Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge -Versions Comparison- Amiga, CD32, Atari ST and much more!
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Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge is the third game in the Lotus racing series.
The third game in the series combined the gameplay aspects of its predecessors, allowing players to choose between racing opponents of Lotus Turbo Challenge or the arcade-like time trials of Lotus 2. The two-player option was retained and the music selection feature returns (Patrick Phelan's soundtrack to Lotus III spawned many modern remixes). Lotus III also added a third car - a concept Lotus M200 automobile - and allowed the player to choose which one to race with. The game recycled most of the graphics from Lotus 2, but added a number of new sceneries.
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0:00 - Intro
2:49 - In-Game
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This was a great series of games on the Amiga, with the second being my favorite. I preferred the music of the Amiga even over the CD32 which I feel didn't have the power/grunt of the original.
@danieluchwal3515
2 жыл бұрын
My sister and I played so much growing up on the A500
The CD32 music being worse than the Amiga music despite being on a CD... Unfortunately that's quite typical of early CD based games. The idea was to fill that CD with junk.
Lotus 2 on the Amiga is my favourite racing game of all time.
@_WORG_
2 жыл бұрын
For me, lotus 1 is my favorite
@gelzamangitzaman1482
2 жыл бұрын
mine was jaguar xj220.
@CCfiftyeight
2 жыл бұрын
Lotus 1 and 3, the second not so much
@Jammet
2 жыл бұрын
STUNTS on Dos was mine. But Lotus always has a special place in my heart.
Amiga version rules as always :D
Engine sound in lotus 3 Amiga and mega cd: likes 4 cylinders in line Atari st: I don't know what to say Ms dos: electric engine combinted with 4 cilinders in line Sega genesis: likes a 8 bit hot rod engine (Almost them all i like it, except the atari st)
This video has the best retro-game-intro i have ever seen!
At the time CD32 ports of Amiga titles like this made piracy feel justified. Sticking a 700k a500 game on a 650mb cd and adding some perfunctory cd audio to sell it to suckers is not taking advantage of the hardware.
@CountScarlioni
2 жыл бұрын
To be fair, the disc was the Lotus Trilogy, and came with all 3 titles. But the value of the bundle was still extremely questionable for anyone who owned the games already. They really did balls up the music on it. Incidentally, the CD32 was ludicrously easy to pirate games on once CD burners became common!
@stevenspx6226
2 жыл бұрын
Would of expected cd32 to be a big improvement on a500 graphics etc just looks the same
@mrsmilee
2 жыл бұрын
@@CountScarlioni there was a floppy compilation of the trilogy that was from memory the same price as the cd version.
Never knew sega had lotus too
@tomweyts
2 жыл бұрын
They do... Pretty good ports imo
The ST music sounded speeded up to me
@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes
Жыл бұрын
Thats what you get for setting the emulator to 60Hz instead of Pal 50Hz, to which it should be.
@JB_inks
Жыл бұрын
@@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes ah yes that'll be it
Without any comparaison Amiga is the best
Atari ST really makes you're ears bleed. Amiga wins for me here, i even prefer the music from the Amiga version over the CD32 version.
@guigui668
2 жыл бұрын
Yamaha Chip ^^ i had the atari version and never knew that an Amiga computer existed at this time, so my ears bled ^^
@DAZZYVANDAM
2 жыл бұрын
@@guigui668 You sir understand what i means to suffer may peace be with you now oldschool S.T user..lol
4:27 the wind sound in the ms dos is better than amiga, because likes mid realistic
Not sure if it official but there is an AGA fix for Lotus III for A1200 which gets rid of all the frame drops of the game running on A500/1000/2000 version, it doesn't run full speed as Lotus II on those machines.
The original Amiga and MS-DOS versions are the best!
Had a600 loved this game I always thought the st was close to amiga but seeing these it looks terrible in comparison
@stunthumb
2 жыл бұрын
Hehe, Lotus 3 is terrible, it's terrible on everything including Amiga. Now Lotus2... that's a game :D
The Amiga version is disappointing. They tried to add more elaborate graphics and the result was a slower frame rate - what was the point? Lotus 2 got the balance right.
Amiga > CD32 > MS-DOS > Genesis > Atari ST. Clearly
The terrible ST AY soundchip strikes again. Going as I did from POKEY and SID on the XL and C64, finding the AY chip on a 16-bit micro, came as quite a shock. Megadrive version seems botched 😐
@daishi5571
2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't a good sound chip and they certainly should have used better. But it was available, well known, low bandwidth and most of all cheap. What bugs me is when they say the Amiga has poor sound quality compared to the pure waveforms from the ST. What a load of BS, the ST sound quality was never that great and Atari apparently agreed, as they added a sound chip to compete with the Amiga in the STe, and it still wasn't as good. I'm not saying that there is no good music for the ST (as I know there is) but it has to be specifically for the ST for it to work, as trying to play music like on the Amiga it cannot compete.
For me it's: 1) Amiga 2) Atari ST 3) MD/Genesis 4) CD32 5) MS-DOS