I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [298] Carlos @iamironclaw | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
This is a game that no one has longplayed before, and for good reason. It's very glitchy/buggy/cryptic, but the main reason is level 2 is unbeatable because it has three empty black spaces in the wall at a certain part of the map that the player can't get past. I personally would have no problem getting through them because I've encountered problematic areas like this before in other games, as I just use WinUAE's debugger to find the X/Y location values of the character and move him/her/it to wherever I want.
The reason I've not longplayed this game before was it was too much work to figure out where to go on each level (need to plan out a good route), and as no one had properly completed it - I wasn't sure if it was even beatable, like... maybe some parts of the levels were REALLY broken so no matter what I tried I couldn't beat them, unless using level codes to get to the next level, which I never would if I couldn't finish the previous level. Also, the outro might be broken etc, and some versions of the disks might have more problems than others (always a bunch of different version dumps of each game). I use .ipf (unaltered) versions of games most of the time, which I did in this case.
Anyway, thanks to DJBunyan on YouTube who did a speedrun of the game (4 years ago tho, but I didn't find out about it until recently): youtube.com/watch?v=ygLilq_9U94, I was now more motivated to do the longplay as he shows where to go and stuff. He did skip like 95% of level 1 as he glitched through the wall (which you can in many places throughout the game as it's sooo buggy, just landing can kill you: youtube.com/watch?v=hjRIXxQi-eo) to get to the end boss, so I still had to do level 1 properly myself :) (oh, the agony of having to do some work on my own!... jk). Even if he didn't skip most of level 1, a new video of this game was needed anyway as his has glitchy audio (speeds up and down because of improper WinUAE settings, I kinda had it too with my first configuration, the game seems to be quite settings-sensitive), bad frame rate and resolution, he shows the debugger window, there's graphics of time etc outside the game window, he talks over it, etc.
The bosses are a bit stupid. They take so many hits, and on most of them you can't avoid taking damage. You can avoid taking damage on the knight boss, but it's tedious as you have to walk back and forth constantly, and as his hit box is square, you can't duck under the dagger, not even if you duck under the very tip of it. The same tactic is normally used on the dragon boss, which DJBunyan did, but I noticed there is a spot you can stand where it can't hit you, but you can hit it, so you just stand still and spam the air attack thingy. If he redo his speedrun, he could use this method for a faster time. Mine isn't a speedrun (obviously) as I take my time and included some other stuff I found interesting (like the rolling rock at 35:26), but there were parts he did kinda slow and struggled with that I found a faster and safer method to deal with (that again can make his speedrun faster), whichever those parts were now again.
You don't have to push down and then immediately up to do a super jump. It's enough you push down, then walk around or whatever and the next jump will still be a super jump. So if you see me duck for seemingly no apparent reason and then just continue walking, it's because I know a place that needs a super jump is coming up.
This game was probably unfinished, and if we disregard the area on level 2 where you can't get past without some hacking, there's many other places that also seem unfinished. Some walls you break using the bull, others you can just simply walk through for some reason. While most gates need keys to open, and others don't (they are opened other ways), there's one you can just walk through, it's at 45:28. To open this gate you're supposed to break the wall below it using the bull and pull that lever/switch, which I show here: 49:26. DJBunyan in his video tho at 31:37 says that (paraphrasing) "breaking through that wall might save you some time", which I don't see how.
Anyway, thanks again to DJBunyan for his video so I could be bothered to longplay this game ♥
00:33 - Level 1
11:50 - Level 1 boss
12:17 - Level 2
19:41 - Level 2 boss
23:22 - Level 3
30:22 - Level 3 boss
32:25 - Level 4
38:16 - Level 4 boss
39:09 - Level 5
50:29 - Level 5 boss
51:09 - Ending
This is a game that no one has longplayed before, and for good reason. It's very glitchy/buggy/cryptic, but the main reason is level 2 is unbeatable because it has three empty black spaces in the wall at a certain part of the map that the player can't get past. I personally would have no problem getting through them because I've encountered problematic areas like this before in other games, as I just use WinUAE's debugger to find the X/Y location values of the character and move him/her/it to wherever I want.
The reason I've not longplayed this game before was it was too much work to figure out where to go on each level (need to plan out a good route), and as no one had properly completed it - I wasn't sure if it was even beatable, like... maybe some parts of the levels were REALLY broken so no matter what I tried I couldn't beat them, unless using level codes to get to the next level, which I never would if I couldn't finish the previous level. Also, the outro might be broken etc, and some versions of the disks might have more problems than others (always a bunch of different version dumps of each game). I use .ipf (unaltered) versions of games most of the time, which I did in this case.
Anyway, thanks to DJBunyan on YouTube who did a speedrun of the game (4 years ago tho, but I didn't find out about it until recently): youtube.com/watch?v=ygLilq_9U94, I was now more motivated to do the longplay as he shows where to go and stuff. He did skip like 95% of level 1 as he glitched through the wall (which you can in many places throughout the game as it's sooo buggy, just landing can kill you: youtube.com/watch?v=hjRIXxQi-eo) to get to the end boss, so I still had to do level 1 properly myself :) (oh, the agony of having to do some work on my own!... jk). Even if he didn't skip most of level 1, a new video of this game was needed anyway as his has glitchy audio (speeds up and down because of improper WinUAE settings, I kinda had it too with my first configuration, the game seems to be quite settings-sensitive), bad frame rate and resolution, he shows the debugger window, there's graphics of time etc outside the game window, he talks over it, etc.
The bosses are a bit stupid. They take so many hits, and on most of them you can't avoid taking damage. You can avoid taking damage on the knight boss, but it's tedious as you have to walk back and forth constantly, and as his hit box is square, you can't duck under the dagger, not even if you duck under the very tip of it. The same tactic is normally used on the dragon boss, which DJBunyan did, but I noticed there is a spot you can stand where it can't hit you, but you can hit it, so you just stand still and spam the air attack thingy. If he redo his speedrun, he could use this method for a faster time. Mine isn't a speedrun (obviously) as I take my time and included some other stuff I found interesting (like the rolling rock at 35:26), but there were parts he did kinda slow and struggled with that I found a faster and safer method to deal with (that again can make his speedrun faster), whichever those parts were now again.
You don't have to push down and then immediately up to do a super jump. It's enough you push down, then walk around or whatever and the next jump will still be a super jump. So if you see me duck for seemingly no apparent reason and then just continue walking, it's because I know a place that needs a super jump is coming up.
This game was probably unfinished, and if we disregard the area on level 2 where you can't get past without some hacking, there's many other places that also seem unfinished. Some walls you break using the bull, others you can just simply walk through for some reason. While most gates need keys to open, and others don't (they are opened other ways), there's one you can just walk through, it's at 45:28. To open this gate you're supposed to break the wall below it using the bull and pull that lever/switch, which I show here: 49:26. DJBunyan in his video tho at 31:37 says that (paraphrasing) "breaking through that wall might save you some time", which I don't see how.
Anyway, thanks again to DJBunyan for his video so I could be bothered to longplay this game ♥
00:33 - Level 1
11:50 - Level 1 boss
12:17 - Level 2
19:41 - Level 2 boss
23:22 - Level 3
30:22 - Level 3 boss
32:25 - Level 4
38:16 - Level 4 boss
39:09 - Level 5
50:29 - Level 5 boss
51:09 - Ending
![Amiga Longplay [298] Carlos](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZeeFKXAGfqY/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [298] Carlos
This is a game that no one has longplayed before, and for good reason. Its very glitchy/buggy/cryptic, but the main reason is level 2 is unbeatable because it has three empty black spaces in the wall at a certain part of the map that the player cant get past. I personally would have no problem getting through them because Ive encountered problematic areas like this before in other games, as I just use WinUAEs debugger to find the X/Y location values of the character and move him/her/it to wherever I want.
The reason Ive not longplayed this game before was it was too much work to figure out where to go on each level (need to plan out a good route), and as no one had properly completed it - I wasnt sure if it was even beatable, like... maybe some parts of the levels were REALLY broken so no matter what I tried I couldnt beat them, unless using level codes to get to the next level, which I never would if I couldnt finish the previous level. Also, the outro might be broken etc, and some versions of the disks might have more problems than others (always a bunch of different version dumps of each game). I use .ipf (unaltered) versions of games most of the time, which I did in this case.
Anyway, thanks to DJBunyan on YouTube who did a speedrun of the game (4 years ago tho, but I didnt find out about it until recently): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygLilq_9U94, I was now more motivated to do the longplay as he shows where to go and stuff. He did skip like 95% of level 1 as he glitched through the wall (which you can in many places throughout the game as its sooo buggy, just landing can kill you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjRIXxQi-eo) to get to the end boss, so I still had to do level 1 properly myself :) (oh, the agony of having to do some work on my own!... jk). Even if he didnt skip most of level 1, a new video of this game was needed anyway as his has glitchy audio (speeds up and down because of improper WinUAE settings, I kinda had it too with my first configuration, the game seems to be quite settings-sensitive), bad frame rate and resolution, he shows the debugger window, theres graphics of time etc outside the game window, he talks over it, etc.
The bosses are a bit stupid. They take so many hits, and on most of them you cant avoid taking damage. You can avoid taking damage on the knight boss, but its tedious as you have to walk back and forth constantly, and as his hit box is square, you cant duck under the dagger, not even if you duck under the very tip of it. The same tactic is normally used on the dragon boss, which DJBunyan did, but I noticed there is a spot you can stand where it cant hit you, but you can hit it, so you just stand still and spam the air attack thingy. If he redo his speedrun, he could use this method for a faster time. Mine isnt a speedrun (obviously) as I take my time and included some other stuff I found interesting (like the rolling rock at 35:26), but there were parts he did kinda slow and struggled with that I found a faster and safer method to deal with (that again can make his speedrun faster), whichever those parts were now again.
You dont have to push down and then immediately up to do a super jump. Its enough you push down, then walk around or whatever and the next jump will still be a super jump. So if you see me duck for seemingly no apparent reason and then just continue walking, its because I know a place that needs a super jump is coming up.
This game was probably unfinished, and if we disregard the area on level 2 where you cant get past without some hacking, theres many other places that also seem unfinished. Some walls you break using the bull, others you can just simply walk through for some reason. While most gates need keys to open, and others dont (they are opened other ways), theres one you can just walk through, its at 45:28. To open this gate youre supposed to break the wall below it using the bull and pull that lever/switch, which I show here: 49:26. DJBunyan in his video tho at 31:37 says that (paraphrasing) breaking through that wall might save you some time, which I dont see how.
Anyway, thanks again to DJBunyan for his video so I could be bothered to longplay this game ♥
00:33 - Level 1
11:50 - Level 1 boss
12:17 - Level 2
19:41 - Level 2 boss
23:22 - Level 3
30:22 - Level 3 boss
32:25 - Level 4
38:16 - Level 4 boss
39:09 - Level 5
50:29 - Level 5 boss
51:09 - Ending")
![Amiga Longplay [238] Peter Pan (Coktel Vision)(German version)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZgyrQ7BA4qI/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [238] Peter Pan (Coktel Vision)(German version)
Only German and French versions exist (AFAIK), no English one. Did the French version after this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEvpRgzCyc).
00:25 -
Who do you want to be?
- A turtle
- A rabbit
- A bird
Didnt know those were what speed I wanted to move at during the action scenes (enemies are slower/faster too, ofc). When I was rowing my boat and later running around on the other levels, I was like man, they fucked this up, TOO fast, IMO (I was OK with the enemies move speed tho). Then when the game was over and I wanted to see what would happen if I picked another animal, I noticed it was the speed. Turtle is the more natural one, so will use that in the French version.
00:34 - Once upon a time in London...
00:44 - Its always in the middle drawer, but clicked on all other things first that had a reaction.
03:15 - They can be clicked on in any order.
04:52 - This loops 6 times for some reason (wasnt loading). Was thinking of editing out 4 of them or something, but kept it as maybe it has some sort of significance to the movie. I know Hook is afraid of clocks, maybe 6 oclock is extra bad or something, dunno.
05:34 - Where you and the enemies spawn are random. This caused me to insta-die here, LOL.
Losing all lives on any level just resets it so you get all lives back, but only once. Next time you lose all lives, its the same as if you completed them normally, except on the last one (the ship) where the girl is crying instead (same screen as 05:27), then the flying boat and Ende (The End, ofc) as normal.
Some screens with the green border/frame has an empty vertical line of pixels on the left side of the screen for some reason. Not a cropping error.
The differences between the German and French versions are the languages (ofc) and the title tunes. Also, the one and only French version I could find had a crack intro thingy and stuff. Couldnt find a clean version like the German one (.ipf, unmodified). The cursor in the French version was a weird looking red arrow, which looks the same in-game as in AmigaDOS, so I replaced it with the one from the German version.")
![Amiga Longplay [240] Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZjUDsSlC0pw/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [240] Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood
Each time you play Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood, you play a different game. Thats because each time you have to find a different group of 10 objects. Each object belongs to a particular character, or in a specific place.
Im a grown-ass man and still found this game fun to play, mainly because it was easy :)")
![Amiga Longplay [306] McGee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_of6QHAoxPg/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [306] McGee
After my pretty hard Blocky Skies longplay where I had to use my poor brain to remember stuff, I felt like doing something a bit easier, so did this McGee series :P
Anyway, heres a quote from MobyGames of what this game is about:
McGee is an educational game for young children (ages 2 to 6). The game is entirely wordless and tells its story through graphics and sound making it possible for the child to play the game without help from an adult. The idea is that the child in this way should become familiar and confident with the computer and grow a sense of discovery.
In the game the player takes control of a child protagonist called McGee and gets to explore his home. The house consists of a couple of rooms and in each room there are a few objects that can be interacted with. All interaction is done by clicking on the four different icons that appear in each room. When doing so a short animation will start and McGee will do something, for example play with a ball, take a bath or hide under the carpet. There is no specific objective to the game and the player can move around freely between the rooms and interact with things over and over again.
I sat it as Made for kids, which this game is, but it disables the comments section.")
![Amiga Longplay [320] Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_rUbWlTyDgQ/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [320] Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon
Much better than the first one in the series, but way harder and more frustrating. Too many things had to be timed perfectly. If you did it like 1 second too early, or 1 second too late, you had to redo a lot of previous steps to get back to where you were on the screen.
For faster loading, I used the WHDLoad version, and an instrument in the music on the water level (the one with the octopus and mermaid) is broken. Just basic A1200 settings in the emulator with 2mb chip and 8mb fast ram, also cycle-exact, so shouldnt be a settings issue.")
![Amiga Longplay [235] Abracadabra (Coktel Vision)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aEetleSfi9I/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [235] Abracadabra (Coktel Vision)
There are two version of this game - Abracadabra and Baba Yaga. Theres a lot of differences between them, like graphics, creatures, fonts, items, etc, but are mainly the same game.
In Abracadabra its winter and you are delivered by a dragon. The evil dude of this version is Satanicus, the horrible magician.
In Baba Yaga its summer and you are delivered by a stork instead, and the evil person is Baba Yaga, the wicked witch of the swamp.
I guess they both cater to different audiences. In Slavic myths, Baba Yaga is the wild woman or dark lady of magic, she has chicken legs. There are many stories about her in Russian folklore.
You have no control over the text/dialogues most of the time, so you have to wait for the next one. In some places the scene fades out at the same second the last text is shown, so cant be read unless you pause. Sometimes its a bit too fast. Anyway, its not me clicking or anything, just so you know :)
The graphics glitch at 02:24 wouldnt go away.
When selecting the look of our hero, the two left-most portraits look female (Im sure they are, or at least the one to the farthest left). So, I decided to be male (Adam) in abracadabra, and female (Eve) in Baba Yaga, but turns out the game doesnt know this and still call her he/him in the dialogues, even if I select the first one from the left.
If you dont select a head, clothing or name in time, the game does it for you, and you get the default colors and the left-most head, and are given the name of Nemo.
I cant help to laugh at the German voice during the animal names part :)
One thing that is kinda fucked-up is the baby is delivered to those poor woodcutters. They are POOR! The last thing they need is another mouth to feed, IMO.
Most of the time you find the item after the 4th try, EVEN if you click on the SAME thing all those times, lol. The dungeon scene is different and will pop the item after the 7th different thing youve clicked on.
In Baba Yaga I played on hardest difficulty (and was the first of the two games I played through). the difficulty is too high and Im sure they didnt play-test it. Because of this, I played Abracadabra on easy.
When you die you are just moved one screen/scene back.
After the ending, I right click to bring up the menu and select to return to the menu, then to get dropped at the castle instead. After the first room has been completed, I bring up options again in the next scene and quit, because from her on out, its the same as the previous journey via the woodcutters.")
![Amiga Longplay [262] Rygar - Legendary Warrior](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/anGruAl1ZPc/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [262] Rygar - Legendary Warrior
An excellent port of the arcade version, released 2019.
Bit glitchy tho. Tried the latest version (ofc) on both WHDLoad and ADF, with the basic A1200 quickstart config and modified one. Usually when graphic errors etc happens in a game, it might need cycle-exact to be ON, but in this game that just made it worse. I checked some recordings of this game on YouTube to see how it looked like in their videos, and they had the same glitches and graphic corruptions as I did. Ive manually removed most of those frames (1-3 here and there, so the jump/hiccup shouldnt be too noticeable).
So, nothing game-breaking, except if you jump off the rope too far up when you yet cant see the ground, that will stop the vertical scrolling and when you land, you might only see your head for the rest of the level, thus cant see the ground or enemies.
Only real complaint I would have, or more of a request, would be to start loading the next stage during the score counting part. As its right now, it doesnt start loading the next stage until all scores are done counting, making you have to wait there a while before the game continues. Sure, no problem if playing the game from a harddrive (WHDLoad), but I prefer floppy when I play and record, as I often get problems when using savestates with WHDLoad. I did use Turbo and 800% speed, but neither make it fast enough. Maybe 30% or so of the movie is just waiting for it to load the next stage. Normally I edit loading out, but theres music playing during it so didnt want to.
As always, I dont care about score in games, which shows :). Jump and bounce to victory!
I killed myself on the boss level as I dont think I showed the death animation thingy before + wanted to make it more of a challenge as I lose all my buffs/items. Was still super easy, especially the boss, lol.
The items are as follows, from left to right:
1: Star Power (Increases the weapons range to nearly the length of the whole screen)
2: Crown Power (Increases the weapons fire power, letting you kill several enemies with a single shot)
3: Tiger Power (Lets you kill any enemy instantly by jumping on it)
4: Cross Power (Limited invincibility lasting 10 - 45 seconds depending on the round. If you collect a second Cross Power and the first hasnt expired, extra invincibility time isnt added on nor do you score another bonus)
5: Sun Power (Allows greater control over vertical firing)
Theres also cheat codes and special codes for secret messages. I usually record and put those in a separate unlisted video (the messages that is, as I dont show cheat codes if they are not special enough) and link here. Might do it later and update this text.
Anyway, they did a killer job on this port.
AMIGA FOREVER!")
