#CHASE H.Q. II

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #OCEAN #TAITO #WILLIAMS ELECTRONICS #ACTION #ARCADE #RACING #LICENSED #AMIGA #ATARIst #AMSTRAD #C64 #SPECTRUM #CHASE H.Q. II #TOTAL RECALL #NARC #ROBOCOP 2

[humor-y-videojuegos]

Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation Año: 1989 Plataformas: Amiga, Master System, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PlayStation 2, Saturn...

#Amiga #Master System #Amstrad CPC #Atari ST #Commodore 64 #ZX Spectrum #PlayStation 2 #Saturn #TurboGrafx-16 #Arcade

[veetri-bitcrush]

Curiously, the Genesis I got for holidays when I was 6 came with a Mono AV cable. Also, the PSG units were not audible for some reason.

As a result, my audio experience with that system was weird. Sonic had no jump sound, Chase H.Q. II had no sirens.

I didn't notice it until a few years later, everyone I knew seemed to have more sounds coming out of their consoles.

Took me a few years to accept the real versions of the songs as "correct". I felt like the square wave synths made stuff sound more "primitive" like the NES.

I later sold it for stupid cheap to a friend. I regret that.

To this day, I carry the burden of not knowing what would've happened if I stuck a Stereo AV cable in there.

Or if there was a way to fix the PSG channels.

#sega genesis #sega mega drive

[fyeahym2612]

#Chase H.Q. II #Super H.Q.

[everygame]

Rushing Beat (Super Famicom)

Developed/Published by: Jaleco Released: 23/03/1992 Completed: 06/03/2020 Completion: Beat it, but I had to cheat to get extra continues. It is what it is. Trophies / Achievements: n/a

Jaleco! Which in the last 10 seconds I realized isn’t spelled “Jaelco” meaning that their name is definitely not pronouced jail-co but jah-le-co. Bored yet?

Anyway, Jaleco. The first game I think of when I think of them is Cisco Heat, probably because I feel like I saw adverts for computer ports of it in all the magazines in the early 90s. They did more than that but it’s what’s always stood out in my mind because it’s such a weird idea: a police car racing title, but it’s not Chase H.Q., you’re just… racing. In San Francisco.

But this isn’t a review of that! It’s a review of Rushing Beat. First up, yeah I played the Super Famicom version instead of the US localisation Rival Turf! (famous for some lame box art) because I wanted to see the intro and outro and the original character names and stuff (sorry, the name Oozie Nelson annoyed me enough that I could not in good consciousness play Rival Turf!.) I didn’t realize this had been fan translated so I did slowly (slowly) watch the intros/outros and not entirely get it, but I tried!

Rushing Beat is… not good. I wouldn’t recommend you play it. It’s repetitive, and it’s also hard enough that you won’t be able to beat it without somehow getting good at it, and I don’t know how you’d do that. It took me nearly double the number of continues that the game actually gives you without cheating and some bosses towards the end are just baffling (the second time you meet the suited luchador he seems to be invincible for 99% of the time, which is… very bad.) 

However… it’s weird how nostalgic I am for this era of side-scrolling beat-em-ups. With a nice CRT shader, the pixel art seemed quite nice in an era-appropriate way, to be honest, and I whiled away some time playing this without complaining too much. There’s nothing remarkable about it whatever, I guess, unless you count how heavily they’ve ripped off Street Fighter II characters for the enemy behaviors (my favourite the Vega-a-like, but points for the end boss literally screaming fireballs.)

I rate this videogame out of ten.

Will I ever play it again? No.

Final Thought: I did not mention that Douglas Bild, the chief of police is dressed in Tom of Finland’s finest. I’m not joking. Haggar might have the moustache but Dougie here’s got the gear [begins planning slash fiction]

#video games #games #rival turf #jaleco #gaming #rushing beat #snes #super famicom #super nintendo #text #txt #review

[classic-games]

Chase H.Q. II

This one is interesting.  Chase H.Q. definitely has its roots firmly planted in the Outrun camp. That being said it managed to add its own interesting little twist to that format.  The 80;s cop aesthetic and focus on smashing your target to pieces did a lot to help the game stand out and with the various ports gave other console owners a small taste of what Sega’s classic racer was like.  But…

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#1992 #arcade #racing #Taito

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #OCEAN #MITCHELL CORPORATION #TAITO #TAD CORPORATION #ACTION #RACING #ARCADE #LICENSED #AMIGA #ATARIst #C64 #AMSTRAD #SPECTRUM #NAVY SEALS #ROBOCOP 2 #TOKI #PANG #CHASE H.Q. II

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #OCEAN #TAITO #WILLIAMS ELECTRONICS #MITCHELL CORPORATION #ACTION #RACING #ARCADE #LICENSED #AMIGA #ATARIst #C64 #SPECTRUM #AMSTRAD #PANG #TOTAL RECALL #ROBOCOP 2 #NARC #CHASE H.Q. II

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #OCEAN #TAITO #WILLIAMS ELECTRONICS #ACTION #RACING #ARCADE #LICENSED #AMIGA #ATARIst #IBM #C64 #AMSTRAD #SPECTRUM #NARC #CHASE H.Q. II #TOTAL RECALL #ROBOCOP 2

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #OCEAN #TAITO #REFLECTIONS INTERACTIVE LIMITED #ACTION #RACING #ARCADE #LICENSED #C64 #SHADOW OF THE BEAST #CHASE H.Q. II #PANG #ROBOCOP 2

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #OCEAN #TAITO #REFLECTIONS INTERACTIVE LIMITED #ACTION #RACING #LICENSED #ARCADE #C64 #CHASE H.Q. II #NAVY SEALS #PANG #SHADOW OF THE BEAST #ROBOCOP 2

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #OCEAN #TAITO #WILLIAMS ELECTRONICS #ACTION #LICENSED #RACING #ARCADE #IBM #AMIGA #ATARIst #C64 #SPECTRUM #AMSTRAD #NARC #PANG #CHASE H.Q. II #TOTAL RECALL

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #TAITO #OCEAN #ACTION #RACING #AMIGA #ATARIst #C64 #SPECTRUM #AMSTRAD #SEGA GENESIS #CHASE H.Q. II

[humor-y-videojuegos]

Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation Año: 1989 Plataformas: Amiga, Master System, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PlayStation 2, Saturn...

#Amiga #Master System #Amstrad CPC #Atari ST #Commodore 64 #ZX Spectrum #PlayStation 2 #Saturn #TurboGrafx-16 #Arcade

[humor-y-videojuegos]

Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation Año: 1989 Plataformas: Amiga, Mega Drive, Master System, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PlayStation 2, Saturn, TurboGrafx-16, Arcade

#Amiga #Mega Drive #Master System #Amstrad CPC #Atari ST #Commodore 64 #ZX Spectrum #PlayStation 2 #Saturn #TurboGrafx-16 #Arcade

[humor-y-videojuegos]

Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation Año: 1989 Plataformas: Amiga, Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PlayStation 2, Saturn, TurboGrafx-16...

#Amiga #Mega Drive #Sega Master System #Amstrad CPC #Atari ST #Commodore 64 #ZX Spectrum #PlayStation 2 #Saturn #TurboGrafx-16 #Arcade #Wii Shop