When the Sega Genesis Tried to Be Capcom’s Arcade Boards: A Retro Game Comparison 

Genesis brought the Arcade experience HOME! All these ports turned out Good-to-Great.

Wow, this hits me in the feels...Strider and Forgotten Worlds was/is such an incredible arcade port to the Genesis, especially Strider (8 Mega Memory!). You had to be alive then to truly understand how magical and what it was like to get such a faithful arcade port and experience at home, in terms of graphics and gameplay. Prior to the Genesis, when most arcade games were ported to the NES, the gameplay and graphics were completely different than what you played at the arcades.

Street Fighter 2: SFC (Genesis) was my introduction to Blanka.

Thank gwad this happened ❤. Can't wait for future fan project Street Fighter Alpha and Darkstalkers on the *Genesis/MD*

Are you aware some South American developers group, is currently porting Street Fighter WITH ARCADE SPRITES to the Mega Deive/Genesis? They named it Street Fighter Omega and it looks incredible!

Very nice video. Keep working in this way.

Thank you very much :) It should be said that, as far as I know, both Street Fighter II/Super and Slam Masters use the resolution of those same games on SNES, because Capcom previously ported it to the Nintendo console and from there converted it to Genesis. In theory both could have a higher resolution.

I had a blast back in the day when my friend borrowed me SF2 on Genesis, my mom saw me too happy that she not even limited my screen time on that weekend, good times! Great video, I think is a good idea to have the sound of one system at the time and something on screen indicating wich one is playing, I don't know if this would result in too much work tho

Most of the Capcom to Genesis ports are great. Mercs is one of the best. Not only do you get the arcade game, but also a good extra mission with a few RPG elements.

Superb comparison video. I think you’ve missed Chiki Chiki Boys aka Mega Twins though?

With the obvious handicaps of color, and cart memory size, the Genesis still did an amazing job of bringing some of these arcade titles home. In most cases the crisp gameplay is intact even if the graphics (and sound) are a bit compromised. In many of the ports (even 8 megabit Strider) you can see the storage limits show up in the smaller graphics tiles with less variety, compare to the Sega CD Final Fight port which seems to maintain the graphic tile variety and mirrors the arcade closely.

Well, the Mega Drive/Genesis is a very stripped down Sega System 16 arcade board essentially. And the System 16 and CPS-1 are similar in some ways.

Would have been nice to leave the audio by segments instead of one channel per game. It does get messy 🫠 great comparison tho

Genesis makes the game harder that Elden ring is easier.

Where s Chiki Chiki Boys?????

Mega drive estaba muy limitada por el tamaño de los cartuchos, a día de hoy se podrían mejorar todos estos juegos. Especial mente el The Punisher una conversión mediocre y con un uso del color malísimo.

Super famicom the best .

Really nice video. And in the punisher it was nice to see Nick fury as he really is. Caucasian. I personally can't stand how all the super heroes from my childhood change race. F Disney/marvel for that. Not even trying to be racist, there were lots of different representations of race in comics already, and there's nothing wrong with creating new heroes who are different races. Plus I just personally HATE samuel l wackson anyway. Its like hes constantly just trying to hard in every role he's in. Lol. Sorry for the tangent😂. Great job on the video!