man, naive southern parents in the 80s. I remember being able to wonder around stores on my own as early as like 9 or 10. Maybe sooner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
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man, naive southern parents in the 80s. I remember being able to wonder around stores on my own as early as like 9 or 10. Maybe sooner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
The Duo launched in October 92.
What "killer app" was ready by then? It seems like all the best Duo games didn't launch until mid '93 in Japan, which means late 93/early 94 at best in the US. Right when Sega was killing it.
During the SMS and early Genesis days, Sega had to license their own ports of 3rd party games because companies were too afraid to port them in-house for fear of violating Nintendo's policy. So Sega systems had Double Dragon, Strider, Ghosts n Goblins, etc, but it was all Sega developing them. They also did a lot of celebrity and athlete licensing to get recognizable "brands" on their system.
It came packed with about the best killer app you'd expect in two mascot platformers, a five player game and one of the most highly regarded shooters anywhere. Bomberman 93 launched a few months later to better press than Super Bomberman. 1993 was also Lords of Thunder and Dungeon Explorer II. If filler was needed there was Twinbee, Parodius, Gradius II, Spriggan, Macross, Valis IV, Super Raiden, R-Type Complete Rayxanber 3 (butchered that) til Street Fighter, Drac X, Ys 4 etc started to release. Many of those games ended up on the US release list but who knows how likely they were. Then you had to actually find a Duo to buy.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Shooters and RPGs weren't exactly system sellers (in the US). It needed platformers and beat'em ups.
Reminds me I still want to check out Riot Zone if only for the fact Westone was involved with it and one of the few Duo brawlers.
I like it, but as I'm sure Mzo will point out, it's not very good. Single player, no combos, too few enemy variations.
More that the thing was the NES was a total damn beast in the US and the Turbo never managed to get its head above water.
And the Batman game looked like this:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...id=77346&stc=1
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Originally Posted by Low
Horrible animations all around. Little variety in combat and no weapons at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Some parts are so bad they're good but on the whole it's just kind of boring. I kinda like it for what it is.
River City Ransom and Double Dragon 2 are much better beat-'em-ups on the system, both based on the NES games.
I remember that. It was a reskin of some obviously unreleated other game whose name escapes me right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog