We are still waiting on a suitable Amiga AGA emulator with robust recording features before tackling such games.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Megastyle 2022)
The Empire Strikes Back is a fan made conversion of the Atari 2600 classic of the same name. The game has been made freely by Megastyle available on May 4th 2022 to download at itch.io
https://megastyle.itch.io/esb-by-megastyle
https://megastyle.itch.io/esb-by-megastyle
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Player's Review
A great conversion to the C64 with some additional gameplay mechanics. While I could have played better, I wanted to be sure to show the various gameplay elements.
The game zipps a long at a steady pace and the controls are responsive. Avoiding the single missile that comes at you can be challenging as it tracks and random flying droids that appear can take you by surprise. The game starts off fairly easy to allow you to get used to the mechanics but steps up the difficulty by level 5 with more walkers to destroy putting pressure on available to time before they destroy the shield generator.
The AT-AT's can be shot from the front and behind but they weaker at the head so can be killed quicker if you can get the shots off there. A droid hatch will also open on occasionally allowing you to land a kill shot if you get the aim spot on. Missing and the droid will come at you!
The shows shows playthrough all 8 levels to reveal the ending. After that, the game becomes more of a score attack looping the levels until the game is lost. The second loop starts off being slightly more difficult than the initial run. I show the bad end at the end of stage 2 in the third loop. I did this to show that that the game essencially becomes endless.
Overall a great C64 conversion that expands on the gameplay of the original with great presentation.
00:00:00 Game Instructions
00:02:00 Loader Music
00:03:23 Title Music
00:05:05 Gameplay
00:28:20 Ending
00:53:35 Bad Ending
The game zipps a long at a steady pace and the controls are responsive. Avoiding the single missile that comes at you can be challenging as it tracks and random flying droids that appear can take you by surprise. The game starts off fairly easy to allow you to get used to the mechanics but steps up the difficulty by level 5 with more walkers to destroy putting pressure on available to time before they destroy the shield generator.
The AT-AT's can be shot from the front and behind but they weaker at the head so can be killed quicker if you can get the shots off there. A droid hatch will also open on occasionally allowing you to land a kill shot if you get the aim spot on. Missing and the droid will come at you!
The shows shows playthrough all 8 levels to reveal the ending. After that, the game becomes more of a score attack looping the levels until the game is lost. The second loop starts off being slightly more difficult than the initial run. I show the bad end at the end of stage 2 in the third loop. I did this to show that that the game essencially becomes endless.
Overall a great C64 conversion that expands on the gameplay of the original with great presentation.
00:00:00 Game Instructions
00:02:00 Loader Music
00:03:23 Title Music
00:05:05 Gameplay
00:28:20 Ending
00:53:35 Bad Ending
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