[ Retro Scan of the Week ] The Secrets of Obitus
January 12th, 2015 by Benj Edwards
Dare ye gaze into the sacred gems of immortality?
Here we have an ad for the Super NES port of Obitus (1994), a Psygnosis RPG for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS originally released in 1991.
I’d like to say I’ve played this one, but I can’t for the life of me remember if I actually liked it. I know I tried it, especially after first scanning this ad some years ago. Is anyone out there a fan of either the PC or SNES versions of Obitus? It sure looks cool.
Discussion Topic of the Week: In your opinion, what’s the best PC to video game console RPG port of the 1980s or 90s?
January 14th, 2015 at 1:41 pm
That’s tough. Most of the good console RPG’s originated there. A lot of the ports seemed incomplete or poorly thought out compared to their PC counterparts.
I’m not sure you would classify it as an RPG, but I thought the NES port of Shadowgate was pretty good. I liked The Immortal as well, but I’ve never played the PC version.
January 14th, 2015 at 7:48 pm
that’s not an easy question to answer. all of PC RPGs i played uses lots of keys and some of them need mouse. and on the graphic side, PC always won. also i don’t think consoles like NES/SNES allow bloody contents like some PC RPGs have.
but the best that i can remember is the Ultima 7 for SNES. although i only played it on an emulator not real machine.