Uploaded January 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Savestates were used.

This is "SWIV" for the Amstrad CPC published in 1991 by "The Sales Curve".
I am just uploading this longplay for reference reasons as i found out that there wasn't any uploaded on Youtube.

First things first.
The gameplay was captured with the emulator's speed set to 200%.
I decided to do this because the CPC version is very very slow when it is played in its original speed.

It is another audaciously lazy and almost 1:1 Speccy port for the CPC.
The developers used exactly the same graphics as in the Spectrum version.
They could have at least recolored the graphics taking advantage of the 4 colors that mode1 can display, but NOOO!
Instead they used the same color scheme as in the Spectrum version.
They even not changed the sidebar's colors!
No loading screen was added with no apparent reason.

Scrolling is smooth but slow if you play the game with its original speed.
I tried initially to record the video with the game speed set to 100%, but it looked so boring that the viewer could easily fall asleep watching it !

The laziness continued to the sound section.
They didn't have the courtesy to implement the tune that Spectrum version had, and the in game effects are reduced to some "farting" sounds and explosions.

The game is also very easy to finish even if it is played at 200% speed.

A final word.
BOOO! to all those developing slackers and software houses with expertise in snatches.

Thank you for watching and feel free to rate and comment.

00:25 Area 1
05:05 Area 2
10:00 Area 3
13:46 Area 4

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