Here's another Amiga news story for you all, as the first game we featured was a nod to a classic shooter called 'Battle Squadron'. This game however called Riviera '79 by No Nonsense Games, is a new Amiga game inspired by Sega's classic 1979 arcade game 'Monaco GP. As in the words of the creator "A 2D, top-down, fast-paced, vertically scrolling racer for the Commodore Amiga (OCS/ECS). It's like 'Monaco GP' - before it got so 'Super'!". To coincide with this news, we've got some more info about this release as well as a gameplay video below.
Here's the latest from the website. "AmiGameJam 2024 - 'The Sequel That Never Was' For AmiGameJam 2024, this game can be considered a sequel to 'Monaco' - the PD game released by 'Boys in Beige' in 1993. Alternatively, this game may be considered as a prequel to 'Super Monaco GP' - the Sega arcade port developed by Probe and released for the Amiga by U.S Gold in 1991. But really it's just trying to be the best possible version of the original Monaco GP arcade game on the Amiga!"
Requirements
- Any stock Amiga with 512K chip RAM should run the game fine
- Programming by Neil Davis
- Music by Ben Geeves
- GFX & SFX: Neil / Ben / Sega
Love the music, so fresh '80.
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ReplyDeletegood job !
ReplyDeleteOne of my earliest Arcade memories - now if only you could play this with a steering wheel....
ReplyDeleteWow a great conversion of MonacoGP! Fantastic music,great playability and identical to the arcade version with only 512kb of ram....THIS is the way old arcade conversions must be done!!
ReplyDeleteGameplay looks good and my favourite game from the 70s. Only issue is that sound doesn't work for me when launching as a virtual disk on PiStorm / Caffeine OS. Just get a static type sound.
ReplyDeleteGood game and great Amiga version !
ReplyDeleteDidn't get the time to change the picture however DEV NOTES : "I've decided to change the name of the game from 'Monaco '79' to 'Riviera '79' and change all associated imagery in the game to match. This is to avoid any unintended implied association with the F1 Monaco GP. Apologies to those of you who already posted videos & streams, made box art & icons etc. I hope you understand."
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