I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [296] Frantic Freddie @iamironclaw | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
It has two "intros", the first one has no sound at all and is slow and looooong, so it's sped up at double speed to get it over with quicker. Second intro tho is better because music and stuff. I don't include cracktros (obviously) in my longplays, these kinda look like that stuff, but they're not so included them, mainly because they have a lot of information I wanted to preserve (as no one else seem to have, only the game itself) that is not shown/mentioned in the scrolling text during gameplay.
That scrolling blue text is soooo hard to read, bleh. Also, this intro is a bit taller, but there's nothing special being shown outside the cropped area, only thing maybe worth mentioning is the text has a bit of shadow at the bottom. I decided to crop this to this size as that's what the game is, instead of adding a lot of empty black space above and below.
Hmm, what else... well, seems they really didn't want anyone else to end up on the highscore table :D (well, I could add my initials if I wanted to, easy to change via memory or file edit)
Anyway, jump to 15:25 for the game.
It has two "intros", the first one has no sound at all and is slow and looooong, so it's sped up at double speed to get it over with quicker. Second intro tho is better because music and stuff. I don't include cracktros (obviously) in my longplays, these kinda look like that stuff, but they're not so included them, mainly because they have a lot of information I wanted to preserve (as no one else seem to have, only the game itself) that is not shown/mentioned in the scrolling text during gameplay.
That scrolling blue text is soooo hard to read, bleh. Also, this intro is a bit taller, but there's nothing special being shown outside the cropped area, only thing maybe worth mentioning is the text has a bit of shadow at the bottom. I decided to crop this to this size as that's what the game is, instead of adding a lot of empty black space above and below.
Hmm, what else... well, seems they really didn't want anyone else to end up on the highscore table :D (well, I could add my initials if I wanted to, easy to change via memory or file edit)
Anyway, jump to 15:25 for the game.
![Amiga Longplay [296] Frantic Freddie](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cTMfP7TLYXA/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [296] Frantic Freddie
It has two intros, the first one has no sound at all and is slow and looooong, so its sped up at double speed to get it over with quicker. Second intro tho is better because music and stuff. I dont include cracktros (obviously) in my longplays, these kinda look like that stuff, but theyre not so included them, mainly because they have a lot of information I wanted to preserve (as no one else seem to have, only the game itself) that is not shown/mentioned in the scrolling text during gameplay.
That scrolling blue text is soooo hard to read, bleh. Also, this intro is a bit taller, but theres nothing special being shown outside the cropped area, only thing maybe worth mentioning is the text has a bit of shadow at the bottom. I decided to crop this to this size as thats what the game is, instead of adding a lot of empty black space above and below.
Hmm, what else... well, seems they really didnt want anyone else to end up on the highscore table :D (well, I could add my initials if I wanted to, easy to change via memory or file edit)
Anyway, jump to 15:25 for the game.")
![Amiga Longplay [317] Guy Spy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fOYfijDpias/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [317] Guy Spy
PLOT: Guy is summoned before the chief of international security and informed that the evil Baron Von Max has located the whereabouts of the legendary Crystals of Armageddon. Max needs these crystals to power the doomsday machine he has constructed in the mountains at an unknown location.
I longplayed this game over 11 years ago and it really needed to be redone for many reasons. Back then I had trouble getting two of the tunes to play properly, and even this time around as well, as normal Amiga 500/1200 settings didnt suffice. Didnt matter the ROM, chipset, cycle-exact on or off, etc. But what finally worked was turning on fastest possible (weird, I know). Now all tunes played perfectly, so now that problem is fixed. And, the music plays too slow compared to the music modules, but plays perfectly if I use NTSC, so seems to be an NTSC game. So for once I longplayed a game in NTSC (60hz instead of PALs 50hz).
So, this new version have better audio and picture quality, properly playing music, more moves and deaths shown, more pixels (as I cropped the old video a bit), and maybe other stuff.
All the different difficulties seem to do is to make it... harder. I guess more enemies spawn and stuff. At least on the gondola ride the enemy are way more hasty with throwing dynamite :)
There are a lot of ways to die, but for some reason I couldnt get any of the Egypt maze doors that go up and down to hit/hurt me, not even the spikey one. One would think those would be part of the deaths. Only way to die by them if I jump into the second one and fall down, as you see in one of the deaths at the end of the video.
The mummy fight is just stupidly easy compared to everything else. All you need to do is slice away right from the beginning, no need to move around. Just turn around to face him and slice until you win, as you seem to do more... DPS than he does :). I moved around and fought him from different angles just to show that stuff off. Same thing with the Arabs, no challenge, but using the two dodge moves is futile as there doesnt seem to be enough time to dodge the attacks. Maybe if I started dodging the first frame they attack, then it might work. Still tho, no need for the dodges, just slice away. I started off by showing those two moves before slicing away.
The bar fight is also easy, just punch left and right, and when the enemy ducks, you knee him, repeat. But I wanted it to look more of a challenge and last a bit longer, so used useless blocks/dodges and did random stuff. At the last few seconds I just punched and kneed, as one should to make it easy and fast.
The log fight was a bit harder, but its way easier than I make it look, as you pretty much just duck, wait until theyve attacked and they you hit them and duck again. So, again I just goof around to make it last longer and stuff. The last 3 enemies I do this strategy tho.
On the last fight with the knives, I couldnt land any of my backhanded slaps. The manual says I have to wait for him to attack first to get close enough. Well, I couldnt pull it off, so mainly just punched instead.")
![Amiga Longplay [258] RoboCop 3](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fX-2XOHXjyc/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [258] RoboCop 3
What a brutal game to play through. You have ONE life. Die and its game over and you restart from the very beginning, and you die EASILY (at least I do).
I longplayed this game 13 years ago, it was time to redo that longplay with better quality. I played much better back then, guess I had more patience to redo the parts (using savestates) when things didnt go too well.
Theres three versions of the game. The main difference between them is one uses a dongle that you plug into the back of the Amiga to bypass the security check (copy protection), the other two uses code protection from the manual (AFAIK). I wanted to go with the code one, but couldnt find the codes anywhere I looked. I of course first started with the main Amiga places, like Hall of Light and Lemon Amiga. They didnt have them for some reason, and I couldnt find them on Google either. So tried to go with the dongle version as I found instructions on how to hack it using the WinUAEs debugger tool, but man, sooo many steps and things to type. I COULD of course use a cracked version of the game, but as always, I avoid them if possible as you can never know what you get with a cracked version. They could have changed images/text to add their own messages (I want clean/untouched versions), removed content to make room for their own crap (cracktros and stuff), and not even tested the whole game properly and cause the game to not be beatable because of something broken. Anyway, after some more extensive Googling, I found ONE site that had the codes.
I played the Movie adventure mode. The manual says The movie section of the game runs like an adventure. Like all adventures it has many twists and turns, so it is difficult to give an accurate flow of how the game will run. So we are not attempting to do so! Media break is used to provide an update of the events so far and creates the back drop to the game., which would explain why I can still continue to the next part on the first driving level by just entering the building before I take out the truck. Same with the second part when looking for the hostage - waiting long enough and the bad guy escapes and it continues to the next part. So guess the things they say might be different depending on what you do? Couldnt be bothered to check. What I did check tho as I was curious is on the next paragraph.
The Arcade action mode has these modes:
F1 TERRORISTS HIJACK OCP TOWER
F2 CRAZED PUNKS - terrorise neighborhood
F3 POLICE STRIKE - stolen vehicles epidemic
F4 ROBOCOP GYROPACK TRIALS
F5 ANDROID v CYBORG DUEL
Only F1 differs a bit from whats seen in the longplay. Just a normal walking-around shooting stuff in corridors, but with white/blue-ish walls. There are some pots of plants at the entrance, the OCP logo on the floor, and the room you need to get to has windows. Couldnt be bothered to record it as its nothing special.
Pressing the F-keys switches between different camera angles, which I show here and there briefly so they are at least included.
If you fail to shoot the ninja(s) the first time you take out your gun, you cant bring out your gun again. Maybe a bug or something.
I drive like a drunk the first two driving levels. I used mouse which makes it really hard. Later switch to joystick.
The hardest level for me was the flying level. Not that it was a difficult level, but had problem with the controls, which I dont remember having 13 years ago. Thats probably because I chose to use mouse control then. This time I started out with joystick and kept hitting the ground. He angled up and down so slowly, and even if I flew upwards, which I could confirm by switching the view so I could see RoboCop, he still wouldnt increase in altitude every time. After a while he just stopped flying upwards even if angled upwards, So switched to mouse and it was all a breeze from there. Could have redone the level with mouse from the beginning, but was lazy :)
Its weird how they sometimes end the music after crashing into something (6:42 as an example). It doesnt have to be one of the trucks you are after, could be civilian cars, also just buildings I think. But it starts playing again after a while.
At 13:40 you cant shot them all before you reach 51%. Its at 51% the game puts you back in the church. I was curious what would happen if I had infinite efficiency, so I memory hacked it to find out. Turns out you cant continue after shooting everything. The trigger to continue is reaching 51%. You could press ESC, which normally makes it game over, but in this case on this scene, even if they are all dead or not, it puts you back on the driving level at 16:19 with the same objectives. Recorded it (not the pressing ESC part): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wQC2I_lsNI
Some quick timestamps:
03:48 - Driving level
08:40 - Streets level
13:30 - Church level
16:19 - Driving level
17:35 - Hotel level
20:24 - Driving level
29:01 - Ninja level
30:55 - Flying level
33:33 - Ninja level")
![Amiga Misc [033] Cannon Fodder Intro [𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/faWmBdkK14o/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Misc [033] Cannon Fodder Intro [𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡]
Didnt really play, but used the same starting text played by Ironclaw anyway.
Info about this video: https://i.imgur.com/mftQfCF.png")
![Amiga Longplay [276] Santas Xmas Caper](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fvCzX2oWPog/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [276] Santas Xmas Caper
I felt x-massy for some reason, and this was one of several x-mas games on the Amiga. It kinda sucks tho.")
![Amiga Longplay [260] Popeye 3 - WrestleCrazy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gjl__p8jyy0/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [260] Popeye 3 - WrestleCrazy
Shitty game, but Ive done Popeye 1 once, and right before this one I did Popeye 2 (was requested), so why not do the third as well.
The opponents are easy. The same tactic can be used on all of them. As soon as you start grabbing each other, you just throw the opponents, then lay on them, then wait for them to knock you off, then you wait for them to be on you, then you knock them off and lay on them, repeat = win. Would be like a 6-7 min video if I did it like this + even more boring, so took my time, showed the moves and stuff. But got bored at the later opponents so started doing the tactic/trick then.
I have no idea how to grab stuff. I managed to grab a can of spinach by accident at one point.")
![Amiga Longplay [259] Popeye 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/goL8vuqpaqs/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [259] Popeye 2
The RNG in this game makes it very hard. Theres no pattern to a bomb-fuse ignition, torch guns spraying fire, things falling. It can happen at any time and several times in a row, or just once with 5+ sec delay. Every time I load a state, everything happens differently. Like, I save, then stand still for 5 sec, stuff happens during that time, then I load the state and now things happen differently. Got hit by things constantly. You cant wait for the coast to be clear, as it never happens, you just have to go and hope for the best. You might think Ill wait for the flame torch thingy to shoot once and move immediately after, well, it might shoot 2 or 3 times in a row, or none at all.
You only have the 3 lives, which consists of 3 hearts, each heart is 3 hit points.
When you first play it you would think the game only has music, no sound effects, but they do exist. Well, just a couple - the exploding bombs and the game over voice... AFAIK. Added the game over thingy at the end.
All burgers need to be collected on each level for Wimpy to let you pass.
You need spinach to boost your arm strength so you can beat Brutus and that pink thing without losing a hit point. As soon as its depleted, move away quickly and try to get another one. They pop up randomly. Seems it mostly happens when I engage in a fight, which I dont want to when I dont have any strength, thus losing a hit point if hit, which happened a lot. So, I try my best to move close then run away without getting hit.
Wasnt until at the end of level 2 when I noticed the bomb in the panel shows the direction of a lit bomb (wasnt mentioned in the manual). At first I thought that its not fair that they can go off randomly like that outside the screen, taking a hit point each time, but now when I can see the direction, its okay.
I found three glitches/bugs. First one is Popeye gets locked in the last animation cycle (or whatever) he was in when Brutus dies. So sometimes after I defeated him, Popeye would just walk, lie down knocked out, or something else while the rescue music played. Second one is walking to the left at the beginning of each level makes him moonwalk (showed it on the last level). Third one is really annoying - you press fire to punch, and you do it as fast as you can against Brutus, but if you accidentally press one more time after hes dead, it skips the rescue part and proceeds immediately to the loading screen of the next game.
On the last level I didnt care about being careful anymore, so lost most of my lives and hit points there. Also jumped down into the water to show the stuff at the bottom.
The part of the music around 3:35 reminds me of the one in Bad Dudes/Dragon Ninja.
00:39 - The Building Site
04:14 - The Biff Spinach Factory
08:47 - The Jungle
12:42 - The Shipyard
Popeye 1: https://youtu.be/xJ4xBOY0Xxo
Popeye 2: https://youtu.be/goL8vuqpaqs
Popeye 3: *adding here soon*")
![Amiga Longplay [328] Crime Patrol 2 - Drug Wars (American Laser Games)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hFoMPKPjcsQ/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [328] Crime Patrol 2 - Drug Wars (American Laser Games)
American Laser Games are arcade games where you use a gun and shoot stuff on a big screen. These games happen to run on my favorite Commodore Amiga, the Amiga 500. It uses Amigas genlock to display the video.
00:00 - Intro
02:22 - Sierra County
06:10 - The Big City
10:02 - The Border
14:11 - South America
20:08 - Credits
20:20 - Extras - some game over/death thingies
For info on recording/playing this type of game, check out the video description of Mad Dog McCree and/or Who Shot Johnny Rock?")
