Hopefully this was worth the wait! As mentioned in the video, the exact lineup is a bit sketchy with different sources giving different lists. Aside from the final game, which I included as a bonus, whether or not Alex Kidd was part of the launch is also a bit up in the air. Regardless, I hope it’s a fun watch. Anywho, for the next Launch Games episode I'm thinking of doing the PSP. It's a bit of a big lineup, though, so I may do a different console between then. Maybe even something Nintendo. Who knows?
I absolutely love the Genesis and bought my original in the summer of ‘89. No one else had one until Xmas so was tough with only Altered Beast, Last Battle, Space Harrier 2, and Thunder Force 2. Highly recommend that 6 pack as a first cart for everyone interested in starting to collect for it.
Yep, I was one that had to wait until Christmas of '89 for mine. Although you forgot the best game for the system at launch... Ghouls n' Ghosts. That game was a tour de force of graphics, sound, and gameplay that was simply unmatched by anything else at the time. I got my Genesis with Altered Beast (duh, right?), Space Harrier II, and Ghouls n' Ghosts. I wanted Phantasy Star II, but no one could find it. I wound up getting a Powerbase Converter with the first Phantasy Star and second one at the same time in January (or was it February) of 1990.
@@Sinn0100 Received GnG and Golden Axe at Christmas. Later on when Phantasy Star 2 launched I picked that up day 1 since my brother worked at the only Babbages in San Antonio. People today don’t realize how difficult it was to find certain games in a given city. Rewind a few years and the only reason I was able to find Zelda 2 was because I happened to be on a trip with my parents in Fort Worth.
I've been binging your "launch title" videos. Thank you for making them. You have a nice relaxing voice and presentation that I appreciate, and I always learn something new about these systems even though I was around when they launched. I begged my mom for a genesis and finally got one in '92 or so with the Sonic pack-in game. I literally put the box in my bed and slept with it as a pillow, I was so excited lol. Amazing system, apart from the controller which i always felt was lackluster compared to the Nintendo offerings.
man its really interesting knowing you guys in the USA grew up on the NES where as in European and here in the UK i knew more folks who had the master system
To this day I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually seen a Master System in the U.S. I kinda wanna look into what caused there to be such a difference in which system was successful between regions.
@@LegendOfGames Very interesting that youve never seen one. For us in the UK it was the ZX spectrum or commodore 64 through most of the 80's. but as far as I know the master system was....cheaper that the NES? actually sales i think increased with the NES when the SNES was coming out. Also you guys had the crash in early 80's where as the UK was fine. So there was space for the NES to dominate America. Oh man for us in the UK I know the Gameboy was what dominated us in the 90's and what we associate mostly with Nintendo . Most people I knew played super mario land and not super mario bros. ha umm, thought you might to look at these ads from one of the UK's favourite comedians. May he rest in peace :) ua-cam.com/video/w24KR30nEsg/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/ZytGhGdRsyU/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/fx4ZOn5GViE/v-deo.html
@@DafyddBrooks haha those are pretty good. A lot different than the old American Gameboy ads I’ve seen. Don’t worry, I appreciate the comments. And thanks!
@@LegendOfGames ah man. if you whistled the alex the kid theme to men in their late 40's here in the UK they know exactley what that tune is :). fascinating compared to american adults not knowing what its from. But I think Super Mario Bros is the better game :). awww thanks for looking at those ads man. because of that I'll give you a few £'s or $'s sorry on your patreon tonight. just for one month though as money is a little tight at the mo. Rik Mayall I'd say was like the Jim Carrey of the UK. in case your curious at all, he was meant to be Peeves in the 1st harry potter movie check it out when you can ua-cam.com/video/S9pioZ9TQ9E/v-deo.html
I think the European launch wasn't too different, I think we got World Cup Soccer and Super Real Basketball on top. But when I got mine, I just bought import copies of the New Zealand Story and ESWAT instead :D Oh, fun fact, Altered Beast only loops three times a level, if you haven't collected the beast orbs by the third rotation, you fight the boss as a human, in which case, you're pretty screwed. :D (I think they did that to stop people farming for extra lives on the first level)
It is odd to think of the Mega Drive in a time without Sonic, given their heavy association with one another. To be fair, Sega did have their mascot available at launch with their new console... though Alex Kidd never really caught on anywhere outside of PAL territories. A decent coverage of the games, with a particularly indepth overview of Last Battle and Super Thunder Blade.
It is pretty weird to think of a time when Sega didn't have Sonic. They were in the games industry without him even longer than Nintendo was without Mario.
@@LegendOfGames Yeah, it's surprising the decision to make a mascot to take on Mario wasn't part of the new console launch. I suppose they gave Alex Kidd one last chance.
Dang these games are so different comparing it to the later games the genesis got, I’m wanting to start collecting some genesis games (since a lot of good games on there seem affordable) and out of the seven launch titles you mentioned, only three seemed interesting, Alex kidd, space harrier and maybe altered beast.
Yeah, some of the games that came later did very good jobs of making the most of the system’s hardware. I guess this was when developers were still getting used to the thing. I’ve been slowly building up a Genesis collection throughout my life and it’s definitely more reasonably priced than the Super Nintendo. The games you mentioned are worth checking out, though I’d also recommend Super Thunder Blade, which I found to have better gameplay than Space Harrier. I wasn’t expecting a lot from it, but actually found it to be pretty fun.
Thankfully Technosoft agreed with you and the followup a year later, Thunder Force III, is played entirely from the more traditional horizontal scrolling aspect. It elevates the previous game in basically every way. It's very responsive and is blisteringly fast with very little slowdown. The gameplay is well balanced, and the soundtrack just rocks with Technosoft's trademark metal sound. Strongly recommend it (or Thunder/Lightning Force IV also on Genesis) if you liked the horizontal segments of II.
@@LegendOfGames Technosoft made a lot of great shooting games on the Genesis and other platforms back in the day. I really miss them, unfortunately they are defunct now afaik. TF II felt like kind of a proof-of-concept where they figured out how to utilize the Genesis hardware and sound, and then when TF III, IV, and Elemental Master came out later on they were just awesome.
Alex Kidd came out in the US in early 1990, so it wasn’t really a launch title (Genesis was released in August 1989). There were about 20 games released before it. Great review, though!
Thanks! And yeah, I actually mention that it in my pinned comment. In my more recent videos I’ve made more of an effort to always point out which games have more sketchy release dates like that one.
In the eighties I played on Commodore 64 and Master System. We got a Mega Drive early on too. The system started slowly I would say, with most great games coming more than a year after launch. The list you presented I would rank as follows: Enchanted Castle: 5/10, Altered Beast 7/10, Last Battle 6/10, Space Harrier 2 5/10, Super Thunder Blade 4/10, Thunderforce 2 6/10, Baseball did not play, Ghouls n Ghosts 8/10.
It was a big deal back then seeing a real alternative to the NES. A system with much better graphics and the ability to give an arcade experience at home.
Regarding Thunder Force II, I disagree with the reviewer that the side-scroll levels of this game are more fun or have a better experience than the top-downlevels. It's true the top-down levels were more difficult and frustrating, and the player has to explore to find all the bases. But that is exactly the point and the challenge. Unlike the side levels where the game is predictable and exactly the same every time (other than weapon choice) the top-down levels give you to ability to explore and approach the task of clearing level in a number of directions. While the side-scrolling levels are familiar to players of Gradius, I think the variety of levels is a strength of Thunder Force II, rather than a derivative of Gradius or R-Type, which are both great games.
You don’t need to say “the reviewer.” I see all these comments pretty much instantly via notifications. My issue with the levels isn’t the difficulty as much as the constantly shifting directions, which is annoying from a control standpoint and also is unappealing from a visual standpoint (I recall it making me feel slightly sick after a while.) Also, I’d add: there is no clear indication, or even clear hints, of where to go and everything more-or-less looks the same, which isn’t exactly good level design in my eyes.
Weird that you feel the need to tell me how to address my response. It's also OK for people to disagree with you and have an opinion. Again, I disagree with you. I pointed that out in my comment because you didn't just tell what you liked about the game, but you went out of your way to badmouth the top-down levels. The overhead levels are more fun (to me) due to more varied gameplay being able to move in more than one direction. Open environments often have few hints of where to go. I remember getting stuck on the Nebula Sky stage (with the floating walls) until I noticed one wall was thinner and had a blue ball at wall intersections that when shot opened. It was an awesome experience finally figuring out how to use the gate to the next area. A real, "I beat this game moment" that I enjoyed that I didn't get at all from the side-scrolling levels. I encourage other players to pick up Thunder Force II. It's one of the best games on the Sega Genesis.
@MrAustinbrian I'm saying that because you're writing the comment as if you're not talking to me, which itself could be seen as weird for the type of comment you wrote. I wasn't trying to turn it into a thing. I was just letting you know you didn't have to comment that way, since I do indeed see the comments. It's fine to have a differing opinion, but don't be surprised when the other person writes back to reinforce their view. Do you like the camera constantly shifting its close-range view? To add to that, do you think the field of view is wide enough? I would've liked those segments more if they'd give you a wider view of what was going on. Even going back and checking the footage again now, I can say for sure you're not given a lot of time to see and react to what's around you, which is a big part of why I didn't find it enjoyable. Such a small view seems counterintuitive to something where exploration and finding your way around is important.
@@LegendOfGames Correct. I wasn't talking to you. This is a site that many other people see, and my comments were for others who might come and watch the video and read about these games. You already experienced the game and posted your opinion, which included several critical points about the top-down levels in the game. I was adding my perspective about the game to give people an opinion, from someone who played all of these games firsthand when they were released, that said those levels can be fun, too.
@MrAustinbrian When you comment on a video, you’re generally communicating with the person who uploaded it. It’s rare for people to make that kind of comment on this type of video in an indirect way like that, and when they do it can come across as very dismissive and odd. This isn’t an article being reposted on Facebook, nor is it a video being posted by a faceless corporation or million-subscriber group that clearly has nothing to do with the posting process. There's a context to be considered when writing something. No need to keep going on about it, but I was just letting you know. I like hearing people’s experiences with games. Still, if someone presents that experience as if I’m wrong for something I said, I’m going to want to explain myself.
Honest takes on these Genesis launch games. Just gonna check if you've done a similar video on SNES too.... :) Edit: Eh, looks like you don't have a similar video for SNES launch games. :(
I haven’t made one, but I hope to eventually. Since that lineup is so small I’ve been wanting to buy actual boxed copies of the games to show in the video. I’ve only gotten two of them so far, though.
@@LegendOfGames Yeah, I think it's only five games in NA, Super Mario World, F-Zero, Pilotwings, Gradius III, and SimCity, but all worth a look I'd say. I wonder how expensive getting boxed copies of some of these games is these days. :-o
When you run games through an emulator you should have scanlines (or something like 2x quality) enabled to getter a better representation of how the games actually looked on a CRT (less blocky)!
Well, none of them are particularly great, but out of them it was one of the ones I enjoyed the most (and considering how short these games are, I did beat or play through a large chunk of most of them.) Also, I said it was a standout, and I preferred it over Thunder Force II. I never explicitly said “it’s the best game of the launch,” as I didn’t want to elevate it that high. I just had a good time with it. I am curious what exactly about that opinion is crack smoking-worthy. What do you consider to be the best game of the launch?
My dude, no disrespect, and this was a solid video, but clearly you weren’t a kid in the 80’s/90’s, when you’re basically saying games like ‘Altered Beast’ is lame, again, if you grew up back then and dumped 100’s of quarters in the actual arcade cabinet playing this game you would have loved it. And if you had played the arcade version you would have known that the ending basically made it seem like the whole game was a film being made, and now you see all the characters take off their outfits to show that they’re actors and then they all party together. Games like this are about nostalgia and come from an era where side scrolling action based beat ‘em up games ruled. Again, no disrespect, but you gotta be mindful of all of that…
I was born in 1991. My first game system was a PS1, but I got a used Genesis about a year later which I played just as much (my parents loved it cause rental stores were getting rid of the games for super cheap, and I liked the games at the same level as the much more expensive PlayStation ones.) That said, I didn't get Altered Beast until I was a teenager, much later than the Genesis games I had from a young age, such as the the Earthworm Jim and Sonic games. By that point, it being this kind of lame game had already been pretty drilled into me thanks to its coverage in places like Screw Attack. Still, I played it fairly frequently and even made a comedy sketch about the game during my junior year of high school. I also think when looking at games for these videos, it's important to view them through a modern lens, and not be super shrouded by nostalgia. There are many games I loved as a kid that when I've played for this channel I've just had to be like "yeah, it's got some issues." (not that it applies to Altered Beast.)
Need to improve your researching. Tommy lasorda wasn't just the dogers manager back then. He was a cultural icon. He was in tons of commercials in the late 80's. Kids probably saw tommys face in all types of commercials practically anytime they turned on the tv. Over all enjoyable retrospective.
Should I just not introduce the console that is the subject of the video then? It’s reasonable to compare it against its competition, which at the time of release was the less powerful NES.
Hopefully this was worth the wait! As mentioned in the video, the exact lineup is a bit sketchy with different sources giving different lists. Aside from the final game, which I included as a bonus, whether or not Alex Kidd was part of the launch is also a bit up in the air. Regardless, I hope it’s a fun watch.
Anywho, for the next Launch Games episode I'm thinking of doing the PSP. It's a bit of a big lineup, though, so I may do a different console between then. Maybe even something Nintendo. Who knows?
I absolutely love the Genesis and bought my original in the summer of ‘89. No one else had one until Xmas so was tough with only Altered Beast, Last Battle, Space Harrier 2, and Thunder Force 2. Highly recommend that 6 pack as a first cart for everyone interested in starting to collect for it.
Yep, I was one that had to wait until Christmas of '89 for mine. Although you forgot the best game for the system at launch... Ghouls n' Ghosts. That game was a tour de force of graphics, sound, and gameplay that was simply unmatched by anything else at the time.
I got my Genesis with Altered Beast (duh, right?), Space Harrier II, and Ghouls n' Ghosts. I wanted Phantasy Star II, but no one could find it. I wound up getting a Powerbase Converter with the first Phantasy Star and second one at the same time in January (or was it February) of 1990.
@@Sinn0100 Received GnG and Golden Axe at Christmas. Later on when Phantasy Star 2 launched I picked that up day 1 since my brother worked at the only Babbages in San Antonio. People today don’t realize how difficult it was to find certain games in a given city. Rewind a few years and the only reason I was able to find Zelda 2 was because I happened to be on a trip with my parents in Fort Worth.
I've been binging your "launch title" videos. Thank you for making them. You have a nice relaxing voice and presentation that I appreciate, and I always learn something new about these systems even though I was around when they launched. I begged my mom for a genesis and finally got one in '92 or so with the Sonic pack-in game. I literally put the box in my bed and slept with it as a pillow, I was so excited lol. Amazing system, apart from the controller which i always felt was lackluster compared to the Nintendo offerings.
Glad you’re liking the videos!
That’s an awesome memory.
I agree about the model 1 controller, though I do think the 6-button controller was better.
man its really interesting knowing you guys in the USA grew up on the NES where as in European and here in the UK i knew more folks who had the master system
To this day I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually seen a Master System in the U.S. I kinda wanna look into what caused there to be such a difference in which system was successful between regions.
@@LegendOfGames Very interesting that youve never seen one. For us in the UK it was the ZX spectrum or commodore 64 through most of the 80's. but as far as I know the master system was....cheaper that the NES? actually sales i think increased with the NES when the SNES was coming out. Also you guys had the crash in early 80's where as the UK was fine. So there was space for the NES to dominate America. Oh man for us in the UK I know the Gameboy was what dominated us in the 90's and what we associate mostly with Nintendo . Most people I knew played super mario land and not super mario bros. ha umm, thought you might to look at these ads from one of the UK's favourite comedians. May he rest in peace :) ua-cam.com/video/w24KR30nEsg/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/ZytGhGdRsyU/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/fx4ZOn5GViE/v-deo.html
sorry to bombard you with all these comments man. youve got great stuff, keep it up :)
@@DafyddBrooks haha those are pretty good. A lot different than the old American Gameboy ads I’ve seen.
Don’t worry, I appreciate the comments. And thanks!
@@LegendOfGames ah man. if you whistled the alex the kid theme to men in their late 40's here in the UK they know exactley what that tune is :). fascinating compared to american adults not knowing what its from. But I think Super Mario Bros is the better game :). awww thanks for looking at those ads man. because of that I'll give you a few £'s or $'s sorry on your patreon tonight. just for one month though as money is a little tight at the mo. Rik Mayall I'd say was like the Jim Carrey of the UK. in case your curious at all, he was meant to be Peeves in the 1st harry potter movie check it out when you can ua-cam.com/video/S9pioZ9TQ9E/v-deo.html
I think the European launch wasn't too different, I think we got World Cup Soccer and Super Real Basketball on top. But when I got mine, I just bought import copies of the New Zealand Story and ESWAT instead :D
Oh, fun fact, Altered Beast only loops three times a level, if you haven't collected the beast orbs by the third rotation, you fight the boss as a human, in which case, you're pretty screwed. :D (I think they did that to stop people farming for extra lives on the first level)
I've had Altered Beast for years, but I somehow never ended up going through the loop that many times. You learn something new every day.
Yeah, I don't think anyone was that bad at the game to discover it unless you purposely went out of your way to do it!
You can also choose which beast you want to be on each level, by way of a simple cheat code.
Wow, great video! This definitely needs more views. Would love to see this treatment for other consoles too!
Thanks!
I plan to make more, and currently have several other episodes I made prior that you can check out in the meantime.
It is odd to think of the Mega Drive in a time without Sonic, given their heavy association with one another. To be fair, Sega did have their mascot available at launch with their new console... though Alex Kidd never really caught on anywhere outside of PAL territories.
A decent coverage of the games, with a particularly indepth overview of Last Battle and Super Thunder Blade.
It is pretty weird to think of a time when Sega didn't have Sonic. They were in the games industry without him even longer than Nintendo was without Mario.
@@LegendOfGames Yeah, it's surprising the decision to make a mascot to take on Mario wasn't part of the new console launch. I suppose they gave Alex Kidd one last chance.
Dang these games are so different comparing it to the later games the genesis got, I’m wanting to start collecting some genesis games (since a lot of good games on there seem affordable) and out of the seven launch titles you mentioned, only three seemed interesting, Alex kidd, space harrier and maybe altered beast.
Yeah, some of the games that came later did very good jobs of making the most of the system’s hardware. I guess this was when developers were still getting used to the thing.
I’ve been slowly building up a Genesis collection throughout my life and it’s definitely more reasonably priced than the Super Nintendo.
The games you mentioned are worth checking out, though I’d also recommend Super Thunder Blade, which I found to have better gameplay than Space Harrier. I wasn’t expecting a lot from it, but actually found it to be pretty fun.
Will you take a look at the Master System and Dreamcast lineups too?
Yeah, those are both ones I hope to cover at some point.
I can't believe you didn't post this earlier
Thankfully Technosoft agreed with you and the followup a year later, Thunder Force III, is played entirely from the more traditional horizontal scrolling aspect. It elevates the previous game in basically every way. It's very responsive and is blisteringly fast with very little slowdown. The gameplay is well balanced, and the soundtrack just rocks with Technosoft's trademark metal sound. Strongly recommend it (or Thunder/Lightning Force IV also on Genesis) if you liked the horizontal segments of II.
I didn’t know that’s the direction they went with the third game, but it’s a good choice on their end. I might need to give it a try.
@@LegendOfGames Technosoft made a lot of great shooting games on the Genesis and other platforms back in the day. I really miss them, unfortunately they are defunct now afaik. TF II felt like kind of a proof-of-concept where they figured out how to utilize the Genesis hardware and sound, and then when TF III, IV, and Elemental Master came out later on they were just awesome.
Alex Kidd came out in the US in early 1990, so it wasn’t really a launch title (Genesis was released in August 1989). There were about 20 games released before it. Great review, though!
Thanks!
And yeah, I actually mention that it in my pinned comment. In my more recent videos I’ve made more of an effort to always point out which games have more sketchy release dates like that one.
The Genesis before the Nintendon't ads started.
In the eighties I played on Commodore 64 and Master System. We got a Mega Drive early on too. The system started slowly I would say, with most great games coming more than a year after launch. The list you presented I would rank as follows: Enchanted Castle: 5/10, Altered Beast 7/10, Last Battle 6/10, Space Harrier 2 5/10, Super Thunder Blade 4/10, Thunderforce 2 6/10, Baseball did not play, Ghouls n Ghosts 8/10.
It was a big deal back then seeing a real alternative to the NES. A system with much better graphics and the ability to give an arcade experience at home.
I think Jet Kwan Do is meant to stand for the real Jeet Kune Do
That's immediately what i though too. Bruce Lee's martial art.
Regarding Thunder Force II, I disagree with the reviewer that the side-scroll levels of this game are more fun or have a better experience than the top-downlevels. It's true the top-down levels were more difficult and frustrating, and the player has to explore to find all the bases. But that is exactly the point and the challenge. Unlike the side levels where the game is predictable and exactly the same every time (other than weapon choice) the top-down levels give you to ability to explore and approach the task of clearing level in a number of directions. While the side-scrolling levels are familiar to players of Gradius, I think the variety of levels is a strength of Thunder Force II, rather than a derivative of Gradius or R-Type, which are both great games.
You don’t need to say “the reviewer.” I see all these comments pretty much instantly via notifications. My issue with the levels isn’t the difficulty as much as the constantly shifting directions, which is annoying from a control standpoint and also is unappealing from a visual standpoint (I recall it making me feel slightly sick after a while.) Also, I’d add: there is no clear indication, or even clear hints, of where to go and everything more-or-less looks the same, which isn’t exactly good level design in my eyes.
Weird that you feel the need to tell me how to address my response. It's also OK for people to disagree with you and have an opinion.
Again, I disagree with you. I pointed that out in my comment because you didn't just tell what you liked about the game, but you went out of your way to badmouth the top-down levels. The overhead levels are more fun (to me) due to more varied gameplay being able to move in more than one direction. Open environments often have few hints of where to go. I remember getting stuck on the Nebula Sky stage (with the floating walls) until I noticed one wall was thinner and had a blue ball at wall intersections that when shot opened. It was an awesome experience finally figuring out how to use the gate to the next area. A real, "I beat this game moment" that I enjoyed that I didn't get at all from the side-scrolling levels. I encourage other players to pick up Thunder Force II. It's one of the best games on the Sega Genesis.
@MrAustinbrian I'm saying that because you're writing the comment as if you're not talking to me, which itself could be seen as weird for the type of comment you wrote. I wasn't trying to turn it into a thing. I was just letting you know you didn't have to comment that way, since I do indeed see the comments. It's fine to have a differing opinion, but don't be surprised when the other person writes back to reinforce their view.
Do you like the camera constantly shifting its close-range view? To add to that, do you think the field of view is wide enough? I would've liked those segments more if they'd give you a wider view of what was going on. Even going back and checking the footage again now, I can say for sure you're not given a lot of time to see and react to what's around you, which is a big part of why I didn't find it enjoyable. Such a small view seems counterintuitive to something where exploration and finding your way around is important.
@@LegendOfGames Correct. I wasn't talking to you. This is a site that many other people see, and my comments were for others who might come and watch the video and read about these games. You already experienced the game and posted your opinion, which included several critical points about the top-down levels in the game. I was adding my perspective about the game to give people an opinion, from someone who played all of these games firsthand when they were released, that said those levels can be fun, too.
@MrAustinbrian When you comment on a video, you’re generally communicating with the person who uploaded it. It’s rare for people to make that kind of comment on this type of video in an indirect way like that, and when they do it can come across as very dismissive and odd. This isn’t an article being reposted on Facebook, nor is it a video being posted by a faceless corporation or million-subscriber group that clearly has nothing to do with the posting process. There's a context to be considered when writing something. No need to keep going on about it, but I was just letting you know.
I like hearing people’s experiences with games. Still, if someone presents that experience as if I’m wrong for something I said, I’m going to want to explain myself.
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Honest takes on these Genesis launch games. Just gonna check if you've done a similar video on SNES too.... :)
Edit: Eh, looks like you don't have a similar video for SNES launch games. :(
I haven’t made one, but I hope to eventually. Since that lineup is so small I’ve been wanting to buy actual boxed copies of the games to show in the video. I’ve only gotten two of them so far, though.
@@LegendOfGames Yeah, I think it's only five games in NA, Super Mario World, F-Zero, Pilotwings, Gradius III, and SimCity, but all worth a look I'd say. I wonder how expensive getting boxed copies of some of these games is these days. :-o
When you run games through an emulator you should have scanlines (or something like 2x quality) enabled to getter a better representation of how the games actually looked on a CRT (less blocky)!
Altered Beast is terrible, but Super Thunder Blade is the best launch game? Seriously?!?! Are you smoking crack, bro?
Well, none of them are particularly great, but out of them it was one of the ones I enjoyed the most (and considering how short these games are, I did beat or play through a large chunk of most of them.) Also, I said it was a standout, and I preferred it over Thunder Force II. I never explicitly said “it’s the best game of the launch,” as I didn’t want to elevate it that high. I just had a good time with it.
I am curious what exactly about that opinion is crack smoking-worthy. What do you consider to be the best game of the launch?
Altred beast has a special place in my heart lol it was my first Genesis game i played
My dude, no disrespect, and this was a solid video, but clearly you weren’t a kid in the 80’s/90’s, when you’re basically saying games like ‘Altered Beast’ is lame, again, if you grew up back then and dumped 100’s of quarters in the actual arcade cabinet playing this game you would have loved it. And if you had played the arcade version you would have known that the ending basically made it seem like the whole game was a film being made, and now you see all the characters take off their outfits to show that they’re actors and then they all party together. Games like this are about nostalgia and come from an era where side scrolling action based beat ‘em up games ruled. Again, no disrespect, but you gotta be mindful of all of that…
I was born in 1991. My first game system was a PS1, but I got a used Genesis about a year later which I played just as much (my parents loved it cause rental stores were getting rid of the games for super cheap, and I liked the games at the same level as the much more expensive PlayStation ones.)
That said, I didn't get Altered Beast until I was a teenager, much later than the Genesis games I had from a young age, such as the the Earthworm Jim and Sonic games. By that point, it being this kind of lame game had already been pretty drilled into me thanks to its coverage in places like Screw Attack. Still, I played it fairly frequently and even made a comedy sketch about the game during my junior year of high school.
I also think when looking at games for these videos, it's important to view them through a modern lens, and not be super shrouded by nostalgia. There are many games I loved as a kid that when I've played for this channel I've just had to be like "yeah, it's got some issues." (not that it applies to Altered Beast.)
Altered Beast is a much better game than Alex Kidd .
Need to improve your researching. Tommy lasorda wasn't just the dogers manager back then. He was a cultural icon. He was in tons of commercials in the late 80's. Kids probably saw tommys face in all types of commercials practically anytime they turned on the tv. Over all enjoyable retrospective.
I understand his significance. My main point was that he doesn't have a very marketable face.
@@LegendOfGames oh hell no tommy was old even when he was young. The game sold cuz kids recognized him not in spite of it.
Of course Genesis was graphically far superior than NES..for it was 8 bit Genesis 16. C’mon
Should I just not introduce the console that is the subject of the video then? It’s reasonable to compare it against its competition, which at the time of release was the less powerful NES.