What's your favorite Thunder Force game?

[tehkao]

TFIV's soundtrack is supurb, and has such classics as "Fighting Back" (first half of Stage 1), "Metal Squad" (Stage 8 ), and "Stand up Against Myself" (Staff Roll).

The Staff Roll music can still make me cry everytime I listen to it. It's one of the greatest and most emotional video game music ever created IMHO.

TF4 and MUSHA have the 2 best shmup soundtracks of alltime IMHO.

BTW if u listen carefully to the music from Return of the King (the movie), one of the music tracks copies the theme from "Stand up Against Myself".

[EXMaster]

Don't forget Omake8 - that was my cell phone's default ringtone for quite some time!

I'm an Omake 2 man myself, but I'll give you that - all the omake tracks are well done.

[Fighter17]

Don't want to get off topic but:


I just purchase Lightening Force (Thunder Force IV) off ebay, you won't believe the price:

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[JBC]

That thing about the first Thunder Force being a cassette tape... i was talking about that in my first post on this forum. Funny because i think this is around my 500th...

edit - Shit! It is my 500th!!!

[Carmen]

As a SNES player, I only have Thunder Spirits, which isn't that good of a game. The game itself seems fine (though graphic quality could've been improved), but the hardware slows the game a looootttttttt.

I'd like to get TS V one of these days..

[ST Dragon]

Thunder Force III for me.

It was the 1st Shooter I played on the Genesis back in 1990!
I thought the gameplay was awesome, the weapon system just perfect & the music rocked! (Especially the Twin Vulcan, King Fish & G-Lobster Boss Music)

TFIII has the better balanced weapons & gameplay imo & the soundtrack is one of the best I've ever heard from the 16-bit era. Surpassed only by the incredible TFV music which is probably the all time best shmup soudtrack along side RayForce, RayStorm & Lords of Thunder (Yes, music is very important in my book)
TFIV wasn't quite as catchy in the music department as TFIII & the fact that they removed the cool Seber Laser beam with that weird spiral boomerang thing, sucked imo.
Also the way levels scroll vertically in TFIV can get very disorienting, quite frustrating & Boss fights can last ages, which gets boring quickly.

My order goes like this:

1. Thunder Force III
2. Thunder Force V
3. Thunder Force II
4. Thunder Force IV
5. Thunder Force I - ?

I've never gotten much into TFII, but I found it more enjoyable than TFIV.

As for Thunder Force 1, I have never played it. On what system was it released?

By the way, is this the Thunder Force I box cover / flyer?
And what's this PC-6001 computer?
Is it some ancient 8-Bit JPN computer similar to the tape based commodore 64?




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