Revolution X

[Melf]

Well, we will eventually get to the games no one wanted to review. The stragglers that would have rather been forgotten about than played again. But I don't think we're there yet.

It's just coincidence that so many crappy games have been reviewed in a row, that's all. There are still plenty of good games to review. A lot of them just aren't well known.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Not to mention that there are a ton of good games that require a lot of effort to review, i.e. strategy and some RPG's, that no one wants to touch. Eventually we'll get to them though. A lot of the good stuff has been done so there's going to be a ton of bad games left to review for a long time. I know for a fact that the next several reviews and articles I write are NOT going to get high ratings from me but that's just what I am working on now.

Readers and forum members (non staff and non regular contributors) if there's a game that you want to see reviewed that you think is a good game then go for it and review it for us. It may seem hard to write at first but you may actually like it!

[GelmiR]

Thanks for the info, and sorry for hijacking this thread. I don't mind the reviews of the sucky games, I just had the thought that people interested in the Mega Drive might start to think there aren't any good games for it at all

[Obviously]

The Menacer was long gone by 1995. Nobody had one, Nobody wanted one.

I think I got mine in '96 or so at an Ames for like five or ten bucks .

[profholt82]

Though, honestly, how could Midway make a game like this with Aerosmith in it and not include Nine Lives? That song would have fit in perfectly.

Poor timing. Revolution-X was in the arcades in '94 while Nine Lives wasn't released until '97. It would have been an apt inclusion however. They're the band that just won't die.

[LordGeo]

Poor timing. Revolution-X was in the arcades in '94 while Nine Lives wasn't released until '97. It would have been an apt inclusion however. They're the band that just won't die.

Really? For some reason I thought Nine Lives was one of their 80s songs.

[Lesko900]

Necro bump, but this game is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine. I played it all the time at my local arcade as a kid in the mid 90's and got this when it came out. The SNES version was graphically more impressive and had a lot better scaling effects, but the Genesis version feels better to me - I think the SNES version was also missing a few things, like shooting the cat in the first level. The Genesis version took some shortcuts for sure, but as an adaptation of a 1994 arcade game I can't fault the developers that ported this. Never played the Saturn/PSX/PC ports but I imagine they're the closest home ports out there beyond playing it on MAME.

I don't disagree with the score. The game is so utterly ridiculous and mind bogglingly stupid, and that's why I love it - plus, I just like shooting things. Also, it's one of the few Genesis games that can be had for a pittance CIB even on ebay because nobody wants such a laughable game.

In short, I love Revolution X, even on Genesis. It's terrible.

[KitsuneNight]

Poor timing. Revolution-X was in the arcades in '94 while Nine Lives wasn't released until '97. It would have been an apt inclusion however. They're the band that just won't die.

i thought that was the rolling stones when they lurch on to the podium again after emerging from their oxygen tents and are pumped full of stimulants

[KitsuneNight]

Such crappy games being reviewed these last months... People might start to think it's all the Mega Drive got. Did we run out of good games to review?

no even 3 years later we arent quite there just yet
there are still good games left to review

but there are also quite some dregs most of those dregs are sports games

[Falucho]

English is not my natural language. I've been doing reviews for a couple of years, but never in EnglishI distrust my ability to produce a long, explanatory text and completely understandable.
If anyone here is encouraged enough to try to translate a text from Spanish to English, or maybe, deliver a raw text, and someone help me retouch it. Gladly I would like to make a couple of reviews.

[Mzo]

The craziest thing about this game, I think, is that it was released on four platforms -- SNES, Genesis, Saturn, Playstation -- with light guns... and supported that systems' light gun on NONE of them. Yeah, all versions are d-pad only, I believe. What the heck?

I mean, it's not a good game, but it'd have been slightly better with lightgun support... Terminator 2: The Arcade Game had lightgun support on both SNES and Genesis, and mouse support too on SNES. What happened with this one?

There's a good reason for that: the arcade version isn't a light gun game. The two giant guns were mounted on sticks that swivel and lean forwards and backwards. They're actually joysticks of a sort that line up the cursor on-screen with where your gun is pointing based on the stick's positioning.

I love/hate Revolution X for so many reasons.

[marcosot]

I sadily have this game. The reason is that it came with a genesis CDX pack I've bougth. Tried to play it several times but this game is lame to say the least. What a waste of silicon.

[Diablo Griffin]

This is probably the only game I've ever played that I truly hate, and this is coming from aomeond who thinks E.T. and Pac-Man on Atari 2600 aren't bad! Look, Aerosmith is awesome, but this game is utter crap plain and simple.

[cloudk1ll]

I have dumped hours into this game playing with a controller and not a light gun on sega saturn. I'll admit the game isn't very good, but man I love light gun games. And this game was crazy.

[Silanda]

Been playing a bit of this recently. Not a great game, but a competent port of an arcade game that the system wasn't really able to do justice. What surprised me was the ROM size though: 32Mbit. The SNES version is half that and had to fit in sampled music. I have to wonder how well the space was used too, as it seems to compress very well compared to other titles with the same ROM size. I can't imagine such a large cart did Acclaim's finances much good given the overwhelmingly negative reception for the game, even back when it was released.