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Gun Smoke - 1980's Arcade Western is coming to the Amiga AGA via Modern Vintage Gamer
Modern Vintage Gamer is developing a new Amiga AGA port of Capcom's 1985 arcade western Gun.Smoke. The developer is reverse-engineering the original ROM into C source code, aiming for smooth performance on stock Amiga 1200 hardware, though additional Fast RAM may be required. This follows their popular Amiga port of Zippy Race.
Capcom dev got his dream Zelda game by threatening Shigeru Miyamoto: "If Nintendo's not up for it, we'll release an identical game with different characters and just call it something else"
Former Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto threatened Shigeru Miyamoto with releasing an "identical game with different characters" if Nintendo did not allow his team to develop a remake of the original Legend of Zelda for Game Boy Color. This threat led to negotiations, ultimately resulting in the development of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages by Capcom's Flagship team.
