Banpresto's 1992 Macross shmup

[RNGmaster]

Recently played this at a meet. It's great fun, and I was wondering what the forum consensus on it was. It's not too challenging, but has great weapons and scoring incorporates medalling and Raiden-style max powerup collection. Only problem is the focus on memorization.

So, anyone else played this?
Note: This isn't the caravan one with difficulty select, nor the one where you have a choice of pilot types.

[marus]

I don't know, I played a credit at the meet too, and I wasn't exactly blown away by it. The visuals were nice, but other than that the game didn't do much for me. The whole time I felt like my weapons were so powerful that none of the enemies felt like a threat. Even when I died I didn't feel intense. Of course mercilessly blowing up robots and ships is good fun, but it gets old real fast if the game doesn't have any tense moments. It wasn't a bad game by any means, but next to other games I can play this one didn't motivate me to try again.

To be fair these impressions are off of just one credit. I could possibly see the game growing on me if I played some more, especially if it has an interesting scoring system.

[AntiFritz]

When I was a kid i used to love playing this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_ ... omputer%29. First shmup I played and wasn't very good at it.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Considering that Banpresto and NMK joint collaborative effort made not only Super Dimensional Fortress Macross PCB, they also made Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again PCB and not to mention Macross Plus PCB as well. It was the U.S. arcade distributor, Fabtek, whom handled dispersing the "Super Spacefortress Macross" PCB conversion kits Stateside back in 1992-1993.

SDF Macross PCB Factoid: The arcade PCB is based on the 1984 Super Dimensional Macross: Do You Remember Love anime film, hence some the memorable cut scenes that are shown between stages from the movie itself.

There does exist a prototype SDF Macross PCB that Banpresto/NMK made and eventually was sold for mucho yen on YAJ last year. It still hasn't been rom dumped yet and has some major differences (in terms of game stages, sprites & BGM tunes) compared the revision changed production Macross PCBs that were made/released instead. I wouldn't mind trying it out if it does get rom dumped one of these days -- it'd be nice to play it via eprom conversion on a real SDF Macross PCB setup indeed. ^_~

It was U.S. Renditions whom fiananced the production of the Macross II: Lovers Again OVA (Original Video Animation) series, and given the popularity of the Robotech (aka Macross/Southern Cross/Mospeada) anime series in the States harkening back to it's intial 1985 spring debut, Fabtek did not distribute Banpresto/NMK's Macross II PCBs kits for the American arcade PCB market (even though it was distributed in Japan's game centers/arcades back in 1993). It would've done well for the U.S. arcade market scene based on the famous Macross name recognition factor alone (especially among the hard-core otaku back in the late 1980s/early 1990s). It was an absolute miracle that a new Macross anime series was made without official input from Studio Nue but is regarded as an alternate Macross universe (in regards to the Macross II OVA series). Macross Plus is considered to be the true sequel to the events from the original SDF Macross anime series.

I do recall, with fond memories, of playing the U.S. region Super Spacefortress Macross PCB conversion kits (set up inside a typical American woodie Dynamo cab) at some of my local arcades back in 1992-1998. It was considered a "quarter muncher" type of arcade shmup (typical of the arcade shmup PCB scene back in the early 1990s with the U.S. arcades) considering that one would feed it more quarters to see/play to it's eventual conclusion/staff roll/ending credits.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Sumez]

When I was a kid i used to love playing this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_ ... omputer%29. First shmup I played and wasn't very good at it.

TO START PUSH

[Shou]

Considering that Banpresto and NMK joint collaborative effort made not only Super Dimensional Fortress Macross PCB, they also made Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again PCB and not to mention Macross Plus PCB as well.

Macross Plus was developed by MOSS, no?

[AntiFritz]

When I was a kid i used to love playing this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_ ... omputer%29. First shmup I played and wasn't very good at it.

TO START PUSH

Gotta love an old games engrish

...i'm looking at you donpachi/dangun feveron

prosecutedt by full extent of the jam

[Hibachi]

I really enjoyed the game back in the day and UK members can see it in the back of the cafe in Eastenders in a cab.