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I wish the lifebars could be fixed on the snes version with the names inside of them.

The Korean version although written in English as Gam*boy is written in Korean as 겜보이 which is pronounced more like "gem boy" (G sound like in 'golf' rather than a J sound like in 'gem'). The Megadrive/Genesis was sold as a Samsung Super Aladin Boy. You can still find them floating around but they're rather expensive - I see a a Master System on a Korean marketplace site now in mid 2024 for ~ $200 USD.

God, look at how terrible PCE is.

I found your opinions on the music very funny. The PC Engine always has the better renditions of classic SEGA arcade tunes. On the Mega Drive they either lack speed, some channels (After Burner hello!), always lack proper stereo (the MD simply does not do stereo) and often even complete tracks (the utterly amazing Space Harrier staff roll of the PC Engine).

Arcade version had a display of 384x256 and probably far more colours, while PcEngine was around 256x224, but graphics look pixel perfects (with slightly simplified palette range) so they added some extra scrollings. Still one of the best port, considering.

8:30: Stop Noticing things. Focus. My ADHD: nasdrguijngpriugheuawR PIUEWfhp hewufP ERGAUHP

I never thought a fighting game could get worse than Amiga SF1... until I saw HKM. The opponent AI and character animations are risible. Having the opponents regen their health is just cheap.

I always used to think of Axelay as a sort of Salamander 2, until the proper sequel came out of course.

Recall not buying the NeoGeo at the time due to price of console and cost of games around $200 and up but mostly because I honestly felt my Genesis & Super Nintendo had so many more AAA games from more genres that were close to, just as good and in some cases better than what were available on the AES. Again, my opinion back in the early 90’s. Sure, I may have been trying to justify not buying the AES but when I did buy what I felt was superior to my “16 bit” consoles it was the 3DO which cost more than the AES with exception of game costs

Top job dude.Its always interesting to view a conversion against the arcade.The SNES version for me is very close and at that time, near enough the arcade.Some people say its an unfair comparison, but probably were not around at the time where the term arcade perfect was used way too often.

"Nachtclub" is Dutch, so it probably is The Netherlands, Amsterdam.

The one they call Inglebard. I was 12 years old. I went on holiday with my grandparents to give my folks a bit of a rest from my ADHD-addled self, and also because we were moving house, and it just made some sense to get me out of their way for a couple of weeks while they got it done. Anyway, in the arcades on holiday they had a Fatal Fury machine, a Super Monaco GP machine which you could get free credits out of 9 times out of 10, a Simpsons machine which all the kids used to play 4 player on, and a Streetfighter 1 machine. Having played a little SF2, I knew how to do the fireball, spinning kick and Shoryuken, but it simply wouldn't work on the arcade. I eventually figured out that just rolling the button in a quarter circle while spamming punch would throw out random fireballs & Shoryukens enough to get by. By the end of that holiday I had been able to complete the game on 1 credit. On the way home, which was only like a 2 hour drive, we stopped in a service station somewhere up the highway and I made a beeline to the game magazines but I also found a place that sold games, what what do you know? They had Streetfighter for the Amiga for like 4.99. Bargain!! The screenshots looked great, with big, clear characters, backgrounds which looked just like the arcade version, if a little plainer in the colour palette which was perfectly common with Amiga arcade ports, nothing I couldn't get over quickly. And because this was an old arcade and not particularly impressive technically even by 1987 standards, I was excited by this find. Could not wait to get it home. Home being somewhere I had never live before, remember. Never slept there before, didn't know anyone within a 5 mile radius. Drowning my sorrows with a competent port of Streetfighter was just the ticket. Then, after a short loading period, the game finally started... The game was so bad that it actually made me hate my Amiga. I never got to play Human Killing Machine, but it looks every bit as bad as Streetfighter.

This game looks garbage

I love the SNES version, even if it's not exactly as close as we remember. Because it felt close at the time! But the one thing that really bothered me is the life bars. Why not simply put the name in the life bars? I think it was a way to try and even the score with the Genesis version, which feel short in almost every area by comparison.

I played that SF1 port and HKM on my A500 Mini...that SF1 port is a real masterpiece compared to HKM...one of the most unfair games i ever played....

I'd heard this was their follow-up of sorts to street fighter... but man, what a massive downgrade! sounds about right for tiertex (yecccch!) and I thought rise of the robots was awful...

Tiertex was such a crappy bunch of developers, they couldn't even be bothered to fix the final boss in the Amiga version 😂

I feel like Tiertex were the guys real programmers hated. They wrote everything in higher level languages so it would be portable instead of machine code so everything ran like 2fps. Then they could easily port their crap to other machines so it could run like shit there too. The only time I can think of that I can actually appreciate this was Paul Woakes, he wrote Mercenary for the Atari ST and then wrote an ST emulator for the Amiga so the Amiga version of Mercenary is actually the ST version running in his emulator...... :P That's actually respectable in a weird way

Why not find a Nintendo game and critique that. From the point of view of a normal person. Pick any one and tear it a new one like it deserves.

I found this video really boring. I like Tiertex, I think they are a good developer who were just tasked with programming for literally every single platform and given not enough time to do so. They are legends. I had enough after just 4 minutes. I heard it all before. I don't like mud slinging when it's just this game. Yeah we all know about it already. It just feels pointlessly callous.

I never knew this existed at the time and I'm quite grateful for that. The janky kick reminded me of playing Brutal: Paws of Fury on the Mega CD and I thought that was bad. I'd say IK+ on the Spectrum looks more fun to play!

Folks, there were a few things I didn't get to talk about since I shortened the gameplay footage to mercifully spare you from too much exposure to this toxic goo. Just so you know I didn't forget them, here they are: 1. You may not have noticed, but your opponent's energy bar constantly refills. Yours does not. Awesome. 2. There are no sound effects in the game. Music only and just that one track during gameplay. 3. I know that in the US some platforms got a different version of Street Fighter. The C64 for example had a terrible Tiertex (Yechhhh) version in the UK but a slightly better version in the US from Pacific Dataworks International. I've actually owned a retail copy of that (paid for and everything!) since it was new. It even has the three special moves! Maybe I'll show you that some time.

oh boy!, the Amiga sure had some terrible games, at times I think they were trying to eat more than they could chew.

Wow, I didn't think you uploaded a Final Fantasy IV video! There's many other games that were ported to the WonderSwan Color, like Front Mission

As someone who started exploring the Saturn very recently, maybe one of the most underrated consoles, so much unique game variety and plenty of technically impressive games for the system. Once I get mine fram modded so I never need to replace a battery I will really be in business lol

Que buena comparacion! Ahí te sigo y recomiendo, si querés mira lo que hago. Saludos y éxitos.

No, your videos have never been terrible. I really like your channel. Anytime that I have disagreed with you has always been to debate about whatever game or console the video was about. It is never done in a disrespectful way. Sometimes it's hard to tell when the main means of conversation is text.

I actually did not like that you skipped the hardware specs of both machines. At any rate, when SF2T was released on the 3DO, it was hailed as the best defacto version to own in the home. I remember getting a chance to play it and being mesmerized by it in 1994. Then....I started noticing things about it. The lack of parallax scrolling was something that really bothered me. Now, I thought the colors, especially during a Super Finisher, were incredible. I wonder if maybe it might look much better on a CRT TV. I thought the graphics were otherworldly when I played it and I was enjoying SF2T on the Snes an hour before getting to see the 3DO port. It could be the CRT hides blemishes like they did with Genesis and Snes games. Things like the Sonic The Hedgehog water level and dithering come to mind. What do you think? Is it possible?

nice idea and nice vid but you should have added embedded captions with the game titles!! (at least at the beginning of every game clip)

You use your foot to jump by pressing space bar. Well we used to back in the day when the c64 was set up on the floor on the family tv

honestly was still a fun port if you grew up with it or before that in 94 when i got a genesis and champion edition for christmas, the fact that I could play street fighter at home was amazing at the time.

i didnt even know ali baba was a sega game. It was my first msx ever, in cartridge. The sound was soooo freaking annoying man, i kinda hated that game....also, it was too similar to pac man...

Really seems like you got a bad one. Mine didnt have most of those issues. Also i only use the RA menu as most everything is optimized on it. My battery also last for awhile depending on the game. But good for people to see its a mixed bag. Could get a good one or one with issues. I also dont agree with included roms. Only because i dont wanna see more legal action by nintendo. I dont care how you get the roms aside from that.

Didn't Super Street Fighter 2 introduce a number of different color selections for your player character? I wonder if that's why the Genesis bkgs took a hit in the color dept.

I dunno. Im no purist but I thought then and still do now that this was a damned good port for the hardware at the time. It's nearly 1 to 1 in my view.

Yeah the Genesis version sounds terrible. I especially perfer the sound and music from the CPS-1 versions. Its so much beefier and packs a better punch on a stage like Zangief with that groovy bass line and snappy drum samples.

this was my first jrpg ever, and is one of my games I like to return to from time to time. Even though first time playing it, it was kind of hard to understand the mechanics, since I did speak no englisch at the time (and it never got a german dub), heck, there are still some elments (like what certain items do), I still don't know/understand XD though somehow I still understood the story somehow. The music, the character design, the battle mechanic, freakin love it all. Honestly the only thing I hate is that ending. Cuase even as a kid I kinda shipped Sarah with bowie and the romance with the princess came completly out of nowhere and forced. Other than that, fantastic game.

Good video. It's completely subjective but I personally love the level 1 CD music.

The MAIN difference is that the PC Engine version uses the Gradius checkpoint revival system instead of returning the player in the position they died, a system that Gradius Gaiden ditches when playing with a buddy (otherwise the classic checkpoint system is used in single player) or by default in Gradius V (yup, in Gradius V the checkpoint revival system must be enabled... I dunno if just like Gaiden if you play with a 2nd player ditches that system OR if just like PC Engine AND MSX Salamander goes back to the last checkpoint regardless of who died... like playing the Turbo Tunnel or Volkmyre's Inferno in Battletoads during the bike/plane segments), is also funny how Parodius also has the Salamander (Arcade) revival system starting with Gokujou (or in Europe Fantastic Journey) in the same manner as Gradius Gaiden for the Arcade and 32-bit ports (Ps1 and Saturn) and on the SNES/SFC if you enable the Salamander revival system as well... I think this extends to Oshaberi Parodius in both SFC and 32-bit consoles (just keep in mind that the Options/Multiples you had when you lose a live are instantly lost instead of having a chance to recover them), however in Sexy Parodius the Salamander revival system when it comes to single player is ONLY used when you pick the Auto power up option. Revival systems aside, the Pc Engine port is amazing, there's also a cheat code to have it in "arcade mode" but I think that's only for the mini-console re-release.

This was one of my favourite arcade conversions back in the day, but it could've been even better. A 2MB cart would've allowed for better graphics and possibly some more percussion in the music

One extra note, the credits sequence in the PC Engine CD version is slighty different if you beat the game in Professional Mode showing the remains of some of the bosses before finishing it the same way as the arcade, you also hear the Gradius 2 navigator say "Congratulations!!!" if you beat the game on that difficulty.

I had this game as a teenager and I agree, this port was such a let down, especially the music. I hated the new announcer as well, he sounded more effeminate than the previous games (why?!). I didn't admit it at the time though 😅

Considering that the console versions were limited by the amount of ROM size (2/3 less)… the ports were impressive. And the music was pretty good on the SNES overall. And I do t remember the colors being so dark on my CRT.

I got a Saturn in 97, a year before I would get a PlayStation, and the thing I loved about the Saturn growing up was all the sprite-based RPGs on the console

Letter box because of the multi with snes having an even bigger letter box... Graphically it improves alot compared to turbo, sprites are bigger. Animation, well, add stars up to four... you even have an 8 stars demo mode in vs when you look at ai vs ai match... Capcom mess the musics but the voices were better than SCE and same are arcade... All in all i don t agree...

yeah I still can't believe the Genesis SSF2 had 8 extra megs compared to SNES but somehow sounded worse?! it seemed to play just fine at the very least. Still definitely prefer the SNES version though.

Saying "it's 64bit where it counts" is not admitting anything delinquent. All it's saying is by videogame device standards, it's 64 bit. I had several Jaguar brochures back in 90s which stated the 64 bit data bus is what made the Jaguar a 64 bit system. It even described the processing as a "64-bit freeway". It said nothing about 64bit processors or 2x 32bit CPUs. In the end, bits don't mean anything if you don't know how to use them.

good video and agree with much of the descriptions, but the "fake" parallex is impressive for the PCE/TG-16 and I prefer the darker colors in the PCE/TG-16 vs. the washed out brighter look to the arcade. Also the option of PCE Mode or Arcade mode makes the PCE/TG-16 the better overall game IMHO. As for EGM Sushi-X giving the game a 10? Nah, but it is one of the better ninja games of the time.

This is a cool idea for a comparison. I’d like to see you go Game Boy Advance vs Sega Saturn games.

I actually like super streetfighter 2 on the Mega Drive, but I’m not gonna lie I definitely prefer special champ edition may need due to the much better graphics and music and the gameplay is definitely the main reason why I have super streetfighter 2 in my collection and I did play back when it was new back in 94 I honestly don’t remember caring about the graphics and sound. I mean I knew the voices were bad but all I cared about is that I was playing super street fighter 2 at home but overall it’s a lazy port and I say that this port also contributed to the bad sound rep that the Mega Drive gets as the sound is one of the worst on the system that it’s actually kind of insulting and equally as bad as that Capcom thought it was acceptable with Capcom just doing the bare minimum.