View Full Version : genesis - Heavy Unit - any info?
AB Positive
11-21-2004, 12:04 PM
is it rare... fun? I don't know... found it at a flea market today and snagged it cheap (three bucks). I'm not a shmup man so hopefully some of you may know what's up with it.
-AG
delafro
11-23-2004, 06:14 PM
off the top of my head, you can always try shmups for info.... www.shmups.com
You found a Japanese MD game at a flea market in NH? Go you!
Here's some info:
http://www.genesiscollective.com/ShowPage.php?GameLink=860
Never played it myself, but it looks decent.
rbudrick
12-02-2004, 05:01 PM
You found a heavy Genesis unit? Maybe it's filled with roaches!! LOL
Lol, the cart, I know.
You found a Japanese MD game at a flea market in NH? Go you!
Yeah, it's happenned to me at least 3 times too....weird, but true.
My brother found a PAL Golden Axe in a random closet in his frat house in Keene.
-Rob
sven666
12-03-2004, 01:32 AM
its pretty boring and cant hold a stick to the arcade version..
dont know about the rarity as i stumbled upon mine aswell, never gave much thought to it..
Iron Draggon
12-09-2004, 02:40 AM
Well I may be mistaken about this, but if I remember correctly, it's VERY rare.
Nice find!
geelw
12-11-2004, 03:40 AM
well, it's not all that incredibly rare (i've had three of them come through here over the years), but given that it's never been released here in the states, it sorta is, LOL
as to the actual quality of the game. if you've NEVER heard of it before, never played the arcade version (in real life or ROM form), or hold any of the other console versions up as superior, it's a fun little shooter you'll probably enjoy. I'd have to argue that almost no company ports a game over to make a "bad" version. like any translation, it exists primarily to gve those with a particular system the opportunity to play it. :D
g.
Spartacus
12-16-2004, 07:18 PM
I've been typing that games name into Ebay searches fairly often for the last year and have never run across it. Ran across the Sega CD version a lot, but never the megadrive version. Nothing I've read about it made it sound very good, but it is a shmup and therefore is something I hope to find someday.
geelw
12-17-2004, 08:56 PM
I've been typing that games name into Ebay searches fairly often for the last year and have never run across it. Ran across the Sega CD version a lot, but never the megadrive version. Nothing I've read about it made it sound very good, but it is a shmup and therefore is something I hope to find someday.
... O_O you may be confusing toho's heavy unit with micronet's heavy nova. you more likely will want heavy unit, as it's a shooter (mega drive), but you probably don't want heavy nova, as it's a bland mech fighter (genesis, sega cd, pc-engine cd)...