The 68000’s heart really is on fire.
We’re certainly not short of ‘new’ Mega Drive / Genesis games, but ZPF seems to have captured the imagination of more people than most other examples. Following an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign and the news that it’s also coming to modern-day systems, this horizontally scrolling shooter has now arrived on Sega’s 16-bit console, proving that there’s certainly life in the old dog yet—and then some.
Developers such as Treasure and Technosoft pushed the Mega Drive / Genesis to its limits back in the day, but it’s fair to say that many modern homebrew projects, while showing impressive levels of passion, don’t quite achieve the same. ZPF is different, as the team behind it have come very, very close to matching the system’s most technically impressive ’90s outings, with dazzling visuals, massive boss fights and plenty of convincing parallax scrolling.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
The 68000’s heart really is on fire.
We’re certainly not short of ‘new’ Mega Drive / Genesis games, but ZPF seems to have captured the imagination of more people than most other examples. Following an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign and the news that it’s also coming to modern-day systems, this horizontally scrolling shooter has now arrived on Sega’s 16-bit console, proving that there’s certainly life in the old dog yet—and then some.
Developers such as Treasure and Technosoft pushed the Mega Drive / Genesis to its limits back in the day, but it’s fair to say that many modern homebrew projects, while showing impressive levels of passion, don’t quite achieve the same. ZPF is different, as the team behind it have come very, very close to matching the system’s most technically impressive ’90s outings, with dazzling visuals, massive boss fights and plenty of convincing parallax scrolling.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
