A game that’s truly beater than the arcade version on (old) home systems

[Max...]

I've struggled to come up with much looking back over my favourite SFC, PCE, MD, Saturn titles etc but as mentioned above the DC stands out.

That and the N64 were the most modern consoles I ever bought or was interested in and I always thought the DC was the greatest missed opportunity that sadly was crushed by the Sony media machine.

Many of the games were the only true/first (apart from NG of course!) 'arcade perfect' conversions and again as mentioned with all the extra features actually improved on the arcade.

 

[Stokers]

Strider, Sega Genesis.

Better than the arcade?

 

[Body pop]

Silkworm is better on the Amiga, apart from that the only one I have stumbled across is Athena on the Nes, its slightly less shite!

Then a few Capcom games were better on the Nes but so different they dont really count I guess. Thinking of Gun. Smoke and Bionic Commando

Silkworm is an interesting one .
I remember gunsmoke being quite fun on the nes. In a way that the arcade version was wasn’t maybe

 

[Body pop]

Strider, Sega Genesis.

Did strider start at home and go the other way or am I thinking of another game

 

[Body pop]

I've heard it said that, in some ways, Daimakaimura on PC Engine SuperGrafx is better than the arcade version. 😯

I've got it but I'm too crap at it to give a valid opinion. Lol.

Oh I member the hype well about this ,megadrive version was pretty hot too
But you’ve made me want to lay the supergrafx version now .think I played it on a modded Xbox years ago ,never had the super grafx ,too skint lol .was there only about 8 games for it ?

 

[Stokers]

Did strider start at home and go the other way or am I thinking of another game

Released in the arcade first on CPS1 then ported to pretty much everything.

 

[Body pop]

was a bit clunky
I played master system ver a lot was a great little convertion


pc engine had some faithfull
Arcade .. Taito space invaders
Irem tiger heli spring to mind ..

Mr heli
Rtype both superb too .maybe not better but quite an achievement

 

[Hurray Banana]

Better than the arcade?

Not better but followed the arcade pretty much identical, apart from a few later bits. Could complete the arcade game after rinsing the megadrive version

 

[big10p]

Oh I member the hype well about this ,megadrive version was pretty hot too
But you’ve made me want to lay the supergrafx version now .think I played it on a modded Xbox years ago ,never had the super grafx ,too skint lol .was there only about 8 games for it ?

Just 5 dedicated games.

 

[big10p]

Not better but followed the arcade pretty much identical, apart from a few later bits. Could complete the arcade game after rinsing the megadrive version

Strider on PC Engine has extra levels, apparently. Haven't played it yet, though.

 

[Bods]

When i first had a go on buggy boy arcade I wasn't so impressed over the C64 version, can't say it's better as I haven't played it enough on Arcade, kinda thought the smaller car suited it better and was a brilliant conversion

 

[John Bennett]

Strider on PC Engine has extra levels, apparently. Haven't played it yet, though.

Yeah, there’s a second desert level. A bit bland, but a nice idea. CD soundtrack is ok too.

Megadrive Strider was a superb conversion (first game I got for my MD), but arcade version has a slight edge with colours etc.

Rolling Thunder 2 had lots of extras on the MD, but the arcade version looks and sounds noticeably better side-by-side.

There were lots of good Rainbow Islands versions, but not sure any were better than the arcade - equal maybe.
Shame they got caught nicking Somewhere Over The Rainbow and took that out of many versions.

 

[LHantz]

C64 Bionic Commando is better than the PCB IMO. I always liked Ghouls N Ghosts on the MD, seems to play really well, although graphically inferior to the PCB. ESWAT was a different game on the MD, had more depth, my fav though is Revenge of Shinobi/Super Shinobi which is better than the Arcade game it was based on.

 

[Retroman839]

Castlevania on nes over hunted castle.

 

[shep]

Rodland Amiga.

 

[John Bennett]

Parasol Stars.
One of those arcade games that never was 🙃

 

[Stokers]

Oh wait Mercs was better on MD as well!

 

[Pinge]

Castlevania on nes over hunted castle.

Not the same game, Castlevania got an arcade release as Vs Castlevania and sort of an arcade release for the Playchocice 10.

 

[Pinge]

Rodland Amiga.

I think the arcade version is better, especially with the second quest that I guess is not in the Amiga version?

 

[John Bennett]

Oh wait Mercs was better on MD as well!

Great conversion, great extra levels but the arcade was 3 player, not 1 😀