Stryker In The Crypts Of Trojan (or Striker if you read the printing on the tape) is a 1992 game from Codemasters coded by the same team that gave us Switchblade on the 8 bits.
It looks like a fairly run of the mill platformer on the Speccy and 64, but on the CPC there’s a few hardware tricks on display that lift the game. But if you have a CPC Plus, you get the full 4096 colour experience with a copper effect sky and extra colours!
This is the only example of a budget game released that uses the Plus machines extra hardware and a glimpse into what might have been if Amstrad hadn’t pretended the extra features could be accessed from cartridge only.
All on real hardware as usual.
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00:00 Titles
00:15 Introduction
02:13 Amstrad CPC
03:43 GX4000
04:18 Spectrum
05:36 C64
07:06 GX4000
07:40 Amstrad CPC
07:58 Spectrum
08:26 C64
09:50 GX4000
10:20 Spectrum
11:42 C64
12:52 CPC Plus
13:54 Amstrad CPC
16:00 Spectrum
17:47 C64
19:11 CPC Plus
21:37 C64
23:23 Conclusion