North & South - Amiga - Gaming Memories And Review
20A quirky and humorous look at the American Civil War, North & South is a mixed genera game. It combines strategy with action scenes, looking rather nice in the graphics department in this Amiga version. While it can be a bit short, it's an enjoyable ride. In my review I'll be giving you my thoughts, as well as a bit of history lesson on the war which was featured in the manual. I'll be reading from a number of magazine reviews from America and Europe, and even compare the Amiga version with the DOS version. While this game is from France, it was designed first for the Atari ST, and is best seen on the Amiga in NTSC mode with a 4:3 aspect ratio, as seen here.
My written review for North & South: https://shot97retro.blogspot.com/2021/01/north-south-in-depth-written-amiga.html
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00:00 - I did it!
00:25 - Introduction
01:13 - Infograms Europe/DataEast U.S. release
02:22 - Looking at the DataEast box
03:02 - Risk/Defender of the Crown strategy/action game
03:57 - Discussing the yearly scenarios
05:20 - Fort action sequence/DataEast manual
06:46 - Discussing the action sequences
08:34 - Train action sequence
09:09 - Amazing Computing Roomers
09:50 - Amazing Computing Review
10:28 - Info magazine history
11:18 - Nerd economics/Info magazine review
12:03 - Defending in the fort sequence/difficulty settings discussion
14:00 - More war history from the manual
15:04 - Winning/starting next scenario
16:16 - Canyon battle sequence/Enjoying battles
17:15 - Computer Gaming World's quick review
18:00 - Reaction to CGW's awful review
18:55 - Faults with ratings based reviews
19:22 - Amiga and DOS comparisons
20:34 - Good quick strategy game
21:49 - Amiga Plus magazine review/Disney and the Amiga
23:17 - Atari ST origin means this game is meant to fill 4:3 NTSC screen
23:52 - Games depiction of Natives/Mexican's/American's could offend
24:58 - Finishing history lesson from manual
26:34 - Discussing the graphics
28:18 - CU Amiga magazine review
29:24 - Should strategy games take you years to play?
30:12 - Deeper discussion on the games difficulty/easiness
31:47 - Advanced Computer Entertainment review/Found a bug
33:21 - Amiga Computing review
33:42 - ST Action review/North&South advertisement
35:23 - What I might change
36:18 - Losing screens
37:07 - Zzap magazine review
38:07 - The Games Machine magazine review
39:37 - Final thoughts
40:35 - NSlate
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