Playing Slap Fight (Genesis)

Entry posted by Cybergoth January 8, 2009

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Hi there!

Long time no Genesis game, so here we finally get some:

Slap Fight is an Arcade conversion from Toaplan. They did a good dozen of Vertical scrolling shmups for the Genesis, with Truxxton probably being their most famous one.

This is one of their oldest games though from 1986, being a doubled edged sword: On the one hand it means that you'll get an almost Arcade perfect conversion here, on the other it means that its gameplay is rather thin and generic.

The graphics are acceptable, the boss enemies and extra weapons are okay. About the only spot were this game really shines is in the music department. Composed by none other than the legendary Yuzo Koshiro (Revenge of Shinobi / Actraiser / Y's / Streets of Rage series ...) the music really rules in this game.

Other than that the experience is rather limited. After one big level the game just displays a little message scroller and loops at a higher difficulty level:

Overall it's a nice history lesson, but no game for my collection.

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another vertical scrolling shmup in the form of "Flying Shark", but first it'll continue with something else.

Greetings,

Manuel

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