Oh my, I knew I posted to this thread, I just couldn't remember where to look for it... By the way, here's another thing, not very common neither known fact but:
- Gryzor/Contra/Probotector, originated in arcades and NES, had several versions - hence the different names. For example, the series' difference represented in the SNES games:
Contra III: The Alien Wars featured the playable characters as the original GI-style commando guys, while
Contra III: (Super) Probotector had two androids/robots/robocopdudes.
Our interest in this business is, that the original Gryzor was created for arcade machines, then it was ported to NES, which meant it was totally rewritten - several versions including the 8 bit microcomputer ones were based on this - but the MS-DOS PC version (rare) was said to be quite honest to the arcade (actually, I'm a big fan of the series, so I might try to run the original dosContra and a MAME version... why not?). Might be worth looking at for you.
Apart from this, I just remembered Quest for Glory - dunno if you've mentioned it or not, but it had a VGA remake by Sierra - does it count?
Oh, and what about Elite by D. Braben? It was ported to basically anything which had a microprocessor, with more-or-less slight differences. And there's the Ultima series, which were created on Apple II's - it's funny that those machines aren't that emulated despite their once-present popularity in the USA. Well, what the hell. These were just quick outlines of what I know, I ain't as precise as you, like examining the interface layouts and such.
+1: When I reviewed Cisco Heat, I encountered several ports of the game for Amiga, PC, etc. I'm sure you figured this one out, but back then it was a more popular practice to port this to that, and you could easily find ports of adored arcades for micros (the computers of course, not the waveovens
). So really old ones might have ports of a game on a ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Commodore Plus4, BBC micro, Apple II, and god-only-knows-what. I'm sure I told you nothing new, I just had to type this.
Good work
