At some point I considered making my own videos for all the games, but that was already quite an effort to make the custom pages, screenshots, adding the release dates, etc… so I ended up picking-up the most representative YouTube videos when they were available :)
To be fair, I suck at that game, it’s too fast for my old man reflexes!
Nice! Uridium and Parallax were great "arcade" games on the C64 (Parallax had the better music), good job bringing that feeling over. The sound of the shots feels like it should be pitched higher, when compared to the original games of that kind. That said, I don't know what the Oric's sound chip is capable of, but Tainted Love was very recognizable - kudos!
Sound wise the Oric is very similar to the Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, MSX, or later generation Sinclair Spectrum machines.
The main difference tends to be the base clock, the Oric’s YM is clocked at 1mhz while the Atari ST’s runs at 2mhz, which influences how low and how high it can get… but on this specific case the shots could have been played higher, I guess it was Chema’s choice :D
And yeah, he wanted to pay homage to all these 80ies songs, so he decided to go with all these classic tunes.
Glad you like it, and thanks for commenting, much appreciated!
These Oric remakes you've been posting are from some of my best childhood memories with the C64. Wizball and Paradroid next? Maybe Defender of the Crown?
I’m basically posting all the games made by Defence Force (most of them by Chema and Twilighte) because out of the Oric world most people never saw them, and that gives some visibility to the plateform in general.
There are a couple other classics to come up next, but no, I fear the ones you mentioned are not among them, but you definitely have heard of them.
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I had forgotten how badly I played when I made that video LOL. We had a lot of fun trying to guess all the tunes didn’t we : )
Proper 80’s retrofest!
At some point I considered making my own videos for all the games, but that was already quite an effort to make the custom pages, screenshots, adding the release dates, etc… so I ended up picking-up the most representative YouTube videos when they were available :)
To be fair, I suck at that game, it’s too fast for my old man reflexes!
It was my first time using OBS back then but I wanted to show how good the Oric can be in the right hands.
Nice! Uridium and Parallax were great "arcade" games on the C64 (Parallax had the better music), good job bringing that feeling over. The sound of the shots feels like it should be pitched higher, when compared to the original games of that kind. That said, I don't know what the Oric's sound chip is capable of, but Tainted Love was very recognizable - kudos!
Sound wise the Oric is very similar to the Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, MSX, or later generation Sinclair Spectrum machines.
The main difference tends to be the base clock, the Oric’s YM is clocked at 1mhz while the Atari ST’s runs at 2mhz, which influences how low and how high it can get… but on this specific case the shots could have been played higher, I guess it was Chema’s choice :D
And yeah, he wanted to pay homage to all these 80ies songs, so he decided to go with all these classic tunes.
Glad you like it, and thanks for commenting, much appreciated!
These Oric remakes you've been posting are from some of my best childhood memories with the C64. Wizball and Paradroid next? Maybe Defender of the Crown?
I’m basically posting all the games made by Defence Force (most of them by Chema and Twilighte) because out of the Oric world most people never saw them, and that gives some visibility to the plateform in general.
There are a couple other classics to come up next, but no, I fear the ones you mentioned are not among them, but you definitely have heard of them.