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EFTPOTRM #1: Correcting The Errors of the Past

While the SAM Coupé wasn't supported by the wider group of developers and publishers back in the 1990s, there were a couple of mainstream software publishers who offered some support, at least initially, and some surprisingly high-profile games appeared on the system. One such game was Atari/Tengen's isometric arcade shooter,  Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters , published across multiple formats by DoMark, and developed for the SAM by Enigma Variations. If ever there was proof that the concept of creating a SAM Coupé conversion simply by using graphics seemingly from the Atari ST, and modifying code from the Spectrum, was genuinely viable, EftPotRM is it... with one notable exception: the introductory slideshow was ported straight from the Spectrum. Not to say it looked bad - in fact, for the Spectrum , it looked great... it probably ranks among  Neil Adamson 's best work. On the SAM, however, it was a massive disappointment to ...