Classic Game Room HD - LIGHTENING FORCE on Sega Genesis

Classic Game Room was the FIRST classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999. Returning in 2008 with new episodes, Classic Game Room breaks out a review of LIGHTENING FORCE ( aka LIGHTNING FORCE aka THUNDER FORCE IV 4 ) for the Sega Genesis 16 Bit Mega Drive video game console system. This SHMUP horizontal scrolling shooter on the Megadrive is a very fun and challenging airplane shooter. Made by the masters of space ship shooting games on the Genesis, Technosoft, this is basically Thunder Force IV. We're not sure why they dropped the Thunder and went with Lightning or Lightening. But this is TF4 and it's incredible, one of the best shooters on the 16bit Megadrive. As with the other Thunder Force games like TF2 and TF3, you are that lone starfighter shooting aliens and countless bad guys in a variety of well designed and exotic locations in deep space. Many of the familiar weapons are here like Hunter. TF4 will remind you of games like Life Force and Gradius with it's familiar yet enjoyable side scrolling shmups style gameplay with power ups and end bosses and whatnot. The music is fantastic and everyone with a Sega should own this game and play it for days, it has incredible gameplay and the footage shows a variety of the levels and situations that you encounter. Thunder Force 4 is a worth successor to Thunder Force 3, but I wish they'd have just called it TF4 over here. Be sure to watch the original Classic Game Room episodes. Classic Game Room was the original classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999-2000, now on DVD. The HD series is reviewing PS3, PS2, Genesis, NES, Atari and Xbox 360. XBLA. videos review reviews show wii

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[LazerChachi]

They should have called it Thunder Fource.

Or Thunder 4ce.

Or Thunder Force the fourcth.

[Ultraboy94fsr]

OH GOD THE MUSIC.

[Menfis55]

Those blue line around the screen and the video quality should be better for the review =(

[deadlygroove1]

@ikeaaron everything you said, I agree with except about the Genesis sound chip being shitty. The Genesis uses FM sounds and if you are familiar with FM Synthesis, then you would have a deep appreciation of the sound chip in the Genesis. As an electronic music producer, I find the sound chip in the Genesis to be quite amazing.

[deadlygroove1]

@123doomdoom good call, yes the PC-Engine is indeed the game console to get if you love shmups.

[FunkyFranky80]

The game,which is called Thunderforce IV here in Euroland,arrives yesterday,complete in its clamshell box + instruction manual,overall in good condition...and i must say...what a blast!! great gameplay,great graphics and a soundtrack from another planet.Absolutely one of the best shootem ups ever created,perhaps the best...absolutely recommended!

[OmicronVolk]

A Dan Quayle joke and a reference to Hunter with Fred Dryer. Mark, we're getting old, man.

[reesercliff]

what were they thinking naming it lightening force the quest for the darkstar? it sounds like an RPG not a shmup

[RadicalNIN]

LIGHTENING FORCE's opening theme song sounds like Battery from Metallica!!!

[deadlygroove1]

Power-Ups in Thunder Force 4 1 Twin Shot 2 Back Shot 3 Blade 4 Rail Gun 5 Snake 6 Freeway 7 Hunter 8 Thunder Sword 9 Shield 10 Claw 11 1-up