![]() Were you under a lot of pressure to complete the game within a certain time? What we did was interpret and adapt a game design for the ZX Spectrum. ![]() We had to reverse engineer the specification for playing the game – in this case from the Commodore 64. The term ‘conversion’ always irked me as we didn’t convert anything! We never had access to any source code or design specifications. How did you begin working on the conversion? It was the beginning of the first real boon in market adoption. Those were heady days for the games industry in the UK. US Gold licensed arcade games and as one of their leading development houses, we tended to get offered a lot of their top titles. We had a retaining arrangement with Ocean Software and US Gold was a joint venture company in which Ocean owners 50% of the shares. My firm, Platinum Productions, was a development house. How did you get to work on Kung-Fu Master? So in order to better understand, I chatted to David Anderson, the man who almost single-handedly created Spectrum Kung-Fu Master. ![]() But a fast, scrolling and action-packed game with multiple large attacking sprites, such as Kung-Fu Master?Īs much as I love the ZX Spectrum, I acknowledge its flaws and limits, and I never had to program on it, beyond a few magazine type-ins. Sometimes, by focusing on the gameplay rather than replicating the graphics, it could be done. Slow and graphically insipid, the game had its admirers – but they were few and far between.īut looking back today, should we be more considerate to the developers who worked on these games? Yes, Elite and to a lesser extent, Ocean, produced the odd fantastic game that successfully emulated the original. Slated in Crash and Sinclair User magazines, the game was a grave disappointment to many fans of the original arcade game. Commando, Bombjack and Paperboy had all proved that decent ports of arcade games, usually technically streets ahead of the Speccy, could be achieved. By 1986, home arcade conversions were starting to become more popular, mainly thanks to Elite and its success in the field.
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