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2008-09-10

Cobra Mission, PC-98

About a month ago I finally managed to dig up a copy of the original Japanese PC-98 version of Cobra Mission. So far I have just walked around Central Cobra and got my characters to level 5, but that already shows quite a number of differences between the original and the translation. And it settles the question whether or not it was originally a Japanese game, it was. However my suspicion that it might be Chinese was not completely off, for the translation was a Chinese-American coproduction, and it did add a lot of artwork.

The screenshots I've posted, by the way, are probably the first unresized and undistorted screenshots of the PC-98 Cobra Mission to have found their way to the web. At least I had been searching for months and never found any.

What else is new

• Martijn Voerman figured out how to play Pipeful Sunday with the keyboard.
• Another reader pointed out to me that I doubted the existence of a lo-res Atari ST version of Oxyd, which quite definitely exists. I removed that sentence and added two screenshots of this version instead (which looks a bit different from the lo-res VGA one), and fixed the release date as well: the original version is from 1990, only the ports are from 1992.
• For Mikan, I added a paragraph about the fruit after which it is named (and that you shoot in the game).
• For Tetanus on Drugs, I added a section (with screenshot) about the original Tetanus, part of freepuzzlearena.
• Added direct download of the Strip Poker Professional demo.
• Fixed the download for TankWars V2.0; so far, the link pointed to Kenneth Morse's Tank Wars.

Since this is the first update in September, I have also uploaded the updates for the monthly most popular lists. August was quite an interesting month. All through the first half of this year, interest in Macintosh games was going down, with downloads in June little more than half of what they were in January. In July they increased again, and in August more Macintosh games were downloaded then ever before, and Tetris Max made it into the top 20 again.

The artillery games for the Amiga I added at the beginning of August were quite well recieved as well and now lead the charts for that platform. In total there were 33 new games in August.

There will probably not be a lot of updates in September, and few if any new games, since I'm busy with other stuff at the moment.

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