turbo Sub arcade game, but it looks like a different game

Any advice greatly appreciated

[jcp]

Checkered Flag : it's not the arcade port.

[carmel_andrews]

Crumbs Mr Retro gamer.....are you people still going, have'nt seen a single issue distributed in c. london in AGES (i.e TCR/Oxford street and so on)

Last issue i remember buying was when it was still published by the orig. publisher and it did a DPS on the 5200

(DPS=double page spread)

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

carmel_andrews, on Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:28 AM, said:

Crumbs Mr Retro gamer.....are you people still going, have'nt seen a single issue distributed in c. london in AGES (i.e TCR/Oxford street and so on)

Last issue i remember buying was when it was still published by the orig. publisher and it did a DPS on the 5200

(DPS=double page spread)

We are still going, winning awards and selling very well thanks
We're normally in Smiths

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

jcp, on Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:41 AM, said:

Checkered Flag : it's not the arcade port.

Is that official, or just not a good conversion? For example Buggy Boy on the C64 is a port of the arcade game, but not really anything like it.

[JohnBuell]

Checkered Flag was a Lynx original title that was ported to Jaguar later. It only shares a name with two other versions (Arcade and ZX Spectrum). Shanghai was a port of the then-popular PC/Mac title. Hockey and NFL Football are original titles.

I just wonder how you'd handle Battlezone 2000 though, since it started life as a new game, then was made to look more like the original arcade game with the new updates hidden as an easter egg. Might be safest to toss it with Super Asteroids/Missile Command in "enhanced" not a 100% port. Same with Rampage come to think of it, since it added a fourth character not in the arcade original, and wasn't called Rampage (when coded originally under Epyx) until Atari was able to license the name.

Oh, and you have to include Pinball Jam, the machines were real arcade pinball machines. Elvira and the Party Monsters and Police Force were both released in 1989 under the Midway and Williams names respectively (both part of WMS).

Edited by JohnBuell, Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:33 PM.

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

Thanks for the info JohnBuell. I've added Elvira and I'll be adding Battlezone and Super Asteroids, due to them being enhanced. It's admittedly a grey area, but I'd rather include them than not bother. Interesting about Checkered Flag, I'll ask Jerome about that as you'd think they'd just make a port.

[solidcorp]

Darran@Retro Gamer, on Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:23 AM, said:

Shanghai?
Also I noticed that there is a Shanghai arcade game, but again, am not sure this is a port.

Shanghai was a Mahjong game [the first one I got addicted to as a matter of fact] and not based on any coin op as far as I know.

Darran@Retro Gamer, on Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:23 AM, said:

Turbo Sub
Again there is a Turbo Sub arcade game, but it looks like a different game

Turbo Sub was definitely not an arcade port. Ed Schneider worked on that at Atari with Steve Ryno (designer) , Craig Ericson (producer) Bob Nagel (Artist), Rob Mariani(Aritist) while I was working on Toki. I don't recall if that was the EXACT team but they all were there and I *think* they worked on it.

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

solidcorp, on Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:48 PM, said:

Darran@Retro Gamer, on Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:23 AM, said:

Shanghai?
Also I noticed that there is a Shanghai arcade game, but again, am not sure this is a port.

Shanghai was a Mahjong game [the first one I got addicted to as a matter of fact] and not based on any coin op as far as I know.

Darran@Retro Gamer, on Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:23 AM, said:

Turbo Sub
Again there is a Turbo Sub arcade game, but it looks like a different game

Turbo Sub was definitely not an arcade port. Ed Schneider worked on that at Atari with Steve Ryno (designer) , Craig Ericson (producer) Bob Nagel (Artist), Rob Mariani(Aritist) while I was working on Toki. I don't recall if that was the EXACT team but they all were there and I *think* they worked on it.

Thank you

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

Well that's the list done. I'm not going to include Battlezone as it's not the original game. I'm doing the same for Super Asteroids and Super Missile Command, I'm not covering Pinball Jam in detail either. I'm also ignoring unreleased games (although all the above will be included within the feature). Thanks for the help I've received though, it's been really useful.

Edited by Darran@Retro Gamer, Wed Nov 2, 2011 6:07 AM.

[108 Stars]

Please tell us when the article is coming out!

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

The article will be in our issue for 8th of December. I'm going to get it checked with Marty G, chase a few things with a couple of the developers and it's all good. There's also an insane amount of great content that I just couldn't fit in. I'll be posting this on the forums.

[PFG 9000]

This issue came out a few days ago, at least for USA subscribers. That means it should hit USA stores in another week or two. The article, of course, is great. It's 8 pages long (!) and focuses on Lynx arcade conversions with lots of interesting recollections on the part of the game developers.

[LX.NET]

Compliments Darran on the article. Picked up the Retro Gamer Magazine in The Netherlands a week and a half ago. Loved the article. The in-depth coverage and journalistic approach is a warm alternative to a lot of the pulp that is out there.
My only advice: more of these kinds of articles, preferrably on the Lynx! This is only the third Lynx article that I know of in the history of RGM. And each begs for more.

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

I'm glad you enjoyed the feature. I'm more than happy to put more Lynx coverage in the magazine, and have wanted to do a piece on homebrew projects for quite some time. Unfortunately barriers have been in the way in the past, but we might be able to get something sorted in the new year.

[ThomH]

Darran@Retro Gamer, on Mon Jan 2, 2012 7:29 AM, said:

I'm glad you enjoyed the feature. I'm more than happy to put more Lynx coverage in the magazine, and have wanted to do a piece on homebrew projects for quite some time. Unfortunately barriers have been in the way in the past, but we might be able to get something sorted in the new year.

I've been a homebrew Lynx developer on and off for about a decade, am the author of this Mode 7 demo and the other Lynx (and the Freescape, Acorn Electron and Sam Coupe projects also shown on that YouTube account) and have three years of professional experience as a writer/editor. Is there anything I can do to help? I'm completely financially stable so I'm not fishing for a commission.

Edited by ThomH, Mon Jan 2, 2012 9:13 AM.

[bentper2]

Can more awesome games be ported to the lynx ?
The lynx programmers are awesome

[108 Stars]

bentper2, on Sun Feb 5, 2012 9:47 AM, said:

Can more awesome games be ported to the lynx ?
The lynx programmers are awesome

Well, I´d recommend you visit this forum daily for the next week. Anyday something could happen now...

[Ninjabba]

108 Stars, on Sun Feb 5, 2012 12:28 PM, said:

bentper2, on Sun Feb 5, 2012 9:47 AM, said:

Can more awesome games be ported to the lynx ?
The lynx programmers are awesome

Well, I´d recommend you visit this forum daily for the next week. Anyday something could happen now...

This week hmm...? Sounds intriguing!