Classic Game Room HD - SILPHEED for Sega CD review

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 SILPHEED for the Sega CD add-on for the Sega Genesis Megadrive 16-bit video game console. The Mega Drive had a few short lived add-ons like the SegaCD and 32x. Silpheed originally came out years earlier, I had a copy of it for the PC back in the day. This version uses an early polygon graphical system and looks dates, but plays as well as any of the best SHMUPS out today. This is a tremendous SHMUP vertical scrolling space shooter where you pilot the lone spaceship against wave after wave of alien bad guys. Blow them up with a variety of weapons and power ups in this 3D universe created for the Sega in 1993. Rockin' electric music thumps away as you blast those bad guys into space dust! Silpheed may not be one of the best shooters ever made, but it is a sleeper hit that holds up well against today's games because of the well created gameplay and difficulty. Maniac shooters like Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga are better known now, but Silpheed does not disappoint as you can see from the footage. This game should be made into a new 2D shooter with 3-D elements for the PS3, Xbox 360 Live Arcade or Wii. There was a Silpheed released for the PS2 called Silpheed Lost Planet.

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[DragnSly]

I ain't gonna lie...the music alone had me sold.

[L2Nuku]

This game blew me away when i first played it back in the day, it's graphics, music and gameplay were awesome.

Even though the backgrounds are all prerendered, it's hit detection worked perfect, which made it feel it wasn't prerendered.

Oh and the endboss was HARD, pick the wrong weapon + special weapon combo and you're dead meat...

[bacardipr05]

I think Sega should of focused more on the Sega Cd and forgo the 32X. This would of bought more life to the again Genesis and gave them more time to develop its successor

[IggyHazard]

@aldoreshgaramok The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games (especially the original) set the standard for the future of the FPS genre.

[IggyHazard]

@brbZoning You should try audiosurfing this soundtrack on Ninja Mono mode.

[aldoreshgaramok]

It does bug me how all the focus is on FPS games.

I mean, I look at how amazing some of the graphics are on these FPS games. I just got through playing Crysis 2, and no doubt its one of the best-looking games ever made. But at the end of the day, its hardly any different from COD, Resistance, or Killzone.

If only they would put that same level of creativity and energy into making shoot'em ups. Can you imagine what kind of sick-looking shmup they could make with the unreal or crytek engine?

[BigLebowski2000]

Evasive manoeuvre!

[brbZoning]

Epic music, I /thumbs this 

[Nxialist]

8 people hate awsomeness.

[CCharmanderK]

It's official. When I start making movies, the first movie I'm making: SILPHEED - THE MOVIE