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Star Wars: Attack the Death Star, blew my socks off,
so fair and squarely, I paid the exorbitant price
for a boxed copy.
Do you need a SASI/SCSI drive for your
X68000? There are hard drive clones
Those lucky,
lucky
Japanese...
…had to be rich Japanese mind you.
If you want to give off the air of a
consummate retro gamer, be the
envy of classic gamers everywhere
and provide that ‘I have more
money than sense because I could
simply emulate this system’ vibe,
then the X68000 is for you.
It feels, it isn’t, but it feels like a sequel to the
original wireframe Star Wars arcade. The game
play is iffy at best, but the visuals make up for that.
Pacmania. Another remarkably good looking version of
game that ported to dozens of other platforms. At the
time I was very disinterested in this game, but as the
years have gone on, I’m learning to love it.
If you ignore the 3,000 Japanese Yen price ticket, and
merely look at the graphics, the X68000 has it roots in
1986. Roughly the same time the Amiga and ST were
blowing our socks off in the West.
Amiga and ST fans who felt betrayed by the hideous
versions of Street Fighter 2 that were imposed upon us,
look away now. The X68000 version is amazing.
I’m not sure what was going on here, but this version of
Castlevania is very pretty and a little weird. Making it
pretty-weird.
The Atari ST had arguably one of the best ports of R-Type.
And argueably the ST cost about eight-times less to buy.
So, find solace in that, when I say, the X68000 version is
amazing. Bloody hard though.
The Sharp X68000 has a version of Pac-Man
that does not suck.
My wife, a native of Tokyo in the ‘80s, nearly crushed me
in the stampede to play this very unforgiving version of
Mappy.
Cracking Damno across the back of the head with an iron
pipe has never looked better than in this version of Final
Fight.
Atomic RoboKid and Alien Syndome both look and play
awesomely on the 68000
Nervous Memory
So, you’ve added a SCSI hard drive to your
X68000 XVI and you’re ready to play Street
Fighter II the way ST and Amiga owners could
only dream? But it doesn’t load. “Insufficient
RAM”.
A definition of fear is cracking open a £3,000
rare computer, not really knowing what your
doing and adding a RAM upgrade…
This is the grotty, somewhat bloated, and
extremely mediocre controller I use with
X68000 XVI. If anyone knows of a better
one, get in touch.
This is an X68000 keyboard. Nothing is more exotic to a Western gamer, than a Japanese keyboard with
hiragana characters on the keys.
You can connect either
a regular USB mouse or
PS2 keyboard to the
X68000 using these.
Note. Your western
standard 101-key
keyboard is likely to be
missing somewhat
crucial keys however.
Daimakaimura or Ghosts n’ Goblins as we
call it, is stunning on the X68000
Asteroids is also very fluid, very pretty
and very good.
Not everything on the X68000 is fluffy
flowers, rainbows and pink donkeys. Oh-
no. Chase HQ, Taito’s classic, is an
absolute dogs dinner. Hopefully, those
responsible for the catastrophe were
appropriately punished, because this is
bad.
If I had gone to school in the ‘80s with a machine capable of these graphics,
students to this day would still be walking into class past my statue…
