From the forum Issue 88

[Crunchy]

Many of the well done BBC Micro clone games can be seen in this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-pY6y1sXMM

That's a great vid. Not least because I never knew there was a Robotron on the beeb and judging by the vid it looks worthy of further investigation.

Having said that, it's nice to see my memories of a really poor Scramble clone confirmed. Penetrator on the speccy didn't have the glamour visuals of the arcade but it provided a much better playing experience than the beeb version. My mate had a very cool Vic-20 Scramble but in all honesty I only saw it for a few minutes because he was intent on boring me to tears with his latest killer app, Shadowfax.

[andyparker]

The Codies did a few good ones, Super Stuntman a Spy Hunter clone and Mig 29 Simulator an Afterburner type. Can't go wrong for £2.99!

[Mire Mare]

Planetoid on the Beeb for looking and sounding amazing and being unbelievably faithful to it's arcade parent despite being illegitimate.

[learnedrobb]

Another shout for Galaxians on the C16 here. I only had 2 games for ages when I had my C16, one was a bmx game, the other was this. It made everything my best mate had on his 2600 look pants.

[junkmale]

Got to be Deluxe Galaga on the Amiga.
A clone of Galaga (strangely enough).
Not only my fav Arcade clone but my fav game of all time.
Still play it. Every day.

[themightymartin]

Mr. Wimpy on the Spectrum, for the sheer audacity of it.

Edit: It's a clone of Burger Time, except for the first level which is ripped off from Frogger.

[pottyboy]

Star Battle on the VIC-20 was an awesome clone of Galaxian! Oh, hang on... it was an official conversion? Bugger! Can't decide now!

[Skull Commander]

Codemasters' "Ninja Massacre" on the C64 for me. Just like Gauntlet but with a ninja instead, and for the 11 year old me that was perfect.

[slacey1070]

Kong on the Vic-20 by Anirog - it was as ugly as sin, but boy did I love it! Multi-colours against a white background, but at the time it felt like I was playing the arcade game.

Anirog also did a fantastic verison of scramble called.... wait for it... skramble on the C64, which I also played to death. Ok, it was pretty easy, but I kept going back to it again and again.

In fact, I actually go Skramble for Christmas. I found it in my parents cupboard and loaded it when they went out, so I could have a snicky play. Actually, i feel quite quilty about that now . . sorry Mum.

And, of course, Jelly Monsters on the Vic-20 - probably the best pacman clone ever. No wonder Atari got so upset.

[khisanth]

Gauntlet on the Amstrad, which was an awesome Defender clone. For a long time I thought Gauntlet was the real name and Defender was just a copy. Ooops!

[NorthWay]

This month we'd like to know your favourite unofficial arcade clone and what it was a clone of.

Will there be a "and this is like the arcade only better" section of your feature? Hm, that would need to take a look at official conversions too...

[nakamura]

I used to hammer Phoenix on the 2600. Was that a clone? I can't remember as I was so young at the time.

[Mayhem]

No, that was actually a licensed conversion.

[Kai]

With my zero knowledge, I'll won't be in the mag...again.

[martin8777]

Isn't Repton a clone of Boulder Dash? Only better?

I never played Boulder Dash, but played all the Repton games for the Electron back in the day.