I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [328] Crime Patrol 2 - Drug Wars (American Laser Games) @iamironclaw | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
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 Amiga's 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?"
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 Amiga's 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?"
![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?")
![Amiga Longplay [338] Silhouette](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hG5Q1s0Ldl4/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [338] Silhouette
Quite an addictive little game. Simple and fun.
You get 60 seconds to solve each level, which is OK, but its weird they count UP to 60 instead of down to 0 from 60.
It says it has 6 levels, which it kind of does, but after youve completed those and choose to restart the puzzle, you get 6 new ones with pictures in the background which makes it much harder.
At the end of each 6 rounds, you are given an IQ score. Both of mine were awful, so I did the first 6 levels again, not just to take revenge on the bad IQ score comments, but also to do them all in time... this time, as I didnt finish level 5 and 6 before the timer ran out.
So... Your IQ is that of a gnat! - Well, fuck gnat! (pun on that, Im so funny :P)
Heres the different messages you can get, depending on how high/low you score:
- Better you dont know.
- Well....darn
- Awful!
- Not pretty.
- OK for Policework
- That of a gnat.
- Just a rumour.
- An illusion.
- Quite simply, fiction.
- Im too nice to tell.
- A faery tale.
- Dreadful.
- Awful.
- You A Polititian?
- OK for Politics.
- Not A Threat to ME!
- Good For your Garden.
- Getting higher.....
- Above Average
- Excellent
- Very High.
- Quite majestic.
- A thing to behold!
- Amoung the stars!
- Unmeasurable.
- Higher than mine!!!
- Exalted, grand, noble.
- Unbelievable!!
- Are you cheating?
I could get the Are you cheating?, but not worth it. Higher than mine!!! was good enough :)")
![Amiga Longplay [289] Violator](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hSSapRbUNOw/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [289] Violator
Cant have both sfx and music, so chose music as its more fun to play then, and maybe watch as well. Sure, not a long tune, so loops maaaany times.
The game itself is so-so. Picked it only because Im in the mood to play some shoot-em-up thingies and hadnt played this one before.
Difficulty 11/10")
![Amiga Longplay [255] Arctic Moves](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hTy4fCxAFxA/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [255] Arctic Moves
And this was the third and final game in the Moves series (Army Moves, Navy Moves, Arctic Moves), and also the best one. I liked the alien part the most.
Bit too easy. Too much health and ammo everywhere, so I skipped a bunch, cuz felt like being a thug. I did have to replay a portion as I noticed the time thingies were quite important :), but didnt need ALL those, but most.
The outro just ends like that. The spaceship attaches to station, the end.")
![Amiga Longplay [264] Beast Busters](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hlTaRZXMNAA/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [264] Beast Busters
Yeah, bad arcade port I guess. Runs very slow on a stock Amiga 500 (I played on a 1200).
Insanely difficult. Its impossible to not die a bunch of times. Some encounters can just take all your health in seconds. Sure, would have helped a bit running it on a standard slow Amiga 500 where things runs slooow, but even then you would 100% have died several times anyway before beating the game.
The girl you kinda rescue at 12:44 can be killed, was just 1-2 more shots on her and she would have fallen to the ground. So, even if you only kill the guy and not her, she would still die on the next screen. Normally as I wanna show as much of a game as possible, I would have killed her to show her lying down, but skipped it as I would feel bad about it :P, even though she is alive and then dies on the next screen. So, whether I kill her or not, the outcome is the same.
Whats weird is the game has a lot of different tunes, but only one is played - the title music. I checked the music file (yes, all tunes are in one file) and theres a bunch. No matter the emulated system and settings, heck even disk version (tried cracked adf, ipf and WHDLoad versions... longplayed the ipf version ofc), it still only played the title music. I checked clips of this game on YouTube from both Atari ST and Amiga versions, and none of the 5 or so Amiga clips had music (just wanted to see in case someone else managed to get it working), BUT, the ST version has music during the parts between the stages (the one with a picture and text underneath).
Ive run into a case like this before - The Coin-Op version of Turtles. Only title music there as well, none elsewhere, yet the music file has a bunch of different ones. If the different tunes were different files, I could have guessed maybe they didnt play them during game as they didnt have enough memory for both gfx+sfx and music, but then at least they could have added code to check if the user has more than 512kb/1mb of memory and used the music.
Also, the game only requires 512kb of memory, and its weird it refuses to work with expanded memory, like 512kb in FAST mem. So, would only run with CHIP memory, but could be any size apparently. Normally when a game is advertised to need 512kb, it would still work with that in both CHIP and FAST.")
![Amiga Longplay [278] Christmas Classics](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ihkcM2e6GyQ/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [278] Christmas Classics
Gathered a bunch of Amiga titles with Christmas words in them. Turns out this one wasnt a game, but longplayed it anyway :)")
![Amiga Longplay [273] Gremlins 2: The New Batch](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ivGZe2gnoAM/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [273] Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Crazy hard! Died many times on each screen. Some took me like 15 deaths before I could pass them, urgh.
Couldnt find a proper longplay of the Amiga version, so had to do this game.
One mistake I did was accidentally starting the game 3 secs before the title music finished (it loops, was 3 more sec of the tune before loop). I usually include the entire tune of stuff if they are not too bad, dunno why I pressed fire too soon this time, oh well. To most this is no big deal, but I feel like mention it anyway as it bothers me and would be easy to record that part again, but Im also lazy :)
Couldnt be bothered to collect enough bubbles (which are credits) to buy the 2 way megatorch (only collected enough to show the shop, as it wont show if you dont have at least 10 credits), so memory hacked so I could try it. Its just like a normal flashlight weapon, but it shoots 2 shots on each side, one of them is a straight/horizontal normal shot, and the second is vertical, so nothing special. BTW, they laugh if you try to buy something you cant afford :), as you can hear when I tried to buy something too expensive.
Couldnt get closer at 8:40.
13:20 - This is the game over part, which only shows when you die, not when you complete the game. Some games do show the game over part when a game is completed, not this one.")
![Amiga Longplay [324] Who Shot Johnny Rock? (American Laser Games)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j133G2bS-kA/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [324] Who Shot Johnny Rock? (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.
This game was crazy hard. Would have cost me a million dollars to get to the end if I played it on the real thing.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:18 - Thingy
02:28 - Credits
03:36 - Time to play
16:26 - Ending
Extras (only picked what I thought was worth showing):
17:14 - The doctor and his nurse
18:12 - Funerals for the dead innocent people
18:58 - Youre getting shot
As with all my Amiga videos, I record them using WinUAE (an emulator) with its built-in avi recorder. But couldnt this time as it doesnt capture the audio for genlock stuff (or I just dont know how to make it happen), so had to resort to using a third party recording tool instead, which caused a bunch of problems.
Couldnt use the typical savestates method I normally do as I cant use WinUAEs own avi recorder, so had to come up with a new way. I re-encoded the video with a frame counter outside the game-display area, so I could more easily cut out unwanted mistakes and match the different parts together as I was constantly saving and loading states while recording one big video file.
The video needed to be re-encoded anyway as those I found online that were recommended for use with WinUAE had the wrong aspect ratio (you can tick the keep aspect ratio box on the Genlock tab in the emulator, but it only makes it a little bit more accurate, not fully). They also have interlace line stuff (and the seeking took too long for my taste, so made them seek instantly instead). I found on YouTube a higher res version of some of these ALG games without interlace + they were in 60fps instead of 29.970/30. So was thinking of using them for my longplays instead, but... fuck it, couldnt be bothered, and the ones I used were the recommended ones anyway, even though I myself could make better looking/running ones. Even with any scanline/interlace stuff turned off (afaik) in WinUAE, the emulator still added some of its own lines for some reason. You can see them in the white flash when shooting for example. These lines are not part of the video. Maybe the flash is an image by itself, dunno.
Another problem I had was getting a smooth video playback, like I get with real media players. In WinUAE via genlock its random. Sometimes smooth, sometimes laggy (has nothing to do with how fast my computer is etc). Turning on Standard Vsync in the emulator helped a bit as it made the video frame rate more stable more of the time, but still stutter at least once per minute. So, I constantly quick saved and quick loaded, so whenever there was a stutter, I loaded and replayed the part until it ran smooth (I left some stutter in maybe here and there, but they are super minor). So yeah, LOADS of editing needed (https://i.imgur.com/TkJJn06.png).
Turning on the Vsync made the the sounds not part of the genlock video (like shooting, inserting coin, reloading...) play too fast. I solved this by setting my desktop refresh rate to 60 to match WinUAEs frame rate it was using for the game.
Then theres the accuracy problem of where you shoot as well. In the service menu of the game you can calibrate the aim, but that only seem to make the red dot match where the crosshair is, which is not enough to accurately be able to hit stuff. The accuracy is a lot about how wide/tall the video is and where its positioned on the screen (yes, I even played around with the genlock_offset_x/y in the .uae). Seems the default non-correct aspect ratio that makes the video way too wide (IMO) makes it more accurate, but I wanted 1:1 aspect ratio. Wish we could change the width of this flash area, as it seems the hitboxes are based on this white area, so if we dont have the genlock video properly sized and positioned this white area is made for, shooting things will not be accurate. I made an example of what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/bfMRqEX.jpeg (this example is for Mad Dog McCree, but same goes for most/all these ALG games in WinUAE)
So, anyway, with the video aspect ratio I chose to use, I often have to shoot far to the left or right of the things to hit them, and I sometimes try to mask this by randomly spraying the bullets on and around the target. IRL I would just hit them in the center with one bullet :) as Ive played these games in the arcades before.
Oooor, maybe I just do something wrong and there was an easy solution to everything and I didnt have to go through all this trouble/effort to get a smooth video playback, or bad shooting accuracy because of things not lining up properly, and heck maybe I could even record with sound with WinUAEs avi output and use the standard way of saving/loading states. Well, so far I couldnt come up with anything better than what Ive been doing after hours of research/testing.
Meh, text cap reached, had more to say.")
![Amiga Longplay [307] Katies Farm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jBO2vljZQNQ/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [307] Katies Farm
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:
Katies Farm is a sequel to McGee. Like that game it is an educational game for young children that is entirely wordless so that it can be played independently without assistance from an adult. The gameplay is identical to the first game but this time it takes place at a farm and McGee is joined by a second character, his cousin Katie. The farm consists of a few different locations (barn, paddock, hen house etc.) and for each there are four icons to click on which cause the two characters to interact with the environment in different ways. This include meeting different animals (cows, horses, chickens etc.), playing with a scarecrow and jumping in a haystack. Theres no end to the game so the player can explore the farm freely.
I sat it as Made for kids, which this game is, but it disables the comments section.")
![Amiga Longplay [340] MegaBlast](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jCGaLGiutes/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [340] MegaBlast
A nice little Polish Bomberman clone. Good music too.
Taking the ? can be a huge risk. They can do good things, but also bad things like reversing the controls, spam your bombs against your will, making you walk slower, think I had the screen turn upside down at one point too (wasnt recorded, happened during testing). And if you get one that makes you walk through walls, be careful to not be inside a wall when the effect stops working, or you get stuck.
This game uses a bigger screen-size than normal for an Amiga game (overscan), so using the default settings (which I never do for anything anyway, always my own custom configurations) in WinUAE (emulator) doesnt seem to show all the four corners of the border (its usually one side missing). This is shown in all the screenshots on Hall of Light (Amiga game database), on the Lemon Amiga site, and also in videos on YouTube as no one used the correct settings. I did tho, yay for me *pats himself on the back*.")
