Honor to the blue robot, present rather three times than once in Mega Man: The Wily Wars, compilation of the first three episodes of the Capcom saga optimized here for Sega’s 16-bit. More than a collection of simple ports, the game allows you to unlock a series of additional levels, the Wily Tower, with a trio of Robot Masters to fight and a new final boss at the end of the path.
Quickly identifiable by its artistic direction simulating comic strip boards, Comix Zone is a beat’em up released late in the life of the Mega Drive. Just think, in 1995, the demonstration terminals installed in stores cohabited with the first 3D games for the PlayStation and the Saturn. Afterwards, between the wild difficulty of the game, its ephemeral lifespan and the fact that it is limited to a single player, it is difficult to say that Comix Zone really had the potential to become an indispensable part of the Mega Drive.
When talking about difficulty, Target Earth also lands there. Released in Japan under the name Assault Suit Leynos, whose remake has been available since 2016 on PS4 and PC, this shoot’em up in which we take control of a mecha comes from the Masaya studio, which we were able to discover or rediscover recently titles like Gleylancer, Moto Roader MC and especially Gynoug on current platforms.
Finally, head to Toaplan to find Zero Wing, another side-scrolling shoot’em up first known to most people for having given birth to the old meme “All your base are belong to us” in reference to the hazardous English translation of the cutscenes. Beyond the joke, the critics of the time were divided on this port of the arcade, collecting as well a small 28/40 in Famitsu as a nice 90% in Joypad.