@JasonLee215 Ah yes. I forget. All Tierex games were more or less ST ports... Nevertheless, Thunder Blade had pretty good graphics but shame about playability...
Meanwhile graphics is pretty well ported from arcade orginal, snail slow controls ruins the whole game. It's impossible to manouver the helicopter without getting hit every half a minute... Lots of potential completelly wasted. As sad as it is...
here's why the pepsi logo appears in this port. thing was that when the pc ports came out, it was nominated by pepsi as "game of the year" in 1988. of course, this was in Europe.
What really killed this version were the stupid controls. As I recall, you held down the button and moved the stick to change the speed. Since you also used the button to shoot, you ended up slowing down or speeding up when you least expected it. I realize that the Amiga used one-button Atari joysticks, but the programmer had to be brain dead to create a control scheme like that.
It was on par with Sega's System16 and Capcom's CPS boards. This level of performance allowed for decent (not perfect) translations of high-end Sega SuperScaler arcade games like Super HangOn, Space Harrier, After Burner II and Thunder Blade.
Thunder Blade on X68000 is by far the closest home version of the game ever released. It shits all over the Amiga TB and Genesis STB.
@JasonLee215 C64 version had. :)
KarpowSCX 7 months ago
@JasonLee215 Ah yes. I forget. All Tierex games were more or less ST ports... Nevertheless, Thunder Blade had pretty good graphics but shame about playability...
KarpowSCX 8 months ago
Meanwhile graphics is pretty well ported from arcade orginal, snail slow controls ruins the whole game. It's impossible to manouver the helicopter without getting hit every half a minute... Lots of potential completelly wasted. As sad as it is...
KarpowSCX 1 year ago
I will commend them for the chimey chords in the intro theme.
MattTheSpratt 1 year ago
here's why the pepsi logo appears in this port. thing was that when the pc ports came out, it was nominated by pepsi as "game of the year" in 1988. of course, this was in Europe.
figment1988 2 years ago
Well, Tiertex ported, so yeah.
MattTheSpratt 2 years ago
PEPSI launch pad?! Wtf?
ps. looks harder than any version I've ever seen, you keep crashing. Stop crashing your chopper, man.
CruiseCntr 2 years ago
Lol at the Pepsi platform at 1:00
SturmvogelPrime 2 years ago
What really killed this version were the stupid controls. As I recall, you held down the button and moved the stick to change the speed. Since you also used the button to shoot, you ended up slowing down or speeding up when you least expected it. I realize that the Amiga used one-button Atari joysticks, but the programmer had to be brain dead to create a control scheme like that.
lurkerrekrul 3 years ago
It was on par with Sega's System16 and Capcom's CPS boards. This level of performance allowed for decent (not perfect) translations of high-end Sega SuperScaler arcade games like Super HangOn, Space Harrier, After Burner II and Thunder Blade.
Thunder Blade on X68000 is by far the closest home version of the game ever released. It shits all over the Amiga TB and Genesis STB.
turbografx 3 years ago