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Robocod aka. James Pond... ah the memories

Crowelle

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roberthazelby

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With regards to your other question "What happened to games like that?", it received a re-release on numerous platforms including the PSOne and PS2.

I've got the PSOne version, but don't know if it's any different from the PS2 one. (They could have just re-boxed it for all I know).

If you can get it for under a tenner it's well worth tracking down as the game now has save points and some nice remixed music.

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DarhkFox

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yeah i pressume you are talking about robocod and not the prequel or sequels. robocod was pretty good, but no save made me unhappy.

But compared to mario (for example) the game was shit.

I remember the cheats like EARTH and there was another one.. anyway you could like move robocod under the snow and find secret areas and stuff.

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Crowelle

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I'm sorry but no way! robocod is better, marios right up there too, I'm glad thats actually survived! robocod is in no way "shit"!!

However, i did not know about this cheat, im intrigued, totaly going to have to try it (the games on download right now). i remember there was a cheat called little mermaid, which gave gave you invincibility.

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Leon Ahoy!

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Robocod isn't bad for an Amiga platformer. Compared to weak titles like Zool, it looks and plays very well.

I have vague memories of the first James Pond being quite good. I've never played the 3rd edition.

The SNES received a port, as did the Mega Drive. Good conversions if I remember correctly.

The Japanese platformers for the machine were best though. Rainbow Islands, New Zealand Story, Rod Land etc... Even the Mario Rip-Off ' Great Giana Sisters '

The best western ones were probably ' flood ' and ' Super Frog '

I need to get my Amiga out of storage.

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Hyper P

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The 3rd game- Operation Starfish, was my favourite of the James Pond games. It was blatantly a Super Mario World rip-off, but it had a real charm to it.

Although I played it a lot, I never got on with Robocod and felt the character designs rather garish.

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roberthazelby

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James Pond has always been my favourite out of the 'Pond' games.

I remember seeing a demo of this a few months prior to me getting an Amiga. I still had a Spectrum at the time, but after being wowed already by Shadow of The Beast and IK+ I knew that I 'had' to get one.

The graphics in the first title are probably the best looking, and the parallax looks the nicest. It's a very polished looking game.

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DarhkFox

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yeah typing thelittlemermaid gave you all kinds of weird cheats.

as was collecting:

C ake

H ammer

E arth

A pple

T ap

on the castle roof for temporary invincibility and stage select

and

L ips

I ce cream

V iolin

E arth

S now man

from the first level giving you infinite quanity of lives.

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utero2001

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I used to love this on my cousins amiga, but I got the SNES version (all boxed!!!111)

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and I really hate it now, its not that the SNES version is poor, the game has'nt aged well at all, the only good thing about it is the art style, but the level design and the way he moves argh, no

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I wish they'd do a DS/GBA version of Operation Starfish.

I completed that game, with all secrets and so on, one summer, when I was about, I dunno, 13? I thought it was amazing. It had the traditional early years of computing British sense of humour, but with amazing graphics. And it was massive! I played the Megadrive version.

I'd love that, with some kind of quicksave, on DS.

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Unofficial Who

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Stuart Campbell has given it a thumbs up here. http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/dsrev/roundup1.htm

For the budget price it's been released at, you'll have a hard time bettering this for value for money on the DS, and nobody's more surprised by that than your correspondent. Much better than the GBA version (thanks to the bigger screen area, the map and the inclusion at last of proper saving rather than passwords), and infinitely better than the Amiga original, Robocod is finally the game that everyone said it was a decade and a half ago. 8/10

I remember being wowed by the C64 version as well although it looks a bit garish now.

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