Not games that you really appreciated at the time or slowly came to love (like Ketsui for me), only those that simply `Blew your B*ll*x off` the first time you instantly clapped eyes on them:
OutRun - Deluxe hydraulic monster at a bowling alley in the south east of England during the mid-eighties. I had a ****ty spectrum 48k and this game made me ask `What `Japan` was?` from the `Made in Japan` seal on the machine. The scale, the power, the vividness, the speed, the smoothness, the brightness, the sheer entertainment had me in getting very aggressive at such an early age.
The House of the Dead 2 - This Japanese DC port came to Videogame Centre quicker than even the coin-op had made its mark in London and everyone witnessing it fresh from Japan that release weekend realised this was real coin-oping in the home which we hadn`t seen since the PC Engine days. The latest coin-op in the home months later for pennies? Yes please.
Ridge Racer 5-Next Gen`s showing of this straight from Japan days after the Japanese release date had me instantly ordering and getting a Jap PS2 with this game on March 13th 2000 for 550 quid and I couldn`t believe, finally after all the years of 3D ****e (in the home) we had a perfect 60fps, sexy Ridge Racer, in the home at last.
OutRun 2 - The short location test in Ikebukuro of this coin-op which I was the first to report on and photograph on-line in English had me nearly in tears as I couldn`t believe they had done such an amazing job even though it took 20 years. Very emotional I tell thee.
R-Type 1 - Purchasing a Jap Megadrive from Shekanna in late `88 was special even though I had to put up with Altered Beast (in-print C&VG highscorer though!) (There was only 2 other MD owners writing into the magazine at that early time though. One of them was Julian Rignall! - Ed). Seeing R-Type 1 running on this shopping trip was enough to make me realise that even though I was actually probably buying the wrong machine, the future had finally come home to a begrudged Spectrum 48k arcade loving (and R-Type) owner. It flickered a bit yes, but it didn`t slowdown like the coin-op which was simply amazing. The PCE wasn`t RGB scart then, that is the only reason for my purchasing of the MD, if otherwise, it would of been the PCE and this game for sure.
These are just for starters. To try and inject some passion into this board, what about you?
OutRun - Deluxe hydraulic monster at a bowling alley in the south east of England during the mid-eighties. I had a ****ty spectrum 48k and this game made me ask `What `Japan` was?` from the `Made in Japan` seal on the machine. The scale, the power, the vividness, the speed, the smoothness, the brightness, the sheer entertainment had me in getting very aggressive at such an early age.
The House of the Dead 2 - This Japanese DC port came to Videogame Centre quicker than even the coin-op had made its mark in London and everyone witnessing it fresh from Japan that release weekend realised this was real coin-oping in the home which we hadn`t seen since the PC Engine days. The latest coin-op in the home months later for pennies? Yes please.
Ridge Racer 5-Next Gen`s showing of this straight from Japan days after the Japanese release date had me instantly ordering and getting a Jap PS2 with this game on March 13th 2000 for 550 quid and I couldn`t believe, finally after all the years of 3D ****e (in the home) we had a perfect 60fps, sexy Ridge Racer, in the home at last.
OutRun 2 - The short location test in Ikebukuro of this coin-op which I was the first to report on and photograph on-line in English had me nearly in tears as I couldn`t believe they had done such an amazing job even though it took 20 years. Very emotional I tell thee.
R-Type 1 - Purchasing a Jap Megadrive from Shekanna in late `88 was special even though I had to put up with Altered Beast (in-print C&VG highscorer though!) (There was only 2 other MD owners writing into the magazine at that early time though. One of them was Julian Rignall! - Ed). Seeing R-Type 1 running on this shopping trip was enough to make me realise that even though I was actually probably buying the wrong machine, the future had finally come home to a begrudged Spectrum 48k arcade loving (and R-Type) owner. It flickered a bit yes, but it didn`t slowdown like the coin-op which was simply amazing. The PCE wasn`t RGB scart then, that is the only reason for my purchasing of the MD, if otherwise, it would of been the PCE and this game for sure.
These are just for starters. To try and inject some passion into this board, what about you?
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