31/01 MD Battle Mania: Daiginjou
Really neat shooter. Awesome graphics and both original and funny bosses. One of them has at some point in his transformation a banner with a bell attached to it hanging from his crotch. The banner says 'hit me' and you have to shoot the bell underneath. Only in Japan...
Only bad thing I can think about are the cheap deaths. Never lose track of the blonde chick -main character- you're playing with. It's a scrolling shooter, and if you don't keep up and get squashed between the border of the screen and the level you lose a credit and all the lives you had in it. At one point I had 24 lives and lost all of them at once because I was too focussed on the second girl and lost track of the main character...
Still, don't let that keep you from playing this gem. You'll learn how to avoid the squashy squashy over time...
05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)
Both on our last life with very little energy left, but both still standing after we killed Red Skull. Took us 3 nightly sessions to get to this point, but ending it the way we did, it was worth it... ^^
At first I wasn't too fond of the game. Very simple controls, graphics nothing out of the ordinary, forgettable music. Yet, the more we played it, the more I got into it. Maybe just because we got better at it, or maybe it was the unintentionally funny stuff like 'Vision' sounding like 'Pigeon' in the Genesis conversion that got to me. I dunno...
21/02 GEN The Adventures of Batman and Robin
This one started out as a co-op game, but I ended up finishing it on my own because without proper training - read: hours of playing, cursing and getting better - the game is near impossible to finish. And since I'm the retro gamer with all the gear, and my friends just convenient 2-player victims hopping in, I didn't want to pain them with this experience... lol
The game is totally worth it though. Graphics are about the best I've ever seen on a Genesis game. It's clear from the start that this game was made by people related to the Amiga demo scene. Lots of neat graphical tricks and effects. Kyd Jesper also did a phenomenal job on the music. A dark and pumping techno soundtrack. If you like those dark industrial sounds you should definitely check this one out...
Really neat shooter. Awesome graphics and both original and funny bosses. One of them has at some point in his transformation a banner with a bell attached to it hanging from his crotch. The banner says 'hit me' and you have to shoot the bell underneath. Only in Japan...
Only bad thing I can think about are the cheap deaths. Never lose track of the blonde chick -main character- you're playing with. It's a scrolling shooter, and if you don't keep up and get squashed between the border of the screen and the level you lose a credit and all the lives you had in it. At one point I had 24 lives and lost all of them at once because I was too focussed on the second girl and lost track of the main character...
Still, don't let that keep you from playing this gem. You'll learn how to avoid the squashy squashy over time...
05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)
Both on our last life with very little energy left, but both still standing after we killed Red Skull. Took us 3 nightly sessions to get to this point, but ending it the way we did, it was worth it... ^^
At first I wasn't too fond of the game. Very simple controls, graphics nothing out of the ordinary, forgettable music. Yet, the more we played it, the more I got into it. Maybe just because we got better at it, or maybe it was the unintentionally funny stuff like 'Vision' sounding like 'Pigeon' in the Genesis conversion that got to me. I dunno...
21/02 GEN The Adventures of Batman and Robin
This one started out as a co-op game, but I ended up finishing it on my own because without proper training - read: hours of playing, cursing and getting better - the game is near impossible to finish. And since I'm the retro gamer with all the gear, and my friends just convenient 2-player victims hopping in, I didn't want to pain them with this experience... lol
The game is totally worth it though. Graphics are about the best I've ever seen on a Genesis game. It's clear from the start that this game was made by people related to the Amiga demo scene. Lots of neat graphical tricks and effects. Kyd Jesper also did a phenomenal job on the music. A dark and pumping techno soundtrack. If you like those dark industrial sounds you should definitely check this one out...
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