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This game was everywhere back in the mid 90’s but was it worth playing?

Battle of the Ports - Power Drive

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We are going truly old school this week with Battle of the Ports - Pitfall!

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120htz display, dlp projector and powerful enough to run Game Cube emulation! The Tank 2 Pro from Unihertz.

Review of the new Anbernic RG28XX. Has Anbernic produced another quality product?

excellent as always - so typical of the era though, i see the colecovision port and quickly went from impressed to hearing about the controls and thinking “yeah, this happened a lot”: good looking ports that didn’t seem to emphasize controls

as someone who was recently trying the master system port of double dragon, i felt this one, haha

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I have to admit loving the Master System version of Double Dragon but then again that’s all I had back in the day :sweat_smile:

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It’s amazing how good Pitfall! is on the 2600. The controls are just so tight. And at the time it looked amazing as well. Activision really made their name in that era with so many great games.

We need a Battle of the Ports for River Raid! I’m guessing there were a similar number of ports for that game?

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I’m sure there must be many clones of River Raid but I wonder how many ports? This is something to look in to for a future show :+1:

I looked at the Wikipedia page and there are a similar number to Pitfall! Intellivision, ColecoVision, Atari 800, Commodore 64, MSX, 5200, Spectrum…

Nice. I’ll add it to the list for a future show.

This week on Battle of the Ports we have a rare case where we cover a game that started life on the Sharp X68000. This is Sol-Feace

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A little early this week. This is Battle of the Ports - Heavy Nova.
Yet another game that started life on the Sharp X68000

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Many may think they know the original Bomberman but do you really?

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This was great. I had no idea about the beginning of Bomberman.

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Checkout the review of the “Anbernic RG35XXSP Stock Firmware Review” video now on YouTube.

Previously we took a look at the original Bomberman. well, today we take a look at the modern Bomberman that defined the series to this very day.

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Wavebird for switch?

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This week on Battle of the Ports is a very nice looking game from a developer you’ve probably never heard of.

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Classic Nintendo action this week where Mario is the filthy villain he really is.

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The game that started the amazing Thunder Force series is probably not what you expected.
This week on Battle of the Ports.

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Last week was saw the humble beginnings of one of the worlds best shooting series. This week we look at how much more advanced the second game was.
This is Battle of the Ports - Thunder Force II

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