From: marms@sandia.UUCP (Mike Arms)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Neo Geo - The Best Console
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:06:00 GMT
Reply-To: sandia!marms@unmvax.unm.edu (Mike Arms)
Organization: Dimsdale Brothers Extortion Agency

desmondw@merrimack.edu writes:
>jsj@ravl.rice.edu (Jeffrey Spence Jeffress) writes:
>>      Go ahead. List 100 Genesis games that are not worth the
>>      box they come in.
>
>    To save bandwith space, I'll make it short and sweet: Anything
>made by a 3rd party licence.  I've seen and played these before and
>9 of 10 are about as much fun and Genesis worthy as a toothache.You
>can tell Sega doesn't care about the quality of games not made by
>them, all they care about is keeping their library larger than nintendos
>so they can tell potential buyers to get their system because it has
>more games. More games=More bombs.
 
What is the deal here?  Are you (desmondw) saying that "3rd party licence" 
includes Electronic Arts and Technosoft?!?  They seem to be 3rd party
licences to me.  So let's just check some of their line-up: 
 
        Road Rash                       (EA)
        John Madden Football '92        (EA)
        NHL Hockey                      (EA)
        Road Rash                       (EA)
        Desert Strike                   (EA)
        Thunder Force II                (Technosoft)
        Thunder Force III               (Technosoft)
        Devil's Crush                   (Technosoft)
        Herzog Zwei                     (Technosoft?)
 
Gee, that was fun.  Most of the libraries of these two 3rd party licenses
are considered excellent games.  As has been discussed here before, as
with anything you have to be selective to find good stuff.  We've talked 
about how bad certain software houses are consistently.  Sega of America 
has had its fair share of bombs.  But some software houses seem to come 
in consistently with winners.  Once again, let's repeat Sturgeon's Law: 

	    "90% of everything is crap."

This applies to any category you want: sci-fi books, games, music,
etc.  But you will find marked deviations from this if you limit your
sample set.  For example, some authors are consistently very good.
Same goes for some software houses.  It even applies to Neo-Geo games.
They have some real winners.  Why do you think that "King of the
Monsters" is being ported over to the SNES?  But the Neo-Geo has quite
a few stinkers, if the comments of some NEO-GEO OWNERS are to be
believed.  Yep, when looked at overall, "More games=More bombs".  But
the converse also tends to be true: "More games=More great games to
pick from".  Just be selective.  

Free Clue: this newsgroup can be a great asset for screening out bad
games.  Pay attention to reviews and comments about various games.  As
tastes do differ, you may not agree with a particular review, but it
is at least some less-biased data than what you get out of EGM or any
of the other mags.  Good example of that: Teh Kao Yang's recent post
regarding SNES Axelay; EGM rated it 9,9,9,8 and gave it Game of the Month;
Teh Kao noted the slowdown, flickering, uninteresting BGM, and that it
was far too short.  I tell you, his review moved Axelay down from being
one of my must-buys to a rent-and-see.

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Mike Arms
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