Yes, thanks to an odd stroke of luck, I currently have neither of my gamefly rentals with me any longer, and with 3-4 days before I receive a new rental I've been left at a loss as to where my gaming needs should be fulfilled.
Luckily, thanks to the power of the internet and current age technology, I can go back and play all the older games I own despite their respective systems being in relative disrepair. Just playing some of these games makes me want to buy some diet mountain dew and invite some friends over. Which brings a tear to my eye because most of my friends have "grown up." If you can call it that.
I wish I could find my old SNES carts too, I've seen some of them selling on ebay for 2-3 times what you'd spend for a brand new game! I've always had the understanding that some of them "loan vanished" (I'm looking at you secret of mana/chrono trigger, though I'm not going to name names.)(*cough*mariokart/pokemonpuzzle*cough*) but most of them have likely been packed away sadly into the collection of things I no longer mess around with because of broken and age-deathed technology.
One of these days someone is going to make something (and through a stroke of sheer genius do it legally) that can emulate every game system ever made so we can all go back and play all the good ones. Oh wait it's called a PC. My bad.
Anyways!
So I play through and beat the first 3 megaman games for the NES (megaman 3 is the best by the way) and I get to thinking, man I wonder if they have a genesis emulator? I missed out on a lot of those games when I was little, because we were mostly a Nintendo household (there's a reason sega lost the console wars), and genesis games were reserved for rentals.
So they do it turns out, and it's a really nice little program that even emulates the static snow screen when you don't have a "cart" loaded into the system.
So I get to playing Bio Hazard Battle, because of all the genesis games I remember, this is the first that comes to mind every time I think about the system. It's a pretty fantastic side scrolling SHMUP, and it manages to be both sublimely difficult (even on easy) and yet not retardedly unforgiving like R-Type (seriously, why even have lives if you start the whole level over every time you die? That's not another life, that's a continue.)
It's not without its flaws however. Your alt fire weapon thing spins wildly around your ship whenever you move, making all but the homing weapon nearly useless until you get extremely proficient, and it's a committer of the age old sin of replacing all your awesome collected weaponry with some random wimpy bubbles because you couldn't avoid picking up the wrong color orb.
But the music, the level/monster design, hell even the story, all of it is just amazing, which more than makes up for any minor quirks or bad design. Can't say that about too many games.
The whole organic ships/enemies and doom and gloom background music is just fantastic.
But even then...sometimes things are a bit off....take this for example:
Is it just me or does that enemy look like some guy's hairy ballsack?
Hal
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