When loading the PC-88 version said "Hang-on - wait a moment" when it could've said "Hang-On - Hang on ". Never pass up the chance for a pun!
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Sadly I think mostly only British people say Hang On :)
@nekononiaow6 жыл бұрын
@@RetroCore I confirm that the USians I work and hang out with (huhu) do use it on a regular basis. ;)
@jesuszamora69495 жыл бұрын
@@RetroCore Yeah, like Laurent said, we say "hang on" here in the US as an informal way of telling someone to wait.
@iwanttocomplain5 жыл бұрын
I knew I wouldn't be first in on that joke. Damn.
@tatsujincorp2 жыл бұрын
“Hang On a sec” would have been even a better pun.
@LightForce-rw4kc6 жыл бұрын
Love your retro comparison videos Retro Core!
@KISSbestfan6 жыл бұрын
Great stuff. I played Hang On once when I was on holidays. The owner of the arcade spot was so impressed with my skills at another game, he gave me a free shot at this game :P good old times.
@Laserdreamz5 жыл бұрын
Master System version is burnt into my mind, those sound effects! True 80's classic.
@ravagingwolverine6 жыл бұрын
I really like the parallax effect on the arcade in the desert stage with the two layers of the rock formations. It looks really good to me. I have a soft spot for Hang On as I had it with the Master System as the pack in. Mine was the cart version with Safari Hunt and not built in(I discovered the built-in Snail Maze game for my system). Hang On was way too hard for me at that young age, especially with how easy it was to explode, but it was fun. The Master System version really could have used some riding music, though. Good battle video as always.
@edumafra826 жыл бұрын
3:37 Here in Brazil, the first SMS consoles came with Hang On and Safari Hunt (and the secret Snail game) built in memory. I had one of those, miss my childhood! Later, I had the Sega Genesis and Super Hang On. It had all to be a great game, beside it's laggy controls. Awesome video!
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Mine also came with Hang-On and the snail game built in but Safari Hunt was on a Cartridge along with Marksman Shooting. Going back to Safari Hunt now its amazing Sega were not sued. The first stage is well a rip off of Duck Hunt 😂
@Charlie-Cat.6 жыл бұрын
Oh man..A timeless classic. I'm speechless Mark. I mean, what can you say about Yu Suzuki's early works. Brillant. 8^) Anthony..
@Larry6 жыл бұрын
Surprised there were no home ports, but then again that's what Super Hang On is for! :)
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Just as well. Most likely they would have been shit.
@rickylovesyou5 жыл бұрын
GOD DAMN that music used to get me hype at the arcades ontop of the mock bike controller....until the first turn....
@robbiereisman89546 жыл бұрын
I remember being blown away the first time I saw Hang On in the arcades, and thinking it was so cool that I had a home version on my Master System
@LeShark756 жыл бұрын
Anyone else get goosebumps when that music kicks in on the Arcade Original? Awesome. I got Hang-On free with my SMS when the game was still being put out on the Cards before it was built in on the later models of the console. I was always disappointment that the SMS didn't have music playing in the game, great game but a massive oversight on not including the music.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
That opening music on Hang-On is iconic. I still remember hearing it at the arcades as a kid.
@LeShark756 жыл бұрын
@@RetroCore Same my friend, I remember the crowds of people waiting to play it.
@rickylovesyou5 жыл бұрын
YES. Until you hit the first turn and realise leaning into every corner is a pain in the ass. LOL..
@MarcoPolo826 жыл бұрын
The Supe Scaller still impresses.
@reagandow8506 жыл бұрын
A perfect way to begin my weekend! I feel much more complete now! This is a game I sometimes forget about but spent so much time playing back in the day. Love it!!
@WrightOffsGaming6 жыл бұрын
Great as always thanks Mark, I got my copy of Hang on as part of my first master system bundle, I always found it to be slick with decent handling
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Same here. For the longest time I had only Hang-On, Wonder Boy and the safari Hunt / Marksman Shooting to play.
@KonuvisАй бұрын
I used to love playing this game in the arcade. There was nothing close to the feeling on being on that bike at the time. I had it on MS and of course in Shenmue. I actually wish they had kept it in Shenmue 2 as well.
@Videogamearcade6 жыл бұрын
I grew up and love the Master System version. I skipped weeks of elementary school because of this game :D
@JimLeonard6 жыл бұрын
+1 for pronunciation. You continue to improve with every video -- keep up the good work.
@williamhowe16 жыл бұрын
I think AVGN should look at these bad ports.
@ryzmaker116 жыл бұрын
Hang-On in arcade was another groundbreaking game from Sega and this for many reasons: - it began what was called the "Taikan trend" i.e. the use of motion-controlled hydraulic arcade cabinets. - it was one of the first arcade games to use Sega's Super Scaler technology for 3-dimensional sprite scaling. - and it was one of, if not THE first game that introduced digitized drum sounds. It's for this kind of stuff that I love Sega so much =) But sadly the original Hang-On never had a good home port... The SG-1000 port is indeed very compromised but at least it has in-game music unlike a certain... ... Master System port which runs and plays well but no music (especially no Sega music) is a bummer and the fact that our bike crashes when touching opponents is annoying. I see that the MSX port is slightly worse than the SG-1000 port and I noticed this trend for several multiplats on both systems despite having very similar hardwares. And that NEC PC-88 port is awful! But NEC computers often struggle with scrolling and here they managed to add other issues :v Anyway thanx for the video!
@djarcas5 жыл бұрын
psyance_ql uh, what motion controlled cab are you referring to?
@Lightblue22225 жыл бұрын
@@djarcas hangon doesn't use hydraulics but it does use the motion of the bike to control left and right. I remember being too little to play and my dad helping me push it to turn. Luckily it sat in my town arcade long enough for me to grow up and play it for real!
@JoystickVersusMachine6 жыл бұрын
I played the crap out of the SMS version as a kid. It was the NA pack in, too, along with Safari Hunt (and Snail Maze in the bios). I still find it interesting that they basically remade this game for their 8-bit arcade hardware and called it Hang-On Jr. Given it's current rarity, I'd say both people who played it back in the day must have enjoyed it.
@homiedclown6 жыл бұрын
Great, now I have the title screen music for Safari Hunt stuck in my head....
@jesuszamora69495 жыл бұрын
There were actually two versions of the SMS pack. The basic one had Hang On/Astro Warrior, and the more expensive version had the Hang On/Safari Hunt cart, along with the light phaser to play Safari Hunt with.
@Lightblue22225 жыл бұрын
This and Outrun sat in my town's arcade for 15+ years. I remember being too small to get the bike to lean, years went by, I grew big enough to play it and did! Still kicked my ass though. Very fun. Today I have fun with the Mark III rom. It's a touch different than the Master System rom as it tells you the name of the different lands as you progress. Circuit, Seaside, Monument Valley, City Night.. etc.. And it boots up saying SEGA MARK III in yellow.
@RetroCore5 жыл бұрын
I've never noticed that about the Mark III version. Nice info.
@sonicmario646 жыл бұрын
I actually remember being able to play the arcade version of this game a couple of times when I was a kid, though the version I played had the handlebar controls attached to a stand-up cabinet just like with the versions of "Out Run" that I had played as well.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Maybe that was a conversion of Enduro Racer?
@loganjorgensen6 жыл бұрын
SG-1000 still shows off the color byte in the road which can do 2 colors for every 8 pixel row, something employed better on later day MSX than on Colecovision. Yeah got the SMS one built in, on cartridge, and also the card too heh. PC88 arcade ports are often weird, if they could have gotten the 640 pixel width to render faster at 320 wide I think the refresh could have been faster.
@losalfajoresok6 жыл бұрын
One of my favorites games ever. The first time I saw this game in Argentina, my country, it was the full motorbike version, I was very short and couldn't play it, however I dreamed about this game and its graphics, which at the time was the closest you can get to a realistic style. Lovely comparison, didn't know there were this many ports!
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
I can feel you there. I was also Yong when the Arcade was released. Although I could ride the bike I could hardly move it.
@TheGeoffers086 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Saturday means another of your retro comparison vids. Top drawer yet again!
@CastleFamilyThe6 жыл бұрын
Had my longest ever game of Hang-on on the Master System version, it was so long i had to give and get some sleep after many hours, i couldn’t feel my wrists or fingers when i let go of the controller!
@zanegandini53506 жыл бұрын
I'm curious as to why the Master System version didn't have music. The SG-1000 did, and their sound hardware was virtually identical, aside from the fact that the SG-1000 used a real SN76489AN and the Master System used a clone of it integrated into the VDP. Other than that, it's impressive they managed to get it to run so smoothly on the Master System.
@nekononiaow6 жыл бұрын
The answer in these cases is likely either (lack of) budget and/or limited time to market. ;)
@zanegandini53506 жыл бұрын
Either that or they didn't want the motorcycle sounds to cut into the music. I have a hard time believing either money or time could be much of a factor, considering it would be super easy to port over the sound from the SG1000 version.
@matttheshadowman27906 жыл бұрын
My guess? It was originally released on the Sega card first which was somewhat similar to the Hu-Card for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 and had limited space on there compared to cartidges the SG-1000 used so the music was cut. Though I know it did get a cartidge release later when the Master System 2 came out (at least in Europe) due to that lacking the card reader.
@zanegandini53506 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure that would be the case either, since all the cartridge/card does is provide the soundchip with instructions for music playback, and that doesn't really cost any memory space. It's not like the SNES where the cartridges had to store individual sound samples.
@matttheshadowman27906 жыл бұрын
@@zanegandini5350 True, and the game has lots of engine sounds from both your own bike and those that pass you. Maybe Sega made the decision to have those over the music, odd either way.
@michaelt.lancaster97766 жыл бұрын
I miss playing this game!
@RedRanger20014 жыл бұрын
Don't forget that the Hang-On in the Shenmue games for the Dreamcast is the advertising signs were replaced by Sega-related ones...
@dazrael56586 жыл бұрын
SMS Hang-On is so smoooooth. I still play it nowadays.
@overkill14736 жыл бұрын
Out of all my Master System games it was the built in Hang-On that got the most play time, before i moved on to the Mega Drive.
@neozeed19846 жыл бұрын
Hang On, Outrun, and Choplifter over here.
@Seth-nt9bf6 жыл бұрын
Love your videos, Yakumo-san. I remember playing Super Hang-on as a kid. The only downside to the Mark III port is that the music is removed. The PC-8801 port is indeed a joke. As for the MSX port, 6:07 Green bush against a green background, REALLY?
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
It's really strange the way they took the music out of the Master System port. I really don't know why they did that.
@orderofmagnitude-TPATP6 жыл бұрын
Hang on was my very first game. Built into my Sega master system. Played it to death...
@nekononiaow6 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks! I am a bit surprised that the game did not get more ports on 8 bit machines, given that the C64, Atari 8Bit, ZX Spectrum and others were already firmly established in 1985 when it was released. I suppose that the relatively close release of Super Hang On two years later led publishers to acquire that license instead. Not that they did anything good with it unfortunately. ;) The Master System version looks brilliant, it seems even much more fluid and smooth than the Super Hang On on the MegaDrive/Genesis which barely reaches 30 FPS in its best moments (it is not bad, just disappointing technically).
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Yes, sadly Mega Drive Super Hang-On is quite choppy.
@DragonSlayerKyo6 жыл бұрын
It really was a great idea to give it away with the Master system as a built in game. The sprite size for the riders is great, almost as high as the arcade version(but just a bit smaller)- it has smooth scrolling, and controls like a dream. It really did show off what the SMS is able to do. That NEC PC 8800 port however is rather messy. sprite flicker all over the place, and the sound is just meh. the 8800 was just not built to do stuff like this.
@Larry6 жыл бұрын
Sega's giveaway game on consoles has always been one that's visually impressive for the system, the only real exception was Sonic, and that was because of popularity.
@ryzmaker116 жыл бұрын
@@Larry You mean Sonic... on Mega Drive?! If so, that was a *very* impressive game at the time which was technically above anything on competiting hardwares and that still looks great nowadays.
@googleboughtmee5 жыл бұрын
What is the Hang-On on original Xbox and the HD remake you mentioned? I can't find anything about this on the net
@RetroCore5 жыл бұрын
It's part of Shenmue.
@googleboughtmee5 жыл бұрын
Ah of course, I was thinking of some HD remake of Hang-On, haha oops
@bananonymouslastname56936 жыл бұрын
Watching your side-by-side comparison segment at the end of the video, it appears as though the Dreamcast version may be running a bit faster than the arcade original. If so, that might be the cause of the more difficult feel; almost like a baseball pitcher throwing a change-up just a few mph slower than their fastball to throw off a batter's timing.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
It my be. It also has much tighter time limits. Notice that the Dreamcast version starts with a much lower time than the Arcade version.
@franikator26 жыл бұрын
The máster system versión is impressive. Very smooth and more detailed than other ports, without count the dreamcast versión obiously.
@daviddyer35436 жыл бұрын
I think the NEC PC-98 would have done a great conversion of this game. Plus, would it be possible to do an MSX 2 or MSX 2+ version of Hang-On?
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
MSX and PC-98 could have done fairly good ports I think.
@STR82DVD Жыл бұрын
What are you running these days for a daily handheld young lad?
@Meneldil6 жыл бұрын
I always had great difficulty just keeping the bike on the road in the version of Hang On present on Shenmue.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
No surprise. They made it tougher.
@captaincommando26026 жыл бұрын
Classic and legendary racing game by SEGA. The Master System port is pretty faithful and colorful.
@SimonsChannel6 жыл бұрын
My Master System III had Hang On built in, I used to play it a lot despite having other games, it was pretty fun battling my brother for hi scores
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Master System III? Is that a Brazilian system?
@SimonsChannel6 жыл бұрын
It is. Master System III Compact. It's based off the Master System II
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
I know but which country was it sold in. There was no master system 3 in Europe or Japan or the States from what I know. This is why I'm thinking it could be a Brazilian model.
@SimonsChannel6 жыл бұрын
It's the Brazilian TecToy model. I don't know why this happened though, the same thing happened with the Mega Drive, the third one here were the Mega Drive 2 worldwide
@frankschneider61566 жыл бұрын
Congrats on making it all the way through to episode 0xFF. What about all the versions on 8-Bit home computers, or were those all ports of Super Hang-On (can't really remember).
@amerigocosta74526 жыл бұрын
Western 8 bit micros got a version of Enduro Racer, not Hang on or Super Hang on at all (the latter was released on Amiga and ST tho).
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Yep, they got Super Hang-On, not old regular Hang-On.
@aaronc87156 жыл бұрын
Wasn't there a version on the Sega saturn or was that another hang on game?
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
That was Hang On GP 95 or just Hang on GP in the West since it came out in 1996 in the west.
@ChristopherSobieniak6 жыл бұрын
The Mark III/Master System port was technically the first game for that system I believe.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
They did a good job too. Shame there is no in-game music though,.
@ChristopherSobieniak6 жыл бұрын
@@RetroCore That is a drawback.
@matttheshadowman27905 жыл бұрын
Reminds me, you really should do Sega Manx TT Superbike at some point. The Saturn port is quite the interesting beast sharing the same game engine that WipeOut 2097/WipeOut XL used for the system.
@RetroCore5 жыл бұрын
There's only two ports though. Saturn and PC :(
@OkamiAuraHenshin6 жыл бұрын
Any reason why Hang-On Jr was omitted?
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Because it's not the same game. It's it's own title. Very similar though.
@vasileios63016 жыл бұрын
@@RetroCore Its the same game actually,just strangely,a little bit worse than SMS. You should have included it to be complete.
@OkamiAuraHenshin6 жыл бұрын
@@RetroCore Hang-On II isn't the same game either but that was included. The only difference in the core gameplay I've noticed is that Jr has puddles on the road but otherwise it looks very faithful to the original game aside from the track layout. I'm also surprised no one has tried porting Jr to the SMS yet.
@yorkshirepud66766 жыл бұрын
Amiga the end, good video Thank You
@yorkshirepud66766 жыл бұрын
@@Olivier_CH Best one Action replay one filed
@kristijannemeth2ndchannel6075 жыл бұрын
Nice but there is also you forget Arcade version of Hang On JR. an earlier 8 bit version before port to SG 1000
@RetroCore5 жыл бұрын
I didn't forget it, more like I didn't bother with it. Its kind of a tricky area. If I included it people would argue that it's not a port of Hang-On but an original game. So I decided not to bother since I was running behind schedule as it was.
@jmbenetti6 жыл бұрын
I had a pirate cartdrige on my Game Gear with a lot of good games, one of them being Hang On. I believe it was the Master System game anyway, as it was the case with various games on that cartdrige that even had barely readable text.
@jmbenetti6 жыл бұрын
@Peck Man I believe there's no "Game Gear version". Game Gear and Master System are near identical on hardware side, so some chinese pirates must have taken the rom and put it on a Game Gear cartdrige. There's even an adapter to put Master System cartdriges on Game Gear.
@williamwilliam99935 жыл бұрын
Hang on is the first game to have Sega PCM sound chip
@neozeed19846 жыл бұрын
such a great old game. Whenever I fire it up, it still hooks me and keeps me playing. The true test of a great timeless game. Arcade, genny, and master system are all great versions. I been riding my whole life and the only other motercycle game I really love is genny road rash. Manx tt is good but depends on the controller. I guess the genny runs super hang on but it seemed like the same game to me.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Super Hang-On is quite more advanced. The tracks have hills in them too.
@Fortuna16 жыл бұрын
Exist a version running in "System E" (master system arcade hardware) version of Hang-on named "Hang-On Jr." Looks similar to the master system version, but with different graphics and details Not was included, but is a Hang-On
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Yes, I do know of that. I've played it on MAME. I left it out however do to time constraints in getting this episode together,
@StRoRo6 жыл бұрын
Hats off to the Master System version :D I think I would have liked this more than Alex Kidd I got with my Master System.
@kristijannemeth2ndchannel6075 жыл бұрын
Its in europe master system 2 also built game when power up your MS2
@sumdood85636 жыл бұрын
The SG-1000 was basically just an MSX but you can’t play Snatcher on it.
@ChristopherSobieniak6 жыл бұрын
Technically you need an MSX2 for Snatcher, but I know what you're getting at.
@JoystickVersusMachine6 жыл бұрын
Isn't the SG-1000 literally a coleco with different interrupts? The Sears knockoff console played both
@ChristopherSobieniak6 жыл бұрын
@@JoystickVersusMachine Pretty much. I think that Sears knock-off or something similar you're thinking of is the "Dina"... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_(video_game_console)
@vasileios63016 жыл бұрын
There are some unlicensed taiwanese ports on SG1000 from MSX like Circus Charlie and Bomberman. For some reason,SG1000 was received well in Taiwan.
@sumdood85636 жыл бұрын
Vasileios I still think that the SG-1000 was a pretty cool console. It was certainly one of the most powerful consoles on the market (coming out right after the Atari 2600, the Intellivision, and the Coleco Vision) for five seconds until the NES came out on the same day (I’m not even exaggerating) and whopped it’s ass.
@gunma747j6 жыл бұрын
I think you should make a episode of that features gradius2 for msx along with 2 x68000 port and , playstation and Saturn version of msx antiques and psp enhanced port
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Sometime in the future that will come.
@krazycharlie6 жыл бұрын
The Dreamcast port would easily be the winner if not for that ludicrous difficulty. By the way, why is the bike made out of explodium in all the ports? (It seems that just rubbing the air makes it go with a bang!).
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
For that extra excitement 😁
@HairDom6 жыл бұрын
Just realised that the original hang on doesn’t have any hills. I think Enduro Racer was the first 3D racer I remember having proper gradient changes.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Yep, it's as flat as can be.
@homiedclown6 жыл бұрын
OutRun was the first one that I remember, but they are handled quite differently than in Enduro Racer so it may not count depending on what you mean by hills. AFAIK both games were released in September 1986.
@anasbakhit43036 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this on the Genesis when I was little, graphically it looks close to the arcade original but it was so Pixelated and run slower, must be my age back then but Dear God it was very tedious and hard! I couldn't even managed to pass the very first race, thanks to the Genesis port I hated the Hang-On games with a passion even nowadays.
@abaroners6 жыл бұрын
Or maybe you just suck. It's not Hang-On; it's Super Hang-On, a different game actually.
@anasbakhit43036 жыл бұрын
@@abaroners the one I played on the Genesis IS "Super Hang-On" I believe there's no just "Hang-On" on the Genesis. I still stand to my word, I didn't liked this game and that I was a racing games junkie back in the 8-bit and especially the 16-bit days.
@marioghernandez49606 жыл бұрын
Oh, and that soundtrack is not bad at all. (Wait is this just Namco's _Pole Position_ but you're on a bike?)
@johnsimon84576 жыл бұрын
Mario G Hernandez graphics are better but yeah. Still the same 60 FPS. I don’t know about the handling of Hang On vs Pole Position. I think the tracks have more turns, too.
@dartsma4645 жыл бұрын
I had way more fun with the Pole Position coinup. But I did play Pole Position first...
@dse7635 жыл бұрын
I think I spent too many 100¥ coins on this game. By the way, is someone know where the drums version comes from ? Considering that the arcade has none ...
@adamhenry67936 жыл бұрын
All are very great biking games!
@geoserenity6 жыл бұрын
(Is singing) Hang on, cos I'm coming. Say hang on, cos I'm coming ...what? I'm a blues brothers fan...
@nidoqueenadvance67986 жыл бұрын
I hope sega and m2 re release this game soon. Also when you showed off the pc 88 version, I thought you was gonna say that the reason that the sky looks the way that it did was due to emulation issues.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Nope, it really does look like that. I was actually playing in turbo mode too. Playing on a stock PC-88 is much slower.
@dahnilama14174 жыл бұрын
There is a cheat for the arcade cabinet with the bike that changed the on screen bike into a sheep 🐑. Guy I knew who worked in an arcade centre showed me but I have no idea what button and bike movement sequence sequence he did at the title screen to activate it.
@RetroCore4 жыл бұрын
I think you are talking about Manx TT.
@dahnilama14174 жыл бұрын
@@RetroCore lol I knew I never imagined it. I've been telling people about this for years. I knew it was a motorbike game. Forgot about manx tt. Nice one 👍 cheers.
@tatsujincorp2 жыл бұрын
There’s no ASCII characters used in the PC-88 port. That’s just some corrupted display in your emulation.
@dbnpoldermans41206 жыл бұрын
This morning I saw this posted, opened it in a tab and savored it until now in the afternoon. I was looking forward to this one. Now it's time to play this video and I will enjoy the heck out of it. Without even seeing it, again thank you so much for all your hard work. Never noticed that the letter 'A' on the START is inverted kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2OVZnyHoL6gfLs Very Stylish SG-1000. quite impressed actually with great music. It cen be played on SMS or megadrive with an everdrive No sure which, maybe both. Seems very unfair. SMS no music? wtf Me and my brother got the deluze 3d glasses and light gun pack. Never played Hang-on on the sms I can testify that the DC version is hard as nails. I got just as far as you did! Who knows about the different options sit down or upright?
@cessnaace2 жыл бұрын
It was also built into the U.S. Master System. Mine at least.
@RetroCore2 жыл бұрын
Nice 👍
@cessnaace2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroCore Mine was released while Tonka was the U.S. distributor.
@antarcticpenguin11512 жыл бұрын
yeah, those bad ports suck, i know, the MSX is full of shaftware, and the NEC PC series werent even built for such complicated games.
@williamwilliam99935 жыл бұрын
Hey mark the dreamcast version is arcade perfect graphics
@RetroCore5 жыл бұрын
It's not because it doesn't feature the Arcade graphics. They had to change them because of licensing issues. The billboards have been changed to represent those of Shenmue.
@thrillington20086 жыл бұрын
Hang on is amazing
@VesuriJRm4 жыл бұрын
Inspired by your Retro Core Battle of the Ports videos and my own experiences with the abysmally disappointing Amiga ports from the 80s I decided to finally prove that the quality of those ports weren’t really due to the Amiga hardware but just lazy programming. To prove this I wrote a proof of concept based on the Sega Hang-On assets, used either as is if possible, or converted in a reasonable manner when required (16 -> 8 color bikes, roadside objects and horizon). Of course, the proof of concept had to run 50 frames per second (since I’m a PAL Amiga owner) on the Amiga 500. It took quite a bit of work but it indeed turned out to be possible. I have to admit getting the full game to consistently run 50FPS wouldn’t be possible on the A500 because at times there would have to be too many bikes on the screen. I think it would be possible to have the road and the overall gameplay run 50FPS at all times with the bikes and roadside objects dropping to 25FPS which might keep the gameplay fluid enough. However, I didn’t want to pursue it that far. It’s also worth noting that the A1200 would be a great target for this since it would require no reduction in the amount of colors, the CPU and the memory bus would keep up with more objects and it would also have more memory. A proper port of Super Hang-On would also be possible since the technical requirements are pretty much the same. Here’s a video of what I came up with: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJ29dJ1-fNmGodk
@rodneybrett50886 жыл бұрын
The really should have ported this to the 32X. It's too bad Sega killed the 32X early after such an amazing port of Space Harrier. Seeing all the super scaler games on there like Power Drift would have been awesome.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Well, we did get Power Drift on the Saturn and Dreamcast (Yu Suzuki's Game Works)
@loganjones46506 жыл бұрын
I have Hand-on and Safari Hunt built into my Master System.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Yep, you probably have he snail game too.
@chrisdavis42925 жыл бұрын
This game should had been ported on the Sega Genesis.
@elblanco56 жыл бұрын
ugh that PC-88 port is rough
@jeremygregorio74726 жыл бұрын
I always wanted to play the Genesis version more but I couldn't get the hang on it (see what I did there)
@Seth-nt9bf6 жыл бұрын
The Genesis/Megadrive one is Super Hang-on.
@LivingWithGames5 жыл бұрын
WAIT, WHY IS THE GENESIS VERSION NOT THERE?! YOU BETRA-- Oh. It's Super Hang-On, thus why it is not here. (Yes, I did mi research, only until the Dreamcast version which...surprised me.)
@RetroCore5 жыл бұрын
I have done a Super Hang-On video 👍
@totih1446 жыл бұрын
The MSX soundtrack sound a lot like the 80s song "Big in Japan", is this self referential?
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Hmm, I never noticed that. I'll have to go and have a listen.
@topofbones6 жыл бұрын
No Marlboro on the Dreamcast version!? What a piece of shit...xD Master System port runs smoother than Megadrive port of Super Hang On, amazing 8 bit version.
@RetroCore6 жыл бұрын
Yep, the Dreamcast version had ALL of the sponsored adds removed. Super Hang-On on the Mega Drive runs at a pretty low frame rate. It's such a shame.