Star Wars (Arcade, 1993) is fucking magnificent. i still haven’t gotten around to trying the 32x version…
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Rez has been mentioned, so 2ing this choice, capturing the vibe of an era similar to, say, a wipeout or F-Zero did.
w/ that out of the way, i am shocked — _shocked_ — to see that nobody mentioned Killer7. SB, hand in your badge, you are on leave for a month, now go and think long and hard about what you did(n't do).
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I didn’t assume Klr7 would count.
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killer7 I always saw as a stripped down point and click adv game with shooting just as a means of breaking up the lock and key puzzling, but yeah it fits to me. Like a lot of IC/SB-sphere gravitating folks I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that I can’t go a day without thinking long and hard about that game lol
If it was stripped down even further to a light gun game they could have stuffed gamecubes in arcade cabinets (or sega triforce boards lol) and rebranded it gun survivor 5. Imagining the text-to-speech voice hissing “SOUL BULLET” as you shoot key items to pick them up
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to make up for moi trying to pass off as a know-it-all, j/k option #3 is … wait for it …
nope, wrong!
it’s
Nigel Mansells World Championship Racing, because you can shoot for gaps (CHECK) and your williams drives like it is on rails (CHECK)
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If Killer7 counts, does that mean 2Spicy counts? Am sad the demake of 2Spicy never happened.
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Repping elemental gearbolt itt
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Assault chainguns km is nothing lifechanging but it is one of the lesser known recent indie rail shooters. I got it on switch for like 2 bucks one time
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gotta shoutout the second chapter of Die Hard Trilogy once again. grotesquery with gusto. slow the playback speed at 1:55 and get a load of those bodies, those faces… 2:06, good lord
this is the only good use of Dulles Airport
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I’m not going to say that G-LOC is one of the best, but one of the voice samples I think is supposed to be “Pull up!” sounds to me like “Bob Hope!” and so when I hear it I am always thinking “I may be a fighter pilot in the USMC, but you ain’t gonna get me with the ol’ ‘Bob Hope out the window’ tactic”
What do people think of Burning Force? I was thinking of checking out that new Hamster release.
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I played a bunch of Burning Force on MEgadrive back in the day and it was not really worth it. The whoile thing felt like an extremely exteded tutorial level for a much better game. Bimini Run was a lot more engaging for me.
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cosmic epsilon and Tetrastar are my favs. Tetrastar moreso because it was the first one I played. Cosmic Epsilon is a bit less intense. You can hear a faint “good luck” voice sample in Cosmic Epsilon too
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k7 definitely falls under “games in other styles that absorbed rail shooter dna”! let’s take a wide definition of the rail shooter legacy.
is a rail shooter
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SB Hot Take 2023
(and you make it sound cooler than it is, but i like that! 
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i picked up the Mega Drive reprint of this recently! it came with some teacups 
which i think the original did, too?
anyway, haven’t spent a ton of time with it, yet, but it does look gorgeous
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I keep Yakuza 6 installed just to play the arcade Space Harrier in it. ^ _^
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the original did come with a teacup, making it oneof the most valuable mega drive games complete.
a port of the dreamcast sequel, rainbow cotton, was just released on ps4 and switch!
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oh nice! yeah the original came with a tea set.
They like only sold it in a deluxe box and then stopped printing it.
Its kinda chaotic but you can pick it up.
A joystick is recommended.
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Whoa dang I just found Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.20: Space Harrier II - Space Harrier Complete Collection (PS2). And a downloadable version is still on the JP PS3 store. (There are 109 PS2 games on the JP PS3 store; for some reason Wikipedia only lists a dozen or so of them. More here: List of PlayStation 2 Classics for PlayStation 3 | Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki | Fandom .)
It’s pretty much the same Space Harrier M2 arcade port used for the arcade version in Yakuza 6 etc, only less blurry and with more options, the ability to continue, and of course not needing 38 GB+ of Yakuza game stuff installed; it’s also got the Sega Mark III arcade port, as well as console versions of “SPACE HARRIERII” and “SPACE HARRIER3D.”
(Jailbroken PS3s can dump PS3 PS2 games for play in PCSX2 or whatever using Apollo Save Tool. Although I found I couldn’t get the resulting 627 MB .iso to compress to 49.4 MB .chd unless I a) burned it to disc, then dumped that to bin/cue, OR b) used PowerISO’s Convert function (PowerISO costs $40 : P).)
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