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Arkanoid: Revenge Of Doh

General info

Not Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

1998-05-04

Stats

6,304

Conversions

Amstrad/Schneider CPC464/664/6128
Apple IIGS
Arcade
Atari ST/E
Commodore C64/128
MSX 2/MSX 2+
Nintendo NES (Famicom)/Sharp Twin Famicom
PC (DOS)
Sharp X68000
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48/128/+2/+3 – Timex TS2068/TC2068/TC2048
Tandy PC/IBM PCjr

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Version info

No
Max 2, Sim 1

Features

Credits

Hard Disk Installer

No

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1988
Arkanoid: Revenge Of Doh
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
English, French, German
1
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1991
Arkanoid: Revenge Of Doh
Commercial
Budget
Worldwide
English
English, French, German
1
One version is common, at least one other version is rare

Notes

Game includes a built-in construction kit.


TRIVIA: Coder Peter Johnson included a rare easter egg in this game. If you hold down the left mouse button during while booting the game, a pre-release advertisement for ROBOCOP appears.

According to Johnson, it may have been done partially as a proof of concept for the digitised graphics in the advert. The graphics were captured using a B&W Atari ST digitiser attached to his Canon camcorder, which was pointed at either a movie poster or a magazine advert for the film. The B&W graphics were then hand-tinted to match the original as closely as possible. Apparently, back in 1988 colour digitisers were hugely expensive (if available at all!). [Source: Peter Johnson interview, courtesy of Codetapper's Amiga Retro Site].

Conversion Notes

Based on 1987 Taito coin-op.
PC versions: Hercules, CGA, EGA, Tandy

Screen info

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Scan info

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Misc: OCS
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UK Advert (Commodore User Amiga-64 2/1989, Page 107)

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UK Advert [2]

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UK Advert (Amiga Format, Issue 20, 3/1991, Page 53) [Budget]

Manual info

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Instructions (English/French/German)

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Manual (English) [Budget]

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Manual (French) [Budget] [Source: Retro Commodore]

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On the title screen type “WHENWORLDSCOLLIDE”. Now start the game and

use ‘S’ to open the gate to the next level.

 

On the title screen, type “ROBOCOPPER” to restart on the last level

you died on.

 

Press the left mouse button during loading to see an advertisement

for Robocop.

 

The following may work on other versions of the game:

 

On the title screen, type (with the ‘CAPS LOCK’ on) “MAGENTA”, then

during play press ‘S’ to open gate to the next level.

 

After the title screen rolls around type “DAILY-88” for unlimited

continues.

Amstrad/Schneider CPC464/664/6128
Conversion Amstrad/Schneider CPC464/664/6128

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Apple IIGS
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Arcade
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Atari ST/E
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Commodore C64/128
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MSX 2/MSX 2+
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Nintendo NES (Famicom)/Sharp Twin Famicom
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PC (DOS)
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Sharp X68000
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48/128/+2/+3 – Timex TS2068/TC2068/TC2048
Conversion Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48/128/+2/+3 – Timex TS2068/TC2068/TC2048

Conversion Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48/128/+2/+3 – Timex TS2068/TC2068/TC2048

Tandy PC/IBM PCjr
No conversion screens found.

Map info

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No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Computing
Vol 1 No 10 (Mar 1989)
72%
Ian Waugh
1
Amiga Computing
58 (Mar 1993)
91%
Ben Styles
1
Amiga Joker
Feb 1993
Joachim Nettelbeck
Re-release
1
Amiga User International
Vol 3 No 2 (Feb 1989)
5/10
Bud Vennos
1
CU Amiga
Jan 1989
68%
Nick Kelly
1
CU Amiga
Apr 1991
73%
Fiona Keating
Re-release
1
Oberoende Computer
No 5 (Apr 1989)
0

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Info
25 (Mar - Apr 1989)
Mark R. Brown
Preview
0

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