16-bit console wars

[Yantelope]

Am I the only person who like the original TMNT arcade game better than Turtles in Time? It might just be purely out of nostalgia.

[Hot Heart]

Can't really say I especially favour one over another, but since I never had a SNES (nor had I heard of the Mega Drive's Hyperstone Heist) I'd only played the first on NES and loved that. Only caught TiT (teehee) on a SNES emulator much later.

 

I think I preferred a lot of the settings in the first, but the two games hardly played differently.

 

The soundtrack was pretty bitchin' and I like that you can attack the only civilian in the game (take that, skateboarding whore!)

 

At around 7:42

[Yantelope]

The soundtrack on the original NES TMNT was awesome.

 

I remember being pretty heartbroken the first time I played TMNT II: The Arcade Game on the NES. I loved the arcade and the NES version just wasn't the same. I'm glad the days of bad arcade to console ports are far in the past.

[Hot Heart]

NES version may not have looked as good (or had four-player) but, like the TiT console port, it had more stages. Seems better to me. It may be nostalgia, but I also prefer the NES music.

[Bouchart]

Other games that were totally different on Genesis vs. SNES:

 

Jurrasic Park

Aladdin

TMNT (Hyperstone Heist Vs. Turtles in Time)

Mortal Kombat

Power Rangers

X-Men

 

You left out Shadowrun. Both were fine games but I preferred the SNES version.

[MottZilla]

Mortal Kombat 1 on SNES was totally different because it was fucking awful. On the other hand Power Rangers on Genesis is an awful 1 on 1 fighting game where as on SNES it's a sub-par beat em up. I seem to recall trying the Genesis or Sega CD Shadowrun once expecting something like the SNES version and being very disappointed and turning it off shortly after.

 

On that note though while the same game, Lords of Thunder on Sega CD sucks ass compared to the Turbo Grafx 16 CD original. The music was kick ass but they decided to fuck it all up for the Sega CD version. And then the Sega Genesis doesn't have enough color palettes to equal the PCE so the colors on the Sega CD version leave the graphics looking pretty poor.

[Bouchart]

Shadowrun on the Genesis more closely followed the actual rules of the paper & pencil Shadowrun, and had better computer hacking. SNES had the better plot, atmosphere and music.

 

I can't speak for the Sega CD version. I don't think there's an English translation of it.

[Mister Jack]

I liked the power rangers game as a kid...

[Showmeyomoves!]

That's because kids are stupid.

[Strangelove]

That's because kids are stupid.

[Mister Jack]

[MottZilla]

I liked the Power Rangers "Fighting Edition" for SNES. Apparently it was related the the Japanese only Gundam Wing fighting game on SNES. Same developer and game engine some say.

[Battra92]

I just came across this Console War commercial ...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rql8VajqJfw

 

Sega trashes Mario Kart by promoting Ecco the Dolphin. Yes, that abomination of a video game. Ecco is the game that people claimed to have liked but no one really did. They were all, "Oh yeah, I got effing Ecco" but they never actually played it. When they did play it the game became nothing more than "Let's see how high we can make the dolphin jump."

 

Mario Kart, on the other hand, is still a timeless classic.

[Yantelope]

Yeah I do remember those ads. That was part of the fanboy polarization effect too. Everyone could only afford one console and kids were taught by their overlords to hate the opponent. PLAY IT LOUD!

[slithy toves]

was i the only one who liked ecco the dolphin? then again, i was like 10/11 when that game came out, and a girl, so probably fit the demographic for said game rather well.

[Pheermee]

So you are a guy now?

[Hot Heart]

Pheer's only asking because he can't figure out how to view the correct profile.

[slithy toves]

*sigh* no, but as a girl on a videogame forum you can never take it as a given that people know you're a girl so when relevant to conversation i point it out.

[Yantelope]

I never got to play Ecco as a kid. I knew it was supposed to be good and that I should like it but when I tried to play it much later as an adult I hated it.

[slithy toves]

yeah i'm really not sure if i could play it now, but when i was younger i adored it.

[Battra92]

*sigh* no, but as a girl on a videogame forum you can never take it as a given that people know you're a girl so when relevant to conversation i point it out.

I think you're supposed to post your picture in the "Post your picture" thread so people can go "ZOMG you're a girl and SO HOT!!! We must live in the same area so we should date"

 

Oh wait, that's the old forum.

 

Anyway, what was the point of Ecco? I never really understood what I was supposed to do that made it fun.

[slithy toves]

well, you were just swimming around being a dolphin and getting through levels. you could use echolocation and communicate with the wildlife around you. you had to figure out how to make it through some small or not obvious places and remember to keep on surfacing for air.

 

oh... and did i mention when i was a child i wanted to be a marine biologist when i grew up? totes possibly skewing my liking of the game as well. i was practically giddy with excitement when you had to do the dolphin-like air surfacing and echolocation using.

[Mister Jack]

Ecco was never really that good...

[Battra92]

Ecco was never really that good...

 

Fixed it for you. ;-)

 

You know where the Genesis did win at the time: Sports games.

[Mister Jack]

You know I don't even like sports that much but there was this ESPN Baseball game I used to love. And I would play Madden with a buddy of mine, even though I don't get football because my dad and I were very distant and thus he never taught me about it.