Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Ports of Entry: Oxford Digital Enterprises

Unknown lead platform:

 

Trivial Pursuit

First released for MSX & ZX Spectrum in 1986

Ported to Thomson TO in 1986 by Ubisoft

Released for PC in March 1987

Released for Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, & Atari 8-bit in 1987

 

The Hunt for Red October

Released for Amiga, Commodore 64, and PC in 1987

Released for Atari ST in March 1988

Released for Mac in December 1988

Released for Amstrad CPC & ZX Spectrum in 1988

 

Yes Prime Minister: The Computer Game

Released for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, & ZX Spectrum in 1987

Ported to BBC Micro in 1987

Released for PC in 1988

 

Trivial Pursuit: A New Beginning

Released for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, & ZX Spectrum in 1988

 

The Amazing Spider-Man

Released for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, & PC in 1990


Select chronology: 

Title Lead platform Date Contemporary ports
Macbeth Commodore 64 1984
Trivial Pursuit ??? 1986 Same-year releases on MSX & ZX Spectrum
Same-year port to Thomson TO
1987 releases on Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PC, Atari 8-bit, & PC
The Hunt for Red October ??? 1987 Same-year releases on Amiga, C64, & PC
1988 releases on Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Mac, & ZX Spectrum
Yes Prime Minister: The Computer Game ??? 1987 Same-year releases on Amstrad CPC, C64, & ZX Spectrum
Same-year port to BBC Micro
1988 release on PC
Trivial Pursuit: A New Beginning ??? 1988 Too many to fit here
The Amazing Spider-Man ??? 1990 Same-year releases on Amiga, Atari ST, C64, & PC

1 comment:

  1. I don't have anything to back this up other than it being weird otherwise, but I think the first Trivial Pursuit game was probably a Spectrum original.
    The Hunt for Red October, from what I've played, seems like both the Amiga and DOS versions are both glitchy in some way. The DOS version has something, probably poor quality rips, that result in the game's EGA mode not working, while the Amiga version doesn't seem like something in it is preventing the game from advancing properly.
    The Amazing Spider-Man is possibly an Atari ST original. Sleeping Gods Lie, the game the company released the year before, was a ST original and one of the head staff on TASM is credited as designing that, but not coding a conversion.

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