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Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Appreciation Thread: Alien Storm > Golden Axe
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IrishNinja
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yeah, i still wish TRU near me as a kid would've had Snatcher. and i missed Popful Mail right before it shot up, but glad i got Snatcher at least...Popful, Space Adventure Cobra and Flying Squadron Keio are staying as burns on my shelf cause those prices can go kick rocks
welp, i'm watching this now
okay so bare with me televators
as the weird SMS kid on the playground i had to treat Alex Kidd like he was a worthy rival to Mario during these dark days, where i'd often defend High Tech World/etc
but popular consensus is that Miracle World was pretty much the peak, as a neat/challenging as balls at times platformer with both vertical & horizontal levels and all kinds of weirdness
since Lost Stars, High Tech, Shinobi World etc are such vastly different games from each other, Enchanted is literally the only real sequel to Miracle. As a fan of the latter & for it being such an early title, i loved it at the time - it pretty much wraps up the Alex Kidd mythos, as it were, with a lotta fun stuff (vehicles, etc) crossing over, but letting you keep the stuff you get in shops rather than just instantly use it. most of what people rag on it for is the way said shops work - you have to win paper/rock/sisscors and pay for stuff too - but it's still cool, and packed with secret areas.
TL;DR i loved it in the early 90s cause of my weird background with the character but most people think it's booty buttcheeks. hopefully you got it on the cheap
same!
still no karaoke/dev units to attach though
this fuckin' guy right here
i do, but only cause bishopcruz put his in the living room!
welp, i'm watching this now
okay so bare with me televators
as the weird SMS kid on the playground i had to treat Alex Kidd like he was a worthy rival to Mario during these dark days, where i'd often defend High Tech World/etc
but popular consensus is that Miracle World was pretty much the peak, as a neat/challenging as balls at times platformer with both vertical & horizontal levels and all kinds of weirdness
since Lost Stars, High Tech, Shinobi World etc are such vastly different games from each other, Enchanted is literally the only real sequel to Miracle. As a fan of the latter & for it being such an early title, i loved it at the time - it pretty much wraps up the Alex Kidd mythos, as it were, with a lotta fun stuff (vehicles, etc) crossing over, but letting you keep the stuff you get in shops rather than just instantly use it. most of what people rag on it for is the way said shops work - you have to win paper/rock/sisscors and pay for stuff too - but it's still cool, and packed with secret areas.
TL;DR i loved it in the early 90s cause of my weird background with the character but most people think it's booty buttcheeks. hopefully you got it on the cheap
same!
still no karaoke/dev units to attach though
this fuckin' guy right here
i do, but only cause bishopcruz put his in the living room!
D.Lo
Member
I think it's quite good for 1988. It's only two years after the original, it just happened to be on a new system (not so surprising when Sega released six systems between 1983 and 1990 lol).
All the other AK games (except Lost Stars) are basically spin-offs.
That was a period when Sega games really suffered from their western box art IMO. Enchanted Castle's US/PAL cover is just so bad, it put me off the game for years.
IrishNinja
Member
wanted to add to this: that Shadow of Atlantis @ 12:30 looks like it would've been interesting
god, so weird that it was only 2 years, you know? felt like 5 as a kid. and i get you, Suikoden syndrome has kept me from many a great game sadly (looking at so much in the US turbo library)
It's funny reading this because when I was a kid in the UK Master System was everywhere and I didn't even know what a NES was until years later.
My great grandma had a Master System!
IrishNinja
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yeah, ya'll on that side of the pond get the short end of the stick sometimes but it was literally night & day with SMS over here...i knew two other guys that had em, and boy did we trade games a lot.
no joke, as a kid if idve gone into any rental joint (in the pre-blockbuster days, where they were everywhere) and seen a single master system title for rent i may've cried. shit was dire.
no joke, as a kid if idve gone into any rental joint (in the pre-blockbuster days, where they were everywhere) and seen a single master system title for rent i may've cried. shit was dire.
D.Lo
Member
The other problem was that Alex Kidd was very specifically designed to be a Mario clone (check the Japanese box arts of both, it's truly ridiculous), and were just not in the same league. By the time Enchanted Castle made it to the west, Mario World was out in Japan and it's truly on another level.
I think MW and EC are pretty good '3rd party platformer' level.
I think MW and EC are pretty good '3rd party platformer' level.
IrishNinja
Member
....wow, i somehow never saw that Mark III cover. can't blame them for wanting in on that tremendous marketshare but that's..blatant even by 80s standards, haha
Looking at some videos, it seems like it might be one that's hit or miss...Music doesn't seem all that, so that's one downside for me, especially since its made by Sega. What Sega game doesn't have good music :/
The master system shinobi world looks / sounds pretty good though. He could have been a cool character too, a monkey king martial arts focused world with sega craziness infused.
IrishNinja
Member
man, i had zero chance at getting Shinobi World stateside...SMS was so dead in the water nowhere i knew out here carried games a year or more when that thing would've dropped, i wanna say. finally got a good price on a UK copy years back!
Anyone know where this is from?
Pretty sure some kind of TV commercial in Japan.
sixteen-bit
Member
Anyone know where this is from?
Commercial for one of the recent Puyo Puyo games
saw my favorite instagramer post a video of a game. Researched it a little bit. BOUGHT!
Cost me less then 10 bucks with a case and manual lol
Funny enough i didnt know it was on the Taito Legends 2 compilation that I have
How did you get this so cheap?
Laws00
Member
dont know. it was just listed as such on amazon so i said imma buy it. shipping was like 3 something
Well congrats with a cheap and great game then!
sixteen-bit
Member
Don't feel too bad. The arcade version has a completely different aesthetic from the Genesis one.
Learn about it here!
Sure glad we dodged a bullet on that. Genesis version looks so much better.
blast processed
Member
I don't care what year that was made, thats a terrible picture. Looks like a bunch of stickers on the front of a 5th graders Trapper Keeper.
IrishNinja
Member
the coolest trapper keeper ever though
IrishNinja
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probably, but honestly? me & Mzo were talking a while back about how very many great calls Diehard Gamefan had - seriously, a ton of niche titles no one checked for in the day, but are stupid-expensive on the Saturn/etc? they prolly got way more love in DG than anywhere else, it's crazy how good some of their taste was
Ax Battler has got some serious rickets going on in his legs.
So here's the actual article that cover was for.
p.s.
For those that don't know, the game network they're talking about was tried in Japan with the Mega Modem (would have been called TeleGenesis Modem in the U.S./NA) and was roughly 4-5 years before the Sega Channel existed.
p.s. #2. You guys think 56K dial-up internet was slow? The 1200 Baud modem for MegaModem/TeleGenesis would make 56K seem like high-speed broadband in comparison!
p.s.
For those that don't know, the game network they're talking about was tried in Japan with the Mega Modem (would have been called TeleGenesis Modem in the U.S./NA) and was roughly 4-5 years before the Sega Channel existed.
p.s. #2. You guys think 56K dial-up internet was slow? The 1200 Baud modem for MegaModem/TeleGenesis would make 56K seem like high-speed broadband in comparison!
ResidentDante
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Nice video!
blast processed
Member
Going from 9600 to 14.4 was big, but 14.4 to 56k? Yeah that was high speed back then.
There is a stark difference in articles that were written back then, compared to the hyperbole click-bait, living in a vacuum crap, that is written today. Solid points backed up with facts. A simple standard that no longer exists today.
Thanks!
PCE CD has a stronger legacy to back up thanks to the quality of the software release.
Some of the better games on PCE were exclusive to the CD media, the same could not be said about Mega Drive/Mega CD combo IMO.
That was likely due to PCE CD having several times bigger install base than Mega CD in Japan thus japanese developers focused more on the former and in those days it was the japanese developers who created the more interesting games on the early CD consoles.
Bonus chart I did some time ago:
For other charts about Sega/Nintendo:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1059657
EDIT:
Nintendo prices were more like $2-$4.
On a game like Turok, the saving would be more than $2 million.
foobarry81
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Cross-post from the October pickup thread: recent SEGA pickups
Now I can put my recently acquired Game Genie to work. Hopefully it works... :/
Now I can put my recently acquired Game Genie to work. Hopefully it works... :/
Awesome pickups! So jelly for that Aleste!
IrishNinja
Member
yeah, damn - some nice pickups all around man!
IrishNinja
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those poor horseys
sixteen-bit
Member
I can't get over how much the JP cover of Elemental Mater looks like some kid's shit drawing.
I come to community, scan through what I miss and see this. <3 Dicer.
IrishNinja
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^ i hope someone from Assembler gets that
blast processed
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Who brings horses to a tank battle?
With the 10% plus additional 10% offered, it seems almost affordable. Of course, I won't have to eat for awhile.
PumpkinSpice
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Why does such a thing exist? You might as well glue a megadrive to your 286 IBM PC.
Sega was crazy.
sixteen-bit
Member
No Sonic games or Streets of Rage 2??? Blasphemy!!!