Today it’s time for another Amiga demo I recently discovered. It is called 40 & a Blunt and was made by Y-Crew. It was released at the Maximum Overdose 10 demo party in 2012 (28-12-12 to 30-12-12 in Lübeck, Germany) and ranked as number three in the competition. It is not actually a demo though, since it falls into the 40KB intro category. An Amiga 500 with 1MB of RAM will run it fine.
The music in the intro was made by my old friend Rebb of Paradise & TRSI and he sent a greeting to me in the production. If you by any chance read this Rebb, I must say thank you for the greet. Will contact you again soon.
40 & a Blunt is an old-school type intro, featuring several golden oldie effects. It took me back in time and I enjoyed the ride. The music is a cosy chiptune and it fits well with the overall theme of the intro. I enjoyed watching the plasma and copper effect and reading the text at the end of the production (many messages from the creators to other people etc). If you want to watch it yourself, I’ve embedded a video from YouTube below. If you’ve got an Amiga, you can download the intro via the download-link at the end of this post. Hope you’ll enjoy watching it!
Back in April last year I wrote a review of the Amiga CD32 version of Rise of the Robots. While browsing YouTube, I found a video review of the SEGA Genesis (MegaDrive) edition of the game by Stan Burdman. I’ve only played ROTR on the Amiga, so it was interesting to see how it looked on the SEGA. Apparently the game wasn’t very playable on that platform either..
I’ve embedded it below, so that you can check it out yourself. Hope you’ll enjoy it!
What is your opinion about the Rise of the Robots? Hope to hear from you.
Many, many years ago, when I was a kid, a friend of mine, my parents and I went to the city to do some shopping. The number one place for us kids to visit was the local software store. We didn’t have enough cash to afford the top games, since they tended to be expensive, so we seeked out the budget section instead. Back then one often chose which game to purchase by the cover and the screenshots, which ultimately lead to many disappointments amongst eager and young gamers.
On this trip I ended up getting Advanced Ski Simulator by Codemasters, while my friend picked up Into to the Eagles Nest by Mindscape. When I got back home I remember turning on the computer, inserting the disk, and waiting for it to load, with high expectations.. the disappointment was enormous.. The game was completely unplayable, boring and not any fun at all. I can describe it with one word; rubbish! It was actually so bad, that we caught a laughing fit while testing it!
Although we disliked it, the cover of the game says that ACE Magazine called the game “addictive”, so there are probably some people out there disagreeing with me.
I’ve embedded a video from YouTube below, so that you can watch the “gameplay” for yourself.. Enjoy! My friend was very happy with his purchase though, so that made up for some of the disappointment.
Have any of you made any bad purchases when it comes to games? Would love to hear your stories about it.
I’ve been watching a lot of old demos lately and one of the strangest ones is Future 1999 by PwP (Pers’ Wastaiset Produktiot). It was made for the Commodore VIC-20 and released in 2009 (it was made in 2008, but released later). It won the old-school demo compo at a party called Stream 2009.
The demo is a bit scary and has a serious atmosphere surrounding it. It portrays a society where humans are completely monitored, from birth to death. Everyone is identical and only a number amongst billions of others. You’ve got machines that measures each individuals level of happiness and strange apparatuses that grows people. If someone dares to rebel against the system, they’ll be vaporized with the push of a button.. still, humans are mounting a resistance.
As mentioned above, the demo came out for the VIC-20, an old computer from Commodore. This machine saw the light of day back in 1980 (!) and sold about a million units. As you can imagine, creating demos for such a low-end system is no easy task.. It’s therefore quite impressive that Future 1999 features digital sound samples….
Anyway, I’ve embedded a video from YouTube, so that you can watch it for yourself. I’m very curious on your opinion about it, as it is quite different from normal demos.
I can describe it with one word; rubbish! It was actually so bad, that we caught a laughing fit while testing it!
