Sega H1 Board and Cool Riders
Mar 11, 2017 19:02:37 GMT
Post by Ted on Mar 11, 2017 19:02:37 GMT
So had a trip down to the seaside town of Cleethorpes for the beach and such, as it was a sunny day. With all the talk of arcades in the Trocadero thread, I was hoping I'd find a few good Sega games. There was your House Of The Dead's, Sega Rally's, OutRun 2's, and a Star Wars Arcade Trilogy (only 2nd one I've ever seen), you know, regular stuff. But one standout was Cool Riders.
(Apologies if video isn't in good quality, this was done by my phone)
I'd never even heard of this one, but first impressions were good. Right from the off I could tell it was different. It immediately hit me that it was a Super Scaler game. It was only 30p, compared to the 50p+ of the other games. And it had the look of 80s/early 90s around it. Had a couple of goes, was good fun, got a fair way into it.It was basically OutRun but with motorbikes and slightly better graphics. Also the whole thing was in Japanese which was something. But, after finishing, I noticed that it was copyrighted 1995. I thought it was pretty interesting, seeing the Model 2 had been out for a while and the Model 3 was just around the corner.
I took to Sega Retro shortly after and it came up with some intriguing stuff...
Not only was it never even properly released in Europe (which makes it VERY odd that it was in sodding Cleethorpes of all places, and explains the Japanese), it was pretty much the last of the Super Scaler games to come out, has no ports making it very obscure, and it was the only game to be made for the Sega H1 Board, which makes it VERY hard to emulate, and it also doesn't help that it was only released in dual cabinets, not stand-alone. Plus, it shares some of the same code as OutRunners, which explains the similarities.
What's more, it's CPU was the very same as the Saturn's, which makes it quite interesting that it never got a Saturn port. I mean, it came out around the same time, the board it ran on was similar, and since Rad Mobile got a port, I could picture it being a later Sega Ages game, maybe a final game from Sega in 1999 possibly, or a mid 1995 release. Of course it would be Japan only, It was only really known there, aside from a limited release in the U.S., and even then it was a small footnote in Sega's arcade history.
Thoughts?
(Apologies if video isn't in good quality, this was done by my phone)
I'd never even heard of this one, but first impressions were good. Right from the off I could tell it was different. It immediately hit me that it was a Super Scaler game. It was only 30p, compared to the 50p+ of the other games. And it had the look of 80s/early 90s around it. Had a couple of goes, was good fun, got a fair way into it.It was basically OutRun but with motorbikes and slightly better graphics. Also the whole thing was in Japanese which was something. But, after finishing, I noticed that it was copyrighted 1995. I thought it was pretty interesting, seeing the Model 2 had been out for a while and the Model 3 was just around the corner.
I took to Sega Retro shortly after and it came up with some intriguing stuff...
Not only was it never even properly released in Europe (which makes it VERY odd that it was in sodding Cleethorpes of all places, and explains the Japanese), it was pretty much the last of the Super Scaler games to come out, has no ports making it very obscure, and it was the only game to be made for the Sega H1 Board, which makes it VERY hard to emulate, and it also doesn't help that it was only released in dual cabinets, not stand-alone. Plus, it shares some of the same code as OutRunners, which explains the similarities.
What's more, it's CPU was the very same as the Saturn's, which makes it quite interesting that it never got a Saturn port. I mean, it came out around the same time, the board it ran on was similar, and since Rad Mobile got a port, I could picture it being a later Sega Ages game, maybe a final game from Sega in 1999 possibly, or a mid 1995 release. Of course it would be Japan only, It was only really known there, aside from a limited release in the U.S., and even then it was a small footnote in Sega's arcade history.
Thoughts?
