Sega Ages 2500 Vol. 30 : Galaxy Force II

[Frogacuda]

GF2 Genesis and Super Thunderblade rank among the worst ports of all time, at least among ones that could have been decent.

[youandwhosearmy]

Anyone remember that SNL commercial where they were adverstising, "Philidelphia" action figures, and at the end the two kids are playing a video game in it.

That game was Galaxy Force II

and your mind, has been blown.

[Low]

So when the hell is Virtual On rolling out?

I understand they needed to iron out Model 2 to PS2 problems they encountered from that port of VF2 or whatever, but damn.

Bit disappointed by this too, I thought Virtual On was due in July, as long as it comes out and Fantasy Zone 2. *-neo

[parallaxscroll]

btw I've never seen the FM-Towns version in motion until I saw this

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PEQKbuS1w...elated&search=

not arcade-quality, I'd say inbetween the MD-Gen and Arcade. but not bad for a system with just one 16 MHz CPU, apparently no hardware scaling & rotation hardware.

[parallaxscroll]

GF2 Genesis and Super Thunderblade rank among the worst ports of all time, at least among ones that could have been decent.

Genesis GFII was a severely watered down translation, not a port. the Saturn version is a port, though a poor one given the hardware.

Super Thunder Blade was more of an adaption of the arcade, neither a port nor a conversion, it was basicly Thunder Blade II, like Space Harrier II with no direct arcade equivalent--and yes I know STB and SHII were used in arcades using the Genesis-based Mega-Tech board but that doesn't count.

[gameoverDude]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHOf_2BG1QY&NR=1
Galaxy Force II in action on MD/Gen. The BGM is done well, but I see some flicker. The Right Turn/Left Turn voices are "Have a Halls" bad. It sure looks rough.

Marty GF II looks better than the MD one.

[parallaxscroll]

a MegaCD/SegaCD GFII could have been -decent-, nowhere near arcade, but decent, probably close to the FM-Towns/Marty, even though FM-Towns was more powerful.

hope the PS2 version finally does the game justice.

[Melf]

Bleh, the Genesis version flickers like there's no tomorrow. It's just horrible.

[Frogacuda]

Super Thunder Blade was more of an adaption of the arcade, neither a port nor a conversion, it was basicly Thunder Blade II, like Space Harrier II with no direct arcade equivalent--and yes I know STB and SHII were used in arcades using the Genesis-based Mega-Tech board but that doesn't count.

Not true. STB had the same levels at the arcade version, but had the overhead parts cut. It was an attempt at a conversion, and an awful one.

Oh yeah, Genesis Outrunners is up there for botch jobs, too.

[NeoZeedeater]

There are overhead parts in Super Thunder Blade, just not the same ones as the arcade from what I remember. I think it was meant as a sequel, albeit a very similar game.