[Coco] worst game ever review: pooyan

[Bill Loguidice]

As mentioned, Pooyan is one of my all-time favorite arcade games (and one
of the first arcade games with a female protagonist, released shortly after
Ms. Pac-Man). It's actually been ported to a surprising range of platforms
back in the day, including Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Casio
PV-1000, Commodore 64, MSX (a homebrew version based on this port was also
released for the ColecoVision), NES (Famicom), Sord M5, and the Tomy Tutor.
While some of those versions were excellent, many of them did suffer from
poor graphics, sound, and/or play speed, so certainly the CoCo version is
competitive with what was released at the time.

Here's a comparison video that includes a few of the versions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv_kog_7tg0 . For those interested, there
are videos of all the other ports on YouTube, though some are not
necessarily reflective of how the games actually played (something in the
recording process introduced jerkiness).

-Bill

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree, Pooyan is one of the best arcade games made for the CoCo.
> Which kills the CoCo for games is the lack of a simple and cheap PSG, like
> the common AY-3-8910. With a music playing together with the graphics would
> have made the CoCo one of the best classic platforms of his time.
>
> Daniel
>
> 2015-01-28 6:53 GMT-02:00 Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>:
>
> > On 28/01/2015 5:58 PM, Willard Goosey wrote:
> >
> >  So this game apparently got mentioned as one of the Worst Games Ever
> >> because of Radio Shack false advertising. Anyway.
> >>
> >
> > Wow, for me it's right up there as one of the Coco's best!
> >
> >  This
> >> is apparently a port?
> >>
> >
> > <http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9082>
> >
> > It's a clone of an arcade game by the same name, and a pretty good one at
> > that, given the limitations of the Coco3. Being familiar with the arcade
> > game may be why I hold it in so high regard, because on that basis it is
> a
> > top-notch effort.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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