On 2016-12-22 20:50:05 +0000, Andreas Kohlbach said:

> The Amiga was introduced in 1985 and by 1986 should had been on the
> shelves.
>
> Usually games from arcades were ported to the then available home
> computers just a few months later they appeared in the arcades. Like
> Zaxxon which made it way to about all of the contemporary computers in
> 1982 as licensed or clone. For the Amiga Zaxxon came out only in
> 1995. Another example is Phoenix from 1981, which came out as Mega
> Phoenix for the Amiga ten years later, if my Google works correct. There
> are many more examples of late game ports for the Amiga. While others,
> like Elite, were probably out (1985) before many people even heard about
> the Amiga.
>
> Anyone has an idea why?

Interesting point. Just throwing some ideas in here:

1. Maybe its just one of those things (no one thought of doing it, lazy
day at the office, no new games coming so time to churn out some old
moneyspinners?)

2. Maybe there was more of a drive to push the Amiga with newer games,
rather than porting across old games?

3. Rights problems?

I have no idea to be honest, but they were the things that came to mind.

Olly.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05