sven666 wrote:i played stahlfeder yesterday and its ok
Your post made me play Stahlfeder again for the first time since I bought it about 9 years ago. Very easy on normal setting - I made it to stage 4 on one credit, beat the boss and then... it crashed. Back to the shelf for another 9 years I guess
didnt know it was such a rare item? there were copies in every other gamestore in japan @ about 6-7000 a pop..
huh, I guess games must circulate at crazy speeds that we cannot even imagine. I hit up the game stores in Nagoya, Osaka, and Akihabara this last summer but could never find the Toaplan collection. Of course I was only game hunting for a total of like 4 days and I was with non-gamers so I didn't get to dig as deep as I would have liked.
didnt buy one tho, gameselection is kinda lame if you ask me, if you look at the toaplan library there are 10games id rather have than the ones on the collection..
true that. Damn I need to find me an Outzone board soon. Did you get any Toaplan boards in Japan, sven666?
Strikers 1945 II (original release, not watered down success reprint)
I think I have the reprint...is something wrong with it? Much better than the SS version which I also have either way.
Now I'm confused! I have the "Midas" version. What the hell is that one?
Anyway, been playing this today. Great game. I prefer the 5th plane with the little remote that goes off and shoots stuff on one side of the screen so you can concentrate on the other!
Xanac X Xanac is supposed to be great but the price of that game is getting excessive (£80) so it'd have to be good for a PSX game for me to want to buy that. Shall be getting DoDonpachi next I think.
In the Hunt has some slow paced scrolling that might act as an initial turn-off to some, but the game is not to be missed. The unique submarine-shooter mechanic is unlike any other game I've played. The player's sub has a forward firing weapon, a forward lob/ground bomb or depth charge, and a surface balloon or missile weapon - the surface weapon is particularly unique as depending upon how it is used it may act as a balloon that floats to the surface then explodes, or if the sub is at water level it will act as an air based weapon.
With graphics and attention to detail on par with Metal Slug and two player cooperative gaming, In The Hunt has seen regular play in my Saturn for 10 years now.
I used to play these sorts of sub games on little LCD hand helds as a kid. "In The Hunt" is just a logical extension of that genre. And there's no foul in taking an old game idea and improving on it, I should add. I'm not one of these elitist sods who demands that every new game be 100% unique and not build on games of old.
anyone know have video clips of in the hunt, my local gamestop has a copy for 3.99 just the disc in working condition, would like to see some gameplay clips beforehand
tekneekz wrote:anyone know have video clips of in the hunt, my local gamestop has a copy for 3.99 just the disc in working condition, would like to see some gameplay clips beforehand
Not really into the rarer ones although i've tried a few. TSB1 should of had better titles than those on the disc, but as the title suggests it was supposed to be part 1 of many compilations. Hence the dates of the titles being some of the oldest in the toaplan library.
Moon Cresta (also on Nichibutsu classics) is ok, but its so hard compared to the Arcade version (or at least the version I have played which is the same as MAME).
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
Time Boken on the Saturn was rather dull and eneventful. Its colorful and the graphics/animation are fine, its just rather tedious and boring.
I fail to see anything in the Saturn version that the PSX couldn't do.. its just rather bland. Any game that is a licensed product is going to crap because it sells on the license alone.. IIRC its scrolling (at your leisure) type vertical.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
nah this is different to the one on saturn ,it's psx only and a straight verti shooter unlike time bokan .. i knew one guy who raved on about it on the v.g.i forum but never really heard much about it from anyone else
Ah, thanks for refreshing my memory. Of course I've played Moon Patrol,.. simply slipped my mind.
Although, among my extensive collection of over 100 shmups, In the Hunt is unique. (and very enjoyable, slowdown and all)
I actually enjoyed both the "Bokan" games...they're not without their irritating quirks, but the presentation and theme are quite nice, and each game has some nice gameplay/scoring gimmicks in there. I wouldn't pay a mint for them, but if you can snag them for a decent price I'd suggest picking them up.
