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Post by Discoalucard on Oct 13, 2015 14:12:07 GMT -5
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Post by jorpho on Oct 14, 2015 0:13:08 GMT -5
It does indeed sound a lot like many other similar DOS/Amiga platformers. Was "Alternative Software" responsible for any other similar games?
This sentence seems to be missing a word.
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Post by elektrolurch on Oct 14, 2015 7:20:57 GMT -5
It does indeed sound a lot like many other similar DOS/Amiga platformers. Was "Alternative Software" responsible for any other similar games? Yes, Alternative Software was a kind of infamous Publisher for crappy, cheap (mostly licensed) games on Amiga. In my experience, they range from "playable, but generic"(Suburban Commando) to "downright insulting and crap"(Nightwalk). See www.lemonamiga.com/games/list.php?list_publisher=Alternative%20SoftwareNote that they even published Popeye 3 Wrestle Crazy... |
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Post by jorpho on Oct 14, 2015 8:24:04 GMT -5
Hee hee. Night Walk.
I was thinking it might be another one of those cases where they farmed out the development to the same folks to whom everyone else was farming out development, such that everyone's games ended up looking the same. But I guess that was more of an NES thing.
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Post by apachacha on Oct 14, 2015 14:03:00 GMT -5
I remember getting stuck on that one street level or something, even though I followed a walthrough of it and followed it to make sure to NOT get stuck.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 14, 2015 16:20:55 GMT -5
I WAS FROZEN TODAY!
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 15, 2015 8:53:54 GMT -5
Anyone find it funny that on the game's cover "Hulk Hogan" is trademarked, where the actual game title is not?
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Post by tbb on Oct 19, 2015 18:26:58 GMT -5
Anyone find it funny that on the game's cover "Hulk Hogan" is trademarked, where the actual game title is not? Not really, because at the time even wrestling events he appeared on and merch sold with him on it had to carry a TM notice (at the time Hulk Hogan and Hulkamania were trademarks of Marvel Comics, later Hogan himself acquired the rights). |
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 21, 2015 9:28:44 GMT -5
Anyone find it funny that on the game's cover "Hulk Hogan" is trademarked, where the actual game title is not? Not really, because at the time even wrestling events he appeared on and merch sold with him on it had to carry a TM notice (at the time Hulk Hogan and Hulkamania were trademarks of Marvel Comics, later Hogan himself acquired the rights). OK thanks, didn't know that since I never really cared about wrestling. |
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Oct 23, 2015 5:14:00 GMT -5
The graphics of Hulk's mad grin really freak me out...
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 23, 2015 16:40:46 GMT -5
I just played the other day a bit of Team17's Project-X for Amiga. The starting shmup stage is very reminiscent of it, and in the article the Superfrog connection is already stated, so it can be safe to say that Alternative Software simply aped Team17's style which was pretty much all the rage at the time. (Now of course people only remember them for the Worms series)
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