Viewpoint, A Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- My Neo Geo was a purchase I made simply so I could play Samurai Shodown at home, but I did buy a few other games for it back in the day... and I also passed up the option of buying a few... and some of those I passed up on I regret, like this gem of a shooter. Viewpoint was an isometric shooter which paid homage to the mighty Zaxxon from Sega from the early eighties, and was a game that totally disproved the myth that Neo Geo games were easy... cause this one sure as hell aint easy......
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When I was a teenager for a number of years I thought the Genesis version was an original exclusive game not knowing until the early 2000s that it was based on a Neo Geo Arcade version. I immediately had to get and fire it up for Mame which still blows my mind with how quality they put into it's presentation and music. But I'd have to disagree on one thing and it's no slight against you at all but I don't think every single thing in the game is hand-drawn. Sure, the backgrounds, jets of the ship, water effects, fire effects, and sparks from your shots hitting things were all hand drawn, but to me the ship itself, the enemies, the bosses, the animated elements like flipping tiles, rolling slinkys and gears that has to be from an early 3D animation program. I find it hard to believe that a video game developer doing low resolution pixel art could perfectly pull off all that symmetry, lighting and shading so perfectly without the aid of something like that. I compare it to the art style that was found in a game like Sonic 3 or Vectorman where it's a mix 'n match of hand-drawn sprite art and 3D. But none the less it's a gorgeous game but brutally difficult to the point of absurdity kind of like R-Type II for me. I can't get past the 2nd level with the water lol. 😎
I see your point on the visuals, and I agree that this game really allowed the Neo Geo to flex its graphic muscles. The tile flipping looks almost artistic and it is one gorgeous game to look at.
We all have so many "Why didn't I buy that" moments and probably worse, "Why did I give that away" moments back in the day.
The Neo Geo is a system I've never played, probably because it was so damn pricy back in the day.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of these 😎👍
Stay tuned dude as there are a couple more to come this month :)
Up to ~100 titles in my Neo Geo collection now, and Viewpoint is definitely one I don't regret having.
Impressive collection dude. Especially considering the cost of the games :)
I always wanted a neo Geo as a kid my rich friend had one
I always wanted one as Samurai Shodown was an absolute kick-ass game and It was the first thing I bought when I started working full time after leaving school all those years ago now.
I've played loads of NeoGeo games but this one seems to have passed me by. Looks a great game and worth £35 of anyone's money back in the day ;-) Keep up the awesome work!
Its a fantastic game and packs a serious challenge you should check it out if you can.
The two player simultaneous mode is hard to find -both on the Neo Geo MVS and AES. Today, you can romhack the cart to enable it. I assume the co-op mode was cancelled at the last minute because it made the game too easy, credit for credit, quarter for quarter.
I always had this strange memory of the two player being optional in the BIOS of the game, but given its a Neo Geo game and essentially a big cartridge the BIOS was pretty much standard for all games..... I maybe have it confused with something else.
@@nomadjock You're correct. It makes no sense. I'm guessing arcade operators wanted to disable two player simultaneous play... so that quarters would get eaten up more rapidly.