RE: Re; Jim Power

From Jose Agripino <xxxxxx@webaholic.com.br>
Date
Takumi,

> Chris Huelsbeck composed and arranged the music of
> "PCE Jim power", I think .

As far as I know, Chris did only the intro music to Jim Power; granted, it's
one hell of a great piece, even if, as someone here commented on the past,
he stole it from the lava cave level on Ys 3 (I have both Ys 3 and Jim Power
on the SNES and YES, the songs are too similar to think otherwise...).

I happen to love Jim Power and I'd like to comment a bit on the history of
this game: it was first released on the Amiga by Loriciel, a French company
which ported some of their other Amiga games to the PCE, like Baby Jo. As I
said, I believe that only the intro music was done by Chris Huelsbeck (you
can correct me on that, I'm not really sure), but even so the in-game music
is also great. Strangely, this game sold poorly in England, which had a big
market for the Amiga at the time, maybe due to some misguided reviews of the
game. It has some really great graphics for the Amiga standard at the time,
and one magazine I have called the graphics "washed out"...

Later, this game was released on the SNES and Genesis in the US (I'm not
sure about the japanese market), the SNES version has some "mode 7" stages,
which are quite entertaining, and came with one of those cheap cardboard 3D
glasses.

And what all of this has to do with the PCE version? Well, I don't know :-)
but I'm getting a Jim Power PCE this weekend, so I'll finally be able to
enjoy this version!

Later,

Jose Agripino