[Coco] Time Bandit - CoCo 3 version?? Or...what version is this?

Blake Patterson blakespot at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 22:21:38 EDT 2013


And, in case anyone didn't follow the link to the gallery -- here are
images of the actual Sanyo version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/sets/72157633146005641/detail/



bp


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>wrote:

> On 3/04/2013 12:58 PM, Blake Patterson wrote:
>
> >  There's no way these are the Sanyo screens, though. So...what gives?
>
> Interesting puzzle indeed. Those 'Sanyo' shots on your blog are almost
> *definitely* derive from the Coco version; usually when games are ported
> the graphics are altered in one way or another, and these are obviously
> pixel-for-pixel copies of the Coco graphics (aside from the extra colour
> information).
>
> But then again, bizarrely, the archived blog does show a photo of the
> Sanyo with the same screenshots!?! Almost as if there was a port to the
> Sanyo based on the same graphics (but with more colour depth), then they
> decided to change them?
>
> Curiouser and curiouser...
>
> Regards,
>
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