Here we have the world's very first 32-bit videogame console (Japan, 1991) running the first decent home rendition of Sega's Galaxy Force II.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vi66wEM2J54

Better check it out now because who knows it could be removed from youtube at any time. I saw another vid of the FM Towns version a year or two ago but it was taken down.


Galaxy Force II originally ran on the immensely powerful 'Y-Board' which used 3x 68000 CPUs and the most powerful version of Sega's Super-Scaler technology at the time. It was probably the most powerful Sega arcade hardware of the 1980s.

The FM Towns Marty GFII, although much reduced from the arcade, was alot better than the bland Mega-Drive/Genesis translation. Neither version used hardware scaling & rotation. The FM-Towns did a good job through software.

Galaxy Force II was then ported sloppily to the Saturn in 1998. It looked like the arcade in terms of detail but ran at half the framerate. This was really sad because the Saturn is far more powerful than the Y-Board arcade PCB. At this point, GFII was 10 years old.

Only last year on PlayStation2 did the first truly arcade-quality version come home, on Sega Ages 2500 vol 30.