Goodbye Soft

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon May 08, 2006 4:38 am

Unreleased MegaDrive games
Scan and info.
Translation

How's that for quick and to the point?

jp · Post by jp » Mon May 08, 2006 5:04 am

Very nice. Very interesting read too.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:35 am

Pop'n Land: A sequel to Cocoron which was released on the Famicom. A side-scrolling action game where face, body, and weapons are contstructed from 16 different parts. The music from the game can be found on the CD accompanying Super MegaDrive Fan Vol. 1. The PC-Engine version of Super Cocoron, developed by the same company, was also cancelled (and is a highly sought after, complete beta, which is confirmed to exist).

It's important that this be dumped and released at some point. It's made by the same company that did Little Samson on NES.

Explode Star: An action game with puzzle elements. Was completed and announced in magazines, but never released, although the Genesis version was.

Sounds like my kind of game...what's the name of the Genesis release?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:42 am

It's important that this be dumped and released at some point. It's made by the same company that did Little Samson on NES.

Probably won't. A well-known PC-Engine collector has had one for some time now, and has made it clear it's not getting out. Another might make it's way to YJ, but who knows.

Sounds like my kind of game...what's the name of the Genesis release?

Not sure. Don't think that it said so. Gotta check before I mail that book back out.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:03 am

Great GP! No info on Moon Dancer, though?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:53 am

zinger wrote:Great GP! No info on Moon Dancer, though?

A lot actually. I apparently missed it. Will edit it tomorrow.

Now I remember why -- there was an extra page devoted to it and I was going to do that seperate (but apparently didn't).

ahnslaught · Post by **ahnslaught** » Mon May 08, 2006 10:45 am

Crack the Snapper - What an awesome name!

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:04 pm

Dennin Aleste 2 was planned too. Interesting!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:17 pm

ahnslaught wrote:Crack the Snapper

Yeah, I play this from time to time.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:03 pm

Mick & Mack isn't the MC Kids released on NES and also called "McDonald Land" on Amiga ?

I was sure I had seen Mega-Drive screenshots of this game in the past, now I know I wasn't dreaming

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon May 08, 2006 7:24 pm

Mick & Mack: An action platformer or the Genesis in which you collected McDonald's logos. The Genesis version was also cancelled. Apparently this had something to do with McDonald's Treasure Island being released.

Mick & Mack - also known as Global Gladiators - was released and, unlike Treasure's game, was a huge success, both critical and commercial. It even got a "game of the year" award, but I don't recall from what mag.

Cotton: An arcade port by Sega which never appeared in any release lists, but was announced in the 1993 April issue of Beep! Megadrive.

Maybe the mentioned game was Panorama Cotton?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon May 08, 2006 7:44 pm

So you guys are saying Mick & Mack was released in the US?

Maybe the mentioned game was Panorama Cotton?

Nope, definitely a supposed arcade port of the arcade game.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:17 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:So you guys are saying Mick & Mack was released in the US?

Yeah, but it may have never hit JP shores.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:28 pm

Definitely not -- hence, it's in that book. On that note, it is a book. I'm sure there's some eratta of some sort. They actually spelled Hammer "Hammar".

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:56 pm

nice article... i would have liked to have seen Tiger Road on the MD, and also Power Drift could have been rather nice on the MD

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:22 pm

DC906270 wrote:Power Drift could have been rather nice on the MD

I've played it on the Dreamcast (Yu Suzuki Game Works Vol. 1), and must disagree. Power Drift uses the Y Board, same hardware as Galaxy Force II - and remember how bad that game looked on the Genesis? It just didn't have the power for a decent port.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:58 pm

Stormwatch wrote:
DC906270 wrote:Power Drift could have been rather nice on the MD
I've played it on the Dreamcast (Yu Suzuki Game Works Vol. 1), and must disagree. Power Drift uses the Y Board, same hardware as Galaxy Force II - and remember how bad that game looked on the Genesis? It just didn't have the power for a decent port.

Try it on PCE

it could do that I'm sure

Post by **Shatterhand** » Tue May 09, 2006 1:49 am

The Amstrad CPC version of Power Drift rocks too.

Of course, eons away from the arcade one in terms of graphics, but it played well.

Also, Global Gladiators is awesome indeed.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:49 am

Hmm... half-decent, but not spot-on like Out Run on the Genesis.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:19 pm

Power Drift actually has a decent port on the C64. Although the graphics were naturally cut way down, it plays well. I wouldn't have minded seeing Sega hire Chris Butler to work on a SMS 4-Meg version based on the C64 one- only with the graphics kicked up slightly to take advantage of the SMS' capabilities.

A Genesis version would definitely be lesser than the arcade (I'd imagine the sprites having to be all downsized, and the tilt & rotation effects would meet the axe), but Sega could probably have done a "good enough for 16-bit" version with a 16-Meg cart.

Super Hang-On? I thought the developers of the Genesis version worried too much about making it look like the arcade. This one is a choppy clusterfuck. Honestly, SMS Hang-On is actually smoother and faster. The Genesis' Out Run leaves this one in the dust.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:53 pm

If you think Super Hang-On is choppy, go check Space Harrier 2... >_<

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:19 am

CORRECTION... according to Stephen Clarke-Willson, back then the head honcho at Virgin Games, Global Gladiators did not sell well at all.