shaktiman

for all others information, I think that the megadrive is an addon for the genesis that snaps onto the side of the system, and lets you play 32bit games.

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Now looking into Turrican what I found very funny was that as far as I knew Turrican was an Amiga game which branched onto other platforms, & paradoxically branched onto the Commodore 64, I say paradoxically cos c64 was pre Amiga but was still selling it's mag & games even when the Amiga was in full flow, yes I am kneeling b4 the c64 shrine.

Anyhow what I didn't know was that the Amstrad cpc464 had a version of Turrican, there is a screenshot & if you knew Turrican you may recognise it otherwise you will think that it is a few blocks on the screen, set the screens to low low rez.

I'll go & follow the link.

shaktiman

EDIT - Spaceboy is totally right about the console situation. The Saturn was pretty crap although I remember playing some kind of star wars/x-wing game on it quite a bit. I also seem to remember reviews of the CD module for the Mega Drive on Bad Influence or Games Master Did some kinf of CD unit come out for the Amiga around the same time? I friend recently told me about someones work on making a CD ROM drive for the spectrum. To be honest it wouldn't be hard as all you have do is hook up the Headphone port on a personal stereo to the sound in / tape port on the Spectrum. Actually what would be neat would be transferring larger games like Turrican as multiple tracks. Man, waiting 7 mins for a game to load then having to wait 3 mins every time you completed a level. The worst thing was say I died on the second level I didn't have anything with tape counter so I couldn't rewind to the start of the first level and always had to reload the entire game!

Actually talking about games like this on the Spectrum reminds me of the Street Fighter 2 port. Every level was in one colour and each character had to be loaded seperately for each fight! Lemmings also made it to the spectrum as an all purple game, even Doom made it but without any monsters so all you do is run around the levels.

I really savoured reading your reply, I read slowly through the whole thread trying to guess what you might put down as a response.

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Are you talking about the saturn?

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Spaceboy is totally right about the console situation. The Saturn was pretty crap although I remember playing some kind of star wars/x-wing game on it quite a bit.

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While I don't want to start a "system X is totally better then system y"-style debate, I do want to mention that the Saturn was
actually quite an amazing machine for it's time. Granted, the PSX won in the long run, but when it was in it's prime, nothing could
top the Saturn. In terms of hardware specs, the Saturn was vastly more powerful then the PSX-

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I played Turrican 2 on the Amiga first, I then bought it for the Spectrum, I've also played it on the SNES, ATARI and PC I believe (not certain about the Atari version)

I've played Alien Breen One and Two, first on the Amiga, then I got a dos card for my 6100 and played the PC version, I think I also downloaded it for my Amiga emultaor but I haven't used that for a while. In theroy it could run on a 68k Mac if it had ever been released. You might be able to pic up a cheap 486 DOS card, I got mine for about 10 UKP with all the cables. But you've got a PC so you could just download it from the underdogs or something.

Spaceboy,

I really remember very little about the Saturn, I think when it was eventually released most of my friends who were console gamers had moved from their SNES systems to Amigas. Most of them started with Gameboys and went on to the Mastersystem before that. Everyone else I knew at the time had a Mac.

So the Saturn may have been allright but all I remember is one starwars game and the fact that it died a pretty quick death. I do remember that modem thing though!

The PSOne often surprises me I can't remember the first game I ever played on one so I have no idea what I thought of it when I first saw it. I do remember playing a lot of Tekken 2 or 3 though, so when I went to my cousins who only had tekken one i was shocked at how bad the graphics were for the PSOnes first round of games! So you're probably right about the Saturns 2D being a lot more advanced, unfortunately SEGA put their money on the wrong ball!

I think if it weren't for MS bottomless pockets the Playstation would remain the dominant player but MS are just going to keep on slugging away at them. The few games I've played on the Xbox have been great, Halo and Splinter cell, but there are only a few games.

Finally Shak, how techi is the console market? I think it's always been pretty straightforward. At the moment, Playstation = least powerfull but most and best games. GameCube very powerfull (more so than the Xbox?) looks good but only a few select titles, however they also Mario to help them. Xbox most powerfull, a few excellent games but little more.

Also you are totally getting the Saturn and Mega drive confused! Which one was the Atari Jaguar? was that the handheld? or was that the lynx?

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I remember reading some reviews of the Jaguar now and I'm sure they had it on bad influence, that's the second time I've mentioned that program.

Bad Influence was a short lived (3 seasons?) computer games/hardware review program on childrens TV in the UK. Compared to Games Master which IIRC had resorted to Dexter Fletcher as a presenter by that point it was pretty good. Games master focused purely on games though and the highlights were the 3 games challenges, unless of course you enjoyed seeing Sir Patrick Moore in some dodgy bluescreen disembodied head antics!! The challenges were pretty funny actually, they got one guy to play 3 simaltaneous games of puzzle bobble!

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