Another thing to remember about the shelflife of games at the time was that
the PC didn't have a whole lot of them. IF you landed a game that was good
it could survive for ages. This is still true today in many respects with
games like Quake still going for $30 in some places.
While video games are marketed by the console maker, computer games aren't,
so no matter how much time has passed, a computer game maker will continue
to push a title as long as it sells, no matter if it takes shelfspace from
newer titles.
This is probably the right post to start this line of questioning in, but
should we be making a distinction in value for the format (ie computer
system) the game came on? I mean we mostly agree its about the materials,
but should a C64 version of AoA be worth the same as the PC version? And
what about games were there were drastic differences in quality between
versions. One example would be Outrun on the Amiga (which was quite good,
dispite simplistic graphics) and Outrun on the C64 (which was slightly
better than abismal) Mind you this doesn't necessarily have to do with one
system being better than the other (there are cases of games playing better
on the C64 than on the Amiga or PC, e.g. Powerdrift)
Chris Newman wrote:
Oh sure, there are separate files for each version. I have an original EGA Test Drive
for
example, an Accolade title from this era. There is only 1 disk, with files for both
versions. The games were usually small enough to fit on a 360 with room to spare.
AoA was ' 85 if I recall so the base was mostly CGA (and Hercules). I guess I'm
surprised that Accolade would have the game on the shelves long enough to
be released in two separate versions. I didn't think shelflife would last more than
18
months, but on the other hand, an EGA upgrade can breathe new life into a CGA
game during that time.
Chris
Jim Leonard wrote:
Chris Newman wrote:
Yes, there was an EGA version of this game released for the PC. Many Accolade
games of the mid to late 80s were released in two separate versions -- CGA and
EGA. I don't know if it was a ploy to get gamers to pay for an "upgrade" or if
Accolade was merely following the consumer installation base (CGA systems far
outweighing EGA rigs). My guess is the former because it costs nothing to ship
the
EGA version and perform a video card test on bootup and run the correct version.
Well, many CGA+EGA games used seperate graphics files for different graphics
modes, so it would've saved them an additional diskette. What's more likely is
that they probably didn't do an EGA version until EGA was common in the home
(EGA was 1985, wasn't AoAs 1986?)
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