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The New Zealand Story

Genesis - 1990

Comments and reviews

ColaCubesGoodyTwoShoesJRHacksaw 09 May. 2026

The ZX Spectrum version is missing from here,it's easily the best 8 bit version,what it lacks in colour,yellow and black,it makes up for with very loyal sprites that are much closer to the 16 Amiga version.

There are no backgrounds but on the Amstrad and C64 versions it has scenery and much more colour,but those are distracting and a lot of the enemies can be hard to see,the C64 version is guilty of this,the enemies are the same colour as the background making it easy to die out of just not seeing something just being in your way,that and the jumping appears be a low and a high system,so that makes navigating sections more of a guessing game than needs to be.

Of the 8 bit ports the ZX spectrum version is much easier to see whats going on,it's more faithful to the acrade and is way better than either Amstrad or the re imagined C64 port.

The Amiga version is a best version all round with full scenery,sounds and game play controls.

0
Farrukh 09 Feb. 2026

The new Zealand story wonderful game

0
The Boz 21 Sep. 2022

Loved this game on the C64, but boy did it provide a challenge. If I remember, it was quite a large game too. Bit of a classic back in the day, a lot better than other platformers such as Rainbow Islands.

1
Johnny-boy 17 Jan. 2021

My childhood game. I played this game on Commodore 64 and genesis. I recommend playing this game.

1
Kiwi 29 Oct. 2019

As a New Zealander can anyone tell me what this game has to do with NZ? Even the map on the title screen is wildly inaccurate.

-3
khoolyo 29 May. 2019

How to download the game ??

-6
jo 17 May. 2019

choice kant wait

-1
REMINISCING..... 01 Dec. 2017

Fond memory's of this game, felt controls at the time where good and enemy's where enjoyable to fight against, cant remember the plot much and the water parts where hard...

-1

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Downloads

Genesis version
Game file
United Kingdom English
880 KB
Commodore 64 version
Game file
United Kingdom English
65 KB
SEGA Master System version
Game file
United Kingdom English
281 KB
TurboGrafx-16 version
Game file
Japan Japanese
178 KB
Amiga version
Game file
United Kingdom English
3 MB
Amstrad CPC version
Game file
United Kingdom English
77 KB
Atari ST version
Game file
United Kingdom English
2 MB
Arcade version
P0-041A PCB

US, old version

United Kingdom English
90 KB
P0-043A PCB

new version

United Kingdom English
436 KB
P0-041A PCB

old version

United Kingdom English
90 KB
P0-041-1 PCB

prototype

United Kingdom English
349 KB
P0-041A PCB

unknown version

United Kingdom English
92 KB
P0-043A PCB

new version

Japan Japanese
18 KB
P0-041A PCB

old version

Japan Japanese
90 KB
FM Towns version
Game file
Japan Japanese
United Kingdom English
719 KB
Sharp X68000 version
Game file
United Kingdom English
553 KB

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