Originally Posted by
bVork
Tower Toppler was released as Castelian on NES. I prefer that port to the 7800 version. It also was released as Nebulus on C64 and showed up on that recent C64 DTV joystick. I highly recommend that port.
Nebulus was the original name of the game when it was released in Europe (where it was developed); Tower Toppler is simply the name given to the US release. Also, I believe the C64 version was the original. The 7800 version was an excellent port and one of that system's best games.
NeoZeedeater, the colors for 7800 Tower Toppler do appear wrong on the emulated screenshot you posted. This might have to do with some graphical phenomenon where they draw the graphics in a single color in the high-resolution mode, which creates artifacts on a TV that show up as different colors. This sort of trickery was more common on Atari 8-bit computer games, and may have appeared in a few 5200 games as well. The idea as I understand it (as I haven't programmed these machines) is that you can simulate several colors without the need to drop to low-res mode. The downside is that many emulators don't account for this trickery, and a modern high-resolution monitor shows the bitmapped graphics exactly as they were "programmed", rather than the intended artifacting that appears on a low-resolution NTSC TV with RF or composite.
Originally Posted by
Omega Supreme
I believe several games (Ballblazer and one other) included the POKEY chip, which was actually a pretty good sound chip for its time.
Commando was the other 7800 game that included the Pokey chip. The 7800 version of that game was incredibly well done, and another top title in the library.
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