YesOriginally Posted by Blaster
While more people should play the SMS, I'd say the light gun genre was the only genre that the SMS was consistently victorious over the NES. Rescue Mission was the best home gun game released for years and years.
YesOriginally Posted by Blaster
Originally Posted by Blaster
Yea, you where Ax Battler and you chose which magic you wanted at the start of the game. ok port I guess but everyone sorta teleported around the screen instead of moving smoothly. That was sorta the case with the SMS Altered Beast port as well.
I had absolutely no idea that there were Sonic games made on the SMS. I'm assuming the Genesis versions came first though?
And from these screenshots it looks like some of the graphics were quite a bit superior to the NES. Is that true or am I just imagining things?
This has certainly piqued my interest. Anyone know of any place to get ROMs for the thing?
It looks VERY different than the NES incarnation, almost like a different game. Its worth checking out.Originally Posted by jonas
Nice thread, NZE.
Rastan was a really good version of the game for its time. Unfortunately the control seems a tad off, and it bites that you have just ONE life- you don't die from falling into pits right away, but a boss can snuff you out in a New York minute without you having another shot at him.
Out Run is as good as it can get on 8-bit. In comparison, the Amiga and Atari ST versions look and play like complete filth. It's one of the SMS' best overall.
Shinobi is well done, but I'd have preferred for it to be a 4 Mega cart so all the BGM could have been brought over.
Rambo: First Blood Part II rocked. It beats the NES Ikari Warriors and is the next best thing to the arcade IW.
Shanghai wasn't bad then, but now you can find far better versions of it with more layouts.
Zillion 2 Tri Formation didn't try to be what the first one was, but I loved it. Seeing the Light Phaser reference in the first Zillion made me want this franchise to get a light gun title as well.
Marble Madness looks as good as the Amiga one and isn't really that far off from the arcade given the SMS' limits. It came out rather late (1992), so I don't know if it would support the Sports Pad outside of joystick emulation mode. The Game Gear version isn't bad either.
SMS kicks the living daylights out of the NES/Famicom on a lot of cross-platform titles (especially Rampage, Choplifter (Jaleco's Famicom version based on the arcade), Space Harrier, Gauntlet, Pac-Mania etc.). It's a shame this system's library was choked off by the Big N. I would've liked to see SMS versions of some arcade games that were brought to NES only.
Great thread. I think The Ninja deserves a mention. I love that game.
Thanks, everyone.
That damn drum beat. I did play through all 12 levels a bunch of times. It was neat for a hidden game.Originally Posted by raystorm
There's an old EGM scan of it here -Originally Posted by Dylan1CC
http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewt...7898&view=next
I really hate it. I even like that GBA Revenge of Shinobi bastardization more.Originally Posted by CRV
I don't get offended, just a little disappointed. I feel like I have some stupid duty to gaming to help the quality underdogs for some reason. It usually happens with pre-NES gaming, old-school Sega, NEC consoles, imports, and computer gaming.Originally Posted by Salsashark
My neighborhood had quite a few SMS owners and a couple places that rentedOriginally Posted by Kraftwerks
games for it so I managed to play nearly every NA release back then. I guess I was lucky. My family was poor but I somehow ended up with both consoles and made many trades with people.
Sonic did originate on Genesis although the first SMS game came out later that same year(1991). Only the first SMS Sonic was released in North America though as the system was discontinued here after that.Originally Posted by TaekwondoNJ
The pictures are from emulators so they're extra sharp but yeah it was later hardware and graphically superior to the NES, especially in color. The NES had slightly more advanced audio, not counting the Japanese SMS FM sound upgrade.And from these screenshots it looks like some of the graphics were
quite a bit superior to the NES. Is that true or am I just imagining things?
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I've always dismissed the Master System for the reasons already mentioned. But there are a ton of games I've never even heard of and now wanna try. I'm making a wish list. Thanks NeoZ!
Edit: I always loved Shinobi and Wonderboy.
Yes, that games was hard as hell.Originally Posted by Nei
Great thread as usual Neo. I was also one of those kids that got a SMS instead of a NES...which only sucked cause no one else at school had it...but cool for that same reason. Now I want to own another one...but only if I can get one that can do composite video out. Is that even possible?
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