Re: WINGS OF FURY - what was the best version ?

[Nathan <tkoyah@yahoo.co.nz>]

Angus Manwaring wrote:
> rbernardo wrote:
> > Sprite Scaler wrote:

> >> I'll give the Amiga version a try since it seems to be the
> >> most powerful platform WoF was ported to.
> >
> > Of course, I am partial to the Commodore and Amiga versions of
> > Wings of Fury, the Amiga version having the tiny screams of the people
> > as they are being strafed to death.
>
> You see this is the sort of thing I'd have liked to have seen in Fire and
> Ice - its obviously very good, but its just a bit too cute for my taste. :)

Yeah, I wasn't a big fan of the digitised screams on the Amiga
version.  Also the flight controls felt a little off somehow.  Too
colourful too.  hehe..  I'd grown used to the stark colour of the c64
version.  Sorry, haven't seen the Apple II version.  For me it was
definitely the c64 version that was best.  I expect the Apple II
version probably had a similarly good feel to the flight controls.
(It did feel very sim-ish.)  I would somehow seem right on a green
phosphor screen too.  (I'm very much a retrogamer at heart .. I like
my Apple II games to be played on a green phosphor screen.)

It was one of those games I preferred having infinite missiles/bombs
for.  Too much to-and-fro-ing with the regular ordinance quota.  The
game was quite time consuming enough as it was. :)

I would agree too that the Apple II version of Choplifter was the
best.  Though I was over the moon to see it get the arcade treatment,
but they somehow lost some of the fun factor in that version.  The c64
version was very good, but I think the Apple wins out because of the
analogue stick and two buttons - made the game much more playable.
Other than that the c64 and Apple versions play almost identically.
Nice raster-effect in the border of the c64 one too .. made the game
feel almost full-screen.

Nathan.