Monday, March 28, 2022

Ports of Entry: Hewson Consultants

Unknown lead platform:

 

Heathrow International Air Traffic Control

Released for Commodore 64 in July 1984

Released for Amstrad CPC in December 1984

Released for BBC Micro, Electron, and ZX Spectrum in 1984


Firelord

Released for Amstrad CPC, C64, and ZX Spectrum in 1986


Mobygames credits weakly imply that C64 is ported from the ZX Spectrum.


Nebulus

Released for Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1987

Exolon

Released for Amstrad CPC, C64, and ZX Spectrum in 1987

Stormlord

Released for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, DOS, and ZX Spectrum in 1989
 

In the Mobygames credits, only Amstrad CPC, C64, and ZX Spectrum are by the original designers Raffaele Cecco and Nicholas A. Jones.


Select chronology: 

 
Title Lead platform Date Contemporary ports
Space Intruders ZX81 1981
Nightflite ZX Spectrum 1982
Knight Driver ZX Spectrum 1984
Heathrow International Air
Traffic Control
??? 1984-6 Same-year releases on various computers
Paradroid Commodore 64 1985-11
Uridium Commodore 64 1986-1 Same-year port to ZX Spectrum
1987 ports to Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, & BBC Micro
Firelord ??? 1986 Same-year releases on Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum
Same-year port to C64
Tower Toppler ??? 1987 Same-year releases on C64 and ZX Spectrum
Exolon ??? 1987 Same-year releases on Amstrad CPC, C64, and ZX Spectrum
Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine ZX Spectrum 1988 Same-year ports to various computers
Stormlord ??? 1989 Same-year releases on various computers

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