On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:15:04 +0000, Olly wrote:   
   >   
   > On 2016-12-22 20:50:05 +0000, Andreas Kohlbach said:   
   >   
   >> The Amiga was introduced in 1985 and by 1986 should had been on the   
   >> shelves.   
   >>   
   >> Usually games from arcades were ported to the then available home   
   >> computers just a few months later they appeared in the arcades. Like   
   >> Zaxxon which made it way to about all of the contemporary computers in   
   >> 1982 as licensed or clone. For the Amiga Zaxxon came out only in   
   >> 1995. Another example is Phoenix from 1981, which came out as Mega   
   >> Phoenix for the Amiga ten years later, if my Google works correct. There   
   >> are many more examples of late game ports for the Amiga. While others,   
   >> like Elite, were probably out (1985) before many people even heard about   
   >> the Amiga.   
   >>   
   >> Anyone has an idea why?   
   >   
   > Interesting point. Just throwing some ideas in here:   
   >   
   > 1. Maybe its just one of those things (no one thought of doing it,   
   > lazy day at the office, no new games coming so time to churn out some   
   > old moneyspinners?)   
      
   Hmm...   
      
   > 2. Maybe there was more of a drive to push the Amiga with newer games,   
   > rather than porting across old games?   
      
   IMO classics are classics and already a few years after they were   
   published (in opposite to that they are now vintage and loved by us old   
   folks) highly sought after. Like Space Invaders or Pac Man. I suppose   
   also in 1985 many people loved to play them.   
      
   > 3. Rights problems?   
      
   I doubt. Compared to the Commodore 64 which had a lot (not to say all? ;-)   
   of the classic games available. These companies (Ocean comes to my   
   mind) might already have done a C64 port, why not extend the license for   
   the Amiga?   
      
   Then they could just do clones. Like it was done a lot for the ZX Spectrum   
   for example.   
      
   I just found another example with Defender   
   . Came out 13 years   
   after it hit the arcades in 1981. Interestingly the Wikipedia page   
    isn't even   
   mentioning the Amiga port. It might just be a clone, and there was never   
   an official Amiga port for Defender.   
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