Best SNES shmup by a comfortable marginCD AGES wrote:Found my Space Megaforce cart recently so I've been playing that. I really love this game. Compile did some real good shmups in their day. Addicting music, interesting weapon upgrade mechanics and fairly long levels.
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Better than Aero Fighters? Even if so, by a comfortable margin?SNESdrunk wrote:Best SNES shmup by a comfortable marginCD AGES wrote:Found my Space Megaforce cart recently so I've been playing that. I really love this game. Compile did some real good shmups in their day. Addicting music, interesting weapon upgrade mechanics and fairly long levels.
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Hell yeah by a large margin. I can agree there would be shock value how much time you can put into Space Megaforce (Super Aleste) and not realize it. It's probably the best or top 3 best of the vertical shooters that the system got in the US if not overall. Aerofighters is a good game, but it isn't special other than the fact that each play through it randomizes the enemies that hit you so it can feel a bit fresher longer and you have more than one ship to use.
Space Megaforce though compensates for no randomness with very excellent stage, enemy, boss, visuals and audio designs with tight controls and good weapon pickup selection.
I know it's goofy, but I think Pop'n Twinbee is the only SNES game I've enjoyed more that was a vertical shooter, and that one didn't even hit the US. If there were any justice Aerofighters would be the $40 game and Space Megaforce would be the $400 title instead if you go from a quality stand point.
Space Megaforce though compensates for no randomness with very excellent stage, enemy, boss, visuals and audio designs with tight controls and good weapon pickup selection.
I know it's goofy, but I think Pop'n Twinbee is the only SNES game I've enjoyed more that was a vertical shooter, and that one didn't even hit the US. If there were any justice Aerofighters would be the $40 game and Space Megaforce would be the $400 title instead if you go from a quality stand point.
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I'd take Macross Scrambled Valkyrie and Axelay in addition to Space Megaforce ahead of Aero Fighters. AF does have multiplayer going for it though...o.pwuaioc wrote:Better than Aero Fighters? Even if so, by a comfortable margin?SNESdrunk wrote:Best SNES shmup by a comfortable marginCD AGES wrote:Found my Space Megaforce cart recently so I've been playing that. I really love this game. Compile did some real good shmups in their day. Addicting music, interesting weapon upgrade mechanics and fairly long levels.
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Definitely agree about Macross, stunningly good horizontal shooter that never came over. Another I really dug in the later 90s was Spriggan Powered which was Japan only too. And obviously I would have enjoyed the Gradius and 3 Parodius titles too since I noted so highly Twinbee.
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It's a shame about Gradius III, it should be awesome but the slowdown and fragmenting is sooooo so badTanooki wrote:And obviously I would have enjoyed the Gradius and 3 Parodius titles too since I noted so highly Twinbee.
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growing up i never had an SNES. my parents bought me a genesis.
But thanks to emulators i've recently been able to play Legend of Zelda, link to the past, Donkey Kong Country, and Super Mario World
My childhood was wasted waiting to play those gems.
Also for fun, i recently played Pac-Man 2 - the New Adventures. weird game.
But thanks to emulators i've recently been able to play Legend of Zelda, link to the past, Donkey Kong Country, and Super Mario World
My childhood was wasted waiting to play those gems.
Also for fun, i recently played Pac-Man 2 - the New Adventures. weird game.
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So apparently putting the cart the wrong way in a Supaboy erases your save data, well there goes 7 hours of progress in Chrono Trigger, I think I am doomed to never finish this game. 
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That's rough when that happens.
My first attempt at Final Fantasy 4 was a FF2 SNES cart. I was really enjoying the game. I was pretty far into it when my save file got corrupt. I was enjoying the game so much though that I decided to start over, only with the PS1 version instead. Being that I just played the earlier parts of the game, and I badly wanted to get to where I was, I raced through it. I got a little further than I did at my first attempt, to the underground world. But being that I was racing, I was very under leveled. So I lost interest and stopped playing.
It took a few years, but eventually I started over again with the PS1 version. I played straight through to the end and enjoyed every minute of it.
Moral of the story, don't feel doomed. You'll play through it eventually.
My first attempt at Final Fantasy 4 was a FF2 SNES cart. I was really enjoying the game. I was pretty far into it when my save file got corrupt. I was enjoying the game so much though that I decided to start over, only with the PS1 version instead. Being that I just played the earlier parts of the game, and I badly wanted to get to where I was, I raced through it. I got a little further than I did at my first attempt, to the underground world. But being that I was racing, I was very under leveled. So I lost interest and stopped playing.
It took a few years, but eventually I started over again with the PS1 version. I played straight through to the end and enjoyed every minute of it.
Moral of the story, don't feel doomed. You'll play through it eventually.
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Donkey Kong Country 3... wow is this game underrated IMHO, compared to the rest of the trilogy. I think I like the first two games better still, but there are some improvements to the formula/engine in 3 that aren't in 1 & 2 (can save any time, for instance). There also seems to be a new mechanic introduced in EACH level, that makes playing through the game non-repetitive and very interesting.
