Ports and Other Releases
Programmed by David Leitch at Sales Curve Interactive and published by Ocean Software, the versions of the game for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC computers generally received positive reviews, including 9/10 from CRASH, 8/10 from Sinclair User and 72% from Your Sinclair. Matt Bielby of Your Sinclair called it "one of the most objectionable Speccy games I've seen in ages", and called it "repetitive" and the plot "utter nonsense. ".
This 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version of NARC, published by Acclaim Entertainment and developed by Rare was billed as "the first video game for the with a strong anti-drug message". However, Nintendo forced all drug references to be removed from the actual gameplay. Despite the NES's system limitations, the game retained most of its violence and gore.
The gameplay was significantly handicapped because of the NES controller only had two buttons whereas the arcade version has four buttons. However, the ability to jump and fire missiles was preserved. In 1990, Acclaim released NARC as a handheld LCD game as well.
Most of the computer ports had their music ported by Tony Williams, credited as 'Sound Images' and David Wise ported the arcade music to the NES.
In 2004, the Midway Arcade Treasures 2 compilation featured a re-release of the arcade version of Narc. The game was an emulation rather than a port of the arcade game, so it was practically a carbon copy of the original. But due to some problems in emulating the game, the sound is prone to cutting out during gameplay, and in the PlayStation 2 version of Midway Arcade Treasures 2, a glitch in stage 3 (usually triggered by crashing the player's vehicle) causes the stage to end abruptly and then move on to the Score tally screen).
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