Indie Retro News: Lock’N’Chase – 1980’s Arcade game is coming to the Amiga thanks to JOTD

What do Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Tremendous Bagman, Galaxian500, Tremendous Xevious, Monitor’N’Area, Gyruss and Burger Time all of have in frequent? Effectively aside from being Arcade video games, all of those video games got the Amiga therapy by none apart from JOTD. A developer that appears to be on a mission, to port nearly each Arcade recreation over to the Amiga. Effectively quick ahead to at present nonetheless, and there is one other recreation incoming, and it is ‘Lock’N’Chase’; a brand new improvement by JOTD of a recreation that was initially launched by Knowledge East in 1981.

And this is the newest developer notes posted by way of the EAB Boards (HERE). “Lock’N’Chase from Knowledge East, a PacMan variation that I performed within the arcades and I at all times appreciated the look of the cops if you took the bag of cash. I needed to bugfix my 6502 converter which did Burger Time completely, however that one was more durable. And it is the identical {hardware} that Burger Time too in order that helped rather a lot (this was a pleasant shock! Enjoyable truth: Burger Time was type of a request as I by no means performed it again within the days. I did it anyway, I do not keep in mind why, and now that one which I wished to do for a very long time proves a lot simpler because of Burger Time earlier work)”

Moreover he goes on to say. “Utilizing OCS twin playfield as there are solely 8 colours. Will use {hardware} sprites too for the cops so it should hopefully be super-smooth Utilizing twin playfield permits to keep away from having to revive the background tiles, so blits are tremendous quick. And since there are only some blits because of 4 connected {hardware} sprites, it should rock”.

And that is all there may be to say concerning the recreation to date, however I can not wait to play this newest conversion by JOTD when it is completed!