Aaaaaaaaaaa this looks way worse than I remembered! This is awful!

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>>3893486
it never looked like that for me since i only played the other sonic games on the system.

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>>3893491
That's because you posted the Master System version of Sonic 2.

The Game Gear version of Sonic 2 was much worse and made the antlion boss almost impossible.

>>3893496

I got past the antlion boss but then died pretty quickly in the hang gliding level that follows.

I never liked any GG game even when the console was relevant... I don't know how every single game for an entire handheld ends up being bad, but it seemed to be the case for the GG. I mean, I'm sure some of the puzzle games were probably "playable", but that's not saying much...

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>>3893542
Defenders of Oasis is good

>>3893542
You should at least play Coca Cola Kid, one of the greatest 8-bit platformers.

>>3893542
lies that im glad exist.

there are a few really good games on the GG

a mega man port
defenders of oasis
Halley wars
; super columns
Shinobi series.
the best mrs pac man 8-bit

>>3893594
Mortal Kombat 1-2 with bloodd
Jurassic park

>>3893594
Crystal Warriors.

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>>3893594

Super Columns is criminally overlooked. Simply the best game in the series.

Also, there's a Game Gear port of Dragon Crystal, one of the earlier console roguelikes. Kind of odd that it used a different translation than the SMS version though.

>>3893628
what does this Columns do that the other ones don't?

>>3893661

It has a few additional gameplay mechanics:
>Multi-functional magic gems. The magic gems in regular Columns will simply remove all gems of the same color as the one touched. Super Column's magic gems can also flip the board upside-down, or take out all gems that appear above a certain elevation.

>The ability to rotate columns in addition to cycling them.

>Lantern gems. Matching three of these will destroy all gems along the same intersection. Matching 5 or more lanterns in one move clears every gem from the board simultaneously.

>Sand columns that act as a penalty against you and opponents. Sand columns are also used in Flash puzzle mode.

>Flash puzzle mode is more elaborate than in the original SMS / GG Columns. It consists of 10 stages with preset patterns that you have to clear.

>A story mode that pits you against several NPCs.

>The ability to cast spells during versus matches / story mode. Spells are powered up by the number of chain reactions you create.

>>3893690
Interesting! I'll have to give this a try!

>>3893486
>Upscale a game 4 times past its native res
>Waah this looks awful wtf!!! ;'-(

>>3893486
Maybe the guy who did the first LP you saw used a better emulator.

>>3893491
Is there a filter on this, like xsai or someshit!

>>3894005
Kek

>>3893496
Why would you play the GG version?

>>3893486
Sonic on Game Gear?

I remembered watching a "super play" of it on the shitty "geek xD" TV channel in my country.

The guy claimed he found something wasn't documented "anywhere on the internet". IIRC you had to beat the entire game without EVER getthing hit, I don't remember if it gave a score bonus or something different in the ending.

>>3893486
Oh, it's THAT 8-bit Sonic game. I always forget this one exists. I don't mind forgetting.

>>3894127
It's just a port of the Master System game.

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>>3894137
I was thinking of this one

http://www.mobygames.com/game/sonic-the-hedgehog__/screenshots

Looks like there are tons of Sonic game gear games

>>3894141
That's Sonic 1, the Master System game ported to Game Gear, and OP's is Sonic 2, the Master System game ported to Game Gear. The GG got a few exclusive Sonic Games, but 1 and 2 were originally on the Master System.

>>3894123
posessions:
-game gear
-sonic 2 cart
-6 full aa batteries
why the fuck not??? its only kind of shitty

>>3894203
The Master System version exists.

>>3893486
I refuse to believe that people could ever forget how bad this shit looks.

>>3893491
>>3893496
Sonic 2 on GG runs insanely smooth.

>>3894123
Because I didn't know anyone who knew about the Master System when I was a kid. How could I play a version of a game that I didn't know existed on a system I didn't know existed?

>>3894123
>Why would you play the GG version?

I don't want the same the Game Gear ports of any of the Sonic titles are necessarily improvements, but there were revisions between the two. Aside from having more stable frame rates, they had new music or more refined stages / bosses in some cases.

Of course, you have to put up with a more restrictive POV...

>>3895527
>I don't want the same the

er, "don't want to say"

>>3895503
What backwards country are you from?

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You know what it reminds me of visually? Donkey Kong Country/Land.

>>3895617
Probably because of the pre-rendered look.
It is somewhat impressive that they pulled it off though.
Shame about the gameplay.
Also, I am personally split on Sonic 1 being better on Game Gear or SMS.
I personally played both, and I agree on the points that Johnny makes in his SGB play.

>>3895602
>What backward country are you from?

I don't know about that anon, but SMS unfortunately wasn't that popular in the States. Although my household had one, we always had trouble finding games for it. There's just too much that wasn't published here.

>>3895642
What makes the GG version good?

>>3895646
Oh, you're American. That explains it. You got fucked over with video games.

>>3895652
Has some alterations from the SMS version.
Some of which are better, one being the second (?) area of Jungle which has you climb up a series of platforms.
If you fall below the screen line on the SMS in this section, you fucking die, regardless of if there was solid ground underneath you or not. This is the only time this shit happens in the fucking game. In the GG version, this shit is thankfully removed.
There was also an emerald in one of the labyrinth stages (since they aren't technically "Zones" in-game) where you would have to retain invincibility from the box power-up and jump into spikes to grab the emerald, which I thought was pretty clever. In the GG version they just put it near the start of the stage, with no traps or enemies around it. Some feel this was better because they didn't like the way the sms version did it, but I honestly liked that one.
Robotnik / EGGMAN can be hit more easily during certain fights in the GG version due to screen crunch. In the SMS version, you have to work around the current boss gimmick, even if it's just waiting. I feel this is a bit cheap on the GG version, since the SMS version isn't exactly hard.
And so on. Also, I believe that, screen-crunch aside, the sprites and maps were also adjusted for the GG version to accommodate for the pre-mentioned screen crunch. Sonic himself is definitely smaller if nothing more.

>>3895642
It's also somewhat heavier and slower like DKC/L.

>>3895653
>You got fucked over with video games.
Nah, we got all the good games on Nintendo, while you had to deal with generic garbage on Amiga and Sega. Sucks to have been a Europoor in the retro days.

>>3893542
ax battler

>>3895831
You got Nintendo and... some PC Engine games? We got everything.

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This is a bad game. The ugly colors and the pre-rendered graphics don't go well together. Also, awful controls and level design.
Brazil got a Master System port that is even worse, even though it had a bigger screen.

I feel bad when I play it. I can feel that the game was just a quick hack job to make a quick buck using Sonic name. And the colors of the Brazilian Master System port make it worse. Actually the very existence of a fuckin' Brazilian Master System port saddens me deeply, like every Brazilian exclusive shitty port for some underpowered console dead to the rest of the world.
Poor (and dumb) kids, dumb (and poor) parents, they fed the Tectoy monster. Now the poor kids grew into nostalgia obsessed apes that idolize Tectoy.

Oh, and why no one recreated GG and MS Sonic games using Genesis games engine? Yeah, romhacks.

>>3895886
É triste

>>3894123

Not that guy, but despite being born in 1985, I actually had no idea the Master System existed. No one I knew had it. It was a Game Gear game as far as I knew.

>>3895897
Not my fault you're from a backwards country.

I bought Sonic Chaos and Sonic 1 brand new in box back in 2003.
I remember playing Sonic chaos and being pretty awful, I ended up selling it a few years ago.
Sonic 1 is fine.

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At least the Japanese cover is good.

>>3896246
What's the 'G' for? Gangsta?

>>3893486
THIS is the worst Sonic game, even worse than 06

>>3896395
I'm gonna go with "Gear".
As in Game Gear.

Ya know, because it's on the Game Gear.

>>3896395
gay

>>3895886
>>3895890
And some faggots willing to buy the "new" Mega Drive again.

>>3894123
Because nobody in the US owned a Master System. But Game Gear's full color display was a huge selling point back when gameboys were all greenish monochrome.

>>3893491
>>3893496
I always wondered why Robotnik saves Sonic from the lava and then tries to kill him straight after. But then ends up killing the antlion himself in the end...

>>3897401
Robotnik is so egotistical he wouldn't accept victory where he had to do nothing. Or maybe he really, really, wanted to test out his antlion bot after going through all the effort of building it.

And the final attack is just his desperation when he ran out of bombs.

>>3895907
Sorry Brazil but you're not a first world nation.

>>3894217
What if I was a kid in a long car ride?
You forget these products were made for their time and not 30 years later when someone has every game at their disposal at all times.
It was pretty sweet to bring sonic 2 with you if you left the house for a long time as a kid.

>>3898296
I would rather play original GG games, rather than the ones ported to it from the Master System, as the ports are always far worse than the MS originals. Master System IIs were dirt cheap in the early 90s, so there's no excuse.

>>3893542
The Aleste games are really good.

>>3896416
Yeah but '06 is less game and more unfinished tech demo.

>>3893552
It suffers from some critical flaws making it almost unenjoyable. I tried to like it, but it's just insufferable, even for an 8 bit RPG. The closest equivalent I could find is FF2.

>>3895886
>Now the poor kids grew into nostalgia obsessed apes that idolize Tectoy.
Not very nice considering bongs do the same with the Spectrum.

>>3894123

I was born in 1986 and was an avid Genesis gamer (would even argue for it in dumbass console war arguments during recess, lol). I didn't know the Master System even existed until I started emulating games in high school, and even then I thought it was just a different name for the Genesis like Mega Drive at first. So from my perspective, there was only ever a GG version.

Did Master System never come to the US? Or maybe the marketing/production department in the US dropped it pretty fast after the success of Genesis? I have never in my life ever met a single person IRL who has a Master System.

>>3898349
>Master System IIs were dirt cheap in the early 90s, so there's no excuse.
And yet nobody carried them. And nobody knew they existed. The NES trounced the Master System to the point most people didn't even know it was a thing.

>>3899562

My household had one. There just weren't any games published here. And they certainly weren't cheap. The prices rivaled even Nintendo.

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>>3899650
"We get it, you're salty over something we had no control over"

>>3893486
How about composite and CRT?

>>3899658
You had Commodore.

>>3899667
Computer games were generally shit compared to Japanese console games. There was no quality control or piracy prevention, so nobody really took computer game development seriously. The few that did (Rareware) jumped onto the console gravy train.

>>3899718
There was no quality control for consoles, just a pay wall. All it did was jack up the price of shit games.

>>3899718
Nice anecdote.
I watched every episode of AVGN and can easily call what you said bullshit.

The open computer market gave a lot of great games, piracy even when hurting developers still gave a lot of people access to games otherwise unacceptable to some and was great advertisment. A lot of todays game development studios where computer game developers of the time.

>>3899718
>jumped onto the console gravy train
No they didn't, they where bought because their talent was noticed with good games on the computers.

>>3899718
Is this what the kids on redit are saying today?

>>3899902
That's what america's all say.

>>3899926
America is the reddit of countries.

>>3899731
>>3899732
>>3899735
>>3899902
>>3899926
>>3899951
ITT: poorfag PC dorks buttmad that Nintendo was more popular than their shitty shovelware

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>>3899958
>calling names likes hes in buttpain

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>>3899958
>calling home computers personal computers

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>>3899958
Nah, pic related showed me it's all the same shit everywhere.

>>3899970
What do you expect from someone who has no clue?
People like that aren't even fun to argue with, because they don't know what they're talking about.

>>3899973
Have fun playing Mario on your Commodore.

Oh wait, I forgot PCs couldn't do proper line scrolling until the '90s.

TOP. FUCKING. KEKKERONI.

>>3899990
>PCs
I know it's bait.
But it's just so retarded.

>>3899990
Even the Speccy could do smooth scrolling. It didn't bleed onto the opposite side, either.

>>3900012
Most home computers of the period had remarkable hardware graphics capabilities.

>>3900012
>ZED ECHS SPIKTROOM MATE
>smooth scrolling
in what fucking universe

>>3900050
>seething

>>3900050
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwB5__NlQdQ

In this universe apparently

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>>3899958

This EU vs USA shitposting is getting stale.

Take it to fucking /int/ or /vint/

>>3900309
Who is shitposting though?

People said there isn't much difference between games on the consoles and home computers of the time.
If someone disagrees or disagrees, doesn't matter what continent they are on.

>>3900309
>home computer vs console shitposting
>automatically considered EU vs USA shitposting

>>3900332
>tfw it's probably just two Australians shitposting in the end

>>3900392
Topkek

>>3900392
You are right! We need flags on /vr/.

>>3900398
Every board should have flags and IDs. Also, forced username registration. And a $10 registration fee.

>>3900404
Woah, easy there buddy, let's keep it an anonymous imageboard for the time being. I take the flags thing back.

>>3893496
I was never able to get past the first level in this game since the small display area confused me too much and I could never figure out where to go.

Then again I was pretty young back then.

>>3900404
>$10 registration fee
>Not having lifetime 4chan gold account
Stay pleb youngling

>>3893486
Sonic Blast for the most part is pretty tolerable

just wish it wasn't so ugly

>>3900404
hahaha, SA tenbux

>>3900328


>>3899650
>>3895653
>>3899951

>>3900672
Obviously there's something they said to get responses like that. Welcome to 4chan.

Don't see any EU vs USA shitposting though, only people arguing about home computers and consoles.

>>3900672
probably just australia-kun shitposting as usual

>>3900675
They just said they didn't care about the Master System, but liked the Sega Genesis.
The euro/australian shitposters translated that as "americans only like nintendo".

>>3900675
Nobody was talking about computers in these posts, it was Master System vs NES shitposting, thus the euro vs us thing.

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>>3900680
see
>>3899718
>>3899958
What's the point even? It's just the pot calling the kettle black.

>>3900680
>Master System vs NES shitposting
same shit different players

>>3900679
I see posts about people bashing the Sega systems and praising the NES also

>>3900681
None of the posts here: >>3900672
Were replying to the posts you pointed out.

>What's the point even? It's just the pot calling the kettle black.
The computer vs console shitposting is just a distraction, the main meat of the shitposting here is Master System vs NES, the classic euro vs usa match.

>>3900689
>I see posts about people bashing the Sega systems and praising the NES also
Yeah I'm not saying it's just the euros shitposting.
Also not all americans are NES fans.

>>3900691
>>3900693
There's nothing more to talk about this flamewar topic anyways, only gets the thread more off track.
This shit is always popping up in here.

>>3900696
>flamewar topic

Excuse me? This thread started as a Sonic Blast bashing thread.
Not sure when it transformed into EU vs USA.

>>3900702
I don't mean the threads topic silly.
I mean the firmware topic we where discussing in our last posts.

>>3900709
>firmware
Derp.

Flamewar*

>>3894171
OP's picture is Sonic Blast

>>3902206
Pretending to be retarded?

>>3896246
So that really is a cape?

Well, fuck me. I always thought it was suspenders and all depictions of it being a cape were non-canon.