Eliminate Down for the Sega Mega Drive - Mini Review & Retro-bit Reissue News!

[@KeithPhillips]

Wow, I totally missed this one somehow over the years. It totally has that Thunderforce and Gaiares look, possibly with a dash of Hellfire thrown in! 😮

[@Blas4ublasphemy]

1st thing I thought was how similar to Hellfire it appears.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

There's absolutely a market for this kind of thing.

[@thecunninlynguist]

looks like a great shooter. Admittedly never heard of it, but sounds like it was rare/expensive.

[@greenkoopa]

When I see you and say hi what can I call you for short? I'm a Koopa 🐢

[@AkihabaraAtHome]

Only copy I came across when I was in Japan was behind a glass cabinet for a price so high they used two price stickers to show how much Yen it was.

[@themeangene]

I miss the gaming hobby before it was destroyed by corporate consolidation and ESG nonsense obsessed with turning games into Hollywood. Simple game design and functional graphics like this will always age better than contrived nonsense. This looks incredible.

[@Jayce_Alexander]

Really? I kinda feel gaming is the one branch of the entertainment industry where you can escape from this. I stay away from most (but not all) AAA games nowadays, I'd say about 80 percent of what I buy are indie games or games developed by smaller studios and publishers. I honestly feel that in gaming its fairly easy to get away from Hollywood influences. Some of the games I've been sinking a lot of time into these past months include Super Robot Wars 30, Record of Lodoss War - Deedlit's Labyrinth, the Klonoa collection that was released last year, TMNT - Shredder's Revenge, Disgaea 7, Black Future '88, Live-A-Live, and Blazing Chrome. I'll admit my tastes are fairly focused on retro style and strategy games, but if you look at indie devs and smaller devs in general I really feel there's a lot out there that's worth playing and feels very reminiscent of what games were like in the 90s. Steam, GOG, and the Playstation and Nintendo online stores a choc full of games like the one in this video - new ones, classic games, and arcade games that were never brought to home systems before As someone who loves comic books, I kind of wish I had similar options there as well. However, if my main interests were AAA titles I'd probably agree with you entirely.

[@jsttv]

Great way to start a Friday night.

[@ph_stuff]

TOP 3 Genesis' Shooters in my opinion. Dificult as hell though.

[@triplej26532]

Absolutely love Sega Shmups. Had a blast playing through Gleylancer which is the previous release from Retrobit. I'll definitely order a copy of Eliminate Down. It sure does look challenging. Really would love to play through other shmups on Genesis too like Zero Wing.

[@fazares]

There is a retro-bit reissue of that too 😊

[@Funnyanimals1064-t1m]

Yet another awesome video from SegaLordX.

[@iankain7106]

I watched this video around release. I preordered 2 copies. 1 to play. 1 save. I completely forgot until it came in the mail recently.

[@ZombieFBody]

I wish these reissue games could also get modern console releases. May have to buy another Genesis one of these days. I sold my old childhood consoles off 25-years years ago and very much regret that decision!

[@matthewnikitas8905]

That’s what emulation is for my friend. I personally like to collect games physically though

[@keithstone001]

I love sega shmups!

[@adamkane7513]

What are you recommendations? I only know the Thunder Force games, Arrow Flash, Phelios and Wings of Wor.

[@chrono1220]

This looks absolutely stunning! Never heard of it till this week. Absolutely criminal that it wasn't released outside of Japan and Korea back in the day.

[@jagergerg9771]

This game looks crazy hard, the music tracks are pumping

[@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730]

you're right, i never really played it, but ever since i first listened to the soundtrack i loved that part of it. i don't know about the soundtrack not all being good, but i guess it's all in what you're looking for in this kind of thing. for me, eliminate down stands out as the soundtrack that just comes out and breaks your balls in half right out of the gate and thrashes you around nonstop until you love it, it's a chiptune heavy metal rollercoaster the whole way and that's exeactly what i want from a side scrolling shooter with a name like ELIMINATE DOWN. anyways, it's nice to see that the game actually looks pretty interesting, like a mix of primarily darius with r type and some gradius style mechanics, a medley of/loveletter to the sidescrolling shooter genre, especially with all the different stage and boss designs. between this and granada and gaiares and even wings of wor/gynoug and more, the mega drive seems like it was THE platform for the most sidescrolling shooters exclusives short of taking the plunge into japanese pcs

[@elvismorales85]

Very impressive in every way. The coloring it's incredible. They really understood the Genesis/MD capabilities to the max.

[@fossil-bit8439]

So glad to have this coming out! I purchased the Gleylancer re-release from them as well! Great quality!

[@StevenCusic]

I love this sound track, in the future I plan on doing a XG-remaster of it

[@donaldsmith5667]

i’m going to grab the re-release for this one. I’m so pumped for this game.

[@entertainmentwizard2703]

Looks awesome, glad it's getting a reprint!

[@WMARUoriginal]

This will be a must have for sure. Having this and Gleylancer carts is so awesome

[@L2Nuku]

One of my fave shmups on the system, the sound can get a bit grating after a while (it's not bad but certain instrumentation gets overused)

[@theconsolekiller7113]

Definately overlooked this one. Will check it out.

[@nmnate]

OMG we're getting eliminate down? Holy smokes... preordering now! 😁

[@nmnate]

Also... wish list battlemania 1 and 2...and probably grindstormer...my poor cart is broken 😢

[@RetroPiero]

​@@nmnateCorrection, your Grind Stormer 'circuit board' is broken/dead. The EPROM (actual game itself) still works. If you are good at soldering. You can desolder the EPROM chip off the dead board & resolder it into a working spare/donor board. For some reason, TENGEN used very cheap boards for their GENESIS games, thus many of their cartridges tend to not work now a days, specifically Grind Stormer & Pit Fighter but the EPROM's themselves are still very much alive. Also, I also love if they release Battlemania 1&2, Snow Brothers & hopefully 1 day, Alien Soldier.

[@nmnate]

​@@RetroPieroThat had been my suspicion with the Grindstormer cartridge. Haven't quite yet researched the solution. 😅

[@forcedfeedbackclassicgamer5499]

Pre-ordered this the moment the announcement dropped. I've wanted a cart of this for years, stoked to finally be getting a licensed rerelease.

[@megagrey]

A good friend of mine in the Midwest introduced me to this on his family's softmodded Xbox 360, and it impressed the hell out of me. Saddened by how the original Megadrive cart commands such prices, I probably will preorder a reissue copy.

[@oddojaggins]

Very solid visual effects on this one, thank you SLX I'm gonna try it out soon

[@hammerheadms]

Reminds me of a love child between Gradius and Hellfire.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

Gonna make sure I pre order this one early so they don’t go out of stock. I missed out on the last couple Retro Bit releases because I didn’t pre order it soon enough

[@warehousedave7937]

Fomo

[@Progearspec]

Hmm really,anytime i've bought a release by retrobit i wait until the last day and i haven't had a problem buying a copy.

[@masterofthesystem4829]

Looks damn good to me. Tanks for introducing it!

[@Peksisarvinen]

Bro I could SWEAR I had this game on Mega Drive. The title is so familiar to me that every time I see it my mind just immediately goes to "I had that". The craziest thing is, I also thing I only ever had one SHMUP, and I could also swear that the game that I had was Steel Empire, based on gameplay footage. But the name Steel Empire does not sound familiar at all, whereas Eliminate Down is almost up there with Quackshot and Sonic 2 in terms of familiarity. But I mean, it's been 30 years, so pretty safe to assume that my mind is just playing tricks on me, and I had Steel Empire and just don't remember it.

[@Jackrost01]

This game is crazy hard. Complete it with save scums like 15+ years ago. Few years ago trying to complete it fairly. Died many times on last levels. Love graphic, music and gameplay. Adjusting speed is neat thing to let exist in smups. I also love mini game in option menu that let's you choose level as a reward for good high score

[@MrThunderwing]

Huh, so it turns out I've been pronouncing Gaiares wrong all this time...

[@mattb6522]

I'm a huge retro shmup fan, but I've never even heard about this one! It is too bad it never left Japan back in the day, but glad to see it is finally available in North America! It looks great!

[@andrewreviewsgamesandstuff]

Totally glade I pre ordered me a copy on LR(limited run) I've been going on a big genesis kick lately.

[@Akiga_games]

This game looks awesome! Another great episode SLX! 素晴らしい

[@EoR_2B4GOT10]

This was so funny to me. Earlier in the week I was talking in a discord about this game and how I would like retrobit to do a rerelease of this. Not even a day later I got the early notification from Retro Gamer Boy that it was coming.

[@ridleyrage5283]

Hail, Sega Lord X! This is and always was, my favorite horizontal shooter on the Genesis. The music and sound affects are great, and the bosses are super cool. Starting early on, there's a very steep difficulty spike that never seems to drop, til the very end, so its most def on the difficult side of shooters like this, it takes quite a bit of practice to make it through, but if anyone's looking for a good challenge, I'd say it doesnt get much better than this, for its genre. That said, the physical copy looks excellent and that emerald nebula green cartridge is absolutely gorgeous! I most def recommend this game to any fans of the genre, check it out!

[@floodred2904]

I bought a home brew of this years ago It’s an amazing shooter definitely holds its own against thunder force 4 .

[@Marc_Araujo]

Nine-year-old me still loves Thunder Force II.

[@opa-age]

Amazing game, it's like a tougher Thunderforce with elements of R-Type thrown in.

[@dexocube]

I haven't played this one. The weapon system reminds me of Hellfire, but the gameplay looks very different. Looks Good.

[@Galdelico]

Preordered (over at Strictly Limited Games) the very moment I heard about it!

[@Llukario]

Awesome rundown! This looks like an awesome game!

[@zusk8556]

Loving these single game Genesis reviews! Wasn't expecting this one

[@_zoinks2554]

Thanks SLX. Somehow I missed this one but I was always a big TG-16/PCE shooter fan before the Genesis.

[@danmakuman]

In my top 5 shmup list for the console. Really good stuff here. The second half of the game it's even better. Glad it's getting a second chance.

[@samghost13]

That Sound it is... Good times

[@johncraw8572]

Very good video please do more thanks and happy holidays 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

[@philosophyoftrucking]

He’s absolutely right about shooter soundtracks.

[@Mankey619]

The music for this has that Doom vibes to it from its first chorus.

[@REALmikegordan]

Excellent. In spite not being into Shoot 'Em Up's, I decided to pre-order the game off Limited Run. And I'll do whatever I can to beat the game on console, and with my own skills and my own skills alone.

[@fazares]

Preordered the reissue ASAP

[@Diskoboy1974]

I bought a copy because it's a great shooter. Up there in the league of the Thunder Force series. It's a shame it never saw a release in the west.

[@mjdf122]

Sega is still going strong because of Sega Lord X

[@TheShibbybear]

I haven’t played Eliminate Down before, but the weapon system makes me think Thunder Force IV was inspire by this…

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

I’ve never played eliminate down before, but the graphics should look great as best as the game was on the quite common at the time 8 meg cart Especially by 1993 and the soundtrack absolutely rocks is one of my favourite MD soundtracks for sure it’s a shame. The game is crazy expensive now due to its rarity, but thank goodness for retro bit with this re-release.

[@urbanmidnight1]

Better places? The Megadrive was the best place for 16-bit shooters.

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

Better thing to remember is that it isn't the quantity, but the quality. Thing is that the Genesis has a ton of shumps, how many of those were worth owning back then. Is a ton of Shumps on the turbo graphics, and on the Neo-Geo, Snes has some good ones.

[@Oysterblade84]

Was wondering when you were gonna upload this video seeing as Madlittlepixel and Retro Gamer Boy already beat you to it (not that it's a race). I was lucky to buy a reproduction cart two years ago from China dirt cheap of this game and it came with the case, cover and even the manual, works perfectly too. No way I was ever going to spend $1000 on an original copy. It's a great shooter none the less.

[@MaidenHell1977]

Definitely picking up a copy. Great video.

[@Riz2336]

Great way to get rare/expensive games into the hands of collectors

[@fitnessabcvideo]

This is what alot of companies should be doing, reissue their games, rerelease with great quality packaging and drive down the cost of those people taking the piss with the collectors market, let's all be honest, they have way over inflated everything. I'd like to see those racking up their collectors market take a hit in the wallet, this way it will level up the playing field

[@Archivosdelosvideojuegos]

This looks awesome!!

[@punchabunchabuttons]

You know what i like about your channel. Its the fact there is zero drama. All about the 90s. When games were there to enjoy. Youre not looking for fame. Youre not looking to promote scams. No woke shit. Nothing. Youre not even showing your face. All about the game. I come here, watch the shit, give a thumbs up and bail. You and Snesdrunk are gems. For that, thank you.

[@SegaLordX]

When I made this channel my entire idea was to get people away from the bullshit of everyday life. Take them back to a time they loved and talk about the things that make them feel good. I'm glad you appreciate that.

[@rsreston]

These are the best kinds of ads XD

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

90s shoot em ups always made me ask if the game devs ever tested their games on regular people and not just shoot em up fans.

[@themeangene]

They're incredibly short games and often built for arcade cabinets. You just had to practice. Modern games are easier because they last much longer and there's not an arcade & rental market to consider. We also nowadays have much larger differential pricing. People forget gaming wasn't mainstream until the 2000s. The normal gamer nowadays is far less committed to the hobby than someone from the 80s and 90s.

[@B1FFCO]

My runs always end on stage 5 as well😂 fun and very difficult game

[@SegaLordX]

I can power through stages 6 and 7 with a bit of effort. I've never beaten stage 8, however. That final stretch is nasty.

[@B1FFCO]

​@SegaLordX thats awesome man. Your channel is one of the best on YT

[@projectmayhem6898]

Thanks!

[@Gaspe19]

Sorry for the stupid question, but what series is the ship above the Sega Saturn in the intro from?

[@miamimagicians]

Shooters is an underrated genre

[@mscottjohnson3424]

Go check out Shmup Junkie's video reviewing and rating every Genesis/Mega Drive shooter. He gives Eliminate Down an S rating, as one of the best shoot em ups on the Genesis.

[@SegaLordX]

It's funny. There are some folks that call this a mid tier shooter with a poor soundtrack. It boggles the mind.

[@JGreen-le8xx]

As much as games like this are awesome, I need to call Earth out for being lazy because they only ever make ONE FIGHTER to take on an entire army! EARTH STOP BEING SO F**KING LAZY AND MAKE A WHOLE FORCE OF FIGHTERS TO DOMINATE THE ENEMY!!!

[@RetroRockGamer]

I wonder if this game is related to border down for the sega Dreamcast.

[@tomyrobinson3196]

The soundtrack rocks!

[@thevideogamecabinet3681]

I’ve dropped big bucks on games before, but I’d rather not do that too often. I’ll be ordering this from Limited Run later this month for the $54 or whatever it costs.

[@jbmaru]

Pre-ordered it on Day 1! It's affordable, and what's more, it has a reversible cover that looks like the custom one I was working on, to use in place of that God-awful original one. The music sounds a bit generic MD/Gen-style to me, maybe it'll grow on me as I'll play. Not everyone mastered the sound chip as the TFIV guys did!

[@BobbyHo2022]

Game is dope. I tried to buy it years ago til I found a copy for 1000 on ebay and said forget it.

[@Crono_Triggered]

Ummm....is it me or is the cover art a little disturbing around the 1:28 mark? Excellent video as always though.

[@barryklinedinst6233]

SEGA ROCKS

[@fluttershystayshigh4202]

1,500$ for a shmup.. FOR A SHMUP! 🤣 oh my gosh that is both hilarious and sad.

[@sc192i]

You mentioned Gyruss a couple of times … but Gyruss was never released for the Mega Drive (is was released for NES and GBA)

[@SegaLordX]

Gaiares. By Renovation.

[@sc192i]

@@SegaLordX ah! … my bad … I have played Gaiares, I just had no idea how to pronounce the name!

[@EliteGamersUnited]

Ordered ❤

[@SegaLordX]

It's a good one!

[@EliteGamersUnited]

@@SegaLordX sadly due to massive work hours and a pain in the balls gf, ill finally have my batsugun review up.shortly. Besides how awesome the game looks what sold me on eliminate down.....its soundtrack is f'n AMAZING souding

[@Shishkebarbarian]

looks good but as a casual shooter fan i am ok with skipping it. i cherry picked the shmups to own on genesis to get the best representation of the genre but i'm not into the genre as a whole to get them all or even get the best ones. Ranger X, Lightening Force, Steel Empire and Target Earth are enough for me. I will say though i wish these kinds of releases were available outside of the pre-order window. i dont want to drop $65 on this today, but maybe down the line why not. having the preorder only model is rife for scalping.

[@pe8743]

🔥

[@NewportBox100s]

You think this will triple in price if I buy it and keep it sealed for a few years?

[@SegaLordX]

Likely not. Reprints rarely do that unless they were rare themselves.

[@mikeymike3240]

Stunning game 😮😊

[@Tokisada_Shiro_Amakusa]

Hope they release M.U.S.H.A. and Alien Soldier!

[@TheRetrogameArtist]

I thoroughly enjoyed the highlight of an obscure gem but did I miss something? Where is the SEGA mega drive mini review?

[@SegaLordX]

Mini review for the game here.

[@TheRetrogameArtist]

@@SegaLordX hahahahaha oh man. I did a short with the mini SEGA Genesis so I guess I still had that in my mind. Apologies!

[@oogrooq]

I, myself am a P icon.

[@lwbga666]

Great game but sucks it's thru retrobit. They did me dirty on Gaiares release they did with the clown show at LRG. I already have a copy of eliminate, so it makes it easy again to not support either shady company again. I suggest anyone interested to tread lightly cuz your game very well will take forever to get, if you even get it. And at that point you will have the fun of trying to get your money back. If you're really interested in just playing this great game, get an overdrive and go that route.

[@demonology2629]

Retro bit does cartridges that don't look like they fit the actual system. Sometimes I hope this cartridge fits the system properly

[@Mitjitsu]

This game is a lot like Whip Rush.

[@GhaleonEB]

Already ordered. Really love what Retro-Bit is doing.

[@MAXTHALOS]

👍

[@mercster]

Pee icons, this game is gross. Thanks Lordster! SEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[@bobbus_74]

Press release says release Dec 2024.

[@SegaLordX]

The one I have says Q2 2024.

[@bobbus_74]

@@SegaLordX I hope yours is the right one then! 😁

[@MuaadElSharif]

Mel, I love your work. But it has been more than two years since I asked you to review Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel for the Sega Genesis, it can't be that long of a list now. Can it?

[@SegaLordX]

My single game review list is over 300 games long. It's a massive list. Zero is coming. I've already done the capture for it.

[@MuaadElSharif]

That is a massive list. Any idea when Zero will be out. We are super excited :) @@SegaLordX

[@billcook4768]

Hey Retro-bit: Give us the option to buy the ROM please.

[@Oysterblade84]

You can get the ROM for nothing.

[@billcook4768]

Heh heh. P icon.

[@amirprog]

Japanese developers>rest

[@pe8743]

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