The ´I played Mega Drive today´ Thread

I play it almost every day. Only real machine, emulators are for testing homebrew, haha. Well yestarday it was Thunder Force IV. I love a nice horizontal shooter. Not so big on vertical shooters though. I started with TF III around 1993 (the year I got my first MD) and I was completely blown out when TF IV came out. I didn't hesitate to get TF V on Saturn (which has better graphics than the PlayStation haha). Playing Thunder Force always stir strong emotions and memories from the days where I would struggle to beat the game hours a day, and then try it again on a harder difficulty, since the game has different endings for each. Needless to say, it's one of the most powerful soundtracks on the Mega Drive, it just shows what that FM Synth can do if worked with properly, and TechnoSoft has a history of doing that!

While i generally agree to this (most emulators aren't accurate at all) and i'm certainly thankfuly to own a couple game consoles, over the past years i started to really like Emulators for their online gaming capability. I have several friends who i met online and live somewhere else or friends who moved away for various reasons, usually too far away to invite them over (one of my closer friends now lives in Switzerland, i can't just invite him over like in the old days)
One friend never even had a console when he was younger, he was PC only and not even a hardcore gamer before he met me but i remember one satuday afternoon, we were both online, my graphic card at the time just died so all i had was a shitty low tier one so i said "Let's play some Mega Drive", we blasted through Streets of Rage 1 & 2, Golden Axe 1 & 2, played some NHL and FIFA as well as trying out Sonic 2's Multiplayer and we had a ton of fun, he certainly fell in love with the Mega Drive, since three days later he told me "I just bought the Mega Drive Ultimate Collection for my PS3", i know, again evil emulation but i thought it was pretty awesome

Lately i'm playing quite a bit wrestling games, even bought some for various consoles, so the last MD games i played were Cutie Suzukie Rindside Angels, WWF Royal Rumble and WWF Raw...after all, beating up Bret Hart is always a lot of fun

I used tp play Royal Rumble and Raw on SNES, it´s fun in two player mode. Me and my uncle always played the Rumble and when a CPU opponent entered the ring, one of us grabbed him and made an Irish Whip to the other one, eliminating them all after they entered the ring until we where the last two wrestlers

... but why is it fun to hit the Hitman? It´s not funny for the Gordman

I am very disappointed here. Those idiots changed the colour palette for The Ooze on Sonic Mega Collection Plus and it looks strange and annoying. The PAL version for the Mega Drive is very expensive at the moment

That´s always interesting, because it seems that there are enough copies of Wily Wars on EvilBay.

Pfff!

Another example is Zelda. Everything that wears this word is valuable. You can put the logo on a rubber and sell it for 20€. It would be worth it, it´s Zelda! XD Some games sell for so much because they are fun, like Frontschweine (Hogs of War). And congrats for getting Ninja Gaiden so cheap, it seems that it´s very hard to find now.

The hideout can be a big challenge until you learn the timing of the platforms, and the final island too, especially the final jumps to the last boss... it's not super easy but you should be able to do it now, if you're playing with a controller. The ending is quite fun!

Are the final jumps onto invisable platforms that appear when you land? Thats as far as i got as a kid.