17th March 2011, 10:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 18th March 2011, 1:58 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
And now I have Golden Axe for Genesis, box and manual, very good condition. I've been on a classic game kick lately, though oddly I haven't really been digging into them, except Rocket Knight, I have to say that's an incredible game.
I'll add something on this. The Genesis has some pretty infamously complicated "multitap" support. Golden Axe only supports 2 players, which is a tad disappointing compared to the arcade version, but that was par for the course on all systems with 2 controller ports at the time. It was the rare game that actually bothered to support multitaps. The Genesis actually had two different multitaps, with the unfortunate issue that they were designed differently enough that they weren't compatible with each other. Games that did support one didn't support the other (I suppose it might have been possible to design a game to be compatible with both versions, but I'm not aware of any games that had that foresight). On top of that, many EA Sports games didn't use either and instead had two extra controller ports built right into the cartridge. Aside from the issues of increased manufacturing costs, this was actually an ideal solution from the perspective of the player, who never had to worry about having the right multitap, or even whether their friends had one when bringing the game over.
I'll add something on this. The Genesis has some pretty infamously complicated "multitap" support. Golden Axe only supports 2 players, which is a tad disappointing compared to the arcade version, but that was par for the course on all systems with 2 controller ports at the time. It was the rare game that actually bothered to support multitaps. The Genesis actually had two different multitaps, with the unfortunate issue that they were designed differently enough that they weren't compatible with each other. Games that did support one didn't support the other (I suppose it might have been possible to design a game to be compatible with both versions, but I'm not aware of any games that had that foresight). On top of that, many EA Sports games didn't use either and instead had two extra controller ports built right into the cartridge. Aside from the issues of increased manufacturing costs, this was actually an ideal solution from the perspective of the player, who never had to worry about having the right multitap, or even whether their friends had one when bringing the game over.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)