Author Topic: Turbografx third parties (Read 612 times)

esteban · « **Reply #15 on:** June 18, 2006, 09:34:44 AM »

akamichi, thanks for the scoop on the early PCE (shooter) scene and your thoughts on IGS. Lots of fun to read

Keranu · « **Reply #16 on:** June 18, 2006, 05:05:11 PM »

Just so everyone knows, Cyber Cross and Cross Wiber are awesome games, seriously. Cross Wiber especially since it's more playable and has some really cool levels.

Odonadon · « **Reply #17 on:** June 18, 2006, 05:27:47 PM »

Quote from: "Keranu"

Just so everyone knows, Cyber Cross and Cross Wiber are awesome games, seriously. Cross Wiber especially since it's more playable and has some really cool levels.

I have to honestly say that Cyber Cross is one of the worst games I have ever played - for any system. Maybe it's just me but I thought it was garbage

I didn't think Cross Wiber was too much better either.

OD

Ninja Spirit · « **Reply #18 on:** June 18, 2006, 05:38:24 PM »

I liked Cyber Cross, just for the soundtrack sounding like it came off the NES/Famicom.
Wasn't Shiryou Sensen/War of the Dead supposed to come here also?

Keranu · « **Reply #19 on:** June 19, 2006, 01:03:10 PM »

Those Cross games have awesome music, I have watched the opening to Cyber Cross a billion times just for the song.

PC Gaijin · « **Reply #20 on:** June 27, 2006, 05:22:58 PM »

ICOM's games were published by NEC if I remember right. They would be equivalent to what people call a "second party" nowadays along with Cinemaware. (An aside, I've never liked that definition for second party, it used to mean user-written software dammit!

At any rate, they were captive developers.

And yeah, I know about the whole Nintendo third party exclusivity thing as I mentioned in my original post. As Black Tiger said, I'm more curious why NEC never attracted some of the more obscure third parties like Sega did with the Genesis in the first couple of years before the SNES hit the scene. A tell-all book on how NEC handled the Turbo like the books that cover Nintendo would be very interesting, of course there's probably not a dozen people who would be interested in such a thing.

Didn't IGS survive into at least the late 90s? I thought they released a couple of arcade shooters in that time. Or was that a totally different company from the one that published on the Turbo?

esteban · « **Reply #21 on:** June 27, 2006, 07:37:11 PM »

Quote from: "PC Gaijin"

ICOM's games were published by NEC if I remember right. They would be equivalent to what people call a "second party" nowadays along with Cinemaware. (An aside, I've never liked that definition for second party, it used to mean user-written software dammit! At any rate, they were captive developers.

And yeah, I know about the whole Nintendo third party exclusivity thing as I mentioned in my original post. As Black Tiger said, I'm more curious why NEC never attracted some of the more obscure third parties like Sega did with the Genesis in the first couple of years before the SNES hit the scene. A tell-all book on how NEC handled the Turbo like the books that cover Nintendo would be very interesting, of course there's probably not a dozen people who would be interested in such a thing.

Didn't IGS survive into at least the late 90s? I thought they released a couple of arcade shooters in that time. Or was that a totally different company from the one that published on the Turbo?

Good stuff. I'd pre-order that book, by the way

What arcade titles were you thinking about? Sounds interesting... and there is a chance it could be the same company, since IGS made Sinistron and Cybercore... though I don't know how likely it is...