Arcade Power! The Sega X Board
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Published 2024-05-16
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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.
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By: Jan Neves
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Intro by Evan S.
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Outro Animation by Kevin Bhall
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured via MAME.
2. The smoothness of Sega's super scalers was something else. I still am impressed by them.
3. Polygons were inevitably going to rule gaming, but I feel Sega made a big mistake not pushing these games during the Sega CD/32X/Saturn era.
4. Sega's final big sprite scaling technology was the System 32. The H1 was a updated form of that tech.
All Comments (21)
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For a company that lived on sprite scaling and rotation in arcade games, it’s so strange that the Genesis sold itself as the arcade experience at home without them. I used to mess with contrast, brightness, and color on my tv just to get Afterburner to look halfway decent. I had no idea at the time how good the original looked.
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Sega Lord X talkin bout Sega Board X? Let's go!
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Super scaler games don't seem to age, they still look good today.
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I miss seeing an Outrun or Afterburner arcade cabinet at so many pizza shops and malls back in the late 80s and early 90s. The Afterburner deluxe cabinet was a real head turner, at least it was immortalized in Terminator 2.
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It drives me crazy that barely any of these amazing Super Scaler arcade games have been ported to modern platforms! Cmon Sega, give us a collection full of these gems! The Sega Ages lineup for Switch was such a tease! I need more eye candy for my OLED Switch!
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I love sprite scalers
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I've wished for years Sega would do make a compilation of their arcade games like they've done with the Genesis.
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I can't believe After Burner still has huge visual flaws in MAME after all these years (evident when you roll).
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Nothing quite like the sense of speed you get from some of these sprite scaling games.
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Those deluxe cabinets were so special.
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It is kinda interesting that with the power of the new system i still find these graphics pleasing and really enjoyable!!!
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This era of gaming is so foreign to me even though I lived through it... I grew up in a tiny town of about 3,000 out in the sticks, and the nearest arcade was over an hour's drive away. I would vaguely see that they existed on shopping trips to the "big city" (usually a fast run to buy school clothes) but that was about it. For me, gaming was a "home console only" experience for all practical purposes. I'm glad you're giving us a window into the world of the arcade as it existed around this time, and especially for the highlight on Sega's legacy!
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As a teenager, I played A.B.Cop religiously when I used to go to my local arcade - damn, I loved that game. I just remembered about it when your video brought memories flooding back. Those were some good times. Thank you for that 😃
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Aladdin's Castle had a sit down Thunder Blade at the local mall, and man was that thing so much fun. It was so responsive, the instant you started to move the joystick that thing would swing left or rightwith a swift jerk. I'll never fotget how absolutely amazing that felt at the time.
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Sprite scaling games have a certain charm
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Sega was way ahead of its time in terms of technology back then! I remember being blown away back in the late '80s and early '90s by how immersive many of Sega's arcade games were! It really is a crime we never received arcade-perfect ports/conversions to modern gaming hardware! I'm glad we are able to play these games through other means, though. Some of these games still look incredibly fun!
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I got into Line of Fire through MAME. I love that game! It's like playing an 80's action-war movie. The type of movie usually made by Italians and shot in the Philippines, packed with explosions, jungle-based gun battles and army guys running around.
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Watching this video makes me miss the good old days back then as a kid I remember going to the arcades seeing Space Harrier , After Burner , Golden Axe , Altered Beast , fell in love with Sega especially the After Burner cabinet and Space Harrier games theses games is what I always wanted to play first when I got to the arcades here in Australia back then oh man the great memories I have those were the best days growing up
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Just imagine if Sega actually ported these to Sega CD instead of FMV crud.
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I never understood why Sega didn't bring this technology to the Mega Drive. It would be amazing to see the rotation and scale sprite running in MD.