There were a couple more launch titles for the Genesis when it hit the stores in North America in August 1989. In addition to the three JP launch titles, we also got:
-Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (i think?)
-Thunder Force II
-Tommy Lasorda Baseball
-Last Battle
Now I don't really give a rat's ass about baseball video games, but I wanted to see all the launch titles nonetheless so I picked this up last night. It's some goofy localization of a Fist of the North Star game, where Ken for example is renamed "Aarzak". That kind of shit. I don't know what the deal with that type of stuff is, if I was Sega of America and I assumed kids don't know Fist of the North Star I would just not change anything and teach them what it is through the game instead of giving everyone generic fantasy nonsense names.
Yknow a game that sucks ass? This one. It plays pretty similarly to Altered Beast or Ninja Warriors, if they were crap, had annoying maze levels thrown in, gave you one life and no continues, and put a branching world map where you have to replay every level you scroll over. Replaying them is actually required sometimes to get across, it's immensely tedious and I really don't know what they were thinking there. Or with any of this, really. It's probably a worse launch title than Super Thunder Blade, which is kind of saying something. At least that one has some comedic value.
-Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (i think?)
-Thunder Force II
-Tommy Lasorda Baseball
-Last Battle
Now I don't really give a rat's ass about baseball video games, but I wanted to see all the launch titles nonetheless so I picked this up last night. It's some goofy localization of a Fist of the North Star game, where Ken for example is renamed "Aarzak". That kind of shit. I don't know what the deal with that type of stuff is, if I was Sega of America and I assumed kids don't know Fist of the North Star I would just not change anything and teach them what it is through the game instead of giving everyone generic fantasy nonsense names.
Yknow a game that sucks ass? This one. It plays pretty similarly to Altered Beast or Ninja Warriors, if they were crap, had annoying maze levels thrown in, gave you one life and no continues, and put a branching world map where you have to replay every level you scroll over. Replaying them is actually required sometimes to get across, it's immensely tedious and I really don't know what they were thinking there. Or with any of this, really. It's probably a worse launch title than Super Thunder Blade, which is kind of saying something. At least that one has some comedic value.