Stage 5 - the hyperspace jump - remains one of my absolute favorite moments in gaming from any generation. Everything about that level fits together so well. In my book, not too shabby for such a "failure" of a console.
This was the game we played in shock and awe, and knew what the industry would soon become. It is now upon us. Thank you, Silpheed. All those polygons; so far ahead of their time, so long ago. EPIC!
@@welcome.to.vatenkeist Although the background is a FMV but mapped with collisions, the ships are polygons, and the Sega CD had an extra M68000 they could use so yes, it increases the stock Genesis/Mega Drive power.
This game has one of the best easter eggs ever. You know how sega cds (especially model 2s- the top loader) were notoriously unreliable and the disc drives prone to failure? Well, should there be a disc read error that interrupts play during the game, the level will actually restart, and you will get an extra life! I wish other games did that!
i was so happy the first time that happened to me, haha. it took what would have been a miserable time, and made it into a little gift. it also seemed to break the fourth wall in a fun kind of way, as if the game was saying "yeah, "the space-time that keeps my in-game world together glitched for a sec, there. sorry about that. here's an extra life to make up for it :) "
I had a defective disc first time I played. Every single time just as I was approaching the giant laser (37:51 in this video), it would do a read error and restart the level! Had to return it for a replacement disc to see the end of the game lol
The Sega CD had some amazing games (all non fmv) and it was a head of its time, look those fantastic early 90s pseudo 3D effects, I bet it was kind of mind blowing at the time
I remember the intro to Silpheed being the most atmospheric thing I ever witnessed in console gaming. It blew me away when I booted this game up for the first time and it always remained a treat throughout all the times I played through the game. That opinion is surely hard to understand to younger people, but back then this was breathtaking. We were only used to regular SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive game intros, usually consisting of some still pictures with midi music. Going from that to this was a huge jump and felt like time travel.
That intro still beats hands down most SF movies and series in style, design and music. Industrial design of that spacecraft is porn. Philosoma intro is second best for me for shooters.
1993: "OH MY GOD STAR FOX STAR FOX STAR FOX!!!" While this game, which takes the graphics, goes pro with them and improves on just about everything, slinks by barely noticed... damn shame.
It's because they threw their marketing behind gimmicky FMV games on a system that cost a small fortune. If the system was more affordable and the capabilities were better advertised it would have done a lot better.
@@GrumpyBearRawr Agreed; Sega promoting the FMV wave like it was the next best thing was a 12 gauge shot to the foot for both the console AND the company. It's unfortunate proof that they had lightning in a bottle with the Genesis but were awful at just about everything else.
@@williamsmith666 the Dreamcast was a worthy console, with a good mix of cutting-edge features (real 3d graphics, networking), ease of portability (based on the Naomi) and decent price, they'd just burned all their bridges with publishers and lost too much cred and money. another tale of a company full of talented people crippled by mismanagement and needless infighting.
FMV games were pushed forward - not a good move, but it didn't come without reasoning behind it. Arcades enjoyed FMV games for a good number of years before that, which continued to be profitable, since arcades would still have them. The fact that it turned out to be a wrong bet for home consoles - has not so much to do with the quality of FMV, but with the development of gameplay mechanics in games in general. As well as the shaping of the console audience. It was not one and the same as the kind that frequented the arcades. Rise of the PC, to boot.
Stage 08 of this game is by far one of the greatest levels in a game of this genre ever to have been created. Nothing's come close to it in terms of sheer scale ever since. (Cinematics don't count!) Do this day I continue to play this game just to experience Stage 08!
Have y'all ever played Project Sylpheed, on Xbox 360?! ❤ Enough said! You ACTUALLY play in-between all the lasers-shots and missiles, all types of enemy and ally aircraft, plus, you have to account for weight and atmospheric conditions! Can't beat that!!!!
yes it's and amazing game with amazing sound. But I've watched the guy play on hard through level 6 without taking a single hit the whole game. That blows my mind
Wow man, this was the game back in the day. Loved the mind melting epic reflex's that u needed,...dodging a trillion million billion bullets and HUGE boulder chunks with Massive asteroids wazzing about all the time, not to mention the constant head-bobbing to the insane musics. I felt like a Jedi crushing LUNATIC. Whooping ass on a Galactic scale never been better.Filled me with a bugger load of adrenaline! once I lost and punched my telly REALLY hard.My dad went mental, lesson learned there lol
This came out it 93? wow, I only got the Megadrive in 94 for Christmas. I think I only heard about the Sega CD in 95. Project Sylpheed on the xbox 360 is still my fav game of all time.
I remember back at time people going nuts with this game, believing the background was being rendered at real-time, that Silpheed kicked Star-Fox ass and stuff. IMO it's the best use of FMV everr. It actually enhances gameplay, instead of making the gameplay around the FMV;
what helps the illusion is that some of it hits the foreground and can harm the player. both the structures, like canons and asteroids, plus the lasers spit out by the canons, all adds to the effect that you're not just watching an fmv but actually playing within the game's universe as a part of it.
I can remember playing this on SegaCD ,it played good, but man that polygonal FMV wallpaper was pretty. I could see what they did after playing the game a while. But all in all, it was a good shooter game. The non interactive FMV background made it look cooler. But at the time I was blown away by this !
I was thinking that this is actually what most of the rail shooters do. On this variety I can think of the venerable MACH 3 for laser disc, and other 90s efforts like Novastorm or Microcosm. And Microcosm was released on cd32
@@Risingson2 Pretty much! Silpheed is the only one I know of that tailored its prerendered video to the limitations of the SCD so well, though (level 10 notwithstanding), which is a big part of why it's aged so much better visually than Novastorm or Microcosm (imo, anyways).
@@ZekeS- imo too. The rendering on those rail shooters was a bit hideous. Silpheed in MegaCD was so wise not changing the graphical style between the game and the render
Novastorm for PC - is a competent rival for Sega/Mega CD Silpheed. It is gorgeous and plays really well. Not Silpheed, but a good runner-up. Microcosm, unfortunately, is a dud. It's not even in the same category. Every version of this game has too many issues with game mechanics, including the Sega CD one. And it's nowhere near as visually creative. The second runner-up would be Soulstar, - Sega/Mega CD's very own. And that's where the list ends, surprisingly.
midinerd Apparently you never got any educational power-ups, to call a stranger an a-hole about it. At least you discovered that swearing at people on RUclips effectively earns your much needed parental love that you never did. The
The "power ups" just repair your ship, give you points, make you invincible (temporarily), destroy enemies on screen, and increase your optional weapon energy. You earn a new weapon (which you select in between stages) every set amount of points. You see all the different weapon types used in this playthrough.
This reminds me of the times me and my little brother tried to win the game by having him jump and slam the floor when I would die which would cause the CD to skip and the game would need to restart the level, but would give you a free continue to compensate for the crash. We would scream “no!” in unison and he would jump of the bed and crash on the ground. I think mom was pissed.
IF there is a reason to own a Mega CD: Thunderhawk. And maybe Final Fight CD. And the racing parts of Batman Returns. And that's it. From all the Sega Hardware i bought (i did skip the 32 X), this was the greatest failure.
Thunderhawk was a reason only if you play electric guitar, and want to learn some more sweet soloing, Jimi style. In this case, the game is timeless. Final Fight - again, only a rocker's ear (better yet - a musician's) will appreciate this version, cause apart from the amazing music makeover, - it meagerly loses to the arcades in every respect. But otherwise - there were several solid reasons to own a Mega CD. Silpheed and Soulstar are the ones that step through time, and beat it silly with an intergalactic cuckoo clock. But there was most certainly more, - depending on the person's taste in games.
Oh my god, Why didnt they make use of the Sega CD more properly like this? I get it know! i get the pourpose of the Sega CD, it was an expansion to allow the Sega genesis to play more powerfull games, though to be frank it should have been its own console to compete against the Sony ps1
+earthsteward70 -- Well, the Sega Saturn was PS1's competitor. SegaCD was essentially a heel-grind added to the curbstomp that the Gen's M68k processor had on the SNES's Ricoh 5A22. That said, if the SegaCD was upgraded and got a re-release as the next-gen system to combat the PS1, then it's hard to say, but maybe Sega would have pioneered a movement where every generation of gaming would herald an upgrade to an existing system instead of a new, more expensive console with no backwards compatibility.
I think that if the sega CD was advertized properly, was cheeper, and had better games that actually utilized the hardware, then we could have had ourselves a decent console!
Sega "Galaxy" would be duking it out with the Wii U if that were the case! I really do believe that Sega's stake in the console market depended on 1) making the SegaCD more accessible, and 2) never, ever, ever even conceiving the idea of the 32X Gen addon.
yeah XD That 32X was dumb, And besides, there were many well recieved games From the Sega CD, like the only western release of SNATCHER, Sonic CD, and others.
I'd say that except 5 (the only lackluster one) - they all are pretty damn impressive. But you're totally right: these do stand out, especially 4 and 8. However, you missed 6...and, the asteroids of stage 2....
I love SegaCD, I know it gets bashed a lot but I enjoy many games on it, I play them on my CDX, I still might get a Sega CD later though I would love a Wondermega.....
Someone mentioned that the background is an animation. But I don't think they could fit a length prerendered animation in memory/rom,right? There's lots of 2d rotations I see though.
It is pre-rendered. The developer disclosed this information and it's also in the game's Wiki info. Basically the backgrounds serves no active purpose, but is rather a cool visual gimmick to make you think you're actually controlling your ship through real rendered 3-D environments (such as in Star Fox for the SNES or N64).
This is completely 2D. The background is just a video, every other element in the game is 2D. The gameplay itself only happens in 2 dimensions. Even though it feels like 3D because you go "into" the screen, you really only have 2 dimensions, X and Y (or X and Z if you prefer)
WHO CARES if you can crash into the polygon-made background or not? the 3D effect is amazing! It is a meta-illusion that suits perfectly in the game! Better than most of the trashy polygon friendly interaction of some 32 bit games.
Los 80 y 90's son las edades doradas de los videojuegos sin duda alguna. Y este, entre tantos otros titulos tenian un soundtrack impresionante. Aca definitivamente le sacaron ventaja a la tecnologia cd en su momento.
Amazing game, Amazing soundtrack, just proved what the Mega CD could do. Luckily i still have original game and system. But would love to see a reboot of Silpheed on PS5, done properly though. Unfortunately it would end up butchered by some low budget developer.
always loved it when the last boss fires off that BIG gun just before the start of level 12(watch starting at 39:50). One of the first games i bought for my mega cd in 93.A friend who owned silpheed 2 on saturn once copied the soundtrack on mine so he could listen to it while playing his saturn version,True story lol
This is one of those rare Sega CD games that doesn’t need to show off fmv to show off the hardware, but rather in-game 3d texture mapping capability. No way would most regular Sega Games run on the vanilla hardware the way this game does. I could be wrong of course. Before anyone says Virtua Racing I’ll stop you. That required dedicated circuitry and chip sets in the cartridge to run that are expensive and unique. This only needs the CD and that’s it. I just talk about running your run of the mill cart vs CD. It’s night and day.
Es una pena que no lanzaran mas juego asi exclusivo y que aprovechara la capacidad del mega cd y a precios mas barato que los cartuchos,asi viera triunfado el mega cd, paco pastor presidente de sega España fue a japon con esta idea y aparte lanzara recopilatorios de juego de mega Drive a precios reducidos,no le hicieron caso
Siendo un aficionado a la historia de los videojuegos, nunca había oído de este dato... Ya tengo algo con lo que enriquecer mi conocimiento sobre Sega.
Sort of like that old Atari Firefox arcade laserdisc game, except here the background video (prerendered polygon background fmv) exactly matches the game sprites, giving the illusion of perfect synergy. (Edit: Actually, Sega's old laserdisc arcade game Astron Belt is much closer to Silpheed...)
Developed by Game Arts, and the enemy patterns and designs looks so much like the shooting for coins mode in Smash Bros Brawl, which they also developed. :)
I bought a retro trio and sold it because there are no games on SNES worth playing today. Mario? RPG? they are all on GBA if you want them. the Genesis and CDX just are better games today . Arcade, strategy, Genesis/CDX holds up really well because of the focus on innovation above refinement. that is evidenced by all the big companies that got their start on the Genesis.
@@vladimir9248 I vaguely remember playing this game honestly. Just didn't get into it. I was never really into Sega in general beyond the Sonic The Hedgehog games.
Backgrounds are basically a cinema screen. The bosses and the popcorn enemies are low-poly 3D models. Weapon shots are sprites. I think that's one of the reasons the background video is of low detail, flat shaded models; one it hides the low colour palette of the Mega CD and two it means that when they need a real time model it looks like it still belongs in the same environment as the background ships. It looks pretty dated now but back then it really was mind-blowing =)
@@JohnnyThousand605 thats pretty crap as i thought all the polygons were rendered by the mega cd in real time.. If its an fmv background then how is it possible to crash into the background or get hit by one of the large lasers?
@@ianhosier4042 oh that's easy. they can still overlay hitboxes on the video. they probably have some mapping of time since level start -> hitbox rectangles. or maybe they have an invisible channel on the video that defines a collision map, then they just test intersection.
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I love the untextured low poly look in the intro. Looks so fresh compared to modern games full of bloom effects and lens flares.
Underrated game. Very good looking. And a very good entry for a retro gamer
Stage 5 - the hyperspace jump - remains one of my absolute favorite moments in gaming from any generation. Everything about that level fits together so well. In my book, not too shabby for such a "failure" of a console.
the fact they were able to get 3D polygons going at 60fps is very impressive. Granted not all of it is at 60, but still.
This was the game we played in shock and awe, and knew what the industry would soon become. It is now upon us. Thank you, Silpheed. All those polygons; so far ahead of their time, so long ago. EPIC!
Silpheed is a great entry in the franchise, which shows off some of the Sega CD's hardware potential
The Sega CD did not increase the Polygon Capacity at all.
@@welcome.to.vatenkeist Although the background is a FMV but mapped with collisions, the ships are polygons, and the Sega CD had an extra M68000 they could use so yes, it increases the stock Genesis/Mega Drive power.
@@IvanOdintsoff that’s true but it did not increase the polygon/sec ratio at all.
Definitely,@@IvanOdintsoff. It has tons of potential in this game.
Damn, finally i found it. We played this game like crazy when we were young and I couldn't remember the name for over 20 years. Thank you!
Fantastic game. So many good moments! The soundtrack is outstanding
The cutscene after stage 11 feels so empty without the "Good god, that big bastard's still alive!"
This game has one of the best easter eggs ever. You know how sega cds (especially model 2s- the top loader) were notoriously unreliable and the disc drives prone to failure? Well, should there be a disc read error that interrupts play during the game, the level will actually restart, and you will get an extra life! I wish other games did that!
i was so happy the first time that happened to me, haha. it took what would have been a miserable time, and made it into a little gift. it also seemed to break the fourth wall in a fun kind of way, as if the game was saying "yeah, "the space-time that keeps my in-game world together glitched for a sec, there. sorry about that. here's an extra life to make up for it :) "
pretty sure it was the model 1 that had a high failure
I hated it when it happened though 😅
I had a defective disc first time I played. Every single time just as I was approaching the giant laser (37:51 in this video), it would do a read error and restart the level! Had to return it for a replacement disc to see the end of the game lol
I had a bad copy that would do it over and over when I beat the stage 4 boss
The Sega CD had some amazing games (all non fmv) and it was a head of its time, look those fantastic early 90s pseudo 3D effects, I bet it was kind of mind blowing at the time
Freaking LOVED this game as a kid. I would 100% rebuy it just as is. No need to change a damn thing.
I remember the intro to Silpheed being the most atmospheric thing I ever witnessed in console gaming. It blew me away when I booted this game up for the first time and it always remained a treat throughout all the times I played through the game.
That opinion is surely hard to understand to younger people, but back then this was breathtaking. We were only used to regular SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive game intros, usually consisting of some still pictures with midi music. Going from that to this was a huge jump and felt like time travel.
That intro still beats hands down most SF movies and series in style, design and music. Industrial design of that spacecraft is porn.
Philosoma intro is second best for me for shooters.
1993: "OH MY GOD STAR FOX STAR FOX STAR FOX!!!"
While this game, which takes the graphics, goes pro with them and improves on just about everything, slinks by barely noticed... damn shame.
Sadly, I think it's because most peeps didn't have a Sega CD.
It's because they threw their marketing behind gimmicky FMV games on a system that cost a small fortune. If the system was more affordable and the capabilities were better advertised it would have done a lot better.
@@GrumpyBearRawr Agreed; Sega promoting the FMV wave like it was the next best thing was a 12 gauge shot to the foot for both the console AND the company. It's unfortunate proof that they had lightning in a bottle with the Genesis but were awful at just about everything else.
@@williamsmith666 the Dreamcast was a worthy console, with a good mix of cutting-edge features (real 3d graphics, networking), ease of portability (based on the Naomi) and decent price, they'd just burned all their bridges with publishers and lost too much cred and money. another tale of a company full of talented people crippled by mismanagement and needless infighting.
FMV games were pushed forward - not a good move, but it didn't come without reasoning behind it. Arcades enjoyed FMV games for a good number of years before that, which continued to be profitable, since arcades would still have them. The fact that it turned out to be a wrong bet for home consoles - has not so much to do with the quality of FMV, but with the development of gameplay mechanics in games in general.
As well as the shaping of the console audience. It was not one and the same as the kind that frequented the arcades. Rise of the PC, to boot.
This game blew my mind when I was a kid, so damn EPIC!
The very best and greatest 16 bit graphics ever created SEGA FOREVER!!!
Stage 08 of this game is by far one of the greatest levels in a game of this genre ever to have been created. Nothing's come close to it in terms of sheer scale ever since. (Cinematics don't count!) Do this day I continue to play this game just to experience Stage 08!
YES!!! 100% Agreed!!
Although to me it was first Stage 04, and then Stage 08...
Have y'all ever played Project Sylpheed, on Xbox 360?! ❤ Enough said! You ACTUALLY play in-between all the lasers-shots and missiles, all types of enemy and ally aircraft, plus, you have to account for weight and atmospheric conditions! Can't beat that!!!!
yes it's and amazing game with amazing sound. But I've watched the guy play on hard through level 6 without taking a single hit the whole game. That blows my mind
TheNeemaV far, far better thanks!
People can practice infinitely and back up after each mistake thanks to emulators. ;-)
This is an underrated gem.
Playing this when it first came out was magical
De loin le shoot'em up le plus marquant du Mega-CD, d'une originalité rare, surtout pour son époque (1993).
Wow man, this was the game back in the day.
Loved the mind melting epic reflex's that u needed,...dodging a trillion million billion bullets and HUGE boulder chunks with Massive asteroids wazzing about all the time, not to mention the constant head-bobbing to the insane musics. I felt like a Jedi crushing LUNATIC. Whooping ass on a Galactic scale never been better.Filled me with a bugger load of adrenaline! once I lost and punched my telly REALLY hard.My dad went mental, lesson learned there lol
Stage 05 music is just......incredible....majestic!!!.....its like is telling you everything that's happening on screen!!!!!
Stage 05 is great and all, but Stage 08's music was the one that I'd be humming to myself the next day.
IDK...Stage 05? Nah...
I'd say Stage 04. Because drums...and insane drive! And Stage 02.
That game still is one of the biggest shock I've experienced in my gamer's life
This came out it 93? wow, I only got the Megadrive in 94 for Christmas. I think I only heard about the Sega CD in 95. Project Sylpheed on the xbox 360 is still my fav game of all time.
"Proceed with caution!"
*speeds up*
We'll never get good games like this again.
I remember back at time people going nuts with this game, believing the background was being rendered at real-time, that Silpheed kicked Star-Fox ass and stuff.
IMO it's the best use of FMV everr. It actually enhances gameplay, instead of making the gameplay around the FMV;
What is ironic about that is that there were realtime 3D polygons on the Genesis/Megadrive itself. The Sega CD mostly WAS just wasted on FMV...
what helps the illusion is that some of it hits the foreground and can harm the player. both the structures, like canons and asteroids, plus the lasers spit out by the canons, all adds to the effect that you're not just watching an fmv but actually playing within the game's universe as a part of it.
Greater laser cannons, asteroids and asteroid bits, as well as certain walls in the background - CAN hurt you.
This blows it's rival Star Fox away much better graphics higher frame rate and a kick ass soundtrack.
This game is like playing Galaga in front of a screen where an awesome game is being played. Still loved playing it back in the day though!
Man, to say the truth.. every level is top-notch in his class so far. That's silpheed :)
I can remember playing this on SegaCD ,it played good, but man that polygonal FMV wallpaper was pretty. I could see what they did after playing the game a while. But all in all, it was a good shooter game. The non interactive FMV background made it look cooler. But at the time I was blown away by this !
very smart use of prerendered 3D bg's :D any other games on the system do this? this looks great!
What I figured, No way the system could render all of that in real time and its respected fps.
I was thinking that this is actually what most of the rail shooters do. On this variety I can think of the venerable MACH 3 for laser disc, and other 90s efforts like Novastorm or Microcosm. And Microcosm was released on cd32
@@Risingson2 Pretty much! Silpheed is the only one I know of that tailored its prerendered video to the limitations of the SCD so well, though (level 10 notwithstanding), which is a big part of why it's aged so much better visually than Novastorm or Microcosm (imo, anyways).
@@ZekeS- imo too. The rendering on those rail shooters was a bit hideous. Silpheed in MegaCD was so wise not changing the graphical style between the game and the render
Novastorm for PC - is a competent rival for Sega/Mega CD Silpheed.
It is gorgeous and plays really well. Not Silpheed, but a good runner-up.
Microcosm, unfortunately, is a dud. It's not even in the same category.
Every version of this game has too many issues with game mechanics, including the Sega CD one. And it's nowhere near as visually creative.
The second runner-up would be Soulstar, - Sega/Mega CD's very own.
And that's where the list ends, surprisingly.
this game is so epic
The guy says, “LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING”! And then a medium-sized ship comes out.
haha, it always sounds so sexual to me. i always end up thinking, "pfft, you're impressed by /that/? i've seen way bigger.."
Skills .... you gots in abundance!
Are there no power up system in Silpheed? If not how many different weapons do you have?
Yes, power ups exist, you choose them between stages. 26:00
midinerd Apparently you never got any educational power-ups, to call a stranger an a-hole about it. At least you discovered that swearing at people on RUclips effectively earns your much needed parental love that you never did. The
The......
The "power ups" just repair your ship, give you points, make you invincible (temporarily), destroy enemies on screen, and increase your optional weapon energy. You earn a new weapon (which you select in between stages) every set amount of points. You see all the different weapon types used in this playthrough.
Japanese sometimes make games with a high level of technology that is beyond our imagination.
The best years of my life good times
Same!!!
This reminds me of the times me and my little brother tried to win the game by having him jump and slam the floor when I would die which would cause the CD to skip and the game would need to restart the level, but would give you a free continue to compensate for the crash. We would scream “no!” in unison and he would jump of the bed and crash on the ground. I think mom was pissed.
The music is great, this game is a reason to own a Sega CD :D
IF there is a reason to own a Mega CD: Thunderhawk.
And maybe Final Fight CD.
And the racing parts of Batman Returns.
And that's it. From all the Sega Hardware i bought (i did skip the 32 X), this was the greatest failure.
Thunderhawk was a reason only if you play electric guitar, and want
to learn some more sweet soloing, Jimi style. In this case, the game is timeless. Final Fight - again, only a rocker's ear (better yet - a musician's) will appreciate this version, cause apart from the amazing music makeover, - it meagerly loses to the arcades in every respect.
But otherwise - there were several solid reasons to own a Mega CD.
Silpheed and Soulstar are the ones that step through time, and beat it silly with an intergalactic cuckoo clock. But there was most certainly more, - depending on the person's taste in games.
Awesome!!! The best game of Sega CD!!!
Amazing OST.
I fucking love SEGA CD. SEGA FOREVER!!!!
Masterpiece
Oh my god, Why didnt they make use of the Sega CD more properly like this? I get it know! i get the pourpose of the Sega CD, it was an expansion to allow the Sega genesis to play more powerfull games, though to be frank it should have been its own console to compete against the Sony ps1
+earthsteward70 -- Well, the Sega Saturn was PS1's competitor. SegaCD was essentially a heel-grind added to the curbstomp that the Gen's M68k processor had on the SNES's Ricoh 5A22. That said, if the SegaCD was upgraded and got a re-release as the next-gen system to combat the PS1, then it's hard to say, but maybe Sega would have pioneered a movement where every generation of gaming would herald an upgrade to an existing system instead of a new, more expensive console with no backwards compatibility.
I think that if the sega CD was advertized properly, was cheeper, and had better games that actually utilized the hardware, then we could have had ourselves a decent console!
Sega "Galaxy" would be duking it out with the Wii U if that were the case! I really do believe that Sega's stake in the console market depended on 1) making the SegaCD more accessible, and 2) never, ever, ever even conceiving the idea of the 32X Gen addon.
yeah XD That 32X was dumb, And besides, there were many well recieved games From the Sega CD, like the only western release of SNATCHER, Sonic CD, and others.
+Majyxs what's a heel-grind?
stages 4, 7, 8, and 12 are badass.
13:01
23:02
26:17
40:26
I'd say that except 5 (the only lackluster one) - they all are pretty
damn impressive. But you're totally right: these do stand out,
especially 4 and 8. However, you missed 6...and, the asteroids of stage 2....
Amazing graphics for its time.
SEGA Amazing! 1986 so ahead of its time
I love SegaCD, I know it gets bashed a lot but I enjoy many games on it, I play them on my CDX, I still might get a Sega CD later though I would love a Wondermega.....
The only people that bash the SEGA Genesis CD or 32X are stupid Nintendo and PlayStation idiots fuck them!!! SEGA FOREVER!!!
Someone mentioned that the background is an animation. But I don't think they could fit a length prerendered animation in memory/rom,right? There's lots of 2d rotations I see though.
It is pre-rendered. The developer disclosed this information and it's also in the game's Wiki info. Basically the backgrounds serves no active purpose, but is rather a cool visual gimmick to make you think you're actually controlling your ship through real rendered 3-D environments (such as in Star Fox for the SNES or N64).
yeah is really good and you should heard the ost of the original 1986-1988 silpheed for PCs
Final boss reminds me of Einhander's (or rather, Einhander's reminds me of this one)
This looked amazing for a 16-bit system
This game brings back some memories....
fact: background is fmv
Yup! A lot of people didn't know this.
This is completely 2D. The background is just a video, every other element in the game is 2D. The gameplay itself only happens in 2 dimensions. Even though it feels like 3D because you go "into" the screen, you really only have 2 dimensions, X and Y (or X and Z if you prefer)
Those are just pre-rendered sprites, too
I still can't believe that I beat this game back in the day. 0_0 .. Balls to the wall hard !!
This blew my mind as a kid
Honestly it's worth playing this game just for stage 5.. The music is wonderful and it feels so right for a shmup...Wish there was more like it.
WHO CARES if you can crash into the polygon-made background or not? the 3D effect is amazing! It is a meta-illusion that suits perfectly in the game! Better than most of the trashy polygon friendly interaction of some 32 bit games.
Id be curious to learn how they managed to cram 40 minutes or so of lossless video at 30fps on a CD. The compression scheme must be interesting.
Though not really a SegaCD game, Lightning Force (GEN) comes close to match Silpheed's graphics, gameplay and soundtrack.
Lol, and a flint musket comes close to match AR15...
In space, explosions are green.
90s! las músicas de este juego son una diosada, te ponen y to! xD :P
Asi es jeje !
Los 80 y 90's son las edades doradas de los videojuegos sin duda alguna. Y este, entre tantos otros titulos tenian un soundtrack impresionante. Aca definitivamente le sacaron ventaja a la tecnologia cd en su momento.
😢 good times
I could never get past stage 2 of Silpheed on the Mega CD....but that's okay because the music for stage 1 was a freakin banger.
Wahey, another CDX owner! Gotta love that tiny system :)
asi debieron ser los juegos de sega mega CD!! si aportaban por esto y si no sacaban el 32x sega todavía seguiría vivo
That invincibility code works wonders. 😉
Wow ... Memories.........
Stage 4= when the REAL game starts
YES! Once you hear those drums, and get into the dodge/speed parts -
it's such a rush! It still gets me even after almost 3 decades!
Last game I sold was this game
I LOOOOOVED IT!!!
Silpheed on Sega CD surprisingly is very good despite the game size is unbeliavably high to download on PS3 Retroarch (554MB).
Amazing game, Amazing soundtrack, just proved what the Mega CD could do. Luckily i still have original game and system. But would love to see a reboot of Silpheed on PS5, done properly though. Unfortunately it would end up butchered by some low budget developer.
always loved it when the last boss fires off that BIG gun just before the start of level 12(watch starting at 39:50). One of the first games i bought for my mega cd in 93.A friend who owned silpheed 2 on saturn once copied the soundtrack on mine so he could listen to it while playing his saturn version,True story lol
I think the game uses CD Quality Audio for the voice samples, and it's using the Sega CD's internal sound hardware for the music
Otaku De Carnitas If you put the game disc into a CD player, you’ll get CD quality versions of some of the in game music tracks.
@@theraptorus that's assuming it would let me
Same applies for the real Sega/Mega CD
the music is the console FM and add-on PCM sound chips together :)
The in-game backgrounds and etc, are all fmv/cg based correct? Much like novastorm in a sense?
Bogies bogies! All systems green!
;-)
This is one of those rare Sega CD games that doesn’t need to show off fmv to show off the hardware, but rather in-game 3d texture mapping capability. No way would most regular Sega Games run on the vanilla hardware the way this game does. I could be wrong of course.
Before anyone says Virtua Racing I’ll stop you. That required dedicated circuitry and chip sets in the cartridge to run that are expensive and unique. This only needs the CD and that’s it. I just talk about running your run of the mill cart vs CD. It’s night and day.
But the background is FMV
Great game 👏🏻👏🏻
Es una pena que no lanzaran mas juego asi exclusivo y que aprovechara la capacidad del mega cd y a precios mas barato que los cartuchos,asi viera triunfado el mega cd, paco pastor presidente de sega España fue a japon con esta idea y aparte lanzara recopilatorios de juego de mega Drive a precios reducidos,no le hicieron caso
Siendo un aficionado a la historia de los videojuegos, nunca había oído de este dato... Ya tengo algo con lo que enriquecer mi conocimiento sobre Sega.
Sort of like that old Atari Firefox arcade laserdisc game, except here the background video (prerendered polygon background fmv) exactly matches the game sprites, giving the illusion of perfect synergy.
(Edit: Actually, Sega's old laserdisc arcade game Astron Belt is much closer to Silpheed...)
Developed by Game Arts, and the enemy patterns and designs looks so much like the shooting for coins mode in Smash Bros Brawl, which they also developed. :)
I still have my original copy!
Starfox is crying
I bought a retro trio and sold it because there are no games on SNES worth playing today. Mario? RPG? they are all on GBA if you want them. the Genesis and CDX just are better games today . Arcade, strategy, Genesis/CDX holds up really well because of the focus on innovation above refinement. that is evidenced by all the big companies that got their start on the Genesis.
This was SEGA's answer to Star Fox back then.
And Starfox blew this game out of the water
@@vladimir9248 I vaguely remember playing this game honestly. Just didn't get into it. I was never really into Sega in general beyond the Sonic The Hedgehog games.
@@xxxYouTunesxxx And now Star Fox is dead, thanks to Zero killing the whole series.
This was nothing but another version of Gyruss
Fantastic game. I didnt know
Awesome game 🕹👍🕹👍🕹👍🕹👍
wow
i never knew this game existed
I feel sorry for him being hit once in level 4.
How much of the graphics is pre rendered and how much is actually done by the mega cd?
Backgrounds are basically a cinema screen. The bosses and the popcorn enemies are low-poly 3D models. Weapon shots are sprites. I think that's one of the reasons the background video is of low detail, flat shaded models; one it hides the low colour palette of the Mega CD and two it means that when they need a real time model it looks like it still belongs in the same environment as the background ships. It looks pretty dated now but back then it really was mind-blowing =)
@@JohnnyThousand605 thats pretty crap as i thought all the polygons were rendered by the mega cd in real time.. If its an fmv background then how is it possible to crash into the background or get hit by one of the large lasers?
@@ianhosier4042 oh that's easy. they can still overlay hitboxes on the video. they probably have some mapping of time since level start -> hitbox rectangles. or maybe they have an invisible channel on the video that defines a collision map, then they just test intersection.
i had this game. it would freeze every time i would get to the final boss and it pissed me off.
no 3D but 2.5D.
SEGA FOREVER!!!
Las voces como si estuvieras en una pelicula de las buenas
They forget to make different Weapons or power ups?
cantplay it gets stuck in the sega logo T-T
juegazo