PCE, SNES and Genesis, screen comparison.

[Tatsujin]

as hard as it is to say, but ARK is le better on the MD

[Joe Redifer]

Yeah, the Genesis/MD one wins here, though the PCE version certainly isn't bad.  Such great artwork for such an uninteresting (to me) game.

[blueraven]

I like the bosses better in the PCE version, But the MD gets the rest.

[ceti alpha]

I definitely have to give it up to the Genny, here. I just like the style of the Genny more on this one. Again, it's not that the PCE is bad, by any means, but looks to be better stylized on the Genny.

[Tatsujin]

  Such great artwork for such an uninteresting (to me) game.

why is it uninteressting to you? i always appreciated the UPL style very much. very unique and special. my fav games still is mutant nights, but which never saw a home port. UPL was a great lil' unique company.

anyway i have both ARK at home

[ParanoiaDragon]

For me, it goes back n forth.  Sometimes I like the color choices on the MD more, also, I think the MD version has paralax thruout the game.  However, the PCE version doesn't have the bar at the top partially blocking the view, & some colors do look better on the PCE, & some of the bosses look better as well.

[Tatsujin]

the pce also has lots of parallax, or lets say that pce h-sync'd line fake parallax what ever.

i agree that the PCE has also its better locations. but overall its the MDs win. also it is more near to the aracde.

[shubibiman]

Very different ports and as PD said, it goes back n forth for me too but the Megadrive version is the winner here.

[Joe Redifer]

why is it uninteressting to you?

I remember renting it and being bored out of my skull.  However if it had better music and sound I might have given it more of a chance.  Bad music and sound can really throw me out of a game.  I don't recall if the music/sound was bad, but it probably was.

[Tatsujin]

i liked the musics quite, especially the boss theme is adrenaline pure!

[sunteam_paul]

The music can be a bit tinkly, but I love the tune that I used on my . The tune when you complete it is great too if I remember rightly.

[awack]

Thunder Blade/Super Thunder Blade.





PCE                                                 GENESIS

[Tatsujin]

i was a huge thunderblade fan back in the arcades and even loved the c64 port.

unfortunately both, the pce and md version are huge disappointing in several aspects. very choppy 3D scrolling and they even managed to destroy the overhead section.

while in the arcade overhead levels, you could zoom up and down, in the pce & md you can't and even the static scrolling was choppy as hell (hey, even the c64 version could do the zoom thing).


at least the pce is getting some extra credits for beiing way more arcade accurate than the md one is.

it's a shame, they coulnd't put in the same effort as they did for after burner II.

[awack]

You got me watching youtube videos of Thunderblade(arcade) and noticed i was close to the end so i went ahead and took shots of the last boss. I also noticed that the quality gap between the arcade and the pce and genesis ports is huge.


PCE                                                GENESIS

[Tatsujin]

here also a cool site with various versions in comparation: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/thunderblade/thunderblade.htm