Heart Hearter 2: Heart Harder
Concrete Jungle!
I knew those hearts were familiar.
Crawl?
Oh, nice thinking, but nope!
Soul Blazer?
OH! Very tricky game you’ve chosen. Love the choice. Dragon’s Fury?
Edit: Derp. Deleted the first post because I didn’t reply directly to Left_Empty so he’d get the notification. Didn’t know it’d keep it here for 24 hours.
It is indeed Dragon’s Fury/Devil Crash. I really thought it was well known? This is from the PC-Engine version.
Dragon’s Fury, the Western release for the Megadrive/Genesis, is one of my earlier stumbling against a “DRM” of sort: I had bought the game for my Japanese Megadrive, and I was met with a screen telling me I should play it in 50Hz, like is expected from European suckers. I went back to the store, where they kindly exchanged the cartridge for Shining in the Darkness, a game I would grow obsessed with.
Anyway, it was an awesome digital pinball game, that is still a joy to play today. And what a soundtrack.
I knew that looked familar. I don’t know what Dragon’s Fury was, I played (something like) this called Devil’s Crush/Alien Crush on TG-16. My cousin and I were obsessed with it, probably the king of pinball for me for many, many years.
I’ve never heards of this game before. From the screenshots it looks like a cross between pinball and a tower defence game. From this video it kind of seems like that, but with more shmupy elements.
Though it seems to have a single table and many boss battle "bonus stages’.
I rented it on the Genesis back in the day. A few times actually. One of those games to actually make fun/interesting/unique use of video pinball, up there with Sonic Spinball, Flipnic and Rollers of the Realm.
The brain is a funny thing. I didn’t think about it at all when I picked my game, but Devil Crash was one of the absolute favorite games of my dad (he ever played a single kind of game: digital pinball.), so much so I had bought and set up a Supergrafx with the game in his living room for this purpose. It’s interesting I picked precisely this game when he is facing what are likely the final months of his life.
Anyway, Captain Blood?
Not Captain Blood. Wow, I forgot about that game. I remember reading about it on Home of the Underdogs back in the day and wanting to play it. It looks amazing. Maybe some day I’ll do so.
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