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                            by Dave Diamond
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We  all  love  a  game  at  the  arcade  dont  we?   My personal fave is
wrestlefest,but  if the game is successfull they will usually convert it
to  consoles  and  then  finally  the  home  computer.  But are they any
good-lets have a look at some of them...

Mortal  kombat  1  and  2...apart  from  the `silky` colors and parallax
scrolling  they remain very good conversions,but if you look at the snes
versions  then  you`ll  see that the`re much better,but the snes is a 16
bit  machine  and  so  is  the  amiga  so why cant we have the `perfect`
conversion?   Many  companies  will probably say that they could make it
perfect  but  it  would  be  on a couple more disks which would increase
spending.

Streetfighter  2...oh  dear,a  perfect  example  really  (the  snes  was
fine),this  was easily a rush job and could have been done better,i mean
its  just not acceptable now is it?  Im not a coder or programmer but im
sure  given  the  time you could easily get the parallax (shadow fighter
has  it),the speed (aga machine anyone) and just cut down the colors,but
make  them  attractive,i  say  if  they  did  this  then they could most
probably fit it on 6 disks.

Super  streetfighter  2...i  haven`t played all of this but the graphics
again  say  it  all,they  could  have done much better (this was the aga
version),some nice bits in there but the screen size let it down badly.

Overall there is big misdirection in making conversions,i think they say
`well  the  gameplay  is  good but we`ll cut on the gfx`.  Get a life,if
they  made  a perfect version of sf2 then everyone would buy it,make the
snes  owners  cringe  for  a change.There are loads of arcade games that
haven`t    been    converted    which    is    a   shame,these   include
wrestlefest,spiderman   and   the   x   men,captain   silver  and  crude
busters-data  east  made  half  of  these  games  and converted midnight
resistance  and  robocop  but why not the others?  Go on guys you can do
it!




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