Oh, man, I LOVED this game. It was easily my favorite on the 32X. Always played it with my 6 button fighting stick -- the adjustable turbos were crucial. Always picked the Feather 2. I also love the music -- it was the first time I connected a game system to my computer to record the BGM. I still have my original burned disc.
I just discovered this game this morning via emulation - was really impressed at what the 32X could do graphically. Back in the day this would have blown people away graphically.
I had this game for my 32X back in the day, and it truly did feel like it was a rushed game that could have use just maybe a couple more months of polish to make it a truly great games, but I have to say the music is really good, and the shining star of this game.
This was one of my fave games on the 32X. I always hit the mode button for a behind-the-ship view. Felt a little easier to dodge stuff with the Feather 1.
Oh and one other tip, You need a 6 Button controller WITH the Mode button, to switch to a 3rd Person View. Which is pretty cool cause the poly's on the ships are good!
I LOVED this game!!! Smooth frame rate plus an insane draw distance was a marvel. Enemy ships could get so far away they became just dots! At which point your HUD would put a targeting frame around them so you could still know they were out there. Blowing up the capital ships piece by piece was amazing back then too. The Star Wars 32X game was an embarrassment compared to this. Feather 2 could also be played as 2 player: Pilot & gunner. That was the only way I could beat the game as it allowed you to shoot down or to the side, (instead of just straight ahead,) which let you do slow fly-by's very close to the capital ships while shooting them instead of only being able to have them directly in front of you to shoot them. That allowed for much more damage per pass, and flying around to take another pass burns up your limited amount of energy. Thank goodness I had the Arcade Power stick that I could aim & fire it crudely with my feet while I piloted with my hands. Feather 1's main flaw was only being able to shoot straight forward. In fact, I think I made it to the very last level with Feather 1, but there was just a ton of flying towards and away and back again to try to hit the weak points. All that flying back & forth always used up all my energy/fuel before I could destroy everything.
+Gilberto Solorio That was how I got my 32X as well back in the day, but I personally like the Yamaha FM sound of the Genesis, but another sound chip would not have hurt.
I'm pretty sure you missed the part where the Feather 1 can use its active shield ability to turn the ship itself into a ramming/piercing weapon to destroy ships faster than Feather 2 can do by simply shooting them. You also forgot to mention the cool Trace or replay mode in your review. Bad Sega Fanboy Mark. Bad.
I bought a 32X from the local K-Mart marked waaay down to $30. I mean, thats not a bad deal right? So then I got this along with Kaotix, and about 6 other titles. This was as an ok game, I found a glitch where you can use your shield+turbo and PLOW through the big star cruisers and blow them up. My only grip, was this game was short....
This game was pretty awesome back in the day. Probably my favorite 32X game without a doubt. It may not be as fondly remembered as Star Fox on the SNES, but I wager it's just as good of a game, one that would probably appeal more to the Space enthusiasts whereas Star Fox is more arcadey.
Hi, do you know if there are games like these, especialy airships in first person. I'd played Shadow, but i dont like the bigger airships, i prefer shoot the smallest ones, and i played a game like this , but i dont remeber THE name of that game, would you help me?
Entering the Neutral Zone, and recall there's a Klingon one as well, TWOK, means at best a major diplomatic incident. Unless you turn up and there's D'deridex Romulan warbird hanging around and I'm not fuzzing up my TNG history.
one of many games I bought right before I stopped buying retro games and never played. maybe I should give it a try if I can find that damn mushroom called a 32x....
Why was there no Eternal Champions on the 32x? That's a game that would have benefitted from the power of the add-on. Wait, better. EC on the 32x/CD. The 32 bit game play of an amazing fighting engine with CD quality music: fantastic.
Now wait just a darn minute. Yes, there are mid-90s space shooters for other platforms that definitely put this to shame, especially Star Wars TIE Fighter, but to say those platforms are in a different league? That's not how Sega saw it in its marketing. Their ads said the 32X was 40 times more powerful than Super NES and 6 times more powerful than 3DO. In their minds this awkward add-on with the multiple power supplies should've been a hit
Totallyagree this game could,ve been a seriouse competitor with starfox, and yes the genesis and sega cd cannot render polygons at 60fps BUT sega could,ve use the svp chip insidr this game instead and release it as an genesis game. The point is this game only halfly shows what the 32x can do,because memory was damm expensive in 1995.so sega never fully benefitted this addon.
Stellar Assault was the original title in Japan, where the game was developed and the only place where the sequel came out. America is technically the odd one out with the naming of the game :P
ahh i remember lol, but you dont :P if you head at the big ships full speed and fire the shield youll blow right through them. You need to find the StarTrek Starfleet Academy also.
+sinoc229 this is the first time i've ever heard about there being a sequel to Shadow Squadron and it looks really good albeit a little dated for a 1998 release
What do you mean "figure out" how to destroy the enemy ships? From what I'm seeing, it looks like you can literally shoot them anywhere and they explode lol. The game definitely looks good and it seems to play good as well, but it doesn't seem like there's any strategy at all. In a Star Wars or Star Fox game, you at least have to shoot a shield generator or opening in a large ship before you can destroy it.
***** True there was Sonic Generations and Sonic Colors. But Sonic was far more consistent in terms of quality back then. You had games like Sonic (1991), Sonic 2 (1992), Sonic CD (1993), Sonic 3 (1994), and Sonic and Knuckles (1994) being released in a fairly short time frame from each other. Nowadays it tends to be all over the place in terms of quality. Ranging anywhere from good to awful. I think it is safe to say that Sonic is past its prime.
It's not a clone of the original Star Fox. The original Star Fox didn't have all range mode. Star Fox didn't play from a first person perspective the entire game (only on occasion). This game seems to be more about flying through an open 3D area pick apart larger enemy space ships until your the only one left standing. Star Fox is more about going down A linear path blowing up ships to get high score and fight a boss at the end. In reality the sequel (Star Fox 64) seems to unknowingly borrow the mission structure of all range mode missions from this game (and greatly improves upon them in variety). The graphical styles may look similar but that doesn't make for a clone game.
+LordCarnage it's bad enough that people are sending you cartridges and consoles, but now you've gone and begged for money too. Un subscribing. How do you need money for this? James Rolfe puts way more time and depth into his content, and when he did a Kickstarter it was to make a movie. Hey video game fans, send me your video games and consoles! Oh hey, help me pay for my electricity bill/vacation! I don't like people on the street begging for money, but at least they have somewhat of an excuse.
+Ramiro1992 (Mr_X) It is better than Star Fox! Not 64, but most certainly that chugging blurry mess on the SNES... Oh excuse me on the Super FX chip using a SNES as a through put/power supply.
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Dunno why but i f*#!* love flat shaded polygons!
Maybe because i love Virtua Racing/Fighter...? ☺
Still love this game!
My favorite 32x game. I loved and still love this game. Thanks for reviewing it!
Awe man, I loved my 32X for the short time Sega actually supported the system!
+OBE1plays YOOO!!!! howsit going obe!!!!!!!
+OBE1plays You probably loved it because it's save function worked so well.
Oh, man, I LOVED this game. It was easily my favorite on the 32X. Always played it with my 6 button fighting stick -- the adjustable turbos were crucial. Always picked the Feather 2. I also love the music -- it was the first time I connected a game system to my computer to record the BGM. I still have my original burned disc.
I just discovered this game this morning via emulation - was really impressed at what the 32X could do graphically. Back in the day this would have blown people away graphically.
Damn these were the days, seems so long ago. Thanks for the video
That pre flight animation is excellent
Hands down my favourite game on the 32x, awesome game! Great review!
I had this game for my 32X back in the day, and it truly did feel like it was a rushed game that could have use just maybe a couple more months of polish to make it a truly great games, but I have to say the music is really good, and the shining star of this game.
This was one of my fave games on the 32X. I always hit the mode button for a behind-the-ship view. Felt a little easier to dodge stuff with the Feather 1.
I don't know what it is, but I like the boxy polygon graphics of the 32x.
Oh and one other tip, You need a 6 Button controller WITH the Mode button, to switch to a 3rd Person View. Which is pretty cool cause the poly's on the ships are good!
You can switch to a third person view by pressing Mode on a six button controller. I found that out by accident, as it isn't in the manual.
a 6 button controller with turbo is a must for this game.
This looks pretty impressive!
YOU DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THE TWO PLAYER!!! ONES THE PILOT ONES THE GUNNER!
This is the best thing about this awesome game.
My favorite feature of this game.
I LOVED this game!!! Smooth frame rate plus an insane draw distance was a marvel. Enemy ships could get so far away they became just dots! At which point your HUD would put a targeting frame around them so you could still know they were out there. Blowing up the capital ships piece by piece was amazing back then too. The Star Wars 32X game was an embarrassment compared to this.
Feather 2 could also be played as 2 player: Pilot & gunner. That was the only way I could beat the game as it allowed you to shoot down or to the side, (instead of just straight ahead,) which let you do slow fly-by's very close to the capital ships while shooting them instead of only being able to have them directly in front of you to shoot them. That allowed for much more damage per pass, and flying around to take another pass burns up your limited amount of energy. Thank goodness I had the Arcade Power stick that I could aim & fire it crudely with my feet while I piloted with my hands.
Feather 1's main flaw was only being able to shoot straight forward. In fact, I think I made it to the very last level with Feather 1, but there was just a ton of flying towards and away and back again to try to hit the weak points. All that flying back & forth always used up all my energy/fuel before I could destroy everything.
Great game. One of my favorite on the 32X. Great review!
A version of Elite would look really nice on the Sega 32X.
Hope the audio department got a raise from their work on this title.
This looks impressive! Didn't know the 32X was capable of 3D graphics like that.
Back in my day, our shields never regenerated and we liked it!
+Hoosier High Way i hated it.
Love the Trekkie references. gj Mark
You didn't mention it has a two player option. One is the pilot, the other is the gunner.
I had the 32 when it was on clearance at Kmart. It was great polygon wise but im so mad the games continued to use the Genesis sound board :(
+Gilberto Solorio That was how I got my 32X as well back in the day, but I personally like the Yamaha FM sound of the Genesis, but another sound chip would not have hurt.
Commodorefan64 the 32x actually did have another sound chip, it's just the game programmers never used it!
If you're in the Neutral zone it means you're not in the R-zone!
I'd love for Mark to hit me with some of his blast processing.
I mailed them Star Trek for 32X like 7 or 8 years ago and it’s never been reviewed :( and I don’t know who to email about it
I remember playing this for a while. The bonus game in Tekken 5 reminds me heavily of it
Miss your reviews Mark :)
If only Starwing played this smoothly :(
Starfox is 10x more fun than this game though.
"The Balst Processing is strong in this one"
I'm pretty sure you missed the part where the Feather 1 can use its active shield ability to turn the ship itself into a ramming/piercing weapon to destroy ships faster than Feather 2 can do by simply shooting them. You also forgot to mention the cool Trace or replay mode in your review. Bad Sega Fanboy Mark. Bad.
i prefer picking the red ship, feather 2 autopilot, that way it turns into a rail shooter.
'If I don't make it, tell my wife I said "hello."'
"If I don't make it, tell my wife that she hasn't done the laundry yet."
I bought a 32X from the local K-Mart marked waaay down to $30. I mean, thats not a bad deal right? So then I got this along with Kaotix, and about 6 other titles.
This was as an ok game, I found a glitch where you can use your shield+turbo and PLOW through the big star cruisers and blow them up.
My only grip, was this game was short....
Got mines used for $15 cheaper! We got a great deal for the add-on considering the prices for it now.
Hey Lord Karnage what is the name of that song you play at the beginning of your videos ?
This game is the same as Star Wars 32x but with the polygon shapes and colors changed. It even still has the Star Wars hyperspace effect.
Does this work on the Retro Duo with the adapter? Or is that too much to hope for.
I have a question, is Magnum Skywolf based in Magnum P.I?
Ahh i miss this.
This game was pretty awesome back in the day. Probably my favorite 32X game without a doubt. It may not be as fondly remembered as Star Fox on the SNES, but I wager it's just as good of a game, one that would probably appeal more to the Space enthusiasts whereas Star Fox is more arcadey.
Highway to the neutral zoneeeeee!
Hi, do you know if there are games like these, especialy airships in first person. I'd played Shadow, but i dont like the bigger airships, i prefer shoot the smallest ones, and i played a game like this , but i dont remeber THE name of that game, would you help me?
fantastic
Entering the Neutral Zone, and recall there's a Klingon one as well, TWOK, means at best a major diplomatic incident. Unless you turn up and there's D'deridex Romulan warbird hanging around and I'm not fuzzing up my TNG history.
Revvin' up your engine
Listen to her howlin' roar!!
can you review super battleship for sega genesis
one of many games I bought right before I stopped buying retro games and never played. maybe I should give it a try if I can find that damn mushroom called a 32x....
Starwars arcade on 32x is pretty good.
I like to stop at the duty free shop.
This game would be great on the Vectrex.
Every game would be great on the Vectrex.
Why was there no Eternal Champions on the 32x? That's a game that would have benefitted from the power of the add-on. Wait, better. EC on the 32x/CD. The 32 bit game play of an amazing fighting engine with CD quality music: fantastic.
That unfinished feeling seems to be something that seems to be present in all 32X games to me, they all feel like prototypes to me.
Maybe thats because none of the polygons are texture mapped (although unfortunately the 32x cant handle texture mapping)
+Tom Wilson
Yep that's the reason behind the unfinished games like Doom 32X and 99% of the 32X library.
+Louis The SEGA Nerd LMAO, not capable of texture mapping?! Metal Head, and especially Darxide say hi!!
Now wait just a darn minute. Yes, there are mid-90s space shooters for other platforms that definitely put this to shame, especially Star Wars TIE Fighter, but to say those platforms are in a different league? That's not how Sega saw it in its marketing. Their ads said the 32X was 40 times more powerful than Super NES and 6 times more powerful than 3DO. In their minds this awkward add-on with the multiple power supplies should've been a hit
I was only able to beat this game with the feather 2 on auto pilot. =/ You should try the sequel Stellar Assault SS on the Sega Saturn!
I kinda wonder what/how this would feel like in VR...
Love it good times
If you pick the second control it turns the gun. So you can have a gunner and pilot.
Could have competed with Star Fox? Not likely. Keep drinking that black panther there Mark.
I thought it was sex panther
EarlnEarl Nah he likes his beer like his women.
+KWKBOX Black, sexy and looks like a cat?
wariodude128 Bingo!
Damn I missed out on this one.
Totallyagree this game could,ve been a seriouse competitor with starfox, and yes the genesis and sega cd cannot render polygons at 60fps BUT sega could,ve use the svp chip insidr this game instead and release it as an genesis game.
The point is this game only halfly shows what the 32x can do,because memory was damm expensive in 1995.so sega never fully benefitted this addon.
SVP version of this game in place of the 32x would have been impressive
There is a sequel: Stellar Assault SS
+Piernic Hmm odd this game was actual called Stellar Assault in PAL regions
Stellar Assault was the original title in Japan, where the game was developed and the only place where the sequel came out. America is technically the odd one out with the naming of the game :P
Awesome 😈
Come on Mark! Come back to UA-cam!!
AVGN did a review on the Sega 32X
+Amy UNTOLD yeah, I love AVGN like everybody else but its not for Sega fans. You can tell that Mark really loves Sega... and Truxton.
the thing is AVGN is not to be taken seriously. his SEGA CD and 32x reviews were poorly written, and Hella biased, as well as misinformed.
They're good just for fun. at least they're not as biased as Pat the NES Punk, you said misinformed and it reminded me about Pat
+Deric Torres (TPGR) Pat's an arrogant, self important piece of literal garbage.
FYI there's an even better remake of this game for the Sega Saturn, only available in Japan.
ahh i remember lol, but you dont :P
if you head at the big ships full speed and fire the shield youll blow right through them.
You need to find the StarTrek Starfleet Academy also.
Check out the sequel, Stellar assault SS. It improves on the game play a lot.
+sinoc229 this is the first time i've ever heard about there being a sequel to Shadow Squadron and it looks really good albeit a little dated for a 1998 release
I feel this would have done ok on the Saturn.
+Mygingerguy The game was actually released on the Saturn in Japan only. However the copies are pretty rare, so I guess it didn't really do ok :P
+WindyCornerTV what, alright who kept fucking it up for the Saturn.
Even the sega svp chip
So I should've piloted the Feather-02, 'cuz I died at the endgame level...!
I loved this game but couldn't beat the last level.
Where. Did. You. Learn. To. Fly?
What do you mean "figure out" how to destroy the enemy ships?
From what I'm seeing, it looks like you can literally shoot them anywhere and they explode lol.
The game definitely looks good and it seems to play good as well, but it doesn't seem like there's any strategy at all. In a Star Wars or Star Fox game, you at least have to shoot a shield generator or opening in a large ship before you can destroy it.
Show is great but i miss derek somehow...
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You're fighting green spaceships in the neutral zone. What about that wouldn't remind you of Star Trek?
Will...
"...this is the sound of BLAST PROCESSING!..." *sssssssssssszzzzzzzzz bzz bsss bzz*
WTF MARK 2, months of no adds in new videos? i keep having adds in my videos, wheres your promise of no adds for 2 months "thanks to patreon" ?
+Alucardjr69 check for spyware. All of mine have been ad free
+Jonathan kalista i use my phone, i dont download nothing on it. just regular official apps
Just so u kno, i haven't felt like watching any of your videos since you canned derik..
Then don't, because no one cares. That channel plateaued completely.
that time when sega made games that werent just shitty sonic tittles
+Nicolas Cortés That time is still now
+Nicolas Cortés Also a time when Sonic was good.
+The Doge Collective yeah remember when they made sonic generations? that was DECADES AGO!
*****
True there was Sonic Generations and Sonic Colors. But Sonic was far more consistent in terms of quality back then. You had games like Sonic (1991), Sonic 2 (1992), Sonic CD (1993), Sonic 3 (1994), and Sonic and Knuckles (1994) being released in a fairly short time frame from each other. Nowadays it tends to be all over the place in terms of quality. Ranging anywhere from good to awful. I think it is safe to say that Sonic is past its prime.
How in the hell did they not get sued by Nintendo for such an obvious clone?!
It's not a clone of the original Star Fox. The original Star Fox didn't have all range mode. Star Fox didn't play from a first person perspective the entire game (only on occasion). This game seems to be more about flying through an open 3D area pick apart larger enemy space ships until your the only one left standing. Star Fox is more about going down A linear path blowing up ships to get high score and fight a boss at the end. In reality the sequel (Star Fox 64) seems to unknowingly borrow the mission structure of all range mode missions from this game (and greatly improves upon them in variety). The graphical styles may look similar but that doesn't make for a clone game.
Lord karnage is becoming a normie
Blast Processing sounds like an internet modem.
Its official, Nintendo is superior. DEAL WITH IT
So Called 32 Bit, STILL doesn't look as good as StarFox.
+LordCarnage it's bad enough that people are sending you cartridges and consoles, but now you've gone and begged for money too. Un subscribing. How do you need money for this? James Rolfe puts way more time and depth into his content, and when he did a Kickstarter it was to make a movie.
Hey video game fans, send me your video games and consoles! Oh hey, help me pay for my electricity bill/vacation!
I don't like people on the street begging for money, but at least they have somewhat of an excuse.
only a Sega fanboy can compare this garbage with star fox
+Ramiro1992 (Mr_X) at least this runs at more than 5 fps
Expecting Brainchild what? wait, are you suggesting this is better than star fox?
+Ramiro1992 (Mr_X) It is better than Star Fox! Not 64, but most certainly that chugging blurry mess on the SNES... Oh excuse me on the Super FX chip using a SNES as a through put/power supply.
SeGa32xXx1 lmao you are clueless