BBC Micro game Strykers Run
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Nice yellow magic orchestra rip off soundtrack
3 years ago 13
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How many 8-bit video-game cover versions of YMO's "Rydeen" were there? So far, I've heard Super Locomotive by Sega, Daley Thompson's Decathlon for the C64, and Strykers Run for the BBC Micro. Even the "Mana Fortess" theme in Secret of Mana sounds a bit like Rydeen.
I'm not surprised though, since "Rydeen" sounds like it was almost made for video games. In fact, you can clearly hear some "Space Invaders" samples used in the original 1979 version of Rydeen.
7 months ago 5
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Good game for the Beeb ... but it really shows up how the Beeb excelled at drawing lines quickly (Elite, Thrust) but sort of sucked badly at scrolling bitmaps and sprites. Compared to the C64 and Atari 800, anyway. The C64 couldn't draw fast lines worth a damn though.
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@cpmisalive This sounds SO much better then the terrible sound I had from the BBC Micro speaker.
It was hilariously bad.
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Nasty sprite flicker there. Looks almost like a Spectrum game.
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Epic Yellow Magic Orchestra - Rydeen cover! ^_^
1 year ago 2
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I actually went out & bought this when it 1st came out back in the 1986. I thought it was the dogs bollocks back then but its kinda lost some of its appeal now lol. BBC's were fucking great though, c'mon you've gotta agree with me there! This game is nearly a quarter of a century old now
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imagine if the BBC's palette was as big as the number of colors in its bitmap...
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I loved playing this on my Master128k. The graphics were limited then but the games play was just as good.
I still say the best game I ever played or was written, even with the games of today was Elite. I only played the BBC version of it :)
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goodness. This is an 'enhanced' version ? I had a BBC and it was king until 1985. Then the C64 took over with programmers pushing the graphics and sprites. I am rooting for the BBC but think the best programmers had gone to the c64 by 1986.
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What an absolutely brilliant game, we used to play it at middle school, and I``d completely forgot about it :D Strykers Run, I`ll not forget the name again, hehe
Did the Master have a better/different sound chip to the Model B? I quite like the tune on this, pleased you left the tune in at the beggining :)
yaKC 4 years ago
No, the sound chip was the same, good old TI SN76489 (aaargh geek!) I think it was used in the Master System and Megadrive and two inside the Atari ST. The reason why the music is better is just down to available RAM. BBC has about 6KB left in MODE2, whereas the Master has over 90KB free RAM in MODE2, hence the improved graphics and sound.
cpmisalive 4 years ago