Saturday, February 11, 2006
So at around 1am this morning we nipped out to Tesco to do some grocery shopping... as you do.While we were there, I picked up a copy of Sega Classics Collection for PS2, at a bargain price.
Updated and original versions of Outrun, Space Harrier, Tant R and Bonanza Bros, Fantasy Zone, Golden Axe, Virtua Racing, Monaco GP and Columns.
Now, some of these are conversions of Megadrive or Master System games with somewhat updated graphics, some are straight conversions of arcade games, and some are updated versions of arcade games.
To be honest, I can't really be bothered to talk about each one individually, coz there's one that simply stands out head and shoulders above the rest... for me at least.
I never got to play Virtua Racing in the arcades, mainly coz it was so expensive, no arcades would buy it, but later on, I did have it for my Sega 32X/Megadrive... and much later on, on my Sega Saturn.
Now neither of these conversions were bad at all, but I could tell just from the pics in the magazines of the original that they really weren't that close a copy.
And on PS2?
Awesome.
Obviously, compared to modern racing games, this looks naff, but when you remember that this was created before 3D was the norm, that it runs at a rock solid 50fps, and was running on hardware designed by Lockhead Martin for military simulators which cost tens, if not hundreds of thousands of pounds per cabinet... you start to appreciate this exact copy that cost all of £15.
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Steve 1:08 PM [+]
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