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   XPost: alt.sega.genesis, alt.games.video.sony-playstation2, rec.   
   ames.video.classic   
   From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   parallax-scroll wrote:   
   >   
   > I remember going to Babbage's and TRU back in Aug~Sept 1989, watching   
   > the TurboGrafx-16 and Genesis displays.  Keith Courage looked pretty   
   > sweet but Altered Beast was better.   I noticed that even though the   
   > graphics in the Genesis version were not as good overall (smaller less   
   > detailed sprites, much less color, less animation, toned down special   
   > effects, etc)  it had parallax scrolling whereas the arcade version   
   > did not.  That's just the opposite of Golden Axe, arcade ver. has   
   > parallax, Genesis ver. doesn't.   
      
   You weren't alive in 1989.  Here's how I know.  One, you'd keep a   
   Genesis hooked up but play Genesis games with that horrible joke of a   
   controller that is the Dual Shock 2 instead.  Two, nobody counted   
   background layers and colors when the Genesis came out.  To us Altered   
   Beast was practically photo-realistic when it released on Genesis.   
   Nobody put the Genesis under the microscope until things like the NEO   
   GEO, and 3DO were on the market and arcade games were getting into   
   digitized actors.   
      
      
   > When you unlock the arcade version of AB in SGC for PS2, let me know   
   > what you think of the differences.   
      
   I particularly enjoy the sound dropping out when the character jumps.   
   That's got to be better than something.   
      
   >   
   > BTW I found a nice review on usenet from August 1989 of Genesis and   
   > most of its launch games   
   > (that would've been test launch in NYC & LA):   
   >   
   > http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video/msg/6599fb3389f   
   2d06?hl=en&dmode=source   
   >   
   > spot on IMO.   
      
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