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| | Blues Brothers | | Genre | Action Platform | Developer | Titus Interactive | Publisher | Titus Interactive | Released | 1991 | Rating
| Graphics: | 7.0 | Sound: | 7.0 | Gameplay: | 7.0 | Overall: | 7.0 |
| Reviewed by | ndial | Based on the famous film, The Blues Brothers, the men in dark suits and shades are back to rock 'n roll us on the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, PC (DOS) and Nintendo NES, thanks to Titus. |
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STORY / GAMEPLAY Jake and Elwood Blues, spent a long time in prison and now they are out. They are both musicians and form a The Blues Brothers band and are in pursuit of their lost music equipment and ... fame. You control either Jake or Elwood and take him through 6 different levels trying to retrieve their stuff and in the end attend a concert. To do that, both brothers must first escape from prison, swim through the catacombs and fight their way at the big city's roads before they can start their concert! The game supports a two-player mode as well. You have to fight, walk, run, crawl, swim, duck and fly your way in all levels. There is no real apparent difference between the characters except of their looks and their unique funny idle moments. And the game is fun as well since you can use balloons to float and discover hidden areas, swim inside giant fish tanks, go through a maze of conveyor belts and a lot more to encounter including the bad guys like security guards, villains, dogs etc. Killing the "baddies" can be done by lifting and throwing wooden crates towards them. These crates can be found scattered around the levels. Collect 100 records or pick-up some cool looking shades and you'll win an extra life too! Blues Brothers is a classic multi-scrolling platform game, where you take down incoming foes and activate certain objects to progress. As long as you master the controls, Blues Brothers is a cool title to play and it keeps you coming back for more! GRAPHICS / SOUND The Atsri ST version looks nice and it looks close to the PC (DOS) version in terms of visuals. There is a lot of variety between levels and they all look cool though we can see up to 16 colors on screen. The characters are well animated and funny. Each level has its own design, enemy sprites and other ambient details but the ST version runs in flip-screen mode (as the PC) and this make the game hard to progress. The sound is fine, including all the original Blues Brothers' movie tunes along with some (rather simplistic) sound effects. | |
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| Atari STCPU: Motorola 68000 16/32bit at 8mhz. 16 bit data bus/32 bit internal/24-bit address bus. MEMORY: RAM 512KB (1MB for the 1040ST models) / ROM 192KB GRAPHICS: Digital-to-Analog Converter of 3-bits, eight levels per RGB channel, featuring a 9-bit RGB palette (512 colors), 320x200 (16 color), 640x200 (4 color), 640x400 (monochrome). With special programming techniques could display 512 colors on screen in static images. SOUND: Yamaha YM2149F PSG "Programmable Sound Generator" chip provided 3-voice sound synthesis, plus 1-voice white noise mono PSG. It also has two MIDI ports, and support mixed YM2149 sfx and MIDI music in gaming (there are several games supported this).
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| 9-bit RGB 512-color palette (16 on-screen and up to 512 in static image) | |
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