Mp3 of the top of my head #10

The main title theme for the amiga game: James Pond 2 - Codename Robocod, mysteriously popped its way in to my brain today. So here's a glimpse of the game plus a link to the fantastic main theme in mp3 format.

Link to mp3

Star Wars game remake

Remember the old Star Wars game – ported to amongst many platforms the Amiga 500? The game was pretty basic. You controlled an X-wing and your mission was to destroy the Death Star. I used to play this game on the Amiga 500, but remember also playing it on a shitty stand-up arcade at a travelling Carnival in my home town. The game dates back from 1983 and the graphics were vector based, meaning everything was transparent and only showed the outline of the different vessels. Well that was a hardware limitation of the time and the game was still an enjoyable experience and I used to play it a lot on my amiga. Recently (2006) somebody decided to remake the game and upgrade the looks of it -so instead of everything being vector based and transparent, all the ships and the Death Star are now fully-fledged forms with textures.

The game was entered in the 2006 retro remakes contest, and I heard of via the hilarious Arsecast.com (of which I highly recommend you check out)

So click the link and see (for novelty value) how a textured Death Star looks. (Pretty shitty in my opinion)

Star Wars 2006 remake link

Star Wars remake


Old Star Wars

Moonstone

Game:
Moonstone

Description:
Knights fighting monsters - ‘nuff said.

Platform:
Amiga 500

The game
Moonstone is my favorite game of all time – forget the lists floating around the net hailing Zelda – something something as the number one. This gem here far surpasses it in every way – and I’m so confident in this I say it without never having played Zelda – something something, Moonstone is that good! It’s like the best sex (some of you may have had) with extra sex on top of that plus a cold beer and the movie Robocop – all in all the best things in life.
The premise is the epic search for the four moonstones and you are one of four Knights embarking on the task . Your search will bring you through swamplands, rocky terrain, fields and forests, and at the same time kicking a huge variety of monster ass. These monsters range from little furry monkey-like critters to a huge badass dragon, that’s so terrifying, you’ll spend the first half of the game desperately avoiding - why you ask? Because it’ll kill the second you encounter it. Enter sword of sharpness. The weapons available in this game consists of different types of sword, daggers and armor – plus a wide selection of magic potions and talismans but the sword of sharpness is takes the cake. With this baby equipped you’ll be able to lob of the heads of your e nemies with one swift blow – this is cool enough in it self – but Moonstone being the kick-ass-rock-your-face-of game that it is, the headless bastard stands for a second or two with blood gushing out of his neck – neatly accompanied by the sound of a squishing pumping sound.
The shear brilliance of this game makes me lost for words, get it immediately – where you say? Get the Amiga emulator winUEA, find a kickstart file and download the game from somewhere. Google, google and google. And depending on your mental capacity you’ll be able to play this baby here, in one to fourteen hours (Emulation isn’t easy)

Final score:
Graphics – 10/10

Sound – 10/10

Gameplay – 10/10

Final comment:
The best game ever made for any platform ever.