Wait? Don't all systems have some international titles? I don't understand.
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Wait? Don't all systems have some international titles? I don't understand.
Huh? I really don't want to get involved, and I'm not about to read through this Battle of Diatribes, but there's no way that's trueQuote:
Originally Posted by jesus.arnold
I'm saying it was the earliest that had an international scene, Well, possibly the Atari 2600 might've but I'm not sure and it's doubtful.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheEdge
In the Early days the Japanese only really made games for Japanese machines, most of their output was for the NES and MSX, with a good but much smaller amount of games made for the Master System, Sharp, Fujitsu FM and NEC PC
The US were obssessed with the NES and C64
Europe were only interested in the C64 and ZX Spectrum with the Amstrad CPC and Amiga having a sizeable following, the NES bombed.
So as you can see
NES - lacked European software
C64 - lacked original Japanese software
MSX - Lacked US software
Amiga - Lacked original Japanese software
Spectrum - lacked US and Japanese software
Master System - Lacked US software
Whereas the Mega Drive had a sizeable amount of developers from all 3 of the main video gaming regions.
It was just an off-hand remark I made LOL, I didn't expect a spanish inquisition :p
Rare got involved with Nintendo during the NES era - weren't they European?
yup, the only European company that took the NES seriously, I don't see one company as being enough to say a "scene" though.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
There were a few other specific UK companies that "dipped their toes in" such as
Software Creations - who made Solstice and Silver Surfer
Ocean - Who pretty much took the p#ss and released a few really awful games, their multi-format games were actually 10 times worse on the NES than the ZX Spectrum, which I think points to them not taking the machine seriously at all.
Probe made - Alien 3
So that's a handful of UK companies, I can't think of any companies from other parts of Europe at all at the moment.
just thought of another one from the UK Codemasters who released a handful of games that were gold coloured and hard to get working, as well as some weird contraptions like the Aladdin deck enhancer and game genie.
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Originally Posted by jesus.arnold
I agree with that. It was the very well rounded system for its time. Thats probably why it had so much success.
It's just something I was thinking when I was playing Puggsy you know? it's nice,Quote:
Originally Posted by TheEdge
One second with the MD you could be playing a European adventure game like Puggsy or Shadow of the Beast or a platformer such as James Pond, Rolo to the rescue, Flink, Mega Turrican (Germany) or a shooter like sub Terrania (Denmark)
and the next a JRPG like Phantasy Star or run n gun like gunstar heroes or a shmup like thunder Force 4
and the next a US style RPG adventure game like Starflight, or a sports game, or shooter like Desert Strike, platformer like Kid Chameleon.
The other thing was you'd get countries working together like the US/UK stuff done with Westwood and Virgin or the US/Japanese stuff done with Sonic 2 and 3.
Of course all later consoles had this feature, but I think the Mega Drive was the first that did it really well
When did psygnosis get started, while we're on the subject? The first game I remember from them is Colony Wars on the PSX, although I don't remember if they developed the game or distributed it. It's only recently that I've seen their earlier games.
The MD is a system made for Cosmopolitans!
They started off on the Commodore 64 and Spectrum, but only started to become a proper force on the Amiga which they made stacks of games for (they were always associated primarily with the Amiga before Wipeout/Colony wars/Destruction Derby/Roll cage/G Police/Adventures of Lomax got them associated which the PS1)Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
For the MD they made Misadventures of Flink, Shadow of the Beast and the Mega Drive version of Lemmings, they published quite a few Mega Drive games too with Puggsy and Wiz N' Liz I believe both being funded by them.
I think there were also some games they originally funded on the Amiga that were then ported by another company for the Mega Drive, pretty sure this was the case with Fatal Rewind and Galahad.
They never made any NES games but I think they made a Master System game or two, I think overall the UK probably made more Master System games than NES games (apart from Rare)
Their games before the 32-bit ear were primarily adventurey type platformers I think.
I was disappointed to see Psygnosis vanish at the end of the 32-Bit era. They were the best second-party Sony had.
After getting swallowed up by Sony their output seemed to slow to a crawl, they're known as "Sony Studio Liverpool" nowQuote:
Originally Posted by 108 Stars
Come on man! I've already pointed out that Sega did publish games on the 2600. They may (programmers rarely were acknowledged back then) have been programmed by Americans, but they were Sega. Sega was probably the only one though, but the 2600 (2800) was sold in Japan.Quote:
Originally Posted by jesus.arnold
http://everything2.com/title/Sega
http://www.atariage.com/software_pag...SoftwareID=892Quote:
We must not forget that Sega also made games for the Atari 2600. Only after the death of the Atari did Sega go on to produce its own console systems. (Some Sega Arcade games were also released for the Atari but Activision did the majority of those).
Sega Atari 2600 Games
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
Congo Bongo
Spy Hunter
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulation
Sub Scan
Tac-Scan
Tapper
Thunderground
Up n' Down
http://www.atariage.com/box_page.htm...ItemTypeID=BOX
http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/a...q4-01/trek.htm
I own Buck Rogers on the VCS and the C-64 (Cartridge) version of Star Trek.
I'm working up to Shadow of the Beast now. Someday I hope to see it throughQuote:
Originally Posted by jesus.arnold