Shooters: Hu vs CD

[Dicer]

For me...

Hueys:
Blazing Lazers
Final Soldier
Super Star Soldier
Magical Chase
Psychosis(Paranoia) love the concept and all that
Cyber Core
Parodius Da!
Download

CD:
Download 2
Spriggan
Spriggan MkII (The superior spriggan, come at me)
Gates/Lords O' Thunder
R-type Complete (Yes I like the cut-scenes and goofy remixes)
Psychic Storm
Star Parodier (The ultimate cute-em-up)

Both seem to come out evenly for me, there are more I could add to each list but those are the stand-outs.

[esteban]

There was NOTHING groundbreaking about Raiden. Quite the opposite. However, despite its inherently generic nature, it remains  a nicely executed regurgitation.

[Black Tiger]

When it comes to raiden, the jaguar port is real smooth!

It's a remake with re-drawn visuals which are unfortunately airbrushed, similar to the fugly fm-towns version of Sgadiw of the Beast. The Playstation version is at least a proper port of the arcade.

The Jaguar version is still one of the better games for the system, but it's very disappointing to look at.

[Otaking]

I never really played Raiden mush in the arcades, but I have always loved the PC Engine HuCard version. Never managed to beat it though.

[spenoza]

My Playstation copy of Raiden Project is my Raiden jam. I just can't get on board with a lesser port. Probably because it's one of the few shooters I encountered in the arcade a lot well prior to a home port. I just couldn't help but be disappointed with less. Raiden is also one of my all-time favorite shooters, too, so that doesn't help.

I actually prefer the PCE original shooters to arcade ports, anyway. Blazing Lazers will always be one of my favorite PCE shooters.

[johnnykonami]

I was never interested in Raiden bitd, but I have always remembered all the 6meg! hubbub.  I like a little sci-fi or fantasy in my shooters, so stuff that just involves planes, helicopters and tanks is a hard sell on me.  I recently softened up my stance on 1941 and 1943 on the PCE/SGX though and am starting to enjoy them.  P47 is also decent in my book.

[esteban]

My Playstation copy of Raiden Project is my Raiden jam. I just can't get on board with a lesser port. Probably because it's one of the few shooters I encountered in the arcade a lot well prior to a home port. I just couldn't help but be disappointed with less. Raiden is also one of my all-time favorite shooters, too, so that doesn't help.

I actually prefer the PCE original shooters to arcade ports, anyway. Blazing Lazers will always be one of my favorite PCE shooters.

Super Raiden PCE crushes the sad little PlayStation Raiden.

[spenoza]

So, BT, when are you going to do a massive comparison video putting the various 16-bit Raiden ports in their place, eh?

[imparanoic]

So, BT, when are you going to do a massive comparison video putting the various 16-bit Raiden ports in their place, eh?

[Black Tiger]

So, BT, when are you going to do a massive comparison video putting the various 16-bit Raiden ports in their place, eh?

Probably after I retire. I don't have enough time to finish comparisons for games I actually care about.


imparanoic: those kinds of videos are only good if someone is curious about what a particular version might look like or they're the type who want to know what versions might exist,  can't be bothered to google.

They literally compare nothing and usually just feature shoet clips of imperfect emulation in an order that makes it difficult to follow. There is a decent side by side comparison video with the Genesis and TG-16 versions of Raiden.

By decent, I mean that it is at least side by side and not too short. It still doesn't do anything to actually compare any aspect and as such, the few English comments are the typical "PCE version sux".

[Gentlegamer]

Anyhow, if you like action and intensity in shooters and appreciate only-in-the-arcade far-beyond-the-arcade level of sprite pushing, then the PC ENGINE versions are the only ones to play.

It has the far-beyond-the-arcade feel!

[Alt-Nullity2]

Hi

Is to play Raiden for both cart and CD

Very nice to both

I like the game

[esteban]

Indeed.