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Thunderforce 3 and 4 are better but i love thunderforce 2. For me its in the top ten mega drive shmups

Love the Megadrive port. It was my first shump for the system. But man, difficult as hell!

Make One for Chack'n Pop, now!!!

Classic

When can we expect a port of the md version with the missing stages of the x68k version ?

im wonder lost weapons caused the whole game too been absurd hard in the later stages? So if you die, and the sametime the stages was designed with fully powerups in mind and impossible to regain them again? That cause it often impossible to complete. Im hate that kind of gameplay design today. One of the worst im have seen was Altered Beast. lol. absolute a joke of a game if you die on the later levels.

I`m very glad to see battle of the port about thunder force 2 after thunder force 1 last week. Now I am playing thunder force 2 sharp x 68000 version (then the mega drive version is next) and I learned interesting details for myself about this games, thank`s very much for this videos!

I prefer the MD version over the 68K. The overhead ship in the latter one is too small and in the side stages too big. The resolution is lower with 256 wide @55Hz vs 320@60Hz Also, the music sounds more refined and cleaner on the MD. Yes there's some parallax missing and sound channels can be cut but overall I think the MD version is the definitive version. And oof, didn't know that the Saturn version is such a mess.

What is the best emulator for the Sharp X68000 on pc?

That multi-directional scrolling....hurts, it just hurts! Haha

The most memorable part of the X68K version, the guy cursing once your last life is lost. I find that X68K version a lot tougher than the MD version.

Again a very good review. As for Herzog Zwei, this game pushed Tecnosoft and the Sega MD to another dimension.

This was one of my favorite games when I grew up for the Megadrive and I love this Soundtrack. Thanks bro 👍🏼

No offense, but you're almost as bad as I am at shmups!

i'm not gonna lie, the fact that they explored horizontal scolling stages on 2 make TF 1 and 2 really weaker compared to what comes after. so much so that problaby not a single soul cares that much of the original

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For just a moment, the thought crossed my mind, "I miss the overhead stages." Then I saw you playing through a couple, and I remembered. Having to duck in and out of visual range of the ground turrets, poking my way close enough and timing my shot rhythm to hit it with a bomb, making sure I'm still paying attention to those sky-level barriers, hoping against hope that I didn't fatfinger a diagonal while trying to get through a narrow passage... No, actually, I really don't miss the overhead stages.

Technosoft composers were FM synthesis geniuses.

for some reason i never got in to this series when I had a genesis .........i missed out it seems ..

At least the synthesized voice is better than the original game.

I've never seen the X68000 version before, if they'd pulled that water effect off on the Mega Drive it would have blown minds.

If there's anything that impressed me about the games in this video, it's the fact that the Sharp version used one of its voice samples JUST to announce the copyright and publishing information. I don't think I've ever seen or heard of that in a video game, not even one that's a stylistic parody.

The MD version loses one top-down and one horizontal stage, but does gain additional stage music the X68000 version doesn't have, such as the thumper that accompanies horizontal stage 4 (the level and BGM that would also feature in Thunder Force AC).

Got this at launch Mom came home from work with the system, then took me and my friend back to Toys R Us to pick a couple games Grabbed this and Space Harrier 2 Miss those good ol days. Mom is a gem! When I picked TF2 , she said “I knew you’d want that one!”

0:02 Intro 0:34 Colecovision (Parker bros.) 1:45 Intellevision (Parker bros.) 2:39 GBC (konami collection vol 2.) 3:35 TI99/4A 4:31 NES (UFC Demo) 5:40 BBC Micro (Retro soft) 6:48 C64 (Arcade ver.) 7:30 Amstrad (Deanysoft) 8:41 Zx Speccy (Deanysoft) 9:44 Dragon 32/64/TRS 80 CoCo 10:40 Compare all 11:44 End

0:00 Intro 0:31 Arcade 1:53 MSX 2:49 VIC20 (Parker bros.) 3:14 A2600 (Parker bros.) 3:54 A2600 (SEGA/Starpath) 4:32 5200 4:58 7800 (Froggie) 5:43 800 6:28 Apple 2 7:12 BBC micro (A&F) 8:04 C64 (Sierra on line/SEGA) 8:44 GBC 9:20 MD/SG 9:57 SNES 10:37 GAME GEAR (Unreleased) 11:58 atari st 12:44 X680000 13:29 Zx Speccy (A&F) 14:02 Zx Speccy (Terminal soft) 14:43 IBM COMPATIBLE/Dos (Frogger Jr) 15:18 PS1 16:22 Compare all 17:29 End

Amazing BGM

Love that this episode just ends with a long clip of hot jams. ❤😊

I love Thunder Force II for pushing the franchise and genre forward in the late '80s with look and sound

The true start of the IP. I'll give this one to the Sharp X68000 version. Though Genesis still has the best music rendition.

SH*T!

4:18 I never understood that thing next to the Luck. People says that it's a thumbs up, but for me, it always look one *spring with a shark head.*

Who knew there was a game before Thunder Force 3? Wow. There might even be two of them!

Was the PSG always that loud in the Mega Drive version? I don't remember that being the case, but maybe that's because you played it right after the X68k original, which doesn't have any PSG at all. It's unfortunate that Technosoft's sound driver on the MD can't play music and samples at the same time, and honestly makes me wish there weren't any samples at all, because interrupting such amazing music is criminal! I also think the lower quality sound effects actually works in the Saturn's favor, as they're much less obnoxious as a result. Just a shame the CD music doesn't loop properly.

this was one of the first 16 bit games i ever played back at the u.s genesis launch and i was immediately hooked.. i played the sharp x68000 version years later thru emulation and thought it was more difficult in general but still great..

Ah, Thunder Force 2, also known as "the second of the first two games that people have kind of just forgotten existed apparantly"

The Sega 16-bit version of this game is the one that most people played...

There was going to be a pc engine version but it got cancelled.

Epic man😎👍💥

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I hope next week's Battle of the Ports is not Thunder Force III since you've covered that game in 2017 as Show #163.

1:41 Not quite right, since in fact the so-called "Kotori Yoshimura", is in fact a MAN, whose real name is Katsunori Yoshimura. Thus, this statement is not actually correct, and in fact, overshadows the real female game designers, such as Dona Bailey, who developed the legendary Centipede and greatly popularized the shoot'em'up formula.

I played the SNES and Genesis versions. I like the SNES version more than the Genesis version.

Seems like MZ-1500 comes the closest to being decent.

Suprised US Gold didn't port these to the 8 bit micro's, like the brown C64 (Scat Force), slow CPC (Static Force), colorful Speccy (Rainbow Force)

Unpopular take: Heavy Nova is the only game that shows what the reality of mech fighting---if it ever comes into being---will really be like: slow, awkward, and ridiculously unnecessary.

I...wasn't expecting to see Bomberman decapitated

Who said jrpg's are bland? Oh it's not. It's pure garbage generic slop though.

The PS2 version from the colection have the bestest quality of audio , that no one ever made until today arent compared equal , you can compare its absurd quality .

The Acorn port is the best version I've played but have to say how impressive the Master System port is. A fantastic version - it's unbelievable how well it plays.