Midnight Resistance

[SEGA.GENESIS1989]

Hahaha! Only half an hour? Then there is no reason why I shouldn't give it the old college try!

*pulls out "Technoclash" from SEGA Genesis*

Sorry Ronaan! Your feud with the machines will have to wait!

*plugs "Midnight Resistance" into SEGA Genesis*

Okay! Time to go Rambo and rescue my 16-bit family! Tally-ho!

[Cucollins12]

is like the bastard child of contra,but a great game.

[Mark Robert]

I love Midnight Resistance. There's a lot of variety of enemies and bosses you'll face. The soundtrack is awesome and yeah there's slowdown there too.

[oldskool]

I could never get into it. The controls are just too awkward for a run n' gun. I really want to like this game because it looks pretty cool, but the gameplay just kills it for me.

That pretty much sums it up.

[tbp]

It is a bad arcade port. Data East did two good ones : Two Crude dudes and Joe & Mac.
The major flaw is the gameplay and indeed the game has poor animation with big slowdown.
I was very disappointed because I have played the arcade version. No 2 players mode.

[Christuserloeser]

It is a bad arcade port. Data East did two good ones : Two Crude dudes and Joe & Mac.

Some guy named Chelnov wants to have a word with you.

- Are you sure Joe & Mac is a good port ? From what I've heard the SNES version is supposed to be lightyears better.

Regardless, I gotta give it another try.

[Kamahl]

Yeah, Atomic Runner is definitely their best genesis offering, it's just awesome.
And he forgot Vapor Trail too. Pretty good port, with even better music.

[Bloodreign]

I'm alright with Midnight Resistance, Two Crude Dudes, Atomic Runner, and Joe and Mac, I own them all and love playing them from time to time. Data East was a hit and miss company sure, but these games all were fine. Heck even High Seas Havoc from them is fun.


Also SNES Joe and Mac is a tad different from the Genesis and arcade iterations, stages were longer, some animations were cut out (Joe and Mac no longer go bug eyed when they meet a boss, there may be others I haven't spotted) so it felt like a slightly different experience.

[Aarzak]

Keep in mind friends, that some Genesis arcade ports were farmed out to obscure companies; Genesis MR was developed by Opera House for Data East.

And yeah, Genesis MR does have some nasty slowdown and flicker (so much for the 8 MEGA MEMORY), but I recall even the coin-op having it as well.

[Mark Robert]

Some guy named Chelnov wants to have a word with you.

- Are you sure Joe & Mac is a good port ? From what I've heard the SNES version is supposed to be lightyears better.

Regardless, I gotta give it another try.

The SNES version of Joe & Mac is more of an extended platformer based loosely on the arcade source material while the Genesis rendition is a straight up conversion of the arcade original. The Genesis version is a beautiful translation that is nearly arcade perfect. I love Two Crude Dudes as well even though it's heavily watered down graphically from its arcade cousin.

[tbp]

The SNES version of Joe & Mac is more of an extended platformer based loosely on the arcade source material while the Genesis rendition is a straight up conversion of the arcade original. The Genesis version is a beautiful translation that is nearly arcade perfect. I love Two Crude Dudes as well even though it's heavily watered down graphically from its arcade cousin.

Well all is said. Sorry I have forgotten Vapor Trail because I am not in the Shumps anymore.
I am tired when people says "Are you sure ? This better on the SNES". All games are not necesarly
better on the SNES. All the more it concerns arcade oriented games. "Different" would be the right word.

[havok666]

It is a bad arcade port. Data East did two good ones : Two Crude dudes and Joe & Mac.
The major flaw is the gameplay and indeed the game has poor animation with big slowdown.
I was very disappointed because I have played the arcade version. No 2 players mode.

It's not a bad port. If you've ever played the arcade original you will notice the same amount of slowdown that is present in the Genesis version. The music is improved, so personally I prefer the Genesis version. I never got to experience the game on an actual cabinet with the 360 degree Ikari Warriors joysticks.

[Thunderblaze16]

Data East helped bring Mega Turrican, nuff said.

[Tom M.]

I think the Mega Drive port of Midnight Resistance is OK. I remember the coin-op machine had spinners so that you could rotate the gun. Even the coin op game was running a bit sluggish with slowdowns here and there and the framerate was rather 30 than 60 fps... Also, the Commodore 64 port was OK, probably very good for the C-64 standards. Spectrum port was nice but jerky... done in the usual attributes grid. I think the MD port is the best one... yep.