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  • edited October 2011
    FrankT wrote: »
    ...Edit:
    Also there is an extremely rare version of Fairlight that was recalled before the sale date because it never had the Alkatraz copyright message. It also doesn't have a joystick option.
    Think I have the only existing copy that survived being recalled and remastered with the updated version. Fairlight Release1 in the archive is from my tape. Very collectable with it also being the first release of the Alkatraz loader as well. If someone wants to offer a stupid amount of money for it.......hint......

    OK, fine, I'll rip it out of yer hands for tuppence, thankyeverymuchly! I'll PM you my addresse.
  • edited October 2011
    Wookiee wrote: »
    Was the gameplay the same on both?

    Believe so. Played the same to me.
  • edited October 2011
    csmith wrote: »
    Cobra had two versions, and it has always puzzled me why.

    My cassette version, which Father Christmas bought me ;-) paints the loading screen a section at a time (Sly first, then his gun, them the cobra logo etc). My friends copy drew the loading screen straight down, pixels with attributes (I think).

    Both versions are in the archive iirc.

    Anyone know why? Always meant to ask Joffa.....

    Edit: the only thing I can think of is that it was re-released when Amstrad broke the floating bus.....

    Yes, I had read somewhere that Cobra was re-released to work with the +3 / +2a.
  • edited October 2011
    I bought a game called Frankenstein Jr that I discovered on here was also released as a different game with a female lead and a different name.
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    edited October 2011
    WISE OWL wrote: »
    I bought a game called Frankenstein Jr that I discovered on here was also released as a different game with a female lead and a different name.

    Wasn't that originally released under the name 'Bride of Frankenstein' by another company that went bust? (i can't remember their name, too much booze i'm afraid!)
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • edited October 2011
    Spitting Image (although one version did have a change of name to Split Personailities). One is a fantastic puzzle game , up there with the best the machine has to offer , the other is a crappy beat-em-up
  • edited October 2011
    I made a disassembly of Splitting Images (Split Personalities), a couple of years ago.

    Worked out how to add new screens and levels. There's a couple of new screens I made in this demo, second screen is difficult.
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/Splitting Images Demo.tzx

    Edit:
    It was more than 4 years ago looking at the date on the demo I made. Bloody hell, time has gone fast.
  • edited October 2011
    Street hawk?

    One less obvious, if you belive the myth, or saw it on the shelf circa november 1986 in boots loughboro... Ikari warriors!!

    Told it before, unfortunately i brought yie ar kung fu 2 sitting next to it... gutted

    Ohh and the classicaly underated, if not stupidly hard thunderbirds by firebird. Grandslam did a version some years later, as good... not imho:)
  • edited November 2011
    Pole position had 2 different versions, one had Centipede advertised on the boards the other had Datasoft...

    US Gold's Word cup Carnival is just Arctics game re-packaged apparently.
  • edited November 2011
    FrankT wrote: »
    I made a disassembly of Splitting Images (Split Personalities), a couple of years ago.

    Worked out how to add new screens and levels. There's a couple of new screens I made in this demo, second screen is difficult.
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/Splitting Images Demo.tzx
    An interesting attempt indeed :) I noticed you also changed some of the bonus items in both screens.
  • edited November 2011
    fog wrote: »
    and they did the same with that western game which was really robotron :)

    Wild West Hero.
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