On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:15:04 +0000, Olly wrote:
>
> 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?)

Hmm...

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

IMO classics are classics and already a few years after they were
published (in opposite to that they are now vintage and loved by us old
folks) highly sought after. Like Space Invaders or Pac Man. I suppose
also in 1985 many people loved to play them.

> 3. Rights problems?

I doubt. Compared to the Commodore 64 which had a lot (not to say all? ;-)
of the classic games available. These companies (Ocean comes to my
mind) might already have done a C64 port, why not extend the license for
the Amiga?

Then they could just do clones. Like it was done a lot for the ZX Spectrum
for example.

I just found another example with Defender
. Came out 13 years
after it hit the arcades in 1981. Interestingly the Wikipedia page
 isn't even
mentioning the Amiga port. It might just be a clone, and there was never
an official Amiga port for Defender.
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