Chuck Rock Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]
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- čas přidán 21. 10. 2017
- Developed and published by Core Design in 1991
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Foreword: The game allows you to play sound effects or music during the game and not both. I played through the game with effects on and then mixed the music in post-production (easy to do as there's only one music track).
For today's video, I wanted to check out Chuck Rock, a platform game designed by Core Design and is a title that I expect a lot of Amiga owners will remember fondly.
The game opens with a great little cut-scene where the dastardly Gary Gritter spies Chuck's wife pegging out the washing. Taking a shine to her, Gary wallops the unsuspecting Opheila over the head with his club and carries her back to his hideout. Determined to save his wife and teach Gritter a lesson, Chuck springs into action.
Taking control of Chuck, the player must guide our knuckle-dragging, cro-magnon hero through multiple levels of platforming action, dealing with all manner of saurian foes and avoiding a multitude of traps and hazardous environments along the way.
Chuck's beer gut comes in handy as he can use it to belly-bounce foes out of the way, as well as administer a pretty mean kick to the face whilst jumping. In addition to his natural combative talents, Chuck lives up to his name by being able to hoist rocks and boulders over his head and hurl them at enemies to dispose of them at range.
In addition to their offensive capabilities, rocks can be used as platforms to reach otherwise inaccessible areas (usually hiding bonus items or extra health). Certain rocks can also be used as a shield to protect Chuck's head from from falling rocks and other debris.
As with many other platform games, there are plenty of collectable items to be found within each of the game's levels, each of which increases Chuck's score. I did have to chuckle at the somewhat anachronistic inclusion of a giant bag of frozen peas during the ice levels - if Chuck Rock fails to make you smile then I think you need to check whether you actually have a pulse.
The game boasts some impressively drawn and animated visuals, all featuring a great cartoon art style and ultra-smooth scrolling. Although the game was ported to other systems, this is still a game I consider first and foremost as an Amiga title and synonymous with the platform.
As a well as impressive graphics, the game also features top-notch music and sound effects. The rock-inspired title and in-game tune is great and there are plenty of comedy effects and speech samples that make the game an audible treat. Sadly, the game does not allow simultaneous music and effects whilst playing and is a real shame (I mixed the music and effects together for the video so you get to hear both); I can only suppose that there was a memory or other technical limitation that prevented this, but it's still a shame considering it's so good.
Despite being a generally impressive package, there are a few niggling issues. Chuck's attacks need to be timed correctly if they are to be effective, particularly the belly-bounce with it's short wind-up animation that lasts a couple of frames; Chuck remains vulnerable during this period and will still take damage if it.
The other thing that I found somewhat annoying was the way smaller enemies are masked by foreground scenery, leaping out and striking you when you least expect it. This leads to a similar issue during underwater levels where a graphical dithering effect is used to give the impressing of being submerged in water, but has the side-effect of making enemies difficult to see.
Fortunately, these issues aren't serious enough to detract from the fact that Chuck Rock is great little platformer. It might be on the short side, but there's just enough in the way of levels to have warranted the original release price of £24.99.
So, what are you waiting for? Go grab your club and get those knuckles dragging - Opheila isn't going to rescue herself!
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Chuck Rock Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]: Help Chuck rescue his wife from the dastardly Gary Gritter in this great platforming game from Core Design!
Read the video description for my review!
Childhood memories. This game just randomly popped into my head this morning for some reason
Likewise! Loved this silly game
Blast from the past. It's amazing how something not seen in 30 years seems so familiar.
Fond memories. I remember my dad sending off for this in the post. It took ages to come. One of the best platformers I ever played on the Amiga.
Highlander I have great memories of this game too, and the second one - just loved playing it!
The intro music rocks!!!!!
0:40 Gary Gritter the Local Weirdo. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I kind of wonder whether or not Core had any idea that Gary Glitter was, in fact, a local weirdo.
Oh MAN I LOVED this game when I was younger, I'd play it for hours on end and I'd still play it now if I could find it!
Super Console X Pro!!
Perfect!
So much memories with these Amiga games.
The animation on the band intro music could've been done so much lazier... But they did it great... They are playing those instruments!
Amiga was fucking brilliant! One of my first games on it..... ahhh memories
Here Italy, fantastic conversion for AMIGA and only 1 mb of memory.
0:40 They knew.
Less PC in those days....
That is... an unfortunate detail, in hindsight
This game needs to be included in more top 20 amiga games.
I loving this title and the People and this rock video.......never getting tired on this 😊😊😊😊😊😊
That signature 90s cartoon style drawing ✏️
One of the best looking amiga games, if you didnt know youd think it was on a snes/md with those large sprites and graphics and 60fps scrolling
Should remake it with Gary kidnapping his son.
Childhood memory unlocked
My favorite childhood game. Why this wasn’t as massive as Mario or Sonic I don’t know!
I used to play this on an Acorn computer! I always got stuck at the bit with the dinosaur. Xx
The animation and colours in this game gave me a migraine but I didn't care! It was amazing what they could do with the level of hardware and memory.
I'm a bit surprised there's the music ingame. In my remembrance, there's not.
You get to choose music or sound effects. For the video, I played with sound effects and overlayed the music in post production
Some skills. Such a good game. I was always looking fir something "better" still :(
the whole game did a great job at predicting gary glitter's dowmfall
I always remember this being in my local video store, I could of bought this game 50 times over the amount of coins I threw at it
GG !
Great thanks at You..
Just your real gaming and amiga's song... 😍😍
Gary Gritter 😂😂😂 Jesus.
Nice video Nice game Nice port
I'm sure I only had the option of music OR sound effects on my Amiga version?
I wish they would do some kind of remastered version
OMG Gary Gritter the local weirdo was the baddie!
0:45 LMFAOOO! They knew. They knew.
Chucks wife was actually smokin to be fair to local weirdo Gary Glitter... (oh i mean Gritter.)
Am I crazy, or wasn't there a version of the Amiga port that had more than one music track? I'm almost positive I heard something else playing in the caves and beach levels.
There's a Sega Mega CD version that might have more than one music track - it's on my list to look at 😉
I know the Sega CD version does, for sure. But I'm sure I played an A500 port with extra music. Is the US release different?
Probably a bit late, but the Megadrive version definitely had different music for each stage.
I had this on Sega Mega Drive
I used to love this game except for the damn song that played over and over again haha.
how do you get music & soundfx toghether?
I played the game with SFX and added the in-game music in post production (I think I mentioned it in the description)
8-bit til I die.
This is 16 bit
0:52 Dolly Buster😂
Vi amo.
this music is absurd LOL
Weaponized beer belly.
Here Italy, i look this video, the music is original AMIGA but the sound add effects not originals...........
Me name Chuck, I'm here to f-
Nooooooooo!
Pat yourself in the head if you get the reference
Tune
0:49
uh...
Oh man to think these were the creators of the multi million dollar tomb raider franchise.
I have to say that the Megadrive version had far superior music, it just feels more ya know, stoneage?
I still remember very well that as an adolescent, among other games, I liked to play Chuck Rock on the Amiga. But when I look at the game today, there is not much left of the former fascination. The humor is dull rather than witty. The portrayal of "Man and Woman" isn't really up to date anymore and the gameplay seems quite repetitive to me. Where we are repetitive with the theme - as great as the intro song may be, it gets annoying after a short time. It seems to be the only song the game has to offer at all. Other genre representatives had much more to offer, not only in this aspect. Like Turrican for example. Even within the sub-genre of the primeval Jump & Runs there is a better representative with Prehistorik.
What remains are the beautiful memories of a time that will never come again and the games that are a product of that time.
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"The portrayal of "Man and Woman" isn't really up to date" in a game about cavemen xD
@@dickbison lol!!!
Da mucha pena ver estos juegos
En diferentes consolas pero las mismas mecánicas y musicas