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My Dearest Data East: Why? Gate of Doom/Dark Seal
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoI was really surprised to see an SMT device on this board, but then I noticed a few chips with 1990 date codes and I guess by then SMT was starting to be used in more consumer electronics. My Shootout (also by Data East) arcade console from 1985 is 100% through-hole components.
- kcartlidge 3y agoMention of Data East always reminds me of one of my favourite 8-bit games, Bruce Lee. Challenging and with excellent music (which I still remember). Both 'facts' relative to the time it was made of course.
- debo_ 3y agoI knew who the author of this article was just by reading the title.
- Nihilartikel 3y agoMy local arcade had this game back in the 90's and it got quite a few of my quarters. One thing that stood out to me back then was how cool the music sounded. Beneath the brassy and tinkly FM synthesis they had these sort of choral samples and orchestra hits going on the wavetable channels. Not every game had sampling in their soundtracks back then. Going to load this up in MAME tonight for nostalgia's sake.
- wsc981 3y agoJust providing a link to a YouTube gameplay video, so people can check out the music or gameplay. Music is pretty cool indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8rZUEiiL0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8rZUEiiL0g
- punkpastel 3y agoOMG this was the first VM box I set up on my dad's old computer. And it was a bitch doing it back then. We had 1G of memory which was so slick at the time. I used to play this in tangent with earthworm jim and Myst.
- andrewstuart 3y agoAmazing graphics.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y agoI'm reminded of the infamous (to emulation connoisseurs of a certain age) Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me.... True to its generally baffling vibe, it uses a HuC6280 as the main CPU and a 6502 as the sound CPU.
- pipes 3y agoIt got a sequel called wizard fire. The article may have mentioned this but i didn't read all of it.