Reply With Quotei read about this in some game mag a couple years ago when the were running down the 100 greatest games
I'll definitely have to peep this out
Seriously, I found the thing that's put me in nostalgia heaven... a Sega CD emulator. I couldn't afford one when I was a kid, but now I can finally play all those hard-to-find games.
Specifically, I got all of this done just so I could play Hideo Kojima's Snatcher... it's amazing, but even in the days of horrible animation and 2D bitmap still frames, the man could make a game that's just so cinematic... you can feel the production value just oozing here.
The game is an obvious homage to Blade Runner, mixed with a bit of Terminator. You play the part of Gillian Seed, a man with amnesia that blockes out everything in his life before three years ago. You've joined the newly formed Junkers in order to help find clues to your past. Junkers are men with a license to destroy Snatchers, robots that kill people and then steal their skin to assume their identity... the whole thing is pretty cool, and if they went and remade this game Metal Gear 2 style people would be raving. As it is, it's a classic game that's almost impossible to find in it's original format.
As a bonus, I also found the emulations for Heart of the Alien, the sequel to the classic game Out of This World (which is included in the ROM).
Out of This World was a revolutionary game for PC and a few old platforms that used some of the earliest 3D graphics to create exceptionally well-animated movie sequences (those were also very rare back in the day) and tells a great mystery story with very little in the way of flashy resources... just excellent storytelling technique.
You play the part of Conrad, a young genius scientist who is conducting some sort of mysterious particle acceleration experiments when an accident occurs and transports you and small chunk of your workstation into a lake on some mysterious world, possibly even another dimension. Instantly you have to fight to live as the game throws situation after situation at you, and you try to figure out what to do next to survive. You rapidly end up enslaved by the inhabitants of this strange world, and must escape with the help of a fellow cellmate with whom you cannot speak. The game had a cliffhanger ending in which your alien friend carries your unconcious body into the sky after you both manage to escape the fortress in which you're being held. The rest of the story was a lost chapter to me... until now.
I've never played the sequel, Heart of the Alien, and from what little I've played so far, I'm going to love finally finding out what happened to Conrad. But be warned... these games are hard, difficult in a way that most modern games don;t even come close to. I'd forgotten how hard these old games could be...
These are some of the greatest old-school titles from the early nineties and late eighties, and I'm just freaking ecstatic that I can finally play them. Getting them in the original Sega CD format (as well as getting a Sega CD that works) would be damn near impossible!
I feel 15 again.
Glee!!
If you want to check it all out, I found everything through The UnderDogs and through Snatcher DomainNET which has excellent step-by-step instructions to get your emulated Sega CD set up. The GENS emulator is stable and the Sega CD bios will even play actual Sega CD games (if you can find 'em) through your CD-drive.
And if any of the rest of you old-timers can think of a cool game I should look up while I'm on a Sega CD kick, let me know so I can go look for it.
i read about this in some game mag a couple years ago when the were running down the 100 greatest games
I'll definitely have to peep this out
hmmmOriginally posted by Inkthinker
which has excellent step-by-step instructions to get your emulated Sega CD set up.
I just tried to see if i could setup MAME but it seemed a little too much for my feeble mind at the moment...im going to have to email my little brother for some schooling
Where'd you find the emulator?
I'm craving some old-school action.
There are links in the links up above... run around on the Santcher page for a bit in the section about the emulation of it.
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