Space Harrier

with the Ferrari back in the old days in the arcade and then on Sega Genesis or Mega Drive if you're in Europe.

Super Hang-On, Space Harrier, Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter.

He was the head of Sega AM2, who created a game called Shenmue on the Sega Dreamcast, which is, you know, probably one of the first true open-world games.

You know, anyway...

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It's a Space Harrier style into the screen rail shooter with a very 8-bit look and large chunky pixels.

Yeah, this almost looks like if you took a Game Gear rail shooter and then put it on a big screen and made it 16x9.

But it looks cool.

I mean, it's very much that generation, but it's getting towards the end of that era, I guess.

You've got, I guess, Afterburner and Space Harrier and stuff around at the same time, which aren't massively different in their own way.

But yeah, there's a bit more going on in those games, I'd say.

So, yeah.

Well, and apparently Amiga Format, they did a second review and lowered it to a 40%, and they're like, we're stupid.

They're like, well, they call it a Space Harrier clone.

I'm like, if it was a Space Harrier clone, it would have been a lot better.

That's like the most, like... rod strokes comparison i guess but sure i

mean

there

is there is some truth to that but space harrier looks better plays better and there's a lot more entertaining of an experience and it's hard but like i mean that game you shoot a fucking a dragon like bit by bit out you know this game don't have that

what's really funny about the reviews is it is like completely like a split like like the people that like this game like reviewed it like in the 80s like generally fairly high oh there's another amiga magazine that gave it an 80s what the why are there so many

Let's see.

I do get, like, now, like, okay, this movie reminds me of the game Space Harrier.

Do you get

that vibe? I'm not sure I know it.

And the sequel, Operation Thunderbolt, which I never played.

Night Striker, which is a Japanese-only release kind of It's kind of like Space Harrier meets Outrun because in this game you have a stage and then you're able to choose the next direction.

So like you can go to the right to go to the ocean or go to the left and go to the mountains.

So kind of that Outrun feel.

ShutterTech.

It's the same as Space Harrier.

Yes.

It's just the normal port, but in a 3D version.

But yeah, the 3DS version in particular is glorious.

Absolutely.

I mean, I eulogized about the Space Harrier port that's on the 3DS and the OutRun one.

Possibly even better.

um like an actual arcade version of it if you know i mean i had it on like you know the the roms from like the pc engine it's just not the same man so i was like brilliant so i invested in a copy of gameworks and at the time i think i paid about i want to say about 70 pound for it um and then later down the line through many hours of playing all the games that are on this.

You've got Space Harrier 2, Hang On, After Burner 2, Space Harrier, sorry, Power Drift and Outrun.

Many, many hours of playing it, I got to a point where I had to sell my collection off and I sold Gameworks.

I think I got about £110 for it at the time, which was pretty good.

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there amazing

you know and um it's just stuff like that in here it's obviously a a deep delve into his mind and how he looked at stuff and You know, you've got the Virtua Racing cabinet in here and Space Harrier cabinet, like prototype pictures, you know, that sort of thing.

And it's like, it's just a real, real time piece, I think, of Yuzuzuki.

You know, you can list out all the problems that it has, but yeah, for the time and before the before the higher powered systems like the playstation or the n64 were coming out they figured out a way that's the neat thing to me about the super nintendo is is i think they found a way to do a lot of really interesting stuff with the hardware like you talk about um like mario kart being in that like mode seven yeah yeah mode seven Um, I mean that, like there were, they did more, uh, or they did better to kind of find their way around kind of the proto 3d than Sega did for sure.

Like I'm thinking like compare this or compare and maybe, I don't know, now that I'm thinking about it, like there was a space Harrier too.

I mean, like there were other versions of this kind of, uh, I think, I think this was more of a, kind of a true 3d.

Cause like even, even getting into like the.

uh venom i did get to venom at the end and got decently far into it but like the the level right before that i think there is a section where you it's almost like a cut scene where like the r-wing does like a twist and turn through this tunnel it's like holy shit how did they get all that to work

yeah definitely and the thing is you mentioned um What fucking game did you just mention? I swear I was paying attention.

Space Harrier 2.

That's it, yeah.

Golden Gate Bridge.

They have Space Harrier, a Space Harrier clone, and, uh, um, what's the driving game?

Uh, OutRun?

OutRun, yeah.