Planet Bob

This one is in my personal top-5 NES games - I just love it! Much better, as these often are, with two players, but still a lot of fun with one. The variety, the fun weapons, the fast action, destructible environments...just great stuff. I definitely like this more than Jackal, if only for the goofy mine-car scene.

I agree, it's probably as good as this genre gets on an 8-Bit machine. Come to think of it, I don't even remember many on the 16 Bitters. I played Rambo and Mercs on the Genesis, but there should be more, no?

 

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I only managed three more levels in Guerilla War tonight, admittedly because I spent most of the time playing Muramasa on the Wii

 

Still doing the two city levels and the sewers inbetween was fun, even with the game getting pretty hard along the way.

I picked up Soldiers of Fortune for the Genesis a few years ago after reading a favorable review from the VGC, but I wasn't real impressed - Tommy and I spent an evening blowing through about half of it but I haven't touched it since. Part of it was that the graphics were just impossibly muddy on my CRT; it looked like colored blobs and the text was unreadable. Might be more fun in emulation or on a flat-screen TV.

 

I can't think of a lot of others; and the reviews database I put together doesn't show many more: http://vgreviews.tommymontgomery.com/?genres=6&viewpoints=3&systems=1&sort=avg.d

 

For some reason that kind of game just sort of died out.

I picked up Soldiers of Fortune for the Genesis a few years ago ... Might be more fun in emulation or on a flat-screen TV.

 

I had to look it up on google and to my surprise I figured that you're talking about Chaos Engine! :thumbsdown:

 

I've no idea about the quality of the Genesis version, but it's one of my favourite Amiga games of all time!

 

It has an 8.68 average(!) score from 262 registered lemon visitors:

http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=252

 

I was actually thinking of it when mentioning Mercs and Rambo, but then thought it was more Gauntlet-esque.

 

I can't think of a lot of others; and the reviews database I put together doesn't show many more: http://vgreviews.tommymontgomery.com/?genres=6&viewpoints=3&systems=1&sort=avg.d

 

Hm... that list made me remember another one for the Genesis that I loved, albeit it's not in your list and I don't remember the name either. It was scrolling vertically and you controlled a spellcaster. I think it was from the same guys that made Thunderforce and I remember loving the music, one of the best scores on the Genesis

 

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Returning to Guerilla Wars, I just beat it. The end is really hard, especially since some mischievous level design secures that you're losing the flame thrower and you're not getting it back in the last two levels. But finally Che and Fidel made it!

 

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another Commando clone in the form of "Victory Road", but first it'll continue with something else.

Chaos Engine's one of my favorite Amiga games as well. I have it on my 2000 as well as my CD32. That version sports the better AGA graphics and a voice over. I never made it to the end, think I'll have to dig it out.

 

http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=571

Hm... that list made me remember another one for the Genesis that I loved, albeit it's not in your list and I don't remember the name either. It was scrolling vertically and you controlled a spellcaster. I think it was from the same guys that made Thunderforce and I remember loving the music, one of the best scores on the Genesis

I think you're thinking of Elemental Master; by TechnoSoft.

I have it on my 2000 as well as my CD32. That version sports the better AGA graphics and a voice over. I never made it to the end, think I'll have to dig it out.

 

Oha, I didn't even know that the CD32 had an AGA chipset. I always wanted one of those sexy 1200ers back in the day, but ultimately switched to a PC in 1995, abandoning Amigas. So all my real Amiga experience is from the 500

 

I think I did beat it, albeit I don't remember it clearly. I loved the dynamic soundtrack of the game that would change its mood during your journey through the levels.

 

I think you're thinking of Elemental Master; by TechnoSoft.

 

That's it yes!! Way cool game, I need to get me a copy again!