Talk:Spy Hunter

Poor POV edit

I removed the following edit because I thought it was POV and poorly written:

The game was never released for 16-bit home computers Amiga and Atari ST but a company called Michtron made quite faithful clone of Spy Hunter called "Major Motion" for Atari ST in 1986 and later ported the game for Amiga in 1988 (now company's name was "Microdeal"). The game did not utilize the capabilities of 16-bit machines and thus did not get very positive reviews. Another Spy Hunter-like game for 16-bit machines - this time with much better results - was Spy Who Loved Me based on James Bond movie of same name. That game was released by Domark in 1990.

But the main reason I removed it was becasue I couldn't think of a way to make it topical to the article. It's about Spy Hunter, not about how much it sucked and didn't make it to all the home computers of the era. If anyone disagrees with me, feel free to improve it and add it back into the article. — Frecklefoot | Talk June 30, 2005 17:47 (UTC)

I think "Major Motion" could be considered as a port for Atari & Amiga and that it would be useful to mention it (In fact I just discovered by reading this article that Major Motion was not an original game, but a port of Spy Hunter which I didn't know), so I reintroduced a quick note about that.

However I don't know if Atari ST & Amiga should appear on the right infobox ? --NicooIgloo (talk) 11:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it belongs in the article. If it's not an official sanctioned port of the game, it's a just a clone. Because this game was so popular, it was cloned a great deal. I won't revert your edit, but it doesn't really belong in the article, calling it a port. It definitely doesn't belong in the infobox. I'm not even sure it was even very popular--I couldn't find an entry for it on any of the standard classic game databases. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 17:15, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I understand your POV and agree that it shouldn't be mentioned as a port, however I think as a clone it deserves to be mentioned in the article. I don't know what's the best way as I'm a Wikipedia newbie :) . I think Major Motion was popular, at least in Europe, and you can find it on some specialized Atari / Amiga databases like this one: http://www.atari.st/view.php?id=1029. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NicooIgloo (talk • contribs) 04:03, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Disambiguation required for SpyHunter

SpyHunter is also an anti-spyware program for Windows available from Enigma Software Group.
Disambiguation is required, as SpyHunter currently redirects to Spy Hunter. DFH 18:34, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Office 2000

Isn't the easter egg for Microsoft Excel 2000 called 'Dev Hunter'? -Uagehry456|Talk 21:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

There is no easter egg after applying Service Pack 1 for Office 2000. Office 2000 is now on Service Pack 3, so it hasn't worked for some time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.44.48 (talk) 04:14, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Copy Edited

I have copy edited this article to what I believe is an improvement. As I'm new at this, I certainly hope the edit is POV free. Feel free to make changes to my edit as necessary and outline any major concerns (or suggestions) on my Talk page. Note that I didn't change the "Ports", Easter egg, or "Film Adaptation" sections as I feared doing so would ultimately detract from the article (i.e. I have absolutely no knowledge of these topics and may introduce POV or other nasties to these sections). --Grimey109 23:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

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Highway Pursuit and Robot Chicken References?

Is it notable that an enhanced fan-made remake, Highway pursuit, has been made for this game? On Retrospec.sgn.net, it's received over 750,000 downloads. Also, Robot Chicken ran a skit on this game. Is that notable enough to reference? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.222.14.64 (talk) 13:27, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Last section extremely out of date

The section where it talks about screen adaptation reads like a blow-by-blow and the last reference says something like "so and so will rewrite it in 2007" or 20011 or whatever. It's 2015, it reads as extremely out of date. Thsi is why articles shouldn't include temporal references and/or "will," "is in the process of," as they get out of date quickly. Needs to be cleaned up... 50.45.233.14 (talk) 06:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I think you must have mis-read the section. Nowhere does it say the above. What it does say, and I assume you are referring to is "In May 2007, Paul W. S. Anderson was hired to replace Woo as the director. He will be writing a new script with another screenwriter"

Yes, it says "will", but there's no date anchor attached the the "will", and this is the last piece of information, so it's still relevant. I suppose it could be changed to "was", but it's not that big a deal. Chaheel Riens (talk) 08:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Wrong (1983) release date?

Is there a source for the release date being 1993? Many other sources state around September 1987 instead of '1983'. The actual retail box (seen in many ebay auctions) has a copyright date of '1987' so that seems to indicate that this page may need to be updated.

No, 1983 is correct. IIRC, there was a sequel done later. - Denimadept (talk) 01:40, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

So, what is the actual release date?

Now the English version of the article shows 1984, while, for example, the French shows 1983.

I found this page where it shows that Spy Hunter was released at different times on different platforms: https://www.pixelatedarcade.com/games/spy-hunter/releases

Probably that is the reason for all this confusion. Margarita byca (talk) 00:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

There is a screenshot of the game here stating 1983: https://www.pixelatedarcade.com/games/spy-hunter/screenshots Margarita byca (talk) 00:30, 12 September 2024 (UTC)