I think vectorman 2 was also a North American exclusive.
Too bad, it was actually pretty good. It probably would have done poorly in Japan but a PAL release might have sold.
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I think vectorman 2 was also a North American exclusive.
Too bad, it was actually pretty good. It probably would have done poorly in Japan but a PAL release might have sold.
I think you're right. I'm not sure why Vectorman 2 wasn't released in Europe. In Japan the Mega Drive was dead, but not so in Europe.
I know a lot of sports games were only released in North America, but that's not very interesting to talk about.
Zoda's Revenge is definitely a great North America-only game. Vectorman 2 is as well... I hadn't realized that that only released in the US! Too bad for everyone else, that's a great game. Zoda's Revenge is pretty good too, of course. Games only released in the US actually aren't too uncommon, we just don't usually think about them here because, well, they released here...
For instance, going by Wikipedia, which in this case I believe is correct, there are a full 50 N64 games that were only released in the US. In comparison, there are 84 N64 games only released in Japan, and 4 that were only released in Europe. However, the N64 also has a lot of US+EU only games, so Japan actually got the fewest total releases of the three regions, despite getting the most exclusives. There are a bit under 200 Japanese releases, ~250 European releases, and ~300 American releases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_64_games Of course, the N64 did the best by far in North America, so it's not surprising that there would be so many N64 games only released in the US, but there were; but since we got them here, and the system was fairly successful here, I rarely think about it. Some US-exclusive N64 games of note include Army Men: Air Combat, the first BattleTanx, Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs, California Speed, Cruis'n Exotica, Dr. Mario 64 (though Japan did get a port of this in the Gamecube Nintendo Puzzle Collection), Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Indy Racing 2000, all four N64 NFL Blitz games, Polaris SnoCross, Stunt Racer 64, and more.
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Originally Posted by j_factor
I am actually on my way to play through RT2 atm (final stage reached), and it is such a shame part 3 was not released over here.
I definitely need to pick up the US version eventually, sadly it's not that common and prices are pretty high... plus shipping to Germany, with eBay's abysmal customs service.
And yeah, Vectorman 2 wasn't released here either, which is a mystery. You'd think Sega would happily throw every MD hit left at the fans, who had been promised continued support of the MD for several years when the Saturn was released, only to see it abandoned quickly.
Batman: Revenge of the Joker was NA only too. Rented it for a weekend, and although the Genesis version suffers from terribly floaty, loose controls and strange hit detection, I do have a soft spot for this mediocre game. Being a bit of a Star Trek fan I also have Star Trek: TNG from NA, wasn't released here either. Nice one. And Splatterhouse 3!
Not so sad Europe missed out on the glorious X-perts though... ^^
Then there's a ton of RPGs that were left in Japan and the US back in the day. FF VII on PS1 was the very first one released here, and DQ VIII on PS2 was the first DQ game. Chrono Trigger only made it here on the DS. Warsong. The GG Shining Force games. Persona 1 and 2. All Tales of games before Symphonia, and most until Graces F.
Quite a few of those have been made available through remakes and digital releases on modern platforms since though.
Seems your previous episode really took off and got a lot more views than usual in such a short time. Did it get featured on a gaming site or something?
I thought of RT3 as soon as I saw the episode title. I had no idea about those GI Joe and Lone Ranger games. They look really good.
Always showing me games I've never heard of, you Game Sack bastards, you.
Also... oh man, Eduardo the Samurai Toaster! I knew (online on a forum (not this one), not in person, I don't live in Colorado) one of the guys who worked on that game too. Haven't heard from him in several years now, though... too bad. I did buy the game though, and that's a decent review, yeah. It's an okay game, but not great. It does have great artwork, though. :) The game actually started out as Eduardo the Magical Toaster, a platformer on the PC. Because we talked a lot at that forum the guy I knew sent me a copy of a demo version when he was still working on the game. At that point it was a platformer. Eduardo had to flip over in the air with the second button, like Bonk, to grab pop-tarts and waffles (don't touch them otherwise though, you take damage), then hitting the second button again would fire the weapon at the other enemies, which you can only hurt with the projectiles.. I think it had two levels. Super floaty controls, but it was okay. I like platformers a lot, so I was kind of disappointed when it reemerged as a run & gun, though the final game is decent fun. The graphics in the final game sure are better than that PC thing, though! Great artwork. And it's nice that it has four player co-op. Anyway, it was cool to see that one in the video. :)
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Originally Posted by GeckoYamori
The TG16/CD had a few 'left in North America', if I recall. Beyond Shadowgate was one of them. Though, since the TG16 never really had a world wide release besides Japan and N/A, I guess that makes for a lame case.
Considering that the system sold much better in Japan, though, I think it's definitely interesting that there were games that didn't release there! And yeah, that is one of them. Some others include Camp California and Addams Family on CD, and on HuCard Yo'Bro, Night Creatures, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, Ghost Manor, and D&D: Order of the Griffon. Darkwing Duck is horrendously bad, but Beyond Shadowgate is good. As for the rest, well, Camp California and Addams Family are okay, and a few people defend Ghost Manor and Night Creatures... and apparently if you like those '80s-style first-person dungeon-crawler PC RPGs Order of the Griffon is repetitive, but alright.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomaitheous
Impossamole is also US-exclusive on TG16, but did release in Europe on a bunch of computers, so it only sort of counts.
Armada was a North American exclusive for the Dreamcast. It's a pretty good game as well.
How about the glorious Falcon and Gunboat? Were they released in Japan?
LOTS of Atari stuff was left in America.
You're right, the TG16 versions of those two games were US-only. I forgot those two. They are both based on computer game series which released in the US and Europe, but the TG16 versions in specific were US-only of course because of NEC's unbelievably stupid failure to actually release their console in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
I wonder if there were any North America exclusive consoles. Japan has a few, including the PC-FX, and Europe has the Amstrad GX4000.