The official Retro Core / Battle of the Ports thread

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A loved Gain Ground back in 1990 on the Mega Drive. I’m surprised it’s taken me 205 show to finally get around to covering it.

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Gain Ground is a great game. I recommend it to anyone looking for something other than a platformer, shmup or beat ‘em up. Same goes for Soldiers of Fortune

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It sure is. It’s one of those games you look at and think “That’s so dull” but once you start playing it you become hooked.

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That’s so true. I remember looking at the Genesis box on the shelf at EB and being like, “Man, that has to suck.” When I finally played it I was like “Wow! This is awesome!”

Similar in that way to Rambo III on Sega Genesis. Another game I ignored til a friend raved about it.

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I don’t think I’ve ever played Rambo lll on the MD. I should give it a try.

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QBert? What’s a QBert? Find out what and how many on this week’s Battle of the Ports.

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The new Cool Baby X9

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Qix was a pretty fun but not really a looker of a game so Taito followed it up with Volfied.

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Whoa, I never heard of this game!

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I think in the US is was called Ultimate Qix or something like that.

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“Quicks” lol

I’ll keep watching the video despite that.

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So how do you say the game title? In Japan that’s how it’s pronounced - クイックス

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I’m aware it’s widely pronounced ‘kicks’, but I’ve always called it ‘quicks’ myself. As an Italian person, I find pronouncing a ‘q’ the same way as a ‘k’ quite unnatural. ^^;

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Thanks for watching Resident Dante.
In answer to your question, I live in Japan but do return to the UK once a year for a few weeks.

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It was sold as an all new game and in some ways it was due to the new hardware but just how good were the ports of Race Drivin’? Let’s take a look on Battle of the Ports.

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My only experience with this game is the horrible SNES version, which I got from my uncle as a child. I still have that cartridge. Your video brought back some horrible memories lol. At least I also got Street Fighter 2 from him at the same time. That game got played a bit more often. :joy:

Edit: Oh right, and I was playing the US NTSC version on my PAL SNES with an adapter at the time… so the frame rate was even worse than normal!

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Oh man, that must have been agony playing the US Race Drivin on a PAL SNES. at least your uncle was kind enough to also give you Street Fighter :+1:

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This time it gets modded

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Capcom made so many great games that were’t fighters. Let’s take a look at a true gem.

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