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Originally posted by Yakumo View PostWith the new GEX collection being announced, it's a good time to take a look at the original release.
Then I hear it's getting a collection and people are really happy about it and I wonder if I was in some kind of alternative timeline - everyone I knew thought it looked rubbish and anyone who played any version of it would confirm the same. Just a completely mediocre game. World's gone mad!
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Originally posted by Colin View PostThis is obviously going to be me being in a minority, but I actually quite liked Gex on the 3DO.
I mean, I can understand if your a 3DO owner as there's not much else to scratch the itch but GEX on the Saturn or PlayStation where there's so much more to play.
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Gex was the only stinker I ended up with after I traded my PSX for a Saturn at the back end of 1996.
Yeah, like Hirst says, that mid-90s era of mediocre platform games isn’t missed at all. It all started with Earthworm Jim. I had some severe burnout from those types of games, so much so that I didn’t even enjoy Yoshi’s Island at the time.
Working in video games rental didn’t help. I had access to pretty much everything across the PAL region. It was like having a folder full of +3h R0m2.
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Originally posted by Yakumo View Post
MD/Genesis port wins out for me here. Probably played it more than the CPS-1 coin-op original.
You would've thought that the X68000 port would've been better when you consider the history that the CPS-1 architecture and X68000 hardware have together.
The PCE Arcade CD-ROM² port? Yikes!Last edited by Nu-Eclipse; 20-08-2023, 14:57.
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I remember seeing the Mega Drive conversion and found it stunning. Really showed up how utterly terrible the Amiga conversion I had played was. (In fact I’d argue that Strider was a “killer app” for the MD in its early days, years before Sonic came along.)
Anyway, I belatedly just realised that some of the power-ups are the two kanji from “Hiryu”. The same kanji read as “Fei Long” in Chinese, which fans of Super Street Fighter II might find interesting.
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