it's back to 1983? one of a couple unused arcade ports HAL made in the early days of the Famicom and then dumped on the market in 87-88 when they looked like museum artifacts.
>>12572440The disappointing part is that they could have had a near-perfect NES port of Stargate, but not with an NROM-128 cart. If they used CNROM (and there was no excuse not to by 87) then they could have basically fit everything from the arcade in there instead of the half-assed game we got.
I'm convinced. I stopped liking the NES now.
The tl;dr is that HAL ported Stargate, Joust, and Millipede for the abortive Atari US release of the Famicom that was supposed to happen in 1984 and didn't. The games sat on the shelf for a few years until HAL decided to release them since the small ROM carts would have cost pennies to manufacture by then.
>>12572453they released the games in Japan as-is in 87 but for the US releases felt the need to touch the graphics up a bit. i prefer the original ones myself.
>>12572447i did download the Stargate arcade ROM to check and yeah it was 64k so CNROM would perfectly fit. suspect though that HAL had no interest in trying to upgrade these games or do anything but a budget shovelware release with old dusty shit so you're left with what is basically an Atari 5200 game.
>>12572440i guess this didn't sell too good, nobody wanted to play Atarishit when they could be playing Castlevania II instead.
>>12572440multicart -core
>>12572485>nobody wanted to play Atarishit when they could be playing Castlevania II instead.
>>12572440>it's back to 1983?It's clearly not. Your blogging and you weren't born until 2013.
>>12572969t. assembly language LARPer
>>12572440Joust was US-only, that one wasn't released in Japan.
>>12572457is there anything the Speccy CANT do?
>>12573769That's actually an unofficial port but the arcade Defender was from '81, it wasn't anything the Spectrum couldn't handle.
