Kyle
22nd April 2012, 07:31 PM
Of the same game?
For example my favorite game is the Mr Do series especially the castle one where you are being chased by unicorns (very ugly ones at that) and you can defeat the level by either getting all the cherry blocks or knocking blocks on top of the unicorns with your trusty dusty hammer.
The game was ported to various systems and on all versions you hit keys that open up a door on the top with a shield inside that turns the unicorns to blue letters that spell the word EXTRA to get an extra Mr Do (life) which you have to hit the letters with your hammer in close range within a time limit which varies depending on which system you play it on.
In fact I was playing it on MAME and then watched a Commodore 64 version because I grew up playing it on the C64 first and noticed the game is not so fast paced on the C64.
An example would be when you get the shield in the arcade version you have maybe 5 seconds at the most while on the C64 version it's doubled to 10 seconds on watching a gameplay video on YouTube to compare versions.
Don't even get me started on the Atari version as the controls are messed up royal and the enemies don't even look like unicorns in the slightest! :p You can't even tell what blocks you are hitting unless you squint your eyes.
I cannot remember if it's in the home version but in the arcade if you are down to 1 enemy and leave him alone for a short while he will turn into a blue creature which you better get rid of right away or he will multiply until the entire level is filled with them and they move fast!
Mr Do looks a lot like Dig Dug where you dig thru dirt and collect the cherries where there is fruit that can block the path or you can hold onto it and when an enemy is moving up your path you let the fruit drop on them and the enemy has a home base in the middle where they live.
There is the letters EXTRA spelled on top of the screen and once in a while a letter starts walking around the field and you have a magic ball that you can hit enemies and letters with to either complete a level or spell out the word EXTRA to get a 1-up.
Also The Pacman series seem more forgiving on the home version too where you have more time when the ghosts are blue and they take more time to catch up to you as I've gotten slightly past screen 10 several times on the C64 game when I was little but on the arcade version I am lucky to get past stage 5 on any Pac-man game.
Does anybody know of any other arcade to home ports where the difficulty is changed?
For example my favorite game is the Mr Do series especially the castle one where you are being chased by unicorns (very ugly ones at that) and you can defeat the level by either getting all the cherry blocks or knocking blocks on top of the unicorns with your trusty dusty hammer.
The game was ported to various systems and on all versions you hit keys that open up a door on the top with a shield inside that turns the unicorns to blue letters that spell the word EXTRA to get an extra Mr Do (life) which you have to hit the letters with your hammer in close range within a time limit which varies depending on which system you play it on.
In fact I was playing it on MAME and then watched a Commodore 64 version because I grew up playing it on the C64 first and noticed the game is not so fast paced on the C64.
An example would be when you get the shield in the arcade version you have maybe 5 seconds at the most while on the C64 version it's doubled to 10 seconds on watching a gameplay video on YouTube to compare versions.
Don't even get me started on the Atari version as the controls are messed up royal and the enemies don't even look like unicorns in the slightest! :p You can't even tell what blocks you are hitting unless you squint your eyes.
I cannot remember if it's in the home version but in the arcade if you are down to 1 enemy and leave him alone for a short while he will turn into a blue creature which you better get rid of right away or he will multiply until the entire level is filled with them and they move fast!
Mr Do looks a lot like Dig Dug where you dig thru dirt and collect the cherries where there is fruit that can block the path or you can hold onto it and when an enemy is moving up your path you let the fruit drop on them and the enemy has a home base in the middle where they live.
There is the letters EXTRA spelled on top of the screen and once in a while a letter starts walking around the field and you have a magic ball that you can hit enemies and letters with to either complete a level or spell out the word EXTRA to get a 1-up.
Also The Pacman series seem more forgiving on the home version too where you have more time when the ghosts are blue and they take more time to catch up to you as I've gotten slightly past screen 10 several times on the C64 game when I was little but on the arcade version I am lucky to get past stage 5 on any Pac-man game.
Does anybody know of any other arcade to home ports where the difficulty is changed?