Space Harrier II

You can play the original game on the original hardware.

However you get a hold of the Sega Genesis version of Space Harrier 2, get the high score.

Space Harrier 2? Yeah, Space Harrier 2.

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It was an insane idea.

But I suppose what is telling is when I got my Mega Drive in 1991, I wasn't even remotely excited about getting the Space Harrier 2 for that because it already felt like we'd gone so far past it.

Space Harrier 2 didn't look quite as good as the arcade Space Harrier 1, even all those years on.

It ran a little bit slower and it felt a little bit clunkier, didn't have as much colour.

So really it was only in the, I think the first time, yes, it would have been.

Kind of funny as well they never brought it out in the Mega Drive.

It was Space Harrier 2 as well they did on the Mega Drive but kind of weird that they never bothered porting the original game to the Mega Drive.

You'd think they would have used that to kind of step it up and kind of keep it kind of relevant in that generation but that's what you say you do get the odd kind of sprite flicker as it's moving but when you take it all into account what it's trying to do the hardware that it's trying to replicate again that kind of early example of Sega downscaling the arcade games to the hardware and still finding a way to visually represent what you see in the arcade so that you go oh hello but the arcade gameplay was still carried across and Space Harrier on the Master System still plays brilliant I think the slower pace helps yeah I think if I don't know if that was by design choice or by hardware limitation.

It might be a combination of the two, maybe leaning more towards hardware, but it helps because the speed that it moves, that kind of sprite flicker that you do get, it's not really...

It is.

We didn't get a port onto the Mega Drive.

Well, we did eventually with the Mega Drive Mini 2 because they did the whole... sega mark 5 thing that they did where they had like enhanced versions where they actually had proper scaling on there of space harrier 2 and they actually put the original space harrier and obviously there were like 2022 that that happened at the time it was just the master system version that's the kind of uh faithful to the arcade because the gamecube version is brilliant but it's got different levels and different uh different enemies which is good in its own right But yeah, I mean, that's solidified it and probably jumping ahead, mate.

But I think you probably know what's coming next because we went through all these games that my aunties and uncles bought.