Buccaneers is a beat 'em up made arcade game developed and released by Duintronic in 1989. It was later given home ports to the Commodore Amiga and Amstrad CPC by Mar Entertainment and GLL. Both ports were canceled.
Overview[]
The game is a very extensive hack of Vigilante, an arcade game released in 1988 by Irem. The player controls a sailor who fights their way through enemies to rescue captured sailors. The game is slower paced compared to the original game, which makes attacking slower. The font used in-game is now red.
Many of the voices from the original game are intact, but the soundtrack is completely different. The game is much harder than Vigilante due to enemies taking more hits, certain hazards (such as explosive barrels) automatically killing the player, and the complete removal of nunchakus.
Trivia[]
- The hardware features different specifications.
- The dual Zilog Z80 CPUs runs at 5,68 MHz and at 3,07 MHz, which is not the standard clock-rate of Irem M75 hardware.
- Dual Yamaha YM2203 soundchips are used instead of a single Yamaha YM2151.
- The Amstrad CPC version was found in 2019 and released physically by Matra Computer Automations in 2020. Neither a ROM for the full version or the Amiga version has ever surfaced.[1]
- Ironically, a bootleg of the game known as Captain X was released in 1990 by an unknown company referred in-game as "Electronics".
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