louisG

louisG

Retro gaming freak and chipmusician

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Re: Feature: How R-Type Was De-Made For The Game Boy, Before Demakes Were A Thing

louisG

That was a fun approach to the article, to compare porting arcade games to old hardware to the modern trend of demakes. I can't stress enough how underpowered consoles and computers were next to arcade machines before the 90s! You'd be lucky if it even sorta resembled the arcade version. BTW, the ZX and C64 versions of R-Type are also mad feats. Somehow R-Type got lucky and every crew who ported it was really competent/had enough time/resources! Definitely unusual for the era.