'titties and dragons';

'so I could play as a jacked midget and ram into guys with my spiked helmet';

'Conan the Barbarian was big back then like hugely influential culturally, and Tyris was hot';

'Everyone had Golden Axe, because it was on one of those compilation cartridges.
I feel like most people didn't specifically buy Golden Axe.';

'>>10861694
It was included in the 6-Pak with Sonic the Hedgehog, Columns, Shinobi, Super Hang-On, and Streets of Rage

The selling point though was probably being the best home port of the arcade game, like Altered Beast and OutRun.';

'>>10861694
Came on a 6-in-1 pack with my Genesis.';

'>>10861694
It was in a choose your game bundle for my genesis and my other options were buster douglas boxing or a racing game (which I later got separately and liked a lot, I forget the name). Plus my brother and I liked it in the arcade';

'>>10861694
I mean just look at it. That shit rules.';

'>>10861694
It was in the compilation. I think it came with the console.
>What was the selling point?
It was a pretty cool play tho. Streets of Rage but medieval. And then you have all those things like mounts and mana. In one level you fight in a flying turtle. pretty hype ngl';

'>>10861694
I had found this game in our food cupboard when I was a kid. I don't know who bought it, I just found it and Altered beast and I fucking love those games. To this day I still don't understand why someone hid the sega genesis games in the food cupboard.';

'Turtle';

'>>10861694
it was the best looking game ever made in 1988';

'I loved Conan and Gauntlet, easy sell.';

'Golden Axe is going to have a cartoon on Comedy Central.
I'm not making this up';

'Golden Axe fucking sucks. The only good game in the series is Revenge of Death Adder. It pales in comparison to Streets of Rage and Capcom's beat 'em ups. The mounts are the only cool thing about it, but they also completely trivialize the game just highlighting how badly designed it is.';

'>>10862141
Both Golden Axe 1 and 2 are more actual fun single player games than Death Adder is.';

'>>10861694
i never cared for this game, king of dragons was so much better and the sound didnt rape my ears';

'>>10861734
I discovered that game THROUGH a compilation.';

'>>10862157
Interesting side-tangent, I learnt how to dump roms from that collection. However, I'm having a hard time trying to INJECT games onto that collection. (Why inject games onto a compilation from over a decade ago? yes.)';

'>>10862145
Golden Axe 1 feels like absolute shit to play and is way too short. 2 is a slight improvement. Death Adder takes all the concepts from 1 and builds a much, much better game around them, and the more varied characters and branching paths make it way more replayable.';

'>>10862141
If you use the map designs to your advantage and manipulate the AI around it, aside from tricking enemies into suiciding off cliffs you can also manage to complete full combos on them without getting surrounded. This makes the game way more fun, otherwise you're just either jump-attacking or dash-attacking every enemy all game long and that takes forever.

If you don't pay mind to the map and manipulate the AI's pathfinding but still try to finish a combo you get rekt since the AI always tries to surround and gangbang you, which is what most players who hate the game have experienced before ragequitting and never trying again.';

'>>10862189
>manipulate ai
I've done my fair share with Pac-Man, so this should open my mind.';

'1 and 2 are really mediocre, great atmosphere but the gameplay is incredibly barebones.
3 is the only actual good one on Genesis, but it still has a bad reputation for being snubbed at the time for the bad graphics (which I don't see).';

'I didn't buy it but I played it a lot at a neighbors kids house';

'I just beat this on real hardware, one of the arcades in Fort Worth had it forgot which one. Had to credit feed towards the end though.';

'When I was a teen I put my money in common with a friend and we bought a megadrive and it came with this.

We barely ever played Golden Axe, mostly just Streets of Rage and taking turns in Shinobi II, and we never beat either. Man we really needed to get good.';

'>>10862470
Unlimited time as a kid to head bash on game sections versus the patience as an adult to pause for a second and say wait what should I do here. Being a wagie makes me want to fucking end it I swear.';

'>>10861694
The best thing about Golden Axe is the DWARF';

'>>10861734
>Everyone had Golden Axe, because it was on one of those compilation cartridges.
This is how I first played it. The 6-pak is a fantastic compilation and should be the first pick for new Genesis enthusiasts.
>I feel like most people didn't specifically buy Golden Axe
I could see early Genesis adopters who played it in the arcades picking it up. Would pair nice with the Altered Beast pack in.
>>10861934
>To this day I still don't understand why someone hid the sega genesis games in the food cupboard.
Congrats on finding your Christmas presents early you little shit. I hope you know it made your mother cry.
>>10862087
>Golden Axe is going to have a cartoon on Comedy Central.
Oh boy.. What do you recon the odds are of Tyris wearing her original outfit?';

'>>10861694
I didn't, it came bundled with my system along with SoR and Shinobi';

'>>10861694
The selling point was that the arcade game was great. The home port was also well done.';

'>>10863327
The arcade game was also easy to find/play in the US. I remember seeing it everywhere.';

'>>10861694
Because of the hot chick and because it's a good game.';

'>>10862861
All of the original outfits are boring. I hope she can wear something sexy that is not just a bikini.';

'>>10863327
The arcade game is shit, it's way too short and easy. Ninja Gaiden and Double Dragon II are much better.';

'>>10863424
If the male character can wear just underwear, then there's no problem with the woman doing it too.';

'>>10864157
>if males can do it then so can women
Not applicable because men hold power over women due to patriarchal institutional policies installed by rich white slave owners so ipso factso hot guys can be half naked on screen but not women unless they are ugly.

t. some fat unfuckable sow probably';

'>>10865135
Here's the thing...
1) This is /vr/, not /v/. Marxist/Wokeism dictatorship has not taken over the video game industry back then. So keep the non-/vr/ woke marxist commentary at /v/.
2) Sexy hot half-naked women were not uncommon, especially if you were playing Metroid and got the ending where Samus is wearing a bikini.
3) Games like Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Valley Ball, Leisure Suite Larry and BMX XXX featuring half-naked or fully naked hot sexy women exists.';

'>>10865229
Your reading comprehension is horrible anon.';

'>>10861694
was a good port of a cool arcade game';