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Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Appreciation Thread: Alien Storm > Golden Axe
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I received all of my old genesis carts in the mail yesterday and tried em out for the first time in 20 years. Here are my impressions if you're interested.
Batman: the Game - this used to be one of my favorites. It turns out 11 year old me had terrible taste. The graphics are appropriately atmospheric, but holy smokes is the action bad. And that double jump is annoying!
Road Rash - this game is still a ton of fun. Classic Games Room panned the music, but I love it. EA made a timeless classic. I lost a solid hour to this. Natasha is so early 90s sorta rough looking cute.
Star Wars 32X - I remember this as being amazing. The opening music used to make me so stoked. It did last night, and then the game started. The game is evidence for the argument that the long term worth of a game should not be influenced heavily by graphics. Standards change and what's left is a pretty boring shooter experience.
Rampart - this game used to frustrate me as a kid and it frustrates me now. The core gameplay is fun but it gets damn near impossible pretty quickly.
Populous - this game is still fun but the limitations of the interface are now glaring. Once I got the hang of it again (after losing my marker deep in enemy territory on the first map), it seemed much simpler than I remembered. I spent quite a bit of time playing it last night, but won't pick it up again. The very small active window and cumbersome map movement will be too frustrating for me since Warcraft 2 introduced hotkeys and grouping units to me a few years after this came out. Still fun though. A good clone with better interface on a mobile platform would be welcome.
Tonight? Earthworm Jim, Golden Axe 1 and 2, Space Harrier 2, and Strider.
Batman: the Game - this used to be one of my favorites. It turns out 11 year old me had terrible taste. The graphics are appropriately atmospheric, but holy smokes is the action bad. And that double jump is annoying!
Road Rash - this game is still a ton of fun. Classic Games Room panned the music, but I love it. EA made a timeless classic. I lost a solid hour to this. Natasha is so early 90s sorta rough looking cute.
Star Wars 32X - I remember this as being amazing. The opening music used to make me so stoked. It did last night, and then the game started. The game is evidence for the argument that the long term worth of a game should not be influenced heavily by graphics. Standards change and what's left is a pretty boring shooter experience.
Rampart - this game used to frustrate me as a kid and it frustrates me now. The core gameplay is fun but it gets damn near impossible pretty quickly.
Populous - this game is still fun but the limitations of the interface are now glaring. Once I got the hang of it again (after losing my marker deep in enemy territory on the first map), it seemed much simpler than I remembered. I spent quite a bit of time playing it last night, but won't pick it up again. The very small active window and cumbersome map movement will be too frustrating for me since Warcraft 2 introduced hotkeys and grouping units to me a few years after this came out. Still fun though. A good clone with better interface on a mobile platform would be welcome.
Tonight? Earthworm Jim, Golden Axe 1 and 2, Space Harrier 2, and Strider.
That's probably it. I used to be able to get through the game without continuing. Same with Space Harrier 2, IIRC. But my muscle memory for it had gone and I don't think I have the patience to get it back. Strangely, I remembered where all the exploding pipes and slide-kicking baddies were.
sixteen-bit
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Congrats. Bloodlines is a winner.
Grey Mega drive cartridge???Found these on Gumtree. Have been looking for a boxed Sonic 3 for months, and this guy had a super nice copy for a reasonable price.
Really looking forward to sitting down with all of these games for the first time/the first time in nearly 20 years.
blast processed
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Clamshell too, nice! I have the flimsy cardboard version and I'm always paranoid when someone comes over and touches it.
A Black Falcon
Member
You didn't know? Yeah, it's an amazing game, easily one of the system's best shmups. One of the best looking games on the system, too, though the first level probably is the best-looking one.
It's tough, unless you turn on 100 lives per continue mode (set lives to "0"). Then it's easy enough to finish.
It's weird, like the screen scrolls vertically across maybe the height of 3 screens and enemies come from the front and the back sometimes. You'll probably die a few times figuring out where to be and how to attack but once you get it, it's really not very demanding at all. You can also pick your level order, which is kind of neat. I made it through three of the four initial levels in one sitting so far.
The backgrounds are stupid detailed and can obscure bullets sometimes, though. It's not bullet hell at all.
blast processed
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Lightning Force is a great game, but I had to do the 100 lives cheat to beat it. I don't care, I don't have endless hours to play all of this shit Also that Doom sounding music is amazing.
NinjaCatfish
Member
Some weird thing that OziSoft did when they took over distribution for Sega in Australia. Nobody seems to know why!
This is about the only discussion/reference I've been able to find about it, save for some forum threads around the place. http://segaretro.org/OziSoft#.22Silver.22_Releases
ExitPlanetDust
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PSA, Leynos/Target Earth fans. The remake demo will be available on JPN PSN for PS4 on the 12th.
sixteen-bit
Member
Cool. The newer footage looked really good. It will be nice to finally have HD video of the game in action, lmao.
theSlacker
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Anything from having other sellers bid up a item, to them just doing it to make sure it sells for over/around the price they want it to be set at there are a ton of things that retro game resellers do to lock prices. Another common thing is to have someone bid up and over everyone just to make sure to get the highest bids, then do a second chance offer to whoever had the highest other then the person you had bidding up. If something looks fishy, it probably is. If you see someone with high hundreds/thousands of feedback in the bid history, it probably isn't someone buying to play, but someone who is either trying to get more stock to sell, or trying to price fix. Literally zero percent of the rare or wanted games for any system that are on an auction with not have a reseller bidding it up/making sure it doesn't sneak through at a lower price.
Ban Puncher
Member
My copy of Top Fighter 2000 MK VIII arrived from Russia today.
The packaging was made up of a supermarket catalogue. Colgate is only 29.90 rubles, down from 44.90!
The packaging was made up of a supermarket catalogue. Colgate is only 29.90 rubles, down from 44.90!
Spectral Glider
Member
I love Road Rash and Road Rash II to death. And yes, the music is terrific as are the sound effects. For me, those first two games are the pinnacle of the series. And I seem to be in the minority in thinking that the series took a turn for the worse with the 3DO version and Playstation port that followed. The play style essentially changed from close, crazy swervy and jumpy backroads that invited contact with the other riders to wider, less chaotic city streets that essentially changed what I loved about the series. But for some reason, everyone seems to have enjoyed that change. Me, I'll stick with the Genny originals.
Terrific game, but it makes me its bitch every single time. Tough as nails, for me anyway.
Road Rash is a bit rough, but I'm undecided between 2 and 3. But really, I only played it at a friend's as a teen so what do I know.
You think the Saturn version is not worth it? This review is harsh but quite in depth so it makes me feel it's an honest one. http://www.gamefaqs.com/saturn/574313-road-rash/reviews/review-82020
You think the Saturn version is not worth it? This review is harsh but quite in depth so it makes me feel it's an honest one. http://www.gamefaqs.com/saturn/574313-road-rash/reviews/review-82020
I own RR 2 and it's fun in that stupid fun kind of way. Wouldn't think too hard about it.
sixteen-bit
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Strafefox with the Thunderforce Retrospective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXdxSdNiRFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXdxSdNiRFc
TonberrysKnife
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So, I just ordered a JVC X'Eye from eBay. I was in a bidding war against some other eBay'ers for a Genesis/Sega CD Model 1 with a lot of games and I lost. It ended @ $370.00; not including $48 for shipping. I was pretty salty about it but I made a decision to look one last time and it paid off. The auction wasn't even up for 10 minutes and I lucked out greatly. It didn't break me too much either! I'm looking to get a SCART cable for it now.
I was in a bidding war against some other eBay'ers for a Genesis/Sega CD Model 1 with a lot of games and I lost. It ended @ $370.00; not including $48 for shipping. I was pretty salty about it but I made a decision to look one last time and it paid off. The auction wasn't even up for 10 minutes and I lucked out greatly. It didn't break me too much either! I'm looking to get a SCART cable for it now.
TonberrysKnife
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Makes me sad that Thunder Force 6 never came to the U.S.
Hector Garfria
Member
What has been your experience in local shops? I live in the Portland Metro Area and these guys just soak up everything and flip it for prices that are insulting.
Shadow Hog
Member
Usually more fair than $130 for a goddamn sports game. Those things have a hard enough time moving at $1.
Spectral Glider
Member
Well, it is Mutant League Hockey which is more rare than your standard sports game. I don't know what the current market is for that game as I don't collect. $129 seems pretty darn high, but I do know people will pay well for CIB games. I didn't think the game was worth $50 back when it came out. It plays choppy and the controls were nowhere near as responsive as the regular NHL series. But the game certainly has fans.
Shadow Hog
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Oh. I just saw "Hockey" and assumed it was a generic sports game, kinda like early NES titles. I know the early Genesis library was full of that kind of thing, although usually with an athlete's name attached.
I mainly stick to flea markets, thrift stores, half price books, and pawn shops as far as businesses go. I havent found a retro game store (in Houston anyway) that had good prices to match a good selection yet.
EDIT: Waaat, Thunder Force arrived on the scene before Gradius and R-Type?
This just made me want to pop in Lightening Force. Had no idea that Thunder Force V is the only one that takes place on Earth, and that Rynex was a sort of "Roswell" event lol. I guess thats why the Thunder Force V ship is the only one that needed extra booster attachments to break orbit. Made for an awesome scene though.
EDIT: Waaat, Thunder Force arrived on the scene before Gradius and R-Type?
This just made me want to pop in Lightening Force. Had no idea that Thunder Force V is the only one that takes place on Earth, and that Rynex was a sort of "Roswell" event lol. I guess thats why the Thunder Force V ship is the only one that needed extra booster attachments to break orbit. Made for an awesome scene though.
Ban Puncher
Member
Got a copy of Musha Aleste last week.
Paid less than $770.
Paid less than $770.
sixteen-bit
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Programmed and designed by a woman too, Kotori Yoshimura. She co-founded Tecno Soft and much later even worked on Omega Boost with Polyphony Digital. I wish they mentioned her in the video!
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I never knew that. Is she still in the industry or at least around? Would be nice for someone to interview her just for some early insights. Also that means I need Omega Boost.
Omega Boost was amazing. I wish Polyphony would go back to working on something other than Gran Turismo once in a while.
Yeah, their graphical expertise (well I dont wanna say wasted) could work so well with other genres.
ChamplooJones
Formerly Momotaro
Finally beat Vectorman, what a ride!
TonberrysKnife
Member
Some of my recent pickups. All games are complete. Strider and Galaxy Force II even has ALL of the Sega inserts in them. Mint condition is the best way to describe them.
IrishNinja
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of course you did, and of course you don't
ahahaa that sucks but you did the right thing man!
9.5 is way too high, agreed
awesome! weekend = made
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neat
Armoured Priest
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Mobygames on Thunder Force 4:
That is so true. I would die for a 3D Classics version on 3DS. Technosoft doesn't exist anymore AFAIK but I don't see why Sega couldn't let M2 do it.
This and every other level would look amazing in 3D.
Why must you make me sad...wishing for things that would be awesome but never come to pass.
sixteen-bit
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I wonder who owns the license. Sega published the last TF, right?Why must you make me sad...wishing for things that would be awesome but never come to pass.
The next 3 M2 games are all Genesis ports...
Aw now I'm getting my hopes up wishing for something that'll never be too.
blast processed
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The last one was in 2008, published by Sega.
blast processed
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Adventures of Batman & Robin
Comix Zone
Superman ( I have heard some really enjoy it)
Comix Zone
Superman ( I have heard some really enjoy it)
Shadow Hog
Member
Batman & Robin strikes me as more of a run-and-gun than a straight-up brawler, tho
blast processed
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I thought about that, but it's not an endless run to the end like Contra or Gunstar. Several stages are broken up to where you have to clear guys out to progress. It has progression indicator too. That means beat em up.
