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Somebody gotta mention Comix Zone for the Sega Genesis.
Freedom Force is a turn based strategy game fromi think the early 2000’s that was heavily inspired by old school comics as well.
Never heard of either of those. I'm definitely interested in a turned based game!
Careful, it’s pricey!
https://www.gog.com/en/game/freedom_force
(J/k, it’s on sale for $1.24)
I misremembered and apparently it’s not strictly turn-based strategy, but it’s some kind of hybrid tactical thing. Definitely not an RTS or beat-em-up. Very well loved in its day.
How have I not heard of Freedom Force? That's a pickup for me ASAP. Thanks! 👍
Happy to share! It’s from a legendary team that made games like Thief and System Shock 1&2, the predecessor to Bioshock. Phenomenal pedigree.
There are great beat em ups. X-Men is the usual recommendation and it's great. I'm fond of the Punisher game, which is only 2 players, but a lot of fun.
A classic Punisher game sounds fun. Of course X-men!
The Punisher beat em up was great. We had the Sega Mega drive port when we were kids which was fun if it didn’t look as nice.
Second player was Nick Fury.
For me it’s always the X-men games for Sega Mega drive. The first one does not hold up as well if you didn’t grow up with it, but the second one (X-men 2 Clone Wars) is gold.
Fuckin' Clone Wars was the shit, love that game
The X-men game on game gear was also quite decent.
Alright, I'll go grab the second one! Thanks
I think you can run SNES games right? There were a whole bunch of Marvel and DC games on the Super Nintendo. Ninja Turtles, Batman, X-Men, Spiderman. And if you can do Sega I remember Earthworm Jim kind of had the same feel
SNES is easy for the Pi. Great ideas, thanks! I've heard of Earthworm Jim but never looked at it before
To piggy back on this, here's some more specific examples (as far as I'm aware listed games have both Genesis and SNES versions unless otherwise noted; note that versions may differ in gameplay and/or quality):
Thanks for the list, it's really helpful!
X-Men vs Street Fighter. It's included in the Marvel vs Capcom collection that came out this year but I recommend getting your hands on the original arcade ROM and play it via MAME.
Alright, I'll give that a shot!
I was going to suggest XIII, but I don't know if you'll get that to run on a Pi. Not sure what they're capable of these days!
Interesting, never heard of that one before. The RPi5 can at least play GC on Batocera so I can try and see how well it runs.
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