An afternoon playing SWOS on the Amiga
Discussion
ive been hording them for years,the speccy needs a new membrane (suprise!) as the 'n' key doesnt work as most games were controlled using q,a,o,p and n,'n' was usually the 'action' button and got shagged first.
the rest are all 100%,i still have a tendency to shove on the cbm for a quick blast of f15 strike eagle (the original 64k version) over north vietnam or shoving on spitfire ace and going on a balls-out bashing of johnny foreigner......TALLY HO!......and yep,i have outrun and outrun turbo on the speccy and the 64.
anyone played 'outrun 2' in the arcade yet?,i only saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and WOW!,what a game!.....if you play it i highly recommend the manual gearbox just because its sooooooo much fun powersliding an enzo!
the rest are all 100%,i still have a tendency to shove on the cbm for a quick blast of f15 strike eagle (the original 64k version) over north vietnam or shoving on spitfire ace and going on a balls-out bashing of johnny foreigner......TALLY HO!......and yep,i have outrun and outrun turbo on the speccy and the 64.
anyone played 'outrun 2' in the arcade yet?,i only saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and WOW!,what a game!.....if you play it i highly recommend the manual gearbox just because its sooooooo much fun powersliding an enzo!
TahitiBlue said:
I work with some of the Sydicate guys including Sean Cooper who was lead designer / programmer on it. Told them about this thread and they thought it was great that people still remembered Syndicate so fondly....!
That's pretty cool.
Really, an excellent game. I loved the way you could finish missions in multiple ways. Either snipe the mayor opeing the building from range, or arm all 4 agents with flamers, turn all the boosters way up and toast him, his wife, his friends and the whole crowd.
They fancy doing a remake for the P900. I'll buy it.
TahitiBlue said:
I work with some of the Sydicate guys including Sean Cooper who was lead designer / programmer on it. Told them about this thread and they thought it was great that people still remembered Syndicate so fondly....!
the last level (the one on the oil rig iirc) was almost impossible! took me days of play to get past that one! i remember being in a state of disbelief when i realised id done it!
paolow said:
I work with some of the Sydicate guys including Sean Cooper who was lead designer / programmer on it. Told them about this thread and they thought it was great that people still remembered Syndicate so fondly....!
the last level (the one on the oil rig iirc) was almost impossible! took me days of play to get past that one! i remember being in a state of disbelief when i realised id done it!
Not the only one, first few days on the oil rig level was a case of turn up and get wiped out within 60 seconds. Shared the same sense of disbelief. Never tried to finish it again in case it was a fluke.
scaff said:
TahitiBlue said:
I work with some of the Sydicate guys including Sean Cooper who was lead designer / programmer on it. Told them about this thread and they thought it was great that people still remembered Syndicate so fondly....!
the last level (the one on the oil rig iirc) was almost impossible! took me days of play to get past that one! i remember being in a state of disbelief when i realised id done it!
Not the only one, first few days on the oil rig level was a case of turn up and get wiped out within 60 seconds. Shared the same sense of disbelief. Never tried to finish it again in case it was a fluke.
How sad am I for remembering the name of the level?
Wait for it...
Atlantic Accelerator.
_dobbo_ said:
paolow said:
TahitiBlue said:
I work with some of the Sydicate guys including Sean Cooper who was lead designer / programmer on it. Told them about this thread and they thought it was great that people still remembered Syndicate so fondly....!
the last level (the one on the oil rig iirc) was almost impossible! took me days of play to get past that one! i remember being in a state of disbelief when i realised id done it!
Not the only one, first few days on the oil rig level was a case of turn up and get wiped out within 60 seconds. Shared the same sense of disbelief. Never tried to finish it again in case it was a fluke.
How sad am I for remembering the name of the level?
Wait for it...
Atlantic Accelerator.
Nah, not sad at all.
So how was that level done then?
I'm going dig out my old Amiga at some point. I feel I never put the time into solving this level at the time but want a shot at it again.
Sending the guys in full automated, armed to teeth with lasers just didn't cut it.
Would be nice if it was like 'Another World' - the last level on that game was actually easier as some before.
I don't remember how it was done... I may even have cheated to get all my guys loaded up with miniguns and lasers...
If you want to avoid getting your old amiga out, download an emulator, like WinUAE or "Amiga Forever" (get it on kazaa) and then download syndicate from here:
http://amigos.amiga.hu/ancientoys/index2.html
It'll let you download hundreds of games!
If you want to avoid getting your old amiga out, download an emulator, like WinUAE or "Amiga Forever" (get it on kazaa) and then download syndicate from here:
http://amigos.amiga.hu/ancientoys/index2.html
It'll let you download hundreds of games!
scaff said:
Not the only one, first few days on the oil rig level was a case of turn up and get wiped out within 60 seconds. Shared the same sense of disbelief. Never tried to finish it again in case it was a fluke.
You lasted 60 seconds?
Impressive.
From what I recall, the method used by me was sniping rifles/lasers and running like hell.
They all have MGs, so stay out of range and kill as many as possible. Then pick up their mini-guns and go cleaning up.
Very, very hard. Takes ages.
_dobbo_ said:
I don't remember how it was done... I may even have cheated to get all my guys loaded up with miniguns and lasers...
If you want to avoid getting your old amiga out, download an emulator, like WinUAE or "Amiga Forever" (get it on kazaa) and then download syndicate from here:
http://amigos.amiga.hu/ancientoys/index2.html
It'll let you download hundreds of games!
I'd love to but the only decent PC I have that will will keep a reasonable pace is my works one. They'll take a very dim view of this sort of thing.
Would not be suprised by a admin visit re. DHTML Lemmings.
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