This was by far my favourite game as a teenager on the C64. Wow those days...my mates would be around and we'd all try and complete the game but the furthest we got was level 12 without finishing it. Great music too. I've waited for this upload for years. Thank you!
Das Beste Spiel für den C64.Ich glaube die haben den Letzte mögliche aus dem C64 herausgeholt und die Musik ist der Hammer, vor allen in den 1 Level da fühlt man sich mittendrin gleich von Anfang an.
For no apparent reason, the music from level 1 is stuck in my head for 2 months now. I had to Google the game because i had forgotten the name..... Ach, der gute alte C64... Waren das noch Zeiten.
Hier hat Chris Hülsbeck mal wieder eine Glanzleistung mit dem Soundtrack hingelegt!!Den von Turrican 1+2 zieh ich mir auch immer wieder mal in regelmäßigen Abständen rein.Ich sag nur: 'The Wall' einfach genial!!!
Amazing what you can do with a 8-bit machine that only has 64K and a 16-color palette. Throw in some excellent hardware sprite control, and a sound chip that was ahead of its time, and you've got one mighty little computer.
Ja diese Zeiten waren was Tolles! Ich selbst habe Katakis Kaiser oil Imperium und uhg Olympics bis zum Erbrechen Gezockt!!! ^^ Wen ich jetzt so zurück schaue bedaure ich fast den Fortschrit in der Computer Branche, aber zum Glück gibt es Emulatoren. Auf jedenfall ein shönes Video.
I think... this was the best shoot 'em up of them all and i played a lot of the on a lot of systems - from Phoenix to Raptor. R-Type was a big hit in coin-op arcade and Irem wanted to port it to home computers which lived trough a major boom with the C64 at that time. So Mr. Trenz got the job for porting it to C64 and he did it masterfully. He wanted to do a sequel but Irem wasn't up to it (because they wanted from the arcade systems to home systems, so R-Type2 had to be made for arcade before the go). So he made this game, then known as 'Denaris' and it really runs circles around R-Type (and anything else). But Irem didn't like it. It was too close to their R-Type franchise so they shot it down. It was re-branded as Katakis and was sold for a while for C64, but as the time for conversion to the Amiga computer came they had not ported it but basically made a totally other game (which was done by Factor 5). The game isn't bad but its nowhere near the C64 or even R-Type league. Later Trenz broke from pure shoot'em ups, him also being involved earlier in the making of the Great Giana Sisters (basically a not too-subtle Mario clone) he decided finally to make something truly unique by blending both generes together by producing Turrican 1+2 (again ported to the Amiga by Factor 5), resulting in a huge commercial success. MT was probably the most influential game creator on the C64.
Waschlaff Duschmann I played shoot 'em ups on con-ops, consoles, home computers and into the early PC era where it basically died, Raptor being practically the last full-release title, getting replaced by FPS titles (Doom, Wolfenstein, etc) and space sims (Wing Commander). I miss those days and those games. Here and there somebody tries to reanimate this genere again, but there is nothing with really dedicated effort. R-Type is pretty impressive, especially with its giant space ship (level 3, i think) and does a lot of things quite well. It can't however keep up with the music and pacing. At times R-Type is too hard. You notice its an arcade port and has unfair sections meant do cut your purse. Enforcer is simply too short. X-Out is optically impressive (Amiga especially) and has a neat style due its underwater themed setting, shopping menue, but can't keep up with pacing and level design. Music is nearly as good but not quite on the level. Most of it is slower paced, nicely complementing the scenery. Its mood is different and slower. Hybris had a quite interesting power up system and is quite unique with its gameplay, also being a top-down scroller. Its music is also pretty rad, but as level design goes its pretty repetitive. Definetly one of the top notch shoot 'em ups, but not quite Katakis-class. Battles Squadron (as a Hybris sequel) introduced simultaneous multi-play, which was, hands down, quite brilliant, but also the repetitive level design (and in this case truly repeating) lets down an otherwise excellent game. Z-Out has gorgeous optics, simultaneous multiplayer but is too unfair in its level design. Also its music, whilst certainly good, is not that memorable. Project X (basically an Amiga Nemesis clone) is pretty much on par and has an interesting special weapons mechanic (ripped from Nemesis, which itself is a Darius clone). It also offers (like X-Out) the selection of different ships, has a pretty decent level design but the music... well its a matter of taste i guess. Its also not that well paced, but the bosses are quite well done (and superior to those in Katakis). Silkworm did good with simultaneous co-op in different vehicles, but can't score with level design (partly due game mechanics: the jeep had to drive) and music. SWIV improved on that (top down scroller), but still can't score with level design (a problem all top down scrollers share) and the music (except title music, which is pretty rad) is so-so. Top-down shooters are much better if they allow free-directional flight (like Parallax) which makes simultaneous gameplay a bit difficult, they are pretty rad player vs player with spilt screen (as Amiga Firepower for example) Turrican 1+2 are of course vastly more complex titles, but they are not exactly pure shoot 'em ups, but a plattformer crossbreed. Alien Breed was particularly good, but also not really a pure shoot 'em up but rather combined with a partly time-limited maze mechanic. It is a nice game an the alien setting works especially rad, but i do not like time limits, it has to be said, especially if running through a unexplored maze full of monsters. Yes, that brings a certain level of immersion with it, alright. I still prefer Konami's coin-op aliens. Chaos Engine, which is another really great game. Its pretty decent and especially interesting because it offers simultaneous 2 player action. There are some scrolling issues, because both players fight on the same screen but level design is superb and music is good. You can select from a wide range of characters (much like Gauntlet). Its not a shoot 'em up in the classical sense, so its not really the right genere to compare to. Same goes for Outzone (Coin-op Commando clone), which is also a superb game in its own right, with a very memorable soundtrack, but controls are an issue. Raptor did aim for top down scrolling and mouse control, which was a pretty rad thing. Unfortunately everything else was not up to standards. Not bad but not really good either. They probably just wanted to see how a mouse-control version would work commercially. This one is definitely the best one in my opinion and you have to get the C64 version, not the Amiga version. It is not that easy as it looks from the boss fights, you have been warned. And it is a long game. Its a better R-Type. What more can you ask? Irem did realize that. They should have ported it to arcade instead of shooting it down. If you want something that improves on this then go and play Amiga T2 then. There isn't really anything better than T2. Unfortunately MT's wizardry waned with the demise of the C64 as did Factor 5's with the wane of the Amiga. Nothing ever quite filled that gap.
+Nemesis the warlock A couple of corrections to your nearly year old post...sorry I cant help myself. Darius was after Nemesis (AKA Gradius) so no, Nemesis is not a copy of Darius. Katakis was before Denaris, Katakis is the pulled/rare/too similar to R-Type version, Denaris is the common freely released one with minor changes made. No?
Gradius, not Darius - my mistake. The C64 Nemesis was a Gradius arcade clone, not Darius, my memory is playing tricks on me. Katakis/Denaris (same thing 88/89 release) C64 is the pulled version, yes. Its what they did after they ported R-Type to the C-64. You'll notice that the Amiga Katakis is a very different game, Factor 5 did that one. Its not bad but certainly not on the height there with its C64 heritage. Factor 5 Amiga version ist the common freely aviable one (from their website). By all means, help yourself :) Nice notification feature there, UA-cam.
@NadrianATRS When you complete the game, you can read in the credits that 'Manfred Trenz', the developer of this game was a huge fan of the arcade version of R-Type.
Actually it was an R-Type ripoff! IREM set together with the Katakis-Team and told them they wouldn't sue them if they did an R-Type port for C64 for free! So the R-Type port came, and everything was settled. Good old times, where you could simply talk things out like gentlement ;-) Best of all: to finance the R-Type port, Manfred Trentz invented Turrican, which became a classic of its own!
+TorPedoCXC >I Love the mood of every State, tue two Header shark endmonster, sprite design... Game Pace...everything about this game is overwhelming to me.
7:37 der Teil kam so im Original von Alan Silvestri (Delta Force) nicht vor, fand ich aber trotzdem cool. Mensch wie lang hab ich damals nach dem Titel gesucht :D
yeah I heard this too, I always thought it was one of those rumours? Wikipedia seems clear things up... "Activision objected to the similar style of Katakis to their side-scroller arcade game, R-Type. This was compounded by the contract Factor 5 had with Activision to perform the Amiga port of the game. Factor 5 modified the gameplay and level layout slightly and re-released Katakis as Denaris in 1989." wikipedia org [slash] wiki [slash] Katakis
@DerSchmu Das Video vom Katakisspiel is' so'n bischen wie eine kleine Zeitreise:) Kann mich an an Nächte erinnern in denen wir Kinder dachten, dass unsere Eltern sich kloppen. Aber sie ham Katakis gezockt! Der Verbrauch und "Verschleiß" an Joysticks war enorm;) Kann mich auch dunkel an einen Samstagabend erinnern, an dem Jemand gefeiert wurde, weil er noch irgendwo 'nen Spassknüppel aufgetrieben hatte, nachdem sie alle vorhandenen auf Weg zu 999.999 P. zerkloppt hatten.. *ich werd alt..seufz*
Katakis/ Denaris is one of the best. Great bosses, great music, great levels, lots of sprites. It is a programming miracle. .. That blue spacecraft though sucks big time! Ugly as hell. Delta's or Sanxion's or even R-type's spacecrafts are more good looking for sure. IMO, Armalyte is the best vertical shooter out there. Darker but more polished, more organic with more emphasis on the details. Enemy ships look more round, more 3D, they have better design, better paths and appearance. Has super-weapons. Armalyte looks more pro and it is harder to beat. Too bad Armalyte-II never came out.
Hi, wow. 35 Jahre her,aber sofort kommt mir alles bekannt vor. Wir haben im 2 Player Modus Tage damit verbracht, bis es geschafft war. Wie kann man das heute noch/ wieder spielen?
This here is the modified version. The original version had some graphical similarities to R Type. Especially Level 2, which is designed here in green. Nevertheless Katakis is much more playable than R Type.
Wow I never played this back in the day. I remember the rave review in zzap 64 and then some kind of lawsuit from r-type’s owners and for some reason it never circulated among the games my friends had. I’ll have to dig this up for my emulator
The ship design and the power ups style scream Darius. The boss design on a few of the lvls and a few of the walking gunner enemies scream Gradius. The rest is practically blood drawn from R-Type. REALLY cool looking sprites, tho!
Hm, the sprites differ from the version I know though who knows how much that was hacked. I had rounder, spikier power up shuttles, white terrain in stage 2 and brown walkers instead of those grey gun walkers. Basically more similarity to R-Type.
It's just you. The bosses where tricky until you know where to move to and which part to aim for. The person playing just makes it look very easy. Game was a lot more fun two player though where one player can control the immortal pod but has to protect you while you play.
Funny that this is more impressive on the C64 than the Amiga, there is no parallax scrolling on the Amiga version and the graphics look like something drawn on an Amstrad but this is quite impressive for the 1982 Commodore flagship computer compared to the 1986 Amiga wunderkind!!!!
every time you charge the shot up in a safe position, it sounds like it's screaming "Wwwwwhhhhhhyyyyyyyy?" bosses were a big dissapointment in this game.
great game...although it was buggy as hell when it first came out (hugely frustrating). Whilst a blatant RType rip off....it was undoubtedly better so hats off to them.
Chris Hülsbeck also screwed The Delta Force theme for Area 5 and repeated in Area 12. How ironic that the same peeps responsible for the C64 port of Irem's seminal classic was pretty shit. Whatever, those graphics were incredible and the co-op play of controlling the force and the other piloting the craft is still extremely novel. nukesandknives@blogspot.co.uk
1988 was a good year! Awesome game i remember sitting on your parents couch in their front room with you playing this and eating crisps with fizzy orange juice and that classic box tv. Good times haha
yes, and times we'll never get back. that box weighed an absolute ton. if we really did eat crisps and fizzy orange juice, kudos for that remembering man ha ha! what snacks was it for turrican and creatures etc etc. rofl
Ah james always a pleasure to reminisce. Correct me if im wrong as i think ur cute ass was in oz but microbyte in princes quay was the first time i saw a neo geo and fatal fury playing. Man, im still picking up my jaw. That was when buying snes imports for 50 quid was the norm. Wow that was in the early 90s...
Biep biep biep bei den ganzen Projektilen, das hört man nur drei Sekunden und ist wieder in den 80ern. Heute sehe ich gerade zu Anfang im Video aber eher umherfliegende Hakenkreuze, naja, Schwamm drüber.
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Eines der besten Spiele und Soundtracks ever
Ja, das hab ich auch gespielt bis zum Abwinken.
Absolut!!!
Those are some insane graphics for the C64. It boggles the mind what that little thing could do.
Katakis gehört zu dem BESTEN C64 Spielen überhaupt.
Stundenlang gezockt bis das Netzteil glüht : )
This was by far my favourite game as a teenager on the C64. Wow those days...my mates would be around and we'd all try and complete the game but the furthest we got was level 12 without finishing it. Great music too. I've waited for this upload for years. Thank you!
Chris Hülsbeck is a legend on C64 and Amiga.
Wow, habe es damals auch durchgezockt. Der Hammer wie die Zeit vergeht.
this stunning piece of art Is really running on a comodore 64. It's technicaly superb !
Technically it is a rip off R-Type using stolen code and assets, and was promptly sued for it
Das Beste Spiel für den C64.Ich glaube die haben den Letzte mögliche aus dem C64 herausgeholt und die Musik ist der Hammer, vor allen in den 1 Level da fühlt man sich mittendrin gleich von Anfang an.
Man hätte gut und gerne nur Zocken können um die Musik zu hören.
For no apparent reason, the music from level 1 is stuck in my head for 2 months now. I had to Google the game because i had forgotten the name.....
Ach, der gute alte C64... Waren das noch Zeiten.
Der Score. Ein Traum.
I remember no one hard "Disc 2", so I coudn´t play through to the end ^^ Superb game back then!
Hier hat Chris Hülsbeck mal wieder eine Glanzleistung mit dem Soundtrack hingelegt!!Den von Turrican 1+2 zieh ich mir auch immer wieder mal in regelmäßigen Abständen rein.Ich sag nur: 'The Wall' einfach genial!!!
Amazing what you can do with a 8-bit machine that only has 64K and a 16-color palette. Throw in some excellent hardware sprite control, and a sound chip that was ahead of its time, and you've got one mighty little computer.
Akira625 sound was waaaaaaay ahead of its time
One of my all-time favs for the C64. This was one of my beloved shooters. Great gfx and great sound!
A very good C64 Game from Germany!!!!
Absolutely one of the very best R-Type clones on the C64
Some of the best C64 games are from germany. Including this one.
the music of area 5 is a melody of a queen song.
turns me into my childhood...nice played dude ..thumbs up :))
I played this game for the first time today, and really liked it! I'm hoping to play it again later.
Katakis.... damals war ich 13 Jahre alt und habe es tatsächlich auf dem C64 durchgespielt.... keine Ahnung wie lange das gedauert hat. War aber cool!
When it came out in the first original version, this game was considered to be better than R-Type. Which made some people really angry.
Ja diese Zeiten waren was Tolles! Ich selbst habe Katakis Kaiser oil Imperium und uhg Olympics bis zum Erbrechen Gezockt!!! ^^ Wen ich jetzt so zurück schaue bedaure ich fast den Fortschrit in der Computer Branche, aber zum Glück gibt es Emulatoren. Auf jedenfall ein shönes Video.
I think... this was the best shoot 'em up of them all and i played a lot of the on a lot of systems - from Phoenix to Raptor. R-Type was a big hit in coin-op arcade and Irem wanted to port it to home computers which lived trough a major boom with the C64 at that time. So Mr. Trenz got the job for porting it to C64 and he did it masterfully. He wanted to do a sequel but Irem wasn't up to it (because they wanted from the arcade systems to home systems, so R-Type2 had to be made for arcade before the go). So he made this game, then known as 'Denaris' and it really runs circles around R-Type (and anything else). But Irem didn't like it. It was too close to their R-Type franchise so they shot it down. It was re-branded as Katakis and was sold for a while for C64, but as the time for conversion to the Amiga computer came they had not ported it but basically made a totally other game (which was done by Factor 5). The game isn't bad but its nowhere near the C64 or even R-Type league. Later Trenz broke from pure shoot'em ups, him also being involved earlier in the making of the Great Giana Sisters (basically a not too-subtle Mario clone) he decided finally to make something truly unique by blending both generes together by producing Turrican 1+2 (again ported to the Amiga by Factor 5), resulting in a huge commercial success. MT was probably the most influential game creator on the C64.
Waschlaff Duschmann I played shoot 'em ups on con-ops, consoles, home computers and into the early PC era where it basically died, Raptor being practically the last full-release title, getting replaced by FPS titles (Doom, Wolfenstein, etc) and space sims (Wing Commander). I miss those days and those games. Here and there somebody tries to reanimate this genere again, but there is nothing with really dedicated effort.
R-Type is pretty impressive, especially with its giant space ship (level 3, i think) and does a lot of things quite well. It can't however keep up with the music and pacing. At times R-Type is too hard. You notice its an arcade port and has unfair sections meant do cut your purse.
Enforcer is simply too short.
X-Out is optically impressive (Amiga especially) and has a neat style due its underwater themed setting, shopping menue, but can't keep up with pacing and level design. Music is nearly as good but not quite on the level. Most of it is slower paced, nicely complementing the scenery. Its mood is different and slower.
Hybris had a quite interesting power up system and is quite unique with its gameplay, also being a top-down scroller. Its music is also pretty rad, but as level design goes its pretty repetitive. Definetly one of the top notch shoot 'em ups, but not quite Katakis-class.
Battles Squadron (as a Hybris sequel) introduced simultaneous multi-play, which was, hands down, quite brilliant, but also the repetitive level design (and in this case truly repeating) lets down an otherwise excellent game.
Z-Out has gorgeous optics, simultaneous multiplayer but is too unfair in its level design. Also its music, whilst certainly good, is not that memorable.
Project X (basically an Amiga Nemesis clone) is pretty much on par and has an interesting special weapons mechanic (ripped from Nemesis, which itself is a Darius clone). It also offers (like X-Out) the selection of different ships, has a pretty decent level design but the music... well its a matter of taste i guess. Its also not that well paced, but the bosses are quite well done (and superior to those in Katakis).
Silkworm did good with simultaneous co-op in different vehicles, but can't score with level design (partly due game mechanics: the jeep had to drive) and music.
SWIV improved on that (top down scroller), but still can't score with level design (a problem all top down scrollers share) and the music (except title music, which is pretty rad) is so-so. Top-down shooters are much better if they allow free-directional flight (like Parallax) which makes simultaneous gameplay a bit difficult, they are pretty rad player vs player with spilt screen (as Amiga Firepower for example)
Turrican 1+2 are of course vastly more complex titles, but they are not exactly pure shoot 'em ups, but a plattformer crossbreed.
Alien Breed was particularly good, but also not really a pure shoot 'em up but rather combined with a partly time-limited maze mechanic. It is a nice game an the alien setting works especially rad, but i do not like time limits, it has to be said, especially if running through a unexplored maze full of monsters. Yes, that brings a certain level of immersion with it, alright. I still prefer Konami's coin-op aliens.
Chaos Engine, which is another really great game. Its pretty decent and especially interesting because it offers simultaneous 2 player action. There are some scrolling issues, because both players fight on the same screen but level design is superb and music is good. You can select from a wide range of characters (much like Gauntlet). Its not a shoot 'em up in the classical sense, so its not really the right genere to compare to.
Same goes for Outzone (Coin-op Commando clone), which is also a superb game in its own right, with a very memorable soundtrack, but controls are an issue.
Raptor did aim for top down scrolling and mouse control, which was a pretty rad thing. Unfortunately everything else was not up to standards. Not bad but not really good either. They probably just wanted to see how a mouse-control version would work commercially.
This one is definitely the best one in my opinion and you have to get the C64 version, not the Amiga version. It is not that easy as it looks from the boss fights, you have been warned. And it is a long game. Its a better R-Type. What more can you ask? Irem did realize that. They should have ported it to arcade instead of shooting it down. If you want something that improves on this then go and play Amiga T2 then. There isn't really anything better than T2. Unfortunately MT's wizardry waned with the demise of the C64 as did Factor 5's with the wane of the Amiga. Nothing ever quite filled that gap.
+Nemesis the warlock A couple of corrections to your nearly year old post...sorry I cant help myself. Darius was after Nemesis (AKA Gradius) so no, Nemesis is not a copy of Darius. Katakis was before Denaris, Katakis is the pulled/rare/too similar to R-Type version, Denaris is the common freely released one with minor changes made. No?
Gradius, not Darius - my mistake. The C64 Nemesis was a Gradius arcade clone, not Darius, my memory is playing tricks on me.
Katakis/Denaris (same thing 88/89 release) C64 is the pulled version, yes. Its what they did after they ported R-Type to the C-64. You'll notice that the Amiga Katakis is a very different game, Factor 5 did that one. Its not bad but certainly not on the height there with its C64 heritage. Factor 5 Amiga version ist the common freely aviable one (from their website).
By all means, help yourself :)
Nice notification feature there, UA-cam.
Manfred Trenz you are a genius
I need to play this some day. I loved the similar stages in Turrican II.
i think i had a bad copy back in the day it never got past the two faced fish/shark boss, nice to see it till the end :p
@NadrianATRS
When you complete the game, you can read in the credits that 'Manfred Trenz', the developer of this game was a huge fan of the arcade version of R-Type.
Actually it was an R-Type ripoff! IREM set together with the Katakis-Team and told them they wouldn't sue them if they did an R-Type port for C64 for free! So the R-Type port came, and everything was settled. Good old times, where you could simply talk things out like gentlement ;-)
Best of all: to finance the R-Type port, Manfred Trentz invented Turrican, which became a classic of its own!
Super played that for hunrets of hours !!!!!!LOL
that were good times
Danke, hab das Game geliebt! ❤️
A 16bit look on an 8bit machine.
loved to hear the delta force theme in the game.
The message at the end, like a lot of other stuff, seems lifted from R-Type!
Sound in Stage 5:
Delta Force Movie Theme
NP :)
Dat music
Second best scene in a computer game ever when stage 5 started at 6:29. That sound... May I remind you that it was 1988?
+TorPedoCXC >>>And what is the best scene?
+TorPedoCXC >I Love the mood of every State, tue two Header shark endmonster, sprite design... Game Pace...everything about this game is overwhelming to me.
Delta Force Movie Theme
Best 8-bit shmup !!! Kicks so much ass! On the level of Recca in terms of presentation.
7:37 der Teil kam so im Original von Alan Silvestri (Delta Force) nicht vor, fand ich aber trotzdem cool. Mensch wie lang hab ich damals nach dem Titel gesucht :D
I always think of Area:5's music (6:28) whenever I hear "John Parr - St. Elmo's fire" in the radio
Total gameplay style:r type
Weapon system:darius
Stage style:gradius
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Man the ultimate shmup fusion in 1 game,dats cool
yeah. remember playing katakis back in the late 80s. I really regret selling my c64 just to buy an amiga back then.
KaizerZord big mistake, but who knew?
ich liebe c 64
yeah I heard this too, I always thought it was one of those rumours?
Wikipedia seems clear things up...
"Activision objected to the similar style of Katakis to their side-scroller arcade game, R-Type. This was compounded by the contract Factor 5 had with Activision to perform the Amiga port of the game. Factor 5 modified the gameplay and level layout slightly and re-released Katakis as Denaris in 1989."
wikipedia org [slash] wiki [slash] Katakis
At the time, this 20.5 minutes seemed a lot more, even though I played several times in a row ... :)
Verdammt, ihr habt Geschichte geschrieben!
@DerSchmu
Das Video vom Katakisspiel is' so'n bischen wie eine kleine Zeitreise:) Kann mich an an Nächte erinnern in denen wir Kinder dachten, dass unsere Eltern sich kloppen. Aber sie ham Katakis gezockt! Der Verbrauch und "Verschleiß" an Joysticks war enorm;) Kann mich auch dunkel an einen Samstagabend erinnern, an dem Jemand gefeiert wurde, weil er noch irgendwo 'nen Spassknüppel aufgetrieben hatte, nachdem sie alle vorhandenen auf Weg zu 999.999 P. zerkloppt hatten.. *ich werd alt..seufz*
C64 had the best music chip ever in the commodore sections even better than amiga series
Katakis/ Denaris is one of the best. Great bosses, great music, great levels, lots of sprites. It is a programming miracle. ..
That blue spacecraft though sucks big time! Ugly as hell.
Delta's or Sanxion's or even R-type's spacecrafts are more good looking for sure.
IMO, Armalyte is the best vertical shooter out there. Darker but more polished, more organic with more emphasis on the details. Enemy ships look more round, more 3D, they have better design, better paths and appearance. Has super-weapons. Armalyte looks more pro and it is harder to beat. Too bad Armalyte-II never came out.
Denaris....uh, our new game 'Katakis'.
Meanwhile the Great Giana Sisters...
Turn on the sub titles and the sound fx will tell you a story!
damn this guy is good. I failed so miserably at this game
Hi, wow. 35 Jahre her,aber sofort kommt mir alles bekannt vor. Wir haben im 2 Player Modus Tage damit verbracht, bis es geschafft war. Wie kann man das heute noch/ wieder spielen?
CLASSIC!!!
Thumbs up if you think this game has superb music
I could play only at most until area 09 at those times, but only now have I realised what area 04 is...
This here is the modified version. The original version had some graphical similarities to R Type. Especially Level 2, which is designed here in green. Nevertheless Katakis is much more playable than R Type.
I remember playing this, area 5's music is sweet, also is it imagination or could a second payer control the front addon.
Wow, never recognized these spelling errors in the outro. It was a great game back then.
1:44 We just had a kavinsky moment gentlemen.
Wow I never played this back in the day. I remember the rave review in zzap 64 and then some kind of lawsuit from r-type’s owners and for some reason it never circulated among the games my friends had.
I’ll have to dig this up for my emulator
It's sort of life Life Force meets Contra. Similar art style to the Contra games.
Ari Agbabian Just say R-type... Wait.. what a mix !?
This game took so much from other's.
it does look like R-Type or X-Out, but imo Katakis was the best to play (the soundtrack was definitely the best)
@Metrostyle2007 It absolutely does!
The ship design and the power ups style scream Darius. The boss design on a few of the lvls and a few of the walking gunner enemies scream Gradius. The rest is practically blood drawn from R-Type. REALLY cool looking sprites, tho!
Hm, the sprites differ from the version I know though who knows how much that was hacked. I had rounder, spikier power up shuttles, white terrain in stage 2 and brown walkers instead of those grey gun walkers. Basically more similarity to R-Type.
Stage 2's music sounds like "Humanoid Invasion" by Laserdance.
Sir Moovenstein It basically *is* Humanoid Invasion by Laserdance. There is also this Delta Force tune in level 4 or 5.
It's just you. The bosses where tricky until you know where to move to and which part to aim for. The person playing just makes it look very easy. Game was a lot more fun two player though where one player can control the immortal pod but has to protect you while you play.
Has anyone made a Metal Dust longplay? Also, I'd like to see an enhanced version of Katakis made for SuperCPU for 64 and 128.
*Clever they made this that’s why R-Type was easy to port if they were n’t!* 💡
@Locateson i thought it said Bolby no?
it´s definetaly the delta force theme.
plays like it too ;)
Funny that this is more impressive on the C64 than the Amiga, there is no parallax scrolling on the Amiga version and the graphics look like something drawn on an Amstrad but this is quite impressive for the 1982 Commodore flagship computer compared to the 1986 Amiga wunderkind!!!!
It's like Darius and R-Type mixed. The C64 version is so much better than the Amiga
every time you charge the shot up in a safe position, it sounds like it's screaming "Wwwwwhhhhhhyyyyyyyy?" bosses were a big dissapointment in this game.
R-Type was made after!
...and Chris Hülsbeck was a german boy btw. 5 Stars
Great game.
But the sound on my C64 was better.
Did you used a C64-emulator for recording this?
schissoer yes
great game...although it was buggy as hell when it first came out (hugely frustrating). Whilst a blatant RType rip off....it was undoubtedly better so hats off to them.
G(erman)-TYPE!
@naveed80
That may very well be true
In response to the previous comment... Really? Try doing this on the Spectrum and Amstrad!!!
oh really? someone told me it is a queen song... forget my comment! sorry
still a better ending than ME3
The bosses look stupid easy.
Da war nen Sprite :D
Irem said the same thing!
is the final boss...a Giger-type Alien???
2oo-cubex-cool :)
yep looks like this copied the force idea from R type (assuming R type was made first which i think it was).
looks like R Type
die kleinen hakenkreuze ab level2 sind ja krass! is mir früher gar nich aufgefallen! :-)
Bob Meadow Das sind Ninjasterne!
sehen die nich sternförmig aus? also die ninjasterne
He better copyright the end-boss, BEFORE SOMEBODY COPIES IT AND RUNS WITH IT!
Nah j/k, things were much better back then, no IP-trolls around...
It did, and got banned as a result.
Chris Hülsbeck also screwed The Delta Force theme for Area 5 and repeated in Area 12.
How ironic that the same peeps responsible for the C64 port of Irem's seminal classic was pretty shit.
Whatever, those graphics were incredible and the co-op play of controlling the force and the other piloting the craft is still extremely novel.
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1988 was a good year! Awesome game i remember sitting on your parents couch in their front room with you playing this and eating crisps with fizzy orange juice and that classic box tv. Good times haha
yes, and times we'll never get back. that box weighed an absolute ton. if we really did eat crisps and fizzy orange juice, kudos for that remembering man ha ha!
what snacks was it for turrican and creatures etc etc. rofl
Ah james always a pleasure to reminisce. Correct me if im wrong as i think ur cute ass was in oz but microbyte in princes quay was the first time i saw a neo geo and fatal fury playing. Man, im still picking up my jaw. That was when buying snes imports for 50 quid was the norm. Wow that was in the early 90s...
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Biep biep biep bei den ganzen Projektilen, das hört man nur drei Sekunden und ist wieder in den 80ern. Heute sehe ich gerade zu Anfang im Video aber eher umherfliegende Hakenkreuze, naja, Schwamm drüber.
looks like a R Type because this is a copy
Wrong video title, it's "R-Type".
;-)