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Post by Discoalucard on Sept 6, 2012 21:50:30 GMT -5
Next Sega game up! Galaxy Force: www.hardcoregaming101.net/galaxyforce/galaxyforce.htmSadly, I've only seen videos of the deluxe cabinets in motion, so I've never experienced it the way it was meant to be. The stuff about the first Galaxy Force release was also translated from the Japanese Wikipedia article, since I can't find anything about it anywhere else. It's not dumped or included on any compilations.
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Post by Weasel on Sept 7, 2012 2:48:05 GMT -5
Mmm, Galaxy Force 2 is quite good, in my opinion. A detail I particularly liked about the Sega Ages 2500 version is that, in Neo Classic mode, through a certain combination of sound settings, there is actually an "unreleased" extended version of the Stage 3 music that has an extra bit in the beginning before the "proper" song begins. I think you need to set the sound mode to "Stream (Original)" for the option to work, and there unfortunately isn't an arranged version that is like that.
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Post by Malev on Sept 7, 2012 7:02:08 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN2-QkqGi8QI like how the Sega Ages 2500 included old tape footage of Galaxy Force 1's Super Deluxe cab at what looked to be a trade show. Our arcade had the Super Deluxe Galaxy Force II machine for a brief period. It cost 75 cents a play during an era when almost every game was a quarter. I never saw another cab of any size for it again. Was the game that rare?
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Post by apachacha on Sept 7, 2012 7:15:40 GMT -5
Galaxy Force II made me want to hurt people.
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Post by mateusbond on Sept 7, 2012 9:01:21 GMT -5
You can't use Continues in the Master System version if you want to see the true ending (but I don't remember if this is valid for the entire game or just for the final stage).
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Post by Lord Dalek on Sept 7, 2012 10:16:54 GMT -5
Always been curious to try the Pre-"II" version of Galaxy Force even if is just GFII with a different credit jingle and two less stages. In my opinion, the fact that it is at present unemulated (I imagine the boards are even rarer than Last Survivor) adds to the mystique of the game.
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Post by derboo on Sept 26, 2012 16:16:21 GMT -5
I got my hands on my copy of Famitsu DC's SEGA Arcade History now. It dates the original version to April 1988, the update to July 1988.
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Post by PooshhMao on Sept 27, 2012 5:24:43 GMT -5
I've played the fullblown, all-the-trimmings GFII cab back when I was eleven or so, and my mind was thoroughly blown. It still impresses me to this day - there's just something about sprite-generated scenery. Like comparing it to practical special effects in movies, instead of cg.
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Post by Discoalucard on Sept 27, 2012 9:10:29 GMT -5
I got my hands on my copy of Famitsu DC's SEGA Arcade History now. It dates the original version to April 1988, the update to July 1988. Ooh, what else is in this book? Is it worth picking up? Jeez, it's like $100 on Amazon JP...
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Post by derboo on Sept 27, 2012 11:14:16 GMT -5
$100 is a bit much, but for some reason it always seems to be much more expensive than the Consumer History, which has more content...
The book has really short descriptions for all of SEGA's arcade video games released until December 2001. It gives release dates by the month for the vast majority of them. I was going to offer to fill them in for the book in case you care about more precise release dates than the usual by-year figures.
It also has interviews with representatives of the former AM teams, and also some old hardware engineers. The way the binding is made, it's impossible to scan without ripping the book apart, but I can get you photographs of the interview pages if you want.
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