Classic Game Room - CURSE review for Sega Mega Drive

[@KITT171]

I really like this one, its a pretty decent solid challenging shooter. One of the few games for the system too that was intentionally made to not run at 60FPS too unlike most. Another great review Mark!

[@GotMoreCakes]

Gotta say, love the cartridge artwork too. Nice shout out to Gynoug btw, love that game.

[@parallaxcraze958]

The Mega Drive has the best horizontal shooters of its era and of course Curse isn't one of them ;) but still, it's a decent one with fun gameplay and great music!

[@xunshen9656]

Totally agree!

[@markistheone]

The name Mega Drive was Copyrighted in the USA do they called it something else here.

[@PrimalJayquay]

Honestly the cover art made me think it was some unknown offshoot of those awesome Crash/Crush pinball games for the Megadrive.

[@gr8cornholio79]

I bought this one solely for the cover art since it reminds me of the album art Alex Grey did for Tool. And i use a game genie to play all the Mega Drive games ive got no need for a second console or to cut tabs or whatever, I do the same for SNES/Super Famicom

[@buttholeinspector5100]

my north america genesis plays Japanese mega drive games. i just had to trim the plastic tabs in the cartridge slot.

[@SeekerLancer]

butthole checker Don't even have to go that far if you have a Game Genie sitting around.

[@buttholeinspector5100]

***** I have found satan in a butthole, no jesus yet...

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

SeekerLancer Yeah, there's that too!

[@MikeRoePhonicsMusic]

SeekerLancer Cool tip. If I ever get any MegaDrive games for my NTSC Genesis, I'll try that! The Japanese N64 games worked like this on NTSC N64s as well. Just pop off the plastic tips.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

MikeRoePhonicsMusic The SNES also had that too.

[@dave4shmups]

All you need to do is get a Game Genie for your Genesis. You plug a Japanese Mega Drive cart into it, then plug it into your Genesis. Just press Start, you don't have to enter in any codes.

[@daminmancejin]

I love this game im so glad I have on my sega genesis the music rocks!!!

[@vermillion16]

Curse was excellent in the day. It came before a lot of the games you mention in your review. You can start playing from 4 of the 5 stages, and if you start from 4, it's proper scary. Like, ANXIETY DREAMS scary.

[@bytex666]

Did you know that Worcestershire is actually pronunced Wooster? It's true.

[@fisshbone]

Hey Mark when do you usually get around to reviewing games that get donated? I donated a game a long time ago and I still haven't seen a review for it and I really want to know what you think of it!

[@loyalmax]

Maybe it was reviewed by undertow?

[@wrena79]

Have to agree it's not a patch on some of the choice shoot em ups for the Megadrive but I strangely like this game more than I should. Probably more than it deserves actually. Had to buy it for the killer artwork though the box art is the same as the cart and certainly different.

[@fiorani1986]

I just click on this because of this fantastic art on the game.

[@gamerguy425]

here is how the region coding shenanigans breaks down: PAL= only able to be played on PAL consoles unless you mod it as far as I know, different refresh rate/signal. Japanese and North American games run the same signal (NTSC) so they are sorta interchangeable, with cartridge shapes being the main form of lockout. you can play Japanese games on american console with a game genie for model 1 & 2, and model 3 doesn't even need that, but personally I just use a mega drive from japan, because some games (specifically super shinobi II) don't seem to work on a genesis even with that work around North american cartridges will fit in the slot of a japanese MD, but there is this little lock that juts into a notch in the MD carts that is needed to power the console on, so since the NA carts don't have that notch it wont turn on, but I think you can easily remove the lock if you open it up...

[@AlyxxTheRat]

Namedropping all the classic shmups that are better than Curse without mentioning Truxton or Gaiares? Where is Mark and what have you done with him?!

[@fabiogusmaoribeiro]

There are Sonic the Hedgehog rings even though this game was released before Sega invented Sonic!

[@kylem1112]

Fábio Gusmão lol they do kinda look like sonic rings

[@FloatingDogs]

Nice observation! lol

[@ganjam0n]

i`d like to see mark review banshee for aga amiga :)

[@loyalmax]

The cover art is the last boss in the game I think thus it's not completely irrelevant though it makes it look like some sci-fi horror game.

[@svumaster]

Please review the blitzkrieg 1 and blitzkrieg 2 with all the expansion packs also blitzkrieg 3 is coming out soon.

[@stony4321]

I have Curse for the Sega Genesis. You can play Japanese games on an American Sega , you just need to file down the sides the the machine to make room for extra room of the Japanese games. Once you can fit the Japanese game into the machine it will still play. *Same with Nintendo*, but you remove two plastic pieces from blocking the game getting in..

[@gillianseed4419]

ill take this meh megadrive shooter over a modern first person cod barfare or whatever it is the kids play these days

[@Night-Jester]

Gillian Seed I'm an adult and I love first person shooters including but not limited to CoD (sort of I hate it sometimes but whatever) A true gamer respects all types of games. Also I respect the kid above who plays old school games as well. Just tired of the FPS hate by retro gamers.

[@joseluki]

You can play japanese games on a genesis modifying the cart slot.

[@mikemac2188]

i love is show because it aiways gives me something new to play keep on gaming bro

[@Wallyworld30]

I just beat this game tonight. The final boss of the game is the same chick that is on the artwork of the cartridge. Once the fight begins she turns into some kind of demon. It's a pretty sick boss fight.

[@badbirdkc]

I'm pretty sure you can play any version of Genesis/Mega Drive games through a 32X. I also have a JVC X-Eye that can play Japanese games because the cartridge slot is squared off and any cart will fit.

[@ambrosehawthorne7466]

1:18 "Being an American" ... yep. Mark is no longer banished from Earth (pssst please bring the intro back, it's just so much more awesome with it)

[@AfroSnackey]

Literally clicked because of the Cartridge artwork lol!

[@GoodTofuFriday]

Oh man. Died at the kolibri comment xD

[@iPlaySEGA]

God i LOVE classic SHMUPS!!

[@xaer0knight]

hrm actually looks pretty good for being released in Japan the first year the Mega Drive was out ;)

[@gidislex]

hey there you do a great job! greez from austria

[@BocaRetroGames]

I tough my mega drive had an issue or something which was slowing down the game, but now I see the game is super sluggish, at least the scrolling bg

[@Frankaccino]

To be clear in my opinion, PAL Mega Drive and NTSC Genesis both have the same cartridge shape. The Japanese MD has only a rectangled slot. Now I understood.

[@MarsGundam]

Give this review one thing, where else are you going to hear Mark reference Kolbri for the 32X?

[@JopieHaargel]

Probably in his Kolibri review.

[@GunstarHeroes777]

I did a review on my channel a while back. Great soundtrack, though yeah, it doesn't really doesn't do anything great either. Still, not bad though. The final boss/cover artwork is pretty rad though.

[@ianvallender7892]

I think somebody needs to sort him out a copy of Tatsujin!

[@seanmccafferty3189]

To echo other's sentiments on here, it's not the worst game ever by any means, it's just not that great a shoo-em-up compared to the greats on the Megadrive. I think I did pick up Curse for something like £8 back in the day. I used to buy a lot of second-hand Megadrive games, and also pay a small fee to swap ones I got bored with (or ones which were crappy), using a mail-order firm called Megaware (UK), probably very early 90's. :)

[@DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL]

Not an awful game in itself but has some of the worst slowdown and frame dropping I have ever seen in a Mega Drive game. If it had run a little smoother it might have been a bit more special.

[@tenderstems]

Works on my Genesis. Because this is an early release, the Game genie will let you play this just fine. Also, you can just unscrew the top off your genesis and put the game in that way.

[@davidvfx]

think it's unfair to this game, played it a while in emulator and it was a fun challenge, of course not the best but not the worst graphics and true for every enthusiast of the genre.

[@atomicskull6405]

Curse almost had a western release. INTV picked it up and EGM reviewed it but then INTV went under and it never came out.

[@paulnicholas1278]

Your reviews are always GREAT to watch! I wish I had a genisis and money to buy all the games, but I just bought a ps2 and ps4 recently. I may invest in an emulator handheld device to play oldies though!

[@megabot80]

***** if you have a mac use openemu

[@zyrgle]

My Majesco Genesis 3 plays American AND Japanese games, as well as the only Russian cart I have. My Atgames Genesis also does, but it's even crappier than the Majesco one.

[@mamesushi136]

Hey, Mark. I thought this game was related to Front Mission (SNES) because of the cartridge's cover art, maybe it is just the same artist? #CGR4LIFE

[@MelhodRiperton]

It Works On My PAL System ;)

[@MactarJr]

All hail Lord karnage

[@chrissieler1377]

Zero Wing Next! You know someone had to have sent that to the show.

[@MasterJim2020]

At first, I thought this was going to be a horror game, because of the name “CURSE.”

[@loyalmax]

Reminds me of the adjutant from StarCraft.

[@SevenCompleted]

the american genesis can play most japanese mega drive games. Some games do need the language switch to be set to japan like osomatsu kun so they won't work on an american genesis unless you put a language switch on it.

[@craigjuan5744]

Curse looks like an okay game. Not bad. But not really a worthy addition to my Genesis & Mega Drive collection. So this is an easy pass for me. As for the subject of names, I thought Mega Drive is cooler sounding than Genesis. If only the former wasn't already claimed. But I don't hate the name the US got either, not by a long shot. It's still catchy and fitting.

[@LordDragon47]

The "2015" 4:30 has no animation.

[@bootblacking]

I remember seeing the box art for this game, and combined with the haunting name "CURSE" thought it would be some kind of terrifying journey involving cybernetic body horror, a theme that is as attractive to me as it is revolting... and the game is just a below-average shmup. Seriously, that art promises an amazing game, maybe an RPG, maybe an action-platformer, that just drips with Cronenberg-esque horror or the dehumanization of "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," but it fails to deliver. Such a disappointment.

[@diegordi1394]

+Lord Karnage * spoiler * The thing in the cover is the final boss of this five-staged game.

[@ianvallender7892]

Mark looks like your Megadrive still has its locking mechanism in it with it removed you can play most us and European megadrive cartridges providing they aren't region coded an example of which is Street Fighter 2 Special Champion edition all Megadrives and Genesis consoles can be modified to play any region but here are the default settings Sega Genesis 60hz and English language Japanese Megadrive 60hz and Japanese language and pal setting for Europe Australia and parts of asia that use pal video standard 50hz and English language settings. the modification itself should be cheap as its only wires and switches and a track on the circuit board if your not competent with a soldering Iron I'd suggest that you get some one who is as you could destroy your console as for your sega Genesis model 1 was it already modified when you got it or did you have some one mod it for you if some one modified it for you you might want to ask him/her to do the region mods on your console.

[@michaeljosephmercado6522]

Sega!! My best favorite game console than the XboX, thats all;-)

[@zanychelly]

Good old intro

[@JopieHaargel]

I am disappointed at the lack of Truxton mentions in this video.

[@DehnusNorder]

A lot of sprites on the screen though.

[@sfighter0085]

Aw Man, I thought this was gonna be a Horror Survival game, talk about wasted potential.

[@danieljohnson400]

I thought the same thing wasted potential on the game and on the cart

[@sfighter0085]

Daniel Johnson I know right?

[@thegreatagitator4675]

Exactly what the MD needed...a shitty horror "survival" game...in 16 bit...woohoo.

[@Reayashin]

The title name sure lives up to this game, false advertising much.

[@fermio100]

Great music though.

[@joeymorales2288]

Truxton!

[@personavisceration371]

Fyi, the cover is the last boss.

[@attilathehun0]

Use the game genie to play japanese games on a usa genny.

[@nicholasmoose6574]

Has anyone ever told you that you sound exactly like Alan Thicke?

[@DobieMeltfire]

The art cover or the name has *absolutely nothing* to do with the game. That the 80s for ya.

[@SnackCannon]

foist

[@SurgeCess]

I'd much prefer to spend my time playing Sol-Feces on the toilet

[@icedancer8818]

curse is ok

[@Axonteer]

16 biz

[@maddestmike5791]

The cover seems way out of place after seeing the actual game. XD

[@temujin1234]

If I remember correctly this game is below average since it has a poor framerate that isn't obvious on youtube.

[@CiroGalli]

Why do you over complicate things? in South America that console is known as the: Genesis Mega Drive. You have a Genesis Mega Drive or you don't have one. Period. Problem solved.

[@perfectloser55]

In Brazil, it's just Mega Drive.

[@LordArikado]

Ciro Galli Well, in North America it was called the Sega Genesis while in Europe and Asia it was called the Sega Mega Drive.

[@RobertoGonzalez-zs8ns]

1st comment 1st like 2nd view

[@JohnnyLeyenda]

You are a sad little man

[@RobertoGonzalez-zs8ns]

and your a worthless piece of shit stfu

[@JohnnyLeyenda]

Roberto Gonzalez My what? Or did you mean "you're"?

[@alphcharlie2271]

wow he really did not like that game

[@brandonferguson8021]

27th viewer bitches lmaol jk

[@Mr_x_19922]

poor graphics

[@Riz2336]

Very mediocre game