A critical look at the core components of Sega's 1989 classic, Space Harrier II.
Sega has added Space Harrier II to the Sega Forever collection. All Sega Forever titles are also now on sale for 50% off.
Lol!
Yeah. This and outrun solidified my love of Sega back then. Would have been cool if they would have updated it like they did outrun coast to coast.
Sad part of this is that I've been emulating Genesis on my phone and tablet for years. They took too long to do this.
Games Asylum: "While the line-up is smaller than what both the Wii and Wii U arrived with, the Switch still has more games available on ‘day one’ than many consoles before it. Today, we’re looking at six consoles from the ’90s that either favoured quality over quantity, or simply arrived with only a couple of games due to rushed launches"
Nintendo 64.. 2 games.. enough said
Didn't get a 3rd retail game in NA until a month later.
Now granted it did launch with one of the greatest games of all time in Super Mario 64.. but still
N64 was a product of Nintendo's extreme arrogance back then after a highly successful SNES.
It launched with SM64, yes that's a very big thing and one of the best.
Problem people cannot see with switch is it has to prove it will get more games than Wii U. and releasing it with much less games than Wii U is a huge mistake and goes against what they should have done.
Agreed.
seeing how many games are supposedly supposed to release this year and hearing that they have all this DLC for Zelda that's supposed to come out, I think maybe it would have been a better idea to just delay the system until fall so that way they're able to launch with it complete version of Zelda as well as a launching with a Mario game.
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Zelda DLC is made to milk the fans, not because they didn't finish the game in time. proof of that is the paid DLC and season pass. i am getting it on Wii U. Do you know btw if the DLC are also coming to Wii U?
next, the console is out in a week and there isn't a single word about the online in depth. There is obviously a problem with this console.
One of the reasons it's not getting as many games at launch is the release date, the Wii-U launched in November. If the Wii-U launched in March it wouldn't have gotten games like CoD, AC, Batman, FIFA, Madden, NB2k ect which usually launch in the Fall, you take those games out and the lineup is pretty sparse as well.
The main difference assuming games don't get pushed back is the entire first year line-up which is much stronger than the Wii-U which was in a drought after the first month, it didn't get another 1st party exclusive until June i believe (Pikman 3) the following year. In it's first year the Switch will be getting a new Zelda day 1, 3D Mario, Mario Kart port with all the content, Splatoon 2, Xenoblades 2, Fire Emblem Warriors, Fast RMX, Bomberman, ARMS ect, the big challenge for Nintendo will be the following years, they can't have droughts so hopefully the 3DS devs can help in that department if 3rd party support doesn't materialize.
@Vegamyster:
WHAT? Batman wii u came out over a year after PS3/360/PC release.
Darksiders 2 was out in August 2012.
It would have got them if it came out in March 2012, or at least get an official announcement.
A big problem with the launch of N64 is that memory prices spiked big time a month or so before the system released due to a pretty big earthquake in Japan. The costs to make a cart were extremely high. I mean not a few dollars more high, but 10X higher than before high.
This is one reason why CD was such an advantage back then, because there was a lot of fluctuation in memory prices from one month to the next, while CD production costs generally kept going down.
Given that none of those systems are from 2000 or later? Hardly comparable as the gaming market back then was far, far smaller, and far more forgiving than it is these days.
not quite what I was going to say but indeed. The landscape was definitely different to say the least.
That's mentioned in the article's intro, and not to take the piece too seriously
back then, the differences between generations was much more pronounced than it is these days. Nowadays, in order to sell more consoles, you need to have more to show off the new hardware, and as you say, appeal to more people, which generally requires having more games to choose from. Back in the day of a lot of these systems also didn't have as much variance between games in different genres, so a couple games was usually enough to keep people playing for a while.
I had a 3DO, the thing was expensive as hell, and by the end I only had a handful of games for it. I remember the game that made me want it was an early version of Need for Speed I saw in a gaming magazine. Man that takes me back.
Nearly got a 3DO for that exact game. Luckily it was just too expensive for me to get one at the time. If i remember correctly Stunt Race FX for the SNES had just come out.. That tided me over until i could shake the image of "Photo Realistic" cars on a mystical new console out of my head..
It was pretty awesome for it's time. Expensive as heck, but it had a lot of tech in it for it's time. it was kind of the PS3 of it's day, having things which weren't common.
Very nice system overall, but the licensing model was kind of lame.
There were quite a few good games on it for it's short life time. Sadly, the biggest obstacle it suffered from was that the company that created the hardware to license just didn't have the resources to really make it a success for the long term....and I believe they shot too high on the specs.
I remember I was thinking of getting one, but the price was a bit out of reach for me at the time.
The problem they have is giving people the confidence to get back on side again, i was a massive Nintendo fan growing up, however the last Nintendo console i bought was a Gamecube, and with a launch line up like this (even with Zelda) after the last decade of weak game support, it just isn't enough to believe this is going to be any different.
The last Nintendo console I bought what's the Wii, I feel very disappointed with that system software simply because I felt like the majority of the property's literally were the worst on that platform.
I didn't care for the garbage Super Paper Mario game I didn't care for the Animal Crossing game that literally felt like it was just a port of the first animal crossing etc
GameCube in my opinion was there last best the software lineup after that I believe the quality of their software has just become questionable.
I will take GameCube Animal Crossing Smash Brothers Wind Waker and Twilight Princess as well as Mario Sunshine Luigi's Mansion Paper Mario Thousand Year Door all of the Metroid Prime games over anything that they've actually recently released on their last two consoles.
I'm playing a wait-and-see if any of those properties even our return to Glory.
same, grew up on NES and the last Nintendo console I bought, still own, is the Gamecube. and w/o a doubt, confidence or lack thereof is a big problem. I think everyone wants a Switch there's just no to little confidence in Nintendo at this point. Back then you knew Nintendo was going to deliver. It was them & Sega or them and PS later on. Over the past decade or so Nintendo has played second or third fiddle. If not for the fad of Wii or perhaps even DS Nintendo possibly would have been very close to following Sega. Few gamers I imagine, solely have a Nintendo console. Instead they use it as a complimentary to what they primarily use.
Over the past decade they have withered when it comes to supporting their own consoles with great Nintendo products. After all that is what makes Nintendo special. Mario, Zelda, Yoshi, Fire Emblem, Kirby, Luigi, Pokemon and so on. 3rd party is great but if a game is multi-plat then only those few who have nothing but a Nintendo might buy those games. Nintendo needs to shore up development and get some great content out there. There's some great games that are announced but not nearly enough for me and even most of those are TBA with a couple being scheduled for late this year. I'd be hard pressed to say there are 3 or more games I'd buy between now and the end of the year.
For the record I pre-ordered a Switch right away when i saw Amazon had them listed. Since then I can't help but think it's a bad decision. I certainly want one, I certainly want it to succeed, I certainly want to see some great games but right now I'm just not sold that Nintendo can bring me enough of it's own content to warrant dropping $300. Not to mention I couldn't even get in on a pre-order of the Special Edition of Zelda. You'd think that with this game launching with the Switch they'd have made a decent amount of copies available. Having said that I'd hope to see Wind Waker HD & Twilight Princess HD announced and brought to the Switch. While that's still not enough those alone make it more interesting to own. If nothing more than the fact I will likely never go back and play either on my Gamecube because HD gaming has spoiled me. Also considering the specs it's hard to believe the Switch was built to last. Are we going to see another cycle like the Wii U?
I typically enjoy every console they have ever made. Even the Wii. but that satisfaction tends to be a long term thing. I've learned since the Wii, and WiiU, that their consoles are things I don't need to get day one, and can wait it out for more games to play. The nice thing about Nintendo consoles is that their exclusives tend to stand the test of time, and be just as good years later without feeling dated. So, with Switch, I'll probably wait it out, as I have no need for a new handheld, and my backlog for handheld and home consoles is way too big right now.
Carl Williams writes, "While not the first title to feature 3D “endless” running gameplay, Space Harrier II is the first to feature it on the Sega Genesis. Sega was eager to show off the power of their newly launched console and what better way to do that than with a title that would be severely limited on the Nintendo Entertainment System? Space Harrier II, as the title suggests, is a sequel, the first for the Sega Genesis."
