Kristianna Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 A little trip down memory lane. I remember playing the hell out out that game, along with Streets of Rage 2. How come Turtles in Time and Hyperstone Heist are so similar ? Edit : Heh, just for the hell of it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBKwjEmk_cQ I'm pretty sure Hyperstone Heist and Turtles in Time were made at the exact same time for different systems. I really don't know why they decided to make two different games, but they did. Oh, and also, Streets of Rage 2 kicks ass! I was playing that just the other day, along with Streets of Rage 3. If you like those games, you should try to find Final Fight 3 for SNES. It's pretty rare, but if you can get it, its awesome.
AndrewTS Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 Hyperstone Heist was pretty much table scraps for Genesis owners, because the system couldn't handle the special effects used in Turtles in Time.
DrVenkman PhD Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 Wiki says: A redesigned version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, the time travel concept was removed from this version and replaced by a plot where Shredder uses the Hyperstone to shrink Manhattan Island to the size of a bottle. Several of the stages of the original arcade game are used, with their odd, non-modern appearance explained away — for example, the pirate ship becomes a ghost ship. While most aspects of Turtles in Time were carried over to The Hyperstone Heist, some changes were made to the gameplay. The most noticeable one is that The Hyperstone Heist adds a run button, while in Turtles in Time, the turtles would run awhile after walking or after the player tapped the directional pad twice in the designated direction. Another noticeable change is the Turtles will no longer throw the foot soldiers, though they still can slam them back and forth on the ground after they dash attack them. The Hyperstone Heist ranks poorly due to the limitations of the Genesis system compared to the SNES [2]. Thanks to the superior color palette of the SNES, Turtles in Time looks brighter and more colorful, and while the Genesis makes up for this deficiency with more background layers and animation frames, the graphics of the SNES version are still preferred by gamers. So yeah, basically what Andrew said.
AndrewTS Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 By and large, Konami didn't seem to like the Genesis. When Konami made a Sega version of a game, it usually was pretty lame. Tournament Fighters sucked on Genesis compared to the SNES version, big time. SNES Sparkster was a much different and better game than Sparkster Genesis. Sunset Riders on SNES was much more faithful to arcade, while Genesis had bigger sprites and much stupider AI. There were a few folks who looked past the Genesis' limitations and worked well with its faster processor (see Contra Hard Corp), and certainly Treasure did (former Konami employees). However, it's basically a rule of thumb that when a Konami game came out on both systems, spring for the SNES one. Some people claim the Hyperstone enemy AI is better than TiT, but it doesn't seem that much like it to me.
DrVenkman PhD Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 The Adventures of Batman and Robin was pretty good (but really difficult according to memory) for the Genesis.
BUTT Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 Don't forget Castlevania: Bloodlines. I would guess that Konami releasing a modified port of Turtles in Time was less due to hardware limitations and more due to trying to trick buyers into thinking it was a different game.
BUTT Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 If you like those games, you should try to find Final Fight 3 for SNES. It's pretty rare, but if you can get it, its awesome. There's no explaining Haggar's ass-length ponytail in that game.
AndrewTS Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 Don't forget Castlevania: Bloodlines. Many key members of the Castlevania Bloodlines team also worked on Contra: Hard Corps, Rocket Knight Adventures and the Sega CD port of Snatcher--basically all of Konami's quality Sega output right there. Contrary to popular belief, they aren't the pre-Treasure Treasure. Yaiman and Nami, the lead programmers for Treasure, were the main programmers on Contra 3 and Castlevania IV instead. I would guess that Konami releasing a modified port of Turtles in Time was less due to hardware limitations and more due to trying to trick buyers into thinking it was a different game. Probably a little of column A and a little of column B. The two games were released quite a bit of time apart anyway. The Adventures of Batman and Robin was pretty good (but really difficult according to memory) for the Genesis. It was developed by Clockwork Tortoise and published by Sega. Brutally hard, but the fact that you had to have your shots charged to do any damage (not "hold a button" charge, but "wait for the bar to fill after so much time" charge), and you were being assaulted CONSTANTLY like a Contra game just made the game totally un-fun to me. The game had amazing special effects, though. The SNES game with the same title was made by Konami, and it rocked, even though it was hastily retitled from "Batman: The Animated Series" late and development, and thus Robin's barely in it.
DrVenkman PhD Posted August 11, 2007 Report Posted August 11, 2007 Hmm... after the fact, I DID think Sega published it but Wikipedia let me down on that one. It lumped both games together as TAoB&R and compared versions instead of deeming them seperate. We had to use the slow motion or turbo pause or whatever the correct term for it was just to advance anywhere in the Batwing levels in the Sega version, now that I look back. Crazy.
Guest init12 Posted August 12, 2007 Report Posted August 12, 2007 Checkout my big PSP lot! http://cgi.ebay.ca/Big-Lot-Sony-PSP-with-1...emZ250153830634 Help a BRUTHA OUT!!
WukenBloodstar Posted August 12, 2007 Report Posted August 12, 2007 Demo for John Woo's Stranglehold is out on the 360 marketplace. It's like Max Payne on crack, and being able to drop signs and A/Cs and etc on people to a shower of blood and explode propane tanks gives a chuckle. The aiming "Tequlia Bomb" is the best, nothing says funny like shooting a man straight in the balls and watching his shocked expression and rolling around on the ground until he finally dies.
AndrewTS Posted August 12, 2007 Report Posted August 12, 2007 Hmm... after the fact, I DID think Sega published it but Wikipedia let me down on that one. It lumped both games together as TAoB&R and compared versions instead of deeming them seperate. We had to use the slow motion or turbo pause or whatever the correct term for it was just to advance anywhere in the Batwing levels in the Sega version, now that I look back. Crazy. Game Genie, here. Made the game enjoyable, at least. It was still immensely more playable than Batman Forever, which was easier, but crap.
DrVenkman PhD Posted August 12, 2007 Report Posted August 12, 2007 Yeah, I don't recall the part in the Batman Forever movie where Batman was defeated by Crazy Ted because he couldn't input the proper commands to throw something.
BUTT Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 Don't forget Castlevania: Bloodlines. Many key members of the Castlevania Bloodlines team also worked on Contra: Hard Corps, Rocket Knight Adventures and the Sega CD port of Snatcher--basically all of Konami's quality Sega output right there. Contrary to popular belief, they aren't the pre-Treasure Treasure. Yaiman and Nami, the lead programmers for Treasure, were the main programmers on Contra 3 and Castlevania IV instead. zis there any known reason why Treasure chose to work with the Genesis rather than SNES? You'd figure that they would have stuck with the hardware they knew best; did Sega just get to them first?
Danville_Wrestling Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 Looks like Fire Pro is coming stateside!: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/811/811300p1.html
bobobrazil1984 Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 part 5 of the Final Fantasy retrospective: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23449.html This is the one that covers FF7 - so far the whole series of videos has been really good. FF7's brought back some memories.
Ripper Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 I have been playing The Hulk Ultimate Destruction lately since my 360 is a goner. I never really played it before, but man, this pretty much Crackdown.
Sideburnious Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 part 5 of the Final Fantasy retrospective: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23449.html This is the one that covers FF7 - so far the whole series of videos has been really good. FF7's brought back some memories. Yeah, all of the retrospectives have been pretty great. The metroid one was cool as was the Zelda one (even if they got a bit lazy with the timeline theory).
DrVenkman PhD Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 Looks like Fire Pro is coming stateside!: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/811/811300p1.html Some of those IGN user comments are gold. This looks like the most crappiest wrestling game i have seen in ages look at the wrestlers they are half 2D half 3D and so what if it has loads of options there has to be good gameplay and from the looks of it i would get bored of this game pretty quickly
Matt Young Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 Looks like Fire Pro is coming stateside!: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/811/811300p1.html http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?...t&p=2528841
Obi Chris Kenobi Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 Anyone seen/played the new Madden yet?
Matt Young Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 Anyone seen/played the new Madden yet? It won't be out for another 5 and a half hours (Eastern time).
Obi Chris Kenobi Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 Ah, got ahead of myself. I always get worried when a game doesn't have a demo out before its released. Hope its good, me and my mate at work have a whole week off to build and destroy each others franchise team on live.
razazteca Posted August 13, 2007 Report Posted August 13, 2007 The Madden Curse continues this year with Vince Young starting fights at practice and missing team mandated curfew.
Darthtiki Posted August 14, 2007 Report Posted August 14, 2007 I'm getting mine at midnight, this is my first year of Madden whoo hoo!
Mike wanna be Posted August 14, 2007 Report Posted August 14, 2007 I got a defective disc when I went at midnight for the NCAA 08 release; that + a birthday 10 days after release means I'm waiting a bit. It looks totally badass, though. Surprised there wasn't a demo...
A Happy Medium Posted August 14, 2007 Report Posted August 14, 2007 I haven't enjoyed Madden on 360 for the past two years. I'm going to wait and see the response from people before I purchase it.
Guest init12 Posted August 15, 2007 Report Posted August 15, 2007 Check my sale, yo!! http://cgi.ebay.ca/Big-Lot-Sony-PSP-with-1...50450QQihZ015QQ Thank you for your time
Guest Smues Posted August 16, 2007 Report Posted August 16, 2007 So I was doing a survey on video game consoles today. The pages were taking forever to load and it seemed like it went on forever, but I did my best to fill it out accurately, (including writing for half an hour to fully answer the question about "What does Playstation do to make you angry?")until I reached these stupid questions. Huh? Who the hell comes up with this shit? I ended up just leaving all the retarded ones like those blank, but I did fill out this next one, that asked what it would be like if the Wii were a person and you went on a date with it. WHO THE FUCK COMES UP WITH THESE QUESTIONS? At least I had SOME fun during this survey that never ended. Here's one more WTF? question: That one left me clueless. Surveys are wierd.
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