Battle Golfer, Lord Monarch and filler – New Additions

Posted by Sega Dude on February 11, 2012
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I’ve seen Battle Golfer on ebay quite often but was never at all interested because I saw the golf club and I knew it was a golf game. I’m really not interested in collecting sports games so I always dismissed this one. By chance I found out that Battle Golfer, while still a golf game, is also an RPG. It sounded insane but… it is Japanese.
Your character is one of two school girl friends. Both are abducted  but you mange to escape before the brain washing and now must enter the golf tournament in order to save your friend and I think the world too. Got it?
Now I was interested in Battle Golfer. It’s bizarre, an RPG , in excellent condition… and I won it for 99 cents (well, not really but more on that below)!

Battle Golfer RPG!

Next up is Lord Monarch and Mickey Mania. I’ve always liked the artwork on Lord Monarch and passively wanted to add it to the collection for a long while. It’s a strategy game that can take advantage of the Mega Drive mouse. Not that I have the mouse, know Japanese or will ever play this game but I’m still enjoying this addition.
Mickey Mania on the other hand is a game I could play and I hear it’s very good. And for the other two?… they were cheap and in great shape, perfect filler for the collection. Actually what I like most is that Ichidantoaru (the one with the tittle that starts ‘Puzzle & Action’) has the newer packaging style with the blue Mega Drive bar along the left side. Aside from the posterity edition of Pier Solar this is the only Mega Drive era game I have with this styling.

New Additions

Battle Golfer – 99 cents
Hyokkori Hyoutan Island  – 10 cents
Puzzle & Action Tanto-R- $5.50
*All in about $20 with shipping.

Lord Monarch – $30 with shipping (don’t feel awesome about this one but it’s not the end of the world)

Mickey Mania – $15 with shipping

GEN Mobile

Posted by Sega Dude on January 28, 2012
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I already have the Atgames’ Sega Gopher handheld and it’s excellent except for one huge flaw. You cannot save games. So forget playing any RPGs or games like Wonder Boy in Monster World. If it wasn’t for this the Gopher would be the ultimate Sega Hand Held device.

More recently I discovered the GEN Mobile and I thought it was the answer. The GEN Mobile has 20 built in games just like the Gopher but it also allows you to play actual Genesis carts! Meaning you can save your games that have a save feature. And even though the GEN Mobile doesn’t have the same quality in it’s build as the Gopher I would have been fine with it except for one thing. The directional pad on the GEN Mobile is terrible. Each direction, up, down, left and right is an individual button which makes it really hard to slide your thumb over to other directions. Playing an action game feels impossible!
If the directional pad was Plus shaped like the NES or better still like the pad for Genesis I can only believe that it would have been far better. The latter would also allow for 8 directional control instead of it’s existing and a very weak 4 directional layout.

Another negatives is the sound is very poor. It’s a bit better when you use ear phones but even still it’s not great.
The screen is small and it feels pretty cheap. But I would have been very happy with it if the direction pad wasn’t such a problem.

GEN Mobile

Arrow Flash, Mercs II and filler (New Additions)

Posted by Sega Dude on January 28, 2012
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For me the highlight of this ebay purchase is Arrow Flash. I enjoyed this back in the day and I feel it’s still an o.k. shooter.
Mercs 2 is a game I knew about but never played. It looked all right and the price was good enough. When I tested it just today I was pleased that is seems like it could be a really good game. You have a generous health meter so no instant deaths. Very nice!
As for OutRun this game it not timeless. This game use to shine when its graphics were cutting edge. Now… they are not and there isn’t much left. But it’s colorful and in good shape so it will make for some good filler for the collection. There are all in very good shape but Mercs II does have a little bit of sun fade on the spine. At least I think it does because what I think should be red is pink.

Arrow Flash $17
Merc II $20
OutRun $13

It was €10.00 for shipping for all three together.

New Additions

Streets of Rage Remake

Posted by Sega Dude on January 22, 2012
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Did I say it was a good time to be a retro gaming fan? I’m pretty sure I did and it really is 😀
After stumbling onto the fan project Golden Axe Myth I started looking for others and it didn’t take long to find them.  I’m going to do my part to get the word out there.

SorR Project by Bomber Games is a complete, ground up remake of Sega’s Streets of Rage. It combines many different elements from Streets of Rage 1, 2 and 3; including playable characters and enemies. As well as original cut scenes and eight endings. The list of features is extensive and you can find all the details at the SorR Project Blog.

Click on the Image below for Screen Shot comparisons:

Streets of Rage Compaison Screen Shots

I haven’t yet beaten Streets of Rage Remake but with 93 stages in story mode it sounds huge. I’m sure this will keep my attention for a very long time. It also has 10 alternate game modes. See a sample of both below:

Story Mode Trailer:

SonicFanRemix

Posted by Sega Dude on January 22, 2012
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Although not yet complete this Fan Made Remix of Sonic the Hedgehog looks like it could actually be better than Sega’s own recently created Sonic 4. Personally Sonic 4 does look very good but wow this fan project is mind blowing!

For me, there are two things happening here. First: a company did not produce this game. A fan (or several) did. Clearly they are extremely talented and passionate about what they’re doing. Second: We all have a really very excellent new Sonic game to look forward to.


Check out the video clip in this post or visit the official site at sonicfanremix.com
Or better still download the the level one Demo.

I can’t find the words to express how great it feels to know there are people out there doing this kind of work. I really do hope they have the time and resources to complete this project. And even though I know they are not yet complete I can’t  help but think about what project they might try next! 😀

Game Appreciation 101 (Part I): The Phantasy Star III Project

Posted by Sega Dude on January 19, 2012
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Game Appreciation 101 (Part I): The Phantasy Star III Project.

Check out this blog from “DESTROY ALL FANBOYS!” I really enjoyed geelw’s very long history with Phantay Star III for the Genesis/Mega Drive. It was a long journey but he got there 🙂