Vapor Trail (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@NintendoComplete]

A fantastic port of a great Data East arcade shooter. It's short, but it's a good time while it lasts.

[@NintendoComplete]

+Brother Mark Angelo Meh, opinions, right? :)

[@JamieBainbridge]

Great playthrough. Love the music. I'm a big fan of good Yamaha FM synth and these programmers really knew how to do it.

[@dave4shmups]

Awesome, I love this game! People who complain about the price of new games these days have no idea-back in 1992, this game cost over $70!

[@NintendoComplete]

Too true. I loved RPGs, and my dad would always groan. I remember at Macy's, any Square RPG was always 72.99. Random price. Carts were wicked expensive. He was pleased when they got me a PlayStation after he saw that the games were only 40-50 brand new!

[@biged3561]

That was too high back then that why I bought my games used or traded games with friends that the main reason my 16bit library was smaller than my nes or PlayStation library

[@rage7805]

you should see the price now......

[@trailwaver404]

27:56 one of the best ending themes for one of the best games on the MD

[@admiralackbar3634]

100 % agree. Beautiful phrasing and counterpoint.

[@minhgtr]

This music is badass!. Wow go Sega genesis megadrive

[@felixfranzen7318]

Too bad it's just one single tune for the entire game

[@KingStr0ng]

Fr. Music is fire. 🔥

[@megazoa]

Man, I LOVED this game. Definitely one of my favorite Genesis games.

[@TheEman590]

Ah, one of the games featured on Nickelodeon Arcade back in the day. Good stuff!

[@RetroGamingStories]

This is a hidden gem!!! Great game!!! 😃

[@Kr0nicDragon]

That music is lit

[@DJTwenty2020]

I played this for the first time today... omg I didn't realise how difficult it was... bullets all over the place!

[@NintendoComplete]

Oh yeah, it takes a good amount of focus to not get hit constantly

[@DJTwenty2020]

Yea, I was impressed with your effort... well done :)

[@NintendoComplete]

+DJ Twenty thanks :)

[@hectorleon465]

It's like Contra Hard Corps, honestly, but this seems more intense.

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

It's all abput trial and error

[@philwalkercuriousmind]

Never heard of this before today. Looks cool.

[@darrenclements6028]

An excellent conversion of the Outstanding Data east classic ABSOLUTELY AWESOME graphics and STUNNING gameplay STUNNING Boss battles and STUNNING power ups With 2Fast 2Furious 2Player action and Spectacular levels This is a classic mega drive version with a vengeance 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@stpierreorama]

I keep dying on level 5, the end looks even more brutal

[@kjuergens1985]

I'm not really a shoot em up fan, it's not a genre I think about, but I saw this one in a Sega Lord X video recently and I really want it--it's the art style, the music, and the simplicity of it. I still have my Model 1 Genesis my uncle gave me in 1993.

[@d_valroth]

Never seen this game before, but talk about understanding the Genesis hardware. I'm usually pretty good about identifying which 16-bit system a game is running on, but I would have called this as SNES. Great use of the limited palette, and phenomenal use of the sound chip. Even the FM instruments are amazing.

[@Bloodreign1]

It took a great programmer with custom sound drivers to make the Genesis sound good, and not every programmer had the ability to properly harness the power of the Genesis soundchip (Sega after all opted for a cheaper soundchip, which kind of hurt the Genesis, imagine if it had the soundchip of the SharpX68000), but those who knew how to harness thepower of the soundchip could get good music out of the thing (sound effects on the other hand, yeah lots of misses there for many games, a few hits now and again). The Genesis has a terrible reputation when it comes to sound, that's because most folks played the games released in the west, like Chakan, or X-Men 1, and got it into their heads that all Genesis games sound bad (they would be wrong of course). Now believe it or not, there are Sega fanboys who swear the SNES soundchip was awful, despite the SNES clearly outclassing the Genesis when it came to music (Plok's opening demo theme can attest to this, it is freaking amazing, and showed the full power of the SNES soundchip)

[@Sirikulo69]

Real Drum Sound

[@XziledBlog]

Played this yesterday, this was horrible difficult without knowing wich power up was each one

[@suneetiyen646]

Never get the missles they look flashy but they’re weak as heck and can still miss too

[@Bagakoo]

To this day i still don’t know what they’re saying, the only words I understood was “vapor trail” and “RAW-jur”

[@hectorleon465]

Or when your dead "I can't hold it!"

[@JamalGardner1]

Don't forget about "Go for the kill." You hear that when a boss is almost defeated.

[@ryanmillar6572]

@@hectorleon465 how can you talk if you're dead?

[@hectorleon465]

@@ryanmillar6572 you know what i mean. Your dying words in the explosions.

[@raedrahman6188]

pure shmup awsomeness ONLY Sega Genesis imo. ya the T 16 too but in reality, Genesis had "the" SHMUPS. IT has MUSHA for goodness sakes. MUSHA

[@NintendoComplete]

MUSHA was awesome, but I'd argue that Soldier Blade or Gate of Thunder was easily equal to it. Or Blazing Lazers. Or Spriggan. Or Super Star Soldier. lmao Either way, no matter which of the three 16-bit systems you had, you had a great selection of shooters!

[@stpierreorama]

@@NintendoComplete the SNES being the worst of the three by far for this genre. Space mega force, Aero blasters, Axelay, Macross scrambled Valkyrie, R-type, UN squadron, Firepower 2000, Imperium are all decent but all pale in comparison to the TG16 and especially the Genesis.

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

One of the NICK ARCADE season 1 video challenges

[@daveforgot127]

Sweet

[@oioikanone]

It's a shame it doesn't have more music.

[@OswaldMiyake35]

Renovation? In the title screen it said Telenet Japan

[@danalong1237]

And no copyright notice for Opera House either?!

[@NintendoComplete]

Renovation is Telenet :) Their NA branch.

[@OswaldMiyake35]

+NintendoComplete What kind of VideoGame company is called like a Telephone Company?

[@danalong1237]

It's TeleNet, a play on the words Telephone, Television and Internet. TeleNet Japan, and it's U.S. subsidiary Renovation Products, were later acquired by Sega, thus retiring the TeleNet name for good. As for TeleNet's other subsidiary, WolfTeam, it was later acquired by Namco and became Namco Tales Studio.

[@OswaldMiyake35]

+Dana Long So, Valis, and other franchaises are Namco-Bandai propeties?

[@Bloodreign1]

Great music in this Data East game, but did they have to use the same damned song for every stage? The game is good, but lord have mercy some music variety would've helped further.

[@solarflare9078]

Almost every Data East game has only one or two stage themes, but they always made sure they were great

[@Hausbrauen]

Great game, just a shame it has the same 1 track playing throughout most of it (though it's also a great track). With 4+ tracks of this caliber, this would truly be the total package!

[@RetroPiero]

Great game but god is it difficult to avoid the attacks on some of the enemies.

[@ShadowMoon878]

Why do people always choose the first plane? It is literally the worst of the three.

[@HajimeSaito2008]

the first plane is the most balanced of the 3 in power and speed

[@OFFP88]

vaporwave 420

[@JeriDro]

you're not being nice to the other planes

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