you better give us some kind of mini review when you get your copy from eBay
Got it today, played a half-dozen matches or so to test it out, nothing too deep but it's clearly a nice conversion. Good colors, as it's noted for, some extra bass, very responsive. Brutal AI confirmed, IMO- on normal I'd land a few hits per match, on the easiest setting I won two matches then had to resort to spamming jump kicks and sweeps to win. CPU seems to absolutely read the player's special move inputs, it's actually kind of funny how reliably it ducks most projectiles perfectly. As has been noted though, it's a tough game in general and I haven't played the Genesis version in a while so it may be closer, difficulty-wise, than I'm remembering.
Also nice not to have the loading for Shang Tsung's transformations, for sure. Good port.
I'd been kind of looking for one off and on for a few years when I ran across one at the Longmont Gameforce in nice condition, I think it was $60 or so, plus they had loose copies of Star Wars Arcade and Virtua Racing. Wanted one as a kid when I had a Genesis but never got one, figured why not.
It's obviously got a small library (42 licensed games, IIRC, including Darxide I think?), but a decent handful of them are pretty fun and/or interesting, which places it solidly ahead of the Jag IMO, which is probably the most comparable system.
Fami covered the basics, only a couple others I'd mention:
Tempo is worth a shot, made by the same guy who made Bonk on Turbo and it shows, though the Saturn sequel is better. The 32x version of
Blackthorne is good, but you won't probably won't like it if you dislike pre-rendered graphics. It has a really wonky version of
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure with nice character sprites and a completely bizarre framerate where the sprites update at 1/3 the speed of the background.
The Amazing Spider-Man: Web of Fire is a good conversation piece but a terrible game.
For the price, it's not a bad deal at all, but you don't want to have super high expectations.
