ST Format

Before we go any further, obviously this is a podcast about gaming magazines, so what magazine are we going to be talking about today?

I have brought you, and we didn't have to dust this one off because it's been on my shelf and looked after, but this is ST Format issue 17. from December 1990.

Why that particular issue? Because I still got it.

But also, the ST was the first 16-bit gaming system I had.

My career at the moment, I'm just being very creative in lots of different places.

It's lovely.

It's got nothing to do with ST format, but I'm enjoying it.

Yeah.

ST User called it a worthy game that suffers from dodgy playability, while giving it a 7 out of 10.

ST Format called it dated and primitive in its 63% review.

The NES got a completely different but similar game in July of 1988, also released by Capcom.

Like many NES games, this version is only loosely based on the arcade game and is a little bit more in the Metroidvania style with more tools and abilities that must be collected to proceed through the game.

The Atari ST version was released by Titus France into the UK in 1991 with, happily, no USA release.

With only two magazine scores that average 66%, it's unranked in the ST Moby Games database.

Of those reviews, ST Format gave it the highest score, a 72% ranking, and remarked that it's a fun and challenging platform game, and one that fans of the film will probably not enjoy unless they like this type of game.

That would be me.

Okay.

And I'd actually had a few little games released on ST Format magazine that I did from scratch.

So I've been into computers for a long time.

And I thought this CAD operator position would be like a segue to get me to video game art.