I’ve been playing a lot of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy lately and it seems like it has a number of improvements over the arcade release. I’m curious what other ports people find particularly good.
I’ve been playing a lot of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy lately and it seems like it has a number of improvements over the arcade release. I’m curious what other ports people find particularly good.
There’s a lot. Consoles didn’t have the power to deliver what arcade machines could.
Altered Beast, Double Dragon, Primal Rage, Hang On, Space Harrier, Rampage, ghosts n goblins, Bad Dudes, Smash TV, Final Fight
The ones that did better on consoles were either made into different games or had some other gameplay improvement to make it more appealing.
This is the definitive answer. In the 80s and 90s it was not that rare. Although I find the examples very lacking as e.g. the Sega arcade games had quite faithful ports on the mega drive.
My answer however is lacking too because I can not think of any good ad hoc examples.
I recall Final Fight being a spot on port for the SNES, but it didn’t look quite as good as the CPS1 hardware. Actually, I recall a lot of those on your list being the same, but that could just be fuzzy memory. Double Dragon, Ghost and Goblins, and Bad Dudes definitely were different and IMO more fun on the console though.
I read the title wrong at first, too. And when I realized the question would be stupid, rather than answer it, I read it again.
I feel like an idiot, bit also I was trying to get kids to sleep for 4 hours in the middle of the night. So can’t be too hard on myself.
Eh it’s worded in a strange way. I also read it wrong the first time.
“… better in their console ports” is weird
You should never be hard on yourself online because everyone else will do it for you
This is what OP was asking about
I’ll just smack myself in the head here