PC Engine Screen-shot quiz

[nat]

That game was definitely the worst of the SEGA ports on the Turbo.

I played it once and it was so choppy I never touched it again.

[ccovell]

I'd say it's a great port!  Have you ever played the original?  With all the sprite scaling and rotating going on, there's no way they could have done it any better on the PCE with sprites or BGs.

Having said that, the original arcade game is a pretty bad game anyway...

[nat]

Nah, never played the original. Maybe the original sucks too.

But Space Harrier, Outrun, and Afterburner II are way smoother and they're not exactly the epitome of spirte scaling.

[Tatsujin]

I'd say it's a great port!  Have you ever played the original?  With all the sprite scaling and rotating going on, there's no way they could have done it any better on the PCE with sprites or BGs.

Having said that, the original arcade game is a pretty bad game anyway...

great words and such true!

except of the last sentence. i loved that game in the arcades as well on the SS ages!! impressive scaling stuff there! and a great BGM!!

[Tatsujin]

Nah, never played the original. Maybe the original sucks too.

But Space Harrier, Outrun, and Afterburner II are way smoother and they're not exactly the epitome of spirte scaling.

you can't compare those "flatters" with the up'n'downhill engine of power drift. that one is quite impressive. and the original in the arcades was the first ever made like that. but i understand, that PD on the PCE may not bring that much fun to you, if you just put it in and play for a small shot. the gameplay indeed was kind of awful. but still a good game.

[nat]

I'll probably give it another chance some day.

But the first impressions I got "back in the day" will ensure that second chance will probably not come for quite a while.

[Joe Redifer]

Were Power Drift and Rad MObile the only two "log scalers" made?  The scaling logs in the Saturn version of Rad Mobile (Gale Racer) are pretty cool.  That game gets a bad rap.  It's actually not too bad, but I guess people just wanted polygons.

[Turbo D]

I played power drift on mame a while ago and it was gay too.

[sunteam_paul]

The Engine version is both good and bad. It seems really jerky and awful first, but if you get into the 'zone' it's quite an intense gaming experience and can be quite fun.

[Tatsujin]

I played power drift on mame a while ago and it was gay too.

i think, you're gay

check those great vids:


it's made in '88! damn if this isn't amazing, then what?

and in real it just looks in minimum 5 times better than those ugly yu0tube vids!!

[nat]

I played power drift on mame a while ago and it was gay too.

i think, you're gay

check those great vids:

it's made in '88! damn if this isn't amazing, then what?

and in real it just looks in minimum 5 times better than those ugly yu0tube vids!!

Yeah, but the Turbo/PCE port doesn't resemble those videos in any way, shape or form.

[Tatsujin]

Yeah, but the Turbo/PCE port doesn't resemble those videos in any way, shape or form.

what i mentioned above. the engine and power drift hardware can't be compared in any aspects. but what asmik did, is to bring your homes best port of that game at that time and platform wide. as i said, it isn't tha overburner, but still a good and special racer for that time.

[ccovell]

There were several more "log scaler" SEGA arcade games, most notably Galaxy Force II, Rail Chase, and others.  These systems went quite a bit beyond the flat curving road designs of Out Run and Hang-On (said curving road the PCE could easily handle) by composing the road/ground/walls from scaling/rotated sprites.  The system used THREE 68000 CPUs in parallel, which is pretty crazy.  Here's some info.  http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=699

Considering how the track is made of BG tiles, I'd say the PCE conversion is pretty good.  Compare that to SMS Space Harrier, which is done in the same way.

Tatsujin: I don't really like playing Power Drift all that much, since you feel like you're completely on rails: when you crash, you don't even stop like in Out Run.  Your car tumbles while still moving along the figure-8 track or whatever.  It's a bit of a mess.  Of all the log scaler games, I like Galaxy Force II most of all.  It's really amazing for 1988, and it's really fun to play too.

[Tatsujin]

yeah, it's kind of a messy game

as for galaxy force. there was always the problem, that the ship covered a lot of the screen. i'm not sure of it, if the saturn version runs on a lower fps than the arcade?

for me, rad mobile was the ultimate log-scaler. beated it with 1 credit nice cab too!!^^

[Black Tiger]

Were Power Drift and Rad MObile the only two "log scalers" made?  The scaling logs in the Saturn version of Rad Mobile (Gale Racer) are pretty cool.  That game gets a bad rap.  It's actually not too bad, but I guess people just wanted polygons.

I'm not a fan of racers, but one year when the canival came to town it had Power Drift in the arcade and my friend and I loved it.

We played it every day until the canival left. I always wanted a home port and suspected that there might be one on lost in japan on Megadrive.

I never could nail down the appeal, other than it wasn't 'realistic'. I think that I would've really liked the PCE port if I'd had a chance to play it back in the day.