Another Commodore Amiga news story has appeared in our inbox, as we've recently found out through the EAB forums, that the previously announced game of Flying Shark; which is an upcoming Amiga remake of the 1987 Arcade game of the same name. Has recently been teased with a new look at the first level of the game with new graphics! A game which is being remade by Magnus T together with JMD and John Tsakiris(GFX). Although the main creator does state "This is a test of level 1 with new graphics by John Tsakiris: there are things to fix but is already looking very good".
As we said before in all of our previous write ups, originally many people felt the Amiga version that was released in 1988 by firebird was not only a bad conversion of a great Arcade game, but many people also felt that it had repetitive gameplay, the port was lazy, and the Amiga could have handled the arcade gfx with no problems. So here we are with this new remake of the game, and while we are unsure of how far development will progress until its official release, already we can see the game looks better than ever in this new graphical update.
Looking good. You really have to wonder what could have been if these computers were even remotely successful in Japan and had some Japanese developers doing their own ports instead of shelling them out to the lowest bidder ..
ReplyDeleteWonderful and almost identical to the arcade counterpart...at last!! Will run on ocs like the previous demos or will be Aga only?
ReplyDeleteLooking great...finally!! The difficulty level seems toned down,but it's a good news...the original was impossible!! It works on Amiga 500 1mb or it's for A1200??
ReplyDeleteIt's for vanilla a500 ;)
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DeleteGreat! It'already on par with the x68000 or the fm-towns versions!!
DeleteThe changes look outstanding. It looks on par with arcade now.
ReplyDeleteNice to the graphics getting an Amiga facelift ! Nice work
ReplyDeleteLooks like one of the prettiest shooters ever for the A500, maybe as close to an A500 can get to the beautiful Banshee on the A1200
ReplyDeleteLooks great. If only it had looked this good back in the day!
ReplyDeletelooks great and im glad it has music and fx at the same time. I was wondering. how hard is it to use something like TFMX sound engine or something similar? id love to hear over sound effects other than the explosions, such as wepaon pick up sounds etc. Cheers.
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