Rampage and other missed opportunities

[spenoza]

It occurs to me that the TG-16 REALLY needed a port of Rampage. It would've fit on a chip pretty easily. They probably could've one-upped the arcade in some areas, like animation, as well.

Almost makes me have to mull over what other great titles were probably never even in the running.

[roflmao]

Yeah, Rampage would have been awesome.

Would the Turbo/PCE have been able to pull off a Scorched Earth/Worms type of game?  That would be cool.

I'd still like to see a homebrewer try their hand at a Tower Defense style game.

[TheOldMan]

I second rampage. I loved that game.
Scorched Earth would be doable, I think. Depends on the weapons available.
Something like tower defense would be possible, too.  Not a whole lot to the actual game engine, as far as I can tell....
I'd like to see a version of rogue, as well.

Too bad I'm involved in other things..

[Tatsujin]

As always..a contra, a hammerin' harry and a makaimura would have been great!

[ParanoiaDragon]

Yeah, one of my dream projects would be to take the arcade graphics of Contra, with the NES version of the game, along with some redbook audio by me, if not a chip soundtrack.  Rampage would rock, could throw in Larry the Rat ala Lynx, not to mention updating the gfx.

[turboswimbz]

I always wished there were a few more RPG's and some more platformers like rampage.  I think the Turbo could have done a good job with many of these.  Cool spot or the disney games could have been epic on the turbo. I mean the bonk games or ninja spirit for instance are good indications of how well, colorful and fun some of those platformers could have been.  Don't get me wrong I love the arcade ports but some more platforming like games would have been awesome.

[majors]

... not to mention updating the gfx.

As long as it stays Rampage...the later Rampage World tour with it's 90's-must-have-pre-render-gfx was not approved by me! I love the Lynx version, good game for that system.

[geise]

A Final Fight would've been great.

As for Rampage, that would've been awesome.  If my Atari ST can do an OK port I am more than certain the Turbo/PC-E could do it.

[Otaking]

As always..a contra, a hammerin' harry and a makaimura would have been great!

+1 agree to all three of those, not heard anyone mentioned the idea of a Hammerin' Harry PCE game before, would be awesome.

Personally I would of loved a DoReMi Fantasy Milon game on the PCE.

[Necromancer]

Tetris!  Japan got some good falling block puzzlers with Columns, Hatris, Puyo Puyo, and Panic Bomberman, but all we got was lousy Drop Off.

[Tatsujin]

I always wished there were a few more RPG's and some more platformers like rampage.  I think the Turbo could have done a good job with many of these.  Cool spot or the disney games could have been epic on the turbo. I mean the bonk games or ninja spirit for instance are good indications of how well, colorful and fun some of those platformers could have been.  Don't get me wrong I love the arcade ports but some more platforming like games would have been awesome.

do you already own shubibinman 2 & 3, faussette amour, Chiki Chiki Boys, Aoi Blink,  Dragon EGG, Dynastic Hero, Horror story, Adventure Island, (takahashi meijin no shinboukenjima) NAI, Genji Tsushin Agedama, Gekisha Boy, Jackie Chan, Jigoku Meguri, and and and and??..if you look out, there are quite a plenty of excellent platformers available on the PCE

[BigusSchmuck]

I always wished there were a few more RPG's and some more platformers like rampage.  I think the Turbo could have done a good job with many of these.  Cool spot or the disney games could have been epic on the turbo. I mean the bonk games or ninja spirit for instance are good indications of how well, colorful and fun some of those platformers could have been.  Don't get me wrong I love the arcade ports but some more platforming like games would have been awesome.

do you already own shubibinman 2 & 3, faussette amour, Chiki Chiki Boys, Aoi Blink,  Dragon EGG, Dynastic Hero, Horror story, Adventure Island, (takahashi meijin no shinboukenjima) NAI, Genji Tsushin Agedama, Gekisha Boy, Jackie Chan, Jigoku Meguri, and and and and??..if you look out, there are quite a plenty of excellent platformers available on the PCE

You forgot the ever so awesome Dragon's Curse. Seriously, wouldn't it be easier just to port the Master System version of Rampage? Other than the sound (minus the FM chip of course) and lack of three player support, it was pretty close to the arcade...

[Black Tiger]

I always wished there were a few more RPG's and some more platformers like rampage.  I think the Turbo could have done a good job with many of these.  Cool spot or the disney games could have been epic on the turbo. I mean the bonk games or ninja spirit for instance are good indications of how well, colorful and fun some of those platformers could have been.  Don't get me wrong I love the arcade ports but some more platforming like games would have been awesome.

do you already own shubibinman 2 & 3, faussette amour, Chiki Chiki Boys, Aoi Blink,  Dragon EGG, Dynastic Hero, Horror story, Adventure Island, (takahashi meijin no shinboukenjima) NAI, Genji Tsushin Agedama, Gekisha Boy, Jackie Chan, Jigoku Meguri, and and and and??..if you look out, there are quite a plenty of excellent platformers available on the PCE

You forgot the ever so awesome Dragon's Curse. Seriously, wouldn't it be easier just to port the Master System version of Rampage? Other than the sound (minus the FM chip of course) and lack of three player support, it was pretty close to the arcade...

It shouldn't be much easier to recreate or port the SMS version, as the arcade is well within the PCE limits already. The color and detail could be upgraded and the PCE probably could handle a fourth monster.

[Nando]

RAMPAGE AND TMNT


SORRY FOR YELLING!!!

[seieienbu]

I think it's a terrible shame that Street Fighter 2 was never released outside of Japan.  With the state of games in the early 90s fighters were absolutely what everyone wanted.  I honestly think that SF2 could've helped the Turbo sell some uni

I seem to recall hearing something about Midway offering Mortal Kombat to be an exclusive release on Turbo Grafx but NEC Japan turning them down due to thinking that the love of fighting games was cooling off in the states.  Was there any truth to that or was it just a mindless rumor I read somewhere?