Mega Drive Longplay [207] Ranger-X
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
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Another interesting shooter on the genesis, including some nice effects for the system.
I did'nt really get on with the controls so this could certainly have been better played, but I get the job done in the end. I stayed with normal this time, I havent read anything to surgest you need to play hard mode for an extended ending.
Not a bad game. Just a few minor complaints regarding the extra unit that follows you around, having to climb into it to change special weapon and some enemy still through all they have at you during this process. Recharging power can be troublesome on some levels if there are no recharge pods to pickup. -
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As a kid I asked for the Power Rangers game for Christmas. Opened my gift and this was in it. I was disappointed as hell but didnt want my parents to know because it would have killed them so i faked a smile. Then I played it and the smile wasn't fake any more. I thanked them profusely. Such an epic game
Awesome story!
@@bransonbenson9520 My mother once bought me "Ecco the Dolphin" for SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, when I had a master-system. I had to change it back. But she wanted to do something good. One day in 1990 or something, she bought me some of these LCD-games, a soccer-game, and I hated it, I cried and broke it. And I feel sorry today for that.
Same thing happened with me when I got Landstalker! Lol
@@MrZillas Those lcds are like 90% trash and 10% will be the only thing you play on a trip for hours lol
Same happened with me. I wanted Madden 95 and got Bill Walsh college 95 instead. Turned out to be fun as hell and one of my favorite games I owned at the time
holy nostalgia. forgot this game existed. man, this game still looks as badass as ever
This game has some of the best graphics gameplay, and music on the genesis. This rare gem is perfect for collectors and people who want to experience an overlooked classic
and now cause of resellers and "collectors" you can get this game with the manual for the low collectable price of 120$, back when OP's comment was made it was 15 bucks, in 2008 it was 2-5 bucks.
@@Autistic_Pixel Yarr!
Gave away my Sega, gave away the games. Found Ranger-X in my closet while cleaning it out. "Why don't you give that away, too?" my mom says.
Hell no.
I'll buy it
Its okay Genesis are dirt Cheap on Ebay. :)
lmao
I just found it at a yard sale for 5 bucks
@@Theshark15z Are you living in 2008? Pricing shot up for many games.
This masterpiece deserves a remake
This comment deserves more likes ;-)
Ya know I all but forgot about this game. It really does need a new generation remake
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Sega should have Advertised this game, because it's a classic and those Sega CD FMV games were shit. What were you thinking Sega. I remember getting this game back then in 1994 for my birthday and enjoying it along with my Sega Genesis.
Thankfully the company that made this game is still around today.
I Love That 3D Wireframe Sequences!!!
Funfact: The genesis actually could do 3D, however it had pretty big limitations, limitations that were expanded with the SVP.
@@Random-yh9tj Literally every videogame system ever is capable of doing "3D". It's all a matter of how well it can be implemented.
@@christopherwalkinalloverya5824 Yeah I know, but sometimes is pretty interesting when they pull the effect off.
A Very under appreciated Sega Genesis game!
its weird how good graphics are still good graphics.. like 20 yrs later
yeah i agree.. get the right tv for retro and ur set
Age doesn't define quality. I mean look at all the celebrated works of art that are hundreds of years old. Just because it's a game and it's old doesn't make the art any less valid.
10 more years later after this comment and the graphics are still awesome!
I was searching this game for 20 years!!! Looked up every shoot'em up on sega to find it. Recognized it from preview picture. Thank you a lot!!! My search is finally over
This game looks incredible, it could be a retro indie game released today.
What an insult to Ranger x 🤦🏽♂️
Can't stop watching the corridor sequence. That 3D trickery is some dark arts
Just simple vertical interrupts
The desing . graphics . the creativity of level.. everything was so perfect about this game . spend my childhoold playing this masterpiece, after 15 years i found it again, nostalgia hit me so hard man . what an underrated gem this was.. thank you for making this video
This game is incredible . It looks like it should of been made by Treasure. Just beautiful and little known.
*Should have
Great graphics, with 128 colours and scroll parallax, and great sound!!
In Top 10 of Megadrive.
What do you consider your top 10 May I ask?
This game had such an achievable, yet advanced combat feel about it. The technical story setting and subjects were well complemented by fast, understandable gameplay. Great to see this game again, thanks for the gameplay.
Still is one of the best games to have been released on mega drive and has one of the best soundtracks as well.
Lol the music is shit. Graphics are good though animation and colours
Same here, I loved the soundtrack, you should really check out Alicia Dragoon soundtrack too if you like this it is also mad funky😁
Look up Crusader of Centy for similar soundtrack - made by same guys.
This game was awesome. One of my favourite of all times...
great game miserably overlooked.
I’ve been trying to remember this game ever since I grew up couldn’t remember the name but the 2nd level really stuck with me
Man, these guys were doing some very impressive stuff technically with the Genesis.
Most Genesis games look like NES with higher resolution. Ranger X is truly shocking with its 3D inducing FX and arcade- like scrolling
@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 like nes with higher resolution? What kind of drugs are you on?
@@worldfallmusic Genesis had a stronger processor. Are you uneducated on the history of 16-bit gaming? 🖕
Far and away one of the best, if not THE best Genesis game ever made.
I'd say it's only behind Sonic 2, Phantasy Star 4, and Streets of Rage 2. Ranger X is fucking awesome.
An awesome game with an epic intro. I loved it as a kid and it took me a while to finally find it as an adult. I remembered everything except the name of the game. THe game did things that were groundbreaking in a technical and gameplay way.
I love the variety. The 1st stage suggests some sort of silk worm game, but then you get more exploration etc
Just discovered this game on the sega mini 2 and I'm perplexed that I've never heard of it before! The graphics are on par with Symphony of the Night and the concepts are forward thinking and cool...
I remember playing this game all day every single day! Easily one of the best games I played on the Mega Drive. What a classic!
Not a bad game? Mate its superb! I wouldve definitely skipped school to clock this in earl 90s.
I have spent YEARS trying to remember the name of this game! So glad I found this.
This and the Power Rangers game were two of the first video games I ever played as a child along with Mortal Kombat, Aladdin, Fatal Fury, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. This is giving me such a nostalgic feeling!!! 😊
Gráficos e Trilha simplesmente um espetáculo a parte .
Ohhhh man this game brings back sooooo many memories.
This is THE first game I ever played. It will always hold a special place in my heart for that reason. A fantastic, severely underrated game.
hidden gem..
Like chaos Legion,this is underrated and awesome,they need to be remade
Finally
Someone That Agrees With Me
Amazing gameplay and great soundtrack, just like good ol' times.
This game was amazing, that’s why I’m 31 and I’m looking it up on RUclips
This is a masterpiece of graphics, style. And the music. The composer has put so much of passion into the soundtrack. This was one of my top favorite games. I walked it through on “hard” several times
Ranger X was one of the first game I ever played along with other sega classics around when I was 3. The soundtrack was one of the first things that ever stood out to me and has stuck with me ever since. This sound track would sound amazing translated into metal.
Big fan of your stuff lol. Also, happy we played the same video games when we were younger.
This genesis game does... what Super NintenDOES? Wtf.
How does no one know about this game?! This is the saddest things since I-Ninja!
It took me forever to find out which game this was. You have no idea the level of nostalgia I felt when hearing the intro music.
This games sounds, plays amd looks incredible !!!
Never had a genesis but played this a few times as my cousins.. great game brings back memories
Each difficulty changes the time of day you play (less solar power = less special weapon use). It also changes the ending very slightly. Off my head (it's been 23 years).
The endings are long the higher the difficulty level. The cone thing at the end of normal launches and goes through several tunnels. The longest ending is the camera pans around the cones, it launches on a journey and then lands to a 3d line model of ranger-x suit.
I just played it on Heavy (via emulator) and yeah there's a 3D Ranger-X at the end. I don't remember the "launches on a journey" part but I wasn't paying close attention to the 3D animation either so it could easily have happened.
The much bigger difference between this video and what I just experienced is that this player uses very different special weapons--mainly because I never found the giant plasma beam weapon or the bullet-eating wave attack weapon! Those two weapons appear to be enormously useful, and I suspect that I didn't find them because the Heavy difficulty simply removes them. But maybe I just missed them. At any rate, I mostly used the falcon instead; I think that that weapon is a bit overpowered itself. It destroys something like half the enemies you meet, very safely. You can stand right in the searchlights in the city assault stage and recharge your power from them while the falcon obligingly eats up all the guard machines that come at you because you got found (by the light). It's a pretty different way to play from what this video shows.
Also, the bouncy floating platforms in the skyscraper stage are missing when you play on Heavy. You apparently have to use a duck-to-charge-and-then-jump maneuver to make the longest vertical climb, because on a normal jump you'll get a little less speed at the start and you'll overheat juuust before you reach the next landing spot. It's weirdly obtuse and I had to check GameFAQs to learn about it at all. (The move is similar to the motorcycle helper's normal method of jumping, but there seems to be nothing to suggest to the player that they should try that on foot as well; even when you do it correctly, it doesn't look like it's changing anything.)
This is a neat game. I like the little touches in it, like how the searchlights recharge you but also trigger enemies, and how the lit-up floors in the skyscraper recharge you extra fast, and how the flying fish things in stage 2 are only easy to fight if you let light itself kill them, and how the bosses all have weirdly different methods of attacking and defending that you can deal with in multiple ways. Although I would change a few things about it, it definitely holds up for somebody only playing it for the first time now, as an adult.
Oh and the other little thing I liked that this video didn't show is that in the city assault stage, the target machines run on tracks that you can see in the background--and you can actually destroy certain post thingies that hold up pieces of these tracks, changing where the targets are allowed to go! It took me a long while to figure out what those were even supposed to be for; they're easy to miss. But then eventually I managed to wreck one just as a target machine was moving across the section of track that it supported--and when the track disappeared, the enemy machine fell down and immediately exploded! That's some fun attention to detail.
Actually hmm I think the video does show it after all. At 29:16 or so the player destroys part of a track and then leaves the target behind. Somewhat later, one of the targets dies mysteriously, offscreen. It seems to be that one, which has presumably moved all the way back to that broken piece of track and fallen off it! So then the player never has to return to finish that fight.
Also at 30:49 the player shoots at a target that's moving away but instead ends up destroying a piece of track, apparently by accident. Shortly after that, the target returns and falls to its doom! Or maybe it just runs out of health from being shot at. It's not clear.
Interesting game, to have such subtleties in it.
When I first played this game I hated it. It was hard for me. Specially level two. It was the only game in my arsenal that I hadn't completed yet. So one day I decided to play it. I fell in love with it. As I got older I gave my Sega and almost all my games away. To this day I have still have Ranger X. What a gem of a game that it is. The sound track and the background on some levels are just amazingly done well.
Ex-Ranza (a.k.a. Ranger X) for Super Robot Wars!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Yet boi
It just goes to show you that the Sega Genesis was very capable of Mode 7 and FX chip graphics, without these special chips of course. The Genesis had more power to it than what people realize.
It couldn't actually do those things though, it could do scaling to a limited degree, but software in the game carts would have to be the thing doing the hard work (like scaling). Mode 7 was not done by chip, but was done natively by the SNES, along with sprite rotation.
The wireframe effects were done by the game itself, programming tricks if you will, the Genesis itself would not be quite capable of doing it. And for sure it was done mainly by Japanese developers, and not so much western developers as the Japanese devs understood the hardware it seemed more often that western developers did. The SNES, those same effects could be done by the hardware, it's just that Nintendo built the SNES with expansion in mind, much like Sega did with RAM with the Saturn. People like to think that it's a bad thing, but if you can do things to squeeze even more out of the console you created, you do so. Sega could've done the same thing with their console, but in a panic they were too busy trying to hurry out a CD based console, and the never truly harnassed 32X, and left the Genesis to rot. Sega only used a special chip once, and due to the cost of the chip, never attempted to try it again, instead of maybe coming up with a cheaper alternative that could've squeezed more juice out of the Genesis.
Those are some impressive vector graphics and even the game itself, and it also pretty impressive for an early genesis game
remember borrowing this off a friend and never giving it back, wish i still had it. immense game
douche
People need to stop sleeping on this masterpiece
this is absolutely the best genesis games i've ever played
spent months tryin to figure out this game's name , man ranger x and vector man were my childhood
This was my sixth game i got after sonic 2, mortal kombat, ninja turtles hyperstone, streets of rage 2 and street fighter 2. I was like 8 years old back then.Almost 20 years ago. I got it from JC Penny and it cost like 20 US dollars back then, the cover caught my eye so my parents bought it for me. Wow was I in for a surprise, this game is the most beautiful game Ive ever seen, even better looking than any Super Nintendo game. I still dont understand how they did it, like really how??? I wish someone could tell me how they managed so many colors and detail into a genesis game and why werent other games made using this technique?
Highlight/shadow, a feature unique to the Genesis, which gave each color not only its regular shade but also a doubly-bright and a half-bright version. Few artists took advantage of this for some reason. Combine that with a lot of per-scanline background manipulation (and most likely palette manipulation as well) and you can stretch those 64 colors way up into the stratosphere.
TechnoJon96 Oh...ok, I really like this game xd, even though people say there are better games I really got a soft spot for this game, when I was a kid I used to be mad because I didn't have a SEGA CD but now that I have seen most games on it on youtube or just emulation them recently. I can see I wasnt missing out on anything.
KAILOONE well a lot of it was processed images with micro animations, then added movement augmentation augrythms for gameplay, that's the best way to fit it all in
Think Gunstar Heroes is the other game with this technique and as you know- it's beautiful! In fact, the guys behind Gunstar made some other games that also look beautiful.
What else has Y. Hiraiwa composed for? Is that "N. Iwadare" actually Noriyuki Iwadare? Or is it just another person with the same surname and a given name starting with N that gets constantly mistaken for the other guy?
The genesis had some good unknown platformers
The green beam thingy that covers the screen is the ultimate weapon in this game and destroys everything on screen for a few seconds - its awesome..
Btw i had no idea u can aim in the rpver
This and Alien Soldier are some of the best Genesis games the console has to offer.
If you use a six button controller. You can control both the mech and 'skateboard' seperatley
Good memories and times one of my all time favourites for the mega drive just awesome
This game is a crown jewel of the Genesis! I remember my dad teaching me to play this when I was 5 along with Robocop! Great sound, graphics, outrageous bosses! Japanese video game programming at its peak! 🇯🇵🇯🇵🎮🎮💣🤖
This game was killer. Especially on the top difficulty.
I never got past the Skyscraper on the harder difficulties :o
I always loved the 3d effect on the stage 2 boss screen.
I doubt this will be read by many but I thinks it's time to breath new air into this classic...
Indeed
I grew up in a very poor country and I had collected the internal parts of the SEGA console from the piles of scrap that the rich threw away.. One time I found a seller who brought a scrap full of cartridges for the SEGA console and it was rusty.. He didn't know its value.. I bought one from him for less than a quarter of a dollar.. I took it home and wiped it.. The surprise was that it was this legendary game "Ranger-X" that shocked me with its realism and magnificence.. I will never forget those moments as long as I live
This was my childhood. That crab thing after the first level was my first boss fight in video games.
Very impressive for it's time. Some of the indie titles are popping back to similar routes. Uses a different and more current visual style, but not of the norms so much, but I'd recommend you check out a game called "Intrusion II". All made by one guy.
One of best Megadrive made, never remember most retro games tuber
Wow, this game was realised in ‘93 and technically sh*ts on anything on the SNES (SFX titles excluded) including DKC.
You are reaching pretty far with that statement. It definitely pushes the Genesis to it's limits, but is not a technical marvel compared to what the SNES can do (for the Genesis it is, moreso than Virtua Racing was). Yes the SNES was made in mind to use chips, like the Famicom did, that's called thinking ahead when you create a console, knowing whenever you want, you can push past it's limits. Outside of the wireframe brakdown of the games bosses and targets, the game is your average graphically nice game, which the SNES is also quite capable of. By this point, the MD was 5 years old, the Genesis, 4 years old, and by then, developers knew the in and outs of the console, enough to create a game like this. Sadly IMO games on the Genesis were never this good ever again after.
People love to give the SNES shit for using chips,but those chips gave that console a much longer lifespan than it should have, pushing the system to last till at least 2000, while at that time, Sega was already a good part into the Dreamcast's short lifespan.
@@Bloodreign1 Wouldn’t disagree with too much of that. What makes this game visually amazing is the level of creativity; using visual tricks to eke the most out of the system.
@@EOTA564 That's right, it takes a talented bunch to make a game get the most of the console it is on, even if special chips are used or not. And not many developers are as capable as the people behind this game for the Genesis. Your best devs for either console are the ones that can push past the limits, and wow the buyer, and still hold up decades later. This is why 16 bit games have lasting appeal, you knew the devs had limited resources, and limited space, so they got very, very creative.
Happy memories of this.
For a sega game, the mechanics of this game was ahead of its time. Between this, the power rangers movie game, and comix zone, I was one happy kid! Man I always wished they would remake a game like comix zone with current gen for all the comic book artist out there...they never did tho 😞
I love all the details in the game. Like in Stage 3, you can shoot the trees and eat the fruit for life.
This game was just so good! Well- it still is :)
Used to waste my days slaving away to this beauty!
Maybe the best looking Megadrive game ever!
I didn't get this game until relatively recently. I found it in a bargain bin for $3.99. It took some getting used to the odd controls but it's a really fun game once you figure it out.I don't have a 6 button controller, which I hear makes this game much easier.
Love playing this As kid the best times and one of the best game on the mega drive
This was my fav. game back in the day. I just wished so it was longer or they made a second game. But the technology moved on. At least these type of retro games are making a come back :P
I remember playing this game, but I have no idea how... I can't remember if a friend had it. I know I never owned it but really wanted to! I wish there was a Sega CD version so we didn't have to pay absurd eBay prices :D
One of thee greatest games I ever played...EVER. NO DEBATE.. Should've had a Sega Saturn 3d sequel... that bullshit
Top 5 Mega Drive game for sure
Genesis favorite game = Ranger X
Snes favorite game = Super Metroid
ranger x took everything that had been implemented before and carried it to the extreme. Parallax scroll with highly dynamic backgrounds, basic 3d even if it was only during the debriefing scenes, many scrolling planes(genesis only has 2 planes but much more can be simulated). Certainly one game that squeezed the machine to its very limits...
This game looks so badass. I wish it was on Sega Genesis Classics.
Its nice to see what actually happens. The building climb was the point i got to before 10 year old rage quits.
I couldn’t pass Stage 2 until high school lol.
What an amazing masterpeice underrated
This game was so damn bad ass. I think i had saved up money to get Street figther turbo, but it was out. I was a kid so the money was burning a hole in my pocket. i saw this and rolled the dice. once i starting playing, i was like, Street fighter what?! Plus it was cheaper so i had money left over to buy some x-men cards. ahh the ol days of being a latchkey kid.
Tohle je přesně hra, na které mne baví paralaxní scrolling - dokonale vystihuje to, co mne starých hrách baví. Třetí level - 13:00 - tam je to nejlépe vidět, jak hlavní hrdina projde z nebe až ke kořenům stromů - to je atmosféra, jaká mi dneska ve hrách chybí. Na eBayi je ale tato hra dost drahá...
Finally, a video of one of my favorites games EVER
Missed the secret weapon in stage 6. Can get a shield at beginning by kicking the robots to death or ramming them no guns though.
I found that accidentally! 😅
awesome gem still love watching gameplay
Love games like this.I have this on my megadrive 🥇
I was a bit more shady as a kid who was broke, but NEEDED to play new NES games. 2 things. One of them I feel kind of bad about now.
1. Back in 1985/early '86, when new NES games were not factory sealed, and instead had a little black sticker seal, I would carefully open the game from the bottom flap, play the game until I was sick of it, then carefully replace the cart so you couldn't tell it was ever opened, and then say I got it for a gift and already owned it.. Then get a refund, and repeat.
2. When I decided I wanted to go back and play older games I came up with a more sinister plan.. I would open the cartridhe shell, replace the PCB chip with an old Vic-20 PCB, and return it. It wasn't a perfect fit, but I figured I'd use that to my advantage. I figured if they noticed the PCB moved around and tested it to find it didn't work it would fit with my story that the game didn't work. Not that they ever checked the pinout. It came back to bite me as many scams do though. I pulled that switcheroo with about 20 games, and in doing so I ended up trashing some very rare VIC-20 carts in the process. I still have the empty shells for a few. I do also feel bad. I guess I've made up for it by buying nearly 600 NES carts since then. Don't do this kids. Crime doesn't pay! ;)
yeah i got that on steam, fun game, i hope more games are like that.
Stage 3 is my favorites stage.. just beautiful
man I missed the 90s
I never played this game, not really my style. But it's very well made for the limitating equipment at the time.
I can't believe I beat this game when I was like 8
You were a badass kid
When i was like 8 or 9, my mom and i stood in the video game store, and i choose what i want to buy. I saw Ranger-X, liked it and said that i want it. The shop guy said that it may be to difficult for me, because i was too young, so i should choose something different. After that i wanted it even more, to show him that he is wrong, lol.
Loved this game.
I still didn't beat it, i watched ending using cheats, so he was probably right, lol
What a pretty game. It deserves a higher-quality upload
Mano, jogava muito quando eu era um mlk
Nostalgia dms!
This and Sub-terrania two of the best game on the Mage Drive, though you would be hard pressed to find anyone than new of them. Thanks for the post.
Impressive arsenal of wonderful weapons!!!!
Man this game was the best on Sega I played the hell outta it I don't remember if I ever beat it makes me wanna find it and a Sega Genesis XD
I used to love this game
Awesome game, back in the day those jet boosters was kinda new thing for me had to get used to it, pretty easy game to finish tbh