Were the following 2D Shooters ever released for the PC?

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:20 pm

Were the following 2D Shooters ever commercially released for the PC?

I was wondering if the following 2D shooters were ever commercially released for the PC as full/final products in some media CD/DVD-ROM or Floppies?

XII STAG – Shoot Em Up / / Vertical / TAITO (I’ve tried a demo called XII STAG Limited)

Magical Chase - Cute Em Up / Horizontal / Palsoft (Conversion from the PCE featuring a young witch like the Cotton series)

Reflex – Siterkain - Shoot Em Up / Vertical (Was the full final version ever released? I’ve only tried a 3 level Kick-Ass demo)

Metal Force - Shoot Em Up / Vertical (I have very little info on this apart from a few random lo-res screen-shots)

Moral Minus - Shoot Em Up / Vertical (I’ve tried a demo back in 2002; it featured high-res polygonal graphics like Ikaruga)

Twinkle Soft Vertical Shooters:

Excess Fraction - 1999
Rally Raid - 2000
Steel Heart - 2000
Barrage Tribe - 2001

Any links would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:06 pm

Gamefaqs' database seems pretty comprehensive and reliable in that regard, if you search for the games there you'll find out, I'm sure.

That's all I could tell you.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:19 pm

Also check out Mobygames.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:10 pm

Interestingly enough, the US TurboGrafx-16 version of Magical Chase was slightly improved in the graphics department, compared to the PC-Engine version:

http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/dare_ ... re_mc.html

And yes there is a PC CD-ROM version
http://www.vgden.com/hucard/reviews/mac.htm

Was the PC version based on the PCE or the TG-16 version, or was it improved further more with true 256 colours on screen?