Roc'NRope - A 1983 platformer developed and published by Konami for arcades is coming to the Amiga via JOTD

Amiga owners we are getting another treat, as legendary developer JOTD, behind such great conversions as Double Dragon, Pooyan, Jail Break and Xevious 1200, has announced an upcoming port of Roc'NRope. The release serves as a direct Amiga conversion of the classic 1983 arcade platformer developed and published by Konami. For JOTD, this project came as a welcome change of pace. The developer took on the conversion as a smaller, less demanding game to get some rest after squashing the final, grueling bugs on his massive Ghosts'N'Goblins AGA port. It serves as a brief pitstop while preparing to tackle other major, intensive arcade-to-Amiga projects on the horizon.

The game is already fully playable, with JOTD offering praise to the original arcade creators. Giving a major thumbs up to Konami, the developer noted that their clean original code makes these arcade translations vastly easier to execute compared to the notoriously complex Namco architecture. Despite being a requested title by the Amiga community for awhile, JOTD admitted that he had never actually played the game himself until very recently. Though he noted it looked like it was a quality title he would eventually enjoy, the realizing that it wouldn't be overly taxing on the hardware prompted him to finally sit down, play it, and bring it to life on the Commodore classic.

And that's all there is to say, but as soon as a download is available we will let you know :)