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Megalomaniac - 16/04/2023

A style-over-substance Amiga game, converted without the style. Unfortunately everything about this game was designed around showing off the Amiga's chipset, with no consideration for how it played, let alone how it would convert. Wrath of the Demon shows what could have been achieved with a similar gameplay style.

Trophy - 31/10/2021

Very average and boring game, which looks much better on Amiga 500 (and still is boring). The Atari ST loses nothing here.

Steve - 11/09/2015

What Christos says.. bang on!

Christos - 05/08/2015

Yes it is indeed a hard game to convert. It's not really the issue if a 1-1 conversion could have been made, it couldn't have but if with some trade offs it could have been much better, and the answer to that is YES. Of course it could never have been turned into a good game. It's a bad game so we didn't really miss much.

Denis - 21/06/2015

As the coder explained it, this game was VERY hard to convert on ST, because every trick and hardware effects needed to be converted as software routines, as well as preshift the graphics, this leading to insane memory requirements (2mb!) when the amiga release needed only 512kb to run. The ST to get in software the same result as the Amiga version would need a 68000 running at 20 Mhz...... The STE hardware scroll brings more problems than it solves, because there are no sprites hardware assistance on it. What's the point of having a scroll running at 50 fps when the computer has so many sprites to put on screen at high speed ? the STE (never mind the ST) was not made for that.

Steve - 18/01/2015

It's not the machine - it's the programmers. They obviously didn't care or wasn't given the chance to take time and effort to get a decent ST release done. I certainly don't blame the ST or hate the Amiga for their version. But perhaps it was their missed opportunity lost anyhow - imagine if they'd have done an STe release instead of an STf game. Imagine the public reaction - they'd have been heroes! Their loss........ hey ho ;)

Stay clear of this game. The ST is far more capable and has tons and tons of quality titles. Enjoy those!

racing gamer - 13/01/2015

Maybe it was done badly on purpose to let the Amiga shine. I read somewhere that there was also 1MB version in the works but it was never released... Seeing many "Beast" demos it could have been possible to code it close to Amiga on ST too.

Paul Cawley - 27/12/2014

As a lover of Shadow of the Beast, and an ST owner before Amiga, I have to say this is probably the worst possible way a conversion of this title could have turned out - especially when so many Amiga owners were watching to see how it compared to their version!

Auntie Pastie - 31/01/2014

@Parsnip Function; Never played it myself, but I do know that the Amiga original was- even in the format's heyday- considered by many to be style over substance; technically brilliant, but punishingly difficult and lacking in playability.

Parsnip Function - 22/04/2012

I remember being in awe seeing this running at the (only) store in the Cleveland area to sell ST software. The intro, like all Psygnosis games, was pretty and dramatic. Too bad when I plunked down the hard earned $ and brought it home the game play sucked. Maybe I was just really bad at it? Lots of memorizing incoming enemy patterns and cheap one hit kills, if I remember.

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Other versions with the same title:

Psygnosis, Sizzlers, Psygnosis.

Trivia -

Team Tap
Supports up to 4 players woth Team Tap -adapter.

Origins
Game is incomplete but features at least 4 levels.

Additional Credits
Framework: Dead Hackers Society

Hardware
Requires SAM digitizing cartridge.

Origins
PD-Palvelu's Kuukausilevyke was the second major Finnish diskmagazine for the Atari ST in Finland.

It was born when ST Klubi (team behind Suomenkieliset Tietosanomat) and ex-member Heinrich Pesch parted ways. His new diskmagazine ran from Jan 1989 to Dec 1990 and total of 21 issues were produced. Issues Oct and Nov 1989 along with Sep 1990 wasn't released due to the authors hardware problems.

Kuukausilevy didn't use any particular shell or browser for the documents. It was all plain text files. Every issue featured news from Atari World, translated overview of the latest issue of German ST-Magazin along with updated catalog of his PD-disk service Pesch was also running.

Rest of the disk was full of the latest PD software and some rare programs by the Finnish PD developers aswell as by the author himself.

Additional credits
DSP replay routine - TAT

Sound
Sounds samples for this game were taken from various Apollo missions.

Sound
This game features digital title music

Development
Written with Fast Basic

Hardware
Supports Blitter on Mega ST and STe

Origins
Announced by Atari at COMDEX fall 1985 for the ST.

Origins
One of the games participated to Finnish Mikrobitti magazine's L-game programming contest. Unfortunately all traces to this game has been lost so far. If anyone can help to preserve this one please get in touch!

Hardware
Supports RS232 for multiplayer action

Sound
Features digitized sound fx at 25KHz on STe

Book / Magazine Reviews -

ST Format · December, 1990

Rating: 83%