| BelPowerslave 2004-12-26, 5:45 pm |
| > Just got the Radica Genesis 6-in-1 for Christmas. Brief comments.
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> General comments - the games found within this product are fairly
> faithful to the original, even presenting some of the games with two
> player settings (ex. Golden Axe) even though there is only one
> joystick (hence only one player available)
>
I wonder if they ever even considered housing another port on the stick
to allow you to plug in a Genesis pad...
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> Games worth mentioning:
>
> 1. Sonic the Hedgehog - somehow, I remember in the original that if
> you press down on the d-pad and press one of the buttons you can spin
> Sonic up to speed that he runs in a "turbo" mode. For some reason, in
> this version, all three of the game's buttons are for jumping. This
> sucks, as I also recall that you can use the self-same turbo mode to
> power your way through walls or reach hard-to-get areas with lots of
> rings.
>
You could do this in the various Sonic Collections across the Saturn and
GC during part 1, but only in part 2 and on, in the Genesis versions.
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> 2. Golden Axe - wow, what a flashback, similar along the lines of
> Double Dragon. Seems to be complete, but miss the two player options
> (co-op, head to head).
>
It's bad enough they didn't up it to 3 players(like it was in the arcade)
for the DC Smash Pack version...but damn, to knock it down even more....
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> 3. Altered Beast - the game that came with my original Sega Genesis.
> Still the same after all these years, except again, without the
> two-player options.
>
I still really enjoy Altered Beast. To tell the truth, I like it even
more on the Genesis than I do on MAME. The arcade version was just so
full of cheap hits...I mean graphically it looked much better, but the
gameplay seemed to be lacking. The Genesis version was just excellent...
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> The other games are
>
> "Kid Chameleon" (a Sonic/Mario clone), which is okay, you get
> "helmets" which allow you to pass through various parts of the levels
> of the game while giving you powers to fight the baddies.
>
I don't suppose they incorporated any battery save or password option
into this one, this time around, did they?
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> Dr. Robotnik's Bean Machine - a bad tetris clone.
>
I'd liken it more to Columns....
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> Flippy -(or something like that, my significant other is playing Sonic
> right now and I don't remember the title) is a terrible game.
>
Flicky, I think it's called, was another launch game for the Genesis
IIRC. I've not ever tried it...
Bel
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