more on MD Fan and Beep! MD
Sir Han J. Lee
Sorry about my previous posting that appeared twice on the net (someone picked
up the phone while I was using the modem; that caused all sorts of problems)
In the August issues of MD Fan and Beep! MD, the big thing were reviews on
coming-soon cartridge Strider (which has full 6Megabits of memory), as well
as reports from Tokyo Toy Show and Chicago CES where they showed numerous
new titles and hardwares (e.g., Game Gear and Master System II in US) and
some new games produced in US (They introduced independent US companies such
as SEGA of America, Seismic, Nuvision, Tengen, Renovation Products and
Razorsoft.) I shall go into more details on those later. For now, let me
list the announced games coming soon for Mega Drive and Game Gear.
beg = beginning of that month
end = end of the month
August:
9th - Super Monaco GP [Sega]
beg - Shitenmyoo [Sigma] (two player action game)
end - Michael Jackson's Moonwalker [Sega]
end - Crackdown [Sega] (two player split screen Alien Syndrome type game)
? - Rastan Saga II [Taito] (Part 2 of Rastan)
? - XDR [Unipak] (This new game has been just announced and no info on it)
September:
28th - Hellfire [NCS] (Toaplan side-scrolling shooting)
beg - Klax [Namco]
beg - Axis [Wolf Team] (A quarter view action game with robots)
beg - Insector-X [Hot B] (Insect shooting)
end - Fatman [Sanritsu] (This is the first game produced in US to be released
in Japan. Features 5meg of memory.
Originally "Tongue of the Fatman" for the
PC's by Activision)
? - Gaingrand [Sega] (two player action/adventure game)
? - Monster Lair [Sega] (part 3 of Wonder Boy adventure)
? - Battle Golfer [Sega](comical golf/adventure/action type game. note this is
NOT the same game as Zany Golf which is produced by
Electronic Arts in US.)
? - Space Invader '90 [Taito]
? - Atomic Robokid [Treco] (This long, long awaited game finally seems to be
out sometime this fall)
? - Cuty Suzuki's Ringside Angels [Asmic] (Female wrestling game)
October
? - Strider [Sega]
? - Wrestle War [Sega] (realistic wrestling game featuring huge character and
scrolling background ring)
? - V Atack [Sega] (???)
? - Burning Force [Namco] (Space Harrierish arcade 3-d shooting game with
great graphics)
? - Master of Weapons [Taito] (vertical shooting)
? - Rainbow Island Extra Version [Taito] (action, a sequel to Bubble Bobble)
? - Same! Same! Same! (read "sah-me") [Toaplan] (vertical shooting by Toaplan
combination of Truxton and Daisenpuu. I think US
title was Fire Shark or something)
? - TEL TEL Stadium [Sun Tenshi] (Modem baseball game)
? - Junction [Micronet] (3-d puzzle game)
November
? - Super License [Sega] (racing)
? - Dynamite Duke [Sega] (1st person perspective action - this game is not
the same as "Dynamite Dux" which had Woody Woodpecker
running around)
? - Kageki [Hot B] (two player street fighting action)
? - Road Buster [Nihon Telenet] (top-view driving action game)
? - Granada [Wolf Team] (Vertical shooting, a conversion from a popular
game on X68000 computer)
December
? - Shadow Dancer [Sega] (Shinobi sequel arcade action - yeah! your faithful
yet stupid Ninja Dog is there!)
? - Super Daisenryaku II [Sega] (military simulation/strategy
part 2 of one of the most popular titles
ever on Mega Drive. Super Daisenryaku I
never appeared in these shores thought.)
? - Sankokusi [Sega] (Could this be a translation of Capcom's Dynasty
Wars on arcade?)
? - Monster World III [Sega] (???)
? - Star Cruiser (NCS) (3-D shooting game using real time vector graphics
as well as normal sprites and background.
also another popular title ported from X68000)
? - AZTION [Nihon Telenet] (Side scrolling shooting)
? - Gyuwanbura ...(?) [Game Art] (table game)
? - Caesar [Micronet] (???)
Dates not available yet
Sonic The Hedgehog [Sega] (cartoony action - this is what might be Sega's
Mario and Bonk. Move away Alex! Cute and cuddly
Sonic the Hedgehog is here!)
Moon Dancer [Sega] (a long awaited RPG masterpiece)
Last Surviver [Sega] (???)
Magikaru Hat [Sega] (???)
Turbo Out Run [Sega]
Galaxy Force [Sega]
Power Drift [Sega] (Above three games have been announced ever since there
was Mega Drive, almost two years ago... could it be
that these games will incorporate the software scaling
that Sega has secretly working on?)
Patlabor [Sega] (Adventure, similar in the manner of Psy-O-Blade
based on the popular animation Patlabor)
Ninja Warriors [Taito] (action)
Darius II [Taito] (side-scrolling shooting)
Explored Star [NCS] (puzzle)
Super Fantasy Zone [Sun Tenshi] (shooting)
Vasome [Treco] (action RPG)
Twin Cobra [Treco] (shooting)
Heavy Unit [Toho] (shooting)
Aero Blaster [Kaneko] (Side-scroll shooting, known as "Air Buster" in the
arcade. a virtual carbon copy made by the same
company)
Berlin [Kaneko] (???)
Ready Hawk [Game Art] (???)
Super Volleyball [Video System] (This is the exact same game which is also
on Turbo Grafx system -- side-view volleyball
game translated from arcade)
Super Professional Wrestling [Human] (spt)
Super Air Wolf [Kyugo] (shooting)
Ama teras(?) (???)
More later...
Han.
hl...@sim.Berkeley.Edu
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