General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

o1s1n

Here's one folks might find interesting, Sega are putting up a free prototype today of a 2.5D Golden Axe game they're dubbing Golden Axed.

Only available to download today on Steam for free.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368460/Golden_Axed_A_Cancelled_Prototype/

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

Here's one folks might find interesting, Sega are putting up a free prototype today of a 2.5D Golden Axe game they're dubbing Golden Axed.

Only available to download today on Steam for free.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368460/Golden_Axed_A_Cancelled_Prototype/

If there was any justice in the world the whole franchise would have been Golden Axed... and brought the Streets of Rage franchise with them for company!

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

If there was any justice in the world the whole franchise would have been Golden Axed... and brought the Streets of Rage franchise with them for company!

On the surface you say you hate it, but I have visions of you sitting in a dark corner of your attic, the feint glow of a Sega Nomad lighting up your face and the Golden Axe logo reflecting across both lenses of your glasses. :pac:

Game is available to download now. I can't figure out what the attack button is!

Shapey Fiend

I tried out Armor of Heroes and Endless Zone yesterday. They're both pretty trash.

o1s1n

Just gave them a go a moment ago - absolute rubbish alright!

One of those cases where Sega would have been better off not giving any games away for free at all...

Shapey Fiend

I suppose I saw them and said "Hey, I'll buy Two Point Hospital while I'm here". Free is a compelling hook. Seeing this this 60th sale mentioned everywhere.

Retr0gamer

What's the streets of rage yakuza crossover like?

o1s1n

Just played through it, it's the first stage of Streets of Rage 2 with the backgrounds and sprites changed. Sound effects stay the same. So basically a fancy version of a SOR2 hack.

When you clear the first stage it loops so not much to it, worth checking out for 5-10 minutes.

Chris_Heilong

o1s1n wrote: »

Here's one folks might find interesting, Sega are putting up a free prototype today of a 2.5D Golden Axe game they're dubbing Golden Axed.

Only available to download today on Steam for free.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368460/Golden_Axed_A_Cancelled_Prototype/

It is exactly what I thought it would be, truly awful 3D beat em up. Also it put the control into the analog, who puts a 2d style game controls onto the analog when the D-pad is king.

Jack burton

Can't wait for Golden Axe 4 to be announced

Retr0gamer

Jack burton wrote: »

Can't wait for Golden Axe 4 to be announced

I would actually love to see a new golden axe along the lines of SoR4. However I feel that the first game is a bit clunky and has more in common with Double Dragon than Final Fight which really modernised and perfected the style of play.

Would be great to see a remake in the vein of Revenge of Death Adder which up there with Alien vs. Predator as a pinnacle of the genre.

Shapey Fiend

They should turn Golden Axe 4 into a free to play phone game where you just make AI fall off cliffs.

CiDeRmAn

I would love to see a Golden Axe 4 simply so I could come on here and complain about it existing.

o1s1n

I wonder how much we'd have to pay the developers to give you some sort of cameo?

Jack burton

o1s1n wrote: »

I wonder how much we'd have to pay the developers to give you some sort of cameo?

I thought he was already in the first game

Strung up and being beat with a club for giving out about the game

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

I wonder how much we'd have to pay the developers to give you some sort of cameo?

I'd be happy to be an end boss but draw the line at wearing Frank'n Furters outfit...

CiDeRmAn

Jack burton wrote: »

I thought he was already in the first game

Strung up and being beat with a club for giving out about the game

Quiet you!

Gradius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2WiZk7F2Dw

Golden Axe: the revenge of Death Adder, great game. Very nice cabinet too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4olNYrk7-wA

o1s1n

What a machine!

I always wonder why they didn't make those aircraft carrier control panels a bit more rounded on the edges. If you just took some of the edge off each side the poor players on the far left and right would be able to get a good bit closer to the screen.

Shapey Fiend

Give the people want they want; Golden Axe: Beast Rider 2.

Gradius

Check this out for a collection! Must be the biggest in the world, 30'000 arcade pcbs?! At even 100 euro a pop that's 3 million euro there. And the machines, wow.

Need to get to nagano Japan for a raid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg9cESanzbM

o1s1n

Holy crap :eek:

Absolutely amazing but imagine the maintenance. 30,000 PCBs, there must literally be millions of capacitors in there - I think I'd be kept awake at night worrying about that!

rubadub

Gradius wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg9cESanzbM

crazy, for any body as slow as me there are subtitles, click cc.
He says he is at it 40 years, but at 30,000 that is still more than 2 per day!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Bare with me
I'd a dream last night about Lumo on Switch but it was an older game, is it something similar I was thinking of? Same kinda main character too
Maybe my brain made a demake too just said I'd ask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jiivNMsSNI

Tom Mann Centuria

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Bare with me
I'd a dream last night about Lumo on Switch but it was an older game, is it something similar I was thinking of? Same kinda main character too
Maybe my brain made a demake too just said I'd ask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jiivNMsSNI

There are a LOAD"" of games like this on the Spectrum.

Solstice on the NES maybe what you're dreaming of?

Jack burton

Are there even 30'000 individual PCB games made??

o1s1n

I think there's about what, 10,000 games in MAME?

Must have a lot of multiples too so I'd say that'd multiply the figures out a good bit.

CiDeRmAn

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

There are a LOAD"" of games like this on the Spectrum.

Solstice on the NES maybe what you're dreaming of?

Or maybe the first one of all?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n7qtErhF-A

Ronan|Raven

Gradius wrote: »

Check this out for a collection! Must be the biggest in the world, 30'000 arcade pcbs?! At even 100 euro a pop that's 3 million euro there. And the machines, wow.

Need to get to nagano Japan for a raid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg9cESanzbM

Amazing video. Thank you

Dr Bob

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

There are a LOAD"" of games like this on the Spectrum.

...and not one of them with a decent colour scheme