[AMSTRAD CPC] Killer Cobra – Longplay & Review

Review and longplay / walkthrough for “Killer Cobra” on the Amstrad CPC!

A game exclusive to the Amstrad CPC!! And what a great little game… this Scramble / Super Cobra clone released on budget for £2 is awesome! Featuring super smooth scrolling and a high frame rate it’s a brilliant technical achievement on the Amstrad, even more so considering it’s a budget game! Brilliant fun, but extremely hard!!

OK unfortuantely the final encoded video on YouTube there’s a problem – the scrolling has come out all rough and laggy. Flippin’ typcial – with the Amstrad notorious for poor scrolling and the one game that has liquid smooth scrolling and a high frame rate then modern video codecs can’t handle it!! So at the start of the video you’ll see me playing this on a real CPC to see what it should look like. Hence why there’s been such a delay between this and my last video – I must have tried so many different codecs, video sizes, fps, Mhz, etc settings but this is the best I could do. So here it is!!

Rumoured to be a game written by Richard Aplin (Double Dragon, Shinobi, Final Fight, etc) under the pseudonym of Peter Wiseman – I spoke with him over email to find out if it was him or not…

(c) Mastertronic 1987
http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=159

Super Cobra –
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9883
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Cobra