[Dr. Von Goosewing]

5 pages in & no-one's mentioned Splatterhouse!

[the.godfather]

Originally Posted by Naren

A Genesis IS a Megadrive. "Sega Genesis" is just the name for "Sega Megadrive" in North America. Megadrive is the original Japanese name for it.

Yeah, it was called a Megadrive in the UK as well. And possibly all of Europe too I believe (not 100% sure though).
I think I actually prefer the name 'Genesis'. It's not as corny as 'Megadrive', which let's be honest sounds like a Transformer.

Some other good games are Shadow Run, Soleil (an awesome rpg many overlook), Landstalker, Traysia, Sword of Vermillion, Warsong, Beyond Oasis.

[oompa]

Originally Posted by Naren

A Genesis IS a Megadrive. "Sega Genesis" is just the name for "Sega Megadrive" in North America. Megadrive is the original Japanese name for it.

Every time I'm talking with Japanese colleagues about Sega Genesis games, I always say they were on the Sega Megadrive. It still strikes me as weird because I had a "Genesis" and not a "Megadrive," but I know they're the same thing.

ahh naren again i shall educate you in the fine arts of european video game names and translations.

the European console was also called mega drive. a game called Zero Wing was released on it.
the Japanese -> English translation of this game is where the famous phrase "All your base are belong to us." (~ = owned.) comes from!

this is a thread of must have games, Zero Wing has become world famous today through internet because of the funny and horrible translation of it, with quotes like "Someone set up us the bomb", "All your base are belong to us" and "You have no chance to survive make your time", they have been used on this board as well.

now, the threadstarter can't get the Zero Wing game (well, unless he gets an adapter ) so i made some quotes from that speech from Zero Wing but made it out to be about him not being able to get Zero Wing. these are all selected parts from that speech:

lol you have a genesis. (not a mega drive, wich means that..)

all your base are belong to us. (..you are owned, you can't get Zero Wing)

get a mega drive. you have no chance to survive make your time. (get a megadrive or you are screwed.)

for great justice. (the final quote in the speech by the bad guy).

it was supposed to be funny but no one got it i guess that makes me the fool
finally, to kung_fu (thread starter):

You know what you doing.

[All_¥our_Bass]

Originally Posted by DDDorian

Oh, and with that X-Men game... there's a part in there somewhere where you sneak into some guy's base to shut down his computer, and when prompted you have to actually press the reset button on your machine at a certain time or get game over. That took me ages to work out as there was no indication that you were supposed to take the instruction literally, plus, if you press the button too hard the game really does reset.

Oh my god!! that is WAY too funny!! Kinda reminds me of metal gear for the PS1 where you have to plug your controller into the second controller port so some telepathic boss dude couldn't read your mind.

[kung_fu]

Originally Posted by oompa

finally, to kung_fu (thread starter):

You know what you doing.

I've heard of this. I appreciate your in depth explanation of your post, because i had no idea what you were talking about.

For anybody interested, here is a cool online price/scarcity guide to video games

Digital Press - Search

YouTube - All Your Base Are Belong To Us

[Naren]

Originally Posted by oompa

ahh naren again i shall educate you in the fine arts of european video game names and translations.

the European console was also called mega drive. a game called Zero Wing was released on it.
the Japanese -> English translation of this game is where the famous phrase "All your base are belong to us." (~ = owned.) comes from!

this is a thread of must have games, Zero Wing has become world famous today through internet because of the funny and horrible translation of it, with quotes like "Someone set up us the bomb", "All your base are belong to us" and "You have no chance to survive make your time", they have been used on this board as well.

now, the threadstarter can't get the Zero Wing game (well, unless he gets an adapter ) so i made some quotes from that speech from Zero Wing but made it out to be about him not being able to get Zero Wing. these are all selected parts from that speech:

lol you have a genesis. (not a mega drive, wich means that..)

all your base are belong to us. (..you are owned, you can't get Zero Wing)

get a mega drive. you have no chance to survive make your time. (get a megadrive or you are screwed.)

for great justice. (the final quote in the speech by the bad guy).

it was supposed to be funny but no one got it i guess that makes me the fool
finally, to kung_fu (thread starter):

You know what you doing.

Then get an emulator.

I am all too familiar with Zero Wing and the whole "All Your Base" stuff. Machine translation at its best (or should I say "worst"?).

So you epically failed at trying to educate me.

[Kotex]

Zero Wing is actually a pretty good game.

[loktide]

NBA jam

Earthworm Jim(s)

[John_Strychnine]

Spatterhouse was aweosme.

Shining Force 2 was were it was at though!

[kung_fu]

I just got around to swapping out the old battery from my Might & Magic cartridge, now I'll be able to save my game . I should probably do this with some of my other games too, I hear NHL '95s were originally shipped with faulty batteries. That explains why it never remembered my user records.