Sounds painfully average at best.

I went back to thuis, just to get to the bonus level and hear the music again.



The game just doesn't click with me though, to the point where finishing it with save states would've been too much of a chore to bother with.  I remember finishing it when I borrowed it as a kid (I may have owned it briefly, come to think of it), but those early Dave Perry games always had the ABBAABBA type cheats, so there's a chance I level skipped. 

For next week, which is listed as a Wildcard Week, assuming anyone's up for it, how about trying a game that passed you by completely that everyone raves about?  Retro can do Story of Thor, I can plough ahead with Metroid (maybe chuck something like Mickey's Magical Quest or Warioland 4 on GBA in there too, neither of which I've played for more than a few minutes).  Perhaps other participants have something in mind that they feel they should have played, or would be open to suggestions?

I'm in this week as I have got Dynamite Headdy waiting for me, never been touched.

Looking forward to writing it up

I'm in, will be doing Story of Thor

In terms of mechanics, I'd say Thor has probably aged better than any 16-bit action RPG.  The fighting is very good.  My only complaint at the time was that it was too short compared to similar games, but as far as I'm concerned that's a tick in the plus column for a modern playthrough.  24 megs of goodness, Yuzo Koshiro score (not his best, but some of it is good - I think he produced the game too, but I'm not 100%), and also one of the best looking Megadrive games.

Game I missed - never played it past level 1 or 2. It's quite short I believe? Think Edge criticised it for that.

Isn't there a wee board game level in it somewhere - love things like that.

Gunstar Heroes is one, if not my favourite game of all time. Simple mechanics, glorious art direction / graphical execution and in two player its a real blast. Its not too tough either which is graciously appreciated in my older age!

Yeah - might be good to have a summer break.

Summer break is on btw.

Will change the thread title accordingly. We should have thought of this anyway tbh - World Cup Italia '90, World Cup USA 94 etc.

I'm not sure what my opinion on retro football games is.  I was going to post that simplistic guff like World Cup Italia '90 has probably aged better than something released later that wasn't quite as bad, like European Club Soccer, but I'm going from memory/guesswork here.  I certainly thought the latter was better than the former in 1992.  Part of me thinks the Emlyn Hughes game above would be more fun as a head-to-head game in 2014 than Fifa '96.  The middle ground was a slow old plod for footie games, and they took a backward step when 32-bit consoles arrived.  Actua Soccer....surely that's abysmal now?

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The middle ground was a slow old plod for footie games, and they took a backward step when 32-bit consoles arrived.  Actua Soccer....surely that's abysmal now?

I was thinking that. It was pretty awful then but we were trying to convince ourselves it was the future. It took a good while for anything to catch up to ISS on SNES. Even that would probably seem a bit odd now, but it was so much closer to football than anything else of the time.

For a while European Club Soccer was my only Mega Drive game.

I remember the cheat threeshreddedwheat enabled the players to smash goals from anywhere and made it much more playable.

Never played these much. Played something on the Master System - may well have been Italia '90 and messed about with ISS Deluxe on SNES. Currently in the middle of a tourney in work using Virtua Soccer 2002 for GC.

Another session in our office Virtua Striker 3 tourney today.

The young guns raised on 360/PS3 FIFA are having difficulties with its arcade sensibilities. You have no time on the ball at all and it can be frustrating....too easy to send the ball over the net too when shooting.