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   From: john@junk.com   
      
   "room88"  wrote in message   
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   > The Genesis definitely DID bring the arcade experience home. There is zero   
   > denying that.   
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   > Altered Beast & Ghouls and Ghosts were amazing ports when the system   
   > launched. You definitely couldn't find that quality within any other   
   > console of the time in the U.S.   
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   > Forgotten Worlds came around shortly after that.  Then later, people   
   > forget how much Golden Axe was state of the art and the Genesis brought it   
   > right home. It was truly amazing!   
   >   
   > Revenge of Shinobi (although not an arcade game) did bring home the vibe.   
   > But the crowning grace for me was Strider. Yeah at that point arcade games   
   > had advanced, so you could tell it was a port moreso than not, but still,   
   > Strider was an amazing arcade game, and the fact that the Genesis played a   
   > very decent port of it was amazing.   
   >   
   > I think the Genesis definitely lived up to that hype in it's inital stages   
   > in bringing home the arcade scene of it's launch era.   
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   If only they'd put a sprite scaler in the gen hardware.   
      
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