Every copy of a game has a tracking device installed into it. Once you buy it and bring home, it transmits a signal back to EA headquarters. The purpose is unknown but supposedly, it allows them to-shit they're here i need to hide myse
Bro, you're a moron and should have a handler before you hurt someone because of your moronation. All James pond games are bongish, development matters, moron. Fricking double Black person moron
Someone made the bad pun of "robocod," someone sketched James Pond with the robocop armor and gun, a game was produced to justify it. And also it was funded by a Penguin biscuits sponsor deal so frick it.
Maybe it's like Spinal Tap, where they had to periodically perform as a real band in order to avoid losing the copyright to movie producers. Like there's serious money involved somehow, but Robocod has to be commercially available on modern platforms in order to profit from it.
>Amiga, Amiga AGA, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, Sega Genesis, C64, Acorn Archimedes, MS-DOS, Game Gear, Game Boy, GBA, PlayStation, Master System, SNES, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Switch
What the hell... Why? Did it really sell well enough for them to invest in so many ports?
In the beginning, they probably just targeted as many systems as possible, the good ones, Amiga, ST, Archimedes, DOS and Genesis. After becoming a hit, they backported it to the C64, portables and SMS. How it sold so much, I'll never know since nobody ever seems to talk about it. The other ports are just cheapo jobs done because, hey, it was a classic.
In the beginning, they probably just targeted as many systems as possible, the good ones, Amiga, ST, Archimedes, DOS and Genesis. After becoming a hit, they backported it to the C64, portables and SMS. How it sold so much, I'll never know since nobody ever seems to talk about it. The other ports are just cheapo jobs done because, hey, it was a classic.
>not eurojank despite the looks
Made by Krisalis--classic Bongjank. In America they even changed the name to "Kid Kleats" because at that point yanks cared so little about soccer that they wouldn't have even recognized it as the name of a sport.
Why do people find it strange that robocod is on everything? Because robocod fricking sucks. It sucks dicks through dicks, using two dick tips as dick lips.
It's weird because Robocod is on everything but 1 and 3 (superior game btw) are not.
My only guess is that only 2nd game have sold well enough in its time to justify the porting on newer systems. And then it's sold there too.
1 and 3 basically never got a chance to shine because 2 somehow became a perfect, average library-filling shovelware that is easy to port and cheap enough to buy for your kids.
It's also considered a "Christmas game", so it got pushed every Christmas since it's exception. I'm not sure if there even is an equivalent outside bongland. It's the "luv me speccy" meme but with fish n chips.
You don't b***h about Worms being on everything either, even though it is twice as big bongjank than Robocod, it stole the concept from Scorched Earth and the graphics (for the first game) from Lemmings, and it got ported to everything from Gameboy to Sega Saturn. Or the fact that they've been re-releasing Worms 2 every two years since 1997 with just weapons tweaked and new voices added.
I love worms I literally posted me playing it on my ngage in the handheld thread last night. Worms is awesome. What are some actual criticisms you have about worms?
It has to do with international trade laws. Basically we must have at least one game from every NAFTA nation. Canada has hockey games, Australia has Tye the Tasmanian Tiger, and the USA has everything worth playing. This is the British game.
This thread is fricking gold because barely anyone is talking about the game. Robocod is cool and James Pond II is hard as frick but I bet nobody here played it.
Typical /vr/ hating for the sake of it.
I've played it but it kinda starts dragging out after a while. There's too much randomness happening but not in entertaining way. Operation Starfish is still my favorite, both for amount of content AND mogging Sonic and Mario because James Pond is one overpowered son of a fish
I've never seen James Pond on clickbait listicles. I've never seen James Pond fan art. The only time I have ever seen people bringing up James Pond into a conversation is question how does Robocod keep getting ported to every system known to man if there's seemingly no fanbase.
He's the Chilean Sea Bass of gaming.
Every copy of a game has a tracking device installed into it. Once you buy it and bring home, it transmits a signal back to EA headquarters. The purpose is unknown but supposedly, it allows them to-shit they're here i need to hide myse
This is bullshit, Robocod is an American game would it send these info to the EU? Know your shit moron
He said EA. As in Electronic Arts, they were publishers for the game (probably hold the rights, idk).
Learn to read
Are you drunk, high or just incredibly stupid?
Calling people stupid for calling out on shit is crazy
Bro, you're a moron and should have a handler before you hurt someone because of your moronation. All James pond games are bongish, development matters, moron. Fricking double Black person moron
I never got the Robo part, sure he was a spy fish like James Bond but what has Robocop got to do with it?
Someone made the bad pun of "robocod," someone sketched James Pond with the robocop armor and gun, a game was produced to justify it. And also it was funded by a Penguin biscuits sponsor deal so frick it.
His extending powers in Robocod come from being a robot, as does the fact he crushes enemies under a ton of steel when jumping on them
He doesn't even look like a fish. He's got the face of a frog. Multiple levels of moronation
Are you too stupid to realize that it's a pun?
At this point, it's got to be some kind of money-laundering scheme.
Maybe it's like Spinal Tap, where they had to periodically perform as a real band in order to avoid losing the copyright to movie producers. Like there's serious money involved somehow, but Robocod has to be commercially available on modern platforms in order to profit from it.
Comix zone was a laundering scheme for yakuza in the US but afaik robocod isn't
qrd?
Yeah get in front of my car.
it's pretty well known that Nakayama was yakuza, so wouldn't everything Sega be yakuza related? how was Comix Zone even moreso?
Sorry segatard, but your company is Kosher
What's the best version of James Pond 2 Codename Robocod?
PlayStation 1 port is somewhat unique, it has tweaked stage layouts compared to 16-bit versions. Also it has the greatest intro of all time.
>Also it has the greatest intro of all time.
This anon wasn't lying.
>Amiga, Amiga AGA, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, Sega Genesis, C64, Acorn Archimedes, MS-DOS, Game Gear, Game Boy, GBA, PlayStation, Master System, SNES, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Switch
What the hell... Why? Did it really sell well enough for them to invest in so many ports?
What's even weirder is that it's only the second game that's getting milked like this. 1 and 3 haven't had any ports since the fourth gen.
>Amiga, Amiga AGA, Amiga CD32, Atari ST.
Oi... she's quite the gem.
No speccy??
In the beginning, they probably just targeted as many systems as possible, the good ones, Amiga, ST, Archimedes, DOS and Genesis. After becoming a hit, they backported it to the C64, portables and SMS. How it sold so much, I'll never know since nobody ever seems to talk about it. The other ports are just cheapo jobs done because, hey, it was a classic.
According to Wikipedia it came out for MS-DOS after C64 and Game Boy
There's also a cancelled NES version.
4 words: money laundering
That's how eurojank anti-classics are. They are everywhere.
>soccer instead of football
not eurojank despite the looks
meds
>not eurojank despite the looks
Made by Krisalis--classic Bongjank. In America they even changed the name to "Kid Kleats" because at that point yanks cared so little about soccer that they wouldn't have even recognized it as the name of a sport.
>Feets of fury
Could have at least made it Feats.
>kid
>looks like a caricature of a man in his 40s
For some reason Euro boxart only started looking good when all the non IMB compatible microcomputers like the Speccy and the Amiga died
Its the classic EuroJank aesthetic
Here's another one
Nobody cares that Tetris is on everything
Nobody cares that pacman is on everything
Why do people find it strange that robocod is on everything? Because robocod fricking sucks. It sucks dicks through dicks, using two dick tips as dick lips.
It's weird because Robocod is on everything but 1 and 3 (superior game btw) are not.
My only guess is that only 2nd game have sold well enough in its time to justify the porting on newer systems. And then it's sold there too.
1 and 3 basically never got a chance to shine because 2 somehow became a perfect, average library-filling shovelware that is easy to port and cheap enough to buy for your kids.
It's also considered a "Christmas game", so it got pushed every Christmas since it's exception. I'm not sure if there even is an equivalent outside bongland. It's the "luv me speccy" meme but with fish n chips.
Despite the hate I might actually try and beat robocod this holiday season.
It's a sort of mid-tier platformer of the type that were a dime a dozen at the time.
James Pond 1 and 3 also get no attention.
You don't b***h about Worms being on everything either, even though it is twice as big bongjank than Robocod, it stole the concept from Scorched Earth and the graphics (for the first game) from Lemmings, and it got ported to everything from Gameboy to Sega Saturn. Or the fact that they've been re-releasing Worms 2 every two years since 1997 with just weapons tweaked and new voices added.
I love worms I literally posted me playing it on my ngage in the handheld thread last night. Worms is awesome. What are some actual criticisms you have about worms?
>I literally posted me playing it on my ngage in the handheld thread last night.
My dude, sup?
worms kicks ass tho
It has to do with international trade laws. Basically we must have at least one game from every NAFTA nation. Canada has hockey games, Australia has Tye the Tasmanian Tiger, and the USA has everything worth playing. This is the British game.
He always commands an audience
This thread is fricking gold because barely anyone is talking about the game. Robocod is cool and James Pond II is hard as frick but I bet nobody here played it.
Typical /vr/ hating for the sake of it.
For me it's License to Bubble.
I've played it but it kinda starts dragging out after a while. There's too much randomness happening but not in entertaining way. Operation Starfish is still my favorite, both for amount of content AND mogging Sonic and Mario because James Pond is one overpowered son of a fish
If any game desperately needed a save function, it's James Pond 3. The password system is simply absurd.
From the cover I legit thought this was some edutainment point and click game like pic related, its actually a platformer then?
It's a typical bong platformer
I never could make any headway in the game
School shooter thread is on another board. This is retro gaming one.
So bongs, do you actually *like* this game?
I've never seen James Pond on clickbait listicles. I've never seen James Pond fan art. The only time I have ever seen people bringing up James Pond into a conversation is question how does Robocod keep getting ported to every system known to man if there's seemingly no fanbase.
It seems that no one ever played James Pond 2 to the end.
It's like the Avatar sequel, where it sold tons of tickets but you don't know a single person who has seen it
I did. Even finished the snes version with my brother in law about 10 years ago too
Not particularly. I like Worms and Lemmings.
I've got a copy of this in my Megadrive collection and I don't even remember buying it.
>James Pond 3 isn't called Fish Gordon
Wait, was that not a real game? Am I Mandelling?
thats the FPS spinoff
No, it was Operation Starfish.
Not sure why they went with that, there's no James Bond pun in it.
I mean Fish Gordon makes sense, that lampoons Flash Gordon.
That said, James Pond 3 can go ludicrously fast, even just playing it casually you can reach insane top speeds no effort.