Save your Quarters... or Not!: Volfied (Arcade, PC Engine), Ultimate Qix, Qix Neo
24Should you save your quarters on this game and play it at home or should you play it at the Arcade? The choice is yours, but you will probably save your quarters either way since Arcades are dying and nearly all good old Arcade cabinets won't be found at the next intersection. Now, Volfied is an Arcade game which is actually a remake of an older Arcade game called Qix. There was a huge improvement on visuals, the original was made of only solid colors and abstract shapes. This Arcade remake was ported to these systems: Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, PC, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine and PlayStation. There is also a version for mobiles. In this video, the Arcade is compared to the TurboGrafx-16 port, which is actually a PC Engine port, the Japanese name for the TurboGrafx-16, since it is a Japan exclusive. After the PC Engine version, the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive port is shown followed by the PlayStation version. The port for the PC Engine, also called Volfied, contains much less attractive visuals and the rounds are not designed the same way as the Arcade version. The gameplay remains the same except for two major differences, when drawing a line in the Arcade, if an enemy were to touch it, an explosion would follow the line up to your ship starting from the collision point. In this port, no matter where an enemy touches the line, you die instantly. Also, usually in the other versions, you could win by gaining at least 75% of the territory or by destroying the bigger enemy, but in this version, the option to destroy the bigger enemy was removed. The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive changed the name to Ultimate Qix, it features different and really big graphics compared to the Arcade, the play area was flipped on its side to make it horizontal and the rounds are not designed the same too. The graphics are closer to the Arcade than the PC Engine port, except for their size. Except for being horizontal, the rest of the gameplay is much closer to the Arcade. The PlayStation version called Qix Neo contains two modes, an original mode and an arrange mode, the arrange mode is shown in the video. The original mode is coming straight from the Arcade, featuring the same or nearly the same graphics, sounds and gameplay, but it is also flipped on its side to make it horizontal. The arrange mode is a new story mode made exclusively for this game, it features the gameplay of Volfied, but with new graphics, sounds, and rounds as well. The only problem in this game is that the explosion following the line after a collision goes really faster than in the Arcade and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive versions, both in the original and arrange mode.