Pooyan on CGL Sord M5 vintage home computer

[MarkTheMorose]

Pooyan: originally an arcade game, I had the C64 version and was quite good at it. I didn't know it was a conversion until years later; it was also released for the Atari 8-bit. The red object you can fire at the wolves is a chunk of meat. It's quite a fun simple game: single screen, with a couple of varied bonus levels. It does get a bit monotonous after a while; certainly I could rack up huge scores on the C64.

[ClassicTVMan81]

This resembles "Pooyan" on the Tomy Tutor. Reason being: both computers share the same Texas Instruments TMS-9918A graphics chip.

[Rockythefishman]

Looks like a fun little game :) I had never even heard of the sord M5, I had to google it. Looks like an interesting machine you should consider doing a video on the machine. I can not be the only one who has no idea about it.

[SteveBenway]

The thought had crossed my mind, but the truth is, there's not too much I could say about the system. Even though I remember seeing adverts in magazines for it, back in the day, the M5 was largely ignored, and there's very little information about it out there now.

[MarkTheMorose]

@SteveBenway I'll rattle off what I remember of the Sord M5 from way back then. Unknown over here before 1982/3, it was just one of the flood of cheap import computers intended to compete with the Spectrum, which it shared some physical similarity to. Other imports included the Mattel Aquarius and the Laser 200. The Sord M5 was released here by CGL, Computer Games Limited, who mainly sold handhelds. It was not a success; might be worth a quick video though, just so people can see it?

[MarkTheMorose]

@MarkTheMorose Commenting to myself? Serves me right for forgetting another of the flood of cheap imports: the COMX 35, with its goldy-coloured case and dinky built-in joystick, like the Spectravideo and Enterprise, but smaller.