If you had worked at NEC/Hudson or T.T.I. back in the day...

[Colossus1574]

Damn, that's awesome!

HAHAH, I hope you guys got a good laugh out of the bloody "Splatterhouse" warning on the bottom left 

Yah, it would have to be the 20bit SF2 hucard, or Arcade card for sure! My choice would be Arcade card to get the CD quality music, and it never would hurt to get more use out of that good ol' Arcade card!
CD2 wouldn't have cut it...remember the crappy fighting games like Martial Champion and Alcunos?....

[Necromancer]

The amount of animation frames jammed into Dracula X and the goodness of Flash Hiders, Godzilla, and Asuka 120% lead me to believe that a quality SuperCD version of Mortal Kombat would've been doable.

[NightWolve]

I wanted Mortal Kombat for the TG-16 so bad I did this:

LOL! Were you high when you made this or are you just a naturally, excessively happy type of guy for no particular reason?? I dunno, you seem to be having an awfully good time in that video and it can't be related to or explained by the subject matter that you're discussing if you ask me...

Well, I guess my list would go somethin' like this:

1. Dracula X  (no brainer)
2. Ys IV: DOY
3. Street Fighter II: CE
4. Mortal Kombat
5. Kaze Kiri
6. Summer Carnival '93: Nexzr Special  (loved shooters, so)
7. Sapphire
8. Macross 2036
9. Snatcher

Eh, kind of a rip off having looked at others' lists, but definitely the first four were no-brainers if my mindset was one of saving the system and being well-informed on gamers' tastes at the time. But then again, I noticed I'm being too lazy to really think this list out: Dracula X (1993) and Ys IV (1994) weren't localized because it was too late at that point, not because of ignorance or anything else... If I was doing my job and paying attention to the popularity of fighting game trends, as per DesmondThe3rd's video, and assuming MK/SFII helped the system survive a little longer, perhaps we could've got the other ones. Of course, there's still the issue of price already being discussed in the "What went wrong?" thread. Would the MK deal really have made a difference given the $299 price tag? It couldn't have hurt, but still doubtful...

[kazekirifx]

CD2 wouldn't have cut it...remember the crappy fighting games like Martial Champion and Alcunos?....

There are some decent fighters for Super CD too. I love Flash Hiders, and I actually quite enjoyed Asuka 120% Maxima Burning Fest.

[nat]

Oh yeah, there are at least a few damn good SuperCD fighters. I haven't played Martial Champion or Algunos, but Flash Hiders is excellent. Asuka and Advanced VG are also pretty good. And what about Godzilla?

[Colossus1574]

Oh yeah, there are at least a few damn good SuperCD fighters. I haven't played Martial Champion or Algunos, but Flash Hiders is excellent. Asuka and Advanced VG are also pretty good. And what about Godzilla?

Can't seem to find ANY fighting animation for Flash Hiders on YouTube...Asuka and AVG look pretty good for SuperCD releases, but they still aren't FatalFury 2:Special    My absolute favourite fighter on the system, they fact that it replicated a NeoGeo title so closely is pretty damn impressive!

[kazekirifx]

Can't seem to find ANY fighting animation for Flash Hiders on YouTube...

The "Longplay" on youtube has some gameplay mixed in. Try it at about 16:00.

There SHOULD be more. I'd love to have a tournament in this game and put it up on Youtube. I would want to use the speed code and turn it up all the way, of course.

[Colossus1574]

Thank Kaze! (guess i was just too lazy to scrub through 1hr16 of video, hehe)

   I dunno man, I don't see anything very special with the fighting graphics/animation. The animation frames look pretty limited...almost looks like it's skipping frames? haha. But i do like the layout and the colors 

[kazekirifx]

I wouldn't dare compare Flash Hiders to any quality Arcade fighters, but as a home console exclusive from the early 90's it's probably my favorite. It may not quite have the impressive graphics or animation on the level of SF2, but there are a lot of unique gameplay elements that make Flash Hiders special and enjoyable. I just popped the game in a couple weeks ago in what must have been the first time in nearly 10 years, and I can still see what made me love it so much back in the day. I love timing a move so it hits my opponent just at the right moment as they are getting up and can't block it (one feature which I believe is unique to Flash Hiders). Certainly, it would get old if every fighter were like Flash Hiders, but as the only fighter of its kind, I think Flash Hiders is a unique breath of fresh air and has offered me many quality hours of enjoyment over the years. The different gameplay modes and adjustable speed (with a code) also add to the lasting enjoyment.

If nothing else, it is far superior to its sequel on the Super Famicom "Battle Tycoon". Battle Tycoon fails because they took out much of what made Flash Hiders good. Perhaps Flash Hiders was a 'happy accident' by a company that had little idea how to make a good fighter in the first place, but in any case the end result was good for me.

Edit: Oh yeah, getting back to the original topic. If I had worked at T.T.I. back in the day, this might have been a title to consider. Obviously it doesn't have the selling power of recognizable franchises like SF2 and Mortal Kombat, but the Turbo had not even one decent fighter in its library. A game like Flash Hiders couldn't have hurt. It would have at least served to broaden the game genres available in the Turbo library.

[roflmao]

Yeah, Flash Hiders here in the States would have been awesome.  It was one of the few games I imported bitd and I was not disappointed.

I don't think a Scorched Earth / Worms style game would have hurt.  5 player?  Sweet!

[Necromancer]

... the Turbo had not even one decent fighter in its library.

Godzilla doesn't even rank as decent?!?  Crazy! 

[nectarsis]

... the Turbo had not even one decent fighter in its library.

Godzilla doesn't even rank as decent?!?  Crazy! 

[RegalSin]

If I was in NEC, I do not think, porting any game would have saved the system. Everybody was high on Mario fever back then, and then Sonic came around eventually. I would have had to combat the two with some sorta ultimate powerfull gameplay measure.

The one thing that NEC could have done was publish Adventure island, and release the animation series based off it. They did it in Japan, but not the USA? Even talk to Malibu Comics, and release something in relation to NEC series. Sonic did exactly this. They had two differnt series. One that was a cartoon and one that was an animation.

The flat fact remained that US gamers ( and pretty all western youths )
were all new to videogames. Nobody even remembers how pugly the arcades were. I remember when this guy would be in the arcade with his big snake on neck ( thing had it's quick tounge and everything ), and people were smoking drugs in the arcade. While that was insane enough during the early 1980's the arcades was run down ugly. But run down. It was nice being a kid in the arcade days, communicating with your "peers". Life was normal.

Thinking back while things were run down back then, the movies, arcades, and stores were auwsome.

[kazekirifx]

Godzilla doesn't even rank as decent?!?  Crazy! 

Yep. You read that right. What part is crazy?

RegalSin, a Bonk cartoon would have been awesome...

[Necromancer]

Yep. You read that right. What part is crazy?

The crazy part is your poor taste in vs. fighters.  It's not surprising, really, just crazy.