Golden axe (Megadrive) : Appreciation thread

Haggler

Deemed one of the greatest games of all time Megadrive (1990)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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*Note*
If you owned and played this game on another format feel free to post within
this thread regardless, alternate formats won't be getting a separate thread as
that would be overkill, just mention the format you played it on when posting.

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Haggler

Post all your recollections and classic gaming moments of this awesome game here, it was and still is one of the best games ever made, relive those memories within this thread.

Anyone wishing to submit a review for this game please do so, i'd be glad to link to it at some future stage, everyone else post those stories of gaming heaven Golden axe related of course.

Ideas for posting could include :-

How much you paid for the game?
Did you pay over the odds for an import release to get it early?
Was it worth the money?
Did you do a midnight game collection on day of release?
Did this title influence your decision to buy it's associated system?
How has it stood up to the test of time?

Alongside the usual game play and game content discussion, which is always welcome, the possibilities are endless.

DVD-Man

Ideas for posting could include :-

How much you paid for the game? £39.99
Did you pay over the odds for an import release to get it early? No bt picked it up in 91
Was it worth the money? yes
Did you do a midnight game collection on day of release? wasn't the done thing back then LOL
Did this title influence your decision to buy it's associated system? No not really.
How has it stood up to the test of time?  Dunno, I still enjoy so I say yes but it was one of my first console games so like your first car you'll always like them.

Liam

bonzobanana

I remember being awe struck by the arcade machine. Thinking the graphics were amazing. My first home golden axe experience was on the commodore 64. A surprisingly good version. By the time I'd got a Megadrive I'd played the game to death on other formats like amiga but still enjoyed it. I think I even played CPC and Spectrum versions at some point.

Tacozilla

I remember my brothers getting it for our Megadrive, as we all shared the one console. It was a great game, and even now i find myself playing it, as i have it on my Megadrive (bought a Japanese one last year), HTC Desire HD and i also have it on one of those Blaze HandHelds.

I think that for its time, the port of the arcade version to the megadrive was done very well indeed. Sure the graphics werent as sharp as the arcade verion but unlike other arcade ports it was pretty much the same game.

Venonomicon

Of the megadrive classics the golden axe series is one of the best.
I love golden axe so much I recently bought a megadrive to play it old school!
I also have emulated versions on pc, ps3 in the ultimate megadrive collection, blaze sega magedrive hand held and on psp.

AX BATTLER
TYRUS FLARE
GILLIUS THUNDERHEAD
DEATH ADDER

too cool for school baby!
I originally played it on mastersystem, sucking up a one player version with only Ax Battler to play as.
still loved it and the RPG title GOLDEN AXE WARRIOR too!

I can play a part of one of the level themes on keyboard!

GOLDEN AXE
GOLDEN AXE 2
GOLDEN AXE 3

Epic epic epic.

Haggler

Try this freeware pc remake and play as a skeleton too :-

http://www.avforums.com/forums/12161529-post482.html

And there's this one too

http://www.avforums.com/forums/12161532-post483.html

Venonomicon

Epic!

the music is great, and the combat is deep. Much deeper then streets of rage.
equally deep as Alien Storm. Very good!

lets all kick a midget and steal his meat and bottles of stuff!

to TURTLE VILLAGE!

Dodgy_Geezer

Hands up all you stingy Tyrus Flare players who would never use the magic and hoard the potions just to see the dragons head waste everyone

(* raises hand)

Fantastic version this, there were multiple enemies on screen and unlike in the C64 version (although that too was very good given the hardware) you had the all important two player mode too.

And the end sequence was ace too where the arcade comes to life and the Golden Axe crew start chasing the players.

Other highlights I remember are the two player co-op games that rapidly descended into a slapfight once your so called buddy would nick vital meat/potion/creatures and then "accidently" flame or hit you when you had just one bar of energy left. I don't I ever finished that game in a two player mode

douki

I think Goldenaxe may have been one of my first gaming experiences, on a spectrum I think. It was round a friends house as my family was no way rich enough. I must have been about 6 or 7 at the time. My friend never let me be the dwarf and he also said that the woman was better than the man as she was faster, I'm not sure whether there was any truth to that.