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Sega genesis pinball games12/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Pinball games for consoles have always been a dicey concept. You know what this system needs? A vase smashing game, so it can compete with Zelda. ![]() I honestly don’t know if I meant for that last sentence to be serious or not. Tengen then decided to port it over to the Genesis in order to tap into that system’s pent up demand for a decent pinball game. Although fairly well regarded, it didn’t sell a ton of copies because 1. In this era of self-important gaming, I find that kind of refreshing.ĭragon’s Fury first appeared on the TurboGrafx 16 with its original name, Devil Crush. It’s a preposterous concept that absolutely defies explanation, one that nobody would ever write an entire article trying to analyze further. I only mention it because the game we’re discussing today, Dragon’s Fury, is about fighting wizards and demons. Whereas this clearly requires no further explanation. Yeah, apparently IGN thought that was a concept that needed to be explored in great detail. The author also gets credit for co-writing Apocalypse Now, but unless the other person who got a co-writing acknowledgment was Joseph Conrad, some of the credit there is being misplaced. Not too surprisingly, the script to the game was written by the guy who also wrote the movie Red Dawn, presumably by taking that script, crossing out all the parts that said “Soviet Union” and replacing them with “Korea”. You probably already knew that, but in case you needed any further evidence, IGN recently ran an article about whether the events in the game Homefront could actually take place.* For those of you who aren’t familiar with Homefront, it’s a game about the United States being invaded by a unified Korea in the near future. ![]()
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