Top 512 — Week 4 — Poll 2

[This Old Neon]

Welcome to the #BGE2020 Elimination Round of 512!

Each game is seeded based on its performance in the two opening rounds of pools. Every game in the Upper Bracket has defeated multiple other games in 1-on-1 polls to get to this point. These are still the best of the best.

Polls are updated weekly, typically on Sunday or Monday. Check back throughout the week to make sure you don't miss a vote!

HOW TO VOTE

This is easy. You only get one vote per poll. The game with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie, the higher seed advances, so don't get complacent!

[Sharecrow]

R-Type is one of those perfect games and I assert that the TG16 port is the best version of it. One of my all time favorites and a no-brainer vote.

[Kong Wen]

Damn... battle of two great series openers here. Each great in their own ways. Each great entries in saturated (at the time) genres. I'm leaning towards R-Type here but I have to mull it over.

[SkyPikachu]

Why are there 2 games called R-Type? What's the difference between them?

[Sharecrow]

Why are there 2 games called R-Type? What's the difference between them?

In the case of the TG16 vs the arcade, there’s very little difference. The main thing is that the TG16 screen is zoomed in a tiny bit more so when you move vertically in the screen it scrolls a little whereas the arcade version shows the whole vertical span of the level at all times. That’s the only meaningful difference that I’m aware of.

The SMS version, which isn’t present in this round and is probably sadly eliminated, had obviously necessary presentation differences but also had a secret level in it which is just an awesome extra to have.

[Kong Wen]

Why are there 2 games called R-Type? What's the difference between them?

In the case of the TG16 vs the arcade, there’s very little difference. The main thing is that the TG16 screen is zoomed in a tiny bit more so when you move vertically in the screen it scrolls a little whereas the arcade version shows the whole vertical span of the level at all times. That’s the only meaningful difference that I’m aware of.

The SMS version, which isn’t present in this round and is probably sadly eliminated, had obviously necessary presentation differences but also had a secret level in it which is just an awesome extra to have.

The TG16 also has a unique boss in place of a wave of regular enemies in one of the stages. And it's played with a TG16 controller instead of a stick.

To get to the heart of Sky's question though—multiple similar versions of several games are individual entries in #BGE2020 because the entries were drawn from every previous instance of the Project. As you'll remember, each Project has had slightly different rules to try to make them feel unique and/or get at something interesting about the nominated games and what makes them the best, so one Project allowed all remotely different versions of a game to compete on their own (against each other) while another Project collapsed different versions into one entry.

[Sharecrow]

Why are there 2 games called R-Type? What's the difference between them?

In the case of the TG16 vs the arcade, there’s very little difference. The main thing is that the TG16 screen is zoomed in a tiny bit more so when you move vertically in the screen it scrolls a little whereas the arcade version shows the whole vertical span of the level at all times. That’s the only meaningful difference that I’m aware of.

The SMS version, which isn’t present in this round and is probably sadly eliminated, had obviously necessary presentation differences but also had a secret level in it which is just an awesome extra to have.

The TG16 also has a unique boss in place of a wave of regular enemies in one of the stages. And it's played with a TG16 controller instead of a stick.

Which stage? I had no idea…

[Kong Wen]

Which stage? I had no idea…

Stage 6 I think?

This guy (at 12:35). He's not in the arcade version. I think he's only in the TG16 version actually.

[Sharecrow]

Which stage? I had no idea…

Stage 6 I think?

This guy (at 12:35). He's not in the arcade version. I think he's only in the TG16 version actually.

Interesting. I scoured that game but haven’t gotten that far in the arcade version so I never knew.

[Sharecrow]

Which stage? I had no idea…

Stage 6 I think?

This guy (at 12:35). He's not in the arcade version. I think he's only in the TG16 version actually.

Interesting. I scoured that game but haven’t gotten that far in the arcade version so I never knew.

Wait just a second. That wasn’t the level 6 boss on the TG16 port that was on virtual console. It was a bunch of crates. I wonder if that boss was native to a region that differed from what the VC port was an emulation of. Interesting.